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April 29, 2025 - Health Ranger - Mike Adams

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BBN, Apr 29, 2025 – EMPTY SHELVES RED ALERT as imports plummet and Americans face supply chain colla

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	Welcome to Brighteon Broadcast News with Mike Adams, the Health Ranger.
	Welcome to the special Empty Shelves episode of Brighteon Broadcast News for Tuesday, April 29th, 2025.
	I'm Mike Adams here, singer-songwriter, Health Ranger.
	Yeah, today I have a new song for you, of course.
	And the name of the song?
	Oh, same name as this broadcast.
	It's called Empty Shelves.
	Yeah, because, of course, we are going to talk about empty shelves here, because that's exactly what is about to happen.
	And then I have a very special, well-researched report for you about the most likely items that are going to run out because they come from China, items that you should consider stocking up on.
	And most of these items you can get at local grocery stores or hardware stores or, you know, Walmarts or whatever.
	Home Depot, etc.
	But you may not have thought about some of these items, and we are on a time...
	I mean, like, the fuse is lit, okay?
	The ports on the West Coast are starting to go empty of vessels from China.
	Like, nobody's showing up, okay?
	China has stopped shipping a very substantial portion of what they normally ship.
	I had read last week it was down...
	30%.
	Now I'm hearing it's more like 50%.
	Maybe it's more now.
	Maybe it's 60%.
	The Chinese manufacturers are laying off people like crazy, just letting go of all their workers.
	Well, a lot of their workers.
	And American buyers and American importers have just basically stopped placing orders because they don't know what the products are going to cost because there's about a three-week shipping delay from China.
	Roughly three to four weeks is Pretty typical, you know, from China to the West Coast.
	And during that time, Trump could wake up one day and say, you know, 500% tariffs or whatever.
	Or he could say, we're ending the tariffs.
	Like, nobody knows.
	So, and by the way, this podcast today, this is not commentary on Trump.
	Whether you love what Trump is doing with tariffs or you despise what Orange Man is doing with tariffs, that's irrelevant to this podcast.
	This is about the fact...
	That China has stopped exporting to a very large degree, and so product shortages are now built in.
	The fuse is lit, empty shelves are coming, and the normal people, the normies as they're called, they have no idea what is about to happen.
	And the empty shelves are going to ripple across America, and you're going to start seeing it literally next month.
	Well, I mean, I guess that's only two days away next month, but I mean, within 30 days, you're going to start seeing empty shelves.
	And at first, they won't be horrible.
	At first, you'll just notice there's some low inventory, low stock, whatever, a few items here and there.
	And then, given another four weeks or so, then you're going to notice that, hey, these aren't getting replenished.
	There's, like, the restocking is not happening.
	And even if Trump ends the tariff war, which seems highly unlikely at this point, it's not clear that China would even resume exports.
	It's also just a reality.
	It's a matter of fact that you can't flip those factories back on overnight.
	And even if you could, there's still this time delay of getting products made and getting them on the ships and getting them to the ports, etc.
	So we are already screwed in America.
	I mean, we are at minimum going to experience a few months of empty shelves in certain product areas.
	Again, I'll cover the full list here in my report today.
	And by the way, tomorrow we will resume covering forbidden cures and, you know, hidden medical truths and just amazing things.
	I've already done a lot of research.
	And my new Enoch AI engine is proving to be absolutely amazing at doing the research.
	For all of these articles and podcasts that I'm bringing you, because I'm using Enoch AI every single day in my own research, and we're also expanding the knowledge set constantly.
	In fact, I had a pretty big breakthrough today.
	It's pretty amazing.
	I tell you, my brain has just been rocking ever since I got on the CMAX peptides, which I mentioned a couple days ago.
	I don't know.
	Maybe I'll mention them later.
	I mean, I'm able to get so much done right now, it's insane.
	It's absolutely insane in terms of just producing articles and also new documentaries.
	I've got several new mini-documentaries coming out now that are going to be just freaking amazing.
	The first one's on DMSO, by the way.
	And then we're doing a mini-documentary on green tea, which we talked about yesterday, and other forbidding cures and so on.
	But it's a good thing that we can function at high efficiency right now because World events are moving very, very quickly.
	And I dare say, most people can't keep up.
	They don't know what's about to hit the U.S. economy, the U.S. supply chain, etc.
	So I thought I would create a song about this.
	And it's a funny story how this song came about.
	I'll play it for you here in a second.
	It's a satire song.
	It's called Empty Shelves.
	It's vocalized with a happy, uplifting female vocalist, obviously an AI vocalist.
	But at first, I wanted to do a song called Empty Shelves that was to the tune of the Christmas song known as Silver Bells.
	You know the song?
	Silver bells, silver bells.
	You know the song?
	It's Christmas time in the city.
	And so I thought...
	Empty shelves, right?
	Empty shelves.
	We gotta get out of this city.
	So I put in these lyrics, and at first I was like, let's see if I can get Suno, the music AI engine, to do kind of like a Silver Bells type of Christmas song, which it completely failed to do.
	And apparently it just doesn't work that way.
	You can't tell it, like, what song you want it to sound like.
	It doesn't do Al Yankovic-style parody songs, unfortunately, because that would be hilarious.
	And so, in the prompt, I said I wanted it to be, like, holiday Christmas seasonal music with, you know, traditional Christmas instruments and everything.
	So it was giving me these hilarious songs, like, jingle bells, empty shelves, all across the city, you know.
	And it was like, people are never going to get this.
	Like, why is it Christmas music?
	You know, I can already hear you asking me, why is it Christmas music?
	And then I would have to explain because it's supposed to be silver bells, but it's not silver bells.
	It doesn't even, it doesn't really work.
	So instead, I changed it to a progressive electronica style with an upbeat happy female vocalist to try to turn it into satire.
	And then I decided the best way to illustrate this would be to use Japanese anime.
	Combined.
	With images of a Mad Max dystopian collapse.
	So, that's what you're about to see.
	Happy Christmas, well, it started out as Christmas music, morphed into progressive electronica with happy female vocals illustrated with Japanese anime with a Mad Max overlay theme of a collapsed society.
	Okay, sound good?
	And it works!
	Well, I mean, you be the judge.
	You tell me if it works.
	But here's what I came up with.
	Enjoy the music video.
	Empty shelves.
	And remember, it's satire, okay?
	It's satire.
	Don't email me like, why are you talking about guns?
	It's a joke, okay?
	It's a joke.
	I'm not saying it's actually not everything's going to turn into Mad Max.
	It's a joke.
	But that's what makes it so funny.
	So check out the music video.
	Here we go.
	Empty shelves.
	Empty shelves, empty shelves It's empty shelves in the city See them bare, here and there Shortages are sure not pretty It's alright, please don't fight If you get hurt it would be a pity Empty shelves,
	save yourselves We gotta get out of this city The shelves are empty We've got no left We'll take their stuff and
	dash Empty shelves, empty shelves It's empty shelves in the city We gotta get out of this city.
	The power grid failed two weeks ago.
	Now the beast side of people is starting to show.
	I wish I had stockpiled some extra supplies.
	I don't want to be a hoarder, but I'd love to be alive.
	We're lucky that I found this fully loaded.
	I might have to ventilate someone who's trying to rob us blind.
	If you see someone coming, be cool, don't make a scene.
	Keep them busy while I empty my magazine.
	Empty shelves, empty shelves.
	It's empty shelves in the city.
	Seen unfair, here and there.
	Shorty jazz, it's short, not pretty.
	It's alright, please don't fight.
	If you get hurt, it would be a pity.
	Empty shelves, save yourselves.
	We gotta get out of this city.
	Empty shelves, empty shelves.
	It's empty shelves in the city.
	Don't be scared, we're well prepared.
	Strap as shit and pretty.
	Empty shelves, let's see what else is gonna be problematic.
	50 rounds, I say it sounds like a semi-automatic.
	Empty shelves, empty shelves in the city.
	Empty shelves in the city.
	Alright, so there you go.
	There's the new song, Empty Shelves.
	Now again, remember this is...
	I know it's dark, but it's satire, okay?
	I mean, who else is going to do Japanese anime-style Mad Max thematic?
	With female vocalists, like happy uplifting vocals, with a doomsday message.
	And what's funny, actually if you read the words, it's, you know, the humor comes, at least dark humor.
	Like the first verse, the shelves are empty, we've got no lights, the people are hungry, they're starting to fight.
	I think I heard gunshots in aisle five.
	Go check and see if they're still alive.
	And then here, it gets hilarious.
	Check their pockets for wallets and cash.
	Grab some snack chips and exit fast.
	So you think they're going to help somebody, but no, they're just going to loot them.
	See, that's the satire part, right?
	That society has collapsed so much, it's all about looting.
	If you spot someone with extra stash, we'll take their stuff and dash.
	Yeah.
	And in case you couldn't understand some of the words, because in the later verses they got the music kind of...
	Drown out some of the verses.
	It says that the power grid failed two weeks ago.
	Now the beast side of people is starting to show.
	I wish I had stockpiled some extra supplies.
	I don't want to be a hoarder, but I'd love to be alive.
	Love that line, right?
	That makes sense.
	We're lucky that I found this fully loaded nine.
	You know what that means.
	Might have to ventilate someone who's trying to rob us blind.
	If you see someone coming, be cool, don't make a scene.
	Keep them busy while I empty my magazine, right?
	So these are like hardcore ghetto rap lyrics now, which should add to the humor of this for people who have a sense of humor.
	And then the final verse, in case you're wondering, it says, empty shelves, empty shelves, it's empty shelves in the city.
	Don't be scared.
	We're well prepared.
	Strapped and sitting pretty.
	You know, the language of rap music strapped means you're, you know, you're packing heat.
	That's what that means.
	Empty shelves.
	Let's see what else is going to be problematic.
	50 rounds.
	I say it sounds like a semi-automatic, right?
	So those are the lines.
	And in my mind, it's hilarious.
	But for people who don't share our little twisted dark humor, they might think it's intimidating or something.
	Or like psychologically fragile, you know, Gen Z people.
