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May 8, 2024 - Health Ranger - Mike Adams

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John Bush joins Mike Adams for knowledge-packed conversation: Exit the CONTROL GRID...

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	Welcome to today's interview here in studio with John Bush at the Bright Town Studios in Central Texas.
	John is the creator of the Exit and Build Land Summit, an event coming up live in person in Central Texas, May 17th, 18th, and 19th.
	Well, actually, plus farm tours on the 16th and the 20th of May.
	So welcome, John.
	Great to have you in studio again.
	Thanks for having me again.
	Always a pleasure.
	I can't believe it's been almost a year since we talked to you here last time.
	I can't believe it.
	Well, I think we talked once for something that I was doing, this Meet the Experts thing.
	That's right.
	And we talked about crypto and Monero and all sorts of stuff.
	Oh, that's true.
	Yeah, right.
	But I was here last year for the same event, the Exit and Build Lansom.
	That's right.
	So this is the fourth year that you're having the event.
	Fourth year.
	Yep.
	Wow.
	And the speakers are pretty amazing.
	You've got a huge roster of speakers that teach people how to get off-grid, how to become more self-reliant, sustainable with growing their own food.
	Tell us about some of the speakers and some of the topics.
	Okay, well, we're really excited and grateful to have you, Mr.
	Mike.
	Oh, no, I don't count.
	Talk about the real speakers.
	People are excited to hear from you, though.
	I'm just a comedy.
	We're...
	We're excited to have you.
	But we got Joel Salatin returning.
	So he spoke at the second Land Summit in person.
	And we're really grateful he's coming back.
	He's doing all sorts of great work.
	And he's a renegade, too.
	So he doesn't just have polyface farms and has the regenerative agriculture with the chickens, but he'll also stick it to the man and do so loudly and proudly.
	So excited to have him.
	And we booked, this will be a virtual talk, Salatin's in person, but we have David Holmgren.
	He's the co-originator of Permaculture along with Bill Mollison.
	So it'll be really cool to hear his keynote presentation to dive deeper.
	Permaculture is just such a valuable skill set and design framework for food and land and everything.
	Really a lifestyle, too.
	Jack Spirico of the Survival Cup podcast is coming back.
	Nicole Sauce of Living Free in Tennessee.
	We have this woman, Molly Englehart.
	She is most known for running vegan restaurants, really successful vegan restaurants in California.
	Well, they locked her restaurants down, and that was a big eye-opener for her.
	And she moved to Texas, and that led her down a rabbit hole, and she learned how important livestock and animals are to regenerative agriculture practices.
	She recently announced that they're switching the restaurants away from vegan and adding meat.
	Oh, really?
	That's a huge switch.
	Yeah, yeah.
	So she's really come along on all that stuff.
	So our good friend Cynthia Tina, she's an intentional community expert.
	She'll be there.
	Because there's a lot of homesteading conferences and off-grid survival type stuff.
	But one of our big niches and focus areas is we need to be doing the homesteading, becoming more prepared.
	But let's do it as a community, whether that's buying land cooperatively and actually having a formal intentional community, or we teach people how to connect with their neighbors and to find other freedom people in their area because there really is strength in numbers when it comes to this crazy world we're facing.
	Oh, yeah.
	Now, in fact, I have so many questions for you, but let me give out the URL. Go to naturalnews.com slash landsummit, all one word, and that will take you to this landing page.
	And that's our affiliate link, by the way.
	Take you to this landing page, the Exit and Build Land Summit.
	People can register to watch for free the three days, right?
	May 17th, 18th, and 19th.
	The first day and a half.
	It's a three-day conference.
	The first day and a half.
	And for free, because we want to reach as many people, and we've strategically picked some talks that'll be really hard-hitting on the first day and a half.
	Totally free.
	Follow that link.
	But if you want to get a virtual immersion pass, then you watch the full conference.
	You get to watch on Zoom.
	You get to ask questions of some of the speakers.
	You get the replays if you can't make it that weekend.
	And you get all sorts of cool bonuses, too.
	So that's the paid access.
	But then people can also come in person to Central Texas.
	Yeah, there's still a limited number of tickets left, and the in-person experience is really special.
	There's farm-to-table meals.
	So there's farm tours on the 16th and 20th that are optional.
	But the cool thing is, for the conference, we actually source food from the local farms that we visit during the meals, which is really cool.
	That's amazing.
	And I know some of the local farms, too.
	I've toured some of the local farms myself, and they do amazing things.
	And by the way, you may not know this, but it was your conference last year where I was able to connect with Ramiro from Above Phone.
	All right.
	Or maybe you did know that.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	But Romero's amazing, and his company's been amazing.
	Yeah, he does good work.
	Yeah, and the cool thing about the conference, one of the best features of it, so to speak, is the networking.
	So we really go out of our way to facilitate and encourage that.
	In fact, there's something called intentional community matchmaking, where for two hours on Sunday, we split, and this is part of the virtual pass, too.
	We do it virtually as well.
	But we split up into two sessions.
	One is based on geographic location.
	So everybody at the conference, both virtually and in person, that wants to move to Texas to build community.
	They want to go to the Northeast.
	They're doing stuff in Mexico.
	Our brothers and sisters in Europe, God bless them, but the people are doing stuff in Europe.
	And the second piece is if you're a family, you want to build a homeschool community.
	If you're really into tech and you want to do some crypto stuff, if you're vegan or you're strictly carnivore, some folks don't want to mesh or don't want to have livestock on their property, whatever the deal is with that, we help to facilitate you finding those people.
	It's not just come into a conference, watch the speakers, go home.
	It's carefully orchestrated to help you find people.
	Because a lot of people, unfortunately, they wake up, they feel all alone.
	But there's no reason to be alone.
	There's so many of us out there, and we're here to help people find the others.
	What I love about your philosophy is you're helping people actually acquire the real skills and local contacts in order to be sustainable, resilient, anti-fragile, as we say these days.
	When systems collapse out there, financial systems, election systems, government systems, we're on the verge of World War III right now with what's going on in the world.
	world is pretty crazy it seems like having that local network built up and having the skills of permaculture food production and being able to barter and trade being able to have self-custody of systems of of value like crypto is absolutely critical.
	So I think you're prepping people for surviving and navigating the chaos that's coming.
	Well, I tell you what, you know, we got the Freedom Cell Network, which is like a little side endeavor, people coming together, working together, participating, buying land, raising the kids together.
	After COVID, there was a huge swell of people.
	We grew the network from 1,000 to 20, 30,000.
	Now there's over 44,000 of us.
	But one of the biggest complaints with the people that are actually active, we call them activators, is, you know, a bunch of people went back to their normal day-to-day lives.
	And so...
	There's a lot of people that are going to be in for a rude awakening, because obviously we've stayed active.
	I mean, I'm just in awe of how much activity level you put out.
	We do all sorts of stuff with our little enterprises.
	But there's a lot of people that know there's a problem, but then they get stuck in what Napoleon Hill calls the hypnotic rhythm, where you start to be drifting.
	It's actually a book called Outwitting the Devil, where there's the driven and there's the drifters.
	And the driven are the ones that live with faith.
	Everything's going to be okay.
	I'm going to take care of myself.
	I have faith.
	The other, the drifters are consumed by fear.
	It's the devil that puts that fear into them.
	That's the whole narrative of the book.
	But regardless, people are caught in this hypnotic rhythm going about the day-to-day life, the nine-to-five grind.
	Maybe they'll watch a documentary here and there and share some articles on Telegram and feel like they're doing activism.
	But at the end of the day, we need to be taking action.
	We need to be skilling up right now to prepare ourselves for what's to come today.
	You don't want to find yourself in a situation where shit hits the fan, martial law, internet shutdown, cyber attack, CBDC gets accelerated, whatever may happen, World War III, and then you're starting to learn those You want to have it in play now and you want to have a tight-knit community of freedom lovers to get your back because stuff's going to get pretty crazy faster than we think.
