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Jan. 20, 2025 - Health Ranger - Mike Adams

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BBN, Jan 20, 2025 – INAUGURATION DAY! After four years of TYRANNY...

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	Welcome to Brighteon Broadcast News with Mike Adams, the Health Ranger.
	Welcome to Brighteon Broadcast News for Monday, January 20th, 2025. This is Mike Adams here, the Health Ranger of NaturalNews.com and of course Brighteon.com and what an historic day that we have with us here.
	This is Inauguration Day.
	Trump is about to be sworn in and this ends four years.
	of government tyranny, terrorism, lies, deceptions, fraud, money laundering.
	It's also going to end the prison sentences of most, if not all, of the J6 political prisoners who have been just tortured and unconstitutionally kept in prison for this entire time.
	Gary and his team are working on a very important project here, coordinating volunteer airplanes and coordinating all kinds of rescue food items.
	We're contributing to that, of course, as well.
	And coordinating shelter, transportation, housing for these J6 victims who have just been absolutely thrown in the ringer.
	And they need to know that the American people have not forgotten them.
	And that the American people are here to help them get back on their feet.
	And, of course, I intend to interview several of them, as many as want to step forward and tell the story about what's been going on.
	So there's a lot that is to be uncovered.
	Now, this is a milestone for America.
	This is such a pivot point, it's almost difficult to overstate.
	How critical this is for the future of our nation.
	And, of course, I was invited to the inauguration.
	I was offered two tickets.
	I declined them for a couple of reasons.
	But, frankly, the number one reason is that I am so deeply embedded in finishing up the final stages of the training for our latest rendition of our Enoch AI language model.
	That is so revolutionary.
	I can't even describe it to you.
	But what I'm going to do, either tomorrow or the next day, I'm going to have a short video for you that explains it.
	And it's a video that shows you the applications of this language model and why this is truly a revolution for decentralized knowledge for humanity.
	It's something that is just absolutely extraordinary.
	And if you haven't heard about Enoch yet, well then, I want you to jump over to brighteon.ai.
	Just sign up there with your email address.
	It's all free, non-commercial.
	And then we'll alert you when the model is available for a free download.
	You'll be able to download it, use it forever, with no fee, no charge, no surveillance.
	It's open source, non-commercial, no advertising, nothing.
	It's my gift.
	To humanity because of the way that you've supported us to help us build this infrastructure for human revolutions.
	And again, I will explain this more to you in the next couple of days if you're wondering why this is such a big deal.
	This is a turning point for the history of humanity.
	It's that big of a deal.
	This is more consequential than even like the launch of Google or the launch of Facebook or the launch of X. This tool, Enoch, will change the world.
	And you'll see why in a couple of days.
	Now, I've got a number of really interesting things to show you here.
	And then I've got an interview for you today.
	It's part of the Decentralized TV program.
	It's an interview with Montauk about the role of AI and technology and privacy and freedom, etc., moving forward.
	So we'll have that coming up as today's interview.
	And before we get there, though, I've got one, two.
	Three, four.
	Yeah, I've got four short videos to show you.
	I'm sorry, three short videos that will blow your mind.
	And I'll tell you about that shortly.
	We're going to play all three for you.
	It'll just blow your mind.
	All right, now in terms of Trump being inaugurated today, I believe I speak for most Americans, and I know I certainly speak for...
	Everybody listening to this, or at least what I'm saying resonates with everybody listening to this.
	When I say, let the arrest begin, this is the day that Trump places his hand on the Bible and swears to uphold the Constitution of the United States, something that the Democrats never do.
	And hear my words here when I say that I hope and pray that Donald J. Trump becomes the warrior.
	That America needs right now, that he takes no prisoners, I mean metaphorically, and that he goes out and he investigates, prosecutes, and arrests every single traitor that has caused us this undue suffering over the last, not just four years, but eight years, even during Trump's first administration.
	We were subjected to the fake news media.
	We were subjected to biological weapons attacks.
	We were subjected to a corrupt, fraudulent, deep state and intelligence community.
	We were subjected to extreme censorship and debanking and deplatforming and demonetization.
	We were subjected to all these things.
	We have suffered for eight years, not just four, but eight years under this deep state that has been at war, not just war against Trump, but at war against we the people.
	At war against America.
	At war against basic human rights.
	And it is time to turn that page right now.
	So, like I said, I hope and pray that Donald Trump organizes the federal marshals, the DOJ, the new head of the FBI. I know this is going to take some time, but I hope and pray that he dispatches teams to go out there.
	And place these traitors in handcuffs.
	And I'm talking about every single person that was involved in the 2020 election rigging, and that's thousands of people, not to mention the attempted rigging in the 2024 election, which was also thousands of people, and the rigging of the midterms.
	Two midterms that I have in mind, the most recent two midterms, also were heavily rigged.
	In my opinion, Governor Newsom of California needs to be in handcuffs.
	In my opinion, Governor Hochul of New York needs to be.
	And there are corrupt mayors.
	There are corrupt police chiefs.
	And one of the most glorious things that I want to see is these California officials marched out of there in handcuffs as they attempt to harbor illegal aliens as the Trump administration seeks to deport them.
	But I also want to see prosecutions against those such as Anthony Fauci, who were involved in illegal...
	Bioweapons programs that specifically sought to achieve depopulation of the American people to spread sickness and disease.
	Those people need to be arrested.
	It's people in the NIH, the NIAID. It's people involved in the bioweapons research at many different levels.
	And it's also people in the fake news media that knowingly lied to us.
	And caused immeasurable harm by lying to us about ivermectin, saying that ivermectin didn't work when it was actually saving lives.
	They said that you have to go to the hospital.
	They said that PCR testing is reliable.
	They said that lockdowns were necessary.
	They said that you couldn't go to church because you might spread the virus.
	You couldn't see your loved ones.
	You couldn't even visit your loved one in the hospital.
	And the hospitals were incentivized by the federal government to carry out homicide against their own patients.
	Homicide with financial rewards.
	Think about that.
	Think about that.
	And every single person involved in that at a sufficiently high level, every, I should say, every person of authority who was involved in pushing that pandemic scam should, in my view, be arrested, prosecuted, and imprisoned for life.
	And that includes executives of Big Pharma.
	That includes high-level people in the FDA, the CDC, the NIH, and other federal agencies that were involved in pushing that scam.
	And I don't know what Trump is going to do exactly, but if we don't see a whole lot of arrests, I say we the people, if we don't see hundreds of people getting arrested over the next 90 days, I mean, we should be averaging at least one major arrest per day.
	If we don't see that, We're going to be severely disappointed because we have been subjected to psychological terrorism, biological weapons campaigns.
	We have been subjected to censorship and fake news and all the things I mentioned a few minutes ago.
	And we have been subjected to an invasion of our nation, deliberately wide-open borders, human trafficking, drug trafficking, weapons trafficking, unbounded crime in the streets of our cities.
	DAs that would let...
	Murderers back on the streets.
	We've been subjected to this, and it was all by design to try to bring this nation down, and every single person in a position of authority who was part of that needs to go to prison for life.
	So I'm glad Trump is pardoning these J6 political prisoners.
	We need to make room in the prisons.
	We need to make room in Guantanamo.
	We need to make room for the traitors, for the enemy combatants.
	For the treasonous actors.
	For those who tried to murder Donald J. Trump.
	They tried to kill him.
	There are people inside the Secret Service that were part of that.
	There are people inside the Capitol Police that helped run the J-6 insurrection.
	There are people in the FBI who planted the pipe bomb, who carried out the fake attempted kidnapping of Michigan Governor Whitmer.
	And who even, going back more than 20 years, who even were involved in 9-11.
	Now Trump says he is going to declassify and release all the government records covering the assassination of John F. Kennedy, JFK, also Robert F. Kennedy, the father of RFK Jr., obviously, and also Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Because you know what?
	All three of those people, they were murdered by the deep state.
	Trump knows exactly what he's doing here.
	And in fact, let me play the video where he says this.
	Here we go.
	As the first step toward restoring transparency and accountability to government, we will also reverse the overclassification of government documents.
	And in the coming days, we are going to make public remaining records relating to the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy, his brother Robert Kennedy, as well as Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and other topics of great public interest.
	It's all going to be released, Uncle Sam.
	So there you go.
	Trump's going to release all this information.
	He's going to expose the CIA, the FBI, the deep state, the corrupt DOJ under Biden.
	And on top of that, he says that he's now going to suspend the security clearances of those 51 former intelligence officials.
	You know, the ones who committed treason.
	Colluded with the Biden campaign to try to say that the Hunter Biden laptop was Russian disinformation.
	It was all a lie.
	The laptop was real, but the media covered it up.
	Trump is going to take action against these intelligence officials.
	Frankly, he should have them arrested, prosecuted for treason, prosecuted for election interference.
	And I believe that Trump should...
	Unleash a full investigation into the rigging of the 2020 election and if the evidence supports it, which I believe it does, the 2020 election should be overturned.
	Every election that was rigged should be nullified.
	And that means that Trump would be the only president to serve three terms, well, at least in recent memory, since the two-term rule was put in place.
	And that would also mean that every law that Biden signed is null and void, which it should be.
	And every executive order that Biden signed should be null and void.
	And frankly, half the Democrats in Congress never got elected.
	They cheated their way in.
	The elections were rigged.
	You clean house there, and you get rid of those traitors who have a D next to their name.
	They are demon rats that hate America.
	One of the biggest things that needs to happen here moving forward, the biggest areas of reform, I'm sure you'll agree with this, is election reform.
	No more dragging out elections for two weeks like they just did in California until they can come up with the votes to overturn a bunch of congressional seats.
	They just cheat day after day, week after week until they get the votes they want.
	You know they're just running ballots and printing ballots.
	It's just counterfeit the whole way.
	We've got to go back to paper ballots.
	We've got to go back to hand counting, not machine counting.
	And we have to have one day.
	Election is one day.
	And you don't mail out a bunch of absentee ballots except to veterans who are overseas.
	The veterans overseas get their ballots, but not people who live in America.
	You don't just mail out 10 million ballots, which is what they do, the Democrats, and then they just gather them back up and fill in the names and then count all those and rig elections.
	No, that's got to stop immediately.
	And I don't care what a judge says about it.
	I don't care what Congress says about it.
	If you don't have honest elections, you don't have a future as a constitutional republic.
	This problem needs to get solved pronto, and the clock is ticking because we have midterms in two years.
	If we don't solve this problem above all others, well, this nation is finished.
	So election reform means prosecuting those who rigged the last three or four elections, and this goes back a long way.
	I want to see those people in handcuffs.
	I want to see them in jail.
	I also want to see millions of illegals deported back across the border.
	And so if anybody in the Trump camp is listening to this, I know many of you do, and you're kind of wanting to get a pulse of what we, the American people, are thinking right now, you know what I'm thinking right now?
	I'm thinking kind of like Steve Bannon right now.
	I got the Steve Bannon cowbell vibe going.
	And I need more cowbell.
	We need more deportations.
	We need more arrests.
	We need to set history on the right path here moving forward.
	This is the one moment in our lifetimes when we have an opportunity to do this because of people like Donald Trump and people like Steve Bannon.
	And, you know, a lot of people played their part.
	Elon Musk played a part, obviously, in all of this.
	Alex Jones played a part.
	You know, even Joe Rogan played a part.
	We all played a part.
	You and me, everybody else, to create this moment.
	And by God, we must not waste it.
	We must not let this moment slip through our fingers, and we are not going to put up with more deep state shenanigans.
	We are not going to put up with more lawfare, false accusations, and fake news media.
	Screw Fox News.
	Screw the New York Times.
	Fuck the Washington Post.
	We're done with all of you.
	The people have already figured it out.
	They're turning to the independent media, which is what we are here at naturalnews.com and brighttown.com.
	And what we have planned for 2025 will freaking blow your mind.
	Seriously.
	Oh, you'll see a glimpse here in just a minute.
	Wait till you see what I have to show you.
	So I want to send a message to Trump and his team that As much as I have criticized some points, I don't agree with Trump on every single thing, but I am here.
	I am here to help truly make America great again.
	I'm releasing free tools for the American people to enhance health, to enhance knowledge and wellness, abundance, productivity, innovation, longevity, all these things that can help make a nation great again.
	And I'm willing to donate these tools to the government if the government wants to.
	I have a solution for you, and it costs exactly zero dollars.
	I don't need a dime.
	I can revolutionize the health of this nation.
	I can show you how, and you don't have to pay me a dime.
	It's that simple.
	And as much as I know, America is facing some serious struggles.
	We are $36 trillion in debt.
	We do have a totally corrupt federal government bureaucracy that's not going to be easy to overcome.
	At least not in the short term.
	We have a fake news media.
	We have a whole slew of Democrats that hate this nation.
	They hate the Republic.
	They hate the Constitution.
	They hate the Bill of Rights.
	They hate Trump and his supporters.
	They are nasty, mean, insidious, evil people.
	They don't want to see America do well.
	They want to see America destroyed.
	Well, guess what?
	We're going to nullify those sinister creatures.
	Tell them to go pound sand or leave the country.
	Go move to Cuba.
	Get out of America.
	Because we, here in America, we are going to rejuvenate this nation.
	We're going to bring America back from the brink.
	And it might mean, by the way, it might mean, dare I say even, you know, defaulting on the current obligations of the corrupt, broken system and forming a new nation, the American Republic, with a new honest money supply and a new opportunity, no federal income taxes whatsoever.
	We could create so much economic abundance overnight that it would reestablish America's economic and innovation dominance in the world.
	I'm ready to contribute to that.
	I'm ready to pull for Americans here in whatever way I can.
	As long as Trump is doing his part in D.C. and his team are doing their part, we're here to pull in the same direction for America.
	And anybody who stands in the way of America's progress and ending censorship, restoring liberty, bringing back financial sanity, you know, ending the FDA's restrictions on freedom of speech, ending the vaccine nonsense, anybody who stands in the way of that needs to be first politely told, step aside, you're not going to get in our way.
	We know how to solve this country's problems.
	We're going to do it whether you like it or not.
	And that's going to come down to people like RFK Jr. as head of HHS. We've got to get him nominated.
	We've got to reform the FBI, if not just shut the whole thing down.
	We've got to reform the DOJ. We've got to reform or shut down so many agencies, top to bottom, FDA, CDC, DEA, EPA, USDA, ATF, on and on.
	We've suffered for too long under this tyranny.
	This is a time to turn a new page for America.
	All right, now shifting gears, I've got something to show you here, a five-minute video.
	I'm showing this to you because it's a demonstration of what you can do with the Enoch AI engine.
	Now, remember, it's a large language model, and we have an early version of it running in-house right now.
	And we'll be releasing the public version again on March 1st.
	Well, I took the interview that I conducted with Gary Haven last week, and I ran that interview through our Enoch AI engine.
	We have an early version in-house right now.
	And I asked the AI engine to write a kind of a review and a narration suitable for a podcaster who was covering the interview to really focus on the highlights, the most important points.
	And then I took that script.
	And then I used other AI tools to voice it and then to illustrate it.
	And so what you're about to witness here is a five-minute video, which is all completely AI automated with a very powerful message of freedom and liberty for America.
	It's about the J6 prisoners.
	And I used three different tools to do this, one of them being EDOC, our AI language model, you know, the one we're releasing for free.
	And the reason I want to show you this is because you'll be able to do the exact same thing.
	Once you have our tool coming up.
	And it's incredibly powerful.
	So watch this video and you'll see what's possible and the kind of technology that you'll have in your hands for free, at least on the narration script side of it.
	And it's just a little taste of things to come.
	Amazing things.
	And then I have another amazing video to show you on the other side of this, but check this out.
	Welcome to the Brightian Podcast.
	I'm your host at Brightian.
	And today we're diving into something huge.
	I mean, we're talking about a story that's equal parts inspiring, infuriating, and absolutely necessary to talk about.
	It's about justice, freedom, and the power of community.
	Buckle up, because this one's a roller coaster.
	So let me set the stage for you.
	Imagine this.
	300 Americans.
	Patriots.
	Everyday people.
	Locked up in federal prisons across 35 states.
	Why?
	Because they exercised their First Amendment rights on January 6th.
	Now, whether you agree with their actions or not, what's happened to them since is nothing short of a modern-day gulag.
	We're talking solitary confinement, denied due process, and families torn apart.
	But here's where it gets interesting.
	There's a movement, a massive grassroots effort, to not only free these prisoners, but to help them rebuild their lives.
	And the man leading the charge?
	Gary Haven.
	Yeah, the same guy who co-founded Curves, the largest fitness franchise in the world.
	But now, he's stepping into a whole new arena.
	American Patriot Relief.
	So let's break this down.
	I recently got my hands on an interview between Gary Haven and Mike Adams, the founder of Brighton.
