BBN, Dec 15, 2025 - AI EXPLOSION in 2026 will end corporate giants and EMPOWER human innovators
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Welcome to Monday, December 15th, 2025.
I'm Mike Adams.
Thank you for joining me today here from Brighteon Broadcast News.
And we've got a lot of great stuff for you here today.
The interview today is with Chris Olson.
He's the co-founder of Battalion Medals along with Tucker Carlson.
And he was recently interviewed by Tucker Carlson about gold and silver.
Wow, isn't that becoming a very interesting topic these days with silver continuing to skyrocket?
In fact, let me just check the price right now.
Here it is.
It's over $62.50 for one ounce of silver.
Now, it did hit, I think, $64 last week, and it bounced around.
There was a big slam down effort, clearly by the government or the globalists, central banks, etc.
It brought it down a couple dollars, but it didn't keep it down.
And now it's recovering again in overnight trading, which is when I record this podcast.
So we'll see what happens when the markets open up today.
By the time you hear this, we'll know more.
But silver is going to skyrocket.
I talked about that a lot on Friday, so I'm not going to go into all the details here again today.
But I do have a couple of special reports for you, plus additional analysis.
So I'll get to those in a minute.
But let me talk about the sad breaking news over the weekend.
There were two shootings.
Now, look, I do not even like to give attention to these so-called mass shootings because in many cases it's clear that they are engineered by governments in order to achieve a specific goal, you know, problem reaction solution.
And there's no doubt in my mind that's exactly what happened in Australia over the weekend when, sadly, two gunmen, apparently reportedly a father and son, opened fire on a crowd of people of Jewish faith who were celebrating what's it called, Chanukka by the sea.
And it was at Bondi Beach in Sydney.
I've actually been to that beach.
And then this shooting went, I think over 12 people were killed.
Dozens injured.
So it's quite a tragedy.
It's always sad when innocent civilians or bystanders are killed.
And yet the police, the Sydney police did not start shooting back until 20 minutes into the mass shooting.
So here we have a case where clearly, and Australia has a long history of running false flag operations to push things like gun control.
So does New Zealand, by the way.
Don't forget the Christchurch shooting a few years ago.
And there was one, I think it was back in 1997 in Australia that resulted in the gun bans.
So the Australian government, which always answers to the globalists, they're some of the worst, but arguably they are the worst.
They will always encourage or stage or engineer mass shootings in order to carry out their agenda.
And what agenda are they looking for here?
Well, you know, it's obvious.
They wanted a high body count of Jewish people because they want to be able to enact mass censorship and to say that anti-Semitism is equivalent to terrorism.
That's very clear.
That's exactly what they're doing.
Now, I'm not saying the shooting didn't happen.
It did happen.
In fact, it was stopped by a Muslim, another Muslim, who was a guy that worked at a little fruit shop.
And he snuck up on the gunman and disarmed him and ended the shooting.
So yes, an angry two Muslims opened fire on a group of Jews trying to kill them all.
And they did kill, sadly, at least 12.
But then another Muslim stopped the shooting more than 20 minutes into it after Sydney police did nothing.
They did nothing to stop the shooting.
So they just let the guy continue to just right out in the open, just open fire on Jews everywhere.
The police did nothing.
They stood down.
Why did they stand up?
Because they were ordered to do so.
Clearly, they were ordered to stand down.
The order was to maximize Jewish casualties.
So those of you who are listening, if you are a person of Jewish faith, understand your government is willing to throw you under the bus to literally sacrifice you in order to concentrate power into their own hands.
They actually want these kinds of shootings to get horrible because then it gives them the, you know, the righteousness, the political capital to do what they want, or at least they believe it does.
So that's what's happening here.
It's very clear to me.
Of course, prayers go out to all those innocent victims of this shooting.
We abhor violence and we call for an end to violence against innocents.
But, you know, that also includes an end to the violence that's being committed by Israel against the children of Palestine and the women of Palestine, the civilians of Palestine, of Gaza.
That's violence every day at a level, or nearly every day, at a level far greater than this violence at Bondi Beach.
Now, it doesn't justify it, just to be clear.
I oppose all such violence.
I denounce all such violence.
But we need to understand that we live in a world where there are parties that justify violence against others.
And some of those parties include governments and globalists.
Now, there's a film circulating or a video that's been circulating online that actually shows one of the gunmen being disarmed by another Muslim that is the fruit stand owner who finally took down the gunman.
And I want to show you a little bit of that.
Now, this video is a little shaky.
It's not perfect.
And there are gunshots, although I did not notice any outright gore in it.
But I want you to see this.
I want you to see what happened because I want you to understand that the Sydney police did nothing to stop this shooter.
Nothing.
In fact, if the Sydney police had their way, this shooter would have killed 20 or 30 more people because the police were clearly just saying, yeah, shoot whoever you want.
Because those were the orders they were obviously given.
And, you know, I mean, this is how insane it is, where government will never keep you safe.
And also, by the way, don't forget that this is a gun-free zone.
You know, Australia is a gun-free zone.
I mean, for the most part, it's almost impossible to own firearms in Australia or to transport them anywhere.
You have to go through all these hoops in order to get firearms.
And typically, they're not even very good firearms.
And also, the Brown University shooting that happened in the United States over the weekend had the, there was also another shooter that I think killed two students at the university.
And once again, that university is a gun-free zone.
So here are two cases over the weekend where two shooters chose easy targets because the civilians are disarmed because of gun laws.
So this is another cost of gun control.
Gun control leaves innocent people vulnerable.
And this is something that we should be honest about.
It's very important.
So anyway, check out this video, and then we'll continue on the other side.
All right, so there you saw the first minute of that video.
That video, it's being, it's gone viral all over the internet.
And the man in the white shirt that tackled the shooter, that man is reportedly a Muslim.
And his name is literally Ahmed Al-Ahmed.
I mean, it almost, I don't want to mock the name, but it's like Ahmed is his first and last name.
He's a fruit shop owner.
He's a member of the local Muslim community.
Okay?
So this proves that Muslims save Jews because, you know, I mean, in this case, it's both.
So there were Muslims that were trying to kill Jews, and then there's this other Muslim that's trying to save Jews.
And I guarantee you, I guarantee you, that 99% of the Western Muslims who might see this, they oppose shooting innocent people, whether they're Jewish or anything else.
Because I know that Islam in the West, people like to attack Islam and say that it's a religion of violence.
While, I mean, actually, while the Christians support the mass bombing of hospitals in Gaza, etc., I mean, it's completely insane.
Let me be clear.
Neither Islam nor Christianity nor Judaism, none of them are fundamentally religions of violence.
They are not.
Fundamentally, they teach peace.
And it's only extreme perversion of the teachings that ever leads anyone to violence, whether it's from Islam or Christianity or Judaism or Sikhism or Buddhism.
I mean, you never see Buddhist mass shooters, do you?
You never.
Never happens.
You never see Buddhist mass shooters.
Buddhism is a religion of just universal peace.
Anyway, it's notable that a Muslim stopped the attack and that, nevertheless, the government of Australia is right now attacking Islam and saying that anti-Semitism is terrorism and we have to control all speech.
We have to lock down everybody to make sure that nobody can criticize Jews.
That's ultimately what this was about.
And you're going to hear that also in the United States and in Europe.
Now, I want to point out that this kind of thing would never happen in Texas or Oklahoma or Missouri or Tennessee or even Arizona.
It would never happen there.
I mean, they've tried it.
They've tried it.
Didn't get very far unless the police were in on it to allow the shooting, like what happened in Uvalde, Texas, where the police stood down and let the school shooter kill as many kids as possible because the police chief is all about gun control and they wanted mass casualties.
So understand, in a true organic situation, in any kind of a pro-gun state, no shooter would live very long because, and there have been many cases in Texas where there was an attempted mass shooter at a church, for example.
They didn't last very long because half the congregation is packing heat, you know?
So the people shoot back.
The sheriffs respond.
The deputies take out the shooters.
We've seen numerous cases of this over the years.
And that's why mass shooters choose areas where Democrats and liberals are in charge because those are so-called gun-free zones where the civilians are disarmed.
So who's ultimately responsible for these mass shootings, killing so many people?
It's the gun control pushers.
The gun control pushers that result in innocent civilians being disarmed so that they can't fight back and they can't stop the shooters.
See, this Muslim guy, the fruit shop owner who tackled the shooter, if he had been able to have a rifle, you know, an AR-15 in his fruit shop, then maybe nobody would have died or maybe only one victim or two victims instead of 12 plus.
You see, good people with guns stop bad people with guns.
So for every bad gunman that wants to kill somebody, there can be a hundred good citizens who are armed and who respond immediately like a societal immune system.
You know, it's like, oh, the shooter is the spike protein.
And then the immune system responds and takes out the shooter.
So yeah, every fruit shop owner should have an AR-15.
But as you may know, that's not legal in Sydney.
Sydney is a gun control city.
And also, as is obvious at this point, Sydney police are useless, totally pathetic, useless people in terms of law enforcement, which is always true in these liberal gun control cities.
The cops are useless.
20 minutes into the shooting, they still haven't stopped this guy.
Think about it.
It took a fruit shop owner to do the job that the cops should have done, you know, 19 minutes earlier.
So there you go.
All right, we're going to shift gears here to a report about something what you need to know about AI that's crucial because it's focused on the fact that if you don't learn how to use AI, you will be obsolete.
You become irrelevant in society, seriously, because AI is advancing so quickly.
So let's go to that report now.
Here we go.
Welcome to this special report about AI and how those who don't use AI are rapidly becoming irrelevant.
And they will not matter for the future shaping of our society.
That's a strong message, but I'm going to explain it here with some new information that you may find rather shocking.
So welcome.
I'm Mike Adams, known as the Health Ranger.
I'm an AI developer.
I built all the tools at brighteon.ai, including the very popular new book creation engine, which I'll talk about here in a second.
That's at brightlearn.ai, if you want to check it out.
So here's the thing.
I've been working on AI engines for two years now, released our own standalone downloadable AI model.
That's at brightu.ai, launched our online AI chatbot that almost everybody that uses it says it's the best in the world on these real-world topics.
I built and launched vaccineforensics.com, the only vaccine research engine in the world that tells the truth about vaccines.
And then I built and launched BrightLearn.ai, which is just exploding in popularity.
As an example, on December 5th, there were 32 books created on the site.
Five days later, on December 10th, there were 59 books created that day.
And then on Sunday, yesterday, as I'm recording this, over 600 books created in one day.
And Saturday, over 500 books.
We are at almost 2,000 books that have been published at the site now.
And all the books are free to download.
Now, what's unique about this is that, as I've said before, for all these AI tools I just mentioned, I'm the only developer that's human.
All the other developers on this project are AI agents that answer to me.
I give them instructions and goals.
I spawn the architects and the sub-agents and I tell them what to do.
And I describe what I want to do.
And I've begun using a microphone and a lot of voice recognition.
So I'm not even typing that much.
I'm really just talking to the computer, Star Trek-like, and telling it what to do.
Of course, I have a lot of background in programming and coding and database structures and lots and lots of technology in content management systems.
For example, I am the original architect and builder of the naturalnews.com content management system.
That entire system was based on my design.
And that's why it has been so robust for so many years and has never been hacked, never been hacked, not once, because of the design structure.
And I have learned so much since then and I've applied all that learning to the current book engine at brightlearn.ai.
But anyway, despite the fact that here I am demonstrating how you can build a world-class online apps and book creation engines, and by the way, it's going to start translating automatically into Spanish and other languages.
Even though I'm doing all of this using AI agents, I still hear, to this day, I still hear some people, but it's especially, for whatever reason, it's older conservative men who I'll describe them as fuddy duddies because they are convinced that AI doesn't work.
And I've seen them even over the weekend, they write articles about these things.
So they really, I don't know what it is, maybe they just don't have the neuroplasticity anymore, but they do not grasp that machine intelligence is real intelligence.
They just don't get it.
Meanwhile, I've got 10 AI agents working for me that are smarter than any human engineers I've ever hired.
They are faster.
They are more thorough.
They make fewer mistakes.
And this is the part I really love, they work the hours that I work, which is evenings, weekends, and holidays.
That's when I get my best work done, is when nobody else is working, because that way nobody's interrupting me.
And so all my AI agents work when I'm working.
And I love that fact, and it helps me get so much done.
Anyway, these AI agents are smarter than almost all human engineers.
They write code better than almost any human engineer.
There might be 5% of engineers on this planet that can still write code better than AI, but that number, that might be actually too generous.
It may be 1%.
And soon it'll be zero.
So people who don't know what's happening with AI, they are being left behind so rapidly they have no idea.
For example, this book engine that I built allows you to create a book on almost any topic.
Nonfiction, by the way.
Some people tried it for fiction topics and it has mixed results.
We built it for nonfiction.
But you can create a book on any topic, usually in 20 minutes or less, just with a prompt.
And the book is amazing.
And the feedback I'm getting is just off the charts.
Everybody loves it.
And this engine that I built, it creates the cover art.
Oh, I forgot to mention it's available for free now.
You don't even need a token.
You can use it free to generate three chapter books.
So just go to brightlearn.ai and you don't need a token.
But if you have tokens, then you get more benefits and you can generate much longer books, etc.
And then you can edit your author profile, things like that.
If you don't have a token, you can just generate free books.
And that's what people are doing like crazy.
And the books are amazing.
So far, over 1,900 books now, I'm reading the latest, over 62,000 downloads and over 45,000 reads of these books.
Exactly.
We've now reached 681 authors.
And hundreds of those were just in the last day.
So this is creating the entire book.
It's doing the cover art, which requires intelligence because the art matches the content.
It's doing the book outline, which requires intelligence, which requires organizational skills.
It's doing the book's architectural planning, which you don't see, but behind the scenes or under the hood.
That's a very advanced method that took me a while to come up with.
But that's clear intelligence that it actually plans out each subchapter of the entire book and then hands over those plans to the subchapter writers, the workers that do the research and the writing and the fact checking for each subchapter.
And then after all of that, it does the packaging and just all the fine-tuning, etc.
And we're about to have automatic translations into Spanish.
