When I decide to make granola, my second question is: What do I feel like eating for a month or so? (The first question is: Do I have enough oats?)

Over the decades, I’ve used a number of grains, always in combination with regular rolled oats – never quick oats because I don’t like their faintly bitter flavor – and now simply use gluten-free organic oats.

The composition is never the same twice. You’ll surely want to adjust to your preferences.

Caution: This is a hearty mixture. I take it backpacking.

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Today we talk about winter, Tactical’s thumb, sheep infrastructure, managing woon on the homestead and more.

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Update on Tactical’s Thumb

Morning meeting – Morning routine got disrupted, now what

Forage

  • Dandelion greens
  • Watercress

Livestock

  • Adjusted where sheep are being moved because of weather
  • New Sheep water
  • New routine for ducks delayed til after the freeze
  • Roosters need to go – causing problems
  • Bobcat Gun and other measures we are taking

Homestead meals

  • Rabbit in the roemertopf (Based on how it was processed), the creamcheese hack
  • Best salad ever from outside

Grow

  • No kill list – freeze preparations
  • Radish and arugula harvest  
  • Covering the AP before the freeze (Swiss chard)

Holler Neighbors/Community

  • Thanks to the eversoled for leaf mulch

Infrastructure

  • Rushing to do all the freeze stuff like the pump house
  • Basecamp drain project – still need soil
  • Wood, woodstove, and the deep freeze (The new chimney)
  • New Rabbit hutch pine tar work is done

Finances

  • Matthew’s Segment
  • Flubbed up the one card for all Farm stuff gam

Make it a great week!

GUYS! Don’t forget about the cookbook, Cook With What You Have by Nicole Sauce and Mama Sauce. It makes a great Christmas Gift!

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Anthony Parker, realtor, homesteader and land owner moved to Tennessee with his family in 2017 for a better life for his family with the dream of living off the land. After going through our own land and home buying experience and realizing that most real-estate agents don’t know or understand land purchasing he decided he wanted to help others in the same process of buying land and beginning the journey to becoming more self-sufficient. Anthony and his wife are passionate about the rural communities of Tennessee and preserving farm land. We want to help others achieve their dreams of establishing their farming/homesteading goals and then finding the right piece of land to begin this journey on.

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Today, we talk about the economic environment and its potential impact. As well as ideas for positioning yourself to be resilient if things get tough.

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Livestream Schedule: @LFTN on Youtube

  • Tuesday, 12:30PM, Tuesday Live with John Willis and Bear Independent
  • Wednesday, 2pm: Interview Show With Anthony Parker, Real Estate
  • Friday, 9:30AM: Homestead Happenings with The Tactical Redneck

Tales from the Prepper Pantry

  • Menu from the pantry challenge
    • Roasted chicken over onions and potatoes
    • Two Roemertopf Roast Beefs over carrots, cauliflower, mushrooms
    • Fresh saute: Zucchini, peppers, onions, garlic
    • 1 crockpot roast beef with morels
    • Lamb bone stew left over from LFTN 23
    • Taco Salad with the rest of the lettuce (There is 1 salad left here and no more cheddar)
    • Chicken Alfredo with milk not cream over heart of palm noodles and sauted veggies
  • Holes I have noticed so far: Cheese, heavy cream, fresh veg
  • What I would do to fill those holes

Weekly Shopping Report for Jan 2

Dollar Tree was first. The food coolers are still mostly full, but the drink coolers are now around half full, mostly with “standard” fare from Coca-Cola or Pepsi, which I won’t touch. The sad cooler with the compressor that can’t get going has been left empty. Other stock in the store is in good shape; whatever minor thing we’ve come in here to get, week after week, has typically been here. Ours is out of nasal decongestant though, although they have some allergy products and multi-symptom cold medicines; many of the latter contain acetaminophen, a liver toxin, so are never on our list.

Home Depot was next. There is still no tag on the rack of 2x4x8 studs, but a check online shows it is still $3.25. The cordless tool area in the front that is rather prominently featured just before Christmas has been almost entirely cleared out, and there is a lot of empty space there now; I’ll keep an eye on this on future trips.

Aldi was last. Stock levels are good. Produce isn’t mounded up, but there are no empty spaces. They’ve had plenty of canned cat food lately. We found everything we wanted. Staple prices were: eggs: $1.65; whole milk: $2.98; heavy cream: $4.69; OJ: $3.29; butter: $3.69; bacon: $4.25; potatoes: $3.99; sugar: $3.09; flour: $1.99; 80% lean ground beef: $4.49 (+).

Despite the growing escalation of the Islam vs. Civilization conflict in the Middle East, untainted regular gasoline remains at $3.699/gallon.

I went out again later to Food City for dry cat food and another case of seafood Friskies cans, and there was plenty of pet food in stock there.

Operation Independence

Holler Roast Finances 2022 versus 2023

Main topic of the Show: If Things Turn South in 2024

Why would I do a show like this? Because it looks like the 70s on crack out there!

What is impacting the economy and culture

  1. High Inflation (look up inflation for the past two years and come up with a cumulative number of 11% conservatively and 21% by some estimates) – has your income also grown by 11- 21% 
  2. Real Estate, In migration, Out migration, and interest rates 
  3. Current rate
  4. Selling now and buying the same cost home costs more
  5. Where people are going and impacts on those markets
  6. Housing scarcity
  7. Long term population expectations
  8. Boomers moving out of the workforce, into retirement facilities
  9. Move toward subscription society AKA renting your house not owning it
  10. War in Ukraine, War in Israel, War war war
  11. Election Year
  12. Technological advancement, AI, unprepared workforce, unrealistic expectations
  13. Number of government employees versus private sector employees – 17% and rising – by one single measure
  14. Medical industrial complex
  15. Obesity, diabetes, overall physical and mental health of the population – weakening citizens
  16. Aging and undermaintained infrastructure and infrastructure spending that doest address them problem

I could go on and on, but without worrying about any conspiracy, there are many things in play that can, and probably will, have a negative impact on our economy at a rather large scale. Any one of these things is painful, yet navigable, but all of them together paint a picture that has been causing either panic or denial among our community and beyond

So why haven’t we talked much about it? (Making decisions from a place of fear is a bad idea)

What could the negative look like? (Setting aside an alien or nuclear or pathogenic attack, because, really, how do you even wrap your mind around being ready for such things, we are mimicking Japan in the 80s, and can learn from that as well as the rebasing of our monetary system and high inflationary period in the 70s and 80s).

  • Costs of things outpace income increases (This is already happening) (PANTRY CHALLENGE, FINANCE AUDIT)
  • Jobs could become scarce (Currently, we are in a bizarre world where it is hard to find employees that are good AND hard to find a job that is good. Let’s talk about why.) Consequences of unemployment, return to a gig environment without any decent way to navigate it from a regulatory standpoint. In other words, the current environment of overregulation and overtaxation of every little thing does not play well with non-w-2 employees, but people are finding they must engage with the gig economy as a non w-2 employee to survive in a growing number of cases (GROW YOUR INCOME STABILITY).
  • Gaining stability through home ownership or land ownership is increasingly difficult, though not impossible. Keeping hold of property in a world where it is taxed based on current market value will also be increasingly difficult. (THE WINDOW)
  • Tangible assets and their value versus holding cash (RIGHT NOW YOU CANNOT SELL MANY TANGIBLE THINGS – THIS MAY CHANGE)
  • Technological advancements leading to job loss, getting left behind (LEARN THE THINGS YOU ARE SCARED OF, INCLUDING AI)
  • Necessary monetary rebasement – we’ve seen it before, it is a favorite tool of leaders, we expect to see it again. (IT IS AN ELECTION YEAR – MAY STAVE THIS OFF A BIT, OR EXPECTED PROSPERITY FROM TRANSITION MAY SPEED IT – ARE YOU READY? CRYPTO AND FROZEN ACCOUNTS STORY)
  • Election year and division, violence, hijinks (SITUATIONAL AWARENESS)
  • Health of our population, the medical industrial complex, and more (BE HEALTHY)
  • Underrmaintained infrastructure and failures – electrical grid, etc (DECENTRALIZE AS IT MAKES SENSE

All in all, it looks scary but we’ve gotten through worse and will again. Building the life you choose with an eye toward community, diversification and LONG TERM success is so important.

Stockpiling will only get you so far, skills, health, resilience and underground networks are the strength in struggle.This is why we do SRF, LFTN and all the other events and meetups that seem so prevalent. This is why I am going to Lenoir City on a day when I could just use a stay at home break.

It is always good to “know a guy, or be the guy that people know by knowing a thing”

So what are you building this year? What will you learn? Who will you get to know?

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Welcome to Living Free in Tennessee, where we talk about building the life you choose on your terms.

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Today is Monday, January 8th, 2024.

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And this is episode, what episode is it?

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845 of Living Free in Tennessee.

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And I think I am going to double check today.

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Yep.

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I just wanted to make sure the audio, we’re going to get an echo.

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I’m actually hearing an echo in here.

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So let me know if you hear a little bit of

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like echo on your end guys in the live stream i’m curious about that because i actually totally emptied out my studio room so now it’s all hard surfaces so i kind of suspect we have some sound bounce going on today but we’ll we’ll be uh oh good sound clear that’s good uh i may put some sound dampeners up i’ve been meaning to work on this studio for a long time so that being said what do you think of my black wall i have a black wall now

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and I painted that.

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I was supposed to get that done.

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Yeah, A-Rip here says a little bit of an echo.

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Sorry about that.

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We’ll have some sound dampeners in here eventually.

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I’m actually still painting walls on this thing, but I got my black wall painted this weekend.

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I was supposed to do it on the first of the year,

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But instead, I ended up going straight to the emergency room with the Tactico Redneck.

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And so it took two coats of paint, not a surprise.

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And it’s kind of fun to have this up and running and ready to go.

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I’ve got to get all sorts of other things going.

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We’re messing with lighting and all sorts of fun.

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So that’s just sort of a podcast innovation for the year.

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We’re going to talk about the economic environment today, which is not something I usually talk about on the podcast.

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and some of its potential impacts.

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And I’m bringing this up now because a lot of us are in a start the year outright sort of phase.

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So why not tap into that energy and use it to set yourself up for success, even if things do turn a little south.

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So the topic for today is

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What do we do if things turn south in 2024?

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Also ideas about positioning yourself to be more resilient through that.

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Because some change is coming.

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Change has been coming for a long time.

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Change has been happening.

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And we have a lot of interesting indicators going on right now.

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This is not intended to freak you the heck out, but if you’re freaked out and you come here, it might freak you out a little bit as we’re talking about stuff that’s happening in the economy, in the world economy, in the US economy, in our culture, with what’s going on in trends that I’m seeing.

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This is my hot take on it.

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And…

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I recommend if you’re a little worried about this and you are a podcast consumer, listen to the Survival Podcast.

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Go check out the Lots Project.

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Go listen to Two Chicks Homestead.

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Go listen to the Unloose the Goose After Party.

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John Willis is another good one.

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Listen to people who take a realistic take on things.

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how to weather things that go wrong.

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Because if you do that, it actually helps reduce the fear.

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And then you start making better decisions for yourself long-term.

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That being said, I think some bad stuff is in the works right now.

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And I think that we…

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I think it’s an impossible dream to think things always get better all the time.

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And it’s going through the harder times that make the better times so good.

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But the hard times don’t have to be dreary and awful and horrible.

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It’s how you…

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pivot when that happens.

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That makes a big difference.

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So we’re going to talk about that today.

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Of course, we have all of our usual homestead segments that we usually have.

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I have somebody in the comments saying 2024, you’re going south.

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The same thing we should have been doing, growing our own food, networking with my kind of people.

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Exactly.

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So, um,

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Okay, so let’s jump into the featured event of today’s show, and that is the Living Free in Tennessee Spring Workshop.

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We are selling tickets on January 20th for a three-day on-homestead workshop here at my homestead.

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I open up the homestead to y’all.

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We feed you food that we’ve grown here or sourced in the network.

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We do end up buying some commercial food, but most of the main ingredients of what we serve here is

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is basically practicing what we preach and cooking the beef that we source and using, you know, the mushrooms that we’ve gotten to, you know, thicken the gravy and all sorts of different things like that.

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And if we cannot grow it here, then we do our best to source at least some of it from offsite.

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I will do my best to get heavy cream from somewhere for the, this for the coffee this year.

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It’s the challenge I have is the local farm that I know that provides the milk doesn’t provide the heavy cream.

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But I know somebody else who makes really great heavy cream.

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So we might be able to tap into that source.

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But it’s been really fun watching that side of the workshop grow.

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This year, our theme is back to the basics.

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I’ve got Patrick Rorman coming out.

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to show us how to use a forge and how to make things with a forge and i believe if everything goes the way we plan he’s also going to let you do some of your own projects with a forge i’ve got carrie brown doing a wild edible walk we’ve got tool man tim john pugliano sean mills and i’ve got porterhouse coming all the way from california to talk about developing water sources on your land when you maybe don’t have one like you don’t have a ready spring he

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in a very rather arid environment,

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found a place on his property to develop into a spring that he thought might yield a spring.

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And he’ll talk about how he did that.

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He’s also going to share how he grew his YouTube channel, which I think is something a lot of y’all are really interested in.

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But this year we’re doing something a little different.

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It’s this.

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So tickets are $500, includes your camping, includes the food, includes all the sessions.

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I kept the price at 500 this year.

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I just made a commitment to do it.

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because with inflation, I was expecting the price to go up and I was like, we’re just gonna figure this out.

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And one of the ways,

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is that I’m gonna invite y’all to present at my workshop.

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I have four slots open right now for the spring workshop for presentation.

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So if you’re thinking, I really wanna go to the spring workshop and I have this sort of back to the basics thing that would work, it could be technology, it could be business, it could be homesteading, it could be lost skills like forging or anything of that nature.

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Tanning hides.

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If you’re like, you know, I really want to go there.

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I’ll give you a hundred dollars off your ticket.

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If you send me your idea and I ask you to speak, the way you do that is send an email to Nicole at living free in Tennessee.com.

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That’s N I C O L E at living free in Tennessee.com.

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Or go to livingfreeintennessee.com and then click on contact and fill out that form.

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And those emails come to me.

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I need your submission by the end of the day Sunday, like midnight Sunday, this coming Sunday, the 14th of the month.

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Because…

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Then you’ll know you’re coming to the workshop.

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And then we can set the foundation for ticket launch on January 20th, which is when tickets launch at 9 a.m.

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If you want more information on the Spring Workshop, go to livingfreeintennessee.com forward slash spring-workshop-24.

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I have not linked it to the workshop button.

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If you’re listening to this on the live stream, by the time that you…

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See here the podcast, though, you can just go livingfreeintennessee.com.

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Look under events.

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It’s right there.

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It has the information and the link is also in the show notes.

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OK, I also want to thank our two sponsors of today’s show.

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The first sponsor is Agris Tax Advice.

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Matthew Surse from AgrisTaxAdvice.com.

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of my show since I launched sponsorships.

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He’s also been a great supporter in the network and he has a really cool download of different tax write-offs that you can take for free in exchange for your email.

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And then he sends a weekly email that I find really useful.

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I read it every week.

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I look forward to it every week.

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Check more out at agorastaxadvice.com forward slash LFTN to get that free download and sign up for his email list.

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He also sent me some audio to play for y’all this week, which I will do, but not today, about some changes in tax code that if you run a business, you need to know about them.

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Really important.

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And I’m looking forward to running that segment as well.

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The reason I’m not running it today is I did not figure out technologically how to do that.

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So I will figure it out even if we’re doing tax day on Friday.

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That’s fine.

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Our second sponsor of today’s show is Holler Roast Coffee.

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Why not get freshly brewed coffee delivered straight to your door and start your day in luxury by supporting a craft roaster who you already listen to?

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That’s me.

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That’s right.

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Holler Roast Coffee is my coffee business that I started.

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I started roasting in 2010 or 2009, and I sold at the farmer’s market first.

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But I got really serious about this business in about 2017.

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And since then, we’ve grown and grown and grown.

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And it’s been a really great experience getting to know different people’s coffee preferences, answering questions over the years about coffee, and just having an awesome product that I know makes people smile when they have a cup of coffee.

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In fact, when I wake up in the morning, first thing I’m thinking is, oh, goody, I get to have coffee.

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Because at this point, I don’t get to have coffee in the day.

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It’s too late.

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Anyway.

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You can find out more at hollerose.com.

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Lastly, if you want to know what’s going on in the network, in the LFTN network, I do send a weekly email out on Monday called the Monday Mail.

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And it just talks about what’s going on here.

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It gives you the show schedule for the week, highlights the last week’s shows.

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And then we have area of network news where we talk about things we hear about going on in the network, highlighting other people.

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our events, like just sort of a calendar of these, like next couple of weeks, this is what’s going on.

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And it’s, it’s a, I, a lot of people have told me they found it useful.

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I share a recipe of the week in that.

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And we sometimes have a homestead tip.

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So that’s over at living free in tennessee.com.

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If you want to sign up for that.

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And I have a question in from the live stream already that I’m just going to handle right now.

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It’s from Survivalizer.

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If you’re taking questions, how would you market coffee shop in the metro area like greater Phoenix, Arizona area?

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Well, that’s a great question.

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Hopefully you have a coffee shop that you’re marketing.

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What I would do is get people really interested in making that a destination and then spread the word in any way possible on local community groups, on Facebook, on Nextdoor, that sort of thing.

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I would do some targeted advertising

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Facebook and YouTube in general, you have pretty good targeting.

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So I’d get some videos out and do some targeted advertising based on people who are nearby.

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And I think something that works really well for local venues is to have sort of a regular schedule of things you can come do.

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So a coffee shop lends itself to music, right?

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Or trivia or that sort of thing.

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So you can have some

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book readings, poetry readings, something like that might be really fun.

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But at the same time, just highlighting that the coffee shop exists, that the coffee is good and putting pictures up of those things on a regular schedule.

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I think that starts building the buzz.

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And if you can get people interacting with you, that makes it even better.

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That’s why Holler Roast does our mug shots, right?

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We’re not a coffee shop.

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We’re a

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somebody sends in that they took a picture of and we highlight it on our social feeds and sometimes it’s me and other times people answer with mugs and then we take their mug and we highlight that and it’s sort of turned into a game and that keeps the brand fresh in people’s minds.

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The key is how can you get people to know the coffee shops out there?

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Another cool idea, reach out to real estate agents and say, hey, do you want to sponsor coffee for people?

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They come in, they get a free coffee drink up to $2 for the hour of 10 to 11 a.m.

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And we’ll say this is paid for by name of real estate agent or name of company.

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And it raises awareness of the company, but it also brings people to your shop for that free cup of coffee.

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That’s something that happens here at the coffee shop that they do that I think works really well.

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They just work with different local realtors to sponsor coffee.

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And then at the same time, people see that they have the coffee shop, they come in, they try the product, they have an idea of what pricing is right.

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Those are ideas that just come out off the top of my head.

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Hopefully that helps your friends start their coffee shop.

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Okay.

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Livestream scheduled this week.

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Tomorrow, 1230, I’ll be live with John Willis and Bear Independent.

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Wednesday, 2 p.m., I have a really cool interview show with Anthony Parker about how to identify the right homestead property.

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And then I’ve got Homestead Happenings at 930.

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With that, it’s time for our first segment of today’s show.

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And that is Tales from the Prepper Pantry.

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This is where we talk about storing what you use and using what you store.

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And if you listen to the Homestead Happenings podcast on Friday, you know that I’m doing a pantry challenge in January, which means I’m not allowed to buy things at the store.

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And I’m going to confess that I made a mistake this weekend and my neighbors were at Short Mountain Cultures and I was like, oh yeah, grab me some kefir water.

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And I realized that I’m not allowed to buy stuff.

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And just habitually when somebody’s there, because it’s a couple hour drive from here or an hour drive from here,

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I’m like, yeah, buy me a case of kefir water because that’s what I do on the regular.

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And it didn’t even occur to me I’m not supposed to buy anything.

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So I am not drinking my kefir water that I bought.

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What I am drinking is the total number of kefir waters that I had at the beginning of the month.

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And I’m actually letting myself mix and match flavors if I want to.

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But I had 12 kefir waters on January 1st, which is just a, it’s like a fermented beverage.

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And it’s something, I mean, I don’t drink a whole one at a time, but it’s something I like to have.

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uh, instead of like a cocktail because alcohol free and it’s delicious and not super high in sugar.

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And so the, I kind of keep some ferments around from time to time is short mountain cultures makes great ones.

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So, uh, I decided to separate mine from tacticals because usually we just have like, everybody just takes whatever kefir water they want.

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I’m like, well, tactical, since you’re not doing the pantry challenge and I am, uh,

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We need to segment the kefir waters.

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I know how many I have total for the month, and that is what I’m doing.

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Kefir water just tastes like a not very sweet, but kind of…

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a little bit sweet fermented fruit beverage.

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So it’s kind of, it’s like a less strong tasting kombucha drink.

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And it’s got a little bit of fizziness to it.

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It’s great over like, I just use my big whiskey rocks and I’ll pour in a six ounce glass.

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I’ll pour some over it and just drink that at night instead of a cocktail.

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If I feel like I need to celebrate the day with a mocktail, it’s one of them, you know, it’s a good mocktail sort of thing for me.

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So yeah,

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So that happened.

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I thought during this month for the Prepper Pantry.

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give you the update on how it’s going with the Pantry Challenge.

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And I took it a different, like I’m doing it a little differently than Dawn.

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She was like, okay, stock up guys so that you can do January.

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I decided I’m going to do January without stocking up and see how far we get because that does help identify weaknesses in the pantry.

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And of course the first week is the easiest week of the Pantry Challenge.

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So this is what I’m going to tell you what we ate last week as part of the Tales from the Prepper Pantry Challenge.

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uh, uh, January challenge.

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And the first thing is, uh, the goodness started laying eggs again.

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So I had taken out of the freezer, a two-year-old bag of frozen scrambled eggs that I prepared and had never used.

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And I, it defrosted in the fridge and I was like, well, at least we’ll have eggs and I’ll just cook one big egg.

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So I did like ham chunks, eggs, basil,

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and Parmesan cheese.

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And you’ll understand why Parmesan cheese when we get to my weaknesses area and just made a giant skillet of that that lasted for three breakfasts.

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But we started getting eggs.

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So I also started being able to cook fried eggs again, just like fresh fried eggs, which is awesome.

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It also means I’ll probably be able to do some deviled eggs next week.

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And the reason we have to wait till next week, by the way, is that

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When I discovered they were laying eggs again, they had been laying eggs for a while and I didn’t quite know where, how old the eggs were.

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So I’m cracking them one at a time.

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So now it’s like I have the ones I found all at once and now I’m getting like four eggs a day from our four hens.

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Also, the ducks have started laying eggs again and they are in duck jail.

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So hopefully we’ll get duck eggs again, too.

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And then we’re going to be like just covered up in eggs because I’ve got, I think, 40 or so ducks.

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I’m not sure.

