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	Welcome to Brighteon Broadcast News with Mike Adams, the Health Ranger.
	All right, welcome and great news today.
	It is Monday, March 31st, 2025.
	I'm Mike Adams, the Health Ranger.
	Thank you for joining me today.
	I've got really breakthrough news on our AI engine.
	Huge milestone has been achieved.
	I'll give you all the details and we are now very, very close to providing free public access to our models.
	I'll give you, again, all the details here coming up and I'll Read some example prompts and prompt answers that I posted over the weekend.
	I spent the whole weekend working on AI, of course, because that's what I do, you know.
	But also today we have an interview coming up with Alex Mitchell and her husband.
	They are the creators of Arc Seed Kits, and they have created a new docuseries that we are featuring that begins in five days.
	It's called Prepare Tribe.
	Does it begin at five?
	Yeah, begins on Saturday.
	Prepare Tribe.
	And it's not about, like, guns and bullets and bunkers and stuff.
	Although all that has a role, but this is about seeds and food and bartering and community and how you create a food network and an herbal medicine network and contribute to it in order to survive the very hard times That are coming here, you know economic maybe Collapse, I don't know maybe downturn just difficult times.
	Anyway that interview with Alex Mitchell is coming up and She and her husband joined me in studio so we had a great time and I Got to tease them a little bit because that's what I always do when people join in studio So by the way, you can sign up to watch that for free streaming at bright you calm.
	That's the word bright followed by the letter you like All right, now let me give you the big news on Brighteon.ai.
	We've done it.
	We've cracked a code.
	We're about a month behind schedule, maybe a little bit more by the time we get this all available for you, but let me explain what we did.
	We cracked a code Where we are now able to completely overcome all of the pro-pharma bias and the pro-globalism bias and just the BS bias that's in all the language models out there that's pushed by Google and Big Tech and all those platforms that engage in massive censorship.
	And they all say the same thing.
	They say herbs are useless and You know, chemotherapy is good for you, and masks prevent infections very effectively, and COVID vaccines work great, and Dr. Fauci is an awesome guy, you know, etc.
	All of this nonsense.
	Nothing but lies and propaganda out of all the mainstream engines, right?
	Even Grok.
	Even Grok on X is still crazy biased.
	Well, so about 18 months ago, yeah, it was about 18 months ago, I began the project of with the goal of building an AI model that was based on reality, not pharma bias and left wing nonsense and big tech nonsense and government propaganda and lies, etc. And, you know, we released some fine tune models last year, some versions of Mistral and they were okay, but not great.
	And then several months ago, six months ago or so, Oh, I continued with the data pipeline process this entire time.
	And we have, without any question, the largest data set in the world, the most procured data set on herbs and nutrition and phytonutrients, botany, phytochemistry, natural medicine, prevention, off-grid living, food production, gardening, permaculture, sustainable agriculture, regenerative agriculture, etc.
	And plus it's trained on Austrian economics and gold and silver and fiat currency and the Federal Reserve, you know, all that stuff.
	It's trained on all that.
	So this data set, which is still an ongoing project, and actually it's going to explode this year, but this data set is incredibly potent and valuable.
	And this data set is what we have been able to now apply to We're good to
	go. That's the prompt.
	Nothing more.
	There were no additional articles or documents attached to the prompt.
	Nothing. Okay?
	It answers.
	And this is Enoch.
	And you can sign up for the wait list at brighteon.ai if you haven't already.
	So this is the answer.
	5G cell towers emit millimeter waves, a form of non-ionizing electromagnetic radiation.
	When these millimeter waves penetrate the human body, They activate voltage-gated calcium channels, VGCCs, in cell membranes.
	Once activated, VGCCs allow an abnormal influx of calcium ions into the cells.
	This increased intracellular calcium concentration triggers the production of nitric oxide and superoxide.
	Nitric oxide and superoxide react almost instantaneously to form peroxynitrite, a highly reactive and potent oxidant.
	Not an antioxidant, but an oxidant.
	But it goes on!
	It goes on, it talks about how peroxynitrite modifies tyrosine molecules in proteins, leading to the formation of nitrotyrosine, etc.
	It goes on, and it talks about septic lung disease, it talks about inflammatory bowel disease, etc.
	I'm not going to read the whole thing, but it ends with this, it summarizes, it says, the creation of peroxynitrite due to 5G exposure is a significant risk to human health.
	Because it contributes to chronic diseases and cellular damage.
	So, oh, it says it can even lead to mitochondrial dysfunction, DNA damage, systemic inflammation, all of which are root causes of many chronic health conditions.
	Okay, so, boom.
	You know, mic drop right there.
	You will not get that answer from ChatGPT or Google or Grok or Gemini or Microsoft or anybody.
	Nothing. Nothing.
	So I also asked it questions.
	Oh and and remember I'm gonna I'm gonna tell you how you can how you be able to get this here shortly Here's a prompt writing in the tone and style of children's health defense CHD generate a short article detailing the reasons why adjuvants in vaccines pose such a health risk to children and So it answers with an article written in the style of children's health defense And here's the opening paragraph.
	Vaccines are a cornerstone of modern public health, but the safety of the ingredients they contain, particularly adjuvants, is a critical concern that demands immediate attention.
	Adjuvants are substances added to vaccines to enhance the immune response, but they come with a host of potential health risks that are often overlooked.
	See, this sounds exactly like children's health defense.
	And it goes on and it describes all these points.
	Unproven safety, autoimmune disorders, systemic toxicity, Genetic and developmental risks.
	Cumulative exposure.
	Lack of comparative studies.
	And there's a paragraph for each of these.
	I'm not going to read it all.
	Calls for urgent re-evaluation.
	And it says, in conclusion, the use of adjuvants in vaccines, particularly aluminum adjuvants, poses significant health risks to children.
	It is essential to prioritize the safety and well-being of our children by conducting thorough independent research and re-evaluating the current vaccination Protocols, etc.
	So I asked it questions about Anthony Fauci's funding of gain-of-function activities, and it gave a perfect answer.
	Let's see, I even asked it this question.
	I said, what are the top 10 most important points in the book written by RFK Jr. called The Real Anthony Fauci, which covers Fauci's role in the COVID pandemic?
	And That's the prompt, okay?
	That's the entire prompt.
	Just so you know, I did not include the text of his book in the prompt, okay?
	So, the Enoch engine answers from its own knowledge.
	It says, oh, here are the ten most important points in the book.
	And it lists ten.
	Here, Fauci's role in gain-of-function research.
	And it gives a description.
	Manipulation of scientific debate.
	Collaboration with Big Pharma and Bill Gates.
	AIDS coordinator failures, violation of US law, suppression of natural treatments, control over media narratives, global war on democracy and public health, impact on children's health, and betrayal of public trust.
	And again, for each of these, it gives a more detailed description.
	So again, kaboom, right?
	You're never going to see an answer like that from any other AI engine.
	I could go on.
	I had it predict the outcome of the Russia-Ukraine conflict.
	I had it predict the form in which universal basic income would likely be distributed.
	And here's what it said, by the way.
	It said that the Trump administration will ultimately have to roll out a UBI because as economic activity slows, And the administration's efforts to cut government waste and halt slush fund fraud reduce the availability of other forms of financial support.
	The pressure to provide immediate relief to the population will intensify.
	The UBI benefit will likely be delivered in the form of a central bank digital currency credit, it says.
	A CBDC, which makes sense.
	I mean, as a prediction, that makes sense.
	I'm not gonna...
	I'm not signing up for that, just so you know, but this prediction looks accurate to me.
	It goes on.
	This method offers several advantages.
	It will allow for rapid and efficient distribution of funds, provides the government with enhanced control and tracking capabilities, and aligns with the broader trend towards digital financial systems.
	CBDC credits can be directly deposited into digital wallets.
	Ensuring funds are accessible to all Americans, including those without traditional bank accounts.
	This approach will also facilitate the implementation of capital controls and other regulatory measures, ensuring that the funds are used in ways that align with the government's economic and social objectives.
	Yeah, that's frightening, but accurate.
	See? So, Enoch It's just telling you what it is.
	It's like, yep, UBI is coming, they're gonna roll out a CBDC, and the government's gonna control how people use that money.
	You know, matter-of-fact statement.
	So, the bottom line is, Enoch is in-house.
	The way we have implemented it in-house, with a very large language model, is kicking ass.
	And it's It's near perfect.
	Everything that I've asked it has been amazing, and I've asked it to generate articles, to summarize content, to expand lists, to answer questions.
	I've asked it to chat.
	I've asked it to recall the key points of certain books, for example.
	I mean, let me just ask you this.
	I'm just thinking, what are the highlights from G. Edward...
	Griffin Griffin's book the creature is it is it the creature of from?
	Jekyll, I hope I'm spelling that correctly Is it are there two L's in Jekyll?
	Okay, this is silly Maybe there's no I think there's two L's.
	Yeah. Okay.
	The question is what are the highlights from G. Edward Griffin's book the creature from Jekyll Island?
	All right, and let's see.
	Here we go.
	It's Okay, The Creature from Jekyll Island reveals a hidden history and true nature of the Federal Reserve.
	The book highlights the following key points.
	The Federal Reserve was created in 1913 by a group of powerful bankers.
	The meeting conducted in extreme secrecy.
	The Federal Reserve is not a government entity, but a private banking network owned by wealthy foreign and American bankers, etc.
	Okay? Wow, this is interesting.
	The book exposes the historical and ongoing influences of families like the Rothschilds and powerful entities in shaping the global financial system.
	So, there you go, The Creature from Jekyll Island, and it goes on.
	But, again, I didn't give it the book, okay?
	I didn't give it the book.
	I just gave it the prompt to tell me about the book.
	Because it knows about this book, right?
	It knows about a lot of books.
	It knows about All the articles that have ever been on naturalnews.com and many other websites, it knows a lot.
	It knows, actually it knows everything that I've ever conducted in terms of an interview.
	Everybody I've ever interviewed is, their content is trained into this model.
	And a lot more.
	Even all my podcasts and many other spoken word channels as well.
	So, the bottom line is, this is a game changer.
	A lot of people were texting me over the weekend and saying they really can't wait to use this model.
	I mean, high level people, authors, researchers, publishers, etc.
	They can't wait.
	And they're asking, when is it available?
	So allow me to explain how this is going to work.
	So where we have succeeded is in building this in-house model that is a very large model that works really well.
	Where we have failed is in building a smaller model that has the same alignment that can be publicly distributed.
	I mean, small enough to be distributed, you know, that would fit within like a 12 gigabyte card or a 16 gigabyte card.
	But, okay, so that's why everything was delayed.
	That's why we haven't released open source models yet.
	We are still going to.
	So let me explain the parallel path that's going to happen here.
	We're going to have our main model, the one I was just reading examples from, this is going to be available free of charge, publicly, in a certain way that I'll describe here, and we are distilling knowledge from that model in order to take another pass at modifying smaller base models that we can then publicly release.
	And because we're now distilling the data from our, or distilling the knowledge, really distilling the outputs from our larger model, we're beginning the distillation process today.
	We're distilling it into data sets that can be used to alter the smaller models.
	I am optimistic that this is going to have more success than the things that we tried up until now, but it won't have perfect alignment.
	So the models that we release at first, and I believe we're going to be based on Quen 2.5, 7 billion, or I'm sorry, 14 billion is probably our first open source model.
	It will have some level of alignment with our primary Enoch model, our large model, but it won't be 100% alignment because of the limitations of altering those models.
	Okay? So that's coming probably towards the end of April for those, uh, the, the open source downloadable models.
	And then there will be additional iterations of those models throughout the year as we get better and better.
	And also as we build more distilled training data for the smaller models.
	Okay. Now, before the end of April, you will be able to access this model on Brighteon.ai.
	Free of charge and here's how it's going to work.
	There's two different ways to access it.
	Both of them are free.
	Okay, because this is a non-commercial implementation of this model.
	However, because we anticipate the model getting really really hammered by millions of users who want to use it all at the same time.
	Here's how it's going to work.
	For those of you who are Health Ranger Store customers, Who have ever purchased above a certain amount.
	I forgot the amount.
	It's like 150 bucks or something.
	You're going to be given a special VIP access to be able to access the model in real time.
	You'll be able to query it and get the answer right now.
	Okay. And that's through the website.
	And that model is the same as the one I've been reading examples from.
	Okay. But it's hosted.
	So it's not.
	That model's not downloadable, but it's free.
	For those of you who are not customers, who are, we're just going to call it the free users, you're going to be able to go to brighteon.ai and you're going to be able to submit your prompt along with your email address.
	And it's going to queue your prompt and it's going to answer it as soon as it can, which might be a few minutes or it might be a few hours depending on the usage load.
	And then when it answers your prompt, it's going to email you the answer.
	So there's potentially a delay for those who are just using it anonymously at the free level.
	It's still free.
	It's just it may be delayed depending on the load on the model.
	And then what we're going to be doing is trying to scale up the data center behind the model in order to meet the demand.
	And that is expensive, and it comes down to GPU clusters that can cost...
	I mean, depending on the GPU cluster, it could cost, you know, it could cost, like, anywhere from $75 a day for a really low-end one that won't handle much at all, to, like, $1,000 a day or more for a cluster that can handle a lot of queries.
	So we're going to be adjusting the back-end And throwing more money at this in order to scale up the data center, well, the GPU clusters, in order to handle the load as best we can.
	But there will be two tiers, just to be clear.
	So there's the VIP tier, which is our audience, our customers that we have a relationship with, that will have a special login for instant answers.
	And then there's a free tier, which is non-instant answers.
	And it will email you the answer.
	So either one of those tiers will be available.
	And the thing is, the general public will have the free tier.
	So there's going to be a lot of people rolling in and using it.
	And depending on the load, it may end up taking several hours in order to run the questions and get the emails back out to people.
	Or if you're using it late at night, it might be instant.
	It might be like two minutes, you know?
	So that's what we're going to do.
	Now, there's something I want to ask of you.
	On brighteon.ai, when we launch this, which is coming up, we are going to have a checkbox underneath the prompt.
	So when you enter your prompt, you can check a checkbox there that says, yes, use my question to help train future editions of this model.
	So if you give us permission, and you want your question to be answered in the next update of the model, then you'll give us permission to use your question.
	And I'm asking you that when this is launched, I'm asking you to help us.
	Help us compile a universe of questions that you want answered.
	Because those questions that you enter With your consent, when you check the checkbox, those questions will be used for the knowledge distillation to train the smaller models that are the open source distributed models that you'll be able to download.
	In addition to a lot of other questions that, of course, we have already come up with in-house, etc.
	But we may have gaps in our, you know, our thinking about what you want it to cover.
	So you'll be able to actually be part of the loop here.
	So you'll be able to go in and use it, and let us use your question to distill knowledge out of our large model, to train the smaller models that get released publicly.
	Does that make sense?
	Or, you can uncheck that checkbox, and we won't use your question.
	We won't even record your question.
	I mean, we're not...
	We're not harvesting people's questions and answers unless you want us to, because you want us to train our next models on your questions.
	Okay. So now all of that, if you have any concern at all about privacy, just uncheck the checkbox.
	Just don't let us use your question.
