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	Okay, welcome to Bright John Broadcast News for Monday, September 22nd, 2025.
	I'm Mike Adams.
	Thank you for joining me today.
	And I am convinced that what you are watching is a series of scripted events.
	And this script is written to achieve a specific purpose, both a domestic and an international geopolitical purpose.
	And in today's podcast, I'm going to break down what I believe that script is all about.
	It's very clear that this current administration, in order to maintain power, needs to use every opportunity to bring people to an emotional state.
	And that's definitely happening.
	They need to bring people to a bit of a religious fervor.
	And they need to clearly blame the enemies or cast blame on the enemies of the current administration.
	So first, domestically, all the blame for uh Charlie Kirk's murder, all of it is being placed upon the political left.
	So it's the fault of Democrats.
	It's the fault of left-wing media.
	And and by the way, they're not wrong about that.
	I'm just pointing this out.
	It's the fault of uh Jimmy Kimmel.
	Yeah, who is a horrible human being in my opinion.
	It's the fault of the education system.
	You know, it's the fault of this radical left-wing Marxist culture.
	And uh that's the narrative.
	And the way that that is being done is by saying that it's this trans shooter, or a shooter with a trans boyfriend, I suppose, or boyfriend girlfriend, I don't even I can't keep track.
	Uh Tyler Robinson is his name.
	Uh, they have to put the blame on him and then show that he signifies the political left in America.
	So that's why every effort is being made to say that Charlie Kirk was shot with a 30-0-6 rifle round, even though no such round has been recovered.
	Even though the current theory of the rifle round vanishing inside Charlie's uh neck tissue, that is, or or halting there, being absorbed there.
	Uh, that theory is absolute nonsense.
	It makes no sense at all.
	I covered it in a podcast that I put out yesterday.
	I'm gonna repeat that podcast here today, a little bit later on after some other things.
	In case you missed it, I did the math on all of it, the foot pounds, the energy, the uh the fraction of a square inch of area that the bullet would penetrate, etc.
	And I show that there's no way that a 30-0-6 round would have been stopped by uh Charlie Kirk's neck bones or vertebrae or tissues or or whatever.
	So that's complete nonsense.
	And and also for the record, there's also another stupid theory that's being pushed right now, which says that because the shooter was slightly elevated at about a three-degree angle, then we're being told, I think Alex Jones talked, said he talked to the coroner, I think it was.
	Or maybe it was the autopsy person.
	I think it was the coroner.
	And he said that the coroner told him, or I may be getting it wrong about who it was, but somebody told Alex that the bullet must have like deflected and gone down into the heart and then bounced around in the chest like a pinball machine, and then it came back up, and then it ended in the neck.
	And I'm and then no.
	That is not I mean, bullets have to follow the laws of physics, and they don't uh high-powered rifle rounds like the 30 out of 6 round does not do that at all.
	Uh smaller pistol rounds are like 22 long rifle or you know, nine millimeter rounds will tumble inside the body, or 22 LR rounds, which are much much smaller, like 36 grain mass, or sometimes 40 grain.
	Uh, they can actually, they're very tiny.
	They can they can deflect off of bones and and seemingly bounce around a little bit inside the body, but not uh high-powered rifle rounds like the 30-6 round.
	Uh it doesn't do that.
	A 30-0-6 means the 30 part is a 30 caliber, it's a.30 diameter bullet, and the 06 is when the US Army standardized this round, and that was in 1906.
	Let me show you the difference between a 223 and the damage inflicted by a 30-6.
	I think this is done at 26,000 frames per second, and that right there is the 30-6 bullet in mid-air.
	That's wild.
	In high speed, it doesn't look totally different on the fragmentation, but once it's expanded, all the water is thinner droplets, the chunks are smaller.
	It converted a lot more energy into it.
	That blew apart a lot more, like naked eye-wise.
	And here's what the 30-6 round does when it encounters body armor.
	We've got the 30 odd six.
	I unfortunately don't get a good reticle.
	I'm stuck with what Carlos Hascock had back in NAM.
	we're going to do this out of this winchester model 70.
	I noticed a lot more of that ceramic material makes it out.
	Right to the tip top of it.
	That that hurt a little bit, but you're fine.
	Maybe a cracked rib or two.
	Yeah, probably not breathing for a few seconds.
	You're alive.
	This is a very good representation of 223 versus 386 AP.
	And here's what the 30-6 round looks like going through a ballistics dummy.
	That two by four is very easy.
	That's almost the entire bullet there.
	Oh, wait, is that the steel core?
	Steel core, and that's copper.
	Oh, I bet it is.
	Yeah, good eye.
	That is wild.
	It's still barely slowed down, I feel like.
	It's crazy how much it diverted the steel core.
	Yeah.
	It demonstrates again just how much bigger exit wounds are than entrance wounds.
	Now, if you compare the reality of the destruction of that actual round with what Charlie Kirk's surgeon said, which one do you believe is more likely?
	And I did research on this round, and I looked up uh what kinds of large game are hunted with the 30-6 round, and it includes uh hippopotamuses is that the plural for or is it hippopotamai?
	Whatever the plural of hippos is, yeah.
	They uh they hunt hippos, they hunt moose, elk, uh grizzly bears, black bears.
	I mean, elk are huge creatures too, by the way.
	Some of them can be a thousand pounds, okay.
	So the 30.6 round can also shoot um alligators and uh wildebeest and other like large creatures, by the way.
	Uh that's what it's often used for in terms of hunting fairly large game.
	So it it's absolutely impossible that any human being would stop a 30-0-6 round.
	So but the reason we're being told that that's what happened is because that ties the narrative to Tyler Robinson, who had a transgender boyfriend, and then that allows Trump and everybody around Trump and all the conservatives to say, aha, it's the trannies, you know, it's the leftists.
	They're the problem.
	Look, Tyler Robinson is the shooter.
	Even though there's currently no physical evidence linking Tyler Robinson to the shooting, there's uh no his DNA wasn't found on the rifle, and the rifle conveniently has no serial number, so it can't be tracked.
	Uh let's see, there's no bullet that's been recovered that I mean that we have seen.
	We haven't, there's no photos of the bullet, there's no details about the bullet.
	We haven't seen the cartridges and the inscriptions on them.
	We don't have any photos of Tyler with a rifle, not on the roof, not on campus, not walking around with a rifle anywhere.
	None of that.
	We don't have any of that at all.
	And so it it's obvious that Tyler Robinson is the Patsy, But the reason that Trump supporters are so insistent on pushing that is because that's what's necessary to tie in leftists and transgenders to take the blame for the killing of Charlie Kirk.
	And that narrative is necessary to whip people up into a very emotional fervor that is leading in a very specific direction.
	And that direction is supporting both domestic war against the radical left and supporting international war almost certainly in Iran.
	Now, the Charlie Kirk tragedy is now being used by the Pentagon, according to Hegseth.
	They're going to use Charlie Kirk's image and likeness to recruit young Americans to join the military.
	This is going to be part of a big recruitment drive.
	Even though Charlie Kirk himself would surely have opposed that use of his name and his likeness, his reputation, he was not a warmonger.
	Charlie Kirk was even arguing that we should not bomb Iran, according to reports.
	So Charlie Kirk was really beginning to promote more of a peaceful coexistence with other nations.
	And yet, in his death, the Trump administration is finding a great benefit in using Charlie Kirk, even after he's died, obviously, but using Charlie Kirk to recruit soldiers so that those young Americans can bleed and die on foreign shores.
	Okay.
	So that's number one.
	Understand, there was if you were to ask the question, Qui bono, who benefits from the death of Charlie Kirk.
	Number one, one of the more obvious uh beneficiaries is the Trump administration and the Pentagon, and everybody in the Trump administration, like Stephen Miller and so on, who is pushing this domestic war against the radical left.
	So there's a huge benefit.
	That's why there was a massive political rally that was called a Charlie Kirk memorial that started out kind of more like a memorial.
	This took place yesterday, but then it ended up as a political rally with fireworks and Trump speaking about politics, you know, etc.
	So again, there's there are tremendous benefits to the administration in invoking the image of Charlie Kirk.
	And this is why Trump is giving Charlie Kirk the medal of freedom, I believe it is, the medal of freedom to make him into a almost a martyr, right?
	A martyr for the cause.
	And what is the cause?
	Well, it's going to be manipulated by the shapeshifters to become a cause of uh destroying the radical left in America and the cause of supporting Israel in the Middle East.
	And that's why uh Ben Shapiro is moving into uh replacing Charlie Kirk's empty seat in the broadcast at TP USA, even though they've made uh Charlie's uh widow, Erica, they've made her the the official,
	I think CEO of TP USA, but uh Ben Shapiro is the one that's going to be doing the talking, and you know Ben Shapiro won't be asking any questions about Israel in the way that Charlie Kirk was beginning to ask, right?
	So two agendas that Charlie's death and then the exploitation of his death, two agendas can be more successfully pursued by the current administration.
	Again, the domestic agenda to destroy the left and to maintain power to win in the next election, which is next year, of course, the midterms, and to win in 2028 and put J.D. Vance in place and continue the operation, etc.
	That's all the domestic agenda, and then internationally it is to help Israel conquer the Middle East by going to war with Iran.
	And this is where Trump is taking things next.
	War with Iran, boots On the ground, U.S. troops actually fighting on the ground in the Middle East to try to invade and destroy Iran.
	And that's where things are going to get incredibly dicey.
	Because look, Iran, in a way, also wants a war with U.S. ground troops.
	Iran wants to, I believe, bait the United States into this war.
	Because in Iran's mind, they believe that the United States will be defeated in that war.
	And that would establish regional dominance of Iran.
	And would also give Iran, well, it would allow Iran to showcase its military technology, and it would suppress any kind of friction with Saudi Arabia, for example, and some of the other Sunni nations around the area or Sunni groups around the area.
	So Iran needs to demonstrate its military dominance and it needs to demonstrate that it is emerging as the new regional power.
	In order to do that, there's no more effective way than to defeat the United States of America in a war in the Middle East.
	Now, the USA, however, believes that it will defeat Iran.
	But that's because, in my opinion, the USA is miscalculating.
	So the U.S. military leaders are not at all qualified, like Pete Heggseth is not qualified to be the Secretary of War, I guess, is his new title now.
	He's really got just no high-level experience at all in doing that.
	Trump doesn't, you know, he's not a military expert.
	There's nobody in the Trump administration that has a realistic assessment of the strengths and weaknesses of the United States military.
	And as a result, when the US does try to go into Iran and bomb it and invade it and try to overthrow the leadership there, the U.S. is going to suffer from a miscalculation,
	uh, overconfidence, uh, over reliance on military doctrine that's from the 1990s, from the Gulf War, the early 1990s, and that's not going to work in Iran for a number of reasons, including you know, geographic reasons.
	Uh, Iran isn't one giant flat desert landscape, you know.
	It's basically a giant fortress surrounded by mountains.
	Uh so good luck uh going through all the mountains, and then after the mountains, then there is a desert area, a large desert area, but how are you gonna make it through the mountains without getting clobbered, right?
	So the U.S. thinks it can defeat Iran, and Iran thinks it can defeat the U.S. The US thinks that if it defeats Iran that that that will help Israel achieve its goal of conquering much more of the Middle East and achieving the greater Israel project,
	whereas Iran believes that if it defeats the United States, that it will emerge as the dominant power in the region, and that Israel will have suffered a huge setback because the United States will be shown to be actually incredibly weak and vulnerable and no longer the dominant military force.
	In addition, well, I wanted to point out so Iran and the USA and Israel all want there to be a war in the Middle East, okay?
	And that's what's happening, and that's why you're seeing overtones of sort of war recruitment in even in the Charlie Kirk memorial.
	You're seeing overtones of sort of a patriotic fervor that is it's warming people up to the idea that we all got to join the military and go kill them bastards, whoever they are, you know, overseas, point us in the direction.
	So that's what's happening.
	Now, importantly, if there is a war between the United States and Iran, it won't be limited to just those two countries.
	Uh Russia will no doubt get involved, and China will have something to say about it as well.
	Russia would be more directly involved in terms of its military technology.
	For example, there are Russian anti-air defense systems that are uh active in Iran right now, and that are no doubt manned by very competent Russian soldiers.
	Uh In addition, there's a tremendous amount of trade between Russia and Iran.
	And Iran has trade, you know, with many other countries as well, India and Turkey, and even some Eastern European countries, and a lot of countries in the Middle East.
	So Iran is not going to have to fight the USA by itself.
	Iran's going to have help.
	Maybe air defense help, maybe Orachhnik missile help, maybe uh ocean uh drone boats that would take out U.S. aircraft carriers or destroyers or whatever ships the U.S. brings over there, they'll probably end up at the bottom of the sea.
	I mean, it's it's not a good scenario for the United States.
	But the U.S. wants to go to war, needs a war.
	At least this administration believes it needs a war, and the U.S. is overconfident.
	So this is going to lead to almost certainly a quagmire war scenario where the U.S. is caught up in a very difficult war in Iran.
	You'll probably see something at first where Trump says, and yeah, this could start next year.
	Uh and Trump will say, Oh, we're going to be in and out in, you know, 60 days.
	And of course, as Michael Yan always says, there's three things that are always true about wars.
	Wars grow, wars grow unpredictably, and wars last longer than you think.
	And that's going to happen here as well.
	It won't be over in two months or whatever, and it's going to drag on for much longer period of time.
	And as it drags on, you're going to see the rise of a very strong anti-war movement in the United States.
	Now, you already see uh Trump loyalists and conservatives who are attacking pro-peace people, which would include Ron Paul and myself, by the way.
	I'm I'm an anti-war person in a sense.
	I mean, I want to stay out of wars, especially foreign wars.
	Uh I'm I'm not against self-defense if it's necessary, but we're not being invaded by anybody, right?
	Bring our troops home, I say.
	But there's going to be a very strong uh attack from the Trump administration on the anti-war movement.
	And you're going to see, of course, from the left, you're going to see a very strong uh uprising of anti-war activists and protesters, kind of resembling what we saw in the Vietnam War.
	So a lot of university protests.
	Well, what Trump is going to attempt to do is he'll try to conflate those protests with the uh with support for Palestine.
	So, and then he'll designate anybody who supports Palestine as a domestic terrorist, and then he'll move on uh left-wing protesters on universities or wherever they're protesting, he'll move on them with newfound anti-terrorism domestic laws that Pam Bandi is uh clearly willing to prosecute very aggressively.
	In addition, if the situation gets bad enough domestically, which it probably will because leftists they truly are insane and they will start sending off bombs and they will do crazy violent things, because that is who they are.
	It's weird.
	Like they they want peace, but they are violent themselves.
	I've never understood that contradiction.
	Like I want peace and I also want nonviolence, you know.
	I want peace everywhere.
	But leftists, they want to bomb people domestically, but then demand peace internationally.
	So it doesn't make sense.
	But then again, you know, these same leftists will say it's wrong to bomb children in Gaza, but it's right to slaughter them at abortion centers all across America.
	So clearly their own morals are confused and compromised to begin with.
	Nevertheless, as this happens, Trump will have an opportunity to declare martial law.
	And that's probably where this is going.
	Once Trump declares martial law, or some form of it, it may not be called exactly that.
	It might be just, you know, an emergency, a national emergency, I don't know, wartime emergency acts, what there's all kinds of laws on the books that he can invoke.
	Uh the NDAA that was signed by Obama in 2012, the National Defense Authorization Act, you know, etc.
	Endless laws he can sign.
	And then he can really unleash the police state to go after leftists and to arrest people based on their social media speech if they said anything that favored Palestine or anything critical of Israel or anything that opposed the war with Iran, etc.
	Those people could all be arrested.
	And then the Trump administration could control travel with roadside checkpoints, controlling air travel, obviously with passports and interrogations of travelers, and uh crack down on people's bank accounts.
	If you're designated a possible terrorist, then you can't open a bank account, you can't get paid, you can't use money.
	And it would get even worse under a CBDC, which is also, you know, Trump's trying to roll that out.
	So that's probably where things are going to go domestically.
	You're going to see a civil war type of scenario, probably by 2027, is my guess.
	And that's going to be a reaction to the war crack quagmire, excuse me, in the Middle East.
	Okay.
	And then back to the international scene.
	I am aware of very specific information.
	I want to thank the person who sent me this document.
	Um I do keep my word when I promise to keep things secret, you know, details secret.
	So I can't tell you everything that I have, but I'm looking at a document right now that indicates that a major, I'll just say this way, a major nation in the Middle East is procuring,
	and it's not Israel, is procuring enormous quantities of explosives, um, ammunition, artillery rounds, oh my God.
	Um, C4, HMX, man pads, um, rockets, RPGs, grenade launchers, anti-tank weapons.
	Uh we're talking tens of millions of rounds of ammo of different types.
	Uh let's see, what else is on this?
	Uh, some propellant.
	Wow.
	Okay, anyway.
	The total expenditure of this.
	Uh, I'm I'm gonna give you round figures.
	I don't want anybody to be able to trace this document based on the numbers.
	So I'm gonna generalize it, but let me say that it's billions of dollars a month.
	Okay.
	And I actually have the procurement document.
	So it's billions of dollars a month in wartime material, you know, ammunition.
	And this is not even procurement for uh vehicles or or tanks or aircraft or other things, because those would go to totally different companies.
	I'm looking at a procurement document that covers only uh smaller items, like I said, you know, the RPGs and the artillery and the ammo, etc.
	Like 762 by 39 millimeter ammo, you get the idea.
	So what this tells me is that leaders in the Middle East are absolutely gearing up for war, for a big war, for massive war.
	The this isn't they're not buying all this stuff for training.
	This is wartime material.
	And from what others have said, people I've interviewed and and others, like Colonel Douglas McGregor, uh Europe is just absolutely positioning for war, Western Europe, that is.
