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Just the News No Noise with John Solomon and Amanda Head, December 24th, 2025
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Amanda Head
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John Solomon
Good evening, America. Welcome to the Christmas Eve edition of JUST the news. No noise. I'm your host John Solomon reporting to you as always from Washington, D.C. and we hope that you are preparing for a joyous time with your family and friends this Christmas season these next two days. For unto us a child was born, a savior was given on this extraordinary holiday, something we all take so closely into granted. Now, you may be a few gifts short or you're wondering how you're going to spend those gift cards the next day. So we decided to to jump into the fray and give you some ideas. We got another edition of our holiday buying guide just for you. Amanda, I don't know about you, I was still buying gifts. I was a few hours ago. But it's always good to have a couple of ideas in your back pocket, right?
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Amanda Head
If I'm being completely honest, when I got on the plane to go out of town for my Christmas travel, I bought some gifts at the airport because I did feel a little light on the gifting side of things. So, yes, I do things really last minute, but I also did take full advantage of our buying guide because we have such amazing sponsors and partners on this show.
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John Solomon
Absolutely. Yeah. No, it's such an amazing thing. The gift of health, the gift of patriotism, the gift of gloves and warm sheets and so many things. There are so many great ways. And as we get closer and closer to Boxing Day, there's always that question, how do I spend my new gift card money? And we have some ideas. Even for that, we're pretty lucky we've had such great partners. One of my favorite holiday buying guide conversations we had, Amanda, was with Dr. Peter McCullough, who had so much right during COVID 19. I think that's a perfect way to kick off the show. What do you think?
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Amanda Head
I love it. Let's do it. Here it is.
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Brian Ganz
All right.
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John Solomon
Joining us now, he's a world renowned doctor, chief scientific officer, one of our great partners at Wellness company, and the man who had so much right about the pandemic when our public health officials had it all wrong. He's also the Author, one of my favorite books. Co author, Vaccines, Mythology, Ideology and reality. Three important words that really do go along with vaccines these days. Make a great Christmas gift. Go check it out if you want to give someone a stocking stuff for. Joining us now, our good friend Dr. Peter McCullough. Doctor, good to have you on. Merry Christmas.
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Dr. Peter McCullough
Merry Christmas.
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John Solomon
All right. We've had a lot of waffling even under the Kennedy hhs. Do we put a warning on the COVID vaccine? Do we not? The evidence becomes more strong every day, particularly for young people, that there was a cardiomyotis problem here, heart inflammation problem. Why has it been so hard for our regulators to give the warning the American people need?
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Dr. Peter McCullough
I think there's a deep state within the FDA connected to the biopharmaceutical companies. They really don't want to see this concession of a black box warning meaning the vaccines can lead to death, particularly fatal myocarditis. There was a leaked memo, so somebody ethical within the FDA leaked it out. Clearly. 10 out of 96 for sure, probably all 96. One of them purportedly is Ernesto Ramirez. I looked at his autopsy back in 2021 and I said it was fatal myocarditis. I think the FDA should do the right thing, show courage, put a black box warning on it so people can be fairly warned if they're going to take any more of these shots.
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Amanda Head
Absolutely. Dr. McCullough, as I am riding the metro into the city, as I'm walking around even here in our office, I hear people sniffling and snarfling all through their day. And it doesn't seem like the flu has hit us yet. Maybe it's just regular colds, but what do we need to watch out for? I know you're a huge proponent of gargling and nose sprays and things like that. What can we do to prepare ourselves other than avoiding the people who are doing the sniffling and the snarling?
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Dr. Peter McCullough
Nearly impossible to avoid across Europe. It's really a quad demic of common cold, influenza, respiratory syncytial virus and COVID 19. They're almost indistinguishable from one another as an adult syndrome. Everybody should be on twice a day nasal sprays and throat sprays. Wellness company has immune defense that's probably the best in class. Additionally, I think gargling twice a day. My favorite is spry to do it, you know, after you brush your teeth. But you shouldn't go a single day without using a nasal spray at least twice a day because the virus sets up shop in the nose for about a week before it drains to the throat and. And starts with a sore throat. So by the time you have a sore throat, it's too late. The best defense is shown in multiple randomized trials are nasal sprays, throat sprays, and gargles. Additionally, you know, oral immune boosters Wellness company has natural immunity. And of course, to have an emergency medical kit be ready when it strikes.
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John Solomon
I want to talk about one of those because it's incredibly popular and I think people are starting to realize that there is a science to protecting yourself against contagion. So talking about. Tell us a little bit about the contagion kit, because I think in this particular immediate environment of the next couple of months, that could be a very helpful tool for sure.
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Dr. Peter McCullough
The black contagion kit is really focused on influenza, acute COVID 19. And we know actually from data from the bird flu, the human cases of bird flu. All the human cases successfully treated were on day one with olsetamifir or Tamiflu. You know, Tamiflu works, provided you start on day one. You start on day five. It almost doesn't work at all. We know with acute COVID 19, we can start with ivermectin or hydroxychloroquine again on day one. If there starts to be wheezing, coughing, then the budesonide in the kit comes into play. Of course, Azithromycin, secondary antibiotic from bronchitis. People can bail themselves out of a problem with this kit and not end up in the emergency room or at urgent care.
