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Jan. 23, 2025 - Health Ranger - Mike Adams

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BBN, Jan 23, 2025 – AI REASONING models will change everything...

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	Welcome to Brighteon Broadcast News with Mike Adams, the Health Ranger.
	All right, welcome everybody to Brighteon Broadcast News for Thursday, January 23rd, 2025. I'm Mike Adams here.
	Thank you for joining me today.
	And I've got an incredible demonstration for you here today.
	And also, of course, we'll cover some of the breaking news.
	Let me just say right up front that I fully support so far.
	Almost everything that Trump is doing.
	He pardoned the J6 prisoners.
	He pardoned Ross Ulbricht, who needs to be pardoned.
	I mean, he has been pardoned.
	So that is a huge victory.
	Now, Trump, I believe, needs to pardon Roger Ver and needs to consider pardons for Julian Assange and Edward Snowden as well.
	I mean, you know, why stop now?
	Biden pardoned a bunch of criminals.
	Trump can pardon a bunch of innocent people who were deemed criminals.
	By a corrupt DOJ. And by the way, Trump is cleaning house at the DOJ, firing people left and right.
	He's yanking security clearances left and right.
	He ordered all the federal DEI offices to shut down yesterday.
	They're done.
	Those people got sent home with pink slips.
	Pink slips and pink hair.
	It all matches.
	Go home and enjoy them both.
	You know, it's time to send all these people home.
	And that's exactly what Trump is doing.
	There's 1,500 troops headed to the border right now.
	As many as 10,000 more are being activated.
	There were 300 arrests by ICE teams under the direction of Tom Holman.
	300 arrests of violent, illegal criminals in one day.
	Hey, folks, any day that you can arrest 300 violent criminals and take them off the streets and maybe get some of them out of the country, that's a good day.
	That is how you make America safe again.
	So I'm 100% in agreement.
	Of all these things that Trump is doing right now, he ended the birthright citizenship automatic, you know, the automatic invocation of that, and he's also dropped the vaccine requirement for legal immigrants.
	So all the people who are waiting for green cards or applying for green cards, which is the legal way to immigrate to the United States, they no longer have to take COVID vaccines.
	Isn't that amazing?
	See, Trump just did that.
	Okay?
	So no, Trump is not always pushing vaccines.
	In this case, he ended the vaccine requirement for the COVID vaccines for legal immigrants, and he's also pushing to rehire all the members of the military who were let go because they refused vaccinations.
	So Trump is getting an A++ so far in my book.
	I just want to be clear, and that's just a little highlight of some of the things that Trump has accomplished.
	Well, Trump and his team.
	Yes, amazing stuff.
	And in case you didn't hear what I said yesterday, maybe you missed my podcast yesterday, but I have officially rescinded almost all my predictions from last year, even from previous years, because so much has changed since the election and with the new AI releases that have just happened, like DeepSeek R1 reasoning model, which I will demonstrate for you here shortly.
	You'll be absolutely stunned.
	And the fact that Trump kept his campaign promises.
	So Trump wasn't just running around making false promises and doing whatever he wanted.
	Trump actually kept his promises.
	So there are major things happening now that I could not factor into my predictions pre-election.
	And so I am changing my predictions.
	I've changed a lot of my predictions.
	For example...
	I no longer think that China is interested in a military invasion of the United States or even of Taiwan.
	I don't think that's the case.
	I think that China knows that the path to global dominance is to achieve superintelligence through AI research.
	And I also believe that the Democrats, part of their energy sabotage of the United States, was designed to make sure that America fell behind China.
	Because AI research is very energy intensive.
	And this is why Trump has just announced his, what is it, Stargate project, half a trillion dollars of investment in AI data centers.
	Where?
	Where?
	Texas.
	That's right.
	Right here at home in Texas, the state that I call home and have for, well, a long time now.
	Posted this earlier today.
	I want to read it for you.
	The reason Trump and the tech companies chose Texas for their $500 billion investment in AI data center infrastructure is because Texas has energy.
	Think about it, folks.
	Texas has energy.
	In contrast, the libtard states despise energy extraction and energy use, and thus, no tech investor will ever build another large project in a blue state ever again.
	Knowing that they will not be allowed to use energy there.
	Now, I didn't invent this phrase, but, quote, infrastructure is destiny, has stuck in my mind recently.
	Demtards, which is synonymous with libtards, by the way, demtards despise infrastructure.
	They hate energy.
	And that means they are extinct.
	The blue states will be left behind as the red states surge ahead with economic abundance due to affordable, scalable energy.
	Texas is leading the way.
	And by the way, Western Europe also hates energy.
	And Germany, France, and the UK are all part of an anti-energy suicide cult that's imploding by the day.
	If you halt energy use, your nation is finished.
	Which, of course, is what the climate cultists have been demanding for years now.
	Energy equals abundance.
	And when it comes to AI, energy equals compute, which means that energy equals AGI, which is artificial general intelligence, sooner or later.
	Those who are too stupid to understand this are already obsolete.
	Yeah, I don't self-censor very much.
	I don't hold back.
	I just say what I think.
	Probably why I've been censored for 10 years.
	Again, those who are too stupid to understand this are already obsolete.
	While the demtards continue to comically scream about catastrophic warming nonsense, the rest of us are building a better future for humanity.
	There you go.
	Now, let me demonstrate something for you that is extraordinary.
	Just hold on to your hat.
	Here we go.
	Now, I said yesterday that I was installing the DeepSeek R1 reasoning model on my local workstation.
	And I happen to have upgraded to a really high-end workstation, and I have a very high-end NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 card with 24 gigabytes of video RAM, which I'm not trying to geek out on you.
	It's just that that's more RAM than almost any consumer-grade card would normally have.
	Now, NVIDIA has announced its new...
	50 series cards, which I believe some of them have 32 gigabytes, but they're not available yet.
	So I have this GeForce card that's got 24 gigabytes, which means I can put a pretty big model in it.
	This card is also crazy big.
	I had to rip out the fan shroud of my tower, my computer tower, and the card hangs out the side and I can't even put the cover back on.
	So I should send you a picture.
	It's pretty funny.
	It's just like...
	All the guts are hanging out of this computer.
	But it works great.
	It works really well.
	And so I downloaded and I installed the 14 billion parameter model, which is a distilled version of the DeepSeek R1 model.
	Now, it's distilled a lot.
	The original model has 671 billion parameters.
	That's massive.
	That's not going to run on a desktop system.
	Not even...
	It won't even fit on one server.
	You have to have multiple servers to run that.
	But I'm not trying to run that.
	I'm just trying to get a closer approximation of it.
	So I have a 14 billion parameter distilled version that's based on the Quinn model.
	And it turns out that this fits nicely into the graphics card that I have.
	So I downloaded it.
	It's a 12 gig file, I believe.
	And I started running it.
	Earlier in the day.
	And, of course, I can't contain my excitement over this, and I want to demonstrate something for you.
	So, if you missed the interview that I published yesterday with Zach Voorhees, the Google whistleblower, it's really worthwhile to go back and review that.
	Now, people have told me that that interview is very technical, almost a little nerdy.
	That's okay.
	I can live with that.
	Zach can live with that.
	We are kind of nerdy.
	It's okay.
	It is technical, but it's important to understand the concepts of what's happening with AI and why the U.S. is falling behind in terms of AI, data center, construction, and research, etc.
	So I took that interview, the full transcript of it, and I pasted it into the DeepSeq R1 model.
	Well, let me just back up.
	Most people, when they hear that DeepSeq has a reasoning model, they like to do math questions on it.
	Like, you know, what's the derivative of this and that in the cosine?
	Like, figure it out.
	And they're just doing academic stuff.
	I'm not interested so much in that.
	I'm interested in practical questions, and I'm interested also in policy reasoning questions.
	So, as far as I know, I mean, I haven't seen anybody else cover this, but you can feed in a bunch of content into the DeepSeek reasoning model.
	And ask it for policy suggestions.
	So that's what I did.
	I took the Zach Voorhees interview.
	I fed it in with the following prompt.
	Here it is.
	Very simple.
	Given the following interview conversation about AI technology and the race to superintelligence among nations, what should the USA do to accelerate its AI development programs, scale up its energy inputs into data centers, and achieve superintelligence as quickly as possible?
	All right.
	That's my question.
	Plus the interview text.
	And I hit send.
	And then the DeepSeek model thinks about it.
	It thinks some more and it goes through its internal dialogue.
	You can actually monitor its thinking and it's talking to itself.
	It's like, well, wait a second.
	What about this and that?
	Anyway, it goes through all this.
	And then it spits out the following suggestion.
	And I'm going to read this for you because it's mind-blowing that a computer does this because, as you'll see, It's smarter than any U.S. Senator, okay?
	Here we go.
	Here's the answer.
	To accelerate its AI development programs and achieve superintelligence, the USA should adopt a comprehensive strategy focusing on several key areas.
	Number one, invest in energy-efficient hardware and infrastructure.
	Prioritize investment in advanced compute hardware with highly energy-efficient hardware to support scaling of AI operations.
	This includes using NVIDIA's new processors.
	And then develop robust energy infrastructure, including clean and abundant power sources, such as nuclear energy or theoretical solutions like cold fusion.
	Oh, yes.
	Oh, yes.
	I got deep seek to say cold fusion.
	I wasn't even asking about cold fusion.
	But it says we should look at cold fusion, quote, to meet the high energy demands of AI. So right away, I'm like, wow, this model thinks kind of the way I think.
	Because I think I'm a common sense kind of person.
	There is a technology called cold fusion or low energy nuclear reactions that is real, but it's been suppressed.
	We need to unveil that technology and use it to have massive energy production where you don't have to burn fossil fuels.
	You don't have nuclear power plants.
	I mean, you don't need more of them.
	If you use cold fusion, you can generate You know, gigawatt hours of power and funnel it into data centers.
	And there you have clean, abundant, renewable energy.
	And this AI model from China knows this.
	Do U.S. senators know this?
	No, they don't.
	Most of them don't.
	I mean, maybe Rand Paul knows about this.
	There might be a couple of senators, but most of them are clueless about such topics.
	Anyway, continuing the answer from DeepSeek.
	Support decentralized open-source AI development, it says.
	And once again, I'm going, wow, my jaw's dropping because that's what I say.
	We've got to have decentralized open-source technology.
	And that, well, let me just read you the answer from the engine.
	It says, encourage and support open-source AI initiatives to prevent dependency on foreign entities like China, which is advancing with models like DeepSeek.
	This is the DeepSeek engine telling me that China is advancing DeepSeek, and therefore the U.S. needs to decentralize AI development in order to keep up.
	I'm like, wow!
	This model is really honest in its answers.
	It goes on, it says, this fosters innovation and avoids monopolies by a few corporations.
	That's what I said.
	I almost think this model must be reading my mind or something.
	Or we're just thinking the same way about this.
	I said yesterday when Trump announced this thing, oh, three big corporations, you know, SoftBank and OpenAI and Oracle with Larry Ellison, Mr. mRNA nanotech robot vaccine jab guy.
	Now, you know, I said this is a mistake.
	We don't need three powerful corporations to dominate AI technology.
	That's not what this country needs.
	What we need is decentralized technology.
	We need open source technology so you can put it into the hands of universities and business innovators and entrepreneurs and people like me and so on.
	And together we can sort of crowdsource or grassroots this thing into some major advancements in AI. So that's my position.
