Health Ranger - Mike Adams - Dan Golka: AI, Robots, Automation, and the Collapse of the Old Economy

Jan. 13, 2026 - Health Ranger - Mike Adams

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Dan Golka: AI, Robots, Automation, and the Collapse of the Old Economy

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Consumer Electronics Shift 00:10:39
	This is something that is going to be a problem.
	Companies are going to cut back like we've never seen before.
	We're going to see a complete change.
	Even as the more lower level jobs are being destroyed.
	You know, the bastion of Democrats, which is just let's just pick sides, this area voted for this government and they're being completely let down.
	Donald Trump, you know, the week after he got into office, went to California and said, get this going.
	Let's have the federal government help you.
	And they've not taken any help.
	So it's tragic.
	There's this whole segment of people that want to merge with the machines, transhumanism.
	They want to achieve immortality.
	In fact, I was on with another show.
	they were asking me about that.
	Welcome everybody to Decentralized TV.
	I'm Mike Adams, and boy, do we have an amazing episode for you today?
	Because we've got a guest that just came back from the Consumer Electronics Show.
	And he's got, he's a very successful entrepreneur and business creator himself.
	And he's going to give us his reaction to what's happening with technology, knowledge, robotics, decentralization, AI, and so much more.
	But first, of course, let me welcome my co-host today, Todd Pittner.
	Welcome, Todd.
	Cheers, Mike.
	Hey, how are you doing today?
	Good seeing you.
	Happy New Year.
	Happy New Year.
	This is going to be a really interesting year.
	We're going on almost three years.
	Is that right?
	Three years.
	For this year.
	Three years together, Mike.
	Crazy.
	Don't you think?
	I mean.
	It is crazy.
	And for two of those years, I thought the picture behind you was a sliding glass door.
	No.
	It is.
	That's funny.
	I thought you had a scenic backyard there.
	Yeah, a scenic backyard that looks like autumn that never changes.
	Right.
	It's like that is an amazing climate situation.
	Yes, it is.
	That's just Florida, you know?
	Yeah, no.
	That is a photograph with a business that I used to have.
	I could take a photograph and assign it to one of my digital artists.
	And they would get, this was back before Photoshop.
	They could go in and they could paint it with what we call Digibrush technology.
	And then we would output it to Canvas and it would carry the look and feel of an original oil painting.
	Oh, really?
	That's one of my personal photos that I took that was one of the early canvases that we created.
	So I always keep it in my studio here because it means a lot to me.
	Well, I like it.
	Okay.
	Well, are you ready for our guest today?
	Yeah, I have been anxious to meet him.
	I know that you've had many, many engagements with him and such, but I never have.
	So I can't wait to just, you know, pick his brain.
	I think you will not be disappointed.
	So here we go.
	Let's do it, Mike.
	All right.
	Let me introduce Mr. I allegedly Dan Golca, who is an extraordinary entrepreneur and he's an innovator.
	He's just returned from the CES show in Las Vegas with the explosion of consumer electronics and AI tech and so much more.
	And Dan, we have a lot to talk about.
	Welcome to the show today.
	It's great to have you on.
	Thank you so much.
	It's an absolute pleasure to be here with both of you.
	And, you know, happy new year, happy 2026.
	Big and good things are going to happen for all of us.
	Oh, it's going to be an interesting year for sure.
	And let me just tell the audience how we even met, you know, how this came about.
	But I found your channel years ago on YouTube.
	And at first, I love what you were saying, but I thought the format was so hilarious because you do the walking around videos, which is great.
	I love all the places you visit, but you had the most beautiful scenes of where you were visiting in California with some of the most doomsday economic messaging like on top of that.
	And I found it very informative and totally unique.
	And that's your I allegedly channel.
	You want to just talk about that for a moment as part of the intro?
	Well, yes.
	I allegedly was built on, during COVID, it was built on the fact that my business background and just talking about, you know, originally it helped people get grant money and money from the SBA and, you know, navigate that.
	And then it morphed into business news.
	And fortunately for me, every day is a challenge.
	Every day is something unique.
	And I mean, you pick up a paper, you pick up all the sites that you and I follow, Mike, and every day we're blown away.
	And then we could be doing basically a 24-hour newscast.
	But I focused on business news.
	I focused on different finances that affect all of us.
	And that's the thing.
	People right now don't, they think that they live on an island.
	And oh, this has just happened to us.
	Only we're in credit card debt or we can't get a job.
	And it's happened to every single one of us right now.
	Yeah, yeah.
	Exactly.
	And I also want to mention your background.
	You used to orchestrate medical trade shows.
	And is that the right term, trade shows or events?
	Yeah, well, I had conferences and trade shows and events.
	And I did two things.
	I did my conferences multiple times a year.
	And we would have a trade show inside of the event and we would do something really cool where we would have the sponsors have tables.
	We'd have speakers, but then they would go there.
	So if Mike spoke, you would get to go to Mike's table afterwards and ask him questions.
	And it was a very fast and we'd help people raise money.
	We'd help people get everything from regulatory issues, sales issues, money issues.
	But I would put everybody together in one day.
	And people at first were like, this is never going to work.
	And by the time we got done, my last one was in January of 2021 or excuse me, 2020.
	And it had built up into quite a big business.
	But COVID took over and this took off.
	Well, that's one other thing.
	And Todd, I'll bring you in here in just a moment.
	But the audience needs to know that.
	So Dan, COVID destroyed your business, your career, what you had built up.
	It just obliterated it.
	But you reinvented yourself as a business influencer and podcaster, investigator, analyst, et cetera.
	And I want to mention you've just launched now.
	You have rebranded our Brighteon engine to be your website called newvideos.com.
	I'll show it on my screen here.
	And this has taken off.
	You're having great success.
	So it looks similar to the Brighteon layout, but it's completely different content.
	It's all your content than the people you've invited.
	But you've put our engine to great use.
	So congratulations.
	Newvideos.com.
	Thank you.
	Thank you.
	You know, it was a great domain name.
	And I will tell a quick little story.
	We got hacked right before the 2020 election.
	And the site had to be taken down.
	We had to get the authorities involved in it.
	We had a Bitcoin ransom attack on it.
	And yo, absolutely.
	You know, they wanted 200 Bitcoin at the time.
	And one of my investors said, I know that this is the worst day of your life, but it's also the greatest day because they're saying that the site's worth $3 million at the time for what Bitcoin was.
	But we rebuilt the site and never got it right.
	It never was the same.
	The commercials were never the same.
	It just was not the same thing.
	And you know this story, Mike.
	We went and interviewed a lot of people and tried to work with other people.
	And time and time again, it fell apart.
	And the one thing that I'm good at is I believe in the thing called the power of the ask.
	And that is, you know, I always said, Mike, we should work together.
	And this is the perfect opportunity.
	Newvideos.com was the thing that we should do together.
	And it worked out.
	And over the course of the last six, eight months, we finally got it out there.
	But it is fantastic.
	I love the site.
	I love how it is.
	It's built on freedom of speech and freedom of expression.
	We've got everything from, you know, music, news, you know, business.
	Plus, we can have pre-roll ads on it now.
	It's absolutely fantastic.
	And it's free to use.
	And people love it because it's great to share on other platforms and, you know, put a video up on new videos and then share it on Facebook, Instagram, and every place like that.
	So so far, you know, this is our official launch week of this.
	And it was, it's just, it's the infancy of something brand new and we're incredibly excited about it.
	Wow.
	Wow.
	Okay.
	That's so cool.
	Now, so Todd, check it out.
	We span the country today because Dan's in California, you're in Florida and I'm in Texas.
	At least we've got the South completely covered.
	I don't know, East to West.
	But Todd, had you met Dan before today?
	I've never met Dan.
	That's what I thought.
	A good bit of research.
	And so, you know, me, I have tons of questions and kind of all over the place.
	And I figured out, Mike, how I can, I might be able to get all my questions asked.
	Okay.
	My new strategy.
	Yeah.
	All right.
	I'm going to give it an idea.
	What is it?
	Like flashcards or something?
	What do you know?
	I'm going to show you here, Mike.
	Dan Golka, welcome.
	Welcome to the show.
	Two-part question, Dan.
	So there's my move, Mike, right?
	I'm just going for two questions, right?
	Oh, you're going to stack them.
	Okay.
	Yeah, I'm going to stack them.
	No, two-part question.
	So let's talk a little bit about AI and control.
	Okay.
	First question, is AI freeing humanity or is it centralizing power?
	And the second question is, what skill survives automation no matter what?
	I think we should know.
	Personally, I think it is freeing humanity.
	I think it is creating for people like me and people like Mike who love research and love doing the work on that, it is making it better all the way around.
Calling for Change 00:10:25
	It truly, truly is.
	And with that, I think you're going to see amazing things with this.
	And what it's going to get rid of is, and I talked to, it's funny, I talked about this today on my video.
	And the kid that watches my house got a key stuck in the lock and couldn't get it out and tried to call everybody before he called me to say, Dan, I think I broke your front door.
	And, you know, you have to call a locksmith out there.
	Or you call my brother, the contractor, who walked me through taking the door apart.
	And AI is never going to fix that.
	AI is not going to fix that door and come out here and do that.
	And again, I love Mike Row.
	I love dirty jobs.
	I grew up in the construction business.
	My father was a contractor and he gave us choices.
	One summer I had to build and dig holes and it was awful.
	And I gravitated towards sales, but I had the world's worst job ever where I went door to door to sign people up for estimates for his company and it taught me how to talk to people.
	And it was the greatest thing ever because the problem with it is that even at CES, I'll go into this.
	These young people that don't make face contact, that don't make eye contact, that cannot communicate and have their heads buried in their phones in their booths are doomed.
	And I was with my daughter, who's a creator herself and content creator.
	And she was like blown away.
	Dad, look at all these people.
	I said, I taught you with communication in our house.
	We spoke, you know, and even when they texted me, they had to use full sentences.
	But this is something that you have to, it's not going to solve that.
	You need to ask women out on dates.
	You can't have AI do that for you.
	I could go on for three hours about this.
	So what then, that skill?
	Is that just finding common ground with people?
	Is it just being able to effectively communicate with them, not rely on your nose in the phone to be able to get the job done?
	If it were me right now, I would teach young people the importance of communication and being able to talk to people and being able to still do research because my daughter is so adamantly against AI as a content creator having, as a young, pretty woman, she doesn't want to see her image put on some body in a nefarious way.
	And she's very against that because she's had her friends have that happen to them already.
	And we need to be able to communicate and decide from a business standpoint what this is going to do for you.
	You'll never have a receptionist again on your phone.
	You're going to have a receptionist basically on our cell phones because I saw this at CES where it's going to be, hello.
	Hi, thanks for calling Dan.
	What do you want to speak to Dan about?
	And it will decipher who you are and what you're calling for.
	It's going to be fascinating, but that's a good thing.
	But as far as the communication skill and the research skills, I mean, if there was ever a contest and you could have Mike and I on a team, I would put us up against anybody because if we just had the internet and we had to figure things out without using AI, we'd be killers in that.
	It would be great.
	But a lot of people cannot handle that.
	They cannot handle this.
	And they're using AI to rely on everything.
	And it's not there yet.
	So I'm sorry to jump in, but you just brought up something really critical.
	So for all three of us, we are of a level of maturity and age where we grew up and honed a lot of these skills long before AI automation appeared, which is really just the last couple of years.
	But you mentioned the younger generation, they are not going to have the opportunities to make the mistakes that we made, to learn all those skills that we are learning, to have that socialization and face-to-face communication.
	They will never learn the lessons that we learned, even just how to write, how to write compelling emails manually.
	100%.
	Right.
	Yeah.
	Okay.
	Go ahead.
	Roll with that.
