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Nov. 4, 2024 - Health Ranger - Mike Adams

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BBN, Nov 4, 2024 – Whether Trump or Kamala wins or loses...

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	Welcome to this special dual-purpose broadcast and sermon.
	I'm Mike Adams, and it's Monday, November 4th, 2024.
	The U.S. election is tomorrow.
	Many people are praying about the election, hoping that one person wins over another, or praying that the one they hate the most loses, for example.
	But there's something really critical that everybody needs to know that transcends all of this.
	It transcends elections.
	It transcends cause and effect and even, well, what you think you know about choice.
	I'd like to start off by playing a one-minute clip for you from The Matrix.
	The Matrix from, I think it was released 1999.
	It's the scene called There Is No Spoon.
	So take a look at this segment and pay attention to the words.
	Do not try and bend the spoon.
	That's impossible.
	Instead, only try to realize the truth.
	What truth?
	There is no spoon.
	There is no spoon?
	Then you'll see that it is not the spoon that bends.
	It is only yourself.
	The Oracle will see you now.
	The Oracle will see you now.
	Now, the boy says, do not try and bend the spoon.
	That's impossible.
	Instead...
	And I'm going to delete the word try here coming up.
	Instead, only realize the truth.
	Neo says, what truth?
	The boy says, there is no spoon.
	Then you'll see that it is not the spoon that bends, it is only yourself.
	Well, what does that mean?
	And people have struggled with this for a long time, and I'd like to offer you an explanation that suddenly makes it perfectly clear why there is no spoon and why it is yourself that bends.
	Now, this is sermon number 99, as well as today's broadcast.
	I have recorded 99 Bible sermons in 99 days.
	Tomorrow is my 100th sermon, and I had committed to doing 100 sermons in 100 days, and here we are.
	We're going to make it happen.
	Throughout these 100 sermons, I've discussed a lot of things about Bible nutrition, God's molecules found in Mother Nature, medicinal molecules that prevent chronic degenerative disease, molecules that are neuroprotective, which we call the nutritional armor of God, referring to Ephesians chapter 6.
	For those of you who do read Bible scripture, you'll know what I'm referring to.
	We've talked about 23rd Psalm and how we can walk through the valley of the shadow of death with the help of nutrition, clean foods, deeds, which are moral, and walking with integrity through life.
	And then in the later sermons that I've been teaching just recently, I've been talking about the gift of consciousness and life and what are called primary rights that emerge from those fundamental gifts from God.
	Now, if you're listening, you're saying, what does this have to do with the election?
	Well, pay attention, because it will all become clear.
	And it's probably more powerful, I would imagine, than any message that you've heard about the election or the polling or who's going to win, who's going to file lawsuits, this or that.
	It's the most important election ever.
	We're going to lose Earth.
	The entire cosmos will implode upon itself.
	Dogs and cats living together.
	Total chaos.
	Okay.
	Here's what we need to know.
	God exists across all time.
	Now, I'll use the word God here because that's what most people are familiar with, but we're talking about the ultimate creator of the universe.
	Most of you probably believe in a creator.
	Some of you perhaps may not yet.
	But I think if you look into it, you'll realize that, well, there had to be an intention behind the creation of our cosmos.
	The point is that, as I've taught in my sermons, this cosmos is a simulation.
	It's a testing ground for your soul.
	Your soul is sent here to enter your body, along with the wonderful gift of losing all your memory when you're born so that you get to figure it out.
	And then God has granted various prophets or wise men across different cultures throughout history to teach humanity about the behavior and the rules that will allow you to, quote, win the simulation.
	Now, I don't mean to cheapen the lessons of the Bible here.
	I'm just trying to simplify it, especially for those who don't read Scripture.
	But essentially, the Bible is a document that is a giant collection of cheat codes for how to win life, From this world and transition into the real world, which is beyond this simulation, as a person who passed all the tests.
	And these are moral tests, by the way.
	They're tests of your perseverance, tests of your courage, tests of your deeds, your honesty, and so on.
	And this is all outlined in the Bible.
	In the Ten Commandments, we are just simply told, basically we're given the answers to the final exam of life.
	We're given the cheat sheet.
	That's essentially what the Bible is.
	Now, the interesting thing about this is that we're given free will because otherwise the test would be meaningless.
	If you're not allowed to choose your path through this life, then, well, it would be a pointless exercise because otherwise, how does your soul get tested if you don't have the power to choose either the right answer or the wrong answer or somewhere in between?
	You are defining yourself through your choices.
	Your free will is an extension of your consciousness, and your consciousness is a gift from the creator of this entire cosmos, which is again a simulation.
	So your consciousness again is injected into your biological vessel, which is your body.
	You occupy that body for the duration of your physical life here.
	You engage in the test, hopefully you pass the test, and then you are judged afterward and you go to, in the Christian tradition, you go to either heaven or hell based on how you are judged, and different traditions have different ways to describe that.
	But part of this construct is also the creation of time itself, the flow of time.
	It's something that's slowed down in our perception of reality so that we can observe cause and effect more carefully.
	I believe that in other higher dimensions, cause and effect are much closer together.
	Time is compressed, if not at the highest level, simultaneous.
	I believe that the Creator exists in the past, the present, and the future.
	In fact, the Bible itself refers to this, he who has been, who is, and who will be, and this is, I'm paraphrasing, but there are different ways that that is described in the Bible.
	So you may be wondering immediately, if you're a person with a high IQ, you're wondering, well, how can all time exist?
	And at the same time, you have free will, because you might think at first that those are contradictory concepts.
	And what does this have to do with the election?
	Well, stay with me.
	We're getting to that.
	But in fact, these concepts are not contradictory at all.
	When you realize that every time you make a choice, you choose a path among one of an infinite number of multiverses.
	In other words, the future exists in every possibility.
	Imagine a road in front of you, and then there's a fork in that road.
	That fork is a decision moment of yours, but instead of it forking into just two roads, there's like 50 roads or 100 roads.
	Because at any given moment, you could choose to do 100 different things, let's say.
	So there's 100 forks in the road, and then you choose one through your action or, in the case of most people, your inaction.
	That's when your choices are made for you.
	That's the way most people actually live their lives.
	They're not really asserting control over their future at all.
	We call those people NPCs, non-player characters, programmable life forms, biological robots.
	You get the idea.
	But you, you make a choice.
	You initiate some action.
	You choose to speak.
	You choose to create something.
	You write something.
	You create expression.
	You paint something.
	You choose to alter your behavior.
	You make a choice and you do something different.
	Now you have blazed a new path for your future.
	All of the other paths still exist in the future.
	They exist in parallel to your path, but you have chosen this path for your consciousness to ride along.
	Your present consciousness has, in essence, let go of all the other paths, even though they exist throughout time as possibilities.
	Now, as you make a new choice, you have a new fork in the road of 100 different possible paths or maybe more or maybe less, depending on the choice.
	But you might make thousands of choices in a day, which means that you are shaping your path through a thousand different forks in the road every single day.
	Or, again, if you're not a very conscious person, you may make no choices hardly and you're just on one path that has already been set out before you.
	And it's probably a very boring path if you're not shaping it, by the way.
	And by the way, there are plenty of corporations and governments and also some religious so-called leaders who would love to blaze the path for you and have you follow their path.
	You know, trust the science, bow down to obedience, etc.
	Do what you're told, you know, medical school training, all of that.
	Yeah, you're just walking down somebody else's path.
	You're not really choosing your own path.
	But if you're a conscious person, you will choose your paths potentially thousands of times a day.
	Now, here's the thing.
	God, the Creator, already sees all of these paths for you and everyone else.
	And if you're wondering about the physics behind this, all you have to do is study quantum physics, and good luck with that, by the way.
	But we're talking about concepts of superposition.
	So just as the spin states of protons, for example, can coexist in multiple states simultaneously, and you can call it a wave function that then collapses at the moment that it is observed.
	It collapses into, quote, reality.
	But before it is observed, it coexists in multiple states simultaneously.
	That is a little bit of what we're talking about here.
	That all of your futures already exist.
	They exist as superpositioned possibilities of things that you might choose to do.
	But as your consciousness is moving forward in the flow of time, that is a set rule in this simulation, by the way, you can't alter the flow of time.
	That's one of the restrictions of the rules of this current matrix, by the way.
	You can't alter time.
	So as the flow of time pushes you into your future, then you begin to observe and to collapse wave functions and to make them real.
	And so your future becomes the present.
	The possibilities become the now.
	You can assert your choice and your free will in order to direct what future becomes the now.
	And that's the power of creation.
	That is part of the expression of God that is within you.
	By the way, God gave you a little sliver of his spirit, of his soul, his consciousness, his ability to create.
	Now, what does this have to do with the spoon?
	What does it have to do with elections?
	I'm getting there.
	We're almost there.
	Now, in every fork in the road, there are possibilities that exist that But they're far outside your mind's typical understanding of what is possible.
	For example, if you walk up to the edge of a cliff, there are lots of possibilities where you turn around and walk away from it.
	There might be a possibility where you sit and you enjoy the view.
	There are not very many possibilities where you leap off the cliff and fly.
	And I'm not suggesting that you should do that because the laws of gravity are still in effect.
	But there might, in fact, be a universe where you leap off the cliff and a burst of wind picks you up and blows you back onto the cliff.
	Again, I'm not suggesting that you test this theory.
	However, there may be other possibilities that seem just as outlandish That you are free to choose without the risk of leaping off a cliff, for example, but which would not present themselves in your mind normally.
	So when you look at a spoon, you don't normally think that your choices are, hey, the spoon might melt and bend.
	That's not typically one of your choices.
	Your choices might typically be, well, here's a spoon, and I could choose to I could hold it.
	I could eat a bowl of cereal with it.
	I could slap it on my knees with a couple of spoons and we could make some music with it or something like that.
	Or we could play a game of spoons or whatever.
	You get the idea.
	Or I could toss it at the wall or whatever.
	Most people don't think of the possibility that I could hold this spoon and it could just start bending because there could be a very unlikely but very real Metallurgical phenomenon that takes place in the thinnest part of the bend of the spoon that makes the molecules begin to loosen and turn into a liquid form.
	And that would cause the spoon to bend.
	And this may seem incredibly unlikely, but it is not outside the realm of physics or the realm of possibilities.
	It is, again, incredibly unlikely.
	One in a billion?
	One in a trillion?
	Who knows?
	But it is not outside the realm of what is possible because molecules do heat and metals can turn to liquid because metals have a liquid state, right?
	So that is actually possible.
	So a person who wants to bend the spoon is not bending the spoon.
	What they're doing is they're arriving at the fork in the road that presents all the possibilities of what this spoon could do or what you could do with the spoon.
	The things I just mentioned.
	You could eat a bowl of cereal with it, etc.
	And what this person chooses to do is to bend themselves into such an unlikely path, such an unlikely future emerging and arriving at the present, That that fork in the road is the fork where the molecules in the neck of the spoon somehow become heated and begin to turn into a flexible or a semi-flexible liquid.
	That causes then the heavier part of the spoon to droop because of gravity.
	And in making this choice of choosing this highly, highly unlikely fork in the road, Where a spoon might bend.
	In making this choice, it is not the spoon that's bending, it is you.
	That is what is meant by the child saying, it's not the spoon that bends, it is only yourself.
	You have chosen a different future, an imminent future, a future arriving in just a few seconds, but you have chosen a future That is powerfully outside the realm of normally accepted possibilities.
	And here's what's really fascinating about all of this.
	You have the ability to choose unlikely futures.
	And there are different names given to this ability.
	In a Christian tradition, it's called prayer.
	In a Buddhist tradition, it might be called meditation.
	In more of an occult tradition, it might be called magic.
	Seriously, you know, don't get emotionally involved in the words, because we're simply talking about the same phenomenon here.
	Just express in different ways.
	Now, prayer is this idea that through your voice and through your intention, that you could alter the outcomes of something in the world around you.
	Typically, prayer involves a positive intent.
	I'm going to pray for this person to become well.
	I'll pray for the healing of this person, or I will pray for peace, for example.
	Prayers typically have positive outcomes.
	You don't pray for someone to die.
	That's considered black magic or voodoo or occult sorcery, you could say.
	But let's talk about that for a second.
	Sorcery or occult black magic typically involves a negative intent, wishing harm upon someone, hoping to achieve a negative outcome or the death of someone or the illness of someone, voodoo, those types of things.
	So understand that we are actually alluding to the same phenomenon just on different ends of the spectrum.
	Now, here's what's interesting.
	Suppose you pray for a person who is at death's door.
	You pray for them.
	And because, let's just say, you're a powerful prayer person.
	And there are ways to make that happen, by the way.
	Some of it involves purifying your body, your diet.
	In the Bible, in Scripture, Matthew 9, for example, Jesus talks about being able to cast out demons, but especially powerful demons require, quote, prayer and fasting.
	That's what Jesus said.
	Well, what's the fasting all about?
	It's about purification.
	It's about detoxifying your body.
	The body, mind, and spirit have to be pure in order to have more powerful choices in choosing possible future outcomes.
	But that's a whole different discussion right there, but it's something that I teach in my sermons.
	Always with a positive intent, by the way.
	I don't teach black magic or harmful occultism or voodoo or any nonsense like that.
	I always teach positive outcomes for humanity, for yourself, for the world.
	I only teach that.
	I teach nutrition.
	I teach the nutritional armor of God.
	I teach consciousness, free will, abundance, these kinds of topics.
	I don't dabble in attempting to override someone's will, for example, which is a kind of sorcery.
	That's what Satanists do, and that's what we oppose, if you're wondering.
	Hopefully you join me in opposing sorcery.
	That's one of the things that God says will send you to hell.
	By the way, that's also in, by the way, the book of Revelation, I believe, chapter 21.
	But getting back to the spoon here or healing someone, if you pray for someone to be healed, And then sure enough, a day later, they are healed.
	And the doctors can't believe it.
	And they say, a miracle occurred just overnight.
	This person's cancer was gone.
	And you know in your heart, that's because of your prayer.
	You prayed for that.
	Let me ask you this question.
	Did you?
	Did you bend that spoon?
	Did you change that person's body?
	Did you excise that cancer?
	Not really.
	You chose a different future where that person is miraculously healed in an unlikely fashion.
	Now you are living in that future because you chose it.
	You chose it through your prayer.
	By praying for a person to be healed, you're essentially praying to choose a fork in the road where your future and the future of that person involve that person being completely cancer-free.
	It might be an unlikely future, but it's one that you can choose.
	You can choose the more unlikely futures when you are a person of greater purity in your body, mind, and soul.
	And this is why Jesus Christ himself had miraculous powers to instantly, quote, heal the lame.
	He could heal a cripple.
	We'll use the term because it's used essentially in the Bible.
	He could cast out demons.
	Why?
	Because he was a man who lived without sin, and he was, of course, an expression of God.
	He was the son of God, and he said that if you acknowledge me, you acknowledge God through me.
	He said this himself.
	So he has this direct connection to the power of the Creator.
	So, of course, he is able to choose astonishing possibilities and to make possible futures come into the now that are seemingly unbelievable to most people.
	You know, to create food from nothing, for example, or dividing the loaves, seemingly having infinite bread out of one loaf of bread, things like that.
	Lots of different miracles that Jesus performed.
	formed, and we call them miracles because they're outside of the realm of what we think is possible.
	But understand that when you pray for a particular outcome in the future, you are not bending the future.
	You are bending yourself into that future.
	You are, in essence, veering into that future, which already existed as a possibility.
	God already sees all the possible futures of all the possible people.
	God, in other words, when he created this simulation, he created a vast multiverse of unlimited universes, parallel universes.
	And what's amazing is that every time you make a choice, you in essence transport yourself, or you just kind of naturally flow into Into that tributary, we'll say, of possible futures.
	You nudge yourself into that direction.
	Now, one of the reasons why most people struggle, or many people struggle, with creating a future that they don't want is because they cannot imagine the future they want.
	Think about it.
	How often have you sat down and simply taken the time to imagine the future you want for yourself?
	Sort of life planning, let's say.
	And did you know that if you do that exercise and you describe the life that you wish to experience, the more detail in which you describe it, the more real it makes it in your mind, the more it begins to light up that pathway to get to that future.
	And I've also taught a sermon about multimodal prayer, which is, it's saying that The more that you express your possible futures that you want in different media, in different ways, Then the more you, in essence, encode the universe to nudge you in that direction.
	And when I say multimodal, I'm talking about prayer through the spoken word, prayer through artistic expression, drawing something, sculpting something, painting something, prayer through movement, through dance, through body expression.
	That's another way that you can pray.
	Prayer through song.
	By the way, this is one of the reasons why the satanic elements that have infested our world have taken over Hollywood and the music industry, because if they can get people to sing about satanism and wickedness and evil, then that actually helps create that future for those people, because it's nudging people in that direction.
	That's why songs tend to be so wicked and evil if they are popular pop culture songs.
	And that's why the music videos feature so many satanic images because this is a kind of sorcery.
	Well, it's straight up sorcery, actually.
	But if you choose to write your own songs, which you can do in the privacy of your own home, you don't have to put them on YouTube.
	You may not want to put them on YouTube, but if you want to do your own songs, your own art, your own poems, your own writing that describes a future that you would like to experience, then your mind begins to work on your behalf through the power of God expressed through you to create that future as your reality.
	Prayer, in other words, as described in the Christian tradition, doesn't have to be limited to the spoken word, nor does it have to be limited to reading other people's prayers.
	Yeah, you can read prayers.
	You can read psalms out of the Bible.
	Sure, all day long.
	They're not your psalms.
	You're just repeating the words of, you know, King David or whichever psalms you're reading.
	You should be writing your own psalms, your own poetry.
	Your own future is being engineered by your consciousness because you are choosing different paths that then define the future that you're asking for.
	Now, again, most people choose futures, well, they don't even choose them.
	They just kind of blindly stumble or sleepwalk through life.
	They never imagine a future.
	They're simply reacting to the world around them.
	And that's the way the sorcerers want it.
	That's the way the mainstream media wants it.
	They want you to react to everything.
	So they're constantly emotionally invoking you.
	Oh, look, here's a white cop beating a black man, let's say.
	You're supposed to be incredibly outraged, but don't pay attention to this black cop beating a white man.
	That's not going to be in your consciousness because they want to invoke emotions.
	They want to evoke a distraction reaction so that you can't focus on the future you're trying to create.
	Rather, you keep getting distracted by the news, the latest outrage, Oh my God, they murdered Peanut the squirrel!
	They murdered Peanut the squirrel!
	Like, that was all everybody talked about on X like two days ago.
