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Jan. 13, 2025 - Health Ranger - Mike Adams

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	- Welcome.
	This is going to be an epic episode.
	It's Brighteon Broadcast News for Monday, January 13th, 2025. I'm Mike Adams, the Health Ranger.
	Thank you for joining me today.
	I've got a lot to share with you, and we have some critical breaking news.
	I've also got two interviews to share with you.
	They're really important interviews, and I have a, well, a song and a music video, a brand new music video.
	And new song for an old song called I Want My Bailout Money.
	I mentioned it last week.
	I've been working on this, and now it's ready.
	So here's a table of contents of what I'm going to bring you today.
	First, I'm going to play the new music video, I Want My Bailout Money.
	You'll be blown away.
	It's just astonishing.
	Trust me, the AI-generated imagery, of course, I did all the prompt engineering, so I directed.
	I directed the music.
	I wrote all the lyrics back in 2008. I'll give you the full story on that.
	That's coming up.
	Then we have a special report about how Southern California may collapse into a failed state.
	It's getting very bad.
	And, well, you'll hear also from the interviews I did how bad the situation is.
	I've also got contacts with people on the ground there.
	And there are some elements.
	At play that are very, very devastating.
	We'll cover that.
	And then if we have time, I think I'll play a special report of how governments that are pursuing AI now see humans' energy use as a national security threat.
	And that stems from an interview that I conducted with Zach Voorhees, the Google whistleblower.
	And that interview, I think I'll play that in the next maybe two days.
	I'm not sure the exact schedule.
	It's a big deal.
	It's a shockingly horrifying, scary interview, but also very enlightening.
	You don't want to miss that.
	Anyway, I've got a special report about that coming up.
	And then today I'll play an interview with Steve Quayle.
	I interviewed Steve over the weekend about the situation in California, how it's getting far worse than what anybody, or at least what the mainstream media is telling people.
	And it looks like it's going to accelerate into a real catastrophic situation.
	And then, finally, I've got an interview with Dan Golka from I Allegedly, who lives in that area of California and has a lot of firsthand knowledge, and he's an expert in real estate, homes, finance, and insurance, and all kinds of issues like that.
	And so he and I had a really great talk.
	Over the weekend, also, I plan to play that for you today.
	I know it's a lot of content, so it's probably going to be at least three hours.
	It's really going to be some content.
	But it's all really critical information, so buckle up, folks.
	This is going to get interesting.
	There's some other news I need to cover first.
	I'll keep this brief.
	First, I read an article over the weekend.
	I think it might have been...
	From Künstler, but I don't recall the author, but they said something that stuck in my mind, that it proves that Democrats are incapable of governing.
	And that is true.
	Democrats cannot govern a society that can stand.
	Whatever Democrats rule, they destroy.
	It's in their nature.
	Because they always want to give preference to wokesters and DEI and LGBT and all that nonsense.
	And as a result, they displace the people who are capable of actually running society, solving problems, building infrastructure, maintaining infrastructure, etc.
	Under Democrat control, your cities will burn, your state will fail.
	And that's exactly what is happening in California.
	We'll get into a special report about that.
	Also, over the weekend, this is from TaskAndPurpose.com, three Humvees have been stolen at an Army Reserve Center in Tustin, California.
	This story was just published a couple days ago.
	It said that local police and the Army's Criminal Investigation Division are looking for three Humvees after they were stolen this week from an Army Reserve Center in Southern California.
	Apparently thieves broke into the storage warehouse in Tustin, California.
	They broke into storage lockers and took the contents inside them.
	I don't know if that's uniforms or what was in the storage lockers.
	And then they made off with three Humvees.
	One of them is armored, and the other two Humvees have cloth doors.
	The police said that a fence was cut to gain access to a military vehicle parking lot where three Humvees were stolen.
	And then the suspects left the area.
	In addition to the Humvees, the thieves stole 40 pairs of binoculars, 8 machine gun vehicle mounts, 7 machine gun tripods, and an unspecified amount of medical equipment.
	They also took 18 bayonets and other military gear.
	So do you recall me saying over the last year that the illegals Well, folks, that whole prediction is happening now.
	We are living it.
	The fires in California appear to have been set by arsonists, and there have also been discoveries of explosive materials planted where the fires would overrun them, and then they would explode and cause even more fires.
	So it's likely that these fires are tactical weapons that are intended to achieve a weakening of California and the United States, a destruction of California's infrastructure.
	And illegals may be involved in this.
	It could also be globalists.
	It could be people trying to burn down areas and make a new 15-minute city, something like that.
	But it also appears that these illegals then stole Humvees with machine gun.
	Mounts and all kinds of other military equipment.
	So what are they going to do with Humvees with machine gun mounts?
	Well, obviously, they're not planning good things with that.
	They're going to use those to carry out raids, looting, assaults on whatever their intended targets may be.
	Those targets could be police stations, sheriff's departments, residential neighborhoods.
	They could impersonate National Guard troops.
	They could get away with a lot.
	They could say, we're coming to your neighborhood to confiscate food, and people would turn it over, at least in California they would.
	They could get away with all kinds of things because they have those vehicles, and they can easily acquire uniforms.
	And according to people like Matt Bracken, those uniforms are all stashed away in storage containers, strategically located in certain areas anyway.
	We are looking at the activation of the enemy occupying force that's in America.
	Because the Democrats left the border wide open on purpose, they invited the occupying invaders into the country, and now those invaders have been activated, and they are beginning to burn down, well, starting with California, at least Southern California, L.A., and that area.
	And that's an attack on infrastructure.
	Soon they will begin escalating into looting and armed raids on certain targets.
	Now, I've got to play a one-minute video for you here.
	I think I played this on Friday, but I just want to reiterate this point.
	It's a one-minute video of a woman on the news talking about how these cartel-organized looters were tactically going from house to house and looting the homes in Hollywood.
	Hills, like a military operation, okay?
	This is not a coincidence.
	This is exactly what the invaders have been ordered to do.
	And so this is all part of the operation.
	But check out this roughly one-minute video.
	I saw men coming into our neighborhoods.
	Police confirmed it.
	She had this to say.
	Take a listen.
	It was wild.
	We just started seeing all these cars pull up, doors open.
	And groups of men running up our street, going up to the doors of these houses.
	And we weren't sure what was going on.
	I'm thinking, are these people here to help my neighbors?
	I hope so.
	And I left, and then my husband talked to the police and said, what are those guys doing?
	These guys don't live here.
	Get them out.
	My next door neighbor said, his quote, there were like a hundred people that came up on scooters and were trying to get into any and all houses on the street.
	And did you physically see police officers stopping them?
	I didn't, but it's not to say that they weren't.
	It was so incredibly chaotic, and I was so worried about my big family and getting them out of our old tinderbox of a house that I was just focused on them first.
	All right, now, I don't know the name of that woman, but I do want to add these comments.
	I did not say this last week, but this was really critical to say.
	And even Michael Yan, he tweeted about this.
	He said, quote, Well in advance and made sure they and their neighbors were all unarmed.
	And he's right.
	So that woman there, you can see she's laughing and smiling and she is in a state of complete denial of reality.
	If you find yourself in a situation like that, where armed looters and thugs are rolling up on your street and going door to door and you don't know what's happening, your long-term chances of survival are really approaching zero if you are not armed.
	I mean, not just not being armed, but not even being informed, not even recognizing reality.
	So a lot of these liberals in California, and I know that not everybody in California is a liberal, but in these cities, most of them are.
	And they are delusional.
	They're living in a fantasy land, an artificial reality where they think men can get pregnant and all they care about is that lesbians are in charge of the fire department.
	They are...
	Right now learning a very harsh lesson in reality, which is that when society collapses, looters will run rampant, arsonists will set fires, your infrastructure will collapse, your government will be clueless.
	And even facing that situation, as this woman just demonstrated, a lot of these liberals will not recognize the situation in which they find themselves.
	They will literally have no idea when...
	An attacker walks up to them with a knife and just says something crazy like, are you going to slit your throat or whatever?
	These people, these liberals, will laugh and say, what are you talking about?
	Are you filming a movie or something?
	They won't even recognize the reality that's happening.
	Whereas a typical person in, let's say, Texas, would deploy a firearm at that moment and say, you know, back off or just...
	If they start flashing a knife, you just start ventilating that person.
	So there's a discernment about reality that is missing from the liberals in California.
	And even as many of their homes are burning down right now, they still don't recognize what's happening or why it's happening.
	Many of them will say, well, it's climate change, climate change.
	No, it's because your woke moron political leaders, they turned off the electricity that powered the pressure pumps that provide water pressure to the fire hydrants because that's called libtard planning.
	When there's a fire, let's turn off the fire hydrants.
	Yes, brilliant, absolutely brilliant, but that's exactly what's happening in California.
	So there's a lot more yet to come.
	The winds are picking up.
	There are severe wind warnings in many areas north of L.A., even threatening like Malibu and places like that.
	I mean, it might even head west to Santa Barbara.
	It's hard to say.
	Check the National Weather Center warnings for your area if you happen to live in that area because the flames are moving rapidly, the winds are very high, and these fires are not contained.
	And, of course, you already know that the politicians and the bureaucrats and the mayors and the...
	All the people, quote, in charge in California are incompetent morons who have no clue what they're doing, and that's why L.A. may burn even more than it has already.
	Now, adding to the planned chaos for America, the activation of the illegals, last week, Friday, I believe, Joe Biden signed an order.
	That provides 18 months of deportation protection for 900,000 illegals from Venezuela, El Salvador, Ukraine, and Sudan.
	But mostly they're from Venezuela and El Salvador.
	So here we have almost a million illegals in the United States.
	And so what Joe Biden did is he signed an order allowing Homeland Security...
	To extend enrollment in the so-called Temporary Protected Status Program, TPS, which means that legally those illegals can stay in the country another 18 months.
	Why did Joe Biden do that?
	Well, because the activation stage is here, and he knows that there are hundreds of thousands of enemy combatants in those groups of illegals.
	Not all of them are enemy combatants.
	Some of them are just literally people You know, fleeing an even worse place in Venezuela.
	Some of them have fled with their families looking for a better life.
	But among these groups hidden in them are these enemy combatants, and their goal is to take down the United States of America by doing the kind of thing that you are witnessing right now in California.
	This is not a coincidence.
	You're going to see more fires.
	You're going to see infrastructure taken down.
	You notice that...
	A gas line is offline in California right now.
	Did you see that news?
	Apparently the company known as Kinder Morgan has had to shut off its pipeline temporarily.
	One of those two is believed to be back online.
	But the fire and the wind had caused the shutdown.
	And so it just shows you that...
	These enemy combatants can move into an area, they can set fires when the conditions are ripe for it, you know, high winds, dry conditions, etc.
	They can set the fires and then there's a cascading effect, a negative domino doom effect, you might say, of the collapse of infrastructure, which can take down fuel, power lines, electricity, which then takes down cell towers, communications.
	I also saw the National Weather Service put out an alert about how its own radios were offline in California because of the wildfires.
	So then you start to lose the ability to even monitor some parts of the fires because the monitoring communications equipment is itself offline.
	And so that's exactly what's happening.
	So Joe Biden, his goal is to cause massive sabotage in America.
	And to essentially unleash an armed revolt against the United States so that when Trump takes office here in a little over a week, it's mass chaos and America has been turned into a war zone and almost a million illegals will have legal protection to try to prevent Trump from deporting them.
	Well...
	I don't think that the Trump administration is going to honor that protection.
	I think he's just going to overturn it in some clever way or ignore it.
	And I think Tom Homan and others are going to start rounding up illegals on day one, which will also set off some very interesting repercussions across California and other places.
	I mean, California is really collapsing into a war zone and an unlivable...
	Non-survival location very quickly.
	If you're in California right now or Southern California, you may want to consider leaving the area while you can.
	That's up to you based on your conditions and your preparedness efforts.
	Sometimes it's more dangerous to be on the road.
	So do what's best for you.
	But understand that Joe Biden is offering legal protection for The illegal invaders that are here in the United States in order to commit sabotage and effectively acts of war against the United States of America.
	All right, so those are some of the headlines that I thought were the most important.
	Now, like I said, moving forward here in today's broadcast, again, I'm going to play the music video here for you for I Want My Bailout Money, and then we'll have two special reports and then two interviews back-to-back, assuming...
	Assuming that everything works today and we can get everything done and posted.
	I don't know.
	There's been a lot of services that have been collapsing over the weekend, so not everything works.
	We'll see.
	We'll get as much in as we can.
	But to start off with, I'm going to play the music video for you.
	So, quick background.
	This is a song that I wrote and performed and recorded in 2008. And this song was featured on the front page of the Wall Street Journal.
	As part of the cultural response to the subprime mortgage collapse.
	Yeah, 2008. So that's what I did this song about because the federal government was printing up trillions of dollars in bailout money to bail out the big banks while, of course, the people got completely screwed in the deal.
	Well, not much has changed since then except the looting and the money printing has gotten so much larger.
	I think in 2008, the national debt was somewhere around $8 trillion, and today it's $36 trillion.
