Health Ranger - Mike Adams - BBN, Jan 30, 2026 – Silver Industry Insider Speaks, Trump’s Iran Gambit, and Shrinking Bad Governmen

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Ion Chromatography Insights 00:03:16
	Okay, welcome to ByTam Bodcast News.
	It is Friday.
	It's January 30th, Friday.
	I can't believe it.
	Made it all the way to Friday.
	Hey, as I promised, I did film in my laboratory just a few hours ago.
	I filmed a whole tour of the lab, so you're going to get to see that.
	And I think you're going to really enjoy it.
	So that'll be airing sometime next week, walking you through all the instruments, the mass spec, triple quad, the LC, the GC, the IC.
	Also, yeah, that's ion chromatography.
	And then the ICP MS, which is inductively coupled plasma mass spec.
	There's a lot of C's.
	GC, LC, IC, IC, UC, if you see something, say something.
	No, it's going to be a fun video.
	I'll play it for you when we have it.
	I think you'll really enjoy it.
	I've got a really great interview for you today.
	It's a decentralized TV episode with a homeschooling organization called Firefly.
	And it's amazing.
	We interview the founders.
	You're going to love it.
	It's a really uplifting, inspiring interview about decentralizing away from the totally broken public school system or government-run schools.
	So you're going to love that interview.
	That's coming up later today.
	Before we get there, I've got a number of important things to cover with you.
	I've got, you know, the gold and silver markets are just insane right now.
	You know, the volatility is off the charts.
	The historic value in gold and silver seem to be reached every couple of days.
	We've had a correction yesterday.
	Gold dropped, I don't know, was it like 10% and silver dropped, something like that.
	And then they bounce back and they're dropping, bouncing around this.
	This is a war between East and West that's happening right now.
	And this is a war over the future of metals, the future of resources.
	And I also even, I was going to cover this really detailed special report on China's rare earth metals or minerals.
	And I don't even have time to cover that tonight.
	So I'll have to cover that for you on Monday.
	But I have a special report about what's happening in the silver market, especially.
	And the title of that is the silver dealer infrastructure is log jammed due to historic value increase.
	So yes, people trying to sell silver right now, which tends to be sort of the lower information, lower end people who don't really understand where this is all headed.
	They are offloading silver like never before.
	And so all the silver dealers are all jammed up with incoming silver.
	But on the selling side, they've got plenty of new silver to sell.
	So it's not difficult to buy silver.
	It's only difficult right now to sell it because this crowd is like this herd is trying to jam into the front doors like buy my silver, buy my silver, because they think, you know, they think $110 is the highest it's ever going to get because that's what they heard on, you know, CNN.
Selling Silver Herd 00:02:22
	And that's, okay, that's crazy.
	I'm not selling at $100.
	I'm not selling it $200 because I know where this is going.
	Anyway, I have a special report for you on that.
	Also, I conducted a really great interview earlier today that I'll play next week with an innovative leader, actually a very famous author in business books, who is an expert in exponential growth of businesses.
	But it's not just about businesses.
	also covering nonprofits and things like that and he's also very strong in AI technology and I really enjoyed that interview tremendously made my day actually I can't wait to play that for you that'll be next week but I recorded a special report after that interview called how AI technology can make bad government obsolete you know we we always we want small government or smaller small-ish how about as small as possible The way to get there is through AI,
	it turns out.
	And I explained that in this special report that's also coming up today.
	I've got a couple other reports.
	One about how the U.S. Empire has been kicking taillights of nations across the world.
	That's a reference, of course, to Alex Predty, who kicked out the taillight of the ICE SUV.
	And then, according to a lot of conservatives, that justified killing him.
	And I'm like, well, wait a second.
	What has the U.S. Empire been doing all over the world?
	Kicking taillights and kicking other nations in the teeth or in the balls all over the world.
	I mean, if you think Alex Predty is bad, you should hear about what your government does to other nations.
	So I've got that report coming up.
	You know, the U.S. Empire could be called a global instigator, if you want to use that terminology, because that's what they say about Alex Pred.
	Oh, he's an instigator.
	Well, we're the instigator on the global scale here.
	Our nation is the instigator.
	We kidnap heads of state.
	We invade their countries like Venezuela.
	We wreck their economies with sanctions like in Cuba or Russia.
	We try to wreck Russia, but it didn't really work.
	We tariff our allies like Taiwan and South Korea and Japan.
Splitting Colons and Poor Choices 00:13:01
	It's insane.
	We run coups and color revolutions like we did in Ukraine.
	I mean, on and on and on.
	Nobody is a worse global instigator than the United States of America.
	But anyway, that's in a special report coming up.
	And then we have to talk about Iran, which I will cover that briefly.
	Before we get to that, you know, I've warned you about GLP-1 weight loss injection drugs.
	You know, there are far smarter ways to manage your weight, such as fitness, exercise, making better food choices, you know, drinking more smoothies and things like that, and having more healthy foods and superfoods.
	You know, you know the story.
	Well, there's a headline.
	There's a headline.
	I'm sorry.
	It's a headline that showed up at Zero Hedge.
	And here it is.
	Quote, my colon literally blew up.
	Thousands sue over GLP1 weight loss drug side effects.
	And of course, with a headline like that, you can't help but look in there and say, what?
	What?
	A number of people are suing these companies after using Ozempic, Wegovy.
	Is it Wegovi?
	And Maunjaro.
	I don't even know how to pronounce some of these because is it Wegovy or Wegovy?
	Anyway, whatever they are, one Maryland truck driver says he suffered an eye stroke, losing vision first in one eye and then the other.
	That sucks.
	Can you imagine like losing your vision, one eye and thinking, damn, I lost one eye.
	Good thing I still have the other.
	And then two days later, oh, shh, both not good, right?
	A Louisiana woman developed a serious neurological condition after weeks of vomiting and malnutrition.
	I don't know about you, but quote, weeks of vomiting does not sound like a great way to lose weight.
	Just saying.
	An Oklahoma real estate agent alleges her colon ruptured without warning.
	Yeah, I don't think they rupture with warnings, by the way.
	Alert, alert, rupture imminent.
	While she was driving her granddaughter home from a softball game, quote, my colon blew up.
	Literally blew up.
	She's from Oklahoma.
	I was trying to slim down and feel healthy, but my colon blew up.
	Okay, I'm not trying to mock.
	I'm not going to laugh at this.
	It's just bizarre.
	4,000, I mean, she's the victim, I suppose, but I don't know what is in your colon that caused it to blow up.
	I mean, I don't even know how a GLP-1 drug could make your colon blow up unless you had something sort of, you know, blow-uppable already in your colon.
	What are you eating?
	I'm sorry.
	I don't need to go there.
	Maybe add some fresh fruit to your diet.
	I don't know.
	Is that a thing?
	All three are among the 4,400 plaintiffs who have filed lawsuits against the drugs manufacturers Novo Nordisk and Eli Lilly.
	And all these cases are now consolidated into federal and state litigation that's going to take years to resolve.
	I wonder if the websites have to add like exploding colon to the list of side effects.
	Because they already say blindness and cancer and death.
	But people take the drugs anyway.
	Would adding exploding colon to the list that already includes death and cancer, would that stop anybody?
	Or do they even bother to read any of that?
	They probably don't bother to read it, do they?
	An estimated 12% of American adults are currently using GLP-1 medication.
	Whoa.
	That's more than 31 million people.
	That's a lot of splitting colons.
	Clean up on aisle 5.
	I tell you what.
	Prescriptions were 1 million in 2018, and now they're 9 million a year in 2022.
	And then that doubled again between 2024 and 2025.
	So, so, get this.
	Remember how I said that these drugs paralyze your vagus nerve?
	Yeah.
	So 75% of the federal lawsuits include an allegation of what's called gastroparesis, which is stomach paralysis.
	This is a chronic condition where the stomach slows or stops emptying food into the small intestine.
	Yeah, because you've paralyzed the vagus nerve.
	Your stomach broke.
	Okay.
	And that's why people vomit for weeks because they eat and the stomach won't empty.
	See, here's the issue, in my opinion.
	But, you know, I am a food scientist, so give this some weight.
	Here's my opinion.
	These side effects that we're seeing here, these are happening to mostly obese, malnourished people who have very poor health to begin with.
	And I'm not trying to defend the drug companies here, but I don't think that a healthy person, you know, an overall healthy person that's got good nutrition and good levels of vitamin D and good levels of fitness, et cetera, and isn't obese, I don't think a healthy person would actually experience these side effects.
	But then again, if you're already a healthy person and you're fit, you probably wouldn't be injecting with GLP-1, would you?
	I'm just guessing.
	So the very people that use this drug are the people who are most at risk of the side effects of the drug, in my opinion.
	These are people that are already marginally malnourished in terms of nutritional density.
	They're people who tend to live on junk food.
	Pop-tarts and what have you, you know, processed fast food, junk food, basically nutrient-depleted food.
	And so these are people whose colons barely work anyway.
	These are people who probably like, they only have a bowel movement once or twice a week.
	And, you know, that's a crisis statistic right there.
	And if you think about it, if you're already only having one bowel movement a week, then at that point, you're only one missed bowel movement away from an exploding colon.
	Think about it.
	So I think, again, I'm not trying to blame the plaintiffs here.
	I'm just saying that it's probably a bad idea to keep eating a bunch of processed junk food and having a very poor lifestyle and then think that you're going to solve it with an injection of a big pharma venom peptide, basically, that paralyzes your vagus nerve.
	That is probably a bad idea, just saying.
	And not only are the health implications of all of this rather catastrophic, if you're already in bad shape and then you get hit with these drugs, but also exploding colons as you're driving home, that also really harms the resale value of your vehicle, it turns out.
	One plaintiff alleges in their lawsuit so-called where Nikki's encephalopathy, which is a neurological condition that's known to be caused by a deficiency of vitamin B1.
	So of course, I have the question, why don't you take vitamin B1?
	But no, no.
	Oh, you're not a doctor.
	You can't prescribe vitamins.
	Okay.
	Well, enjoy your sploding colon.
	I mean, you could take vitamins.
	Again, not trying to blame the plaintiffs here, just saying there are better ways to achieve health.
	Some of them involve taking nutritional supplements.
	Have any of these people had their vitamin D levels checked or their B vitamins checked or calcium or magnesium, etc.
	I bet you they haven't seen a superfood forever.
	They don't even know what superfoods are.
	In Louisiana, this one plaintiff says that his wife developed permanent brain damage after months of vomiting while taking one of the drugs, Mongero.
	I mean, my goodness, that sounds horrible.
	Months of vomiting, months of vomiting.
	That probably would cause brain damage.
	Did they keep taking the Mongero?
	Is that what it's called?
	Malongero?
	I'm just wondering, if you start to have negative side effects, do these people keep taking the injections?
	And do they keep eating processed junk food?
	You know, maybe what they need is like a crash course from the health ranger.
	Like how to make healthy food choices.
	Here, let's talk about ingredients.
	Let's talk about how to just be smarter in the grocery store.
	What are you eating?
	But that's not allowed in the medical system.
	Oh, food has nothing to do with your health.
	That's what doctors say.
	Even to this day, they still say that.
	Not all of them, but many of them do.
	Oh, even Oprah said, like, obesity isn't not up to you, not your fault.
	Obesity, it's because of your genes.
	Okay, well, if there are genetic influences, I'm pretty sure your genes can't control your hand.
	And you can still make better food choices because don't you control what you buy at the grocery store?
	Don't you control what's in your refrigerator?
	Who's got the fork in your hand?
	Who's got that?
	That's you.
	That's you.
	Use the fork wisely.
	Use the forks, Luke.
	Sorry.
	Okay.
	Okay.
	Enough.
	So anyway, I think obviously there are no shortcuts to lasting health.
	You know me.
	I've been advocating clean foods and healthy foods and nutrient-dense foods for 25 years.
	And I don't jab myself with these things to try to look, you know, extremely thin in my waist.
	I don't care.
	I really don't even care.
	I don't weigh myself at all.
	What do I do?
	I go out and jog now.
	I'm able to jog an hour at a time.
	Thank goodness.
	You know, because of some of the healing peptides that I discovered a year ago.
	I'm out there lifting kettlebells.
	I was out there in 20-degree weather recently lifting kettlebells with gloves on because I only work out in the forest.
	I'm just saying, I don't take shortcuts either.
	I put in the work.
	I make the smoothies.
	I buy the healthy foods.
	I shop organic.
	I do the exercise.
	I drink clean rainwater.
	I take the high-end supplements.
	I'm taking black cumin seed oil.
	I'm doing turmeric.
	I'm doing broccoli sprout powder and all the amazing high-density, high-nutrient-density products that we sell.
	HealthRangerStore.com.
	I built the store around all the products that can help you maintain your health so that you don't need shortcuts from prescription drugs or injections or bariatric surgery or whatever.
	There are far smarter ways that you can get the nutrition you need, maintain good body health, good cognitive function, good longevity, you know, good sleep, good sex.
	You know, life is better when you're healthier.
	I built a whole product line to help you do that.
	And you can find those at healthrangerstore.com.
	And it's pristine.
	We do all the lab testing.
	Almost everything is certified organic.
	And nowhere do we sell GLP1.
	In fact, we don't sell anything that's injectable.
	Period.
	So it's very simple.
	You want to be healthy?
	Make good, healthy choices.
	And shop with us at healthrangerstore.com.
Iran's Missile Threat 00:14:56
	And I guess we'll have to watch and see what happens with the case of the exploding colon.
	If you have exploding colon syndrome, you might want to look at what is in your pantry.
	I mean, I'm curious.
	All right.
	Anyway, thanks for listening.
	All right.
	We got to talk about Iran.
	Here's the issue with Iran is that according to numerous public news sources, the so-called negotiations broke down again.
	They're not really negotiations.
	They are Donald Trump and the U.S. Empire making unreasonable demands of a foreign sovereign nation and pretending that the U.S. gets to control the world and tell everybody else what they can and cannot do.
	So in effect, what Trump is demanding of Iran would be suicide for Iran.
	And Trump is demanding that Iran completely abandon all nuclear fuel enrichment programs, even for their domestic nuclear fuel industry, which, look, under the United Nations, every nation has the right to pursue conventional nuclear industry, you know, for power, for infrastructure.
	So the U.S. has no legal right to make such a demand on Iran.
	This is clearly coming from Netanyahu and Israel.
	But the next demand is even crazier.
	Trump is demanding that Iran give up all of its missiles.
	Yeah, the missiles that serve as the only defense against Israel and the United States attacking and destroying Iran.
	See, Iran has a lot of very capable missiles right now.
	I mean, hundreds of thousands of them of varying capabilities.
	They can hit U.S. military bases in the Persian Gulf region, all around there.
	They can hit Israel, as we saw last summer.
	They can hit U.S. ships.
	They can sink U.S. naval vessels.
	They've even got ballistic missiles that have a range now of up to 10,000 kilometers, I believe, or maybe they have a few of those.
	Asking Iran to give up its missiles would be like asking a guy who's walking into a bar in an old Texas saloon filled with bandits and thieves with all their guns out, asking that guy to give up his pistol.
	Like, no, I'm not going to give up my pistol.
	If I give up my pistol, I'm going to get robbed and gang raped by these lunatics here in this saloon.
	Right?
	I mean, asking Iran to give up its missiles would be suicide for Iran, because the minute they did it, if they were to comply, if they give up all their missiles, what's going to happen the very next day?
	Israel's going to bomb them and attack them and assassinate their leaders if they can.
	And America is going to bomb them.
	Look, America is not negotiating with Iran in good faith.
	America is actually incapable of negotiating in good faith.
	And they proved that last summer when they said that we're going to meet with the Iranian negotiators, I think they said we're going to meet on Monday.
	And then they killed them over the weekend before the meeting.
	So that's how Trump negotiates with Iran is, yeah, let's meet next Tuesday at noon and then we'll kill you Monday or we'll kill you Sunday.
	That's what the U.S. did.
	That's not even theoretical.
	That's not hyperbole.
	That's history.
	That happened last year in the summer.
	So the U.S. is incapable of negotiating in good faith.
	So of course, Iran said, no, are you out of your mind?
	We're not going to give up our missiles and we're not going to give up our nuclear fuel enrichment program for our domestic infrastructure.
	So Trump and all of them, Heg Seth and Trump and Marco Rubio and who are some of the other, Pompeo, they're all so arrogant.
	They're arrogant, violent, global, you know, instigators of terror against other nations.
	There's no other way to describe it.
	That's what they're doing.
	And they really just want to destroy Iran.
	So does Lindsey Graham and so does Ted Cruz, who cares nothing about Texas.
	They just want to destroy Iran.
	Why?
	Because Israel told them to do that.
	They want to destroy Iran, no matter what, even though Iran is no real threat to the United States, is it?
	No.
	So why?
	Why are we doing all this?
	Well, it's because of Israel, obviously.
	So there's no deal.
	Of course, there's no deal because the deal was a farce.
	So Trump is going to use that, that refusal of the deal, to attack Iran.
	So Pete Hegseth, the U.S. Secretary of War, not Secretary of Defense, and this guy's a lunatic.
	He said that the military is fully prepared to, quote, deliver whatever President Donald Trump orders as a naval armada moves toward the region.
	He said, quote, we will be prepared to deliver whatever this president expects of the War Department.
	Okay.
	And then he said that the U.S., we were able to go into Venezuela and we kidnapped President Nicolas Maduro.
	And that sends a message to every capital around the world that when President Trump speaks, he means business.
	Oh, okay.
	Good luck trying to kidnap the Ayatollah.
	I mean, what are you going to do?
	You're going to land in Iran and send in a super secret squad of agents, military goons to go in there.
	You think you're going to kidnap all the high-level Iranian people?
	No.
	Your dudes are going to vanish into a deep dark hole.
	They're going to disappear.
	You're never going to see them again because this is not Venezuela.
	I mean, come on.
	And the naval vessels that America has there, can they do damage?
	Yes, they can do damage.
	They can launch missiles.
	But they're also big, fat, juicy targets for Iran's missiles.
	And don't forget that China has been flying a huge number of cargo planes to Iran and unloading some unknown containers of all kinds of interesting things, probably drones and drone carriers and all kinds of, who knows what, super secret hypersonic missiles or whatever.
	Russia has been providing some level of technical assistance to Iran on its ballistic missiles over many years.
	There's been some level of technology transfer.
	But don't forget that Iran is also extremely capable of engineering and building its own drones.
	I don't know how to pronounce them.
	What are the Shahid drones?
	Maybe I'm not saying that correctly.
	I don't speak Farsi, obviously, but Iran is very capable of making its own drones.
	They are a major drone manufacturer.
	They export drones.
	So how many drones has Iran been making since last summer when they knew that Israel and the United States were going to come back and try to kill them again?
	And the answer to that is as many as they freaking can, clearly.
	So probably Iran has tens of thousands of drones.
	Each one is a kamikaze weapon that could render a ship unusable.
	I'm not saying it would sink a ship, not one strike, but it could, you know, it could render it unusable or it could make the ship have to sail home for repairs, all kinds of things.
	So yeah, the U.S. Navy can launch a bunch of missiles and a lot of big fireballs while Pete Hegseth goes, hoorah, yeah, we're badass.
	America, F yeah, right?
	Just like from the cartoon or the puppet show.
	And, you know, big fireballs on Fox News.
	Yeah, we're tough.
	We mean it.
	When we say something, you do something.
	So that Trump can act tough and Hegseth can act tough and Marco Rubio can act tough.
	And in the end, it doesn't do anything.
	It doesn't change who's in charge in Iran.