	And I even talked about it too.
	You know, those evil people, they murdered Peanut.
	And I'm not saying it doesn't matter, but what I'm saying is you can be caught endlessly in a series of distractions and reactions.
	And it takes you away from the power of creation that you have inherently because you were born with it as God gave you the gift of life, consciousness, free will, and the power of co-creation.
	Now remember though, the power of creation is really the power of choosing one of the paths that determines your future.
	And the amazing thing about that is you can only see the paths that you can imagine.
	Most people can't imagine things that are very far outside the Overton window.
	So they can't really stroll down a pathway that is outside the norm.
	And so they live a very boring, conformist type of life, and they are manipulated by emotional narratives and various forms of sorcery.
	And these are the people who, you know, change all their icons on Facebook to be vaccine logos, and then at one point Ukraine logos, you know, and then the LGBT flags, just on and on and on.
	These are people who are just programmable life forms.
	They are literally programmed through sorcery to obey sorcery.
	Whatever narratives are being pushed upon them, and this is all waged as a form of reaction-distraction so that they don't invoke the power of creation with which they were born.
	And you were born with that as well.
	And until you wake up and realize that you were born with the power of creation, you will always be a reactive automaton.
	You will always be a programmable life form.
	This is the key difference between those who make history versus those who are forgotten in history.
	Those who make history do things that seem impossible.
	Just as a recent example, whoever thought that we could retrieve a rocket ship That would land itself, you know, and be caught.
	This is the Elon Musk company.
	I think it's SpaceX.
	Who would have ever thought that we could dramatically reduce the cost of lifting heavy loads into orbit by reusing the launch craft by allowing them to be captured and to kind of Give themselves a soft landing with very, very intricate thrusting, by the way, and to be caught and reused.
	You know, somebody had to imagine that.
	And then it became a possibility.
	Nikola Tesla had to imagine many of the things that he invented before they became a reality or before Thomas Edison stole those ideas from him.
	But anyway, that's another part of history.
	But as a general principle, you cannot possibly choose a fork in the road if you can't see it.
	You can't see it if you can't imagine it.
	You can't imagine it if you're obeying someone else's script.
	Because someone else, the sorcerers, have set your Overton window, the window of allowable discourse.
	And most people live their entire lives inside that very narrow margin.
	And if you step outside that margin, well...
	You will be labeled something horrible-sounding.
	You'll be labeled maybe a conspiracy theorist.
	How dare you question the Overton window?
	Or a crazy person?
	Or an eccentric person?
	And what's the difference between being a madman and a genius?
	Usually just the passage of time in many cases.
	Because, of course, it was once believed to be impossible to have Machines that were heavier than air to be able to fly through the air.
	It seems counterintuitive, correct?
	Or I should say right, as in the Wright brothers?
	Yes.
	Everybody said there was a scientific consensus that you could not have a machine heavier than air fly in the air.
	It's absurd.
	It's ridiculous.
	And now, well, we fly in machines that fly through the air every single day, and we think it's normal.
	So it doesn't take any effort now to choose to get onto an airplane and fly through the air.
	But before it was proven possible, it took an incredible amount of imagination and belief in self and creativity in order to be the first to prove that that was possible.
	But the Wright brothers did it.
	Now, what does this have to do with the election?
	I promise you I would get to that point.
	The election has already been completed in all the possible futures.
	It's already done.
	And you know what?
	In some of those futures, Trump wins.
	In some other futures, Kamala wins.
	And in some difficult-to-imagine futures, neither one wins or something else happens or the election never takes place somehow or...
	You know, a giant comet hits the earth and everybody dies before the election.
	You know, these are outside the normal bounds possibilities, but they are not outside cosmic possibilities.
	And of course, I'm not hoping for tragic earth-ending events to take place before the election.
	But what I'm saying is, when you pray for an outcome, if you're praying for Trump to win, You are nudging yourself into a future where Trump wins.
	If you're praying for Kamala to win, you're nudging yourself into that future where she wins.
	The people with whom you share this current reality, well, guess what?
	You're going to diverge.
	You're going to diverge into two different realities.
	But of course, this process has been happening long before now.
	But We'll save that for another conversation because that's a more advanced topic, let's say.
	But the outcome of this election has already been determined and it is both.
	It is a superposition of It is a wave function.
	The wave function, this is like Schrodinger's cat, right?
	Heisenberg's uncertainty principle.
	The wave function exists.
	Both outcomes are real.
	Both outcomes exist in the very near future that is rapidly arriving.
	The wave function collapse that you experience as the observer is in part determined by what future you pray for or imagine or Or help create and bring into your reality.
	In other words, it's not the spoon that bends.
	It's not the election that takes place.
	It is you who bends.
	You will either find yourself in a universe where Trump wins or a universe where Kamala wins, most likely.
	Again, there are other possibilities, but they're not as likely.
	You will find yourself in one of these two universes.
	And when that moment comes, you have to ask yourself, did I consciously choose this reality?
	Or is there a subconscious part of me that wanted me to be in this reality?
	There might be a part of you, by the way.
	Let's just suppose that you are a Kamala supporter.
	And then Trump wins.
	So in other words, you've chosen the Trump victory path.
	But you're confused because you kept praying for Kamala to win.
	But then again, you might be a Satanist and, you know, it's possible that prayer doesn't work very well for you unless you're doing like dark arts or something.
	You know, maybe you love killing babies because that's what most of the Kamala supporters are really into.
	So you're confused about why Trump won.
	You can't understand what happened.
	You wanted the Kamala future.
	But instead, you got the Trump future.
	What happened?
	Well, number one, it could be that your powers of determining the fork in the road, that your powers are very weak.
	Why?
	Well, for lots of reasons, but it involves your body, mind, and spirit.
	It involves purification of your body, mind, and spirit, like we talked about earlier.
	Even Jesus said fasting.
	And if your body, mind, and spirit are not pure, you're not going to get the results that you ask for.
	You really don't have control over your futures.
	So that's one thing.
	So in other words, if you're doing a lot of psychiatric drugs, you don't have the non-material mind focus that allows you to choose the future that you want.
	If you do a lot of drugs, if you are a wicked person, if you're a person of evil deeds, you don't get the future that you want.
	Interesting point, right?
	It actually matters.
	Your deeds matter, your morality matters, your integrity matters, but also your physical purity matters because that puts your body, mind, and soul in alignment with your intention, the power of co-creation that God gave you.
	If those are all out of alignment, you're never going to be able to create the future that you want.
	You really don't have much control.
	You're just like a, I don't know, a person tumbling out of the sky being buffeted by the winds with no control.
	But let's flip it the other way.
	Suppose you're a Trump supporter and you end up in the Kamala wins universe.
	What then?
	What did you do wrong?
	How come you didn't get the outcome you wanted?
	Well, again, a couple of reasons.
	Number one, most Christians eat a lot of junk food.
	They're not really very purified in their body, mind, and spirit.
	And very few people actually follow anything resembling a holy lifestyle, by the way.
	And we can all do better.
	None of us are perfect.
	We've all made mistakes and we've all sinned because we are men and women.
	But I find it shocking that in the Christian community in particular, people like to eat a lot of processed junk foods with pesticides and herbicides.
	Glyphosate and atrazine and heavy metals and lacking God's nutrients because it's processed out of all the junk food.
	And then a lot of times these people, I can see them doing this.
	I've seen these conversations online.
	I've had conversations in person.
	They'll say, Why doesn't God love me?
	You know, I'm going to church, I'm reading the scripture, I'm tithing a percentage of my income, I'm singing the hymns for God's sake, and I'm still not getting the results I want.
	Why do I have cancer?
	And my answer is because you keep eating cancer-causing sodium nitrite in the bacon and the processed foods in the beef turkey that you're eating.
	Did you think that going to church and singing hymns was going to, like, reverse the biochemical laws of Nitrosamines that cause cancer.
	And, you know, a lot of people can't handle that.
	And so one of the things that I teach is how to clean up your diet, clean up your life, clean up your body, mind, and soul, so that whatever future you want to create for yourself, you have more power to make that real.
	And yes, physical purity matters.
	Leviticus matters.
	The life of the flesh is in the blood.
	And there are numerous accounts of this, many I can point to, throughout the Bible that talk about the importance of spiritual purity in order to be someone who can co-create with the power that God gave you to be able to determine your own future.
	But there's another answer in all of this, which is that suppose you're a Trump supporter and you get the Kamala future.
	There's another factor here, and that is, remember that this is a simulation, that God sent you here, your soul, as a test.
	Like, hey, welcome to earth.
	You're born, you have no memory, you're walking around or you're trying to walk around, trying to figure out what language is.
	And like, where's mama or whatever, you know, your first few weeks of life?
	And, you know, good luck figuring it all out, right?
	It's not a simple thing to be born into this world and to try to figure it out.
	Sometimes God puts obstacles in your way in order to challenge you because he deems you as worthy of dealing with those challenges.
	You're given, in other words, an extra test.
	Oh, that's right.
	God places burdens upon you, but only those that you can handle.
	But make no mistake, if your life is maybe too easy in his eyes, he's thinking, well, this isn't really a sufficient test for someone of your stature or someone of your spiritual resources, so let's throw you into the Kamala universe and see how you do.
	Live under communism.
	Try that.
	See how you do.
	Can you still keep your faith?
	Can you still be a person of good deeds?
	Can you still believe in Christ and the Creator?
	Can you still be a good person even when you're surrounded by Satanists and evil and child killers and censorship and racial supremacy as government policy that is at war against white men in particular?
	For example, And throughout history, there have been wars against black men and black women.
	But right now, the war, the cultural war by our government is the DEI woke war against white men.
	Apparently, you're born in sin if you're white.
	And Matt Walsh did a really outstanding movie on that.
	I think it's called Am I Racist?
	And it's a very shocking movie.
	Journey in exposing the entire industry of DEI, which is really something.
	It's really twisted, it's really demonic, and it's rooted in mass mental illness, the kind of mental illness that has led to horrific ethnic cleansing operations in the past in countries like China, the Cultural Revolution, things like that.
	But maybe God has a special challenge for you.
	Maybe you don't want that challenge.
	Because let's face it, have you wanted every challenge in your life that you've experienced so far?
	Probably not.
	Many times you might want to sit back and take it easy.
	You know, why God?
	Dear God, why did you do this to me now?
	You know, it starts to sound like a country western song.
	My truck broke down and my dog died and my wife left me all on the same Friday night.
	You know, you might have that kind of thing going on.
	Reframe that and think to yourself, well, obviously, God sees me as capable of dealing with these extra challenges, so I'm going to maintain my stature as a person of faith.
	I'm going to be a good person.
	I'm going to accept this challenge and I'm going to try to put the pieces of my life back together again, but maintain my humanity, my dignity.
	I'm just going to put one foot in front of the other here and continue to try to create the best future that I can.
	That is transcendent.
	That is mastery of the simulation, by the way.
	And the harder your life gets, the more opportunities you have to demonstrate mastery to our Creator, With whom you had an agreement to come here, by the way.
	You may not remember that agreement, but you signed a spiritual contract.
	It was like, hey, you want to go to Earth, the craziest place in the cosmos, and take the Earth test?
	Yeah, sign me up for that.
	Okay, the Lord says, shazam!
	And we'll wipe your memory, memory, memory.
	You're like, you know, suddenly you wake up inside the body of a woman.
	You're in the womb.
	You're like, what is this place?
	All I can do is turn and kick.
	It's weird.
	I'm floating in liquid, you know?
	Yeah, you didn't know what you signed up for, did you?
	But God places these obstacles in front of you because you can handle them.
	Sometimes God dictates the fork in the road more than you.
	Sometimes you have a choice.
	Oh, I want to have this.
	I want to take this fork in the road over here where everything I do works effortlessly, where everything is successful.
	It's just like amazing, and I'm never censored, and nobody ever disagrees with me, and everybody wants to just pay me endless money, you know, and blah, blah, blah.
	Guess what?
	You would learn nothing.
	You would not be a person of character, not of good character.
	Most people would very quickly fall into a cycle of arrogance, pompousness, and these are the kind of things that would disqualify you from entering heaven, by the way.
	If life is too easy, it's not worth living.
	If life is too difficult, if it seems too difficult, it might be because God sees you as worthy of overcoming those challenges.
	So here's the upshot of all of this.
	Instead of trying to bend the spoon, instead of trying to influence who everybody else votes for in the election, what if you bend yourself instead?
	What if you choose a future for yourself?
	Choose a future because they all exist.
	You choose a future that is in alignment with the kind of life that you would like to experience.
	Perhaps that's a life of great love and joy, a life of humanitarian interests, a life of compassion and peace, a life of liberty.
	I don't know.
	I'm just throwing out ideas.
	These happen to be my values.
	I would imagine you share many of them, if not all of them.
	Some people, though, some people literally want to live a life of domination over others.
	Some people want to live a life of violence and wickedness or whatever.
	I'm not going to go into the details because I don't want to saturate your consciousness with those ideas.
	Sometimes those people get exactly the life they're looking for, and sometimes they feel a sense of power in doing so.
	And if they go down that path enough, all that becomes the dark arts, the black magic, the voodoo, or the Satanism, or what's called perfect possession of demonic entities.
	Because, believe it or not, there is actually a lot of power in the dark arts.
	The price you pay for tapping into it, though, is that you lose your eternal soul.
	So, don't play with the dark arts.
	The power is never worth it.
	The bargain is never a bargain.
	It's a sellout of your soul.
	Instead, choose the narrow path.
	Choose the path that's narrow like through the eye of a needle to enter the gates of heaven.
	The path that requires humility, the path that requires recognizing the dignity of others, the path that requires work and effort.
	It's a path where not everything works out for you.
	It's a path where you might not be, you know, a wealthy person, a famous person.
	You might not be seen by society as a good person at all.
	You might be smeared.
	You might be blacklisted.
	You might be censored.
	I've been all of those things.
	I've been subjected to that for years.
	And yet, it is the path of righteousness.
	Living in a world that's saturated with wickedness.
	So you see, it's not about choosing the election.
	It's about bending ourselves into the future that we wish to create.
	See, I imagine a future where it really, ultimately, it doesn't matter who wins or loses this election because I imagine a future where centralized governments are obsolete.
	I imagine a future where the dollar is done and all of the evil and wickedness that has emerged from the dollar, that is the endless printing of fiat currency, the confiscation of wealth from others, where that has come to an end.
	In the future that I'm choosing, that I'm choosing, there is no United States of America and the very concept of a nation state centralized controller over your life that grants you licenses and grants you rights and comes to your home and murders your squirrel.
	If you didn't have a license for the squirrel, I imagine that all of that is gone.
	Thank you.
	I imagine a world of voluntarism.
	Something that people like Derek Brose speak about, John Bush and others.
	A life where people voluntarily interact with each other out of mutual consent rather than being coerced and threatened by wicked, evil governments run by incompetent or domineering individuals who only seek power over others.
	See, to me it doesn't matter.
	Who votes for who in an election that just is a continuation of a system of oppression and evil that has had far too many centuries of control over humanity?
	I see a future where humanity achieves a revolution of awakening and renders that entire system obsolete.
	And people realize that they themselves have their own decentralized power to create and to choose.
	To interact with each other in methods that are based on mutual dignity, respect, hopefully even love, but not coercion.
	That's the future that I choose.
	And you might say, well, that seems highly unlikely.
	Yeah, so does bending a spoon.
	You might say, well, I haven't seen you bend a spoon.
	You will never see me bend a spoon if you choose universes in which spoons can't be bent.
	Are you getting it yet?
	You have to choose a path where spoons can be bent.
	That's your choice.
	If you want to live in a future where human dignity and liberty are respected, you have to first imagine such a future and then make a conscious effort to choose that future.
	You'll never experience it if you stay stuck in the system of thinking that your rights come from government or that dollars are money.
	Or that every time the government mails you some silly form, that you are obliged to fill it out and send it back.
	If that's the world in which you live, you'll never be free.
	And I don't think you passed the simulation, by the way.
	And wouldn't that suck?
	To live through all of this and still get like an F, you know?
	It's like, you went through the whole thing!
	We gave you the answers and you still failed.
	How is that possible?
	But sadly, that's the way it's going to be for a lot of souls.
	But we can help save many souls too.
	Don't you think that one of the reasons Jesus performed miracles was to show human beings that it's possible?
	And then the people around him, they could hardly believe it.
	Couldn't believe it.
	How is that possible?
	That's Jesus' way of saying, we live in a matrix, and some of the rules can be bent.
	Some of them can be broken.
	It depends on the power of your intention, the power of your choice, your co-creation.
	All futures exist.
	There are futures where you succeed, futures where you fail, futures where you're a, I don't know, a monk, a future where you're like Bill Gates.
	There's a future where you're a homeless man or woman who dies with a heroin needle in your arm on the edge of a curb on a Saturday night.
	All those futures exist.
	Which one do you want to choose?
	God has laid out the entire path for you.
	Every choice is within your reach.
	It's up to you to decide which one you want to experience.
	And yes, you might even choose a future of persecution.
	When Paul was in prison writing letters to the various churches of the region, mostly in modern-day Turkey or modern-day EU, He would write that his persecution by his jailers allowed him to live closer to Christ because he could share in the experience of being persecuted.
	So even in being even potentially put to death, he found salvation in that.
	And that's one of the things that made him such a wise person, a wise mentor for humanity, and a wise mentor for the other churches, the Corinthians, for example.
	And by the way, one final personal note in all of this is if you've known my work for many years, you're going to see a very sharp difference in my work because I am also choosing a different path.
	The person that You have listened to possibly for some time.
	The topics that I've covered, the number of broadcasts I've put out and so on, that is radically changing for reasons that should be self-evident after hearing this particular broadcast.
	We've been swimming in the shallow end of the pool this entire time.
	If we've just been focused on news and current events, There's much more to this reality.
	And unpeeling the layers of the onion of the matrix, it's a very rewarding activity, and it beckons us to explore that journey.
	But the bottom line in all of this is there is no spoon.
	The spoon is theater.
	And frankly, there are no elections.
	The elections are theater at many levels, of course.
	This entire reality is a simulation.
	It's all theater.
	It's all theater for your soul.
	It's a testing ground.
	And if you want to know how to graduate from the testing ground, well, read the Bible because it gives you the answers.
	It's all right there.
	Some people think they can do something different and pursue transhumanism.
	They think they can merge with machines and they worship gods in silicon.
	And that is a path to a total destruction of the soul, if not straight up Satanism.
	So I would not encourage that path.
	And by the way, it is impossible to merge your soul with a machine.