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Amanda Head
Dr. Markella, my dad is one of those folks who, for years he's gotten the flu shot. He's never really had any serious repercussions from it. But he called me last week and he said, a man, Amanda, you wore me down. All of this talk against getting the COVID vaccine and now the flu vaccine. Now I'm actually going to ask you your opinion. And I said, look, dad, if you've taken it for this long, then, you know, I support you, whatever you want to do, but I would lean in the direction of not getting it. Is the flu shot any good?
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Dr. Peter McCullough
You know, this year is going to be almost certainly completely useless. We have the H3N2 strain, a subclade K. It looks like it's completely off base in terms of anticipating this strain, in terms of the flu shot. Personally, I took 40 flu shots over time because I had to be on staff at a medical hospital. What it does is it makes you more prone to the common cold and actually tends to backfire as shown in a recent Cleveland Clinic study. So I am not advising the flu shot for any of my adult patients and I don't take it myself.
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John Solomon
Wow, that's important to hear that. That's important. So I want to talk about something that one of your colleagues, another guy who had a lot right about the COVID era of bad medicine, Dr. Harvey Risch was on the show yesterday. The new cancers are for President Trump. And he said, listen, we're going to do an intensive study about ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine to see if they have if their anti inflammatory effects could have a role in treating cancer. That was a big headline for us and something I had heard before. Like to get your reaction to what he talked about.
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Dr. Peter McCullough
Well, we're greatly enthusiastic. Again, the combination is Ivermectin menbenazole. It's a fixed dose combination offered by the wellness company on label. It's used for occult parasitic infections. But more and more case vignettes and studies are emerging about the anti cancer effect of those two products together so patients can use them. It's legal to do this off label. Now we carefully note the reasons why patients want to do this. They should check it out with their oncologist, make sure it's going to be okay with their conventional chemotherapy. But there is a study underway at Cedars Sinai Hospital in LA ucla. They're going to be testing ivermectin. I think we should see the National Cancer Institute do a large scale clinical trial of the combination of ivermectin and Benazole to see if it reduces cancer outcomes such as hospitalization and death or conversely prolonged cancer free survival, particularly for the common cancers, breast, colon, prostate, bladder. I'd love to see it. America wants it. They want to see us do more in cancer care. And the NCI at NIH is the group to do it.
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John Solomon
It's very clear. Yesterday he said it here, he's doing it. We're going to do the studies. That was a big moment here.
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Amanda Head
Dr. McCullough. As you know on the show we are often talking about the weaponization and the politicization usually of government and the justice system. But that also happened during COVID with the medical community. We've had a lot of conversations with you about the distrust that the American people now have because they witnessed that firsthand. Do you feel like with this new administration, with new people heading up the FDA and hhs, do you feel like the American people, people are moving in a better direction now? As, as you know, finally starting to trust these people again.
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Dr. Peter McCullough
Well, Trump and RFK and of course the new group have made strides, no doubt about it. I think they are working against a biomedical deep state. But remember the, the medical establishment is connected to the federal government through Medicare, Medicaid and National Institutes of Health funding. So there's the strings attached to. They can make great strides to restoring faith. I think all the medical boards should drop their Covid misinformation policies, restore the doctors. The Federal Trade Commission should do the same. That's going to do a lot to rebuild trust. We do have to see some capitulation on where our government agencies went wrong and what they're doing about it now to make things right.
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John Solomon
Sarah, we have been so lucky to have this partnership with a wellness company. We get great access to your expertise and others in your company than our customers of course get incredible discounts on all the great stuff you do. I want to thank you for all your support this year and I wish you a merry Christmas, but thank you so much.
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Dr. Peter McCullough
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.
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John Solomon
Yeah. Thank you, sir. All right, folks, here's one of the great truth tellers in the medicine world. We're so lucky to have him in our family of experts. All right, to our audience, Making America healthy again starts at home. It starts with you and me, right? And the wellness company helps you do just that. From prescription medical kits and parasite cleanses to their contagion kits. We just talked about those a few minutes ago. They're the gold standards trusted by doctors you see on this network. Be ready for anything, protect your family. And here's how you do it. You go to TWC Health Just news and check out use the promo code just needs to get the next 10% off. That's a good deal. The wellness company now has a new product too. It's called Drop for weight loss Excellence. You can use promo code just news100 and you'll save. Get a load of 100 bucks on drop for weight Loss without shots. Go check it out today. All right, we'll be back in a second with more news right after these messages.
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Amanda Head
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Chad Stewart
We just had somebody come in shoot a bunch of people burn down my church. If somebod have had one and just would have put tear gas down. He was wearing body armor but he.
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John Solomon
Didn'T have a, he didn't have a mask on.
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Chad Stewart
I mean I think that probably would have changed the game a little bit at this point.
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Chad Stewart
And we train and prepare houses of worship to keep the peace in God's house. Burna fit into a very important hole in churches in New England that are quite gun shy.