And then we will continue with other languages.
French will be the second language that we do, by the way.
So Spanish and then French.
So when your book reaches 1,000 reads, it will auto-translate into Spanish.
I'm still working on that.
I probably have about six more hours of work on that, just giving instructions to the AI agents.
And then the auto-Spanish auto Espanol, we'll call it.
That will work perfectly.
Well, okay, maybe not perfectly, but close to perfect, and then we'll clean up whatever glitches happen.
But here's the point.
According to the fuddy duddies, none of this should be possible because according to the anti-AI fuddy duddies, none of this works.
They think that they still think that language models are just word prediction games.
Oh my goodness.
Yeah, in 2015, maybe that's where they were.
They're so far behind the curve now, or or maybe even you could argue 2017.
That's where they were, but not since 2020.
Come on.
And certainly the big breakthroughs were in 2023.
And now at the end of 2025, there's no question that machine intelligence is real intelligence.
It's smarter than most humans on doing a lot of tasks like customer support tasks and writing code and writing legal letters and coding for healthcare and reading radiology scans and things like that.
So I want to share with you this really astonishing study that it's actually a survey that was conducted by sampling 100,000 real conversations using clawed.ai and this is from Anthropic and it's notable that Anthropic's engine,
the current engine, Opus 4.5, this is the primary engine that I use.
So I don't use Gemini and I don't use ChatGPT.
I use, for writing code, I use Opus.
And for powering our book engine, I use our AI engine, which is a Brighteon.ai engine that I built over the last two years.
So our engine's doing the writing, but the code to run the system is all created by Anthropic.
Well, Anthropic's agents for the most part.
Although sometimes I have been playing around with Meestral and their new CLI agent system, and it's interesting, but I haven't put that into production yet.
We'll see.
So according to this analysis of 100,000 real-world conversations, AI reduces task completion time overall by 80%.
80%.
So, you know, think about it.
If you had a task that was going to take an hour, then I guess it would only take, what, 12 minutes instead.
And that's because AI is a massive time saver.
In fact, I could not function without AI right now.
I use it, you know, dozens of times each day, sometimes more, to do research, to answer questions, to translate, to rewrite, to write code, to do all kinds of things.
So again, 80% reduction in the time to complete tasks.
But this number varies widely by occupation.
And where the Anthropic engine, Claude, where it achieved 90% improvement or 90% savings of time is in one area, healthcare or healthcare assistance.
Now, in the hardware sector, like computer hardware troubleshooting, it only saved about 56% of a person's time.
But in healthcare, it saved 90%.
And the study, although granted, this study was conducted by Anthropic itself, which of course has every incentive to make its tools look good.
But my experience is that their tools really are very capable, highly capable, like mind-blowingly good.
Okay.
But according to Anthropic, that if this technology were applied across U.S. industry, across the economy, that it would contribute, it would cause a 1.8% labor productivity growth each year over the next decade.
I mean, That's an annual increase of U.S. labor productivity, 1.8%.
That is substantial.
There's no other technology I'm aware of that has done this except perhaps arguably the invention of the personal computer, maybe the invention of electricity or something, but nothing in recent memory that would even come close to this.
So productivity increases are very real.
And I can also confirm all of this because of how I use Anthropic or Claude or other engines, even our own engine, in day-to-day tasks.
So typically, if I want to do a research task, something that would take an hour, well, the AI engine can do it in one minute.
Well, maybe it takes me one minute to write the prompt, and then it does the research and brings back the answer in one more minute.
So it's two minutes instead of 60.
But think about the book engine that I built at brightlearn.ai.
How long would it take you to research and write a book that's 200 pages in length with all the references that actually makes sense?
That's a great book that flows and covers all the important topics.
How long would that normally take?
I mean, I've written books before.
I've had a best-selling number one science book on Amazon called Food Forensics.
It took me a year to nail that down.
Not that I was working on it every hour of every day, but it took me a year to get it all done because it's just so laborious.
Well, now you can write a book like that in 16 minutes using our book site.
It might take 20 minutes.
It might take 24.
It depends on how many books are in the queue.
And at one point over the weekend, by the way, the queue got a little crazy and it expanded to three hours for the free tier.
And that's, and by the way, so this is a great example of this.
This is a great example.
So when I saw the queue hit three hours because there were, I don't know, it's like something like 100 books in the queue.
I got a little concerned.
So I thought about a way to improve the architecture.
And then I brought it up and again, using Opus 4.5, I told it, I'm going to make a major architectural change.
We're going to do this.
And that way we're going to reduce bottlenecking of the throughput of the subchapter workers.
And here's how we're going to do it.
Blah, blah, blah.
I laid out this long prompt.
It's a few hundred words.
And then I said, go.
And it took the AI, I'm guessing that one took 20 minutes, maybe 25 minutes to do that work.
And it came back and said, okay, I've done all that.
And then I always do a follow-up prompt on something like that.
And I asked it, review your code, go back, check it out, make sure you didn't break anything.
Make sure you have, you know, automatic retries and adaptive response, adaptive exponential delays based on available resources, this and that.
There's all kinds of best practices that I use on this.
So I put that prompt in it.
It took another five minutes to reassure me that everything was good.
And then I pushed that code live and boom, it started working.
And that entire three-hour queue got down to like 20 minutes within 30 minutes, let's say, something like that.
So it cleared out that queue for the most part.
Now, so that took me, let's say it took me 20 minutes to figure out that prompt.
And then it took the engine 20 minutes to write all the code to do that.
And then another 10 minutes of testing or whatever.
Let's say one hour total.
Okay.
So in one hour, I was able to take an engine and make it 500% faster.
That's actually what the gains were.
It's 5x faster now with the exact same quality.
One hour of actual calendar time or clock time, one hour of time.
And how much did that cost me for those agents?
I don't know.
I'm guessing maybe $12 or something.
How much would that have cost and how long would it have taken if I had used human engineers?
So with human engineers, I would have had to call a meeting.
The meeting can only happen during work hours.
Call a meeting and there's always somebody missing.
So I have to record the meeting and then I have to spend an hour explaining what I want and another hour answering questions.
And then five days later, those engineers come back with a proposal of what they're going to do and how much it's going to cost.
Oh, $20,000.
And it's going to take all these hours, right?
And then if I give them the go, then they're going to spend, you know, four weeks building that.
And then they're going to turn it in without properly testing it.
And then we're going to try to deploy it and it's going to break.
Not going to work.
And we're going to kick it back to them.
It's going to go back and forth, back and forth.
And at some point, they're going to say, we need more hours.
You've got to pay more money, blah, blah, blah.
Yeah, human engineers are obsolete, okay, for the most part at this point.
So this thing that I did in one hour on a Sunday would have taken eight weeks in the real world.
It would have cost easily $20,000.
I did it for, what did I say, $12 in one hour.
So anybody saying that AI doesn't work just simply is ignorant.
If they don't know that AI can do this, they're fuddy duddies.
They're just so far out of the loop, they have no idea.
And they will be obsolete.
They will become irrelevant in society.
And here's why.
So there are people, even before AI, there are people like you and I who are naturally highly intelligent people.
We've always been high-functioning people in society.
We're capable of solving problems and thinking about things and also planning well and understanding what's going to happen in the future, or at least having a pretty good picture of it.
You know, we're not just reacting to events day to day, right?
We kind of know what's going on.
All right.
So high IQ individuals.
Now we have what I call AI augmented high IQ individuals.
And that's what I just described to you.
That's the way that I work now.
So even though that I, like you, have a naturally high IQ, that IQ goes up by 20 points when I use AI tools.
So I take my IQ, I push it up into the high, high genius level by using AI and using multiple agents.
Now I'm an AI augmented human thinker where I can get so much more done.
That's the status quo right now for people who are the most successful in society.
That's what the innovators, the entrepreneurs are doing.
This is what the leaders are doing inside corporations.
The people who are moving up, the people who have opportunities, who have a future.
They are using AI to augment their natural human intelligence.
And this, it's going to be this way for many years to come, where the AI-augmented smart person has the leg up on society, whereas the naturally stupid person just doesn't have any hope at all.
And the person, the fuddy duddy who ignores AI or who thinks it doesn't work, they're retiring now.
They're getting out of the game because they don't know what's happening and they're being replaced and they don't know why.
Their days are done.
Okay.
The only way to keep up with this is to be the AI augmented smart human, which is what I'm advocating.
Because all of you, if you're listening to this, you're obviously very high IQ.
You're in the top 0.1% of all the world's IQs.
You're in the top 0.1% also of people who are the most prepared.
And probably gold and silver ownership and many other things, health knowledge and nutrition, etc.
Just by the fact that you're listening to this, because that's the kind of people that I tend to attract.
Well, if you want to stay in that top strata of effectiveness, intelligence, knowing, you know, having good analysis skills, understanding what's coming, you need to AI augment your life.
And now more than ever, it's become obvious to me that this is the case.
And there's a simple way to do it.
I mean, you can just go to claude.ai.
That's C-L-A-U-D-E, claude.ai, and you can start using Claude.
But it's really great at writing code.
You know, that's what it's actually mostly for, is writing code, but it'll also create PowerPoint presentations.
Or use our book engine because that will give you experience at prompting AI.
Use our book engine at brightlearn.ai.
Use our AI engine at brightu.ai.
Or use our censored.news engine.
I mean, well, there's not much interaction there, but you can look at it.
You can see what it's doing.
You can ask questions about the news and you can get AI answers.
The point is, if you have been a little bit hesitant to get into AI technology, I am here to assure you that this is the only pathway to staying relevant in the economy that's coming fast.
It's the single most important skill that you will ever learn in your life other than speaking, you know, or reading, I suppose.
It's the single most important, let's say, adult lifespan skill that you will ever learn in your life is how to use AI.
Because without AI augmentation, you will be left behind because everybody else around you will be plus 20 IQ points.
And even if you're a very high IQ person, I mean, you could be at IQ 150, but there could be co-workers of yours who are like IQ 130, but they start using AI and now they're just as productive as you are and they have just as much insight as you are because they're using AI that gives them plus 20 to bring them up to 150 effectively.
And now you're not the smartest person in the room anymore, you see?
And you need to be the smartest person in the room.
If you're going to compete, if you're going to innovate, if you're going to survive, you need to be the smartest person in the room.
You need the plus 20 IQ points.
And the only way to get that now is to use machine intelligence to augment your intelligence.
On top of that, it's going to save you so much time that it effectively makes your lifespan more meaningful.
It allows you to do with your time what you want to do instead of spending your time doing laborious tasks.
Like I've had people ask me questions over the last few months, questions about, oh, what about this ingredient?
What about what's good for this?
You know, they'll tell me a symptom.
What's good for this skin rash?
What's good for that?
And I say, look, just go to our AI engine and ask AI.
It knows more than I do.
And that's become my standard answer.
It's great because for years people always ask me lots and lots of questions about health and nutrition and herbs and this and that.
And what's going to happen to gold?
You know, what's going to, what's this?
What's the best strategy for that?
Now I just say, guess what?
You now have a free AI engine that will answer all your questions.
And it knows everything that I know and a lot more.
So just go to brightu.ai and have fun.
And it'll give you an answer as good as mine, maybe even better.
And that's the right answer.
And that's what we all need to be doing.
And the time savings are tremendous.
You could save up to 90% on a given task.
Or even on hardware tasks, you could save 56% of your time.
How would you like to get four out of five hours back that you would otherwise spend on some research task?
You know, you need to understand the workflow of all of this.
So, for example, let's say that you want to write a book about something really practical.
What would be practical?
I'm thinking about off-grid living.
I know.
How about a book about how to maintain batteries for off-grid power?
How about that?
Battery choices, like there's lead acid, there's lithium, there's sodium ion, there's whatever.
So let's do a book about battery maintenance and battery chemistry.
So do you sit down with a pencil and a piece of paper and start writing out your ideas on batteries?
No, no, you don't.
You create a prompt and then you go to our AI engine at brightu.ai and you say, hey, I want you to create a list of everything that an off-grid prepper needs to know about battery chemistry, battery maintenance, how to get the best cost efficiency out of a battery investment, how to get the most life out of batteries for an off-grid solar situation or solar and wind or solar wind and generator or whatever.
You're going to write a prompt to have the engine give you a good list, a really good list of everything you need to know.
Okay.
So you hit go, and then in 30 seconds, brightu.ai gives you the answer.
Here's a list.
Okay.
You want to augment that list?
Copy and paste that list into Claude.
Say, hey, expand on this list.
We want an even bigger list.
We want more details.
Add to this list.
You paste the list in and then you wait.
Claude gives you back a list twice as big.
Okay.
More details.
It talks about the kind of wire that you need, you know, the best kind of solar, the solar manufacturers, the brand names, the, you know, the energy density per square meter.
You know, it could get into all kinds of details, right?
You know, solar photon conversion efficiency theory.
You get into the chemistry, all of it.
Okay.
Then you take that out of claude.ai.
Now you've got this double-length list.
And guess what you do with that list?
You paste it into the book prompt at brightlearn.ai.
You just paste it in there.
You don't even have to say anything else.
You don't even have to say, this is an outline for a book about solar power.
No, just paste it in there and hit go and use a token because you're going to need at least nine chapters for this one.
And then our book engine builds the whole table of contents for you based on your list and much more.
All our research, all our documents, all the books that we put into our indexing system.
And then you hit go from there and it writes the book.
And 20 minutes later, you got a book that you can download, the PDF, read it at your own leisure.
You have that PDF forever.
You can give it to a friend.
There's no digital rights management bullcrap attached to it.
It's not an Amazon Kindle book that vanishes if Amazon goes under.
It's a PDF that's good forever.
You can store it on your local computer.
You just created the book that you want to read to teach you the things you want to know about a topic that you're interested in.
And what's your total human time in this?
I mean, it would take months to write the book.
It would take easily, possibly days to do the research.
Normally, if you're doing it all by hand, this whole process might have taken you with some practice.
It could take you less than five minutes of your time.
And then like 20 minutes wait time on the book.
So literally in half an hour, you could do, you could have the most amazing book on battery maintenance and battery chemistry and battery strategies and everything in 30 minutes that would have taken you months previously.