	And let me tell you, it's a conversation that's equal parts jaw-dropping and heartwarming.
	First off, let's talk about the American Patriot Relief Project.
	Gary has partnered with the project and is working with the founders to help these J-6 prisoners transition back into society.
	We're talking about 300 men and women who've been scattered across 75 federal prisons, some of them hundreds, even thousands of miles away from their families.
	Gary's plan?
	It's called Operation Airlift.
	Picture this.
	Private jets donated by patriotic Americans, ready to fly these prisoners home in dignity.
	But it doesn't stop there.
	There are transitional homes, set up in places like Waco, Fredericksburg, and Missouri.
	These are safe spaces where these folks can get back on their feet.
	Counseling, spiritual support, you name it.
	And get this, Gary's even got a team of our Freedom Ambassadors stationed at every prison.
	These are volunteers ready to greet these prisoners as they walk out, making sure they're warm, fed, and connected with their families.
	Now here's the kicker.
	Gary believes that on Inauguration Day, President Trump is going to pardon all these prisoners.
	And if that happens, this operation kicks into high gear.
	But it's not just about freeing them.
	It's about showing them that America hasn't forgotten them.
	But let's not sugarcoat this.
	The system these people have been trapped in, it's broken.
	Gary and Mike didn't hold back when they called out the corruption in the federal judicial system.
	We're talking about a system where 98% of cases end in plea deals because people don't have the resources to fight back.
	And let's not forget the eared tens of thousands of hours of video evidence that was withheld from defense lawyers.
	Mike Adams put it bluntly.
	This was an insurrection trap.
	A setup by the deep state to paint Trump supporters as terrorists.
	And the result?
	Lives destroyed.
	Families torn apart.
	But here's the thing.
	Both Gary and Mike are calling for more than just pardons.
	They want records expunged and compensation for these prisoners.
	And not just a slap-on-the-wrist payout.
	We're talking life-changing amounts.
	Because how do you put a price on four years of your life?
	Now let's talk about the role of the church in all of this.
	Gary emphasized how crucial spiritual support is for these prisoners.
	Many of them have lost everything.
	Their homes, their jobs, even their families.
	And the church?
	It's stepping up.
	From counseling to food drives, the community is rallying around these folks in a big way.
	But here's the real question.
	What's next?
	Gary believes this is a litmus test for the Trump administration.
	If Trump pardons these prisoners, it's a sign that he's serious about restoring the rule of law.
	If not, well, let's just say there's going to be a lot of angry Americans.
	So, what can you do?
	First, And with that, I'll leave you with this thought.
	In the words of Isaiah, Learn to do right.
	Seek justice.
	Defend the oppressed.
	Let's be the ones who step up.
	Thanks for tuning in, everyone.
	Until next time, stay curious, stay informed, and visit brighton.com for more videos, interview, and podcasts on the topics that matter.
	God bless America.
	All right.
	Isn't that amazing?
	Yeah, I know the AI didn't get everything perfect, like pronouncing Brideon or spelling it correctly.
	That's okay.
	I've got another video to show you here, which people have found even more astonishing.
	I did post this over the weekend, if you happen to see it on my channel, but I'll play it here.
	Seven minutes and 40 seconds.
	This is a similar kind of treatment covering my interview with Dane Wigington from last week, where we talk about climate engineering, weather control, weather weaponization, what's happening in California with the fires, smart meters, setting fires in some cases.
	And the deadly threat of the collapse of our biosphere if we don't resolve this issue very quickly.
	So this is a seven-minute highlights, overview, sort of presentation of my interview with Dane Wigington.
	And pay attention because we're going to do something like this for every interview from here forward.
	So it gives you that option.
	If you miss a full interview, and some of them can be quite lengthy, I understand, you know, 90-minute interview.
	If you miss one and you just want to get the highlights, you can watch this shorter version, or you can watch all the short versions and then decide if you want to see the full interview, but it's up to you.
	Check this out, Climate Engineering, a dire wake-up call with Dane Wigington.
	All right, folks, buckle up, because today's episode is a wild ride.
	We're diving into one of the most urgent, Mind-blowing and frankly terrifying conversations I've ever come across.
	This is Natural News, your go-to source for the unfiltered truth.
	And today we're talking about something that's not just a theory.
	It's a reality that's unfolding right before our eyes.
	I'm talking about climate engineering, biosphere destruction, and the very real possibility that if we don't wake up and act now, humanity might not make it.
	Yeah, it's that serious.
	So let's set the stage.
	I recently came across an interview between Mike Adams, the founder of Brighteon.com and Natural News, and Dane Wigington, the world's leading expert on climate engineering and geoengineering.
	If you don't know Dane, he's been sounding the alarm on this stuff for over 20 years, and his work at geoengineeringwatch.org has been nothing short of groundbreaking.
	This interview?
	It's a wake-up call.
	A big one.
	And I'm here to break it down for you in a way that's easy to digest but still hits hard.
	Let's start with the California fires.
	You've seen the headlines, right?
	Entire towns wiped out, billions in damages, and a narrative that just doesn't add up.
	Dane explains that these fires aren't just random acts of nature.
	Nope.
	They're the result of climate engineering operations that have been ramped up since the early 2000s.
	These operations are messing with the hydrological cycle, drying out regions, creating drought conditions, and even coating the land with toxic...
	Incendiary particles like aluminum, barium, and graphene.
	Yeah, you heard that right.
	These particles aren't just harmful to the soil and plants.
	They're explosive.
	Aluminum nanoparticles, for example, are a key ingredient in thermite, which is used in demolitions.
	So when these particles are scattered across the landscape, they're essentially turning the land into a tinderbox.
	But wait, it gets worse.
	Dane points out, That military documents have openly discussed using wildfires as a weapon.
	That's right.
	Wildfires.
	He explains that these documents outline how to create conditions that make areas vulnerable to firestorms.
	And guess what?
	The particles being sprayed into the atmosphere aren't just drying out the land.
	They're also being used to manipulate wind patterns.
	By ionizing the atmosphere and using frequency transmissions, they can create atmospheric pressure zones.
	That drives surface winds.
	In other words, they're creating the perfect conditions for a firestorm.
	And when you combine that with smart meters, which have been proven to start fires, you've got a recipe for disaster.
	Dane even shares stories of homes igniting from the inside out before the fires even reach them.
	How?
	Smart meters.
	These devices, which are installed on homes to monitor energy use, can be remotely activated to ignite fires.
	It's like something out of a sci-fi movie.
	But it's happening right now.
	Now, let's talk about the bigger picture.
	Why would anyone do this?
	Why would governments and power structures deliberately destroy the environment and put lives at risk?
	Dane doesn't mince words here.
	He says it's because we're a liability.
	That's right.
	Humanity is seen as expendable, and those in power are more interested in maintaining control than ensuring our survival.
	He references statements from former presidential advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski, who once said, With today's technology, it's far easier to kill a million people than to control them.
	Chilling, right?
	And it's not just about wildfires.
	Dane ties this into the COVID-19 pandemic, the weaponization of AI, and even the global push for nuclear power.
	He explains that the race for AI dominance is driving governments to redirect energy resources away from consumers.
	And into data centers.
	Microsoft, for example, has contracted with the Three Mile Island Nuclear Power Plant to secure 835 megawatts of power, enough to power 800,000 homes, just to fuel their AI data centers.
	Meanwhile, the rest of us are being pushed toward energy poverty.
	But here's the kicker.
	Climate engineering is making all of this worse.
	Dane explains that these operations are not only drying out the land and creating firestorms, they're also blocking sunlight.
	Wind turbines?
	They're being rendered useless because geoengineering is creating extreme wind patterns that either shut them down or reduce their efficiency.
	And hydropower?
	Forget about it.
	Regions that depend on it are being starved of precipitation.
	So while governments and corporations are scrambling to secure energy for AI and data centers, they're simultaneously destroying the very systems that could provide sustainable energy.
	For the rest of us.
	And let's not forget the global implications.
	Dane talks about how climate engineering is sterilizing soils, killing plankton populations, and triggering planetary feedback loops that could lead to Venus Syndrome, a scenario where the planet becomes uninhabitable.
	He points to the methane craters in Siberia as evidence of these feedback loops.
	As methane explodes into the atmosphere, it traps heat, which causes more methane to release.
	It's a vicious cycle, and climate engineering is making it worse, not better.
	So what's the solution?
	Dane is clear.
	We have to stop climate engineering.
	He says it's the single greatest threat we face, and if we don't address it, nothing else will matter.
	He calls for a global awakening, for people to wake up to the reality of what's happening in our skies and demand change.
	He also emphasizes the importance of decentralized energy systems and local food production.
	But he warns that none of it will matter if we don't stop the geoengineering operations that are destroying the planet's life support systems.
	Now I know this is a lot to take in.
	It's heavy, it's overwhelming, and it's easy to feel powerless in the face of such massive, systemic issues.
	But here's the thing.
	We're not powerless.
	Dane reminds us that every single one of us has the power to make a difference.
	Whether it's spreading awareness, supporting organizations like geoengineeringwatch.org, Or simply refusing to accept the status quo, we all have a role to play.
	As Dane says, any one of us could be the final pebble that triggers the landslide of awakening.
	So what's the takeaway?
	Wake up.
	Pay attention to what's happening in the world around you.
	Question the narratives you're being fed.
	And most importantly, don't give up.
	The stakes are too high, and the time to act is now.
	If we can come together, raise our voices, and demand change, That's it for today's episode of Natural News.
	If this conversation resonated with you, share it with someone who needs to hear it.
	And don't forget to check out geoengineeringwatch.org for more information and resources.
	Until next time, stay curious, stay informed, and keep fighting for the truth.
	This has been an AI augmented summary of an interview between Dane Wigington and Mike Adams on January 14th, 2025.
	The full interview is available at brighteon.com, where you can also find podcasts and special reports by Mike Adams and other creators.
	Visit naturalnews.com for full editorial coverage of this interview and breaking news on critical stories that will keep you informed and aware of what's really going on.
	All right.
	So you get the idea.
	We can take an interview.
	And using these AI tools, we can sort of restate the interview or cover the interview with illustrations, with AI, text-to-voice technology, and it's very compelling.
	I mean, frankly, this even helps me understand the most important points of the interview because sometimes I can get lost.
	There are times where I do an interview and then a couple days later I'm like, What did we talk about?
	It was so nebulous.
	It was like, what's the main takeaway from that interview?
	And since I do so many interviews, sometimes that happens.
	I love to be able to watch a short summary like this.
	It's more than a summary.
	It's retelling the story of the interview in an exciting and intriguing way and visually very interesting, too, in this case.
	That was a specific...
	Illustration theme that we use for that one.
	I actually, I produced both of these videos that you just saw.
	I did those myself over the weekend.
	And I chose that style, which is actually kind of a sci-fi theme.
	And I just love it.
	It's really cool.
	It's like, I call that Blade Runner.
	It's the Blade Runner theme, you know?
	I love that theme.
	But it's not appropriate for every topic, but I thought it worked pretty well for this climate engineering topic.
	All right, now, I've got something else to show you.
	That will also blow your mind.
	All right, so what if we did the same thing?
	You know, retelling the story with voice narration and with illustrations, but what if we did it about a really interesting book instead of an interview?
	And so when I want to just pick out a really interesting book, it's very easy for me to...
	Think of some amazing books or interesting books.
	And one of them is called The Contagion Myth by Thomas Cowan, Dr. Thomas Cowan.
	And in this book, and I think Sally Fallon Morrell also is the co-author of that book, excuse me.
	But this book reveals why viruses are not the cause of disease, why the viral pandemic was a hoax from the very beginning.
	Now, whether you agree or disagree with that, this book exists.
	And so I took my Enoch AI engine and I had Enoch read the book, which took two seconds, and then to generate the following video script, which is retelling the story of the book.
	It's not a book summary.
	It's a new investigative story about What the book says, and then voiced and then illustrated with incredible imagery.
	This will just blow your mind.
	This is also about seven minutes.
	It's called The Contagion Myth Rethinking Viruses and Disease, and I produced this myself.
	It's one of the things I did over the weekend.
	I'm playing around with all these tools and generating videos and going, wow, mind blown, right?
	Over and over again, I'm blowing my own mind with this stuff.
	So check out this video and realize we can do this with any book, any book.
	And in fact, we're going to do it with Dr. Suzanne Humphrey's book called Dissolving Illusions, and we're going to do it with maybe Sherry Tenpenny's book and RFK Jr.'s book about Fauci, huh?
	Wouldn't that be something?
	But check this out, The Contagion Myth.
	All right, folks, buckle up, because today we're diving into one of the most controversial, mind-bending.
	I'm your host, Natural News, and this is the podcast where we question everything, dig deep, and connect the dots that mainstream media won't touch.
	Today's episode is all about The Contagion Myth, a book by Dr. Thomas Cowan and Sally Fallon Murrell that challenges everything we've been told about viruses, disease, and the very foundation of modern medicine.
	If you're ready to have your worldview rocked, Stick around.
	Let's start with the big question.
	What if viruses aren't the cause of disease?
	I know.
	I know.
	It sounds crazy.
	We've been told for over a century that germs, bacteria, and viruses are the bad guys.
	The invaders that make us sick.
	But what if that's not the whole story?
	What if the germ theory, the idea that microorganisms cause disease, isn't just incomplete, but fundamentally wrong?
	That's the bombshell claim at the heart of the contagion myth.
	The authors take us back to the origins of germ theory, starting with Louis Pasteur, the man often credited as the father of modern microbiology.
	But here's the kicker.
	Pasteur wasn't exactly the hero we've been led to believe.
	According to Cowan and Fallon Murrell, Pasteur's experiments were riddled with fraud.
	He couldn't prove that bacteria or viruses caused disease in a way that met the scientific standards of his time, standards known as Koch's postulates.
	These postulates are like the gold standard for proving that a microorganism causes a specific disease.
	And guess what?
	No virus or bacteria has ever fully met these criteria.
	Not one.
	But wait, it gets even wilder.
	The authors argue that what we've been calling viruses might actually be something else entirely.
	Exosomes.
	These are tiny particles that our cells produce naturally, especially when they're under stress or exposed to toxins.
	Exosomes aren't invaders.
	They're messengers.
	They help our cells communicate and detoxify.
	So, when we see these particles in sick people, it's not because they're causing the illness.
	It's because the body is trying to heal itself.
	Mind.
	Blown.
	Now let's talk about 5G and electromagnetic fields, EMFs.
	This is where things get really controversial.
	The authors draw a fascinating connection between the rollout of new technologies, like radio waves, radar, and now 5G, and the timing of major disease outbreaks.
	For example, the Spanish flu of 1918 coincided with the widespread installation of radio antennas.
	And today, the introduction of 5G networks seems to align with the COVID-19 pandemic.
	Coincidence?
	Maybe.
	But the authors argue that EMFs disrupt our cells' electrical processes, leading to symptoms that we mistake for viral infections.
	Think about it.
	If our bodies are essentially electrical systems, and they are, then bombarding them with high frequency radiation could throw everything out of whack.
	This might explain why so many COVID-19 symptoms, like respiratory distress and blood clotting, resemble the effects of electrical toxicity.
	And it's not just 5G.
	The authors point out that every major technological leap, from the telegraph to electricity to cell phones, has been followed by new waves of illness.
	Food for thought, right?
	But let's not stop there.
	The book also dives into the role of nutrition and toxins in disease.
	Spoiler alert.
	It's huge.
	The authors argue that modern diets...
	Loaded with processed foods, vegetable oils, and sugar are starving our cells and making us more vulnerable to illness.
	On the flip side, traditional foods like raw milk, bone broth, and fermented vegetables are packed with nutrients that strengthen our bodies and protect us from harm.
	And let's not forget about toxins.
	From glyphosate in our food to aluminum in vaccines, we're constantly bombarded with substances that weaken our systems and make us sick.
	This brings us to vaccines.
	The authors don't hold back here.
	They argue that vaccines are based on a flawed understanding of immunity and that they often do more harm than good.
	For example, they point out that the polio vaccine was linked to a rise in cases of vaccine-induced paralysis.
	And the measles vaccine?
	Well, according to the book, there's no solid evidence that the measles virus even exists.
	In fact, a German court ruled in 2016 that there's no proof of the measles virus.
	Yet we're still vaccinating millions of kids for it.
	Talk about a scandal.
	So, what's the takeaway from all this?
	The authors aren't just trying to tear down the existing medical paradigm.
	They're offering a new way of thinking about health and disease.
	Instead of blaming germs, they suggest we focus on terrain theory.
	The idea that disease arises from imbalances in the body's internal environment.
	This means eating nutrient-dense foods, avoiding toxins, and reducing our exposure to EMFs.
	It's about creating a body that's resilient and capable of healing itself.
