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Aug. 6, 2024 - Health Ranger - Mike Adams

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BBN, Aug 6, 2024 – GLOBAL MARGIN CALL craters markets as financial contagion spreads

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	Okay, welcome to Brightown Broadcast News for Tuesday, August 6th, 2024.
	I'm Mike Adams, the founder of brightown.com, and we are building the infrastructure of human freedom.
	Thank you for joining me today, except I have to apologize.
	I don't think there's anything interesting to talk about.
	There's nothing happening in the world right now, right?
	I mean, can you think of it?
	Oh, wait, you mean the stock market collapse?
	Oh, and we're on the verge of World War III? And this Democrat member of Congress saying they're going to overthrow Trump if Trump wins.
	Oh, those things!
	Okay.
	And a total inside job that the Secret Service is now effectively admitting to in terms of their complicity in the assassination of Trump.
	Oh, I guess there are some things, interesting things happening right now.
	Yes, today I'm going to help you make sense of what's happening, especially in the financial markets.
	I've also got an emergency interview with Steve Slepsovich, who is with SRP24, which is a first responder network, well, organization that responds to disasters.
	He's in Florida right now.
	Tina from the Satellite Phone Store also joined the call.
	Tina, you know, her company is, well, there's an office there on the western side of Florida.
	Of course, they're totally inundated.
	The roads are all out.
	She was telling me on the phone that the only way she can leave her house is by boat now.
	And there's 20 to 30 inches of rain forecast for Savannah.
	Yeah.
	So folks, if you are hearing this and if you're anywhere near where this storm is going to be dropping feet of rain, get out ahead of time while you can.
	I mean, this is the perfect time to have the bug-out plan underway.
	Get out of the pathway of this flooding.
	It's going to be very catastrophic just in terms of rainfall.
	You're going to see a lot of services out.
	You're going to see a loss of electricity.
	It's already happening in parts of Florida.
	This is all due to the storm Debbie.
	Not little Debbie, which is the brand of processed food treats, but big Debbie, this big Deborah.
	She's rolling through and dropping foot stomps of rain.
	And Big Debbie here is going to be dropping rain all up the eastern seaboard and all the way up to Virginia to some extent, by the way.
	So it's going to be Rather catastrophic for Georgia, the Carolinas, and of course Florida.
	It's really going to be something.
	So get out while you can if you need to get out because of flooding.
	Rivers are going to be overflowing their banks and you're going to see outages of electricity and mobile phone service or cell service.
	First responders there, police, fire, whatever are not going to be able to respond very effectively.
	So make sure you get out of the way of all of this if you can.
	And for the rest of you across America, this is a great time just to remind yourself of the importance of your bug-out plans, your bug-out drills, check the batteries, have you charged your satellite phone, does your flashlight work, how much gas do you have in your vehicle, or diesel preferably?
	And where's your bug-out location?
	And where's your family meet-up plan?
	Like, where's the rally point if you get separated and you can't communicate with each other?
	Where do you meet up?
	A good question is to ask, where's your food supply?
	Do you have some portable food that's, you know, rainproof and is really great in the vehicle?
	Hey, by the way, our Ranger buckets at HealthRangerStore.com are rainproof in essence because they're packed in these vacuum-sealed bricks.
	It has all the air sucked out of them, and these bricks are filed into the buckets, and the buckets are rugged.
	They're great to throw in a vehicle and just go.
	And if buckets happen to get wet, who cares?
	The food's not ruined.
	And all you need to be able to do is usually just boil some water at your destination, and you can have meals.
	We've got macaroni and cheese, all certified organic, laboratory tested.
	Anyway, I'm not here to pitch the store, but I'm just saying it's great for bug-out applications.
	But whatever you do...
	Make sure that you are ready for what may be coming because this storm, little Debbie in Florida, this is just a small sign of things to come.
	Now, let's talk about the stock market crash because that, of course, is affecting almost everybody.
	Not me, by the way, because I don't have any money in the stock market anymore.
	And I don't have any money except, I don't know, maybe a couple of dollars here and there that I forgot about.
	But I don't have any substantial funds in any online, you know, trading accounts, Fidelity, Vanguard, Robinhood, you know, whatever, E-Trade, Ameritrade.
	But guess what?
	All those companies that I named, yeah, they were down yesterday, at least in part.
	Down Detector.
	Tracks the outages of all of these online brokerages and trading houses and so on.
	And Charles Schwab was down.
	Fidelity was down.
	E-Trade.
	What else?
	CenturyLink.
	Interactive Brokers.
	And then some other service providers like UPS, Spectrum.
	Florida Power and Light.
	That's not a surprise given the situation there in Florida.
	You know, prayers and blessings to all those people there in Florida.
	I hope you are safe.
	And I hope your power can be restored as quickly as possible.
	But folks, the market crash is quite severe and it's global this time.
	So if you're wondering what's behind it, you've probably heard this term, carry trade.
	The carry trade is unraveling.
	Everybody's screaming, the carry train!
	And you're like, who's carry?
	Is she related to Debbie?
	Because Debbie brought a storm.
	Is Kerry bringing financial losses?
	What's going on?
	Well, the Kerry trade refers to this scheme where you borrow money from one country where interest rates are really low and thus loans are relatively cheap.
	You know, like Japan.
	And then you invest that money in a country where the returns on assets are much higher, such as the United States.
	Because interest rates are higher, and so yields are higher on many investment instruments, including treasuries.
	So, for example, maybe you could borrow money from Japan at 1%, and then you can earn like 3.5% in the U.S. pretty readily or relatively risk-free.
	So a lot of people have been doing this, a lot of investment houses and hedge funds and institutional investors and so on.
	And they didn't just do it in the simple way I described.
	Instead, they leveraged it.
	So they made these bets on margin.
	And the bet was essentially that Japan would keep its interest rates very, very low or zero or even in negative territory in some circumstances.
	And the bet was that America would keep its interest rates relatively high.
	And as long as you have that gap between the interest rates or the yields on money between those two countries, then the so-called carry trade was kind of a no-brainer.
	It's just like, you know, free money out of the sky or something.
	That is, until it turns against you.
	And that's what just happened.
	Japan just raised its central bank, you know, interbank interest rates, the same thing that we would call the Fed funds rate in America.
	I mean, essentially the same.
	Japan raised it by some very tiny amount.
	I don't even, was it a quarter point or something like that?
	Maybe even less than a quarter point, but it was something in that range.
	And it set off a ripple effect of unwinding a whole bunch of leveraged bets.
	That are now cascading, ricocheting through the global financial markets and causing all kinds of carnage.
	We're talking about hundreds of billions of dollars that were lost in the last 24 hours or so.
	And it's not clear how long this is going to go before this stage of unwinding is complete.
	And so, at the same time, there was a lot of overvaluation in certain markets, such as people buying Nvidia stock.
	Or Intel stock.
	You know, a lot of it was the AI stock bubble that is now bursting as well.
	Which isn't surprising if you were looking at NVIDIA stock price.
	It was like, whoa, this is just in the stratosphere totally insane.
	It kind of reminds me of the way people would buy railroad stocks, you know, in the 19th century.
	Thinking like, railroads are going to change the world, man.
	Yeah, they are, but they're not...
	It's not unlimited value.
	You know, railroads...
	Well, the economy of transportation and of both goods and people as well and, you know, cattle and what have you.
	But there's not unlimited value associated with just having railroads between two cities.
	So the important point in all of this is that, number one, This sure bet has now begun to unwind.
	And secondly, those who were making these bets were highly, highly leveraged.
	And now that leverage is working against them, that's what happens when you have to unwind.
	And they're having to sell other assets, which include stocks or bonds or treasuries and even crypto in some cases, in order to make margin call.
	Right, so we should really call yesterday Margin Call Monday.
	Just another Margin Call Monday.
	Not Manic Monday, but Margin Call Monday.
	And it's just the beginning, because Margin Calls have a way of sort of, well, they're a little bit infectious.
	They spread, right?
	They can spread.
	One results in another.
	And you could call it kind of a financial contagion.
	That's what's underway.
	And Edward Dowd, who, of course, you probably know who Ed Dowd is, and his background is in finance.
	And I think he used to work for, was it...
	Was it BlackRock?
	He worked for one of the big hedge funds.
	He said the following, the Asian financial crisis, unlike the 1998 Asian contagion crisis, may be way worse as Japan, unlike Thailand, is a major economy and central bank player.
	Now, in order to understand what he just said there, you need to understand that back in 1997 and bleeding into 98, there was what was called the so-called Asian contagion, which was the currency in Thailand began to unwind and a lot of people had placed bets on various Asian currencies.
	I think it was the Thai bot that had the first problem.
	They began to spread to other Asian nations.
	And then a company called Long-Term Capital Management, or LTCM, was caught up in this.
	LTCM was run by and invested in by a bunch of neocon insiders, basically, the wealthy money people in Washington, D.C., And they were placing all of these certain bets on currency trades,
	kind of like a carry trade, but it was a combination of currency trades that couldn't lose as long as the currency differences and interest rates, as long as they didn't move against you, which they did in 97.
	And this caused a massive cascading failure of financial markets and currency markets That began to spread around the world, and it ran the risk of going global and bringing down the entire Western financial system in about 1998.
	Now, you may know that Jim Rickards, who has done financial work for the CIA and so on, and Rickards is an author of numerous books that I've, well, I listened to the audiobook versions, but I've listened to some of his books multiple times.
	And he was there at long-term capital management and he helped negotiate the bailout.
	So from 1998, that's where the term too big to fail came from.
	LTCM, or long-term capital management, was deemed too big to fail because that was where all the money was of the deep-pocketed insiders and the rhinos and the neocons and all the people today that would be characterized by the Bush family.
	Those kind of people.
	Some of them were Democrats, some of them were Republicans, but they were all...
	Deep state connected insiders who don't lose.
	They don't lose because they change the rules to make sure they win.
	These are the kind of people who just happen to have insurance policies on the World Trade Center buildings before 9-11.
	Yeah, you know what I'm talking about.
	People who rig the game in their favor.
	So what they did for long-term capital management is they said, well, we can't let LTCM fail.
	Because, well, it might crater the entire financial system.
	So we'll bail out long-term capital management with government money, which means really they were bailing themselves out because these are the people who run the government.
	And that's what they did.
	They said, oh, it's an emergency.
	If we don't bail out LTCM, then we're all done for.
	And so they bailed it out with taxpayer money.
	And all the insiders and deep-staters and rhinos and neocons, they got all their money back.
	Which would never happen to you or me, by the way.
	You know, the rest of us who actually earn an honest living.
	But for these insiders, they got their billions back out of the system.
	Too big to fail.
	But what Ed Dowd is saying here is that the crisis happening today with Japan is much bigger than what happened in the late 1990s.
	Alright, so a little bit of backstory there for you.
	Now, Ed Dowd goes on and he says, quote, the 2024 Asian contagion crisis has kicked off and feedback loops have begun.
	Okay, so he's talking about contagion, right?
	feedback loops, self-reinforcing loops of margin calls, selling of stocks or selling of other assets, and then those assets fall, and then it triggers a bunch of other margin calls for other people.
	They're like, margin calls, or they have to sell, and that triggers margin calls of somebody else.
	Those are called feedback loops, and that's what's happening right now.
	Ed Dowd then continues, quote, what we don't know is how fast and what policy responses are Yes, that's true.
	What is amazing is how nonchalant the Fed speakers seemed today.
	Yeah.