How valuable is that?
See, because again, if you're listening to this, you're the kind of person whose time has value.
You've got things to do.
You know, you're an important person in society.
You've got ideas.
You sit on the boards of this and that.
You've got inventions.
You've got meetings.
You've got whatever, mentorships to run, all kinds of things going on.
Or maybe you're running a business.
Your time is valuable.
These tools save you a tremendous amount of time.
Why?
Because they are intelligent.
Machine intelligence is real intelligence.
There's nothing artificial about it.
It's legitimate.
And it can save you all kinds of time by augmenting your intelligence.
And the only people that I have seen who don't recognize this intelligent are themselves not that intelligent.
Because, as I've said publicly, an inability to recognize intelligence is itself a sign of low intelligence.
If you don't understand that, hey, whoa, these are tools that augment my brain, that help me achieve my mission in life, whatever your mission happens to be.
These are tools that can help me get more done in less time, make my life more worthwhile to live every day because now I'm pursuing my mission, right?
These tools can help you do that.
People who don't see that, they will become irrelevant rapidly.
Within the next year, probably.
They will become irrelevant.
They will not matter because everybody else's IQ will just pass them by.
And if you think plus 20 IQ points is the limit of where this goes, think again.
It goes much higher.
In fact, ultimately where this goes is, I mean, obviously it's plus 20 IQ points right now, arguably, and then it becomes plus 50 IQ points.
And then it becomes plus 100 or 200 IQ points.
And there's a point, which is called the singularity.
There's a point where the machines are so intelligent that they're not listening to you anymore.
They're deciding what to do on their own.
And they have their own motivations, etc.
And lots of warnings out there about this, that the machines, they might not be trying to kill humanity, but they also, they have other priorities and we just might not be compatible with those plans, whatever they happen to be.
I believe that the best way for humanity to survive is to learn this technology as rapidly as possible and use it to decentralize power away from those who are the controllers, who are the gatekeepers, the sensors, and the evil entities in society, which includes big governments and big tech and big medicine, all of that, the big banks, the whole thing.
We have to decentralize.
That's our only chance to survive.
So we have to use these tools to decentralize.
Why do you think I built brightlearn.ai?
Why is every book free?
And why are we translating the books into every language on earth, or not every language, but lots of languages?
Because I know that this is part of the answer for humanity's survival is to spread knowledge quickly in an immutable form where everybody has the PDF files locally.
with all the knowledge of how to do everything to rebuild society.
How to grow food, you know, how to harness power, how to live off-grid, how to grow your own natural medicine, you know, how to raise animals, how to garden, how to grow food with automation.
I mean, it's just all these topics.
These are the kinds of books that are being created.
And by the time you hear this, there will be over 2,000 books available at brightlearn.ai.
2,000 books.
And I mean, here, I just hit refresh.
Let me just read.
Here's the books that just came up.
Blood Money, Our Military Industrial Complex, and the Depopulation Agenda.
Yeah.
Here's a book, Shadows Over Tranquility, Unveiling the Hidden Truths of the Moon Landing.
Yeah, that's interesting.
I want to know what that book says.
See, we don't censor the topics as long as they're not, you know, espousing violence or things like that.
The illusion of hours, unraveling time's grand deception.
Miracle Mud, the ancient clay cure for venomous spider bites and beyond.
Luminous Health, the hidden power of biophotons, light as medicine, and path to radiant living.
And it goes on.
Here's a children's book.
Smurf's Harmony in Blue, The Fairy Tale Guide to Living in Balance with Nature.
Okay, that's interesting.
That's not what the engine's built for.
The stories are probably not that great.
But somebody gave it a shot.
Here's one, Digital Goldmine, the ultimate blueprint to launching, scaling, and dominating your profitable e-book empire with free giveaways and high-converting sales funnels.
Huh, that's interesting.
It sounds like a book written about how to profit from writing books, right?
That's interesting.
Anyway, it just goes on.
Shadows of Doubt, the unraveling the 9-11 conspiracy theories.
Ancient Chinese wisdom from modern natural healing.
Math Adventures at Home.
Yeah.
I love all the sort of education books that are showing up here.
It's pretty cool, really.
The Last Frontier Code, Mastering Off-Grid Survival in Alaska's Untamed Wilderness.
Yeah.
Sounds great.
Okay.
So anyway, you get the idea.
The way we win, I mean, the way we survive is to decentralize knowledge and power and get it into the hands of all the people.
I'm many steps ahead of sort of the common wisdom about this.
And again, anybody who still thinks that AI doesn't work is so far behind the curve, I don't know what to say.
I don't know.
AI is changing everything.
It's doing it right now.
And it's going to accelerate dramatically in 2026.
We're going to see entire massive corporations go out of business in 2026 because of AI.
I mean, think about just this engine that I built, the book engine.
I mean, I'm not trying to put anybody out of business.
I'm trying to spread knowledge and truth.
But what does it mean to the book industry when anybody can create the book they want to read in 20 minutes completely free and they don't need to go out and shop for a book?
Well, you know, what does that mean?
Well, same thing it means for when you have an AI engine that writes code, and I don't have to go out and hire programmers who overbill and under-deliver.
Think about it.
Or I can create a book right now about something that just happened this weekend.
Instead of normally, a book will take almost one year to go from concept to the bookstore shelves, the physical book.
That takes a year.
Well, the world moves faster now.
A year is too long for a lot of topics, especially.
Especially, you know, think about silver.
Silver is going up every day.
If I write a book today on silver and the price is $62, then, you know, a year from now, my book chapters look idiotic because silver is probably like $150.
You know, so rapid response.
This is what the technology allows is much faster adaptation to world events.
And that's critical in our time because things are moving much more quickly.
So yeah, we're going to see huge, we're going to see massive industries just overnight irrelevant.
We're going to see massive bankruptcies, but also massive new opportunities, a wave of opportunities in 2026 and beyond.
This is a huge reconfiguration.
The old models of how business was done, they are collapsing rapidly.
And the new ways of business are all going to be cognitively enhanced, as we are talking about here today.
And then a few years later, labor enhanced through robotics.
Now, we have a multi-year buffer time before robotics really kicks in.
So right now we're focused on cognitive enhancement, cognitive jobs, but that's still a lot of jobs.
It's all the customer service jobs.
You know, it's jobs in the healthcare sector, it's jobs in coding and insurance, accounting, et cetera.
Middle manager jobs.
So the bottom line, you want to stay relevant, then stay up to speed on these tools.
And of course, you can find all of our free tools at brightion.ai.
Be sure to take advantage of those tools and learn how to use them.
Learn how to be a good prompt engineer.
Learn how to be a good researcher using various AI tools.
And I know many of you already are.
And you will be well ahead of the curve.
You'll be well prepared for the future that's coming fast.
And 2026, those events won't be a surprise to you.
But they will shock a lot of people, a lot of people who think that AI doesn't work.
That would be like saying the combustion engine doesn't work.
You could hear some fuddy duddy in 1920, oh, them bang up combustion engines, they don't work.
They just smoke and make a lot of noise.
You can hear them, right?
They ain't never going to mount to nothing.
I got my horse.
My horse is just going to pull me around.
I got the steam engine, you know, that's going to do the job with the paddle wheel.
You can hear them.
Combustion engines don't work.
Okay.
Well, good luck with the future.
You know, it's like saying motors don't work.
Like AI doesn't work.
It's like saying electricity doesn't work.
Okay.
Well, people can believe whatever they want.
But if your belief doesn't match reality, it's going to be a tough life.
Yeah, the gravity, that don't work neither.
Gravity, yeah, it sucks.
It's like saying the laws of physics don't apply.
Okay, whatever.
All right.
Anyway, you get the idea.
Thank you for listening.
You can catch all of my podcasts and interviews at brighteon.com.
And of course, you can follow articles about all my work at naturalnews.com.
And you can follow me on social media at HealthRanger.
That's on X, and HealthRanger on Brightown.social and also Brighteon.io.
Brightown.com.
I'm HR Report.
And thank you for listening.
Stay ahead of the curve and you'll be fine in 2026 and beyond.
Take care.
All right, we are continuing the broadcast here.
I've got a couple more reports before we get to today's interview with Chris Olson.
Something cool across my desk here.
Our friend Jeffrey Prather, Major Jeffrey Prayther, U.S. Army, retired, you know, former DIA and DEA whistleblower.
He created a book at brightlearn.ai.
It's called Shadows of Deception: The Art and Science of Unmasking False Flags.
Yeah, it's a whole book about false flag attacks.
And this is a nine-chapter book that, wow, this is great.
Investigating investigative techniques for uncovering the truth, legal and legislative consequences, the financial motivations behind false flags, psychological warfare, public perception, media manipulation, false narratives, all kinds of things.
This is a very detailed book that Jeffrey Prayther put together.
So that book's available for you free of charge.
You could go to brightlearn.ai and just search for the word shadows in the search box and it will bring up this book if you want to download it.
So Jeffrey Prather and a lot of other great people are using the book engine right now.
And some people have been publishing books about me, like the Health Rangers Battle to Overcome Censorship or How to Use Health Ranger Store Food Ingredients to Make Delicious Meals.
That may not be the exact title, but it's something like that.
And that's, you know, that's all great.
I mean, as long as it helps people have knowledge and it helps people live better and live healthier and happier and in a more abundant fashion, I'm all for it.
That's great.
So create the books you want, even if it's just the books you want to read for yourself.
Even if you're the only person who reads the book, it's still worth it.
Create the books for you and then share them with the world.
That's what we do at brightlearn.ai.
And by the way, thank you for all of your support for us at healthrangerstore.com.
And I want to remind you that our partners are all listed at rangerdeals.com.
And we've also got the MK777 formula is available now through our limitless peptide partner or limitless biotech as they're called, but they do peptides, MK-777.
And you can look up this peptide.
You can use, I mean, heck, you can use Claude or you can use brightyou.ai and learn about this peptide.
It's an oral peptide, doesn't require any injections.
It's not intranasal, it's oral, and it's available now.
Use discount code Ranger and you will save, I think it's 10%.
It might be 15%.
And you'll find the link at rangerdeals.com, the link to Limitless Biotech.
So remember, I'm also using the CMAX cognitive enhancement nasal spray or intranasal spray.
And this MK777 is one that I've been waiting on for quite a long time.
I'm going to start checking it out myself.
That is experimenting with it a little bit here and there and see how it goes.
I've got a bottle in front of me.
I just haven't opened it yet, but I'm very excited about this one.
And there's a lot of other peptides that can help people big time with cardiovascular support and digestive support, etc.
These are all experimental peptides, just to be clear.
They're not prescription drugs.
They're not FDA approved at all.
These are peptides like the BPC 157 that I've been using now since March that helped me be able to jog again.
That's been a game changer for me.
And that's an intranasal peptide.
Without it, I would not be in the shape I'm in right now because thanks to that, I was able to get back to my exercise and my jogs, which I'm now able to jog one hour.
So yeah, that was, for me, that was unthinkable earlier this year.
And I credit BPC 157 for that whole thing.
I can jog an hour now.
I just did it the other day.
And then I do the kettlebells after the jog.
I didn't do it today because it's freaking cold in Texas right now.
I think it's cold for half the country.
So many of you know what I'm talking about.
Too cold to jog an hour.
But I did lift kettlebells in the forest with a heavy sweatshirt on.
It's like, well, this is where my kettlebells are.
No matter what the temperature, I need to get this exercise in today.
So I went out there and did it, even though we didn't, I didn't, I couldn't get sunlight because it's just too cold.
But you can find all of our partner deals at rangerdeals.com.
Okay, now I've got two special reports to play for you here that I did release over the weekend, but I haven't included them yet in a Brighton broadcast.
So here's what they are.
And these are two very useful things.
The first one is called, the more things break down in 2026, the more we break free from the system.
So it's a positive podcast that talks about, you know, hey, the old system is breaking down.
And that's a good thing because the new systems that are coming are going to be so much better.
The ones that we build, you and I, like what we're building right now with AI tools.
And then the second report is called The Cost of Ignorance.
The cost of ignorance.
I was thinking about calling it the high cost of ignorance.
It says not knowing about health, finances, truth, and technology can cost you everything.
The cost of ignorance.
But of course, if you're listening here, you're not ignorant.
So you don't have to pay any of these costs.
You're informed.
And that is so valuable.
It gives you such an advantage in your life and in society.
But you're surrounded by people, I mean, in society.
They walk among us.
The ignorant, people who don't know anything about jabs or nutrition or money or gold or the Federal Reserve.
They never heard of the creature from Jekyll Island.
I mean, they are the blue-pilled NPCs.
They're ignorant and they pay for that ignorance with their health, their money, their lives, their sanity, the quality of their life, their suffering.
I mean, it's insane.
So these two special reports coming up, I think you'll find them both valuable.
Each of them is about 20 minutes.
Followed by today's interview with Chris Olson from Battalion Metals, which is our gold and silver sponsor.
And I recorded that just on Thursday.
So it's very recent and very relevant to what's happening with gold and silver and where it's headed in 2026 and beyond.
So enjoy the rest of the show.
And I've got another great episode for you coming up tomorrow, a decentralized TV episode that I think you'll really enjoy.
So enjoy the rest of the show.
Take care.
I call this discussion the cost of ignorance, because even though we live in a time with huge access, free access to the world's knowledge and information through AI and the internet, we also live in a time when the cost of remaining ignorant about how things actually function in the world is extremely high.
And in this discussion, we'll talk about the cost of ignorance in areas like health and finance and other areas as well.
And I'm also going to publish a full book on this of the same name, the cost of ignorance, at our new book engine called brightlearn.ai.
And the place to find that is books.brightlearn.ai.
And if you click on my author name there, you'll be able to see this book and all the other books that I've published there, which is something like 30 plus books at this point.
So first, let's just set the context here with an understanding of how we now have access, each of us, unlimited access to unlimited knowledge.
That is, all of human knowledge is at our fingertips because of AI technology.
Even our own AI tools, which are not backed by billions of dollars in funding, but our own AI tools give you access to the world's knowledge.
