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Jan. 13, 2025 - Health Ranger - Mike Adams

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Dan from iAllegedly interviewed by Mike Adams on California's catastrophic fires...

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	Welcome, everyone, to this special weekend interview.
	I'm Mike Adams, the founder of brighteon.com.
	This is audio only, and I've got a very special guest for you from California who has firsthand knowledge of the fires situation.
	Let me describe him here in a moment, but I also want to mention this entire interview is being automatically illustrated by artificial intelligence.
	So as we talk...
	The AI will not only caption this interview in English for the hearing impaired, but also all the illustrations will be based on what we are saying.
	So it's going to be real interesting.
	I just want you to know that we did not pre-approve each illustration, so there might be some wild stuff.
	Our guest today is Dan Golka.
	He is just a fantastic person.
	I've known him for years.
	I've watched his YouTube channel for many years.
	His channel is called I Allegedly.
	And you can find him on YouTube and other video platforms, Dan at I Allegedly.
	And that's all together, I Allegedly, with no space in it.
	And Dan does a daily update.
	A lot of it's about economics, finance, real estate, of what's going on beyond California.
	California, but he does a walking monologue around really interesting places in California.
	I love it when he feeds the ducks and things like that.
	He goes to all these interesting places.
	So welcome, Dan.
	It's an honor to have you on the show today.
	It's absolutely a pleasure, and I'm so happy to be here.
	I not only watch your videos, but my wife also loves your videos, too.
	So if we're, like, in the evening, we're doing some body rolling or stretching or whatever, and she's like, well, what should we watch?
	And then we're both like, let's put on Dan, you know?
	That's awesome.
	You walk us through our stretching and fitness exercises, so thank you very much for that.
	You always have a really nice way of presenting things.
	Give us the lowdown.
	You're in California.
	What are you seeing?
	I am in Orange County, California.
	I am about 30 miles away from the fire.
	And there's been multiple fires.
	There have been as many as six ongoing fires.
	There are four active fires right now as we're recording this.
	My daughter...
	One of my highlights of my life was I got her out of Los Angeles and got her to Pasadena to live about a year and a half ago.
	But she was near the Eaton Fire, which was on the other side of the 210 freeway.
	And literally, she was one street away from the evacuation zone.
	So she just went home an hour ago because they lifted it.
	The evacuation warning, the wind warnings, the winds have shifted, and she's been here since Tuesday.
	And it's been crazy, absolutely crazy, to see this unfold and see all the health ramifications.
	It's funny, I'm with the health ranger.
	I can't wait to share some of this information with you because it's just going to blow people away.
	But, you know, it was very unhealthy for her to be there, even though, quote-unquote, she was safe from the fire.
	Well, I did a podcast about the toxins that are in the smoke from the residential buildings.
	When residential or commercial structures, when they burn, they burn up PVC material, polyvinyl chloride.
	That produces dioxins, which are really toxic, cancer-causing chemicals.
	So nobody wants to be there breathing that.
	It's actually safer to breathe smoke from a brush fire or a tree fire than a residential building fire.
	How bad was the smoke?
	It was horrible.
	It was absolutely horrible.
	And see, we've had Ash here, and it's been, you know, having to wash the car and having it be uncomfortable here.
	But with her, it was, they do a, you know, a level, a warning level for smog and for air quality in Los Angeles and Orange County.
	And if, you know, hey, today's 40, it's kind of high.
	It's 60, it's kind of high.
	If it gets to 100, they warn you not to go outside.
	At her house, the day that she left, it was $185,000.
	So God only knows, Mike, what was in that air during that time.
	But the thing, you know, think about this, Mike.
	You've got legacy properties.
	Let's just use the Palisades, where you have these houses that you had, you know, anywhere from $4 million to $25 million houses.
	And you know you have people that have lived there 30 and 40 years, and you've got the neighbor down the street working on stuff and his workshop and things like that.
	God only knows what that guy had in his shop that burnt down to the ground, that is in the air.
	The TVC pipe is one thing, but it's everything else that we have no clue about.
	I'm going to give you a couple of examples of how unsafe this is.
	It's absolutely crazy because people lost everything.
	People are absolutely upside down.
	Right now, with the taping of this, it's 12,500.
	12,500 structures have been lost.
	And you've seen it.
	Bank of America buildings, houses, grocery stores.
	I mean, full communities completely wiped out.
	And the problem with Los Angeles and with those coastal cities...
	Is that these people have no idea what it's going to take to go back and rebuild.
	I mean, the building permit process in L.A. County is a disaster.
	And these people, you may see hillsides never get rebuilt again.
	Well, I have so many questions about that.
	Also, the insurance question and the infrastructure question.
	So let me just ask those separately.
	Sure.
	Obviously, a lot of insurers pulled out of the state.
	And many policies are not being renewed.
	And you and I both know that real estate goes to zero if you can't get insurance because what bank is going to, you know, approve a loan on a home where there's no insurance, right?
	Yes, 100%.
	Plus, let's add to that, if you have a mortgage against your house and you have a government-insured loan, they're going to call the note in.
	And I have two friends that own foreclosure companies, and they have foreclosed on people's homes in the last six months that don't have fire insurance on their house.
	No kidding.
	Yeah, absolutely.
	And here's the thing.
	I'm constantly looking for houses.
	You know, I practice what I preach.
	I'm looking for a good deal and things like that.
	But the last two houses that I looked at, one of them was in the Tustin Hills, which is, you know, it's 40 miles from where these fires are, but it's on a hillside.
	And I'm not kidding you.
	This was a month and a half ago.
	I sent the house over to my insurance agent and she laughed.
	Dan, I can't insure this house.
	No way.
	It's on a hillside.
	And I thought, I chose the best possible scenario.
	And now I'm glad I didn't buy that house for a thousand reasons with these fires and everything because nothing is safe on the hillside, I'm convinced now.
	But they wouldn't insure it.
	And she also said, you know, please understand also State Farm is not going to be writing any new policies.
	At the earliest, it would be the first quarter of the year.
	And that's the other thing is that the insurance debacle that people are going to go through, they're going to go through.
	You know, months and months, if not years, to get the house paid for.
	And here's the thing that people don't get.
	You know, February 1st is going to roll around.
	These people are going to have to make their house payment.
	That's right.
	On a house that's no longer there.
	Right.
	Oh, you're crazy, Dan.
	When you total your car, you don't have to make your car payment.
	It's different.
	Car insurance is completely different than your homeowner's insurance because they haven't determined if there is actual damage.
	You know, you've got areas.
	That they have not paid claims out.
	Maui, they still haven't paid claims out to most of those homeowners right now.
	I mean, these people in Los Angeles that voted for their politicians are going to experience the grief of dealing with these insurance companies, and you haven't seen anything yet.
	And now the geniuses of the world, like State Farm, looks very smart right now because...
	Well, an insurance company has the right.
	To choose what they ensure.
	I mean, that's a natural business right.
	And State Farm obviously looked at the risks, looked at maybe the political environment in California and said, this is a catastrophe waiting to happen.
	I mean, it's kind of rational that they stopped writing policies, isn't it?
	I think so.
	But here's the other thing that they've done that people have complained about here in California.
	That I tell people, clean up your house, and that they've taken drones.
	I don't know if State Farm has done this, but I know other insurance agencies, insurance firms have done this, where they will take a drone over a community that they have heavily insured, and they will go through and say, hey, listen, Mike, your roof doesn't look good.