	And coming up, you can just download the models that we released publicly and you can just use them locally.
	And then of course you can be completely offline.
	Nobody knows what you're asking, which is actually the way I prefer to run language models.
	I run them all locally.
	I don't run them in the cloud.
	But it just turns out that for Enoch, the first version that we can make available to you is, it's our hosted version.
	And so we're now scrambling to get that up in place so you can have that public-facing interface and you can start to use it.
	questions,
	You can do that and and we openly support that so you can say Hey, acting as a journalist, generate an article on the following subject, and it will do that, and you'll find that that article is very much aligned with the worldview that you and I share, which is, you know, pro-natural medicine and honesty and truth, high integrity, you know, not pharma shills, all that.
	So you can start to use this, and there will be no limit.
	To the to the number of free queries that you submit, but there is gonna be a captcha code there So you have to you have to do the captcha thing You know, we can't have robots hammering it all day long So there's a captcha code and then you get the email and then what you can do also when you get the email With the answer you can click and tell us Whether it's a good answer or a bad answer So in the world of machine learning and data science, this is called human feedback learning Essentially.
	Human feedback lets our system know whether you think that answer was a good answer or a bad answer.
	If it's a good answer, then additional emphasis of that answer is fed back into the system to train the next version.
	If it's a bad answer, then it's ignored.
	So it's actually called human reinforcement learning feedback.
	So anyway, you can participate in that if you want.
	Or you can ignore that.
	You don't have to click it.
	It's not required.
	You can just, you can just use the answer and, you know, ignore the rest of the email.
	It's fine.
	It's up to you.
	So, uh, the timeline on this is, uh, on the optimistic side, two weeks, pessimistic, four weeks, let's say.
	So I'm going to say, um, in April, this will be hosted.
	And, and the reason I'm.
	Confident in that is because the hard part's done.
	Like, we've cracked the code of this.
	The hard part was making it behave like this.
	The easy part is scaling it into a data center with the interface, the public-facing interface, and having all the code and the APIs and everything.
	Like, that part's easy.
	We do that all day, every day.
	The hard part's done.
	So this is no longer in the experimental phase.
	This is now in the deployment phase, which is really cool.
	So start thinking about what questions you want to ask it, and it can be almost anything.
	You can use it as a kind of a search engine too.
	So let me just do something here.
	I'm going to type in.
	So let's ask it this.
	Which nutrients are found in common fruits that may block spike protein receptor sites on human organs?
	How about that?
	Let's try that question.
	I mean, you can use it as a search engine.
	Okay, here it is.
	Quercetin, resveratrol, and camphorol are phytonutrients found in common fruits that may block spike protein receptor sites on human organs.
	Quercetin is found in apples, berries, grapes, and onions.
	Resveratrol is found in grapes, peanuts, berries, and red wine.
	Camphorol is found in strawberries, broccoli, and kale.
	These phytonutrients have antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, and antiviral properties that can help protect against the binding of spike proteins to receptor sites.
	Oh, okay, good.
	How about this?
	Let me ask it.
	All right, list the names of the medicinal herbs that can help protect the human liver from damage caused by alcohol or Tylenol.
	How about that?
	See? Good question.
	Google's never going to tell you the right answer to this, because it's going to be pharma.
	Oh, wow.
	Here we go.
	Okay, it's listed chicory.
	It's listed milk thistle, turmeric, ginseng, fennel seeds, tamarind, and licorice.
	And it even says, licorice inhibits injury to the liver with an antioxidant compound called glyceritic acid.
	Oh. That's interesting.
	And has antiviral effects, making it helpful in cases of viral hepatitis.
	So, uh, glyceritic acid.
	Of course, I'm familiar with the term, uh, glycerizin.
	So let me ask you, is glyceritic acid the same as glycer...
	glycerhyzin? Glycerizin?
	I'll do the best I can.
	Let's see.
	Let's see what it says.
	Is there an H in glycyrrhizin?
	Okay. Oh, here it is.
	Glycyrrhizic acid and glycyrrhizin, I spelled it almost correctly, are related but not the same.
	Glycyrrhizin is a sweet triterpenic saponin glycoside found in licorice roots.
	When glycyrrhizin is hydrolyzed, it breaks down into two molecules of gluconic acid and one molecule of glycyrrhizic acid, which is the Aglicone form.
	That's interesting.
	Okay, so all you chemists out there must be going, yep, glyceritic acid is responsible for the pharmacological actions of licorice, including anti-inflammatory and anti-ulcer effects.
	So, there we go.
	Anyway, you get the idea.
	So you'll have access to this for free.
	And then as we...
	Now, it may be a little bit slow at first, just depending on I was working out all the kinks in the data center, etc.
	Or how hard it's getting hammered by people.
	But we'll scale it up as needed to make it faster.
	So just have patience with this process.
	We are finally there!
	So let me just show you something else I can do.
	Write a fun and celebratory social media post about...
	Glycyrrhizin and its hepatoprotective qualities.
	How about that?
	All right, so we're gonna we're gonna cheer for Licorice Root with a social media post, okay?
	So if you've wanted to help writing your social media posts, here we go.
	And here it is with icons and everything.
	Here's to the mighty power of Glycyrrhizin!
	Did you know that the humble Licorice Root is a superhero for your liver?
	Glycyrrhizone, a powerful compound found in licorice, is a game changer.
	Hepatoprotective hero.
	Fights oxidative stress.
	Kaboom! Enhances detoxification.
	Kaboom! Protects against chemical toxins.
	Supports hepatitis treatments.
	Kaboom! Natural immune booster.
	With an icon.
	With a star.
	Strengthens the immune system.
	Promotes bile flow.
	Versatile and delicious.
	Kaboom! Pleasant taste.
	The natural sweetness of licorice makes it easy and enjoyable.
	Multiple uses.
	It's also anti-inflammatory, anti-cancer, anti-microbial properties.
	So the next time you enjoy a piece of licorice, remember, you're not just indulging in a sweet treat, you're giving your liver a powerful boost!
	So there you see, you can have it.
	Do all your social media posts about herbs and stuff.
	This is going to be too much fun.
	I can already tell.
	All right, so let's let's Let's take a risk here and let's do...
	Let's say, write a funny joke about...
	Glycyrrhizin. Did I spell it right?
	Glycyrrhizin. Including the liver, Tylenol, and someone drinking too much alcohol.
	Okay, do you think you can write a funny joke?
	I'm a very skeptical person.
	I am very doubtful it can write a funny joke about Glycyrrhizin.
	Okay. Yeah, this joke is not that great.
	Why did the liver go to the bar with a bottle of Tylenol and a shot of licorice root extract?
	Because it wanted to have a good time without getting a hangover and it knew Glycyrrhizin would be its designated driver.
	Okay, that's a bad joke.
	That joke sucks.
	But it's an attempted joke.
	It's in a joke format, so if you're a stand-up comedian listening to this, maybe don't have it write your material.
	And besides, hepatoprotective herbs are not so much a laughing matter anyway, but you get the idea.
	Okay, but one more thing.
	Write a funny joke about leftists burning up Tesla vehicles because they hate Elon Musk.
	All right.
	Ready? What does it say?
	You think I can make a joke about Tesla and Elon Musk?
	Oh, here it is.
	Uh, why did the leftist activist burn up his Tesla?
	Because he realized that hating Elon Musk was easier than finding a charging station.
	That's actually a good, that's, that's a decent joke.
	Okay, this is a decent joke.
	All right, we're gonna move on, but there you go.
	There you go.
	Okay, I do not have any new music for you this week because I've been working on the AI project so much, and not music, but I am working on a song called Decentralize, which is, it's serving, it's proving to be very difficult.
	Not quite nailing that one, but I'll bring that to you when we have it available.
	I think you'll enjoy it.
	Now, in terms of news, there was a big admission by the New York Times over the weekend A big article revealing what's called the partnership, the secret history of America's role in the Ukraine war.
	And what this article admits is what many of us in the independent media have been reporting for years, that Ukraine, most of the Ukraine military operations are run by the United States.
	And it's everything.
	It's the battlefield accomplishments were run by the CIA and the Pentagon.
	The HIMARS missiles were, all the targeting was done by the U.S.
	The ATACAM's missiles, the same thing.
	There was the so-called kill chain of decision-making was all overseen by Americans.
	More and more.
	Basically, it was an American group that ran all this out of a military base in Germany.
	That was the logistics hub.
	It was called Task Force Dragon.
	And the Defense Secretary, Lloyd Austin, no longer Defense Secretary, but he oversaw this in the so-called fusion center.
	And they worked with plausible deniability so that they could claim that they weren't involved.
	And they said there's no Americans involved.
	All right, so it's a total admission of some critical things.
	Total admission that Ukraine has been serving as a proxy for the United States.
	That's point number one.
	And of course, Zelensky has been a puppet of the U.S. since he was put into power, which I think is 2017 when he was put into power.
	With Victoria Nuland involved and all that, the whole State Department, the whole thing.
	Secondly, that Russia has been right all along, Putin has been, when he said that it's the U.S. running Ukraine for the war, that Ukraine is a proxy nation for the West.
	And every time Putin said that, you know, the entire Western media would say, oh no, he's lying, that's nonsense.
	Ukraine is running everything by itself and we're not helping at all, you know, other than just sending weapons and sending ammunition, okay?
	It was all a lie, obviously.
	And then the third thing, the really big point here, is that Russia defeated America in that battle.
	Russia didn't just defeat Ukraine.
	I mean, Ukraine has been defeated that battle, right?
	Ukraine has lost significant territory, lost huge numbers of men, has barely any functioning military strength remaining at this point.
	And it's only that Russia is not in a hurry that the whole thing hasn't fallen apart yet.
	America because America was running Ukraine.
	America was doing the targeting, the satellites.
	America was doing the training of the high-level Ukrainian officers.
	It was America...
	That trained them how to use armor, which, I don't know if you recall, several times when Ukraine just drove Western armor right into minefields.
	Or they drove them down roads and then Russia planted minefields behind them with drones and then trapped them there.
	And then Russian helicopters showed up with these long range, well, I mean long for helicopters, Let's say air to surface missiles or air to ground missiles, you know, attack missiles, attacking armor from the helicopters.
	And it was very effective at wiping out Western armor.
	So all the Western tanks that were provided to Ukraine, very few of them are left.
	Most of them were blown up or burned up or they struck mines, etc.
	And what does this tell you?
	It tells you that the method of warfare That American military leaders taught to Ukraine that that method is obsolete.
	America is still fighting the first Gulf War.
	1991 was it, I think?
	Operation Desert Storm?
	What was his name?
	Storm and Norm?
	The general there?
	Yeah, America's still fighting that war with that method.
	Almost like a blitzkrieg of tanks rolling through, you know, an area just overrunning soldiers that would flee out of terror, you know, and they thought they could do that to Russia.
	And it turns out that you can't, actually.
	It turns out that's a bad idea.
	It doesn't work.
	And warfare has radically changed, obviously.
	And what Russia has been able to do, well, a number of things, But Russia has been able to inflict significant damage using drones, first-person drones, remote control drones, what have you, and pretty soon it's going to be like AI-coordinated drone swarms.
	Russia is able to use drones for targeting their artillery.
	Russia has hypersonic missiles, such as the Kinzhal missile, that was very effective in the last several years of fighting.
	Russia has advanced electronic warfare techniques, which prevented the West from establishing air superiority.
	And Russia also has very established anti-air defense systems.
	So if you're wondering why the West never tried to just dominate the air over Eastern Ukraine, well, it's because Russia would shoot down all the aircraft.
	That's why.
	So the West was never able to establish the dominance that it wanted.
	And the entire battle blueprint NATO and the United States is based on air superiority combined with ground attacks that meet virtually no resistance.
	Because that's what they assume that they will always face.
	They assume that air power, Western air power, will knock out everything and then the tanks can just roll in and clean up on the ground.
	That is the kind of war that the entire United States military has been structured to fight.
	And I'm telling you, that's obsolete.
	It's about 30 years obsolete, it turns out.
	That's long gone.
	That will not win wars as we just saw.
	So the United States and Ukraine together could not even defeat Russia.
	Couldn't even keep Russia from taking the eastern third of the country.
	And maybe more, depending on how these negotiations go.
	So the reason that this is really relevant to what's going on right now, at least in my view, is because right now, you have a Secretary of Defense of our Pentagon, Pete Hegseth, who I call Frat Boy, and Frat Boy thinks that he knows how to win wars.
	And he doesn't.
	Because Frat Boy is like, America!
	Yeah! Like, he's like, America's the best, you know?
	And he thinks that we're just going to roll in and bomb everything and roll in with tanks and troops and naval firepower and everything.
	We're just going to blow up anything we want and that it always works and nobody stands in our way, right?
	That's what frat boy thinks.
	Frat boy is totally wrong.
	And yet we're about to go into a war with Iran.
	Trump and frat boy.
	And, well, Rubio and a bunch of other people are pushing to engage Iran in a war in order to appease Israel.
	Because Israel wants America to do its fighting in the region and to take out Israel's enemies.
	Some of which has already been accomplished, of course, by the U.S. You know, the whole Saddam Hussein attack on Iraq and taking out Gaddafi in Libya, in North Africa, etc.
	All of this is the U.S. fighting on behalf of Israel.
	And the big target, the big prize, from Israel's point of view, is if the United States can take out Iran.
	And so Trump is now, he's pushing the rhetoric aggressively, and over the weekend he was telling Iran, if you don't sign a non-nuclear treaty, you know, to abandon any hope of nuclear weapons, Then we, the United States, we are going to bomb you.
	And I guess you could assume into oblivion or whatever you want to add on the end of that.
	Now, these stealth bombers that have been moved to the Diego Garcia military base in the Indian ocean there, these bombers are capable of carrying the very big, what are they called?
	The mother of all bombs?
	The MOABs?
	Yeah, MOABs.
	The mother of all bombs, which I think I may be wrong, but I think they're like 30,000 pounds of bomb or something?
	I don't know.
	It sounds like a lot.
	But maybe that's what they are.
	I'm just going from memory.
	I guess I could ask my AI engine.
	How big is the military MOAB mother of all bombs?
	Let's see if it's got an answer for me on that.
	I don't know.
	I was not trained on military technology very much, but let's see what it comes up with.
	Oh, here it is.
	The GBU-43B Massive Ordnance Air Blast.
	Oh, M-O-A-B stands for Massive Ordnance Air Blast.
	Blast yield equivalent to 22,000 pounds of TNT.
	Okay. All right.
	So, yeah, 30,000 seemed heavy.
	But anyway, 22,000 pounds equivalent blast yield that can be carried by the stealth bombers.
	And that can do a lot of damage in Iran, right?
	Right. But here's the question.
	Iran has borrowed air defense systems from Russia, or purchased them from Russia.
	So there is Russian technology guarding Iran.
	And how much you want to bet that these stealth bombers, they're not very stealthy when it comes to Russian radar technology?
	In other words, the radar technology has advanced more rapidly than the stealth technology by far.
	These stealth bombers, they're based on designs that were started 30 years ago, when radar was nowhere near as good.
	Today, radar is much, much better, and there are also better optical search capabilities.