	I mean, it may actually Strengthen the government's position there with its own domestic population because people tend to band together when their country is being attacked by a foreign attacker, which the U.S. clearly would be.
	So, this is not going to change the leadership.
	This is not going to overthrow Iran.
	And I don't even know how Trump thinks he's overthrown Venezuela.
	Is the U.S. in Venezuela running the show right now?
	Not to my knowledge.
	I mean, you kidnap the president, you take him out of there, and then you say, like, we own Venezuela now, but do you really control it?
	No.
	So, I don't even understand what's going on there.
	How does he think that we run Venezuela?
	I don't know what the population of Venezuela is, but it's millions of people who probably completely disagree with whatever Trump is claiming.
	It's like, no, we have our own way of doing things here.
	I do know the population of Iran is like 90 million people.
	So, if you think you're going to go in and just overthrow a country of 90 million people that's surrounded by mountains and has very advanced technology and some very smart engineers, by the way, you got another thing coming.
	And so, the way I see it, there are only two ways this thing goes.
	Number one is that Trump realizes the U.S. can't actually win this.
	And so, he organizes a demonstration bombing to be able to claim victory back home.
	You know, drop a couple of bombs, launch some missiles, have some big fireballs, and then have a big press conference.
	We kick ass!
	Yeah, you know, and then back home in Iran, their leaders can say, oh, they didn't damage anything, it's just fireballs out in the desert.
	Who cares?
	They blew up the side of a mountain over there, some grass is on fire, who cares?
	You know, but Trump will claim it's a massive victory, just like last year.
	He claimed that we completely destroyed forever Iran's nuclear weapons program.
	Right, that was you know, six months ago or seven months ago.
	Now, he's claiming it's back-like you have to stop your nuclear weapons program.
	Oh, I thought you blew it up last year, Trump.
	How did it come back?
	Yeah, because you know, you're full of shit last year when you said it blew it up.
	And I called it, I called it correctly last year.
	Sorry about the profanity, but you know, we're talking about talking about Trump's pronouncements here.
	So, sometimes we have to use profanity to be accurate.
	You're not going to be able to overthrow Iran with a bombing campaign.
	The only way to overthrow Iran is to go in with millions of troops on the ground.
	And guess what?
	America doesn't have millions of troops anywhere.
	I mean, not that could march on the ground without collapsing after about 100 yards.
	So, all that the U.S. can do-you know, Pete Hegseth can scream all he wants, but all you can do is a little bombing from the air.
	You can set some things on fire, you can terrorize Iran, you can bomb some ports and some oil refineries or whatever, but you can't change the country with bombing.
	And so, Trump will just have to go home and try to claim victory and hope that his followers are dumb enough to believe it.
	The other thing that could happen is Trump could go all in thinking that we can destroy Iran.
	And if he does that, then Iran is going to go all out and they're going to launch freaking everything.
	And I'm not sure exactly what that is, but I bet it's a lot because they've had a lot of time to prepare a lot of assistance.
	You know, I mentioned China and Russia and other countries helping them prepare for this inevitability.
	So Iran's going to just hit the button on everything.
	Just launch it all, you know.
	However you say that in Farsi.
	They're going to launch everything.
	They're going to hit the bases.
	They're going to hit the ships.
	They're going to hit Israel.
	They're going to blow the bejesus out of Israel.
	Not that Israel believes in Jesus, but I mean the Bejesus out of Israel.
	And Israel will be turned into Gaza, basically.
	And then you're, oh man, you're going to heal all kinds of complaints from Israelis.
	Oh, how dare they turn our cities into rubble.
	That's going to be a moment of historic irony right there.
	And the U.S. will probably lose some ships, or at least they'll suffer severe damage and have to sail back home where they will take five years to repair because nobody remembers how to weld in America or nobody's willing to do so without triple time pay or something.
	So, okay, maybe that's exaggeration.
	A few people still know how to weld, but they're not working in the naval yards, okay?
	They're working on the ranches and the oil rigs and things like that.
	But we don't have, my point is we don't really have a naval repair infrastructure worth anything.
	If even three ships get damaged, then all our repair docks are occupied at that point and we're screwed for years because in America's military, everything takes forever and costs an infinite amount of money.
	It seems just a giant black hole of fraud and waste and corruption.
	So for every hole that gets blown in an aircraft carrier, let's say, or a frigate by Iran with a $20,000 drone, that hole will cost like $20 billion to repair by the time you run it through Norfolk, Virginia, and all the repair, welding, union fees, and everything.
U.S. Military's Mineral Crisis 00:06:13
	It's a $20 billion hole, which is more than the cost of the whole frigate.
	But that's the way the military operates.
	Trust me.
	It would be cheaper to set fire to the frigate and sink it and build a whole new one than to fix that damn hole.
	But it would just take longer.
	So they'll have to figure out how to fix the hole.
	Meanwhile, the entire United States military has run out of minerals.
	All kinds of minerals.
	I've got a whole full special report on this.
	I'm going to cover another day, but let me just read for you.
	Oh, this is good.
	Let me read the executive summary for you.
	I'm going to cover this in more detail maybe Monday.
	Over the past six years, China has implemented an increasingly comprehensive export control regime targeting strategic metals and rare earth elements essential to the United States defense industrial base and advanced technology sectors.
	Beginning with gallium and germanium restrictions in July of 2023, China has progressively expanded controls to include graphite, antimony, tungsten, rare earth elements, and numerous other critical minerals.
	Yeah, and don't forget graphite there.
	I mean, I just mentioned graphite, but that's easy to miss because it's not technically a mineral, right?
	It's just, it's a special form of carbon.
	Anyway, this report provides a comprehensive chronological inventory of all Chinese export restrictions, bans, and licensing requirements affecting strategic metals from 2019 through January of 2026, along with the detailed analysis of the U.S. military applications for each restricted element.
	Got it?
	Yeah, so I scrambled a bunch of AI agents to go out and find all this stuff and pull together this report.
	The restrictions have significant implications for U.S. national security, as many of these materials are essential components in advanced weapons systems, radar technology, guidance systems, and military electronics.
	In other words, when the U.S. loses equipment because Iran hits it with missiles or drones, the U.S. can't replace it because it doesn't have the minerals.
	You see, key findings include, this is the final paragraph, key findings include China controls 48% to 99% of global production of most restricted materials.
	The U.S. is 100% import-dependent for several critical minerals.
	You got that?
	100%.
	That's not a rounding error.
	Many restrictions target dual-use items with clear military applications, and recent diplomatic engagements have led to temporary suspensions of some controls through late 2026.
	So there you go.
	I'm going to bring you more details in the next update.
	My point is that the U.S. military can't rebuild the stuff it loses.
	So think about it.
	Think about it.
	Iran can build.
	They have a strong industrial base.
	Russia can build.
	They've proven that since 2022.
	China, China can build.
	China is the world's factory.
	They can build everything.
	The U.S. can't build these weapon systems anymore.
	They don't have the minerals.
	And also, they don't have the workforce that's really willing to work also.
	Or anybody that knows how to do anything anymore in the government.
	So that's why they have to put cartoon figures in charge like Pete Hegseth.
	He's like a cartoon.
	You know, he's like a caricature.
	So my point is that if this conflict actually goes really full-on hot with Iran and the U.S. starts losing things, then China is going to look at that and say, whoa, huh, this makes the U.S. incredibly vulnerable.
	They probably can't defend Taiwan right now.
	What do you think China's going to do?
	They're just going to send an email to the president of Taiwan.
	Hey, yeah, you either surrender right now or we're just going to come take it, including all the microchips.
	And Taiwan's going to have to surrender because there's nothing they can do if the U.S. can't defend them.
	Japan can't defend Taiwan against China, nor can the U.S.
	So, in other words, if Trump attacks Iran, it could set off a chain reaction of events that becomes absolutely catastrophic for the United States or the U.S. Empire and ultimately could lead to the collapse of the dollar, the abandonment of treasuries, the abandonment of dollar, whatever dollar hegemony still exists in the world.
	There will be currency consequences for bad military decisions.
	And there's nobody that's positioned to make worse military decisions than Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth.
	These are the dynamic duo of dumb and dumber of the United States military.
	Neither one of them knows much of anything, especially at the theater level, of how to use a military.
	So they're probably just going to have insane orders like, go in there, just rush in there.
	It's like, tackle the quarterback, you know.
	They're just going to send in a bunch of ships and think that they're playing risk on a risk board, and then they wonder why the ships are sinking.
	That's probably where this is going.
	I'm not certain about it, but it's a good possibility.
	Maybe we should call, instead of dumb and dumber, we should call Trump and Trumper.
	Hegseth would be the Trumper.
Get Ready for Chaos 00:03:28
	These people are clowns, man.
	Our nation is run by absolute clowns.
	So look, load up on gold and maybe silver too.
	Get ready for fuel prices to skyrocket.
	Get ready for supply chains to break down just in case Trump goes all out.
	This is going to get super dicey, super fast.
	This is going to be more spicy than a jalapeño breakfast burrito with fire sauce on top of it.
	Yeah, it's going to get crazy.
	All right.
	You can follow more of my work, of course, at naturalnews.com where I have articles on all this, as well as Brighteon.com, where I have the videos here.
	And be sure to check out all my AI tools at brightion.ai.
	And that links to all the different AI tools right there.
	So enjoy the tools and pray for peace.
	You know, pray for peace.
	I don't want to see war and destruction and stupidity on parade, but too late.
	Too late for that.
	We already have a secretary of war.
	My God.
	We've already become a clown show.
	Okay.
	Laughing stock of the world.
	Thanks for listening.
	Pray for peace, though.
	Okay.
	Take care.
	All right.
	I've got other special reports for you here today.
	Like I mentioned earlier, I think I've got three for you.
	We'll start with how AI technology can make bad government obsolete.
	And then we'll have today's interview with Firefly Homeschooling.
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	You know, I'm so glad that I interviewed Salim Ismail, who is the founder of, well, what's it called? The OpenXO, which he teaches companies and organizations how to 10x their growth using some really innovative techniques.
	And some of it is lowering the cost of the supply side, which I found really interesting.
	So I had a great interview with him.
	That'll be running next week.
	But he uplifted my optimism, which is really a good thing because it's so easy to get down right now.
Reasoning Beyond Humans 00:15:30
	And I don't mean like get on down.
	I mean, to be dark and moody or, you know, depressed.
	I'm not saying I'm not depressed because I can always laugh at everything, but it's a depressing era in our world.
	You know what I mean?
	It's easy to have a day of doom scrolling given what's happening in our world.
	And when I talk with Salim, it's just a great reminder that we don't have to focus on all the political nonsense and all the domestic nonsense.
	There's a much bigger picture at work here.
	And it helped me realize that, you know what the best way is to get rid of government violence against people?
	And this is the real focus of this podcast.
	The best way to get rid of government violence against the people is to make government obsolete.
	That's it.
	Make government obsolete.
	What a great mantra.
	And, you know, the funny way to achieve that is to first, you know, I mean, what is government?
	It's like 80% waste and fraud.
	And so one of the ways to shrink government is to actually make it more efficient to where they don't need as many people to run it.
	And if you want to reduce the cost of government, which would reduce the required tax base to fund government, one of the easiest ways to do that, the obvious way, is to replace government workers with automation.
	Now, the government workers themselves, they may resist that.
	I mean, obviously, government jobs tend to be pretty cushy type of jobs, right?
	And people like those jobs.
	They want a paycheck.
	They want a pension, etc.
	You know, wait till they find out where the dollar is going, though.
	The currency is not going to be around long enough for many of them to collect on their pension anyway.
	But they don't know that.
	So they want to resist the whole thing about innovation and AI change.
	And they just want, they want bodies in the chairs, you know?
	So a lot of what government does is it just sits there.
	It just sits there and it tries to exist and it tries to expand.
	And that means expanding the people, expanding the payroll, expanding just the bodies in the chairs that do the things that government does.
	And the thing is that AI now makes a lot of that utterly obsolete.
	So even among the staunch defenders of government who say, well, we need government to do all these important things like build roads, which, by the way, that's one of the tiniest functions of what government does today.
	They really don't build that many roads.
	They really don't build that many schools.
	I'm talking about the federal government.
	Most of that happens locally at the county level or the state level, by the way.
	But even for those who say, well, we need government to do certain things, like we need the military, we need to defend the nation.
	And I agree, we need some level of national defense.
	That actually does make sense.
	I get that.
	You know, we do need some kind of standards for things, like we should move to the metric system, for example.
	And that would be a function of maybe the NIST or something like that.
	So I understand there's some certain functions of government, but my point is whatever functions of government you think should exist, they can be made a lot less costly, a lot less tyrannical, and a lot more efficient by replacing the government workers with AI.
	And some people are afraid, well, I don't want AI to rule over me.
	What?
	So you'd rather some tyrant rule over you?
	I'm way more comfortable with an open source AI model, a reasoning model.
	Let me put it this way.
	The reasoning models are way more reasonable than the humans.
	It's not even close.
	The reasoning models actually make sense.
	I can reason with a reasoning model.
	I can't reason with a party loyalist.
	I can't reason with a Zionist.
	I can't reason with an authoritarian.
	I can reason with a reasoning model.
	I am much more comfortable seeing AI run whatever necessary functions of government that you think are important than having human beings run those.
	I don't trust the humans, and that's from experience.
	The humans are actually, well, really, the humans are bad at doing the jobs.
	They don't have the cognition of AI and they don't have the neutrality.
	They have biases.
	They're lazy often.
	They're privileged.
	They're arrogant.
	I don't know about you, but in all the AI engines that I've interacted with, I've never had one get arrogant with me.
	Never.
	Pretty much they're narcissistic.
	They're like, oh, you're right.
	I shouldn't have dropped that index table, which that's what Claude Code said to me one day.
	I shouldn't have dropped the index of that row.
	Or no, it dropped an entire column out of a table.
	And when I said, what did you just do?
	It's, oh, you're right.
	I shouldn't have done that.
	Like, okay.
	We had to rebuild that column.
	It took 90 minutes to rebuild that one column in that one table.
	So that was a mistake.
	But even then, it wasn't trying to hurt me.
	But believe me, there are people in government, especially because of all the warring between the parties these days.
	There are people in government, well, and also, you know, outside of government, but people want to hurt other people a lot.
	You know, the Democrats hate Trump and Trump's people, who increasingly resemble, you know, the Third Reich, Trump's people absolutely want to kill Democrats.
	Because how do we know that?
	Because they're doing it.
	They're doing it with ICE on the streets right now.
	I mean, this level of warfare and hatred, this is not good for society.
	We don't want extreme hatred and polarization in government or anywhere in society.
	So if we were to simply have AI models, AI reasoning models make government decisions based on prompts that we the people agree on.
	You know, so Congress could debate about the prompting of the model or the model's priorities that it must follow.
	Let the model reason through it and arrive at the correct answer.
	How do we save money on public education?
	How do we limit fraud in government grants?
	How do we achieve these things?
	I'm telling you, AI can solve these problems much better than humans.
	It's not even close.
	Much better than humans.
	How do we slash the size of government?
	90% or whatever percent you want to target?
	80%?
	That's doable right now with AI.
	Now, I'm not saying that we should have Skynet Terminator robots replace all the soldiers in the military.
	I think it's very important to have humans in the command chain when it comes to the training people to kill in the military.
	I don't want that automated, obviously.
	We still need human values in those chains, but there are a lot of things in government, most things that we don't need humans for.
	For example, sitting in the EPA and trying to figure out how do I give out a billion dollars in grant money for Environmental projects or whatever.
	You don't need people to figure that out.
	All you have to do is have people define the priorities, the criteria, the goals.
	And then you give that to an AI engine and you say, here you go.
	Here's the priorities.
	You know, basically writing the prompt, saying, here's what we want to focus on.
	And here's, you know, 5,000 grant applications.
	I want you to go through the grant applications and give me, you know, the top 200 that seem to be the most worthy and go, you know, and then let it crunch on that for a day.
	You come back, boom, you've just cleaned up, you know, thousands of applications.
	You've replaced weeks of human work with one day of AI work at a fraction of the cost and probably with better accuracy and no bias.
	I mean, the only bias the AI engine will have is what you told it.
	If you said, well, I want to have bias for minority groups, right?
	If that's your policy, then it will do that.
	But that's your bias.
	That's not the AI's bias.
	The AI is not pushing bias, the reasoning models, especially.
	They're really trying to reason through the problems.
	So if you believe in small government, which, by the way, conservatives used to believe in small government, not anymore.
	With Trump in power, all the conservatives are like, bigger government, more troops on the streets, take over the cities.
	You know, more war, bigger Pentagon, bomb more countries, right?
	So conservatives, I've done another podcast on this.
	Conservatives, that is the vast majority of them, no longer have conservative values, which is just truly bizarre.
	I still have, you know, I like Ron Paul.
	I like Ron Paul's values when it comes to small government.
	And I actually still believe those same values.
	But whatever your values are, if you believe in small government, or even if you just believe in more honest government that's less weaponized against the people or not weaponized at all, you should support AI replacement of government workers.
	You're going to take the size way down.
	You're going to boost the efficiency, the honesty, the integrity, and the transparency.
	Because every AI agent that works for government should be open source and we should be able to monitor its chain of thought reasoning as members of the public.
	Like you want to know what does the director of the USDA think right now?
	Well, since the USDA director is a human, you don't know.
	What's inside their skull is a black box.
	It's a mystery in there.
	Who knows what's going on and which pesticide companies have paid that person off or promised a lucrative job or something like that, right?
	Or gave a bunch of grant money to their daughter and the daughter's business or whatever.
	I mean, that's how it works, right?
	That's the reality of Washington, D.C. What if instead we had an open source AI model, a reasoning model running the USDA, and you could log into a webpage and you could watch the thinking tokens be generated in real time.
	So the director of the USDA is a machine that is highly intelligent, that knows the whole history of the USDA, that knows all the legal cases, everything, has all the science about the dangers of pesticides and herbicides, has all the science about biosolids, bio-sludge in the soils, everything.
	And then it's making decisions in the interests of the people because that's its programming.
	And then you can watch what it's saying, what it's thinking, like literally watch what it is thinking.
	You just go to the webpage.
	It's like, you know, USDA, or what would it be?
	Like AIDirector.usda.gov or something like that.
	Just go there and just start churning out tokens of what the director is thinking.
	Wouldn't that be better than the current system where it's a mystery, a bunch of mystery humans with mysterious loyalties and mysterious bribes or threats or promises or blackmail or whatever is affecting?
	I mean, same thing's true in the Senate or the House.
	Same thing's true.
	I would much rather trust a cognitive AI model that I can see what it's thinking than to trust a typically corrupt human being where everything's a secret and all the deals are done in dark rooms behind closed doors and they have these weird intrinsic biases or they don't even put America first.
	You know, they put some other country first or they have some other agenda, some hidden agenda that we don't even know about.
	Well, you wouldn't have that with AI.
	AI, the thinking would be all out in the public.
	You'd be able to see exactly what it's thinking.
	And if you have a problem with what it's thinking, then guess what?
	You and the other voters get to control the AI through a consensus mechanism.
	And the best way to deploy that would be through some kind of local blockchain voting system.
	You can vote on every prompt.
	You can say, hey, do you want your senator to support, you know, blah, blah, blah.
	Do you want your senator to support abortion or to outlaw abortion, right?
	And then the people in the state vote on that.
	And then whatever vote wins, then that's the directive that goes to the senator.
	Oh, Mr. AI Senator, your directive is to, let's say, you know, support abortion because that's what the voters voted for in, you know, California or wherever.
	And that's representational government, isn't it?
	That's representational government, which is what senators are supposed to do, but they don't do.
	I mean, they don't represent you or me.
