Health Ranger - Mike Adams - BVN, Feb 19, 2026 – Trump Wages Glyphosate War on America, Iran War Risk Escalates...

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Clash Over AI Sentiment 00:03:27
	Alright, welcome to the Bright Videos News for Thursday, February 19th, 2026.
	I'm Mike Adams.
	Thank you for joining me today.
	Trump just did something completely insane, and he has declared the deadly weed killer herbicide, known as glyphosate, to be a national defense critical resource.
	And he is effectively granting legal immunity to all glyphosate producers.
	And this will cause the supersaturation of U.S. crops with glyphosate, weed killer that's tied to cancer, of course, and other health problems, digestive problems, etc.
	And Trump has now become the glyphosate president.
	Yeah, insane.
	I've got a special report on that, as you might imagine.
	That's coming up.
	And then also I've got a report on the Texas Farmers Union is now revolting against data centers that are being constructed in Texas that steal the water and hike the power prices and also take the farmland.
	I've warned about this.
	I've warned about this.
	And now it's here.
	The clash is coming.
	In my report, I talk about why it's kind of crazy to build data centers in areas of the state of Texas or the country where water is already scarce.
	That's a horrible idea.
	But also the clash that's coming.
	I think we're going to see physical attacks and sabotage attempts against data centers and their power supply or power infrastructure that feeds them.
	I think that's coming, although I try to warn people against doing that.
	I'm not advocating it, just to be clear.
	I'm predicting a clash, a violent clash that is probably going to be coming, and not just in Texas.
	It could be elsewhere in other states where power prices are already skyrocketing because of these data centers.
	Now, there's already a very strong anti-AI sentiment in America.
	A lot of people are really angry about AI.
	I mean, I know I've argued with some of them because, of course, I am pro-AI technology when used to empower humanity.
	But I'm not the majority of the use cases of AI, right?
	Because big tech is not using it for the benefit of humanity.
	They're using it to enslave or to surveil or to build autonomous weapons that are going to one day probably kill you.
	So yeah, there's a very strong anti-AI sentiment in America.
	And I understand that.
	I totally get it because I'm no friend of big tech.
	As you well know, the big tech companies that are building AI, like Google and Microsoft and OpenAI, they're all evil.
	They're evil corporations, some of the most evil corporations to have ever existed on this planet, much less this country.
	So I don't support what they're doing.
	But my point in all of this is that this anti-AI sentiment is going to get much worse as farmland becomes more scarce, electricity prices continue to skyrocket, and farmers have to go bankrupt because they can't have, there's no water left for their herds.
	This is going to become a very real crisis in the state of Texas and Oklahoma and Kansas and other states as well.
Israel Destroyed Iran 00:16:00
	This is going to get bad.
	So I've got a whole report that covers that in great detail.
	Now, yesterday I ran the first part of my interview with Maria Z.
	And I do have part two for you, but not today.
	Today, I'm going to run a full episode of Decentralized TV featuring Ashton Addison talking about, well, finances, gold and silver and crypto and surveillance and all kinds of things, blockchain or the block-size wars.
	We've got a lot to talk about here.
	And, you know, some of Trump's crypto schemes and things like that.
	So it's a really strong episode.
	We're going to roll that out here today.
	And then I'll have part two of Maria Z for you tomorrow.
	Does that sound okay?
	All right.
	Okay, also, before we get into these special reports, I do want to mention that, of course, Trump, it looks like Trump is absolutely going to attack Iran with unprecedented military force.
	And Attorney Robert Barnes shared his thoughts today.
	He said the White House expects 10,000-plus American soldier casualties.
	And they do plan to put boots on the ground in Iran.
	I'm going to talk about Iran more probably in tomorrow's episode.
	I think the attack is likely to happen Friday night.
	That is late Friday night or early Saturday morning, our time, because that's when Trump likes to do things is on a Friday night so that it doesn't crash the stock market.
	And then they have the weekend to try to control the narrative and tell everybody what a great job they did.
	There's no question that Iran, by the way, I completely oppose this attack by Trump.
	It's wildly illegal.
	It's totally uncalled for.
	It's unethical.
	It's immoral.
	Iran poses no threat to America.
	And we were just told, we were told like eight months ago, Trump said we completely obliterated and destroyed Iran's nuclear enrichment program and that it would be destroyed for years to come.
	The White House said that.
	They insisted on it.
	They even put out a message that said that anybody who says that Iran's nuclear infrastructure was not destroyed was pushing fake news.
	So then why are we bombing Iran again with the same excuse?
	Oh, we have to stop their nuclear program.
	Trump himself said we stopped it last June.
	Last June.
	So what the hell, man?
	Sorry, but he's just lying to us constantly now.
	But Iran is going to get hit very, very hard.
	There's no question about that.
	I mean, it's going to be horrific.
	A lot of suffering, a lot of damage.
	And Trump, he will destroy his remaining credibility as president when the Americans take casualties.
	When an American stealth fighter is shot down, or a stealth bomber is shot down, or a naval vessel is destroyed and sinks.
	Or 5,000 or 10,000 U.S. soldiers get killed in the U.S. military bases around the region that Iran promises to strike.
	Or when Israel gets decimated in the retaliation by Iran.
	So unless the United States has some way to surprise Iran with a massive wave of attacks that they don't even see coming that destroys everything, then there's going to be retaliation.
	And Iran, last summer, Iran held back.
	They didn't launch everything they had.
	At first, they just launched the old stuff.
	Like the old propeller-driven drones, I called them sky mopeds.
	Remember that?
	They're just kind of getting rid of the old inventory.
	And they were so slow in the sky, you know, that's why I call them sky mopeds.
	Took them like eight hours to fly to Israel.
	It wasn't a surprise, you know.
	But they were just clearing out old inventory.
	Iran has way more advanced stuff since then, plus technical assistance from China and Russia, new missile systems, hypersonic missiles, new ballistic missiles, and more, and anti-ship missiles, and anti-stealth radar systems from China, et cetera, et cetera.
	So, if Trump initiates this attack, there's something very important that you have to understand here.
	For Iran to win this engagement, all they have to do is not be completely destroyed and inflict enough damage on the U.S. that it destroys Trump's presidency.
	And in other words, Iran will suffer tremendous damage.
	No question about that.
	But unless the entire country is destroyed and the regime in charge is overthrown, then Iran still wins.
	And they win by retaliating against U.S. forces or U.S. assets in the area, which include aircraft carriers now.
	What is it, the Lincoln and now the Ford is on the way?
	Is the Eisenhower there?
	Is that one of them?
	I mean, it's insane.
	The number of ships and planes and bombers and probably submarines and cruisers and everything else in the area, it's off the charts insane.
	This is a massive buildup.
	Iran's going to take a tremendous amount of damage, but they're going to dish it out too.
	They're going to dish it out.
	And if 10,000 U.S. sailors or troops on the ground in the military bases around the region, if we have 10,000 casualties, can you imagine the outcry in the United States?
	The anti-war, I mean, the protests would be nationwide.
	That's probably what Trump is building the concentration camps for, is to just round up the protesters and exterminate them.
	You know, they were killing protesters in Minneapolis.
	Trump was just running execution squads.
	That's going to be cranked up big time.
	They're going to round up protesters, throw them in the concentration camps.
	You know, they have special incinerators for those camps now, too.
	Yeah, that's to incinerate the human bodies.
	They're going to disappear potentially millions of people.
	This is going to be like an American Holocaust is what it's shaping up to be.
	And that doesn't even count the glyphosate, mass poisoning of the crops.
	And glyphosate is related to VX nerve gas, which was developed by Nazi scientists.
	That's right.
	You'll hear about it in my report.
	Glyphosate's related to Nazi chemical weapons.
	So the mass poisoning of the U.S. food supply is the closest thing to just rounding people up and shoving them into gas chambers, except it's through the food supply, and it's slower.
	It just kills you more slowly.
	And that's what Trump has just unleashed upon this nation.
	So it's like Trump is at war with everybody.
	He's at war with Gaza, obviously.
	He's at war with Iran.
	He's also at war with the American people.
	I mean, is he just going to poison and bomb everybody in sight?
	Just try to kill everybody?
	Even his own country?
	Yeah, apparently so.
	Apparently.
	He's got to be removed from power.
	At this point, he's a madman.
	He's a completely out of control madman.
	And this is going to go horribly for America, probably.
	Again, Iran will take a lot of damage, no question.
	But I don't want to see U.S. soldiers bleeding and dying for Israel.
	This is all for Israel.
	This is Trump selling us out to the Zionist regime, which is the Epstein regime.
	So Trump's master is Epstein.
	Pedophile, Satanist, child trafficker, and rapist.
	And he's going to push us into deadly conflict while poisoning the American people and telling us it's healthy and telling us everything's great.
	Telling us America's economy is the best ever.
	It's a new golden age.
	Really?
	What's golden about it?
	Is it the cancer?
	Is it the dying in the Middle East?
	Is it the mass death?
	Is it the shooting of Americans by ice ages?
	Where's the gold in the golden age?
	Because it doesn't look very golden.
	It looks rotten.
	But anyway, all that's coming up.
	I know it's kind of a dark day for America right now, isn't it?
	There's a lot of people who are very unhappy about all this.
	You see them online.
	Maha is dead.
	MAGA is dead.
	The Trump administration turned against us.
	He needs to resign.
	He needs to be impeached.
	These calls are only going to grow louder and stronger if Trump stays on this course.
	I mean, what the hell?
	He was supposed to get us out of wars and stop the vaccine poisoning and hold the traders accountable.
	Instead, we got exactly the opposite, exactly the opposite.
	We got the worst of everything.
	It's like, no, more wars and more poisoning and more vaccines and more big tech building data centers and bankrupting your farms.
	Let's do all those things together.
	It's like the worst possible outcome.
	But don't take my word for it.
	Let's jump into the special reports so you can hear more details about this for yourself.
	So first report here: Trump becomes the glyphosate president.
	Here we go.
	Welcome to this special report.
	I'm Mike Adams, and Trump just did something so insane that no one can even believe it.
	He just issued and signed an executive order February 18th, 2026, that offers federal protection for glyphosate weed killer and categorizes it as a critical resource for national defense.
	Yeah.
	And you can read this yourself because you might think that can't be true.
	You must think I'm making it up.
	And I'm not.
	So here's the title.
	You can type this in and search for it.
	It's on whitehouse.gov.
	Presidential Actions.
	Here's the title.
	Promoting the national defense by ensuring an adequate supply of elemental phosphorus and glyphosate-based herbicides.
	All right, that's the title.
	Now, you might wonder, well, what's phosphorus got to do with it?
	Well, that's phosphorus is the fossil in glyphosate, by the way.
	And phosphorus can be extremely toxic and deadly and cancer-causing, which is exactly what has happened.
	And of course, Monsanto is most famous for glyphosate mass poisoning of the food supply and the people.
	But Monsanto was purchased by Bayer many years ago for, what, $65 or $66 billion.
	And Bayer is fighting the lawsuits right now.
	And it's been accepted by the Supreme Court.
	At least some motion has been accepted by the Supreme Court.
	And Bayer is trying to push a settlement, a multi-billion dollar settlement to settle all the lawsuits and grant itself permanent legal immunity for the future.
	Kind of like what the vaccine industry has.
	Absolute legal immunity.
	Which means they have a license to kill, right?
	They would have a license to just produce any poison, spray it on all the crops, and just saturate the food supply with deadly cancer-causing chemicals, watch everybody drop dead, and there's nothing you can do about it.
	And Trump just put his name on that.
	So, I want to read for you some of this because it's just shocking.
	And I'm seeing comments all over social media.
	Maha is dead.
	MAGA is dead.
	The Trump administration is toast.
	I mean, I see comments like, what, protecting Satanists and pedophiles and glyphosate?
	Could you have any more evil of a combination of horrible things to get behind?
	I guess there's nothing, there's no evil that's too evil for Susie Wiles to recommend there at the Trump administration, it seems.
	Well, I guess we have to call it the Epstein administration at this point, don't we?
	Hey, what goes along with human trafficking and raping of children and eating them?
	Yeah, glyphosate, mass poisoning of the population through the food supply.
	See, this is, you know, Operation Warp Speed was Trump's first term method of declaring war on the American people and trying to achieve mass depopulation through vaccine injection bioweapons.
	But it didn't work as well as they had hoped, probably.
	It did kill at least 1.5 million Americans, maybe many more, but it didn't kill tens of millions or hundreds of millions.
	Well, so now Trump is getting behind glyphosate.
	He thinks this is awesome.
	So let's see.
	In section one of the executive order, policy and findings, he says that elemental phosphorus is also a critical precursor element for the production of glyphosate-based herbicides, which play a critical role in maintaining America's agricultural advantage by enabling farmers to efficiently and cost-effectively produce food and livestock feed.
	What he's saying there is, you know, food saturated with cancer-causing chemicals.
	Yeah, and that's what goes into the animal feed also.
	He continues, as the most widely used crop protection tools in United States agriculture, glyphosate-based herbicides are a cornerstone of this nation's agricultural productivity and rural economy.
	So you got that?
	So glyphosate herbicide that kills things, that's the whole point of it.
	It's a killer, is considered a cornerstone of the rural economy.
	You can't make money unless you're killing people.
	You know, apparently.
	Anyway, Trump continues, allowing United States farmers and ranchers to maintain high yields and low production costs while ensuring that healthy, affordable food options remain within reach for all American families.
	So translation, Trump says, if you spray the crops with glyphosate cancer-causing weed killer chemicals, that makes the food healthy.
	Okay, just in case you're tracking along here, that makes the food healthy.
	So he goes on, he says, ensuring an adequate supply of elemental phosphorus and glyphosate-based herbicides is thus crucial to the national security and defense.
	I bet you didn't know that weed killer cancer-causing chemicals would one day be considered national security.
	Yeah, there you go.
	He continues, including food supply security, which is essential to protecting the health and safety of Americans.
	Once again, poisoning you is keeping you healthy.
	Got it?
	Poisoning you is healthy.
	Wow.
	Nonetheless, he continues, the United States' ability to domestically produce those critical inputs is extremely limited.
Glyphosate's Future Impact 00:15:06
	Indeed, there is only a single domestic producer of elemental phosphorus and glyphosate-based herbicides, and this producer does not meet our annual needs for those inputs.
	For that reason, more than 6 million kilograms of elemental phosphorus are imported from other countries annually.
	Future reduction or the cessation of domestic production of elemental phosphorus and glyphosate-based herbicides would gravely threaten American national security by disrupting this nation's defense supply chain, including by having a debilitating impact on domestic agricultural capabilities, he says.
	Now, you might wonder, well, what's he talking about?
	Where do we get glyphosate?
	If we don't make enough in the U.S., not even by a long shot, where do we get it?
	Do you want to take a guess?
	Where do we get everything?
	Rare earths, robots, computers, consumer goods, pharmaceuticals, chemicals, extracts.
	Where does it all come from?
	Comes from China.
	So China produces 77% of the glyphosate that's exported around the entire world.
	China is by far the largest producer of glyphosate.
	So this is Trump being concerned that China might shut us off from their glyphosate exports, probably because Trump believes that when Trump attacks Iran, that this is going to result in some trade retaliation action by China, including potentially cutting off glyphosate.
	So if China cut off glyphosate to the United States, they'd be doing us a favor.
	Our food would be more organic at that point.
	Imagine.
	So Trump writes, I accordingly find that consistent with the Department of the Interior's designation, elemental phosphorus is a scarce material that is critical to national defense and security.
	Blah, blah, blah.
	Our nation's inadequate elemental phosphorus production and the threat of increased domestic scarcity leave us vulnerable to hostile foreign actors.
	And he says, pose an imminent threat to military readiness.
	I don't know why he thinks military readiness is related to glyphosate.