	They want war with Russia, they need war with Russia for a number of reasons that we've talked about.
	But also, Iran wants war, America wants war, all the pro-war people in the Trump administration, like Gorkha and others, they're just pushing for constant war.
	Mark Levin, war, war, war, go kill them all, because that's what religious zealots do, you know, or that's what they call for.
	So sadly, then this is all turning into a giant satanic uh ritualistic blood sacrifice of young American men and young British men and young German men and young Ukrainian men, etc.
	And they're all going to be sacrificed on the altar of uh World War III, because that's where this goes.
	This becomes World War III as more nations get involved, and as Iran invokes all of its uh mutual defense relationships or agreements with other countries, which includes to some extent Russia, but there are others, and China is signing deals with, for example, Pakistan and others.
	And also the Gulf states are already realizing that the U.S. can't protect them, like Qatar just learned, because Israel's bombing them anyway, uh, despite U.S. air defenses, uh, despite all the U.S. military bases in the region.
	So this is why Trump just announced that he needs the Bagram Air Force base in eastern Afghanistan, which is very close to the border of which country?
	Oh, yeah, um China.
	So Trump has uh threatened the current leadership of Afghanistan, saying you gotta give us back Bagram air base, as is known.
	You gotta give it to us, or else there will be dire consequences.
	You gotta give it to the people who built it.
	That's what Trump said, claiming that America built it.
	Well, of course, Trump doesn't know history uh because the base was constructed by the Soviet Union in the 1950s, I believe.
	And it was used by the Soviets in the Soviet-Afghan war that took place in the 1980s, which gave rise to one of the uh Rambo movies starring Sylvester Stallone.
	That's right, where he was fighting the Russians.
	Yeah, Hollywood always gets involved.
	So anyway, Trump wants the base back, even though the US military abandoned it and uh you know the military fled Afghanistan, leaving behind all kinds of equipment.
	But the reason Trump wants it is because Trump knows that he's going to get involved in a war with Iran.
	He needs this air base for air power dominance, and he needs to be able to credibly threaten China with you know bombs and missiles and whatever else.
	So that's what's happening.
	This is pre-positioning for World War III.
	And now there's no question that everything you are seeing right now, and I even believe the the shooting of Charlie Kirk, of course, was all planned.
	I believe it's it was an engineered event, and I believe that his death is being exploited by these powers in order to invoke the emotional response, the military recruitment, the nationalistic uh fervor to support war in the Middle East.
	Oh, and also to support, you know, domestic political warfare or DOJ warfare against the radical left.
	So those are the two things that are going on.
	Catherine, what did you think about the Charlie Cook assassination?
	We haven't spoken about that.
	I think it's a psyop, and I think it's a complete waste of our time.
	What you want to focus on, you know, forget what might have happened or not happened.
	What you want to focus on is this is being used as an excuse by the attorney general.
	Um we're hearing it from the president to get tyrannical clothes at uh uh laws and to rip up the constitution.
	Don't let it happen.
	So, you know, don't let free speech be interfered with.
	Don't let any of your due process rights be destroyed.
	So lawlessness is not okay.
	And we're seeing, you know, if you look at our our our collection on the control grid, this administration is moving to build a control grid.
	We can't let it happen.
	It's one of the reasons we want Kennedy to remain in there.
	He's one of the things slowing it down and trying to stop it.
	And and the reality is you cannot let a vague standard like hate crime um be used because who's who's hate Crime.
	Um and we've also seen an attack on due process with the attack on the Venezuelan boats.
	You know, but but you're watching a concerted effort to shred the constitution, and I hate to say it, Charlie Kirk assassination was a Reichstag fire.
	Uh-huh.
	So I I just you know, my attitude is your time is busy, don't waste time on this.
	What you need to understand is a group of people are trying to use this to take away all of your rights.
	Don't let it happen.
	Don't buy it, don't believe it, and push back against them because you know, it's only going to take a little bit of pushback to send the signal, this is not gonna work.
	You know, and if if you want one action to take politically that is the proper pushback, help Congressman Massey get the 218th vote to release the Epstein files.
	Because one of the things this is lighting out is the push to get the Epstein files, and every effort is being made to stop the Epstein files from coming out.
	Meantime, we have many people in the Epstein files over, you know, having dinner with Prince Charles and uh our I should call him King Charles now.
	Um, you know, and and and the Anglo-American alliance celebrating.
	But, you know, I keep saying this is the mega rich against every everyone else, and we can't you know, we cannot let the mega rich tear up the it's a fundamental legal principles that are the bedrock of this country.
	So um, you know, don't don't don't let this distract you and don't let them get away from it.
	Um yeah, all it takes is a little bit of pushback against people like Pam Bondy and what they're saying to make this go the other way.
	And as a result, none of us are going to be living in peace for many, many years to come.
	This is gonna take a long time to play out, many years.
	It could be ten years.
	Or I mean, it could go catastrophically bad in in one year.
	You know, we could end up living under uh radioactive fallout.
	It's not inconceivable.
	Well, Iran has um added uh new requirements to the International Atomic Energy Agency Agreement, the IAEA.
	There was a new agreement that was signed on September 9th in Cairo.
	But the new signed agreement says that the agreement will be suspended if any hostile action or snapback mechanism were to occur against Iran, which means that if Iran is bombed again by the United States or Israel, then Iran is uh uh completely free from being bound by the IAEA.
	And that would mean that Iran would start to roll out its own nuclear weapons almost certainly.
	So Iran has the technical expertise for nuclear weapons, no question about it.
	You know, Iranian scientists are very capable.
	Uh I mean, don't forget, folks, Iran, I mean, it's the home of some of the most capable mathematicians and scientists in the history of the world.
	You know, it's the cradle of civilization in in many ways, at least that whole area, but Persia, the Persian Empire has been part of that for a very long time.
	So do not discount the cognitive capabilities of the Iranian people.
	They're very capable.
	So yes, they can build atomic bombs, nuclear bombs, nuclear missiles, etc.
	They probably already have, is my guess.
	And if they get attacked again, then they probably will start just mounting nukes on the delivery systems they already have and start uh launching them at either U.S. military bases or uh Tel Aviv is my guess.
	And I'm wondering if Tel Aviv even survives this war intact.
	I mean, Tel Aviv might end up looking like Gaza.
	Which is kind of ironic because of what Israel did to Gaza, I guess.
	All karmic factors come into play sooner or later.
	Anyway, we're not gonna be looking at world peace, we're not gonna be looking at de-escalation, we're not looking at that at all.
	We're looking at an amping up of the emotions, an amping up of the the sort of the hatred you could say.
	You know, let's hate Iran, let's hate the radical left.
	Uh and to some extent, you know, the radical left is just playing right into this because they are insane.
	They are crazy.
	Uh they are violent lunatics, uh, many of them.
	Uh they are lawless, etc.
	So, you know, it's almost like this is a perfect script to then go to war domestically against those radical leftists with the support of the American people.
	Remember that what Trump wants to do domestically, which is really, you know, rounding up millions of illegals, booting them out of the country, uh, carrying out mass arrests of the traitors and the left-wing leaders like Hillary Clinton and whoever.
	Um James Comey, uh what John Brennan, you know, all these uh so-called traitors.
	Trump wants to round them up, and I think he should round them up.
	And he's even pressuring Pam Bondi to get it done.
	But Pam Bondi is slowing things down.
	She's she's actually pulling a Jeff Sessions right now.
	She's trying to slow the wheels of justice, is what it looks like from my point of view.
	So I don't know who's got dirt on Bondi, but she is um she's putting the brakes on everything that Trump wants to get done.
	Anyway, remember that for Trump to do this, he has to have widespread popular support.
	And that's where the shooting narrative of Charlie Kirk is critical to that popular support.
	They have to have Americans believe that Charlie was shot by this radical leftist.
	Otherwise, the whole emotional reaction falls apart.
	And that's why those of us who are questioning the official story on the shooting are being so viciously attacked for daring to ask questions like uh how does a human neck stop a 30-0-6 rifle round?
	Say that again?
	And walk me through that, you know, your magic bullet theory, your your man of steel theory.
	Walk me through that because it doesn't make any sense.
	Now, I'm not the only one noticing this because there's a really great video I want to play for you here from Owen Benjamin, who offered a similar analysis on this.
	This is a really great video wanna play it for you here, and then we'll continue on the other side.
	You know how many people hunt out there and know exactly what a 30-odd six round does to uh an elk skeleton or bone.
	We're not dumb.
	This ain't gonna work.
	This this man of steel, his bone density.
	Let's talk about this, okay?
	Let's talk about some things a 30-0-6 can do.
	From out to about four to five hundred yards at 30 aught six can penetrate elk bone.
	Why is that significant?
	Elk bone is significantly more dense and strong than human bone.
	Why?
	Because elk get up to almost a thousand pounds, and so the bone has to be extremely dense to carry that much weight.
	Now, let's compare it to human, okay?
	Well, for one, let's talk about where Charlie got shot.
	He got shot here in the carotid, if that did hit a vertebrae in his neck.
	Let's understand that neck vertebrae is some of the most fragile bone in the human body, because it's so flexible to handle what we do with our neck.
	So what they're telling you is a 30-odd six round, which can blow through elk bone, was stopped by Charlie Kirk's neck and a vertebrae.
	If you believe that, God bless your little heart.
	Now let's look at this actual ballistics test.
	All right, so we're gonna watch a video from U.S. Overwatch.
	He just put out this a day ago, very good video.
	Let's check it out.
	I'll put his link in the pin comment in description if you want to watch the whole video.
	So our first shot will be a coal boar shot, and we will just see what kind of results uh we are able to duplicate.
	All right, so he's got some very thick bone here across the strap of this dummy.
	Obviously, this would be far thicker and stronger than a human vertebrae in the neck.
	Let's uh let's see what this 30 out six rounds does to it.
	Wow.
	All right, from this angle as you can see here.
	Huh.
	Not only does it go through that bone, it explodes the bone, blows through the dummy.
	Also, as we'll see here in a second, blows through the wall behind it.
	Like we did kind of also think the uh bone stood no chance against a thirty caliber round traveling at uh that high of a velocity.
	So now we're gonna give it uh reset it back up and put the uh ballistic plate in front of it and see if we can't duplicate that shot as well.
	Right now he actually shoots a ballistic plate with 30 odd six round.
	Destroys the plate.
	Just ripped the entire half of that plate off.
	So there you go, guys.
	You just saw, I mean, right there for you, 30 odd six round damage it's gonna do went through way bigger bone than a vertebrae through the dummy through the wall.
	Blew the entire top section of that ballistic plate off.
	But Charlie Kirk's neck.
	Flesh and a little vertebrae stopped that round.
	So, yes, uh, the official explanation of the magic bullet theory is absolute nonsense.
	So what they're coming up with now is they're saying, well, God stopped the bullet in Charlie's neck.
	It was the hand of God.
	It was a miracle.
	This is literally what we're being told right now, and I did cover this yesterday.
	But uh, of course, this is also nonsense, but it appeals, you know, you start to get a little tinge of religious zealotry uh coming out of the group here, is like, oh, it was God's hand that stopped it in Charlie's neck, which of course is complete nonsense because if God wanted to stop that bullet, he could have stopped it one inch before it entered his neck, or he could have stopped the shooter.
	Or he could have, you know if God can do anything, he could have obviously stopped the shooting in a million different ways, but he did not.
	So this reliance on saying, well, it's a miracle is meant to invoke this idea that uh Charlie is some kind of a Jesus figure, that that Charlie is a saint, that God used Charlie's body in his death to save other people's lives.
	I mean, it's a very Jesus Christ-like thing where Charlie died for your sins.
	Charlie gave his life so that you could live.
	I mean, this is the kind of narrative that is now being really hyped up, and it really appeals to a lot of the Christian Zionists who are already in favor of bombing Gaza or bombing Iran or going to war or you know, spilling more blood because they're calling for more murder every day in Gaza and in Lebanon, you know.
	So you can see the religious imagery is is very clear here.
	This is why I'm glad that I studied the Bible last year and did what was it, a hundred and four sermons on the Bible, because it really gave me a much better understanding that when these people try to invoke religious imagery as a means of psychological manipulation of the population.
	Now I understand better how that's happening.
	Like why that resonates with so many people who are now saying essentially Charlie Kirk is Jesus.
	Or Charlie Kirk is Superman, and Charlie Kirk is the man of steel.
	Charlie Kirk's neck can stop bullets, or God used Charlie Kirk to work miracles.
	Because you even saw during the memorial, you know, all kinds of prayer.
	Uh obviously nothing wrong with prayer, but it's clear that this entire thing is being manipulated by the powers that be to try to translate people's faith in Jesus into faith in the Trump administration, and the wars that the Trump administration is about to pursue.
	Okay.
	So it's it's not transgenderism, it's transfacerism.
	They want to take your faith in God or your faith in Christ and transfer it into faith in the administration.
	And effectively what this is shaping up as is a religious war, not a political war, but a religious war.
	That's what this is all about.
	So a religious war has to have the right symbolism.
	It has to have you know all the right words and the setup.
	You have to have a saint, you have to have a sacrifice, you have to basically recreate the story of Jesus who died on the cross, died for our sins.
	You have to recreate that story in order to invoke that entire demographic that is going to go along with this because they think that it's God's hand that's involved now.
	Well, I don't think it's God's hand at all.
	I think Charlie Kirk was killed by a Satanist.
	I think it was the hand of Satan that killed Charlie Kirk through a minion of Satan, and I don't think it was a 306 rifle round.
	I think it was probably something much closer, maybe some kind of mechanism, a custom built mechanism, exploding pager, maybe, but not a pager.
	How about a shaped charge from a wireless microphone?
	Or a I don't know, a small slug fired from the camera behind him, for example.
	Or There are other possibilities as well.
	Some people believe there was a shot from the stairwell to Charlie's right, etc.
	I believe he was killed by the hand of Satan, not by the hand of God.
	And that then there's there's a satanic element to the entire war movement, because war is ultimately a mass uh blood ritual.
	It's a satanic sacrifice of human beings, of young men, typically, and that's satanic all the way.
	And I even saw during the Charlie Kirk memorial, some of the significant figures were flashing uh satanic signs on stage.
	I mean, very clear, you know, certain hand gestures of the of the devil horns flashing those signs.
	In fact, Breitbart News even carried one of those photos just right there in your face.
	You know, double horns uh satanic celebration sign.
	So that's really the overlay that you need to look at here.
	That war is not ever really conducted in the name of Jesus.
	War is conducted in the name of Satan pretending to be your savior or pretending to be God or pretending to be Jesus.
	So this is a religious war that is shaping up, but they have to convince everybody that it's a war for Jesus, that it's a it's a virtuous war, that it's it's moral, it's even biblical, especially if you ask Israel, it's biblical that we bomb our neighbors, that we murder their children because God gave us this land.
	You see, that's the kind of religious cultism and zealotry that defines uh Zionism in the modern day.
	Well, Trump is borrowing a page from that book, and he's going to be waging a religious war against Iran.
	Oh, I forgot to mention the missing piece of the puzzle.
	In order to do that, he has to have a false flag in America that is blamed on Islam in particular, but Iran uh more specifically.
	Okay.
	So watch for a massive false flag event that kills a bunch of innocent Americans that can then be blamed on Iran.
	That's coming, because they have to whip up that emotional fervor.
	They have to whip up the hatred.
	They have to say, oh my God, we're under attack by, you know, whoever, in this case, Iran, and then that that's why we have to invade them.
	We have to end that evil.
	And you'll see Mike Huckabee out there.
	We have to end that evil once and for all.
	We'll never be safe unless we bomb them first.
	And this is how religious zealots and war zealots, this is how they always promote war.
	It's the same script.
	That's why it's so easy to see.
	It's the same predictable script.
	So you're watching a script play out here, and this ends in a catastrophic world war, but from the U.S. point of view, it's going to be a religious war, and Trump will also wage a domestic war against anybody who opposes their religious war.
	You see?
	So that's my take on this.
	That's where all this is going.
	That's why this is happening.
	That's why they're using Charlie Kirk's death for all these military recruitment means and really political marketing means and religious marketing, etc.
	This is what's happening.
	Now, I've got a couple of special reports to play for you here, followed by a really interesting interview today.
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	Now, moving on, I'm gonna play two special reports for you here.
	The first the first report is the one I played yesterday, actually.
	I just released it on the weekend.
	It's an analysis of the 30.6 magic bullet theory and why it's crazy.
	If you've already heard that, you can skip ahead about 45 minutes or so to get to the second report, which is called The Collapse of Human Knowledge is now nearly complete.
	And in that report, I walk you through one of my observations about working with the data pipeline, which is really a content pipeline for AI training, and I've found that peak cognition in Western civilization is found in the time period about a 20-year period from 1975 to 1995.
	And after that, it all went downhill to where we are today, where everybody's retarded.
	You may have noticed.
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	What were the influencing factors?
	And why is it that I'm choosing content from the 1950s, 60s, 70s, and 80s as the best examples of knowledge for AI training, rather than using content in the post-Obama era where everything got woke and retarded.
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	All right, welcome folks.
	Mike Adams here with a special weekend edition update Bright Town Broadcast News.
	And let me apologize in advance for the topic here because we have to talk about the astonishing new narrative that's being catapulted into public consciousness regarding the shooting of Charlie Kirk.
	And the narrative is so absurdly stupid and impossible, and it violates the laws of physics, ballistics, and anatomy, that we have to call it out.
	But I want to say up front that it pains me to have to even cover this subject and to talk about the details here, you know, necks and foot pounds of energy and so on, and I mean no disrespect at all to Charlie Kirk and his surviving spouse and his children or anyone around him.
	And his murder was a tragic shooting that uh is just devastating to America.
	So please understand that I want to get to the bottom of this, and I think that the best way that we can actually show respect to Charlie Kirk is to answer the question accurately, who shot Charlie Kirk?