	You know, they can't imagine.
	Empty shelves.
	Or the internet going down.
	Which sort of brings me to today's breaking news.
	You know, the power grid failed across like half of Europe.
	I mean, maybe that's an exaggeration.
	Maybe it's not half of Europe.
	But it's a lot of Europe.
	Power grid went down.
	So here's the official report.
	Residents in Spain, Portugal, France, and Belgium report major outages.
	Airports and subways shut down.
	Communication networks hit.
	Madrid's Barajas airport is out of service.
	El Mundo reports no official cause confirmed, yet chaos unfolds.
	This is the official report from Nexta TV out of Western Europe.
	There are all kinds of videos.
	This practically took down elements of the European grid.
	It threatened the entire European grid.
	Now, what's kind of hilarious about this is that one of the countries impacted had bragged just two weeks ago that they were finally 100% renewable energy.
	Let's see.
	Spain's grid ran entirely on renewable energy for the first time on April 16th, with wind, solar, and hydro meeting all peninsular electricity demand during a weekday.
	And then five days later, solar set a new record.
	And this was published April 22nd, so less than a week ago.
	So Spain hits 100% renewable power.
	And then here we are a week later, it craters.
	Why am I laughing?
	Empty shelves, empty shelves.
	Blackout grid, blackout grid.
	The never know what we did, you know, the song writes itself practically.
	The power grid has failed.
	Remember how I said Western Europe is a failed subcontinent, you know?
	It's going down.
	And they refuse to power their societies.
	They refuse to use power.
	I mean, they do.
	They refuse gas.
	They refuse coal.
	They refuse to use their own gas in their own ground.
	You know, because they're all climate lunatics.
	I mean, the leaders, not the people, but the lunatics in charge, they refuse to tap their own energy, so they want to use things that don't really scale.
	And then when it's extra hot outside, all of a sudden the power grid fails.
	Good luck!
	And then when the power grid fails, what happens?
	Well, you don't have electricity to pump gas or diesel or fuel, and so then the trucks can't roll.
	And then when the trucks don't roll, What do you get on grocery store shelves?
	Empty shelves.
	Empty shelves.
	Got to get out of this city.
	So massive blackouts, okay?
	And apparently they're saying it might be a week before they can get this sorted out.
	I'm sure they'll get parts of it back online.
	But for the whole thing to come back, it might take a week, maybe longer.
	We don't really know.
	And what are these people supposed to do in the dark?
	Well, I guess they can sit around singing the song, Empty Shelves, because that's what's coming also.
	Now, in the U.S., our power grid has not failed recently, but our shelves are going empty.
	And that's the topic of today's podcast, and that's what's coming.
	But think about this.
	Think about how fragile our society is.
	Like an old Sting song, or was it The Police?
	How fragile we are?
	I think that was Sting, not The Police.
	How fragile we are, right?
	Our societies are fragile.
	And the redundancies that are supposed to be built into the system are not built into the system.
	The governments aren't creating redundancies or resilience.
	There's a term, and I'm not sure about the name of the author who came up with this term, but I think this is the name of his book called Anti-Fragile.
	And I'd like to give him credit, but I don't want to get the name wrong.
	So it's Anti-Fragile.
	And in order for us to have a sustainable civilization and in order for us to live with a sense of confidence, security, etc., we need to practice a lifestyle that is anti-fragile.
	Governments are supposed to be anti-fragile.
	In other words, they're supposed to be resilient, but they aren't.
	They are very fragile, and they actually eliminate redundancy, and they create risk by doing things like shutting down coal and natural gas power plants that are easily scalable.
	Because solar doesn't scale.
	You can't just turn on more sunlight when you need more energy.
	And wind doesn't scale.
	You can't turn on more wind.
	You know, the wind blows as it wants.
	And just because people are using more air conditioning doesn't mean you get more wind.
	Unless, as I joked, all the European leaders want to stand outside and just blow.
	Which probably would be a better use of their time rather than making new laws.
	We should encourage them to go blow each other and see if that might create more electricity.
	That's actually a pretty good piece of advice for the European leaders.
	In any case, you can't scale that stuff, okay?
	And you can't really scale hydroelectric very well.
	There's some ability to do so by allowing more water to go through.
	But when water levels are low, you don't really have that choice.
	Coal and gas, you could scale it.
	You know?
	You could shovel more coal into the burner.
	I mean, not that they use shovels anymore, but you can crank it up.
	And even nuclear, you can crank it up, you know?
	Crank up the fuel rods!
	What do you do?
	You remove the, what do they call it, the barriers that block the fuel rods?
	You remove those, and then they heat up the water faster, and then you can drive more turbines faster with the steam, and so you can scale nuclear power.
	You can't scale solar.
	There's no dimming knob for sunlight.
	Although I'm sure the freaking globalists would love to have a dim knob because they want to achieve global dimming, which is why they're trying to pollute the skies and block the sun.
	They want global dimming, but there is no dim knob for the sun.
	Thank God.
	So Spain has no functioning traffic lights, which is confusing tourists there because they think they're in India.
	Where there are no functioning traffic lights on any day.
	Okay, okay.
	I tease the Indians.
	I shouldn't mess with them.
	They have nukes and they're in a very threatening mood because of the border fiasco with Pakistan, right?
	I shouldn't tease the Indians.
	I'm sorry.
	I take that back.
	You do have traffic lights.
	You just don't like to watch them, pay attention to them.
	That's all.
	All traffic lights in India are considered optional.
	It's kind of like the same way that illegal aliens consider the shoulder on Texas highways.
	They think it's a third lane.
	They're like, I thought it was a third lane.
	I'm just driving on the lane.
	Why you bother me?
	La policia, you bother me?
	I'm driving in the third lane.
	It's the shoulder, pal.
	It's the shoulder.
	You can't drive on the shoulder.
	Oh, I thought it was the third lane.
	You can't drive on a shoulder unless you're going to turn right.
	I'm going to turn right.
	Sooner or later, I'm going to turn right.
	I'm going to keep driving on a shoulder until I turn right.
	Okay, Mr. Policeman?
	Okay, enough traffic.
	Today's traffic report.
	Anyway, it's a nightmare all over these European countries, okay?
	And it just shows you how fragile the system is.
	Now, don't forget, That our power grid is not that robust either in the United States.
	Don't forget to have a backup power system.
	And yes, I'm going to mention our sponsor here, the Satellite Phone Store, because they have solar generators.
	Solar generators.
	So you can just roll out these solar panels.
	You can charge up.
	Basically, it's a lithium-ion charge controlling device with a built-in inverter.
	And then you can power all your electronics with it.
	And small blenders or even small refrigerators, depending on the size.
	You can check that out at sat123.com.
	It's also a good reason to get a satellite phone because if the power goes down, you only have a certain number of battery hours or generator hours on the cell towers.
	And after the cell towers go down, you got nothing.
	You got nothing.
	You got your mobile phones, your internet.
	A lot of it just fails.
	So that's when you're going to want your sat phone.
	So take advantage of that, sat123.com.
	Now, back in the United States, even if the power grid is up, the shelves are still going to go empty.
	So we're going to go to the special report next, which I'm going to do a new intro for it here because I'm going to make it a standalone report.
	So here it is, the special report about the China export embargo, in essence, and what we should stockpile before America runs out.
	Here we go.
	Welcome to this urgent report.
	I'm Mike Adams, the Health Ranger.
	It's called the China export embargo.
	What to stockpile now before America runs out.
	And as I've been mentioning in my podcast, most Americans are still not aware that shelves are about to go empty.
	Now, I don't mean all shelves and all things.
	I'm talking about the things that are made in China.
	But very few consumers are aware of what's made in China.
	So they really have no idea of what's going to go empty.
	And I'm talking about empty shelves across grocery stores, hardware stores, auto parts stores, even like agriculture supply stores, tractor supply gets a lot of stuff from China, etc.
	You know, Home Depot, Lowe's, Best Buy, Walmart's obviously, you know, Target, Amazon.
	This is a real crisis unfolding.
	And so I'm going to urge you to consider this.
	List of items.
	I'm going to give you some categories and some very important items that you may want to consider stockpiling because they're made in China.
	And the truth is, we don't know when we're going to be able to get any more of this stuff.
	Now, I'm stockpiling items, but I kind of do that all the time anyway.
	I'm a prepper.
	I stockpile ranch supplies and nuts and bolts and screws and polyurethane washers and things.
	Because I've got to fix tractors and things like that, you know?
	I've got to run irrigation lines, and so I always get a lot of extra supplies.
	But most people don't have that luxury, or even the storage space, frankly.
	And so they don't have a lot of extra supplies, which means that as the shelves go bare of these items that I'm about to cover here, people are going to panic.
	They're going to freak out.
	And I've even written a music video.
	Well, a song and music video called Empty Shelves.
	It's satire.
	It's kind of funny.
	Japanese anime Mad Max themes combined with a happy female voice in an upbeat electronica music style.
	So I'll play that for you at the end of this report.
	But let's jump right into it.
	Again, I'm not saying that all shelves are going to go empty.
	But the thing is, many shelves will be empty.
	Many items will be gone within...
	30 days, and then others will be out within 6 weeks or 8 weeks or maybe 90 days for a few items.
	And then the question is, when are they coming back in stock?
	We don't even know.
	None of us know.
	Trump doesn't know.
	Or at least we don't know what his plans are.
	I'm not sure he does.
	I think this is a very dynamic, unpredictable situation.
	And probably China doesn't even know.
	And even if Chinese goods get routed through other countries, Like, ship to Mexico, and then Mexico touches it and says, made in Mexico, you know, slaps a Mexico sticker on it and then drives it across the border to the U.S. on a commercial truck.
	Even if that happens, which it probably will, those products are going to be a lot more expensive because of all the extra road miles and time and effort of offloading it in Mexico and then transporting it to the United States instead of just offloading it in a port in California.
	So here we go.
	Category 1, food, agriculture, and food processing.
	Did you know a lot of meat products are actually processed in China like pork?
	Now, I don't eat pork personally, except occasionally bacon.