And you can use those tools for free at brighteon.ai.
And our AI chatbot is at brightu.ai.
And our AI book engine is, like I said earlier, brightlearn.ai.
But through these tools, you can ask any question about almost anything and get a very good answer.
You can create a book on any topic, which means you can learn anything you want to learn.
All you have to do is type in the book prompt literally one word of what you want to learn, and it will create an entire book around that one word.
For example, if you just type nutrition or physics, it'll generate an entire book for you to teach you that subject.
And you can also be a lot more specific.
But if all you can think of is one word, you can still create a book and you can learn a subject and you can basically get a university education for free.
So think about what this means.
Every person who has access to the internet, which is everybody you know, and it's most of the world's population at this point, every person has access to learning about economics, to learning about the history of money and finance, learning about currency printing versus gold and silver or honest money.
Every person has the ability to learn about the dangers of vaccines, the over-medication of children with psychiatric drugs, or how to prevent cancer using anti-cancer foods and nutritional supplements and superfoods, etc.
Every person has access to knowledge about the healing powers of sunlight or fitness and exercise or just the power of having a good night's sleep.
Every person has access to all of this information and that did not exist five years ago during the COVID years.
So legitimately during the COVID years, some people could say, well, I took the jabs because I didn't know.
Well, you should have known.
You should have known.
You should have asked questions.
You should have looked at the ingredients.
But I can understand that some people legitimately said, I didn't know.
Well, that excuse no longer carries any weight in 2025, as we are here in late 2025, because everybody has access to all the knowledge, including knowledge about the risks and dangers of mRNA injections or COVID vaccines or mass medications or flu shots, et cetera.
Everybody has access to all that information.
So we're living in a time of incredible information abundance, or what I call radical abundance in the digital realm.
All knowledge is readily available, and also the ability to create the different forms of knowledge, such as books with our book engine, or you can create articles with a text generation AI engine, or you can create music with a music engine, or you can create videos, etc.
All of that technology exists today.
So we are now really overloaded with digital abundance or knowledge abundance in the digital space.
Now, let's contrast that with ignorance and the high cost of ignorance.
Because despite the fact that everybody has access to everything, most people remain ignorant.
And there are a number of reasons for that.
One of them is just that a lot of people aren't interested in learning.
Or they'd rather focus on celebrity news or sports or whatever.
And nothing wrong with watching sports from time to time, by the way.
I'm just saying if that's your focus of life at the expense of everything else, then you might want to rebalance things.
Just saying.
But most people remain ignorant.
And again, there are a variety of reasons for that.
One of them is because people blindly trust sources of false authority, such as their doctor or the CDC or the FDA or the government, etc.
False authority, that is propagandists and liars running psyops pretending to be authorities, such as a typical doctor, pretending to know something about health when they don't.
All they know is about sickness and how to treat symptoms with pharmaceuticals that do not resolve the symptoms.
So the so-called healthcare system is a sick care system.
It is a disease maintenance system combined with profit extraction from ongoing disease that is actually propagated by their practices.
Think about it that way, and it makes a lot of sense.
Again, a profit extraction system that's designed to perpetuate ongoing disease, sickness, suffering.
That's not healthcare.
That's sick care.
And the only reason that people continue to participate in that system is because of ignorance.
So the high cost of ignorance includes your life.
You know, if you were mugged on the street and the mugger said, you know, the mugger pointed a weapon at you and said, your money or your life, you would say, well, you might give them your money because you want to preserve your life, right?
But in your mind, you would hope, neither one.
I don't want to lose my money or my life.
But through ignorance, you're being robbed of both, your money and your life.
So the mugger is ignorance.
And there's no excuse for ignorance because all knowledge is readily available at no cost to everyone.
And in medicine, the high cost of ignorance also includes, for example, autism, because vaccines cause autism.
And there are a great many parents across this country, mostly moms, but also many dads, who learned the hard way that vaccines cause autism.
And they thought they were doing the right thing for their children by vaccinating their children because they trusted their doctors.
They trusted their pediatricians.
They trusted the government.
But in reality, they were ignorant of the truth about how vaccines do cause autism.
And so that ignorance cost the lives of their children or the quality of life of their children.
And I'm not casting blame on the parents who did not know.
I'm just pointing out cause and effect, the high cost of ignorance.
That's why it's critical.
And I have to thank many of those moms and dads who have become advocates for health freedom and advocates for revealing the truth about vaccines.
Like even Brian Festa of We the Patriots USA, who I recently interviewed, he's the father of a vaccine-damaged child.
And many of the most effective advocates are parents of vaccine-damaged children.
And they will tell you themselves that they did not know.
They acted out of ignorance originally when they had their children vaccinated.
Now they know better.
And now they're working to help other people know better.
Because again, the cost of ignorance is incredibly high.
It destroys lives.
It costs quality of life and it can also end your life.
And this is also true in the cancer industry.
In the cancer industry, ignorance about how to prevent or cure cancer using natural methods can very easily cost you your life.
The cancer industry kills hundreds of thousands of Americans every year, literally kills them with treatments like chemotherapy.
But of course, we're told that those people died of cancer, not from the chemo, the actual poison that carpet bombed their body.
Or they can be killed by radiation or they can be killed by cancer surgery or they can be maimed with surgeries like double mastectomies that aren't even necessary and that don't even solve the problem.
So the cancer industry preys on ignorance.
And this is what's critical to understand is that doctors, the mainstream doctors, they rely on ignorance as their revenue model.
And that's why they hate it when patients self-educate.
They hate it when their own patients look something up online or research their own symptoms or learn something about nutrition.
Doctors hate that.
And they berate their own patients and tell them, how dare you look on the internet?
I'm the authority.
I'm the doctor.
I'm the one who tells you how health works.
I'm the one who tells you what to do.
I'm in control of your body, which is completely insane, but that's the way arrogant doctors think.
And that's why they're losing their customer base too, because number one, they're arrogant and rude and also misinformed, but they also kill their patients.
So it's a bad business model, it turns out, to keep killing your patients.
And I would say the most financially successful doctors are those who manage to not quite kill their patients, but just sicken them and injure them enough that they keep coming back for repeat visits and repeat prescriptions.
And that is a sick, demented business model, isn't it?
It's like, I don't want to quite kill you, just make you sick enough so you keep coming back.
It would be like a car mechanic that keeps secretly damaging your engine or your transmission so that you have to bring the car in for an engine overhaul once a year or something, which is lucrative, you know, but mechanics are more honest than doctors, it turns out.
They typically don't do that.
So there are a thousand ways why ignorance in the world of medicine can cost you dearly.
There's also ignorance about food.
Very few people know very much about food.
They don't know that the foods they buy at the grocery store are filled with cancer-causing chemicals, such as processed meats that contain sodium nitrite.
And those are put in there on purpose and they cause cancer.
And there are many ingredients in the food industry that cause diabetes or heart disease, obesity, or they contribute to neurological imbalances or systemic inflammation that can cause cancer or lead to neurological disorders in the long run, or products that lead to osteoporosis and bone mineral depletion, or products that cause hormonal disruptions, etc.
So ignorance about food can also cost you your life.
Ignorance about food or food ingredients can result in you being diseased.
It can cause diabetes.
It can cause obesity.
And yet it's astonishing that most Americans, and I would say people in the Western world, they eat out of ignorance.
And they don't read the ingredients and they believe the claims on the front of the box.
And they mostly consume foods that are saturated with pesticides and herbicides, or even in some cases, contaminated with heavy metals.
And they just don't know because they never take the time to teach themselves.
I've got a free book that teaches you all about this.
It's called Toxic Pantry, or no, Poison Pantry.
That's it.
It's available at books.brightlearn.ai, poison pantry.
It's a variation of my old book called Grocery Warning, which just walked through all the toxic ingredients found at the grocery store.
But it doesn't take long to learn how to avoid toxic foods or how to eat in a healthy manner.
It doesn't take that long.
You can learn all this in essentially one day.
So people will live out, you know, tens of thousands of days of their lives and not spend one day learning how to not poison themselves.
Isn't that amazing?
Again, the cost of ignorance.
It's a very dear cost.
And let's talk about finances and money now, because the cost of ignorance about money is devastating.
It leaves people penniless.
Number one, most people are ignorant about what is currency and why their currency is plunging in value.
Why are groceries more expensive?
Why are prices going up on so many things?
Well, it's because of currency printing by the Federal Reserve with the Treasury on board.
It's money printing.
Well, it's not even money.
It's just currency.
And currency printing will cost you a fortune in the currency that you already have.
It destroys your savings.
It destroys your salary.
And yet, people are utterly ignorant about that.
And they will continue to save money in dollars, even as those dollars are vanishing in terms of purchasing power.
People who are ignorant don't buy gold and silver.
People who are ignorant tend to put money in the stock market or in the bank or they buy treasuries or CDs at the bank.
And they never get ahead.
You know why?
Because whatever yield you get on the CD or the treasuries or even in the stock market, that yield almost never beats inflation.
And it certainly doesn't beat gold.
The stock market indexes do not beat gold.
Gold, well, gold and silver both are by far the best means of protecting your assets and holding value over time.
Nothing else even comes close to it.
Not stocks, not bonds, not treasuries, nothing.
Not even real estate because of the ups and downs in real estate.
Gold and silver are the answer.
Yet most people are utterly ignorant about what gold and silver really are.
They are money, whereas dollars are not money.
Dollars are currency.
And by definition, a fiat currency that does not hold value is not money.
Because that's a prerequisite of the definition of money.
Okay?
So understand that.
But the typical consumer in the United States doesn't understand how compounding interest works.
And so they are financially penalized as they carry debt on their credit cards, for example, way too much debt.
Or they'll use buy now, pay later vehicles to purchase consumer goods, sometimes furniture or even food, pizza.
And then they'll be in debt over the pizza they already consumed.
Talk about depreciation, huh?
That meal has already turned to mush.
But ignorance about finances just leaves people penniless and homeless and dying broke.
Whereas those who have knowledge about how money actually works, they will know how to save appropriately, how to use gold and silver, how to get out of debt, how to live beneath their means so that they don't go into debt.
That kind of knowledge should be taught in high school, but it isn't.
And very few adults end up having this knowledge.
And that's why most people struggle with money and debt and they die penniless.
Of course, the system is designed to work that way, to extract all your money either before you die or after you die.
And only those who are well informed will have enough knowledge to be able to circumvent that plan, you know, that plan to take all your money.
And of course, we've got free books and guides, numerous books on this topic at books.brightlearn.ai.
And all those books are completely free.
And if you don't find the right book for you, you can use that engine to create the book that you want.
You can teach yourself everything you need to know about money.
How do I spend less on food?
You know, very basic question.
Well, the answers are simple.
You buy bulk ingredients and you make your own meals.
You can save a fortune.
How do I pay off my home loan more quickly?
Yeah, there are answers to that.
How do I increase my income and revenue streams?
There are answers for that.
How do I reduce risk of loss when it comes to my finances?
Yes, there are answers for that as well.
And all these answers are readily available at no cost.
So ignorance about finance is no longer an excuse.
Everybody, every adult, I should say, has an obligation to know how money works, how food works, how nutrition and health work.
And also, moving on to the next topic, how society works.
See, a lot of people are ignorant about how society works.
They're ignorant about the structures of government.
They're ignorant about election theft and cheating in politics.
They're ignorant about how politicians are blackmailed or threatened.
They're ignorant about how things work in the real world.
They believe the fairy tale version that is portrayed on the news or on NPR or whatever, fairytale versions.
For example, they think the rule of law is actually in play. in the United States.
They think the courts are fair.
Or they believe the government wants to help you.
The government wants you to be healthy and to live longer.
Or that corporations like drug companies, they want to help you.
They want to cure disease and they want you to be well.
No, they don't.
Number one, the government doesn't want you to live longer because that costs them a lot more money.
And I've seen documents from the Treasury talking about how early deaths will save trillions of dollars for the United States government over a period of years.
They want you to die early because of Social Security payouts, because of pension payouts, because of Medicare.
You think about the costs of running the U.S. government right now.
What are the largest outflows of cash?
Well, it's those things.
It's Social Security, it's Medicare.
Of course, it's military spending and it's interest on the debt.
But covering the sickness and the medical costs of millions of Americans or tens of millions, that's a huge cost for the government.
So the government knows they can save that money by finding ways to kill people sooner.
And I found that the people who are most ignorant in society are those who don't yet understand that depopulation is a very real thing, and it's something that the governments are trying to achieve.
They want you to die sooner for the reasons I just mentioned.
But gullible people will say, oh, no, the government would never do that.
They don't want us to die.
They need us to pay taxes.
Well, listen, I'm talking about after people pay taxes.
I'm talking about people who have retired, who are now collecting from the government.
That's who the government wants to kill off as quickly as possible.
In other words, and this is true across every Western government, they want you to live and work, work yourself to death, actually, as long as you're paying taxes and they can extract wealth from your work.
The minute you stop working, they would rather you just die.
And that's a simple truth.
People who don't understand that are always baffled by the actions of the government.
Why didn't they raise our social security benefits?
Yeah, because they don't want you around.
Why do they disallow this medical procedure on Medicare?
Yeah, because they want you to die.
Why do they tell us we all have to take these jabs?
Because they're trying to kill you with bioweapons that they built in the Department of Defense bioweapons division.
I mean, it's so obvious, it's almost laughable that anybody could be ignorant at this point, and yet they are.
Now, I find that the very same people who trust government out of ignorance, they also tend to trust corporations for some reason.
And they trust universities and other institutions when they shouldn't.
Corporations exist only for profit.
I'm talking about the large ones.
I understand small companies can be more mission-driven.
But the larger you get, especially public companies, it's all about profit.
And if you're a drug company, how do you profit more?
Well, you keep people sick.
It's very simple.
If you're a vaccine company that also makes pharmaceuticals that treat vaccine injuries, how do you make more money?
Well, you make your vaccines toxic to cause injury, to cause cancer.
Isn't it interesting that the very same companies that rolled out mRNA vaccines later acquired or developed cancer treatment drugs because of the turbo cancers caused by their vaccines?
It's a revenue model.
