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July 8, 2025 - Health Ranger - Mike Adams

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Trump unleashes new TARIFF WARS with an extra attack on BRICS nations (BBN, July 8, 2025)

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	Okay, I've got some major updates for you today.
	Welcome to Brighteon Broadcast News for Tuesday, July 8th, 2025.
	I'm Mike Adams, the health ranger of Brighteon.com and also, of course, HealthRangerStore.com.
	And the reason I mentioned that is because our fundraising effort to deliver physical goods to the Texas flood victims, our effort has already begun.
	And as of right now, we've already raised something like, I don't know, $8,000 or $9,000 from your donations.
	And that will grow very rapidly, plus our own donations on top of all that.
	So let me explain.
	If you want to make a donation in physical goods, you can take part in our effort where we are sending high-density food, like high-nutrient density, certified organic, lab-tested food, long-term storable food.
	Some of it is instant meals, for example.
	Some of it is quinoa or legumes or beans or mixes.
	Depends on what it is.
	We're sending food.
	We're sending personal care supplies.
	And we are sending survival supplies.
	And this is all, since we're in central Texas and we were not affected by the floods, we're not that far away from the affected areas.
	So we have put on our website now, you can go to healthrangerstore.com slash rescue, and you can purchase a rescue amount from $5 and up.
	And many people are purchasing $50, $250, $500.
	Some people are, etc.
	And that's getting translated into physical goods.
	We're going to do that this whole week.
	We're going to dispatch a truck.
	It looks like next Monday.
	We're already in coordination.
	Our congressman has been made aware and he's given us a thumbs up on this effort.
	He's toured our facility, by the way, our actual local representative in the United States Congress, House of Representatives.
	We are in touch with a staffer of Attorney General Ken Paxton of Texas.
	We're also donating our lab testing, thousands of dollars of lab testing, mass spec lab analysis.
	We've got people on the ground that are collecting samples for us, including Doc Pete Chambers, who's running for governor.
	And then we are donating ourselves lots of supplies on top of what the public chooses to donate with us.
	And so I want to just give thanks to some of the people.
	I'm not going to say anybody's last names, but thank you to Carolyn from Magnolia, Texas.
	Thank you to Amy from Clayton, North Carolina.
	I want to say thank you to Karen from Morgan, Texas, and Ann from Choctaw, Oklahoma.
	We've got Esther from Austin, Texas, Santa from Weehawken, New Jersey.
	That's a fun town name right there.
	And a long list of other people.
	Vicki from Federal Way, Washington, Michelle from Garland, Texas, Michael from Henderson, North Carolina, Lee Chung from Richland, Washington, etc.
	Lots and lots of people are purchasing our donation vouchers at healthrangerstore.com slash rescue.
	And let me confirm with you that 100% of your purchase amount goes to the food, the survival supplies, the personal care supplies that we are gathering up all this week.
	My plan is to film all of this on Friday to give you photos and a video of everything that we have together, the pallets, you know, the boxes, the supplies, some of the items that we're donating.
	And then Monday, that's less than a week away, we'll dispatch the truck.
	Our current contact is in Kyle, Texas for distribution.
	And that was organized on behalf of Doc Pete Chambers.
	So we've got that contact in Kyle.
	We're open to other distribution points if Paxton or Governor Abbott or if our congressman wants to suggest some other sites.
	But we're going to get these supplies to the sites that need it the most.
	So thank you for all of your support.
	Also, if you are a regular customer of the Health Ranger store, you can purchase these vouchers using your Loyalty Lion points.
	So those are loyalty points that you can translate into credits.
	When you purchase anything with us, you can actually buy these donation vouchers with the Loyalty Lion points.
	So it doesn't cost you anything.
	You can basically just donate your loyalty points to the people in need in Texas and we'll deliver the physical goods.
	So we're taking that on.
	Thank you for your support.
	And again, it's a 100% donation.
	I mean, 100% goes to the people.
	And also, your purchase is tax-deductible.
	You will receive an email from our church thanking you for your tax-deductible contribution because all of this is actually organized by our church, the Church of Natural Abundance, which I set up last year largely for this very purpose, to be able to help people in need.
	And remember, it was last year that we shipped over half a million dollars of food, you know, multiple pallets on trucks to North Carolina victims, to Florida from that hurricane that went through there, and then also to California after the fires.
	So we have already distributed a lot of food in the last year, you know, over half a million dollars.
	And now with this effort here in Texas, we're able to help our fellow Texans.
	So again, thank you for your support so that we are able to do this.
	I also want to mention that, you know, our effort, of course, is a good faith effort.
	But there are donation scammers out there.
	There's one group that's been called out by Ken Paxton that you wouldn't believe how nefarious this is.
	They are contacting the parents of missing children, and they're claiming that they found their children and they will turn over their children in exchange for money.
	I mean, what?
	But in reality, the children are probably dead.
	And these scammers are trying to prey upon the parents who already lost a child.
	And they're trying to scam them for money on top of that.
	I mean, what the...
	I mean, to prey upon the sorrow of a grieving parent and then to try to scam them for money on top of the fact that they just lost their daughter?
	That, I mean, I'm not typically a vengeance type of person, but those people should hang if found guilty in a court of law.
	I'm not calling for vigilante justice, but I am calling for, you know, Ken Paxton of Texas.
	Make those people hang.
	That's, for God's sake, that is not okay to do that to these parents.
	Sorry, I will compose myself.
	I get a little emotional because of the loss.
	I was reading a tweet from Mickey Willis, and he's in kind of West Austin, I think the Dripping Springs area, the Bee Cave area.
	And friends of his, a family, it was a family of four that were driving across a bridge during the flood, and the bridge collapsed, and the vehicle plunged into the water.
	And mom and dad and two teenage children.
	And one of their teenage daughters, 17 years old, she was able to open a car door and get the other three family members out.
	And then she died.
	She sacrificed her life for her family.
	I'm sorry.
	I'm sorry.
	Hold on.
	I'm sorry.
	I'm composing myself.
	It's just that my dog just came up to me.
	He's like, what's wrong?
	It's okay, Rhodi.
	We're okay.
	There's far too much suffering and death in our world.
	And, you know, we leap each day from one crisis to another, whether it's children being bombed to death in Gaza, or children being swept away in Texas, or children being destroyed by vaccines on purpose, depopulation bioweapons.
	I'm not trying to dwell in negativity here, don't get me wrong.
	It's just as you and I are people who have compassion and we care about fellow human beings.
	And we work so hard to help end human suffering and help uplift people's lives with simple things, clean food or knowledge, freedom, empowerment, decentralization, red pilling people for their own good.
	All these ways that you and I positively impact the world.
	And we do.
	We make a positive difference.
	And yet, sometimes it feels powerless that we can't stop the seemingly needless loss of life of the innocent, the innocent.
	So let this be a reminder, folks.
	Give thanks to God for every single day that you and I are here, every single day that we can function, every single day that we have the ability to help others, to speak, every day that we have our health, every day that we are alive, every day that our brains work, that our bodies work, that we can do something.
	Give thanks.
	Because every single day is a gift.
	Life is a gift.
	And life is fragile.
	So we're doing the best we can, obviously, with your help.
	We were not hit by the floods.
	We're not in that area.
	It was actually a very limited area of West Austin and North Austin, Georgetown area to the north, and then Kerr County to the west.
	It was a limited area.
	And if it wasn't for the summer camps that are right there by the river, these deaths, most of these deaths would not have happened.
	It's also a reminder, wherever you are, consider your context and think about your safety, your survival, your bug out plan.
	Like, for example, if you live near a river, even if you're 20 feet above the river, you know, rivers can surge 30 feet, 35 feet.
	In this case, there was one surge, I think, that was 39 feet above normal level.
	39 feet.
	Now, if you're 40 feet above the river, you're normally thinking, hey, we're fine.
	In this case, it wasn't true.
	But if you're anywhere near a river or a lake, you know, have life jackets.
	Just having life jackets is a big deal.
	Just have them by the front door where you put your coats and your hats and your boots and whatever.
	And make sure everybody in your family knows how to just put on a life jacket.
	Make sure it fits.
	And don't use those gas-inflatable life jackets because sometimes they don't work.
	They're too complicated.
	Just have a life jacket that doesn't have any moving parts.
	It just floats.
	So if you had to, like if your house were picked up By floodwaters, and this happened.
	I showed you actually, let's just roll that video to show you this house that was picked up and it's floating down the river in the dark, and there's people still in it with flashlights screaming for help.
	To my editor, just go ahead and show that video, you know, prayers for those people.
	I don't know if they got out.
	But if you're in a situation or if you're in a car and you're crossing, you know, I don't know, a bridge or a road or like a like a road that is that water washes over it from time to time, and maybe there's a giant hole there that you don't know, you could get swept away, right?
	So don't live in fear, but do live with a sense of preparedness.
	And I don't normally mention life jackets, but if you're near water, you should have them.
	Because just being able to have a life jacket, like they rescued one of those girls 12 miles downstream, 12 miles.
	She was swept downstream.
	Somehow she did not drown.
	She was able to stay above water.
	You know how much easier that is with a life jacket?
	Right?
	I mean, hence the name life jacket.
	It protects your life.
	If you could just have life jackets, you could tread water for a long time.
	I mean, you don't even have to tread water.
	It helps you float, obviously.
	And then you can just focus on dodging debris or grabbing a tree, climbing up a tree or whatever might work.
	And in Texas, a lot of those trees are mesquite trees, by the way.
	They're filled with thorns.
	So, I mean, talk about an obstacle course.
	You're getting swept downstream.
	And then here's a tree.
	Yeah, you can grab onto it.
	You're probably going to bleed because it's filled with thorns, but it's your only option.
	What do you do?
	You grab the tree.
	You know, you do what you got to do.
	So I think the death count now is over 80.
	So it is a tragic event.
	Thank you for your prayers.
	Thank you for your support.
	Again, if you want to contribute to this and 100% of your contribution goes to the people in Texas, healthrangerstore.com slash rescue.
	We're going to do a one-time truck transport to the staging area in Kyle, Texas.
	And the sooner you can, if you want to participate, do it today or tomorrow or Thursday at the latest because we're going to be putting all this together by Friday and dispatching it early next week.
	All right, now, shifting gears here.
	Speaking of compassion and humanitarian issues and peace, President Trump just announced that the U.S. is going to be sending more weapons to Ukraine.
	So apparently Ukraine is actually not being cut off from weapons.
	And of course, Trump is going to be sending more weapons to Israel.
	Netanyahu arrived in the U.S. yesterday evening and is meeting with Trump.
	Trump called Netanyahu, I think, the greatest person in the world.
	And Netanyahu nominated Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize.
	So I'm not sure that if you are a leader that commits war crimes and genocide, I'm not sure you're qualified to nominate anybody for a peace prize.
	And if you're Trump who continues to provide weapons of war to a genocidal government such as what Israel is right now, I'm not sure that you qualify for a peace prize.
	I think that peace means peace, and I would hope and pray that we could end these conflicts, get us out of these wars, end the fighting between Ukraine and Russia, end the conflict in the Middle East, and actually get us on a peace footing instead of a war footing.
	So far, there are no indications that that is happening, and that's extremely disappointing.
	But of course, the major story, the big-breaking story of the last 48 hours, and I covered this yesterday.
	Remember the memo from the FBI, the DOJ?
	It was first covered by Axios.
	The memo claiming that there are no Epstein files.
	Epstein did not have any victims, did not keep a list.
	There's no blackmail.
	Epstein killed himself.
	End of story.
	Case closed.
	No further investigation.
	That memo has been confirmed now by the White House, confirmed by the FBI, and then Trump doubled down and actually praised the FBI for doing a great job.
	So the overall perception of this among mostly conservatives, MAGA, Trump supporters, et cetera, is that this is a huge betrayal.
	And Roger Stone, for example, was on with Alex Jones saying, well, hey, you know, Pam Bondi told us there were 14 terabytes of child torture videos and child rape videos that the FBI was reviewing.
	And then now they're saying there are no videos.
	There are no victims.
	There are no files.
	It's all gone.
	I mean, again, Pam Bondi was saying previously, the files are on my desk.
