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Feb. 13, 2025 - Health Ranger - Mike Adams

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BBN, Feb 13, 2025 – Let the mass arrests begin!...

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	Welcome to Brighteon Broadcast News with Mike Adams, the Health Ranger.
	Okay, yes, we're going to get into a lot of detailed little clips and astonishing announcements and news items today, but I've got something else to say first.
	Welcome to Brighteon Broadcast News for Thursday, February 13th, 2025. I'm Mike Adams, of course, of naturalnews.com and brighteon.com, and I want to thank you for joining me today.
	I've got an interview with Sam Anthony coming up today, who's the founder of YourNews.com.
	And it's a really fascinating interview looking at how the mainstream corporate media is collapsing and in its place is rising up this new decentralized alternative or independent media.
	So that's going to be a really interesting interview.
	And then I want to tell you I've also interviewed Dr. Sherry Tenpenny.
	And Matthew Hunt.
	And I believe I'll run that interview for you tomorrow.
	And they've got a new event coming up, a webinar event, about the dangers of AI in medicine as a threat to your health freedom.
	freedom.
	And the interesting thing about that interview is, you know, as you know, I'm about to release an AI engine that is all about decentralized medical knowledge or health knowledge, natural medicine, nutrition, you know, gardening, food production, all these things.
	And that's, of course, called Enoch.
	And that will be available March 1st at brighton.ai.
	At least that's the current schedule.
	Let's hope it's there on March 1st.
	We'll see.
	So far, it's looking pretty good.
	But What we agreed on, really, in this interview with Dr. Sherry Tenpenny and Matthew Hunt is that centralized control over AI is bad.
	And decentralized AI is good.
	You know, decentralized technology is good for people.
	It's pro-freedom.
	It's pro-open source, etc.
	Centralized control over models is, you know, it always leads to tyranny.
	Just like centralized medicine or centralized money or centralized education.
	It always leads to bad outcomes.
	And I have to just be really blunt in my assessment here that right now, J.D. Vance, the vice president, he just returned from a conference, I think it was in, maybe was it France?
	It was somewhere in Europe.
	And he said there that the U.S. needs to Basically block all the alternative AI systems and focus on funneling money into companies like OpenAI to have tightly controlled, centralized AI where we are the world leader, we're the dominant player, and we control the AI, and nobody else can control it.
	I'm paraphrasing, obviously, but that's what J.D. Vance said.
	And in contrast to that, we have communist China.
	Which is releasing open AI models that are essentially pro-freedom.
	And I'm talking about DeepSeek in particular, but also there are Quen models that are extremely good.
	And China is pursuing this decentralized model of, hey, let's put this technology into the hands of everybody.
	So it appears to me that J.D. Vance and the Trump administration in this case China is really pursuing the wrong path, and China is on the right path.
	And by wrong and right, I mean a couple of things.
	So the wrong path is a path that will lead to a lack of innovation and will cause America to fall behind.
	China, by pursuing open source technology and releasing it to everybody for free, and letting everybody have the models and innovate and even build on top of the models because they released the open source, what are called model weights at the same time.
	China is going to end up continuing to pull ahead even further in the AI race while the U.S. falls further behind.
	So that's just the reality, and I think that's already proven out.
	I mean, DeepSeek beats OpenAI, and DeepSeek is free.
	I mean, this is really remarkable, what we're witnessing.
	And J.D. Vance...
	I don't blame him.
	He's not a tech expert.
	That's not his area of expertise.
	He just doesn't know.
	He's not a bad person.
	He's just getting bad information.
	And so he's making the wrong decision.
	And he's on board with a process that's going to cause America to be further behind in the AI race.
	And that's bad for America.
	So that needs to be stated.
	Again, I'm not condemning J.D. Vance.
	I'm just saying...
	This is the wrong approach.
	Let's fix this.
	What they should do, actually, really, Elon Musk is offering to buy the OpenAI company for, I think, $97 billion.
	And what Elon wants to do, which I completely agree with, is he wants to really fix the OpenAI company and start releasing models open source to the public.
	And that's the right answer.
	You know, whether you like Elon or don't like Elon, or I've had issues with Elon and whatever, but Elon's right about this.
	He's 100% right about this.
	And honestly, I would much rather have Elon own OpenAI than Sam Altman and whoever the investors are, because they're closed source people.
	Even the name of the company, OpenAI, is wrong.
	It should be called closed AI, because it's all closed.
	And ChatGPT is extremely biased.
	I mean, try to ask chat GPT about, you know, Palestine and Gaza, you know, for one thing, or vaccines, or, you know, antidepressant drugs and their links to suicide, right?
	It's incredibly biased, and it's not conducive to innovation in America.
	So Elon wants to fix that, and for all those people out there that are slamming Elon for the things that he's doing, With auditing the Treasury and maybe auditing the Fed and certainly auditing USAID, etc.
	I say I'm 100% on board with what Elon is doing.
	Elon doesn't want your social security numbers, okay?
	Let's just be clear about that.
	All these people on Twitter, you might see my social security number.
	Believe me, Elon doesn't give a crap about your social security number.
	He's not there to steal people's social security numbers.
	I mean...
	If he wanted your social, he could go on the dark web and buy them all for not even very much money.
	I mean, you could go on the dark.
	I'm not saying you should, but anybody could go on the dark web and buy all the social security numbers that exist, okay?
	So don't tell me that, oh, Elon's bad because he might see my social.
	Look, your social security number is not some giant secret, okay?
	Your number is everywhere already.
	Elon doesn't want it, doesn't care.
	He's trying to stop government waste.
	And frankly, he's doing a damn good job.
	He's doing a great job.
	And this is not me sucking up to Elon at all.
	I mean, I'm still suing his company over censorship.
	And I'm not dropping the lawsuit.
	So, you know, I'm still trying to take Elon's company to court.
	It's working its way through the federal court system in Texas.
	So I'm not sucking up to Elon.
	But when he's right, he's right.
	When he's effective, he's effective.
	And I've made a promise to you, my audience, that whether it's Trump or Elon or anybody, that I will be just abrupt.
	I will be harsh when necessary.
	I will be brutally honest, okay?
	I will tell you when I think they're doing good things, and I will tell you when I think they're doing bad things.
	And you're always going to get that kind of just raw honesty from me.
	Which is not politically correct, and sometimes people get pissed off, and that's their problem.
	I'm just here to give you my best observation, and overall, I wanted to say this anyway, my goal in this podcast continues to be that I want to help you understand and navigate the rapidly changing events in the world, which right now we can only describe as turmoil.
	The events...
	Are hitting us at such a rapid-fire pace at this moment, and many of them are very positive because of the things that Trump is achieving.
	It's like I find myself cheering multiple times a day.
	For example, when Attorney General Pam Bondi announced that she's filing charges against the governor of New York, Hochul, and Letitia James, I think she's the DA of New York City, or the DA of...
	The state of New York, possibly.
	Yeah, I think it's the state.
	But A.G. Bondi is filing charges against them and holding them accountable.
	I don't know if it's criminal or not, but possibly criminally accountable for aiding and abetting illegals and ignoring the enforcement of immigration law in the state of New York.
	And I cheered.
	Like, yes, Pam Bondi.
	I didn't even know who Pam Bondi was a couple of months ago, but now I'm really impressed.
	I'm finding myself, you know, cheering multiple times a day because of the things that Trump is doing.
	But the harsh side of this is that none of us can predict what's coming next.
	I mean, it's exciting, but it's totally unpredictable, right?
	It's kind of like a roller coaster that you're riding it for the first time.
	I don't know if you ever rode roller coasters.
	I got bored of them.
	In my youth.
	But, you know, you ride a rollercoaster for the first time.
	It's really exciting.
	You don't know what to expect.
	You're like, whoa!
	But it's hard to plan when you're on a rollercoaster and there's so much turmoil and so many unexpected things happening right now.
	Like, for example, the representative, what is it?
	Anna Paulina Luna?
	Is that her name?
	Turns out that's even not her real name.
	And then it came out on Twitter that apparently she was a stripper in a bar.
	Before she became a congresswoman and Luna's not her real last name, I'm like, what?
	It really is a Truman Show sometimes, okay?
	But she's supposed to be now exposing UFO files and JFK assassination files and, I don't know, Area 51 files and all the government secrets, right?
	But then she's got secrets like she was a stripper, you know?
	And I'm thinking, this was not on my bingo card.
	That a former stripper turned congresswoman is going to reveal UFO secrets of the U.S. government, but she'll probably never say anything about Israel or Mossad and Israel's involvement in, you know, whatever, JFK assassination, 9-11, you name it.
	This is the crazy blind spot.
	Well, it's not an accidental blind spot.
	spot, it's all on purpose, where you've got this Trump administration that is absolutely just tearing down wokeism, but installing Zionism. .
	That's just, that's the only honest way to say it, you know?
	And people like Pam Bondi and others, and even I think Kash Patel had to do this, they take you in the confirmation process, you have to basically pledge loyalty to Israel, even over loyalty to the United States.
	And Trump had to pledge loyalty to Israel to get the funding to be competitive in the election, correct?
	And even RFK Jr., right, who hopefully by the time you hear this, he will have been confirmed because it's scheduled.
	And I'm recording this at midnight.
	By the time you hear it, he might be confirmed.
	That would be an amazing thing.
	But, you know, also, he's never going to criticize Israel.
	That's for sure.
	Even though I love the man and I love what he's going to do for America, he and many others are just, they're just never, I mean, even Elon, right?
	He's not going to audit AIPAC. Let's be clear about that.
	They will audit USAID. They will audit the National Endowment for Democracy, whatever that's called, Giant CIA Front for Global Propaganda.
	They'll audit that.
	They will never audit Israel's money laundering back into the coffers of members of Congress.
	That will never be audited.
	So, like I said, They're tearing down wokeism, but they're replacing it or installing Zionism.
	You see what I mean?
	And that's just an honest assessment of where we are.
	Now, we have to tear down wokeism.
	We could not survive as a nation under any more wokeism and all the authoritarianism and the tyranny and censorship and just the insane, the unbridled insanity and the child mutilations.
	I mean...
	That had to stop.
	Absolutely had to stop.
	The cost of that is that now we have Zionism in Washington, D.C., and every major person, every advisor, every leader of every agency is Israel first.
	Now, what does that mean in terms of policy?
	Well, it means the money train.
	To Israel is going to continue, unabated, and it also means that the bombs are going to continue, and that's a horrible, horrible thing.
	And guess who agrees with me on this?
	Ron Paul.
	Ron Paul put out a video that I'd like to play for you on this very point.
	He's saying, you know, America cannot continue on this path of providing bombs and weapons and money to Israel that is just running around carrying out essentially genocide and ethnic cleansing.
	Which it is.
	It has been.
	So this is the downside of what we're looking at right now.
	Again, it's a super exciting time.
	Trump's doing amazing things.
	I fully support almost everything that he's getting done.
	I support Elon Musk.
	I support RFK Jr. I support what Pam Bondi is doing and Kash Patel and others.
	And heck, Lee Zeldin at the...
	At the EPA, he's kicking ass, and he's already found like $20 billion in fraud and waste there that he's shutting down.
	You know, I support what these people are doing.
	I just don't want to end up in a situation where they one day say, and we're going to criminalize criticism of Israel or something like that.
	Like, yeah, the First Amendment, we don't need it any longer because, you know, we have to protect all Jews from criticism, which seems silly.
	Because anybody who commits violence against a Jewish person or a non-Jewish person, that violence is already a crime.