	And in order to answer that question, we have to look at the evidence, and we have to rationally examine the narrative that we're told, and you know, that narrative has to align with the laws of physics if it is real.
	You know, you you can't make up your own laws of physics or your own laws of ballistics or your own laws of anatomy in order to explain away something that just smacks of a cover-up.
	And what we're being told right now, and I kid you not, we're being told that Charlie Kirk is Superman, the man of steel, and that his neck stopped a 30-hot six you know, hunting rifle round.
	His neck stopped it because he's healthy.
	That's what I mean.
	I'm I can't believe it.
	And And again, I don't mean any disrespect to Charlie over this at all.
	But we now have a post and we have this new narrative from Andrew Colvet, who's with apparently he's with TPUSA.
	And he says that he spoke to the surgeon who worked on Charlie in the hospital.
	Quote at first the surgeon said, quote, absolutely the bullet absolutely should have gone through, which is very, very normal for a high powered high velocity round.
	I've seen wounds from this caliber many times, and they always just go through everything.
	This would have taken a moose or two down, an elk, etc.
	But but then the guy posting this here, uh Andrew Colvet, he says, but it didn't go through Charlie's body stopped it, he says.
	I mentioned this to his doctor and there were dozens of staff, students, and special guests standing directly behind Charlie on the other side of the tent when the shooting happened.
	And the doctor replied, quote, it was an absolute miracle that someone else didn't get killed.
	Okay.
	Quote, his bone was so healthy and the density was so so impressive that he's like the man of steel.
	It should have just gone through and through.
	It likely would have killed those standing behind him too.
	And then we're told that in the end, the coroner did find the bullet just beneath the skin.
	Well, then how did it sever the carotid artery then?
	Okay, different question.
	And then Colvet here says, even in death, Charlie managed to save the lives of those around him.
	Remarkable and miraculous.
	And I'm now seeing posts from other people, mostly Christians or Christian Zionists, who say it's a miracle.
	It's God's miracle.
	God reached down and used Charlie's body to stop a 30-hot six round.
	And that's why the bullet was found just beneath the skin.
	And we're seeing these posts just a couple hours after I predicted publicly that we're likely to start seeing people saying that Charlie Kirk is literally Jesus.
	And that's already come true.
	I mean, they're saying that he's Superman and that he's Jesus.
	Because he can stop bullets, apparently, because he's healthy, and his body can work miracles from God himself.
	Now, again, I don't mean any disrespect to Charlie at all.
	But these explanations are so delusional, just completely beyond insane, that it really makes me wonder about the mental health of humans today.
	That anybody could be pushing this and thinking that you're going to suspend the laws of physics.
	Well, actually, you know what?
	Let me back up.
	Let me back up.
	Let me explain the laws of physics in this, because I did the math.
	So here we go.
	Are you ready for the math quiz?
	All right, so a 30-0-6 rifle round typically produces around 3,000 foot pounds of energy when it's fired.
	3,000 foot pounds.
	That's enough energy to lift a 3,000 pound object one foot in the air, which is why it's called foot pounds.
	Now that's the energy, actually, it's higher with many rounds, but that's the energy as it leaves the barrel.
	That energy slowly dissipates over a very long distance.
	But at distances of you know, 150 yards or whatever we're being told it is, that the slowing of that velocity is really negligible for the purposes of this explanation, anyway.
	So uh don't worry about the fact that it's slightly slowed.
	It still easily can have over 3,000 foot pounds of energy.
	Now, the diameter of this bullet, the 306 Springfield bullet, is of course 0.308 inches.
	So uh that's 7.82 millimeters for those of you using the vastly superior metric system.
	Thank you.
	So almost 8 millimeters in diameter, but the thing that characterizes these bullets is they're longer than, like, for example, 308 Winchester rounds or you know 762 rounds or whatever.
	They're longer.
	They have a lot more mass.
	So and they have a much larger cartridge, which means they have a lot more energy behind them.
	And that's why a 30.6 round is a real shoulder kicker.
	Now I think the 300 wind mag round may have more energy than that.
	I'd have to check the charts.
	But a 30 out six round is it's an ass kicker.
	Okay.
	Anybody who's ever fired one from a bolt action rifle knows that uh it can it can bruise you if you don't hold it correctly.
	It's a lot of energy that's leaving the barrel.
	Okay.
	Now, if you take the diameter of the bullet, uh.308 inches, and you uh cut that in half, you know, 0.154, that's the radius, and then if you use pi r squared to calculate the area, then you get that the area of the skin that is being struck by the bullet is 0.0745 square inches.
	So not even one tenth of a square inch.
	You got it?
	Not even one tenth of a square inch.
	And yet, 3,000 foot pounds of energy are delivered to an area of the skin that is less than one-tenth of a square inch.
	Got it.
	Now, you you could say it's maybe the diameter of your pinky finger or something, that would be a close estimate.
	Now, there is no bone in the human body that can survive 3,000 foot pounds of energy.
	There's no skin that can stop it.
	There's no muscle, there's no, there's there's nothing, there's no organ, there's no bone that can absorb 3,000 foot pounds of energy and uh remain intact and stop it.
	It's not it's not possible.
	Now, it is possible, and this has happened in in wars where a soldier has been hit at a very slight angle, they've been hit in the skull with a bullet that just grazed them and it could deflect off of the skull if the bullet is traveling at a very, very slight angle.
	But if it's traveling into the skull, as in almost perpendicular, then deflection does not occur, obviously, then it penetrates the skull.
	And keep in mind that in most wars, the rounds that are fired by soldiers are far less powerful than the 30-6 hunting round, far less powerful.
	Look, the 30-0-6 hunting round is designed to take down large game, like a moose.
	You know, moose is a very large creature.
	Or to take down, I don't know, in Africa, all the big buffalo or whatever they shoot with 30-6 rounds.
	I mean, I'm not a hunter.
	I don't I don't shoot animals.
	I try to save animals as much as I can.
	But this is a big game round, okay?
	Much bigger than human.
	Soldiers, uh, American soldiers carry much smaller rounds, 556 rounds, or 5.56 millimeters by 45 millimeters.
	That's the AR-15 round, typically, or the M4 round.
	It has substantially less energy.
	It's much much smaller in diameter, much less energy, uh much lower uh foot pounds.
	And yet, that kills soldiers in wars all the time.
	Okay.
	And then even in World War II, when soldiers had rounds like the 308 Winchester, which was a much larger round, and you know, heavier, more powder, more foot pounds with the larger rifles, like the uh the M14 rifles, for example.
	Uh those would kill people all the time.
	And uh those bullets were delivered with far less energy than the 30.6 round.
	Okay.
	So This idea that Charlie Kirk is the man of steel who can stop bullets is beyond absurd.
	If you think that 3,000 foot pounds of energy can be absorbed by one man's neck, then you know you're you're delusional.
	Because here's why.
	There's no exit wound.
	That's been confirmed by TP USA people.
	It's been confirmed by Candace Owens and others.
	No exit wound.
	Well, by the laws of physics, that means that all of the energy of the rifle round was delivered into the neck.
	All of it.
	So now you have 3,000 foot pounds of energy being delivered into one human neck, pinpointed into one small area.
	And I'm not trying to be graphic here at all.
	But understand that that's enough energy to hurl a 200-pound man 15 feet into the air.
	Okay?
	If that entered anyone's neck and if the neck stopped the bullet and absorbed the energy, that person's neck would explode.
	That I mean again, I'm not trying to be graphic, and I don't mean any disrespect.
	I'm trying to get to the bottom of this.
	We need to know the truth.
	We owe that to Charlie to know the truth.
	But we are being lied to when we are told by people that he is that Charlie was the man of steel, and now we're being told that it's a miracle.
	I mean, clearly they're going to claim he's Jesus, you know, next.
	They're going to call it a miracle, God's miracle, and that Charlie's death saved the lives of the people around him.
	No, I there's a far simpler explanation here, folks.
	It's that we're being lied to.
	The far simpler explanation is that he was not shot with a 30 out of 6 round.
	We don't have to resort to God intervening with you know miracles and that alter the laws of physics.
	Does God stop bullets?
	I mean, does God stop bullets?
	Seriously.
	Of all the soldiers and all the people who who've been killed by bullets and all the gang shootings and all the suicides.
	How come God didn't stop those bullets?
	Oh, because Charlie Jesus is what we're gonna be.
	I mean, again, this is becoming so absurd, and it's it's really it's a disservice to Charlie for people to be pushing these narratives.
	It's absurd.
	Charlie would want us to know the truth.
	Charlie would want to dig through this obvious cover-up and these obvious, obvious lies.
	So this official explanation now that Charlie is Superman and he's bulletproof and he can stop bullets, and somehow all the energy just vanishes.
	Uh, it's all it's all a lie.
	And look, the way you know that is if God really were going to intervene, why didn't he stop the bullet one inch away from his neck?
	Right?
	If I mean, come on.
	If God were going to stop the bullet, why didn't he stop it before it struck Charlie?
	So I want to show you this image from a body armor company called uh Spartan Armor Systems.
	Now here moving from left to right, we have bullets of increasing uh energy.
	Well, at least bullets and cartridges, I should say.
	Obviously, the the powder in the cartridge determines the initial energy, and the mass of the bullet carries that energy combined with velocity.
	Because of course, energy is one half mass times velocity squared, but that's beside the point.
	From the left to the right, they are weaker bullets.
	It starts out with the a 40 caliber uh pistol round, and then what is it, 357, 9 millimeter, 45 ACP, all these are all pistol rounds, 38 special, typical revolver round, 357 magnum revolver round, 44 magma, that's considered the badass rifle round, or I'm sorry, uh typically pistol round, but sometimes used in lever actions.
	Um all those rounds that I just mentioned, they can be defeated by body armor that is uh level 3A.
	That's kind of the lowest level of body armor.
	It's pretty pretty thin.
	Uh it's It's wearable.
	You know, it's you can wear body armor at level 3A, and it's flexible.
	It's not a giant plate.
	Okay.
	But if you get hit with then rifle rounds, which is the 762 by 39, those are AK rounds, or 556 by 45, those are AR rounds, or 762 by 51, that's uh also known as like 308 Winchester round.
	Uh those rifle rounds, which carry more energy than the pistol rounds, they require level three protection of body armor, which is of course thicker and stiffer, etc.
	Now, uh let me just interrupt myself here and say that if what we're told about Charlie Kirk's neck is correct, then I guess the entire body armor business would have to shut down tomorrow because we've just learned that human skin can stop the highest level round.
	Who needs body armor if all you have to do is be healthy?
	Is what we're told.
	You just have to have good bone density.
	I mean, this I mean, it's insulting.
	It's just absolutely insulting how stupid it is.
	All right, let's go to the next level of ballistic protection.
	If you suspect that you're gonna get hit with armor piercing AR rounds, which would be like the um the what is it, the 855 rounds, uh, five, five, six by forty-five with a steel core, those are called green tip.
	Uh, they have a steel core that penetrates armor a little better.
	You need level 3A protection, or that could stop a 30-off six round if it's just like a solid point, or you know, not a hunting round, not a ballistic round, not uh an armor piercing round.
	So level 3A rifle protection.
	But if you want to stop a 30-6 that's a hunting round, which is uh an armor piercing round or ballistics round, you need level four protection, which typically is a very thick plate.
	I mean, they can make them out of different materials, uh, ceramics or ultra-high molecular weight polyethylene or steel in the old style, or combination of materials is the way they're typically made today.
	Then uh you you can have a very thick plate, they're they're usually like an inch thick or more.
	Well, depend- I mean depends on the material, to give yourself level four protection.
	All right.
	Or, according to what we're being told right now, you could just be healthy, and then your neck would stop the bullet.
	Now, again, I'm sorry to keep saying this, but I don't mean any disrespect to Charlie or his surviving family members.
	This why do we even have to go here?
	But it's because the lies are so absurd and so insane.
	I mean, basically we're being told that if you have healthy skin and good bone density, you don't need body armor.
	Now, that that's news to the entire military of the United States and every military around the world, all of whom wear body armor.
	Because apparently the Department of Defense has not yet discovered that healthy skin can stop bullets, including all the rounds used by you know enemy troops, which might like 762 by 39 typically, for example.
	Can stop them all, other than not 50 caliber, obviously, because that would be crazy.
	So why do you know, quiz time?
	Why do soldiers wear ballistic armor?
	Why?
	The answer, of course, is because human skin does not stop rifle rounds.
	That's why.
	That's exactly why.
	Think about it, right?
	I mean, this is obvious.
	And, you know, I'm a food scientist.
	I own a very advanced food science lab.
	I'm a published scientist, patent holder, you know, publish papers about food testing methodology using mass spec instruments, etc.
	There's no such thing as a food that makes you bulletproof.
	There's no such thing as a level of health that makes you bulletproof.
	And there is no human neck in the world that can absorb the energy of 3,000 foot pounds without absolutely exploding.
	It would just explode.
	The neck would explode like a grenade if that much energy were delivered to it all at once.
	That is, if it if it absorbed that energy.
	Now, recognize that when a bullet passes through a person and exits out the other side and keeps going, well, that's actually good news because then it doesn't deliver all of its energy into the body.
	You see, it carries its energy out of the body and delivers it somewhere else, whatever it hits next.
	So if I said to you, like you have a choice, you know, theoretically, obviously, this is a thought experiment.
	Don't try this at home.
	But if you had a choice, would you rather be shot with a like an AR-15 round that went through your, let's say your calf and went out the other side and kept going?
	Or would you rather be shot by the same round that stopped in your calf?
	If you understand ballistics and physics and anatomy, you would absolutely say, oh, God, please let it go on through, because then it's not delivering all that energy into my calf and shattering everything there.
	See, if your calf stops the bullet, then the energy goes into your calf.
	Where does it go?
	It goes into the bones, the tissues, you know, the blood vessels, everything.
	Ruptures everything.
	And that's just an AR-15 round.
	Now, battlefield surgeons and medics, they know, they know that all the time when people get shot with rounds that pass through, like through the calf or through someone's forearm, or you know, some other body part that's not a critical organ, that's a very treatable injury because the bullet did not deliver its energy to the body.
	It took its energy with it and left.
	That's good news.
	Now, Hollywood, of course, distorts all this, as Hollywood always does with firearms.
	According to Hollywood, if you get shot, then you keep getting injured until someone removes the bullet, and then once the bullet is removed, everything's okay.
	Like the bullet keeps doing damage while it's sitting there, according to every movie and every TV show, at least that I've ever seen, they always have this scene where you gotta get the bullet out.
	You gotta get it out.
	It's just it's causing damage.
	You know, that's insane.
	That's stupid.
	The bullet already did its damage when it when the energy was delivered, it ruptured tissue when the energy was delivered.
	If the bullet is no longer moving, it's no longer rupting tissue, is it?
	It no longer has any energy.
	Getting the bullet out, you can wait a few hours.
	I mean, it's that is not the emergency.
	The emergency is to stop the bleeding.
	Obviously, you don't want to hemorrhage and bleed out if it's caused a lot of internal damage in your bleeding.
	You need to stop the bleeding.
	You don't have to get the bullet out.
	You stop the bleeding and send the guy to the emergency room.
	They could get the bullet out later.
	It hardly even matters when that takes place.
	The bullet is not continuing to do damage.
	The bullet does all of its damage when it delivers its energy, that is, when it slows to a halt inside the body.
	So every bit of that energy in in foot pounds, or you know, you could call it newtons or whatever units you want.
	Every bit of that gets delivered into the body, ruptures tissue.
	And for every organ, for every bone, there's a certain amount of energy that's required, for example, to fracture a bone, to shatter a bone.
	So that's absorbing energy.
	It's just like this.
	When if somebody drives a car into a brick wall, the car, you've seen the slow motion crash videos, right?
	So the car begins To crumple as it's slamming into the wall.
	The crumpling is actually absorbing energy because it takes energy to deform metal, aluminum and steel, etc.
	So the kinetic energy of the car, its total mass times its total velocity hitting that wall, or really one half mass times velocity squared, all that energy has to go somewhere.
	Where does it go?
	It goes into the deformations of the car's tissues, you could say, or the car's structure.
	And that's why the higher your speed when you hit the wall, the more deforming of the car takes place, obviously, because that's where the energy goes.
	And then car designers design cars with so-called crumple zones, which are specifically designed to absorb energy, in other words, to dissipate energy and to make the energy of the accident move around the frame of the car and around the occupants, so that the energy doesn't get delivered to the people in the car.
	And that's what airbags are all about.
	So, you know, how is energy delivered to the driver?
	Well, typically by the in older cars, by the driver hitting their face on the windshield or the steering wheel.
	That's energy transmission.
	So a seat belt is designed to prevent your face from being the thing that absorbs energy from the steering wheel being shoved into your face from a you know collision.
	And an airbag is designed to decelerate your body, you know, your torso, your face, especially your head, to decelerate it within an acceptable window of survivable trauma.
	That's the whole point of airbags.
	And they are very, very effective.
	Airbags work.
	Airbags save lives, no question about it.
	And so do seatbelts overall.
	Airbags save lives, because you don't want your entire face to collide with the steering wheel at full velocity and then come to a sudden stop, because that requires then a lot of dental work to repair and you know, rebuilding facial bones and things.
	Instead, if you can have your face shoved into a pillow, even an exploding pillow that suddenly explodes in your face, but then you can decelerate over a distance of you know 18 inches or whatever, it's gonna hurt, but you can survive that and you don't break your face.
	Okay.
	So car crashes are all about where does the energy go?
	And rifle impacts are also concerning the same question.
	Where does the energy go?
	Now, for the people who are saying that, oh, this is a miracle, Charlie Kirk's body, his neck, stop the bullet.
	They the reason that they are now claiming that it was a miracle, that it was God's intervention, which again makes no sense because why didn't God stop the bullet from hitting Charlie in the first place?
