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May 10, 2024 - Health Ranger - Mike Adams

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BBN, May 10, 2024 – Senate proposal would PAY OFF all medical debt in America...

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	Welcome to Bright Tea on Broadcast News for Friday, May 10th, 2024.
	I'm Mike Adams.
	Thank you for joining me today as we are building the infrastructure of human freedom.
	Let me show you a photo of that today here.
	This is a photo of some of the graphics cards.
	That I have pulled out of the various workstations that we have acquired, just some of them, for data pipeline processing for our AI language model.
	So these are the cards that we no longer use.
	These are some of the cards that came with some of the systems.
	Some of these are higher-end cards, some are lower-end cards.
	But there's lots and lots of different workstations that we have for data pipeline processing.
	And the data pipeline processing just means we're processing articles, interviews, transcripts, books, book text...
	And sometimes website texts, sometimes reference texts, all kinds of things.
	And so we have dozens of workstations that are working on that 24-7.
	And that's in addition to the training servers.
	So the training servers are more in racks, like typical data center training servers, like 2U and 4U servers.
	And the ones that are really loud, remember, like six months ago, I had one of them in my office where I do this recording, and it was always screaming in the background.
	It's like, ah!
	I had to apologize for that.
	Well, I was in one of our data centers today, and I could barely hear myself think it's so loud.
	The fans are just cranking.
	I mean, it's crazy.
	It's like, literally, you can't talk to anybody in the data center room because the fans are so loud.
	So what they're doing is they're doing all kinds of training of the finished data to train the base models, like PHY-3, LAMA-3, Bio-Meestrel, and Dolphin-Meestrel, and some other models we're playing around with as well.
	So next week, we're going to have some new releases for you at brighteon.ai, and we've got a lot of new training that is completed.
	And so, you know, additional knowledge will be found in these models.
	And we're working on a pretty big, very cool surprise within 30 days or so that's going to just blow everything else away.
	And I'll keep you posted about that.
	Anyway, sign up at brighteon.ai if you want to be informed about these free, non-commercial, downloadable language models that we're releasing to the public.
	Now, in terms of today's interview, the interview I had planned to publish today had to be rescheduled for various reasons.
	Not on my part, but on the person that I was about to interview who is on the other side of the planet.
	And interesting things happening on the other side of the planet.
	And there was no bandwidth.
	So, couldn't do that interview today.
	However, I have a really cool interview to play for you.
	Actually, it's an interview we published just two days ago on Decentralize TV, and it's with a man named Steve Humble.
	And his company is called Creative Home Engineering, and what he specializes in, I think he's a mechanical engineer by trade, but he specializes in building, like James Bond-style, secret passageways,
	In people's homes, like secret stairways that lift up and then there's a whole room underneath it, like secret hallways, secret rooms, secret entryways, like homes where the fireplace turns to the side.
	It's like James Bond, you know?
	It's like, oh, you pull on the statue...
	You know, like, you pull the arm of the statue, and then the fireplace, like, rotates, and it opens up, rotates 90 degrees, and now you can walk through the fireplace to this secret castle room you have on the other side, you know, if you're James Bond.
	Well, this is the guy that builds those.
	I mean, he designs them, and his team provides instructions for how these can be constructed with really high-end commercial ball bearings and beefy hinges and components that will function without sagging or breaking or leaving slide marks on the floor.
	So it's a really cool interview.
	Again, Steve Humble from Creative Home Engineering.
	I think his website is hiddenpassageways.com.
	Hidden Passageway.com.
	Let me see.
	Is that it?
	Hidden Passageway.
	Ah, single.
	No plural.
	Hidden Passageway.com.
	So there you go.
	If you go there, and this is not a sponsored interview, by the way.
	This is just, this is a guy that does some cool stuff.
	And it's about, like, if you have, let's say, gold or silver, and you want self-custody, but you want to hide your valuables, This is the guy that can make it happen.
	He can take a room in your home and just hide it.
	Which, yeah, fascinating stuff.
	Okay, anyway, that's the interview coming up later.
	Forgot to mention yesterday that right now at our store, HealthRangerStore.com, we have double reward points on all purchases until midnight Sunday night, and that is a...
	That's a Mother's Day special right there.
	So giving a big thanks to all the mothers.
	All of us have mothers.
	Without mothers, we wouldn't be here.
	So we're thanking the mothers and, well, the grandmothers as well.
	And all of you out there, whether you are a mother or you have a mother, you can get double reward points, which essentially means you're getting 10% back On your purchases in points, and the points can be redeemed in our store, of course.
	So again, that's healthrangerstore.com.
	There's no special code or anything.
	Just double reward points on all purchases through midnight Sunday night.
	That's the midnight between Sunday and Monday, by the way.
	Not Saturday and Sunday, but between Sunday and Monday.
	All right.
	So take advantage of that.
	Now, it was not a huge news day.
	So we don't have as many headlines as usual, but there are some interesting ones to cover here, and I do have a special report for you.
	So first, here's a story from 100% FedUp.
	Lawmakers introduced legislation to wipe out medical debt.
	And it turns out that Bernie Sanders and Ro Khanna, a Democrat from California, So, Senator Bernie Sanders, but Representative Ro Khanna, okay, so one in the Senate, one in the House, have introduced legislation that aims to eliminate medical debt for Americans.
	They're saying that this bill aims to eliminate all $220 billion in medical debt held by millions of Americans, wipe it from credit reports, and drastically limit the accrual of future medical debt.
	So, okay, at first glance, this seems like an awesome thing for those who are suffering under just onerous medical debt.
	It seems awesome, but remember, Bernie Sanders is a socialist.
	Although it doesn't mean he's wrong about everything, by the way.
	Bernie Sanders is quite right about a number of issues like what's happening in the Middle East at the moment.
	However, he does lean toward socialism.
	Now, remember that recently Joe Biden illegally forgave billions, I mean, I don't know, hundreds of billions of dollars, I think, in student debt.
	Even though the Supreme Court had issued a decision many months ago saying that that's not constitutional.
	The government can't just decide to pay off all these student loans which effectively transfers the burden of those student loans to all the other people Even people who didn't go to college didn't take out student loans, but now they're on the hook for the student loans because they're taxpayers, right?
	So, you know, some people chose not to take on student loans, and some people chose to pay back their student loans.
	I was in debt in college, and I've shared the story with you several times over the years of how I worked my butt off to pay off my student debt.
	Even though I had scholarships, thank goodness, That covered quite a lot, just because of my college entrance scores, which were really high.
	So I had scholarships, but I still, I was in debt because of the cost of living.
	You know, rent and food and gas and driving an old, beat-up car.
	It was so beat up that if you drove it in the rain, it would stop.
	The engine would stop running and you'd be stranded in the rain.
	And at one time, this is not even I'm not making this up.
	At one time, driving the car...
	I had to stop and the tailpipe was dragging and so I had to use a coat hanger to rig the tailpipe back up to the car.
	And that worked for a while, a few months actually, until the next rain happened and then everything stopped.
	But anyway, some of us, some of us were financially responsible.
	We lived in poverty as poor students, which is probably the best way to get some life experience, by the way.
	Live as a poor student, we went into debt, and then people like me, we worked it off and paid it off.
	And then the government comes along and says, oh, well, we're just going to pay off everybody's student debt.
	Well, wait a second.
	What about those of us who worked and paid it off?
	Oh, well, now you owe other people student debt.
	Yeah.
	So that's the student debt fiasco, which is just insane.
	It's like these students knew they were taking on debt to get an education, and maybe they should have chosen an education that would actually make them employable instead of an education in, you know, liberal studies, gender studies, whatever.
	Okay, so now moving on to medical debt then.
	So Bernie Sanders and Ro Khanna want to have the government pay off people's medical debt.
	Now what is this really?
	This is a transfer of money from the taxpayers to the hospitals.
	This is a giant handout to the medical industrial complex that already got a massive handout during the COVID years because they were financially rewarded for killing people in the hospitals and saying it was COVID. Remember, we've covered those stories many times.
	Some hospitals received as much as half a million dollars per COVID fatality.
	And so everybody that showed up, they would just, you know, swab them and run the fake PCR machine in the back closet.
	Oh, you tested positive for COVID. Put them on a ventilator.
	Slam them with all these toxic drugs.
	And oh my God, they died.
	No problem.
	Cash in the $500,000 grant money.
	And one of these medical groups, as we covered this story recently, was also taking out life insurance policies on their own patients.
	And then when the patient died, they were cashing in the life insurance and they were also getting the government grant money.
	So talk about double dipping.
	They get double the payout.
	Double your pleasure, double your fun with double mint gum in the hospital.
	Remember that old commercial?
	That was always weird.
	What does double mint...
	I'm not going to go there.
	That gum even sucked.
	It wasn't very good.
	The mint ran out in like 20 seconds.
	It wasn't double mint.
	It was like a fraction of mint.
	Something's wrong with this mint.
	Anyway, so the hospital's double dipping massive collections and payouts during the COVID years by killing people.
	Well, that has really slowed down because people aren't taking the jabs anymore.
	Except Well, there's a certain group of people who love to play, like, vaccine roulette.
	And some of them are still alive, even.
	But for most people, they're not taking the jabs anymore.
	So the hospitals don't have all this big cash, you know, this windfall of cash.
	So along comes Bernie Sanders and Representative Ro Khanna.
	And they are like, hey, let's have another big handout to the hospitals.
	Yeah!
	Big, like $220 billion.
	It's almost a quarter of a trillion dollars.
	Pay it to the hospitals and we'll say that it's to help Americans.
	Now, that's not entirely wrong because the American people are suffering under medical debt, but The source of that problem is the fact that it's already like a third-party payer system where people don't even know how much anything costs when they go into the hospital.
	They don't even see the bills.
	We just hand over an insurance card number or something, or Medicaid or Medicare, and then the hospital bills those third parties.
	The patient never sees how much all that stuff costs, right?
	$5,000 for a saline bag?
	What?
	What is that?
	$15,000 for a colonoscopy?
	I wasn't even the right patient, you know?
	Medical costs are out of control.
	Because people don't pay for these procedures themselves.
	How does the saying go?
	If you're using your own money to make your own spending decisions, that's the most responsible situation.
	But if you're using other people's money...
	Well, then things start to get loosey-goosey.
	But then if a third party is using other people's money to make spending decisions for yet other people that they don't even know, we're talking about Medicare or insurance companies, then things get really crazy and hospitals are in the business of just jacking up all the claims for reimbursement.
	And every year there's all kinds of doctors that are arrested by the FBI often for massive fraud, like, oh, he billed Medicare for $12 million worth of, you know, toedale clipping procedures or whatever.
	And it turns out to be just a massive fraud.
	Well, the problem here is, again, that people aren't...
	They don't even ask how much anything costs, and so there's no price competition among hospitals or doctors.
	They just charge whatever the hell they want.
	Remember a year ago when I almost severed my finger, and then a couple months into that, I decided to go see a hand specialist.
	Just to make sure that everything was coming together correctly, healing correctly.
	That was the only time I saw a doctor having to do with my severe laceration, which, of course, has since almost entirely healed.
	And I never even went to the emergency room.
	I have no stitches.
	And an indiscernible...
	I'm looking at it now.
	I can't even really see the scar at this point.
	It's only because I know where it is.
	But anyway...
	I saw this hand specialist doctor for...
	I mean, it must have been four minutes.