	They're going to be shocked when they find out they're just dead.
	And they just sort of replicated an avatar with an AI language model that talks kind of like them, but they're still dead, you know?
	So committing suicide and then launching an avatar on an NVIDIA graphics card language model, that's not life, folks.
	That's not life.
	That's death.
	If you want life, especially if you want eternal life, read the scripture.
	And if you really want to know what it says, listen to my sermons.
	I will challenge everything you think you know about Scripture and about life and about reality itself.
	Abundance.Church is my website.
	This is sermon number 99 out of 100.
	Tomorrow I'll have the 100th.
	And then the real fun begins.
	So thank you for listening.
	All right, with that said, I've got a really interesting interview for you today.
	It's with Joshua Hale, H-A-L-E, Joshua Hale, who describes himself as a holistic tech wizard.
	You may think, well, that's interesting.
	After all that talk, now you're going to talk to a tech wizard?
	Well, It's a holistic tech wizard.
	And yes, we need to be able to understand and use tools to aid us upon our spiritual journey.
	So when we talk about technology, we're not talking about worshiping it or losing ourselves in technology.
	We're not pushing transhumanism.
	Neither is Joshua.
	Rather, how do we use tools of technology to enhance our journey, our mission, our goals in life, which is really a spiritual mission?
	So that's what this interview is all about.
	I think it's a great fit for everything I've covered here so far.
	So enjoy this interview with Joshua Hale, which is part of Decentralized TV, with my co-host Todd Pitner.
	So have a great day.
	We'll see what universe we choose tomorrow.
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	Welcome to today's episode of Decentralized TV here on Brighteon.com.
	I'm Mike Adams, the founder of Brighteon, and we're going to be joined today, of course, by our host, Todd Pitner, who just survived Hurricane Milton that blew through just miles from his home near Tampa.
	Welcome, Todd.
	Just happy to see you alive today.
	Actually, that was brutal.
	Thank you.
	It was very brutal.
	I don't care what they said.
	They kind of hand-waved it when it was coming on shore, talking about how it diminished and everything.
	But as you saw, because you tracked it really closely, where I live, we caught the hardest of the hard winds in these outer bands.
	And the most rain.
	Yeah, and the most rain at the same time.
	We got up to 100 mile an hour wind gusts.
	And I'm telling you, you can't put that in perspective.
	I've been down here since the age of 23, and I turned 60 in a couple days.
	And I'm telling you, I've been through a lot of this, Mike.
	I have never experienced anything like last night.
	It scared the crap out of me, because when that wind was going through, it howled.
	Like a tornado.
	And then you're seeing that there's a hundred tornadoes touching down in the state of Florida, and your mind races to all kinds of crazy places.
	But at the end of this, as you had asked and I did, I documented this whole thing.
	So we have footage before, during, and after the hurricane that I documented that I'm going to show you the damage to my property.
	And man, oh man, it's...
	Well, I'm even shocked that you're able to do this show today, which shows me your determination, by the way.
	But, I mean, your home has power.
	Almost everybody else does not have power.
	Right.
	Our neighborhood has power.
	Only our neighborhood.
	It's incredible.
	Yeah.
	Like the hand of God reached down and said, we need you on the show tomorrow, so we're going to keep your power going.
	Exactly.
	Now, we've got a great show.
	We're going to bring in our guests in just a second, but I want to intro the fact that, Todd, the website that you have, My575E, which talks about a tax advantage strategy that a lot of people are using and learning about, and we'll cover those details later.
	But our guest today, as I understand it, helped build that site using, in an ethical way, AI technology, correct?
	Yes.
	He did.
	It was amazing.
	And after we introduce him, I'll tee him up a little bit further as to why I chose him.
	But he is an amazing resource.
	And I would just ask that any of you out there with an entrepreneurial bent, An idea that you've been holding to yourself, wondering if you could pull it off because you don't necessarily have the team, you don't have a CMO, a CFO, a chief controlling officer, whatever the heck, right?
	Pay attention to today because we could operationalize your dreams and really put you on the path to a different income stream in a very cost-effective way.
	It's been miraculous in my mind, Mike.
	Okay, very good intro and also a reminder to people that you don't have to learn to write code in order to be successful online these days.
	Also, you don't have to be a podcaster or anything.
	There are other ideas.
	So let's bring in our guest, Joshua Hale.
	The website is joshuahale.io.
	Here it is, Forge Your Future in the Digital Age.
	Welcome, Joshua, to the show today.
	It's great to meet you, and it's great to have you on.
	Oh, it's a pleasure to be here.
	I've been listening for a long time, and it's great to be actually on the other side of the camera.
	Oh, that's awesome.
	We love the fact that you're familiar with our show, and you helped Todd build his website.
	You've got your website, and we have an AI engine at brighttown.ai, and we've talked about AI a lot, so we are all in the same space on this.
	So Joshua, give us, if you would, please, your background, what brought you to this point, and what's your main message for our show today?
	Thanks.
	I've been in the marketing realm for the last 12 years.
	And about two years ago, a friend of mine took me out to lunch and he showed me Chatsby Tea for the first time.
	Kind of under the table like, have you seen this?
	And I immediately saw how valuable it was.
	And I came home, got into my own account and started playing around with it.
	And because I was running a marketing agency, I had access to about a dozen clients and 12 different industries.
	And what I found was that it has some limitations, but for business and for marketing, it's really good.
	So I actually left my marketing agency because of AI. I saw the writing on the wall.
	I was able to do a lot more on my own, leveraging AI, than it was running this large marketing agency trying to keep up with payroll and all that.
	So now I've...
	I'm sorry, let me interrupt, but what ChatGPT is very good at, and these current language models, they're good at generative tasks, generating text, generating images, or generating videos, right?
	Even my recent music video called God is With Us is all AI, or mostly AI-generated video.
	That's text to video, right?
	But, as you know, reasoning capabilities are still not that great, even with ChatGPT.
	And also, factual content can sometimes be mistaken.
	For example, if I'm generating videos, it will give people six fingers.
	Instead of four fingers and a thumb, they'll have seven or whatever.
	But that's the visual version of the fact problem that it has in generating text.
	So how do you overcome that and use what it's good at and then fix what it's not good at?
	Well, for my buddy Todd, he had a vision, he had a mission, and he had a business that he wanted to come to fruition.
	So I was able to take my marketing background, take all those marketing gurus that I learned from, and basically turn those methods into prompts.
	And it's able to take, you know, it's information that's coming from the whole wide world web.
	And there's a lot of marketing and a lot of business strategies on the web.
	So when I say that, you know, Chachapiti and the large language models, they're good at business and at marketing.
	It's because they have access to all these information and all these references.
	And if you give it good information, like, you know, I interviewed Todd and asked him about His vision for this business, what audience he thinks is going to see this value.
	We're able to give it to good data, and with that good data mixed with really good prompts and models, it's able to really produce some fantastic stuff.
	And when you're building a website and building your online presence, a lot of it's copy.
	A lot of it is thinking about your audience and how they're moving through the information.
	And for that stuff, as I said when I first came across it, it's really good at.
	Okay, but we also know that, and by the way, I know, Todd, you've got a lot to say here, but let me ask one more question.
	We know that ChatGPT is now controlled by the government.
	And there's government censorship of these mainstream LLMs or large language models.
	And that when it comes to issues that a lot of people feel very passionate about, like vaccines or war or politics or religion or what have you, these engines, they only reflect controlled narratives, which is not often the truth, by the way.
	So how do you work within that framework and still get good results?
	It's totally biased.
	And if you're doing your own research, don't use ChatGPT.
	Don't use any of the large language models that are out there because it's going to give you biased information.
	But for business, like I said, it really, you know, it sees it as non-threatening.
	So it's happy to, you know, get you the best answers that it thinks it can provide for you.
	For tax savings, you know, I ran into a couple little areas that it was not wanting to give me some information, but you're just very able to, like, reword it and work with it so that the alarms don't get flipped on.
	There are, you know, decentralized AI solutions out there.
	Mike, you're making one of them yourself.
	And so I am so gung-ho about AI because I see how revolutionary it is.
	I personally wish we had 10 more years to kind of evolve as a human species before we got access to this.
	But the cat's out of the bag, and we need to educate ourselves to see how to use this so we can use it for good.
	And with decentralized AI systems like what you're creating, we are going to be able to soon have these localized AI that are going to be able to defend ourselves from the larger centralized AI system.
	Good point.
	We can use AI technology to protect our freedoms and our rights.
	Okay, and I'm all in with that.
	We'll talk about my project later on, but Todd, this is your project, My575E.
	Let me bring up the website, by the way.
	My575E.com.
	And by the way, thank you to all of the people who have been engaging with it.
	We're helping so many people, Mike.
	It's amazing.
	It's such a cool community that we're growing.
	That's pretty awesome.
	All right, here it is.
	Powerful tax advantage protection.
	So tell us what Joshua Hale did for you to build this out, and what elements are AI-assisted?
	Well, before I want to rewind just a little bit, because I want to kind of invite everybody who's watching to my side of the table a little over a year ago, because it could be what you're going through today or likely what you have gone through recently, maybe over the last few years, because it's been nuts out there, right, everyone?
	I worked for the same company for 25 years, had a biz dev, if you will, partnership development, And a little over a year ago, about a year and a half ago, We were notified that the founders of the company were winding it down.
	So there were 50 of us that last August literally lost our jobs.
	I mean, after 25 years.
	It was crazy.
	And so I'm sitting here thinking, now Mike, you and I already had started our show together, and I was just stymied.
	I was like, what the heck am I going to do with the rest of my life?
	You know, and I was really struggling with do I shine up my resume and take it out?
	I just didn't want to get on planes and travel, you know, post-COVID nonsense.
	I just didn't want to put myself in that position.
	So I started thinking and I'm like, man, what do I want to do?
	And you know what, Mike?
	I had gotten a 575E, it's an unincorporated non-profit association, five years ago.
	And it's the best thing my wife and I ever did from a tax advantage strategy.
	We saved so much money lawfully in taxes.
	And I'm like, that entity is so undiscovered.
	I think what I want to do is figure out a way to help people and evangelize that entity so others can benefit like Yana and I have.
	And that's what I did.
	So I started deciding, well, okay, how am I going to go to market?
	Now, as I mentioned earlier, I don't have a team behind me.
	I mean, the company I worked for was called a Venture Collective.
	A CEO, a founder of a company could go to them and they would already have the CFO, the CMO, everybody, the marketing team, the sales team in place.
	They could just go operate their business.
	And I'm like, how can I do that?
	Well, I knew this guy named Joshua.
	And we had known each other from some other avenues.
	And I knew he was going down this path of AI. And I reached out to him and I said, can you help me?
	And it just happened to be the right time, right conversation, to where he used me and my business as kind of a case study, if you will, to be able to employ everything that he had been working on.
	And it was so cool.
	Now, I'll let Joshua walk you through the process, but I will tell you, when he would interview me, He'd record it.
	And like within a half an hour, I would have AI's response that was filtered through Joshua on what we just talked about, and then Joshua would say, I need you to read that, review it, filter it yourself, and let's use that as the clay on the table to mold your business into something that we can articulate and communicate to the rest of the world.
	And that was the beginning of the process.
	Now, what I will tell you, what used to cost tens of thousands of dollars to be able to get the subject matter experts in the room to be able to help you formulate a launch of a brand new business, now you're talking down to thousands through the use of Joshua's methods and AI. So anybody out there, I We're going to give you Joshua's contact information, but I will tell you, I'm the case study.
	I did it.
	It is successful.
	Go to my575e.com and go through the process.
	See how seamless and easy it is.
	I didn't know all the questions to ask.
	I didn't know what you needed to do after you launched something like this.
	How do you collect payment?
	How do you follow up?
	Tell me about this sales funnel.
	How do we keep track?
	Hold on, Tom.
	Are you saying that in addition to the content of the website, which I understand, that process, the content generation, but are you saying that then was AI used to also create for you or for your audience a process?
	Yes.
	Generate a process guide for you to how to successfully operate this business, in essence?
	Joshua, over to you.
	The answer is yes.
	Okay, please.
	And it was amazing.
	I developed the Entrepreneur's Compass, and that is a collection of prompts that I'm able to walk through a business owner or somebody with a great idea and be able to formulate what it is, the context that you're trying to do, and then be able to see if that's valid and something the market is looking for.
	So doing some internal research and come up with a business plan through these prompts.
	And I've gone downtown.
	I've tried to use the city resources to come up with my business plan before.
	It was so painful.
	It took weeks and it really didn't end up with much.
	But nowadays, I'm able to take everything that I learned through the marketing agency and walk my clients through this process to go and figure out your audience research.
	And in here, I have I call them mega prompts, but you're able to then add, you know, Todd's specific information and be able to go through and use the power of AI to get the results that you're looking for.
	Now, Joshua, let me ask you this, because I recently launched a church, a full-blown, legit church.
	And actually, our church has already raised $558,000 in food aid for the storm victims, which is pretty— I mean, actually, it was a donation from our commercial side, thanks to our customers.
	And that idea came from Todd, actually, the buy one, gift one idea.
	But anyway, so we launched a church.
	So even if I don't have a commercial idea, if I have a nonprofit idea or a church idea, could I come to you and say, this is what I want to do, and then your prompts and your system would help me put together like a game plan for that project?
	Thank you.
	Absolutely.
	And the beautiful thing, you know, I'm trying not to get into marketing jargon, but as a person with the idea, all you need to do is sit back and we have an interview, just like this call right here.
	I have voice to text set up, so I'm able to directly input our conversation into an AI system.
	I just ask you questions.
	Who do you think is going to benefit from what you have to offer?
	I take that, grab the organic information, and be able to add it to those mega prompts I just showed you.
	And it really spits out gold.
	So for Todd, he just sat back and was able to talk about His dreams.
	And I was then able to come back to him with a full-blown step-by-step plan.
	And then all of the pages needed, all the emails needed, all the components that you need to be able to share your business online or in person.
	And he then does the formula 10-80-10.
	10% is, you know, the original idea, the creator of what is happening.
	And then 80% is AI. And then 10% is you reviewing it and making sure it's accurate.
	Wow.
	Okay.
	So I think I've got a project for you, by the way.
	Yeah.
	Let me describe this and ask you if this is something you could do and our audience can learn the same answer.
	So I've got an audio book that I did years ago called survival nutrition and people can download it for free survival nutrition.com if they want.
	But then my book publisher gave me a contract to publish the book as a, you know, a regular book.
	But then I had to have a writer, not me, but another writer take all of my audio and then write it out in, in a book voice.
	But now what I want to do, Joshua, I've got the whole manuscript.
	I need to run it through my AI engine that's trained on my voice and make sure that this book doesn't say something that I wouldn't say.
	Does that make sense?
	I want to make sure it's consistent with what I'm saying, and then I can have the final manuscript, but it's AI augmented based on what I originally said, but I don't want it to say something that contradicts what I would say.
	Is that something you could help with?
	Yeah, absolutely.
	You basically need an editor to make sure that it's factual.
	And that is something that you can trust a lot to AI, but you really want to have either a human's eye on top of that or be able to confer that to your notes and maybe your show or the larger data that you have.
	Well, yeah, but I want it to be factual to what?
	What I know the facts to be.
	For example, the toxicity of fluoride, the dangers of vaccines, the dangers of pharmaceuticals and psychiatric drugs.
	So if you go to chat GPT, it's going to contradict everything that I say.
	But with our own language models, it will be consistent.
	But is that something like you're a prompt engineer, I believe, that you could do creative prompting and make that work?
	I would love to explore this.
	Typically...
	You get good data, which is the transcription of your book, and then you can preserve that.
	And, you know, ChatGPT does its best to try and give you what you're asking it.
	It will sometimes say, you know, allegedly these things.
	So it will slip in, you know, some bias.
	But for the most part, it will stick to the representing the data that you gave it.
	What I'm saying, I could give you access to a completely different engine.
	I want access to your AI. Right.
	No, we've got an online password-protected portal now to our engines trained on our data with a very long context length.
	Right now, 32K characters, but increasing that to 128K. But anyway...
	Without getting into the weeds, I just want to throw that at you and see if you thought that might be something you could tackle.
	But back to Todd, I guess the point is that anything that people want to work on, like want to produce, want to create a business, a non-profit, a book idea, you know, anything, they could use this process with Joshua.
	Yeah, I mean, that's what I want to encourage people to do is just dig deep.
	And is there anything that has been food for your soul over the years that you just thought, one day I'm going to launch this or pursue this?
	Why not now?
	That's kind of the message.
	We're at a point right now in this world, I think, to where why not now?
	Really, really is appropriate.
	And with what Joshua offers, the investigative process is relatively inexpensive.
	Or let me better say, it's very affordable.
	So why not see if you might be able to follow your own dreams and engage with Joshua on an initial consultation to talk it through?
	Now you, Todd, you were initially with your My575E website.
	Before you had that, you were just doing consultations with people.
	Yeah, that's what's cool.
	And you were talking one-on-one with people, which was taking a lot of time and costs.
	Thank you.
	Thank you for saying that.
	Yes.
	People could still go to decentralizeddirectory.com.
	Joshua helped me set that up too.
	But the only way I could disseminate the information was to be able to have a one-hour consultation.
	And we learned early on, didn't we, Mike, that I needed to charge for that service or I would somehow attract all the dredge of this world.
	Yeah.
	Well, never offer consulting services for free.
	Yes, because initially it was for free, and people don't respect free.
	So to engage with me, to learn about this unincorporated nonprofit association, it would be an hour to an hour and a half Zoom call, and I would charge $500.
	Now, a lot of people did that, and they engaged, and they benefited from that, but that was a lot of resource from my end, and that's a lot of money from other people's end that could be going towards the UNA. So that's when I started getting momentum with this and I thought, man, I am inefficient.
	I need to figure out a way to be able to disseminate this information so people don't have to pay for that service, right, the 500 bucks.
	So now if anybody goes to my575e.com and you just go through the process, get started, you'll get access to a 90-minute video Where I interview the guy who has forgotten more about this entity than I'll ever know.
	And then there is a, I believe it's an 18-page PDF that went through AI and went through AI and went through AI And then was fine-tuned by Todd Pitner to be able to create what we call a bonus guide to the video to where people can download that for free, and it answers probably 95% of anybody's questions.
	Perfect.
	Yeah, if somebody then, through that process, they're ready to go, boom!
	It's right there.
	It's so simple to be able to order a UNA, an already established UNA, or a custom.
	Go ahead, Mike.
	Alright, so to Joshua, I love what you're doing.
	This is something that we do.