	They're on my desk.
	And now she's like, what files?
	You know, are you kidding me?
	So let me play a video for you actually from the White House spokesperson, Carolyn Levitt, who's explaining this and saying that, yeah, there are no files.
	Check this out.
	DOJ and FBI have now concluded there was no Jeffrey Epstein client list.
	What do you tell MAGA supporters who say they want anyone involved in Jeffrey Epstein's alleged crimes to be held accountable?
	This administration wants anyone who has ever committed a crime to be held accountable.
	And I would argue this administration has done more to lock up bad guys than certainly the previous administration.
	And the Trump administration is committed to truth and to transparency.
	That's why the Attorney General and the FBI director pledged At the President's direction, to do an exhaustive review of all of the files related to Jeffrey Epstein's crimes and his death.
	And they put out a memo in conclusion of that review.
	There was material they did not release because, frankly, it was incredibly graphic and it contained child pornography, which is not something that's appropriate for public consumption.
	But they committed to an exhaustive investigation.
	That's what they did, and they provided the results of that.
	That's transparency.
	And just like that, Carolyn Levitt becomes Mike McCurry.
	Some of you may remember Mike McCurry.
	I think he was the spokesperson for Bill Clinton.
	Anyway, it's just incredible that so covering up the Epstein files is now, quote, truth and transparency.
	So the way to be transparent is to cover it up and not release anything, sweep it under the rug, pretend it never really existed.
	That's incredible.
	So let's continue watching this video and watch members of the press push back and ask a question.
	Okay, here we go.
	Let's continue.
	Oh, Caroline.
	Okay, so the FBI looks at the circumstances surrounding the death of Jeffrey Epstein.
	According to the report, this systematic review revealed no incriminating client list.
	So what happened to the Epstein client list that the Attorney General said she had on her desk?
	Well, I think if you go back and look at what the Attorney General said in that interview, which was on your network on Fox News, John Roberts said, DOJ may be releasing the list of Jeffrey Epstein's clients.
	Will that really happen?
	And she said, it's sitting on my desk right now to review.
	Yes, she was saying the entirety of all of the paperwork, all of the paper in relation to Jeffrey Epstein's crimes.
	That's what the Attorney General was referring to, and I'll let her speak for that.
	But again, when it comes to the FBI and the Department of Justice, they are more than committed to ensuring that bad people are put behind bars.
	So did you catch that?
	So Carolyn Levitt is now claiming that when Pam Bondi was saying the files are sitting on my desk, that Carolyn Levitt is claiming that referred to the paperwork of the case, not any Epstein files.
	So now what was, quote, Epstein files has become paperwork.
	Wow.
	Sleight of hand deception, right?
	I mean, this is word sorcery.
	This is a very sinister level of deception.
	So the upshot of this is that it's an inescapable conclusion now that the Trump administration is covering up the crimes of Jeffrey Epstein, covering up the crimes of a pedophile who coordinated child rape activities to gather blackmail for the intelligence community to be used as leverage against those people.
	Right?
	So that's undeniable.
	The question is, why?
	Why is Trump shutting this down?
	Now, there exists a spectrum of possible answers and theories ranging all the way from the QAnon, you know, trust the plan to the other extreme, which is a Trump is a pedophile, that whole extreme, right?
	So on the QAnon Trump, trust the plan side, they're saying that, well, Trump now needs the blackmail in order to expose or control the deep state actors and force them to resign.
	So in other words, that Trump's got the Epstein files now, and he's using them in the same way that Epstein was using them.
	Basically, this is the ring of power in Lord of the Rings, and whoever has the ring of power gets to control everybody else, and everybody, of course, wants the ring of power.
	So that's one explanation.
	Then the other explanation is that Trump is named in the Epstein files, which is something that Elon said, you know, a week ago or two weeks ago, whatever, and that they're just burying it in order to protect the links between Jeffrey Epstein and Mossad, especially as Netanyahu arrives in America.
	Netanyahu wants this whole thing swept under the rug because this was a massive intelligence operation involving Jeffrey Epstein, the CIA, and Mossad.
	So that's the other explanation.
	So take your pick of which one of those makes more sense to you.
	I mean, I've got my own theories, obviously, but some of it is speculation.
	We don't know for sure.
	That is, we don't know the intention right now, but we do know that the Trump administration covered this whole thing up.
	Trump himself even said, like, two years ago, he's like, we've got to release the Epstein files.
	They have to be released.
	Why are they not being released?
	And then today, his administration is, of course, not releasing anything.
	So really, the bottom line in this story is abundantly obvious at this point.
	It's that we're never going to see the Epstein files like I predicted months ago.
	Remember, I did the song in March about that, you ain't going to get it.
	There really isn't transparency in the Trump administration.
	We're not going to see peace like we were promised.
	There are some positive things in the big, beautiful bill that I've spoken about, some of the economic policies that are pro-business, some of the policies that are protecting the U.S. border, building the border wall, and I've already mentioned that, you know, increased funding for ICE in order to prosecute the deportations.
	But then some concerns that the ICE budget will be larger than the budget of the entire Russian military.
	And that that infrastructure of biometric surveillance and security towers and facial recognition cameras and everything, that can very easily be turned against the American people.
	So this is the mixed bag that We are left with right now.
	So, just as a piece of humor, of course, I always have to tweet out humorous, snarky things.
	The evolution of the list.
	1980, Holland Oates releases Your Kiss is on my list.
	2013, James Spader stars in the release of the ultra-popular drama TV series, The Blacklist.
	2025, Trump's AG, Pam Bondi, says, there is no list.
	So there you go.
	There is no list.
	These are not the droids you're looking for.
	Also, Trump has said he hopes that he doesn't have to attack Iran again.
	He hopes.
	Of course, Netanyahu will be feeding him fake intelligence to try to get the U.S. to keep going to war against Iran.
	Let's see, what else do we have here?
	Hamas has killed a number of Israeli troops in an ambush in Gaza.
	So let's see.
	Oh yeah, that ambush, three explosions that took out a large number.
	Well, I don't know the exact number, but took out an Israeli tank, and then secondary detonation took out the rescue team that was responding to the tank detonation.
	So sadly, sadly, the war continues, the death and violence continues, and I don't want to see anybody suffer or die.
	And then Secretary of State Marco Rubio just removed Dabat al-Nusra, or what's known as HTS, from the terrorist organization's list because, of course, they helped install the new Syrian president of Al-Shara, who used to have a $10 million bounty on his head from the United States.
	But now he's the official.
	He's in charge.
	In other words, the U.S. has no issue recognizing terrorists as presidents of states as long as they are controlled by the U.S. So not much has changed in 30 years in the Middle East, has it?
	Unbelievable.
	Trump says he's going to have an additional 10% tariff penalty on any country that is part of BRICS.
	And then he's issuing new tariff letters that talk about countries and the tariff rates that they're going to pay if they export goods to the United States.
	South Africa, for example, will be hit with a 30% tariff rate.
	Myanmar, 40%.
	Kazakhstan, 25%.
	And there are more tariff announcements coming.
	So this is going to, of course, cause some disruption in global supply chains.
	Now, I've got an interview coming up today with Dr. Peter Glidden.
	And this is an amazing interview.
	Dr. Glidden, who I had never met before, and it baffles me why I hadn't, he's an extraordinary naturopath.
	And he and I were just on the same page all the way through the interview, practically reading each other's minds.
	And he talks about the extreme dangers of allopathic medicine, or let's say the betrayal of humanity by allopathic medicine.
	And this is an interview that you won't want to miss.
	So I may keep this a little bit shorter today in order to get you to that interview more quickly.
	We'll see.
	But that's coming up.
	Let's talk about Trump's economic policies because he just announced major new tariffs on America's allies.
	So Japan in particular and South Korea have both been hit with 25% tariffs, which is really large.
	So in other words, any goods coming from Japan or South Korea will have an additional 25% government fee or essentially a tax, but called a tariff, imposed at import time.
	They have to pay that to the U.S. government in order to clear customs.
	And then, of course, this increases the prices to the end users, the American customers.
	So although it's not a direct tax, it does, well, it causes a couple of things.
	Obviously, it increases prices for the end users, and it also disrupts supply chains.
	But is it worth it?
	Some people are celebrating Trump for these moves.
	And remember, he just announced, I don't know, 20-plus countries are being hit with these new tariffs.
	So here's a typical pro-Trump response on Twitter.
	Quote, CNBC just admitted Trump's tariffs have brought in over $121 billion for the U.S. Trump was right.
	Their experts were wrong.
	Trump has been right about everything.
	All right, so that's the pro-Trump take.
	So let me ask you this question.
	Is the goal of tariffs to increase government revenues in order to make the government more solvent?
	Well, if so, I mean, help me reveal the bad logic in that statement I just read for you.
	If so, you know, we just passed the big beautiful bill, or Congress did, that increases government debt ceilings by $5 trillion.
	But we brought in $121 billion in tariffs.
	So let's see.
	A trillion dollars is $1,000 billion.
	Okay?
	So tariffs are a drop in the bucket of government debt spending if you're trying to use them as a revenue source.
	So as revenue, it just doesn't work.
	The math doesn't work.
	So to say, well, Trump was right, that misses the bigger picture.
	Because when these tariffs go up, what's going to happen with the products coming to the United States?
	Number one, think about what comes from Japan, what comes from Korea, what comes from Vietnam, which Was also hit Thailand, Indonesia, Taiwan, etc.
	Not to mention China, which is a separate negotiation.
	But what kinds of things come to America from all of these countries?
	Well, car parts, for example, but also machinery parts, electronics, farming and agriculture parts and machines.
	I mean, I own Kubota equipment, which is made in Japan.
	And I got to say, I switched away from John Deere, even though I still have John Deere tractors.
	But I stopped buying John Deere tractors and I started buying Kubota equipment because the engineering is just so much better.
	Japanese engineered equipment is extraordinary.
	And you know what else?
	The engines start.
	I know, I know.
	It's like, what?
	You're kidding me.
	We've never seen that before.
	Yeah.
	The engines of Japanese equipment actually start for some reason.
	It's like magic.
	None of us can figure it out here in Texas.
	We're like, you want engines to start?
	Yeah, it'd be awesome.
	Japanese have figured it out.
	No way.
	So now then, if you want to buy Kubota equipment, you're going to have to pay 25% more, which will still make it less expensive than, like, let's say Caterpillar or John Deere or whatever.
	Kubota is still probably a better value from U.S.-made equipment.
	But why are we punishing Kubota?
	And in essence, punishing U.S. farmers making farming more expensive because getting good equipment costs more money.
	Now, there's another equipment company called Coyote.
	It's spelled K-I-O-T-I.
	Now, a coyote equipment is from South Korea.
	It's part of the Daedong Corporation.
	Now, coyote equipment, and I have some experience with coyote equipment, it's well-made, not as good as Kubota.
	If I have to choose, I'm going to choose Japanese engineered agricultural equipment over South Korean, by the way.
	But the South Korean equipment is also very reliable and lower price.
	So it's more affordable for farmers.
	But now that's going to go up 25%.
	So, you know, this is punishing U.S. farmers.
	Now, of course, you might point out, well, the point of these tariffs, which is a protectionist, you know, economic policy, is to make sure that U.S. manufacturers can be more competitive so that there are more U.S. workers hired in U.S. factories, right?
	Right.
	But did you know that John Deere is in the process of moving a significant portion of its manufacturing away from America and moving it to Mexico?
	So they used to manufacture in Iowa compact track loaders and instead they're moving it to Ramos, Mexico.
	Now, I actually own a John Deere compact track loader.
	And let me tell you, I've never told this story, but the, you know, a compact track loader, it's like a skid steer, but it's got tracks.
	In less than 50 hours of use, which is nothing on a skid steer, the entire left sprocket, which is like the, you would call it an axle in a vehicle.
	This is the powered sprocket that drives the tracks.
	The entire left sprocket of this John Deere compact track loader broke and it just broke to the side for no reason.
	Was literally just driving along without even a very heavy load and the whole thing just broke.
	It's like plunk and it broke the hydraulic hose and all the hydraulic fluid leaked out and then the machine of course locked up because without hydraulic fluid it can't function.