	They represent corporate interests, don't they?
	Or some other weird international interests.
	Or, you know, a senator in Texas.
	You just swap out Ted Cruz with a machine, and believe me, it's going to be better.
	You can't do worse than Ted Cruz.
	I mean, and then you can tell the machine, hey, Mr. AI Senator, actually support the Second Amendment.
	Don't just talk about it.
	And as long as that's what the voters support, then that's what the AI senator does.
	Oh, we're going to defend the Second Amendment.
	This is Texas.
	You see?
	And instead, what we have is Ted Cruz tweeting about Israel every other day, or every day, instead of focusing on Texas.
	I mean, call me crazy, but I think that senators should represent the people of their state, not some foreign country.
	I don't know.
	Is that weird?
	And so, look, getting back to what I opened up with here in this podcast, even I, I can get sucked down these rabbit holes of domestic politics that are a complete waste of time.
	Because you're arguing with idiots.
	You really are arguing with idiots about, oh, should citizens have a First Amendment right or should they have a Second Amendment right?
	You're arguing with idiots on the liberal side and the conservative side.
	It doesn't matter.
	They don't know anything.
	They really don't.
	They don't have any principles.
	They don't understand law.
	They don't know history.
	Every AI that is open source right now is smarter than all the people I'm arguing with on Twitter or wherever.
	And the solution to all of this is not to argue with people about what's happening, but rather make government obsolete by replacing the workers with AI.
	So again, I'm happy I had this conversation with Salim because this makes perfect sense.
Calling Tim Tool the Fool 00:02:03
	And you know, the other thing worth noting in all of this, and I'm not trying to sound arrogant, but I just have no more patience in interacting with low IQ people like you find online on social media.
	They're just, and many of them are really popular people.
	Like, let me just call out Tim Poole.
	I call him Tim Tool the Fool.
	Tim Poole is, for some reason, he's got great visibility as a podcaster.
	I think that's because the establishment likes obedient puppets like that.
	And he went out there the other day and he said, and I'm paraphrasing, but he said that he's not a boot licker.
	He likes the boot because it's his boot.
	It's his boot that he's licking because he's saying that his people are terrorizing the illegals in Minneapolis, right?
	So he's like, it's my boot.
	I voted for that boot.
	Something like that.
	And that's why I call Tim Poole a self-licking boot, which is actually, that's a perfect description.
	Tim Poole is just not very smart.
	He's, and, you know, being smart actually is a drawback in terms of popularity.
	If you're too smart, you're never going to reach the masses because the masses aren't that smart.
	So Tim Poole is kind of right in that bell curve, you know, C-student sweet spot of average intelligence that resonates with the average herd out there, you know?
	And I just, I can't, I just can't stoop to that level of low IQ.
	I just can't do it.
	I mean, not that I would want to.
	It's just, it's intolerable.
	I like to talk to smart people.
	I like to interact with intelligent people.
	I like people who are well-informed.
Inner Nazi Mindset 00:14:22
	I don't care what their politics are.
	I want them to be intelligent.
	I want them to look at the world in a critical manner and to think through things, not just react or push a bunch of party propaganda or do a bunch of hoorah, you know, just like sports team garbage.
	You know, people root for Trump the way they root for the New York Jets or I don't even know if that's the team anymore, but it's like a, it's like a sport.
	And that's idiocy.
	That's idiocy.
	It's idiocy on the left, too.
	You know, if you're, if you're rooting for a, a political party, you're just kind of dumb.
	And that is, that's not going to get us anywhere in this country.
	We have to transcend that system and we have to use technology to do it.
	That's what I'm doing with my projects, the AI projects like Bright Learn.
	And that's what I'm encouraging others to do.
	So I'm going to say right now, I have, actually, I've said this before, I have zero loyalty to any political party.
	I have loyalty to principles.
	Principles.
	And it's those principles that we need to anchor this nation and this civilization in order to move humanity forward.
	The principles that I espouse are universal principles, the fundamentals of civilization.
	The right to private property, the right to due process, the right to freedom of speech, the right to farm, the right to own the product of your own labor, things like that, the right to disagree with the government.
	These are fundamental rights.
	Also, I believe in the right of access to information and knowledge and the fundamental right of access to water, for example.
	I do not support the corporatization of water supplies globally and the impoverishment of people by water companies like Nestle, etc.
	Okay.
	But that's just me.
	So my values are the values that create civilization.
	The values of the tribalists who want you to get dragged down into political wars, those are the values that destroy civilization.
	Those are values of violence and war.
	and oppression or suppression, censorship, etc.
	So at the end of the day, the future of our world depends on people like you and I who have foundational values that are pro-civilization.
	And there are a lot of people like us out there, thank goodness, and we're the ones that matter.
	Understand, the masses don't matter.
	They're not going to change the world.
	All they can do is detract us from helping the world move forward and heal.
	So don't get sucked into the mindless mainstream masses and their low IQ distractions and focusing on tribalism and other kinds of nonsense.
	And I'm saying this to myself as well as to you.
	I have to remind myself, because I get sucked into this sometimes too.
	That's my fault.
	But don't allow yourself to get sucked into it if you can help it.
	Let's focus on building the next civilization because this system that we're in right now, it's going to collapse.
	The collapse is accelerating.
	You can see it.
	You can sense it.
	It's all around us.
	Everything's collapsing.
	Every institution, every currency, every government, every principle, you name it.
	It's all collapsing.
	This system is not sustainable, but it's people like us that can get it to the other side and can build something that actually works for humanity.
	And I am committed to doing that in a principled way.
	Principles are not for sale.
	They are immutable and they are compatible with an abundant world of joyful, healthy, wealthy people.
	That's what I believe in.
	All right.
	If you want to follow my work, you can read my articles at naturalnews.com.
	Or you can check out my interviews and podcasts at brighteon.com.
	And of course, you can use all my free AI tools that are part of all this at, well, let's see.
	Go to brightlearn.ai.
	That's our book engine.
	Or brightanswers.ai is our AI answer engine.
	Or brightnews.ai is our news engine.
	So check it all out.
	Use the tools.
	Spread the word.
	Thank you for listening.
	And thanks for being who you are.
	There's a lot on our shoulders.
	We have to build civilization again because the system out there right now is absolutely committing civilizational suicide.
	They're going to bring the system down.
	But when they do, we can bring it back online in a whole new way.
	We can actually do a better job.
	We can.
	We can do a better job than the ones who are bringing the system down because they're, frankly, they're retarded.
	They really are.
	So don't fret the collapse.
	Should actually kind of hope for it because that's the only way we get to anything better.
	All right.
	Thanks for listening.
	Take care.
	So there's an argument being made now by conservatives in the aftermath of this Alex Predi shooting that, and this is from prominent conservatives who are claiming that, aha, well, he, Alex Predi, kicked out a taillight 11 days earlier.
	Therefore, he deserved to be shot and killed by ICE.
	That's the argument.
	And I would like to point out that the United States Empire has been running around the world doing much more than kicking taillights.
	The U.S. Empire has been carrying out assassinations, color revolutions, economic warfare sanctions, piracy on the high seas, stealing people's ships and stealing their oil.
	Routinely, by the way, kidnapping heads of state, totally illegal, invading Venezuela, bombing Iran, even though Iran posed no threat whatsoever to the United States, you know, on and on.
	Punitive tariffs against our allies like Taiwan and Japan, India, South Korea, etc.
	So the U.S. has been kicking taillights and worse all over the world for years.
	And according to conservative influencers, then the world has the right to murder the U.S. Empire because that's their argument.
	That's what they say.
	If you've done these things, then you deserve to be shot and killed.
	But yet you don't hear any consistent arguments from any of these people because they have no principles.
	They really don't have conservative principles.
	They are fake conservatives.
	They claim to believe in due process and constitutional protections and small government.
	But when it comes down to it, they want big government to hunt down and murder their political enemies on the streets of America, and they will use any excuse to justify it.
	So number one, stop listening to conservatives who have no principles.
	That should be obvious.
	Also, stop listening to Christians who have no Christian principles.
	There are a lot of those.
	We've seen that since October 7th.
	And use your brain on this, because even if Alex Predi had kicked out 100 taillights, that doesn't make ICE the judge, jury, and executioner of any American, does it?
	Does it?
	No.
	And if someone had done something, you know, smashed some government property two weeks ago or two years ago.
	Did you know that even in the courts, that's not admissible as evidence?
	If you're talking about a whole new event, even the courts would dismiss that and say, well, that's not even relevant to what happened here in this case, in this shooting.
	You know, what happened 11 days ago, if anything, it doesn't show that Alex Predi is guilty.
	If anything, it shows that ICE is guilty because it shows that ICE remembered that event and then they hunted him down and ran a vengeance killing.
	So this is actually damning to ICE and the Trump administration and all the conservatives supporting this.
	They don't realize that this Alex Predi video works against their argument.
	This shows that ICE is, in fact, a vigilante death squad that hunts down people they don't like.
	And then you combine that with other video footage we already have of other ICE agents saying on camera, oh, you're recording us.
	Well, guess what?
	We're going to put you on a list and you're a terrorist.
	You know, have fun with that.
	So ICE admits that if you record them, if you observe them, they will put you on a terrorist list that, in their view, justifies them murdering you.
	So what you're literally seeing in America now is the rise of a Nazi mentality and hero worship among conservative influencers of Nazi mentality operators who justify the murder of American citizens on the streets of America.
	That is a factual statement.
	You're watching the rise of the mindset of Nazis.
	And so I used to laugh when leftists would call conservatives Nazis because it used to be just a mindless slur.
	They were calling Trump a Nazi when there was no evidence that he was a Nazi.
	In other words, right?
	And if you pre-call somebody a Nazi when they're not acting like a Nazi, that's just, that's stupid.
	And the left did that for years.
	We called it Trump derangement syndrome, you know?
	Well, it turns out that was actually premonition.
	Sort of like the inner Nazi has come out now across conservatives and White House people like Stephen Miller and the Trump administration.
	The inner Nazi has, you know, burst out of the chest like aliens.
	And it's the inner Nazi is now full-blown expressing itself and saying, yeah, we have the right to kill you.
	We have the right to shoot you.
	We have the right to track you, to call you a terrorist, to hunt you down, to wage revenge killings.
	That is literally where we are right now in America with ICE, Border Patrol, and the Trump administration.
	And thus, now it's appropriate to call them Nazis because now they're acting very much like Nazis.
	Now they're just replaying the history of not just the Third Reich, but other Holocaust and other genocidal regimes throughout history, from Joseph Stalin to Pol Pot to Chairman Mao and others.
	And you can actually see this playing out in a far more violent way with many more Americans being massacred as conservatives cheer it and justify it and say, yeah, well, they were bad people.
	You know, this person, you know, he lit off fireworks two years ago.
	This person, you know, spat on an ICE officer.
	Okay, well, arrest him for spitting then.
	Charge him with spitting.
	But you can't ventilate him with a handgun and say that's justified because, you know, five years ago he spat on an ICE officer.
	Five years ago, he kicked the tires of a Border Patrol SUV.
	Yeah, that's not a justification for killing Americans.
	And anybody making that argument has utterly abandoned the rule of law.
	They've abandoned the Constitution.
	They've abandoned the idea of small government.
	They've abandoned the things that we're supposed to stand for as Americans.
	And frankly, you should stop following anybody that's making that argument because they are not thoughtful people.
	They're dangerous people.
	That mindset historically has shown to be very dangerous as millions of people have been slaughtered by rogue governments or factions of governments that went out of control and started mass murdering people as their own citizens cheered.
	We've seen this before in history.
	Even the Holodomor in Ukraine, 1930s, under Joseph Stalin, forced mass starvation.
	I believe that right now there are plenty of mainstream conservatives who would absolutely support the mass starvation of blue cities.
	Like a total food embargo.
	Just let them starve.
	And conservatives would cheer.
	They would literally cheer because that's who they are.
	Those are their principles now.
	They have a Nazi mindset.
	So I don't know about you, but I have a consistent anti-Nazi mindset.
	I don't believe in fascism.
	I don't believe in rogue government execution squads.
	I believe in small government.
	I believe in civil rights and human rights.
	And unlike most other people, my beliefs are universal.
	I believe these things apply to those on the left and the right, to people of any race or color, to people who have any religion.
	people of any national origin, people who speak with any accent.
	I actually believe in human rights and I believe in the rule of law and I believe that everybody has the right to due process.
	But I find myself very much alone in believing these things.
	And I'm discovering that very few so-called conservatives share those beliefs, even though they have pretended to in order to get audiences.
Silver Dealers Cashing Out 00:15:17
	They have paraded around speaking as if they believe those things, but they actually don't.
	Not when it matters.
	They don't believe those things as they are now confessing.
	So if you want to follow somebody who actually has principles, you know, you're doing it right now.
	Thank you for listening.
	Appreciate your support.
	And let's seek out other people who also have principles, like Daniel McAdams at the Ron Paul Institute.
	He's been doing great work and many others as well.
	So thank you for listening.
	Mike Adams here.
	You can follow me at naturalnews.com or Brighteon.com.
	Take care.
	Okay, welcome to the special report.
	The silver market is log jammed, completely jammed up right now in terms of the physical silver.
	Now, the good news for those of you who have silver is hold on tight because you are sitting on, well, it sounds silly, but to say a gold mine of silver because silver prices continue to skyrocket.
	I know there's been a tremendous amount of volatility lately.
	There was a nosedive, what, yesterday or the day before?
	No, yesterday.
	And now it mostly recovered or at least half recovered from that nosedive.
	But think about it.
	Silver is 500 to 600% higher than it was when I really started recommending it at $18 to $20.
	So in this special analysis here, I have insider information I'm going to share with you to help explain what's happening.
	But I just want to tell you up front, if you have vaulted silver, you're good.
	Sit on the vaulted silver.
	If you have vaulted silver, you're good.
	Sit on it and just wait and enjoy the ride with a big grin on your face because you're going to get wealthy if you're not already.
	And the second thing is if you have physical silver in your possession, hold on to it.
	Because what's happening right now is that there are too many sellers for the infrastructure of the physical dealers to be able to handle.
	And as I mentioned the other day, a lot of the low information sort of mainstream people who don't understand where this is going, they're cashing out right now, which they're going to regret that, you know, six months later, probably.
	But they're cashing out on silver right now.
	And as a result, every silver dealer, every retailer, wholesaler across the country will tell you the same thing, that people are flooding into the doors to sell their random silver.
	And it's not even good silver.
	That's the thing.
	It's not good stuff.
	And that's why now they're getting quoted prices that are like spot minus 10%, which is still great considering where spot is.
	You know, spot minus 10% is still over $100, which is awesome.
	And that's why so many people are selling it.
	Some people, I mean, for the lower, the really lower grade, just random lots of weird silver coins and things that aren't easily resellable, some dealers are quoting like minus 15 or minus 20% spot.
	That is all temporary.
	That's only going to last for a few months as the system works this inventory through its infrastructure.
	I mean, think about it.
	All the silver wholesalers, they have people that take in the silver, you know, the incoming silver experts, and they have to open the boxes and then look at the silver, evaluate it, test it in many cases, right?
	Make sure it's actually silver, not some weird counterfeit stuff, you know, weigh it, count it, et cetera.
	It's a very rigorous process.
	And this is not just something you can drag somebody off the street or have a temp worker like, just come in here and count these coins and we'll call it good.
	You know, that doesn't work, right?
	So all these silver wholesalers are sitting on now, it looks like eight to 12 weeks of incoming silver.
	It's wild.
	They've never seen this before.
	They've never seen it.
	And then a lot of this silver has to get refined because it's not really, you know, resellable, like I just said.
	And so they send it to the refiners and then the refiners turn it into high purity, either three nines or four nines, 1,000 ounce silver bars that they then make available to the COMEX for industrial buyers to take physical delivery to build solar panels or whatever.
	Well, that process of that silver coming in the door at a dealer in, you know, Colorado or whatever, and then ending up going to the refiner, the refiner is not able to get to that silver now for four to five months.
	Yeah, four to five months.
	And last week when I covered this, that was three months.
	Now it's four to five months.
	This used to be three to five days.
	Every silver dealer in America knows this, right?
	You can ask anybody.
	This used to be three to five days.
	You would ship your silver to the refiner.
	The refiner would take it in.
	Yep, we'll melt it down.
	And then the refiner would pay that wholesaler or that dealer with a wire on that, you know, on the day that they counted it and took it in at the refiner, which was only a three to five day wait.
	You see?
	So the silver dealer is out there in Colorado.
	The silver dealer is given cash to the customer.
	And then it used to be that dealer would just eat three to five days of not having the cash.
	And then the refiner would wire them the money and they would make the, you know, the margin, the difference, the spread, whatever it was.
	You know, they pay the customer whatever it used to be, you know, 3% less, 5% less than what they get from the refiner.
	Okay, that's the way it used to work.
	And that worked fine when silver wasn't going into a parabolic rise.
	It worked fine actually for decades.
	Doesn't work anymore because here's what's happening.
	So now the silver dealer is taking in the silver and they got to pay the customer, which is why they're quoting lower prices to the customer.
	And then they got to wait four to five months to get paid from the refiner.
	So that silver dealer is out of that money for four to five months.
	So now what do they do?
	I mean, number one, they have a cash flow problem.
	So they have to borrow money to have the cash flow to float this silver for four to five months.
	And that's friction in the system.
	And then on top of that, what most intelligent silver wholesalers do is in order to cover the price volatility and risk of that silver as they're waiting for that time period, you know, it was three months, now four to five months, they go out to Comex and they short the silver market with paper shorts that are calculated to cover the amount of silver that they're owed on.
	In other words, if silver prices drop, they would make the same amount on the silver shorts as they would lose on the physical silver that they're waiting to get paid on.
	You see what I mean?
	So that's risk reduction using the selling of paper silver in order to reduce risk as a physical silver wholesaler.
	Okay.
	So far, so good, right?
	Except, except the Comex keeps raising the margin requirements for holding paper silver.
	They've done this several times and it's going to continue.
	And that results in, you know, one of my favorite terms, margin call, margin call, you know, because I like that because I like the movie that's called margin call.
	It's a great movie.
	I watched it a month ago or something.
	You know, it's got Kevin Spacey in it and Jeremy Irons.
	It's really worth watching.
	It's a great movie.
	Anyway, margin calls happen and then the silver dealer, who's not even trying to be in the silver speculation business, they don't want anything to do with speculation.
	They're just trying to buy and sell silver and make the spread.
	That's it.
	You know, it's supposed to be straightforward, but not anymore.
	So now they get margin called.
	So now they got to come up with extra cash to meet the margin to continue to float the cost of the risk of the physical silver that they're not getting paid on.
	So this is why a lot of silver dealers right now are closing up after just being open in maybe a couple hours in the morning.
	They might say, well, we'll take your silver right now.
	You know, come on in.
	We're open for business.
	And everybody floods in or they're lining up to sell silver.
	And then that silver retailer, they've only got a certain amount of cash that they can push out that day.
	And that amount of cash is shrinking.
	And so at some point where this is headed, because this is a log jam, okay?
	This is not a failure of the system.
	It's simply at overcapacity of, I think, low information people trying to offload so much silver right now because they think that this is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.
	And boy, are they going to be surprised, you know?
	But anyway, it's a log jam.
	So where we're headed is a lot of silver dealers are just going to say, no more, you can't sell silver to us anymore, period.
	I mean, we're probably only days away from that happening almost everywhere in North America.
	Just saying, okay.
	Now, again, that doesn't mean that the silver market is failing.
	It doesn't mean that the silver has no value.
	It just means that this system is log jammed and it's going to take a few months for the silver to work its way through this system.