	But the reason people are saying that is because they can't otherwise explain it away in any manner that is consistent with the laws of physics.
	And if your only explanation for events is that, well, God changed the laws, you know, God intervened, it was God's hand that did that, then that's pretty sloppy thinking when it comes to forensics.
	I mean, if that's the best that you can do, God just reached down his hand and stop the bullet, you're not a very rigorous thinker, because again, why didn't God stop the bullet in front of his neck?
	Now, if somebody fired a rifle round, and then on camera, that rifle round stopped one inch before it hit his neck and fell into his lap and he held it up, and he was glowing with a halo, and angels sang, then I would say that's a miracle.
	That's an actual doggone miracle right there.
	That's not what happened, folks.
	And to think that God would stop the bullet in his neck and kill Charlie Kirk is it's to think that God wants to kill Charlie Kirk, that God wants Charlie dead, and I don't think that's the case.
	I think somebody else wanted Charlie dead, and it's not God, it's actually someone associated with Satan.
	So the people saying that God killed Charlie or God caused Charlie to die are insane.
	I mean, and you know, of course, you can't you can't talk to these people about the laws of physics because they all failed high school physics class anyway, or you know, basic science.
	They probably can't even do basic algebra.
	They can't even calculate pi r squared.
	You know what I mean?
	So it's pointless to try to argue or debate with people who are too stupid to know what you're talking about.
	And to them, everything in the universe is a is a mystery.
	This is like some of the ancient civilizations.
	It's like the gods are angry today, you know.
	What causes volcanoes?
	Uh, angry gods, you know, that that's all they knew.
	What causes eclipses in the sky?
	The gods are angry again.
	We have to sacrifice like 500 children on the stairs of the pyramid, and then the sun will come back, you know, and so they they murder a bunch of children.
	Sure enough, the sun came back.
	See, the high priest lecture you.
	Ye of little faith, we got the sun back, didn't we?
	Yeah, because the eclipse ended, morons.
	If if that's your only explanation, you're lost.
	So the bottom line here is that what we are being presented with is an obvious cover-up.
	It's obvious that Charlie's neck was not struck by a 30-0-6 uh hunting rifle round.
	That is obvious.
	And uh, you know, I I'm tempted to call on Michael Jan, who has he's seen soldiers hit with rounds, he's seen lots of soldiers get hit with rounds, and and some of them died and some of them bled out, and some of them survived.
	Michael Jan has seen it up close because he was a you know, a war journalist, you know, a war correspondent.
	That's that's the term, with a with a high-end camera.
	I mean, he's got photographs of these kinds of things happening.
	And Michael Jan will tell you, I believe, right away that this official story is uh just complete bunk.
	So it's a cover-up.
	So it begs the question, why are they so desperate to cover up this shooting?
	What is it about this shooting where they can't just I mean every explanation they offer us smacks of desperation?
	There's something so incredibly fishy about this that they are resorting to censorship and all kinds of attacks on people who are asking questions like Candace Owens, and there are threats against many of us who are daring to ask questions.
	What why?
	If this was really just a lone shooter, this this trans lover guy, as we're told, then why all the cover-up?
	And by the way, where where is a single photo of that guy with a rifle?
	Where's the video of him with a rifle on the roof?
	Doesn't exist.
	Where's his DNA on the rifle?
	Doesn't exist.
	Right?
	Where are the cartridges with the inscriptions on them that we were told?
	Uh we haven't seen them.
	Don't exist.
	Where's the bullet?
	Uh haven't seen it.
	No, no photo, no details, nothing.
	Wow.
	Uh where's the autopsy report?
	Where's the video footage of the supposed shooter uh climbing up the stairs?
	We've seen the still frame.
	What about the video?
	Where's a video of him changing clothes on the roof, as we're told?
	Or him disassembling the rifle on the roof.
	I mean, my God.
	There's really no hard evidence at all.
	The the note that they claim is completely made up, fabricated, or quote, reproduced.
	They reproduced a note that's such an obvious fake that the FBI is being mocked day and night by people who realize that it looks like it's written by a boomer, not by a 22-year-old or however old the guy was.
	I mean, the language, the vocabulary, everything is from an older person, like an older law enforcement person, like a like a cop or an FBI agent Near retirement.
	That's who wrote the note.
	Everybody knows it.
	I mean, everything is fabricated here, the so-called text.
	Well, that can be done with cell phone spoofing.
	The FBI has had that technology for decades.
	So, you know, it's it's laughable.
	The explanation that we're being given is laughable.
	It's so laughable that I believe that any competent defense attorney would have this guy plead not guilty.
	Because there's no evidence that I'm aware of that links him to shooting anybody anywhere.
	There's there's not even evidence that links him to the so-called rifle, which was obviously planted by the FBI.
	I mean, come on.
	Where that scope was mounted on the rifle, it's not even shootable in a especially in a prone position.
	You got to move the scope forward.
	And why would you have a 4 to 8x magnification on a scope if you're only shooting from 150 yards or less?
	You wouldn't.
	It doesn't even make any sense.
	And if you disassembled and then reassemble the rifle and then reattached the optics, you do know that it wouldn't be zeroed anymore, right?
	So you can't take that shot with any confidence in the accuracy.
	That's, I mean, for God's sake, man.
	I mean, all of us who are accomplished long-range rifle shooters, we know that the reason we zero rifles is to make sure that that they're on track.
	You zero your rifle at a specific range that you calculate into your ballistics curve, you know, like 200 yards or 250 yards for a lot of people will zero 556 at first at maybe 25 yards and then uh again at like 250, which happens to be, well, actually, I think 50 and 250 yards, uh, that's the same impact point because of the arc of the bullet.
	Or, you know, something close to that.
	It might not be exactly that.
	Depends on the bullet velocity and mass, etc.
	But it's something close to that.
	So for my 556 rifles, I zero them at uh, I think I zero them at 200 yards typically for a number of reasons.
	It just anyway, people don't even know the basics of ballistics or energy or you know, physics or math or whatever, and that's the only reason why people would even believe such an absurd narrative.
	And yet we're told by the people I'm calling the low IQ narrative swallowers.
	We're told that we're paranoid to ask questions.
	We're paranoid to not believe the official narrative.
	And we're and we're told this by many of the very same people who before Trump was elected told us never trust the FBI, never trust the government, never trust the DOJ.
	People who were sounding the alarm over 9-11 and Waco and Oklahoma City and everything.
	And now they're like, oh, but this time they're telling the truth.
	It's all good.
	Yeah, the FBI can be completely trusted.
	Right.
	Yeah, sure.
	I mean, it's so ridiculous.
	I I can't even believe we're watching this.
	It's unbelievable.
	So we know that the official explanation is bunk.
	We know that he wasn't shot with a 30-0-6 round that stopped in his neck.
	Well, that means that the official story isn't true, which means something else or somebody else or some other mechanism shot Charlie.
	Now, my best guess, based on current information, is that he may have been shot by the camera behind him that was rigged with a special kind of mechanical internal,
	maybe like a like an airburst mechanism to shoot a slug out of a very short barrel at relatively low velocity, it could be 300 feet per second, uh, just to cause the damage and make him bleed out and that he was shot from behind at a downward angle from behind.
	Uh that actually, that explanation matches the evidence that we're seeing so far.
	You know, it it matches the reality that there's no exit wound in the back.
	You know, it's more consistent with the videos that we've seen.
	It would indicate a much closer shot.
	And also, why did they hurry to take down those cameras?
	You know, I mean, it's a crime scene right there.
	The first thing they did was disassemble everything.
	And then also, then the university like tore up the whole grounds and and reinstalled, you know, all new pavers and everything.
	I mean, it's like you sure are in a hurry to destroy the entire crime scene.
	That's highly suspicious to anybody who's intelligent.
	Because they did that after 9 11.
	The bulldoze the crime scene.
	Get it all out of here.
	Get it out of the way.
	We don't want to see it.
	Yeah, you don't want anybody to forensically examine it, do you?
	Because you'd find all the thermite.
	Obviously.
	I mean.
	It's just such an obvious psyop here.
	And the story we're being told is clearly false.
	Now, it doesn't mean that we know who's behind it.
	We don't know.
	We don't have conclusive proof, but it's somebody who's very sophisticated at assassinations.
	Somebody who's got a lot of experience at killing people and getting away with it.
	That would be an intelligence agency.
	And there are only three in the world that I can think of that would be capable of this.
	That's the CIA, MI6, and Mossad.
	And so I think that at least the preponderance of evidence that we we are aware of so far points in the direction of an intelligence operation.
	You know, take your pick of which branch you think it is, or maybe it's all, or two out of three.
	I mean, whatever, but it's not the loan shooter Patsy.
	That is abundantly clear.
	And Candace Owens is right when she says the truth's gonna come out on this, and they made a huge mistake thinking that they could just whitewash this whole thing with a grassy knoll explanation like JFK.
	Yeah, they're not gonna get away with that this time.
	They've got all the audio signatures now.
	I mean, we do, the public does, we've got video, we've got ballistics experts, we've got, you know, we understand the basics of anatomy and kinetic energy and foot pounds.
	I mean, we can do the math, man.
	And even if you can't do the math, you can feed it into a reasoning AI engine, and it can do the math for you.
	And AI will tell you that a human neck can't stop a 30-6 round and absorb all that energy without exploding.
	Try it.
	Put that question into any AI engine, and you'll see.
	If as long as you describe the prompt correctly, you need to mention the 3,000 foot pounds of energy being delivered.
	I mean, my goodness.
	So we're being lied to and we're being lied to by people who think we're stupid.
	And that's what's really bizarre about all of this.
	They they really think we're stupid.
	They think we're so stupid that we won't notice that they're lying to us.
	And that's the reason I had to do this recording to point out that we're not that stupid.
	And actually, we're the smart ones here.
	We are the high IQ people who are asking the questions.
	It's the low IQ people who are swallowing this obvious BS.
	So I know you listening, you know, you you're a high IQ person, or you wouldn't even be tuning in.
	So you must have a lot of the same questions I have.
	Who's really behind this?
	We owe it to Charlie to find out.
	And and again, I'll I'll end with what I mentioned at the very beginning, which is that whatever your explanation of this shooting is, you can't make up your own rules of physics.
	You can't invent new rules of anatomy, like, oh, he's bulletproof.
	You know, you you can't just make up your own ballistics.
	And if your only explanation is, oh, it was the hand of God, then that's just really lazy sloppy thinking, frankly.
	That's that's that's a cop-out.
	That's that's if you surrender, you have no argument.
	You say, it was God, you know.
	God did what I say that I wanted him to do to stop it in his neck.
	And it's like, okay.
	You're just stupid at that point, you know, go away.
	Leave it to the adults in the room.
	We got to figure this out for Charlie's sake.
	And by the way, as a safety precaution, I would advise you that if you expect to be taking fire, you should wear ballistic protection because you are not bulletproof.
	I guarantee it.
	Like ask any cop, ask any veteran, ask any soldier, ask any surgeon.
	Uh go ask, find an ER surgeon.
	Ask them.
	Have you ever seen people who are bulletproof because they were really healthy?
	No, I dare you.
	Find your favorite ER surgeon who treats gunshots and ask him, you found any bulletproof humans yet?
	Rifle rounds, hunting rounds, rounds that can take down a moose.
	You found you found any of those rounds just hanging out under the skin in humans?
	No.
	Never.
	All right.
	That's look, that's what I wanted to say.
	But um I'm not gonna I'm not gonna put any ads or plugs in this because I do not want to monetize this topic at all.
	Uh I will just say how you can follow me, though.
	You can follow my podcast and my interviews at Brighton.com.
	You can follow.
	Oh, I'm also on Rumble, by the way, Health Ranger report.
	Uh I'm on X at Health Ranger.
	You can follow me on Brighton.social at Health Ranger.
	And you can also use our free AI engine, which is just kicking ass, and it's getting better.
	We've had a lot of breakthroughs lately, just in the last two weeks.
	You can find it at Brighton.ai.
	Now that AI engine does not yet know about the tragic murder of Charlie because we haven't updated it with uh recent news.
	So uh there's no point in trying to ask that AI engine about Charlie.
	It won't know about it.
	But it you can ask it about ballistics or you know, bullet properties or foot pounds or things like that, but it's not a reasoning engine.
	So if you want to use AI to help you walk through this, I strongly suggest that you use a reasoning engine and you give it a good prompt with all the data, you know, velocity, foot pounds, bullet diameter, etc.
	Ask it a good question, you're gonna get uh solid answers, actually.
	And you will not get an answer from AI that says, yeah, humans can stop 30 out six hunting rounds.
	Nope.
	Nope, not unless it's hallucinating, which is what a lot of people seem to be doing right now.
	I you know, it's funny when people say don't use AI, it hallucinates.
	I'm like, have you talked to humans lately?
	They hallucinate a whole lot more than AI.
	I mean, just go on X. You want to see mass hallucinations, man.
	We're looking at it right now.
	It's all over X. The AI engines make way more sense than these people.
	Oh my goodness.
	All right, thank you for listening.
	And uh look, I I pray, I pray for the soul of Charlie Kirk.
	I pray for his family, his surviving spouse and children.
	I pray that violence ends in our world, and I pray for the end of suffering.
	And I also pray that we find out who's really behind this, because I think he was taken out.
	I think he was taken out for a purpose to silence him.
	And if he is in heaven right now looking down on us, he's probably his soul is screaming, find my killer and expose the truth.
	So I believe we do Charlie a service by investigating this and by contributing through our knowledge of mathematics or physics or ballistics or anatomy, even though the topic is gruesome, and I apologize for that.
	The effort is noble, and I do this in good faith.
	I do this in good faith to help us find the real killer of Charlie Kirk.
	May the truth come out.
	So thank you for listening.
	God bless you all.
	God bless America.
	May God have mercy on this country.
	I tell you what.
	All right, take care.
	So I've conducted an assessment of the quality of human knowledge based on the year in which it was published.
	And this is because, of course, I'm assessing a lot of human knowledge, a big portion of the entirety of human knowledge in many different languages, as part of the uh data pipeline analysis for our AI model training, you know, for Enoch, the free AI model you can use at Brighton.ai.
	So, here's what I've come to discover, and this is uh probably a little bit disturbing.
	It looks like the peak of human cognition in Western civilization.
	That is the peak of human reading and writing skills, that is uh the ability to elucidate your thoughts in a written form.
	Uh That peak happened in about the late 1970s or early or maybe to mid-1980s, even you could stretch it into the early 1990s.
	So let's let's just call it about a let's say a 20-year period from 1975 to 1995.
	That was peak intelligence for Western civilization.
	And after that point, uh human intelligence in the West, anyway, began to substantially decline.
	And we see that reflected in the decline in quality of writing, the move away from sophisticated vocabulary into simplified vocabulary.
	We see a shift from uh high school level reading to sort of seventh grade level, and then today it's like what we would call fifth grade level writing in newspapers and in magazines, etc.
	Although there are exceptions, obviously, there are there are higher-end magazines that cater to let's say a more intelligent audience, you could say scientific American, for example.
	But even Scientific American has been sort of cheapened cognitively, and today it reads a lot closer to a magazine like popular science compared to the way Scientific American sounded a couple of decades ago.
	So there's been a shift across the board.
	And newspapers are a key indicator here, and I'm really fascinated by looking at newspapers from the 1950s, 1960s and 70s, etc., compared to newspapers today.
	There's no comparison.
	It's clear that the average American newspaper consumer in the 1960s or even the 1950s was far more intelligent than the average American newspaper consumer today in 2025.
	No comparison.
	I mean, in 50 years, let's say, from 1975 to 2025, the cognitive capabilities or reading comprehension capabilities of Americans have uh substantially plummeted.
	Now, I am tying this to the rise of certain types of technology.
	We really see the end of the peak of Western cognition in about the mid-1990s, like I said, from 1975 to 1995.
	And in the mid-1990s, what were we witnessing in society?
	We saw the rise of the internet.
	Now, the internet can be a wonderful tool for research and for knowledge, for learning, reading and writing, etc.
	But it also tended to present information in a shorter form and a more simplified form.
	And so as the 1990s progressed, reading comprehension actually declined in Western civilization.
	So the rise of the internet, more information available, but lower quality information overall, which led to a decline in reading comprehension or reading level capabilities.
	And then if we fast forward to the early 2000s, we see even more cognitive decline because then we have the rise of social media.
	Social media really began to take off in, let's say, 2005 or thereabouts.
	And social media was centered around even shorter forms of content.
	And that's where we began to see the rise of emojis or emoticons.
	So symbolic communication, little pictographs instead of words.
	But the words themselves were also very, very short.
	For example, uh Twitter, in its first rendition, only allowed you to post, I believe, 143 characters.
	That was it.
	It was one sentence and kind of a short sentence at that.
	And you saw uh Facebook and MySpace.
	As these were rising up, human cognition was actually falling down.
	And the more social Media spread the dumber people got, which is not surprising if you visit a lot of social media like the mainstream platforms these days, even to X, it's you know, it's not the place where the brightest people express themselves, it seems, although there are exceptions.
	So, fast forward then to about 2015.
	In 2015, or even 2014, we saw extreme censorship of human knowledge by the tech giants.
	So that's when Google began to really censor anybody who was questioning big pharma.
	And in 2017, Google ran a big update.
	They rolled it out, it was called the medic update, and it obliterated all information about holistic medicine, alternative medicine, etc.
	It pushed everybody into pharmaceutical medicine and traditional, or I should say, uh conventional Western medicine.
	So it just moved people away from anything that was natural, alternative, or complementary.
	And that was all by design.
	So as a result, then the tech platforms, including YouTube, Google, Facebook, began to focus on instead of spreading information, their new mission was to isolate people from knowledge.
	So they became literally anti-knowledge platforms.
	And that's what Google is today in particular.
	It's an anti-knowledge platform that is designed to isolate you from knowledge that could empower you.