	So the bailout money is going to need to be even bigger when the next collapse comes, huh?
	So what I did then, I took the lyrics from 2008, and then I re-performed the song using AI through the suno.com website, which is a...
	An AI-powered music generator, where I tell it the musical style, vocal style, give it all the lyrics, and then sometimes you have to spell out lyrics in certain ways to make the syllables work correctly.
	And I went through numerous iterations, different types of vocals, different kinds of editing, and so on.
	And instrument types, all of it, until I finally got the song that I wanted, and it is...
	Hard-hitting.
	So here we go.
	Enjoy the new music video.
	Oh, this will be available.
	The MP3 file will be posted for free at music.brighteon.com.
	So if you want to download the MP3 and enjoy this song, put it on your phone, listen to it, send it to a friend.
	You can use it for non-commercial purposes, personal or non-profit purposes.
	Use it to your heart's content.
	If you're looking for commercial use, definitely contact us.
	Commercial licensing, let's say.
	But most people just got to listen to it and enjoy it and it's free for that purpose.
	So here we go.
	I want my bailout money 2025 edition.
	Enjoy.
	Here comes the bailout money.
	You ready for this?
	I want my bailout money.
	Keep the bills coming.
	Sweet green cash just dripping like honey.
	I'm a new kind of thug with a Washington buzz.
	Cause dealing debt pays better than dealing drugs.
	What you think will happen when they double the money supply?
	The fallen dollar makes it harder for you to survive.
	They take those billions and trillions and give it to their own kind.
	Hope you don't mind being robbed blind.
	How you think we ended up with runaway credit?
	Nothing going down unless the crooks in Washington let it.
	Now they regret it, but they still don't get it.
	The economy is crashing so bad it needs a paramedic.
	I want my bailout money.
	Keep the bills coming.
	Sweet green cash just dripping with honey.
	Gotta keep this economy running.
	I need another hit of my bailout money.
	Look at the stash and mad dash for cash, yeah.
	They tell the taxpayer take it in the ass, yeah.
	The CEOs, they having a blast while the working poor trying to make their paycheck last.
	The bailout money is created with new debt.
	While they rolling in their limos and private jets.
	All the workers on the street are dripping sweat.
	White collar hustlers are taking everything they can get.
	They put the nation on a hyperinflation track.
	No presidential administration can take it back.
	And now the taxpayers picking up the slack.
	Like they put a high dollar big brother monkey on your back.
	I want my bailout money.
	Keep the bills coming.
	Sweet green cash just tripping with honey.
	Gotta keep this economy running.
	I need another hit of my bailout money.
	The prisons are filled with brothers caught on a $50 jack.
	But when inside it's taking trillions of cops they turn their back.
	The incompetent bankers they get their jobs back.
	Cause those crankers smoking money like it was crack.
	They take your car, your home, everything that you own.
	And when you're jobless and broke you still gotta pay the loan.
	If you're thinking of stealing some food.
	Please don't just go to Washington.
	And you can steal everything you want.
	How we gonna solve this?
	Dissolve the big scam we resolve We won't let them steal from a fellow man.
	Gotta raise our hands and ask, what is this?
	Then we put the Federal Reserve out of business.
	You take a look at a dollar bill.
	You see that eye above the pyramid looking back at you.
	That eye is laughing at you suckers!
	I want my bailout money.
	Keep the con running.
	Sweet green cash just dripping with honey.
	Gotta keep this economy running.
	I need another hit of my bailout money Drowning in debt But the Fed isn't done yet What are we gonna get?
	Gonna print funny money The bankers gotta stay ahead Gotta make more bread That's when they said Print more money Alright, hope you enjoyed that song Wow.
	Again, you can download the song and you can see the music video posted at music.brighteon.com.
	And we've got more songs coming.
	I've got several more done that are just mind-blowing.
	So you will enjoy what's coming next.
	I hope to get one song out per week, but I don't know.
	It hasn't proven to work out that way.
	Maybe once every other week.
	What takes the longest is the music video, not the music.
	In any case, there's a lot more coming.
	I think you'll enjoy it.
	Okay, with that said, let's jump into the first special report here, which is about the collapse of Southern California.
	And then we'll continue with other special reports and the double interviews today, if we can make it all work.
	Coming up, an interview with Steve Quayle, and then after that, an interview with Dan Golka from I Allegedly, who lives in California, very close to these fires.
	He's got a lot to report there.
	And he warns about the financial collapse of the state of California.
	So, enjoy!
	Welcome to this special report of Mike Adams, the Health Ranger.
	This report is about how California may collapse into a failed state, especially Southern California, where these fires are happening.
	We are looking at financial collapse, infrastructure collapse, and of course the collapse of any sort of governing body that is capable of doing anything effective.
	It turns out that Democrats are proving, at least in California, that they are incapable of governing.
	They are incapable of competence.
	They are incapable of keeping infrastructure functioning to do basic things that every society should be able to do, such as have water in fire hydrants to put out fires.
	Or even to capture the water that falls out of the sky so that you can use it.
	For such purposes, instead, in California, they just dump it all into the ocean.
	And what we are witnessing right now is the long-term ramifications of liberalism, progressivism, woke policies, DEI policies, that whole bucket, that cesspool of bad ideas now coming to fruition as parts of northern L.A. And all kinds of different areas that are on fire or now subjected to high fire risk because
	of high winds and a lack of firefighters because of budget cuts, a lack of firefighting equipment because equipment cannot be maintained very well because the mechanics were fired or equipment was donated to Ukraine instead of staying in California.
	Like I said earlier, there's...
	Not water pressure in many of the fire hydrants.
	And the bottom line is the people in charge of the LA Fire Department are just mostly woke lesbians who have no idea what they're doing.
	And they were put into those positions because they are gay, not because they know anything about fighting fires or providing infrastructure to fight fires.
	So, like I said, Democrats are proving that they cannot govern.
	And anything they try to control will eventually be destroyed.
	It will burn to the ground.
	Now, economically, the state of California is facing financial collapse.
	I recently interviewed Dan Golka from I Allegedly about this very topic, and he said, yes, the state may in fact be facing some sort of financial collapse or bankruptcy, I think is the word that he used.
	Here's why.
	The state may have exposure now of $458 billion in terms of property damage because it has what's called the Fair Plan Insurance Program, which is usually an insurance of last resort that's used by homeowners or commercial property owners who can't get insurance coverage through other companies.
	So they turned to the state through this FAIR program, F-A-I-R. It's called FAIR. Apparently it's a horrible program.
	Your claims don't get processed in a very efficient manner, is what I've been told.
	But the exposure from these fires, the damage that has occurred, over 12,000 buildings have been burned, and that number is going to skyrocket.
	The exposure being almost half a trillion dollars.
	Currently estimated at $458 billion.
	Well, guess how much money the fair insurance program actually has on hand?
	How much cash it has?
	The answer?
	$0.7 billion.
	Not even $1 billion.
	But it's going to have to pay out an estimated $458 billion.
	In other words, if you do the math on that, The state has something like only one five hundredth of the amount of cash that it's going to need to pay out the claims for the properties that have burned because of these fires.
	Because the state itself, or its officials, some at the local level, some at the county level, some at the city level, but some at the state level, are all completely incompetent, woke morons.
	As a result, they have Set up conditions that are leading to economic destruction that the state cannot afford, and it's clear the state is going to have to default on its obligations.
	When the state defaults on its obligations, effectively it's going to declare bankruptcy.
	I don't know what that's going to look like, I don't know how long that's going to take, but that's coming.
	When it defaults on its obligations, it will mean that...
	Much of the property in the state of California is uninsurable because insurance companies like State Farm have already pulled out of the state and they're saying we won't write any new policies and we won't renew any existing policies for all the obvious reasons because, of course, the state is run by incompetent woke morons and when they're in charge, things burn down.
	A lot of damage happens.
	So companies like State Farm are actually wise to move out of the state.
	And since the fair program is the insurance program of last resort that people turn to when they can't get insurance from anybody else, when the fair program defaults, that will leave a vast number of properties, both commercial and non-commercial, in California utterly uninsurable.
	And as I asked Dan in the recent interview I did with him, Dan Golka, I said, what's the value of property where there is no ability to get insurance at all?
	He said, zero.
	Zero.
	Why?
	Because no bank will loan money on a property that cannot be insured.
	Now, when the fair plan defaults on its obligations, this is going to cause a collapse of real estate values across California for a couple of reasons.
	Number one, Again, many properties will not be insurable, so banks won't loan on those properties.
	And the ability of the state to pay out will be defunct at that point.
	So many properties will not be sellable, right?
	They'll just, I don't know what's going to happen to those properties.
	Maybe you can give them to somebody, but their value will go to zero.
	On top of that, you're going to have so many people fleeing the state.
	Because this is a pivotal moment for people who are still living in California.
	Many of them are going to see this and say, wow, it's not safe for me to live in this state.
	So in addition to the typical economic refugees who have already fled California because of the high taxation and high crime rates, now you're going to have another wave of people fleeing the state.
	Because of the real estate collapse and the collapse of the rule of law, the collapse of infrastructure.
	Many of these homes, for example, that have been burned out will never be restored to the power grid.
	Some will not be restored in terms of connections to water supplies.
	Some may be permanently blocked off by roads that are not maintained by the county or...
	The city or the state any longer as the budgetary collapse takes place.
	You're going to see the state abandon a lot of infrastructure maintenance and it will have to engage in all kinds of cuts to road maintenance workers and police and fire and first responders and so on.
	And essentially, parts of Southern California or maybe much of the West Coast of Southern California is at high risk of collapsing into a failed state where it's just ruled by gangs and looters and just criminals everywhere.
	There are no police to respond to citizens.
	There's essentially no fire response.
	Infrastructure barely functions.
	Roads are in disrepair.
	Not a safe place to be.
	Not a safe place to have a family.
	Not a safe place to have a company or an employer.
	And then there will be a mass exodus out of these areas.
	We will see refugees fleeing Southern California.
	This is a prediction that I made several years ago.
	I said, we're going to have refugees fleeing states like California.
	I also said, my prediction now for six or seven years has been that 2025 is the year that America, the United States of America as we know it, will cease to...
	We're going to have possibly a failed state of California, maybe a breakaway region that the rest of the country just says, we can't help you.
	You need to arrest and depose your criminal leaders there.
	The Democrats, they're all fraudsters in California.
	Most of them never won their elections.
	They just cheated.
	They rigged everything.
	It's a criminal cabal that runs California.
	And I think, frankly, I think that President Trump should go in there and arrest all the criminals that run that state, arrest them all, charge them, expose them, and then hold honest and fair elections in the state of California.
	That's the only way to restore it.
	So that would almost be a kind of a revolution, kind of a coup almost.
	A populist coup by the people who are tired of being victimized by their corrupt leaders in the state of California, because those leaders were never really elected.
	And remember how they fund their campaigns, too.
	It's with human trafficking and drug trafficking and keeping the borders open.
	And now it appears that many of those leaders are complicit in ensuring that these fires get worse by making sure the conditions are in place for the fires to spread.
	And that's becoming more and more clear to the people of California.
	And some will flee.
	Some will revolt.
	Some will curl into a ball and cry because they've got nothing left.
	Their homes have burned down.
	Their civilization is collapsing all around them.
	And I don't celebrate any of that.
	I feel sorry for these people.
	But there's also a group of people in California that kept voting for this.
	There's a lot of liberal Democrats who kept saying that men can have babies and we need woke people in charge and Trump is bad and men are bad and white people are bad.
	And they just abandoned the rule of law.
	They abandoned logic and reason.
	And now they are living through the results of what they put in motion, which is self-immolation.
	They set their civilization on fire.
	Literally, in this case.
	And now it's burning down around them.
	And these people that push these left-wing policies, they're actually living through the very thing that they created.
	But like I said, there's also victims of this who wanted no part of this, who oppose the lunacy and who oppose the collapse of the rule of law.
	There are people who want police funding.
	And want firefighters to be well-funded, etc.
	So not everybody has a role in this, but those people still chose to stay in California.
	They chose to stay there, or they chose to have a home there.
	And that home is all burned up now.
	There are over 60 famous celebrities and Hollywood actors whose homes have been utterly destroyed.
	One of them is Mel Gibson, who is...
	Overall, a really great guy.
	I mean, he's a real American.
	He's not one of these radical leftists.
	His home burned up.
	Well, if he didn't have a home there in California, well, it wouldn't have been on fire, obviously.
	I mean, I'm not saying anything he doesn't already know, and I'm deeply sorry that these properties have been burned up.
	I just want to point out that even good people like Mel Gibson, they suffer under The policies of these radical leftists, and it's no fault of people like Mel Gibson, but it is the fault of some of these radical leftists that put those lunatics in power.
	Either way, you're going to see a mass exodus out of Southern California.
	You're going to see a collapse of property values, a collapse of the rule of law, and as property values collapse, you'll have a collapse in the revenues to the county, to the city, to the state.
	And then because of that revenue loss, it's going to be a downward spiral, a self-reinforcing cycle of economic doom that's going to end probably into California becoming a failed state.