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Somewhere between 20 and 40 ducks, some of which are female and most of which are female and some of which are male.

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So in addition to that, I’ve just been starting my day in the freezer.

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to decide what the next day’s meal will be, or pulling out several days at a time.

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We had roasted chicken over onions and potatoes that I did in the Roamer Top, which we talked about last week what the Roamer Top was.

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I did two Roamer Top roast beefs.

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And the reason I did them that way is I could cook them

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And three to four hours in that and have them just like pot roasted out really well, fall apart and still moist and delicious.

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So the pot roast beef was carrots, cauliflower and mushrooms.

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I am now out of fresh mushrooms.

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I have dried mushrooms, but I did have a few fresh mushrooms in the fridge before I started this, as well as a head of cauliflower.

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And I still have carrots in there.

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I did some fresh saute.

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So zucchini, pepper.

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garlic.

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I have garlic until the end of time.

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And then I had bought zucchini peppers at the store on the 30th.

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I think it was whatever day I went by.

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I think whatever day I flew home from California, we stopped at Aldi and I got some of those.

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So those were in the fridge.

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I also had broccoli in there for fresh satays.

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And my strategy here is we’re using that up first because it will go bad if we don’t use it.

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Right.

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I did a crock pot roast, which takes eight hours at my house.

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with uh morels so we have three roasts by the way that’s right but you haven’t seen the redneck eat like he he eats like one big roast for a family of four it’s like a serving for me and three servings for him that’s kind of how that goes

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And if there’s anything left at the end of the week, I just take all the tail ends and put them into the crock pot and make holler stew, which we did one time.

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I also did a lamb.

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What I’m referring to is the lamb bone stew from LFTN 23.

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Apparently.

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So we did lamb stew for the workshop food last year.

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And one of the things they used to make the bone broth was the ribs with the meat on it.

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And then they put them all into like they didn’t pick the meat off the ribs for the stew.

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They just made the bone broth that way.

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And then they use bigger cuts of lamb for the lamb stew.

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And I now know why.

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So then they just labeled it in my freezer that it was a lamb stew kit.

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And I assumed that meant it was just lamb and lamb broth.

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And I would add.

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So anyway, I took that out not knowing exactly what had happened because other people work in my kitchen during the spring workshop.

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I’m sure that Leo’s told me verbally what was going on.

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I don’t remember.

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So, so I made this, what I refer to as lamb bones too, because there were a lot of little rib bones in there.

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So, and I just didn’t know, threw it in the crock pot with some spices.

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And when I was stirring it, I heard clinking and I pulled out a bunch of ribs, but there were a lot of little tiny bones too.

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So we had to be really careful eating this so as not to choke.

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And this was just me trying to use up leftovers from my freezer.

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And to that, I added like a whole leg of lamb for big chunks of beef of meat.

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And then I have potatoes I grew in the garden last year.

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Yeah, I know potatoes aren’t keto.

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I didn’t put that many in and some green beans.

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And so that it was, it was okay, but the bones were annoying and

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We have one more serving of that left, but I’ve been trying to eat through that a little bit every day because it’s annoying to eat.

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And if I see another one of those lamb bone kits, I’m going to know what it is next time.

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And I might change my mind about how I cook with that.

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But I think that was it.

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So we also did taco salad and that was the day I flew home.

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So this was a little bit before the first, but the day I flew home, I think, yeah, the day I flew home from California, I really wanted to eat a homemade meal.

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And so I made taco meat.

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And then last week at the beginning of the week,

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I hadn’t pulled stuff out of the freezer for the week, so nothing was defrosted.

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So I took out I made more taco meat, basically, which I just mix like the ground beef with spices like garlic, pepper, cumin, maybe basil, maybe not.

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onion, and if I want a tomato-y flavor, I take like a half jar of my homemade salsa and throw it in there and simmer it down.

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So we turn that into taco salad.

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Of course, I don’t eat tortilla chips, so it’s just taco salad without the tortilla chips.

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I had some guacamole in the freezer in the little individual cups.

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That’s also left over from the spring workshop last year because they were supposed to be served with taco day and they forgot to serve them.

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And then at the end of the workshop, it turned out I had 60 individual size servings of guacamole.

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So I take out a couple at a time out of the freezer.

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And the key is if I’m going to do taco night, it’s really important to take those out at the beginning of the day.

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Otherwise, they’re not defrosted and then I still don’t use them.

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So yeah.

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That was a really good day.

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And I had, I had about three heads of lettuce around in my, you know, like kicking around in my fridge.

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So I still have one salad’s worth of lettuce left.

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That’s still good enough to eat.

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I do need to make that tonight or it’ll go bad.

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And I’ve been sort of eking that out because I really love fresh lettuce salads, particularly in the winter.

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And I do end up buying my lettuce if I don’t have my grow operation up, which it is not up.

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And it’s not going to be up because we are just in the middle of like redoing everything.

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Like my studio wall, I painted the wall behind me.

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I now the paint, the wall to my left has one coat of paint on it.

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That’s white, a white color.

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And I’m going to do a second coat of paint and then I can start putting all of the office things back on that wall.

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And then I’ll do the third wall.

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And I know that sounds like a weird way to paint your room, but I can like cut in a wall and paint a wall in half an hour or so, which means at nighttime when I’m like, what else do I have time for?

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Then I’m like, well, I can do 30 minutes on that and get it done.

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Plus then I don’t have to have all my furniture in the middle of the room.

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It’s kind of like it’s floating around the side.

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And yes, it’s,

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Cumin.

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Can’t make tacos without cumin.

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And I have a lot of stored cumin.

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I have two more giant containers of cumin because I buy one every time a workshop is coming because it seems like we go through so much.

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And for me, it’s actually good to use that up because spices don’t store well long term.

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Right.

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You need to rotate your spices through, which means you have to have a refill strategy for that.

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OK, the last thing I did was last night.

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I was at the pool and swimming right now happens late in the day on Sunday because it’s swim season and the swim teams are during the day on Sunday.

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So I started at 3.30 and I swam my laps and got booted from the pool at 4.30, a little before 4.30 because there was a swim meet and then drove home.

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But it’s a 45 minute drive home, which means that I got home.

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I mean, you get booted at 4.30, you get out the door by 15 minutes after that.

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I got home by 5.45.

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That’s quarter to six.

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We usually eat at six.

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And on my way in, I was like, man, I didn’t pre-cook a dinner.

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So like what’s for dinner tonight?

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And I realized what I could do.

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I have leftover chicken from the roasted chicken.

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I have a lot of Parmesan cheese.

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I have so much Parmesan cheese.

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And then I had butter.

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So I decided to make an Alfredo sauce, but I’m keto, so we don’t eat pasta.

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But I happen to have heart of palm pasta.

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And I was like, oh, I’ll just pour it over heart of palm pasta.

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Chunks of chicken will hide the flavor of the chicken because Nicole’s sauce doesn’t really like chicken, so she had COVID.

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Except for the American breast chickens, by the way, totally different flavor.

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I like those.

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And then I also had some fresh vegetables to use up the zucchini and the peppers.

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And I did a saute with those.

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And I put that all into a thing.

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I made my Alfredo sauce with milk instead of heavy cream, which is not the same, just so you know, but that’s what I had.

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So I cooked with what I have, like the cookbook I have, you cook with what you have.

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And I knew going in that like the sauce wasn’t going to thicken up right.

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Cause I also, I’m not going to put any flour.

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And I mean, you’re not supposed to put flour in an Alfredo sauce in my opinion, but some people do to thicken it up.

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And anyway, it was a little weird.

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Like the cream, the cream does meld better with the butter and the garlic and all that.

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But I just put them all in one big cast iron skillet.

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It was a 15 inch cast iron skillet, served it up.

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And I was like, you know, you might want to eat this with a spoon because it’s a little watery.

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If you want the flavor of the sauce, it was delicious.

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It was totally delicious.

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Like I actually look forward to making that dish when I have heavy cream in abundance, because right now I have less than a quart of heavy cream.

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And the rest of the month to go.

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And I get, I’m allowed to have my farm subscription.

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So I get a half gallon of milk every week.

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And it has a little bit of cream on the top if I separate it.

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But other than that, that’s what I’ve got to work with.

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Plus my freeze dried milk.

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So I am like,

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At least I’m eking out the heavy cream because it’s ultra pasteurized.

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It’ll last until about the 24th.

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It’ll be gone by the 24th.

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Don’t you worry.

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Yeah, cornstarch, no way.

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But yes, cornstarch would also firm up that sauce if I’d wanted to, but…

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I’m staying off the grains this month too.

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So that was on the no list for me.

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That’s actually why I didn’t thicken it with flour.

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I don’t actually have cornstarch in the house right now.

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It turns out my cornstarch is missing.

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I’m actually going to unpack all the way before I confess that I have no cornstarch because there might be some somewhere in a box that’s packed up from the remodel.

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So that’s pretty much what we ate all week, which is not a terrible experience.

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It was healthier for us.

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I have lost two and a half pounds this week just by eating at home.

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And that’s not a bad outcome.

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So holes that I’ve noticed so far in my pantry are the usual holes.

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One is cheese.

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And this is because this fall I was so overcommitted to speaking engagements and travel and then deaths in the family and all of those things that happened that I did not make my usual bout of cheddar cheese.

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I usually order from the dairy extra gallons of milk and I make cheese a couple of times in the fall, right?

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Right.

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And that’s if anybody who knows Bradley, that’s it’s his dairy that I get it from.

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I’ll make cheddar cheese.

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I will make some goat cheeses, some goat cheddar cheese or a goat Parmesan cheese.

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And I get those already.

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And then I store them in the freezer if they’re done aging.

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Cheddar doesn’t I mean, cheddar is just better if it ages.

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Cheddar is better.

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But, you know, like the soft cheeses like mozzarella, I will store in the freezer and then pull it out, defrost it and use it.

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I don’t have that built up this time, and I certainly did not buy anything because this fall I was like, I’m not going to buy anything until the construction is done because it’s just more stuff right now in the way while we’re trying to get everything back together.

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Well, now we’re in the getting back together thing, so I could restock except for I can’t because it’s the pantry challenge.

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Heavy cream is always an issue for me because the local dairy I work with doesn’t, they’re just too busy to sell heavy cream.

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And then of course there’s a cycle with cows.

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Like this time of year is not the heavy cream time of year.

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When the grass starts coming up in the spring, then we get more heavy cream.

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And so it’s also seasonal.

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And I’ve always just sucked it up and put milk in my coffee for that instead of heavy cream.

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or I buy store heavy cream.

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I would like to get away this year from buying store heavy cream, but I really like heavy cream in my coffee.

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I don’t use that much, but over the week I use it.

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And so that’s an issue.

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I did discover you can buy shelf stable heavy cream, which is great for traveling.

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But at the same time, my whole goal is to source locally and to eat locally.

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And

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grow what we can, source from the network, that sort of thing.

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Freeze dried heavy cream, the fats go bad over time.

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So I’m actually going to try freeze drying some of the heavy cream and see if the consistency is good.

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But I freeze dry my milk and then I just reconstitute it with less water and it sort of behaves like heavy cream when I do that.

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So that’s been my workaround for that.

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And the other thing is that fresh vegetables are not a thing.

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Like I can go out and forage root vegetables right now.

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I’ve got radishes in the garden right now.

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And there are some greens starting to come up like watercress, which means we can do salads with those things.

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And,

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Stinging nettle is up, which means I can do a stinging nettle soup using up some of my milk.

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And stinging nettle soup is delicious.

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So that’s how I get fresh vegetables because at this time of year, without my lettuce grow operation going on inside, stuff’s not growing.

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I got Swiss chard in the aquaponics system.

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I actually need to water that today and then make sure it’s covered when it drops to 15 next week and hopefully it makes it through.

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So there are some winter greens coming on, but it’s not like the vegetable abundance with it we have all summer long.

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So that is just a weak spot in my pantry.

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That being said, I have plenty of canned goods and we have canned green beans coming out our ears because last year was a great year.

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a great year for green mans.

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Yeah.

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Storm roots resources says 2024 LF team foraging class is going to be better than ever.

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I know you’ve been finding new, new plants.

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I’ve been learning from you, Carrie, with your posts.

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So Carrie’s doing the wild foraging walks at living free in Tennessee’s 2024 workshop.

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So that’s going to be pretty darn cool.

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So those are the holes I’ve identified so far.

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I’ll let you know by the end of the month, what other holes are there?

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It’s interesting to see Don Gorham.

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ran out of hot sauce and I was like well do you have tomatoes do you have peppers do you have vinegar and she was like yes I was like that’s hot sauce so she made some hot sauce she’s like it’s not the same but it’s better than no hot sauce so I don’t use that much hot sauce so I you know it doesn’t it doesn’t like hurt my soul when I run out of hot sauce I just cook other things

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I think what I’ll do to fill the holes is really consider how much dairy, it’s like a big dairy hole.

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I need to think about that with the cheese making stuff because I love to make cheese.

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And the only way that’s going to happen is if I make time to make cheese, which means saying no to false speaking engagements.

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So there you go.

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I’m going to have to figure out the method for the madness.

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And then, I mean, I’ve already got the dairy source, so why not?

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And I guess the only other thing I wonder is who else is doing a pantry challenge in January.

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Are you doing it?

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Let me know how it’s going.

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Cause I’m curious how people are, are, you know, what you’re coming up with as you do this.

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I know when we did the pantry challenge a few years ago here, um,

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Clydesdale Homestead, she was like, we ran out of car nuts.

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I was so sad.

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And I’m like, what in the world are car nuts?

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She’s like, it’s the thing of nuts I keep in the car for whenever any child or I get hungry while we’re out and about.

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It’s the car nuts.

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So they stock more nuts now.

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That’s what they figured out.

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Question.

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Question.

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I’m going to be pulling a trigger on a freeze dryer, but if I freeze dried Skittles, what would be a good product to sell to help offset the cost?

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A-Rape here, know your market.

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Go out there on Facebook Marketplace and see what’s selling locally.

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Go hit a couple of farmer’s markets, see who’s selling freeze dried stuff.

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And then…

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find your niche so freeze-dried skittles and candies absolutely sell we’ve got a local couple here who are also doing just basics like freeze-dried tomatoes or they’ve made like chips out of um swiss chard and stuff like that that they season first and then freeze dry freeze-dried broccoli is delicious it i did it without adding salt without adding salt and seasoning it would have been better with salt and seasoning just as a crunchy snack so

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That is, that’s something I would think about, but it depends on your market.

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I know a lot of people in the prepper network have been really interested in doing prepper meals and grumpy acres farm does a great job with that.

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I’m sure they’d be willing to talk to you about what their experience has been like, but they’re also already serving our network with that.

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So I don’t know how big the demand is, but you never know, like get out there, start doing it and figure out what your, what your market is and go for it.

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Right.

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Yeah.

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so that’s what i would do and also use my affiliate link if you’re going to buy a harvest right like hit me up for that because that makes all of my days better when that happens like mike you know we i got i got a commission like i get that many commissions from harvest right sales because i’m not like trying to push an expensive freeze dryer on on anyone whose budget’s not ready for it and we’re going to talk about that later in the show but if you’re going to get one

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I get, like, it costs you no extra to use my affiliate link, and then that helps me do things here that are kind of cool.

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So I’m going to asterisk that survivalizer, and we’ll see.

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Okay, next up is a shopping report from Joe, which totally fits the topic of today’s show.

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Dollar Tree was first.

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The food coolers are still mostly full, but the drink coolers are now about half full and mostly with like standard brands like Coca-Cola or Pepsi.

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The sad cooler with the compressor that can’t get going is empty.

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Other stock in the store is in good shape.

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Whatever minor thing we’ve come here to get has been in stock.

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Let’s see, I’m gonna skip through exactly what he… Okay, Home Depot was next.

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There was no tag on the rack for the two by four by eight, but online shows it at 3.25 and Menards had a sale out where you could use a coupon and get two by four by eights for $2 each.

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So if you have a Menards near you, check that out by the way.

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Cordless tool area in front is rather prominently featured just before Christmas and it’s almost entirely cleared out.

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There’s a lot of empty spaces there now.

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I’ll keep an eye on it at future trips.

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Here are the stock levels at Aldi.

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Produce is not mounded up, but there are also no empty spaces.

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They’ve had plenty of canned cat food lately.

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We found everything we wanted.

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Staple prices are as follows.

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A dozen eggs are $1.65.

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A gallon of whole milk, $2.98.

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$2.98, guys.

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Remember when you could get a gallon of milk for a dollar?

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Heavy cream, $4.69.

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Remember when that was under $2 in 2020?

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Butter, $3.69.

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That’s come down.

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Bacon, $4.25.

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Potatoes, $3.99.

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Sugar, $3.09.

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Flour, $1.99.

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80% lean ground beef is $4.49, and that’s up.

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So that’s the shopping report from Joe.

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And oh, wait, despite the growing escalation of Islam versus civilization in the Middle East, untainted regular gasoline remains $3.69 a gallon.

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I went out again later to Food City for dry cat food and there was plenty.

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That’s actually something we’ll talk about a little bit going into this.

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Oh, hey, Sue Zoldak’s on.

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That’s right.

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In celebration of Sue releasing her annual Christmas gift to her customers, we’re wearing the Zoldak flannel shirt, plus it’s cold in my house right now.

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And I know I’m going to get in trouble for wearing your logo on my podcast, aren’t I?

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But I’m warm.

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And I’m happy.

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So there we go.

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That’s right.

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I was going to send you a picture of this in the wild, Sue, because I thought your staff would get a kick out of it.

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Anyway.

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OK, next up is Operation Independence.

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This is where we talk about the financial stuff.

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And.

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I’m just going to highlight one business unit a week for a while.

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I wanted to let you know how Holler Roast Finances did.

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So early on in the podcast, I would go through each business unit that we’re running and talk about like total monies in so that you can see how we’re cobbling together different revenue sources to transition from having a full-time job to building my own revenue stream.

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And this was interesting this year.

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Holler Roast Gross Sales…

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by the numbers were within a hundred dollars of what they were last year.

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And that looks as follows.

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At the beginning of the year, we were about 30% higher.

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And then over the summer, it dropped a lot.

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So it went below our usual.

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And then starting in September again, it went up with a particular spike around Christmas.

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So I think that’s an interesting data point.

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I would say that happened.

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If you look at how I was marketing Hall & Rose, there were like…

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Brand schizophrenia occurred for me starting in the spring, going through the summer.

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And then Sue, who’s in our live feed right now, reached out and she’s like, are you okay?

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And I was like, I’m not okay.

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And then she helped me like calm the heck down and start focusing again.

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And then sales started again.

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So yeah,

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the proof is going to be in the pudding going into this year, but it was not my goal to have a flat line on my company.

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I like my company to grow every year, right?

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But at least I didn’t lose, right?

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I mean, that’s my bright side of the thing, but that’s how our finances looked this year.

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And number of orders were identical.

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So the same number of orders,

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almost exactly the same revenue.

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And I had one big order come from a customer who usually orders in November this month.

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So there was one person I know who delayed just because cashflow was a little weird for them.

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So I’m going to keep, um, I’m going to keep my eye on

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that.

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Sue’s like, folks, she was not okay.

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Sue, I’ve not gotten my mug yet, but I do know UPS was here today and I just haven’t been down.

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So I’m, I’m excited because I saw what it was.

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I saw the big reveal.

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For those of you don’t know, like customers of Sue get this really cool Christmas gift every year.

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One year she gave him hollow roast coffee with a mug and she’s done like tea with a mug.

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Last year was chocolate chip cookies with

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I can’t remember what that came with.

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Was there a mug with that too?

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Which mug was that?

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I don’t know.

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My favorite one is still the black one with the red, like that big coffee mug.

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But I like the little espresso trios too, because those are perfect for bone broth.

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That’s what we serve bone broth in here as well.

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So yeah, I’m super excited.

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Yeah, I really appreciate you reaching out to me on that one, Sue.

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Okay, so that’s what’s up with us on the Operation Independence side of the show.

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With that, it’s time for the main topic for today, and that’s what to do if things turn south in 2024.

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A lot of you are wondering, like, why is Nicole Sauce doing a show like this?

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And I’ll tell you why.

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It’s beginning to look a lot like 1971 out there.

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It looks a lot like the 70s, but a little bit of 70s on crack,

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is cause to take a good hard look at that, I think.

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Now this is just my analysis and I’m interested for those of you who hear me say things and are like, I don’t quite agree, like shoot me an email because I want to keep this discussion going.

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But this is just my brainstorm on the plane when I was, yeah, she’s looking it up.

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It was delivered today at 1230.

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That’s right.

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I was frantically getting my citations ready for this show at 1234 today too.

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It’s beginning to look a lot like the 70s show.

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And what was happening in the 70s is there was rebasing of the dollar.

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We had inflation happening at a quick rate.

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It was hard to find a job for a lot of people.

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My grandparents saw the real value of their retirement income.

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in the period of a year get cut in half, which was really hard for them.

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They thought they were going to have to go back to work.

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They figured out how not to, though.

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I have an uncle who made a ton of money during this time by making the right decision because interest rates went up.

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So there’s a lot of things kind of happening turbulence-wise in the economy and in society that are interesting.

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And

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a lot of people are alarmed about it.

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And I’m not going to say you shouldn’t be concerned, but I am going to say when we make decisions from a place of fear,

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we usually make the wrong decision.

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And that’s usually driven by short-term fear.

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So we’re like, ah, there’s war in Israel.

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Ah, the world’s gonna end.

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And yeah, Beth Emily’s saying, I remember the 70s pretty well.

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Well, if you take the world’s gonna end approach, then it does for you.

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You can make your own world end just by making the wrong decision.

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And my favorite example of this is somebody I know who sold everything they owned

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and moved into the country away from everything and did not have a job for several years because they thought that our economy was going to crash and that they would need to live off the land because where that went in their head was living off the land.

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And a couple of years later, they had no more money and they realized they had to go do something to build money.

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And they started by sofa surfing and had to rebuild their whole life because they’d gone all in on the fear.

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So today, please, with me, do not go all in on the fear.

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But let’s talk about some of the stuff that I’m seeing anyway.

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And you can tell me what you see as well.

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And the first thing I see is that we’ve had a lot of inflation in the last few years.

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Things cost more than they used to.

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And I started poking around at numbers for that.

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And a conservative estimate is like 10% to 11% since 2022 January.

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So it’s two years.

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And and some people are throwing out numbers that they can justify as high as 21 percent.

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That means that it’s somewhere between, you know, you spend a dollar and it’s worth 90 cents now and you spend a dollar and it’s worth 80 ish cents now.

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And I am doing my you know, like I have a math teacher in the comments who’s like, that’s not exactly right.

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I know we’re just doing general numbers here.

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She’s going to go with me on this, I’m sure.

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And that’s because here’s the thing about inflation is there’s the official numbers and you can come up with 10.37% or whatever it is that it caught, you know, like this bottle costs 10.37 more than it did in January of 2022, right?

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But what are they looking at?

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Right.

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Are they like when you look at the consumer price index, they’re looking at like things have changed.