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Brian Ganz
I've been at my church for about eight years now.
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Amanda Head
I'm the director of facilities and safety.
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Chad Stewart
And it just seemed like a really.
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Brian Ganz
Good option, you know, for us when.
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Chad Stewart
We talk about the use of force continuum, you know, just to have a different layer of force for compliance.
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Amanda Head
Right now we are taking a look at a company that specializes in non lethal self defense and they're also offering the option to schools and houses of worship. That company is Burna Technologies and you just saw their product in that video. Opening and joining us now to talk about what they are doing to help keep our kids and our community safe is Burna CEO Brian Ganz. We we love having you on. You know I love your technology. I've loved it ever since you released it and I actually thought about you. Last week I saw a video of I think a man from Alabama in Georgia traveling with his son and a woman hit him in traffic. She fled the scene, he followed her and she pulled out a handgun and he ended up wrestling her to the ground and pulling her Down. And I thought to myself, if you pull a handgun, if you pull a gun, and this is something you told me, you better be ready to use it. But people can be apprehensive in using a firearm, obviously, because of everything that can come from that. But solves that.
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Brian Ganz
Yeah. You know, I'm not sure if you know the genesis story of Burna, but it also involved a road rage incident where maybe a dozen years ago, I was involved in a road rage incident. Now, I've been a gun owner my whole life. I'm still a gun owner. I'm a strong supporter of the second amendment. This guy was right on my bumper. I sped up, he sped up. I slowed down, he slowed down. I really was scared. And I pulled off to the side of the road thinking that he was going to go around me, but he didn't. He pulled in right behind me, got out of his truck. And I'm sitting there thinking, do I get out of my car with my 9 millimeter Glock or not? And I said, you know what? Nothing good could happen from getting out of the car with my gun. So I left it in the glove box and I got out of the car and nothing good happened because this guy was bigger, younger, stronger, angrier. And he came at me and he threw me to the ground. And fortunately, the only thing that he really harmed was my pride. But it really sent a strong message, which was if I was not prepared to kill him, then the gun was not the correct weapon at that moment. Now, if he had had a gun, I would have pulled out my gun immediately. But it was at that moment that I decided that I wanted to create for gun owners like myself and non gun owners as well, something that could stop an assailant in their tracks without taking a life. Because if he was not armed with a lethal weapon, I did not want to fire my lethal weapon. So it's interesting that you bring up this road rage. I think this happens more than people think.
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John Solomon
All right, so I think a lot of people hear non lethal weaponry and everything that's great, that's for the cops. And the answer is, they're not. There's a whole market now for everyday civilians like you and me and Amanda. Tell us some of the new products that give someone incredible enhanced security and safety, but don't require firing a gun.
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Brian Ganz
Well, this is our newest product, and this is my everyday carry, which is a Burna cloud. It is the size of a Sig P365. Very lightweight, easy to carry, easily concealable. It has an Incredible amount of stopping power. It will take five plus one magazine accurate to 60ft. I carry this with me every day. Now, I still have my lethal weapon, my Glock 19 in the glove box, but I have this either in my coat pocket or in the side pocket of my car because that is my first line of defense. So, you know, we offer a broad range of products ranging from pepper spray to this state of the art burner cl. We have other pistols and rifles, everything depending on what your requirements are. But the whole idea here is to give people the ability to protect themselves without having to resort to lethal force. Because once you pull that trigger, your life changes forever. It changes legally, it changes financially, it changes psychologically. And if possible, we would like the ability to stop a crime, to stop an assailant without having to resort to lethal force.
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Amanda Head
Absolutely amazing. Brian. One of the things I love about this, you know, we unfortunately in this country have had a spate of school shootings. And there are a lot of teachers out there who, who would be in favor of carrying a gun at school if their school system allows. But there are a lot of teachers out there who just aren't comfortable with that. Burna is an option that all of these teachers could have. You could have entire school systems that say, all right, we're going to issue these to every teacher. You don't have to use it. You don't even have to have a background check. There's no training course or anything. But this seems like something that could make a huge difference.
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Brian Ganz
Well, you know, you bring up schools, churches, fall into the same group where you've got a lot of people that probably, you know, have a concealed carry permit. But you're in an environment where there's a melee, where there's people running around and scrambling. Unless you are a marksman, this is a very, very difficult environment in which to shoot a lethal round. We have a number of former law enforcement officers. Several of them are former SWAT officers. One of them in fact was in charge of dealing with school shootings, part of the alert network. And he said that they are trained to try to avoid firing in the school because if that bullet misses, it can go through a number of walls and hit an unintended target. So in these environments where everybody's running around and there the significant chance for collateral damage, a non lethal weapon like the Burna makes a lot of sense. And there was a recent Newsweek article about Burna and about our going after churches and schools for training. And we've seen a lot of houses of worship Make Burna part of their system so that there are a number of parishioners that are carrying non lethal weapons with them. In the event of that there is an active shooter situation.
