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	Welcome to Brighton Broadcast News for Friday, October 17th, 2025.
	I'm Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, the founder of Brighton and Natural News, of course.
	Thank you for joining me today.
	I've got a really good interview coming up for you today with Matt Kim, a guy that uh I've I've only known a short period of time, but I've watched his videos for quite some time and uh I've really become a fan of his work, and then you know, it turns out he's been watching my videos and just really digging what I'm talking about right now, too.
	It's interesting, a a lot of high IQ people are really coming together with a lot of the same conclusions on certain things right now, or on most things, because it's becoming sort of more and more obvious where things are heading.
	And I think it's easier to decode the world now than it was before because the signals are so strong, the signals of where we are going, and the signals of um destruction of the United States Empire as we know it.
	Even in many ways, Trump is seeking to destroy the America that we once knew.
	Although some of his supporters might say, well, you know, it's creative destruction, he's he's destroying the old and bringing in the new.
	Okay, all right.
	Well maybe, but I don't think America's gonna survive that process as we know it.
	In fact, I've got a special report today I recorded earlier that's called uh China's control over rare earths gives it global dominance over military, industrial, and technological output.
	And a lot of people simply do not understand this.
	They don't really know what rare earths are or where they come from or how they are refined.
	Uh, people don't know, for example, that rare earth minerals are everywhere, everywhere all over the earth, on land, that is, uh, even well, I guess there are even small amounts of them in the ocean.
	The thing about rare earths, what makes them rare is they're only available in minuscule concentrations.
	So every coal mine in America is digging up rare earths.
	The problem is they're only present at like you know, micrograms per gram or even nanograms per gram of coal.
	So the question is how do you get them out of the coal?
	Well, China has figured that out better than any other country in the world by far.
	So the thing that makes rare earths rare is not their presence, but their extraction.
	And very few people understand that.
	So I talk about that and why China's dominance over rare earths is giving it such uh uh extraordinary power and leverage in negotiations with Trump, but also the ability to shut off basically much of U.S. industry.
	Like China can shut down the entire U.S. auto industry just like that, because the auto industry can't function without the rare earths.
	Same thing with the military industrial complex or weapons manufacturing for the the more sophisticated weapons, you know, the the cruise missiles, the ICBMs, the fighter jets, and so on.
	I mean, yeah, the military can make ammo, gunpowder, primers, brass, etc.
	bullets, but uh they can't make high-tech stuff without China's minerals.
	So we'll get into that coming up here shortly.
	Also, the food riots could begin within just a few weeks here in the United States.
	And why do I say food riots?
	Well, because we are now learning that the USDA does not have the authority or the funds to disperse money for the food stamp program after November 1st, if the government shutdown continues to that day, and so far it looks like it's going to happen.
	So I've got a special report on this very topic that's about 20 minutes in duration.
	We'll cover that coming up.
	But yeah, the food riots are potentially going to become uh a real thing, but not everywhere, just in the blue cities where there are lots of people on food stamps who will be very angry that they can't get their free Dr. Pepper paid for by the taxpayers.
	You know, they're they're gonna riot uh you know, have pop-tart withdrawal syndrome, which is apparently horrific.
	They have to go to a pop-tart Recovery center.
	Okay, in other news, the Beyond Meat Company has plunged to uh its stock prices have plunged to a record low.
	That actually happened a couple of days ago.
	And apparently the you know, this vegan utopian dream, which was as far as I'm concerned, processed junk food has been rejected by everybody.
	I don't know what it is about vegans that they want to eat processed junk food.
	Well, I guess they don't in this case.
	You know, just because something is vegan doesn't mean it's healthy.
	It can be loaded with MSG and GMOs and pesticides and toxic garbage, and it can be called vegan.
	And it's not clean and it's not quality stuff, in my opinion.
	So uh beyond meat is beyond saving at this point, which is actually a very good thing.
	I mean, can you imagine how much money did globalists didn't Bill Gates invest in Beyond Meat, or maybe one of his funds did?
	But a lot of people put a ton of money into Beyond Meat, and there was a point where their products were showing up in the grocery stores, and I think maybe some people bought them once and you know, fried up uh a fake hamburger on the grill or something, and then tried to eat it, and after gagging a few times, they're like, ah, I'm not not ready for this.
	Woo!
	Give me a hamburger, you know.
	Give me a side of beef or something, something real, but this beyond meat does not work.
	So uh that's history at this point, which is a good thing.
	I wonder what they're gonna try next.
	I don't think that the consumers are ready for cricket burger bars or you know, or patties with like little little cricket legs sticking out, cricket wings instead of a bucket of chicken wings.
	Do you want a bucket of cricket wings?
	Because you know, crickets have wings, right?
	Um they do.
	They they just they just fold them in most of the time.
	But crickets have wings and uh big ugly ass eyeballs and antenna and stuff and little hairy legs.
	And uh that they're gonna try to push that on you next, probably, but I don't think that's gonna go down very well with people and people rejecting all the these fake meat products.
	Uh meanwhile, the real meat is becoming incredibly expensive in the grocery stores because inflation is getting even worse every single day.
	And the collapse of the dollar is reflected probably the best in the just skyrocketing gold and silver markets.
	And believe it or not, although I'm I'm shocked every day that I report this to you.
	I'm really shocked.
	Uh, silver is over $54.
	It's like, what?
	Because, you know, when I started talking about silver, it was like $18 or something.
	Actually, I was talking about it even before that.
	But it was just a few years ago that it was $18.
	And now it's $54, and it's just been skyrocketing.
	And gold, my friends, gold just about hit $4,400.
	Not quite, but it was close to it.
	It's it's hit like $43.75 or something like that.
	Uh wow, it's probably going to be at $4,400 soon at this pace.
	So, of course, the rise of gold and silver pricing in dollars not only indicates that dollars are collapsing rapidly, but it also has me has me worried because there seems to be, I mean, the the prices of gold and silver are rising so quickly, and there's a silver supply squeeze underway, especially in the UK right now, that's very serious.
	It's got me concerned that this is such a an out of the normal boundary type of event that I'm getting the feeling that this is the big one, that this is it.
	This is the final blowout of the dollar and the Western banking system.
	I I have a feeling we're headed for a uh systemic structural failure of the Western banking system.
	And then I heard that there are a couple of regional banks whose stock prices just started collapsing uh yesterday.
	So today, Friday, as you're listening To this, it is very possible that one or more smaller regional banks may collapse, uh, probably typically this evening.
	They they usually announce it on a Friday night so that as few people as possible are paying attention.
	And then it gives the FDIC the weekend to take over the bank assets and assure everybody that they're going to be bailed out if their FDIC insured, you know, if they had less than 250K in a bank account, then you know, under certain conditions, if you're an American citizen, etc., then you're gonna get paid by the FDIC.
	But usually by the time people realize what's happening, you know, it's too late.
	Like the bank's already cratered.
	Because of course the bank doesn't tell anybody though, we're in trouble, you know, we only have days left because that would cause a panic.
	So right up until the very end, the banks are always saying, oh, everything's great.
	Yeah, we're totally solvent.
	We're so solvent, we changed our name to solvent bank.
	And then the next day, uh, nearly solvent bank inc, you know, or the following day, Saturday, uh, previously solvent.
	We we were once solvent as a bank, and then the next day, um, we have a memory of once being solvent.
	You know, that's where this is going very rapidly.
	So if you've got money in the banking system, you know, be very cautious about that.
	And this is why I say the wise move, I've been saying this for years.
	The wise move is to get out of the banking system as much as possible, get out of the dollar as much as possible.
	Or if you're listening from Europe, you know, get out of the euro, get out of the British pound, get out of the Canadian dollar, get out of the yen, get into physical gold and silver in your possession, self-custody, if you can, because that is what's going to be ultra reliable when the system starts shutting down.
	Now, should you buy gold and silver at these current prices?
	I have no idea.
	But I talked with David Morgan today.
	I had a text exchange with uh Andy Scheckman, even though I think he's he must be on vacation or something right now.
	But I'm talking to people in the industry, and I've come to the conclusion that all the gold and silver traders who have lots of experience in this space, like none of their experience actually applies to this situation any longer.
	This this is uh a once-in-a-lifetime event that just breaks the mold of everything that's been observed, even the silver spike of 1980 doesn't compare to the structural changes that we're seeing right now.
	So I I do know that all the silver traders are aghast at this, just astonished.
	Uh elated in some cases, those who have been stacking silver, especially, absolutely elated.
	But many other people are looking at these prices with a sense of, you know, like I don't know, uh, red warning signs flashing, you know, warning, warning, structural failure ahead.
	Uh something is broken in the Western financial system.
	And these skyrocketing prices of gold and silver are, in my view, an indication that something is so broken that they they can't suppress gold and silver prices any longer.
	Like things are getting you know, out of control.
	I don't know, spinning out of control.
	Does that mean you should buy gold and silver right now?
	I have no idea.
	I have no idea if there's gonna be a massive manipulation sell-off tomorrow, or if if if it's gonna go up $10 over the weekend.
	I I don't know.
	But I'll tell you this.
	Um, every time that I've bought gold and silver, looking back, I've always got it at an incredible discount compared to where it is now.
	And I've never been unhappy about what I paid for it.
	There were times where I bought silver and then it went down, even a couple of dollars.
	It's like, uh, whatever.
	At least got the silver.
	But then before long it went right back up, right over that.
	So looking back, I don't feel like I ever overpaid For gold or silver, just buy a little bit every month, keep stacking it, keep taking possession.
	That seems to be prudent advice, even conservative advice.
	And for these people that are out there saying, well, gold and silver are risky.
	I'm going to keep my investments in dollars.
	Like, well, you know, you gotta F in finance if you think that, because what's risky is dollars.
	What's risky is treasuries.
	What's risky is the banking system.
	What's risky is trusting your government.
	You know, the full faith and credit of the United States of America that's bankrupt and broke and uh starting wars, that's risky.
	What's not risky is having gold and silver, which is real money in your possession.
	It's the least risk, having physical gold and silver.
	It's because there's almost no risk at all because there's no counterparty risk.
	And it's very difficult for anybody to come take your gold and silver away.
	Well, they can just seize your dollars in the bank account when the bank creators they can just say, oh, it's a billion.
	We just took your money.
	Thank you.
	And we're gonna give you a certificate of partial ownership of the bank now, the bank that just took your money, you know.
	Yeah, we sorry about that.
	We had to take it to prevent the bank from going bankrupt.
	Yeah, sorry that you're bankrupt now, but you know, the bank's more important than you are.
	But you can take that certificate, you know, the one we just gave you, the piece of paper that says you own some portion of the bank.
	Yeah, and uh you can't cash that in, by the way, for three years.
	Um, so just hold on to that, and in three years we'll give you your money back.
	We promise, we promise.
	That's how it's gonna work with the bank bail-ins.
	It's gonna be a lot of people who are just devastated, obviously, financially.
	So uh if you want to get gold and silver and have control over your own money and assets, then contact our partner in that space.
	They're called battalion medals, and you can reach them at metalswithmic.com.
	Metalswithmike.com.
	And if you use discount code Ranger, they'll waive the shipping insurance fee.
	And you'll see there they have very good pricing, very, very competitive, extremely low margins, professional operation.
	I've worked with these guys for many years, and they've always treated myself and my customers and my followers, etc.
	They've treated everybody very well.