	Is that because he plans to use the military to spray us all with Agent Orange?
	Maybe?
	Agent Orange, which has many similarities, or some of the formula does, many similarities to glyphosate.
	And also was made by the same company, Monsanto.
	So Trump writes, consistent with these findings, I find that ensuring robust domestic elemental phosphorus mining and United States-based production of glyphosate-based herbicides is central to American economic and national security.
	So there you go.
	Weed killer is now national security.
	Can't make this up.
	So accordingly, I hereby find, pursuant to section 101 of the Act, that domestic elemental phosphorus and glyphosate-based herbicides meet the criteria, blah, blah, blah.
	Goes on.
	Basically, he says that it's going to require performance of contracts and orders to promote the national defense over performance of any other contracts or orders to allocate materials, services, and facilities to promote the national defense, blah, blah, blah, ensuring a continued and adequate supply of elemental phosphorus and glyphosate-based herbicides.
	The Secretary shall use the authority under Section 101 of the Act in consultation with the Secretary of War of war to determine the allocation of the materials to ensure a continued supply of glyphosate-based herbicides.
	Okay, I'm shortening that a little bit, but that's what it says.
	So Trump just said that this is a weapon, and it's critical to national defense to have this weapon controlled by the Secretary of War.
	What kind of weapon is it?
	Well, it could be a depopulation weapon.
	Saturate the food supply.
	Saturate the food supply.
	Spray everything.
	And call it national defense.
	Unbelievable.
	But there's more.
	There's some kind of immunity that's granted here, which I'll get to.
	First, I want to remind you that I've been the key innovator of glyphosate testing using mass spec instrumentation for over 10 years.
	And my company, HealthRangerStore.com, is the only retailer of food and superfoods, storable foods, nutritional supplements, personal care products, the only retailer in the world that I'm aware of that routinely tests every production lot for glyphosate.
	And we find glyphosate in lots of things.
	And we reject those things where we find high glyphosate, obviously.
	And, you know, we found glyphosate over the years in many different things.
	We have, in fact, I gave you a lab tour the other day.
	And you know what I'm going to do?
	I'm going to include, yeah, I'm going to include the first 11 minutes of the lab tour here in this report just to show you our lab again.
	Because one of the instruments there, which is a waters triple quad mass spec with a chromatography setup that we use for glyphosate testing.
	And I spent 18 months with my coworkers, fellow chemists and analysts, creating the glyphosate testing method for that mass spec instrument.
	So I've done more work on glyphosate than most people.
	Not everybody.
	There are some scientists that specialize in it.
	But I've worked with glyphosate at a chemical level for detection and quantitation for many, many years.
	And thus, our products that we sell at healthrangerstore.com are the most glyphosate-free products that you will find anywhere, period.
	There's nothing else that comes even close to the level of testing that we conduct.
	So given the context of what Trump has just announced here, given that glyphosate is about to have total legal immunity, it's going to be sprayed on everything.
	It's going to saturate the food crops like never before because Trump is turning it into a chemical weapons attack on the American people.
	A chemical weapons attack.
	That's why he's involving the Secretary of War.
	This is a chemical weapon.
	And, you know, if you think about chemical weapons, there are lots of chemical weapons that are based on phosphorus.
	Now, in the executive order, Trump says that phosphorus is used in incendiary devices, in smoke and illumination, but you may not know where else it's used in terms of military weapons.
	But there's a weapon called white phosphorus that is illegal to use.
	It ignites spontaneously in the air.
	It burns at a very high temperature, almost impossible to put out.
	It's burning.
	And it's used to set cities on fire.
	It causes severe burns.
	And it can kill, obviously.
	There are nerve agents.
	VX nerve gas is based on organophosphorus compounds.
	Sarin gas, organophosphorus.
	Okay, so very similar to glyphosate.
	Organophosphate pesticides, for example.
	They were developed, of course, in Germany by the Nazis.
	Gerhard Schrader was one of the German chemists that researched organophosphate insecticides in the 1930s.
	And that's when he discovered Taboon, T-A-B-U-N, which was known then as the first nerve agent.
	And later on, that became sarin and VX nerve gas, etc.
	So there's a very similar chemistry between pesticides, herbicides, and deadly nerve agents.
	I mean, you need to know this stuff, that these nerve agents are classified as chemical weapons under the Chemical Weapons Convention.
	So, you know, these are actual weapons against life.
	And Trump is saying that they make our food healthy and that it makes America strong and that it protects farmers.
	Farmers are dying from exposure to glyphosate.
	I mean, doesn't it make you wonder how much money did Bayer pay somebody in the Epstein administration, huh, to make this happen?
	I wonder.
	I wonder.
	I mean, I don't know for sure that that happened, but it's a guess.
	And, you know, it's insane because if you were going to declare war against some other country, you would poison their food supply.
	I'm not saying I would.
	I mean, you know, an evil leader would try to poison their food supply and give their people cancer and cause their people to die from exposure to the weed killer.
	But Trump's doing that to us.
	He's doing that to America.
	He's not even, he's not spraying glyphosate on Iran.
	He's spraying glyphosate all over our food.
	We're the ones that are going to pay the price.
	It'll be in your dog food.
	It'll be in all your pet food.
	It'll be in restaurant food.
	It'll saturate the entire food supply.
	There will be no restrictions on the use of glyphosate.
	And there will be ample imports, you know, hundreds of millions of tons probably to be sprayed on the food crops with full legal protection from the Trump administration.
	And that's even mentioned in the executive order.
	Section 3 is titled Immunity.
	It says this order confers all immunity provided for in Section 707 of the Act.
	And it says that domestic producers of glyphosate are required to comply with this order.
	Now, that's not exactly legal immunity, just to be clear.
	It's not direct legal immunity, but this executive order will give Bayer the ability to argue with the Supreme Court and in state courts that glyphosate, it can't be outlawed, and they can't be found guilty because Trump has declared it to be a national security resource.
	Therefore, it seems very likely that Bayer is going to be granted absolute legal immunity in upcoming Supreme Court decisions or perhaps state court decisions.
	Or from a legal perspective, Bayer's attorneys could argue that federal authority over glyphosate would preempt any kind of state-level tort claims or civil cases.
	I mean, clearly that's going to happen.
	So the immunity is coming.
	So Bayer is going to have legal immunity, just like the vaccine industry.
	And remember, that gave the vaccine industry a green light to mass poison and murder over a million Americans.
	So the takeaway from this is that this underscores the extreme importance from this day forward of making sure that you only consume foods that are tested for glyphosate or that are certified organic.
	But even then, there's been glyphosate found in organics too, because of winds or something or maybe fraud.
	Who knows?
	But that's why we test everything.
	Even though almost everything we sell is already certified organic, we don't trust the USDA.
	We don't trust the organic certification.
	We don't trust really the farmers or the producers.
	We don't trust.
	I mean, we trust but verify, as Ronald Reagan said.
	That's what we do.
	We verify with our own lab to make sure that we're not selling you something that's super saturated with glyphosate.
	So if you want ultra-clean food, at this point, my goodness, because I mean, this executive order just came out.
	This is going to give farmers basically a green light to just spray everything, massive spray.
	You know, they use it as a desiccant in the fields.
	That's why they spray wheat.
	Yeah, you might think, well, why do they spray wheat?
	There's not Roundup ready wheat, right?
	Even though there's Roundup Ready corn, why do they spray wheat?
	They spray it as a desiccant.
	So when you're out there buying bread, a loaf of bread, it's often saturated with glyphosate.
	The state of Florida just released numbers on that.
	Some of the breads have 191 parts per billion of glyphosate.
	And we are buying breads right now.
	We're going to test them ourselves.
	I'll bring you those results.
	So I'm going to be bringing you regular reports from our laboratory, by the way, because we're going to be testing not just off-the-shelf breads, but other products as well.
	I'm not going to say in advance what they are, but you'll find out.
	Now, you may know, because I've commented about glyphosate for, what, 15, 20 years, I am not concerned about very, very low exposure, like, you know, one part per billion or something.
	I'm not concerned about that.
	And that's not what this is.
	Trump is giving these farmers a green light to super saturate the food crops with glyphosate.
	So we're going to see, I believe, this is my guess, but we'll let our lab instruments tell us for sure.
Glyphosate Testing Technique 00:15:09
	I think we're going to start to see many, many foods grown in America, which includes corn and wheat and lots of things, lots of fruits and vegetables and avocados and what have you.
	I think we're going to start seeing 100 plus parts per billion within the next growing season.
	I wouldn't be surprised if we see 500 parts per billion for some certain products, like certain wheat crops.
	This is what's going to happen.
	Trump is ramping up the mass poisoning of the food supply.
	And for people who are already vaccine injured because they trusted Trump the first time and they took the jabs, their health is already compromised.
	That could potentially make them more susceptible to glyphosate poisoning, which we know causes non-Hodgkin's lymphoma and other types of cancers and many other problems and other kinds of disorders, etc.
	In fact, you know, I'm going to do an article series on the harm of glyphosate.
	So Trump just turned America's food supply into a poisoned well, essentially.
	And he's going to be granting, through this action, he's effectively granting Bayer a license to kill with a deadly product that has so many lawsuits that, I mean, they had to beg the courts to consolidate the lawsuits into a potential multi-billion dollar settlement, which is still pending, I believe.
	I don't think it has been settled yet.
	That's how toxic this is.
	That's why I don't use glyphosate anywhere.
	The only glyphosate I ever bought was to use in the lab for testing.
	You know, just to see.
	Also, I ran a water filter test.
	Remember a few years ago?
	I published those results to show you which water filters remove glyphosate.
	And some of them do, and the cheap ones don't for the most part, or they don't remove much.
	Glyphosate is a very small molecule.
	Very small.
	And it permeates everything.
	It goes right through the cells of your body, goes right through your intestines.
	From the food, it goes right into your blood.
	And from the blood, it goes right into your brain, by the way.
	It's known, not only because of its polarity, but also just because its small size.
	It's known to be able to penetrate through cell walls and blood-brain barrier, etc.
	Glyphosate goes everywhere in your body.
	Just within minutes after eating it, it starts circulating everywhere.
	And the final insult in this is when Trump says, oh, we have to do this to help farmers economically, to keep them profitable.
	You want to help farmers?
	Stop taxing them.
	In fact, you want to help America?
	End the IRS and stop printing currency.
	That's what's making everybody poor, not a lack of glyphosate, for God's sake.
	It's all the taxation and money printing, which is theft, theft from the people.
	That's what's making people poor.
	And didn't Trump just allow a massive importing of beef from Brazil, I think?
	Massive imports.
	So that's, I mean, that reduces the profitability of U.S. cattle ranchers, doesn't it?
	So on one hand, Trump is harming cattle ranchers.
	Then on the other hand, he's like, no, but we got to help farmers.
	Let's let them have more poison.
	You know, it's just completely insane.
	So anyway, Maha's dead.
	It's over.
	It's become a horror show.
	Trump is like the Joker in a Batman movie now.
	He's a villain with a chemical weapon.
	He wants you to eat it.
	He's defending the big, powerful corporations, as usual, the ones that are mass poisoning everybody.
	The vaccine companies, the pesticide companies, the big banks, the big tech, the big weapons companies, all of this.
	Basically, Trump's presidency has collapsed into an outright traitorous train wreck against the very people who put him into power.
	I mean, Trump's still pushing vaccines, now pushing glyphosate, still pushing big tech.
	It's insane.
	War and war at the same time.
	So, this is a catastrophic move by Trump that is only going to ensure that Democrats take a massive, massive majority in the House in the midterms and possibly now even a majority in the Senate.
	And maybe that's why Trump is rushing right now to get everything like, let's poison the country as quickly as possible before the Democrats get in power and stop me.
	You know, that's what it seems like.
	It's just every insane thing that they can think of in the White House that's like, how do we kill Americans?
	Oh, let's build a massive network of internment camps that have special incineration devices.
	Yeah, that's a great idea.
	So they've got like $50 billion going to that.
	Let's mass poison the people with glyphosate.
	Okay, let's start a new war in the Middle East.
	What else?
	You know, let's print trillions.
	It's insane.
	It makes you wonder what's RFK Jr. going to do about this.
	Even though HHS doesn't sit over USDA, I don't think.
	But this has got to be highly disturbing to RFK Jr. because he's opposed to glyphosate also.
	We know this about him.
	He must be just wringing his hands right now.
	What the heck?
	What kind of administration did I sign up for?
	Yeah, well, we're all wondering that, actually.
	This is one of the times where I will remind you I did not vote for Trump this last time around.
	I did vote for him previously, but not this time.
	My spidey sense was going flashing like something's wrong.
	So I didn't vote for him.
	All right, so what I'm going to do, I'm going to play the first 11 or 12 minutes of my lab tour video here to show you that we test for glyphosate.
	And we're serious about it.
	You're going to see.
	We have a massive multi-million dollar laboratory facility that is ISO accredited, state of the art.
	We routinely test, we do more testing for glyphosate and heavy metals and aflatoxins and mycotoxins and listeria and E. coli, etc., etc., more than any other food manufacturer or retailer in the world that I'm aware of.
	No one's ever challenged this.
	No one's ever told me, no, you're wrong.
	Here's this other company that tests more than you do.
	Never heard that.
	Because it would be, it's almost impossible that you would hear that from any company.
	I mean, nobody's got a lab like we have in this industry.
	I mean, like, governments have labs like this.
	Some university labs are larger.
	But for food and supplements, nobody's got a lab like this.
	So I want to show you that video and then remind you that our food is clean.
	HealthRangerStore.com.
	When you want clean food that's been tested for all these things, that is scrutinized in ways that nobody else does it, shop with us at healthrangerstore.com.
	Trump is trying to poison you.
	I'm trying to keep you clean in your food supply.
	I'm trying to keep you healthy.
	I'm trying to help you avoid the mass poisoning.
	But you understand where this is going, right?
	Glyphosate is going to be used to poison the poor people who can't afford organic.
	So check out this lab video.
	This is part of the tour.
	And thank you for your support and speak out against this.
	This is insane.
	Totally insane.
	All right.
	Thanks for listening.
	Take care.
	All right.
	Welcome to the Health Ranger Lab.
	This is where we test all of the food and supplements and other products that we sell at healthrangerstore.com.
	And we recently moved to this new laboratory facility where we have multiple mass spec instruments.
	And I want to walk you through this lab and show you what it is we do here and show you some of the equipment that it takes to ensure that you're getting clean food and clean supplements.
	So let's start this way.
	We'll look at the ICPMS instruments over here.
	We've got a couple.
	These are inductively coupled plasma mass spec and they use food samples or other samples.
	You could do hair and soils that are prepared in nitric acid.
	And then it's injected through a plasma torch into the, well, the sample cone and then the quadrupole, etc. to the detector over here for M over Z detection.
	What is M over Z?
	Mass overcharge.
	And that determines the atomic mass of what you're looking at.
	And that's how we can get readouts and reports like this.
	We can see exactly the parts per billion of all these different elements.
	Like here's silver and cadmium, etc.
	Mercury, different isotopes of mercury in there.
	But this is how it works.
	And right here, the plasma torch is in there.
	This is a sample introduction system.
	This is the auto sampler robot.
	And down on the floor is the rough pump that actually pulls the vacuum.
	And that rough pump is loud.
	And that's some of what you're hearing right now because other rough pumps are running in the lab.
	It's always difficult to film in a real active working lab just because of all the background noise.
	We also have ventilation systems here.
	You can see there's a lot of outgassing of ventilation that's necessary for all these machines.
	And by the way, the yellow foam on the walls, that's spray foam insulation so that we can temperature control this environment.
	Here's our original mass spec instrument.
	This is the one I actually learned on right here over 10 years ago.