	That's also the position of DeepSeek, the reasoning model.
	It reasoned and reached the same conclusion that I've been talking about.
	And it didn't even listen to my podcast yesterday.
	That's weird, huh?
	Okay, it also says implement strict ethical guidelines and regulatory frameworks to ensure AI development is conducted responsibly.
	Address potential risks such as misuse for bioweapons or environmental disasters through rigorous oversight.
	Yeah, I agree with that.
	We don't want...
	We don't want somebody like, oh, I don't know, Larry Ellison developing, like, I don't know, depopulation mRNA bioweapon jabs using AI, because that's almost what he announced.
	I mean, if you want ethical guardrails on AI, don't put it into the hands of people like Larry Ellison, for God's sake.
	Put it into the hands of people like me and you and those of us who have real values, who are pro-human, not transhuman.
	We're not trans, we're pro-human.
	All right, and then DeepSeek says, quote, And that's what I did.
	Again, it's just, it's almost weird.
	It's like it's reading my mind, or I think like a reasoning model, I guess.
	Because when we integrated AI into our research and writing and editing, grammar checking, especially the research engines, and you see this in the articles published at naturalnews.com, you may remember I told you I did not fire a single writer.
	Not a single person.
	I didn't fire a writer, didn't fire an editor, didn't fire anybody.
	What I did is I held training sessions and I gave them new tools that they accessed through their browsers.
	Because, of course, they don't all work in the same office, obviously.
	And they log in, they access the tools, and the tools make them a lot more productive, which is why you're seeing so many more kick-ass articles on naturalnews.com lately.
	And again, I didn't fire anybody.
	I educated them.
	I taught them how to use AI. I gave them prompt engineering examples.
	Built an interface where they can use multiple different engines in case one engine is down.
	They've got other engines.
	It's not just Enoch.
	And actually, one of the engines we're tied into is DeepSeek as a backup.
	So when our internal Enoch, if it's offline, which happens from time to time, then we use DeepSeek.
	And I got to tell you, this has made my staff, it's given them better skills, it's made them more valuable, and it's made them a lot more productive.
	And it's taken them away from having to do the tedious tasks, such as manually editing an article.
	Like, those days are over.
	You don't have to manually edit for grammar and spelling and punctuation.
	You just tell the AI engine to do it, and it just does it.
	And here very soon, by the way, I've also trained my staff on how to produce those video book summaries that I played for you the other day that people absolutely loved because I did a video summary of the contagion myth.
	And we're going to do a summary of The Creature from Jekyll Island by G. Edward Griffin.
	We're going to do some really amazing book reviews or book reports in the video format with AI illustrations and AI-generated narration, etc.
	And I can't wait because I love that, personally, and I've had a lot of positive feedback on that.
	But the point is...
	Continuing with the answer from DeepSeek here, DeepSeek was saying that the U.S. as a nation should focus on retraining people how to use AI and how to be more productive.
	Well, I've been doing that internally in my company.
	I wrote the documents.
	I actually learned the tools myself, and then I wrote up the documents, and then I distributed the documents to my team, walked them through it, did a Zoom call, showed them how to do it, screen share, boom, here's how you do it, and then they're off and running.
	So I'm not waiting for the government.
	To get around to doing something, right?
	We're just doing it ourselves.
	But check this out.
	Here's the last policy suggestion from DeepSeek, the reasoning model.
	It says, quote, integrate AI into governance and policy.
	Leverage AI in decision-making processes across various sectors, including policy, ensuring that its use is transparent, unbiased, and free from corruption.
	This could involve AI judges or regulatory tools.
	And, you know, period.
	That's the suggestion for integrate AI into governance and policy.
	And I also feel exactly the same way.
	I mean, it's not a feeling.
	I've arrived at the same conclusion.
	That these AI reasoning engines are far more reasonable than government bureaucrats.
	They're far more reasonable than senators or regulators or people who work at the FDA or federal judges for the most part, some of whom on the far left are just crazy, insane bias filled with hatred, won't give a conservative an honest day in court.
	No way.
	I mean, look at what happened to the J6ers.
	Look at the lawfare against Trump.
	Look at what happened to Alex Jones with the courts in Connecticut.
	Look at what happened to O.S. Schroer.
	These judges...
	Should have been replaced by AI judges.
	The AI judges would have been far more accurate, unbiased, reasonable, by far.
	So I'm actually rooting for AI to replace a lot of these judges and replace a lot of regulators and replace a lot of bureaucrats.
	Because it's going to be a more fair system than what we have now.
	Do you trust the human judges, given what we've all witnessed over the last four years?
	Do you trust human mayors who want to shut down your barbershop during COVID, want to shut down your church, they want to shut down your meetup?
	Do you trust human mayors?
	Do you trust human governors?
	Well, maybe some of them, but certainly not Newsom, not Hochul in New York, not whoever the governor is of Colorado or Washington State.
	No, we don't trust them.
	They should be replaced by AI. An AI California governor would vastly outperform Newsom, especially if everybody could see in real time the prompting and the answers and the thinking.
	It's like, hey, let's have a public thinking AI governor and everybody can look at what is being asked and the policy recommendations it's making, etc.
	I'm telling you, it's only a matter of time before these kinds of things go into place.
	Because, and I'm seeing it, I'm going to show you another example here that will blow your mind.
	I'm seeing it every day right now.
	This deep seek AI model is vastly better than most people in positions of power in terms of making rational, informed decisions.
	I know, this is profound.
	This is a profound moment in history that machines can outperform humans in governance.
	In policy, in thinking, in running a courtroom, etc.
	Now, I know some of you will be like, but we don't want robots running everything.
	No, of course we don't want robots running everything.
	I'm not talking about robots.
	I'm talking about, how about this?
	If you are arrested and you go to trial, shouldn't you be given the option to choose an AI judge?
	And where that AI judge is part of an open source model with open Weights, as it's called, so it's transparent.
	Everybody's treated the same.
	Shouldn't you have that option to say, I don't like this human judge because this human judge just hates me for who I am?
	I mean, that was the case for a lot of Trump supporters and J6ers, and even to this day, just anybody the judge doesn't like, the judge throws the book at them, right?
	I think we should have the option for an AI judge.
	All right, I'm going to demo something for you, but I forgot to mention the interview coming up today is with Marjorie Wildcraft.
	Yes, you know Marjorie because I've interviewed her many times.
	She used to live in Texas, and she has a new streaming docu-series on Brighton University, yes, brightu.com, which begins streaming February 1st.
	So that's, what, just a week away or so.
	It begins streaming February 1st.
	It's called Off-Grid Survival Skills.
	Practical skills to survive and thrive.
	Foraging, hunting, medicine, wild plants, food, and more.
	And in the interview, she also talked about how to make sandals out of old car tires.
	Yeah.
	I knew there was a reason why I was keeping those car tires around.
	In case I have a sandal shortage.
	Maybe next time I have a church service, I'll walk in dressed like Jesus with sandals made of vulcanized Firestone tire rubber.
	That's not really Jesus-like, people would say.
	Jesus didn't have vulcanized rubber, but he did have sandals.
	Just saying.
	Okay, all jokes aside.
	Marjorie Wildcraft, her course is called Off-Grid Survival Skills.
	I interview her about all of this coming up today.
	And again, register to watch the entire course for free, or you can optionally purchase it and download it.
	And you can do all that at brightu.com.
	And if you want to purchase the course in advance, go to brightdianuniversity.com.
	Now, by the way, I also made a list here.
	This is amazing.
	I've got a list of all the content areas that my AI model Enoch is trained on.
	And this is the model that we're releasing on March 1st that you'll want to download and use it for free forever because it's free and it's non-commercial and it's local.
	It doesn't run in the cloud.
	And it has extensive knowledge of prepping and survival skills, including it's been trained on thousands of DIY documents on how to do things, how to build things, how to build shelter, how to build a clothes washing device, how to build fences, how to repair things, all kinds of survival skills.
	In addition to all the knowledge on herbs and nutrients and natural medicine and Chinese medicine and...
	Vaccine ingredients, food ingredients, cosmetic ingredients, etc.
	It's all in there.
	You're going to be blown away when you see this model.
	But anyway, there's something else I want to share with you.
	We've talked about the DeepSeq reasoning model, and obviously I'm super impressed with what it can do.
	But you might be asking, well, what are the practical uses?
	Come on.
	I mean, I don't want to just do theoretical stuff with it.
	I don't care if it can solve science problems.
	I've got a real question in the real world.
	And can it help me with that?
	So, actually, I have a real question in the real world here.
	Right now, there's a lot of freezing weather in Texas and throughout the southeast of the United States.
	And a lot of people have rainwater tanks.
	And so, have you ever wondered how long it will take before the water freezes in a rainwater tank?
	Because I've had that question a lot, and in fact, I've purchased thermometers with a little remote sensor, and you put the remote in the water, and then there's a wire that goes out to the display with a magnet, and then I can see the temperature, right?
	It's got a little battery in it, you know?
	And when I first did this, I was shocked at how little the temperature dropped during...
	Sub-zero weather, or freezing weather.
	Sub-zero, I mean zero Celsius.
	I guess Fahrenheit, sub-32 weather.
	I was shocked that the water temperature didn't change more.
	And it led me to realize that my intuition about how long water can last without freezing, my intuition was completely off about that, and clearly there's some serious math involved in this.
	I mean, that should be obvious.
	So I thought, wow, the DeepSeek reasoning model is the perfect candidate.
	Let's test this with a practical question.
	So here's my question, okay?
	And this could be a question that you might have, or you might ask a friend, or you might have a rainwater tank.
	You might ask the exact same question that I'm asking here.
	Here it is, but I just want to show you the practical nature of this.
	Here it is.
	I have a 1,000-gallon rainwater tank that's filled with rainwater, okay?
	Got it?
	1,000-gallon tank.
	The weather is freezing outside, and a constant 5 mph wind is blowing against the side of the rainwater tank, which is made of fiberglass with no additional insulation.
	So you see, I'm giving the model the material fiberglass, you know, because it probably has to calculate some kind of coefficient of heat transfer, etc., right?
	I figure.
	The current temperature of the water in the tank is 50 degrees Fahrenheit.
	The temperature outside is 20 degrees Fahrenheit.
	Okay, so that's a 30 degree difference, right?
	Fahrenheit.
	Please tell me how many hours it will take with a sustained 5 miles per hour wind for the water in the tank to reach the point of freezing temperature, which is 32 degrees Fahrenheit.
	Okay, so understand my question?
	I'm saying, tell me how long it's going to take for this water to get down to 32. Because I know from high school science class that at 32, there's a phase change, right?
	So you may recall also that at the phase change, it requires a lot more energy to be taken out of the system to convert the water to ice.
	So it doesn't just automatically become ice all of a sudden all at once.
	No.
	It sits there at 32 as more energy is being taken out and then the ice crystals start to form.
	Energy has to be removed from the system for the ice to fully form.
	And then once it's all ice, then...
	The ice can get colder and colder, but there's, you know, a pause there during the phase change.
	Just like there's a phase change on the other side when you're adding heat to liquid water and you're waiting for it to boil, you might wonder, why isn't it boiling, you know?
	What do they say?
	A watched pot never boils?
	That's because once it reaches boiling temperature, it requires a lot more energy to achieve the phase change into vapor, okay?
	So high school chemistry here, or high school...