	When did you add the swimming pool to your house?
	And they will do things like that.
	You need to fix your roof.
	You need to fix this.
	And they're canceling policies for that.
	And people are screaming, oh, that's not fair.
	Well, it's not, but it is.
	And again, the problem that you have is you have a lot of older communities in Los Angeles and Orange Counties that have been there forever.
	And you have something called existing nonconforming, where you may have a garage that's sitting up against the neighbor's property line.
	That was, you know, legal in 1941 when it was built, but it's not legal today.
	So when you go to, you know, rebuild your house, the garage is going to be nowhere near it.
	Can you have a garage there?
	Do you have to relocate the position of the house?
	All these disasters that people have no idea are coming.
	But rebuilding these houses, I saw Josh Altman from a million dollar listing and he's got a new office in Newport Beach.
	We've contacted them to have him on the show, too, because he brought up such a great point.
	You have so many communities that have been completely wiped out that you're going to have them just pay for the land and say, here's your deal.
	I know you think your house is worth $4.5 million.
	We'll give you $750,000 for the land, and you can start over.
	Well, that doesn't replace.
	It doesn't replace Mel Gibson's house.
	He was on the news last night and had things that were priceless in his home.
	And you think of the thousands of other people that have lost everything.
	And this is terrible.
	It's absolutely terrible, but they're never going to get caught back up.
	And these insurance companies are going to be overwhelmed.
	There's going to be bankrupt insurance companies.
	There's going to have to.
	I mean, I don't know how some of these places are not going to go out of business as a result.
	Well, that's frightening because then people who paid premiums won't actually get.
	Or maybe the insurance industry will go to the federal government and ask for a big bailout to cover all of this.
	And that brings up some really important political questions here.
	Because, as you know, the Biden administration and FEMA, they ignored or even interfered with rescue efforts in North Carolina.
	Yes.
	Because that was like rural, you know, Trump supporters.
	And not a lot of wealthy Hollywood celebrities like Mel Gibson, who is a great guy.
	By the way, I'm not slamming Mel Gibson.
	I think he's awesome.
	But, you know, the federal government ignored North Carolina.
	And FEMA actually interdicted supplies there.
	When we sent truckloads of donations to North Carolina from our store, because we're doing a lot of donations, right?
	We're also donating to California right now.
	We sent truckloads.
	We had to have Special Forces teams there, former Green Berets, make sure that we could evade FEMA and found out we had to get it to a church parking lot because FEMA can't confiscate food from churches.
	So we ended up being able to get it.
	The first load we sent was to an airport tarmac, and then that got moved.
	We couldn't even figure out where that went.
	And then the second load we sent went to the Pole Creek Baptist Church in Candler.
	Well, now, you know, a lot of people in the country are very much, in a sense, like, how come the federal government didn't help North Carolina, but now Biden looks like they really, really want to help California?
	I say help all people equally, you know?
	Absolutely.
	I want to repeat something you just said, and that was that you had to, your donations, you had to move.
	And evade FEMA because you were worried about them being confiscated.
	That is unbelievable.
	I know it's true, but it's absolutely unbelievable that we live in a world like this.
	And it's awful.
	And the politics that were done here in Southern California, there's going to be hell to pay.
	And these people think that they're going to avoid this.
	There is no way with a new sheriff coming to town a little over a week from now.
	It is going to be...
	It's unbelievable what's going to happen and the accountability with these people.
	You've got me on.
	I'm kind of worked up after what you said.
	Go for it.
	Go for it.
	The city of Los Angeles, not the county, just the city of Los Angeles, cut their budget $17.6 million.
	I did all this research for you.
	Wait, wait.
	Is that the fire budget?
	Yes, that's the fire budget.
	Cut the fire budget.
	Let me elaborate.
	Let me calm down.
	Fire budget by $17.6 million.
	Now, what I did was I wanted to research, what does that mean?
	Well, what that means is you're thinking, oh, they're just giving them less money.
	No.
	This is what happened, Mike.
	They lost, I call it, two pairs of 100. 100 mechanics were lost.
	And they were fired.
	They were contract mechanics to fix things for the L.A. Fire Department.
	So what happens also is you have 100 fire department apparatuses.
	This includes fire engines.
	This includes pumps.
	This includes other vehicles that are no longer working because they didn't have the mechanics.
	So it's two sets of 100. All of these people, all of this equipment, all of the apparatuses, all the pumps, everything.
	100% of it could have been used during this time.
	So that's what that $17.6 million cut.
	Now, if you and I lived in this area and we were neighbors, I'd be, Mike, we need to sue them over this because they caused this damage.
	Now, you can't control winds that were 75 miles an hour we normally don't get.
	We had Santa Ana wind conditions.
	On Thursday and some yesterday, and I'm like, wow, these are normal Santa Ana conditions that were 25, 30 miles an hour, but it would be enough to fuel massive fires.
	What we had and what they knew was coming a week ago Thursday, the county was prepared for this.
	They were given notice about this.
	We live in an earthquake zone.
	If you're not prepared for an earthquake, we don't know when it's going to happen.
	That's on you.
	The mayor of Los Angeles went to Ghana and went to, you know, go on an African mission to go to an inauguration for an African president.
	You can't even make this stuff up.
	It was so unbelievable.
	But when she got back clueless to what was going on, and by then, you know, they anticipate this.
	And here's the number, Mike, and I think this is very low.
	They think as of right now, this morning, it's $15 billion worth of property damage.
	I think it's going to be much higher.
	I think it could be double or triple that right now.
	Wait a second.
	I've heard AccuWeather already estimated $150 billion.
	Okay.
	I'm sorry.
	That's what I should have said.
	If I said $15 billion, I'm nervous.
	$150 billion, I think it's still too low.
	I think it's three times that.
	I agree.
	I agree.
	My apologies for that.
	No, no worries.
	And Bloomberg put out numbers, too.
	I mean, initially they were saying it's $50 billion.
	That was like two days into it.
	Now that's been adjusted to $150 billion.
	And I'm sorry to interrupt, but I also want to make sure I ask you about California's fair plan, which I believe is an insurance vehicle of last resort, which Bloomberg News said that...
	The state of California could be on the hook for nearly half a trillion dollars.
	Yes.
	Now, with that house that I looked at in the hills, the agent said, well, Dan, you can go to the FAIR program, but let me tell you, there's nothing good about it, and the prices are not fair.
	It's funny now, but she's like, don't do it.
	She goes like, and the last thing you'll ever want to do, Dan, is file a claim.
	Now, that's my insurance person talking about a house.
	That I was contemplating making an offer on.
	Do you know what I mean?
	It's like...
	Now it's funny.
	I checked this morning.
	The house is still available.
	They haven't been able to sell that house.
	And I looked at it in October the last time I looked at it.
	But the FAIR plan, that's something that everybody knows about in California?
	Well, it's one of those things that most people find out about the FAIR program once their homeowner's insurance gets canceled.
	You have to have insurance or we're going to...
	Work on foreclosure proceedings.
	It's part of the contract.
	Look at line 84B. It's something like that.
	You need to contact your state's insurance program and people go to that FAIR program.
	There's so much with the FAIR program right now, especially on that Palisades Hill, that people just, I mean, they're in for a world of hurt, Mike.
	They really, really are because it's going to be disastrous to see claims get filed.
	Look, let's, I mean...
	You're one of the few people I can actually ask this question to, because you know so much about the state and finance and debt and so on.