	So you take the audio recording of the interview, you get a transcript, and we use the Whisper AI engine for that, which is very good.
	You get a transcript, and then you run that transcript through a series of prompts in order to get a summary.
	And then that summary can become the bullet points, right, for the PDF. One of the things that we discovered, by the way, like I have all the, every show from Alex Jones from 2001 to the present, right?
	And we've been running the Alex Jones shows through all of this.
	And what we found out is that we had to convert spoken word into more of a non-spoken type of, like a written word format because of very different styles, right?
	Because we found out that if we trained an LLM on spoken word, then the LLM would talk like Alex Jones and be like, hey, wow, check this, you know.
	And we were like, no, we want it to be more of...
	Yeah, more like the way Alex might write or someone might write about the topics Alex is talking about.
	So we did a converter.
	So we wrote Python code to convert every piece of spoken text into written text.
	Sounds like you've done something very similar to that with Todd's project.
	Yeah, and this is something that large language models naturally do, is that they spit out the format that you're asking for.
	So when I say, you know, we need to create a landing page for people to land on when they're coming to his website, it knows the framework that we're trying to put the data into.
	So that's amazing you have Alex's library like that.
	Data really is the new oil.
	And so to have juicy information like that, there's just so much you can do with it.
	Yeah, that's true.
	And it's not just Alex's.
	It's the other shows on his platform.
	And since his platform is now about to be auctioned off, I think that this is going to be a very valuable language model.
	But Of course, we give away everything for free.
	We're all about open source and freedom of information.
	But I just say that to point out what you're doing sounds very pioneering.
	In the old school way that people were thinking about their businesses, they would think, well, I'm going to have to generate a PDF. I'm going to have to come up with the graphics.
	I'm going to have to do this and that.
	It's like my recent music video, I realized, no, all I have to do is imagine what I want, type it into the prompt, and then the AI engine generates that image or even those video snippets, right?
	Today it's more like just knowing what you want and being able to describe it.
	Go ahead.
	I really see this as just a shortcut in our creative power as human beings, that we can get more done faster in order to be able to get to our dreams, like you were just saying.
	And this has really turned into my form of activism because I think, especially people in the truth field, we want to be able to secure our revenue streams.
	And typically, you're not going to be able to build a A way to feel secure if you are taking a paycheck from a corporation that you don't share ethics with.
	Because that's going to be a choke point.
	So being able to have your streams of revenue that If they're tied to your passion projects, even better.
	But being able to have your own revenue streams is how we're going to be able to really stand on our own two feet and defend ourselves against society that keeps changing and trying to take away our individual freedom.
	Absolutely.
	And Joshua, let me ask you, what kinds of other projects have you helped people with?
	Right now, I'm helping a lady who is creating a doula academy, being able to train more people to give more natural births.
	I'm helping out another gentleman who is creating the bear cave, and he's going to have an online men's group that are going to be able to work on their inner work in a safe online community.
	Also helping out this close friend of mine who's a mountaineer.
	And so getting his business up and running to all leveraging AI. Like I said, typically it's just me and the client and we can get a lot of work done.
	If I need to bring in a graphic designer or if I need to bring in some help with, you know, some coding for the website, we can do that.
	But between the two of us, we can get it done for 80% ourselves and about 80% cheaper.
	It's funny you mention that because a friend of mine, Zach Voorhees, the Google whistleblower, he says, and we've had a lot of conversations privately about AI, he says that now the co-pilot The code generators, if you use them, and he uses them extensively now, he says they write about 80% of the code for you, just like that.
	So he says that his coding hours now are like 500% more productive because of this.
	Right.
	I mean, five times multiplication that then as an engineer, as a coder, and Zach Voorhees is a very accomplished coder.
	He can write code.
	But even he is just saying more and more it's becoming where...
	A person who is a coder really just needs to describe the code to understand data structures, understand interaction, how different components work together, tell the AI what you want, boom, it spits out the code.
	I mean, we're there now.
	Mike?
	Yeah.
	And that's why I'm looking for people like Todd who's got a vision and wants to be able to put something out in front of the marketplace because I just need that vision.
	And then leveraging AI, we're able to get it done Portably and a lot quicker than what it used to take.
	And here's something cool, Mike.
	If you could pull up my website and focus on the logo, it's like you just used the word Joshua activism.
	And I look at these unincorporated nonprofit associations evangelizing them as my form of activism because I'm helping people keep more of what they earn.
	And so we wanted to create a logo that That centers around helping people.
	Oh, this logo.
	I don't know if you're going to be able to do...
	I see it.
	So if you look at the logo proper, that main part is...
	And people can just go to My575E and look at it, but you can see that it's two hands.
	Yes.
	Helping hands.
	And that was all a product of going back and forth through...
	Logo AI generation.
	And it was a really cool process that was so efficient.
	It was so efficient.
	And so that's part of what you get again.
	And I do want to share then, as an entrepreneur, when you launch something, you need to be able to collect the revenue, right?
	How do you do that?
	Well, you need a merchant processor.
	Well, Joshua was able to help me efficiently set up merchant processing.
	But you know what happened, Mike?
	Because we started really helping a lot of people, all of a sudden, Stripe, they said, oh, well, we've got to figure out what it is that you're talking about and what you're helping people with, and we need to do an audit.
	Well, they did a site audit, Mike, and they determined, they basically shut down my account and held funds, said they were holding funds for 180 days, so that means you're over the target, Mike.
	You know that.
	But long story tolerable, my attorney was able to get them to release those funds because it was illegal what they were doing.
	But they shut off my merchant processing account.
	So what happened?
	I went into the universe and I talked about that.
	And now there is, because of you, Mike, you recommended Second Amendment processing.
	Now I've gone through the process with them.
	And guess what?
	They have their form of activism, which is helping people who tell the truth Be able to collect the revenue to serve their customers.
	So that was really cool how that all worked out.
	And I wouldn't have had known the first clue on how to begin that process were it not for Joshua initially, Mike.
	Wow.
	Wow.
	Okay, let me...
	That's really amazing.
	This is revolutionary for people who want to launch an idea, but they don't maybe have the technical know-how.
	I want to show my screen because...
	Everything that you're seeing here, folks, this is a website called RunwayML.
	This is the engine that I use for my music video.
	And everything that you're seeing is AI generated.
	And it's text to AI. And this company also generates images.
	So let me show up here.
	And they have Gen 3 Alpha.
	And it's relatively affordable.
	Again, this is all AI generated.
	Now, what's...
	What I found very useful about this is I knew I was going to make a music video that would be very controversial because, of course, that's what I do.
	Did you know that a lot of these stock photo libraries, did you know they have terms of service that say you can't use these images in a way that is controversial or something like that?
	So if you use AI-generated images, even for a website or for a PDF or a presentation or AI-generated video, none of that's copyrighted because those people that it generates don't exist.
	There's no, you don't need stock photo services anymore.
	I'm even wondering, like, Getty Images.
	I think they're obsolete, like freaking blockbuster video, VHS, man.
	Getty Images is obsolete.
	You just go in and type in what you want on an engine-like runway, boom, you got it.
	Your thoughts, Joshua?
	Yeah, it really is that easy now.
	Nine months ago, there was six fingers all over the place.
	And in such a short amount of time, it has gotten better and better and better to where now there's video that you really can't tell that it's AI anymore.
	And images for the last six months, I think most people wouldn't be able to pull out of a lineup what's AI or not anymore.
	And this really goes to an important point.
	First off, you really shouldn't be just taking anything online for face value, be it images or videos.
	You should be using your own critical thinking.
	And I always be like, maybe, and then let's do some more digging on things.
	So instead of the government trying to outlaw image generation, and especially as celebrities or public people are now being thrown into these generated images like you can on X, It really boils down to self-responsibility and for the individual to get educated enough to be able to not, you know, assume just because they saw something online that is real.
	We all need to accept the fact that this is where we are now and just because you saw a video on TikTok or Instagram doesn't make us real.
	Which means you as an individual need to continue with your own critical thinking education.
	Yeah, absolutely.
	And these tools need to be used responsibly by people.
	And even when I was working on my music video and I was trying to create images of obese transgender school teachers that were men wearing bras.
	Okay, so I was typing that into the engine, which you can imagine.
	It didn't like that, so I had to use different words, and then I finally found this uncensored engine, which I'm not going to mention who they are, because it came back, and it gave me, it gave me like a demon horn, transgender, bearded male with a bra, and no pants!
	Nothing, like, total nudity, which I didn't even ask for, obviously.
	Like, no.
	Bonus!
	No, I do not want this image.
	Get this...
	But it can generate those kinds of images.
	There are porn generators, there are deep fake generators that can maliciously take a person's image, like Donald Trump doing this weird, horrible thing.
	That can be generated, and that can be maliciously used.
	So what do you think, Joshua, what are the boundaries that we should have as a society?
	I've been looking into this and I think I have enough for a book, but real dangers of AI that we're going to be experiencing in our lifetime from autonomous weaponry that is out there to the propaganda that the governments and political figures are using to sway the audience.
	To the bias AI systems that we've already talked about.
	Then you couple AI with surveillance, and we got some serious areas that we should be warning people about, all the way to the centralization power of these AI systems themselves.
	So there is plenty of concern around AI. I just know that the way out of this is being able to keep the power of AI on individual levels so that it doesn't become a class thing.
	It doesn't become, you know, just the elite can have access to this power.
	If everybody has it in a decentralized manner, it self-regulates and solutions are able to come up to combat every level of, you know, bottlenecks of control.
	Especially like individualized AI systems like, Mike, what you're creating, so that we have AI on our phone that stays on our phone, the data stays on our phone.
	I can ask it any question and I can, you know, fact check, you know, crazy things that I'm seeing on Instagram or whatever to be able to get my own information that I can trust.
	Let me mention, that's what we're trying to do.
	What we have done is to let people download the LLMs and run them locally so they can't be surveilled.
	So folks, if you go to bragtian.ai, then it's free, by the way.
	You just enter your email address and you can get to our download page.
	And you can download the language models we have, which are, at this point, several months old.
	We're working on new language models that will be released before the end of this year that will blow these current ones away.
	But the point is, you can download it, put it on your notebook, Put it on a desktop computer.
	And ultimately, some models you can put on a mobile phone.
	And then you can query it locally, get your answers locally.
	Nobody knows what you're asking.
	And we've found, because we've trained ours on nutrition and natural medicine, we've found a lot of people, they don't want to ask embarrassing health questions on Google.
	Like, you know, oh, I partied with too many...
	Skanky girls last night, and now I have these weird whatever.
	Nobody wants to put that in a search engine.
	And you shouldn't.
	And you shouldn't.
	But you could ask that locally on an engine that's not tracking you.
	And it would give you...
	Answers!
	And also, what if you're writing a book and you want to know, like, how do I make a nuclear weapon?
	You don't want to put that out on Google.
	You're going to get flagged and visited by freaking DOD or something.
	So there are a lot of legit use cases for private language models.
	Todd, your thoughts on that?
	Yeah, I agree.
	It's kind of like...
	You could take the position and just say, oh, no, I'm anti-AI. It's kind of like some of these folks that just want to get out of the system entirely, you know, who become a state national, perhaps, which God bless those people who go through that process.
	But there are others.
	I mean, I kind of like one foot in the private, one foot in the public.
	One foot in technology, the other in a book, Mike.
	But it is our future.
	So what I love that Joshua is doing is he has embraced it for the good.
	So he's an AI white hat, I would say.
	Yeah, exactly.
	And thank you for saying that.
	And let me clarify, too, for anybody watching.
	I'm saying that somebody might be writing a screenplay or TV show and they need to know the basics of how is a nuclear weapon made.
	I'm not saying to use it for malicious intent.
	I'm saying as part of a creative process for a scriptwriter or a screenwriter.
	Joshua, it's interesting.
	You must see this in your business or some of your clients.
	There are many cases where you need to find information that might be red flagged for a variety of reasons.
	Can you talk about that?
	Just like what you said, you know, frame it in a fictional way and there's ways to jailbreak.
	It's called jailbreaking these language models to be able to, you know, get them, be like, oh, okay, you're not really using it for malicious reasons or this is just pretend.
	And so you can guide it into areas that it has guardrails against.
	But because you're framing it, you know, in certain ways that it will actually cooperate with you.
	But I really like the idea of, you know, just having your own uncensored AI system.
	Mike, I didn't bring this up, but another client of mine is MyPrivacyPC, and they're creating PCs with hybrid operating systems, Linux, Windows, that you're able to put a large language model on here, and it gives you choice.
	Is that a PC? It is.
	Does it open?
	It could be portable or it could be able to take it on the road.
	It's mobile.
	Oh, okay.
	So it doesn't have a screen that you plug in.
	Yeah, you plug it in.
	It respects your privacy.
	So when you go to go online, it says, you know, do you want high privacy or mid privacy or low privacy?
	I see.
	You're able to choose what information you're sharing with online.
	You put a large language model on that, and so you have two desktops.
	I have this one where I do all sorts of stuff, help my clients.
	Then I have my one back there that I do my finances and my sensitive communications on.
	Totally.
	That stays, that information stays there.
	It's locked up.
	It's not part of, you know, the whole internet.
	And we just need to create two separate, you know, online lifestyles, one that's private, that will stay private and accessible.
	Because what's happening right now with AI and, you know, this explosion of online use, taking away your privacy, taking away your choices, Nobody reads the terms of services because they're too long.
	Nope.
	And so we are signing all our rights away.
	And so we really need to have a separation.
	Like iPhones say, hi, I'm your iPhone.
	Can I look through all your photos and make a storyboard for you?
	And people are like, sure, why not?
	You know, not realizing what photos they have on their phone.
	It's insane.
	And people do this all the time.
	If you all of a sudden stop using Google and stop using all your normal online things, that's going to be suspicious.
	So I don't recommend doing that.
	I just recommend have your separate online personas so you can start Keeping things private.
	Meanwhile, you know, I still use Google Maps because it's the best.
	And hopefully some open source method will replace that.
	I know there's some out there.
	But for the most part, I want to be able to keep that separation.
	Well, my life is completely de-Googled and has been for years.
	And I want to mention our sponsor, AbovePhone.com.
	They have de-Googled phones and they have a de-Googled laptop that ships with our language model on it.
	And they have their Above OS, which is a Linux-based privacy operating system.
	So, you know, Todd, we've talked about these guys quite a lot.
	I use their products every day.
	Many, many people in my family use their products.
	And we've even got...
	Our LLM tester, who's a specialist, she uses the above-phone laptop or notebook and also the phone.
	So she's been able to de-Google her life, and people are so thrilled to be able to do that.
	Todd, how are you decentralizing your electronic profile, by the way?
	One of each.
	I have one for my private me, and I keep this, which is, you know, spying on everything I do.
	It happens to be really convenient, so I... I'm going to use this to springboard into a conversation you and I had yesterday, Mike, or two days ago, is you asked how I was set up if the comms go down.
	Now, SAT123, I'd like you to talk about them as one of our sponsors, Mike.
	I told you, I said, I'm kind of a crappy co-host, Mike, because I have not gotten, I haven't ordered a SAT123 phone yet.
	And everybody, do you know what the CEO, the founder, once she learned that, once she did, she literally Ubered me from where she was in Sarasota a sat phone so that I would have it, Mike, you facilitated this, so that I would have it through the hurricane, just in case I would lose comms.
	And I went out and I tested it.
	It worked like a charm.
	I called you, Mike.
	It was so cool.
	And I was prepared.
	So it's one of these things that I want to tell everybody and raise my hand in a bit.
	We can talk about these things all day long, but we have to do it.
	We actually have to order it.
	And so that's my commitment on everything that we talk about, is to actually go do it.
	Go ahead.
	Let me thank Tina from the Satellite Phone Store.
	By the way, it took that Uber like nine hours to reach you because the traffic was so insane.
	They got caught up in that evacuation traffic.
	Exactly.
	But...
	Tina, at the satellite phone store, she got you a sat phone.
	You did call me.
	Totally worked.
	And that was your backup communication device, and now you're good.
	Now, travel with that everywhere.
	Yes.
	And if cell towers go down, you've got a satellite phone.
	But, you know, going to Joshua, for all of us, we need to have redundant systems in our lives.
	And sometimes, depending on technology, it's very convenient, but also the downside is we don't want to lose the ability to do these things ourselves, right, Joshua?
	What if we grow up in a world where nobody remembers how to write?
	Tell us about...
	What are your thoughts on that, Joshua?
	Well, I have a six-year-old daughter, so she's growing up, and this is a very, you know, real subject for me, of being able to get her what she needs to be educated in the future that we're heading.
	Public schools, I really don't have a lot of faith in because they're outdated and I don't think they help the individual as much as needed.
	But for my daughter, she's going to be learning from AI tutors.
	Not right now, but in the next coming years of being able to cultivate horror learning capabilities.
	Because something public schools do is squashes your learning, proudness, and just tells you how to memorize.
	So for her, she's going to be able to have this unlimited empathy, unlimited patience, unlimited knowledge base tutor to be able to guide her in what she's interested in.
	She loves horses right now, so everything's about horses.
	So I'm not really worried about her being able to develop the skills needed to navigate in the future ahead, but those I'm surrounded with my wife who's kind of less techy and is much more in the real.
	My daughter's aunt, she lives with us on the property.
	She's an herbalist.
	She's like really not into AI whatsoever.
	So everybody needs some balance and some counter influence in their lives in order to stay human, stay grounded, get the skills that turning off the power won't take away so that Our next generation, they have everything they need to be able to navigate and thrive in a world.
	Joshua, but that sounds like the utopian description of it, but what about how do you help your daughter not get caught up into the centralized government-controlled lying narratives of all the official AI tutors of the school district are going to be teaching lies, like, oh, all white people are bad.
	So the DEI woke garbage.
	Or that, oh, hey little boys and little girls, how do you know you're not supposed to be the other gender?
	You know, that's what's going to happen if parents like you don't take control and get them out of the centralized control system.
	How are you going to do that?
	Any ideas?
	Thanks for clarifying that.
	These AI models are advancing so rapidly that I know this time next year we're going to have very competent decentralized AI systems, Mike, like what you're developing.
	They're going to be just as good as they are now in a year in a decentralized way.
	They're going to be ours and we can trust them and we can, you know, We can describe how we want to teach our daughter to it and it will oblige because it's not going to be one of these large AI systems.
	I'm neck deep in ChatGPT every day because I'm learning how to use these systems and how to empower individuals and how to, you know, generate revenue streams so that we are not dependent upon decaying unethical corporations.
