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July 9, 2024 - Health Ranger - Mike Adams
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BBN, July 9, 2024 - Now we know exactly how blue states will CHEAT...
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Alright, welcome to Brighteon Broadcast News for Tuesday, July 9th, 2024.
Mike Adams here, thank you for joining me today.
Got big breaking news here from the Babylon Bee.
Democrats warn that Republicans plan to steal the election by blocking the Democrat efforts to steal the election.
And of course, you know, can't let Republicans steal it by blocking the Democrats' efforts to steal it.
Of course, that's Babylon B, so satire.
But do you realize that Joe Biden says that he is the best candidate to beat Trump?
And that's why he says he's not stepping down.
And what's weird about that, kind of hilarious, is that he's not wrong.
He probably is the best candidate to beat Trump.
And he's a disaster.
Now, I hope to God that he stays in.
But, of course, he's probably, you know, I mean, there's a civil war right now to try to push him out, obviously.
And he even says there's a conspiracy among the elites now to remove him from power.
Yeah, so all of a sudden it's no longer wrong to say there's a conspiracy because Joe Biden says it.
And he says there are elites.
He's talking about globalist elites.
So it's like, you know...
All of a sudden, I mean, shouldn't the mainstream media apologize to the alternative media for all the years when alt-media was talking about actual conspiracies and actual elites?
And now Biden's actually sounding a lot like alternative media, saying that there's this conspiracy to remove him.
And there is a group trying to remove him.
And this is the group that says they're defending democracy.
By forcing out their candidate who has been nominated in nearly all the states.
So it's like, you know, we're here to defend democracy, but screw democracy when we want to remove this guy.
And it starts to make you wonder, how exactly are they going to remove him?
What dirt do they have on old Joe?
And we'll come back to that in a minute, but I do want to mention the featured interview today is going to be with Daniel Vitalis, who is the expert in wildcrafting, you know, harvesting food from the wild.
He's very experienced at that.
He's got his own show on that, and he's the founder of SirThrival.
I've known Daniel Vitalis for a long time, like maybe, I don't know, coming up on 20 years or so.
And so we had a really great interview today.
And I think you'll enjoy that.
So that's coming up.
First, though, I want to talk about the plan for the Democrats to rig this election.
Now, they're not going to try to rig it in exactly the same way that they rigged it in 2020.
Because, of course, well, people are going to be watching, scrutinizing more carefully this time.
They're not going to be able to close down the...
You know, the ballot counting centers at three in the morning and tell everybody to go home.
Like, we're closed down.
Just go home and, you know, we'll resume tomorrow.
And then in the middle of the night, the next four hours, they just rerun all the Biden ballots.
You know, that's just keep on rerunning them until they get the count they want.
And then, you know, nine in the morning, they open up and it's like, hey, Biden won.
Didn't you know what happened just in the middle of the night?
It was like magical.
So now they're going to cheat in a different way and this has already been underway for years.
It's the open borders.
Massive invasion wave of illegals who have been given driver's licenses and then they've been given automatic registration to vote.
So these laws are called motor voter laws and they're in many states.
I don't know the exact number, but it's a lot of states.
And since illegals are offered driver's licenses in many of these states, as soon as they get a driver's license, they end up...
On the voting rolls.
They also get put onto jury duty rolls, by the way.
And there was a story recently, just in California, in one city, 35,000 illegals had to be removed from the jury duty rolls because, well, they're not citizens and they can't serve on juries, but they can vote, by the way.
Now, there's an act called the SAVE Act, which is being promoted by, of course, several prominent conservatives, Republicans.
And it's an act.
SAVE means Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act.
And this act would require voters to bring proof of citizenship, such as, you know, a passport or some other proof, when they vote.
So the Biden administration issued a statement just yesterday, a statement of administration policy, and they say, well, it's already illegal for non-citizens to vote in federal elections, and thus they oppose this SAVE Act.
Well, yeah, it's illegal, but it's not enforced because, of course, Democrats want illegals to vote.
So all across America, they don't check for citizenship status among the voters, especially in the swing states where, of course, the radical left wing Democrats run the polling and run the voting for the most part.
And they run the counting.
And so, yes, it's illegal, but it is widely practiced among Democrats to let illegals vote.
And that's why Democrats have also pushed for illegals to be automatically registered to vote.
And there are all kinds of posts on Reddit over the last 24 hours and other sites of non-citizens saying that, yeah, they received ballots in the mail.
Some of them voted in elections, which is a crime, but they said they voted and they weren't stopped from voting.
They were never challenged about their citizenship status and so on.
So the way the Democrats are going to cheat this time is very simple.
They flood the country with tens of millions of illegals, which is already done.
They give them all the right to vote.
And then they just roll out all these psyop scare stories about how Trump is going to destroy democracy and also deport illegals.
And then all the illegals rush to the polls to vote for Joe Biden.
And that's cheating.
That's cheating.
It's also, in a sense, it's treason because you're allowing America to be invaded by a foreign enemy occupying force for the purpose of overthrowing the United States at the ballot box in order to deprive the American people of their democratic will, you see.
Instead, non-Americans can outvote the Americans, plus combined with whatever level of cheating the Democrats can still pull off, this might be enough to defeat Trump, even if Joe Biden is still the Democrat candidate.
And by the way, Whoopi Goldberg said that she will vote for Joe Biden even if he poops in his pants.
And then she went on to say that she...
She poops herself or deals with a lot of poop.
I couldn't quite follow what she was saying.
It involved a lot of poop.
But I'm just thinking, hey, Whoopi, if you're wondering, can you vote for Joe Biden who's pooping in his pants?
I would say, your wish has been granted, girl.
That's already the case.
You don't have to dream about that.
That's already done.
You've got the poopy pants candidate right now.
All you got to do is just bring an extra set of diapers to the fundraiser.
But Biden probably is the best candidate.
That the Dems can put forward.
And that's really saying something.
So a combination Parkinson's patient and an Alzheimer's or dementia patient, because Joe Biden suffers from multiple conditions.
Parkinson's affecting a lot of the motor neuron control.
Then, of course, dementia or Alzheimer's affecting more of his cognitive function.
He is degrading rapidly.
But the fact that he is the best candidate that the Democrats have, That tells you everything you need to know.
Because the Democrats could have had RFK Jr., who would have been, of course, a far better candidate this entire time, RFK Jr.
And by the way, there are many things that I disagree with in terms of RFK Jr.
But he's not brain dead.
He's not stupid.
He's in fact very intelligent.
And he's very articulate.
And some people comment about the way he talks sounds like an old person or whatever.
No, no, no.
He had a...
I think it was an infection of his...
It affects the audio quality of his ability to speak.
He can't vocalize with the clarity of non-damaged, healthy vocal cords.
But that doesn't take away from his mind, obviously, because his mind is rather brilliant.
And again, very articulate, very articulate.
Well researched.
His views are well considered, you know, well thought out and so on.
I strongly disagree with RFK Jr.
as he has gone all in with the Zionists and Israel.
And I think Zionist money is largely funding his campaign and is also funding children's health defense.
And I've called him out for not speaking out against the bombing of women and children in Gaza.
So I'm not voting for RFK. But what I'm saying is that the Democrats would have been lucky to have him as their candidate.
And they shoved him out instead because they wanted to circle the wagons around brain-dead Biden.
And so they did.
They circled the wagons.
They defended him.
They dismissed all of the criticisms of Biden.
You know, all the obvious facts about his rapidly deteriorating cognitive decline and so on.
And they made Biden their candidate.
And now they're stuck with him.
Now they're stuck with him.
And the alternatives are so much worse.
Kamala Harris.
Oh my goodness.
I mean, think about this.
If Joe Biden is somehow forced to step down, and there's enough blackmail dirt out there on Joe Biden that they could make him step down.
And that's probably in the works right now.
But if Joe Biden steps down, Kamala Harris becomes president, right?
So all of a sudden you have a floozy, just a low IQ woman in the White House, which I'm sure the media would say, it's the first black female president.
Okay, but most of black America doesn't even say that Kamala is one of them.
You know, by the way, she's not really claimed as black by black Americans because she's got nothing in common with black Americans.
But from there, with President Kamala, which should make everyone cringe, then they would have to put in place a new vice president.
So who would that be?
That would be...
I mean, take a guess, but they could just bring in someone like Hillary Clinton!
Oh, yeah!
Hillary's got enough dirt on everybody, so they put Hillary in as the VP. And then Hillary calls up her old friends...
And then, you know, they blackmail, threaten, coerce, or otherwise get rid of Kamala.
Or maybe they offer her some, like a seat on the Supreme Court.
Yeah, exactly.
Because she'd go just great, right alongside low IQ Sotomayor, right?
You could have two Supreme Court justices with a combined IQ that's still lower than that of Kavanaugh, or certainly, you know, Alito.
It would be amazing.
But in whatever way that happens, then Hillary Clinton could become president.
Yeah.
And then it could be a race between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump.
Now, in that race, again, in an honest election, Hillary would lose.
But who says there's even going to be an election?
Because all of this points to the desperation of the Democrats trying to cancel the upcoming election.
So let me play this video for you.
It's only about a minute, talking about how There's an immigration lawyer who says his client voted in federal elections despite not being a US citizen because she was automatically registered to vote when she renewed her driver's license.
And this is happening in DMV offices all over the country.
Check this out.
How this client almost got deported, lost her green card because of a mistake during citizenship interview.
So this lion retained my office after attending her citizenship interview with another attorney.
What happened in that interview is that the officer discovered that she voted in the most recent elections and she's not a US citizen yet.
Consequences of voting without being a US citizen could be devastating, resulting in removal and deportation.
When I read the facts of this case, I realized that the only reason why she voted is because when she went to renew her driving license, they gave her an automatic ballot to complete.
And this is something that's been happening in DMV offices all over the country, where some integrants go renew their driving license and they receive a ballot for voting.
So we were able to show the government that she didn't really intend to vote.
It was pretty much an automatic registration at DMV. Finally, after a long wait, I got this text from my client that they were selected for the oath ceremony next Monday.
Never lose hope.
So did you hear that?
It's not just that illegals are being registered to vote.
They're being handed voting ballots and told to fill this out.
I mean, this is a whole new kind of ballot harvesting fraud because these, you know, these immigrants who are not yet citizens, let's say, they're being, in essence, ordered by a government agent here to fill out the ballot.
And so, you know, they're going to do as instructed.
They probably don't know all the rules or all the laws.
And they think, well, if the DMV is giving me this ballot to fill out, then obviously I have to fill this out.
And probably they're told who to vote for, too.
So this is coordinated, deliberate, widespread, massive voter fraud by Democrats who tend to run DMV offices across America, and they run the ballot counting offices also across America.
So this is Again, this is a coordinated conspiracy to overthrow the will of the American people and to, in essence, destroy democracy, which is what Democrats claim Trump is going to do, but actually Democrats themselves deliberately engineer the mechanism to destroy democracy and deprive the American people of their choice for president.
Now, here's a video from Senator Marco Rubio.
Who, for the most part, is kind of a rhino globalist.
But in this case, he is sounding the alarm on how illegals receive thousands of dollars a month in benefits, even more benefits than a typical American might get from Social Security.
It's really incredible.
Watch this video.
One of the things I see a lot in South Florida are people that have been in this country that maybe came from Cuba 45 years ago.
They've worked here their entire lives.
They retire.
They get $800, $900, $1,000 a month from Social Security.
And then they run into somebody who just got here from Cuba three months ago, is 29 years old, doesn't work, and is given $1,500 a month in benefits by our government because they're refugees.
That refugee...
A year later, it's traveling back to Cuba 15 times.
So you're a refugee fleeing oppression from a place that you now go back and visit 15 times the following year.
And in the meantime, we're giving you Medicaid, food stamps, health care for your children, cash payments from the refugee fund.
So imagine if you've been working here for 40 years and your Social Security check is smaller than the benefits going to a 28-year-old.
Able-bodied person who just got here.
That's real.
That happens.
That's happening every day.
That makes no sense.
Alright, so...
Just amazing.
They're incentivizing illegals to keep coming to America because they get free hotel rooms, they get free phones, they get free money, debit cards, basically just endless free money, and they get to vote too, and they never paid taxes in America, they never contributed to American society, and yet somehow they get to vote, and their vote counts just as much as your vote.
No wonder people are extremely frustrated about all of this and calling for the SAVE Act, which would demand proof of citizenship when you go vote.
And by the way, it's so simple here.
It's so simple.
You may wonder, like, how did elections take place in the UK or in France or even some other countries?
How do they get results so quickly?
How come it doesn't take days?
And the answer is...
For the most part, they're not using electronic voting machines.
They're using paper ballots.
They count them in the hours after they come in.
They count them at the county level, essentially.
And they tally them up.
They don't need voting machines.
They don't need hackable electronics.
They don't need programs and ballot printers.
They just have paper ballots.
You punch the dot that you're voting for.
And then they're counted.
It's not complicated.
If we want to have honest elections in America, it's very simple.
You have paper ballots, you have voter ID or citizenship ID, and you vote on voting day.
And that's it.
There's one day.
There's no mail-in ballots.
There's no after the election, running around town, collecting ballots or stuffing ballots or printing ballots.
None of that garbage.
You all vote on the same day, you tally it up that evening, you count it by hand, and you keep the ballots in a stack so anybody can audit it, and then that's an honest election.
And Democrats are totally opposed to all of those things because they cheat, they cheat, they cheat.
Democrats are only in power because they cheat, even in California.
In an honest election, Democrats would lose California, they would lose New York, they would lose Illinois.
They would lose Oregon.
The only way they stay in power is because they repeatedly cheat.
And they cheat through all those mechanisms that they now are opposed to anybody stopping.
It's like, hey, here's a new law that would stop illegals from cheating in elections.
And Democrats say, oh, no, no, we oppose that law.
Like, the only reason you would oppose that is if you plan to cheat.
Which is exactly what they're doing.
And they know it.
And changing the subject here briefly, by the way, the hurricane barrel has made its way through Texas.
Certainly by the time you hear this, now millions of people lost power.
Now some of that power has been restored, some of it hasn't.
But literally millions of people have lost power in this.
And it's just a reminder, you know, stay prepared.
Be ready for power outages.
Be ready for cell phone outages.
Have extra water filters ready to go.
You know, all these things that make a lot of sense.
Now, Hurricane Beryl was not a crazy, you know, it wasn't a Category 5 hurricane or anything like that.
It was a relatively small storm, but it did quite a bit of damage.
The winds were about 90 miles an hour on the coast where it hit, and there was a storm surge of several feet.
I think in some cases it was four, maybe five feet, and some areas did get about 15 inches of rain, although that wasn't the average.
The average was lower.
But these storms can happen essentially at any time, or different types of storms.
Or other causes of outages can happen at any time.
We don't know how reliable the system is going to be.
Did you see there's another bridge out?
There's a bridge called the Third Avenue Bridge that connects the Bronx and Manhattan.
And it's closed because it got stuck in the open position because of overheating.
Yeah, did you know that?
Of course, metal tends to expand when it gets hot, so there's a coefficient called the thermal expansion coefficient.
You know, all the mechanical engineers and so on, they understand all this.
So they open the bridge, and it got really hot, and it got bigger.
And then when they try to close the bridge, this is one of those rotating bridges, they try to close it, and they're like, ah, the bridge is too long!
So they've got boats there, I mean, it's a total traffic jam.
It's all snarled up.