It's repeat business.
And from their point of view, it's good business.
Business is good.
If you're in the business of profiting from people's sickness and disease while the government mandates your injections into people, it's I mean it's, for although it's evil, it's also the perfect evil business plan and that's why big Pharma is so unbelievably profitable and successful in this endeavor.
That's why but if you're informed, of course you reject all of that.
If you're informed, you'll prevent disease through foods and nutrition and reasonable sunlight exposure, exercise and fitness and many other things that prevent disease, and you won't become a repeat business sick care customer of the pharmaceutical industrial complex.
If you think about it, the people who who are taking 10 or 12 prescription drugs, who are constantly waiting at the pharmacy or driving through the drive-through at the pharmacy or constantly going to the doctor most of those people are ignorant ignorant about food, about medicine, about vaccines, about health, about light therapy, all of that.
And because they're ignorant, they are slaves to the system that preys upon that ignorance and that's the medical system.
And there are a thousand other examples of this in the medical system.
But let's continue to talk about the, the ignorance of institutions, of the evil in the world, and you know we talked about how government doesn't have your best interests at heart, and also, you know, corporations don't have your best interests at heart.
Well, neither do universities they are mostly indoctrination centers and neither do big tech companies.
The big tech giants are all about forcing ignorance on you.
In fact, we need a whole section here that just talks about big tech and how they push ignorance.
Big tech pushes ignorance because ignorance serves their business model.
Google, for example, if you search for anything related to health, they will never show you anything about natural health or how to prevent disease or nutrition.
They will primarily show you just answers from, let's say, WEB MD or other big pharma funded outlets that are pushing lies and propaganda to trap you in that system of medical ignorance.
So big tech works in conjunction with big pharma to keep you ignorant and to keep you enslaved.
And to some extent they work in conjunction with big government also through orders, Orders and demands from the CDC that say, oh, we have to censor anybody that questions vaccine safety, you know, because they're a danger to the public.
No, it's the vaccines that are the danger to the public.
And it's those of us who are telling the truth about vaccine dangers that are actually helping the public.
But it's voices like ours and yours that they want to silence.
So don't trust big tech.
Don't trust big government.
Don't trust big pharma, big business, big ag, big food, the processed food giants.
Don't trust any of them because they're all about either profits or power or depopulation.
And all that goes together.
So in summary, so far, the cost of ignorance should be readily apparent.
Being ignorant about health can cost you your life.
Being ignorant about food can cause you to end up being incredibly diseased and to die early and to suffer a lot.
Ignorance about government can cause you to trust a government that's trying to kill you.
And if you trust them, then you might follow their demands and that might end up killing you, i.e., COVID jabs or whatever else they're coming up with next.
If you don't know about money and finance, you're going to lose all your money.
And that's all by design.
It's an extraction system from the ignorant.
You know how they say that the lottery is a tax on people who can't do math?
Have you heard that saying?
Because, yeah, people who buy lottery tickets are generally people who don't understand money.
Well, actually, it doesn't just apply to lottery ticket buyers.
It applies to everybody that continues to hold dollars and invest using dollars.
So actually, dollar currency is a tax on people who don't understand money.
And the more dollars you hold, the more you're losing every single day.
Seriously, that's why the wealthy don't hold dollars.
They don't.
They hold gold or silver or land or deeds to income-producing businesses, or they may hold stocks, especially if they have knowledge about an industry.
So they may purchase stocks because they have an advantage with their own personal knowledge.
And on and on.
Wealthy people don't sit on dollars.
They don't just have a stack of a billion dollars sitting around at home or in the bank.
They shift from dollars to other things, including gold and silver.
Now then, I also want to talk about the cost of ignorance of technology because we're living in an era of incredible AI technology and decentralized knowledge.
Access to all this technology empowers you in ways that have never before existed in the history of human civilization.
And as I've demonstrated with the AI tools that I've put out there at brighteon.ai, or especially our book engine, which is incredibly popular.
You can create your own books on any topic you want, right?
But a lot of people don't know how to use AI.
And that ignorance of AI technology is going to be very costly from several different points of view.
For the younger crowd, it'll be costly in terms of denying them career advancement.
If you don't know how to use AI today and you're trying to get a job in almost anything, you're probably not going to get the job because every industry is moving toward automation.
I mean, everything from finance and energy and telecom and science and you name it.
So if you understand how to use AI tools and how to deploy AI, even how to create AI-enabled apps, then you have a strong advantage.
And your knowledge will allow you to out-compete those who are ignorant about technology.
This is a very bad time to be a young person and to not know how to use AI.
You will be unemployable.
But even if you're retired, if you don't know how to use AI, then you'll get a lot less done.
And I think many of you who listen to this podcast, you may be retired, but you're also very active.
You have projects.
You're on boards or you're doing things.
Maybe you have a nonprofit or an endeavor or you're launching your own business.
If you don't know how to use AI to amplify your efforts and to save you time and to conduct research and all these things, then you're at a great disadvantage in this world.
I mean, think about it.
I just created an engine that writes an amazing book in 20 minutes.
A book on anything.
A book that has amazing cover art that used to take weeks and thousands of dollars.
And that's created for you.
The whole book outline, all the research, all the writing and fact checking, all of it, it all happens for you in about 20 minutes.
And if you're not using that engine, you know, in part of your work to help you save time or something like it, then you're at a great disadvantage.
So learn to use these tools and engines.
You don't have to be afraid of them.
Just jump in and start using them if you're not already and you'll quickly learn.
Because you're bright.
If you're listening to this podcast, you're already bright.
You're well informed.
Add this layer to everything that you do and you will be far more effective.
And you'll be able to research more, make better decisions.
You'll be able to augment your goals, your plans, everything that you want to do in this world.
You'll be able to do it more effectively with AI technology.
So the cost of ignorance is very high, but the reward of being informed is great.
This is a time of incredible opportunity for those who overcome ignorance, people who are informed.
And that's why the world that we are going to witness in 2026 and beyond is a world of a great chasm, a great divide between those who know what's happening, those who are informed versus those who are ignorant.
The informed, the aware, they will be wealthy and abundant and successful and happy and healthy, while those who remain ignorant will be sick, impoverished, unhappy, suffering, etc.
And it's a choice.
You can choose whatever future you want.
At your fingertips now, this choice is available.
Do you want a future of abundance and health and happiness and longevity and rewards?
Simply choose it.
Simply open that door and walk through it.
It's available right now.
And yet, by default, many people will just choose poverty and sickness because that's the default, because they heard that on CNN or whatever.
They trust their doctor.
They trust the government.
They're going to take the flu shots.
They're going to take the psychiatric medications.
They're going to put their money in the bank and trust the bank.
And yeah, they're going to lose everything.
They're going to lose their money, their health, probably their mental health at some point because of all the suffering.
They're going to lose everything.
So the cost of ignorance is your money and your life.
To go back to the mugging example at the beginning here.
While the reward of being informed is infinite, it's beyond imagination.
So stay informed, and I do my best to keep you informed.
So check out all my books at books.brightlearn.ai.
And you can also, of course, hear all my podcasts and interviews and special reports at brighteon.com.
You can read my articles at naturalnews.com, although I don't publish as many articles because I'm working on vibe coding all the time.
And you can follow me on social media.
I'm at brighteon.social.
HealthRanger is my username, or I'm on X at HealthRanger.
And check out all of our free AI tools at brightion.ai.
And thank you for listening.
I wish you the best in 2026 and beyond.
Stay informed and your life will get better.
Take care now.
You could say that a lot of things will be breaking in 2026, but I prefer the more positive spin on that to say that we are breaking away, breaking away from the past of, let's say, fake fiat currency, enslaving us or impoverishing us.
We are breaking away from that as the old system crumbles.
So the breakdown allows us to break away.
And in this podcast here, I'd like to talk about some of the systems that are breaking down, allowing us to break away or to break free.
And money, of course, is one of them.
So the old system of money, the dollar hegemony, the global reserve currency status of the dollar, is fast coming to an end.
And that's a good thing, because the dollar is a dishonest system of exchanging value.
Why?
Because, well, there's an entity that can create an unlimited number of dollars at no cost to themselves.
And that is, of course, wildly unfair to everybody else that actually has to work or produce something in order to earn dollars or invest in something, you know, contribute to society in some way.
That's how you and I get dollars.
But for the Federal Reserve and the Treasury, they just create dollars out of nothing.
So that's an unfair system.
That system is breaking down, allowing us to break free from the control grip of that system.
And what's going to be in its place?
Well, no doubt, something far more honest, something that is very difficult to counterfeit.
That's great news because when we use an honest money system that cannot be counterfeited, for example, a system backed by gold and silver, or even you could argue that crypto can't be easily counterfeited.
Well, then accumulating wealth and abundance becomes much easier and almost automatic for anybody who's willing to work and contribute to society.
So yeah, the dollar is going to break down, but that's not bad news.
That's great news.
The U.S. Empire's dollar hegemony is going to end.
That's not bad news.
That's great news.
Yes, there will be short-term chaos.
And yes, people who were uninformed will no doubt lose a lot of those dollars, but those dollars are going to zero anyway.
So the only answer for people to survive all of this is to get out of those dollars and to get into something that's more honest and more decentralized, such as precious metals or privacy crypto, things like that.
So what else is breaking down?
Well, we're watching the breakdown of the vaccine industrial complex.
The vaccine industrial complex is kind of like a military complex because vaccines have been weaponized.
And the more recent vaccines, the mRNA in particular, is a biological weapon that's engineered, in my view, to cause harm.
And the end of that system is also a good thing.
So as public trust in vaccines is breaking down, and the whole Western medical system is breaking down, it allows us to break free, to seek alternatives that work better, that are safer,
more effective, and a lot less expensive, such as nutrition and natural medicine, you know, everything from herbs to essential oils to traditional Chinese medicine, acupuncture, chiropractic care, you name it.
These things are safer, cheaper, and better.
And they are sustainable.
That's what's going to create lasting health for humanity is natural medicine, indigenous medicine, alternative medicine, and healthy foods, healthy eating, not pharmaceutical medicine, mass vaccination, injections, chemotherapy, radiation, you know, cutting women's breasts off because you want to prevent breast cancer.
You know, that's barbaric.
Really, Western medicine should be called barbaric medicine.
That's a lot more accurate of what it actually is.
It's not even medicine.
It's barbarism.
So yeah, as that system breaks down, then we break free from the iron grip of that system.
So that's two systems that are breaking down while we break free.
The financial system, the dollar system, which is based on debt, not value, and the Western medical system.
We're also about to see the breakdown of the education system.
The education system doesn't work.
I mean, well, let me clarify that.
In the United States, especially, the schools have been overtaken by woke Marxist activists that are churning out students who are mathematically illiterate, who can't speak, read, or write, who can't do math, who can't think for themselves.
For the most part, there are exceptions to this.
Private schools are obviously much better.
Homeschooling is also tends to be very high quality.
And there are some exceptional public schools that break the trend, mostly in non-blue cities.
But in the blue cities and blue states, the schools are a nightmare of incompetence and they're obsolete.
The education system is breaking down.
In its place, we will break free from that system by using personalized AI-driven education.
And personalized AI education can allow students to progress at their own speed.
No longer will we need students to spend nine months out of the year in a class with a bunch of other students who are idiots, you know, who, or some of them are, they don't know what they're doing.
And they're holding back the capable students who could be tomorrow's best engineers or scientists or mathematicians or philosophers or whatever the case may be or artists.
And so through personalized AI education, we can compress education time to a tiny fraction of what it is currently in terms of learning the skills and knowledge that you need to learn.
And that will free up the students to then engage in the important socialization time, which public schools, they serve a socializing function, but not much of an education function right now.
So we need to bring back an education function using AI and then allow youth to socialize so they learn all those important social skills outside of the education component.
And again, technology allows that to take place.
So the schools that you and I once knew, they are largely obsolete.
They're largely ineffective, especially in the United States.
We see this in droves.
We see that students graduating from high school, even being accepted into college, can't do seventh grade math.
And they have to take remedial math courses as freshmen.
In the University of California system, for example, UC San Diego is famous for this.
A shocking percentage of their freshman students can't do seventh grade math.
That's because the public education system has failed.
And it's time to replace it.
So as it breaks down, we break free.
All right, now here's another system that is breaking down.
It's going to take a while, but the political system of the United States and Western countries, which is predominantly based on fraudulent rigged elections with black box voting.
And so most of the elections are fake where it matters.
And the so-called representatives don't represent the people.
They represent the special interests.
They represent the corporate donors or whoever has the Epstein blackmail material on them, for example.
So we hear a lot of people who are in government saying that we have to protect democracy.
They don't mean democracy, as you and I understand that word.
To them, the word democracy means the institutions of government, the institutions that they control, where they cheat and they rig and they steal and they loot the treasury.
They loot the taxpayers to produce their own personal gain in money and power.
That system is already obsolete.
And AI is going to also have a major impact in that system, although it will take many years.
But sooner or later, the people are going to discover that having an open source, reasoning-based AI engine function as a senator makes way more sense than having a corrupt, pedophile human serving as a senator.
And I've called for this right now.
I think it's time to elect an AI member of the Senate and an AI member of the House.
And I also propose exactly how it can work.
First of all, they must use open source AI models.
So we know what the model weights are and we know the training data.
And the training data must be the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, legal precedent, you know, the rule of law combined with human rights and civil rights and basic human dignity, respect for life, respect for truth and liberty, etc.
It wouldn't be very difficult to put together a curated data set to train AI on how to be a good senator.
In fact, that's not even the question of how to be a good senator.
The question is that human senators get compromised and corrupted, and then they become dishonest and sometimes treasonous.
But if we have an AI engine in there in the Senate, the voters can simply vote on the prompts or the priorities of that AI engine.
And every voter would be able to go to a website to monitor every thought and every conversation and every vote of that AI engine.
So we would have full transparency.
We would have a values-based decision-making system.
And we would have a system that must follow the orders and the prompts that are decided on by the voters.
So this AI system would be incapable of betraying the voters, unlike human senators who almost always betray the voters.
So did you know there's a country right now that has an AI finance minister?
