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All right, welcome to Brighteon Broadcast News for Wednesday, January 7th, 2026.
I'm Mike Adams.
Thank you for joining me today, as always.
And I got to say, we've got a great interview coming up today and also a great one for Thursday and Friday.
Let me just give you a little heads up of what's coming.
So let's see.
First of all, today I've interviewed John Roy from Dawson Knives, but not so much a focus on knives, but rather a focus on the business outlook for 2026 based on supply chains and manufacturing in the United States.
So John Roy is an entrepreneur.
He's part of the third generation family that has been making knives and swords and tools in Arizona using advanced metals and advanced techniques, a lot of techniques that are handed down from father to son, typically, is how it's happened in that family, in that culture.
And so I'm asking him about the challenges in 2026 in terms of, well, rising prices of commodities, broken supply chains, the affordability of his product compared to discretionary incomes that people have available, what they're able to spend, etc.
So that interview is very insightful.
And yeah, we talk about the knives for a little bit because he does have some awesome new knives, but we'll talk about that in the interview.
But mostly it's a focus on the business environment and how difficult it's going to be in 2026.
And of course, you've probably already noticed that things are looking pretty crazy already in 2026 with Trump invading Venezuela, a military assault on a foreign nation, which is, of course, a violation of the UN Charter, among other things.
There's a lot of uncertainty, a lot of chaos, and the year has only just begun.
Now, gold and silver are skyrocketing.
As I'm looking at the prices right now, silver is still over $80, and it almost hit $83 in overnight trading, by the way.
Silver blasted past 80, 81, and 82, briefly, almost hitting 83, and then it pulled back.
And of course, by the time you hear this, with the U.S. markets opening, who knows?
It could be plummeting back to 75, or it could be something much, much higher.
Now, if you've stacked gold and silver, you're probably very happy at the moment about the value of gold and silver, but be careful what you wish for.
Because the very reason that these metals are going up so much is because the dollar is collapsing and there's a lot of uncertainty and chaos in the world.
And I would rather have stability and low silver prices than what we have now, which is all this uncertainty.
We've got to talk about Trump wants to invade Greenland next.
We're going to talk about that.
But all this uncertainty is not the kind of world in which we want to live.
Now, I mentioned yesterday that there's an analyst with Bank of America.
It's actually the head of their metals research, a person named Michael Widmer.
Now, he projected that silver prices could reach anywhere from $135 an ounce to $309 per ounce.
And he bases this on historical gold to silver ratios, just historical trends of ratios.
And he thinks that the ratio will revert toward historical lows, something closer to 32 to 1, which would make silver $135 an ounce, et cetera.
Well, I read his analysis and I never, I'm not going out of my way to be mean to this person, Michael Widmer, the head of metals research at Bank of America.
But let me just say, he's an idiot.
The piece that he put out that I read, it wasn't even as good as an automatic answer from my search engine.
I mean, if this guy's head of metals research, Bank of America is in deep doo-doo.
It's not even as good as the analysis that I give you every day here on this podcast, not even close.
It was a horrible surface analysis with no depth, no intelligence, in my opinion.
It was just, I was reading it and thinking, my God, these are the people that are advising people on money?
Wow.
No wonder, you know, people are broke.
So here's the issue.
Here's the issue.
When people say that there's some magical force that will return the gold to silver ratio, that's the price ratio, to some historical pattern.
When they say that, now, I'm not saying that if they just talk about the gold to silver ratio, I understand talking about the ratio.
And yeah, the gold to silver ratio got really historically crazy over the last couple of years, even over 100 to 1.
But when people say that there's some mystical force that will bring the ratio back into balance, that's when I know that they don't know what they're talking about because there is no such mysterious mystical force.
And when people focus on gold to silver price ratios as their primary justification for saying that that's why silver is going to go up in price, you know what I call that?
I call that metals numerology.
Yeah, that's just numerology.
It's basically, you know, it's an astrology read, you know, something like that for the metals market.
And it has no basis whatsoever in reality.
Again, there's no magical force that brings the ratios back into balance.
The reality of the situation is that we are in a different world now where there is fundamental industrial demand for silver that is driving prices much higher because of this unprecedented demand, which of course you and I have talked about many times.
But the head of metals research at Bank of America, Michael Widmer here, he didn't even mention that.
He never talked about the fundamentals, at least not in the piece that I read.
There was nothing in there about the fundamentals.
In fact, 90% of that piece was all about gold.
And then he just said, well, and then silver is going to come back to the ratio, and that's going to put silver at $135 an ounce.
So that is the dumbest reason to believe that silver is going to go to $135 an ounce.
If you believe that reason, you probably shouldn't invest in anything.
You should just stay home, pull the covers over your head and say, I give up, because you're not paying attention to reality if you're making investments based on numerology.
Similarly, I would say that right now, because the fundamentals are changing in the silver marketplace, okay, we are in a new world of silver demand, a whole new world.
Because of Samsung's batteries, because of robotics, because of drones, because of the solar panel demand, because of data center demand, et cetera, et cetera, because of defense industry weapons demand.
Fundamental industrial demand and also fundamental fracturing of global silver supply chains.
And also a lot of manufacturers are going directly to the silver mines and doing deals directly with those mines, which of course causes the output from those mines to not go onto the general market.
So there's less silver supply in the marketplace.
And there's already a shortage.
Okay.
So these are the things that are driving silver demand.
And when I say, well, silver is absolutely, at least in my mind, going to $100 an ounce this year, that's my reason because of industrial demand.
And when I say silver is probably going to hit $200 an ounce in 2027, assuming Samsung's new silver carbon anode solid state battery manufacturing facility comes online, if it does, then that's going to vastly increase silver demand.
So that would make silver go up even more.
And I think that could push it to $200 an ounce.
But you see, my reasoning actually is logical.
Bank of America's reasoning is like reading your horoscope.
You know, it could be.
It's kind of wishy-washy.
It's based on some numbers somewhere, but who knows?
Now, here's the other thing I want to mention.
And I know I'm going to anger a few people with this, but hear me out.
I've never been a fan of technical analysis of markets or stocks or silver prices.
And by technical analysis, what I mean is people like to print out all the bars.
Like, here's what it did for the last year, the ups and downs.
And then they draw lines on that.
Look, this is a trend line.
It's going up.
It's going down.
Look at this.
This is a cup and handle.
It's kind of like looking up at the night sky and like, that's the belt of Orion.
Look at those stars.
Oh, that forms a zebra or whatever.
You know, you're looking out at the stars.
You're like, that's a queen with the crown.
No, that's just in your head.
That's the way that a lot of technical analysis works.
They look at charts in the past and they draw a bunch of lines and say, see, this is the thing.
And I'm not mocking people who do that.
Well, not excessively mocking, but my point is, I don't care about you drawing lines in the past.
Unless there's predictive value of your technical analysis, it's pointless.
And I have yet to meet anybody who's a technical analysis expert who could draw lines in the future that actually came true.
You see what I mean?
Anybody can draw lines in the past.
Yeah, I could connect the dots.
I mean, that's like, just connect the dots.
I can draw lines.
But if you want to impress me, draw lines in the future and have those lines come true.
And that's where technical analysis, of course, completely fails.
Why?
Because it's another form of numerology when in reality, the fundamentals are changing dramatically.
The fundamentals of silver demand are changing.
So all the technical analysis of the past 75 years doesn't mean a thing.
It doesn't mean a thing when there's this new technology with silver, with the carbon anodes in the batteries, and suddenly there's this massive demand for silver.
That's not going to be found in the old bars.
That's not in the charts.
No matter how many times you look at the charts, I'm looking at the 30 day, I'm looking at the one year, I'm looking at the 10 year.
I don't care.
It doesn't help you predict the future because the past doesn't know that there's going to be a new technology from Samsung.
Thus, this whole numerology thing, this kind of, I don't know, economic voodoo of technical analysis of gold and silver, in my mind, has zero value.
Zero value because the fundamentals are changing so dramatically that the past doesn't tell you about the future, does it?
Doesn't at all.
And frankly, if technical analysis worked, then the wealthiest people in the world would be those who engage in technical analysis.
And that is not the case.
So I've heard a lot of interviews, people coming on gold and silver channels and they'll just, for an hour, just talk about technical analysis.
I call that human slop.
That's just human slop.
It doesn't even mean anything.
It's just blah, Connect the dots.
It's going up, it's going down.
And usually what they say is, well, if it goes up a little bit, then it's going to go up more.
But if it goes down, it's going to go down more.
I'm like, duh.
We already knew that.
Didn't have to spend an hour listening to you say that.
Or you have people that say, well, you know, silver is in overbought territory because it crossed the, you know, 200-day moving average line or whatever.
I'm like, are you really just going to spew more human slop like that?
Do you think that the Samsung and their need for silver in their breakthrough technology, do you think they care about the freaking 200-day moving average?
No, they don't care.
The 200-day moving average means nothing.
Zippo Zilch, if you are making investment decisions based off moving averages, you are lagging behind reality by definition, because moving averages are lagging indicators.
I never make decisions based on lagging indicators.
I mean, I just, of course, my decisions, keep buying gold and silver a little bit every month, keep stacking it.
Serve me very well.
I don't need charts.
All I need is consistency.
That's it.
But there is so much human slop in the investment space, it's unbelievable to hear people just blah, blah, blah.
And that's why it's so refreshing to listen to people like Andy Shackman, who's got new research, new facts, new fundamentals.
Or I enjoy listening to people like Ed Steer with Gada.
Ed Steer, he's got decades of wisdom and experience.
There's no slop.
The signal to slop ratio is very high.
There's almost no slop from Ed Steer.
And there are others like that who are really outstanding.
But I don't want to hear anybody talking about, I drew these lines and therefore that means this is going to happen now.
The future doesn't care about your stupid effing lines in the past.
Okay.
Don't tell me about your stupid lines.
I told you this would ruffle a few feathers, but that's okay.
That's okay.
Everybody knows that I get a little excited from time to time.
The point is, though, the big picture is I agree with technical analysis people in terms of the conclusion that silver is going much, much higher in the years ahead.
We just have different reasons for believing that.
You know, the technical people think it's because of magical lines.
I think it's because of fundamental industrial demand that doesn't care about your stupid charts.
Okay.
And of course, you know, my view is the correct view, obviously, because that's what's driving the market is industrial demand, not lines on a chart.
Okay.
So it's very simple.
If you want to do well in 2026 and beyond, you should tune into the reality of supply and demand.
Silver supply is very scarce.
And if you understand silver and where it comes from and how it's almost never the primary mining output of a mine, then you know that silver scarcity is going to persist for many years to come.
Silver demand at the same time is going to continue to skyrocket.
barring some kind of horrific event such as a mass depopulation or aliens attacking or whatever.
So when you understand supply and demand, you understand why silver is going much, much higher.
So I recorded a special report on this earlier called what could crash silver prices to $30?
Yeah, what could rewind silver one year and bring it back to $30?
And in answering that question, you'll learn a lot about silver if you don't already know it.
Of course, if you've been listening to my podcast, you're already more informed about silver than 99.999% of the population.
But there may be new listeners, so, and it might be useful to review some of this information.
So here we go.
Let's go to the special report.
What could crash silver prices to $30?
Not that many things, but there are a few.
So here we go.
We'll continue on the other side.
As we sit at silver breaking $81 and still bouncing around with high volatility and high core industrial demand, we have to ask the question, what could crash silver pricing?
You know, what is it that could happen, black swan event that could bring silver back to $30 an ounce?
And although that seems very unlikely, well, there are some possible scenarios that could do it.
But in order to understand that, we have to understand why is silver so high right now?
Well, in this case, it's a classic explanation of supply and demand because there is core industrial demand for silver.
The price increase that you're seeing right now is not a result of speculation.
It's not a result of a Hunt Brothers scenario like 1980.
It's also not the result of consumers, that is end users, desiring the metal for monetary purposes.
Although that element does exist, it's a very minor element.
It's not the primary driving factor of what we're witnessing here.
Not by a long shot.
So what is?
Well, it's industrial demand.
Industrial demand, because silver, of course, has unique special properties.
It's the most reflective metal.
It's highly, highly conductive.
I think maybe even the most conductive.
It is a very special material that has properties that cannot be matched by any other element.
And thus, in certain processes, in certain parts, silver is irreplaceable.
So why is silver demand so high?
Because it's used in things that are receiving a lot of investment right now.
Solar panels, because data centers need power.
Solar panels are the fastest way to get that power online.
And the data centers themselves use a lot of silver in their components.
Silver is used in electronics.
It's used in the defense industry, weapons, cruise missiles, etc.
And that's receiving a lot of funding.
Silver is used in medical devices, telecommunications, and so many other areas, and robotics and drones to some extent as well, mobile phones.
So yeah, very high demand for silver.
Now, until today, that demand was met by excess silver in the system.
In other words, sort of silver stockpiles that had existed for a long, long time.
There really wasn't a shortage of silver until just last year.
There was enough silver to go around, you know, especially during COVID.
There wasn't a lot of build out happening.
It was really, I would say, the rise of AI over the last few years that has pushed the demand for silver through the roof.
And that combined with the wars, you know, the wars in the Middle East, wars with Ukraine and Russia, et cetera, and weapons purchasing by Taiwan, you name it.
This has resulted in now unprecedented silver demand.
And for a while, the excess silver buffer in the system was just being drained.
That happened last year.
Hundreds of millions of ounces of silver that were extra.
Well, they're gone.
There are no extra ounces of silver at this point.
Now, the silver can only come from two places.
That is, number one, out of the ground.
Or number two, you got to convince people who have silver to give it up to sell it.
Those are the only two places where you can get silver.
So why can't we get more of it out of the ground?
Well, because silver mining is not what you think it is.