	And I do have some kind of health insurance plan because of my company.
	It's not even something that I sought out.
	It's just a plan that is offered to all of our employees, so I'm on that plan.
	And I found out that that plan billed...
	I mean, that doctor's office billed the plan...
	What was it, like a thousand...
	No, it was more than $1,000.
	I couldn't believe it.
	And it was like, okay, wait a second.
	This is crazy.
	Four minutes with a doctor shouldn't cost $1,000 to the health insurance company.
	But it did.
	Now, you multiply that across the entire country.
	And then you realize that people who don't have insurance are initially being charged the same rates as the hiked up insurance rates.
	Then you understand why there's so much medical debt out there.
	The problem is not that the government hasn't paid it off quickly enough.
	The problem is that the medical system is a price gouging racket that it's a paper chase game between the hospitals and And the insurance companies or the government insurance.
	And they're always playing this game with each other.
	The hospitals are trying to create as many billable codes as they can.
	They've got encyclopedias full of codes.
	Like, this is the code for that procedure.
	This is the code for flipping on a light switch.
	This is the code for tying your shoes.
	And so they bill the companies for all that.
	And then the companies are in the business of denying the codes.
	You can't bill us for shoe tying when it's a proctology exam.
	Well, when I bent over, my shoes needed tying.
	It makes sense.
	It's justified.
	Or whatever.
	But the insurance companies, they try to reject everything.
	So that's the game.
	So Bernie Sanders wants the government to come along and just pay off all the outstanding debt without addressing the root of the problem.
	Being that the root of the problem is that this is a price-gouging medical-industrial complex filled with a bunch of fraudsters who overbill on purpose.
	That's the problem.
	So, you want to solve the problem?
	It's very simple.
	You create health freedom zones.
	This is something that I actually recommended publicly many years ago.
	You create health freedom zones where a state could do this.
	Let's say the state of Texas declares itself a health freedom zone and says that all medical procedures From all kinds of practitioners, alternative medicine, complementary medicine, vibrational medicine, acupuncture, reflexology, whatever.
	It's all legal to practice in this health freedom zone.
	And as part of that, every patient fills out a satisfaction survey after they visit the practitioner.
	And then there's a six-month follow-up.
	You know, survey.
	It's all online.
	And then, over about a couple of years, you would build up this massive database of what works.
	Because people would come in, you know, you would ask them, like, what's your condition?
	Or what are your symptoms?
	Right?
	And then, after the treatment, whatever the treatment is, then, like, what are the results?
	Did you get better?
	Did the pain go away?
	Do you have better mobility?
	Whatever.
	I know I'm oversimplifying it, but...
	In this scenario, the patients pay themselves.
	And if you want to partially socialize that system, you can have the government hand out flat fee vouchers to the entire population.
	Like, here's $500 a month.
	Spend it on any healthcare you want.
	It's like semi-socialized medicine just to keep all the Bernie Sanders people happy.
	So you can spend this money.
	You can see a chiropractor.
	And you could get a lot out of $500 a month with a chiropractor.
	Or you could get a gym membership and you could go get more fit.
	Or you could spend this with a spinal surgeon and add another $100,000 on top of that.
	You can spend it wherever you want.
	And if you don't spend it, it saves up.
	So it's like a monthly health debit account that just gets another $500 a month, let's say, right?
	So this is almost like a universal basic income, a UBI, only for health.
	But you can spend it on anything health-related, including supplements, vitamin D, zinc.
	And then what you're doing with this system is you're gathering data of what works and what doesn't work.
	So you're creating a free market system where every person has this debit card and they have to look at this card and say, huh, I got $500 on this thing.
	And you can't spend it on cigarettes.
	You can't spend it on Tide laundry detergent.
	You can't spend it on soda.
	You can't spend it on gasoline or crack.
	You can only spend it on medical or healthcare related items.
	What are you going to spend it on?
	So you're bringing back the responsibility of decision making and putting power and free market principles back into the hands of the people in a health freedom zone.
	And then in time you would figure out very quickly which procedures don't work.
	Oh, I visited the bell ringing doctor, because I had tennis elbow, and the bell ringing doctor rang a bunch of bells over my elbow.
	Okay, did that work, or did it not work?
	Well, maybe the bell ringing didn't work, but maybe, maybe the tuning forks did work, you see.
	But the data will reveal what works and what doesn't work.
	Now, the people who get vaccines, of course, so many of them would be injured that very quickly the data would show that vaccines are not helping people.
	And that's why the medical system is terrified of any accountability.
	Terrified of it.
	But what Bernie Sanders wants to do, sadly, and maybe he's got a bigger idea than this, but he knows that it doesn't have a snowball chance in hell of passing.
	But what he's proposing here is that the government just continue to pay off the medical industrial complex and keep the scam going, effectively allowing the medical system to extract maximum revenues from the U.S. economy.
	Out of the pockets of the people via the government itself.
	So since when has it ever been a good idea for the medical system and government to do business together?
	When have the patients ever benefited from that?
	The answer is almost never.
	Almost never.
	So this is, ultimately this is a bad idea.
	And remember what I've said about the economy in terms of the big picture.
	What are the three things that the U.S. economy is actually engaged in?
	Let's see.
	Death, disease, and debt, right?
	The three Ds.
	Sometimes I change that order around.
	But let's start with debt.
	So it's printing fiat currency.
	It's creating debt.
	And putting people in debt because they're losing the value of their dollars, so they have to go into more and more debt in order to buy food or purchase a home or pay for basic expenses.
	The death industry.
	That's the military-industrial complex.
	We know all about that.
	Lots of money that Congress says is going to Ukraine, but it's actually going to these military bomb manufacturers all across America.
	You know, General Dynamics, Lockheed Martin, Raytheon, Boeing, you know, what have you.
	And then there's disease.
	The disease industry.
	That's the medical-industrial complex.
	The disease industry profits from people staying sick and diseased.
	And of course, billing the government and billing health insurance companies to make more money off that disease.
	Notice that very few of the products in the medical system actually halt disease or make people better.
	You know, chemotherapy causes cancer.
	That's the number one side effect of chemo, by the way.
	Psychiatric drugs make people more psycho.
	You've probably noticed that in people around you who are taking those drugs.
	And it just goes on and on.
	Statin drugs actually kill people.
	It causes horrible problems.
	Vaccines kill people.
	Vaccines destroy immune function, making people more vulnerable to future infections, and so on and so forth.
	But this is the money-making scam.
	It's death, debt, and disease in one form or another.
	And the government is responsible for all three.
	This is what drives the U.S. economy.
	And this is ultimately what drives the campaign contributions to your representatives in Congress or in the Senate.
	And that's why there's so much suffering in the world because there's so much profit in death, disease, and debt.
	Killing people, keeping people sick, and keeping people enslaved financially.
	That's where the money is at for the controllers.
	So, the way that you can break that cycle, by the way, is to start investing in your own good health.
	You know, get some exercise, have good nutrition, eat some superfoods, you know, hey, get high-end nutritional supplements.
	I've got this right here on my desk, foreign protein cleanse.
	In fact, I forgot to take it today, so I'm going to take some of it.
	Foreign Protein Cleanse.
	This is the one that's manufactured by Ed Group's company, and it's formulated with Dr.
	Brian Artis.
	Oh, I think we don't have any more.
	We're totally sold out.
	I'm sorry to bring it up.
	But I'm going to take some myself.
	Woo!
	It's like powerful Chinese medicine.
	It's got cinnamon.
	Licorice root.
	I can taste it.
	Woo!
	That's nice stuff.
	Anyway, you'll have to wait for some of that to come back and stop.
	But if you look at the benefits of nutrition, it's amazing how much money a person can save just by being healthier and not becoming a victim of the medical industrial complex and getting caught up in that whole loop.
	And by the way, someone was telling me today that someone in my family was on the phone with a health insurance company, medical insurer, for an hour and a half to try to get a question answered.
	I don't know what the question was, something about, you know, is this covered or not?
	And then, after waiting an hour and a half, got disconnected, had to call back.
	And this time, the wait was two and a half hours.
	And then, I think, another hour with the representative to try to get the question answered.
	So, I mean, we're talking like five hours to get a question answered from a health insurance company.
	Talk about insane inefficiency.
	And this just underscores the benefits of having good, healthy nutrition and eating...
	In a more healthful way, having a healthy lifestyle, avoiding toxic chemicals, avoiding pesticides, herbicides, personal care products that are filled with toxins.
	Avoid all that crap, and you won't have to stay on the phone for five hours waiting for some answer from some customer service rep who's with a medical company, someone who's probably diabetic on the other end of the phone anyway.
	It's like...
	You're diabetic and you're giving me advice of how to handle my health insurance situation?
	What's wrong with this picture?
	But in summary, this idea that the government should just pay off everybody's debts, this is a very dangerous idea.
	Because, I mean, it should be obvious, but you pay off all the student loans and then you pay off all the medical debt and then what's next?
	Do you pay off everybody's home loans?
	Do you just let people borrow whatever they want for anything and then you just pay it all off?
	And so money becomes meaningless because the government just prints endless trillions and uses it to bail out everybody for everything on top of a UBI? And you understand that eventually this just leads to the collapse of the dollar.
	It's just so much money being printed and floating around to pay off everything that it becomes worthless.
	You know, because too much supply.
	So that's where things are headed.
	Good old Bernie Sanders.
	He's a reliable socialist when it counts.
	Let the government pay off everybody's debts.
	Okay.
	But then, I know, I hear some of you saying, well, the government bails out the banks.
	Why shouldn't they bail out the people every once in a while?
	I hear that.
	I hear that argument.
	The problem is the government shouldn't be bailing out the banks either.
	The government shouldn't be bailing out anybody.
	There should be no bailout money.
	No bailouts to the banks.
	Let the banks fail if they've done something stupid.
	Otherwise, how are you going to have, you know, adult decision making?
	How are you going to encourage banks to avoid risk if risk doesn't mean anything?
	You know, too big to fail.
	There they are, J.P. Morgan, just betting the farm on, you know, silver derivatives or whatever.
	Oops, we goofed.
	Or, you know, foreign currency derivatives.
	We goofed!
	What's going to happen?
	Either the entire Western financial system collapses, or the federal government gives us a couple trillion dollars.
	I wonder which one's going to happen.
	Late night meetings, smoke-filled rooms, you know, senators and congressmen and women, if you don't vote for this, Western civilization will end.
	We must print trillions of dollars and hand it out to the J.P. Morgans.
	And the Rockefellers and the globalists.
	So what are you going to do?
	So they vote for it.
	And then money printing press.
	Trillions of dollars go out to the banks.
	Rescued!
	And then HBO films a documentary of the heroes who saved the world by printing money.
	So I get it when people say, well, how come they can't bail out the people?
	I have a better suggestion, by the way.
	How about this?
	Instead of bailing out the people, how about stop taxing the people?
	That would be the best bailout of all.
	Stop taxing everybody.
	No more federal taxes.
	End the federal income tax, for example.
	Let people keep what they earn.
	Because we already know the federal government doesn't need your income tax money to fund itself because it can just print money whenever it wants.
	It doesn't need your money!
	It's all an act.
	It's designed to keep you down.
	They don't need your money to fund the government.
	It's so funny when you hear all these left-wing government people talking about, the government needs more revenue!
	Gotta have more revenue!
	No, you don't need any revenue.
	You just print it whenever you want.
