Health Ranger - Mike Adams - BBN, Jan 8, 2026 - Minnesota's Walz ESCALATES ICE Conflict Into Likely Regional REVOLT

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Civil War Threat 00:04:20
	All right, welcome to Brighton Broadcast News.
	What is it?
	It's Thursday, January 8th, 2026.
	Mike Adams here.
	Thank you for joining me.
	I'm going to have to apologize up front for the profanity that I'm going to use today because it's very clear to me that the United States of America is being marched into a shitstorm of probably a civil war now.
	Looks a lot more likely based on what just happened in Minneapolis, but certainly looks like an international pushback against U.S. actions, the assault on Venezuela, the kidnapping of the leader there, Maduro.
	And now Trump saying that, or at least implying that we may use military action to, I guess, conquer Greenland, which I talked about yesterday.
	That's not the focus today.
	We're going to talk about this Minneapolis situation, but let me just tell you also what I have coming up.
	I was interviewed by Clay Clark yesterday about AI and about the singularity and about transhumanism and all kinds of fun stuff like that.
	And so we're going to be covering that today.
	I'll be playing the interview for you with Clay Clark.
	In addition to that, I have a special analysis today of a breakthrough new battery technology, not Samsung.
	This is from a company called Donut.
	I know the name is just bizarre.
	It was just announced.
	Not everybody believes the announcement, but this is a company with a track record of some real amazing innovation, you know, game changers, right?
	So I've got a report on that, how it may crush global oil demand and reshape the energy ecosystem.
	This battery technology, if it's real, if they're telling the truth, would change everything about the energy landscape.
	And it would help you be able to live off-grid, disconnected from the power grid, much more affordably, which is something I've been interested in in a long time as well.
	So I'm going to cover that in an upcoming report.
	In addition, I've got an update for you about Bright Learn.
	AT ⁇ T blacklisted the site earlier.
	They blocked everybody from being able to access all the free books and all the free knowledge and all the downloads that we have available because AT ⁇ T is a censorship regime run by authoritarian globalists, of course.
	That's my view of them.
	And so we'll talk about that.
	But also I've activated a new feature on Bright Learn and we'll get to that coming up.
	It's a big deal.
	Finally, also the stablecoin company Tether has announced a new gold-backed stablecoin called XAUT.
	The T stands for Tether.
	The AU is gold, obviously, and X means, I guess, exchange or commerce or whatever.
	And this is a big deal.
	This is a gold-backed crypto, but it's a stablecoin tied to the price of gold.
	So it's not going to be FOMO like Bitcoin, and it's not going to keep losing value like stablecoins tied to the dollar.
	So I'll have that report for you probably tomorrow.
	I haven't even recorded that one yet, but I plan to tomorrow.
	It's a big deal.
	We need to talk about that.
	It actually could be a really positive thing, actually, for saving money in a usable digital currency for making purchases online, things like that, or sending money to people.
	In this case, it's real money.
	Well, it's the digital form of real money because it's representing physical gold.
	It's kind of like digital goldbacks, really, in a sense.
	Anyway, we'll talk about that probably tomorrow.
	All right, so let's get to the main news today, which is what's happening in Minnesota.
	So let me give you some facts up front before the analysis.
Fatal Encounter 00:15:36
	So a woman named, what's her name?
	Something good.
	Renee Goode.
	37 years old.
	She was in a vehicle.
	The roads were icy.
	And she decided to get in her vehicle and drive away from whatever ICE agents were there, customs enforcement agents, feds were there.
	They ordered her out of her car.
	She decided to drive off, and they shot and killed her, just like that.
	At least one of the agents did.
	Shot and killed her.
	Now, it's important to understand this, what's happening here.
	Trump and all of his officials say, well, like Homeland Security Secretary Christy Noam, she said that Renee Goode was using the vehicle to try to kill an officer.
	That it was an act of domestic terrorism.
	And that the officers acted defensively, shooting to protect himself and the people around him.
	Except when I watch the video, I don't see that at all.
	But we'll get to that.
	Anyway, that's what Noam says, and that's what Trump says.
	Oh, this was a good shooting.
	You know, we had to shoot her.
	She was going to run over ICE agents.
	Didn't look like that to me.
	It looked like she just wanted to drive away, actually.
	And the ICE agent that I saw put himself in front of her vehicle.
	And how many times have we heard conservatives say that if a leftist jumps in front of your vehicle, you have the right to run over them?
	You know, we've heard that kind of talk before.
	I'm not saying that you should do that, except perhaps in a life and death situation where you're trying to, you know, escape a mob that wants to kill you, let's say.
	But anyway, Trump and the officials say that this was ICE agents defending themselves by firing a fatal shot, shooting Renee Goode.
	So we'll play the video here coming up because it's not gory at all.
	You actually don't even see Renee.
	You just see the vehicle.
	But I want you to see this if you haven't seen it already.
	It's quite short.
	Nevertheless, whatever your interpretation is of this shooting, this killing, it was a killing of an American citizen by immigration agents on the streets of Minneapolis run by Democrats.
	So of course, Tim Walz goes insane.
	And I'm going to simplify this.
	This is my understanding of it.
	Tim Walz goes insane and he holds a press conference and he says, oh my God, this is uncalled for.
	And Trump's agents are essentially, I'm paraphrasing, he calls them something like an occupying enemy force.
	He didn't use those words exactly, but that's what he implied.
	And then Walls, who's also under fire for this whole Somali money laundering fraud scenario that he's no doubt deeply involved in, he says he's going to deploy the National Guard, seemingly to oppose federal agents, I guess.
	Right?
	Not looking good.
	Not looking good.
	Now, understand also that this was a shooting of a white woman, and I don't want to see any violence at all, just to be clear.
	I don't know Renee Goode.
	I don't know her politics.
	I don't know what she said before she got in the car.
	You know, in the clip that I'm about to show you, it's only 22 seconds.
	There were obviously many minutes of what happened before and after.
	Maybe she was verbally threatening the ICE agents and getting them all riled up or something.
	I really don't know.
	But note that she's a, or at least I think she's a white woman.
	I guess I haven't seen her picture, so I'm not sure.
	But the left will be less outraged over a white woman being shot than a black woman being shot.
	And let's just be clear.
	I'm not trying to make this racial, but Democrats do.
	And I don't think Renee was black.
	I think she's a white woman.
	And if she had been a black woman or Somali, for God's sake, you know, oh my goodness, the left would be erupting even more than they are right now.
	So let's take a look at this video, and then we'll talk about the Civil War risk and implications from here.
	But let me play this for you.
	It's only 22 seconds.
	And again, it's not gory.
	You don't see the woman.
	You don't really see her being shot.
	So otherwise, I wouldn't play it.
	Here we go.
	You just fucking, what the fuck did you do?
	All right, so there's also a four-minute and 26-second version of that video on X, if you want to go there and see the greater context.
	Okay.
	And the only reason I'm even playing this video is for understanding.
	We need to understand what happened so that we can try to predict where things are going from here and the narratives of Tim Walz and others on the left.
	So as I understand it, this woman, Renee Goode, she was a we might call her a left-wing, you know, anti-ICE protester, perhaps, or a pro-immigration, you know, pro-migrant person.
	Okay.
	But of course, that doesn't mean that she deserved to be shot just for her beliefs.
	I mean, we're supposed to be Americans here.
	We're supposed to be able to coexist with people who have different views than we do as part of the First Amendment.
	Now, when I watch this video, let me walk you through it.
	Let's play to hold on, right here, eight seconds and freeze it right there.
	So at eight seconds, there's an ICE agent on the left that is attempting to open her door and drag her out of her vehicle, right?
	Now, also notice on the right side of her vehicle, there's another ICE vehicle with the door open because there's another ICE agent that's coming out of that door, I think, shortly.
	Now, if we play from eight seconds, let's go ahead, there we go, to nine, ten seconds.
	Just fast forward two seconds.
	So now we see the ICE agent on the left of her vehicle, seemingly struggling, trying to get her to stop or get her to come out of her car.
	But just beyond him, we see another ICE agent who came out of that vehicle on the right, I believe.
	That's the ICE agent that fires the fatal shot.
	Now, I want you to notice something else here.
	That the front wheels of the vehicle of Renee Goode are turned to the right.
	And you can see that as we play a little bit more, let's play 10 seconds.
	Go ahead, play 11, 12, just two more seconds.
	You can see that she, Renee, she is driving to the right to try to get back on the road to get out of this situation.
	She did not pivot the wheels to the left to try to run over that other ICE agent.
	And that's very clear in this video, regardless of what Chrissy Noam says.
	But that ICE agent, perhaps from his angle, he perceives that the vehicle is coming straight at him, even though the tires are turned, and he decides to shoot her.
	And he does, and he kills her.
	And then if we continue the video, then it looks like he fires a couple of shots, actually.
	He's still shooting at her as she's driving away.
	In fact, if you go to, wait, let me freeze this to my editor.
	Freeze it at, let's get this just right here.
	Second 12.
	Okay, at 12 seconds, the ICE agent that shot her still has his gun out.
	Possibly he's still firing at her from the rear of her vehicle or the rear left quadrant, let's say, as she is attempting to drive away.
	But at this point, she's already shot and probably dying or dead.
	So looking at this, and again, with the caveat that we don't necessarily know everything that happened before this or after this.
	So there may be more information that becomes relevant.
	But it's not difficult to see why Democrats looking at this video would say to each other and to themselves that it looks like Trump is running ICE execution squads on the streets of America's cities.
	Now, I wouldn't put it in those harsh of terms, but I can definitely see how Democrats would conclude that.
	To me, it looks like a situation that's very dicey, possibly misinterpretations, and maybe a bit of a trigger finger on that ICE agent right there.
	Now, granted, I would say that law enforcement always do have the right to protect themselves.
	That's absolutely true.
	And it's also true that vehicles can be deployed as weapons by people.
	And there are many, many cases where vehicles are used by people to try to run over law enforcement.
	And in those cases, clearly law enforcement have the right to defend themselves.
	But in this case, at least from this angle, it looks to me like she was trying to leave, not assault.
	But of course, our White House and Christy Noam and all of them, I mean, they've been lying to us about Charlie Kirk from day one, haven't they?
	Not a bit of truth about Charlie Kirk and who killed him and where the shot came from, this and that.
	Right?
	And by the way, Candace Owens put out new frames from the very back of Charlie Kirk that shows no exit wound out of the back of his neck.
	So he wasn't shot from the front at all.
	But anyway, I'm not focused on that in today's analysis.
	That's a whole different rabbit hole if you want to go down that one.
	Then, you know, tune into Candace Owens.
	But for this ICE shooting in Minneapolis, this looks bad.
	And the Trump administration appears to be covering it up and, you know, covering for this agent and trying to say he acted in self-defense and that Renee was carrying out an act of terrorism.
	And I don't think that's what happened at all.
	I think she was probably angry, frustrated.
	She didn't want to be arrested by ICE because she's an American citizen.
	So I think she was getting in her car to drive away and ICE came up and tried to yank her out of the car.
	She probably feared for her safety.
	She's an American citizen.
	She wanted to get out of there.
	She probably turned the wheels to the right, stepped on the gas, tried to drive away, and they shot her and killed her.
	And then the government's covering it up.
	That's what it looks like to me.
	So I wouldn't quite call it ICE execution squads because I don't think that ICE agents are looking to run around shooting Americans dead.
	Clearly, that's not their mission.
	I want to be upfront about that.
	And this situation could have several different interpretations, and I'm operating on limited observations just based on this one video.
	So, you know, maybe there's different information that makes this conclusive.