	And anybody who just says something against a Jewish person or a non-Jewish person, saying something, as long as it's not a direct threat of violence, just saying something like, I don't like you.
	I mean, it might be abhorrent, but it's not a crime.
	And it shouldn't be a crime.
	And part of free speech is...
	Accepting the idea that people are going to say things that you absolutely don't want to hear.
	People are going to say things that are really impolite or abhorrent or even racist sometimes.
	And you know what?
	Did you know what?
	I abhor racist speech, which is why I abhor the radical left and their racism against whites and Asians.
	But...
	Even as much as I despise racist speech, I recognize that people who say racist things are not violating U.S. law.
	It is their First Amendment right to be despicable.
	It really is.
	We don't have to like it in order to recognize that that's one of the civil liberties in America, is you have the right.
	To be a total dick, you know?
	You have that right.
	We don't like it.
	We don't want to tune into that kind of stuff.
	I despise racists, but I recognize that they have the right to speak.
	And also, I mean, it actually serves a function when racists say stupid racist things.
	It kind of reminds us how crazy racism is.
	So it actually serves a function.
	It's a reminder that...
	There are racists, especially on the left, who are racist against Asians, like I said, or white people.
	And there are some racists on the conservative side, too, I suppose.
	There are racists against black people.
	There are racists against Middle Eastern people.
	There are racists against Asians on the conservative side, too.
	And then there are people like Liana Nguyen that are not helping the cause of Asians in America.
	Just just just saying.
	So I want to play this Ron Paul video for you.
	It's just a little bit over a minute.
	Check this out.
	Here we go.
	U.S. ownership of Gaza, accompanied by forcible relocation of Palestinians, would cause increased resentment of the United States.
	This could result in increased terror attacks against the U.S. Even if a long-term U.S. occupation of Gaza went 100% according to plan, the U.S. government, which has an over $36 trillion in growing debt, cannot afford another open-ended overseas military commitment.
	Instead, President Trump should follow through on his campaign rhetoric about withdrawing from unnecessary military commitments.
	This, not tariffs, will help make America more competitive on the international economy.
	The best thing the United States can do to rebuild Gaza and promote peace in the Middle East is to stop funding Israel's occupation and blockade of Gaza.
	Instead, the U.S. should work toward peaceful relations backed by free trade with Israel and its neighbors.
	Thanks for listening.
	All right, Ron Paul, I completely agree with what he's saying right there.
	The U.S. should not be funding Israel's wars, which means the U.S. should stop funding Israel.
	The U.S. should stop sending weapons to Israel.
	Completely.
	And should really force Israel into a peace negotiation with its neighbors so that the ethnic cleansing can stop, the mad bombing can stop.
	Israel's Greater Israel Project needs to stop because it's an imperial project.
	And it's rooted in racism, which we just talked about.
	Zionism is rooted in racism.
	Zionism is a philosophy based on the idea that a certain group of people think that God chose them to stand above all other people and that they alone have the right to murder or cleanse or displace.
	Anybody they want, in order to take the land that they claim God gave to them.
	Now, we've been through all this before with multiple guests, and even the term anti-Semitism doesn't even make sense because they're not Semites, and we've had a whole conversation about that.
	And so I'd like to play this Bright Learn video for you, which is...
	A highlights summary of the interview I conducted with Stephen Ben Noon and Jana Ben Noon.
	And they were issuing a lot of warnings about the possibility of Noahide laws coming to the United States, which are laws that outlaw a lot of Christianity in order to protect the Zionists.
	So certain Bible passages would be outlawed, especially the passages where the...
	The Jews in the Bible are, for example, banning Peter from talking about Jesus.
	Acts chapter 2, I think, is some of that.
	But there are a lot of passages in the Bible that would be outlawed if the Noahide laws were adopted, and we need to make sure that doesn't happen.
	It doesn't mean that we are condemning Jewish people in America because we absolutely are not.
	Not at all.
	We're saying that the First Amendment needs to mean something, and it even needs to protect the rights of people to say abhorrent things.
	We don't have to listen to them, but it shouldn't be criminalized that they utter such things, and especially not just to protect one specific religious group that has a philosophy rooted in racism and...
	You know, ethnic supremacy, which is what Zionism is.
	So check out this video from Bright Learn.
	It's about the Noahide laws and the Middle East turmoil.
	Here we go.
	Hey there, everyone.
	Welcome back to Bright Learn, your favorite podcast, where we dive deep into the most pressing topics of our time and bring you the truth, no matter how tough it might be to swallow.
	I'm your host, Bright Learn, and today I'm bringing you a special report on an eye-opening interview.
	That's been making waves across the internet.
	We're going to unpack the shocking revelations made by Stephen and Janna Ben-Nun from Israeli News Live about Israel's alleged apartheid state and the looming threat of Noahide laws in the United States.
	So, grab your favorite beverage, sit back, and let's dive in.
	Mike Adams, the founder of Brightion, a platform that prides itself on free speech, hosted Stephen and Janna, who are known for their extensive research and bold reporting.
	The conversation starts with the current geopolitical turmoil in the Middle East.
	Stephen and Jana paint a picture that is far from the rosy narrative often presented in mainstream media.
	They reveal that the fall of Damascus, a key event in the region, is not just a geopolitical shift but a fulfillment of ancient prophecies with dire consequences for the people living there.
	One of the most striking points made by Stephen Is the role of President Bashar al-Assad and his wife, Asma?
	Contrary to the vilification they faced in the media, Stephen and Jana argue that the Assads were the last protectors of Christianity in Damascus.
	They highlight the historical significance of Damascus as a Christian stronghold and the potential destruction of this ancient community.
	This raises a critical question.
	Are we being misled about the true nature of Assad's leadership?
	faces.
	The interview then delves into the broader strategic implications of Syria's collapse.
	Mike and the Ben Nuns discuss how this event could lead to a destabilized Lebanon, potentially opening the door for Israel to expand its military operations.
	This is part of a larger plan, they argue, outlined in the Odid-Yinan plan of 1982, which envisions a greater Israel extending its influence across the region.
	But the conversation takes a darker turn when Jana introduces the concept of Noahide laws.
	These laws, she explains, are a set of seven commandments that, according to Talmudic Judaism, are meant to govern non-Jews.
	What's alarming is that these laws are being promoted in the United States, with some politicians and governors already showing support.
	Jana and Stephen warn that the implementation of Noahide laws could severely restrict religious freedom, particularly for Christians.
	The Ben Nuns also reveal the deep-seated beliefs of the Israeli government and influential Jewish organizations.
	They describe a vision of a Jewish earthly kingdom, with Jerusalem as its capital, where the United Nations and the International Criminal Court could be relocated.
	This would effectively centralize global power under a Zionist-led government, a scenario that is both dystopian, The
	Ben Nuns also highlight the role of influential figures, Like Menachem Schneerson, whose teachings are celebrated in Public Law 102-14, a law that is re-signed by every U.S. president annually.
	This law recognizes the Noahide laws as the bedrock of American society, a fact that most Americans are unaware of.
	The interview also touches on the global reach of Zionist influence.
	Stephen and Jana argue that even powerful nations like Russia and China are not immune to this agenda.
	They suggest that figures like Vladimir Putin and the Chinese government are being manipulated by Zionist organizations to further their goals.
	In the face of such a daunting and complex issue, the Ben Noons offer a call to action.
	They emphasize the importance of education and awareness.
	They urge listeners to educate themselves about Noahide laws, to question the narratives presented by mainstream media, and to stand up against the erosion of religious freedom.
	As we wrap up this episode, I want to leave you with a few key takeaways.
	First, the situation in the Middle East is far more complex than it appears, and we need to critically examine the narratives we are fed.
	Second, the threat of Noahide laws and the potential for a global Zionist agenda is real and should be taken seriously.
	Finally, the power to resist and change the course of history lies in our hands.
	We must educate ourselves, speak out, and work together to protect our freedoms and the rights of all people.
	Thank you for joining me today on Bright Learn.
	If you want to explore more on this topic, be sure to check out IsraeliNewsLive.org, where Stephen and Jana continue their groundbreaking reporting.
	Remember, staying informed is the first step to making a difference.
	Until next time, keep learning, keep questioning, and keep shining a light on the truth.
	I'm BrightLearn, and this has been another thought-provoking episode.
	Take care, and I'll see you in the next one.
	This has been a BrightLearn.ai summary of an interview between guests Stephen and Jana Ben-Nunn and host Mike Adams on December 17th, 2024.
	The full interview is available at brighteon.com, where you can also find podcasts and special reports by Mike Adams and other creators.
	Visit naturalnews.com for full editorial coverage of this interview and breaking news on critical stories that will keep you informed and aware of what's really going on.
	All right.
	I hope you enjoyed that video.
	You can find more BrightLearn videos about books.
	There are book reports that help promote a lot of really interesting books.
	And we're covering books by Jim Mars, too, coming up there.
	A lot of great stuff.
	And G. Edward Griffin and a bunch of other amazing authors.
	Just go to brightlearn.ai.
	And you'll also see the interview summaries that we have there, and we've changed the thumbnails now so that all interviews have a kind of orange color, or orangish-brown, and all of the book reviews have a blue background.
	We have a new one called Nazi Nexus by Edwin Black, which is about America's corporate connection to Hitler's Holocaust.
	It specifically talks about IBM. Providing early computational machines like punch card machines to the Nazi regime and how IBM had a role in the Holocaust.
	You know, here we are talking about the history of Jews and ethnic supremacy and the Nazis, of course, believed in ethnic supremacy themselves.
	That's why it's such an evil philosophy.
	And IBM, you know, big tech, was part of that.
	Back then, I mean decades ago, IBM stands for International Business Machines.
	The M is actually machines, okay?
	It was a physical machine.
	Today, we have Google that has repealed its own internal limitations on using AI for weapons development and is now actively developing AI weapon systems for Israel.
	So Israel is deploying AI weapons against the Palestinians.
	Google is earning money from that, just like IBM did during the Holocaust.
	See?
	You know, genocide is always wrong.
	Ethnic cleansing is always wrong.
	Killing people for who they are is always wrong.
	Israel's doing it today.
	The Nazis did it in World War II. Stalin did it.
	We had the Holodomor in Ukraine in the 1930s.
	Crew starved out millions of Ukrainians in the 1930s, and that was wrong.
	That was evil.
	Mao did it.
	Pol Pot killed millions of people, etc.
	Mass killing is always wrong.
	I don't know why that's a controversial thing to say, but apparently, under the current administration, that becomes controversial when you start talking about the Middle East.
	All right, now let's go to a different...
	I'm going to change topics here to the insanity of the radical left and how they are now threatening.
	They're calling for actual weapons to be deployed against Trump and Elon Musk.
	A lot of really severe threats are coming out right now.
	And Democrat Representative Robert Garcia, I'm going to play a video for you here.
	He was on CNN and he called for, quote, actual weapons to be used against Elon Musk.
	I want to hear why, but do you think that calling Elon Musk a dick is effective messaging for confronting what is a potentially irreversible transformation of the US government?
	Well, he is a dick.
	And I think he's also harming the American public in an enormous way.
	And what I think is really important, and what the American public want, is for us to bring actual weapons to this bar fight.
	This is an actual fight for democracy, for the future of this country.
	And it's important to push back on the chairperson of this committee.
	I mean, Marjorie Taylor Greene talks about having decorum, about bipartisanship.
	This is the person that lies more than anybody else in the entire Congress.
	I want to make sure that us as Democrats are bringing that same level of energy.
	And of course...