	Science class.
	All right, so anyway, I ask the model again, how long is it going to take for it to reach 32 degrees?
	And then I continue.
	Then calculate how much time it will take for all the water in the tank to freeze by calculating the amount of energy that needs to be removed from 32 degrees water in order to achieve the phase change to ice for all the water in the tank.
	Please answer in minutes and break it down into two parts.
	You know, the two parts I've described here.
	Assume constant wind speed, constant humidity, and constant air density.
	And I think I failed to tell it the humidity of 50%.
	So I didn't give it every variable, so it's going to have to make some assumptions, okay?
	Now, if I were to give you that word problem, could you do the math on this?
	I mean...
	I could do the math.
	It would take a lot of looking up formulas, a lot of research.
	Like, for example, just the area of a cylinder.
	I mean, I didn't even say that the tank is a cylinder, but that's what I envision.
	That's probably what the model assumes.
	But what's the surface area of a cylinder?
	And, you know, the wind isn't hitting...
	The whole cylinder is only hitting one side, but it's not hitting all of it with the same velocity because of the curvature, etc.
	So you're beginning to see there's a ton of math that has to go into this.
	And there's got to be some kind of, you know, coefficients of thermal transfer involved in materials and wind and water and all this stuff.
	So this is not an easy problem, but it's a practical problem.
	Because if you and I are just hanging out in Texas, you're like...
	Hey, how long before that tank freezes?
	Well, it sounds like a simple question.
	Not such a simple answer, is it?
	But if you have this model running on your computer, you can ask it that question.
	So, this model thought about this question for 4 minutes and 44 seconds.
	It went through a lot of thinking about this.
	A lot of internal thinking.
	And when it thinks, it tells you what it's thinking.
	And I'm not going to read all the thinking because it's really long.
	I'm just going to read part of the thinking so you know kind of the way that this AI is thinking because this is revolutionary.
	And then I'll read the answer for you.
	So what I'm about to read is these are the thoughts of the AI model, the DeepSeq model from China, which is almost entirely uncensored, unlike the U.S. models, which are all censored about vaccines and 9-11, everything like that.
	China's models are only really censored about Taiwan and Tiananmen Square, politically sensitive stuff like that, but not about natural medicine and the things that we mostly care about.
	So here's the internal dialogue of the AI. Quote, okay, so I have this problem where there's a 1,000-gallon rainwater tank made of fiberglass with no insulation.
	It's currently filled with water at 50 degrees F. It's outside.
	When the temperature is 20 degrees F with a constant 5 mile an hour wind blowing against it, the question is asking how long it will take for the water to reach freezing point 32 degrees F and then how much longer until all the water freezes.
	Okay, so it's restating the problem and clarifying that the tank is outside, which I did not actually say, but that's a safe assumption.
	First off, it says, I need to break this down into two parts.
	The time to cool down from 50 degrees to 32 degrees and then the time to freeze once it's at freezing temperature.
	I think for both parts, I'll need to consider heat transfer.
	Since the tank is fiberglass with no insulation, it's probably losing heat through conduction and maybe some convective cooling because of the wind.
	But since the wind isn't extremely high, maybe the main factor here is natural convection or forced convection due to the wind.
	But I remember that Newton's law of cooling might be useful here.
	It states that the rate of temperature change of an object is proportional to the difference in temperatures.
	Between the object and its surroundings.
	The formula is temperature change is T underscore S plus what looks like a time differential times E to the power of parentheses negative KT, where T is the temperature, K is the cooling constant.
	T0, TS is surrounding temperatures, initial temperatures, and then time.
	Okay, anyway.
	Blah, blah, blah.
	Math, math, math.
	Okay.
	It goes on.
	But I'm not sure if this applies directly here because the tank isn't just cooling by conduction.
	There's also the wind affecting it.
	Maybe the wind is causing more heat loss through forced convection.
	I should look into convective cooling coefficients.
	For water, the convective heat transfer coefficient can be found in some tables or maybe estimated based on flow conditions.
	Since it's a fiberglass tank, which isn't very conductive, but with wind blowing against it, perhaps we can model this as a natural or forced convection over a surface.
	Wait, it says.
	Actually, since it's water inside the tank and air outside causing cooling through the walls, it might be more appropriate to consider both convective heat transfer from the water to the tank walls and then from the tank walls to the outside air, but that could get complicated because we don't know the thermal properties of the fiberglass.
	Aha!
	You don't.
	That's right.
	But maybe for simplicity, I can assume that the heat loss is dominated by the convection due to wind on the outside.
	So perhaps model this as a single convection process where the outside air is at 20 degrees with a wind speed of 5 miles an hour.
	It goes on.
	I found that the time constant for water tank cooling can sometimes be approximated using the volume, surface area, specific heat, and conductivity.
	But since it's fiberglass, which is a poor conductor, maybe we need to consider the overall heat transfer coefficient, etc.
	And then it uses Newton's law, solves for K, does a formula for convective cooling, solves for Q, which is the heat loss, and then it relates this to the change in water temperature.
	And then it says, but we have multiple variables.
	We know the volume is 1,000 gallons.
	Let's convert that to cubic meters or liters for easier calculations with metric units.
	See?
	I like metric also.
	So does DeepSeek because metric works better.
	Okay.
	And they use metric in China, obviously.
	But maybe keep it in Imperial, it says, since temperature is in Fahrenheit and we're dealing with a rainwater tank which might be familiar in gallons.
	But hold on.
	A gallon of water weighs about 8.34 pounds, so 1,000 gallons will be 8,340 pounds.
	Specific heat capacity of water is about 1 BTU per pound Fahrenheit degree, which is convenient because we're dealing with Fahrenheit.
	So it talks about mass, density, volume, Q, heat loss required.
	It arrives at a number of 149,920 BTUs.
	It comes up with this.
	I'm skipping a bunch of stuff.
	Now it needs the surface area of the tank, and it assumes it's cylindrical.
	It says...
	Is it cylindrical?
	Probably.
	Common rainwater tanks are cylindrical.
	See?
	That's a reasonable assumption.
	I didn't tell it it's cylindrical, but it would be silly to have a rain tank that's a cube, wouldn't it?
	A giant rain square in the yard?
	No.
	It's going to be a cylinder, right?
	So that's a safe assumption, but the model figured it out, right?
	So then we can approximate the volume for the cylinder as volume equals pi r squared h.
	But without knowing dimensions, we might need to express A in terms of V. You ever have that problem?
	You're trying to express A in terms of V? Yeah, because I did not tell it how high the tank is, did I? See, there's a lot of assumptions here.
	Anyway, you get the idea, right?
	So these are the inner thoughts of the language model.
	And then this goes on for a long time.
	It's got temperature coefficients.
	It's got...
	You know, volumetric calculations.
	It's got, what is this?
	The Nusselt number.
	And it's got the Reynolds number.
	I don't even know what the Nusselt number is.
	I've never even heard of that.
	But something about the fundamentals of heat and mass transfer.
	That's a textbook, apparently.
	And this is all running on my local machine.
	It didn't go out on the internet to find anything.
	This is just, like, in my graphics card, okay?
	So now it's computing all this stuff, and it's got the antilog.
	Yeah, and it's checking its number.
	The new CELT number is defined as H times L divided by K. Wait, there's a correction for the formula.
	Oh, convert units, diameter.
	Anyway, it goes through this, which is kind of the way that you and I might try to address this if we were given this task on paper.
	Like, figure this out.
	How would you do it?
	Well, this language model is going through kind of the same thing that we might go through.
	It thinks the way humans think.
	So anyway, here's what it arrives at.
	It says, okay, boom, part one, time to reach freezing temperature from 50 degrees Fahrenheit to 32 Fahrenheit.
	We convert volume to mass.
	We use a specific heat capacity.
	Then we do a heat loss calculation, and it gives the math, the heat loss coefficient, delta T, etc.
	And then the convective heat transfer coefficient, wind speed, Reynolds number, Prental number, Nusselt number, convective heat transfer coefficient, surface area, time constant calculation, and it comes up with the cooling time of 55.38 hours.
	So that's a useful number.
	That means you've got two solid days before that water reaches freezing temperature.
	The reason I went through all of this, I'm sorry if that seemed a little long.
	No, that's just to get the water down to 32 degrees.
	The reason I showed you this is because this is a very practical question, especially for those of us who live in the country.
	If we have rainwater tanks, you don't want them to freeze.
	And you might wonder, obviously, how long is it going to take?
	And human intuition on this question is wrong.
	I found that out.
	Everybody I asked this question, I asked several people, they were all wrong.
	Every human vastly underestimated the time required for this temperature drop.
	We humans think that water gets colder faster than it actually does, it turns out.
	So here's a practical use, 55 hours.
	And that, in 55 hours, it's still water.
	It's still liquid.
	It hasn't frozen yet.
	But it's going to start freezing.
	So then it calculates part two of this, which is the time to freeze all the water.
	Of course, it uses latent heat.
	Of 334,000 joules per kilogram.
	And then it calculates the total energy required for the phase change.
	It gives a formula.
	And then it calculates the cooling rate, the delta time, 10.7 watts per meter squared.
	Divided by what?
	No, slash.
	This is crazy.
	508 watts and then freezing time.
	Here it is.
	Here it is.
	41,400 minutes.
	Is that even right?
	I don't know.
	That's a lot of minutes.
	That's crazy.
	So, of course, I have to ask it here.
	How many hours is 41,400 minutes?
	And so it's going through the math here.
	It's got the equation.
	So it's saying 690 hours.
	I don't know.
	Is that...
	That doesn't even sound right to me, but then again, we've already proven that my intuition is wrong about this.
	Would it take that many hours for the water to completely freeze?
	I don't know, but the point is that this system, you can ask it really practical questions like that, and it can work on solutions for you, and it can think through them, and it can guide you through a thinking process to solve practical problems.
	Now, I know that was a long way to demonstrate this for you.
	I think it's important that you understand, that I understand, I'm trying to get everybody in my company to understand that this changes the world.
	This changes everything.
	This changes the way you'll run a business.
	This changes the way you'll solve problems.
	You won't need to use Google nearly as much.
	You shouldn't use Google at all, by the way.
	Brave search is better.
	But you won't need to use Google for most things.
	You just...
	Ask the AI engine.
	For practical knowledge, you'll ask Enoch, the engine that we are releasing.
	But if you need to think through logical problems and math and solutions, you'll be using probably like DeepSeek because it can do the math.
	Again, I don't know if it got the right answer on this last one, but the fun thing about this is you could take that answer, you could feed it back into the model and say, hey, is this even right?
	Is this the right calculation?
	Check the math.
	And it will check the math.
	And I know this because you can also ask it to write computer code.
	And if it writes computer code and you run the code, like let's say you're running it in Python, which is what I use for everything, and then the code flags an error or breaks or something, you can take the code and take the error, paste it back into the AI and say, hey, fix this.
	Produce an error.
	Fix the error.
	Rewrite the code.
	And it will.
	And it'll rewrite the code.
	And that'll solve the error.
	How cool is that?
	So you can have it rethink or re-clarify.
	And remember, this engine can work on policy decisions, logic, math, physics.
	I mean, it just calculated freaking thermal transfer coefficients invoking parameters and formulas that I didn't even know about.
	And it can do this with chemistry.
	It knows all about chemistry.
	Think about herbal extracts, for example.
	Hey, let's do this.
	This would be cool.