	Absolutely.
	And, you know, I've been planting trees over the years and planted more trees this year.
	And, like, one of the trees I plant are mulberry trees because I've got chickens and the chickens can eat the mulberries, you know, so I can reduce my dependence on imported chicken feed.
	And then I get all these fresh eggs every day.
	I can eat them or I feed them to my dogs and my dogs help protect the chickens from the coyotes.
	Total permaculture.
	Systems of integration, exactly.
	Where I have animals and I don't eat my chickens.
	I just eat their eggs, but I have to keep them safe.
	But then I've got all these other types of plants and growing potatoes and growing pears and growing plums.
	And combined with some basic knowledge of food preservation, you can make it today.
	I mean, we have access to more technology to help us with things like irrigation, seed saving, food dehydration, and so on, than ever before.
	I mean, if our pioneers survived, we can survive.
	Yeah, for sure.
	Something came to mind, you know, getting prepared and learning new skills is the same thing as planting a tree.
	You know when the best time to plant a tree is?
	Yeah, like 10 years ago.
	The next best time is right now.
	Come to the Exxon Build Land Summit.
	But you actually really brought something up great talking about the technology, but then also the natural world.
	So the theme of our event this year is...
	It's empowering, what is it, accelerating the eagle and condor prophecy.
	So there's this indigenous prophecy, mainly in South America with indigenous cultures, and it holds that the universe is split up into these 500-year, the timeline is split up into 500-year epochs, and the most recent one started in 1993.
	And the prophecy holds that the northern American cultures, which has to do with the masculine energy, technology, industrialism, individualism, capitalism, market-based economy, will be at odds with the southern indigenous culture, which is more feminine, connected to the land, more creative, more heart-centered, more spiritual.
	And the northern is more intellectual, right?
	And so it holds that For a long period, the Eagle energy, which is the North, will be dominating the Condor energy.
	But it's up to us to help bring those two energies in harmony.
	And so what you shared about having the technology for the sprinkler system and everything you're doing with the AI and such...
	There's a way to merge the old school, indigenous, reconnect to the land, harmonious living, communal, not communist, right, but living with one another in a reciprocal way, to merge that with all that technology has to offer, all of the intellect, all of the capital investments, and to really help create a better world.
	And so some of the talks will be in alignment with that whole ethos, and we're hoping to really give people a new perspective on how we can change things.
	I mean, that's fascinating.
	I guess the talk that I'm going to give fits perfectly into that, because I'm talking about an AI tool that is, I'm calling it NEO's arc.
	It's human knowledge that's preserved in this tool that you can access offline with any computer.
	And I see a future, even in a post-collapse future, we're still going to have local technology, local computers.
	You might have solar panels.
	You might have a power grid that works partially or maybe fully.
	But you may not have access to all the cloud-based systems that you had before.
	Maybe cities will vanish in a giant mushroom cloud.
	I don't know.
	Or maybe the Internet just gets shut down because the powers that be don't want people to have access to information.
	Well, so what I'm talking about is our AI tool, and I've got some big things to announce there about the massive number of books and content that we've actually taught these systems.
	And you know, John, what's fascinating is we are taking base models that have been put out there by Microsoft and Meta, which are not honorable companies, in my opinion.
	And then we're retraining them, like the Microsoft Phi 3 model.
	We're retraining it to have knowledge in permaculture, in sustainable agriculture, seed saving, medicinal extraction, phytonutrition, botanicals, all kinds of things that a person would need to know to be more self-reliant.
	So if you can't ask the Internet and Google is censoring the information that they don't want you to know about, this is a tool where you can ask questions and you can get answers about how to live off-grid.
	So it is that marriage that you're talking about.
	It's a perfect example of that harmony.
	And there's a lot of people in both camps.
	Even in our freedom community, there's folks that are kind of Luddite-leaning, and they reject cryptocurrency because it's technology, and they reject this AI thing.
	And then on the flip side, we have folks that are hyper-technologically focused, but they don't get their hands dirty in the garden, which is important.
	And I think... I've still got dirt under my limited nails from yesterday.
	We're doing the VIP dinner.
	Folks get a VIP ticket, get to schmooze with some of the speakers, and it's at our place.
	So we've been getting the ranch all nice and pretty, which is a work in progress.
	In fact, it'll probably look the prettiest when we have this event, more than it ever does.
	But yeah, the AI piece, that's super important.
	And I just want to make the point that a lot of people in our Freedom Camp, I think it's coming from a place of disempowerment, but they feel like...
	That's evil.
	We shouldn't touch it at all.
	Same thing with cryptocurrency and blockchain.
	And I think to have that mindset just seeds over this really powerful technology to our enemies.
	So we shouldn't dabble in it at all.
	We'll just let them create an AI control grid and we'll let them create their CBDCs rather than, well, what can we learn and how can we benefit from these really powerful technologies?
	Well, exactly.
	I mean, back in history, it would be like rejecting the power of the press.
	By the way, Rhodey is saying hi to you.
	Hi, friend.
	He's brought his toys over here.
	But imagine if people, you know, like when the Gutenberg press was invented, imagine if people said, well, we don't want to use the press.
	We'll stick with scribes.
	Yeah.
	You know, it's like, well, you'd be left behind.
	Yeah.
	So the press enabled knowledge to be more easily distributed to lots and lots of people.
	So I agree with you.
	We have to use technology.
	This is a game changer for the world because, think about it, for the first time, here's a monetary system that can't be counterfeited by the governments of the world.
	I mean, that is the number one...
	I mean, I used to be very skeptical of Bitcoin and say, where is its intrinsic value?
	Well, its number one best intrinsic property is that it can't be counterfeited.
	Sure.
	And it also can't be easily confiscated.
	Or it's almost impossible to confiscate.
	So imagine a world where, let's say, government spending were on the blockchain where everybody could look at it and see, oh, where'd this money go?
	Or imagine if they just couldn't print trillions of dollars and send the money out all over the world while doing nothing for America.
	You know what I mean?
	But...
	That's why the establishment hates crypto so much, and that's why they want to control AI so much.
	Recent stories talk about how ChatGPT is just pushing pro-Pfizer vaccine propaganda all day long.
	Well, so that's why you need models like the ones we're building that tell the truth about vaccines.
	And as far as I know, we're the only ones doing it.
	It's just so shocking.
	It's like, you would think there would be more people interested in having AI models that would tell the truth.
	I don't know.
	Yeah, I think a lot of those companies, and it's like the experts, a lot of people that have that knowledge, they gain it from some corporate world or some university, and they're already kind of co-opted there.
	But yeah, with crypto, it's another example of people wanting to cede that territory, and I often...
	what you shared about the governments using it, because I kind of want governments just to continue to be terrible and corrupt so more people can wake up to the fact that government is not an optimal institution to organize society, and we need to be doing it in new, horizontal, decentralized ways.
	But, of course, I think the most unethical thing that happens in society and history is the wars.
	So if there's some way to rein in their debt spending and just monetary inflation to put a stop to that.
	That sure would be good.
	And just kudos to you for your potent stance, the correct stance on what's happening in the Middle East right now.
	Thank you.
	Thank you.
	I am a pro-peace, pro-humanity person, and my principles apply to all people.
	I mean, and a lot of people who I thought were principled actually turns out they're not principled because if your principles don't apply universally, they're not by definition principles, right?
	But to your point though, the money printing funds the wars, right?
	So if you take away from governments their ability to create counterfeit currency, you take away their ability to fund wars.
	I mean, it's hand in hand.
	That's why they're fighting so hard against crypto.
	Because, I mean, imagine if when the dollar collapses, imagine if all the American people said, you know, we demand an honest monetary system backed by gold that has an honest ledger that can't be counterfeited.
	I mean, if people were, you know, informed enough at that time.
	Yeah, I don't counter just a different perspective.