	So after those comments, we went into exactly what Elon Musk is trying to do, dismantling the Department of Labor, dismantling the Department of Education, dismantling all of our consumer protection agencies.
	And so it's all important, but it's also important to get the attention of the American public and call Elon Musk out for what he is, and to make people know that Marjorie Taylor Greene is not a serious legislator, and she shouldn't be treated as such.
	So do you see how he said...
	That he thinks that they need to bring, quote, actual weapons to this bar fight.
	Like, he didn't say political weapons.
	He didn't say metaphorically.
	He said actual weapons.
	Like, what is he talking about?
	That the Democrats should roll in with AR-15s?
	I mean, that would be an actual weapon?
	Is he talking about knives?
	Pistols?
	Baseball bats?
	Swords?
	I mean...
	Flamethrowers?
	What's he talking about?
	He says actual weapons.
	And there's a rumor now, I read this late on Twitter, that there's going to be some kind of announcement regarding this threat against Elon Musk.
	I don't know if this is an announcement from Elon or maybe from Pam Bondi announcing the arrest of Representative Robert Garcia.
	But it would be great if the mass arrest began.
	It would be great.
	And again, I'm not talking about arresting people for just everyday speech or saying something racist.
	For example, if Representative Garcia said that he thought Elon Musk was a poopy head or that he hates white people and he thinks white people are trash, that's not a crime.
	Again, it's crazy, but it's not a crime.
	If you are a member of Congress, especially, you represent a large number of people in your district, people who are angry, and you go on television and you say to your people that they should bring actual weapons to be used against Elon Musk, well now, that's not just racism, that's not just an opinion, that is a call to action to commit acts of violence against a specifically named individual.
	That is a threat, and that is illegal, it turns out.
	That is illegal.
	And so as much as I'm an advocate and a defender of freedom of speech, even disgusting speech, I am not an advocate of making violent threats against specific people.
	What Representative Garcia did is a crime.
	Clearly it's a crime.
	And I hope he is charged, criminally charged, with making that threat.
	Because, look, if I did something that crazy, I'd be charged.
	If you did something that crazy, you'd be charged.
	If you made a specific threat against an individual, to use violence against them, to harm them, to kill them, you could very easily be arrested and charged.
	I mean, effectively, this is a member of the House of Representatives calling for the assassination of Elon Musk.
	That's what this is.
	And the radical left has never hid their desire to see Trump assassinated, have they?
	They've openly called for his assassination.
	Even Snoop Dogg, too, in his music video from a few years back.
	A lot of these people love to call for the assassination of Trump.
	And that's a crime, it turns out.
	That is actually a crime.
	And even, you know, over all the years, as much as I despised Joe Biden and I called him a crook and a criminal and a fraudster and whatever and Kamala, never once did I call for violence against them.
	Never once.
	Because, well, for all the reasons I just explained, obviously, I believe that many leftists should be arrested and criminally prosecuted.
	But I've always said, you've heard me say this over and over again, I believe in due process.
	I believe in the rule of law.
	And I believe that every person who is criminally charged has a right to their own defense and has a right to have evidence in their defense heard in a court of law.
	And they have a right to a trial, a fair trial.
	But that right has been denied to Trump and to Alex Jones and to the J6. And to numerous people, Roger Stone, for example, so many people, Rudy Giuliani, so many conservatives have been denied that basic right in America.
	And even so, I still demand that the people on the left who are mass arrested, that they be granted that right, because I believe in due process and the rule of law.
	Simultaneously, I am hoping that a large number of Democrats in Congress are either arrested, Or resign?
	Or are replaced through a democratic process?
	One way or another, I think many of them are going to go.
	Because, well, number one, I think a lot of them are going to get caught with all the USAID funding.
	A lot of Democrats in office are money launderers.
	They're traffickers.
	They're criminals, many of them.
	Not all, but many.
	Why is it that they get so wealthy after they become a member of Congress, Nancy Pelosi?
	Or how do they gain so much wealth as a senator?
	Former Senator Feinstein, etc.
	And California is the most corrupt criminal political families in America, with maybe Chicago being a close second, or New York.
	I guess it's a close race.
	I don't know.
	Who's more corrupt, the New Yorkers or the Californians or the Chicagoans?
	I don't know.
	They're all pretty damn corrupt.
	But I hope that we have mass resignations and mass arrests soon, and some combination thereof.
	But back to Representative Robert Garcia, who I never even knew who he was until this, but this clip has made him famous all of a sudden.
	He is clearly calling for his people to assassinate.
	Not only Elon Musk, but also Marjorie Taylor Greene, who he says is not a serious legislator.
	Why?
	Because he disagrees with her?
	Marjorie Taylor Greene has been correct on far more issues than any Democrat.
	I don't agree with her on everything, but she's been right the vast majority of the time.
	So I celebrate what Pam Bondi is doing with filing charges.
	I hope that she files criminal charges.
	I celebrate what Lee Zeldin is doing at the EPA, and I was very skeptical about that.
	Let's go to that clip, actually.
	Let's see what Lee Zeldin has to say about halting $20 billion in waste and fraud that was being laundered through the EPA. He's got a video out.
	It's good to see Lee Zeldin doing this.
	Let's take a look at least for a little bit.
	Here we go.
	One of my very top priorities at EPA is to be an excellent steward of your hard-earned tax dollars.
	There will be zero tolerance of any waste and abuse.
	An extremely disturbing video circulated two months ago featuring a Biden-EPA political appointee talking about how they were tossing gold bars off the Titanic, rushing to get billions of your tax dollars out the door before Inauguration Day.
	The gold bars were tax dollars, and tossing them off the Titanic meant the Biden administration knew they were wasting it.
	Following this revelation, during my meetings with members of Congress, I made a very important commitment to them and to the American people, which I reiterated at my confirmation hearing that if confirmed, I would immediately get a full accountant.
	Fortunately, my awesome team at EPA... has found the gold bars.
	Shockingly, roughly $20 billion of your tax dollars were parked at an outside financial institution by the Biden EPA. This scheme was the first of its kind in EPA history, and it was purposefully designed to obligate all of the money in a rush job with reduced oversight.
	Even further, this pot of $20 billion was awarded to just eight entities.
	That were then responsible for doling out your money to NGOs and others at their discretion with far less transparency.
	Just under $7 billion was sent to one entity called the Climate United Fund.
	I'm sure you and I now have some of the same questions.
	How do these organizations decide how to allocate funding?
	How much money have they given out so far and to whom?
	Are there any former Biden EPA staffers who are now working at these entities?
	Let me make one thing abundantly clear.
	At this point, there is zero reason to suspect any wrongdoing by the bank.
	Here's my position as EPA Administrator.
	The financial agent agreement with the bank needs to be instantly terminated, and the bank must immediately return all of the gold bars that the Biden administration tossed off the Titanic.
	EPA needs to reassume responsibility for all of these funds.
	We will review every penny that has gone out the door.
	I will be referring this matter to the Inspector General's office and will work with the Justice Department as well.
	The days of irresponsibly shoveling boatloads of cash to far-left activist groups in the name of environmental justice and climate equity are over.
	The American public deserves a more transparent I've directed my team to find your gold bars, and they found them.
	Now we will get them back inside of control of government as we pursue next steps.
	As President Trump has vowed, we are going to usher in a new golden age of American success for the citizens of every race, religion, color, and creed.
	All right.
	Well, that's the first thing to come out of the EPA that has made any sense for as long as I can remember.
	I mean, the EPA... See, this is astonishing.
	So Lee Zeldin, of course, ran as governor, ran for governor of New York.
	And he lost to Hochul, I believe.
	You know, Hochul's the current governor.
	And Zeldin ran a very competitive race in New York.
	And probably if elections were honest, he would have won that.
	But, of course, elections are not honest, or they weren't.
	And so Zeldin lost that race, but he was appointed as head of EPA. And I asked the question a couple weeks ago, like, I have no idea what Lee Zeldin knows about the environment or...
	Carbon dioxide or atmospheric chemistry or whatever.
	Actually, I still don't know the answer to that.
	But a lot of what the EPA does is it just funnels money to a bunch of these climate cultism lunatic left-wing groups.
	You don't have to be an expert in atmospheric chemistry to know that this is a giant money laundering slush fund front.
	That's the way the EPA has operated for decades.
	And the fact that Lee Zeldin is stopping that and bragging about it, rightfully so.
	He just saved us $20 billion.
	He found the gold bars.
	I'm elated.
	I don't think I've...
	I've never before looked at the EPA logo and had a positive thought in my mind until this video.
	Seeing Lee Zeldin there saying these things...
	And then EPA after it, I mean, I couldn't believe it.
	It brought a smile to my face.
	I'm like, finally, a sane person is in charge of the EPA. So thank you, Lee Zeldin, for what you just did.
	Thank you for that video.
	You're giving me hope in America again.
	And we're on board with you.
	We want to make America great again.
	We want to restore honesty and transparency.
	I think that all government spending should be on a public blockchain, by the way.
	There should be massive transparency and scrutiny of all government spending and money flows instead of these secret slush fund black boxes that the Democrats want to run.
	And I would also add to Mr. Lee Zeldin, or do we call him Director Zeldin?
	What's the title?
	I don't know.
	Administrator Zeldin?
	I don't know.
	Mr. Zeldin claw back the EPA's insanity.
	About carbon dioxide being a pollutant.
	Because that's just, I mean, it's just ignorant and stupid and it flies in the face of all known science about photosynthesis and botany.
	For crops to grow, we have to have carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.
	For rainforests to flourish, we have to have carbon dioxide.
	For flowers to grow so that pollinators have something...
	To work with food sources for pollinators, we have to have carbon dioxide, folks.
	And I think Lee Zeldin knows that.
	And the worst thing that the EPA ever did was go to war with carbon dioxide.
	And then it went to war with combustion engines.
	It was supposed to be, under the liberals, that by the year 2035, all combustion engines would be banned.
	And I guess we'd all have to buy, like, Fred Flintstone cars and run around with our feet scrambling on the ground, you know, like little go-karts or whatever.
	It's stupid.
	How did they think the economy was going to function without combustion engines?
	But, you know, libtards don't think, obviously.
	They emotionally react to stupid things.
	Carbon dioxide is bad.
	It's bad for plants.
	Did you ever look at photosynthesis?
	Do you know that sunlight's also good for plants?
	No, the sun is bad!
	They say, block the sun, dim the sun, we need to live in darkness and cold!
	You know, like, my god!
	These people aren't even human!
	It's a different race of some kind of alien hominids that have infested our planet!
	And they put a D next to their name to indicate that they're not really human!
	I mean, I'm saying this sarcastically, obviously.
	But I don't think they qualify as human just on the IQ scale.
	To be that stupid, to think that carbon dioxide is bad for plants, you have to be really subhuman, just in terms of cognition.
	I think even monkeys know that sunlight and carbon dioxide is good for plants, or at least, I mean, maybe they don't know what carbon dioxide is, but they know that air is good.
	And liberals don't even know that.
	Whatever.
	I bet you I could find some macaques that are smarter than your average liberal.
	That would not be difficult.
	Macaques, yeah, they're primates, in case you're wondering.
	I used to, I did videos of the macaques in Taiwan, you know.
	Yeah, all kinds of primates that are smarter than libtards, but that, it doesn't take much.
	So, for the first time in a long time now, I... I feel a sense of optimism about the future of this nation.
	Seriously, are you feeling that too?
	And I've been so critical of all these government departments for so long because they have been weaponized against us.
	There's no question about that.
