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Nov. 11, 2025 - Health Ranger - Mike Adams
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Learn to LIVE BROKE (and prosper through any collapse)
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Okay, I've got a very important economic principle to share with you here, something for you to think about.
Even if you are well off, we all need to learn to live broke.
And that's the title of today's podcast, Learn to Live Broke.
I also shared this idea with my friend Dan at iAllegedly, and he's got a YouTube channel on finance.
So he may do a podcast with the same name if you're wondering.
That's why, because we talk a lot, share ideas and so on.
But this concept is going to become really, really critical here as the economy implodes.
We are looking at a depression, an economic depression.
No question about it.
It's actually way worse.
This is going to be worse than the Great Depression.
We're going to see a contraction of our economy, which has already begun, that will be absolutely just disastrous for a lot of people and a lot of lives.
Many, many people, I mean millions next year will be fired from their jobs or laid off.
Millions.
We're going to see unemployment rates really begin to skyrocket.
Of course, the government, the way they report those numbers is dishonest, but in terms of real unemployment, we're going to go from wherever we are now, I don't know what it is now, 15%, 20%.
It's going to go to 50%, but it's going to take several years to get there.
But it will be at 50% of the population.
You know, again, the government will never say 50%, but that's going to be the real number.
So how do you navigate this and succeed?
And I did a previous podcast called How to Use AI to Develop Your Personal Renaissance, which is about starting business ideas or expanding your skill set or expanding the services that you offer or finding new ways to generate revenue by using AI to help develop business proposals and reduce risks, things that are aligned with your values and beliefs and your skills.
But that's a separate podcast.
This podcast is about living on less.
Learn to live broke.
Now, I had a family member years ago, maybe 20 years ago, who said something to me that I never forgot.
He said, everybody's broke just on a different level.
And what he meant by that is that even rich people are broke in the sense that they don't have spare cash.
You know, everybody's got all their cash tied up one way or another.
Whether you're living as a wealthy person or you're living as a middle class person or an impoverished person, nobody's just sitting on piles of cash that's uncommitted because that's kind of a waste.
I mean, you're losing the purchasing power of the cash.
So even wealthy people, they've got their cash put into things, whether it's investments or the stock market or gold or whatever.
So it's pretty easy for everybody to say that they're broke, even if they're living like kings, right?
But some people are really truly broke in that they have no assets, they have no investments, and they have very limited income.
And when you are in that place, and I have been in that place, I was in that place after I graduated from college and I moved to Taiwan.
And there was a point, not only did I have about $20,000 in credit card debt at that time, because that's what I used to pay my way through college with meals, you know, food and other basic expenses, right?
Transportation, gasoline, et cetera.
And I drove a car that was so run down that the muffler was held on by a coat hanger.
And there was an electrical problem, which meant that anytime it rained, if you were driving, it would stall out and you'd be stuck on the side of the road for the entire rainstorm.
Okay, that's the car I drove.
It was a total piece of junk.
But I know what it's like to be impoverished.
There was a time when I lived in Taiwan that I was down to literally the last 100 NT, which at the time was equivalent to about $4 US dollars.
And I actually found, I found 100 NT in my pocket.
And I was like, oh my God, I can eat.
You know, we can eat.
My wife and I, we were living in Taiwan.
And that was a meal for us.
And at the time, I learned how to really, really conserve money.
We were buying rice and eggs and eating rice and eggs because it was the cheapest way to still have a meal.
Go to the grocery store, get rice and eggs, and just make, you know, egg rice, fried egg rice, fried rice with egg, or in Chinese, Dan Cao Fan is what that's called.
And I've had a lifetime of Dan Cao Fan.
I still love it, by the way.
I'm not sick of it.
It's still a great meal.
But that's what I was living on for some time.
That's how broke I was.
I've been there, and maybe you've been there.
And a lot of really successful people have been through that poverty because they learned critical lessons that helped them later on in life.
But it's always valuable to have that skill to be able to live like you're broke.
So let's go through that.
What does it mean to learn to live broke?
It means, number one, you radically reduce your expenditures.