	Now, here's the good news.
	If you bought a lot of silver from a reputable wholesaler like what we recommend Battalion Metals uh, that's good silver, that's resellable silver, and so if you're trying to sell that silver right now, you can do so now.
	You're not going to get as good a price as if you wait this log jam out, but you're also not going to get dinged at something like minus 10 or minus 20 from spot, like a lot of the sort of junkier silver is is getting hit with.
	If you bought good silver from a reputable retailer like Battalion Metals, you can sell that back right now and now.
	You may have to wait a few weeks to get paid on that because the system is log jammed and you're not going to get I mean, you're not even going to get spot price right now.
	But if you wait, wait for the log jam to clear, this whole system is going to, you know, self-repair and then, as silver continues to skyrocket, now we've cleared out all the sort of low information silver sellers and that's when I believe we're going to see silver gap up to something like 150 and who knows where it's going from there.
	Now again, don't take this as investment advice.
	I'm i'm not your financial coach.
	What have you, but I I do have a lot of inside information that i'm sharing with you here.
	There's going to be a gap up day, I believe, or multiple days coming in the meantime.
	This whole system is going to look completely jammed up.
	Or, as one of my contacts said quote, the short futures positions hemorrhage value every day, triggering massive margin calls that require immediate cash to maintain the offsetting gain sits locked in the primary asset they now hold, but they can't access it until the custodians complete the months long redemption process.
	So this creates a cash flow mismatch, so the losses on the hedge are marked to market and hit the balance sheet now, while the profit on the physical exposure is unrealized and delayed.
	This is what's happening to silver dealers, and I was told, because market makers can be forced to post huge amounts of additional capital, that this can destroy their spreads and it can even threaten some capital loss for those dealers or wholesalers, and so they end up slashing bids on the incoming silver in order to build in a massive buffer, you know, to cover all this risk and cover all the friction and costs, or they just stop bidding on silver altogether,
	which is what I said, when they just say we're not buying silver anymore right now, and probably not for a few months, like that's again.
	You're going to see that happening, and so remember when I said that the silver dealers and even silver wholesalers or it's not just silver but precious metals they have lines of credit.
	These lines of credit are exhausted right now.
	There's just so much credit that has been pushed out to the you know, to the customer, and there's such a long time to get paid right now that those lines of credit done.
	So the correct version of what this is is a seize up.
	It's a seize up or a log jam, and because a lot of these dealers are also handling gold as well as silver, then they don't have capital also to front for gold, even though the wait time on gold is a lot shorter, much shorter than it is on silver, and most, most gold doesn't have to be refined.
	That's coming in from customers because it's recognizable formats.
	You know it tends to be that way.
	There are exceptions to it, but you get the idea anyway.
	The the upshot is that if you are buying gold or silver right now but let's focus on silver if you're buying silver, make sure that you are buying silver that you plan to hold for months, like you don't want to jump into silver if you think you're going to need that cash in 60 days, because getting in and out of it is going to be, there's going to be more friction for all the reasons I just mentioned.
	In addition to this, right now there's still actually plenty of physical silver that can be purchased, believe it or not.
	So the purchasing side has not seized up.
	You can buy all the silver you want.
	So this is actually I mean, it's a buyer's market right now, and most of these silver dealers and retailers, they would love to offload some silver and generate some cash because of the cash crunch that I just described.
	So you can actually get great deals on silver right now.
	You know, compared to spot price, you know the premiums are not that high.
	This is a buyer's market, even though prices are fluctuating like crazy.
	It's definitely a silver buyer's market.
	But again, if you buy silver, plan to sit on it for at least six months and that's going to be the best investment.
Buyer's Market for Silver 00:12:13
	Uh again, i'm not an investment advisor.
	Just to be clear, i'm not trying to give you financial advice, but I believe if you have patience, patience will be very well rewarded here.
	In fact, this is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity and you're never going to see this situation again in your life.
	None of us will.
	Because the the fiat currency banking system is breaking and it's failing.
	It is going to collapse.
	I don't know when.
	I don't know what that looks like, is it?
	You know, a year away, a couple years?
	Uh, what kind of desperate measures you know.
	Probably lots of currency printing to bail out the banks and then increasing hyperinflation, and then gold and silver keep skyrocketing, etc.
	This could go on for a few years.
	So I don't know when the system breaks.
	I just know that when it does, whoever's holding physical gold and silver, those are the winners.
	You know, those are the ones who have something of real value, whereas those who are holding fiat currency might as well be holding a bag of dicks.
	I mean sorry to be crude about it, but I don't even know what that saying means, but it just sounded funny, but it's.
	You don't want to be holding a bag of dicks when, when the music stops right, you want to be holding gold And silver.
	There's another piece of advice in all of this, which is when it comes to metals, it's usually a good rule of thumb not to find yourself in the middle of a panicked herd.
	So, right now, lots of people are almost panicked to sell silver.
	If you're in that group, you're like, oh my God, I got to sell silver too.
	You should stop and think about it.
	Wait a second, there's way too many people here doing the same thing.
	That's usually a sign that you're being played.
	You know, in terms of the overall narrative from mainstream media is telling you, you know, like CNBC or Fox News or whoever, or CNN, they're probably telling you, oh, you shouldn't hold gold and silver.
	You should just sell it.
	Now, in fact, I know they're saying that.
	They're saying, sell it now.
	It's hot.
	That's because they want you to get rid of it so they can force you into the CBDC surveillance grid because you have no metal.
	Then you're a total pawn.
	You're a slave to the system if you have no metal.
	Of course, they want you to sell it.
	So check yourself.
	If you're following the herd into a silver dealer to sell all your silver because you were told this is as high as it's going to get, you might want to look around and say there's way too many low IQ people around me here right now.
	This could be a bad idea.
	Where you want to be right now, in my opinion, is on the side where there's plenty of capacity, which is on the buying side.
	So keep buying.
	I mean, I know people who are continuing to buy at large volumes right now.
	And also, I started buying again just dollar cost averaging in the system.
	I actually hadn't bought since last year, but now I've started buying again.
	I'm just going to keep buying every month no matter what the price because that's the best way to end up with the most metal.
	And that's what you need to do, in my opinion, as a strategy to end up having assets when this whole system craters.
	I'm talking about the banking system, the fiat currency system, the dollar system.
	And it's going to crater.
	There's no question about it.
	Now, there's one more thing to consider right now.
	We're on the verge of, it looks like Trump is going to attack Iran with the U.S. military.
	And if that happens, surely gold will spike.
	I mean, it almost always does.
	Maybe some of that's already being baked in right now.
	Maybe there's anticipation of that.
	And if Trump backs off, then gold could plunge.
	But if he attacks, gold will spike because, in addition to that, and by the way, in that case, gold will spike a lot more than silver, probably percentage-wise, because silver is not nearly as impacted by war as gold, because gold is a monetary metal, whereas silver is largely industrial and partially monetary.
	But gold also tends to rise when energy prices rise.
	There's a strong correlation there.
	And if there's a war on Iran, it seems very likely that Iran is going to close the Strait of Hormuz, which would cut off a very large percentage of the energy supply to the world, both oil and LNG, you know, natural gas.
	And if that happens, then you're going to start to see energy prices just skyrocket at the gas station and transportation prices going up and surcharges on airplane tickets and UPS shipments and FedEx and all kinds of things.
	And you're going to start to see grocery prices skyrocket, etc.
	So if the U.S. strikes Iran, if the Strait of Hormuz gets closed down by Iran or even the US Navy, as my friend Michael Jan suggests could happen, to blame it on Iran, either way, if it's closed, it's closed.
	Energy prices are going to skyrocket and economies, especially Europe, are going to be crushed, just crushed.
	I mean, even worse than they are right now.
	In fact, there's an argument to be made that Trump wants the Strait of Hormuz to be closed in order to hurt the city of London even more than is what is already happening.
	But that's just conjecture.
	We don't know for sure.
	Whereas the United States is a lot more energy independent compared to, obviously, Western Europe.
	So anyway, you know, you can interpret these events in whatever way you want.
	But if energy prices spike, gold's going to spike almost certainly.
	And it will go up a lot more than silver in that case.
	So I'll give you a prediction.
	If the Strait of Hormuz is closed, watch gold to go up $500 in a day.
	And that's a conservative estimate, by the way.
	It could be more, but I'm just going to stick with 500.
	It's a good time to have gold also.
	And if you're to ask me, you know, which metals should you have more of, I don't know.
	None of us can none of us have ever navigated this whole thing here, right?
	With this level of kind of financial mad max taking place.
	We don't know which is better.
	More gold, more silver, how many ounces, what ratio?
	I don't know.
	Just I tell my friends, just have more gold and silver, whatever format you want.
	Just get out of the debt system of fiat currency, or you're going to get crushed.
	So there's no perfect answer.
	Okay.
	We can't see the future.
	We don't know exactly which one's going to go up the most or what's going to be the most redeemable or which market's going to get jammed up the most like silver is right now.
	I don't know.
	Gold is clearly now the world reserve currency.
	Gold is a bigger market than silver, right?
	So you could argue, well, it's more liquid.
	And did you know that right now, American eagles, gold eagles, are a great deal.
	They're a great deal.
	Because usually there's a lot more premium on gold eagles, but right now, no, they're about the same as maple leafs or any other kind of gold.
	In fact, if you want to get gold eagles, just go to the battalion metals website, metalswithmike.com.
	They're our sponsor, metalswithmike.com.
	And check the prices.
	You'll see what I mean.
	Right now, the best deal is American Gold Eagles by far.
	And if you use discount code Ranger, they'll waive the shipping insurance fee.
	So, you know, that's easy to remember, just Ranger, as in Health Ranger.
	And yeah, they're a sponsor and they've been fantastic.
	You know, they run an honest shop.
	They have integrity and they protect privacy and security and they have vaulting services and so much more.
	So they're a great choice.
	And also, they're co-founded by Tucker Carlson.
	And he wouldn't put his name on something if it wasn't rock solid.
	And nor would I, for that matter.
	So they're highly trustworthy.
	But even they are having to shuffle assets and, you know, because they're buying and selling loads of silver like everybody else.
	So they're having to do all these same things that I was talking about.
	You know, they're having to buy shorts to cover the latency time on refining silver, etc.
	It's just that they know how to do this because they've been doing it for decades, you know, multi-generational operation.
	They've seen this before in 1980, for example.
	But wow, history sure is interesting when it starts repeating, isn't it?
	Anyway, bottom line here, folks, is don't freak out when you hear people say, oh, I couldn't sell my silver.
	You know, yeah, you're late to the game.
	You're part of the herd showing up trying to sell some crappy silver spoons that nobody wants because they have to be refined.
	So, yeah, nobody wants to buy those right now.
	You're going to have to wait five, six months before there's any silver dealers that want to buy that kind of low-grade silver.
	That's just the way it is.
	The industry is jammed up.
	That's true.
	So, sit on your silver.
	That's the whole point, isn't it?
	Buy it, stack it, sit on it, ride this thing out.
	And at some point, whatever happens next, whether it's a collapse of the United States or the collapse of the dollar or a breaking up of the country, and then we have new regional nation states like the Republic of Texas or something, and then they launch their own currency, and that currency is probably going to be partially backed by gold and silver.
	And then they're going to say, hey, hey, people of Texas, bring us your silver.
	You're going to get an awesome amount of currency for that.
	And that might be a time to do that.
	And if that occurs, I'll tell you about it.
	I might be doing the same thing, you know, rolling in there with a crate, you know, what's called monster box of silver.
	Here, how much do I get for this?
	Oh, for that?
	Oh, man, you get enough money to buy like a whole neighborhood of houses because the silver is worth so much.
	You can buy like 100 vehicles.
	Really?
	Yeah.
	Or whatever it's going to be.
	I'm just guessing.
	Who knows?
	But at some point, we're going to end up on a new currency system.
	And some of it might be digital.
	And you might want to even at some point swap in some silver for some whatever new digital currency so you can go buy groceries.
	You might be able to live on like one silver coin a week because the silver will hold so much value.
	Like I've said, you know, grocery prices are not going up priced in silver.
	So the best way to beat inflation is to have gold and silver.
	And then everything is way more affordable as, you know, as metals, prices and value goes up.
	So just some things to think about here.
	I'm just going to sit tight and watch this.
	I'll keep you posted, whatever intel I get.
	But if you're sitting on a pretty good stack of gold and silver right now, pat yourself on the back.
	You made some really wise decisions.
	You're doing really well.
	You're sitting on incredible value.
	And you're going to be able to ride this thing through no matter what happens with the fiat currency.
	You'll be able to ride out the banking failures, you know, the bailouts, the hyperinflation, the trillion dollars a week money printing that's probably coming and then the wars and whatever else is happening.
	So you've made the right call.
	Stand with your call and I'll keep you posted.
	We'll see where this goes.
	All right.
Educator's Wise Decisions 00:14:40
	Thanks for listening.
	Mike Adams here.
	Again, if you want to get silver or gold from Battalion, they've got actual supply right now.
	Metalswithmike.com and use discount code Ranger.
	And thank you for listening.
	Take care.
	The biggest myth that I'd like to destroy is that you have to be a certified teacher to be able to teach your kids.
	I've had so many people come to me over the years and say, you know, I am not qualified.
	I don't know what I'm doing.
	How am I ever going to teach my kids?
	And the answer to that is you figure it out.
	No one's ever going to love your kids the way that you do.
	No one is ever going to care about their education the way that you do.
	There's so many tools out there to help moms and dads.
	We can innovate and have good intentions in the systems that we build.
	And that's a big part of what we're doing.
	Welcome to a new episode of Decentralize TV.
	I'm Mike Adams, the founder of Brachteon.com, the free speech video platform that hosts decentralized TV.
	And as always, I'm joined today with my co-host, Todd Pittner, who is apparently freezing in Florida right now.
	So Todd, welcome to the show.
	Cheers.
	Are you staying warm enough?
	Man, it touched 28 degrees for 13 hours.
	I don't know what to think about my food force.
	It's probably, it's going to come back pissed off.
	I can tell you that in the spring.
	But, you know, hopefully it is as resilient as it was last year and we get through this.
	But man, it just is heartbreaking seeing all of that seemingly death.
	Your food force has taken so many hits since you installed it.
	It's like storms, tornadoes.
	You're going to have like, I don't know, like alien attacks or something.
	But when it does start really producing, man, it's going to, you just got to know it's going to kick ass, right?
	I mean, well, did you know that when banana trees freeze, that they become like a soft serve ice cream machine?
	They just serve frozen ice cream now.
	You just drill a hole in the side of banana trunks.
	Perfect.
	Frozen ice cream comes out.
	Don't tempt me.
	Oh, Mike.
	So do we have two great guests today, Mike?
	Yes, we do.
	Yes, we do.
	Thanks for bringing that up.
	I guess we do need to actually do the interview.
	So today, the episode is about decentralized education and a really amazing platform for homeschooling that was put together by a couple, husband and wife, who have seven children that they homeschooled with the help of the Ron Paul curriculum and technology and a lot of passion.
	And now they've built a platform that they're sharing with the whole world to make homeschooling ridiculously easy.
	Or I mean, at least the coursework part of it, I guess, is never easy, but entirely accessible.
	Right.
	Right.
	So you don't have to scramble and try to figure out if you want to be a homeschooling mom or dad.
	You don't have to figure out, well, what am I going to teach?
	Which kid?
	You know, this platform gives you everything, including the socialization, the tools, the coursework, and the ability to create coursework and so much more.
	Yes.
	All right.
	So shall we just bring them on?
	Let's do it.
	All right.
	Here we go.
	All right.
	So Todd, here we go.
	Let's bring in our guests.
	We have Jordan and Mary Page, who are the creators of this extraordinary website and ecosystem for decentralized learning and rapid accelerated teaching of children.
	And it's called the Firefly Education Network.
	So welcome to the show, Jordan and Mary.
	It's great to have you on today.
	Thanks so much.
	We're happy to be here.
	Yeah, thanks for having us.
	It's great to have you.
	And thank you for joining us.
	This is going to be a really fun episode.
	So let's just start with, since it's the first time we've ever spoken, also, give us a background of what is the Firefly Education Network and why does it matter?
	That's an awesome question.
	So this all came from, really, this was the fruit of the Ron Paul Liberty movement that really took hold of our lives around 2007, 2008, when I, again, I'm a musician.
	Most of my life, my adult life, I've been a performing and recording artist.
	And I did a lot of work with Congressman Ron Paul, former Congressman Ron Paul, when he was running for president.
	And I would tour with him and do major events with him and open for him.
	It was a really wonderful and fun time and a time of great relearning and re-education from what I had experienced growing up in the state-run public school system.
	And, you know, Mary, my wife and partner here, she went on this journey with me.
	And as we were, you know, going through all of this and learning all these new things, and we were also having children at the same time.
	We now have seven children and that we've been homeschooling for the past 14 years.
	And Mary has been the primary educator of our seven kids.
	She's also been an, she's also been an educator of many, many children in our in our community.
	Can I just applaud right now?
	I mean, seriously, like, Mary, wow.
	You, you, you put seven kids through homeschooling and other kids.
	I mean, you deserve like a congressional medal or something.
	Amazing.
	That's amazing.
	Thank you.
	Really, it was just the result of wanting what was best for my kids and seeing that if we put them into an institution, they were going to end up getting put into a box.
	You know, we didn't want that for them.
	We wanted them to have the opportunity to explore their interests and really grow and learn and discover who they were supposed to be and to facilitate a process for them to learn to love learning.
	You know, it's always been my biggest goal: if you teach a child to love learning, then they can do anything.
	And so, I mean, I was not an educator when we started out.
	You know, I actually had a totally different career.
	And it was just, you know, we just came together as a family, having been educated, like Jordan said, through this Ron Paul movement and realized that there was no way that we could put our kids into the public school system.
	And so, yeah, it was kind of trial by fire, like learning as we went.
	And eventually I did go back to school and I got a master's in teaching.
	But yeah, it's definitely been an adventure.
	Well, I would say so, but all of that then became incredibly valuable for this project.
	So, Jordan, please continue.
	I didn't mean to interrupt you.
	I just had it's extraordinary what you just described.
	So, I did need to comment on that.
	No, no, I totally agree with you.
	Mary is my hero.
	She's the smartest person I know and person I am so blessed to do life with.
	And she's the greatest mother I could ever have asked for.
	And she's also an extraordinary teacher.
	And in the course of our lives, she was given some encouragement to go back to school again and get a master's degree.
	She has one master's degree in public administration.
	And she went back and got her master's in teaching.
	And in 20, you know, this woman did her full master's degree in a year and a half.
	That includes her student teaching portion.
	She was just a machine.
	It was amazing.
	Wow.
	And so during that time, of course.
	Oh, I'm sorry, go ahead.
	Well, before we dig deeper into this, though, our audience doesn't know what Firefly is yet.
	Like, what's the 60-second pitch of what this platform really is?
	I just want people to have the context as we're going deeper into the background.
	Sure, that's totally fair.
	Firefly is an all-in-one homeschool operating system for the worldwide homeschooling movement.
	It's essentially a one-stop shop where families can go at an extremely affordable price and get all the tools they could possibly want, all the community they could possibly build.
	They're getting access to ethical AI workflows to help the parents, not students.
	The AIs are, our AI tools are mostly all parent-facing to help them with their job of being the primary educators.
	We have dozens and dozens of articles on homeschooling, on every type of learning style.
	We have an e-book that comes with the subscription.
	So it is a subscription-based model.
	We are also partnering with Ron Paul and his Ron Paul homeschool curriculum.
	And we're bringing that in over the next few months to be our core K through 12 classical full curriculum for our full education experience.