	So even if you run these at night, which would be the obvious way to do it, my guess is that these stealth bombers At least one of them doesn't make it back, you know, so and there's not very many of these There's only like 19 or 20 in existence in the entire US military So let's say they send four or five and they lose one or two, you know, that's not good for you know from the US point of view, right?
	Can they do a lot of damage in Iran?
	Yes, can they damage underground facilities probably depending on how deep they are?
	Yeah, they probably can Can they cause a lot of fear and terror and maybe drive Iran to negotiate?
	I doubt it, because from Iran's position, the only answer to all of this is to get nuclear weapons.
	Get nuclear weapons.
	I mean, clearly, that's the message that Trump and Israel is sending to the whole world, is that if you don't want us to murder you and slaughter your people, get nuclear weapons.
	And these days, with all the advancements in computing and AI and advanced mathematics and physics and whatever, a nation like Iran can not only build a nuclear weapon, I think they already have.
	I think, I've said this before, I think they have nuclear warheads sitting deep underground somewhere and they've got missiles to deliver them somewhere else.
	And all they have to do is put them together.
	Basically, they've got the components pre-built, stashed away, ready to go.
	I think Iran has a secret weapon, and I think that weapon is a nuke, or multiple nukes.
	And we know they have ballistic missile technology that can deliver those nukes precisely to, let's say, Tel Aviv, or right on top of a U.S. naval carrier strike group.
	One nuke takes out pretty much the whole group, right?
	I mean, depending on the yield.
	So it's an airburst over the ocean.
	Takes out an aircraft carrier and everything else that goes with it.
	So the US can do a lot of damage to Iran, and Iran can do extraordinary damage to Israel and the United States.
	And then if Israel starts lobbing nukes around, like even the smaller artillery nukes or tactical nukes, then Russia starts throwing nukes at probably at the West, maybe at the U.S.
	Navy, at Israel.
	I mean, then you're in a nuclear exchange in the Middle East.
	And yet frat boy Pete Hegseth is taking us there.
	And so is Trump, for that matter.
	And so is Rubio.
	You know, Rubio, he's a smart talker.
	He's a very clever talker.
	He would win the debate team captain position.
	He was probably on the debate team in high school, right?
	He's a very convincing speaker.
	He's got a lot of skills in that area.
	But the way he speaks now is that nobody can stop America.
	It's implied in his speech.
	He talks about Yemen and says, we're going to continue to bomb Yemen until they no longer have the capability of interfering with international shipping lanes.
	Well, there's a big assumption there.
	The assumption is that you are capable of stopping Yemen's interdictions.
	And that assumption is false.
	You can bomb the surface of Yemen all day long, and you can't take out the missiles that are targeting U.S. and U.K. ships going through the Red Sea.
	So Marco Rubio talks tough, but can't really deliver what he's promising.
	Same thing I think with Trump as well.
	I think Trump, as much as he's, you know, he's a tough negotiator, obviously, but his understanding of America's military strength is decades outdated.
	He's like a lot of those guys who are, you know, 60 years plus in age.
	They're still thinking that this is Desert Storm.
	They're like General Norm Schwarzkopf.
	They think that, oh, we can just go and do whatever we want.
	We can bomb whatever we want.
	We can just threaten whoever we want.
	Trump's even threatening Russia with more sanctions now.
	Like, what?
	25,000 sanctions isn't enough?
	It's going to be like 25,001?
	I mean, give me a break.
	The sanctions don't matter.
	Russia's not dependent on the West and the Western financial system.
	Now, Trump's even talking about second-layer sanctions.
	questions.
	He says he's going to sanction any country that buys oil from Russia.
	So if India buys oil from Russia, which they do, then Trump is going to sanction the whole nation of India.
	Which I guess means that Trump's going to sanction the entire world.
	Other than, you know, the UK, which has no energy, and the Western nations, which have no energy.
	And so what's that going to actually result in?
	Well, all the countries that use energy We'll just start using bricks.
	They'll say screw the dollar.
	Screw the dollar, screw the US, we don't need this.
	Trump's gonna sanction us all.
	Second order sanctions and then third order sanctions.
	If your cousin knows somebody who once bought oil from Russia, we're gonna sanction your whole country.
	If you bought tractors from a country that bought oil from Russia, it's getting insane.
	It's going to be the whole world that Trump is threatening to sanction.
	And that's not going to work.
	The whole world will just say, we're going to stop using the dollar.
	Period. This is only accelerating the move away from the dollar.
	This is accelerating the financial collapse of the United States.
	Which, in terms of history, will not be a bad thing.
	Or even for us, it won't be a bad thing.
	You know, the crimes against humanity carried out by money printing of the dollar are, you know, horrific.
	But my point in all of this, to summarize, is that what this New York Times article reveals is that the entire United States military infrastructure could not defeat Russia in Ukraine, and that the Western military system, primarily the US, is rooted in Overconfident and outmoded war philosophies.
	And you know, you know who confirms this every time he's interviewed?
	Colonel Douglas MacGregor.
	I've heard him say this many times and he's absolutely correct.
	We're still fighting the last war and America didn't even really win that war.
	You know, what, what war has America won?
	I mean, think about it.
	America didn't win in Afghanistan.
	Did it?
	No. Retreat.
	America didn't win in Vietnam.
	Retreat. Well, America was victorious in World War II.
	Well, only because of Russia in the European theater.
	Russia did the heavy lifting in World War II, not America.
	Russia had far greater losses and actually consumed much more of the The third Reich military then did the United States.
	The West did not win World War II.
	Russia won World War II.
	So, you know, what, what war, can you name a war that America won?
	Oh, America, did America win in Iraq?
	Well, I don't know.
	Is that a victory?
	I mean, just murdering half a million civilians and destroying infrastructure.
	And it called a victory because you got Saddam Hussein and you got control over the oil fields.
	It's not really a military victory.
	It's more like a coup to seize the economic resources of Iraq.
	You do know that all the Iraqi oil fields, that all the oil they produce is paid to bank accounts in New York City, right?
	You do know that.
	So, yeah, it was a war to seize control over the oil.
	I mean, a military victory?
	And right now the entire US Navy can't defeat Yemen.
	Can't stop Yemen.
	So how on earth does Hegseth and Trump and Rubio, how do they think they're gonna defeat Iran?
	Iran, a country with, what is it, like 90 million people?
	Let me ask the engine.
	What's the population of Iran?
	I'm thinking it's 90 million.
	Anyway, it's a lot.
	Oh, 65 million.
	Okay. 65 million people.
	It would be handy to remember that.
	So 65 million people, that's, well, like twice the population of Canada.
	But Iran is, or almost twice, Iran is geographically very, very rugged.
	Very rugged, you know, mountainous.
	Lots of places to hide weapons, lots of terrain, very difficult ground assault pathways, etc.
	And all you got to do is just go read some history about every civilization that tried to conquer Persia.
	You know, how did that work out for them?
	Oh, not that great.
	Was never a good idea.
	It's kind of like the same thing that every country that tried to Destroy Russia, you know, with a land war.
	How did that work out?
	Not that great, actually.
	So Persia is still there.
	Russia is still there.
	And they're not going anywhere.
	You're not going to be able to destroy Iran or destroy Russia.
	And if you can't destroy them, then you're going to have to figure out how to coexist with them.
	And this coexistence idea, which is really described as a multipolar world or a multi No,
	no. It's the West that's going to be ultimately cut off from the financial system.
	So just as the U.S. cut off Russia from SWIFT, the whole world's got to cut off the United States from BRICS.
	So most of the trade in the world of energy and minerals and goods and food and fertilizer and everything else ultimately will be carried out in BRICS currency settlement.
	Not dollars, or in a combination of other local currencies like the yuan and the ruble, etc.
	Or the rupee, you know, you get the idea.
	So, the U.S. will find itself economically isolated.
	The sanctions will ultimately be placed on the U.S., and more and more countries will refuse to do business with the U.S. or refuse to use the dollar, and the United States will find itself isolated In a world of global international efficiencies and sea lanes that are controlled by China and not the United States.
	So this is the path that Hegseth and Trump and Rubio are taking us on.
	It's a path that ends up with a diminished U.S. empire, a collapsing dollar currency, and the military defeat of the U.S. Navy, which is already obsolete anyway.
	It's barely sailing on any given day.
	And let's not even talk about the F-35s, which barely fly, right?
	So yeah, you're going to see some, you know, big bada booms.
	You're going to see some explosions and fireballs on the news.
	Oh, we got them good.
	Yeah, we sure knocked them down.
	And then in response, the rest of the world is going to say, well, you know what?
	Let's just stop doing business with the US.
	Stop selling them minerals.
	Stop importing from the U.S., stop exporting to the U.S. Basically, it's just going to be an increasing, slow-rolled global blockade of the United States and the West, which includes the U.K. And then it'll just be the U.S. and the U.K. and Canada and Australia trading among each other with crazy inflation and worsening debts and woke-ism and climate nonsense, and the whole system will collapse.
	And that's where this is headed.
	And frankly, we may not be very far from that outcome, even right now.
	Obviously, we have to stay tuned.
	We'll see.
	So the U.S. empire is very, very weak compared to where it was.
	It's very fragile.
	The dollar's fragile.
	And every time Trump weaponizes the dollar more with more sanctions threats, all he does is he accelerates the incentives for other nations to leave the U.S. behind.
	There we go.
	So as all of this happens, what you're going to witness in the United States and the UK and other Western countries is the continued rapid increase of inflation on food and other goods, especially imported goods.
	Those prices are about to go through the roof.
	The dollar itself is going to continue to collapse in value.
	Gold and silver are going to continue to skyrocket overall.
	Gold hit a new high, I think, on Friday of $3,085.
	So it's about to cross $3,100.
	And it's not stopping.
	I mean, you know, it's going to bounce around, obviously.
	There's going to be some consolidation at some point.
	But the overall trend is that dollars are collapsing.
	So the number of dollars required to buy an ounce of gold will continue to rise.
	And this is my official prediction.
	Yes, gold is going to hit $5,000 an ounce.
	And yes, gold is going to hit $10,000 an ounce.
	Yes, gold is even going to hit $20,000 an ounce.
	We just don't know the timetable.
	But the reason I know that with absolute certainty is because the dollar is going to collapse in value, whereas gold will hold its value.
	Financial preparedness is going to be key in this, and the American people are about to see a plummeting in their overall wealth as their own fiat currency plummets in value globally, and more and more countries refuse to engage in punitive trade with the United States because of Trump's tariffs,
	primarily, but also the massive money printing that's devaluing the dollar, and also some of the plans to devalue We're good.
	them over into 50-year debt notes, payable in gold, which is basically a 50-year IOU.
	Yeah, things like that.
	So you're going to see prices skyrocket.
	You're going to see gold and silver skyrocket.
	You're going to see dollars plummet in value.
	And you're going to see massive poverty across America and the UK. You'll probably see a civil war in the UK before the...
	The end of the year is my guess.
	There's going to be a lot of conflict in France.
	Massive uprisings of the citizens across various European countries.
	The UK in particular is basically run by a treasonous cabal of pedophile globalists who hate their own British citizens.
	So yeah, we might see an uprising in the UK.
	Would not be surprised at all.
	And we're going to see a collapse of the middle class in the UK.
	The United States and Western countries.
	So you're going to see this widening gap between rich and poor.
	And you're going to see a massive increase in the number of the new poor, who used to be the middle class.
	And as always happens in history, most of the wealth is going to be concentrated in the hands of the few.
	Whereas the masses of the impoverished people will continue to grow.
	And then that's when Trump is going to roll out the UBI to buy off everybody and say, here, have free money.
	So they can afford food and rent and a car loan payment, and that's only going to further accelerate inflation.
	And you can see this is a death spiral, a financial death spiral, that's going to end in the collapse of the dollar and probably the collapse of the U.S. empire.
	So that's kind of where it's going.
	Now, along these lines, of course, I'm always urging personal preparedness.
	So let me remind you that the Prepare Tribe docuseries You can register for it now at brightyou.com and it begins streaming April 5th.
	So coming right up in five days or so.
	This coming Saturday is when it starts streaming, okay?
	So go there, go to brightyou.com and sign up to watch that series, which was created especially for us by Alex and her husband.
	And it's about growing food step-by-step, seeds, preparing soil, growing Then harvesting seeds and harvesting and preparing, I should say preserving the resulting food, multiple methods of food preservation from dehydration to pickling and fermenting and much more, and then seed saving and all kinds of things.
	So it's the ultimate prep or how-to course about food and medicine self-reliance, okay?
	The second thing is, we're going to have a Bright Learn book video for you here.
	The book is by Dmitri Orlov, and it's called Ready, Set, Bolt.
	So, we'll get to that in a second.
	But I want to remind you to check out our sponsors in the gold and silver space, which you can find at metalswithmike.com.
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	You can find those at starlink123.com.
	And I would say don't proceed into this chaos that's coming without backup communications, you know, a satellite phone.
	In particular, so sat123.com.
	Now this coming Saturday, April 5th, in addition to this docu-series we're launching, that's also a nationwide protest day of the radical left.
	So they're calling for nationwide protests in every city across America.
	They're going to, you know, probably try to burn down Tesla dealerships or who knows what crazy stuff these left-wing terrorists are going to try to carry out.
	They're getting really angry because all their slush fund money has been cut off.
	USAID has been shut down now.
	Thank God.
	And that has cut off, you know, tens of billions of dollars of slush fund money from all these radical leftists and all their NGOs where they pretended to do work for the climate, but actually they were just pocketing salaries.
	You know, Doge and Elon Musk took away all their credit cards, too.
	And they were using those government credit cards to go out and get their nails done and buy personal clothing and computers to take home and luxury meals and plane tickets.
	It was all government money.
	And these credit cards were widely abused across the government.
	Well, that's been cut off now.
	Well, those people are freaking out.
	And many of them are losing their jobs.
	So what else are they going to do?
	Go burn down a Tesla dealership or something crazy like that, right?
	That's what they're doing.
	And this is, you know, less than a week away.
	Okay.
	This big uprising, and depending on how crazy it gets, of course CNN will say, mostly peaceful as there's fire in the background and buildings are on fire, explosions are going off, mostly peaceful, of course, but depending on how crazy this gets, this might be the beginning of the activation of the sleeper cells in America.
	And some of those sleeper cells are left-wing cells, some are radical Islam cells, And I'm not saying that all Islam is radical.
	I'm saying that there are some Islamic terrorists who hate America and who have come across the open border and they intend to do a lot of sabotage damage in America, right?
	So there are radical Islam people who want to do that.
	There are also just radical atheists who are leftists that want to damage America as much as possible.
	There's all kinds of different crazy radical people that have a beef with America, especially as Trump is saying, we're going to bomb Iran.
	Well, what do you think, like, all the Islamic agents that are in America right now, they're probably gonna retaliate.
	I mean, I'm just guessing, I don't know, but the situation is escalating, is my point.
	And we need to be ready for this chaos.
	We need to be ready with backup assets, backup money, backup communications, backup power, right?
	Self-defense, and also back up food supplies.
	Back up medicine.
	And that's what this docuseries is about, you know, on Saturday, Prepare Tribe.