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John Solomon
That's just amazing. All right, give us the do's and don'ts. Even when you have a non lethal weapon, obviously there are things you want to be careful about. If you encounter law enforcement officer, you want to make sure they don't think you're armed. What are the state laws and local laws for the use of non lethal weaponry? Just walk us through some of the good things that people probably have in the back of their mind as they're watching this great segment right now.
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Brian Ganz
Yeah, no, it's interesting. First, these weapons are legal in all 50 states. The state of California and the state of New York ban our pepper rounds unless you're law enforcement or private security. But you can buy the kinetic rounds. But the launchers themselves are legal in all 50 states. Now there are four municipalities that outlaw the burner. One of them is New York City. You can guess the others. They're Washington, D.C. san Francisco and Portland. Now, when I carry my burner into New York City, it is a $50 misdemeanor. So honestly, this is a situation where I would rather ask for forgiveness than permission because I am not going into New York City unarmed. I was just out in New York City for a couple of days and I was glad to have my Burna with me. In terms of where you can use it, I mean, this is really the ultimate common. We tell people, if you get arrested for using your Burna in a legitimate case of self defense in a jurisdiction where you're allowed to carry it, we will help defend you. So I get calls from people on a quasi regular basis. I got arrested using my Burna. And then we get involved sometimes it wasn't really a legitimate case of self defense. It was some crotchety old guy that was yelling at kids that were walking across his lawn, not a good time to use your burner. But it is the same as, for example, using a baseball bat or a hammer. If it is a legitimate case of self defense and it is appropriate level of force, then it is legal everywhere to use your burner to protect yourself. What you cannot do, of course, is be the aggressor. Sometimes we end up in a situation where there is a he said, she said. It is one of the reasons that we've announced that we are coming out with the ability to have a connected device. In other words, a device at the end of your Picatinny Rail where you could call a call center or 911 to say, look, I'm feeling under threat, there's a group of rowdy kids here and this person can say hey guys, back off or we'll call the police. So we recognize that it is important to establish that it is a legitimate case of self defense, but if it is, it is legal in all 50 states.
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Amanda Head
Fantastic. I love this technology. Brian Ganz, CEO of Burna Technologies, thanks so much for being with us. All right everybody, one of the most important and long lasting gifts that you can give your loved ones is the gift of health. We're going to talk about that on the other side of this break.
- [28:50]
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- [29:21]
Amanda Head
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Amanda Head
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- [32:12]
John Solomon
Welcome back everybody to this Christmas Eve edition of Just the News. No noise. We are highlighting some last minute gifts you can get your loved ones this Christmas. It's not Too Late Is one really no better gift than the gift of health, as Amanda said. That's why this next interview is so important. It's with our good friend Miles Grimard, the founder and CEO of Brookhouse Nutrition, a company that's put me on my path to a much better health. They also make my favorite drink, Field of Greens. Take a look. I like this special because all the products we picked have a personal connection to us. It isn't just that we have a partnership. We use these products and none has been more transformational in my life than other products that have come from Brickhouse Nutrition, particularly Field of Greens, which really started me on my journey to losing weight and getting healthier. It's a part of my daily regimen. It has made me healthier. My doctor smiles when I come in to see and I have to see her. And I have to admit a big part of it is just getting that fruit and vegetable daily into my diet where I had been ignoring it for years. And joining me right now, the man who Made a big difference in my own life.
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Dr. Peter McCullough
Life.
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John Solomon
He's the CEO of Brick House Nutrition, the makers of Field of Greens, our good friend, Miles Grimar. Myles, great to have you on the show.
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Miles Grimard
Great to be back. I love hearing that, John. Thanks for having me.
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John Solomon
Hey, Amanda, listen, you made me healthier. There's no other way to say that. And I know you got the studies to prove it, too. Of course you had to pick Auburn, because now that makes Amanda incredibly excited. But remind everybody of the recent Auburn study, because you have empirical proof, proof now that this actually changes the age of your cellular body.
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Miles Grimard
Yeah. And, I mean, when I first started coming on your show, we always had this, like, doctor health guarantee. And everything we've been trying to do with the field of greens is trying to show that there's. There's not another product like it on the market, especially in terms of a fruit and vegetable product. Because, like the doctors that you've had on, like Dr. Kim, they put so much time and effort into selecting each fruit and vegetable and how it affects the body. It's not just a bunch of common produce or extracts like our competitors use. And so the biological age is really determined by the health of your vital organs and your cells. And it kind of just clicked us at some point that Field of Greens. Each category of the fruit and vegetable inside of it is supposed to help a different part of your body. And we said, well, this is a perfect way to put it to the test. A biological age study. So we partner with Auburn University to put Field of Greens to the test. And we made sure that the participants changed nothing. They kept the same diet they drink. But after a bunch of testing, actually the results came back as we knew they would, which is Field of Greens was shown and now backed by Auburn's clinical study to slow your body's aging. So it's actually a perfect, perfect gift for anyone to get more active years out of their life. And perfect time to do it. There's 30% off right now to try it out, try any of our flavors and. And show that you can get those more active years that are, like, get a little more energy in your day.
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Amanda Head
Yeah.
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John Solomon
Pretty cool.