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Like, are they looking at what we buy every day?

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Not necessarily.

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And that’s where those higher estimates come up.

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So in different sectors, things have increased in price more.

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And I think the shopping report has really helped us see that.

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What’s interesting, though, at the same time, some things have gotten cheaper.

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In January of 2022, I think a 2x4x8 was somewhere between $8 and $12.

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And now it’s $3.25.

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So there’s two sides to that coin.

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I’m throwing that out there so you just have context for that.

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But we all know when we go to the grocery store right now, we feel keenly that prices have gone up.

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And it’s especially stark to me at the grocery store because I don’t go to the grocery store most of the time.

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And so when I do go to the grocery store, I haven’t been there in a long time.

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So I didn’t see things eat up over time.

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What I saw was that all of the sudden, a bundle of groceries that would have cost me $75 are $125.

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And that’s literally the leap in some cases.

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And that’s partially because of what I buy.

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At the same time, it’s sort of like the shrink inflation is the new term for this.

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Like things get smaller, but they cost the same price.

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But then you have to buy more numbers of them, which I find annoying, because I have everything worked out by its size.

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And then they change the size and it pisses me off.

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They did that with coffee.

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When I first started roasting coffee seriously in 2017, the the one pound bag of coffee became the 12 ounce bag of coffee for most coffee roasters, we still ship 16 ounce bags.

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And

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I get a little annoyed when I go to the store and I see the 12 ounce pound of coffee, right?

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It’s now called a bag instead of a pound, but that’s the thing.

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So your income, has it grown by 11 to 21%?

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So I see a lot of people who have not kept up income-wise with what happened inflation-wise.

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And there’s lots of reasons why.

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I actually don’t care why.

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I care that right now.

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So, yeah.

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A. Ray Pierce says, September 2020, I had to rebuild my old chicken coop.

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A 2x4x8 was $9 a board.

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Never was I more upset.

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Well, I built Taj Mahal when lumber was at a premium and I bought it October 2021, I think, or it was October 2020.

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I don’t remember which time, but I bought it well before the contractor could come because it went even higher by the time they started building that.

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So there you go.

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The second thing is real estate is really interesting right now.

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We have states where people are moving into like Tennessee.

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And so we’ve seen $50,000 houses rise in market listing value to $250,000, which is five times more than they were a year ago.

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That’s a year.

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That’s significant growth.

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Now, they’re closing at $2.29, so they’re not selling at top dollar quickly.

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And in the last one month, the real estate listings have gone down by about 10% in price here.

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So that’s happening.

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Out-migration, places where people are leaving, things are staying on the market longer, but people have not necessarily admitted their houses aren’t worth as much unless they really have to sell.

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So you’re seeing sort of this…

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It’s inflated here.

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It’s deflating there.

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Things are on the market for a day.

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Things are on the market for six months.

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It depends.

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It’s very, very regional.

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Real estate has always been regional.

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But all in all, there was a big…

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increase in real estate markets starting in 2020, probably before 2020, but from 2020 to 2023, as people realized, you know, like some companies have just let people work from home and people want bigger homes so they can do that.

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Or they realized it doesn’t matter where they live so they can move to where they want to be.

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But interest rates have now gone up.

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So interest rates are no longer at the 2%, 3%, 4% that they were to get your mortgage.

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This is mortgage interest rates, right?

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And that means that if I sell my house right now and I want the exact same value house, it costs me more to buy that house unless I have moved locations and there’s a redefinition based on that.

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That means…

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If I’m in my house and I want to move to another house of equal value in a different place nearby for whatever reason, it costs me more to do that.

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I’m probably just going to hang on to what I have rather than have to go through all that fuss.

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And then at the end of the day, have a higher payment every month.

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Selling now, I’m sorry, where people go impacts this a lot.

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There is housing scarcity.

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Amazingly, we haven’t been able to build houses as fast as the demand comes, which is also driving prices up.

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Some places there is not housing scarcity, but I look at Nashville, for example, and we don’t have enough housing there.

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The rental markets are up.

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The housing market is up.

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People keep moving in.

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And

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with our population, as people get older and want to move out of mom and dad’s house, that’s more people needing houses just naturally.

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And the question is, where are they going to go?

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However, if you think about long-term population expectations, we are not having as many kids as we used to have, which means maybe,

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population goes down.

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Where else have we seen this happen?

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We’ve seen this happen in Japan.

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We’ve seen this happen in Europe.

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We’ve seen people get paid to stay home to raise their children because they know they need more people in the workforce.

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Otherwise, the economy is impacted by that.

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So boomers are getting older, guys.

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So boomers are using our medical system more and more.

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They’re moving out of the workforce.

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They are moving into retirement communities.

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That actually opens up houses for sale, which is kind of cool.

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But…

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at the same time you got to be able to afford the house and they’re still getting some pretty top dollar for their homes.

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Now, as that increases, as more boomers go that direction and we’re kind of getting to the, the glut of that right now, it might be that, that actually might cause some houses to become more affordable for a little window there.

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Um, because Gen X is not as big as the boomers, but then we got people coming behind us that there are more of.

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So it’s just, it’s a lot of, a lot of movement, um,

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There is a move in our society towards more of a subscription approach or rental approach rather than owning things.

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There is a push for that.

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If you look at software, for example,

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It makes more sense for Adobe or Canva or any of those to get a monthly subscription from a financial and planning standpoint than to sell me a tangible piece of software.

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I’m holding up a rock, right?

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Which is a tangible thing.

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Like in the old days, we got a DVD with a program on it.

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We put it on our computer and that was that.

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And you owned it until the end of time.

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Well, subscriptions…

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make more sense financially and allows them to keep things up.

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What’s happening now is it’s not just like rental markets like I have, where it’s sort of more entry-level people rent from me, but there are experiments happening with high-end single-family home neighborhoods, none of which is owned.

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It’s all rented.

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And

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That actually removes an amount of stability through home ownership that has traditionally been a financial boon.

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The fact that I have this asset that I’m in, and at this point, my house is an asset and not a liability, it means I can pull money out of it if I need to, or I can sell it if I need to.

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so you know that’s happening i i wrote down in my notes mortgage default rate but i did not look up what that is so we’re not going to talk about that right now because i’m not going to guess at what that is survivalizer says subscriptions feels like trying to manage salary cap yeah and what happens with that is the price keeps going up right but at the same time you know why they do it like

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If you’re smart with your business model, you’re figuring out how to get memberships and subscriptions as well.

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Like Holler Roast Coffee exists today as it is fairly predictably because I have a number of customers who love the coffee and they buy this package of coffee once a month or once every quarter.

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That’s been instrumental to the stability and success and planning capacity of hollow roast coffee.

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So it’s not necessarily a bad thing to build into your life, but, and definitely a great thing to build into your business, but there’s a risk there of not having the tangible thing.

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And, you know, you can buy property now and own property and,

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and then use that as a foundation for future prosperity.

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But I also know people who have built their entire prosperity by never owning property, by always renting, because they’re like, I never have to fix anything.

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So I just choose a place and the landlord has to deal with it.

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So it kind of depends where your focus is.

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And I’m throwing that out there, but that’s what I’m seeing in the real estate market.

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There’s a war in Ukraine, in case you didn’t know that, and a war in Israel, and there’s war, war, war, war, war.

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Lots of war.

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It’s interesting to see the federal reaction to war and wanting and calling for more intervention

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as we go into an election year.

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And I think they’re related.

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I think they’re related.

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That’s just me.

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It’s an election year.

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So right now, the president’s going to be starting to campaign to be reelected.

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And then the other side is going to try to get their guy in.

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And then, you know, third parties are going to mess around the edges and not really do much.

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And it happens every four years.

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This is a cycle we see every four years and we nerd out on it.

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I mean, like Sue and I nerd out on it a lot, but if you look at trends of an incumbent running for office, what does best for an incumbent is if the economy is actually doing better or if there’s an imminent threat they have to defend against.

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So we have to keep that guy in because they’re the guy necessary to make it happen, right?

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So with the election year, I’m expecting to see lots of interesting hot takes on war, on the economy and all sorts of other things.

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But there’s an opportunity in there, too.

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But with that, it’s more communications pitting us against them, us against them, us against them.

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I happen to know Sue Zoldak, who is I don’t know if she’s still in the comments, but who was in the comments, organized a group of people who work in political communications and

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across all spectrums to share best practices through networking to get over the divisiveness rather than to just, you know, assume that because that person works for a Democrat, I can’t ever talk to them again.

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And we’ve really walked away from that.

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I, you know, I mean, I think in politics there’s always the name calling and the, the shit tossing and all the things that we do and the us against them.

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But again,

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The communications environment that I see is that it’s gone beyond friendly debate or even some tense debate into vilification of people and dehumanization of people who don’t agree with you from both sides.

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And I’m actually not okay with that.

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I am willing to talk to somebody

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who is not of my political standpoint, because I will end up learning something from them and they will challenge me.

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And that’s a good thing.

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And maybe I’ll challenge them and they’ll learn something.

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And that’s a good thing.

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Or maybe they haven’t thought about it from that perspective.

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Maybe we’ll realize what we’re fighting about isn’t even all that important in the big picture.

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but it’s so knee jerk now.

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And it’s so like all in or all out.

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I know a family where one of the family members has decided to undergo a different, become a different gender.

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And that’s hard on a family.

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I know, I know several families where this has happened.

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It’s hard on a family because you, you love each other.

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But there are all sorts of opinions about that topic.

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And I,

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It is an adult member of the family who’s decided to do that.

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So it’s completely their decision.

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The part that’s alarming to me about what I’m hearing from this family is that when the person who is undergoing gender reassignment talks to anybody and that person disagrees with them, they get really mad, call them a right-wing extremist and stop talking to them.

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And that means that you have stopped any like ability for people to ask questions and learn about it.

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Because if asking a question is construed as, you know, I’m against you.

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And then you read into this, this entire list of, I assume these are all your opinions now from here, you’ve stopped all discourse.

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And, and it has caught, I mean, it’s tearing that family apart.

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we can’t do you know like i’m more liberty focused most of the people most of y’all are liberty focused we can’t do that same thing back where we assume just because somebody asks us something about what we think you know what gun rights are that they’re all of these things you know on the left agenda because when we start talking we discover

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yes this no that yes this no that and we humanize it and it becomes a person and we realize it’s a complex person with different opinions and we have some similarities and some differences and oh my goodness suddenly it’s not us against them and that discussion is the discussion that is the most dangerous to people in power who are controlling because if we get along then how do they get us to vote one way or another based on on how they communicate about things

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That’s, you know, that’s so in the election year, this ramps up technological advancement.

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Today, I saw on Facebook an advertisement for artificial intelligence that can manage my calendar for me.

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Now, I already use a calendar tool to set appointments that I may actually stop using.

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But I use a tool right now.

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So people can just set it on my calendar when I’m trying to make an appointment with people.

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That’s hard to make.

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But this is like, hey, just tell me all your priorities.

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I’ll just deal with your calendar and you’ll never miss another appointment.

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Well, I don’t know if that works as advertised, but if it does, somebody like me could benefit from that.

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We have copy being written by ChatGPT that is working for people.

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We have images being made, you know, like headshots.

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Sue Soldak was on in December talking about like, if you don’t have a headshot in a suit, like use AI to make your headshot into a suit.

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Like we’ve got that capacity and the workforce is mostly unprepared to deal with what this means for their job.

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And at the same time, there are unrealistic expectations about how fast this is going to come in and what it’s going to change.

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Right.

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So.

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that’s, it’s an interesting time.

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And I’ve been, I’ve been reading more about, you know, when the industrial revolution was happening, what, what that 10 to 20 year period was like when things were really moving forward and what happened to the people who were left behind and why were they left behind and, and how’d they get through that?

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That’s it.

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If you want to go do something proactive and you haven’t filled up your nonfiction reading list, like go start reading some things about that.

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because we’re right there again, right now.

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I started looking this up and I did not find a good solid number and I would have had to spend a lot more time making my own number, but the number of government employees versus private sector employees is rising.

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There are not more of them than there are of us, but it’s rising.

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And the more that that happens, the more important it is to keep government programs that maybe we shouldn’t be keeping.

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Just something that’s happening.

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The medical industry is not okay.

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Anybody who’s been involved in anything medical in the last five years knows that it’s been coming for a long time.

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And every time we try to fix it with a federal law, it seems to make it worse.

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And it’s just not okay.

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If you have not read the book by Peter Attia, or I don’t know if that’s Attia, I don’t know how you say his last name.

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I should probably go look that up on a video, huh?

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It’s called Outlive.

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He talks about he frames it this way.

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Medicine 2.0 is the current like medical industrial complex that we’re operating in right now, which did great for my grandparents is doing OK for my dad.

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I think it’s going to totally fail me, though, by the time I need it.

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um and then medical medicine 3.0 and his core premise is medicine 2.0 jumps into the time of crisis and fixes it so like if your arm is broken and your bones sticking through the skin medicine 2.0

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Stops the bleeding, puts that back together and makes it so you can use your arm again.

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And that was not something we necessarily knew how to do 200 years ago, right?

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If you have a heavy infection and need to fix it, they give you antibiotics to overcome that.

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Before we had antibiotics, it was medicine 2.0 that figured that out, created the medicine and then figured out how to implement it.

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medicine 2.0 looks at the cancer patient and figures out that if we expose them to chemo, that we can, you know, kill all the cells so that the new cells can come back in theory, and then they don’t have cancer, or maybe it goes into remission.

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And his theory is, you know, sometimes you need that approach, but for, for these long developing diseases, like heart disease, dementia, and Alzheimer’s cancer and metabolic disorders, like

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our friend, the insulin one.

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Diabetes, couldn’t think of the word.

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Sometimes when you’re live on the internet, you forget words.

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And today, the word I’m going to forget is diabetes.

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Those four happen based on, a lot of it’s on choices you make over time.

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And

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you don’t get treated for diabetes until you go over a certain line in blood testing, at which point they’re going to say, okay, change your diet and maybe use insulin or other medicines to like control this.

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And then, but you spent 30 years developing it.

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And so his thought is with medicine 3.0, we should be looking at the trends that lead to these four, uh,

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big nasty diseases that happen in our older years so that people’s end of life can be healthier longer, that your decline is shorter when you die.

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And, um, and that means prescribing things like exercise and maybe some, maybe some drug interventions and some other things much earlier before these diseases get defined as diseases.

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And, um,

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So that’s what I thought medicine was doing.

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When I was a teenager, my doctor was advising me on how to manage stress, how to get better sleep, you know, nutrition, exercise.

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And yes, giving me antibiotics when I had strep throat.

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Yes, ripping my tonsils out when I had it so many times.

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I just had tonsillitis all the time until they took them out.

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And that may or may not have been the best thing to do, you know, in hindsight, but that’s what they knew to do then.

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But he was more of a health advisor rather than a script and out sort of doctor.

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And in my lifetime, as the managed health systems have gotten bigger and bigger and bigger, the care I get is usually a script and out.

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And that’s it.

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And it’s like maybe a follow-up call, are you feeling better?

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But it’s not looking at me as a person and sort of helping me coach through good health.

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And I wish that’s how it was.

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I have found doctors who do that now.

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So I have that now, but I had to even define that I was looking for that.

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Well, most people aren’t going to go that deep.

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And as a result, we have obesity, diabetes, overall physical and mental condition of our population in the US is, if you look at it 20 years ago to the day, it is down.

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We are weakening as citizenry.

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We are weakening because we eat like shit.

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We sleep like shit.

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We don’t take care of our mental health.

01:05:51.265 –> 01:05:52.906
We don’t take care of our communities.

01:05:52.946 –> 01:05:54.366
We don’t take care of each other.

01:05:54.946 –> 01:05:58.587
And we distract ourselves with entertainment so we don’t have to think about it.

01:05:59.407 –> 01:06:01.968
That’s where we’re at.

01:06:02.068 –> 01:06:06.729
We’ve got kids who have type 2 diabetes by the time they’re 8 years old.

01:06:06.789 –> 01:06:11.230
And that is caused by obesity and the wrong habits.

01:06:12.503 –> 01:06:13.303
That’s a problem.

01:06:14.084 –> 01:06:20.226
Because if we need to call on our citizenry to do something hard, to do something physically hard, they can’t.

01:06:20.846 –> 01:06:23.828
A lot of them just cannot right now.

01:06:24.228 –> 01:06:25.508
And it’s totally avoidable.

01:06:26.889 –> 01:06:27.589
But here we are.

01:06:29.050 –> 01:06:32.251
And then we have aging and under-maintained infrastructure.

01:06:33.351 –> 01:06:39.354
And it’s funny, because when you watch a road get built now, it takes 7,000 years to get it done right.

01:06:40.783 –> 01:06:46.265
And I know why, because I’ve seen what the contracting process looks like for the people who build that.

01:06:46.305 –> 01:06:49.906
Like I’ve seen all where all the bloat is in that process.

01:06:50.766 –> 01:06:57.669
And then what they build doesn’t last even as long as what was built, you know, in five years in the sixties.

01:06:58.529 –> 01:06:59.109
Interesting.

01:06:59.189 –> 01:07:00.510
Is it because we’re harder on the roads?

01:07:00.550 –> 01:07:01.950
Well, we’re probably harder on the roads.

01:07:01.970 –> 01:07:04.071
We have more volume, but at the same time,

01:07:06.132 –> 01:07:12.197
We don’t have an expectation that what we’re building has to last a long time because there’ll just be another contract to redo it.

01:07:12.678 –> 01:07:17.182
Well, OK, so then let’s look at the electrical grid like it’s aging and and stressed.

01:07:18.383 –> 01:07:19.905
And what happens if it goes out?

01:07:20.345 –> 01:07:21.126
Then you don’t have power.

01:07:21.146 –> 01:07:23.969
If I don’t have power, I can’t stream to you today, right?

01:07:24.590 –> 01:07:26.412
So that’s just under-maintained.

01:07:26.452 –> 01:07:29.675
So I could go on and on with lists of all of the things.

01:07:29.795 –> 01:07:33.359
This is just non-conspiratorial shit that’s going on.

01:07:34.200 –> 01:07:37.883
And I don’t even need to worry about conspiracy theories just with that list.

01:07:38.924 –> 01:07:40.726
There are many things in play here.

01:07:40.886 –> 01:07:40.946
And

01:07:42.086 –> 01:07:44.768
Many, many, any one of these could pop, right?

01:07:44.828 –> 01:07:48.671
It could suddenly accelerate or something could happen to make it worse.

01:07:49.012 –> 01:07:53.235
Like 2008, when we had the big old housing, the mortgage implosion of 2008.

01:07:54.156 –> 01:07:54.676
Remember that?

01:07:54.696 –> 01:08:00.521
Remember the years after that were kind of hard, but they weren’t impossible, were they?

01:08:01.161 –> 01:08:05.184
Any one of these can have a negative impact on our economy on a rather large scale.

01:08:05.465 –> 01:08:10.789
And multiples of them happening at one time can get really painful.

01:08:12.163 –> 01:08:27.434
Um, it, it’s just, this is why when we do our, our, our living free in Tennessee workshop, when we do the self-reliance festival, when I have conversations like this, usually we end up with somebody who comes on and it’s like, what am I going to do?

01:08:27.494 –> 01:08:28.715
I don’t have any savings.

01:08:28.795 –> 01:08:29.716
I live in an apartment.

01:08:30.176 –> 01:08:31.237
I can’t grow food.

01:08:31.597 –> 01:08:32.418
How am I going to eat?

01:08:32.538 –> 01:08:34.619
And, and legitimate question.

01:08:34.639 –> 01:08:38.682
I’m going to cough.

01:08:40.603 –> 01:08:41.464
Wrong pipe.

01:08:42.313 –> 01:08:47.417
Um, we should just do a moment of silence.

01:08:51.320 –> 01:08:54.542
That moment of silence is so the audio podcast does not have to hear me cough.

01:08:55.143 –> 01:09:02.308
Anyway, it’s a legitimate question to ask because if food prices double again, what are you going to do?

01:09:02.328 –> 01:09:04.449
You’re going to have to choose between your power and your rent.

01:09:04.469 –> 01:09:07.832
I’m going to have to choose between your power and your food.

01:09:09.025 –> 01:09:11.706
Are you going to have to move in with six or 10 people?

01:09:12.606 –> 01:09:15.246
Like, what are you going to do?

01:09:15.286 –> 01:09:16.767
It’s not a picture you want to think about.

01:09:18.027 –> 01:09:24.128
But if you don’t think about that as a possibility, then you don’t get ready for it maybe happening.

01:09:24.168 –> 01:09:31.210
And there are ways that you can hedge just by taking small steps every day to build that.

01:09:31.690 –> 01:09:31.850
So

01:09:35.794 –> 01:09:43.137
I set that foundation of what I’m going to call toxic toxic toxicness because.

01:09:43.157 –> 01:09:49.500
I think it’s important to pay attention right now, and it’s a wake up call for us.

01:09:50.000 –> 01:09:52.541
It’s it’s looking a lot like 70s on crack.

01:09:52.601 –> 01:09:56.643
It’s looking a lot like Japan in the 80s, really for us.

01:09:57.746 –> 01:10:20.515
and you know there wasn’t mass die-offs in japan but there was some you know it’s it’s not easy there it was it was super not easy in in the 80s and what we need to do is acknowledge that this exists go outside and cry because it could have been avoided wipe our tears stand up

01:10:21.678 –> 01:10:25.039
and start thinking, okay, well, so what does this mean?

01:10:25.399 –> 01:10:26.339
What does this mean for me?

01:10:26.659 –> 01:10:28.200
What does this mean for my community?

01:10:28.500 –> 01:10:30.300
What does it mean for those around me?

01:10:30.840 –> 01:10:32.321
What does it mean for my children?

01:10:32.601 –> 01:10:33.841
Like, what does this mean?

01:10:35.821 –> 01:10:46.904
And to do that, we need to set aside the fear of nuclear war, lab-developed diseases that could wipe us all out,

01:10:48.129 –> 01:10:56.096
EMP attacks, aliens coming down, zombies coming out of the ground, and just look at those things.

01:10:58.618 –> 01:11:01.960
What could happen as a result of that list?

01:11:02.040 –> 01:11:08.626
And let’s start with the cost of things you need could outpace the amount of money you’re earning.

01:11:10.087 –> 01:11:12.329
It kind of already is for a lot of people.

01:11:13.523 –> 01:11:15.105
And it has been happening.

01:11:15.185 –> 01:11:15.645
And you know what?

01:11:15.686 –> 01:11:19.189
People have still managed to take care of themselves.

01:11:19.289 –> 01:11:28.118
So part of that is why when Dawn said, let’s do the pantry challenge in January, I was like, sure, let me see how my pantry is working.

01:11:28.438 –> 01:11:33.864
And that’s because I view my pantry as a regenerating thing, not as a stockpile.

01:11:35.162 –> 01:11:37.883
Because your stockpile only gets you so far.

01:11:38.503 –> 01:11:39.844
Eventually you have to replenish it.