So they've got boats there spraying water on the bridges to try to cool them off so they will shrink enough to be able to close the bridge.
This is incredible.
Here's a few seconds of footage of that bridge just to show you what I'm talking about.
Here's a few seconds.
The infrastructure just keeps crumbling across this country.
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This is their platform for 2024.
So, they've all gotten together.
Basically, they've adopted Trump's platform.
And I want to read some of the highlights for you of this platform.
It's 20 points, actually, of what they want to accomplish.
Like, number one is seal the border.
Yeah, I get it.
Okay.
Number two, carry out the largest deportation operation in U.S. history.
I'm actually kind of surprised to see that as the GOP platform.
But it needs to happen.
We've got to deport the illegals.
And then point number three is end inflation.
It's like, yeah, on your wish list, buddy, you know, what are you going to do?
Wave a magic wand and end inflation?
We'll come back to that because there are some items on this list that are impossible to achieve.
Number four is to make the U.S. a dominant energy producer.
That's easy.
Just reverse all of Joe Biden's executive orders shutting down energy production and pipelines and so on.
Remember, under Trump, we were a net energy exporter.
So that's easy to accomplish.
Just let the energy industry, you know, produce energy.
Okay, number five, stop outsourcing manufacturing.
That's very difficult since there aren't very many American workers that want to work in manufacturing.
So I'm not sure how that gets achieved.
Number six, large tax cuts for workers and no tax on tips.
Yeah, I think that's great.
There should never be taxes on tips.
And frankly, there should never be taxes on personal incomes.
So I say expand that and the IRS. No federal taxes whatsoever on individual incomes.
All you really need is tariffs.
To fund the federal government, and if you can't fund the government off tariffs, then your government's too big.
Slash it by 90%, and then tariffs will be enough.
Okay, let's see.
Point number seven, defend the Constitution and fundamental freedoms.
And yeah, I would have said there, especially freedom of speech, because of course the government's been weaponized with the help of big tech to censor Americans based on viewpoint discrimination, so that's got to be tackled.
Number eight, prevent World War III. It's actually not that difficult to prevent World War III. You just have to get all the warmongering neocons out of power.
And that could happen on day one, you know, of a new administration.
If Trump gets elected and he's in the White House, all he has to do is fire the right people.
It might be hundreds of them.
It might be thousands of them.
Just give them pink slips.
Goodbye.
You're done.
But then, just as importantly, Trump would have to not bring in more rhinos and neocons and backstabbers into his administration, which is exactly what happened in his first administration.
So he's got to stop taking advice from traitors.
And hopefully, well, I don't know.
I don't know if that's happening or not, but I guess we'll see.
Number nine, end the weaponization of government.
So, yeah, I mean, we would all like to see that happen, but how do you do that?
And the honest answer is simple.
You shut down the FBI. You fire everybody at the FBI, the DOJ. You end the tyrannical Department of Education.
You end the EPA, the FDA, none of which are named in the Constitution, by the way.
They're all unconstitutional.
You shut down the CDC. You shut down the NIH. You shut it all down, and you let the states run their own programs locally.
So this is not difficult.
You want to end the weaponization of government?
And most of government.
Then there's no more weaponization.
You know, why does the EPA have automatic rifles and ballistic vests and all kinds of budget for guns and ammo for the EPA? Yeah.
What's that all about?
It's crazy.
So, yeah, just end all these departments that are unconstitutional, shut them all down.
Okay, point number 10, stop the migrant crime epidemic.
Well, that's easy.
Number one, stop incentivizing them to come to America, deport the ones that you can find, and prosecute the ones that you catch committing crimes.
The crime epidemic will end very quickly, or nearly end.
Okay, point number 11, rebuild U.S. cities, make them safe and clean again.
Eh...
Why bother?
I mean, the Democrats want to destroy their own hometowns.
That's their business.
I mean, why should taxpayers rebuild the cities?
If you think about it, especially all the rural taxpayers, I think we should just let the Democrats run their own cities into the ground and live in their own cesspools, frankly.
I don't want to pay to clean up a city run by a bunch of lunatics and child traffickers and LGBT child mutilators.
No.
Let them stew in their own cesspool.
Point number 12, strengthen and modernize the military.
Yeah, sadly, this is going to translate into just more money for the military-industrial complex.
So it's just going to be a lot more waste, a lot of payoffs and kickbacks through the defense contractors and the Pentagon and so on.
If you want to modernize our military, honestly, what you should do is you should try to be more like Russia's military, because Russia has a very modern military, or even China, a very modern military.
The US military is living in the past.
The tactics, you know, the ships, the weapons are all outmoded.
Even the nuclear weapons.
America doesn't even have hypersonic missiles at this point.
So if you want to modernize the military, study Russia and China because they're leading the way in that sector.
Okay, point number 13.
Keep the U.S. dollar as a reserve currency.
Yeah, well, sadly, it's too late for that.
So this is one of those wish list items on this list of 20 things.
So yeah, if you could just wave a magic wand and keep the dollar as a reserve currency, well, I suppose, well, actually, I don't even like that idea anyway, because I don't think any one nation should dominate the currency of the world.
I like the BRICS currency idea better, where nobody can counterfeit the currency, and so no one nation becomes weaponized against the other nations in the world.
I think the collapse of the dollar will actually engender human freedom and abundance on a planetary scale.
So I vote for the collapse of the dollar and the rise of honest currencies that cannot be counterfeited by any nation.
Now, important to note here is Republicans are not going to save the dollar.
Republicans are not going to stop printing money.
They're not going to stop debt spending.
They're not going to stop counterfeiting.
Republicans, just like Democrats, are going to print and print and print into oblivion until the dollar collapses.
That's going to happen under Trump, just like under Biden.
It may even happen more under Trump.
So don't think that voting for Trump is going to save the dollar and save the world reserve currency status.
It's not.
Trump has already said he's all into sanctions.
Let's sanction all our enemies.
Well, the more you sanction, then the more rapidly all the rest of the world wants to move away from the dollar.
So sanctions actually work against you.
If you wanted to have the dollar as a world reserve currency, you would have to do two things.
Number one, you'd have to stop printing the dollar, which will never happen.
And number two, you'd have to stop weaponizing the dollar, which will also never happen because, well, economic sanctions.
So the dollar has become the The coercion weapon against the world and the world is done with it.
You can't save the dollar and you can't save it as a reserve currency status because the transition away from the dollar is already well underway.
The BRICS currency is going to replace the dollar over time.
It's not going to be overnight.
But the process has already begun.
And more and more nations are going to use BRICS units, as they're called, instead of dollars because they don't want their dollars stolen by the West, which is what happened to Russia.
$300 billion just stolen by the West.
If you wanted to sort of reestablish credibility of the dollar, you would give Russia its money back.
But the West will never do that because the West, you know, it's a suicide cult of a bunch of lunatics and sociopaths, especially in Western Europe.
And sadly, there's nobody in the GOP that believes in honest money anymore.
I mean, the Ron Pauls of the party are gone for the most part.
So the dollar as a reserve currency, forget it.
It's...
It's already done.
It's just a matter of how rapidly the decline takes place.
Okay.
Point number 14, protect Social Security and Medicare.
Well, see, that's another pipe dream.
But of course they have to say this, you know, to get votes from elderly people who are afraid that their Social Security is going to be taken away.
But nobody can save Social Security.
Nobody can save Medicare.
You know why?
Because they're printing the dollar, right?
Because as the dollar collapses, so does Social Security.
And so do federal pensions, by the way.
So pension programs are going to collapse, your Social Security, your entitlements, Medicare, it's all going to collapse.
There's nothing the GOP can do to stop that.
And of course, nothing the Democrats can do to stop it either.
That day is coming.
And the only way to protect yourself from that is to get into, you know, gold and silver, get into precious metals that can survive that, or land, or something else that holds value, you know?
And Just limit your exposure to the collapse that's coming.
Okay, point number 15.
Cancel the EV mandate.
Yes, that's easily done, and that does need to be done because EVs suck, and EV sales are already imploding, and EVs, they did not fulfill the promise.
That was propagandized to everybody.
Oh, it's going to be so awesome and so convenient.
No, they suck.
Nobody wants EVs.
They lose value so rapidly.
Their batteries don't last very long.
Insurance rates are double or triple for EVs.
They're heavy.
They tear up the roads.
They take forever to charge.
They have fire hazards.
I mean, they suck.
Now, that might change in the coming years with new battery technology that I've talked about, sodium-ion batteries, by the way, which are based on sodium rather than lithium, as you might imagine, and sodium doesn't burn, and sodium's a lot less expensive, and it cycles better, so you would no longer have to change out your batteries.
You buy a car with a battery pack in it, and that battery pack would last like 50 years, longer than the car.
And you could charge it very rapidly because of new advances in chemistry.
So the idea of an electric vehicle is still viable in the future.
Just want to be clear.
Although I'm not giving up my diesel engine anytime soon, that's for sure.
But the idea of EVs is still viable.
It's just given current technology, they suck.
All right, 16.
Point number 16.
Cut funding for schools pushing gender ideology.
Yeah, absolutely.
You push a bunch of transgender child mutilation, pedophile grooming type of stuff, guess what?
Not only should you have your funding cut, I think those teachers and school counselors and so on, I think they should be arrested for child abuse, but that's just my opinion.
Point number 17.
Keep men out of women's sports.
Yes, indeed.
Should be, of course, a federal law, but the states, given the Tenth Amendment and so on, the states have the freedom to interpret or pass their own local laws, but I would support keeping men out of women's sports because it's obviously wrong and it's abuse of women.
To have a male wrestler or a male swimmer or what have you, or men in women's locker rooms.
It's just a bunch of perverts and weirdos, by the way.
And that's who the left have become.
So, of course, they want men in women's sports and they want children to be indoctrinated in transgenderism in the schools because the left, they're perverts and weirdos and pedophiles, obviously.
What's their favorite snack?
Pedo pan peanut butter.
Yes, okay.
Number 18.
Deport pro-Hamas radicals, especially from colleges.
Alright, so this bullet point was put there by the Zionists.
And the conservatives in America are largely funded by AIPAC, which is money laundered through Israel that originally came from the U.S. They laundered it through Israel.
They give it back to AIPAC. AIPAC hands over the money to lawmakers for their election campaigns and then says, you're going to do what Israel wants you to do.
Point number 18 is a Zionist dream.
Deport pro-Hamas radicals.
The problem is, how do you define that?
How do you define a pro-Hamas radical?
Because the way that it's being defined by the Zionists is that anybody who just says Palestine should be free, they say, well, you're a pro-Hamas radical.
I didn't say Hamas.
Although I do have a rooster named Hamas, as you know, because I showed you the video yesterday.
He's a vicious fighter, and he's not afraid of anybody.
He attacks.
Hamas the rooster!
I was thinking of naming a chicken Netanyahu and seeing if Hamas would attack Netanyahu, but no.
Give them all names of, like, politicians.
Oh my God, look!
It's Joe Biden, the retarded chicken!
No.
No.
My chickens are much smarter than Joe Biden, just for the record, by the way.
They don't wander off into la-la land and forget where they are.
They're pretty much, you know, on track looking for food.
But anyway, how do you identify who are pro-Hamas radicals to deport?
And what if they're Americans?
Where do you deport them to?
I mean, is that even legal?
No.
You can't just take Americans that, let's say they're Palestinian-Americans and they're in a peaceful rally and they're waving the Palestinian flag.
You can't just walk up to them and say, you know, You're no longer in America.
We're going to deport you and send you to Gaza, which is what some lunatics in the House of Representatives want to do, send them to Gaza.
You can't just kidnap Americans and just ship them overseas.
Now, you can deport illegals, which illegals should be deported.
But most of these people that are being targeted by the Zionists are students on student visas, right?
Which means they're not illegals.
They actually have a visa.
They have permission to be in the country.
They're attending a university.
And, hey, if they want to walk around the university and wave a Palestinian flag and say, you know, Palestine should be free from the river to the sea, hey, that's college life, man.
There's all kinds of different things going on on campus.
As long as it's nonviolent.
I say, you know, let all kinds of different groups speak their mind on college campuses.
That's supposed to be the whole point of college life.
You're supposed to be exposed to all these different ideas, you know, and then decide what makes sense to you.
But the conservatives want to deport everybody waving a Palestinian flag.
Well, okay.
Good luck with that.
I guess then all the Palestinian protesters just turn the flag upside down.
It's the Mexican flag now or whatever.
Don't they look almost the same?
Hold it upside down.
I'm holding it sideways.
Yeah, what is that?
It's the ancient island of, you know, Burrill or whatever.
Okay.
Point number 19, secure elections.
You gotta have voter ID, you gotta have paper ballots, you gotta have proof of citizenship.
Yes, on all three, but why is that point number 19 instead of point one?
It seems to me like our constitutional republic is totally screwed if we don't do these three things.
You know, voter ID, paper ballots, and proof of citizenship.
You gotta get the voting machines out of the way because, of course, they're involved in all kinds of shenanigans over the years.
And you got to have voter ID and you got to have proof of citizenship.
Otherwise, you're going to have illegals voting like we've talked about here.
So that should be point number one.
And do you realize that the Democrats will never have a majority again if those three things are put in place?
That's why Democrats will fight tooth and nail.
They will stage kinetic revolts.
They will wage a civil war in America to stop those three things from happening, because if those things happen, they never control the House again.
They never control the Senate.
They never win the White House.
And they'll lose down ticket.
They'll lose the governorships.
You know, they'll lose local elections.
You name it.
Because this is how Democrats stay in power, of course, is just by cheating, cheating, cheating.
Because Democrats are cheaters.
All right.
Then point number 20.
Unite our country by bringing it to record levels of success.
Well, that's an inspirational thing.
Unite our country.
The problem is the GOP, number one, doesn't know how to do that, and there's no political willingness to do that, because if you really want to bring your country to record levels of success, okay, how do you actually do that?
One way is very simple.
You have to have honest money.
So you have to bring back the gold standard, in other words.
You have to revalue the dollar to gold so that the government can't keep printing dollars, and then the citizens will know that if they earn money, they get to keep it, and it won't keep losing value through inflation or dollar devaluation.
So that means you'd have to have the government stop printing money, stop spending all this debt money, and then you couldn't just print up another trillion dollars and bail out the banks or bail out Ukraine or bail out Israel or whatever.
And the GOP will never agree to that, nor will the Democrats.
Nobody in Washington will agree to that because the Washington D.C. crowd is really a unit party.
It is a criminal cabal of powerful people who extract money out of the U.S. economy and then redistribute it amongst themselves to stay wealthy and powerful while routinely impoverishing the working masses of oblivious Americans.
Do you want to have success in America?
It's very simple.
Honest money, end all personal income taxes, reduce the size of the federal government by 80 or 90%, and then end...
The regulations that stop innovation and entrepreneurship.
And that would happen automatically if you shrink the size of government by 80 or 90%.
But you've got to let people have the freedom to conduct business and to keep what they earn.
Otherwise, there's no point in even working or innovating or manufacturing anything.
You don't even get to keep it.
So right now, the incentives are all backwards.
There's hardly any incentive to produce anything in America, but there are lots of incentives to invade America as an illegal and get all this free money.
That's got to be reversed.
You've got to disincentivize the invaders, and you have to end the punitive rules that are punishing the earners or the producers in America.
In other words, you've got to stop the parasites, and you've got to create a level playing field for the producers.