	But look, I mean, suppose California has to pay out claims of almost $500 billion.
	I mean, it's really estimated at $400 and something billion, okay?
	Currently, that could grow.
	Now, the state doesn't have that liquid cash, right?
	So they either have to...
	Sell bonds to raise the money and go into more debt, or they have to get a federal bailout.
	Well, Trump's coming into office.
	That seems very unlikely to have a big bailout for all the property owners in California.
	What is the state of California?
	We are on, you know, this could be a bankruptcy situation where you could actually see the state, you know, lose everything.
	Because right now, you know, one thing that's recirculating right now is when Joe Biden took over office, there's a lot of...
	You know, interviews with Gavin Newsom talking about how, oh, it's great to have an administration that knows what they're doing.
	We're going to clear all this brush.
	We're going to do this stuff.
	And he did nothing.
	They did nothing with the reservoirs.
	And Mike, it's just, from a financial situation, this is going to be catastrophic.
	And it's going to be something that you're going to see, that you're going to see people lose absolutely everything.
	Bankruptcy.
	And this state, the only thing that they know how to do is raise taxes.
	And we have the highest personal income taxes in the country.
	We have the highest energy prices in the country.
	I just did a video on how this weekend the Kinder Morgan pipeline was broken for gasoline shipments to the West Coast so we could see gas go from $5 a gallon to $7.50 in the next two days.
	And again, Mike, shipment, gas, you know, affects everything.
	Diesel affects everything.
	And we just are in for a world of hurt.
	We have leadership that doesn't know how to lead.
	And these people have just been voted in because they have a D next to their name.
	And the level of incompetence is unbelievable.
	The mayor got back from her...
	Press conference and doesn't even know how to use the internet and said, I want to recommend that everybody go to this website for help.
	Go to URL. She said URL? Yeah, she goes, go to URL. And that's it.
	And everybody looked at each other.
	And it's infamous.
	I was going to share that on my channel, but I'm like, man, so many people have seen this.
	It just goes to a level of incompetence.
	And they've done all these DEI hires for the fire department, and it is crazy.
	I mean, I'm telling you, you guys, you can believe in DEI all you want.
	Hop on an airplane and hope that this person was chosen and hired by, the pilot was hired by DEI. Let me know how you feel about that then.
	You know what I mean?
	It's insane.
	Let me add this comment, and I'll be as kind as I can.
	I don't care if the fire chief, all the top people are lesbians.
	I don't care.
	But I want to make sure they know how to handle the logistics of getting water to the fire hydrants, right?
	So being lesbian does not put out house fires, it turns out.
	What an amazing surprise.
	You actually have to have water.
	So whether they're gay, trans, lesbian, straight, white, black, Asian, I don't care.
	We've got to have people there that are competent, and it seems like what's been happening, obviously, in California this whole time is that the most woke person is put into a position rather than the most qualified person.
	100%.
	Now, you mentioned water.
	There is a reservoir in the Palisades that holds 117 million gallons of water, and it was dry.
	They knew about this for several months.
	And didn't fix it.
	We have something called the Delta smelt here, which is a little tiny fish that Governor Newsom has gone out of his way to protect.
	And what they do, when it rains, Mike, they divert the rainwater to the ocean, to the Pacific Ocean, which is insanity.
	That's insane.
	No, no, it gets better.
	Last year, at this time, last year, we had 16.4 inches of rain.
	From the beginning of the race season until a year ago today.
	This year, we have one-tenth of one percent of rain.
	We've had a tenth of an inch of rain during this time.
	We've had no rain this year.
	But with what we had over the course of the last two years and having record rainfall two years ago, and then it being better last year, we would have had more water to put everything out.
	Now, I mean, it doesn't, you know...
	Mr. and Mrs. Health Ranger, if you guys, you know, your house burns down and you find out there's no water in the fire hydrant, you have a great lawsuit there.
	It doesn't make your house come back, but there's going to be hell to pay as a result of this.
	When you have reservoirs that are empty, there is hell to pay for this.
	And, you know, people were not prepared for this at all, but again, you haven't seen it.
	Anything yet, because there's something called the Coastal Commission that a lot of these people have to deal with, like in Malibu and places like that, within, you know, I think it's a half mile to the ocean.
	And they have a say in what goes on, and they don't want your house there.
	They just want a pristine coast.
	They don't want your $25 million house rebuilt.
	And these people are going to have hell to pay during this time.
	They just don't get it.
	My question as a Texan, then, is will the Democrat Party in California pay a price for this?
	And also, how do we sort out, you know, we have compassion for people, and we're sending $100,000 of food donations to California.
	That's getting dispatched next week.
	That's a donation from our Health Ranger store.
	We have compassion for people who are displaced, and it's not everybody's fault what their corrupt government is doing.
	But how do we sort out the fact that Most of the people who live there in California, not all, but most, they keep voting for the woke idiots to be in charge.
	And so there are consequences to this.
	How do we sort that out?
	Well, the two things that usually change it, Mike, are crime.
	When someone is the victim of a violent crime, they wake up.
	Whoa, whoa, whoa.
	We can't have this theft.
	The police need to step in.
	Okay, well, we can't step in.
	They just passed a law that overturned a rule.
	You and I could walk into stores and steal $949 worth of merchandise.
	As long as it was under $950, we could steal that, and the worst that we would get would be a traffic ticket for that if we got caught.
	And now they changed that law, and now these people are getting arrested.
	They're going to jail.
	Now, I live in Orange County, and we have a DA here who I hope...
	Someday is going to be our mayor, our governor, and that is Todd Spitzer, who is a no-nonsense guy on crime.
	And that's what you need.
	Now, the other thing is these people are going to be displaced.
	These people are going to experience the permitting process.
	They're going to experience the insurance nightmare.
	They're going to experience the fact that their schools aren't going to be able to be rebuilt fast enough for their children.
	This is going to be the thing that's going to make people wake up to their poor leadership and how ridiculous it's been, because it has been ridiculous.
	And, you know, what we saw during COVID... And all the rules and everything, you know, it's funny.
	And you'll get this joke in that I had a friend of mine when I was doing my medical conferences fly in to town into LAX and everybody was bundled up.
	He came to Orange County and went to his hotel at South Coast Plaza and there were no masks or anything.
	And I said, yeah, when you cross the 605 freeway, that's the barrier for COVID. It's funny because...
	Once you get to Orange County, it's like they got rid of the mask mandates.
	It was kind of like mini Florida in that sense.
	That's what people need to see again.
	They need to get realistic and they need to hold these people accountable.
	And Governor Newsom needs to be held accountable.
	And I'm telling you, with Trump in office, he's going to be demanding and he's going to be forthright and there's going to be people that are going to be held accountable.
	The police department letting people loot right now?
	You know, there was a guy that got caught on Friday with a blowtorch on a bicycle, lighting fires, burning Christmas trees down.
	He got arrested and the police said there was no probable cause.
	We can't keep him.
	And everybody's up and runs over that.
	Yeah, think about that.
	For arson.
	Well, we can't determine it.
	You didn't see him start a fire.
	You just saw a guy driving down the street with a blowtorch.
	Insanity.
	Insanity.
	Now, a couple things I wanted to cover with you, and they're not off topic, but they relate.
	Maybe he works for that restaurant you mentioned where they blowtorched the broccoli.
	Yeah, exactly.