	I think the biggest threat to governments is the peer-to-peer electronic cash aspect, the ability for us to conduct business with one another outside of their ability to stop it.
	Oh, yeah.
	And I think my worry, I'm still a Bitcoin guy, right?
	And I do workshops and all sorts of stuff.
	Of course, Monero is the optimal currency, digital currency for trading outside the system.
	That's my favorite.
	It's gold.
	It's, well, Bitcoin is more digital gold, a store of value, finite supply.
	But where I see things going with Bitcoin, I still encourage people, especially if someone is of means or they've established a nest egg to protect that nest egg from inflation.
	Or they're on the come-up and they finally have more income than their expenses.
	What are you going to do with that extra money?
	First, you should invest in yourself.
	Invest in a business and get a piece of land.
	Plant some trees.
	Plant some trees, for sure.
	And the trees can feed the chickens.
	The cycle continues.
	But what I'm concerned about now, which just illustrates why central banks are so damn cunning, because when I first got involved in Bitcoin in 2012-2013, I was like, this is going to end the central banks.
	Now you fast forward, it's like they're so clever.
	They're creating their own central bank digital currency and they're slowly but surely pushing back and attempting to co-opt Bitcoin.
	Of course they are.
	In many ways it's unco-optable, but they can definitely put some pieces into play to weaken its revolutionary properties.
	And so one thing that I'm worried about It's becoming harder to spend small amounts of Bitcoin on-chain.
	And Blockstream, this corporation that pays most of the developers, who has Larry Summers, the former Department of Treasury head, as an advisor.
	They also had a MasterCard as an investor.
	And then there's this guy that's involved with the MIT Multimedia Lab that is also funding and leading CBDC projects.
	And he's also working through Blockstream and working with this Layer 2 company Anyway, long story short, what I worry they're going to do is have people use custodial Bitcoin payments and then hold Bitcoin in reserve.
	And now Bitcoin, unlike gold, it is auditable.
	You have a transparent blockchain.
	If a bank has gold on reserve or a central bank does, we don't know what they really have.
	But I worry that even if a government was on a Bitcoin standard, they would simply just use deception and manipulation to create fake tokens that should be backed by Bitcoin.
	But it's the same thing that happened when banks started pumping out more paper money.
	My co-host Todd Pitner and I, we've had the same discussion on our decentralized show.
	If you don't have Bitcoin in self-custody, it doesn't count, as they say.
	Not your keys, not your coins.
	So you've got to have self-custody of it, and so a lot of these institutional investors are buying Bitcoin, but the Bitcoin's being held by the brokerage firm.
	It's like, okay, so you don't get it.
	Well, Coinbase is actually custodying on behalf of the broker's firm.
	Coinbase is holding, like, I don't know, this is just a number I don't know the exact, like 80 or 90% of these ETFs, the BlackRock's, Coinbase has it all.
	It's unbelievable.
	I'd hate for the government to come seize that Bitcoin.
	Well, that's the thing, because all these exchanges have to eventually cave in to government demands.
	Otherwise, they'll be put out of business or they'll be arrested, like CZ, right?
	But let's not get deeper in the weeds on this.
	Let's...
	Zoom out to the bigger picture of what your summit is about.
	Again, it's the Exit and Build Land Summit, year four.
	And here's some of the speakers shown here.
	Yep, some of the speakers.
	Oh, you got J.P. Sears coming in, too.
	Oh, yeah.
	I didn't even mention J.P. Sears.
	He's the comedy relief, then, not me.
	He's awesome.
	Oh, okay.
	Yeah, we're super excited about him because he mixes it all in comedy, but the message that he puts out is so potent, and it's always about self-reflection and being the best versions of ourself, but then the comedy makes it so accessible for people.
	Definitely.
	He's a local Texan, too, so that'd be great.
	The website to get to this is naturalnews.com slash landsummit.
	That will take you here.
	That's our affiliate link.
	Again, you can watch the first day and a half for free just by registering.
	Yep.
	Or you can buy a ticket.
	You can come to the event in person.
	It's in Central Texas.
	It's in Bastrop at the convention center, I believe.
	Bastrop convention center, yep.
	That's where we've had it the past three times.
	We really dialed it in so people are going to have a great experience.
	The hotels are super affordable.
	That's true.
	There's also, once you buy your ticket, you're invited to a group with ticket holders, and there's all sorts of people organizing Airbnbs, so instead of paying for a hotel room or a whole Airbnb, you could just rent out the bed, so it makes it more cost-effective.
	We have a really incredible customer service team to help make this as simple and fun and Graceful as possible.
	So there's a limited amount of tickets left, and that's definitely, like I said, the best way to experience the event.
	There's a power in the room.
	Oh, yeah.
	And you've got vendors with tables there, which are fascinating.
	For sure.
	And I remember last year I was buying some dried mushroom blends from one of your vendors there, too.
	Yeah, Stephen Huntsman?
	I think so.
	High Vibe Mushrooms?
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	He's a cool guy, too.
	We like having him there because he's like a pump-up guy.
	Yeah.
	There's all kinds of really interesting people there, and I interviewed several people last year, too.
	I was just walking around interviewing people.
	Good crowd.
	I know you don't mind me doing that.
	No, we don't mind at all.
	We want to put the message out there.
	That's really what it's all about.
	And for folks that are feeling anxious or nervous, maybe they don't do well around big crowds, it's the most laid-back group of people that's out there.
	Yeah.
	I want to encourage people to look at the ticket.
	Again, you can sign up totally for free.
	You get the first day and a half.
	You're going to get tons of value.
	Not to mention you get invited to a private, exclusive Telegram group.
	That's just all people that have signed up for our event in the past.
	So there are folks that are motivated to do this.
	A lot of people are organizing and networking and buying land together just from that group.
	But I want to encourage people to look at coming not as an expense but as an investment because, like you well know, things are getting real.
	We've been in this game for such a long time anticipating it, but it's heating up so fast.
	In fact, I think the timeline is more accelerated.
	I thought it was going to be a frog in the boiling pot all the way to 2030, and you just look around, or at least we see it, but most of the masses look around and they're in a total prison planet.
	Their kids are being birthed with digital IDs, and they're already birthed with social security numbers, but digital IDs, CBDC, you know, but it's a slow, gradual thing.
	But I think because...
	Our side is kicking ass and winning, and the COVID scam didn't pan out as well as they had hoped.
	They wanted to have vaccine passports everywhere.
	They've had to accelerate their plans.
	And they tried to ban ivermectin and zinc and everything.
	That's right, and it's still pushed through.
	And we got crypto and Monero, so they're having to accelerate everything.
	I think things are going to get hot and pretty hardcore really quick.
	So the type of information, not just the information and the networking, But the mindset shift that we are going to deliver to folks that are feeling scared, anxious, and overwhelmed, you're going to leave this event feeling completely empowered, ready to buy the land, ready to meet people, ready to get your hands dirty, ready to make mistakes.
	I'm sure you didn't know what the hell you were doing when you built a working AI model.
	Right?
	Oh, man.
	We're figuring it out as we go.
	But a lot of people never have the gumption or the courage to start.
	So in addition to some really solid tips, tactics, and strategies, people are also going to have a mindset shift that's going to give them the momentum they need to help us in creating a better world.
	You know what?
	How much time do I have speaking there, by the way?
	Is it 45 minutes or something?
	45 minutes or so, yep.
	I might actually bring a demonstration of what I learned about building irrigation systems.
	Because when I first moved to Texas and live on a ranch, I was trying to do irrigation with PVC. It's a nightmare.
	PVC with all the glue, all the toxic, and it breaks, and it freezes, and it's not flexible.
	And I've since learned that you use PEX, and then you use what's called the Yupener connectors, which are expanded fittings, and so to connect two PEX pipes without losing throughput, you can't use the kind of connectors where you put crimps on them because it reduces the diameter substantially.
	So there's a PEX tool and there's an expansion tool and expansion fittings that keeps the diameter the same all the way through.