	Because they know ultimately they're just going to print and print and print and bail out.
	You know, nothing's too big to bail when you can just keep printing unlimited amounts of money, right?
	Notice I didn't say too big to fail.
	I said too big to bail.
	Like nothing's too big to bail.
	When you can print trillions of dollars.
	So that's what's going to happen.
	So right now, as I'm recording this, the plunge protection teams all over the world, well, Western world, I should say, you know, US, UK, what have you, and Japan, they are trying to sort out, like, who's going to have to print trillions?
	How do they inject liquidity into the system?
	In order to stop economic reality from taking place.
	Now, in order to understand that, let's back up a little bit.
	The world's Western financial system should have collapsed in 2008, if not 1998.
	But they delayed it for 10 years in 1998, pushed it ahead.
	They were able to get through the dot-com crash around 2000 and 2001.
	And They didn't solve the core problems.
	They just kept the system going to where they created the subprime mortgage problem that collapsed in 2008 and brought down all kinds of banks and investment houses, Bear Stearns notably, right?
	And did they solve the problems then?
	Did anybody go to jail then for all the financial fraud and schemes that they ran and the repackaging of bad housing debt into collateralized debt obligations or CDOs?
	Remember the CDOs?
	Yeah, go back and watch The Big Short, one of my favorite movies.
	CDOs, collateralized debt obligations, and so they take a bunch of bad loans, really bad loans on homes.
	Remember the NINJA loans, right?
	No income, no job.
	That's what it stands for, NINJA. No income, no job applicant.
	Okay?
	NINJAS. And they gave loans to all the NINJAS, people who had no freaking jobs.
	Couldn't make the payments on the homes.
	And then the banks took those bad loans and what they did is, whereas any individual loan would be very high risk, they put a bunch of those loans together and they say, well, if we take like a thousand bad loans, then we'll call it diversified and then we'll walk down the street here to the ratings agency and You know, Dun& Bradstreet, whatever.
	And then they'll put an A++ stamp on it and say, well, it's diversified, so it's all good now.
	Right?
	So if you package together a bunch of bad loans, then all of a sudden, magically, Shazam, it becomes, it's an A-plus rated loan.
	And then they can sell that off to the pension funds and the hedge funds and the family offices and everybody else.
	And that's what they did.
	And then...
	In 2008, roughly, when all these people couldn't actually pay their home loans, that whole system cratered, and that became the subprime mortgage collapse.
	So what did the government do?
	They bailed it out.
	They bailed out Bank of America.
	They bailed out JP Morgan.
	They bailed out, well, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
	And they just let a couple of things fail.
	They let Bear Stearns fail.
	I don't remember exactly who else went down.
	But did anybody get arrested for that?
	No.
	Nobody went to jail.
	Nobody got arrested except like one guy was prosecuted for like falsifying one line on one loan or something.
	It was ridiculous, right?
	So they didn't solve the problem.
	So now we fast forward to today, like 16 years later.
	Here we are.
	The problem, the debt Ponzi scheme is 10 times worse.
	If not more.
	The nation now is $35 trillion in debt.
	That's just the national debt.
	It doesn't even count the unfunded liabilities or entitlements.
	In fact, let's bring up usdebtclock.org.
	I'm going to bring it up as we're talking here because I always like to check these numbers.
	Because I enjoy watching the dizzying speed of our economic doom.
	So here we go.
	The lower right-hand corner is my favorite number on this page, and it's called U.S. Unfunded Liabilities.
	Whoa!
	It's been a while since I looked at this.
	It's now $218 trillion.
	$218 trillion?
	I mean, it wasn't that long ago when that was $169 trillion, I remember.
	It seems like that was just a few months, but I don't know.
	Time flies.
	Let's see.
	The total U.S. national debt, $35 trillion.
	And that means that per taxpayer in America, that's $268,000.
	And the federal government owes each year, oh my goodness, $911 billion in interest on the debt.
	So if you look at the largest budget items of what the government's spending money on, it's about a trillion dollars interest on the debt.
	It's about another trillion on war, you know, handing out bombs to Israel and Ukraine, what have you.
	It's about one and a half trillion dollars in Social Security benefits.
	And then it's almost two trillion or about 1.8 trillion in Medicare and Medicaid.
	So those are the top expenditures.
	Now, by the way, Almost none of those can be touched by any legislation whatsoever.
	So if you're wondering, how can we solve this debt problem?
	Because this comes back to the market and why this whole system is going to crater.
	The whole freaking system is coming down, folks.
	I'm getting to that.
	But the reason you can't stop this is because even if you waltzed into Congress, even if Trump gets elected and he gets into the White House, Even if Trump's got the whole Senate and the whole House and the entire Supreme Court, I mean everything, you still can't stop these obligations.
	The government is by law required to pay Medicare, Medicaid.
	It's required to pay social security.
	You know, that's the government's contract with the people.
	It's required to fund.
	I mean, it's already committed to about a trillion dollars a year in so-called national defense or war.
	It's required to pay the interest on the debt that it has taken out.
	So it's required to pay that trillion dollars in interest.
	You can't touch any of these things.
	And what is that?
	One, two, three, four, five, I don't know, over five trillion dollars a year that you can't touch.
	You can't touch it.
	Can't touch this.
	It's hammer time.
	You can't touch this.
	You can't touch five trillion dollars a year.
	No matter what you do.
	So really, in terms of control over spending, which belongs to the House, obviously, all the members of Congress, they only actually get to debate over tiny little cookie crumbs of the national budget and of all the money that flows through Washington, D.C., because it is a thick swamp of money, mostly special interest money and weapons companies' money and big pharma money and all that.
	The members of the House control very, very little of that.
	There's almost no discretionary expenditures by Congress, or I should say relatively little compared to the five plus trillion dollars that they're committed to spending.
	So, bottom line is, you can't stop the financial blowout of the United States government.
	You can't stop it.
	All they can do at this point, folks, all they can do Print more money.
	And every time there's a crisis, what are they going to do?
	Stimulus.
	They're going to inject liquidity into the system.
	How are they going to inject liquidity into the system?
	Well, guess what?
	There are some pretty obvious ways that we've talked about that they have done this in the past.
	For example, with COVID, what do they do?
	They just mailed people debit cards and put thousands of dollars on the debit cards and then boom!
	There's economic activity.
	All the restaurants are doing great.
	All the grocery stores are doing great.
	Everybody's got money.
	Why?
	Because the government just put money into their hands.
	That's stimulus.
	So what are some other ways that the government could stimulate the economy?
	Well, number one, lower interest rates.
	So if the U.S. Federal Reserve, which is, of course, not part of the government, it's a global banking cartel run by a globalist cabal, of course.
	But if they start lowering interest rates, which would be the easing of monetary policy, it would make more money less expensive.
	It would make loans cheaper.
	It would tend to lubricate the economy, right?
	But guess what else it would do?
	It would clobber the carry trade with Japan because there would be less of a difference between Japan's interest rates and America's interest rates.
	And remember, it's that difference that is the sort of profit opportunity for those engaged in the carry trade.
	Remember, they borrow cheap from Japan and they earn more dearly, that is, they get better returns in America.
	That gap has got to be 3%, 4%, 5% in order to make it worthwhile because you also have to, of course, buy and sell the currencies.
	And there's friction in all of that and there's some risk as we're seeing now.
	But we're in a situation where, so the Bank of Japan is saying we have to raise interest rates, and they're doing so.
	And the Federal Reserve, especially with the jobs numbers that came out, and also trying to protect the Biden regime and its economic scorecard, the Federal Reserve is saying, well, we've got to lower interest rates over here in America.
	So think about it.
	Japan rates are going up.
	U.S. rates are going down.
	There's going to be some emergency rate cuts in America.
	Probably really soon, before the election.
	What's that going to do to the carry trades?
	They're going to get just obliterated.
	Going to get clobbered.
	So there's going to be more unwinding of that whole realm.
	And Japan's banks and Japan's monetary supply and Japan's economic output is a significant portion of the economic activity of Western civilization.
	It's a big deal.
	It's much bigger than what Thailand ever was, especially in years past.
	So this is a big deal, and it means that the pain that's being witnessed right now in the markets is nowhere near over.
	Now, there might be a pause in the pain, but ultimately the only way to stop this pain is to inject more liquidity into the system.
	So what you need to be watching for right now is a government excuse to inject liquidity.
	The last excuse was COVID. They needed a big emergency in order to push liquidity into the system and save the banking system.
	It was part of the COVID conspiracy.
	Yes, it was designed to defeat Trump.
	It was designed to push mail-in ballots so the Democrats could cheat and rig everything.
	We get that.
	But it was also designed to be able to have an excuse to push liquidity into the system and then kick the can down the road to stave off the financial collapse for a few more years.
	So the question to you right now is what big emergency is the system or the government?
	What are they going to come up with right now that requires a mass injection of liquidity into the system?
	Could it be another pandemic?
	Could it be a war?
	Could it be a response to, I don't know, a cyber attack event?
	Maybe real, maybe false flag, who knows?
	Could they create some kind of mass disaster like a solar flare?
	They could simulate it with an EMP detonation at altitude, and they could say, oh, it's a big emergency.
	You know, a solar flare took out half the power grid, and now we have to inject trillions of dollars of liquidity into the system.
	That could be an excuse.
	And then the mechanisms of liquidity are very simple.
	One, you've already seen.
	They just mail out debit cards to everybody with money already on it, and they're doing that to illegals right now that are coming across the border.
	Like, here, have a debit card.
	It's got like $5,000 on it.
	Go spend.
	Welcome to America.
	Go buy whatever you want.
	Free government money.
	And yes, they do that.
	But the other way they could do it is to start refunding income taxes.
	And don't be surprised if this happens.
	If the emergency is big enough, and if the government is desperate enough, you can see them saying, well, we're going to start refunding all your taxes for the last year.
	Now, Biden has done a little bit of this by forgiving student loans.
	That's a form of mass stimulus to put more money into the hands of everybody that's got a student loan.
	So instead of making loan payments, they can go out and just spend that on consumer goods and food and blue jeans and whatever else, and that creates economic activity.
	The whole point of forgiving student loans wasn't to help the students.
	It was to make the economy look better.
	Well, what if, as an election tactic here, like a last-ditch election tactic, if Kamala and Joe Biden announce, we're going to forgive last year's taxes?
	Because, you see, Trump already came out and said that we're going to make sure that you're never taxed on tips.
	For all of you who are servers in the service industry, if you're a food server, Waiter, waitress, if you're a valet, car parker, whatever, if you do something and you get tips, you are not going to pay federal taxes, income taxes, on those tips.
	And that was a very popular thing for Trump to do.
	And of course, I tweeted out after that, I'm like, that's a great start, but why not end all federal taxes on all personal income?
	Let everybody keep the money they earn, not just waiters, right?
	Let everybody keep the money they earn.
	Well, that would be the ultimate economic stimulus, by the way.
	You know, for the government to stop stealing your money.
	Stop looting the people who are actually producing.
	So don't be surprised if, in sheer desperation, the Democrats come up with something like a one-time income tax refund.
	Like, we're going to pay you back everything that you paid us for the last year.
	And they could do it, because all they have to do is print the trillions.
	I mean, how much do they collect from the people anyway?
	What is it, like, two or three trillion dollars, something in that range?
	I forgot the number.
	Whatever it is, they could just print it.
	Which tells you something, doesn't it?
	Tells you they never needed your money.
	They never needed your tax money.