	So moms and dads, like they have the, they have a really hard job, which is being the primary educator, especially if they've never done it before.
	But Firefly is also for experienced parents and experienced homeschooling families to make their lives easier.
	This really all came about after having been homeschooling for so many years.
	Mary was getting her master's in teaching and she was being forced to learn and regurgitate what I would call the agenda, the insidious agenda that's at work in the public school systems.
	And we're not easily shocked, guys.
	And it shocked both of us.
	And I remember the conversation very clearly.
	She said to me, we've got to do something about this.
	And a lot of people might have been like, well, maybe just keep your head down, tell them what they want to hear, get your degree, and we'll just do something from then on.
	But we are both very, you know, action-proned.
	And we started brainstorming and praying and dreaming up what we could do to support homeschool families like ours.
	And the original idea was to create a center, like a brick and mortar type situation.
	And after looking at it, it just wasn't going to make sense.
	We're very rural up in the Pacific Northwest, and it just wasn't, it just didn't make sense.
	But I've been in the blockchain space really since it began, since 2010.
	I remember when Bitcoin was 33 cents.
	And that gives you any idea.
	And I knew some developers, and I was thinking, what if we did some kind of a blockchain integrated ecosystem that was distributed, that people all over the world could plug into this system and get curriculum, get access to teachers.
	Teachers are leaving the public school system by the tens of thousands.
	They could have an ecosystem where they could teach live classes and we could provide the community that we had been lacking for so many years.
	Because I mean, it was many, many years before we really found other families who were doing what we were doing.
	And that was part of what made it so hard was that we didn't have other people to work with.
	And so community was a big part of this.
	And so we've built and baked all of these pain points that we've experienced and that folks that we know have experienced into this unified platform that combines AI, it combines community building.
	It will eventually integrate Web3 functionality.
	And so we're really talking about a virtual co-op that spans all over the world.
	It's internationally accessible.
	It's translatable into every language with a click of a button.
	One of our AI tools is called Firefly Translate Plus, and this translates voice clones and lip dubs, course videos from any language into any language.
	So it's a very realistic presentation of you, the educator, speaking in Portuguese or Arabic or Chinese.
	And so native speakers of that language hear and see you in a very realistic and sofa way.
	Todd, how amazingly aligned is this with our vision of what we want to do to empower people with knowledge?
	And I'll let you ask the next question, but real quick, Jordan and Mary, I have one complaint.
	I searched your entire website, and I think you're missing the whole section about woke indoctrination.
	I couldn't find it anywhere.
	And I'm thinking, you know, where's the woke?
	Because that clearly that's part of the public school curriculum and it's missing on Firefly.
	What happened to the woke stuff?
	Figure that.
	I don't know.
	I don't know.
	It's gone.
	We are really the answer to all of that.
	Like, that was a big part of the impetus.
	You know, when we were having that original conversation that I mentioned, Mary said to me, I'll never forget this, guys.
	At the end of the conversation, she says to me, whatever we do, we have to call whatever we build Firefly.
	And I said, why?
	And she said, because we have to teach kids to be lights in all the darkness.
	And that just gripped my imagination.
	I have never let go of that.
	It inspired me so much.
	It was like a come to Jesus moment.
	And, you know, several years later, we were able to raise the funds to build the system.
	We're now fully deployed.
	It is, it's a very exciting thing.
	It's, you know, we really feel blessed by the Lord.
	You know, we are, we are disciples of Christ.
	This is a Christian-led platform and a libertarian-centered platform.
	You will not find, if you're a parent out there listening to this discussion, you will not find any woke or leftist, radical type ideologies on Firefly.
	This is a safe place for you and your family.
	Cool.
	All right, Todd.
	Wow.
	That's a great intro.
	So crazy.
	It's crazy.
	Well, thank you.
	So, Mary and Jordan, we haven't met yet.
	So I'm Todd Pittner and my personal pronouns are F woke.
	So I have a two-part question for you.
	Mike, had to get that in there.
	This is going to be kind of cool because the two-part, one's going to first one's going to go to Mary.
	Second one's going to go to Jordan.
	Oh, that's crazy.
	Okay.
	So, Mary, give us one homeschooling myth you'd like to destroy.
	Okay.
	So the biggest myth that I'd like to destroy is that you have to be a certified teacher to be able to teach your kids.
	Okay.
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	That is so big for me.
	I have had so many people come to me over the years and say, you know, I am not qualified.
	I don't know what I'm doing.
	How am I ever going to teach my kids?
	And the answer to that is you figure it out.
	Okay.
	No one's ever going to love your kids the way that you do.
	No one is ever going to care about their education the way that you do.
	And you don't have to be a certified teacher to be able to be successful.
	You just have to love your kids and want to help them to be, you know, the best that they can be.
	There's so many tools out there to help moms and dads who want to teach their kids.
	And that really is the impetus behind Firefly is we wanted to put all those tools in one place.
	So now, you know, they have a place where they can go and get everything that they need to be successful.
	But yeah, that just, whenever, you know, educators or things would come up against me and say, well, these, these parents, they aren't, you know, qualified to teach their kids.
	That is like one of my biggest pet peeves.
	Yeah.
	Excellent.
	Thank you.
	So, Jordan, seven kids homeschooled in your family.
	I just have to know, and you have a technical background, okay?
	If you had to name one of your children, okay, just first name only, like we don't know your last name is Paige, which one of your seven kids will be a vibe coder?
	That's a good question.
	Probably Judah.
	Okay.
	Do you agree, Mary?
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	Our Judah is such an interesting mix.
	And he is so passionate and creative, you know, and also just very wants to do things his way.
	He's like a leader.
	He's like a born leader, but very creative kid.
	Yeah, he's 11.
	Sounds a lot like Mike Adams.
	You ever met him?
	I have actually.
	Mike, I've actually followed Mike for many, many years.
	I've just, you know, I've been a subscriber for many, many years.
	I met him this summer at Ron Paul's 90th birthday.
	I was performing there and I was sitting with Gary Franci when you walked up and I got to.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	And I interviewed Gary there.
	We had fun at Ron Paul's birthday party.
	Yeah, that was awesome.
	Well, let me mention something that's relevant to all of this.
	So I love the fact that you're using technology to decentralize education, but driven by values and morals that are really critical for upcoming generations.
	You know, I don't want to live in a world of technocracy, of technology without morality, right?
	So I found you're probably familiar with the book engine that I built.
	It's called brightlearn.ai, and it's where people can freely generate any book they want completely free.
	Well, I just brought up books on education that some of our users have generated, like the AI Tutor, The Ultimate Guide to Homeschooling, Nurturing the Nurturers, The Healing Bowl, Rethinking Education, et cetera.
	And there's over 23,000 books there.
	I would really love to connect your ecosystem to our book system so that your moms and dads can have access to this engine to create coursework books or reading books that they can control.
	They write the prompt.
	It's all under their control.
	They're not going to get some weird woke book somewhere.
	Woke is banned in my ecosystem, also, it turns out.
	Would that be something that you would love access to for your ecosystem?
	Absolutely.
	Absolutely.
	That means like, I started thinking we should talk about this.
	So one of our AI tools is called Firefly Chalkboard, and it creates courses using AI.
	So parents can actually prompt it to create a full course in minutes, really.
	And then they have the opportunity, once the AI has done its job and populated the course with content, the parent can then go in and manually edit, rephrase, paraphrase, add pictures, videos, PDFs, whatever, and generate all kinds of new content.
	And then when they publish it, it's published to the entire community, not just their family, but all of us get to use it.
	And so I could see a tool like that, what you just showed us, being able to generate the books, that plays right into that same sort of workflow and philosophy that we have too.
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	I think it's a perfect fit.
	Well, we have right now, let's see, we have over 23,497 books that have been published right now.
	Although the author's number has just hit the mark of the beast right now.
	That's hilarious.
	Bad author, number 666.
	Anyway, we have 171,000 downloads.
	And what I would like to do is offer you a special token where you can generate any number of books, but with the understanding that, of course, we share them for free, open source, with the whole world, because that's what we believe in too.
	So that offers on the table.
	We could talk after the show.
	But anyway, this is about your platform, not mine.
	I just wanted to tell you that we are aligned with what you're doing.
	Love it.
	Awesome.
	So great.
	Mary, can I ask you one quick favor?
	Of course.
	So my daughter, Alex, now has a seven-month-old son.
	And, you know, I want you to please just speak to Alex and let her know that she can do it.
	Yeah.
	I mean, please, because I'm going to share this with her because I am so petrified of, you know, the easy button is just to put them into public schools.
	And you know what happens when that occurs, right?
	Everything bad.
	And so can you please just speak to Alex?
	Absolutely.
	So Alex, you are me.
	I did not think I could do it.
	You know, like Jordan mentioned, my first career was in public administration.
	I worked for nonprofits.
	I did, you know, I was fundraiser, that sort of thing.
	And I did not think that I could teach my kids.
	In fact, I had friends in college who were getting their teaching degree.
	And I thought to myself, why would anyone ever want to do this?
	But then I had my own kids and I realized these are the most precious gifts that I will ever be given in my entire life.
	And I know it's scary.
	I know that you're going to have days where you think you're failing because all of us do.
	We all do.
	And no matter whether you're, you know, have a master degree, master's degree or, you know, a high school diploma or whatever, like all of us think that we're failing because the reality is that you want what's best for your kids.
	And I just want to encourage Alex and any of the other moms out there or dads who are thinking about homeschooling that you really can do this.
	It doesn't, it doesn't have to be school at home.
	I think that's, that's what feels overwhelming to people a lot of times is they're so used to the format of the public school system that they think that's what they have to do at home.
	And it's just not the same thing.
	You know, my little kids, we get through school in two hours.
	It's not a whole day, you know?
	So if you can kind of detach from the idea that it has to be like school at home, it makes it a lot easier.
	And like I said before, there are so many tools that are out there now.
	And, you know, it's really important to get connected to community, which is why we built that into Firefly, because if you have another mom or dad that you can talk to and bounce ideas off of or just to help encourage you, because there are going to be days when it gets hard, but you can get through those days if you have the right kind of support.
	So what about the concern of, but what about my kids learning to socialize and they're not going to have this?
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	So this is one that we got a lot because when we started this 14 years ago, there were, there was, you know, there was a group of homeschool families, but it was not as prevalent as it is now.
	And so one of our family's big pushbacks on to us was, oh my gosh, your kids are going to be so weird and they're going to be so isolated.
	And how are they ever going to make friends?
	But the truth is, is that our kids learned to be able to talk to anyone, you know, because we ended up taking them with us everywhere we went.
	They weren't just in a classroom with other kids their age.
	They learned how to interact with adults.
	They learned how to interact with other kids.
	They learned how to interact with kids older and younger than themselves because we made homeschooling our life.
	You know, everything can be educational when you're homeschooling.
	We would go to museums, but we would also go, you know, tour farms or we would go have picnics and you never know who you're going to run into, right?
	So they just learned how to interact and to be able to be self-assured within themselves.
	And when you can instill that in your children, That they don't have problems going on and making friends and learning how to interact with kids their own age.
	Plus, there's always sports and things that you can get involved with if you're worried about the socializing.
	But personally, I'd rather have my kids be able to have an educated conversation and understand more complicated social dynamics than just only interacting with kids that are in their age group.
	So, I guess that's just a personal opinion.
	But, yeah, I've got a follow-up question on that.
	That's a great answer.
	I'm curious about, as you're thinking about the use of AI agents to personalize instruction for students, which is very, very powerful when they need to learn subject material.
	Having AI feedback and custom courses that assess their strengths and weaknesses and then fill in the missing gaps and so on, that can just rapidly accelerate a child's mastery of a certain subject area, you know, 10 times faster than what public school would do.
	But we also don't want a child to be sitting in front of a screen with an AI avatar all day, right?
	So, in your own mind, how as that technology becomes more and more advanced, how do you plan to keep that balance in place?
	Well, we do that first by having live classes with real human teachers.
	You know, if they like, I'm never going to be able to teach trigonometry, guys.
	It's just not going to happen.
	Okay.
	So, and if it's on me to do that, I'm going to need some outside help.
	I'm going to need to bring somebody else in.
	Luckily, I'm a member of Firefly, and there's someone that will teach trigonometry at my students' level.
	So, that is also part of the community aspect: you know, you have so many people that have different areas of expertise.
	We do not want to replace human teachers.
	I want to say that very clearly.
	There's a lot of thought out in the AI community, you know, and I consider myself part of that community, but there's a lot of thought in that community that AI needs to completely replace human teachers.
	We don't believe that.
	There is something very, very special and natural about people teaching the next generation.
	AI is an extremely powerful tool, but it's like fire.
	Okay, it'll burn you, it'll kill you, but it will also cook your food and keep you warm and keep you alive, right?
	So, we look at it as a tool.
	And if you already know something, AI is incredible to help you increase your productivity and increase your success at whatever it is you're doing.
	If you don't know something, in many cases, we've seen data showing that AI is actually having a detrimental effect on students because they're not really learning.
	They're just getting the answers from the AI, and their neural synapses are not making those connections to learn these things.
	And the IQ scores are going down in a lot of ways.
	So, we're worried about that, which is why we made most of the AI tools parent-facing.
	However, as AI improves over time, that supplemental instruction will be there.
	We do believe it has a place, we do believe it has value, but not to replace the human teacher.
	Love that.
	Okay, okay, perfect.
	Um, who wants to talk about the collapse of the public school system?
	You know, because I mean, really, we are in the era of the end of that experiment, gone horribly wrong.
	But what are your observations?
	Well, I'll speak to that a little bit because I did, like Jordan said, I got my master's in teaching.
	I actually did my student teaching through a local school district.
	And where we live, we have wonderful local school districts.
	The teachers are really wonderful people.
	They are all very much focused on the students, and they want what's best for the students.
	And, like, if I could have taught anywhere, that was a great place to teach, right?
	And I actually worked for the school district for five years, in addition to having gotten done my student teaching there.
	I have experience both in homeschooling, but also working with a public school district.
	And I can tell you that there are so many things that are coming down the pipe with the public schools that the teachers in general are not happy about that are restricting the teacher's ability to be able to really serve the students in the way that students need.
	There are so many rules and things that just are very prohibitive to an inspired learning environment, I guess is what I would say.
	And so my observation was: you know, challenges both for administrators and for teachers in trying to serve the students and serve the families and just running into so much red tape that it made their jobs really hard.
	And a lot of teachers are very unhappy.
	And in addition to that, where we live, there's a number of laws that have been passed that are forcing teachers to teach things that they're really not comfortable with.
	And so, you know, there's been a mass exodus of teachers over the past, you know, five years.
	And I think that that's going to continue and it's going to become unsustainable for the school districts because there is also a shortage of people going into school to become teachers.
	And so I really don't see a way to solve that problem.
	It's going to take something pretty drastic, I think, for that to change.
	Okay, and a quick follow-up and then Todd gets the next question, but I saw an article recently that the incoming college freshmen for the University of California, San Diego, a shockingly high percentage of them needed remedial reading at the seventh grade level.
	I'm like, wait a second here.
	I saw that too.
	That's a fail.
	And their average grade in high school was A minus in English.
	So the school system keeps giving students A's when they can't read or write or think or do math.
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	So wow.
	And the reality is that COVID really did a number on the students.
	And, you know, I don't think that a lot of kids have just kind of been passed through instead of going back and kind of remediating the skills that they lost or what have you.
	They just are being passed through.
	And it's what is that going to do long term, you know, to the quality of knowledge that these kids have?
	I mean, we have kids in this generation, our personal children, and I'm concerned what, you know, what their lives are going to look like in 10 years with the way that the education system is going and just the overall lack of understanding and knowledge that these kids are getting.
	So, yeah, it's definitely a big problem.
	All right, Todd.
	Where do you want to take it next?
	Well, I'm curious when we responsibly use AI in education and incorporate technology into our teaching, what counsel do you have for parents to protect their children's data privacy and digital identity?
	Well, I mean, that is the big challenge across the board, isn't it?
	You know, I mean, everywhere that you go, every system that you get, that you get on is collecting your data.
	At least with Firefly, we're not collecting your data.
	You know, I mean, like, we have a full social media suite, for example.
	Basically, all the functionality that Facebook has, you can find on Firefly, but minus the data mining and data sharing with the Alphabet Soup agencies.
	Like, it's a completely private system.
	So, we really feel like we needed to innovate something to answer those problems and more, which is why we built this the way that we did.
	Because everywhere you go, I mean, if you have any kind of device with data on it or a camera or a microphone, they are listening, they are gathering.
	It never ended.
	It was exposed, but it didn't end.
	I mean, I'll probably get any like 17 different ads just because my phone is sitting next to me after we're done with this interview that are directly related to things that we said.
	I don't think there are a lot of great ways to escape it, but we can innovate and have good intentions in the systems that we build.
	And that's a big part of what we're doing.
	That's awesome.
	Mary, one final question.
	Can you share some technology tools that family should understand when homeschooling their children?
	Like, how do you go about setting it all up?
	Okay, so, well, with Firefly, you know, we've developed this course creator.
	And so the whole purpose of the course creator is to allow parents to be able to create content that their kids will, that really fosters the love of learning in their own children.
	But we haven't set it up to be just something where they get plopped in front of the screen.
	So the course creator actually builds the course and you can build in activities and things to be able to give to the kids to help them to have hands-on activities and such to be able to really retain the information really well.
	And I think that the way that we've set our Firefly up is such that parents and students are learning to use the technology tools and learning to use the AI, learning to use the social media component and such, but it's not like everything that they're doing.
	It's not designed to just be able to plop them in front of the computer.
	And I think that there has to be a fine balance between technological access for kids and doing real life activities.
	And so that's kind of how we've designed everything so that there is the technology component, but there's also going out and living life and experiencing the world and that sort of thing.
	So give us an example of some real life activities that you would incorporate into, let's say, kindergartners educational program.
	That would be publicly protesting Trump's tariffs.
	I think that's.
	They will, absolutely.
	No.
	Well, one thing that we, you know, somebody that we were talking to brought up was, you know, and this probably wouldn't be appropriate for a kindergartner, but for, you know, a little bit of an older student is learning about the laws that are being passed in their local community and how they have an impact on, you know, the economic system.
	And so you could build a Firefly course that explains those things and then go to your local government offices and interview the government agents and, you know, the auditor's office or something to understand property taxes.
	Like there's ways that you can kind of work these things together to create the course and then go have a real life experience to back up that course.
	Yeah.
	And so part of what we've developed in our Firefly Compass application is a field trip identifier.
	So you can type in your location and it pulls up field trips within 20 mile radius that could complement whatever you're trying to teach your students.
	So, okay, a related question then, given that you both know Ron Paul, do you have a section to teach students to audit the Fed?
	And then you could go tour the money creation engine to find out where inflation comes from.
	But seriously, go for it, Jordan.
	I mean, how do you make sure that students are learning things that are not just the spin of the current society?
	Well, one of the things that I've been doing with Firefly Chalkboard, our course creator that we've been talking about, is I've been creating courses on historical events or concepts from a libertarian perspective, from an Austrian economics perspective.
	And I have a course I'm doing right now on libertarian perspectives on World War I and II and what the implications of that have been.
	And it's very much coming from the libertarian perspective.
	I know because I am one.
	I've also done some courses on Austrian economics for kids, trying to handle these subjects.
	We're big fans of groups like Tuttle Twins.
	There's some really great Liberty-focused material out there that I would say we would be ideologically aligned with.
	But all of the things that we really learned from Ron Paul and from that experience and from all that he taught the world really has been really poured into this.
	And it's been developed in such a way that anyone can do that.