	Here in Orange County, there is what used to be an old marine base, the LTA Marine Base, lighter than air.
	It's where they built the blimps in the 40s.
	There were two historic buildings that you can look up.
	They were great.
	One of them got damaged from wind.
	Ten years ago.
	They could not fix it.
	In 1999, the buildings were given back to the city of Tustin.
	The geniuses at Tustin, think about what I'm going to tell you.
	They cut the power to the buildings, these two massive hangars that are big enough to put a blimp in.
	They are some of the biggest independent plywood structures ever built, first of all.
	They cut the water off, cut the power off.
	They poured cement down the water pipe, so there was no water to these places.
	I was dating a nurse a little over a year ago, and one of these structures caught on fire, and they couldn't rip the structure down because it was loaded with asbestos.
	So they decided to just let it burn, Mike.
	Okay?
	She lived two miles away from the structure, and she calls me and FaceTimes me and says, look what's landing on my yard.
	And it was chunks from that burning building with the asbestos.
	And I'm like, wow, Kristen, you've got to call the police.
	What do you do?
	So she calls them.
	They showed up with hazmat outfits to clean up her house.
	I'm dead serious.
	I took pictures of it.
	It was absolutely crazy.
	My point of that is, what's in the air of all these houses in L.A. and all these commercial buildings, these old buildings that have burnt down?
	We have no idea the level of asbestos, the level of chemicals, and everything that's there.
	And one thing to add onto that...
	With that base, it's now a shopping center.
	It's a housing community.
	They've been building this for the last 10 years.
	There is a National Guard Depot there.
	The National Guard Depot got broken into this week, Mike.
	They stole three Humvees from there.
	They stole weapons.
	They stole uniforms.
	They stole all these different apparatuses to military equipment.
	Now, think about this.
	Could you imagine a guy steals a Humvee with a machine gun turret on it?
	You know, how do you drive that away?
	How does that get out and about in the community between 8 o'clock at night and 11 o'clock at night?
	Isn't that unbelievable?
	What was the name of that base?
	I've got to look this up.
	Oh, Army Reserve Center in Tustin.
	Yeah, and that's my city.
	Oh, my God.
	But my point is, Mike, is that, hey, did you see the Health Rangers new vehicle?
	It's got a machine gun turret.
	This is the kind of thing that the, you know, look, I've interviewed a lot of other, like, former Special Forces people that have high-level intel about the actual, like, foreign military combatants that have crossed the border illegally and have come into the country.
	And, you know, like, people like Matt Bracken that I've interviewed and Michael Yon and others, and they talk about exactly this scenario that many of these operators, which are foreign combatants, Are going to be activated.
	I think they've been activated.
	I think they set the fires, frankly, in L.A. But that they would steal equipment from Army Reserve or National Guard bases in order to get the uniforms, in order to impersonate military.
	Now, the uniform building, they could not get into, so they only got certain jackets and things like that.
	But the equipment headquarters that had everything was...
	Was not penetrated.
	Now, here's the thing.
	Why is there not somebody standing guard at a place like that?
	Does that make any sense to you at all?
	And that this was not done at 3 o'clock in the morning.
	It was done between 8 and 11 o'clock at night.
	Is that just insane?
	Now, we were all focused on the fires 30 miles away, but again...
	This is crazy.
	But also in that same complex was that building that burnt down with all the asbestos and, hey, you don't want to get too close to that.
	It's kind of some shenanigans in that sense that we're being fed one thing to see another, but this is dangerous, but then it's not too dangerous, but somebody should be standing there.
	I mean, it's crazy.
	It's absolutely crazy when you add all this stuff up.
	It is crazy.
	It's not even close to being put out right now.
	As we film this, and as I walked in this room, we're not even close to being put out.
	And, you know, one other thing I wanted to add was there's, you know, the $16.7 million, you know, that's crazy.
	But Karen Bass, also, there was a secret memo that just got leaked.
	We're getting this through the Daily Mail.
	Think about this.
	We're getting this from a UK newspaper that has this over the Los Angeles Times.
	She's the mayor of LA, correct?
	Karen Bass is the mayor of Los Angeles.
	She sent a memo last week before she went to Africa that she wanted to trim the fire department budget by $44 million more above and beyond the $16.7 million.
	Now, the crazy part about this, I'm like, well, what's that budget going to cost?
	There are 16 different...
	City council districts in the city of Los Angeles.
	You have 16 city council people there.
	They wanted to close one fire department in each of those divisions.
	That's where they would make up the $44 million.
	Now, how would you feel about, hey, wow, we lost our fire department down the street.
	No one would want that now.
	No one living is going to want that now for the rest of your life.
	Yeah, and now the response time from fire might be 30 minutes or something, or a paramedic, or what have you.
	This is what happens when cities or counties collapse.
	We saw this over time in Detroit, for example.
	So when the high-income earners flee, and there are disasters or fires, and property tax income begins to fall, and in this case, in California, this massive payout they're going to have to...
	Meet, I suppose, under the Fair Plan.
	The state is going to be forced to slow spending on infrastructure, streetlights, roads.
	I've seen cases where counties or cities would grind up the pavement, turn it back into gravel roads because they were cheaper to maintain.
	100%.
	Aren't we talking?
	Yeah, go ahead.
	Here's the other thing about Karen Bass.
	It's lovely.
	And you can look this figure up as well.
	And this is a ridiculous statement, is big business.
	All these different nonprofits that get set up make tens of millions of dollars, and they don't do anything.
	There are people sleeping on the street right now, Mike, that are victims of whatever, whether it's drug use.
	You know, individual situation, financial situation, whatever, you know, but we have veterans that are sleeping on the streets right now that don't have, you know, they're not on a bed.
	They're not, you know, under a roof right now.
	And there is $23 billion missing from the city of Los Angeles programs that they can't, that's unaccounted for.
	And it's insulting when you talk to Mayor Bass about this and ask her questions about this.
	I hear your dog.
	Give her a nice hug.
	Oh, I will.
	She's just hacking up a little bit from her bones.
	My dogs are asleep right now, so they're not talking to each other at the moment.
	So maybe my dogs will talk to your dogs and they can do a podcast.
	Absolutely.
	But, you know, Mike, it's the level of incompetence.
	What you're going to have, you know, people...
	We need to be accountable.
	We need business people that are politicians, and there's nothing wrong with that.
	But the problem with it is that you have such serious damage, $150, $200, $300, $400 billion worth of damage that's already been done.
	So now we're going to get good leadership?
	Think of all these people that lost everything.
	Absolutely.
	It's just so awful to think about.
	My question is looking at the trajectory of what I'm going to call the collapse or maybe the decline of what is California.
	And it started during COVID years.
	So before COVID, street retail was thriving.
	You gave a lot of tours, tour videos, showing that during COVID, total collapse of local retail, small businesses, small retailers.
	Out of business, forced to close, lockdowns, all this.
	That was a devastating blow to the community and the things that made California great, where you could go walk on the pier and you could have all these amazing businesses and shops, right?
	100%.
	That's been devastating.
	Tell me more.
	Well, here's the thing.
	When you look at communities, and there's one of them.
	I did a great video in an area called the Gaslamp District in San Diego.
	San Diego is 60 miles south of me.
	But there was an area that was absolutely awful.
	You know, in the late 90s, it was terrible.
	And what they did was they called it a Giuliani experience where they went and revitalized an area near the courthouse between the courthouse and the ocean and rebuilt it and kicked everybody out, got rid of all the drugs, got rid of all the homeless people, and invited businesses to come in.