	No, but I'll tell you a quick story.
	My daughter's 28.
	My son's 24.
	The difference between those two kids, Amanda grew up on books and Grant grew up where a book was punishment.
	I have an iPad.
	Why do I need to read this?
	This is terrible.
	And that is a shame.
	And it's funny.
	He called me today because he's looking for an additional job.
	He does boots on the ground where he goes to different businesses and knocks on the door.
	You know, he got his height from his mother or somebody else, but he's a six foot two, good-looking kid walking in.
	And that's the best thing that you can do.
	It's at a calling, texting, doing the website.
	He's making the effort to go there and show up himself.
	And that's the difference.
	And I said, you know, I know you're getting rejection, but you're doing something your friends don't do and they can't do, but you can do this.
	You look these people in the eye, you talk to these people, and they're going to hire you.
	So it's crazy.
	It's going to happen.
	But that's a skill that AI.
	Yeah.
	And a follow-up question on that, which is the generation coming out of college right now.
	And I believe your son is still in college at the moment.
	Is that correct?
	He graduated a year from University of Rhode Island and he has a film major and a film background, but he has to work in other things.
	Okay.
	And, you know, in the meantime, until he gets hired with his TV show or whatever he's going to do.
	Right.
	Okay.
	So my question is for a lot of younger adults graduating from college right now, they're not finding the job opportunities.
	For example, five years ago, it used to be that if you knew how to write code, you had an instant job offers from all the tech companies.
	And today, those tech companies are laying off people because guess what?
	AI can write code better than you or any of us.
	So those days are over of having the easy entry-level jobs where you get experience.
	So what does this mean for our society and our culture?
	Well, it's a problem right now.
	You know, we've all lived through an economic downturn.
	And my assistant, Mike, you know, you guys were witnessing this.
	She got married last month and moved to San Diego from Orange County, about 90 miles from where I'm at.
	And, you know, okay, I'll just go get a job in San Diego.
	And she can't get a job, can't get a job working anywhere right now.
	And she, Dan, I, and she was at my house yesterday working with me and drove up to get some money and to work on the site and everything that we're doing.
	But she had over 23 different job interviews that went nowhere.
	23.
	Wow, that's crazy.
	And you and I, we all know that this is okay.
	We're getting into it right now.
	But, and Mike, you watch my stuff.
	If you prepare for this, you don't go out and go buy a McLaren right now.
	You don't finance a brand new car.
	You go out and you cut back and play it safe and try to make as much money as you can and hone your costs and everything.
	But these kids don't do it.
	And I told my son this today, and I told Ashley this yesterday, that you guys are living through your first economic downturn.
	And when will it end?
	Who knows?
	This is the beginning of this.
	So, Dan, do you think we're witnessing the largest workforce collapse in history right now?
	Without a doubt.
	And it's going to be, it's going to change things because, you know, Mike's, Mike's a perfect example with his development.
	And, and, you know, I'm lucky because I'm a guy who's a fan of this guy's, but I get to, I have access to Mike.
	I can ask him questions.
	I can, I, I can see this, but he shares the development.
	He shares things that he's worked on, and it's exciting.
	And the problem that we have is you don't want to deal with somebody who has issues.
	You don't want to deal with employees who show up late.
	You don't want to deal with, oh, it's cold and flu season.
	So I think I've got that as I'm snowboarding for because I don't want to work for Mike today.
	You know, this is something that is going to be a problem.
	And companies are going to cut back like we've never seen before.
	You're going to see a complete change.
	What happens, though, when millions of people start feeling obsolete?
	What's going to happen in this society?
	It's going to be get some therapy.
	I'm telling you, it worked wonders for me.
	But I'm telling you, people have to have it.
	You're going to change their mindset because there's a lot of people.
	I have people that write me.
	And the most famous one I talked about was my husband's in mid-management at Microsoft.
	They'll never fire him.
	And he's going to have his job forever.
	And then about five weeks later, that guy was unemployed.
	And for about a year, he couldn't find a job.
	So people need to get ready and be prepared for what's happening because this is a change.
	Companies are cutting back.
	UPS, the delivery company, UPS, here in California, big company, 68,000 people have lost their jobs.
	Well, the holidays must not have been that good, or they must know that people are not shipping.
	Logistics, Federal Express, all these people that know what's going on, they're seeing a shift.
	If business is not shipping, business is not.
	And it's not, you know, it's the beginning of this.
	And, you know, I love getting research different places.
	And people turn me on to different industry sites.
	And one of them that I've been following for about two and a half years now is Freightways.
	And, you know, I joke that I follow it for the centerfold, but it's just logistics.
	It's about all these trucking companies and everything that's happening with them.
	But I'm telling you, you're seeing mid-sized trucking companies, companies that have 100 employees and less.
	It's such a recession in the freight industry right now.
	You haven't seen anything yet.
	Dan, I follow that same site also.
	It's spidered at censor.news because when you follow transportation, that's a leading indicator of what's happening with the economy and commerce and manufacturing and so much more.
	But, you know, even as the more lower level jobs are being destroyed, customer service jobs, forget it.
Vibe Coding Opportunities 00:03:12
	You know, nobody's got a future in customer service anymore, voice or email or anything.
	Because that's easy to automate.
	In fact, Dan, did you know that in the state of Utah just was just announced that they're allowing AI to now prescribe medications.
	So they're cutting the human doctor out of the loop.
	And I actually predicted this last year because I said what doctors do is so algorithmic.
	It's like this symptom is this drug.
	This test is this drug.
	Well, you don't need a human to do that.
	That's easy to automate because doctors aren't allowed to be humans.
	They have to follow this protocol that's approved by Medicare and Medicaid.
	And that's easy to automate.
	It's like you're a vending machine for big pharma.
	Well, of course that's automated now.
	But I will say this, Dan, I just, today I just hired a vibe coder.
	I hired my first vibe coder.
	Hard to find them because almost nobody knows how to vibe code.
	But that's vibe coding.
	That's coding by prompting.
	You're building apps by prompting instead of actually writing lines of code.
	Okay.
	So I hired a vibe coder who actually is a very accomplished coder, but now his output is 10x, if not more, because of vibe coding.
	But he knows how code works.
	So I'm not afraid to turn a project over to him.
	He's not going to mess it up.
	Whereas, you know, a newbie might mess it up.
	But Dan, my point is there's new opportunities for people who want to teach themselves how to vibe code.
	100%.
	And that's the one thing that you've done with me is that we have a new site that we're working on right now.
	And I own over 600 domain names.
	And there's a few things that I really wanted to get up and running.
	And one of them that I described to you, and you said, oh, you don't do it this way.
	This is how you do it.
	And you explain this to me.
	And right now we're working on the prompt to get this down so that the site can be done through one of these AI sites.
	And it's fantastic.
	It's fabulous.
	And it's going to eliminate hiring these engineers and having them spend weeks and months and thousands of dollars to have you approve something that you don't like.
	And a lot of these guys don't.
	They may not have the design issue.
	They may not have the things that we follow to make something look visually appealing.
	So it's important that we go out and be able to use a prompt to get a website done.
	Think about that.
	It's absolutely fantastic, amazing.
	It's incredible.
	And I'm familiar because you and I have talked about your project.
	And the project you described is so easy for AI to do now.
	It's going to be no-brainer.
	You're going to have that thing done in no time.
	But did you know that even after it builds it, you can go back in.
	If you don't like the way it looks, you can tell the AI agent just flat out, I don't like the way it looks.
Pineapple Day Celebrations 00:07:46
	Make it look better.
	That's it.
	And it will go.
	It'll be fantastic.
	But the problem with it is that, you know, I've will use new videos.com.
	I ran into coders and people that were, you know, don't call me an IT guy.
	I'm an engineer.
	Okay.
	And these guys would work from 10 o'clock in the morning till 6 a.m.
	They had, you know, and they just were quirky dudes.
	And it was difficult because when you started to question things, hey, can you do this?
	It was, they took offense to it.
	And one thing about AI that I thoroughly enjoy is it's never been offended by anything I've asked it.
	I've never put it off.
	It is great.
	And I'm telling you, Mike, today is probably two or three days away from, you know, starting this thing and getting it set up.
	And I can't wait to show it to you.
	So it's exciting.
	It really, really is.
	And the other thing, and then Todd, throw it back to you, but I've worked with engineers all over the world for many, many years.
	I've had engineers in Korea, Vietnam, Philippines, Pakistan, India, like every European country, Eastern Europe mostly.
	And I never knew there were so many holidays in every culture.
	It's like, oh, no, I'm not working today.
	Today is Pineapple Day or what?
	Really?
	Is that a national holiday?
	Yes, that's a national holiday.
	I can't work on Pineapple Day.
	And then I could never get the team together because somewhere, somebody's got some holiday or, you know, a death in the family or whatever.
	It's like, ah, and what I can do with AI is so awesome because I like to work on holidays.
	I like to work evenings and weekends because nobody's interrupting me.
	So I get more done on one Saturday than what used to take like three months with humans.
	It's crazy.
	It's funny.
	I sent Mike a joke card that was sent to me and it was a ticket from Ticketmaster for New Year's Eve talking about how, hey, my seat is on the couch and it's a table for one and it's unobstructed and I can go to bed when I want.
	It was a funny thing.
	And I sent it to Mike and Mike says, I'm coding.
	I'm vibe coding all night.
	And that's what I'm going to do.
	And I'm telling you, it's just, he's a great guy to work with because he works like everybody else does.
	And people like us that work a lot and work till 10 o'clock at night.
	And I always joke that my dog is the last one up with me every night.
	So it's great.
	But again, there's no attitude.
	Nobody shows up late.
	No holidays.
	No shenanigans.
	Yeah, no, no excuses.
	And Todd, you know the value of hard work.
	And as you explained to me, you just put in a ton of work this last week doing doing conferences with people interested in your UNA solution.
	How's that going?
	Oh, my gosh.
	Well, on January 2nd, you did a broadcast to where you talked about the tax revolt and all of that PSYOP that's going on.
	And you rightly shared with people that, hey, it sounds great, but kind of a bad idea.
	You know, it is going to come back and harm a tremendous amount of people.
	And you suggested, you said, hey, there's a better way.
	And you suggested they learn about these unincorporated nonprofit associations and visit my website, my575e.com and get educated in them.
	And you put this plug in.
	You said, and look, you know, just go get educated and then book a consultation with Todd.
	You know, it's $150, but if you move forward with the UNA, and most do who actually do a consult, you get that back.
	You just take it off of the investment of the UNA.
	So at least, you know, invest that so you're fully informed.
	And Todd will do a one-on-one.
	Mike, since the second, I have done almost 50 consultations, my friend.
	I have been on the phone.
	Yesterday was nine, and it is nuts.
	And so, but, but I love it.
	I thought your voice was a little hoarse today, actually.
	Last night it was gone.
	Oh, man.
	It was gone.
	But I'm grateful for that.
	And, you know, what I tell everybody on these things is I said, don't call me a co-host.
	I'm a Chippendale dancer.
	Sorry, I just had to come back to Dan's comment earlier on that.
	And you have the mullet wig.
	Don't forget about the mullet wig.
	Absolutely.
	I'm going to bring that back today.
	You have a handy?
	I'm not with me.
	No.
	Really?
	You don't just travel with that in your pocket?
	That's too bad.
	I retired it, retired it to the other room.
	But so anyway, I'm grateful, Mike.
	And I will tell you, you're making a huge difference.
	And what I have learned over those 50 consultations is that everybody loves him.
	So Mike Adams, man.
	Everybody said, can you please tell Mike?
	He means so much to us.
	And I've been watching him for years and had a guy today.
	He's like, look, I kind of don't want to do this, but will you accept silver because I'm up so much?
	Can I just pay in silver?
	Like, that's an instant yes.