	I have run PEX lines for thousands of feet with good pressure and good flow through for irrigation.
	It's a lot easier to work with, too.
	It's so much easier.
	And again, it doesn't...
	I mean, even if it freezes, it just expands and contracts.
	Who cares?
	It doesn't shatter.
	But I mean, it sounds silly.
	It sounds like, oh, what are you, like a Home Depot expert?
	No.
	This is the s*** that works.
	I mean, sometimes it's just that simple.
	Like, I tried a bunch of stuff that doesn't work.
	I wasted a lot of money and time.
	Now this is what does work.
	Learn from our mistakes.
	I always knew you, Natural News, and we've known each other for a while, but a few years ago I came on and we were talking about, I have a solar system, right?
	And you were like, well, you know, you can pull up a tractor and use it as the diesel generator.
	Right.
	And that's when I was like, oh wow, that's some really solid wisdom.
	But a lot of people don't know that kind of thing.
	But the folks that are there getting their hands dirty, that have a homestead, that have been doing this for a while, you learn a whole lot.
	And there's going to be, we're gathering a bunch of really cool people that have done just that, that are good teachers too, to share that knowledge.
	So yeah, bring the irrigation knowledge.
	Maybe I'll do like five minutes on plumbing.
	Okay, cool.
	Plumbing with the Health Ranger.
	How about that?
	Excellent.
	Okay.
	Water's important.
	Man, it makes everything possible.
	This is what I've learned.
	I mean, here in central Texas, the summer heat is intense.
	Yeah, it's brutal.
	And you can go, as you know, you've been here a while, you can go, you know, 10 months with no rain sometimes.
	Now, this year has been great.
	Yep.
	And we have, like, amazing, you know, wild grapes and dewberries and everything.
	It's a wild food mecca in the right years when there's plenty of rainfall.
	But other years, everything's like cracking open.
	Yeah, totally.
	You can see, like, halfway to China, like a vortex bigger than this one.
	Bring us the money back!
	Yeah.
	But practical skills, bringing water to things, makes it really, it just opens up all kinds of possibilities.
	And also, I don't know if you know this, but doing rainwater catchment, which is something that we do off this building here, Being able to harness water.
	I mean, permaculture, it's a lot about capturing water as it's running off the land.
	But even in a place that a lot of people would consider to be very dry and almost semi-desert-like, if you know how to harness water, you can have plenty of it.
	Yeah, we actually have a client.
	She regularly comes to the Land Summit, and we worked with her on this consulting thing.
	She bought a property.
	She was inspired in part by coming to the Land Summit.
	So don't come unless you're ready to be inspired and actually move on your goals, because I know people tip their toes in the water.
	The time for timidity is over.
	We need to double down now.
	So true.
	Anyway, she got this property out just south of Fredericksburg, and it was rather barren, but she started working with this company, Symbiosis.
	They'll actually be presenting, I believe, at the Land Summit on a panel.
	She worked with this company, and they did the berms and swales, and they structured and designed the land and the slope in a way where the water gets captured.
	And so going back to visit her and seeing the before and after pictures, it's greening.
	She's greening this barren area.
	Molly Englehart of Sovereignty Ranch, she'll be speaking as well.
	She's the woman, the former vegan restaurateur.
	They have a 200-acre property.
	We went to an event with Alex Zeck out there.
	It was an awesome transformational event during the eclipse.
	And she's got this 200-acre property.
	You're driving through.
	It's all rocky, all the neighbor's property, and just gray dirt.
	But you get onto her property, and there's grass and all sorts of greenery on the vast fields.
	And so they did that deliberately, and it's through permaculture principles and regenerative agriculture.
	You really can do a lot with land if you know what you're doing.
	And that's a quick tip for buying land.
	One buyer will come in and see a property that's affordable because there's not much to do there.
	But if you have a mindset for permaculture, you can see we're actually sitting on a really high-value piece of land here.
	It's going to take a little bit of time, a little bit of work, and a lot of knowledge, but we'll be able to get more acreage per our dollar, so to speak.
	The construction of swales along contour lines is so powerful that what I've noticed on my ranch is that if you take, maybe get somebody with a bulldozer or an excavator, and you just make a small swale along a contour line, so it just holds water, and then five years later, there's going to be a row of trees growing there that you didn't even plant.
	Why?
	Because that's where the water is.
	Mm-hmm.
	I've been trying to explain this to people about how we have so much wild food on our ranch in Central Texas because we just don't poison it.
	We capture water and we don't poison it.
	And because we don't poison it, we don't spray 2,4-D, which is the most common herbicide and it's also half the ingredient of Agent Orange.
	By the way, 2,4-D and glyphosate, that's Agent Orange.
	So people go to the hardware store and they buy 2,4-D and they spray everything.
	Oh, look, we have nice green grass.
	It's a green, nice field.
	It looks like a park.
	It looks like death, actually.
	It looks like cancer.
	If you stop spraying that, you're going to get...
	Dewberries.
	You're going to get wild grapes.
	You're going to get wild onions.
	You're going to get trees sprouting up.
	You're going to get all kinds of...
	And then a habitat for rabbits.
	So if you ever think you need to go out and hunt rabbits because you're starving to death and have a nice rabbit meal, well, guess what?
	You're not going to have rabbits if you don't have habitat for rabbits.
	So you need the briars and the brushes and everything where rabbits can hide from coyotes.
	And so stop poisoning the land, the land becomes...
	A food forest even without planting.
	That's the thing.
	And if you want to plant something, even better.
	Yeah, it becomes a Garden of Eden when you just let it be because that's a big permaculture principle, the polyculture.
	And of course it was the Rockefellers that pushed the Green Revolution.
	The damn Rockefellers are responsible for so much treachery on this earth.
	Yes.
	They push the green revolution, the monoculture.
	But when you have multiple different species, when you have great biodiversity, then there will be all sorts of stuff thriving.
	And there is a lot of wild and medicinal food and plants on properties.
	My son, when he was just a little bit younger, he just got beyond the days where he'll sit on my lap Yeah.
	and be like, "No, don't run over that, Dad.
	That's actually medicine." You know?
	I can't spot it as well as he can, but that's one of the skills that he's learned.
	So, and we're gonna be hearing from David Holmgren.
	So for folks that aren't familiar with permaculture, it was Bill Mollison and David Holmgren who, like, you can't say they founded it because it's really just aligning with natural law and natural principles, but they originated it or they put it out to the world.
	And we got literally one of the living legends.
	We've had Jeff Lawton, who's another living legend, and then Paul Wheaton, another living legend here from the U.S. These other guys are in large part from Australia.
	We're going to be learning from one of the best.
	Old school, been doing it for decades.
	And when you get into this type of permaculture design principles and thinking, it's just another level of understanding our natural world and how we interact with the natural world.
	And unfortunately, a lot of people have the mindset where the humans are superior and we dominate the land.
	And of course, we do have the ability to build some cool stuff.
	But if we build it in a way that's not in harmony with the land, then we're going to pay the price inevitably.
	It's going to be really special to hear from David Holger.
	I got to interview him the other day.
	He was on our side on COVID, too.
	All these guys, they're not necessarily for a political reason they're on our side, but they're just like, this isn't right.
	What the heck's going on here?
	It's always good for the speakers, even if they're these big names in their industry, to learn they saw through the lies.
	I always appreciate that.
	This term permaculture, this has been around for many years, but more recently we hear the term regenerative agriculture, right?
	And suddenly everything's regenerative.
	It's kind of like the new buzzword.
	But regenerative agriculture, to me, sounds almost synonymous with permaculture, right?
	I mean, very much the same principles.
	And if you're practicing permaculture, it is regenerative because the sunlight is the input.
	You've got nature bringing you input.
	You've got the microbes in the soil.
	You've got the birds spreading seeds around.
	You've got the animals playing their role in everything.
	It's all regenerative.
	In your mind, what's the difference between permaculture and regenerative agriculture?