01:11:39.884 –> 01:11:41.445
So how are we replenishing that?

01:11:41.845 –> 01:11:53.830
And then the second thing you can do if your income is not keeping up with inflation is do a financial audit and see where in the heck your money’s going.

01:11:54.730 –> 01:11:56.291
Where are you spending your money?

01:11:56.331 –> 01:11:58.072
And is that the best place for it to be?

01:11:58.132 –> 01:11:59.833
What subscriptions have you signed up for?

01:11:59.933 –> 01:12:01.313
Including the one to my podcast.

01:12:01.353 –> 01:12:02.894
Like if it’s not serving you well,

01:12:04.124 –> 01:12:04.524
Kill it.

01:12:05.245 –> 01:12:05.645
Kill it.

01:12:05.665 –> 01:12:15.131
I like to just change credit card numbers every so often for those subscriptions and then get all the reminders so I can really choose what I’m doing.

01:12:15.211 –> 01:12:18.793
I’m actually doing a subscription audit right now because…

01:12:19.898 –> 01:12:29.365
I’ve used a lot of tools in the last year to help video production, to help graphic design, all this other stuff and scheduling posts on social media.

01:12:29.425 –> 01:12:30.325
And I don’t need them all.

01:12:30.365 –> 01:12:33.027
And I haven’t necessarily been disciplined about canceling those.

01:12:33.067 –> 01:12:36.270
So do a financial audit and see where your money goes.

01:12:37.270 –> 01:12:49.059
At the same time, now is a great time for looking for opportunities to make more money, whether that be at your job, figuring out how to increase your income at your job or by changing jobs or

01:12:50.302 –> 01:12:54.727
Start in that side hustle or if you’re in business, like look for other revenue sources.

01:12:55.708 –> 01:13:02.877
Look for ways to increase your revenue because if your revenue, if your income outpaces inflation, then you don’t care about this one.

01:13:03.476 –> 01:13:04.136
You just don’t care.

01:13:05.157 –> 01:13:13.343
Then the next thing that happens is if people can’t afford things, then you don’t find the things you need in the store because the store can’t sell the things so they don’t have them.

01:13:14.123 –> 01:13:15.124
That can happen.

01:13:15.944 –> 01:13:16.505
That can happen.

01:13:16.525 –> 01:13:18.846
It can become harder to source things.

01:13:18.926 –> 01:13:27.852
We’re actually super blessed to live in a world where we can talk to people all over the world and find things we want, even if they’re not like immediately where we are.

01:13:27.992 –> 01:13:30.154
It’s actually it makes living in the country a lot easier.

01:13:30.854 –> 01:13:44.544
Because I can get the exact metal SodaStream water bottle I want that made me choke earlier without having to go 300 miles to buy it at the store.

01:13:45.384 –> 01:13:47.926
I could just pay some shipping and get that, right?

01:13:48.407 –> 01:13:51.669
I think the other thing that might happen with this one is that

01:13:52.912 –> 01:13:58.014
things that are for sale used will start selling more than they have been.

01:13:58.774 –> 01:14:02.475
And you might be able to source some interesting things used if you need them.

01:14:02.656 –> 01:14:04.476
So that’s, that’s another one.

01:14:05.156 –> 01:14:06.377
Jobs could become scarce.

01:14:07.397 –> 01:14:11.379
I know somebody who just got laid off from their company, um,

01:14:13.812 –> 01:14:20.898
And they did a lot of layoffs and they basically laid off their entire at home workforce and just kept the people in the office.

01:14:20.938 –> 01:14:29.526
Now that may not be the best decision for that company, but clearly at the root of that, they also needed to reduce the number of people they had on staff.

01:14:30.747 –> 01:14:35.811
And we’re kind of in this bizarre world where it can be really hard to find the right employee.

01:14:36.892 –> 01:14:37.093
Right.

01:14:38.013 –> 01:14:39.695
But it’s also hard to find the right job.

01:14:41.480 –> 01:14:47.804
And I think part of that is some leaders have analysis paralysis out of what to do next.

01:14:48.485 –> 01:14:55.289
Some companies have allowed themselves to become over-bureaucratized and they’re just not good at sourcing talent in the right way.

01:14:56.089 –> 01:14:56.730
But also…

01:14:59.537 –> 01:15:18.572
positions are not necessarily being replaced as people age out of their jobs, because if I’m seeing that my revenue was flat, that doesn’t mean everybody else’s was, but I’m hearing reports from other companies that their revenue is flat or, or negative, like negative when compared to the year before.

01:15:19.093 –> 01:15:21.855
And then that means you can’t support as many employees, right?

01:15:21.875 –> 01:15:21.915
Um,

01:15:23.624 –> 01:15:28.228
But then there are people like me and other small business owners who are like, hey, I really want to hire somebody.

01:15:28.268 –> 01:15:29.710
This is the salary.

01:15:29.770 –> 01:15:33.233
And people are seeing like, this is the starting salary at this large corporation.

01:15:33.253 –> 01:15:35.735
And this is the starting salary at this place.

01:15:35.816 –> 01:15:37.757
I’m not going to go there because they’re not paying me enough.

01:15:37.837 –> 01:15:39.099
I’m just going to stay unemployed.

01:15:40.340 –> 01:15:43.583
Eventually, staying unemployed is not a good strategy, though.

01:15:43.703 –> 01:15:45.184
Eventually, people start working.

01:15:45.244 –> 01:15:45.305
And

01:15:47.535 –> 01:15:49.056
That’s where you got to go.

01:15:49.377 –> 01:15:52.179
My W2 employer just laid off their customer care department.

01:15:52.499 –> 01:15:57.483
30 people gone with no warning along with the sales department with no recordable sales for 2023.

01:16:00.326 –> 01:16:04.769
I would fire my sales department too if they hadn’t sold anything in 2023.

01:16:04.809 –> 01:16:07.832
A whole year of no sales, that’s bad.

01:16:08.753 –> 01:16:14.177
That is, I mean, like it might just be time to toss in the flag or you really hired the wrong people.

01:16:15.942 –> 01:16:31.866
I think also the consequences of a lot of unemployment and a lot of what people are trying to do right now is that a lot of people are trying to tap into the gig environment, like Uber or whatever, or starting a side hustle.

01:16:32.727 –> 01:16:37.668
And there’s no really awesome way to navigate that from a regulatory standpoint.

01:16:38.548 –> 01:16:41.790
Just from, you know, like the income tax, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

01:16:42.490 –> 01:16:49.333
It’s a pain in the butt to be a 1099 employee, which is not an employee, like a 1099 contractor.

01:16:49.373 –> 01:16:54.775
Like you have to you have to pay your full unemployment tax when you file your taxes.

01:16:54.795 –> 01:16:55.656
You have to track things.

01:16:55.676 –> 01:16:56.696
You track expenses.

01:16:56.776 –> 01:16:57.697
That’s a pain in the butt.

01:16:58.537 –> 01:17:05.040
And our society is not like it’s set up for the W2 environment, like super smooth.

01:17:05.541 –> 01:17:10.843
The 1099 world for people who’ve never had to do that before is hard.

01:17:10.863 –> 01:17:21.189
And right now, people who want to do that have to figure out how to navigate the gig economy as a non W2 employee.

01:17:21.529 –> 01:17:27.412
And then the health health care, like the health insurance market is not super awesome.

01:17:28.300 –> 01:17:29.521
in that situation.

01:17:29.601 –> 01:17:39.026
And so then some people are just staying at crap jobs just to keep that not need to do the tracking and to keep whatever health insurance they have.

01:17:39.926 –> 01:17:42.247
And it keeps them out of being a more productive thing.

01:17:42.607 –> 01:17:42.808
Right.

01:17:43.008 –> 01:17:46.129
Or moving to a company that maybe doesn’t have to provide health insurance.

01:17:46.149 –> 01:17:48.531
So they don’t like health insurance is a big one there.

01:17:49.051 –> 01:17:49.231
Right.

01:17:51.128 –> 01:17:57.913
I think to grow your income stability, though, it’s super important to be more in control of where your money’s coming from.

01:17:57.973 –> 01:18:02.956
That’s why Operation Independence is something we talk about every single week.

01:18:03.076 –> 01:18:18.025
Because if an entire sales department and customer support department can be laid off with no warning at all, like, do you think you really matter in that situation if you are the best customer service provider at your company?

01:18:18.065 –> 01:18:18.546
No, you don’t.

01:18:19.006 –> 01:18:19.286
You don’t.

01:18:20.410 –> 01:18:24.453
So I really think having other ways of making money is a great idea.

01:18:24.613 –> 01:18:38.702
And if you are ready to go for it and start your own business, when we have this instable market, it’s actually, and if you start a business now and do well now, you’re probably going to do well forever because you’ve made it through the hard times.

01:18:38.822 –> 01:18:46.968
So don’t necessarily shy away from starting a business because you hear this, like things are a little weird out there right now.

01:18:47.048 –> 01:18:49.990
Well, in the weird is the opportunity.

01:18:50.830 –> 01:18:52.311
In the weird is the opportunity.

01:18:52.971 –> 01:18:54.411
Grow your income stability.

01:18:54.471 –> 01:19:02.954
Have relationship-based businesses where your loyalty and your customer loyalty actually matter.

01:19:03.894 –> 01:19:09.716
You don’t necessarily need to go be like Home Depot who serves everybody to be successful.

01:19:10.908 –> 01:19:14.452
if you get the right 100 customers, that could be successful.

01:19:15.013 –> 01:19:21.580
As long as they say successful, you say successful, which means, you know, right now you might want to be like, okay, how can I, how can I get a 20% buffer there?

01:19:21.600 –> 01:19:22.801
Get 120 customers just in case I lose 20.

01:19:22.841 –> 01:19:22.981
Right.

01:19:23.061 –> 01:19:23.101
Um,

01:19:29.272 –> 01:19:39.340
I think gaining stability through home ownership, which was key and fundamental for me in my 30s, is harder right now for people.

01:19:39.380 –> 01:19:42.222
People complain like, you had it so easy.

01:19:42.282 –> 01:19:45.424
You got a house because you’re a Gen X and blah, blah, blah.

01:19:45.825 –> 01:19:47.586
I didn’t get a house till I was in my 30s.

01:19:48.187 –> 01:19:49.988
And it was not an expensive, nice house.

01:19:50.088 –> 01:19:51.469
I had to remodel the whole thing.

01:19:51.869 –> 01:19:57.614
I managed to get it through hook and crook and determination.

01:19:57.634 –> 01:19:59.095
And it was not easy.

01:20:00.245 –> 01:20:04.548
But I will grant you that it’s probably not easier right now.

01:20:05.469 –> 01:20:09.211
It’s an unrealistic expectation to think you should have a house at 22.

01:20:11.533 –> 01:20:12.913
If you can, that’s great.

01:20:14.094 –> 01:20:19.318
But no matter what, I think it’s difficult to…

01:20:20.842 –> 01:20:24.064
justify paying for it at the higher interest interest rates.

01:20:24.104 –> 01:20:27.507
Cause we’ve gotten so used to having two, three, 4% mortgages.

01:20:28.247 –> 01:20:32.450
But I remember in the eighties when my dad was happy about his 11% mortgage.

01:20:33.871 –> 01:20:37.593
So he just kind of factored that in into the whole cost of the thing.

01:20:38.734 –> 01:20:45.058
And there’s a lot of creative ways to save up that, that we just weren’t doing back then.

01:20:45.098 –> 01:20:46.980
Like the entire nomad movement was,

01:20:47.791 –> 01:20:52.793
you can really reduce expenses by simplifying in that way and save a lot of money.

01:20:52.833 –> 01:20:59.095
And then suddenly if you are in a cash position, when there is a deal, you don’t have to worry about the mortgage.

01:20:59.215 –> 01:21:00.676
You just buy the thing, right?

01:21:01.516 –> 01:21:11.980
Or if you’re in a heavy cash position and have somewhat stable income, when interest rates drop a little bit, then Hey, yeah,

01:21:14.406 –> 01:21:15.828
you’re in a good place, right?

01:21:17.110 –> 01:21:23.739
I think keeping hold of your property long-term, so long-term view, keeping hold of your property in,

01:21:25.498 –> 01:21:31.724
in a market where your property tax increases based on the market value of your home makes it harder.

01:21:31.744 –> 01:21:39.091
And that means that into retirement, you need to be thinking about how do I make more and more money to pay the stupid taxes so I can just stay in this thing that I own.

01:21:39.151 –> 01:21:41.854
I actually think property taxes are criminal.

01:21:42.474 –> 01:21:44.516
I probably think all taxes are criminal.

01:21:44.536 –> 01:21:49.141
Well, those are particularly difficult because when you’re at your physically weakest point,

01:21:50.222 –> 01:21:53.603
they keep raising the price on you to force you out of your house, I guess.

01:21:53.704 –> 01:22:03.308
Like that’s kind of a crappy thing that they do there where it’s based on market value rather than if you’re going to tax, then just lock us in at what we bought our house at.

01:22:04.201 –> 01:22:04.741
right?

01:22:04.801 –> 01:22:06.382
That’s how we’ve budgeted.

01:22:06.742 –> 01:22:09.024
Those taxes aren’t designed to keep me in my house.

01:22:09.064 –> 01:22:13.946
Those taxes are designed to bring money into the local government.

01:22:13.986 –> 01:22:21.830
And in some cases, they are designed to push you out of your house so somebody else with more money can buy your house and then they’re participating in the economy.

01:22:22.511 –> 01:22:24.672
So that being said,

01:22:26.825 –> 01:22:33.870
I strongly suspect and a lot of other people strongly suspect we may see interest rates go down for a time this year.

01:22:34.551 –> 01:22:41.395
And when that happens, that makes properties more accessible from a mortgage payment standpoint.

01:22:41.415 –> 01:22:50.162
And that means if you are in a position to buy because you’ve been a good little aunt and you are saving your money and you have a property you want,

01:22:51.002 –> 01:23:16.818
you can take advantage of that but don’t just hear this and then wait if you find the right property at the right price for you you don’t necessarily need to wait for that window but i do think that window’s coming and i think a great way to hedge um a time when things are increasing in value and interest rates are kind of they’re higher i’m not going to call them high yet because they’re not high yet compared to what i’ve seen in my lifetime um

01:23:18.439 –> 01:23:30.085
A balance of being in a cash position to be able to buy and having tangible assets that are appreciating because of inflation is a good balance to have.

01:23:30.125 –> 01:23:37.509
I mean, that’s kind of like the diversification approach so that when you see an opportunity, you can take advantage of an opportunity.

01:23:37.529 –> 01:23:42.032
And if what you have is your time to invest, then when you see an opportunity, invest your time.

01:23:43.712 –> 01:23:48.933
Don’t start talking yourself out of investing your time because this might happen or that might happen.

01:23:49.013 –> 01:23:53.134
If it’s really something that you want, invest your time in it.

01:23:53.214 –> 01:23:55.794
Eventually something, it may not go the way you planned.

01:23:55.814 –> 01:24:01.395
And in fact, it probably won’t go the way you planned, but it will go somewhere instead of nowhere.

01:24:01.495 –> 01:24:04.036
And right now, the worst thing you can do is go nowhere.

01:24:04.196 –> 01:24:11.237
If you just stand here and go nowhere and stack cash and then inflation’s happening and your cash is worth less and less and less,

01:24:12.581 –> 01:24:16.663
I mean, it’s not bad to stack cash, but you’re not going anywhere.

01:24:16.943 –> 01:24:17.443
Go somewhere.

01:24:18.143 –> 01:24:21.605
Choose somewhere to go and go there, right?

01:24:22.605 –> 01:24:23.545
Tangible assets.

01:24:25.106 –> 01:24:26.326
Tangible assets are awesome.

01:24:26.346 –> 01:24:31.848
Like if you bought real estate before all this inflation happened, before real estate went up in value, you’re not unhappy right now.

01:24:34.049 –> 01:24:41.032
I know somebody who cashed out of the Portland, Oregon market, 5 to 10x on each property that they had purchased before.

01:24:43.208 –> 01:24:45.430
because it went through that peak.

01:24:45.450 –> 01:24:47.813
I actually looked at what my house was worth over Christmas.

01:24:47.833 –> 01:24:48.513
It was really funny.

01:24:48.974 –> 01:24:52.998
Somebody did an awesome kitchen remodel on it, totally upped the value of that house.

01:24:53.078 –> 01:24:55.320
And it sold for about double what I sold it for.

01:24:55.380 –> 01:24:55.981
Am I sad?

01:24:56.041 –> 01:24:57.582
No, because I sold it 10 years ago.

01:24:58.283 –> 01:25:03.408
But if you’ve been hanging on to that as a rental for 10 years, you’re not sad when you sell it at a higher price.

01:25:03.829 –> 01:25:09.434
It’s come back down in value since that peak, but it’s interesting to look at those things, right?

01:25:09.754 –> 01:25:14.259
So tangible assets can be really great during times of inflation, but beware.

01:25:15.635 –> 01:25:29.192
there’s some volatility that we’re seeing here right and that means that you you got to know the right thing or you have to be you have to not go all in on one thing like that’s in in general if you go all in on one thing that’s the easiest way for it to bite you um

01:25:30.954 –> 01:25:57.260
right now we cannot sell very many we many very tangible awesome things are hard to sell i have listed on facebook marketplace right now for 300 a 350 bed frame and a 350 mattress together as a package deal new in the box because i was going to put a king-size bed in my room and i decided i wanted a queen-size bed and it was too late for me to return them

01:25:58.660 –> 01:26:02.022
And so I have them and I’m like, well, I should sell these.

01:26:02.142 –> 01:26:11.548
And less than half of what you would buy, these same exact things today that are selling today, no interest at all for purchase.

01:26:11.908 –> 01:26:15.991
In fact, they are going to an auction house tomorrow because I’ll just get what I get for them.

01:26:16.371 –> 01:26:18.772
I certainly don’t need them here in my life, cluttering up my world.

01:26:19.893 –> 01:26:25.897
And conversely, I had a daybed in my office.

01:26:27.364 –> 01:26:34.647
that has been here for a long time that I paid $50 for 10 years ago and I just sold it for $50.

01:26:35.247 –> 01:26:37.929
And people were all over my butt for that.

01:26:38.309 –> 01:26:40.490
Like they wanted it so bad.

01:26:40.650 –> 01:26:46.932
And it was just like the first person I talked to who said they could come, showed up when they said they were gonna show up, they got it for 50 bucks.

01:26:46.972 –> 01:26:49.434
And he was like, thank you so much for selling this to me.

01:26:49.494 –> 01:26:51.274
I really needed a bed and blah, blah, blah.

01:26:51.294 –> 01:26:52.455
So learn from that.

01:26:52.495 –> 01:26:53.235
That’s my market.

01:26:53.275 –> 01:26:54.496
Your market’s gonna be different.

01:26:55.356 –> 01:26:57.537
So you see which assets actually mean the most.

01:26:57.737 –> 01:27:11.625
It’s the, the ones that the cheap ones right now here that may turn around though, because my bed deal for somebody who’s looking for something a little nicer and brand new, and then realizes it’s going to be a thousand dollars for that.

01:27:11.705 –> 01:27:16.448
Like, let’s say that’s worth a thousand dollars in six months and I can get 500 for it.

01:27:16.568 –> 01:27:19.229
And I, you know, let’s say, well, let’s say, let’s, let’s do it this way.

01:27:19.730 –> 01:27:21.171
Let’s say I bought it for 300 for me today.

01:27:23.001 –> 01:27:28.724
and I hung on to it, kept it new in the boxes, and it’s worth $1,000 new retail, and I can get $500 for it.

01:27:29.104 –> 01:27:29.604
I’ve just made $200.

01:27:29.665 –> 01:27:43.972
The example I have that’s a real story is my dad started a winery in Oregon when I was a kid in the 70s, and he bought, I think they were tobacco sticks, but some sort of holds to plant up thing.

01:27:44.732 –> 01:27:49.355
And he was able to buy a semi truck full of those used from another farm.

01:27:50.415 –> 01:27:51.156
And he bought them,

01:27:52.034 –> 01:27:53.855
and spent the next two years using them.

01:27:54.595 –> 01:27:59.956
Meanwhile, inflation is happening and he sold them for more than he, he sold what was left for more than he bought it for.

01:28:02.477 –> 01:28:05.458
That was a tangible asset, but it was something that was useful.

01:28:06.018 –> 01:28:09.679
And if you just go out and spec on that all the time, you may or may not be right.

01:28:09.799 –> 01:28:15.761
But, um, it’s, we’re at this weird time again, where nice things are not selling.

01:28:18.562 –> 01:28:19.523
but they probably will.

01:28:19.763 –> 01:28:22.544
There’s probably going to be another window where that happens.

01:28:24.806 –> 01:28:30.989
The technological advancement is leading to job loss and getting left behind.

01:28:31.069 –> 01:28:35.992
So if you’re in a job and you get replaced by artificial intelligence, you’ve lost your job.

01:28:36.892 –> 01:28:46.478
You need to be the person in that scenario who knows how to use artificial intelligence to do your job, who knows how to make the self-driving truck

01:28:48.990 –> 01:28:56.539
who knows how to do the computerized, whatever report analysis knows how to leverage that into many reports.

01:28:56.960 –> 01:29:02.587
If you’re that person, you have, you stand to actually make more money at that job.

01:29:04.272 –> 01:29:06.713
than you ever have before because you know how to do it.

01:29:06.793 –> 01:29:12.754
And you may even be in a position where your bosses don’t know what the heck, but you do.

01:29:13.455 –> 01:29:16.735
And that’s a great position to be in from a negotiation standpoint.

01:29:17.096 –> 01:29:21.117
And I know a lot of y’all are like, artificial intelligence is evil and I don’t want to learn it.

01:29:21.197 –> 01:29:22.477
Learn about it first.

01:29:23.457 –> 01:29:25.158
Learn about what that really is.

01:29:25.398 –> 01:29:26.718
Learn about how it works.

01:29:27.679 –> 01:29:29.719
These are things we’re scared of because they’re different.

01:29:31.560 –> 01:29:32.900
Learn the things you’re scared of.

01:29:34.622 –> 01:29:36.842
Learn the things you’re scared of and then make your decision.

01:29:37.583 –> 01:29:41.163
But don’t just make your decision because some personality told you it’s good or bad.

01:29:43.224 –> 01:29:44.264
Do it yourself, do the work.

01:29:45.104 –> 01:29:49.165
Because if you do the work, you’re gonna be okay.

01:29:50.545 –> 01:30:00.027
Our monetary system’s feeling a little bit fragile and there’s lots of fear about us going to a CBDC, centralized digital currency, basically.

01:30:02.967 –> 01:30:07.068
That means the central bank, CB, digital currency, is running it.

01:30:07.849 –> 01:30:14.011
We have been operating on the same monetary system like electronically for a really, really long time.

01:30:14.031 –> 01:30:17.552
And it’s totally outdated and it sucks and it costs a lot of money to do it.

01:30:17.772 –> 01:30:19.333
And I don’t see this not happening.