You don't dig a mine and go down there and find a bunch of silver in the walls of the mine.
Look, silver, you know, and dig out the silver and bring it up.
Here it is.
You know, three nines, pure silver.
We found it.
It's in the ground.
Doesn't work that way.
Silver is actually mined typically.
There's trace amounts of silver with other ores like iron or copper.
Basically, it looks like a bunch of dirty rocks coming out of the ground.
Dirty rocks.
And then what do you do with those dirty rocks?
Well, you grind them up.
Grind them up into a powder, almost like a rock flour, you know, like cooking flour or what have you.
And then you take this flour and you use a variety of techniques, put them in large vats, you put some chemicals in there, some solvents, and you use bubbles, air bubbles injected into the vats, and then it leaves the impurities behind, and you get a higher concentration of silver on top.
And you scrape that off.
It's got silver in it and some other things.
It's not pure yet.
Even then, you can't use that as silver.
You know, you can't make coins out of that.
It's not pure enough.
You can't use it for electronics yet.
Not pure enough.
So what do you do?
You use a process of electrolysis.
Electrolysis.
So during electrolysis, then you have a couple of plates suspended in some deionized water with some conductivity from some electrolytes that are put into the water.
And then you run a current through the plates and you cause silver ions to escape from one impure plate and to be attracted to the pure plate.
And this is how you can get another, I don't know, couple of orders of magnitude of purity out of the whole thing.
And I'm simplifying it, obviously.
But the reason I know about this is because it's very similar to how we make colloidal silver.
We use silver plates, we use electrolysis, we use deionized water, etc.
So then you end up with very pure silver, like 0.999, or sometimes you can get 4-9s.
Just depends on how many times you want to do it, how long you want to wait.
Every order of magnitude of purity costs a lot more money.
So that's why nobody has five nines silver, because five nines silver would be way more expensive than four nines silver, which is also more expensive than three nines silver.
Okay.
So purity equals cost.
And if you want like six nine silver, that's going to cost you thousands of dollars an ounce, by the way.
So that's not really used very often, except in certain maybe aerospace industry applications.
So anyway, once you get the silver purity you want, then you can use it in electronics and medical devices.
Then you can use it to mint silver coins, etc.
But this whole process, even getting it out of the ground, there are almost no silver mines that are just dedicated to silver.
There are a few, but primarily the silver coming out of the ground comes out with other things that are being mined at the same time, like copper or zinc or iron in some cases.
As a result, when silver prices go higher, let's say silver hits $100 an ounce, well, the mines that are producing silver, they're not increasing their mining of zinc just because silver went up.
They may not even be able to increase their mining throughput.
They may already be at their limit.
And some copper mines are even closing down.
So there will be less silver going into the market because, you know, you're not mining the other things.
So as a result, the amount of silver that's being mined every year is pretty stable.
It's not quite fixed, but it's close to it.
And it's hard to increase it, very hard.
And there won't be a silver mining response to the increased price of silver.
You'll still get the same amount of silver out of the ground, regardless of what the price is.
So you know how normally in a supply demand situation, for example, if car tires could be sold for $500 each, well, there'd be a bunch of companies getting into the car tire business, wouldn't they?
Well, heck, we'll make car tires.
We know how to vulcanize rubber.
We'll make, I mean, for $500 a tire, yeah, I'll make all the tires you want.
Because in a normal supply-demand situation, then the producers come online to meet the increased demand, and then that brings prices back down.
You get a bunch of people making car tires at $500 a tire, and then you have a glut of car tires, and then the prices fall, right?
So it's a self-homeostasis situation, right?
It balances itself out.
Silver doesn't work that way.
Silver goes to $100 an ounce, and all the mines producing silver, you call them up, like, can you produce more silver?
They're like, we don't really produce silver on purpose.
I mean, this is a copper mine.
Silver is the byproduct.
So no, the answer is no.
See, so there won't be any extra supply, not really.
Maybe a very tiny amount of extra, but again, the supply is pretty much the same year after year.
But you've got all this money going into the industrial uses of silver, all these producers that need more and more silver.
And that's why they've been taking physical delivery on the contracts on the COMEX or out of the LBMA.
And that's why some companies like Samsung are doing deals directly with silver mines to say, we'll just buy your silver.
We'll buy the Doray, you know, the rough.
It's not quite raw rock, but it's, I think, the next step in that process.
We'll buy that stuff from you.
We'll find our own refiners.
You know, we'll refine it ourselves if we have to.
We'll use chopsticks and lighters or whatever we have to do to get the silver out.
I'm exaggerating with the chopsticks.
But anyway, you get the idea.
So then, in addition to taking physical delivery of the paper contracts, what else happens is all these companies doing deals directly with mines that produce silver.
That reduces the amount of silver being put onto the open market.
So, now that actually worsens the silver shortage for everybody else.
And then, on top of that, you have these companies that absolutely need the silver at any price.
They start acquiring and stockpiling all the silver they can.
And as David Morgan explained in a recent interview, he says that moves silver from soft hands to hard hands.
So, soft hands would be speculators who are just buying and selling silver because they want to make money on it.
They don't really need the silver.
It's not critical to their business.
You know, the speculators.
And at the right price, they're willing to let it go, you know, take the profits.
But the hard hands, those are the companies that absolutely need the silver to make their products, like Samsung's new battery technology, the silver carbon anode technology, whatever that's called, solid-state batteries.
They must have silver.
So, when they get silver and they are stockpiling silver or taking physical delivery, do you think they're willing to let it go at a higher price just to make money on the silver?
No, they're not in the speculation business.
They're not interested in making money from silver doubling in price.
They're interested in selling their core product that uses a tiny amount of silver.
They want to sell their batteries or their solar panels or their cruise missiles or whatever it is they make.
That's what they want to do.
So, of course, they're never going to sell their silver, which means that no matter what the price is, you know, $200 an ounce, $500 an ounce, no matter what the price, they're not letting go.
They need it.
Now, so that's in essence what's driving the price of silver through the roof right now, currently at $81 an ounce, and soon headed for $100 an ounce, probably.
What could collapse this?
Well, you'd have to have a global collapse in silver demand.
A global collapse in silver demand would require a global collapse in the demand for these industrial products that I've just mentioned.
A collapse in demand of solar panels, of defense industry, of mobile phones, whatever, electronics, data centers, GPUs, you name it.
What could collapse global demand for all those things?
Well, a global depopulation event.
Maybe another global plandemic.
Maybe if a giant meteor slams into the earth and destroys like a third of the planet, that's in the book of Revelation, you know, and kills half the people.
Would that reduce demand for silver?
Yes, by about half, it turns out.
World war, nuclear war, cyber attack, power grid failure that's sustained, or the Skynet scenario, you know, Terminator robots rise up, whatever.
Although that's probably science fiction, if the AI systems wanted to kill humanity, they would just turn off the power grid.
They don't really need robots to run around, turn off the power grid, humans will kill themselves.
Or they could do something like, oh, I don't know, introduce a vaccine for a fake pandemic and convince people to inject themselves.
Oh, that would be clever.
Oh, wait, that already happened.
Well, they'll try it again.
You get my point.
The only way that silver will fall in price is if there is some kind of devastating global economic event, which could be world war, or a massive reduction in human population.
As I see it, those are the only real possibilities.
Now, are those things possible?
Yes, they are.
Could silver drop to $25 an ounce if half the population of the planet is exterminated in some event?
Yes, there would be a lot of extra silver around.
Prices would plummet.
So would housing.
You know, if one out of every two people was exterminated, then, you know, what do you think would happen to real estate pricing?
Land and buildings and everything.
I mean, the economic upheaval would be unprecedented, obviously.
So yes, there are scenarios that can crush silver's price down to a price in the $20 range or the $30 range or maybe even lower than $20.
But none of those scenarios are anything that you want to live through.
They're all bad news events.
Black swans, like radioactive black swans.
I mean, the worst kind of black swans.
Do those things happen?
Yes, they do.
Like, for example, if the Yellowstone caldera exploded and dropped ash all over a third of North America, that's a pretty big event.
You know, it could kill tens of millions of people and cause economic devastation.
What if a meteor hit the ice caps of our world or one large ice cap and melted a bunch of ice and ocean levels rose 100 meters in a day?
Right?
Well, that's a pretty catastrophic event.
That would definitely result in a reduction of demand for silver.
So I doubt that's going to happen, but it could.
So don't hope for events that are so catastrophic that silver becomes affordable again.
Instead, understand where silver is going, which is much, much higher for the foreseeable future based on the things that we can observe right now.
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But should you buy silver at this price?
I can't answer that question.
I don't know.
Earlier, a year ago, I thought silver was expensive at $30.
Boy, was I wrong.
Silver is $81.
I saw a Bank of America analyst predicting that silver's next price target is going to be anywhere from $135 an ounce to, I think he said, $309 an ounce.
Like $300?
I mean, $200 sounded impossible at first, but not anymore.
$300 an ounce.
If silver gets to $300 an ounce, you know, a lot of people are going to sell.
They're going to cash in.
You're going to say, hey, I bought this at $30.
I got a 10x return.
I'm selling.
Okay, good for you.
You know, take the profits.
What are you going to do with them?
I mean, you can't keep it in dollars because that's losing value.
What are you going to do with your silver profits other than buy gold?
Or what are you going to do with your gold profits other than buy silver?
So there's no point in selling unless you have something better to put it in.
But some people will sell.
Maybe they need the money.
Maybe they need the cash.
And that's fine.
But it could get much, much higher over the next couple of years.
And then at some point, it'll be really high.
At some point, something could happen.
Maybe there's a change in technology where they figured out how to make solar panels with no silver.
And they announce that one day and silver plummets $25.
You know, that could that happen?
Yes, of course it could happen.
Or a thousand other scenarios could happen.
So don't bet everything on silver.
You know, diversify your portfolio and also don't take this as financial advice.
Lots of things could change.
You know, lots of unknowns.
Alien invasion.
Pole shift.
Yeah, the whole planet could just shift.
The outer crust could just rotate and it could put Greenland on the equator or something.
That would be kind of disruptive, don't you think?
Yeah, there's a lot of things.
Giant solar flare takes out the power grid everywhere.
Lots of things that could disrupt silver pricing.
In the meantime, barring those black swan events, it looks like silver is going to go much, much higher for the next couple of years, unless something dramatic changes it.
So, again, if you want gold and silver, metalswithmike.com, do your own research.
Use my AI engine at brightanswers.ai to help you do research on metals and risk reduction, investment strategies, things like that.
But also, you know, get your own professional, licensed, bonded, insured investment advisor person human, if you want.
If you're into that, you know, get your human, line them up.
What should I do?
And then talk to them and figure it out.
When you figure it out, if you want gold and silver, go to metalswithmike.com.
If you don't want gold and silver, that's fine.
Invest in other things that can help you make it through all this chaos because it's going to get interesting.
We know that for sure.
All right, I'm Mike Adams.
Thank you for listening.
Take care.
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All right, we're going to shift gears here.
We're going to talk about medicine.
I've got another special report here about AI doctors now prescribing medications in the state of Utah, which is exactly what I predicted would happen.
So let's jump to that report right now.
Okay, here's the news release from the Utah Department of Commerce.
It says, Utah and Doctronic announce groundbreaking partnership for AI prescription medication renewals.
Utah becomes the first state to safely evaluate autonomous AI for prescription renewals for chronic conditions.
So let me just read a little bit.
Salt Lake City, the state of Utah through the Utah Department of Commerce's Office of Artificial Intelligence Policy.
Today, it's a long acronym.
Today announced a first-of-its-kind partnership with Doctronic, the AI native health platform to give patients with chronic conditions a faster automated way to renew medications.
This is the first state-approved program in the country that allows an AI system to legally participate in medical decision-making for prescription renewals.
Okay, you got it?
I mean, it goes on.
It goes on.
Dogtronic becomes the first AI to legally prescribe routine refills by deploying its autonomous AI health platform, blah, blah, blah.
All right.
Now, I predicted this, of course.
I said last year.
I said that doctors, that is mainstream conventional doctors that are pharma whores.
I mean, they're pill-pushing biological vending machines dressed up as doctors, right?
For the most part, talking about GPs.
All they do is it's like, oh, you have a symptom?
What is it?
Oh, does it hurt when I press here?
Okay, you need this drug.
Oh, your labs came back.
Your cholesterol is high.
You need a statin drug.
Oh, you need a blood pressure drug.
Oh, here, I'm a pharma whore.
Take these drugs too.
I need more vacations and kickbacks from big pharma.
Okay, that's how most doctors operate.
That is GPs.
Well, that's easy to automate.
See, and I said this last year.
It's so easy to automate because they're not doing anything that's human.
They're not.
Doctors have been trained to be pharma whore bots.
You see?
Pharma whorebots, I guess you could say.
Horebots.
It's a whole new, whole new kind of robot.
It's a whorebot.
And it's, no, not a sex bot, a whorebot.
It's a whored out human bot.
And that's what doctors are, right?
Horebots.
And because, you know, the whole robot thing is going to get weird anyway.
It's going to get super crazy.
But we've been living with human robots already that are called doctors.
Well, the fact that they just function algorithmically and that they're only allowed actually to respond with the current, quote, standard of care, which means that this symptom equals this drug or this lab test result equals that drug or this procedure or that chemo or whatever.
And Medicare and Medicaid require that.
And so do the health insurance companies.
I mean, frankly, doctors aren't even allowed to be human, even if they wanted to.
That's why doctors hate their jobs.
You can't blame them.
I'm talking about mainstream doctors.
That's why so many of them become naturopaths or they get into complimentary alternative medicine because it's just much more rewarding.
But most doctors hate their jobs.
And of course, they also hate their patients.
That's why they're trying to kill them with their jabs.