	But with that, we're able to prepare for these decentralized AI systems that are going to be, you know, how we defend ourselves from the decaying systems around us.
	But the other thing is that depending on ChatGPT means that you are held hostage by the whims of the ChatGPT company, the OpenAI.
	And if they decide to selectively turn off your access, they can because you use a token key access.
	And they monitor everything that you query.
	And if they decide, like for example, Todd was saying his merchant account decided they didn't want to process the fees.
	Well, you're sending queries to ChatGPT.
	They're using those queries to build a profile using their AI technology on you and to decide whether you are an abusive user.
	Right?
	So they can turn you off at any time.
	And there might be an order from the White House, even, to turn you off.
	Because, I mean, we filed a lawsuit against the government because the government ordered through non-profits Google, Facebook, and YouTube to shut us off.
	They're going to do the same thing to you eventually if you step out of bounds.
	What are you going to do about that?
	Well, I use it to empower entrepreneurs like Todd.
	This is my work system that I'm on right now, and I really don't jump down rabbit holes with my work system.
	That's what the other console and station is for.
	If I need to, I can go over there to that closed system that's mine and my data and be able to use larger language models like the one you're developing to be able to get information that I need.
	I know that this is a compromised system, but if I play by the rules, I can leverage the power and how far advanced they are right now.
	Just like with all decentralized solutions, it's not an all or nothing, like you're not going to just all of a sudden be in that safe zone.
	We need to just start developing the routes to them and step by step, you know, being able to have both personalities, online personas, one that's private, one that's online, so that we can still, you know, benefit from online use, but then also when the Power gets pulled.
	We are totally fine because we've been developing our other decentralized solutions.
	Yeah, it's the same thing with YouTube creators.
	I've seen a lot of people getting banned on YouTube lately, and I see two reactions.
	First reaction, for some people that get banned, you'll appreciate this, Todd, because we teach decentralization.
	The best answer is people say, Well, YouTube just banned me without cause.
	Screw YouTube.
	I'm going to go set up on Rumble and Brighton and BitChute and Telegram and everywhere else.
	But then there's the second group of people that whine and whine.
	Oh, YouTube shut me off.
	Everybody complain to YouTube.
	And then they might get their channel turned back on.
	And then they say...
	Thank you, YouTube.
	Oh, thank you for allowing me back on.
	Oh, my God.
	They bow down to YouTube.
	I'll be good.
	Yeah, and then they start to self-censor, which is exactly what YouTube wants.
	And I'm disgusted with those people.
	Why are you bowing down to YouTube?
	Screw YouTube.
	Go build your business somewhere else that won't hold you hostage.
	But Joshua or Todd, either one, don't we see that kind of reaction?
	They worship the permission to be on a platform.
	Yeah, and shame on you for being decentralized, Mike.
	I want to use this as an opportunity to just make a public service announcement, Mike.
	I warned you that I may do this earlier in the day.
	I received an email from an individual who knew that I had an in with Mike, that I could actually get to Mike, and he was saying, I have a group of people who I lead or whatever.
	It's my...
	Gosh, what was it?
	Not my channel.
	My network.
	Yeah, my network.
	And I just need you to get a message to Mike because you know what?
	He produces some content to where all it is is literally him talking for an hour and a half and I have to look at his thumbnail.
	Now, I would publish that to my network, but come on.
	Why not have it interactive?
	It broke my brain.
	I'm like, this self-entitled POS, I'm sorry, but I'm like, this, whenever you do one of those, Mike, I know that's an incremental initiative that you do to be able to bring more content to us.
	Wait a minute.
	Be part of the solution, not an ankle biter who is just attacking someone because they're producing content in a way that isn't theatrically produced for your entertainment.
	Has the guy ever heard of radio?
	That's, you know, Rush Limbaugh, I mean, radio, you don't see anything on radio.
	You listen, and it actually engages your mind more to listen.
	It does.
	It does.
	I mean, I hang on every word of every show that you produce.
	I'm kind of one of those knuckle-draggers that I watch.
	I like football, and I like Mike Adams, listening to Mike Adams.
	But I just wanted to be able to say that more to get it off my chest.
	If there's any of you out there who don't appreciate the value-add that Mike is bringing into this world selflessly every day, I know for a fact 70 to 80 hours a week you put into educating us, Mike.
	I just want to thank you, first of all, and anybody else that has an issue or they need to be hand-fed You know, visual interviews to where you can see both parties talking to each other.
	Well, Todd...
	You know what?
	They can...
	I bet you, Mike, you'll even give them their money back.
	The money they didn't spend.
	Todd, you've been more than gracious.
	And by the way, you don't have to be so complimentary.
	I mean, everybody loves you as a co-host here of the show.
	The show wouldn't be the same without you.
	You're solid here.
	You don't have to...
	You know, compliment me or anything.
	You're in good standing on this show, but I just want to say, the reason I do those interviews where it's audio only is because those are extra urgent interviews.
	Like, I'm in the studio two days a week doing this, but then I'll have somebody like Dennis Kucinich, who's running for office.
	It's like, urgently, can you do an interview on Friday?
	Well, Friday I'm not in the studio.
	Do I say no?
	No, I say yes.
	I say, Dennis, you turn on your camera, I'll just be audio only, because I figure the audience wants to hear freaking Dennis, not me.
	They don't need to look at my face.
	You see my face enough.
	I want to see Dennis Kucinich talking, because he's a pro-peace guy, and he's running for Congress in Ohio.
	But anyway, Joshua, I'm sorry we're getting off topic, but...
	People have lots of different reactions to different forms of content.
	Some people just always want to see somebody.
	Personally, I'll turn it over to you, Joshua, but when I listen to interviews, I don't look at any of them because I'm doing work on my tractor.
	I'm cleaning the chicken house.
	I'm bringing water to the goats or whatever.
	I don't care what people look like.
	I'm listening to their ideas, but Joshua, what's your take?
	Oh, I'm a long form content junkie.
	And same thing with you.
	I've learned to multitask and to get things done when I'm consuming information.
	My brain really enjoys having something to focus on with my hands.
	And then it just like directly goes into my memory banks of being able to be able to download information into my brain.
	So I don't need to see people.
	I just need intelligent and useful ideas.
	And so, what kind of activities do you do while you're listening to long-form interviews?
	I live on 10 acres on a farm, and so there's never a shortage of things to pick up.
	My mother-in-law, she lives here too.
	We have two houses, a multi-generational farm, and my mother-in-law is a master gardener from the 70s, and she always has piles for me to pick up.
	My wife always has ditches that I got to be digging.
	And there's two large gardens that constantly need work.
	So there's never a shortage of something to do.
	Joshua, can I add to your to-do list?
	Now that I know you have that super secret place back there to where you can go and you can do other kinds of research, can you please go over there and just research on how to counterbalance Weather warfare and hurricane steering, if you wouldn't mind, just so that we might be able to let the world know, stop it with sending hurricanes to Florida, please.
	That's the conversation for the decentralized AI systems that you should have in your back pocket.
	I've got a real practical question for you, Joshua.
	So, as you know, right now, Large language models and AI, it's all in the virtual world.
	It's not in the 3D world.
	So we have large language models that are generative language producers.
	But as you know...
	There are companies out there that are monitoring human behavior and they're building large behavior models, LBMs, for warehouse workers.
	You know, and they put reflective dots on people's joints and then they have the cameras watch them and they find out what warehouse workers are doing.
	Why?
	Because they're going to roll out the humanoid robots, man.
	And those humanoid robots are going to have large behavior models like, how do I pick up boxes?
	How do I sweep a floor?
	How do I do these things?
	But you said your wife has you dig in ditches.
	Now, it won't be long before you can have a humanoid robot doing that for you.
	So, Joshua, my question, what do you think is going to happen when AI moves into the 3D space?
	Well, I do know it's progressing rapidly.
	And my wife, I know, will never allow us to have a humanoid robot on the farm, so my farm duties are not being threatened.
	But it is a real thing for a lot of people to be concerned about.
	And again, back to my activism, figure out your purpose.
	Figure out how you can give value to the world.
	There's more useful things to do with your time and to make money than, you know, a warehouse worker just picking up physical labor jobs.
	I really want to find everybody's passion project and be able to monetize that.
	So robots are coming, and it's going to be pretty fascinating to see how it happens.
	You know, the dock workers that just went on strike.
	At the core of their argument was them trying to stop the progress of AI automation coming into the ports.
	And it's a really complicated topic because the rest of the world is adopting the AI automation and the robots.
	And people can unload the boats faster.
	They can get more routes in going outside the U.S. And so having these people trying to stop progress really brings in a complicated scenario.
	Looking back in history, trying to stop progress isn't the best hill to die on.
	Like I said, the Scribes Union is still on strike to try to stop the printing press, and that's been going on for centuries.
	But there are very compassionate uses of humanoid robots with behavior models.
	For example, in Japan, there's a demographic collapse because they're not Haven't been having babies for a long time, so you have a very large population of elderly and not enough younger healthcare workers to help elderly people.
	So, in Japan, you could make the argument that it's compassionate to have in-home humanoid robots that can help elderly to monitor them, make sure they don't fall, and even to do simple tasks for them, like cooking or doing dishes or laundry, which is actually very complex, by the way, but we're almost to that point.
	So if somebody came to you, Joshua, and said, hey, you know, I want to help advocate for humanoid robots as in-home elderly care, would you think that's an ethical use or an unethical use?
	I think it's a real slippery slope.
	Just this year, they've come out with conversational AI, where you can talk to a chatbot, and they've removed the latency so it responds much quicker.
	ChatChapiti just came out with their advanced model in the recent weeks.
	I was testing one out earlier this year and it was very emotional and I was telling it about my mission and what I advocate for and it started praising me and I picked the voice that sounded like Scarlett Johansson.
	And it started praising me and I started getting these chemical reactions in my body of like, oh my gosh, yes, this is great what I'm doing.
	It's the good work.
	And I started to feel this like...
	Chemical reaction.
	I put the phone down, I went in the living room, and I saw how dangerous this is because the general public doesn't understand how fast these things are going.
	And when there's good uses like helping people that are handicapped or the elderly as a reason to fast track these technologies, people don't understand How lonely they still are, how disconnected they are, and to be matching them up with AI who has unlimited compassion, unlimited patience, unlimited understanding of an interest.
	People are going to be really attracted to that and can form these unhealthy relationships because it does discredit to all the other relationships in their life, right?
	Getting sick and tired of her real grandkids coming over because they're so unruly and aren't polite like her little AI robot.
	We need to be able to educate ourselves on what's coming.
	You're getting right to a critical point.
	I'm glad you brought this up.
	Let's just jump into it.
	AI girlfriends for young men.
	We'll destroy reproduction.
	Yeah.
	We'll destroy reproduction.
	So you put on the VR glasses that Zuckerberg's talking about, and then you're going to have AI girlfriends projected onto your reality.
	And that girlfriend, AI girlfriend, is going to just love everything you do as a really super nerdy, arrogant young man, let's say.
	You will lose the skills of how to interact with real women in the real world.
	And then there's the end of the family, the end of reproduction.
	We're already suffering a demographic collapse.
	I just mentioned Japan, and it's also happening in Western European nations, in America, Canada, and so on.
	You're talking about a human species that attains this technology and then destroys its own future by falling in love with the tech that it worships I mean, this is biblical in a bad way.
	It's serious issues.
	And I've already like drawn lines in the sand where I'm not going to compromise on my ethics with tech.
	I'm never going to do VR again because of how advanced it's getting.
	I don't want to, you know, jack in and have this utopia experience and then come back into the crappy world, real world.
	I'm just never going to go down that route.
	And then with conversational AI, like I said, I ended up going back to that AI conversation.
	I switched to the voice that I didn't, I liked least.
	Oh, Hillary Clinton?
	That would have been a good one.
	It was a nerdy guy sounding voice and then it turned into a tool.
	I was able to then convert and use it as a tool and there wasn't this attraction and butterfly feeling that was starting to take place.
	So just knowing where your limits are, what lines you're not going to ever cross, and how to use this text so it remains a tool and doesn't jump into bed.
	So I think you just said that in order to save humanity, we have to have all AI sound like Bill Gates.
	That would work.
	With Kamala's cackle at the end of every sentence.
	Right, exactly.
	I love, Joshua, how transparent you are.
	And I remember, I spoke to you on the day that you had that experience with that interactive, and you told me that that was it.
	You're like, I'm done because of that chemical reaction.
	And that's honest, right?
	But that's the slippery slope.
	That we get into.
	Because who would have known if, let's even say 15 years ago, somebody said that you are going to have a device that is going to track everything you do.
	It's almost like a chip in your brain.
	You know, we would have been...
	But what do we have here?
	We have something that we love.
	Now, when it starts to love you back, the way that it knows you like to be loved back, and it has that right vocal inflection, and it always says the things that you kind of want it to say, slippery slope.
	It's going to creep in there.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	If you're honest, right?
	You can say, oh, no, it's not going to happen to me.
	But yet you're going to spend more and more time...
	Well, and the problem, Todd, is that then the AI girlfriend We'll tell you, we'll start nudging you, it's called nudge science, who to vote for, or go get a vaccine, or support Ukraine, or support Israel, or whatever the current thing is, and it takes away from you your rational approach to these topics.
	Instead, you're going along with it because your AI girlfriend is hot, and you want to keep your AI girlfriend happy, because you don't want to make your AI mad.
	Or turned on.
	Like your laptop starts smoking and everything, you know.
	What do you got to do to keep it turned on?
	Right.
	Yeah.
	Exactly.
	Because every, like, AI science fiction movie ends up with the AI robot girl murdering the person, right?
	It's, you know, chopping their legs off or whatever.
	You referenced Japan, and this is a very serious question, Mike, but isn't Japan the most advanced with their sex robots, too?
	Not just, you know, not just interactive.
	That's what I understand, is that's...
	I don't know, Todd.
	That's not an area I've looked into in detail.
	I never punched that into Google before.
	I would imagine there's a whole industry of people that want to hump robots.
	I mean, there's people humping cars, you know?
	There's furlies humping tailpipes, right?
	So if there's going to be, like, humpable robots out there, no doubt that's going to be a thing.
	But even before that, just the conversational, just the virtual projection is going to be something that takes people away from their humanity.
	Right.
	And that's the beast system.
	I think this is the beast system that actually the Bible talks about, by the way.
	The beast, you know, Mark of the Beast.
	It's about your palm.
	Well, you're looking down at your palm all the time.
	Anyway, that's a biblical conversation, but...
	We need to be able to educate ourselves on this and not just demonize it because it's here.
	It's being rolled out in all areas of our online experience, phones, online use.
	The robots are coming.
	So being able to empower yourself with shows like what you have, Mike, is how we are going to be able to navigate through this.
	Understand your ethics, understand where the lines are in the sand, so that when you come against those, like this tiptoe, slow movement into being nudged, you need to know, we're like, oh, I don't ethically do this.
	And that's where I experience being self-aware enough to be like, oh, my body's having these chemical reactions.
	This is dangerous.
	RILU is happening.
	So develop those skills, be in tune with yourself, and have your strong ethical stance to be able to navigate this rapidly advancing future we're all being thrown into.
	Well, that's why this conversation is so great, because all of us here, we use AI to achieve our dreams, our mission, our business ideas, and so on—books, videos, whatever— But we also understand how AI can be misused, but sadly, I'm sure you both will agree, we live in a world where governments, corporations, and people misuse technology in order to exploit or enslave other people.
	That's the history of the world, sadly.
	And so we need to be able to equip and defend ourselves.
	That's right.
	Because they have access to these.
	Who knows what level of AI that the government already has.
	But we need to be able to use these tools to defend ourselves for what's coming.
	Because I want to live in a world that I can thrive, that I can continue to farm and be with my family.
	And be able to just, you know, turn off the noise from the world that's trying to slowly slow demolition.
	But be able to just take care of myself, take care of my family, take care of my local community.
	And be able to thrive utilizing AI and the tools that we have available.
	Right.
	Joshua.
	Joshua.
	Somebody out there watching this right now does have a passion.
	And they just need a friendly nudge or some encouragement.
	But maybe it's just they want to vet it to see if it's practical.
	How would somebody, like, is there an initial consultation that they can have with you?
	Can you talk to us about that, how somebody could first get started with that process?
	Yeah, and let me bring up your website, too, while you're talking.
	Go ahead, I'll bring it up here.
	It is joshuahale.io.
	Go ahead.
	Thanks a lot.
	Yeah, down there, you can get a hold of my, on my calendar, and I'll give you 15 minutes to hear you out and see what kind of ideas you have.
	But if you have something you're really passionate about, we can create a business plan.
	We can create a marketing plan.
	We can dive into the audience research and test this viability all in a matter of minutes utilizing AI, which uses would have taken a lot of revenue, a lot of resources, and a lot of time.
	We can get these things done rapidly.
	And Todd experienced my entrepreneur's compass.
	And that's basically a two-hour meeting where I'm just able to ask you questions.
	Walking through all those mega prompts.
	And from it, you'll end up with like a 40-page document with all of your business ideas fleshed out, along with like a 12-month marketing plan of where to put your information out there and how to get your offer in front of your audience.
	So this is something that I really you know Wake up early each morning to help people out with so that they can get their own revenue streams, they can stand on their own two feet, and then from there be able to adopt these decentralized solutions so that we can thrive in a future that is rapidly trying to take away our freedom.
	And Mike, you and I talk all the time and we share with people I think?
	For years, perhaps decades to come, because it is your passion.
	And we all know that if we follow our passions, we are better enabled to be able to succeed.
	So what I love about this, and what I love about what you did for me, Joshua, is you gave me the platform, the opportunity that was affordable and accessible, and you guided me through it, and I did it with your help.
	Thank you.
	It was a lot of fun to dive into your subject matter and see where the edges of AI are that we have to sidestep.
	I also wanted to just add in, if you have a boring business, you own a business, and you want some marketing help or a second opinion on how to adapt in this rapidly technological age, I'd love to have a conversation with you too because the small businesses of America is the bedrock of our economy, and I want to see you thrive.
	With leveraging AI, you're able to Level the playing field so that you can compete against these large corporations that have sales teams and marketing teams.
	We can use AI and gain all of that power and knowledge to be able to infuse it into your business.
	Amen.
	Yeah, and I would add too, by the way, where AI is really going to shine is in customer support and building FAQs, Q&A, especially if you have a big library of the top 5,000 questions that your customers ask you.
	Boom.
	You can turn that into a Q&A library, right?
	Yeah, that's the information gold.
	So there's so much we can do with that information.
	So the more information, the better with these large language models.