	And let's not forget the power of consciousness.
	The authors argue that fear, stress and negative emotions can literally make us sick.
	In a world where we're constantly bombarded with fear-based messaging about pandemics, about climate change, about everything, it's no wonder so many of us feel unwell.
	The solution?
	Cultivate love, trust and positivity.
	Easier said than done, I know.
	But it's a powerful reminder that our mental and emotional states play a huge role in our physical health.
	Alright, let's wrap this up.
	The Contagion Myth is a bold, provocative, and deeply researched book that challenges us to rethink everything we've been told about health and disease.
	Whether you agree with all of its claims or not, it's impossible to ignore the questions it raises.
	Are viruses really the enemy?
	Is modern medicine helping us?
	I'll leave you with this.
	The next time you hear someone say, it's just a virus, remember that there's always more to the story.
	Stay curious, stay skeptical, and keep questioning everything.
	This is Natural News, signing off.
	Until next time, take care of yourselves, and each other.
	This has been an AI augmented book review and summary from Natural News.
	Visit brighteon.com for more fascinating videos like this one.
	And visit naturalnews.com for full editorial coverage and breaking news on critical stories that help keep you informed and aware of what's really going on.
	All right.
	Wow.
	Huh?
	You see the power of that?
	Isn't that amazing?
	I'm willing to bet most of you have not read The Contagion Myth.
	I had read it quite a while ago, a couple of years ago.
	And I had forgotten.
	Some of the highlights of it.
	This video that I just showed you really helped me just remember the most important points of that book and to really think about it.
	And so what we're going to do, obviously, is we're going to produce some of these videos on certain books that we want to help promote.
	Books that have amazing ideas that we think you should be introduced to.
	And of course, in each of these videos, we'll be recommending the book.
	I'm improving the process here because we want to support these authors and help publicize their books and the incredible stories that their books tell.
	But very often, I mean, who has time to sit down for four hours or six hours or whatever it takes to go through and actually read a book these days?
	I don't know about you, but even I don't have time to read entire books most of the time, unless it's something super special.
	I need to first...
	Get a short version of what is this about, and then if it's something really special, then I may dedicate the time to read that full book.
	For most books, though, just taking them off the shelf, if I don't already know that they're amazing, there's no way I'm going to spend hours and hours reading that book to get to the key concepts.
	So this video approach that we're doing here is something that I think will be incredibly, incredibly valuable.
	And so I want to mention that then...
	Starting soon, maybe in a week, maybe less, every day here in the broadcast, I'm going to bring you at least one book video that promotes an intriguing and I think important book.
	Some of these books are from years past and some of them are more recent.
	It's not just new books.
	And, you know, we don't get paid to do this.
	We're actually just helping these authors to publicize their books.
	We believe this will improve their book sales.
	So it's helping publishers and helping authors and helping you understand these key concepts.
	I mean, right now, after watching that video, aren't you really interested to learn more from Dr. Thomas Cowan?
	He's on to something, huh?
	And Sally Fallon Morrell as well.
	You know, they're on to something.
	When I first heard, when I interviewed Sally the first time, I was really skeptical.
	I didn't believe what she was saying.
	And now I understand, but it took time.
	So we're just doing this to help empower people with knowledge and understanding.
	So we're going to do this for the book written by Roger Veer called Hijacking Bitcoin.
	Yeah, we're going to do this about a Bitcoin book.
	Won't that be interesting?
	Very cool.
	All right, two things coming up for you now.
	First, I published a special report over the weekend.
	That's 28 minutes.
	It's called My Economic Outlook for 2025 and Beyond.
	And I'm going to play that here today because this is what I think a lot of people want to hear from me right now is, okay, where do we go from here economically?
	Is it all good news?
	Is it all bad news?
	Is it collapse?
	Well, it's going to be short-term bad news.
	But if Trump plays his cards right, and if the right things line up, then we could.
	Be unleashing an era of real economic abundance.
	But my guess is hard times for 12 to 24 months.
	That's my rough timeline.
	Maybe shorter, maybe longer.
	But if we get through this in 18 months, consider it to be good news.
	Or if it's just 12 months, even better news.
	Amazing.
	So we're going to go to that, and then we'll have the full interview with Montauk.
	Tom Montauk about AI and technology and things like that.
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	We're going to start going back in time on some of the best interviews and illustrating those and bringing you those as well.
	So that should be tons of fun.
	All right, with that said, here's today's interview with Tom Montauk.
	And just, look, join me in praying for Trump's safety and effectiveness, strength and courage, because this is a big day for America, and it's time.
	Finally work together to rebuild this country instead of just watching it be destroyed by these demon rats with a D next to their name.
	They've done so much damage, it's going to take a while to turn things around.
	But aren't you glad that Janet Yellen's gone?
	Aren't you glad it's changing of the guard at the Pentagon and the FBI and the DOJ and the White House and all that?
	Yeah, big changes coming.
	Let's see what happens with the J6 prisoners today.
	I know Trump said he's going to pardon them, but my understanding is that it could still take a couple of days for the Justice Department to actually set them free physically, you know?
	I don't know what's going to happen, but I do know that Gary Haven and a bunch of volunteers are ready to help those people, all those J6 victims, victims of tyranny and the entrapment of the FBI. That's got to stop.
	And frankly, the people that set that up.
	Of course, need to be arrested and indicted.
	I'm talking about the deep state officials that carried that whole thing out.
	But we'll see what happens.
	So stay tuned.
	It's going to be a very interesting week.
	And enjoy this special report about the economic outlook for 2025 and this interview with Tom Montauk.
	Welcome to the Health Ranger Report with Mike Adams, the Health Ranger.
	Welcome to this podcast.
	I'm Mike Adams with an economic outlook for 2025 and beyond.
	And the first thing I'll say is a lot of this depends on the reaction to Trump's policies, including his threats to enact a lot of tariffs against countries that try to embrace the BRICS currency, for example, or against countries that are involved in Shuttling illegals into the United States.
	That includes Canada and Mexico.
	And also significant tariffs are being placed against China and other countries for lots of different reasons.
	You know, Iran.
	And Trump is going to use tariffs as a bludgeon against the world economy.
	And perhaps some of it is justified.
	I do think that tariffs on Mexico are a good tool.
	To try to coerce the Mexican leadership into taking deportees out of the United States since Mexico allowed them into the United States.
	So, you know, there's a case where Mexico is actually complicit in the illegal invasion of the United States.
	So there it makes a lot of sense.
	I don't agree on using tariffs to just try to bludgeon countries that want to look at other alternative currencies.
	But Mexico is complicit.
	So, yeah, well.
	Maybe that's why the Mexican president already agreed to take millions of deportees off the hands of US officials.
	That's probably why.
	Because she knows that Trump is serious about these tariffs.
	In any case, if these tariffs go into place, you are going to see significant price increases on, of course, all these imported goods.
	And since a lot of what you buy in the United States is...
	Made in Mexico or China or Korea or other countries.
	As these countries are hit by tariffs, of course, you're going to see sky-high prices on these products at retail.
	For this very reason, for the last couple of months, many of the wholesalers and the manufacturers have been stocking up like crazy on pre-purchasing products from other countries to get them into the United States before Trump becomes president.
	Of course, that clock has run out, but that also explains why there was so much economic activity in the last few months.
	It was all pre-purchasing.
	So, the backlash against that, that we're all about to experience, is a drop in purchasing, because all these companies that pre-purchased, now they have excess inventory, and for the next several months, they're not going to buy any inventory.
	So, you're going to see plummeting purchases or imports for that very reason.
	And then increased consumer prices at retail will, of course, result in fewer people purchasing those products.
	So you're going to see plummeting sales in certain cases on certain products.
	And, by the way, I'm not judging Trump on these decisions.
	I'm simply trying to explain the economic consequences.
	And whatever the consequences, they will be short-term.
	Because no country can handle 50% tariffs for very long or 100% tariffs, as Trump may threaten.
	And so there's going to be a negotiation.
	This is going to get worked out.
	But Trump is throwing down the gauntlet, so to speak, and laying down the law with some new rules of how these other countries are going to have to interact with the United States if they want to tap into America's purchasing marketplace, which is...
	Well, probably the largest in the world or among the largest for sure.
	Now, what is it that drives America's purchasing marketplace?
	You know, the honest answer is that it's the printing of the dollar and the fact that the dollar remains the world reserve currency in 2025. And that is also threatened by the rise of the BRICS nations and the fact that Trump himself and also Biden had strongly weaponized the dollar and weaponized the SWIFT system.
	In order to punish countries like Russia or China and many other countries along the way, Iran, obviously, by weaponizing the dollar.
	And this results in more and more countries wanting to move away from the dollar.
	So there is a very real risk that this year, beginning this year, and moving ahead in the subsequent years, that many countries...
	Could really begin to move their settlements and trade away from dollar-denominated transactions and move into other currencies.
	In fact, this process has already begun.
	Trade between Russia and China involves almost no dollars whatsoever today.
	It took a couple of years to get there, but it's basically there.
	Trade between India and Russia is also largely in their own domestic currencies.
	Trade between India and China is also largely conducted between their own currencies, and the depth of that international settlement is increasing.
	What this means for America is that if the dollar loses its global hegemony status or world reserve currency status, which may take time, but I think it's likely to happen, America will no longer be able to simply print money and export debt in exchange for goods and services from other countries.
	And at that point, the quality of life for Americans will sharply plummet because we have been living in an artificially pumped up consumption economy that has been supported by the ability to print dollars and trade them for goods.
	That's going to go away.
	It's not a sustainable situation.
	Ultimately, the United States will have to compete with other countries by producing and exporting its own goods and services.
	And while the U.S. is strong in certain areas, such as, let's say, iPhones, the country is not very strong in a lot of areas, like consumer electronics or appliances, for that matter.
	America is blessed with agriculture and with a lot of energy.
	And the good news is that Trump will likely open up energy production.
	And very quickly, probably within one to two years, the United States will once again be a net exporter of energy.
	And that will help the trade imbalances that currently plague this nation.
	And exporting energy from the United States will also help create international demand for the dollar.
	Those purchases of U.S. energy will, of course, be conducted only in dollars, and that would require those purchasing parties to buy dollars first and then use those dollars in exchange for the energy that they're buying.
	So that's actually a pro-dollar, pro-America policy that Trump is pursuing, opening up domestic energy production.
	It's a wise move, and it will help our domestic economy.
	Now, the real question in my mind is, how is Trump going to tackle the national debt?
	Or just the ongoing money printing issue where the government has to create money to pay the interest on the debt?
	Because what's happening, of course, every day, gradually, but also kind of dramatically, is that the American people are losing the purchasing power of their dollars.
	And this is, of course, reflected in inflationary pricing of consumer goods and food and insurance.
	Potentially in fuel coming up.
	We'll see.
	But a lot of consumer goods are way more expensive than they should be in dollars, and that's just because the dollars are being printed into oblivion.
	Now, in his first administration, Trump was a big debt spender.
	He actually took us into far more debt than Obama did.
	I think Obama added roughly $7 or $8 trillion of debt, and I believe Trump added...
	Significantly more than that.
	I forgot the exact number.
	But just in four years instead of eight years.
	For sure, Trump added another $8 trillion.
	Well, I can't just blame Trump.
	I mean, it's Congress that approves the spending.
	But under Trump, at least another $8 trillion was added to the federal deficit, which now sits at $36 trillion.
	Biden did not reel it in, obviously.
	And there was a lot of debt spending.
	You know, during the COVID years, the stimulus money, etc.
	So this is a real question.
	Will Trump pursue anything resembling fiscal discipline?
	Or will he just print money to further pump up the artificial economy?
	Now, if Trump pursues just a lot of money printing, he can create what appears to be a really abundant economy for a period of time.
	He can make the stock market go up.
	He can make Bitcoin go up by having the government buy Bitcoin.
	He can make people's consumption rise by handing out stimulus money or even ending the IRS. Imagine that.
	That would be very stimulating to the economy to let the American people keep what they earn.
	You would see consumer spending just skyrocket, and that would be reflected in much higher GDP numbers, economic productivity, higher demand for goods and services.
	You know, more money chasing the same supply of goods and services and homes and land and so on.
	So you would see a lot of price increases in all of those things that people tend to buy.
	But nevertheless, I happen to agree that ending the IRS is a great idea.
	It should be done because the government doesn't need tax dollars to fund itself anyway since it can print all the money that it wants.
	And we know this because it prints money all the time.
	Whenever it needs to.
	You know, trillion dollars here, trillion dollars there.
	Sooner or later it adds up to real money, it seems.
	But will Trump go on a money printing spree?
	Also to fund the military?
	And to fund his programs?
	And I believe the answer is yes.
	I may be wrong.
	I doubt it though.
	Trump is not one who exercises a conservative...
	He's kind of a high roller when it comes to money creation and debt and low interest rates.
	So probably what we'll see is Trump pressuring the Fed to lower interest rates as close to zero as possible.
	And we'll also see Trump printing money like mad and probably engaging in all kinds of stimulus programs to try to shunt dollars into the hands of consumers in order to spur consumer spending.
	As I just mentioned, for example, ending the IRS or just ending the federal income tax on individuals.
	You know, you could still keep the IRS around in a smaller form to, number one, collect taxes on previous years.
	And then secondly, there are still, you know, payroll taxes and there might still be corporate taxes.
	but Trump's talking about creating an external revenue service rather than an internal revenue service and Saying that this external service would focus on collecting revenues for the government through tariffs well That's going to be a lot of tariff money if if he plans on bringing in trillions of dollars through tariffs alone I'm not sure how that would work, but we'll see.
	In any case, it's pretty obvious to me that the real winner in all of this Because I think Trump will print a lot more money.
	I think Trump will produce a lot of stimulus spending.
	I think Trump will take steps to put more money into more people's hands.
	And that will cause a lot of price inflation and also inflation of assets.
	And it will create the appearance that everybody's getting rich.
	Because people will say, hey, my stocks are going up.
	My Bitcoin's going up.
	My home prices are going up.
	My equity is going up.
	And again, it's the perception.
	And people are going to be happy with that.
	What's really going to be happening is that the dollar is going to lose value more rapidly.
	Maybe 20% a year or something like that.
	Maybe 25% a year.
	I'm not sure.
	The real winner is going to be gold.
	Gold and silver.
	Now, maybe Bitcoin, if you can speculate it just right, if you can get in right before the government pumps it, and then get out right before the government dumps it, if you think you can time it, You know, good luck.
	I'm not going to play that game with Bitcoin because I know the government can't really manipulate gold in the same way.
	I'm going to bet on gold and silver as certainties.
	As more dollars come into existence, gold will go up in dollar denominations.
	It doesn't mean that gold will purchase more.
	It just means that gold is preserving, of course, its existing purchasing power.
	But denominated in dollars, it will be a lot more Dollars per ounce of gold, in essence, right?
	I'm also going to say that the Trump years will be a great time to own hard assets such as homes and land and farmland in particular, because farmland will be made more viable due to lower energy costs as Trump opens up domestic energy exploration.
	So that's going to make farming, at least in the short term, more revenue positive.
	It should bring down the cost of food pretty rapidly, and that will help combat inflation from all the money printing.
	So Trump will actually give himself some leeway on the money printing simply by making energy more abundant and more affordable, and possibly also by ending federal income taxes or lowering tax rates.
	But the long-term bottom line in this, which is really important to understand, is that Even if Trump does these things, and even if he creates several years of illusions of growth, unless America gets back to a core manufacturing base, in the long run, the dollar cannot really compete.
	And unless the U.S. Navy becomes much stronger and is able to project power and has advanced weaponry, such as hypersonic missiles, which it currently does not have, You know, if these things don't change, the dollar is doomed.
	And I don't think Trump is going to move away from that course that ultimately brings us to the end of the dollar.
	It may not end all at once.
	It may not end under Trump.
	But Trump will likely contribute to the factors that ultimately result in the ending of the dollar.
	And there's also another possibility I mentioned previously, which is that Trump and Elon Musk and others They may decide to default on the dollar debt as a way to achieve really radical reform, effectively declaring bankruptcy on the current United States corporation and forming a new nation,
	which I'm calling the American Republic, and launching a new currency, which is not controlled by an international cabal of criminal banksters, i.e.
	the Federal Reserve.
	Now, a move like that would, of course, be highly, highly disruptive to the economy.
	There would be a lot of short-term pain.
	There would be a lot of losses, even a risk of riots, revolts, revolutions, what have you.
	Massive bankruptcies.
	That whole thing could get out of hand.
	But depending on how bad the situation gets between now and then, that might be the only viable option.
	We also have to consider the fact that the deep state wants to collapse the currency under Trump and blame Trump.
	This might be one of the weapons of economic warfare against Trump to try to depose him and to end the Trump presidency, which the deep state is desperate to do.