	Maybe, maybe she pulled a gun or something.
	I doubt it.
	But maybe something else happened.
	Nevertheless, this looks bad.
	Looks very bad.
	So then, Tim Walz has some choice words to say about this.
	And let's actually play a little bit of that video.
	Here we go.
	This morning, we learned that an ICE officer shot and killed someone in Minneapolis.
	My deepest condolences to the family, to the loved ones who had to learn about this tragic event on national television.
	We have been warning for weeks that the Trump administration's dangerous, sensationalized operations are a threat to our public safety, that someone was going to get hurt.
	Just yesterday, I said exactly that.
	What we're seeing is the consequences of governance designed to generate fear, headlines, and conflict.
	It's governing by reality TV.
	And today, that recklessness costs someone their life.
	I've reached out to Secretary of Homeland Security, Christy Noam, and I'm waiting to hear back.
	Let me be clear.
	The Trump and his Donald Trump and his administration may not care much about Minnesota.
	That's been pretty evident.
	But we love this state.
	We won't let them tear us apart.
	We'll not turn against each other.
	To Minnesotans, I say this.
	I feel your anger.
	I'm angry.
	They want a show.
	We can't give it to them.
	We cannot.
	If you protest and express your First Amendment rights, please do so peacefully, as you always do.
	We can't give them what they want.
	The hearts and minds of the people in this state are on our side.
	To Americans, I ask you this: please stand with Minneapolis.
	To Minnesotans, know that our administration is going to stop at nothing to seek accountability and justice.
	The State Bureau of Criminal Apprehension are working on the investigation.
	We have activated the State Emergency Operations Center.
	State Patrol of Minnesota National Guard leadership is connected with the Minneapolis Police Department, the St. Paul Police Department, Hennepin County Sheriff's Office, the DNR, and Minnesota's Homeland Security and Emergency Management.
	We have activated dozens of members of the State Patrol's mobile response team.
	And from here on, I have a very simple message: we do not need any further help from the federal government.
	To Donald Trump and Christy Noam, you've done enough.
	There's nothing more important than Minnesotan safety.
	I've issued a warning order to prepare the Minnesota National Guard.
	We have soldiers in training and prepared to be deployed if necessary.
	I remind you, a warning order is a heads-up for folks.
	And these National Guard troops are our National Guard troops.
	Okay, the reason I played that for such duration is because I wanted you to hear Tim Walz, who, in my opinion, needs to be arrested and prosecuted for his role in the Somali money laundering fraud schemes that obviously gave him kickbacks, but we'll talk about that separately.
	He's talking about deploying the Minnesota National Guard, and he says that there are guard troops.
	We're going to deploy them.
	He's issued a warning order.
Crime And Scam Revelations 00:07:04
	And the context of this, what it seems like, is that he's going to deploy the Minnesota National Guard to go to war with Trump, to go to war with Trump's ICE agents over this shooting.
	Now, again, even if the shooting is a bad shooting, which my initial impression is that it's a bad shooting, but maybe I'm wrong.
	But even if you think it's a bad shooting, Tim Walz, who himself is on the verge of, I mean, he dropped out of the governor's race.
	His political career is being destroyed by his involvement in the Somali daycare, you know, children's care scam, the Learing Institute scam or whatever that was, Learing Center.
	Tim Walz is a crook, in my opinion.
	Tim Walz should be arrested and prosecuted.
	And earlier I said, I gave you a warning, I'm going to use some profanity.
	And I do not have profanity for Tim Walz.
	I have profanity for Donald Trump to say, when the fuck are you going to arrest somebody?
	Okay, so there's your profanity warning.
	Because here we are a year into Trump's administration.
	Fauci hasn't been arrested.
	None of the traitors have been arrested.
	Nobody in the Biden crime cartel.
	Nobody in the Clinton crime cartel.
	The money launderers haven't been arrested.
	The human traffickers haven't been arrested.
	Mallorkas hasn't been arrested.
	Tim Walz obviously has got his fingers in all this money laundering fraud.
	And yet these people are out walking free while Trump's busy kidnapping Maduro, you know, threatening Greenland.
	What about the traitors and crooks and criminals right here in America who rigged elections, trafficked tens of millions of people across the border?
	That's Maorkas, by the way.
	What else did they do?
	They ran children.
	They ran drugs.
	They ran guns across the border.
	I already mentioned they rigged elections.
	They ran psyops.
	They ran the Russia collusion hoax to try to destroy Trump and his family and his legacy.
	Turns out Trump doesn't need any help doing that because he's doing that himself by threatening Greenland.
	But anyway, the Democrats were doing it before he did it.
	And none of those people are facing justice.
	Not one of them.
	What about the Epstein files?
	You know, we're told, oh, it's real.
	And then it's not real.
	It doesn't exist.
	Pam Bondi's like, I got a stack of documents on my desk.
	It's going to take us months to work through that.
	And then, you know, a month later, Trump's like, doesn't exist.
	It's all a hoax, not even real.
	And then two months later, oh, it is real, but it's all about the Democrats.
	And then two months later, we're going to release all these pages, but it's all redacted.
	There's nothing there.
	What?
	What on earth is going on?
	That is something is seriously wrong with the Trump administration not holding these people accountable.
	Because I don't want us to be walking into the midterms or walking into 2028, another election, and just watch as the Democrats cheat and rig and steal and ballot stuff and ballot mule their way back into the White House again.
	Because we know they're criminals and crooks and con artists.
	The worst people imaginable.
	I mean, look at Tim Walz.
	Here he is blaming Trump.
	Say, we're going to deploy the National Guard.
	He's trying to protect his Somali money laundering scam.
	That's what he's doing.
	Tim Walz is obviously guilty.
	I mean, he needs to be arrested.
	And what Trump should do, in my opinion, although it's easy to say this from the sidelines, isn't it?
	hard to actually, you know, be the president, I would imagine.
	But when is there any justice for these traitors?
	When?
	And my other profanity is for the do-nothing GOP.
	I got to figure out what words I want to use for them.
	I don't know.
	Use your imagination.
	Spineless.
	That's not even.
	profanity, but they're spineless.
	They're not doing anything.
	Well, except handing out more money to Ukraine.
	And probably some of them are involved in the Somali kickbacks as well.
	And it's more than just Somalis.
	There's a lot of other people that are doing the same scams because it's a very profitable scam.
	And then, you know, the governors look the other way or the senators look the other way or whatever because they get the kickbacks.
	This whole system is a giant money laundering fraud machine.
	America is a crime scene.
	And I expect somebody to get their ass arrested.
	And that's not what I'm seeing.
	How about you?
	What are you seeing?
	You happy with this situation?
	Or are you frustrated like me?
	And I try to keep things positive.
	I try to focus on positive projects like my book Creation Engine, which is wonderful and everybody's loving it.
	And, you know, it's impacting the lives.
	Did you know that we have now three quarters of a million visitors to the Bright Learn website since we launched it?
	Did you know that?
	Three?
	Yeah.
	It's now 750,000.
	Three quarters of a million visitors.
	I mean, wow, that's an impact to spread knowledge and everything.
	I should be celebrating, you know?
	And I would be, except I'm just so freaking disturbed by the criminality of people like Tim Walz and the total lack of action by these pussyfooting geo-peers.
	And even that's not enough profanity.
	They're just pussyfooting around, as we say.
	It's not acceptable.
	And then the other aspect of all of this is that clearly we're marching into a regional civil war type of conflict here.
	If you thought that one shot, the shot of Renee Good, you know, that could be the shot heard around the world in terms of a U.S. regional outbreak.
	I'm not saying it'll be a nationwide thing, but I could see a revolt, an armed revolt uprising in Minneapolis.
	And even though Tim Walz is out there publicly saying, you know, everybody protest peacefully behind the scenes.
Almost Something Happened 00:03:47
	Yeah, I think he's plotting something else.
	That's just my guess.
	But, you know, this didn't happen in L.A., thank goodness, or it would already be popping off.
	It happened in Minnesota where it's too cold for people to gather outside all the time, you know?
	So maybe that'll quell this whole thing, but there's going to be people all over the country that point to this and say, oh my God, Trump's ICE agents are running execution squads.
	That's what they're going to say.
	I'm not saying that.
	They're going to say that, and they're going to think they're coming for us.
	They're coming for Americans next.
	They're going to execute the American people.
	Like, you can absolutely bet that is what is being said on left-wing podcasts right now.
	Look, they're executing Americans.
	And, you know, there's almost something.
	I mean, Renee's last name is good.
	Her last name is Good.
	There's almost something.
	And I'm not claiming that this is staged, just to be clear.
	But The name good is not actually that common of a last name, but it's a setup.
	Again, I'm not saying it's stage, but I mean, it's a precursor to leftists being able to say, you know, Trump is killing the good.
	You see what I mean?
	And leftists are going to point to her education and her background.
	So she's a mom.
	She's a mom of a six-year-old child.
	I mean, my goodness.
	She graduated from Old Dominion University with a degree in English.
	Yeah, sounds like a terrorist.
	You know, using the wrong gerund in incentives.
	Yeah, that could be an act of terrorism.
	She's a poet and writer.
	She worked in real estate, investment, property management.
	Let's see.
	She worked to take care of people.
	And this is what's being stated online.
	She was apparently well-liked by her neighbors.
	And Ilhan Omar, Representative Omar, said that Renee Goode was a, quote, legal observer.
	Maybe she was there to document ICE or something.
	But, you know, you can't trust Ilhan Omar, who allegedly married her own brother to violate immigration laws and clearly is part of the whole Somali ecosystem that is erupting with lots of allegations of criminal fraud and money laundering right now.
	So, you know, my point is that Renee Good is going to be, you're going to see lots of profiles of Renee Good in the corporate media, and all of them are going to be very, very positive.
	She was a loving mother, a loving neighbor.
	She was a poet.
	You know, how do you shoot a poet?
	You know?
	And then ICE is going to be depicted as the worst possible criminals, execution squads, hunting down Americans and executing them in their vehicles, right?
	That's what you're going to see.
	That from the corporate media is probably designed to exacerbate this whole thing.
	It's probably designed to whip up left-wing hatred of Donald Trump as if they needed any more and to get things popping off all across the country.
Escalating Domestic Chaos 00:05:54
	And then it's not difficult to imagine, and I pray we don't see this, not difficult to imagine somebody who's a little bit unhinged seeing all of this and snapping.
	That's it, you know, and somebody, again, I just want to say up front, I pray this never happens.
	I'm not obviously advocating anything like this, but it's not difficult to see somebody picking up whatever weapon, maybe a semi-automatic rifle, and taking out a bunch of ICE agents, you know.
	And then what?
	Then where are we?
	Then Donald Trump would be forced to respond with overwhelming military force occupying the city.
	And then what would happen?
	Then the people of Minneapolis and also people all over the country, Democrats everywhere from Portland, you know, to New York City, they would say, the martial law is here.
	You know, we warned about this.
	Trump declared himself king and now he's taking over the cities and he's executing Americans and we can't even walk the streets in safety without fear for our lives.
	These rogue execution squads might shoot us dead at any moment in our own vehicles while we're driving down the road.
	That's where this is going.
	Hard to see this de-escalating at this point.
	Especially given the information ecosystem in which leftists live, which let's be honest is completely delusional.
	They still think that men can have babies, just to be clear.
	They think that mutilating children's genitalia is medicine or healthcare.
	Yeah, that's what they think.
	So they're going to run with this.
	They're going to run so far and so hard with this until the entire left-wing culture in America feels like they need to take up arms against Trump or, you know, Trump's thugs, as they'll call them.