	And there were streets, Mike.
	There were...
	8, 9, 10, 12 streets.
	You could walk up and down at night.
	There were sports bars, restaurants, different shops, different things to do at night.
	And it was just, it was so happening and so great.
	And COVID killed that.
	And I went there just to be, you know, just to see that.
	And I couldn't believe how half of the businesses were closed because of that.
	It's never...
	Fully recovered.
	This is what's going to happen in Los Angeles right now.
	You've got areas that are completely destroyed.
	But you need, you know, for a store to work, Mike, you need you and your wife to get in your car and drive over there and shop and buy a sweater.
	And you know what?
	Let's get a sandwich now that we're here down the street.
	You need that experience.
	And that's not there.
	And, you know, there was a massive push on sales this year.
	They say that sales were up 9% for shopping for Christmas.
	Whether you believe that or not, it was all online.
	People didn't go to stores.
	People are not going to stores right now.
	So that's been a major problem.
	So with these fires then and the possibility that we've been talking about here that California, maybe counties and maybe cities are going to have to really pull back on funding infrastructure.
	This seems like at least this part of...
	North LA or maybe all of greater LA at some point is really on a downward trajectory.
	And we've seen Elon Musk and his companies flee California.
	We see more businesses leaving and wealthy people leaving.
	I mean, you're still there.
	You're going to be like the last guy left in California, the way it's going.
	I constantly look outside of this area, but let's look at a city like San Francisco.
	San Francisco used to be the most romantic.
	City that you could go to.
	I spent five years there when I was in the medical industry, and I would go to medical conferences there.
	The J.P. Morgan Conference, the first week of January every year, was held in San Francisco.
	And we would get a hotel room and walk from event to event to event.
	And every year from up until 2015 to 2020, it got progressively worse.
	And that's what you're seeing.
	You're seeing that they didn't prosecute the criminals.
	And in 2020, we saw people throwing fireworks at each other.
	And when we called the police over, they said, you guys are stupid to be here.
	Get out of here.
	You're going to get hurt.
	They were mad at us over the guys throwing M80s at each other.
	The other thing was we walked into, you know, I'm wearing my suit.
	I left the Ritz-Carlton.
	I go into a liquor store.
	Let's get a Diet Coke and a bag of chips.
	And a guy walks in, says hi to me, starts stuffing his pocket with...
	Merchandise jumps over the counter and goes out the door.
	And I go to the guy behind the counter.
	I don't know this guy.
	I have nothing to do with him.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	We know there's nothing we can do about it.
	But I paid $10 for our chips and for our Diet Cokes and stuff.
	You know, it's insane.
	How long can a city last like that?
	And, you know, there have been over 100 people arrested right now for looting in Los Angeles.
	We're scumbags that are out there taking advantage of people's worst situations.
	They just put in a curfew last night from 6 o'clock at night to 6 o'clock in the morning.
	And if you're out and about and you don't have a good reason, if you're not going someplace, you're going to be charged with a misdemeanor and going to jail.
	So finally, you know, again, that's what they should have been doing three years ago with people.
	What are you doing out?
	Why are you here?
	And there should have been accountability and arrests and things like that.
	You know, people, there's just zero accountability.
	And these cities have been destroyed.
	That's the problem with it.
	So here we are, a little over a week away from Trump being sworn in.
	And Trump's team, like Holman, I think is his name, you know, the border czar, they say...
	Yeah, he's great.
	Right?
	Yeah, hardcore.
	He's really dedicated to his mission, which is essentially...
	Rounding up illegals and just dumping them across the border, you know, back the direction they mostly came from.
	And apparently the president of Mexico, from what I read in the media, she said she agrees to take millions of deportees from America.
	I kind of wonder what kind of arm twisting had to happen for her to say that.
	How is this going to go down, in your view, in California, where Governor Newsom is very much opposed, obviously, to this action?
	Right now, I've seen extensive Tom Homan interviews, and he's not going to tolerate this at all.
	You can do whatever you want.
	If you facilitate illegal activity, then you're part of the crime.
	So, you know, they can talk about...
	You know, letting these illegals stay in.
	Joe Biden just granted immunity to 900,000 people yesterday.
	And my girlfriend sent me a great story about in Orange County, there's an apartment complex that gang members have taken over in South Orange County, a nice part of town.
	And a woman called the police because she saw three men pulling a woman by her hair.
	So they called the cops.
	Cops came out.
	Well, we can't do anything because we didn't see it.
	Well, it's on my ring camera.
	Yeah, we can't use that.
	And so what did the gang members do?
	They threatened her.
	So now she has to move.
	So that insanity, those people should not be here.
	What are you doing here?
	And, you know, I'm a racist, clearly, because I say things like that.
	But it's nuts that we want safe communities.
	I want to be able to walk outside at night.
	The problem with Los Angeles, it's becoming mini San Francisco.
	And when my daughter lived there, she lived there on Sunset and Vine.
	There was a Walgreens store that was on the bottom floor of her building.
	She had a guard out in front of the building.
	It was great.
	The Walgreens closed for crime.
	So much crime, they closed the Walgreens.
	During the SAG after strike last year, I was filming and I had a guy pull a knife on me while I was filming one of my videos there.
	And I said, that's it.
	I don't care what it costs me.
	You're moving immediately.
	We moved her to Pasadena, which is much safer.
	She can walk her dog at night.
	And that's the problem, Mike, is this crime.
	These people need to be held accountable.
	The people that are here, everybody, we all know people that were not born here or their parents weren't born here.
	That's great.
	They're citizens of our country.
	They are law-abiding citizens that do not break the law.
	That's what we need.
	And it's the criminals.
	It's the people that want to rob us.
	And you know, Mike, think about this.
	Imagine my son has a girlfriend that moved to San Francisco.
	She moves here and then they go to a Denny's.
	And her first day here, they break in the car.
	They break all the windows in the car as she's having her bacon and eggs and take all of her personal possessions out.
	So welcome to California.
	Nothing.
	Why did you leave your personal belongings in the site of the criminals?
	Huh?
	So she was in the wrong.
	She moved back, by the way.
	She didn't stay here in California.
	She ended up moving back to Rhode Island, where she was from.
	You mentioned Joe Biden's protection for 900,000 illegals.
	That's...
	I mean, they're going to be protected legally for an additional 18 months.
	We're talking about Venezuelans and El Salvador and others.
	And many of these, not all, but many of them are criminal gangs.
	And they're carrying out those acts that you mentioned.
	And it seems to me that Joe Biden, this is just my view, but he is engaged in a mass sabotage operation against the American people.
	For example...
	He's locking up all of the energy exploration in the coastal waters to make sure that there's no affordable energy supply for America.
	And it's like Joe Biden is just giving the finger to America to say, you're going to pay double for gas, and you're going to have illegals committing crimes.
	Home robberies and everything against you, and he signs all that, and he smiles and walks out the door.
	It's like throwing a grenade behind himself as he leaves the country.
	It's crazy.
	This is like straight-up sabotage.
	Absolutely.
	But here's the thing.
	Donald Trump, I did see an interview where he laughed about this.
	That'll be overturned on day one.
	Is what he said.
	Now, one thing I want to let you know, and you know, I film a lot in the public and I, you know, my girlfriend lives in Las Vegas and spends half her time here and half her time there.
	And, you know, I conduct a lot of business in Vegas and it's very inexpensive.