	Yes.
	How much silver do you want to pay?
	Yeah, yeah.
	And I had a good conversation this morning with this couple who they are literally entirely off grid because of you.
	They bought property up in northern Arizona in the mountains, and they were out getting wood this morning to heat up their home.
	Cool.
	And they dealt with a black bear and a, not a cougar, a mountain lion.
	And I'm like, that's a little too off-grid for me.
	But it was really interesting.
	It was just, you know, you have been ringing the bell for so long, Mike, and people have been listening.
	And I don't think, I don't know if you realize what kind of impact that you've had in so many lives.
	But let me bring Dan back.
	I know, Dan, you want to say something, but please interject.
	There's a perfect example of where AI is not going to help you with the confrontation with the black bear.
	Yeah, yeah, exactly.
	Good point.
	You're going to need a real skill.
	It's funny.
	To go to the Mike Adams thing, walking into Formula One with my daughter, and it was freezing in Las Vegas in November.
	And the guy walks up to me and goes, hey, you're Dan.
	And, you know, you get, you get, you know, people walk up and say hi like that.
	And the guy's like, hey, do you really know Mike Adams?
	Are you really friends with me?
	So it wasn't like they didn't care about me.
	They wanted to know if I knew Mike or not.
	Oh, come on.
	No, you're, you're more friends.
	That happened walking to the Formula One race at the Blue Gate.
	I'm telling you, that was great.
	Well, what I wanted to point out, and thank you guys for your comments.
	And thanks to the viewers.
	I'm humbled, honestly.
	But the thing is, and Dan, what I love about you and Todd, what I love about you, and I share this with you, is that all three of us, we are not afraid of hard work, of consistent, hard work.
	So, Dan, your iAllegedly broadcast, which I strongly recommend people watch either on YouTube or they can go to your video site, newvideos.com.
	You also have a members-only version that's even more fun to listen to.
	Right.
	Well, that's the, it's i allegedly live and it's the private uncensored things because there's still, this is where videos.com came front to life because there's things that we can't talk about on YouTube, which were, which were shocking.
$700 Million Vanishes 00:03:07
	It's ridiculous in this world.
	And even with the new administration, there's things that can't be said.
	So, you know, that's where newvideos.com came from.
	But the private side was just a place that's uncensored.
	And you can speak freely.
	We can talk politics.
	We can talk money.
	Talk the latest things that are happening.
	Can I tell you guys something that I just covered this morning that's absolutely insane?
	Okay.
	Minneapolis airports over the last five years have come across tons of cash.
	How about $700 million worth of cash leaving Minneapolis for Somalia?
	How about that?
	I mean, I covered that this morning in the private channel.
	It's insane.
	Who's going to jail for that?
	I mean, that's crazy.
	Because I'll tell you, the last time I went on a cruise with my old girlfriend last year, I had about $3,000 on me because we were going shopping for a week and everything.
	And they're like, whoa, what's with all the cash?
	Fan it out.
	Show.
	I said, it's about $2,800 right now.
	Okay.
	Okay.
	Well, we'll let you through with that.
	You know, so how do you bring $700?
	How do you bring $5 million through the airport and not have it just?
	Yeah, obviously the right people are paid off because that's a crime scene there in Minneapolis.
	But we haven't seen anything yet.
	And, you know, speaking of crime scenes, you know, I living here in Southern California, I live in Orange County.
	The next county over is Los Angeles.
	And, you know, during the Eaton fire, which is the Monrovia area, that area that burnt Altadena, that there were two fires.
	There was that fire and the Mallow fire.
	My daughter was right across the freeway from that in Pasadena, and she was, you know, had to be moved out.
	She couldn't go to her house.
	And that was a year ago, Mike.
	We did a broadcast a year ago talking about the unbelievable shenanigans with that.
	And they've only built, started, started 12 houses during that time.
	They've raised hundreds of billions of dollars and nothing has been done.
	So it's insanity.
	And this is the bastion of Democrats, which is just, let's just pick sides.
	This area voted for this government and they're being completely let down.
	Donald Trump, the week after he got into office, went to California and said, get this going.
	Let's have the federal government help you.
	And they've not taken any help.
	So it's tragic.
	But I'm telling you, that and in February, I was on a cruise and a woman walked up to me and said, my parents paid their house off last year and it was worth $4 million and they got rid of their fire insurance and the house burned down to the ground.
Robots And Relationships 00:15:48
	And now they have nothing.
	I said, no, they have something.
	They have a bill.
	They got to pay to clean that up, get rid of the toxic weight and everything out there, which I wasn't trying to be sarcastic.
	It's just it was factually messed up because that's what these people have to look horrible right now.
	Yeah, yeah, exactly.
	And by the way, your video is lagging a little bit here and there.
	I just want to tell the audience we're aware of that.
	If there's anything, Dan, that you can do on your side, but there's a little bit of glitchiness from time to time that's cutting out some of your words.
	But anyway, but I want to ask you a question and then Todd, it'll be your turn.
	I want to ask you about robotics because right now we're looking at AI and how the AI software AI agents and basically machine cognition on computers is replacing those computer jobs, customer service, for example, or even writing prescriptions, which is mostly just a virtual type of job.
	But pretty soon, maybe in the next two years, we're going to have some very capable robots, dog bots, humanoid robots walking around.
	Elon Musk is talking about his bots.
	China's blowing everybody away.
	You are just a CES.
	So can you please tell us, number one, two-part question?
	Like, I'm going to use Todd's strategy.
	Number one, what did you see with robots at the show?
	And then number two, What's going to be the impact on our society once robots start coming in and doing these labor type of jobs?
	Well, I saw everything.
	And one thing that you would suggest is I look for cleaning robots and robots that could basically mop a floor.
	You're going to see that in real time.
	And I saw that.
	I saw a robot that could play pickleball with somebody.
	And, you know, so you don't need to, you're not training with the machine.
	You're training with the robot that's trying to keep up with you.
	You're going to see tasks like you've talked about weed pulling for your farm.
	You're going to have things like that in the future where it's going to get rid of humans.
	And right now it's just cost prohibitive.
	It's training these things.
	I saw sentries that would walk around and they weren't just a rolling robot.
	It was something that would scan your house and know with sensors what's going on.
	And let's say you had a three or four bedroom house with a backyard.
	If something was potentially a threat, whether somebody was in the backyard or came to the front of the house, the robot was the first one up.
	It was cool stuff that's in its infancy.
	But when that goes out, everybody's going to have that someday.
	You're going to buy a house and have a robot that's going to take care of everything.
	And I think it'll eliminate locking the front door with some of these things because it is, you know, they can protect people in very, very quick ways.
	And it's exciting.
	It really, really is.
	But that home care, nursing, you know, like you mentioned, you know, prescriptions and doctors and things like that.
	You're going to have different things that will deliver prescriptions and check on patients and be able to see vitals.
	I went in to one booth that read my face and they're like, oh, here's all the vitals.
	And they broke it down.
	And then you go, wow, your blood pressure is high and your breathing is off.
	I go, I held my breath for over the minute.
	No, no, no, no.
	I saw that.
	I was like, Dan, why did you hold your breath?
	I just, I didn't know.
	I didn't want to move because your face is in this image.
	And I'm like, okay.
	But it was very, very cool.
	And the thing, okay, here's the other thing is that dealing with everybody from Korea, they were the best foreign country because they had everybody that spoke perfect English.
	And I saw everything with robots.
	How about a robot that will swim in a lake and pick things up out of the lake?
	Wow.
	That debris and algae, not just a little hovercraft was there, but there's things like that.
	And the idea with it is the largest lake in Seoul has a huge robot.
	Now, they said this is cost prohibitive because this robot is about the size of a car and it floats through the lake and clears out the water, but the water is crystal clear.
	And they showed me one picture where it was green and stagnant and gross.
	And then you could, it looks like you could drink out of it by the time the thing got done with it.
	And it's just maintenance at that point.
	But the robots are here.
	The robots are only going to get better and better and better.
	And, you know, I went to something called Unveiled early on, the first night with my daughter.
	And that was a lot of smoke and mirrors and companies that meant well.
	But I've seen this a lot with startups where they're just, it's just too early to be talking to anybody about anything.
	You need to perfect things and know your costs and know your market and things like that.
	But there's a lot of robots, robots that'll play with your kids, robots that'll entertain your dog.
	And there's everything.
	Well, can I talk about a segment of robots that concerns me?
	Yeah.
	Just like people are falling in love with their AI, you know?
	I mean, literally, it's a thing out there.
	I get worried about birth rates going down even further because I think that you have people that are going to start relying on their robots for their quote-unquote relationships in multiple ways.
	And I think it's going to lead to absolute spiritual emptiness.
	And my question is: does that, I think, end game for some of these Druid Babylonian bastards that run the show?
	Does spiritual emptiness make societies easier to control?
	I think so personally.
	You know, I, for one, Mike knows this, I'm part of the senior dating tour, and I like it.
	And I think there's nothing better than going out and meeting people and having a conversation, having dinner, and doing this.
	But these kids today don't get it.
	And again, you know, I can worry about my niece, nephews, and my children because that's what I can make suggestions to.
	But it's all about communication and being able to ask somebody out and not send them a DM on Instagram.
	It starts with the Instagram model and goes to the robots and the loneliness and not leaving your home.
	Because I mean, you'll create a society where people will not date.
	They will not procreate.
	They will not have children.
	They will not have an interest to having children.
	And again, what an empty vessel that would be.
	What a person that would be that would not be interesting.
	I mean, I love dating smart, educated women.
	And, you know, I just couldn't imagine doing this.
	You can't do that with a robot.
	I mean, it's just not, it's not the same.
	But wait a minute.
	Some people will try that.
	I mean, in fact, I want to ask you about CS because there's this whole spectrum of robot companionship that's probably going to emerge.
	We've seen it all in sci-fi.
	Oh, yeah.
	So, you know, on the low end, and this is a great question, Todd.
	On the low end, it's like a companionship that reads you stories or teaches you language lessons while you're cooking or whatever.
	It's a robot that can talk to you, right?
	It's a companion.
	It can ask you, how's your day going?
	You know, whatever.
	And then there's mental health robots that can actually do therapy with you.
	And then there's girlfriend robots.
	A lot of the young men are falling in love with the AI chat bot avatars and whatever.
	Now, imagine that in a physical form, because there's this one Chinese company that put out a male and female figure robot.
	It was a very convincing female figure robot walking across the stage.
	And they have a male model too.
	But eventually somebody's going to say they want a sex bot in their home and they're going to marry that sex bot.
	There was a story out of Japan, a woman married the AI avatar man, you know, simulated man.
	Imagine when that's going to be in humanoid form.
	So, so Dan, did you see anything at the show in any of those areas?
	We saw things like that, but they were not functional.
	They were not, you know, and they looked, they looked like robots to me.
	They weren't, you know, anything impressive.
	And, you know, there were toys for your kids.
	There were toys for your dogs, all that stuff we talked about.
	The cooking stuff.
	See, stuff like that, I think would be fun.
	It'd be nice to be able to say, oh, I found a TikTok recipe.
	Let's do it.
	Okay, Dan, let me tell you everything that's in it.
	How many people are you going to eat this?
	It's going to be three of us.
	Okay.
	And then it would tell you how to make it.
	That would be cool.
	That would be fun.
	But as far as for dating and for, hey, baby, what movie do you want to see tonight?
	That's not, you know, it's funny.
	I'm taking my girlfriend tonight to the Duran Duran concert.
	No, no, we are.
	And I got her those tickets for Christmas, but you can't do stuff like that.
	And the robot's not going to Duran Duran with me sitting in the fourth row.
	So it's not.
	You know, but I just think that people need their social skills.
	I will tell you something.