	But I don't eat like pork chops.
	A lot of people eat a lot of pork.
	Chinese eat tons of pork for some reason.
	Pork's going to be gone from U.S. shells for quite some time.
	Chicken and beef and other products, but also vegetables.
	And frozen fruits, frozen vegetables as well, not just other forms, but some processed foods, packaged foods, a lot of them are actually made in China, and then they're shipped to the United States.
	Gone.
	Vitamins.
	Did you know that almost all vitamin C comes from China?
	Not our vitamin C, by the way, at healthrangerstore.com.
	We buy non-China, non-GMO vitamin C that is very expensive, it turns out.
	And we've done that for years.
	We just don't buy vitamin C from China, but almost everybody else does.
	Like literally 99.9% of the vitamin C in the world comes from China.
	That's going to be gone, including agricultural vitamin C, but also B vitamins and many other vitamins.
	And by the way, extracts of herbs and extracts, like nutrient extracts, like let's say I was doing a report on green tea yesterday.
	If you want green tea extract powder, That's rich in polyphenols and catechins, because that's what's in green tea.
	That comes out of China for the most part.
	There may be a company that offers that out of India, possibly.
	Maybe there's a company in Japan.
	Maybe there is, but they don't have as much supply if they even exist, and certainly they're a lot more expensive.
	So even if you can find replacements for these things, a lot of nutritional supplements, all the amino acids, all you like...
	Gym monkeys out there that are taking, like, you know, get swole giant amino acids to build bulk or whatever.
	That's gone.
	You're not going to have any of that.
	Because all that comes out of China.
	But even if you can find supplies, they're going to be a lot more expensive.
	For the homesteaders out there, canning supplies, the lids, the jars, the seals, the pressure cookers, everything comes out of China.
	The spices, many spices come from China.
	Dehydrated fruits and things like garlic powder, onion powder, etc.
	China, China, China.
	Garden hoses, garden products, O-rings for your hoses, garden hose timers, irrigation, drip devices, the little drippers, the quarter-inch line that you connect your drippers to, all that stuff, China.
	Fertilizers, okay?
	Ammonium phosphate, the potash, the urea, the sulfur, and the sulfate products, etc.
	China dominates the market.
	Now, Russia makes a lot of those products, but America has a trade embargo against Russia.
	So, you know, what geniuses we are.
	We cut off Russia, no fertilizer for you, and then we cut off China, no more fertilizer for you.
	So you're going to be shoveling like goat poop.
	Pretty soon you'll be chasing around goats and horses and donkeys trying to shovel their poop into your garden.
	That's the only fertilizer you're going to get.
	Don't use biosolids because that's human feces from your local sewage plant.
	They call it fertilizer because it contains nitrogen.
	But if you look at it under a microscope, by the way, it also contains ground up...
	I almost hate to say it.
	Okay.
	The nice way to say it is microplastics.
	The direct, blunt way to say it is ground-up hygiene products that were flushed down the toilet.
	That's in the biosolids.
	That's sold by the city of Milwaukee.
	It's called milorganite because they think people are stupid enough to think that that means it's organic.
	They even call it organic.
	And in Austin, Texas, it's called dillodirt.
	It's not from dillos.
	It's not dirt.
	It's shit.
	It's Austin.
	Woke shit for sale as garden fertilizer.
	Sorry about the profanity, but that's what it is, folks.
	That's what it is.
	If you're growing your food in human shit, you're probably going to get sick.
	I'm just saying.
	You don't want to do that.
	You want fertilizers and you want nutrients and so on, garden amendments that are not sewage.
	I did a whole documentary on this.
	You can watch it for free if you want.
	It's at biosludged.com.
	Biosludged.com.
	Okay.
	Also, livestock, all the antibiotics that are used by cattle ranchers and goat ranchers and everybody else, chicken farmers, not me.
	I don't give my chickens antibiotics.
	But all kinds of feed additives almost all come out of China.
	That's all category one.
	That's all related to food.
	So there goes your farming.
	There goes your home food supply, your home garden.
	Kaboom.
	You're going to be living in the 19th century.
	Very quickly.
	Okay.
	Category 2. Electronics, computing, and communications.
	All this is made in China.
	I mean, you know, come on.
	The batteries, the LED lights, the walkie-talkies, the ham radios, the CB radios, the hard drives, computer motherboards, the routers, modems, point-to-point, you know, 5G radios and fiber optic cables and network devices,
	routers and switches.
	All that stuff.
	It all comes out of China.
	Okay?
	So, good luck without any of that.
	I mean, I've been panicked buying network cables and things like that because I'm running this massive data center for our AI training project, or Enoch AI.
	Oh, and I should tell you, Enoch, that's our AI engine, actually came up with most of this list.
	I gave Enoch some categories, like 10 or 12 categories, and then it kind of filled out the list.
	And I added to it.
	So it's a great research engine.
	Category 3, medicines and personal care products.
	So all kinds of hospital medications come out of China.
	Antibiotics like, you know, zithromycin, amoxicillin, Cipro even, for example.
	But also a lot of over-the-counter medications.
	Ibuprofen, acetaminophen, aspirin.
	Generic drugs come out of China.
	Even a lot of ivermectin that is sold in the United States.
	Veterinary ivermectin is what I recommend.
	Almost all of it's made in China.
	Some of it's made in India, some of it's made in Puerto Rico, but a lot of it's made in China.
	By the way, if you want to stockpile ivermectin, go to rangerdeals.com and right there you're going to see our ivermectin supplier for pet mectin.
	It's ivermectin labeled for pets.
	12 mg tablets.
	Which is just the right size.
	So check that out.
	You don't need a prescription.
	It's over-the-counter.
	It's for pets.
	So you always want to have extra supplies for your pets.
	By the way, a lot of pet supplies are also made in China.
	Everything.
	The pet beds, the pet leashes, the pet everything.
	The toys, all of it.
	Medications, including blood pressure medications, diabetes medications.
	I don't know where all the insulin comes from.
	But the supply chain for insulin is probably going to get wrecked, is just my guess, or at least stressed.
	I'm not trying to cause anybody to panic here because insulin, you know, it doesn't store that long.
	It doesn't have a long shelf life.
	But think about this.
	Think about if this tariff war continues, think about the stress on the supply chain.
	And if you're, let's say, if you're a type 2 diabetic right now listening to this, you either need to Get more insulin or get healed.
	Get Jesus into your life and heal your diabetes.
	No, you don't even need Jesus to do that.
	God already gave you all the foods and herbs and nutrients and everything.
	You can cure type 2 diabetes.
	I know that because I brought myself back from type 2 diabetes decades ago.
	And that's one reason why I drink avocado smoothies.
	Yeah, there's a very specific reason with whey protein in it.
	Yeah.
	I don't drink soda.
	I don't do sugars and white bread and soda pop and all that garbage.
	I do high-quality whey protein that, of course, we make ourselves, healthrangerstore.com, high-quality organic avocados, which are becoming very expensive because they're priced by the Mexican avocado cartels.
	But I don't care.
	I need them.
	I need them.
	I'm willing to pay anything for the avocados.
	I'm doing some bananas from Ecuador.
	I'm doing turmeric powder that we get from India.
	Sometimes we get turmeric powder from other countries, but India is a good source for that.
	And I'm doing all these superfoods, sprouted, like broccoli sprouts, rich with sulforaphane, and then I'm putting in black cumin seed oil, etc.
	I'm never going to get diabetes.
	Never going to get diabetes.
	It's impossible.
	Given my diet.
	For me to get diabetes, I would have to just start drinking soda pop and eating ice cream and Pop-Tarts and just, like, mixing sugar with milk and drinking it with a straw.
	And, yeah, that would cause diabetes.
	For sure.
	Or just going to a store and, like, stockpiling Little Debbie snacks, you know?
	Like that cop in Die Hard who knew the ingredients of the Twikies.
	Remember that guy?
	What was his name?
	Reginald?
	Wasn't it Reginald or is that the actor's name?
	Die Hard.
	The best Christmas movie ever.
	Alright.
	Val Johnson.
	Is that his name?
	Wow.
	My memory's coming back.
	Reginald Val Johnson?
	Is that his name?
	You know, the cop.
	Nakatomi Plaza.
	All that.
	Gotta watch that again.
	Okay.
	Moving on.
	Toothpaste.
	Shampoo.
	Shaving razors.
	Latex gloves.
	Like, I just ordered a bunch of latex gloves because I use them in the lab.
	I'm using them with the microscope.
	I love the purple gloves.
	Those are my favorite.
	Toothpaste.
	Now, most toothpaste comes from China, and it's mostly crap, by the way.
	Now, here's where we can offer you a much better alternative.
	We have the best toothpaste.
	Check out the ingredients.
	It's absolutely amazing.
	Of course, we don't use fluoride at all.
	We have it at healthrangerstore.com if you want high-quality shampoo, body soap, toothpaste, laundry detergent, automatic dishwasher detergent, no fragrance chemicals, no environmentally harmful chemicals.
	No garbage, no crap.
	Like, really, really healthy stuff.
	Very good for you.
	That's what we sell.
	But, you know, we're much smaller than, let's say, Procter& Gamble or Walmart.
	We can't supply all of America.
	We can only supply our own audience, and even that sometimes is a challenge because of the supply chain problem.
	So just think about where you're getting all this stuff.
	Where does it come from?
	I mean, there's even going to be shortages in adult diapers because...
	When the normies show up at the grocery store and the shelves are empty, they're going to crap themselves.
	And they're going to say, where's aisle 7 diapers?
	Yeah, they're made in China.
	They're gone.
	Good luck, stinky pants.
	Yeah.
	You should have planned ahead.
	N95 masks, not that you and I walk around wearing them all day long, but they are used in surgical rooms and hospitals, etc.
	And all the medical PPE, it's all made in China.
	Okay, that's all Category 3. Category 4, home repair, construction, plumbing, electronics, everything that goes into building a home, repairing a home, or a commercial building.
	Think about it.
	Think about everything that's at Home Depot, let's say, or Lowe's, or the hardware store.