	So I had to call John Deere and say, hey, this is insane.
	Now to their credit, they did a warranty repair, which the repair crew told me cost John Deere $12,000.
	Okay, so John Deere sells equipment in America that's crap quality.
	When it breaks, they will fix it as long as it breaks under a certain number of hours and within a warranty period.
	Yeah.
	But you could spend, you know, you could spend more than six figures on a high-end piece of equipment from John Deere, and it'll break in less than 100 hours, and it'll break to a point where it cannot be used at all.
	And you want to know why it broke?
	So see, this is really important to understand about global trade and Trump favoring U.S. companies.
	You know why it broke?
	Because there's something like 24 giant bolts arranged in a circle around the perimeter of this sprocket.
	These are big bolts.
	And, you know, they're a special alloy to have very high strength.
	I don't know what category they're called, like, I don't know, category six or whatever kind of bolts.
	They're supposed to be tightened to a certain number of foot pounds each.
	These bolts were not tightened at the factory.
	So John Deere will make a very expensive machine with all kinds of parts, all kinds of electronics, you know, all kinds of hydraulics, the pumps, the diesel engine, everything.
	And because they have no quality control at their manufacturing facilities, either in America or in Mexico, they will neglect to tighten the bolts.
	I tell you, that will not happen with equipment from Japan.
	I've never seen that with a Kubota piece of equipment.
	It doesn't just break and the wheel fall off or something like that.
	That does happen with John Deere.
	I know because I experienced it.
	So just because Trump is offering economic protectionism for U.S. manufacturers doesn't mean their quality will improve at all.
	See, think about that.
	Because U.S. manufacturers do not have a culture of quality for the most part.
	There may be exceptions to it, but for the most part, they don't.
	You want to know who has a culture of quality?
	Look no further than, let's say, Toyota.
	Hmm, what country is Toyota from?
	Oh, Japan.
	Oh, yeah.
	If you want quality control, if you want a culture of manufacturing that has quality checklists and quality testing throughout their entire supply chain, that's Japan.
	That is not the United States.
	The U.S. and I found this out with a vehicle, another vehicle I have, a truck with a diesel engine in it.
	I may have mentioned this a few months ago.
	There's a plug in the diesel engine that just came out and it just spilled out all the oil all over the road.
	And I took it to the truck dealer.
	I'm like, hey, this is an American-made car, right?
	Yep, American-made.
	Like, what happened?
	And then they said, oh, well, I mean, the mechanic looked at it and said, well, it turns out that somebody at the factory forgot to put thread lock on this little tiny plug that prevents the oil from spilling out all over the street, right?
	So I said, well, how much does that thread lock cost?
	Is that like 20 cents, you know?
	So, well, how much is this engine overhaul repair thing going to cost?
	Well, when it was all said and done, they had to remove everything off the front end of that truck.
	And in doing so, the dealer damaged the radiator because they set it down wrong.
	So they broke the radiator.
	They had to order a new radiator.
	The whole process took, I think, five weeks.
	Five weeks with my truck in the dealer's garage, right?
	Five weeks, and they said it cost $5,000.
	That was billed to the truck manufacturer, an American company.
	So, again, another example.
	So American manufacturers of agricultural equipment, construction equipment, I mean, I don't know about Caterpillar.
	I don't own any Caterpillar equipment.
	It's very expensive.
	But also truck or car manufacturers in America, they have no quality control.
	Their stuff just stops working.
	Trump, his policies will make it more competitive for those crap quality manufacturers in America to sell you stuff that breaks.
	While it's more expensive to get stuff brought in from other countries that actually will last.
	I mean, look, don't hate the messenger.
	I'm just telling you my experience.
	This is exactly what I've experienced.
	And John Deere is also horrible because they have this software lock-up system where you can't even use some of their more advanced tractors unless it checks in with their central servers.
	And if you modify the tractor, if you don't use like John Deere parts, they can lock up the tractor and prevent you from starting it.
	You can't even run your own tractor.
	There have been lawsuits over this.
	John Deere believes that you don't have the right to repair John Deere equipment.
	Think about that.
	You don't have the right, they say.
	If you touch the equipment that you bought from John Deere, they say the warranty is void.
	Think about that.
	How insane is that?
	A Kubota doesn't throw a fit if you use a non-Kubota belt or something in the engine.
	They don't go insane.
	Yeah, I mean, you have the right to repair your own tractor, for God's sake, but not if it's John Deere.
	But these are examples of the lack of quality of equipment manufactured in America.
	And you know why this happens, right?
	You know why.
	Because the American factory workers today, they're all cooking meth.
	I mean, not all, okay, but many of them, they show up, they're high on drugs.
	They're high on drugs.
	They're on meth, they're on weed, they're selling weed.
	I mean, look at Boeing.
	Look at the whistleblowers at Boeing.
	They're like selling meth in the parking lot and then, you know, assembling planes that don't work sometimes in the Boeing factory.
	See, America does not have a culture of precision.
	Clearly.
	And to make it even worse, John Deere and other companies are moving manufacturing to Mexico to lower costs.
	Let me ask you this.
	Does Mexico have a culture of precision?
	No.
	No.
	Nada.
	I'm not saying that all Mexicans are bad.
	Not by any means.
	We love Mexican culture here in Texas.
	And Mexicans tend to be really amazing artists and they have a very strong work ethic and they are very disciplined.
	And many of them are very accomplished people in all kinds of different ways.
	But I'm saying, culturally, that is not a culture of precision.
	It's a culture of that's good enough.
	That's good enough.
	Close enough.
	Which, I mean, that works for drywall.
	Doesn't work for tractors, turns out.
	I mean, go into any new home, like tour a new home as if you're a prospective buyer.
	Any new home where all the internal electrical work and drywall has been done by Mexicans.
	Now, again, I honor their work ethic.
	I honor their discipline.
	And, you know, most Mexicans in America just want to have a job and get paid and go home and be with their families, etc.
	So I'm not culturally slamming all Mexicans, but there is not a single electrical outlet panel in that home that is square.
	Not one of them is actually level with the ground.
	They're all off.
	10 degrees here, 15 degrees there, 20 degrees there, because it's good enough.
	It's good enough.
	And again, it's just a cultural thing.
	It's good enough.
	That's not the way it is in Japan.
	You look at home construction in Japan, and those electrical outlets are square because it's a culture of precision.
	Now, much the same thing has been true throughout history with Germans, too.
	The German people are known for precision with machinery, precision with electronics, even precision in software, etc.
	The problem with Germany is they take like 16 weeks of vacation every year, and so hardly anybody's ever working.
	So everything that comes out of Germany costs three times as much as it should.
	And they have no energy because the U.S. Navy bombed the Nord Stream pipelines, and the German government is turned into a bunch of woke-tarts at this point.
	They don't even want their own domestic energy supply.
	So the German economy is collapsing, including German automobile manufacturing.
	But that's a separate story.
	But nevertheless, you can't take away from the German people the fact that they have a culture of precision.
	Now, does China have a culture of precision?
	Not really.
	Nope.
	Taiwan, more so, a lot more so, especially with microchips, Taiwan was heavily influenced by the culture of Japan because of Japanese occupation of Taiwan following World War II.
	The whole history of Taiwan and Chiang Kai-shek and all of that, if you don't know about that, understand that Taiwan actually learned a lot of its manufacturing know-how from the Japanese who were occupying Taiwan.
	And also the Japanese taught the Taiwan people woodworking skills, timber management, food production, agriculture, things like that.
	So, and believe me, remember, I lived in Taiwan and I spoke with Taiwan old timers who lived there during Japanese occupation, and this is what they told me.
	I mean, they're long gone now, but they told me this years ago when I was in Taiwan.
	Anyway, my point is that these tariffs from Trump, they are messing with your freedom of choice.
	Whereas you would think that a manufacturer that makes a higher quality product would, of course, be a higher price, and then a manufacturer that makes a lower quality product would be a lower price, and that then the American consumer would have freedom of choice.
	Like, hey, I can go with the low-end tractor here.
	Mahindra from India, if you want like the very basic tractor that it does run.
	It runs like as good as any Indian railway car.
	It runs.
	It's made in India.
	That's like the starting level.
	Yeah, you can buy the Mahindra, but it's not going to be like a Kubota on the high end.
	Not even close.
	But these tariffs mess with all those prices, sending confusing signals to consumers.
	And they might think that, oh, this coyote tractor from South Korea, it's really high price now.
	It must be much higher quality than what a consumer expects.
	And it turns out that may not be the case.
	Or I don't know what the tariffs are on India, but maybe they're going to be 20% as well.
	I don't know.
	But India is going to get hit by the 10%, which is the BRICS penalty.
	So let's talk about the BRICS penalty next.
	But let me just summarize this and say, I think it's wrong for Trump to punish our allies with these high tariffs.
	Trump should not punish Japan, Korea, Taiwan, etc., in my view, with these tariffs.
	And I think it's only going to encourage these countries to accelerate their expansion of non-U.S.
	markets in order to bypass those tariffs.
	So that's point number one.
	Secondly, then, Trump has a 10% tariff surcharge on any country that is a member of BRICS.
	Now, BRICS, which of course started out as Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa, yeah.
	BRICS has expanded to the BRICS plus countries, which is like 21-plus countries.
	But Trump's going to charge an extra 10% for India.
	And India does manufacture a lot of stuff, like I said, the Mahindra tractors and so on.
	So India is going to pay a big price because their membership in BRICS, and the reason they're in BRICS, is exactly to avoid the punitive sanctions under the dollar.
	So understand that since the end of World War II, the dollar has been the global currency, the world reserve currency, or the currency of settlement and trade around the world.
	Everybody could trade in dollars and everybody could buy debt in treasuries.
	And of course, the oil-producing countries like Saudi Arabia were convinced, you know, through Bretton Woods and other arrangements to sell oil in dollars and then take those dollars and buy treasuries.
	So this was the money creation scam of the West, really, that continues to this day.
	And that would allow the West then to inflict economic sanctions on any country that did not do the bidding of America.
	And these are the sanctions that have been inflicted against Iran since, I don't know, 1979 or something.
	These are the sanctions that have been inflicted upon Russia since 2022 and also earlier years.
	I mean, Russia got cut off from the SWIFT system, which is controlled by the West.
	And of course, there are economic sanctions against China and sanctions against African nations and sanctions against South American nations, etc.
	Trump, well, not just Trump, but every U.S. president wields economic sanctions around the world like bully weapons.
	And frankly, the world's other countries are sick and tired of that.
	And BRICS offers them a settlement system that bypasses the use of the dollar.
	So the fact that Trump is punishing nations That are participating in BRICS actually encourages those nations to want to use BRICS even more.
	So, the net effect of this, this decision from Trump, is going to be the acceleration of a global move away from the dollar.
	And I think the finance minister of Russia just recently said that countries can trade in their own currencies.
	And that shift has taken place dramatically since 2022, by the way.
	So almost all the trade between Russia and China, for example, takes place in their respective currencies.
	And then whenever there are imbalances in settlements, those imbalances can be settled in, guess what?
	Gold.
	Exactly.
	So you wonder why Russia is stacking gold and why China is stacking gold.
	There's one reason.
	There are many reasons, but that's one of them.
	And what the BRICS countries are working on doing is setting up gold depositories that are held in different member nations.
	So basically like a guarded, armed, secure gold storage facility where every country has gold deposited in every one of these facilities.
	And then, and let's say every bar of gold has a name attached to it, like this bar of gold is Russia.
	This bar of gold is China.
	You know, this bar of gold is India, etc.
	or Turkey or whoever.
	Then when there's a settlement imbalance, for example, if Russia is selling a lot of oil to China and China doesn't sell as much stuff back to Russia, then Russia is going to end up with too much Chinese currency.
	And so in order to resettle that, they would send some of that currency back to China, electronically, obviously.
	And then China would give Russia some of the gold bars that are held in storage, which only means that the label of who owns the gold changes from China to Russia.
	So that way they can carry out settlements without physically moving gold around.
	This structure is being set up right now.
	So whether you're talking about the ruble, the rupee, the yuan, the, I don't know what's the currency of Iran.
	I should know this.