	When I had my medical conference, the greatest thing I ever did was I set up what I called MedTech Council.
	And what it did was it was a mixer company where we would have mixers, started it once a month, and then we had three or four of them a month in Orange County, San Diego, and LA.
	And they were places for people in the med tech, biotech, and medical device space to come out and mingle for a couple hours.
	And people would line up for it.
	And I'd get 100, 150 people a night.
	I would sell tables for $300 for the sponsors that would circle the room.
	But every single person looked forward to those events because it gave them socialization.
	And a lot of these people, a lot of these doctors, a lot of the nerdy types were not the people that were meeting anybody.
	And this gave them a chance to come out and meet their peers.
	And that's cynical.
	And again, that's the one thing, you know, plus, you can make a, you know, I'm making a course on how to have, you know, events.
	And the one thing is those one-day medical mixers that we did made a fortune.
	And they were great.
	But people love that for the socialization.
	And that cannot fake that.
	I would do it online during COVID.
	It's not the same thing because once we click that this is done, it's done.
	If we were together in the same room and we finished the podcast, we would sit there and we'd have a cup of coffee and talk about how great it was.
	And we would be able to, you know, go through that.
	And people would, you know, they take the party afterwards too.
	I can, again, I could talk for three hours.
	I think that this is the demise of civilization.
	I think what you're saying, the, yeah, I mean, the human element is always going to be a core component of what it is we do.
	Whether we use AI tools, as all of us do in some fashion, you know, we still, we have human compassion, we have human values, we are wanting to help our fellow human tribe members here, the species on this planet.
	And that's never going away.
	But then there's this whole segment of people that want to merge with the machines, transhumanism.
	They want to achieve immortality.
	In fact, I was on with another show.
	They were asking me about that.
	And I said, no, that's too far.
	You know, you lose your humanity.
	But quickly, what are your thoughts, Dan, about the whole transhumanism movement?
	Well, to go to Todd's point to start with, imagine if you had a kid that was in junior high and he grew up and he just relied on the AI robot and he didn't meet girls the way I did in junior high and have socialization.
	That person's doomed socially.
	I mean, they're done.
	They're not going to be able to all of a sudden go to high school and meet women or college.
	They're going to live in that bubble, which is a lonely bubble.
	I mean, rejection, getting fired, you know, good and bad, girls breaking up with you, all that stuff is really important to socialization.
	This transhumanism is awful.
	It's awful to think about.
	It's, you know, come on, Mike.
	I mean, think about it.
	We got to work together because I had a deal that fell apart.
	People that promised me something and it didn't work.
	And from that, from losing, something good came, something miraculous came out of it.
	Let's put it that way.
	And that's what people don't get.
	You have to have the social physical experience.
	The transhumanism and living forever and all that nonsense is just that.
	I mean, my father died, you know, 26 years ago, and him as an AI robot wouldn't be the same guy.
	Right.
	Oh, man.
	Yeah, that would be creepy.
	But there's somebody promoting that kind of thing.
	But Todd, back to you.
	Yeah.
	Do you want your long dead relatives to come back as AI avatars and talk to you in your kitchen?
	No.
	No.
	No, that's that's that's why I'm surprising my wife with another dog.
	I'll take the dogs over.
	Um, you know, I just think, and we talk about it all the time, Mike, that, you know, we all need to learn to be prompt engineers, right?
	So it seems to me that there has to be some company out there, and maybe we should research it and find it.
	You know, I just wrote down a URL that's probably available, so I'll give it to humanity, but my AIU, just with a U.com, it's probably out there.
	And I think that they're just if I'm coaching my young kids, I mean, I'm just telling them to go to myaiu.com and go learn to be a prompt engineer and learn everything about it and just unleash your inner creativity in a very compounded way because you have access to this amazing technology.
	What do you guys think about something like that?
	Well, first of all, let me just bring this up.
	I went to our book engine just now and I typed in vibe coding as a search.
	And so it brought up, here's eight books on vibe coding that are free.
	Wow.
	So, you know, I mean, you can start.
	Yeah.
	And, you know, you can type in obviously, you know, anything you want here.
	You want to learn how to food preservation, right?
	Boom, you know, here you go.
	The eternal pantry, self-sufficient homestead, timeless harvest, the forgotten pantry.
	That's food that you left a little too long that has been reanimated in zombie jars.
	But anyway, knowledge is free now.
	Knowledge is free.
	Like there's no barrier to knowledge because of AI.
	Yeah.
	That changes everything.
	It's a good point.
	I'm going to hit this out of the park right now because what you're leading to and what Todd said, it's the one key word and that's creativity.
	Creativity is something that, you know, Mike, seriously, think of it.
	You and I have had conversations.
	We do our voice text back and forth.
	Oh, wow, Dan, you brought this up and it made me think of this.
	And that's what that's what human beings can do.
	Now, AI will not, it will be clever, but it will not be creative like that.
The Creative Human Edge 00:07:16
	And the creative spirit, you have to, you have to work on that.
	You know, my daughter writes books and hates AI writing and all this stuff.
	And she does so many pages a day and all these things that she does.
	And it really is fascinating because the creative mind, the creative spirit, there's a lot of people that are going to resist this, but I just, that's the one thing right there is you just, it can be clever, but it can't be.
	It's the creative side that the human being can have, I think is going to reach out.
	Yeah.
	Totally agree, Dan.
	And it just depends on what level of detail you want to manage with your creativity, right?
	So what your daughter's doing is great.
	It's a perfect skill to actually be the architect of the words.
	But then there's another level where you could say, well, I want to produce 100 books.
	Now I want to focus on the creativity of the book themes.
	And I'll let AI do the writing because they're like how-to books.
	You know, it's not the same thing as a book that has amazing prose.
	It's instructional, right?
	So you can choose that.
	Or you could say, well, now I want to manage, I want to run a library and then I want to have AI agents that decide what books to create for the library.
	So now you see you can participate at any of the three levels or higher or lower.
	You get to choose what you want to do.
	Two things.
	Number one, I just bought the domain a couple of days ago, Dan's book club for that reason, because as I start to create things on the Brighty Down engine, I'm like, you know what?
	I need to have my own book club.
	And that's so damnsbookclub.com.
	There's nothing there, but that's a cool site.
	But the other thing is when you go to, I'm dating a criminal defense attorney who represents people, as she said, that have done heinous things.
	And there's, I've asked her, have you used AI yet for legal research or anything?
	And she said, well, she's a very good writer and she has not.
	She's done it for certain things to pull up cases and things like that.
	But then I still go back and check it to make sure it's relevant.
	And she also will write a motion.
	Like she wrote a bunch of motions in the last couple of days, but knowing the district attorneys, knowing the defense attorney, knowing who's involved in everything, you know, changed how she wrote all that.
	And she goes, AI is not going to do that for me, Dan.
	I've got to do that myself.
	And again, it's, but it's fascinating to learn that.
	It's also good, you know, like when you hear about the Reiner situation and what was going on there and having her explain why the attorney dropped out and what was going on, it was fascinating.
	But, you know, it's very interesting because it's helping, but there's certain things it cannot do.
	And she's a perfect example of that, too.
	Yeah, yeah, exactly.
	We still need that human wisdom, that discernment, that experience, and that creativity, that spark that really, I think, defines us as human beings.
	And Todd, like you mentioned, the soul, the spirit of humanity is something that cannot be simulated.
	So I want to ask both of you, just because everything that both of you do is just tapping into that creativity and you're both so productive.
	What in your lives, what does real freedom look like on the day-to-day for you both?
	Start with you, Dan.
	Real freedom is, you know, I consider my, I'm kind of retired in the sense that I'm very lucky that I get to go out and create content every day and create news every day.
	And I just decide what I'm going to do.
	And I say this all the time.
	I don't think I'm going to shoot anything, but I drop something every day because you don't know what's going to happen in the economy.
	You don't know what's going to happen with silver, gold, you know, Minneapolis, everything.
	It's just, it creates something that brings it out every day.
	But I love the research.
	I was a screenwriter and wanted to be a screenwriter forever and really enjoyed the research of this.
	The best part of the writing was the research.
	And I would research white-collar crimes and why a guy would do something to rip people out for $2 million.
	It was fascinating, but I think, oh, these are all smart people.
	Why don't they just, you know, do something legitimate?
	They'd make themselves millions of dollars and not have to worry about the feds showing up at their front door.
	And, you know, I pretty much live in the dream right now.
	You know, think about it.
	I, again, I said this earlier, the power of the ask.
	When I was dead broke, and I've told Mike this story, and I couldn't get people to come to my medical conferences, I had to give things away, whether it be a doctor, whether it be a venture capital firm, to get them to speak, to be part of the event.
	And I would do things in trade.
	And I got more out of that, out of my career, by the power of the ask and giving something for free, not asking, not ever saying, oh, you're going me a favor.
	I never said that because now it's given me the ability to do this.
	But that, it's like meeting Mike Adams and be able to talk to him and then say, hey, hopefully we're going to work together someday.
	And then it just, you build a friendship and you build it from there.
	But it's a good life.
	And I mean, to be able to call Mike, people like Mike, venture capital people, people in regulatory, people in manufacturing, people that have money that want to invest it.
	It's a great life.
	That's what it looks like.
	That's great.
	Todd, I got to meet you today.
	I mean, this is fantastic.
	I can't wait to conversation with you.
	Well, you know, I'm sorry I left the mullet in the other room because then we'd bond on a different level.
	But what about you, Mike?
	Oh, wow.
	Well, yeah, freedom.
	To me, freedom is being able to choose whatever you want to do on any given day.
	You wake up and the day is yours, and you decide what you want to do.
	But with that comes a great responsibility also.
	So there's never, I never spend a day wasted.
	You know, I mean, I'm almost obsessive about this.
	Even when I'm, if I watch a movie, with my wife, let's say, you know, like we are both typically body rolling on the on the floor on yoga mats while we're watching the movie because we're both into health and fitness, or I'm, I'm doing, you know, cubing at the same time or whatever.
	Like I cannot just do one thing.
	It drives me bonkers.
	This is why when I was young and going through the school system was absolute torture.
	It was the most boring thing imaginable.
	And I would literally write computer code by hand on paper during school, take it home and type it into my Apple II computer and then start debugging the code in the evening.
	And the teachers are like, what are you writing?
	Secret codes.
	It's like, it's called basic, you know, it's a computer language.
	You wouldn't understand it, but whatever.
	But with that freedom comes responsibility.
	I know Dan and Todd, both of you would agree with that.
	It's like, you know, for the public, sometimes they think that the things that we do are easy or automatic or that we're lucky.
Why We Overcame Debt 00:15:32
	I got to tell you folks, there's no luck involved in any of the success stories that we're sharing with you.
	It is hard work, dedication, it's failure.
	It's picking your ass back up when things go wrong.
	And every one of us have been poor, by the way.
	We've all been impoverished.
	Absolutely.
	And that was, you know, Mike, we've talked about this.
	That was, I learned more about that.
	And I'm glad that my kids saw the financial struggles up and down.
	And my daughter says, I like you a lot better, Dad, rich now, but it's nice to know that it came from nothing and built it up.
	But it also reminds me you can lose it too.
	And you've got to take care of it.
	You have to pay attention to it.
	But I love it.
	I love doing this.
	I love researching the news.
	I love everything that we're going through right now in this economy.
	I think that we're going to have a difficult time before it gets better, but I just think it's fascinating to be living through history like this.
	I really, really do.
	And actually, I want to ask you about metals too, before you go today, because you comment a lot about what's happening with banking and silver and gold.
	What's your current take?
	Well, I think right now, you know, I'm very lucky that I have really strong people around me that have supported metals.
	And when I first started talking about metals on my channel, it was at $1,800 an ounce.