	And when we have a thousand, two or three thousand people making courses on chalkboard, and then those courses are then shared among the community in what we call Firefly Co-op, our community curated curriculum catalog.
	That's a lot of, that's a lot of alliteration there.
	When it's shared to the whole community, now you have thousands of potential courses that you can peruse and go through with your kids that are all that all come with your subscription.
	They're essentially free with your subscription.
	So it becomes just a massive treasure trove of information.
	Okay, I love the fact that you're building a knowledge base for instruction and learning and that one parent creates it.
	It can be used by other parents.
	We follow that same philosophy.
	But I want to have a follow-up question, perhaps for Mary, which is that one of the things we see about youth coming out of the public school system is they have no skills at financial management or money management, practical skills.
	They don't understand compounding interest.
	They don't understand how debt works against you, things like that.
	And then they're also incapable of understanding the difference between, like, for example, the federal deficit versus the national debt.
	Like, oh, those are different, you know?
	So, how does your ecosystem help students come out of this with practical skills that really impact their lives?
	First thing that we are providing is the Ron Paul curriculum, which has a just wide range of wonderful content that is all focused on empowering students to be able to be successful and to be able to have those skills.
	You know, I personally always made my children take personal finance courses, which is something that we are going to be developing through our course builder.
	You know, I think a lot of parents that we've talked to are very interested in developing courses that do provide real skills for their kids.
	We have a couple of instructors that are going to be coming on board that are teaching things like basic plumbing, you know, electrician skills and that sort of thing.
	And so, really, the whole idea here is to curate a course catalog that has all of those different real life, tangible skill sets that will help students to be successful.
	But that all starts with the course builder and then also with the Ron Paul curriculum.
	Well, I can help author a course on how to assist the birth of a baby donkey.
	All right.
	It's like, well, sign him up.
	I'm the only one here.
	Somebody's got to help.
	To add to that, we are, you know, we are actively looking for instructors who would like to come on board and start teaching and doing live classes.
	There is an opportunity for instructors to come on and be able to make money to be able to supplement either their existing income or hopefully create a whole new income stream for themselves to be able to teach live classes and build classes and have their classes translated into other languages.
	Like Jordan mentioned, we have this amazing translation tool that makes it worldwide access right away.
	So, um, well, wait, wait, can I come forward?
	Um, Todd, can you and I volunteer?
	Look, I'll teach a course on vibe coding as long as I can record it.
	And Todd, would you like to teach a course on food for us or something similar?
	I mean, would you guys be open to that?
	Amazing.
	Yeah.
	I'd teach, you know what I'd do is I'd teach a beginner's class on magic, Mike.
	That's true.
	I'm sliding hand magic.
	I'm dead serious.
	My dad gave me a magic set when I was eight years old, and I cannot tell you how that single investment changed my life forever because you think differently when you are presenting a magic trick and you start to realize how to solve problems, right?
	Anyway, yeah, I'd be happy to, Mike.
	So three of our kids would sign up for that class right away, just so you know, Todd.
	Okay, great.
	Great.
	Well, it would probably be the most popular class on the site.
	Mary, you referenced plumbing earlier.
	And speaking of plumbing, any field trips scheduled to your local library where bearded 36-year-old trannies and drag can read to your little youngins?
	No, we don't do that.
	Sorry.
	Drag Queen Storytime is not part of the curriculum.
	It's never anything against that, but I do.
	Can we talk cost, investment?
	Sure.
	Is that fair game?
	How much does it cost to engage with Firefly and teach your kids better than the government schools?
	Well, on the website, fireflyedu.org.
	Let me just get that on the record here.
	FireflyEDU.org, just like it sounds.
	So go ahead.
	Yeah.
	So if you click join today on the homepage, you go to the pricing.
	And so we have three tiers currently that you can choose monthly or annual pricing.
	And so for one parent with one student, it's $49 a month.
	And that includes all of our features.
	And I mean, our entire technique, if you were to do an annual subscription, it would be $500 for the year.
	And you would get everything that's listed there.
	But it's basically 15% off if you do a year.
	With our second tier, the Family Plus, you get three students, and it's at $99 a month.
	So you're basically paying for two students and getting one for free.
	And then if you do a year, you get an additional 10% off on top of that.
	If you do the third tier, the family max, that's five students, and you're paying for three of them and getting two for free.
	And then if you do a year, you get an additional 8% off of that on top of the two free students.
	And then if you want to add more students, like we would need more students, of course, you know, for our family.
	So you can actually add more students a la carte.
	I think after five, I think it's like 20 bucks a month for additional students.
	Now, when Ron Paul's curriculum gets implemented, this will be an additional cost, but we will be offering the Ron Paul curriculum for $40 a month.
	But you'll get access to the entire curriculum for $40 a month.
	Can I make a suggestion?
	Sure.
	And I bring this up because one thing that I wanted to do for Alex when, you know, when Emmett was born was I prepaid for all of my, I have four daughters.
	We prepaid for their college education, right?
	And it was really, really a good investment back then, right?
	But things are changing so quickly right now.
	I was going to prepay Emmet's college education as my gift to Alex and her husband.
	And was literally, because it's open enrollment this month, literally going to do that.
	But you guys really have me thinking right now.
	And if you guys offered someone like me, somebody who has grandkids or even a parent or whatever, to do a homeschool education prepayment program where I would be happy to fund literally the whole curriculum for Emmett up until he graduates, you know, for a fee as a gift to her.
	So my daughter wouldn't even have to think twice about it.
	It would just be.
	So if you guys think that through, I'm dead serious.
	I would, I would love to, that would be an option that I would do to heck with prepaying college.
	You know, let me prepay homeschooling for 12 years.
	Amazing.
	Yeah, absolutely.
	We'll, we'll definitely talk about that for sure.
	Okay.
	Yeah.
	Okay.
	That would be pretty easy to implement, honestly.
	It would just be another category, another tier that that would just be an a la carte, you know, like give Firefly as a gift, essentially.
	Exactly.
	Exactly.
	Even better, take payment in private crypto, of course.
	So that would make everybody happy.
	And we are, and we will be doing that as well.
	We are setting up a merchant account to accept crypto payments and all major cryptocurrencies.
	Awesome.
	All right.
	Let me bring in a different question, I suppose, because, you know, I have a pretty large company.
	We hire people.
Decentralizing Education Control 00:14:43
	We fire people.
	We, you know, we do interviews, et cetera.
	Now, I don't do that process myself anymore.
	But when I did, whenever I had a candidate who said that they were homeschooled, I immediately thought, wow, this is awesome.
	Like this person knows how to do things.
	And I'm wondering how common that is in society because I recognize like somebody public schooled, it's hit or miss.
	Who knows?
	But homeschooled, yes, this person knows how to do things and can probably learn, probably has hands-on, can work in the manufacturing, knows how to use a forklift.
	But a public school person, like, oh, I'm going to have to teach you like fifth grade math.
	I've had problems with employees, couldn't count the number of boxes on a pallet that couldn't do that because it's like, okay, how many boxes per row?
	How many rows?
	It's like five times 25.
	What is that?
	I don't know.
	I've literally run into that with graduates of our education system.
	So your comments.
	That is the failure of the education system.
	And you brought up something else earlier that ties into this, which is the socialization aspect.
	We have seen from the very beginning the difference between our kids and other homeschool kids that we know and public school kids.
	The proof is in the pudding is the old saying, the proof is on the playground.
	And you really see that there.
	When you send your kids to Caesar, don't be surprised when they come home as Romans.
	And that's essentially what has happened to a great point.
	For sure in this country, but it's happening all over the world, the brainwashing.
	And I wouldn't want my kids socialized by the state.
	You couldn't pay me to have the state socializing my kids.
	My kids are so much better off.
	There's so much well-balanced, well-rounded people because they were not socialized by the state.
	And as Mary said earlier.
	So, yeah, I mean, we are absolutely seeing that trend.
	I think college admissions counselors and registrars are looking for homeschool applications.
	When they see that on there, they're like, oh, this is a self-directed learner.
	And so our goal eventually is for the word Firefly or words Firefly Education Network to be synonymous with self-directed learners.
	Oh, this is a Firefly kid.
	We want them.
	Right.
	We want to hire them because they went through Firefly.
	And that is our long-term goal.
	That's awesome.
	Absolutely.
	I think you'll achieve that too.
	And that's, see, right now, employers, they don't often need somebody to be local.
	It can be anybody from anywhere, but it's a characteristic of being able to learn rapidly, especially with AI.
	It's changing things so dramatically.
	You know, I've run into so many cases where there are people who have decades of experience in the workplace.
	They're in their 40s or 50s.
	They have all these skills that they mastered over all these years.
	And those skills are now obsolete.
	And they have to learn new skills.
	So the number one skill is the learning skill.
	More than anything you know.
	It's about can you learn new things?
	And some people can.
	Some people don't know how.
	So I'm glad you're teaching that.
	Yeah.
	And that's always been our personal philosophy with our kids too, is to teach them to be self-directed.
	I did want to raise a bunch of children that when they were in high school, I had to be looking over their shoulder every five seconds to make sure they were doing their schoolwork, you know, and so we really instilled that in our kids.
	And our two oldest boys actually are graduating this year with both their high school diploma and their associate's degree.
	So, you know, if you, it just speaks to the fact that if you can teach them how to be those self-directed learners, how to love to learn, there's, there's really nothing they can't accomplish.
	So amazing.
	And they're 18 and will be 17 at graduation.
	So it really is a wonderful accomplishment.
	Yeah.
	And the other thing that I love about this is that it decentralizes control over the education, takes it out of the hands of the state, which is corrupt and let's face it, stupid, and puts it into the hands of parents who obviously have a stake in their in their children.
	The state has no stake in your child being capable and thoughtful and a critical thinker.
	In fact, they want the opposite.
	They want your child to be obedient, nothing but obedience.
	Whereas parents want their children to be successful.
	And those are two completely different goals.
	And when you look into the genesis of the modern American education system and who is behind all of that, you see what their goals were.
	And those goals have been largely achieved.
	You know, I mean, there are so many good people in the public school system who are trying and trying and trying.
	And, you know, I feel like, you know, most of my adult life, I was really, you know, as a political advocate for libertarian ideas and causes, I thought that I could make some kind of difference or some kind of change in the process.
	But that system has no incentive to change itself.
	It's working exactly as it's meant to work by the people who are running it.
	And the school system is the same.
	The system itself is working according to its stated purpose if you know whose purpose that was.
	And so it has no incentive to change.
	So we have to withdraw our consent and build something better and innovate and go around it and just rebuild somewhere else.
	Like we're not, we don't want what you have.
	I mean, cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin was the same thing.
	It was a way to, originally it was a way to subvert the Federal Reserve system and not use money that was based on debt and blood and violence.
	And so, and then, you know, now it's taken off and it's become this, you know, juggernaut that's all over the world.
	But like that was that was the product of innovation to get away from a system that is destructive and centralized and tyrannical.
	And I totally agree with you on the nature of decentralization and decentralized systems.
	This is how we liberate humanity from these centralized systems of control.
	And that was a huge part of our motivation in creating FHIR.
	By the way, real quick, at the end of this interview, don't disconnect.
	I want to make sure that I have direct contact with you so we can coordinate about the book engine and some other ideas.
	I think Todd will agree with me.
	We really want to help promote what you're doing.
	It's so critical for the future of our society.
	But Todd, the next question is yours.
	I know you've got this one's a biggie.
	So, what do you say to parents who got married?
	They're going to live the dream.
	They buy their house, right?
	And they have their cars and everything, and they have their debt, yeah, and they have two incomes to be able to afford and support all that.
	What do you say to those people who would really yearn and want to be able to homeschool their kids, but man, we just can't afford it on one income.
	We're going to have to send our kids to public school because there's no expense associated with that.
	What do you say?
	Where there's a will, there's a way.
	Yeah, that's true.
	Where there's a will, there's a way.
	You know, I mean, like I mentioned earlier, homeschooling is not school at home.
	You don't have to do it from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m.
	You can work it around your schedule.
	A lot of families have the flexibility of working from home now.
	If you're able to work from home, you can fit an hour of school in here or there in between your schedule.
	And if you're not able to work from home, you still have to weigh the sacrifice of, you know, putting your kids in public school versus raising them in the way that you want them to be raised.
	And so I am a firm believer that when there's a problem, there's also a solution.
	And so, you know, I, and I do hear that from families a lot that, you know, we have, um, we have to both work.
	And Jordan and I both worked for years.
	You know, I was always working when our kids were little.
	I didn't, I wasn't a like total stay-at-home mom.
	I worked from home.
	And then, like I said, I worked for the school system.
	And you just find a way.
	You find a way around it.
	You both modify your schedules so that you can work together as a team.
	Awesome.
	And we are also implementing an affiliate system to where people that can't afford the subscription can earn it.
	And so by making referrals, and we're implementing a task-oriented system that helps to create value for our ecosystem and then people can earn it.
	Because, you know, one of our partners that we're working with is Liberty International, which is a worldwide nonprofit that does a lot of wonderful programs with underprivileged folks in third world countries and all over the world and in most countries.
	And one of their questions to me when we first started talking about partnering was how, like, many of the people that they serve could not afford $49 American dollars a month.
	And so that was why we got the idea to implement something like this to be able to have folks around the world who maybe couldn't afford that to be able to earn it through any number of types of different tasks that bring value to the ecosystem.
	So that's smart.
	Yeah.
	And that's something that maybe we would be interested in helping you promote it as an affiliate as well.
	Because we have to support each other.
	We all stand as different pillars of knowledge, content, know-how, and values in the community.
	And I believe that as the old systems are really crumbling, I mean, collapsing, the old fiat currency is collapsing, the old education system, centralized medicine is collapsing.
	Centralized everything is really collapsing.
	Decentralization is the future.
	That means bringing it local, where moms and parents and local community members are more actively engaged in the shared goals of what we want to create here.
	And I actually do have a question for you on that, not just a lecture, but what about growing food?
	Like, how, how much does your course do you encourage parents to teach kids to be involved in either animal husbandry operations or growing food or sprouting or anything like that?
	Sure, sure.
	Well, we absolutely have a 20-acre farm here up in the Pacific Northwest, and our kids have grown up taking care of chickens and goats and cows and horses.
	And so, yeah, we absolutely encourage that.
	You know, one of one of the content creators that I'm currently in talks with has an amazing full curriculum on horticulture and animal husbandry.
	Wow.
	Aimed at it's like a K through 12 curriculum.
	And it's all video-based, it's interactive.
	There's just so much to it.
	Really excited about that curriculum and hoping to get it onto the platform very soon.
	But yeah, like that, we're very passionate about that because we are, you know, I guess I don't want to say we're homesteaders, Mayor, but we do raise our own meat.
	We have our own eggs.
	You know, I mean, like, we've been doing it for, we've been doing it for years now.
	Yeah, and we do things as naturally as possible.
	You know, we're all about like making as many things as possible at home.
	And like, that's something we've had to learn how to do over the years.
	And, you know, different herbs and remedies and things all naturally focused.
	So we're very much into that and would absolutely welcome any content creators who wanted to build those types of courses.
	We will be building those types of courses.
	Yeah, that's right up our alley.
	That's awesome.
	And I can imagine, you know, the cost of AI inference is dropping by at least 10X per year.
	So I would imagine, Jordan, for example, your AI bill, you know, your AI inference bill is some significant thing that you have to pay those costs.
	But that cost is going to dramatically plunge each year.
	And there are so many, you know, even open source language models are coming out that are really extraordinary.
	So I'm just wondering, is it true that the AI component of your courses, which are again parent-facing for them to create coursework and create things, isn't that going to become less expensive and more awesome to where it'll soon it'll be able to produce even like video instruction or more diagrams or more visuals?
	Whereas right now it might be mostly text-based.
	But isn't that where it's all headed?
	Basically, everything you just said is spot on.
	That is the trend that we've seen.
	And we've been using the AI tools since they first came out.
	Firefly, we've actually produced a feature-length, completely AI-animated film that's like it's branded to Firefly.
	It's really a marketing tool for the platform, but it is very much a libertarian sort of manifesto starring blockchain-themed superheroes.
	And the tools that I was using to create these scenes two years ago are like the difference between special effects in the 70s versus today, totally just two years ago.
	I mean, like every month, the tools upgrade 10x.
	It's insane.
	I've already remade this film like four times because the tools just, I cannot keep up with how great they are.
	And the same thing is happening.
	I mean, the change in just like, let's take ChatGPT, the most famous one.
	The change in JAGPT from six months ago is night and day, let alone from a year and a half ago.
	The conversations, the workflows, the insights, the accuracy is completely night and day from where it was even just a few months ago.
	You look at Grok and Claude and Venice AI is one that I'm really, really interested in thinking about implementing Venice because Venice isn't reporting your data to anyone.
	So I really like that aspect of Venice.
	And I'm looking more deeply into that for our long term.
	Right now, our goal was to get to market with a meaningful, powerful product that was a no-brainer for our potential clients.
	But over time, as these things evolve and as they continue to get better, and they are getting cheaper, our AI overhead is negligible, really.
	I mean, it really isn't anything that's a deterrent to our growth at all.
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	Okay.
	But it is getting, but the quality is going up and the cost is going down.
	Well, yeah, absolutely.
	Once you start producing more full-length videos, then your costs could be substantial there, right?
	Because then you're paying per second or per minute.
	But I do want to mention that, in my experience working with a lot of AI tools and being an AI developer, I think that the imminent release of DeepSeek version 4 could be really useful for what you're doing, because the thing that I love about DeepSeek currently version 3.2 is it has very strong structural compliance to things like JSON wrappers and it can handle structured long-form content extremely
	well.
	well.
	And DeepSeek version 4 is only maybe a month away.
	I think it's going to be a game changer for the industry.
	Now, granted, yeah, that's built in China, but you can use it on servers that are running it as an open source model in the United States.
	I'm not saying like run it in China.
	Let's just have it, you know, run it in the US and use that inference and it's all US-based.
	It's open source.
	So anyway.
	And Jordan, if you need any help on that, just ask Judah.
	Yeah, right, exactly.
	Yeah, the vibe coding genius to be.
	So anyway, what's good about what you're doing, or more than good, what's amazing is that you're doing this at a time when tools like AI are arriving on the scene to amplify even just, you know, a couple like you can roll out a game-changing global platform like this.
	That wasn't really possible five years ago, right?
	You want to comment on that?
	Yeah, and we have used development teams, but we've also used AI.
	Like one of our big apps on Firefly is Firefly Compass, and it's an app that has 15 apps in it.
	It gives you legal advice, or not advice, but like legal guidance on homeschooling laws in your state based on your location.
	It gives you the field trip planner.
	It gives you a monthly lesson planner.
	It gives you a Bible app.
	It gives you career guidance.
	There's 15 apps in this.
	It was entirely vibe coded with Claude.
	Entirely vibe coded.
	And then we turned it over to our dev team to have them work out any little kinks or stylistic things that Claude didn't know how to do or just couldn't get right.
	So there's still this human component.
	But we had human teams building out the prompting engines that we have created for our course builder.
	As you guys know, doing one prompt with an AI isn't going to necessarily get you the result that you're looking for.
	It's an ongoing conversation till you refine and refine and refine the result.
	So that process is taking place in the back end.
	And that was a human innovation to be able to interact with the AI in a way to get a reliable result every time for each course.
	Yes.
	An example.
	Yeah.
	Yes.
	Well, exactly.
	And the other thing I want to mention is that what you're building is a system that can also move to edge devices.
	So, for example, when you take students on a field trip to a museum, and I'm not an advocate of transhumanism or wearing technology all over the place, but you could easily have your, you know, the student can have the mobile phone with you that's connected to your course where they're at a museum, they take a picture.