	And so again, medals with mic.com if you think it's appropriate for you.
	But I'm not your financial advisor.
	So do your own research.
	And one of the places you can do research now is our financial coach, which you'll find it's our AI engine that's trained in finance.
	It's at bright you.ai.
	And if you just go to that webpage, bright you.ai, and scroll down a little bit there on the home page, and you'll see there's a wellness coach that knows everything about health and more.
	Uh, there's a financial coach, and then there's an ingredients analyzer, and we've got more coaches coming, by the way.
	I can't wait.
	I'm really looking forward to this weekend because I get to I get to do AI vibe coding all weekend, which is one of my favorite activities now.
	Uh and nobody bothers me on the weekend.
	It's so awesome.
	I'm like, I don't answer the phone.
	Uh I don't have any, you know, company employees texting because they're all off for the weekend.
	Like, I love weekends and holidays because it's when I can get the most work done.
	It's so awesome.
	I get to jog with my dogs and goats, you know, get some sunshine, do a little work on the desk, go out, get some sun, come back to the desk, go out, check on the chickens, you know, feed the chickens, gather some eggs, come back to the desk, do some more work, you know, go out jogging.
	It's just back and forth all day.
	It's so awesome.
	It's just like a perfect day to use your brain and then get outside and back and forth.
	I love it.
	Drinking clean water, drinking fresh smoothies, having clean food, you know, building amazing applications and solutions to give away to the world that help empower people with knowledge.
	Woo!
	Man, that's like that's a life worth living right there.
	I'm just I'm so honored to be able to have that life.
	That's why I love the weekends.
	Get to pursue what I'm you know, really interested in in doing.
	But uh, where was I on that?
	Oh, yeah.
	So uh anyway, uh, if you want to use the financial coach, it's free of charge.
	And I'm just saying, uh, watch for some new features to come soon there on bright you.ai.
	Uh also I've been making improvements to our news site, Centered.news, and uh I've I've been a little bit frustrated with it the last couple of days because it's been featuring the story on vaccine hesitancy.
	And I'm like, because you know, vaccine hesitancy, this is when globalists are angry at people for saying no to vaccines, you know.
	And I'm like, where is it getting this story?
	What the heck, man?
	Like, this shouldn't be in our feed.
	It turns out it's a story from InfoWars that was talking about uh Peter Jotes uh with the WHO blaming so-called anti-science aggression, you know, which is people who don't believe the fake science of the vaccine industry.
	So that's why the vaccine hesitancy story is showing up at Censored.news.
	It's InfoWars' fault.
	But anyway, I I was so unhappy with the uh the trends that uh last night I deleted them all and I had to start recalculating trends with some improved logic.
	And so I hope hope it's working better.
	But anyway, this weekend uh I'll continue to make improvements.
	If you go to censored.news, I think you'll be very, very happy with the fact that it you know brings you uh updated news and information on a uh well, every 30 minutes, it's re-spidering something like 77 censored websites, and then it's rebuilding the uh well, recalculating the emerging trends, and then it's recreating the audio narration uh at the top of that site, and all that's free.
	So just go to censored.dos to experience that engine, and uh I'm gonna keep improving it.
	Okay, speaking of our AI engines, uh you know we've also released the downloadable version of our Enoch engine, and the download is at the top of the page at BrightU.ai.
	If you just click the downloads link, you will see the downloads there.
	And you can download the GGUF file, and not everybody knows what to do with that file.
	So let me just mention that you want to load that file into a piece of software called LM Studio, which is software that loads GGUF files so you can then talk to it or chat with it.
	So uh in other words, GGUF files do not execute, they're not programs, they're data, they're just database vectors, basically.
	And to run inference on them, you have to use a piece of software like LM Studio, which is available free of charge at LMstudio.ai.
	And I don't know if they have a Mac version, but I know Mac people, they have like I think Olama and some other programs that do the same thing, although I don't have all the instructions for that.
	Uh we'll be we'll work on that.
	We'll get you some more detailed instructions.
	Uh but I did talk to Hakeem again at Above Phone, and he confirmed that this model will be added to the phones, the above phones.
	It'll be added starting in about a week, but you might want to wait.
	These are de-googled phones, by the way.
	They're they're de-googled, so you know they don't run anything with Google on them.
	They've been mind-wiped, anti-Google-fied.
	Uh, they're gonna have apparently uh uh a Black Friday sale that begins the first week of November.
	And we'll be announcing that at that time.
	And all the phones and all the laptops they have will ship with our language model on them, beginning with the well, beginning in about a week, he said, but also during the Black Friday sale they have coming up.
	So I'll remind you about that.
	But you can use our discount code with them right now.
	If you go to Above Phone, that's the word above, uh, above phone.com, and you use the discount code uh Ranger.
	Yeah, you can save some bucks on the phones and the laptops.
	And if you give it about a week again, he will start adding uh the uh the language model onto those phones, which is really cool.
	So you'll have you know instant access to the language model on your phone.
	This is the Enoch model, and apparently it runs Quite well on that phone.
	So, yeah, good stuff.
	Okay, in other news, uh, John Bolton was indicted for his alleged mishandling of classified documents.
	Uh, you may recall that John Bolton, I think he was the national security advisor for Trump for a couple of years in Trump's first administration.
	But John Bolton, in my opinion, he was one of those deep state infiltrators.
	And Bolton has always been a just a war whore.
	You know, he he just I mean, that's the term I use, uh, or a war hawk, whatever, a neocon.
	He just wants to bomb everybody in the world.
	He just wants to start more wars, you know.
	That's just John Bolton.
	I mean, and I I don't think he's I don't think he's a good person.
	I I think he's a dark-hearted, you know, imperialist who wants to cause pain and suffering all over the world.
	Uh, but that's not what he was charged with, you know.
	It's too bad you can't be you can't charge people for having positions of power and wanting to start wars and bomb everybody.
	Well, if that were the case, practically every US president would be a felon.
	But seriously, uh even even Obama for that matter.
	But uh Bolton's going to, well, he's been indicted and charged and uh you know, mishandling of documents, and uh I think his attorney put out a statement that said, no, he's innocent.
	This is all the politically motivated stuff, because Bolton has been a very outspoken critic of Trump.
	And uh in many cases, unfairly so.
	You know, I mean, I from time to time I'm I'm a critic of some things that that Trump is doing, right?
	But I think I'm a fair critic.
	I I give Trump credit when I see him doing positive things, or when I think his his policies are rooted in reason and putting America first instead of you know being run by the Zionists and the Zionist donors, which seems to be the case a lot of the time.
	But when Trump does something good, you know, I'll say so, and and I'll congratulate him for it.
	Like, for example, um he well, his his DOJ reached a settlement with Roger Veer.
	So Roger Veer is free now, and that's because of Trump.
	So Trump deserves credit for that.
	And you know, Trump has pardoned uh other people in in the freedom movement, especially the tech freedom movement.
	I'm thinking of like Ross Olbricht, uh, who is free now because of Trump, and you know, other people who are free because of Trump.
	And uh, I mean, I interviewed Dr. Kirk Moore on that very issue.
	It was because of Trump that the DOJ dropped those charges against Dr. Kirk Moore.
	And so Trump deserves credit for that.
	Trump is making the right call on a lot of things like that where pro-freedom people were being persecuted by the Biden administration.
	So I'm very happy that we don't have Democrats in charge of the country.
	I'm I'm I'm thrilled to have Trump instead of Kamala.
	I mean, just have no question about that.
	As much as I sometimes criticize Trump, I am glad that he won this recent election.
	Actually, he won three elections in a row.
	I mean, seriously, they stole the 2020 election from him, obviously, but he won three elections in a row.
	And he is a much better choice than Kamala or Biden or any Democrat, but he's also not perfect.
	And he's made some pretty big mistakes.
	Um I'm not saying that I could do a better job as president, but I think I do understand economics better than Trump, uh, but I don't know anything about real estate, you know.
	So I mean, we're all experts in different areas, and then we all have weaknesses in other areas.
	Nevertheless, nevertheless, John Bolton has been uh criticizing Trump very harshly, and uh, you know, it seems like there's a little payback maybe going on, you know.
	John Bolton, uh I doubt he's gonna go to jail.
	There'll probably be some some kind of settlement or fine or something.
	I doubt he'll go to jail, but they did search his house, and uh who knows what else they're gonna find.
	I mean John Bolton is not a good guy.
	Uh he's probably guilty of things, but unfortunately he hasn't been charged with the bigger things that he's guilty of, in my opinion.
	Uh Nevertheless, we'll see where this goes.
	Okay, so here's what we're gonna do next.
	And by the way, thank you for all your support.
	And thank you for using and sharing the tools that we're releasing.
	And there are many more tools coming.
	Oh, I can't wait.
	I really can't wait to launch what I'm working on.
	You're gonna be your mind's gonna be blown, seriously.
	Uh I can't wait.
	Uh maybe I'll launch something on Monday if I get enough vibe coding done this weekend, you know.
	We'll see.
	And I'm processing all kinds of documents that will be part of the uh the reference data set for the new version of our AI engine that launches in 2026.
	So right after the first of the year, we're launching a new version that is uh we have solved the hallucination problem in AI engines, but it requires a massive store of documents that are pre-analyzed, classified.
	What's the right term for that?
	It's it's not it's not just database indexing, it's something way beyond that.
	Uh every document that we acquire has to be run through an AI classifier that I that I wrote.
	And as a result of this, we have solved hallucinations.
	But we won't be able to roll that out until January because it's going to take a couple months here to go through the hundreds of millions of additional documents and make them all part of that system.
	But starting in early January, we'll have a whole new model that we launch, and it'll have a different name, and it will be it'll be the greatest thing on earth in terms of uh asking questions and getting citations from science papers that back up the answers in the document.
	I mean, in in in the reply from the AI engine.
	So we've we've solved hallucinations.
	Um it hasn't been easy, and there's still a lot more work ahead.
	And I I hate to name a date like January because usually when I say that, then it ends up taking longer.
	So be aware of that.
	It I might be a little too optimistic.
	We'll see.
	All right, so here's what we're gonna do.
	We're gonna go to the two special reports that I have for you today.
	Again, one about the food riots.
	We'll play that first, and then the second one is about China's control over rare earths and why that gives it global dominance over the military, industrial, and technological output of the United States and other Western countries, by the way.
	And then following that, we'll have the interview today with Matt Kim.
	And I think you'll love that interview, so stay tuned for that.
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	So it looks like the food riots may begin in about two weeks or so, because if the government shutdown continues, then the USDA is reportedly going To not only run out of money to disperse through the federal SNAP program, which is the food stamp program, but also they may lack the authority to disperse funds.
	And so numerous states are already declaring that they will not be able to disperse any more Snap money, you know, food stamp money on the debit cards at the grocery store, uh beginning November 1st.
	Now you've probably heard the saying that every society is nine meals away from anarchy.
	Well, if that holds true, it means right around, I don't know, November 5th or so or six, uh, depends on how much food people have in the cupboard, people are gonna start to panic.
	Well, actually, I think the panic will begin the very day the food stamps stop working.
	I mean, do you recall a few months ago when the Trump administration began to uh push states to enact restrictions on the use of food stamps for soda and processed junk food and garbage food, stuff like that, right?
	And how there was a massive freakout on the left and all these people that are living on food stamps, and there's tens of millions of them, were just absolutely beside themselves.