	Great question, and I had the privilege of asking that same question to Jeff Lawton.
	Okay, great.
	Yeah, so you're right.
	Regenerative agriculture is kind of a buzzword, and he kind of was like, oh yeah, that's the latest fad.
	So permaculture, if folks aren't familiar, you can understand permaculture.
	There's these three permaculture ethics.
	And if your actions are in alignment with these three ethics, then it's permaculture, which is cool to have principles and we act in accordance to principles, right?
	So the first one is care of the earth, not harming the earth, living in harmony with the earth.
	The next one is care of people, being a good person, being a good steward.
	And the other one is controversial, but the original was return of the surplus, right?
	So the chicken poop is surplus.
	You go mix it over here.
	You have more yield than you need.
	You take it and put it into the compost, so to speak.
	Because we're talking about people, too, people dynamics.
	So a lot of the more left-leaning took the return of the surplus and call it fair share.
	Which can in some ways be like redistribute the wealth kind of deal.
	And David Holmgren actually used the term fair share.
	And so I kind of challenged him on that.
	And I learned this from Jack Spierko, another speaker.
	He was like really railing on the fair share thing and how that kind of got perverted.
	But he said, you know, really what it's all about is like if you're able to produce enough wealth to where you're taken care of, then it is an ethical thing to do to help further the other two causes.
	Right?
	Yeah.
	So, you know, This event is not always a profitable event, but what we do in our business and everything, when we are profitable, we're always just recycling things back into the community, back into the Freedom Cell Network.
	And I would say that's in alignment with that last principle.
	But regardless, so that's what permaculture is.
	It has a lot to do with systems.
	It has a lot to do with one output of system A is an input of system B, just as you said with permaculture.
	The mulberries feeding the chickens and then the chicken poop feeding the compost or the plants, right?
	That's all what permaculture is about.
	Regenerative agriculture is doing agriculture in a way that's regenerative.
	You're not pulling more than exists.
	That's what they use, the term sustainable.
	We try to shy away from Agenda 21 sustainable development language, but same kind of concept.
	And what Jeff Lawton shared was that true permaculture wouldn't have so many fences.
	You have rotational grazing of the cattle as regenerative agriculture, and that's where we try to source most of our beef here locally too, buying it with Bitcoin.
	Although the fees sometimes aren't very optimal for that.
	But he was like, in a true permaculture system, you wouldn't have all the fences.
	It would just be more organic, natural, and there would be multiple different species operating together in the same pasture as opposed to even though we're rotationally grazing the cattle, it's the cattle and the goats are hanging out there.
	And there's some stuff that's coming out from the forest that isn't even part of your livestock crew.
	So I think permaculture is a little bit more hardcore, more consistent.
	Regenerative agriculture mixes in some more agriculture practices, but does it in a manner that's more...
	That's more harmonious with the Earth, I would say.
	It gets all nuanced and complex.
	At the end of the day, both of them are much preferable to what 99.9% of the world is doing.
	Whether you call it permaculture or regenerative or just being a good steward of resources from Mother Nature, if you're on that path, you're on the right path.
	I mean, versus the people who are carpet bombing their yard with chemicals like it's Gaza or something.
	I mean, it's crazy.
	And then people complain about, you know, oh, everybody's got cancer in our neighborhood.
	Well, have you looked at what you're putting on your lawn?
	I mean, you know, right?
	I talk about this all the time.
	Like, I go to the grocery store, I look at what's in people's shopping carts.
	Yep.
	In horror, you know?
	And they're paying an arm and a leg for crap food.
	Right.
	And it's weird that the conventional food is the food that's sprayed with chemicals.
	Yeah.
	And that's what's conventional.
	It's like really conventional food is the old way of doing things.
	It's a clown world.
	We're not trying to, actually.
	We are creating an alternative world that's a return to the roots, the traditional ways, the indigenous ways, but it's...
	Also merging in the technology and the knowledge.
	And we're literally trying to carve out our own autonomous space in the world.
	Because the old way of doing things is failing.
	It's not in alignment with our values.
	It's not in alignment with the earth.
	It's on a fast track to hell.
	Mm-hmm.
	And I tell you what, again, I don't want to get back to the boat.
	I know that you're so passionate about it.
	One of the biggest things that's motivated me more recently is the fact that my tax dollars are funding this nonsense that's taking place in Gaza.
	It really is so hard to live with.
	So that is another motivation for us to...
	Create an opportunity for our freedom community to decouple themselves entirely from the legacy centralized United States BS government, even the county and the state, all of that nonsense.
	And I think if we can shift our thinking, we haven't done it before.
	This is what's beautiful.
	Like, if I buy chicken feed...
	So the retailer collects sales tax, the chicken feed producer is taxed, inventory taxes, and I have to buy it with after-tax money so there's more taxes.
	Whereas if I grow chicken food, it's not taxed.
	The government doesn't know about it, there's no way for them to track it, the inputs are sunlight and carbon dioxide and water.
	And then I get food, right?
	So growing food is tax-free.
	Yep.
	People need to think about that because taxes are going to be raised next year.
	The Treasury just issued this new guidance.
	They're going to extract even more money from the American people, by the way.
	They're raising all the taxes and the minimum alternative taxes and the corporate taxes.
	Everything's going up, right?
	Because it's never enough, even with all the damn money printing.
	No, it's ridiculous.
	They still need to take more from you.
	It's a Ponzi.
	Right?
	But let me ask you this.
	Given what's happening in the world, also the escalation of war, nuclear war with Russia is a risk right now.
	The UK and France are threatening Putin all the time.
	Massive escalation.
	NATO's lost its mind.
	It's like, we're going to fight Russia, but we can't build anything because we don't have any energy left.
	We're winning the war, but he's a strong man that's going to take over Europe.
	No, it's just bonkers, right?
	But with everything that's happening, and food inflation, and rising crime in the streets of America, are more people now coming to your event, registering for your event, Exit and Build Land Summit, fourth year, are you getting new people now because of what's happening in the world that are kind of just suddenly getting red-pilled, basically?
	We are getting new people.
	I think it has a lot to do with effective marketing.
	But to be totally honest, ever since COVID, a lot of people went back to sleep.
	Really?
	I think the big difference is when...
	So, of course, there's always people that are on the fringes that see there's a problem and they have like an activist heart.
	Maybe they're motivated by the injustice that's taking place overseas.
	Or maybe they're just so fed up because they're working their butts off and they're still struggling to make ends meet.
	And then they see money going to Ukraine or whatever.
	And they're like, I'm fed up.
	I've had enough.
	But the bulk of people, even red pilled people that know there's a problem, they're still stuck in that hypnotic rhythm.
	And unless tyranny is right there at the door, as it was with the lockdowns, you cannot leave your home unless you're essential.
	Of course, we left anyway.
	But how hardcore that was, people losing their jobs because they didn't take the shot.
	Unless it's that bad, a significant number of even our red pilled conspiracy freedom, health freedom community are simply going to stay in that cycle of hypnotic rhythm, struggling to make ends meet, feeling disempowered, And so to bring it back, again, one of our unique selling propositions for what we do at Live Free Academy and for this event.
	It's not a traditional homesteading event.
	There's actually going to be some prayer.
	There's going to be some meditation.
	There's going to be mindset practices, Tony Robbins style talks, which sometimes turns people off.
	But if that turns you off, then in all honesty, in order to build the world that we're going to build, what's more important than the actual practical how-to is the people that we have to become To pick up the pieces of society when it collapses and build anew.
	It's going to take a lot of self-development and I think that we're going to be experiencing some really hard times.
	So even the folks that have their shit together and have a piece of land and know how to grow food and stuff, we're going to be struggling also.
	We're going to see some really hardcore shit in our lifetime and we need to be prepared for it.
	And nothing accelerates personal development faster than crisis.
	Sure.
	Unless it crushes you.