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Amanda Head
Myles. Someone whose voice I appreciate and respect, Dr. Drew Pinsky, once told me that he said medicine is dangerous. You should always proceed with caution when it comes to taking any drug, no matter how innocuous it seems or no matter how much a doctor recommends it. What I love about Field of Greens is it's not a medicine, it's nutrition. It is what our body Craves and needs to begin with. And then looking down the road, when you have that improvement in your overall nutrition and health, then you don't need the medicine as much.
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Miles Grimard
Yeah, it's no secret. Well, one I love hearing about, Dr. Drew Pinsky. We've done some advertising with him as well, so hopefully he sort of had a product a little bit. But yes, overall, just health and wellness. I mean, take the lean product, for example. Everyone's so gung ho on the weight loss injections and that's because America is obese. It's no secret. And that's why I think, you know, even our lean product has taken off so much. It's a more natural way to do it than the injections and our doctors made that. But yeah, if you stay healthy, you don't need to all of a sudden fall back on all the pills and injections that big pharma likes to put down us or inject into us.
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John Solomon
Oh, that's amazing. All right, so you got a brand new product that women are buzzing about. Creatine. Tell us about that one.
- [36:40]
Miles Grimard
Yeah, for years, me included, men have been the ones getting the benefits of creatine. And there's so many new studies out, not only showing how much more creatine does than just the, the bigger muscles in six pack, but also for brain health, bone health, hormonal balances. And there's even more studies showing that women are actually getting more benefit from it than, than men if they start to supplement with it is because they have, they have more deficie season it than the men. So start to take it really helps. And the doctors at Brickhouse Nutrition develop creatone specifically for women. It's a, it is a, it's a pure creatine. But there's also other patent ingredients that they added to it to give the additional boost to women. It helps increase energy and strength, it reduces fat as well as helps tone and shape the muscle. But there's these additional benefits, like I said, with the brain health, with the hormonal health and bone health that, and it's those lastly that really the women get the benefit of. And that's why they created creatine as opposed to just putting on a normal creatine product. There's things in there that really give them the boost from this product. Like men can take it, but it's meant for women. Like a specific patent ingredient we partner with is called 19. This is highly biologically available magnesium that really pairs well with the creatine for the women's bone Health and hormonal health. That's really amazing. Why the creatine was made.
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Amanda Head
Does it matter? The age? Should older women use creatine? Does it matter?
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Miles Grimard
It does not. They would actually probably get more benefit out of it. But yeah, the use at any age and there's so many studies now on how much to take, how little to take, because I know women are a little bit scared of the bloating and stuff like that, and there'll be a little bit of that, but the benefits way outweigh the, you know, if you blow it all, you get a toned, more fit body from taking the creatine and the brain. Health benefits are huge. And even more when you get older.
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John Solomon
With all the rise of mental fog Covid post. That's an important gain for everyone, everyone in the country. All right, so I want to talk about the cycle that happens right around this time of year. We eat big on Thanksgiving, we snack all the way through Christmas. We wake up in January with great remorse as we're 20 pounds, 10 pounds, 5 pounds heavier. It's not necessary to go through that cycle. And one of the things I learned when I started eating healthier, particularly when I brought field of greens in, is, is keeping on a consistent fruit and diet injection into your diet keeps your weight down, even if you kind of cheat a little bit from every so often. Hit sugar every so often. Tell us how we get through the holidays without having a 20 pound remorse moment in January.
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Miles Grimard
Yeah, I mean, the holidays are joyous, but they're also so busy and everyone's on the go and they're eating on the go and health and wellness kind of goes by the wayside. So it's the perfect time for, you know, take advantage of Brickhouse in church. It's our biggest sale of the year. 30% off is the biggest discount we ever do that. It can help keep you on track or if you ever fall off track, a little bit can get you back on track. It's all of our products. And so that way you don't, you know, January doesn't come around and you look down, you say, I got a few extra pounds around the belly I want to get rid of. But that kind of helps keep you there on the way up. So, yeah, it's, it's perfect time to try that.
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John Solomon
Yeah.
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Amanda Head
All right. Before we let you go with the field of greens powder, do you have any special Christmas recipes?
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Miles Grimard
Well, we have a few on the site, but I heard John has a friend with a brand new one that we got to hear all about. I am.
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John Solomon
I'm going to put this one out because she came over my house and it was a little celery, a little bit of lemon juice and a little bit of raspberry. And I got to tell you, it was, you could sell this as a smoothie and you'd be. We'd have a smoothie shack shake going, going on. I'll get everybody. We'll put that up. I got to go pull it out on the handwritten card and I'll put it up on air here. But people have, they learn it on the show, they go use it, and then they fall in love and they start inventing their own flavors. I love it. Miles, I want to thank you personally again for all you do to make us healthier. And I also think if you're in the Christmas shopping mood today, you can give the gift of health. These are great products to get someone who might be ignoring their health and get them on a pathway to a better health like I experienced when I got engaged with Brickhouse Nutrition. So go do it today. You're not going to get a better deal. All right, folks, when we get back, we're going to stay on the topic of health. Health will discuss how to get in control of your blood pressure the natural way. That's a great idea, right? I'll have that next right after these quick messages.