	You do that anyway.
	So why do you need to take money from the working class people?
	Let every worker in America keep everything that he or she earned.
	How about that?
	And then, they can probably afford to pay their medical bills, come to think of it, right?
	Alright, moving on.
	Next story.
	Attorney General of Texas, Ken Paxton.
	Who's overall pretty awesome.
	And I can be pretty critical of politicians, as you well know.
	Kind of not happy with Governor Abbott right now, because he appears to be a Zionist puppet.
	Anyway, Ken Paxson has issued...
	Well, he's seeking an injunction.
	He's issued an application for an injunction against Annunciation House to halt...
	What's called its systemic criminal conduct in Texas.
	Apparently the Annunciation House, which I had never even heard of, the Annunciation House is accused of being involved in helping with the invasion of Texas with illegals.
	Why is it called the Annunciation House?
	Do the people there have difficulty pronouncing words?
	You need to annunciate better.
	Annunciation.
	We do that in our house.
	There's free lessons at the Annunciation House.
	No, that's not what they do.
	They aid and abet illegal immigration into Texas, and then they call themselves the Annunciation House.
	So, according to the Attorney General, the Annunciation House, in its own sworn testimony, says that it operates as a criminal enterprise.
	It shelters illegal aliens who evaded border patrol.
	It goes into Mexico to retrieve aliens who border patrol denied entry.
	And then, by its own admission, according to Paxton, Annunciation House conceals those people in its shelters from law enforcement.
	It will let any alien in, yet it paradoxically refuses to comply with any law enforcement demands.
	And its own website boasts that it houses people who cross the border with the help from a coyote.
	Now, aroooooo is not that kind of coyote.
	Obviously, it's a human smuggling group.
	They're called coyotes.
	All right.
	So our world's getting crazier by the day.
	But this Annunciation House is an NGO, you know, non-government organization.
	And I'll remind you that Michael Yan warned us about all these NGOs, and one of them is called the OIM, part of the UN, that's also involved in aiding and abetting illegal immigration and helping to run the invasion camps in Panama near the Darien Gap.
	Anyway, Ken Paxton of Texas, the AG, says that any NGO facilitating the unlawful entry of illegal aliens into Texas is undermining the rule of law and potentially jeopardizing the safety and well-being of our citizens.
	Yes, they are.
	And so he's filed a temporary injunction.
	Now, by the way, Michael Yan is in the new movie that we just announced yesterday.
	It's called 17 Miles.
	This is the movie about open borders and border crossing and child trafficking.
	This is the first feature film created by Brighteon Films.
	It's actually created by Bob Denny.
	It's just branded Brighteon Films because, well, he works with Brighteon and he's a pretty awesome guy.
	And so he made this film.
	You can see the trailer.
	You can buy it at 17milesmovie.com.
	A couple of links there where you can buy it.
	For just under $10, help support the film's efforts, by the way.
	It was made with a budget of $58,000, which is probably less than what one family pays the Coyotes to invade Texas.
	But here's what I want to say.
	There's a lot of action.
	There's a lot of talk from Governor Abbott of Texas.
	And there's also a lot of talk from Ken Paxton.
	There's...
	And remember, I'm a fan of Ken Paxton, okay?
	So don't take this the wrong way.
	And I was kind of a fan of Abbott until the whole Zionism thing happened.
	Oh my goodness.
	But there's a lot of talk.
	Doesn't seem to be much aggressive action.
	And you know how these student protesters on campus, University of Texas at Austin...
	Student protesters, you know, free Palestine from the river to the sea.
	All our people shall be free.
	When the state of Texas saw that happening and the governor saw that...
	Oh, he dispatched, I don't know, a thousand, it seemed.
	Maybe it was only 500, I don't know.
	It was a large number of state troopers and law enforcement and police and who knows, special enforcers and, you know, brutality experts and whatever, to give these students a beatdown and clear them out and to make arrests of some of them.
	And it's like, wow!
	Maybe if we could just get the illegal aliens from Mexico to chant from the river to the sea, then maybe Abbott and Paxton would send the troopers to the border and stop the invasion.
	So that's my new hope, is that if we could give the illegals signs that are pro-Palestine signs, then maybe Governor Abbott would stop the invasion with force the way he stopped the student protesters in Austin.
	Because he always says about the border, he always says, you know, our hands are tied.
	Yeah, we can't do this, we can't do that, we can't do anything.
	The DOJ might tell us no, Biden might tell us no, we can't do anything.
	But when it comes to free Palestine students on campus, it's like, you know, attack, assault, kill, murder, you know, clean them out.
	I'm not sure that the police were actually shouting all those things, but you get the idea.
	This is a caricature of what was happening.
	I just wish they would do the same thing on the border.
	And yes, this idea will really work because, you know, to the untrained Texas eye, Venezuelans pretty much look like Palestinians to them, so it's just brown people and they're waving the freedom signs, the attack!
	I mean, obviously, I'm saying this with a sense of satirical condemnation of Texas' policies of cracking down on students.
	But, you know, hey, it does prove that the state of Texas is willing to use violence when they want to, to stop certain groups of people.
	Why not stop the illegals?
	So I see this Ken Paxson thing...
	Again, I'm a fan of PACs, and I'm not criticizing him.
	Well, I mean, maybe I am a little bit, but enough with the paperwork, man.
	You're filing injunctions.
	Nobody gives a crap.
	You're filing injunctions, and they're still bringing people across the border.
	In your world of paperwork and courts and dockets and everything, that doesn't matter.
	They're still bringing people across.
	You've got to go there and physically stop them, like you did with the students.
	Except you shouldn't be stopping the students.
	They have a right to freedom of speech.
	The students on campus are here with permission.
	They have student visas or they're Americans.
	Many of them are Jews, by the way.
	So you shouldn't be cracking down on students.
	You should be cracking down on the illegals.
	But they're not.
	Just filing things.
	Paper!
	Paper with words doesn't stop the invasion.
	Always funny to me, people who have a background as attorneys, they think that everything is paper.
	No.
	Sometimes, you've got to deal with the real world.
	In the real world, they're just bringing people across thousands every day.
	And no one is stopping it, especially not the governor of Texas.
	Even though he has the means to, he chooses not to.
	Alright, speaking of Israel...
	Remember yesterday when we were talking about how Joe Biden has decided to halt shipments of arms or munitions to Israel, anything that they could use to attack Rafa.
	That would be artillery shells and tank rounds and large gun ammunition, things like that.
	And of course, you know, Israel is not happy about this.
	They're like, what?!
	We need U.S. weapons to continue the genocide.
	You have to send us weapons.
	Well, today Netanyahu declared that if necessary, Israel is prepared to stand alone.
	Even if the U.S. withdraws military support.
	For once, Netanyahu and I are on the same page.
	I totally agree.
	Israel should stand alone.
	The U.S. should pull out.
	No more money for Israel.
	No more weapons for Israel.
	No more bombs for Israel.
	No more U.S. Navy near Israel.
	Pull the ships out of the Mediterranean.
	Pull them out of the Red Sea.
	Pull them out of the Arabian Sea.
	Pull them out of the Persian Gulf.
	Basically, get all of our Navy over on our half of the planet.
	How about that?
	Let them hang out off the coasts of the United States, the continental USA. Pick a coast.
	East coast, west coast, I don't care.
	But get them out of the Middle East, okay?
	Let Netanyahu stand alone, because that's what he wants to do now.
	He says, quote, if we have to stand alone, we will stand alone.
	And he says, if we need to, we will fight with our fingernails.
	But we have much more than fingernails.
	He actually said that.
	I'm not making that up.
	I would love to see the IDF fight with their fingernails.
	They can't even win when they have tanks.
	I mean, the IDF is losing, and they have air superiority, bombs, missiles, precision-guided missiles.
	I mean, they can take out food aid workers whenever they want.
	They've got automatic weapons.
	They've got laser sighting and night vision.
	They've got every technology you can imagine.
	They've got helicopter gunships, F-16s, nuclear weapons, and they're still losing.
	Maybe they should fight with their fingernails.
	But they have much more than fingernails, says Netanyahu.
	Yes, they also have toenails.
	They can fight with fingernails and toenails, but they have to flip off their sandals to fight with the toenails.
	There's a special Mossad IDF group that's the toenail fighters.
	They sharpen their toenails into little pointy nails, and they pierce people.
	They kick you and pierce you with the toenail.
	That's the toenail brigade.
	And he goes on and he says, the army has munitions for the missions it plans and for the missions in Rafa 2.
	We have what we need, says Hagari, Daniel Hagari.
	That's the spokesperson for the Israeli army.
	I say, great!
	Great!
	You got what you need.
	Okay, then we're done here.
	No more weapons for Israel?
	No more money for Israel?
	No more navy for Israel?
	I mean...
	Israel's saying they don't need us.
	Okay.
	Awesome.
	We can really come to terms on this.
	This is great.
	So, let Israel stand alone, and if the U.S. pulls out of the Middle East and stops funding Israel, Israel will survive perhaps a matter of weeks, maybe a few months, not sure, but it will be overrun.
	Why?
	Why?
	Oh, because through its actions, Israel has demonstrated...
	That it can't coexist with any other nation, especially not its neighbors, on this planet.
	And it has cemented this idea that it must be removed from the map in the minds of all the other countries that surround it, including the Egyptians, including the Jordanians, even though the government of Jordan does not share that opinion.
	But the people of Jordan do, and the people of Syria, and the people of Lebanon, obviously, and Iran, and Iraq, and Even most of the people of Turkey and so on.
	So, yeah, Netanyahu's got a great idea.
	We should all just pull out, let Israel fight its own wars, and then the student protests would fade away as well, and we wouldn't have to have, you know, Governor Abbott ordering police to crack down on the students instead of cracking down on illegal aliens.
	Go figure.
	Now, the GOP, for its part, not the entire GOP, but a lot of its leaders, such as Marsha Blackburn, Senator Blackburn, she and Senator Marshall of Kansas have put together a bill in the Senate that is going to designate all student protesters as terrorists.
	This is being covered by informationliberation.com.
	And there's been a lot of tweets about this.
	Marsha Blackburn wants to declare all the student protesters to be terrorists and then put them on the no-fly list with the TSA. She says, she told Fox News the following, she said, very simply stated, if you're spewing hatred towards Jews or anybody, then we want you to go on the no-fly list.
	Wow!
	Wow!
	Okay, so number one, by the way, She doesn't mean towards anybody.
	She means towards Jews.
	And actually she means Zionists.
	And probably, if you just use the word Zionist, she would probably think that you're a terrorist, by the way.
	This is obviously an AIPAC funded program here that she's pushing because she takes money from AIPAC, which is just laundered U.S. money that comes back through Israel and then through the lobby into the pockets of these senators.
	So they're just whores.
	I mean, they're just basically Zionist whores, Z whores.
	And what she's saying is so blatantly unconstitutional and out of control.
	First of all, it's not against the law to, quote, spew hatred towards somebody.
	I mean, the mainstream media does it every day against Trump, by the way.
	Should we lock up the entire corporate media because they're spewing hatred towards Trump and Trump supporters?
	No!
	That would not be a consistent action with the First Amendment and the freedom of speech.
	So, remember that the First Amendment protects unpopular speech, and in particular, it protects speech Even if the party that's being spoken of doesn't like that speech.
	So you could say that you think Marsha Blackburn is a Z-whore, right?