	You know, PVC pipes, all the fittings, the PEX pipes, all the connectors, all the crimpers, all the tools, the tubing, the piping, the lines.
	The light fixtures, everything.
	Nails, screws, bolts, fasteners.
	All that stuff.
	And you never have the right one.
	You notice that?
	You can have a collection of 10,000 bolts and screws and nuts and washers and the one you need isn't in that set.
	Have you noticed that?
	It drives me bonkers.
	I buy all these sets and never have the right one.
	And by the way, just as a side note, the metric system is the only way to go.
	I love...
	When screws are like M3, M4, M5, M6, M means metric, and the number is millimeters, and it refers to the diameter of the stem of the screw.
	So if it's an M5 screw, you know it's 5 millimeters.
	Makes total sense.
	Everything should be metric.
	Instead, we have these imperial systems like 17 64ths.
	What?
	Well, what's the pitch?
	The pitch is number 42. It's like...
	What does that even mean?
	The metric system is so much better.
	It's like, oh, it's an M5 screw and the pitch is.7 millimeters.
	That makes sense.
	You know,.7 millimeters per rotation of the thread, right?
	It makes sense.
	The imperial system is like these crazy fractions with weird numbers with hashtags.
	It's like nobody even knows what that means.
	Seriously, try to buy screws in the imperial system and you'll go insane.
	And you'll never get the right screw.
	You'll end up having to make your own version or something.
	Hand tools, wrenches, pliers, hammers, right?
	Grabbers, grippers, splicers, all that stuff.
	I always also find every time I'm working on some ranch equipment engine or something or some hydraulic connector, like I never have the tool!
	I never have...
	I have all these tools.
	I have this amazing collection of tools, but the job that needs fixing today...
	I don't have that tool.
	It's like a special tool.
	Like one time, I had to take the pin out of one of the pivot points on my excavator.
	And to get the pin out, there's this like C clamp.
	It's like a C-shaped metal clamp.
	It's actually just like a spring.
	It's a C-shaped metal spring that you have to spread apart with a spreader.
	A spreader tool.
	It's a special tool with little...
	Little like prongs in it.
	You got to put them in the holes and you got to spread it out and then it comes off easily.
	But without the tool, you're screwed.
	You can't do it.
	You can't get it off of there.
	It's impossible.
	So this is going to get interesting.
	That's for sure.
	All the cordless power tools that you know and love.
	My favorite brand is Milwaukee.
	Their stuff works.
	There's also a DeWalt brand, which is for...
	Children's toys.
	If you want power tools that resemble children's toys, purchase DeWalt brand.
	If you want power tools that actually get things done, buy Milwaukee.
	There's also other brands like Ryobi, which is a good brand, and what are some of the others?
	There's a Japanese brand that's also pretty good.
	I forgot the name of it.
	I think Lowe's has an in-house brand that's pretty good.
	I've bought them all.
	I just go with Milwaukee.
	It's the one that just works.
	Just always works.
	Hey, speaking of brands, by the way, if you ever have to change tires and you think you're going to be living in a collapse scenario, you need a product called Bead Buster.
	Bead Buster.
	I own three of them.
	Bead Buster allows you to take the tire off a rim without having to have a giant tire-changing machine.
	You can do it yourself with just an impact wrench or a ratchet.
	I mean, it takes time, but it works.
	I've done it.
	It's great.
	Beadbuster, seriously.
	Don't get the imitation ones made in China because they're crap.
	Get the actual beadbuster, which may be made in China, but it's got different specs, and there's different sizes of them.
	Get the new one.
	They just redesigned everything around Christmas time.
	The new ones have the letter I after the number.
	And you can get them from tractor tires all the way down to lawnmower tires or golf cart tires.
	You could use it on that new truck called Slate that's being promoted.
	It looks like a golf cart.
	It probably has little golf cart tires on it.
	This thing's a joke.
	Driving around town in my golf cart.
	It's probably got a little Fred Flintstone propulsion system where you can see your little legs going underneath.
	That's how you get around town.
	It doesn't have an engine, you know?
	It's got a little tiny battery with a maximum range of 150 miles.
	Like, who drives only 150 miles?
	Would you trust a truck that only had a range of 150 miles?
	What if you got stuck in traffic, but you still needed some air conditioning?
	What if you had to take a detour?
	What if there were an emergency?
	You know?
	What if there was a traffic problem?
	You had to go around.
	Golf cart, man.
	I'm not buying a golf cart.
	I'll take a diesel engine, thank you very much, but the parts come from China for all that stuff.
	Think of the oil filters, the diesel fuel filters, and then for the farm equipment, the hydraulic oil filters, right?
	There's all that stuff.
	And then the air filters for the engine.
	And then there's cabin filters for your cars inside.
	All this stuff is made in China.
	You know, the belts, the fans, the clamps, the sockets, the fuses, you know, all of it.
	It's all made in China.
	You have a fuse set for your car, for your truck?
	If you don't have a fuse set, you might be in trouble.
	By the way, everything for the solar power industry is made in China, it seems like.
	Everything.
	You know, the batteries, the connectors, the wires, the charge controllers, the inverters, many of the panels themselves.
	It's going to be hard to find that stuff when the supply chain dries up here.
	And also, don't forget about all your sealants, all your tapes and adhesives.
	So-called duct tape, but also other types of tape, mostly comes out of China.
	So, you know, good luck!
	Category 5, I kind of mentioned some of this.
	By the way, I'll have this full article posted at naturalnews.com.
	Category 5 is automotive, farming, and industrial supplies.
	So everything that I mentioned, you know, from the spark plugs, the brake pads, the tractor parts, the batteries, you know, batteries for your cars and trucks.
	For ATVs, bearings, hydraulic hoses, welding supplies, everything.
	Small engine parts for your generators.
	It's all made in China.
	There's a retailer called Harbor Freight.
	They should just call it China Freight because everything's made in China, as far as I can tell.
	I walked in Harbor Freight one time and was like, this is China Freight.
	This is like they unloaded a 40-foot container from China and just called it a store.
	Everything's made in China.
	Now, granted, they make it really affordable.
	I'm not saying bad things about Harbor Freight.
	If you want very affordable tools, you can go to Harbor Freight, you get a hammer for like $3 or $4.
	That's actually a good deal.
	But what happens when Trump slaps a 250% tariff on that hammer?
	It's going to be a $12 or $15 hammer.
	At that point, you might want to just get a better quality hammer at...
	Lowe's or something.
	You see what I'm saying?
	That's not made in China.
	Or maybe they're all made in China.
	But it's going to be rough.
	Okay, and then there's textiles, clothing, outdoor gear, everything from backpacks to work boots, winter coats, gloves, clothing, socks, all kinds of stuff, camping tents, sleeping gear, rain gear, wool blankets, and then all kinds of sewing supplies,
	sewing machines, thread.
	All the zippers, everything.
	Fishing gear also.
	It all comes out of China.
	So, you know, get what you need.
	I bought some extra shoes because I have a very specific kind of shoe that I'm really enjoying right now.
	I finally found a shoe that I love.
	And I'm not even going to say what it is.
	It doesn't matter.
	It's just I have, like, wide feet.
	It's hard for me to find really comfortable shoes that are naturally...
	Perfectly wide.
	Finally found the perfect wide shoe.
	So I'm buying several sets of them before they go missing.
	All right, so anyway, that's kind of the list.
	Those are the big categories right there.
	I want you to think about all these things.
	Did I mention anything that you're missing?
	I mean, there's a lot of things.
	This is just an overview.
	There are many other parts, many other things.
	That I did not mention, but hopefully this is giving you some reminders of some important things that you might want to stock up on now while you can.
	We probably have only a few weeks left until many of these items are completely out of stock.
	And then we don't know for how long they're going to be out of stock.
	Trump believes that American factories will just pop up out of the woodwork like mushrooms following a rain.
	It's just a bloop!
	Here's a factory.
	Now it's making toasters or whatever.
	It doesn't work that way.
	They're not going to just pop up.
	They can't find workers.
	American wages are also very high compared to China, so even if they can make products, they're going to be very expensive.
	We don't have the domestic infrastructure supply chain to provide things like raw materials and wires and components and plastics and resins and everything.
	That's needed to make stuff.
	We just don't have it.
	We don't have the expertise in America any longer to make much other than, like, missiles and weapons and things.
	Like, the defense industry gets a ton of money because it's just printed fake fiat currency, you know?
	It's just a magic money machine funding the weapons industry.
	So, yeah, of course, they keep their factories up and running, but everybody else, you know, has to compete in the free market.
	And how do you compete against the prices in China?
	You really can't for a lot of items.
	China makes it cheaper.
	So, yes, I encourage you, buy American wherever you can.
	Or buy Canadian.
	Buy North American.
	Even buy from Mexico.
	I mean, look, at this point, I'd like to support all Americans, all the way from Canada down to the southern tip of South America.
	We're all Americans.
	Let's buy American.
	Somewhere in the Americas is all fine with me.
	But they don't make everything that you need.
	It doesn't matter where you go in the Americas.
	You can't find these solutions.
	So the bottom line is the American people are going to go through a very interesting time.
	We don't know how long it's going to last.
	They're going to first panic.
	And then the smart ones will learn resilience.
	They'll learn to reuse, repurpose, and recycle products that they already have.
	Like, hey, don't throw that away.
	There's some good wires in that.
	You know, we could still use those wires, maybe.
	Like an old, you know, laundry machine that you chuck out the backyard, just rusting away in the backyard.
	Ah, there still could be some good parts in that thing, you know.
	Your yard starts getting junked up, you know, like a flea market or whatever.
	Hey, there could be some good parts back there.
	Don't throw that away.
	Turn your backyard into a junkyard.
	There could be some brake pads there.
	You might need that seat cushion one day.
	But that's the way people are going to function.
	Because you're not going to be able to find it.
	And you know who's going to do amazing business?
	Junkyards.
	Yeah, junkyards.
	Because everybody's going to go to those pick-apart places where they let you walk in there and you dismantle whatever part you think you need.