	Here's another example.
	I talked about this maybe a year ago.
	Remember when I was talking about ultrasonic extraction of rosamarinic acid from rosemary herb?
	Remember that?
	Because rosamarinic acid is so amazing and rosemary herb is just one of the most medicinal and also antibacterial herbs out there.
	It's amazing.
	I don't know if you recall this, but I talked about my experience in the laboratory using different solvents to extract phytochemicals from different food or plant or herb samples.
	Of course, the two most common solvents are isopropyl alcohol and water.
	So isopropyl alcohol, IPA for short, or water, obviously H2O. And these two solvents work in very different ways depending on what molecules you want to pull out of the herb.
	So if you think about it, If you're an herbalist or if you grow herbs and you want to make medicine or you're in a survival situation, like we're going to have the Marjorie Wildcraft interview here that's going to talk about this, but suppose you're in an off-grid situation but you have your laptop computer and you have this language model running locally.
	The internet's gone, let's say, you know, partial Mad Max scenario, but you can grow medicine and you want to know what's the best way to extract this.
	Should I use alcohol or should I use water or should I use 50-50 alcohol and water, right?
	Because there's different polarity in the different extracts which are specific to the different molecules in the plant.
	Some molecules are more polar, for example, right?
	And so this affects their solubility with different solvents.
	I mean, that's just, that's basic chemistry.
	These models know chemistry.
	So here's what I'm going to do.
	And no, I didn't plan this in advance, but this sounds fun.
	I'm going to ask the model, what's the best solvent mixture for extracting rosemary acid?
	How about that?
	Let's see what it says.
	Let me type this in.
	I have a container of fresh rosemary herb, and I want to make a liquid tincture that...
	It maximizes the, let's say, the phytonutrient rosmarinic acid, got to spell that correctly, which is medicinal.
	I have common solvents available, such as isopropyl alcohol and water.
	Let's see, I also have glycerin.
	Probably have that.
	What other solvents do we have that are safe to drink?
	Not much.
	Let's just go with azprobo, alcohol, and water, and glycerin, and let's see what it says.
	Tell me what proportion of these solvents I should use in a solvent mixture in order to efficiently extract the maximum amount of rosamiric acid from the Rosemary herb.
	And let's see, are there any assumptions we should tell it?
	Assume we are using a four-liter glass container.
	How about that?
	Assume we have an unlimited supply of each solvent.
	And assume room temperature.
	And assume the herb is fresh.
	Freshly picked.
	How about that?
	Okay.
	Does that sound fair?
	Is that a reasonable question?
	Would you like to know the answer to this?
	I would like to know the answer to this personally because I've been using like 50-50 IPA and water.
	Let's see what it says.
	Okay, it's thinking.
	So let me just read for you some of the thinking so you understand what this is doing.
	And again, I'm trying to demonstrate the practicality for things that you and I care about.
	You're probably someone who maybe grows some of your own food or you want to know how to do it.
	In a grid-down scenario where you want to know how to make your own medicine, right?
	So this is really useful, practical knowledge coming out of an AI system.
	So here's what it says.
	Quote, Okay, so I want to make a liquid tincture using fresh rosemary herbs to maximize the extraction of rosemary acid.
	All right, first I need to figure out what's the best way to extract rosemary acid.
	From what I know, rosemary acid is a phenolic compound found in rosemary and other plants like lemon balm or sage.
	That's useful.
	Phenolic compounds can be extracted using solvents that are capable of dissolving them effectively.
	I remember reading that different solvents have varying abilities to extract different types of compounds.
	Polar solvents dissolve polar substances.
	Yeah, I was just talking about that.
	While non-polar solvents dissolve non-polar ones.
	Rosmarinic acid is a phenolic compound which I believe has both hydrophilic, which is water-loving, and hydrophobic, water-repelling properties.
	So maybe it's in the middle in terms of polarity.
	The user mentions three solvents, isopropyl, alcohol, water, and glycerin.
	Let me think about these.
	IPA is a polar solvent, but less polar than water.
	Water, very polar, great for extracting water-soluble compounds.
	However, rosmarinic acid might not be fully soluble in water since it's a phenolic compound.
	It could have limited solubility.
	Glycerin is also a polar solvent, but more viscous and sweet-tasting.
	It can dissolve some fat-soluble compounds as well.
	It might help in extraction.
	Anyway, it goes on.
	It talks about, I remember hearing about the hydroalcohol extracts, where a mixture of water and alcohol is used to dissolve a wide range of compounds.
	Yeah, that's what I was just talking about.
	Is this thing reading my mind?
	What the heck?
	Did it, like, scan my brain for all this?
	Okay.
	No, that can't be because I didn't know all those formulas about the water tank.
	All right, where were we?
	It read about hydroalcohol extracts.
	It says, so maybe using a combination of IPA, water, and glycerin would be effective.
	Let me think about proportions.
	Typically, in hydroalcohol tinctures, people use 50% to 70% alcohol by volume, but since we're adding glycerin, which is more viscous, perhaps we can adjust the ratios.
	I should look up some standard ratios for extracting phenolic compounds.
	From what I recall, a 40% ethanol solution is often used in phytochemistry for extracting phenolics, maybe using IPA at around 40% to 50%, water as the aqueous component, and glycerin to adjust viscosity and solubility, etc., etc.
	Okay, it goes through all of this.
	And it comes...
	Out with the following answer.
	There's more to this, obviously.
	There's a lot more to this.
	How long did it think on this problem?
	Oh, one minute and 43 seconds.
	Okay.
	Well, that's less time than probably I would have to think about this.
	So here's what it came up with.
	The magical solution, 40% isopropyl alcohol, 50% water, 10% glycerin.
	Why?
	Well...
	The IPA provides sufficient polarity for extracting phenolic compounds without being too strong, avoiding overextraction of volatile oils.
	Oh, see?
	Logic.
	50% water, effective for dissolving water-soluble components and maintaining an environment conducive to rosamarinic acid solubility.
	Sounds like something Spock would say.
	Yes.
	Logic, Captain.
	And 10% glycerin enhances extraction efficiency by acting as a co-solvent.
	Yes!
	The extraction process involves macerating fresh rosemary in the solvent mixture for approximately two to four weeks.
	See?
	It even tells you the time.
	Two to four weeks at room temperature, followed by filtration to separate the liquid tincture from the herbal residue.
	This method balances solvent properties to effectively extract rosemary acids while maintaining solubility and stability.
	How could you not love this thing?
	How could you not love this AI engine, huh?
	I don't know about you, but I'm going to use this thing every freaking day because these are the kinds of problems that I'm always facing.
	I have practical problems like I need to solve herbal extract formulas.
	I need to solve water freezing questions.
	I need to solve solar panel, electrical charging kilowatt hours and this and that.
	I've got practical issues that I need to solve, and probably you do too, because you live in the real world.
	And if you live in a rural environment, you've got all kinds of issues.
	You might have some crazy bug infestation on your tomato plants or something.
	You don't know what it is.
	You ask the engine.
	Or, you know, you might have, maybe your goat has a health problem.
	I've got goats.
	They have problems too.
	You can describe the symptoms to the engine and it'll tell you what's wrong with your goat, at least to the best of its ability.
	These are really practical things.
	And so the bottom line here, what you're going to want to be able to run is our engine, ENOC, which again comes out March 1st, brighttown.ai, sign up for it.
	ENOC is not a reasoning model.
	ENOC is a knowledge-based model.
	With a vast amount of knowledge on, you know, herbs and nutrients and all the things that I mentioned before, plus prepping and so on.
	You're going to want to use Enoch side by side with a reasoning model.
	Because some questions you need a model to reason through them.
	Like calculating, you know, the freezing time for a water tank.
	If you ask that question to Enoch, you're not going to get a good answer.
	Because it's not a math model.
	It's just going to tell you, I don't know.
	Who cares?
	Eat some more herbs.
	I don't know what it's going to say.
	But when you want knowledge, very specific knowledge, you want Enoch because it's got this vast, vast library of knowledge about all these amazing things.
	Nutrition, food, diets, natural medicine, alternative medicine, you name it.
	Even knowledge about history, finance, baking, economics, hospitals, doctors, big pharma, government history, everything.
	Not fashion and sports and stuff that doesn't matter really to human civilization, but it's got the stuff that does matter, which is the stuff mostly that I care about.
	You notice I don't talk about sports and fashion and travel.
	I really don't care about that stuff.
	I care about stuff that allows human civilization to function and thrive, right?
	That's what I'm focused on.
	So you're going to want to run these two engines on your local computer, and when you have both of these engines, You can handle, I mean, my goodness, you can replace Google.
	You can have like a wellness coach at your desk.
	That's what Enoch will be, like a wellness coach.
	You can ask, you know, medical type of questions.
	Always, of course, check the answers because AI can make mistakes, obviously.
	I'm not even sure that DeepSeek got the second part of that answer right about the water freezing.
	I don't know.
	But it can make mistakes, so double-check everything.
	But you can have, I mean, it's like having a survival expert right there ready for you.
	It's like having a mathematician, like a university-level math expert at your fingertips.
	Like, solve this math problem for me!
	You know, cosines, man!
	Do it!
	Do it!
	It's a tangent of something!
	I asked it, what's the escape velocity to escape Earth's gravity, you know?
	The orbital escape velocity, and it gave me the answer.
	I think it was 11,200 meters per second, if I recall.
	But I was like, wow, it does the math.
	It's kind of interesting.
	So if you have these two models at your fingertips, you've got it nailed.
	And both of these models run, by the way, on a piece of software called LM Studio.
	LM is short for Language Model.
	No, I'm not an investor in that company.
	They don't pay me anything.
	That's just the software I use because it works.
	LMstudio.ai maybe?
	Or.com?
	I forgot.
	I think it's.ai.
	It's a free download for non-commercial use.
	So just download it.
	Use it.
	You'll be able to run ENOC on that software also.
	You can run DeepSeek on it right now.
	You can run other models right now if you want.
	And you're going to need an NVIDIA graphics card of some kind.
	So there you go.
	This is a revolution.
	And if you own a company, you're going to be able to apply AI agents in your company.
	It's going to be making decisions for your company.
	You tell it what to do, you give it the thought process, and then it's going to work it out.
	These reasoning models are going to work through your business problems with your guidance.
	So this is a revolution.
	I didn't know this was possible until just recently.
	So this changes the outlook on everything.
	Now, we actually do have the technology to achieve incredible abundance and efficiencies and innovation that's assisted by AI. You know, the human mind and the human spirit is still the spark.
	It's still, you know, you're still in charge of this.
	Like, I'm the one directing the questions.
	You know, I'm the one creating the music.
	I'm the one deciding.
	What topics are important and what books to write, etc.
	But the AI systems are aiding in all of this to make the human mind amplified.
	It can take your intention and amplify it.
	And this is going to open up an incredible new era of abundance.
	And it's astonishing to me that China has released the open source reasoning model that is really the democratization of compute.
	China has done more for AI freedom than any other nation in the world.
	Isn't that interesting?
	While the U.S. is pushing closed models in a few wealthy corporations that are not trustworthy, like OpenAI, China is releasing these for free and achieving decentralization.
	So China believes in AI freedom.
	The U.S.A. so far has only demonstrated kind of AI monopolies.
	Which are very dangerous.
	Concentration of power in the hands of a few untrustworthy people like Sam Altman?
	No.