	And now it's gone up two and a half times that.
	And silver, you know, I've been buying since I was a kid and I remember $50 an ounce silver.
	And now, you know, when you research silver and the industrial uses alone, medical uses, antimicrobial, everything about the reflective issues, everything, there's not enough silver right now to get through.
	And eventually JP Morgan's going to get caught with suppressing the price, even where it's at today, at, you know, between 70 and 80.
	Let's just say that.
	You're going to see it go through the roof.
	Everybody that I've talked to that has speculated on this is like, oh, you want to sell it?
	I'll buy yours.
	And you haven't seen anything.
	Gold, you know, we easily see gold at $5,000.
	We see experts talking about $10,000 gold.
	Now, you can go online and you can see craziness about how, you know, in Japan, silver is $180 an ounce.
	I have never been able to verify anything like that.
	The price is the price, but it's going to go up much higher.
	And it also, remember, we're being told one line.
	And it's funny, I cover this today for my next video.
	And that is, we're being told that the market is so good right now, everything's great.
	Well, why are metals going through the roof?
	Silver should be $5 an ounce then if the market is at an all-time high.
	People know that trouble is coming and that, or we're in trouble right now, and we just haven't figured it out yet.
	See, that's what's going to be so interesting about this year and the next few years is I've even said this in my podcast.
	I've said we're going to have radical abundance in certain areas like free knowledge, free books, AI, cognition in your pocket, ready to help you think through any problem at virtually zero cost.
	But at the same time, extreme scarcity in commodities, gold, silver, copper, nickel, scarcity in the physical things, because manufacturing requires actual elements.
	And that's going to be, you can't just print, you know, silver.
	So we're going to have abundance and scarcity side by side.
	Todd?
	Well, you need to be there.
	Oh, I'm sorry.
	I'm sorry, Todd, to jump on.
	We're really going to, we need to be prepared for this because you don't need to be in debt right now.
	You need to pay off all your debt.
	You need to have an emergency fund.
	You know, there's car dealerships going out of business.
	We have, you know, millions of cars sitting on car lots right now that are not sold.
	There's 2024 cars.
	We're at 2026 now that have not been sold.
	You guys are going to be able to get the greatest deals on anything you want to purchase.
	But if you're a debt hound and if you've got, you know, you're loaded with debt, you're not going to be able to do it.
	Oh, we have to finance you for this.
	You want $20,000 off?
	No.
	So right now, you just got to go out and get yourself ready for what you want to do.
	Research it, and you'll be able to save a ton of money and make money during this time.
	Can I ask you?
	Go ahead, Todd.
	I'll do a follow-up after that.
	I was just going to say, Dan, can you explain to everybody watching why debt is the modern slavery system?
	Well, let's put it this way.
	Let's say most people, you know, have wages and they set wages and they go out and they get themselves caught up in debt and they get themselves in the circle of credit card debt and interest payments.
	I have people that write me and they're just slaves to that.
	And the greatest thing, the greatest day I ever did, there's a guy named Chris Soca who said something years ago that I heard and I thought, oh, that's the stupidest thing I've ever heard.
	And that was that his best day ever was when he was at zero and he didn't owe anybody any money and he didn't have any money.
	And when I got to that point, I totally understood.
	I'm like, oh my God, I can go do anything as far as a job.
	I can go do anything as far as a career.
	I can do absolutely anything right now.
	And debt is burdensome.
	We've all been in debt.
	We've all had sleepless nights with creditors and things like that.
	And it's not a way to grow.
	It's not relaxing.
	It's not free.
	Nothing is better than waking up and not having that money, not owing people money.
	My girlfriend brought up such a great point the other day.
	And over the summer, I was at a concert with her, just a summer fair, and a couple walked up to me from Florida and they said, you know, our greatest day in the last year was we followed your advice and bought a used car and paid cash for it under $20,000.
	We don't have a payment.
	Everything we were looking at was, you know, $15,000 more.
	And we have this great car and we're so happy that we did it.
	And they're on that trip during that time.
	So debt is a killer.
	And I'll tell you the greatest, one of the greatest stories ever was a woman that wrote me furious because her boyfriend said, I'm not going to, we're not going to get engaged because of your student loan debt.
	And she goes, you need to talk him out of this.
	And I'm like, well, tell me about yourself.
	What's the problem?
	Well, I owe $340,000 in student loan.
	And I'm like, my God, doing what?
	Well, I changed degrees.
	She never got a degree, by the way.
	She has 340 grand in debt, but she wants to get engaged to this guy and was hoping that I would talk sense into him.
	And she liked the answer that I gave, which was to run.
	So, anyway, it's burdensome and nobody wants to live like that.
	Wow.
	Wow.
	Okay.
	So, what I want to ask you, Dan, is you've mentioned this phrase, the power of the ask.
	And this is a phrase that you use often in your podcast.
	And again, I want to remind people: your channel is called I Allegedly.
	That's just the letter I, I allegedly, or they can follow your videos on your new site, newvideos.com.
	But can you give us, you've shared amazing stories about what you get just by asking, just having the balls to ask.
	Can you give us the best story, the best ask that was ever fulfilled?
	Well, I'll tell you.
	And that was I was having my first medical conference in January of 2017.
	And it was right about the time Donald Trump was going to take office.
	In fact, it was the, I think the, it was, I think it was January 21st, it's 2017.
	It was about 10 days out before the event.
	And I could not get somebody in venture capital and finance to speak at the event.
	Just couldn't, couldn't, couldn't.
	I finally got one guy who says, listen, I'll do your event.
	I'll do your second event.
	I don't know if you're going to pull this off in the next two weeks.
	And I was offended.
	I was so hurt by that.
	And there was a man named Scott Hamilton who runs Executive Next Practices, which was a big company that does events.
	And I met him at a place called The Cove.
	And I was walking through the Cove one day, just checking it out, you know, looking through the different offices.
	And I bumped into Scott Hamilton and I said, Wow, Mr. Hamilton, you know, I'm Dan Golka.
	I love your site and I love your events.
	And gosh, I'd love to have a cup of coffee with you sometime and just talk with you.
	And he looked at me and he goes, well, let's do it right now.
	So I sat down with Scott and we spent about an hour together and asking.
	And again, I was a competitor.
	I was throwing an event and he knew I was a competitor, but also this guy became a great friend of mine and he became a good mentor and he has events around the countries.
	But 10 days before the event, I called Scott and I said, I am doomed.
	I said, I've got this event.
	I just don't have anybody to talk about money.
	And he introduced me to Ken Hubbard at that time.
	And Ken has become the greatest friend.
	And Ken came and spoke.
	And then eventually, I think I had eight, 10 MedTech Mondays.
	He spoke at all of them, but one because of a sick relative.
	But that guy has been the ultimate guy for money because a friend of mine, a week and a half ago, wants to buy a car wash, a coin-operated car wash.
	And I'm like, you know, it's in my area.
	I just don't know anything about that.
	And I call Ken and within 20 minutes had me connected with four other guys that have owned those that were there to help my friend that could get him SBA money because of the land and had all these things answered within an hour.
	Wow.
	So that's the best one.
	And again, it's again, it's the never asked him for anything.
	We've worked together.
	But then you get, you know, I have Dr. Ask Clown that was rude, that was like, hey, you're going to let me speak.
	You're going to do this.
	You're going to do that.
	And you'd have to bend to some of those guys because of their prestige.
	And, you know, but again, most people, over 90%, 98% of them that you do something for, I'm telling you, I've been in an elevator before and these people stopped me and thanked me and reminded me.
	And I could call a lot of these people all day long and ask them for favors.
	But Ken and Scott Hamilton, that was one that just, it just worked out and people love that guy.
	So what a great story.
	But again, the power of the ask, it just takes some personal courage.
	And even at a car dealership, you know, obviously you don't pay the sticker price or a home, you know, buying a home, that kind of deal.
	You've given many examples of that.
	Go ahead.
	You know, well, no, it's like when I, um, you know, it's funny, I told this story again today on my video.
	I was talking about buying the house that I'm in right now.
	And I was, I, you know, I was kidding myself a year ago, last two years.
	I was looking at a house with a guest house and all this stuff.
	And I was going to invite Mike Adams and, you know, Mrs. Health Ranger over to stay at the house.
	And it's going to be great.
	They're going to have their own guest house.
	And my oldest brother said, Are you insane?
	What do you do with you?
	You're a single man.
	You're going to be single forever.
	Get a simple house that's done.
	Because I was looking at closures and fixing it up.
	And I was going to spend two years remodeling.
	And my brother's like, no, you just want to buy a house and move into it and get a good deal.
	And the house I'm in, I mean, I found people that were moving across the country.
	And the greatest thing ever was they had two kids that were under 10 and they went to the elementary school that my kids went to.
	And I gave them an extra five weeks in the house that they didn't have to pay for.
	And I got the house very cheap and did not use a real estate agent, did it all on my own.
	So, yeah, it's exciting.
	But, but that's the thing.
	It's like, you know, deals.
	And again, I was approved for a loan that could have been much higher.
	And I bought something that I'm totally happy with.
	You know, my favorite, one of my favorite lines is: want what you have.
	And I just think that, you know, so many of us want to extend to be able to overpurchase, right?
	Because we think it's going to impact the Joneses somehow.
	But man, oh man, if you just want what you have, it's like my Jeep just went over 100,000 miles.
	It's a 2008 Jeep Rubicon.
	I freaking love this thing.
	And my wife.
	And my wife was like, well, so are you going to get a new vehicle soon?
	And I'm like, no, this thing, my next hurdle is 250.
	I went 250,000 miles in this thing.
	That's a great, that's the other point that I want our audience to get.
	And by the way, Dan, I apologize for keeping you so long.
	I didn't realize we went way over.
	Oh, no, no, no.
	I've got, you've got me.
	As long as I'm not going to miss the Duranduran, we're good.
	So you guys can go as long as you'd like.
	We're going to finish up here shortly, but living beneath your income.
	That's something that all three of us have also demonstrated.
	I mean, the last car I had, I drove it for 10 years.
	I didn't care.
	And people, if people saw the house in which I live, they would not believe how small and how old it is.
	And it doesn't matter to me.
	I live on a ranch.
	My home is the whole acreage.
	I mean, I don't care.
	I just, I need a place to sleep.
	I need a kitchen that's functional.
	I don't care.
	I don't need a big mansion.
	So it's all about, you know, when you live beneath your income, that creates wealth over time because you're not giving up everything to the banks.
	And then you can end up paying cash for whatever you might want one day.
	In fact, some people are addicted to shopping.
	My problem is I forget to shop.
	I end up wearing old shoes so long that I'm putting shoe glue on them because I forget to shop.
	You know, I could buy anything I wanted, sure.
	But that's not, I don't have time.
	I'm too busy.
	I got to build more apps.
	You know, that's my life.
	So, Mike, while you're vibe coding, you're not thinking about the next set of fancy pants and lollipops that you're going to go acquire.
	No, I'm just but Dan, you know what I'm saying?
	It's like it's about your value system.
	And it goes to, you know, Todd brought up a great point about the debt.
	It just not living in debt.
	And everybody young, my assistant who just got married, I just like, do not use your credit cards.
	Do not do anything.
	You just want to be able to go out and not have that stress.
	Right.
	And, you know, people with the student loan debts, people with, you know, people that write me that make over $300,000 a year.
	And they've said, you know, we're in such a vine that if we missed a paycheck or two, we would be finished.
	Imagine you spend every single dollar.
	Oh, that happens all the time.
	I've had, I've had multiple people, I mean, dozens and dozens of people over the last few years that make over $200,000 that are broke.
	I've had people, you know, then you get the guy that shows you the bank statement with, you know, $4 million.
	And I don't know.
	It's like, I don't know why you're sending me this, but it's funny that you have people that just don't get it.