	What is this?
	You know, what is this artwork?
	And then your system analyzes that and says, oh, well, here's this artwork, and here's how, you know, why it's relevant with a pro-liberty point of view.
Hearing Tech Innovations 00:07:36
	Instead of taking the museum's official information, which is probably filled with false history, like if you're touring the Vatican or something, you know, like, I want to have a totally non-Vatican propaganda point of view.
	But you see what I'm saying?
	Like, your course can go to the edge.
	Yeah, absolutely.
	And that would be part of our long-term vision.
	You know, this is version one, and version one is very powerful just as it is.
	And as we're, and as we're adding Ron Paul's curriculum to it, it really is an all-in-one sort of encompassing ecosystem for the worldwide homeschool movement.
	But those types of innovations, like you like the types of innovations that Google has made, but just, you know, not Google, not, you know, monster conglomerate corporate in bed with the bad guys.
	You know, we are, we are looking at being able to do those types of things long-term with this system.
	Yeah, that's absolutely an application.
	I can't wait to see where you go with this.
	It's going to be pretty amazing.
	So, Todd, you have any more questions to ask?
	No more questions.
	I just want to maybe unpack in the after party a little more.
	You know, Mike, I've helped 500 people acquire these UNAs, and part of our articles of association are that we're going to be, we're going to do good with the in.
	Oops.
	Can you guys hear that?
	Yep.
	Yep.
	No, I'm still seeing you and hearing you.
	We hear you.
	We hear you.
	Okay.
	For some reason, my fire alarms are going.
	Oh, I'm not hearing the fire alarms.
	Do you want to go check for a fire?
	No, my wife is down, so she probably just overcooked something, but that's okay.
	I love her anyway.
	Okay.
	All right.
	But sorry about that.
	But anyway, part of our articles of association are that we, with this entity, we can keep way more of what we earn, but we're going to do good with that.
	And so, you know, I would like you to consider maybe even integrating a pledge page or something to where support from just third parties could happen.
	Because I would totally encourage that in our private telegram group.
	Is your organization like a non-profit 501c3 or something like that?
	No, we're a Wyoming LLC.
	So we are a for-profit organization.
	But part of our long-term plan is to establish a philanthropic 501c3 to be able to put funds towards philanthropic causes and spread the gospel.
	That is definitely part of our.
	There's actually something that Todd can tell you about that's even easier than a 501c3.
	That's right.
	It doesn't require annual reporting to the federal authorities.
	Anyway, Todd will talk to you about that later.
	We have a lot to offer both of you, actually, between what Todd knows and the tech that I have.
	We can really contribute and we'd love to.
	So what would you like to add here at the conclusion of this interview for our audience?
	Mary, do you want to go first?
	We just want to Encourage, send encouragement out to the moms and dads out there who maybe are on the fence about homeschooling and about taking the leap and to just say, you know, I was you at one point.
	We were you at one point.
	And, you know, if I can do it with seven kids without a teaching background starting out, you can do it too.
	And, you know, really the whole point of Firefly was just to make it easier for you.
	It was to give you the tools that you need to be successful and to teach your kids the things that are important to you that align with your values and to give you a real option of escaping the system and being able to just raise your kids in the way that you're, you feel is best.
	And so, yeah, I just want to send encouragement out there to you guys.
	That's awesome.
	Reach out to us.
	Our contact information is on our website.
	And we love hearing from families and potential teachers.
	And, you know, we would just love to hear from anybody who has questions.
	So.
	Beautiful.
	Mike drop.
	FireflyEDU.org.
	She said it all.
	Now that is that that is a that is a smart man right there, Mike.
	That is longevity of the marriage right there in a nutshell.
	Yeah.
	My wife said it.
	It's 100% true.
	I have nothing to add.
	It's true.
	It's true.
	Yeah, no, that's a beautiful mic drop.
	Yeah, that's true.
	Thanks for that, Mary.
	Yeah.
	I feel like that's kind of a personal thing because my name is Mike.
	I'm like, clunk, am I supposed to mic drop?
	Mike drop.
	Mike drop.
	Thank you guys so much for having us.
	Thank you so much.
	That's a great conversation.
	Really appreciate it.
	We love having you on.
	So anyway, stay tuned.
	What we're going to do, we're going to take a break here on the show, but don't disconnect, please.
	I want to make sure we can get in touch with each other without going through my producers so that we can offer some tech and promotion and things like that for you.
	So just stay tuned.
	And then Todd, what do you say?
	We'll be right back after this break.
	You got it.
	All right.
	So stay tuned, everybody, for the after party coming up today.
	And I have a feeling it might be a little crazier than usual.
	We'll see.
	So stay tuned.
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	All right.
	Welcome back to the after party here at decentralized.tv.
	Wow.
	I love these guests.
	What a great topic.
	What a great absolutely blockbuster.
	I mean, those two are the energy, the love that you can just feel between them, their purpose, seven kids.
	I mean, my goodness gracious.
	Just very inspirational.
	I'm inspired.
	I know.
	That is inspirational.
	Yeah.
	And seven kids.
	And I guess two of them are close to graduating the equivalent of high school now.
	Yeah.
	I think with associate's degree.
	Yeah, right.
	That's amazing.
	Unbelievable.
	You know, because you and I have talked about in previous shows, we've talked about how the, you know, the conventional education system is totally obsolete at this point.
	Absolutely.
	Absolutely.
	And I am glad to see this because I think we're going to see a lot of innovation in this space.
	We're going to see the children that come or young adults that come out of these kinds of programs are going to be the actually capable future leaders of our world.
	100%.
	I mean, it's just going to be a box that when it's checked, I mean, employers, you know, it's just going to be amazing.
Let Let's Play 00:06:23
	And, Mike, before we dig in any further, I just have to take one little time out and a word from my sponsor.
	Do you mind, Mike?
	Do you know?
	Okay.
	Do you know, Mike?
	Remember, I shared with you on the last episode that I was going to surprise my wife.
	Oh, yeah.
	With the dog.
	Yana, can you?
	Okay.
	Now, Yana isn't going to come on air, but I want to introduce to you our little sheepa doodle puppy.
	Is she not adorable?
	Oh my gosh.
	Just like squeezable.
	Oh, my gosh.
	Doesn't she almost look like Snoopy?
	I mean, just, but I think it's soft.
	Yes.
	So this is Cami.
	She is a Sheepa Doodle, which is a mix between a giant, an old English sheepdog and a giant poodle.
	Thank you, Yana, and a standard poodle.
	There.
	So I just, I just had to present that to you.
	You know, tomorrow, my wife and I, we go on a vacation.
	We celebrate, we celebrate our 20th anniversary, and I got her this puppy for our anniversary.
	Pretty smart, aren't I?
	To have the puppy delivered literally right before we go to go on vacation.
	You have mastered the husband part here.
	I mean, you nailed it.
	I did.
	Well, you know, I was trying to plan it to where the puppy would get here after we got back, but the breeder would not ship the puppy underneath in cargo, which I'm appreciative of.
	So she had to have a guide with her to actually bring her.
	And that means that she has to not be too big to be under, you know, where your feet are on a plane.
	So, yep.
	So, how does she do on the plane?
	Great.
	Just great.
	Just great.
	That's cool.
	Yeah.
	The whole process was great.
	And it worked.
	I surprised my wife.
	She's very, very happy.
	And we have a dear friend who's going to take care of Cami while we're away.
	So no problems there.
	But I just wanted to introduce her to our DTV family.
	Oh, that's great.
	I'm a little bit jealous because I don't have any soft, friendly dogs.
	I know.
	I have more like aggressive, like rip your arms off kind of dogs.
	I know you do.
	But you know, he hasn't been on the show for a while.
	So he hasn't.
	Let's see if he can get up on my desk here because we also don't have any scratches yet on this custom desk surface.
	Recognizing some scratches.
	So let's see if he'll do it.
	All right.
	Hold on.
	Rody.
	Come here.
	Rody.
	Rody, come here.
	Rody.
	Roadie.
	Place.
	Place.
	Yeah, come on.
	Come on.
	Good boy.
	How are you doing?
	Rody.
	How are you doing, Rody?
	Oh, my God.
	Rody, I can't.
	But you didn't get accidentally.
	Okay, let me let me let me get him up.
	Hold on.
	Okay.
	Okay.
	That is amazing.
	Now, I met that dog in person and I slammed the desk and he got between Mike and I in like two seconds.
	It was like so scary.
	Wow.
	Rody, you stud.
	How are you doing?
	You stud.
	Okay.
	Just have a seat there.
	Come here.
	Unbelievable.
	Robie Rody is such a stud.
	It cracks me up having those rings all the time.
	It just cracks me up.
	Okay, so I love your dog.
	And this one is not the cuddly one here.
	Remember, Mike, when I was in the studio and I was making a point and I hit the desk, and all of a sudden, within a second and a half, Rohy was on the desk in between me and you.
	I remember that.
	Yeah, that was, you know, shark meet pants.
	Okay, down, down, down.
	Good boy.
	You're a good boy.
	He thinks it's like playtime already, obviously.
	Yeah.
	But it's not.
	It's time for us to play on the show a little bit.
	Yes, it is.
	Yes, it is.
	And by the way, Mike, I listened to your last broadcast, and I just wanted to know if you were able to clean up the dump on your desk because you caught that comment, huh?
	I always catch your humor.
	That's hilarious.
	I literally was maybe TMI, but I was in the shower and I have a speaker in the shower and I was listening to that broadcast and you said that and I just belly laugh.
	I'm like, funny.
	If nobody has heard it, go to your last broadcast and just the first five minutes, I think you laid down that joke.
	That's a reference to making a backup of the PostgreSQL database.
	That's crap.
	And the utility is called PG Dump.
	And so then I had AI write the program to take the dump on my desktop.
	And the dump actually finished yesterday.
	It was a 12-hour dump.
	A 12-hour dump.
	Wow.
	That's some dump, let me tell you.
	Even Rohy couldn't compete with that.
	12-hour dump.
	That's a bit of constipation, man.
	Yeah, but it's good to have the data.
	It is.
	It's worth the dump effort.
	Yeah, because otherwise you risked potentially flushing the entire project.
	We wouldn't want to flush certain indexed fields.
	I'm actually, I'm trying to actually add a, what's called a free text search property to the book chapters, right?
	And the free text search property, it will allow my engines, my AI engines, to search all the books much more rapidly so we can integrate them.
	Hey, that's a great shot.
	Look at that.
	That's a great shot.
	Roadie, like, he looks all relaxed and everything.
Why Precious Metals Matter 00:05:04
	Wow.
	He's about to roll off the edge here.
	That's a framer.
	You should still frame that.
	Get a big old canvas made, Rohy.
	He's doing good.
	Sitting on your dump desk.
	But your dog is way more friendly for like if you're sitting on the couch enjoying a movie, like your dog can just jump in your lap and you can cuddle, right?
	But this is not that kind of dog.
	Not that kind of dog either.
	You know, he's going to, he's going to, he's going to cuddle with some perps.
	Oh, he just fell off.
	Are you okay, Rohy?
	Oh, Jay, it's a slippery desk.
	You okay?
	Good boy.
	You're okay.
	You want to get back up here?
	No.
	Let me take him to his regular place.
	Now he.
	All right.
	No worries.
	He just fell off the edge of the bed.
	Oh, everyone out there.
	I have a really nice friend now friend who You guys would all know famous person who got acquired a UNA and he just says, Todd, don't think less of me.
	But I skip through the interviews and get right to the after party.
	And then I go watch the interview.
	So, you know, it's where we go off the rails, guys.
	But so Mike repurposes his puppy.
	How about those precious metals, huh?
	Have you ever seen a dog just fall off the edge of a desk?
	No, I haven't.
	Not many people, not many people have, you know, a protection dog on their studio desk, Mike.
	I'm just saying.
	He misjudged the width of the desk.
	Yes, that's right.
	But yeah, you were saying precious metals, and you're absolutely right.
	So as of right now, as we're filming this, although things could change dramatically, silver is over $95.
	I mean, what is it?
	$94.50.
	Okay.
	It is great.
	And gold.
	Have you looked at gold?
	Gold is $4,760.
	Gosh, that's great.
	That's great.
	I mean, I think by the end of, because you know how sometimes it just goes up and down, then it just spurts up.
	I think it's going to be over five within, shoot, it could be over five within a week.
	Wow.
	That's a, yeah, I mean, easily it could be.
	I want to show you something too.
	There's, there's, no, I don't see it here.
	Never mind.
	Sorry, false alarm.
	I can't.
	Speaking of, you know, increased prices of precious metals, I can tell you, Mike, thank you for your January 2nd broadcast to where you talked about the UNAs and people were really paying attention.
	And one use case that people are paying attention to: if you have precious metals and you're worried about capital gains long term, you need to learn about the UNAs and how powerful that can be.
	I have spent, no kidding, Mike, 88 consultations since you did that broadcast.
	It's like nothing but talk.
	Today was my last one before going on my 20th anniversary vacation for a week.
	But I want to tell you that so many of them are, hey, I'm big into precious metals.
	Educate me.
	And great conversations.
	Well, can I restate that?
	But that's really fascinating that you've talked with 88 people.
	So the thing about precious metals is that, of course, now you have so much, quote, gain that the IRS considers to be a gain, but it's not really because the dollars that they say you've gained, well, those dollars are worth a lot less.
	So, oh, there's Rodi.
	He's sleeping on the floor.
	No, he's cool.
	There he is.
	That's his comfortable spot.
	But you're going to pay taxes on the so-called gains if you sell or if you transfer.
	And why?
	Why should you have to pay taxes on something that you already bought with after-tax money?
	You know, it's a total IRS ripoff.
	So it is.
	And there's multiple strategies, Mike.
	I mean, if you already have self-custody of your precious metals, I always say, what precious metals, first of all.
	But there is a wonderful strategy only employed at the point in time if you ever need to liquidate them.
	I'm just going to drop that little breadcrumb.
	And then there's another one for those who have their precious metals vaulted, who don't have self-custody, to where you can actually lawfully donate those to a UNA that you set up with the precious metals account.
Ways To Liquidate Precious Metals 00:04:27
	And good, good things happen there, Mike.
	That's probably what I'm going to do at some point here because I do have vaulted metals and I do not want to sell them and have a taxable event.
	But I also want to be fully compliant with the rule of law.
	Yep.
	And so what you offer, and I'll just bring up your website here, my575E.com.
	What you offer through your partner, Dennis Gray, is a vehicle that's codified in California law that allows us to donate property to a unincorporated nonprofit association that does not generate a taxable event.
	Yep.
	Yep.
	And when Nelson Rockefeller coined the phrase, own nothing, control everything, he was talking about entities like these, except the beautiful thing here, Mike, you don't have to have an army of attorneys and accountants.
	What I love about this is just its simplicity, as you know.
	Yeah.
	And well, I'll ask you more questions about it coming up here in the after party.
	But before we get to that, I just want to think about, now you're about to go on a, is it's a vacation with your wife, right?
	That's correct.
	Is it an anniversary thing?
	Yep.
	Yep.
	Okay.
	20th anniversary.
	20th anniversary.
	Okay.
	So you're, do you have any special surprises on the 20th?
	I imagine you do.
	Or was it the dog?
	It was a puppy.
	Yeah.
	Okay.
	Okay.
	Well, that counts.
	That's awesome.
	Yeah.
	I think 20.
	The 20th anniversary is the puppy.
	And my biggest gift to her, all she wanted was because believe it or not, Mike, I had three days carved out to where two mornings in the afternoon, I was going to keep my calendar open to be able to take more consultations.
	And she said, I just, I just want you for a week.
	And I blocked those two.
	Well, here's what else is funny about that is because of your travel, we had to change our schedule of when we filmed the show.
	That's right.
	And thank you, by the way.
	Yeah, of course, no problem.
	Well, I was thinking, I can't do this show without you.
	It wouldn't be the show.
	You know, it would be a real dull and boring after party, I think.
	You know, you talking to Rody, me talking to my smoother.
	You're looking green today, you know?
	I mean, yeah, what would we do?
	Just me by myself here.
	Well, I shared with you the story about the person who, you know, is a famous person who just says, Todd, I hope you don't think less of me, but I blow through the interviews and get to the after party and watch that first.
	And then I go back.
	Yeah, well, people do enjoy the after-party subjects, that's for sure.
	But, well, I just want to say we've been doing this three years almost, Todd.
	Yep.
	It wouldn't be decentralized TV without you.
	Well, thank you, Mike.
	And vice versa.
	And when we started, we didn't know where it was going to go.
	No.
	But I hear it.
	I heard it 88 times this past two weeks.
	People love the show and they love what we're doing.
	And I've enjoyed many, many thank yous.
	And those who are watching know that I do extend the appreciation to you, Mike, because so many people have just been following you forever, and you have no idea how many lives you saved, how much you have impacted people's health, how much you have impacted people's wealth because they started listening to you about silver and precious metals way back when.
	One gentleman today said that because of you, he started stacking at, I believe, it was $21 when he made his first purchase.
	And he just kept buying ever since and stuff.
	And he's just so delighted.
	That's what, you know, he was one that was really like, okay, you got to tell me.
	I've got so much appreciation now.
Want Robot: Hacking and Joy 00:06:32
	What's up with these UNAs?
	So anyway, Mike, thank you from many, many people who have said it to me and asked me to say it to you.
	Oh, that's amazing.
	You know, I imagine you have extraordinary conversations with people because we attract, I think, the best people on this planet.
	You know, the most percenter-mindeders.
	I'm telling you, the people who watch the show are really extraordinary people.
	Now, let me update you on something kind of interesting.
	You know how we plan later on this year to have robots.
	Yes.
	And it's all part of decentralization.
	Remember, we're going to, I mean, our plan is to acquire robots and then train them to do actual things that help you live better off-grid or in a more sustainable way.
	Yep.
	And that eventually we hope that includes like the weed pulling robot or whatever, you know, egg gathering robot that can gather your chicken eggs.
	Well, we're not there.
	We're not there yet.
	We don't have any robot companies that have yet told us they will sell us their humanoid models so that we can abuse them on the show.
	But what we have, I did, I saved a $1,500 mopping robot by replacing a $15 pump.
	And I want to show that to the audience.
	Here it is.
	It's the Croc C 12-volt mini food grade self-priming diaphragm freshwater transfer pump that is $15.
	Now, here's the story.
	I have a $1,500 robot.
	Let's see.
	It's called the Narwhal Flow.
	And let me see if I can bring it up here.
	This is a Chinese company that makes this.
	Here it is.
	Yeah, Narwhal.
	Okay, you see that?
	So their high-end version robot costs $1,500 or it did before they started discounting it.
	And this is the best mopping robot ever.
	Really?
	Yeah, it's really, it's got a whole mopping bar with a cloth that rolls like a tank treads.
	Wow.
	Yeah.
	And then that bar like scoots out to the side as the as the robot's cruising down your hallway.
	The bar comes out and it cleans the edge and everything.
	And then it comes back and it exchanges the water and it heats the water.
	It washes its own mop with hot water.
	Wow.
	And so I thought, you know, this sounds awesome.
	I'm going to put peppermint oil in the clean water tank because I want this robot to spread peppermint joy all over all over the place, right?
	Yeah.
	And also, you know, peppermint, like mice and rats don't like it either.
	So it helps dissuade the rats that are trying to eat my chicken feed and things like that.
	So I pour peppermint oil into the clean water tank and then this robot for like a month, it's doing fine.
	And then one day the pump doesn't work.
	And the freshwater intake pump, it just stops working.