	Well, right, exactly, which it does to some people, but the people that attend your event, people like you and I, we just become stronger or more resilient, gather skills, we adapt and we overcome, which is, I guess, maybe that's a Tony Robbins type of thing, but I mean, it's just a universal human principle for success, I would say.
	There is an urgency to things now that didn't exist a few years ago.
	I mean, you and I have talked about this years ago.
	It was theoretical.
	Even when you or I were talking about, oh, they're going to crack down on free speech, the First Amendment's going to be shredded someday in the future.
	It was like, ah, that's far off.
	It's never going to happen.
	Now, given actually what's going on in the Middle East, The governor of Texas unleashes police and state troopers to beat students on campus in Austin, not far from here.
	And a lot of the conservative truth movement cheer them on, too.
	Yeah, the conservative truth movement is like, yay, crush the First Amendment!
	Yay, police brutality!
	But then they're complaining when the lockdown protest gets crushed.
	It's like, come on, man.
	Here's what it was.
	Oh, the J6 protesters had the right to peacefully protest, but not students.
	Yep.
	So you're really starting to see this transparency, but also personal development in the sense that to navigate this, you've got to have principles.
	Because if you don't know who you are, you can't navigate this, and it's only hard times that force you to know who you are.
	Yeah, for sure.
	You've got to have confidence.
	You've got to be secure in yourself because there's going to be all sorts of temptations that come along as well.
	That's one of the tools of our enemy.
	The enemy of freedom is to take away privileges, to take away rights in order to try to twist your arm in order to take the shot or in order to comply with the Right.
	Right.
	We need to have that inner strength.
	And I tell you what, one thing that makes it easier to stand strong with courage is having a whole group of dozens, hundreds or thousands of people that are standing along with you.
	I've been diving deep into Napoleon Hill.
	He wrote Think and Grow Rich, but he's got all this other volume of work.
	And he said, within every adversity lies the seed of an equal or greater benefit.
	And that's exactly what anti-fragile is.
	And I've been through a lot of hell in my life.
	Divorce, living in a broke down school bus, getting kicked out of apartments, just living in basically right there at poverty.
	You lived in a school bus?
	Yeah, it was cool at one point, but when we first got the school bus, it was not optimal.
	I was like on the door of homelessness.
	Wow.
	And this was back in 2017 or so.
	Wow.
	Yeah, and it led to a hardcore divorce, and it was like a major struggle.
	What about you had low overhead during that time?
	I mean...
	I didn't have to pay much rent.
	That's part of the mindset piece.
	So it's like, yeah, I don't feel like a good father raising my children in this situation where we literally are using like a little squatty potty type deal.
	But it makes homeschooling work.
	We're on the bus every day.
	Well, that's it.
	That's the message.
	Getting positive, right?
	So look at the bright side.
	We don't have a mortgage.
	We don't have rent.
	But it was suboptimal, to say the least.
	It was like rusted out and stuff.
	Right.
	Anyway, I could have allowed it to cripple me.
	I could have turned to drugs in order to numb the pain and the hardship, but instead I decided I'm never going to have my children in a situation like that.
	I'm going to show them what it takes to be successful.
	I was also really grumpy and angry at that time as well, but it was major adversity.
	My marriage fell apart.
	There was a divorce.
	There was tons of hardship, but I chose to use it as leverage to become the best version of myself, not only to be a better father, to be a better husband to my wife, And to be a better activist to help transition this group of people that see there's a problem, but we're not just going to complain about a problem and bicker online.
	No, we're going to build the world that we deserve.
	And that's my mission.
	And I'm glad that you're a part of the mission and you're doing the work too.
	I love what you're saying, John, because the level of maturity that you're describing from personal experience and living through so many mistakes, you know, You and I have been around this industry for longer than most, let's say.
	And you know, when you're young and you're in your 20s, like a lot of these students, you just have this passion and these emotions just sweep over you.
	I just, this is wrong, let's go out and protest, right?
	And that's fine.
	And we expect that from people who are 25.
	And that's why I'm not harsh on these students.
	It's like, hey, they're participating.
	More power to them.
	Yeah, as long as they're peaceful, go for it.
	I think it's great.
	And then you hit adversity.
	If you're a professional influencer or author, writer, organizer of events like you are, and a teacher, and you hit adversity, that's when you really find out who you are, and then through that adversity you gain wisdom.
	And then the wisdom now, you can look with the perspective of what's happening in the world, and you can navigate it with a sense of Solutions and optimism toward the future.
	You don't have to spend your whole life just railing on what's wrong, because that doesn't get you anywhere.
	It's okay to warn people about what's wrong, which I do frequently as well, but then it's about solutions.
	You probably even notice it in my own work.
	I used to spend a lot of time just talking about what's wrong.
	Now it's like, hey, guess what?
	These are solutions, decentralized solutions.
	Knowledge, AI, crypto, grow food, whatever.
	You and I are doing the same thing, really.
	And I used to think that some of your messaging was a little bit exaggerating, but now I'm like, man, he was spot on because it's right here knocking at our door.
	It was just early.
	Yeah, just ahead of the curve.
	Yeah, and that's what it's all about.
	We know that there's a problem, and the reason why so many people focus on the problem and sharing and just screaming in anger...
	It's because it's easier to do that than it is to go out, get uncomfortable, learn a new skill, have some anxiety about figuring things out.
	Maybe you make some mistakes.
	Maybe you fail a handful of times.
	But again, if you can tap into that anti-fragile mindset, you see that the failure, in fact, isn't failure.
	It's more of a gift because now you have more knowledge.
	Those of us that are able to see through that and tap into that space, it's up to us to not only pass on the knowledge and help encourage people, But also help people get that mindset right, because it really creates an entirely different reality when you could step into that anti-fragile piece.
	Though it'll be hardship going down right now, and you could be like, how did I attract this, and what can I learn from this so I don't repeat it?
	And then when you break, like, let us also take that to a bigger scale.
	And use history as a teacher.
	And not allow history to repeat itself.
	Because the playbook that rolled out with Communist China and the Cultural Revolution and all that stuff under Mao, that's what they're trying to implement here.
	I don't think it's all Communist agenda.
	There's other factors.
	But Mickey Willis' most recent Plandemic, I think it was Plandemic 3, right?
	That was the whole premise of the thing.
	Like, look at the parallels between what happened in Communist China and what's happening right here, right now.
	And Hopefully that helps to light a fire under people's rear ends.
	Because it's not just about making life better for us and us exiting and going out and getting off grid.
	You've got to understand that if we don't step up, and each and every one of us that's been red-pilled, if we don't do more...
	It will be a future, like George Elwood described, where it's just a boot stomping on your face.
	But more so than that, all the children will be born into a digital panopticon society with CBDCs, social credit scores, vaccine passports controlling their movement, 15-minute cities where you've got to show your ID and you've got to have a green light to even leave your little district.
	That's what's being built right now.
	And they have a whole lot of momentum.
	Thankfully, they have to operate with deception and mistruth, and all we have to do is just shine in the glory of freedom and the natural world in order to do this.
	But it is going to take building an alternative.
	I think we need to show people there's another way to live.
	I think it's in the UK the Online Harms Act.
	I think that's what it's called.
	But I think that's the law that says they can make you a prisoner in your own home if a court judge decides that you are at risk of committing a hate act online.
	So, wait a second.
	Let me get this straight.
	Wow.
	So you think that I might say something that's offensive to transgenders or whoever.
	The migrants that are coming in.
	The migrants, yeah.
	Oh, we need border protection.
	Oh, that's a hate crime.
	Boom.
	Now you're locked down in your home like COVID lockdown style.
	Wow.
	Right?
	By order of the court, probably with an ankle bracelet, right?
	And that's coming.
	You know, the tyranny...
	Against freedom of speech and the demands that you must obey the narratives on everything from transgenderism to Israel to Ukraine to whatever.
	And it's becoming encoded into law to the point where your freedoms are eroding rapidly.