This is classic Ayn Rand type of stuff here, like Atlas Shrugged, right?
This is it.
And then on top of that, if you really want America to be abundant, you've got to do what Trump was suggesting last week.
You got to investigate big pharma and big food and look at all the food additives and the chemical toxins and the dangerous prescription medications and the toxic vaccines.
You got to stop poisoning the population.
So you need a whole new effort underway to identify and then outlaw the poisons that are in food and medicine and vaccines and personal care products.
And I would be happy to contribute to that effort with my laboratory analysis of various products and expertise in these areas.
And there are a lot of other highly qualified people who can lead that effort if there's a political willingness to do so.
But there are all kinds of food ingredients that need to be banned.
There are all kinds of toxic medications that need to be outlawed, toxic pesticides, herbicides, toxic vaccines or vaccine ingredients.
And there need to be criminal prosecutions of the CEOs of various big pharma companies, including, in my opinion, Pfizer, for all kinds of fraud and harm that they've caused the people.
And you've got to end the legal immunity for big pharma when it comes to vaccines.
So there are all kinds of things that can be done and things that would have dramatic and positive effects on the population.
But let's not forget the health factor in all of this.
Even Trump said there are some simple things that Americans can do that can help prevent chronic degenerative disease.
And I've talked about many of those things for many years here on this podcast or in my articles on naturalnews.com.
For example, vitamin D. Very simple.
If the government were to purchase and distribute free of charge vitamin D supplements or even zinc, but vitamin D is probably the number one most potent nutrient that can help support normal immune function and help prevent even cancers.
It can help prevent colds and infections and tuberculosis and all kinds of things.
It even helps stabilize blood sugar metabolism and so on.
If the government were to just hand out vitamin D, it would reap the rewards, you know, 100 to 1 in terms of cost savings on health care for Medicare in particular, but also federal pensions and health care, health insurance for federal workers and so on.
Just giving out vitamin D.
But there are a lot of other things that people can do to, of course, enhance their health and also prevent chronic degenerative disease.
One of those I got to mention here, too, by the way, as is really relevant here, is Juvent, J-U-V-E.
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But the point is there are so many simple things like that.
That even if government got involved with handing out certain things for people, You know, like, I don't know, low-cost water filters, for example, just to get all the crap out of your city water supply and just drink healthier water can make a huge difference for people.
Or basic nutritional supplementation like vitamin C, vitamin D, zinc.
I mean, just some simple things.
And then banning toxic food ingredients and banning toxic prescription medications.
You could revolutionize the health of the American people.
And that would have natural benefits in terms of economic productivity, enhanced longevity and lifespan.
Also, the country wouldn't turn into Joe Biden.
I mean, just imagine getting more years of productivity out of people because their brains are working better.
They're not suffering from inflammatory conditions which affect neurology and cardiovascular systems and so on.
Imagine if you could just reduce cancer rates by even 10%.
How much would that save the country?
it would be billions of dollars a year, you know, in terms of savings, but also increased productivity because people aren't dying from the cancer.
But instead, instead, we have a country that funds the building of bioweapons under the Department of Defense, ships it off to China for enhanced, you know, gain of function properties, and then unleashes it upon the American people to mass murder as many and then unleashes it upon the American people to mass murder as many people as possible while paying hospitals financial incentives to murder patients and I mean, that's a disaster.
That's the depopulation agenda.
That's the weaponization of our government against us.
And that's what we've all been living under.
And over a million Americans have been killed by that jab so far.
And who knows how many millions of children have been made autistic over time, not just in the United States, but across Western countries.
Millions of children autistic because of vaccines.
And it's a deliberate campaign to destroy lives and to murder people.
And that's all pushed by the CDC, the FDA, the NIAID under Fauci, the NIH. This is all government money to push mass murder.
So one of the ways to improve life in America is to just stop the government from murdering people.
I mean, it's not even complicated.
If you just stop killing people, life gets better.
Speaking of killing people, by the way, there's a new article that comes out of the journal The Lancet.
Now, just for the record, this is about the deaths in Gaza.
And according to this article in The Lancet, which is a medical journal that I do not trust, so I'll talk about that in a second, it says that there could be between 149,000 and nearly 600,000 Palestinian deaths from the damage that's already been done.
And that's not talking about just bombings, but also disease and starvation and medical deaths and so on.
The numbers seem quite horrendous.
Here's the problem.
The Lancet is a completely discredited medical journal.
The Lancet was one of the journals that published all these lies about ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine and about COVID. So they were trying to desperately discredit ivermectin and they ran a bunch of scare stories.
And some of those were then later retracted when they found out that the study was rooted in totally fictional, made-up data sets, you know?
So when the Lancet comes out and says that Israel is killing up to 600,000 Palestinians, the problem is, I don't believe anything the Lancet publishes.
I mean, this number may be true, may not be true.
We can't lend any credibility to this study.
Fake medical journal at this point, sadly.
And remember, I've called for peace, and I've called out Israel and the IDF for their genocide against the Palestinian people.
So I am not in any way on the side of Israel on this, but I am intellectually honest, and the Lancet cannot be trusted.
So...
This research needs to come with an asterisk that it comes from a medical journal that routinely lies.
Just being, you know, fully transparent with you about this.
I don't know how they even arrive at 600,000 Palestinian deaths.
But let me bring up the article in The Lancet just to, if you want to look at it yourself.
The title is, quote, And the key researcher is Rasha Khatib.
Another one is Martin McKee and then Salim Yusuf.
I don't know what the nationalities are of those researchers.
Their names, at least two of their names, sound like they might be Palestinian.
I don't know.
They might be Iranian.
I'm not sure.
I don't want to say until we know for sure.
There could be conflicts of interest here culturally, perhaps.
And, you know, the other problem with this is that medical journals have been used to do things like to say that climate change is going to kill millions of people.
And that's completely bogus.
You know, to say that carbon dioxide is bad for the planet.
Or more recently...
I think it's the U.S. Surgeon General is saying that gun owners are a disease and that guns are a public health issue.
Come on.
That's a stretch there, buddy.
Guns are a public health issue?
What about all the toxic mRNA jabs?
Oh, you won't talk about that, but you say guns are a public health issue.
No, I'm sorry.
My gun does not infect anybody with anything.
And guns are not pathogens, and bullets are not pathogens, although they are good at ventilation from time to time.
But guns are not a disease, and that's being pushed by the establishment now.
So the so-called science establishment has zero credibility at this point.
It doesn't mean that there aren't a lot more people dying in Gaza than what the Gaza Health Ministry is reporting, which is around 37,000 people right now.
Maybe there are a lot more.
Possibly there are.
But we can't trust a science journal or a medical journal to tell us that at this point.
Sorry, especially not the Lancet.
If you want my take on this whole situation, one of the things we need to do, this should be added to the GOP platform, is to end Zionist money buying off members of Congress.
How about that?
Basically you should ban AIPAC from functioning in America so that candidates are free to represent the American people instead of representing Israel.
And if that were to happen, we would probably get a lot A lot of different policies and actions and votes out of Congress.
I mean, it's just so wrong that the United States sends billions of dollars to Israel and then some of that money gets laundered back into AIPAC and then that's used to bribe members of Congress in order to vote for Israel.
And then AIPAC doesn't even have to register as a foreign agent.
I mean, come on.
That's just blatantly illegal.
That's a violation of law right there.
But nobody enforces it.
So, I don't know how many people have died in Gaza, and I want to stop the war.
I want to see peace, both with Russia and Ukraine as well as in the Middle East.
But the problem is that the Zionists keep pushing for war, and they keep handing over money to members of the United States Congress, including Republicans, to send more bombs to Israel that Israel is using to bomb more hospitals and residential buildings in Gaza, killing more people.
Whose numbers we don't even really know.
But we can see that about 35% of Gaza, the buildings in Gaza, have been bombed into oblivion.
So from that, well, I guess you can take an educated guess about how many are actually dead because there was over 2 million people there at one point.
I don't know how many are left.
But if we want anybody to survive all of this, we've got to stop this global warfare, especially with Russia, could turn into a global nuclear war.
As we've been covering this issue of blue states automatically registering illegals to vote in federal elections, which is, of course, blatantly illegal, but they're doing it anyway.
We have a quote from Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton.
He posted this on X, quote, Yes, Mr.
Paxton, thank you for saying so.
Exactly.
He continues, our elections are not safe from mass interference as long as states do not require proof of citizenship to vote in federal elections.
Exactly.
So what do we do about this?
Well, I was going to issue a proposal here, and then I ran across this tweet from Albert Latham, who sort of encapsulates it even better than what I was planning.
He says, quote, They need to pass legislation or issue declarations or whatever is necessary.
I don't know the legal maneuvering that's required for this, and it probably varies state by state.
But somehow, the red states need to declare that they refuse to recognize electoral votes coming out of states where non-citizens are allowed to vote or automatically registered to vote, which is the case in nearly all blue states, by the way, and some swing states like Wisconsin. which is the case in nearly all blue states, by So, of course, the Democrats plan to cheat.
They've been planning it for years.
They kept the borders open.
They brought in the illegals.
They automatically registered them to vote as they were giving them driver's licenses, which is also crazy.
Why should illegals have driver's licenses?
It doesn't even make any sense.
But they registered to vote, and they are voting, and thus, it's the poison fruit of the tree that...
Those electoral votes from those states are null and void.
They should not be recognized by the red states in any way whatsoever because they are fraudulent.
So to summarize, we need the red states.
They do need to form a kind of coalition, a kind of decree that says we will not recognize electoral votes from those states that allow non-citizens to vote.
And that would mean California's out.
And that right there, you know, that ensures that Joe Biden cannot become president.
Now, if you do this, and this needs to be done, I'm endorsing this idea.
This is exactly what needs to happen.
If you do this, it's very likely that you end up in a situation where the blue states recognize Joe Biden as the winner, assuming he's the candidate, and the red states recognize Donald Trump as the winner.
So right there, of course, you have a constitutional crisis.
You've got roughly half the states disagreeing with the other half of the states about who is president.
And the Supreme Court might get involved.
Attorneys general might get involved.
At some point, if it all breaks down, then, gosh, you know, who knows?
State Guard troops might get involved.
I don't know.
I don't know where this might be going.
But I do know this.
We cannot allow blue states to just cheat and cheat and cheat their way through every election, which is what they've done in the 2018 midterms, in the 2020 general election, in the 2022 midterms, and they're going to do it again.
They're going to keep on cheating until they're stopped.
This is one way to stop them without requiring any sort of revolution or violence or anything of that kind.
It's just to say, look...
Your electoral votes are null and void because they're rooted in fraud.
You've allowed non-citizens to vote.
In fact, you've registered them to vote.
As a state-level function, you have given them access to voting.
You've encouraged them to vote.
And in some states, you've had the DMVs give them ballots to vote.
So clearly, your state, California and others, your state cannot participate in a fair and free election.
It's kind of like saying, if you're going to cheat in a game of cards, then you're not allowed to play anymore.
If you're going to have an ace up your sleeve, and you're going to palm cards, and you're going to pull all kinds of shenanigans, and you've got extra ace of spades in your boot or whatever...
Guess what?
You're banned from playing at the card table.
That's what needs to happen to the blue states right now.
Ban them from participating in federal elections until they clean up their act.
They've got to clean up their voting process and make sure that only citizens can vote.
And until they do, they should be banned from having their electoral votes even count.
And if that means that, let's say the blue states declare Biden the winner, and they keep him in the fake White House sound set, you know, fake president in a fake White House, whatever, it might mean that Donald Trump needs to set up a new White House in a red state that the other red states recognize, like, this is the new capital of America.
Seriously.
Maybe it's in Texas.
Maybe it's in Florida.
Probably Florida.
This is the new capital.
And the red states would say, this is the president that we recognize because this is the legitimate election outcome, not the fake rigged election of the Democrats.
And then the blue states can, you know, have their brain-dead zombie president.
And have all their brain-dead economic policies that drive their states into financial oblivion, while the red states say, well, we're going to recognize Trump's executive orders and Trump's legislation, and we're actually going to create prosperity.
We're going to create freedom, liberty, prosperity.
We're going to allow America to produce and export energy.
We're going to stop government censorship, you know.
We're going to set up a government that works on behalf of the people rather than what the Democrats have, which is a criminal cabal in Washington, D.C. So Washington, D.C. can be nullified in this way, by the way.
You might wonder, well, what about the senators and the members of Congress?
Well...
They can also just choose to recognize the actual red state victory, which is the only legitimate election that should count because only citizens were allowed to vote.
You see?
So it's actually simpler than people think.
You don't have to overcome the Democrats' cheating.
You just have to nullify their cheating.
And then, you know, oh, if Joe Biden says, well, we're going to send F-16s to bomb you and we're going to unleash the military on you.
Well, okay.
He's not the only one who's got a military, it turns out.
And a lot of the military won't be loyal to his orders anyway because they know he's brain dead and they know he's a cheater and they know he's an anti-American and a lot of members of the military are tired of all this nonsense and this cheating and food inflation and everything else and they're ready to restore America.
And that can't happen with blue states.
Again, blue states will cheat on purpose.
And even the people running the elections in the blue states that sit there counting the ballots or overseeing the ballot counting machines, they will deliberately cheat, just like they did in 2020.
They have no loyalty to honesty or integrity or democracy or anything of the kind.
They will rig and cheat and steal and lie, and they will do anything and everything to stay in power.
And that has not changed.
If you're sitting there thinking that, oh, this is going to be a better election, and that Trump is popular enough to overcome the margin of cheating, I think you're thinking about this wrong.
What if you can't overcome the margin of cheating?
Because the margin of cheating is going to be massive.
This over...
What, 10 to 15 million illegals that have come into the country since Joe Biden was president.
So that's an extra potentially 10 plus million votes for Biden.
How are you going to overcome that?
You can't.
You can't, right?
So you have to nullify the cheaters.
That's what needs to happen.
This coalition of red states needs to say, look, we believe in democracy, we believe in honest, fair, and free elections, and we're only going to recognize elections that are carried out in a fair and honest way.
It's very simple.
We're no longer going to allow our president to be chosen by cheaters.
And if the left wants to start a military war against the American people, well, hey, they were probably going to do that anyway.
At some point, you have to say no.
You have to draw a line in the sand and say, no, we refuse to go along with your cheating, with your fraud, with your felony vote rigging of the left.
We refuse.
And if the left wants to pick a fight over that, then it'll be a fight.
But you can't just keep backing down and saying, oh, we'll get them next time, shucks.
You know, there's not going to be a next time.
You're going to end up in the FEMA camps.
There's no next time.
You know they're building the FEMA camps, right?
They're going to put political dissidents in the FEMA camps.
That's you.
That's the conservatives.
They're not for illegals.
They're not for violent criminals.
It's for Trump supporters to go into the camps.
There will be no next time.
You either take a stand and you defend the rule of law, you defend voting integrity, election integrity right now, and you defend it In every legal and ethical way that you can now.
Or you lose your country and you probably lose your life and you're done.
You're overrun by illegals and communists and it's done.
And it looks like that's what's happening in France right now too.
France is done.
France is no more.
They're trying to pull off the same thing in America.
They may have pulled off some of that in the UK. They're overrunning even, you know, Germany and Spain and many other countries as well.
They're trying to do it in America.
If you want to save your country, you have to put your foot down and say, no, no more cheating here.
So I want you to encourage, contact your governor, contact your attorney general, contact your representatives in the Senate and the House.