	I can't have my Dr. Pepper.
	I can't have my Fruit Loops.
	Are you kidding me?
	Yeah, you can't.
	Because food stamps are supposed to be an emergency program for people who would otherwise starve to make sure you don't starve, not to feed your obesity, which is what the SNAP program has become.
	Just a way to enrich the processed food companies to keep the American people obese, to generate profits for big pharma to treat all their diseases, including cancer, and to enrich the retailers like Walmart, and most importantly, uh Visa, MasterCard, you know, the transaction banks for all commerce, they make money on every transaction, of course.
	So the food stamp program is actually more of a corporate welfare program than a human welfare program.
	I mean, it it feeds money to the big banks and to the big retailers and to the big processed food companies and the pharma companies.
	They're just using humans as the vessel to generate disease, which then generates profits.
	So that's what the food stamp program really has become.
	Well, if it ends or is suspended on November 1st, things are about to get super dicey.
	Now, you've heard me say a thousand times that you don't want to be in the cities when it all goes down.
	You don't want to be anywhere near the cities for lots of reasons, but this is another reason because the food riots, should they begin, they will start looting the retailers.
	Obviously, because they do that anyway.
	But this time they're gonna be starving.
	You know, hungry for their Dr. Pepper.
	So they're gonna loot the retailers.
	First, it'll be the local convenience stores, and then it'll be the grocery stores.
	And you may now realize why so many grocery stores have moved out of the left-wing cities.
	They've closed down and left.
	Why?
	Because they know what's coming.
	They know that massive civil unrest is coming.
	And you see, the left loves this kind of thing because it gives them a cover for the left-wing uprising that they want to stage anyway, because they want to overthrow Trump.
	Not that they would succeed at that, but in some of their minds, they think they can, and a lot of left-wing lawmakers, Democrats, are openly talking about fighting in the streets.
	Well, you get a bunch of uh hungry, you know, welfare recipients in the inner cities whose food gets cut off, they're gonna join the riots.
	Then you have a much larger left-wing army of angry obese people who are, you know, protesting the Trump administration.
	This also benefits the Trump administration, if you think about it, because it gives them the ability to move in more troops into the cities, which Trump has openly talked about that, and using Chicago as a training ground for the U.S. military, which set off alarm bells everywhere.
	But if Trump wants to move into the cities and have a kind of local martial law situation, this is the perfect way to make that Happen.
	As soon as the civil unrest breaks out, Trump can dispatch federal troops and say, well, they're there to protect federal buildings and federal property.
	And the courts have upheld that the dispatching of uh even military troops to left-wing cities.
	So this is how Trump is going to occupy those cities.
	And then as the Civil War gets activated, which has long been the plan, you know, it's called the Podesta plan, then Trump has already positioned troops in the locations where they're going to need to be to fight on behalf of the United States government in this coming civil war.
	Now, a couple of things.
	The good news is that if you're outside the cities, this is probably not going to affect you directly, like physically.
	So, you know, if you live in a rural area, yeah, there's plenty of rural people on food stamps, but they're not going to gather together in large enough numbers, probably to become a problem.
	And your local county sheriff can probably deal with that problem if it does become a problem.
	And if the sheriff can't deal with it, then you know, he or she can deputize a bunch of other people, veterans, you know, former law enforcement SWAT team guys, whatever.
	They they can all be deputized to solve that problem and restore order.
	The issue where this is going to be a risk is in the cities, obviously.
	Because of course, the police have been neutered, they've been told not to enforce the law.
	They've always been told to back off and let the radical left burn whatever they want and carry out, you know, chaos and destroy property wherever they want.
	Uh the shop owners are going to be screwed, and the grocery chains that will have their stores completely gutted, looted, and then burned to the ground, uh, yeah, they're gonna have some problems, along with the insurance companies that have been insuring those grocery stores.
	You know, speaking of insurance, you may recall that over the last two years or so, you've seen many insurance companies leave California, like State Farm in particular, but others have been canceling policies or refusing to renew existing policies and absolutely refusing to write new policies in the state of California.
	And when I was first covering this, we were asking, well, what do they see coming?
	You know, what is it that they're anticipating?
	And the answer should be kind of obvious.
	It's this it's it's a civil war or a war scenario of some kind with massive property destruction, with the U.S. military actually fighting uh left-wing armed gangs and terrorist groups, etc., in the city of Los Angeles.
	You know, it'll be the battle for LA.
	And as LA is turned into a total war zone, of course, there will be a lot of property destruction along the way, and that will include residential properties.
	You know, if you thought the Palisades fires were bad, just wait for the food riots and you know, the civil war that may follow.
	Now, of course, the Democrats could stop all this if they wanted to by simply agreeing to the terms of funding the government.
	Uh right now the Democrats are holding out on this because they want more money for illegals, you know, free health care for illegals in California.
	That's what they want, because they want to be able to entice those illegals to stay in the state, because that's a way to rig the U.S. Census, which counts every person, even if they are not legal citizens.
	And then the U.S. Census, as you may recall, determines how many congressional seats, well, in the House, that the party gets.
	It also determines the electoral college votes that the state gets in presidential elections.
	So the more people, even if they're illegal, the more people that California can keep in the state, then the more they're able to rig elections just through the presence of illegals.
	That's why they want free money for the illegals to keep them there.
	They know that if the illegals don't get all the freebies, you know, free health care and free well housing subsidies and everything else, and food stamps, then a lot of those illegals are just going to leave the state.
	And you know, which Is what we want.
	You know, we we don't want illegals to be there taking advantage of all kinds of you know freebies and handouts that are funded by taxpayers.
	That doesn't make any sense.
	But that's the way Democrats want to run their societies, which is why every rational person is leaving LA or even well, parts of California.
	And many people are moving out of the state entirely because they know what's going to happen.
	You know, the cities are going to collapse, it's going to be a war zone.
	And then out of that will be mass death.
	Now remember that I believe Trump and frankly the leaders of most Western nations are trying to achieve rapid depopulation through a variety of means.
	And one of those is a die-off that would occur in a civil war or maybe a grid-down scenario.
	I could actually see a scenario where the U.S. government turns off the power grid to large cities in California, uh, blames it on China, because that's the convenient narrative, of course, says, oh, it was a cyber attack from China, but you have no power in LA and the whole, I don't know, a large region.
	But the point of that is to achieve extermination, because the die-off will be extremely rapid.
	And as the die-off is rapid, you know, think about it, it's saving the government money because they do not have to pay Social Security benefits, pensions, Medicare, etc., even at the federal level.
	And also the food stamp program.
	So the more people that they manage to kill who are on food stamps, then obviously the you know, the the less money they have to spend on food stamp benefits.
	And if you're thinking, no, that's that's impossible.
	The government would never kill people.
	Are you kidding me?
	The government kills more people than any any anybody else in history.
	You know, just in the 20th century alone, governments around the world killed a quarter of a billion people.
	It's called democide.
	Demo side.
	Governments kill more people than than everybody else.
	And uh they do it deliberately, too.
	Just like the UK right now, they want to send their young men off to die in war.
	Why?
	Because the young men are beginning to rise up against the government.
	The government just can't maintain control.
	That's why they're trying to, you know, monitor everybody's social media posts and outlaw any kind of criticism of government, throw people in jail for mean tweets and things like that.
	That's happening all over the UK.
	It's also happening in places like Germany.
	And that's because, again, the local people are sick and tired of their corrupt pedophile leaders in those countries, and they're they're about on the verge of overthrowing those leaders.
	So what the leaders do throughout history is they start a war and they feed their young men into the war machine, which is a death grinder, uh, until they get rid of all the young men, and then they can keep everybody else under control.
	And young women don't pose the same threat, because young women, well, even older women, uh, by and large, uh, maybe not not you listening to this, you're different.
	But women do not rise up against governments the way that men do throughout history.
	Women, you know, they they don't lead resistance movements that are kinetic very often.
	I mean, maybe in history there have been a couple of examples, but it's pretty rare.
	It's usually young men, and I don't know if it's the testosterone or what, or just you know, men want to be free more than women.
	I don't know.
	Whatever it is, these governments they absolutely want to get rid of all the men.
	Uh the young men, the military-age men.
	So that's what's going on.
	And also that will save them on the food stamps and all the government pensions and benefits as well, uh, because they'll recruit older men, you know, eventually, because they'll run out of young men like is happening in Ukraine, and then they'll they'll start recruiting older and older men to join the front lines of combat.
	So war is a depopulation engine, and uh cutting off the food stamp program is an accelerant to civil war.
	And so if you believe that the Trump administration wants to accelerate the civil war scenario, which seems rather likely, then you understand exactly why this is happening.
	Uh, because you know, the civil war scenario is gonna bring out the worst of the radical left, and it will show the whole country how violent and dangerous and insane leftists have become.
	And remember that Trump has already officially designated Antifa as a domestic terrorist organization.
	Whether or not that carries weight in law is another question.
	You know, technically, there's really not such a thing as a domestic terrorist.
	There are enemy combatants that are in the country.
	So essentially Trump is designating them as enemy combatants.
	Now he did that, you know, a few weeks ago, so that gives him the correct posture to be able to go to war with the radical left when the food riots begin.
	Because Trump can just say, oh, well, everybody that's rising up right now, they're all Antifa.
	And that might be true.
	You know, Antifa's going to have a strong presence in the food riots, I would imagine.
	So Trump could just say, well, they're terrorists, and he can order the military just open fire on them, you know.
	Rules of engagement are now freedom to fire because they're terrorists.
	See, you see how this all lines up?
	And then you're going to have massacres.
	If this continues in this direction, obviously.
	You'll have massacres of Americans and illegals in in the blue cities.
	And then that will enrage the left even more.
	And they'll rise up against the Trump administration, try to overthrow it, and there'll be a massive war, and that Trump will deploy the U.S. military in cities across the country and establish martial law.
	And then that military presence will be perfect for running the midterm elections next year to make sure that there's no illegal ballot stuffing.
	You know, Trump will just have the military run the elections, which probably is a good idea given how much the Democrats routinely cheat by running the same ballots over and over again, or you know, serving as mules to gather up fraudulent ballots or all the all the printing and mailing out of fake ballots and then the gathering up of all the mail-in ballots and the ballot stuffing.
	You know, the Democrats can only win if they cheat.
	And by having civil conflict accelerating between now and election day, which is about one year away, roughly, uh, Trump can create such an emergency.
	Or, I mean, it's not him creating it.
	He's sort of architecting an emergency that would put the military in charge of elections at the same time that a couple million illegals have already left the country because of the ice crackdowns.
	Uh, it looks pretty promising that Trump will be able to maintain control over the House and the Senate in the midterm elections due to these factors.
	And that's critical for the Trump administration because if the Democrats gain control over the House, they will immediately impeach him.
	I mean, there won't even be a pause.
	It'll just be, you know, day one, the impeachment proceedings begin.
	And they'll have a couple of hearings or whatever, but then they'll impeach the president.
	Because he's gutting the Democrat fraud machine.
	So get ready for all of this.
	It's going to get interesting.
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	I don't think that many people in the West yet understand the power and dominance of China's announcement roughly a week ago when they declared that they were going to exert control over their exporting of rare earth minerals.
	They would require uh licenses for other countries to import those minerals or other companies.
	And those licenses would only be granted based on permission from China, they would be denied to companies that are using those critical minerals to manufacture weapons for the United States or other Western nations.