Something New With Tesla 00:10:42
	They just don't, there's a freedom to this, Mike.
	Mike, go, you know what?
	Go, you know, teach a yoga class tomorrow.
	You can go do whatever you want.
	You know, and it's funny.
	I'll tell you a story that Mike knows this.
	And my lawyer girlfriend has a Toyota Route 4 that she bought brand new in 2010.
	It's got 286,000 miles on it.
	But she bought a Tesla.
	And I always wanted to get a nice Tesla and she drove it for 14 months.
	And Mike knows this story.
	She was in a parking lot and somebody clipped the back end of her car.
	And the problem with it was it just ripped off the fender and the computer wasn't working that good.
	She took it into Tesla and they said, well, you need to go to Tesla Collision.
	And they totaled the car.
	And it was a scrape.
	Wow.
	And it was unbelievable.
	But I explained to her, I said, listen, counselor, you're going to get a lesson from your insurance company where they're going to screw you.
	And she's like, oh, that's never going to happen.
	And sure enough, they tried to pay her next to nothing for the Tesla.
	Well, you know, Teslas are not in favor right now.
	And she was so furious that they did this.
	So she goes, I remember what my boyfriend said, and I'm going to deal with this.
	And within 15 minutes, she got $37,000 for the car.
	They offered her $27,000 and then they went up over $10,000 with one phone call.
	So doesn't own a Tesla anymore.
	She got rid of that.
	Wow.
	Wow.
	Okay.
	Final point I want to make to our audience here.
	And I think our audience shares this with us, but what you've been demonstrating, both of you, Dan and Todd, today, what we've been discussing really is a mindset of resilience, adaptability, and creating your own success, creating your future.
	I guarantee you, you take any of us or all three of us, if you stripped away all of our money, assets, everything, threw us in the middle of a city and said, start over, we could all start over.
	We could all rebuild from zilch, you know, because it's a mindset.
	And that's what I want to, this is the key to the show, decentralization.
	It's about having that self-reliance and knowing that you can create from anything, even if you have nothing.
	It's the mindset, that skill set, that knowledge and wisdom that can give you, help you create the future.
	And Dan, I just want your comments, you know, feedback on that or any final words you want to say before we wrap this up with you.
	You know, the thing that I got a birthday present from my son in 2018 and he bought me an iPad.
	And I said, oh, you know what?
	I'm going to dedicate myself to learning new things.
	I'm going to use this device for 100% knowledge and not watching cat videos and not wasting time.
	And that's what I did.
	And my appreciation for knowledge was always there, but it increased so much.
	And the best thing that you can do is teach yourself something new, learn something new and get knowledge right now.
	You want to use AI?
	Teach yourself something.
	Teach yourself by coding.
	Teach yourself a new skill.
	Go get some therapy.
	Go do something.
	I will not be using that for therapy, but I'm telling you, I think that it's an exciting time.
	And I think it's great.
	I think knowledge is power.
	And Mike, I mean, if you think about Mike, just use the last 90 days, the stuff that you and I have shared back and forth.
	It's just fascinating.
	And it's Mike will say something to me.
	I'll be, oh, wow, that totally opens my eyes to something new.
	So just go out and learn new things, guys.
	Dedicate yourself.
	Dedicate yourself to the first quarter of 2026, learning something new.
	And, you know, we're all living through this financial debacle right now, but you're going to get through it and you're going to be fine.
	And make sure if you're in debt, make sure you have an emergency fund.
	Yeah, great advice.
	Todd, your comments on that before we wrap up?
	Just to share my new year's resolution is I'm going to try to get through at least three hours of Netflix every evening and increase my knowledge accordingly.
	No, I just think I like what you said, Dan.
	I mean, we just have to wake up every day and build habits that build sovereignty, right?
	And I think that, Mike, the last three years, can you believe we've been at this for three years?
	It's amazing.
	The last three years, you know, when people go back and look at all of our guests, just like today's interview with Dan, it will be timeless.
	It will be as relevant in a year as it would have been a year ago.
	So I just really highly encourage people, if you really, really do want to have a daily habit to build sovereignty, why don't you start from the first episode of DTV and watch it and learn.
	They're timeless and there's so much gold in there.
	So anyway, I really enjoyed this, Dan.
	Yeah, we'll continue this conversation, Todd.
	And Mike, thank you so much for the invitation.
	And I am so excited about newvideos.com and where it's going.
	And I cannot wait to share it with the world.
	And it's very, very exciting right now.
	So awesome.
	Well, Dan, I'm thrilled to work with you on this.
	Exciting to help you launch your new site, newvideos.com.
	And I think we can't keep you from the Duran Duran concert any longer.
	You're starting to look hungry like the wolf, right?
	Yes, right now, actually.
	So I think you're going to enjoy those front row seats.
	I didn't know they're still touring.
	But that's what I mean.
	They just came back out.
	And again, my girlfriend, like she said, oh my God, I wanted to see this guy since I was 11.
	So she's in her 50s and she's getting the dream fulfilled.
	That's awesome.
	All right.
	Well, thank you, Dan, so much.
	It's been a pleasure.
	We really enjoyed the conversation.
	Thank you, guys.
	I truly appreciate it.
	And happy new year to everybody.
	And make sure you check out iLegedly at YouTube.
	And I will see you guys very soon.
	Thank you, Mike.
	Thank you, Todd.
	You're welcome.
	Thank you, Dan.
	Have a great time tonight.
	And stay tuned, everybody.
	We'll be right back after this break with the after party where things get really wild with Todd and myself and whatever other mystery guests we can come up with here.
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	All right.
	Welcome back.
	This is the after party.
	And wow, Todd, I mean, wasn't Dan a blast to talk to?
	He's great.
	I love his energy.
	You know, he's just, he's just a regular guy.
	You could, you just know that if you went and had a beer with him, you know, you'd just have an awesome time and probably three hours later, wonder where the time went.
	You know, he'd talk about everything.
	Now, I really enjoyed meeting him.
	I'd never met him before.
	So that was a pleasure.
	Thank you.
	And one thing I want to mention with him off the show is that he's also a person of very high integrity.
	And otherwise, I wouldn't associate with him at all.
	And, you know, especially in the world of finance, and we've all seen this.
	You've seen this in crypto.
	These ass clown, usually younger guys that are like, it's going to go to the moon.
	I'm going to buy a Lambo.
	And they're like dressed up like rap artists with all their glutes and everything.
	It's like, oh, please, that's we are not interested in that.
	No, this is me talking like you, but I am interested.
	Can you pass me that glue?
	I got to glue my shoe.
	Go my shoe back together.
	No, look, okay.
	I'm not making this up.
	Okay.
	Look, this is my shoe that I'm wearing right now.
	I got to put more glue on it.
	I love this.
	This is just literally this thing is beat to hell.
	And I'm too busy to buy another pair.
	I love that.
	It's just like flippity flop.
	Oh, you're wearing flip-flops.
	No, I'm wearing shoes that are disassembling themselves.
	And you've seen the movies where some of these ladies who love their shoes, they go into, they have a huge closet just made for their just their shoes.
	And it'd be funny to do a mirror where Mike Adams' shoe closet.
	And it's like two pairs of shoes that are all glued together.
	It would be like the shoe graveyard, actually.
	Right.
	The zombie shoe living dead.
	Yeah.
	They're rising up.
	Yeah, I've worn shoes way past their best buy date, you know, or used by.
	Anyway, but back to Dan for a moment.
	Yeah.
	See, he's got integrity and he's very conservative about his financial advice and information.
	It's very refreshing in this time where so many people, they want the shortcut to everything.
	Give me the shortcut to riches.
	Give me the shortcut to eternal life.
	Give me the shortcut to whatever.
	And I think one of the big messages of our show today is that there are not shortcuts.
	There are smart strategies.
	There are ways to be more efficient at getting there, but there's no free lunch.
	Everything is earned.
	Yes.
	And what we teach is the smart way to get there, you know, but it's still earned.
	There's nothing, there's no magic answer to your life's problems.
	Yeah.
	I remember way back when I was in college and I was in the summer between my sophomore and junior year.
Rapid Reinvention Needed 00:05:48
	And I got this job that I was going all over the country.
	And I was trying to sell yellow page advertising to college phone directories.
	Crazy.
	And that literally required starting at one end of the street, you know, business street and going in from bank to gas station to pet store to whatever and talking, right?
	And that, I believe, sucked a lot.
	It was so hard.
	You got so much rejection.
	But I look at it today, Mike, and I look back and I'm like, that's what shaped me.
	It was like I arrived at that place to where I didn't mind a no.
	I didn't mind somebody just dismissing me because I knew it was all math.
	It was one step closer to a yes.
	And that then fueled my desire to do more than most, better than most in a shorter period of time than most.
	And that stayed with me the rest of my life.
	And I believe to this day, I operate daily with that tenant in mind.
	And when I see everything that you're doing, Mike, it is that times a thousand, right?
	And so I just, I really, really want to encourage people to challenge yourself, right?
	Challenge yourself to do more than most, better than most in a shorter period of time than most, and just see what happens.
	And let me put another phrase on top of that because what you say is nailing it.
	I would add, I think we now need to reinvent ourselves very rapidly, almost every year.
	I mean, think about it, Todd.
	True.
	The job that you used to have a few years ago, that job no longer existed.
	You had to reinvent yourself.
	Absolutely.
	And I even have this conversation with my own team members here at what we do.
	And I, you know, sometimes people ask, like, why are you doing all these AI projects?
	I'm like, because we have to reinvent ourselves.
	The way people are going to ingest information is rapidly changing.
	We can't be successful by still doing things the old way year after year after year.
	We have to totally change things up.
	And we're doing it.
	I mean, this, like the book site, you know, brightlearn.ai.
	As of today, did you know we've had three quarters of a million visitors since we launched it?
	That's crazy.
	It's wild.
	And look, like, here's a book somebody just published, the Fenbendazole protocol.
	Like you would never find a book on that in a bookstore because the publisher wouldn't touch it.
	You know, this is probably an anti-cancer protocol.
	That's right.
	That's right.
	Using Fenben over the counter.
	And, but this is just an example.
	Like, and Todd, think about this show even, right?
	We've, in essence, we've reinvented this show from where we started.
	Yeah.
	I mean, it was mostly at first, it was all about like crypto and, you know, financial technology.
	And now it's so much more.
	Now it's more of a universal decentralization.
	Yeah.
	It really is.
	It really is.
	And the guests are getting better and better.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	And I do want to touch on one thing, though, Mike.
	And that is the fact that this, with all of this change, and I, when I, when I'm talking to people, man, I hear it is it's really, really challenging out there, right?
	Because the world is changing so much and people, some people are kind of hopeless, you know?
	And what Dan said about the power of ask.
	Yes.
	I just want to interject a little bit of supernatural here.
	And I was just thinking of that as he was talking about that.
	I was thinking about, man, when we all get to that point to where we're just feeling hopeless, right?
	Or whatever, the most powerful power of ask is just simply two words, Mike.
	And that's, Lord, help.
	That's a good point.
	Right?
	Yes.
	The highest ask.
	Yes, yes.
	And I just think that, you know, people are looking for hope out there.
	And So I'm sorry, I didn't mean to take it back to that, but it's just, I want everybody to just keep that in mind that, you know, I at least believe in a higher power, God of the Bible.
	And I'm telling you, he is ever present and you can ask for his help and he'll deliver.
	And I feel that every single day.
	You know, I think that human creativity is a divine experience.
	Oh, yes.
	I mean, you know, where does that come from?
	Right.
	So you're walking along and boom, an idea pops into your head and you think like, oh, that's my idea.
	Well, what if it's what if it was given to you, actually?
	It was given to you by angels or God or the universe or some creative force that you're tapped into.