	And it's got a little bit of an older sample introduction plumbing system.
	We put a Niagara on it.
	It's got a little bit of an older robot.
	But I just want to show you something.
	You see the rust right there, all the oxidation of that grille on that fan?
	That's just from nitric acid fumes.
	So the nitric acid in here, it burns holes in all kinds of things, including circuit boards and clothing.
	That's why people wear lab coats.
	I would be, except I'm not handling nitric acid today.
	Thank goodness.
	Also, you know, you can kind of see the control system here.
	These use basically the same software.
	They can look at almost every element.
	We have a multi-element standard, external standards with, I think, 32 elements is what we're looking at right now, including all the ones that you care about, lead, cadmium, arsenic, mercury, as well as many nutritive elements such as zinc or even selenium or trace copper, for example.
	We can see all of that in every sample.
	All right, this is a nitrogen separation system here.
	So outside this wall, we have air compressors and they pump in through these membranes here, which separate the nitrogen out of the rest of the atmosphere.
	So nitrogen is really about 79% of the composition of atmospheric air.
	The other roughly 20%, well, a little bit less, is oxygen.
	And there's a little bit of argon and some other gases and so on.
	But for example, if I turn this on here, this valve, see, that's pressurized because that's feeding nitrogen through these lines to all these other instruments.
	Nitrogen is an inert carrier.
	It's a carrier gas that's used in a lot of these mass spec instruments.
	Here's a stack of some single quad equipment that we have right here.
	We can use this for monitoring pesticides or herbicides or chemical markers in any kind of botanical products such as turmeric.
	We can look at the curcumin or we can look at the purity of vitamin C or we can look at caffeine or anything like that.
	So this is a single quad stack with the binary pump and the auto sampler and the single quad itself right there.
	This is a really interesting combination that we're using now for glyphosate testing.
	What's cool about this is that this combines ion chromatography.
	This is a Metrome instrument right here.
	It combines ion chromatography with single quad mass spec using this Agilent LC-MS.
	This is the IQ system.
	So what's really great about this is you can get very low detection limits, like about one part per billion of glyphosate using this system, because the ion chromatography separates the entire matrix out of the signal of your analyte.
	And as a result, then your waste products are really clean and simple, and you get very high signal-to-noise ratio on this.
	So we actually developed this method recently.
	Show you on the screen.
	This is our calibration curve.
	That's a really strong calibration curve there on different concentrations of glyphosate.
	And these are some of the overlays of the peaks showing you the signal to noise ratio.
	So we're going to look at some other instruments here.
	This is just a sample extraction system from CEM.
	It uses heat and pressure plus solvents and some filter paper to extract the analytes from food samples.
	This one, this is pretty cool.
	So this FMS system right here, this is used for extraction for dioxin testing.
	So we're about to roll out really large-scale dioxin testing on not just our own food samples, but also off-the-shelf foods, especially animal products.
	We're talking about eggs, milk, cheese, and meat, because that's where dioxins tend to concentrate is in the fats of animals.
	So this FMS system here combined with these columns.
	This is an extraction system that uses basically just vacuums with special chemistry of the columns to trap the lipids and allow the dioxins to come through the sample in mostly water or other solvents.
	And then there's usually an instrument right here, but it's being repaired at the moment.
	It's called a super VAP.
	It's a laboratory evaporator.
	So we take the samples that come out of this system, we put them in the super VAP, and then that dehydrates them down and we can sort of rehydrate back to a specific volume, such as 10 microliters or 100 microliters or whatever we want.
	And by using this system, there's actually two super vaps that go here, we can get another four to five orders of magnitude of sensitivity out of our dioxin testing on our instrument that I'm going to show you, which is our GC instrument, using this sample prep method.
	So it gives us extreme sensitivity, like parts per trillion sensitivity.
GC Instrument Sensitivity 00:03:49
	Let me show you the instrument that actually does that.
	That's this right here.
	So this is an agilent GC instrument or gas chromatography.
	Now, GC, I mean, it's extremely useful for lots of things, especially certain pesticides and so on.
	Here's the auto sampler for the GC.
	And then here's the oven in here with the long column.
	I think that column is like 60 meters in length and it's all wound up.
	I don't want to open it.
	And here you can see some of the peaks from the different samples that we've run.
	I think these are calibration samples actually, or calibration standards.
	And then, you know, we're actively working on this method right now.
	We're replacing a couple of the parts in this instrument to get the peak shapes to look a little bit better.
	There's some shouldering that's happening right now, but we're getting a really strong signal-to-noise ratio here of more than 25 to 1, even at 10 parts per trillion of dioxins.
	So that means we'll be able to have extremely great detection at very low concentrations.
	And soon we'll be bringing you lots of news about dioxin testing and we'll be able to certify that our own products are dioxin free.
	And let's see, what else do we have here?
	Oh, so this triple quad mass spec here is from a different company.
	This is from Waters and this is a beast.
	So this instrument I actually worked on this method for a year and a half to develop this glyphosate quantitation method using a really unique chemistry here.
	So we don't rely on what's called the post-column derivatization.
	We don't need to do that.
	Instead, we use a really unique column, which I'll just show.
	There it is.
	This is a very special column, very unusual.
	It's not a C18 or anything like that.
	And we have a very unusual chemistry.
	This column is completely nuked by any alcohols, including methanol.
	So the entire, the mobile phase and all the chemistry of this instrument has no alcohols in it at all, which is very unusual for any kind of liquid chromatography.
	The auto sampler is right here.
	It currently doesn't have any samples.
	We're not in the middle of a run at the moment.
	And the reason this is so large is because this is a triple quad mass spec.
	So it has to draw an extreme vacuum.
	So it's got a rough pump and it's got a really massive turbine pump inside to dump every last molecule of air that might find its way into the system.
	And that happens also when you're introducing your sample into the system.
	It's sucking in air to push an ion stream through the quadrupoles.
	And that's why it has to pull a strong vacuum.
	On the screen here, we were just pulling this up.
	There's a typical peak that you see.
	There's a calibration curve right there.
	And these are standards right now.
	This is not actually a food sample.
	But when it's live running, you'll see the actual food samples here.
	Now, let me show you what's behind all of this, a little bit of behind the scenes, because this is kind of cool.
	This right here is just a UPS.
	This UPS is necessary to power this machine during any kind of power glitch.
	And these UPSs are thousands of dollars each.
	Here's a rough pump for this machine.
	This rough pump is incredibly powerful, uses a lot of electricity, pulls a vacuum through this tube right here.
	And that's why it has to have its own metal reinforcement spiral inside to prevent the tube from collapsing.
	So this is on the back of the GC, which is our dioxin testing instrument.
	So this is ultra high purity nitrogen in this tank.
	And then this is helium.
	That's a lot of helium.
Data Centers' Impact 00:14:55
	And this gets really, really hot.
	So we have to vent it through this temperature reducing metal output.
	And I don't know if you notice here, but there's, you know, every instrument has output.
	And so we have to build pretty elaborate venting systems also to vent heat out of some of the instruments that get especially hot.
	Like this GC gets hot and the ICPs get hot.
	Although the LCs, they run pretty cool.
	All right, we've got another interesting report here about how Texas farmers are beginning to revolt against AI data centers.
	I'm Mike Adams.
	I'm an AI developer and a Texan and a rural Texan who by and large supports farmers, by the way, especially organic farmers.
	And I predicted this.
	If you heard my podcast in previous months, you knew this was coming.
	But now it's actually happening.
	We have Clayton Tucker, who is running for Ag Commissioner of the state of Texas.
	Now, I don't know Clayton Tucker.
	I don't know if he's a Democrat or Republican or whatever.
	Not the point he says.
	He tweeted this out, quote, a Texas farmers union calls for stopping all data centers that are being built if or until we can ensure they don't take all of our water and cause power inflation.
	And no more tax breaks for big tech.
	I stand with the Texas Farmers Union.
	Will you join us?
	He says, and his website is Clayton Tuckertx.com if you want to check out his message there.
	Now again, I don't know.
	I don't know Clayton Tucker, but he's making a valid and important point here and we saw this coming.
	So here's the thing.
	Remember what I said last year.
	I said that data centers need three things that humans also need.
	Do you recall those three things?
	Well, I'll remind you in case.
	They are land, water and electricity.
	So they need the land for not just the data centers, but for the solar panels to power the data centers, because that's how they're doing it now in lots of places, you know, because you can't get the gas turbines and the power grids tapped out in many places, not not in Texas, but in in eastern states, it is.
	So that's land.
	So right there you've got fewer farmers, you know, you don't have as much land to grow food, because the data centers need all this land, so they buy farms and turn them into a data center.
	Then secondly, you have kilowatt hours or gigawatt hours power off the power grid.
	The data centers obviously need a lot of power.
	And remember, I'm an AI developer.
	I'm I'm looking around right now.
	I've got like numerous AI machines running right here right now within my visible site.
	I run 48 workstations.
	I have a mini data center for all of our AI engines, so I know how much power they consume.
	It's a lot, and I'm only running workstation class stuff.
	It's not even servers.
	You know the data centers that have the big servers in them using that are doing inference and video generation, everything.
	They are so power hungry that the the grid build out is accelerating with so much capital need into it that the power companies are raising prices on human consumers, sometimes by as much as 50% in one year.
	That's being why they report it now.
	So if your power price or your, your electricity bill just went up, that's why it's data centers.
	Now again, are our data centers uh, good in some ways?
	Well, I mean yeah, arguably we need machine cognition.
	There are benefits and there's huge demand for AI inference.
	I totally get that.
	I mean, I'm a, I'm a user of AI inference.
	I use all kinds of AI inference to do data pipeline processing for all of our projects and for all of our numerous.
	You know Brightlearn.ai, our book creation engine.
	You can use it for free.
	Or our deep research engine that's at Brightanswers.ai or Brightnews.ai, etc.
	It all uses AI inference.
	So yeah, I need data centers somewhere, but I'm fine to use data centers in freaking Greenland.
	Just build them on an ice shelf somewhere instead of taking farmland, you know?
	Okay, that's two out of three.
	The third one, of course, is water.
	And that's what's freaking out Texas farmers right now.
	Now, again, I live in Texas, and right now we're in a multi-year drought.
	And the ponds, as they're called, tanks in Texas, in many areas are dry.
	And it's rough on the livestock.
	And also, the dryness causes a lack of grass.
	And then that's even more tough on the livestock.
	And it causes a lot of farmers to have to sell off their herds.
	And I don't want to see that either.
	I like to see free-range cows having some kind of quality of life where they can run around and eat some fresh grass, at least something decent.
	But the droughts are pretty bad.
	Texas is known for radical weather.
	You can have crazy floods one year, like I think 2017 we had crazy floods.
	And then you can have total drought for two or three years and you get nothing but mesquite trees growing everywhere, which I have plenty of those too because they're drought resistant.
	They have tap roots that go down like 40 feet.
	It's insane.
	But that's Texas.
	The rain comes all at once and then the droughts last years.
	So in that environment, when data centers come in and say, oh, well, we need like 40 million gallons per year for this data center.
	The Texans say, wait a second, our cows need that water.
	Our tanks need that water.
	Our communities, our neighborhoods need that water.
	We don't have spare water to go around here.
	Why don't you build your data center in Mississippi where there's a lot more water?
	Why don't you go build it in Colorado or somewhere?
	Why you got to build it in the middle of a drought section of Texas, which is where Austin is, by the way.
	Austin, hot hip town, lots of tech, lots of Apple and Google and all these companies that are mostly evil companies, in my opinion.
	They don't do anything for the world.
	And they mostly get tax breaks to move into Texas, so they're not even generating tax revenue for the state.
	It's a ripoff for Texas, as far as I can tell.
	And then these data centers start cropping up, buying up everybody's farms and using up all the water and making our power grid less redundant because now the power usage is higher and higher toward the limit of what the grid can produce.
	Although Texas is still doing a relatively good job with power, I do want to say, that is, ever since 2021 when we almost lost the entire power grid, but things have gotten better since then.
	But my point is that this guy, Clayton Tucker, he's not wrong.
	He's not wrong.
	This is a very serious concern among Texas farmers and ranchers.
	And when it comes down to this issue, even though I have a foot in each of these universes, I side with the farmers on this.
	Because why can't the data centers go somewhere else where there's higher rainfall?
	For example, the state of Texas from the west side to the east side has extremely different rainfall numbers.
	On the east side, the rainfall might be, I don't know, like 80 inches a year or something.
	I'm just guessing.
	In the center, central Texas, we're in a drought right now.
	That's where I am in central Texas.
	And then on the west side of Texas, it's practically desert.
	You know, they get like five inches of rain or something like that.
	Well, why don't you move the data centers to the east side of Texas?
	Because that's where the water is.
	Why do you got to build them in the middle of the drought sections of Texas where farmers are already on the edge and struggling?
	And look, I'm not opposed to data centers per se, but they need to not displace humans.
	You need to run data centers without using up all the water.
	I mean, why can't you use water recycling?
	You know, the evaporative coolers, which is what a lot of data centers use ultimately, it just releases water vapor into the air.
	You need to recycle that water.
	You need to have a closed-loop system for the most part where your water usage is minimal.
	And I know, I know, that takes more energy.
	Yeah, it does.
	But water, there's only a limited amount of water and you can't make more of it.
	You can make more electricity.
	You know, shovel more coal into the burner.
	Crank up the nuke plant.
	Whatever.
	You can't make more water.
	You only have a limited amount of water to deal with.
	And you've got aquifers like the Ogallala aquifer, which is more North Texas and Oklahoma and parts of Kansas, etc.
	That sucker keeps dropping.
	And farmers are already hitting a limit, and they're having to drill deeper and deeper wells in many areas.
	And sometimes even that's not enough.
	And large areas of what was once rich, fertile farmland is being turned into sort of like a modern-day dust bowl.
	And AI data centers are going to come along and make that far worse, far worse.
	And you know, the best place to build data centers is in orbit.
	Why don't you launch them into space?
	There you've got solar panels.
	You know, you have, there are certain orbits that always have sunlight.
	So you can have a, I forgot what that's called.
	It's like a solar-centric orbit or something, a solar-facing orbit.
	You don't have the atmosphere to deal with.
	You don't have rain and clouds.
	You get 24-7 solar energy.
	You can unfurl your solar panels in space and have your data center right there in your satellite.
	And what you can do, you can dissipate all the heat by having the heat side.
	You can just use aluminum dissipators to push your heat radiation as infrared energy into the cooler regions of space.
	Okay, the background, which is almost absolute zero.
	So you don't have to pay for cooling.
	Of course, you have to pay for launching the thing and get it into orbit.
	And of course, Elon Musk is already talking about this, and he's right.
	We should put data centers in orbit where they don't use water and they don't use our power grid.
	So I'm all for that.
	Push data centers into orbit.
	But stop using them.
	Stop stealing water resources from farmers in Texas.
	It's crazy.
	Now, where is all this going?
	I'm afraid it's going to a place of conflict.
	And I have a prediction.
	Now, I'm not advocating this, just to be clear.
	I hope it never happens.
	But it's a prediction.
	And Gerald Salenti talks about this.
	He says, when people lose everything and they have nothing left to lose, they lose it.
	So I can imagine a scenario where there's one or more Texas farmers that are put out of business by new data centers sprouting up nearby, taking their water, making their wells run dry, making their electricity prices go double or triple, causing them to have to sell off their cattle herds because they can't get water, putting the family farms out of business, and then they have to sell their home.
	It's like they've lost everything.
	Some number of these people, although again, I would never advocate this.
	I'm just telling you what I think is going to happen.
	Some number of these people are going to go John Conner on the data centers.
	And by John Connor, yeah, I'm referring to the Terminator series.
	They're going to firebomb the data centers.
	Or they're going to attack the power grid that feeds the data centers.