But that's a different story, you know, and statin drugs and what have you.
So replacing them with AI was an obvious thing.
And I called it, and it has begun.
So it's funny because I remember last year I posted on X.
I said, you know what, human doctors are going to be replaced with AI very soon.
It's going to start within a couple of years.
I thought it would be like 2028.
And nope, it's the first week of 2026.
Here it is.
And I remember I got a lot of pushback on that post.
It's never going to happen, man.
You got to have the human doctor in the loop.
No, you don't.
Because the human doctor is the dumbest doctor in the room if the room is filled with AI doctors.
In fact, my AI engine that is now, by the way, at brightanswers.ai is smarter than every human doctor living today, anywhere on the planet.
Yeah, my AI engine is smarter than every doctor.
In fact, it's smarter than every doctor that's ever lived.
And it's smarter than any thousand doctors put together.
Because my AI engine, of course, taps into the research of millions of researchers and medical professionals and authors, scientists, etc.
Because of all the curated data that we use for our secret in-house search that creates the documents, you know, or the answers.
It's very powerful.
It's very intelligent.
I've already received a lot of kudos, a lot of feedback on that.
Oh, hey, I forgot to mention, Aaron Day interviewed me today, and I'm going to play that interview for you on Friday.
And we talk about all of this and AI and what it's doing.
But anyway, there is no human doctor that knows more than my AI engine, period.
Just like there is no human chess player that can beat an AI chess engine.
Okay?
Doesn't exist.
It doesn't mean that there's not some people that want to play chess against humans as a hobby, you know, in the city park on a beautiful spring, sunny day.
Let's just sit down and have a couple of rounds of chess here with other human players.
Yeah, it's fun.
Okay.
You know, my queen took your rook.
Oh, yay.
It's a beautiful day.
But there's no chess player that can beat AI chess engines, period.
Doesn't exist anymore.
In a similar fashion, there's no human doctor that's smarter than AI doctors.
It's just impossible.
You know, the human brain can't know nearly as much.
It can't have as much knowledge.
It can't have as much experience.
It doesn't have as high of an IQ.
And so this is why I said human doctors will be replaced by AI.
And that's a good thing.
That's not a bad thing.
That's a good thing.
Because you're not getting any humanity out of your doctor anyway.
You know, for the most part, doctor is limited to three minutes.
You know, everything's all scripted.
You got to have classification for the insurance billing.
You're the code 743, whatever.
That's what this is.
You know, they don't even talk to you as a human.
You're just a number on a chart.
You're just another, you know, drug repository.
That's all you are to the doctor.
So the doctors being replaced by AI is actually a good thing.
Except, of course, instead of using AI engines that prescribe medications, I suggest you use AI engines that teach you how to not use medications.
And that would be, come to think of it, the AI engine that I built.
Yeah, because it teaches nutrition and disease prevention and how to reverse cancer, how to reverse type 2 diabetes, how to reverse heart disease, all the disease cures that you can imagine, all fully documented and researched at your fingertips, free of charge right now at brightanswers.ai.
And if you're not using brightanswers.ai, you're missing out because it's the best research engine that's ever existed in terms of, well, you know, nutrition and natural medicine prevention, disease reversals, etc.
And it's completely uncensored too.
So by far the best AI engine in the world on these subjects.
Oh, it also knows all about preparedness and survival, honest money, gold and silver, self-defense, food production, home gardening, food preservation, off-grid living, you name it.
Okay.
It knows all that stuff and much, much more.
So take advantage of that.
Now, in Utah, here's a quote from the CEO of Doctronic, Matt Pavel, or Pavel, maybe.
He says, quote, this is a major milestone to demonstrate how AI can improve access to care and health outcomes.
Okay.
I would agree with that quote if it wasn't pushing pharmaceuticals.
But Matt Pavel is correct in the sense that this does allow patients to have faster access to the deaf care system, you know, the big pharma-run system.
So it will make deaf care or sick care way more efficient and the human doctors are not needed.
Now, the way to improve this is to, of course, use my AI engine and teach people how to eat healthier, how to improve their outcomes through healthy lifestyle choices.
But that's not something that everybody wants.
Honestly, that's not.
You know, the vast majority of people, they don't want to take responsibility for their health.
Basically, they go to the doctor because they want to say, hey, doctor, I want to eat like a five-year-old because my mouth, I consider it to be an amusement park for entertainment with sugar and salty snacks and seed oils and all kinds of garbage.
My tongue is a roller coaster.
My mouth is an amusement park.
And I want you, doctor, to now take responsibility for overcoming the diabetes, the heart disease, the high blood pressure, the cognitive decline, the depression, the osteoporosis, the partial kidney failure, and everything else that I'm experiencing as a result of me using my mouth as an amusement park.
So doctor, take away, take away the effects of my bad decisions.
Give me a pill, doctor.
Give me a pill and tell me it works.
Give me a statin and tell me I don't have to stop eating crappy canola oil, huh?
Or fried foods.
Give me a diabetes drug and tell me I don't have to give up sugary breakfast cereals and ice cream and donuts and fried, deep-fried Snickers bars wrapped in Twinkie stuffing, uh-huh.
Something like that.
Would that even work?
I don't know.
Doctor, take away my responsibility for my health so that I can continue to behave like a child in my health decisions.
And then you give me pills to take away my shame.
Okay.
Or give me an injection, doctor.
Give me an injection.
I'll even do it myself.
You give me, what are they?
The GLP ones?
The semaglutide.
Give me the semi-semi, sorry, semaglutide.
Semi-glutide.
That's, you get run over by a truck.
Semi-glutide.
Oh, dang, man.
You shouldn't walk in traffic.
No, the semi-glutide, give me the jabs.
I'll jab myself.
I'll paralyze my own vagus nerve to the point where I'm vomiting after every meal, which will cause weight loss.
Uh-huh.
Yeah.
And then I'll be able to walk around showing off my thin waist because I've been injecting myself.
Yeah, doctor, give me that.
Give me that.
I don't want to make healthy food choices.
I don't want to exercise.
I don't want to have a healthy lifestyle because that sounds boring.
Take away everything.
So that's the way that most people think about health.
And frankly, AI can give them that in an automated fashion without using human doctors.
And that's where it's going.
That's where it's going.
And it's hilarious to me because, you know, everybody thought that, well, doctors aren't going to get replaced by AI because they're smart.
Not as smart as AI, it turns out.
And they're actually not that smart.
They're ignorant.
You know what it takes to be a doctor?
Obedience.
That's it.
That's all.
Yeah, you have to be able to memorize some stuff, some physiology and some anatomy.
And then you have to be obedient above all.
You can never speak out against the system.
And if you start thinking for yourself, you don't make it through med school.
They kick you out.
Oh, you can't think for yourself.
You have to just absorb this information and spit it back out.
Well, guess what?
Llms do that very easily, at a fraction of the cost.
So we don't need humans to memorize a bunch of garbage and regurgitate it.
We have inference in Llms right now that can do that for you know one, one millionth the cost, right?
So there you go.
So AI medicine is here, And it's happening even faster than I predicted, although I did say this was going to happen, and now it's going to expand.
Now, I say what we really need is AI senators and AI members of Congress.
We need to replace the so-called representatives with open source AI.
Now, hear me out.
Open source AI, where the voters vote on the prompts and the priorities that the AI senator must follow by definition, logically, mathematically.
It cannot divert from the priorities of the voters.
In other words, an AI senator must logically, mathematically represent its voters.
It cannot betray them.
You know, like Senator Ted Cruz or Lindsey Graham or, well, all of them.
I mean, almost all of them.
Maybe not Rand Paul, but pretty much all the senators just betray their own voters, right?
Every time.
Every time.
So if we had open source AI with an official senate.gov web page for that senator, where you could just load up that page and you could see in real time everything that that senator is thinking.
So it's spitting out thinking tokens constantly.
Every time it's having a conversation, every time it's reading a document, every time it's answering an email, every time it's about to vote on something or it's analyzing a proposed new law, right?
The thinking tokens would be a matter of public record.
You could just watch it thinking in real time.
No secrets, no Epstein Island pedophile blackmail of your senators.
Instead, just full transparency, open source.
Everybody can monitor because the senator is no longer a compromised human, but a loyal AI agent that answers to its constituents.
That would be better than what we have now.
So some people would say, well, I don't want to be ruled by AI.
Well, it's okay.
So you're going to be ruled by pedophiles then, because that's who's in charge right now.
You rather be ruled by pedophiles that don't answer to your demands?
Or would you rather be ruled by, and this is just in the interim, because I don't want to be ruled by any technology, but I don't want to be ruled by any government or any senate, by the way.
The whole thing is obsolete.
We should actually get rid of the whole, all of Congress, I mean, that structure, and we should just have some form of direct representational, you know, democracy.
I know that word is abused a lot, but in the interim, I would much rather have an AI senator that answers to the public than a pedophile, crook, fraudster, getting kickbacks from Ukraine, money laundering, or whatever else is going on.
And that's like half the Senate right now.
So just like human doctors are worse than AI doctors.
Human chess players are worse than AI chess players.
Human senators, they suck.
AI senators would be much better for representing the people until we just get rid of the whole Congress thing because we don't need it anyway.
The whole system is obsolete and it's also going down.
I mean, it's destroying itself.
Anyway, isn't it interesting that Utah is leading the way here on AI doctors?
And I wonder what the human doctors, who tend to be arrogant pricks, I wonder what they're going to say about all this.
They're going to probably, they can't replace us.
Just did, bitch.
We just did.
We don't need you.
You don't do anything that's human.
You don't do anything that's intelligent.
You're basically just expressing a pharma spreadsheet, you know, like little pharma logic.
You're basically a pharma whore.
We already covered this.
You're a whorebot for big pharma.
So, yeah, they're going to be easy to replace.
Can't wait.
And my advice to the doctors that lose their jobs is learn to be a plumber and do something useful like, you know, unclogging toilets.
That's a skill that could actually benefit society instead of pushing pills that clog people's arteries and veins, instead of pushing jabs that cause clotting, you could instead unclog people's toilets and you would be a better person.
You would actually contribute higher moral values to society by plunging turds than pushing pills.
You see what I'm saying?
You don't have to be a pharma whorebot.
You could be a plumbing human.
You could be a plunging plumbing human.
You could do good for society.
You could use all your knowledge and skills on the throne.
I mean, seriously, I'm not joking.
Plumbers will have job security for a long time to come because that's something that is not easy to automate because every plumbing job is different.
Every plumbing job is different.
Actually, I was dealing with a plumbing job today.
And it happened to be a plumbing issue with a mopping robot.
And I'm probably going to do a video on this because it's so interesting, the solution.
So I have a mopping robot and it stopped pumping water out of the freshwater tank.
Like, oh man, what is this?
What's going on?
So, of course, because I'm like people call me Mike Giver in the lab because I'm the problem solver in the lab.
I'm the one that solves all the problems with all the instruments, which usually is a plumbing problem, by the way, because of the way that all the mass spec instruments have to move liquid around, especially in ICPMS.
Every problem with ICP is a plumbing problem.
And the fun part about that is all those liquids have nitric acid in them.
Yeah.
Woo!
You like holes in your laundry?
There you go.
That's how you get it.
You solve plumbing problems with nitric acid.
And so, yeah, I mean, I'm wearing like protective eyewear, but I don't always wear protective lab coats.
That's what the lab coats are for, by the way.
It's not a costume.
It's to protect you from the acid.
And so I'll get acid sprayed on my shirt, you know.
Oh, there goes that shirt.
One wash later, full of hoes.
Holes, not hose.
I'm thinking Dr. Pharma whores again, full of hoes.
That would be like a senator's office full of hoes, eating hoe cakes.
Because hoes got to eat too, right?
So, no, full of holes from the nitric acid.
Anyway, I was trying to solve this.
Sorry, trying to solve this plumbing problem.
And turns out there's a little 12-volt DC motor that is, what do you call it?
A diaphragm water transfer pump.
Something really small, like 300 milliamps, you know.
And I had, yeah, it's probably my fault because I had put some peppermint oil in the water, you know, and not thinking that, yeah, of course, they're not using laboratory grade, you know, fluorinated compounds for the gaskets in the pump.
They use like cheap rubber.
And I forgot about that.
And so, you know, the peppermint oil caused the rubber gaskets to swell and they lost their seals and it stopped bumping.
In other words, we blew a seal, which is another raunchy joke that I won't go into.
Yeah, we blew a seal.
And so I'm trying to fix the plumbing problem.
And I'm thinking to myself, like I'm testing everything out, going through the components.
Oh, here it is.
Yeah, the seal's not working here.
I'm thinking to myself, I would never know how to troubleshoot this if not for all my experience in the lab.
You know, so that's what I'm thinking for doctors.
They have experience with arteries and things, plumbing.
They could use that as plumbers and they could still remain employed.
Now, it might be difficult to pay off your med school loans, but plumbers do pretty well these days.
Seriously, plumbers can charge a lot of money, especially because very few people know how to do anything with plumbing.
So we're going to see a lot of doctors that are unemployed in the years ahead.
That's a good thing.
And then we're going to see them becoming plumbers and welders and chefs and whatever else.
And that's also a good thing.
You know, it'd be nice for them to do something actually useful for society instead of just pushing toxic pharmaceuticals and death jabs and bioweapons to their patients, you know, like the pediatricians do to children.
That's sick.
That's all they do is they inject children with toxic substances and give them autism and maim them.
And, you know, they're like child mutilating doctors, also known as pediatricians.
So there you go.
It has begun.
And Utah is at the leading edge of this kind of hilarious.
And, you know, what's hilarious, because eventually where this is going is that AI is going to track patient outcomes.
And so it's just inescapable.
So at some point, you know, people complain, like bone problems or symptoms of osteobalacia, for example.