	But whatever all the currencies are all around the world, they can trade with each other and then they can settle in gold and that way they can bypass the dollar.
	And when they do that, importantly, they pay no tariffs, or I should say at least they pay no U.S. tariffs.
	And they're not subject to U.S. sanctions.
	So they can trade amongst themselves, which is what they've been wanting to do.
	In essence, the whole world is tired of being bullied by the United States.
	The whole world is tired of it.
	So you could say that Trump's tariffs are bringing in billions of dollars in the short term.
	Yeah, okay.
	Billions of dollars, which doesn't count for anything compared to the trillions that are being increased in terms of government spending and debt.
	But the real effect is that these other countries are increasingly and almost with a sense of urgency developing their own settlement systems that will bypass the dollar.
	So what Trump has actually accomplished is a global movement away from the dollar.
	Trump is essentially selling that idea to the whole world by weaponizing the dollar even more.
	And when the dollar is abandoned by the rest of the world, the cost to the American consumer will be absolutely devastating.
	So yeah, Trump may be collecting a few billion dollars today, but 10 years down the road, the American people are going to find themselves living in destitution and poverty because the dollar will be abandoned by most of the world.
	That is underway.
	Look, BRICS is desperately needed by those countries in their own minds to trade amongst themselves.
	And if there had been any hesitation whatsoever, there is no more hesitation now because of Trump's actions, because Trump continues to weaponize the dollar.
	And you even have countries like Turkey, which is a member of NATO, that is very interested in BRICS.
	And we also saw Vietnam get officially accepted into the BRICS plus nations just, I don't know, a month ago, something like that.
	More and more countries are going to join BRICS, which means more and more countries are going to thumb their noses at the United States.
	Now, there's something else going on, which is that as more and more American people are thrust into poverty because of the money printing and the inflation, you're going to see a continuation of the plummeting of consumer purchases of imported goods one way or the other.
	I mean, across most industries, consumer purchases have plummeted in the last six months, if not the last year.
	I mean, some of it happened under Biden.
	Some of it is accelerating under Trump.
	People do not have the discretionary income that they used to have.
	That's because of inflation, because of so much money printing.
	What that means is that there's less discretionary income for consumers to spend on imported goods, which means that overall the trend is that there will be less and less tariff money for the government to even collect because people just won't be able to buy as much stuff.
	It also means that for an exporter like a company out of Japan, like Kubota, that if their exports are a giant pie chart, the slice of that pie chart that is currently America, you know, American consumers buying their products, that's going to get smaller and smaller and smaller over time as the American economic collapse continues to accelerate.
	So the pie of exports will shift fairly dramatically over time to where this Japanese company won't even care nearly as much about U.S. tariffs because they've got markets all over Southeast Asia.
	They've got markets in Thailand.
	They've got markets in the Philippines.
	They've got markets in Australia.
	They've got markets in Canada, Mexico, etc.
	Even all over Europe, etc.
	So Trump is not doing us any long-term favors, I think, with these punitive policies.
	What he should be doing, in my opinion, is making America more competitive by radically reforming our culture through education as a starting point, but also finding ways to promote excellence in mathematics and science and engineering.
	Whereas in our public school system today, it's considered uncool to be good at math and you end up graduating absolute idiots who are utterly illiterate.
	They cannot read, they can't write, and they can't do basic math.
	And that's true across most U.S. cities.
	And you can't tariff your way out of a public education system that grinds out woke idiots.
	You can't tariff your way around that.
	Sooner or later, you actually have to graduate people who can do something useful.
	And you have to have a culture of quality.
	And you have to have business managers who know how to do quality control checks.
	And you have to have a supply chain that functions, which is not the case right now, largely because of these tariffs.
	Much more difficult for U.S. automobile companies to get the parts they need.
	For example, a month ago or so, I mentioned Ford had to shut down its production lines.
	Why?
	They couldn't get the neodymium magnet material out of China.
	Why?
	Because of Trump's tariffs.
	So Ford had to shut down.
	I mean, it was only temporary, but it's a major disruption.
	And a lot of people were laid off for those days, and they went home and they didn't earn any money, and then they can't afford to buy things, etc.
	So there's a domino effect of economic consequences for all of this.
	Now, fiscally, globally, what America should be doing is instead of saying, we're going to be the world's currency bullies, and we're going to demand that you do what we want, or we're going to sanction you, which means we're going to punish you to where you can't transfer money or certain companies can't transfer money.
	You can't use Western banks.
	You can't wire money, et cetera.
	You can't use Swift.
	We're going to punish you.
	Instead of that, what America should be doing is saying, we support fair and free trade internationally.
	Fair and free trade all over the world.
	Opening up the supply chains and competing with other countries.
	And then some people say, well, you know, China doesn't engage in fair trade.
	They manipulate their currency.
	To which I would respond, are you aware of how much the Trump administration has manipulated the dollar currency?
	Yeah, it's down, what, 11% now since Trump took office, something like that?
	11%.
	And many experts believe it's going to fall another 10% this year.
	So that would mean a drop of 20% in the U.S. dollar in one year.
	That is a policy-driven dollar devaluation, which is designed to improve U.S. exports by making dollars cheaper, right?
	So it makes it cheaper for overseas consumers to purchase U.S. goods because the dollars are cheaper to acquire, and those are the dollars they use to pay for the goods that they're buying from the U.S. And Trump is making sure that there are very low or non-existent tariffs on the receiving side of that.
	So Trump even warned Japan, don't you dare retaliate against our 25% tariffs on your goods, because if you put up tariffs on our goods, then we're going to add another 25%.
	We'll make your tariffs 50%.
	So Trump is saying that Japan, you're not allowed to put tariffs on our goods, but we are allowed to put tariffs on your goods.
	And we, the United States, we're going to manipulate our currency, which is a violation of World Trade Organization rules, by the way.
	We're going to manipulate our currency by 20% in one year, which also, that's been the accusation against China.
	Oh, they manipulate their currency.
	They're so evil, right?
	We've heard this over and over again.
	Now, when the U.S. manipulates its currency, it's a good thing.
	Trump is winning.
	Trump is a genius.
	When China does it, they're evil.
	You see what I mean?
	So with the 20% currency devaluation plus the 25% tariffs on Japanese goods, think about it.
	It results in a highly manipulated and artificial trade bias between the United States and Japan.
	And then that will be celebrated as, you know, 5D chess or something.
	Look, look, our trade imbalance with Japan is shifting in our favor now.
	Because Japanese are buying more U.S. goods and U.S. consumers are buying fewer goods from Japan.
	Yeah, that's because of the artificial interference of tariffs and currency manipulation.
	So it's not fair trade from the U.S. side at all.
	It's all manipulated.
	And that's what the world is growing tired of.
	Now, another factor in all of this that's really important to understand is that Trump just promised Netanyahu that he would have the U.S. taxpayers bankroll the construction of IDF military bases and runways and buildings and so on to help the IDF continue to wage its illegal genocidal war against its neighbors.
	So it's more money creation.
	It's more weaponization of Israel in the Middle East, which is, of course, earning both Israel and the United States a very low reputation around most of the world.
	By far, the vast majority of the world's population now have a very dim view of both Israel and the United States, you know, because of this ongoing genocide that's taking place.
	And yet, what Trump is doing is saying, well, we're just going to keep burdening U.S. taxpayers by printing more money, sending it to Israel to keep building the war machine, even though Trump campaigned as being the peace president.
	So as the world notices here, it's hard not to notice, the ability to have the world's reserve currency allows you to print an unlimited, essentially an unlimited amount of currency to fund war.
	And thus these other countries around the world that are opposed to the actions of Israel, and that would include obviously Iran, but also Russia, China, Turkey, no doubt, many other countries, they have another incentive to not use the dollar,
	which is they don't want to provide the United States the ability to keep printing more money in order to wage wars in the Middle East or elsewhere, or, you know, providing weapons to Ukraine for that matter.
	So there is a widening realization that to buy U.S. dollars is to support war on an international basis.
	But by avoiding U.S. dollars in your trade, then at least you're not fueling the war machine.
	At least you're not expanding the M2 money supply, which is sort of the pillars upon which additional debt currency printing is based.
	So there's that.
	So the bottom-line takeaway from all of this is that the U.S. dollar is failing.
	I mean, its value is collapsing, maybe 20% this year.
	The yield for treasuries continues to climb overall because fewer and fewer overseas countries or investment houses or hedge funds, et cetera, wish to invest in U.S. treasuries because the rate of return of 4.8% or 4.9% or even 5% is just not good enough because the dollar keeps losing so much value.
	And this typical knee-jerk reaction of, hey, everybody, let's just put our money into treasuries, that's over for the most part.
	Instead, people are putting their money into gold and silver because they know gold and silver are going to be around.
	They don't know that about the dollar.
	See, the rise and fall of empires, it's a predictable pattern.
	It's a blueprint.
	And usually it's a military overextension where an empire, like let's say the Roman Empire, was overextended with too much occupation, conquest, and it had to maintain long supply lines of military bases and military support in numerous regions where it never was able to achieve the actual cultural cohesiveness.
	I mean, local regions would continue to rebel against Rome, and Rome had to increasingly rely on things, you know, like coercion and censorship and punitive arrests of dissidents and putting to death of people, things like that, in order to maintain its power and control.
	Think about the history of the British Empire and the occupation of India.
	The Indian people were never on board with that.
	So the British had to operate on, frankly, all kinds of cruelty and threats and coercion and violence against the Indian people.
	And eventually, that fell as well.
	The same thing is going to happen to the U.S. Empire.
	The U.S. Empire, which has military bases all around the Middle East, all over the place, from Kuwait and Iraq and, you know, Afghanistan, Qatar, UAE, I mean, all over the place, not to mention Israel.
	The U.S. is not going to be able to maintain that forever.
	And the U.S. is already running into the fact that it cannot produce the munitions, the interceptors for the Iron Dome of Israel or the Patriot missile batteries in Ukraine.
	The U.S. can't keep up because it doesn't have the industrial output capacity that's necessary to maintain all of that.
	And what else is amazing in all of this is that Trump says that all these other countries that export goods to America, they have to pay for the privilege of being able to sell their goods to the largest consumer base in the world, which is the American consumer.
	However, the American consumer is steeped in debt.
	The American consumer is running out of money, and the dollar is collapsing in value.
	Like we said, groceries are getting incredibly expensive.
	Gas is relatively cheap right now, but that could change at any moment based on what happens with Iran.
	I mean, gas could be $10 a gallon two weeks from now, depending on what happens there.
	So it's not hard.
	I've said this before.
	It's not difficult to be a nation of consumers who go into debt to buy everybody's stuff.
	That's not difficult.
	That can be replicated anywhere in the world.
	And the only reason it's possible in the U.S. is because the U.S. dollar is the current global reserve currency, but that's also changing quickly.
	The hard part in this equation is making stuff, building tractors that don't fall apart, for example, building vehicles that don't fall apart.
	Manufacturing, supply chains, quality control, electronics, computing, telecom, microchips, medical devices, etc.
	Optical devices.
	Germany's really well known for optics.
	These are difficult things to do.
	And the U.S. has fallen way behind in those areas of actual manufacturing.
	We've become a consumer debtor nation.
	We don't save money.
	We don't make stuff.
	We go into debt to buy other people's stuff.
	And then Trump thinks that that puts us in the strong bargaining position.
	Not really.
	Not in the long run.
	It doesn't.
	It puts us in the weak position because countries around the world can develop their other markets, which is automatically happening.
	People in China are becoming more wealthy.
	People in Russia are becoming more wealthy.
	People in Iran, et cetera, are becoming more wealthy.
	So these manufacturers can choose to just say, yeah, we just don't want to mess with America anymore.
	It's just too insane.
	We can't even predict what tariffs are going to be next month or what the currency is going to be next month, the dollar.
	We're just tired of it.
	We don't want to subject ourselves to U.S. sanctions or the whims of Trump, how he feels on a certain day, etc.
	So they could just say, we're just not selling to America any longer.
	And none of this will change until America's education and culture also change.
	And so just to demonstrate this and also to wrap up this special report here, so I want to share this video clip with you of an interview with a music artist who goes by the name Suki Hana, which sounds Japanese, but she's not.