01:30:20.444 –> 01:30:26.429
And I don’t know what that’s gonna mean for our dollar in the US, but it’s gonna mean something.

01:30:26.469 –> 01:30:29.511
It may mean that we are no longer the international currency of choice.

01:30:30.552 –> 01:30:31.953
I won’t be surprised if that happens.

01:30:33.054 –> 01:30:39.499
And then if that happens, look at what happens to other countries where that has happened, right?

01:30:40.340 –> 01:30:42.201
That means our dollar isn’t worth as much anymore.

01:30:45.464 –> 01:30:46.545
This is a favorite tool.

01:30:47.802 –> 01:30:49.644
of leaders, a rebasement of our dollar.

01:30:49.664 –> 01:30:53.488
So rebasing the dollar probably is going to happen.

01:30:53.528 –> 01:30:57.471
I can’t guarantee it’ll happen, but it sort of looks like it’s going to happen.

01:30:58.412 –> 01:31:06.240
That’s a favorite tool of leaders to stave off a big crash so that they can stay credible and stay in power, right?

01:31:07.561 –> 01:31:09.043
But it hurts when it happens.

01:31:09.123 –> 01:31:10.724
It really hurt my grandparents in the 70s.

01:31:12.934 –> 01:31:15.195
And in that is opportunity.

01:31:15.615 –> 01:31:16.455
Are you ready for it?

01:31:16.515 –> 01:31:18.255
Are you ready for the CBDC?

01:31:18.936 –> 01:31:20.176
Are you ready for what that means?

01:31:20.216 –> 01:31:21.696
Have you figured out how you’re going to use that?

01:31:21.756 –> 01:31:22.637
What it might look like?

01:31:22.677 –> 01:31:28.498
So rather than gloom and doom, they’re going to control us with it, which is a valid thing to discuss.

01:31:28.758 –> 01:31:30.259
Like how can it be used to control me?

01:31:30.339 –> 01:31:30.539
Okay.

01:31:30.559 –> 01:31:32.559
What does that mean in my interaction with it?

01:31:35.360 –> 01:31:39.721
Ask yourself, how can I use that to my advantage and what alternatives are there?

01:31:41.789 –> 01:31:43.191
Am I just going to go all in on gold?

01:31:43.752 –> 01:31:46.515
Am I going to finally get off my butt and learn about how Bitcoin works?

01:31:47.276 –> 01:31:48.037
Maybe get some of that.

01:31:48.518 –> 01:31:49.960
But Bitcoin is the CBDC.

01:31:50.000 –> 01:31:50.621
I don’t think so.

01:31:50.641 –> 01:31:52.783
I don’t think so.

01:31:53.925 –> 01:31:55.607
There’s no central bank in Bitcoin.

01:31:56.809 –> 01:31:59.752
That’s the first two letters are pretty important in CBDC.

01:32:01.252 –> 01:32:03.333
And if you’re like, man, that’s something new I got to learn.

01:32:03.373 –> 01:32:04.654
Yeah, we got to learn new things.

01:32:04.694 –> 01:32:06.455
Like I’m gonna learn how to tan hides this year.

01:32:06.495 –> 01:32:07.115
That’s my plan.

01:32:07.775 –> 01:32:10.077
I want to tan at least one rabbit hide this year.

01:32:10.617 –> 01:32:13.598
And I know that’s not a new cutting edge tech thing.

01:32:13.618 –> 01:32:17.460
But I’m also going to go check out that calendar tool because I’m interested in how that works.

01:32:18.001 –> 01:32:21.563
And I’ve I’ve been learning how some of those tools I learned how Bitcoin works.

01:32:21.803 –> 01:32:22.083
I took

01:32:23.291 –> 01:32:27.193
I took Vin Armani’s class on cryptocurrency because I just wanted to understand it better.

01:32:27.734 –> 01:32:29.415
And he teaches you how to code.

01:32:30.095 –> 01:32:32.196
And I’m never going to need that, I don’t think.

01:32:32.336 –> 01:32:34.638
But I learned how to do it, right?

01:32:35.318 –> 01:32:41.502
And that helps me identify deeper what stability is in the crypto world and what it isn’t.

01:32:42.162 –> 01:32:47.687
And I have a lot of good friends who’ve gone even deeper into it than I have, who’ve taught me lots of stuff.

01:32:47.767 –> 01:33:00.619
Like having that community around all of these things really helps me because when one person learns something, then, you know, somebody else, you know, you guys know I’m making shorts through artificial intelligence, right?

01:33:00.639 –> 01:33:03.161
Like all the shorts you see that are snippets from the podcast.

01:33:03.221 –> 01:33:04.242
Yes, we edit those.

01:33:04.623 –> 01:33:05.243
But first,

01:33:06.144 –> 01:33:13.246
This entire live stream is going to be analyzed and it’s going to say these, this is where your like peak engagement was.

01:33:13.306 –> 01:33:15.026
These topics seem really interesting.

01:33:15.086 –> 01:33:20.448
I can say, look for these keywords and it’ll make a bunch of little videos and then we can refine them.

01:33:21.168 –> 01:33:27.709
And that saves me, that saves me 60 hours of editing every week already.

01:33:27.869 –> 01:33:29.710
Just that, just that.

01:33:31.028 –> 01:33:37.011
Um, so, you know, back to the Bitcoin thing, like learn if you have not, if you’re resistance, I get it.

01:33:37.051 –> 01:33:40.353
Like, just don’t like go out and base your whole life on it.

01:33:41.153 –> 01:33:42.133
Go learn how it works.

01:33:43.134 –> 01:33:49.177
Go learn how security works in, in, in that world and, and see, you know, what you think.

01:33:49.357 –> 01:33:57.861
And if you see a rabbit trail where you think you can get rich quick through investing in blah, cryptocurrency run, just run.

01:34:00.216 –> 01:34:02.657
It’s probably not true in that situation.

01:34:03.378 –> 01:34:04.878
So, okay.

01:34:05.559 –> 01:34:13.804
With the election year and the division being ramped up again, we may see rioting and violence and hijinks.

01:34:14.664 –> 01:34:18.427
We’ve already had protests at the LA airport apparently would shut it down.

01:34:19.027 –> 01:34:19.807
I had no idea.

01:34:19.827 –> 01:34:21.949
I was flying that day out of Southern California.

01:34:21.989 –> 01:34:23.670
Luckily, I wasn’t flying out of LAX.

01:34:24.130 –> 01:34:25.251
I should have had an idea.

01:34:26.451 –> 01:34:28.533
And that goes back to situational awareness.

01:34:29.383 –> 01:34:33.465
Having an idea when you’re traveling in particular what’s going on is very helpful.

01:34:33.905 –> 01:34:45.350
I’m blessed to have a wonderful community of folks in y’all and in the SOE network and in the TSP network who are fairly aware of what’s going on.

01:34:46.111 –> 01:34:54.975
And after Self Reliance Festival last March, there was an active shooter in Nashville and folks knew I was leaving.

01:34:55.475 –> 01:35:00.137
They knew I was leaving Camden, Tennessee and maybe driving through Nashville home.

01:35:00.897 –> 01:35:06.780
And the minute it happened, I had three people reach out to me and say, active shooter here in Nashville.

01:35:06.800 –> 01:35:07.340
Don’t go there.

01:35:07.740 –> 01:35:09.921
I had a speaker being driven to the airport right then.

01:35:09.961 –> 01:35:15.063
I said, hey, person driving speaker route around that part of the city.

01:35:15.103 –> 01:35:16.204
Just don’t even go near there.

01:35:16.224 –> 01:35:17.444
It was nowhere near the airport.

01:35:17.484 –> 01:35:18.865
Just get to the airport the other way.

01:35:19.765 –> 01:35:31.834
And don’t go sightseeing in that part of the city right now if you’re going to do sightseeing because we don’t need this person like hurt or you don’t want to get stuck in a situation where you can’t get out and then you can’t get to the airport, right?

01:35:31.854 –> 01:35:33.355
There’s all sorts of reasons not to go there.

01:35:34.936 –> 01:35:37.058
That helps me whenever I travel.

01:35:37.498 –> 01:35:39.780
A lot of, you know, there’s some people who know where I’m going.

01:35:39.860 –> 01:35:40.941
They know how I’m getting there.

01:35:41.421 –> 01:35:43.943
And then if they see something happen, they reach out to me.

01:35:43.983 –> 01:35:46.145
And that makes a huge, huge difference.

01:35:47.839 –> 01:35:51.825
as to whether I end up in the middle of a riot or not.

01:35:53.828 –> 01:36:00.218
And if you remember Ferguson, Missouri, I ended up in the middle of one of those on accident once.

01:36:00.258 –> 01:36:02.141
And that’s when I learned I needed a better system.

01:36:02.947 –> 01:36:03.467
Don’t be me.

01:36:04.267 –> 01:36:06.908
Learn from that story and stay out of it.

01:36:07.128 –> 01:36:08.348
Just stay out of it.

01:36:10.269 –> 01:36:15.190
The best thing you can do with the declining health of our population is not be part of the problem.

01:36:15.850 –> 01:36:16.791
And this one’s hard.

01:36:17.151 –> 01:36:20.672
Toolman Tim has started a telegram group called Camp Hope.

01:36:22.252 –> 01:36:29.636
And it’s just a bunch of people who want to be healthier, who are encouraging each other, coming up with ideas around bad habits.

01:36:30.417 –> 01:36:36.060
And if something goes wrong, because when you change your lifestyle, some days you don’t.

01:36:37.717 –> 01:36:43.859
And then if you let yourself get down on yourself about that, you don’t again, and you don’t again.

01:36:44.579 –> 01:36:49.701
And the key to good health is making the best decision for you.

01:36:49.721 –> 01:36:59.764
The best small decision, like drinking water instead of coffee every day, all day, one decision at a time.

01:36:59.924 –> 01:37:05.126
It’s the little, it’s the cumulativeness of the little decisions that make a huge difference.

01:37:06.121 –> 01:37:07.962
Like, did I walk my dogs today?

01:37:08.062 –> 01:37:09.223
No, because it was cold this morning.

01:37:09.323 –> 01:37:11.584
Am I walking them the minute I stopped this live stream?

01:37:11.864 –> 01:37:13.105
Yes, because the sun’s still up.

01:37:13.825 –> 01:37:15.246
And I knew that going in today.

01:37:16.527 –> 01:37:20.669
So skipping the walk could happen.

01:37:22.590 –> 01:37:25.651
And sometimes when you skip the walk, you skip the walk the next day.

01:37:26.152 –> 01:37:27.652
And then you skip the walk the next day.

01:37:27.692 –> 01:37:30.494
And next thing you know, you skipped all the walks all month.

01:37:32.145 –> 01:37:34.206
That’s not how you take control of your health, man.

01:37:34.967 –> 01:37:35.908
You got to take the walk.

01:37:37.068 –> 01:37:43.833
And having a group of people who you care about, who care about you, helping you stay on task is great.

01:37:43.913 –> 01:37:46.114
And forgive yourself if you stumble.

01:37:46.134 –> 01:37:48.696
Because it’s not if you stumble, it’s when you stumble.

01:37:48.816 –> 01:37:51.438
Even the most fit person in the world stumbles.

01:37:52.879 –> 01:37:55.981
There’s that day where they’re like, man, I just didn’t go to the gym today.

01:37:57.489 –> 01:38:00.590
that’s three reasons why you need to go to the gym tomorrow.

01:38:00.670 –> 01:38:04.452
If going to the gym is your thing, um, figure out it.

01:38:04.652 –> 01:38:07.853
So the, the medical industrial complex, not being awesome.

01:38:09.234 –> 01:38:17.777
Hey, it doesn’t mean every, every medical intervention is terrible for you, but the fewer of them you can have, the better off you are, right?

01:38:17.837 –> 01:38:21.038
Because one leads to another leads to another and it can cascade.

01:38:21.959 –> 01:38:25.260
Uh, so being healthy is how you, you change that.

01:38:26.664 –> 01:38:31.489
being healthy is how you weather the latest flu without having to go to the hospital.

01:38:31.529 –> 01:38:36.034
And then they didn’t like doing, and then you didn’t get exposed to a different flu while you were at the hospital.

01:38:36.054 –> 01:38:46.466
Like I was at the hospital of tactical on the 1st of January, which is really not, I mean, it’s kind of looking back, it was entertaining to be there, but there was, it was not the, um,

01:38:48.325 –> 01:38:49.447
the height of society.

01:38:49.487 –> 01:38:50.429
We’ll just put it that way.

01:38:50.449 –> 01:39:00.227
There was a lot of people who’d had a lot of fun on New Year’s Eve and we were there for a different reason, but I also got exposed to every flu under the sun, I’m sure.

01:39:01.179 –> 01:39:03.780
And we are now seven days later so far.

01:39:03.800 –> 01:39:04.861
I haven’t gotten sick.

01:39:04.881 –> 01:39:05.621
Hopefully I don’t.

01:39:06.121 –> 01:39:22.568
I immediately went into extra immune system boost after that because I was like, okay, we’ll just, we’re going to do the zinc cycle for a while and do our best and make sure we’re getting plenty of sleep and not pull, you know, sometimes I get really interested in something and I read about it way late into the night.

01:39:22.628 –> 01:39:22.768
Nope.

01:39:23.068 –> 01:39:24.268
I have not done that this week.

01:39:24.308 –> 01:39:25.629
I’ve been really, really careful.

01:39:26.249 –> 01:39:30.760
because I really don’t want to get sick and staying peak health every day makes a big difference.

01:39:30.881 –> 01:39:33.588
And then as far as the under maintained infrastructure,

01:39:34.990 –> 01:39:36.512
Part of this is choose where you are.

01:39:37.192 –> 01:39:39.334
Based on where you are, this is better or worse.

01:39:39.634 –> 01:39:42.216
Know where the problems are as best you can.

01:39:42.236 –> 01:39:51.804
And then if you’re in an area that’s susceptible to problems, figure out if you can work your way, be prepared for it.

01:39:52.185 –> 01:39:58.029
And, you know, the one that I see happening, like seems less and less stable here is our electric grid.

01:39:58.069 –> 01:39:59.531
Like power used to go out here.

01:39:59.551 –> 01:40:00.992
It goes out here all the time now.

01:40:01.974 –> 01:40:03.335
Well, now I have to be ready for that.

01:40:03.395 –> 01:40:04.596
And how do I get ready for that?

01:40:04.636 –> 01:40:21.949
Well, we spent a lot of, I’ve been investing heavily, effort, time, money in being less reliant on systems from outside the hauler so that we have a decent situation when they don’t work.

01:40:22.833 –> 01:40:25.916
And that means that my water is heated by the sun in the summer.

01:40:26.437 –> 01:40:31.101
I actually figured out I might be able to heat some of my water at my wood stove in the winter.

01:40:31.221 –> 01:40:34.445
And then that means less need for propane to heat the water.

01:40:34.845 –> 01:40:36.186
Do I have propane to heat the water?

01:40:36.267 –> 01:40:36.527
Yes.

01:40:36.747 –> 01:40:37.328
Am I using it?

01:40:37.708 –> 01:40:37.968
Yes.

01:40:38.849 –> 01:40:39.149
Right.

01:40:39.770 –> 01:40:43.353
But I use less of it when those other systems are up and running.

01:40:44.113 –> 01:40:52.820
And if those systems go away, it reduces the number of days I would have to boil water somehow to take a bath or to clean dishes or whatever, do laundry.

01:40:54.541 –> 01:41:08.192
The other thing is that we are fast approaching a world where having some of your stuff on solar and in battery storage makes financial sense over buying it from the electric company.

01:41:09.305 –> 01:41:10.979
And that’s, that’s a decision you have to make.

01:41:11.040 –> 01:41:11.504
Like for me,

01:41:13.984 –> 01:41:18.907
pulling some stuff off of the grid has made sense in favor of solar.

01:41:18.927 –> 01:41:25.410
And we just happen to have Sean Mills from Hack My Homestead, who is a whiz at figuring this stuff out.

01:41:25.470 –> 01:41:35.414
Now, my motivation for bringing systems off grid into solar here was for more stability when the power goes out.

01:41:35.474 –> 01:41:40.437
So like right now it is cheaper for me to buy the power from the electric company than to buy the solar system.

01:41:41.448 –> 01:41:47.835
But that solar system will pay for itself in five years based on the electrical savings that I have.

01:41:48.635 –> 01:41:49.977
So it just needs to last for five years.

01:41:50.017 –> 01:41:56.003
And that’s in part because you get a 30% tax rebate on solar systems at the federal level, tax rebate.

01:41:56.043 –> 01:42:01.248
That means 30% of the cost I put into that goes off the taxes I owe to the federal government.

01:42:01.709 –> 01:42:03.390
That’s pretty awesome, right?

01:42:04.291 –> 01:42:08.874
And I saw that option and I took advantage of it.

01:42:08.974 –> 01:42:11.696
And it just it kind of made the finances make sense on that one.

01:42:11.736 –> 01:42:14.398
Well, things are getting like solar panels are getting cheaper.

01:42:14.498 –> 01:42:15.959
Battery storage is getting cheaper.

01:42:16.019 –> 01:42:17.320
We know more about how to do it.

01:42:17.640 –> 01:42:21.923
The thing about that, guys, if you make that decision is you are putting time into maintaining the system.

01:42:22.884 –> 01:42:25.785
Just know that, you know, you got to know what you’re getting into.

01:42:25.885 –> 01:42:30.946
So it doesn’t always make sense to have the solar water heater if you’re not going to be able to maintain it, for example.

01:42:31.466 –> 01:42:39.688
But it is a way to increase your resilience against just things that are not being maintained the way they need to.

01:42:40.088 –> 01:42:41.609
So, I mean, that’s kind of my view.

01:42:41.649 –> 01:42:49.571
If things go south in 2024 at an accelerated rate in any one of these things, the best thing we can do

01:42:51.338 –> 01:42:59.062
is increase our ability to navigate it through knowledge, through resilience, through flexibility.

01:42:59.302 –> 01:43:01.484
I think it looks scary right now.

01:43:01.924 –> 01:43:07.707
And it has looked scary for a number of, it looks so scary and it’s looked scary for so long that people are numb to it at this point.

01:43:07.747 –> 01:43:08.888
They’re in denial, right?

01:43:09.408 –> 01:43:13.290
But we have gotten through worse than what any of this could lead to.

01:43:14.070 –> 01:43:14.831
And we will again.

01:43:16.081 –> 01:43:19.845
The thing we need to do is build the life you choose with an eye towards your community.

01:43:20.045 –> 01:43:23.048
Like have a real community, have real relationships with people.

01:43:23.528 –> 01:43:28.053
Have a Sue Zoldak who’s willing to reach out to you and say, are you okay when you’re not okay?

01:43:28.073 –> 01:43:30.595
Because they can see it because they follow you enough to do it.

01:43:30.915 –> 01:43:32.217
And then diversification.

01:43:33.834 –> 01:43:36.155
We don’t know which of all of these things will pop.

01:43:36.195 –> 01:43:41.617
We don’t know which skill we need, but what we can do is not put all of our eggs into one basket.

01:43:41.637 –> 01:43:45.178
Because if you drop that basket, most of those eggs will crack, right?

01:43:45.918 –> 01:43:49.259
Long-term though, look at your long-term success.

01:43:49.359 –> 01:43:51.660
Focus on building your long-term success.

01:43:52.260 –> 01:43:57.342
And then the little pops that happen are less of an impact on you.

01:43:57.722 –> 01:43:59.123
Stockpiling only so far.

01:44:00.103 –> 01:44:02.284
Stockpiling gets you through some things, right?

01:44:02.344 –> 01:44:05.945
Stockpiling all of the things and the long-term food storage, all of that.

01:44:06.045 –> 01:44:07.026
It’ll get you through some things.

01:44:07.446 –> 01:44:09.407
Hopefully you like how that long-term food tastes.

01:44:10.067 –> 01:44:16.910
But skills, health, resilience, financial stability, underground networks,

01:44:18.442 –> 01:44:20.262
Those are the strength in any struggle.

01:44:20.943 –> 01:44:23.303
That’s what gets people through for realsies.

01:44:23.843 –> 01:44:33.065
And that’s why we do Self Reliance Festival and the LFTN Spring Workshop and all of the other events and meetups like the Lenore City one that I’m going to next week, right?

01:44:33.605 –> 01:44:38.046
That’s why we’ve been pushing so hard on that because that gives you your underground network.

01:44:38.106 –> 01:44:45.708
From that, you learn the skills, you have somebody there to encourage you to get your health under control, who can give you new ideas of ways to be resilient.

01:44:46.661 –> 01:44:49.783
It’s all part of the underground network.

01:44:52.104 –> 01:44:55.306
And it’s always good to know a guy, right?

01:44:55.746 –> 01:44:57.007
It’s always good to know a guy.

01:44:58.208 –> 01:45:01.530
It’s also really good to be the guy that everybody knows.

01:45:03.271 –> 01:45:13.497
And with that sort of double-edged approach in a community, sometimes you are the guy, sometimes you know the guy.

01:45:15.256 –> 01:45:17.738
If you have that, that’s your strain.

01:45:18.238 –> 01:45:19.719
So what are you guys building this year?

01:45:21.160 –> 01:45:22.521
What are you planning to learn?

01:45:24.663 –> 01:45:28.626
Who are you going to get to know and how well are you going to get to know them and how are you going to develop trust?

01:45:32.489 –> 01:45:35.931
Because that’s how you navigate 2024 or pretty much anything else.

01:45:35.971 –> 01:45:37.432
Like the answer isn’t really different.

01:45:38.273 –> 01:45:40.915
It’s just that we have some very specific things we can work on.

01:45:43.254 –> 01:45:47.135
Well, I know one way you can get to know people is join the Living Free in Tennessee communities.

01:45:47.175 –> 01:45:49.336
And we have a pretty active one on Telegram.

01:45:49.936 –> 01:45:55.298
It’s LFTN group, at LFTN group on Telegram, t.me forward slash LFTN group.

01:45:55.878 –> 01:46:00.379
We have a pretty active one on MeWe as well, me.com, Living Free in Tennessee.

01:46:00.819 –> 01:46:02.520
And of course, we have a Facebook group.

01:46:02.880 –> 01:46:08.662
There’s all sorts of ways to interact with us, come to events, like check out stuff, get to know us, just doing that.

01:46:09.622 –> 01:46:12.685
Helps you start, get to know people, have somebody you can run stuff by.

01:46:13.125 –> 01:46:16.668
If you need to get your health in order, join Toolman Tim’s Camp Hope.

01:46:18.289 –> 01:46:19.630
Do whatever you got to do guys.

01:46:19.770 –> 01:46:21.011
Cause I know you have it in you.

01:46:21.091 –> 01:46:22.272
Otherwise you wouldn’t even be here.

01:46:22.292 –> 01:46:23.653
You wouldn’t have stayed here this long.

01:46:24.628 –> 01:46:29.271
Anyway, if you like the show and want to support the work I’m doing here, you can do it in two ways.