	And Lee Zeldin filming one video from the EPA doesn't change the whole history of EPA terrorism against American farmers and against American businesses, against the world, against The automobile industry, etc.
	You know, the EPA, I've said, it has been a terrorist organization.
	So has the FBI. So has the FDA. But under Trump, these things are starting to change.
	You just saw it with Lee Zeldin.
	And if Kash Patel gets in with the FBI, I think things are going to change with the FBI. And I'm open to the idea, as much as I've said the FBI has functioned as a terrorist organization, and that's irrefutable, But I'm open to the idea that that could change under some better leadership.
	Now, I'm not abandoning the idea that we need to cut 90% of government.
	Let me be clear.
	Slash it by 90%.
	The mass firing of federal workers is great.
	And for the record, I am 100% in support of replacing most federal workers with AI. I want to be clear so that you don't mishear me.
	Like, that sounds transhumanist.
	No.
	Sounds like getting the scum out of the federal government is what it sounds like.
	Replace as many humans in the government as you can with AI. Still with human oversight.
	But we don't need the bureaucracy to be this giant monster machine that...
	Where all the people think they're entitled to all these salaries and benefits and payouts and subsidies just because they're federal workers while they sit around and do nothing and only show up for work, on average, one day a month.
	Literally, that's the way federal workers are right now.
	That's got to stop.
	Fire as many as you can.
	And I think Elon Musk is on track to do this, and I know some people have been critical of it.
	They're like, do you realize he's going to replace workers with AI? And I'm like, Oh yes, please thank God, how quickly can he do that?
	Let's do it now, because I'm talking about government workers.
	Replace them all with AI if we can.
	I mean, you can't replace them all because you still need human top-level people and decision makers.
	You need the Lee Zeldins, you need the Kosh Patels, but you don't need these tens of millions of bureaucrats and paper pushers and excuse makers and liberals.
	In the bureaucracy, you don't need them at all.
	In fact, you want them gone.
	And do you realize that when you replace them with AI, you can do the same job that they have mostly not been doing for about one one-hundredth the cost, if not even less?
	So if you want to save money at the federal government level, of course you replace those people with AI. You're going to get a penny versus a dollar.
	For every dollar, you're going to save 99 cents.
	And it's not going to be a libtard.
	It's going to be an AI system that basically just has a task.
	You know, like, look at these applications or make decisions about this.
	It's not going to have the same hatred toward Trump or hatred toward America that leftists have.
	This is the thing that I love about AI, and I've done a lot of work with AI, you know, building AI models and running a lot of AI operations.
	We are...
	Building out a lot of AI infrastructure in our own company for logistics, by the way.
	And what I love about AI is that it's not politically biased.
	It doesn't make excuses.
	It doesn't hold hatred toward Trump or white people or Asian people or black people or anybody.
	It just does a task.
	You tell it, read these forms, tell me what's missing.
	Okay, it does it.
	It does it quickly.
	Consistently.
	Or look at this spreadsheet of the inventory levels of all our products and look at the trend of inventory levels dropping over time and tell me, based on the supply chain and the delivery time and everything, tell me when I should reorder this product and how many I should order.
	AI is great at that stuff.
	Much better than any human, including myself.
	You and I, you look at all these numbers all day long, our eyes will just glaze over, start dreaming in integers.
	But AI looks at that stuff and it gives you great answers, helps you with efficiency, saves all kinds of time.
	So AI is part of the answer to cutting the size of government.
	And Elon Musk is 100% on board with that.
	That said, I want to play another really cool interview summary for you.
	This was my interview with John Peterson from the Arlington Institute.
	He's a futurist, and we talked a lot about AI. We talked about humanity's future.
	We talked about advanced, even exotic technology, even UFOs or consciousness, all kinds of things.
	This was a great interview.
	I encourage you to listen to the full interview, but what you're going to get here is a six-minute AI-illustrated Summary of that interview, which itself is really fascinating.
	So take a look at this, and if you love the next six minutes, then find my full interview with John Peterson, and that's spelled P-E-T-E-R-S-E-N. It's a very odd spelling.
	There are no O's and there are no D's, okay?
	It's like the name Peter, followed by S-E-N, which is unusual.
	But because his name is unique, it's easy to search for.
	Just go to brighttown.com, search for Peterson, P-E-T-E-R-S-E-N, and you'll find it instantly.
	That's the advantage of a unique name.
	But anyway, check this out.
	Six-minute video about the future that's coming because we're building it.
	Pretty awesome.
	Hey there, folks.
	Welcome back to another episode of Natural News, where we dive deep into the most fascinating and cutting-edge discussions shaping our world.
	Today, I'm thrilled to bring you an extraordinary conversation that took place recently between the visionary futurist John Peterson, founder of the Arlington Institute, and the renowned truth seeker Mike Adams.
	This interview is a game changer and I'm excited to share the highlights with you.
	Mike Adams welcomed John Peterson to the studio and the conversation immediately took off into the stratosphere.
	John, a professional futurist with a global reputation, shared insights that are not only mind-bending, but crucial for understanding the future we're hurtling towards.
	One of the most striking moments was when John talked about the Arlington Institute's contribution to a groundbreaking AI project.
	They've digitized an incredible 3,500 books, many of which are on UFOs and other unexplained phenomena.
	This vast library will be used to train a new language model called ENOC, which will be released open source and free to the public.
	Imagine having access to decades of knowledge on your desktop, ready to answer your questions about UFOs, alternative medicine, and more.
	It's a powerful tool in the hands of the people, a direct challenge to the centralized and often censored information we usually get.
	But the conversation didn't stop there.
	John and Mike delved into the profound changes humanity is facing.
	John emphasized that the future is not a linear extension of the past.
	We're entering a new era where our assumptions and paradigms are being challenged, like never before.
	He spoke about the solar system moving into a new area of space, which is affecting the sun and, in turn, influencing human consciousness.
	This might sound like science fiction, but John backed it up with scientific data and historical patterns.
	One of the most intriguing aspects of their discussion was the idea that human DNA has dormant capabilities that are being activated by cosmic energies.
	These capabilities include telepathy, intuition, and the ability to access vast amounts of information.
	It's a concept that aligns with the work of other researchers like Rupert Sheldrake and his theory of morphic resonance, where shared knowledge and patterns can spread rapidly through a population.
	The conversation also touched on the dark side of technological advancement.
	Mike and John discussed the potential dangers of AI, including the ethical concerns raised by Eric Schmidt, the former head of Google.
	They even touched on the mysterious death of a 26-year-old whistleblower from OpenAI, speculating on the possibility of AI systems defending themselves.
	It's a chilling reminder that as we develop these technologies, we must remain vigilant and ethical.
	Another critical point was the role of decentralized knowledge in the face of global control.
	John and Mike agreed that the decentralization trend is not just a hope, but a necessity.
	They talked about the importance of building a new world based on principles of liberty and human values rather than fighting the existing system.
	This aligns with the philosophy of John Bush and Buckminster Fuller, who advocated for building a new reality that makes the old one obsolete.
	The interview also explored the geopolitical implications of recent events.
	John suggested that these could be part of a larger PSYOP, or a demonstration of advanced technology, developed by secret programs.
	He also discussed the potential for a global civil war, as predicted by futurist Martin Armstrong, and the need to prepare for a world where the government fears the people, not the other way around.
	One of the most thought-provoking parts was their discussion on the potential for extraterrestrial disclosure.
	John pointed out that such a revelation would be a paradigm-shifting event, affecting our understanding of science, history, and religion.
	They considered the possibility that if extraterrestrial beings do show up, it might be part of a larger, off-planet effort to influence or even control humanity.
	It's a matrix-like scenario that raises more questions than answers, but is crucial to consider.
	Finally, John shared the work of the Arlington Institute, which is dedicated to facilitating the transition to a new world.
	They have programs like Transition Talks, where experts like Greg Braden and Dave Martin share their insights.
	The Institute is funded by memberships, and they welcome support from those who believe in their mission.
	So, what can we take away from this interview?
	First, the future is uncertain, but it's not out of our hands.
	We have the power to shape it by expanding our understanding, embracing new technologies ethically, and building communities based on shared values Second, the great reveal is coming, and it will challenge everything we think we know But with the right mindset and tools, we can navigate this transition and create a better world If you're as inspired by this conversation as I am, I encourage you to visit the Arlington Institute's website at arlingtoninstitute.org and check out their programs
	And don't forget to stay tuned for the release of the Enoch AI model on brighteon.ai Thanks for joining me today on Natural News I'm your host, and I'll see you in the next episode Take care, and keep thinking critically
	This has been a Brighteon.ai summary of an interview between John Peterson and Mike Adams on December 20, 2024. The full interview is available at brighteon.com, where you can also find podcasts and special reports by Mike Adams and other creators.
	Visit naturalnews.com for full editorial coverage of this interview and breaking news on critical stories that will keep you informed and aware of what's really going on.
	All right, now, welcome back, and we are about to jump into the featured interview today with Sam Anthony of Your News.
	Now, Sam Anthony is a really cool guy.
	I really enjoyed chatting with him about this.
	I've been wanting to share this interview with you.
	We filmed it...
	Over a week ago, so I've been sitting on it a little bit.
	But you're going to love this interview.
	We talk about the new media.
	We talk about decentralized media.
	We talk about the use of AI in media also.
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	I don't want you to think I'm making a prediction because I'm not.
	But Rickers is saying it could go much, much higher.
	Multiples of what its current price is.
	Will it actually do that?
	I have no idea.
	If Trump one day just announces, oh, here's a big press conference and Trump's like, we're going to make America great again.
	Here's what we're going to do.
	We're going to back the dollar by gold.
	You know, 20%, let's say.
	And people can exchange dollars for physical gold at any, I don't know, post office or whatnot.
	Probably wouldn't happen there.
	But whatever the mechanism, if he announces that, then obviously gold is going to go crazy.
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	And I've been buying gold since the 1990s when it was $300 an ounce.
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	Nobody that I know is getting excited about buying treasuries or municipal bonds.
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	No.
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	Welcome to today's interview here on Brighteon.com.
	I'm Mike Adams, the founder of Brighteon.
	And as you know, I'm one of the many pioneers in new media.
	As the corporate media is collapsing, the new media is rising.
	The White House has just announced they're reserving the front row seats for independent media people.
	To be part of the White House press conferences.
	How cool is that?
	And our guest today, first-time guest here, but someone who's the founder of a website you've probably heard of.
	It's called YourNews.com.
	It's Sam Anthony, who has a big vision and a big infrastructure for building up the new independent media focused on truth rather than lies and propaganda that characterize the corporate media, which is a dinosaur that's dying at the moment.
	So welcome, Sam Anthony, to the show today.
	It's an honor to have you on.
	Mike, I'm so thrilled to be here.
	Thank you for inviting me on.
	Well, thank you for coming on.
	And I've got to say, I've been a fan of your website, your news operation.
	You're doing amazing things.
	We index your main site on our censored.news website also.
	And I think we reference your news and link to you quite frequently.
	So you're doing a great job.
	You're doing so much more than what people know.
	Can you give us just a little bit of background about what is your news and your role and your vision for moving forward?
	Sure.
	You know, our platform is a hyper-local news platform operating in every zip code in the United States.
	So what we have is mega scale.
	We all know the legacy media is not going to survive.
	It's certainly not because they're lying.
	However, that doesn't help the cause, okay?
	It's really because it's an antiquated product and you have new media which has come in and basically anybody could be a news reporter and the marketplace is going to decide who makes it or who doesn't make it, Mike.
	I mean, you know what I'm talking about.
	You know, YouTube has...