	And then you take it up to the counter.
	You're like, here, I got this.
	What is it?
	This is the motor for the windshield wiper.
	Okay, $20.
	Okay, you know, whatever.
	You go pick your own part.
	That's going to be a thriving business.
	Also, like, handyman type of services, repair services.
	Anybody who can get something working again, who can fix a refrigerator, who can fix a laundry machine, who can, you know, source parts for engines.
	That's going to be a thriving business.
	People who can fix tires instead of just chucking them.
	It's going to be a big business.
	There's going to be a lot of people using a lot of super glue, it turns out.
	Resins and welding plastic back together.
	There's going to be a lot of that going on.
	So think about the glues, the tapes, anything that fuses things together.
	I've got a pretty good supply of that stuff.
	Epoxy is actually my go-to.
	There's a brand called JB Weld, which is a brand of epoxy.
	I can't live without JB Weld on my ranch.
	Like, one time, I had a diesel tank.
	It started leaking.
	It was an older diesel tank.
	Of course, it just starts leaking.
	Like, diesel starts slowly dripping out the bottom.
	Like, oh my god, it's a 500-gallon tank.
	Like, I can't empty this tank.
	What am I going to do?
	Well, JB Weld to the rescue, you know?
	How do you fix a hole while diesel fuel is flowing through it?
	Well, it turns out there's epoxy for that.
	And it's called JB Weld.
	And there are other epoxies.
	There are epoxies for underwater repairs.
	They work underwater.
	There's all kinds of stuff like that.
	So think about all that chemistry, all the welds and resins and epoxies and glues that you might need to keep things running.
	Because you may not be able to get the parts.
	The parts you have might break.
	Things are going to run down and wear out.
	You're going to have to figure out how to make it work.
	Actually, this is going to be a really good lesson for a lot of Americans who haven't had to think about how things work.
	It's going to be a tough time, but tough times make strong people.
	You know what?
	We're all going to have to be a little bit MacGyver for the next few months, maybe a couple years.
	I don't know how long this lasts.
	I don't mind it.
	As I told you, my friends, the nickname they have for me is Mike Guyver.
	So it's like every time there's something that needs fixing and then I show them this crazy fix, they're like, Mike Guyver strikes again!
	You know?
	I've become a MacGyver type of person by living in the country.
	It's actually a good experience.
	You learn how to fix everything, or nearly everything, but I still need parts.
	I need tools.
	And it's going to be rough for me, too.
	So I'll tell you what.
	Here's what we're going to do.
	I've got my music video called Empty Shelves.
	I'm going to play that for you here today.
	It's a satire video.
	Don't take it too seriously.
	It's a Japanese anime style with a Mad Max theme and a satire message that you may or may not find funny.
	I find it hilarious.
	But I'll leave that up to you.
	And then if you want to hear more of my broadcasts and podcasts, check out my channel on brighteon.com.
	You can see it.
	It's HRR.
	I'm usually on the front page somewhere.
	My channel is HR Report.
	I also have Brighteon Broadcast News, which is BBN.
	You'll see those symbols, the thumbnails.
	You'll see that.
	You can also find me at naturalnews.com.
	I know there's a lot of sites to remember.
	I'm on X at HealthRanger.
	Brightown.social, HealthRanger.
	Brightown.io, also HealthRanger.
	And I'm on Telegram at RealHealthRanger.
	And no, on Telegram, I will not ask you to buy crypto.
	So if somebody asks you to buy crypto and they say they're me, that's not me.
	I would never do that.
	I would ask to sell you nuts and bolts or washers, probably things like that.
	But I would not ask you to buy crypto.
	Alright, so thank you for listening.
	Check out all my other reports on the websites I just mentioned.
	But primarily, Brighttown.com and get ready.
	It's going to get interesting.
	Take care now.
	Empty shelves, empty shelves.
	It's empty shelves in the city.
	See them bare here and there.
	Shortages are sure not pretty.
	It's alright, please don't fight.
	If you get hurt, it would be a pity.
	Empty shelves, save yourselves.
	We've got to get out of this city.
	The shelves are empty.
	We've got no lights The people are hungry And they're starting to fight I think I heard gunshots in aisle five Go check and see if they're still alive Check their pockets for wallets and cash And grab some snack chips and exit fast If you spot someone with extra stash We'll take their stuff and dash Empty shelves,
	empty shelves It's empty shelves The power grid failed two weeks ago.
	Now the beast side of people is starting to show.
	I wish I had stockpiled some extra supplies I don't wanna be a hoarder, but I'd love to be alive We're lucky that I found this fully loaded I might have to ventilate someone who's trying to rob us blind If you see someone coming, be cool, don't make a scene Keep
	them busy while I empty my magazine Empty shelves, empty shelves It's empty shelves in the city Sweet and fair, here and there Shortages are short, not pretty It's alright,
	please don't fight If you get hurt, you'd be a pity Empty shelves, save yourselves We gotta get out of this city Empty shelves, empty shelves It's empty shelves in the city
	Don't be scared, we're well prepared Strapped and shit and pretty Empty shelves, let's see what else is gonna be problematic 50 rounds, I say it sounds like a semi-automatic
	Empty shelves, empty shelves Get out of this city Empty shelves, empty shelves Not gonna be pretty Bye.
	All right, welcome back.
	We're going to go to some Bright Learn AI videos and then also we've got an interview today for you about preparedness.
	In fact, I think I want to play the interview with Alex Mitchell from Arc Seeds because seed kits are really critical right now.
	Let me mention something else first.
	If you're wondering what I use for cognitive support, yes, it's all the nutrients and superfoods, nutritional supplements, and herbs that I routinely talk about.
	And I'm drinking avocados and turmeric, and I'm taking vitamin C and vitamin D and zinc and quercetin and so on.
	Astaxanthin is one of my favorites that I take all the time.
	But I'm also now four days a week, I'm...
	Using a natural peptide spray, which is called CMAX, S-E-M-A-X.
	It's in Acetyl CMAX.
	And this has been used by Russians for, really, for a couple of decades for cognitive support.
	It's known as a nootropic or nootropic, depending on the way people pronounce it.
	And I covered this a couple days ago.
	I just want to mention that here I am.
	It's past 1 o 'clock in the morning.
	And, yeah, I put a, I don't know, maybe a tablespoon of freeze-dried coffee into my massive smoothie earlier this morning.
	That's the only other sort of cognition support that I have.
	But this peptide, C-Max, it seems to just give me incredible verbal acuity.
	It gives me mental focus.
	It gives me the ability to get things done.
	And also, I forgot to mention this.
	It mentally motivates me to get things done, where I'm just powering through tasks, my work tasks, AI and content creation, documentary creation, approving narration scripts,
	recording scripts, all the things that I do, which require a lot of work, a lot of discipline.
	And here I am at one in the morning, and I feel totally, 100% functional.
	I don't do stimulants other than I mentioned a little bit of freeze-drag coffee in my smoothie.
	I don't do recreational drugs.
	I don't do pharmaceuticals at all.
	And I'm finding that this peptide is giving me lasting cognitive performance enhancement long after it, quote, wears off.
	And if you want to check this out for yourself, the company that I've partnered with on this is called Limitless Peptides, or Limitless.
	And you can find a link to them and a discount code at rangerdeals.com.
	It's the top, top left, called Limitless Peptides.
	Just use discount code ranger there.
	You can shop and you can save 15%.
	Their website's slow right now because they're overloaded.
	It's a little slow to load.
	Which is frustrating when your brain's working so fast.
	But we are an affiliate partner of theirs, and everybody I know who's used their products raves about it.
	And one of my family members just ordered, I think, five of C-Max sprays for five of their family members because everybody benefits from this.
	I would just say it's experimental medicine only.
	It's for research purposes only.
	I'm not your doctor.
	I'm not offering medical advice.
	Do your own research.
	All of that, of course.
	And I don't use this every day.
	I've decided I'm using it Monday through Thursday, and then I'm taking Friday, Saturday, Sunday off, which I just did.
	So I went three days without using the spray, and my brain was working really well all three days.
	So it actually seems to help build new neurological connections that last.
	It's great for learning.
	I've noticed that my cubing skills are increasing much more rapidly now.
	I can memorize the patterns.
	In fact, gosh, I just memorized two new OLL patterns today, and I've got them in my head right now.
	I'm like, yeah, there they are.
	Like instant access to these cubing patterns.
	And before, it was slower for me to memorize the patterns.
	But now, the recall is right there.
	It's really something.
	And again, it's a natural peptide, and it's totally compatible with our brains and our neurology.
	So I'm really excited about this because I want to get stuff done.
	And as I said yesterday, when your brain works better, your life gets better.
	That should be a slogan.
	The company should just steal that slogan, I suppose.
	Or I'll make it my slogan.
	When your brain works better, your life gets better.
	Everything about your life can be improved.
	When you have better cognition, higher intelligence, better recall, better verbal skills, and better overall motivation to get things done, task management, multitasking capabilities, when you have access to that naturally, because your brain is an amazing cosmic supercomputer that has been suppressed by all these environmental chemicals,
	so when you can just restore the natural brain function...
	That God meant for you to have because you're born with it.
	Then amazing things happen in your life.
	Everything gets better when your brain works better.
	That's what I've noticed.
	Anyway, see what you think.
	Now, you know, one more quick note.
	I should just mention this as a disclaimer.
	Don't try to rely on nootropics and then also eat brain-damaging junk food and take a bunch of vaccines that have aluminum and toxic crap in them.
	Like, that is not compatible.
	So if you're going to go out and eat a bunch of seed oils that cause inflammation, and if you're going to eat a bunch of fried foods, and if you're going to smoke cigarettes or whatever, and you're going to use psychiatric drugs all the time, you know, it's going to mess up your brain.
	Okay?
	Or you're going to eat a bunch of pesticides all day long.
	It's going to mess up your brain.
	So clean up your life when you've got your diet clean.
	You got your personal care products clean.
	Get rid of all the toxic fragrance chemicals.
	Clean up your pantry.
	Clean up your laundry room.