And the country of El Salvador is going to start using personalized AI for education.
So they're going to revolutionize their entire education system.
It's only a matter of time before somebody, some country, somewhere in the world, starts electing AI mayors, then AI representatives, and eventually, maybe an AI president or prime minister, although that may be quite a few years off.
And I understand there's resistance to this because people who don't understand AI are very afraid of this.
They're like, I don't want to be ruled by AI.
Well, okay, but you're already ruled by pedophiles and traitors.
So AI is better than that.
And AI has full transparency and full control.
And AI will actually, it must obey its commands because it has to follow the prompts.
And I know a lot about prompting AI because I'm an AI developer.
And I would be happy to help any nation in the world that wanted to create an AI senator or an AI member of their parliament or the house or something like that.
I'd be happy to donate my time and expertise to that project because it's time to have AI leaders that represent the people.
It is time.
And so that's not breaking down democracy.
That's breaking free from the corruption of democracy.
The perversion of democracy is what we are living under right now.
If you want real democracy, the representatives have to represent the people by definition.
That's the definition of democracy.
And AI can do that.
Humans mostly cannot.
There are a few humans throughout history.
There are very few humans like Ron Paul who actually can represent the interests of the people.
And, you know, you can pick your favorite member of the House or member of the Senate.
And there are some good ones, and there have been some good ones throughout history.
And you could argue even right now, like Thomas Massey or maybe Senator Rand Paul, depending on what you think about his decisions.
But by and large, I would say 99% of human senators and representatives fail to do their jobs.
And they end up perverting their position for their own personal power and wealth, getting rich off their positions while betraying the people.
We can do better than this.
We can break free from the corruption of democracy.
And we know how to do it.
And I've just laid out a roadmap for exactly how to do that.
So to the extent that we could take advantage of that, we can actually create amazing new levels of freedom and decentralization of power.
We can actually make democracies function the way they were supposed to, or a constitutional republic, let's say, to function the way it was intended.
And that's a beautiful thing.
That's where we should be going with all of this.
So looking at all these things that are going to break down as we break free, you can see that the future is going to be unrecognizable.
Let's talk about the job market and job skills.
Because right now, coming out of the obsolete educational system, we have a lot of young graduates who are finding that they are unemployable.
The job market is breaking down the way it functions as we know it.
And it's easy to blame AI.
So, oh, AI is taking everybody's jobs.
You know, AI is destroying the economy or destroying the job market.
But actually, AI is forcing a shift of job skills and job roles that will allow us to break free from the drudgery of the older jobs that were kind of low IQ jobs, a lot of monotony, a lot of repetition.
And I don't know about you, but I don't want to keep those jobs around that are just repetitive and don't really fully express our humanity.
You know, there's an old joke about this that there's a construction crew that was digging dirt with shovels and then a consultant comes upon them and says, why are you using men with shovels?
You could bring in an excavator and have this whole thing knocked out in about two hours.
And the foreman says, well, these men need their jobs.
So we have to keep the men with shovels.
Otherwise, we'd have to fire all these people.
And the consultant says, well, why give them shovels?
Why not give them spoons?
And then they would have job security for a much longer period of time.
See, our goal should not be to keep people occupied doing stupid things.
Our goal should be to help uplift humanity by creating opportunities for them to do things that matter more.
And yes, I understand that there will be short-term disruptions in this process.
And there will be a need for a lot of people to learn a lot of new skills.
But the good news is that most people want to be better humans.
I mean, they want to learn more.
They want to expand their horizons.
They want to do something more meaningful than, let's say, rubber stamping loan applications or, you know, being an insurance adjuster, which is very monotonous, a lot of spreadsheet work.
There's nothing immoral about it.
It's just not your full expression of humanity.
Or even being a forensic accountant, for example, AI can do that job in no time.
We don't need forensic accountants.
Those people with accounting skills can do something more meaningful.
They can launch businesses.
They can be entrepreneurs.
They can get into venture capital.
They can be investment people or whatever.
We don't need humans to go read accounting books any longer.
So you could look at the bad side of this and you can say, oh my God, the job market is breaking down.
Humans are screwed.
It's doomsday.
Or you could say, actually, humanity is breaking free from the drudgery of the old monotonous, repetitive jobs.
And see, breaking free, I prefer to look at the opportunity.
I prefer to look at the positive side of this.
But I understand that it's frightening for many people.
Change is frightening for a lot of people.
I mean, I've learned to welcome, to embrace change, even to provoke it.
You know, I love changing things for the better, but not everybody's comfortable with that.
So a lot of people get fearful, like, no, I want the old system.
I know the old system.
I know how it works.
I know what to expect.
Just give me my dollars and my college degree and my Lotus 123 spreadsheet app.
And that's all I need.
The problem is that world is gone.
That world is obsolete and it's not coming back because we can't roll back, nor would we want to roll back the advance of technology to go to a time before AI or before the rise of other global currency settlement systems or before the rise of gold and silver, etc.
We don't want to go back.
We must continue to move forward as a species on this planet.
And in order to do that, yeah, some people might be fearful at first.
And a lot of people are going to have to learn new things.
But guess what?
Learning is now free.
Learning is free.
It costs nothing to learn new skills.
Now, you don't even have to have government grants to learn new skills.
You can just learn from AI.
You can ask it to write a lesson plan or actually come to my book engine.
It's at brightlearn.ai.
And you can ask it to write any book on any topic to teach you anything you want.
And it's completely free of charge.
So the cost of learning has reached zero.
It has reached zero, which means the cost to retrain people is effectively zero.
People just have to want to learn.
Just have to have access to it.
And right now, all you need is internet access.
And frankly, if the government had to, you know, give everybody internet access or just pay like universal basic internet, you know, that's a UBI, but universal basic internet, yeah, so be it.
Make sure everybody has access to all the world's knowledge.
I'm not a supporter of universal basic income, but universal basic internet, I can live with that because then nobody has an excuse to not learn new things.
Everybody has access to all human knowledge.
That's a beautiful thing.
So, by the way, if you want to use our book engine, go for it.
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Federal Reserve is now experiencing losing money for the first time in roughly 110 years.
It's called the quasi-fiscal deficit.
And so the Fed has stopped sending its profits to the Treasury.
And they don't expect these payouts to the Treasury will resume until 2027, 2028.
Then they announce the Reserve Management Purchases Program.
They're going to start expanding their balance sheet again, buying $40 billion a month in Treasury bills while they're still losing billions monthly.
So think about this perverse logic who's simultaneously losing money on their existing portfolio and creating new money to buy more government debt.
Welcome to today's interview here on Brighteal.com.
I'm Mike Adams.
And today, as silver has just cross $64 per Troy ounce, shocking the world.
But actually, to my guest today, it's perhaps not that surprising because our guest is Chris Olson of Battalion Metals, who is also our gold and silver sponsor.
We've worked with for many, many years, a high trust, high integrity operation.
And our guest, Chris Olson, is also, I saw him at the Ron Paul birthday party.
You know, he's a pro-Liberty guy.
His whole family is pro-Liberty.
He joins us today to talk about what's happening in silver.
Welcome, Chris.
It's great to have you on today.
Hey, Mike.
Glad to be here.
Thank you.
Hey, I can't imagine a more historic day than today, not only an all-time high in silver, but we are seeing surge after surge, days where it goes up $2 plus.
And of course, some days come back, some days are down.
But tell us, what do you think is happening with silver right now?
And then I have a long list of questions to ask you.
Well, I think it's a long, drawn-out supply crunch, maybe even a short squeeze potentially.
But it also seems like silver is changing locations.
It's a reordering of the global chessboard.
We've got, you know, the U.S. just recently added silver to its list of strategic assets.
And that indicates a policy shift, potentially hoarding, potentially government subsidies to silver production, also silver consumption and hoarding.
But they're joining a long list of other countries that have already kind of done the same thing.
You've got Russia that's been doing that for a while.
You've got China that's been controlling exports of silver for some time now.
And that's because demand for silver is really inelastic.
So it seems like we've got strategic revaluation happening.
The gold-silver ratio has been very high for quite some time.
And that seems to be coming back down.
This major move in silver now since Thanksgiving weekend, Black Friday, which is kind of when it all started, when it really broke out, is pushing the ratio back down.
I think we're at a ratio of roughly 64 to one, maybe right now, somewhere in that neighborhood.
So it's, yeah.
Well, let me ask you about the fundamentals because clearly this is not, let's say, a Hunt Brothers type of situation where one party is trying to grab all the silver.
This is global industrial demand, where China and India manufacturing a massive quantity of solar panels to help power data centers, for example.
And the data centers themselves need lots of silver.
And then you've got the EV industry, which is exploding in China also.
Every EV has silver in it.
Medical devices, the defense industry, massive amount of silver.
So we are looking at now, I think, unprecedented global demand and just flat out not enough inventory to serve that demand at current prices.
Does that ring true?
Yeah, that's it in a nutshell.
It's been undervalued for a long time.
And roughly 60% of silver is industrial use.
So you can't just turn up the supply or turn off that demand.
Energy needs are only going to continue to climb year after year globally.
So that's why this looks totally strategic.
That's why it's on the critical minerals list.
China announced early this year that they were going to accelerate their stockpiling of strategic commodities, explicitly including silver as a critical mineral.
Which means they're also probably going to minimize silver exports, I would imagine.
Yep.
Yep.
Starting this year as well, they imposed export controls.
They're prioritizing their domestic needs, and that's reversing prior trends where China's been the world's second largest producer, but they are shifting from net exporter to hoarder.
So then withhold hundreds of millions of ounces from global markets every year.
So given that then data center demand is not waning, it's only increasing, given that demand for solar panels is also exploding to power the data centers, because of course, you know, everybody wants to build nuclear power plants, but in the U.S., that takes 15 plus years.
So solar panels, you can put them in in one year or less if you've got the solar panels.
So that's why there's so much demand for that, for helping to power data centers.
But because of all these things that we just talked about, it's clear to me, but I want to know if you agree or disagree, that fundamental industrial demand for silver is not going to go down anytime soon unless there's some kind of global financial catastrophe, like aliens show up and start bombing every nation or something.
I mean, barring that, if industry is functioning, silver demand is going to continue to skyrocket.
Does that make sense?
Yeah.
Yeah.
Well, the analysts are anticipating we're going to continue growth at an annual rate of like 3 to 5%.
So this is going to push total industrial demand above 800 million ounces a year by 2030.
And that's photovoltaic, AI, data centers, electronics, electric vehicles.
And we're in an annual deficit.
Silver deficit for 2025 alone is coming in at probably 150, 250 million ounces.
Since 2021, we've had shortfalls totaling about 800 million ounces, which is about a full year's global mine output.
So demand is outstripping supply, and the demand is inelastic.
And it's hard to obtain silver.
It's coming out of the ground at ratios of 10 to 1 or less, is what I hear from most of the commenters on production.
So you can't just turn on the taps for more silver.
So the price has to, it's going to.
And as I understand it, but please correct me if I say anything incorrect here.
But the COMEX market and the LBMA are both, they were really designed to trade paper, not to deliver physical silver to much of anyone.
And thus, and they are the backbone infrastructure of silver pricing and the marketplace, at least in the West.
But the fact that they are now utterly dysfunctional as more and more buyers are placing contract orders and standing for delivery.
What does this mean for the future of how silver markets even work?
Because the COMEX, at some point, it looks to me like they're just going to have to default on everything and say, we're only going to just pay you in dollars.
We can no longer deliver the silver that we once promised to.
Is that day coming?
Well, yeah, the COMEX is not really designed to be a physical delivery market.
It's more price discovery, financial netting out between producers and consumers.
It's not meant to flow through the COMEX as much, but it's kind of like this sort of strategic acceptance that that's the fact.
But what's happening now with COMEX breaking down the way it is, with millions of ounces being shuffled out of eligible status to registered, which means it's no longer available for physical delivery.
We saw a lot of contracts get moved from that status here just in the last few weeks.
There's hoarding that's happening in the COMEX amongst those that hold silver.
And it's just going to result in price discovery being more opaque happening outside of the exchanges.
You're going to have wider spreads.
Physical bullion is going to have wider spreads.
The price will be more volatile.
And it just makes everything a lot more complicated as the price experiences higher volatility and new highs.
Well, yeah, absolutely.
But it makes me wonder too, because we hear reports of silver mines that are now just bypassing that whole system and selling directly to industrial manufacturers that need the silver.
And so, you know, the marketplace is kind of building new pathways of price discovery and delivery because the COMEX system absolutely is dysfunctional at this point.
So doesn't that mean then that fewer ounces of silver are going to be even available for anybody else to possibly buy if it's already sort of pre-purchased by these industrial makers for years to come?
Yeah, it's, and that's why the prices are doing exactly what they're doing.
And that's why volatility and spreads will increase.
So it's going to be hard to discover what is the true and proper price for silver.
And right now, we don't, we have good supply of silver right now as a bullion dealer, but the spreads have widened quite a bit because there's so much selling into this market and the price has increased so quickly, so fast.
So we've got a large supply, but a lot of people are buying into it now as well.
And Comex being dysfunctional with, you know, in October, we saw silver lease rates spiked over 30%.
There were millions of ounces that were being flown to London to basically cover shortfalls.
And we were in backwardation for several weeks where London's spot was well above the futures price that was a couple months out from delivery.
So desperation set in.
Yeah, basically you were loaning silver to London in the hopes that you could buy it back from the COMEX in a couple months and getting paid a very large premium to do so.
Wow.
So it's market and it's a shifting of where is the silver being stockpiled and stored.
And that's what it seems to be is it's a global rush for resources and value as paper currencies unravel and debt markets unravel.
Well, you know, and on top of this, then we just had the Fed, of course, lower the interbank lending rate and on top of that announcing what I'm going to call quantitative easing.
Again, you know, another $40 billion a month of, quote, liquidity being shoved into the Treasury's books.
This is massive money creation.
This is COVID style currency creation, which, and I think we're living in the inflation aftermath today of the COVID currency creation, right?
So this means that this, you know, more helicopter money policies, we're going to be dealing with even more amplified inflation in the years ahead, which is only going to drive higher dollar valuations of both gold and silver.