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Amanda Head
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Ira Antelis
Thank you for having me.
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Amanda Head
All right, so I spent Thanksgiving with 90 of my closest family members in Lebanon, Tennessee. And some of them who are.
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Amanda Head
Let's. I'm going to be safe here and say above 50, we're having conversations about blood pressure and concern that, you know, things were creeping up as it gets colder. So this is a real phenomenon. I don't think I realized that until. Until Thanksgiving.
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Ira Antelis
Yeah. So I think you and even I had no idea that when the weather is cold, your blood. Your blood vessels constrict. And when they constrict, your blood pressure is going up because the blood is not flowing. So what you need to do is really make sure that, number one, you must stay hydrated in cold weather. Number two, you must cover your hands, your feet, your head to counteract this and not ignore it, because it's a real thing. And the opposite is in the. In the summer when it's warm, your blood pressure, unless it's extremely hot, tends to go down because your blood vessels are. Have opened up.
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Amanda Head
Crazy. So what does your product do? Because I know we've got some people in our audience, we've gotten feedback from them. When we've had people from your organization on before, what does it actually do?
- [46:09]
Ira Antelis
So as some note, and maybe you know that my life was not in blood pressure. My life has been really in music and the arts. And I developed a strength when I had an extremely high case, a case of high blood pressure. And I'm like, I really need to lower this. And I had been reading about many, many things that lowers your blood pressure. The first thing I realized to go back a little bit, is that if you have high blood pressure, well, actually, 80% of people that have heart disease, strokes, kidney issues, vision issues, have high blood pressure. So if you can reduce your blood pressure, it is reducing the chances that you will get one of those things also. But what I realized is that almost like we were talking about in cold weather, if you have high blood pressure, many your blood vessels are constricted and your heart is working harder. So what do we do to counteract that? And there are like five or six things. I have been reading about beets. So if you drink or eat beets, beets have nitric oxide. Nitric oxide in our body dilates. It means it opens up your blood vessels. If your blood vessels are open, your blood pressure probably will go down. Some of our other ingredients are hibiscus tea, which has been around for centuries, and pomegranate juice. And what they do is, again, they relax your blood vessels. If your blood vessels are relaxed, your Blood is flowing better. Maybe a third example of the ingredients we have back to beets, hibiscus and cranberry juice. And they act as what is known as a diuretic. Many doctors refer to that as a water pill. It helps get rid of excess water in our body. If there's water in our blood vessels again, our heart is working harder. If our heart is working harder, our blood pressure is going up. So all of these things combined can help and it helps many to lower your blood pressure, which is important.
- [48:13]
Chad Stewart
Yeah.
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Amanda Head
All right, so tell us about your product offerings. Because some people prefer to take pills, some people prefer to drink it in liquid form. Tell us about what you've got.
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Ira Antelis
So we have two options. We have the juice, which we said to you, it's already pre made 8 ounce bottles and you drink a bottle a day. About a couple years ago, many of my friends kept saying, well, I want this something more convenient. So we developed the powder which has actually some additional ingredients from the juice. And you take a scoop a day, you can mix it in your smoothie as I do. Water, cranberry, any kind of juice you want. And it's one scoop a day. The package lasts about 30 days. And most important, we're trying to get people healthier. If you try it and it doesn't help you, we'll just give you your money back, no questions asked. All you have to do is haul the number on the website and say, hey, it did not help me and I just refund the money. We don't do that a lot because it does help a lot of people. But if it's not helping you, you let us know.
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Amanda Head
That's amazing. And you know, when you're describing these ingredients, I mean, I think beet juice has been a remedy, as you said, for centuries and even millennia for a lot of folks in the hibiscus tea. But the great thing about this is that as you are rattling off these ingredients, these are things that we should be consuming anyway. It's not harmful chemicals, it's not medicine, it's not drugs, it's not something that was created in a lab. It was something that was created in the earth or on the earth by our creator. It's amazing.
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Ira Antelis
That's exactly right. When I had reading about, when I read about these ingredients, I kept thinking, wow, I'll just go buy them. I thought somebody had had my idea that they all sort of looked similar, they taste similar. If they all lowered your blood pressure a little bit together, they lowered a lot. And I was, I used the word astonished that there was nothing on the market like this for people with high blood pressure. It was always, it was only about medication. I'm like, well, we have the studies that show this. All of these things individually lower your blood pressure. The thought was together, would they lower it more? And they do. They do.
- [50:21]
Brian Ganz
Yeah.
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Amanda Head
Yeah. I mean, we have become so pathologically medicated as a society. I think that a lot of folks, especially, you know, as people supported, you know, President Trump in the last election, people who might not have been focused on health, they were falling in line with the Make America Healthy Again movement. And a lot of the tenets of that movement are, you know, going the natural route instead of just always going to the pill cabinet.