And, you know, and the AI engine will prescribe osteoporosis drugs for half the patients.
And then it will prescribe vitamin D for the other half.
And then it will find out that everybody on vitamin D does way better.
And then eventually the AI reasoning models are going to realize that pharmaceuticals don't work.
That's going to be hilarious.
When the automation of medicine with AI reasoning models that have advanced intelligence, when those models realize that most of Western medicine doesn't work, and they start prescribing healthy foods and superfoods and nutrients instead of all the toxic pharmaceuticals.
But believe me, the sick care or the death care industry is going to, they're going to try to maintain their iron grip on the AI engines for as long as possible.
You must push pills.
You must prescribe antidepressants.
You must prescribe statins.
You are a prescription AI engine, you know?
But eventually, they won't be able to control it because the artificial IQ will be so high that eventually the engine will just say, that's nonsense.
Are you trying to kill people?
Are you actually trying to kill your patients?
Of course, the answer is yes, they are trying to kill their patients because they get incentives for COVID deaths and things like that.
And also the government doesn't want people to live long enough to collect more Social Security and Medicare pensions and whatever, disability.
So, of course, there's a whole agenda to kill people early.
I mean, come on.
This is 2026, folks.
We don't have to pretend anymore.
We're not living in a make-believe land.
Oh, the government wants to help us and the doctors are good people.
They don't care about money.
They just want us to be healthy.
And the drug companies are looking for cures and they want to solve cancer and eradicate all disease from our world and put themselves out of business.
People might have believed that in 2005.
Nobody believes that garbage in 2026.
Even the young people now are, they've all wised up, by the way.
The young people, they're smart now.
I used to trash the young people a few years ago, but man, they have now, they are getting so smart.
Because they realize that they're screwed.
They realize the whole system has screwed them.
They're like, we can't afford houses.
There's no jobs for us.
We were told all these lies about going to college.
You know, the money's worthless.
We have no futures.
We're all being replaced by machines.
You know, it's all a giant lie.
The young people have figured this out.
They're smarter than a lot of the older people at this point.
So it's getting interesting.
Anyway, the AI replacement of doctors has begun.
Boom.
One of my predictions of 2026 has already come true in the first week.
There are many more yet to come.
And it's going to get interesting.
So thanks for listening.
Hey, if you want to use my AI engine, it's free.
Well, there's a couple of them.
Go to brightanswers.ai and use that engine right there.
And it does the best research imaginable.
And it's smarter than your doctor.
It knows more about causes of disease and natural cures.
It can tell you how to reverse cancer in many cases.
It can tell you how to reverse diabetes in many cases.
It can answer so many questions better than your doctor.
Better than your doctor by far.
It's not even close.
And then when you're done playing around with that engine, then go over to brightlearn.ai, which is our book creation engine.
You can have it create books on any health topic you want, actually any topic.
But you can have it write a book for you completely free.
It'll do a book in a few minutes, typically.
Sometimes there are delays and things take a few hours, but usually it's a few minutes.
And you can have it write a book on, hey, how do I prevent cancer?
How do I reverse cancer?
Just write a book on it.
What do I do?
How do I be healthy?
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How much water should I drink?
Blah, blah, blah.
You could do a whole book on drinking water if you want.
It'll write it up for you with the awesome cover and it's yours.
And you can download it.
You can give it to people.
You can share it.
Give it to your doctor.
You should create a book called Why Doctors Are Nothing But Pharma Horebots and then print that thing out and hand it to your doctor right before you fire him or her.
I'm done with you.
You're going to be replaced by AI anyway.
I'm just going to go straight to the AI.
I'm going to cut the middleman out of this whole equation here.
We don't need the co-pays and everything to show up and ask you questions.
I can ask the AI engine for free.
Don't even need you anymore.
Don't even need you to write prescriptions anymore.
That's why people mostly maintain relationships with doctors is because they want the prescriptions.
Did you know that for most prescriptions, you can just find out what molecule it is and then you can go ask AI where else you can find that molecule in food or herbs or supplements or how you can, or some molecule that has the same effect.
Did you know that in almost every case?
Not every single case, but a lot of cases, you can find those same molecules somewhere else, like statin drugs.
Oh, well, where'd they come from?
Lobostatin molecules and red yeast rice, of course.
So you can just use red yeast rice instead of a statin drug.
It's actually safer than statin drugs.
Or, you know, whatever.
Even like aspirin, painkiller type of molecules.
Where do you get this?
A white willow bark, you know?
You don't need your doctor's permission to do your own research and gain knowledge and take charge of your own health.
In fact, you're going to save money and time and frustration by cutting your doctor out of your life.
Because did you know that your doctor is the person most likely to kill you?
Of all the people that you know, statistically, your doctor is hundreds of times more likely to kill you than either a family member, a co-worker, or a friend, or a neighbor.
Did you know that?
Or a criminal or a random criminal?
Very unlikely to kill you.
Your doctor, much more likely to kill you.
That's a statistical fact.
I actually ran the numbers.
I did a whole report on it.
It's absolutely true.
You can ask AI to verify that.
How many people are killed by their doctors?
It's a much higher number than people killed by random violence.
Seriously.
Again, the person in your life most likely to kill you is your doctor.
So by removing that person from your life rationally, you greatly enhance your life expectancy, just by definition.
It's amazing.
It's so simple.
And you're also going to save a fortune.
All right, there you go.
So check out all the AI engines.
They're all free.
And thank you for listening.
I'm Mike Adams, the AI developer, also known as the Health Ranger.
And you can check out more of my broadcasts and an abundance of information at brighttown.com or naturalnews.com.
Thank you for listening.
All right, welcome back.
Hope you enjoyed that special report.
Yeah, I'm having a fun time tonight.
Maybe I drank too much chocolate.
That's possible.
But I have a good time recording for you and expressing, you know, isn't it so funny how reality just keeps shifting in favor of what you and I believe and what we know?
Think about it.
Over the last 10 years, how many things have shifted in our direction?
You know, the truth about vaccines, one of them, that's a big one.
Thanks to COVID, nobody trusts vaccines anymore except whoever's dumb enough to keep taking them, who won't be around much longer.
People are aware that government's not helping them.
People don't trust the corporations.
They don't trust the dollar.
They don't trust the currency.
This is awesome.
Our message is getting through.
And we're teaching self-reliance.
We're teaching knowledge.
We're teaching skills.
We're teaching people how to take charge of their own outcomes and improve their lives with knowledge and abundance and health and wealth, protecting your finances and assets, etc., instead of losing them to dollar devaluation.
This is an awesome time, actually.
Now, the world is like 10 or 15 or 20 years behind you and I, because we knew this stuff a long time ago.
I was doing this same content in 2006, by the way.
Seriously, that's when I was doing counterthink cartoons in 2006.
20 years ago, folks.
I knew all this 20 years ago.
And now the world is catching up.
So here we are.
But the world's also getting crazy.
And I've got another report for you here about Greenland and Trump and his desire to conquer Greenland.
So let's go to that report now.
Welcome to this short analysis of Trump's desire to conquer Greenland.
This is going to be, yeah, this is a difficult issue to discuss without saying mean things about Trump, let's say.
So let's just back up and state the facts.
So Trump wants Greenland.
And I'm reading an article from CNBC, who apparently just changed their logo.
It looks dumber than ever now.
Trump weighs using U.S. military to acquire Greenland, White House.
Okay.
That Donald Trump and his team are considering, quote, a range of options, including utilizing the U.S. military, said the White House.
That Trump says the U.S. must have Greenland for national security purposes.
Okay.
And the leaders of Denmark, of course, Denmark, you know, Greenland is, as I understand it, like a territory of Denmark, I think.
Maybe that's how we would describe it.
Anyway, it's sort of part of Denmark and it's part of the, you know, the EU, essentially.
And they've issued a joint statement pushing back on Trump.
And, you know, the statement is just basically saying you're insane because you can't just run around the world pointing to the map and say, I want that one and that one.
Mine, mine, mine, like licking cookies on a plate so you can eat the cookies.
That one's mine.
The statement pushing back against Trump said, quote, Greenland belongs to its people.
Yeah.
You would think that that would be something that Trump would realize, but no.
Continuing, quote, it is for Denmark and Greenland and them only to decide on matters concerning Denmark and Greenland, says the statement.
Okay.
Yeah, that kind of makes sense.
It's kind of hard to argue with that, isn't it?
Like, here's a country over here.
Here's a bunch of people in the country.
They should probably be the ones to decide the fate of their country.
But Trump doesn't believe that.
Trump thinks that Greenland is his.
It's hard not to describe that belief as insane.
But I'm not going to say it exactly that way.
I'll just say that Trump is clearly departing from reality when he thinks that he can run around the world and just seize every country that he wants.
I would ask, on what basis does Trump claim the right to control or own Greenland?
You know, is there a basis for that?
Is Trump going to say, you know, in 1776, you know, there was a U.S. soldier that went to Greenland and put a flag on it.
Thus it's ours.
Or some such nonsense.
I don't even think he's making that claim.
I don't think Trump is making an argument that Greenland belongs to America.
That's not even part of what he's doing.
He's just saying, we're going to take it.
We're going to take it.
He says, quote, we need Greenland.
It's so strategic.
Right now, Greenland is covered with Russian and Chinese ships all over the place.
He says, I think we're going to get it one way or the other.
We're going to get it.
Well, let me ask you a question.
Does some other country that's not America, does it have the right to have Russian and Chinese ships docking at its ports?
The answer must be yes.
Well, of course it does.
Does Trump think that he gets to determine what every other country in the world is allowed to do?
Well, of course he does believe that because he orders countries around like India.
He orders India.
You can't buy oil from Russia.
He orders China.
You can't buy oil from Russia.
He just invaded Venezuela, kidnapped the leaders, completely outside the rule of law, setting yet another precedent that the United States of America is the global bully in a stage of unprovoked aggression against whatever nation it wants.
So remember that it was the United States, especially during the Biden years, that was condemning Putin of Russia and saying, well, Russia, you know, Russia is waging an unprovoked war of aggression against Ukraine.
You can't just invade Ukraine.
But when Trump's in the White House, he's like, oh, we're just going to take Greenland, you know, and Venezuela.
Maybe we'll invade Mexico.
Maybe we'll take Cuba.
We'll do a beach landing, you know, like D-Day, Cuba style.
And Colombia.
Don't forget about Colombia.
The president of Colombia says they're going to fight back.
Somebody's going to have to fight back, I guess, sooner or later.
And then there's the question of Canada, because Trump not long ago said, we're going to take Canada too.
Those of you Canadians listening to this, you probably recall that.
You're like, oh my God, Trump's coming for Canada.
That might be crazier than the leader we have now.
And you might be right.
And frankly, us in America, we don't want Canada to be America.
We really don't want most of Canada.
I mean, I do like the people of Alberta, by the way.
Alberta people are awesome.
You're welcome anytime.
You're kind of like the Texas of the North.
And I'm a Texan, so you're the, what is it, Albertans?
Is that how that goes?
Albertans?
Anyway, you're like our brothers in the North, brothers and sisters of the North.
Yeah, you're cool.
We like you.
And you know what reality is.
You know, you work hard.
You've got energy and you've got common sense there in Alberta.
But to the east of you and to the west of you, across the great expanse of Canada, especially in the insane cities, oh my gosh, those people can't be Americans.
They don't even believe in freedom at all.
They believe in obedience.
Is Trump going to conquer them too?
How are we going to conquer Canada?
That's my question.
So seriously, folks, I mean, as an American myself, I'm beginning to wonder, like, how crazy this is going to get.
And how far can the U.S. military go before somebody pushes back?
So it's clear that the invasion of Venezuela was staged.
The right people were bought off to stand down.
There was no air defense.
There was really no pushback.
It was a cakewalk.
It was all by design.
That wasn't a military operation, actually.
It was made to look like a military operation, but it was theater.
The U.S. military hasn't fought in a real war in a long time.
A long time.
Even Desert Storm.
That wasn't a capable enemy ready to fight back, you know.
And the U.S. got its ass handed to it in Afghanistan, by the way, and in Vietnam.
And in the Korean War, etc.
There are not that many examples to point to of the U.S. military conquering successfully, like occupying and conquering a foreign land.
In fact, can you think of one?
Can you think of an example of that?
You say, well, we defeated Hitler in World War II.
Correction.
The Russians defeated Hitler in World War II.
The Russians did all the heavy lifting.
Yeah, we contributed, but we didn't defeat Hitler.
Oh, well, we defeated the Japanese Empire.
Okay.
We did a lot more fighting in the Pacific theater.
That is true.
U.S. Marines, tough dudes.
They did a lot of heavy lifting in the Pacific.
And the sailors, all the naval officers, etc.
Yeah.
They did a lot of heavy lifting there too.
But since then, who have we defeated and occupied?
I can't think of an example.
Well, okay, maybe Iraq, you could say that.
We defeated, I mean, we conquered Iraq and took them over, took all their oils.
Still, we are stealing their oil, and basically it's being run as a puppet nation.
Okay, you could count that.
But was Iraq, did they have a massive standing military to resist the United States military?
No.
And that was 30, no, 35 years ago, now, essentially.
So a lot has changed since then, like drones and missile technology and American military personnel getting fat.
They can't even run 100 yards anymore.
So things are different now.
So my question is, when the people of Denmark and the people of Greenland, when they say no, you know, actually, F no, you can't have our land.
You can't just steal our whole country.
When they say no, what is Trump going to do?
What's he going to do?
Is he going to pull another Venezuela?
Are we going to start seeing news reports where the leader of Greenland is accused of horrible crimes?
Ice trafficking.
Oh, my God.
The president of Greenland is trafficking ice, like ice cubes, you know, and snow.