	The whole idea that the government has to fund itself with your money and that's why you have to pay taxes, it's complete nonsense.
	There is no need whatsoever.
	They're going to print the money anyway.
	Why do they need to take it from you if they can just print it?
	So that would be a massive stimulus to It would be incredibly popular.
	Who wouldn't want to get all their money back from the IRS? Anybody who works, anyway.
	And then the government would just turn around and print money, which would massively expand the money supply.
	Massive economic stimulus.
	But the result of that, as you well know, dear listeners, because you are so well-informed and you understand Austrian economics and you learn from Ron Paul, you know what's going on.
	Food prices would go through the roof.
	Housing prices would go up.
	Inflation would be rampant because the value of the dollar would plummet because now there are so many new dollars in the system.
	This is exactly what we're dealing with right now because there were so many dollars created during COVID. Massive stimulus, trillions of new dollars created and pumped into the systems, into hospitals and banks and people's pockets and so on.
	Now, you know, a decent hamburger at a restaurant is $20.
	Or a decent steak at the grocery store is like $40.
	Uncooked, by the way.
	That would go way worse.
	Way worse.
	But you see, the average American doesn't tie it together.
	The average American doesn't realize what causes inflation.
	They tend to blame grocery stores, which is something that Biden does, and silly national leaders in Australia and Canada, like Justin Trudeau, threatening the grocery stores like a moron.
	How dare you grocery stores charge more for the goods that cost you more?
	It's like...
	The grocery stores are price gouging people by raising retail prices the same amount that their raw materials are raised.
	I mean, grocery stores operate on very thin margins.
	You know, if they get a profit of like 2%, they're doing great.
	Grocery stores are not taking products in and marking them up 300%.
	They might have, I don't know, maybe a 25% margin, maybe a 20% margin on the goods.
	And then by the time you factor in all the overhead and all the air conditioning, electricity, intense electricity bills, and the real estate and the leases and the insurance and everything, if they make a 2% profit, they're doing great.
	But government leaders like Justin Trudeau want grocery stores to artificially lower prices to the point where they just lose money and go out of business.
	Well, how does that serve the community?
	First we had food inflation, now we have a bankrupt grocery store.
	Oh, thanks, Justin Trudeau.
	Of course, you know, socialists and Marxists, they don't understand anything about economics, do they?
	They think that government price controls are a good thing.
	Yeah, just have the government set the price on bread.
	That won't cause bread shortages at all.
	No.
	I've never seen that happen in history.
	But you get the idea.
	So the bottom line is, there's going to be a big emergency that comes up here.
	The government will create that emergency if they have to.
	They're going to use that as a justification to try to inject mass liquidity into the system to try to rescue this collapse that's underway, which apparently is spiraling out of control.
	The question that you and I should be thinking of is, well, what kind of emergency are they going to commit?
	Could it be war?
	Could it be a nuclear false flag in America, like on U.S. soil, some kind of nuclear detonation?
	And then they declare an emergency and then they cancel the election.
	You know, the whole drill.
	It would solve all kinds of problems for the deep staters all at the same time.
	Don't put it past them.
	They'll try anything at this point.
	And then they can set price controls and then they can have food distribution systems where you are required to have biometric scans.
	So, you know, welcome to the grocery store.
	The government run.
	There's like armed guards at the door.
	And you have to scan in on your mobile device.
	There's going to be an app like a COVID tracking app.
	You know, you have to scan this barcode at the door and then you're allowed to purchase, you know, one chicken a week or like one pound of hamburger a week and like one gallon of milk a week or whatever.
	So it's food rationing.
	And it's tied to your identity, your mark of the beast system.
	And Amazon just rolled out the Amazon One system where you wave your palm and it reads your palm and they're talking about it's freedom, it's freedom, you know, mark of the beast, right?
	You wave your palm around and then you get all these groceries, but they're tracking you and they're controlling you.
	They're limiting it.
	If you're not allowed to get their groceries that day or if you're on their arrest list, Which has happened to Tulsi Gabbard, apparently.
	She's being tracked by deep staters every time she flies on an airplane now.
	She's been put on some kind of a watch list.
	Imagine if you're on a watch list and then you scan into the grocery store.
	Before you can get out of there with your one chicken and gallon of milk, you're surrounded by a bunch of feds who are taking you away to some black site somewhere to torture you until you, quote, confess to the insurrection or whatever they want to say you did.
	And yes, they did that to the J6 people too, by the way.
	So, do you want to be getting your food rations through some government-enforced purchasing system with a Mark of the Beast palm scan or an iris scan and you have to be vaccinated and you have to have a good social credit score or you starve to death?
	Because that's what's coming, folks.
	That's what's coming if we don't stand up against this and stop the tyranny.
	Now, as far as the markets go, what's coming is absolute devastation.
	We're talking about major correction territory here.
	Markets may yet, at least the U.S. stock market, could very easily have a 40% correction here.
	And I've heard convincing arguments from other experts in finance that are saying more like, eventually, 60-70% corrections.
	Now, I'm not predicting that for next week, I'm not saying that that's, you know, don't count on this as investment advice.
	That's not what I'm offering you here.
	But I'm saying that there's so much risk in the system.
	Why would you want to stay in the system?
	That's why a lot of people are selling right now.
	And that's why a lot of people are moving into safer assets like gold.
	Gold and silver.
	By the way, gold prices right now are holding quite well.
	Gold is right now over $2,400.
	Now, silver has taken a bit of a hit.
	It's below $28 right now.
	And I just bought silver like a week ago.
	But hey, I know where silver is going long term, so I am not unhappy about that.
	I still think that was a great deal.
	A great way to preserve assets.
	But gold is really the hero of this story right now.
	Gold's at $2,409 right now.
	Gold has risen substantially in the last six months.
	And on top of that, gold is holding value while almost every other asset is plummeting, including crypto, including stocks and bonds and stocks.
	Real estate, you know, all the typical things are cratering, but not gold.
	So right now is an outstanding time to look at gold because it's functioning as a store of value.
	Gold is proving that it is insurance against financial collapse.
	Gold is an asset that you can have self-custody over because you can have gold in your hands or, you Buried in the yard or wherever you want to put your gold.
	You can put it in a safe deposit box at the bank, although that's not my recommendation.
	But gold is a store of value.
	And unlike stocks where you couldn't log in to Vanguard or Fidelity or Ameritrade or Robinhood or wherever, you couldn't log in to E-Trade because it was down.
	You don't need to log in to check on your gold.
	No cyber attack can make your gold vanish.
	In other words, no power grid failure makes your gold vanish.
	You can always access your gold because it's physical.
	It's in your hands.
	You have self-custody.
	And by the way, the government can't monitor what you're doing with the gold because they don't have any way to.
	It's not connected.
	It's not part of the Internet.
	So we've got two really great gold sources for you.
	One of them is a sponsor, which is the Treasure Island Coins and Precious Metals Company.
	You can find them at metalswithmike.com.
	And there you can see their real-time prices too, by the way.
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	They've been a sponsor for years.
	Many of our readers have used their services to acquire gold and silver coins or gold and silver bars.
	It can be domestic mints, you know, such as the U.S. Treasury, or it can be overseas mints.
	And right now, I would go with overseas mints.
	And there are some great mints all over the world, you know, Australia or South Africa or the U.K. or wherever, that have more affordable sources of silver and gold.
	So that's a great thing to check out.
	And of course, we have our site, verifiedgoldbacks.com, which is an affiliate site where you can purchase goldbacks.
	We earn a little bit on that, but we did the lab testing.
	You know, we tested the goldbacks to make sure they contained the claimed amount of gold and the gold purity.
	We use our mass spec instruments in our food science lab, ICPMS instruments.
	And we determine and we share all the results there on that website, all the purity and the recovery of gold from the different goldbacks because they have, again, real physical gold embedded in them.
	So just go to verifiedgoldbacks.com, just like it sounds, verifiedgoldbacks.com, and you can check it out.
	And I've got both of those links, by the way, on rangerdeals.com if that's just easier for you to go to.
	And there's no discount code on gold, by the way, because it is what it is.
	There's no discount because there's hardly any margin in gold, even by gold dealers or what have you.
	There's no discounts.
	It's whatever the price is today is what it is.
	The point of gold is to lock in your assets so that they don't keep losing value, which is what's happening in the stock market, it's happening in the dollar, it's happening just putting money in the bank.
	You're losing value every moment of every day because of dollar devaluation and so on.
	So consider gold and silver.
	And right now is a really good time to look at that.
	Just be sure to do your own research.
	Have your own investment advisors.
	Don't take this.
	I'm not your advisor.
	I don't know your particular financial situation.
	And just understand, of course, there's always risk in any, quote, investment.
	But I don't even encourage speculation in gold and silver.
	I don't, you know, here's what's funny.
	I've been buying for many, many years a little bit of gold and silver every once in a while over time and just like adding it up.
	And I don't even think about the value in dollars because I know the dollar is going to zero.
	I think about ounces.
	How many ounces of gold?
	How many ounces of silver?
	What have you, right?
	And I buy also for vaulting.
	So I use the Treasure Island vaulting services.
	So if you don't want to take possession of this, you want them to vault it for you with all their armed guards and everything.
	And their Lloyds of London insurance policies and all that, they can vault it for you.
	And it's very affordable.
	And then, you know, you can just take possession whenever you want or never.
	You can have them guard it.
	But I don't think about the dollar value of metals.
	I think about the ounces.
	It's pointless to think about them in dollars because dollars are going to go to zero or I should say near zero at some point here.
	We're going to move into a hyperinflationary chapter where We're good to go.
	Different books, different passages, you know, different verses.
	Well, today I'm teaching one that many of you will find familiar, if you're familiar with the Bible, 1 Timothy 6, which is kind of a well-known chapter and verse for saying that the love of money is the root of all evil.
	Notably, That verse does not say that money itself is the root of all evil, but the love of money, those who worship money.
	And you'll hear that in today's sermon, which is at the end of this broadcast, after the interview.
	But this is a good time to just think about your spiritual priorities.
	If you lost all the money that you had in investments, would that be the end of your life?
	Would you lose all meaning?
	Would you lose self-worth?
	I hope not.
	Because money is useful.
	Yes, we all agree money is useful.
	But is it the goal?
	Should your life be led in pursuit of money above all else?
	And I think you would agree the answer is no, of course not.
	And if you spend your life in the pursuit of money above all else, you'll die a miserable, lonely person with a lot of, quote, money, or maybe not even that much money after the collapse of this whole system.
	So what's the point of sacrificing everything else in your life to focus on accumulating something that's a fraud in the first place, which is the dollar?
	I mean, think about the layers of fraud there.
	You work hard, you know, or...
	You make investments or whatever business you're in, and you accumulate all this, quote, money, which isn't really money.
	It's just currency.
	And the currency is all digital.
	It's all fake, and the government just prints more whenever they want, stealing from your currency.
	And, you know, you make investments in the stock market.
	Like, I'm getting a 12% return.
	That's awesome, you think.
	Except your dollar is losing 20% of the value every year, so you're actually losing.
	Even when you're gaining, and then the IRS shows up and says, well, you got to pay taxes on the gains.
	You made money, but you didn't really.
	You lost money, and now you got to pay taxes on the money that actually is worth less.
	You would have been better off just buying gold and sitting on it.
	Like, literally burying it in the yard, it would have done more.
	You would have earned more in the gold.
	You would have kept more in the gold than all those stock investments, all the paperwork, all the regulatory filings and the taxes and the reporting and keeping up with it, you know, with your eyes glued to the screen.