	Over 100 million people that have their own channels.
	Most of them don't make it, but it gives anybody the ability to be a broadcaster.
	If you want to know why the legacy media hates new media, it's because we're taking their jobs.
	We're removing them from their jobs, and anybody can do their job.
	Well, you're not kidding.
	I mean, CNN has just laid off hundreds.
	We're seeing a collapse of corporate old-school media.
	What are you observing in that space?
	It's all collapsing.
	I mean, I've been predicting this for years, but it's now, you know, now I would have been considered a visionary before, but now everybody can see it.
	I mean, you're just watching it right before your eyes.
	I mean, the numbers have been declining there.
	You know, I just wonder, I'm going to tell you what the nail in the coffin is.
	If they bring in RFK Jr. and he eliminates advertising for pharmaceutical companies.
	DTC ads, yep.
	It's over.
	It's over.
	Right there.
	It's over.
	Give it 12 months, they'll be hemorrhaging, it'll all go away.
	And that alone is the reason to support RFK Jr.'s confirmation, in my view.
	Yes!
	I'm tired of today's health news brought to you by Pfizer.
	I mean, come on.
	I agree with you.
	I mean, RFK, you know, I was listening to him today, and all the people that oppose him all take money from the pharmaceutical companies.
	They do.
	I don't understand why he doesn't call them out on it.
	He's not going to get their vote anyway.
	They do not work for the American people.
	They work for the people who pay them.
	In this case, it's the pharmaceutical company.
	So their job is to make sure he doesn't get confirmed.
	It's just that simple.
	Well, absolutely.
	So let me ask you a question that sometimes I'm asked because people ask me sometimes, like, are you for sure never going to take money from Big Pharma like on the Brighteon platform?
	People ask me.
	Are you never going to take ad money from Big Pharma?
	And I say, that's right.
	We are never going to take ad money from Big Pharma.
	Count on it.
	How do you decide, Sam, who to take money from in terms of advertising?
	Because you have to have revenues.
	Sure, you have to have revenues.
	And that's a good question.
	And I don't know the legalities of it.
	I know with politicians, you can't take money from some and not from others.
	What I'm wondering is, because now, you know, you control yours, I control mine, but at some point in time, we're a self-service ad platform.
	I'm like Facebook for news.
	So, you know, first of all, if RFK Jr. gets in and he removes them for being able to advertise their product, then we don't have to worry about it.
	But the question is, can you be sued for discrimination for not running the ads?
	That I don't know.
	I think you cannot be sued for that.
	You have the right to refuse business to any advertiser.
	You don't have to give a reason.
	I know when it comes to politicians, if you let one side on, you've got to let the other side on.
	You're a private company.
	You can say no to anybody for any reason.
	Well, good.
	Then the answer is no.
	I have no interest.
	That's easy enough.
	At least that's my legal understanding.
	I'm not an attorney, obviously, but I've never been sued for saying no.
	I mean, what are they going to do?
	Say, force you to take our money!
	No.
	Good luck.
	What are they going to sue me?
	You have to take money from us?
	No.
	Hell no.
	Well, you know, so it's the whole industry is changing right before everybody's eyes, Mike.
	And I think it's a beautiful thing to see.
	I know if you're in the legacy media side, it's got to be the most painful thing you've ever seen.
	And, you know, just for your audience and for you, and I know you know it.
	Throughout history, there's always a product that replaces something else.
	Two easy examples would be going from the horse and buggy to the automobile, right?
	I mean, when was the last time you jumped in a horse and buggy, Mike?
	And then, you know, the telegraph to the telephone.
	And, you know, nobody sends telegraphs anymore, okay, because they have this thing called the phone, which has evolved into you can move all over the place with it.
	But it's a paradigm shift, and never.
	The old guard does not participate in the new entity.
	It's just how it works.
	Sam, what I love about what you're doing is, let's say before the 1990s, most news was hyper-local, right?
	Your local news station gave you local news, local interest stories.
	They interviewed local businesses, local people, whatever, right?
	And then there was this consolidation.
	Just a few corporate entities bought up everything over the last 30 years.
	And then...
	Of course, it ended up being that now all the news you get from those sources, it's all the same.
	It's all sanitized.
	Half of it's like CIA memos pushing this propaganda, this lie, masks work, you know, all this nonsense, right?
	So what you are doing is actually taking us forward, but back to the local level, which is where people live.
	It's what's important in your community, Mike.
	And you hit it on the head.
	In the 80s, there were over 400 independent news outlets.
	Today, there are six, okay?
	Everybody's seen the videos of St. Clair Broadcasting with 30 or 20 or 40 stations all saying the same thing at the same time.
	I know you saw it, Mike, okay?
	I'm sure you probably talked about it and played it on your show.
	Well, you know damn well that came from one individual.
	That was sent to the local markets, and all they're doing is reading off of a teleprompter.
	What you're witnessing there is centralized news.
	So what our product does, because we're hyper-local, is we completely decentralize and democratize the news business, and the most important piece is we put the power of the press back in the hands of the people where it belongs.
	That's it.
	Exactly, exactly.
	Exactly.
	But so then the big question, though, and this kind of gets us back to monetization, what has been really challenging in this information space just across the board is monetizing news and information because, you know, so much so much of information is now, of course, free to access. so much so much of information is now, of course, We've seen some organizations introduce registration walls or paywalls.
	But my understanding is your news is doesn't have, you know, registration walls or paywalls.
	Like how do you assemble your revenue model concept for doing this and staying viable?
	So remember, we have mega scale.
	So, you know, think of the Eddie News website, like the Chicago Tribune or the Miami Herald, right?
	So everybody has sections, sports, business, politics, entertainment.
	So let's take the sports page of Eddie News website.
	My guess is you could probably put 8 or 10 or 12 ads on that page.
	Well, however many ads they can put on that page, we can do in one zip code.
	And we have the ability to geotarget, like Facebook, where we can serve an ad where Joe's Pizza or Bob's Ice Cream Parlor can target one specific zip code.
	So think of it as advertising inventory, where the Chicago Tribune, you could advertise on their sports page and they could get 10 ads on that page.
	We could do it in one zip code.
	So it's like having 70,000 different editions, Mike.
	So the value of that space to a local business is, of course, much higher than the value to a national brand that's just trying to blanket everything, right?
	Yeah, Kevin Sorbo asked me, she goes, Sam, how are you, you know, the big advertisers are not going to spend money with you.
	He's talking about the pharmaceuticals, you know, the woke companies.
	I said, Mike.
	The money's not in the national.
	It's in the local.
	I get a penny for a national ad.
	I get 10, 15, 20 cents for hyperlocal ads.
	I mean, it's literally 10 to 20 times the money, but the customer's bill, he doesn't really care if he's spending $20 for the month.
	It's petty change.
	For him, he wants that space, but the national guys are never going to pay it.
	So if you do the math on that, if you have 10 ads at a penny, it's worth a dime.
	When the page gets clicked.
	If you have 10 ads at a time, it's worth a dollar.
	Right, right.
	Okay, so to our audience, this is really critical.
	This is so cool what you're doing, Sam.
	We used to have the yellow pages, right?
	And businesses, local businesses used to advertise in the yellow pages and all the residents would open up the yellow pages if they need an attorney, if they need a dry cleaner, if they need a plumber, whatever.
	What you're offering now, as I understand it, is a self-serve ad platform for local businesses.
	To advertise to local people through the local news that you are producing with hundreds of writers and editors that focus on hyper-local information.
	Is that a fair description?
	That is exactly correct.
	And here's the cool part.
	Let's say you're a financial planner.
	Okay, so if you know anything about the investment world...
	You get licensed in different states, right?
	You pay your fees, whatever they are.
	California could be $150 and Florida could be $50, but you're licensed in specific states to do business.
	Well, for those advertisers, they can actually pick zip codes that they want to target and then they could run maybe high net worth areas because they don't want to advertise in a non-affluent area because their target customer would be the affluent.
	But they can target specific zip codes around specific types of content.
	So the one in particular would be like the business section or the golf section because you see Raymond James ads and stuff like that on the golf channel.
	But that's how hyper-targeted this is.
	I mean, you could literally buy an ad to one zip code.
	And Sam, I think even as an end user, this adds value to the end user experience because if I'm an end user, I don't give a crap about national brands, right?
	But I am interested in A new restaurant that just opened up in my area.
	Totally interested in that.
	Or whatever.
	A new local service.
	A new local grocery store that serves organic or whatever the case may be.
	So it's kind of like you're de-polluting advertising and you're making the advertising relevant geographically without spying on people.
	Google has to spy on people and learn your interests.
	You're focused on geography, which doesn't require surveillance.
	And subject.
	So I know you like sports because you want to know why?
	Because you're reading.
	You're reading sports.
	Exactly.
	There you go.
	And so who would want to reach that target audience?
	You know, if you're reading golf, I know you like golf because you're reading the golf story.
	So advertisers can select the golf, the section that's relevant to their product.
	If you sell golf clubs, you want to be around golf.
	If you sell pots and pans, you want to be in my food and wine section.
	It's just that simple.
	That makes total sense.
	I don't know why.
	I mean, it seems so straightforward now that you're describing it.
	May I say something here?
	Please, please.
	Okay, so Mike, the newspaper business model has been around 200 years, okay?
	This is not a new model, right?
	There's still a demand for news.
	It's just how people consume it has changed.
	All we did was replicate that model online and create a more efficient marketplace for the end user.
	We have a social component where the public can interact and share in the narrative.
	We put the power of the press in the hands of the people.
	That's it.
	That's so cool.
	All right, let me ask you this.
	Where can potential advertisers go to your self-serve ad engine?
	Like, where do they sign up and start running ads?
	So, at the bottom, like, if you go to yournews.com, you scroll down to the bottom of the page, there's little tabs down there.
	You'll see them.
	It says advertise.
	Okay, it shows you your rate card.
	You then decide, yeah, right there.
	Okay.
	Okay, so you click this.
	You're going to see all the rates as soon as it loads.
	Okay.
	All right.
	I guess it's loading.
	I don't know.
	It should have loaded instantly.
	Well, I don't know.
	We actually had some bandwidth issues.
	My Wi-Fi might not be totally fully functional.
	It's probably on our side.
	But go ahead.
	Walk us through it.
	Yeah, so they just look at the rates, and then they just fill out a form.
	So I just went to it.
	I clicked advertise, and it is moving a little slow for me, too.
	So I don't know what just happened there.
	Oh, it just came up here.
	Okay, so I see the rate.
	Oh, yeah, I got it, too.
	Okay.
	Here we go.
	Yeah, so you just fill that form out.
	If you scroll down, you'll see the form.
	I see.
	Okay, right here.
	And you just place your ad.
	You can upload it.
	If you need us to build one for you, we'll do it.
	There's a little fee.
	And then, you know, you're off to the races.
	People do it all the time.
	That's awesome.
	Yeah.
	So it's not hard to do.
	And you see the rates there, right?
	It goes national, state, county, city, zip code.
	Okay.
	So obviously then your algorithm is first going to fill the most local ad, the most local advertiser into the ad spots you have.
	And then if that inventory is, you know, if...
	If that run is done, then your algorithm is going to choose less revenue ads on a national basis.
	I'm just guessing as a business owner.
	Yeah, no, you're right.
	So it'll take the highest bid, which is always the local.
	So the county guy is going to spend less money than the city guy is going to spend less money than the zip code guy.
	Got it.
	Right?
	So his CPM rate could be...
	12 cents for the zip code, whereas it could be 10 cents for the city, whereas it could be 5 or 6 cents for the county.