	And look, I mean, I've been very critical of Trump on some of his recent actions, such as whatever he's doing with Venezuela or Greenland, which I admit, I can't read his mind.
	It's hard to know what he's thinking, but some of it looks crazy.
	And so I've been critical of Trump, where I think that criticism is justified.
	But I sure am glad that Trump defeated the Democrats at the election because the Democrats, I mean, look at how much fraud has been uncovered.
	USAID and the whole Somali thing is just the tip of the iceberg.
	The Democrats were going to put conservatives in prison forever.
	The Democrats were going to run around and seize people's websites, probably mine, you know.
	The Democrats were the worst threat against America.
	They were going to have America invaded and overrun by illegals in numbers that would dwarf what already happened under Obama and Biden.
	Democrats were, we were at the very last moment, actually.
	Democrats were going to completely gut this nation.
	And Trump's victory stopped them.
	So I'm glad that Trump won the election.
	Although I didn't vote for him.
	But that's a different podcast.
	I didn't.
	I didn't vote for him.
	I had reservations, but that's another discussion.
	But I'm glad he won.
	And now I'm very concerned about where all this is going.
	Because remember my prediction for all these years?
	I said that by the end of 2025, America as we know it will no longer exist.
	Like something, there'll be a civil war or a secession or a breakup or something.
	And, you know, clearly that prediction was early because it didn't happen.
	And I'm glad it didn't happen, but it could happen now.
	You see, I mean, maybe that prediction was only a few months early.
	I don't know.
	We'll see.
	But it's not looking good.
	So the bottom line for you and I is simple.
	This is a time to think about preparedness.
	This is a time to think about conflict escalating potentially.
	Destabilization affecting supply chains, affecting, well, freedoms, affecting lots of things.
	Gold and silver are still spiking and likely to go much, much higher in my estimation.
	There's geopolitical conflict on the global stage with Trump threatening Greenland, which seems completely bonkers to me.
	There's the continued conflict with Russia.
	There's a lot of talk targeting China, etc.
	And China and Russia are not happy about what Trump did in Venezuela.
	So we've got real risk internationally and then also additional chaos risk domestically.
	The chaos factor just went up 100x domestically.
	And now the risk of domestic civil war is higher than it's been for a long time.
	Oh, also, Israel wants to strike Iran again.
	And obviously, the U.S. and Israel intelligence communities are pushing all these protests in Iran and all the sanctions trying to destroy Iran's currency to achieve regime change and all that.
	But again, that's beyond the scope of this podcast.
	Maybe we'll talk about it another day.
	In the meantime, things are about to get dicey on the streets of America.
Special Report: Bright Learn Update 00:02:56
	Trump's people did just shoot and kill an American citizen who was unarmed.
	A freaking poet, a poet, oh man, whose name is good.
	A mom with a six-year-old daughter.
	That's this is going to reverberate.
	So my advice is hunker down, get ready for a very chaotic year.
	All right.
	I've got a special report for you here about the Bright Learn and what just happened because ATT censored the site, blocked the entire platform for most of the day.
	And I think that's recovered, but I've got some information.
	And also, we've just unleashed a new feature.
	So let's go to that special report right now.
	And then following that, I'll have another report for you.
	What did I promise?
	A report about the breakthrough battery technology and then my interview with Clay Clark.
	Oh, also, by the way, our new year sale is going on right now.
	HealthRangerStore.com/slash 2026.
	A lot of specials, a lot of things back in stock since December.
	And we have really held pricing in check.
	I mean, desperately so.
	We don't want to raise prices on you, even though a lot of our costs are skyrocketing on raw materials.
	But we're holding prices as best we can.
	And your purchases at healthrangerstore.com help support our platforms, allowing us to do things like brightlearn.ai and brightanswers.ai to keep those free.
	And there's more coming.
	This is going to be an exciting year for what I have planned to release in the AI space.
	You're going to be amazed.
	There's more coming.
	So thank you for your support.
	Again, take advantage of the new year sale at healthrangerstore.com/slash 2026.
	And that sale is only good for three more days.
	That's it.
	And then not going to be another sale for quite a while.
	So thank you for your support.
	All right.
	Here comes the special report.
	Enjoy.
	All right.
	Welcome to this BrightLearn.ai update.
	I'm Mike Adams, the developer of BrightLearn, which, of course, is our book creation engine that has been used by thousands of authors now to create over 16, I think it's 16,000 books or close to that.
	Yeah, I think it's over 16,000.
	Yeah, well, it just went over 16,000.
	Okay.
	So 5,000 authors, 16,000 books, 134,000 downloads, and we've had three-quarters of a million visitors since we launched the site.
Att's Malicious Censorship 00:10:05
	And it's all free.
	And people are loving it.
	They get to create amazing books on almost any topic.
	And everybody's having a blast with it.
	So what happened?
	Well, the site was offline for many hours yesterday.
	And that's related to the fact that ATT maliciously blacklisted the site.
	So they deplatformed the site from all of their millions of customers, blocked it with a warning that said something like, oh, it's harmful information or something.
	I don't remember the exact thing, but it was malicious.
	It was authoritarian.
	It was extreme censorship.
	And it was a violation of the civil rights of the American people.
	It was a violation of the First Amendment.
	And it was just mean.
	You know, ATT just being freaking mean.
	Reminds me of all the censorship under the Biden regime and during the COVID years.
	When all of us were telling the truth about vaccines or whatever, we were all censored, punished, deplatformed, debanked, you name it, smeared, raked through the media, called basically domestic terrorists, you know, when we were just trying to help save lives and keep people healthy.
	Well, that's what AT ⁇ T did, again, in the last 24 hours.
	So that may be resolved by now.
	I'm not actually sure if it has been.
	Some people have told me they're able to access it again.
	But it caused a lot of disruptions and problems, wasted a bunch of my time trying to figure out what's going on.
	Why is it banned?
	Because, of course, there's nothing malicious on the site.
	It's a giant bookstore, but everything's free.
	Okay, so it's like a free bookstore, like just take what you want.
	And why would AT ⁇ T burn books online?
	You know, is this 1984?
	Are they Orwellian overlords?
	They just, I mean, AT ⁇ T will gladly serve up any number of porn sites or gambling sites or sites promoting alcohol and drinking games or whatever.
	That's fine with AT ⁇ T, you know, but books, oh, dangerous, malicious books, you know.
	Learning is dangerous, according to AT ⁇ T.
	So it'll be interesting to find out if we ever find out what was their internal justification for blocking brightlearn.ai.
	Do they think it's dangerous for people to learn?
	Did they not like our books about how to sprout food?
	I mean, I'm looking at the website right now.
	Okay, here we go.
	Here's some of the books that AT ⁇ T didn't want you to read.
	The 12 Mineral Miracles, a comprehensive guide to sell salts for holistic health.
	Ooh, sounds dangerous.
	The Symphony of Silence, a holistic blueprint to restore hearing and reverse aging and reawaken your senses.
	Oh, the terror.
	Here's one.
	Deep South Roots, a practical guide to building and maintaining earth dug root cellars in the southeastern U.S.
	Oh my gosh.
	We can't let people read those books.
	Here's a book about silver.
	Here's a book about surviving MS. Here's a book about precious metals.
	Here's a book about traveling through the Caribbean.
	Here's a book about breathing.
	Here's a book about survival, sprout power.
	Here's a book.
	What is this?
	Pearl of the Orient, celebrating the heart and hustle of the Philippines.
	Whoo, these sounds so dangerous.
	Anyway, oh, here's one.
	The weight regain paradox.
	The fig and the curd, ancient artisan something.
	I can't quite read.
	You get the idea, right?
	AT ⁇ T didn't want you to read these books.
	Blacklisted the whole site.
	Knowledge is power, but knowledge is considered dangerous by the powers that be.
	And that's why I built Bright Learn, because I wanted you to have knowledge.
	I wanted to bypass the gatekeepers and the censors.
	And so they come back.
	They keep attacking and assaulting and censoring based on mobile phone carriers.
	They try everything.
	They're desperate to silence the truth, aren't they?
	Desperate to censor people.
	That's why I need your help.
	I need you to spread the word.
	Download the books.
	They're all free.
	Share them with people.
	Use the engine.
	Create your own books.
	Spread the word.
	Link to the website from your blog or your site or your sub stack or whatever the case may be.
	Link to brightlearn.ai or you can link to the books library called books.brightlearn.ai link to us and help promote this engine.
	This is a non-profit project.
	All the books are free, even free for commercial use.
	I mean, this is a good faith project to help educate and empower people with knowledge that can dramatically enhance the quality of their lives.
	And ATT says, we don't want you to read that stuff.
	Dangerous.
	Dangerous.
	You know what's funny?
	There's not even any executable code on the books website.
	You know, books.brightlearn.ai.
	There's no code there.
	All those pages are static pages.
	There's no dynamic code.
	There can't be malicious code.
	It's impossible because it's just flat pages.
	So ATT was lying when they said that there's something harmful on the website.
	They lied.
	They lied to all their customers.
	They lied to the world and they blocked us.
	And, you know, I've been enduring that kind of treatment for over a decade because of the fact that I advocate health and healing and truth and transparency and self-reliance and self-responsibility.
	I've been attacked and smeared and blacklisted and debanked and deplatformed for over a decade.
	So I've been through this before.
	Nothing surprises me.
	Yeah, it's still frustrating because here I am building an engine based on millions of dollars of effort that went into the underlying core AI engine that's used for this.
	I donated millions of dollars in two years of my time to this project to give away knowledge to the world as a way of saying thank you, as a way of honoring our creator, as a way of giving back to a world that has given me so much.
	And it's the most positive, good faith type of project that you can imagine.
	And ATT says, no, that's harmful.
	Yeah, f you, ATT.
	You know, f all of you, because this is the kind of thing that we need to make humanity survive what's coming.
	Sorry about the profanity.
	We need people to be informed.
	We need decentralization of knowledge.
	What we don't need is corporate monsters like ATT deciding what we can and cannot read.
	This is America.
	You don't mess with people's libraries.
	You don't burn books online.
	Okay.
	But nobody at ATT understands that.
	So, you know, if you're using ATT, find a different carrier if you can.
	Vote with your dollars, you know.
	Get away from their services if you can because they just want to enslave you.
	They think they get to decide what you're allowed to read.
	That's dangerous.
	That's dangerous.
	They falsely claim that Bright Learn was harmful.
	No, what's harmful is the existence of ATT and their near monopoly control over people's access to websites through mobile phone data and bandwidth.
	That's harmful to society.
	That's a danger.
	We should break up ATT.
	Break them up into 100 smaller companies, you know, so there's some decentralization and some competition and some freedom.
	What's dangerous is the concentration of power in the hands of the few who care nothing about the people.
	You think ATT cares about you?
	No.
	Don't care about you at all.
	If you don't believe me, just call their customer service and you will be convinced they don't give a rat's ass about you.
	Again, sorry to be so crude here today.
	Not normally like this.
	I try to keep things positive.
	I try to contribute to the world in a positive way, an uplifting way, and then I get met with this kind of insane nonsense.
	As if I had a site that was teaching people how to commit acts of terrorism, or something you know, you know like uh, the the machete hatchet how-to website, do-it-yourself beheadings, or something you know.
	If they banned that site well, I could see that, but not what?
	Oh, here I did a book called clove bud, the ancient superfood for modern health.
New Science Papers Features 00:15:46
	It's about how to eat cloves.
	So dangerous, so dangerous.
	I'm pretty sure terrorists must eat cloves too.
	You know that kind of nonsense.
	So just just more truth, okay.