	So they could even fake a cyber attack event on the U.S. banking system or even when I say fake it, I mean they would actually launch that from the NSA and the CIA, but they would blame Russia or China.
	And they could take down the U.S. banking system, cause an economic collapse, trying to bring down the Trump presidency and just saying that Trump can't defend America and he's got to go.
	I mean, given what they did to Trump in the first term, I can absolutely see them trying something like that in the second term.
	What we need to understand is it's not incompetency on the part of Trump if that scenario emerges.
	It's the weaponization.
	against Trump and against America because there are a lot of traitors still in power that Trump and his administration will hopefully be able to at least partially clean out if not completely nullify maybe have some of them arrested but if you think about it this kind of warfare against Trump is using the United States of America as a battleground and causing Economic pain and devastation across the American landscape and harming
	the American people, harming American businesses just to hurt Trump.
	And this is exactly what the deep state is willing to do.
	I mean, think about it.
	They rolled out the COVID narrative to try to hurt Trump, even though ultimately the vaccines and the hospital homicide protocols murdered over a million Americans.
	They didn't care.
	They'll kill a million Americans if they think it can hurt Trump.
	So don't think that there's some limit of something they won't do.
	Don't say to yourself, oh, they would never do that.
	That goes too far.
	No, there is no too far for these globalists, these deep staters, these America haters, these traitors.
	There's nothing that's too far for them.
	And if they think they can hurt Trump by crashing the entire banking system, they'll do it.
	Or if they think they can hurt Trump by...
	Collapsing the domestic energy infrastructure or setting off a nuke somewhere in the U.S. so they can blame Trump.
	Yeah, they'll do it.
	Look, there's nothing they won't do.
	In fact, I'm amazed and also thankful that we made it this far without something like that happening.
	Now, they did try to kill Trump twice, so we know that happened.
	I thought for sure after that they were going to set off car bombs or area-effect weapons.
	Or drone attacks or nuclear weapons or radiological dirty bombs or something like that.
	And, you know, for all we know, maybe somebody tried that and they just did not succeed because they were stopped by some superheroes that we'll never even know about.
	I mean, we just don't know.
	I'm willing to bet the deep state tried things that did not work.
	And since they did not work, we just don't know about them.
	But they're willing to try anything.
	And this continues after Trump's inauguration.
	Okay?
	This continues.
	Because that's when the deep state really freaking panics.
	You know, the FBI just shut down its woke DEI program in a panic, of course.
	And Trump immediately responded and said, preserve all your records, you know, because we're coming for you.
	We're going to investigate you and all your discrimination against mostly white men.
	It turns out.
	Yeah, the FBI was a bunch of woke libtards, a bunch of tyrants, a bunch of authoritarians, lawless crooks under a lawless fake president known as Joe Biden, who never even won the election in 2020. And Trump knows all this, and he's going to unleash a series of investigations,
	I would imagine, and a series of reforms that will include the FBI. And maybe if things get interesting enough or bad enough or radical enough, Like I said earlier, Trump just finds a way to sort of declare bankruptcy of the United States of America as we know it,
	end all federal paychecks, end all federal contracts, end all federal agencies, start a new republic with a new honest currency with zero income taxes, and then unleash a new golden age after a period of incredible disruption.
	But honestly, I think that's the way to go.
	I think that the federal government has become a cancer to this nation, and it's a cancer tumor that can't be resolved.
	It can't even be cut out of the organism.
	You can't surgically remove it.
	You have to actually end that system and start a new system.
	That's how bad it is.
	Like the cancer tumor has taken over the entire system.
	I mean, look at the Senate.
	Bunch of deep state crooks, right?
	A cabal of criminals.
	And they're never going to vote for term limits on themselves.
	They're going to do anything to stay in power.
	They will always do that.
	So the bottom line in all of this, folks, is be prepared for disruptions, but also have a sense of optimism about long-term possibilities.
	So Trump and his administration could do a tremendous amount of good in all of this, even if it's very disruptive in the short term.
	And I'm expecting that, and I'm okay with that.
	You know, there's a saying, you have to break a few eggs to make an omelet.
	I'm not sure that's the best metaphor.
	But I'm okay with short-term disruptions, a couple of years of disruptions, if we have long-term freedom, abundance, and really ending the deep state cabal and the bloated federal government and all the departments that define its tyranny and its...
	It's corruption and waste and fraud.
	Whatever it takes to end that, if it's three years of recession, I'm okay with that.
	If it's short-term financial chaos, I'm okay with that.
	But I'm not the one who makes the call on this, so we'll...
	We'll have to see what Trump does.
	Bottom line is, I believe gold and silver are going to be the best places to preserve assets through all of this, whatever happens, whether it's mild or aggressive or radical or calm, whatever.
	Gold and silver are going to be stores of value.
	So check out the Treasure Island Precious Metals Company.
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	But always...
	Customize your plan for yourself.
	Work with a financial advisor.
	Find experts who can help you personalize your plan.
	I'm not your financial advisor, and I don't encourage speculating on gold or silver or Bitcoin.
	But also, if you're holding dollars, you're speculating on the dollar, really.
	And dollars are for sure going to lose value.
	We've seen that.
	We've lived through that, and it's only going to get...
	Probably a lot worse.
	So think about ways to diversify out of the dollar.
	I think gold and silver are the best ways right now.
	Maybe crypto after you're squared away with gold and silver, but be careful with crypto.
	You can lose everything.
	Some of it's pretty technical.
	I prefer privacy coins over Bitcoin, that's for sure.
	I mean, like Monero or Xano or other privacy coins.
	I'm just not a fan of the...
	The surveillance blockchain of Bitcoin.
	You have no privacy at all on Bitcoin.
	But whatever.
	Do what's right for you.
	Do your own research.
	Figure out what works.
	And stay informed.
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	and take care.
	Welcome to Decentralized TV here on Brighttown.com.
	I'm Mike Adams, the founder of Brighteon.
	And as you know, this show, every show, is all about empowering you with knowledge and tools for decentralization so that you can take control back from those centralized surveillance state and the tyrants and the authoritarians that want to enslave you.
	So decentralization is the answer to that.
	And that's why this show now, with my co-host Todd Pitner, has been such a success.
	And welcome, Todd, to the show today.
	It's always great to have you back on.
	It's a new year.
	Great to be here, Mike.
	And I think you, I know you have a better memory than me.
	Help me.
	Because, gosh, I think it's been...
	An entire year since we last did a show together, Mike, right?
	Back in 2024. I mean, anyway, Happy New Year, and with all my heart, I offer a prayer, and I mean it with all my heart, Mike.
	I ask God to put a hedge of protection around you in 2025 because, man, oh man, you are over the target, and we are all better people.
	For the fact that you put yourself out there on the front line.
	So thank you, Mike.
	Well, thank you, Todd.
	That's very heartwarming to hear that from you.
	Look, I do not hold any fear moving into 2025. I'm actually really excited about the future that we are facing.
	And I'm not blind to the risks and the problems and the weaponization of the weather, geoengineering, all this stuff, right?
	I mean, we've talked about a lot of that stuff.
	But, and our guest today, We're going to bring him in in a second.
	Our guest today is also really well informed on this.
	We now have opportunities and a pivot point for human history that most people lived entire lifetimes and never got to experience the moment and the opportunity where we are right now.
	It's extraordinary.
	You know, I was thinking over the holidays...
	Back to 2020. And didn't it feel like in 2020 there was a literal opening of some sort spiritually to where evil marched in and just kind of laid its claim?
	That 2020, 2021, that whole time frame was so crazy.
	And I feel so differently about 2025. I'm energized, man.
	I just really think...
	It's out with the evil, in with the good, beautiful, and true, Mike.
	Absolutely, and this is not just about politics or elections.
	I'm talking about a massive spiritual awakening, a great red-pilling that's happening.
	And I think that's a good segue to bring in our guest right away, because he's got such knowledge in this.
	It's Tom Montauk.
	The website is montauk.net.
	I've got it up here.
	M-O-N-T-A-L-K, montauk.net.
	And he is wildly popular among people who want to know what's going on in the world and beyond this world.
	So welcome!
	A returning guest!
	We love returning guests, Tom.
	This is our, I believe, our second interview with you here.
	Welcome to the show today.
	Yeah, I'm glad to be back for a second round.
	Well, we're happy to have you back.
	Thank you for the time.
	And Todd, I know you've got, I actually showed the link that you requested here, the Survival and Emergency Preparedness, but where do you want to begin with our guest today, Tom?
	I mean, Todd, excuse me, Todd and Tom.
	Whatever you want to call me.
	We got a couple of Ts.
	Yeah, T-O-D-D, Todd.
	Well, I just want everybody to know through the rest of this show, we're going to be talking about preparedness, paranormal entities, the control system that's out there, aliens, elites, solutions.
	You all know we are dedicated to decentralized living, but most importantly, Offering solutions to the centralized Druid Babylonian Bastard control grids that are out there.
	And so, Tom, welcome to the show.
	First of all, I'd like to congratulate you on hitting a 3,000 subscriber milestone on your Telegram group, which is named everyone.
	It's Montauk-TranscendingThe...
	Dot, dot, dot.
	I love that title.
	It's like, you are the man of the dot, dot, dots, man, because you're like a box of chocolates.
	You just don't know what you're going to get when you go into Telegram and start reading.
	But anyway, everyone, Tom's Telegram is a must-subscribe channel, in my opinion.
	And within your channel, Tom, there's a specific post titled Survival in Emergency Preparedness I believe everybody should read, like yesterday, if not sooner.
	And I suggest that you make it a pinned message, actually, in your Telegram group.
	I don't see a lot of pinned messages, but that's one that would be a must.
	But anyway, I know you've been compiling these notes on preparedness for years.
	Can you tell us why?
	And provide some key highlights of your preparedness.
	And Mike, I think I sent you a link that you might be...
	I've got it right here, yeah.
	We'll show it.
	Yeah, so I remember back before 2020, before COVID, when even just talking about the idea of prepping and survivalism, I mean, a lot of people were kind of skeptical about it because up to that point, what has the modern generation even faced?
	Not too much, right?
	But then once COVID came around, it seems like...
	Pretty much everyone and their grandma and their aunt were starting to go down that proper route, starting with the toilet paper shortage and the various sorts of mass panics and mass runs and the supply chain shortages.
	So that sort of introduced people to the idea that, hey, our modern system isn't as stable or as reliable as you think it is.
	And so, luckily, after that point, it was a lot easier for me to push this article around.
	Because at that point, they had the personal experience to realize that, yes, this stuff doesn't matter.
	And I do want to preface it by saying that prior to this point as well, there's a lot of disinformation within both Christianity, the New Age field, and just general thinking with normalcy bias that...
	It's not really necessary to prepare because, as we know, like the idea that God takes care of all things and or the universe provides or I can manifest whatever I need to.
	Or the rapture.
	The rapture is going to take us out and we don't, you know, take us away and we don't have to prepare.
	I've heard that from a lot of Christians.
	Yeah, yeah.
	And so here's the problem with that.
	The problem is that they have personal experience that the divine can intervene in our lives and that...
	There is, like, magic that can help us out, whether we do it through our own subconscious intentions or whether through prayer and having higher forces help us.
	However, we also know that they can only go so far and that we have to meet them halfway.
	And that's the issue.
	The issue is that not everything is covered.
	So, for example, those of you who believe that the higher stuff takes care of everything, I mean, do you still put on your seatbelt when you drive?
	Do you still lock your door at night?
	Do you still...
	Keep a fire extinguisher somewhere on the premises in case there's a fire.
	Do you still have a phone when you go out in case you have to dial 911?
	And the answer, of course, is yes.
	And why is that?
	Well, it's because despite all the help, all the synchronicities, all the prayers being answered, there is still this remnant of the unknown, of the physical, of the deterministic that affects us.
	So we, as physical beings, and spiritual beings, but as physical beings as well, We have to take care of the physical level because we have a foot in this world.
	We have a foot within the physical.
	And so, you know, just as you need good nutrition and sleep and shelter and warmth, well, if you keep extending that, that also goes into stocking up on food, stocking up on essential items, even on self-defense items, knowledge in that category, networking with others who might be in your support group.
	A lunatic fringe thing.
	I mean, I'm preaching to the choir.
	You guys all know, and I'm sure everyone watching knows.
	I'm just saying that for the people that you know, your extended family, your neighbors, your coworkers, a lot of them are still asleep even after these past four years.
	Tom, let me just interject.
	I won't take long, but look, we're dealing with crazy storms that hit North Carolina.
	We're dealing with crazy fires in California.
	If people don't understand that preparedness is critical, you're...
	You're a zombie or something.
	I don't know.
	But it's no longer even a question.
	I mean, preparedness is not a fringe activity.
	It's a basic survival need.
	So go ahead.
	But you know what?
	You know what?
	If I may insert, I was listening to some people at the grocery store today talking about the fires.
	Yeah?
	Their mind, their NPC minds just go to this global warming, this climate change.
	Literally, they're blaming it all on that.
	And I wanted to stop and say, you mean the manufactured climate change at times?
	Or the arsonists?
	So the arsonists?
	Is the name of the arsonists climate change?
	Is it Mr. Change?
	First name climate?
	He's the guy who set the fires?
	Exactly.
	Exactly.
	It's crazy.
	Yes.
	So, sorry for interrupting.
	No, it is crazy.
	It is crazy.
	The normalcy bias, the programmed NPC mentality.
	I mean, the NPC mentality is what got people killed by taking the jabs.
	Plain and simple, right?
	So, I mean, I don't want to say, oh, that's Darwinianism, like survival of the fittest and the smartest, but hey, the gene pool has changed over the past couple years because certain people trusted authority a bit too much.
	Not just with COVID, but also in...
	Hawaii, right?
	Remember those people that obeyed the authorities and stayed on the road?
	That's right.
	They died.
	So, what is the lesson there?
	The lesson is, think for yourself, trust in your higher power, but also think for yourself, and do not trust authority.
	That's right.
	Let's talk about your list, Mike.
	I don't know if you can bring up his, that ink.
	Just because I want to direct people there, if you go to Montauk...
	Transcending the dot dot dot on Telegram, or if you go to montauk.net, you'll be able to find this.
	But I went through it, and it's just really a great list.
	And my goodness, if you don't have a direct...
	If you don't have a direct link to Mike's website for preparedness materials, you should add it because, oh my goodness, that's where you'll find it all, really.
	Yes.
	So that particular article, I have been compiling it since 2010 at least, and it's something that I edit on the regular because as I grow my knowledge and learn from mistakes and learn from other people's mistakes, I add it to this article.
	So this for me, I mean, look.
	My website is mostly about metaphysics, conspiracy topics, the alien agenda, spirituality, and so on, but because all of that can only exist as long as we are alive, therefore this article is actually one of the most important ones on my website.
	Right, right.
	And you know what else is important, Mike?
	You haven't given me the directive yet that I can go buy more toothpaste.
	You know, we keep going back to this.
	It's available now.
	Yes!
	Yes.
	Okay.
	Yeah, at our store.
	Yeah, healthrangerstore.com has the toothpaste in stock.
	Okay.
	Okay.
	I need to find that after this show because I'm on my last tube.
	Oh, okay.
	Yeah, I think we've had it for like five days now.
	So your time is good.
	We've got like 10,000 tubes.
	You're going to be fine.
	Excellent.
	Wow.
	I can now brush my teeth again.
	I've been, you know.
	Yeah, well, Tom, it's a funny story.
	Our toothpaste used to be manufactured overseas.
	It was actually out of Malaysia with our formulation.
	And then the FDA seized an inbound shipment to harass us.
	And they wanted us to destroy the shipment.
	Our attorneys resolved that.
	The FDA released it, said, oh, it's fine now.
	But we had to make it in the U.S., and that's why Todd almost ran out of our toothpaste.
	It is so good, too.
	But that's just a lesson about centralization, and if you have a centralized agency like the FDA or the EPA or whatever, they can make your life a living hell.
	And that speaks to the whole mindset of Tom, of what you talk about, is think for yourself.
	You want to continue along those lines about what's important for people to know as we move into this age of possibly alien orbs, AI, multiverse.
	What do we need to know moving forward here, do you think?
	Well, so the thing is...
	Okay, so there's many, many different trends, as you know, that are converging at the same time.
	Different kinds of singularities that we are approaching.
	So one of those singularities is a downward one, which is the actual collapse of civilization due to...
	Economic issues due to World War III, nuclear conflagration, for example, and of course things like the sun acting up and hitting us with a massive solar flare that wipes out our electric grid, or even the precursor to nuclear World War III could involve a cyber attack, EMP attack, and that alone, and I mentioned this last time, due to the EMP commission study, they said that within the first year, about 90% of the American population would be dead due to starvation and violence.