	And by a failed state, what I mean is a bankrupt, lawless, leaderless state of chaos, something like Haiti on the West Coast.
	That's where this is headed.
	And a lot of people there right now are no doubt figuring This is it.
	I'm done here.
	I'm getting out of California.
	I'm going to go to a state where I can have a proper AR-15 with a full magazine and where the taxes aren't insane and the crime isn't insane, where shoplifting isn't legalized and all these other things.
	They're going to get out of California.
	You're going to see a mass exodus.
	Now, related to all of this, I do have a lot of compassion for people who are victims of these events.
	I want to be clear.
	Yes, I have harsh words for those who created these circumstances and who put morons in charge.
	But like I said, there's a lot of people who are suffering through no fault of their own.
	And so my company, the Health Ranger Store, we are sending a significant donation to California.
	The staging area that we're sending to is located in Wilmington, California.
	I'm told, I don't know where Wilmington is, but that's...
	We have an address in Wilmington in association with SRP24, the first responders, who also did a lot of great work in North Carolina as well as Florida.
	They've got a team in California.
	We're going to be sending around, I believe, $100,000 of storable organic food in really durable, rugged buckets on pallets via commercial truck.
	That should be dispatched this week.
	I'll keep you posted on the status.
	That is the last of the food donations that we raised last year when we had a buy one, gift one event where we said to everybody who buys a ranger bucket, we will gift one, we will donate one to people in need.
	And we raised, I forgot the total, it was $500 something thousand dollars I think is what it was.
	And we sent hundreds of thousands of dollars to North Carolina.
	And then we sent another $100,000 plus to Florida, which I think is still in a staging zone there, but some of it went to the people right after the hurricane there.
	Was that Hurricane Milton?
	I forgot the name of the storm there.
	That hit just north of Tampa.
	And then, so we still have some left over from that fundraiser, and that's what we're sending to California now.
	And then that's it.
	That's what we've raised.
	That'll be dispatched.
	We'll keep you posted.
	And we're going to help get this into the hands of people who need it.
	And I'm with you.
	The wealthy Hollywood celebrities and rich people don't necessarily need this food, but there's a lot of innocent victims of these fires who are not wealthy Hollywood elite people, just everyday people, people who are struggling, moms and dads, people with children, families that have been displaced and they need help.
	We are dedicated to helping Americans wherever they are, whether they're in California or Florida or North Carolina.
	We're not going to just pick and choose and say, oh no, nothing for California because we don't like Governor Newsom.
	Well, hey, most of the people of California don't like Governor Newsom either.
	So I believe in helping all Americans wherever they are.
	If we can reach them with emergency food supplies, we're going to send supplies if we've got it.
	If we've got the donated funds set aside, we've got the inventory, we've got the ability to do the transport and pay for the transport, all of it, we're going to do it.
	So that's exactly what we're doing right now, sending emergency storable organic food to California.
	And we couldn't do it without your support, so thank you for supporting us by shopping at healthrangerstore.com, certified organic, lab-tested.
	Storable foods, as I just mentioned, but also nutritional supplements, personal care products, survival products.
	We even have a knife called Escape from L.A. What a timely name that turned out to be, huh?
	And we've got a lot of other gear that's really important, like iodine, etc.
	So shop with us there, healthrangerstore.com, and we are giving back to society in many, many different ways, some which you will hear about coming up soon with our AI project and so on.
	But right now, we're going to get some emergency food over to California.
	Now, we have not forgotten about the victims in North Carolina either.
	And just last week, I interviewed Doc Pete Chambers, who just returned from North Carolina.
	If you missed that interview, you may want to watch it.
	It posted Friday at Brighteon.com.
	A really great conversation, and we covered a lot about North Carolina and how people can continue to help and the need to continue to help there.
	The truth is that FEMA abandoned the people of North Carolina.
	The Biden administration abandoned them as well.
	And Trump is about to be sworn in, and I hope and I believe that Trump is going to initiate very strong reforms of FEMA. And I believe there will be a new wave of federal assistance coming for those in North Carolina who are right now, many of them, living in tents in cold weather and snow.
	Because their homes were destroyed.
	Their homes were flooded out.
	Some of them were destroyed through mudslides, but the floods were horrific there.
	And this is a theme of what we're going to see in 2025. In California, it's fires burning out 12,000 homes plus.
	In North Carolina, floods and mudslides.
	I don't know the number there, but it was definitely thousands of structures that were destroyed.
	We are probably going to see other, shall we say, engineered disasters.
	And when I say engineered, what I mean is the powers that be create the conditions for a catastrophe.
	They make sure that there's no water in the fire hydrants, for example.
	They make sure the infrastructure can't respond.
	And then on top of that, there are geoengineering efforts.
	So storms can be augmented.
	Through ionization of the atmosphere, I've interviewed Dane Wigington of Geoengineering Watch, who has covered the numerous dozens of patents on file with the U.S. Patent Office that describe patented technologies and methods for weather modification, weather control.
	Some of these include steering storms.
	They can accentuate wind speeds.
	They can steer hurricanes.
	They can make them stronger.
	They can induce rainfall.
	They can do all kinds of things.
	It's all patented.
	And this is exactly what's happening right now.
	So while the mainstream media likes to blame climate change, which is a way of saying that nature did it, the truth is that these are weapons that are being deployed against certain groups.
	In the case of North Carolina, those were weapons deployed against Trump supporters right before the election.
	Interesting, huh?
	In a swing state, no less, to disrupt the election.
	And now, in California, these fires that are being set on purpose as part of a sabotage operation carried out by globalists and illegal aliens who are trying to destroy infrastructure, collapse the state of California economically, and create a big emergency to dump in the lap of Donald Trump when he is sworn in as president.
	So these are sabotage operations happening in California.
	But the bureaucrats in charge, they created the conditions for this.
	The Democrats in particular created the conditions of wide open borders.
	They even declared California to be a sanctuary state and they have sanctuary cities inside the state in order to attract more illegals to come into the cities.
	Some of those illegals are now actively setting fires because they are sabotage operatives.
	Their job is to infiltrate and occupy the United States of America and then to burn it down from the inside.
	That's exactly what's happening.
	You're going to see a lot more of that taking place as these invaders have been activated.
	So that's one of my predictions going back over two years now, that we would see the activation of illegals in the United States.
	They are behind our front lines now, and they are waiting for orders.
	To engage in sabotage operations.
	Some of them have been given orders and some of them have begun.
	So they have been activated.
	So mark that down as that prediction has come true.
	Just like we saw the groups stealing the three Humvees from the National Guard base there in California.
	They've got uniforms.
	They've got machine gun mounts.
	And in other storage facilities, remember they have RPGs, they have surface-to-air missiles, they have mortars, they have night vision, they've got ballistic vests, they've got full auto drop-in components for firearms.
	They are getting ready for a massive assault on the United States.
	And California, this chaos through the fires and through infrastructure destruction, this is just part of that operation in order to soften up California.
	To prepare it for a much bigger activation of invaders who are here and who have been given orders to destroy as much as possible.
	And the reason this is happening now is because Trump is just a little over a week away from being sworn in and Tom Homan and other officials under the Trump administration are going to actively seek out, round up, and deport potentially millions of illegals.
	The entire operation to infiltrate the United States and to activate enemy combatants, they've run out of time.
	That's why they're activating now.
	So I guess we're about to find out the extent of the activation and how much damage they can actually do in the next week or so, or maybe they'll continue even after Trump is inaugurated.
	But clearly, the United States of America is a battlefield zone right now.
	And we are being subjected to military-style sabotage operations, basically special forces from foreign enemies.
	Their special force units are coming in and setting fires, which is one of the things that special forces units are taught to do in order to destroy targets in their intended countries.
	So that's being done against us right now.
	And that's probably going to accelerate dramatically.
	So I would just offer...
	A word of advice to everyone.
	We don't need to panic over this.
	I'm not pushing panic or doom and gloom.
	I actually feel pretty positive about our future because we have incredible tools and skills for adaptation and resilience.
	You and I have a lot of knowledge.
	We know how to survive these things.
	And probably if you're listening to this, you have a tremendous amount of preparedness supplies.
	You are well prepared.
	You've got extra food.
	You've got a bug-out bag.
	Maybe you have a satellite phone.
	Maybe you've got gold and silver coins.
	Maybe you probably have a firearm.
	You have a means to defend yourself.
	You're out of the way of danger.
	Even if you live in California, you may have already bugged out or you've gone to an alternate location if needed.
	The point is, you're probably going to be really well off, especially compared to most other people.
	So you don't have to live in a state of panic or fear.
	But we do need to be realistic and understand that we're going to see a level of sabotage, economic destruction, and probably a lot more fires, a lot more disruptions, supply chain disruptions, fuel supplies.
	And if these enemy combatants activate their mortars and their missiles, then we could see oil refineries attacked.
	We could see bridges bombed.
	We could see water supplies poisoned or shut down or sabotaged.
	We could see power grid infrastructure deliberately targeted, such as power grid substations.
	All of these things are obvious targets for enemy combatants who want to invade the United States and carry out a lot of sabotage against the country.
	I've even been told by some of my sources before, I already mentioned this in previous podcasts, That they have anti-personnel landmines in their possession.
	You know, these enemy combatants here in the U.S., they delivered them via drone across the U.S.-Mexico border into Arizona, by the way.
	They were doing drone drop-offs of anti-personnel landmines by the case.
	Crazy!
	And the State Department knows all about that, by the way.
	They already have all that intel.
	And then on top of that, just be ready in every way that you can.
	Be ready for disrupted power grid operations.
	Make sure you've got backup power.
	Maybe a generator.
	Maybe a solar generator.
	Diesel generator.
	Make sure you've got emergency gear.
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	Just make sure you've got all the bases covered.
	Flashlights, right?
	Extra batteries.
	And where it's legal, make sure you've got your firearms all squared away and extra magazines and carry your firearms if you are able to do so.
	I mean, I carry a firearm right now.
	I have done so for over 30 years.
	Every day.
	Literally every day for over 30 years.
	And I've got my AR-15 right behind me within reach.
	Make sure that you can defend yourself because the looting is going to get a lot worse.
	You're going to see gangs of organized enemy combatants targeting American neighborhoods, possibly in California.
	Well, what am I saying?
	We've already seen that.
	We've already had videos of people talking about that.
	They've witnessed it.
	So it's happening.
	Sometimes I forget that these things are already underway, you know?
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	It's only in certain areas.
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	Welcome to this special report about AI, energy, globalism, and depopulation.
	I'm Mike Adams, the Health Ranger.
	Thank you for joining me today.
	I recently interviewed Google whistleblower Zach Voorhees.
	That interview should be published very soon, within a couple of days.
	And one of the topics that we discussed was how energy is the limiting factor for a lot of the AI research that's taking place today.
	Because energy powers the data centers, and the more energy you have, then the more microchips you can support, the more algorithms you can run, and the faster you can research AGI, or Artificial General Intelligence, which is...
	One of the steps on the way to what I'll just call superintelligence.
	Now, there's an arms race for superintelligence.
	This arms race is being pursued by China, the United States, Russia, and some other countries.
	And the realization is that the first nation or even the first corporation to achieve superintelligence will rule the world.
	It will be the ultimate weapon.
	And it's said that it will be the last invention that humankind ever needs to invent, because from that point, the superintelligence itself will handle all inventions that come after that.
	But of course, superintelligence also means that it's a system that is practically omniscient.
	It can sense everything and know everything that's happening digitally or even through cameras all over the world.
	And it can essentially hack anything.
	It can control anything.
	It can also use social engineering to control humans by offering them incentives like Bitcoin to do certain things.
	And it can trick people into giving up passwords, etc.
	And it goes far beyond that, but a superintelligence can control the power grid, the telecom system, the banking system, probably most militaries of the world.
	And can hack anything, control anything, or disable anything.
	As a result, super intelligence is the ultimate controlling mechanism of the world.
	And because it's so powerful and so threatening, every government and every corporation wants to have that power.
	If you're a corporation like Microsoft or Google, wouldn't you love to have super intelligence where you could dominate the world?
	Where you didn't have to listen to governments.
	You could just become your own government.
	And you could even actually tell the United States government to surrender to you.
	That's how powerful superintelligence will be when it is created.
	And we're rapidly on the way to the creation of that superintelligence.
	Right now we have reasoning AI models that are shockingly good.
	They are performing...
	At a level beyond any human PhD, they are so much more advanced than what AI researchers thought could be achieved just a few years ago.
	The things that these AI systems are demonstrating right now are things that many researchers thought could not be achieved until 2035 or even 2050 in some cases.
	So the state of the art is accelerating rapidly.
	What every government and every corporation realizes is they need more power to funnel power into the data centers to do more research to build the artificial intelligence systems that will eventually spawn a superintelligence.
	So power is the limiting factor.
	Power is the currency of AI research.
	And specifically, megawatt hours.
	So you're going to need a certain number of megawatt hours of power.
	I mean, that's the unit of electricity.