And share this idea with them in your own words, in your own way, and say, look, we have to have a compact among red states to only recognize electoral votes from legitimate state elections.
That is, elections that restrict federal voting only to citizens.
I mean, it's common sense.
This is what all elections should be.
But if the Democrats are determined to cheat, then the red states need to say, well, you can cheat all you want, but your cheating results don't count.
And that's what needs to be stated.
So contact your representatives and make them aware of this idea and encourage this and share this on X and share this on other social media.
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And I'll be covering this in upcoming episodes as well.
And look, if we have fair elections, I'm happy to recognize whoever wins legitimately.
But we don't have fair elections.
We have rigged elections.
And we true Americans, we are living in a country that is about half populated by a bunch of cheaters and criminals and traffickers and pedophiles.
And they hate America.
They hate fair and free elections.
They are willing to cheat.
They've already proven it time and time again, and they're going to do it again unless they are somehow nullified or stopped from doing so.
And this is the best idea that I've heard of, of how to nullify their cheating and not have to end up in some kind of open conflict with the blue states.
Because, let's face it, the blue states are going to destroy themselves at some point anyway.
You know, as the dollar continues to lose value and real estate collapse accelerates in those blue states because everybody's leaving and they run out of money like California and Illinois, which is totally flat out broke, these blue cities especially are going to suffer a total economic collapse.
And they've done that to themselves.
New York City, the same way.
Did you see Mayor Eric Adams there introduce an incredible new innovation for New York City?
It's called a trash can.
And he actually rolled out a trash can and he announced that, hey, everybody pick up a bag of trash like this.
And he picked it up and he put it in the trash can.
And he closed the lid and then he high-fived his staff there.
This was a press conference.
New York City has discovered the trash can.
This is an amazing innovation.
It's a step up from just throwing your trash all over the streets of New York City, which I guess has been the way that it's been handled.
Up to now, you know, with the street rats and everything.
Now they've invented trash cans.
Amazing!
Well, if New York City and LA and Sacramento and Seattle and Portland and Chicago and all these blue-tard cities, if they want to self-destruct and destroy themselves, that's their choice.
There's not much we can do to stop them.
But we don't have to let them drag us down with them.
Their Titanic is sinking.
We don't have to chain ourselves to that ship and get dragged to the bottom of the Atlantic.
Understood?
Very simple.
Thank you for listening.
Mike Adams here, the Health Ranger.
Brighttown.com and NaturalNews.com.
All right, now, coming up next is the interview with Daniel Vitalis, the expert in wild foods and food foraging and nutrition and so much more.
I think you're going to find this interview to be extremely valuable.
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Welcome to today's episode of Decentralized TV here on Brighteon.com, the free speech network.
And you're going to love this show today because, well, not only do we have, of course, my favorite co-host here, Todd Pitner, joining us.
Welcome, Todd, to the show.
How are you?
I'm doing great, and I'm so excited about our guest.
Just wanted to bring you in in order to announce our guest today, who is a longtime friend of mine and now a super TV star with his own show on wild foraging.
It's called Wild Fed.
I think Season 4 is premiering right now.
Season 5, I think, is under production.
Here it is on the Outdoor Channel.
His name is Daniel Vitalis.
He's an expert in wild foods and foraging, which is right in line with what we want to teach people, how to be more self-reliant and off-grid.
So it's perfect.
Yeah.
And you know, Mike, I was ready for this interview an hour ago.
I came early.
You know why, Mike?
Because I've been prepping for this.
Man, to properly prepare for an interview like ours today, I have consumed, spirit of full disclosure, a Vitalis Smoothie.
And it, Mike, it's made from testosterone, gunpowder, campfire coals, and raw frickin' coffee beans, Mike.
Let's go!
The Vitalis smoothie.
Okay, let's bring him on.
Welcome, Daniel Vitalis.
You already have fans here.
Welcome to the show.
Hey, guys.
Thank you so much for having me today.
It's great to have you on.
I guess I'm going to have to add gunpowder to my smoothie to make the Vitalis variation here.
Yeah, absolutely.
All kidding aside, you're doing amazing work, Daniel, and I interviewed you a couple of months ago.
The audience absolutely loved it.
That's from my regular show.
So we want to invite you back here to talk about decentralizing your food supply.
Tell us a little bit how many places you've gone and how many different wild foods you have harvested and prepared just in making the show.
Well, we're working on our 42nd episode right now, and every episode, you know, we hunt or fish some animal species, plus we harvest either a plant or an algae or, you know, which is a different kingdom, that's the protists, or fungi, that's another kingdom, the mushrooms.
So, I mean, just in the show alone, probably 85 to 100 species.
But in my own life, I'd say probably 500 species.
And, you know, what's really interesting about that is the average American is eating about 30 species a year.
And if you call a fast stop with, like, an indigenous person, they're eating maybe 1,500 a year.
So we are not just nutrient poor, but we're species poor in our diets.
Well, hold on, Daniel.
The average American is eating 30 different types of foods.
The problem is 10 of those are corn.
So it's corn, corn, corn, corn, corn, corn syrup, cornbread, corn tortillas, whatever.
But no, I get your point.
So what's wrong with just eating only 20 or 25 or 30 different foods?
I'll give you one example.
This one really strikes me as significant.
I think people appreciate it.
Let's say you went into your supermarket produce section and you were thinking, You know, I hear eating a lot of variety is important, so I'm going to get a different vegetable for every night of the week.
So, you know, you're going, okay, I'm going to grab a cabbage for tonight, and then tomorrow we'll do some Brussels sprouts, and then the next day we'll do broccoli, and then the next day we'll do cauliflower, and the next day we'll do kale, and then I'll do kohlrabi, and I'll finish out the week with collard greens.
And you think, wow, seven different vegetables, and what you didn't realize It was all of those vegetables are the same species, Brassica oleracea.
They are the same species in the same way that all of the different varieties or subspecies or breeds of dogs are all just dogs.
So you might think, oh, a dachshund and a German Shepherd, well, they're a different species.
No, they're the same species.
They're actually all gray wolves.
They're all Canis lupus familiaris, the same animal.
So sometimes what's happening in our diet is we're eating the same food over and over and over again.
And as you guys Probably no plants because they can't run away they produce chemical defenses and so sometimes what happens is we we overeat these phytochemicals that are mild toxic and they accumulate over time so with those vegetables I just mentioned I love all of those brassica plants but hey they're goitrogens so they actually impact your ability to incorporate iodine in your thyroid so you know if you ate that every day day after day starts to have a deleterious effect but people don't realize they're eating the same stuff all the time.
And the other thing I want to ask you, and then Todd, you can jump in, but when you're buying grocery store foods, and Daniel, you and I have talked about this extensively over the years, you're buying sort of monoculture, artificial shadows of what plants are supposed to be in the wild.
You know, they're sprayed with pesticides and in some cases various herbicides, especially if they're GMO. They tend to lack in mineral nutrition, but they also lack in the phytonutrients that are the plant's normal response to environmental stresses, such as fungi, molds, or insect attacks and so on.
Can you speak for a moment, Daniel, about why even though that cabbage may look like a head of cabbage, it's not the same.
Chemically.
Not the same as wild food.
Yeah, well, it's kind of like a kid with a trust fund is how I always say it, you know?
Who's stronger later in life?
The person who suffers coming up or the person who has it all in the beginning?
I mean, there's exceptions, but typically a little struggle in the beginning makes you stronger later on.
So think about the lettuce that you plant in your backyard.
Does it ever escape out of your garden and take over the lawn?
It never does.
It's the opposite.
You've got to fence it or pesticide it or protect it because everything's trying to eat it.
Why?
Because lettuces, as they've been domesticated, all of their phytochemistries, all the bitterness has been bred out.
And that bitterness is what keeps insects from overeating it or deer from overeating it.
And when we remove that stuff so it tastes better to us, now everything can eat it.
So we have to constantly protect it.
But it needs more than that.
It needs its soil fluffed up every day.
It needs to be watered every day.
And then you look at these plants like dandelion.
You get one of those on your lawn, you're never getting rid of it.
Why?
Because it still has all its phytochemistry to defend itself from all the other herbivores, insect herbivores, so invertebrates or vertebrate like deer or rodents that would come eat it.
They get sick of the bitter, so they can't eat too much of it, so the plant just has that ability to protect itself.
But when we domesticate plants for our garden environment, and we've been doing that a really long time, we remove all of those chemicals.
Well, it turns out those chemicals that function as sort of endogenous internal pesticides for the plant, those are also medicines in our body.
That's what herbal medicine is.
And so we breed that stuff out so it tastes more palatable to us.
We lose all the medicine.
And then we end up with what I call a medicine deficiency.
And then we end up turning to pharmaceutical companies to get those medicines that they ultimately usually derive from plants.
So it's this vicious circle.
So we've created weak plants that need all of this treatment and those plants don't have the stuff we need.
And that's just one component because also those plants tend to lack vitamins, minerals, like you mentioned, and other phytonutrients too.
Great answer, Daniel.
So, Todd, you have a food forest.
I do.
You keep sending me videos from it, too.
So I'm excited about your food forest.
Only videos?
No food?
Because he's in Florida.
No food.
No food yet.
It's a baby food forest, but it's an up-and-comer, man.
It's punched in above its weight, I tell you.
So I have two questions, but before I jump into those, you triggered something in me earlier, and I just have to ask your expert opinion.
These three are all three independent species, right?
Burger King, McDonald's, and Taco Bell?
Where I'm at, Taco Bell and KFC have joined together into one unified force.
Okay.
So that's this internal breeding thing going on.
Okay, got it.
Fresh meat, never frozen.
Taco chicken.
Got it.
Okay, no.
Daniel, question.
After visiting all of the astonishing locations that you have for your Wild Fed series on Outdoor Channel, my two questions are, if God appeared to you and said, Daniel, out of all the outdoor places that you've ever visited, you have one and only one place to live the rest of your days, where would it be?
I live there.
State of Maine.
Yeah.
Oh, wow.
But, you know, if really what it is, is it's from a foraging perspective, I'll just say it's a river floodplain.
I mean, there's a reason that it was the Nile where Egypt was, right?
You know, you need a river floodplain where the flood waters in the spring spill over the banks, deposit mineral-rich silts, and then all those plants come up in that area in the springtime, and that produces tremendous amounts of food.
So this time of year right now in the spring, I find myself out on the river floodplains.
That water is now receded back, and all these spring ephemerals that are edible come up.
And what's really amazing about them, if I took you there now, you'd say, wow, I can't believe there's this much food here.
And I would start to point out to you, well, actually, this is probably not a natural phenomenon.
This is a leftover phenomenon from the native people that were here prior to European colonization where they had not cultivated these species, but they had encouraged these wild species to be there.
And the remnants of that are all over our landscape today.
And so what happened before agriculture really reached North America from Mexico and then eventually from Europe was native people here were kind of doing this wild permaculture all over the continent.
And particularly they would be concentrated around rivers.
Or the other thing would be coastal areas.
So, you know, the Pacific Northwest, for instance, where one of the few places in North America where people could live off wild foods without having to be semi-nomadic.
Because it was so rich with the shellfish, marine mammals, the sea vegetables, that they could actually just stay in place and have enough food from that.
So for me, coastal areas or river floodplains, a lot of the places we think of today as beautiful wilderness areas are barely habitable from a wild food perspective.
Fascinating.
Daniel, let me jump in here.
Daniel, what you're describing, the knowledge base of humanity to be able to identify, harvest, and use these wild foods, that knowledge base, although it still exists in many indigenous populations, it has been utterly obliterated out of most of Western civilization and other modern groups around the world.
And I feel like humanity is so detached now from the food supply That if the conventional factory farm food supply collapsed and there are signs that it is seriously strained and chicken farms are going up in flames and killing millions of chickens, I don't think that people have knowledge of what to do.
I think they would just starve, most people.
What do you think?
They'll eat their leather belts.
They'll boil and eat their leather belts while they're surrounded by edible species that they can't identify.
And I mean that.
And that happened here.
With, you know, early colonists arriving here and native peoples showing them as they were starving to death, showing them what they could eat.
And those were very domesticated humans too because they'd just been coming from European cities.
So they also had lost a lot of that knowledge.
And so a lot of this knowledge is transferable.
When I go to a new place, I'm not necessarily going to know the species there, but I'll recognize some of the genera.
So I might say, hey, I don't know that specific maple, but I know it's a maple.
Or I don't know that specific acorn, but I know it's an oak.
And so sometimes some of that knowledge can be translated over.
But a lot of the skills and the practices and the where to look stuff, that is transferable.
So I think I would have a better than average chance if you thrust me into a new environment, I had to survive off that landscape.
The knowledge that I have from where I live, I would be able to use some of it.
I would know where to look for rhizomes and tubers and probably like, okay, in the springtime, I'm going to eat shoots.
In the summertime, I'm going to live off berries and foliage.
In the fall, I'm looking for what are the real fruits and masks coming off the trees.
So there's knowledge that is usable.
But yeah, people are very afraid to try anything they don't know the name of.
It's interesting, once you tell somebody a name for something, Completely alters their relationship with it.
Going back scripturally all the way to the beginning, which was this idea of our job was to go name everything in the garden.
This is really ancient for us.
So as soon as you introduce, I think of it like, because here's how I look at it.
A dandelion, again, to use our earlier example, a dandelion is alive, right?
It's a living creature.
It's respirating.
It's carrying on a life cycle.
So it's alive.
So it's an entity.
If it's an entity, then you can have a meeting with it.
If you can meet it, you can befriend it and be in relationship with it.
So I'm in relationship with all of these different species.
They're not just non-player characters on the landscape.
They're friends of mine.
I see them on the landscape and I know, oh yeah, I use you for this and I use you for that.
And I have to give something back by being a sort of promoter for those species.
But I'm in reciprocal relationship.
And so that's the indigenous way was always...
You didn't just know the species there as food, you knew them as creatures, and we've really lost that.
Basically, us and our dogs and cats are the only creatures around, and everything else is just props on the stage.
Yeah, Todd, I mean, in your food forest, you spend a lot of time with the plants.
Don't you feel like you have a relationship with them?
It's amazing.
It plays out.
I love this topic.
It's like now from 6 a.m.
to 7.30 p.m.
I mean, 6 a.m.
to 7.30 a.m.
I have my shoes off.
I am in the food forest.
And I'm literally walking.
There's so much diversity out there.
I'm walking around to where I still can't capture what everything is from memory.
But I have my app that I can take a picture of any plant and it tells me about it.
And I've been doing that every morning for, you know, for a couple of months now because it's really coming alive.
And that then combined, I loved you talked about the relationship, combined with the fact that, you know, raccoons get a bad rap.
I ended up Like, a year and a half ago, there were a couple of raccoons and a mom in the back, and all of a sudden the mom wasn't there, and the little ones, they were still little.
So I went back there and I started feeding them grapes and things.
I walk out there this morning and I go, Rocky!
You know, I'm really creative.
I name them all Rocky.
I have 14 of them back there now.
And Little Rocky comes up, and he literally comes like a dog.
I go to sit down, and he gets in my lap to have grapes.
And that is the commune that you're talking about.
He's a creature.
I want to say I never say commune.
No, that's the community or the relationship that you have, right?
You're giving back.
Yeah.
Now, hold on, Daniel, you should know that Todd and I have an ongoing conversation about raccoons because on my farm, where I have backyard chickens, raccoons are the enemy because I've seen what raccoons do when they disassemble chickens, okay?