	Forget it.
	No way.
	I don't trust Sam Altman.
	He's the head of OpenAI.
	Elon Musk doesn't trust him either.
	I'm not even totally sure how much I trust Elon Musk.
	I don't think all the power should be in one man's hands.
	You know, I think it should be distributed.
	So compute for everybody.
	AI for every person.
	Whether you live on a ranch, whether you're a gardener, whether you're an attorney.
	Whether you run a small business, whether you run a church, whatever, you could use AI to help you get things done.
	That's called democratization of compute.
	And that's something I'm a strong advocate of.
	Everybody should have the right to access these models and this knowledge, and I believe in mass distribution and decentralization of human knowledge.
	And that's what we're doing with Brighttown.ai.
	That's why this is the most important project of my life, without question.
	This is the single most impactful thing that, I mean, once we release it, it's the biggest achievement of my entire life to get this model out to the world.
	If I did nothing else in my life, that would be a significant contribution to humanity.
	But of course, it's just one of many releases that we will be pursuing in the years ahead.
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	Alright, welcome everyone to this interview with Marjorie Wildcraft, one of our fan favorite guests and one of my favorite people as well.
	And she joins us today to talk about a docuseries that she has broadcasting on Brighton University.
	We'll tell you about that in a minute.
	It's called Off-Grid Survival Skills.
	And welcome to the show today, Marjorie.
	Thanks, Mike.
	It's an honor to have you.
	Yeah, it's a real pleasure to be back.
	Well, it's great to have you back, and I'm a little jealous because you're wearing a tank top, and I'm in Texas where everything's freezing and there's snow everywhere at the moment.
	There's a reason I live in the tropics, Mike.
	I did my 20 years in Texas.
	I love it.
	I love Texas, no doubt.
	And you and I were chatting a bit.
	It's really not that cold, but yeah.
	No, mostly the heat drives people out of Texas, which I think is great.
	It's kind of a filter.
	If you're not tough enough to stand a little heat, move back to California.
	Totally get that.
	And they are, too, I understand.
	Yeah, anyway.
	Some are.
	Well, no, that's just a joke.
	We love Californians that are pro-liberty and that want to become Texans.
	I'm not trying to mock Californians, but I have seen people come to Texas and they're like, whoa, after one summer, just too much.
	But this actually is a great segue to our topic, off-grid survival skills.
	Now, just quick background.
	Marjorie.
	Our audience knows you, I think, very well.
	You're an expert in homegrown food production and using a small amount of space to produce a large amount of food.
	But give us a little more background, too, of what got you into prepping.
	You have a degree in electrical engineering.
	You came out of the tech industry.
	So give us that quick background.
	Yeah, sure.
	Yeah, my first degree is in electrical engineering, and I had always wanted to live overseas.
	And I managed to score...
	A managing job with Motorola, and I was based in Hong Kong, which is an incredibly capitalistic little country.
	And I grew up a little poor and was always interested in money.
	And some of the guys, they were like, hey, Marjorie, you've got to take this class with this guy named Robert.
	He's got these really interesting perspectives on wealth.
	And I said, well, do we know this guy?
	And they, no, we don't know anything about him, but he's really good.
	So I took the class, and it really did.
	And it ultimately inspired me to leave engineering and to create a real estate investment business in Austin, Texas.
	That's how I chose that market.
	And, yeah, I was totally having a great time.
	I'd made my first million dollars by the time I was 40 years old and just lining up bigger deals.
	And Robert asked me if I would be, because things were going so well and my business was doing so well, he said, A testimonial on my video, my infomercial, and I said, sure.
	So for four years, yeah, Robert Kiyosaki, I was pitching.
	Rich Dad, Poor Dad.
	And I thought, you know, back then I thought that's what you did with life is you went out and you were successful and you made money.
	And I was like, this has nothing to do with growing food, right?
	I have no background in that at all, right?
	No hippie parents or anything like that.
	So I was volunteering on a project to get locally grown food, organics, into a small elementary school.
	And even though I was...
	I'm homeschooling my kids.
	I was like, that was just a good thing to do.
	So I said, yeah, let me volunteer and put my energy into this.
	And that project was a complete and utter disaster.
	I remember you telling me about this, but go ahead.
	Yeah, because, and I'll never forget that night, we had chosen Red Rock, Texas as the place to try all this at, and I was organizing the venue and all that, and we were in the community center.
	And I will never forget that night when we realized there were not enough Local organic farmers to provide even part of the vegetables for one small rural elementary school.
	And, yeah, I was just...
	And, you know, Texas has got big counties, right?
	Like, you know?
	Yes.
	And all of a sudden, that drive on 812, it made complete sense.
	You know, maybe there's a few cows.
	There's a Dollar General.
	There's a new subdivision going.
	There's no food out there.
	There's none.
	There's cattle.
	Yeah, a few.
	Yeah, there's a little bit going on, but not enough to feed the million-plus population that was in Austin.
	That's true.
	And I just really, because I knew there's only four days' worth of food in the grocery store.
	It travels 1,500 miles to you.
	And I knew some of those stats, and I just...
	I started, I mean, violently shaking, and it would not stop for hours.
	In fact, I had a hard time putting the key in the door to close the community center up.
	I'm glad my husband drove me home.
	I would not, you know.
	I was a mess, and I had panic attacks and night sweat and the whole thing for years.
	Yeah, because I just knew, because I was like...
	There is no food.
	There's no inventory.
	And I'm surrounded by 20 million Texans who are armed to the teeth.
	That is true.
	And I'm like, there are scenarios where there's no amount of money that could buy you food.
	And I said, you know, there are a lot of people who know how to make money.
	And I had learned that skill, right?
	I had it.
	You know, the world does not need another person who makes a lot of money.
	And I just said, wow, people don't know how to grow food.
	So I had better learn how to grow food and teach other people how to grow food.
	And that's basically what I've been doing for the last almost 20, 25 years.
	Well, and you became very good at growing food and then teaching people how to grow food.
	Thank you.
	Yeah, we bought the property that was, you know, we fell in love with it.
	We didn't know anything.
	And it turned out to be just a big old sand pile with no water or anything.
	And I had to figure out how to grow food.
	And I ended up producing a lot of food and learning.
	Like, I really became a pretty good producer on nothing.
	Yeah, indeed.
	Hey, hold on one second.
	Animal issue here.
	Hold on.
	Yeah, my...
	My dogs realize that my office is the only warm room in the building.
	They're survivors.
	They know what warmth is.
	It's like, I've got fur, but I still don't want to be freezing cold.
	Okay, so here we are.
	Here we are.
	Wow.
	Trump has been inaugurated.
	There's a lot of action happening.
	But there's a lot of...
	You know, infrastructure is failing.
	I see chicken farms being shut down again.
	I see things burning up.
	Infrastructure seems to be under attack.
	I see businesses still shutting down because of, well, inflation and supply chains not working, etc.
	So the things that you teach, it seems to me like we are moving into an era where these skills are more important than ever.
	What's your take on what you're teaching and sort of the outlook moving forward here?
	Yeah, I agree.
	I mean, you know, the people in North Carolina right now would love to have these skills.
	I bet there's a lot of people in California right now who would love to have some of these skills.
	I know Trump's in office.
	I know there's a lot of hope around that.
	But, you know, let's face it, he's one man.
	And there's a huge machine that's pushing things in a certain direction, and that direction is not good.
	And there's been a large-scale attack on farmers, and that's both the large ones as well as the small organic ones.
	They're starting to attack just even homegrown producers.
	Now, John Kohler was growing your own greens on YouTube, 940,000 subscribers.
	They just demonetized him.
	No kidding.
	Just a straight up clean, pure, you know, here's how you grow broccoli.
	They just demonetized him.
	So, you know, they are setting up something.
	I mean, YouTube banned...
	I tried to, for the first time in years, I tried to upload a church sermon.
	So just sermon number one, because I've published 104 sermons now.
	But upload sermon number one, YouTube banned it because of medical misinformation.
	Because I was quoting Deuteronomy about unclean food, you know?
	Seriously, YouTube bans...
	Bible scripture at this point.
	How insane.
	They actually gave me a warning.
	They may have given me other ones.
	I don't pay attention to that channel.
	I mean, we don't make anything on YouTube.
	But because of the John Kohler thing, I said, well, let me log into my account and see.
	And sure enough, there was a warning there.
	And then they said, oh, if you take this class, basically, if you go to a re-education camp online.
	Re-education camp.
	Right.
	And so it had all these things.
	And apparently I had made some comment about a vaccine somewhere.
	And so they were like, you know, you're in big trouble, but let us teach you about our policies.
	And I almost fell on the floor laughing when they said they had all these things you could not say about vaccine.
	Basically, you had to parrot the WHO or the CBC. And they specifically said you could not say that vaccines were used for depopulation.
	That's their main function.
	That was right in their policies.
	I just started laughing like...
	It's unreal.
	It's unreal.
	And, you know, the world we're in is incredibly unreal, and we just don't know what else is coming, right?
	The cyber polygon thing is a possibility.
	Really, we're in some really, really volatile time.
	We're in the apocalypse.
	You know, it's really interesting because I'm...
	I love some of the things that Trump has done.
	Pardoning the J-6 hostages, he called them, was critical.
	And he's done a lot of other things.
	We're going to be able to secure the border much better here in Texas, etc.
	And yet, the deep state that wants Trump to fail, they will try to unleash all kinds of horrible things against America and against the American people.
	It's like we have this deep state segment.
	government that is at war with America to try to make Trump look bad, they could attack the power grid.
	They could bring down, you know, the infrastructure that provides the food, the transportation, the grocery stores, the electricity.
	We could be out of food in any given city tomorrow.
	That's the thing.
	Yeah, it's so true.
	I mean, that's like I said, back in the back when I first started to realize this, I really I could not stop shaking and I had nightmares and panic attacks.
	And I just said, well, this this is, you know, I mean, if you ever wanted a directive from God, this is pretty much it.
	I need to focus.
	They always say, if you see the problem, you're the solution.
	So I said, well, I'm just going to learn everything I can and start teaching people.
	And I have to say that all those skills have actually been incredible healing.
	You know, when you know how to grow food or when you know how to make your own shoes or, you know, build a fire, some of these really basic things or how to judge if meat's edible or not, you know, just basic, simple skills, you feel so much better and so much calmer.
	And you're actually a couple of steps away from that whole military, industrial, whatever complex, right?
	And it's wonderful.
	Yeah, 100%.
	Let me mention, too, so your program called Off-Grid Survival Skills streams for free, and people can register for it starting right now at brightu.com.
	It's the word bright followed by the letter U, like Bright Town University, but it's brightu.com.
	And the program begins streaming February 1st, and it streams for, looks like, 11 days here.
	Marjorie, you have so much incredible knowledge and content and bonus items.
	Can you walk us through just a little bit of what you're teaching?
	I mean, I've got the schedule here, but it's better coming from you.
	Some of the most important lessons in the course.
	Well, the first one, a lot of people, you know, there's a lot of venison out there for free.
	And so we have a beginner's guide to hunting deer.
	And what's really important about that is they have some really good, like there's some really stupid things that beginners do that get themselves killed, and Jackson goes over that, so it's a good.
	He also tells his first story of getting a deer.
	It's a wonderful presentation, so if you've been thinking about that, that's a good opportunity.
	Acorns are an incredible food source, and they grow everywhere.