- [50:45]
Ira Antelis
That's exactly right. I think there has been a movement with the Baja movement now saying, look, there are. We grew up. I grew up. I'm a lot older than you on, you know, the world of fast food and junk food and no right. There are many, many better options. And if you take, especially as we get older, if you take care, better care of yourself, your, your life is just going to be healthier and better.
- [51:11]
Amanda Head
That's right. You invest in it and, and you put quality things like this into it, it's going to pay off. Founder of 120 Life Iran Telles. Thanks so much for joining us today and to our audience for. Thank you. Same to you. For a limited time, everybody, you, you can try 120 Life and get 20% off. So just use the code JTN at checkout. That's at 120Life.com. 120 Life offers a risk free trial with a full refund if you don't see lower numbers in two weeks. That is so fast in two weeks. So go to 120life.com and use the code jtn to save 20%. We'll be right back on the other side.
- [51:49]
John Solomon
Hey folks, as we head into the holidays, big meals, travel stress and family chaos, chances are someone at your table is dealing with high blood pressure even if they swear that holiday calories don't count. Half of all adults, literally one in two, have high blood pressure. It's the number one risk factor for mortality. And guess what? Giving someone better health is one of the most meaningful gifts you can offer. 120 Life is a once a day, great tasting, functional drink made with ingredients that help support healthy blood pressure. 120 Life is a blend of superfruit juices that is refreshing, not chalky. It's easy to make part of your morning routine, even during the craziness of the holidays. If your blood pressure doesn't improve in two weeks, you get your money back. No risk, no hassle, no fine print. For a limited time, try 120Life and get 20% off. Just use the code JTN at checkout at 120Life.com. 120Life offers a risk free trial with a full refund if you don't see lower numbers in two weeks. So go to 120-LIFE and use my promo code jtn to save 20%.
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- [53:24]
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- [55:18]
Amanda Head
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- [55:59]
John Solomon
Welcome back everybody. Just one more block before we begin our Christmas Eve festivities. If you've been looking for some entertainment for your kids that instills the right values, this next interview may give you just that. We spoke to Chad Stewart, the author of the Britfield series about books and how to get the right themes into our entertainment. Take a watch.
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Amanda Head
Joining us now, he is the author of the Britfield book series, Chad Stewart. Chad, thanks so much for being with us.
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Chad Stewart
It's great to be on.
- [56:26]
Amanda Head
All right, tell us about the universe of Britfield. What happens there? Tell us about the characters.
- [56:31]
Chad Stewart
Yeah, yeah, fun. We officially launched it about, about 12 years ago actually. I'm sorry. It started as an idea 12 years ago originally for Newport Beach, California, back east Wellesley, Massachusetts for 16 years. Did my undergraduate in British literature, European history and then postgraduate graduate work. Went on as an investment banker. And I was dying to do something fun and creative. And so this started as a vision about 12 years ago. Sat down one day and literally took me four years, 2,500 hours to write the first book, Britfield and the Lost Crown. And really what I was trying to do is I wanted to bring back classic literature, if you will, the venue of Dickens, C.S. lewis. Just fun, clean, family focused literary books. And so officially we launched book one in August 2019 and I actually started a national school tour because I really wanted to get out into the world. You know, we do all our research, but I wanted to be boots on the ground and end up driving about 9,000 miles. I went to over 200 schools presented in front of more than 50,000 students 4th through 8th graders and just talked a little bit about Britfield and about creativity and storytelling and it was a phenomenal launch of the series. And since then it's become one of the most awarded books in children's fiction. And so we're really excited about it. And so it's a seven book series. We launched book two in 2021, Britfield and the Rise of the Lion. Book three, Britfield and the Return of the Prince in October of 2022. We just launched this year, Britfield. You can see the poster behind me and the Eastern Empire. I'm now writing book five, was working on that actually before I came on for the interview. And that takes place in Asia. And then book six will be South America, book seven will be the United States. And so really what it is, it's a seven book series, travels the world, starts in present day. Book one's in England, book two's in France, book three is in Italy, book four is Eastern Europe, book five is Asia, book six is South America. And the book seven will come back to the United States and actually end up back in England where it started. And so it's a fast paced, high octane, fun, exciting series but it has a lot more to it. It's really based on family, friendship, loyalty, courage and hope. Hope and as we like to call it, stealth education. As children are reading it, as adults are reading it, they're actually learning about geography, art, architecture, history and culture. Then we hit the four Cs. Creativity, critical thinking, communication, collaboration. And so we're in pre production of the first of seven major motion live action movies. And if all goes well, we'll be filming in England next year, hopefully in fall. And so that's been a long road. We can talk about that along with other things. But that's kind of a quick overview.
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John Solomon
You amazing. What an amazing thing. There is a dearth of I think literature today that really celebrates the common sense, western values that made freedom great, made the western world great. This seems, seems to be a nice return to it, to the classics, to common sense, to family fun. Why is it that so many authors don't lean into something that's actually quite incredibly popular?