	And this has been, I think, a decision that has been a long time coming.
	China has meticulously maneuvered itself into a position where it has a near-global monopoly over a supply of such a critical assortment of rare earths that frankly no modern country can operate without them.
	And yet, the United States and most other Western nations have failed to uh engage in their own domestic refining of like coal, for example, which can produce rare earth minerals with the you know correct solvents and correct chemistry, etc.
	But we haven't built the refineries in the West.
	We've always depended on China to export those key minerals.
	And China has just said no longer.
	Uh, because of course the West is at war with China, and from China's point of view, it would be foolish to export the minerals that your enemy needs to build weapons to attack you.
	I mean, that that's just crazy.
	So China is saying no more, and the United States is royally screwed.
	And that's why Trump went out of his way to uh threaten 100% tariffs on China, uh, potentially beginning November 1st, if China doesn't back off of its rare earth export restrictions.
	Well, I think that this is the showdown.
	I think that China is in this game for the long haul at this point, and I don't think China's going to give in, because China knows something that's just really profound.
	The U.S. can't fight a war against anybody, not against Russia, not against China, not against Iran without these rare earth minerals.
	Period.
	I mean, yeah, the U.S. can burn through existing munitions and existing missiles and existing airplanes and so on, but it can't make new weapons, it can't restock what it uses, including in interceptors that are given to Israel.
	You know, for the Iron Dome defense system that barely works anyway.
	The U.S. can't manufacture new missiles, new fighter jets, etc., without these rare earth minerals.
	So by cutting off these rare earths, China is essentially just closing the door to U.S. manufacturing of weapons.
	And before you go off saying something like, oh my gosh, that's so unfair, China's being such a bully.
	Um, do you have any idea how much of a bully the US is to the whole world?
	The US routinely weaponizes everything from the financial system, the SWIFT system, cutting off Russia, sanctions, and more sanctions, and even more sanctions.
	You know, there's like 25,000 sanctions on Russia.
	That's the West weaponizing its dominance and its control through the dollar.
	So when America had dominance over the dollar, it used that leverage to punish anybody it wanted without any rule of law.
	China is only doing to the U.S. what the U.S. has done to China and other countries for decades, just saying, hey, we we control a resource, we're gonna we're gonna control who gets it and who doesn't.
	In effect, China is having, let's say, export sanctions on the US covering rare earth minerals.
	That's exactly the kind of thing that the U.S. does routinely.
	So don't let the Western media lie to you.
	Don't let Trump lie to you.
	I heard him talking about it.
	It's like we were so shocked that China would just, you know, declare war on the world.
	Well, are you kidding me?
	The U.S. wages war on the whole world Through economic sanctions and dollar sanctions, etc.
	So where we are with this is quite fascinating.
	It means that if China holds steady on this, that the U.S. cannot fight a war, which means it's over.
	It's over for Western dominance.
	And you might say, well, why can't we build the refineries?
	Oh.
	So do you know how rare earth minerals are extracted from things like coal mining?
	Do you have any knowledge in that area?
	Well, it turns out that it's very difficult to extract rare earth minerals out of things like coal or dirt or other, you know, tailings, whatever.
	To do so, you have to have methods and chemistry and extremely toxic solvents, and in some cases, acids, and in some cases heavy metals like mercury, etc.
	It is one of the most toxic procedures of modern industry is to extract rare earth minerals from tons of coal.
	Now remember that the rare earths are only present in very tiny amounts.
	It might be micrograms per gram, or maybe in some cases, even micrograms per kilogram.
	There's not much in there.
	And to get it out, you have to use very toxic substances, like I said, solvents, etc.
	And every mineral has different chemistry.
	Every mineral has a different uh different method of extraction.
	But as a result of this extraction, you end up with waste products.
	The waste products are so environmentally hazardous that in Western countries, it would just never be allowed by any state government, by, you know, even by the national governments, would never be allowed to produce that kind of waste because it's so toxic.
	We're talking about substances that are just insanely toxic at very small doses.
	That's what comes out of the waste pipe of a rare earth minerals factory.
	So if you try to deal with that, then you end up with very high expense of dealing with the toxic waste.
	There are ways to deal with them through incineration and burial of the ash and things like that.
	But that's very expensive, and China doesn't go through those expenses.
	Now, this affects more than just military weapons.
	This affects industry.
	So do you recall a couple of months ago, Ford said they had to shut down temporarily some of their production lines?
	Why?
	And this was like, I don't know, May or something.
	It was because they couldn't get the neodymium magnets from China that they needed to finish their vehicles.
	So I hope you understand that China can instantly halt all U.S. auto manufacturing just by refusing to ship these rare earth metals to car makers.
	So there goes the auto industry.
	There goes the military industrial complex.
	There goes the medical industry, there goes the lithography chipmaking industry.
	So China can essentially shut down U.S. manufacturing like a light switch.
	China can shut off U.S. military manufacturing.
	China can shut off the microchip industry globally, effectively.
	And because of the lithography equipment that uses the rare earths.
	And if you think about it, the Western countries just walked right into this self-made trap.
	They did it by offshoring all the mining and minerals to China and refusing to build their own refineries.
	And they made all kinds of excuses for that.
	Well, we'll let China have the environmental toxic impacts.
	Let China deal with it.
	Well, as a result, China mastered the technology of rare earth extraction, and China now leads the world, not only in the raw output, but in the methodology.
	In other words, in the U.S., even if you say, okay, we're willing to take the hit on the ecological waste, you know, the environmental problems with this, even if we're willing to deal with that, we don't have the know-how in America that China has.
	And China has halted the exporting Of the know-how, that is the equipment that's related to rare earth's uh extraction, and anybody who knows how to run that equipment or who might teach somebody else how to do the same thing.
	Those people are being restricted.
	They're not allowed to leave China and go work for some other country overseas to teach, let's say, a competitor of China how to do the same thing.
	Those people are not being allowed to do that.
	China is protecting its knowledge and its critical advantage in this area, and by doing so, China puts itself in a dominant position in a world where rare earth minerals are necessary for civilization to function.
	And again, the West walked right into this trap.
	The West has no one else to blame but themselves.
	And you've heard probably announcements, maybe you have, like, oh, there's a new coal plant opening up, I think in Wyoming, and then they're gonna do some rare earth extraction out of that.
	Yeah, okay, that's that's a joke compared to what China is producing.
	It's a total joke.
	I mean, the amount of rare earths coming out of the Wyoming operation will be measured in maybe grams per day.
	I mean, it's hardly anything.
	It's not going to put a dent in the supply chain, in other words, China still will command the supply chain.
	And so when Trump threatens 100% tariffs, China's like, okay, well, we'll threaten 100% cutting off the rare earths.
	There you go.
	Goodbye Ford.
	Goodbye, military-industrial complex, goodbye U.S. industry.
	Okay?
	That's where we are.
	And Trump runs around always acting like America is still the dominant force in the world in every way with the dominant currency, the dominant military, the dominant technology.
	Yeah, um, that's increasingly no longer true.
	The dollar's collapsing, the military is largely obsolete.
	I mean, the industrial capacity of America has long been eclipsed by China and even Russia.
	Heck, America couldn't even defeat Russia in the war with the proxy state of Ukraine.
	America couldn't stop Yemen from bombing ships.
	America certainly cannot stop China.
	So America no longer gets to tell the world what to do.
	And Trump doesn't realize that yet.
	Trump still thinks it's the 1980s.
	He still thinks that everybody has to bow down to everything that America wants and says and demands, and that's just not the case.
	But Trump doesn't know it yet, you know, because he's not up to speed with the modern world.
	And so he always thinks he has the strongest negotiation position, but he doesn't.
	And yet, he doesn't realize that.
	So he walks into these negotiations with China or Russia, who are both rational parties, and you know, Trump's throwing a Trump tantrum and threatening this and threatening that, and we're gonna do this, and we're gonna, and you're gonna do what I say.
	And increasingly, China says, nope.
	Uh-uh.
	Nope.
	We're not gonna do that.
	You're gonna you're gonna trade with us in a fair and rational manner, or we're not gonna trade with you at all.
	We don't need America.
	You know, China's been around for 5,000 years or longer.
	And almost that entire time, America did not exist.
	China does not need the United States of America in order to continue to be its own civilization.
	But Trump doesn't realize that.
	He thinks everybody answers to America and that the dollar dominates everything, and that the U.S. can sanction everybody into compliance.
	That worked for a long time, post-World War II.
	It's no longer working.
	Didn't work with Russia, not working with China, and it certainly won't work with Iran either.
	Increasingly, these countries around the world are just saying, look, we need to prepare for a post-U.S.
	Empire future.
	Because the dollar is going to collapse, the United States of America is going to collapse, it will cease to exist.
	Meanwhile, Russia will continue to exist, China will exist, Persia will exist, etc.
	Turkey will exist.
	You know, Brazil will exist, but not the United States of America as we know it today.
	So they're preparing for that post-US future by buying gold and silver.
	And where possible, they are reinstating uh domestic supply chains like Russia has done, following all the sanctions that the West put on Russia, so that Russia can now produce most of what it needs domestically, especially weapons and you know, plenty of iron, plenty of steel from iron ore.
	And countries like China and India and Turkey are increasingly trading in currencies that are non-dollar currencies on purpose.
	So global demand for the dollar continues to plummet, or global use of the dollar.
	And the BRICS nations are preparing for a post-dollar future where they uh settle trade in their own currencies and then backed by gold.
	That is uh gold transfers for settling currency imbalances.
	That's the system that they're setting up.
	It's a very effective system.
	The US, meanwhile, is uh printing money by the trillions, devaluing the dollar, thrusting its own people into poverty through inflation and even coming hyperinflation, and continuing to just threaten everybody all around the world with you know bombing them or assassinating their leaders or causing revolutions like we did in Ukraine in what was that, 2014, I believe.
	You know, the the US hasn't changed at all.
	The US hasn't learned anything about how to live in a world that's a multipolar world.
	Instead, the U.S. continues through Trump to be the world's biggest, you know, bully, and the world is sick and tired of that.
	That's why the U.S. Empire will collapse more suddenly than most people imagine.
	It's not going to take long.
	And all the conditions are right there.
	It will only take, let's say, a massive military failure or a cascading financial trigger event that spreads through the Western banking system, causing bank failures, central bank failures potentially, if we find out, you know, there's no gold in Fort Knox, for example.
	Actually, it's stored elsewhere, but if the U.S. defaults on gold or defaults on treasuries, uh it's coming, you know, and then that's the end.
	That's the end of the US Empire.
	1991, repeat.
	You know, the Soviet Union, but this time the US Empire.
	And then you'll wake up one morning and you'll you'll be living in a new world where the United States of America doesn't exist.
	You're like, so am I an American now?
	What am I?
	Well, if you're in Texas, then you're a Texan at that point.
	Um yeah, where's my bank account?
	Uh the bank login isn't working.
	It's all been seized and taken over.
	Yeah, your dollars worthless.
	You should have bought gold and silver.
	Or privacy crypto, like Xano or something, you know, or Monero.
	You know, you should have used dollars while they still had value to trade them for things that would last after the collapse of the dollar.
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	And this is what smart people are doing.
	Even at current prices, people are still stacking gold and silver because they realize that as the dollar collapses, gold and silver will inevitably just move much higher.