	Like, for you to fly to Vegas is very inexpensive from Texas over California.
	It's just, it steps it up.
	So I do a lot of business in Las Vegas lately, but since the election, and I mean this, Mike, I've had...
	Probably a hundred people walk up to me and said, I'm so glad that guy won.
	I can finally talk about it.
	And there's people that, you know, their friends thought that they were going to vote for Kamala and they can finally admit how fed up they are with all this nonsense.
	So, you know, people, there's a sense of relief.
	You know, there's also a sense of family and, you know, doing what's right in the world.
	You know, it's funny.
	I talk about friendship a lot and, like, what's right.
	And you're a good guy because you call and, hey, I really like your show.
	You did a good job that one.
	And I've done the same thing with you.
	You've been on interviews with Alex and different things and things that just really resonate with me.
	But that's what people need to do.
	People need to check in on people.
	People need to be...
	Kind to people.
	We don't have enough of that in this world.
	And I really feel a shift.
	I feel a spiritual shift.
	And I told you, you know, you taught me that I need to pray more.
	You taught me I need to be healthier.
	I've lost weight since this year started, been exercising every day.
	And there's things that we need to do to be better people.
	And it starts with us.
	And if we do more individually, the world's going to be better.
	It's not going to bring a house back.
	It's not going to bring back a community where 15,000 houses got burnt down.
	But we need to start by one individual at a time as well.
	I have felt a very strong spiritual and emotional shift also since the election.
	It's like this cloud of darkness has been lifted.
	And the world's not perfect, not by a long shot.
	There are a lot of problems that have to get sorted out here.
	But for the first time in many years, I am feeling a sense of optimism about the future, a lot less gloomy.
	And I know the dollar's in trouble.
	I know that the money printing, that whole Ponzi scheme is going to collapse.
	But Dan, now I feel more optimistic than ever before about being able to handle that.
	Yes, 100%.
	The other thing is that, you know, here's the thing, Mike, you and your audience, nobody were different people on November 4th.
	November 5th just gave, it just opened up the present, if that makes any sense.
	And you had that enlightening day of like, oh my gosh, we can all talk about this now.
	We can all feel this way.
	We can all have a sense of optimism.
	You know, one thing I wanted to share with you, I don't want to forget this because it's a real important point with me.
	And, you know, I always talk about preparation with my audience and how people...
	People need to have an emergency fund.
	They need to have, you know, all their important papers put together.
	And I've told my kids, my kids are in their mid-20s.
	I have a son and I have a daughter.
	And, you know, I always tell them things.
	And I always wonder, I wonder if they're even listening.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	You know, yeah, sure thing, Dad, sure thing.
	My daughter showed up at my house, Mike, with, hey, I got to get something out of the car.
	A crate on wheels and a long plastic box, like something you'd slide under your bed.
	And it was like a box with all her important documents in it.
	And she goes, this is what you were talking about, right, Dad, with everything I'm supposed to have, all my important documents.
	Here they are.
	And here it is sitting on my kitchen table.
	And I was so proud of that because it had everything in it.
	And in a moment's notice, she could pull it out.
	And today, when she went back home, she goes, isn't this cool?
	This thing snaps to my...
	My cart here, and I can roll this out of my house inside of 30 seconds.
	And I'm like, that is the coolest thing ever.
	But does your audience have this?
	Do you guys know where all your important documents are?
	Do you know where that is?
	She had all her phone numbers in her phone printed out and laminated on a piece of paper.
	What if the phone gets destroyed?
	So let's face it, 99% of us don't remember what Marge's phone number is.
	She's number four on my list.
	We have to have that.
	So go out and do that, guys.
	Check your insurance.
	Talk to your insurance person.
	You know, one more thing.
	I'm sorry that I'm going on.
	Please go ahead.
	But one of the things I always tell people is the most expensive...
	The thing that we pay when we do our taxes is you need to have a second tax appointment every year with your accountant and your tax preparer to make sure you're on the right track.
	Right now, I always suggest people do it two and three times a year to make sure that they're paying the right amount, they're putting the right amount towards retirement.
	Everything's on track.
	I have never had someone say that was a complete waste of time.
	They've all said, wow, it cost me $100 and it saved me thousands doing that.
	We need to prepare right now.
	You need to prepare financially.
	You need to have cash on hands.
	You need to have, you know, gold and silver stacked so that you can, you know, get out of town and get out of Dodge, have a go bag of clothes and things like that so that you could prepare if you had a fire.
	No one's going to prepare for natural disaster.
	But, you know, I'm glad my daughter was prepared for that.
	And again, one of my proudest moments as a parent, to say the least.
	Yeah, great job.
	I mean, that shows the effectiveness of what you're teaching.
	And I know also, you know, you talk to your family about, you know, the satellite phones and, you know, backup communications, backup food, emergency medicine, all those kinds of things.
	I've heard you talk about those before as well.
	I'm a big advocate of that as well.
	But you'll really know that your daughter is like totally up to speed when she pulls up like...
	Here's a bin of documents, and here's my Glock 19, spare magazines, bottle of iodine, and a satellite phone.
	I'm like, I'm ready!
	You know she had the satellite phone in there.
	I know that for a fact.
	I don't know about the Glock.
	But I hear you, because, you know, the National Guard has been deployed to Los Angeles.
	And my answer is, it's about time.
	You know, it's ridiculous.
	You know, it's because, you know, Karen Bass did it that it was okay.
	This would have been, if somebody else would have done it, it would have been, oh my gosh, can you believe they're doing this to us?
	This is, you know, we're going to experience such wild things right now.
	And Los Angeles is going to be, you know, it's going to be escape from LA all over again, guys.
	You're going to see some crazy stuff over the course of the next six months.
	I truly believe.
	Dan, that's what I named my knife.
	You know, I custom.
	Designed a knife with Dawson knives, and it's got a pry bar on the front of it to escape buildings and vehicles when the power goes out.
	And we named it Escape from L.A. two years ago.
	That is awesome.
	Yeah, it was the perfect name.
	All right, let me shift gears and ask you a question now about AI. And what it means in terms of the replacement of so much of the workforce, especially white-collar jobs, remote workers, desk jobs.
	So let me set the context here.
	You know, Dan, I've been deep into AI research and development.
	I've got an AI developer team, been working over a year, over a million dollars into this project.
	We're releasing an AI open-source free model March 1st.
	It's called ENOC. It's at Brighteon.ai.
	It will do some agentic tasks.
	And by agentic, it means that if you're a business manager, soon you'll have a bunch of AI agents that respond to you on computers or on Slack.
	You'll be able to have an AI publicist.
	Like, here, write a press release about this.
	Or an AI graphic designer.
	Here, I need a new logo for this.
	Or an AI podcast creator.
	I need to create a podcast for this.
	And all those agents are going to do all those things.
	You know, look through these forms, classify these forms, tell me which ones should be rejected or, you know, whatever, or write this legislation.
	I happen to know that geoengineering legislation that is being proposed right now by certain people has been almost entirely written originally with AI. So, Dan, what do you see as happening in the workplace?
	And with people who are displaced because of the rolling out of AI agents, this is the year that's going to really accelerate.
	2025 is the year of the layoffs, first of all.
	And it's going to be accelerated 100% because of AI. What people need to do is they need to, and again, I don't have...
	I don't care how old you are.
	I don't care about what your business background is, what your educational background is.