	Or they're going to go in and sabotage the infrastructure.
	Because data centers don't have a lot of people there.
	They're kind of sparsely staffed, actually.
	But I imagine they would have good security, probably for this very reason.
	But sooner or later, there's going to be some groups of humans that go in there and set those places on fire.
	Now, I'm not sure what burns in a data center because it's really not a lot of flammable stuff in there other than maybe lithium batteries in the UPSs or things like that.
	But that might be centralized to a whole data center.
	I mean, servers themselves don't really burn that well, thank goodness, because I've been running them hot myself.
	There's not a lot of paper and cardboard.
	It's not like an office environment.
	It's really a pretty inflammable environment, but I would bet that the saboteurs are going to bring gasoline cans, jerry cans full of, what do they call it, accelerant material.
	And they're going to dump that stuff all over the circle.
	They're going to break in, dump this stuff all over the servers, set it on fire, and try to run out of there as fast as they can.
	This is coming.
	Mark my words.
	This is coming.
	And again, I wish this weren't happening.
	And I'm not advocating this.
	Don't do crazy vigilante things, obviously.
	You know, destruction of property is, you know, that's a felony crime.
	But what happens when you start to see like 100 people, like a community of people, that go in and do that or threaten to start protesting outside the data centers.
	And really, if you think about it, the weak point of this is the power grid, the incoming power lines.
Farmers' Rebellion Against AI 00:08:54
	And being a Texan myself, I know that other Texans are pretty capable.
	When they need to get something done, they find a way to do it.
	I've known this by knowing a lot of farmers.
	And I own tractors myself, and I've become very handy since owning and trying to keep tractors running.
	There's always something wrong with them.
	You've got to replace and repair things all the time.
	But I've got a few tractors that still run.
	Some of them are pretty old, too.
	But Texans are very resourceful when it comes to getting things done, whether that's putting something together or tearing something apart.
	And believe me, if there's a bunch of Texans that have it in their mind that they want to disrupt the power supply to a data center, if they want to take that risk, they can probably find a way to do it.
	And I imagine we're going to see that.
	So we're going to see, and it's not going to be just Texas.
	Let me just be clear.
	I think we're going to see this on the Eastern grid as well.
	And, well, really everywhere eventually.
	You know, there's a strong anti-AI sentiment right now in the country.
	And this is going to get worse as people lose their jobs to AI.
	It's not just going to be the white-collar workers either.
	It's going to be the farmers that are losing their herds because of the water shortages and so on.
	You're going to see an increasing number of people going full John Connor.
	And you're going to see sabotage attacks on data centers.
	Mark my words.
	It's coming.
	And some of it's going to be pretty well organized.
	Now, I would remind all of you listening, please don't attack my data center because I'm doing AI for humanity.
	Like our book site, all the books at brightlearn.ai, there's over 35,000 books.
	They're all free.
	They're all open source.
	I did it as a gift to humanity so that you could create knowledge for free.
	You can create your own books at zero cost there.
	So I'm using AI tools for humanity.
	But the big tech companies are using AI to build deadly Skynet weapons systems, which Anthropic recently tried to resist that.
	And then Pete Hegseth, the Secretary of War and Death, threatened to put them on a blacklist because they wouldn't allow their clawed code to be used to build autonomous Skynet killer terminators, essentially.
	So Microsoft is happy to build killer terminators.
	Google is happy.
	Open AI.
	Come on.
	The whole thing's run by the CIA at this point.
	So most of the big tech AI giants are in the business of being weaponized by the DOD, which will be weapons against the American people.
	Why do you think they're building $50 billion of concentration camps across 24 states, I think it is, in America right now?
	Why?
	Why are they building concentration camps?
	Huh?
	I wonder.
	Your government's going to war against you.
	And they need AI Terminator drones to hunt people down and kill them.
	Seriously.
	That's what this is really, that's where this is headed.
	Okay?
	Just to be honest about it.
	So, so yeah, of course there's going to be resistance to the data centers.
	And in Texas, rightly so.
	So again, let me just summarize this.
	And look, I'm a pro-AI person overall.
	That is decentralized AI, open source AI.
	And frankly, today that means Chinese models, they're the safest and free.
	You can run them locally.
	They're not surveillance systems.
	They can't spy on you when you run them locally.
	Did you know that?
	Whereas ChatGPT is always spying on you.
	Always.
	But you can download Chinese models like Quinn and DeepSeek, and there's a bunch of them.
	And you can install them locally, and then they can't spy on you.
	Those are the kinds of things that I run for my projects.
	I run them locally.
	That's why I have a small data center, you know.
	But these big tech companies, they're out to build super intelligence and basically to exterminate humanity.
	Anybody that gets in their way just gets exterminated.
	So do you think they care about putting some farmers out of business in the meantime?
	No, they don't care.
	Do you think they care about taking your water?
	No, they plan to take your life.
	Taking your water is just a stepping stone, you know, just on the way.
	They're going to take your land.
	They're going to take your currency.
	They're going to put you on a CBDC police state wallet system.
	And eventually they're going to kill you.
	And, you know, Trump just signed an executive order giving federal protection to glyphosate, super saturation of weed killer, cancer-causing deadly chemicals related to nerve gas developed by Nazi, like actual Nazi scientists, all these phosphorus-based chemical weapons like saring gas.
	It's very similar to glyphosate.
	Trump just gave that federal protection to supersaturate the entire national food supply with deadly cancer-causing chemicals.
	You think they don't want to kill you?
	I say they're trying to kill you.
	Like they didn't kill enough people with the jabs, so now they're going to just saturate the whole food supply.
	They got to make way for the data centers.
	They need the water.
	They need the power.
	They need the land.
	And ultimately, when they get the humanoid robots to come out, that's still a few years away.
	But they want to replace you, your labor, with the humanoid robots.
	They don't need humans.
	Understand?
	They don't need humans.
	And so, yeah, there's going to be a lot of people that fight for humans.
	And, you know, I fight for human rights.
	I fight for human liberty and human empowerment.
	I'm a pro-human person.
	I oppose transhumanism.
	I'm not going to take a Neuralink implant in my brain.
	I'm not going to merge with the machines.
	I'm not going to become a Borg.
	I'm going to use technology to help humanity stay free as long as we can and fight against this system of oppression.
	And I think I'm in the right place to do that.
	Texas.
	We have the spirit of Texas, a spirit of liberty, a spirit of come and take it.
	Mofos, come and take it.
	And although, unfortunately, the tech companies are saying, okay, we'll come and take it.
	We'll take your water.
	We'll take your land.
	We'll take your life.
	We'll take your power grid.
	They are coming and taking it, but that's not what that means.
	It means come and take our cannon.
	Come and take our cannon, because we're going to fight back with our remaining cannon.
	That's where that phrase comes from, by the way.
	You can look it up.
	But Texans had better band together to defend our water, defend our land, defend our future together, or we will be overrun by the data centers and then ultimately the machines.
	So that's my warning.
	And I know a lot about this subject.
	I've been building AI systems for over two years now, and I have a background in programming and technology.
	I used to own a software company, etc.
	And I've lived in rural Texas for more than 15 years.
	And I have animals.
	I take care of animals.
	I have goats and chickens and donkeys and my dogs, of course, on top of that.
	I'm a true Texan.
	And Texans are going to have to fight for their future or we're going to be overrun by the machines or the data centers or a combination thereof.
	So spread the word.
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	The best one is brightlearn.ai.
	You should check it out.
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	And we've got more stuff coming.
	Lots more.
	Lots to announce this year.
	Oh, my goodness.
	If you only knew all the gears that are spinning inside my skull right now, they're just zzzzzzzzz.
	Well, maybe that's a bad metaphor because it's like a machine, but no, I'm fully human.
	But I'm using my human brain to try to protect humanity as a Texan, as an American, as a member of the human race.
	So join me in that.
	Share my videos and fight for humanity in Texas and everywhere else.
	Again, I'm not against the data centers.
More Coming Soon! 00:03:19
	Just launch them into outer space, man, or build them in freaking Iceland or build them on a glacier somewhere.
	Don't use farmland to build your data centers, okay?
	That's my point.
	All right.
	Thanks for listening, folks.
	I'm Mike Adams, the Health Ranger.
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	We're continuing the broadcast here.
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	Things are getting crazy.
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	It's a decentralized TV interview with an after party.
	But I got to warn you, my co-host, Todd Pittner, he was really, really sick.
	I mean, he had bad laryngitis.
	He can barely speak during this episode, which is a bit of a shocker.
	I just want to mentally prepare you for that.
	It's the first thing you'll notice.
	But enjoy the show nonetheless.
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Todd's Bad Laryngitis 00:04:44
	So what is Bitcoin today, you think?
	You know, that it's not peer-to-peer digital cash any longer.
	Most people don't even have self-custody, right, Todd?
	I mean, this is what drives us all bonkers.
	It's like, who are the idiots leaving it on the exchanges?
	You know?
	But what is it today?
	I can answer.
	Yes?
	Can you?
	Do you see that cough drop there before you answer that?
	Digital surveillance, Michael Saylor Ponzi scheme.
	Oh, that's what I think it is.
	The Powers FD may want to try and liquidate them because it will hurt not just the microstrategy holders, but it will hurt Bitcoin if one of top holders is liquidated.
	will change the currency for a long time.
	Welcome to today's episode of Decentralized TV here on Brighteon.com, the free speech network.
	And I'm Mike Adams, and thank you for joining me today.
	And, you know, last time I interviewed Saleem Ismail, and we were missing our co-host, Todd Pittner, because he was stuck on some island somewhere with his wife.
	He was taking a vacation and got stuck on vacation, which sounds horrible, actually.
	I don't know, but he joins us today.
	The problem is he was screaming at the airline all the way back and he lost his voice.
	So welcome, Todd, but your voice is really hurting here.
	My voice is hurting.
	Sorry, everybody, but we're just going to suffer through it because, you know, Mike gave me the opt-out saying, Todd, you don't have to do this.
	And I said, I work wounded.
	You know, we're going to deliver the goods here.
	But I think I just got sick of vacation, Mike.
	And my body heard me and said, well, we'll just behave like you're sick.
	So how long were you there for, actually?
	We were there for.
	It was six nights.
	And then when we were heading to the airport on the seventh, we were informed that United shut down all flights everywhere.
	There was like something in their code in their system.
	And it was a two-day delay.
	Whoa.
	So we couldn't reschedule for the next day.
	And then the next day was our DTV day where we record.
	And so I'm like, God, I'm going to miss it because I'll be flying back because I timed the vacation based upon our DTV schedule.
	And oh, man.
	So that's the power of like cyber hacking or whatever happened that screwed the whole schedule.
	Exactly.
	So, and it was just, it kind of sucked.
	And you know, this was our 20th anniversary.
	So I dropped some good coin on where we went, right?
	So to go back from the airport was very expensive because I didn't get the earlier rates.
	I had to pay the premium for the next two nights.
	And so anyway, I'm literally, I was sick of vacation.
	I was just, it threw me such a curveball.
	I was so out of sorts.
	So it is nice to be back.
	I'm really looking forward to our guests today, Mike.
	And I do sincerely apologize to everybody.
	It's just, you know, about my voice.
	Well, look, you can't control it.
	And just for the record, I want the audience to know, I did not force you into this today.
	No, you didn't.
	No.
	You know, it's like take care of yourself if that's what you want to do.
	But you're a trooper, so you're here.
	And we're going to proceed as long as your voice holds out.
	How's that sound?
	I'll be good through the after party, Mike.
	Okay.
	And even if not, you could start, you could just use sign language.
	You could type it in.
	You could have an AI avatar speak on your behalf.
	I'm the Todd avatar, you know.
	You should just get that ready for next time in case.
	Okay.
	Perfect.
	Like Max headroom, but we'll call it Todd headroom.
	Yeah.
	You know, I do think I have a program on my computer to where I can modify my voice, but we're not going to figure that out today.
	No, no, no, that's that's fine.
	All right, so you ready, Todd, to bring in our special guest today?
ETFs and Market Control 00:15:30
	Well, you know, after the Bitcoin crash, let's talk about it, Mike.
	Okay, all right.
	All right, let's bring him in.
	It's Ashton Addison from Crypto Coin Show.
	That's the name of his very popular channel on YouTube.
	And also, he's got a sub stack called cryptocoinshow.substack.com.
	Welcome, Ashton.
	It's great to have you back.
	You were in studio last time.
	It's been a while.
	A lot's happened since then.
	So welcome back.
	Thank you so much.
	And yeah, a lot can happen real quick in crypto.
	And at least in the last week of January, moving into February, a lot happened in the price of Bitcoin.
	It crashed majorly from pretty much almost 100,000, you know, high 90,000s down to 60,000 at the lowest.
	So, you know, for those that hurts for people that maybe bought the all-time high or they're trying to trade the market and trade the wrong way.
	Well, what's interesting about that is that silver crashed right before that.
	And silver has also recovered some since then.
	But I saw a post from one person who said, oh, you know, I lost 30% in silver.
	And so I sold all my silver and I bought Bitcoin.
	And then I lost 40% in Bitcoin.
	And so he's down to less than half of what he started with in like three days.
	It's like, that's the worst timing ever.
	But that's part of this discussion, isn't it?
	That if you think that you're going to outsmart the whales and the market, you're in for some very expensive lessons, it seems.
	What do you say to people who suffered some losses right now?
	What's the strategy?
	You always have to zoom out and look at the big picture.
	And the silver crash, minus over 30% in one day was crazy.
	But it had pretty much retraced the gains from a month before.
	It was up 10% in a day, then another 10%.
	And it was like, in the grand scheme of things, it's still up majorly two and a half X from the beginning of last year.
	And with Bitcoin, the market cap is still so small.
	You're so early.
	And looking at the long-term picture, the amount that dropped in silver relative to the market cap of Bitcoin would be the equivalent of Bitcoin going to zero.
	So a small drop in Bitcoin is really nothing when you compare it to the market cap of silver.
	That drop was like more than all of the cryptocurrencies combined.
	So really, when you look at apples to apples, it's not that big of a deal.
	And this has happened many times in Bitcoin before.
	It always goes up and breaks new all-time highs and continues going after they shake out the leverage traders and the retail people who always buy at the top thinking that it's going to keep going.
	And then it crashes and then they sell exactly as you mentioned.
	They sell, their hopes are dashed.
	And that's what they want them to do.
	And that's all part of the market manipulation in crypto.
	So Todd, I'll ask you to join in here in a second.
	But one of the things I want to ask you about today, Ashton, and it might be a little bit of pushback, is that what if this time really is different?
	Because people are realizing more and more that Bitcoin isn't private.
	It's through the CBDCs and the way Bitcoin, the blockchain, some people are calling a surveillance coin.
	And maybe people are looking for something more private and something totally different.
	Hold that thought for a second.
	Let me bring in Todd again.
	Todd, I'm going to try not to stress your voice too much today.
	Thank you.
	Thank you.
	Ashton, just to let you know, I've been trying out for a movie gig playing Lou Rawls.
	I know I look the part, but my voice, I've been training for that.
	So anyway, welcome, Ashton.
	I remember when I bought my first Bitcoin, it was at 20 grand.
	And I remember I was on a vacation in California.
	And when I got back, it was at 4 grand.
	Oh, my.
	So, yeah, that was my introduction.
	So it is true, you know, and I didn't sell at $4,000, but I did sell later when it was north of 20 because I was just very nervous.
	So this happens in crypto.
	Welcome to crypto.
	It is the wild, wild west.
	But Mike, you touched on this earlier about Bitcoin being a surveillance coin.
	And Ashton, I'd love to ask.
	So Bitcoin was actually sold as freedom money.
	Yet today it functions as a permanent public audit trail.