	In dollars, it doesn't even mean gold and silver are becoming more valuable, it just means the dollar's collapsing.
	You know, I'm looking at gold, it's like 4300.
	Looking at silver, 54 dollars now.
	Um, but that's just because the dollar's collapsing.
	Because gold and silver are holding their value and keeping up with inflation when you go to the grocery store.
	Look how expensive everything is.
	Well, that's why saving in gold and silver is the answer, not saving in dollars or treasuries, or you know, dollar denominated systems of saving money.
	It's all a scam because they're taking away their confiscating the value of your dollar by money printing or currency printing.
	So that's what's going on.
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	Get prepared, folks.
	It's gonna get even more interesting from here.
	It will be the largest increase of wealth gap society has ever seen.
	Because the people that are using the tools right now to their benefit to create to do things to amplify the work, they are lapping people.
	And it's not, oh, I'm thinking I think I'm gonna get involved, or I'm gonna start using Chat GBT, or I'm gonna start using another AI talk to a little bit.
	That's not enough.
	You have to learn how to build agents, you have to let it automate a lot of things that you do.
	You have to have it do the work for you, and you have to be more of a manager and creative.
	As an individual, you need to be able to leverage AI for your workflow, and you need to use it to 10x your output.
	Welcome to today's interview here on Brighton.com.
	I'm Mike Adams, the founder of Brighton, and you know, uh, one of our fan favorite guests on decentralized TV, another show that I also co-host, is Matt Kim, and he joins us today.
	Matt Kim, his channel on X is free Matt Kim, uh, just like it sounds.
	There it is.
	And uh Matt Kim has so many interesting projects going on, and he's a pro liberty pro-technology guy who's got great analysis videos all over.
	So, welcome to the show, Matt Kim.
	It's great to have you back.
	Thank you, Mike.
	Thank you for having me on.
	You know, um, I didn't know as much about you before we did the previous show.
	Yeah, and I can't stop consuming the things that you put out.
	I'm like, I love this guy so much.
	So much.
	I've become like the biggest Mike Adams fan out there.
	And uh every time I see something on X that pops up, I'm like, oh, yeah, I gotta read this because I know it's gonna be interesting.
	Wow, that's high praise coming from you because you know the feeling is mutual.
	Uh I've watched your analysis videos for you know a couple of years, and uh you always have this these hard-hitting analysis points, and you have the courage to say what needs to be said.
	You are not afraid to go against the grain, which is so critical these days.
	It's one of the reasons why our fans love you as well.
	So, you know, hey, the feeling is mutual.
	Thanks for coming back.
	Um, we'd love to talk to you anytime you've got something to mention.
	So, where do we begin today?
	What's on your mind?
	I mean, you tell me, where are we in this world and specifically in this country?
	Because it feels like I feel like I'm living in a different timeline.
	I know, totally.
	So, okay, then I'll see this coming, and I'm very critical or I'm very skeptical about kind of everything that happens in the world, especially in this country.
	I didn't see this coming.
	Well, my sense, and and perhaps this is because I've been working so diligently on our AI projects.
	And you know, we just released our free AI model that just blows away groc, just blows away chat GPT.
	It's stunning.
	And it's free, and we built it for only $2 million, which is just unheard of, right?
	But the thing that got me the most about this is number one, we launched the website, the entire website and the structure that runs it.
	I'm the only human involved.
	All of my engineers are now AI, all of them.
	I run AI teams, and I mean, I have a human engineering team.
	Don't get me wrong.
	They keep uh Brighttown.com up and running and the website and the content management systems for natural news, et cetera.
	But for the AI projects, I only use AI engineers.
	And I have two layers.
	Uh I have architects and I have engineers.
	And then there's me, I'm the only human.
	So, Matt, what does this mean for our world that now even I did this as an experiment?
	I'm essentially not needing human engineers for many projects any longer.
	And like I have one of my network admins contacted me late last night.
	He's overseas.
	He's like, oh, we need a fix on this thing.
	Uh like this uh this URL has to return a JSON file.
	And I'm like, okay, it's fixed in 10 minutes instead of five days.
	You know?
	I think there are two sides to this.
	One is what can we do about AI as individuals.
	And as an individual, you need to be able to leverage AI for your workflow, and you need to use it to 10x your output.
	Yes.
	Because it used to be a time where the guy who works hard works twice as hard as a guy that doesn't work very hard.
	And the difference between the guy who works hard and doesn't work hard was 2x.
	Now we're in a world where the guy that works hard uses AI to leverage his work, and now he can work 10x harder or 10 10x more output.
	So he's working twice as hard with 10x output, so he's working 20 times harder than the average person.
	It will be the largest increase of wealth gap society has ever seen.
	Because the people that are using the tools right now to their benefit to create, to do things to amplify the work, they are lapping people.
	And it's not, oh, I'm thinking I think I'm gonna get involved, or I'm gonna start using Chat GBT, or I'm gonna start using another AI and talk to a little bit.
	That's not enough.
	You have to learn how to build agents.
	You have to let it automate a lot of things that you're doing.
	You have to have it do the work for you, and you have to be more of a manager and creator.
	So I told you that's where we are as far as an individual.
	So, Matt, let me let me hold on.
	Let me demo that um real quick.
	So, as you're talking, I just typed in a prompt into our Enoch engine.
	And here it is.
	Expand this into a full article.
	What skills do I need to master to compete in the world of AI dominance and artificial intelligence?
	Okay, I'm gonna click submit.
	So from one sentence, it now writes an article.
	So if I'm, you know, if I'm a journalist or a podcaster or whatever, I can take this article, boom, it's got everything, the data literacy, et cetera.
	I can take this as a template, you know, jazz it up, fact check it, whatever, emotional intelligence here.
	So just like you said, 10x.
	I just saved an hour of time in 60 seconds.
	Yes.
	Yeah, you have to be able to use it to leverage your ability and what you're competent at and fill in the gaps of what you're not competent at.
	Because again, it used to be the guy who works twice as hard makes the money.
	The white the guy that works twice hard is able to be more successful than his peers.
	Now you have to do 20x what one individual is doing.
	Right.
	So I think people have to understand the hard truth because there's a lot of people in society that think, okay, AI is gonna come in and they're gonna replace us, or because I have an AI, it means I can do less because it's gonna do it for me.
	Well, no, because people that are working hard are still gonna work hard.
	Yes, they're gonna use it to put up that much more output.
	This is not the time to kind of relax.
	The window for this opportunity to maybe change your status and eco socio and economic status is very short, actually.
	So I think people, especially men, need to be working harder now than ever before.
	You are absolutely true.
	I'm so glad you pointed that Out because since uh frankly, since uh Claude Code came out, I have been working harder than ever before.
	I I've never put in more hours building things.
	So AI didn't replace what guys like you and I do because we are the innovators, we're the creators.
	AI just allowed us to actually work harder to create more stuff and at much lower costs and much higher efficiency.
	And that's that's what our audience needs to understand.
	AI is not going to take your job unless you fail to learn and fail to you know expand the uh the possibilities of what you're capable of doing, right?
	Yeah, I mean, even just 20 years ago, people didn't realize that being a software engineer or or a coder, that would be such a big and lucrative market.
	People were not as big in that space.
	And if you look back, you're like, well, these those jobs didn't actually exist 20 years ago.
	But as the world changes, new jobs emerge.
	So, yes, certain jobs will disappear, new opportunities will appear.
	You have to be ready for that shift.
	Right.
	So I think that is a more practical kind of individual ideas that people need to take home is that you need to figure out how to leverage it, otherwise you will get left behind.
	It's like saying, I'm not gonna use our internet anymore 25 years ago.
	Like it seems so asinine now, right?
	Right.
	Well, what do you think, Matt, will happen to the people who reject AI because there's also uh in conservative circles, there's a lot of uh Christians, uh, not all of them, but many of them who think that all AI is the devil and therefore they're not gonna touch it.
	And um as a result, they may find themselves obsolete in the marketplace very quickly.
	What do you think is going to happen in society for those who who you know reject learning this technology?
	I I think they need to understand that technology is really a tool.
	And they kind of put this fear in our minds that we're gonna have this artificial general intelligence, it's gonna think for us, it's gonna replace us.
	But that's actually not how technology works.
	There's no indicator that AI is thinking for itself or becoming human.
	Um, but they will say these types of things in order to justify the ridiculously high valuations that they have for the AI economy, AI stocks, AI businesses.
	They can't justify it unless they say that they're about to break through to a new kind of demographic or new kind of breakthrough technology.
	But the reality is it's a it is an extremely efficient search model that's able to do a little bit of logic, a little bit of coding, a little bit of engineering, a little bit of thinking, but it's not actually thinking.
	It's just collecting data in a way that it's been trained to do.
	So it's a language model.
	So we are not at this AGI level yet.
	I actually don't think we're very close to that at all, regardless of what people tell you.
	Well, okay, that's that's yeah, let's have that discussion because uh there's you know you've probably heard of recursive reasoning as Samsung put out a science paper on the new model, which was only a seven million parameter model, not seven billion, seven million, a thousand times smaller than let's say Mistral 7B.
	And using recursive reasoning, which is a very simple uh flow, you just throw tokens at it and it keeps feeding its own answers back into itself.
	It just takes longer time.
	But you know, a seven million parameter model is blazing fast anyway.
	So using recursive reasoning, it was able to beat, you know, like uh ChatGPT, I think 3.5 and a bunch of these other models with with one ten thousandth uh the number of neurons in in the digital space.
	Um seems to me that things like recursive reasoning or chain of thought reasoning are beginning to actually show thinking capabilities.
	I agree it's not AGI, I wouldn't call it that, but there's there's reasoning.
	Like, for example, I can take a bunch of Python code and I can paste it into an AI engine, even my own, and I can just say, tell me what this does in plain English, and it figures it out and explains it to me in English.
	Like that's clearly way beyond you know word prediction statistical analysis.
	This is something else.
	That's that's like structuring knowledge somehow.
	What do you think?
	Yeah.
	It is calculating faster, it is processing information quicker, but it's not doing the things that humans can do.
	Humans are able to invent, humans are able to have a huge level of humanity to certain problems that an AI cannot do.
	I think when you are taking code to explain code, it makes sense.
	But when you're taking code to explain human-to-human behavior, it's gonna struggle because it's gonna go to the most logical solution.
	But as we know, humans are actually very illogical and irrational.
	So I think there's a little bit gap there.
	And I think that's really what I mean when we're talking about can it replace humans or will it be kind of this artificial being that a lot of the Christian and conservative side fear.
	Yeah, well, exactly.
	And at the same time this is happening, there's clearly also the weaponization of AI technology by governments to spy on their own people.
	You've got Palantir in the US.
	And you've got California pass a law to have the California Ministry of Truth technology division uh approve your AI model or you can't release it, you know.
	And I just gave them the finger on that.
	Uh forget it.
	Uh, we're gonna release it anyway, screw you.
	Um but talk about AI weaponization being used to enslave humanity rather than empower.
	Yeah, I well, I think most of the big systems that we have are really control mechanisms, right?
	And if you are a ruler of the world and you are in charge of a large subset of society, you actually want to make your job easier and you don't want a lot of problems.
	In order to do that, you have to build various control mechanisms in order to control the population, in order to make it give predictable outcomes.
	And I think AI is just one of them of the many.
	Um, the other would be social media, the other would be uh what we eat, what we view, what we see, what we talk about.