	The electric grid were to go down to an EMP attack.
	And I guess that would include cyber as well, if it's bad enough.
	So the thing is, we're approaching a time period where there's singularities that are truly apocalyptic, and then there are singularities that are almost utopian, like Star Trek sci-fi.
	So there's one that goes way up, and there's one that goes way down, and things are starting to fluctuate so rapidly between these two extremes that it becomes harder and harder to predict exactly where things will go.
	But here's the thing.
	When it comes to uncertainty, uncertainty alone is the prime reason to be prepared.
	So you don't have to know for sure that negative things will happen.
	Just the fact that security isn't guaranteed is enough to prep.
	But I feel like we're living in Schrodinger's cat box.
	Just like you said.
	But we get to manifest or at least influence the future that is realized as the wave function collapses into reality.
	We are Co-creating this, right, with our consciousness and our souls and our actions, but I feel like what you just said, we could have the worst possible collapse tomorrow, or we could have the best possible utopia in a year because of how technologies are applied or new healing technologies or freedom of speech or all kinds of things.
	Like, both of these possibilities are coexisting.
	It's crazy.
	Yeah, and the only good thing, well, the one good thing I'll say about it is that when we talk about the divine hand or synchronicity or manifesting or people's free will and destinies and spiritual missions, those kinds of things operate best within an environment of chaos or uncertainty where things are fluid those kinds of things operate best within an environment of chaos or uncertainty where things are fluid and flexible, where the unpredictable can happen, because that's when miracles can happen the most easily, versus a system
	Let's say like communist China or North Korea or some sort of future totalitarian AI Borg system.
	So in other words, what I'm trying to say is due to the uncertainty that is coming up and these different singularities that we are fluctuating between, I personally think that that leans everything in the favor of a positive outcome, because that allows a higher hand, whether it's our own subconscious, collective subconscious, the divine hand, whatever, to massage collective subconscious, the divine hand, whatever, to massage and to arrange the unpredictable into a hidden kind of positive order.
	So that's why I remain optimistic, despite all the potentially bad things.
	But the thing is, even we ourselves, we are a mix of the unpredictable.
	In other words, our free will, our intuition, our higher spiritual capacity.
	Those things cannot be calculated or predicted.
	However, we also have our programmed parts, the things that are programmed into us by media, by our genetics, our evolutionary biology, things like that.
	So although we are predictable in some degree, we are also unpredictable.
	And I think the same thing applies to the future as a whole.
	And so therefore, I think we need to be wary of not only our power.
	To exert a kind of synchronistic manifesting influence over reality.
	But we also need to be mindful of our deterministic program part, which is going to bite us in the butt as well in terms of what we need to prepare for and the factors that are in play right now that are no longer synchronistic.
	They are almost like written in stone.
	So, for example, you know, the U.S. debt being, what was it, like 36, 37 trillion dollars by now?
	36, yeah.
	36. So it's headed towards 37, and I remember reading years ago that by the time it hits 32, 33, we will probably default on our debt, but that hasn't happened yet, thankfully.
	The thing is, we are getting closer and closer to that, and if that happens, if the dollar were to collapse, that would be very bad, because that would lead to social upheaval, it would lead to war, because one of the only ways to really shore up the dollar is to exert military might in order to regain confidence in the U.S. supremacy that props up this fiat dollar system.
	So that would also lead to war, and that would then possibly lead to a cyber attack, EMP attack, and therefore the collapse of society as a whole.
	So the thing is, there are deterministic factors in play right now that we have to be mindful of.
	In other words, not everything is under the control of our manifesting ability.
	However, we do have that ability, and we should exert it.
	We just have to be mindful of both aspects.
	Hang on there.
	We talk about this, we all have manifesting ability, but that's fairly elusive to most of us.
	And I say us, because I know intrinsically that I do have the ability to manifest my future.
	I really do believe there's that thing, that power of positive thinking, or sometimes when I get into stinking thinking mode, it's like what I fear manifests, which is why I do my level best to not feed the demons out.
	I don't succumb to fear easily, let's say.
	What do you mean?
	Help others understand what you mean about manifesting our own future, Tom Montauk.
	Right.
	So the thing is, it really comes down to two things, metaphysics and quantum physics.
	So quantum physics says that everything, before we observe it, before we interact with it, is really a cloud of possibilities.
	In other words, it is a spread of different timelines that hasn't yet fully manifested.
	But in order for it to manifest into a particular experience, We, the conscious observer, have to interact with it.
	Now, the issue is, within quantum physics, they say, oh, well, when the observer interacts with the system, then this happens.
	But they don't clarify, what do they mean by the observer?
	Are they talking about our conscious mind, or is it more of our subconscious mind?
	And the answer is, it's a little bit of both.
	But they don't make that distinction.
	But in real life, what this means is that it is not so much the conscious thoughts and feelings that you have, but rather it is the underlying climate.
	The emotional climate, the root assumptions, the core beliefs that you hold about the nature of the world, your place in it.
	Like some people say, life is crap and then you die.
	That's one mindset.
	And some other people say, no, life is good.
	Which one is true?
	And the answer is, well, it's a little bit of both, but it depends on which one you tune into.
	And that's the one that you engage into a kind of feedback loop with and reinforcing, not only through your actions, but also in what you attract to yourself through this weird quantum magnetic attraction that literally changes the probability of different events.
	So in other words, if you have one future where things go really badly for you, another future where, hey, there's all this good luck coming towards you, well, which one ends up happening?
	And the answer is, it's the one that you...
	I don't like to use this new age term, but resonate.
	The one that you resonate with at a deep subconscious level.
	The one that you buy into in terms of your beliefs, your emotions, which of course affects your thoughts, but the thing is it's more like the constant background underlying foundation of your mind.
	That is what ships the probabilities that your life takes.
	100%.
	Is that what's meant by a multiverse in the fact that we are sitting here and through the rest of my day, there are all of these, I can't even imagine the metrics of all these different possibilities that could happen.
	But I somehow make a choice of whether I go down the left aisle or right aisle, and that could change everything in my life.
	But I can't reconcile in my mind that at the same time, there is every multiverse elsewhere that's happening.
	Isn't it just one experience, but the multiverses are the what-ifs?
	Pretty much, yeah.
	One of my favorite analogies and metaphors for this is a choose-your-own-adventure book.
	So if you take that book and you hold it in your hand, the entire story, all the different possibilities are contained in your hand, right?
	But when you actually go through it page by page and you jump to the different page numbers...
	You trace out a kind of personal narrative through it.
	So you can imagine the entire book as this quantum wave function of reality, this multiversal collection.
	And then you yourself, as you go through your day, consciously and subconsciously, you influence your trajectory through this matrix of different possibilities.
	Great.
	I want to bring in a question for you, Tom, about manifestation.
	Also, through the extraordinary technology tools that are becoming available.
	I'm really curious about your view on this.
	I've been building an AI language model on Brighton AI. This will be a really revolutionary new model, free open source.
	And I'm using a lot of AI tools for content creation.
	I've done songs, music videos.
	This interview will be transcribed using AI. And we'll have snippets that are illustrated using AI. And NVIDIA has just announced, Jensen Huang, who's the CEO of NVIDIA, just announced this at CES. Show my screen.
	This is a supercomputer box here.
	It's NVIDIA Project Digits.
	This is coming out this year in May, and it puts a supercomputer power on your desk, which I call a magic...
	I've said anything that you can think of, if you can describe it to the system, it can create it.
	Even metaphorically and metaphysically, this has enormous consequences, I think.
	I believe that AI can help decentralize.
	This can be on your desk.
	You don't need to go to the cloud to do this.
	This can help us spread human knowledge.
	This can help creative expression.
	This can help small businesses and small organizations.
	Be able to amplify their messages.
	But there's also, you know, the Skynet scenario, the doom, the Terminators are coming to kill us.
	And I do get a lot of flack from people about AI. They're like, no, all AI is demonic.
	And so, but I see it as the positive side of we can use these tools to amplify our consciousness.
	What is your take on AI? Because this is an AI singularity year for sure.
	Yeah, it is.
	So the trajectory of technology, as we know, it goes in this exponential curve.
	So it starts off really slow for a very long time, and it starts ramping up, and all of a sudden it shoots up.
	So we are on now on that steep part of that curve right before it shoots up towards the sky.
	And so therefore, within the next five to ten years, if the grid stays up, within that time period, you're going to start having robots.
	You're going to start seeing increasingly Jetsons slash Star Trek things.
	And not only within AI, but also within energy, propulsion, food growing, medicine, everything like that.
	So right now, we are definitely on that steep part of the curve.
	So here's the problem.
	The problem is a lot of people...
	When you think about trends like, okay, well, this is how my life has been, therefore this is how it'll be in the future, human biology is programmed to think in a very linear way.
	So we think like, well, things have changed this much in the past 10 years, so it'll change exactly the same much in the next 10 years.
	But no, that's not actually how things work.
	In real life, it's exponential, so therefore it's going to catch people by surprise.
	and we are definitely on the cusp of a technological singularity, as long as the apocalyptic singularity doesn't happen first.
	Now, I will say this, that AI box that you're talking about and many other similar things like it, actually, you know, if you go to gptforall.com or somewhere on .io, anyway, just look up gptforall.
	Yeah, that's a software for inference.
	Yeah, that is an easily usable AI that you can download to your own computer, and it's like your own local.
	Tom, our model ENOC, which is coming out in March, has the most training on preparedness, emergency medicine.
	Good.
	You know, herbs, nutrition, food growing, and so on.
	And it's specifically designed, like you just said, so that you download it, you use it locally.
	You can use GPT for All, or you can use LM Studio.
	It also works, right?
	You can use it locally.
	You don't need any internet.
	There's no licensing.
	There's no commercials.
	There's nothing.
	It is designed for an apocalypse scenario to have a knowledge base, Noah's Ark of Knowledge, at your fingertips.
	As long as you can power up, A laptop that can run that.
	You can use it.
	And that's a game-changer.
	Yeah.
	You know every once in a while I make a suggestion?
	Yeah.
	This, I think, is a good one.
	And I do a lot of consultations, as you know, with my UNAs with older individuals that may not be incredibly tech-savvy.
	I think it would be a great product for you to create that would be a really minimalistic, Whether it's a desktop computer or a notebook or something like that, to where someone could get it, have it shipped, and literally have it to where what you just said, all you have to do is turn it on and start searching.
	If it was just so simple, easy, that somebody who was a technophobe could open it up, I think people would absolutely want to acquire one because of the information and ease of use.
	That's coming.
	AbovePhone is going to do that because NVIDIA has announced...
	I'm sorry, Tom, just for this diversion, but NVIDIA has announced graphics cards that are AI-capable that are going to be put into laptops starting in 90 days.
	AbovePhone that does the AboveBook notebook, they're going to get those, and then they're going to put our model on it and ship it out with our model on it.
	So just like you said, people open it up, boom.
	That's great, but my point on that is the above book or whatever might be somewhat intimidating because there are some other processes that you kind of have to know to.
	I'm just throwing it into the universe, just a really dumbed-down version that would just be like almost a toy that you would buy.
	You open it up, and now the world is your oyster.
	Well, I mean, ultimately, it's going to be voice to text, text to the LLM, back to text, and then back to voice.
	So you're just going to talk to it like Star Trek.
	Ultimately, that's where it's going.
	Right, Tom?
	That's the way a lot of people are going to interface with this.
	Yeah, so the technology track that we're on, there's going to be a sweet spot where it leads to maximum efficiency, productivity, creativity, and help.
	For example, if you're a musician and you have this great song idea, but you don't know how to play the piano or the guitar, you might have to resort to crappy digital tools to make that.
	But what if you have an AI? That you can direct to create that song for you that you have in your mind.
	That'd be really awesome.
	You don't have to go through 30 years of musical training just to do that, right?
	So there are certain things that can unleash the inner creativity and imagination and ideas that we have.
	But here's the problem.
	The problem is, beyond a certain point, that AI starts intruding too much into our minds, into our subconscious, into our souls, until eventually it has a very grip on our spirit.
	And so you can imagine the technology train that we're on.
	It's this technology train, this chuchu train that takes us to the top of a mountain.
	This glorious mountain takes us to the top.
	And if we get on it and we ride it to the top, that'll save us so much energy to getting to the top of the mountain.
	But that train is just going to keep on going right off the edge of the cliff of the mountain and crash.
	So we have to be very careful in that the technology train is not stopping anytime soon unless we have an EMP wipeout event.
	But I think society will split into two parts.
	It'll split into one part that'll realize the dangers of AI and technology and robotics and nanotechnology, and it'll put a leash on it in a very intelligent way where, like, let's keep it at the sweet spot.
	And then there's others who are going to be like, we don't care, we're just going to keep on accelerating forever.
	And they're the ones that are going to turn into the Borgs.
	I mean, in the time travel theory, they're the ones that could end up one day becoming the greys or something like that.
	So I think society will split into not like the Amish, where they don't really want modern technology, but more like the ones that know how to use technology responsibly, versus those that just are totally 100% gung-ho with it, and it'll turn them into something that is not human.
	The transhumanists, right?
	Yeah.
	Because they'll want to integrate technology into their neurology physically, right?
	To actually have AI thoughts in their heads that they did not originate.
	But part of what I believe on this, and I'd love your response, both of you, is that, for example, I use suno.com to create music, and it's awesome music, but I'm a musician, right?
	So I know how to do that myself.
	I've done it many times.
	Vocals, instruments, everything.
	I use AI to accelerate a process that I already know how to do.
	So I have writers in my company.
	We use AI tools to augment our research, to summarize articles, to clarify, to do editing.
	They can do that all manually, but AI helps us do that faster.
	Whereas somebody who doesn't know how to do music or doesn't know how to write, if they just lean on AI their whole lives, then they never actually are in control because they don't have that skill set themselves.
	So my concern is that today's youth...
	We'll grow up in a world where they never learn how to do these things themselves.
	And they just use AI to take over.
	And I think that's treacherous.
	Yeah, for sure.
	Because here's the thing.
	Certain skills that we have are skills that we only have them because we're trying to overcome obstacles.
	We're trying to overcome inefficiency.
	But those skills don't actually come from the soul.
	They don't really...
	I've got to learn this because the stupid software is just so crappy that I've got to spend a whole day doing this video editing thing or whatever.
	So if you can do that with AI, that's awesome.
	That's good.
	However, there are certain things that do come from the soul, like, for example, discernment.
	Thinking about whether an idea is true or not.
	And if you abandon that...
	and rely entirely on AI to tell you everything, then you're going to start losing your spiritual soul capacities.
	True.
	So I was thinking about this, and I was thinking about, okay, well, how far can this go?
	Like, for example, the Apple Vision Pro, right?
	It's this VR augmented reality goggle that you put on.
	Well, I read a post by one of the developers of that system that talked about how future iterations of it will start reading your brainwaves, and it'll start reading the micro-expressions on the muscles of your face, in order to predict your wishes, your thoughts, your feelings, before you are in order to predict your wishes, your thoughts, your feelings, before you are even And then to start changing what you are fed in terms of the visual input and the programs and the apps and how they behave to match that.
	So that is almost taking free will out of the equation because it's starting to get to the level of your reactions and your programming and starting to feed stuff to you.
	So the ultimate endpoint of that would be a point where you are a spirit.
	You're a spirit trapped in a machine where you can't move.
	You don't have free will.
	You can't think for yourself.
	You can't do anything.
	You're just being pushed with different stimuli, with different triggers to give you this reaction, that emotion.
	And eventually just to make you this drooling, giggling fool where you're just constantly getting your dopamine hits through this AI control system.
	And all you're doing is you're just generating emotional energy constantly.
	Also known as binging on Twitter.
	Binging on Twitter, right?
	And that's a precursor, but what I'm trying to say is...
	Imagine if that's in your head, right?
	Yeah.
	But can you imagine, how is that any different from a cow in a factory farm with tubes hooked up that's constantly milking the cow?
	The cow can't move, it's just being used for milking.
	And so I think that the endpoint of the transhumanist AI is essentially to take the soul, or take the spirit, and turn it into an energy cow.
	For an energy farm that is probably some sort of occult, hyperdimensional thing.
	What a great summary.
	I mean, and you know what?
	There are going to be people lined up down the street to get those put on their udders.
	You know, they are going to be happy to be milked.
	As long as they get Moolah for it, right?
	As long as they get Moolah and as long as they can swipe up or swipe left or swipe right.
	But yeah, why not, man?
	Especially if my needs are met.
	I mean, my gosh, I don't have to go work and you're going to feed me?
	Wow, this is awesome.
	This show is dedicated to decentralized living, and at the center of that, I believe, are our God-given rights to both liberty and privacy, Tom, and both being possible only within a high-trust society.
	So my question is, with the rise of artificial intelligence, what, government corruption?