And that means, you know, restaurants, travel, the Starbucks coffee or whatever people are buying, the luxury goods, the fashion jeans, you know, whatever.
You radically cut those things out.
That's step one.
And that's actually a very simple, straightforward step.
But then secondly, you got to do that with your food also.
And most people overspend on processed junk food.
They are overspending, but they're undernourished because they're spending money on garbage at the grocery store.
That's a huge mistake.
And that mistake is made by people who are impoverished.
So low-income people tend to buy high-profit margin foods.
It's crazy, right?
You would think if you're low-income, you would be doing what I was doing in Taiwan.
You buy rice and eggs, or you buy beans, or you buy quinoa in bulk, and you make a quinoa soup meal, you know, like quinoa and salt and eggs.
I mean, nothing wrong with that.
That's what I ate actually when I was hiking through the Andes Mountains on a, like it was a seven-day hike all the way up to Machu Picchu.
And the support team that was with us, they brought quinoa and eggs and salt.
And that was it.
Because quinoa is very light.
You can add stream water to it, boil it, you add the eggs, you add the salt.
You've got quinoa egg drop soup, basically, right?
Dirt cheap, but highly nutritious.
And quinoa has a complete protein.
It has all the essential amino acids in it, plus a lot of other things.
So it's shocking to me that people who are poor, they continue to buy foods that make them more impoverished while they are typically getting diabetes and cancer and heart disease, which only worsens the whole cycle of poverty and sickness and so on, you know, pharmaceutical drug dependence, things like that.
So Learning to live poor actually means learn to make healthier food choices and to purchase bulk foods and make more of your own meals, which will improve your health, by the way.
This is why food stamps should not be approved for purchasing soda or other processed junk foods because it only perpetuates the cycle of poverty that people are already stuck in.
So that's two things.
Cut out all the luxury stuff, cut out all the processed junk food, get back to basics on your food.
Another important principle is to let go of things that you no longer need, things that are depreciating or that are costing you a lot of money.
For many people, that's a second vehicle or a third vehicle that they really don't need.
So do you have something in your possession?
That is, if you're short on cash, something that you can let go of, a vehicle, an ATV, a jet ski, a boat, I don't know, an RV, something you don't need, consider letting it go.
Now, there's a critical principle here about all of this.
And it begins with a question, why do so many Americans and Westerners, why do they live beyond their means in the first place?
And some people are just shopping addicts that just love to have new stuff all the time.
But for most people, it's that it's social standing.
They want to impress their friends, effectively, with their house or their truck or their, you know, their horse or whatever the case may be.
There's a lot of that in our culture.
People want to look like the big man or the big woman.
They want to look successful.
They want to have people over at their house and they want to have parties there because this is all part of their social circle.
So they want to look rich, even if they're living on credit for everything.
And that's really, that's a very dangerous cycle to get caught up in.
And a lot of people are caught in that.
And you can end up in bankruptcy with that kind of approach.
So not trying to be judgmental, but I would just say that if you're in that kind of situation, you might want to take a second look at the quality of your friends.
Because if your friends judge you on the square footage of your house, okay, again, not trying to be judgmental, but maybe, maybe those aren't the in-depth kind of friends that you deserve.
Maybe you deserve a higher level friend who is less shallow.
I'm just saying, that's up to you to determine, clearly, obviously.
But hopefully you surround yourselves with people who care about your character, people who care about your intellect, your values, not the size of the house in which you live.
And a couple of decades ago, when I was living in Oregon, it's very interesting because there was an elderly couple that lived down the street that my wife and I became good friends with.
This elderly couple lived in a tiny run-down blue shack, you could really call it.
But that didn't matter.
We loved to visit them and had conversations and shared tea with them and whatever.
And my wife and I always assumed that they were poor.
And so sometimes we brought them food.
You know, just like pick up an extra couple of meals at a restaurant, bring it to them, you know, sit down, have a meal together, have a nice chat, conversation.
And this couple, they were really interesting people.
They were really intriguing.
you know, we we would visit from time to time.