	Knowledge about nutrition, health, longevity, you know, self-reliance, sustainability, financial independence, and all kinds of similar topics.
	So that was a major shift.
	And of course, because of that, then people were dumbed down even further.
	And you saw this reflected in the newspapers and in the magazines, and I can show you many examples, but you look at a something like a USA Today newspaper from a few years ago, and you could see it was really getting dumbed down.
	It was looking more and more like a comic book.
	It was uh heavily saturated with photos and graphics, but not very much text.
	I mean, nothing like a newspaper from 1957, for example.
	Just an average newspaper from 1957 today looks like you know, college graduate level reading, you know, uh if not sort of master's degree level reading.
	All right, now, fast forward to 2023, let's say, the rise of AI.
	And of course, AI has continued to uh spread in terms of its usage.
	Since then, a lot of people using chat GPT.
	A lot of college students are using chat GPT to write their papers.
	People are using it and other engines to write their letters and write their emails and also to do thinking for them.
	So now we have reasoning models that can step through the process of thinking or reasoning, and this has allowed lazy humans to offload uh thinking skills to machines.
	So as a result now, we have a lot more people who are uh failing to learn how to write.
	They are not typically sophisticated readers, and they are using machines as surrogates for their thinking.
	So they're not practicing their thinking skills.
	So as a result, humans are becoming even dumber still, which is really saying something because they had already achieved quite an astonishing level of being dumbed down, you know, before the rise of AI.
	Now, there's another factor in all of this that has to be mentioned, and that was the rise of wokism.
	And I think the rise of wokism really took off during the Obama years in America.
	And of course, wokeism is centered around these delusional ideas of thinking, for example, that a man can become a woman, or that a person's gender can be changed instantly in their own mind simply by making a wish.
	And uh wokeism was really a form of cultural retardation.
	And it was rooted in these ideas that Made no sense whatsoever.
	For example, supposing that all white people were bad because of the lack of melanin in their skin, or that all people of color should be boosted with extra bonus points when grading them in order to achieve academic equity.
	These ideas, again, the centerpieces of wokeism, were all rooted in delusion.
	And as a result of this wokeism, in my assessment, as someone who builds AI models, you really can't use any information from the world after about, oh, I don't know, 2010, because especially you can't use it if you're training reasoning models because so much of that information was irrational.
	And it would break a reasoning model.
	And this was also true with climate change.
	So the whole climate change narrative is completely fabricated, claiming that carbon dioxide is a bad molecule, that's bad for the planet, and you know, somehow that plants don't need CO2 or that photosynthesis doesn't need CO2.
	You know, these are crazy insane ideas.
	But that's what was pushed, and it was pushed across online conversations, it was heavily enforced.
	Uh it was pushed through science journals, which all got funded by governments in order to reach bizarre conclusions about climate.
	You know, half the funding went to climate projects, it seems.
	And all the scientists knew that if they wanted to continue to receive funding, they had to produce whatever science the government wanted, which was quote, science that would confirm that climate change is a horrible risk, even though it was all complete nonsense.
	But as a result, you really can't use any information from that era.
	And if you want to train language models or reasoning models to be really smart, you either have to focus on the the era of peak cognition in the West, which is again 1975 to 1995, or you have to go outside the United States and you have to use content in other languages, which is something that we have done.
	For example, in Chinese, we don't see the same insane rise of wokeism.
	And we also don't see that in Russian.
	But we do see it in German, in French, in Italian, you know, the European languages, plus Spanish, we see wokeism, which is a contaminant in the history of human knowledge.
	So when you're training models, you have to be very careful about what era of content and what language or the country of origin of the knowledge that you're actually choosing for training purposes.
	And that's why when it comes to nutrition and phytochemistry, we have used a lot of science papers that came out of China that were originally, of course, published in uh Chinese, and then we translated those into English and then used those papers to train the model on additional uh scientific information about botany and and uh uh plant medicine, nutrition, etc.
	Because China turns out to be the best source for that information.
	Whereas in the West, most of the grant money was going to proving climate change, which was a complete waste of time and money.
	And so the conclusion here is that this explains why chat GPT is retarded.
	This explains why Grok is retarded.
	It's because these mainstream models are trained on what's called the common crawl of the internet.
	Common crawl, the number one source of common crawl is Reddit, which is like a retard hub of disinformation.
	And they scrape Reddit to get the common crawl, and they scrape Wikipedia, which is also controlled by the CIA, and you know, every narrative is controlled on Wikipedia to push false narratives.
	So the top two sources for AI engines, being Reddit and Wikipedia, are both rooted in delusions and falsehoods.
	And so that's why the models suck, by the way.
	And so what we have done at Brighton.ai is we've taken open source-based models, all of which were trained on common crawl data, but then we have altered them substantially.
	We've found very clever ways to alter them through a number of means, not just fine-tuning, but even beyond uh fine-tuning.
	We I don't know what you call it, uh mind-wiping, uh, major tuning, I don't know.
	But we've found ways to drastically alter the vector database that is it describes the the neurological connections between tokens or concepts inside an AI engine, you could say.
	And as a result, our engines are now they represent reality and they are much smarter than OpenAI or Grok or Microsoft or Google's engines, much smarter by far, on reality-based topics.
	So our engine at Brighton.ai, even though it's not yet a reasoning engine, uh, we will release a reasoning engine at some point.
	But it's just a standard LLM that provides outstanding answers on the things that matter in reality.
	That is on uh foods and nutrition and health and medicine and home gardening and survival and off-grid living and how to make your own medicinal herbs, for example, how to repair things, how to survive and prepare yourself for hard times, all about finance and money and economics and history and the things that matter.
	We did not train it on high-level math problems, and so ChatGPT excels at high-level math.
	Now, a lot of the benchmarks that are used by the AI industry to rate their engines are based on high-level math because the people who build AI are high-level math geeks.
	So they like to test AI engines on their high-level math that nobody else uses in the real world.
	So our engine will not beat ChatGPT on mathematics, but it beats ChatGPT on everything surrounding common sense.
	You know, from you know, gender and preparedness and nutrition and preventing chronic degenerative diseases and boosting your health and enhancing longevity, etc.
	Because those are the things that matter in the real world to real people.
	And so our engine will bring you a level of intelligence that used to be common in the West in the 1980s or 1970s, but a level of intelligence that has since vanished for the most part.
	So if you find that our model is uh speaking to you in uh a little bit uh higher education sounding language, uh that's why.
	And that's on purpose.
	We did not build it to be a chat bot, it's not designed to be your friend, it's not designed to have a relationship with you, it's got no such training.
	It's designed to be a research engine and to help you uh write articles or to expand bullet points or to summarize science papers, or more importantly, to find deep, deep answers to your questions about health and nutrition and all the topics that we cover, including finance and economics and history, etc.
	It also covers a lot about physics and chemistry, and it can translate into multiple different languages as well.
	So it does a lot of different things.
	So you can use it, it's free, it's at Brighton.ai.
	And the reason it's free is because, well, we're we're paying for it, and we kept it uh non-commercial, nonprofit, on purpose.
	We don't want it to be commercial.
	We don't want to make money off of it.
	We want to spread human knowledge.
	That's my mission is to spread human knowledge.
	And the engine is not only free, but it's also going to keep getting better because we are in the process of analyzing literally hundreds of terabytes of additional human knowledge From across the world, uh spanning all modern time.
	Even knowledge that's hundreds of years old, but it's recorded in books, especially in ancient cultures like Chinese culture, for example.
	We are processing that information and finding out the real nuggets of intelligence.
	It's kind of like mining for treasure, knowledge treasure.
	That's what we do.
	And instead of throwing a bunch of garbage into an AI engine and calling it, you know, grok or whatever.
	We are mining for really high-end human knowledge and then using that to train our models.
	And so our models are only going to get better and better uh with each passing month.
	So thank you for supporting us.
	Thank you for using our tools.
	And if you want to help us, the simplest way is to just tell people about our engine.
	Tell people to use it.
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	The current engine is called Enoch, although there'll be other names for upcoming engines.
	And uh have fun using it and understand that it's gonna get better.
	And understand that currently it's i about 19 out of 20 times it gives you a really great answer.
	One out of twenty times it gives you a pretty horrible answer.
	Uh if that happens, just rerun the same prompt.
	Because it will almost always correct it with the second prompt.
	So have fun using it.
	You can research food and recipes and food ingredients, you can research pharmaceuticals, you can research herbs, you know, everything related to health.
	Literally everything that's ever been known by humanity related to health is probably in the engine right now.
	With a lot more knowledge uh yet to come.
	So I'm Mike Adams, the founder of Brightown and the creator of the Enoch engine, and thank you for your support.
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	Take care.
	Beauty and function.
	That's always been kind of the guiding principles of the work that we do.
	It's not a uh um, you know, it's not like a disposable piece.
	Oh, it's broken, I'm just gonna throw it away.
	No.
	We don't use any kind of plating, we don't put anything on there just because our pieces are made to be used.
	Copper has so many properties, and I I think humanity has only just begun to really discover them all.
	Right.
	Or rediscover.
	Welcome to today's interview here on Brighton.com.
	I am pleased to be joined today by the founder of a company that makes some incredible uh well, water filters and dishware, I mean, so much more out of copper, one of the most historically significant elements that's ever been discovered on planet Earth, right alongside gold and silver, and it's interesting that they are in the same column on the table of elements as well.
	So my guest today is Jonathan Beal, and he's the founder of a company called SERTodo, which offers these products.
	We're partnering with them at HealthManager Store.com.
	I'll tell you about that coming up.
	Welcome, Mr. Beale.
	It's uh an honor to have you.
	Thank you very much, Mike.
	It's a pleasure to be here.
	Well, thank you for coming, and uh, it's great meeting you uh because when I first saw uh your products, just the incredible beauty of it and the copper uh craftsmanship and the purity of it, I was stunned.
	And uh I said to myself, I this is what I want to have in my house.
	Tell us a little bit about your company, Sir Todo, and uh what you're into and why.
	Sure.
	Um well, as you mentioned, copper's been around for a long time.
	The first mill really bought brought uh humans into the metal age.
	Um and it's just been a part of the human hearth and home for thousands of years, um, and really integral part of many different cultures.
	Uh I just really uh fell into this uh copper work um almost 30 years ago, about 27 years ago now, um, driving around in Mexico, and I some man was setting some an ambulant copper vendor was setting some goods out on the side of the road, and I've been driving all night, and you know, the same kind of thing that you that you're noticing here, it just drew me in.
	It was shining in the morning light, and I could just really see um just how honest the work was that went into one of these pieces.
	Just, you know, if if uh these hammer marks were like an alphabet, you could read the whole story of how these pieces are made here.
	So what's incredible to me is that each of these stands is a piece of art in addition to its functionality.
	And there's also a health benefit that I'd love to talk about at some point.
	But I mean, you you could put this in your home as a as a an artwork, you know.
	Definitely, definitely.
	I I I totally agree.
	Um beauty and function.
	That's always been kind of uh the guiding principles of the work that we do.
	Um and uh the pieces that we make, the pieces that I originally started making, you know, almost 30 years ago, people are still using those pieces today.
	So it's not a uh you know, it's not like a disposable piece.
	Oh, it's broken, I'm just gonna throw it away.
	No.
	Um, with time and use, it just continues to, you know, look better and improve in your house, and it shows all the wear and time, and just like your grandmother's old copper pieces.
	Everybody loves to, you know, have those, and you know, it's the same idea that we have is that um, you know, 50 years from now, when you know our grandkids are looking through the old copper, they're gonna see, oh, this is a Saratoto copper piece, and you know, maybe they'll check in their oculus about where they can get another one, and hopefully we'll still be around doing that.
	But it's funny you mentioned that because what I love about your products is that I I I think we're having a we're having a backlash against the artificial world, and we're seeing a cultural return to what's real.
	And commodities or elements, metals, precious metals.
	You know, gold, for example, just hit a new all-time high in terms of dollars.
	Silver is being purchased in record quantities, and it's hit a 14-year high.
	Uh all over the world, cultures not only have valued gold and silver and copper, which of course has been used as money in other civilizations before, but they valued it for its uh specific physical properties, it's resilience, or like in in the in the case of gold, it's resistance to oxidation and and so on.
	But also then it's beauty.
	So all three of these have a natural beauty that cannot be synthesized.
	Right.
	And I would would you agree that our world is I mean, people who are informed really value things that are real now, even in uh a society that's becoming increasingly artificial.
	Sure.
	I mean, so much is uh abstract and you can't touch it, whether it's social media, internet, which you know is a great medium for communication and information, but you know, having things that are real in your life, things you can like touch, and this is you know a part of my daily routine.
	Um it's something that you can you know, you can really feel.
	And when you're using some of our goods, what I always like to say is it's just you know, when you're grabbing that, it's like, oh, this is you know, this is something that just feels good.
	Uh and copper, uh, you know, speaking of money and value, like the copper penny.
	Well, pennies aren't really copper anymore.
	Any more.
	Yeah.
	1982 and before they were solid copper, but you know, it's always been something that just is tactile, wants to be around.
	And one thing that I've always noticed is just when I have uh, you know, what I call a critical mass of copper on display somewhere, people just can't help themselves but come up and be like, oh, this is so nice, and they're touching it.
	And um yeah, there's something that that you know, just uh throughout our human civilization, we're drawn to this to this material.
	Trevor Burrus, Jr.
	And because of the texture, you want to touch it.
	You do want to feel it.
	And that's that's a an additional piece of sensory input.
	Uh walk us through this because this is a water filter.
	Sure.
	This is a gravity filter.
	And and uh actually let's start over here with the side camera.
	Can you just tell us what these pieces are?
	Oh, certainly.
	Um what we have over there, we've got uh some uh my favorite cups, the iced tea cups, um and also uh some uh Mexican mule cups that we've got over there, whether you want to do tequila, gin or vodka, ginger beer, uh any kind of ice drink, if you want the strong medicine of like uh fire water in there.
	Um, and then our gango tree picture with a lid.
	That's the tall one.
	Yeah, the tall.
	Let me move it because it this is behind it, and it's kind of creating an illusion.
	There, there's the picture.
	And here's the lid.
	Does that make sense?
	Everybody?
	Actually, let me let me just point this to the camera to show the inside.
	Sure, solid copper in there.
	And there's our story in there also.
	Solid copper and and a brochure.
	Yes.
	Um there's the copper that you're looking for right there.
	Yeah.
	We don't use any kind of plating or or we don't put any kind of uh um sealant or anything on there.
	You know, a lot of a lot of the things that people, you know maybe have come to expect, which is kind of a new thing, is that oh, this is always gonna look like this.
	And uh, you know, when you put some kind of sealant on the copper, it'll look good for maybe you know, two years, but then this oxidization process uh starts to happen underneath the sealant, and we don't put anything on there just because our pieces are made to be used.
	And they're made to interact with their environment.
	And um and as you use these, you can see just like a warm pi patina develop, you know, like like you would see on a copper penny.
	Uh-huh.
	Um, but also at any point that can be easily polished off with uh, you know, whether it's lemon juice and salt or some kind of polishing product that's gonna bring out this inherent shine of uh of the metal.
	Yeah, it just takes a little bit of acid to bring back the shine.
	Same thing with silver.
	Same thing with silver.
	Silver coins or silver.
	Yeah, gold is really interesting that it does not tarnish.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	That's it also doesn't harden when you work it.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	And and with copper, um, as you work it, uh the material it's uh it's a soft material material and malleable, which is how we you know put it through all the processes we do to make something like this.
	Um and the hammering that we do on there isn't just uh like an aesthetic detail.
	It actually um it does two purposes.
	Uh the hammers we use have a real high polished surface on it, so it's like a mirror when you look at it.
	Um and when you when you beat it on there, it telescopes that that uh mirror finish onto the material.
	Um and then also what happens is uh copper has uh uh like a crystalline structure, and that crystalline structure compacts and work hardens the piece.
	So it just makes for a more durable, uh more durable good that you're gonna get.
	That's really interesting.
	So when people are looking at this, every I don't know facet.
	Facet uh on on firearms, it might be called something like stippling or something.
	Right.
	Uh-huh.
	But ev every little piece here has been struck by a hammer with a human hand.
	Right, every every one of those.
	And uh, you know, I can kind of look at these and see, well, this looks like Jorge was doing it just by the spacing in his lines, the shape of the hammer marks, the hammers, you know, it's it's everyone, it's like a signature.
	Uh huh.
	Um and each one of these pieces is somebody sitting down putting, you know, an incredibly skilled focus uh into this material um to get the results that we that we get out of there.
	Trevor Burrus, Jr.
	And how many years does it take a new person who wants to learn this art, this craft.
	How many years does it take them to get to where they could produce a piece like this?
	Oh I would say um I did an apprenticeship for um about a year.
	Um and I learned just some of the basic uh knowledge of you know, we recycle copper, how to reclaim that copper, melt it down, pound it out into an ingot, raise it into a vessel.
	Uh huh.
	Um and I I would think that for the hammering um to really get the the pulse, you know, tempo, it's a good probably two months of, you know, we'll have them hammer, you know, starting off on, you know, oh, they might do the bottom of the cups, you know, and get a little get a little technique there.
	And then we'll move them up to you know something that's simpler on a bigger cup.
	And uh and then also what happens is you know, it's a whole interplay between the tools and the maker, um, and just the position it is on the anvil and being able to maintain the shapes.
	Um, we're definitely uh our workshop is a mix between you know pre-industrial, uh old world techniques, um with a few modern tools, uh semi-modern, early industrial I would say, um and one of the most modern things we have is a TIG welder.
	Um yeah.
	Yeah, which is is an amazing for for uh welding copper because copper is very sensitive to the uh to especially to oxygen, um, and you have to have a shielded arc to get a really nice uh weld on the uh on the pieces.