	It's all designed in order to control and mold our way and view of thinking.
	It it's similar really to the monetary system, also, isn't it?
	Like the money actually isn't that real.
	If you can print money anytime you want, unlimited amounts of it, then I don't know if that's a real thing.
	The whole it's designed in order to keep you down.
	The whole system is designed to keep and make you more controllable.
	I think the problem with the AI is that we are told that it's gonna overtake our lives, and by doing that, it's taking away the power for us to control it.
	Uh it's giving people a level of fear that's saying, hey, this is out of control, I need to comply with it, not realizing that they actually have ultimate power because what they can do, you can do also, at least for now.
	I I read this book by uh Eric Schmidt recently.
	And Eric Schmidt, Google, whatever, not good guy.
	Fine.
	But he talked about this idea of how AI will have two new classes of people.
	There will be the ruling class, which will be the people who decide what you see in your AI.
	So who decide the algorithm, who decide what's important, who decide how it works and and what you see.
	And then there will be those that just are controlled by the systems and rules and rails that those people have decide.
	So this is a new classification of people.
	We call them um the creators and then the consumers.
	The consumers.
	And I thought that was a really interesting way to kind of frame that, you know?
	Well, we're all we're already seeing that because we see that the CIA now controls the narratives of Chat GPT.
	We see that big pharma is heavily influencing it.
	We see that also uh Netanyahu and the ADL are pushing all AI to eliminate any criticism of Israel from whatever reason.
	I can't imagine why.
	Um, this is one of the reasons why, you know, we launched our standalone model.
	Let me just show people.
	If you go to Bright U.ai, and this is free, you click on downloads right here.
	And right here, you download this GGUF file.
	Okay, you can run it locally on your own computer.
	All you need is a cheap graphics card.
	Nobody can censor it.
	I mean, this this is the total democratization of the entirety of human knowledge condensed into a 12 billion parameter model that's been memory wiped of all the pro-pharma bias, by the way.
	And Matt, you know, this is the ultimate decentralization.
	I would imagine governments are gonna try to outlaw standalone models because they want to be able to control everything in the cloud where they can change and reshape the narrative day by day, like the Ministry of Truth to match the current administration's whatever lies and propaganda they're pushing out.
	That that seems to be the way they're going, right?
	Yeah, I think people need to learn how to run their own language models or their own AM models locally.
	I think that's really important.
	Yep.
	I think there will be a technological shift as far as hardware to create machines specifically because it is very intensive.
	Right now, you have what you say, 7 billion parameters.
	Uh, our model's a 12 billion parameter.
	12 billion parameters.
	But eventually you're gonna want to expand at 32, you're gonna want to expand 64.
	Yeah, totally.
	Because that's kind of the greed in people that I want to have a more comprehensive model.
	And um, and you're going to need ways to be able to process that.
	It's not easy on uh small machines to do it.
	I mean, I I run a MacBook Pro with 64 gigs of RAM, and it's not easy to run over that too many complicated models at very slow.
	Yeah.
	So I think there is gonna be a push for that, and I think that's actually needed.
	Uh I think so too.
	Systems and hardware in place to help people run their own models locally because using centralized models, it's that's bad news.
	Well, right.
	And the open source community, I think you and I are both longtime supporters of you know open source code, and and that's that's why we we support that whole philosophy.
	That's why we we put out our model for free.
	And we built it on a base model.
	In this case, it's the Mistral uh Nemo 12 billion parameter model that the Mistro company put out for free.
	Also, so there's a there's a very rich, abundant uh open source community of models at hugging face, you know, millions of models to choose from.
	And I think it's too late for the powers that be to put that back in the box.
	It's like, how can they ban math?
	You know, how can they ban linear algebra?
	How can they ban like gaming graphics cards?
	You know, it's too late.
	I mean, that that's always my kind of my pause when they talk about the AI arms race.
	Because they talk about well, the United States, we have to build AI faster and first and bigger first, because otherwise we're gonna lose this arms race to China.
	And that's kind of narrative, and that is what justifies the United States and the United States government spending so much money in order to grow these models and grow these data centers.
	Yeah.
	But what does that actually mean to lose?
	Because what we're finding out quickly is that once someone develops it, the other other country or other company, other people can just copy it and roll it out because that's where we are in technology.
	Right.
	So they just want first mover advantage as far as the economics, but there's no losing to the other side because if the other side builds it, this side also gets it.
	Well, okay, that's interesting.
	There's a book called Uh If anyone builds it, every everyone dies.
	Have you heard of that book?
	It's by a machine learning scientist, forgot his name.
	But what I've heard a lot of experts argue is that if China were to develop, let's say superintelligence first, within microseconds, they would basically go full Skynet and use it to dominate the world and you know, hack into everybody else's infrastructure, shut down the world, and say, you know, you're all slaves to us now.
	Because if they don't do that, you know, this is the two Scorpions in a jar game theory, right?
	If they don't do that, then they would anticipate that if the US gets to superintelligence first, that the US would invoke exactly that scenario.
	So aren't we at a race to like total destruction if they manage to achieve like really uh super intelligent systems that have you know IQ 1000, let's say well, that that's also assuming that we can get there that that's actually possible, that there is a level of um AI aptitude where it is so strong, but there's nothing that says we're even close to that.
	And my biggest it's a very non-technical reason to believe that we're not even close.
	But it's it's very hard to decipher what is true, what is not.
	So my logical but non-technical reasoning for saying that if we were close to some sort of superintelligence, then I don't believe that the major players in AI that they would be spending their time or efforts on things like marketing,
	on things like app development, on things like integrating with other services on video on how to make anime bots, you know.
	Like this is not something that would focus on because if they're close to that finish line, or if they saw that finish line in sight, every single dollar and resource and Man that they have will be put on their project to get them there first.
	Uh-huh.
	They wouldn't care about valuations, they wouldn't care about stocks, they wouldn't care about burning money, they wouldn't care about video generators, they wouldn't care about making um deep fakes, they wouldn't care about making AI porn, um, you know, anime like Groc is doing, they wouldn't think about that stuff at all.
	Because whoever gets to superintelligence first wins.
	The fact that they are spending on all these other auxiliary projects to me shows that they're actually not even they're they're so far from it, they're not even thinking about it.
	Like they're thinking about long-term revenue first.
	You don't care about money if you're close to that because the first person to get there makes sense.
	Money became becomes obsolete at that point.
	Obsolete.
	Right.
	Exactly.
	You essentially get to take over the entire world.
	Well, there is the fact that that's not where their resources are going, that that gives me a big pause.
	And I know overly technical uh answer to that, but if you were close, would you care about anything else?
	You're about to rule the world.
	That's what these people care about.
	And I also, it's funny because I hear machine learning scientists talk in sort of godlike utopian terms where they say things like AI is going to solve physics or it's going to solve uh cancer.
	And they think that that means an AI machine is going to come up with a synthetic molecule that cures cancer.
	I can already tell you that's never going to be true because if you keep eating pro-cancer foods, your body's gonna keep making cancer.
	And frankly, we already know the answers to cancer, they're just suppressed.
	Okay.
	I mean, we already have actually it's all in the model that we just released.
	You want to know there's like 50 cures for cancer that you can access for free.
	So, you know, for every kind of cancer.
	So that's already been solved.
	We don't need superintelligence.
	This is kind of getting back to your point.
	What we need is freedom.
	We need to stop the suppression and censorship of human knowledge that already solves the problems for humanity.
	Does that make sense?
	Yeah.
	I think that the solution to kind of this disturbance future that they paint on us is that we need to go into the things that make us human, meaning compassion, empathy, the things that AI won't ever be able to replace, AI will be able to do calculations faster.
	AI will be able to do logic better.
	Yeah, it will have a better memory, it'll be able to pull more information.
	But it's like saying, you know, 25 years ago, we used to do mental math.
	We don't do those, we don't do that anymore.
	And then we went to a regular calculator, then we went to like a TI83 and then T 85, and then all of a sudden it's doing calculus.
	Right.
	But it doesn't, it didn't change the fact on how we've solved problems.
	We took those tools and we were able to create better and greater things.
	We just have to make sure that the tools aren't controlling us and that we're controlling the tools.
	Totally.
	And I think that's really important for people.
	Now, Matt, can I ask you maybe some personal questions about your history?
	Because I'm I've I've only come to know you this year uh from interviewing you.
	And I I don't know much about your history.
	What is it in your life that made you such an advocate of human freedom and you know, knowledge expansion?
	Um I don't I don't know if it was any one thing specifically, but I do know that I hit COVID was really interesting for me because at first I really wanted to believe kind of the scientists, the doctors, etc.
	Because why would they lie to you?
	I wanted to believe the government.
	Why would they lie to you about something that if you go outside and you call if you're gonna kill grandma, like why would you lie to someone about that?
	How bad of a person, how evil of a person do you have to be to go out there and blatantly say that to people's face?
	If you go outside and you cough, you're gonna kill grandma, so you gotta stay home.
	It must be serious, no?
	It has to be.
	There's no way the world is so upside down that institutions would blatantly lie to you and weaponize your grandma to do it.
	And then you realize they were lying to you straight to your face.
	Yep.
	And you see the censorship, you see how they molded a narrative, you see how the whole entire era, the COVID era, was used to build control mechanisms around you to justify their surveillance mechanisms.
	And as you see more and more and more of it, once you realize what's going on, you can't unsee it.
	And I think that's really what is.
	It's I have a very young daughter.
	And I don't want her to live in a world, number one, of full control and surveillance.
	But number two, I don't want her to live in pure compliance.
	And if I want that life for my daughter, you know, kids don't learn by you telling them to live a certain way.
	You actually have to live a certain way.
	And then they mimic you.
	So I feel like I have to.
	Not necessarily I want to.
	But if I'm if I'm thinking about future generations, I'm thinking about what life will be like for my daughter and her daughter and their daughter.
	We have no choice, actually.
	We have to question, we have to push back, and we have to retain some resemblance of freedom.
	Otherwise, like that's it.
	Did you uh did you grow up in the United States?
	You live in the US your whole life?
	Yeah, I was born here, I was raised here, and um, yeah, I've lived here, I've moved around a lot within the United States, New York, New Jersey, Ohio, I live in Georgia now.
	So I've been through kind of a lot of it.
	Okay.
	So do you see Western culture, especially in the US as moving in the direction of embracing liberty and freedom, or is it more sort of surrendering to the authoritarian systems that seem to be emerging?
	I we are moving very closely to the China model, which is that there's one government, one party, one authoritarian rule, and then they keep the population in the country safe by rolling out surveillance, by tracking people, by taking away certain civil liberties, but it's okay because for the general population, it may be better.
	And that's kind of the pitch.
	I think that's the model we're moving into.
	I think the biggest concern of that was kind of the whole TikTok thing.
	You see in in China, like, oh, they got the great firewall, they don't get to see what's outside the world.
	They only know what they only know what's within China, what the party wants to tell you.
	Well, we're creating the same exact model.
	We're trying to create this firewall around us.
	The US will have the US only algorithm, and therefore we can control that.
	You can't have information from outside the world.
	They want to do the same thing.
	In China, they use WeChat in order to do your communications, to do your uh payment system, to track every dollar that you spend.
	If you go and you cross a street and you jaywalk, it just comes out of your account.
	If you say something that is, you know, dissenting to the party, then they dock you your credit.