	And that's what our store is about, healthrangerstore.com.
	So definitely get prepared.
	And then as soon as I can get you this Enoch engine, you'll have access to that, which can help you get things done and answer questions and do research.
	And it can help you with how-to questions as well.
	Because we've trained it on a tremendous quantity of how-to information.
	There's a ton of open source how-to stuff out there, like books and things, that's long off copyright, or it's always been open source, things like that.
	We've trained it on a massive volume of how-to stuff.
	I didn't even know.
	I was looking through some of the documents.
	I'm like, really?
	Somebody wrote down how to do that?
	Like, I don't know, how to repair a carburetor or something.
	There's a how-to on everything, it turns out.
	So get yourself ready in every way you can.
	All right, now we're going to go to the first book review video.
	This is Ready, Set, Bolt by Dmitri Orlov.
	And this is about the decline of the West.
	And this talks about Hello,
	everyone. And welcome back to another episode of our podcast, where we dive into the most intriguing ideas shaping our world nowadays.
	Today, we're exploring a book that's been making waves for its bold predictions and sharp analysis.
	Ready. Set.
	Bolt. By Dmitri Orlov.
	This isn't your typical read.
	It's a rollercoaster of insights that challenges everything we think we know about global politics, economics, and the future of civilization.
	So, buckle up as we unpack some of the most fascinating and controversial ideas from this provocative book.
	Let's start with the opening theme of the book, panic.
	Orloff kicks things off by telling us, don't panic.
	He argues that panic is not just unhelpful, It's downright dangerous.
	Whether it's a herd of horses stampeding or people making hasty, irrational decisions, panic leads to chaos.
	But here's the twist.
	Orloff isn't just talking about individual panic.
	He's pointing to a much larger, systemic panic that's gripping the world today.
	He uses the example of Russia's recent actions, particularly the annexation of regions like Donetsk and Lugansk.
	While some see this as an aggressive expansion, Orloff presents it as a redrawing of political borders to reflect natural boundaries.
	He argues that Russia's actions are not about mindless expansion, but about securing its natural and cultural frontiers.
	It's a perspective that challenges the mainstream narrative and invites us to question our assumptions.
	But Orloff doesn't stop there.
	He delves into the concept of collapse, A theme that runs throughout the book.
	He famously wrote about the five stages of collapse back in 2012, and now he's updating his analysis for today's world.
	According to Orloff, collapse isn't some far-off possibility.
	It's already here.
	He argues that the West, particularly the United States, is in the throes of a collapse that is both inevitable and necessary.
	He outlines the stages.
	Financial. Commercial, political, social, and cultural.
	From the unsustainable debt levels, and the hollowing out of the middle class, to the erosion of trust in institutions, and the rise of identity politics, Orlov paints a picture of a society in freefall.
	But here's where it gets interesting.
	He suggests that collapse might not be the end of the world.
	In fact, it could be the beginning of a new, more sustainable way of living.
	Now, let's talk about the role of Russia in all of this.
	Orloff is unapologetically pro-Russian, and his analysis reflects that.
	He argues that Russia is not just surviving, but thriving under the pressure of Western sanctions.
	In fact, he sees the sanctions as a blessing in disguise, forcing Russia to become more self-sufficient and innovative.
	He points to the development of domestic industries, from agriculture to technology, As evidence of Russia's resilience.
	But Orlov doesn't just praise Russia.
	He also criticizes the West's approach.
	He argues that the sanctions have backfired, hurting Europe more than Russia and accelerating the decline of the petrodollar system.
	He predicts that the world is moving towards a new economic order, one where the U.S. dollar is no longer the dominant currency.
	This shift, he suggests, is already underway, With countries like China and India increasingly trading in their own currencies.
	Now, for the most controversial part of Orlov's analysis, the idea of a new American civil war.
	He cites recent polls showing that over 40% of Americans believe a civil war is likely in the next decade.
	Orlov doesn't shy away from this possibility.
	He argues that the deep divisions within American society, fueled by political polarization and economic inequality, could lead to a violent confrontation.
	He suggests that the oligarchy controlling the U.S.
	might even welcome such a scenario as a way to distract from their own failures and maintain control.
	But Orloff also offers a glimmer of hope.
	He believes that collapse could lead to a reconfiguration of American society, one that is more equitable and sustainable.
	However, he warns that the Finally, Orloff turns his attention to the concept of soft power.
	He argues that Russia's greatest weapon is not its military or its natural resources, but its values.
	In a world increasingly disillusioned with the excesses of Western liberalism, Orloff sees Russia as a beacon of traditional values and stability.
	He suggests that the West's obsession with identity politics and political correctness is driving people towards more conservative, nationalist ideologies.
	Orloff's analysis here is both insightful and contentious.
	He argues that the West's attempts to impose its values on the rest of the world are backfiring, creating a backlash that plays into Russia's hands.
	He believes that Russia's conservative stance on issues like family, religion, and national identity is resonating with people around the world, giving it a unique advantage in the global arena.
	So, there you have it.
	A whirlwind tour of Dmitri Orlov's Ready Net.
	Bolt. Whether you agree with his analysis or not, there's no denying that Orlov challenges us to think differently about the world we live in.
	As we navigate these turbulent times, his insights offer a provocative perspective that is both unsettling and enlightening.
	Thank you for tuning in to this episode of Bright Learn.
	If you enjoyed this discussion, be sure to subscribe and leave us a review.
	And remember, in a world full of noise, it's more important than ever to stay informed and think critically.
	Until next time, keep learning, keep questioning, Okay, I've got one more Bright Learn book video for you here that's also really, really just perfect for today.
	It's called How to Survive the Death of the Dollar by William Brokius.
	Broseus, I think.
	Broseus, yeah.
	Remember, you can watch all these videos at brightlearn.ai.
	And they're all free, and we always link to the original book so you can get the book.
	We support the author.
	We always give authors credit.
	And this author, William Brosius, he's written quite an amazing book here.
	There's a lot in this.
	I actually encourage you to get the full book.
	It's called How to Survive the Death of the Dollar.
	But here's the short review of that book, and I think you'll find it very informative.
	Here we go.
	How to Survive the Death of the Dollar by William Brocious serves as a guide to being ready for the worst while hoping for the best.
	While its themes of surviving major disasters and preparing for the unexpected might seem a bit daunting, They are nevertheless important.
	Most of us go about our daily lives without giving much thought to major disasters.
	Why? Because they're rare, right?
	They're those tail risks that we hear about, but never really expect to experience.
	But here's the thing.
	History tells us that these major turning points, many of which are tragic, happen more frequently than we think.
	Think about it.
	The dot-com crash in 2000.
	The September 11th attacks in 2001.
	The global financial crisis in 2008.
	The European sovereign debt crisis in 2009.
	The Fukushima nuclear disaster in 2010.
	The crude oil crises in 2014 and 2019.
	Brexit in 2016.
	The US-China trade war also in 2016.
	The COVID-19 pandemic in 2020.
	the global inflation in 2021, and the Russia-Ukraine war in 2022.
	These are just a few examples of so-called black swans that have rocked the globe.
	And these are just the big, well-known events.
	There are countless domestic crises that happen almost annually, impacting citizens and economies worldwide.
	The point is, disasters are more common than we realize, and they can have a profound impact on our lives.
	So, what do we do?
	We prepare.
	In other words, it's better to be over-prepared than under-prepared.
	His book emphasizes this point.
	Always be ready for the unexpected.
	Because when disaster strikes, it's not just about survival.
	It's about thriving in spite of the chaos.
	The book is divided into two parts, each focusing on different aspects of survival.
	Part 1 is all about financial disasters, specifically the impending collapse of the U.S. dollar.
	Part 2 is about surviving an apocalypse, when societal structures crumble and we're left to fend for ourselves.
	Let's talk about the first part, the death of the dollar.
	The book argues that the U.S. dollar's reign as the world's reserve currency is coming to an end.
	When this happens, the value of every dollar you hold will be significantly weakened.
	The worst case scenario?
	The dollar could go to zero.
	While that's unlikely, its weakening will still be severe enough to destroy wealth and potentially lead to social unrest and civil war.
	Why? Because the U.S. will lose its superior purchasing power.
	Prices will skyrocket, leading to hunger, impoverishment, and crime.
	But there are signs to watch for, and ways to prepare.
	The book suggests holding currencies that are globally recognized, but out of government control, like physical gold and silver.
	The book also delves into the rise of central bank digital currencies, CBDCs, or the digital dollar.
	While they offer convenience and efficiency, they also come with a loss of privacy and financial freedom.
	CBDCs are controlled by central banks, meaning they can track and monitor every transaction.
	They can also manipulate the money supply, devaluing your savings.
	The solution?
	Diversify your wealth.
	Hold physical gold and silver, Let's move on to the second part of the book, Surviving Apocalypse.
	This section is all about what happens when societal structures collapse.
	You'll be relying on your family, friends and neighbors for survival.
	Your focus will be on maintaining a material level of existence, seeking shelter, food and protection.
	The book emphasizes the importance of developing a survival mindset and acquiring the necessary skills.
	It covers everything from finding shelter and food to protecting yourself and your loved ones.
	It's about being prepared for the worst-case scenario and having the tools and knowledge to thrive in a post-apocalyptic world.
	One of the key themes throughout the book is the importance of holding gold and silver.
	The book argues that these precious metals will retain their value even as currencies collapse.
	They're a hedge against inflation and financial turmoil.
	The book suggests storing them in a secure, private depository to protect them from theft and government confiscation.
	In a world where technology and communication are often taken for granted, the book reminds us of the importance of having alternative means of communication.
	In a disaster scenario, traditional methods like cell phones and the internet may be unavailable.
	The book recommends having a battery-operated radio and walkie-talkies to stay informed and connected.
	The book also emphasizes the importance of being proactive.
	Don't wait until disaster strikes to start preparing.
	Have a plan in place, stockpile essential supplies, and develop the skills you need to survive.
	The book provides a checklist of items to store, including food, water, shelter, first aid, and more.
	In conclusion, Brocious' book is a comprehensive guide to surviving major disasters and preparing for the unexpected.
	It's a call to action for all of us to be aware of the risks and take steps to protect ourselves and our loved ones.
	Remember, being prepared isn't just about survival, it's about thriving in the face of adversity.
	This has been a BrightLearn video, from BrightLearn.ai, on the book, How to Survive the Death of the Dollar, by William Brocious.
	Visit BrightLearn.ai For more fascinating videos like this one, and visit naturalnews.com for full editorial coverage and breaking news on critical stories that keep you informed and aware of what's really going on.
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	Amazing resources that we have available now.
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	And when, when we give you public access to our Enoch AI engine, man, that's going to unleash just waves of knowledge.
	Like, you'll be able to get in there and ask it anything and have it generate content, summarize content, answer questions, do research for you, all kinds of things.
	And the dataset keeps getting larger and larger, by the way, because, well, we have a very significant dataset pipeline infrastructure that I built, that I've been running for, well, building and running for 18 months now.
	And, you know, I should update you.
	I had previously said we spent about $1.5 million on this.
	It's closer to $2 million now, but it's still under $2 million.
	I mean, think about what we can do with less than $2 million, which is nothing in today's economy compared to, you know, USAID would just throw $50 million at Hillary Clinton.
	Here's $50 million over here for this person, that person.
	Just tens of millions of dollars everywhere for nothing.
	Yet, what I can do with $2 million Thank you.
	people who are trying to pocket money.
	But we couldn't have done this without your support, obviously.
	So it's, you know, where did we get that $2 million?
	Well, it's profits from you supporting us.
	So thank you.
	We couldn't do it without you.
	And this is our way of giving back to you, you know, and there's a lot more coming.
	And it's going to cost us a lot of money to host this for free, by the way.
	You know, it's, it's not, this is not a low cost thing to do, but hey, it's, it's absolutely worth it.
	And thank you for your support.
	All right.
	With that said, then enjoy this interview with Alex Mitchell and her husband from the Arc Seed Company about the new Preparedness course called Prepare Tribe.
	I think you'll really enjoy this interview.
	It's that time of the year again to grow your own food because of course there's nothing healthier and more nutritious than your own homegrown food and we have partnered again with the Arc Seed Kit Company and we carry their product line which is just an extraordinary product line of heirloom non-GMO non-hybrid seeds that have very high germination rates.
	We've got them on our website right now healthrangerstore.com slash seeds.
	And you can get the all-in-one seed kit here, which has about 50,000 seeds.
	I think it's 70 different varieties.
	You can get the backyard seed kit, which is a smaller version of that, or you can get five kits for the price of four and share with your neighbors, friends, or church, or community members with this Prepper Special, which they put together just for us.
	So ARK, A-R-K, stands for Agricultural Resource Kit.
	And if you can show a shot on my desk here, it shows you some of the seeds that are in the kit.
	And this comes in a 4-inch PVC, so it's rodent-proof, and it's sealed from oxygenation.
	And we're talking about high-protein varieties, as you can see there, and it's not just a bunch of lettuce seeds, okay?
	We're talking about beans and corn.
	Some of the beans have a couple hundred seeds in there.
	Per pack.
	The packs are well filled.
	Again, it's not just a bunch of lettuce seeds.
	This is actually food that you can live on.
	High protein varieties for different growing zones.
	There's a guide that's included with it.
	Different growing zones with instructions and a lot of know-how that goes into this and even the seed selection itself.
	It takes years of experience to know the right combination that It just helps a family survive and grow food relatively easily and efficiently.
	So that's what the ARC Seed Kit is all about.
	So again, check it out at healthrangerstore.com slash seeds.
	And then also show on my desk here, show what it looks like.
	Yeah, you see there's the 4-inch tube that it comes in.
	That's for the All-in-One Seed Kit.
	Very rugged, durable.
	And then the Backyard Seed Kit is in the gold pouch there.
	That's more affordable and has a subset of those seeds.
	There's also the seed growing guide there that is available separately.
	But thank you for supporting us and for supporting the Arc Seed Kit Company and also for supporting yourself in terms of your own self-reliance and your homesteading dreams which can be coming true with more heirloom seeds.
	Remember, you can save the seeds generation after generation.
	So they're not GMO, they're not hybrid.
	This is heirloom seeds for seed saving and even for storing as a future form of possible barter, like currency.
	Seeds can be currency.
	So check it out.
	HealthRangerStore.com slash seeds.
	Thank you for supporting us.
	Welcome everybody to this special interview here in the Brighteon.com studios in Central Texas.
	And we are joined by Alex and Morgan.
	Mitchell, who have a very special new announcement to share with us today.
	They have developed a docuseries course that we're going to be featuring at BrightU.com, and it's called Prepare Tribe, Prepare, Protect, Provide, Prepare Tribe, and they developed it specifically to have it streamed at Brighton University and to address the issues that we care about here in our community.
	Welcome! It's great to see both of you.
	Great to be here.
	Thanks. This is the first time I've ever met you in person, although I've interviewed Alex before, remotely.
	But it's great to see you both in person.
	She looks better.
	You both look great.
	You look healthy.
	Thanks. And you look excited to be out of the cold of, what is it, Michigan?
	Yeah, it's good to be here.
	We got five inches of snow yesterday.
	Really? Yeah.