	Oh, how's the stock doing today?
	Oh my gosh.
	Are we traders?
	Are we short-term sellers and short-term buyers?
	Should I do puts and calls and options and Margins?
	No.
	Just, honestly, gold in the yard would do better than all that.
	All that.
	One of the reasons I sleep well at night is because I don't have any investments in the stock market.
	I'm telling you, the quality of life that you get from not having exposure to the stock market, it's priceless.
	Priceless.
	Buy gold and silver and you will sleep soundly because you have sound money at that moment.
	Seriously, it'll change your life and you'll earn more.
	I guarantee you, 10 years from now, when I'm digging up the gold and silver or whatever, Buy food, whatever I'm doing.
	It's going to be worth more than any amount of investments in the markets and bonds and vehicles and strategies and all that stuff.
	Besides, do you want to spend your life looking at charts all day?
	I hope not.
	It's a waste of time.
	So the love of money is the root of all evil.
	And also, don't be obsessed with money or making money or watching charts or trying to predict charts.
	And this could happen in crypto, too.
	I've seen it in crypto.
	People buying crypto and then they go bonkers when it moves against them.
	Pulling their hair out, you know.
	Crypto is even crazier in terms of its volatility.
	Bitcoin is down.
	I think it traded below $50,000 just recently, too.
	Crypto has got its advantages, don't get me wrong.
	Rapid exchanges and self-custody and so on.
	But it's also very volatile.
	Gold is the champion right now.
	Gold should get a gold medal, actually, come to think of it.
	Gold should earn the gold medal of money.
	But it's already gold, so gold is the gold.
	Gold is the gold standard, even.
	Hmm.
	Wonder where that term came from.
	Whatever you do financially, and again, this is not financial advice, but you will never go wrong accumulating more gold.
	You will never regret that decision.
	There's never going to be a day where gold goes to zero because the government prints trillions of dollars of gold.
	Can't happen.
	And in today's sermon, I talk about why that can't happen, which is because gold and silver are God's money.
	And I mean that literally because, well, the table of elements is an expression of the mind of God.
	It's an expression of the rules of God.
	You know, God laid down the rules of physics, atomic physics in particular, which determines...
	How matter is expressed, you know, the properties of matter, the table of elements I'm talking about here, gold, silver, you know, copper, platinum, nickel, whatever, those are expressions of God.
	Those are, it's all just atomic physics right there, folks.
	Man didn't come up with that.
	Man couldn't.
	The stuff that man comes up with always fails and collapses.
	Have you noticed that?
	But the stuff that God created lasts forever.
	Amazing.
	Okay, I've got something else to play for you here.
	Here a video of Congressman Jamie Raskin, who is now just admitting this public plan that if Trump wins the election, that the Democrats are going to invoke the 14th Amendment in January of that the Democrats are going to invoke the 14th Amendment in January of 2025 and block Trump from becoming president, even if they set off a civil war
	So Democrats already have a plan to carry out their own election denial insurrection against Trump, and they're openly bragging about it.
	How crazy is that?
	Listen to this video for yourself.
	Check it out.
	What can be put into the Constitution can slip away from you very quickly.
	And the greatest example going on right now before our very eyes is Section 3 of the 14th Amendment, which they're just disappearing with a magic wand as if it doesn't exist, even though it could not be clearer what it's stating.
	And so, you know, they want to kick it to Congress.
	So it's going to be up to us on January 6th, 2025, to tell the rampaging Trump mobs that he's disqualified.
	And then we need bodyguards for everybody in civil war conditions, all because the nine justices, not all of them, but these justices who have not many cases to look at every year, not that much work to do.
	A huge staff, great protection, simply do not want to do their job and interpret what the great 14th Amendment means.
	And I'm glad that Sherilyn's creating her new center so we can bring that.
	Wow.
	Did you hear that?
	I mean...
	Here's a member of Congress saying that the Supreme Court doesn't have much to do.
	What is he talking about?
	And he says they're going to stop Trump on January 6, 2025.
	In other words, he is saying that the Democrats are going to run their own insurrection, which would seemingly disqualify them via the 14th Amendment, Section 3, right?
	And by the way, they stole the 2020 election, which means they are already disqualified by their own logic.
	But they're going to try to weaponize this against Trump.
	And then he says they're going to be rampaging mobs of Trump supporters that will have to be, I guess, you know, arrested en masse again.
	And maybe he says they're going to be civil war conditions.
	So I guess he's saying that they're going to deploy the government against Trump supporters.
	Whatever he's saying here is very, very dangerous.
	He is admitting the Democrats are plotting to overthrow our constitutional republic in January of 2025.
	And if he is saying that they're going to do that, if they do try that, he's saying they will set off a civil war, and he may not be wrong about that.
	So just understand, like I've said many times here, the Democrats are plotting in every way possible to make sure that Trump doesn't become president.
	And the Democrats have already decided they will not recognize a Trump victory.
	They will absolutely not recognize it.
	And I'm very curious how that's going to go.
	Now, I've said that red states should preempt all of this by declaring that they will not recognize the electoral college votes of blue states where illegals are allowed to vote or illegals are registered to vote automatically.
	Those states, which includes, of course, California, should be basically nullified in terms of the electoral college vote.
	They don't get to participate in a national election unless they agree to play by fair rules, meaning, obviously, that only U.S. citizens should be allowed to vote.
	I mean, it's obvious.
	It's common sense.
	And it's also the law.
	So the red states should say that any of these blue states that violate the law, Well, you have nullified your participation in the national election.
	End of story.
	And then you hear, like, Congressman Raskin here saying that they're not going to recognize Trump.
	So do you realize where this is going, folks?
	That come January, roughly around January 20th of next year, you realize we could have two governments, we could have two presidents, Yeah, and different states recognizing different presidents.
	That's not fiction any longer.
	The Democrats could say that they're only going to recognize Kamala, or whoever they throw up there at that time, the key word being throw up.
	And then the red states will say, no, in the fair elections, Trump won, and we recognize Trump.
	And then the question becomes, well, you know, the bureaucracy in D.C., who would they get behind?
	Well, they would get behind the Democrats.
	So Trump would have to set up a new capital in a red state, such as Texas or Florida.
	But let's just say it's Texas because that's where I am, and this is an amazing idea.
	Texas becomes the new capital of the new America, the real America, where honest elections are recognized.
	And D.C. remains the capital of the collapsing, dishonest, rigged, criminal cabal old America that will, of course, collapse under the weight of its dying dollar.
	While in Texas and under Trump, we create a new currency, a new currency kind of like the new BRICS currency where it's honest and it's backed partially by gold, maybe 20 to 40 percent by gold.
	And therefore, it cannot be counterfeited.
	As a result, the currency would be, again, honest.
	It would be honest money and it would engender an incredible era of economic abundance among the red states that participate in that new economy with the new currency.
	Meanwhile, the left-wing, you know, blue America would be printing trillions of dollars like mad to try to cover up all the mistakes of their failed policies, and their cities and states would collapse into absolute anarchy, and everybody would sell dollars to buy the new currency that holds value, you see.
	And so the dollars would collapse, and the cities like New York City and Chicago and Seattle and Portland, what have you, San Francisco, they would all collapse.
	Denver, total collapse of blue cities.
	And given that those cities are run by Democrats who hate police and have defunded the police, then There would be no law and order in those cities, and the red states would have to begin to enact border controls to stop all the criminals and refugees fleeing the collapsing blue cities, making sure they don't Enter into the red states and red cities and carry out acts of mayhem.
	Meanwhile, the Washington, D.C. government would be carrying out acts of warfare against Texas and Florida and all the other states, Kansas and Missouri and Oklahoma, whatever, which is not that much different from what the federal government's doing right now anyway.
	Because the federal government is functioning as a terrorist organization right now, who do you think is committing sabotage against the food infrastructure?
	Who's destroying the energy infrastructure in America?
	It's the federal government.
	Who is shutting down transportation by trying to ban combustion engines?
	Oh, it's the federal government.
	The federal government is already at war with the American people, so it wouldn't be that different except...
	Joe Biden would love to use F-16s against American citizens, obviously, because he's threatened that many times.
	Good luck is all I'm saying.
	F-16s, as we're finding out in Ukraine, not actually that useful when the whole country is against you.
	Just a couple of F-16s is not going to change anything.
	And by the way, Texas has more veterans than any other state.
	Texas has military bases and tank commanders and nuclear weapons.
	If D.C. tries to get into an actual kinetic war with the rest of America, it would be the woke-tard Pentagon versus real America, and the woke-tards won't get that far because the military has become so utterly incompetent and incapable of That they can barely sail naval vessels without colliding with each other, by the way.
	Because they've got all the Woketards in charge of everything now.
	So for those of you listening in Red America, do not fear like the Pentagon declaring war on your state.
	They're going to send soldiers wearing push-up bras, high heels, and rainbow-colored scarves.
	Like transgender soldiers waving LGBT flags, and they're not going to be effective as a military force.
	And by the way, as soon as the economic centers of the United States pull away from the fraudulent, fake left-wing government with the staged elections and the fake news and all that, that whole system is going to collapse anyway because it's only the producer states like Texas that are carrying the rest of the country.
	Think about California.
	Most of the GDP out of California is virtual.
	It's not physical, right?
	It's technology, software.
	Well, Texas produces oil, energy, food, machinery, Real things, and so do a lot of the other red states, whereas the blue states tend to focus on financialization, or you go to New York, half the GDP of New York is paperwork, and the other half is sick care, like hospital revenues.
	I mean, I know there are exceptions to that, by the way.
	I know there are small manufacturers, especially in upstate New York and so on.
	I'm not trying to insult everybody in New York.
	York.
	I'm just saying that generally speaking, the blue states, they don't engage as much in real productivity.
	They do a lot of virtual things and some crazy things.
	Hey, speaking of crazy things about New York, by the way, did you hear the story that RFK Jr. has now come out with?
	Apparently, there was going to be a big hit piece published about RFK Jr. that he planted a dead bear in Central Park, a young bear cub that had been run over by a vehicle that he picked up off the road, put it in a young bear cub that had been run over by a vehicle that he picked up off the road, put it in the back of his van, and apparently he drove it to New York City and dumped it in Central Park and staged a death scene to make
	And this happened only 10 years ago.
	And apparently RFK Jr.
	thought this was going to be a really funny prank of some kind, which absolutely blows my mind.
	Of all the pranky things to do, why would you take a dead bear cub and...
	Put its body in Central Park and make it look like a bicycle hit it?
	That's just so bizarre, folks.
	I mean, again, there are weird things out there, but RFK was trying to preempt this hit piece or whatever.
	And so he filmed a video himself telling this story to somebody else, and then he put that out, and he's now bracing for the bewildering backlash of people who are mostly asking the question of WTF. It's like, You know, hey, Bobby, what's with the dead bear, man?
	I mean, we get it about, like, fighting against mercury, fighting for the safety of children.
	Well, except not the ones in Gaza, of course, but other children.
	We get it about, you know, heavy metals and pesticides and the vaccines.
	We get all that stuff.
	What's with the bear, dude?
	Who puts, first of all, Who picks up a dead bear off the highway and puts it in their van?
	Now, okay, I know a couple of people who would do that, like Daniel Vitalis would probably do that, because he'd be like, bear meets good, you know?
	Because that's his whole career, is like wild foods harvesting and some hunting and some You know, whatever, Daniel Vitalis is like this outdoor wilderness food expert, so you would kind of expect that from him.