	That's constitutionally protected speech, by the way.
	Thank goodness.
	She might send an arrest team.
	She might put me on the no-fly list.
	Hey, joke's on you, Marsha.
	I'm not flying anywhere anyway.
	I'm not going through your TSA, you know, grab my balls, pat down with your radiation, millimeter wave, you know, human fry machine or whatever that thing is.
	I'm not doing it.
	I'm not flying.
	I'm on the no-fly list myself.
	I no-fly.
	But, except in private jets, I'm happy to fly in private jets, or occasionally...
	They let me fly the private jet, since I am trained as a pilot.
	Not of jets, though.
	I'm not checked out on jets.
	I'm checked out on Cessnas.
	But, you know, occasionally...
	I've probably said too much already.
	But anyway, I'm on the no-fly list myself.
	But she wants to put all students on the no-fly list.
	Okay?
	And what are these students guilty of?
	Saying, stop committing genocide.
	Like, that's a hate crime, according to Senator Marsha Blackburn.
	That's a hate crime.
	To say that you support Palestine.
	You support the Palestinian people.
	You support freedom for the Palestinian people.
	Or to say, from the river to the sea.
	You know, stop bombing the crap out of me.
	How about that?
	Is that a hate crime to say that?
	To say, stop murdering women and children?
	Is that a hate crime now in the U.S. Senate?
	So this is the point.
	The GOP has lost its mind.
	And, like, Senator Ted Cruz is on board with this kind of thinking as well.
	On one hand, they claim to be protective of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights.
	And then when the issue comes up where you need to assert the First Amendment, they cave They say, oh, no, no, no, we're going to have you arrested and labeled and banned because you said something that our donors don't like.
	Oh, who are your donors?
	Well, the Zionists, of course.
	What do you think?
	We're the Senate.
	They should just rename themselves the United States Zenit, you know, in honor of the Z. It's the U.S. Zenit.
	The zealot zenit.
	A zenit full of zealots.
	Zenit full of Zionist zealots.
	Yeah, it's like a whole tongue twister that we could do with this one.
	And of course there's some obvious jokes here out of this.
	You know, Senator Marsha Blackburn, she wants to ban students from being able to fly on airplanes, which means they could not go home.
	They would have to stay in the U.S. even though she wants them to leave.
	But her name shouldn't be Blackburn, it should be Blackbald.
	She wants to blackball everybody, right?
	That would be better.
	Marshall Blackballed.
	Not that she's bald.
	She's got hair.
	But blackballed as in band.
	Or Marshall Blacklisted.
	Marshall Blacksite.
	Secret little torture sites.
	That would be a very appropriate name for Marshall Blackburn.
	Blacksite.
	Blackops.
	You get the idea, right?
	I want to hear Blackburn's next speech with like a black little Hitler mustache.
	If you do not speak the way we want you to, you shall be a terrorist!
	Heil Zion!
	Heil Zion!
	I'm Martha Blackburn!
	Blacklist!
	Too much...
	You could go crazy with this one.
	Maybe I'll save that for another comedy skit.
	But you get the idea.
	This is crazy.
	This is supposed to be America where people say all kinds of offensive things all the time.
	It's constitutionally protected speech.
	And it's amazing how many members of the GOP are just willing to give that up now because, well, they're taking money from the Zionists.
	All their principles out the window.
	It's like, oh, Zionist money?
	Really?
	It's like a stack of dollar bills with a Z on top.
	I got some Z dollars.
	This is good stuff.
	What do you want me to say for the Z? And her bill also says that any professor of any university...
	Or college, any higher education group, any professor who has been disciplined by that university for taking part in any of these Free Palestine protests should also be added to the no-fly list.
	Seriously, this is what she says.
	In other words, they're saying that your right to fly commercially is now a government-licensed privilege, and if we, the government, don't like your speech, you won't have the right to fly at all.
	And keep this in mind, folks, when you remember that they're trying to push everybody toward electric cars that have remote kill switches with GPS locations.
	So if today they're saying, well, you can't travel by air because you said, you know, free Palestine...
	In a year or so, they get everybody into the EVs, it's going to be, oh, well, you can't drive on the roads either if you're, you know, if you're an anti-Semite.
	These highways are not for anti-Semites.
	These highways are only for Zionists.
	These are the Zion lanes.
	Highway Zion 101.
	Zion ways.
	It's not the interstate.
	It's the Zion State.
	Zion State 70.
	You'll only be allowed to travel if you bow down to support and lick the Zionist boots, right?
	That's it.
	You can see where this is going.
	You'll only be allowed to have a bank account if you lick the boots of the Zionist tyrants.
	You'll only be allowed to speak online if you say what the Zionists want you to say.
	There's all kinds of censorship happening right now.
	This is straight up fascist tyranny being pushed by the G-O-freaking-P. The GOP is pushing this.
	And it turns out that the GOP is no different than the Democrats when it comes to fascism, right?
	I sent out a tweet about that.
	In covering for Israel's crimes against humanity and ongoing genocide against the Palestinian people, GOP senators, House members, and governors are proving they can be just as tyrannical and authoritarian as the Marxist left.
	There's no difference.
	Both Democrats and Republicans have abandoned the First Amendment and freedom of the press.
	It's a uniparty of Zionist puppets pretending to represent the American people.
	You no longer have representative government in America.
	You have traitors and tyrants who sell out to the highest Zionist bidder.
	That's Senator Blackballed.
	Blacksight.
	Blacklist.
	Black Marx.
	Blackburn.
	That's who she is.
	She sold out America to appease murderous Zionists.
	If anybody should be banned from flying in America, it should be those who are complicit in genocide.
	Like people who voted to send the weapons to Israel.
	People like, oh, Senator Blackburn.
	She should be banned from flying.
	She should be banned from the Senate.
	I mean, think about it.
	The criminals are trying to ban the good people from being able to travel, being able to have freedom, being able to have bank accounts, while it's the criminals, it's the cabal of criminals that are in power and abusing that power, wielding it as a weapon against the American people and destroying the Bill of Rights in that process.
	Now, you know, of course, that once a professor at a university is designated as a terrorist, then they can be You know, taken and tortured under current U.S. law, also passed by the same Senate.
	They can be tortured.
	They take them to Gitmo, torture them.
	It's all perfectly, quote, legal because all they have to do is say you're an enemy combatant.
	Oh, but you chanted from the river to the sea.
	Well, we think that that means that you support Hamas.
	And Hamas is designated a terrorist organization.
	So that makes you a terrorist.
	That makes you an enemy combatant.
	This is how the logic is going to go.
	Therefore, we can just take you out of your classroom in the middle of a lecture.
	It could be like an economics professor who happens to be, you know, Palestinian.
	Just take him away.
	Out.
	Out.
	Gone.
	Vanished.
	This is happening in America.
	I mean, this is about to happen in America if this law is passed.
	This will happen in America.
	This will be the worst nightmare of civil rights abuses that the world has ever seen, going beyond the former Soviet Union or even the Maoist, you know, the Cultural Revolution in China.
	Going beyond the worst nightmares of Stalin, you're going to start having university professors secretly kidnapped and taken to black site torture sites in America while senators like Blackburn cheer the Zionists and have students blacklisted.
	That is where we are in history right now.
	That should be horrifying to anybody paying attention.
	Every GOP senator who has any values and ethics or principles should be speaking out against this.
	Instead, most of them will sign on to it.
	If Trump has any ethics, he would immediately denounce this law as a total violation of the First Amendment.
	But he's said nothing that I know of about this law.
	Maybe he will, but so far he's said nothing.
	He'll probably support it.
	Every governor should denounce this law.
	But again, most GOP governors will probably support it.
	So you're rapidly watching the GOP in America become the far-right fascist regime that the left falsely accused them of being for the last eight years.
	They were not that until now.
	Now they are becoming that.
	And it's all because of Israel and Netanyahu and Zionism and Zionist money.
	I did not think that we would be here at this point in history.
	This shocks me.
	I'm genuinely surprised at how rapidly GOP senators and House members and governors have abandoned the fundamental principle of freedom of speech.
	I am truly shocked.
	And that's why I have publicly stated that I cannot support, through voting or any other means, I can't support any member of the GOP who engages in this atrocious behavior.
	Now, fortunately, there are still some people like Representative Thomas Massey and Andy Biggs and others who are rejecting a lot of this stuff.
	There are still some sharp minds, but they are not the majority.
	The majority...
	has abandoned the Constitution and they've abandoned you and they've abandoned America.
	Most lawmakers at the federal level in this country answer to Israel, not America.
	They will wield their power to protect Israel, but never to protect America.
	To them, America is a lost cause, but Israel is their priority.
	Which means that their president is not Joe Biden.
	It's Benjamin Netanyahu.
	That's their president.
	Netanyahu is the ruler of the United States of America, and he wasn't even elected by anybody in America.
	Now, I'm not saying that the Marxists on the left are any better than the fascists on the right, by the way.
	They're not.
	One way or another, they all want to enslave you and crush you and crush America, now it appears.
	It's just that for a long time we had hoped that the GOP would have enough sense to not take part in this suicide mission, that the GOP would honor the fundamental principles, the pillars of civilization upon which this nation was founded by men with great minds, by the way.
	And yet the GOP has turned its back on those principles and has become just far-right fascist operators that stand almost hand-in-hand with the far-left Marxist anti-America haters who are the Democrats.
	That's why Democrats support Speaker Johnson.
	Speaker Johnson, the traitorous Speaker of the House, Who doesn't vote a dime to protect America's borders but votes for 95 billion dollars for Ukraine and Israel and other countries handing out American taxpayer money all over the world betraying the principles of small government betraying his own campaign promises by the way he once said not another dime for Ukraine until we resolve the border crisis in America he abandoned that so fast Now,
	the Democrats love him.
	So you have the Speaker of the House, a thin majority of the GOP in the House of Representatives, where the Speaker actually answers to the Democrats, even though he's a Republican and he's loved by the Democrats.
	That's what a traitor he is.
	The Democrats want to keep him as the Speaker.
	Man, that's...
	And Trump endorsed him.
	Don't forget that either.
	Trump endorsed him and Trump continues to endorse him.
	So you realize how far gone your country is?
	It's gone.
	It's gone.
	From here, it's just a question of what the collapse looks like and what's the timing and the details of the collapse.
	But collapse is the inevitable outcome at this point.
	Probably financial collapse first.
	Followed by lots of other dominoes falling.
	It's going to be messy.
	Alright, a couple of reminders before we get to the interview today with Steve Humble, the engineer of the James Bond-like secret passageways and secret compartments and rooms.
	Yeah, it's a very interesting interview.
	The Healing Genesis program at Brighton University begins tomorrow.
	That's free.
	Enjoy it.
	Register there at brightu.com.
	That's from Jonathan Otto, and it's a phenomenal program, Healing Genesis.
	It covers the hidden modalities and treatments that mainstream medicine hopes you never find out about, of course.
	And it's free to watch, and you can optionally purchase the program if you want to download it and watch it on your own schedule.
	Again, that's HealingGenesisBrightU.com begins this Saturday.
	A week from today is the Exit and Build Land Summit.
	Actually, it starts on May 17th, I believe.
	So it starts next Thursday.
	What is that?
	Oh, I'm sorry.
	Oh, 17th, 18th, 19th.
	That's Friday, Saturday, Sunday.
	So yeah, I guess it's a week from today.
