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Jan. 23, 2025 - Health Ranger - Mike Adams
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Marjory Wildcraft joins Mike Adams to talk about The Importance of Off Grid Survival Skills in Curr
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All right, 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 know, 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.
It's like...
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.
Blow my mind.
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, would you be...
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 was 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.
Because I knew there's only four days' worth of food in the grocery store.
It travels 1,500 miles to you.
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 we ended up, 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.
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?
And 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 J6 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.
of the 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, 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, 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 are 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.
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 Brighton 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, right?
So, I mean, 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 Cammie 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, you know, 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 Brighttown 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 whole 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.
Yeah, man, that turmeric at night with a little bit of honey and some coconut milk or something, I just, it's so nice and relaxing, you know?
Absolutely.
And I think turmeric plus garlic is a really strong, broad-spectrum, you know, prevention internally for fungal infections, microbial, you name it.
Yeah.
There's a whole lot.
Thanks for bringing that up, because there's so much out there.
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 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 ivermectin is derived from soil microbes.
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.
But 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, the shoes were...
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 the 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, and 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.
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, whatever?
It's not about that.
Like, 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.
Like, 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.
You know, I don't care about numbers on a screen in a bank account somewhere.
I care about, like, 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.
Just an amazing woman.
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.
You can have no power for days, even though you're a paying customer.
Right now with this polar vortex...
They're having rolling blackouts because the grid can't handle...
A lot of places are having temperatures that are like 20 to 40 degrees below 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 blackout.
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...
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.
Yeah.
And there's a lot of people that are still without power.
So, you know, it's insane what we're doing.
I'm telling you, it's wild.
Like 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 can 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 this 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 Lahaina fires.
You know, we've got...
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.
You know, 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.
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...
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.
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 strikers' work, 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, like, 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 shut 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.
I mean, I find, 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 dramatic, 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 loved 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.
Already, yeah.
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 brightu.com, or you can optionally purchase it.
And if you do, that supports both the Brighteon 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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