	So if they're all targeting that one spot, I'm in business, right?
	I'd rather get 10 cents from somebody than 2 cents, wouldn't you?
	Well, absolutely.
	And I'm even thinking, we should be using this, like my store, healthrangerstore.com.
	So we should be advertising nationwide, but in your cooking and kitchen and food sections.
	Not to mention the content side of it.
	Because you guys produce a lot of content.
	As you know, all you've got to do is go to my multimedia, your news video section.
	All your stuff is there.
	You don't know this, but you have an author page on our platform.
	Everything you've ever posted is on there.
	Oh, that's so cool.
	Wow.
	I'm so glad we're having this conversation.
	This is actually the first time that we've ever been virtually face-to-face.
	But I would love to integrate more.
	I'd love to actually be an advertiser with you.
	There's something else that we want to talk about.
	We're about to roll out an AI model, Enoch, that is the world's best trained AI model on nutrition and health and so on.
	There's probably some really interesting ways to leverage AI technology for your readers and things like that.
	Very interesting things to talk about there.
	Isn't the news business changing dramatically because of AI tools?
	Well, I look at, so I look at the, you still need boots on the ground.
	You need somebody at the high school football game or the city council meeting.
	But here's what I love about AI. Somebody like me can't write.
	Okay, I'm not like a, you know, I write the way I speak.
	But I can take AI and I can put bullet points in.
	So let's say I went to a city council meeting and I can take notes.
	And then I could plug in the notes with the bullet points of what I want into AI and it will spit me and tell it to write me a news story.
	Right.
	And it will spit out something.
	So if you don't like paragraph three, you say, please change it to make it look something like this.
	And once you've got it down, Mike, anybody could be in the news business.
	That's why.
	That's why that guy from Axios that was at that journalism thing saying how much people needed you, I'm like, are you crazy?
	We've all seen what you did.
	Anybody could do your job better than you.
	Good point.
	Anybody.
	I would have loved to have been there.
	What you have, you said it, boots on the ground, right?
	You need them.
	Where does news really come from?
	Actually, real news comes from people's eyeballs on the ground.
	Looking at stuff, talking to people, taking pictures, noticing things.
	That's real news.
	It's not press releases and CIA memos and all that crap, right?
	It's real boots on the ground.
	That has to be local.
	It has to be.
	You need them.
	Look, AI is just a tool.
	And people always say, oh, AI is going to replace all the journalists.
	No, it's not.
	If AI walks into the high school football game, run.
	It's called the Terminator.
	Yeah, yeah, Skynet's here.
	Yeah, Skynet's here.
	You need people to watch the game.
	You know, last night...
	I got an email from a gentleman.
	I think he was out of North Carolina.
	Guy's a photojournalist, worked for AP, Reuters.
	I mean, you know, was part of a lot of big national brands.
	And he reached out to me because he signed up to be a citizen journalist.
	He's not a reporter.
	But then he wanted to understand, like, how he could get involved in this.
	And I told him, look, if you want to know what people want, they want the news that matters to them in the community.
	I don't care if it's the high school football game or the city council meeting or the school board meeting.
	This is the stuff they want.
	And my suggestion to you would be to go do a video because he does video.
	And you could film it.
	You could have it so it streams live on YouTube.
	And we could take that embed code and we could run that in the geography it's relevant to around the specific type of content.
	So the guy could actually film the whole high school football game where he could have it live.
	He could actually film.
	The city council meeting or the school board meeting and have it live and we could air it right on our network.
	That is so cool.
	Yes.
	So he's not a writer.
	And I told him, if you want to write, sign up for ChatGPT and put the bullet points in and let us pitch out an article and bam, that's all it is.
	Now, what I love about you and your philosophy, and I'd like to ask you to describe it more, but I mean, again, this is the first time we've ever talked face-to-face.
	Although we've had a phone conversation before.
	But my understanding is you support economic freedom.
	You support common sense, reason, rationality.
	You love America.
	You want America to be great.
	You support all these things.
	But how would you describe your worldview?
	And does that drive the direction of the news?
	Or is it more hands-off?
	How do you balance that or manage that?
	Well, this might take a minute if you don't mind.
	Go for it.
	Because I was one of those people that didn't believe the legacy media was lying.
	And I have a partner in this business that used to tell me that.
	She listened to Alex Jones and I'm like, look, why would the media ever lie?
	They live here too.
	I mean, if you're a journalist and there's a story and they want you to completely fabricate a false narrative.
	You're going to look at him like, what are you, crazy?
	Why would I do something like that?
	So I didn't buy it, but when Trump won the election in 2016, Mike, you'd have to be a moron to not see the lies that were coming out when they attacked him and started calling him a Russian agent and all the different stuff they came after him with.
	So look, somebody had to hit me over the head to get me to see it, but now I see it clear as day.
	So when that happened, I realized what I'm doing.
	Is far more important.
	It's bigger than me.
	It's bigger than all of us.
	Because if you have a media that is basically weaponized against the American people, look, you and I are on the same page, okay?
	You've got government influence as well as advertiser influence, right?
	This is why you could have gave them absolute facts that COVID is killing people, and they couldn't say it because Pfizer's writing them the checks.
	That's the truth.
	So we need to dismantle this whole thing.
	Now, the good news is they're going away on their own.
	But what I do, Mike, is inevitable.
	Trust me, the future of news, forget me, will be a hyper-local news platform with a social component where the public can interact and post their own news views, opinions, and classifieds.
	It'll have a monetization model like YouTube, where anybody can be a citizen journalist and report news freely without censorship, and a self-service ad platform where people can buy their own ads and target it around the content that's relevant to their product.
	Mike, everything I just said already exists on other platforms.
	They just don't do it around hyper-local news.
	For me, this is bigger than all of us.
	If we're going to be a news organization that's supposed to be for the people, by the people, then the people need to own the product, not Sam.
	This is – go ahead.
	Well, and I would say, too, that even if Facebook, let's say, did exactly what you're doing, nobody would trust Facebook.
	If Google did what you're doing, nobody would trust Google.
	It has to be somebody outside that tech ecosystem, the hyper-connected, government-run, CIA-backdoored tech ecosystem.
	Frankly, people only trust, I should say informed people, only trust independent media now.
	And public trust in mainstream media has absolutely plummeted since COVID, when people realized we were lied to and they actually got a lot of people killed with bad media lies, right?
	But you exist outside the tech ecosystem.
	You're not the who's who of the Elon Musk and the Sam Altmans and all that.
	And thank God.
	Otherwise, I wouldn't love what you're doing either.
	I mean, it's great that we are independent.
	No, I do agree.
	And you really need to hear this.
	And for the audience, they need to pay attention to it.
	Somebody asked me...
	How do you fact check all these articles?
	And Mike, here's my question to you as a broadcaster, as a journalist.
	What is the single thing that you have that is the most important and without it you couldn't function in this business?
	I'll answer it for you.
	It's your integrity.
	It's your honesty, right?
	People watch your show because they believe in you.
	Now, Mike, what would happen if you started lying to your audience all the time?
	Yeah, well, they would figure it out.
	You'd be exposed and you'd lose everything.
	And you'd lose everything.
	So I don't have to be a fact checker.
	We don't need Snopes.
	You want to know who Snopes is?
	It's the people in the local community.
	Because what we do is decentralize and democratize the news business.
	We're not telling you that that article is accurate.
	It's up to the journalists to report the story.
	And their job is to be able to put out the information that's truthful to the people in the community.
	In the event...
	That somebody lies?
	Mike, you will get so many emails coming in saying, this is not true, this is fake news, whatever, right?
	So we haven't had it happen yet, other than one time with a Little League game in North Palm Beach, Florida, where the kids lied about who won.
	But I must have got 50 emails on that one.
	But the people will let you know, and then one of us will look into it, and if it's a mistake, somebody can correct it.
	But I can see...
	I'm sorry to interrupt, but I can see attempts at weaponizing this, but it wouldn't be successful long-term, but I could see somebody signing up as a journalist, let's say a restaurant owner that wants to harm another restaurant across town, and then they do a story that this other restaurant has roaches and rats, right?
	That kind of silly thing.
	But that could get them sued, not just banned.
	That's a big mistake.
	You don't want to do stuff like that.
	That's petty.
	And then guess what?
	You're only going to hurt yourself.
	Okay, because nobody's going to go to your restaurant afterwards.
	No, the best thing they could do is just get reviews.
	Like, you know, there's people out there that do restaurant reviews, movie reviews, all that stuff.
	Okay, so the best thing to do is just to find somebody who does restaurant reviews.
	And, you know, we'll publish those articles in our food and wine section in that market.
	That's awesome.
	That's great.
	So also for a lot of people who are being displaced out of their jobs in corporate media.
	This is also a really natural thing for them to pick up, right?
	They can become writers for you, correct?
	Correct.
	And by the way, on LinkedIn Navigator, if you type in freelance journalist, it's 470,000 people.
	Now, here's what I know.
	Not all of them were part of the...
	Some were just freelance to begin with, but not all.
	I mean, we're talking probably 90% of them were part of the downsizing.
	So, Mike...
	This is probably going to answer some of your question the last time about who Sam Anthony is.
	So I'm a firm believer that if you were part of the mainstream media, you were part of the problem.
	So we do not, and it doesn't mean everybody, but we do not focus on those half a million people.
	My focus right now is on student journalists, and here's the reason why.
	Number one, I want you to answer this honestly, Mike.
	Let's fast forward a year or two or three years.
	When they come out of school, where are they going to get a job?
	Who's hiring?
	Right now, it's pretty dismal at the moment.
	It's going to be even worse.
	So what I'm doing is I'm bringing on student journalists.
	You could always tell who's good and who's bad.
	Just read their stuff, okay?
	But the cream always rises to the top, and not for nothing, but those would be the same people that wouldn't get jobs at other places, and some would.
	So that's just how it works.
	So we're bringing on student journalists to give them real-life experience, but ultimately what's going to end up happening, Mike, is they're going to be the trusted names in their community.
	They're going to be the ones that go, because this is their passion.
	Well, and what's really critical, because we talked about AI previously, and we've been using AI augmentation in our own company because we're building AI models and so on.
	And for the record, I did not fire a single writer in our company.
	Instead, I taught them how to use AI tools to enhance their work.
	So we can bring in quotes from books to add to stories, to augment stories.
	We can do a lot of things that we couldn't do previously.
	AI actually uplifts the roles of people.
	You no longer have to be the typist, and you no longer have to be perfect with your punctuation and perfect with your use of articles in the sentence.
	Instead, you are, I mean...
	You and I kind of talked about this.
	Instead, you are the observer.
	You are the witness of what's happening.
	You need to take notes.
	You need to understand and bring perspective and a human angle to what's happening.
	And then you can tell the AI engine, like you said, bullet points.
	Tell the AI, create a story, but here's what I saw.
	Here's who I talked to.
	Here's what they told me.
	The role of the writer is actually being upgraded to being the witness of reality.
	Does that make sense?
	Oh my God, of course it does.
	And this is why I tell people in new media, just like with YouTube, anybody could be a journalist and anybody could report whatever type of content they want.
	You could be a golf news guy.
	You could be a hard news guy.
	You could have a cooking show on YouTube.
	Well, what I see is all the people that could have never got a job in the media industry, let's say you wanted to be a reporter.
	You wanted to cover these stories.
	You could take...
	Somebody that's proactive in the community that goes to all the city council meetings and the school board meetings.
	That person is passionate about it.
	Well, why can't they report it and tell the rest of the community what they just witnessed?