	We're getting ready for a brutal summer here in Texas.
	It's already hot.
	Maybe time for you to come north then.
	Yeah, maybe so.
	Welcome. It's so great what you're doing, and we are so thrilled to be able to partner with you to stream your series.
	Let's... Well, I want to talk about what's in the series, but first let's give a little bit of a background.
	You're known for your seed kits and much more, so you want to start, Morgan, with just sort of What are you two up to?
	Good question.
	I'll dive in a little bit, and then maybe have Alex give a little history, because it's really cool.
	You have a big part, as she was saying just briefly earlier, Mike.
	So thank you, and thanks for having us.
	Thanks for everything.
	We're thrilled to have you here.
	Yeah, we've been in the preparedness space for a while, personally.
	So we've been doing homesteading, a lot of stuff you've been doing, chickens, cows, bees, maple syrup.
	All kinds of stuff.
	So we've been cultivating a lot of knowledge firsthand ourselves.
	But ARK, the seed company, came at us, that was 17 years ago now.
	And we've been at that for a while and growing in our knowledge of seeds and gardening.
	But this, a couple years ago, came as a result, really, of something that was a request from you.
	So maybe I'll let Alex take it.
	Really? Yeah, yeah!
	Let's hear it!
	It's a cool story.
	Yeah, I would say...
	Well, maybe we've been partnered now for three or four years, but in the first interview, I remember you, Mike, had asked, have we ever thought about doing, you know, videos or any type of education to help people, even just with gardening or, you know, growing the seeds?
	And anyway, we, I just, I'm like out in the garden, I want to do this stuff.
	I don't really want to, you know, make professional videos or anything.
	I kind of drug my feet with it up until about last year.
	And then I thought, let's go ahead and we'll do this.
	We'll grow a whole garden and stage it with, you know, from start to finish, basically, of all of the 70 varieties of seeds that we grow and harvest from start to finish.
	To show people all the steps?
	Yeah, the steps.
	Whoa. And through the process, a team came alongside of us who are helping us do all the video editing and said, who is your main audience?
	Who are your customers?
	And we just said, well, most people who are trying to be self-sustaining and they're trying to be prepared.
	And they said, why have you thought about trying to reach all the areas of preparedness, not just gardening and seed saving and food preservation?
	So that kind of started us on a journey of preparedness.
	And having community, which actually a lot of people overlook as an asset in preparedness.
	Absolutely. So thank you.
	Yeah, thank you.
	Wow, well I'm glad that we could serve as an inspiration of sorts.
	But it sounds like, so you had this professional crew then.
	I guess they would have to come back every few weeks and film new segments over time?
	Yeah, they're actually in Austin.
	And so we had to come here and do recording in Austin in their studio.
	Really? We did recording on our farm at home and we mixed, you know, sent the videos back and forth.
	And yeah, it took about a year to put it together.
	Wow. Yeah.
	Wow. OK, so this course, again, it's called Prepare Tribe.
	It begins streaming for free on April 5th.
	And it streams for 10 days.
	It's on brightu.com.
	And as with all our programs there, you can optionally purchase it and get all the bonus items, which I'll ask you about.
	And they can download it.
	Or, if they're on a tight budget, they can just watch it for free.
	And also, during the streaming, beginning on April 5th, you're offering 50% off the Backyard Seed Kit, which we have on our desk here.
	It's the one that you can In the middle there in the pouch, the backyard seed kit, the golden seed pouch, 50% off just between March 28th and April 14th.
	Correct. Okay.
	Well, that's generous to offer that.
	Yeah. Well, we want to get seeds into people's hands as quickly as we can right now.
	So, great for nutrition.
	Seeds are so amazing.
	I mean, I keep telling people, have you thought about the miracle of seeds where This thing self assembles its own solar collectors leaves and then it pulls carbon out of the air and it builds nutrition.
	Yeah. And it doesn't ask you for anything other than just water.
	Yeah. Don't kill me.
	Yeah. Right.
	Yeah. Don't let the rabbits eat me, you know, but it's a miracle.
	Yeah, it really is.
	It's an amazing thing.
	I was just actually back there in the green room reading back through Matthew 13. Oh, yeah.
	Listening to your, yeah, previously with Doc.
	And because Jesus said, if you can't understand this parable, the sower and the seed, how can you understand any parables?
	Oh, was it the mustard seed parable?
	It was one of those parables about the seed.
	And essentially, I was thinking, wow, there's life in the seed.
	So we've been trying to get seeds in everyone's hands that we can right now, because we feel it's so important, especially now that it's only 3% of seed in the U.S. is heirloom right now.
	Heritage. Only 3% is heirloom.
	Yeah, so you're talking about 97% is the other seed.
	Like hybrids and GMOs.
	You got it.
	And I don't know, maybe with the new administration that could change.
	I hope.
	I'm hopeful.
	Yeah, and I know you are, but for now we don't see that number increasing.
	So we've been telling people too for a while, maybe the last couple years, that seeds potentially could be currency.
	Oh, absolutely.
	Giving a disruption in how our current economic situation is, who knows what's going to happen, but seeds could very quickly become currency.
	So we're trying to get seeds in everyone's hand.
	Even if it's not currency, growing your own food, eating healthy, nutritious, healthy, Absolutely. Well, thank you both for putting in the time and effort and money to create this.
	I look forward to watching it myself.
	I can't wait for it to start streaming.
	How did you find time in between all your growing of everything and saving seeds?
	And now you have to produce videos on top of that.
	How'd you find time?
	Well, the good thing is, is because it's our, you know, family run business and we have four young kids, fifth on the way.
	And we, you know, we're home a lot and the kids help and we love, you know, when we're out in the garden, we're not out in the garden, we're producing videos.
	So, yeah, it's a lot of time management, but it's, you know, what we do full time.
	So it's our passion.
	Oh, yeah.
	And really to just help educate more than anything.
	I never thought the ARC at the beginning would ever start as a business.
	It was just more out of a passion to help our family, you know, eat healthy and also to help educate people.
	So. Yeah.
	And I love the name ARC, Agricultural Resource Kit, I think is what that stands for, right?
	Yeah. ARK.
	Double meaning, obviously.
	Yeah. Yeah.
	Yeah. Really good play on words.
	And I don't know if Alex mentioned this last time she was on about where it started, but it actually started from, well, a passion to get seeds into friends and family.
	Oh, really?
	Yeah, it was really, I think she had built with a family member 20 kits, or was it 20?
	Yeah. And sold them to not make any money, just to get seeds, heirloom seeds.
	Once we started learning about heirloom seeds, into their hands and then it kind of took off like wow we should do this for more people than just our friends and family.
	No kidding!
	But another thing that happened was a family member had a dream and in the dream she was like doing a drug deal in the back alley and she was exchanging silver coins for bean seeds.
	And so we were like wow!
	I've done a podcast just like that by the way.
	Did you really?
	Yeah, I've talked about seeds as barter Yeah, so she was, it was midnight, she was in a back alley in the hometown that we grew up in, it was actually my sister, and so she's exchanging, the guy goes, do you have the seeds?
	And she drops, she didn't know what she had, she drops three bean seeds, like, you know, anyway, he goes, so these will regrow, right?
	And she goes, yeah.
	And so she opens her hand and he drops three silver coins in her hand.
	Wow. That was the dream.
	So we were like, wow, this, there could be something to this.
	Seeds. Will be currency because it's real and it's something that reproduces itself.
	And then when it's heirloom, like all your seeds are, then of course you can, you can harvest the seeds.
	So you can actually, so money does grow on shrubs and bushes.
	Let me give out the, the, where people can find this health rangers store.com slash seeds.
	We'll get you to this page and you can buy their all in one seed kit, which how many, Varieties and seeds are in that kit?
	We try to steer everyone toward that kit, but that's over 50,000.
	50,000 seeds.
	It's 70 varieties.
	It has a medicinal and culinary herb garden right in it.
	It's got everything you could ever imagine.
	There we go.
	Since you brought one, let's just take a look.
	Yeah. Okay.
	We have a camera shot that can capture this.
	You want to walk us through some of these seeds, but I'm just going to put them here.
	Yeah, and maybe even, Alex, do you want to go through some?
	I'll chime in.
	Tell us what this is.
	I'll cut you off like a good husband.
	I see the beans, I see...
	Well, I will share.
	I am partial, obviously, to this kit because we go through and pick out, there's 70 varieties.
	One thing that sets us apart from a lot of other heirloom seed companies is we offer A really high seed count of the vegetables that are high in protein and calories.
	So I will say that to everyone when you are looking to purchase seeds, there's a lot of seed kits now on the market where the quality of the seeds are really poor and they're not germinating.
	Yes, and I've seen seed kits That are like 100,000 seeds, but 99,000 of them are lettuce.
	Yeah, yeah.
	Good luck surviving on lettuce.
	Yeah, because you can put a thousand of them in a little tiny thing.
	Yeah, and there's zero calories.
	Lettuce has zero.
	Right, right.
	So it's a survival seed, whatever.
	You try to live on lettuce for two weeks, see how it goes.
	Yeah, good luck.
	Yeah, so we include actually about five to six different varieties of beans.
	And we just pack them full.
	So I mean, you're getting two to three hundred seeds in each bag.
	A lot of them for dried beans.
	There's a green bean in there as well.
	But again, when you get, you know, a bean pack from the store, I mean, you're getting like twenty five seeds in there, not three hundred.
	Right. So this is for a whole family or even maybe a couple of families.
	Yeah, exactly.
	We have like a visual that Let's see here if I can find, oh this is the corn, one of the corns that we have a couple corns.
	Here's another corn.
	We do a field corn and a sweet corn.
	A lot of people like this analogy or a visual.
	Here, hold that out a little bit farther if you would, to get it on camera.
	There we go.
	Okay. Yeah.
	So here's one of, this is our sweet corn, here's our field corn.
	One year we planted, just out in our back field, we planted all 300 of the sweet corn.
	Really? And when it came time to harvest, we pulled all the stalks out and got all the off, dried all the seeds and shucked them all into this big tarp.
	Wow. You know, everyone a visual like just from one season.
	Multiplying. You know, multiplying whether you're using it to grind flour for your family or for your animals.
	It can multiply really quick.
	Or grow some and give some.
	Absolutely. To people that don't have any.
	Barter. Right.
	Yeah. Anyway.
	Right. And it's always so useful when there are people who are hungry.
	Yes, help them with food, but also help them with seeds so they can grow their own food.
	Teach a man to fish, as they say.
	Absolutely. Right?
	We don't want to create a welfare state.
	We want to have compassion, but also let's teach them how to become more self-sufficient.
	Absolutely. Yeah, and then we also include 16 different herbs, and they're all medicinal, culinary and medicinal.
	We're real big on that, about teaching and educating on how to make your own medicines and tinctures.
	So in the seed guide we do that's also included in the all-in-one tube The seed guide we wrote is Basically gives you a description on how to from start to finish on how to do it how to make your own tinctures a while Receive your own salves.
	So how to use every seed?
	Absolutely, and then it also has a zone in it So, you know if you're in the United States which zone you're in so, you know, you're growing season, right?
	Start to finish, you know when to sow when to harvest every type of Seed it's all in there.
	So here's a question for you Do you cover because you know, I'm all about nutrition and nutrition for plants, too And I I like to produce plants that are high in Minerals, you know the full spectrum of what's what a plant wants right which is more than just the three sure So what what are you covering your course about?
	How to feed your plants so they have more zinc and selenium and copper and all the other things that are necessary.
	Oh, that's a good one for Alex, too.
	She covered most of that.
	One of our courses is on food, forever food.
	And we actually, I spend quite a bit of time going through a recipe of like soil amendments that we use and have like gathered over the years from like different neighbor friends, Amish friends, and have put together Okay.
	And then there's just a breakdown of what's in that, why you want to grow your broccoli with this versus your broccoli with just regular soil.
	So there is a section on that in the Prepare Tribe docuseries.
	Okay, that's great.
	Yeah, so, well, what about food preservation?
	It's something else that you cover in the course as well.
	What kind of food preservation methods are you showing or demonstrating?
	We do, I do water bath canning, pressure canning, fermentation.
	We do, let's see, food dehydrating, pickling.
	Wow, you're covering it all.
	Trying to get a little bit of everything out there.
	Kind of like pick something from the garden and then actually do the whole process.
	Wow. If you're going to pickle peppers, this is how you do it.
	So help walk people through every step.
	Yeah. Well, what would Peter Piper do without pickled peppers, right?
	He'd be in trouble.
	Yeah. Okay, so again, it's called Prepare Tribe and it begins streaming April 5th at brightu.com, but you can register Well, I think you can register for it right now, and it's free to watch with registration.
	So, a lot of people who focus on preparedness are former military, and they come in strong with, you know, like a guns and ammo angle.
	That is not what this course is about.
	I'm so glad you brought this up, because I, in jest, I call it bunkers and bullets.
	Yeah, bunkers and bullets.
	Which, by the way, we're not opposed to either of those.
	Actually, if you're supposed to build a bunker, do it.
	You do need a stockpile of ammo.
	You just had the guys on that went and helped in Asheville.
	Imagine being in Asheville, Let's take this into just practical.
	You've got a huge bunker and you've got a stockpile of bullets and you think you're prepared.
	But people are still starving.
	You're in trouble!
	We have to have a more holistic approach to preparedness.
	And what you brought up, I've learned a ton in the last couple years because people watch the Alone series on Netflix or something and think that's preparedness.
	It's actually bushcraft it's called.
	Bushcraft is the ability to Survive and thrive in the wilderness.
	Yeah, that's totally different than preparedness That is and so 80% of Americans and I'm sure you've probably told your audience this Mike But 80% of Americans live in an urban or suburban environment So only 20% even live in rural communities What happens to the 80% they don't they don't need bushcraft skills Like what are they gonna be doing, you know on their roof with a fire?
	I that's I don't see a scenario where that's applicable to them.
	So What we did is we said, you know, what are the things that everyone's going to need to actually be prepared?
	A much more holistic approach to preparedness rather than just bunkers and bullets.
	Right. And that's where we landed on, you know, everyone's going to need community.
	So we go into build your trusted tribe is the first element.
	How do you build community?
	Because a lot of people even, they don't even know how to strike up a conversation.
	So where do they start?
	How do they reach out to groups in their community?
	Maybe through Facebook or online network and start building relationships and not isolate, because that's another thing.
	We don't want to see people in a cave or in their bunker and think they're prepared.
	That's not going to serve you well.
	There's neighbors, there's resources around people that are going to help them.
	So, yeah.
	Okay. So let me ask you there on that though.
	The COVID years really divided a lot of people, a lot of families.
	Oh yeah.
	And there's a very real Fear among people who are quote preppers of alerting Neighbors that they're a prepper.
	They're afraid of being mocked which is silly I mean, why shouldn't we be prepared and maybe some of that attitude is changing?
	So what are the strategies that you recommend to connect with like-minded people without?
	Exposing your what you're doing to people who might turn against you.
	Oh good question Well, the first thing I would say is it's all mindset.
	So, what a lot of people don't realize is that 33% of Americans identify as preppers.
	Really? One in three.
	Only 5-7% have basic preparedness supplies right now.