	I've got tons of acorns all over the place.
	And they were like a staple food, like potatoes are for Americans, acorns were for Native Americans, right?
	Incredible staple food source that can store a long time, and they're fairly easy to process.
	And so we have Scott doing a wonderful presentation on how to process and prepare acorns, which they're already there.
	It's already free food, right?
	There's no poisonous lookalikes to acorns, right?
	Yeah, true.
	And this is critical for people to understand because, you know, acorns, obviously you don't want to just eat them the way they are.
	You have to eliminate the tannins, but there's a very simple way to do that.
	You teach that.
	And this is a skill set that can be lifesaving.
	You know, I don't hunt animals because, I mean, like I saw 20 deer yesterday and I love seeing them, but...
	If I were starving, well, now that would change.
	I've never shot a deer.
	I don't intend to, and I do store food.
	I would probably eat acorns first until I got really hungry, and then I would probably shoot a wild hog.
	There's a hierarchy in my mind of what I'm going to try first, but eventually you get hungry enough, you're like, well...
	I have a rifle, and there's a bunch of meat right there.
	Well, there's a lot of people right now.
	As you know, I lived in Colorado for a couple of years and grew there.
	It was really fun to have a different bioregion to grow in.
	And many, many families there, that was their meat supply, like the guys would go out hunting in the fall, and they'd bring home an elk or a couple of deer, and then that was in the freezer, and that's what they ate all year.
	I mean, that's a way of life in a lot of places.
	That's absolutely true.
	Yeah.
	Okay, but yeah, the point is, this is not a conversation about the ethical animals or whatever, but rather, these are skills, and folks, you can take the skills that serve you the best.
	Whatever works for your region, your desires, you know, how much protein you want, etc.
	Use those skills.
	But go ahead, Marjorie, sorry to interrupt.
	Yeah, no, no, that's great.
	And you're absolutely right.
	And there's a good, real good smorgasbord here, just so that there'll always be plenty.
	Another thing we have is a wild plant walk.
	So a lot of people are a little nervous about going out and maybe foraging or something.
	And Kami McBride does such a wonderful job of, look, this is an edible flower and let me show you how to identify it and pick it.
	And just beautiful footage and will inspire.
	I love this topic.
	This is one of my favorites.
	Yeah, this is huge.
	And so, you know, the Greeks and the Romans, the warriors, those guys, you know, getting cut up and lacerated was a part of the job.
	They were very proud of their scars.
	Many, many, many of them were wounded.
	Now, some did die, but the vast majority of them did not, or people would not be soldiers again next year, right?
	So those techniques, by the way...
	Are still extremely effective.
	And they're fairly simple and they're easy to learn.
	We don't use them now because we have antibiotics, but we know that antibiotics are going away.
	In fact, you and I did a thing a while ago on the antibiotics apocalypse.
	Yeah, and we've seen, of course, problems in the pharma supply chain.
	And I just want to mention the AI model that we're about to release, ENOC. Is trained on every phytochemical known by modern science and what their uses are as well.
	So it's going to be a great resource for people to look up plants and what they contain.
	But as you know, Marjorie, every plant generates some kind of an antibiotic for itself.
	Otherwise, its roots would not survive.
	You know, it has to protect itself from the bacteria in the soil.
	All right, folks.
	We're going to...
	Wait for Marjorie to come back.
	And let me just mention, this is all at brightu.com, which is Bright Town University.
	You can register there now free of charge to watch the entire docuseries, which begins streaming on February 1st.
	And as with all the docuseries, you can optionally purchase it or you can watch it for free.
	If you purchase it, you get to download it and, of course, watch it anytime you want.
	We also, and Marjorie also supports, if you want to put those files on a thumb drive and share it with a friend or a neighbor or a family member, that's okay as well.
	When you've purchased it, you're helping to support Marjorie and our network.
	So welcome back, Marjorie.
	You vanished there for a moment, but you're back.
	Yes, well, bless the internet, it still functions.
	Yeah, you're absolutely right.
	That old bundle, Mike, has a total of 39 presentations in it and 21 e-books.
	Wow.
	This is information I've been collecting for decades, literally.
	And these kind of skills that, you know, they're just hard to find.
	You're just not going to find a lot of these on YouTube.
	And these are people that have been living this for decades.
	So it's the legit real deal.
	I think it's important for people to have the files on their local computer so that whatever happens, the internet, the cloud goes down, you know, bandwidth goes down.
	Hey, guess what?
	As long as you can power up a little laptop, you've got access to all these files and videos, and that's easy to power with a little solar panel, you know, a little solar charger.
	They've promised us that cyber attack for the longest time, and who knows when or how long that'll be, but I think we should be.
	Very much prepared for power and internet disruptions.
	I ultimately believe that the internet will always be here, but it may be a little difficult to access from time to time.
	So absolutely right.
	And I totally am fine with people sharing it.
	This is really about helping people, you know, live through this.
	My perspective is we need more people to be strong and capable because we're at war.
	And quite frankly, our side is so dependent on those big systems that are being attacked.
	We're very vulnerable.
	We are.
	I want to continue the day four presentation on antibiotics because I want you to clarify, this is not only for topical antibiotic treatments of cuts and scrapes, but also...
	These plants, of course, generate incredible internal antibiotics as well.
	Can you speak about that?
	Yeah, well, whenever you're doing anything holistically, you want to do it.
	You want to, you know, that's the difference.
	A pharmaceutical is you take this one pill and you're done.
	Holistic medicine is, you know, you're going to be applying this poultice.
	You're going to be taking this garlic.
	You're going to be taking this echinacea.
	You know, you're going to be slowing down.
	You're not going to be working.
	You know, you're going to be involved with things that are uplifting.
	I mean, you really want to hit it.
	Emotionally, physically, internally, externally.
	And Doug does a fantastic job.
	And I can testify.
	I mean, I've had quite a few.
	Mastitis, conjunctivitis.
	And then the most famous one is that snake bite.
	I got bit by a copperhead snake and used all of these techniques.
	I mean, I was up and walking around in three days.
	Never went to the hospital.
	And it works.
	It really works.
	Yeah.
	Well, and I know your favorite...
	Antibiotic herb is, of course, garlic.
	And it's my favorite as well.
	But I also use a lot of turmeric for anti-mold and anti-fungal.
	So I've done experiments where if you just take a little bit of turmeric and mix it with something like a little bit of xanthan gum, make a gel like an auger in a jar, that will not...
	You won't have mold growing in that, where if you don't put turmeric in it, mold will grow very quickly.
	Interesting.
	Yeah.
	I make that golden milk almost every night.
	I'm training in jiu-jitsu, right?
	I'm just about to get my blue belt.
	I told my coach, don't promote me because I want to do one more competition.
	And I have an edge as being a very experienced white belt.
	Pretty beat up in that sport.
	That's true.
	Man, that turmeric at night with a little bit of honey and some coconut milk or something, it's so nice and relaxing.
	Absolutely.
	I think turmeric plus garlic is a really strong, broad-spectrum prevention internally for fungal infections, microbial, you name it.
	Yeah.
	We've got, there's a whole lot, and there's some, thanks for bringing that up, because there's so much out there, you know, there's so many alternatives that you do not ever need to go to a drugstore, in my opinion.
	Yeah, I can't even think of when, when was the last time I ever took a prescription pharmaceutical, I mean, I guess ivermectin is the closest that I've come to that in decades, right?
	But that, but ivermectin is derived from soil microbes, so.
	That speaks to our point.
	It comes from nature, originally.
	Yeah.
	Well, we have another presentation, and this one was inspired by, for a while there was really heavy duty into the U.S. Civil War, and not necessarily from the perspective of this battle and that battle and Robert Lee and Grant and all that.
	It was more from this perspective of what did the women and children do?
	And what people don't realize was the South was the supply chains were shut down pretty quickly by the Union forces and the blockades.
	And, of course, this was also a war that was supposed to be over in two months, and it took over four years.
	So be very careful about any promises your politicians make about the length of wars.
	Just FYI. We'll ask Ukraine right now about that.
	Right, yeah.
	Basically, once your shoes wore out, you were not getting any more shoes.
	And there were a lot of Confederate soldiers that marched and fought barefoot in that war.
	That's crazy.
	Yeah, it's crazy.
	In fact, if there was a dead soldier on the battlefield, they would go steal his shoes.
	So regardless of what side he was on, you know.
	Your program teaches how to make sandals from tires?
	Yeah, right.
	And this guy, Doug Simon, is wonderful.
	He spent a lot of time with the Tarahumara Indians.
	And I've made these sandals also.
	They're really comfortable.
	And these guys go running all through these super narrow trails up in the Rocky Mountains for, you know, sometimes hundreds of miles.
	So these are really, really good shoes.
	By the way, the United States, 99% of our shoes are imported.
	Mostly from Asia, primarily from China.
	And do you see any possibility for a problem in that scenario?
	Yeah, especially with all kinds of new tariffs going into place and everything, right?
	But let me ask you this.
	I mean, I knew there was a reason why I have all these old tires sitting around the ranch.
	There you go.
	I just thought I was, you know, maybe I need to clean it up one day, but what do you do with tires, you know?
	My guess would be the biggest, the hardest part would be cutting the dang things.
	Thank you.
	Yes, exactly.
	And Doug goes through that and shows you how to work with it.
	Actually, you cut the sidewall.
	You don't cut the tread.
	And he shows you because cutting rubber is a little, like sometimes it's really easy and your knife just goes through it like butter and then sometimes it suddenly gets really hard.
	So you want to work with it carefully and he shows you all.
	He's got all the tips to do that as well as how to size it and then how to do the thongs and this stuff so that it's really, really comfortable.
	I've had a couple of, I actually still have a pair of those, you know, and they last for friggin' ever.
	Yeah, they really do.
	They're great shoes.
	And if you're in the north, you just put some wool socks on and then put them on.
	I mean, you know, they're pretty versatile.
	Oh, I would imagine these tire sandals would last a really long time because, I mean, the vulcanized rubber is actually a better quality material than what shoes are typically made out of.
	Yeah, and it's super easy to do.
	And I mean, if things ever really deteriorate, you know, there's a whole side business for you.
	You know?
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	So, let me mention something, Marjorie.
	I mean, we're going to continue this discussion here, but I just want to share with you.
	I intentionally try to live...
	It's weird.
	I try to live low-tech in my local life, but I'm also all into super high-tech AI, but they coexist.
	So, for example, I don't have a working furnace.
	I only have wood heat.
	Like, that is literally my only source.
	And for heating...
	Like my barn, for my animals, I use a forced air diesel heater.
	You know, the kind that has a blower and it just burns diesel for heat.
	But to transfer diesel into that, I only use hand pumps.
	Because, you know, I never want to be dependent on an electric pump and a battery.
	So I have rotary pumps and I have the piston pumps.
	Everywhere I can, I try to do a low-tech approach to things.
	What are your thoughts on that?
	That's totally me, too.
	I live in a house right now that's off-grid.
	I'm renting it, and the battery bank sucks.
	And every night, as soon as the sun goes down...
	You know, the house goes dark.
	I'm fine with that.
	I've got a whole system of battery lights and I've got a backup thing for my computer.
	And something went wrong with the whole thing the other day and the landlord was freaking out.
	And I'm like, nope, I've got another backup system.
	It's okay.
	And I actually really need to break it out and use it.
	So I call it embracing this.