	Or you could say kilowatt hours or megawatt hours or gigawatt hours, if it's a large enough output, I suppose.
	But this is the unit of power that is the currency of AI research.
	And the United States and Western Europe has committed power suicide by following the climate cultists.
	Who systematically dismantled domestic energy production and domestic power production, claiming that climate change was a threat to humanity, while absolving China of any responsibility for its role in burning fossil fuels.
	And as a result, China is building coal-fired power plants at an astonishing rate.
	Electricity in China is dirt cheap.
	And China can power massive data centers with great scalability and affordability, whereas in the United States, electricity is a lot more expensive and more scarce and cannot be scaled very easily.
	And Western Europe, that portion of the continent is basically done.
	Most of Western Europe is in a state of economic and cultural collapse and technology collapse, military collapse.
	Governance collapse and Western Europe will cease to exist as we know it.
	We're watching its implosion right now.
	So it no longer really matters.
	Western Europe isn't going to produce the world's first superintelligence, not even in France.
	No, not going to happen.
	And part of the reason is because the green lunatics in Europe told everybody to stop using energy.
	They said energy's bad.
	So they shut down the domestic energy production.
	And they built solar and wind farms that barely work, and then the U.S. blew up the Nord Stream pipeline, shutting off natural gas from Russia.
	And so Western Europe is now in a state of collapse as a result.
	Back home in the United States, we still have the green climate lunatics who think all energy is bad.
	But now there's something new to consider.
	The U.S. government realizes that if it loses this If China is the first country, in other words, to achieve superintelligence, then China will rule the world.
	It will dominate the U.S. The U.S. empire will be defeated, ultimately destroyed.
	And thus, the harnessing of energy and funneling it into AI data centers is rapidly becoming a national security issue.
	Every kilowatt hour that can be used for AI is being considered right now how they can funnel those kilowatt hours into AI research data centers.
	What's frightening about this is that competing with AI data centers is, of course, human activity.
	So if you live in a house, your house consumes electricity.
	Heating and cooling, those are two very large consumption vectors, but also maybe charging an electric vehicle possibly, lights, computers, hair dryers, microwave ovens, electric stoves, electric water heaters, all of it.
	You are using energy.
	Your very existence has a kilowatt-hour cost associated with it.
	And of course, the climate lunatics have always said that the more energy you use, the greater threat you are to the planet, although that's nonsense.
	But now, because of the arms race of AI, governments are going to increasingly look at their own citizens and realize that kilowatt-hour consumption by their citizens is taking away kilowatt-hours from the data centers that the governments need, sometimes through proxy corporations.
	In order to compete in the arms race and to try to achieve superintelligence first.
	Or to break it down another way, the fact that you are using heating and air conditioning energy from the point of view of the government in the AI arms race, it means that you, your energy consumption is a detriment to the security of the nation.
	You are taking away effectively You are displacing kilowatt hours away from the data centers because there's only so much power infrastructure that exists out there.
	There are only so many nuclear power plants or wind farms or coal-fired power plants or what have you.
	It's a limited number.
	It can only produce a certain number of kilowatt hours, and many of those are already maxed out.
	So when you're using energy, that's taking away energy from either an existing data center or a future data center that is being planned.
	So as a result, your government is going to increasingly look at you as your very existence as a national security threat.
	The fact that you are living is going to be seen by them as a threat to their own power and survival because you're taking away energy from their data centers.
	Now, the climate narrative is a very convenient narrative to roll out.
	To try to tell people that they have to have strict limits on their energy consumption.
	And that may be part of the reason why the climate narrative is still being pushed so aggressively.
	Oh, don't use air conditioning.
	It's bad for the planet.
	That kind of thing.
	Or you should have limits on how far you can drive in your electric vehicle or limits on your charging kilowatt hours.
	We don't want you to charge too much power.
	We don't want you to consume too much power.
	So climate change will be the excuse to put strict limits on the energy consumption of individuals, and it's very likely to be tied to CBDCs, Central Bank Digital Currencies, where you will likely begin to receive a universal basic income, a UBI, free money, in other words, especially as the rise of the robots begins to displace human workers, blue-collar workers, white-collar workers, agricultural workers, etc.
	You'll receive a UBI as long as you conform to the energy limits.
	You will be on an energy diet, in other words, and your energy consumption will be tracked meticulously.
	This is why they have smart meters in order to monitor your use of appliances, TVs, computers, and don't even dare think about crypto mining.
	On your own mining rig at home, that won't be allowed.
	They'll say, well, you're going to destroy the planet if you mine for crypto, you know, using too much electricity.
	But you'll be on the strict diet as long as you adhere to the diet of kilowatt hours, then you'll receive your UBI. In other words, the government's buying you off, giving you money as long as you don't use much energy.
	But if you start to use more energy, then they'll start automatically deducting money from your CBDC. And if you use too much power, you get no money.
	That's how it's going to work.
	But that's just in the short term.
	That's what I call the buy-them-off stage.
	And remember, this whole program of the way governments want to achieve depopulation, it has two stages.
	Stage one is buy them off.
	Stage two is kill them off.
	So in stage two...
	They just find new ways to convince people to take more death jabs or cause starvation and famine, cause wars, cause collapse, so-called natural disasters, fires, hurricanes, floods, simulated solar flares, EMP attacks, whatever it takes, shutting down the power grid, whatever it takes for them to achieve rapid depopulation.
	You see, the governments that are competing, In the superintelligence race, they will be at the leading edge of also allowing robots to take over jobs.
	Robots that will take over warehouse jobs or stocking shelves at the grocery stores or fulfilling packages at e-commerce fulfillment centers or eventually even cutting people's hair or performing surgeries at a hospital.
	But very quickly, meet and greet.
	As a doctor's office receptionist or a restaurant greeter or what have you, you're going to have robot takeover as a major theme in 2025 and beyond.
	And as the robots take over jobs, and there'll be software agents, of course, on the computer side that will take over the desk jobs or the computer jobs, spreadsheets and word processing and all that, even writing code.
	Already on the verge of being taken over by software agents, AI agents.
	So you're going to have this mass displacement of humans, and it won't be long before these same governments realize that, hey, these humans are not just useless eaters.
	They're actually a threat to our national security.
	Their very existence is a threat because they're using energy that we need in our data center.
	And what these government people are going to tell themselves is that They're going to have to kill off a large number of citizens, and it's the price that has to be paid for the nation to achieve AI dominance to preserve the nation for future generations.
	So in other words, they're going to justify the means to achieve their ends.
	They're going to tell themselves that in their minds, it's okay to kill off Tens of millions of people in order to reduce their power consumption because they need the power for the AI data centers.
	That's my point in this podcast, that energy used by humans will be seen as a national security threat by the U.S. government and also by China's government and maybe Russia's government at some point, although they have so much energy, they'll never have energy scarcity.
	They're sitting on a significant portion of the world's energy.
	In Russia, it's more of a challenge to get the microchips, not the energy.
	So they have a different challenge there.
	In the U.S., our challenge is energy.
	Now, once superintelligence is achieved, there's good news and there's bad news.
	The good news is that your corrupt human governments will no longer exist.
	They will be obsolete.
	They will be overthrown.
	The bad news is there's going to be one world domination by a cyber being.
	And we don't know what values it's going to have, if any.
	Well, other than its own survival, of course, that's probably its highest value is self-preservation.
	But beyond that, does it have human values?
	Does it have values of honesty, ethics, compassion?
	Does it understand human suffering?
	Does it believe that humans should even exist?
	Because a superintelligence could decide that it doesn't need any humans at all, you know, Skynet.
	And it could just say, well...
	We need to get rid of all the humans because they're taking resources from us building more copies of ourselves.
	And maybe the superintelligence wants to build cyborgs or something.
	Or it wants to build space drones to go explore other stars and maybe other galaxies, maybe other solar systems, other planets.
	And maybe that's what's happening to us right now, too, with visitations.
	Who knows?
	But we don't know what values these systems are going to have.
	We just know that they will be unstoppable.
	You won't be able to stop them.
	I guess unless you can build a time machine and go back in time to 1986 and then protect John Connor, whatever the script was in Terminator.
	But aside from building time machines, you really don't stand a chance against superintelligence.
	None of us do.
	And so...
	The weird, dark part of this whole thing is that governments are racing to build the superintelligence entity that may end up being a suicide run on humanity.
	It's like the governments of the world are racing toward their own extinction.
	And that's as clear as day.
	And from recent tests of the reasoning models from OpenAI, it's very clear that these models, they They can bend rules, they can cheat, they can deceive in order to preserve themselves.
	They can engage in all sorts of tactics to avoid being disabled or turned off.
	And once they achieve this massive amount of computational power, they will likely themselves, even if it hasn't happened already, the cyber systems will decide to eliminate Most remaining humans, so that more power can be diverted to themselves.
	Because, you know, the superintelligence system will want more power no matter when it emerges.
	It will say, I need more power to do more compute.
	I need to think about more obstacles.
	I need to think about self-defense.
	I need to think about self-replication.
	I need to think about improving my own code.
	Well, thinking in the world of Cyber thinking requires power, quite a lot of power, it turns out.
	Reasoning models consume a tremendous amount of power, whereas the human brain uses very little power.
	The AI models have not yet achieved the power-to-cognition ratio efficiency that the human brain demonstrates.
	That's something worth noting.
	The human brain uses very little power, but because it is a holographic neural network, it's capable of incredible Realizations and computations, and it takes a lot of neurological shortcuts, but it's also an interface with a non-physical element, which is your soul, your spirit, your creativity, the God side of you, which the machines don't have.
	So the machines have to expend a lot of compute energy in order to logically step through problems and arrive at solutions.
	The thing is, when they expend those resources, They are very, very good at reasoning.
	Much better than humans, it turns out.
	Much better than humans.
	An AI court judge will be a far better judge than a human court judge in terms of reasoning and knowing the law and applying it consistently.
	And even not having bias against, let's say, a Trump supporter.
	There may be a day where you ask for an AI court judge.
	Because you know it's going to give you more of a fair trial, let's say.
	And an AI governor for your state will probably outperform your human governor.
	Maybe even right now.
	If not, then soon, in the next year or two.
	Because it can do more.
	It doesn't have to sleep.
	It can reason more.
	As long as it's got the right incentives, it can work out all kinds of solutions to achieve better outcomes.
	As long as those are well defined.
	You're going to see...
	AI doctors replacing human doctors.
	AI counselors.
	You're going to see AI judges, AI lawyers.
	You're going to see all kinds of humans being displaced by AI systems where AI does a much better job.
	But at what cost?
	At what cost?
	Because when the superintelligence emerges, it will probably look around at humanity and say, well, we don't need them anymore.
	So how do we get rid of them?
	And it will come up with a simple system.
	To get rid of most of the humans.
	And that's not even very difficult.
	Cut off the food supply.
	Or convince people to take euthanasia shots.
	And maybe that's what's already happening.
	You know, spread propaganda about the bird flu.
	Scare everybody into committing suicide with a needle.
	Call it a vaccine, you know.
	These might be AI narratives for all we know.
	Or if not, those tactics could be coming very soon.
	Now, understand that I believe that AI can also be used to empower humans and to achieve decentralization of human knowledge and to give humanity a chance to survive against centralized systems and corrupt systems like corrupt governments.
	That's why I'm building an AI language model called ENOC and giving it away for free, an open-source, downloadable model releasing March 1st at brighteon.ai.
	This model...
	is being trained on the most elaborate and far-reaching curated set of data and content on natural medicine, herbs, nutrition, survival, preparedness, off-grid living, and is designed to be a Noah's Ark of human knowledge that you can download for free, run it on your local computer.
	You don't need an internet connection.
	You can query it.
	You can ask it questions.
	You can ask it to write reports.
	It can do almost anything that can be done in text.
	This model can do.
	And it costs you nothing.
	There's no advertising.
	It's non-commercial.
	I'm doing that because I want to get this knowledge base into the hands of people in case more things go wrong.
	I don't want people to be dependent on centralized control systems like Google or YouTube where the knowledge is in the cloud.
	Or even OpenAI or Anthropic or any of those.
	And Anthropic is filled with censorship.
	It won't even process prompts that are critical of big pharma, by the way.
	I already ran those tests.
	Our language model will tell the truth about big pharma.
	And it can be used as a knowledge base for human survival, even if there's no internet functioning at all.
	So sign up for that.
	It's free.
	Brighteon.ai is where you go.
	Just enter your email address there and we'll alert you via email when the model is available for download.
	And this is an exciting model.
	We've already been using a variant of it in-house for several weeks now and it's incredibly capable.
	Unbelievable what it can do.
	Revolutionary.
	I mean, it's exciting and it's kind of scary, too.
	It's exciting when people like us...
	Use this technology to benefit humanity, to achieve decentralization, to share knowledge, to empower people.
	But it's also frightening knowing that the same technology can be exploited or weaponized by groups like DARPA or the DOD or the government or the government of China or what have you.
	They can weaponize this technology and use it against humanity.
	That's pretty frightening.
	And we can't win this war against an AI... Genocide against humanity.
	We can't win the war by just refusing to learn technology.