	So how did radical transparency quietly become a druid Babylonian bastard tool of control, Ashton?
	Yeah.
	No, it's always been a double-edged sword that Bitcoin was the currency of freedom and you can control it yourself, but the addresses are transparent and maybe your name is not tied to the specific address like it is on your bank account,
	but it pretty much can be with the amount of chain analysis companies that are multi-billion dollar conglomerates that once you make any transaction that ties it anywhere, they can tie it all together and be like, okay, we know all your wallets now.
	And then creating the ETF on top of that, you know, sort of push people away from using spot Bitcoin.
	That's allowed them to manipulate the price and control it a lot easier.
	I don't think necessarily that it's going to go to zero, but they definitely can control it going up and down a lot easier than on the spot exchange because the market cap is so small, as we mentioned, relative to silver and these other companies.
	Let me interject, because I agree with what you just said.
	It's important that silver has long been manipulated through the same mechanism, which is the ETFs and the paper trades.
	We know that JP Morgan and the other Boolean banks, they can drive silver down by selling paper.
	For a long time, Bitcoin wasn't subjected to that kind of manipulation, but now it clearly is.
	So now there's so much, not just rehypothecation, but the virtualization of Bitcoin that very few people, relatively few people are actually buying the coin itself.
	They're buying some virtual version of it now.
	But anyway, I just want to interject that.
	Go ahead.
	So I wanted to insert my second question because it's perfect for what you're talking about.
	So Ashton, rapid fire question here.
	Okay.
	Are all Bitcoin ETFs bullshit?
	Yes or yes and why?
	Yeah.
	Well, definitely.
	You know, if you look, if I think maybe a lot of, you know, people that buy, they said, I own Bitcoin now because I own IBIT shares or whatever.
	You don't own Bitcoin.
	Somebody else owns it.
	And they've given you a piece of paper that says, we may or may not give it to you, probably not, if you actually ask for it.
	And yeah, it's people, you know, they always hoped that it would be for the greater good overall because it would get into the hands of old money that only has their capital in the stock market.
	And they would push Bitcoin up.
	But really, it just pushed it up to the market cap that it was just prior to the The ETF listings and it's sort of like what you mentioned about 20,000 and then it goes down.
	And then when it goes back up, you're like, okay, I've waited many years to finally break even.
	I'm going to get out because I don't want it to go back down again.
	And that's what we saw with the Bitcoin all-time high.
	It was pretty much like, you know, from 123 up to all the way down and then 126.
	It's like, okay, we'll pretty much gain nothing since the last cycle.
	So, yeah, it's definitely a long game.
	And the part about holding on for the long term is that the big money, they can afford, they always have long-term investment horizons, you know, because they already have money.
	They don't need to get rich quick.
	They can afford to keep it down for years and years while you're struggling and hoping that Bitcoin will be your savior until you have to pull out.
	Right, right, right.
	Okay.
	And we, I'm throwing this out right up front because this is what's been in the news following the Epstein files release by the DOJ.
	Of course, Howard Lutnick is named multiple times in the files in some possibly disturbing contexts.
	And it's being widely said that he lied about his ties to Epstein.
	Of course, he's tied to Tether.
	And Tether, of course, is the USDT stablecoin that actually, I think, purchases most of the Bitcoin that's purchased now.
	Perhaps you know the numbers better than I do.
	But my question to you is: are these kinds of ties and this kind of information now, is this creating actual doubt in the minds of some people who used to never have any kind of FUD in their heads?
	You know what I mean?
	Like, is this a new level of FUD that is getting traction?
	What are you hearing?
	Yeah, the Epstein release is definitely interesting.
	And, you know, I don't think it's changed the perspective of cypherpunks and the Bitcoin Maxis.
	They still have hope that through the decentralization of it, nothing can really be changed unless you have over 95 or 99% approval.
	But on top of that, there were some emails that, you know, with Jeffrey Epstein, where back in 2011 or so with Adam Back and one of the other core developers.
	And I think Jeffrey was going to put 500 million into Bitcoin when it was a dollar or less.
	That would be like Satoshi level investment.
	So he knew about it from the beginning.
	And my friend had actually brought this up to me and he said, Roger Ver was never mentioned in the files.
	And that's why, in part, why he went and made Bitcoin cash because he wanted to take the control away from the rumors that the CIA had created Bitcoin or the NSA.
	And no one knows for sure who Satoshi is.
	But it was interesting to see that the emails also involved the Bitcoin Core Foundation very, very early on.
	Yeah, yeah, exactly.
	And you mentioned Roger Veer, who I've been an advocate of his book, Hijacking Bitcoin.
	And of course, the blockchain size wars were really pivotal.
	And because as we all know here, the original vision of Bitcoin was to be usable as cash in everyday transactions.
	But because of the blockchain size restrictions that were decided on by the consensus, that sort of prohibited Bitcoin from becoming the cash that it was envisioned to be.
	And I think that's why we ended up seeing Bitcoin Cash launched as a totally different fork.
	But then we saw the transition that Bitcoin is digital gold.
	And then completely all validated, really.
	Yeah, the title of the white paper of peer-to-peer electronic cash.
	They were saying gold.
	Maybe back in the day when there wasn't any fiat, we were exchanging pieces of gold, but it really wasn't convenient.
	And that's when you explained, it seems maybe easier to explain it to people to say it's digital gold for people who don't know, but it really doesn't have the same purpose at all as peer-to-peer electronic cash.
	So what is Bitcoin today, you think?
	It's not peer-to-peer digital cash any longer.
	Most people don't even have self-custody, right, Todd?
	I mean, this is what drives us all bonkers.
	It's like, who are the idiots leaving it on the exchanges?
	But what is it today?
	I can answer.
	Yes.
	Can you?
	Do you need a cough drop there before you answer that?
	Digital surveillance, Michael Saylor Ponzi scheme.
	That's what I think it is.
	Saylor has seemed a little bit more desperate than usual.
	Yeah, he was in the negative, I think, 12 billion at some point here.
	I think his average buys are in the low 70s, around 72,000, 73,000.
	When we drop to 60, you know, they keep finding ways to slice and dice shares to be able to raise more money and lower their average price.
	But yeah, it's, you know, there's a lot of people that for some reason hugely believe in his vision.
	They'd rather purchase micro strategy stock than Bitcoin, which is a little crazy when you can just own Bitcoin.
	Yeah, that does seem crazy because his business doesn't do anything other than buy Bitcoin.
	I mean, that's the whole business model.
	Yeah, for sure.
	So yeah, it's, we'll see.
	We'll see.
	And, you know, the powers that be may want to try and liquidate them because it will hurt not just the micro strategy holders, but it will hurt Bitcoin if, you know, one of the top holders is liquidated.
	That will change the currency for a long time.
	True.
	True.
	Okay.
	Todd, are you about to jump in?
	Yeah.
	So I want to do a public service announcement here.
	And because there are people who are crypto curious that might want to be able to get in.
	And there is, you know, Mike, I talk a lot about the two percenters.
	Those are the people that watch our show.
	But of the masses, the 98%ers that take their download from the mainstream, man, oh man, we saw a ton of Coinbase ads during the not-so-Super Bowl.
	And I understand you are not a fan of the world's largest exchange.
	And I'd like you to explain to our viewers why, Ashton.
	Yeah, the Baxter Boys sing-along to Coinbase was pretty funny.
	And maybe it'll get those 98%ers involved.
	And if that's what it takes to buy $100 and then withdraw it and realize the value of holding your own money, so be it.
	But as an exchange, I'm sure they've been in bed with the traditional system since the beginning.
	If you're going to go to any exchange to get Bitcoin, not only do they help hold the Bitcoin for the ETFs, they're tied in there.
	They're holding your Bitcoin if you buy it on there.
	And not only are the fees are some of the highest as well, if you're trying to save, if you're trying to penny pinch and buy small amounts, but also they had some major issues with ransom attacks and losing people's personal information.
	So if you had an account there, I had an account.
Bitcoin Exchanges' Risks 00:15:23
	It actually was frozen.
	It was targeted by some Russians or something.
	It was frozen for over two years, three years.
	I know I had $100, like I gave it as the example.
	I had about $100 in there and it was attacked maybe because I'm more of a face in the industry.
	It was frozen and then I got it back and I withdrew actually at a loss because it was like $100 went to $75 or something.
	But there was actually a public announcement that some ransom attackers had stolen the personal information and said, if you give us a million in Bitcoin, we will give the information back.
	And they said, we're not doing it.
	We don't want to give in.
	And then when all of the customers were like, yeah, we don't want to lose our personal information.
	And because they didn't pay, now people are getting emails, phone calls, everything.
	Because all of your personal information, if you had an account, it is given away to attackers that was listed on some hacking database.
	And now, especially for the older people who fall into phishing scams easily, they created an account on Coinbase.
	Now they're getting phone calls from teams pretending to be Coinbase to hack them even further into their cold wallets and everywhere else.
	So just a disaster in PR.
	Wow.
	Wow.
	Okay.
	Let me follow up.
	Go ahead.
	Yeah, one follow-up.
	So if not Coinbase as an onboarding entry point into crypto, what are some alternatives?
	Yeah.
	There's different faucets going from other exchanges to straight peer-to-peer or Bitcoin ATM or find other ways to do non-KYC.
	If you want to go the traditional route and you're in North America and you're like, I don't care about the know your customer, like have my identity, but trust that it will be more secure.
	In terms of security, Kraken Exchange seems to be, I actually interviewed the chief security officer of Kraken and they have a very libertarian mindset.
	If you look at their company culture, it's like they're pretty hardcore with like self-custody.
	Yeah, we like Kraken.
	That's our preferred platform.
	Yeah.
	And then you also have Gemini, which was from the Winklevoss twins.
	Everything's better than Coinbase, but you can do your own research and see which kind of exchanges that you have there.
	And then there's always Bitcoin ATMs, which everything's going to charge a little bit more.
	If you're trying to find a non-KYC way to accumulate Bitcoin, I think they might charge up to 5% or even more, depending on the ATM.
	You can check it when you go.
	You can easily buy Bitcoin for cash or cards on these ATM machines.
	And then there's always finding somebody that lives their life in Bitcoin and they need cash and you could get it from them directly.
	And maybe you can avoid all that stuff that I spoke about if you can do that.
	So it's different ways.
	Okay.
	Okay.
	Most of them involve KYC, though, unfortunately.
	And that's true across the board for all the coins that are supported on these platforms.
	Almost everything becomes a surveillance system, which again contradicts the original vision.
	But I want to point out a use case that I think is emerging for all crypto.
	This includes private crypto as well as Bitcoin.
	And that is as an AI bot friendly payment system because AI, I'm an AI developer.
	I code in AI.
	I was coding this morning and vibe coding.
	And AI loves crypto for trading.
	And there are bots.
	Did you know there's a website called like rentahuman.com where bots can rent a human if a bot wants a human to go do something because the bot needs something in the real world.
	So now humans, the new gig economy will be not just driving for Uber or delivering Uber Eats or whatever, but you can actually be rented out by an AI bot that needs you to go do stuff.
	And how will you be paid?
	Probably in crypto because that's what AI can do easily.
	And also Visa, MasterCard, the whole e-commerce system hates bots because usually they're trying to steal.
	But so Ashen, isn't the rise of AI and AI agents and AI personal assistance, isn't this actually a really strong use case for crypto?
	Definitely, definitely.
	Yeah, we're seeing that with DPIN is the industry inside of crypto that deals with decentralized physical infrastructure networks, whether it's autonomous vehicles that they need to have a wallet so that they can pay the charging system or the passenger can pay them.
	DPIN, right now it's focused on IoT devices, being able to make them more smart, integrate AI and do payments.
	And then we're also seeing a surgence of what's called X402.
	Sure if you've guys heard of that, but it's a native protocol that was sort of built into HTTP and these internet protocols that would allow for payments, but it hasn't really been activated because they didn't really have a way to do it natively through the web.
	It always required banks or having all this onboarding stuff.
	But of course, Coinbase have taken that, a stranglehold on that and they're trying to lead that so that they control it, just like they control one of the top layer twos on Ethereum base.
	But there's definitely, I think X402 will probably be a standard internet native protocol that will be used by the smart devices.
	That could be huge because, see, content providers like us, this could enable micropayments for access to content or access to a PDF or a video or a research report.
	And given that a lot of people are spawning AI agents to go out and do the research for them, they could give those AI agents a budget like, hey, spend up to $10 to get this research done.
	And then the AI agent could decide what's the best source of information for the best economical efficiency and go ahead and do those transactions and bring it all back, right?
	Definitely, definitely.
	And we've been seeing that with the growth of the Claude bot, which seems to have all of this human-like power to spend money for people and make decisions for them.
	And I think they're working out the kinks still, you know, of it.
	Yeah, the malware tools kinks.
	Yeah, yeah, that too, where, you know, it goes in and deletes your entire computer, but also starts spending money on things.
	I think this, you know, it's hard to tell what's factual and what are made-up stories for humor.
	But I think this one watched an Alex Hormozi video and then paid for his subscription and had spent like a few thousand because it realized that if this guy was going to get smarter, he needed to have this multi-thousand dollar mastermind program.
	And then the logic behind these AI agents is improving.
	Yeah, well, I mean, so on one hand, you don't want to give any AI agent total access, admin-level passwords, all your API keys, everything else, and your credit card.
	That's insane.
	But if you have, like, for example, Dr. Robert Malone recently put out a list of 109 glyphosate science papers.
	So I just took that list and I handed it over to Claude, Cloud Code, and I said, you know, go out and find all these papers and bring them back and extract all the text and do these things.
	And it spawned a bunch of agents and it did that.
	It got like 54 out of 109 within 20 minutes.
	And that's the research basis for my article coming up on glyphosate.
	And that was free.
	Imagine if I could give it a budget, you know, to go through paywalls or whatever.
	But that's coming and crypto is perfect for that.
	I agree.
	I agree.
	And Cloud Code seems to be the top contender for the smartest individuals that are coding, at least the ones that are posting on X. Cloud Code has become the go-to.
	100%.
	No, it's a miracle worker.
	Just to interject this, because Opus 4.6 got released and I've been coding on 4.6 for a few days and it's just, it's solving and finding critical bugs that the other agents couldn't find at all.
	I mean, it's solving in minutes what I couldn't get solved for weeks.
	So it's insane.
	Yeah, it really is.
	It's a game changer.
	But it doesn't have access to the, you know, like as you mentioned, gathering these reports, you know, if you ask the questions that are in those reports to ChatGPT, it's not going to go look in those reports because of who knows the censorship or it doesn't have it in there.
	And that's why I also use your AI system that uses the banned books and all of the other research.
	Yeah.
	Bright answers.
	I'm guessing you won't find that in the centralized AI database.
	Yeah, you're right.
	And brightanswers.ai is what you're referring to.
	That's our AI engine.
	It's very good.
	As you've probably noticed, it does deep research.
	And we're adding a lot more curated data to it all the time.
	I mean, hundreds of thousands of books and science papers continue to get indexed into it.
	But even then, we don't go out and search the internet, you know, because that's a whole different technology area of bots.
	But I can imagine that like there might be a day where if this X402 becomes, you know, very popular, we could say, hey, if you ask our engine for free, you're going to get this basic level answer.
	If you pay one penny via this micropayment system or whatever, a nickel, you know, and then it's going to do this other level of research and that's going to be totally worth worth it.
	And then there can be like an API handshake with autonomous AI agents.
	So humans don't have to even be the users.
	Definitely.
	And I want to bring this back to crypto in the micropayments use case because the way that Bitcoin works right now, if you wanted to pay one cent or 10 cents to unlock a paper that pays the artist or the author, you can't really do that without paying a transaction fee of a couple dollars to the Bitcoin network.
	It's just unfeasible for micropayments.