	It's like, the meat's good, let's go for it.
	Or Marjorie Wildcraft, right?
	Maybe she would do that.
	If there's like pretty good roadkill, in fact, I think she told me about that in one of her interviews.
	I remember, in fact, she said, you know, if the roadkill's good, because the meat's good for like three days, she said, you get the roadkill, you skin it, you got good meat, and if the meat goes bad, no worries, she said, you throw it in the...
	Like in a bucket, you let the maggots and worms grow on it, and then you feed those maggots to the chickens.
	So she had it all worked out, man.
	But for RFK Jr.
	to pick up roadkill, that strikes me as odd.
	Does that bother any of you?
	It's like, you're driving along, seriously?
	Like, hey, there's a dead bear.
	Let's get it.
	I mean, who does that?
	I mean, who in the world of...
	You know, politics and money and being a member of the Kennedy family.
	Like, why would you stop and pick up a bear?
	And then, above all things, decide to dump it in Central Park in New York City.
	Which, by the way, set off this mass police investigation.
	They were looking for wild bears all over the city.
	Folks, you're looking in the wrong city.
	I don't know why you think there's going to be bears all over New York City.
	Have you been in the city?
	There's no bear that can survive that, you know, cacophony of noise and traffic.
	I mean, come on.
	You're looking in the wrong place for bears, folks.
	But they had like a bear hunt all over New York City.
	We've got to find the mama bear, you know?
	No, it's not here.
	It's like 100 miles away up the highway where somebody ran over the baby bear that RFK Jr.
	picked up.
	But it just makes me wonder about the judgment of Of somebody who would do that, pull a prank.
	I mean, I could understand that if you were 19.
	I mean, those of you who went to college, I went to college, and yeah, all kinds of weird little pranks.
	Some of my buddies in the dorm, they would take the mattress of One of their roommates would just chuck it out of the window.
	The way this dorm was set up, you could fit the twin-size mattress.
	You could just barely slide it out one of the windows that opened like, I don't know, it had a hinge and it would open vertically.
	And you could slide the mattress out that.
	So they would slide people's mattresses out of the top floor.
	You know, and the poor kid would come home.
	Where's my mattress?
	Oh, yeah, it's down there in the courtyard, buddy.
	That's a prank.
	That's a college prank.
	You do that kind of stuff in college, whatever.
	You don't do that when you're almost 60.
	You don't do that when you're running a non-profit.
	You're supposed to be mature, I suppose.
	That might be the right word.
	You're supposed to be mature.
	Not that I'm always the most mature person, because I make a lot of crazy jokes from time to time, but it's all in good humor.
	But I would never throw a bear, especially a dead one, in the park waiting for people to discover it.
	That's kind of a sick, twisted joke.
	As a general rule, I don't move dead carcasses around, okay?
	That's kind of my rule.
	Occasionally, when I have a chicken that dies...
	I remember a couple months ago, my new rooster killed one of my old roosters, which is what roosters do, sadly.
	I had to pick up the old rooster's carcass, less than a day old, and walked it out to a field, and I chucked it out there.
	Said a little prayer for the little guy.
	Hope you had a good life here at the ranch, you know.
	And I chucked it out there specifically so that the predator birds, the vultures, could get it.
	So I was sort of recycling the rooster flesh back into the ecosystem.
	That's actually kind of a green thing to do.
	But I wouldn't drive into town and throw a dead chicken in the park.
	Wait until somebody finds it.
	It's going to be so funny, man.
	So funny.
	Like, that just seems juvenile, doesn't it?
	Just totally juvenile?
	I don't know.
	What do you think?
	You know what I'm thinking is, must be nice to have all the protections of being a Kennedy because anybody else pulls that stunt.
	They get investigated by police, you know?
	Don't tell me there aren't special classes in America.
	Of course, there's different classes.
	You and I can't get away with that.
	And maybe that's why we have the judgment to not try that kind of stuff.
	And by the way, if you want to know the real answer to that, like how crazy it is, imagine if Trump had admitted to doing that.
	Can you imagine the field day that the press would have with that?
	You know, Trump stages bear murder scene in Central Park.
	He's crazy.
	You'd never hear the end of it.
	You know, there'd be protesters wearing bear suits.
	And then we get confused with the furry convention right next to us.
	Like, wait a minute, are you a furry?
	Or are you a bear protester, you know?
	Or maybe both.
	Hey, why is that giant furry bunny rabbit humping the bear costume guy?
	Wait a minute, that's the wrong convention.
	No, this is a Trump protest.
	I can't stop teasing the furries.
	Because all the weird stuff that they're into, and people keep sending me links to weird Twitter posts of not just furries, but also posts recently of some dude humping a car.
	I'm not going to play that.
	Don't worry.
	I'm not going to play it.
	But I saw it.
	I saw it, and it's true.
	I'm telling you, folks.
	People out there, they'll hump cars, and I just can't get over it.
	It's the funniest thing, man.
	But I still haven't seen a furry humping a car.
	I think that would be like the...
	That would be an e-ticket ride for those of you old enough to remember that at Disneyland.
	A furry, like someone wearing a giant animal costume humping a car, which would actually make more sense in terms of privacy.
	Like if you were going to hump a car in public, you might not want to have your face showing in case someone's filming that.
	So wouldn't you put on like a...
	Like a bear costume?
	Or a giant dog or cat or bunny rabbit, whatever the furries are?
	Yeah.
	So if any of you ever find a video of a furry humping a tailpipe, that should win the top prize right there.
	That's the gold medal of Olympics.
	And given how crazy the Olympics are these days, that might be the opening ceremony for the next Olympics.
	We'll have furries humping cars as a celebration of twisted wokeness.
	Yeah, I can see that happening, actually.
	That's no longer in the realm of just, you know, impossibility.
	That's kind of like where the globalists are going.
	Alright, enough of the furries.
	Still the funniest thing.
	When I was in college, I remember that people would do the foam sword fighting thing.
	They would dress up like Renaissance Festival.
	What was it called?
	The...
	I think it was called the SCA, like the Society of Creative...
	Something like Creative Anachron.
	I don't want to take a wrong guess, but it was called the SCA, I think.
	And they would meet up in the fields on college campus and they would beat each other with foam medieval weapons.
	Okay?
	You can have like a shield and you can have like a foam sword or whatever.
	And maybe this is still going on.
	I don't know.
	But That was not crazy.
	It was just, you know, we would watch people do it.
	It was like, okay, great.
	They're acting out, you know, the medieval time period or whatever.
	Maybe they're going to learn some history and they're being physical and they're beating each other with foam jousting sticks and whatever.
	We understood that.
	But to dress up like other animals...
	And then to engage in, like, weird perverted sex acts, like, that's kind of the modern-day rendition of that, I suppose.
	And that's just too weird.
	That's getting...
	It's not just, you know, innocent people playing around and having fun dressing up like armored knights or whatever.
	It's crazy.
	Okay, now this bothered me.
	I had to look it up.
	Here it is.
	Society of Creative Anachronism.
	I was guessing that.
	I just didn't want to say it because I thought that must be wrong.
	Society of Creative Anachronism.
	Yes.
	Here it is.
	Welcome to the current Middle Ages, it says.
	CSA.org.
	And on their homepage here, it says, find your local groups and activities.
	It's got 30,000 members in 20 kingdoms around the globe, and they learn about arts, skills, and culture of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance.
	It says, in an atmosphere of fun, through tournaments, royal courts, feasts, Dancing, classes, hands-on workshops, and more.
	Okay, see, that sounds innocent.
	It's not like, dress up like a dog and let's hump each other.
	That's what furries are.
	The SCA seems like sane but fun people.
	You know what I mean?
	Just don't show up with Velcro.
	Because that's when they will impale you with their foam swords.
	Velcro was invented in 1924 or whatever.
	Don't break the time code with your modern advances in buttonery or whatever.
	So just honor the time period and you'll be okay.
	But I do think it would be funny if somebody would show up at an SCA tournament of jousting knights with foam joust and everything.
	Just show up like a Like a giant bunny rabbit with a sword.
	It's like, wrong event, dude!
	You're kind or not, welcome here!
	That would be hilarious.
	I would pay for that video.
	But then again, just watch the Olympics for a couple more years and we might all get those videos for free, all in our feeds, whether we like it or not.
	Okay, enough.
	I'm sorry.
	I go on too long about these things, but my sense of humor just can't allow me to To put this topic down.
	It's just too funny, man.
	It's too funny.
	It's just such a rich field for mockery.
	I can't stop myself.
	All right.
	We're going to jump into the interview.
	This is with Steve Slepsovich and also Tina from the Satellite Phone Store, neither of whom are wearing animal costumes.
	Thank goodness.
	They are, in fact, helping people with the hurricane situation.
	Well, the Storm Debbie, or Little Debbie, as I joked, That's dropping all kinds of rain all over Florida and other states already.
	So they're going to give you some good information about preparedness and also, of course, backup comms because the Satellite Phone Store is a sponsor of this podcast.
	But Tina and her company, they donate a lot.
	They donate phones to first responders and phone time.
	And they're also actually, they've got Starlink connections now.
	And so they're selling and sometimes renting out Starlink systems for people who need bandwidth or sometimes hospitals or fire departments, emergency responders that need connections or comms.
	They help out a lot of those people.
	So enjoy that interview.
	And then after that, we've got the sermon for today, which does not cover furries because they're not mentioned anywhere in the Bible.
	In fact, 1 Timothy chapter 6 is the love of money.
	We'll talk about how the love of money is the root of all different kinds of evil.
	Not just one kind of evil, by the way, many different kinds of evil.
	So watch out about your relationship with money.
	And then one more thing, I forgot to remind you of this, but this Saturday at Brighton University, we begin airing the EMF Protection Series featuring Nick Pinot.
	And the official title is EMF Hazards Summit 2024.
	If you go to brightu.com, that's just the word bright, followed by the letter U, bright U, like Brighton University.
	Just sign up there with your email address.
	You'll be able to watch the entire series free of charge.
	It begins airing this Saturday.
	EMF Hazards Summit teaches you about Bluetooth and Wi-Fi and power lines, high-voltage power lines and 5G towers and everything, how to protect yourself and what are the real health hazards.
	You can check it out.
	You can watch it all for free just by registering, or you can choose to purchase the entire program ahead of time or during the program.
	And then you can watch it or download the files and watch it on your own schedule and share those files with, you know, close friends, family members, relatives, if you wish, help educate them.
	But it's going to be a great series.
	And by the way, Robert F. Kennedy is featured in Episode 1, but sadly it has nothing to do with the bear story.
	I'm heartbroken.
	I want to hear more about the bear story in Central Park, but whatever.
	Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
	featured in Episode 1, and then there's a lot of incredible contributors, doctors, and researchers throughout the entire series.
	So check that out and sign up at brightu.com.
	And thank you for all of your support.
	Be sure to shop at healthrangerstore.com for your food supply needs as we have back up We've got Ranger buckets, mini buckets, mega buckets, number 10 cans, you know, the whole story.
	And all laboratory tested, almost all certified organic foods and emergency food products.
	HealthRangerStore.com, also with various supplements and toothpaste and mouthwash that are incredibly well formulated with amazing ingredients.
	Check it out yourself at HealthRangerStore.com and thank you for your support.
	All right, here's the interview with Tina and Steve Slepsovich about emergency preparedness and storm or Hurricane Debbie rocking through Georgia right now.
	Okay, enjoy the interview.
	I'll be back with you tomorrow.