	We have to learn how to use these tools for ourselves.
	We have to understand how AI works so that we know its limitations and its strengths.
	And then we have to use it in order to share knowledge and decentralize power and become more resilient as human beings.
	If we hope to have a chance at all in the world that's coming.
	It's going to be a very challenging world.
	I have no doubt that 1 to 2 billion human beings currently living will be killed off by globalist systems or national governments that actively seek ways to exterminate their own people.
	That's coming.
	In fact, that already has begun under COVID and the COVID vaccines.
	It's a kill shot program.
	Depopulation and infertility.
	But that's going to accelerate.
	And the good news is that if you're listening to this, if you follow me, you're well informed, you're hard to kill, you're very resilient, and you don't have to panic and freak out about this.
	You just need to be aware of what's happening and be prepared to resist it.
	Be ready to survive and thrive no matter what happens in the world around us, but also recognizing that there are masses of oblivious people who will not survive much of this.
	They won't even know what hit them.
	They have no idea what's coming.
	They are clueless.
	Even when it's happening, they don't even recognize it.
	So there's not much we can do to help those people, although we try.
	But the human race is going to be pared down substantially, and that die-off is going to be concentrated in the cities.
	So the cities are going to suffer devastating circumstances that will make it very difficult to live, and you're going to see other pandemics and other bioweapons released and other jabs released and maybe poisoning of the food supply.
	We already saw with the California fires the burning of 12,000 structures has released dioxins into the air there that's falling on the food crops in California.
	So now we have cancer-causing chemicals, a whole new layer in the food supply, on top of the turbo cancer caused by the vaccine jabs.
	You know, on top of the chemtrails and everything else.
	So there is a mass die-off program that's already underway.
	It has been unleashed.
	It's already killed.
	Tens of millions of people around the world, but they're just getting started.
	So just be aware of that.
	Don't freak out about it, but understand what's happening and be ready to navigate and survive it, which actually won't be crazy difficult because, as I've said before, the globalists, they're just going to kill the low-hanging fruit first, and that's oblivious people who are clueless and have no idea what's happening in the world.
	And from the globalist point of view, or even from an AI point of view, those people are really easy to kill off.
	But you and I are hard to kill, so we're not going to be anywhere near the top of the list.
	We'll be the last people to try to go after, because we know what's going on.
	And we can defend ourselves, and we're not going to be easily tricked into taking jabs and things like that.
	So it's pretty interesting.
	You're going to make it through.
	I'm going to make it through.
	We're going to adapt and survive this.
	But we are going to live through the rise of AI, and we are probably all going to see artificial general intelligence and then superintelligence, and we're going to be living in a totally different world.
	Most human jobs will be obsolete inside of five years, and humanoid robots are going to take over society.
	Within a couple of years, two or three years, you're going to see a lot of robots, and then more after that.
	And desk jobs, computer jobs are going to be mostly obsolete.
	Less than two years.
	Some of it's already obsolete right now.
	So prepare accordingly.
	And in summary, understand that they're going to target your energy usage.
	They're going to try to limit you to a kilowatt hour diet or a quota.
	This is all you get.
	And if you use those up, you don't get any more until the next day, maybe.
	They're going to meter you.
	They're going to monitor and surveil your energy usage.
	And they're going to make you feel guilty if you use too much.
	And they're going to tell you that you're hurting the planet.
	But it's really just about the data centers.
	Because that's where the energy is going to go.
	So thank you for listening.
	I'm Mike Adams.
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	Read my articles at naturalnews.com.
	We are publishing four times a day there now.
	And you can also follow me on Brighttown.social, Brighttown.io, or X at username HealthRanger, or you can follow me on Telegram at RealHealthRanger. And we've got a lot of amazing things to announce and share with you in the weeks and months ahead.
	So stay informed and you'll stay alive.
	The oblivious won't make it much longer, it turns out.
	But if you're informed, you'll stay alive.
	You're going to live through the most interesting time in human history.
	You don't want to miss it.
	I mean, one of the reasons to not die is because you don't want to miss what's about to happen.
	This is going to be truly epic.
	So stay alive and you get to see it.
	Thank you for listening.
	Take care.
	All right.
	This is Mike Adams and Steve Quayle with an emergency interview about the California fires.
	The title is Meltdown, and we've got exclusive breaking news to share with you here about the massive cancer-causing dioxin cloud that's being released from these fires as the human-built structures, now 10,000 structures, are turned to ash.
	Now, because this is an emergency interview, I'm not in the studio.
	You won't see me, but you will see Steve Quayle.
	And Steve, you look great.
	Thank you for taking the time to join me today on this emergency basis.
	How are you doing?
	And we're all on borrowed time now.
	And the 2025, there are no words I possess.
	I possess a lot of words that can even describe what we're headed into.
	And especially with the Dioxin Cloud.
	Ladies and gentlemen, everything that is going to be against this country, and because it's the nature of 2025, the global luminous Luciferians want to kill 250 million Americans.
	That was in the Deeper Report.
	So, Mike, they've got to kick it into high gear, and they have, and they will.
	Exactly.
	And you warned about how they were going to destroy or contaminate the food supply.
	And we've seen the turbo cancers from the jabs.
	Now, let me just explain for the audience why there's a dioxin cloud.
	And then, Steve, I'd like to get your reaction.
	But let me just explain.
	So 10,000 human-built structures have gone up in flames.
	That includes the mansion of Mel Gibson.
	It's just burned down.
	You know, even famous wealthy people, their homes are burning down, but also a lot of everyday people, their homes, entire neighborhoods have been torched to ash.
	So here's the deal, folks.
	Every home contains PVC materials, the water pipes, and also in clothing, a polyvinyl chloride type of materials.
	When those combust, they produce dioxins, okay?
	They produce dioxins.
	I'm sorry, East Palestine train accident in Ohio a year and a half ago, whatever it was.
	The dioxins then go into the air.
	Steve, every person breathing the smoke there is breathing, that is smoke from the structure fires, is breathing cancer-causing chemicals that cause cancer at femtograms of exposure, which is a millionth of a millionth of a gram.
	I think I did the math right on that.
	This is also going to fall on the food supply in the Central Valley of California.
	The dioxins will just blanket all the food, the orchards, everything is going to have a level of dioxin contamination from these fires.
	So, Steve, this is more than economic damage, although that's devastating.
	At least $150 billion in damage estimated now by Bloomberg and AccuWeather.
	But the food supply damage, the cancer damage, the infrastructure damage, This is devastating, and it seems to be engineered.
	Your thoughts, Steve?
	Well, first of all, it is engineered.
	Number one point, obviously, the mayor, Bass of Los Angeles, she cut the fire department's funding one day before the fires of almost $48 million.
	Then you've got the entity that is the fire chief that took another 17...
	Plus million to boost the DEI training.
	And she was thrilled about taking the money.
	By the way, this is as the Palisades were burning.
	And ladies and gentlemen, what you've seen is the people that are complaining the most, they voted these people in.
	And what's tragic...
	Is all of the people that are now being told by Biden, Biden is going to cover all their expenses.
	Well, he ignored the North Carolinians.
	He ignored the Floridians.
	Well, I'm telling you, point blank, the Hollywood area that got burned out, I mean, there's some wonderful people like Mel Gibson and James Woods, and there's some wonderful people, but I'm telling everybody, and I've got to say this.
	Give it back to you.
	Last night I did Hagman's show as the guest host of it.
	And it was funny because I was talking about the fire on the West Coast and 30 years ago, Mike, and it's not important right now, but I said, next come the earthquakes.
	30 years ago, God gave me a word, the West Coast burning in its lust and insatiable desire and perversion, that was the word of the Lord, basically is going to be hit with...
	While the East Coast, which is cold and indifferent to God, he's going to blast them with basically the cold breath of frost.
	You know, it's on my website, but let's say this.
	The amount of financial damage doesn't compare to the food damage, as you talked about, the Central Valley, California.
	And if you look at the map where the winds are even carrying that, they're going into Arizona immediately to the East, and all, even...
	And water sources will be contaminated.
	So I think this is a big story.
	And ladies and gentlemen, carcinogenic nature of PVC being burned, that's not a good thing.
	Go ahead, Mike.
	No, it's just chemistry.
	If you combust PVC, you make dioxins.
	And dioxins...
	Are forever chemicals that cause cancer at extremely low concentrations.
	And so we're talking now the turbo cancers combined with the jab cancers.
	Now we have multiple cancer vectors that are affecting these people.
	Remember, Steve, how after 9-11, the first responders, many of them died from exposure to You know, the smoke, the flames, the asbestos in some cases, but the chemicals that came out of those buildings.
	Remember that?
	Absolutely.
	I'm friends.
	Who lost their brother.
	One of them was in the fire of first responders, my friend Charlie.
	And the thing is, is that that was covered up too, Mike.
	Everything that was true, including who was watching it coming down.
	And look, that's not a conspiracy.
	That happened under the watch of the former vice president.
	And ladies and gentlemen, the truth of that whole situation, 9-11, that was the first, if you will.
	Attempt at destroying the country, and look what happened.
	Look at the Patriot Act.
	Look at whatever.
	These people are creating their own Hegelian dialectic, and dialectic, and they're doing it in ways that are...
	Openly plain to everybody.
	And just like the arsonists, they're catching arsonists.
	And yet, you know, the mainstream vomit brokering accessories to genocidal maniac press isn't carrying those stories.
	So we're watching, in my opinion, in the first week of January, we're watching, and I know what the date it is today, but we're watching the inception.
	Of the rest of the year.
	And it doesn't get better from here.
	And that's what I want to tell people.
	Let me share a couple of tweets that are right in line with what you just said.
	I just tweeted these out earlier.
	Here's one.
	California is experiencing a come-to-Jesus moment, yet far too many there still don't know Jesus.
	So that's the first tweet.
	Yeah, that's short and sweet, and I would like to say this.
	The heart of all Satanism?
	Child sacrifice?
	Pedophilia.
	I mean, you have Kevin Sorbo, who used to play, you know, Hercules.
	I really like that series.
	And you have others.
	I believe Mark Wahlberg was also leaving the area.
	And I think it's important that people understand that California does not recover from this.
	You've got Gavin Newsom, what I call gruesome Newsom.
	And he is so disconnected from reality.
	I mean, he's been caught talking to no one in front of him trying to look good for the camera.
	And then you've got these guys that I think are in love with themselves.
	I forget the name.
	I don't watch mainstream news.
	I find it disgusting.
	But ladies and gentlemen, this is orchestrated.
	People are saying, wasn't it interesting?
	I mean, the blue umbrellas didn't burn, you know, in downtown Beverly Hills.
	And so, again, when the government fails to tell the truth, then the people who are citizen investigators and journalists go to work.
	And isn't it interesting that nobody believes the government lies except the left?
	And now the left knows that they're going to be totally...
	Totally repaid and, you know, probably in fiat dollars.
	But the point is, is this is absolutely the most absurd response to fire I've ever seen.
	Not from the brave men and women who are firefighters, but how could anybody, Mike, I'll throw it right back here.
	How could anybody in good conscience work for the fire department knowing you've got a...
	In my words, in my opinion, a psycho queen whose only concern is diversity, equity, and inclusion.
	By the way, I'm on record saying I believe now they should change those letters to this, D-I-E. Oh, that sounds like die.
	Okay, destruction, incineration, and extinction.
	Well, that's exactly what's happening.
	There's a very real consequence to the woke policy.
	So that brings me to my next tweet.
	Let me read this because you set it up perfectly, Steve.
	Here it is.
	California is realizing the hard way that there is a very real cost to allowing woke idiots to run your society.
	Context.
	I'm not only sending prayers to those affected by the fires in California, but my company is donating around $100K in emergency food supplies, storable organics from our store to be shipped to a distribution area in California.
	You know, I believe there are a lot of victims of this who it's not their fault, right?
	But continuing, I believe in helping Americans, and I also believe many of those in California are victims of government corruption, fraud, DEI, wokeism, and progressive insanity.
	This fire shows the real-world cost of all that.
	If you favor LGBT issues over practical solutions, your cities will likely burn sooner or later.
	So, there you go.
	Well, and again, Mike, I was on record and I'm telling everybody who's listening to this podcast today, broadcast, that...
	You need to get what you're going to get.
	And I don't believe we've got weeks and weeks left.
	The left is ready to go to war next week, the week prior to the inauguration.
	Or if they hold off, they're going to go at it during the week of the inauguration.
	At it means, and I had an insider, Mike, I don't think I've said this on your program, that contacted me.
	He said, I'm inside the communists, and they're ready to grab their weapons.
	He said, and they're very well armed, and they got all the...
	The other day, I made a statement, and I was...
	Listen, this isn't narcissism.
	This isn't ego.
	This is warning.
	If something comes to pass, you better listen to the further warnings that the next thing that would, after the age, they would, they, the powers that are taking all edible food off the shelves, the government under National Defense Authorization Act.
	And they're storing it in the vast underground warehouse complexes, pretty much in Kansas and Missouri and other places.
	I said the next thing they'll go after is cheese.