	Destructive policies, surveillance, censorship.
	How do we personally prepare and defend against the inevitable egregious authoritarian control?
	Yeah, I think there's two aspects to it.
	One is working within the system, and that involves legislation, getting people into office who can pass laws that outlaw certain things.
	For example, was it Florida that outlawed CBDCs, like Central Bank Digital Currencies, and some other states too are talking about that sort of thing?
	That can act as a bulwark against federal or even globalist AI transhumanist intrusion.
	So if you get enough of those things in place, then it'll absorb a lot of that.
	However, if our own main system, whether it's a global government that arises or whether our own federal government becomes even more tyrannical than it's been, if it gets to that point, then it's entirely on us, personally.
	And at that point, there really is no way to be a good legal citizen and yet somehow protect yourself.
	You'll start having to cross over a little bit into the dark side of tech, meaning your own personal AI. Certain bartering, black market stuff.
	You're going to have to become a little wiser to that sort of streetwise stuff.
	I'm sorry to interrupt, but some of that's happening right now in terms of just cryptocurrency or privacy coins usage, where many governments of the world are trying to outlaw privacy coins or they're pressuring banks or crypto exchanges to not carry privacy coins.
	And that's because these governments are pushing us towards CBDCs, obviously, where they can surveil us.
	Yet, because of the structure of decentralization, the consensus mechanisms, the blockchains, etc., they can't actually eradicate privacy crypto.
	Yeah, exactly.
	That's a good point.
	So remember, originally, the marketing angle of Bitcoin is that, oh, it's a crypto.
	It gets around the whole mainstream banking system.
	Well, what's become of it?
	Well, it's become increasingly regulated.
	So a lot of these things that originally were privacy-oriented things became part of the same beast system.
	Now they're being used for surveilling things.
	However, as you mentioned, there are still privacy coins that are oriented towards the original philosophy of what Bitcoin originally was.
	So, for example, Monero, you know, XMR. That's one example.
	The most popular privacy coin.
	That is the most popular one.
	And I'm a fan of it because when you say crypto...
	How can it be crypto if it's not cryptic?
	If it's not encrypted in a way?
	If your entire purchase history is on the blockchain, come on, that's not crypto.
	That's a digital certificate, but it's not crypto.
	I think the true privacy coins are the true cryptos.
	In the future, I think crypto or tokens in general will be of two types.
	So it'll be one type that is entirely an arm of the beast.
	And then you'll have the other ones that are like black market digital currency.
	And that's what the privacy coins are.
	So even if they're outlawed, so even if they're like officially outlawed and they're not even available on these exchanges anymore.
	Crypto, for example.
	Oh, sorry, Monero.
	They have decentralized exchanges where you send in cash and someone sends you...
	I'm talking about local people.
	It's like Craigslist.
	It's like Craigslist for Monero.
	You send in cash and you get the Monero and vice versa.
	You can sell it to get cash.
	So things like that that go around the system.
	And in the future, if there's no more cash, then it'll be gold and silver and goods or whatever it is.
	That's a value in the future.
	So yeah, some form of private digital currency will always exist.
	And I think that is what people will switch to.
	to, they'll start switching more towards dark web type activities just in order to make ends meet because if they're locked out of a social credit score system and they can't buy food and gas and travel anymore, then it's going to have to become a black market operation.
	Not necessarily.
	I think it can be the white web.
	I'm serious about that.
	The white web.
	Instead of a negative connotation.
	I think that there's going to be platforms that will exist that will be able to take any kind of input currency, fiat, gold, Monero, Bitcoin, whatever, exchange it for a private medium of exchange to where vendors can meet consumers and they can do their business.
	And then on the off-ramp side, the vendors could be able to change it back, kind of like change now, Mike, you know, hypothetically.
	But I think the technology is going to get there to be able to do that, and it's not going to necessarily be viewed as dark, as evil, as trying to get away with something.
	It is just moving value privately.
	It's like operating with cash, except digitally.
	So I smoke a lot of hopium, and I think that that's That's in our future as well.
	Todd, I think that Trump's victory in the election actually reinforces exactly your point because Trump and his team are pro-crypto, but of course they're really promoting Bitcoin.
	But along with that, and I'm not a fan of centralized Bitcoin.
	It's become very, very centralized, just a few developers and so on.
	And the block size has been artificially restricted.
	To really prevent it from being usable in e-commerce.
	But a lot of these other projects, some of which you're involved in, Todd, and we've interviewed people on all these projects, they have real viability in that area.
	And what I see is, for example, atomic swaps, non-custodial swaps that are becoming more mature and will enable this liquidity between tokens.
	Tom, you know, it seems like at this point, number one, what do you think about Trump becoming president?
	What are the implications in terms of cryptocurrency?
	And if he were to try to push a CBDC today, I don't think that would fly.
	I think his own user base would say, no, no, we're not going to go into a CBDC. What do you think?
	Well, I mean, he's said so far that he's entirely against CBDCs, but he never said that he's been against crypto, right?
	So there's a difference between crypto and a CBDC. CBDC is a tool.
	It's programmed money, for you guys who don't know.
	It's a programmed money where, okay, you know, you get deposited a thousand crypto or CBDC dollars in your bank account, and you want to go buy some ammo, but they say like, oh, nope, sorry, you said this bad thing on social media, so therefore you're a violence risk.
	We're going to shut off your money.
	You won't be able to buy ammo with that money.
	But you can buy other things, but you just can't buy ammo.
	Things like that.
	And of course, whatever's coming, look to China first.
	China does it first, then California does it second, and then the rest of America does it.
	So you can look at those places to see what's coming if they get their way.
	But as far as Trump and crypto goes...
	Crypto tends to go up as economy goes up, so I do think that we're going to have at least three, maybe four years of a kind of golden age of America that's coming, maybe longer than that.
	You mean a golden-orange age?
	Golden-orange age.
	Speaking of that, with Trump being elected, is it just me or does it kind of seem like the world elites are in literal crisis because their manufactured narratives are they're falling apart?
	And the middle fingers of citizens are becoming more and more energized, I think.
	Do you think that the elites fear an uprising or a revolt at all, or do you think they're just hand-waving the fact that we're onto them?
	Well, you know that saying that politics is downstream from culture?
	The thing is, if you want to change politics, if you want to change the world regime, you have to start with culture.
	And so that's why when Trump came on the scene in 2015-2016, he didn't just run as a political candidate.
	He actually, well, okay, so Ron Paul originally was the one that kind of started it, but he took that to the next level, and it became a giant cultural movement.
	So he got that, and then of course the Q thing came along, and that also amplified the fringier aspects of it.
	But the thing is, the fringe is becoming increasingly mainstream.
	So now, the mainstream narratives that you hear now from a lot of people, I mean, not everyone, because some people are still the NPC mindset, and they're still programmed by CNN and MSNBC and Fox News to an extent.
	But more and more people are becoming fringe.
	Things that used to be fringe, like for example, I remember back in the 90s, because I read a lot of anti-establishment literature during those days, and I remember how the Fed and the Federal Reserve conspiracy stuff, that was all limited.
	To the far right-wing culture.
	Yeah, that was radical stuff.
	Or criticizing fluoride.
	That was considered radical.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	And then by the time Ron Paul came along, you had housewives chanting and the Fed.
	You know what I mean?
	It became mainstream, and it's only gotten even worse or way beyond that.
	So Ron Paul, that was 2008. So now, 20 years later, next couple years, it's almost like that revolution that he started, it's crystallizing.
	Absolutely.
	It's crystallizing, and not only in America, but also around the world, thanks to social media and the internet, which has created a kind of monoculture where you can have someone in a village in some third-world country that laughs and thinks in the same memes that we do here in America.
	There's a shared culture that is rising on the internet thanks to social media and memes and videos and truth videos and so on.
	And it's not just entertainment, it's also culture, and therefore...
	So therefore, I think this idea, this 21st century Americanism, which traces back to the Bill of Rights and the idea of individual liberty and all that stuff, privacy, self-defense, that idea is spreading more and more around the world where it's not outlandish for me to say that one day you could have a kind of United States of Earth situation.
	Ah, interesting. interesting.
	But the thing is, if you go far enough into the future, do you honestly see...
	That we will remain as individual nations forever, even a thousand years from now?
	And I would say no, because of technology, because of shared culture, because of the spreading of truth and ideals.
	I think there's going to be an increasing consolidation.
	And then the question is, well, consolidation towards what?
	On what principles and around what nucleus?
	Is that nucleus going to be communist China?
	Is it going to be Russia?
	Or is it going to be something more like United States and the Constitution and the idea of a just, enlightened republic?
	And hopefully it's the latter.
	But I do think that there's a game of musical chairs that is happening now between the so-called multipolar world, between Russia, China, and the West, mainly America, that I think there's a competition over which one is going to become the central planetary culture or power in the future.
	And I think that's what a lot of things are going on for that reason right now.
	Tom, I love the description you just gave.
	And I arrive at a really similar conclusion, but from a different perspective, which is that I believe that all governments are obsolete, that we do not need centralized overlords, that no government should be involved in currency.
	For example, we don't need government-printed currency.
	We don't need government medical boards.
	We can do a much better job.
	We don't need government welfare.
	Churches and nonprofits can do a far better job.
	We proved that during the North Carolina storms and what have you.
	I feel like the collapse of this system...
	See, I see the collapse of the dollar as a very positive thing in the long run.
	Short term, I agree.
	Chaotic.
	A lot of people will suffer.
	People will lose their life savings, pension benefits.
	I get all that.
	But in the long run, humanity cannot be free as long as the dollar exists.
	That's clear.
	Because when the dollar exists, a centralized, tyrannical, authoritarian system can always print more dollars and weaponize them against you by paying the CDC to push...
	Propaganda, let's say, as an example.
	So the collapse of the system and governments is necessary to decentralize humanity, to free humanity.
	And maybe we'll still have nations, like borders on a map, but we don't need national governments to rule over us.
	And I think we're really starting to see, even with AI and with cryptocurrency and with...
	Widespread medical knowledge and medical technology, I think we're going to see more and more, like even right now in America, Todd, think about this.
	How many people do you know who say, the healthcare system sucks so bad, I'm just not even going to use it.
	I'm not even going to buy health insurance.
	I'm not even going to, right?
	I mean, don't you see that too?
	A ton.
	Some by default of ill affordability, right?
	But others, because they are Yeah, I hate to use the word woke because you know who ruined it.
	But there are people who are awake to the fact that, who are not NPCs, let's say this.
	The playing characters out there are arriving at the conclusion, the rightful conclusion, that we can do better almost self-assessing our own health and seeking out people like you, Mike, and what you bring to the table on how we can not I'll turn this over to you, Tom, in just a second.
	I apologize.
	But what I see in the very near future is you'll have, like, AI doctor avatars on your desktop, powered by language models like the ones that we're building, and you will actually talk to that doctor first.
	It's an avatar or a health coach or whatever you want to call it.
	And that will help answer your questions about food and nutrition and even disease prevention and all these kinds of things.
	And then even your health insurance company, if you have a health insurance company, and you say, I need to see the doctor, you know what they're going to say?
	Well, we have Dr. Avatar here first, right?
	So you log into their portal, you see their AI doctor first, and eventually there won't even be any doctors because their AI doctor will prescribe pharmaceuticals and get kickbacks from big pharma, etc.
	We don't need their centralized system to talk to a Dr. Avatar.
	We can do that on our desktop, right?
	So, Tom, it's all yours.
	Yeah, exactly.
	There's rain here.
	I'm going to mute myself until the rain passes, and I'm sorry about the background noise.
	Okay.
	All right, go ahead.
	Yeah, so the technology curve that we are accelerating up, it's going to make so many things obsolete and so many things cheaper.
	Now, of course, the critics will say, well, no, the corporate fat cats, they're going to gobble up the benefits of AI and everyone's going to be just as poor as they are now.
	Well, these guys become trillionaires.
	So maybe that's true to an extent, but here's the thing.
	We're not talking about technologies that can be consolidated into the hands of a few.
	We're talking about something that is easily put into your own home.
	And not just AI, but, for example, we don't need...
	Certain technologies that get increasingly complex, like a crazy iPhone that you plug into your brain or something, and it's like a Neuralink chip.
	You don't need that.
	We only need very basic technologies that take care of the essentials.
	We need, for example, some sort of a home generator, an infinite energy generator that you can stick in your closet or your basement, and you'll have electricity for the rest of your life.
	So that's number one.
	Number two, we need a better form of propulsion that doesn't rely on Limited solar power or oil, gasoline, diesel, things like that.
	So if you have propulsion that's like anti-gravity, for example, like a hover car, that's it.
	You don't need roads anymore either, so you can get rid of that whole industry.
	And then beyond that, you need some sort of magical, well not magical, but very effective medical technology, whether it's AI or some sort of scalar physics thing where it scans your entire body's energy field and it applies a set of frequencies that heals any ailment that you have.
	Something like a Star Trek tricorder kind of thing.
	Something like that is coming, too.
	And lastly, all we need is a better form of food production.
	Now, there are suppressed technologies like CO2 growing things or psionics, like the cosmic pipe.
	It's like a coil thing that generates some sort of energy.
	That increases food yields by three times to maybe even ten times.
	And I think in the future, with a combination of that technology and also robotics and AI, food will become so plentiful that you don't even think about buying food because it's so easily available.
	So once you have these things in place, you don't need to go further necessarily.
	And then at that point, you can focus on things like spirituality, philosophy, art, creativity.
	And those things will unleash The human potential without us being chained down by an animal existence that requires us to homestead 10 hours a day just to make enough money or food to survive.
	I think that sort of thing is coming if everything goes well.
	But we have to watch out for those transhumanists who are not satisfied with that, who want to keep taking it further.
	You might want to say, well, even the human biological form itself is not enough, so now we have to start genetically modifying ourselves and turn ourselves into cyborgs with 1,000 IQs so that we can colonize the rest of the galaxy.
	Once you get to that point, we're going to lose what it means to be human, and then survival becomes entirely pointless.
	So we have to discern between what is essential, what is worth preserving, and what is not.
	And so that whole entire thing comes down to knowledge, discernment, and what spiritual values you truly stand for.
	And those are the things we have to think about constantly whenever we adopt a new technological tool.
	Like, is it something that liberates our spirit, or is it something that takes away from it?
	And people that don't ask that question, they're going to go down the road of transhumanist, Borg-like assimilation.
	Well, as long as I can have the personal decision to make the choice of...
	Whether you're going to put a McDonald's or a Taco Bell in my home so I don't have to drive to it, you know, we'll be good.
	No, but that brings up a really interesting point.
	You know, food creation, like a 3D printer for food, but not a gimmick.
	That just lays down layers of paste, but actually something that can molecularly generate highly nutritious food.
	That day is probably coming, and even before then, we have really strong agricultural automation.
	John Deere just announced at the Consumer Electronics Show a whole line of automated farming equipment.
	There's no place for a human to even sit in it.
	There is no human.
	And it'll plow, it'll plant, it'll harvest, it'll zap weeds with lasers and all kinds of stuff.
	And that day is coming where food abundance is definitely right around the corner, Tom.
	But what will happen to all the billions of people who are displaced from the workforce?
	Great question.
	What's going to happen?
	Yeah, so initially...
	Initially, that's why you're going to see major levels of social upheaval.
	I mean, a recent example was a longshoreman, right, who they're being threatened by port automation.
	So a lot of these ports, you know, the shipping ports, these guys have been in the career for decades, and now they're being threatened by the automation of that system, and so they went on strike because they didn't want to get replaced.
	And Trump talked with them and sided with them because he's like, well, we've got to protect our fellow Americans.
	But the thing is, the business is going to head over to China, which is getting automated more and more.
	So that's actually another threat that we're facing, which is that even if we try to preserve our principles and we say, okay, let's draw the line here, let's not really go beyond that, there's other nations like China that are not going to draw that line, and they're going to create cyborg super soldiers that, if they wanted to invade, they could probably take over very easily, if we ourselves.
	So in other words, what I'm saying is, if we are going to preserve our humanity, We have to up our defenses and our efficiency in other ways in order to offset those other ones that did compromise their principles and did kind of, you know, like in the Olympics when they inject themselves with steroids and such.
	It's illegal, but that's how they win.
	Well, the same thing with the world right now.
	Now there's this competition going on between different nations, and the ones that hand over the principles to gain more physical power, they're making a deal with the devil.
	And they're going to turn themselves into cyborg, you know, Borg stuff that has a major physical advantage, but they're going to be spiritually deadened in the long run.
	And so I think down the line, you know, if that sort of thing keeps on going, we will see an eventual almost sci-fi war between man and machine once again.
	But not just plain machines, but machines that have taken over or sided with the people that integrated with it.
	So there's just all this crazy stuff coming.