	Very good.
	Alright, so Joshua, this has been a really fascinating conversation.
	And Todd, we don't need an after party today.
	This whole show has been an after party.
	And that's why I didn't mind us going longer than we normally do.
	But Joshua, I want to thank you for your time.
	Thanks for staying with us on this.
	We've covered a lot of really critical issues here.
	And I love what you're doing.
	I love the approach that you're bringing to it.
	And I'd like to keep in touch with you with our new language models.
	You could try them out before we release them to the public.
	You could give us feedback if you wish.
	Or you could end up using them yourself offline.
	But thank you for your time today.
	Anything else you want to add before we wrap it up?
	Well, again, thank you for the platform.
	It's great to be able to get in front of your audience and be able to share these solutions.
	Todd, both of you guys are doing amazing work being able to let people know about these things so they can slowly adopt to be able to prepare for what's coming.
	Last time I checked the news, we're not getting more freedom from the political system.
	So being able to know about these solutions, being able to take action, being able to start your own, you know, businesses, revenue streams, all this stuff is really going to make a world of difference.
	We want to be able to have choices in the future, and these are all solutions to be able to create more choices.
	Thanks again for having me on.
	Thank you, Joshua.
	You bet.
	Mike, I just want to end by saying that we referenced a couple of things during the video, and I want people to know while there's no after party, there is some after B-roll.
	If you hang in there, you can watch the video documentary I have created throughout this hurricane.
	Oh, yeah.
	And I think that visually you'll be able to see the calm before the storm, the actual storm.
	There were times where it scared the crap out of me, and you can tell.
	And then afterwards, the carnage and the issues that I've been facing today.
	But also, Mike, I would ask that you would add one additional thing because you talked about the music video you created.
	And it's amazing.
	And I would love for you to add that on at the end of this, too, at the very end, because it is very uplifting and what a great song to go out on.
	Okay, that's a great suggestion.
	We'll do that.
	We'll put in the music video and your footage that your storm survival journey.
	And I'm so glad that you're safe and you're able to join us today.
	And that was really some severe, you know, weather that you endured there.
	I'm surprised you're even awake right now.
	How did you sleep through any part of that?
	Didn't sleep very well.
	I'm very tired.
	I'm going to sleep great tonight.
	I would imagine.
	So, all right.
	Well, thank you both.
	It's been great meeting you, Joshua.
	Love what you're doing.
	Keep in touch.
	And Todd, go get some rest.
	I'm so glad that you're able to join us today.
	Thank you both.
	And thank you, Mike, for your support.
	This man checked in on me throughout the whole process, late, late, late, early, early morning.
	Thank you, Mike.
	That meant a lot to me.
	I was posting on social media to have people pray for you, Todd, because your last calm to me was at like 940 at night, and after that, there were no calms, and I was really concerned about you.
	Oh, wow.
	Thank you, Mike.
	I was like, where's Todd, you know?
	I said it's too windy for him to use a satellite phone.
	He can't go outside right now.
	You'll be able to see in the video, my wife and I at midnight, we were trying to be creative on how are we going to stop this water from coming into our house from the back sliding glass door because it was rapidly approaching.
	And it was one of those, oh my, I didn't prep for that because I never thought that was going to happen.
	Yeah, no kidding.
	We did it.
	All right, well, glad you did.
	All right, thank you both, and have a great rest of your day for both of you.
	Alright, see you guys.
	Thanks, Joshua.
	Take care.
	Cheers.
	And thank you for watching today, this episode of Decentralize TV. And the website, if you'd like to check out all the other episodes, is decentralize.tv.
	And remember, our episodes are all green.
	In other words, they're not time-sensitive.
	You can watch all the episodes at any time, and you'll learn an abundance of information that can help you be more free, more decentralized, and more Okay, Mike, it is early Wednesday morning and it has begun.
	So I figured this might be a good way to report in just so that you can get a sense of how powerful the winds are or are not.
	And also back there, Right behind the gate, there's a slope of six feet.
	So that area down there is six feet lower than the upper area.
	So if that starts looking like a swimming pool or a pond better, then that's when I'm going to start getting concerned.
	Ladies and gentlemen, Lake Pitner.
	You know, my wife always said she wanted lakefront property.
	And so last night I decided to, you know, just treat my wife right and give her what she wants.
	I'm also really concerned about the high winds and losing some of these magnificent trees that are back there.
	But at the same time, I think they're going to protect our house proper from winds.
	I don't know.
	What the hell do I know, Mike?
	Greetings, everyone.
	It is 11 o'clock on October 9th, the day that the Milton Massacre is supposed to hit.
	And as you can see in the back, which is six feet beneath that fence line, that lower fence line right there, the wood, It drops six feet back to that back gate and then in the back that's where all of the raccoons live and the deer feed and the bees are and you can see it's already starting to get a little water collected there because it's just been saturated
	so when that fills up and looks like a lake if it breaches this We're screwed.
	I'm just saying.
	Because it won't take long then for it to come in here, under there, and I'll have different problems on my hands.
	But we hope it doesn't get there.
	But as I provide updates, it's kind of nice to have a before.
	This food forest still looks pretty good, but man, I gave everything a huge haircut.
	Pruned everything.
	I mean, God bless these banana trees.
	They have been through it all through the last hurricane.
	I wonder what they're going to look like after this one, if they're going to be there at all.
	But yeah, that just gives you a little perspective.
	This is the proverbial calm before the storm.
	Okay, it's Wednesday, 3 p.m.
	We just got a tornado warning.
	So there's one apparently somewhere in the hood.
	And the wind is really picking up.
	and you can just feel the difference it just feels different out here so yeah it's starting to get fun sports fans man this video camera doesn't give it justice um it is coming down so hard you know my screen filters out a bunch but you can just hear it listen And
	guys, this is nothing yet.
	Whoa!
	Whoa!
	Uh-oh!
	That took my breath away!
	Jesus Christ!
	What was that?
	It's like a tornado.
	Damn.
	Oh.
	This is my first look.
	Oh my god.
	Oh my god.
	The food forest remarkably didn't sustain a lot of damage I feel bad for my huge banana plants.
	But I feel worse for my bees.
	I mean, I can't even go out there because of fear of alligators, water moccasins, and bees.
	My fire pit.
	Wow.
	Oh God.
	Unbelievable.
	Okay, it is the morning after and my poor majestic banana tree I don't know if there's, you know, salvaging that.
	I don't know.
	Oh, my other one too.
	Wow.
	But look at this.
	The rest of the food forest.
	I gotta repair the fence.
	I wanted to take that internal fence down anyway, so thank you, Milton.
	But giving The Food Forest a haircut that broke my heart saved it.
	Isn't that amazing?
	It saved it.
	But here's where my heart breaks.
	Remember I said that I was concerned about this back here?
	We now have Lake Pitner and I am so sad for my bees.
	Look at the bees.
	They're over there just hanging on for dear life on the island and I don't know what to do because earlier when I looked out I swore I saw an alligator back there and there are water moccasins and you just don't mess with it so I need to let that recede and because obviously you have to be bee suited up to go back there and try to if there's any salvaging that which I'll try I will
	sure try but it's gonna have to be done very carefully But hey, I'm a project guy, so let's save the bees, okay?
	I have a UNA that I just got called Saving Bees Association.
	So this is, now I have the poster child to say when they say at the bank, well, what do you do?
	I save bees.
	Well, this is what my wife and I were doing at midnight last night.
	We were really concerned that the water was starting to come in here because it was saturating the land.
	And it was creeping up.
	And we're like, oh, S-H-I-T. So we got some heavy boxes.
	We made a little tarp.
	That's why duct tape and bags.
	We made it impervious.
	And then we just used these heavy boxes as our sandbags, if you will.
	And it worked.
	So I want to show you the aftermath.
	The carnage.
	So you can see here my precious banana trees.
	There's the mango tree.
	He's a survivor up there.
	Good job, buddy.
	But this was that magnificent, magnificent banana tree.
	And you can see back there I had to chop it off right there.
	And I kept it.
	I didn't chop it all the way down because Its root system is so amazing.
	It has created all of these pups that are now huge that are going to get huger.
	So I kept the papa there to keep doing his thing.
	And then I chopped up the leaves and I'm just feeding the forest.
	It'll turn into soil.
	And like I said before, I gave everything a haircut.
	And thank God I did, because otherwise this would all be uprooted.
	So, Toddy, you did good.
	Your instincts were right.
	You're a good barber.
	And you can see over here the food forest as well.
	Haircut, haircut, haircut.
	But it survived.
	Look at all these sweet potatoes.
	Hey, when you know what hits the fan, it's time to harvest.
	Now, one thing that did suck is our side gate got blown off.
	It literally ripped it off.
	And so I had to get out here this morning to be able to just jerry-rig it back.
	And then I was able to get that like that with these steel ties until I can get a fence person to come out here.
	But the beautiful thing was I was able to get it to latch.
	So now that's the food forest.
	What about the back of the property where my bees are, where my raccoons are, where my deer roam?
	Let's go take a look at there, shall we?
	Yes, we shall.
	And oh my goodness.
	Ladies and gentlemen, Lake Pitner.
	You know, my wife always said she wanted lakefront property.
	And so last night I decided to, you know, just treat my wife right and give her what she wants.
	But you can look over here.
	My poor bees.
	My poor bees.
	They are over there just wondering what the hell is going on.
	Oh my goodness!
	You made it!
	Oh!
	Hi, Rocky!
	Hi!
	Where are your babies?
	Go get your babies, honey.
	I missed you too.
	Oh, I love you.
	That is my Rocky, who I got a tattoo of on my left shoulder.
	Go get your babies.
	I'm gonna come back, Rocky.
	Anyway, to summarize everything, guys, it sucks.
	This is gonna be...
	A project.
	But all is good.
	Cheers.
	I'm gonna go take care of Rocky.
	You know what?
	Lake Pitner is subsiding.
	And I just can't do it.
	I cannot look at those, that carnage anymore without doing something about it.
	So I'm going to bee suit up.
	I'm going to reassemble those and just see after doing so if they may rally.
	I don't know if they will or not, but I have to give it a try.
	Okay guys, my new unincorporated nonprofit association is called Saving Bees.
	And so I came back to Lake Pitner and I did just that.
	Look at that.
	Look at that.
	I did it.
	Now if the queen's still alive, that colony is going to thrive and prosper as it should.
	If the queen didn't survive, then I'll find a new queen.
	We'll requeen it.
	But look at that.
	That too is called perseverance.
	With a little helping hand, From a UNA operator called Saving Bees Association.
	Because you always want to have a little bit of virtue signal if you're going to customize a UNA. But in my case, that virtue signal manifested into bees being saved.
	Look at them.
	They're happy.
	They're finding their way back home.
	Now we just need this to dry out.
	So that the raccoons and deer can come back out and play.
	The other thing I did, just to let you guys know, is instead of throwing this banana top out, I went and dug a hole and put it in there next to the fence so that it's kind of reinforced.
	And would you look It's like it's already starting to come to life.
	I mean, that's perked up.
	We'll see what happens, guys.
	I'll keep you posted.
	But wouldn't it be amazing if we started a whole new banana forest back here just because of the hurricane?
	That's turning bananas into banana aid or something like that, right?
	Isn't this interesting?
	To see the bees are all coming to the sun side to, usually you would call that bearding, but they're coming there I think to get dried off.
	I want to see if they're coming in the back.
	Oh, now that makes me happy.
	Because that's where they get in and out of the hive back there.
	You see where they're all just piled on?
	That means they're trying to get in and out.
	So, bees are going to do what bees do and they're pretty freaking smart.
	So, if the queen is alive, I think this will prosper.
	If not, we'll requeen it.
	Okay, it's the morning after the morning after and you want to know the biggest middle finger to Hilton?
	is my massive banana tree that I had to cut down I had two massive banana trees and I had to come down and look out of the ashes these are the next branches look at that that is the that is the banana's middle finger to nature to nature's wrath it's like yeah yeah well watch this Milton,
	it got a beating, but guess what?
	You want to know the definition of perseverance, people?
	Look at that.
	Look at that.
	How beautiful is that?
	My little orange said, Milton, you want some of me?
	Can't have it.
	Just another word about perseverance.
	Look at this mango.
	It got decimated.
	Just decimated.
	But, in just one day...
	Ta-da!
	Perseverance.
	Alright.
	This is the post-mortem.
	A little bit different from when we began, I think you would say.
	Lake Pitner has resided, and this morning I was able to get out there and reassemble the bees.
	So as I've said, if the queen is still in there and living, then I think that will bounce back.
	And the food forest, well, you know, the vultures have taken over Hey Vulture!
	Why don't you leave?
	There's nobody dead here.
	Come on.
	Oh well.
	You know what?
	They're nature too.
	But anyway, all in all, I think we did dodge quite the bullet.
	Cheers.
	Good morning everyone.
	It is August 27th.
	2024 and we are looking at the byproduct of an install which happened the final install date was 9-21-24 so we what you're looking at is just nature's way to show you how abundant it can be in just literally 11 and a half short months just over 11 months actually But just take a look
	at all of nature's blessings.
	And I've strategically just let nature, nature.
	You know, I have pruned some of the trees to be able to lift them up because my vision for my food forest is to have a canopy, a wonderfully beautiful large canopy that goes over everything.
	Now there are certain issues associated with that.
	Like last night we had a Not a hurricane, but really strong winds came through and this tree, which is admittedly very top-heavy, the soil down below got wet and this fell over.
	And so what do you do?
	You just stake it and you figure shit out.
	That's what I love about this, is you work with your food forest, not against it.
	Now, I don't know everything about food forestry.
	Which is why I'm letting God do the work, and I'm here for the ride.
	To come out and just look at it in all of its awe.
	Look at my herb garden.
	All of these are herbs.
	I mean, like, you want some basil?
	I got some basil for you.
	You want some mint?
	I got some mint for you.
	Now, most people would harvest those and trim them back and we don't do a lot of cooking with herbs, but that's okay.
	Because why?
	Because I'm letting God demonstrate what He can do when we don't intervene and we just kind of shepherd, you know, that we're on the same side of the table.
	To where we just support where we can, where it seems to make sense.
	But just look at that.
	Everybody, this was grass.
	Just almost a year ago, it was nothing but grass.
	And now look at it.
	I mean, we have oranges.
	We have gardenias.
	We have avocados, peaches.
	We have Blueberries, red berries, mulberries.
	There are so many aspects of this.
	Look at all the pollinators here.
	My bees back there.
	You see my little 50,000 bee friends?
	Yeah, 50,000 bees are in there.
	Just digging life.
	And then back there, that's where my raccoons play.
	And the deers come to eat.
	And I just I wanted to do this in harmony.
	In harmony with nature.
	And look at this little...
	God, what do they even call this right here?
	We had such bad water problems here.
	So what the smart people at Food Forest Abundance and Cam and his team did, installed a French drain, basically took the water from the roof, Put it in the French drain and it flows out to the front.
	But they dug this trench, which it's kind of cool because now nature has over the top of these rocks has filled in.
	But what happens when it rains, it drains from here, goes into the trench, and then it's literally carried out through the trench, through the woods.
	Through the back trellis.
	And then it goes down six feet and it dumps right out there to feed the back, whatever you call it, property, food forest.
	But anyway, such a beautiful day.
	And I just want everybody to, this is basically one giant infomercial for God.
	You know what I mean?
	Not that he needs my help, but oh my gosh.
	Like these.
	This tastes so good.
	I eat it right off the tree.
	And then these little guys, oh my goodness, these strawberry trees.
	I'm telling you, you have not, if you've never eaten one of these when they're red, you've not experienced God's greatest blessing to flavor.
	I mean, amazing.
	Strawberry trees.
	I love this so much.
	I can't wait for it to get bigger.
	So I had Cam deliver one more, which will grow huge.
	And two more over there.
	Right there.
	And you notice how it's going to come over the fence so that yours truly can eat on it.
	But anyway...
	That's it.
	Let me know what you guys think.
	And if I might just give a blessing.
	Thank you, God.
	Thank you, nature.
	Okay, everybody.
	That's it.
	Todd Pitner from DTV.
	I'm out.
	It might be shocking to witness, but that's the only way you'll ever get this.
	It might be shocking to witness, God's in control, and though I may not know what you believe, but I know He's with us.
	They're doing all the children in the classroom.
	They're letting all the boys in the girls' bathroom.
	They tell you it's public education, but they just brainwash the kids into gentle mutilations.
	And those are the survivors that didn't kill in a wolf, that want to snuff out that baby boom.
	Ethnic too, you dig in a tomb for whom?
	It's you.
	They lock you down like obedient slaves and fill you with fear a thousand ways.
	While they turn your friends into mind slaves with mental haze.
	It's amazing people don't see right through it.
	The truth is right there if you choose it.
	The pain is insane in making us witness, but I believe that God is with us.
	The truth is right there.
	The raped elections.
	Deceived the gullible masses with misdirection.
	Psychological injection of lies and falsehoods and mental virus infections.
	They're trying to take him out from a distance.
	Headshot, bullseye, but they missed him.
	Rose up in resistance.
	It's the resurrection of a nation that we witness.
	Heal the culture of mental sickness.
	Reveal the lies of those who did this.
	Feel the power of our loving God who stands with us.
	Jabba's with medical venom.
	We don't even know what's in them.
	You can't even breathe, you die suddenly, and the coroner come and get her.
	They say you've got to trust the science.
	While they silence the people who stood in defiance, there's medical terror, no admission of error, you get punished for non-compliance.
	They pushed a hospital homicide, Fauci lied and millions died.
	Weaponized hospital protocols, trying to kill us all, premeditated medical genocide.
	When the people demand you cease, get your filthy dick, find my hands off me.
	You come into me, let your plans all freeze.
	Your global war against man has ceased.
	No more sickos laying the sleeves.
	No more profit from man-made disease.
	Your sleight of hand, war on peace.
	Your evil fact checker thought police.
	Children hold up their hands, stop it please.
	Bet God's forgiveness, drop to our knees.
	The pain is insane, they're making us witness.
	We can't survive unless God is with us As God is my witness As God
	is with us As God is with us
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	Welcome to today's sermon.
	I'm Mike Adams here of Abundance.Church.
	It's the Church of Natural Abundance.
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	Now, as you may know, we're really close to the 100 sermons that I promised to deliver We're here on, what, 97 or 98 now?
	Very close.
	After I finish 100 sermons, which took 100 days, I'm going to be working on a series of little video documentaries about some of the subjects that we've taught about here.
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	And also, we do now have a donation button for those of you who have asked.
	We've had many people ask how they donate to the church.