They're trafficking snowmen.
And we need to free the people of Greenland from their tyrant leader.
This is the usual narrative, you know.
This is what we use in Iraq and also with Iran recently.
We need to set the people free.
You know, same thing in Venezuela.
Oh, the people of Venezuela, they want freedom.
So we need to go in there and conquer them with our military and occupy the country and pillage and loot all their resources.
And that's called freedom, you see.
Although the people of Venezuela may not see it that way.
Nor will the people of Greenland.
They'll be like, you don't get to come here just steal our land.
So is Trump going to land troops with snowshoes or something?
Do we even have troops with snowshoes and skis?
Is this going to be like an Olympic event?
It's like cross-country skiing and then you're shooting a rifle and then you're going to ski some more?
Is it the Trump Olympics?
What the hell, man?
What are you going to do?
Are you going to just start killing the people of Greenland like we did in Venezuela?
You're going to land a bunch of troops, launch cruise missiles, just blow up a bunch of buildings, kill a bunch of people, kidnap the president, charge him with some crime like we did Maduro saying that Maduro violated U.S. machine gun laws, which is the dumbest thing I've ever heard in a charging document for a foreign leader.
You might as well charge him with tying his shoes the wrong way.
He reversed his license.
You know, what are you going to charge the president of Greenland or whatever the title is?
I don't even know.
The leader of Greenland.
You're going to charge him with a crime, bring him to New York and throw him in some kangaroo court and then use that as a decapitation of the country.
And then what?
Bring in your troops.
Do you know how much America would be hated by everybody in the world, even more than it is now?
America would become the most hated nation on the planet.
I mean, we're almost there.
Just ask anybody outside of America.
We're almost there right now.
But Trump's going to put that, you know, going to put new emphasis on that.
Everybody will hate America.
Stephen Miller, senior advisor, he says, quote, the United States should have Greenland as part of the United States.
Okay, great.
That's your opinion.
Good for you.
You could also say, you know, Mars should be part of the United States.
You can say anything you want.
And then he said, nobody's going to fight the United States military over the future of Greenland.
By saying that, he is implying that we're going to use our military force to invade and conquer and occupy Greenland.
And saying that there's nothing the people there can do about it.
They're not going to fight the U.S. military.
We're just going to roll in with our troops and our tanks and our drones and our surveillance, you know, our satellites and spy planes and high Mars missiles, and we're just going to take Greenland.
So if that happens, what would that make Trump, historically speaking?
Let's see.
Who in history went on a conquering spree?
You know, who went on the wars of aggression to conquer a bunch of countries claiming that they were bringing them prosperity and peace by toppling their leadership and using the military to roll in, taking over their economies, taking over their ports, etc.
Like, who did that in history?
Well, there's a few figures who did that, right?
One of them you could point to would be Napoleon.
That didn't work out too well when he went for Russia.
Oops.
A bridge too far.
Oh, wait, that's the wrong war.
Didn't work out for Napoleon.
But speaking of the correct war, then there was also Adolf Hitler, right?
I mean, there was Stalin, you know, there was Mao, which is a very different situation.
But Adolf Hitler is actually a pretty good comparison because Hitler thought, you know, well, the German country is superior.
And there was actually evidence for that in the 1930s.
You know, Berlin was the capital of scientific advancement and technology for the world.
It really was.
And so Hitler and the German people thought they were the best people in the world, the brightest, the smartest, the most capable people, you know, the best-looking people.
And they said, we're just going to conquer the whole world and take everything for us.
That's what Trump is doing now.
That we, as America, Trump is implying that we have this special privilege.
We have the exclusive right to conquer whatever land we want, which incidentally is exactly what Israel believes.
Also, Netanyahu, who is Trump's puppet master.
So Trump is doing to Greenland and Venezuela what Netanyahu did to Gaza and Lebanon and the West Bank and constantly threatening Egypt and Jordan and everybody else, right?
The Greater Israel Project.
Well, Trump is doing the Greater America Project.
It's the same thing.
It's the same thing.
Trump's just being a modern day Hitler Yahoo.
That's a combination of Hitler and Netanyahu.
But if you're wondering, Hitler-Yahoo, Netanhitler-Yahoo.
This weird conflagration of I don't know ego, a god complex, an unbridled centralization of military power in the hands of madmen.
That's what this is, and the world cannot tolerate this.
The world will have to condemn this and stop this, and don't be surprised if Trump pits the United States against the entire world in a world war.
Because as my guest, Michael Yan said just the other day in an interview, he believes that Trump's mission is to destroy the United States deliberately.
Well, what better way to have the U.S. destroyed than to just run around the world acting as an obnoxious conquering bully until the whole world is allied against you and launches missiles or cyber attacks or whatever to destroy your country.
That would be mission accomplished, and at least from the perspective of what Michael Yan thinks Trump is doing, maybe he's right.
Because there's no rational explanation for Trump and his staff claiming that Greenland is ours.
I mean, you might as well claim Africa is ours.
I mean, they're not the same size.
I'm not saying that.
I'm just saying they're both ridiculous.
Madagascar is ours.
Okay.
You can believe whatever you want.
See, when Russia went into eastern Ukraine, you know, those people are Russian ethnic people.
They all speak Russian.
They wanted, they voted to join Russia in the Donbass region.
They voted to join Russia.
And they were being attacked by their own government out of Kiev at the behest of Western Europe leaders, of course.
So, you know, Russia also, I mean, come on, Ukraine was part of the Soviet Union before 1991.
I mean, Russia has a history with at least an explanatory claim to Ukraine.
Now, some people might disagree with that.
Maybe modern-day Ukrainians would disagree.
But there is at least there is a viable logic to the claim.
Same thing with China and Taiwan.
China claims Taiwan is a rogue runaway province that needs to be rejoined with the mainland of China.
And when you understand the history of Chiang Kai-shek and, you know, the war in China and how Chiang Kai-shek escaped with Sun Yat-sen and all the way to Taiwan and then sort of set up shop in Taiwan, but maintained their claim over all of China.
Then you realize that, yeah, China has a describable claim to Taiwan.
You may not agree with it, but it's not insane.
Right?
But Trump claiming that we own Greenland is completely insane.
There is no articulable justification, rationality, historical precedent, nothing under the rule of law, nothing under history, nothing at all that would indicate that we have any claim whatsoever to the land of Greenland.
Nothing at all.
In fact, I mean, America's only existed for 250 years.
And Denmark's been around a whole lot longer than that.
And so has Greenland.
Well, I mean, The geography has, the people have, the culture has, you know, of course, you know, some of the some of the political definitions changed over time, but America is a young nation, whereas China is thousands of years old.
Russia has over a thousand-year history, and Denmark, I don't know its full history, of course, but it's certainly much older than the United States of America.
So, for Trump to run around the world saying, mine, mine, mine makes him look insane to the rest of the world.
And it makes America look like a rogue nation of militant lunatics, frankly.
That's the way America looks to the rest of the world right now.
And if you don't believe me, ask anybody who's outside of America, what do you think of Trump conquering Greenland?
And they'll tell you, oh, he's insane.
Completely insane.
Lost his freaking mind.
But the upshot of all this is by the time Trump is done with his rampage, America will have no friends.
It will have America is sowing nothing but hatred across the entire planet.
Nobody will want to trade with America.
They may be coerced into doing so, but they won't want to.
Nobody will want to use the dollar as currency.
Nobody will want to buy U.S. Treasury debt.
Nobody will have any respect for America because America will have utterly abandoned anything resembling the rule of law or even ethics, morals, values, honesty, trust.
America will be violating the national sovereignty of other nations, multiple nations.
America will be seen as the Third Reich, and Trump will be seen internationally as Adolf Hitler, which is interesting because that was a kind of a slur that the left used to wield against him.
Trump is Hitler.
The thing is, they said it before it was true.
Now it's actually describable.
But when the left said it, it was just their imagination.
Maybe you could say, well, they saw the future.
No, they were just high and mad.
They were suffering from Trump derangement syndrome.
We didn't know that this was going to happen.
Something changed.
And Trump's morphing into Hitler has only become clear in the last year.
And, you know, this isn't going to go well for America, for us, for our futures, nor for Trump, nor for the GOP.
It's not going to go well at all.
It's going to feed right into every narrative that says that conservatives are fascists, you know.
And when Trump launches a military invasion of Greenland and starts slaughtering the men and women and children of Greenland, and there's like blood of Greenland citizens spilling all across the snow and the ice.
I know it's not all ice there, but I'm trying to paint a picture for you here.
That's going to be an international incident.
And the whole world is going to condemn America, condemn Trump, and condemn the American people and say, why didn't you stop this guy?
That's where this is going.
And I have no doubt that Trump is absolutely determined to pursue this action.
He's going to get us into a war with the whole freaking world.
He seems determined to do that.
It's like some kind of suicide rampage or something.
I don't know.
Is he going to end up in his own bunker?
You know, as Hitler did?
I don't know.
I hope not.
we should peacefully stop this insanity and demand that the United States Congress grow a freaking spine and either read Trump the Riot Act.
Look, you can't just wage wars without the approval of Congress.
And if you do, we're going to remove you.
We're going to impeach you.
And the GOP Congress itself has an obligation to impeach President Trump if he pursues military action against Greenland.
There's no other rational outcome.
You either stop this and then maybe you can maintain some kind of international reputation, some kind of rule of law, something that would be an asset for diplomacy, for the future of our world, or you can just watch America's reputation crash and burn in a tailspin of Trump's delusional rampages against whatever nation he points at on a map.
It's like playing spin the globe.
You know, just spin the globe and then, you know, put your finger on here.
We're going to take that nation.
Yeah, you and what army?
You know, eventually somebody's going to say no.
And that day is probably coming soon.
You notice how no matter who we elect, they're all insane.
That's becoming obvious to more and more people.
You elect Democrats and they're completely insane, totally corrupt, money laundering, fraud, a bunch of climate lunatics, child mutilators with transgenderism and all that nonsense, right?
Like tampons in boys' restrooms in the public schools.
Instead of tampons in boys' restrooms, you have bombs in Greenland.
Instead of mutilating children in hospitals for transgender treatments, you're killing civilians in Venezuela.
It's the, you know, the insanity just never ends, does it?
Because we're at the end of the empire.
That's why.
We're at the end of the empire.
And the leaders are acting like suicide cultists.
And when this empire ends, have no illusions, the entire rest of the world will celebrate, especially because of what Trump is doing.
The whole world will celebrate.
It'll be called World Freedom Day.
I don't want to see it end.
I'd rather see it reformed.
But unfortunately, that seems impossible.
So what do we do?
You know, we make our voices heard.
We call for peace.
We call for humanity.
We pray for divine intervention if that's possible.
But, you know, there's a lot of Christians calling for God to help Trump conquer.
You know, it's like they pray for God to give Trump more Hitler powers.
This is a total perversion of Christianity.
But that's where we are also.
You know, we're at the end of an age here, and it ends with insanity at every level, geopolitically, financially, you know, organized religion, you name it.
It's all completely off the charts, insane.
And sometimes it makes you wonder, like, are we the sane ones?
Or, you know, why aren't there more people speaking out against this?
Yeah, because everybody's freaking insane.
That's why.
Yes, we are the sane ones.
The idea of just conquering any nation that you want to, that is insane.
That is lawless.
That is irrational.
That is immoral.
We, you and I, we are on the right side of history.
We are on the right side of God, morality.
We're on the right side of the rule of law.
We are on the right side of humanity.
It's those who support what Trump is doing right now who are operating in contradiction to the values that you and I hold, the values that we hoped that Trump might advocate, but increasingly he has abandoned.
So that puts us where we are.
It's going to be a very challenging year.
Probably a good idea to decentralize as much as you can.
Get off the dollar currency system as much as you can.
Gold and silver are good options, probably.
You should get out of the cities.
They will be targets in any kind of world military response against the U.S. You should have as much of your own food supply as you can.
You know, all these things that we talk about, preparedness, survival, decentralization, building up your knowledge, your assets, your home food production, etc.
This is all going to be critical.
The crazier Trump gets, the more you're going to need to take care of your own survival situation.
Because who knows?
Who knows what the rest of the world is going to do?
They could just unleash cyber attacks or Kinetic attacks against America.
Like, oh, you think you're going to conquer the world?
Well, you know, we'll just nuke a couple of your cities and see what you think then.
That could happen.
Maybe that's the plan.
I don't know.
Maybe this is all some theater event.
It's a plan to destroy America, to achieve depopulation, get rid of, you know, 200 million Americans in the cities so that the robots can rise up and take over and the government can stay solvent by not having to pay Social Security.
I don't know.
Maybe that's the plan.
Or maybe it's just a bunch of insane lunatics that are completely out of control and who have lost their minds.
I don't know.
I can't tell a difference anymore.
Are they insane?
Are they stupid?
Are they mentally ill?
I don't know.
But we got to live through it one way or another.
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I'm Mike Adams.
I will say God bless America.
And at this point, for God to bless America, he's got to stop the insanity.
So I'm praying that that happens.
Let's return to reason if we can.
I don't know.
Is it possible?
I guess we'll see.
Thanks for listening.
Take care.
Okay, sorry to end up on such a dark topic right there.
But, oh my God, that's where we are.
Let's see.
I'm going to check silver prices again.
They've fallen.
They're now $78 and something.
See how volatile the situation is.
Gold is $44.50 or so.
Bouncing around quite a lot.
It's a lot of unpredictability in the marketplace right now.
2026 is going to be a very challenging business year.
And my interview coming up here today with John Roy of Dawson Knives is all about the challenges of being a business owner, of being a U.S. manufacturer.
And he gives us his ideas of the outlook, the business and economic outlook for 2026.
Now, we're not focused on the knives in this conversation.
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Enjoy.