	So let me?
	Let me tell you about the new features.
	So, as I promised, remember when I said that we're going to add a lot more science papers to the research engine.
	Because, you know, when you submit a book to brightlearn.ai and then that book, you know you, you put in your prompt what you want in there.
	You can give it a whole outline if you want, or you can just use one sentence.
	You can give it a bunch of notes you can paste in your transcripts of stuff you've said before.
	If you want, just paste it in there and then it generates a book outline for you right, and then, when you approve that, it generates a book cover, and then you approve that and then you submit the book right, and then then our little engine goes to work, that is, we have an architect that plans your book chapter by chapter by chapter, and then the architect hands over the plans to the researchers, the research workers,
	and then those researchers they research all your chapter topics through this massive index that I built over the last couple of years, and this index has, you know what now?
	Over a hundred thousand books, hundred thousand science papers, millions of pages of articles and transcripts and podcasts and interviews and all kinds of things.
	Well, today I activated the science papers feature at brightlearn.ai, so now you can check the checkbox actually, it's checked by default, you that it says science papers, and then when it builds your book and it writes it for you, it does the fact checking, it does all the research and it puts the references at the bottom of each sub chapter.
	Now those references have the science paper citations.
	It's been happening, you know, since I activated that feature.
	So now I saw somebody do a book on a really technical topic, forgot what it was like robotics and stuff and the the citations were great.
	They were all these science papers, and i'm the one who actually curated all these science papers.
	So I can tell you that we put in 100,000 papers on topics like soils, metallurgy, mining, phytochemistry, phytocognacy, nutrition, foods, oh economics.
	Oh yeah, cognition and neurology.
	What else?
	Well, a lot of other things.
	And I haven't yet added in like pharmacology.
	or physiology.
	I haven't even done that yet.
	But the stuff I have in there right now is already pretty good.
	Oh, fusion.
	I got fusion in there.
	All kinds of energy type of topics and some high-level physics.
	Lots of fun.
	A little bit of robotics and computer science and neurocognitive research documents, etc.
	These are, see, we've indexed the full-length science papers from all these peer-reviewed published journals so that we can cite them properly as part of the research that goes into these book chapters.
	If you're going to write a compelling book, you want to do a lot of research.
	You want to read a lot of science papers and you need to cite those.
	And that's exactly what our engine does for you.
	How cool is that?
	Anyway, then the research workers hand over the research to the writer workers and the writer workers then write the chapters or the sub chapters section by section.
	And then we have a packaging worker that packages it all together, renders the static pages, pushes it online, creates the PDF, sometimes error-free.
	Our PDF worker has a problem, has like a substance abuse problem.
	I'll just admit it right now.
	There's an AI agent that does the packaging, the PDF writing, that needs a little bit of rehab.
	Just going to say.
	Sometimes those PDFs get a little off course.
	But we're working on it.
	We're working on it.
	We put that worker into the 12-step program.
	We're going to see if that helps.
	And anyway, the final product is posted online and then it sends you an email with the download links and boom, the book is yours.
	And you can also download the PDF and you can just get a free online PDF editor if you want.
	And you can customize it.
	You can edit it.
	You can switch it up.
	You can add notes or take away whatever you don't like.
	Change the cover art if you want.
	Although people love the cover art.
	Anyway, this is a really cool engine.
	People are loving it.
	AT ⁇ T hates it.
	How dare you create knowledge?
	But anyway, 100,000 science papers are now in the system.
	And I am looking at, man, I would have actually had more books in the system by now.
	I'm going to have books up to about a quarter of a million soon.
	Actually, 242,000 books soon.
	But my file storage system that has that particular library is so slow.
	It's just slow.
	Because that system is using physical hard drives, you know, the ones that spin.
	Whereas some of my later systems, I moved over to all solid state storage, actually NAS systems with NVMe, M2 storage.
	And that's blazing fast.
	But this one happens to be on these hard drives.
	And they're slow.
	So anyway, just have patience with the process.
	And I'm going to get you, we're going to get to a quarter of a million books very soon within a few weeks easily.
	We're going to get to a million science papers also very soon because I just checked.
	I've got 12 million science papers waiting in my final processing folder.
	So I just have to go through that and figure out which ones I want to pull in.
	So we're going to be at over a million science papers pretty soon.
	And then we've got the millions of articles from lots and lots of amazing websites, including naturalnews.com, mercola.com, children's health defense, the alliance for natural health, Sayer G's, GreenMedInfo, The Truth About Cancer, and many more.
	Plus full transcripts in the system from people like David Morgan, The Silver Guru, and a lot of other places, shows like Redacted, and then there's all my interviews that I've ever done and lots of other things in there.
	But you can pick and choose what you want.
	So if you want to create a book that uses only science papers and let's say books for research, but you don't want any of my interviews to be considered, you don't want articles, you can just deselect that.
	And if you've used that feature in the past and it didn't quite do what you wanted, I did find a bug that had cropped up occasionally where whatever data sources you selected wasn't honored all the time by the research workers.
	Maybe they were joining the packaging workers and having a few too many at the bar or something.
	But I fixed that bug.
	And so that should be well respected now.
	That didn't affect all the books, but it definitely affected some of them.
	So I apologize for that.
	But anyway, sometimes these AI workers don't listen very well.
	And you have to remind them to do things like write better code.
	Oh, here, while I'm talking, somebody just submitted a book, Liquid Gold or Liquid Lie.
	It's the ultimate guide to spotting counterfeit olive oil in the UK.
	That's kind of cool.
	Is that a problem in the UK?
	I mean, I know it's a problem in America.
	Fake olive oil.
	It's like, you know, cotton seed oil or whatever mixed with a little bit of olive oil.
	It's like corn oil, soy oil.
	It's kind of like the honey market.
	You know, hey, here's some discount honey.
	Yeah, you mean corn syrup?
	Corn syrup with a thickener and a little bit of coloring in it.
	Yeah, with a little bit of fake honey taste enhancers.
	Yeah, that's not honey, honey.
	That's corn syrup.
	Feed me your high fructose corn syrup garbage.
	Anyway, authors come up with amazing ideas for books just like that.
	And we love it.
	Oh, here's another one.
	Clay Sage Chronicles, The Ancient Secret to Modern Wellness and Vitality.
	Huh?
	Clay Sage?
	Have you ever heard of Clay Sage?
	Is that clay mixed with sage herb?
	Or is that the wisdom of clay?
	You can read it either way, right?
	I don't know.
	But the books are rolling in, you know, every like a couple of them every minute at this point, it seems.
	And people are having fun with it.
	So anyway, thank you for your support.
	I do want to mention that we also have the BrightAnswers.ai engine, which is rocking and rolling now.
	It's by far the best research engine for like a chat bot, better than ChatGPT.
	And I should tell you that Brightanswers.ai uses the same 100,000 science papers as the BrightLearn.ai engine.
	So you see, these two engines share a common collection of index documents.
	That way I only have to add the documents one place.
	And then they get used for research and citations in both of these engines.
	So if you want to write a book, you use BrightLearn.ai.
	Just want to write a report or you just want answers or research, then you use brightanswers.ai, and both of them are free.
	However, I should mention something um, if you want to unlock the advanced features of these sites, for example on brightlearn.ai if you want to write a longer book, like five chapters, nine chapters or 15 chapters, which is a big book I mean it's like they come out at over 250 pages you need to use a bright token, a token.
	Uh, you get those tokens by visiting Healthrangerstore.com and get yourself some really amazing foods and superfoods and nutrition products.
	They're all laboratory tested, exquisitely sourced and and ultra clean.
	The formulations are ultra clean.
	Just check the ingredients it's.
	I mean, i've been a clean food advocate for 25 years and I built that store to provide the cleanest products to the world with the idea that I could help heal the world with clean food.
	You see, and I hopefully we've been able to accomplish some of that but when you shop there, you get what are called loyalty lion points, equal to about five percent of your purchase, and those points you can swap them there on the website at Healthrangerstore.com.
	You just log in, you can swap the points for tokens and then the tokens are kind of like a currency, and then you can use those tokens to generate longer books.
	Now, pretty soon, at brightanswers.ai, the tokens will also unlock bigger features and the free tier will be more limited than it is currently in terms of like, the number of citations that it will research and things like that, and also the length of the.
	Uh, the answers is variable or it will be as soon as I put that feature in place.
	So think of these tokens as a kind of currency in our ecosystem.
	They're not crypto, by the way, you know.
	No, nobody.
	You can't buy and sell the tokens that they.
	They have no commercial, you know function.
	They're basically vouchers for unlocking features of our AI engine.
	It's just our way to say thank you for supporting us, because we need your support to be able to fund these engines.
	Like, if you saw my um, my AI bill, oh man, like what?
	How did you spend that much money on hardware, electricity and Apis and inference and all this other stuff?
	Oh well, it adds up.
	You know, when you get a million people using your website, it adds up.
	So yeah, I need your help.
	Uh, this is a free project.
	It's non-profit, it's non-commercial.
	We give away everything for free.
	You notice, I never come to you asking for, you know, sign up and paid ten dollars a month to use the engine.
	No, I don't do that.
	I never even come to you.
	I never say, donate.
	You know, give me money, and we're doing a fundraiser, we need your money.
	No, I don't even do that.
	I just say, get yourself some awesome food, Some superfoods, some nutritional supplements.
	Get our turmeric tincture.
	It's awesome.
	It's amazing.
	Get our clean toothpaste, our deodorant products that are made without aluminum.
	I mean, it's magnesium and baking soda.
	It's awesome.
	Get our first aid gel that's made with Texas rainwater with colloidal silver in it.
	And we make our own colloidal silver using metal plates.
	I mean, well, silver plates, I should specify.
	Obviously, there's silver plates with electrolysis.
	You know, I mean, get yourself some of our awesome products, get yourself some tokens, and then use the tokens to unlock some awesome features in our ecosystem.
	And thank you for your support.
	And the other way you can help us is just by spreading the word.
	Tell people about us.
	The more people we have using our technology, then the more we unlock information freedom, knowledge freedom, personal liberty, self-reliance.
	We get people off the centralized control grid.
	You know, we want to empower others around us so that more and more people are self-reliant so that no matter what happens in our country, civil war breaks out or whatever, no matter what happens with the world, world war with Russia or China, whatever happens, power grid, cyber attacks, freaking alien arrival in the sky or whatever it is, you want more people around you to be more self-reliant.
	And we all become stronger when we are decentralized and capable.
	And by the way, there's a preparedness or yeah, it's a preparedness category of free books at books.brightlearn.ai.
	Feel free to download those books.
	And pretty soon I will put together the final touches on my download synchronization tool that I've been working on for quite some time that I had hoped to finish before Christmas.
	And that didn't happen because it got more complex.
	And it's also going to be super bandwidth intensive, which means our bandwidth bill is going to go even higher.
Lithium-Ion Solutions 00:15:28
	If I told you what we just paid Cloudflare, you'd be astonished.
	It's insane.
	Cloudflare is making a lot of money.
	I love Cloudflare.
	They do a great job, but my goodness, we're writing them some big checks, let me tell you.
	And a lot of it's to cover bandwidth of things that we give away for free.
	I mean, most of it is.
	So thank you for your support.
	And you can catch more updates about BrightLearn.ai at this channel, wherever you're seeing this.
	We have a BrightLearn channel on BrightTown.com and also on Rumble as well.
	So thank you for supporting us.
	Thank you for spreading the word.
	And I'll bring you more updates, hopefully profanity-free in the future, based on whatever's happening, whatever new features we are announcing.
	So thank you for listening.
	Take care.