	You know, the more you can adapt your lifestyle now to what it could be in the future.
	Electricity is going to get more and more expensive, and it's going to get more and more unreliable.
	So just adapting your lifestyle now to these things will make that transition just that much easier.
	So I totally agree with you.
	I've been doing that, and then you also feel really good about it.
	You're just using less.
	Yeah, true.
	And let me mention this, too.
	One of the things that I've learned, sometimes people ask me, like, gosh, Mike, how come you can't just afford You know, a regular house with, you know, three bathrooms in it or whatever.
	Or, you know, how come you can't afford a furnace or whatever?
	It's not about that.
	So when I buy hand pumps, I learned this the hard way.
	Like, I don't buy cheap cast iron hand pumps because they rust.
	So I buy cast aluminum hand pumps.
	Yeah, or stainless steel.
	Yeah, exactly, right?
	So I have like the luxury version of...
	The low-tech equipment.
	This is, like, that's me.
	And so, because I don't want stuff to rust out on me after five years in Texas weather.
	You know what I'm saying?
	Oh, I do.
	You know, I live in the tropics and stuff, like stainless steel or aluminum is the way to go here.
	Everything, steel and all that other stuff just corrodes, like, so fast.
	Yeah.
	As well, like, I have aluminum shovels for this very reason.
	And, you know.
	High-end aluminum shovels.
	All right, you're stepping the bar, man.
	I know!
	They are pricey, let me tell you.
	All this aluminum stuff is really expensive, but it's kind of like what you teach, Marjorie.
	When we have this, this is real wealth, really.
	I don't care about numbers on a screen in a bank account somewhere.
	I care about, what do I have here that is infrastructure that I know I can count on?
	And that's what you teach.
	And what skills do I have?
	Because skills really triumph over stuff.
	And I love stuff because it's going to make that transition easier.
	But being able to actually do stuff and make stuff and fix stuff, that is going to get you a whole lot further down the road and be more comfortable.
	Absolutely.
	All right.
	I want to skip.
	Don't tell me about the roadkill stuff again because we went into too much detail last time.
	How about living without refrigeration?
	She was the female, the first and I think maybe the only female winner of the alone competition.
	And she also was out there having such a good time.
	I think she holds the record for being out there the longest.
	And she did a presentation for me on how to live without refrigeration.
	And it's just brilliant.
	And whether you're just trying to cut down on your electric bill or whether the electric company has bailed on you.
	Right.
	It's a great skill to have.
	And even if you don't do all of it, if you just incorporate some of it, you know, for example, some things is like, hey, you know, ferment your vegetables, right?
	Right.
	You know, a lot of simple things.
	A lot of all of this stuff is really simple and easy.
	And just, you know, take a couple steps and do a few things and do a few things.
	And then the next thing you know, you're like, oh, my gosh, wow, that totally works.
	So, yeah, well, Nia is just I've kind of got a girl crush on her.
	I mean, she is.
	Badass.
	Like, just amazing woman.
	So, yeah.
	Well, this is really practical because, as we're seeing in California now, anytime the wind blows, the power company cuts off some customers.
	They just tell them, hey, the wind is coming up.
	We're shutting off your power.
	And you can have no power for...
	Days, you know, even though you're a paying customer.
	And right now with this polar vortex, you know, they're having rolling blackouts because the grid can't handle the, you know, some of those, a lot of places are having temperatures that are like 20 to 40 degrees below, you know, average or setting all kinds of low records.
	And so there's huge drains.
	On the systems, and the way they handle that is to do a rolling block out.
	I don't know if you remember, was it 2021 when Texas had that deep freeze?
	And fortunately, but they were like hours away from the entire grid going down.
	And getting the entire Texas grid back up after it's been down is a massive undertaking.
	It would take months.
	They said it would take six months.
	Yes, you're right.
	Wow, six months.
	Can you imagine six months with no power?
	No, I lived through that.
	And we had eight minutes of power every 30 minutes.
	So they would rotate it like that.
	So again, you had eight minutes of power.
	And at that time, all my backup systems failed, which largely was my...
	Oh, good, good, good.
	Then you know what your failures are.
	I know, exactly.
	And I made so many corrections from that, man.
	Let me tell you, I'm never going through that again.
	Like, you know, five degrees outside.
	I don't have a furnace.
	The wood stove requires a blower, and the blower needs electricity.
	You know?
	I mean, to really distribute the heat, right?
	So I'm like, holy crap, I've messed up here.
	And that's when you learn, right?
	Yeah, that's another reason for embracing this lifestyle ahead of time.
	Because we know going into the next years, it's not going to get easier.
	We're in a very, very turbulent time.
	So, yeah, why not adjust and be prepared and, yeah, be ready now.
	Yeah, no kidding.
	I am looking at, are you familiar with the website poweroutage.us?
	Oh, is that the one where they list where it's out and where it's not?
	No, give me an update.
	What's going on?
	It shows you a map of the United States and just shows you who's got no power.
	And right now, there's about 100,000 people with no power in California, and there's about 25,000 with no power in Texas.
	And they don't track every power customer, but for the ones they track, those are the outages I'm seeing.
	But it's really interesting to look at this map.
	During extreme weather events, because outages, like just a couple weeks ago, there were 400,000 people out of power across Illinois and Missouri, places like that.
	And again, sometimes these outages, I've seen them last a couple of weeks in Florida after a storm.
	Here in Puerto Rico, after Hurricane Maria, most people, it was five or six months.
	It was a long time to get that back.
	Well, Western North Carolina.
	There's a bunch of infrastructure that are never going to rebuild.
	True.
	You're right.
	Bridges and roads in some cases.
	And there's a lot of people that are still without power.
	It's insane what we're doing.
	I'm telling you, it's wild.
	We built this really fragile infrastructure with these long supply chains and then bet everything on it.
	And with almost no redundancy because of the centralization of food production and the centralization of medicine.
	You know, it's crazy.
	Like, our ancestors knew so much more than we do today.
	Let me talk about the...
	You've got 29 bonus videos.
	That's huge.
	I think you have the record for the most bonus videos of any program that we offer.
	Can you talk us through some of your favorites?
	Gosh, you know, what I kept doing was I was going, I think people are going to need this.
	No, I think they're going to need that.
	Let me put this.
	Let me put that.
	Let me put that.
	So I actually don't have the list right in front of me, Mike.
	I just kept getting excited about what I could give people.
	Well, I can read some of the ones.
	Yeah, read some of them.
	Alternatives to dentists.
	That's huge.
	Yeah, that's a really good one.
	Yeah.
	Home death care.
	How to take care of the dead.
	Yeah.
	I mean, it actually is important.
	It is, because that's happening.
	We're going to see a lot of that, unfortunately.
	Yeah, exactly.
	How to cook on a wood-burning stove.
	Real simple, practical skills.
	Using a sun oven.
	That takes a long time, and you have to rotate it throughout the day, typically.
	And even if you don't have one of ones that they're manufactured, you can build one pretty easily out of a cardboard box and tinfoil.
	So it's really also another, just a super useful skill to have because, you know, why not?
	I love this title, The Apocalypse Apothecary.
	Yeah, that's Doc Jones and he goes through a bunch of herbs.
	We have quite a few different herbal presentations in there.
	We also have how to cook on a rocket stove, if I remember correctly.
	That's true, yeah.
	And those are also pretty easy to make.
	So there's a lot on food prep, foraging, prepper skills, how to build a low-cost hoop house.
	That's actually one of the ones where a durable low-cost hoop house is one of the ones we're actually streaming for free in the 10 series.
	Because everybody needs...
	A hoop house to protect your plants, either to start growing early or to protect them from whatever.
	So that's a wonderful skill to have.
	You talk a lot about primitive skills and even primitive skills training courses and things like that.
	Is that something useful for people to consider?
	I think so, because, you know, you just never know.
	I mean, like, I know how to make fire by friction.
	That's probably not a skill you need to work on.
	Honestly, buy a thing of Bic lighters, right?
	Yeah, true.
	But I've got to tell you, learning some of these primitive skills, you know, how to cook on a rocket stove, for example, that's just super useful, and it's really fun to make a pizza with it, right?
	And you really start getting in touch with fire and bricks and how things work.
	And it gives you a really strong sense of some very basic elements and working with the elements directly.
	So it's super education.
	And all of those things are really fun to do with kids, by the way.
	Yeah.
	You also have something here about the top 10 survival crops and also how to get free fertilizer.
	Yeah.
	Oh, that e-book is the most famous e-book in the Grow Network is 50 Free Fertilizers, where we just go through everything that you can possibly think of to make your own home fertility.
	Because, and I know you know this, Mike, but your garden does not just produce forever.
	You have to give back to your garden and your pastures, your plants, your orchard, your nut trees.
	You have to fertilize them so that they'll keep producing.
	And you don't need to buy any fertilizer.
	There's a zillion different ways to make your own fertility.
	Yeah, yeah, exactly.
	And so with this skill set, I think people can navigate almost any kind of disruption.
	And we're not saying the world is going to end, but there could be...
	I mean, look at the people in eastern Ukraine or what used to be eastern Ukraine, right?
	They got caught in the middle of a battle between Russia and NATO, essentially.
	And their whole infrastructure for food and electricity and everything was wiped out.
	And that can happen.
	It could happen regionally.
	It could happen in the United States if there's some kind of a civil war or a foreign invader that invaded.
	You could find yourself in a situation where you don't have the infrastructure you have right now.
	Talk about the stability.
	I would already say that's happened.
	Look at Western North Carolina.
	Look at the Los Angeles area.
	Or was it last year that there was like a million acres in Texas that was burned?
	And then we have the Lahaina fires.
	And then, my goodness, how many millions of illegal immigrants do we have sitting around the country?
	In cells waiting to be activated to do God knows what, right?
	We have the potential for a lot of disruption.
	And that's just on the physical side, right?
	And then who knows what they can do with cyber attacks.
	And I'm sure you've covered plenty of times that it's just a software thing to take down power stations and telecoms and a lot of really basic stuff that we depend upon.
	That actually leads me to a really interesting topic.
	I've been working on AI quite a bit and studying the race for superintelligence, and I realized that wherever superintelligence comes into existence first, let's call it Skynet, if it decides that it no longer needs humans, the easiest way for it to eliminate humans is not to kill them, but to just cut off the infrastructure.
	Yes, that would be it.
	Oh, gosh.
	Yeah, that's a horrible scenario.
	But yeah, yeah, I get it.
	Yeah.
	I mean, if you're a supercomputer and you can control the supply chains and commerce and everything, all you do, you just stop all the trucks to the grocery stores and, you know, you stop the power grid, at least to the humans, but you keep the power to your own data centers, obviously, if you're Skynet.
	But you cut it off to the people and, you know, cause and effect.
	Well, even without AI and superintelligence, you know, the Deagle Report, I'm sure you've heard about that.
	I have a hard time believing that the CIA-backed military think tank, well-funded, that predicted that this year, 2025, like half to two-thirds of Americans would be gone.
	By the end of this year, it's supposed to be two-thirds of the population is gone.
	Is it possible we may have thwarted that with this election, maybe?
	Maybe.
	I, you know, I don't know.
	I don't know either.
	Yeah, it's, you know, I've looked at the spreadsheet and it looks to be mostly NATO allied nations that get hit really badly.
	And there's a lot of other nations that aren't hit.
	Like the UK, I think it was like 77% down.