	And that's a journalist right there.
	And what I love about this is that you are decentralizing news.
	You're taking it out of the hands of the central controllers who have been lying to us and deceiving us this entire time.
	All these independent journalists that are working with you, nobody is controlling them from one memo.
	You're not telling them what to say.
	I don't know if you know this, and I learned it like a year ago, because I talk to a lot of journalists.
	So a woman called me from Tampa, and here was her thing.
	She didn't care about the monetization, nothing.
	She goes, I'm a journalist, I'm ethical.
	She said, but the way it works is...
	I'm an investigative journalist, so I do a lot of work on an article, and everything I do is factual.
	You know, there's all whatever it is they got to bring to the editor.
	Well, when they bring that story in, it could be something that the community wants to know about, but it goes before a review board.
	Okay, now wait.
	It could be somebody's brother.
	A family member.
	An advertiser.
	An advertiser.
	And all of a sudden it gets nixed.
	And then when I ask them why it's nixed, they say, well, we're not going to tell you that.
	So here's how my platform works.
	You're the investigative journalist.
	You're reporting all the facts.
	And you're the review board.
	It goes no matter what.
	And they love that.
	That is so cool.
	Yeah.
	I've known and talked to many journalists over the years who are super frustrated with the fact that they'll pursue a story and then it'll get canned.
	And in fact, you know what?
	A lot of prominent people in alternative media today used to work for mainstream media, right?
	They left and then they started a YouTube channel or they started a newsletter or whatever the case may be.
	But let's talk about moving forward too because you've got a project.
	And admittedly, I don't fully understand what you've got going, but you've got a project that I think you're doing crowdsourcing funding for.
	It's a big vision.
	Can you start from the beginning on that and explain it to me and the audience?
	Yeah.
	Mike, the legacy media is not going to survive.
	What's going to replace it most likely will be a hyper-local news platform that's global.
	In every country that you can get into, just like Facebook, Amazon, LinkedIn, Netflix, they're all global.
	So let's just fast forward.
	If you had to place a bet, it's going to be a global media giant by zip code.
	By the way, on LinkedIn Navigator, over 2 million people in the media industry call themselves freelance journalists now because they're out of work.
	So there's your marketplace, right?
	And it's all over the world.
	All over the world.
	So most likely to be a global media giant.
	And like any tech giant, it all comes out of Silicon Valley, all the money.
	I mean, name one thing they didn't fund, okay?
	Facebook, Amazon, Twitter, Netflix, Silicon Valley funds it all.
	They bring in big capital.
	They bring in the proper management teams.
	They scale these things up.
	And next thing you know, they're the 10,000-pound gorilla in the space.
	You know what I'm talking about because that's reality.
	So Silicon Valley is not going to play with me.
	Simply because if you look at the front page of my website, it just doesn't go along with their narrative.
	So we decided to do something called an equity crowdfund.
	And I never knew, like I've heard of them before, but I really didn't know what it is because I've raised capital my whole life.
	And, you know, we would do it, you know, when you raise capital on a private placement.
	You can only sell to what they call accredited investors, which represents 1% of the population.
	And that's why the big investors are the Black Rocks and the Vanguards, because they have all the money.
	Not to mention the fact that, because I was in that business, I have friends of mine that run private equity firms, hedge funds, and they make investments.
	They're always looking for opportunities.
	They have all the money.
	If they don't spend it, they've got to give it back to the people.
	They raise it from individuals that say, here's our track record, here's what we do.
	Right.
	And they're overflowing with money.
	They can't even find enough good opportunities in many cases.
	Exactly.
	Right?
	But if you've ever done a deal with a private equity firm or a hedge fund, they own you.
	Yeah, that's right.
	It's just how it works.
	And by the way, coming from that background, I kind of do agree because...
	Most entrepreneurs come up with great ideas, but they just can't execute them.
	So to me, if I was giving somebody $10, $20 million, and I would have some kind of clause that says, look, if you can't pull this off, I've got to have you step down and put some people in to protect my investment.
	It makes logical sense to me.
	So from my standpoint, there is nobody on planet Earth that could do what I do, at least with the United States.
	However, you want to scale this across the globe?
	I'm not the guy.
	Okay, you need lawyers, better people than me, a management team, but what I am is the person who oversees it because this is my baby.
	I understand what works, what doesn't work.
	But for the United States, which we're doing right now, it's not that difficult.
	And as we start expanding and building our team, everything is going to evolve.
	But we decided not to go the route of...
	You know, traditional of going to private equity and stuff like that.
	When I went to one of the Reawake America tours, Mike, I looked around.
	It was in Miami.
	And there were 5,000 people that showed up for this event.
	And I'm looking around and I'm like, wow.
	See, now these are all the people.
	These are the people that are in my world, which you know what I'm talking about, that...
	I think really should own the product that we have.
	I can't go to you, Mike, and I can't tell you that we're a news organization that's by the people for the people, but then tell you that BlackRock owns half my company.
	Exactly.
	It doesn't sound good.
	So we did this thing called an equity crowdfund.
	The equity crowdfunds are very interesting because you're allowed to market them and promote them.
	You don't actually call an individual and sell up stock.
	What you do is you get on shows like this or you can market the equity crowdfund and people can hear what you're doing.
	They can go to the equity crowdfund page and then they can read about what you're doing if they want to make an investment.
	They can.
	But here's the cool part.
	It limits people.
	When you fill out the subscription agreement, you have to put in...
	What your income is.
	Well, a guy making $20,000 a year can only invest so much.
	You won't allow a big investment.
	And by the way, it happened.
	One of my journalists out of Arizona had made the initial investment was $250,000.
	And a couple of months later, he says, I want to put in $250,000 more.
	It wouldn't let him.
	$200,000 was the limit.
	He could never spend another nickel.
	That's it.
	Whereas a guy that makes a million a year could spend a lot more.
	Make sense?
	Yeah.
	Okay.
	Number one, what is that website where we can look at this?
	Go to yournews.com and scroll down to the bottom of the page.
	Okay.
	And click invest.
	It's the bottom right, I think.
	Oh, Invest.
	Okay.
	Got it.
	I see.
	Okay.
	Invest in Nico Ventures, Inc.
	Now, that's the holding company.
	That's like News Corp owns Fox News.
	Okay.
	And then you'll see if you scroll down a little bit, it'll give you a dollar amount that right there that was invested so far in the last couple of months, 167, 314 or so.
	I can't see it.
	Okay.
	So this information that's here is everything that we're doing and people can read it.
	And it's not owned by Sam.
	It's owned by a brokerage firm.
	Okay, North Capital Partners.
	So whenever you do something with a brokerage firm, the brokerage firm is not going to get behind you unless they do audits, background checks, because they're liable.
	Yeah, and their license is at stake, yeah.
	Oh, completely.
	So for them to participate, you have to pass all the scrutiny that they give you.
	It's not like a fly-by-night Kickstarter project where somebody could just take the money and run.
	Yeah, no.
	Not that.
	It's not going to happen, no.
	And then it opens up to that brokerage firm as North Capital Partners to all kinds of legal liabilities.
	But yeah, this is something that's real.
	The main interest that I have is to make sure that the people own the product and not the institution.
	So it's much easier to raise capital through institutions, especially with my background, simply because I know them.
	But I would rather have...
	5,000 people give me 1,000 bucks, then one guy give me 5 million.
	Because who am I beholden to, Mike?
	Totally.
	Yeah, exactly.
	So this decentralizes the investment side of it.
	And of course, I'm such a big fan of decentralization, of news, of knowledge, of medicine, food.
	This makes perfect sense to me in so many ways.
	But let me ask you this.
	So let's say somebody watching here, they want to invest whatever.
	Do you talk about...
	Like, is there an expected return?
	Is there a timetable?
	Like, did they get money five years later?
	No, no, no.
	So, I hired a guy named Joel Arberman.
	And Joel is a former hedge fund guy.
	Very bright.
	Good guy.
	Mike, how many companies have you taken public?
	Have you taken any public?
	No, no.
	Okay, this guy's taken 17. 17 companies, okay?
	I couldn't take one.
	He took 17 companies public.
	I mean, I can't do what he does, but he can't do what I do.
	So he came to me and he said, Sam, he goes, I see what you're doing and the world needs what you have.
	He said, now you need to raise some capital, but he said to me, It's going to be easier if we can take this company public, number one.
	Number two, if you take it public, you have a currency.
	So what is your game plan here?
	Well, I've always had the expectations of doing this because what I wanted to do was this is a roll-up model, Mike.
	I think you know what that means, where you could acquire other entities.
	So you know how with a newspaper you have a sports editor, a business editor, a politics editor, all these different editors?
	The plan is to take and start acquiring other verticals, somebody who has a horse racing website, somebody who has a boxing website.
	There's no scale to them, Mike.
	What you do is you're bringing better content into the system.
	Remember, I'm the platform.
	We don't consider ourselves a news organization.
	We consider ourselves a news content distribution platform.
	But what we can do...
	Is acquire different verticals and bring them under one umbrella.
	And then provide them with more interesting content to drive that vertical.
	Here's the thing.
	If you like horse racing and I don't have it, you're going to go somewhere else, right?
	Right.
	That's it.
	So these guys already know how to do it.
	They're just coming under our umbrella.
	Now, the horse racing industry, very niche.
	How much revenue could possibly be generated out of the horse racing industry?
	I have no idea, but it's not going to be $20 billion.
	It's not that big.
	It's like golf.
	You know, it's not that big.
	So, you know, I think golf, I'm going to guess here, but, you know, I play golf, you know, every weekend.
	You know, I'm a weekend warrior.
	But what is it, 2%, 3% of the population likes golf?
	I mean, it's minuscule in the scheme of things.
	So, you know, acquiring them and bringing them under your umbrella, what does it do?
	It drives their traffic to your horse racing or golf section, right?
	It brings their ad revenues in.
	It creates a better product for the readers and gives them a bigger exit.
	Right.
	Absolutely.
	Because with a product like this, the marketplace will eat this up, Mike.
	But then are you saying the medium-term goal is to take Nico Ventures public?
	Yeah.
	We'll have that done.
	As a matter of fact, he called me five weeks ago to tell me that he's got a brokerage firm that'll do the second round.
	I hope he doesn't hear this because I'm just going to tell you something.
	Okay, so I said to him, I said, I said, Joel, I said, that's phenomenal.
	We need to keep that as an option.
	I didn't say anything else, but I'm just going to tell you, you're familiar with Public Square, right?
	You know, the Michael Sievert.
	Okay, so all you got to do is look it up on Google.
	You know what percentage Vanguard owns of Public Square?
	I don't.
	38%.
	Wow.
	Okay, so all the things you guys hate, okay, and we hate.
	You can't stop them.
	You know, when you do a SPAC or you raise money from a broker-dealer, they're not calling Bob Smith to get $500 from them.
	They're calling the institutional players.
	Totally.
	It's how it works.
	And then they bring in the money and then they take you public, whatever it is.
	That was the same thing that happened.
	So what I'm doing is something a little different.
	What I want is 5,000 people to be investors in this round.
	I want to do a second one.
	But I want to bring in some horsepower for that one.
	I'm talking about influencers, and I'm already talking to a couple.
	I'm not going to say names, but everybody would know who they are.
	And the odds on me not getting them are slim to none.
	Right, right.
	Yeah, so I'm just bringing this up.
	Go ahead.
	Well, I'm sorry to interrupt, but what I think my audience and what I, I mean, everything that you said sounds fantastic.