	Uh let me tell our audience if you'd like to get some of these for yourself, because we've partnered with the Sertodo company, you can get these at HealthRangerStore.com slash copper.
	We just made it very easy for you to spell.
	So again, HealthRanger Store.com slash copper.
	It will take you here and you can find any of the Sertodo products, uh including the water filter here and many other pieces that I'm not even showing you at the moment.
	All of these are available now, and they ship from Texas, correct?
	Correct.
	Yep, right here in Austin.
	Now there's there's so much to talk about when it comes to copper.
	Uh copper is a it's an extremely high demand for industrial uses.
	Uh uh Trump has announced AI data center expansions in Texas and other places.
	Uh we're talking like a trillion dollars of AI data centers, right?
	Some significant portion of that is going to be spent on buying copper just for copper wires.
	You know, con the conductivity of copper, right?
	Yeah.
	Uh there's a 50% tariff on copper from some countries.
	Uh there is.
	And actually it's on, you know, the that went into effect so um early August.
	And currently it's for any copper that comes into the United States, including if you buy your copper in the United States, take it out, work it, bring it back in.
	Oh, really?
	You know, it's kind of the we're just gonna throw it all against the wall and then kind of figure out what sticks.
	So this impacts your company too.
	Oh, definitely.
	Oh, for some reason I thought that maybe because it was from Mexico, it might be currently no excluded.
	Currently, no.
	Yeah, there's uh um, you know, it's it just applies to everything.
	Wow.
	Everything that's a huge tariff.
	It is a huge tariff.
	It's a huge tariff.
	Especially on such a material, like I said, data centers.
	Right.
	Even if people don't enjoy this, you know, you need it in your home wiring and your commercial building wiring and oh it's a foundation to the economy and so many things.
	Electric motors, electric vehicles, generators, generators, yeah, inverters in your house.
	Well, plumbing not so much anymore.
	Right.
	Um well, you still can get uh copper plumbing, but I prefer PEX plumbing.
	The PECS is easy to work with.
	PEX is easy, yeah.
	Easy to work with.
	But you're right, all the electrical components, copper wiring, you know, copper coils, magnets, motors, thing about so yeah, so many different aspects of our economy.
	And then, you know, throughout time, and whether it's cookware, you know, before plastics, uh copper was basically like the material that was used for producing everything, pails, buckets, um, you know, it just because it was so easily, it was so easy to work and turn into sheet and then turn into products.
	Um my grandparents were young uh in World War II.
	And I remember them telling me stories about how the government would have metal reclamation drives for you to turn in all your copper here, turn in your steel, turn in this and that.
	Oh, yeah.
	And they would use they they'd melt it down and smelt it and use it to make you know tanks or whatever for anything.
	Airplanes, you know, weapons of war.
	Yes.
	And the American people, they gathered up all their metal and gave it to the war machine.
	Uh-huh.
	You know, which I wouldn't do that today.
	Yeah.
	But uh but they did.
	Yeah.
	Different era.
	Oh, for sure.
	Um actually I uh one of the things I have is uh it's something called a rail gun.
	Um it was a friend of mine, her father worked here at UT developing this technology.
	Like a a rail gun rail gun?
	Like rail gun, yeah.
	Like electromagnetic shoots those accelerator.
	Yes, it shoots those massive, you know, tungsten bullets that uh anyhow.
	Yeah.
	Um the uh capacitator for one of those, he gave it to me.
	It's just filled with copper.
	So yeah, yeah.
	I'm doing a little I'm doing a little bit of swords to plow shares with with that thing.
	All of the copper that we use is actually recycled copper.
	You're kidding me.
	Right.
	I didn't know that.
	All reclaimed, it's mostly out of like uh electric motors.
	You know, we need a copper that's you know number one shiny bright in the recycling world.
	Yeah, um, which is a 99% pure copper.
	Um that when we in the reclamation process, we add, you know, about two percent zinc to that uh that helps with the the the melting, and then we turn it into sheet, and then those sheets we form into yeah, all the different pieces that we have.
	I have so many questions for you about that, but I want to make sure that we introduce this.
	This is a Water filter.
	It's a gravity filter.
	And like a lot of gravity filters, the top part has the ceramic filters in it.
	So you fill the water up here, you know, and gravity does the rest and it drips down.
	Pardon me.
	Yep.
	I don't want to damage it.
	No, you're we we've already beaten we've already beat the bejesus out of it.
	So anything else you do is just gonna add character here.
	So then it drains down here, and then the copper element itself has a natural antibacterial quality to it.
	Lots of properties, lots of properties to copper.
	Can you talk about that?
	Certainly.
	I'd love to.
	You know, when I first started working with copper, I didn't know that much about the material other than I had this draw uh to it.
	Um and one of the first times I was showing it somewhere, there was an Indian man that came up to me and I was carrying this kind of old um uh basically like a pitcher.
	And he says, Oh, this is just like my grandmother had in our house in India.
	And I was like, Oh, really?
	What for?
	He says, Oh, we store water in there because then it just you know you leave it overnight and and it tastes very good and cool and fresh, and it's good for your health and all of your joints, and I was like, oh, interesting, you know.
	And I didn't think anything else about it for 10 more years.
	Yeah.
	Um because at the time I was making a lot of stuff for the food service industry, schafers and things like that.
	Um previous incarnation of our business.
	And uh and then I just started hearing kind of about the you know, Ayurveda and these ancient traditions of using copper um where people would store their water in copper, and it was uh, you know, according to their, you know,
	kind of ancient medical, you know, wisdom, it was great for all kinds of things in your body, whether it was to balance your energies or it's great for your skin and your hair, uh all of your joints, similar to wearing, you know, like uh copper bracelet for arthritis or you're having problems with a joint.
	Um copper is integral in all this, you know, one in the soft tissue, and then also in our body's immune system.
	Uh it's integral into that.
	And and on that same principle, which really it was only, I think in the 50s that they rediscovered uh you know what they call the logodynamic effect.
	Um I say rediscovery because they always knew that, oh, this copper is clean, it's going to kill anything that's in there.
	And you know, one of the reasons I think that copper was used as a water vessel, especially somewhere like India where you're dumping dead bodies in one side of the river and you're pulling you know your water out of the other side of the river.
	Um it it basically kills all of these uh viruses and bacterias.
	Um and it's it's just a um, you know, they're starting to use it a lot in in uh uh hospitals.
	Absolutely.
	Right, because copper surfaces and doorknobs and so on.
	Sure.
	It kills all these things that are going around in a hospital that you go in and you come out, you know, worse than you were before, but you know, with copper as a touch surface, it you know, it does that.
	Um, there's something else really interesting.
	Let me add to this that um so as part of my research into natural health and longevity, I've come across uh various peptides and peptide therapy.
	And I use one of them called BPC 157 for healing from old sports injuries, and it works great.
	But I notice in that that one of the peptides that women especially use for cosmetic improvement is a copper peptide.
	Uh-huh.
	And so it's actually it they are you know copper atoms that are bound to uh certain protein configuration.
	And women use that both internally and externally on their skin for a youthful appearance.
	So copper is is like regaining this amazing uh reputation for youthful uh appearance.
	It's working very well on you.
	Well no, I'm not using that.
	I'm not using I use my smoothies.
	I'm a you know, I'm into you know turmeric and nutrition and everything.
	Definitely.
	But the but copper peptides are very you know functional in so many ways as well.
	I mean, there's so many things.
	There's also I interviewed a man during COVID that was talking about a copper, was it a copper um nasal spray that he said would uh protect you from you know the the pandemic or the viruses or whatever was going around.
	I don't have all the details on that in my mind right now, but I remember that copper was the solution in that interview.
	I just mentioned that I'm not trying to make health claims on your products, by the way.
	I'm just Saying that copper has so many properties that I I think humanity has only just begun to really discover them all.
	Right.
	Or rediscover.
	Yes.
	Yeah, in some sense.
	I think uh one of the first times they figured that modern science figured out was with uh a bunch of uh soldiers were dying of some kind of infection in you know French legionnaire North Africa and it was water that was going through a system.
	And they changed the coils out to copper and it just stopped all of that because these um bacteria were growing on these things.
	Um yeah, there's uh you know, I receive a lot of, you know, people share a lot of knowledge with me about copper and how it works.
	And um, you know, I don't want to say, oh, this is gonna you know make you live forever.
	No.
	Uh but my you know, my personal experience uh is just that when I changed over to um drinking all of my water out of copper, um I noticed uh uh you know a change that year is that I I just didn't get the common colds that were coming through and hitting me in my household two or three times a year.
	Um I just you know, my my health just improved.
	And I I um there's something about this, whether it's, you know, I and I believe very much that the copper definitely has an impact on the health and and and yeah.
	In addition to that, anything I think that we're you know, you're using this as a daily ritual that's focusing on you know on your health, and this is I'm doing this because it's good for me.
	Yes.
	And it just is like drinking that intention.
	Well, there are there are at least three layers of this that I can think of.
	So number one is just let's say the materialist physics point of view.
	So water goes into the vessel, especially if it's rainwater or a little bit lower pH, it's gonna ionize a certain number of copper ions that will go into the water.
	And we actually have a lab, we could measure the copper concentration of the water because we have i ICPMS instruments.
	Uh like we test for heavy metals and things like that, but we also test for copper.
	So that'd be an interesting experiment, just to just a shess.
	Anyway, that's one level.
	So there's a certain amount of physical copper ions in the water.
	Then secondly, there's an energetic level.
	And I don't know, it depends on our audience and how how much they've investigated, you know, homeopathy or energy medicine or energy healing.
	But there's something really special about the precious metals, uh, copper, silver, and gold.
	I wouldn't want to drink silver because it's a heavier metal.
	Right.
	And gold doesn't ionize very easily, as you know.
	Copper is perfect.
	It's right there in that sweet spot.
	And then the third thing is the geometry of the vessel, I believe that also imparts something energetically to the water.
	There's something called structured water, right?
	There's I've heard all kinds of terms over the years, but water that flows through a stream.
	Right.
	You know, it it's it's it encounters shapes of stones and rocks and and spheres and circles.
	There's something in nature about sacred geometry that many people believe is imparted onto water, that water has a memory.
	Uh the work of Dr. Imoto out of Japan looking at snowflake crystals under a microscope combined with certain types of intention, showing that the water forms structures based on your intent.
	You're speaking my language.
	Yeah.
	Definitely.
	It's cool stuff.
	Oh, it's amazing.
	It's amazing.
	Yeah, the properties of water.
	We we worked with a man that has he has these structured water systems.
	Um that just, you know, that's like it passes through a vessel that just like Richard talking about, where uh the way that it flows through there, it just kind of re-aligns or pulls out some of the maybe not pulls out, but realigns the water as it's been going through all these different systems and is there a vortex in that?
	There is, yeah.
	It's a vortex, it's a kind of a series of glass marbles that are well, you know, arranged in there, and then also the way that it's that that it funnels, it naturally gets the water to uh um spin as it goes.
	Because water wants to move too.
	Right.
	Water wants to move.
	Yeah, there's a have you ever heard of uh Veda Austin?
	Yeah.
	Her actually, no, it's fine.
	Freezings are are amazing.
	Well, I've actually replicated her experiments using freezing xylitol crystals.
	Uh huh.
	Right here.
	Uh uh I had our microscope set up and we were replicating that here.
	Yeah.
	But using xylotol, not water.
	Yeah.
	But yeah, I I'm very familiar with that.
	And Dr. Yamoto.
	I've I've thought about doing it with my, yeah, with the with the copper that comes out of here, uh or the copper water that comes out.
	It'd be interesting.
	It'd be interesting.
	That would be interesting.
	Yeah.
	Indeed.
	Yeah.
	I I Or we could we could mix copper with uh liquid xylitol that's melted and see how that impacts the the reformation of the physical structures.
	Because I don't know if you've ever seen it, but uh I did things here under the microscope where we could watch xylitol render 3D structures in real time as it's freezing at room temperature.
	And it would render structures that were absolutely extraordinary.
	Some of them look like artwork.
	It would sketch out objects in some cases.
	I'm only familiar with xylitol and the chewing gum that I just had tried to know.
	It's the same xylitol.
	You can melt it.
	And I I found that like filming water freezing requires a very cold room.
	So I realize you can use xylitol and do it at room temperature.
	Okay.
	Interesting.
	Yeah.
	And it and it has the same effect.
	Right.
	Right.
	So yeah, we should we should put some copper in it.
	That'd be fun.
	Definitely.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	And yeah, to also speak the you know, the shape and the form of this uh of this uh of this vessel.
	And and copper, you know, the the tradition that I come out of uh in Mexico where they've been working with copper for a thousand years.
	Um it originally started off as production of these little copper belts.
	Um I ask you what what the copper bell is all about.
	You know, I I have this life project, it's called the Copper Bell Diaspora, and I just hand them out wherever I go.
	Um and they're just they you know, people similar to you know wanting to touch the copper, just the sound and you know, it whether it's like uh you know Angel Gets Its Wings or uh the you know your motorcycle the bell and the motorcycles, uh you know, all different um applications.
	And originally there in Mexico, uh these bells were used for kind of their you know spiritual practices.
	There's a sound that that passed between the veils between the different you know reality, whether it's like you know, the day of the dead is a really big celebration there in the region where I work.
	Well, what's really interesting to me, because my background's also in in music and sound engineering, but metals have a multi-harmonic resonance, right?
	So the sound actually exists at many different harmonies simultaneously, and the nature of that sound depends on the structure of the metal, the composition of the metal.
	Certainly.
	Yeah.
	So you're actually hearing physics through a bell.
	Like a bell translates matter into sound.
	Right.
	And that's something that's a transformation that I think is symbolic of the transcendence into the spiritual world, from physical to spiritual, from physical to sound, from matter to vibration.
	I mean, it makes sense that it's used in spiritual practices.
	Right.
	I I guess you know, quantum physics, you know, we're all just kind of waves, you know.
	We either pinpoint where we are or how we're moving.
	And um each one of these bells, they all have their own unique tone.
	It you know, there's a whole science to bell making that's just all depends on you know yeah, the material, the shape of it.
	Oh, yeah.
	Um, you know, if you probably open that other one over there, it has a totally different tone to it.
	And the thickness, everything, the curve, like there's a really interesting curve of how it opens at the bottom.
	And I'm sure that's very important for the sound.
	Sure.
	Oh, definitely.
	Yeah.
	Well, it it's so interesting to talk to you about all of this, and I really appreciate the fact that you went through the learning of the craft of how to work with copper.
	So that when you now oversee the artisans there, or you're you're you're visiting the factory, let's say, and and you want a certain piece made a certain way, like you know what you're talking about.
	Right.
	And you know what it takes to make it.
	Yeah, I you know, I that's one of the things that I feel like we miss so much in our modern education is this like really grounded knowledge and things.
	And you know, similar to what's happened to our American production is just a lot of that knowledge has been sent to other places.
	Um, regaining that foundation of knowledge, something that you know, my son, he's uh sophomore uh in high school, and I'm just you know, I'm like pay attention in class.
	But uh, you know, really pay attention to the things that you're you know that you're getting experience from.
	Um and I have Him, he runs our engraving.
	We do customization, he's figuring out how to use material.
	Oh, okay.
	Uh when he was younger, he'd come down to the shop with me and hammer things out and just you know, given him, you know, passing it on.
	And this, you know, this business is very much a family business.
	Um in Mexico, um, my I studied under a maestro, uh, Don Maximo, probably one of the greatest living companies.
	Don Maximo.
	Don Maximo.
	That's actually his name, Maximo.
	That's what a great name.
	Yeah.
	Oh, it's a great name.
	And he's an amazing man.
	And like any great maestro, he makes the work look so easy.
	Right.
	So easy.
	Until you try it yourself.
	Oh, yeah.
	Like, what?
	Oh, yeah.
	And I I remember when I just when I had to learn how to swing a hammer.
	You know, I hammered nails and everything, but uh, you know, it was just like, oh, to really hit a hammer and and get it to do what I want it to do is just, you know, it was a whole and and sure I could have read about it, and I did.
	I read about it, and you know, and people explained it to me, but it wasn't until I actually like took it up and and did it and messed things up, and then just there's like uh we were talking a little bit about you know, this like kind of how this reminds you of maybe mine or Aztec and the crafts in Mexico.
	Yeah.
	There's an amazing manual intelligence.
	And in my experience, I see that you know, our you know, our our minds are you know, they're they're great tools, but there's a whole other way that we learn things.
	It's just kind of by doing them in this tactile experience, and and it's like the minds have the hands have a mind of their own in a way of like learning.
	And also when I sit down and work on something where I'm you know hammering something out, it's just you know, all of a sudden I'm just oh I'm in a different place and everything's just kind of happening.
	There's there's something in the Mexican Central and South American culture about craftsmanship that is just extraordinary.
	Uh when I lived in South America, I got to watch um a bricklayer craftsman actually build a circular brick dome from the ground up all the way to the top keystone pieces in real time.
	And the the way they operate with the mortar and the bricks and the placement and the timing and the structure so it doesn't cave in on you.
	Like if I try to build a dome out of bricks, I'm getting bricks on my head, probably, you know.
	But this guy nailed it.
	Uh-huh.
	And it was just you could tell this is like 20 years of expertise.
	Oh, sure.
	You know?
	Yeah.
	And it's amazing to watch.
	And we forget about that because we want everything automated and machine and you know, exactly the same.
	And that's a boring world, actually.
	Right.
	Very, very, I want to see the human side of things.
	And there's yeah, very much a human element.
	Things are you know, I there's like when something's made, it's almost like it's not an imperfection, it's just it's a uniqueness that goes into a piece.
	It gives it a lot of you know, character.
	And you know, granted, we have tolerances that we need to meet when we're making things.
	Of course.
	Um, you know, we're not trying to make the most perfect thing possible.
	We just we want it to uh you know, we want it we want to make the best thing that we can do.