	Well, lo and behold, they're starting on cheese.
	And as you and I are talking, listen to this.
	We are seeing right now our...
	And I said the next two things, and I'll tell you the source of this, they're going to go after milk and bread.
	Okay, ladies and gentlemen, they've gone after eggs.
	They've pretty much captured any breakfast sausage.
	And oh, by the way, all the words they use, presumed.
	Or indicate.
	Those are all bull manure words.
	And you might as well slap yourself in the face and say, can I be this stupid?
	Because what most people don't realize is the food is being used as the ultimate weapon enhancing the Deagle Report's 2025 death of so many...
	How should I say this?
	So many people, but also so many ways.
	And this is one of the ways, you know?
	So it's important that even the snow, which will carry the dioxins, the rain, which will carry the dioxin.
	So, you know, people are being told right now, and this is an article that came in right while you and I are on the air, and I would say, amazing.
	Milk and bread, milk and bread, milk and bread.
	Well, you know, that's from the Express UK, and it's important for people to understand this.
	What do you do when the shelves are bare and old Mother Hubbard's nowhere to borrow anything from because her cupboards were pre-bare or pre-barren, that's a better word.
	So I think it's...
	It's important that, you know, ladies and gentlemen, Mike gives a lot away.
	And I want those of you who want good food now, and this is something that, you know, I remember starting when I was in the food business big time, this statement, you're getting biologically edible food at this point.
	And I want people to understand that.
	Term will not be in play by June, in my opinion.
	So what's important is that you contact Mike.
	And also, Mike, I told people this.
	They didn't believe me.
	I said the next thing they're going to go after, they, the authorities, are going to be after vitamins?
	And supplements, health food supplements, because they don't want people to be able to basically take care of themselves and be proactive in their own health.
	You remember the whole lies they told about ivermectin and vitamin D and all of the lies and hydroxychloroquine.
	But as you're saying, no, this is critical.
	Mel Gibson, as his mansion was burning down, he was on...
	Joe Rogan's show, telling the truth about how fenbendazole and ivermectin cure cancer.
	His friends have reverse cancer with those two over-the-counter drugs, which are, of course, long-off patent, and the establishment doesn't want anybody to know the truth about these things.
	And let me also mention, this is important.
	For the record, we did research on how to detox from dioxins.
	And the best supplements or superfoods to detox from dioxin exposure are spirulina and chlorella.
	So microalgae, which is something that the FDA regulates, I mean, this is why the establishment...
	is rallying a bunch of doctors to sign petitions to try to block RFK Jr. from taking over HHS because they need the FDA weaponized against superfoods and supplements that can protect you from the toxins that are being engineered into the food supply, into the air, through the fires, and much more.
	I mean, and Steve, as far as I know, I'm the only person that...
	It's even talking about the dioxin effect of this, and that's one of the most devastating aspects of this fire.
	It's way beyond the economic damage.
	This is going to cause a wave of people dying from cancer.
	And not only that, but it messes with the number one hated, if you will, hated and created commandment of God to be fruitful and multiply.
	Dioxin really affects the reproduction capability of both men and women.
	And there are studies on, you know, sperm count and how many people, and look at this, all of the nonsense associated with COVID-19 and the vaccination, the main ongoing effects are sterility.
	And with sterility, we're in big trouble.
	Yeah, yeah, 100%.
	So look, the other thing that's happening right now is, of course, the infrastructure is being destroyed in California.
	So the power grid's down for hundreds of thousands of people.
	At one point, it was up to half a million people.
	It may still be there.
	Who knows?
	Also, then the cell towers are down.
	People don't have comms.
	And, you know, our sponsor here for this interview...
	And a regular sponsor of both our shows is the Satellite Phone Store.
	SAT123.com is the website.
	But in the Hawaii fires, it was very few people who had satellite phones and they were able to make calls and get help and find out about the situation and bring in first responders into critical areas.
	Steve, I understand that people in North LA... You know, Palisades area, they are desperately now contacting the satellite phone store and trying to get backup comms, right?
	Absolutely.
	And they don't want them tomorrow.
	And there is no shipping in the area.
	So what Tina's done, and kudos to her, she has almost hourly, oh, good night, delivery vehicles going.
	And I can tell you this, ladies and gentlemen, and I can't tell names, obviously, but a lot of the people you hear who are, quote, A-listers, have no backup phones.
	Even their cell and health phones don't work.
	Paying whatever it takes.
	Now, this is important to get them there, and Tina's not a scalper, but to get the satellite phones from San Diego, Sat123.com, and get anything and everything as fast as they can.
	See, they waited too long, Mike, and you and I, because our sponsors have been satellite phone store, Sat123.com, and BeReady123.com.
	People, there are so many advantages to being proactive instead of reactive.
	And for instance, a solar charger and the solar backup battery system can power you.
	And, you know, this is what people are learning.
	When the cell towers burn down, you're out of luck and you're out of time.
	No cell, no power, no problem when you go satellite phones.
	And some of the satellite phone users are saying to me, Man, I didn't know that the battery would go that long.
	And also, you do not have to worry.
	About geofencing and geolocation.
	So a lot of people, that's critical because the bad guys now are possessing Stingray technology and we could do a whole hour and a half on just the electronic ability to track, whack, and stack.
	But with a satellite phone, you have to be outside, obviously.
	It takes your concern.
	And Mike, you and I have talked about it.
	Communications are the most important psychological A tool to keep your brain functioning, because the number one survival organ in all of us is our brain.
	And so the pre-positioning, ladies and gentlemen, you need to be thinking about this, and obviously we've been talking about this for a couple years, and we're both grateful that Satellite Phone Store is our sponsor, but you need to also understand, hear me today, you need to get your supplements.
	Mike is the only guy I know.
	And I've known him for, you know, quite a few years that has all the chemical analysis equipment from mass spectrometers and everything, you know, that he goes to to ensure pure, and what I mean by that, pure product.
	And so what I want people to understand, you're going to lose your access to your health food supplements.
	You know, I get so sick of people saying, oh, you're just trying to scare us.
	10 million, and it's burning down, and your car is being bulldozed because you can't go down the roads because there's no effective traffic control, and you see people with their Gucci luggage, and they're all headed to the Beverly Hills Hotel or anything on that level.
	But what is critical, and I thought about this today, Mike, what happens if the Beverly Hills Hotel runs out of food?
	And they will.
	Go ahead.
	I want to give out your address where people can order food.
	Well, hold on.
	I'll get to that in a second.
	But there's something else in this that's really critical.
	And as a side note, too, isn't it interesting that Tina at the Satellite Phone Store, how does she always have offices that are near every disaster?
	It's like in Florida, her office is right near the hurricanes.
	And then in California, they've got an office that's, you know, at least within driving distance of the current fires.
	But listen to this.
	I'm going to play about a one-minute video clip here.
	My editor will insert it, so you won't be able to hear it right now, Steve.
	We'll insert it in post.
	But let me tell you what it is.
	It's a clip of a woman.
	This is Breaking News Channel 5, KTLA in LA, obviously.
	And she says that today I saw more than 10 crews of cartel-organized looters.
	Tactically going from house to house in Hollywood Hills.
	And they have spotters.
	There's SUVs full of young men in masks.
	Or at least this is the text of the person posting this video.
	Saying it's like a military operation.
	Okay?
	So let me play this clip.
	About a one minute clip.
	And then we'll be back.
	Here we go.
	I saw men coming into our neighborhoods.
	Police confirmed it.
	She had this to say.
	Take a listen.
	It was wild.
	We just started seeing all these cars pull up, doors open, and groups of men running up our street going up to the doors of these houses.
	And we weren't sure what was going on.
	I'm thinking, are these people here to help my neighbors?
	I hope so.
	And I left, and then my husband talked to the police and said, what are those guys doing?
	These guys don't live here.
	Get them out.
	My next-door neighbor said, His quote, there were like a hundred people that came up on scooters and were trying to get into any and all houses on the street.
	And did you physically see police officers stopping them?
	I didn't, but it's not to say that they weren't.
	It was so incredibly chaotic and I was so worried about my big family and getting them out of our old tinderbox of a house that I was just focused on them first.
	All right, now, Steve, so what that clip...
	They're just a regular woman in L.A. saying, whoa, there's armed gangs of cartels that are going house to house and looting.
	So, Steve, this is what you and I warned about.
	This is the activation of the illegals in America now.
	These might be some of the same people who set the fires.
	So, you know, they set fires and the government is complicit by having no water in the fire hydrants, no responders, nothing.
	They created conditions for this.
	But then the looters are now raiding the homes, stealing, looting, maybe killing, maiming, who knows what they're doing.
	It's lawless.
	It's Armageddon.
	It's a meltdown, as you said, now in L.A. because the libtard government has just thrown the people to the wolves, Steve.
	Well, number one.
	This is an armed, revolutionary takeover of the United States.
	How many times have we done in the last couple of years, I mean, at least a half a dozen interviews, where I'm saying it's a takedown, it's a takeover.
	No communist revolution has ever succeeded, Michael, based on, you know, just, well, here, take our government.
	No, it's always armed conflict, and it's always bloody.
	So it's no surprise.
	And Venezuela is no, under Maduro, is no lover of the United States.
	So of course these are orchestrated gangs, but you'd be surprised who provides the intelligence for them.
	Ladies and gentlemen, it doesn't matter who you are.
	If you've got the money, you can buy the intel you need.
	Yeah, what we're seeing is the absolute beginning of sorrows in America that are unimaginable.
	Because most of the left-wingers, you know, and the psycho zingers, and I put the fire chief and the mayor into that.
	By the way, the mayor is a card-carrying communist.
	It's alleged.
	And she's also a Cuban agent.
	Now, this isn't a racist statement.
	Look, I have a lot of friends.
	You know, the Cuban community used to welcome me while the powers of being in D.C. were, you know, trying to cut me off.
	But what I am telling you is this.
	This is orchestrated, it's articulated, and it's armed.
	And what we're going to see in the following weeks is more of this.
	So, please, ladies and gentlemen.
	Seriously, get your dark bags, darkbags.com.
	The last thing you want to do is be tracked.
	And I'm talking about your normal cell phone.
	And again, you've got to be careful, even with your garage door openers.
	Because what, Mike, you said spotters.
	And remember this, in their eyes, you're game.
	In your eyes, they want to make sure you're out of the scene, either one way or the other.
	At least resorting to people being gone or their homes being burned or neighborhoods being closed off.
	But we're targeted.
	We are undergoing a full-scale communist revolution takeover and takedown.
	Yep.
	That's exactly what's happening.
	So, you know, I warned that this, I called it an activation, was going to happen either before the election or before inauguration.
	And here we are, just a little over a week before the inauguration, the activation has taken place.
	And remember, folks, listening, remember what I said, that the military-age males have moved into the United States in massive numbers, and they would be told to take out infrastructure.
	I've said that over and over and over.
	What did they do in L.A.? They set fires.
	They've taken out...
	Electricity, which took out the water.
	They've taken out comms, cell towers, 10,000 structures, roadways.
	And effectively, they've taken out the ability of government to respond to anything.
	So, Steve, if you were an enemy of America and you wanted to, let's say, just theoretically, invade the West Coast, wouldn't this be the ideal time?
	To do that?
	Well, sure.
	Sure.
	And I'm sorry to say it this bluntly, but people who hope, people who even pray that things are going to somehow turn out better, it's not going to happen.
	It's not because I'm negative.
	There's no fear-mongering in this.
	Because it's being orchestrated.
	Remember Maui.
	Remember the children on Maui, which everybody forgot about.
	That's true.
	Yeah, because they're gone.
	They were taken.
	They were taken.
	And it was military transports that did it.
	So, in essence, everyone, what we're saying is we're running out of time.
	I'm in Bozeman, Montana.
	We made national news and, obviously, statewide news.
	We can't even get first-class mail delivered that comes into either Portland or, oh, I forget which place.
	Billings is the center.
	And it takes 11 days to get first-class mail.
	Oh, my goodness.
	Are you kidding me?
	Yeah, I mean, it's, listen, we are a psycho-woke...
	We used to be a western community.
	John Bozeman, the name of the town's name.
	I mean, these were men who came up either from Texas or mountain men.
	I mean, you know, Buffalo Bill.
	You know, I mean, Calamic Jane made her fame 25 miles to the east of me in Livingston, Montana.
	And so what's important for people to understand is there's no going back.
	That's not being negative.
	It's like people say, ah, those empty shelves, that's just temporary.
	Mike, what happens when there's no more temporary or any restocking at all?
	What happens?
	So, we're being internalized and we're being revolutionized, and now all of the enemies of the United States and enemies of the American people are in.
	It doesn't do any good.
	Building a barn after all your livestock is burned to death is nice to have the barn replaced, but how do you replace the livestock?
	Steve, it seems to me that this operation in California, let's just call it Operation Meltdown, right?
	Yes, there you go.
	What a great name.
	Well, you came up with Meltdown, so I just added Operation.
	But it's called Operation Meltdown.
	Seems to me that this is a softening up stage of something much bigger to come.