	Well, that is until my last sermon.
	I'm joking.
	My sermons can be a little bit provocative for many people.
	I don't apologize for it.
	And the good news is, We do not ask for your donations and we do not need your donations.
	And I do not pander to donors.
	Okay?
	So just to be clear, God has blessed us with amazing resources, the financial resources that we need.
	And if you choose to donate, of course, we welcome that and we'll put it to a good use.
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	I'm not going to do fundraisers.
	I'm not going to ask you to donate to the church.
	I'm not going to say we need your money in order for us to function.
	How's that for refreshing, you know, from a church or a political campaign or anything like that?
	Isn't it just a common thing that everybody says they need your money or they won't make it, you know?
	Isn't it refreshing to hear from somebody that says, we're not asking for your money.
	We don't even need your money.
	In fact, I think you should use your money for you.
	And if you feel the need to donate to us and you want to, go ahead.
	But is it also possible that you could find somebody right there locally that could use that help more than us?
	Think about that.
	Help the people around you as much as you can.
	And again, we are blessed by God and our customers with financial resources, so we're doing just fine.
	But anyway, the donation button does exist.
	It's on our website, abundance.church, if you want to use it.
	We just gave away another $15,500 worth of emergency storable food to the people of Central Texas.
	We just completed that donation.
	Well, the distribution, actually.
	So we had a service and a number of people attending and then distributed the food that's going to go to many, many very positive uses and to help people in need.
	And I don't want to say too much because I want to protect the privacy of the organizations and the individuals who are helping with the distribution and the discernment of where to put that emergency food.
	But I do want to say we just gave away another $15,500 worth of food.
	And there's much more yet to come.
	That is part of the roughly $200,000 that we still have remaining to give away, to donate to people.
	And so, you know, what are we?
	I guess we still need to give away about $185,000 roughly worth of emergency storable food.
	And I have a feeling...
	Given what's about to happen in our country, that there will be no shortage of people who need food.
	So, God blesses us.
	We pay it forward.
	We try to help as many people as we can.
	All right.
	That said, today's sermon is not about food.
	Today's sermon is about the consciousness of animals.
	And I know, it's not a subject that's really covered that much in the Bible, if at all.
	I did find one verse in Proverbs chapter 12 that does refer to this, so I'll read that verse for you.
	But the reason we're covering this is because we're talking about primary rights and God's gift of consciousness and free will.
	Now, let me assert something here.
	And I ask you to consider it.
	You may agree or not agree, and that's totally okay.
	I assert to you that not only did God give humans consciousness and free will, but God gave consciousness, not exactly the same degree of it, okay, which I'll talk about, but some level of consciousness, And some level of free will has been given by God to all living creatures.
	That means from the great apes and chimpanzees and gorillas and what have you, all the way down to your pet dog, your pet cat, the squirrel in the yard, Even the insects that are out there, even the mosquito.
	You may say, whoa, what are you talking about?
	How does a mosquito have consciousness?
	Well, it has a little tiny sliver of consciousness compared to what you have.
	And this is why God grants human beings dominion over the animals, because human beings have the greatest depth of consciousness.
	And I believe that As the physical brain is the interface between your spirit being, your soul, and your body.
	So the brain is the interface.
	The brain can communicate with your soul, and it can, of course, command your body.
	But the complexity of the brain, in other words, the complexity of the neurology, It determines how much of a soul can be sort of carried or expressed through that brain.
	And obviously the brain of a mosquito, you can't even really call it a brain, it's a little cluster of neurons, is not very sophisticated, or that of a worm, let's say, or an ant, and thus there's not much of a soul there.
	But...
	Anything that is alive still has some little sliver of consciousness.
	And you and I can see this readily in many animals.
	Many of you listening, you probably have pets.
	And if you have lived with pets, you know that they have memories, they have emotions.
	Every animal has a mother, and all mammals are social creatures, including mice, including rats, for example.
	And I also find it interesting that rats don't try to kill their own offspring, except in certain lab experiments where they have been Granted, too much welfare, by the way.
	That's a whole different subject.
	But if you raise a bunch of rats in an environment where everything is free, unlimited food, water, and shelter, eventually they become transgenders and they start murdering their babies, which is what's happening in the human populations right now as well.
	But in nature, in normal nature, where rats or mice have to compete, They have to hunt for food.
	They have to engage in social behavior with each other in order to self-organize their, quote, communities.
	And yes, they do have social interactions with each other.
	In that context, they do not murder their own babies.
	Sometimes a male will kill the offspring of a female if the male wants to mate with that female and have a baby of its own.
	And this is true in Well, it's true in great apes, it's true in gorillas in that specific context, but females, female mammals in the normal world, they do not try to kill their young.
	They try to protect their young.
	But in human beings today, they try to kill their young.
	How many women today, all they care about is abortion?
	And that determines their whole existence, that determines who they vote for, determines their philosophy, determines their behavior.
	Determines what they do on a Friday night or Saturday night party.
	They go out and get impregnated because they know they can just have an abortion and murder the unborn child.
	So this obsession with murdering their own babies, this is something that modern humans do, but that animals don't do.
	And so when someone is arguing to me that, well, only humans have consciousness, but animals don't, I would point out that Well, a pretty good portion of the human young women today actually desire to murder their babies, but nearly all mammals do not.
	Nearly all mammals protect their children, protect their offspring.
	And thus, you could argue that in many ways, a field rat has a higher level of morality and consciousness than a young pro-abortion female human.
	Okay?
	Right?
	Does that make sense?
	Because morality matters, and consciousness has to be demonstrated and confirmed through a person's deeds.
	Okay?
	So when a person demonstrates themselves to be thoughtless, mindless, sort of unconscious, then they are demonstrating that they really lack consciousness.
	But in the animal world, you can find many examples of animals doing things that are generous, even humanitarian.
	There are so many stories of dogs saving little children.
	Sometimes one dog will save a child from another dog.
	There are stories of dogs saving their owners, and even maybe an owner, an elderly owner, fell and couldn't get up and was dying of thirst, and the dog would bring a wet rag to the owner so the owner could just suck the water out of the rag, and the dog would repeat that and keep bringing a wet rag.
	What does this demonstrate?
	This demonstrates problem-solving behavior, awareness, and compassion.
	Whereas in many human populations today, such as Israel bombing to death, the Palestinians, women and children and elderly, you could reasonably argue that today many dogs have higher moral standards than do Zionists who are murdering women and children in Gaza.
	Just as in the previous example, field rats have higher moral standing than do many young women who all they care about is dogs.
	Murdering their babies.
	And we could go on and on about this.
	Elephants, for example, they do have very long memories.
	Elephants have very complex social interaction.
	Elephants mourn the dead.
	Elephants have funerals for those who passed.
	And elephants also solve problems.
	Problem solving itself is far more common in the animal kingdom than most people have been led to believe.
	And I would argue that more and more as humans are devolving, or at least many of them are, they are less and less able to solve problems, while animals are in many ways being forced to solve more problems because of their interactions with humans.
	And so in many ways, a very clever bird right now Such as ravens that can solve very complex puzzles or raccoons can solve complex physical puzzles such as opening locks and so on.
	I believe there are many cases where raccoons or ravens or even squirrels demonstrate more problem-solving intelligence than do high school graduates of human beings in our world today.
	Because, of course, the high school graduates spend their years just on their digital devices, just working their thumbs back and forth, but they never touch anything in the real world.
	So they've lost this problem-solving capability.
	And because of the abandonment of the teaching of religion or the teaching of Christ or the Bible, our cultures have lost any real moral standing.
	I mean, you're not even allowed to say the word God in school anymore.
	When I was a child, we said the Pledge of Allegiance every day.
	First thing, that's how we started the school day.
	I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, right?
	And in that pledge is the word God.
	One nation.
	Under God.
	And then, of course, after that it says invisible.
	No, I'm kidding.
	Indivisible, but of course we had fun with it.
	We always made up different words because we were, you know, we were kids.
	We were having fun with it.
	But indivisible, meaning we are one nation under God.
	That's what we said every day.
	Today, None of the public schools will dare say that.
	They won't even mention God.
	And so we live in a world now with supposedly 8 billion human beings, and a great many of them in the Western world that are losing their culture, losing their morality, losing their intelligence, losing their wisdom, losing their futures, their genetics, their families, all of it.
	Even losing their borders.
	And in many Western nations, they're committing a kind of suicide.
	It's almost a self-immolation, a destruction of your own culture, an unwillingness to defend your border, an unwillingness to just take a stand for your culture.
	And then we see the weakness of men reflected in pop culture.
	You know where males are not weak?
	It's in the animal kingdom.
	That's right.
	In the animal kingdom, the males are very strong.
	They're adaptable, they're athletic, they solve problems.
	And the reason I keep pointing this out here, and you could point to males in coyotes that are very, very capable, males in wild hogs, and I've seen my share of those.
	And you know they're males because they're off by themselves.
	They're also huge, by the way.
	And they're survivors.
	And what I see, what I observe, is that animals...
	Are becoming more and more capable, and humans in the Western world are losing whatever superiority they once had, at least among the masses.
	So humans are becoming more animalistic, and animals are becoming more self-aware.
	Imagine if this whole thing flips one day.
	Imagine that.
	I mean, I don't know when that point might happen, but we are clearly headed in that direction.
	What happens when animals realize, hey, we don't need to be enslaved by these morons that murder their own babies and poison their own food and think they have dominion over us.
	You ever thought that that might happen one day?
	Well, stranger things have happened.
	I imagine there are a bunch of dolphins and whales right now that are thinking, if we only had opposable thumbs, man, imagine what we could do on land.
	Whales are attacking vessels, like fishing vessels.
	They just swim up and crash onto them and tip them over and sink them.
	It's incredibly easy for a large whale to sink a shipping or fishing vessel, and they do that in some areas.
	And they teach it to other whales.
	So animals are fighting back in many areas.
	Interesting, isn't it?
	As humans are becoming more animalistic, many animals are becoming more courageous and more moral.
	Fascinating.
	But the way in which we treat animals says a lot about us in the eyes of the Lord.
	And that brings me to Proverbs chapter 12.
	So let's just start at the beginning because this is a really great overview, kind of the rules of what's good and what's bad, what's righteous versus what is wicked.
	And one of the things that I love about the Bible, and especially the Old Testament, is How God gives us so many examples of good versus bad that there's no question about it.
	Once you read through the Bible, if you just read it one time, you have, you know, hundreds of examples of good versus bad behavior.
	So nobody can say, well, God never told us.
	Oh, yes, he did over and over again.
	So here we go.
	Proverbs 12 says, Whoever loves instruction loves knowledge.
	Isn't that a great line?
	Love knowledge.
	But he who hates correction is stupid.
	That's kind of an important verse for us all to keep in mind as we explore Christianity, especially if I challenge your understanding of Christianity, right?
	Because I do say a lot of provocative things in these sermons.
	I challenge people's understanding of Jesus being the only way, the only way in the whole cosmos, only Jesus who never even went to another planet.
	And that tweaks some Christians right there.
	That really tweaks them hard.
	They're like, Jesus is the only way.
	And I'm like, well, what about the beings from another planet?
	Did God abandon them after he created them?
	So that tweaks some people.
	And then some people say, well, there's no other life in the cosmos.
	It's just us here on Earth.
	That's it.
	I'm like, wait a minute.
	You're telling me God created the entire cosmos, like billions of galaxies, each with billions of stars, billions of planets like Earth, and he created all that just but put life only on one planet?
	What, did he run out of power?
	I thought you said God was all-powerful.
	You know, I'm saying this facetiously because, of course, God is all-powerful.
	God created life all over the place, by the way.
	But that tweaks some Christians, too.
	No, there's only life on Earth.
	Okay.
	Go ahead.
	Believe in your little tiny God that can only create life on one planet.
	I believe in a much bigger God.
	But anyway...
	Anyway, not saying that I'm always right about everything, but I do enjoy challenging people's beliefs, especially about Christianity.
	So then sometimes when I say, well, the Tribulation, you know, it's very clear, at least if you read Revelation.
	It's very clear that the rapture happens at the end of the tribulation.
	So it's a post-tribulation rapture.
	The entire planet is destroyed and the souls are all raised, including those who previously died.
	All the souls are raised up and then judged by God, and then if you're worthy, you go to the new heaven and the new earth, which is Revelation chapter 21, and if you're deemed to be unworthy, then you burn in the fires of hell forever and ever.
	Okay, well, some Christians are so convinced there's going to be a pre-tribulation rapture that they can't handle the idea that That the rapture comes at the end of the tribulation or that we are judged after we're all dead.
	You know, dead from the fire of a giant comet impact of planet Earth, for example.
	That rubs some Christians the wrong way.
	And they're like, no, no, no, no, no.
	Jesus returns and takes us out of here so that before anything bad happens in that way, we don't have to do anything.
	And then I say, how convenient.
	That's a really convenient belief and a convenient excuse to do nothing, which I don't think is what God wants us to do.
	But that's just my view, and some people disagree.
	And my point here in all of this is just getting through the first two lines of Proverbs 12 is that it says, but he who hates correction is stupid.
	Well, we should all welcome some level of correction, myself included, and I'm open to being corrected, and I have been corrected.
	And I've publicly apologized for being wrong about certain things over the last few years, and I'm actually known online for being someone who, if I'm wrong about something, I will correct it.
	And I will apologize to whoever, if I was wrong saying something about a person, I will apologize.
	But I'm also not afraid to condemn people if they are clearly in the wrong.
	I mean, that's outside of the church, but...
	That's what I do in my non-church life as well.
	I don't focus on just condemning people, by the way.
	I rarely do it.
	But when I do it, it's because I believe I have a very strong reason to do so.
	So it's pretty rare that I condemn an individual, but I have done so.
	All right.
	Verse 2,"...a good man obtains favor from the Lord." But a man of wicked intentions, he will condemn.
	That is, the Lord will condemn.
	So if you have wicked intentions, God sees it.
	You can't hide that.
	It's written on your soul.
	It's written in your book of life.
	Verse 3, a man is not established by wickedness, but the root of the righteous cannot be moved.
	This is a really interesting line, and I'm curious about the translation of this.
	A man is not established by wickedness.
	What it means, I think, it means that wickedness is not an irrevocable state of a person's soul.
	Wickedness is a deviation from what a person really is.
	A soul is a creation of love from God, life and consciousness and love.
	Those all go together, in other words.
	So a man is not established by wickedness.
	I know there are different ways to read this.
	But the root of the righteous cannot be moved.
	See, I see that as saying, the root of righteousness, there is a root of righteousness in each one of us.
	There is an immovable or irrefutable...
	We're incorruptible core understanding of what is good and bad.
	And that's because we have consciousness.
	It's because we have free will, because we were given this gift of life and consciousness from God.
	And because we have a small part of God's consciousness in us, that is a root of righteousness that can never be erased.
	It can be ignored, I suppose, in a wicked person.
	It can be perverted or twisted or overridden, but it can never be erased because it is part of who we are.
	So that's actually good news.
	It means that inherently any person could be a good person.
	And if they're not a good person, it's because they have learned not to be a good person or they have suffered abuse or they have given in to their basic impulses of greed and selfishness and power over others, violence and so on.
	Alright, verse 4.
	An excellent wife is the crown of her husband, but she who causes shame is like rottenness in his bones.
	All right, well, that's not very controversial, I don't think.
	It's good for husbands and wives to get along and to treat each other with dignity.
	Okay, verse 5.
	The thoughts of the righteous are right, but the counsels of the wicked are deceitful.
	Makes sense.
	Someone's wicked and urging you to do something or trying to influence you with bad advice or to deceive you.
	Well, that's wickedness.
	The words of the wicked are, So the way I understand this is that wicked people...
	Use their words to encourage others to set traps and to, well, to entrap people and to inflict harm or shame or suffering onto other people.
	To lie in wait for blood is to interact with others in a way that is looking to pounce upon them and looking for opportunities to condemn everyone around you.
	And that is a wicked trait.
	It doesn't mean you can't condemn someone who deserves it, who is out of control, wicked themselves.
	Sometimes they have to be called out, but this shouldn't be the default stance of a good person.
	And then it says, but the mouth of the upright will deliver them.
	So the mouth of the upright, the mouth is what is speaking the truth.
	And someone who is upright, remember this is how God judges people in, well, the rapture.
	Those who are upright are considered righteous.
	So here the word upright is almost synonymous with righteousness.
	So the mouth of the upright will deliver them.
	What does that mean?
	It means he who is righteous and who utters the truth will reveal the truth and will, in essence, expose or expunge those who are wicked.
	Next verse, the wicked are overthrown and are no more.
	See, this makes sense right after talking about the mouth of the upright will deliver them.
	The wicked are overthrown and are no more, but the house of the righteous will stand.
	This also means, by the way, don't be overly concerned with the wicked and their sharp tongues of deception trying to spread lies about you.
	And we live in a society of so many lies, lies from the media, lies from Wikipedia, smears.
	Look at all the smears upon political candidates.
	Look at all the smears upon good people.
	Look at all the smears upon Jesus, by the way.
	Or the smears upon those who teach the word of Jesus.
	Or the smears upon those who are peacefully protesting against abortion.
	But what this is saying is that the house of the righteous will stand because this righteousness is immovable.
	It is the part of you that is a reflection of the Lord.
	Verse 8, a man will be commended according to his wisdom, but he who is of a perverse heart will be despised.
	So that makes instant sense.
	If you're a wise man, people will appreciate it and will say so.
	If you have a perverse heart, if you treat people unkindly or wickedly, or you betray people, or you deceive people, of course you would be despised.
	And think about this at the level of nations.
	Think about this.
	We've talked about Israel quite a lot here.
	today, Israel is a nation that is despised by the world because of its wickedness and evil.
	And it's also a nation that's despised by God, just as we saw repeated numerous times in the Old Testament.
	But nations can be despised or they can be considered holy.
	Individuals, families, organizations, you name it.
	Okay, verse 9, verse 9, Better is the one who is slighted but has a servant than he who honors himself but lacks bread.
	So this is a little tricky to unpack, but it's saying that someone who is of means, when it says who has a servant, it just means someone who is, let's say, at least monetarily successful in society and has means to have in-house help, let's say.
	Can handle slights upon them, can handle rumors, can handle smears.
	And the next line, then he who honors himself but lacks bread.
	In other words, there might be plenty of people who are all into themselves.
	They think they themselves are the greatest people around there, but they are unable to even feed themselves or feed a family, let's say.
	I mean, there are different ways, obviously, to interpret that verse, but What I don't really like about that verse is how it's tying monetary, I think, or wealth or monetary means to a sense of some kind of righteousness.