Mine would never do that, by the way.
I think they would.
I actually think they would.
Raccoon tastes pretty good.
Okay, okay.
Well, see, that's the whole thing.
I also have a herd of seven deer back there, and I'm like, I'll take care of you now.
And later, maybe you take care of me.
Well, you know, never know.
Never know.
But my second question was, and it may offend you if you're an atheist, I don't think you are, but after personally witnessing the absolute beauty and diversity that nature provides, can you or anyone kind of intelligently attest that a creator God doesn't exist?
I mean, you've had to see every sort of diverse life.
Yeah, I love that you asked that.
You know, I think about a generation in the future that could be so removed from nature as to almost...
I mean, it's not like they won't know it exists, but they might not really have access to it.
And if you spend your entire life in the built environment or in the digital environment, that means everything you see is an artifact.
So I call it an artifact land.
So this is an important little component of all this.
The word artifact refers to a thing that has been shaped by human will or human hands.
So think about like if we were out in Texas, for instance, and we're kicking around in the rocks and we pick up a piece of flint and then we pick up an arrowhead that's made from flint.
Well, what's the difference?
They're both have the same chemical composition.
They're both made of the same crystalline lattice, right?
They're the same chemical structure, but one is a natural rock and one is the same rock, but it's been shaped by human will.
That makes it an artifact.
That's where the word art comes from.
So artifacts.
So even a kind of artifact land, if we walked through New York City, you would be like, well, that's not an artifact.
That's a tree.
I'd be like, well, that's a horticultural variety of ginkgo that is actually a human made artifact.
Or you'd be like, well, what about that pigeon?
I'd be like, that's a feral dove that was once domesticated.
It's an artifact.
Everything around it.
What about the cloud?
No, that's sorry.
That's a contrail.
So we get into this environment where everything's built by humans.
And if that happens to people, they will not see the fingerprint of the creator any longer.
That's disturbing.
It's like when you're out in nature and you see, for instance, I was recently hunting peacock, invasive, deleterious peacock in New Zealand.
So they've been introduced there, and there are pests there to the farmers.
I did not know you could hunt peacock in Australia.
You can't where they're from in India, but you can in New Zealand where they compete with sheep.
In New Zealand.
Okay.
Wow.
Yeah, it's basically a turkey.
It's basically a turkey.
Yeah, it's a colorful turkey.
It's a turkey in drag, I say.
Yeah, right.
When you walk up upon this bird, you're just struck by the artistry of it.
Yeah.
There's no convincing me that this has emerged from a big bang.
It's illogical.
It's like you handing me a book and telling me that.
It's like, you hand me a book, I'm going to go, there must be an author.
And so, yeah, when you recognize that all of these things are made of genetic code, And they defy entropy, right?
Because what is this evolutionary process?
Well, it's clearly defying entropy.
So in a universe that seems to be breaking down, you have life, which is building up.
Everything's expiring around us, except life is inspiring upward.
What is that?
What causes that?
Where does that come from?
That pneuma, that breath of life.
I mean, it's...
So I think there's...
Always an effort underway to blind people to these things and keep them sort of cloistered off in an environment where they only see things created by humans.
And we hear that thing all the time.
The most sophisticated structure in the entire universe is the human brain.
It's like, that's bleak to me to think that the highest form of intelligence is Joe Biden's brain.
Everybody knows that.
Especially enhanced on amphetamine.
Yeah.
Okay, sorry to interrupt.
I didn't mean to bring politics into this.
But I do want to mention, I just want to give you the courtesy of mentioning your dietary supplement line.
You have a company called Surthrival.
You were on my show a couple months ago talking about your elk antler.
You've been kind enough to let us carry it in our store, HealthRangerStore.com, but you also have SirThrival.com as well.
And I've got to tell you, I love your product.
I've been taking it daily since then.
Actually, the only thing I... My only complaint is that sometimes it's a little bit...
Sometimes it gets stuck in the dropper.
There's some solids in there, you know?
That's the only thing.
I love it.
Tell us about your elk antler.
Yeah, so...
And Mike, we're going to be switching to a...
The dropper will come separate beside the bottle in a box soon because some of that material does tend to clog up in the dropper.
Yeah, so cervids, which are deer...
And this includes all of them, you know, the ones that are extant on the planet, but also the extinct ones too.
So, you know, that could be your white-tailed deer here in North America, elk, moose, caribou.
All those animals grow antlers every year and then drop them in the winter.
So it's different than horns like you'd have on a cow, a goat, a sheep.
That's a different structure.
But antlers are the only mammalian organ that grows and then falls off and then regenerates itself.
And in order to regenerate an antler like an elk's antler, which is, let's say, four or five feet long, it grows in just a couple of months.
Sometimes it's growing an inch or two a day.
And it's got a layer on the outside of hair and skin.
It's got veins and arteries.
It's got all this collagen and an osteos bony matrix inside.
This is a fully, it's like a limb that doesn't have muscular articulation, joints and muscles, but it is a limb.
And for that thing to grow at that speed, you need a lot of steroidal compounds to be present and a lot of growth factors.
And so this has been something that human beings have been doing for a really long time.
It goes back to China and Russia where the idea was, hey, how do we get those substances that are causing that explosive growth into our body?
And so it's always been looked at as a kind of a What we're doing is taking those antlers, as they're growing out from elk farms here in the USA, we get those antler tips when they're undifferentiated, they haven't grown into tines yet.
And we freeze dry those, grind them down and extract them in an organic grape alcohol using ultrasound and draw that out in what's called the Russian method.
The Russians were studying this during the Cold War and before the Cold War.
They were using it for their super soldier, super athlete programs, which I think is just like that Rocky IV stuff, you know?
And basically, this was one of the supplements they landed on or one of the substances they landed on.
It fits into that category of adaptogen and ergogenic.
So adaptogens are, of course, those things that help our body adapt to various types of stresses.
But it's also like a tonic.
You know, you can take it daily.
It's never toxic.
You don't have to worry about overtaking it.
And yeah, it's an ergogenic.
So ergogenics are substances that help us do more work, create more work output.
So yeah, when it comes to, you know, and how I landed on elk antler originally was going like, well, I don't want to get on I'm not PEDs, but I'm really into athleticism.
What are the substances in nature that can assist with that kind of thing that are safe to take regularly?
And elk antlers really at the top of my list are one of my very top herbs for that.
Thank you for that explanation.
I'm just blown away by your knowledge of your products.
That's one of the reasons why we're so thrilled to partner with you.
I'm showing on my screen another product of yours is the black walnut protein powder.
We don't have to go into all the details, but I do want to tell you that I have Heaping spoons of that in my smoothie today.
Today I dropped the whey powder, because I knew I was going to interview you, and I put the black walnut protein powder in here.
And Daniel, honestly, I did not think I would like the black walnut protein powder, and I do.
I love it.
I don't know why, but it has a taste and texture that's just really pleasant.
Yeah, it's real food.
I think that's one of the differences.
You know, most of the protein powders are...
Essentially, byproducts, waste material, right?
So the cheese industry weighs their leftover product.
The hemp oil industry, hemp protein is their leftover product.
But we gather these nuts specifically to be extracted into the protein powder.
We keep some of the fiber in there.
So you get four grams of fiber per serving.
That's something for folks to think about with a protein supplement that they maybe haven't heard so much about.
But a lot of times you have no fiber present.
It's not really a natural way for us to consume these foods.
But...
Yeah, but these are 100% USA wild trees and they're gathered by hand by foragers, volunteer foragers who get paid to bring their crop in.
And we take those walnuts, black walnuts, that's the endemic natural walnut to North America, not the English walnut most of us are familiar with.
And we extract that using the cannabis industry CO2 extraction, so very, very clean high-end extraction.
And we pull all the oils out and yield that protein powder and it is just this really fine flour.
It tastes amazing because it's got some vegetal taste to it.
And it's a fine flour you can also bake with.
So I use it like you, Mike, in smoothies, but you can bake with it.
You can mix it into your oatmeal or whatever you like to do for breakfast.
And it's the highest protein content of any of the tree nut crops.
It's really amazing.
That's also available at our store and your store.
So Sir Thrival as well as Health Ranger store.
Todd, you'll love the fact that there are people all over America who have these black walnut trees in their backyards or on their farms.
And they actually harvest this and collect it for processing to make this product.
So this is like...
This is decentralization.
How do you get back to growing local food?
And you can grow your own protein supplements or just eat the walnuts themselves.
But this is native to North America.
And I love that fact.
I know, Todd, you've got a question, but remind me, I want to ask Daniel about pawpaws in North America as well.
Okay, we'll get back to that, because it's kind of like a South American fruit that grows in North America.
But, Todd, go ahead.
I've just arrived at the conclusion that when the you-know-what hits the fan, my survival strategy is going to just simply be raising my hand and say, I'm with Daniel Vitalis.
That line is getting long, man.
Yeah.
Find Daniel.
What do we do?
I don't know.
Call Daniel.
So, Daniel, as a, and I love this word, lifestyle pioneer.
Two words.
During your travels, you have experienced the most remote, plush lands on this earth.
And I imagine you have a very unique, pragmatic point of view on climate change as presented by Let's just say clown world.
Based upon your empirical assessment, do you think we'll all survive, Daniel, or should we fearfully lower our carbon footprints and become carless vegans living in 15-minute cities, Daniel?
I thought we were going to eat bugs.
They're not vegan.
You're right.
They did say, eat the bugs.
Yeah.
You know, my concern from the places I go is really Habitat.
And I think, here's the mistake I think that folks who have aligned, you know, those of us who have collectively aligned ourselves against this sort of, whatever you want to call that clown world, I think we make a mistake leaning too far sometimes going like, like acting like there's no problem in our environment.
And that's a mistake.
That's a huge mistake.
There are, I mean, of course, you know, I could sit here and list chemicals off one by one by one that are in our bloodstream and in breast milk, right, that are neurotoxic or they're endocrine disruptors.
We have done a lot of damage to our oceans.
You know, there's There's some issues.
I remember, you know, the thing that stands out to me the most when I really noticed this was taking a 10-year break from snorkeling in Florida and going back and there's just no coral left.
Wow.
And I remember when it was like a Willy Wonka wonderland underwater and now it's gray and it's bleak and that's really real.
So habitat loss is a real thing, but we don't address habitat loss because It interferes with industry.
So rather than going after industry that's doing the polluting, what we're doing is going after the people Who have been tricked into consuming and then just blaming them so we can tax them for carbon.
Now, the CO2 in our environment and the warming from a food perspective is a pretty good thing.
I'm getting fish species moving their way into main waters that I'm quite fond of.
Overall, I don't think that's really the problem.
I think that's a bit of a It's all hyperbole and a little ridiculous.
But what we do have to think about is...
I live in a neighborhood where I have two acres of beaver bog behind my house that I fish in and I hunt on and I forage from.
And there's some folks in my neighborhood have come in and they've put in their spray on chemlons.
And they have just destroyed my bog.
I mean, the flush of all that nitrogen runoff into it, pushed the beavers out.
Green over the whole surface.
I'm losing all the life back there.
Now the whole dam's breaking down.
I mean, it's just watching that cascades really hard because I get my food there.
You know, so we have a disconnect.
It's like we flush a toilet, we don't think about where things go anymore.
So we use chemical products that we just put in the water.
Well, when you live rurally, you're like, where's this water going?
It's going down my drain.
Well, it's going out into my garden, right?
It's like, you don't want to eat that shampoo?
Probably not.
So that stuff's real.
This chemical issue's real.
This pesticide issue's real.
But this climate change thing is obviously a scam.
I mean, who gets away?
Scott Free, all the industries that have done the damage.
I just really would like to remind people that we were all very resistant to consumerism.
We had to be tricked.
It was Edward Bernays and the Freudians who had to trick us into consuming the way we do.
And now governments are acting like we are the problem when they're the ones who tricked us into it in the first place.
Daniel and Todd, let me show you this.
You both probably know I created a film many years ago called Biosludge.
Here it is on screen.
Biosludge.com.
Can you show the screen?
Biosludge.com.
You can watch the film for free right there.
And then I heard nothing for many years until now.
Here it is.
Toxic biosolids threaten U.S. farmland and livestock, and Congress is now proposing a $500 million program to compensate farmers because their land is now so contaminated by the biosludge, which is human sewage and everything else that people flush down the toilets, they can which is human sewage and everything else that people flush down the toilets, they can no longer grow food on their farms that's considered safe, according to the FDA, which has almost no safety standards I mean, I was like, I told you so, bitches.
I mean, this is going to happen.
And here it is.
We're contaminating all the farmland.
Daniel?
That's real.
And it's a real concern as a forager because...
You want to think all these foods out in the wild are free from all of that, but of course, you know, these are environments that have also been impacted.
And, you know, we could go up to the Arctic to hunt and we'll find all of these same chemicals, pervasive chemicals, in the organ meats of the animals that live in the Arctic.
And, you know, it's like the ducks coming down from, or the waterfowl coming down from the Arctic, You know, to head south, I mean, they've been in a very clean environment relatively, but where they come, they come down here and they feed on our, you know, our grain refuse all through, on ag fields all through the winter.
And so then they take that back up to the north.
So, you know, there's nowhere, nothing on the planet's clean anymore.
I mean, that piece is really important to remember.
And the other thing that I think people don't always understand When you get into foraging, you'll hear a lot about invasive species, and there's sort of an ethic like, hey, if we can eat invasive species, that can be really helpful to the native population species because that takes a little of the pressure off them.
But the way that invasive species remediation is done in the United States with glyphosate.
So if your local town is trying to remediate, let's say you have a Japanese knotweed infestation in your area, and you hear, oh, they're trying to get rid of invasive species, that's code for their working with Monsanto to get glyphosate to spray on your roadsides.
And so you'll learn to recognize these burned plants that And go, okay, I can't forage around this area anymore.
But that's a real thing, too.
So there's a lot of contamination concerns, just like there is in the regular food supply.
But climate itself is like, this seems net beneficial from a food perspective.
Great.
I have a question.
Not human-induced, really.
In all of your travels and foraging through forests, I'm now raising bees.
I'm curious, have you ever come across any of the African-ized bees that came at you or no?
No, I haven't, but I have seen some gnarly insect bites along the way.
I got to get my first EpiPen a couple seasons ago, which is really fun.
One thing I have noticed, though, that I do have a concern about, back in the day, you know, if you drove from northern Maine down to southern Maine, where I am, in the summertime, I mean, your whole front of your car would be caked in dead insects.
And now...
Not so much.
I mean, I don't know.
The degree to which insects populations have been reduced in my lifetime is tremendous.
And I don't hear a lot of talk about that.
So we hear about it with bees.
You know, we know that we're losing native pollinators, but I don't think it's just pollinators.
I think it's a lot of insects, and that story's largely not been really addressed.
No.
We've covered that, Daniel, you know, the collapse of the insect biomass.
I recall reading some studies where in certain areas of Europe, it's collapsed by 70 to 80%.
So that's consistent with what you're seeing.
Yeah, unbelievable.
I also want to say one more thing, since we're kind of fleshing this stuff out.
Everybody does love to dig on Klaus Schwab for saying, eat insects.
And I do too, because I don't want to eat centrally grown insects that are raised on GMO crops.
But I just gotta say that insect eating, entomophagy, is ancient.
And every culture around the world practiced it.
I had a really good time a few years ago when brood X of the 17-year periodical cicadas hatched.