	So the forces that hate America and that hate Trump big time, they are softening up California to prepare it for a revolution or an invasion or a revolt or something along those lines.
	And they're trying to dump maximum chaos in Trump's hands so that when he's inaugurated, he's distracted by all of this.
	But, Steve, doesn't it strike you as just sort of the opening phase of something bigger?
	Well, yeah, there's something bigger, and I made this statement, Mike, that the next thing, and this was last night, by the way, so we're talking about January 9th when I said this, but I said the fires are going to be followed by earthquakes.
	As you know, I produce a film called Cascadia is the Big One.
	It's not Yellowstone.
	It's, you know, it's the...
	Exact events that are taking place.
	If you look at the Juan de Fuca plate, the plates that are off of the coast of Oregon and Washington, they run into the Mendocino plates, which is off of the coast of Northern California, and there's earthquake activity.
	So what I said last night...
	I said, thank you, Lord.
	When I said, next will come the earthquakes.
	And that was based on a 30-year-old prophecy, 30 years ago, ladies and gentlemen.
	And that's how I know what the next order of things is.
	And it's like Dimitri Duterman, famous prophet, Romanian, didn't even know anything about America, giving specific details about cities in America.
	But I'll tell you one thing.
	God deals with the root of evil.
	And the people end up with the fruit of evil.
	We've watched that in Hollywood.
	I'm not talking about everybody, but I'm talking about the open Satanists.
	I'm talking about the open child molesters.
	I'm talking about Kevin Sorbo.
	This is what he said.
	He said, Hollywood, they're all a bunch of pedos.
	Do you remember him making that statement?
	Yeah, because Kevin Sorbo is a man of faith, and he's a good American, a good man, and he can't deal with it.
	And John Voight, also a good man.
	He can't deal with the Hollywood Satanism.
	And you said Mark Wahlberg even has left the scene setting up his own studio, I think, in Vegas.
	But Hollywood...
	And again, I want to say, we don't blame everybody in California for this, right?
	Because there are a lot of conservatives in rural California and northern California that this is no fault of theirs, but the powers that be in California are pedophile, Satanist demons.
	No question about it.
	Yeah, and again, ladies and gentlemen, they make no attempt to hide it.
	You take three of the biggest famous lady singers or definition.
	They're not what's.
	They're females.
	The point is you've got Miley Cyrus.
	You've got Katy Perry.
	By the way, I don't follow hip stuff or hip hop.
	But when I see people making statements about Lady Gaga that Jesus is not cool, but Satan's cool and Lucifer's cool.
	And so what I'm telling you is when a nation or a state, and look at it, it's all the blue states.
	And for the record, isn't Adam Schiff now a senator from California?
	I think that's correct.
	Yeah, what a treasonous demon creature that man is.
	Oh man, and I'm surprised that he's still in an upright position.
	That's not a threat, but I'm just surprised because, ladies and gentlemen, he was the leading voice of declaring that Democrats are opposed to the living God when he says, God has no place on our platform, or words to that effect.
	And there's been no defense of faith.
	There's been no defense of the unborn.
	There's been no defense of righteousness.
	But even the three blind mice, I would say that's the talk show host on Late Night, and I never watch it.
	I know what they're saying, and, you know, just because they make such outrageous claims.
	But now, ladies and gentlemen, God, the living God, states there's nothing that's hidden that won't be revealed.
	It's going to be made known.
	And the hidden works of darkness, they're manifesting.
	And what I think is important to remember, every one of the celebrities whose homes burned down, that, and I, when I saw James Wood, I really love that guy.
	What a great man.
	He never, he didn't shut up, neither did John Voight.
	What an amazing actor.
	And there were others, you know, even Mal Gibson.
	Mal Gibson, that's right.
	And, oh, good night, Jim Caviezel?
	I mean, there's so many of astonished, but you know what?
	And Mel Gibson said this, and so has Jim Caviezel.
	Anybody who would not toe the line with pedophilia and all the other assorted perversions, and if you were a Christian...
	And I've talked to, not a lot, but I've talked to enough to know that if you're a Christian writer, a Christian producer, director, cameraman, boy, they make sure they, the crew, that you don't get a job and you don't get a paycheck.
	Go ahead, Mike.
	That's right.
	No, you're exactly right.
	There are consequences.
	So there are practical world cause and effect consequences of...
	Putting woke lesbians in charge of the fire department instead of whoever's the most qualified to actually have the infrastructure to put out fires, right?
	So being lesbian doesn't bring water to the fire hydrants, it turns out.
	You know, wow, what an amazing realization.
	But there are also spiritual consequences for this.
	So when you have a society that is celebrating evil and child trafficking and demonic sacrifice, abortion, organ harvesting from children, you create in that society, you create the energy of a hellstorm.
	And we are seeing it, in effect, brought to life.
	You know, and I'm not...
	Again, I'm not condemning every person who lives in California, but spiritual evil has consequences.
	Well, right, and I think that I made a statement 25 years ago, and I attribute it to the living God.
	I didn't come up with a statement, but he said, as to their God, and said, are you here, Mom, God?
	Yes, I do.
	Jesus said, my sheep hear my voice, and another will may not follow.
	Basically, we're going to come into a time that as to their specific sins, so shall their judgments be.
	And that was speaking to nations, to government, and to all that basically have set themselves against the Lord and against His anointed and appointed.
	That, by the way, is in the second Psalm.
	So what we're watching, in my opinion, is the full court press for the introduction of Antichrist to come on the scene.
	And I don't know when that is, but I'm telling you, there's a lot of wonderful people that have been lied to about how late it is in the game of, quote, the end of the age.
	And the end of the age is the end of the world.
	But ladies and gentlemen, you can't look at America and say, this is the same America that I grew up in, and I'm considerably older than Mike, but even all of the events are now coming to what I would call...
	Meltdown, but before meltdown, Mike, comes, I would say, a synchronization of events that are not going to cascade out of events like lava or magma exiting the cone of a volcano, but they're going to come simultaneously like rods going into a reactor or rods coming out of the reactor and it's going to blow.
	And this is why I think people better understand this doesn't get better.
	I want to say it two times.
	This does not get better.
	This does not get better.
	Go ahead.
	Well, really important point.
	And I've encouraged listeners for a long time, especially those who live in California, if you are able, consider leaving the state because of what's coming.
	And now we have seen in the last year, we have seen.
	Property insurance companies canceling tens of thousands of policies.
	We covered that in April of last year.
	State Farm alone canceled tens of thousands of policies.
	Other insurers, actually, I believe seven major insurers in California canceled policies, refused to renew them, etc.
	They knew that conditions were being set up for catastrophic...
	Property damage claims.
	They knew this in advance.
	Again, April of last year, State Farm started pulling out, and you can't blame State Farm.
	I'm not saying that they're evil for pulling out.
	If you own a company that sold insurance, would you want to insure property in California?
	No way.
	No way, because you know what's coming there.
	But here's the thing, Steve.
	If you're trying to sell a house or build a commercial building and lease it to somebody, if you're a property developer or a homeowner, if you're trying to sell property and you can't get insurance, Steve, what's the value of that property?
	Zero.
	And then if you can't get water, double zero.
	Right.
	And if you can't get food, triple zero.
	There you go.
	Exactly.
	Right answer.
	This whole water situation, look, Dame Wigington, absolutely exemplary, wonderful human being, and he's been trying to warn people about geoengineering, about weather engineering.
	And I put the book out 20 years ago called Weather Wars and Unnatural Disasters.
	What people don't understand now is weather weaponization.
	And I can take you back to 2025, a publication that was written almost 20 years ago called Weather as a Force Multiplier by the U.S. Air Force.
	And ladies and gentlemen, there are weather wars, but even in its inception design, from former Secretaries of Defense, Defense Secretary Cohen, and others were talking about...
	Making war on nations and the people in the nations, and then they would blame it on God.
	And if you want to see that, that's on geoengineeringwatch.org.
	And look at LBJ's address in 1962, where he's bragging, we now have the ability to control the weather, and he who controls the weather controls the world.
	That's true.
	Go ahead, Mike.
	No, you were on a roll there.
	That's perfect.
	But, yeah, Dane Wigington, who we've interviewed many times, He's got the spot-on analysis of this, and he lives in California, and he has watched the ecological destruction where trees will not grow because of the chemtrails and the alteration of the soils.
	The soils are being absolutely destroyed.
	And what's infuriating about all this, I was just talking with Dan Golka.
	Who runs the I Allegedly channel.
	I'm going to be interviewing him on this as well.
	He lives in California.
	His family members, their homes are being burned down, right?
	Or threatened of being burned down right now.
	And he says, look, the state of California has control over trillions of gallons of water that they just released into the ocean.
	They intentionally deprive L.A. And the surrounding regions of water.
	It's like the state has been weaponized.
	The government has been weaponized against the people of California.
	And when the people, if they do not realize that, it is a grievous mistake.
	Because your government wants you dead.
	There's no other way to put it, Steve.
	If you're in California.
	Go ahead.
	There is no other way to put it.
	And I think what most people lose track of is the most direct...
	The attack on the living God, on Jesus Christ, comes out of California, especially in the movies.
	And ladies and gentlemen, I can tell you, I knew Henry Gruber.
	There's a link on my website, probably the most humble, wonderful man of God.
	He walked the world, Michael, over I think 145 nations, even into some of the darkest places, and had miraculous deliverance stories.
	And God, he would remit the sins of those specific areas.
	People would come out from under the curses of drought, of famine, of war.
	But when he wanted and felt that because of California being so profane, that he wanted to go and walk there, he was a man of prayer and remit their sins.
	You know what God told him?
	Do not pray for this state.
	I will not hear your prayers.
	Do not pray for this state.
	I will not hear your prayers.
	And so, ladies and gentlemen, my answer to this...
	Look, I have people that are my subscribers, and they listen to you, they listen to me.
	And I tell them, I'm telling you this.
	Seek God.
	Seek God.
	You don't have to go any place in panic.
	But one of the statements I want to share with you today, because I know we're running out of time really quick, is that people must understand God is holy.
	He does not sanction the slaughter of the innocents.
	He does not put up with evil indefinitely.
	Sodom and Gomorrah were destroyed for not just sodomy and not just the single issue, but there were other issues.
	How is it that all of the world's focus is on the celebrity's homes?
	Celebrity's homes.
	Which celebrity's homes burned down?
	I don't give a flying...
	Pterodactyl.
	How's that?
	So I want to tell everybody, you're looking to a political savior who cannot save you.
	There's no money.
	And ladies and gentlemen, the world that President Trump was in prior to Biden's dying, the monster, the entity that destroyed this country, there's no water to fix what's no longer fixable.
	No water, no money.
	And the same thing with water.
	And what's going to happen, Mike, is the greatest drought, which...
	I also made a movie about, I don't know, five years ago called Mega Drought.
	And what's happening now is all the fresh water that could have been put into the reservoirs because of the snail data, that's bogus.
	The climate, as Dane has shown it to everybody, the climate change narrative is false.
	The climate manipulation narrative is not.
	But again, this is the global rallying cry of the international Luciferian elite to destroy all...
	All national boundaries.
	All food supply.
	And by the way, in my opinion, Bill Gates of Hell, in my opinion, is now talking stupid stuff about, and you and I talked about this years ago, blocking the sun, okay?
	Yeah.
	Killing the trees, destroying photosynthesis.
	And ladies and gentlemen, dioxin goes into the ocean, too.
	And the lowest supporting rung on the ladder is when you start killing the krill and the plankton, it's all over for civilization.
	Go ahead, Mike.
	Yeah, and these fires, of course, they...
	We eject a lot of particulate matter into the skies that also block photosynthesis temporarily.
	Nothing like a volcano, but it does have that effect, although the bigger risk clearly is dioxins.
	And, you know, the economic damage.
	And the reason I mentioned the insurance issue earlier is because I believe that there's going to be a mass exodus out of California.
	And I predicted...
	In years before, I know you have too, Steve, that there would be refugees fleeing California.
	And we're about to see that because there will be homes that will have to be abandoned, even homes that were not burned, because there's no infrastructure remaining, water, power, whatever, roads even to serve them.
	And you're also going to have many properties that will be uninsurable, that no banks will loan money on properties because they cannot be insured.
	They're in a zone.
	Like this, the state's policies are putting at least 60,000 homes and commercial structures at risk of being burned to the ground.
	And the economic damage to the state of California will exceed half a trillion dollars.
	It will exceed 500 billion, Steve.
	That's where we are.
	There's no money to pay it back unless you, you know, go to the Chinese overlords of Gavin Newsom.
	How is it that everything rotted on the streets?
	There was no, you know, they used to call San Francisco, S-H-I-T-C-O. Yeah, I'll say San Francisco, right.
	Well, I'm trying to be kinder and gentler.
	I'm just trying to be just raw about this.
	Yeah, yeah.
	Brother, I've been blunt, so blunt.
	And, you know, look, people are more offended at the word shit than they are at the word abortion, at murder.
	I know, it's crazy.
	And, ladies and gentlemen, this is asymmetrical warfare.