	Okay, welcome to this special report.
	We have some potentially really groundbreaking game-changing news for the world, and that's not hyperbole.
	And this concerns battery technology and what it means for so many things, for transportation, data centers, for off-grid living, solar power, much more.
	Even aviation.
	This could make electric airplanes quite possible.
	Well, there's no question it does.
	But is this news legit?
	So let me back up and describe what just happened.
	So there's a company that I believe is a Finnish company out of Finland.
	And they have, they're called Donut Lab.
	And their website is donutlab.com.
	And I know donut doesn't sound like a serious name, but this company has a history of doing some pretty amazing things.
	For example, they've innovated a motorcycle.
	They sell these electric motorcycles that have this really unique electric motor that drives the rear tire, the tire that has no spokes, no hub.
	It's incredibly interesting, high performance.
	It's got great range, etc.
	And that's real.
	They created that.
	Well, they just announced, and remember, it's the CES show time of the year right now.
	So a lot of companies are announcing a lot of new things based on that show out of Las Vegas.
	Well, the Donut Company has just announced a new solid state battery that has specifications that almost seem impossible.
	But I'm going to go through those with you here and then talk about the implications with the caveat that it's hard to believe that this is real.
	And many people are skeptical of these claims.
	And if this was a company out of the blue that was announcing these things, no one would believe it.
	But this is a company with some kind of track record of doing very innovative things.
	And they claim they're shipping these batteries right now.
	So this isn't some, oh, we're going to have it by 2030 type of announcement.
	They're not asking for, you know, investment funds that I'm aware of.
	They're not asking people to pre-purchase batteries that will ship two years later.
	You've all heard those things before.
	This is something that they say is shipping now.
	It's shipping in their motorcycles and it's shipping in the tractor trailers that help drive highway rigs with battery technology.
	So what is this?
	Well, you know, lithium-ion is the common battery technology and chemistry that's used everywhere today.
	I've covered sodium ion technology, and I've been hoping that sodium ion would really have some breakthroughs.
	And I was very disappointed in the bankruptcy of the Natron Energy Company in the United States in the last several months.
	That was unfortunate.
	And so, of course, I've been hoping for a breakthrough battery technology because I understand its implications for everything, robotics, drones, aircraft, transportation, but especially off-grid living.
	I want a way to store a lot of energy that's safe, that's not going to self-ignite like lithium can in the summer heat, you know.
	I want to be able to put a battery bank in a garage in the summer heat in Texas and be able to have faith that it's not going to just set the house on fire.
	And in addition to that, you know, lithium-ion will typically only cycle, what, 4,000 or 5,000 times.
	It's not great.
	It's several years, but, you know, there's degradation along the way because of the formation of the dendrites.
	I think they're formed on the anode side, but the lithium is in solution, so it's a liquid.
	It's like a liquid sloshy solution in there.
	And the more you use it, the worse it gets.
	And before long, the battery is useless.
	That's lithium technology.
	And then if you're driving an EV with lithium batteries, when you have to replace that lithium battery pack, oh, that could set you back $20,000 or $30,000 depending on the car.
	So lithium has a lot of problems.
	It's also difficult to mine.
	And you have to get it from countries where there can be a lot of conflicts.
	And lithium requires a tremendous amount of fresh water to process after you mine it.
	And so lithium is just bad for lots of reasons.
	Sodium ion battery technology is better, but it doesn't have the same energy density as lithium.
	So sodium ion perhaps is not as good for vehicles or robots, things like that.
	It's better for sort of stationary, large grid-shifting battery storage technology, you know, to shift power from wind turbines or solar farms.
	That's where sodium ion really shines.
	And there is a company out of California that makes grid-scale sodium ion battery storage systems.
	There's one company, forgot their name, but they now create a solid-state, large sodium ion battery storage system that ships in, I think, a 20-foot container, and it has no moving parts.
	That's a big deal.
	Doesn't even need cooling fans, apparently.
	That's a big deal, but that's not going to help you and me with EVs or robots or whatever, right?
	Okay, with that as the backdrop here, let's talk about Donut.
	Donut Lab.
	I still don't like that name.
	Donut sound kind of silly?
	It's like, you know, Krispy Kreml Labs or something.
	You know, that's just something's not right.
	Anyway, let's not judge a book by its cover.
	Let's talk about the claims from the Donut Lab company.
	God, I hope this is not some early April Fool joke.
	In any case, they are claiming 400 watt hours per kilogram of energy density.
	That's about double the current average energy density, I would guess.
	I mean, there are some batteries that have over 200 watt hours per kilogram, but many are below that.
	So let's say this doubles energy density.
	What is energy density?
	Well, it's how many watt hours you can fit in a given space, you know, like cubic centimeters, let's say, or cubic meters, whatever, however, wherever you want to put the decimal point, you know.
	So double the energy density.
	That makes it great for aviation, for robots, for drones, for motorcycles, for everything.
	I mean, more power and less space.
	Okay, that's awesome.
	They also claim that this can be fully charged, however many batteries there are, whether it's for a truck, a car, a motorcycle, a robot.
	The whole thing can be fully charged in less than 10 minutes.
	So no more waiting at the charger for two hours while your Tesla charges up.
	They say this can charge in less than 10 minutes.
	In fact, they were showing some examples of it charging in five minutes.
	Okay.
	They also claim that this battery is designed for 100,000 cycles.
	Now, they're not claiming they've tested 100,000 cycles because, of course, that would take a long time.
	But remember that, you know, lithium-ion typically will only do like 4,000 or 5,000 cycles.
	And sodium ion might reach 10,000 cycles, which is great.
	Depending on your use case, that could be 10 years or more.
	But 100,000 cycles with essentially no degradation.
	100,000 cycles, that's, I mean, well, we could do the math on this, but I think that's a lifetime of driving your car, pretty much your whole life.
	So your battery would never go bad.
	The rest of the car would fail before the battery failed.
	You know, you would junk the car because of the transmission problems or whatever, the tires, the frame, the rust, you know, before the battery had a problem.
	In fact, you would take the battery with you.
	You would take the battery out.
	And I've predicted this before.
	I've said we're going to have some breakthroughs in battery tech, and the batteries will outlast the car.
	And then you'll pull the battery out.
	You'll transfer it to your next car.
	And then you'll, you know, when you go shopping for a car, they'll probably mostly be EVs.
	That is, if this breakthrough is true.
	And you'll be able to buy the car without the battery.
	And it'll be a lot cheaper for that reason, because you'll just install the battery you took out of your old car because the battery will outlast the car.
	So that's where we are.
	That is, if Donut Labs is legit here.
	Now, let's see, there's more to this.
	They say that their batteries are safe.
	They don't use flammable liquid electrolytes like lithium-ion typically does.
	They claim there's no thermal runaway chains.
	There's no metallic dendrites that can cause internal shorts.
	That's a good thing.
	I don't want to have to deal with metallic dendrites on a daily basis.
	It sounds like something that Skynet would do.
	So anyway, the chemistry of the battery, they claim is incredibly safe.
	That will make firefighters gleeful to hear because how many of you listening, how many of you are firefighters or first responders, and you've seen firefighters try to put out lithium vehicle battery fires because it doesn't work, does it?
	Spray all the water you want, battery still burns.
	So this could change all of that.
	And that has a lot of implications for better safety in parking garages, in like scooter storage facilities, motorcycle storage, parking a car in your own garage.
	Vehicles involved in accidents are less likely to combust, which turns out to be bad for the occupants.
	So this is a much safer battery chemistry.
	But Donut Labs doesn't tell us what the chemistry is.
	They say it's 100% green.
	I don't know what they mean by that.
	They say it's made from abundant materials with global availability.
	Well, you know, that could be anything.
	That could be anything on the table of elements.
	I suppose.
	It just depends on what you mean by abundant materials and global availability.
	I mean, now if you tell me it's zinc, you know, it's zinc and copper.
	I'm like, that's great.
	That sounds abundant.
	But if you're thinking more like, now there's silver involved here, then we got a problem because of all the silver scarcity that you and I know is happening.
	In any case, Donut Lab says that there's no reliance on rare resources.
	Okay.
	So maybe they don't need cobalt.
	I don't know.
	Maybe they don't need, oh, and they said it's not from geopolitically sensitive resources.
	Like we don't have to go conquer more countries and pillage their minerals.
	Gosh, Trump is going to be disappointed because he was writing up the whole list, you know, let's do this one and then that one and that.
	Let's take this and that and that.
	It's like a shopping list.
	If we don't need all that stuff for batteries, like if you can make it out of, I don't know, North American dirt, then that's awesome.
	We don't need to conquer and decapitate all the leaders everywhere around the world.
	Okay.
	And they say it's lower material cost than lithium-ion.
	Okay.
	Okay.
	But I wonder what the manufacturing cost is.
	Is it really expensive to put it all together?
	I don't know.
	They're not saying.
	They are saying they have a universal battery platform now.
	It's the same module.
	It can be used from microelectronics to defense, drones, you name it.
	One battery architecture, many applications, and it works in a wide range of temperatures from minus 30 Celsius, which turns out to be pretty cold, to plus 100 Celsius, which of course is the boiling point of water.
	Because my audience is mostly Americans and you may not be familiar with the entire Celsius spectrum there.
	But yeah, that's a wide range, a very wide range.
	And apparently this battery works in all those ranges.
	So it's great for EVs for those of you who live up north, right?
	Canadians?
	I mean, EVs are rough in Canada or some parts of it, the colder parts, because of, you know, you lose battery capacity due to plummeting temperatures, right?
	So this apparently would solve all that.
	Okay.
	So those are the claims.
	Think about it.
	Higher energy density, lower cost, 100,000 cycles, charging cycles, which means it lasts forever.
	I mean, a lifetime.
	What else?
	Green materials?
	Oh, charges really fast.
	So it would give you much, a huge extension of range for your EV with much faster charging time, like you could recharge in 10 minutes.
	So that would make a cross-country EV trip actually tolerable instead of whatever it has been, people hanging out at charging stations for hours and hours and hours, and that's crazy.
	All right.
	What are the implications of this if it's true?
	Now, remember, I'm not yet totally convinced that this is true.
	I'm hopeful that it is.
	I would love for this to be true because I want this.
	You know, I've been trying to put together off-grid battery storage systems for a number of years, quite a few years, and everything has failed.
Combustion Engines Obsolete? 00:15:37
	And I mean, I look into flow batteries and it's just crazy expensive and complicated.
	You know, pumps have to circulate all the flow chemicals and everything.
	And then, you know, lithium ion has its own fire problems, as we know, and sodium ion just hasn't been put into mass production yet.
	And it doesn't have the energy density.
	So I want this to be true.
	But if it's true, then here are the implications.
	It's much more than you think.
	I mean, in the big picture, this essentially makes most combustion engines obsolete.
	It really does.
	And, you know, I've been a critic of EVs because of all the limitations they've had, like crazy long charging times, you know, batteries that combust into flames and things like that.
	Well, this solves those problems.
	You have long range, you have fast charging times, and you don't even need lithium, apparently.
	If that's true, then who's going to buy combustion engine vehicles any longer?
	You know, for common use.
	The typical consumer, if these batteries are cheaper and longer-lasting, last a lifetime, etc.
	You know, I mean, it's easier to maintain an EV.
	You don't have to change the oil.
	You don't have to change the air filter in the engine or the oil filter in the engine, etc.
	It's just easier to maintain.
	You know, it's cleaner to be around.
	You can inhale near the non-existent tailpipe, you know, you know what I mean?
	So this is going to make many, many combustion engine applications utterly obsolete.