	Okay, welcome to today's special broadcast here on BrightTown.com because of the storm that is hitting Florida with a lot of infrastructure failures, power outages and more.
	I'm joined today by Tina from the Satellite Phone Store and also Steve Slepcevich, who is a first responder, well, an emergency responder in many ways.
	So welcome both of you to the interview today.
	Thank you.
	Thank you.
	Yeah.
	Just want to make sure audio is all working and everything because you are both in Florida right now.
	So who wants to give the report of what's actually happening first?
	Yeah, so I'm in Florida right now, Mike.
	And this storm, I think, as I was telling you before, it really caught me off guard.
	Normally, you know, I know about these storms because we're a prepper company.
	We help customers prepare for this kind of storm with communication, generators, solar panels.
	And to be honest with you, this storm kind of caught me off guard.
	I didn't realize how big it was.
	Let me just tell you something.
	I'm in Nokomos, which is Sarasota, Florida, and I have never seen a storm like this that has lasted this long.
	And it has brought in so much rain, up to 16 inches of rain in some areas.
	Oh, wow.
	Now, the only way I can leave my place is by a boat.
	My car cannot...
	I mean, I tried driving, and then within like half a mile, I had to turn around because, you know, the roads are pretty much...
	Most roads in my area are flooded.
	You can't get out of the area.
	What's the power situation?
	So I'm on generator.
	So I had to go to my generator.
	My power went out about midnight last night.
	And all I have right now is my generator.
	So that's what I'm using to turn the air on and to also charge my cell phone and my satellite phone.
	So yeah, it's been kind of crazy.
	And also, it's very dangerous to drive even if you can get out because there's a lot of live wires.
	So I think if you drive over a live wire, I think Steve can probably give you better information than I can on that.
	Yeah, for sure.
	So go ahead, Steve.
	Let's go to Steve.
	Yeah, Steve, give us an overview of where it's going and what kind of emergencies are emerging.
	Yeah, so...
	Yeah, so if you take a look at it, every hurricane is a little bit different.
	When people go, I've written out a hurricane before, it was a Cat 3, and the Cat 3 two years ago was a dahlia that actually went right to the same exact path, which is through Steinehatchie, nearby Perry there, over Madison, and then it's going to go clear across and come out in Savannah, Georgia area.
	And then loop out to the ocean, go around Hilt Head and come back towards Charleston.
	That's the current projected pack.
	What people don't understand is this thing is carrying a lot of moisture in it.
	And it's going to slow down.
	So as this system goes through, it's got a lot of moisture in it.
	And as it hooks around, it's going to create a surge effect, kind of like a damming effect that's going to go up against the shoreline.
	Keep in mind that it's been raining on the outskirts and all those areas in the hillsides and the other areas, those are all filling up the rivers that are headed towards the coastline.
	So as that rain comes out towards the coastline, And if the hurricane loops around and pushes the surge back into the coastline, that's going to create for a historic surge and historic flooding of that.
	And if you know the Savannah area, Where the convention center is, where the historic district is, that's a low-lying area.
	That's where the shipping canals go through.
	So if this thing plays out like it's currently showing, it's going to be mass devastation.
	So our team's already in place, the temporary power generation, the big water extraction pumps.
	We have them staged in that entire area right now for this incoming event.
	As of this afternoon, right now, the shops are starting to close up and move people out.
	So they're even letting everybody know that they have to evacuate the area.
	And that starts this afternoon.
	So they're starting to push people completely out, where people won't be showing up tomorrow tomorrow.
	The rain right now in that area is constant.
	I'm actually mobilizing that way, but my guys are already on the ground, and they're telling me that things are shutting down across the entire area, that whole area where the storm is headed.
	Now, importantly, you mentioned the actual land speed of the storm is slowing.
	And then what that means is that it will just continue to drench more and more rain hour after hour in the same location.
	What kind of total rainfall is Savannah looking to get?
	They're looking anywhere from 20 to 30 inches of height.
	You're kidding me.
	And so if you combine that with the surge and the waters that are coming through the rivers, these things are going to crest.
	It's being installed by a high-pressure system.
	And people, you can run from wind.
	You cannot run from rising floodwaters.
	And I can't tell you the amount of rescues that we had to deal with during...
	Hurricane Ian on Fort Myers Beach.
	I always tell people, when you hear the evacuation orders and you see this type of stuff, pick up and get out.
	As a matter of fact, not to tap onto what Tina does, but my guys already are starting to get sketchy service out there on their phones.
	Yeah.
	So it's just the beginning.
	And so I always tell people, pick up your stuff, evacuate.
	Don't be part of the problem.
	You're not saving anything by staying behind.
	There's no power.
	You can't get fuel.
	There's no gas stations that are going to be open.
	You can't get food.
	And if you can't get off those areas, and some people are like, if you look at it, if you look at Hurricane Harvey, right?
	Or you look at Hurricane Florence when it hit Wilmington.
	Wilmington became an island.
	You couldn't get on or off that island unless you actually had a helicopter.
	There was no equipment.
	As a matter of fact, one of the main trauma hospitals started to run out of food on its fifth day.
	How do I know?
	Because we were the ones unloading the frozen goods from an Apache helicopter in a nearby parking lot.
	No kidding.
	So we don't want to be part of that problem.
	So I want to back up what you just said.
	So the National Hurricane Center, the current map, is showing and predicting 20 to 30 inches of rain in a very wide area between Savannah and Charleston, including Charleston, by the way, and many, many miles inland as well.
	And then even outside of that, sweeping into quite a lot of Georgia is 16 to 20 inches and so on.
	And this is going to affect...
	Yeah, I mean, here's the thing.
	You don't want to get stuck in a traffic jam, trying to get out last minute, accidents on a highway.
	Get out earlier.
	Get out earlier.
	Take your pets with you.
	Move out of that area.
	There's not going to be any EMS services.
	Law enforcement's not showing up.
	Typically, it's 96 hours, 72, 96 hours.
	In a flooded area, it could be much longer than that for the water to subside.
	Absolutely.
	You know?
	So, yeah, I mean, you want to be out of those zones.
	Okay, so wind is not the issue, rainfall is the issue, and also, of course, infrastructure.
	Now, Tina, your company, the Satellite Phone Store, which is a routine sponsor of our podcast, and I want to thank you for the donations that you make available, the free phones, the free minutes, and so on, to emergency responders, law enforcement.
	I know you're in the midst of this, Tina, but what is your company doing to help people right now, especially to help first responders?
	Yeah, so the first responders have their satellite phones.
	So like Steve's team and everybody on his team has an Iridium phone currently.
	So they're pretty set up and other first responders that we support, we don't wait till the last minute.
	They're set all the time, you know, 365 days a year because emergencies happen anytime.
	But if you go to sat123.com and you want to get a phone delivered by tomorrow, our San Diego office is open.
	We can overnight it.
	You'll have it by tomorrow.
	So this way you'll have your phone in event.
	You can't, you know, your cell phone service dies.
	And cell phone service has been very spotty.
	I kind of have to sit in one area.
	It goes and comes.
	I have no internet either.
	So it is kind of a satellite phone is an essential that you need.
	And then also, Mike, if you want generators or solar panels, it's also not too late to get them.
	It might be too late to get them delivered for this event, but it's also nice to have.
	If you go to beready123.com, And you get your generators, they're as low as, you know, $600 with a solar panel up to, you know, $10,000 based on how much energy you're going to need when an emergency does happen.
	But we've made it very affordable.
	And that's beready123.com.
	And then for the satellite communications, Mike, it's sat123.com.
	Yeah, I'm glad you mentioned that, and I'm really happy that you're supporting so many people in not just this disaster, but other disasters.
	I just want to underscore for people how difficult life becomes without any electricity whatsoever, right?
	If you have some kind of backup device, and I know, Steve, you can speak to this with all the people that you're helping to rescue, if they can just charge a mobile phone or charge a sat phone or charge a flashlight or charge a tablet, doesn't that make all the difference sometimes?
	Well, yeah, I mean, communication controls what we call chaos.
	And I want to thank Tina again because she's been our exclusive satellite provider for my entire EMS team, but also the generosity on her part and her company's part to provide sad phones for the hospital directors that we deal with and the critical infrastructure that those guys have to be in communication with our teams and just their family but also the generosity on her part and her company's part to provide sad phones for the hospital They're anchored to a lot of these properties that in some areas are just outside the impact zone, so they're not choosing to evacuate.
	So we're setting up the flood barriers for them.
	We're setting up private security on those sites and big extraction pumps.
	But the main thing that they all have at hand is a sad phone to be able to communicate with the other emergency vendors and emergency resource providers.
	So, yeah, that's critical.
	But one thing people don't think about is we've seen the multiple outages on just these disruptions over the last year on cell service.
	And if you see what's going on in the certain temperature of the climate of the world, just look at what's happening globally.
	And these countries that are actually cutting off cell service, like Bangladesh completely cut off cell service and internet communication to control any type of uprising in those areas.
	So Where our country's headed?
	And that's my first thing that I have.
	And it goes with me everywhere.
	It's sitting right next to me in a Faraday sleeve, right next to my Block 19 and my P365. It's a disaster.
	So a riffraff comes out.
	But seriously, I'm looking right at my sat phone in a Faraday sleeve next to my guns, right?
	It's just kind of the two things it seems like in this world we need these days.
	Yeah, absolutely.
	And that actually brings up an important question.
	And I'd like your observation on this, but a lot of times the transaction systems go down because the bandwidth is down or the power grid is down.
	And even if you can find a local shop that's got bottled water or food or what have you, often transactions are difficult.
	What do you actually see on the ground when people are trying to acquire Food last minute or emergency supplies or medicines from a pharmacy, but the systems aren't really working.
	What do people do?
	Well, it's a dangerous time, right?
	The last thing that you want to be is coming into a store where the shelves are pretty empty and people's temperatures in a desperate type of scenario.
	So, I see it all the time.
	I mean, people are stressed out.
	Someone's fighting over the last case of bottled water, right?
	The case of water.
	It gets really heated, right?
	So, That's not where you want to be.
	That's why we say, man, get prepared.
	Stock up.
	Get your shelves full on your property.
	Don't be part of the chaos going out there.
	Be preventative.
	Be preemptive.
	Stay ahead of it.
	Those few hours of getting your stuff together before an event happens, and better yet, planning for a collapse?
	I mean, look at what the markets did today, right?
	This is just the beginning, and there's so many fracturing systems that are happening that you really don't need a whole lot of red sirens going off to know that, hey, I better get my house in order, you know?
	Yeah, exactly.
	And in fact, Tina, I want to go back to you on that.
	Right now, for those people in Florida, they're getting hit with two disasters at the same time.
	You know, rainfall, massive rainfall storms, but also, of course, a stock market hurricane, you could say, that's hitting right now.
	Assets are collapsing all over the world, starting with Japan and spreading to all Western markets, even including crypto and so on.
	We're headed for some hard times, but it seems to me, Tina, that people had better wise up to trading out dollar wealth for things that hold value, you know what I mean?
	Like maybe gold, but also preparedness supplies that you can live on.
	What do you think?
	Yeah, I agree.
	And you know, Mike, we have made it really reasonable to own one of these satellite phones.
	You get the phone for free when you sign up on the service.
	So your first bill is just going to be for the one month of service, plus the tax on the equipment, plus the shipping.
	So you're looking at about maybe $250.
	These are on $800 phones.
	And the monthly fee is about $95 a month.
	It is a 15-month agreement.