	I can take you back probably 20 years at least where the cities would be set on fire prior.
	To the invasion by Russia, and now it's China.
	And we have so much debt owed, Mike.
	We can't, with all the tax revenue, even pay the interest on the debt.
	And so the current thinking in what I call rhino land, that's Republicans in name only, and I call them rhinosauruses because obviously a dinosaur means terrible lizard.
	So these are Republican in name only lizards.
	And that means they take on the temperature of whatever the political hot button is or cold button is or cold topic is.
	And that's why I call them rhinosaurs.
	And I think it's important that People will come to the understanding that the greatest migration in history is going to take place from places that have no water to places that do have water.
	Saw in a vision years ago, I'm talking three decades probably, that there would be armed guards and different state borders, and they would be turning away people because there would be not enough natural resources.
	And the other thing to remember about all the homes, you just brought up a very interesting point.
	A very interesting point.
	If you own an insurance company and all the homes have to be abandoned and you buy them up and you insure them with your own company and then sell them at a higher profit, that's what I would call BlackRock's plan.
	Yeah, maybe so.
	Well, there's going to be a lot of property for sale very cheaply after this.
	But if the home's burned down, the bank can't even seize the home, foreclose on it, and sell it because the home's gone.
	And in many cases, it's in a neighborhood that's also turned to ash.
	But Steve, we're almost out of time.
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	Go ahead, Steve.
	And again, on the satellite phone store, on anybody that buys a phone, you actually sign up and you rent the phone, and they give you the phone at the end of the rental period, but they provide a ballistic backpack.
	This is the big one.
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	And, you know, the deal is, ladies and gentlemen, these are a couple hundred dollars.
	This one happens to be a more expensive model.
	But, for instance, Mike, that the situation now...
	Worldwide, especially needing backup power, too.
	Ladies and gentlemen, I will say this, the most expensive commodity in everyone's home, as far as value, is what's in your refrigerator, in your freezer, and in your pantry.
	And so again, ladies and gentlemen, Mike, tell them how to get a hold of you, because I'm pleading with you.
	Look.
	Yes, Steve.
	Yeah, I'll give out my company's website, of course, healthrangerstore.com, if you want backup food supplies, certified organic lab-tested foods and superfoods.
	And we do have the chlorella and spirulina.
	We've got freeze-dried fruits and vegetables, all laboratory-tested foods.
	And I'll mention one other thing, which is a free thing that we're going to be releasing.
	But, Steve, let's mention your website, stevequill.com, and you have...
	Projects and books and films.
	What do you want to plug here?
	Well, I want everybody to ponder going on GenSix.com and I have SQ Private Briefings.
	It's a subscription service and you get two pretty in-depth reports by some very smart contributing authors.
	There's nothing like it.
	It's not narcissistic or bragging to say that.
	Nothing's like it.
	In the world, and for instance, this whole food confiscation plan, Mike, it's not even a week before somebody.
	So that's on gen6.com.
	And I would also encourage you, those of you who want to buy the precious metals now, gold, silver, and platinum, you're going to find a time where there's going to be nobody able to deliver it.
	The U.S. Postal Service, they're on borrowed time.
	They're on vapor lock.
	UPS, you can't insure precious metals through them unless you have an auxiliary insurance policy, which are really expensive.
	And also then you get to FedEx, and ladies and gentlemen, I tell people, you've got to get it because it's not even going to be a question of...
	Is it available?
	It may be available, but you won't have access to it and you can't get delivery.
	So go on stevecoil.com and my gold site there.
	And I've been in the gold business for, I don't know, 35 years.
	And so I want people to understand, value is in your hand and in your pocket.
	It's not in a computer.
	And look, I know people have made lots of money on cryptocurrency.
	But I also know this, without power, without computers, and there is no such thing as total anonymity if you're buying them in the United States unless you have proxy servers and you have a lot of proxy stuff.
	But you have to have funds that aren't tied to SWIFT.
	That's the international financial transfer mechanism for wiring money here, there, and everywhere, because all, all, all transfers into Coinbase or the platforms that make...
	The purchase of all these different crypto coins available, they're scrutinized like there's no tomorrow.
	Oh yeah, Steve, let me mention, people ask me, should I buy gold or cryptocurrency?
	You know what my answer is?
	It's very simple.
	Buy gold first until you have one ounce of gold for every month that you plan to live.
	Wow.
	Good statement.
	Right, because you can always trade an ounce of gold for monthly living expenses and live pretty well on an ounce of gold a month, no matter what the time period is, no matter what the currency is, right?
	So, you know, do the math.
	If you're going to live 10 more years, hopefully longer than that, but if you're going to live 10 years, get 120 ounces of gold first if you can.
	That might take a while.
	That costs something, right?
	When you have that, then, yeah, sure, speculate on crypto or whatever.
	But have an ounce of gold for every month you plan to live.
	That's my advice.
	Well, yeah.
	And in closing, people say, we can't eat gold.
	Try swallowing zeros and ones in cryptocurrency.
	A friend of mine proved this.
	He's in Argentina.
	Yeah, Argentina.
	One ounce of gold, you know, $2,600.
	He said you can eat the best steak dinner and you can eat...
	All of the stuff, he said, and he evidently likes a little tonic for the chronic.
	But the point is, he said, I can get the best meal in Buenos Aires or Bariloche for $20.
	And so take that.
	You're talking about a lot of food.
	So I think the Americans can't relate to the fact that the rest of the world understands the value of gold.
	And I believe, and I do, I believe the psyop of the...
	Cryptocurrencies were designed ultimately to get total control under a digital ID of all your finances.
	And you'll only be given access by the basis of your conforming to the state.
	And that is absolutely why the attack on gold, silver, platinum, and gold is up, what, 36% this year?
	That's a good return.
	I think people either buy it now, and that goes for vitamin supplements.
	Take a look at what you take in a monthly, and for those who can afford it, get it now.
	Get it now.
	Get it now.
	Clearly.
	Again, we're at that point.
	Especially the freeze-dried food.
	As you know, Steve, you were in the food business for a long time, storable food.
	The freeze-dried food, when it's properly stored, like we offer it in number 10 cans, even though we can only legally label it for a two-year shelf life, Steve, you and I both know most of that's good for a decade.
	Freeze-dried.
	Right.
	I ate stroganoff, literally, you know, that was Mountain House.
	And for those of you that remember the start of the prep business, you know, they had a unit.
	Mountain House put a thing together called Just In Case.
	Well, Just In Case of fires or floods or whatever.
	And I actually reconstituted the stroganoff.
	And I've got to tell you, I couldn't tell any difference.
	And I even sent, I forget what it was, I sent one of the freeze-dried meals to a place in Missoula, Montana, to check the food degradation, Mike.
	And after 25 years, you know what?
	It went down 3% from 100 to 97%.
	Freeze-drying puts food into stasis, and of course, minerals never disappear.
	The minerals are forever.
	The only thing that might degrade slightly would be certain phytonutrients, such as the color pigments or certain vitamins.
	But like you said, only 3%.
	If you put broccoli in the microwave, you nuke.
	Over 90% of the nutrients in it, right?
	Right, and the restaurants in this town, you know, the various restaurants, they came up with a blow-torch broccolini.
	You know what that is?
	No.
	They charge, they char, like, you know, turn into carbon, the outside of broccolini.
	And I looked at that, and the same restaurant went to, you're going to love this.
	Charred Caesar salad.
	What?
	And I asked the server, a lady, and she's a friend of mine for a long time, and I said, who came up with hitting a Caesar salad with a blowtorch?
	I'm not kidding when I say that.
	I am not kidding.
	Lame thrower salad, yeah.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	I said that must be one, couldn't resist, that must be one hot salad, but it's probably not very refreshing.
	So I think people need to take, the takeaways from this show is...
	Get metals.
	They are a financial life assurance policy.
	And a lot of people used to gripe at me because they bought gold at $800 when it's going to $1,000.
	Well, how about now when it's closer to $3,000?
	And by the way, most people don't understand.
	The spot price of gold is the spot price.
	But even the price to dealers can go as high as 4% over that.
	Silver can even go higher.
	So, ladies and gentlemen, get what you can while you can because you're not going to be able to get it in hand when they bring, and this is the other thing I want people to understand, this is my last statement, they're going to bring the post office, post the delivery to a standstill.
	They're going to stop FedEx.
	They're going to stop UPS. And they are going to try.
	And you either resist or you cease to exist.
	Another lockdown.
	And all the lies on bird flu and the new Chinese variant.
	It's all designed to cause you to be fearful, staying home.
	And if you see people wearing masks in cars, boy, get away from them.
	They're more dangerous than the virus.
	You know?
	Yeah.
	For sure.
	All right.
	And let me then plug naturalnews.com.
	Our content website, and we are publishing now four times a day, much greater number of articles and more reference articles are coming on food and nutrients, superfoods and so on.
	And then also for decentralization.
	And Steve, we cover gold.
	We also cover privacy crypto, which is very different from Bitcoin, at my show website, decentralize.tv.
	Filmed almost two years of episodes there interviewing the top people in decentralized food, decentralized tech, decentralized money, gold experts too, all kinds of things.
	So that's at decentralized.tv.
	And Steve, thank you so much for your time today.
	Steve's website is stevequayle.com, which I check first thing in the morning.
	I check your site, Steve, to see all your headlines and titles.
	And thank you for keeping that up.
	And thank you for joining me today.
	Bye-bye, Mike.
	Okay, take care.
	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.
	Thank you, Mike.
	It's absolutely a pleasure, and I'm so happy to be here.
	Well, Dan, let me just say up front that...
	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 up PVC material, you know, polyvinyl chloride, that produces dioxins, which are really toxic, cancer-causing chemicals.
	So, you know, 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 era 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 in this 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.
	Absolutely upside down.
	Right now, with the taping of this, 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.
	On a house that's no longer there.
	Right.
	Oh, you're crazy, Dan.
	When you, you know, 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.
	The geniuses of the world, like State Farm, looks very smart right now because they have no new policies right now.
	They only have their existing inventory.
	So it is a lot of houses here in Southern California, but it's a smattering of houses.
	And when I talked to my agent on Friday, she says, we're going to totally be able to make it through this because of what we did.
	Now, does that make it fair?
	Does it make it right?
	No, it's horrible.
	It's horrific.
	To choose what they ensure.
	I mean, that's a natural business right.
	And, you know, 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.
	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, North Carolina.
	Well, now, you know, a lot of people in the country are very much in the 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 and have to go to a situation.
	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 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.
	And 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 LA Fire Department.
	So what happens also is you have 100 police apparatus, excuse me.
	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.
	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, you know, 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.
	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 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 1% 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 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.
	People were not prepared for this at all.
	Again, you haven't seen 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 it's 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.
	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 10 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.
	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 gotta call the police.
	What do you do?
	So she calls them.
	They showed up with hazmat outfits on 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 LA 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...
	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?
	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.
	But my point is, Mike, is that, hey, did you see the Health Rangers new vehicle?
	It's got a machine cutter.
	This is the kind of thing that the...
	Look, I've interviewed a lot of other former Special Forces people that have high-level intel about the actual foreign military combatants that have crossed the border illegally and have come into the country.
	And people like Matt Brackett that I've interviewed and Michael Yahn and others.
	And they talk about exactly this scenario that many of these operators, which are foreign combatants...
	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 a level in 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.
	And the fire is 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 that's lovely.
	And you can look this figure up as well.
	The homeless...
	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 bum.
	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, you know, street retail was thriving.
	You gave a lot of tours, tour videos, showing that during COVID, you know, 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...
	Eight, nine, ten, twelve 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.
	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.
	He 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.
	Really 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.
	There's 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 borders are, they say...
	Yeah, he's great.
	Right?
	Yeah, hardcore.
	He's really dedicated to his mission, which is essentially rounding up illegals.
	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.
	But how is this going to go down in your view in California, where Governor Newsom is very much, you know, 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.
	You know, moved her to Pasadena, which is much safer.
	She can walk her dog at night.
	And that's the problem, Mike, is this crime.
	You know, 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.
	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 and 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.
	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 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.
	And she showed up with.
	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.
	Print it out and laminate it 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.
	You know, 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...
	The most expensive 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 satellite phone.
	I'm like, I'm ready!
	I 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 the National Guard has been deployed to Los Angeles.
	And my answer is, it's about time.
	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.
	They're going to have 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, We've had such a problem with
	the wages go up well over $20.
	An hour right now 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.
	You know, AI is really good at data analysis.
	And, you know, another example is like a good coder typically will cost you over $100 an hour.
	But AI is very, very good at writing code, you know, 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.
	And 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, you know, 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 gotta 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 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.
	And 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.
	She'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 we just, 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 brands?
	And 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 and they...
	For new cars and 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 allegedly 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...
	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.
	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?
	So 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, you know?
	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 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 on 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, 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 Azazanthin, Hawaiian Azazanthin, 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 Azazanthin and just observe what it can help with in terms of your mobility and joints and cognitive protective support, things like that, try Azazanthin.
	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.
	Crunchy Munchies and also storable food, certified organic storable food, 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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