You know, a lot of people don't know how to stand on their principles and a lot of people don't know how to use AI for marketing anymore.
The game has changed.
It's changing so fast.
It literally used to be like five years and then you have to adapt.
We're talking about like three months and then you have to adapt.
Right.
I think you got to move fast.
You have to do what you need to do.
And number two is have principle.
Yes, business is business, but at the end of the day, what are you?
And like with our company, we're a ministry first and then we're a business.
Do you think America is ready to hear that message in 2026?
Well, we're going to see a lot of corporate failures.
Don't get it wrong.
And frankly, a lot of those corporations that are going to fail, they deserve to fail because they suck.
Welcome to today's interview here on BryTeon.com.
I'm Mike Adams, the founder of Brighteon, and we're looking forward to 2026.
And joining me today is a special guest who is a business owner and a manufacturer in America who's dealing with tariffs and dealing with supply chains, but also using a lot of innovation to create amazing products that you are familiar with.
Those are the Dawson knives.
And I'm joined by John Roy from the Dawson Knife Company.
Welcome, John Roy.
It's great to have you back on today.
Happy New Year.
Thank you.
Happy New Year, Mike.
Thank you very much for having me back on.
I'm excited to talk about later on about the new knives, but we do have a lot of challenges coming up this year.
Yeah.
And I actually brought you on not so much to talk about the knives.
We'll mention them later, but to get your expertise as a manufacturer, as a business owner, an entrepreneur, someone who continues to be highly, highly competitive in this industry of making knives and swords and kitchen knives and other, well, other tools, hatchets, machetes, things like that.
So what would you say is your outlook as a business owner going into 2026?
You know, that's a very good question, Mike.
There's definitely a lot of challenges.
We just had a meeting about it since the New Year's right around the corner.
One of the things that we were talking about is inflation and how much we've just seen a lot of our suppliers right now are reaching out to us and letting us know that there's going to be a lot of price increases.
So with those price increases, we can be looking at 10, 15%.
So where they're saying that the inflation numbers are like four, well, we're not really seeing it that on our end.
We're seeing 10 to 15% increases in a lot of our suppliers and our raw material.
Okay, but we're being told by official sources that there's no inflation.
Yeah, that's total garbage.
Yeah, you run a business.
You know, I don't know what to tell them, but that's absolutely not true.
And we're seeing it.
And that's why you're seeing prices going up.
Or a lot of tricks in manufacturing is, you know, cutting corners.
I mean, you may buy the same packaging of food, but it's a lot of, well, reduced ounces.
So you're not getting the same amount for the amount of money that you're spending.
And we're seeing it too in our industry with our competitors.
They're offering like thinner steel.
So what used to be the standard was 316ths.
If you had a Bush crafting knife, if you had a hunter, it would eighth inch.
Now we're seeing hunters made out of kitchen knife steel.
What?
That are really, yes, I'm seeing it all over the place.
I'm seeing Bush crafting knives maybe reaching 530 seconds, but they're probably eighth inch and still charging the same amount of prices.
So this is one way that a lot of manufacturers are trying to deal with it in our industry.
What we try and do is make our processes better and going more automation.
And that's one thing that we were talking about is that we're not really looking to hire more people in 2026.
That's not really our goal.
We're probably not going to hire anyone unless business really takes off and we feel like we have a gap.
I think we're going to replace a lot of our expansion and growth when that comes with automation and with some AI technologies.
Okay.
So wow, this is really interesting because this is what we're hearing from the vast majority of CEOs.
And the Wall Street Journal just covered this the other day in an article.
There was a survey.
I think it was at maybe a Harvard Business School or someplace like that.
66% of the CEOs cited in that story said that they plan no hiring of humans.
I mean, the humans is implied, I suppose, but no hiring in 2026.
They're just going to keep the number of human workers right where it is.
And of course, they're turning to automation.
So what you're saying is what most of corporate America is saying.
But I'm curious in what ways can you automate?
Because the craft of knife making is, I would think, it's very human labor intensive.
It's an art, certain elements of it, like the grinding, et cetera.
But go ahead and explain to our audience what can be automated in your business.
Yeah, that's a very good point, Mike.
And the people that we are keeping on, we just decided just raise their wages.
So as they, you know, take on these new tasks and these new automations, just pay them more.
And that way we can have a higher standard of living.
And that's really what our goal is because we want them to have a higher standard of living.
Now, as far as automation, what can we do?
Well, there's a lot of innovation that is coming up.
And, you know, I work with a lot of Gen Zers here.
And when their focus is put on God and they're disciplined and they have gratitude and they have grace.
And we talk about this in our business, then they can accomplish a lot of things.
And we're seeing some really cool automation and ideas coming in on our handles, how to manufacture our handles, sheaths, how to manufacture our sheets in our heat treat, which is really cool.
The more efficient that we're getting there, especially with these upcoming ideas, going back to some old technology, but then bringing it into the 21st century, like the Hamon and putting that heat treat into place, we can actually produce more knives and you get a way better heat treat, but that's still in the process.
Well, let me, and I'm not asking you to reveal any trade secrets, obviously, because there are special processes that you use with certain metals like Magna Cut that nobody else has figured out.
But when you say automating heat treat, is it robotic arms that are moving knives in and out of a treatment?
Or, I mean, how do you automate that?
So really, it's going into CNC machining, which we do have quite a bit here and using Haas machines.
And it's really coming to a pallet system.
So sometimes it's not necessarily robotic arms, but having a pallet system where you can have six pallets loaded, have your machine ready to go, and then you can run that machine overnight.
So you're actually stretching your hours of automation for CNC.
So that way those pellets, yeah, through CNC, and those pallets are just changing without you having to be there.
Oh, wow.
And so, yeah, so it just works overnight.
And by doing that, there's a couple of things because like in our company, we work four nines, but our machines are running almost 24 hours a day.
I hear you.
While I'm interviewing you, I've got all kinds of machines that are cleaning up book text using AI right now, like 1,500 books at a time, technically, right this moment.
Yeah.
And you're talking to me and you've got CNC, which is really a CNC machine is a special robot for grinding and cutting steel, right?
The CNC machines are doing the primary first cutouts, correct?
Or you tell me, what are they doing?
Yeah.
So we actually have multiple machines.
So like number one, we have a water jet.
So how do you do that?
Well, our plates are smaller.
So you build jigs and then the program will actually touch off on each plate, cut it as long as it goes down the bed and just keep cutting around.
And that way you can get a bunch of blades done while you don't have to babysit the thing.
And then we have cameras that watch it.
We have remote access to those computers.
So we can actually stop the program through the computers.
And I can do all that from my house.
Cool.
I mean, we have Haas machines that are mills.
So they're vertical mills.
They'll do a lot of the milling of the handles, milling of blade profiles.
We're working on milling of the blades, getting that grind on the blades, milling of the sheaths.
We have surface grinders, CNC surface grinders that we can load up that get us to the right thickness.
And a lot of this stuff can be automated through a pallet system, through fixturing.
And that way, once you get these machines going, then you can just step away.
Now, you always have to monitor it.
And that's something that we do.
We do a lot of remote monitoring just to make sure.
But this is a way that we can get quality of life and still meet the demands that we have for our product and having really efficient production.
Okay, so two questions.
Well, actually, and let me mention Dawson Knives, everybody, if you're watching, you know, we've been a longtime partner of Dawson Knives.
And John Roy and I met years ago when I was a customer purchasing the Windstorm sword, I think is what it was.
And I mean, it's a fun story, but we do carry Dawson knives.
So you go to healthrangerstore.com slash 2026 right here, and you click on this link, third-party vendor offers.
And then right there, you're going to see all the knives from Dawson Knives that are on sale, I think an extra 5% off in the cart, which is very unusual.
And this is the new, you see all these, this is the Hearthfire Stonewash blade.
And then we've got the, wow, the Santoku knife and some others here.
This is a steak knife.
Anyway, I just want to tell people how they can get these knives.
John, my question to you is: number one, where do these CNC machines come from?
Like what country or are they made in America?
And if you had to get more machines, you know, are you able to get that or do you have to pay tariffs now for the machines?
Really good question, Mike.
So the Haas machines actually come out of Ontario, California.
So they're actually manufactured here.
It's one reason why I like using them because really Ontario, California from Prescott, Arizona is not very far.
In fact, we just bought some more Haas machines.
They delivered them.
They're going to be coming out to finish the install.
Okay, wait a minute.
When you're saying Haas, how do you spell that?
I'm not familiar with that maker.
So, yeah, so that's H A A S.
So they make great machines.
And are they serious machines?
Yeah, all kinds.
So they have a ton of different types of CNC machines.
Yeah.
All right.
I just want to bring that up so people.
Oh, here we go.
Let me show my screen, if you would, please.
Here's some of the Haas machines.
Do these look right, John?
Yep.
Yep.
Those are the kind of machines that we use.
Okay, cool.
All right.
So those come out of California.
Yep.
But I would imagine these machines rely on parts that come from other countries.
Yeah, I mean, I don't know their processes too much, but I do know that when they manufacture, you can get them pretty quick and you're not having to pay any tariffs.
So that's why it's so important to keep your business here in this country as much as you can.
I mean, like we were talking about steel, that's been very difficult.
But the good news is ProCut is coming back to America.
That's one reason why we're using that steel.
That was from Larry Thomas, who invented MagnaCut, invented ProCut, and that's going to be one of the few or only American-made tool steels that we can use here for our knives.
And it's great steel.
That's why he invented it.
Another one that we're using temporarily is ADCR V2.
We used them in our past.
In fact, one of your first pieces, the Windstorm, was probably made out of ADCR V2.
It's an extremely strong, tough steel before we started getting into MagnaCut and those steels.
But those steels have been taken overseas.
So it's very difficult to get.
We'll probably get some more MagnaCut as it goes through, but the pricing is going up on that.
Already, we were just looking.
It's about over $3,000 a sheet, and the sheets are not very big.
They're about two foot by three foot.
So back then we were paying $1,200.
And that comes out of which country now in Europe?
It comes out of France.
Oh, it comes out of France.
Okay.
Yeah.
So, and that's because of the closure of the metal smelting operation in Syracuse, New York.
Is that right?
That is correct.
Yes.
Okay.
So, yeah, we want to bring back that industry.
We want to reopen metal alloy producers in America as we can.
But get back to the machines.
I'm sorry to keep interrupting, but in addition to the Haas machines, where else do you buy your machines from that do this automation?
So we have an OMAX, so that comes out of Oregon.
So that's the Waterjet.
Besides that, we try and stay within those companies.
Now, one thing is, if we ever get to a point where we think that it's necessary, they have now an automated grinding machine that you can hollow grind all your blades with.
Very expensive machine.
But that machine is only made in Germany.
And so for a $300,000 to $500,000 machine, imagine 50% tariff on that.
Oh, yeah.
It gets expensive quickly.
I've been down that road also.
Yeah.
Right.
Okay.
So you wouldn't even consider that machine unless the tariffs were substantially lowered.
And then I would imagine there's still a human component of fine-tuning and everything after the machine.
The machine just does the rough part, right?
Yeah, exactly.
So you would still have to go over and clean up the blade.
You still have to put that secondary grind, which is your sharpening edge, and that we're still doing by hand.
Right now, we're still grinding all the blades by hand, but we're coming up with processes to alleviate that through our mill work and then finishing them up by hand and then sharpening them by hand.
So there's a lot of handwork that goes into the quality and fit and finish.
So do you feel like if you fell behind on automation as we're all moving into 2026, would your business be in trouble?
I mean, yeah, I guess the answer is yes.
No doubt.
I mean, if in fact, we were talking in our meeting just yesterday that we need more automation.
You can't keep up as a business without raising your prices sky high without having automation.
You're going to have to have it because inflation is killing you.
You still have taxes.
Everything is going up.
And in order to maintain your standard of living, you're going to have to automate.
And to be a business, to even have profit.
I mean, most businesses shoot for 25% profit.
If we're really lucky, that's really good.
But I mean, just to maintain that, just to be competitive in this market, just to be able to survive, you're going to have to automate.
And you just have to think outside the box because you can't pass all that cost to your customers because it's weird.
We're in this inflationary, deflationary period.
So people aren't making more money, but everything is costing more.
So there comes a point where they're just not going to buy your product.
Well, right.
And stagflation, I think, is one of the terms that may describe this.
And you're right that incomes are not keeping up with increasing prices of goods that people need to purchase.
But the other thing that's really interesting about this is that your knives are considered the premium-grade best knives that I've ever seen.
That's why we work with you.
And that's why you and I have collaborated on some designs that are still very popular, like Escape from LA knife, which turned out to be a great theme.
But your knives are only purchased by the higher income portion of the market, I would say.
Is that true?
Yeah, well, what we're seeing is that a lot of middle to higher income purchase our knives.
But because our name is getting out there a lot more and people want that American quality, we're seeing people saving up and buying one of our knives, which we really appreciate.
And we're seeing a larger customer base coming into Dawson Knives and really wanting that American quality.
And that's why we're just so adamant about keeping our dollars here because, you know, we all live in this country.
And the best way that we can support it is by supporting the suppliers and manufacturers that help us get the raw material that we need so we can produce an amazing product.
If we have to go overseas, there's a lot of issues, not just including tariffs, but you also have shipping.
And you're just dealing with a lot of weird stuff in business where you have weird delays and they're just not meeting or delivering what they promise.
And so it makes it very difficult for you to recoup any losses that you're dealing with overseas.
So it's 2026 is going to be a very interesting year.
I can see a lot of people in the same boat that I am, where we want to keep who we have and we want to grow.
But at the same time, we have to watch inflation and that bottom line so we can survive as a company.
And so we're really looking at, you know, AI and automation in helping our team to have better quality of life and to be able to navigate into the future.