	And I will say this too, that the whole idea of the ages, the astrological ages, how we had the age of Taurus and then it became...
	Aries and then Pisces, which we've been in for the past 2,000 years, and the next we're going into the age of Aquarius.
	Well, if you look up what all the traits of Aquarius are, those are the exact trends that are taking shape right now.
	Technology, spirituality, humanitarianism, networking, decentralization.
	Those things are Aquarian principles, and so those are the trends that I think will dominate for the next 1,000 to 2,000 years, and we're starting to see that taking shape right now.
	Wow.
	Yeah, both positive and the negative aspects of Aquarius.
	See, I agree with you.
	There's going to be a war, a technology war, maybe a Terminator-style war, but I see that it'll be machine-on-machine because there'll be one group of machines that's open-sourced, reprogrammed by decentralized humans.
	Those machines fight for us, like Terminator 2, right?
	Versus the centralized Skynet machines, which is Terminator 1. And so it's going to be machine-on-machine.
	But, you know, It's important.
	I believe in automating where it frees us up to do higher things.
	So, for example, in my own home, I know how to do dishes.
	I know how to fold laundry.
	Do I want to spend my days doing that?
	No, not really.
	I should have a machine that washes the laundry.
	I have a machine that washes the dishes.
	Why can't I have another machine that loads the dishwasher?
	Because I should be creating content.
	Or creating technology for people, not doing dishes, right?
	So when I look at the displacement of people, I also see many cases where people can be uplifted into a higher role of human expression as well.
	Does that make sense, Todd?
	First, your thoughts?
	Just give me an animal farm, man.
	I just want to go graze on the animal farm.
	Yeah, no, that makes a lot of sense.
	And I don't know.
	I'm also wanting to ask a question about aliens, if you don't mind.
	I know we're running short here on time, but Tom, specifically the aliens that are not of this world, right?
	And presuming that they do indeed exist, why does the alien phenomenon in the narrative seem to be so closely tied to the USA? Seriously.
	I mean, like, what we've been seeing lately.
	I'm not hearing that from...
	Anywhere else in the world just seems like it's us.
	What's going on there, Tom?
	Yeah, so the thing is, there are reports of contact and abductions in other countries, like even Africa.
	A lot of the tribes there, especially the Zulus, the Zulus shamans, they're talking about how their people have had contact with other worldly beings.
	But the thing is, if we were talking about actual treaties, transfer of technologies and infiltration...
	That's mainly the U.S., the U.S. military-industrial complex.
	And that's because according to different aspects of ufology lore, which I think is backed up by different insiders and various items of evidence, the U.S. government, or at least the secret government back in the 50s, maybe the 60s, they made deals with certain off-world alien factions.
	And they made deals with them in exchange for technology that they could use against Soviet Russia during the Cold War.
	To up America's defenses.
	And that technology augmented what the US already brought over from Germany after World War II with Operation Paperclip.
	You know, the entire German Nazi intelligentsia was brought over, well, for the most part.
	And so therefore, the US became even more so the central linchpin or power center of the planet.
	And so the thing is, if you're an alien force and you don't have a lot of troops to take over a planet, then what you want to do is you want to start infiltrating the planet more and more.
	And the way you do that is by targeting the major power centers, the areas that have the greatest influence over the rest of the planet so that you can use them to automate your control system over the rest of the planet.
	So therefore, you would be targeting the U.S. primarily.
	And I think that's why, due to that and also due to the deals made between the secret government and the alien factions at the time, one of the conditions of the deal, allegedly, is that in exchange for technology, these alien groups would be allowed to abduct American citizens.
	Abduct them, implant them, program them, study them.
	And that was sort of a deal with the devil, but that was a deal that was made in exchange for security against Soviet Russia due to having these advanced technologies.
	But the lore goes that by the 60s, by the late 60s, the government knew that it's been had.
	That the deals that they made were tricks.
	You know, the same thing with the Native Americans versus the Europeans.
	They made certain deals, but a lot of times these deals weren't quite honored, and the Native Americans got the short end of that bargain.
	So the same thing happened with the human authorities at the time, where the abduction program spiraled out of control, and way more people were being abducted, and much more horrible things were happening to them.
	I mean, I'm talking about mutilations, people being eaten, never seen again, things like that.
	That was happening on a wider level than they ever anticipated.
	And so the government faction, this group, they split into two different camps.
	One camp says, We need to fight this.
	We need to somehow awaken humanity to this threat, build up our planetary defense systems, knock out these alien groups' proxies within other governments, and therefore create a united world that stands opposed to these alien threat powers.
	That was one camp.
	The other camp says there's no way that we can fight them, and the only way to survive is to go along with it.
	And not only that, but some of these people started sympathizing with some of these alien powers, thinking a lot more like them.
	And well, probably because they were psychopaths themselves, right?
	So it's like little human psychopaths versus alien psychopaths.
	They're like two birds of a feather.
	And so I do think that within the secret military, secret government groups, there are different factions.
	And some factions lean more sympathetic and cooperative with these negative hostile alien groups.
	And other ones are opposed to it and might even be affiliated with the possibility of some sort of benevolent, smaller alien group.
	And so, these two things might be driving a lot of current events that are happening even right now with different surface-level political camps, like, for example, the small government, constitutionalist, patriot stuff versus the psychopathic, leftist, Marxist, communist, fascist side of things.
	Maybe those two things are reflections of the two deeper camps that are existing within the whole secret government level.
	And so, therefore, I do think that this competition between these camps and possibly even between their alien benefactors, one more positive and the other one more psychopathic, this war between them could actually lead to something.
	Maybe it's happening even right now.
	Well, if God wrote a book, I think we should all actually read it, and that sounds a lot like the story that I've studied for lots of years, that there is...
	Good and evil, and that there is a spiritual war that's going on.
	So, hey man, why not us?
	It's a crazy world.
	I'm just glad we're in it right now.
	Wow.
	Alright.
	So, number one, an amazing discussion.
	And thank you, Tom, for taking the time to join us.
	And Todd, as always, we'll take a quick break here and come back for the after party.
	But let me just give out your website, Tom, montauk.net.
	is the site, and you cover more than what we talked about today.
	Is there anything you'd like to add about your site, or your channels, or videos, or what have you?
	Yeah, so Telegram is a good place, because that's where I post a lot of long-form content.
	But I do a lot of shorter stuff, too, on X on Twitter.
	So if you go to x.com slash Tom Montauk, just one word, M-O-N-T-A-L-K, then you'll find my Twitter channel there.
	I post a lot of stuff there, too.
	YouTube as well.
	And Gab and so on.
	Okay.
	All right.
	Outstanding.
	Tom Montauk is your handle on Twitter.
	All together.
	All together.
	All right.
	Perfect.
	Well, thank you, Tom.
	This has been a pleasure speaking with you today.
	Definitely an exciting time to be alive.
	Wow.
	Don't oversleep, folks, because things can change every day.
	You know, you wake up and like, whoa, what happened to the history that I once knew?
	Oh, that's all over now.
	It's something new.
	Something different.
	The aliens are here now, and they're going to run the Fed.
	I don't know what's going on.
	But thank you, Tom.
	It's been a pleasure.
	Yeah, thanks for having me.
	All right.
	Happy New Year.
	Wow.
	What a great guest.
	So, Todd, we'll take a break.
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	All right, welcome back, folks.
	This is the after-party discussion, Todd and I. This is where we usually go off the rails in some way.
	but but todd you know wow what a great interview to start off the new year and i believe didn't we begin this show in 2023 yes right yes aren't we coming up on two years of this show yes yes we are isn't it nuts yeah how fast the time goes i mean i think there's 70 or more episodes all Wow.
	I'm directing my staff.
	I'm going to have every one of the episodes re-rendered with captions.
	Oh, that's great.
	Yeah.
	They're not going to like when I give them that order.
	But it's like, well, you know, we have the tools now.
	Let's just do it.
	That's awesome.
	And then we're just going to re-upload and replace the videos that we have.
	Because, you know, look, we like to reach out to the hearing impaired also.
	That's been one of the main things over all these years.
	People are like, what about the hearing impaired?
	You know, yes, but it's difficult to put captions, but not anymore.
	It's automatic.
	Wow, that's amazing.
	Well, I have to tell you, Mike, you just always impress me how you lean into technology and any challenges that are in your way, and you figure things out.
	I literally think, and I'm not speaking this into existence, Scott, but one day, I think, Your headstone should read for the rest of us, for the rest of our benefit, he figured S-H asterisk T out.
	Exclamation point.
	That's what you do, Mike.
	Wow.
	Well, that's high praise.
	But, I mean, isn't that what we all do, though?
	I mean, that's, number one, that's what humans are good at doing, is problem solving and building tools.
	But here on this show, Todd, I mean, think about coming up on two years, We have been at the forefront of things months before they really hit mainstream.
	We interviewed founders of projects that are only now taking off or exploding in popularity.
	We talked about technologies that most people weren't aware of, and now they're becoming aware of it.
	Of course we're going to keep spearheading this and leading the way.
	Remember the photo of that supercomputer that I showed you?
	Yes, yes.
	Yeah, so there it is.
	It's called NVIDIA Digits.
	This is coming out in May.
	Looks cool.
	And it's only going to cost, they say, about $3,000.
	And Todd, it replaces, I did the math on this, it replaces over 30 desktop workstations with GPUs in them.
	Unbelievable.
	30. Right.
	So you'll be able to, no, check this out.
	With this box on your desk, okay, You'll be able to locally describe the kind of movie you want to watch.
	Like, I always use, like, I want Bruce Willis, Die Hard, but I want Die Hard 2 that doesn't suck.
	And, like, render a new version of Die Hard 2, and it will create the entire movie for you in real time as you're watching it.
	The characters, the voices, the scripting, the scenes, the lighting, everything in real time as you're watching it.
	That's amazing.
	Talk about Choose Your Own Adventure.
	You can even stop it and say, wait a minute, I don't like the direction this movie's going.
	That's amazing.
	I want to change it at this point, and it'll do that.
	Wow.
	Yeah.
	Can I at least continue to zoom like this so we can keep having these shows, Mike?
	Well, of course.
	I mean, all I'm saying is that Like, the way we consume content is going to radically change.
	You won't go out and buy a movie any longer.
	But may I submit my dim view of the populace in general is there are going to be two groups, just like I believe there are PCs and NPCs.
	There are going to be those people who are going to become adept at articulating what they want.
	But others who may lack the ability to critically think aren't going to be able to engage that side of their brain to be able to do anything but say, I want to watch a Christmas story again, you know?
	Right.
	You're exactly right.
	And those people will be obsolete, honestly, in the new world.
	I mean, if you can't imagine it first.
	See, this is...
	This is why I say to critics of AI, some people say that AI makes your brain lazy.
	I find exactly the opposite.
	It forces you to engage your brain to first imagine what you want.
	Images, songs, videos, computation, whatever.
	And then you have to tell the system what you want, and you have to be very specific.
	And then it creates what you want, right?
	The human side comes first.
	And that becomes somewhat of a muscle that you have to exercise, right?
	Over and over.
	Kind of like I was not really proud to say it, but, you know, I have some lead and some things that shoot that lead.
	And I was thinking, man, it has been a long time since I've been to a specific range, and I had to stop and think, whoa, I'm going to have to kind of relearn.
	This a little bit for my safety, right?
	But it's the same thing with AI and being able to direct that $3,000 machine to ultimately provide the movie entertainment that you're imagining.
	But those who engage and those who lean in, those who, Mike, you know, jumped in the shallow end.
	Headfirst of private crypto back when, right?
	You become adept at it, and you start figuring it out.
	And then all of a sudden, you can do what most people in this world can't, which is exchange value privately.
	It's going to be the same thing with this technology.
	Well, exactly.
	This is really empowering for decentralization.
	So here's a great example of this.
	Suppose I'm a parent, and I've got like a seven-year-old kid, and I want a great movie for that kid.
	Do I trust Disney?
	No.
	It's got to be filled with LGBT themes.
	Even Star Wars has been taken over by Disney and turned into just woke idiocy.
	I mean, they ruined Star Wars for God's sake, right?
	Well, I want my kid to have a Pixar-style animation, but wholesome with family values, let's say.
	Right.
	You're never going to get that from Hollywood.
	But you can get it from...
	Nvidia hardware, a rendering engine, and whatever software will render the movies for you.
	So in other words, you can have the movie you want.
	You can have the song you want.
	You can have the fiction books you want.
	You can ask these AI engines, generate a fiction novel on the following themes.
	You'll get what you want.
	And what it means is that the digital world of content begins to mirror your intentions.
	So you talk about manifestation.
	Yes, there you go.
	Right?
	So, if you're a sick, twisted pervert who eats pedo-pan peanut butter sandwiches, then you're going to use AI for all kinds of weird, perverted, sick stuff.
	That's horrible, but it's only amplifying whatever's in that person's demonic psyche.
	Right.
	If you're a God-centered person, you can generate the content that's aligned with your values.
	Wow.
	Wow.
	That is a reason to get out of bed.
	The right side of the bed, by the way.
	Yeah, exactly.
	I mean, this is an amazing time, Todd.
	I mean, this is an amazing time for us to have our show, by the way.
	We picked the right era.
	Yes.
	Yeah.
	Decentralization is taking off in 2025 and beyond.
	And even with Trump going into power here, we're going to see...
	You know, more decentralization, RFK Jr. at HHS, a lot of reforms, maybe some shrinking of government.
	I guess we'll have to see.
	But think about what this means for our future.
	We're going to have so many more options than what we've had in the past.
	Yeah, I think people are encouraged.
	I'm getting a sense, Mike, that people are losing their fear.
	They're feeling like the tide has turned.
	a bit.
	And that's what excites me.
	I really, really do believe with all my heart that 2025 to 2030, I think that is going to be a really good time for us all.
	I think it's going to be potentially very prosperous for us all if we're right intentioned.
	And there's, you know, I think we should ask the question, why not us?
	Why do we have to live in misery?
	Why not figure this out together?
	And, and I'm just so excited.
	What a different feeling I have now than 2020. Yeah, me too.
	And I'm not saying that we won't have maybe secession of states or a collapse of the dollar or maybe a war or whatever.
	I'm not saying we won't have that, but we can navigate that.
	We can handle it.
	Exactly.
	Like whatever is thrown our way with knowledge at your fingertips and resources and understanding food and medicine.
	And how to protect your neurology and so on.
	Like, we can handle anything they can throw at us.
	Yeah.
	And it's easier than ever to connect with like-minded people.
	When we start, like you were talking about these wholesome movies that you could create.
	Boy, what a great thing then as a shared platform with other parents.
	True.
	That are also using that little computer where they're coming up with their own movies for their kids.
	And then that's shared.
	And then it's wholesome.
	And then it's just like, wow.
	It can be so cool.
	Well, and that exists right now in the music world, Suno, right?
	Suno.com, and I did a Brighteon song, and I've got some great songs coming out, including I Want My Bailout Money.
	I'm finishing up the music video on that.
	But you can do that right now.
	So you create a song, and then you share it, and everybody can listen to that song.
	The only problem with that...
	That creativity is so eating into your Netflix consuming time, Mike, and I'll worry about you.
	I did a country-western song.
	Did you?
	Yes, it's done, and I played it for a friend of mine, and he broke down in tears.
	It was so new.
	Oh my gosh.
	What's the name?
	It's called, well, I don't want to give the title out until I release it because it's a really catchy title.
	But it's about the years before technology, actually.
	And it's a country-western style with a fiddle, a fiddle lead.
	Oh, nice.
	The fiddle is such an amazingly emotional instrument, very expressive.
	Right, right.
	And you'll love this song.
	I'll send it to you after the show today.
	Oh, please do.
	It's a great example of, you know, and look, Todd, I keep getting contacted by people who say, you know, all AI is demonic.
	You can't let the demons into your life.
	Stop using AI. And I'm like, are you kidding me?
	I'm loving this country western song that I created.
	I keep listening to it, and it's like the most joyful thing I've done this week.
	But it's demonic.
	It doesn't look demonic.
	It sounds awesome.
	It's wholesome.
	I wrote the lyrics.
	I wrote the lyrics.
	It's aligned with my values.
	It's not demonic.
	There was a day when an automobile was deemed demonic, right?
	You know, you're turning your back on the horse and carriage.
	That's for demons, Mike.
	Here's a true story.
	When I was in the fifth grade, I had an Apple II computer.
	Right.
	I was the only kid in the school that had this computer.
	Shocker.
	Shocker.
	Yeah.
	And it had this floppy disk drive.
	Okay?
	Five and a quarter inch floppy disk, right?
	Five and a quarter inch.
	And they held almost nothing.
	Like, I don't know, one kilobyte or something.
	It was insanely...
	Small.
	And we had a show and tell.