	And I'm speaking at the event, by the way.
	And it's with John Bush, and it's a fantastic event.
	You can watch the first day and a half for free by registering.
	Just go to naturalnews.com slash landsummit.
	Or you can purchase a VIP pass.
	What do they call it?
	The immersion pass.
	Or you can also buy tickets to go in person.
	It's taking place at the Bastrop Convention Center in Central Texas.
	And it's a good time of the year to be in Central Texas.
	The heat's starting to come on, but it's not crazy hot yet.
	Not yet.
	So if you want to join the event in person and meet all the amazing speakers and hang out with just a lot of great folks, well, that's an opportunity to do that.
	Again, naturalnews.com slash landsummit.
	And then don't forget that the 17 Miles movie is available as of right now.
	17milesmovie.com if you want to check that out and support Brighteon Films.
	And then for our store event, remember it's double reward points from right now all the way through midnight, Sunday night at healthrangerstore.com that essentially gives you 10% back in terms of reward points that you can use.
	You can use them like cash in future purchases.
	So it's effectively like a 10% off sale of everything, which we almost never do that.
	So this is a very limited window.
	It's for Mother's Day.
	And happy Mother's Day to all the mothers and grandmothers and expectant mothers out there as well.
	Practice good nutrition.
	Raise healthy babies.
	We need more healthy children in this world, don't we?
	Yeah, make more healthy babies so that Senator Blackburn can put them on the no-fly list.
	Just have a baby out there on campus with a shirt that says, like, from the river to the sea.
	And then watch the GOP senators go insane.
	That's a terrorist!
	It's a terrorist!
	And they're going to get the baby's name, get the social security number, and ban them forever.
	For a lifetime of no commercial flights for that baby.
	Clearly, it's a little terror baby.
	I mean, this is what our Senate has become.
	It's a clown show of tyrants, power-hungry tyrants, who think that they become big shots by wielding this power over the American people and violating their oaths of office.
	I mean, Senator Blackburn and anybody else who supports this bill, it's a straight-up violation of their oath to defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic, Including enemies who would try to outlaw freedom of speech.
	In other words, look in the mirror.
	That's you, Blackburn.
	You're the enemy.
	By trying to push this law, you should resign.
	You should be banned from the Senate.
	You should be banned from ever being able to hold public office again.
	And the one hope I have for Trump is if he does win this election, I do hope that Trump would just initiate mass arrests.
	Seriously.
	I mean, there's no other option remaining for saving this country.
	At some point, it's either going to be total collapse or you've got to just start arresting thousands upon thousands of traitors throughout the system.
	Which could include any senators who have directly violated their oaths of office, members of Congress, corrupt prosecutors, corrupt AGs that let criminals back out onto the streets, corrupt officials in every department, including the FDA and the NIH and all the Fauci's of the world at the NIAID and so on.
	You've got to start making mass arrests.
	And charge them with the crimes they've committed.
	You don't have to make up any crimes.
	They've already committed so many crimes against America.
	Officials at the FDA. Massive criminal collusion.
	CDC, same thing.
	Thousands of arrests need to be made, followed by cutting the budget of the federal government by about 90%.
	Effective now.
	If you do that, then America might have a chance.
	Cut the budget 90%.
	You don't just, like, you know, nibble around the edges of it.
	Oh, we're going to cut 1% over here, spread out over 35 years.
	No.
	You cut 90% today.
	You gather all the employees of the FDA in a building or a stadium, because there's so many of them, and 9 out of 10, you're done.
	Here's your pink slip.
	Goodbye.
	Goodbye.
	No longer needed.
	Your services are not necessary.
	You've done enough damage.
	Goodbye.
	Bye-bye.
	Out of the stadium.
	And put them on the no-fly list.
	Courtesy of Blackburn, right?
	I'm kidding, obviously.
	That's what needs to be done.
	And if Trump's not willing to do that, then it doesn't matter if he's elected.
	He'll just be steamrolled by the deep state.
	Just like what happened in his first term.
	They'll nullify him and they'll just run everything the way they do normally anyway because they don't care.
	The deep state doesn't care.
	The bureaucracy, they don't care who's elected.
	They run the country their own way.
	They start wars.
	They keep people sick.
	They run the medical protocols, the kill protocols in the hospitals.
	They build the bioweapons.
	They release them on the people.
	They control the media.
	It doesn't matter who's in the White House to them.
	So unless you just start doing massive, across-the-board cuts of personnel, mass firings, if you don't do that, don't even bother, Trump.
	Don't even bother running for office if you're not going to get in there and actually make a difference.
	That's my take on it.
	Get in there.
	Day one, sign an executive order.
	Nine out of ten federal employees are no longer employed...
	Bye-bye.
	And that's probably never going to happen, so it's going to collapse instead, which will be way more chaotic and painful, and then everybody gets screwed, so get ready for that scenario.
	Something to look forward to, right?
	Yeah, your nation being just completely destroyed by corrupt, incompetent, woke morons and GOP sellouts who put Israel first and America last.
	Yep, that's what's...
	I mean, when the history books are written, they're going to look back.
	It's like, how did America die?
	Well, it committed suicide, and it was the Democrats and the Republicans working together on a suicide pact.
	This is how they did it.
	And you're watching that chapter be written in real time, in real life, with each passing day through senators like Blackburn.
	It's just incredible.
	And Cruz.
	He seems to be all on board with the Zionists, too.
	Really incredible.
	Very frustrating because I voted for Cruz in the primaries, by the way.
	But unless he comes to his senses, I can't vote for him in the general election.
	I can't vote for anybody that's all in with the Zionists.
	Can't do it.
	Won't do it.
	I will not do it.
	Not even Trump.
	I would rather see all these people lose the election than for the American people to have to vote for all their Zionist sellout philosophies.
	Seriously.
	There's no difference anyway.
	For what we get, you vote for a Democrat, you vote for a Republican, you get the same tyranny anyway.
	It's just a different flavor of tyranny.
	Oh, here you want apple cinnamon flavored tyranny?
	Or do you want mango chutney tyranny over here?
	Oh.
	Well, let's see.
	Do you have anything on the menu that isn't tyranny?
	Oh no, that's not on the menu because Ron Paul retired, so that's not an option.
	You have to just choose the variety of tyranny that you want.
	Sorry, not playing your stupid game.
	I'm not going to vote for any of you tyrants, no matter what party you're part of.
	How's that?
	Alright, with that said, here's the interview with Steve Humble, who's got some amazing, amazing stuff.
	This is part of Decentralized TV. You can watch all the episodes at decentralized.tv with my co-host Todd Pitner.
	So enjoy the interview.
	It's a great way to end the show here on a Friday.
	Enjoy, and we'll have special reports for you over the weekend.
	God bless you all.
	all.
	Take care.
	Thank you.
	Welcome to today's episode of Decentralized TV here on Brighteon.com, the free speech platform.
	I'm Mike Adams.
	Thank you for joining me today.
	And as always, I'm joined by my co-host, Todd Pitner.
	Welcome to the show today, Todd.
	It's great to see you again.
	I've missed you.
	I've missed you.
	It's been, it seems like forever since the last one we did, but I think it was last week.
	I don't know.
	We missed last week and we're doing it today.
	Okay.
	But I feel the same way because so much is happening in the world.
	But hey, how's the food for us going there, by the way?
	Oh, it's going great.
	Thank you.
	I mean, it's starting to come in, and I know it's the little things, but when I went out there and I saw my little old orange tree, and I'm sitting there, I'm like, what's that?
	And then there's this little green ball hanging off of it.
	The only one on the whole tree, but it's a survivor, man.
	So it's very, very cool, and it's been really a nice balance between the food forest and my backpack mother nature, you know, where I eat my raccoons.
	You have like a Noah's Ark.
	There's a wild shark of animals back there now.
	Oh, it's amazing now.
	I mean, literally, there's a herd of seven deer and there's a ten-point buck back there.
	Really?
	Oh, God, he's so beautiful.
	Stoic.
	So, yeah, we have about a dozen raccoons and all those deer.
	So, you know, decentralization at its best, Mike.
	You know, I think more and more people are really waking up to the importance of the topic that we cover here on this show, which is decentralized living.
	I see so many people now asking me about gold, for example.
	Yeah.
	Now I get it.
	I should have some gold.
	The dollar is losing value.
	Where do I get gold?
	And then what do I do with it?
	Well, I'm happy to say that our guest today, coming right up, about to join us, has some amazing solutions for how to keep your stuff safe.
	His name is Steve Humble.
	He's the president of a company called Creative Home Engineering.
	They're found at hiddenpassageway.com, and they make secret entrances and passageways to secret rooms Welcome to the show, Steve.
	It's great to have you on.
	Hey, thanks for having me, guys.
	Yeah, welcome.
	You do amazing work.
	And to my producers, let's show some of the screens of what he does, like secret passageways and secret doors that look amazing.
	I mean, you're an artist as much as an engineer with this, but tell us about your company.
	Yeah, you bet.
	So I was always fascinated from a very young age with the idea of secret passageways and James Bond and all of that.
	I went to school, I became a mechanical engineer, and I started working in aerospace, but I had this kind of harebrained idea that I might be able to make secret passageways for other people.
	In fact, at the time, I was a bachelor, and I lived in this big house with a bunch of friends of mine, and we had all these extra rooms.
	And I kept looking around this house going, man, I need to build a secret door for this house because it's got all this extra space.
	And then, you know, the idea just kind of wouldn't go away because I knew that there are people that own their own houses and actually have things that they're trying to protect.
	And they've probably got the same fears that I have and that they have seen the same movies that I've had that I've seen.
	And they're thinking of themselves I want to have a secret passageway, just like the one that I saw in that movie, but I want to have it in my house.
	And so I had this idea, and I eventually, after a lot of research, I quit my job and I moved in with my parents.
	I was a very fresh-faced 23-year-old, I think, at the time.
	And I started making secret passageways for people.
	And it did not take very long before I started getting calls from very serious people that are building, you know, these incredible houses and estates.
	And they needed the exact thing that I was specializing in.
	And so it's been an amazing ride since then.
	That was 20 years ago.
	That is so cool.
	And just to be clear, for those watching, you can retrofit an existing house with a lot of your solutions.
	I mean, it doesn't have to be new construction, in other words, correct?
	Yeah, that's exactly right.
	So if it's a new construction project, then we have a lot more latitude to design just anything that you can possibly imagine.
	But a good at least 40%, maybe 50% of our clients are doing a remodel and maybe they're subdividing a closet so that part of the closet becomes the secret space.
	Or they're converting a storage room into a secret storage room.
	We do that all the time.
	And we're happy to take a look at your floor plan and figure out where the best places are for you to hide something.
	And then finally, I think in Hollywood, it's often depicted as you walk up to a bookcase and there's a little figurine and you tilt it to the side and then the door pops open.
	But that's almost a cliche.
	I mean, you go so far beyond that with entire stairways that open up and revealing downward stairs that go to somewhere else.
	Can you just briefly cover some of the different sort of out of bounds things that people might not normally think of?
	Yeah, so you would think that after doing this for 20 years and having built, oh, probably 5,000 secret doors for people, that I would have seen everything.
	But nothing could be farther from the truth.
	It's like every day somebody calls me and they say, hey, I've got this crazy idea.
	I want you to build this thing for me.
	And I'm like, I can't believe it.
	It just keeps coming.