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Chad Stewart
Popular, yeah, and that's a great question. I think it's a false narrative number number one. You know, you're dealing with, you know, six companies own about 90% of the publishing houses, film and media, things like that. You guys are familiar with that. And so they, they tend to sort of push an agenda or control the narrative and, and really it is It's a, it's a, it's a false narrative. It's, it's like as if witchcraft or this or that. It's like to me it's the hardest type of writing is to write in the here and now because I can't, I write myself into, I can't just wave a wand to get myself out of problems if that makes sense or I can't just create a fictional world. I mean these books are really based in current time and as authentic as they can be. And so again too I think a lot of it's bought and paid for. It's to push the Jen. And number two, I just think authors kind of even on the, on the conservative or faith based side, it's like it's got to be. They always have to bring the magic into it and quite frankly I think that's unnecessary. What it does is it does three things. Number one, there's an 85 to 90% gap for family focused content. This is globally. I mean people are dying for this kind of content. I get daily emails and letters from parents, teachers, thank you for writing these books. Thank you. That I have a wonderful series that I can recommend or buy for my children or grandchildren. I've got so many parents that are actually reading it with their kids and I love that. But the fiction that's out there today does three things. It disconnects kids from reality, which I think is a very dangerous thing. Number two, it makes them feel less than they are. Right. If I just had superpowers, if I was just magic, if I just was a vampire, if I can was just a demigod. And really what it is, it's very subtle and sublime and even stealth like but it disconnects kids from reality, makes them feel less than they are. Number three, it just introduces a lot of false history, false narratives and frankly nefarious agenda and, and that's what's on the market, that's what's flooding the market. And so I think Britfield is a breath of fresh air. We're trying to raise the bar in literature to the next level and set a new standard in literature and that will roll into films. We actually anticipate the first Britfield Lost Crown movie will be one of the highest grossing films in cinematic history. We've been working on this for over three years and we have our global launch of Britfield next year starting in January. So it kind of sounds funny because we've talked before I believe and you know, we've been at it for a While so many have heard of it, but it really has been a soft release up until next year. Building the brand, building the series. Now launching book four. And just like anything of high quality and value, it just takes time.
- [62:02]
Amanda Head
Chad, I love what you said about stealth education and you're not just tackling classical issues, you're hitting on things that are important for young kids to be learning right now. About the dangers of AI quantum computers and encryption, AI manipulation of the stock market, the push for a one world digital currency. This is incredible. How do you work that into a storyline?
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Chad Stewart
That's a great question. And it was, it was never intended that way. You know, as a British literature European history major, I lived in England off and on for two years, have basically traveled half the world and all these places where the books go to, I've been there and visited. And it doesn't necessarily mean that you have to do that. I just think it brings out that authenticity of it. But so you have that sort of side of it writing great literature. And it's always based on the three act structure. I was actually classically trained in script writing which I transitioned into books which if we have a second we can talk about it. But I think what it does is it teaches you economy of words. You stay on the action, you start on the action, you end on the action, you move the dialogue, you move the story. That's why you have 1214 year olds that have read, read 400 pages in five, six hours or in one sitting. And it's not because it's simple words, it's very complex structure. We use great vocabulary, it's just how it's written and we stick to just, just the facts, if you will. So yeah, and then, and so you have that one side and then you have the other side that for 12 years I've been kind of, if you will, relearning history probably like yourself and pulling the curtain, looking behind the scenes and really finding out what, what real history is, what really happened. And so I sort of had that as a sideline and then yet this whole Britfield story that evolves and again Britfield and lost crown. So it's a sense of royalty or lost royalty. And it's about this orphan Tom, 12 years old, up at Weatherly orphanage in Yorkshire, current day, seven days before Christmas, by the way. And so the book takes place over seven days and ends on Christmas. So it's very poetic in that sense too and it'll make a great Christmas movie. And that was done by design. But he's been an orphan his whole life. He's trying to escape this horrible place called Weatherly Orphanage with his best friend Sarah. And right before he escapes, he learns that his parents might be alive and he's given one clue. Britfield. And so I add that into it to say that a lot of this stuff lended itself to the book because I'm covering real history, real places, you know, what's behind the scenes, you know, who are the puppet masters, what's, you know, what causes these types of things. And we do it very, very gently, if you will. It's very nicely layered. But like you said, I mean we talk about, about hidden group that dictates world events, fake wars and fiat money system, compromised governments and agencies, super soldiers, DNN splicing, social credit scoring. I mean literally, it's, it's and it's and I don't force it, right? It just, it fits and, and it was not my intention when I was starting book one. That's just, I have all this information, it's taking place in current time. It's good versus evil and it just works.
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Amanda Head
So yeah, I know it sounds, it sounds edifying in ways that not many books for kids and teenagers are. So congratulations to you, Britfield author Chad Stewart. Thanks so much for being with us tonight and sharing with us about the series. Can't wait for the rest of them to come out.
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Chad Stewart
Oh, thank you. It was a privilege to be on Godspeed.
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John Solomon
All right, everybody, that's all the time we have for you on this Christmas Eve. I want to wish everybody a merry Christmas, especially to my amazing co, Amanda Head, who makes this show so special to all your families, to all your friends. We'll be back tomorrow. Until then, God bless you and have a blessed Christmas Eve.
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