	I don't mean to make this like really philosophical, but I absolutely believe that a lot of this comes from outside of us.
	We're just conduits, you know?
	Yeah, yeah.
	And, you know, when I drop to the knees every night, part of my prayer structure is I ask for God's wisdom, but most importantly, I ask for his discernment, which is just what you said.
Discernment in Partnerships 00:15:44
	It is like, I'm nothing with God's wisdom imparted upon me if I don't understand it, right?
	So I need a little supernatural help understanding, you know, picking up what he's putting down.
	Yes, yes.
	And that discernment, I also want to remind our audience that this year, 2026, have a lot of discernment about who you choose to work with or to partner with or even have a relationship with.
	Like this year, to me, 2026 is a lot like a mirror.
	It kind of shows you who you are.
	If you're a person, for example, if you want to use AI as a distraction, as a form of entertainment, you want to get lost in your AI girlfriend or boyfriend, yeah, it can give you that.
	You can be that person.
	But if you want to use technology in this time in history to maximally express your greatest creativity, your inspiration, your mission, then this year can give you that too.
	And the only difference is how you choose to use it.
	This is the year of the mirror.
	That's the way I see it.
	Yeah, that's great.
	That's great.
	So when I look in the mirror, I'm going to make sure I have my mullet wig on, Mike.
	Wear the mullet.
	Yeah.
	The year of fun too.
	You know, keep it fun as we always do.
	We do, Mike.
	We do.
	And the after party.
	So, yeah.
	Look, it's crazy.
	It's a new year.
	I think 2026 is going to be just nuts.
	I think it's going to be freaking nuts.
	And there's no place I'd rather be than exploring said nuts with you, Mike, on these shows.
	I don't know if that's a compliment or what, but yeah, I'll take it.
	There's one thing I forgot to mention that Dan told me off air, and it probably wasn't appropriate for the show.
	He won't mind that I mentioned it, but one of the companies that he saw at the CES show had an AI diaper monitor.
	Oh, gosh.
	So remember the year of the mirror.
	So if you need AI to tell you when you shit yourself, then you technology might not be the solution for your situation.
	I'm just saying, sorry about the profanity, but there are things we don't need AI to tell us.
	If you shit yourself, I don't need the internet of things in my pants to go to the cloud of what just happened.
	Again, I apologize.
	I didn't mean to make this put it in the gutter here, but that's a thing.
	Somebody's selling the did you shit yourself AI cloud computing system.
	Yes, they are.
	Yes, it's a real thing.
	And the uh on the packaging for it, um, they have a dog, they have a dog on it, and it's the shits you uh breed.
	Oh, yeah, uh, that's that's a that's a that's a great breed, actually.
	Yeah, um, oh, so there are going to be some misapplications of technology in 2026 and beyond.
	Apparently, we need to have that discernment.
	Stack silver.
	By the way, speaking of precious metals, I do want to put out there into the universe because everything is appreciating.
	If you are a precious metals person, you definitely want to understand how unincorporated nonprofit association can help you tremendously in the long term.
	I'll just leave it at that, Mike.
	That's a little breadcrumb for people, but you want to make sure you have a strategy in place for at the point in time when you do liquidate how to keep way more of what you earn.
	Well, let me double down on that.
	Actually, I'm going to bring up your website, my575e.com, because Rick Rule, who's one of the top silver guys, he's talking about there's going to be a day where even he's going to sell his silver.
	Now, I will probably never sell silver because how do I know what the market's going to be?
	That's not my focus.
	But a guy like him, he knows what's going on.
	So he might sell and then buy, you know, he's going to do some long-term timing.
	Right.
	For you watching, if you ever sell crypto, gold, or silver, my goodness, you need to look at the my575e.com website.
	Talk to Todd.
	You know, book a, what do you call it? Consultation with him.
	Book a consultation.
	Get the lowdown on this.
	Get educated because imagine all the gain you're going to have from that sale.
	If you don't put it in a UNA, all that gain is going to end up on your personal social security income statement in your taxes next year.
	Yep.
	You're going to pay a fortune.
	There goes like 40% of your gain.
	You're going to send that to Washington, D.C., and they're going to send it to the Somalis in Minneapolis.
	Right.
	Right.
	Exactly.
	Just endless fraud and fraud and fraud.
	It's like, for God's sake, keep your own money or at least let your nonprofit keep it.
	You want to talk about that?
	And it is lawfully keep it.
	We're using the rails that they've created, and there are just things that we can do with it.
	We can become better stewards of the dollars that you would have sent to Uncle Sam that ultimately find their way to your local library, kindergarten, reading school in the form of a drag male tranny.
	Not that I have anything against that, but I just think that I can do better with those funds than USAID.
	Well, you could hire trannies directly if you wanted to.
	Exactly.
	I mean, exactly.
	Let's get the middle.
	You don't need a middle, a middle, is it a man?
	A middle woman.
	Good point.
	It's a middle trans man.
	Good point.
	I don't judge.
	Not judging.
	You don't need a middle person to hire.
	My personal pronouns are middle finger.
	And I made good on that promise.
	That was the first book I created on the Brighton.
	You did.
	It was How to Awaken Your Inner Middle Finger.
	That was beautiful.
	That was like your first book.
	It was the first book.
	The very first book.
	Yes.
	Yes.
	But anyway, I just encourage people to become educated.
	Start with the free education at my575e.com.
	You just go there, enter in your name, email, and hit let's go.
	And you are off to the races.
	And you can watch the 90-minute video of me interviewing the subject matter expert in the whole country, Dennis Gray.
	And he's just an amazing man, 82 years old, youngest 82-year-old I've ever met.
	You guys will love him.
	He gives a great interview.
	And then if you still have questions, you just scroll down a bit and boom, there you go.
	You can book a private consultation with me and love talking with you.
	I love talking with everyone, Mike.
	And I do have- Amazing people.
	Yeah, 98% of them have come are here.
	You know, I'm speaking to them because of not just our show, but you, Mike.
	I mean, how many people have told me I have been following Mike for 20 years and everyone's like, you're like E.F. Hutton.
	When E.F. Hutton talks, people listen.
	When Mike, when you talk, everyone listens.
	I've never been compared to E.F. Hutton, but I'll take it.
	When you vibe code, everyone vibes.
	Well, I look, I mean, I just thank you for that, Todd.
	But I want to thank our audience for all their support and the fact that, you know, we put real authenticity behind this.
	And it took me a long time to study and understand the UNA vehicle.
	You know, I mean, really, it took me quite a bit of time to figure out exactly how this works, how it functions, how it protects people's assets.
	And the thing is, we're in this inflationary period where all commodities are just skyrocketing.
	Right.
	And so you have all this so-called gain when actually it's the dollar collapsing.
	So silver itself isn't really much more valuable.
	It's just that the dollar is collapsing, but then the IRS wants to take a big part of your so-called gain.
	That's a scam.
	I think we have an obligation to legally keep as much as we can while working in accordance to what is codified in the rule of law.
	That's right.
	That's right.
	I always joke and joke with people when I'm talking to them.
	I'm like, I share with them that when you and I first started this, I approached you and I'm like, man, this show is dedicated to decentralized living.
	And I can't imagine helping anyone decentralize their lives in any more powerful way than helping them keep more of what they earn, protect what they have, the assets, and decrease their personal liability.
	And I say, so Mike did what Mike does and he became a UNA expert.
	He went for a six-week deep dive, hired a tax attorney out of California.
	They came up back with a due diligence.
	That was such a funny time.
	I'll never forget it.
	And then you gave it the thumbs up.
	And ever since, you know, gosh, I think we're approaching about 500 people have acquired these.
	So it is.
	It's so funny.
	I do so much due diligence behind the scenes.
	People may not even know that.
	I know.
	But let me give you a good example of this.
	And again, people don't know all the deals that I turned down and all the partners I turned down, et cetera.
	So a few years ago, somebody came to me with vitamin B12 patches that you just put on your skin.
	And then as they say, the vitamin B12 is absorbed through your skin.
	And so I said, that sounds awesome.
	I would love to look into this.
	So I start conducting due diligence.
	And of course, I'm asking, how does your manufacturing process control the dosing?
	And so how do you know how many milligrams of B12 is applied to every, let's say, square centimeter of this sheet of stickers?
	And they could not answer that question.
	And yeah, they're like, well, we don't really know.
	All we can confirm is that there's some amount of B12 somewhere on the sheet.
	And I'm like, that's not going to fly.
	I can't go out and talk about B12 stickers and you don't even know how much is on there.
	Same thing with there was a silver textile company that I partnered with briefly and we were trying to scale up the manufacturing.
	And I was asking, you know, how can you control the concentration of silver that goes into these textiles?
	And I mean, I spent hours and hours and hours on this with our lab tests and everything.
	And at the end of the day, their answer was, we can't guarantee anything.
	We just like the textiles are dipped in the silver solution.
	And what happens from there?
	We don't control it.
	So we don't really know.
	So, well, then I can't, I can't sell that.
	Right.
	You know?
	Yeah, no.
	Meanwhile, meanwhile, and I love this story.
	I remember you going through your own due diligence of melting down gold backs to verify that, right?
	Yes.
	I mean, in a kiln, and then running that through the mass spec instruments.
	And then we confirm the gold content averages 102% of what's collected.
	Exactly.
	Exactly.
	Yeah.
	So that's your level of due diligence.
	And I tell people all the time, it's like, you know, because people don't, here's the thing.
	Just like they don't teach nutrition in medical school, they don't teach UNAs in CPA or law school.
	So, you know, these are new.
	They're very undiscovered.
	I mean, even though they've been around for over a half century.
	And I just tell people that, man, Mike, it's like Dennis always says, if you're going to acquire a UNA, don't worry about it.
	If you're going to worry about it, don't acquire the UNA.
	These were created by California legislators for California legislators a long, long time ago.
	Right.
	And what I love best about them is they are lawful.
	It is doing unlike, you know, taking yourself out of the system or just tax revolt, stop paying taxes.
	No, you still pay into Caesars.
	You just keep more of what you have.
	And I think that's the power behind this, Mike.
	Yeah.
	And did you, I don't know if you heard my podcast on it, but I think towards the end, I said that, you know, folks, your accountant, and I'm not bashing any accountants watching this.
	Your accountant will probably say this thing doesn't exist and it's not real.
	But also, your same accountant probably thinks that flu shots stop the flu.
	So, you know, there's some, I said, you should get your information from people who know things.
	Right.
	And honestly, we know things and our audience knows things.
	We are the best informed group and community on this planet.
	We know things.
	We know the important things.
	And because we do the due diligence, we do the research.
	In fact, don't you have to like, don't you have a consultation coming up in minutes?
	Yes.
	How long do we have?
	Nine minutes.
	That's okay.
	Okay, nine minutes.
	But Todd, we know stuff.
	Like that counts.
	Okay.
	It does.
	Yeah.
	And I want to tell you something.
	I'm not trying to expose anything, but yesterday I had a consultation and every once in a while you have somebody that is one of these gotcha people, right?
	That they're just wanting to ask gotcha questions.
	So he had his Lord and Savior chat GPT up and he was he was telling me how these UNAs work, right?
	Per chat GPT.
	Oh, right.
	Which isn't trained on no, it's not trained.
	And it's all about the prompt.
	And I'm sure as he was prompting, he wasn't saying California established UNAs and all of that.
	Anyway, finally, I just, I, I just got a little bit ticked.
	And I'm like, stop.
	Stop.
	Do you, do you want to tell me how these work or should I tell you how these work?
	I mean, how does the Secretary of State of California approve these if they're not real?
	How does the IRS give you a tax-exempt tax ID number that you take to the bank and open a bank account and the bank says yes, no problem.
	How does all that work if it's not real?