	She's a black American artist.
	And she was interviewed.
	I regret that I don't have the name of the person interviewing her.
	But this is a, no, I guess it's with Bobby Altoff.
	Okay.
	This is a hilarious clip that shows you a shocking level of idiocy in American culture today.
	Now, this doesn't apply to everybody, but this is, I mean, just the fact that this is possible is absolutely shocking.
	But I'll leave you with this clip.
	There is a little bit of profanity in it.
	Not from me, but from Suki Hana.
	So check this out.
	And I'm telling you, this is real.
	Unbelievable.
	Here we go.
	That's amazing.
	I didn't know that about you.
	What's good to you now?
	That you're a musician.
	That's why I'm interviewing you today so I can get to know you.
	So I'm a musician.
	What the fuck that means?
	Make magic or something?
	What is a musician?
	I think you're confusing that.
	Yeah, I'm not no musician.
	I make music.
	I make music.
	And that's not all I do.
	I make music.
	I act.
	I'm a TV star too, a young musician.
	Just really quick, I think you're confusing.
	I'm not confusing nothing because you don't know.
	You thought that all I was was a magician or whatever the fuck you said.
	See, that's what I think you think I said.
	I said musician.
	Not magician.
	I don't think, baby.
	I don't think.
	What is that?
	That's ghetto.
	I don't think.
	I know.
	So you think?
	I said musician.
	And I think you are a musician.
	No, baby.
	I do music.
	So you, just really quick for the record, could you say you don't think you're a musician?
	None of that.
	But then after that, you just said I do music.
	Yeah, I do music.
	So, in other words, you're a musician?
	No, I'm not.
	Okay.
	Welcome to today's interview here on Brighteon.com.
	I'm Mike Adams, the founder of Brighteon.
	And, you know, for about 25 years, I've been learning and teaching nutrition, various forms of naturopathic intervention, the incredible healing power of not just herbs and nutrients, but mind, mind and body resonating to heal and the fact that you were born with these incredibly powerful healing properties that simply need to be invoked.
	And our guest today is truly an expert in this realm.
	His name is Dr. Peter Glidden, and his website is leavebigpharmabehind.com.
	Here it is.
	And he joins us now to share some of the wisdom that he has learned over the years about how you can be the hero of your own health journey by leaving big pharma behind.
	So Dr. Glidden, welcome to the show today.
	Mr. Adams, I appreciate the invitation very much.
	I'm a fan also.
	There's not very many of us that have been standing up on this hill and waving this flag.
	You're one of them.
	So respect.
	Oh, wow.
	Thank you.
	That means a lot.
	And yeah, I remember when I was doing Counterthink cartoons in 2005 that were poking fun at big pharma and the cancer industry and the vaccine industry.
	I was considered a fringe heretic at the time.
	Now it's become a lot more acceptable.
	So let me start actually with that question first that your book, and you've got an upcoming course we'll talk about.
	You talk about the dangers of big pharma.
	That idea has become a lot more mainstream since COVID.
	Can you speak to that shift that has taken place?
	Well, there has been a shift because, you know, the curtain during COVID on the shenanigans that are inherent in the monopolized medical system lifted a little bit and people got to see the man behind the curtain and start to question the validity of a lot of things having to do with mainstream medicine.
	So that was a good thing.
	You know, when I graduated naturopathic medical school in 1991, I think there were four states that licensed and regulated naturopathy.
	There's 23 right now.
	However, right, we're not so enlightened as we think we are because in this great state of Tennessee, it's a felony to practice naturopathic medicine.
	And in Florida, it's a misdemeanor.
	It's only licensed and regulated in 23 states.
	So what does that mean, that the laws of science or the laws of nature change when you cross a state line?
	Right.
	It has everything to do with turf and a medical monopoly that's been in place since 1913.
	And that did start to shift a little bit post-COVID, but it's my, you know, I am of the opinion that the only thing that's going to dramatically change the medical metric in this country or quite frankly in the free world is some like apocalyptic event.
	Because big pharma has its talents in everything.
	And we have been socialized for over 100 years to believe that the medical doctors, the MDs, are the only people with the secret decoder ring to medicine.
	And everybody else is a back of the bus quack with substandard dangerous training.
	That's a lie, but that's the predominant thought worm that's inside of most people's heads.
	Now, people are starting to see to break out of that and to look for actionable alternatives which are safe and proven and science-based and clinically verified.
	That much is true.
	I haven't seen a dramatic change, though, since COVID, and I don't know.
	This is really interesting.
	If we look at the results of all these years of being indoctrinated with the pharmaceutical narrative and doctors being essentially skinbag pharmaceutical vending machines.
	If you look at the results, you look, you just go out in public, go to a grocery store, go to a mall, look at people.
	They are sick.
	They are diseased.
	They are obese.
	They are suffering.
	I mean, their skin doesn't even look healthy.
	I'm not trying to be mean.
	I'm not naming people, but I have been, I have looked at scenes in public where I thought these people are barely human.
	Like they're a pale shadow of what I remember two generations ago.
	And then this chronic degenerative disease is only perpetuated even after this recent election.
	We get new people running the FDA, the CDC, HHS.
	But primarily they're like, hey, let's just make our current system more efficient with AI.
	Yeah, that's right.
	Right?
	There hasn't been a revolution from top down at all.
	No, everybody was hoping that Maha would do that, right?
	But I never thought Bobby Kennedy was up to snuff in that regard.
	I tell you what's necessary and what's needed, and it is the Zen cord, the Zen sword that would fix this entire problem, is medical freedom.
	Yes.
	As argued for by Dr. Benjamin Rush over 200 years ago, right, one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence, I'm loosely paraphrasing.
	Unless we put medical freedom into the Constitution, the time will come when medicine will organize itself into a dictatorship.
	Restricting the art of medicine to one class of people and denying equal privileges to others will constitute the bastille of medical science.
	All such laws are un-American and despotic.
	⁇ End quote.
	And that's exactly what happened.
	In 1913, through the advocacy of the Carnegies and the Rockefellers, Congress granted the American Medical Association exclusive control over who could and who couldn't practice medicine.
	They effectively ensconced the MDs into first place.
	And they've maintained their position at the top ever since with the unbelievable political power and financial largesse of the pharmaceutical industry ever since.
	It's a self-regulating, self-policing medical system.
	The only thing in the United States that can legally treat a disease is a drug.
	Let me say that one more time for the listening audience.
	In the United States of America, the only thing that can legally treat a disease is a drug.
	And the only people really that, you know, your medical insurance pays for is MD-directed doctors.
	The only medicine that they practice in your hospital is MD-directed medicine.
	The only medicine that they make TV shows about is MD-directed medicine.
	And the only medicine that they do research on at your alma mater is MD-directed medicine.
	Therefore, for people who are not in the know historically, who don't know the arc of the situation here, it's easy to think, well, the MDs, bless their hearts, must be better at what they do than their competition because they're everywhere all the time.
	That's a logical conclusion, unless and until you enter the data point of the hostile takeover of the medical market in the early 1900s.
	I swear to God, Mike, the only reason that the MDs continue to exist as a profession is because they legislated themselves there.
	We are in the middle of a chronic disease epidemic.
	Obesity is everywhere all the time.
	It's bad.
	Alzheimer's is everywhere all the time.
	Autism, don't even get me started.
	Chronic disease is getting worse.
	It's not getting better.
	Life expectancy is getting shorter.
	It's not getting longer.
	And wait for it.
	The leading cause of death or the third leading cause of death, depending on how you crunch the numbers, is MD-directed medical therapeutics.
	And the leading cause of bankruptcy is MD-directed medical therapeutics.
	It is a freaking race to the bottom.
	But Dr. Glinton.
	RFK Jr. got the Hershey Company to agree to remove dyes by the year 2027 from their processed diabetes-inducing junk food.
	Why isn't that worth celebrating?
	Well, that is worth celebrating.
	That's a win.
	But, you know, all that this is going to do is clean up the corruption in conventional medicine.
	That's then going to give more people more confidence in this system of medicine, which is really good, by the way, for trauma care and surgery when it's indicated.
	That's the wheelhouse.
	I agree with you of MD directed medicine.
	But most people don't understand this.
	So all that Bobby Kennedy is going to do is clean up corruption and give people more confidence in the system of medicine that has failed them and that has generated the chronic disease epidemic.
	The system itself needs to change, right?
	The system itself needs to be transcended.
	You can't fix the problem.
	But what's obvious if we stay on this current path, because we can project the trends of where we're going.
	And as you are well aware, we are seeing more advanced stage chronic degenerative disease in younger and younger people.
	We're seeing colon cancer in teenagers now.
	We're seeing heart disease in 20-year-olds.
	We're seeing 20-year-old athletes dropping dead in the middle of a soccer match or a marathon at numbers that are extraordinary.
	We didn't used to see that before at all.
	And also, observationally, and most of our audience will agree with this, the people that you know that take a lot of pharmaceuticals are the least healthy people you know?
	And the people you know that eat the healthiest foods and have nutrition and herbs and exercise and sunlight, they're the healthiest people that you know.
	So, why is that, which is so just a first-person observational truth that is undeniable?
	How is it that people can still be trained to say, no, I need my doctor to heal me?
	It's 100 years of socialization, confirmation bias, and cognitive dissonance.
	It's like Max Planck said.
	Max Planck, right, the guy that discovered quantum physics, he was really outspoken, kind of like you and I. And he had hundreds of quotes.
	My most famous or my favorite Max Planck quote is, science changes one funeral at a time.
	Right.
	I'm familiar with that quote, yeah.
	Because the old guard has to die off before the new ideas are accepted.
	Even though the new ideas are true and correct, it takes a while for them to be accepted.
	It's even worse in the suffering mass of humanity because most people aren't, you know, they're not any smarter than a fifth grader.
	And it becomes reality by consensus.
	You just look around and MD-directed medicine is everywhere all the time.
	And so, and look, man, when people are sick, they're scared and rightly so.
	And they got to do something.
	So what are they going to do?
	Well, they're going to go to the only show in town.
	And that's MD-directed, allopathic, reductionistic, Machiavellian, mechanistic medicine.
	They don't really know these distinctions.
	They just know that it's the only thing that their insurance pays for.
	So when push comes to shove, they're just going to shut up and do what the doctor says because that's what they've been culturally conditioned to do.
	Now, that is starting to change, but I don't think there's going to be anything dramatic in our lifetimes.
	You mentioned even insurance, that people misunderstand the role of insurance, obviously.
	But yet I saw a chart recently that showed that the average household income expenditure on food and groceries is shrinking, shrinking, shrinking over time.
	But the household expenditures on health insurance and medical procedures is expanding, expanding, expanding.
	So as the food is getting cheaper or people are buying cheaper and cheaper, more processed, more nutrient-deficient foods, their healthcare costs are expanding to fill the gap, which really leads to a very important fundamental truth that I know you teach, which is if you invest in healthy food, you don't have to waste money on expensive medical procedures overall.
	And if you learn what to do to support and promote your body's built-in God-given ability to fix itself even better.
	And this was one of the, you know, every, I've had a number of eureka moments in my life, thank God.
	And one of them was the startling realization, and this happened after I'd been about 15 years into practice, that for most of the conditions that bother most people most of the time, you know, things like high blood pressure and eczema and asthma and heart disease and arthritis and obesity and whatever, you don't need a private appointment with a holistic physician in order to figure out what to do to get on the other side of it.
	You just need to be told what to do.
	Because healing is relatively easy.
	Surgery is complicated.
	I wouldn't recommend that you try to teach yourself how to surgery somebody and buy a bunch of surgical equipment on Google, Amazon, and do that.
	But learning what to do to help the body optimize its structure and function is relatively easy.
	If you're smart enough to pass the driver's license test, you're smart enough to learn what to do.
	And so this is what's necessary, right?
	People need to be educated about what to do to make their bodies healthy.
	And we could talk about that all day.
	But I do want to underline one thing about medical insurance because it outlines perfectly how deep into the rabbit hole everybody is, right?
	So here's the deal.
	Most people over the course of their life spend a small fortune in medical insurance premiums.