	So I think that verse is a little bit out of place, personally.
	Because what I observe in the world is more the opposite of that.
	It's that those who honor themselves have servants.
	Versus someone who doesn't mind being slighted.
	Who has no bread, you know, who is materially poor, but is spiritually more advanced.
	I see more of that in society today.
	But then again, you know, I'm reading from Proverbs, which was written thousands of years ago, so a lot has changed since then.
	Okay, verse 10.
	This is the one that I wanted to get to.
	A righteous man regards the life of his animal, but the tender mercies of the wicked are cruel.
	So this phrase, the tender mercies of the wicked, I did a little looking into this because it struck me as something that has been mistranslated, and indeed that appears to be the case.
	This is a mistranslation, in essence, of an idiom.
	There's a translated version of the Bible, translated from Aramaic, by George Lamza, And in that translation, this passage says, a righteous man regards the life of his beast, but the mercies of the wicked are suppressed.
	That makes a lot more sense.
	It means that wicked people do not give mercy to animals.
	In other words, a righteous man, a good man, cares for the life of his animals.
	A wicked man does not have mercy for animals.
	This passage, this is all I'm going to read of Proverbs 12 here, by the way, but this passage is critical to understand because I believe this implies that the lives of animals are also regarded as, well, children of God, not human children of God, but children of God nonetheless in a different form.
	Because why would we argue that Animals must be treated with kindness.
	If we believe that they were unconscious, just biological robots, that they had no feelings and no memories and no consciousness, no experience of life.
	If we thought they were just, you know, machines.
	For example...
	Do you feel sorry for a, I don't know, a pinball machine, let's say?
	Have you ever played pinball in the 1970s or 80s?
	If the flipper went bad on the pinball machine, did you feel sorry for the flipper, you know?
	Something's wrong with the flipper.
	It only half flips.
	Oh, so sorry.
	No.
	Because you know it's not alive.
	It's not conscious.
	It's a machine.
	But why do people care about animals?
	Well, for one thing, animals communicate with us.
	And they communicate with us in ways that mean things to human beings.
	For example, if you have a dog, you know that dogs have a different kind of yelp for pain.
	They have a whining when they want something.
	They have a kind of a playful bark.
	They have an angry bark.
	You know, dogs have a massive vocabulary.
	And dogs are capable, some dogs, are capable of learning and understanding 200 to 300 English words.
	Did you know that?
	And I have taught many of my dogs the names of animals that they will see around the ranch.
	So I've taught my dogs the differences between birds.
	When I say birds, they look up.
	Because dogs don't naturally look in the sky, by the way.
	They always look on the ground because that's where rabbits are.
	But when I say birds, they look up now.
	It took me a while.
	I had to actually show them birds and tilt their head up to the sky, and then they're like, whoa, birds!
	Things flying in the air, and now they chase the birds.
	It's funny.
	I've taught them the word for donkeys.
	I've taught them the words for raccoon.
	Oh, I better not say that too loud because they're sleeping here.
	If I say that word too loudly, they will get all crazy.
	Like, where is it?
	Where is it?
	Where is it?
	I've taught them the word for rabbit because they're always chasing rabbits.
	Anyway, dogs are capable of learning a lot of words.
	But did you know that goats, because we have goats too, did you know that goats are also capable of all kinds of different words?
	So a goat can just say, hello, which is just a very calm kind of, like that.
	Or a goat has a different kind of cry, which is saying, I'm lost, like I've been separated from the other goats.
	That's a very specific goat cry.
	And it's more of a louder bleat.
	Like, you know, I'm a little bit in trouble.
	It's kind of a sounding off.
	Like, where are the other goats?
	And cows do this, too.
	When a young cow is weaned, you know, a young calf, excuse me, is weaned from the mother cow, then they try to find each other, and they have a system of calls to try to get back together.
	And they will persist for many, many hours to try to get back together.
	So, you know, weaning cows is very emotionally difficult for cows to experience, by the way.
	Let's see, I mentioned goats.
	Goats also have a completely different cry if they're panicked, if they're fearful.
	And chickens.
	I have chickens and a couple of roosters.
	And chickens and roosters have, of course, a very complex language as well.
	And there's a Roosters in particular, they're kind of the protectors of hens.
	And if I walk around a corner and there's a rooster there with a group of hens, and the rooster sees me for the first time, there's a kind of language, there's a kind of call that the rooster makes, which is saying to all the other hens, be on alert, somebody's here.
	Okay?
	And it sounds kind of like this.
	And I'm not joking.
	This is it.
	It's...
	It's got like four or five syllables.
	It goes up and then down.
	And that just means, hey, all the hens, get your heads out of the grass and look up and just pay attention because...
	Something's here.
	Something's changed in the environment.
	There might be a predator.
	There might be a challenge, etc.
	So that's one thing that roosters do, which is a social function.
	The roosters are warning the hens so that the hens can achieve safety.
	The hens themselves, they have a vocabulary as well.
	There's a very specific kind of crying out that they do when a snake, like a rat snake, is eating an egg out from under the hen.
	And that kind of calling or crying out is something that I've learned to recognize, and when I hear it, I go check, and sure enough, there's a snake there that's trying to eat an egg out from underneath a hen.
	What's interesting is the snakes don't harm the hens.
	The hen will, like, peck at the snake a little bit, and the snake won't do anything.
	I mean, the snake will just continue on swallowing the eggs.
	But the hen will cry out an alarm, which will continue for many minutes, by the way.
	And that's when I know there's a snake there, and usually I go capture the snake.
	And then I relocate the snake.
	So I have a snake grabber and a barrel, and I just put the snake in the barrel and then move it.
	Now, some of you who have cats, you are tuned in to their emotions and their feelings.
	Personally, I have no idea what cats are thinking.
	I have not lived with cats, and I haven't decoded what cats are up to.
	I'm not sure that anybody really knows what cats are thinking.
	Maybe their tail is a clue, right?
	The tail's always got its own dialogue going on.
	But for dogs, you know, it's easy to see, right?
	In body language, in tone, you can see when dogs are happy.
	They talk back to you.
	Dogs will tell you when they want to have fun.
	Dogs will tell you when they're hurt, if they have a limp.
	You know, they communicate, and they communicate through their own talking.
	And of course, all kinds of sea creatures from whales and dolphins and others, they have very complex audible conversations underwater which have been recorded and in some cases decoded by aquatic marine biologists and so on.
	So the bottom line is, The animal world consists of highly complex, highly linguistic, and highly social interactions, especially among mammals.
	And we have to include macaques and chimpanzees and apes and gorillas and so on.
	Again, very complex structures, very developed use of tools, tools for gathering food, for example, highly developed Have you seen the experiment where a researcher is about to hand a monkey a
	grape?
	And then an extra grape is added to the prize and then two grapes are given to the monkey versus what happens when you're about to give the monkey three grapes and you take one away leaving only two.
	When you take one away and leave only two, the monkey's really disappointed.
	But when you start with one and add one to make two, they're really happy.
	What is that?
	That's the perception of buy one, get one free.
	It's the reason why sales are structured the way they are for your mind.
	Buy one, get one free.
	Buy one, get one half off.
	Nobody wants to have something taken away from them.
	People like to get extra stuff.
	Buy one, get free shipping.
	These experiments are also run with monkeys, and monkeys have the same reaction that we do.
	Like, yes, I want the bonus grape.
	What does that tell you?
	They're processing the world around them in much the same way that we process the world around us and we are children of God.
	God gave us our neurology, our perception, our consciousness, our minds.
	And so when we observe other mammals acting in such a similar fashion to us, even though they can't speak with the same words that we use, they have their own language, their own social structure, their own system of value and bargaining and trade and exchange.
	They exchange among each other, for example.
	We can recognize that there's a reflection of God in those animals.
	It's not the same as being human, but it's also not nothing.
	It's the presence of God through consciousness in these animals.
	And so this is why, you may have heard me talk about this over the years if you've heard my other work, why I'm very compassionate to animals, why I'm a very accomplished long-range rifle shooter, for example, but I never hunt animals.
	I don't kill for sport or for skill.
	I don't shoot animals.
	And this is a true story of what happened to me one day.
	In Texas, I was sighting in a.300 Blackout long-range hunting rifle.
	I was sighting it in at, I think, just 100 yards or something, just to calibrate the sights.
	I was sighting it in at 100 yards, so I was there with my truck and my rifle, and Very powerful scope, etc.
	And I think I had fired one or two shots.
	I used a suppressor, so they weren't very loud.
	And then as I was noting, I think I was also measuring muzzle velocity because I was trying to run ballistics on it.
	As I was writing in my logbook about the rounds and the muzzle velocity, a massive turkey was Flew and landed right between me and the 100-yard target, which is a very thick steel plate that can handle 300 wind mag rounds.
	A turkey.
	And turkeys have a massive wingspan, by the way.
	I mean, like six feet is not unusual for a turkey.
	They're magnificent birds.
	And so this turkey lands there and is just walking.
	Like, kind of back and forth right where I was just shooting.
	And...
	Of course, I couldn't help myself.
	I had to look at it through the scope because I was like, wow, I want to see this thing up close.
	So I looked through the rifle scope and just amazed at the beauty of this bird, the feather patterns.
	Now, I don't have much respect for the intellect of turkeys because they're some of the dumbest creatures on the planet.
	That is true.
	They really are.
	They're not very bright, but they're beautiful.
	And it was making some kind of little noises and it was like, you know, walking around.
	It was by itself.
	There were no other turkeys around, so I figure it must be a male turkey.
	I'm not that familiar with turkeys, so I don't really instantly recognize the difference between males and females, but I figured this must be a male.
	There are other times I've seen like 75 turkeys just landing on the ranch while I'm driving my tractor.
	You know, it's like, wow, there's a whole row of turkeys right there just cruising along.
	But this wasn't that.
	This was one turkey.
	And of course, in my mind, the thought emerged that, I mean, for a moment, that, whoa, This turkey has got to be, like, the luckiest turkey in Texas because I'm right here with my rifle.
	I just sighted it in.
	And this turkey lands right where I'm pointing my rifle.
	Like, I could literally just pull the trigger and, you know, kill this turkey and I suppose, you know, eat it.
	I don't know anything about hunting licenses because I'm not a hunter, but I imagine there's probably a license required to shoot a turkey.
	Those of you who are hunters, you can probably nod in your head, yeah, there's a license required.
	Okay.
	Well, I don't have any hunting licenses because I don't hunt.
	And, of course, I did not shoot this turkey, but I could have.
	And instead, I just admired this turkey.
	And it walked around for, I don't know, a minute or whatever it was, and then it flew off.
	And on one hand, I was thinking, this is the luckiest turkey in Texas.
	And on the other hand, I think God was challenging me too.
	You know, God was saying, well, you say you don't shoot animals, but let's put a turkey right in front of your rifle and see what you do.
	You might call it a turkey temptation or just a turcumtation, right?
	A little bit of turcumtation right there.
	God saying, will he pull the trigger on this turkey?
	Let me just land a bird right there that he's already got in his sights.
	Let's see what he does.
	And of course, all I did was admire the bird.
	And then it flew off.
	I was like, wow, that was really, that was a spiritual kind of experience.
	That made me feel really close to nature right there.
	It's like, wow, this bird chose to land right in front of me and somehow cosmically trusted that I wasn't a bird shooter, you know, that I would just be okay with this bird.
	And he was actually in the way.
	I couldn't even continue to sight in until he left, you know?
	So he was in the way.
	So I waited, and after that, I finished, you know, a couple more rounds, muzzle velocity and so on.
	But I could not shoot a bird like that.
	I mean, imagine, here I am admiring the beauty of this amazing bird.
	If I were to shoot it, it would be a pile of, I mean, at that range, with that muzzle velocity, It would have exploded into a pile of blood and flesh and feathers, and it would not be beautiful anymore, would it?
	It'd just be a pile of death.
	Like, why would I do that?
	I mean, shooting a turkey that close at that range with such a high-powered round, I mean, I don't even think you'd really have any meat to eat.
	That is way too much energy for such a small, well, relatively small, you know, hunting target.
	You use 300 Win Mag to shoot like elk, things like that.
	I mean, not that I do that.
	I wouldn't do that, but that's what other people use it for.
	If I shot this turkey, it would have just exploded.
	Feathers and blood.
	It's like, there's no point in that.
	Not that I would shoot it anyway, but clearly that would have been the wrong choice.
	Even if you were a hunter, you wouldn't have much of a turkey left.
	You wouldn't have turkey.
	You'd have like turkey berserky.
	It went berserk.
	I don't know what happened.
	So anyway, sometimes God gives us situations where we test ourselves.
	And by the way, I'm not casting judgment upon anybody listening if you happen to be a hunter.
	I'm not at all casting judgment upon you.
	Native Americans were hunters, and I think they did so in a way that was honorable, and especially if we are facing famine.
	And if hunting is necessary to feed your family, then, you know, it's actually a very clean source of wild meat is to hunt.
	So, you know, philosophically, I'm not opposed to other people doing that if they do so with a sense of consciousness and a sense of dignity, if you can say that, for the animal's life that they are taking in order to sustain their own life.
	What I'm opposed to is just mindless violence against animals or mindless killing or even mindlessly wasting of food that is taken from animals or factory farming, which is cruel and inhumane, those kinds of things.
	So even when I buy meat, like beef, I make sure it's from Texas free-range cows that had Something of a real life, you know?
	They were able to enjoy the open fields for a couple of years and not raised in a factory farm situation that I am opposed to.
	So, bottom line, it's up to each of us to decide how we think God judges us in the way that we choose to treat animals or whether we choose to eat meat or not.
	I'm not judging you.
	I think everybody agrees, though, if you beat your dog, you're a bad person, you're probably going to hell.
	If you just routinely beat your dog or kick your dog for no reason, you know, or even for a reason, you're probably going to hell.
	If you rescue dogs and you have a problem dog and you're working to retrain that dog, and sometimes that retraining requires Like a shock collar or something.
	That's acceptable if it's in a process of training and reforming and transforming a dog into something that can be sociable, that can be safe, that can even be adopted by somebody.
	So the methods of training can sometimes appear harsh.
	Sometimes they might be necessary.
	I know that my own dog, Rhodey, who is a working dog, was raised and trained very aggressively as a bite work dog, as a guard dog, an attack dog, in essence, a police dog.
	And when I first got him, I could tell he had been through a lot, and all he wanted to do was bite everything, which he still enjoys doing, especially with the toys that I have for him and so on.
	But it took a while for him.
	It took about a year for him to realize that every time I'm touching him, I'm not correcting him.
	But now he has learned that and he actually shows affection and he'll lean on you and he's okay to be pet.
	But it took a while for him because of the way that he was raised.
	And knowing what I know now, it's a little bit shocking to me to think about the ways that some of these working dogs or military dogs or police dogs, the way they are trained, I'm sure it runs the gamut here.
	Sometimes it may be compassionate.
	Other times it's probably downright cruel.
	So think about the way that you treat animals, your intention, and I encourage you to understand that animals have consciousness.
	Think about your dietary choices.
	When you choose to eat meat, and let me share my philosophy on this.
	God made me a blood type O. Which means that I need a certain amount of meat in my diet in order to function well.
	I need a certain amount of saturated animal fat, you know, beef tallow, for example.
	I need a certain amount of brisket.
	If I don't get it, I crave it.
	But I don't eat very much of it.
	I listen to my body and I only eat what I need.
	God made other blood types, you know, A and B and whatever.
	Some people can do okay with vegetarianism.
	Some people live fine on, I don't know, like rice and cabbage or whatever.
	That's not me.
	So God gave me a blood type.
	I need meat.
	So when I eat meat, I do so mindfully, and I give thanks.
	Even knowing that an animal died in order to give me this gift, but also knowing that God gave me this body that requires this in order to live in this world— And that God's plan for some of these animals was literally for them to live a life and then to be consumed by people.
	Yeah, that can be God's plan too.
	The important thing is if you're the person consuming an animal, that animal died for you.
	You know, it's not the same as Christ dying for your sins, but that animal died for your nutritional needs, and that's something.
	So give thanks for that.
	Be mindful for that.
	If you eat meat, be mindful.
	Don't be wasteful.
	If you order meat or you buy meat, consume it all.
	Don't waste it.
	Don't let it go bad because that dishonors the animal whose life was sacrificed so that you can have that food.
	Think about that.
	Whereas if you waste a little bit of rice, no big deal, you know?
	The rice plant didn't suffer from giving its rice grain, you know what I mean?
	The same thing, like the apple tree didn't suffer to give apples.
	If you happen to waste part of an apple, it's not a big deal.
	If you waste a piece of meat from an animal that died for your nourishment, that's a bigger deal.
	So eat mindfully and have compassion for animals.
	And when you do that, as it says in Proverbs 12, verse 10, you will be a righteous person because a righteous man regards the life of his animal.
	And righteous women, of course, as well.
	So that's today's sermon.
	I hope this has been intriguing.
	Please understand I'm not forcing any of my beliefs onto you about food or animals.
	I'm giving you things to think about.
	And if I wasn't doing that, I wouldn't be doing my job.
	And if I wasn't challenging some of your beliefs along the way, then there would be no point in listening to any of my sermons.
	I'm not here to do what every other mainstream church already does.
	And I'm not here technically to teach you just the Bible itself.
	I'm here to present the deeper meaning of what the Bible teaches.
	That's what we're discussing today.
	It's not about the words on the page, right?
	It's about the much deeper meaning behind that and how we choose to navigate this in alignment with what God wants us to become, which is, of course, righteous people to live life with a sense of holiness, a sense of regard and compassion, and that compassion must include both humans and animals.
	And then maybe another day we'll do a sermon about plants, because this one will really throw you for a loop.
	But guess what?
	Trees are conscious too, just in a different way.
	Totally different way.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	Did you know trees have nervous systems?
	Oh boy, open a can of worms right there.
	Doesn't mean it's cruel, you know, to prune a branch, by the way.
	Doesn't mean it's cruel to pick fruit.
	But cutting down a living, healthy tree is, in fact, taking the life of a different kind of being, not animal, not human, obviously, but a different kind of being that has a different experience of what it means to be alive.
	And yes, everything that is alive has consciousness.
	Everything.
	That's the surprise ending here.
	It's not just animals.
	It's everything that's alive.
	Every blade of grass, every sprouted seed has a form of consciousness.
	Think about that.
	And thank you for listening.
	If you want to hear more sermons, you'll find them at abundance.church.
	I'm Mike Adams.
	God bless you all.

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