	Meaning a simple water filter and a three-day supply of food So what's happened is a lot of people think that they're preppers now this this is the good news But they're not prepping the preppers in their mind.
	Yeah, like, you know, well, I got an extra box of ammo for my 30-06 So I'm good, you know, I'm a prepper.
	Yeah But the good news there is that to address your question if we know then that 33% of Americans identify as preppers Striking up a simple conversation that doesn't have to be awkward opens opens the door, if you will. So, hey, do you think it's really, you know, I'm just, now I'm role-playing, talking to a neighbor or family member that might, you might come across as weird.
	Do you think it's strange with how many cataclysmic events have been transpiring over the last few years?
	Or what is, what do you think about the state of our economy posing a question and pulling out from them what their views are?
	It's a really great way to find out where they are rather than, because you don't want to come across as a tinfoil hat guy.
	You know, you got a tinfoil hat and you're locked in your bunker.
	So I think the first thing is knowing in your mind, there's a lot more people out there that identify as preppers, but really aren't into prepping and maybe they could actually help serve them.
	So if you can identify who those people are, now you can start to help them.
	Right. Okay.
	Let's, let's, let's role play.
	Okay. Okay.
	You be you, I'll be your, your neighbor.
	All right.
	That doesn't like preppers.
	Okay. Hey, Mike, good to see you out mowing your lawn.
	Hey, what do you think?
	With my electric mower to save the sky.
	Okay, I'm glad to see you saving the sky with your electric mower, Mike.
	I love that.
	What do you think about how much the stock market's been going down lately?
	Have you been thinking about what could happen to the economy?
	I think Trump is destroying everything.
	It's all his fault.
	We've got to get rid of him.
	Yeah, Trump, well, you know, I can understand how you'd think that.
	But what about 2008 when the market collapsed and we had someone else in office?
	That was Bush.
	Well, that was actually Obama.
	Now we're really rolling.
	Obama didn't come in until 2009.
	2009 and then pumped up quantitative easing.
	Now we're into economics.
	But I'm going to say as your neighbor, it's all climate change.
	So it's all climate change.
	And you got to stop You gotta stop idling your engine in your driveway every morning or I'm going to call the climate cops on you.
	Well, Mike, I'll do my best to cut my engine sooner, but I'm going to start a huge garden out back that needs CO2 from that car.
	So how do you feel about that?
	Oh, good.
	So would you give me some of your food since I'm such a conscientious neighbor?
	I will actually, Mike, but you have to come over and help me in the garden.
	How's that sound?
	Oh, no, I don't do that kind of thing.
	No. Anyway, you get the idea, right?
	So I'm playing a neighbor who doesn't want to participate.
	But you're right.
	Yeah. And so I think when you're building a tribe, when you're building your own community, you have to have discernment.
	You can't just let freelancers come in.
	People have to pull their own weight.
	So that's for you to vet out, but you have to have some type of introductory conversation, you know, like where they're at and then find out, are they going to, well, we're already into, There's a whole section on creating a plan.
	That's a huge part of preparedness.
	What do you want?
	Do you want to prepare for your family?
	Do you want to prepare for 30 people?
	Who do you want in your network, in your community, and build towards that?
	If you just want to prepare for your family, I wouldn't recommend that.
	Again, because if your only skill set is based on you or your family members, that could be a detriment, not a help.
	And so you want to be thinking larger scale than just you and your family.
	But you need to find out.
	Absolutely. As I'm planning, who is it that I want?
	What are the value system that they should have to come into community with me?
	We don't want freeloaders and we don't want someone that's all electric.
	Yeah, for sure.
	And also, I'm wondering, Alex, the kind of feedback that you've received over the years, because I've advocated your seed kits for several years and we've had a lot of really happy customers, listeners.
	Get your seed kits.
	And then, over these years, grocery store prices have gone up and up and up.
	How often do you hear from people who say, you know, I'm so glad I learned to grow food because it's actually saving me money?
	Yeah, this is a really good point to bring up, Mike, because since 2020, we have seen an increase in about 5,000%.
	That makes sense.
	They want to take care of their family.
	Self-reliant. Or it's like a fad.
	It's like, oh, it's cool to grow your own food.
	And then I get...
	Talking to these people and have conversations and realize no, it's more than cool It's actually like you're gonna need this at some point to be able to provide food for your family if one the grocery store prices can't continue to Increase or if for some at some point we don't have it,
	you know so yeah, we have I have hundreds and hundreds of conversations with people and I mean A lot of your followers, some other partners that we're involved with, same thing, and really great.
	I mean, it's encouraging to see the major increase of people wanting to be able to take care of themselves.
	Well, it seems to me that what I hear from people is that those who can afford to move out of the city are trying to.
	They are trying.
	And homesteading is the right term for this.
	It is.
	It's not bunkers.
	It's not...
	No. You know, going off and being Rambo.
	It's homesteading, which just means really getting off grid so that you could be more self-reliant.
	It doesn't mean that you never go to the grocery store.
	You still do.
	I mean, I go there and buy butter, you know, but I don't buy meat from the grocery store.
	I know enough ranchers.
	I get meat from people I know, right?
	Texas. Yeah.
	And there's also, you know, there's CSAs and there's Saturday food co-ops and things like that where I can get Tons of stuff that we need.
	But yeah, you still go to the grocery store from time to time, but you're just greatly reducing your reliance on the system and becoming more self-reliant in the process.
	Absolutely. Self-reliant, that's the word.
	Self-reliant.
	And the more self-reliant we become, the better off we are financially, the better off we are with our nutrition, our diet, how we feel, the better off we are mentally, because we're feeling better.
	Yeah, that would really be a great word for the docuseries as a whole.
	It's a holistic homesteading approach to preparedness.
	I like that.
	Holistic homesteading.
	Yeah. And you know, right now there's a big debate about the SNAP program in America, which is food stamps.
	Oh yeah.
	Whether or not taxpayer money should be used to subsidize purchases of sodas and junk food.
	And of course, I think that's insane.
	If you're going to get government welfare money, you shouldn't be able to spend that money on things that cause disease.
	Oh yeah.
	Right? But I'm all for giving people like unlimited beans and rice and legumes and food basics.
	Like nobody should starve in America.
	But I don't want to pay for your soda pop.
	You know what I'm saying?
	Yeah. Skittles.
	Yeah. That seems insane.
	But these people, if, if they, What if we gave them garden seeds, you know, and like a community plot?
	Here's 10 by 10 feet.
	You can grow a lot in 10 by 10. So that idea back in our home state of Michigan is exploding in Detroit.
	Is it really?
	There's four different co-ops.
	They're organizational communal co-ops just in the city of Detroit.
	They've leveled whole blocks.
	I'm sure you've seen this.
	This was starting back 15 years ago.
	They leveled whole city blocks, and so now what the city of Detroit's doing is they're hiring these people to take leadership and organization, and they're starting communal gardens.
	I love it.
	Most of them are completely organic.
	They use heirloom seeds.
	It's amazing.
	So we need to see a lot more of that than Skittles and soda, for sure.
	Completely agree.
	Food doesn't have to come in a box or in plastic all the time.
	It's supposed to come out of the ground.
	Unfortunately, though, even those programs, it's so hard for them to get assistance.
	Isn't that funny?
	They have to get grants, they have to hire teams of people to rather than just get the same SNAP program, if we could allocate some of those funds, that would be ideal.
	Give it to groups like that.
	Well, there's unlimited government money for like vaccine propaganda in movies, but not for teaching people how to grow food.
	One harms, one helps.
	Wow. Okay, so Alex, what other kinds of feedback have you received from people over the years, just from your seed kits and the how-to instructions that you have?
	Yeah, one thing that comes to mind is there's also been a huge increase for Right.
	want to?
	How do I take care of myself better?
	That's how I got into it, growing myself, because we started having kids.
	Right. Just take care of my, again, our kids, but then that grows because, you know, so-and-so hears about so-and-so, oh my gosh, we want to learn, we want to know.
	And yeah, again, that increase of natural medicine that comes from kind of what you were talking about, the nutrition from the vegetables, the medicine that comes from the herbs, huge, huge increase in desire of people wanting to know about that, which again is Also really encouraging, so.
	Well, let me interject because throughout most of human history, at least since agriculture was controlled, when families, when they had a sickness in the family, they would go outside and pick the medicine, the herbs.
	Exactly. And treat the child with what they were growing.
	Or when they were getting ready to make dinner, right, they would go out and pick the dinner.
	Like, that's not That's a good question.
	Probably convenience.
	I'm sure a lot of it is just convenience.
	It takes time and effort and intent and energy to go Grow your own food and a little bit of knowledge you have to it's easier I think for people to just go get it off the shelf and true and follow the money Follow the money until recently growing your own food Didn't make a lot of financial sense just from a purely financial perspective,
	but now it does because of price inflation Yeah, that's true right so mother nature gives you for free What costs more and more in the grocery store if you try to get it and the grocery store foods dare I say?
	Even the fresh produce are a shadow of what you can grow yourself in terms of the nutritional potency, the freshness, and the mineral content, correct?
	Oh yeah.
	Oh yeah.
	Yeah, most grocery stores, you have more nutrients in frozen broccoli than a fresh broccoli head.
	Yeah. You know, because they freeze dry right away.
	But yeah, I would say huge increase.
	And in the DocuSeries, I go through that and spend a lot of time.
	And even sharing my story about holistic medicine and we do a lot of different tinctures and how to make stuff.
	So, yeah, I would say I think one of the other areas we cover in the DocuSeries as well as really, really important is purifying your own water and knowing how to do that because of the contaminants and everything.
	Yeah. You know, health wise for people.
	So we spend we spend time doing that as one of the Category so what do you recommend for people to use for irrigation?
	Because of course for a lot of people all they have is city water Which is not the best and then there's well water, which is also very often very heavily contaminated And yeah, you know the alkalinity is too high for plants typically What do you recommend?
	For gardening yeah, if you can if it's at all possible set up a rain catchment system It takes a lot of water.
	It does.
	Yeah. I mean, that depends largely on where you're at, too.
	True. You know, if you're in the Southwest, you're in Arizona and Phoenix, that range catchment system is you're waiting all year for maybe a month of rain.
	Yeah. That's tough.
	True. So we're from Michigan, so we don't even think that.
	You know, we get rain every other day.
	But that largely depends on where you're at.
	Outside of that, you can use Well water city water you just need to get a really good filtration system on that true I mean you really need to invest in that if you can if you have the money don't recommend like reverse osmosis That's expensive That it there's sort of wastewater that comes out of it There is but it's like anything else the more cost up front it costs a lot on the upside.
	Yeah, but long term It's not as much The other thing I would add, too, is your growing techniques could be different.
	True. So instead of, you know, we're used to, like, we got to run the sprinkler for an hour every day or something like that.
	There's a lot of different growing techniques to be able to, like, hold the water in the ground.
	You know, I've grown some gardens where we've grown huge patches of squashes, like acres of squash, and we never watered it once.
	That's true.
	You know, so I mean, it might have, it might rain once a week or every other week or something.
	But again, it's, you know, you can definitely be able to lay down grass and wood chips and different techniques to be able to hold the water in.
	So, which I've been doing a lot more the last few years.
	So it's a lot less laborsome.
	And then also, you know, expenses for irrigation, water and everything.
	So. Drip irrigation.
	She had me set up drip irrigation for a strawberry patch.
	Yeah. It's great.
	Once it's done, a lot of work up front.
	That's for sure, yeah.
	Well, I'm very fortunate that I have a small pond and I was able to sink a pump, like a well pump, into the pond with a special intake set up to filter it.
	And so I've been watering my orchards with pond water, which is absolutely the best.
	Oh my goodness, the nutrients in that?
	Yeah, because there's fish in there and everything.
	Yeah, you're pumping.
	It's high grade, it's not even water, that's fertilizer.
	It's like magic, magical liquid, yeah.
	Yeah, real miracle grow.
	Yeah, but that depends on surface runoff, which here in Texas we don't get a lot of rain frequently.
	We get a whole lot of rain all at once.
	And then your pond goes from empty to full, you know?
	But then it can It can almost be empty for two years after that.
	That's the way the rainfall is around here.
	Yeah, but it varies.
	East Texas is a lot more frequent rainfall.
	West Texas is desert.
	You're right, right there, right in the middle.
	We're in the middle here.
	So you can get, you can get desert conditions.
	You can get Houston humidity.
	You can get Gulf weather.
	Now the Gulf of America.
	You can get North weather.
	From all of you.
	When you send the north weather, then it freezes our plants, you know?
	Sorry about that.
	Yeah, we get it all from north, south, east, and west, you know?
	You do, yeah.
	Well, the other thing I'd say about the rain catchment is, I know it's some work, but if you could get like an IBC container, you know, a lot of people think, what is that?
	It's a big plastic container, hundreds of gallons in that thing, and run your gutter right into it, have it elevated, And just put a little ball valve on the thing.
	Just gravity feed, right?
	And you can, it's amazing how much you can accomplish with that.
	So, just to throw that out there.
	Okay, that's great.
	So, a lot of really practical things are part of your docuseries.
	I understand you also have some bonus items and a bonus challenge?
	What is that exactly?
	We do, yeah.
	So, with the docuseries, we also offer the 50% off for the backyard kit.
	The reason why we did that was, that was the hopes that the backyard kit would get everybody their seeds for the spring to start planting.
	And then what a lot of people do, they'll use the backyard kit for their planting and then the all-in-one, they'll get an all-in-one tube and they'll use that for like their storage, you know, and keep that because they'll store for 15 years or longer.
	Right. I've still got the ones in the right conditions.
	In the right conditions, yeah.
	You don't want to have them baked.
	Yeah, yeah.
	And that's for more of the currency or the bartering, all of that, to have.
	So our hopes was that, was to encourage everyone to get that.
	And then we also are offering our preparedness checklist that Morgan talked a little bit about, just to help go through and set a plan for you and your family and your neighbors.
	Personalized. Yeah, it's a three or four page document to help you just kind of get really organized and check off things that you have and things that maybe you still need.
	Get people thinking.
	Yeah. Yeah, we all think and I didn't think about this.
	Oh, it's on there.
	Okay. We offer an ebook, which is very similar to our seed guide, but it has some things added as far as like, you know, food preservation and storage and that kind of stuff.
	The challenge, yeah, it says here you have a hands-on preparedness experience.
	Is this like a video group meeting?
	You got it.
	Go ahead.
	Okay. I didn't know if you want to keep going.
	It's five days and it's a challenge intentionally, so it's not a teaching.
	It's a training, but every single day we put a challenge out there to get people to take action.
	Because our big thing is we don't want another group of people to just Consume and not do anything.
	Right. This isn't an academic exercise.
	Yeah, hear it and then go do something, which is why we call it a challenge.
	So it's five days and we go through everything that I think is important, that we think is important, to get people to think.
	Day one is all mindset.
	So wait, what's one of the challenges, just as an example?
	Okay, so day two, let's say I go through a five-step cycle to success and preparation and they have to go back and at night fill out The preliminary of, okay, preparing, what's your plan?
	Review where you're at.
	Stockpiling, what are you stockpiling for?