	It's upwards of, yes, millions of dollars over the course of their life.
	And while they're paying handsomely out of the pocket every month medical insurance, they got sick.
	While they were under the care of the people that the medical insurance gave them access to, they got sick.
	And then when they go to the medical professionals, the allopathic MDs, they're given medicines that do not intend to cure the condition.
	They only intend to manage the problem.
	That's right.
	So the condition gets kicked down the road.
	The can gets kicked down the road.
	Another drug and another drug and another drug and another drug.
	And then over time, they get sicker and weaker and more dependent on the pharmaceutical and weaker and sicker and more dependent on the pharmaceutical.
	And then they go bankrupt because the leading cause of bankruptcy in the U.S. is medical bills.
	And then they die.
	And all the time while they were paying in extreme of, they were paying through the nose for access to all of this nonsense.
	And while they were under the care of the allopathic physician, they got sick and nobody questioned that.
	And everybody just genuflects at that altar and says, please, sir, could I have some more?
	It's insane.
	It really is.
	It's insane.
	And I think that this happens only because, well, I know why it happens.
	It's because of the medical monopoly.
	Because let's be honest, nobody even knows how to pronounce naturopathy, let alone know what we can do.
	That's funny.
	Yeah.
	And, you know, I have been talking about the dangers of pharmaceutical advertisements, you know, DTC, direct-to-consumer ads, which was legalized in, what, 97 or 98 in the United States, that allowed big pharma to absolutely control the media.
	And just heard recently that HHS under now Secretary Kennedy is not going to overturn that.
	That's a shame.
	It's extraordinary because that is the, that's the exhaust port of the Death Star right there.
	100%.
	Correct.
	Drop a torpedo into that, you know, metaphorically speaking, and you could end big pharma's control over media, which we saw during COVID, everything was sponsored by Pfizer.
	And every media, every mainstream media organization was pro-Pfizer, pro-vaccine, pro-fear, pro-PSIOP, everything to drive more people to buy more vaccines.
	And this is a key problem I want you to address if you can.
	It's not profitable on a large scale to teach people how to take care of their own health.
	It's highly profitable to keep them sick and disease and repeat business of disease management.
	So there's always this incentive.
	Go ahead.
	Yeah, I mean, you're absolutely right.
	I mean, we're twin sons of different mothers, I think.
	So you know why the pharmaceutical industry does direct-to-consumer advertising?
	To control the media narratives.
	Because it works.
	Yeah.
	It sells drugs.
	It sells products.
	It ingrains in people the false belief that the MD allopathic medical method is the only real, effective, safe, inexpensive medical method.
	It's over and over and over.
	It's brainwashing and par excellence, and it works.
	And that's why they did it.
	And that's why they continue to do it.
	And, you know, it's not going to change.
	I mean, I never thought Kennedy was up to speed with that.
	And it's a shame that it didn't happen.
	But direct-to-consumer advertising is here to stay.
	And it upholds, right, the straw house of conventional medicine.
	And look, don't get me wrong.
	You know, we're talking in extremes here for educational purposes, right?
	I have a good friend of mine who's an orthopedic surgeon.
	He's a very famous orthopedic surgeon.
	He's retired now.
	He did Kobe Bryant's shoulder.
	And, you know, look, man, there's room in the world for every system of medicine.
	There is.
	But we don't have medical freedom.
	We don't.
	Most people are not even aware of the distinction allopathic.
	They don't know what allopathic means, right?
	There's an egregious lack of education here in this regard.
	All of it is going towards propping up the conventional medical model.
	And, you know, old man Rockefeller said it better than anybody else.
	A patient cured is a customer lost.
	Well, this is why the concept, you know, I've done podcasts on this.
	I know you've talked about a similar thing before.
	But remember how during Trump's first administration, the Democrats declared certain cities to be sanctuary cities, that is, sanctuaries against, you know, deportation of undocumented people.
	Why couldn't a city, a county, or a state declare itself to be a health freedom sanctuary to say we no longer abide by the FDA's oversight, and we're going to instead allow health freedom, medical freedom in this county or city or state, but we're also going to have outcomes measured and tracked.
	So every person who participates in anything, Chinese medicine, acupuncture, you know, you name it, fills out a survey afterwards and then a survey in six months and so on.
	And you would gather this data set of what works.
	But of course, that would expose the lie of the current system.
	And there you go.
	It wouldn't take much to topple the system right now.
	I've always said that if by some genie in the bottle magic, we all woke up tomorrow and there was medical freedom and there were just as many experienced naturopathic physicians and homeopathic physicians and Ayurvedic practitioners and acupuncturists and herbalists and nutritionists as MDs,
	and insurance paid for everything, and hospitals allowed equal access to all types of doctors, and universities were encouraged to do research on 50% of their research on alternative quote-unquote therapeutics.
	If that were actually to happen within five years, the medical doctors who didn't practice surgery or trauma care would be out of a job.
	Absolutely.
	Because in a free market, people gravitate towards what works.
	Okay, so here you go, you know, Joe Smith.
	Here's your option.
	Okay, you have rheumatoid arthritis.
	I'm sorry to hear that.
	So you can go to this doctor who has no idea what causes the rheumatoid arthritis, who has no idea what to do to cure the rheumatoid arthritis and is only going to throw expensive pharmaceuticals at it, which will manage the problem, making you weaker over time.
	Or you can go to this doctor who knows what the root cause of the rheumatoid arthritis condition is and who's been trained in therapeutics that attempt to cure the condition.
	Which would you rather do?
	100% of people would go to the curative medical therapeutics, but you're not supposed to.
	In the United States today, you're not even supposed to mention the word cure.
	But Dr. Clinton, the medical cartels that you're talking about, which is really, it's organized racketeering that's legalized by the government.
	That's all it is.
	That's all that it is.
	This is, and feel free to agree or disagree, whatever, but I'm going to say this is national suicide, that our nation cannot survive this continuing like this, and for a couple of reasons.
	Not just healthcare costs, which is really sick care management, which are already approaching 25% of GDP, and they're getting closer.
	But the fact that you have cognitive destruction because of the lack of health.
	Now, stay with me, one more thing.
	You also have now, globally, you have the rise of artificial cognition through AI systems, one of which my company has built and released that's actually focused on nature opathy.
	That's Interesting.
	But you have artificial cognition rising and you have human cognition plummeting because of the medical doctors and the junk food and all the brain-destroying adjuvants that are in the vaccines and so on.
	This, it's not hard to tell where this ends.
	It ends in the collapse of this society as we know it.
	Now, I say that.
	Do you think I'm going too far?
	Do you have amendments to that?
	I think you're 100% correct, and it was done on purpose.
	This was not a mistake.
	I mean, in 1930, Congress, the United States Department of Agriculture reported to Congress that, hey, everybody, this is a big deal.
	The amount of nutritive minerals that are in the soil are getting dramatically low, and we need to do something about it.
	This was in the 1930s.
	Right.
	Congress did nothing about it.
	So as the amount of minerals in the soil declines, chronic disease escalates because all chronic disease is directly related to nutrient deficiencies.
	Let me say it one more time for the listening audience.
	All chronic disease is directly, not indirectly, directly related to deficiencies in essential nutrients in the human body, the lion's share of which are minerals.
	So less minerals in the food, less minerals in the human body, less nutrients in the human body, less vital force in the human body, less ability of the human body to optimize its structure and function, which equals more disease.
	Right.
	And then more managerial treatment for the disease, right?
	Because the medical doctors aren't trained to cure anything.
	They're just trained to kick the can down the road.
	And you're absolutely right.
	It should be illegal for a medical doctor to advertise or a hospital to advertise that they practice health care because they do not.
	They do not practice health care.
	They practice disease management.
	And there's a gigantic difference between those two.
	It was done on purpose, Mike.
	And I don't know what the end game is, but it was all done on purpose.
	So I'm really glad you mentioned the mineral deficiency worsening over time.
	So modern agriculture is really a mining operation that mines the minerals out of the soil, which are long gone in most foods.
	They just add back NPK, right?
	To make what I call shadow food.
	So I say most people, when they go shopping, they're buying shadow food.
	And then they go to the pharmacy counter and they get shadow medicine or they go see a shadow doctor.
	Like none of this is actually what you and I would consider to be real food, real medicine, real health at all.
	But people live in the shadow world and they think it's backed by science.
	But we have shadow science, of course, as well, which is, and by shadow, you can think, you know, Plato's cave, right?
	People are watching the shadows on the wall.
	They think that's reality.
	They're not living in the real world at all.
	You are 100% correct.
	I mean, COVID was a glaring example of that, right?
	So there was a research article that was published that really laid the foundation for everything COVID.
	And in the research, they said that the SARS coronavirus 2 vaccine has been discovered through Cox postulates, right?
	And Cox postulates is a scientific method by which you prove that a microbial organism is causative for a disease.
	There are steps that you have to, a stepwise process that you have to go through to prove that this microbe causes this disease.
	And first you have to isolate it.
	Well, yeah, that's the first step postulate.
	So that was not done.
	It wasn't done.
	And yet the published article said that it had been done in the headline.
	But when you actually read the 25 pages of the article, they had in fact not proved Cox's postulates.
	They'd proved two of them, not all five of them.
	And here's what that's like, right?
	That's like a naturalist publishing an article in Nature magazine that says, oh my God, we finally proven the existence of Bigfoot.
	We've proven it.
	Proven the existence of Bigfoot.
	Bigfoot is real.
	And then you read in the article, and here's how they did it.
	They had a sketch artist, a police sketch artist, interview 1,000 people who had said that they had seen Bigfoot themselves, right?
	And the sketch artist drew a composite.
	Oh, what does he look like?
	So now they've got a thousand sketch artists' renditions of what Bigfoot looks like, and then they give all of that to AI.
	AI generates a composite image of what Sasquatch is, what Bigfoot is, and they say, this is what Bigfoot is, and we've proven that he exists, and that's how we did it.
	That's a great metaphor.
	I love that.
	They did the exact same, well, not the exact same thing, but they did a very similar thing with COVID.
	It has never been proven that the SARS-CoV-2 virus exists.
	It's never been.
	But we've seen a lot of CGI rendered images that look like Pixar animations, actually.
	Yeah, right.
	Of the virus.
	And an unassuming public buys it, hook, line, and sinker.
	100%.
	100%.
	Look, it's so compelling that even I didn't begin to question the tenets of modern virology until COVID.
	Yeah, that's right.
	Virus Mania is a wonderful book if you haven't read it by Engelbrecht and Torstein, I think.
	Virus Mania.
	No, I haven't.
	I haven't read it.
	It just picks the whole freaking thing apart, one viral epidemic at a time.
	It's a remarkably eye-opening book, Virus Mania.
	Well, and it's so interesting, too, because the power of mind-body medicine, what I've come to realize since then, is that when the media announces a big scary virus, you get the negative placebo effect of people's minds making it real.
	So people actually develop symptoms that they were told by the TV.
	Like some people, you know, lose their sense of smell or whatever.
	Your body can make it, I mean, your mind makes it real in your body.
	We've seen this with hypnosis experiments, the power of the mind over your tissues.
	And then people show up at the hospital with symptoms that they created because they believed in the PSYOP.
	You're 100% correct.
	I went to two years ago, I did a continuing education, and We have to get 25 hours of continuing education credit every year to maintain the license.
	And I went to a really interesting presentation.
	And here, the nuts and bolts of the presentation were that it is very difficult for anybody to differentiate the blood work results from somebody who's under stress compared to somebody who's dealing with a bacterial infection.
	Wow.
	It's like if you didn't know what the etiology was, you'd have no idea what it was.
	Because the markers look the same.
	Cell membrane debris is the same.
	It's the same thing.
	It's the same.
	The result is the same, but it was caused by psychological stress as opposed to a microbe.
	I think that there was 5G had a lot to do with COVID also.
	But that's a whole nother story.
	But look, here's what it all boils down to for the listening audience by way of education.
	Your medical doctor may be the nicest person that God ever created, but your medical doctor doesn't practice medicine.
	Your medical doctor practices allopathic medicine.
	And allopathic medicine is based on a philosophy which is inconsistent with natural law and which is atheistic.