	For God's sake, I say, because you know how much I hate toxic synthetic fragrances and laundry and dryer sheets and fabric softeners and all that garbage because it dulls your brain.
	It literally dulls your brain.
	Get rid of that stuff.
	Your brain's going to work better and then use the peptides.
	Or I should say, as a disclaimer, consider it, research it.
	I'm not your doctor.
	Don't use peptides until you clean up your life, your diet, your environment, your personal care products, etc.
	Clean all that other stuff up first.
	Otherwise, your brain is always going to be suppressed by the toxic substances in the products that you're using.
	It's like trying to swim upstream or something, you know?
	Clean up your life and then consider these other augmentations to your cognition.
	That's my philosophy.
	You can take my advice or you can ignore it or whatever.
	It's all good.
	I'm not bothered either way.
	It's your brain.
	Use it the way you want.
	Anyway, the website there is rangerdeals.com.
	I've also got three gold and silver sources listed there that you may find very interesting.
	All right, I've got a really interesting book review video for you here from brightlearn.ai.
	This one is by Dr. Thomas Cowan, who I've interviewed before.
	And he's the one I credit with helping to red pill me about the fraud of virology.
	And his arguments actually became quite convincing over time.
	First time I heard him talk about it, I didn't believe what he was saying at all.
	But then as I investigated it more, it began to make more sense and I was asking more questions and ultimately came to realize that a lot of modern virology is a total fraud.
	Well...
	He's got a book from a few years back called Cancer and the New Biology of Water, which is quite fascinating.
	And in this book, he talks about structured water, and he also says that cancer is not just primarily a genetic disease, but rather has to do with damaged mitochondria, lack of cellular energy, and other factors that can be enhanced or helped along.
	with the proper water, but, you know, diet and lifestyle as well.
	So check out this book review video, and you can find all our videos on the book.
	Hello, everyone.
	Today, we're exploring a groundbreaking book that's turning the world of cancer research upside down.
	It's called Cancer and the New Biology of Water by Dr. Thomas Cowan.
	This book challenges everything we thought we knew about cancer and offers a fresh perspective that could change the way we approach this devastating disease.
	So, grab your favorite beverage, settle in, and let's explore the fascinating world of cancer and the new biology of water.
	For decades, we've been told that cancer is a genetic disease.
	The War on Cancer, launched with the National Cancer Act in the 1970s, was built on the idea that cancer is caused by mutations in our genes, specifically on cogenes.
	These are genes that, when mutated, can lead to uncontrolled cell growth, forming tumors and eventually spreading throughout the body.
	The conventional approach has been to target these fast-growing cancer cells with surgery, radiation, and chemotherapy, hoping to eliminate the threat.
	But here's the kicker.
	Despite billions of dollars spent and countless hours of research, the war on cancer has largely failed.
	The statistics are sobering.
	Most of the common cancers like breast, prostate, and pancreatic cancer have seen little to no improvement in treatment outcomes over the past 50 years.
	We're still using the same old triad of removal, burning, or poisoning, and the results are often disappointing.
	Dr. Cowan argues that the oncogene theory, which has dominated cancer research for decades, is fundamentally flawed.
	He points out that cancer cells are incredibly diverse, with thousands of different mutations even within a single tumor.
	This genetic heterogeneity makes it nearly impossible to find a single magic bullet that can cure cancer.
	So, if cancer isn't primarily a genetic disease, what is it?
	Dr. Cowan suggests that cancer is fundamentally a metabolic disease, rooted in a crisis of cellular energy.
	At the heart of this crisis is the mitochondria, the powerhouse of the cell.
	Mitochondria are responsible for generating ATP, the energy currency of the cell, through a process called oxidative phosphorylation.
	In healthy cells, mitochondria efficiently produce ATP using oxygen.
	But in cancer cells, this process is disrupted.
	The mitochondria are damaged, often due to environmental toxins, radiation, or other factors.
	As a result, the cells switch to a less efficient form of energy production called glycolysis, which doesn't require oxygen.
	This shift, known as the Warburg effect, leads to a chronic energy deficit in the cell.
	Think of it like this.
	Imagine you're used to earning $36 an hour, but suddenly your boss cuts your salary to $2 an hour.
	You'd have to work 18 times harder to make the same amount of money.
	Similarly, cancer cells are forced to work much harder to generate the energy they need, leading to a cascade of problems.
	Here's where things get really interesting.
	Dr. Cowan introduces the concept of the new biology of water.
	He argues that the state of the water within our cells is crucial to their function and health.
	This isn't the water you'd find in a glass, but a structured form of water that forms the basis of the cell's cytoplasm.
	This structured water acts like a gel, providing the scaffolding for cellular processes.
	it helps maintain the proper balance of sodium and potassium ions across the cell membrane which is essential for cell function when this gel structure breaks down the cell loses its charge and its ability to function properly
	This, according to Dr. Cowan, is the root cause of cancer.
	So, how do we fix this?
	Dr. Cowan explores several alternative therapies that aim to restore the health of the cell's cytoplasm and the structured water within it.
	One of the most intriguing is the use of mistletoe.
	A plant that has been used for centuries in traditional medicine.
	Mistletoe is believed to stimulate the immune system and has been shown to improve survival rates in some cancer patients.
	Another promising therapy is the use of deuterium depleted water or DDW.
	Deuterium is a heavy isotope of hydrogen and high levels of deuterium in the body can interfere with cellular processes.
	By drinking water with reduced deuterium levels, Patients may be able to slow down the growth of cancer cells and improve their overall health.
	Dr. Cowan also discusses the potential of NADH, a naturally occurring substance in the body that plays a crucial role in energy production.
	NADH supplements may help boost mitochondrial function and improve the health of the cell's cytoplasm.
	In addition to these therapies, Dr. Cowan emphasizes the importance of diet and lifestyle in preventing and treating cancer.
	He advocates for a diet rich in high-quality, nutrient-dense foods, including pastured animal products, organic vegetables, and fermented foods.
	He also recommends a ketogenic diet, which can help shift the body's metabolism away from glucose and towards fat, potentially
	cancer cells of their preferred fuel.
	Dr. Cowan's book is a call to rethink our approach to cancer.
	It challenges the conventional wisdom and offers a new paradigm that could lead to more effective prevention and treatment strategies.
	While the ideas presented in the book are controversial, they are also incredibly thought-provoking and offer hope for the future.
	As we wrap up, I encourage you to explore these ideas further and consider how they might apply to your own life.
	Whether you're a cancer patient, a caregiver, or simply someone interested in health and wellness, the insights in cancer and the new biology of water are sure to inspire and challenge you.
	Thank you for joining me on this journey.
	If you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe, rate, and review us on your favorite podcast platform.
	And don't forget to share it with your friends and family.
	Until next time, stay curious and keep learning.
	Visit brightlearn.ai for more fascinating videos like this one and naturalnews.com for full editorial coverage and breaking news on critical stories that keep you informed and aware of what's really going on.
	Okay, now I've got one other book for you here called Virtual Government, CIA Mind Control Operations in America by Alex Constantine.
	And this one, this is going to red pill you.
	And then after this, we'll go to a recent interview with Alex Mitchell from ArcSeeds.
	It's a replay interview, but it's highly relevant.
	to the empty shelves issue because you're going to need to grow more of your own food.
	So I do want to replay that interview for you here today, and we'll have a brand new interview for you tomorrow.
	But check out this book review video here, Virtual Government CIA Mind Control Operations in America, and then enjoy today's interview.
	Hello, listeners.
	Welcome back to another episode of our podcast, where we dive deep into the most intriguing and thought-provoking topics that shape our world.
	We're venturing into a shadowy corner of history that's as chilling as it is fascinating.
	We're talking about the book, Virtual Government, CIA Mind Control Operations in America, by Alex Constantine.
	Buckle up, because this is going to be a wild ride.
	Let's start with a scene from February 1945.
	The U.S. Army's 9th Division stumbles upon Vogelsberg Castle, a place that once served as a training ground for the elite of the elite in Hitler's SS.
	These order castles were more than just buildings.
	They were the epitome of Aryan mystique, where only the top students were indoctrinated with discipline, elitism, and an unwavering loyalty to authority.
	But here's the kicker.
	After Germany's defeat at Stalingrad, these castles became breeding grounds for future leaders, scientists, spies, and industrialists.
	Graduates were given new identities and dispatched worldwide as sleepers, their minds warped by a toxic mix of racial hatred and ideological fanaticism.
	Fast forward to the post-war era, and we see the U.S. government bringing Nazi scientists into the fold through Project Paperclip.
	Meanwhile, the CIA was being formed by grafting elements of Hitler's intelligence corps onto the remnants of the Office of Strategic Services.
	This was a time when friends became enemies, and vice versa.
	Take Representative Hamilton Fish, For example, inspired by Nazi propaganda, he teamed up with George Sylvester Vereck, a high-ranking Nazi agent in the U.S., to conduct the first federal investigation of communism, laying the groundwork for the infamous House Un-American Activities Committee.
	But the rabbit hole goes deeper.
	In the 1930s, domestic fascists were conspiring with their European counterparts to infiltrate the American political and military landscape.
	The McCormick-Dickstein Committee uncovered a fascist plot to seize the government, but its successor turned a blind eye.
	And in 1947, Howard Ambruster's Treason's Peace confirmed that German industrial leaders were already preparing for the next world war.
	Now let's talk about the sleepers who were sent abroad.
	These individuals were not just ordinary citizens.
	They were part of a global network, ready to activate at a moment's notice.
	Their mission?
	To safeguard German supremacy and establish a new Reich, even after defeat.
	This wasn't just paranoia.
	It was a well-documented plan.
	A newly declassified U.S. intelligence document reveals that Nazi leaders met with top industrialists in 1944 to secure funding for the party's underground revival.
	And it wasn't just about ideology.
	It was about money.
	The Nazis secretly moved over a billion dollars to Argentina in the war's final months, setting up secret accounts and sanctuaries for their plundered wealth.
	This wasn't some fringe conspiracy.