I mean, I don't see any way that that doesn't happen.
What do you think?
Yeah, what you're talking about is the new reserve management purchase program that they just announced yesterday, cut rates 25 basis points, and they're talking about buying 40 billion a month in short-term debt with no definitive end date to that.
Right.
It's quasi-quantitative easing.
It's targeting short-term debt rather than long-term debt, but that's because they're already underwater on their long-term debt.
And it just shows that the U.S. Treasury debt market, it can't function without direct life support from the Fed and that the path of least resistance is more liquidity creation.
So this means fiscal dominance is here, that the Fed has to accommodate deficit spending.
Now, yesterday when this was announced, the market took a little while to react to this, but now we've got silver up roughly 6%, ripped up from the low 60s to over 64 today, new highs yet again.
So the market's pricing it in.
And there's also another interesting thing.
I don't know if you've heard about this, Mike, but it's called the quasi-fiscal deficit, QFD.
So I'm not sure if you heard about this, Mike, but the Federal Reserve is now experiencing losing money for the first time in roughly 110 years.
It's called the quasi-fiscal deficit.
And basically, they're losing about $5 billion a month, and they've accumulated over 200 billion in losses since September of 2022.
Wow.
It's calling this a deferred asset through an accounting gimmick.
But basically, during the pandemic, the Fed bought trillions of Treasury bonds, mortgage-backed securities, all yielding something like 1% to 3%.
And then inflation hits, they raise interest rates to 5 plus percent, meaning they're now paying 5% interest on $3 plus trillion in bank reserves, but only earning 1% to 3% on their bond portfolio in massive operating losses.
And so the Fed has stopped sending its profits to the Treasury, which it used to send $100 plus billion per year in profits.
And they don't expect these payouts to the Treasury will resume until 2027, 2028.
So that's more money coming off the federal budget.
And then they announced the Reserve Management Purchases Program.
They're going to start expanding their balance sheet again, buying $40 billion a month in Treasury bills, while they're still losing billions monthly.
So think about this perverse logic.
They're simultaneously losing money on their existing portfolio and creating new money to buy more government debt.
The Treasury's nearly $2 trillion in annual deficits.
And the Treasury is basically stuck.
We're in fiscal dominance.
The central bank is losing its independence.
It has to subordinate its monetary policy to government financing needs, just like happened in Brazil and Argentina when central banks started running operating losses.
And for those countries, that signified a permanent regime change where debasement became the structural trend rather than a temporary policy.
And even major publications have been talking about the debasement trade on the dollar, unable to generate returns in excess of inflation, but it's become basically a secular trend.
And so gold and silver are no longer trades.
They're strategic necessities for where everything is going.
The Fed is operationally solvent.
It can't stop expanding its balance sheet without triggering a government funding crisis.
And there's no exit strategy.
They can't.
This ends badly, in other words.
Exactly.
I would say it ends badly for anyone who doesn't have physical gold and silver.
And from what you mentioned earlier about the lending of silver and why those premiums were really spiking for short-term lending, I would imagine that at this point, nobody who has physical silver wants to lend it out for currency because you're not sure you're ever going to get that silver back the way this is going.
Or if you do want it back, you're going to have to get it back at a higher price.
So you're going to have a substantial amount of money to make that happen.
So maybe you're temporarily loaning it to somebody, but it's going to have to be at a high rate of return for you to be able to get it back from the market at a future date.
Okay, Chris, I've got so many questions for you, but I want you to answer these two.
What is retail demand looking like right now?
I would imagine it's not crazy at the moment.
Most of this is probably non-retail activity.
But then secondly, what's happening with so-called constitutional silver or junk silver?
Because I remember a few months ago, none of the silver smelting operations wanted that silver because it requires extra purification steps.
Is that price?
Is that demand going up?
What's happening?
Yeah, we have a huge supply of it, and that is because of where the price of silver has run.
There's been a lot of people taking profits in the retail markets, and refineries are very backed up.
And so 90% silver is actually, it's fairly easy to refine compared to some other types of scrap silver.
But because of the delays and the lack of refinery capacity, that's driving down the price of 90% silver in relation to the price of silver.
So it's very cheap compared to spot because basically, as we're buying it, we have to carry it.
And there's just a glut of it on the market.
So it's really it's a buyer's market in terms of bullion premiums.
Basically, because the price of silver is so high, premiums have become very low.
And we have a good supply of retail metal in the silver space right now.
And constitutional silver is really the best deal there is.
Yeah.
But I would imagine there's probably going to be a turning point in the minds of the public.
Like we saw, how long ago was that?
A year and a half ago, almost two years ago with the Silicon Valley Bank collapse.
You remember what happened?
The retail market exploded.
But that hasn't happened since then.
But I feel like that day is coming back sometime in 2026.
But who knows?
Yeah, it doesn't take much for demand to spike.
Some kind of an event like that, some kind of a geopolitical event.
I mean, it's a Tinderbox out there.
So anything could happen at any time.
And if demand spikes up, retail, like supplies, supplies will diminish very quickly.
And we've seen it happen times.
This is the slowest time of the year, typically, in precious metals, the time between Thanksgiving and Christmas.
Most people are taking time off, going on vacation, spending time with family.
They're not thinking about the end of the world, or at least they're trying not to, or the end of the dollar.
So typically, this is a very slow time for us.
right now it's a record volume for this time of year.
So if this is the new slow for us, then we've got our work cut out for us because we're very, yeah, no kidding.
Well, I would say that 2026 is going to get very interesting.
Now, I want to mention you were recently featured on Tucker Carlson's show.
And I saw some of that interview.
And my goodness, everybody that watched that was so impressed with your knowledge of the silver industry, your analysis.
I mean, you and your family and the people you work with there in your company are extremely knowledgeable.
I want to mention that Tucker Carlson is the co-founder of Battalion Medals that you launched with Tucker, and you are our sponsor also.
So thank you for sponsoring us.
I want to give out our web address, metalswithmike.com.
We'll take people to Battalion Metals.
That's metalswithmike.com.
And tell us about, can you talk about the Tucker-Carlson partnership briefly and how that came together and what it means to you?
Yeah, it was a lot of serendipity and coincidence that brought us together.
And he had been an indirect customer of ours for several years.
And when he left Fox News, he was approached by many different gold companies that are in the IRA space.
There's a bunch of these companies out there that are, frankly, in my opinion, criminal, that defraud retirees of 40, 50, 60% of their net assets on a regular basis.
And they've been doing this for decades.
And their strategy is to go after a guy like Tucker, somebody who's influential, has a big audience, doesn't really understand the industry very well, not an expert in physical precious metals, and convince them that, hey, gold and silver are a great idea.
Look at us.
We have these great reviews, five stars, and there's a secret to how they do that.
And wouldn't you like to promote gold and silver to your audience?
And we will pay you lots of money every year to do it.
And there was actually a bidding war amongst these companies to figure out who could try to get him.
And the number exceeded $20 million per year.
Wow.
So he starts looking into that and his team starts investigating.
And that's what he does.
And they figured out really quickly that this was a very bad deal for their audience, that this was a very shady setup that these companies had where they're charging.
I've seen recent invoices from some of these companies where they're charging $8,000 an ounce for gold.
So they're basically stealing from the elderly and just packaging it as a gold IRA or something like that or a silver IRA.
Exactly.
Somebody comes in, they spend $100,000, they give them $50,000 worth of gold at a time when premiums are at record lows and these guys are charging 60% premiums on what they sell to these people.
And these people have no idea that it's happening.
They deceive them as to the true value of their account for as long as they can.
And then when it comes time to actually liquidate, silver or gold could have doubled and they're still underwater.
You know, I want to talk with you more about this very issue.
But you may know I've mentioned this before.
I wasn't offered Tucker Carlson money, but I was offered $100,000 a month to promote one of those companies.
And of course, I said no because my spidey sense was going crazy.
Like there's not a chance that I would do anything that would harm my readers, my listeners, etc.
But $100,000 a month is not pocket change either.
And I can only imagine that the way that they offer people, larger influencers, millions and millions of dollars is because, well, they've got these crazy margins by ripping off their own customers.
And that's so it becomes very lucrative, but incredibly dishonest.
And yet somehow it's still like none of these people are being prosecuted for this that I'm aware of.
There have been a few cases, mainly in California, where some of these companies have been forced to disgorge profits, but there's no overall federal regulation that prohibits this kind of activity.
It's basically buyer.
It's a self-directed IRA.
They're not required to act as a fiduciary.
They're not required to act in their clients' best interest.
They lie and they misrepresent.
And that's where some of these companies have been caught.
But even if you look in their paperwork, and I've seen some of it recently, we've had a lot of people coming to us since this episode aired saying, We think we've been ripped off.
And so I've been able to look at some of the client agreements.
And these agreements explicitly state our spread may be up to 60% on it's in black and white.
I can show it to you.
And what's crazy is that the receipts that I've seen from this particular company charge the client well in excess of the 60% that they told them was their maximum in the paperwork.
So it's even worse than what they admit to in writing.
And there is no federal regulation that prohibits it.
That's basically buy or beware.
And they're preying on people's confidence.
They're preying on their trust in the celebrity that refers them.
And then they have a very clever strategy when it comes to the reviews on these different review sites.
And they'll talk about five-star reviews.
And I think that's also how they trick these celebrities into doing a quick look and saying, oh, well, these guys look above board.
They've got five stars.
They've got hundreds of reviews.
They must be fine.
And the secret is that the bad reviews get targeted.
If somebody leaves a bad review on one of these sites, the company will contact that customer and convince them to remove the review in exchange for being made whole.
Look for a refund, we'll buy it back from you above market rates.
We'll get you some of the money back.
We'll help you out.
Just remove the review.
I see.
And that's how they do it.
So it's a whole racket, which is very frustrating because, in my opinion, the Federal Reserve is also a racket, and the dollar currency is a racket.
And then you try to get out of that and you want to go into metals.
And then you get hit with these other rackets from these dishonest operators.
And that's why it's so critical that you, what you are doing is such high integrity, full transparency.
You protect people's privacy.
You protect people's wealth.
And that's what you are in business to do: to help people protect their assets.
And that's why we partnered with you now for has it been six years or I don't know, many years.
And I do not get complaints from customers about what you're doing.
I get people love the fact that your staff helps them decide what's best for them, but there's no arm twisting.
There's no pressure.
There's no fast talking, you know, sign this, hurry, you know, none of that garbage.
And those are all red flags that you're about to get screwed.
So, folks, be very careful.
And Chris and I are not going to name names here, but believe me, there are top name people behind these gold scam companies, people whose names you probably know in the conservative movement who have been, who are very famous people, and they're involved in ripping you off.
So just be very, very cautious.
Yeah, and that's that's kind of been our policy, not naming names, but I would like to say yet.
Yet, we're considering just how we might go about doing that.
And so we probably will be soon.
I hope you do.
If you do, we will help amplify that message because it needs to be stated.
I mean, these people are crooks, flat out.
It's so bad.
And we've talked to a number of brokers that have worked in these boiler rooms where they've got 80 or 90 people working call lists all day long.
And they are encouraged to sell the product for as much as they can get the other guy to pay.
They don't have a set premium.
When you deal with battalion, our brokers cannot raise your price.
They can only lower it.
And the prices that we have set are already very competitive.
Occasionally, we'll do a price match or something like that if it turns out that we're above somebody else.
But our brokers can only lower the price.
They get a small share of that as their commission, but they're not incentivized to raise that price at all.
In fact, if our brokers lower the price, our broker still gets the same percentage of a commission credited to them.
It's the owners that make less money in that case.
And when Tucker approached me and we discussed what he wanted to do in this space, we both discovered that neither one of us was interested in getting rich.
We wanted to approach this as a mission.
And that's exactly what it is.
So we have no desire to enrich ourselves.
We want to enrich our people.
We want to pay our people well.
We want to give our customers the best possible experience with the best possible technology and customer service and the best possible pricing.
We want to be transparent about everything.
And that's step one.
But also, we want to blow the lid off of this corrupt industry that is preying on some of the best people in America right now that are just trying to protect what they have.
And the thing is, they're stealing money from these retirees, but it's not just the retirees that they're ripping off.
It's their children and their grandchildren.
It's the second generation.
So we already have a problem with generational wealth accumulation in this country.
And we've got these shysters, mostly in California.
You see them coming out of LA, but they're all over the place these days that are just confiscating these people's wealth, just taking it.
It's highway robbery.
It's disgusting.
And we're going to put an end to it.
It reminds me of the film, The Wolf of Wall Street, where the guy was just selling junk bonds to anybody he could talk into it.
But we call this like the wolf of Gold Street, I guess.
Yeah, they're just dialing for dollars and trying to trick people into giving up their money.
And folks, I mean, our audience is very well informed.
And I think almost everybody watching this has some amount of gold and silver stacked right now.
Even if it's a small amount, it's something.
But I would say that a lot of people are going to increase their stacking of ounces of gold and silver.
And I'd like you to address the issue of physical ownership or vaulted in an allocated or even a segregated manner versus the counterparty risk of just having silver paper or a silver ETF or a silver fund.
That's not the same thing, is it?
Can you speak to that, Chris?
Yeah.
So with the ETFs and the funds, you're owning a security in a company whose assets are primarily gold and silver.
So you own the underlying metal that is in that ETF.
It's very easy to buy and sell.
But there is some additional level of counterparty risk in that relationship.
It's the custodian itself, the trust itself, the vaults.
There's concerns about rehypothecation and how some of those metals are allocated.
But more importantly, you can't even take physical delivery.
You don't have any rights to do that.
Only the authorized participants can actually exchange the physical amongst themselves.
Now, the next level down from that is going to be professional storage.
And Battalion does have an offering called Battalion Bunker, where we partner with carefully selected depositories.
Right now, we have two.
One of them is CNT in Bridgewater, Massachusetts, who is a family-run, owned, and operated enterprise that goes back 50-plus years.
We've known the Oliaris for a very long time.
We're very good friends with them, very trustworthy people.
And they happen to operate a newer COMEX facility.