	And then if you look into stable coins, which more likely the X402 will be using stable coins or non-Bitcoin payment, it'll be Ethereum, layer two or something.
	Then, you know, depending on the blockchain, Ethereum could be a quarter.
	It could be five cents, but it could be over a dollar.
	I think with this recent crypto crash, the price of Ethereum transactions actually went up, surprisingly.
	Maybe everyone's selling or trading.
	It was around a dollar.
	Also not feasible for micropayments.
	If you look at the layer twos like base, then you're getting into decimals of a cent, which is great, but now base sort of controlling your payment again.
	Right, right.
	But are there other coins or networks other than like ECR20 coins that can cost you only a fraction of a penny at this point, other than the layer two solutions you mentioned?
	For sure.
	There's stable coins and then there's non-stable.
	And in terms of stable coins, most of them are on Ethereum layer twos.
	And those layer twos have different levels of decentralization.
	Base being one of the most centralized.
	In terms of liquidity and speed and being able to move your stablecoin to that network, Arbitrum and Optimism. are more decentralized and have the ability to make payments.
	And then there's always other blockchains, which you have to find your way to from Bitcoin or stable, whatever you have, swap the coin into that coin, which is on a different blockchain.
	And it's harder right now with the decentralized infrastructure to move from one chain to another.
	That's why these centralized exchanges got so popular because they're sort of handling it all in the back end.
	But it is possible.
	And then there you could use other chain.
	There's many, many coins you could use that have little to no transaction cost.
	And there's always privacy coins as well, which the transaction costs are all quite low.
	So, okay, one more thing.
	And then Tom, I'll turn it back to you.
	But remember, we interviewed a guy from Dash, I think.
	And the thing about Dash is that it was really fast.
	And like Litecoin is also really fast.
	And it seems like the AI bots need something that's not just low cost, but also very fast.
	And Bitcoin is not fast.
	You're waiting for confirmations.
	And even Monero, the same problem, right?
	And also downloading Monero's initial transaction ledger is massive.
	So is Bitcoin.
	So what do you say, Ashton?
	What can be fast and cheap?
	I know.
	It's like, can we have the best of everything?
	Yeah.
	You know, it's tough.
	I think right now, there's no perfect answer for what is, that's what they call the blockchain trilemma.
	And that's been the trade-off for a decade now.
	You're trading off between speed, cost, and security.
	And you can't really have all of them.
	If you have something that's super decentralized, then you're sacrificing one of the other two.
	It's sort of like there's a toggle and you put two of them and you try to click the third, one of them, one of them turns off.
	So there's no perfect cryptocurrency.
	Otherwise, it would probably be the only cryptocurrency at the moment.
	Okay.
	Fair answer.
	So Todd, if I pose the same question to you, you know a lot of different crypto projects.
	What do you think is a good answer?
	I covered Epic Cash for years and it had it up and down, but I have been covering it now for the last year and a half privately.
	And I would say that with all of the development that has been happening by magical somebodies behind the scenes, that I think 2026 is going to be a very exciting year.
	And I think Epic Cash has come as close to any coin to solving the trilemma as is out there.
	Ashton, I'm curious what you would say to that.
	Yeah.
	You know, I've had the Epic Cash team on different contributors on the CryptoCoin show over the years as well.
Wrench Attacks in Paris 00:12:30
	And they're doing a pretty good job with maintaining the privacy and the integrity of the network.
	I did see recently they had sent me an update that it was actually the coin was listed on non-kyc.io, which the name sounds pretty promising to be able to, if you have a lot of these exchanges, you sort of have to have crypto already.
	If you have fiat, that's a whole other story of like getting in without KYC.
	But if you have other crypto, being able to swap into privacy coins is fairly easy.
	And they definitely are, it is fast and it's very cheap as well.
	It's just a matter of having getting access to the coin and then also the service provider, the author of the book accepting that currency.
	Now, I have a follow-up point on all of this, which is that you see, so many people are paying for AI services now.
	AI video generation, AI text generation, everything, image generation, text to speech, audio generation.
	It seems to me like a lot of these APIs that exist out there for these various services or even companies like OpenRouter that just route API calls to a bunch of different engines.
	It seems to me that this is just perfectly made for crypto again.
	But the crypto would have to be fast because I can't, you know, if I'm querying, if I have my code that's querying through an API to do text generation, I want that text now, right?
	I don't even, I don't want to add even 10 seconds wait time to that thing.
	So it seems to me that speed is going to become the bottleneck issue for the automated AI use of cryptocurrency.
	And also the providers of the compute or the images, the video, whatever, are going to have to start accepting crypto.
	Have you ever, has anybody started doing that yet to your knowledge, Ashton?
	No, with the regulation that happened in the US last year with the Genius Act, more businesses that are larger have sort of been given a green light to start using stable coins as an alternative to fiat currency.
	And, you know, I actually was on, like, there were some beauty products I was buying for my wife and they started accepting cryptocurrency.
	I was like, oh, this is, you know, in the last month or two, I was like, oh, this is impressive.
	Actually, of course I'm going to utilize that if I can.
	So I was surprised to see that.
	I think it's happening more and more.
	And it will only get bigger as it gets more mainstream, especially with the likes of Circle and USA, Tether, USA coming in and sort of pushing that and realizing, of course, there's benefits to having stable coins over traditional payment rails because you're getting rid of the 3% surcharges.
	It's faster.
	It's instant settlement.
	So it's definitely happening.
	Well, and let me add one follow-up to that because one of the big questions that I think Todd and I have both heard from people about crypto is, why should I get into crypto if I don't know how I'm ever going to use it?
	And this kind of answers that question.
	Like, what if the future is going to involve a lot of compute?
	And even as an individual or in your job or career or as a researcher or as a content creator or a podcaster, you're going to need to access a lot of compute that, like I said earlier, is perfectly aligned with using crypto as a payment mechanism because it can be well automated.
	It's just perfect built for AI.
	So this provides that off-ramp use case.
	It's like you never have to go back into fiat.
	You're going to burn.
	You're going to burn the crypto on the APIs to generate your videos.
	Like there you go.
	And then, of course, the video, you know, then they have to figure out how to convert all their crypto to pay the power bill for their data.
	Until the power bill, the power company starts accepting stable coins, then you don't have to leave the ecosystem.
	And that's been the hassle of everybody that has been involved in crypto for 10 years.
	It's like, oh, we got to find bill pay providers that will take this.
	And there's definitely companies, service companies that can do that.
	You can pay your credit card with crypto.
	It's going to cost you a percent or two.
	But there is a service company that's found out, yeah, we can do the off-boarding for you.
	You pay us and we'll take a little cut.
	But eventually that will be merged into just the credit card company accepting crypto and paying all of your bills, ideally in crypto.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, I wouldn't mind that at all.
	Go ahead, Todd.
	Ideally, in private crypto would be great.
	Yeah, totally.
	So, so a two-part question, but the first part may take you longer to answer, but I just know I have a follow-up question to it because I really want to talk about the rise of privacy coins and hammer home privacy is a survival requirement moving forward.
	So I want to talk about surveillance beyond the blockchain.
	Can you tell us and our viewers about the company Chainalysis and why many people fear this company and inform us why you argue that the real danger isn't chainalysis, but the wallet itself when reading some of your work today?
	Yeah, you know, Chain Analysis, and there's another company called TRM Labs, which I actually had on the show to hear their perspective.
	And they've recently had a bunch more investment.
	You know, they've able to chain together all of your transactions in different wallets, you know, even if you're accepting.
	It's possible on Bitcoin with something called HD wallets to accept payments and the new incoming transaction goes to a separate address each time so that it's not all tied into one public bank account that everyone can see.
	But even so, just look how powerful AI is right now at finding something that took Mike, would take Mike weeks to do it in like a minute.
	Now just apply that to all of your crypto addresses and try, you know, with the power of Palantir and the government being like, find out the addresses of this, of what we need to know.
	It can very easily be done.
	And it's very hard to, you know, if you're trying to secure your, like, for example, if you're trying to secure your gold and it's buried somewhere in the lawn, it will be pretty hard for somebody to guess where that is.
	But when you have it digitally and on the blockchain and it's transparent and the blockchain is the chain of transactions from the very beginning, there's some kind of chain that leads there to the Bitcoin moving into the address that you own from somewhere else.
	It came from somewhere originally from Satoshi.
	It exists somewhere.
	There is a trail.
	So with these companies, if you're trying to keep your funds safe, whether it's from them or from what they call the $5 wrench attack, which is being quite popular in Paris right now, I'm not sure if you guys have heard of the attacks and kidnappings that have happened.
	They actually canceled, in part, canceled some crypto conferences in Paris that were supposed to happen this month.
	Wow.
	Because people in Paris are getting targeted and kidnapped.
	And then what they call the $5 wrench attack, they hold a wrench to your head and say, we know you have wallets and just physically give us the addresses and the private keys, or we're going to beat you up and you'll be gone.
	So that's happened many, many times now.
	There's like a dozen incidents just in Paris, never mind the whole world.
	So, you know, it's a crazy world right now.
	There's chain analysis off-chain and then there's wrench attacks on chain or off-chain, sorry.
	Wrench attacks.
	Man.
	Amazing.
	Amazing.
	What everybody should know, the moral of this story is the only reason why chain analysis exists is because the mother of all crypto, the father of all crypto, whatever, is Bitcoin.
	And it is a transparent blockchain, meaning it's a surveillance chain.
	So these companies exist.
	They're billion-dollar companies to be able to go just harvest data from the blockchain and they know everything about you.
	If you own Bitcoin, they likely know your address unless you have used some privacy methods to be able to wash your Bitcoin, which is possible out there, to where at least you then don't have the Bitcoin associated with you.
	But the 98%ers out there are never going to do that.
	So it is like when you walk into, when you compare the emergence of privacy coins and why they are so important, it is, I'm just going to say it, guys.
	It is you walk into O'Hare, you got to go to the bathroom, you go to the airport bathrooms, and there are the stalls, and you have four, you know, transparent doors, and you're seeing them doing their business, but you have a couple of opaque doors that are the privacy coins where you cannot see in those.
	So does it mean that everybody behind those transparent parent doors are doing something illegal?
	No, they're just going to the bathroom.
	I mean, does it mean that the people behind the privacy coins are doing something illegal?
	No, of course not.
	But that is the narrative.
	That's the Druid Babylonian bastard narrative.
	Go ahead.
	Yeah, Tom, what's incredible, you know, even if you buy something on a credit card, the whole world can't see your credit card statement.
	That's right.
	No, the government can, and then the bank can.
	And the banks do cancel some people, you know, deplatform people because they don't like their politics.
	That's been happening.
	But the whole world can't see your credit card purchases.
	With Bitcoin, they can.
	And, you know, these wrench attacks, that's really pretty disturbing.
	But that's happening in Paris.
	And I'm sure other places I've heard of that happening other places as well.
	But I was just thinking, remember the old game, Rock, Paper, Scissors?
	Sure.
	I think in Texas, we should have a game called the Wrench Glock Belgian Malinois and see how does your wrench stand up against my Glock?
	You know, because these attacks maybe aren't happening in gun-friendly zones as much.
	I don't know.
	And Ashton, you're in Texas too, so you know what I'm talking about.
	But there's a lot of areas like Austin where maybe people are not that well armed and they could get the old wrench to the head attack.
	I guess for the attacker, though, they got to be careful.
	If you bash people too much in the head with a wrench, then they can't remember their seed phrase.
	So you have to be intimidating and threatening, but not actually use the wrench.
	Definitely.
	Yeah, you got to be careful.
	And with AI nowadays, too, it's so easy to do audio impersonation, even full video, live video impersonation.
	If somebody can impersonate you and then call your parents and be like, send me money because I'm lost and I just need to, I'm stranded.
	I need to catch my flight back.
	Send me a few thousand.
	The AI is getting really good.
	I saw. some videos on X. You can instantly switch between people of every age and gender and it's so lifelike, you wouldn't be able to tell that it was AI.
	Disturbing.
	Yeah, so true.
	Okay.
Mimblewimble's Privacy Solution 00:14:32
	Yeah.
	So just back to the rise of privacy coins.
	I really want to hammer this home because privacy has really shifted in my mind from a nice to have feature to an existential requirement for personal sovereignty.
	Am I wrong?
	You know, there's been a rise, even in Ethereum, you know, part of Vitalik Buterin's latest talks throughout the second half of 2025 have been around privacy and finding other ways to integrate privacy.
	Although I'm sure that would be in optional add-ons, not a privacy first, maybe in the way that these privacy coin creators would hope.
	But there is a twinkle there of, hey, let's add privacy into not Bitcoin would be hard to change, but Ethereum is a little bit more centralized and it's possible to change.
	Well, but also, of course, the governments of the world will never allow crypto that is private crypto to be mainstreamed, like the way they advocate for Bitcoin.
	They want KYC tracking of people.
	See, I even, I think Bitcoin was the stepping stone to what will become the government, you know, the CBDC, which is really just Tether.
	I mean, it's a proxy CBDC for the government.
	And I find it interesting.
	In fact, I wanted to ask you about, you know, Tether gold.
	So you've got these stable coins now.
	You know, Tether's been buying up tens of tons of physical gold.
	They say no one ever audits Tether.
	This is like, trust me, bro.
	But they have a gold stable coin.
	So if you want to hold stable coins priced in gold instead of dollars, to me, that actually makes more sense because the dollar is not stable.
	The dollar is collapsing.
	Gold is more stable than the dollar.
	But there's also like Paxos gold, which I think actually has much more rigorous auditing compared to Tether.
	But what's your take on gold and silver-backed stable coins?
	Yeah, it's funny.
	There's been many, many attempts to create a stable coin or even just a cryptocurrency that's sort of tied to gold.
	And somehow it just hasn't been done successfully that there's one solution, like, okay, this is the great gold-backed stablecoin or gold tied to the price of a coin.
	Tether, they've been around since I remember when Bitcoin was under $1,000 and you were able to use Tether was, it was before USDC and Circle.
	There was pretty much just Tether.
	They've been around.
	And that allowed them to accumulate a lot of Bitcoin and other assets.
	They could essentially print Tether out of thin air and buy Bitcoin with it or buy gold with it.
	So like the Federal Reserve of crypto.
	It's like the creature from Jeffo Island digitized.
	And yet, yet they're still going and they haven't had any issues.
	Do they own Bitfinex?
	I believe they did, and it was tied to it.
	But now that the regulation has come in, they've developed USA Tether, which Bo Hines, who was sort of Trump's crypto guy, was appointed the CEO of USA Tether.
	He left the White House.
	Maybe he knew what was coming and he went all in as the CEO of USA Tether.
	So that's very interesting.
	But in terms of the gold, you would probably know best that the leaflets that you have or just holding gold, it's probably safer and more private than trying to mix in privacy coin with gold and stable and stable.
	There's no perfect solution for that yet.
	It hasn't had enough priority building.
	It also, if you think about it, trying to physically audit stored gold and silver necessarily creates centralization and a trust factor, which is the antithesis of the original decentralized vision of self-custody.
	So, you know, digitized gold tied to physical gold somewhere means you have to trust whoever is telling you they have the gold.
	And honestly, I don't trust any of them at this point.
	You know?
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	Who knows?
	And, you know, with what they say is in the gold vaults, no one really knows the true numbers.
	But we can see the true numbers, at least, of the strategic Bitcoin reserve that the U.S. government has declared as a part of their reserve, which is interesting to see.
	And the plan to maybe reprice the USA's gold, which I believe is still priced at under $100 an ounce from like 50, 70 years ago.
	Yeah, I think it was $43 or something.
	Yeah, like, you know, it's like 5,000 now.
	Reprice that to be able to accumulate more Bitcoin.