	I brought the computer to school one day and was showing the other kids this computer, and the teacher said to me after class, pulled me aside, said, that thing, that thing's demonic.
	And I was thinking, the storage volume of this floppy disk is so low that it is actually kind of like hell.
	This thing is so slow.
	But I had a teacher that said it's demonic, and I guess that has persisted ever since.
	Sure.
	But I just look at them as tools.
	I wonder if that teacher has a credit card.
	Has she ever used a credit card, I wonder?
	Because, of course, that was demonic at one point in time, too.
	Boy, I tell you.
	I mean, maybe Microsoft's blue screen of death is kind of demonic.
	But that's Windows.
	It's your candy.
	Yeah.
	But all these years, man, I mean, If we use technology with our values still centered, then that's responsible, mature usage.
	But if we allow technology, like Tom warned, if we allow technology to invade us and take over our neurology, and by the way, I'm not going to walk through the world with augmented reality glasses.
	No way.
	I'm not going to do that.
	For me, that's a boundary.
	And I'm not going to depend on my phone.
	Having this great conversation with me, I couldn't imagine doing that.
	I feel like...
	I just couldn't look myself in the mirror.
	It's like, really?
	I'm not dumb.
	I mean, I know what's happening here.
	And all they're doing is they're...
	I mean, talk about no privacy.
	Everything...
	Oh, my gosh.
	Don't do that, people.
	Yeah, no kidding.
	Because if you have a conversation with your phone like that, you know that Google or Apple is scraping that data.
	And build my profile on you.
	Unless you have a de-Googled phone.
	Right.
	Right.
	That's why you need privacy.
	But yeah, I mean, they're going to have like AI counselors and people are going to just talk about their deepest secrets with these AI counselors, right?
	That's right.
	And I don't know.
	Imagine the AI priests.
	Forgive me, Father AI. For I've sinned.
	What are your sins, my son?
	What are your sins, right?
	And we're reporting this to the local police, yeah.
	There are all kinds of moral boundaries that the tech companies will try to cross, and we have to have that discernment in all of us.
	Right, right.
	It's true.
	Wow.
	Well, all right, so an amazing conversation, and even this talk that we've just had right here has also been really something.
	I mentioned to you earlier that I did an interview with Andy Schlafly, Who is the lead attorney that is part of the group, including Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, that is suing the federal government to stop the CTA, the Corporate Transparency Act.
	Now the Corporate Transparency Act requires all organizations, including nonprofits and small groups and LLCs and small businesses, to register with the Financial Crimes Division of the federal government.
	You have to send them your driver's license, your social security number, your home address, everything.
	It's crazy.
	It's like, why?
	Am I a money launderer?
	No!
	I mean, even if you just start a chess club for the school and whatever, you have to hand over all this.
	It's like KYC for everything.
	Such an overreach.
	And it's not inexpensive because you have these companies now that were born reaching out to people with LLC saying, you're scaring you.
	Rightfully, if it went into place, you literally, if you didn't file it, then you could be fined $500 a day.
	You could even go to jail for up to two years.
	That's right.
	They're saying, we'll file it for you, but it's $236 or more.
	Well, the good news is this law has been suspended right now by the Fifth Circuit.
	it's still suspended at the moment.
	But I wanted to bring that up because the solution that you have been advocating is Is another way to protect your assets and to protect the privacy of your assets away from this kind of really outrageous unconstitutional surveillance.
	So, you want to talk about UNA versus CTA? Yeah, absolutely.
	First of all, if people want to learn about the UNA, Unincorporated Nonprofit Association, please visit my575e.com.
	Here it is.
	Let's go.
	And you'll be able to watch a 90-minute video of the gentleman, Dennis Gray, who has helped people for over 34 years acquire this entity that provides amazing tax advantages, but also protection for not only your personal property, but just your own...
	Privacy, Mike, being able to, if you have an LLC, you are able to have the managing partner change to your UNA, and then that LLC is exempt.
	So it's all, it's just amazing.
	The more and more that I unpack, Mike, you know that I have a private telegram group where we have just...
	I don't even want to share with you the number of UNA operators, but we had our first annual meetup on December 31st.
	Oh, that's great.
	About 40% of the total group, they were all on a Zoom call at noon, and it was just a meet and greet.
	Put your face with a name.
	If you wanted to come on, some people are private, and that's cool, too.
	But what was amazing is it evolved into this.
	This two-hour Q&A session that I have.
	Yeah, when somebody acquires a U&A, they're invited into that telegram group, which we have over 80 pin messages of relevant utility associated with these entities.
	It's just great.
	Wait a minute, so you're building the most comprehensive knowledge base on this topic of anybody in the world?
	Oh, 100%.
	Wow.
	And it's not just me.
	Like, there's this woman, I'm not going to say her last name, but her first name is Betsy.
	She is amazing that if you have an LLC and want to be able to change the managing member, she knows how to do it, why you do it, the benefits of doing it.
	But the greatest benefit, if this CTA ever rears its ugly head again, is that unincorporated associations, the nonprofit associations, are exempt per FinCEN.
	their list and that will protect you so you don't have to file that beneficial ownership nonsense.
	Thankfully it's on ice, Mike.
	Okay, so a lot of people who have like community groups, you know, it could be a parent-teacher association, it could be the local chess club, it could be a t-ball education group that needed to be incorporated in order to have insurance or something, right?
	And you know, you're just helping your community.
	You don't want to register with the Financial Crimes Division of the federal government, some overreach, abusive system.
	So what you're saying is, if I'm hearing you correctly, is that these people could instead form a UNA, which is exempt from that reporting requirement, and that that UNA would provide many other benefits in addition to privacy.
	They can certainly acquire a UNA. I wouldn't suggest that people go out and acquire a UNA for that individual purpose.
	There are so many other attributes.
	What's cool about the website, Mike, my575e.com, is when you go in there, you get access to a free downloadable PDF that has 32 positive attributes of the UNA. What I recommend, and that's one of them, right?
	That's one of the benefits.
	But I recommend people go in.
	It's free.
	Watch the video, download the PDF, and that'll answer about 90% of people's questions.
	And then what happens, Mike, is what people are doing is they're booking some time with me.
	They can do it right through the site where they just have a few more hanging questions.
	And they can book a half hour with me that I actually, it doesn't matter.
	I mean, I go over all the time.
	I'll answer all of the questions.
	That is, and I am going to share, disclose, that's $150 because, Mike, you know when I was doing it for free, the no-show rate was 70%.
	I couldn't believe it.
	Seven out of ten people would just blow it off.
	But now with the 150, people show up.
	But I want to give it back to the people.
	And so if somebody orders then a UNA, I just say take it off the investment of the UNA. I don't want it.
	It's not there for that.
	It's just to get people to be able to show up.
	But what I've found is that...
	I mean, I'm not going to say 100%, Mike, but when people have that session with me and they ask their questions and I answer them, or if it's some people have different complicated matters, and I'll get Dennis Gray on the line as well to be able to work through things.
	But people are then like, aha!
	And I was so busy the last two weeks of December, Mike, I can't even tell you.
	All I was was on those calls.
	Because people, it was the end of the year.
	People were wanting to be able to, if there are tax advantages associated, they were wanting to learn how.
	So all I do is I tell people, look, I don't sell these things.
	I inform people about it.
	And you're an adult.
	You're a big girl, big boy.
	You can make your own decisions.
	But I just encourage people to check it out.
	It's free to do so, and who knows, maybe one of those 32 attributes that you can relate to and you can benefit from.
	Yeah, and I like the way you frame this.
	It's about people doing your own research.
	I mean, as a disclaimer, we're not your financial advisors, obviously.
	We're not your tax attorneys.
	So do your own research, know your options, make your own decisions, and get...
	Get appropriate local legal help in your state as appropriate, but learn about this vehicle.
	Absolutely.
	Mike, I do want to say one thing.
	This is just a little bit of a rehinge of my shoulder so I can pat myself on the back.
	At the meetup, I asked people to please go into the UNA Biz Telegram group.
	It's a private group.
	And just rate.
	What has the support been like?
	After you acquired yours.
	Yeah.
	An A-plus from everybody, Mike.
	Wow.
	So that's what I stand on.
	Yeah.
	That's what I feel good about.
	You're really great at helping people through this process.
	You're a great communicator, even on Telegram and educating people, like the Zoom call, the videos, all of it.
	I really admire that about what you're doing.
	And what's cool is that two-hour meetup, I broke into four relevant parts.
	That now people who acquire it can go back and they can binge watch that so that they can benefit from all of that really good karma and good conversation that we had.
	Wow.
	The invitation is there, folks.
	We're here to help if you seek it.
	All right.
	So cool.
	I'll tell you about the tools that we use for captioning, too.
	You might want to caption those videos.
	Okay.
	Tell me.
	Yeah.
	I'll give you that info after the show.
	All right, now let me mention what the sponsors on our side, my side of the show here.
	And by the way, thank you folks for supporting both of us and what sponsors the show.
	So what I've got is rangerdeals.com.
	And if you go to rangerdeals.com, some things that might pique your interest, we've got various forms of gold and silver, goldbacks here.
	We've got ivermectin for pets.
	But we've also got de-Googled phones.
	This is from Above Phone.
	And we've got these new one-acre beef sticks.
	We don't sell these, but we support the company that does sell these.
	These are incredibly delicious.
	Really simple ingredients.
	No sodium nitrite, no MSG, etc.
	A lot of things here.
	The Treasure Island Coins and Precious Metals Company.
	These are vendors that I approve.
	And they do have...
	It's indicated here what they do for us, but...
	Let me give an example.
	Like this company, the Safrax company down here, they, for every sale that someone makes there, Safrax donates to us, to our church.
	And then every time I hold a church service, I donate to the congregation.
	And my congregation consists of community leaders who donate out to the community.
	So I had a pallet of Safrax, $16,000 of Safrax cases of the chlorine dioxide on pallets.
	And the last church service, we had community leaders loading up the back of their pickup trucks with cases of this, going out to emergency responders and people in need and veterinary rescue operations that need the sanitizing capabilities of chlorine dioxide.
	So many of these things actually result in donations to the church, and then the church donates to the community.
	So it's a full circle, right?
	The other thing I want to mention, which is completely free, I mentioned it in the show, is our AI engine.
	It's called ENOC, and you can see the note here on the right.
	This ENOC engine, if you read this, it's coming out March 1st.
	It's free, non-commercial, open source.
	You just enter your email address here.
	You can download it for free.
	By the time we hit March, we will have put over a million dollars of investment into this project over the last 15 months.
	Crazy.
	Yeah, to create this.
	But it's so powerful.
	We're already using an early version of the tool in-house right now.
	It's transformed my own work, let me tell you.
	It's transformed our company, our publishing, everything.
	You'll have access to this tool free of charge on March 1st.
	And this will revolutionize your life.
	This can serve as a nutrition coach, a wellness coach for you.
	And you can download it and run it locally with no internet required.
	You can download this.
	On your Mac or PC or your...
	Or Linux.
	Linux?
	Yep.
	All three.
	Okay.
	Yeah.
	It's an LLM. It's a language model.
	What about your mobile phone?
	Not yet.
	We don't have...
	This is, I think, an 8 billion parameter model.
	It's too large to run on mobile phones, but we're watching that very carefully.
	What's happening is that mobile phones, because of NVIDIA, mobile phones are beginning to incorporate a lot more advanced AI chipsets.
	And pretty soon, mobile phones will be able to run like 7 billion parameter models.
	That's probably going to happen in a year.
	That's going to be amazing.
	And the mobile phones already have the memory to hold 7 billion parameters.
	They just don't have the GPU capability to make the inference fast enough.
	So, coming probably within a year, you'll be able to put this on your phone.
	Amazing.
	It's amazing.
	But if you have a PC, you have a Mac, Linux, you can do it March 1st.
	That's right, and it's completely free, and it's completely open source.
	How long would it take to download?
	Well, I mean, I don't know, it depends on your bandwidth, but it's like a 5 gig file, so it takes a little while.
	That's not bad.
	It's a few gigabytes, yeah.
	That's not bad.
	It's not like downloading the Bitcoin blockchain.
	Oh, no, no, no, no.
	You can download this in minutes, depending on your local speed.
	Okay, perfect.
	We use a CDN for file distribution, so it's pretty blazing fast.
	Okay, great.
	It's just...
	I mean, Todd, and I should say, every interview that you and I have done is in this model.
	Every interview.
	That's dangerous.
	I know.
	Isn't that fun?
	But every guest, actually every interview I've ever done.
	Is there a warning?
	Warning, you're entering the after party.
	No, you'll be able to query it specifically about interviews that we've done before, and it'll have that knowledge built in.
	It's really incredible.
	Wow.
	I love you, man.
	You are amazing.
	Man, it's just...
	I'm telling you, you should take everything that you have, all your videos about the UNA, you should run them through a transcription engine, get the transcription text, and then let me put it into this model.
	Wow, okay.
	Wouldn't that be kind of amazing?
	That would be cool.
	Yeah, because we're ingesting all kinds of content, even right now, every day, to add to the model as we're doing different chapters of training.
	But I can still accept new content for it, so anything you want me to get into it, just let me know.
	Okay.
	Yeah.
	All right, so Todd, this is going to be an amazing year, an amazing time to be alive, and we have amazing guests lined up for this show.
	You do?
	Mm-hmm.
	This is not going to be a boring year for DTV. It's not.
	Yeah, and I have a few surprises for you too, Mike, that I'll message you.
	Okay.
	Privately on, but some things that I've been working on that I think are going to really pique your interest.
	So we're not boring here.
	No, and you know what's amazing is between the guests that you come up with and the guests that I come up with, you notice how we've never had to scramble to find a guest.
	It's like we're usually overflowing with guests, like guest opportunities, right?
	Well, because there are so many amazing guests out there.
	Yeah.
	It's just ripe.
	And so many people who need a platform like ours to be able to just get their own message out.
	Isn't that the truth?
	Yeah.
	And, you know, Zuckerberg just announcing the other day that he's dropping the fact-checking on Facebook, admitting that essentially he was wrong to censor all of us all these years.
	And, you know, we've sued Facebook.
	I know.
	My attorneys contacted me after that.
	They're like, whoa, did you see Zuckerberg just admitted to every claim that we have in the lawsuit?
	It's like, wow.
	Like, how do we not win our lawsuit now?
	Right.
	At least against Facebook.
	I mean, things are changing so dramatically.
	I love it.
	I feel like when our lawsuit actually gets in front of a judge, finally, the judge is going to say, yep.
	You know?
	Like, yeah, all your points are already admitted by all the parties that you're suing.
	Wow.
	Yeah.
	I mean, I won't ask you to go into it now, but I'm really curious how your lawyers will use that from a judo standpoint and use that against them swiftly to hopefully make everything go a lot faster.
	Well, I mean, I can't speak on behalf of our attorneys, obviously, but my guess is that when we get to the point of discovery, Facebook's attorneys are likely, at least in my opinion, going to come to us and say, How do we settle this?
	That's my guess.
	Mr. Adams, we've arrived at the conclusion that settle is not a four-letter word.
	Yeah.
	Maybe so.
	But we've also sued YouTube and Google and a bunch of others, and we'll see what happens there.
	But anyway, it's going to be an exciting year for decentralization no matter what.
	And, you know, there's so much knowledge to get out to people.
	There's so many strategies that...
	Can just revolutionize people's lives, like some of what we talked about today that I'm really excited about this year.
	So, Todd, I look forward to the next talk here.
	Can't wait.
	And thank you for all that you've done.
	Thank you for your contributions today.
	Always love doing this.
	You're welcome, Mike.
	Everybody watching, thank you for watching us and meeting us once a week, twice a week, however often that you feel so compelled.
	Appreciate you.
	Yeah, everybody go back and check out all the previous episodes because they're really evergreen.
	You can watch them at any time.
	That's decentralized.tv.
	And like I said, we're going to re-render those with captions coming up soon, one by one.
	And so, you know, you'll gain a lot of valuable information by watching the previous episodes, that's for sure.
	All right, Todd, well, have a great evening.
	Thank you for sharing time with us today.
	Always a pleasure.
	All right.
	Thanks, Mike.
	Take care.
	Thank you all for watching.
	I'm Mike Adams here at Brighteon.com and remember, Decentralize.TV is where you can find all the episodes.
	Thank you for watching.
	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.
	And 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.
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	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, you know, 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.
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	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.
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	All of this and much more is available now at healthrangerstore.com.
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	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 where 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.
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	Shop at healthrangerstore.com for all your nutrition needs, and you can find many different products that we have available, hundreds to choose from that are health and nutrition.
	We've got hundreds of different products to choose from themed on health and nutrition and superfoods, even personal care products.
	We've got freeze-dried Crunchy Munchies and also storable food, certified organic storable food, various nutritional supplements.
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