I went down to Kentucky, and boy, did we eat some cicadas.
How do you prepare those?
Well, I just dry roasted them, and they were like peanut-tasting popcorn.
Wow.
People think insects are going to be like jelly inside, which would be pretty off-putting, but they tend to be dry and crispy.
So dragonflies are awesome, and bees are actually fantastic.
I love eating bees.
And bee brood, bee larvae, queens, any of those products of the hive are just awesome.
Well, there you go, Todd.
You can eat your bees.
Yeah.
Yeah.
That royal jelly, dude.
That royal jelly's legit.
Right.
So sometimes when I'll do a post, let's say I write a post on entomophagy, I'll get all this pushback.
Oh, Klaus Schwab, you're...
You know, the World Economic Forum and all this.
And it's like, hey, hey, that's not the same thing.
I'm not talking about crickets raised in the city.
I'm talking about insects in nature.
You know, people have always eaten grubs.
You know, you go to Thailand, you see the scorpions and the tarantulas people selling on the street.
So that's a legitimate food.
And one reason from a decentralization perspective.
Look, if we have...
You guys know, I don't need to say anything, you know what's happening to the food supply here intentionally.
And if it collapses or there's even a temporary shortage in it, there's a lot of, like where I live, there's a lot of guys who are way better hunters than me.
They're going to strip this landscape of deer and turkeys and moose.
None of that's going to be left.
In a year, there'll be none of that left.
I know I eat grasshoppers and June bugs and crickets and they are very high in protein and people can laugh about that now, but I'll be alive.
You have a really good point there.
In fact, you know Marjorie Wildcraft, she's been a frequent guest on my show.
When she lived in Central Texas, she used to give, it was an annual bug-eating festival thing in a park in Austin.
She always invited me.
I never went.
Perhaps I should have.
But she's in Puerto Rico now.
I don't know if she's still eating bugs there.
I imagine she's teaching people how to do that.
But you make a point.
None of us want to be forced to eat nothing but crickets.
You know, the Klaus Schwab thing is all about.
And like you said, you know, there's mass produced factory crickets, which Tyson Foods is now investing in massive cricket farms.
While the chicken farms are, you know, coincidentally burning down.
Huh?
What are the odds of that?
But we but in a survival scenario, you need to know how to eat grasshoppers on my ranch.
We've got grasshoppers galore right now.
All I have to do is walk farther than my chickens walk.
And then I've got grasshoppers.
And by the way, Mike, if you ever need to do that, I like to catch them in the morning before they've been filled up with grass because they get a lot of wet grass in them by late afternoon.
Is that right?
That's nasty.
But that makes it nasty.
Yeah, that's...
Catching them too late.
You want them to be crispy and dry when you cook them, right?
You don't want any goo.
But when you cook a grasshopper, it turns red.
And it turns red because of that astaxanthin in the exoskeleton.
Now, that's the same thing that causes a lobster or a crab or a shrimp to turn red because these arthropods are basically the same thing as crustaceans on the surface of the earth instead of under the water.
So, for me, a grasshopper is like a shrimp.
But the thing is, when I cook a lobster or a crab or a shrimp, I got to peel that exoskeleton off.
I can't eat it.
It's not food.
It's just chitin, right?
And so all of that incredible antioxidant is lost with the refuse that I remove.
But not with grasshoppers.
Grasshopper, I'm eating all that astaxanthin.
It's in that exoskeleton that I can consume.
So that's really an interesting thing to think about too.
I mean, again, I know this isn't what we all want to do tomorrow, but it's something to tuck away in your mind because like I said, think about how quickly unregulated hunters in a survival situation want to feed their families would strip the landscape.
And look, you could think like, well, I've raised in my own livestock.
You know how many times I drive by cows and I think, man, I'd love to shoot one of those cows.
That's the thing.
You better be out there protecting your cows or your sheep or whatever.
You'll have scavengers come and get your livestock.
I was telling the story of a local guy who sells peaches at the farmer's market.
He said somebody came and stole 200 peaches off his tree just a couple weeks ago.
I'm like, really?
People are just stealing peaches?
But Daniel and Todd, a really critical point to what you're saying here, and this is the theme of the show, is decentralization, being more self-reliant instead of being controlled by a centralized system.
As the food supply collapses, if we get into a food emergency, there will be government-provided food staples, but you have to comply.
So you have to show up.
You might have to turn in a firearm to get your food stamps.
You might have to not be on their list.
Huh?
Or somebody with a firearm, right?
Right.
You might have to turn somebody in to get extra food credits.
The weaponization of food scarcity is a means of control over the population.
And if you know how to get food yourself, then that's a sense of freedom.
Todd, your thoughts on that point?
Yes, a lot of thoughts here.
Eating insects.
You know, I like rabbit holes.
And I'm going to push back on you where you said, well, you know, we all don't want to start eating bugs tomorrow.
I resent that remark because I want to...
But what I need to know is the how, and I'm being very serious here in asking that.
If I went and foraged in my 30 acres back there that the city owns or what a county, but it's in my backyard.
So a lot of foraging could be done, I know.
Where are there some resources that I could go to?
You don't have to tell us how to do everything now, but where could you point me, us, to be able to go learn?
Well, if you're going to capture some grasshoppers, here's how you would fry them up.
Oh, yeah.
I don't actually...
That's an interesting question because there's not a lot of great books on this topic.
And in fact, wild foods in general are like this.
So...
One of the things that I've really lamented...
This is going to sound like a rabbit trail.
We're going to bring it all around.
Sure.
There are different kingdoms of life that we eat from.
In fact, I sort of think of it roughly like there's four kingdoms we want to eat from.
Because we want to eat from animal, we want to eat from plant, we want to eat from fungi, and we want to eat from protist, which includes the algaes, all the seaweeds and stuff like that.
So we want to be consuming from all these different kingdoms of life.
People who harvest from these kingdoms of life tend to be specialists.
So the hunters, typically, they aren't foragers, usually.
The plant foragers are their own group, and the mushroom people are definitely their own group.
And you can stratify these foragers out by IQs, definitely.
Your smartest people are the mycologists, the people who do mushrooms.
They are brainy.
They are brainy and quirky and nerdy, and they don't call things by common names, only the Latin names, and they go in really deep.
And they'll write books about it, lots of books about it, because they're intellectuals.
The plant people tend to write identification guides Less on the culinary side.
So you have to look a little bit.
My top pick for you guys is Sam Thayer's books.
They're incredible.
When you get into hunting and fishing, what's challenging there is you're dealing with a different type of person.
And they don't tend to...
They write memoir and hunting story type and fishing story books.
But it's very difficult to find the how-to stuff on this.
Because most of this stuff was passed on patrilineally.
So you learned it from your grandfather, your father, your uncle, and it's just passed on.
And that type of person tends not to be the type to go write a how-to book.
And so you really have to get out and learn from people.
Now, what we're talking about here is entomophagy.
And let me say one more thing.
When you're dealing with mushrooms, there's a saying like, there's old mushroom hunters and there's bold mushroom hunters.
But there's no old, bold mushroom hunters.
That's great.
When you're dealing with hunting, you don't have to deal with a poisonous lookalike hog.
There's no poisonous lookalike deer.
You can't get it wrong.
So you don't have you don't have that Darwin Award thing going on that you have in the mushroom world.
Right.
Right.
That's like another component.
I just want to say that.
So, you know, finding you got to find it's easy to go to a field guide, a mushroom book.
When you're getting into animals, you kind of need to find mentors.
So it's different depending on the kingdom.
I mean, that's sort of this weird thing that I found.
Entomophagy is one of the harder ones.
So I like to connect in with entomologists.
Those are people who studied insects.
They can be a big help, but mostly you're going to find this stuff by looking into other cultures and what they've done with it.
So for instance, grasshoppers and crickets, Mexico.
Big tradition of it down there.
So you can look at how they're doing it.
But I'm going to give you one quick tip on this.
With insects, very difficult to take a living insect and put it right on a frying pan.
It wants to get away from that, right?
And you don't want to kill them because like a shellfish, if you've ever had a crab or a lobster and it's died, well, I mean, it starts to smell like urine in about a half an hour.
It's just like you have a very short time window and insects are like that.
So what I like to do with insects that I collect is put them in the freezer and Let them die, but not break down, and then cook them.
And one of the best ways is going to be make sure they're dry, get a little oil on them, some spices.
Let's say take your Old Bay like you're doing a crab boil up.
Sprinkle it on there, toss them, put them on a pan, and dry roast that.
And they come out, like I said, it's like popcorn.
So before you put them in the fridge, you do all this saute stuff or after?
I mean, in the freezer.
Freeze them so they're dead.
Because you don't want to go around.
Because you're going to try to hop away from them.
So kill them in the freezer.
And then...
Season them and get them in the oven.
But what about the cryogenic entomologists who say they come back to life after the freezing?
Yeah.
And then zombie grasshoppers, they like to come back.
No.
So how long do you put them in the oven?
I mean, at what temperature?
Well, it depends on the size of insect and how many you have, right?
So you're going to need to use a little common sense here.
Yeah.
You know, I'd put them in at 350, you know, for 10-15 minutes, that kind of a thing.
And you can also do them on a stovetop, too.
So, you know, a cast iron, but don't have a lot of oil in it because you don't want them to get soggy.
So almost dry pan.
Todd's taking notes, man.
You're going to do this tomorrow, aren't you?
And I also recommend, Todd, get yourself like a little kid's...
You know, butterfly net.
That's one of the best ways you want to do this.
And then if you like it, you can scale up and buy the ones the entomologists use to capture insects like, you know, arachnophobia style when they're out like in the movie, you know, catching stuff.
All I have to do is drive my ranch vehicle down my ranch and grasshoppers are all over me.
This is all I got to do is like have a net, I guess, and just drive around.
Is there anything with insects collecting cooking that you would say, but just stay away from this?
Don't ever do...
Grasshoppers and crickets are safe.
Dragonflies are safe.
Here we call them June bugs.
I don't know if it's a beetle that we have.
They're safe.
I don't just go willy-nilly eating any insect.
I do some research first to make sure what I'm eating is safe.
Also, bees are very safe.
grubs in a lot of cultures too.
Again, very high protein.
They're much better than you think.
You've got to just get past the look of them.
But you know how this works.
Like the one that's in the base of an agave plant that ends up in tequila bottles.
You know, those are fantastic.
You Nice to know where that stuff is.
Again, if we're talking survival situation, it's like the termite mounds or termite logs where you can break that open and you got all that larva in there.
And you know that stuff is precious because you open that up and all those ants or all those termites immediately grab larvae and start trying to run with them.
Take the treasure!
I'll give you one more.
Ants are fantastic and they taste very acidic.
They're like lemony because they have a lot of formic acid.
Have you ever seen where they're all swarming out of the ground like you come upon an area where there's just thick ants everywhere?
If you try to shovel them up, you're going to get a lot of dirt.
What I'll do is put them in a five-gallon bucket and let them crawl out.
They'll leave all the sand behind.
As they crawl out, they're clean and you can scoop them into another container.
There's another little pro tip for you.
We have fire ants in Texas that fight back.
Man, Texas is gnarly.
They're mean.
That's where my buddy got stung on the forehead on one of our shoots by, it was like a brown, big brown wasp, a reddish, rusty colored wasp.
Oh yeah?
I mean, within seconds he was fully anaphylactic.
Oh, man.
You've got a dangerous environment over there.
Up in here in New England, things are pretty soft and pretty safe.
All right.
Okay.
So let me just also remind people to watch your show.
It's called Wild Fed.
It's on the Outdoor Channel, season premiere, Monday, 7.30 Pacific.
Is that right?
Is that what it's saying?
7.30 Eastern.
Oh, Eastern.
Yeah, that's a poorly done graphic.
What is that?
Okay.
There's an E and a P. Also find the archives, season one through three, are all on Amazon Prime or on myoutdoor.com.
Okay, great.
Amazon Prime.
There we go.
So that's how people can watch it.
All right.
And then, just kind of last question for you, Daniel, and I appreciate you taking all this time with us.
For somebody who...
Some of this sounds intimidating to a lot of people who are living in suburbs, let's say.
They're like, I don't have acreage behind me.
I don't know that I want to eat grasshoppers at this time.
I can't identify plants.
What's a little baby step where they could start into this?
I think the best baby step is to go on a plant walk.
They are happening everywhere.
Google up the name of your town and plant walk or plant identification class or ask around at the local health food store or the botanical garden in the city where you live.
Wherever you are, this stuff is going on.
One of the fun things about making the TV show is that I go from place to place and there's always wild food enthusiasts everywhere I go and I find them and we connect in together and they show me their species.
And so you might be in Manhattan and it's like, well, is that going to be going on here?
And turns out wild man Steve Brill is doing plant walks right in Central Park.
And one more thing to go back to what Todd's been talking about.
You would almost think that the place you want to go is these remote wilderness areas.
But again, where most of the edible plants are is around people.
And areas where there's disturbance.
So the best foraging is not remote locations.
It's usually fence rows.
It's usually abandoned lots.
It's places where people have disturbed the soil.
Many of the medicinal and edible plants that are useful to people are adapted to being around people.
And there is a reciprocal long-term relationship that's been going on.
Sometimes the best stuff to forage is right in your town, not out in some remote place.
So that's one of the easy steps.
And if you're more interested in mushrooms, every area now has a mycological society, and they're always doing mushroom walks and mushroom identification stuff.
So that's another way you can get dialed in too.
And nowadays, for people looking to learn to hunt or fish, that used to be a lot harder.
Now your state agencies are desperate to sell licenses, so they're running a lot more events, or your local outfitters are hosting events, how to turkey hunt, how to trout fish, or whatever it is.
And I always tell people one species at a time.
So you know how it is when you go to a party and you get introduced to 10 people and you're like, I'm not going to remember anyone's name here.
You know, it's just too many at once.
But if I introduce you to one person and just talk to that one person, you make a relationship, that's a lot easier.
So I tell people one or two species a season.
Tell yourself, hey, I want to learn two plants that are in my backyard this year or two plants in my neighborhood this year.
And I'm just going to...
And it doesn't sound like much.
Five years later, you've got all, you know, 10 plant relationships going.
Yeah.
And you know all of them and you know when they're food.
So that...
So just step by step, like any of this kind of prepping type stuff, you know, and to me, this isn't really that.
It's cool because it's got a survival component, but that's not really...
I would do this anyway, you know?
Yeah.
So...
But...
Anytime you approach things with frantic, overstimulated, sympathetic nervous system stress, you're not going to learn as well.
You're not going to remember as well or retain things.
Try not to get too panicked about it.
Come at it slow.
Even if it feels like you're watching the news and you're going like, man, things are out of control.
I need to learn this stuff fast.
That's not the way to learn it.
So come at it slow, go piece by piece.
That's great advice, Daniel.
Great advice.
And this is a question for both of you.
Todd, you mentioned you have an app that identifies plants.
And my mom uses an app like that.
It's amazing.
She runs around taking pictures of everything.
It's like, oh, that's what that is.
Because she's not originally from Texas.
But Daniel and Todd, are you aware of an app that does photographic plant identification for wild edibles?
Is there an app like that, Daniel?
I wish I could give you the name of it, Mike.
I don't use that kind of stuff, but a lot of my friends do.
And there's two things going on here.
So I'll differentiate and people have to do a little research.
I apologize on this one.
I should probably have that on the top of my head.