01:46:29.391 –> 01:46:32.132
One, get your coffee at hollaroast.com.

01:46:32.212 –> 01:46:34.073
Two, come to one of my events.

01:46:34.574 –> 01:46:43.158
Check them out, livingfreeintennessee.com forward slash spring hyphen workshop hyphen 23 and selfreliancefestival.com.

01:46:43.198 –> 01:46:46.200
With that, guys, go out and make it a great week.

 

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00:03.643 –> 00:09.346

Howdy, everybody, and welcome to today’s live interview with Kenny G. Kenny G, you going to play some music?

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Maybe a little later.

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I think I forgot my guitar at the show.

 

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Is Kenny G your real name?

 

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Close enough.

 

00:19.712 –> 00:20.293

That’s right, guys.

 

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Kenny G’s been on our podcast before on a different topic, but he reached out to me and said, hey, I want to talk about things people should know while traveling.

 

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And

 

00:31.329 –> 00:47.931

I kind of added because I know you’re going to end up talking about this like situational awareness, something that has really struck me in the last couple of years that I’ve been on the road is so I was driving to Texas and you know how those alerts come over your phone that everybody turns off because they’re annoying.

 

00:47.952 –> 00:48.873

Yep.

 

00:49.721 –> 00:51.261

Okay, so one of those alerts came over my phone.

 

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I’m like, I have Amber Alerts.

 

00:53.302 –> 00:53.742

Shut off.

 

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Like, what’s up?

 

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And a convict had escaped prison.

 

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So it was a different kind of alert.

 

01:01.383 –> 01:03.223

And he had taken people hostage.

 

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And they said, this is going on in this area.

 

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Well, I had made the critical error of following my GPS instead of my map to get around, to route around a traffic issue.

 

01:14.886 –> 01:16.446

So I didn’t actually know where I was.

 

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And so when it said where it was, I didn’t know where I where I was, where it was in relationship to that.

 

01:23.756 –> 01:30.864

And luckily, I had more than half a tank because I usually top off about every half tank when I’m driving somewhere long distance.

 

01:31.364 –> 01:33.206

And I got all the way to my destination.

 

01:33.226 –> 01:35.829

And it turned out I was within a couple of miles.

 

01:36.029 –> 01:41.795

And the guy ended up taking a family hostage, driving to Ohio and killing them before he was caught.

 

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And so that’s what I mean by situational awareness.

 

01:45.587 –> 01:53.572

Like we get so used to technology that sometimes it’s a really bad idea to just put your faith in it.

 

01:53.672 –> 01:55.033

But there’s a lot of stuff you can do.

 

01:55.053 –> 01:56.074

Oh, I lost the light.

 

01:56.454 –> 01:59.516

There’s a lot of stuff you can do between now and then.

 

01:59.656 –> 02:02.038

But let’s start with before we jump into that.

 

02:02.418 –> 02:03.939

I’m just giving everybody the overview.

 

02:06.021 –> 02:09.283

Tell us who you are and how you ended up on LFTN anyway.

 

02:11.467 –> 02:14.528

Um, Ken or Kenny G if you prefer.

 

02:14.608 –> 02:17.630

And yes, that is the real first initial for my last name.

 

02:18.650 –> 02:24.372

Um, I am working or I work for the emergency concierge service, our three contingencies.

 

02:24.953 –> 02:27.774

We see a lot of things happen up, down, left, right.

 

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And I thought it would be a great topic here.

 

02:31.715 –> 02:35.357

And not to mention, I’ve reached out to Nicole for several things regarding business.

 

02:35.477 –> 02:37.338

So pay it back, right?

 

02:37.858 –> 02:37.998

Yeah.

 

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So what is our three contingencies before we jump in there?

 

02:41.738 –> 02:46.003

They are, as far as I know, the world’s only emergency concierge service that there is.

 

02:47.684 –> 02:50.528

What does an emergency concierge service do?

 

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For example, let’s say you go on a flight and they lose your luggage and you have a business meeting.

 

02:58.656 –> 03:02.861

It would have been something that we prep for and we would have clothes delivered to your hotel room.

 

03:04.275 –> 03:05.236

Well, that’s pretty cool.

 

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With, you know, a Visa gift card if you need it, a phone charger, standard stuff that you may have forgotten or gotten lost.

 

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Or example, you run out because your kid’s in the hospital.

 

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We deliver a phone charger to you, food, basic necessities, toothbrush, toothpaste, stuff like that.

 

03:24.226 –> 03:24.406

Wow.

 

03:24.426 –> 03:25.207

That sounds really good.

 

03:25.227 –> 03:25.547

Yeah.

 

03:26.588 –> 03:26.748

Yeah.

 

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I found your website.

 

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So I thought I had to, you know, show it.

 

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Cause we have that capacity here.

 

03:33.374 –> 03:33.694

Okay.

 

03:33.774 –> 03:35.936

So let’s go back to traveling though.

 

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Cause traveling has probably taught me more about prepping than anything else.

 

03:40.540 –> 03:45.164

One thing I learned is you never leave the house without a snack in your bag.

 

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Because you’re going to end up on a train somewhere in the middle of the night in Eastern Germany and you didn’t have time to get dinner.

 

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And luckily you have that snack in your bag.

 

03:56.120 –> 03:59.102

But why should I prep for travel?

 

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And if I’m like with a tour group, should I still should I still prep for travel?

 

04:05.546 –> 04:06.167

And if so, why?

 

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Absolutely, you should still prep for travel.

 

04:10.907 –> 04:14.550

And prepping for travel is essential because let’s face it, you never know.

 

04:16.311 –> 04:18.452

I live in New Hampshire, I’m really close to Boston.

 

04:18.833 –> 04:26.278

When the big dig was happened, I have literally driven into Boston and had the road closed that I drove in on, on the way out.

 

04:28.099 –> 04:29.200

Yeah, what’s that mean?

 

04:29.220 –> 04:30.281

Do you just get stuck on the road?

 

04:31.901 –> 05:00.958

uh yeah i had to get rerouted and i was stuck in a traffic jam for about four hours what should have been an hour and a half trip literally took me all day and had i not done things like you know make sure my gas tank is kept half topped off bare minimum i keep a gallon of water in the car i keep cliff bars in the car i mean i know they’re not the healthiest thing for you but they do help satisfy your hunger and there is such a thing as driving hangry and i would not recommend it

 

05:01.869 –> 05:02.469

Well, why not?

 

05:02.489 –> 05:06.971

Because you make stupid choices when you’re hangry.

 

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I mean, I know it says no U-turn, but I don’t see anyone here and I’m starving.

 

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Yeah, I took a wrong turn on my way from Oklahoma City to Tennessee, which literally all you need to do is stay on the stupid freeway, which is I-40, right?

 

05:23.958 –> 05:24.198

Right.

 

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But I got on the freeway going the wrong direction after getting gas.

 

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And then I took the next exit, which was a terrible idea.

 

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Ended up driving 28 miles one direction to where I could finally turn around after paying a toll and 28 miles back.

 

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And I kept looking at the gaps every so often that said, don’t drive through here.

 

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And I finally like I was like, well, there’s so many cars coming.

 

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I’m not going to do it right.

 

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But I was really tempted and I got to the toll booth and I asked about those things like, oh, yeah, we actually have cameras up.

 

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We would have busted your ass because people get into accidents when they do that.

 

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So I made the right choice in that turn and in that situation.

 

06:00.968 –> 06:06.470

But what does what does prepping for travel look like?

 

06:08.410 –> 06:08.970

Depends.

 

06:09.070 –> 06:10.551

Are you flying or driving?

 

06:10.951 –> 06:13.631

I mean, we’re talking about driving, so let’s go with that.

 

06:13.651 –> 06:16.772

A simple low-hanging fruit is get AAA.

 

06:17.632 –> 06:23.974

It doesn’t cost much, and if you get one tow, just one in like four years, it pays for itself.

 

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I used to work for a towing company back when I was younger and had hair, and it started out like $150 to pick you up plus $15 a mile.

 

06:30.915 –> 06:32.256

That adds up really, really fast.

 

06:38.846 –> 06:39.186

Yeah.

 

06:39.747 –> 06:46.232

So I have AAA for this reason and the poor people have had to tow me at least twice a year since I got it.

 

06:47.933 –> 06:52.417

And except for this year, because it’s the second or third or something.

 

06:54.379 –> 06:59.102

What happened in 2020 with AAA is they would pick your car up, but not you.

 

06:59.122 –> 07:03.006

Yeah, that sounds about right.

 

07:03.326 –> 07:06.048

And they said they didn’t want to risk giving the drivers COVID.

 

07:06.108 –> 07:07.129

So I was in 2020.

 

07:09.451 –> 07:10.411

Maybe it was 2021.

 

07:10.471 –> 07:11.932

It was still in effect.

 

07:12.092 –> 07:19.073

I get caught in the middle of the wilderness, basically, between Chattanooga and Sparta.

 

07:19.893 –> 07:21.714

So I’m like literally on the side of the road.

 

07:21.734 –> 07:22.874

There’s nothing around.

 

07:22.914 –> 07:26.115

And they’re like, well, you can’t ride with the driver because of our policies.

 

07:27.555 –> 07:28.755

And I’m like, what am I supposed to do?

 

07:28.775 –> 07:29.755

You know what they told me to do?

 

07:29.775 –> 07:31.276

Get an Uber?

 

07:32.036 –> 07:32.676

Call a cab.

 

07:34.890 –> 07:37.215

I’m like, I don’t know if you understand where I am right now.

 

07:37.275 –> 07:38.999

Because, you know, they’re always like, are you safe?

 

07:39.059 –> 07:40.361

I’m like, no, I’m not safe.

 

07:41.143 –> 07:43.448

I’m on the side of the road in the middle of the winter.

 

07:44.700 –> 07:47.401

And so they were like, well, we don’t know what to tell you, ma’am.

 

07:47.521 –> 07:49.561

This is this is the deal during covid.

 

07:50.502 –> 07:58.404

And that made me rethink my relationship with Triple A. Now, what I ended up doing was asking the driver if he cared if I jumped in and he said, are you sick?

 

07:58.464 –> 07:59.004

And I said, no.

 

07:59.024 –> 08:00.085

He said, then go ahead.

 

08:00.725 –> 08:01.485

And I did get it.

 

08:01.785 –> 08:03.586

Like it was a driver decision.

 

08:03.606 –> 08:08.147

And I did have friends coming to pick me up if that didn’t happen.

 

08:08.167 –> 08:11.188

But they were going to have to drive like two hours to get me.

 

08:12.228 –> 08:14.631

Meanwhile, my car was towed, you know, because it was broken down.

 

08:15.011 –> 08:19.635

So what do you think about that in AAA?

 

08:19.675 –> 08:25.441

Like they’re kind of dead to me, but not dead to me because it’s the only towing service I’ve really found that seems to work at all.

 

08:26.342 –> 08:28.764

That doesn’t cost you an arm and a leg when you have to get it.

 

08:28.784 –> 08:28.864

Yeah.

 

08:29.205 –> 08:29.445

Yeah.

 

08:30.552 –> 08:35.134

Yeah, like, okay, first of all, everyone went insane during COVID.

 

08:35.634 –> 08:41.617

I mean, let’s face it, totally reasonable, rational people I know lost their freaking minds.

 

08:42.497 –> 08:46.839

So I can’t fault AAA too much, and they’ve probably done away with that policy.

 

08:47.419 –> 08:53.082

Like way, way back in the day, 2010, they actually could not leave you on the side of the road.

 

08:53.862 –> 08:55.203

They had policies against that.

 

08:55.771 –> 09:00.993

If you had to like load five people into your tiny two person cab, you did it.

 

09:01.433 –> 09:04.014

You drive to the next exit and you let them off.

 

09:04.554 –> 09:09.355

But as I said, people lost their minds during COVID.

 

09:10.696 –> 09:12.416

Yeah, that happened once to my mom too.

 

09:12.436 –> 09:19.259

She was stuck in the middle of the freeway, like the middle left middle because the car went into limp mode.

 

09:19.279 –> 09:19.939

Do you know what that is?

 

09:20.993 –> 09:24.395

Yes, that is when it enters in when it only does 30 miles an hour.

 

09:24.516 –> 09:33.182

Oh, no, it did five, five, five in a rainstorm on I-40 won’t go more than five rush hour traffic.

 

09:33.262 –> 09:35.883

She pulls into the left shoulder, calls AAA.

 

09:37.204 –> 09:40.667

And they’re like, well, we can’t get there for four hours.

 

09:42.448 –> 09:43.048

Are you safe?

 

09:43.088 –> 09:44.790

And I’m like, no, she’s actually not safe.

 

09:45.578 –> 09:50.641

Like anybody could just reef into the back of that car and they go super fast and whatever.

 

09:50.881 –> 09:51.501

And you can’t see.

 

09:51.982 –> 09:55.884

So the police came and they actually drove her to the next exit, which was nice.

 

09:57.585 –> 10:01.687

That is something you should probably look at depending on your location.

 

10:02.227 –> 10:06.089

Suppose the police had said, no, we don’t want to wait for AAA.

 

10:06.109 –> 10:08.010

We’re going to call one of our guys and they’ll tow you.

 

10:09.651 –> 10:14.254

And a lot of AAA states, if they cannot get to you in a reasonable amount of time, they will pay for the tow.

 

10:15.586 –> 10:18.849

I have had that happen with them too, where they couldn’t get there for four hours.

 

10:18.889 –> 10:20.130

And I said, what’s my option?

 

10:20.170 –> 10:21.471

And they said, you get reimbursed.

 

10:22.731 –> 10:24.473

And then they reimbursed me 80 bucks.

 

10:27.315 –> 10:29.136

Yeah, that probably wasn’t enough to cover the tow, was it?

 

10:29.356 –> 10:32.417

It actually was in that case, because I live in the middle of nowhere.

 

10:32.777 –> 10:33.057

Yeah.

 

10:33.657 –> 10:37.759

It would not have been the case had it been that incident in the middle of the road.

 

10:38.679 –> 10:40.359

So we didn’t know what limp mode was.

 

10:40.580 –> 10:44.801

So I didn’t know why the car was only going five miles per hour and going doop, doop, doop, doop, doop.

 

10:44.921 –> 10:47.242

But I was like, hmm, sounds like a transmission problem, right?

 

10:47.802 –> 10:55.344

Had I known about limp mode, I would have been like, hey, cops, let us get over to the right hand shoulder and then we’ll just limp to the next exit.

 

10:55.464 –> 10:56.404

Down to the next exit.

 

10:56.504 –> 11:05.206

It seems to me that limp mode is a really dangerous thing when it drops you to five miles an hour and won’t let you do anything because you basically can’t get yourself out of a situation at that point.

 

11:05.246 –> 11:06.846

I don’t have that car anymore for that reason.

 

11:08.606 –> 11:09.226

They’re dead to me.

 

11:09.847 –> 11:11.227

People become dead to me easily.

 

11:13.737 –> 11:21.261

Well, if it’s between limp mode and the car not running, I prefer limp mode because, you know, at least I can move a little bit versus some cars.

 

11:21.301 –> 11:23.743

They will literally just shut down and tell you, nope, not moving.

 

11:24.063 –> 11:25.044

But you’re capable of it.

 

11:25.244 –> 11:25.564

Don’t care.

 

11:25.604 –> 11:26.004

Not doing it.

 

11:26.664 –> 11:27.145

Exactly.

 

11:27.165 –> 11:42.634

I mean, I’ve driven on on rims before to get out of dangerous situations just because I’m like, I know this is going to cost me a lot, but I’d rather pay money for that than like die on the side of the road because my car had a blowout of some sort in a really dangerous place.

 

11:43.514 –> 11:47.436

Um, but you know, I’m a weirdo and everybody’s like, why do women always do that?

 

11:47.476 –> 11:50.278

I’m like, cause I’m not going to get out of my car and get hit by a semi.

 

11:50.378 –> 11:58.121

That’s why I, I feel like woman versus semi semi wins every time, every time.

 

11:59.402 –> 11:59.782

Yeah.

 

12:00.202 –> 12:04.405

Red fire made it says waited six hours in Austin at night with a motorcycle.

 

12:04.465 –> 12:04.745

So, um,

 

12:05.737 –> 12:09.778

How what else should you do besides have something like AAA?

 

12:09.798 –> 12:11.319

Because I mean, it works.

 

12:11.499 –> 12:12.759

It is better than nothing.

 

12:12.839 –> 12:18.081

It’s probably the best option I found out there from a price to benefit ratio.

 

12:18.821 –> 12:22.702

But obviously, I have lots of stories about being stranded by AAA.

 

12:22.782 –> 12:24.382

And we have some in the comments here.

 

12:24.422 –> 12:26.623

Like, what else can you do?

 

12:28.985 –> 12:57.057

something else this is just very basic stuff get a floor jack one with wheels on it i don’t recommend the bottle jack and the reason i say the floor jack with wheels is because if you need to you can use it to help get your lug nuts off keep your car on the ground put those stupid little bar they give you and put the jack on the side of the bar so that way when you jack it up it turns the lug because some people out there like my wife she weighs 110 pounds soaking wet

 

12:58.044 –> 13:02.385

If she’s driving an F-250, she does not have the body mass to get that lug off.

 

13:03.025 –> 13:03.686

It doesn’t matter.

 

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It’s not happening.

 

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However, she can jack it up, then stand on it, or use the jack in reverse to retighten the bolts if she needs to.

 

13:14.389 –> 13:19.850

And to know how to do that, how do you know those things to do besides just that one tip?

 

13:22.731 –> 13:25.732

Heard a lot of horror stories and found ways around them.

 

13:25.752 –> 13:26.452

Yeah.

 

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The other thing is try to have more than your cell phone.

 

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I mean, I know, like you said, we’ve become so reliant on these things.

 

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It has a light.

 

13:34.409 –> 13:35.970

What do I need a flashlight for?

 

13:35.990 –> 13:37.731

You want a flashlight.

 

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If it’s pouring rain out, you do not want your cell phone sitting there as you’re trying to get your lugs off.

 

13:45.338 –> 13:51.063

And your cell phone is not as bright as something like a Streamlight or like a decent pocket flashlight even.

 

13:53.244 –> 13:53.825

Correct.

 

13:53.985 –> 13:59.389

Another thing is, and I hate saying this, but dollar store glow sticks, they’re not road flares.

 

13:59.869 –> 14:06.254

But, you know, if you buy five of them and just crack them and toss them down the road, at least they give people something.

 

14:06.354 –> 14:09.116

And worst case scenario, you have a glow stick light.

 

14:10.617 –> 14:11.738

Yeah, that makes sense.

 

14:11.798 –> 14:13.139

You know, I have one of those…

 

14:14.682 –> 14:21.028

cigarette lighter plug-in tire inflator, like compressors, it has a built-in light too.

 

14:21.048 –> 14:22.829

So every time it’s on, it’s flashlights on.

 

14:22.869 –> 14:27.313

Cause they just assume you need me in the middle of the night and you can’t see anything outside.

 

14:28.574 –> 14:30.496

So that’s another good one to have.

 

14:31.057 –> 14:34.560

The only thing I worry about with those is if your alternator dies or

 

14:35.094 –> 14:40.559

Because most people don’t know that their alternator dies until they’re going, why are my headlights getting dimmer?

 

14:40.879 –> 14:41.139

Yeah.

 

14:41.619 –> 14:43.401

And why did my radio stop?

 

14:44.122 –> 14:44.882

Oh, that’s weird.

 

14:45.102 –> 14:48.085

So they just keep driving and then now your car is literally out of power.

 

14:48.906 –> 14:49.306

Right.

 

14:50.227 –> 14:53.008

I mean, those you’re using it because you have a flat tire.

 

14:53.088 –> 14:56.890

And I don’t know if you know this about me, but I have the flat tire curse.

 

14:57.971 –> 15:05.235

I may have actually finally passed it on, but there was a series of years where every time I went on any road trip of any kind.

 

15:06.846 –> 15:13.032

There was a tire blowout or a flat or I came out from the hotel one morning and there it was flat.

 

15:13.652 –> 15:20.659

And so that’s why I have that thing, because I was like, OK, I can pump it up, get to where I need to go to get it patched or whatever.

 

15:20.699 –> 15:21.940

I do have a patch kit.

 

15:22.160 –> 15:24.723

I’m not terribly good at patching tires myself.

 

15:25.640 –> 15:28.041

But I like I can plug them if I need to.

 

15:28.341 –> 15:34.905

Usually it’s it’s a strength issue of getting the thing into the hole.

 

15:35.265 –> 15:35.765

The reamer.

 

15:35.965 –> 15:36.185

Yeah.

 

15:36.205 –> 15:36.525

Yeah.

 

15:37.266 –> 15:37.506

Yeah.

 

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That’s that’s my challenge with those.

 

15:39.647 –> 15:43.689

But I think like the more stubborn I am about it, the better it is.

 

15:43.749 –> 15:51.133

But having that way of inflating tires, no matter what, has been really helpful because I’m usually 20 miles from somewhere useful.

 

15:51.773 –> 15:53.515

at any given time when there’s a problem.

 

15:53.575 –> 15:58.221

It’s not like, oh, hey, look, there’s a repair guy and my car just broke right here.

 

15:58.301 –> 16:00.944

Or there’s a gas station and my car just broke right here.

 

16:00.964 –> 16:04.287

It’s always like, okay, nope, no self service.

 

16:06.049 –> 16:06.770

Now what do I do?

 

16:06.810 –> 16:08.713

I got to get somewhere where I can go somewhere.

 

16:09.493 –> 16:11.736

So what’s the most common?

 

16:12.337 –> 16:12.497

What?

 

16:13.587 –> 16:18.268

Another advantage to those is, at least around here, we get weather that’s like negative 20.

 

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And when it is, those gas station compressors will not work.

 

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They turn on, but they don’t pump air out.

 

16:25.290 –> 16:29.531

Those little plug into your lighter air compressors still work.

 

16:30.192 –> 16:31.492

Yeah, especially if your car is warm.

 

16:32.692 –> 16:33.192

Exactly.

 

16:33.813 –> 16:37.734

What do you tell people to do who are driving in environments like yours where it is really cold?

 

16:37.754 –> 16:42.675

Like what else should they have in the car besides some, you know, basic water and food?

 

16:43.775 –> 17:09.888

space blanket you can buy 10 of them for like 12 bucks on amazon and they are a lifesaver and this may sound weird but believe it or not if you are broken down in a car with no gas the car will be colder than the actual outside because why is that a giant ice box something to do with the metal and thermal dynamics and some math that is just beyond me at the moment

 

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But yes, there have been multiple studies done, one of them actually done by AAA.

 

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And it turns out outside of your car actually is warmer than inside of your car at a certain point.

 

17:19.765 –> 17:21.627

Yeah, unless you have a windshield, I assume.

 

17:21.647 –> 17:23.188

That’s insane.

 

17:23.728 –> 17:23.948

Yeah.

 

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Oh, the cat.

 

17:27.871 –> 17:28.291

What else?

 

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Space blankets, water, food, anything else?