	And it's not like, no, they think that in China the social credit score is a number, but it's not.
	It's your finance history, it is your uh what you've said online, it is your job history.
	It is an agglomation of all the things that you do in your life, and they use that to justify are you a good person or bad.
	So basically, we're living in black mirrors.
	This government wants we're we're living in black mirror.
	I mean, and it it it's just continuing to evolve.
	Uh what's uh I'm sorry to interrupt you there, but uh what's your reaction to the fact that in uh the UK and other EU countries, they are passing laws to literally monitor all private chats so they can, you know, for safety reasons, so they can catch people chatting about not liking Keir Stalin or whoever is in charge at the moment.
	We're here from the government and we're to help.
	Yeah, right.
	Isn't that what they always say?
	They use that for your safety, and they use that to leverage and they create more fear, they make it sound like the world is falling around you, they make you feel kind of panicked, and then they come out with a solution and say, hey, look, for your safety, we're gonna add more cameras to your street.
	We're gonna add more cameras to your front door, we're gonna add cameras into the cars.
	And do you know what?
	It's really hard for you to monitor it, so we'll just monitor it for you.
	And God forbid something happens to you.
	So we'll just send someone there just in case before it happens, and you feel good, you feel safe.
	You know, if you are in a luxury condo, a luxury condo means more surveillance, more cameras.
	That's actually what a luxury condo means these days, right?
	Right.
	More smart features.
	They know when you're coming in, they know when you're coming out.
	You know, in Ohio, I saw this bill that they're trying to pass where they said, if you're using too much electricity in the summertime, we will just change your temperature in your house for you.
	And slowly, by one by one, they take away your rights, they take away your civil liberties, but they exchange it for what they call safety.
	I don't want the government keeping me safe any longer.
	Because every time they say they're keeping you safe, it's the opposite.
	I want them to get out of my life and let me decide what's good for me.
	You know, like I'm even against the whole forced people to wear seatbelts thing, actually.
	Yeah, well, I I'm I'm all for human liberty as well.
	I mean, people should be allowed to choose whether they want to wear masks.
	Or, you know, look, if you're dumb enough to not wear a seatbelt, that's your own suicide mission choice, you know, right?
	Um there are situations where where people make a conscious choice not to wear seat belts.
	Uh for example, uh, like one one time when I was uh given a speech at a place with a high security profile, they assigned me a security guy.
	He specifically did not wear seatbelts so that he can move more quickly uh in an incident.
	So there's a rational reason to not wear seat belts sometimes, right?
	But what do you think, Matt, of the fact that you know you mentioned electricity and how the state wants to go in and alter your thermostat settings to make sure you're not using too much electricity?
	Well, on the Eastern Connection that runs the 13 U.S. states, which includes Virginia and Tennessee also, by the way, in Pennsylvania, of course, uh, that power grid is just toast.
	Like they've said you can't add any more data centers.
	It's already tapped out.
	But that's also where all the secret CIA data centers are being built, you know, for the government and the DOD.
	So they need more power, but they don't have it.
	And some of that is the race to AI superintelligence.
	And so they say we need this.
	At what point, Matt, do we start being told, especially people on the eastern half of the US, well, hey, you can't have air conditioning, you can't have heating, you can't charge your electric car today because we need the power grid for the race to superintelligence.
	We gotta divert your power to the data centers, or we all might die.
	Like I can see that being the message.
	Yeah, it's it's scary, isn't it?
	That they will they want power and they want more money.
	That's really the end goal, right?
	They want more power, they want more money.
	And will they get there?
	Will they not get there?
	They actually I don't even think they actually care.
	They just need to keep on building.
	They need to create, they have to keep their stocks up.
	I think the biggest indicator of that is that, you know, when we look at the economy, it's like, well, the economy is doing great because the stock market is up.
	And I'm looking around, going, well, the economy is not that great.
	People are having a hard time.
	Things are really expensive, they're not getting any cheaper.
	Yeah.
	But you keep on telling me it's okay because the economy is good.
	Well, you can't let systems fall.
	You can't let companies fail.
	And if your companies are over-leveraged and overvalued, then you can't just say, oh, just kidding, we have to recorrect.
	So they have to keep pushing it forward.
	I don't know what they're gonna do with the energy problem because they keep on building all these AI data centers.
	People's energy prices are going through the roof.
	Yes.
	And, you know, it's taking up, I mean, the reason that most people's energy bills are up is because of the data centers.
	They're drawing so much energy, and there is a finite amount of it.
	Maybe that's why we're going after Venezuela.
	I've thought about that a lot.
	Yeah.
	You know, why do we even care about Venezuela?
	Why are we in this war?
	Why are we pretending like we care about this war on drugs when obviously they don't care because they are the biggest drug dealers in the world?
	Um, but all of a sudden we have this war on drugs and we're blowing up all these, all these boats in the water and just like why?
	Wha why do we even care about Venezuela?
	Well, because they have a lot of energy and we need a lot of energy, you know?
	True.
	I don't know what the solution is.
	Well, what do you think about modular or small modular reactors, which are the these small nuclear reactors that can produce uh I think up to 300 megawatts, that's the larger one that and they can, you know, you can swap out the fuel every few years, you know, the fuel rods uh using um like a tractor trailer.
	Uh these these are made by companies like Westinghouse and and I think Raytheon has them.
	Uh I've heard a lot of talk about these small modular reactors uh being relatively quickly set up and installed on the power grid compared to the typical Westinghouse AP 1000 nuclear power plants that take about uh 15 years to build and approve, you know.
	15 years from now, are you it's over?
	I mean, the the i if there's gonna be superintelligence, you know, it's it's gonna happen before 20, what would that be, 2040 or whatever?
	Um maybe, but what do you think?
	What do you think about the modular reactors?
	I don't I don't know much about it.
	Why don't you tell me a little more about it?
	What are like what are they cost?
	Where are they putting them?
	I don't have as much context.
	Maybe you can fill me in.
	Well, I mean, right now, when the power grid needs energy, they typically will will set up uh gas plants, right, to run natural gas.
	Because that's with gas turbines, because that's the simplest kind of quickest way.
	Um, or they'll run big portable diesel generators because that's very expensive.
	Um the small module reactors, uh there's no question they're coming online, probably starting next year.
	And again, they can go from 20 megawatts to 300 megawatts.
	And the thing is they don't require the long-term, you know, like like the five-year plan and the same evacuation plans as a regular nuclear power plant.
	You can put them almost like in neighborhoods because they're considered much safer, and the main units can be brought in on the back of a of an 18-wheeler rig.
	So I mean it's still a fission.
	Huh?
	Is there a lot of pushback for that?
	I haven't even heard much of that.
	Not that I've heard.
	Look, here, you know, the whole ecological argument, you know, every climate change, carbon dioxide, even anti-nuclear, that has been just completely silenced in the race to superintelligence.
	Because like power is now the number one priority, especially with Trump and the White House, it's like, you know, just set up every every power source that you can think of.
	You know, because China produces more than twice the power of the United States.
	Far more.
	Over 10,000 terawatt hours annually, that's what China produces.
	And they're building more, I mean, we can't even compete with China's energy.
	And you know, they're running that new pipeline from Russia from the Yamal fields all the way uh through Mongolia up into northern China.
	Uh 50 million uh, I'm sorry, 50 billion cubic meters of gas per year is gonna go through that pipeline.
	Whoa.
	That's energy, man.
	Well, I got I gotta I got a separate question for you then.
	Because there's so much put on this idea of you gotta beat other countries and you gotta remain kind of the world power, right?
	Because otherwise you lose.
	But what happens if the United States is no longer the top number one world power?
	Is that actually the worst thing?
	No, it's actually it's actually a good thing to live in a multipolar world where power is decentralized across nations that interact with each other based on trade and ideas rather than bombs and coercion.
	That's my opinion.
	Because so much effort is to be is given to the United States and the military and to these data centers and AI and everything else in order to retain kind of the top of the food chain pyramid.
	But in the process, regular Americans, regular citizens, like people are having a hard time.
	It's not gonna get better.
	Oh, yeah.
	What if we're like, let's just figure out how to figure out how the United States can operate on its own and not worry about what the rest of the world is doing.
	And if that means you fault number two or God forbid, number three, so be it.
	Well, I think why is there such a greed to remain number one at all cost when Matt, I hate to say this because it's gonna sound anti-American, but I'm not.
	I love America.
	I love Texas.
	I wouldn't want to live anywhere else.
	But since the Bretton Woods agreement and the petrodollar, the United States of America has been ripping off the entire world by printing money and exchanging it for goods and energy and minerals and et cetera.
	And that scam, it's a scam to have the world reserve currency be able to print the currency and trade it for everything.
	That scam is so lucrative that it has allowed Americans to live relatively in in a wealthy manner compared to everybody else in the world almost.
	And that scam is coming to an end, and that's why they're using the Navy and the military to try to enforce all that and and assassinations all over the world.
	But you already know all that.
	I mean, you talk about that.
	If we went back to say, hey, we have 10 years of less technology, but you had more time, you can spend time with your family.
	Uh you don't have to worry about a crumbling debt around you.
	I think I'd take that trade, actually.
	Yeah.
	You know, I don't know if I need another 10 years of technology first.
	What if we had Facebook later than another country?
	I think I'd be all right with that.
	Why do we have to first people that everyone uses Facebook or X or whatever?
	What's wrong with not getting there first?
	And you know, I didn't think like that before.
	I was like, no, we have to get there first.
	You have to be number one.
	But I've slowly come, maybe, maybe because I have a family or whatever else now.
	Maybe it's not as important as it once was.
	And I don't know.
	Maybe that makes me like kind of anti-American.
	I don't know if it does or not.
	No, but I think you're getting to the life here to be better, you know?
	The values that that give meaning to life and human civilization.
	Those values are never captured by the GDP.
	They're never captured by energy or how many terawatt hours on the power grid.
	It's just like you say, I mean, some of the the most fun times I have is you know, out in nature, like jogging in the sunshine, exercising in the woods, checking on my goats or my dogs, training with my dog, you know.
	I mean, uh, I don't have kids, but you know, if I did, it would be spending time with family, right?
	So you're you're right.
	I mean, that's that's what should matter, but we all get caught up in this rat race that actually destroys the quality of life in the quest for something that's artificial, which is uh material wealth.
	Yeah, I I feel like there needs to be and I see it amongst actually youngest generation.
	I've seen a trend amongst kind of the Gen Z, Genuai or Alpha, Gen Alpha, whatever we want to call them, of going back to separating themselves from technology a little bit, of going back to wired headphones versus wireless.
	I've seen uh the Gen Z go into parties where they lock their phones up at the bar in boxes, and you're not allowed to have your phone at the party.
	That's great.
	Which is I love that actually.
	Yeah.
	And you know, we always talk about this pendulum switch swing, and we always think that it's a it's a um political, you know, a right versus left pendulum.
	But really, I think the pendulum swing is people that are so focused on technology, and the youngest generation goes, Well, like all the old guys, they all only want to talk about technology these days.
	I'm just gonna talk about being outside.
	And maybe that's a good thing.
	Well, I I completely agree with you.
	And you know, I live on a ranch, I I have backyard chickens, and on any given weekend that you know, I'm raking out the chicken coop or collecting eggs or whatever, and I think that's important.