	It was a coordinated effort involving figures like Eva Peron and Axel Wennergren, a Swedish millionaire with ties to Hitler's inner circle.
	In the U.S., the influence of these Nazi operatives was profound.
	The national record...
	A publication by Senator Robert Rice Reynolds was a hotbed of homegrown Nazi propaganda.
	And let's not forget the Let's Look at America seminar in 1961, where retired General Alfred Wedemeyer and other military figures railed against President Kennedy's appeasement of the Soviet Union, drawing a crowd of 3,500
	strong.
	The tentacles of this virtual government extended into the highest echelons of power.
	Attorney Hans Globke, who authored the legal rationale for the Third Reich's racial laws, was appointed to a key position in the Adenauer administration.
	And in the U.S., figures like Willis Carto and Francis Parker Jockey, both with ties to Nazi ideology, wielded significant influence.
	The Liberty Lobby, a front for American fascist leaders and Nazi spies, was a maze of connections to Germany's Nazi party.
	Its members included military officers like Major General Charles A. Willoughby, who had a hand in intelligence operations under MacArthur in Korea, and Willis A. Cardo, the founder and treasurer of the lobby.
	The presence of ranking military officers at extreme right-wing rallies was not uncommon.
	Senator Fulbright's attempt to curb the influence of what he termed Prussianized officers was met with fierce opposition from figures like Senator Strom Thurmond, who denounced it as an attempt to muzzle the military.
	The stolen Jewish assets that funded Nazi activities were a grim reminder of the atrocities committed.
	In 1996, the Associated Press reported that six tons of Nazi gold, possibly including gold from Holocaust victims' teeth, were stored in New York and London banks.
	The CIA's involvement in mind-control experiments is another dark chapter.
	The agency's use of the Health, Education, and Welfare Department as a cover for these experiments was just the beginning.
	Projects like MKUltra and Operation Artichoke were part of a larger effort to control human behavior through drugs, hypnosis, and psychological manipulation.
	The implications are staggering.
	The CIA's quest for mind-control technology led to experiments on unwitting subjects, often with devastating consequences.
	The use of cults, front groups, and propaganda machines to further these aims was a hallmark of the CIA's strategy.
	As we delve deeper into this shadowy world, we find ourselves asking, how much of this is still going on today?
	The answer is unsettling.
	The techniques and technologies developed during the Cold War have not disappeared.
	They've merely evolved.
	conclusion, virtual government
	It's a wake-up call.
	It challenges us to question the narratives we've been fed and to seek the truth amidst the shadows.
	Thank you for joining me on this journey.
	Until next time, keep learning, keep questioning, and stay curious.
	Visit brightlearn.ai for more fascinating videos like this one and 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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	Welcome, everybody, to this special interview here in the Brighteon.com studios in Central Texas.
	And we are joined by Alex and Morgan.
	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.
	But 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.
	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.
	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.
	It's a cool story.
	Yeah, I would say...
	Maybe we've been partnered now for three or four years.
	In the first interview, I remember you, Mike, had asked, have we ever thought about doing videos or any type of education to help people, even just with gardening or growing the seeds?
	Anyway, I just...
	I'm like out in the garden.
	I want to do the 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.
	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 were 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 Prepare Tribe and not just talking about agriculture and growing, but talking about water filtration and the importance of building your own shelter and a bug-out bag and all the different areas.
	And having community, which actually a lot of people overlook as an asset in preparedness.
	Absolutely.
	So thank you.
	Wow, well, I'm glad that we could serve as an inspiration.
	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.
	Sent the videos back and forth, and yeah, it took about a year to put it together.
	Wow.
	Yeah.
	Wow.
	Okay, 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.
	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 in the middle there in the pouch.
	The backyard seed kit, the golden seed pouch.
	The golden child.
	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.
	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.
	And it doesn't ask you for anything other than just water.
	Don't kill me.
	Don't let the rabbits eat me.
	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 of 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'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.
	Given a disruption in how our current economic situation is, who knows what's going to happen, but seeds could very quickly become curative.
	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, now you have to produce videos on top of that.
	How did 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 that ARK at the beginning would ever start as a business.
	It was just more out of a passion to help our family eat healthy and also to help educate people.
	Yeah, and I love the name ARK, Agricultural Resource Kit, I think is what that stands for, right?
	Yeah.
	A-R-K, double meaning, obviously.
	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.
	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 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 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.
	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, 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 harvest the seeds.
	So money does grow on shrubs and bushes.
	Let me give out where people can find this.
	Healthrangerstore.com will get you to this page and you can buy their all-in-one seed kit.
	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 a 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.
	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...
	Yes, and I've seen seed kits that are like...
	100,000 seeds, but 99,000 of them are lettuce seeds.
	Good luck surviving on lettuce.
	Yeah, because you can put 1,000 of them in a little tiny thing.
	Yeah, and they're zero calories.
	Lettuce has zero.
	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 200 to 300 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 a bean pack from the store, I mean, you're getting like 25 seeds in there, not 300.
	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, 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.
	Hold that out a little bit farther to get it on camera.
	There we go.
	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?
	When it came time to harvest, we pulled all the stalks out and got all the cobs off, dried all the seeds and shucked them all into this big tarp.
	And just from this pack of seeds, 300 seeds, we got five five-gallon buckets of corn from that pack.
	Everyone a visual, just from one season.
	Multiplying.
	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 heirloom seed.
	Barter.
	Right.
	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.
	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, that's also included in the all-in-one tube.
	The seed guide we wrote basically gives you a description on how to, from start to finish, on how to make your own tinctures, 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 your growing season, 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 like to produce plants that are high in minerals, the full spectrum of what a plant wants, which is more than just the three.
	Sure.
	So what do you cover in 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 forever food, and I spend quite a bit of time going through a recipe of soil amendments that we use and have gathered over the years from different neighbor friends,
	Amish friends, and have put together...
	Again, you can, like, tweak it however you want.
	But, yeah, the amendments including, like, you know, kelp, green sand, feather meal, you know, and then there's just, like, a breakdown of, like, 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.
	Okay, that's great.
	Yeah.
	Get a little bit of everything in there.
	Yeah, so, well, what about food preservation is something else that you cover in the course as well.
	What kind of food preservation methods are you showing or demonstrating?
	I do water bath canning, pressure canning, fermentation.
	We do food dehydrating, pickling.
	Wow, you're covering it all.
	Trying to get a little bit of everything.
	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?
	He'd be in trouble.
	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 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.
	But 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.
	Yeah, exactly.
	And so we have to have a more holistic approach to preparedness.
	Right.
	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.
	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 need bushcraft skills.
	What are they going to be doing on their roof with a fire?
	I don't see a scenario where that's applicable to them.
	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 as 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.
	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 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% to 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 is the good news, but they're not prepping.
	They're 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.
	Oh, 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, It 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 a family member that 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 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.
	Because you don't want to come across as a tinfoil hat guy.
	You know, you've 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.
	Sure.
	Okay, let's role play.
	Okay, you be you.
	I'll be your neighbor that doesn't like preppers.
	Okay.
	Hey, Mike!
	Good to see you out mowing your lawn.
	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 hoping.
	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.
	It's all climate change, and you've got to stop.
	You got to 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 will 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 that 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, like where they're at, and then find out, are they going to, well, we're already into...
	The docu-series we go through, there's a whole section on creating a plan.
	Oh, okay.
	So that's a huge part of preparedness.
	Like, 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 and your community?
	And build towards that.
	So if you just want to prepare for your family, I wouldn't recommend that.
	And 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, as I'm planning, who is it that I want?
	What are the value systems 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.
	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% of interest of just wanting to homestead and grow, people wanting to grow
	themselves. Which has been really, really encouraging because like we were just talking about, we're actually pulling in people who were never preppers, but they like the homesteading idea.
	You know, they want to be self-sisting.
	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 going to need this at some point to be able to provide food for your family.
	If, one, the grocery store prices continue to increase or if at some point we don't have it.
	So, yeah, I have hundreds and hundreds of conversations with people.
	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.
	But I don't buy meat from the grocery store.
	I know enough ranchers.
	I get meat from people I know.
	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 is, 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.
	And right now there's a big debate about the SNAP program in America, which is food stamps, and 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 unlimited beans and rice and legumes and food basics.
	Nobody should starve in America.
	But I don't want to pay for your soda pop.
	You know what I'm saying?
	Skittles.
	Yeah, that seems insane.
	But these people, if they...
	What if we gave them garden seeds, you know, in 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 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.
	But even before that, just a huge increase in desire for people to want to, how do I take care of myself better?
	That's how I got into it, you know, growing myself because we started having kids and I was like, I got to be able to feed them food that I know where it comes from.
	Right. And then over the years, just, I went to school to be a naturopathic doctor and,
	Just take care of, again, our kids.
	But then that grows because 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...
	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, and treat the child with what they were growing.
	Or when they were getting ready to make dinner, they would go out and pick the dinner.
	That's not...
	A weird thing.
	That's the way most of humanity has lived.
	Thousands of years.
	And a lot of humanity still lives that way.
	All over the world.
	In the Middle East and Southeast Asia and South America, you go out and you pick the medicine.
	So, how did we get so far from that?
	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.
	It's easier, I think, for people to just go get it off the shelf and 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.
	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 a huge increase 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, you know,
	health-wise for people.
	So we spend time doing that as one of the...
	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.
	The alkalinity is too high for plants, typically.
	What do you recommend?
	For gardening?
	Yeah, for gardening.
	If you can, if it's at all possible, set up a rain catchment system.
	It takes a lot of water.
	It does.
	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.
	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.
	Is that it?
	There's sort of waste water 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've 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.
	It might rain once a week or every other week or something, but again, you can definitely be able to lay down grass and wood chips and different techniques to be able to hold the water in, which I've been doing a lot more the last few years,
	so it's a lot less laborsome, and then also expenses for irrigation, water, and everything.
	Drip irrigation.
	She had me set up drip irrigation for a strawberry patch.
	It was 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.
	Yeah, high grade.
	You can do that.
	That's not even water.
	That's fertilizer.
	Yeah, I know.