Some of the apps use AI to recognize plants, and some of them, and this is what I prefer, some of them, you upload your picture, and it goes to a panel of botanists who review it, and you get an answer back within 24 hours.
Whoa, really?
And that's going to be a much safer way, because we've all seen how AI can easily make mistakes, especially early mistakes in pattern recognition.
Yeah.
So, when you're dealing with certain classes of plants, now, plants are not nearly as dangerous as people like to act like they are, but you do have a handful of species where you could make a pretty dangerous mistake.
And so, I like to have a human interface, if possible.
So, I would recommend, you know, if you want to use both before you go eat the thing, just make sure you vet it by somebody.
I personally have botnist friends, and it's nice to be able to send them photos so I can get a for sure, you know?
Right.
You know what, Mike?
You know what, Mike?
So the app is called Picture This that I use, and it's fantastic.
I mean, it's fantastic.
But now, and I'm glad you reminded me of that, I do that in my food forest, but over the weekend, I'm going to go try to journey back in the real forest.
And just start taking pictures and see, and I'll report back.
See if it was, you know, if there were things that I didn't know what they were and if they told me.
That'd be very cool.
Okay, I see.
Yeah, picture this.
This is an app.
Are you using it on an iPhone then?
Yep.
Okay.
All right.
So I see it's on Androids as well.
But again, I wish...
I don't know if Picture This has this, but I wish there's an app that does this and then says, and this is edible or not, or caution.
Yeah, and you know what would be useful, Mike, is...
Knowing a thing is edible is not the same as knowing when it's edible.
Yeah, good point.
Somebody will say, hey, dandelion's edible.
And then you walk up and you're like, this tastes like shit.
What is this?
It's like dandelion's edible first thing in the spring before it's produced any of its bitter compounds.
Right.
Or dandelion's food is edible.
So it's helpful to know.
Forging isn't just about what you can eat.
It's when you harvest it.
And that's crucial knowledge, too.
So you need all that.
And I'd actually like to add one more piece to this.
I think it's really smart right now to have paper backups, and so I really recommend people start collecting field guides for their area, for their personal libraries.
So, you know, and not just edible stuff.
It's good to, because you, sometimes, what if you're reading your field guide and you're looking for an edible plant and it tells you, well, it tends to be around this plant, this plant, and this plant.
Well, I need to be able to identify those too.
So, mushroom field guides, plant field guides, if you're coastal, seaside, We're good to go.
I have a ton of squirrel back there, so I'm thinking in advance.
I'm thinking later.
What is your best method, if you're not going to use a gun, to be able to capture a squirrel?
Why not a gun?
I'm just curious.
I'm going to ask you a question on that, too.
You know, some of us don't live on ranches, and if we shoot a gun, our neighbors will be able to hear it.
Get a suppressor for your squirrel hunting!
Okay, but go ahead, Daniel.
Yeah, well, I want to just say that air guns are not regulated as firearms.
So you can purchase an air gun, have it sent right to you over the internet.
They now make air guns that people are big game hunting in Africa with.
50 caliber air guns that have enough foot pounds of energy at impact.
Do you happen to know any website or any specific brand or whatever?
Air guns of Arizona would be the website I'd send you to.
They got a lot of different brands there and they have some awesome hunting experts on staff.
So air guns like rifles are going to come in calibers.
So a squirrel, you know, a gray squirrel, you're going to want Probably a.22 caliber would be great.
So airguns are fantastic.
They come in a lot of varieties.
The break-action ones that you pump, ones that actually you fill with either a compressor or like a bike pump, that's a much better system.
Yeah.
And they come semi-automatic.
So, you know, you can get around a lot of city ordinances.
Just know this, the other great way is trapping, but trapping is highly, highly regulated.
So while you could probably catch those squirrels with a big rat trap or a snare or a have a heart or anything like that, just be mindful about state regulations.
Plants are so unregulated that it's incumbent upon the forager to be ecologically savvy and intelligent about the harvest so it's sustainable.
But animals are highly regulated and you are dealing with legal issues, so make sure that you know if you're down there.
And by the way, Todd, your best bet, bro, iguanas.
Well, those are a little more south.
We don't have iguanas in Tampa.
It's worth the trip.
Watch my iguana episode.
It's worth the trip.
I'll catch with a snare that I put on the end of a long fishing rod, and I snare those guys.
That is the chicken of the trees.
Chicken of the trees!
Is it delicious?
Yeah.
Okay.
It's like, yeah, it's like chicken stew.
Okay.
Some of these air guns, they cost more than my AR-15 costs.
Oh, yeah.
And by the way, let me give one more.
Look, here's one more little tip on that.
A very light, I have one air gun that is, I mean, wouldn't kill a gray squirrel probably, but it'll kill a songbird.
And...
Again, that's not really on the menu in most states right now for hunting purposes, but when everybody's wiping out the deer, you know, a robin and a blue jay is just as good as a morning dove.
That's a great point.
Plenty of people are thinking in the box.
So air guns are great and traps are great, and they're very easy to learn how to use both of those.
Okay, thank you.
Daniel, I think the small animals had a convention and got together and named you the most dangerous human on planet Earth.
I think that's...
They took a vote.
You are there, Klaus Schwab.
The iguanas and the squirrels, they all agreed.
Daniel Vitalis, don't let him speak.
Yeah.
Let him eat the cows.
One of the best things you can eat.
Squirrel, part it out, and then simmered in stock for about 45 minutes.
Yeah.
Take them out, dredge them in flour, and then pan fry them.
And, I mean, that's about as good as it gets.
All right.
How's your weekend project, Todd?
I specifically won everyone over.
My mother-in-law.
Everybody wants to eat squirrel.
The way I prepared it, it comes out like buffalo wings.
Oh my gosh.
Every morning I go out with a huge, huge barrel of feed for the deer and the raccoon and everything.
And I spread it, and my squirrels are getting so fat.
And I'm like, man, they're starting to look really good.
I'm trying to wrap this up, but I just keep making me want to say things.
I'm sorry, Mike, but I just want to say this last thing.
I have fattened squirrels up on sunflower seed.
And what will happen, just like happens with us when they overeat, is they'll make big deposits of fat around their organs, right?
So all of that sort of intra-abdominal fat.
You can take that and render it, just like lard, and produce a food-grade culinary oil.
So if you fatten those squirrels up, you've got access to fats.
That's the hardest thing to find on the landscape.
So when you're doing wild foods, protein's not too hard to find.
Roughage is easy to find.
Nutrients are easy to find.
Fat is hard to find, and it's precious for people alive.
There's not a bacon plant anywhere?
There's not a bacon plant.
Here, we don't have hogs in Maine.
We have bears.
That's where we get our fat.
Oh, regarding the bears.
So you and your wife, Avani, raised a couple of little ones named Ellie and Diaz through my research.
Daniel, what the heck is a plot hound, and do they really hunt bears?
Yeah, they're bear dogs.
But they're treeing dogs, so they can tree raccoons, bears.
Big cats, but they'll also be used to hunt hogs.
They're an all-purpose baying and treeing dog.
Mine are just dogs.
I've taken them out of the game, and it's hard to raise animals like that at home because they want to hunt everything.
But yeah, dogs are, you know, I mean, the reason we have pet dogs is because of hunting.
That's why we have them.
Got you.
All right, gentlemen.
Daniel, thank you for your time.
Todd, we've got to let Daniel go.
I know you have a thousand more questions, but Daniel, this is amazing information.
You're already opening people's eyes here on this show today to some things they can do to be decentralized from the food control systems.
I want to give out your website, sirthrival.com.
Wait, first your show, WildFed.
That's wild-fed.com.
And then I think this, wait, that's biosludge.
Where did your site go?
Anyway, sirthrival.com.
Oh, here it is.
Okay.
With your blackwild.protein powder.
Is there anything else, Daniel, you want to add before we wrap this up?
You find me on Instagram.
I write a lot about wild foods there, and I sort of catalog species, and there's a lot of good information there for somebody who's trying to learn about this.
What's your handle there?
Daniel Vitalis.
Oh, okay.
Oh, I follow you.
I follow you.
Awesome.
I came up with the term Yardenarchy, you know, with my Yarden.
It just came up.
I'm like, this is anarchy.
And I'm like, Yardenarchy.
So Yardenarchy follows you.
Hey, and Todd, if you get a chance to check out some of the episodes, season three, we cover a really cool food forest in Hawaii, in Honolulu.
You might find it interesting.
That's awesome.
I'm going to begin binging this tonight.
Yeah, that sounds like a great weekend project.
Okay, Daniel, thank you so much, man.
We appreciate you.
You're helping people stay alive and informed, and have a great day.
Thanks so much, guys.
Nice meeting you, Daniel.
Likewise.
All right, Todd.
Look, I did not realize we were going to be talking about fattening squirrels and everything, but I saw you taking notes.
You're going to do all this stuff, which is awesome.
You know me.
Like barbecue grasshoppers.
Is that coming next?
I will capture it on video, Mike.
I promise you.
Okay.
I'm going to figure this out because I think it's really, really smart.
It's like I love his perspective on the real hunters in my area.
Oh, yeah.
They're going to just...
I'm not going to be able to go back to my herd of seven deer and they're going to be any...
No, they're going to be gone.
Yeah, because that's the easy stuff for other people to get.
Right.
So why not learn this now?
Why not me, Mike?
Hold on one second.
Daniel, you don't have to stay connected here at this point.
I know you're being very courteous.
Well, guys, just say thank you so much and let's be in touch.
Absolutely.
We're going to do a little bit of an after show thing, but yeah, have a great day, Daniel.
Thanks guys.
Take care.
All right.
Cheers.
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So Todd, hey, something I wanted to add here.
Welcome to the after party for everybody watching.
I didn't get a chance to mention this during the show, but we got our hands on a bunch of open source book information about wild foods foraging, and we're using that to train our AI system.
Fascinating.
Yeah.
We're going to have the world's only AI, text-based, that is trained on a substantial amount of wild foods and foraging content.
That's big news.
I mean, that's exactly what I was looking for.
Yeah, but sadly, it doesn't do pictures or anything.
So a lot of this, you really need pictures.
But if you just want discussions and text about asking and answering questions about wild foods, as long as you know the species name and so on, this AI engine will be very good.
Wow.
What an amazing AI that you are...
I mean, it's just nuts.
It's wild.
We had a guy, the founder of the Arlington Institute, has donated to us 1,500 books in digital PDF format on UFOs and unexplained phenomena.
So he's like, do you want this collection of 1,500 books on UFOs?
I'm like, are you kidding me?
We'll have a UFO language model, man.
That is so cool.
That is so cool.
That's just going to be a repository of truth.
Dude, it's unbelievable.
Also, it's called A4M, the American Anti-Aging...
Association, I think, is what it is, A4M. They're all about anti-aging medicine and nutrition.
They're donating like 10,000 hours of video for the AI model as well.
My gosh.
Yeah.
My gosh.
Congratulations, Mike.
I mean, was this even a germ of an idea a year ago or no?
No.
No.
I started this around a little after Thanksgiving last year, so we're well under a year.
Yeah.
Crazy.
Anyway, I don't mean to get distracted.
Let's get back to our guest today, and I know you've got some stuff to talk about too, but Daniel Vitalis is just...
That guy is an amazing individual.
And the longer I've known him, the more impressed I've become with him.
You can tell.
I mean, he's very bright.
He's very bright, and he's very...
He's just, I'm just going to say, a normal dude.
He's a guy you just like to hang out with.
He's fun to hang out with.
I bet.
I bet.
And riff about literally everything.
But gosh, I was serious when I'm like, my strategy for survival when it hits the fan is...
I'm with him.
He joined me on a tour that we had in South America.
We were climbing mountains looking at ancient artifacts and the museum in Quito.
And Daniel was there, some other amazing people as well.
But I've been out in nature hiking with Daniel.
And he was always adventurous.
We were like looking on the edge of this cliff.
It was crazy.
This was in...
Yeah, this was in Ecuador.
We were looking over the edge of this cliff.
And I'm telling you, it must have been 1,500 feet deep into this ravine.
Yeah.
Like crazy deep and incredibly steep on the edges.
And Daniel's like, I think I could go down that.
And I'm like...
I'm not sure you can, actually.
But he's like, I want to try that.
So he's always had this adventurous attitude.
And I was thinking, oh my God, don't get close to the edge.
But he was like, I can make it.
But thank God he has that attitude.
He's very adventurous.
And he's turned it into this really successful career, philosophy.
I mean, this guy, he is now world-renowned.
In this area of wild foods.
Well earned.
Well earned.
I'm glad he brought that up.
I was going to ask, is it on Netflix or Amazon Prime or any of those or whatever?
Just make it easy because usually that's what they do.
They put the series on there and you can go binge watch.
And yes, Amazon Prime.
Seasons one through three, and I am going to begin my binge-watching career this weekend.
And I'm not going to feel guilty about it.
You know what I mean?
It's not like, let's turn my brain off and go watch Netflix.
I'm going to be learning a lot over the next three seasons, because I'm going to binge-watch it all over the next couple of weeks.
Absolutely.
The other thing I really love about having Daniel on the show here today is because a lot of our guests, let's face it, they're in the virtual world or the digital world, right?
So we talk a lot about crypto or security or privacy, VPNs or what have you.
And that has its place.
That's very important.
But sometimes, what if you do if there's an EMP weapon, a cyber attack, grid down scenario?
And you need to have real world decentralization.
Yes, you do.
Things that you know how to do in the physical world.
And so that's where this fits right in.
There's nothing wrong with being somebody who's got crypto, and you understand tech, and you also know how to eat grasshoppers to stay alive.
There's nothing wrong with that.
No, not at all.
Not at all.
I have been using these three words a lot in conversation with people, Mike.
But live life locally.
That's just something that has...
It empowers me.
And it came to me as I've been communing with my food forest.
Oh, yeah.
And I've had a lot of people who have come in for consultations, and Mike, people are scared to death.
What?
Scared of what?
They're scared the world is just going to bang be gone.
People are living in a lot of fear.
And to a point...
That's because the world is collapsing.
I'm just saying.
I know.
But to that point, my first bit of counsel is, look, to combat that fear is you've got to stop feeding it.
So shut off your TV and live life locally.
I said that out loud in a consultation, and what I meant was...
Look, go outside, locally, just close by.
I mean, we can all take a walk.
I told this one gentleman last week, he said that he just bought this $99 bike.
And I said, take that bike.
Drive down, you know, right in your neighborhood, and what I want you to do is make it your mission every day to come back home and remember one thing that you never noticed.
It could be some lady's precious little front garden that, you know, she's put a lot of love and care into that we all just ignore as we drive by, right, in our cars and such.
But just take a look at it and admire it and such.
And I invite everybody to do that.
Just start one day at a time.
Go out in the morning.
Live life locally and appreciate everything that we've been given right in our backyard, literally.
Well, and speaking of backyards, that's where a lot of wild foods grow without any effort at all.
And I was wanting to say this during the show.
If you want to have a list of what foods grow, You can grow in your yard.
Just contact your HOA and find out what's banned.
Because anything that they've banned is something that probably wants to grow there, like dandelions.
And there's so much food that can come spontaneously without effort.
And I've mentioned this before, and I know you appreciate this, and you've got your food for us.
And I have a lot of fruit trees and things that I've planted as well, vegetables.
I was eating a fresh peach yesterday just yesterday.
Off the tree, but I put it in the fridge to make it cold.