	And it, you know, imbue all of this with you know, just kind of our spirit of work.
	And in those experiences, uh it also has opened my eyes to just looking at things and you know, appreciating, you know, more around me and the the human element that's in everything.
	Yeah.
	Um every time a person purchases a product like this, it infuses you know, economic incentive into the human craft.
	You know, it it it feeds families, it employs people, it keeps the art alive.
	Uh let me mention the website again, folks, if you want to get some of this for yourself, healthranger store.com/slash copper.
	And there's the entire uh product line from Sertolo and right here.
	Look, a mixing bowl.
	That's what I I want to eat my organic grapes out of a copper mixing bowl.
	Okay.
	That's for sure.
	And I want grapes with seeds in them because I I'm I I hate seedless grapes because all the nutrition is in the seeds.
	Oh, okay.
	So and the skin, I should say.
	But I want to get uh copper platters and plates.
	In fact, I'm I'm gonna be a big customer of yours, and I'm gonna actually just restock my kitchen with copper.
	I sure appreciate it.
	We love we love it.
	Yeah, you know, and and very much the you know, I uh it's this relationship with our you know, with our customers and everything that we make has come about from like dialogue like this with people.
	Oh, how about something like you know, what about you know, copper.
	Actually, it started off with uh with copper cups for drinking water.
	And I was like, oh yeah, it's uh yeah, I'd like to use those myself.
	Yeah, we'll make some of those, you know, and then you know, progress to well, what about a you know, a water, uh a water container?
	We I'd like to store my water and some copper.
	Well, why is that?
	Well, it's gonna you know it does this.
	And I'm like, uh you know, and that's where all of our, you know, it's uh it's a whole relationship that we have with our you know, with our customers, with our, you know, really our patrons as much as anything.
	Absolutely.
	And let me add this as uh as a nutritionist to our audience.
	Uh I have often told people that it's it's better to get copper from natural sources than from multivitamins.
	And so I've even previously warned people like if you can find a multivitamin without copper in it, and you get copper from natural sources, which includes some types of seafood and meats and things like that, then that's your best bet.
	But with with what you offer, this is a great way to get copper that's ionized, which means it's absorbable.
	And then I wouldn't get it in supplements.
	You know, I I wouldn't get it in what I mean multivitamins.
	Because I think they put too much of the multivitamins.
	Okay.
	Actually, put like four milligrams in there.
	And if you're taking the multivitamin and you're getting other copper, that's actually more than you need.
	The thing about copper is so potent and powerful.
	It's a trace mineral.
	Right.
	Right.
	You don't need to consume copper like calcium or magnesium.
	Right.
	It's so it's it has a multiplier effect, which I think proves its energetic quality.
	A little bit goes a long way.
	Definitely.
	Definitely.
	It is very, yeah, it is a very powerful material.
	Um, one of the things that we also would get is, you know, people worried about, oh, am I getting too much copper?
	And our, you know, our bodies uh just naturally process and balance and balance the amount of copper that you have in there.
	Unless you have, I think it's called Wilson's disease where a body doesn't process copper, and then even copper coming through your water pipes can you know can can be dangerous.
	Yeah, I wouldn't worry about overdosing on copper from dishware water pitchers and water filters.
	Right.
	Only if I were supplementing it would it would it be an issue because then your body has a harder time dealing with it, you're kind of forcing it down your throat in large quantities.
	I mean, four milligrams is a lot compared to what you're getting in here is like parts per million copper.
	We're talking orders of magnitude difference in the copper amount that you're getting.
	Orders of magnitude different, but you know, I just personally noticed a change in my life when uh when I started drinking all of my things out of copper.
	Not only that, I noticed also attention to just the water quality, like as you mentioned about what's the what's your water source.
	Um and uh, you know, we we've had a couple times here where the municipal water system failed, and they're like, oh, there's boil water notices, or my water smelled like fish.
	And then they say, oh, boil your water.
	Uh um I don't want to I don't want to have boiled fish water that doesn't sound good.
	No, no, I think it's the zebra mussels that were going into the the uh the upper lakes that were in the intakes of the water.
	Oh, really?
	And for a while.
	Um but then the you know, one thing that helps address that along with heavy metals and any kind of uh uh contaminants that are in the water, uh are these uh water filters, uh the filters that go in there, the gravity filters, and ceramic elements.
	It's a ceramic, it's a diatomaceous earth ceramic shell.
	Uh it has a silver impregnation in there.
	Uh-huh.
	Um that just helps from biofouling if it sits around for a while.
	Right.
	Um, which you're not really going to get with the copper.
	Uh and then it the uh the functional element is uh um carbon, uh carbon filter inside there that removes m most all of these, you know, forever chemicals, uh definitely removes all the chlorines out of your water.
	So it'll take heavy metals.
	Yeah, and heavy metals, uh, you know, phosphates.
	Um, you know, I I have a client up in Iowa that used this, and they sent me a picture of their water filters after three months.
	Yeah.
	And they look like the inside of you know old cigarette butts.
	From uh from some other filter.
	Uh wouldn't this was just from filtering out the water.
	Oh, wow.
	The just the contaminants that were in their water.
	And I think it's coming up quite a bit right now about the qual that Iowa has the highest cancer rate um and some of the worst quality water from a lot of their agricultural business, which they've had a lot of trouble meant you know, even speaking about in Iowa because the the industrial agriculture is such a powerful in that state.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, strong.
	The Iowa legislature is totally owned by Monsanto or Bayer now.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	We we've we've talked about that before too.
	But it's something else interesting.
	Even in Texas, uh, did you know that the data centers that are planned by the year 2030, they'll be using 400 billion gallons of groundwater.
	And what that means is that the water quality that will be available to people will go down because they'll be using lower and lower grade water sources to make up for the difference in water.
	And that means, you know, our water quality is gonna get worse in Texas.
	Now I I collect rainwater.
	I drink rainwater exclusively.
	Uh we collect rainwater, because we make colloidal silver by the way, using silver plates from Mexico, it turns out.
	Oh, right.
	Yeah.
	But we make our own colloidal silver here using you know uh ionization off of silver off the silver plates, uh positive silver ions.
	And then we use that to make numerous products that we have that all have these amazing properties.
	But um I I mean rainwater is the cleanest water, but for those but very few people actually have rainwater.
	Right.
	They've got city water, which is usually groundwater, or sometimes recycled surface water.
	And all that can be problematic.
	Yeah, yeah.
	The the filters, I feel like filtering having having a filter is a good thing to have in any in any yeah, any most any water situation.
	And it can be for on grid or off grid.
	It's just gonna really improve the yeah, the quality of the water that you're getting.
	I think even with you know, the s the standards that they have um and the kind of things they put in, you know, they put in the water.
	Um it's uh you know, not necessarily things that I would, you know, want to drink, you know, and they're yeah, their their levels are you know, they're more like, oh well this this isn't gonna kill you.
	You know, quickly.
	Yeah, quickly, yeah.
	But combined with the 300 other chemicals that we also put in there, who knows?
	Yeah.
	Uh and let me just describe this too.
	Now um not trying to get you in any trade name trouble.
	We've we've been a supporter of the of the Berkey company for you know, many years.
	And I would describe this in a general sense as kind of like a a big Burke type of configuration, but made of copper by artisans.
	Is that a kind of a fair general?
	You know, I think uh the gravity water systems really a lot of it's you know they've been around forever.
	I in Mexico I've seen where they have these basically like uh um clay stuff.
	Yeah, or clay or like limestone, and it's just got this same shape, and they pour the water on the top and then it just filters through the stone.
	And um I've seen a couple filters like that.
	You know, they were definitely, you know, pre-Columbian style filters.
	And um over in in uh the United Kingdom, uh there's a company, we used to work with them on their filters, Burkefeld.
	Um I've heard of that.
	Yeah, Burkefield, and they make they make uh also some nice uh uh water filters and they you know their gravity water systems they started making in you know over a hundred years ago.
	Um and yeah, just this idea that you know you're gonna filter your water through something.
	Um so yeah, it just for uh you know, I guess uh name recognition, it's something people might be familiar with.
	This is like a Berkey system.
	It's just a gravity water purification system.
	We've got two tanks.
	Um, you know, when when we make things, we like things to be functional and beautiful.
	And so I was like, well, let's put a nice little waste on it so it looks, you know, and it just it it helps with the flow of the water.
	Um something I want to set up.
	It's really beautiful.
	Yeah, absolutely.
	This is again something you'd want to have out even if you're not using it.
	Yeah.
	It's like it just looks gorgeous.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	And it has to do also with the tooling, you know, how you know what that influences the shape.
	Most of the stuff we spin out on a on a spinning lathe.
	And so we're spinning it over a mold.
	Oh, interesting.
	That shapes the uh that shapes the metal onto the onto the form.
	I would love to see that.
	Oh, it's it's a video of that.
	Yeah.
	So cool.
	Yeah, I can send you some some of that.
	It's it's a fun process.
	Now, look let me ask you about the history of art in Mesoamerica and the use of especially copper, silver, and gold over time.
	Uh spanning really, I mean, thousands of years.
	Right.
	Right.
	How this goes back.
	Um I'm I of of the places I've toured, I I've toured like ancient civilization sites throughout, you know, Central and South America before and uh some in Mexico.
	And I've always been struck by the incredible uh detail of the metals.
	And I also wonder how much of this artwork has been lost to pillaging because you know, somebody wanted the gold out of the artwork, so they stripped it out, you know.
	But uh talk to us about the history of craftsmanship and the appreciation of metals in the art uh spanning back really you know thousands of years.
	Right.
	Yeah.
	Uh you mentioned you'd been in South America.
	Where in South America was for example, I lived in Ecuador for some time.
	I really toured in Peru and other places and and in Central America, like Panama and so on.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, yeah.
	I I lived down there for a little while myself.
	Did you?
	Um Yeah, Ecuador's amazing.
	Uh and actually the origins of this metal work, the metallurgy in South America was really highly developed.
	Um even more so than in Mesoamerica.
	Uh-huh.
	Um when I was uh I did Latin American studies at the University of Texas.
	Really?
	Yeah.
	Um just by chance, one of the few people ended up working in their field.
	Um when I was in school there, the the dominant theory actually, you know, there was no communication between South America and North America.
	You know, people migrated down from you know the Bering Strait or whatever, and went down to South America and forgot everything else from where they came from.
	And these two places are just two separate worlds.
	Uh-huh.
	Um and when I came across this uh you know, this copper work, I was really interested in um the in the history, in the history of it and where, you know uh uh according to their legend, like this copper work just appeared out of nowhere.
	Uh huh.
	Associated with um what was called uh uh the the uh Quetzal Coato was the feathered serpent.
	He was like a harbinger of peace and culture and brought this technology there to the um to this area in western Mexico.
	Um and in their codices in the Anthropology Museum and uh Mexico City, which is I think is one of the most amazing museums in the world.
	No, I'd love to see that.
	I love seeing museums in other cultures.
	This this museum is it's spectacular about all the different cultures in Mexico.
	But these people, their codesy is you know, their origin is that they arrived through these portals on the backs of turtles, you know, went to the coast of Western Mexico.
	And uh maybe they were referring to the Galapagos or something.
	I'm I I'm not sure.
	But as it as it turns out that uh, you know, as I I found this I went to the Benson Library, which is uh, you know the world's greatest collection on Latin American um literature and documents.
	Uh it's an incredible facility.
	Uh-huh.
	And I could find one like PhD paper from like the 70s.
	It was like stuffed in the back of a corner somewhere about this copper work.
	And this guy said, well, you know, I I think that what's going on here is that there was actually trade going on from these South American civilizations with this region in Mexico, and they were traveling up and down the coast looking for spongulus shells,
	which were what was being used in in trade and money and and then they kind of established in settlements and brought this technology for making these copper bells, this casting, which is this technique was like a copycat of stuff that was going on down in um down in South America.
	Um and when I'd started this, I had I had read this this book that really kind of just opened my mind to the fact that there's so many holes in history and there's lots of ways to build them.
	It was a book called Fingerprints of the Gods.
	Oh, Graham Hancock, you know, and all of his talking about all of his metallurgy and those things there.
	And I and when I started doing this, I was like, oh, I've I've found a fingerprint of the gods at this place in in western Mexico.
	And um, you know, I've interviewed uh uh Randall Carlson.
	Okay, and you know, ancient civilizations.
	Okay.
	Um and a lot of a lot of theories about the you know the the loss of ancient civilizations and you know what how all that has happened and how many of the ancient ruin sites are covered up to make sure that we don't discover the hidden knowledge.
	Right.
	You know.
	I mean that's that's uh that's a very real thing.
	Yeah.
	And then we find these ancient artifacts that look like motors and gears and batteries and things, and then they just write it off, you know, bury that in the basement of the Smithsonian, you know.
	Sure.
	Don't want to put that out for people to see.
	It doesn't fit with our modern, you know, worldview of, you know, this is the pinnacle of how anything is developed.
	Right.
	You know, there's so many civilizations have come and gone and each with their own apex and that's right.
	and there are currents, I feel like that you know that continue through different things.
	And I feel fortunate that I've kind of landed on something that goes back, you know, through a large part of history, which is this copper work and just being a part of that story.
	The table of elements has never changed throughout history.
	That's what's beautiful about it.
	And you know, copper is copper is copper.
	I jokingly explain to my audience the reason gold has its own square on the table of elements is because gold isn't any other element.
	Like it's only gold, and it can't change without fusion or fission into something else.
	Right.
	So copper is copper, gold is gold.
	And I think ancient, many ancient civilizations had much higher knowledge than we do today about elements and the interaction in the spiritual and physical realms, uh the the synergistic qualities of these things.
	And I even think about to uh think back to ancient cultures and ancient languages like uh the language of Quechua, right?
	Which the language itself is predisposed to describing a world, a spiritual world that's larger than our material world and Western civilization today.
	Right.
	The language is like expressively open to bigger ideas.
	Yeah, I yeah, I have heard language described as like it's the architecture that sets up our interpretation of the world.
	Yeah.
	Um, in some sense, they're just they had a completely different world vision that allowed them to see things in in different ways.
	And you know, like Egypt, the the onk uh symbol for um you know life is also the symbol for copper.
	Um it's this you know, this it's interchangeable.
	Well, I didn't know that.
	Yeah.
	Um so it just you know, all these different, you know, ways of looking at the world through through so many different lenses.
	Absolutely.
	Yeah.
	And w anything that helps expand our vision and open open us up beyond, you know, we you know, the kind of the rut that we might find ourselves in, I think is um, you know, worth exploring.
	Aaron Powell You know, it's very interesting.
	Um I talk about the juxtaposition of the artificial world with the real physical world.
	Uh and at the same time, as much as I appreciate all of this, uh I'm also like my company has built an AI engine.
	And the AI engine is free, you know, it's Brighton.ai.
	And it's designed to impart human knowledge on things like natural medicine and nutrition and self-reliance and so on.
	But as part of the acquisition of materials for training the AI engine, I've collected a massive repository of uh scientific papers in non-English languages, uh including Chinese and a lot of them in Spanish.
	And I'm currently working through that to try to discern what's useful.
	But almost every book that's been written in Spanish and almost every science paper in Spanish has been digitized.
	And there it's more than just me.
	There are other people and other entities that have that already have copies of all that knowledge.
	Yeah.
	So it's not going to vanish.
	It just has to be sort of mined, like copper.
	It's got to be mined for the the gems of knowledge that have that were even known just a few decades ago but have been forgotten by our modern times.
	Yeah.
	How do we pass knowledge?
	Yeah.
	How do we pass knowledge on, share, yeah, share knowledge and knowledge can be lost if you're not careful to preserve it.
	Yeah.
	It has been lost.
	The burning of the Library of Alexandria, et cetera.
	Right.
	Right.
	Look at look, I mean the Roman Empire, you know.
	Burning of the codices in Mexico.
	Yeah, exactly.
	Yeah.
	How how many times throughout history did the emperor say, let's burn down all the knowledge because we want to impart our knowledge onto that slave civilization.
	We're going to make them slaves.
	Still we persist.
	It's a I don't know how we got down this rabbit hole, but it it's it's I'm really glad we're having this discussion because this is really important about how how is human civilization sustainable.
	Right.
	If we keep making the same mistakes of history and not even realizing that those were already made.
	Right.
	Yeah.
	I I I don't have an answer, but uh I I enjoy that I have something to focus on.
	Totally.
	Um and just I feel like as much as anything that carries us through, you know, whatever it is that we may believe that's almost like gravity, and it'll pull us into AI is going to be a real interesting transformation.
	And I talked to my son quite a bit about it.
	Um, what is it, you know, what can you do that, you know, the AI is not going to come and take your job.
	Um and where AI is taking this like bottom layer of work.
	Well, that's where most everybody got all of their, you know, busted their chops to be able to develop up on top of there.
	And you know, there's a way that it can definitely, you know, serve us and augment our our experience.
	And it's a great research tool.
	Yeah.
	It can find things like as an example.
	When when I I I funneled, you know, millions of documents of nutrition and health into our AI engine.
	And then I was using it for research one day to find out how do you block uh in your neurology, how do you block receptor sites for monosodium glutamate MSG?
	Because I'm sensitive to MSG.
	And it was giving me a list of things I already knew, and then it popped out, it said methylene blue.
	Like, what?
	I never knew that.
	And it says, yeah, methylene blue blocks glutamate receptors.
	And that's crazy because that's a dye.
	It's been used as a textile dye.
	Yeah, I tried it one time.
	My teeth turned really blue.
	Yeah, yeah.
	Well, so I went out, I I decided to test it.
	Went out to a Chinese food restaurant that often uses MSG.
	And I said, I'm gonna I'm gonna be the experiment.
	So I took the methylene blue, I ate the Chinese food, ready for the big headache and everything.
	Yeah.
	No headache.
	Oh, okay.
	It worked.