	I think our break-even point and the reason why we did 15 months instead of like 12 months, our break-even on the phone in the service is about 14 months.
	So there's not that much margin.
	So we have worked really hard to make sure that Everyone listening, all the listeners, all the, you know, your followers have access to get something that's affordable.
	So yes, and then also, yeah, I agree with food, gold, silver.
	I think, you know, as you know, I'm I'm a prepper.
	And I went to your site and purchased quite a bit, a year's supply of food already for myself and, you know, my son and my grandkids.
	So, yeah, I totally agree.
	We need to be prepared for anything.
	This is an election year.
	This isn't a game.
	This is real.
	And we've got to be prepared for anything.
	Yeah, exactly.
	And also then...
	You know, Steve, as you've seen, when people are not prepared, then they contribute to the panic, right?
	Or if they wait to the very last minute to be prepared, they tend to contribute to the panic.
	And that's how you end up with traffic jams or stores that have no water whatsoever.
	Steve, what are the easiest, simplest things, just from your experience of watching people, you know, face to face, what are like three simple things that the public should make sure they take care of before the storms hit?
	Well, your basics, your food, water, shelter, security, right?
	Those are the top kind of things.
	Know what your evacuation plan is.
	Know what it's like to communicate with your family where your meet-up points are going to be without any type of cost, right?
	As a matter of fact, this next weekend, we're holding a grid down training with two of my top experts.
	One is world renowned on the survival side of it.
	But it's everything from how to hotwire a car, how to build out your own shelter, how to forge, how to hunt for food, how to trap.
	Every little detail of what it means that if you're pushed outside of a city and you're meant to fend for yourself, what that would look like.
	As a matter of fact, I'm taking my daughter.
	She's 23, grew up in the city, right?
	And I'm taking her with me because I take my kids to be a part of it, to learn these type of skills that should the day come, they have that type of stuff in place.
	Yeah, get trained, right?
	You could silver, you could trade some ammo, probably something you don't want to do, but if you have a big stock of it, it's gonna go up very, very quickly and very fast in value.
	Be part of a gun club, you know, learn how to, you know, if people buy a firearm, I'm like, yeah, that just means you're armed.
	It's like going to a guitar center and buying a guitar.
	It doesn't make you a musician.
	Get trained on these things.
	Learn what it needs to do ahead of time.
	You just walk around not as a prey.
	You learn how to actually be that shield and protector for your family, for those around you.
	It's really critical, especially at this time and age.
	So it seems like one of the key points that you're stating here is to drill.
	Drill evacuation, drill meeting up with families.
	Also, back to Tina, isn't it important that people drill how to use the satellite phones or how to use radio comms or how to use a baby stick?
	I mean, you don't want to be thumbing through the manual on the emergency day trying to figure out, like, what do I dial again, right?
	So what do you tell customers?
	Right.
	So yeah, so we tell our customers, and we practice this, we have a communication drill the first of the year, usually on the 2nd of January, and then the first of the June, June 1st.
	So we have a communication drill.
	I have it with family, friends, employees, so that this way everybody knows everybody's satellite phone number.
	Because you're right.
	The last thing you need is for something to happen and not know what to do.
	How do I use this?
	Does it work?
	Is it charged?
	You don't want that.
	So you want to make sure that you have those drills.
	So at least you take out your satellite phone once every six months and charge it or make sure it's charged and then you can put it away if you need to.
	Also, Mike, make sure you take this with you wherever you go.
	I think, you know, some of the people that I heard from this last week that I had an emergency in Georgia, one of the podcasters, Brad Barton, And he forgot his satellite phone and he had no communication.
	He had no electricity.
	So please, you know, you got to take it with you wherever you go.
	Imagine if you were vacationing in Hawaii doing Lahaina and when all the cell towers went down and the whole island and you had a satellite phone, but you didn't bring it with you.
	So take it with you wherever you go.
	Practice using it at least two or three times a year.
	And, you know, just know all of your friends' family's satellite phone numbers.
	Yeah, really good point.
	Excellent advice there.
	And again, thank you, Tina.
	Yeah, Steve?
	Let me add to that.
	I'll tell you how we do it.
	So every quarter, every one of the sat phones, every one of my family members, every one of my team members and our vendors have sat phones.
	It's on a roster.
	Thanks to Tina, we've also created a group of rosters of people that have sat phones in our network from people that are in the Intel community, security community, food providers, power, that type of stuff.
	So, what we do is I made sure that every single one of our team members, including family members, had programmed all the phone numbers into their SAT phones.
	Saved them.
	Then I made them videotape it and text it in, and we kept a checklist making sure that everyone completed the task.
	Every quarter, we do a SAT drill where one person calls, next person, next person, and we're very clear about what the message is.
	The message that we send out, for example, from the first one is, You know, Purple Plain, Fruit Stripes, Milkman, went to the post office, DWA, for example, just to give you an example.
	None of it makes sense.
	Then the next person's got to call the next person, next person, next person.
	And we listen to see if like an old telephone, if there's a breakdown.
	And what it teaches people to do is be absolutely 100% clear on your communication.
	If you didn't hear it, have them repeat again.
	Mm-hmm.
	In that process, people have found, oh, hey, I had a bad SIM card.
	I didn't know about that.
	Oh, wait a minute.
	I forgot to charge my phone and left it on.
	But every quarter, they're topping off their phone, they're making the phone call, and they put it back.
	Why?
	Because in drilling, you're going to rise to the highest level of your training in that fog of war.
	In that panic, you're going to go quickly to what you remember and what you did.
	If you don't complete this type of cycle with your family members, those that you're going to be communicating with, You're going to be in a world of hurt.
	And it's really simple.
	I always tell people, if you're sitting in this room, right where you're at, and you're listening to this message, and your phone was to go out, and the internet was to go out, how would you get hold of your loved ones?
	Would they know where to go?
	Would you just leave the house down?
	They don't know where you're at.
	So all this speculation, all this confusion, all this panic, all this anxiety can go away simply by putting the simple process of communication in place before an event occurs, because it's coming.
	I deal with it all the time.
	For the last 35 years, I tell you, if I didn't have the SAC communication, I can't tell you where we'd be as an organization and how poorly we'd respond to the calls that we get in those zones because they're not on.
	Power's not on.
	Call's not on.
	Absolutely.
	And I'd like to ask one last question for both of you in light of where we are right now.
	This doesn't have to do with the storm per se, but with the stock market crash that's happening, I don't know if you know this, but many of the online brokerages are down.
	They're not functioning.
	I mean, a lot of the popular ones, people can't log in because, well, they're overburdened with too many people logging in and trying to sell stocks.
	And My question to both of you is, you know, even outside of food and water and medicine and shelter and these kinds of things, financially, when the day comes that the big hurricane of finances arrives, you won't be able to get out.
	It's too late at that point.
	Steve, I mean, I know perhaps finance isn't your area of focus, but in a general sense of preparedness, what would you say to people about that?
	Well, I have most of my stuff in precious metals, right?
	Because if it's tangible, I can carry it, I can move it, right?
	The system collapses.
	I've just never been a big fan in the crypto markets or any type of digital currency.
	For me, The storm is here.
	It's not as a storm coming.
	The storm is here.
	It's in the early stages of it.
	So if you're heating any type of warning, now's the time to make your moves because you have, in hurricanes and water disasters, we see you have a four-hour window when there's collapse coming.
	And in that four-hour window, if you move ahead of it, you're ahead of the curve.
	And if you move too late, then you're going to be like, oh my god, I've waited too late.
	And it's not to be panicked, it's to be calm, collective, think precisely when you're thinking calmly.
	The other part of it becomes panic and chaos.
	Yes.
	And if it goes into that panic and chaos, then you're going to fall out to the beginning.
	On another level.
	And I hope and pray that people stay calm, they correct themselves, and America starts heading to a better path.
	But when you see what's happened over the last two administrations, printing trillions and trillions of dollars, right, and other countries pulling off our system, out of the BRIC system, man, the writings of the wall cross all boards, across all indicators.
	Yeah, absolutely.
	Well said.
	And Tina, just want to know what you would add to that as well, because you see what's happening out there.
	A lot of people are still unaware of what's going on.
	They won't be awakened until a storm arrives at their door, and then they panic, and it's too late in many cases.
	What would you say to our listeners?
	Yeah, I agree with you and everything that Steve said.
	And at least with the hurricane, you do have a notice.
	I mean, all the people that are in Savannah and other places, they have a warning.
	I think with financial, it's just going to hit us.
	There's not going to be warning.
	And I do agree with both of you.
	I think metals, that's what I invest in.
	I have, you know, pretty much the same thing as you did.
	I've done the same thing.
	I've followed, listened to you, listened to some of the other financial advisors that are experts that come on your show, Mike.
	So I've set my place and my family in a pretty good situation.
	When something does happen, I am prepared.
	And I just want to also say that for the satellite phones, for the folks in the hurricane area, if you need a satellite phone, you can still get one by tomorrow.
	Shipping is done out of our San Diego.
	San Diego is still early.
	We can still overnight.
	So go to stat123.com and get your phone if you need it before or for this storm because cell towers are so sensitive and they're so fragile.
	Tina, let me ask you this because many people are evacuating.
	Are you able to ship a phone to like a hotel where they are staying or a friend's house or how does that work?
	Absolutely.
	As long as FedEx or UPS can deliver to those areas.
	I know they start to shut them down.
	Usually, they shut everything down 24 hours before.
	So, yes.
	So is nearby cities and our people know these things.
	So when you call in our sales agents will know where FedEx will deliver or what they won't deliver.
	They'll make recommendations on where you can pick it up.
	And Mike, this is early hurricane season.
	We actually just begun.
	The most lethal hurricanes are at the end of August and September.
	So we haven't seen anything yet.
	We're still in D, Debbie.
	Usually the bad ones are J and K, L, because those are right at the middle of the hurricane season, which would be the end of August, beginning of September.
	Yeah, like Katrina, for example.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, it's really good to be prepared.
	And, you know, and we've made it very reasonable.
	And just what Steve just said, it's just communication.
	When something happens, if our country decides to just shut down our cell phone service for whatever reason, so that, you You know that you have a way to communicate with your friends and family.
	And that will take 99% of the fear away when you communicate with your loved ones.
	The unknown is just the worst thing ever.
	Absolutely.
	I want to thank you both.
	And Steve, can you give us your website about your emergency services?
	Yeah.
	On the emergency services, SRP24.com.
	That's Strategic Response Partners.
	Short for Strategic Response Partners, SRP24, the number 24.com.
	And the security services is SabreTeam.com, which is S-A-B-R-E-Team.com.
	Okay, got it.
	Saberteam.com and SRP24.com Disaster Response Team.
	Well, we pray for your safety, Steve.
	Thank you so much for what you're doing.
	And Tina, stay dry if you can there and help as many as you can.
	We'll continue to spread the word from here and help people get prepared.
	Thank you both for joining me today.
	Thank you, Steve.
	Can I just add one more thing?
	Of course, yes.
	A lot of companies are calling in and asking if they can get a Starlink.
	And the answer is yes, we do have Starlinks.
	They can purchase them or they can rent them for this hurricane event.
	So we're getting a lot of requests and requests.
	Oh, really?
	In the Florida-Jacksonville area, and we're delivering them.
	So we're hand-delivering because we're only a four-hour drive, even though it's in the rain.
	We're figuring out ways to get those to the company.
	So if any company out there that needs Starlinks, we do have them in stock and inventory.