	Your medical doctor does not believe that the human body has the ability to fix itself, and it's based on Newtonian reductionistic physics, which argues if it can't be measured, it doesn't exist.
	So as far as your medical doctor is concerned, you, your consciousness itself is a function of biochemistry.
	There's no such thing as God.
	There's no such thing as angels.
	There's no such thing as afterlife.
	There's no such thing as the key or the vital force or anything esoteric.
	It's all a fiction.
	And when you die, it's lights out game over.
	You are a bag of biochemicals waiting to break.
	And when something does break, it is not the MD's job to fix it.
	It's the MD's job to manage it.
	Period.
	Hard stop.
	Right.
	You're saying that's their viewpoint.
	That's their viewpoint.
	And that is what informs every single thing that they do.
	Yes, yes.
	Their system of medicine is based upon the galenic concept called contraria contraris cure inter, which is opposites cure opposites.
	So if you've got a fever, you put somebody in an ice bath.
	If you've got somebody who's freezing cold, you put them in a warm blanket.
	If you have somebody who has pain, you give them a pain medicine, right?
	If you have somebody who has a fever, you give them an anti-feebile.
	And that system of medicine, that philosophical belief is not curative.
	Well, actually, it's like they inject a child with a vaccine that has pro-inflammatory toxins.
	The child begins to have like brain inflammation, and the nurse says, hey, give the child acetaminophen, a Tylenol.
	The Tylenol then breaks down the blood-brain barrier even more, drives the toxins even more into the brain.
	24 hours later, the child's autistic.
	You are the smartest man in Texas.
	There's very few people that know the relationship between Tylenol and the vaccines.
	And it's that nice little cocktail goes together that drives the inflammation in the brain that causes autism.
	It's a vaccine lobotomy child sacrifice ritual.
	But you don't question the doctor.
	You can't question the narrative.
	You do not question the doctor because all that that's going to do is you quack is going to kill more children.
	And see, this is the narrative.
	This is the propaganda.
	Yeah, it's extreme.
	Everything that they tell you is the opposite of what is actually true.
	And honest to God, Mike, I mean, you know, most, I've been doing this for 36 years now, man.
	And most people would not believe the things that I and my colleagues have seen people recover from.
	Most people have no idea at all of the power of the naturopathic method.
	They have no idea about it.
	They should be taught this stuff in high school.
	Most people suffer needlessly simply because they don't know any better.
	And why don't they know any better?
	Because the medical monopoly does not want them to know.
	It prohibits this information.
	It's a tragedy of biblical proportions.
	It's rooted.
	Our current system is rooted in enforced ignorance and separation from self.
	And I'm reminded that the 2017 medic update to Google completely eliminated naturopathic information and pushed everybody over to WebMD.
	So let me use this opportunity, by the way, Dr. Glidden, to ask you to mention an event that you have coming up on Wednesday that can help people stay informed.
	So tell us all about that.
	Oh, it's very kind of you.
	Yeah.
	So Wednesday, the 9th of July, the full moon, from starting at 6 p.m. Pacific for one hour, 8 p.m.
	Central, I'm giving a free worldwide webinar with the title of which is The Cause of the Chronic Health Disease Epidemic, The Cure for the Chronic Health Disease Epidemic, and Simple Steps that Everybody Can Take from the Comfort of Their Own Home to Support and Promote Their Body's built-in God-given ability to fix itself.
	I do this a couple times a year.
	I pull back the curtain for the masses, and I just try to educate people about what's going on here because we desperately need perspective.
	We don't have it.
	I mean, if you break your, if you have a bullet in your arm, you probably shouldn't come to my office.
	You should go to the allopathic physician, right?
	There's room in this, there's things that the MDs are good at, and there's things that my profession is exceptionally good at.
	That's right.
	I'm underlining, outlining these distinctions.
	But tell our audience how they can register for that.
	You don't have to register for it.
	You just need to show up.
	I'm not going to collect email addresses or do any marketing or anything like that.
	Everybody tells me I should, but I'm just not going to.
	Well, do they just go to the website?
	Yep.
	Just visit my website, leavebigpharmabehind.com.
	Leavepharma behind.com.
	Leavebigpharmabehind.com.
	To my producers, let's show that screen.
	LeaveBigpharma Behind.com.
	And then will there be just a link right there?
	Right there.
	Starting tomorrow, there's going to be information right on the homepage about the event.
	Okay, great.
	Now, that sounds really exciting.
	I would love to tune into that myself.
	Let me plug something that I think that you will also find highly, highly relevant that we just launched.
	If people go to Brightion.ai, we have launched our Enoch AI engine, which is the most extensively trained AI engine in the world on phytonutrients, phytochemistry, alternative medicine, natural medicine.
	It is literally the largest AI engine in the world and it's free to use.
	There's a rate limit currently, 50 prompts a day, but we're going to increase that next week.
	And we just launched it.
	And this is, Dr. Glinton, this is the only AI engine in the world that is currently 87% aligned with naturopathy.
	And like, that's an actual test result.
	We've got 87% alignment, whereas ChatGPT is like 12% aligned.
	Yeah, that's wonderful, Mike.
	I mean, that's a giant step forward.
	It's an incredible research tool.
	You can use it for any nutrient, any mineral, any disease.
	It knows about DMSO plus hematoxylin for treating topical cervical cancer, or I mean, topically treating cervical cancer.
	It knows things that have been lost in the history of medicine back in the engine.
	So cool stuff.
	I mean, it's a fascinating time.
	Like never before in human history have people had access to the truth more than they do now.
	Talk about your book.
	I'm showing your book right now here, too.
	Well, thank God for the internet.
	I mean, yeah, so this is, this is, this book contains in detail what I'm going to be speaking about tangentially on Wednesday.
	It breaks it down for people.
	This is the cause of the chronic disease epidemic.
	There's a reason that we have a chronic disease epidemic.
	That's not because of chemtrails, right?
	Which are very real, by the way, but that's not because of that.
	There is a reason, and there is a simple solution for the chronic disease epidemic, which makes sense once somebody explains it to you and outlines it to you.
	And then the third part of the book, it's a trilogy.
	The third part of the book, I talk about 108, I think, illnesses, common illnesses, and I give you the clinically verified naturopathic treatment strategies for that.
	It's like self-help health recovery because there's a giant bottleneck, man, in the world.
	And even in naturopathic medicine, there's been a, I don't know if you're aware of this, but at the turn of the century, more or less, that naturopathic medical schools, of which there are currently only three fully accredited by the United States Department of Education naturopathic medical schools in the country, they started diluting the education, of the clinical education of naturopathic therapeutics.
	And now naturopathic medicine is not being taught in the naturopathic medical schools.
	It's this weird hybridized green allopathic.
	Yeah, green allopathy.
	That's it.
	BS.
	Exactly.
	And because of this disparity, right, I had a colleague years ago.
	He died two years ago.
	He was the first president of the American Association of Naturopathic Physicians.
	His name was Jim Sensenagen.
	He was a real naturopathic doctor.
	And he had a robust clinic in Connecticut.
	And right around the turn of the centuries, graduates from the colleges of naturopathic medicine started showing up at his office.
	And he said, Dr. Sensenig, we just graduated.
	We've got our license, but we have no idea how to use naturopathic treatments because we weren't taught them in school.
	Right.
	So he created a 501c3, which is platinum-rated now, continuing education organization called the Naturopathic Medicine Institute.
	Wow.
	And the intention of the Naturopathic Medicine Institute is to provide continuing education in real naturopathic therapeutics to naturopathic graduates because they weren't taught at school.
	And it's a crying shame.
	And most of the current licensed naturopathic doctors in the world do not, in fact, practice naturopathic medicine.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	That's really critical.
	And let me just, for our audience, I mean, our audience is very well educated and very sophisticated.
	But just for anybody who doesn't understand, green allopathy means simply treating symptoms, but using molecules from plants and herbs instead of pharmaceuticals.
	But it's still symptomatic management, and it doesn't address the holistic underlying causes of disease or the pathway to achieve lasting health, which is more than just physiology, right?
	You're 100% correct, because allopathic medicine teaches its doctors that the doctor is smarter than the body and that the medicines are prescribed with an oppositionally defiant manner, right?
	So you give it an antibiotic, an anti-inflammatory, an antidepressant, an MAO uptake inhibitor, a proton pump inhibitor, et cetera, right?
	It's oppositionally defiant.
	SSRIs, right?
	The intention of which is to push, force the metabolism of the body in a way that the doctor thinks is correct and damn the torpedoes in full speed ahead.
	It does not support and promote the body's ability to fix itself, which is what naturopathic treatments do.
	And this is a very interesting distinction because your medical doctor, by virtue of their training in allopathic medicine, is atheistic.
	They might be a religious person.
	They might be a spiritual person in their professional, in their personal life, but when they go to work, they're atheistic because they do not believe that the human body can fix itself.
	That's right.
	And this is the fundamental foundation of naturopathic and all holistic systems of medicine.
	The human body is inhabited by an intelligent Spiritual force.
	I don't care what you want to call it.
	Different spiritual disciplines call it different things.
	The human body is intelligent.
	It knows how to fix itself.
	It wants to fix itself.
	It's trying to fix itself all the freaking time.
	Therefore, it becomes the naturopathic physician's sacred, I would argue, obligation to develop and deliver therapeutics that support and promote the body's ability to fix itself.
	And that's what we do.
	Yes, yes.
	And we, whoa, I wish my medical doctor did that, but they don't, folks.
	You know, 80% of the world's population relies on some form of naturopathic medicine or local botanical medicine.
	And I've seen studies where even primates in jungles seek out plants with specific properties to treat their own medical conditions, which means apes are smarter than doctors.
	Well, God made pharmaceuticals.
	God made herbs and man-made pharmaceuticals.
	Who do you trust?
	Yeah, yeah, exactly.
	Exactly.
	But this, I mean, Dr. Glenn, how is it that we never met before today?
	I don't know, man.
	I don't understand that.
	I think my head's been down.
	You know, I'm kind of like a Lone Ranger Mike.
	I've been, I'm the only one in my profession that's been standing up on the public platform and yelling about this stuff forever.
	And it's taken a great amount of time and energy and resources while maintaining a private practice at the same time, right?
	Half of my career was spent practicing in Massachusetts where I grew up.
	They didn't license and regulate naturopathic medicine.
	So, you know, you're always under the radar and kind of looking behind you.
	And so it's been a struggle, man.
	And it's only recently that I have kind of reached a point in my professional career where I'm solid and I'm good.
	And, you know, I know a lot now after 36 years of doing this.
	So I feel I feel very confident in being able to articulate these things now.
	It's virtual.
	I had a brick and mortar practice forever.
	Well, I had a brick and mortar practice in Massachusetts.
	I had a brick and mortar practice in Seattle.
	I had a brick and mortar practice in Illinois.
	And then Illinois ordered me to cease and desist because Illinois doesn't license or regulate naturopathic medicine.
	I lost a ton of money when Illinois pulled the rug out from underneath me.
	And then I had to pivot.
	And that's when I started doing everything virtual.
	Okay.
	So now I only consult with people virtually.
	I only consult with people who already know what their diagnosis is.
	And, you know, conventional medicine has failed them.
	Right.
	And so they show up in my office.
	They send me their blood work.
	They send me, you know, all the objective diagnostic discovery.
	And then we embark upon a health recovery campaign.
	And that takes up 50% of my time.
	The other 50% of my time is with public education.
	I think you have a very bright future in that model as opposed to algorithmic, allopathic doctors who will very quickly be replaced by AI because they don't do anything that machines can't do.
	Whereas what you are doing is looking at the whole person.
	Man, I think you have a crystal ball in there somewhere because I said exactly the same thing 10 years ago.
	I said, look, here's the future of medicine, folks.
	Here's what's going to happen.
	You're going to be sick with something.
	You're going to go to the medical center.
	You're going to gain entrance into the medical center with your insurance card.
	It's going to let you in the door.
	Then they're going to put you on a treadmill.
	The treadmill, they're going to take a urine sample.
	They're going to take a stool sample.
	They're going to take a blood sample.
	They're going to weigh you.
	They're going to put you through a CT scan.