 

17:31.273 –> 17:32.814

Hand warmers, anything like that?

 

17:33.535 –> 17:35.817

Hand warmers are a nice one to keep.

 

17:35.897 –> 17:37.698

However, most people lose them.

 

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I’ve stopped recommending them because people throw them in their trunk.

 

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Then when they need them, I can’t find them or they throw them in their glove box.

 

17:45.524 –> 17:50.006

And then, you know, I throw 10,000 other things in my glove box and I cannot find them.

 

17:50.647 –> 17:54.269

You mean they don’t all have a little kit in their card with all the stuff in it?

 

17:54.689 –> 17:55.489

No, no, no.

 

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Most people don’t.

 

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They just throw it in the back of their truck or in their trunk, whatever.

 

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Another thing I tend to recommend is just some basic toiletries.

 

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Toothbrush, toothpaste, face cloth, soap.

 

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I mean, if you happen to get stuck or God forbid sleeping in your car because the roads are closed, they washed out, they had to close down the road because some guy’s holding a family hostage.

 

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If you can sleep in a Walmart parking lot, go into the Walmart and just, you know, wash your face, some other necessities.

 

18:28.788 –> 18:30.449

It makes you feel 10 times better.

 

18:31.860 –> 18:32.120

Yeah.

 

18:32.180 –> 18:35.122

I know somebody who actually ended up in a Walmart parking lot.

 

18:35.162 –> 18:42.948

I think recently waiting for her husband when the past got just jacked up with truck trucks sliding all over the place.

 

18:42.968 –> 18:44.509

And luckily they got a hotel that night.

 

18:44.749 –> 18:50.713

That’s the other thing is when they closed the highway snow or something, all of the hotels are instantly booked.

 

18:51.534 –> 18:51.694

Yep.

 

18:52.655 –> 18:54.396

So how do you get your hotel room in that case?

 

18:54.476 –> 18:57.198

If you see a road closing, how do you get the hotel first?

 

18:59.209 –> 19:01.230

Go for off the beaten path.

 

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Don’t look for hotels next to airports.

 

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That’s what everyone goes for.

 

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And those tend to be the first ones that fill up.

 

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And this is a little tweak here.

 

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Don’t look for hotel.

 

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Look for motel.

 

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Everyone looks for hotel.

 

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Those fill up.

 

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Look for motel.

 

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And you might be able to find something a little better.

 

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Downside motels tend to be a little lower quality.

 

19:24.645 –> 19:25.706

So, yeah.

 

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Bed bugs are a thing.

 

19:28.047 –> 19:28.468

Oh, yeah.

 

19:29.304 –> 19:35.029

Well, that and fights outside your door at certain motels.

 

19:35.329 –> 19:36.110

Oh, yeah.

 

19:36.130 –> 19:36.991

Three in the morning.

 

19:37.271 –> 19:37.591

Yeah.

 

19:38.212 –> 19:38.352

Yeah.

 

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I like to when I’m going to be if I’m at a motel that feels sketchy, which I try not to do.

 

19:43.756 –> 19:47.800

I love to be on the front office side of the building.

 

19:49.521 –> 19:52.544

Because the fights all seem to happen in the pool area.

 

19:53.826 –> 20:14.091

where they can’t see so just a little i mean if you end up in that situation and it’s safer than staying in your car then you know see if you can get located somewhere where the people who are there all night and awake all night are are also able to see your door that’s super helpful um

 

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The thing I noticed, so I was one time, I’ve done a lot of things on I-40.

 

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This was in New Mexico.

 

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Blizzard was coming through.

 

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And one person was driving, one person was calling.

 

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to make reservations.

 

20:33.409 –> 20:39.995

Calling was better than the websites at that time because the websites would allow reservations to go through when there weren’t rooms.

 

20:40.735 –> 20:41.716

So it was better to call.

 

20:42.197 –> 20:50.323

It’s almost better to pull over for 10 minutes and find where you’re going and then go rather than drive as fast as you can out of that situation.

 

20:50.383 –> 20:54.647

But everything was booked for hours around that closure.

 

20:54.687 –> 20:57.329

And I-40 was closed for a couple of days because of that blizzard.

 

20:58.314 –> 21:01.195

I ended up actually driving south.

 

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We didn’t get a hotel room.

 

21:04.077 –> 21:04.717

We drove south.

 

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Because you know what happens as you go further south?

 

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Usually, it gets warmer.

 

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And eventually, we got to the rain part of the storm instead of the snow part of the storm.

 

21:15.622 –> 21:16.383

And then we get heavy.

 

21:16.423 –> 21:20.524

So we just replanned our entire route around.

 

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I’m not driving in the snow and I-40 is closed.

 

21:27.503 –> 21:29.025

Oh, I get that.

 

21:29.425 –> 21:38.395

Something I’ve seen is if it’s a blizzard, hotels actually will put a cot in like the gym and only be like, tell you what, 50 bucks on a choice.

 

21:39.697 –> 21:40.438

Is it pleasant?

 

21:40.758 –> 21:41.078

No.

 

21:41.098 –> 21:42.680

Is it better than sleeping in your car?

 

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Yep.

 

21:44.262 –> 21:44.642

Yep.

 

21:45.183 –> 21:46.645

That’s actually not a bad play.

 

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Lots of cots in the gym.

 

21:49.305 –> 21:49.825

Who cares?

 

21:49.905 –> 21:52.326

I mean, it’s actually better than dying outside.

 

21:53.606 –> 21:59.548

What’s the most common problem you see when people are traveling and are there ways to prevent it?

 

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Most common problem, especially with flying, is lost luggage, believe it or not.

 

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There is, well, I haven’t used this trick in a few years, but

 

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A friend of mine actually recommended this one to me for your carry-on.

 

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If you put a starter pistol in your bag, you have to declare that you have a gun in your bag.

 

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Starter pistols are legal in all 50 states, and they are then required to take much better care of that bag.

 

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So it increases the tracking on it and increases the odds that it’ll get to your destination.

 

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Now, if you don’t want to go this route, and if you don’t have a starter pistol, it’s just not something you want to do, it depends.

 

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Are you traveling for business or pleasure?

 

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If I’m flying for pleasure and I get there and they’ve lost my bag, whatever.

 

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My friends make fun of me a little bit.

 

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I wear the same clothes for a few days.

 

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I go to Goodwill.

 

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It’s not a big deal.

 

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Suppose I’m traveling for business and my bag had my suit in it.

 

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This is now a significantly bigger deal because I need to go to the place and look nice.

 

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I can’t show up in my travel clothes because let’s face it, I look like a hobo at this point because I dress for comfort on the flight, not to impress anyone.

 

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In this case, something we recommend doing is if you’re traveling locally, look up places where you could buy a replacement and get an idea.

 

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so you know i need a new suit well i don’t want to buy one well there’s a men’s warehouse right here how much will this cost me okay cool if you’re traveling internationally this changes significantly because at this point now you need to before you go look up the translations

 

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Europe does not use the same sizes we do.

 

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And if you go in there with American sizes, you are not going to get clothes that fit at all.

 

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And it can save you a lot of hassle in the long run, just looking up basic translation for sizes, especially when it comes to undergarments.

 

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The way I learned that was by being there and asking him, what size do you think I should try on?

 

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but I actually get really frustrated with the American sizes on Birkenstocks.

 

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Cause I know my Birkenstock European shoe size, which is different in a Birkenstock than other shoes in Europe.

 

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They are the same sizes, but yeah, anyway, something about the wider footbed means I can have a smaller size on that.

 

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You order them on Amazon and they’re like, get size nine.

 

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And I’m like, but is it,

 

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Is it a 42?

 

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Is it a 40?

 

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Is it a 39?

 

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Like, what are you actually going to send me?

 

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So I’ve had a lot like it varies the translation a little bit.

 

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It varies, especially depending on undergarments.

 

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Bras in particular tend to go by much different sizes over in Europe than they do here.

 

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So that’s something you need to prepare for and be aware of.

 

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I mean, I know women’s sizes are all over the place anyway, but you’re going to have to deal with the translation and the sizes being all over the place.

 

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Yeah, I was really frustrated because I had to order a bra here.

 

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And it’s like you measure yourself under your boobs and there’s a number.

 

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So one would think logically you use that number.

 

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No, you add two to four inches to that number and then you order that size.

 

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And I had to go look it up.

 

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I’m like, how do I stop getting bras that are like too tight?

 

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Cause I’m not going to wear these.

 

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I kept returning them.

 

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And I was like, Oh, because it doesn’t make sense.

 

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That’s why it does not make sense.

 

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So.

 

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Men’s sizes are easy, at least in America.

 

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Like you just wrap a tape measure around your waist.

 

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Okay.

 

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34 inches.

 

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That’s how it should be done for women.

 

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Like waist, this hip, that like, here’s your size in seam.

 

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The other.

 

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Imagine that.

 

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No, we have to call them numbers so we don’t admit how big around our waist are.

 

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I think it’s a vanity thing here.

 

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Somebody in the comments is going to fix that for me.

 

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They’re going to be like, no, it’s based on blah, blah, blah.

 

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No, I agree with you.

 

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I think it’s, oh my God, my hips are this big?

 

26:17.547 –> 26:19.909

Instead of just saying, oh yeah, you’re a size 12.

 

26:20.429 –> 26:21.730

Yeah.

 

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12 is beautiful.

 

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And then 12 has changed from the 50s till now.

 

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What hasn’t?

 

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Yeah, that’s also true.

 

26:30.479 –> 26:32.921

I mean, and it will again by the next 50s.

 

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I’m not sure I’ll be alive for the next 50s.

 

26:34.662 –> 26:35.003

We’ll see.

 

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OK, well, so let’s go back to getting prepared for air travel.

 

26:43.170 –> 26:45.812

Like, what do you recommend people do for that?

 

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Okay, the key to being prepared for air travel is being prepared for the TSA.

 

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I hate to say it, but that is the number one thing.

 

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Make sure you wear shoes that you can take off easily.

 

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Try to limit the metal on you, like your watch, your ring, whatever, take it off, throw it in your carry-on.

 

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Always make sure when you travel, you have a carry-on.

 

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Worst case scenario, at least you have, you know, a spare pair of pants, boxers, shirt, and socks that you can change into.

 

27:16.561 –> 27:18.942

I mean, I always need that spare pair of boxers in my luggage.

 

27:20.063 –> 27:20.883

I figured you would.

 

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I got what I get pulled out for.

 

27:25.705 –> 27:32.889

I got I actually started setting off the the thingy on my last trip.

 

27:34.509 –> 27:37.991

And oh, I have a metal hair comb.

 

27:40.313 –> 27:56.332

that on you know in nashville didn’t set it off but it totally set it off at this other airport and they were like you got to take it all the way out ma’am we have to make sure that’s what it is i was like okay here yeah here’s my non-sharp metal hair comb

 

27:58.050 –> 28:03.094

The TSA is not a group you want to play a F around with.

 

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Yeah.

 

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And I will drag you into a side room faster than you can blink.

 

28:07.457 –> 28:07.757

Yeah.

 

28:07.837 –> 28:11.920

I mean, whatever it’s, it’s, it is important to know that I, I travel a lot.

 

28:11.980 –> 28:14.501

So I work really hard not to have to get pulled aside.

 

28:15.062 –> 28:23.708

And in the last year, because I travel with my food now, mostly to stay on my eating plan, the food trips them up more than anything else.

 

28:25.629 –> 28:32.016

Like, if you have a summer sausage in your bag, you can guarantee that they’re going to have to look at it and make sure it’s not a liquid.

 

28:32.977 –> 28:33.938

Oh, yeah.

 

28:34.498 –> 28:38.362

I have problems with highly processed food.

 

28:38.843 –> 28:41.586

So a lot of the times I’ll pack a protein powder with me.

 

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Every time I go through, they need to get someone to test that powder.

 

28:46.551 –> 28:47.132

Every time.

 

28:48.503 –> 28:50.325

The same goes for cheese starters.

 

28:50.805 –> 29:02.153

Like the cheese, I did a cheese making class and I had to go through and I, you know, like when you’re teaching a class, you’re not going to check under the plane, risking it getting lost the culture you need to teach the cheese class.

 

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So I had this little white packet of powder and they were like, what’s that?

 

29:08.978 –> 29:13.162

And I was like, well, it’s a mesophilic culture for making cheese.

 

29:14.383 –> 29:14.843

Duh.

 

29:16.363 –> 29:19.067

And they were like, yeah, we can have to get someone to do this.

 

29:19.448 –> 29:22.032

We need to make sure that’s not cocaine, ma’am.

 

29:22.072 –> 29:22.773

I’m like, really?

 

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Do I look like I’m on cocaine?

 

29:26.384 –> 29:27.245

But I guess whatever.

 

29:27.545 –> 29:28.986

Maybe I do look like I’m on cocaine.

 

29:29.006 –> 29:30.648

I do drink a good amount of coffee.

 

29:33.030 –> 29:33.650

You and me both.

 

29:35.432 –> 29:36.693

I love me some good coffee.

 

29:37.754 –> 29:40.516

So let’s go back to situational awareness now.

 

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Let’s say I know I need to fly to Texas in May for Exit and Build Lamb Summit.

 

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And I’m going to go from Nashville to Austin.

 

29:50.524 –> 29:57.527

And then I’m going to like grab an Uber to wherever I’m staying for the exit and build land summit in Bastrop.

 

29:58.368 –> 30:09.212

How do I figure out from a just geopolitical slash whatever’s going on standpoint, what I need to be aware of there?

 

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And it’s sort of like, I guess the background for this question is when I flew from California home for Christmas or home here after Christmas, I got a text from my dad saying, did you make it home?

 

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And I was like, yeah.

 

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He’s like, well, there were protests that shut down the airport in LAX.

 

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And I was like, well, I didn’t fly out of LAX.

 

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So because I just try not to.

 

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But I know I’ve been in one other incident where protests and riots kind of broke out at the hotel I was in in Ferguson.

 

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Which I totally, by doing a little bit of situational analysis, could have avoided that one by just knowing what was going on in the world.

 

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So like, are there steps you recommend people take or how do we prepare ourselves for that?

 

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Depending on where you’re going in the world, as you know, most places have patterns.

 

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It’s something to look into.

 

31:02.557 –> 31:06.921

Like last time I checked, France rioted around the same time every year.

 

31:07.878 –> 31:09.159

Don’t go to France during that time.

 

31:10.300 –> 31:13.143

If you get invited to stay at a place, do a little bit of Googling.

 

31:13.663 –> 31:18.507

This may sound basic, but look at house prices around there.

 

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If you’re seeing a giant four-bedroom house that’s 2,000 square feet and it’s only valued at $40,000, not a good neighborhood.

 

31:26.615 –> 31:27.375

Not a good neighborhood.

 

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Be aware of that before going in.

 

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And most of all, listen to your gut.

 

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If your gut says, uh-oh, bad things, bad things, don’t go.

 

31:38.130 –> 31:42.352

It doesn’t matter if you’re Sac-A-Meal or Navy SEAL.

 

31:42.912 –> 31:45.433

There are certain situations that you do not want a part of.

 

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And even if you win, you lose.

 

31:49.568 –> 31:59.485

and this is a tip for international travel a lot of places they have signs that say beware of pickpocket everyone does the same thing they touch their wallet when they see that sign

 

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Don’t touch your wallet.

 

32:02.744 –> 32:04.864

If you’re a woman, keep your purse zipped up.

 

32:05.224 –> 32:08.625

Keep it going around your body, not hanging off one shoulder.

 

32:09.046 –> 32:11.466

If you’re a man, keep your wallet in your front pocket.

 

32:11.906 –> 32:13.567

No one goes for your front pocket.

 

32:13.887 –> 32:15.868

It is way too close to the family jewels.

 

32:16.288 –> 32:20.609

If someone sticks anything in my front pocket, I am aware that they are there.

 

32:22.349 –> 32:23.950

I got pickpocketed in Prague.

 

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And it was not a lot of money, but I always kept a little change purse in my bag.

 

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And somebody got it out of my bag and that was it.

 

32:36.366 –> 32:39.829

And I was like, well, I’m glad I don’t keep, like I always wear one of the undershirt

 

32:41.673 –> 33:06.621

things when i have to travel with cash and that’s where you know my important stuff was but i lost five bucks man so they had a good day so even when you know you could be pickpocketed and you think you’re situationally aware you can still get pickpocketed and not know it absolutely if you’re going into a high pickpocket area it is not a good idea to carry cash in your wallet

 

33:07.589 –> 33:35.989

or in your bag worst of all um another place people usually get swiped is falling asleep at the airport oh yeah yeah tell you how many people i’ve talked to said hey i fell asleep in the airport and my laptop’s gone my wallet’s gone my cell phone’s gone i’m calling you from a random person’s cell phone can you please help me yes we could but still shouldn’t have been in that situation in the first place oh i know somebody whose laptop got swiped on the airplane

 

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That’s kind of impressive.

 

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It was.

 

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They were in the airplane.

 

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They worked on their laptop, put it in the bag, and at some point got up to pee.

 

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Came back to their seat, didn’t notice it until they walked off the plane and were going to sit down and do something, and their laptop had been taken out of their bag.

 

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Presumably by the person sitting next to them.

 

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They were able to report it and catch the person before they got to the next flight.

 

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So they got their computer back, but…

 

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Like some people are very brazen about stuff, which is kind of interesting because now I’m making everybody paranoid about being around people all the time and their stuff getting stolen.

 

34:13.906 –> 34:16.188

But the other thing is when you travel.

 

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Do your best not to bring stuff that can’t get stolen.

 

34:20.811 –> 34:22.513

That’s that’s something I’ve always thought like.

 

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If this gets stolen, it’s going to be a bummer, especially if they can crack my password.

 

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But if they can’t crack my password, what happens is this gets reset, right?

 

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And gets resold somewhere in theory.

 

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Everything that’s on this, I can restore to another one of these in about 10 minutes right now.

 

34:45.699 –> 34:49.202

My laptop, it would actually really hurt if that got stolen right now.

 

34:51.331 –> 34:54.797

So that’s where I’m like, oh, that’s my weak spot.

 

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Because that’s usually like this.

 

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It usually can be restored.

 

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But right now there are some decisions I made about the laptop that need to be unmade if it’s going to travel with me.

 

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And some things like that you can’t get around.

 

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I mean, I need to bring my laptop if I’m traveling, period.

 

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End of story.

 

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It has stuff on it.

 

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I mean, like you said, my phone.

 

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I can, you know, back up everything and get it all on my new phone in 10 minutes.

 

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Also, I have a nifty app that allows me to track this, take pictures, and listen to what you’re saying.

 

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So, yes, I stand good odds of getting my phone back.

 

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But if it gets lost, eh, whatever.

 

35:30.523 –> 35:33.085

I can literally pick up a burner at Walmart and is it great?

 

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Nope.

 

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Will it do what I need?

 

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Yep.

 

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Will it get me through it?

 

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Yep.

 

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Another thing people can do is take photocopies of your identification and any cards you have with you and put them in your safe at home.

 

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And then if you’re out and about and your passport gets stolen, at least you have the information you need to start the ball rolling to get some sort of identification.

 

35:57.816 –> 35:59.996

That brings me up to another travel tip.

 

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Take copies of your ID and email them to a friend.

 

36:04.757 –> 36:04.997

Oh, yeah.

 

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We keep copies of frequent travelers ID on hand.

 

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And if you lose your driver’s license, your odds of checking into that hotel go way down.

 

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If we send them a picture of your driver’s license, about 50 to 60% of the time, they’ll take that.

 

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And they’ll go, okay, you lost your driver’s license.

 

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Totally get it.

 

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We’ll work with you on this.

 

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Hopefully your card was already on file.

 

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Yeah.

 

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Well, and if you if you store things in more than one place in that situation.

 

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And this is because I’ve done months of travel with a backpack.

 

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If you don’t have all of your identification with you.

 

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So if you have some at home, that’s real.

 

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that can be overnighted to you.

 

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If you have a passport and a driver’s license in two different places, if one gets stolen or lost, you probably have the other one.

 

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If you have them all in a nice, neat little container with your credit cards, you just lost everything at once.

 

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So I usually would have two different credit cards, separate places, two different IDs, separate places and cash separate places.

 

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Yep.

 

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And sometimes you lose your social security card too.

 

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I do not walk around with that thing.

 

37:17.736 –> 37:18.597

Me neither.

 

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No, don’t walk around with your social security card.

 

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Like some of our frequently travel clients, what they do is they keep an Amex on file with us.

 

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Yeah.

 

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So that way, like, and they just leave their Amex at home.

 

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So no matter what happens, oh crap, I got here and the border patrol literally stole my wallet.

 

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They do that depending on where you go.

 

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Okay, we got you, call up, get you this, get you this, get you that, charge it all, you’re set.

 

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What could have been a major, you know, hiccup now just became a slight little bump in the road and you can go on with your trip in relative ease.

 

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So with your concierge service, if I lose my ID, like how do you help me out?

 

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We’ll email you a copy of your ID that we got previously from you because you told us that you travel.

 

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We’d also get a general indication of the sizes and type of clothes you like to wear, long or shoe sizes.

 

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Know what type of phone you have, whether it’s an iPhone or Android.

 

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So that way we can send you an appropriate charging cord.

 

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Do you ever like shoot out phones to people?

 

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Yep.

 

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We had one guy who called us.

 

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I remember this one because it was from the Washington airport.

 

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And he’s like, hey, can you help me?

 

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Everything just got stolen.

 

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I’m like, okay, you got your phone?

 

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No, I’m calling you from some random stranger’s phone.

 

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Okay, what’s around you?

 

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I’m at the Washington Airport.

 

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No, no, no.

 

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What is actually around you?

 

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There’s the five guys.

 

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Cool.

 

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You like burgers?

 

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Yep.

 

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We’re going to order you a burger, fry, and a drink.

 

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Go over there.

 

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Get it.

 

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Sit down.

 

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Relax.

 

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And we had someone deliver him a cell phone, a $500 Visa gift card.

 

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We emailed a copy of his ID to the hotel and had an Uber pick him up and take him there.

 

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I bet he was happy about that.

 

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He was, he upgraded it next time he got home.

 

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So how does that get paid for?

 

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It’s like, okay, so this $500 gift card, is that you pay in addition to it and the subscription that you’re paying is like for the service or how does that work?

 

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In his case, the $500 gift card was wrapped up in his subscription fee.

 

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Okay.

 

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So that was just part of part of the service.

 

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On the financial side, does that work because you have multiple people you’re working with and it leverages together or do you buy insurance policies on top of that to cover costs?

 

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So we refer to it as flex funds per account and your flex funds can be used for anything.

 

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I need a $500 gift card.

 

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Okay.

 

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I need a phone.

 

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Okay.

 

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I need Uber Eats delivered to me for a week straight because my kid just got into a motorcycle accident and I’m not leaving his side.

 

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Gotcha.

 

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Okay.

 

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So you pay, I noticed on your site, it’s like $50 a year up to $1,200 a year.

 

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Yep.