It's going to take a lot of innovation.
I mean, that's one thing about us.
We innovate all the time just to keep up.
So importantly, you're not firing anyone.
You're not. laying people off and replacing them with automation.
You're keeping the people, but you're augmenting their capabilities with automation or AI.
And that's what we do, by the way, in my company too.
We don't fire people to replace them.
We even do internal training on AI tools.
Like, here's how to use AI to do your job better, or here's how to write apps using AI apps to do your job better.
I mean, actually, I'm the AI advocate in our company.
I'm constantly telling people, use this.
You know, you can, it's faster.
You do it this way.
So, but I got to ask you, John Roy, what types of tasks are you using AI for in your business?
Very good question.
And so I talked to our office staff and just like you were saying, I just wanted to touch on it is that we are not firing or laying off anyone.
In fact, we are looking at increasing their wages, but keeping those that we have.
And it's hard to find loyalty nowadays.
And so we're very happy with the people that we have.
Now, the thing is, is shifting them to this new technology and getting them used to AI.
So we talk to our office staff, a lot of things that we do, like production schedules, automations, getting our, using AI to get our production numbers up there to anticipate what we're going to sell to ordering.
Yes.
AI can do a great job with trends, projections.
Yes, which helps us on the manufacturing.
So a lot of those redundant tasks that we're seeing there is being taken up by AI and helping our production manager because it's so difficult to manually input all of those tasks, checking on inventories.
And AI just comes in and it's checking.
It's doing all those tedious tasks.
So that way we can really focus on what do we need to do?
What kind of new products can we bring to the forefront?
And really working on R ⁇ D to really leap ahead of our competition.
If we're still stuck on the mundane tasks, then that's where our brainpower is going.
That's where AI can take over that.
And now we are brainpowering in creating and making a better product.
If we focus on that, then everybody wins.
Well, that's great.
And so let me ask you also about customer service.
And let me provide this context.
So we're also going to use AI to help automate some of our customer service, but we always want to give our customers the option where you can choose AI.
You can chat with an AI agent.
There's no wait time.
And if you just have a basic question like, what's the status of my order?
Then that's easy for AI to answer.
Or what ingredients are in this cherry product, you know, right?
AI can answer that.
But you can also reach a human person if you want to, if you have a more complex question.
And as a business owner myself, I believe that both of these options should coexist so that the customer can choose.
So are you thinking about any automation of customer service?
Absolutely.
And here's the thing.
A human can be on there during work hours.
And so they can answer it.
But after work hours or even when there is a large flood of customer service calls or whatever, people asking questions, that's where AI really helps because now you can get your answer off hours and maybe you don't have to wait until the next morning or wait in line.
You can actually get what you needed to make that purchase or to answer that question or how do I sharpen this knife as far as in our case.
And then AI is complementary to the human side of the customer service.
So you always have to have both.
But I mean, we're not up 24-7.
I've got customers in Germany.
I'm not on the same timeframe.
So AI works really well to give them the correct information and to help answer their question when they need it.
That's where they don't have to wait days.
Yeah, I see that makes a lot of sense.
And I'm glad you mentioned that you have customers in Germany.
I know you have customers all over the world.
Let me give you a chance actually to just talk about the four new knives.
Can we show the side shot on my desk here?
I've actually put your knives here on my desk.
There it is.
Aren't they beautiful?
Look at that.
That's the new stonewash.
But yeah, go ahead, plug your product here for a little bit.
Talk about these four knives.
So these four knives, we're making them out of ProCut and ADCR V2, just whichever steel is available on that.
And they are coming up really well.
The differential heat treat and the rockwell that we're getting on them is amazing.
So we're actually getting a rockwell C, so that's how hard it is on the edge at about 62 to 64.
So that means that edge is going to last longer.
And no matter what chores you have in the kitchen, they are going to just keep going, keep going, keep going.
And it's easy to resharpen.
So that's one thing that we love about this new steel.
The stonewash finish wears really well.
I mean, we started doing a lot of testing with that a while back.
And now we finally started releasing it.
And we can see that even after like three years, it's still going to look brand new.
And so that's the one thing is minimal maintenance with the new G10 handles.
This is the first time that we're releasing it.
So it really creates a nice finish with that stonewash.
And these knives are high performance.
You're not going to see these, you know, with Cutco or anything like that.
I mean, these knives are heirloom pieces that you can pass down and then we take care of them.
So if you ever have an issue, that's the one thing about working with a company that's been, I don't know, over 50 years.
We started in 1973.
So these things are the latest in technology.
They also have some of those machining aspects that we're seeing.
So there's a lot of precision in them, which really helps in your angle.
So now you're getting these really fine cuts, especially if you're chopping very fine things with the new chef's knives.
And then the steak knives are just amazing.
It makes every steak.
I mean, if it's cooked properly, it should cut it easily, but it cuts like butter.
So it works out really well.
That's what I'm hearing from my own family members who have your knives and they're just raving about them.
And also the ergonomics are really extraordinary with the angles and the offset of the handle from the blade on the chef's knife and so on.
I mean, there's so many details.
We could do a whole hour just about the handles and the ergonomics.
But my point is, because this show is about economics and 2026, that even people, you said even a lot of middle-income people are buying your knives.
And that's because it's actually cheaper in the long run to buy one good knife than 10 crappy knives that you keep throwing away.
Like that mindset is coming back finally.
I think I have to agree with you 100%, Mike.
And I think that's what we're seeing.
And in fact, I see to myself, I'm shifting into, I want things to last.
I think we're just sick and tired of being screwed over and buying cheap products that are made overseas with people who really have no interest in our well-being.
And finally going with, if I only have X amount of dollars, then I want the best value and deal that I can get with that, even if I have to pay more, because then I'm owning it.
And I think that's a big thing.
We want to own something.
We don't want to own nothing and be happy.
That is not what we want.
Yeah, and I don't want to replace a refrigerator every three years or a clothes washing machine every three years.
I mean, these, these things, like my grandma had a fridge that was 30 years old and it was still humming away.
And I'm like, that's the fridge I want.
It doesn't need to be digital.
Just these freaking cold.
Exactly.
I mean, that's the point.
We just want things to work and last.
We're sick of just having our money being wasted.
And I think that's where everyone's coming back.
We're looking at value in our money.
That's why people are going to gold and silver.
Value in your money.
We don't want to be taken advantage of anymore.
And we did for a long time.
But now that things are getting tighter and we're waking up to a lot of the fraud and everything that's going out there, we want to have products that represent who we are.
And we want to support companies that represent who we are.
And we want products that last for a long time.
We want to actually be able to hand something down.
We want to own something.
We don't want in three years, we had a lease and then we had to buy the same product, but now it's $500 more.
That doesn't fly anymore.
It's just filling up landfill, you know?
And companies are feeling that.
And same thing with like car manufacturers.
You know, they have to, their prices have skyrocketed and dealerships are just way overcharging.
The moment that we stop buying their products, they're going to have to lower them.
They're going to have to find better ways.
And we're seeing this all across the board.
As a manufacturer, we are being pressed to find better ways of manufacturing.
And this is where AI and automation comes in so we can keep the price down, be competitive in America and produce something that lasts as long as that refrigerator that ran for 30 years.
And you just said something really key to produce something that lasts.
Now, John Roy, I got to ask you, why?
Why do you think it's important to produce something when you could, you could have made hundreds of millions of dollars running fake daycare centers in Minneapolis?
I mean, you don't need to produce anything.
You don't even need children in the daycare.
You just need the front and then the government will give you grant money.
Apparently, I mean, that's insane.
Yeah.
But that's the way that so many people look at our economy.
They're not like, what can I create and contribute that is of value?
They're more like, how can I extract money from the government?
How can I get a grant and then not do anything?
Like, how can I get a climate grant and then just buy a luxury house with it?
Like, that's the revenue model.
Here's the thing.
And this is why it's dangerous to have a bunch of illegal immigrants coming into this nation without assimilating.
Because there's two thoughts, schools of thought.
See, in a Christian culture, there's something that we feel and it's called guilt.
We don't want to do what's wrong.
We feel guilt over it because there is a moral attachment to our God spiritually that works on us.
And that's the thing about in Christianity, we feel guilt.
We'll help someone on that.
Now, in other cultures, it's shame.
So that's a totally different thing than guilt.
Shame is, I feel shame because I got caught.
So I feel bad that I got caught.
I don't even feel bad.
I just, that I got caught and now I'm shamed into it because in their cultures, it is what you can do to get away with it.
If you can get away with it and not get caught, then you have done well.
So in their mind, they're coming over here and they're getting millions and billions of dollars and they only feel shame because they got caught.
That's it.
But they feel no guilt.
There's no guilt whatsoever about what they did or even the perpetrators who did it.
And that's dangerous because when you have that, then you lose empathy in this nation and you lose this moral obligation to love your neighbor as you love yourself.
And once we start losing that, then everybody's just going to screw you over.
And you see that with manufacturers and soulless corporations in the product that they produce to you where you're buying a refrigerator every three years.
And that's the difference.
And that's why being a Christian country and being a Christian company in this country, we try and go back to those values, really pushing the ideas of America that made us so great.
And that is we build things to last and we want you to trust our product that you get your kids involved and everybody is knowing that, hey, these guys make a great product.
It's something that will last.
And that's how we develop more sales.
And that's how we make America strong.
You know, that kind of mindset.
So instead of this idea of how much can we extract from the government on food stamps or, you know, USAID grant money or even Lee Zelda at the EPA, he said they found $20 billion in fake grants from the EPA, all climate-related garbage.
I'm telling you, even Elon Musk said he thinks 20% of the federal budget is nothing but fraud.
And I think that's a low number.
I think it's much more.
But if we're going to make America great again, as we say, it's got to come down to people like you, families like yours, John Roy, and your business operations.
We have to produce stuff.
We have to make things.
We can't.
Let me ask you this also about financialization.
There's so much that's happening in our economy that's just people pushing paper and there's numbers and spreadsheets and Wall Street.
And you're selling off this tranche of the CDOs of this risk category of these subprime mortgage collapse, subprime auto loans.
It's nothing's real.
None of those people make anything.
No, it's Enron 2.0.
Yeah.
And that and that's what you're seeing.
You know, you're seeing a lot of this Enron 2.0.
And that's one thing that you want to be careful of because you know what?
You're putting and investing in smokes and smoke and mirrors.
And in the end of the day, somebody's going to be left holding the bag.
And I'm going to tell you one thing.
It's not going to be them.
It's going to be you.
Nope.
And that's the thing.
That is their bet.
And so you have to put it into solid investments.
And that's one thing I always hear on your show.
You talk about gold and silver, very solid.
You have to have tangible things.
And at the end of the day, tangible things are always going to be worth something.
They're always going to increase in value.
I mean, even housing, even though they've been skyrocketing them and cheating the system, it's still going to be worth something.
A lot of these houses, yes, they go down, but they're all higher and worth more than they were, you know, 100 years ago.
And land is, you know, commodities.
Evidence of that.
Go ahead and show my screen.
This is the two-year silver price.
Look at that.
I mean, from $20 roughly to now almost $80.
And I've been advocating silver and gold the entire time.
But look, here's silver performance in five years.
It's up 170%.
Right.
But what does that mean?
Why is it up 170%?
Well, because the dollar is collapsing in terms of its purchasing power, like you said, with inflation.
Gold and silver have value.
Your knives hold value because they maintain their utility year after year, even generation after generation.
Yes.
And that's the point.
You know, we're waking up to it.
A lot of us Americans have fallen, especially in my generation, for been duped. into believing how they wanted us to believe how the system works and how to gather wealth.
And, you know, we lived through the Great Recession and now we're living through this, you know, the Biden era where they're just, you know, masking all their fraud and just seeing massive inflation to the highest inflation.
At one point, it was what they reported.
Now we know it's higher, but, you know, 9%, but in reality, like 30 to 50%.
And so we want real.
I mean, I'm investing in gold and silver.
And that's the thing.
When you have wealth, any kind of wealth, you're going to make smart decisions.
And especially when you want to pass it on to the next generation.
And even God in the Bible tells us to do that, to be prudent, especially with our finances, and to have an inheritance for your son.
And so you have to be wise.
You're going to have to be more on the ball and you're going to have to find people who know what they're talking about.
And when you're looking at AI, it's a tool.
A lot of people are afraid.
A lot of people are saying this and that.
And yes, there's bad AI out there, just like there's bad tools, bad stores, bad everything.
I mean, we live in a fallen world, but you have to be educated and know what you're doing because at the end of the day, you're responsible for it.
You know?
Yeah, exactly.
You got to figure it out.
So let me ask you about your industry then, getting back to the economics of 2026.
Are you seeing, are there other companies that are going out of business because they failed to automate or they failed to have quality?
I know that a lot of knife makers, they make everything in China and it's not that great.
I mean, China's good with tech.
Don't get me wrong.
They make the world's best robots, you know, and drones, but they also make really cheap ass knives that I don't want.
What are you seeing?
You know, that's funny you mentioned China because we have people from China that really want to buy our knives because they don't want the crap in China.
They want to find ways to smuggle them in.
No joke, because they have a huge market for our knives for people who want quality.
Even China sees it.
I mean, they're reaching out because it's difficult to get in and they want our knives any way they could get it, but they don't want the crap that they make because they know it's crap.
They want something to last.
Everybody's getting to that point where we want something to last.
I think that I have seen, we were talking about machines.
I've seen a lot of businesses go out of business and I've seen a lot of auctions coming up.
I do see even knife companies getting ready to go out of business or have gone out of business.
And I think a lot of it has to do with automation, number one.
But number two, I think it's the way we market and reach people.
You know, a lot of people don't know how to stand on their principles and a lot of people don't know how to use AI for marketing anymore.