	I I take time every day off my desk, you know, away from the AI agents to go out and experience the real world.
	Uh, but not everybody, you know, uh does it that way.
	And and Matt, the the thing that I the vision that I have for living a free, decentralized life is to be as far from the city as possible, to be as off-grid as possible, but to be technology augmented where it makes the off-grid living more efficient.
	So, for example, having your own local AI model like the one we just put out, yeah, that's great, because if the internet goes down, I can still have I can ask and answer any question right on my own computer without an internet.
	And also robotics, I'd like to ask you about robotics because my vision of robots is that uh small humanoid robots will be able to help people live a more rural lifestyle because a rural lifestyle is very labor-intensive, or or home gardening.
	Imagine growing your own food with the help of a robot that can do a lot of the manual tasks that are laborious.
	You know, I actually think that can be valuable.
	We're gonna run into this weird part of society where we have robots and then we're gonna be arguing, well, do you want a centrally controlled robot or a locally operated robot, right?
	Yes, open source brains.
	Yes.
	Because do I want a government run robot running around my house?
	No, no, no, no.
	I don't know if I do.
	But then will they allow?
	Will they allow you to have your own operated robot?
	Well, somebody will build it.
	We're like, of course they would, but somebody will make it.
	And then are we censoring the people?
	Are we restricting it?
	Are we putting regulations so that you can't because they can justify?
	Well, if you have a robot, it can be a weapon.
	We can't just let people have subhuman or um, you know, these types of weapons in their house because it can be leveraged for other things.
	They'll create a psyop or a false flag where uh someone's locally run robot goes out and creates some sort of mass havoc and like, oh, we told you that's why you can't have them.
	Totally.
	You can only use control, and you're like, oh fuck, we're back in this cycle all over again.
	Well, that's a I'm you really see where this is going.
	I'm glad you mentioned that.
	But um, yeah, they might they might outlaw uh hacking your robot brains.
	Um I'm gonna do it anyway.
	Yeah, I mean, I don't because I have the right, I mean, software is freedom of speech, software is protected by first amendment.
	So it maybe I buy a Tesla robot, let's say, and then sooner or later somebody's gonna have like a hack kit.
	I plug this in, I run it, zap, you know, now it's running my software instead of talking and it's not reporting back to you know the the Tesla company all the time.
	You're gonna have robot hack just like did you know right now, like if you buy um like a diesel truck, well, you can flash the computer on your on your truck or your car to bypass emissions or whatever, and that that black market exists right now.
	I think the same thing is gonna be for robots.
	Yeah, but you know, people have this tendency, and I don't know what it is, but I think we all kind of go through it.
	It's like you can jailbreak your iPhone and you can flash it and you can have it run so that it's not as tracking you, and you can do all these things.
	But then they roll out a new update, and you kind of want the new features of the update, and you're like, all right, I'm just gonna plug back in because you know, I heard I can get like transparent glass buttons, and how could I not want those?
	So it's actually not difficult to get people to come back into the system.
	All you gotta do is give the features to the people that comply, and the people that don't comply eventually just well, I want those features too, because that looks pretty cool.
	You know, I want dark mode, and then all of a sudden you just got them all back.
	And I don't know what that is in us as humans because so even me.
	And I talked about this really briefly.
	Um, I think online the other day.
	I'm so anti government monitoring and tracking, and I don't want them restricting where I go.
	But then I go to the airport.
	And I'm like, oh, but that TSA pre-check is so nice.
	It's so nice because I don't have to wait in this long line.
	I can just go right through.
	I don't have to take my computer on my back.
	I travel a lot, I'm flying a lot.
	I can either spend my afternoon in this line, which is miserable, or I can do this TSA pre-check and go right through.
	And I know they're watching me.
	I know they're giving me permission to travel, although it's my decision if I want to go somewhere or not, but I still need to seek their permission to travel, and I hate it, but I still do it because the convenience of TSA pre-check is so good, especially in a very high stress travel situation.
	And that that like really makes me mad about myself sometimes.
	You know, that I do it willingly.
	Freedom is never convenient in a tyrannical society, right?
	So think about even just using crypto or using privacy crypto or going through all kinds of tasks to try to create privacy out of your non-private Bitcoin, for example, right?
	Or even using a VPN, you know, company that that you help build VP.net, which is you know, it's a zero-knowledge VPN that's I think the best in the world, by the way, VP.net.
	Um it's a pain for a typical user, especially the older side of users to install and use a VPN, even if it's just one button, it's like it's another step.
	And I've had lots of people ask me, like, should I use a VPN to log into this bank or whatever?
	I'm like, you know, not people don't understand what VPNs do, actually.
	I've I've come to discover.
	They think it like blocks everything, and it it doesn't.
	It just changes your origin IP address.
	But it doesn't delete your cookies on your browser and all the things you already have set.
	You know, it doesn't delete your Google profile, you know.
	Yeah, we talked about this last time.
	A VPN, if you're taking your online privacy seriously, you don't want your information all out in the world, you don't want people to track you, then the VPN doesn't solve all your problems.
	Really, what it is is in a system or a layered step of how to keep yourself private.
	It's the base layer.
	So you get your VPN and then you put other protocols or other processes on top of it in order to protect yourself online.
	But the base layer is your VPN.
	So everyone should be operating under a VPN, everyone should be using one because it's doing the minimal things required to at least mask you online.
	But it doesn't make you completely invisible.
	Right.
	There are a lot of things to do.
	And if someone really wants to target you, they can.
	It's not about targeted protection, it's about blanketed protection.
	You just don't want to be a part of the mob.
	Do you remember the movie with Gene Hackman and Will Smith called Enemy of the State?
	I think that was 1997.
	And that movie was like 20 years ahead of its time because everything that's depicted in that movie came true about government surveillance, satellite surveillance, turning off your bank accounts, etc.
	But the the Gene Hackman character, uh, he was a former NSA guy uh in the in the movie, that was his role.
	He not only had this EMP proof compound with a giant Faraday cage with all his computers, he had it rigged with explosives so that he could like pull a switch and blow the whole thing up and escape, which happened in the movie.
	Now that's probably going too far for privacy.
	Like you shouldn't have to rig your computer with explosives, is my point, you know.
	But somewhere in between the rig everything with explosives versus do nothing, there's probably a sweet spot of how you can protect your privacy with some efficient effort.
	Does that make sense?
	Yeah, I think for 90, 95% of the population, having a VPN will give you a level of protection and privacy that probably you need.
	If you are investigative journalist, maybe you're working on very high high-level projects, if you're working on very sensitive technologies, you probably want something a little more robust.
	But for the general population, where there aren't people specifically looking for you, a VPN is going to be enough.
	Again, it's not the save all from everything, but it is a base layer of your privacy.
	And if you are just a normal American, normal human being living your life, get a VPN.
	I recommend VP.net.
	And yeah, I do too.
	And turn it on.
	And you know, like it's better than not having it.
	You know, okay.
	I'm I'm asking our AI engine.
	How does a VPN help protect my privacy online?
	Okay, let's see what it says.
	Encrypts internet traffic, IP masking.
	Hold on, it's scrolling, it's auto-scrolling.
	Um tunneling, tunneling protocols, no logs policy.
	That's that's VP.net.
	Some VPNs do log uh uh preventing DNS leaks, protecting against IPv6 leaks.
	Oh, that's interesting.
	That's pretty rare, but that can happen.
	Um so this is good information.
	Yeah, yeah.
	I think the no logs policy is interesting because that's really the problem that we went out to solve when we created VP.net.
	Yeah.
	Because no logs policy means that it's a policy decision, meaning that all your other VPNs have the ability to spy on you, they have the ability to see what you're doing.
	Not saying that they are logging it, but they can.
	And the problem with humans is that if they're given the opportunity to you, or the government shows up with the government gun and they say, tell me what so and so is doing on the internet, tell me what Mike Adams is doing on the internet.
	Most humans will say, Oh, yes, sir, here you go.
	Because they're not gonna go to bat for you as one individual.
	It's not worth it, or is it financially feasible for them to do?
	We created VPN VP.net so that it is impossible for us to log or see or correlate your traffic.
	That's a huge difference, actually.
	Meaning that we do not know what you're doing online.
	It is impossible for us to connect you and the destination.
	And that is the biggest differentiator between what VP.net is doing versus what every other VPN in the world, every single VPN in the world, what they are doing.
	Every single VPN in the world knows what you are doing the moment you are doing it.
	That's right.
	That's right.
	And uh uh I I think honestly, I think a lot of the VPNs are just um uh like baby traps.
	Yeah, honey pot traps.
	Yeah.
	There's there's no question about it.
	Because, you know, let's say by the way, we're almost out of time.
	I can't believe it, but let's say you're a US senator who's got some creepy perv thing, and you want to go, I don't know, on the dark web and search for like furry porn or whatever you're into.
	Um the VPN knows that about you, like because you signed up with your credit card, probably, because you didn't use you know privacy crypto to do it, which is silly.
	Um, but you sign up with a credit card with some VPN that's actually run by Mossad, and now they've got blackmail on you.
	Now you're gonna do whatever they say.
	So that I believe that happens every day.
	So, like, number one, don't search for furry porn.
	Um, don't be a perv online.
	Uh if you're gonna be a perv.
	It doesn't mean it's a good idea.
	Yeah.
	Be a private perv.
	No, don't be an online perv.
	Uh keep it, you know, keep it in your own weird bedroom, whatever.
	Talk about privacy coins.
	Did just add uh Xeno and Freedom Dollar to the payment methods uh vp.net.
	Oh, that's great.
	You are a if you want to use an anonymous token, those are the two that I personally like also.
	I like Xano recommend.
	Cool.
	Okay, so VP.net is a website, folks, and uh, yeah, I do encourage you to pay with Xano.
	I think I think Xano is the most promising uh privacy crypto infrastructure.
	I agree.
	It's more than a coin, it's a whole infrastructure.
	I've been watching that project very closely.
	It's pretty amazing.
	Um, they're really focused on not not making it a project where okay, we're gonna try to um increase our valuation or that that doesn't seem like their focus.
	Their focus like, how do we build an ecosystem where people can actually live their lives using private tokens?
	Yeah, totally.
	And I like that mission.
	I'm a more mission-driven person.
	I like the fact that they have a real focus rather than when moon, when Lambo, which is 99.9% of crypto projects out there.
	Uh when are we gonna moon?
	When are we gonna Lambo?
	How do I have 3X, 4X, 5X?
	Great.
	I mean, there's a lot of things you can make money on these days.
	Yeah.
	But to actually have purpose that provides value to society, I I really like what they're doing.
	Totally.
	Right there with you.
	Well, and then that's what we believe, that's what you believe.
	Let me mention how people can follow you again on the X. Here it is, free Matt Kim is the username there on X. And Matt, um, thank you for joining me today.
	This has been a lot of fun.
	We'll have to do it again soon.
	Thank you, Mike.
	Thank you for having me on, and uh I appreciate everybody.
	And we'll definitely get together soon.
	We're gonna come on my show.
	I'd love to come on your show.
	Yeah, just just reach out.
	Oh, hey, um, after we finish recording, stay tuned.
	Let me give you my direct contact info too.
	Uh so just stand by.
	All right, thanks for watching everybody.
	Mike Adams here with Brightcheon.com, and just another great conversation with Matt Kim.
	So check out his work on X and also check out VP.net.
	Thanks for watching today.
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