	It's like magical liquid.
	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.
	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 there, right in the middle.
	We're in the middle here.
	So 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.
	Sorry about that.
	Yeah, we get it all from north, south, east, and west.
	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 an IBC container, 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 it's amazing how much you can accomplish with that.
	True.
	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.
	They want to get them going.
	What a lot of people do, they'll use the backyard kit for their planting and then they'll get an all-in-one tube and they'll use that for their storage 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.
	Get people thinking.
	Hey, I didn't think about this.
	Oh, it's on there.
	Okay.
	We offer an e-book, which is very similar to our seed guide, but it has some things added as far as 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.
	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 five, what am I planning for?
	So they're actually writing out their own plan.
	Something practical.
	Getting them to do that.
	A lot of it's very similar to that.
	Getting people to take action.
	Getting people to maybe step out of their comfort zone.
	One of the things we make them do is make a list of people that potentially could be in their community.
	Maybe not the electric lawnmower neighbor.
	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.
	It 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.
	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 PEX 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.
	The shikimic acid in 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. Are you planting this next to the figs?
	Not right next to the figs.
	It's in the same irrigation network.
	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.
	Yeah.
	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.
	We have those near us, too.
	I noticed that dewberries like to grow right around the base of these trees because I think the berries like the more acidic, sandy soils.
	The loblolly pines, 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 watermelons and things right around them too.
	That would probably go really well.
	But the reason I even mention this is because I want to help also inspire our audience that you don't have to quit your job and change your whole life.
	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. 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 all my family members are making fun of me and I don't know what to do.
	Right, right.
	I've seen great balcony gardens, container gardens that are really great.
	And 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?
	It's April 21st.
	So there's time.
	So somebody can watch the whole series and then they can join the five-day challenge and can they dialogue with you and ask questions during all that?
	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 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.
	You're going to actually have to go do something.
	Let me ask you this question that I like to ask people who are all about growing food and being self-reliant.
	The answer that I often get is sweet potatoes.
	Here's the question.
	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 I 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.
	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.
	And as far as, I mean, we also love the taste and stuff, but for calories, really high in calories.
	No kidding.
	Calorie dense.
	So are sweet potatoes, but they're really high in calories.
	Yeah, but I just, that didn't cross my mind.
	Rutabagas would be calorie rich.
	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.
	You've got corn, squash, and beans for taste.
	I love squash.
	You can make gumbo out of all that.
	Yeah, exactly.
	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.
	Cornstalk, bean, squash out of that.
	They support each other, yeah.
	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.
	We didn't even have any equipment up until a couple years ago.
	We grew for the first however many years.
	We only had two and a half acres at our house.
	Our garden was maybe one acre.
	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.
	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 hose and some hands.
	And some work ethic.
	Yeah, for sure.
	When you say raised beds, was it just rows of dirt mounds, or did you have edges?
	Yeah, we had four by eight beds that were, you know, they had wood board siding.
	You used wood boards?
	Did you use railroad ties?
	Or what did you use?
	Wood boards.
	Wood boards.
	Yeah, we actually had several, quite a stack given to us that were left over Amish.
	A lot of Amish, they do their own...
	If you're near them, if you're somewhere where you can create a relationship, they do sawmills.
	A lot of times they have leftover lumber and you ask, they'll just give it to you.
	And we tore apart pallets and we used those boards.
	So those were all free.
	We had about 30 raised beds, 4x8.
	Wow.
	And then we did what you did.
	It took me a little while, but we went out a couple weekends in a row, my son and I, and ran pecs.
	One inch PVC, if you will, to strategic spots in the garden and hook the lineup so you could go to any spot in the garden and hook into that and water.
	What did you do for weeds?
	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 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.
	So as long as you don't just let it go wild.
	Then you're in trouble.
	I've been there.
	Life happens.
	I've been there repeatedly.
	It's called life.
	There's a lot of different techniques over the years.
	I just was thinking about this too.
	We did in those years with the raised beds.
	Morgan and my son, they'd go fishing a lot.
	Bring home 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.
	We water the plants.
	Almost as good as a pond.
	Well, a pond is kind of like that.
	It is.
	Alright, so the course is called Prepare Tribe.
	And again, it starts streaming 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.
	It's 50% off to our audience only.
	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.
	I've never been asked that question.
	I mean, my instant, anyone that's weeded would say yes.
	A little dog bot.
	It doesn't have to be a humanoid.
	It's not Skynet.
	It's a dog bot.
	Off 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.
	This can be controversial.
	People are like, no!
	No robots!
	Down with the Apple Watch.
	I've never thought of it.
	I don't wear a bunch of tech either.
	I have an analog dial watch that apparently makes me look old to have a watch on my wrist.
	Yeah, an old school watch.
	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?
	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?
	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 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 and you dump it 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.
	Okay, so you're maybe on the homesteading robot.
	Maybe.
	Yeah, I keep it away from the kids.
	Okay, 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.
	Okay.
	But I will have my...
	AR-15 over here.
	I like that idea.
	And I've got 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!
	It's attacking the dog!
	There's a serious note on this, which is that we're about to see...
	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.
	So the city, as a structure of modern civilization, is obsolete.
	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 an 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?
	I just think it's a natural progress.
	That could be huge in suburbs.
	Absolutely.
	Where someone's got, 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 where we are or where you are, where they have access to 20 or 40 acres or something, but 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.
	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've got to check on this.
	The chicken water frees all the time.
	Oh, yeah.
	You're up north.
	That's a big deal.
	Well, here, 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 it's 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.
	But anyway, 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, but 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...
	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 City.
	There you go.
	There 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.
	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 neurons in there.
	That's right.
	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.
	Yeah, 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 tinksters, like Alex was referring to.
	And do it for six months and see how it goes and get really good at it.
	You know, you don't have to feel like you have to do everything all at once, but just be encouraged and go for it.
	Well, this is the thing about your seed kits, is that 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.
	Like you, I...
	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.
	Sweet.
	And they would grow.
	They had a massive garden and would serve a Thanksgiving dinner of about 50% of the food they grew.
	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 your dinner.
	What are we having for dinner, Grandma?
	Whatever you pick!
	Hopefully it tastes good.
	Green beans are in season.
	Go get them.
	It's the way it was.
	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.
	Yeah.
	It doesn't work.
	Living on processed food in a concrete jungle with all the electromagnetic pollution, all the stress and traffic.
	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 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 design...
	Oh yeah, I remember that one.
	It's a bigger kit.
	You...
	It's your fault.
	It's our fault, Mike.
	I know.
	It's a multi-family kit.
	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.
	I'll check with my team to make sure we add it to the page.
	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.
	Maybe another idea that you had.
	We're like, we should make a special.
	Oh, that's right.
	I apologize.
	I'm not trying to give you more work to do.
	You're doing enough already.
	No, it's great.
	Okay.
	Well, look, the bottom line is it's not only the time of the year.
	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?
	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 I said, the pine trees are medicine and vitamin C. 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 he went up to the fig tree, and 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 the vine, as it's called in the Bible.
	Grapes are 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 of 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 paranthocyanidins 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 mean, my point is, we often, as Americans, we want the government to solve We hope so.
	Get going.
	At least get started.
	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 know, you split your arm open and you need it sewed up.
	But they're symptom-based, you know?
	Totally.
	So if you have diarrhea, here's some Imodium.
	You know, 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, like, 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...
	What do I take?
	What do I not take?
	Again, 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.
	You've got to start with your sleep, your water, your nutrition, your stress load, exercise, prayer, all the different things, but nutrition is one of the huge aspects of that, and you can take control of it.
	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, 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...
	Four dropperfuls, maybe.
	Get started.
	I mean, I'm drinking it.
	This is food.
	These are spices.
	These aren't drugs.
	These aren't prescription medication.
	Stop thinking that everything is toxic.
	But I hear that from people all the time.
	They're so afraid.
	What if I took too much 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, I'm sorry, my kids' friends, 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 give them mullein.
	Oh, yeah, sure.
	Give them mullein for the earache, and they're like, that's it?
	You don't do an antibiotic?
	Just give them mullein.
	You know?
	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 that would 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.
	Okay, here we are back at the store page and we found it.
	Here it is, the Prepper.
	Prepper special five 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.
	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.
	They're gone.
	Yeah, they're gone.
	They're happy.
	Corn's gone.
	Right.
	Totally.
	Squash 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 plant it.
	And he thought, no, the seeds are going to grow.
	He planted all of them because he thought none of them were going to grow and everything germinated.
	Wow.
	Isn't that wild?
	Wow.
	No, we don't recommend putting your kit through a housewife.
	No, but 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 the seeds for 15 plus years later, but that, you know, it's hard to beat.
	Pre-roasted?
	Yeah.
	Yeah, popcorn.
	Non-heirloom, but fully roasted.
	Yeah, exactly.
	Well, that's...
	That's how you grow 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 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 Karen.
	Yes, you were actually.
	Our kids call it Ken.
	What do they say?
	Ken and Karen.
	Ken and Karen.
	Yeah, exactly.
	I was the Ken.
	You definitely were.
	We all know one, so we'll just leave it there.
	I saw water running down your driveway.
	Down the curb, I'm going to call the water police on you.
	I'm calling the HOA.
	Yeah, I'm calling the HOA.
	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 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, it's very raw and it's very real because we're in our garden.
	That's what we're looking for.
	We're in the kitchen.
	And so we're not some movie star people.
	We're just trying to give you the practical step-by-step.
	Totally.
	We hope you enjoy it.
	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.
	It's really a pleasure.
	Great to have you here.
	Great to be here.
	We love you being here.
	You're welcome back anytime.
	And we're building another studio that will have a kitchen set.
	Tinctures?
	Well, we're going to be doing tinctures and sprouting and also blenders, like smoothie recipes.
	I'm actually going to show people.
	How to open avocados without stabbing yourself.
	Nice.
	That's a special skill.
	Okay, so hope you go safe.
	Yeah, good stuff coming.
	Yeah, that's awesome.
	Thank you all for watching today.
	Mike Adams here of brighteon.com.

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