	You know what I mean?
	Yes.
	But that's the, I'm bringing that up because this is what you were talking about.
Come to Experts 00:01:43
	Come to people who actually know.
	Right.
	And you know me, Mike.
	I never evangelize anything that I haven't done myself.
	I just don't.
	And that's why on some of these consults, like there's some people that have these really complicated trusts and things like that, or specifically big agriculture and things like this and with big equipment and everything.
	And I'm the first to say, I don't know.
	I don't know.
	I don't have to.
	It's not your area.
	Right.
	Yeah.
	But I said, you know, we can try to find out.
	And that's where I'll learn more.
	I'll become smarter.
	Right.
	But I'm not Tadra Damas.
	I'm not UNA Jesus.
	I don't know everything.
	But I have the intent to be able to find the answers, right?
	But 95% of the stuff, Mike, I know.
	Well, yeah.
	And because you've helped so many hundreds of people through this process, you've encountered every question.
	But let me let me change the subject for a moment here in the last few minutes.
	And I apologize for just brainstorming here publicly, but I want you and your wife to come to Texas.
	And I would love to have you here in person.
	And we should do a decentralized TV marathon event.
	I love that.
	In the studio for, I don't know, a day or two, whatever.
	Just we should do back-to-back interviews and we can have guests come in or have them remote, but you and I should be in the same studio.
Russian Melody 00:07:50
	Let's do that.
	Done.
	Done.
	Okay.
	Let's plan.
	We will plan it out.
	My wife would love it.
	She got to bring a lot of people.
	She loves you and you love my wife's voice.
	I love your wife's voice.
	She's a great voice.
	What it is about her?
	She's Russian ethnically, right?
	Yes.
	She's Russian, but she doesn't sound like a Russian, like Ivanka Trunk, that hard Russian.
	She has just this beautiful, melodious voice that I don't know where it came from.
	It's wild.
	Yeah.
	Her voice is really quite mesmerizing.
	Did you, did you like meet her over a voice encounter?
	Did you fall in love with her voice first?
	That's my question.
	Did you?
	Yes.
	Quick story.
	And the dude for my consultation, I will call him back.
	But I'll just tell you the story.
	This is a true story.
	I had gotten divorced.
	And about three months after the divorce, a guy who did some manufacturing for me, I lived in Asheville, North Carolina at the time.
	He was in Washington, D.C.
	And he and his wife, Barb, they reached out to me and they said, hey, Todd, you know, I know it's kind of, I hope it's not too soon, but we just think there's someone in this world you should know.
	And I'm thinking, okay, D.C., Asheville, it's about eight-hour drive.
	That's not too bad.
	And I'm like, okay, cool.
	And he goes, I'm just going to send you her email and her phone number.
	And she's way better looking than you and way smarter.
	And so if it works out, you owe me.
	And so he sends my wife's information to me.
	And it was a .ru email address.
	And I'm like, hmm.
	And so she lives in Moscow?
	Well, I didn't even think that far.
	I wasn't that smart.
	And so I sent her an email saying, hey, Jana, my name's Todd Pittner.
	And I attached a picture and Bob and Barbara told me to reach out to you.
	And anyway, nothing.
	I didn't get anything back.
	I felt like such a schmuck.
	But then the next morning when I woke up, because it's a 10-hour difference over, you know, from she, I opened up an email and she's like, hey, this is Yana Shvedova.
	I am a PhD historian and I teach at the Ural State University in Ekaterinburg, Russia.
	And I said, and she said, yeah, when Bob and Barbara were over here, I was their translator and I translated all of the Kodak documents because Bob built out all the Kodak labs in Russia back then.
	Wow.
	And so I'm like, and then she attached a picture and she's more beautiful than even her voice is, right?
	So then I was like, how do I talk to her without going broke?
	You know, because it was expensive back then.
	So that's when I got Vonnage.
	Remember Vonnage?
	Oh, yeah.
	Yeah.
	So Vonage allowed me to be able to speak to her.
	So I would speak with her.
	I'd call her in the morning and ask her how her day was in the evening.
	She would ask me how my day.
	And we just got to know each other by voice.
	No way.
	I did not know that.
	Within six weeks, I was flying into Ekaterinburg.
	Six weeks after that first email.
	And I kid you not, as God is my witness, I was just so smitten with her.
	She's so smart.
	And so at the time, she had a 14-month-old baby, you know, never, never got married.
	Just she made the decision she wasn't going to keep that baby.
	So she had her baby.
	And so she couldn't come to the airport and meet me.
	What she did was she sent her friend.
	So I ended up going up nine flights of stairs because her elevator was broke, you know, and nine flights of stairs.
	And I knocked on her door, Mike.
	And when she opened the door, I just needed to verify that it was her, right?
	That she sent me this picture.
	And she was just so nice and sweet.
	Within 30 minutes, I mean, 30 seconds of seeing her visually, I got on my knee and I asked her to marry me.
	What?
	And the very, very next day, we went all around Ekaterinburg to find her an engagement ring.
	And I got her the biggest engagement ring that we could find.
	And it was a third carrot.
	That was the biggest one back then.
	Wow.
	And so, so, yeah, that's a story.
	And then it took like a year and a quarter to get her, you know, the fiancé visa and everything for she and Vlada to fly over here.
	And this coming week, anybody watching this, if you try to book anything, any consultation from the 21st through the 27th, please know I'm taking my wife on a Caribbean vacation.
	You can't book time with me during that time, but it's because we're celebrating our 20th anniversary, Mike.
	Wow, congratulations.
	I never knew that about you and your wife.
	I never knew.
	That's extraordinary.
	But it started by voice.
	I just fell in love with her voice.
	Well, it's funny because I've actually never seen your wife.
	I've never seen a picture.
	But you haven't.
	No, never.
	I've only heard her voice.
	Wow.
	I'll message you.
	I'll message you tonight.
	I'll send you some pics so you can put a face with it.
	No, no, keep, keep it a secret.
	You two show up in person.
	Okay, there.
	Deal.
	Yeah, because I just know her by her voice with in the background when you're talking to me and she's saying stuff.
	Yeah.
	Or sometimes, you know, she'll send a message that you guys do together.
	It's great.
	So that's a fascinating story.
	Thanks for sharing that with us.
	You're welcome.
	Yeah.
	Well, I love telling the story because it was just people can't believe it.
	Literally within 30 seconds, I dropped to my knee.
	And the weird thing is, Mike, she said yes.
	That's wild.
	Wow.
	Okay.
	Well, that topped.
	You can imagine me coming back from Russia and all my friends and family.
	And I'm like, hey, I'm getting married.
	And they're like, what?
	Well, I mean, they don't, how could they possibly know the depth of the relationship that you had already built over that time, you know?
	I always think I'm like, you know, there's that, there's that old tale of sometimes we're split in two spiritually.
	And when we find our other half, you just know.
	And it's kind of that love at first sight or whatever.
	And to me, it's still crazy to this day to think she literally was in a Caternib Russia on the opposite side of the globe.
	That's wild.
	You know, and that we both just our conversations and everything, it was just like we knew from the first conversation, we just knew.
	That's amazing.
	Wow.
	20 years ago.
	And she's a dog person.
	So, and don't tell her this, but I am getting her a baby sheepa doodle that comes in the 15th.
	So after next week's recording, I'm going to the airport to pick up this little eight-week old sheepa doodle to give it to her for our 20th anniversary.
Second Opinions Needed 00:05:49
	What's a sheepa doodle?
	Old English sheepdog and a giant poodle.
	And I didn't know you didn't know this, but I have a very famous Instagram dog.
	His name is Zammypup, Z-A-M-M-Y.
	I remember you mentioning that.
	He's huge.
	He's children's hospital therapy dog.
	He has like 120,000 followers.
	It's nuts.
	Really?
	Way more popular than me.
	And so he just turned 10.
	And, you know, he's just our treasure in our life.
	And so I thought, man, I found a breeder that has this puppy that looks just like Zammy did when he was that age.
	Oh, wow.
	Yeah, it's going to be a nice surprise.
	Well, I have a dog too, but we don't unleash him in children's hospitals.
	No, that's a different kind of dog.
	You invite people onto your property who might want to steal things and you, and you're so gracious.
	You give them a meat necklace.
	Yeah.
	A wrap necklace.
	Right.
	And then you release the house.
	Yeah.
	Oh, man.
	Well, we, look, we all learn more about you today.
	Thanks for sharing all that with us.
	That's a very inspiring story.
	You're welcome.
	So those of you out there who are losing hope, maybe you've lost some love or whatever, you know, just check on the other side of the world.
	That's all.
	Yeah, that's true.
	That's a, that's a really good point.
	You never know where inspiration can be found.
	All right.
	Well, I know you have, you have a conference or a conversation.
	You're already late.
	Three minutes ago.
	I apologize.
	Okay.
	So just let me remind the audience, check out all the other episodes at decentralized.tv.
	And Todd's website again is my575E.com.
	And let me bring up our book engine is at brightlearn.ai right here.
	And I have also launched brightanswers.ai.
	Here it is.
	This is the new upgraded AI engine with research.
	And there's 100,000 science papers now that are used in the index of the research for this.
	And so it's the best AI search engine ever.
	That's at Bright Answers.
	That used to be, you used to call it Enoch, right?
	Correct.
	Correct.
	One of the same.
	This is much better than what Enoch ever was, but it's the same lineage.
	That's right.
	Yeah.
	Okay.
	That's awesome.
	Congratulations on that.
	Oh, man.
	You are just a blessing to humanity.
	I swear.
	I mean, what you've delivered in this past year is just mind-boggling.
	Well, thank you for that.
	And I feel like I'm just getting started.
	This next 12 months is going to be really fun.
	You've got a lot going on.
	And I have a vibe coding person now that I hired.
	So maybe I'll get twice as much done.
	Man.
	It'd be awesome.
	I don't know.
	I just envision you with your glued shoes on at 2 a.m.
	Just with my AI shit diaper detector, just in case I work too long.
	You know, alert, alert.
	Oh, crap.
	I forgot.
	No, sorry.
	That's just, that's just totally uncalled for.
	Yeah.
	That's how you know you've worked too long if you actually shit yourself.
	And Mike, I do have to tell you, a lot of people talk about it that they appreciate this part of the after parties because we crack people up.
	Everyone loves it when we go off the rails.
	And we can't help it.
	It's not even planned.
	It's just the natural progression of our creativity gone run amok, I guess.
	But we should probably end it before we get into any more.
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	Where is this going, man?
	I don't know.
	Where is this going?
	We should probably wrap it up, my friend.
	We probably should before it gets too biological.
	All right, everybody, keep it fun and apologize for all the profanity today.
	Until next time, you know, stay free, stay informed, and use all these tools to make your life better.
	It's going to be the year to get that done.
	So thank you, Todd.
	It's been a pleasure.
	Thank you, Mike.
	All right.
	Have fun with your conference.
	Cheers.
	Okay.
	See ya.
	And thank all of you for watching.
	I'm MikeAdams, Brightown.com.
	Be sure to check out all the other episodes at decentralize.tv.
	Until then, till next time.
	Take care, everybody.
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00:00:00 Consumer Electronics Shift
00:10:24 Calling for Change
00:20:34 Vibe Coding Opportunities
00:23:32 Pineapple Day Celebrations
00:31:03 $700 Million Vanishes
00:33:56 Robots And Relationships
00:49:30 The Creative Human Edge
00:56:32 Why We Overcame Debt
01:11:49 Something New With Tesla
01:22:16 Rapid Reinvention Needed
01:27:50 Discernment in Partnerships
01:43:20 Come to Experts
01:44:48 Russian Melody
01:52:24 Second Opinions Needed
01:57:58 Organic Creamy Mashed Potatoes