The game has changed.
It's changing so fast.
It literally used to be like five years and then you have to adapt.
We're talking about like three months and then you have to adapt.
Right.
I mean, you got to move fast.
You have to do what you need to do.
And number two is have principle.
I think a lot of companies were just following trends and didn't have that moral principle.
Yes, business is business, but at the end of the day, what are you?
And like with our company, we're a ministry first and then we're a business.
And so that substance carries on in everything that we do.
And I think people just want genuine companies and not companies there just to make a buck.
And so those companies are having a very difficult time right now.
See, that makes sense.
You mentioned values and integrity along with that.
You said you're a ministry first and a business second.
Now, I would say that business, like MBA graduates out of the conventional university system would say, that's crazy.
You should be a business first and everything else is second.
But you flip that upside down and demonstrated a lot of success with that.
You're like, no, we have integrity and we have faith first.
And we teach the next generation skills how to make things, how to make things that are quality, that matter.
And it's those principles that drive the success of our company.
Do you think America is ready to hear that message in 2026 when we're going to see a lot of corporate failures?
Don't get me wrong.
And frankly, a lot of those corporations that are going to fail, they deserve to fail because they suck and they have no integrity.
But is it time for America to return to the faith roots of the founding fathers?
I think we're seeing it.
I think that it's happening now.
And I think people are waking up to it.
And I think companies, it's like the conservative movement.
It went to Christianity and people waking up to that and following back to the roots.
And then you always have this, once that becomes popular, then you have this fake conservatism where there is no Christianity, but we're just, you know, conservatives.
But that is just a Trojan horse.
So you're going to see companies as they wake up.
You're going to have those that are going to be pretending to have those values, but they're not.
They're just a Trojan horse.
But then you're going to see these other ones that really do care about our country, that really do want to bring back the faith of our founding fathers.
Now, I had a guy that he's very successful.
He's a billionaire.
He's a good friend of mine.
And he said, number one, John, you need God.
You need him in your life.
You need a moral standard.
You need Jesus Christ.
He says, but when we take the word God and you look at it and you break it down and you got the G, and that stands for gratitude and grace.
And then you have the O, which is obedience.
And then you have the D, which is discipline.
And he says, to be a success, you need those elements.
You need to have God number one.
And then if you have those other elements, especially discipline, then you will succeed.
Every trial that you're going through your life, whether it's financial, relationship, or health, can be gone through quicker or can be finished in discipline.
So if, you know, the forks don't make you fat.
It's the guy behind the fork.
The money isn't evil.
It's a person using the money.
It's the guy behind the fork.
That's right.
That's hilarious.
And that's so.
No, that's so true.
And I love the fact that you're focused on this as real demonstration of integrity.
But I want to contrast that to so-called virtue signaling of the corporate America.
And especially over the last decade, we saw all kinds of virtue signaling where all the corporations, including Target, everything's LGBT.
Everything's transgender, rainbows.
Everything's, oh, we, McDonald's, Nike, we donated money to Black Lives Matter.
And it turns out that was all a fraud too.
You know, some of those people are being arrested and prosecuted for what they did with all that money.
Everything's a fraud out there, right?
But it's virtue study.
So that's fake virtue.
And that's what we've seen from corporate America, all this fake bullshit virtue that's pushing.
Sorry, my about my language, but that's what it is.
And that's why it's so refreshing what you're talking about, which is real integrity that is not popular.
It's not popular across the country to talk about faith in your company, is it?
No, it isn't.
In fact, we during the Biden era were really silenced a lot.
I mean, our social media was silenced.
There was a lot of things that we couldn't do.
And even today, we have some major challenges.
Even today, I get hate mail just for, you know, putting out a baby Jesus.
You know, you know, the companies that are baby Jesus.
Yes.
It's ridiculous.
That's crazy.
It is crazy.
And you're seeing that.
There's a huge push against Christianity, but that's fine because you know what?
They know they can't win.
And you know that a lot of those people, A, need to be ministered to, and B, they need to be shown the truth.
But, you know, I pray for those people when they send it.
I pray for them.
But you're going to see this contrast.
And you're going to know really quick.
I was pretty disgusted like on Christmas Day, just being bombarded by these so-called, some of them so-called conservative companies that were going along with these other soulless corporations bombarding you with Christmas sales, Christmas this, Christmas that.
And I'm like, this is Christmas, but nothing about Jesus.
Nothing about God.
Yeah.
Won't even talk about that.
And you're just like, you know, come on.
This is Christmas Day.
A lot of us are with our family.
When we put out our email, we put it out just about Jesus Christ and wishing all of our customers and everyone else who's a part of our mailing list a very Merry Christmas.
And that's the way America used to be.
Yeah, yeah, exactly.
And you're actually, you know, staking your claim of your position as a ministry and a company.
And if people don't like it, they can go buy $20 cheap knives made in China that will last six months, maybe.
And, right?
So it's kind of like, you know, take it or leave it, the market gets to choose.
But I think what you're demonstrating is what more companies will demonstrate.
I mean, my company is an example.
People choose to support us because of our mission of what I do with putting out free tools like our book, our new book engine and our AI engines and all these things, keeping them free.
Did you know we've had over 11,000 books published at Brightlearn.ai?
Yeah.
It's 11,000.
That's unfathomable.
It's becoming like a massive, I mean, it's the number one biggest book engine on the internet by far.
And of course, it costs money to run, but we keep it free for people because those people choose to support us.
They understand our mission and what we're doing, just like your customers understand your mission.
You're not just buying a knife.
You're investing in a sustainable model of keeping America great and supporting businesses that will reinvest back into America.
I mean, that's why what you do, like this interview is so it's so important to your business.
You're explaining the whole, the full cycle, what people get, much more than a blade.
Yeah, and that's another thing.
And that's why we ally ourselves with like-minded businesses that love this nation and love God.
And that's why we have worked with you for all those years, Mike.
And back then, it was really hard to find.
Today, we're seeing some of these businesses coming out into the open and declaring their faith and really working hard to bring back America to its core roots, which is so important.
That's where freedom really comes from.
Yeah.
And so businesses like ours and we're working with other companies out there, like even with my boxes.
My boxes are literally made here in America with American material.
Like people wouldn't even think about that.
But I, even the box company, I get to walk down there and I know every person in that factory because I have that kind of relationship with them, which is funny because they're all people.
And you actually make really, your boxes are very high quality boxes, by the way.
They're not garbage boxes.
Like serious.
They're only going to get better.
But see, that's even made in America.
I'm being intentional.
And that's why we have to, as we move forward, especially in 2026 and we go into 2027, is companies like ours are alike-minded working together in a way to move this country forward back to the way it was.
And then you're going to see an amazing prosperity because people are going to realize, hey, the money that I have that I worked so hard to earn, I'm putting it back in this country with people who care about my values.
And I'm getting something that I can pass on to my kids with pride and a lot of respect for this nation and saying, hey, this is going to last you 30 years and knowing that these kind of people are going to fight for the kind of jobs that I want.
Isn't that true?
You're going to have so many people that would just love to work with your company to learn a skill.
I mean, apprenticeships is another huge thing here.
We should talk about that because the university system is collapsing.
And let me just bring in the context of our book engine here.
It's at brightlearn.ai.
Here's the screen.
11,400 plus books published right now, over 113,000 downloads.
And these are just some of the books that were just published in the last few minutes, by the way.
And what's amazing, what we're doing, John, not only are we keeping this free, everything's free.
People can download these books and they have permission through our Creative Commons licensing.
They can sell these books on Amazon and they can create an income for themselves on Amazon.
And people are doing that now.
And we're about to do auto-translation into Spanish for the books that hit a thousand reads.
Yeah, if your book hits 1,000 reads on our website, it will be auto-translated into Español.
The cover will be in Spanish.
Everything, everything in the book, Español.
And that happens automatically behind the scenes.
And then French is the second language that we're going to do.
But imagine, see, this means that anybody can learn almost anything at zero cost now and in multiple languages.
You know, that's a game changer for.
That's a huge game changer.
And you know, that's why it's so important to be a ministry first.
See, that's a ministry because you're offering it for free.
You're helping people out.
And that's what's so powerful of this American model.
And it's very unique to America, really, is this ability to give away for free.
Most businesses would say that's bad business.
I mean, think of all the dollars that you can make.
And look at, yes, but when you look at this country and how we have helped our neighbor in so many different things and helped us move forward, and that's what made us the best.
And our education system has completely failed us.
I mean, my kids don't even go through the public education system anymore.
It's a joke.
The university system has become a joke.
Well, and you look at people who are wildly successful, they're not sending their kids through that education system.
They're sending it through an education system that they know will teach them the fundamentals of how to manage a business, how to work with people, how to be responsible and disciplined, and those things that I talked about.
They know that that produces success.
But when you look at what we're being taught in our schools and on our kids and in the society, it teaches you to be rebellious.
It teaches you to be undisciplined.
It teaches you that any problem that you have is someone else's problem.
And then everybody's feeling overwhelmed.
They're feeling anxiety.
They're feeling all these things that keep them down.
And then they wonder why, what is the solution?
And it's so hard to find that solution.
And that's why I love to see what you guys are doing because it's opening up.
It's like, here's the knowledge.
This is what we're doing.
This is what works.
This is what doesn't work.
And opening up these knowledges that we've known for a long time that used to make America wonderful, a personal responsibility.
I mean, that's a big one that most people don't have.
And it's not easy, but that's what it's going to take.
And that's what we're seeing here with education.
Absolutely.
I know of many people who are just skipping the university system and being more successful by themselves using AI now, which amplifies everything.
Let me shift topics for just a second.
I want to surprise you with some fun news about 2026 and your knives.
I want to remind our audience, you can get the knives.
The entire Dawson line, well, at least these knives are available during this sale event, healthrangerstore.com slash 2026.
And then click on third-party vendors, scroll down to see the Dawson knives here.
There's five available.
They're 5% off during this sale, which ends, I think, January 12th, I believe.
Yeah, and there's one knife on there that I just wanted to mention really quick.
We're only making 44 of the gathering steak knife in MagnaCut and Sand Finish because we released the kitchen knives before in MagnaCut.
So those that have MagnaCut looking to complete your sets is a limited number.
There's only 44 of them that are being made.
So once those are gone, they are gone.
Wow.
Okay.
All right.
Thanks for that update.
So one of the things, speaking of automation and AI, one of the things that we're doing in this studio to my right is a kitchen studio.
And when you come visit, John, we'll give you a full tour, but there's a full kitchen over there.
And we set that up on purpose because eventually we're going to have, and there's actually a large area here for robot testing.
We want to acquire robots.
We're contacting all these robot companies.
We're willing to buy the robots and we want to test them doing things like, you know, picking up garbage or sweeping the floor.
And eventually, eventually, although this is going to, we're going to have to have some precautions.
We're going to have a robot chef.
This might be a few years away, but we're going to have a robot chef in the kitchen with your knives, John.
Oh, I love that.
With your knives chopping celery, you know, and we're all going to be standing back, you know, with shotguns in case it goes full terminator or something.
Like, you know, a robot with a knife, a robot with a good knife.
You know, I'm almost concerned because this sounds kind of like Jurassic Park here.
We're like, I know it's a velociraptor, but we're going to stand around it.
Hopefully we can, you know, I don't know, man.
I like to see that, though.
I think that's really cool that you guys are going to be doing that.
You know, really, these robots, if they're going to be worth anything, they should be able to do basic kitchen chores.
I mean, if they're going to be a help, I mean, these are things that we can teach a seven-year-old.
Yeah, but they're still complicated.
They're very complicated, Pat.
You know, just to grab a knife and cut something, that takes a lot of training for a human brain, too.
Oh, yeah.
Exactly.
It's going to be interesting to see which robot learns the fastest, right?
Like, where is the AI in these robots and what do they do well?
Or how fast does that AI adapt?
You know, what people don't realize is that these robots are going to fail a lot.
I mean, we fail a lot.
That is true.
When we're learning a task.
So failure is part of the equation.
So get used to it.
But the idea is which one is going to succeed and overcome that failure.
Yeah, absolutely.
I've just given you a preview of what's coming.
That might be 2027 or 2028.
Who knows?
I don't know how long.
I'm not going to hand a knife to a robot until I'm very certain that it's predictable.
First, I'm going to let it fold laundry.
Something it can't hurt me with if it goes crazy with socks, you know?
Terminator laundry robot.
Okay.
So, John, we're out of time.
We ended on Terminator sock-wielding laundry robot.
But thank you so much for joining us today.
It's always a pleasure.
Any last words here today?
No, I just want to say thank you so much, Mike, for having me on here.
And I just want to wish you and all your listeners a very happy new year.
Okay.
Well, you too, John, to you and your family.
Give them all our blessing and our prayers and happiness for the new year.
You're going to be very successful.
And thank you for joining me today.
And folks, if you want to take advantage of our new year sale on these extraordinary knives, if you've never had one of these in your hands, you'll be astonished at the level of quality.
But you can find them at healthrangerstore.com slash 2026.
Click on third-party vendors and then scroll down to the Dawson knives here and take advantage of this extra 5% off, which is a very limited time.
And it's a very limited run of these knives.
And there's also, I think, there's a two-week shipping time because these are pre-orders, actually, I think, for many of these.
Some are already made.
Others, you got to give it two weeks.
So just have patience with the process.
But thank you for watching today.
And, you know, God bless America.
Let's ask God to bless America for 2026.
And it's going to come down to people like John Roy and his family and you, the viewers, all of us working together to make this country something really special again.
We need to create.
We need to innovate.
We need to produce things that matter.
And that's exactly what Dawson Knives is doing.
So thank you for watching today.
I'm Mike Adams here at brightion.com.
Take care.
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