	There's always somebody that wants something unique.
	And we love that.
	We love, first of all, we love that it stays fresh and it's always a new challenge.
	But on top of that, making something that's personal for our clients, it makes them feel special and we love to be able to do that for them.
	Very cool.
	Okay, Todd.
	Now, Todd, I have to thank you for recommending our guest today.
	I think it's an excellent choice for our show, our theme, our audience.
	But you actually have some knowledge about this because you've seen some of this put into play, right?
	Yeah, you know me, Mike.
	I don't suggest anybody does anything if I haven't already done it or taken a shot at it.
	And I will tell you, I am a customer of Steve's.
	And ten years ago, when my wife and I bought our new home, it was all complete, but there was one specific room upstairs that I really, really wasn't going to use.
	I just knew it.
	You know, who needs two laundry rooms upstairs and downstairs?
	And so I decided what I wanted to do was get a big, massive safe because I have a lot of lead and things that go with that, Mike.
	You know what I'm saying?
	Brass, perhaps?
	Yes.
	And I wanted to be able to have it.
	After I did all my research, I'm like, whoa, a little bit too late for this because the one that I want is so heavy, there would be a risk of it literally falling through the floor.
	Plus, it wasn't inexpensive.
	It was like $4,000, $5,000.
	And all of a sudden, I don't know how, but I came across HiddenPassageway.com and I was fascinated.
	And so I reached out and I explained what I had.
	Steve, you gave me white glove treatment.
	I know you probably don't remember, that was 5,000 ago.
	But you helped me arrive at a solution and the engineering behind what you provided is so astonishing that now when I bring people, I do this all the time, I bring people into my house And we'll go for a little tour.
	We'll go upstairs, and I'll tell them, I have a secret room.
	And I'll bet them $10 that they can't find it.
	And if they can't find it, they don't owe me $10.
	I'm just saying I'll give them $10 if they can find my secret room.
	Nobody has ever been able to do that.
	No.
	Not at all.
	Okay, this is, I mean, that's amazing, and it's so smart of Utah to do that, but I want to direct a question here to Steve from that, which is one of the things that I've noticed is that psychologically, people don't intrinsically calculate the volumetric spaces of areas that they are walking through.
	So...
	If people look at all the rooms that are wide open, they don't think, hey, there's like a thousand cubic feet missing from this internal map that they've kind of built.
	They don't.
	So you can actually hide large spaces from people as long as the outside looks correct.
	Now, Steve, I know that this is your business model, but could you speak to the psychology of this and how easy it is to...
	You know, to hide something from people who aren't even, you know, really noticing much.
	Yeah, so you're right.
	Everybody's concerned about that.
	And we try to make it as camouflaged as it can possibly be.
	So if we can choose a spot on the floor plan where it would be impossible to know that any space is sort of missing, then we'll do that.
	But sometimes that's just not possible, and that's totally fine because out of the 5,000-plus secret doors that I've made, I've never once had a person or heard of a person who had walked through one of these houses and said, hey, where's the space that's missing?
	You assume that there's a way to access that space from some other area.
	Your brain is not capable of really mapping a space like that.
	Right, right.
	I've noticed that as well.
	Now, if someone knew, okay, there's a secret room in here, and I'm going to map out the entire house, and I'm going to take measurements, then eventually they could calculate, like, where's this empty space?
	But nobody does that.
	But let me insert here.
	Yes?
	Even people who I've given it up, I'm like, it's right there.
	My next challenge is now figure out how to open it.
	Nobody can figure out how to open it.
	You have to click your heels three times and sing Wizard of Oz and all of that to be able to do it.
	No, the engineering on it is just astonishing.
	It's magic.
	I mean, that's all I can say.
	A question then.
	Does it rely on something that's not electronic?
	Because this has always been one of my concerns.
	What if an electronic component fails where there's no electricity or something?
	A hundred percent.
	Not electronic.
	Okay, Steve, you want to?
	Yeah, so some clients care about that and others don't.
	We do all kinds of secret doors that have no electronic anything in them and we can certainly do that for you.
	Some of my favorite ones do rely on electricity because obviously that opens up more possibilities.
	Like for example, I have one in my house.
	Where you play a sequence of notes on my piano, and it happens to be the James Bond soundtrack, and if you can play the notes correctly, then the secret door will open.
	That is so James Bond-ish right there.
	I mean, you're like a secret agent on our show now.
	I wish.
	No, that is so cool.
	I'm sorry to interrupt, but no, continue.
	Like, what other kinds of...
	I mean, what you can share...
	Yeah, sure.
	So there's a lot that we could share.
	So I'll share some of my favorites.
	I love the ones that are sort of the romanticized ones from the movies.
	So like we were talking a moment ago about the stone walls where there's sort of a staggered pattern of stones that we use to conceal the camouflage.
	I love it when you push on several of the stones in a certain sequence.
	If you push on the stones correctly, then the secret door will open or sometimes we'll make it so that you push on a stone and it actually pops out and reveals the existence of a fingerprint scanner that was hidden behind the stone.
	That's kind of a fun one.
	Wow.
	You know, twisting wine bottles and, you know, a lot of times the clients have some collection that is significant to them, some particular knick-knack or something.
	Or if they choose a book, maybe it's their favorite book or sometimes it's even a book that they wrote or something.
	So, we love to do custom secret switches, and you're not limited to any one secret switch.
	If you're the type of person that can't decide, we can do multiples, so you can do either or.
	We can make it so that you have to operate certain switches in the correct sequence, and only if you get the sequence correct.
	Does it open?
	And we can add switches after the fact.
	Sometimes somebody's had their door for five years and they just want to keep it fresh and they want to change it.
	And so we'll send them out a new secret switch that's pre-programmed to go with their secret switch.
	I see.
	Okay, well, and here's another question then.
	So among your clients, I mean, I know, of course, you respect their privacy, but among the clients that you've had, I would imagine, of course, some people want to keep certain things secure, firearms or gold or what have you, but Are some people also using these as possible safe rooms for if there's a home invasion, they can hide in there and just be quiet and potentially wait for the home invader to leave?
	That's not what I would do.
	I would be out there with my AR-15, but some people would rather just hide and wait for it to pass.
	Is that a use that some people do?
	about a place to go for the kids if they're away on a business trip. - Right. - And so they don't really expect their wife and kids to be pulling out the AR-15.
	And there's all different use cases We generally respect clients' privacy, so we don't always ask a lot of details about what they're going to use the room for, because that's what they're paying for us to not know and to not tell people, and so that's what we do.
	But yeah, so we do have a lot of different locking configurations.
	That's one of the advantages to everything being totally custom is that if you're using it as a place to go in case of a home invasion, then you may not want a sophisticated access control system like, say, a fingerprint scanner because that's just going to take time.
	You want to be able to get in there in a hurry and then close the door and lock it behind yourself.
	Right.
	Whereas if you're using it to store valuables, then in that circumstance, you probably do want a more sophisticated access control system.
	And in a lot of cases, we'll even have like a toggle where you can switch modes between the quick entry mode and the high security mode.
	Oh, okay.
	That's a great point.
	That makes a lot of sense.
	Okay.
	Next question.
	Or, Todd, do you want to chime in on that?
	No.
	Keep going.
	Okay.
	Keep going, Mike.
	I love your inquiry.
	And I've done podcasts about this before where most people, they overestimate the security of what they call a safe.
	So, first of all, most people who buy safes, they're not even safes.
	I think they're called, like, residential security containers or whatever.
	And they can be defeated by, you know, a guy with a drill in about two minutes or less.
	And to actually have a secure safe is a very big deal.
	A lot of steel.
	It's heavy.
	And it's an obvious target.
	So do you ever have discussions, Steve, with your clients who maybe somebody calls you and says, I don't know if I should get this $10,000 safe or if I should just build this secret room instead.
	Do you ever have people weighing those two?
	And how do you help people make that decision?
	Yeah, so we are in the information age now where somebody can just go onto YouTube and search for how to break into safe.
	and there will be dozens of videos that show guys breaking into really high quality safes in like two minutes.
	It's astonishingly easy.
	And if you're going to have a safe in your house, then you might as well also put a neon sign on top of it that says, this is where I keep all my valuable stuff.
	And so it's really almost a non-safe in a lot of ways.
	And if you follow the news at all, like I do, it seems like every month or so, there's a story about some celebrity who had their place broken into and they found the safe in.
	And guess what they did?
	They broke it.
	They threw it out the window, smashed it to a million pieces, whatever.
	And they were able to get the valuables.
	Or they just steal the safe outright.
	So having a way to camouflage the safe is really just as important as having forced entry protection, if not more so.
	And you can have both.
	You can have a safe that's concealed behind a secret door, or we make a lot of secret doors that are themselves also safes or vault doors.
	So you kind of get the best of both worlds there.
	Oh, that sounds really great.
	Okay, let me just give out your website again.
	It's hiddenpassageway.com.
	Hiddenpassageway.com.
	And I love this, what we're showing right now, how this stone wall opens up, and it's got the, I mean...
	I'm just thinking, you said you're a mechanical engineer or trained as such.
	Just the hinges on this, you know, the structural integrity to have something pivot that might weigh a thousand pounds or more, is that seemingly difficult to achieve?
	It is, yeah.
	Especially, it's exponentially more difficult as the doors get bigger and more complex.
	So we've made secret doors that are big enough that you could actually drive a vehicle through.
	We do all kinds of, you know, lifting staircases, things that rise up out of the floor, and it's always a new and interesting challenge.
	I was going to say, too, I appreciate you calling out our website, which is hiddenpassageway.com, but I wanted to share with you also Hiddenpassageway.com is where we cater to the needs of clients who need something very highly customized.
	And those are typically more expensive projects.
	But in recent years, we have launched a new sort of sister website that's dedicated to more regular kind of people.
	And so we have way more cost-effective offerings.
	This other website is called HiddenDoorStore.com.
	And it has the same great camouflage, fantastic quality, but fewer options available.
	And by having less options, we can really get the cost far, far lower.
	Great, we brought that up there.
	Yeah, thank you.
	So we're really proud to be able to have things that almost anybody can afford.
	Wow, that is pretty cool.
	But Todd, it was a custom solution for you, correct?
	Well, it was through his website, and I may or may not admit that on this page you might get a little bit of insight.
	So, yes.
	It was custom to my home, but it is something that he can easily customize for anyone's home.
	You know, I think we should also talk about the process a little bit, Steve, if you don't mind, where can you walk people through once they go in and place an order?
	I know with mine, it came in this massive container.
	The shipping was amazing.
	The instructions were amazing.
	But I did need to, I'm not a handy guy, but I did need to hire a carpenter to come in and do everything.
	And I know they had a couple of issues, and you guys were just right there on it.
	To be able to walk them through it.
	And it ended up just working out perfectly.
	But can you talk about the process?
	What your support is?
	What people can expect?
	And at what point in time does the project get so big that, you know, you actually go on site?
	Yeah, great questions.
	So the first thing is that the clients call us and hopefully they have some sense of where in their house they want it to go and what kind of camouflage they want their secret door to employ.
	And we usually have them send us some photographs and a floor plan and then we'll just have some conversations where we'll walk through the options and features and see what they're interested in and we'll get them a cost proposal for all the things that they want.
	and then hopefully they accept the cost proposal.
	And then we create a very detailed drawing package that's just for them and their house.
	And it includes a CAD drawing of the space in their house where the secret door is gonna go.