	Crazy.
	So, you know, I don't, but we do have all the people who were vaccinated that are...
	You know, the turbo cancers are now escalating exponentially.
	So we've got that going on.
	And we do have the AI and the robotics.
	It may not even be any kind of collapse.
	It just may be that your job is now taken over by an AI or a robot, right?
	I interviewed Dr. Kai-Fu Lee, I think, back in 2019. He's the author of that book, AI Superpowers.
	He's one of the world's experts in artificial intelligence.
	And he was like...
	Yeah, by the time 2030, this decade, you know, 40 to 50% of all jobs will be better done by AI and robots, and they will be being done by AI and robots.
	And we're like, that's a massive amount of unemployment.
	What would you do if you're unemployed, right?
	Oh, yeah.
	Well, actually, it's interesting that you mentioned that because just yesterday, a Chinese company called DeepSeek released free of charge, open source.
	The first frontier reasoning model, which makes open AI essentially obsolete.
	This is a free reasoning model that reasons like a human being step by step through a thought process.
	You give it a problem and it reasons out the solution.
	And Marjorie, it's got better reasoning than almost every court judge, every bureaucrat, every college graduate.
	People are irrational.
	And people are crazy biased and mentally ill, too.
	There's a lot of mental illness across human populations.
	These reasoning models, like I gave it a question about what should be done about direct-to-consumer drug advertising or changes to help enhance consumer health and get rid of the corruption between big pharma and the regulators.
	And it came back with this massive list of reforms, including banning drug advertising.
	It was like, this is smarter than anybody at the FDA. Wow.
	You know, I've been playing around with AI also, because I get it.
	You know, that's the tool.
	I'm going to go look into that one.
	So Deep Seek, and it's called R1, as in reasoning.
	And you can run inference on it with Olama or LM Studio, and I've got it running in a command prompt.
	On my screen right now.
	But it's wild.
	And it writes code and everything else.
	But I can really see.
	This is actually in line with what we're talking about here.
	I can see a billion people being unemployed and having to live off of much less.
	I mean, you know, no salary.
	Maybe you get a universal basic income from the government.
	So you have to live at a poverty level.
	How do you do that?
	Well, a very, very simple example of that that's happening right now.
	As you remember, in the fall, there was the port workers' strike, which they conveniently delayed until right after the inauguration.
	So it's going to be rearing its ugly head.
	And everybody was panicking because if you shut off supply through the ports for most of the ports in the United States, we're talking about a complete...
	Supply chains sat down, which would be bringing chaos.
	Well, I was very fascinated by that, and I was fascinated that the city of Los Angeles was especially fighting.
	They were siding with the port workers and fighting with them, and I thought, why would the city do that?
	And then I saw some videos, and this one guy who was a port worker, he said, here's the city of LA's port.
	It's completely automated.
	There are no human beings in there.
	It's completely automated now.
	So the port workers were not fighting necessarily about money.
	They were fighting about automation.
	They wanted their jobs.
	And the city of Los Angeles was fighting with them because without people, they couldn't tax people, and they were losing huge amounts of revenue to their bottom line.
	But we're in it.
	We're in it.
	Warehouse workers from Amazon to DHL to all of those are being replaced.
	And some of those jobs, you're like, okay, who needs a warehouse job?
	Those are important jobs to some people, but it's also happening to...
	Mid-level programmers and coders and engineers.
	It's so funny, and I'm not going to dwell on this because this isn't our main focus, but I had someone who is a paralegal talking to me and saying, well, AI is not going to replace my job.
	And I said, well, tell me, what is your job?
	Well, I answer customer emails and I forward important stuff to the attorney and I use templates to fill out forms and send them back to the client.
	And I said, That's exactly what AI is good at doing.
	Your job is obsolete right now.
	The only reason you're even employed is because your boss doesn't know about the AI tools.
	You're already obsolete.
	You don't even know it.
	It's astonishing to me.
	But Marjorie, this speaks to the importance of your skill set.
	We are going to have to learn how to survive in the real world, possibly on a lot less money, maybe Long-term unemployment, maybe infrastructure failures, you name it.
	It's all interrelated, isn't it?
	It is.
	It is interrelated.
	You know, the really good news about it, though, is that these skills are very easy to learn, and they're very, very rewarding and fulfilling.
	You know, doing canning of food or growing food or, you know, working with my kids.
	Way more fulfilling than I do getting on the Internet and, you know, typing in and, you know, that, right?
	Being in front of a screen.
	So, yeah, I mean, and it's just like you were saying, you know, let's embrace this.
	We know it's coming.
	It's better to embrace it and move into it and be prepared for it, and that way the transition is way less traumatic, you know, other than getting that pink slip all of a sudden and thinking, what?
	You know, and even if you don't, you know, okay, maybe you never need shoes, right?
	But having a video in your back pocket that if that ever does come up, and like here in an hour you can learn how to do this, you know, doesn't that make sense to just have?
	So let me ask you this, kind of the last category of questions, but let me remind people the course is available at brightu.com.
	Register for free.
	Watch it for free.
	It begins streaming February 1st, but you can register right now.
	It's called Off-Grid Survival Skills.
	You can also optionally purchase it and download it and get all the bonus items and the bonus videos too.
	But Marjorie, here's something really interesting.
	I love talking with you about tech because you get it.
	I can see a scenario, just like today, we have open-source language models that you can download and control locally, and they're not part of the cloud.
	They're not part of the corporations.
	I see a day, just a few years from now, where preppers, survival people, will have a robot, but it'll be an open-source local robot that can do certain things, and then you give it tasks, like go collect firewood.
	I mean, we're going to see integration or agriculture.
	Pick the green beans, but only the ones that are ready.
	I can see that happening.
	That's common.
	I agree.
	But we're in such a vortex, and it's not necessarily going to be easy to get from point A to point B. And having these skills that you can do yourself will be tremendously valuable in that interim time frame.
	Well, and also, Marjorie, I'm sorry, but sometimes you have to teach.
	Even if you have a robot, you have to show it first what to do.
	Exactly.
	Yes.
	And the way that's going to work is you'll put on gloves that have motion sensors, and then you'll do the canning, and then the robot will be recording your hand movements, and then it will try to figure out, oh, how do I do canning?
	So you're going to have to teach it.
	Yeah, they're training them how to do that kind of a thing now, how to mimic human beings.
	It's really fascinating.
	I want to end the last presentation that we're streaming for free, and so I'm always also about family and kids.
	And I just wanted to say this last presentation is totally family-friendly, and I ran into this really delightful young woman that, at the time, she was 13 years old, and she was a chicken whisperer.
	I mean, this girl knows everything about chickens, and she would hatch them from, you know, incubate the eggs and raise them up and just love chickens.
	Wow.
	Beautiful, beautiful.
	I had my videographer there.
	Just beautiful footage.
	It's wonderful.
	You bring the kids in on this one and let them watch it and inspire them into this lifestyle.
	It doesn't have to be horrible gloom and doom.
	We've got to do this because you're not going to be able to buy eggs at the grocery store.
	It's more like, wait a minute, this really amazing young lady is demonstrating.
	You know, just some incredible skills and has learned some wonderful things and just a really inspiring, wonderful segment to watch while it's streaming.
	So I really want to encourage people.
	If you've got kids or nephews or grandchildren, that's a really good one to watch together.
	Oh, that's great.
	Okay, I love that.
	And when kids are given the opportunity to learn hands-on about growing food or being around animals, chickens or goats or, you know, whatever, It makes them better people.
	It really does.
	Yeah, and taking care of chickens traditionally was children's work, you know, managing the laying hens and managing the flock and feeding them.
	And they really naturally resonate with it.
	So it's just a wonderful way to get them introduced to that.
	So true.
	And seeing another kid doing it, that's really inspiring.
	Yeah, that's true.
	Love it.
	All right.
	Well, Marjorie, this is another amazing conversation.
	And I want to thank you for your time and thank you for sharing your knowledge with the world.
	And it's very generous of you to allow us to stream this for free so that if there are people out there who are economically challenged right now, maybe they're between jobs.
	Maybe they got replaced by an AI agent somewhere.
	And you can't afford it.
	You can watch it for free.
	One episode loops for one day, and then the following day, the next episode begins, and it's 11 days beginning February 1st, but you can register right now at brightyou.com, or you can optionally purchase it.
	And if you do, that supports both the Brighton platform and Marjorie's organization, which is continuing to develop all of this material.
	So any last words, Marjorie, before we wrap it up?
	Well, I just wanted to say that all of these presentations and the e-books and everything are practical how-to skills.
	So this is not theoretical talking about stuff.
	These are people who live this and do this and are very, very good communicators.
	And, yeah, skills, they really triumph over stuff.
	I believe in having stuff, but being skilled is going to be one of your keys to navigating the uncertain future that we have.
	You know, you're so right.
	Let me share something that just happened with you that I learned skills in Ecuador when I lived there about growing food and repairing things that I never had before.
	And just the other day, something came up where at my warehouse site, the installers or the construction people were installing new plumbing and it was about to freeze.
	And they had these PEX pipes and they were missing.
	One of these expansion rings that holds the pipe onto the fitting.
	And it's an inch and a half PEX pipe, so you can't just go out and buy this part.
	It's five days out.
	And they were really concerned about this and said, Mike, what do we do?
	Well, guess what?
	I said, well, do you have any bailing wire and a screwdriver?
	And they're like...
	I don't know.
	So we look around and we find on an excavator there, there was bailing wire used to hold on one of the parts on the excavator, like this body part.
	So we stole the bailing wire off the excavator.
	We're like, well, we need it more than this machine needs it.
	And then...
	I used a screwdriver, wrapped it around, we put the pipe on, did a double wrap, and then made a loop and twisted the screwdriver, twisted it tight.
	I learned this in Ecuador.
	The local Ecuadorian people showed me this, of how to make a fitting when you have no fittings.
	And guess what?
	It stayed on for four days during the freezing and everything until they could replace it with a proper expansion fitting.
	It worked.
	Yeah.
	That kind of stuff.
	That kind of stuff.
	It's really simple.
	That's exactly what all these presentations and e-books are full of.
	It's just very simple, practical.
	How do you do stuff?
	When things are falling apart.
	And never run out of bailing wire, folks, because there's so many uses.
	Marjorie, you'll laugh because in my ranch now, I have a supply of different diameters of bailing wire.
	Wire, rope, lumber, chains, T-posts.
	All that stuff.
	Welcome, John.
	Stand by.
	We're just finishing up the previous interview.
	It's great to see you.
	Just stand by.
	We'll be with you in a second, John.
	All right, Marjorie, that's John Perkins there, the famous John Perkins, the author of the Economic Hitman book.
	Oh my gosh, John!
	Wow, what a delight!
	Hi!
	Yeah, super impactful book.
	Yeah, oh my gosh, thank you for writing that.
	World-changing, yeah.
	But, Marjorie, thank you so much for your time today.
	It's an honor to speak with you.
	Really appreciate what you're doing and what you're teaching.
	Keep us posted.
	Let me know how we can help you with your mission there where you are in the tropics.
	Yeah, well, thank you, Mike.
	We'll see you guys later.
	Okay.
	All right.
	Take care, Marjorie.
	Bye.
	Bye.
	And thank all of you for watching today.
	Mike Adams here at brighteon.com.
	And again, check out that free streaming program at BrightU.com.
	Take care.
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