	And the computers behind the scenes are going to analyze all of this information.
	And then at the end of the treadmill, you're going to stick your insurance card in a pharmaceutical vending machine.
	And it's going to spit out your drugs with instructors.
	That's right.
	You nailed it.
	That's exactly where this is going.
	That's crazy.
	Yeah.
	And it is the epitome of the mechanistic reductionistic model.
	It is.
	And see, this is the thing that conventional doctors don't realize they are already obsolete in this whole system.
	You're absolutely 100% correct.
	And I don't know what they're going to do.
	I honestly don't know what they're going to do because they're going to be jobless.
	Well, thank God.
	But here's an important distinction, I think, for the listening audience, because, right, it's all about perspective, right?
	Medical doctors are trained to diagnose disease.
	Naturopathic doctors are trained to diagnose a treatment.
	You cannot treat a disease.
	It does not exist.
	But that's what the medical doctors are trained to do, and that's why they fail.
	Because you can't, I mean, you could bring me 10 pounds of Granny Smith apples if I asked you to.
	You could bring me 100 number two pencils if I asked you to.
	But can you bring me 50 pounds of depression?
	How about eczema?
	Can you bring me a bushel of eczema?
	How about, you know, 13 units of asthma?
	Can you do that?
	You can't do that.
	But we have become culturally conditioned to believe that the disease is like a parrot that sits on the shoulder, and it's the doctor's job to figure out a bullet that's going to kill that parrot.
	And then everybody else who has the same parrot is going to get the same bullet.
	And that is not how it works.
	I'm so glad that you went there with this because I've also long talked about the sorcery of the language of disease.
	Yeah.
	And for example, let's take the word diabetes.
	They use possessive language.
	You have diabetes.
	What?
	Have diabetes.
	And well, is it a thing?
	Does it now control me?
	And what I used to teach years ago in my podcast was to say to somebody, if you've been, quote, diagnosed with diabetes, the correct self-language is to say that for a reason we'll talk about, my body's physiology is currently expressing a pattern of symptoms that doctors have labeled diabetes, but that expression can be altered by my decisions.
	100% correct.
	See, so we have to break the sorcery of the language of medicine.
	Well, words are the knife of the carver, right?
	Words create reality.
	Words are very important.
	And we haven't, most people are completely unaware of these distinctions.
	Right.
	Why?
	Because of 113 years now of a medical monopoly.
	That's right.
	Which has affected every aspect of education, every aspect of media, every aspect of entertainment, every aspect of life.
	And it's really bad, man.
	As bad as most people start to think that it is because of COVID, it's a thousand times worse.
	You're not kidding.
	I've known people who would start to have mysterious symptoms and they would be very, very nervous about those symptoms.
	And they would go see doctors.
	And then as soon as the doctor named it, oh, I have this and this and this, then they have a sense of relief.
	Now we know what it is because it's been named.
	I'm like, you don't know anything more than you did when you, I mean, you knew what your experience was.
	Now it's been given a name.
	You feel better.
	What?
	Because you can take a drug?
	You know, there's also, there's a question of patient responsibility in this.
	People have surrendered their souls to the medical monopoly.
	They need to take that back.
	You know, Voltaire said, right, medical doctors are people who treat diseases of which they know little with drugs of which they know less and human beings of which they know nothing.
	Wow.
	Powerful quote.
	Absolutely.
	So let me break it down again for the listening audience.
	This is a very important distinction for you to understand here.
	I mean, it would be prudent, do you not think?
	This will give you a little preview of what I'm going to be talking about on Wednesday, that if you're a doctor of any discipline, it would be prudent for you to have a working definition of health.
	Because if you don't know what health is, how can you help somebody to secure it?
	And if you'd like to have fun with a medical doctor the next time you're unlucky enough to be in their presence, ask them to define health and watch their head spin off their shoulders because they won't be able to do it because they're not taught it.
	So here's the working definition of health, which is correct and true.
	Health is the ability of a living organism to experience negative stress and remain symptom-free in a state of dynamic equilibrium.
	So here's how that goes.
	Life is a great big bowl of stress, right?
	There's microbial stress.
	There's aging.
	There's weather, crap in the air, crap in the food, crap in the water, emotional stress, financial stress, political stress, weather, aging, right?
	It's a stress all the time, man.
	And when stress impacts, you can't get away from it.
	When stress impacts the body, there's only two possible outcomes.
	The force fields are up.
	The stress bounces off the body because it has defended it and it can't get in.
	And you're symptom-free, you're good.
	Or the stress is too much for your body to handle because you see that the stress is really strong or you're really weak or a combination of both.
	The stress gets through the defenses, impacts the system, and destabilizes it.
	When your system becomes destabilized, it compensates and generates a symptom.
	The symptom can be anything.
	It can be eczema.
	It can be a tumor.
	It can be high blood pressure.
	It can be anxiety and panic.
	It can be anything.
	It's a symptom.
	So here's what the medical doctors are trained to do.
	We're stressed, we're destabilized, we're symptomatic.
	And, you know, a lot of the times when this happens, the body fixes itself.
	I mean, you drop a rock on your foot and you're symptomatic.
	You've got swelling, you've got redness, you've got inflammation, you've got pain, right?
	It hurts.
	And it's a symptom.
	But then the body fixes it and 10 days later, the body has recovered its balance and the symptom is gone.
	The body tries to fix itself all the time, but often the body gets stressed, destabilized, symptomatic, and stuck.
	And this is why people go to the doctor.
	So you go to a medical doctor and they're trained to deliver drugs or surgery which suppress the symptom.
	You get an antibiotic, an anti-inflammatory, an antidepressant.
	You get something.
	It doesn't attempt to cure the condition.
	It simply suppresses the symptom.
	And so then what happens?
	Well, remember, the symptom, even though it was uncomfortable, was a compensating thing that the body did.
	When you remove the compensation, the body must fall further off balance and generate another symptom, which the medical doctor suppresses with another drug.
	And then you go from the frying pan into the fire, into bankruptcy, into death.
	And this is the best system of medicine that money can buy.
	It's the repeat business model, too, for pharma and hospitals that see human beings as not human beings, but as vessels for profiteering.
	Now, every system of holistic medicine in the world trains its practitioners to develop therapeutics that push the system back into a state of balance.
	The chiropractors do it one way, the nutritionists do it one way, the Ayurveds do it one way, the homeopaths do it one way, right?
	The goal is the same, to push the system back into a state of balance because that's its natural state.
	But medical doctors have no idea what the hell I'm talking about.
	They have no idea of any of this.
	And as God is my witness, the only reason they are still in business is because they legislated themselves there.
	And they have maintained their position at the top with law and the unbelievable political power of the pharmaceutical industry.
	That's 100% true.
	And even though we're about to wrap this up, I want to mention one other point.
	During COVID, we began to see articles attacking the very concept of an immune system.
	That's right.
	And they would say things like: it's a conspiracy to believe that a human body has an immune system.
	How could you have an immune system?
	It must be acquired through injections.
	The doctors give you your immunity.
	I mean, this became, I know, and I would ask simple questions like, well, how did all of our ancestors ever survive?
	You know, how are we, how does the human species even exist?
	What about all the non-human animals all over the earth that don't have a doctor?
	How do they survive?
	You know, but you couldn't even ask common sense questions without being derided as an anti-science person.
	It was incredible.
	I know Amazon canceled one of my books right in the middle of COVID.
	I just deplatformed everybody.
	You know, there was a there was a, I went to Bastier University of Naturopathic Medicine named after Dr. John Bastier, who was a pioneer of naturopathy in the early 1900s.
	And I was lucky enough to have a couple of classes with him right before he passed on.
	He was still teaching when he was in his 90s.
	And Bastier looked at us in class one day and he said, you know, smugly, he said, well, back in my day, you weren't considered a real naturopathic doctor unless you'd spent time in jail.
	Is that right?
	And that's the way that it is, right?
	Because inside of a self-policing, self-regulating medical monopoly, you can do and say whatever you want, especially when it's not true.
	And so active suppression of alternative, quote-unquote, ideas is the standard of care now.
	And it's a crying freaking shame.
	It's extraordinary.
	And it is an existential catastrophe for Western civilization.
	And that's why what you do is so important, Mike.
	Because people need to understand this.
	People need to...
	Because look, man, you know, the truth has a ring to it.
	And when people hear the truth, it's like, oh, really?
	Yeah, that makes sense to me.
	And then they take the next step and then they take the next step and then they take the next step.
	And that's how we get it done.
	So don't ever stop doing what you do.
	And I'd like, you know, like that saying from Yale University, illegitimate, non-est carborundum, right?
	Don't don't let the bastards grind you down, man.
	Just keep on doing what you're doing and don't ever stop.
	Well, right back at you there, and we are, both of us, doing our best to make a positive impact for humanity.
	Let me mention your website.
	Again, leavebigpharmabehind.com, correct?
	It's got a good ring to it, huh?
	I like it.
	And also, I see you've got some of the sacred geometry here on your business card as well.
	Remind us again, Wednesday, July 9th.
	What time is your event?
	6 p.m.
	Pacific?
	Okay.
	6 p.m. Pacific at leavebigpharma behind.com.
	I'm going to peel back the curtains and bring everybody up to speed with what to do to make themselves healthy from the comfort of their own home.
	This based on 36 years of clinical experience as a licensed naturopathic physician.
	So buckle up.
	We're in it to win it.
	I love that.
	Okay.
	Well, look, thank you so much.
	And I immediately want to invite you back for another conversation because we barely scratched the surface.
	Yeah, we scratched the surface.
	Anytime, Mr. Adams, I'm yours.
	Let's go.
	I'm ready.
	I'm happy to stand up on anybody's platform and speak the truth.
	So just be in touch.
	I'm happy to help and to continue to move this conversation forward because it's desperately needed.
	Absolutely.
	And those who listen to you will thank you, but they will also thank themselves for trusting in nature and their God-given natural healing miracles.
	You know, spontaneous healing within your body is something that you were born with.
	And all you're doing, Dr. Glidden, is you know, like you don't claim credit for like, I healed you.
	No, you showed them how to heal themselves.
	Yeah, that's right.
	It's impossible to heal somebody.
	You can't do it.
	Well, with laying on of hands, I think that there's, that's where, that's where that distinction ends.
	But all we do is show people what to do to support and promote their body's built-in God-given ability to fix itself.
	There you go.
	And even laying on hands actually invokes the inner healing capability of the patient as well.
	Right.
	I mean, a lot of it's activation through needles or through homeopathy.
	I'm thinking about homeopathy.
	It's signaling.
	It's signaling.
	We could talk for a whole hour about homeopathy.
	That's my specialty.
	And there's so much misinformation about homeopathy.
	Yeah.
	Well, how about this?
	The next time we'll have you on.
	We'll start with homeopathy.
	And I've got some.
	Well, actually, hey, to my crew, can you show Dr. Glidden my microscope screen right now?
	Because I have a lab microscope here on my desk.
	And right now, I've just taken this large, this image of xylitol crystals frozen at room temperature.
	But we can do all kinds of interesting things with this.
	We're reproducing some of Dr. Emoto's experiments.
	But let me show you something here.
	This is real time.
	It's swapping the lens.
	Hold on a second.
	But here we go.
	So we have a really great digital microscope and we can cruise around and we can zoom in and we can actually look at how nature created things like these colors in a sweetener.
	It's crazy, right?
	Yeah.
	And there's all kinds of extraordinary things that we can do with this technology.
	But anyway, you and I will have a lot to talk about in future interviews.
	So thank you for your time Today, I appreciate you.
	Right back at you, man.
	Don't ever stop doing what you're doing.
	And God willing, in the creek don't rise.
	I'll see you next time.
	All right.
	Take care now.
	All right.
	Thank all of you for watching here.
	Hope you enjoyed that conversation with Dr. Glidden.
	What an extraordinary individual.
	Be sure to check out his website, leavebigpharma behind.com.
	And if you're catching this in time, take advantage of his free event on Wednesday, July 9th, which should be really fascinating.
	So thank you for all your time today.
	I hope you learned a lot from this and gained some inspiration.
	I'm Mike Adams, the founder of Brighteon.com.
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