	Okay.
	All right.
	Well, that's great to know.
	All right.
	Well, stay safe and keep in touch.
	Keep us posted about the situation there, and thank you both.
	Thank you so much, and thank you, Steve.
	Thank you.
	Bye.
	Bye for the All right.
	Thank all of you for listening.
	Again, Mike Adams here with Brighteon.com.
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	Thank you for joining us today.
	Everybody be safe, stay prepared, and try to stay dry there.
	Okay.
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	Welcome to today's sermon.
	This is Mike Adams and I am inserting a special sermon here because of current events.
	Even though this is an evergreen topic, as of the day I'm recording this, the US stock market is in a state of Panic and collapse.
	The Japanese stock market is cratering.
	Stocks are down.
	Bonds are down.
	Crypto is down.
	And people are unable to log into the online brokerage accounts.
	Most of the brokerages are down or at least some significant portion of them are down.
	And that's only adding to the panic where people can't log in and access and sell.
	And so, of course, we're going to bring in 1 Timothy 6, verse 6.
	Now, godliness with contentment is great gain, for we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out.
	And having food and clothing, with these we shall be content.
	But those who desire to be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and harmful lusts which drown men in destruction and perdition.
	This is a real key phrase here.
	Again, many foolish and harmful lusts which drown men into destruction and perdition.
	For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil, That's a very familiar quote, I think, to a lot of people.
	People say money is the root of all evil, but actually what it says here in the scripture is that the love of money is the root of all kinds of evil, for which some have strayed from the faith in their greediness and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.
	And so what's the lesson here today when you have all these people panicking over their falling stocks?
	Well, what's actually falling?
	What's falling?
	Numbers on a screen that are not even real.
	It's virtual.
	It's a rigged game and the dollar is rigged anyway.
	Even though you might have stocks and you log in and maybe you see your bank account on a screen or you see stocks on a screen and all the numbers that you see, they're not real, are they?
	They're not real until you sell those for some kind of currency, which is usually the dollar.
	And then the dollar is also fake in the sense that it's counterfeit, that it can be printed into oblivion, and that the government...
	Effectively loots from the people by printing money and using it to fund their favorite projects or to fund weapons and bombs or to fund other nations.
	And this is effectively a form of theft, stealing from the people.
	And then only when you trade that currency for something real does it become real.
	For example, when you buy a washing machine or if you buy a home with it or if you buy a piece of land with it and so on.
	That's the only time it becomes real.
	So when people are panicking over the virtual money in their stock account, especially if they can't log in, they are very often, many people are caught up in this spiral that we are warned about in 1 Timothy 6.
	If we worship money, if we fall into the temptation of money, And the material things that it can buy, then we may have our priorities out of balance.
	And I know that if you're hurting in the stock market right now, perhaps you don't want to be lectured to about morality at the moment.
	Because perhaps you're thinking, well, gosh, you know, I earned this money and I put that money into the stock market to try to let it work for me.
	This is a common phrase here.
	I want my money to work for me.
	And now it's disappearing, and I'm being robbed, I'm being cheated.
	Yes, you are.
	Because the stock market is man's con game.
	God's money is gold and silver.
	Real money is money created by God, which is the table of elements, as I've said before.
	The table of elements is an expression of the mind of God expressed through the laws of atomic physics.
	Atomic physics is what determines the properties of gold and silver and copper and platinum and other elements, obviously.
	And since gold cannot be counterfeited by man...
	And gold has intrinsic properties and value.
	And gold is inherently desirable by people and also has inherent scarcity because there's only a certain amount of it on or in our planet at any given time.
	Gold meets all the definitions of real money.
	So does silver as well.
	Currency, that is dollars, meets none of them.
	None of the properties of money.
	In other words, a store of value and something that cannot be counterfeited by some government authority.
	If it can be counterfeited, it's not money.
	It's not.
	It doesn't qualify.
	And by the way, when people say, well, I want my money to work for me, that's also a deception that's rooted in the beast system.
	Did you know that, let's say...
	Decades ago, if you took, let's say 1971, when Nixon took the dollar off the gold standard, in 1971, if you had had an ounce of gold, which was $35 at that time, and then in one hand you had an ounce of gold,
	and then in the other hand you had $35, and then if you had buried the ounce of gold in the ground, Versus if you had taken that $35 and invested it in the stock market at that time, like an index fund.
	Then fast forward to today, which one would be worth more?
	Would it be the gold or would it be the $35 invested in the stock market and held in the market over time?
	Which would have been worth more?
	The answer is, unless you were some kind of a genius investor, the gold would be worth more.
	And on top of that, You don't have to manage it.
	And you don't have to give up custody to someone else.
	Because if you're sitting on gold, it's in your custody.
	No one can take it from you.
	And it can't be brought down by a cyber attack or an IT problem or an internet outage.
	You know, your so-called dollars or your investments in an online brokerage The minute the power grid goes down, or the minute the internet goes down, or the minute Amazon services goes down, all those investments vanish.
	They're no longer even reachable.
	You can't even log in and see them.
	But if you have God's money, which is gold and silver, you can go look at it.
	You can touch it.
	You can weigh it.
	You know, unless you've hidden it so well that you can't necessarily get to it, but if it's hidden that well, it's also very secure.
	Nobody else is messing with it either.
	So understand the difference between God's money and mankind's money, because I've spoken in previous sermons about God's economy versus mankind's economy.
	God's economy is rooted in abundance.
	And a multiplication of what you put into it.
	You put effort and time into God's economy, such as, for example, growing plants that create natural medicines, then God makes sure that through the power of Mother Nature that those natural medicines are replenished or given back to you as a multiple of what you put in.
	That's God's economy.
	In mankind's economy, it's a Ponzi scheme Where everybody might think they're getting rich if they're buying the right stocks, you know, the right tech stocks or the right AI stocks or whatever the case may be, the fad for the moment.
	But in reality...
	It's all just illusion because nobody actually has all that wealth unless everybody decides to sell.
	And if everybody decides to sell that stock, then the stock value collapses and all that apparent wealth is actually gone.
	So it's all rooted in illusion and deception in mankind's economy.
	Now there's an even bigger question about all of this, which is of course stated in 1 Timothy 6 verse 10.
	The love of money or the worship of money is the root of all kinds of evil.
	Think about the people you know who are entirely focused on gathering more financial wealth at the expense of other areas of their life where they have lost balance.
	Because we all have to make choices about where we focus our energies.
	The people who focus on money, they tend to abandon the other areas of their life that matter.
	Personal improvement, personal health, family life, contributing to society in meaningful ways more than just writing a check, for example.
	And if you were to ask these people, so why is money so important to you?
	And they might say, well, I want to use the money to buy these nice things.
	I want to live in a nice house.
	I want to live in a state of luxury.
	I want to be able to have vacations or I want to have boats or luxury cars or all kinds of things.
	Or maybe I just want to retire and not work.
	But for a lot of those people, they want wealth because they want to use it to acquire the things that That make them feel superior to others around them.
	They want to have a bigger house than the house that the Joneses have.
	To use that phrase, keeping up with the Joneses.
	They want to have a bigger car.
	They want to have a more luxurious lifestyle.
	They want to have more jewelry or more personal luxury items.
	They just want to have more, more, more, more stuff.
	But if you ask them, well, what's the plan?
	What's the endgame here?
	Ultimately, what a lot of people who focus on money will tell you, even though it's false, is that they think that with enough material goods surrounding them, with enough luxury, that they will be happy.
	They think that money can buy happiness.
	And you and I both know that's absolute illusion.
	And you can even find this to be true in your own life if you think about the moments of the greatest joy that you've experienced in your life.
	Were those associated with money?
	Probably not, I'm guessing, because you're probably the kind of person who is a high-integrity person, a high-quality person, who's not a shallow person.
	Now, for shallow people, Winning the lottery could be the happiest day of their life until they find out how much tax they have to pay on the lottery winnings.
	And they find out that then everybody in their life is asking them for money because they think they're millionaires now.
	And a lot of people who win the lottery, their lives are completely destroyed.
	But you're not that kind of a shallow person.
	And so probably the happiest moments in your life are things that are not related to just acquiring money.
	Rather, personal achievements or Maybe with family, time with your children or grandchildren or some kind of spiritual victory that you achieved in your life or some kind of accomplishment like graduating from business school or something or getting your law license or getting your medical license or whatever.
	Lots of areas of achievement.
	That are not directly driven by just money in your hand.
	So money actually isn't the thing, of course, that buys us happiness, but it's a persistent delusion in our culture because our culture is so strongly driven by material goods.
	Oh, you have to have the best iPhone, which is $1,000 plus these days, I think.
	You have to have the best iPhone to be okay as a person, or you have to wear the best You know, brand name blue jeans or high heels or you have to have the fashion purse or, you know...
	So the real value in money, real money, should be a store of value so that when you do work and when you contribute to society, then you are able to receive the product of your labor and you are able to store that for a future time.
	You may wish to retire someday or maybe you're already retired and then you need to live off the money you previously earned.
	Or you may wish to give money to others, including perhaps your own children or grandchildren, Without that money losing value.
	So a store of wealth is the single most important property of money.
	And if you are earning and keeping and storing money, there's no evil in that.
	There's no judgment from God in that.
	That's simply fairness, honesty.
	You worked for perhaps decades, you earned money, you should be able to save it without losing it.
	If that's your goal, Then the answer, again, is God's money.
	It's gold and silver as stores of value, and staying out of man's synthetic Ponzi scheme system, which will only cause you suffering and pain.
	How many people, through all the stock market crashes that we've experienced in the U.S., not to mention currency collapses around the world, how many people have lost everything?
	They lost a lifetime of earnings.
	Because they trusted in man's system.
	And man's system is the beast system.
	And it will turn against you.
	Because it's designed to fleece the investors and to steal productivity from you by printing more money.
	So even though you might be paid in dollars, if you are truly a person who follows the teachings of Christ and God...
	Then you would want to get out of those dollars as rapidly as possible and get into some form of preserving assets or some form of investing into perhaps the local community or perhaps your own business or perhaps a startup that can contribute to society.
	You don't want to stay in the beast system.
	And the bank's answer to the beast is, And the Federal Reserve is part of the beast.
	And the money printing is looting and stealing from you.
	The dollar is not an honest money system because it can be counterfeited at any time.
	And thus, chasing dollars is not only a fool's errand, it's guaranteed to bring you sorrow because you're chasing something that never holds value.
	You're chasing something that is diminishing at all times.
	So instead of chasing dollars, Think about the spiritual priorities in your life where you actually can find happiness.
	Without requiring dollars to be in the mix.
	Could that be investing in your own personal health, your own time for fitness or exercise or more time with family members or more time to learn other things that bring you joy?
	What brings you real joy in your life?
	Is it your child?
	Is it your spouse?
	Is it your faith?
	You know, is it cooking?
	Is it gardening?
	What brings you joy?
	Put your investments into those things and don't be seduced by the promise of easy returns in the beast system stock market or bond market or treasury market because all those things are based on a fraudulent currency that will ultimately collapse.
	Remember, God's economy brings you abundance.
	Mankind's economy brings you nothing but pain and sorrow.
	So stay invested in God's economy and you will reap the rewards over time.
	Maybe not in, you know, material goods and dollar things, but you will reap rewards that count for a lot more spiritually and morally.
	And thank you for listening today.
	I'm Mike Adams and we've got 100 sermons coming your way.
	You can find the rest of them at the same location where you found this sermon.
	God bless you all.

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