	But I would say that one reason why people want to go to your summit and interact with the people, the speakers, and there are things that happen at your summit that are way beyond what we can describe here, is because, and I'll speak directly to the audience here, If you want to be free, you can only self-select that.
	You are self-selecting your choice to be free.
	No one is going to come do that for you.
	Your senator is not going to save you.
	Your governor is not going to save you.
	Your president, your new president, your next president.
	Trump is not going to save you, folks.
	Biden's not going to save you.
	RFK Jr., not going to save you.
	Nobody's going to save you.
	Accept yourself.
	I mean, I don't mean in a religious context.
	Of course, many people would say, well, Christ is going to save me.
	Yeah, but Christ expects you to take care of yourself until he gets here, right?
	So just for those who follow Christ and the rapture and all of that, even that message isn't like, oh, just be a slave until I come back.
	That's not the Christ message.
	It's like, Grow food.
	Be in alignment with love and life and light until Jesus returns for those who follow that.
	It's consistent across all belief systems.
	No, I'm totally with you.
	I've actually been exploring Christ and Christianity deeper lately, and I do strongly believe that this is a spiritual battle.
	No matter if folks in our audience are Christians or not, the people that control the large institutions in society are most definitely satanic pedophiles, and they're doing some weird ritualistic kind of stuff, and they are definitely operating from a place of darkness, so we should really...
	Recognize that.
	And what you shared before we started, I don't know if we had already started the interview or not, but I was saying things are accelerating and they're trying to co-op Bitcoin and they're trying to really accelerate the CBDCs.
	And you're like, yeah, they're willing to kill a bunch of people.
	They won't stop at anything to push their agenda.
	And at this point, because we've been making so many strides, they are like a wild animal backed into a corner.
	And that's when they are most dangerous.
	So everyone definitely should look alive for sure.
	Are firearms allowed at your event among the audience?
	Yes.
	Great.
	And we'll encourage everyone, of course, to use the four firearms rules.
	We won't say anything, but it's expected.
	I started concealed carrying, actually.
	One of my friends recently, an older gentleman that I look up to a whole lot, he was giving me a hard time because we were at this men's retreat thing, and he's like, so why do you open carry?
	You give yourself up that strategic ground.
	Yeah.
	And I was doing it kind of as a message, and it's easy here in Bastrop.
	Nobody even bats an eye.
	But when I would venture into Austin to go visit family and stuff, I'd always be like, I wonder if somebody's going to...
	Like, I went into a Starbucks to pick up something for my young one, a Frappuccino, and it was literally a Starbucks with the transgender sign and, like, the gender-neutral restrooms that come in there, open carrying, and I know I got a kick out of that.
	But yes, you can carry a firearm there.
	Just everyone be responsible and...
	It's a safe...
	It'll probably be the safest place in Texas.
	Just keep them in their holsters.
	Keep them in their holsters.
	Yeah.
	I don't suspect we'll have to pull them out of our...
	No.
	No cheering for...
	Oh my God!
	I'm not going to do that.
	Like a Mexican Independence Day or something.
	No, no.
	So firearms are allowed.
	Keep them in their holsters.
	But that's great because it's safety and security for everybody.
	It's really consistent with the message of what you're teaching, which is personal responsibility, but also community layers of protection, safety, commerce, exchange of information in this case.
	But these are the principles that will keep civilization alive.
	live.
	As systems collapse, what's going to rise up out of that are local systems of barter.
	And you have to have safe roads and safe travel in order to have barter.
	And you have to have systems of exchange, which means you have to have monetary systems of value.
	It could be gold or silver.
	It could be crypto.
	It could be whatever's functioning at that time.
	But I love how your event is a microcosm of the solutions that will keep society alive and abundant.
	Yep, that's right.
	And there's a lot of building relationships.
	There's a concert, for example.
	Betsy Dewey's going to be performing along with some hip-hop artists.
	Oh, I didn't know that.
	That sounds fun.
	So there's a concert.
	We like to have a good time, mix it up.
	For folks that have a VIP pass, we're actually going to be hanging out at our homestead.
	Having a really incredible catered meal from a local regenerative ranch that we purchased from.
	Like, really top-notch steaks and all sorts of stuff.
	You had awesome food last year.
	I was just blown away.
	That's a huge element, because it's part of the experience.
	It's not just come and learn.
	We're trying to create an experience so people are more open to receiving the message, which is like, the time is now.
	And yes, the systems are collapsing.
	before those systems collapse so we're not left in some frantic state of disorder and chaos.
	We've already inhabited the new systems, and even if these systems don't collapse, it's my hope, and this may be a multi-generational thing, which a lot of people don't think that big picture, but we need to be thinking on those terms.
	Our enemies most definitely are thinking big picture, not in the next election, but multiple generations, and they're passing on the work to their kids or their tax-exempt foundations.
	Absolutely.
	So we're trying to think big picture, and we're just getting started.
	What happened with Bitcoin?
	What happened with all these alternatives like Odyssey and Brideon, right?
	So they push, and then we're like, well, we're not going to complain and whine.
	We're going to build these alternative systems.
	This infrastructure is slowly but surely being built.
	And so it's my hope that we can accelerate that so one day, whether these systems collapse or not, very likely they'll collapse, and whether they collapse or they transition into the Great Reset, we have carved out political autonomy, peace, prosperity, And the ability to take care of ourselves outside of their systems.
	And that is the mission of the event.
	It's my personal mission.
	We share that mission.
	Our slogan has morphed over the last six months to building the infrastructure of human freedom.
	Love it.
	That's what I say every day on my podcast because that's what we're doing.
	Let me plug your event one more time.
	It's the Exit and Build Land Summit, and it begins May 16th for the farm tours.
	And by the way, you get to it, naturalnews.com slash landsummit.
	We'll show that on screen for you.
	here.
	That's our affiliate link.
	You can watch the first day and a half free of charge just with registration, or you can choose to purchase the special access pass or what do you call it?
	The virtual immersion pass.
	You watch on Zoom and we try to craft it in a way where you're kind of there because the Zoom participants are up on a big TV and you can actually ask questions of some of the speakers just like the people in the audience can.
	So it's immersive.
	Alright, that's really cool.
	And then...
	You've got the meals.
	You've got all kinds of special things going on.
	That's going to be amazing.
	We have childcare set up, too.
	So there's actually going to be a professional who does entrepreneurial work.
	So it's a very low ticket on top of your ticket.
	And then your kids, like ages 5 or 4 to 15, they can come watch the event if they want.
	Or they can go and work with the other kids to produce little products.
	And then they're going to sell it to the adults and their friends on the last day.
	Oh, really?
	Yeah.
	So, yeah, a little bit of innovation.
	Yep.
	Very cool.
	Yeah, so there's something for the kids, too.
	Okay.
	And there's no, like, drag queen story time for the kids?
	No drag queen story time.
	No, no, none of that.
	I was just checking.
	No, and you don't check your pronouns on the name badge.
	Although, Rebecca, my wife today...
	I'm often times of the face, but I owe her a whole lot of credit because she's the producer and she's the one organizing the actual event.
	I'm doing everything I can to fill the bodies in the event, but she's actually leading the volunteers and putting the whole event together.
	But she was buying name tags on Amazon today and she came across some that have the pronoun checkbox.
	So we thought about buying some just as a gag when people show up.
	That's funny.
	All right.
	Well, and I'll be speaking at the event, I think, Friday late afternoon, something like that.
	And I've got a special surprise for the audience at that time.
	Can I request some, like, a music track?
	Sure.
	Yeah, we actually have an ecstatic dance DJ named Swahi, who's a cool freedom guy.
	So I can just ask the DJ. Yeah, we'll ask the DJ. This guy, let us know as soon as you can.
	We'll get that all queued up.
	But this guy, Swahi, during the peak of lockdowns, There's this whole ecstatic dance movement.
	Me and Becca dabble in it.
	It's really great.