	And it will show images of what it's gonna look like in the open position as well as the closed position and what the rough opening needs to look like prior to the start of installation.
	So that way they can prepare their opening.
	If they have a builder or somebody that's helping them, they can look it over and everyone can agree like, okay, this secret door is going to fit in this space when it shows up.
	And we try to make it as easy as possible for the clients.
	So we take care of everything that we can possibly take care of.
	The doors ship pre-hung in their own frame.
	So you can basically take them out of the box and you just slide them into the opening, kind of like it was a dishwasher or a refrigerator or something.
	You do have to shim it like it's an ordinary, any door that you get.
	If you get a pre-hung door, you have to shim it, make sure it's plump, and you fasten it to the building.
	And if you do need help, it's very important for the client that they have great access to customer service.
	And so that's a huge part of what we do.
	We make sure that if you call, there's no answering machines.
	You're going to talk to somebody, and that person is going to be knowledgeable, and they're going to have all the drawings for your project, and we'll do a FaceTime with you.
	And 99.99% of the time, We can sort out a project in a simple FaceTime call if there is a problem, which itself is rare.
	But every once in a while we'll do a really big project where a client has like seven or eight doors maybe, or maybe they'll have a project that's complicated.
	And if they have the budget, they want to bring somebody out, we're happy to go out.
	And many clients do that anyway just because they don't want any local person to be aware that there's a secret door.
	They don't trust their builder or whatever.
	And also you've got to keep in mind that If you're building a house, there's like 500 people that have seen the inside of your space.
	No matter how careful you are, you've got drywall guys and paint guys and electricians.
	They've all seen it.
	And so typically we'll advise them to put it on the plan as a storage room.
	And so all those people come do their work, never knowing that they're just going to be And then when the secret door shows up, it just slides right into that opening, and only the homeowner has to be aware that there's a secret.
	Well, I'm really glad you mentioned that.
	That's a great point.
	But I also find that the people involved in home construction, they're also working on so many homes, typically, that they completely forgot about your home two months later.
	Probably, at least where I live, they can't even find their way back to my property location.
	Yeah.
	How do I get there again?
	Yeah, because it's all confusing, which is great.
	And people have short memories, too.
	It tends to be that way.
	But speaking of that, then in terms of accessing, you have doors, you have different mechanisms.
	Some of them, I guess, might be codes or you said piano keys.
	That's easy for people to remember.
	But what about numbers or codes or words or letters?
	Do you have anything that functions like that?
	Yeah, all the time.
	So we'll do alphanumeric keypads.
	And of course, if we do a keypad, then we have to hide it, right?
	So we'll hollow out a book and hide the keypad inside of the book.
	Or we'll do maybe, there's all different ways to hide keypads.
	But there's other things as well, like iris scanners, fingerprint scanners.
	We have all kinds of tricks and places where we hide different access control methods, depending on what the camera flushes.
	Wow.
	So you've seen everything.
	Do you have, I would imagine, you probably have some pretty prominent high-level people as your clients, just generally speaking.
	I do.
	I mean, not everybody, but I wish I could name drop.
	Of course, I cannot because of privacy concerns, but there's a lot of people on my client roster that you would recognize.
	Absolutely.
	But, you know, there's also a lot of people that are just, you know, ordinary people that that love the feeling of being prepared.
	And we're happy to accommodate them, too.
	And that's my next question, actually.
	Are you seeing any changes, trends of an uptick in interest in your products?
	Or is it pretty steady?
	Are there certain world events that make people more interested in your solutions?
	What have you noticed over the years?
	Yeah, so obviously unrest in the world is terrible, but it's not terrible for business.
	We get an uptick in business anytime something happens.
	ridiculous happens.
	So COVID was very good for business.
	And as you will recall, at the same time that COVID was happening, there was a lot of other types of unrest with the Black Lives Matter movement and so forth, where there were a lot of people that were concerned about a breakdown of law and order.
	And so that was there were there were people coming out of the woodwork to buy our products.
	I mean, just this week, I just got off the phone with a client who is living in L.A., and they were just lamenting to me about how bad it's gotten, and everyone's seen those images, and they...
	You know, they're making a very large order with us because, you know, a few years ago they wouldn't have thought about it, but because of the increase in crime that we've all unfortunately observed, there's a lot of people that need a secure place to go.
	What about, and Todd, jump in at any time, but I have at least one more question.
	What about control systems from inside if it's a safe room, right?
	Let's say the family goes into the safe room and there's an intruder in the home.
	Do you ever rig up control systems?
	Because this is the way I would do it.
	If I were to build a secret bat cave or something, from inside the control room, I would want to have access to cameras.
	I'd want to have an instant fogging machine.
	Just disperse fog in the entire house, and then I would slap on my night vision Batman goggles and go out there and find everybody.
	Do you have control systems sometimes, or does it get that complex?
	Well, it does get that complex.
	And believe it or not, I have at least one customer that I know for a fact that they have a fogging machine that fills the house with smoke.
	See, I wasn't making that up.
	That's awesome.
	So some of that tends to get a little bit out of our wheelhouse.
	We try to focus on our core competency, which is Making doors that don't look like doors or making really high security doors.
	But we also like to help out people whenever they need our help.
	So we actually are just launching a new product right now that is a wall reinforcement product.
	So it's basically a system of ballistic armor panels that people can use to line the interior walls of a room that maybe was two by four in drywall construction.
	And this makes it a bulletproof room.
	No way.
	That sounds awesome.
	Yeah, so that's a really cool product.
	We're excited to launch on our website.
	Basically, you tell us how many lineal feet you need and we'll devise up a system and it goes together a bit like an erector set.
	You go into the room and screw all these panels up and you've got a safe room.
	Well, hold on a second.
	Where is that product?
	I don't see it on your site right now.
	What's that called?
	We haven't exactly launched it yet.
	If you go back to the website in 30 days, maybe even less than 30 days, you'll see that product up there as well.
	Okay, we've got to get you back on then because that is a big deal.
	Does it screw into the studs then?
	That's right, yeah.
	So, like I said, it goes together a bit.
	Like an erector set, there's horizontal struts that will tie into all the studs on a given wall, and then the ballistic armor plate is all laser cut so that it fits together with overlapping seams so that you can, with just kind of standard tools that everybody has, you can screw it all together and have a very secure room.
	Can I ask you the ballistic rating of that?
	Because tons of people are going to want this.
	Yeah, absolutely.
	So we're offering it to start in UL3 and UL8 ballistic ratings.
	So for those of you who may not be aware of what that means, basically UL3 means it will stop rounds from almost all handguns, and UL8 means it will stop multiple rounds from an assault rifle like an AR-15.
	Okay, so I'm not familiar with the UL-8 that you're talking about.
	I'm familiar with like 3, 3A, level 4 ballistic plates, you know, for body armor, things like that.
	So you're saying it's rated 3 and better?
	Is there a choice or is it all the same rating?
	Yeah, so there's a choice.
	Oh, okay.
	It depends on if you want to spend more for the thicker armor plate or if you're on a budget, you just want the UL-3 and you're comfortable stopping handgun rounds.
	And is it made out of, what is it, ultra-high molecular weight polyethylene or something else?
	No.
	I mean, for custom projects, we have done all kinds of different armor cladding, but this particular product, which we're trying to make affordable and accessible to a lot of people, uses AR-500 ballistic armor plates.
	Oh, that's what I use for target practice.
	Yeah.
	And it just eats ammo, by the way.
	You can barely even dent AR500 unless you're using it.
	But it's very heavy, though.
	It is.
	It is heavy, but in an application like this, weight is not the primary concern.
	Like I said, we've done other projects where weight was a huge concern, but your house is going to be able to support the weight of those panels very easily.
	I see.
	Wow.
	Todd, what do you think?
	You could have a bulletproof secret room.
	Yeah.
	I know, my mind is churning.
	Hey, I have a question that's just kind of a fun one, I think.
	I often, you know, we built this house 10 years ago, and Mike knows I put in a food forest, have done so many things to my property that I can't ever envision selling it.
	I would never want to.
	But I did fantasize a little bit about...
	Showing somebody through my home and them teeter-tottering on whether or not they can afford it or they would want it, I think the food forest would make them lean.
	But then I thought, man, oh man, if I could just get the dude to come upstairs with me and say, I'm going to show this to you, and if you don't buy this, I'm going to have to shoot you for But, I mean, these rooms are so value-add to your property value, but you can't talk about them.
	Right?
	Have you ever had...
	I hear stories like that all the time.
	I had a client tell me that they put their house up on the market and they didn't get any bites.
	And then all they did was they just changed the listing to include that it has a secret panic room.
	And he said overnight it was like flipping on a switch.
	They were doing constant showings.
	They got their asking price and that's all.
	Wow!
	Okay, that's brilliant.
	Okay.
	Yeah, I would imagine, I mean, in the right city, the right neighborhood, you know, when the police are being defunded nationwide, you know, people want safety.
	It makes perfect sense.
	And the fact that it's done.
	And, you know, it's like with my setup.
	It's a room, you know?
	So it's all marketing at that point in time.
	It can just either be a hidden room to where you could, you know, confidently take self-custody of whether it's your precious metals or cash or armory or whatever.
	But it can also be a panic room because it...
	It's what it is, too.
	So that's really good insight.
	Question, Steve.
	So can you give people a sense from a budget standpoint, kind of entry level, and then blow us away with, if you don't mind, what's the most expensive installation you've ever done?
	You bet.
	Great question.
	So our least expensive secret door that we have for sale right now costs only $1,000.
	And again, that's at hiddendoorstore.com.
	We probably have 10 different kinds of secret doors there that are sub $5,000.
	I think our average price for both standard and custom projects this last year was in the low 20s.
	So the average is brought up quite a bit by some of the clients that need more elaborate and higher security projects.
	As far as the most expensive, I believe to date the single most expensive door was a touch over $300,000.
	I think it was about $330,000.
	And we've had several projects, though, where the clients, they spent a lot more than that with us.
	We just wrapped up a project, actually, where the client ordered seven secret doors, and they're all really, really incredible, super high security, motorized, all the bells and whistles.
	This client just wanted everything, and we were happy to give it to him.
	But that client spent much more than that with us.
	Wow.
	Oh, congrats.
	Well, I guess, Todd, we're not the only people who are security-minded, I guess, because I haven't spent anywhere near those numbers yet on security.
	But, I mean, I'm glad to know that there's that much interest out there.
	We live in an unpredictable world right now, and you don't know, especially, you know...
	The scenario I'm always thinking about is, even though I don't travel that much, if I did travel, like if I were a wealthy CEO of some oil company or something, and I had a bunch of gold or whatever, or bearer bonds, who knows, right, in my home, and I'm leaving to go travel for a week on business trips, that's when I want everything hidden for obvious reasons, because no one's there to watch the place.
	I'm sure you hear that all the time, Steve, right?
	Yeah.
	Yeah, absolutely.
	And many of these clients have multiple homes anyway.
	And so, you know, they might be away from the home for months at a time.
	And so before they leave, they'll make sure that their most valuable possessions are locked away from the cleaning staff or whoever else might wander into the house when they're not available to sort of protect it.
	That makes perfect sense.
	And I should say, I did spend insane amounts of money on my security dog, who is right here in the studio, so I'm guilty as charged on that, but he's been worth every penny.
	And Todd, you've met him right here in the studio.