So a cold, fresh peach.
Oh my God.
It's like heaven.
But there's so much food that requires no effort.
And the only effort that I've really put into it is just not spraying herbicides on the ranch.
No pesticides, no herbicides.
I'm not trying to kill everything.
I'm just looking at what's growing.
And it's amazing.
So much food comes out of that Effortlessly.
And what I've learned is even like in the food forest, even as things come up and I recognize them as invasive weeds, unless they are flowering and seeding and whatnot, they're not going to spread in your food forest.
What happens is you stay tuned in and then at the right time you cut them down and use them for what's called chop and drop to where you cut them up and you feed them.
The base of all of your trees.
And I never knew that, Mike.
Yeah.
So you can literally take weeds and turn them into food for, you know, your peach tree.
Oh, yeah.
Oh, yeah.
Absolutely.
And we recently, we moved a big fig tree.
Okay.
And when I say big, I mean the trunk was about eight inches diameter.
So it's pretty big.
But the way we had to move it, we had to cut it down to almost, like, we cut off every leaf and almost every branch to some extent.
I mean, it was like naked and bare at that point.
And we're thinking, is this thing even going to survive?
My goodness.
And just in terms of resilience, you know, fig trees are very resilient.
And we transplanted it, didn't even get all the roots back in the ground correctly, like one giant root still hanging out.
And two weeks later, this thing is thriving.
All new branches and leaves all coming out because I'm feeding it pond water, like fish pond water.
And it's doing great.
And it's like, no problem.
We ripped it up and moved it, and it's like, no problem.
I can thrive here, too.
And don't you find it amazing that, like, in the food forest out back, there was a scheduled plan of what we planted.
But I have all kinds of other stuff growing there.
Oh, yeah, I'm sure.
The birds have brought in.
And, you know, it's neat to see nature at work.
Yeah.
You know, you just let go and let God is the right phrase, I think.
It's true.
Oh man, I forgot to ask Daniel about pawpaws.
But he was smiling when I was asking that.
But that's like a custard-like, it's like this weird mixture, like part mango, part apple, part pineapple.
But it grows in North America, at least the southern parts.
And I wanted to ask his opinion on that, but I guess we'll have to do that next time.
When I was in Ecuador, we were growing, I thought we had 75 or 80 fruit trees.
We were building out a food forest, and those were like cherimoyas and mangoes, and we had some cashew trees growing.
It was, of course, the papaya and all the usual easy stuff, but we had a fruit bonanza going down there.
It was great.
So it just became ultra-abundant?
Very quickly.
Speaking of abundant, anybody watching who's remotely interested in food forestry or any of that, go back to our fourth interview with Jim Gale and just watch it.
He's the CEO of foodforestabundance.com.
That's what the word abundant kind of triggered me.
But I just want to keep directing people back to that because ultimately, man, I think this is where it's at.
I think we've got to learn how to grow our own food, Mike.
Oh, yeah.
Actually, let me bring this up, too.
We interviewed his partner.
Oh, right.
All right, here it is at brightu.com.
Beginning...
Saturday, June 8th, we have the Spring Permaculture Summit that's streaming for free at Brighttown University.
And if anybody's watching this after that, we've got the whole course downloadable for $99 at brighttownuniversity.com.
This is with Jim Gale's partner.
It's about everything that they do at foodforestabundance.com, but they're teaching you how to do it yourself.
Anyway, you can watch it for free right here at brightyou.com.
The Spring Permaculture Summit.
Hey, Mike, is that available now?
I'm going to download it.
I'm going to pay the $99.
That sounds like beautiful, perfect content.
That's an investment, not an expense.
Well, it is, but you might already know all this because you hired these people to build your food for us.
No, you never know.
I don't know anything.
I'm serious.
These guys have forgotten so much.
Man, you have learned so much in the last year.
One of the things I love about you is that when you learn something, you actually just do it.
You put it into use.
It's not just an intellectual exercise.
You're doing it.
Like today, I know you're going to fry up grasshoppers now.
I know you're going to do it.
You're going to send me pictures.
Look, this one tried to hop away, but we got it and we fried it and I ate it.
I will.
Oh my gosh.
You know me well.
Do you kill it before you cook it?
Do you freeze it and then cook it or kill it?
When do you kill it?
I wanted to go granular there because I was serious.
Okay, do you gas the grasshoppers?
Do you knock them out with chloroform and then you cook them?
My mind started going to the bees.
There are so many out there, and I'm like, okay, how do I harvest maybe 500 bees, put them in the freezer real quick?
That would be an easy one for me, but I need to be sued up on that for sure.
Yeah, like...
Honey, what's that buzzing sound in the freezer?
Oh, don't open it.
Not for 15 minutes.
There's a swarm of bees in there.
Oh my gosh.
Don't tell your bees that you're planning on eating them.
If they hear that, it's game over.
No more honey for you, Todd.
Yeah.
Where are the raccoons, honey?
I haven't seen our raccoons lately.
Did you enjoy dinner last night, honey?
No.
Well, aren't you glad to know you can fatten up your squirrels and then you can render their fat?
Oh, totally.
Totally.
It's pretty much like Todd Pitner's Fight Club.
We're rendering body fat to make soap and maybe explosives on the side.
Who knows?
It's Fight Club, you know.
And Mike, you know that I'm going to come on here at some point in time in the not-too-distant future and hold up my prized new possession, my air gun.
Your air rifle?
Kick-ass air rifle.
I'm doing it.
I'm going to start my research tonight.
Okay.
You can spend a lot of money on air rifles.
By the way, I own an air rifle, and mine came with like a bicycle pump.
You have to pump the crap out of that thing to get it to the PSI. I bet.
Yeah, it takes a lot of pumping.
You're pumping more than shooting, basically, with air rifles.
Okay, yeah.
But they are quiet.
I think I'll get some canisters to, you know, so that I can have immediate gratification when that fat squirrel is just staring me down.
Yeah.
But air rifles probably have a very important role in survival, you know, kind of stealth survival.
You're not making a lot of noise.
No.
And I think you have to do, obviously, for ease, you want to get the CO2 cartridges and things like that, but we do need some that are the air pump.
They have really big tanks on them like this that are attached to the rifle.
And you pump those up, and then you get a certain number of shots out of it, and usually they're all like bolt action, basically.
Most of them.
Maybe somebody's got semi-auto, but I think they're all bolt action, so it's one shot at a time.
You're not going to fight off the zombies with it, that's for sure.
No.
Well, we have other devices for that.
Yeah.
Noise-making devices.
If the zombie war comes, you just, all right, drop the air rifle, get the semi-auto.308 or the Barrett.
Just get the Barrett out.
Bring the Barrett, honey!
It's in the freezer with the bees, you know?
Yeah.
Okay, so Todd, you and I always have fun in this after party.
Is there anything else you want to add before we go to some of the plugs that help keep this show going?
No, I presume Daniel's going to watch this back.
I hope he does, but Daniel really enjoyed your time, and you've opened my eyes up to a lot, and I hope to continue to not only follow you, but if you're ever down here in Florida, please reach out to me, because I just want to draft in your wake for a few days.
If you hang around Daniel just by osmosis, you learn so much.
Yeah.
No, I have one.
I have one.
Daniel, hear me.
I think this is valid.
I mean, I live in a suburban area.
Now I happen to back up to a preserve.
Hey, do a show down here to show how you can go from, you know, your kitchen through your food forest, wave to your bees, and then let's go forage back there.
Show everyone what we can get.
I like that idea.
Yeah, that does sound like fun.
But to your point, hanging out with Daniel is always fun.
And the funniest memory I have with Daniel is we, with a group, we were going to a museum on the equator in Ecuador.
And it's, I forgot the name, but it's like the Museum of the Equator.
And at the museum, we ran into this group of Japanese tourists.
With, of course, lots of cameras, mostly female Japanese tourists.
And they noticed that Daniel Vitalis has a lot of tattoos.
And so they started taking pictures of him, and he took off his shirt.
He took off his shirt.
The dude is covered.
I mean, it's an elaborate ink.
Wow.
You know, canvas, basically.
His chest and his back and his arms, all ink, all elaborate, mind-blowing patterns, and the Japanese tourists went nuts.
I think some of it, if I recall, is like samurai images or something.
I don't recall exactly, but the Japanese tourists went nuts, and they were like, the Japanese women were like, screw the museum.
This guy, Daniel Vitalis, this is the guy to see.
So they were just like, he was a superstar among...
The Japanese tourists there for that day.
It was so fun.
Wow, that's cool.
We couldn't pull them away from the Japanese.
Like, we want to take this guy back to Japan.
That's great.
Yeah, just wild.
Let's plug some sponsors for the show.
Let's start with you and thank our audience for keeping the show online.
We do have costs to cover here, but you've got your website, Decentralized Directory.
Let me actually bring it up.
Here it is, decentralizeddirectory.com.
So, Todd, take it away.
Well, you know, if you go down to where the decentralized partners are and you click that yellow, and you scroll down and you go to the middle one, the thing that people should focus on is the Unincorporated Nonprofit Association.
And I will tell you, I've done so many of these and I've had so many consultations.
I figured out how to make this easier for people to understand it and consider it without having to pay a consultation fee.
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And that 45 minutes is pure gold because it's with Dennis, who's been doing this for 34 years.
He's forgotten more than I'll ever know, and there were so many good...
It was such a great Q&A, and I captured it all, and I combined both of those into a 90-minute video, and it will share everything, everything that you could get from a direct session with me.
And if you would like to get access to it, because it is an unlisted video, you can email me, tell me you're interested, I'll send you a link.
And you can go watch it.
And then after that, look, it's your movie.
If you'd like to continue discussions, you can give me a buzz.
You don't need to do a consultation fee.
The only reason why I had the consultation fee on there, Mike, and you know that, is just to vet out the people that need to be vetted out.
But I want to get this information out to people.
It is so powerful.
And it It's literally changing people's lives, helping them keep more of what they earn and lower their tax burden lawfully.
So that's kind of how I've rejiggered everything, Mike, to make it easy for people.
I would like to see that 90-minute presentation, too.
I will send it to you.
I haven't seen that yet.
Okay, yeah, send it to me.
I'd love to see it.
You bet.
I need to learn more about this UNA that you've been talking about.
I don't know enough about it.
So I'm open to learning anything I can.
So definitely set up my way.
Well, you've been presenting World War III to everyone.
You've been a little busy, Mike, over the last year.
There's a lot going on.
That's for sure.
But again, that's at decentralizeddirectory.com.
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Great.
Excellent.
Excellent.
Thank you.
Thank you everyone out there supporting the show by actually...
Going and taking advantage of our sponsors and all they offer.
Look, we offer solutions that are legit, you know?
Yes.
I mean, you notice our sponsors are never like, hey, fashion sneakers or discount cruises to wherever or handbags.
No.
Right.
This is like, these are practical things that achieve the goal of the show, which is decentralization.
Yes.
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Get off the grid.
Have redundancies in your life.
Keep more of what you earn, as you say, Todd.
Yes.
All these things matter.
So I'm thrilled with the fact that we're able to reach so many people with so many solutions.
It is amazing that it's been over a year, Mike.
I know.
It's just amazing.
It went by so fast.
It did.
Really incredible.
I love you, Mike.
You are the best.
You really are.
Todd, you're awesome.
I love the fact that you're putting into practice everything that we learn on the show and keep sending us...
I know you send me videos, but let's show some of your videos on the show next time.
Okay, sure.
Are you going to fry up some grasshoppers?
You know, when I figure out where they are and how to get them, I made a note.
I'm going to go to Amazon and I'm going to get me a butterfly now.
Okay, all right.
I want you to fry up grasshoppers then.
And then we'll show that on the show.
Okay.
Okay.
We'll do like the Daniel Vitalis special segment.
Yeah.
Even if he's not here, we'll show the grasshoppers.
And then one day I get arrested and you're like, why did Todd Pitner get arrested?
And be like, I don't know, man.
He keeps jumping fences.
He keeps going in his neighbor's backyards with a net.
With a net running around the neighborhood.
Man, I can't stop all the grasshoppers on my ranch.
They're everywhere.
But that's because I don't poison everything, so it's very abundant with insect life.
Yeah, that's cool.
And amphibians, too.
We've got all kinds of frogs, and then we have all kinds of rabbits, and so we have all kinds of predators and falcons.
Do you have a lake on your property?
I'm curious.
Not a lake.
We have a pond.
Okay.
It's got fish in it.
Okay.
It's big enough to draw water out of, but what we really have, we have an abundance of wildlife.
Do you?
Armadillos and owls.
We have owls, and they're so...
Well, these owls, you know, they fly in stealth mode, right?
They're very quiet.
Okay.
You know that about owls?
I didn't.
They're engineered to be silent flyers.
Wow.
So you can't hear their wings.
Interesting.
Unlike a lot of other, like, waterfowl, you can hear their wings, like ducks.
They're not stealth ducks.
You know, you can hear them flat, flat, flat, flat, flat.
Owls, you can't hear them at all.
And they hunt at night.
So if I'm ever out walking at night in certain parts of the ranch, occasionally there goes an owl.
One time I saw it grabbing a field mouse or something at night.
Wow.
How cool.
And they're totally quiet.
They're like the stealth bombers of the bird world.
That's crazy.
Yeah.
I mean...
Spooky creatures too, man.
But that's why, you know, like in Native American lore, like spotting owls is always a very ominous negative thing.
Oh.
Yeah, owls represent like doom in Native American lore.
Okay.
Yeah.
Okay.
And they are kind of spooky.
I mean, they hunt at night and you never see them coming.
And their heads spin around like the Exorcist movies, you know.
I'm like, what?
Is that a bird?
What is that?
Oh, yeah.
Where's Mike?
I don't know.
He said he wanted to go hunt some owl.
Hunt some owl.
Oh, man.
And if you have a small dog, you know, owl might get it.
Right.
Yeah.
Right.
So anyway, yeah, that's a weird story to end with.
But there you go.
So, Todd, let's call it a day.
Great to have a show with you again.
You bet.
I love what we're doing here, and let's keep it going.
A lot more coming.
Okay, well thank you everybody for watching.
We always appreciate you.
Yes, we do.
Yes, thank you all.
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And you know what, Mike?
I just want to end by saying this.
Those of you who watch this, hopefully you appreciate the time and energy that we spend in bringing this to you.
And we appreciate your support for our sponsors.
But another way that you could support us is maybe just on purpose with intent, think about, I want to be able to share one of these shows with three people out there.
Let's kind of get the word spreading that we exist.
There's a lot of solutions that we bring to the table here that we think and hopefully you do too others could benefit from as well.
Absolutely.
Thanks for that suggestion.
Yeah, spread the word because you will help other people be more self-reliant, more prepared, more informed.
No matter what comes, good or bad, these are life skills and strategies that can help everybody, the people that you know, to be protected against the unknown.
Yeah, next week we're actually going to be interviewing somebody who's going to take a deep dive into what do you do when the worst thing in the world happens and you run out of battery with your clicker when you're watching Netflix.
Okay, all right.
I'll try to figure out who that is, but I think the answer is eat more iguanas, right?
Oh, I like that.
Yeah.
All right.
Well, Todd, thanks for the show today.
Always great to have you on, and I look forward to seeing you next week.
We'll do another one.
All right.
Thank you, Mike.
All right.
You bet.
Take care, Todd.
And thank you all for watching today.
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Take care, everybody. everybody.
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