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Nov. 4, 2024 - Health Ranger - Mike Adams

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Decentralize TV interview with Joshua Hale, the HOLISTIC tech wizard

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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 100 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.
	Right.
	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, you know 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, you know, 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 in 12 different industries.
	And so I got to test it out on their 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.
	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.
	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.
	So, and if you give a 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 at 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 I 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?
	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 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 nonprofit 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, 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, you know, I recently launched a church.
	You know, 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 non-profit 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 a game plan for that project?
	Absolutely.
	And the beautiful thing, 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.
	So I just ask you questions, you know, 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, you know, 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 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, survivalnutrition.com if they want.
	But then my book publisher gave me a contract to publish the book as 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 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.
	Oh, but what I'm saying is I could give you access to a completely different engine.
	Yeah, 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 cost.
	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.
	And then if somebody is, 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 for the PDF. One of the things that we discovered, by the way, like I have 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.
	I'm 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.
	Wow.
	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 affordably 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 centers around helping people.
	I don't know if you're going to be able to do it.
	I see it.
	So if you look at the logo proper, that main part is, and people can just go to my 575E 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 the sudden Stripe, they said, oh, well, we got to figure out what it is that you're talking about, what you're helping people with it, 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're 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 known the first clue on how to begin that process were it not for Joshua initially, Mike.
	Wow.
	Wow.
	Okay, 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 deepfake 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 biased 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.
	So 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, you know, desktops, right?
	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... This is, well, let me, 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 learned 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, you know, 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, you know?
	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 this 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 am 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, hey, look, 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.
	here you don't have to you know compliment me or anything you're in good standing on this show but i just i just want to say the reason i do those interviews where it's audio only is because those are extra urgent interviews like right 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
	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 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 gotta 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 that, you know, stop it with sending hurricanes to Florida, please.
	That's the conversation for the decentralized AI systems that you should have in your 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.
	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.
	There are very compassionate uses of humanoid robots with behavior models.
	For example, in Japan, there's a demographic collapse because they're not We 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 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 jack in and have this utopia experience and then come back into the crappy 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 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.
	I... 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 usually 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 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 the notion of inflation and that our green dollars are just melting away, melting away, melting away.
	So here's an opportunity to be able to take some of those green dollars and truly be able to invest them into something that can produce a yield 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.
	So I also wanted to just add in, you know, 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, you know, 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.
	And 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.
	You know, 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.
	And 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 today.
	Throughout this hurricane.
	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.
	Absolutely.
	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.
	Oh, wow.
	Because your last comm to me was at like 940 at night, and after that there were no comms, 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.
	Alright, well, glad you did.
	Alright, 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 Productive in your own life.
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	I'm Mike Adams, the founder of Brighteon.com.
	Take care, everybody.
	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.
	But, 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 gonna 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.
	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! - - 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 be 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.
	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 of 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 rock.
	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 re-queen 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 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.
	Oh, 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 gonna 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.
	God's in control, and though I may not know what you believe, but I know He's with us.
	The group and 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 in a channel of mutilations.
	And those other survivors, they didn't kill in a wolf, they wanna snuff out that baby boom.
	Ethnic too, you're digging a tomb for who?
	It's you.
	They lock you down like obedient slaves, fill you with fear a thousand ways, while they turn your friends into mine 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.
	They're making us witness.
	but I believe that God is with us.
	The raped elections, Deceived the gullible masses with misdirection.
	Psychological injection of lies and falsehoods and mental virus infections.
	They tried 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.
	The jammers with medical venom.
	We don't even know what's in them.
	Suddenly, the coroner come and get her.
	They say you gotta trust the science.
	While they silence the people who stood in defiance.
	It's medical terror, no admission of error.
	You get punished for non-compliance.
	They pushed hospital homicide.
	Fauci lied and millions died.
	Weaponized hospital protocols.
	Try to kill us all.
	Premeditated medical genocide.
	We the people demand you cease.
	Get your filthy dick, find my hands off me Your COVID-19 let your plans all freeze Your global war against man has ceased No more sickos laying on sleeves No more profit from man-made disease Your sleight of hand, war on peace Your evil fact checker, thought police When children hold up their hands, stop it, please Beg God's forgiveness, drop to our knees The pain is insane in making us witness We can't survive, As God is my witness.
	Yes, God is with us. God is with us. Amen.
	Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen.
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