	You know, they've done, they say a lot that they want to be the crypto capital of the world.
	They've yet to even buy Bitcoin or any other crypto.
	But accumulating Bitcoin doesn't make it more useful.
	So just a government sitting on Bitcoin doesn't do anything for me.
	You know, I mean, it's just another black hole for taxpayer dollars, as far as I can tell.
	Right.
	And what we need is we need these real use cases.
	Like we've been talking about the AI, the AI bots cases, or the APIs for AI inference.
	Those are some really strong use cases for crypto.
	And given that so much of the economy is digitized now, it's in the digital realm.
	Those are some strong use cases.
	So what's it going to take, Ashton, in your view, for this to mature to the point where we really have a functioning, even if it's just a stable coin?
	Heck, even if it's Tether stablecoin, at least we only have to use it for a few seconds.
	You buy it, you burn it, and it's gone.
	You don't have to sit on it.
	So you only have to trust it for 10 seconds.
	I think AI is just leading the way with all of this and AI development.
	And as AI develops and it becomes more developed on the physical AI side, well, what we're going to see with autonomous vehicles, they're already live in Austin, but they don't have wallets.
	They don't have payments.
	You're still using the traditional.
	Combine that with the regulation that happened with stablecoins and then wait a few years.
	Everything's coming quick, probably faster than we think.
	Before 2030, we'll probably be paying cars with crypto that are driving themselves, which is right around the corner.
	But just the combination of the regulation, AI, getting deeper into more physical things that we interact with and that we pay.
	And of course, the AI agents themselves that we're just dealing with, the large language models online, being able to pay in crypto that doesn't require physical devices.
	It's going to come quick.
	We're already seeing as we develop things, I don't know if it'll be microtransaction ready, but at least you can pay with crypto.
	It's becoming more widely adopted because of the regulation, whether that's good or bad.
	Whether it's like whether accumulating Bitcoin from the government, whether it's good or bad, it's going to bring more adoption so that if people want to use those same payment methods, it'll be accepted more widely.
	Okay, I hope you're right.
	Yeah, go ahead.
	I just want to pay in gold backs, man.
	I know.
	I know.
	I just, I want to be able to sell content and services for micropayments.
	That's what I want to do.
	And it's been ridiculously difficult to put that in place.
	It still is so far.
	But go ahead, Todd.
	Yeah, I want to touch upon what you said earlier about some coins that are going to have some, you know, perhaps some opt-in privacy.
	And I just want to call BS on that.
	I don't think that you can do that.
	I don't think privacy as an opt-in, I just believe that's not privacy because that becomes encryption.
	And to me, privacy is by non-existence, which leads us to MimboWimble.
	Can you share with our viewers what is MimboWimble and why is this technology so important to the rise of privacy coins in crypto?
	Yeah, MimboWimble is very interesting.
	And I want to touch on that optional privacy as well.
	But essentially with the MimboWimble technology on some of these privacy coins, the ones that are only private, you know, you can't be not private with the coin.
	It gets more technical because explaining Bitcoin to a non-techie is one thing.
	And then explaining it with the privacy technology, it's like there's no public ledger.
	There's no addresses and there's no amounts that can be seen.
	So it's like, you know, if you already were struggling to understand Bitcoin because you can't physically hold it in your hand, now imagine not being able to see the ledger or wallet addresses or amounts.
	And it gets very opaque, which, you know, if it's good.
	Yeah, exactly.
	But I think, let me just jump in because I think what Todd is looking for, the simplified answer here is that in the MimboWimble blockchain, the amounts and the from and the to and everything are simply not there.
	They're not encoded as part of the blockchain.
	Whereas what I think, Todd, what you're saying is in other optional, where it's optional to be private or not, the information is there.
	It's just encrypted, which means someday it could be discoverable, right?
	That's right.
	It could be discovered or discovered.
	Like we love Vonero, but that's just obfuscated, right?
	The transaction.
	It's like ring transactions, ring addresses, whatever.
	16 cups and balls.
	And the idea was to get your red ball from me to you, Mike.
	I mix them up and I send them over.
	And if somebody's trying to surveil that, good luck, right?
	Because only you're going to know which cup to look at.
	So, you know, Mimbo Wimble, I believe, is the key to private crypto.
	And, you know, it helps us stay digitally off grid.
	It's the invisibility cloak.
	There are no addresses, no amounts, no transaction history.
	It's the digital equivalent, I believe, of burying gold.
	Only you know it exists.
	Yeah, no, it is.
	It is.
	And, you know, Grin, which was one of the original privacy coins that uses Mimblewimble, and then Epic Cash, as you're well aware, Todd, it was based off of that same technology.
	And it does use the Mimblewimble to be fully private, only private.
	There's no option like there are with Zcash and Monero, which saw huge run-ups in 2025.
	Yeah, yeah.
	And Monero, actually, just in the second week of January, it was $800.
	And now it's 50%, more than 50% lower than it was not even a month ago.
	So, but yeah, there is, you know, some companies are already accepting it.
	For example, Mulvad VPN, if you've ever seen that, you know, you can pay with Monero.
	I believe Proton Mail.
	They even give you discounts 10% off if you're paying with crypto.
	You could pay with Monero or you can pay with Bitcoin.
	They do accept it.
	These privacy-forward softwares are accepting privacy coins.
	We should call them and tell them they need to be accepting Mimblewimble and Epic Cash.
	That would be high on the list if you want to be privacy first.
	Maybe they don't fully understand the optional privacy.
	But there is a downfall to Mimblewimble, and it is this ping-pong-ping transaction.
	And that's where you have to have both the sender and the receiver have to be in on the exchange.
	So it's like, if I want to, you know, send Mike five bucks in cash, I'm going to have to physically give him the cash, and he's going to have to acknowledge it and take it.
	And that transaction is complete.
	With Epic Cash, and believe me, I covered it for three and a half years.
	The Achilles heel, which is being worked on, but it is that we both have to have our wallets open.
	So, Mike, in your example of having bots go out and collect and pay, let's say they paid in Epic Cash, you know, they would have to make sure that the recipient had that wallet open to be able to transact.
	Now, because Epic Cash has no data on the blockchain, it is fast, like lightning fast, if both wallets are open.
	Right.
	So, that is the most difficult puzzle to solve, but I know that it is in the process of being solved.
	And when it is, I think, Mike, what you are looking for is going to be possible.
	Absolutely.
	Well, I mean, that's really interesting.
	And what I want to add to this as we're coming up on time for this is I think there's going to be an interesting intersection of AI coding agents and blockchain code creation.
	So, you know, the AI is becoming so capable now that I think as of last Friday, I can now confidently say that Claude Opus 4.6 is better than any human programmer that has ever lived, period.
Intersection AI & Blockchain 00:15:51
	There's no question about it.
	And even before that, the Opus 4.5 was better than all programmers except maybe about 200 on the planet, right?
	Now it's better than all of them, period.
	So now the task is not going to be, hey, how do I write this code to solve this problem, Todd?
	You know, like the Mimblewimble wallet thing.
	The real question is going to be: how do I prompt this AI system to work on that problem and burn enough tokens to solve it and write the code, even if I don't totally understand it yet?
	We can use AI for auditing.
	We can use a proof of concept.
	Do you know that they use Claude 4.6 to build an entire C compiler from scratch and they compiled correctly the entire Linux kernel from scratch for less than like $20,000.
	I mean, that is something that probably would require about 100 human years to do.
	And they did it in a few days or something.
	So imagine what that's going to do to crypto.
	Ashton, I'll leave it to you for final comments.
	What do you think about this intersection of AI coding and crypto technology?
	Yeah, it's exciting.
	And decentralized AI has become one of the leading use cases in blockchain because we know AI is not going away like NFTs and these other ones that really haven't caught on.
	Besides tokenization of the financial market, stable coins, real world assets, which require more regulation, AI sort of just go, go, go.
	And creating decentralized AI and AI agents as AI gets better, so will AI agents.
	And then so will that translate to decentralized AI platforms that aren't just as we see with Bitcoin being fully transparent.
	I'm sure whatever you type into OpenAI, many, many people can see and see your code.
	And maybe they're in another country.
	Maybe they steal the code and build the business that you had coded up.
	Or maybe it's the government.
	But let me add this, Ashton.
	So yeah, right now through Claude, like Opus 4.6 that I mentioned, that is cloud-based, right?
	You don't run that locally.
	But what's about to come out is the new DeepSeek from China.
	And that's an open source model with open weights as well.
	So the new DeepSeek model, though, you'll be able to download it and run it locally to where it's just local inference, right?
	And so there's nothing going to China.
	There's nothing going anywhere.
	You don't even need an internet.
	So you can actually write code locally at a clawed code level, most likely is what it looks like.
	That's decentralization right there.
	And U.S. companies are not doing that anymore.
	They're not releasing open source models anymore.
	They haven't for about a year.
	China's doing it.
	China's actually creating decentralization in terms of code production.
	In fact, Quen has a Quencoder model, Quen3 Coder Next, I think is what it's called, that's quite capable, but DeepSeek is probably going to be even more capable.
	So, you know, times are changing rapidly.
	Wow.
	Yeah, it's going so fast that, you know, as you said, Opus 4.6 is already better than the best developers in the world.
	But there's no slowing down.
	This is like exponentially better.
	So I can imagine in a year from now, it's already better than everybody in the world.
	But then it'll be like 100 times better and then 1,000 times better.
	And things that would have taken centuries will just take like minutes.
	It's going to be insane.
	Yeah.
	And then humans die because they need the energy.
	Mike, I listened to your podcast.
	Not all of them.
	Remember, I always say not everybody dies, but just the people that don't know what's coming and have no preparation for it.
	I'm an optimist.
	It's like how to survive Skynet.
	And one of the answers is learn how to control AI, by the way.
	That's actually a critical part of it.
	If you don't know how to reason with AI, then what are you going to do when the Terminator robot is in your doorway?
	You need to know how to deal with the machines.
	All right.
	So, Ashton, tell people how they can follow your show and your sub stack.
	Go ahead.
	I'll bring up the screens for you.
	Yeah, thank you.
	Appreciate you guys having me on.
	And, you know, I often do interviews with all different types of Web3 companies from decentralized AI.
	I actually had Dr. Ben Gowertzel on recently, who was the guy who created Sophia Robot, you know, back over 10 years ago, one of the first humanoid AI robots to investors that are major Bitcoin investors.
	Just had Michael Turpin on, who actually called 60K Bottom about two months ago, and he was right on the money.
	We'll see how the rest plays out.
	But every different type of industry and also early stage crypto and Web3 and AI companies that you could potentially invest into at the seed stage.
	And that's always a fun, speculative option that is on there.
	So on crypto, youtube.com/slash crypto coin show.
	And then I also do a more high-level newsletter on cryptocoinshow.substack.com that has the highlights of the videos, plus a bit of market analysis high-level on Bitcoin and Ethereum, and also tidbits of what happened in crypto this week.
	They're just bullet points because there's so much stuff.
	It's hard to keep up.
	I try to give bite size for everybody to follow along.
	Okay, last question.
	When are you going to roll out your own AI avatar?
	And when can we interview your avatar?
	That is probably going to happen within the next year.
	I don't want it to, I enjoy doing it myself.
	I don't want it to replace me.
	But I have actually somebody's AI avatar, somebody was pitching me over email.
	They wanted their avatar to come on my show.
	So it exists.
	I don't know how, you know, in the video and audio format, how good it is right now.
	But definitely if you go on, we have a Telegram group.
	If you look deep enough, it's CryptoCoin Chat.
	I do have an AI replica in there.
	You can ask it anything and it knows me.
	So I'm at the text level, but video level, I'm holding off for now.
	Well, Ashton, you know, there is the Asian guy and we're just holding out for the Ashton guy.
	That's all.
	Oh, I've launched a new guy.
	Let me bring up.
	I launched a new guy.
	I got to show you this guy.
	This isn't official yet, but we're launching.
	I loved your description when you were talking about trying to find the voices for your guys.
	They're all gay.
	Yeah, this is our non-gay conspiracy reporter right here.
	His name is Jack Harlow.
	And the voice is great.
	The voice is really great.
	Folks, you can go to brightvideos.com.
	I've rolled out like six or seven avatars to report on different things.
	And I'm keeping it entirely fictional, obviously, not based on real people.
	And by the way, I've decided, Ashton, I'm not going to do an avatar of me.
	I don't want my audience to ever be confused of what they're seeing.
	That's smart.
	Well, it's very confusing right now.
	Often the parents' generation, they're sending us so many videos and YouTube has the worst disclaimer.
	It's so hidden.
	You couldn't even tell that it's AI.
	And every day I get a new video and I'm like, that's not real.
	They think it's real, but the disclaimers are not there.
	People just don't know.
	Almost every video is becoming AI.
	Full YouTube channels that I watch talking about AI, but the guy is AI, but it looks real.
	You can't even tell.
	No, YouTube is about 80% AI now.
	Yeah.
	Well, the internet is going to be 80, 90% AI.
	And the rest of the internet will die off just like it has since we used to have forums and newgrounds and all of this stuff that no longer exists.
	Now we're stuck on five websites and soon we'll be stuck on one centralized LLM that you ask stuff and it tells you.
	Guys, I wonder if this is going to drive us, and I'm dead serious here, to just check it out at places like YouTube and stuff just because you're like, geez, everything is AI.
	I don't know what to believe.
	So screw it.
	I'm going to go plant another tree.
	Well, that's why in every one of my podcasts, I always try to do something that's clearly fully human because it's so outlandish.
	Right.
	It says like some weird, horrible joke or outburst that's completely inappropriate.
	I'm like, that's my proof of human right there.
	Yeah, we call that the after party, Mike.
	But you know how like Bitcoin has proof of work?
	We have to have proof of human.
	Right.
	And that's going to be actually a very important thing moving forward here.
	When people watch our videos, they want to know, are you human?
	Like, like prove it, say something an AI would never say, you know, right.
	And we do that all day long.
	We give very strong pacifics, Mike.
	Pacifics.
	People don't know.
	You're actually quoting a congresswoman from Texas, I think.
	Yes.
	That's who that was.
	That's funny.
	All right, Ashton.
	We're already blending into the after party, as you can tell.
	So we're going to have to wrap up our segment with you.
	Thank you for your time today.
	Thank you for all your research and your information.
	We appreciate you.
	Let me just plug one more time here.
	It is the Crypto Coin Show on YouTube.
	And still John McCaffey.
	John McCaffey right on the top there.
	Rest in peace.
	Yeah.
	That was a fun one.
	Wow.
	We had him on the show.
	What was that?
	Six years ago.
	Yeah, we've been going for almost over 10 years.
	So I was before he died when there was no, I'm sure there'll be an AI version of him in the future.
	We're all going to be able to interview John McCaffey pretty soon.
	Yeah.
	We're going to have him on the show, Todd.
	Yeah.
	All right.
	No, great, great point.
	But thank you, Ashton.
	Have a great rest of your day.
	We appreciate you joining us.
	Thank you.
	Thank you so much, guys.
	Appreciate it.
	Thank you.
	And we'll be back after this break for the after party.
	We got to let Todd rest his voice for a minute.
	A little bit of recovery there.
	So stick with us, folks.
	We'll be right back after this break.
	Perfect.
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	All right.
	Welcome back, everybody, to the after party, the fun part.
	Well, actually, the whole show has been fun.
	We got to cover a lot of ground with Ashton there.
	Yeah, we really did.
	I love him as a guest.
	He's great.
	Yeah, he's great.
	But we got a little strongly technical there at the end.
	Not necessarily.
	Yeah, I don't think so.
	I mean, I'm serious.
	This is, Mike, you are such a visionary, and I could see your wheels turning.
	I mean, literally in my mind, I'm like, oh, there Mike goes.