	You need to learn a new skill, and you also need to maximize what you know about, whether it's personal safety, whether it's fishing.
	I don't care.
	You can make a living doing that.
	But what you're going to see right now is the mid-level managers of businesses get destroyed.
	They're going to be non-existent.
	It's going to actually cost companies a lot of money to begin with, and then within a short period of time, it's going to save them a tremendous amount of money.
	They're going to have no workers' comp claims.
	They're going to have no people calling in sick.
	Just a massive shift in productivity because right now we are dealing with AI in so many different areas that we don't even know.
	When we call businesses and ask questions, when we talk to banks right now, the majority of them are AI-driven.
	Hey, I need to get a new ATM card.
	Oh, I can help you with that.
	And, you know, when you order at restaurants, there's a lot of restaurants.
	Taco Bell in Southern California has instigated AI taking the orders initially.
	Unless you say...
	Something like, no, that's not right.
	Then a human being comes on.
	And it really has changed everything.
	And think about it.
	We've had such a problem with the wages go up well over $20 an hour right now for...
	For fast food workers, now it's $20.76 an hour to pay these people.
	Your quarter pound of cheese is going to be $24 right now.
	It's going to be insane to buy McDonald's in the coming months, but it's going to revolutionize everything.
	It's exciting in one sense, but there's a lot of people that are just going to be caught.
	Lead-footed and not realize that this is going to pass them by.
	And I had a meeting with a buddy of mine yesterday who's in the manufacturing space, and he's a sales manager and has people under him.
	And, you know, he's about 60. And I'm saying, you know, if you change jobs, I think this is going to be the last time you're going to be able to do it because of AI. And he totally agreed.
	And AI is coming into his business as far as the productivity, as far as what inventory do we have?
	Imagine...
	Where they paid six and seven people, Mike, to go through the inventory of all the components that they had, and they would put it into a software program, and it would tell them what they could make.
	They could put that into AI, and they would be able to know it in less than an hour.
	Oh, easily.
	AI is really good at data analysis.
	Another example is a good coder typically will cost you over $100 an hour.
	AI is very, very good at writing code, C++ code.
	We've talked about something that I'm working on lately, and we've got a breakdown of this.
	And it's crazy because that same buddy of mine, he was like, I really want to investigate this and see if I can save you money on this project.
	And we had lunch yesterday, and he saved me $100,000.
	And inside of a day, he came up with all these different solutions.
	You know, that, again, it goes to AI and it goes to, you know, it's exciting, but people need to not just sit there and think that their job is secure.
	I have people that write me and say, my husband's middle of management at Microsoft.
	They're never going to get rid of him.
	And I've seen these people get laid off time and again during this time.
	So you haven't seen anything yet because it's going to revolutionize absolutely everything.
	I love it for learning.
	I had one of the best laughs of my life in the new year was when you did your Christmas song breakdown.
	I was driving back from Las Vegas and you did a breakdown and you were describing it and I was listening to your show.
	And I said, I got to pull over and watch it.
	So I rewound it and I was between Baker and Barstow in California by a street called Zizek's Road.
	And I was sitting there on the side of the road laughing, watching your explanation of the...
	Of your song, and it was hilarious, okay?
	But that's only going to get better.
	Think about that song a year from now, Mike, how much cleaner that's going to be and how much smarter that's going to be and better.
	It's a very, very exciting time, and this is just the infancy of all this.
	Yeah, and just for the audience, what you're referring to is I told an AI agent to just generate a full video of this whole, like a whole music video of this song.
	One of the things that AI has trouble with right now is if it's generating video, the characters...
	Don't always stay the same throughout the video.
	And so it was a Christmas family, but the wife kept changing.
	And then the kids became like Asian kids and then black kids.
	And then it got more and more woke.
	And then Santa was on fire.
	It was hilarious.
	No, it was great.
	I was laughing because you're like, clearly he's got a new wife now.
	He's stepping up.
	He's better looking.
	Oh my gosh, I was laughing so hard about that.
	But again, the infancy of that and the learning curve of this thing.
	Is exciting.
	But I'm telling you, this is going to be, you know, we're in for a very exciting time right now.
	And I want to remind the people that are old enough to remember Ronald Reagan.
	I was in high school when he got elected and Jimmy Carter, you know, the economy was destroyed and Ronald Reagan implemented a lot of things that were good.
	In the economy, but they did take time.
	So I am of the belief that 2025 is going to be a tough year, and then it's going to get cleaned up.
	And now if you add the LA fires to it, it could slow things down a little bit, especially on the West Coast.
	But it's going to be very, very interesting.
	And there's a very bright future for all of us if we have a positive attitude and if we work on our businesses and try to adapt.
	Absolutely, yeah.
	I would just encourage everybody listening, learn prompt engineering, learn to use the AI tools, and then you won't be obsolete.
	You'll be managing the tools.
	You'll be telling them what to do, and they'll do it for you in record time.
	So, Dan, tell our audience, again, how they can follow you, you know, channels, sites, whatever you want to mention.
	I am on YouTube at I Allegedly.
	Like, allegedly he was accused of a crime, I Allegedly.
	And we do business podcasts and business news and current events in the economy every day.
	Today I got a great tip that these auto companies are in real trouble and Stellantis is going to start dumping inventory off by as much as 60% off to raise money for their old inventory.
	So I covered that.
	And tomorrow I'm covering...
	I'm sorry to interrupt, but Stellantis also owns, I think, Dodge and which other companies?
	Dodge and Lamb.
	And so that's the other thing.
	If you guys have a used car right now, sell it because you could get some money for it, but if they start dumping cars for new cars with these ridiculous prices, you'll never sell your used car.
	And so that's...
	A bit of advice.
	And then tomorrow morning we're covering the fact that the gas pipeline was disrupted and people need to prepare themselves for the fact that we could have $5.50 to $7.00 a gallon of gas again here in Los Angeles very quickly.
	Wow, wow.
	Again, I'm a legend on YouTube, guys, and you've got all my contact information there, too, and I love the Health Ranger, and he's a great guy, and I am so honored to call him my friend.
	But here's the other thing, guys.
	I'm a big baseball guy, and I've got really good seats for the Los Angeles Angels, and I'm going to have Mike out to a game this year.
	That's one of my things that I want to do.
	Even if he doesn't like baseball, I have such good seats, he'll like it.
	Okay, well.
	I mean, I rarely leave Texas.
	I was offered two tickets for Trump's inauguration, and I declined.
	I know.
	I know.
	But I'm also coming to see you.
	I'm going to come to Texas soon.
	I've decided to.
	But anyways, so, you know, the thing that I always relate to is a team, a baseball team.
	A team is only as good as its weakest player.
	And during this time, you know, know who your friends are, guys.
	Make sure that you're a good teammate.
	Make sure that you are healthy.
	Make sure that you're spiritually alive.
	Make sure that you are constantly learning.
	Make sure that you are a good person.
	And you can say, hey, Dan, it's just me and the dog.
	It's us.
	Well, make sure you're prepared.
	Make sure your dog's got food.
	If you didn't have access to money, if the banks were shut down, these people in one of the richest parts of the United States right now don't have ATMs.
	They don't have banking.
	They have to travel 15 miles to get to a bank right now.
	What would you do if you were in that situation?
	Take care of yourself.
	Protect yourself.
	Be ready for this because God only knows what's going to happen during this time.
	But if you're prepared, you can be like my daughter and just be displaced and have to go live with Dad for a couple days.