	And it would, the battery density is so good and the charge time is so fast that it would begin to bleed into the construction industry.
	Caterpillar, okay?
	Komatsu, Kubota, like all these companies, John Deere, whatever, that make the construction equipment, the excavators, skidsteers, the loaders, the compact track loaders, you name it.
	And then tractors themselves.
	Now, I've said before, there's no electric tractor because it's insane.
	You know, because, you know, tractors use a lot of power.
	At the PTO, a typical tractor could have over 100 horsepower, for example.
	And, you know, tractor engines need to be very, very strong in order to do that.
	Batteries just don't have the energy density.
	Well, this could change that.
	Starting at the small scale, like hobby tractors and riding lawnmowers could be all electric and still be very effective.
	So start thinking about that, what this means for also electric airplanes and aviation, personal drone taxis that take flight and hopefully don't drop you over a lake or something.
	Probably won't have electric locomotive trains because, well, that's a lot of energy that you need.
	And the diesel-electric locomotive engines are already actually electric with the diesel generator on board, but it's all converted into electricity.
	So those are going to stay diesel for a long time.
	But many other areas, you would start to see the reduction of combustion engines very quickly, especially when China is designing and building really impressive electric vehicles.
	China has become, you may not know this, China has become the most impressive electric vehicle manufacturer in the world by far.
	The best luxury vehicles, the most advanced vehicles, the most affordable vehicles.
	If it wasn't for the 100% tariff on those vehicles that Trump slapped on China, we'd see Chinese-made EVs all over the roads all over America, and cars would be more affordable.
	And they would be widespread.
	But China's exporting all over the world with their EVs.
	And this battery tech, combined with China's EV capabilities, could really start to see a revolution getting away from combustion engines all over the world.
	Even in India, where they love their combustion engines there on the roads.
	Whatever makes the most noise is the best.
	Okay.
	And blows the most black smoke out the back.
	Don't forget that's important too.
	Okay.
	So if you start to look at this, then you realize that, oh my gosh, annual demand for oil would begin to plummet.
	I mean, you'd still need oil for lots of things.
	I already mentioned diesel locomotives or diesel electric locomotives, but also military applications, you know, jets, fighter jets, whatever transports, you know, big ass vehicles, big ass airplanes and things would still need, you know, jet engines and kerosene or aviation fuel for a long time to come.
	But if consumers stopped buying combustion engine vehicles, well, that would be a huge shift.
	And the global annual demand for oil would plummet.
	You know what?
	Let me ask an AI engine here to tell me what percentage we're talking about.
	Okay, I just put in a question.
	I'm getting an answer.
	Road vehicles apparently account for 45 to 47% of total global oil consumption.
	The entire transport sector uses about 60% of global oil, but the road vehicles are only 45 to 47%.
	Let's see.
	Then it says the rest goes to aviation, shipping and rail, things like that, which I pretty much already mentioned.
	You know, barges and bunker fuel for ships and whatever.
	So let's just call it half, you know?
	Let's keep it simple here.
	Say that road vehicles account for half of global oil consumption.
	It's not quite half, but it's close.
	So, if this battery technology is the real deal, then in the years ahead, we're going to see, again, combustion engines really, really plummeting.
	And we didn't even count lawnmowers and things like that, or even tractors and agricultural construction equipment.
	So, easily, we're talking about half of oil consumption here.
	And by the way, there are already hybrid electric excavators that exist from companies like Komatsu.
	They already have those.
	They're not that good, but this could change that dramatically.
	So, what happens if half the global demand of oil ceases to exist?
	Even though it would happen over time, but half the oil consumption stops.
	But at the same time, at the same time, global electricity consumption off the power grid freaking skyrockets, right?
	So, we're not reducing energy usage, we're just shifting it from fossil fuels to the power grid.
	But then the question is: well, where does the power grid get its power?
	And that depends on the grid, doesn't it?
	That depends on what country you're in.
	In some countries, that's natural gas.
	In other areas, you know, it's a mixture everywhere, but some areas it's more solar, more wind, some areas it's hydroelectric, a lot of areas it's coal-fired power plants, which again is fossil fuels, or liquid natural gas, etc., right?
	Or just gas, as it's called in the energy industry.
	So, a lot of the energy shift coming away from oil will have geopolitical impacts.
	For example, a reduction of income for Russia, a reduction of income for Saudi Arabia, probably for Venezuela and Iran and the other major oil exporters, including a lot of U.S. companies that are, there's a lot of oil exploration in the U.S. You know, big globalist companies that are in that business, they're going to see the revenues plummet and the price of oil will also plummet over time.
	Again, this and this will make combustion engine vehicles less expensive to operate.
	Imagine if gas were $2 a gallon.
	You know, you might say, well, why do I want to buy an EV when I can get gas for $2 a gallon?
	While at the same time, the power grid scarcity is so bad that electricity is like 50 cents a kilowatt hour.
	You see what I'm saying?
	So that's the other part of this.
	Electricity costs are going to skyrocket, especially in the United States and Europe, both of which failed to plan for increased demand of kilowatt hours, or let's just say gigawatt hours on the power grid.
	You know, the European Union, led by a bunch of suicidal cultists, they decided to shut down their domestic energy production, you know, to appease the climate lunatics.
	While in the United States, we suffered from a lot of climate lunacy over many, many years.
	And, you know, we're a couple decades behind on nuclear power for that matter.
	I forgot to mention nuclear earlier.
	But nuclear is hard to scale because it takes so long, 15 plus years to build and permit and boot up a nuclear power plant.
	You know, this is not an easy thing.
	Although nuclear is actually the cleanest energy source imaginable in the sense that there's no emissions, you know, I mean, it uses water for cooling, obviously, but that water, most of it's recycled back into the local water source, whatever that happens to be.
	So nuclear is clean, but slow.
	Gas, natural gas, is relatively clean, but the climate people hate the carbon aspects of it.
	And coal, you know, well, you know the story on coal.
	Hydroelectric, you only have a limited number of dams.
	So what does that leave?
	Solar.
	So solar can be scaled very rapidly.
	And currently we're only capturing a very tiny percentage of the solar energy that reaches the surface of the earth.
	Solar can be scaled up tremendously and rapidly, but solar, as we understand it today anyway, solar needs silver for the solar panels.
	So if we want to massively scale up solar to power the power grids that everybody's using to charge their new EVs and their electric airplanes and whatever else, you know, your 10 home robots that have finally figured out how to fold laundry and pull weeds.
	Yeah, you're going to have to charge all those things.
	And that's going to require a massive deployment of solar energy, which requires a huge amount of silver.
	Now, although some solar manufacturers are figuring out how to use less silver, it's not zero.
	They all need some amount of silver to make it work for reasons having to do with physics.
	You know, silver is the most reflective metal that exists, for example.
	So there are still going to be limitations to building out the energy grid to power all the electric everything, even when these batteries come online.
	In other words, the real challenge here for countries is building out the electric infrastructure and scaling it up.
	And probably solar is the easiest way to do that.
	It's certainly the fastest way.
	But that's going to cause silver prices to skyrocket even more, even more than they are already.
	So if you think about it, battery breakthroughs are good for silver because it shifts more people away from oil and onto the grid.
	And the grid needs solar in order to keep up with demand.
	And it takes a lot of juice to charge a truck.
	You know?
	They think about it.
	Gasoline and diesel, they have very high energy density, much higher than any battery, by the way.
	Very high.
	So a lot of work in them, their hydrocarbon molecules.
	A lot of workers in there.
	There's horses in there.
	That's why they call it horsepower.
	There's little horses.
	And replacing that with batteries just means you're shifting the energy to the grid.
	And our grid in the United States, our grid sucks, especially the Eastern grid.
	It's like a third world grid.
	Seriously, it's bad.
	Texas grid has improved since the near total failure of what year was that?
	2021, I think it was.
	I lived through that.
	That sucked.
	The Western power grid seems to be doing okay, but nobody wants to live in California anymore.
	So everybody's moving either to Texas or the East, it seems.
	And so the, you know, power scarcity on those grids is going to be intense.
	And that makes the argument for getting off grid, having your own power, your own self-reliant local power grid.
	And what two key pieces of technology do you need to make that happen?
	You need solar panels and you need battery storage, i.e. the donut lab batteries.
	So, see, this is all connected.
	It's all the same issues.
	So, you know that if you can get these new donut batteries, that's still such a crazy name.
	I'll take the batteries with sprinkles on top, okay?
	You get your donut batteries if they work as advertised, and then you get a bunch of solar panels, like you overbuild the solar on your house or your barn or whatever, so that you would build out typically two to three times the usage that you need to cover for rain and cloudy days, and also this weird thing called night that causes solar panels to produce zero energy.
	For some reason, they're still working on that problem.
	But by having battery storage, you can solve that, right?
	Especially if you can cycle those batteries 100,000 times.
	So this technology will not only shift the whole geopolitical scene, it'll shift things away from oil, it will also make your ability to become more off-grid and more self-reliant a lot more economically feasible.
	How cool is that?
	Yeah, I mean, again, if all of this is true, and I will, I'll keep you posted on this because I'm very interested in this technology, as you can tell.
Setting Limits on the Grid 00:00:57
	It's an enabling technology.
	It's kind of like AI for decentralization.
	You know, breakthrough battery technology is also all about decentralization as well.
	It allows you to store power yourself and not to have to depend on the centralized grid where everything is monitored through your smart meters and you can be shut off if they don't like something you posted online.
	Oh, what?
	You criticized them?
	Oh, no kilowatts for you.
	You're probably going to be metered, especially on the east part of the country, because they need all the power for the data centers.
	So they're going to start setting limits for humans.
Elon Musk's Vision of 2026 00:15:09
	Like you can only use this.
	And beyond that, you know, the prices go up 10x or something.
	Or you just have a quota limit and that's it.
	That's all you get.
	That could be.
	So check it out.
	Stay informed.
	I'll keep covering this in my podcast at brightion.com.
	I'm Mike Adams.
	Thank you for listening.
	Take care.
	And Elon Musk is, in my view, absolutely correct that 2026 is the year of the singularity.
	But the way I would define it is simply that AI technology is advancing far more quickly than any human could comprehend the advances.
	I think we're at the leading edge of the singularity right now.
	But it doesn't take away our humanity.
	You know, it doesn't.
	In fact, it allows us to express our humanity with amplification and augmentation.
	That's my argument.
	I think that humanity can coexist with AI.
	The issue in my mind is whether we embrace open AI as a decentralized open source technology that empowers our freedom and our liberties, or if we end up wanting to be enslaved by the convenient overlord AI systems that are all about centralized power.
	Folks, on today's show, true story.
	My wife probably has a high probability of listening to today's show because my wife loves listening to the voice and the stylings, the verbal stylings of a one, Mike Adams.
	Yes, Mike Adams is the host of the Brighteon show, the Health Ranger show, the Brighteon Network, the founder of Brighteon, the founder of Health Ranger.
	And it turns out my wife likes listening to the voice of Mike Adams more than my own voice.
	So this is a show where I can get my wife to listen to the show.
	But I thought since I'm going to get Mike Adams on the show, I might as well get into the topic of the singularity.
	So Elon Musk posted on January 4th.
	Nobody believe me.
	Everybody, please look it up.
	Go to X, look it up.
	Elon Musk posted on January 4th that 2026 is the year of the singularity.
	Here we go, folks.
	There'll be an apocalyptic event that ends everything we know.
	This is called the singularity when the machines take over.
	The true believer can get immortality.
	The non-believers consigned to death.
	That is approximately the theology.