	And I'm like, when you were starting to talk about the intersection of AI and cryptocurrency, my head started to explode.
	I thought by Monday morning, Mike will have vibe coded for 84 hours.
	I'll have all of this solved.
	You know, cryptocurrency will be Mike's bitch.
	No, what's funny is on Super Bowl Sunday, someone I know called me and asked, so which team are you rooting for?
	I'm like, what teams?
	I'm vibe coding, man.
	I'm getting stuff done here.
	I don't even know who played.
	I don't care.
	It's not on my radar, but I'm constantly vibe coding.
	And with that, I also want to say that I've actually delayed my interview schedule.
	I mean, I've really shut it down for the next probably at least six weeks, which means we're going to have fewer shows of DTV for that period of time also.
	And that's simply because I'm vibe coding.
	And what I'm building, you know, I already showed brightvideos.com.
	That's going to be one of the sites we're launching, but there's some other major improvements and major new things.
	And then also when DeepSeek launches, like I have to clear my schedule for a few days, I got to go deep dive, deep seek, you know?
	Right.
	It's like it's a game changer for human civilization, I think, to have intelligence available, open source, decentralized, like at that level.
	You know, this is perfect for our show, Todd.
	This is what we've been waiting for, moments like this.
	It's just amazing.
	And I think there's one person on this planet that will be figuring it out like you're going to be figuring it out.
	And that happens to be you.
	Well, I would say me and a bunch of people are going to are going to like cancel all our schedules and just dive into this engine and start testing it.
	Well, every once in a while, I'm going to signal you and say, Mike, remember us out here.
	We said, let's still do a show.
	Yeah.
	You know, oh, here's something else that just happened.
	And not a lot of people are aware of this.
	So this is really timely.
	But did you know that the release of Opus 4.6 has actually caused major losses in the Indian IT sector?
	And it's crashing all the SAAS companies or software as a service companies.
	They're cratering because everybody in the corporate world is figuring out that you don't need to pay a per seat monthly fee for software as a service, you know, like Salesforce or, you know, a CRM software or legal software.
	All you need to do is install Cloud Code and start running Opus 4.6.
	You can build your own software locally at a fraction of the cost and then own it forever.
	So we're starting to see a real cratering of the old model of how software was delivered on a subscription basis.
	Yeah.
	Does that mean there's going to be less Indian restaurants in my neighborhood?
	Maybe more because they're going to be quitting the IT sector and opening more restaurants.
	Right.
	People still have to eat, you know?
Great GPU Drought Forecast 00:04:07
	No, I, you know, it's interesting you say that because I've been in this house for 11 years and it's a gated community.
	And when I came in, it was, and I'm not going racist here.
	I just want to share with you my observation, which is there was probably about 75% Caucasian, but every home that has gone up for sale has been acquired by an Indian family.
	And I've gotten to know many of them.
	And they are wonderful neighbors, but they are all programmers.
	So it's like they're all at home programming.
	And so it's interesting that you raise that, that, wow, that's going to impact my neighbors maybe.
	I mean, because the days of human coding are fast coming to an end, actually.
	Wow.
	Yeah.
	It's big changes are afoot.
	And, you know, speaking about our show, my understanding is that the DeepSeek company is going to put out a model called DeepSeek Light, which will be able to run on consumer-grade hardware.
	But I, so you'll be able to run on your desktop a light version.
	It'll be blazing fast and very good.
	But I wasn't even finished with my story because what's happened is that since Opus was released and then with Quen3 Coder and DeepSeek coming,
	more and more corporations across America are realizing that they need to hurry up and buy compute hardware as quickly as possible because the real bottleneck on this is going to be having the compute hardware since the open source models will be free.
	But if you don't have the GPUs, you know, you're screwed, right?
	So what's happened is now there's a sudden rush to buy every GPU that exists in Ventura.
	Yes.
	And what happened is then NVIDIA raised the price of its 50-90 cards, you know, from $2,400 to $5,000.
	Same card, double the price in just the last month.
	Wow.
	Right.
	Smart move.
	Yeah.
	So there's this massive shortage of compute, which is also tied to what's called high bandwidth memory shortage, like DR7 memory.
	There's only a couple of companies that make it and they can't keep up.
	So we're actually going to be running into in our world a compute hardware panic, like scarcity panic.
	Whereas the like the software will be readily available, the open source software, but to run it on hardware is going to be the hard part.
	Interesting.
	So I just bought up some a bunch of graphics cards that have like 96 gigs of onboard RAM.
	And I'm setting up new workstations because I figure I'm going to have to, I'm going to have to like power all of my platforms through the next three years until the shortage ends.
	Amazing.
	So yeah, I've been other people buying up Bitcoin and some people buying gold and I'm buying GPUs.
	Only Mike Adams.
	I'm getting ready for the great GPU drought of 2026.
	The GPUs require silver, Mike?
	Well, to some extent, not a lot per GPU.
	I mean, a few milligrams or something.
	But they do require cash.
	They require a lot of cash.
	Right.
	Right.
	So that's, that's the issue.
	That's amazing.
	And what boggles my mind is you understand all of this.
	Well, we're we're, I mean, I don't know.
	I'm an explorer like you.
	I'm just figuring it out along the way, but I do know, like, I do see trends before most people see them.
Why GPUs Require Silver 00:02:44
	Yeah.
	And that's given me a lot of key advantages like this one to know to buy up all the GPUs I can find.
	Right.
	Right.
	While they exist.
	Yeah, for all the robots you're going to buy too.
	So, well, and the other thing is going to happen.
	Well, yeah, eventually.
	No one's willing to sell them to us yet.
	We should have a whole talk about that, but we'll come back to that.
	But the cost of API inference for cloud-based AI cognition could actually start to go up because of compute scarcity, even though it's been trending down strongly for years.
	It could start to go up.
	So cloud compute could get more expensive, whereas local compute could be very inexpensive if you have the hardware.
	Right.
	Yeah.
	Right.
	Wow.
	So that's where this is going.
	But about robots, I am, you know, pardon my language, but I'm calling bullshit on most of the robotics industry in terms of autonomous functions.
	So what we see so far in all these promotional videos and these viral videos is, you know, pre-programmed movements in controlled environments.
	And that might, the video that we see might be, you know, one success out of 100 failures.
	And they just kept rolling until they got one that worked.
	But having a robot like walk around your house and do your dishes, oh, that's a whole different ballgame.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	And I'm not sure we're going to have any robots this year for testing.
	Okay.
	I don't know.
	Cheers.
	Cheers for 2027.
	My voice is gone.
	Your voice is really going bad.
	I'm sorry.
	That's okay.
	You're hanging in.
	I'm hanging in.
	Actually, my voice really started to go down when I got back.
	And because I had the two additional days, I had back-to-back-to-back-to-back consultations for the unincorporated nonprofit associations.
	Right.
	Right.
	And literally, that's when my voice started to go.
	And the reason why there were so many back-to-back-to-back consultations is because people are starting to get it that are in precious metals.
	That if you are in precious metals, there is a real strategic way for you to be able to not get hosed long term.
	I'll leave it at that.
	Yeah.
	Well, yeah, exactly.
	If you, because of the rise in the value of metals, if you're offloading any of those metals, you know, you need to have that in a nonprofit organization.
	That's right.
	Otherwise, you're going to pay huge gains on it.
Why UNA Offers Protection 00:03:03
	Let me bring up your website actually while you're talking about it.
	It's my575E.com.
	And what version of explaining this can your voice support at this moment?
	Like, how much do you want to say?
	What I can say is that since we've been talking about it, Mike, you know, not even three years, I've helped over 500 people acquire these.
	And we have a private Telegram group of well over 450 now.
	And they are all people that have come through the show.
	So if you're watching Mike Adams, you're not a dumb person.
	You're one of the two presenters.
	And I witness this every single day because I talk to you.
	What I suggest is people simply do your own simple due diligence to go to my website, enter in your name, email, and then you'll get to a 90-minute video of me interviewing the expert Dennis Gray.
	It's a 90-minute video, very informative.
	And it is an interview where we cover the downloadable PDF.
	So by that point in time, you're going to have a really good idea of what is possible with this entity.
	And then lots of people still have questions.
	Just simply hit the easy button, book an interview with me.
	It's right there under the video, a consultation with me.
	And then there is a fee for it.
	It's $150.
	But if you move forward with the UNA, and frankly, most people who are at that point to where they book an interview, I mean, a consultation, they move forward with it.
	And you just take the $150 off of the investment of the UNA.
	So I give it back.
	As I've shared with you, Mike, when I didn't charge any kind of a fee, people didn't show up.
	But I just really, really want people to know that this exists.
	As you know, Mike, this has always been my form of activism to be able to help people keep more of what they earn, protect what they have, and decrease their personal liability.
	And, you know, the jury is in, Mike, over 450 people who when you're in there, you'll you just see how many people are really, really happy they learned that this entity existed and they acted on it.
	So what's, I just want to mention, too, that this is codified under California law.
	Yep.
	So this isn't something that you and Dennis just made up.
	It's under law.
	And that it's also something where, you know, you get a tax-exempt ID number from the IRS that you can use to open bank accounts.
	Yeah.
	And that number is recognized as a tax-exempt number.
	Well, it's exempt from filing.
	And that's a key point.
	Like if you have your property donated to your UNA, you're still going to pay property taxes.
	So, but that's the key point.
Perfect Husband Remedies 00:02:54
	Right.
	Right.
	Thanks for the clarification.
	Yeah.
	Okay.
	But are you going to be able to handle conversations, consultations?
	I mean, you need some recovery time right now.
	I do need some recovery time and I'm going to schedule that in over the weekend.
	Okay.
	And that's when your wife is going to say, you're such a good listener, Todd, because you're unable to speak.
	You've become the perfect husband.
	The perfect husband.
	Look, I got her a puppy for our 20th anniversary.
	I took her, you know, on vacation for a 20th anniversary.
	I'm already the perfect husband.
	You are.
	You got her a puppy.
	My God.
	You took her on a vacation to some remote island somewhere.
	Yeah.
	And then when you came home, you stopped talking.
	Like that's the perfect husband.
	That's the trifecta right there of perfect husbands.
	But I still cooked.
	I cooked.
	Even more perfect.
	Yeah.
	I didn't know you could make it more perfect.
	So to all the husbands out there watching, if you can keep up with Todd, you're doing great.
	That's right.
	That's right.
	Well, Mike, thank you for the show.
	I, again, apologize.
	I'm not done.
	I was going to keep you another half an hour.
	I'm just getting started.
	Great.
	Cheers.
	I'm going to stay until your voice is gone.
	You're going to turn this episode.
	No, you're just going to vibe code my voice.
	I'm going to vibe your voice.
	Not done yet, Todd.
	Yeah.
	Let's talk about this.
	We still have stuff to talk about.
	No, that's fine.
	I recognize your need to rest.
	Thank you.
	And I know you're doing all the natural health things that are necessary.
	You've got all the good remedies and this and that.
	What is that?
	This is Manuka honey.
	Oh.
	With a lemon squeezed in there and hot water and electrolytes, salt.
	Oh, okay.
	Well, I'll let you in on a little secret formula that we use around my house.
	Add a little bit of cayenne pepper to the manuka honey.
	Yeah, we call that bazooka honey.
	For a sore throat yeah, and for, just like anything, waking up your entire cardiovascular system.
	Okay, bazooka honey, I love it.
	Just, you know, the cayenne does the trick.
	That's gonna be my dinner.
	Adjust to your level of, you know, heat tolerance there.
	Oh, I love cayenne.
	You can't give me enough cayenne oh good okay well, you'll love that, and also I, I do.
	Should we offer prayers for your food for us, or is it going to recover?
Transcription Magic 00:03:47
	Oh, my god, it is so bad, is?
	I mean?
	We literally freeze, got it right.
	Yeah, we literally were at 25 degrees for like five nights in a row.
	I mean oh, my god lord it's, it's just toast.
	I mean, we will see.
	I'm going to go, take a video of it, probably this weekend, where it'll be at its worst.
	Oh, and then i'm going to document the resilience of uh, permaculture food for us and we'll see in the spring if, if you know, on the third day, those banana trees rose again.
	Well, the good, the good news is uh, during the freeze, you can pick banana splits right off the tree so, instant.
	If there were only racks mike, all right, it is, it is really it's is.
	It's in worse shape than my voice.
	Oh well, that's, that's saying something.
	Okay, I feel I feel bad for keeping you, so i'll wrap this up and I know your food for us will recover.
	Uh, let me just remind people of a couple of things.
	Yes, so I did mention Bright Videos.com, and this is our new video website.
	That is not officially lost yet, so it could be a little bit buggy from time to time but uh, there's a really cool thing about this, which is that the, the transcription, is automatically handled.
	Like well, this is just part of it actually, but we do automatic transcription using AI, and soon i'll add a feature here where you'll be able to ask a question about the video using our AI engine.
	So todd, the reason that matters for all of us here is because this episode will be posted on Bright Videos WOW, and then people will be able to ask the engine about this episode.
	No kidding yeah yeah, and i'll probably have that done over the weekend.
	So that's, you know, that's coming up real soon, wow.
	So yeah and, and I and I understand you know we have Brighttown.com, which is our main video site but, but this video site, bright videos.com is is all AI driven.
	You know, I coded it with AI and it's going to have a lot of extra features that are AI centric, like being able to ask about the video and the instant transcription, and also it does instant thumbnails too, it it?
	It pulls together its own different thumbnails, which are sometimes hilarious.
	Yeah, you can only imagine, I can only imagine what it will be for this show today.
	Yeah, I think it's gonna have trouble with your voice today.
	It's probably.
	Yeah, like the transcription engine is gonna fail a lot.
	You don't?
	You don't want to use this episode to clone my voice for an AI, uh avatar.
	Yeah yeah, let's send your voice to 11 LABS.
	See what it comes back with.
	Yeah, we call it like Mr. Strained, Mr. Strained, Mr. Strained, Sam Strained, not not really a superhero per se, but it's like Peter Parker, you know, and then Sam Strained over here, who's who's just just talk too much.
	Like your superpower is talking, but use your superpower to the point where you got to recharge your superpower.
	I do, I do yeah, I will.
	I wish I could use micro payments to recharge, but yeah, we're not fair.
	You'll, you'll be fine, but you know, by the time we have the next episode, you'll be fine a couple of days.
	I'll be fine by the weekend, i'm pretty sure.
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	Yeah, all right, Todd.
	Well, thank you for all your time and effort.
	Again, sorry about the voice issue you're struggling with.
	I know you'll heal quickly, but we still had a great show and you powered through it.
	So, thank you, awesome.
	Thank you, Mike.
	All right, cheers everyone.
	All right, take care everybody.
	Uh, this has been another episode of Decentralized TV.
	You can watch all the previous episodes at that website, decentralized.tv.
	So thanks for watching today.
	Uh, Mike Adams and Todd Pittner uh, we'll see you next time.
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00:03:38 Israel Destroyed Iran
00:19:39 Glyphosate's Future Impact
00:34:45 Glyphosate Testing Technique
00:49:55 GC Instrument Sensitivity
00:53:45 Data Centers' Impact
01:08:40 Farmers' Rebellion Against AI
01:17:35 More Coming Soon!
01:20:54 Todd's Bad Laryngitis
01:25:38 ETFs and Market Control
01:41:09 Bitcoin Exchanges' Risks
01:56:32 Wrench Attacks in Paris
02:09:03 Mimblewimble's Privacy Solution
02:23:35 Intersection AI & Blockchain
02:39:27 Great GPU Drought Forecast
02:43:34 Why GPUs Require Silver
02:46:19 Why UNA Offers Protection
02:49:23 Perfect Husband Remedies
02:52:17 Transcription Magic
02:56:05 Another Episode