	Right.
	Well, I'm so glad your daughter is safe and well-prepared and glad that you're safe.
	And thank you for all the updates and for what you do, Dan.
	I think you have a very calming approach to handling...
	A lot of crisis events, but also giving people a heads-up warning about what's coming so they can be prepared.
	So thank you for what you do.
	I appreciate you.
	I appreciate you, Mike.
	And I mean it, Mike.
	You made me a better person, and I've gotten healthier and gotten more spiritual alive in 2025 as a result of the Health Ranger.
	Thank you.
	Man, well, that's awesome.
	Well, when you come out to Texas, maybe you can attend one of my church services out here, huh?
	Mike, I would do that.
	I definitely would do that.
	And we would film, and we would have a good time.
	And I'm sure you'd make me eat healthy, too.
	Oh, that's pretty wild.
	Yeah, we have very unconventional church services, trust me.
	You've never seen anything like it.
	But, Dan, thank you so much.
	And again, everybody, the channel is, I allegedly follow Dan.
	He's got a lot of wisdom, a lot of experience.
	And he can help you be forewarned about what's coming, especially about finance, money, real estate, loans, all those things.
	So thank you so much, Dan.
	Have a wonderful day.
	Thank you, Mike.
	All right.
	And I hope you all enjoyed that interview.
	And then for more interviews and content, visit brighteon.com, the free speech video network.
	And of course, we'll be writing up stories about this interview at naturalnews.com.
	Thank you all for listening.
	God bless you all.
	Take care.
	Mike Adams here, and I want to share a little nutritional secret with you.
	So you know I drink these smoothies every day.
	I make these out of avocados and bananas and whey protein.
	I put some other powders in them as well.
	I put a little black cumin seed oil in there and some vitamin D drops and things like that.
	But what I've added today into my smoothie, because we now have it available in our store, is called Golden Milk.
	I know it's kind of a funny name, but it's...
	It's orange.
	It's golden orange colored because it's got a lot of turmeric in it.
	But let me show you this.
	I've got it on my desk here.
	There it is in the canisters there on the right and left-hand side.
	Golden milk powder canisters.
	Of course, it's certified organic and laboratory tested.
	But if you show my screen, I want to walk you through some of the ingredients.
	This is incredibly delicious.
	It's great for the fall season here too.
	But it's made with organic coconut milk powder and then organic date sugar, which is a low glycemic.
	Natural sweetener.
	And then, the functional herbs are, you've got curcumin, which is an extract from turmeric.
	You've got organic turmeric root powder.
	Organic ginger root powder for that spice, that fall spice.
	Ashwagandha powder, which is an adaptogen that's really potent.
	And then cinnamon powder gives it that just delicious flavor.
	Cinnamon, by the way, is used a lot in traditional Chinese medicine, and it has its own health properties.
	All this together is called Organic Golden Milk Superfood.
	You can take the powder and you can blend it into water, or you can blend it like I did with avocados and bananas.
	You can blend it with cashews to make like a cashew milk, like a superfood fall eggnog nutrition drink.
	You know, there's no eggs in it, and it's not all sugared up like typical eggnog.
	It's way better than eggnog.
	But it's great for the fall season.
	Or you can use almond milk or any other kind of milk or raw cow's milk, whatever you have, fresh milk off the farm.
	Mix this with it and you will have a superfood extravaganza that has so many functional benefits, it's too many to even name.
	Now, in addition to that, here's what else we have available at the Health Ranger store.
	I just mentioned ashwagandha.
	We have an ashwagandha liquid extract available right now, too.
	Here it is.
	It's organic liquid extract, two fluid ounces.
	This is a super high-end extract that's extracted with a combination of alcohol, water, and glycerin.
	And as a result, because of those three different, quote, solvents or carriers, you actually extract more of the nutrients from the ashwagandha root than just using one of those.
	So this is available now, and it's really fantastic.
	And if you show my desk...
	I want to mention a couple other things.
	We have asazanthin, Hawaiian asazanthin, now back in stock for the first time in a long time.
	That is a fat-soluble carotenoid that has extraordinary properties.
	If you haven't yet tried asazanthin and just observe what it can help with in terms of your mobility and joints and cognitive protective support, things like that, try asazanthin.
	I think you'll be really amazed at what it can do for you.
	In addition, we have the Boku Superfood formulation now in stock for the first time.
	This organic superfood is based on the original Boku formulation, but it's been upgraded, enhanced with our sourcing, our laboratory testing, and the result is now the combination Boku Superfood, Health Ranger Store, combo formulation and lab testing product.
	Available for the first time, plant-based, high-density nutrition, ready to blend into water or milk or anything like that.
	It's available for the first time at our store.
	And then finally, if you go back to my desk, yeah, we've got ginger latte powder, which is more of a sort of coffee-themed drink there that's also quite delicious.
	And then we also have there, in the brown label, the organic freeze-dried crunchy munchies, banana, apple, cinnamon.
	And these are fruit and herb purees that are freeze-dried into little snack chunks.
	And they're called crunchy munchies.
	They're fun to eat.
	Kids love them too.
	And the ingredients are just incredibly clean and nutritious.
	We also have banana strawberry flavor available in the crunchy munchies as well.
	So a great snack, a great travel food.
	All of this and much more is available now at healthrangerstore.com.
	And also don't want to forget iodine because everybody's freaking out about the risk of nuclear war right now.
	And sure enough, we've got nascent iodine available at the store.
	This is the cap version because the caps last much longer than the droppers, but you can also buy this with a dropper in it, or you can get bulk deals with this.
	You can buy, like, six bottles with caps right here, a six-pack.
	And this stuff is going to just disappear off the shelves the minute, you know, let's pray it doesn't happen, but the minute war escalates even more between Russia and Ukraine, especially if somebody starts launching nukes, or even if Israel starts launching nukes, which could happen on any given day, it seems, but you won't be able to find nascent iodine on the shelves.
	So get it now while you can, and when it's relatively affordable and available, we've got it right now.
	We're shipping right now out of our warehouse in central Texas.
	So thank you for all your support.
	Shop at healthrangerstore.com for all your nutrition needs.
	And you can find many different products that we have available, hundreds to choose from, that are health and nutrition.
	We've got hundreds of different products to choose from, themed on health and nutrition and superfoods, even personal care products.
	We've got freeze-dried crunchy munchies and also storable food, certified organic storable food.
	You know, various nutritional supplements.
	Yes, we test everything for glyphosate.
	We test it for heavy metals.
	We test for microbiology contamination, E. coli, salmonella, yeast and mold, total plate count, other testing as well.
	So we do more testing than anybody that I know of in this business.
	And so you can rest assured that whatever you purchase from our store is ultra clean, ultra tested, and has very high density nutrition.
	Without all the crazy high toxic heavy metals that are very commonly found in products like turmeric and ginger and moringa and many others.
	So, hey, as I say about the other nutritional product providers out there, if they're not testing for heavy metals, they're selling heavy metals.
	You've got to test for it because heavy metals contamination is crazy common in certain types of foods and supplements like turmeric.
	So we have laboratory tested, certified organic.
	Thank you for supporting HealthRangerStore.com and know that every purchase helps support our platforms like Brighttown.com, Natural News, Brighttown.io, our decentralized free speech platform, Brighttown.social, and much more, including our AI project, Brighttown.ai.
	So thank you for all your support.
	God bless you all.

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