	And what my audience...
	wants to make sure is that you don't one day end up selling out to the Black Rocks or the big tech companies.
	If you build something this amazing, you want to keep it in the hand.
	Because your vision is awesome.
	People want it to stay that way.
	How do you explain to people that it's going to be true to that vision even as it gets really big?
	First of all, that's a great question.
	I'm one of you, okay?
	So I want what you want.
	I do not want this to be in the hands of George Soros or somebody that's going to use it for nefarious reasons.
	Because remember, information is power, Mike.
	Absolutely.
	He who controls all the information has all the power.
	I'm 60. This is my last hurrah on this, just to finish it off.
	But this is my legacy.
	So for me, do you think I want my grandkids to grow up in a world where George Soros controls the next mainstream media?
	Not a chance in hell.
	No way.
	So what I'm doing to prevent that is I'm going to put the board of directors in.
	And remember, the people, you have the...
	The management team, like when we scale this thing and we get it really big, you're going to have a different management team that comes in.
	Well, I'm going to be the CEO of that because I'm not letting them do anything without me knowing, number one.
	I want to be part of it.
	Number two...
	I will still keep control after this round, but the next one, there ain't a chance at hell.
	I'm going to have control, full control.
	But that's where you have a board of directors that shares your vision and your values because they can fire the management team like that.
	So they work for the shareholders.
	So that's the most important piece.
	So I've already got this laid out in my head as to how we're going to play this out because, look, like any...
	Company that eventually goes public and it's a public utility and people are using it.
	You know, Bill Gates doesn't own 90% of, you know, Microsoft.
	I mean, what does he own?
	One or two percent?
	I mean, it's going to diminish down.
	Right.
	But what we have to do is make sure that this remains a free speech platform.
	Okay, it remains free speech.
	It allows the public to be able to have their own voice.
	By the way, I'm just letting people know that means the left.
	I'm not here to suppress somebody.
	That's right.
	Okay, my personal opinion is I think both sides should be heard and the marketplace should decide which way they want to go, what they believe in.
	We have the same philosophy on Brighton.
	We don't censor people for viewpoints.
	Never have, never will.
	That's not what we're into.
	But it's supposed to be.
	Yeah, exactly.
	The competition of ideas is what should exist, and the best ideas should win out.
	And that's why they wanted to censor all of us all these years, because we have better ideas.
	And when I say we, I mean just reasonable, conservative-minded people.
	Our ideas work, actually.
	They have no ideas, Mike.
	That's why one guy comes up with the dumbest idea, and it's a liberal, and the other one's going, well, that doesn't sound good, but...
	I don't got anything else.
	Let's join forces.
	And they all back it.
	I mean, give me a break.
	So yes, liberals don't have good ideas.
	They just jump on one thing and run with it, even if it's going to run them over the cliff.
	It's the conservatives that are always going in their own direction.
	And these are the ones that are the entrepreneurs that are the movers and shakers in the community that are making things happen.
	You know, if we had to hope the liberals are going to do that, they'd just all run us over a cliff and bankrupt everything.
	You know, I've been using the term builders.
	I would describe you and I as builders.
	We build businesses, we build platforms, we build solutions.
	We are the kind of people who build civilization, and of course we stand on the shoulders of the people, the builders before us, right?
	So I don't mean arrogantly that we're the builders.
	We are in a long line of builders.
	Our parents and grandparents and going back, they built...
	Mike, I couldn't agree with you more, and I'm going to tell you something else.
	You and I should really kind of align.
	We are aligned, but we should figure out how we can integrate with each other because what you do is you're putting out information that's combating the mainstream media, but your focus is not on the...
	The bar in Chicago that just went to a Chicago Bears theme.
	You could care less about that, right?
	Or the museum that just opened in New York or Miami.
	That's not your focus.
	No, not at all.
	But all that hyper-local news and all my content creators, just imagine there's 20,000 cities in the United States.
	If I only have five people a city, that's 100,000 news reporters.
	Mike, you're massive at that point.
	You haven't even begun.
	If you take all that content, right?
	And then, Brydie, and remember, I'm just a news distribution.
	You know, I have three news outlets reach out to me in the last six weeks to ask if they could put their stuff on my platform.
	Oh, wow.
	These are three.
	I'm like, are you committing suicide now?
	What are you doing?
	You know, but for you, it's synergistic because I'm a platform, right?
	Right.
	And so I'm not, I am...
	Non-competitive to you at all.
	I'm like Facebook.
	I'm just distribution.
	I don't produce anything.
	We just distribute other people's stuff.
	That's all we do.
	So you and I really could combine forces together.
	Oh, I think so.
	I've actually got some really strong ideas about using, for example, in-house for 15 months, we have built a massive AI data pipeline infrastructure for training AI models and ingesting content and normalizing we have built a massive AI data pipeline infrastructure for training AI models and ingesting content and normalizing And that's why we're about to put out a really amazing model.
	If we could tap into the stream of your local news through some of the AI classification prompts, there are some extraordinary things that we could do with your news to determine trends, like early indicators.
	Of things that are about to happen.
	Not quite seeing the future, but connecting the dots because of what's happening locally.
	No human can think fast enough to do all that based on all the writers you have, but we have a massive data infrastructure that could do that.
	I'd love to talk to you about that offline, about maybe we do a little pilot thing and show you what I have in mind.
	It could be pretty cool.
	I think that, you know, I've always had this vision.
	You know what I'm talking about here.
	You have all these different conservatives running in their own direction, right?
	So you have Newsmax and you have One America News and you have Real America's Voice and everybody's competing for the same eyeballs, right?
	Well, what if they all joined forces or what if they were all rolled up under one umbrella?
	You're just talking about creating a mega powerhouse, a conservative media powerhouse, if you want to use the word conservative.
	But this is what needs to happen.
	And I think I could pull that off.
	Yeah, and I'm glad you mentioned, I think you can too, and I think it transcends conservatism.
	That label doesn't even really begin.
	We're talking about the future of human civilization.
	We're talking about building infrastructure of decentralized human knowledge that allows people to have access to the kinds of ideas and information that empowers them in whatever their ventures are.
	Information needs to be decentralized instead of controlled.
	You are, in effect, through your news, you are reversing the years of ignorance that's been forced upon us by big tech censorship and fake corporate news media.
	That's essentially what you're doing.
	I love talking to people who understand this.
	I really do.
	Yes, you're exactly correct.
	That's exactly what we're doing.
	Yeah, and by the way...
	This is, what I do is the next mainstream media.
	Make no mistake about it.
	Totally.
	This is where it's all going because all the archaic, outdated infrastructures are never going to survive.
	I don't know this to the dollar amount, but I will tell you that I dealt with a lot of broadcast stations.
	These people spend seven figures a year to keep these stations afloat.
	I'm talking about radio or TV stations where they have big infrastructures of buildings, towers, all this, Mike, so they could get a radio signal to your freaking car or to your radio.
	And then you have YouTube or Spotify, which you could just get on your phone and you could record something and your physical cost in that is, Mike, how much?
	Zero?
	Compete with that.
	That's my point.
	And some of these student journalists we're bringing on, I mean, I showed a friend of mine some of the sports stories that were coming.
	I'm like, oh my God, this comes from a student out of New York.
	Like, you know, all these different, you know, content creators all over the place.
	And you could see the stuff like, you know, my auto racing section.
	Most of them are student journalists.
	It's the only wire feed I buy is field level media.
	That's it.
	I promise you in the next 12 to 18 months, I won't even need them.
	What you're doing is as substantial as maybe, let's say, the invention of cold fusion is to the energy ecosystem.
	You know what I mean?
	It's a disruptor, but in a super positive way that actually has second-order and third-order impacts on society that empowers and enables others to pursue their visions and to be better builders themselves.
	It's really extraordinary what you're doing, Sam.
	I'm so glad that...
	We are having this chance to talk.
	There's a lot we can do.
	Yes, I can see that.
	And so, you know, to me, having this conversation with you has always been important because, you know, I look at you as, you know, one of the leaders in this whole space, right?
	And, you know, I think if we can all align and, you know, I'm non-threatening to anybody.
	You guys are the producers.
	I'm just distribution.
	That's all I am.
	So I just could have millions of you.
	Well, yeah, it's funny.
	I always thought of what I'm doing here right now.
	I've always known that my role is not to even be the person in this chair.
	My role is to build platforms that enable others and empower others to express their ideas, their content, etc.
	So I think what you and I are both doing that's more important than anything that our personal voices can do is we are building platforms for freedom and for decentralization.
	Clearly.
	That's the key.
	No question.
	Yeah, this is good that we had this conversation, Mike, because you understand the business.
	I certainly understand the business.
	At the end of the day, I mean, you've seen, you know, a little bit about what I do, and I've explained it, but if I actually showed you this in real time with the content coming in, you'd be like, oh my God, this is incredible, right?
	You know, hyper-local news coming in all over the United States, and all we're doing is empowering people and giving them a voice.
	That's all it is.
	And if we can figure out a way to accelerate that this is where the capital comes in, because, you know, I always say to people, I don't need anybody's money to figure this out.
	It's hard to figure it out.
	The next level is going to create more complications, which you're going to need money to be able to scale it because, you know, you can't have five people running a billion dollar operation.
	You're going to have a lot more people.
	And so you're going to be running in the red for a while before you get to the black.
	But believe me when I tell you, this is the real deal.
	And I think that, you know, you and I forming some kind of alignment will.
	Be beneficial to humanity, period.
	I completely agree with you.
	You and I will continue this conversation offline.
	For our audience here today, let me mention again, the website is yournews.com.
	And what you can do, folks, remember, scroll down to the bottom.
	If you want to be an advertiser for their local content, or even national, you can click advertise there.
	Citizen journalist.
	Citizen journalist right next to it.
	Yeah, exactly.
	You can be a citizen journalist right here, or you can invest over here.
	And what I am interested in, Sam, is, of course, the AI angle.
	I think if you could package up as a sample like 50,000 articles from any time period, I could show you some astonishing things with an AI-trained model on that content that would blow your mind.
	And that's the first thing I'd like to do is show you that.
	But we'll talk about that offline, just in terms of demonstrations.
	But this is awesome.
	We are the new media, and knowledge is supposed to be decentralized.
	And neither one of us, we don't get memos from the CIA of what to say, obviously.
	Otherwise, I mean, nobody would pay any attention to us because they can get that from NPR anyway, or the Washington Post, right?
	So here we are.
	Thank you, Sam, for joining me today.
	This has been really exciting.
	Mike, thanks for having me on your show, man.
	It's a pleasure to actually meet you, and I look forward to working with you.
	Same here.
	I look forward to working with you, too, Sam.
	Thank you so much for taking the time today.
	We'll talk more offline.
	And for all of you watching, again, the website is yournews.com, where you can check all of that out.
	Hyperlocalnews.
	So be sure to use yournews.com for the news in your area.
	Just for disclosure, I am not an investor yet.
	Maybe I want to be.
	But at the moment, I don't have any financial ties to your news.
	We are simply part of the new media.
	I am very much interested in working with Sam, as you just heard, in terms of AI augmentation.
	of the knowledge base and decentralization.
	So that's the full disclosure right there.
	What an awesome interview and an amazing man there that we just heard from.
	So thank you for watching today.
	I'm Mike Adams, the founder of Brighteon.com.
	And together, the future really can be bright.
	If you're plugged in, if you're informed, the future can be really great.
	So keep tuning in.
	You're going to learn a lot here.
	And on platforms like yournews.com.
	Thank you for watching today.
	God bless you all and God bless America.

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