And then and then later on came to find out that parked behind his blue shack in his rundown junk looking nearly collapsed garage, he had he had a vehicle.
I think it was called a Viper or something.
It had 16 cylinders.
It was a high-end supercar, like a luxury race car type of thing.
I think it was called a Viper.
And turns out the guy was a multi-millionaire.
And he bought that car for fun.
He just liked to drive it around every once in a while.
But we never talked about the car except until after we knew him for a long time.
Turns out they were millionaires.
They chose to live in that house because it was more familiar.
It reminded them of the way that they grew up.
And I never even knew how he earned his money.
I don't know.
But it didn't matter.
I never judged him based on him having money because I thought he was impoverished.
I mean, I would bring him food, for God's sake, right?
And you're going to find that that's the case with a lot of people.
Just because somebody dresses down doesn't mean that they're impoverished.
I mean, if you saw me walking around town, you would have no idea what I do.
Or if you saw me walking through a hardware store with my ranch pants, you know, half covered in dirt and chicken feed crumbles and whatever.
You just assume I'm a rancher guy.
I'm a farm.
I'm a Texas farm guy shopping for tools or whatever.
Yeah, that's because I do that on purpose.
I don't want you to assume anything other than that.
But then again, I don't try to impress people in political circles or social circles or anything like that.
I've got no interest in that.
Anyway, I'm not judging you if you do.
If, you know, maybe your social circle requires you to dress up better.
I get that.
I understand.
If you're in the business executive world or the Washington, D.C. world or the political world, you know, you got to dress up.
You got to tuck your shirt in, which I don't do.
You got to wear a tie, which I don't do, you know, except on rare occasions.
So I get it.
And I'm not judging it.
Just saying that in achieving the mission of learning to live broke, you may need to let go of ideas of what it means to be successful because it's not about how much jewelry you have.
It's not about the square footage of your home.
You know, the larger your home, the more you've got to clean, by the way.
I mean, you spend half your life sweeping the floor.
If your house is big enough and every toilet you have in your house needs maintenance, you know, some of you have like five bathrooms in your house.
You know, there's always something wrong with one of them, right?
See, I don't have that problem.
I have one bathroom.
And yeah, well, when something went wrong, I had to pee outside, but I fixed it as quickly as I could and, you know, back online.
I don't have to worry about five toilets.
There's a kind of calm that comes from living on less, that is having less stuff to deal with in your life, at least in my opinion, because I have enough other projects anyway.
I'm working on so many things in my business, launching new platforms for you, book generators, what we're working on next, the AI engine, sensor.news, etc.
And food formulations and doing interviews and shows in the studio.
I got enough going on.
I don't need to deal with five toilets at home.
I have to buy five plungers.
And I got to make sure there's toilet paper and all five toilet paper rollers, etc.
I got to make sure there's towels, all good towels in all five bathrooms.
Oh my God.
I don't have the mental bandwidth for that.
I'm working on other stuff.
So simplifying your life is not, it's not a failure.
It's a success.
Simplify wherever you can.
Learn to live on less.
Be mentally okay with it.
Even if you are extremely wealthy listening to this, having the skill of living on less or living broke can serve you well.
And given the unpredictability of our world, you never know when you're going to lose your entire bank account or stock portfolio or crypto account or whatever.
Probably gold and silver are the most reliable.
But you may have a significant portion of your assets tied up in stocks.
And who knows?
We could be in World War III tomorrow, or there could be a bank collapse and it could be your bank or, you know, right?
Anything can just vanish.
But what doesn't vanish is your skill set, your mindset, your philosophy that can carry you through anything.
So assess your own life and ask yourself the question, could I live broke?
If all the income stopped and if I lost most of my stuff here, could I live on less?
And if the answer is yes, you're in a great position.
If you can live on less, you're doing well.
So thank you for listening.
Mike Adams here, the Health Ranger.
And speaking of living on less, we have our Black Friday sale happening this week where we're giving away the most free gifts and the most discounts ever because we know the economy is very tough for a lot of people right now.
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Take care.
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Show this shot here on my desk.
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