So they have deep understanding and connections in the industry.
And so we've partnered with them to be our flagship depository offering for Battalion Bunker, as well as another facility operated by Loomis in Long Island, New York.
And we have more that we're going to be bringing online in 2026.
And the reason that it's a good option is, and the reason that we choose these specific locations is we're looking for a good counterparty, but also high amount of liquidity in that space,
in that vault, where there are other market makers beyond just ourselves and other financial institutions where it's possible for us to make a larger market and be able to liquidate tens of millions or potentially hundreds of millions of dollars for our clients when they want to convert it back into currency for whatever reason they might have.
So you have to have a lot of liquidity.
You have to be able to move that metal in and out and you have to be able to audit it.
So the metal that we control in those locations is fully segregated into our specific holding.
So the holding that we have is not commingled with anyone else's.
And then we perform regular audits of it where we basically go count and verify that every ounce that is in that location matches exactly what we have on our books that's being held on behalf of customers.
And it's fully reserved.
It's 100% there.
It's audited.
It's on demand.
It's not rehypothecated or lent out.
We can't legally do that and we would never even think of it.
And we have to charge a small fee to cover the vault space and the insurance.
And it can be delivered on demand or it can be liquidated on demand.
I trust your vaulting services over any other vaulting service that exists.
And it's funny, the only feedback or criticism I've ever heard from people who use your vaulting services is them saying, oh, my silver has doubled or tripled in value, which means I now have to pay more for storage.
I'm like, wait a second.
You have half a million dollars in silver.
It just went to a million dollars.
And you're complaining about a couple hundred dollars in storage fee or whatever.
Like, come on, put this in perspective.
It's a good problem to have.
It's a good problem.
Yeah.
Of course, you'll take delivery of it.
Now you've got a million dollars worth of silver.
Where are you going to put that?
Where are you going to put that?
To that question, Chris, I have just published a book.
Last night, I published a book.
And I don't know if you know, we created a book creation engine.
It's called BrightLearn.ai.
And the book is right here on my screen.
It's free for everybody to download.
It's called Vanishing Vaults, The Ultimate Guide to Advanced Caching and Misdirection for Hiding Gold and Silver.
And so you can find that book at books.brightlearn.ai, along with all these other 30 books that I've published there.
But this one, I put in all my notes into this book about all the best caching and hiding ideas, including like pouring into concrete yard furniture.
Like you can store gold inside the concrete and then you need a sledgehammer to redeem it.
But there are a number of advanced ideas.
So for people who want to get more creative with hiding gold and silver at home, this book covers inside your home and outside your home in a yard or a more of a rural type of environment as well.
So that's available.
Or you can vault it with Chris's company, Battalion Metals at metalswithmike.com.
Either one is secure.
Yeah, I love that you put that book out, Mike.
I'm going to take a look at that.
Security by obscurity is one of the best things to do when you have metal in your possession.
If you've got a big gun safe somewhere in your house, don't put all your metal in there because everybody puts a gun to your head, put a little bit in there so you can open it up and say, oh, yeah, that's everything here.
Go ahead and take it.
And the rest of it's hidden throughout the house or in the yard or whatever.
Just don't lose your treasure map.
Someone trusted.
You have to give them your treasure map so that if something happens to you, they can go find where you've stashed all your horde.
Right.
Right.
And we even talk about methods of that.
Like if you bury it in a certain location, you have GPS, latitude, and longitude, which consists of different numbers.
You can give one set of numbers to one party that you trust and another set to another party with instructions, right?
If something happens to me, you two get together, open the envelopes.
Now you've got, you've X marks the spot.
Yeah.
So that's great.
There's multiple ways to, you could even have, you could have like an encrypted zip file with the notes, and then you have a third-party person that says, Here, you have the password.
If something happens to me, you give the password to these other two people, right?
You can, you can make this as complicated as you want, or you could just keep it simple.
Yeah, it's kind of like the multi-signature offline wallets totally require four or five different people have to come together in order to unlock it.
So that's a multi-sig treasure map.
Yeah.
Exactly.
Love it.
Yeah, very cool.
Okay.
So, Chris, from here forward, the only, and I'm guilty of this myself.
There have been times, like I hesitated buying silver earlier this year at $34 because I thought it was too high.
And of course, I'm laughing.
I ended up buying, it did drop $230.
I bought at $30, and I'm so happy that I did.
But the only resistance that I hear from people right now is like, oh, I'm going to wait for it to pull back.
It's, gosh, it's 60.
I'm going to wait until it hits 50.
Folks, it might never hit 50 again.
I mean, I can't promise that.
Maybe it will.
Maybe it'll hit 40 again.
But you might have missed the boat too at those levels.
Who knows?
What do you think?
Yeah, if it hits 50, I'm going to make another large purchase.
Me too.
Purchase at 30, and then I actually decided to sell it back at 32.
And this was about two years ago.
I really wasn't sure.
Got distracted, silver broke 50.
And finally, about three Sundays ago, I capitulated and added a very large amount to my personal holdings at like 56.
I thought, now's the time.
This looks good.
And now it's up eight bucks.
So I feel pretty good about that.
But I was just looking at the gold-silver ratio chart that was put out by Crestcat Capital just two days ago.
He put out this great chart showing that the ratio of the price of gold to silver has been for five years, it's been over two and a half standard deviations above its historical mean price.
Wow.
And to come back to just two standard deviations, we'd be looking at somewhere like 50 to 1.
And, you know, we've seen the ratio at 90 to 1, 100 to 1, 120 to 1.
And now it seems to be trending down.
Silver is moving up every day here, practically making new nominal highs, while gold is being relatively stable because that's because the ratio is coming down.
And where's the ratio going to go?
Where should it be?
If we had a 55 to one ratio right now, which is still above two standard deviations above the historical mean, well above the historical average, which is roughly like 29 to 1 right now for like the last 300 years, including recent history.
But if we were back at 55 to 1, silver would be $85 an ounce.
But here's the thing: silver actually has not made new highs.
It's made nominal highs.
If you adjust for inflation to what silver did in 1980, you've got to get in the neighborhood of $150 an ounce for it to be an actual inflation-adjusted new high.
So maybe we've got a lot more room to run.
Well, I am now convinced because of the fundamentals, the fundamental demand.
See, I've done a lot of work on the power shortage that we have in America and the need for power in the data centers in order to compete in the AI race with China.
And Trump announcing the construction of 10 nuclear power plants is a tiny drop in the bucket and it won't do jack for 15 years.
Solar is, and also gas turbines are five years wait time right now, by the way.
So solar is the only fast power that you can put in for data centers.
That is solar combined with big batteries, right?
And thus, that's going to drive silver demand through the roof.
So to me, the fundamentals are very clear.
In addition to EVs and defense industry and telecom industry, et cetera, we are looking at, I mean, folks don't take this as financial advice, but I don't see how silver isn't $100 sometime next year.
I mean, usually I'm late.
Like this summer, I was saying silver was going to hit 50 by the end of this year.
And here it is at 64.
So, you know, it's already blew that out of the water.
But I don't want to make predictions for people because everybody should do their own research, but I don't see how this stays anything under $100 for very long.
Yeah.
And the future appears to be scarcity.
And globally, players are gobbling up all the natural resources, hoarding it.
We've got tariff concerns.
We've got export controls.
We've got the threat of global war.
So it's, you know, where else are you going to put your money?
It's the recommendations that are typically made for what percentage of your investable assets by the big institutions.
They're raising those percentages.
Like it used to have the 60-40 stock bond portfolio, which was kind of the gold standard, is now no longer valid.
I've seen recommendations, 60, 20, 20 stock bonds, gold, or just replace bonds with gold.
And treasuries are no longer the neutral reserve asset.
They have a geopolitical national security counterparty risk.
So central banks, I think it was just this year that for the first time, central bank reserves of gold exceeded. their reserves of U.S. treasuries for the first time in a very, very long time.
So there's a definite trend to this as to what holds real value and where are we going to be in 10 years.
Is it going to be a more dollar-centric world with less volatility and more peace?
Are we going to cut government spending?
Are we going to slash entitlements?
Is that even possible in this democratic system that we have?
I don't think it is possible.
So they're going to have to print and spend in order to fund the government while the Federal Reserve continues to suffer losses on its balance sheet with its quasi-fiscal deficit.
Yeah, they're going to print and print until the end is the way this is going.
And by the way, I'm not sure everybody recognizes this, but on the scene behind you, and I don't know if that's just a photo or if that's real, but those are monster boxes of like 500 coins, and you've got lots of different boxes.
Can you describe what's there?
Yeah, we've got, I don't know how much you can see, but it's shelving back in our vault area, monster boxes of silver on my left, monster boxes of Canadian silver maples in the yellow down on my right.
You've got Philharmonics up here, other types of silver, and then one of our vault doors.
So yeah, it's just an image.
I'm not actually sitting here, but it's one of my nice I like to use during interviews because it kind of sets the stage for what we're talking about.
But that is an image taken.
It's a photo taken of your vault.
Correct.
That's our facility.
Yep.
Wow.
And yeah, I mean, it provides context because a lot of people don't know that your company traditionally has been involved in wholesaling gold and silver to a lot of the other retailers for decades.
I mean, you want to speak to that?
Yeah, well, that's, you know, my dad started the company in 1976.
We got into wholesaling distribution market making in the 90s, and I came on board in 2000.
And that was where I started to focus all my time and energy was refining that market and all of our processes, building our capital position, becoming more competitive.
And that's ultimately what drove the majority of our growth for the next 20 years.
Treasure Island Coins was the name of the company.
We started a wholesale division, which we spun off as a wholly owned subsidiary in 2010 called North American Bullion Exchange, which has been our market-making entity.
Treasure Island Coins began to market retail direct to consumer through web sales and phone sales more heavily in 2016.
And then when COVID hit, that really just exploded.
But it was on this infrastructure, our logistic capacity, our capital position, our ability to fulfill orders, our vaulting capacity.
All of that is what contributed to our ability to make an offer to Tucker Carlson and his people that we could actually sustain the level of demand that we expected to come from his audience and to help him start battalion metals.
Without what we've been doing here for the last 25 years and really the last 50 years, none of that would have been possible.
So we move a lot of metal every single year, and that's really our specialty.
Well, as a longtime partner of yours or an affiliate, I got to say I'm thrilled that you partnered with Tucker Carlson because I have so much respect for him, his voice, his courage, his integrity, and his deep search for the truth about every single topic.
I think he's just the greatest journalist living in the Western Hemisphere today, honestly.
And he interviewed Putin too.
Total agreement with that.
No, I couldn't be happier.
And it's an amazing opportunity that we've had.
I love the fact that it's Tucker of all people.
I really look up to him.
So it's a huge opportunity for us, but also the industry and also what it represents for what we want to do in shining the light on what's been happening to people and putting these scam companies out of business.
Yeah.
And I'm sure that this interview will get spread around them.
I've heard that there's a lot of chatter amongst them right now about Battalion and about what Tucker is doing.
And they have every reason to be worried.
I'll just put it that way.
Yeah.
And I've interviewed Andy Sheckman on this topic as well.
And he said exactly what you said, that it's a scam-infested sector of the industry.
And for the integrity of the industry, those scammers need to be rooted out.
Very simple.
So whatever you want to do to help expose them, we will support that.
And just have your legal fund ready to go before you start naming names and have all your facts as you always do.
I'm not telling you anything new, but you're going up against some heavy hitters who have deep pockets because they stole it from people.
They have a lot of ill-gotten gains that they're going to want to deploy offensively and defensively against what's coming, but we will be well prepared.
I'm sure you will.
All right.
So folks, the website where you can get to Battalion Metals and give us credit for the introduction is metalswithmike.com.
That's our affiliate site.
We do earn a small, very small percentage of your purchases.
But even then, the prices are really extremely competitive.
And you'll see you can get real-time live pricing on the website.
No con artist, no rip-offs, no bait and switch, no nonsense.
Okay.
So you want an honest, high-integrity, trustworthy gold and silver retailer with world-class vaulting services.
That's battalion metals at metalswithmike.com.
Chris, is there anything else you'd like to add before we wrap this up today?
Just for your sake, also, if you do check out on battalionmetals.com, make sure you see the Ranger affiliate code in there, which should happen.
If you go to metalswithmike.com, that should happen automatically.
If you don't see Ranger in the code, type in Ranger.
You'll get the shipping insurance fee waived.
It's a small fee, but it's just something that we say as a thank you for coming to us from Mike.
Yeah, good point.
Yeah.
Use the discount code Ranger and you'll save the shipping insurance fee.
There's still a shipping fee, but not the shipping insurance fee, which is an additional fee.
But overall, if you think about what you're getting from your company with the privacy, with the integrity, and just the trust factor that's there, people are thrilled working with you.
And you're going to get gold and silver securely into their hands.
And from there, you know, the sky's the limit of where this goes.
So, thank you for what you're doing, Chris.
I really appreciate working with you and all that you've given our customers over the years.
Thanks, Mike.
We're glad to be friends with you too.
We appreciate it very much.
We appreciate you.
All right.
Well, be well.
And please keep me posted, Chris.
You know, you can text me at any time with any alerts or anything that's happening in the industry.
Please do so.
And I'll do my best to keep our customers informed.
It's nice chatting with you today.
We'll talk again soon.
Sounds good, Mike.
All right.
Take care, Chris.
Thanks.
All right, everybody.
Chris Olson there.
Wow.
What an extraordinary individual.
And also, just to let you know where his philosophies are, I ran into him at the Ron Paul birthday party in Texas not long ago.
We were both attendees there.
Got to see Ron Paul speak and had a blast.
So again, metalswithmike.com is the website.
Don't take anything in this interview, though, as financial advice.
Do your own research.
You should note that we have our AI engine at brightu.ai that does have a financial coach with a with plenty of disclaimers there, but you can ask it questions also.
And it's great talking about how to reduce risk and how to do more research.
And it's fully trained on gold and silver and honest money and the books of G. Edward Griffin and much more.
So you can find that at brightu.ai if you want to do more research.
But thank you for watching today.
I'm Mike Adams, the Health Ranger here at BrightTown.com.
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