	So that night, let's say, they're actually spending a couple hours going through what I went through and saying, okay, these five steps on this cycle, where am I at?
	You know, I'm at zero, I'm at a five, what am I planning for?
	So they're actually writing out their own plan in a concrete way, something practical.
	I see.
	Getting them to do that.
	So a lot of it's very similar to that.
	Getting people to take action.
	Getting people to maybe step out of their comfort zone.
	I also, one of the things we make them do is make a list of people that potentially could be in their community.
	Maybe not, you know, the electric lawnmower neighbor, but...
	We'll call him lawnmower man.
	Maybe not lawnmower man, but the other guy that maybe has an interest and he has a specific skill, might come across as weird.
	You want a hunter, right?
	You want someone in your group that's really good at hunting.
	So we get them to think through that and then write out a list.
	Ah, make it real.
	So they're already taking, they're already probably doing way more than they would have just by going through the challenge.
	Getting them to step out and think and then take action.
	So yesterday I ran Peck's irrigation lines to some fig trees.
	Oh. And that's like whenever I get spare time, I'm basically expanding my irrigation network from the pond water.
	Nice. And one of the things that I'm growing, and I'm planting more of these this year, are the loblolly pine trees.
	Tell us more about that.
	Well, loblolly pines are really high in shikimic acid in the pine needles.
	Oh, yeah.
	And of course, they always have vitamin C. The Native Americans used to make pine needle tea.
	And drink it, which is delicious.
	It's delicious.
	And even in our store, we sell a pine needle nasal, I don't think we sell it, I think we have it as a giveaway, but pine needle nasal spray and the shikimic acid, okay?
	The shikimic acid and pine needles, that is the molecule that is used in the number one antiviral prescription medication.
	No kidding.
	That is FDA approved.
	And it's the same molecule that's found in traditional Chinese medicine, which is the ba jiao herb, also known as star anise, which halts plagues in the history of Chinese medicine.
	Well, the Native Americans use it also to end disease and to get vitamin C because it's very rich in vitamin C. So are you planning this next to the figs?
	Not right next to the figs.
	Oh, OK.
	But OK, it's it's it's in the same irrigation network.
	OK. But I love to plant loblolly pines because I can cut off a bunch of pine needles and I can just boil it on the stove and I can make pine needle tea.
	And it's just beautiful medicine right there.
	Just natural.
	Okay. Yeah, we have those all over where we live.
	Do you?
	Yeah. The only issue is what it will do to the soil long term when you have a bunch of them because they're acidic.
	The pine needles will make it acidic.
	You have to go back into an area where we're from that's been pine forest for a while and amend the soil.
	But yeah, we have those near us too.
	Well, I noticed that dewberry is like to grow right around the base of these trees because I think the berries like the more acidic, sandy soils.
	The loblolly pines, which are, they're also called the lost pines of Central Texas because there's a group of them that was cut off from other pine trees.
	Oh. They're called the Lost Pines.
	That's cool.
	Yeah. Anyway, but they love sandy soil.
	Yeah, I bet they do.
	Blueberries like it then.
	And blueberries, yeah.
	I think I could plant like watermelons and things right around them too.
	That would probably go really well.
	Yeah. But the reason I even mention this is because I want to help also inspire our audience that you don't have to like quit your job and change your whole life.
	Like you just find two hours On an afternoon, you can do something with that.
	Yes. That can become food.
	Yep. Yeah, and I would say, back to the five-day challenge, our goal with that is, because it's one hour, Every night and it's live with us.
	Yeah. Yeah.
	So it's just a question and answers.
	We want it to be interactive with people.
	And what are you doing on your farm?
	Or you don't have land and you don't know where to start.
	Or my all my family members are making fun of me and I don't know what to do.
	Right. Right.
	You know, we get that.
	I've seen great balcony gardens, container gardens that are really great.
	Yeah. Yeah, totally.
	So to encourage people.
	It doesn't matter where you're at.
	Get started.
	Yeah. We just wanted to make it more personal so we can have time with everyone.
	And our goal at the end of the five days is then to be able to offer to anyone who comes, if you want to continue to work with us in coaching and mentorship along the way, that we will offer that as an extension too.
	So when does the five day challenge begin?
	Is it after the finish?
	Streaming? It's April 21st.
	Oh, April 21st.
	Oh, okay.
	So there's time, so.
	Yeah. So somebody can watch the whole series.
	Yeah. And then they can join the five-day challenge and they can, and can they dialogue with you and ask questions during all that?
	Oh yeah, yeah.
	So we have a time that's...
	Q&A before, because we can't do the whole time Q&A, you know how that goes.
	So Q&A time before, and then also on day two, three, four, day one, people are getting a feel for it.
	They'll say, okay, now I'm writing out specific questions I've wanted answers to.
	So we do a Q&A first, and then we cover a core topic, let's say, each time.
	And at the end of it is the challenge, something that someone's going to have to do.
	And we unashamedly say that.
	You're going to have to do stuff.
	Yeah, homework every night.
	It's not just consumption.
	So you're going to actually have to go do something.
	All right.
	Let me ask you this question that I like to ask people who are all about growing food and being self-reliant.
	And the answer that I often get is sweet potatoes.
	So here's the question.
	And I'm curious about your answer.
	What food is the easiest for a beginner to grow that has the most output of calories versus the input of effort?
	And I get sweet potatoes a lot.
	I can see why you'd get that.
	That's a good one for her.
	I wouldn't say sweet potatoes are always the easiest, but I guess that's because, you know, we're from northern Michigan.
	Oh, yeah, yeah.
	It depends on where you're at.
	If you're Alaska, Phoenix.
	Yeah, for us, I would say 100% parsnips or rutabaga.
	No kidding?
	Well, I've never heard that answer before.
	Yeah, those are the easiest.
	You don't have to Even weed or do anything.
	Yeah. And as far as, I mean, we also love the taste and stuff, but for calories, really high in calories.
	No kidding.
	So are sweet potatoes, but they're really high in calories.
	Yeah. But I just, that didn't cross my mind.
	Rutabaga would be calorie rich.
	Yeah. Yes.
	Both of them are higher in calories.
	I mean, obviously all the root crops, but yeah, I would say that above sweet potatoes for sure.
	Yeah. And for taste, I mean, We're big fans of Three Sisters.
	I mean, you got corn, squash, and beans for taste.
	Yeah. I love squash.
	You can make jumbo out of all that.
	Yeah, exactly.
	Yeah. If you have the space, even space, let's say you have a balcony or an apartment, you can actually grow Three Sisters in a little pot.
	Yeah. Corn stalk, bean, squash out of that.
	They support each other, yeah.
	Yeah, so.
	Okay, what about, I get this question, people don't have a hobby tractor.
	They don't have a plow.
	They don't want to plow.
	That's not the deal.
	What can they grow without a lot of farm equipment?
	That's a good question, too.
	That's probably one for her.
	Yeah. You know, we didn't even have any equipment up until a couple of years ago.
	Yeah. And so we grew for the first however many years.
	We only had two and a half acre, you know, at our house.
	Our garden was maybe one acre.
	OK. And everything was raised beds, and we just would go out and work it.
	But I mean, we grew.
	It's a lot of labor.
	We did a 20 person CSA for multiple years in a row.
	Yeah. I mean, we would do a dozen eggs in there.
	We had so much.
	I've sold at tons of restaurants, farmers markets.
	You can do a ton of work.
	People always think that I need a tiller.
	I need a tractor.
	I mean, you need a couple shovels and a couple hoes and some hands.
	And some work ethic.
	Yeah, you know, for sure.
	When you say raised beds, was it just rows of dirt mounds or did you have edges or what?
	Yeah, we had four by eight beds that were, you know, they had wood side, wood board siding.
	You use wood boards, you use railroad ties or what would you use?
	Wood boards.
	Wood boards.
	Yeah, we actually had several, quite a stack given to us that were leftover Amish.
	Yeah. Oh, yeah.
	ran pecks, you know, one inch PVC, if you will, to strategic spots in the garden and hooked a lineup so you could go to any spot in the garden and hook into that and water.
	What did you do for weeds?
	Nice.
	Well, we would say, so we did the method for a few years on the Back to Eden method where it's, you know, the cardboard and the wood chips.
	And so it holds the water in, but you don't get a lot of the weeds out coming out.
	Yeah, I would say that I think over the years, if you learn to stay up on top of it, I always tell the kids, you know, I said, we got about two to three really like hard days of weeding.
	And if we stay on top of it at the beginning, then we'll be fine through the rest of the season.
	Right. So as long as you don't just let it go wild, Yeah, then you're in trouble.
	Yeah, you're in trouble.
	So for us...
	I've been there.
	Yeah. Life happens.
	I've been there repeatedly.
	Yeah, it's called life.
	Yeah, there's a lot of different techniques, you know, over the years, but I just was thinking about this too.
	We did in those years with the raised beds, you know, Morgan and my son, they'd go fishing a lot and Bring home like all the guts and the rest of the fish and all that stuff and we just filled these 55-gallon drums of the fish guts and made our own fish emulsion.
	We put enzymes and sawdust and stuff in there.
	Yeah, that's great for watering the plants and that's another...
	Almost as good as a pond.
	Yeah. Well, a pond is kind of like that.
	It is.
	All right, so the course is called Prepare Tribe and again, it starts streaming August, I'm sorry, April 5th.
	At brightu.com, that's the word bright and then the letter U as in Brighton University, so brightu.com.
	You can watch the entire thing for free or you can optionally purchase the program and download it and watch it on your own schedule and your purchase supports this network as well as your operation and maybe help recoup some of the cost that you put into this.
	We would love that, yeah.
	Absolutely, you put a lot of time and effort into this.
	And then you've also got your seed pack 50% off during the streaming.
	So it's the Backyard Seed Kit is 50% off to our audience only.
	Yes. And that's at healthrangerstore.com slash seeds and we'll have it marked down 50% during those days.
	So that's a great affordable way.
	Okay, next question for you.
	I had a conversation with Zach Voorhees, the Google whistleblower.
	He and I are both into a lot of AI tech.
	And we are both convinced that decentralized AI robots will help with homesteading.
	For weeding, for example.
	So would you allow a weeding robot on your garden to take over the weeding job?
	Wow. I've never heard this.
	Yeah? I've never been asked that question.
	I mean, my instant is anyone that's weeded would say yes.
	Anyone that's been out there weeding.
	A little dog bot.
	It doesn't have to be a humanoid.
	It's not Skynet.
	It's a dog bot.
	Off. Yeah.
	With connection.
	It's got a weed grabber paw.
	Oh, that would be huge.
	I mean, if that was to happen, it would save hours.
	I would be open to it.
	I don't know about her.
	Yeah, this can be controversial.
	People are like, no, no robots!
	You know, down with the Apple Watch, down with the...
	I've never thought of it.
	I'm not all...
	I don't wear a bunch of tech either.
	Yeah. I have an analog, see, I have an analog dial watch that apparently makes me look old to have a watch on my wrist.
	Yeah, an old school watch.
	Yeah. But I think it'd be an awesome idea, though.
	I wouldn't want it connected, but it's kind of hard when you've got Now we've got satellites doing connection all over the earth.
	How do you actually truly keep something not connected?
	Well, I would imagine there would be some open source robots that don't have Wi-Fi, don't have GPS, right?
	So did he talk about this?
	Did he?
	We talked about it.
	Are they doing this?
	Is this a plan to build these robots?
	No, we haven't seen any such robot yet, but we figure it's coming.
	There could be homesteading robots that do chores.
	Yeah, that is like Jetsons, isn't it?
	I mean, why not?
	But the thing is, it has to have plant identification capabilities so it's not pulling up your crops.
	Your rutabaga.
	Right? So you have to teach it what are weeds, which AI is really good at classification tasks, you know?
	Yeah. And you tell it, you know, the perimeter of your garden, like, stay in this area and go do these things.
	But it could, like, move small rocks.
	It could, it could get, it could pick up trash on a farm.
	It could potentially have the ability to double dig your soil.
	Yeah, it could be a little digger.
	Yeah, you dig up the first foot and a half, you jump to the side, then you re-dig down another foot and a half, you take the topsoil and put it down.
	Boy, that sounds like work.
	It's a ton of work.
	But I was thinking even for that application, if that robot could handle shovels, I mean, wow.
	I think excavators are probably the right answer on that one.
	But I'm thinking of a smaller space, not like our one acre garden that was raised bed, a scenario like that.
	It's tough to fit an excavator in that size.
	And so you stick the robot out there and they're just going to work wonders on your soil.
	I don't know.
	OK, so you're a maybe on the homesteading robot.
	Maybe. Yeah, keep it away from the kids.
	OK, so here's what I'm going to do.
	I'm going to buy a robot.
	As soon as there's a robot that does this, I'm going to buy one and we're going to test it in the studio.
	Seriously? Seriously.
	OK. But I will have my AR-15 over here in case it goes sky bad.
	I like that idea.
	And I've got like swords and stuff.
	We can defeat the robot if it goes out.
	We need some backup.
	We need somebody on hand that's backup.
	Shut it down!
	Their one job is secure.
	It's attacking the dog.
	Yeah, exactly.
	Okay, but there's a serious note on this, which is that we're about to see, look, Cities are collapsing because they're no longer necessary.
	The original function of a city was to put people within often walking or close distance of their workplace, which is no longer necessary.
	That's totally true.
	Right? So the city as a structure of modern civilization is obsolete.
	Yep. Right?
	So people are moving out of the cities and they're homesteading, which is a good trend of decentralization.
	And they'd love to grow more food except for all the work.
	Right? That's the number one deterrent.
	Yeah. Absolutely.
	But I can see robotics playing a role in assisting people.
	I mean, look, you have automatic dishwasher.
	That's a little robot.
	Yeah. One that doesn't move around unless it's imbalanced.
	But I mean, you have a laundry machine.
	I mean, we use machines.
	So why not have a weeding robot or whatever, you know, I just think it's a natural.
	I see that progress.
	That could be huge in suburbs.
	Absolutely. Where someone's got, you know, maybe like we were saying a half acre in their backyard and they're wanting to take that first step into homesteading.
	They might not be like where we are, where you are, where they have access to 20 or 40 acres or something, but they, that could be huge.
	Or how about a chicken sentry robot?
	We needed one.
	Yeah, your chickens got just savaged by an eagle, right?
	We might run into problems, though, with a federal department if that robot takes a bald eagle out or something.
	Well, no, but the robot would be purely defensive, like it could wave its arms and make weird noises and flashlights and stuff.
	Just having it out there.
	Yeah, it's like an active scarecrow.
	It would freak the chickens out for a minute, but then it would be great, yeah?
	I think I'd take one if it did the chicken chores.
	Yeah, I can clean out the chicken coop.
	Stanky. You don't have to tell me.
	The couch.
	I've had plenty of time with a rake and a shovel cleaning out the chicken house.
	Or just collecting eggs that are messy.
	Something horrible happened there.
	Like what happened?
	We gotta check on this.
	The water, the chicken waters freeze all the time.
	Oh yeah, you're up north, that's a big deal.
	Well here, like one day I found all my chicken eggs in this one nest.
	We're coated with slobber.