	Okay, now that highly motivational character that was speaking right there, it's Jaron Lanier, an American computer scientist, visual artist, a guy largely credited with helping to develop virtual reality as we know it today, the VR goggles and wired gloves.
	And he's saying, let me play that clip just one more time.
	This is, again, here we are, the singularity.
	There'll be an apocalyptic event that ends everything we know.
	This is called the singularity when the machines take over.
	The true believer can get immortality.
	The non-believers consigned to death.
	That is approximately the theology.
	Okay, that's the theology.
	Mike Adams, welcome on the show.
	What say you?
	Well, I disagree with his definition of the singularity.
	And Elon Musk is, in my view, absolutely correct that 2026 is the year of the singularity.
	But the way I would define it is simply that AI technology is advancing far more quickly than any human could comprehend the advances.
	It's very clear in my mind that that's where we are.
	I think we're at the leading edge of the singularity right now.
	And of course, you know, I'm an AI developer now.
	I have been for two years and put out some pretty impressive, popular apps, you know, book creation engine and things like that.
	And so I'm very steeped in the area of AI.
	And it's clear that breakthroughs are happening that on the tech side will be very, very rapid, but it doesn't take away our humanity.
	You know, it doesn't, in fact, it allows us to express our humanity with amplification and augmentation.
	That's my argument.
	I think that humanity can coexist with AI.
	The issue in my mind is whether we embrace open AI as a decentralized open source technology that empowers our freedom and our liberties, or if we end up wanting to be enslaved by the convenient overlord AI systems that are all about centralized power.
	That's the theme in my mind.
	Now, Elon Musk is talking about how he believes that artificial intelligence combined with robotics will usher in universal basic income.
	And the reason why I'm hammering on this is because Elon Musk is arguably the leading developer of artificial intelligence on the planet, or one of them.
	He's the man with the highest net worth.
	He's a man who seems to be unable to escape the White House, regardless of what he says about Donald J. Trump.
	So I want to get your thoughts on this.
	What are your thoughts on Elon Musk saying that artificial intelligence will, in fact, usher in artificial and will usher in universal basic income?
	So his thinking on that, in my view, is first, cognitive AI is already replacing many human jobs, middle manager jobs, customer service jobs, many different jobs will be replaced by cognitive AI.
	That already started last year.
	It will continue.
	Physical labor through AI robots will take many more years to master.
	Even with Tesla's robots, it's a much more complicated task, but that's coming as well.
	So as this is happening, millions, even in America, tens of millions of workers will be displaced and they will lose their work, their incomes.
	They will revolt.
	They will demand some kind of government payment system.
	Governments will respond, Western governments, especially, but this is true in the U.S., Canada, U.K., wherever, Australia, they will initially respond with some kind of payment system.
	They might call it a tax refund.
	They might call it a dividend.
	Trump might call it a tariff dividend.
	That's been discussed, etc.
	But there's going to be some mechanism that puts money back into the hands of people to help compensate for the loss of incomes.
	But when Elon says everybody's going to have a universal basic income or a universal high income, I think he's speaking that with good intentions.
	But in my view, Clay, I think that the globalists still don't want as many humans around.
	I think there's still a global depopulation agenda that's in play, and they're going to continue to poison humanity or convince people to poison themselves through a variety of means.
	And overall, the human populations are going to decline.
	So I think most of humanity is suffering from UBI or universal basic ignorance of the fact that they've been targeted for extermination.
	I've got a big stack of questions to ask.
	And the reason why is because I believe you're one of the few people that I know who really knows what you're talking about as it relates to artificial intelligence.
	So Elon Musk did an interview that just came out today.
	And again, I'll just pull it up to reference it.
	This is an interview he did on the Moonshots podcast.
	And he said, my prediction is for the future is universal high income and social unrest.
	There's going to be so much change.
	Be careful what you wish for.
	You might get it.
	If you get all the stuff you want, is that actually the future you want?
	It means your job won't matter.
	To quote Elon Musk.
	And again, maybe you've seen this clip.
	Maybe you have it.
	Maybe you say, I don't know if I can believe what you just said, Clay.
	There's AI everywhere.
	I need time to evaluate it.
	Whatever.
	The idea that Elon Musk is saying that he believes universal high income is inevitable in some capacity.
	Do you have any thoughts about that?
	Yes.
	Actually, I've spent a lot of time thinking about this, and I've listened to every episode of that podcast from Diamandis and the other guests as well.
	And they are AI optimists, and they mean well.
	They have good faith for humanity in their discussion of technology.
	However, there are physical limits to what we can do.
	For example, commodities scarcity is always going to be present.
	You can't print copper.
	You can't print tungsten or cobalt or silver, as we're finding out right now with silver pricing, right?
	You can't print gold.
	And it turns out that these commodities are necessary for data centers to function.
	In addition, you have years and years of climate change lunacy that had put a stranglehold on energy infrastructure build out in Western countries to the point where the United States is strongly lagging behind China in aggregate annual terawatt hours of energy production.
	For example, China is producing more than 10,000 terawatt hours each year, and that's growing dramatically.
	The U.S. is producing less than 40% of that.
	On the Eastern power grid, the 13 states impacted by the Eastern Power Grid, power prices are about to skyrocket.
	They will double and triple.
	And the cost to heat your home or cool your home or run a data center is about to skyrocket dramatically.
	And this also cannot be achieved through money printing.
	You can't print your way to terawatt hours.
	You actually have to create them through either natural gas turbines, but the turbines have a five to 10 year wait time, or you have to build nuclear power plants, which Trump is talking about, the AP1000 nuclear power plants.
	They have about a 15-year build time for waiting and permitting and so on.
	So that's not going to happen anytime soon.
	You're talking about the 2040s before we get more nuclear power online.
	So the fastest way for the establishment to free up gigawatt hours or megawatt hours is to have fewer people around, Clay.
	That's, you know, have fewer people burning, you know, using less electricity.
	And again, it comes back to depopulation.
	So there's going to be a preference to the data centers and a de-emphasizing of keeping humans alive because they need entitlement money.
	They need Medicare, Medicaid, food stamps, and they use electricity that the data centers need.
	So this, again, this is one of the key conflicts that we're going to be facing is should we give preference to machines or humans?
	That's the issue right now.
	Again, going back into my stack of stuff, Elon Musk is saying he's referring to the new Roadster.
	He says, it will be a cool demo.
	If safety is your number one goal, don't buy the roadster.
	We'll aspire not to kill anyone in this car, but it will be the last.
	He says, it'll be the last of the, it'll be the best of the last of human-driven cars.
	It'll be the best of the last of human-driven cars.
	He's talking about basically all of the cars being full self-driving in the near term.
	Now, I don't know how many taxi drivers there are in America.
	We'll say there's at least five.
	But if you go to New York, there's at least, what, 10, 15, 25,000, 50,000.
	I don't know.
	There's a lot of them, right?
	And then there's Uber drivers, there's Lyft drivers.
	How many college students?
	How many adults are making extra income as Lyft drivers, Uber drivers?
	Elon Musk is talking about ushering in self-driving cars, fully self-driving, driven cars in quarter two, which is coming up very soon.
	What's your reaction to that?
	Well, again, Elon Musk is correct in my view, and I think Tesla is leading the world in full self-driving automation of vehicles.
	Turns out cars are much easier to automate than humanoid robots.
	You only contact the ground in four places under the four tires, right?
	You know, unless something goes horribly wrong.
	Also, Elon had made a very important decision to use visual recognition cues for processing the 3D world and has also invested in new microchip creation for the AI microchips that go into the upcoming Tesla vehicles.
	So, number one, I think that Tesla will lead the world in the technology of self-driving vehicles.
	However, China will lead the world in the efficiency production of large numbers of vehicles at lower prices with better battery technology, Samsung being a key player in that coming up in 2027 as well.
	Also, sodium ion batteries, we can have a whole discussion about that.
	That's coming online with Chinese companies like Catl, C-A-T-L, and also BYD is looking into that as well.
	I think Tesla is going to end up using sodium ion batteries in its upcoming vehicles sourced from Catal.
	It's going to give it extended range and more charge cycles.
	The final part of that answer, Clay, is that Tesla's experience in automating vehicles is going to make it a leader in humanoid robotics because it's really, it's the same kind of problems, how you navigate and represent a 3D space and then move through it in a way that doesn't damage people or things around you.
	So all of that technology from vehicle driving and all the data gathered from that is going to be used in robotics.
	And I think that Tesla's robots will lead the West in robotics.
	But China, again, will produce robots for a lot lower cost that are more readily available, but not quite as sophisticated in manufacturing environments potentially as Tesla.
	But make no mistake, we, the West, we are way behind China on robotics right now.
	We are years behind China.
	Even Tesla is falling behind China in terms of robotics automation in manufacturing.
	So it's going to be a big challenge.
	I have one more Elon Musk-related question.
	Now, again, Elon Musk is working with China in some capacity.
	He's working in China.
	He's building cars in China.
	So I want people to understand that Elon Musk is developing factories in China.
	People should not believe me.
	They should look these things up.
	And a lot to think about, folks.
	Okay, so Elon Musk is talking about immortality.
	He's saying, I've long thought that longevity or semi-immortality is an extremely solvable problem when you consider the fact that your body is extremely synchronized.
	So Elon Musk is talking about offering humanity eternal life to some capacity.
	He's saying you can download your body, download your consciousness into a different body, maybe an optimist body.
	You can live forever.
	These are the kinds of things he's saying.
	He's saying that he believes immortality is a solvable problem.
	Wow.
	Okay.
	He's talking about offering humanity eternal life in some capacity.
	Mike Adams, what to say here?
	Well, that starts to smack of transhumanism, which I strongly oppose.
	And I don't believe that you can transfer your soul to a machine.
	Also, longevity, we're solving longevity through nutrition.
	For example, recent studies on vitamin D show that just supplementing vitamin D causes your telomeres to age at only one-fourth the rate of people who don't take vitamin D supplements, right?
	So there are many things that can be done through nutrition and reasonable, rational sunlight exposure to activate the healing of cells, to reactivate sedescent cells, to rid your body of toxins and so on.
	So this is where, in my view, Clay, this is where a lot of the people in the tech industry, they begin to think of themselves as gods and they think that they're going to become gods by merging with machines.
	And this becomes the flashing red light danger zone of the God complex.
	And I hear these kinds of discussions in AI quite a lot.
	I hear a lot of people say things like, make sure you survive the next 10 years, because if you do, you'll be able to start reversing your aging and then you can live forever.
	I don't think that's true at all.
	And besides, would you want to live forever?
	You know, you're, I mean, do you really want to stay here in this realm forever?
Buying Gold: Byproduct of Mining 00:07:55
	You know, there's much more to God's universe than just this realm, right?
	I believe this is a testing ground.
	I believe there are elements of a simulation here created by our creator.
	We can get philosophical if you want, but you're not supposed to be here forever.
	You're supposed to do good things while you are here, and then you're supposed to graduate and do the next thing.
	But there's going to be some people stuck here.
	You know, the left behinders will be the transhumanists with the neural implants.
	So that's going to get interesting.
	Now, I'm going to pull this up here kind of a real time.
	I hate to pull up real-time charts of things because it changes so fast, but I'm just trying to give a little date, a little traction to what I'm saying here.
	When you and I first met, we'll say gold was almost 2,000 an ounce, 1,800 an ounce, maybe 1,700 an ounce.
	Yeah, under two grand, yeah.
	We met in the late 1700s of gold prices, right?
	And I remember that and we were talking about it.
	And you're a guy who believes in buying gold to protect your wealth.
	I'm a guy who believes in buying gold to protect your wealth.