	So the AI engine told me something that I would never have discovered.
	Right.
	And the same thing can happen with even you know the the Spanish PhD papers that have been published before.
	There must be hidden gems of knowledge, even about metallurgy, about copper, about gold, that are long since forgotten, but can be re can re-emerge through AI.
	Sure.
	So it has a use.
	Yeah.
	Oh, definitely.
	Yeah.
	Giving us more access to knowledge.
	My son's been working on a car that I gave him, he just turned 16.
	Got wrecked, and a friend of mine gave it to me.
	Oh.
	Here have a wrecked car.
	Yeah, here I have a wrecked car.
	Oh, okay.
	So it's gonna he's gotta work on it.
	And uh and I'm like, yeah, you gotta take off the bumper to get to the radiator and say, well, how do I do that?
	And I was like, you know, that's this is this is why I give it to you.
	Yeah.
	So he's on there with YouTube and just pulling all that up, and I'm just I'm amazed at what he can, you know, the access that he has to just to like get things at his fingertips.
	But then using his fingertips to actually, you know, put that into put that into play and practice and you know, the actual tactile world.
	You know, I mean, because computers are great.
	I I love my computer, but I bang on that at the end of the day, it looks the same.
	And well, yeah, and what people need to remember is that you live in the real world, you have a physical body, and that physical body needs water.
	Definitely.
	The water needs a vessel, you know, you otherwise it's all over the place.
	Yeah.
	Um, you know, that this is why nutrition matters.
	This is why copper matters.
	This is why what you do really matters, because we still live in a 3D world.
	As much as people want to escape into a virtual world or a deep fake world or artificial girlfriends or whatever they do these days with the chat bots that now are creating like relationships with people.
	Yeah, just weird.
	Interesting.
	Yeah.
	That's like uh no thank you.
	Yeah.
	Um pull yourself out of that world, come back into the real world, have good nutrition, which is what I teach, good food.
	Surround yourself with things that are beautiful and things that are functional.
	Your life will improve.
	I mean, it's a it's a simple rule of thumb that we never had to remind previous generations of this because they didn't live in the virtual world.
	Right.
	Now we do.
	We have to remind people come back.
	Right.
	Come back to reality.
	Touch a piece of copper.
	Sure.
	You know, like feel the texture of this, drink the water, share it with your friends.
	Absolutely.
	Yeah.
	These make great gifts, I would think.
	Definitely.
	Yeah.
	Everybody loves shiny things.
	Do you um how's your supply chain?
	Like, do you have enough to handle a surge in orders if if like you know, Christmas time or whatever?
	Uh yes.
	Uh we um well currently I'm working on the you know we're we've had our our last production run held up just as we're trying to figure out the new um kind of bureaucratic paperwork situation for the uh to for dealing with the tariffs and the the instruction on it is kind of murky.
	I would imagine.
	Yeah.
	And so we're we're about ready to get uh get our last run up through and we always build up for the um for the holidays.
	But you know that said, we also, you know, there's a lot of ham work that goes into this, and it's yeah, we don't just turn the machine on and all of a sudden it's cranking out, you know, a million widgets.
	Um but uh yeah we we uh you know we we deal with surges.
	We are always you know currently we're re-working some tooling in our in our workshop.
	Um but are you gonna have to raise your prices because of the tariffs?
	Inevitably, yes.
	Yeah.
	I mean it's uh uh how much we have to raise our prices depends on how murky the rules are and what we can what we can you know how how much we're being tariffed.
	Right.
	Um you know there's a pending Supreme Court decision on the legality of the emergency economic act that Trump invoked for that tariff.
	I I've seen that.
	Yes.
	If the decision comes back knocking down those tariffs, everybody will have to be issued a refund on the tariff they paid.
	Can you imagine waiting for your government tariff refund to check?
	No.
	It's in the mail.
	I can't I can't imagine.
	Yeah, and during COVID we didn't apply for any of the any of the government funding things just because I just don't want to deal with all the paperwork.
	No kidding.
	Yeah.
	And um you know, we've been, you know, we were fortunate that during COVID things business was really good for us.
	All of a sudden people couldn't go to a bar, so they were ordering all of our barware.
	Oh, that's interesting.
	It just, you know, our business, you know, did really and I was making this transition from doing a lot of wholesale to directly to our you know, website.
	I just want to have more interaction with my you know, end user.
	Uh huh.
	Um and that really just kind of flipped the switch for us.
	Um yeah, it was a really interesting time for us.
	Um business was business was really good.
	And then we also had, you know, a couple of this is where I was our our website, our web host wanted to shut us down because we were saying that copper is antibacterial and antifungal.
	We need certification about that.
	What?
	And so I you know, sent them all these articles from the Smithsonian and they're like, well, we we need we need a certification for every product that you have.
	Oh my goodness.
	And I was just like, bureaucracy.
	That's yeah, not not my battle.
	Um so uh but nevertheless, you know.
	I mean it's a natural property of the element.
	It's a natural property element.
	Right.
	It's like saying, yeah, gold is shiny.
	Right.
	You know, prove it.
	Right.
	Uh we need it certified.
	Yeah, we yeah, we have to have a stamp.
	Yeah.
	It needs to be a stamp that says gold is shiny.
	Yeah.
	And we we didn't want to pay for that stamp.
	Um but insane.
	Yeah.
	And and we have dealt with lots of different hurdles uh throughout um, you know, the 30 years that I've been doing this.
	And you know, actually uh with you know, with the previous administration, the and with what was happening with the onshoring of work.
	Um Mexico became you know very strong economically and and the the value of the peso just went way up and you know that was essentially like uh you know all of a sudden our goods were costing 25 percent more.
	Yeah.
	Just because of this exchange rate.
	And the dollar is falling this year compared to and the dollar is falling.
	Yeah.
	It's you know, and that those things are all over the place.
	And um, you know, we we just continue to do what we do um and deal with whatever the circumstances are that that come our way.
	And with the tariff being at fifty percent, um it's going to affect our prices.
	I won't know until I get this next shipment through the border how exactly we're gonna be tariffed on that.
	And so then after that, and then you know what happens with the legal situation.
	Right.
	Um so um, you know, currently we don't have a you know, our prices haven't gone up in about a year and a half.
	Um and we'll see after we get this get this stuff through.
	Um I think your prices are very reasonable where what I'm seeing right now on the website and you know, folks should realize uh look, just go to HealthRanger Store.com slash copper and you'll see the prices.
	Here's a whole set for 128 dollars.
	That's the Moscow mule gift set.
	Moscow mule if you like the strong medicine.
	Yeah, there we go.
	Now and I think our audience realizes these are handcrafted.
	It's pure copper, 99 percent pure.
	Uh you said a little bit of zinc in it on purpose.
	Right.
	Um But this, you know, these aren't churned out by robots mindlessly.
	Um but that brings me to another question.
	And we're I we're we're getting close to the end of the interview, by the way.
	Uh and thank you for your time.
	I don't mean to keep you over.
	If you need to go, let me know.
	I'm I'm you're doing okay.
	I'm enjoying myself thoroughly.
	Okay, me too.
	I'm really enjoying having you here.
	This is great to be able to talk about all this.
	But um, the Trump administration would say that the reason they're putting the tariffs on copper is to encourage American companies to do more copper mining and more copper goods like this.
	Um I'm not aware of any American heritage of this kind of work.
	Well, actually, I mean North uh North America.
	Sure.
	Um, it's a great great thing.
	I actually am uh working with a man who started a copper cookware company.
	Actually, he took over a company that was uh I think they were called Waldo and they produced in Brooklyn, New York at the turn of the century.
	Uh he revived them with their old tooling uh about 15 years ago, and then has since been kind of moving his production around to different places.
	Um everybody that's doing that that's doing that work uh is either dying or retiring.
	And uh so we uh have taken over the production of of his uh of his work just because there's not you know that that knowledge isn't here anymore about doing this kind of work.
	Uh-huh.
	Um that's specifically for like our kind of copper um, you know, cookware.
	Um I I I you know, I see the point in the tariffs is that we want to bring some of this industry back into the United States.
	I think maybe, you know, the world is, you know, interdependent and having our maybe North American area where we're you know with our neighbors and working uh that we can complement you know the strengths, you know.
	I I couldn't make this stuff here in the United States with the skill that we have.
	Um just finding somebody that's gonna spend two years learning how to do all this kind of work and then and then you know be there to work for us, you know, for the next 20 years.
	Right.
	Um because this this is a family trade, right?
	Typically.
	Yeah.
	It's part of the culture, it's part of the local town.
	Yeah, the generations of people working in this.
	Um but there there are copper sheet manufacturers.
	I think there's some like kind of industrial uh copper applications, you know, these and and that's and we can get into the economics, but you know, quite honestly, like our costs and just the cost of life and living in here in the United States,
	you know, it's difficult to make a living, you know, hammering out uh copper pieces without them being like you know, $200 for a cup and regarding the price of our goods, you know, we I I feel like you know, very much from the work that we put into it, it's a a fair price, and this is something that is gonna be here 20 and 30 years from now.
	Yes.
	So just amortize that over 20 years.
	And the economics of the situation are complicated, but our audience understands this.
	If you think about it, it's it's U.S. government currency printing that creates these inflationary pressures among the domestic population that raise cost of living that make it very difficult for anybody to take on a trade like this.
	Right that's not gonna pay the salary of you know uh a computer science expert or something.
	So inflation actually pushes jobs out of America to other countries.
	But then there's the craftsman's side of this.
	And uh right here, you see this holster?
	I do.
	This leather, this is a company that we've also interviewed uh 1791 gun leather.
	All their leather work is done in Mexico.
	And it's outstanding.
	It's the best holster I've ever owned, and I've worn it for three years now without it breaking, which has never happened before because I wear it on my ranch.
	Right.
	Uh and I found that the the Mexican culture of leather work, which also does exist in America, in Arizona and Texas and New Mexico, et cetera, but especially in Mexico, the leather work craftsmanship is just vastly superior.
	Oh, yeah.
	You know that I think the same thing is true with copper in this format.
	Yeah.
	We have highly skilled craftsmen in the United States.
	And one of the things is that they're just in such small little pockets, um, and there's not like a a tradition that you know there was, you know, tradition.
	I was just out in Oregon at the timber line lodge out there is built.
	It was a WPA project, and they brought in all of these art, you know, metalsmiths, wood, you know wood craftsmen.
	And the place is amazing.
	Like the work in there, like talking about the stonework and the stonework in there and the steel work and the woodwork.
	It's just it's like, wow, somebody is like valuing this work.
	And they had you know whole, you know, it was like two generations of people working on this place.
	Wow.
	And we just don't see that kind of you know patronage, I guess, uh anymore.
	And and in Mexico, um, you know, another interesting thing about this region where I work out of is that um five hundred years ago, um this area was organized as like a utopian society.
	Um Thomas Moore's Utopia was written in like 1510 and in in Britain, like Thomas Moore.
	Yeah.
	He was a Catholic, and then the Catholic Church decided they were going to put that uh those theories into practice in this region in Mexico, which is that you have a kind of a central community.
	Um, and then you have all these satellite communities that contribute to the you know the general economy, and this community is gonna be they're gonna make pottery.
	This community is gonna do woodwork, this community is gonna do copper work.
	Um and that social architecture put into place 500 years ago.
	Wow.
	Continue today and continues that region is like, you know, it has a lot of economic independence and just kind of general wealth that you know now there's still a lot of other pressures happening there that's you know, it's but these traditions are still very much alive, and it's uh it's like a community thing that's that's passed down.
	See, that's that's so critical because in in Western civilization, we value economies based on GDP.
	Uh-huh.
	Gross domestic product.
	But gross domestic product has no numbers for cultural knowledge or heritage or resilience or happiness, right?
	And these things are part of the human condition, and yet they have no value on the on the spreadsheet.
	And so, you know, we're living in an artificial set of priorities that were created by the accountants and the governments to say, oh, look, our economy is great.
	Yeah, but your people are miserable.
	Right.
	You know, so much is missing out of that economic equation.
	Right.
	Your families are are not whole.
	Yeah.
	You know, your your communities are being torn apart.
	The the local hardware shop that used to be run by Bob has been replaced by a home depot or whatever.
	Right.
	You know, you that's never taken into account in the wealth of a nation.
	But the wealth is more than numbers on a spreadsheet.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	And I know you get that.
	Trevor Burrus, Jr.
	Definitely.
	Yeah.
	Maybe that's why our money is devaluing so fast.
	There's no that the things that are real value are kind of missing out of there.
	Trevor Burrus, that's right.
	So I would just remind our audience, if you want real you surround yourself with real things, with real wealth.
	To me, this is an example of wealth.
	And you know, the the other the the picture, et cetera.
	These are real things.
	They're beautiful.
	They're as you can tell, there's a whole history behind all of these, the craftsmanship, the artisanship, and also the table of elements, the properties of copper that have to be proven piece by piece.
	You you need a stamp for each piece.
	But all of this is fascinating.
	We have a stamp on the page.
	Yeah, you have a stamp on every piece.
	Yeah.
	That every piece has to be certified.
	Oh, yeah.
	Not like that.
	I think uh yeah, you can see our touch mark on the bottom there.
	Oh, that's to know it came out of your that's a long tradition in metallurgy, is that yeah, every uh you know, every shop has their has their quinto or their their stamp.
	You know, so you know, like I said, in 50 years when the you know the the antique uh you know virtual road show comes through, they're gonna turn their oculus on there and see, oh, Saratoto copper, great stuff.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	Exactly.
	I I just want to wrap this up by saying I'm really grateful to have met you and to be exposed to what you're bringing to people in America and elsewhere.
	And I love the fact that you also studied the history of Latin America as your academic endeavor.
	That's really useful.
	And I love the fact that you're hands-on guy who's learned the basics of how to do this, if not more than the basics.
	Thank you.
	Thank you.
	It's been a pleasure.
	I really appreciate you bringing me in here and just sharing the knowledge and you know this discussion here and just you know, just talking with people and our neighbors.
	Yeah, you know, that's that there's a lot of value in that that I really appreciate.
	I appreciate you reaching out to us.
	Yeah, absolutely.
	I I think that part part of I mean, not to make this you know political, but part of the healing of our world has to be that we have to talk to each other.
	We have to we have to understand and honor other cultures and other traditions.
	And we have to we have to present value to things that are not valued in the GDP.
	And that's that's culture, and that's joy, that's happiness, that's the the feeling of a job well done.
	Right.
	And and valuing humanity, not just machines and robots and factories.
	You know.
	If we can't do these things, then how is humanity going to have a future?
	Right.
	You know, really.
	It all comes, it's I mean, we can start with copper, but we get to the big picture, which is the survival of human civilization.
	And that's really what this discussion is all about.
	Uh-huh.
	I think we'll make it through.
	I have great hope.
	Well, good.
	I share that hope with you here today, but sometimes I'm worried about the robots.
	Sure.
	What they might do to us.
	Well, discussions like this, you know, they just add to the add to the hope.
	Well, I also have copper bullets that can we can use against the robots.
	Yes.
	Yes.
	Like the 300 wind mag rifle rounds, they're cop.
	I've got some copper rifle.
	Yeah, yeah.
	Yeah, the the copper is great for all kinds of things.
	Yeah.
	I would rather not use copper kinetically.
	You know, silver.
	Silver for the uh werewolves and uh copper for the robots.
	Perfect.
	Perfect.
	And if you if you can lodge that rifle round right into the robot uh battery, it'll short it out and we'll just drop.
	And we'll take the copper out of there.
	There we go.
	And we'll turn it into it.
	Take the lithium, take the copper, like strip the robots.
	Okay.
	A little bit of science fiction in every show.
	Uh all right, but uh thank you so much.
	It's been uh an honor meeting you.
	Oh, last question.
	Can you explain to our audience the origin of the name of the company Cer Todo?
	Oh, sure.
	Ser todo.
	Um my name is Jonathan Beale.
	Um, and be all sert.
	It's uh it's just kind of a direct translation in Spanish, something that I had thought about.
	Yeah, of my name.
	So be all be all tolo, meaning all meaning all and ser is for me to be.
	Yeah.
	And uh, you know, kind of like full of life or the army motto, be all you can be.
	And you know, I just thought uh I need something that's gonna allow me to do whatever I want.
	So that's so perfect.
	Um we'll we'll we'll the company's literally named after you, but it doesn't sound like it's because it's it's a translation.
	It's a translation.
	That's so cool.
	It's a great name.
	Yeah, thank you very much.
	Yeah, brilliant.
	All right, Mr. Sertodo.
	See, senor.
	Yeah, perfect.
	Yes, muy bien.
	Okay, well, muchas.
	Yeah.
	For all of your time.
	Yeah, thank you.
	Very nice to meet you.
	Pleasures mutual.
	All right, and thank you all for watching today.
	I hope you found this enjoyable.
	You know, we love to share joy and we'd love to share amazing craftsmanship.
	And also, of course, you can help support our organization and get yourself some amazing pieces for your kitchen, for your home.
	Uh just check out all these products.
	You can find them at HealthRangerstore.com/slash copper.
	Enjoy the copper and also the gold.
	And I've looked I've got gold on my desk here too.
	I've got gold and silver.
	Uh have some silver.
	We got silver coins.
	Okay.
	Oh, no, this wait a minute.
	Here, let me give you this one.
	This is uh this is a silver coin of um veterans.
	It's a veterans coin.
	Oh, wow.
	Yeah, I'll give you that one.
	I want I have to keep this one because this is a Texas coin.
	The Alamo Tex.
	Okay.
	Buffalo, silver buffaloes, gold, silver.
	This is a nice minting.
	This is a table of elements day.
	Love it.
	I love it.
	I love it.
	Thank you very much.
	You're very welcome.
	Yeah, enjoy.
	And thank all of you for watching today.
	I'm Mike Adams of Briar Teon.com.
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