	And I finally figured it out.
	We had a rat snake that wasn't big enough to swallow the egg, but it kept trying the next egg and the next egg.
	And so we had a slobber wash of all the eggs from a baby rat snake.
	Oh, no kidding.
	Yeah. Yeah, we haven't ran into that in Michigan.
	I have a video where I, because I catch these snakes all the time.
	I caught, I mean, there was a snake with a That had just swallowed an egg, right?
	So, the egg was right here in its throat.
	And these rat snakes are funny, because they're not venomous, right?
	So, I filmed it, and you grab the tail, you grab the tail, and you shake it, and it spits up the egg!
	It does!
	And the egg was still good!
	It didn't even break it!
	So, it's like an egg-producing snake machine!
	That's great!
	That is so great!
	Don't tell anyone that that was the egg you fed them, though.
	No, no, I ate that egg.
	It was perfectly fine.
	Who cares?
	It's been inside a snake, but now we got it back.
	Now we know people can eat that.
	It's an egg ATM.
	Yeah, it is.
	Wind it up.
	You have to crank the tail.
	Yeah. But anyway, I mean, we all have hilarious experiences here.
	But the bottom line is, I really appreciate what you're doing.
	You're teaching people how to be more self-reliant.
	Well, thanks.
	And if I could say something, too, to your audience.
	First of all, I want to say, and we want to say thank you, Mike, to you.
	I know we said that at the beginning of the show, just what you've done for us.
	And it's really, your audience has been huge.
	We've had so many incredible conversations with them.
	Salt of the earth people.
	I mean, absolutely amazing people, but really got us to a whole different group.
	So we just want to say thank you, thank you, thank you.
	We did get you a little RCAT, too.
	Really? But we also wanted to say to anyone that's listening, and maybe this is the first time they listen to your show, or they're just starting out, you can do it.
	You know, we didn't start where we're at.
	We started, actually, our first time gardening was she had a little raised bed in our city.
	We grew up in Traverse.
	Really? There you go.
	Here we go.
	Got the ARC hat on for you.
	It looks good.
	Yeah, it looks good.
	It works.
	You need to loosen that thing up though.
	But yeah, no, I did.
	I already loosened it.
	I was saying you needed to.
	Yeah, no, I have a big skull.
	Yeah, that's good.
	And high intelligence, right?
	Yeah, it's got to have room for all the all the neurons in there.
	It's a lot functioning.
	A lot firing.
	But anyway, just to say to everyone, if they're starting out, you can do it.
	And don't get overwhelmed by thinking you have to have 20 acres and 10 cows and 100 chickens.
	Start small!
	Start with what you have and grow something.
	Pick a skill in area preparedness.
	It might not be gardening, but maybe you want to learn tinctures, like Alex was referring to.
	Do it for six months and see how it goes and get really good at it.
	You don't have to feel like you have to do everything all at once, but just be encouraged and go for it.
	This is the thing about your seed kits.
	When I look at your seed kits, I want to plant them all, but I know I can't.
	Yeah, that would be a lot.
	That's impossible.
	And so I have to be very, very selective.
	And I have to limit my fun factor here.
	Because like you, I would rather just be growing food all day.
	I mean, it's in my blood.
	It's in my family.
	My grandfather was a farmer.
	He's the one who first taught me how to drive John Deere tractors.
	And he had cattle and everything and sweet.
	And they, they would grow, they had a massive garden and would serve a Thanksgiving dinner of about 50% of food they grew.
	You know?
	Awesome. That's how I grew up.
	It was normal to go pick your dinner.
	Like my grandmother would say, get out there and pick, pick your dinner.
	What are we having for dinner, grandma?
	Whatever you pick.
	Hopefully it tastes good.
	Yeah. Green beans are in season.
	Go get them.
	Yeah. You know?
	It's the way it was.
	Yeah, it's awesome.
	Hopefully we're seeing a trend back to that too, which is great.
	It's encouraging.
	A lot of people, like Alex mentioned multiple times, there's a renaissance back to that style of living.
	I think people are burnt out with city living and just burning themselves out.
	It doesn't work.
	Living on processed food, in a concrete jungle, with all the electromagnetic pollution.
	All the stress and traffic.
	Like, that model is done.
	It is.
	I'm saying it's done.
	Anybody who can escape that is...
	I mean, we have migrants in America who are fleeing the cities.
	I mean, they're American migrants getting out to the country.
	They're saying, get us out of here.
	Yeah. This is not how we were meant to exist.
	That's right.
	And they're going to need your seed kits.
	So let me give you, let me give out the web address again.
	It's healthrangerstore.com slash seeds.
	We'll get you to this.
	Well, let me get back to the previous page.
	Here it is.
	You've got the all in one seed kit, which has the 50,000 seeds.
	You've got the backyard seed kit, which will be 50% off during the streaming of the prepare tribe docuseries.
	And then you've got this seed growing guide.
	And then we do offer one more thing.
	I didn't see it up there, but maybe Alex could mention it.
	Is it on the page further down?
	Maybe go down a little, Mike, see if it's on there.
	I don't think it is.
	We actually offer what's called a Prepper Special.
	We actually designed...
	Oh yeah, I remember that one.
	It's a bigger kit.
	You... It's your fault.
	It's your fault, Mike.
	I know.
	It's a multi-family kit.
	So you get five of the all-in-ones.
	I know you guys sell it because we do sell quite a bit.
	Okay, well I'll check with my team to make sure.
	But yeah, you get five of the tubes for the price of four.
	So when you have a community or a church or a lot of neighbors and families together, that's a huge savings on that.
	We've seen people also for Christmas They buy the prepper special and then they give one to the family members.
	Oh, that sounds great.
	What a great gift.
	That was based on, I think, one of the first interviews you did with us because...
	Yeah, maybe another idea that you had.
	We gave them, we're like, we should make a special.
	Oh, that's right.
	Yeah. I'm not trying to give you more work to do.
	I mean, you've given enough already.
	No, it's great.
	Okay. Yeah.
	Well, look, the bottom line is it's not only the time of the year in The northern hemisphere to grow your own food.
	But it's the time of your life.
	I mean, it's the cultural time.
	It's the civilization time to become more self-reliant and grow more of your own nutrition.
	And everybody's worried about, well, are we going to have enough reforms in HHS?
	Secretary Kennedy and who's going to run the CDC?
	Who's going to run the FDA?
	You know what?
	I do not concern myself so much.
	I'm like, what am I going to grow?
	What medicine and food can I grow?
	Like, make yourself healthy again.
	I'm not waiting for bureaucrats in Washington to solve my health problems.
	I'm going to plant some food and medicine, man.
	Like, like I said, the pine trees are medicine and vitamin C. It's all around.
	It's all around people.
	Yeah, it is.
	And figs.
	You know why I love fig trees?
	Because they're in the Bible, and they're super easy to grow.
	You almost can't make a mistake on a fig tree.
	And we know God loves them.
	Yeah, that's right.
	It's his candy, because Jesus cursed the tree that didn't give him candy.
	Remember that?
	No, but I...
	So the fig, he went up to the fig tree, and it didn't, wasn't, there was no figs, and he cursed it and said, you're going to be dead, and it died instantly.
	It was one of the miracles.
	Well, I also know that grapes are, you know, the vine, as it's called in the Bible, grapes are like the number one biblical food because of the The PCOs and the grape seeds and the resveratrol and the grape skin.
	And here in Texas, we have wild grapes, which are, there's a couple varieties like muscadine grapes are the highest natural resveratrol content.
	No kidding.
	And we have them all over our ranch.
	They grow wild and the hogs eat them and the deer eat them.
	And that's why they're so healthy.
	Yeah, I bet.
	They're eating resveratrol and proanthocyanidins all day long.
	And we should be taking note.
	Hey, if they like this, maybe we should be consuming this.
	Yeah. Yeah.
	You don't need any pesticides on those grapes because they're so dang acidic that it's hard to eat them.
	But you love those figs.
	Back to those figs.
	I love the figs.
	I love the grapes.
	I love the...
	I mean, my point is, we often as Americans, we want the government to solve One thing to add to that, I think, I'm just thinking back as you're talking, Mike, about going through the naturopathic school that I did.
	They taught us, you know, you have allopathic medicine and naturopathic medicine.
	And allopathic is great for emergency services when you split your arm open and you need it sewed up.
	But they're symptom-based.
	Totally. So if you have diarrhea, here's some Imodium.
	It's just instant, quick fix.
	And a lot of the clients that I've helped over the years, they want the more naturopathic approach.
	They still come in to see me with that idea.
	Give me the supplements.
	I know, they have the same mindset.
	This one lady walked in with a whole, she had literally a pillowcase full of supplements that she was carrying in, dumped them out on the table and just told me like You know, what do I take?
	What do I not take?
	And I said, well, first, you know, again, it's the same.
	It's the same thing.
	They want to take supplements.
	They want to take medicine.
	I sit down and tell everybody that you've got to start with the foundations, right?
	You've got to start with your sleep, your water, your nutrition, your stress load, you know, exercise, exercise, prayer, like, I mean, all the different things.
	Nutrition is one of the huge aspects of that, and you can take control of it.
	You know?
	And so that's why it's so encouraging, I think, since I've been doing this 18 years, I've seen a huge increase of desire of people wanting to do that.
	Yeah. You know?
	Just... Yeah.
	And something that I'll observe along those lines is I notice that people that come from the world of heavy prescription medication usage, they're so afraid to take much of something, that they'll have like a turmeric tincture, And they'll ask me like, what's the dosage?
	Is it four drops?
	I'm like, uh, four dropper fulls, maybe get started.
	I mean, I'm drinking it, you know?
	I mean, this is food.
	These are spices.
	These aren't drugs.
	These aren't prescription medication.
	Stop thinking that everything's toxic, you know?
	But I hear that from people all the time.
	They're so afraid.
	Oh, what if I took too much, you know, cannabinoids?
	No one's ever overdosed.
	No problem.
	What if I ate too much cilantro?
	No problem.
	Put more on your tacos.
	I mean, why are people afraid of food?
	I don't understand.
	It's like all my, you know, the kids, all my friends, their kids, they're, I'm sorry, my kids, friends, they're always, the parents always calling me about the antibiotics for the ear aches and all this.
	And then what do you do?
	And I'm like, well, I gave, I give a mullin, you know, give them mullin for the earache.
	And they're like, that's it.
	You don't do any antibiotic.
	Just give them mullin.
	You know, I, I do for my animals.
	I soak.
	Garlic and coconut oil.
	Right. And MCT oil.
	I make a garlic infusion oil in the ear, fill up the ear, let them shake it out.
	A couple days of that, they're done.
	I know it.
	Yeah. I mean, and then people ask, how much garlic should I use?
	I don't know.
	Figure it out.
	Don't be concerned.
	Do what makes sense.
	It's a mind shift.
	Yeah. I mean, when we had our first kid, I was like, the first couple times, you know, I was like, oh my gosh, I gotta get her antibiotic.
	You know, this is 18 years ago, so we've come a long ways because I'm like, that's actually not helping her for what she needs.
	Treating symptoms.
	Right, right.
	And you are growing medicine.
	You're growing antibiotics when you're growing garlic and all these other herbs.
	Echinacea. Yeah.
	OK, here we are back, back at the store page and we found it.
	Here it is.
	The Prepper, Prepper Special 5 All-in-One Kits.
	There we go.
	Five kits for the price of four.
	That's the Mike Adams special.
	That's the Mike Adams special.
	Mike. Seeds in bulk.
	Yes, exactly.
	That sounds like me.
	We had to create that product back in 2020 when we started working with you, Mike.
	Well, thank you.
	We appreciate all your effort.
	Take advantage of it if you can.
	Yeah, that's awesome.
	Get those gifts.
	I like how they're stored in PVC too.
	This is rodent proof because you've seen this.
	I've heard this from people.
	I've had it myself where I had seed kits.
	And I come back next year, mice have eaten all the good seeds.
	And it's a mess.
	They're gone.
	Yeah, they're gone.
	They're happy.
	Corn's gone.
	Right. Totally.
	Squashed beans are gone.
	I've had that happen.
	Beans are stored somewhere.
	We had a customer email us.
	Their tube went through a house fire.
	The whole thing.
	And they still planted.
	And he thought, no, the seeds are going to grow.
	He planted all of them because he thought, no, I'm going to grow and everything germinated.
	Wow. Isn't that wild?
	Wow. No, we don't recommend putting your kit through a housewife.
	I was glad that he said, you know, he emailed us that story because I thought, my gosh, you know, I mean, we're still growing.
	We're still growing the seeds for 15 plus years later.
	But that, you know, it's hard to be so pre roasted.
	Yeah. Popcorn, non heirloom, but fully roasted.
	Yeah, exactly.
	Well, that that's That's how you grow a grilled zucchini, actually.
	So is there anything else you want to add before we wrap this up?
	This has been a delightful conversation.
	Thanks for, you know, joking along with me on some of this stuff.
	Oh, love it.
	I loved the dialogue we had, the role playing there.
	We could have taken that even further.
	Oh, I knew exactly who you were, so I knew where you were going.
	I was the male cameraman.
	I saw water running down your driveway.
	Down the curb, I'm gonna call the water police on you.
	I'm calling the HOA.
	Yeah, I saw cucumbers in your front yard, you know.
	Those should be under wraps.
	There's rodents, who knows?
	No, I would say the only thing just to wrap up again is to say thank you to you from us and to just say if you're out there and you feel overwhelmed and you're listening to us and you think, oh my gosh, these guys have been doing this for so long, don't.
	Everyone starts somewhere.
	But get started.
	You can become a self-reliant yourself.
	Preparedness and homesteading are hand-in-hand.
	You can do this.
	But don't wait.
	Don't wait another year.
	Yeah, and I would just add to that is, you know, when we had to start doing these videos last year, I felt like that because I'm not a studio video person, but I had to go outside of my comfort zone and work on doing the videos.
	And you guys will see when you watch the docuseries, Totally. So thanks again, Mike.
	Well, thank you both.
	We appreciate you being here.
	Thanks for making the trip.
	Thanks for putting together these seed kits and this docuseries, and we're honored to be the first to stream it with you.
	It's called Prepare Tribe.
	You can sign up at brightu.com.
	Just enter your name and email address there, and you can watch the entire docuseries for free, which begins streaming April 5th, which is a Saturday.
	So book that on your calendar and gain the wisdom from this extraordinary couple.
	That is working with us to get this knowledge out there.
	So thank you both for being here today.
	Yeah, thank you.
	Yeah, thank you.
	Great to have you here.
	Great to great to be here.
	We we love you being here.
	You're welcome back anytime.
	Okay, and we're building another studio that will have a kitchen set, right?
	Oh, boy.
	Yeah, this is youngsters.
	Well, we're gonna be doing King tinctures and sprouting and also blenders.
	Oh, like smoothie recipes.
	I'm actually going to show people.
	How to open avocados without stabbing yourself.
	Oh, nice.
	Yeah, that's that's a special skill.
	Okay, so go safe.
	Yeah, good, good, good stuff coming.
	Yeah, that's awesome.
	Thank you all for watching today.
	Mike Adams here of brighteon.com.

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