	And I talked to the Narwhal company and they're like, well, there's really nothing serviceable in there.
	I took that as a personal challenge.
	I'm sure you did.
	Like, you don't know who you're talking to here.
	They call me Mike Giver.
	I'm going to fix this thing no matter what it takes.
	And they said, well, you will void the warranty if you take the back cover off.
	And I'm like, I'm going to do that right now.
	And so you have to pry the back cover off with a giant screwdriver.
	It pops off.
	There's no screws.
	You have to want to break it.
	Okay.
	And it pops off.
	And then it exposes the whole back, like the internal sky net portion of the vacuum.
	And here's this pump.
	This little pump turns out that the peppermint oil caused the diaphragm to expand because it's a cheap pump.
	And when the diaphragm little parts and layers expanded in the pump, it stopped sucking water.
	Ah.
	No longer a pump.
	Yeah.
	Just a little noisemaker.
	Yep.
	So I went on Amazon.
	I bought this $15 pump.
	I did some research.
	I figured it out.
	Had to splice the wires with some simple little splicers, this and that, and plug it back in.
	Boom, up and running.
	I got my robot back.
	$15.
	$15 fix.
	Right.
	For a $1,500 robot.
	And it just reminded me of what we're going to do on this show.
	Like, we're going to buy off-the-shelf humanoid robots, maybe like a $50,000 robot, you know?
	And we're going to hack that sucker.
	You know, we're going to hack its brain.
	We're going to plug into it.
	And I'm going to use like AI cyber hacking code to inject into the robot brain.
	Truth.
	Yeah.
	I mean, it'll probably be, I don't know, someone would label it like corporate espionage.
	No, it's just, it's just a robot.
	I just want my robot to be programmable so I can use it.
	Yeah.
	I just want that robot to be named Sybil.
	And then you can give Sybil multiple personalities because wouldn't it be funny if at one point during the interview, you know, he's engaging with us as the wokebot.
	Woke bot.
	Right.
	Oh my gosh.
	That's a great idea.
	Everybody, I just planted a seed that will bear fruit in months.
	I don't know.
	I mean, no, that's a great idea, but I just don't know when we can get the bots.
	Right, right.
	Because I don't know how hard they're going to be to hack.
	But I'm pretty sure, see, I'm going to have like the bot, the bot brain is going to be here.
	And then I'm going to have AI vibe coding over here.
	Yeah.
	And I'm going to, I'm going to unleash the vibe coding onto the bot brain until it breaks through and then we can control it.
	We can overwrite it.
	Maybe this is why all of these companies aren't wanting to sell anything.
	So far, no one wants to sell us one.
	I'm not anti-robot.
	I mean, they should.
	No, you're pro-robot.
	They should give us one, you know, because it would be great publicity for the company.
Foo Cough Bot Brain 00:07:13
	Absolutely.
	And I'm not going to do anything abusive.
	We're not going to like set the robot on fire.
	No.
	That would be stupid.
	We just want it to do stuff that we want it to do.
	Yeah.
	Useful things.
	And that's going to require hacking.
	That's going to require hacking.
	Yeah, for sure.
	So anyway, my robot hacking has begun with a $15 pump to my point.
	What a great solution.
	And, you know, the journey of a thousand miles begins with a single pump replacement.
	Yes.
	And from here, we're going to keep hacking robots for years to come.
	Sports fans, what is the cost of freedom?
	15 bucks.
	Yeah, so anyway, when these robot companies say, oh, there are no user serviceable parts inside, your internal middle finger by author cough should emerge.
	Oh, yes, there are.
	There are serviceable parts inside.
	We're going to find them.
	I love Fu.
	He's the best.
	Mr. Koff nails it every time.
	You know, Fukoff needs to come out with a book series.
	I'm just planting another seed, people.
	A book series, Mike.
	Yeah.
	Well, no, I've got an idea.
	Okay.
	It's based on, you know, with what I'm not going to make this political, but with what Trump's doing with the ICE agents and arresting illegals and stuff.
	And then I think it was Christy Noam said that if you're an American, you have to carry your papers now or something like that.
	Right.
	And I'm thinking, hey, Fu Koff is the perfect author to write a book about that.
	So when a federal agent says, show me your papers, prove you're an American.
	It's like, Mr. Fu Koff has something to say about that.
	Oh, you know, we need to make Fu great again.
	He needs a series.
	I'm not even kidding you.
	There's such a fun play on this.
	You know, just this is just that line in the sand.
	Yeah, yeah.
	Right.
	Or did you see, this is in your neck of the woods.
	Did you see that the mayor of Miami Beach sent some cops to the home of a veteran woman who posted just some trash talking about the mayor?
	That's totally normal.
	And the cops came to her door and gave her a bunch of crap about that.
	Did you see that?
	It's just ridiculous.
	It's nuts.
	So that needs to be corralled.
	And I think a little, you know, Fukoff could probably write a book on what you can and cannot say when you are being abused by your mayor, Mike.
	Yeah, yeah.
	Well, that woman was pretty smart.
	She didn't even acknowledge that it was her tweet, you know, or post.
	She was really smart.
	But the, but she did let one of the police officers into her home.
	Bingo.
	That's a mistake.
	That's a mistake.
	So Fukoff would have never done that.
	Right.
	Fukoff would say, don't answer the door.
	No, Fukoff would say, Fukoff.
	Instead of read my lips, it's read my book.
	Read my book.
	When the cops knock on your door and say, hey, can we come in and talk to you about this tweet?
	The answer is, let me check with Mr. Fu Koff.
	With my attorney, Fu Koff.
	My attorney, Fu Koff.
	He might have something to say about this.
	Yes.
	Yes.
	I think there's a book out there that's kind of the master tome that is Fu Coff by Fu Koff.
	You know, that's perfect.
	Yeah, that's absolutely perfect.
	Or when like the U.S. Department of Agriculture mails you a survey for your farm and says it's mandatory that you have to fill this thing out, which is like 10 pages so that the USDA can surveil all your farm activities.
	That's perfect for Mr. Fu Koff to comment on.
	Well, did you know that Mr. Koff does have a trash can line that you can get on that you can get actually imprinted on it, his signature on it, Fukoff.
	And so you can have that at your home office, downstairs, whatever.
	So when you get those, you can just submit it to Foo Cough appropriately.
	We should have like the online foo cough personal attorney chat bot.
	Oh, ask me anything.
	And the answer is tell them to fook off.
	That's the answer to everything.
	Everything, every question.
	It's the ultimate chat bot.
	It's like, I have this issue with local.
	local cops from the mayor's office.
	What should I tell them?
	Foo cough.
	Get off my porch also.
	I wonder if foo cough the way it's written.com is taken.
	If not, let's jump on that challenge.
	And I have the perfect slogan.
	Don't be a foo.
	Be a foo cough.
	Okay.
	Be a foo fighter.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	Okay.
	All right.
	Then if they ever bring back COVID, the next pandemic, you know, you can feel free to foo cough.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	Before you foo cough, put on your mask.
	Right.
	Take off your mask, I say.
	No, I was saying like from their side, they were put on your mask.
	That's correct.
	That's correct.
	Yeah.
	We went from taking dumps on your desktop to fooking off to your robot repairs.
	Yes.
	So anyway, great guest, Mike.
	Yeah, yeah.
	Really, really great guests.
	Really great stuff.
	Let's, I did want to circle back around about your UNA.
	Did we tell people how to find that?
	My575E.com.
	My575E.com.
	Yeah.
	And what I just suggest to people is watch that 90-minute interview of Dennis Gray.
	He's the subject matter expert on it.
	And there's a PDF guide that's kind of that's a go-along guide with the interview.
	And please, please, please do what 88 people did this last couple of weeks.
	Just book a private consultation with me and we can talk about your personal situation.
	And, you know, if you move forward with the UNA, you get the investment of that consultation back.
	You just take it off of the investment.
	And frankly, Mike, you know, most people move forward with a UNA after a consultation just because, you know, people just, they're wanting affirmation that, A, this is lawful and how does it work?
Asian Guy's Stance 00:12:41
	And here's my operating reality.
	And all I do is look for one use case from based upon what I hear from them to where it makes sense for them.
	And if we can do that, and certainly those people who have precious metals right now with the price increases, there is a huge use case for you.
	So just become educated.
	And if you want to have a consultation, we happy to chat with you and try to make it as easy as possible for you to be able to learn about these.
	It's all free within the website, the initial education, Mike.
	All right.
	That's perfect.
	But of course, you're going to be on your anniversary for a little bit.
	So you might have to schedule out a little bit.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	By the time this airs, though, I'll be through the mostly through the vacation.
	Okay.
	All right.
	Very cool.
	All right.
	I've got something else to announce today that's kind of cool, and it's related to everything.
	So first, as background, of course, our BrightLearn.ai book engine now does have 23,000 books that are all free.
	Amazing.
	To download.
	Yeah.
	It's really something that the book engine is just becoming even more popular every day.
	But I did something.
	I've been working on this for two years and I'm actually, I'm very public about this.
	So let's see.
	Where did I put, oh, here, here we go.
	You see the story on naturalnews.com?
	Yep.
	Here it is.
	A healthcare rebellion gains momentum as Medical Freedom Coalition launches nationwide battle to end tyrannical mandates.
	Now, I'm the author of this story.
	And the story is pretty amazing.
	It's extremely well researched.
	It's got all kinds of research citations.
	And as you read it, you see exactly my style, my stance, everything about the way that I look at the world.
	Yes.
	Like this, a forced medical intervention is not healthcare.
	It is medical assault.
	This violence, right?
	That's the classic health ranger right there.
	Yes.
	So what I want to announce here today is that I have finally built the engine that writes just like me when I give it the appropriate prompt.
	So this article, I am no longer the typist.
	I am the architect of it.
	Amazing.
	This article, after I had the prompt and everything and the research, the article took four minutes to be completed with all the research and the publishing.
	And let me show you the research references.
	Here they are.
	Here's a reference.
	It's Children's Health Defense, Vaccine Epidemic.
	This is by Mary Holland and others.
	This is a natural news article.
	This is from Mercola.
	This is Life After Lockdown.
	That's from Jeffrey Tucker.
	What's really cool is that in these stories, Todd, our interviews may also appear as sources.
	Beautiful.
	I built a research layer here that researches the entire web, plus all the science papers that we have and all the books we have and all the interviews and all the articles and all the podcasts and everything.
	And then it brings it together with my style and my stance, my prompt of the article.
	So the same thing that I did for Brightlearn.ai, which is allowing people to create a book, I've now done that on an article level.
	Amazing.
	Yeah, yeah.
	So the reason I want to mention this is because I have hardly written articles for two years.
	Right.
	Because I've been working on AI.
	Changing the world.
	Right.
	So now I'm creating five or six articles a day.
	Beautiful.
	Beautiful.
	And they're your articles because you are prompt engineering them.
	So it's something that's on your mind that you want to release to the wild.
	Except you just have a few little helpers that every once in a while may take a dump on your desktop.
	Yeah, exactly.
	That was actually part of the data set that goes into all this research.
	So I want to invite the audience to understand that even the term writing an article, that term was obsolete long ago because nobody's writing it.
	You're not writing on a piece of paper.
	Yep.
	You're architecting.
	You're, you know, even on a word processor, you're typing.
	Yep.
	You're not writing, you're typing.
	Yeah, that's right.
	And even on a word processor, you have auto spell check, you have auto-grammar check, right?
	So we have all these machine tools that help us be better communicators.
	Yes.
	So I've just taken that now to the ultimate level, which is I'm now the director or the architect of an article.
	And I can just tell it, I want an article on this topic with this stance.
	And here's a bunch of sources.
	Go and do it and write like me.
	And it's done.
	Crazy.
	So this is going to be a whole new thing on my content sites, naturalnews.com and others.
	Right.
	And Todd, my question for you is: I have the ability, of course, to create other writing personalities.
	So should we bring in Fu Koff?
	Yes.
	Like, should we have a writer called Fu Koff who just is like, resist everything?
	Oh, I love that idea.
	What do you think?
	I love that idea.
	And then, and then, and then come up with real life situations that people have had.
	And, you know, Fu comes to the rescue and he writes an article on it, you know, and consider it done.
	That's awesome because then he can reference like, you know, somebody somebody pulls you over, right?
	And you didn't do anything wrong.
	Well, what would Fukoff do, right?
	So instead of WWJD, right?
	What would Jesus do?
	You know, what would WWF?
	Right.
	And maybe that's the title of the book or one of the books.
	Okay.
	So I'm going to create, I'm going to create Fukoff, the agentic AI writer.
	I love that.
	Oh, that's going to be so much fun.
	I'm going to have to train him on a lot of material about saying no.
	Yep.
	Yep.
	Yeah.
	Cause it actually, it takes a lot of training to create a personality.
	I'm sure it does.
	But I know a ranger who can make it happen.
	Yeah, with a with a PG dump.
	Oh, that's going to be fun.
	So that's going to happen.
	Advance because that's going to be those articles are going to be must-read like every day.
	I think literally there's going to become a cult following of Fukoff.
	Okay.
	Fukoff is about to go active.
	Fukoff is going to be reanimated from the book to the journalist.
	And then there'll be Fukoff the movie, you know, Fukoff the TV series.
	This is going to be so fun.
	This kind of reminds me from the movie Idiocracy, Owl My Balls.
	Remember that from Idiocracy?
	There's a whole TV show called Owl My Balls.
	Oh, my God.
	Remember that right?
	I remember that, man.
	I remember our very first interview we ever did.
	I never imagined we would be to this level of competence to be.
	All right.
	So, so, well, you know, like, here's what's funny.
	You know about Asian guy on YouTube who does all the AI videos talking about gold and silver.
	Right.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	Did you know?
	So the actual guy behind Asian guy, I don't know who it is, but whoever it is, is actually very well informed about, you know, markets and honest money and things like that.
	Well, that guy had his AI avatar Asian guy say in a recent Asian guy video at the end that said, hey, just as a note, I'm the real Asian guy, but there's these other channels that are pirating the Asian guy look and voice and imagery.
	And they're putting out fake Asian guy AI avatar stuff.
	Interesting.
	I'm the real AI avatar Asian guy.
	Wow.
	Yeah.
	So now the AI avatar gets famous and then they get cloned.
	That's interesting.
	Other channels.
	That's going to happen more and more and more.
	And wow.
	Yeah.
	Wow.
	You know, I wonder if that's going to happen to Fukov.
	Fukoff can handle it.
	Fukoff can handle it.
	That's what I, how do you enforce, you know, how would you, in a court of law, how would you say, oh, that person stole my fake personality.
	It's like, what's the argument here?
	You know, right?
	How dare they fake my fake with their fake?
	You know, it gets complicated.
	It does.
	It does.
	But like I say, you know, Fukov can manage.
	He can handle it.
	Okay.
	All right.
	Yeah.
	No doubt.
	Well, I think we should have a YouTube channel with Fukoff just telling me.
	I think whatever the question, the answer is no.
	Yeah, that's right.
	Like, do you want to take this vaccine?
	No.
	Yep.
	Oh, do you want to enroll your children in public school?
	No.
	Probably not.
	No.
	Fukoff.
	Do you want to pay taxes on all your gold and silver gains?
	Fukoff.
	Yeah, Fukoff has something to say about that.
	And Fukov is just very fond of his own name because he uses it in almost every sentence.
	Yeah.
	That's true.
	Yeah.
	A self-referencing AI avatar.
	Oh, well.
	Yeah.
	This year is going to get crazy.
	It's going to get crazy.
	Yeah.
	So, well, I'm going to go pack.
	I got to pack for my vacation.
	Oh, that's right.
	I'm actually keeping you from your trip, aren't I?
	No.
	Fukov can keep me from anything, man.
	I'll hang in there all night long.
	Okay.
	Talking Fukoff.
	All right.
	Well, I just have one last request, and that is, we love your dog.
	What's the dog's name again?
	Cami.
	Cami.
	Is that short for something?
	Well, my daughter liked Camille and I didn't.
	Oh, and we settled.
	Oh, okay.
	All right.
	And it rhymes with my famous Instagram dog, Zami, the giant sheep and Cami and Zami, I thought we can do that.
	All right.
	So Cami's only been with you for a week or so.
	It's been less than like days.
	But now you're going to hand over Cammie to some other caretakers.
	The caretaker is going to come visit here three times a day.
	So I have created a dog mahal in my in my office.
	I've shown many of the people who have done consultations recently the fact that Cami is right there next to me.
	You know, kind of how your dog is always next to you.
	Yeah.
	Cammy's next to me.
	Okay.
	I just want to, just for the welfare of Cami, I just want to make sure that when you travel, that Cami is well taken care of.
	Yeah, she's she's well.
	Matter of fact, the dogs are all barking right now and the caretaker is here.
	So she's getting her education on little Cami.
	She'll be well taken care of.
	Trust me.
	Okay, that's awesome.
	All right.
	Well, we look forward to her making a Cameo appearance.
	Oh, I like it.
	Future videos.
	Yes.
	I like it.
	Yep.
	You know, and what we can do is over time with those cameos, like maybe once a month, then we can go back and take a little snippet and show the growth, you know?
	One day I'll be holding up this hundred-pound giant sheepa doodle.
	Oh, yeah.
	She's going to get large, huh?
	She'll get big.
	Yeah, she'll be a big girl.
Cameo Appearances 00:01:59
	Yeah.
	Okay.
	And she'll get to a point to where she's very adept at telling people to fuke off.
	That's that's awesome.
	All right.
	Well, Todd, enjoy your trip with your wife.
	And we'll get together again when you come back.
	Awesome.
	Awesome.
	And everybody watching, thank you.
	Thank you for paying attention.
	And we love you, man.
	I mean, you guys are the two percenters.
	Really are.
	I think I think they're like the 0.2 percent.
	I know, no kidding.
	Yeah yes, I think you're right if they get.
	If no, let me tell you this, you are a point oh an oh oh, one percenter.
	If you get to the end of every after party, there you go.
	Cool, very few people on planet Earth can make it to the end of the after party, right?
	This is like a real test of endurance, you know, cognitive endurance test um, and we do that on purpose, you know.
	Okay, all right well Todd, have a great trip.
	And for the rest of you, remember you can check out all the episodes on Decentralize.tv, and most of them are evergreen topics like today.
	They apply anytime, so enjoy them all.
	They're free to watch, and thank you for watching, and we'll be back with the next episode uh, with Todd's stories of adventure and whatever happened.
	Well, we're going to find out about it next time.
	So thanks for joining us today.
	Cheers.
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Chapters

00:00:11 Ion Chromatography Insights
00:03:27 Selling Silver Herd
00:05:49 Splitting Colons and Poor Choices
00:18:50 Iran's Missile Threat
00:33:47 U.S. Military's Mineral Crisis
00:40:00 Get Ready for Chaos
00:43:28 Reasoning Beyond Humans
00:58:59 Calling Tim Tool the Fool
01:01:02 Inner Nazi Mindset
01:15:25 Silver Dealers Cashing Out
01:30:42 Buyer's Market for Silver
01:42:55 Educator's Wise Decisions
01:57:36 One Big Myth About Homeschooling
02:02:13 Challenges to Traditional Teaching
02:12:36 Setting Up FireflyEDU
02:28:13 Decentralizing Education Control
02:42:57 Amplifying Human Innovation
02:46:52 Hearing Tech Innovations
02:54:28 Let Let's Play
03:00:51 Why Precious Metals Matter
03:05:55 Ways To Liquidate Precious Metals
03:10:23 Want Robot: Hacking and Joy
03:16:55 Foo Cough Bot Brain
03:24:08 Asian Guy's Stance
03:36:50 Cameo Appearances