	Yes, he almost met my neck with his teeth.
	Nah, he's so friendly.
	What are you talking about?
	He rarely attacks people.
	It was so funny, Steve.
	I was in there.
	I was at the other mic behind his desk, and I talked with my hands, and I made the mistake of smashing my hand down on the desk.
	And within, like...
	A split second, his dog, Rhodey, jumped on the desk and got between Mike and me and just gave me that...
	I'm like, whoa.
	Just kidding.
	He's looking at me right now.
	Hey, Rhodey, get your toys.
	Get your toys and come on up.
	Yeah, get your toys.
	Come up.
	There we go.
	There he is with his toys.
	Look at that.
	He just did that.
	I mean, this guy is worth every penny, but...
	Imagine this guy plus a secure room.
	Sorry, he's blocking it.
	Okay, you guys go ahead.
	Let me get him off the desk.
	Hey, Steve, do you ever counsel anybody that's kind of starting from scratch to...
	Think in terms of what else they have in their room, like the room that I happen to do.
	Again, we had two laundry rooms and don't need two laundry rooms.
	But now that I have it inside my secret room, and now it's my secret room, I love the fact that I have running water in there.
	There's a place for a toilet.
	I haven't installed one, but there's a place for one.
	But it kind of gets you thinking a little bit about if you did have to stay in there for an extended period of time, not bad to have running water.
	You'd be surprised at how many people think that they know exactly what they want when they first call me.
	And I don't want to talk anybody into anything, but when they show me their floor plan, sometimes, having done this so many times, I'll have some lights come on.
	I'll tell them, hey, we'll do whatever you want, but this is what I would do if this was my house.
	And I love to be able to share my insights with people.
	And usually, if I make a suggestion like that, they'll see the light.
	And we've ended up changing the concept of a lot of projects that way.
	Wow.
	What are some of your go-to suggestions?
	Well, so a lot of it is budget dependent.
	So sometimes people will call me and they want this huge elaborate thing because they've seen it on a website, but they are also really trying to save money.
	And so I'll be the first to say, no, no, no.
	Let's dial your project down.
	You don't need as much of the wow factor.
	You're looking for a safe place to store valuables.
	You know, we can cut the motorization or, you know, we can change the opening configuration to something that's more cost-effective.
	I would love to see you save money and get what you want as opposed to spend more money for something that you don't need.
	I want you to be super happy with it.
	A lot of times, if the client is looking more for that wow factor, I will suggest secret doors that are more imposing because the bigger, the heavier the object, the less you would think that it would be a secret door and the more astonishing it is when it actually moves.
	That's fascinating.
	So, for example, in my house, I'm building a house right now for myself and I'm going to have five secret doors in it.
	And one of the secret doors is a fireplace that opens up and I'm going to have a couple of different ways to open it.
	But my favorite way is I'll have a mounted stag where you reach up and grab the horn and the horn is like a handle.
	And that causes the fireplace, the whole firebox will go into the wall and it will slide in behind the wall and get access.
	Wow.
	Oh, I want to see that.
	That's just too much fun.
	How did you manage to make a career out of having so much fun?
	Right.
	Yeah, it is fun.
	It is.
	I mean, I'll be honest, though.
	Our clients, they tend to be very demanding.
	And they have a right to be.
	And many of them are paying for that, and that's what we will happily accommodate them.
	But it's fun, but it's also very stressful.
	Yes, I can imagine.
	And you're dealing with workmanship and materials and quality control.
	There must be mistakes from time to time.
	And then there's user support.
	Not all customers know how to work a drill, for example, or what have you, right?
	That's right.
	Yeah, well...
	We have customers, too, here, so we get calls from them on all kinds of various things, too, like, how do I open this container?
	Oh, well, believe me, you should try Hidden Passageway.
	It's way more complicated.
	We're fortunate that this business, even on the pre-designed side where things are more cost-effective, it's not like a huge, massive volume business where we have 1,000 customers a day and we can't possibly give them the white glove service that you were talking customers a day and we can't possibly give them the white glove service We still make it a point to make every customer feel like they're our only customer.
	And you can talk to me.
	Anyone in the world can talk to me, even though we're currently running probably 130 projects simultaneously right now.
	If you call, I will make time and we will talk and I'll get you everything you need.
	Well, I've got somebody that needs to call you, so I'm going to connect you to somebody that I know that's actually looking for something just like this, I think, with new construction.
	But anyway, we'll talk about that off-air.
	In the interest of time, first of all, Steve, I want to respect your time and say this has been amazing, really fascinating.
	Is there anything else you want to share with us sort of in the last few minutes here today?
	Oh, let's see.
	Well, first of all, thank you for putting up with all the background noise that this place is a bustling business.
	I can tell.
	Yeah.
	So it's so hectic that I just got rid of the door to my office.
	And so now people walk by and I'm very accessible to the employees.
	But it's a madhouse here all the time.
	Um, so, uh, as far as what you should know, I think that the most important thing is, um, that maybe we haven't talked about is that when you're making a decision to put a secret door in your house, you're going to be faced with the choice to either go with maybe your, your local handyman or your local, uh, cabinet shop.
	Or to go with some faraway company run by a guy like me that you've never met before.
	And so it's quite natural to say, oh, well, I'm going to have my local cabinet guy do it.
	Especially if you go to him and you're like, hey, can you build a secret door like this?
	He does not want to say to you, no, I can't do that.
	But there is certainly a benefit to having a specialist that has done this thousands of times.
	And the secret doors that we build today...
	I'm sorry to tell you this, Todd, but they're even better than the one that we built for you 10 years ago.
	They get better and better and better.
	And there are so many clients that call me and they're like, hey, I paid some ungodly amount of money for this secret door and it's sad.
	It rubs.
	It warps.
	It doesn't close properly.
	Can you fix it?
	And sadly, the answer is usually no, I can't.
	I wish I could.
	But really, it has to be purposely built and engineered from the beginning to be a smoothly running, finely tuned machine that can handle the loads and have the engineering behind it to make it work right.
	Building a secret door is so much more challenging than most people realize.
	And in fact, many of my customers are those very same woodworkers that, you know, they got in above their head and they realized, oh my gosh, this is not going smoothly.
	Please help me.
	We have to try to figure out a way to salvage the situation.
	But in most cases, the client would have just been so much better off if they would have come to us in the beginning.
	I know it sounds self-serving, but it really is true.
	No, but I can imagine, exactly, when just hinges alone, just hinges, I can imagine.
	You have to think way outside of the box on this because you're talking about pivoting an entire bookcase with the load of books on the bookcase.
	That's not just a household door that you go buy at Home Depot with $10 hinges, right?
	And this thing, like you said, it has to not sag because if it sags, let's say it pivots.
	If it sags, it's going to leave tracks, right?
	It's going to leave tracks on the floor, and then everybody's like, oh look, there must be a secret door right there, right?
	And it does, and in fact, this is such a common sob story.
	They will put a hinge on, and they'll get it all just perfect, and then they'll put weight on the shelves, and it will sag.
	Right.
	The house itself is likely to move, and they didn't plan for that.
	And so the next thing that they do is they put a non-marking caster wheel on the floor to help support that weight, but it still marks.
	They always mark.
	And so that's when they realize, oh crap, I did this wrong, and then they call me, but it's too late.
	Oh man, that's funny.
	Yeah, if I were doing this, I would go to you because you have to have years of experience to engineer these things correctly, clearly.
	It's like you don't hire your guy down the street to build you an airplane and then fly in it.
	That's true.
	I'll say our product is sophisticated.
	Maybe not airplane level sophistication, but it is sophisticated.
	And when people see it, that's when they realize, especially, you know, you go to a website, there's sprung up a couple of competitors in recent years that try to do what we do, although they admit themselves that they do it on sort of a lower level.
	But there have been a few companies that, you know, they've got a good website, and they have photos, and maybe they're photoshopped.
	And when you go and you see a photo of a secret door, you can't really tell how good it is.
	They're going to show you an angle of it that shows it being awesome, and you're not really going to see its weaknesses.
	But when you see a well-engineered door side-by-side with a cheap secret door, there's a world of difference.
	Your eye is a very sophisticated instrument, and your eye can see if anything is not exactly right, and it's a dead giveaway.
	You know, from 20 feet away, you could say, oh, even an untrained person can see, oh, I see light.
	Blocking, coming through.
	I see an arc in the floor where it's carved the floor.
	So to really have a secret door that can fool an intruder, it's a whole other level, and you really should have something that's properly engineered.
	Wow.
	Wow, great point.
	I can attest to that.
	I remember after my door was installed, I I cannot remember the exact conference, but I was invited to it, and it was like a home builder's conference or something.
	And there was a section where it was a vendor who produced these secret doors.
	And when I went and looked at them, I'm like, excuse me, but it's like, man, these are a piece of...
	You know?
	They just were not good.
	You know?
	They look kind of cool, but when you really...
	Take a look at it like you're saying, the hinges and just, you know, really bad shoddy work.
	Well, and also I think a lot of woodworkers don't necessarily realize...
	I mean, woodworkers typically build cabinets to stand on the floor so the gravity load is dispersed through the structure on both sides evenly.
	You hang that now from one side...
	Now, guess what?
	It's no longer square.
	Like, one side of the wood starts to go down.
	Even if the hinges don't fail, the wood itself, right?
	I mean, don't you have to...
	You have to think about all of this, Steve.
	That's right, yeah.
	It's like woodworkers don't really realize...
	They might be the best woodworker in the world, but the wood itself is just an inappropriate material for building a precision machine like a secret passageway.
	It's going to expand...
	The amount of warp and sag that it takes to make a secret door stop working properly is minute.
	It's like you're building a secret door out of a wet noodle.
	It's way too floppy.
	Unless it is supported in just the right way.
	And then, you know, the woodwork, we're talking about woodwork, but there's so much more.
	I think of the woodwork aspect of our secret doors as like 10%, maybe.
	There's so much more that goes into the steelwork that's behind it and all the electronics and the locking and all of that.
	Like I said before, it took us a long time to be able to make the secret doors that we are proud to call our own now.
	All right.
	Well, this is really amazing.
	The website, folks, is hiddenpassageway.com.
	And then for the more affordable, what is it?
	Hiddendoorstore.com, right?
	Yes, sir.
	Okay.
	So hiddenpassageway.com for more of the custom jobs.
	And they'll be able to talk to you, Steve, to talk about their project?
	Absolutely.
	Certainly on the custom side, you will talk to me if you call me.
	On the more affordable stuff, it's not always necessary to talk to me.
	We try to set it up so that you can just order it right online.
	That makes sense.
	It's a very streamlined process.
	Okay.
	Well, very good.
	Todd, final thoughts?
	This was awesome, Steve.
	It's been a long time since we spoke, but I am a very satisfied customer, and I use your product weekly.
	Man, you can't get a stronger testimonial than that.
	Yeah, I really appreciate it, guys.
	It's been a pleasure.
	That is awesome.
	Yeah, you too, Steve.
	Thank you.
	Have a great day, and we'll be in touch.
	We'd love to hear from you about your armor.
	Your armor project when that goes live.
	Yeah, check back with me.
	And we've got some other cool things we haven't talked about yet.
	I don't want to spill the beans, but this coming year, it's going to be a big year.
	Okay.
	Very, very cool.
	All right.
	Thanks so much.
	Take care.
	All right.
	See you, Steve.
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