	It's called ecstatic dance.
	It's electronic music, but it's kind of tribal, not just like traditional techo.
	I love it, yeah.
	And people dance real fluid, and it's always the most beautiful, healthy people you can imagine.
	Sometimes a little scantily clad, but always tasteful.
	But...
	Everything was shut down.
	So it's this whole movement of people.
	It's very popular in Austin.
	Everything was shut down.
	A lot of the folks that are more spiritual, somewhat new age, not of the devil.
	Everyone thinks new age equals the devil.
	That's not the case.
	They were all leaning into the whole COVID narrative.
	And so this guy Swahi, he's like, you know what?
	It's time.
	I'm going to host an ecstatic dance in the middle of the lockdowns in Nevada City.
	Right.
	He hosts the Ecstatic Dance.
	There wasn't a huge turnout, but there was, you know, 100 people plus, a couple hundred people, and he got the backlash of the mob like no other.
	So, anyway, I was at an Ecstatic Dance event recently reminiscing with him about that.
	Like, remember how everybody freaked out when you did that event and, like, hated you?
	He's like, yeah, most of those people slowly worked their way back into the dance movement.
	I was like, did anybody ever apologize for trying to cancel you?
	He's like, no.
	Nobody said, but I don't mind.
	Whatever.
	That's just how people are.
	But anyway, that's the DJ. At the beginning of my segment, then, for your event, I'm going to invite people up to do ecstatic dance with the DJ. We're going to turn the lights down.
	I've got something really dramatic to do during that time that will be a perfect fit.
	All right.
	I'm looking forward to it.
	Okay.
	All right.
	This will be fun.
	We're not all going to drop acid or anything, Mike.
	No, no, no, no.
	I'm just kidding.
	No, it involves flow arts.
	Cool.
	I'm a long-time practitioner of a certain flow art that I haven't done publicly for like 20 years.
	Oh, right on.
	I'm going to bring it back for your event.
	Let's go.
	Yeah, why not?
	That'll be fun.
	It'll be fun.
	It'll be truly psychedelic.
	Cool.
	All right, so the event, again, is Exit and Build Land Summit 4, and that is, again, naturalnews.com slash landsummit.
	We'll get you there.
	And you're going to learn.
	This is a life-changing type of event.
	And thank you, John.
	I just got to say, in wrapping this up today, I'm honored to know you.
	I respect and admire your work here.
	And what you're doing is pivotal for the rebuilding of our society.
	So just thank you for what you're doing.
	It matters.
	Thank you.
	Appreciate that.
	Absolutely.
	And right back at you.
	I see all your posts on social media and I think that you have a consistent voice when a lot of people get led astray.
	So I know a lot of what you said probably got some backlash or maybe some people that turned their backs on you but you're staying true to your principles and I think that's the most important thing we could be doing right now.
	That's ultimately what we live with.
	Whether we live a life of principles or just got easily compromised and distracted.
	So In any case, again, Exit and Build Land Summit 4, and it happens May 17th, 18th, and 19th in Bastrop, Texas, with the farm tours on the 16th and the 20th, right?
	Optional farm tours.
	If you can just come to the conference, that's great.
	And, yeah, sign up for free, first day and a half, or get a virtual immersion pass.
	It'll be like you're practically there.
	All right.
	Sounds good.
	Thank you so much, John.
	Pleasure to have you here in studio today.
	Thanks.
	All right.
	And thank you for watching today.
	Of course, Mike Adams here with Brighton.com.
	I'm honored to be a speaker at this event.
	It's going to be loads of fun.
	You're going to learn a lot.
	This is going to be a life-changing event.
	So if you can get to Central Texas in person, join us in person.
	If not, join us online, and you'll still have an amazing amount of knowledge that you take away from this event.
	So again, naturalnews.com slash land summit.
	And thank you for all your support.
	God bless you all.
	Take care.
	Alright, let's talk about some solutions for preparedness and survival based on what's happening in the world.
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	Here's something that I don't talk about enough, but there's a company called shieldarms.com that has a new product, which is the S10 Grip Chop.
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	This is my Glock 43X right here.
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	You know, it can stick out if you're trying to do concealed carry.
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	Here it is.
	This is the Shield Arms magazine.
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	Nobody else in the world has models like this.
	In addition, we have a backup comms social media platform that we've just launched called Brightown.io.
	And if you go to that website, Brightown.io, you can sign up.
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	The thing is, see, it's got free speech videos.
	Here's a flat earth video.
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	Here's Dave Hodges here with a video.
	You can go there and you can share videos and content, and there are no central servers.
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	This is one of our combat knives, and they're made with magna-cut steel, incredibly durable, high Rockwell hardness, they're flexible without shattering, they hold an edge, and they're almost corrosion-proof.
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	So yeah, if you see this, this is a G10 handle with an oversized finger guard here.
	This is a really incredible knife.
	And because it's got three holes here...
	Show camera one.
	Let me show you this.
	Because it's got these three holes...
	See if I can get the light just right.
	Yeah.
	It's got this hole, this hole, and then this hole.
	You can use paracord and you can strap it to a stick and make a spear out of it.
	So this can be made into a spear relatively easily.
	We've got multiple knives from Dawson.
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	This is...
	Oh, that's another one of our combat knives, but we've got a bushcrafting knife as well that you can check out.
	Find all that at healthrangerstore.com.
	Bottom line, folks, we have a lot of preparedness solutions for you.
	Some of them are free, like brighttown.ai or brighttown.io, or you can use Brighttown Social or just brighttown.com.
	And then some of them, of course, cost money.
	Like if you're going to get your hands on gold, you know, it's going to cost you.
	You're going to pay for the gold.
	Not everything is going to be free, obviously.
	So iodine, storable food, weapons of self-defense to defend and protect innocent life, these are the kinds of things that we are advocating very strongly right now at this time in history because of what's happening in the world, what's happening with the open borders, where we are domestically, with chaos and lawlessness getting worse in most cities across America, more illegals invading more states and counties.
	So be ready to defend yourself.
	And then, of course, the collapse of the dollar coming as well.
	It's accelerating every day.
	You're seeing it with food inflation.
	Now look at the cost of your car insurance, by the way.
	Look at that.
	It's skyrocketing.
	Health insurance, it's all skyrocketing.
	Things are getting more expensive because your dollar is worth less and less.
	Meanwhile, gold is absolutely skyrocketing.
	In fact, let me just bring up where gold is right now.
	23.84.
	Show my screen.
	I want to show the trend here.
	If you look at gold prices here, just over, what does that go back to?
	Like the end of October last year, gold was $1,837.
	Now, now it's almost $2,400.
	Look at that rise right there.
	Gold is skyrocketing in dollars because dollars are losing value.
	So people who are smart, who want to maintain their value of gold and silver...
	Well, it's doing exactly what it's designed to do, to hold value.
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	So those are some of our sponsors, some of the solutions that we offer, some of the free things that are available to you.
	Whatever you do, make sure that you're getting prepared for what's coming.
	Grow more food.
	Save your garden seeds.
	You know, get more items at the grocery store that you can even stockpile that will last a longer period of time.
	Try to get out of the dollar into things that will hold value, whether it's gold and silver or something else.
	Maybe you're going to buy a piece of land.
	Maybe you're going to stock up on ammo or diesel fuel or, you know, something that holds value.
	But take action now because the world is becoming more chaotic and, Time is running out.
	Thank you for supporting our sponsors and supporting this platform.
	We appreciate you.
	That keeps us going.
	It allows us to build the free tools that we're giving back to you, such as the AI tools as well as the Brighttown.io platform.
	But together, we can make it through all this, and then we'll be the ones who get to help rebuild society on the other side of the collapse of this current system.
	And it is collapsing.
	But get prepared now while you can, and thank you for all your support.
	I'm Mike Adams here of HealthRangerStore.com, as well as Brighteon.com.
	Take care.
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	It's called The Global Reset Survival Guide.
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