	I'm not trying to put words in your mouth, but again, you might have changed your stance on that, but I want to just tee it up.
	You're a guy who talks about openly protecting your wealth against inflation and central bank digital currency-related confiscation.
	And we've talked about it.
	But we were talking about the first time I talked about it.
	I remember it was like $1,700 an ounce.
	Silver was, we'll call it, I don't know, $30 an ounce, $25 an ounce.
	Well, silver now today is $81.19 an ounce.
	Gold is now at $44, almost $4,500 an ounce.
	And I want to be clear, the average person has not started buying gold and silver yet.
	So let me repeat this real quick, just factually.
	You got the world central banks, they're buying gold.
	You've got institutions buying gold.
	You got banks buying gold, but you really don't have the average consumer yet.
	The average guy walking down the road, the average guy you see at Walmart, the average guy you see pumping gas, the average guy you see at the mall, the average guy you see at Chick-fil-A.
	He's not buying gold and silver yet.
	The consumer market isn't really buying gold yet.
	Then you have silver at $81 an ounce, and you really don't see the Samsung solid state batteries being used yet at a mass level.
	And all this new technology, Mike, for military, for the humanoid robots, for the cars, a lot of this technology is heavily reliant upon silver.
	Some would say graphene, but we'll say silver.
	So with gold not even having mass adoption yet, and without silver really being used yet at scale for the new technology, it's already 80 an ounce for silver.
	It's already $4,400 an ounce for gold.
	This is a lot, a lot of hosts would ask you for a prediction.
	I'm not going to do that.
	What I am going to do is just say, that's where we're at now.
	Tell us your thoughts on gold and silver as we start this new year, 2026.
	Okay, great.
	And look, I'm happy to give you my prediction.
	Silver will easily hit $100 an ounce this calendar year.
	And in 2027, assuming Samsung's manufacturing plant comes online with their new silver carbon batteries, then silver will probably hit $200 an ounce sometime before the end of 2027.
	There are things that could derail that, so don't take this as financial advice.
	Do your own research, but it's clear that there's a fundamental industrial demand for silver now that cannot be met by available supplies or even annual mining output.
	And if you don't mind me just plugging my free AI engine, you can do research there.
	I just launched the new engine.
	It's called brightanswers.ai.
	And if you go to brightanswers.ai, you can ask it about gold and silver projections or anything like that.
	It's free to use, but it's trained on my interviews with people like Ron Paul or interviews with people like Andy Sheckman.
	You know, it's trained on my interviews with you, Clay.
	It's trained on all this information so it knows about honest money.
	It's going to give you some very good analysis.
	But here's the thing: we talked about data centers and the push for rolling out AI.
	There's a big race for AI.
	And we talked about how the U.S. is behind China in terms of aggregate power generation.
	Well, you can't scale up power in the United States without using solar.
	And now, I'm not a greenie, just to be clear here.
	I'm not a climate cultist pusher, but nuclear power plants take 15 years plus to build.
	Gas turbines, long wait time, I mentioned.
	What can you install right now to power a data center in America?
	Solar panels.
	You can get those up and running in six months.
	But solar panels, which are primarily manufactured in China, but also now more so in India, they need silver.
	And so the core industrial demand for silver, just for solar production, to scale up solar panel manufacturing to power the data centers that also need massive amounts of silver for their components and for their electronics, and also in the GPUs and in the computers that are in the data centers, in the server racks, you're going to need massive amounts of silver, hundreds of millions of troy ounces of silver more than what is produced annually.
	And as your audience knows, Clay, because they're very sophisticated, there are no real dedicated silver mines.
	Silver is only mined primarily as a byproduct of zinc mining or copper mining or lead mining, et cetera.
	So there's nobody that's going to scale up a silver mine in anything less than a decade, right?
	So extremely high demand.
	Jump in there.
	Are you going to jump in?
	Well, I wanted to chime in something here.
	Yeah.
	You're a guy that states facts.
	And so I might not agree with your conclusions, or someone listening other might not agree with all your conclusions, but you're a fact-driven man.
	And you just rattled off the fact that there's no real dominant force in the silver mining-only space.
	Silver mining is primarily a byproduct.
	Can you maybe rewind and repeat that?
	Because I know what you're saying is true, but I don't think the average person maybe, or maybe the average person is hearing that for the first time.
	Well, fundamentally, if there's all this increased demand for silver, which there is, clearly industrial demand, not even monetary demand yet, as you mentioned, people, you know, retail buyers aren't really piling into silver yet.
	This is industrial demand.
	Normally, you would expect, well, higher prices are going to be solved by higher prices because it's going to bring more producers online, right?
	Common, you know, supply-demand curves, right?
	Except in this case, you can't bring silver production back online very quickly because for the reasons I mentioned, it's not the primary metal that's mined.
	It's a byproduct of mining other things.
	In addition, there are companies like Samsung that just purchased an old mine in Mexico that they're going to reinvigorate.
	And they're going to have 100% of that mining output of silver is going to go to Samsung for their new batteries lining up in 2027.
	Well, I did the math on this, Clay.
	That mine, if it goes to full production, will contribute 0.4% of the total annual silver production to the world's silver supply.
	That's it.
	Not even half of 1%.
	So, this isn't going to change in any dramatic fashion the number of millions of ounces of silver that are produced or available every year.
	And this is why the LBMA is in trouble.
	This is why the COMEX, which was not set up to deliver physical silver, this is why they're in trouble, in my view, because they've been trading paper contracts.
	Now, everybody wants delivery.
	Well, you know, the delivery, it's not there.
	The silver is not there.
	It's been rehypothecated.
	So, we're going to have this massive fracturing of silver, the silver market.
	We're going to have the physical price, which will easily exceed $100 an ounce, in my opinion, very soon.
	And then we're going to have the paper market, which is meaningless because there's no silver there.
	It's just paper.
	So, I mean, this is going to get real interesting.
	I'm just glad I've been stacking silver.
	Now, I could say this: you know, our Rumble account has been capped at 265,000 subscribers for four consecutive years.
	My X account is always heavily censored.
Venezuela's Supply Chain Shift 00:03:02
	And so, anytime I have a voice on our show that's heavily censored, I like to send traffic their way.
	So, Mike, if people want to find you, they go to X, they look for Health Ranger.
	That's you.
	Health Ranger, that's you, right?
	That's the real account right there.
	You got it.
	You go right there.
	Okay, so we go there.
	So, I want to do with the final five minutes we have you on today's show.
	I'd like for you to share with us about Venezuela.
	You did a very thoughtful reaction to that.
	It put out, we came out yesterday, a show yesterday about Venezuela, the chain reaction.
	People on this show know I don't really tend to talk about Republicans and Democrats a lot because I think largely they're on the same team and I tend to look at facts.
	I know you're a big fact guy as well.
	Tell us some of the facts we need to know as it relates to this Venezuela chain reaction.
	And maybe listeners can go out there and watch the rest of the show if they find themselves interested in knowing the rest of the story.
	Yeah, yeah, thank you.
	I think what Venezuela, the actions indicate, is that there's going to be a splitting of Western and Eastern hemispheres in terms of supply chains and influence in our world.
	So, this affects oil and energy, obviously, coming out of Venezuela.
	China was purchasing a tremendous amount of Venezuelan oil, and they weren't using U.S. dollars to do that.
	Also, China and other countries were purchasing a lot of silver and other rare earths coming out of Venezuela, even if it was refined somewhere else.
	So, what Trump appears to be dedicated to doing, and Greenland is going to be part of this equation, and also Panama.
	Trump wants to really shore up protection of the Western hemisphere, and he wants China and Russia and Iran completely out of the Western hemisphere.
	And Trump is correct in the sense that we can probably project very strong power in the Western hemisphere, even though we can't defeat Russia, let's say, in a war with Russia.
	We can't beat China in a war over there.
	You know, that's not going to work.
	The geography means you can't do that.
	And also, probably just the readiness of the U.S. military versus Russia's military or Chinese numbers, etc.
	So, where can you project influence and be effective?
	That's in the Western hemisphere.
	So, Trump is going to make sure we control the Panama Canal.
	He's going to make sure, well, he is making sure that the big oil companies move in and begin, well, harnessing.
	You could use different words.
	You could say it's exploiting.
	You could say it's pillaging.
	But Venezuela's oil is going to go to U.S. companies, just like Iraqi oil is currently going to, you know, a trust fund in New York City.
	You know, New York banks get the money from Iraq's oil fields to this day.
	So, that's going to happen with Venezuela.
	Now, whether your audience do they think that's moral, immoral, correct, not correct, lawful, lawless, that's that's for another discussion.
	I'm just telling you, the ramifications are we're going to have much more difficulty in terms of supply chains.
	It's going to be East versus West.
	We're going to have two fragmented silver markets.
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	There's going to be a Beijing price of silver versus a New York price.
	They're going to be completely different markets with different supply chains and different scarcity issues.
	So, that's where this is going.
	It's the great splitting of the planet.
	Mike, as far as places where people can find your work, and you put out a lot of work there, a lot of great content, one is x.com forward slash health ranger.
	Where else can people go if they want to find you, the resources that you have created?
	Well, they can find me at naturalnews.com from time to time when I'm not AI coding.
	But the coolest thing that we have going on today is this engine.
	It's called BrightLearn.ai.
	It's a free book creation engine.
	You can create any book in minutes completely free.
	And so far, we have over 15,000 books that have been published there by over 4,700 authors.
	And there's about six or seven hundred a day.
	And they're all free, free to download, free to read, free to share.
	So we created a book creation engine.
	And guess what, Clay?
	These books are mostly pro-freedom and pro-natural health and the kinds of things that we believe in.
	This is the world's greatest library now on books that can help you live better and healthier and more free.
	Mike, you miss your calling as a male model every day.
	You at least will say yes to the next.
	A lot of times, they'll send out casting calls.
	For anybody who's not familiar with the modeling game, you have an agent.
	They'll send you casting calls.
	They'll send them out.
	And you have to decide whether you want to audition or say yes to the role.
	And Mike, we have no proof he's ever said yes to any of the auditions.
	He's never said yes to any of the opportunities.
	And we just hope for the betterment of humanity, Mike, that at some point when you're not developing artificial intelligence that you would at least be in a movie or two, maybe an ad or two, maybe a skincare commercial or two.
	Yeah, that's not a shampoo commercial.
	We'd really like to see you utilize your full talent, a talent for the benefit of America and the world, really, and the Eastern Hemisphere, the Western Hemisphere, Venezuelans.
	Yeah.
	I miss you too, Clay.
	I got to get to Tulsa soon and get there and join you in your office for a sit-down.
	I'd love to have you on my show.
	It's always fun talking with you.
	And it's been too long.
	So let's do it again soon.
	All right, brother.
	You take care.
	Have a great day.
	All right, you too.
	Take care.
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Chapters

00:00:11 Civil War Threat
00:04:16 Fatal Encounter
00:19:38 Crime And Scam Revelations
00:26:27 Almost Something Happened
00:30:00 Escalating Domestic Chaos
00:35:39 Special Report: Bright Learn Update
00:38:21 Att's Malicious Censorship
00:48:11 New Science Papers Features
01:03:43 Lithium-Ion Solutions
01:18:57 Combustion Engines Obsolete?
01:34:19 Setting Limits on the Grid
01:35:01 Elon Musk's Vision of 2026
01:49:56 Buying Gold: Byproduct of Mining
01:57:36 Venezuela's Supply Chain Shift
02:00:24 Go Healthrangerstore.com/Slash 2026
02:06:05 Wholesome Food Bars & Beyond