 

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Are you adding flex funds on top of that?

 

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Or is that part of that?

 

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Flex funds are wrapped up into the subscription fee.

 

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Some guy, he travels in and out of Canada a lot.

 

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He cannot stop mouthing off to the border patrol.

 

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So they take his cell phone every single time.

 

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So every time he gets out, he’s like, hey, can I get another cell phone?

 

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Yep.

 

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He should just not have a cell phone in Canada.

 

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You know, he actually tried just deleting everything off it so they wouldn’t have anything to hold them for.

 

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And they held them for that.

 

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Wait, why’d you delete everything off this?

 

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What are you hiding?

 

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Because at the border, you’re required to open your cell phone.

 

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Really?

 

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Yeah.

 

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You didn’t know that?

 

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No, because I don’t know that I’ve gone to Canada with a cell phone since before flip phones went out of fashion.

 

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When you come back, they will tell you to open up your cell phone.

 

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What are they looking for?

 

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Nefarious text messages?

 

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Yes.

 

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Proof of nefarious acts, stuff like that.

 

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It’s one of those, what I believe is government overreach.

 

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That is awful.

 

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Isn’t it?

 

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Is that going into Canada or coming back to the U.S.?

 

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Coming back.

 

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Okay.

 

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So it’s the U.S.

 

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government doing that?

 

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Yep.

 

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Well, at least he always gets held up coming back.

 

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So, yes.

 

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It must be.

 

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Yeah, those are U.S.

 

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agents asking to see yourself.

 

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Yeah, so I have traveled with smartphones to Europe and back and not had that.

 

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I don’t know why Canada would be different.

 

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They’re more worried about it because we’re their neighbors.

 

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I don’t know what to tell you.

 

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I mean, but it’s our agents on your way back in, not their agents.

 

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Correct.

 

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And heck, screw you.

 

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just gave up my rights.

 

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Okay.

 

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We have a question.

 

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Do they, do you help people with alternative travel arrangements?

 

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Example in July, I took a train from Hungary to Romania.

 

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There was a train wreck and one train for eight hours became a five plus a bus for 22 hours.

 

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So basically in that situation, do you help them find a better way to get somewhere when, when stuff goes wrong or.

 

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Yes, that is one of the reasons we are here.

 

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We have done everything from getting you a ride service because they have different ride services depending on where you go.

 

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And we also partner with various travel agencies.

 

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Okay.

 

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I mean, generally speaking, if you book through a travel agency and something happens, they got you.

 

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They will help you work around that.

 

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Will they answer the phone 24 hours?

 

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Usually not.

 

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But when they do pick up the phone, they will help you.

 

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we had a client who his flight got canceled and he’s like, I don’t know what to do.

 

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I just need a ride home.

 

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I just need a ride home.

 

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I just need a ride home.

 

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I’m like, relax, relax.

 

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Ended up calling everyone.

 

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No one had a ride for him.

 

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The only thing was like one taxi service and it was going to cost a small fortune.

 

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Well, it turns out it was off season for limo services.

 

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So they were offering rides like dirt cheap.

 

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So we got this guy to stretch the limo.

 

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That’s actually hilarious.

 

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Screw the taxis.

 

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I’m taking a limo.

 

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If it’s cheaper, why not?

 

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Well, what basic overview advice would you give anybody who’s looking to travel in 2024?

 

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Just like around the U.S.

 

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Number one piece of advice is know where you’re going and know the local culture.

 

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I mean, I know that seems simple, but it’s…

 

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Really not.

 

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Example, you go to Hawaii.

 

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They don’t like to be rushed there.

 

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Period.

 

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End of story.

 

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I once lived there for over two years and I never once heard a car horn.

 

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Versus you go to Boston and it’s, hi, welcome to Boston.

 

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I mean, it’s just the way it is.

 

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Same thing with New York.

 

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Verse over there, you’ll never hear a horn when the emergency vehicles come down.

 

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Everyone just pulls over.

 

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It doesn’t matter what side of the road you’re on.

 

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They don’t like to be hurried.

 

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Your meal’s coming out slow.

 

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And if you’re a tourist, they’re going to refer to you as a Howley.

 

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They will be very polite to you because you are bringing them a large amount of money.

 

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However, you are not one of them.

 

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Do not confuse it.

 

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Go down south, people tend to be a bit more on the polite side when it comes to customer service and a bit more rude in their personal lives.

 

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It’s a weird formula, but is what it is.

 

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You go to New York, Boston, California, people talk fast, people drive fast, and you might as well get used to hearing the sounds of horns with red lights because that is your life.

 

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I’ll tell you what, I live in the south and I flew home to Portland, Oregon.

 

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Well, it’s not home anymore, but at the time, and I’d been here for years.

 

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And what happens in the checkout line here is you talk to people you don’t know and nobody thinks it’s weird.

 

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So I’m at the airport and we’re going down the escalator and it’s like kind of backed up.

 

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And I say something to the people in front of me and they’re like, like, I’m going to ask them for money.

 

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Why did you talk to me?

 

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Northwest, you don’t talk to strangers, apparently.

 

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And it seemed very unfriendly to me because I had apparently acclimated to polite conversation here out and about.

 

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Exactly.

 

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And I thought, man, I’m from here and you guys are rude.

 

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Or you go to New York and you try that, people are going to be reaching behind their back or backing up slowly.

 

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Because, oh, they’re going to rob me?

 

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I talk to people in New York all the time.

 

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And what I learned is usually I’m asking directions.

 

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Like, is it that way to this street or that way?

 

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Because they all pop up out of the ground like a freaking prairie dog.

 

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And I’m like, I don’t know where I am.

 

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And they’ll be like, it’s Fifth Avenue that way.

 

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And as long as you’re walking the direction they are, they usually be like, yeah, that way.

 

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But if you try to stop somebody and ask them, they’d be like, screw off.

 

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So that was my hack in New York.

 

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New York, New York, and like Pine Bush, New York, very different cultures.

 

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You think that you just crossed six borders in a time zone.

 

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That is how different they are.

 

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Pine Bush, New York is out in the country.

 

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Last time I checked, it was a UFO hotspot.

 

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People went out there, watched little lights dance in the sky.

 

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Everyone’s all friendly, whatever.

 

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You go to New York, New York at like two in the morning, you step outside.

 

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Very different environment.

 

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Yeah, I don’t I haven’t really been to rural New York much.

 

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I had an uncle who lived in Manhattan, so he used to always go there and visit him.

 

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But I don’t know if he’s still there or not.

 

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Anyway.

 

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OK, well, if people want to learn more about your service, like how do they do that?

 

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Go to r3-kon.com.

 

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Also, we are starting up a YouTube channel, giving various sorts of advice, like how to avoid bed bugs, especially if you have a job that requires you to travel and puts you up in cheap hotel rooms.

 

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All right.

 

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Any last words?

 

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Arrivederci.

 

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All right.

 

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Well, thanks for being on today.

 

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Thanks for having me, Nicole.

 

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It was a great time as always.

 

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Welcome to the Tuesday live stream.

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Happy New Year, everybody.

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I’m on with Jack Spierko from the Survival Podcast and John Willis from Special Operations Equipment.

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He’s coming to you from his studio.

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Apparently he does that all the time now.

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Sometimes.

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Is that because you got Starlink?

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We’ve had Starlink here.

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Yeah.

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It works now, though.

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It does work.

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We don’t get like Matrix John anymore.

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No.

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Multiple echoes.

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Oh, something else is playing somewhere perhaps.

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Yeah.

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I think it’s gone now.

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Okay.

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Unless it jacks with you, it’s on your end.

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So you’re like getting your own voice back or some shit.

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I hate that when that happens.

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Anyway.

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Well, what’d you guys, what’d you guys do to ring in the new year?

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Went to bed at nine o’clock.

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I made it to 10.

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Yeah.

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We’re always, we’re always in bed.

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Like we don’t ever go out where there’s a crowd or just the risk of, of being hit or,

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Like we, we never have done the new year’s thing.

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We don’t, we’re, we’re never even awake at new year’s typically.

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I just saw a thing and it was Gen X ringing in new year’s 1993.

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And it’s like a dude in a hood and he’s jamming in Nirvana and shit.

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And then it’s like, and then it’s like a Gen X ringing in new year’s 2024.

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And it’s just the dudes in bed asleep.

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And that’s exactly, that’s a hundred percent exactly what it was like for me.

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I resemble that trajectory.

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There were many New Year’s days where I was very hungover.

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Oh, yeah.

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Not at all.

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I was like, I’m going to get up and do stuff today.

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I remember 94 in particular because we were hungover watching college football.

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And the announcer, instead of saying three yards, said nine feet.

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And me and my buddy looked at each other like we couldn’t fucking grok nine feet instead of three yards.

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Like we had to think about it because that’s how diswired we were at that point.

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Yeah, those days are gone.

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so um folks who are joining us on the live stream do me a favor hit that like and bell button um go to everybody’s channel and follow them if you’re not following survival podcast go there special operations equipment living free in tennessee and if you have questions put the word question in all caps first and then we will handle your questions otherwise we’re going to talk about whatever the heck we want to talk about you know what’s on my mind right now is 2024

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If things go horribly wrong, what things do you think will go horribly wrong?

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Like, what do you see happening?

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I don’t mean, like, worst-case conspiracy.

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Okay.

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Like, let’s take conspiracies out.

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But, like, worst-case scenario with our economy set up the way it is right now, what do you think could happen?

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Do you mean things like, you know, like the grid getting hacked and held for ransom, like, in the past that’s actually happened?

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Or are you talking more day-to-day macro things?

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I think any of that goes, I’m kind of coming at it first from day-to-day macro before we go into like more crazy stuff.

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Bell riots.

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Irish Unification Wars.

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You know that from, that’s from Star Trek, the Irish Unification of 2024.

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Yeah.

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You have to like be a weird bread crummy type Trekkie to know that.

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And I am not.

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Although I love Star Trek, I just haven’t watched it in a long time.

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So no, I’m talking more about

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how do you think inflation is going to be?

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What does that mean?

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How do you think interest rates are going to be?

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What does that mean?

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What do you think the political environment is going to be like as we go into an election year arguing over, you know, whether the Epstein client list should be released or not, all of that stuff that’s going on.

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So, you know, the, the Epstein, the Epstein client list is out there.

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If you just look, it’s, it’s not a secret.

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It’s been out there for years.

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Um,

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Do you think you’re going to go to the grocery store and buy the amount of groceries that you typically buy?

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Do you think it’s going to cost more or do you think it’s going to cost less?

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As far as like your Palestine protests, right, they have them.

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They’re going on all over the place.

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They literally are locking down freeways on the way into Memphis last week.

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It’s happening all over the place.

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It’s just not being reported or we’re just not looking at it.

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In the last two weeks, I’ve really not looked at any of that stuff.

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I know very little about what’s going on unless I’m heading to an area that I look for it.

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So I just plan to do more of my own stuff this year, even more than last year.

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Right.

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More food production, more preservation and then buy less stuff at the grocery store.

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So.

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My price will probably stay the same and we will actually buy less from the grocery store but spend just as much.

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But the food we buy is much better, right?

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We eat ribeye all the time.

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And when we eat ribeye at 6.30 in the morning, I’m not hungry at all, all the way up to lunch.

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If I eat eggs and carbs with it though, if I eat an English muffin or a bowl of cereal

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or banana, I’m hungry by 1030.

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But if I’m just ribeye, I can go all the way to noon.

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And when it’s lunchtime, I’m like, man, I’m really not that hungry.

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And we’ve got a dude that cooks awesome meals here.

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So just rely on ourselves more.

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Now, as far as all the other stuff, will we have an election?

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Who knows?

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Will we be in war?

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Are we not already at war?

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Are they going to spin us and drag us into something else?

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Not only all the grid, you’ve got 24 municipalities at one time getting hit with that stuff.

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You had all the MGM properties in Las Vegas and other places in the United States that were literally offline for like a week.

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Like people who were staying at the hotel could not get into their rooms.

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They could not use their pass keys.

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They couldn’t use their remotes.

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The whole place was offline and it was held for ransom.

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And what did they do?

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They paid it.

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And then they got hit a week again.

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The next week over again.

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Jack, how about you?

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Well, I was going more macro, right?

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So like, first of all, I want to say that what you’re about to see is not a brand recommendation, but I believe that every single person on the road should have something like this in every vehicle you own.

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And for those that are not on the video part of the podcast, that is very large containers of pepper spray.

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And to me, there’s a point where you have to start fighting back and just blocking the road shit.

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That is the easiest way to fight back.

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Everybody should remember Occupy Wall Street when they wanted to clear out the park.

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What did the cop do?

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He got a Dog the Bounty Hunter-sized freaking can of pepper spray, and he walked down the line of protesters and just painted everybody’s face.

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And some of them will be badasses for about 45 seconds.

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But it always works.

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It always works.

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It always works.

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And every time I bring this up, people say, I knew this guy back in Special Forces, man.

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He used to put it on his MREs and eat it.

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Yeah, you know what?

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I eat fucking jalapenos too.

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But you know what happens when you wipe your eye the next day?

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Right.

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Like there’s a difference with something being on your face, especially when we’re talking about Antifa type protesters than eating it.

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So I recommend that for the whole like we just need to start clearing highways on the what’s going to happen.

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I’m more looking at the macroeconomics.

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And I honestly believe that the deep state is in full operation.

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And I know that sounds conspiratorial, man.

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It’s called continuity of government.

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It’s been around forever.

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There’s whole books written on it, you know, by the people that do it.

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And it is designed to keep the orange man out of office.

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And that means duct tape plus zip ties, plus bailing wire to try to hold this rickety ass economy together until the election.

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And so the question then is, you know, it’s like Scotty trying to hold the enterprise together since we talked about Star Trek already.

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Can you hold it together long enough to get to the end?

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And I don’t know if you can.

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One of the people that I really enjoy conversations with on Twitter, actually I guess now, is a chick named Lynn Alden, who is a fantastic financial analyst, big time Bitcoiner as well.

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And she was pointing out how different the housing situation is than it was in 08′.

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due to equity so she showed this graph and right before the 08 crisis home equity levels were like at an all-time low and of course they went lower when people wanted it to fall but it was really really low right now home equity is at one of the highest points it’s ever been at if you own a house but why well because i don’t know what your more if you even have a mortgage nicole

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I have $4,000 left on my mortgage.

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Okay, but you don’t count.

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I have a mortgage, very small relative to the value of my house.

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But why won’t I refinance or sell or whatever?

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Because I have a 2.95% mortgage.

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That’s why I have $4,000 on mine too, because it’s so like inflation is higher than my interest rate on my mortgage.

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But then following the other side of this, if you get into a point where owners become distressed or a lot of us are getting older and want to retire and down, so if that inventory starts to move, is that equity that we have actually equity?

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Or is it artificially inflated equity due to all the stupidity they did pumping money in the economy and the fact that there’s no inventory?

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Like how long would housing prices stay elevated if

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if 10% of the housing went on the market, just 10%.

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And I don’t think it’d be very long.

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Because it looks different and it feels different, people think it can’t be like 08 again.

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I don’t know, man.

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I feel that whole cycle.

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I was talking to Lynn this weekend.

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I said, I feel this whole cycle repeating itself.

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It’s just like history rhyming instead of direct repeating.

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Like, this all feels very, very familiar to me.

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And I’m not saying it’s going to happen this year because I really do think they will hold it together.

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And if you think about it, if they get the potato reelected or they helicopter Gavin in or, God forbid, cackles or whatever –

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Once it’s over, once the election’s over, then economic turmoil is in their best interest because then they can do things to save us.

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If it happens before the election, well, then there’s an alternative and we wouldn’t want that.

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Why do you think there’s no elections in Ukraine this year?

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Because there’s a war.

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Because if there was an election in Ukraine right now, today, the war with Russia would be over tomorrow.

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That’s why.

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Yeah, so I’m kind of looking at the same way you are, Jack, where the cumulative impact of inflation is over 20%.

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And salaries have not risen by that amount.

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So you have that pressure of things cost more.

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Yeah.

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And a lot of people are not earning more.

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We have a job market where it is both hard to find people to do work.

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and hard to find a job at the same time, which is weird.

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You’re starting to see big layoffs kind of roll out right now.

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On the real estate side, houses have gained a lot in value, but we also have out migration from states where the real estate’s really high.

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And in migration where the real estate’s been fairly low, like Tennessee, where we are, I mean, we’re high now compared to what we were, but we’re not California high yet.

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Meanwhile, California is losing people.

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And with the interest rates where they are, if I want to sell my house right now and buy the exact same thing, it costs me more money.

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So so people are kind of sitting around, I think, with this car kind of hanging off the cliff right now that they’re likely to drop interest rates.

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I think everybody’s like most people are saying that.

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for a window in the spring and summer going into the election to try to keep, make it look like we’re prosperous so they can get the potato reelected.

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And then that’s your window.

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If you want to move, that’s your window.

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If you are kind of stuck in a situation where you have an awesome low percentage mortgage and you can, you may be paying a slightly higher rate, but you won’t be paying, you know, eight, nine, 10% rate.

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I’m hoping you’re right because we need to buy a new vehicle.

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I’d rather finance it if the financing is reasonable than write a check for the full value.

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I think right now, especially if you’re somebody who’s feeling the crunch of the raise in prices, the high inflation that we’ve had, finding ways to make sure you are in a cash position as much as possible to make a move if you want to make a move.

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is really important.

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And I think you can do a lot of that.

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If you are in the habit of going to the grocery store and not cooking from scratch, just the change from that to cooking from scratch saves a lot of money on that side.

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And not, you know, I know it sounds like super flip, but not necessarily going out to eat.

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Now, at the same time, if you can find ways and find opportunities where you can earn more money right now, do it.

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Then you’re in a better cash position when that opportunity comes.

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And, you know, I hear I’m going to be doing a bunch of talking about like this really kind of mimics what was going on in the 70s to Jack.

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So just steps that people took in the 70s to navigate all into the 80s with all of that inflation are things that you can do.

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And it’s tangible.

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And, you know, one step at a time, man, you got to hit it from both sides.

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Yeah, if your grandparents are still alive, talk to them about the 70s.

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And if not, talk to your parents.

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My grandparents retired like in 1969.

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Yeah.

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And they saw their retirement savings become completely worthless.

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And yet they managed to be retired for, I think, 30 or 40 years by doing sort of side hustle stuff and by living simply.

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Yeah.

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And they traveled all over the country.

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They did all sorts of fun stuff.

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But they would also go help a buddy put their roof on and make some money.

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Yeah.

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I think we’re going to all have to do things differently.

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I was trying to pull it up.

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I’ll try after I get done here and you guys can carry the tune for a minute.

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But I did a couple shows last year on Cutting Your Own Knee.

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And I think a lot of people need to start exploring that.

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I’ll pull up some stuff in a second.

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And for those who didn’t see it yet, I’m not going to say what the value of the meat is or what I paid for it when I get this video up in a bit.

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But when I do, I bet you no one that didn’t already find out will be able to tell you that the number that they think is the number that I paid.

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And it’s like a 2.5x difference in cost for the same stuff.

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Yeah.

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By having a little bit of specialized knowledge and a little bit of specialized equipment, like, you know, a grinder.

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And people are like, I follow this dude, Meat Dad.

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Yep.

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Right.

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You like him?

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He’s cool.

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Oh, yeah.

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He’s like you and me, John.

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Like, he could just hang out with us.

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Right.

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He’s like, I ain’t bullshit.

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Like, I ain’t selling you nothing.

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I’m just trying to help you.

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And you get these people coming in there all the time.

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Like, well, I can’t afford a grinder.

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I can’t.

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I can’t afford a grinder.

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Shut your mouth.

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Like.

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This shows me the pain is not yet sufficient to pull people out of the cocoon because you have to judge that comment totally differently than you would if it was some random person you stopped on the street.

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This is a person that’s following this dude that wants help that when he gets help comes up with why the help won’t work.

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And you guys, we’ve been dealing with that forever.

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all three of us as podcasters, influencers, whatever.

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But to see it at that level with something so practical.

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And he’s like, I bought this meat grinder on Amazon for $25.

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You have to turn it yourself.

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But if that’s what you have to do, or use a knife, I don’t give a shit.

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And people were like, oh man, you showed a stand mixer yesterday.

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I can’t afford one of those.

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And it’s like, you don’t want a solution.

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Yeah, have you even looked at Facebook Marketplace?

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Yeah.

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You can’t get it new.

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People can’t sell that stuff on Facebook Marketplace.

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You can lowball somebody.

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Eventually, you’ll get a freaking stand meeting.

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I’m about to sell mine because I don’t use the dang thing.

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Talking about a stand mixer.

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Those are the same people that would get caught up and ended in a Hobart mixer.

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I mean, those are the guys you come into the restaurant and he’s in the bowl.

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They shouldn’t own a Hobart mixer.

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That beaver stuff has actually proven to be really well.

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We have several pieces of beaver.

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Jason’s got a ton of pieces of beaver.

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I thought it was like Chinese junk at first, but I mean, we have a lot of it.

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It’s been good.

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And I see meat grinders that are fully functional at antique stores every weekend for 25 bucks, like the old silver cast heavy metal bolt on the side kind of stuff.

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I just bought a milk separator.

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The thing weighs probably 200 pounds.

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And it’s a big, giant cast iron one.

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And you know what they have on Amazon for under $100?

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An electric one.

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Which one do you think we’re going to use on a daily basis?

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We’re going to use the electric one.

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I’ve got the Country Living cast iron grain mill.

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That thing’s badass.

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It doesn’t make as good of flowers, the General Electric plug-in.

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We’re going to use the power while we have the power.

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We’ve got all the other stuff.

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There’s two ways to do everything.

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Yeah, you know, I get whole animals and that’s been a great way for me to keep like premium meals coming without it costing a ton.

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And that’s what we feed people here when we do events.

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And I even was this year at the butcher when they asked me how you want to cut.

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I was like minimum number of cuts.

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I want all the parts and then I will thaw out everything.

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additional and do the finer cuts so you can actually take that same mindset that jack’s talking about if you do whole animals if you use a butcher and just get bigger hunks like i have the whole eye of round to play with two of them what’s the giant what’s the giant piece of meat all the ribeyes come out that’s a rib roast right the rib roast becomes ribeyes i watched a lady at sam’s club this weekend asked for one and the and the dude said yeah you get you get three times as much meat

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for less of the cost than just buying a package of ribeyes.

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And they’ll do it at Sam’s Club, Costco.

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Most of your grocery stores that have a meat department, if you can catch the guy there, they’ll sell you the other piece.

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They’ll bring it forward for you.

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So real quick, just here, this is from a truck roll that I bought at a Costco business center.

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Just look at it.

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You can read the description if you want to cheat.

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Don’t cheat.

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But just look at the volume of the meat that’s here in this.

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And, you know, what do you think?

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And those in the back are what are known as a Denver steak.

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The tied roast in the front is a chuck eye roast.

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So it’s basically like a prime rib.

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It’s just more for it on the cow.

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There’s a ton of like pepper steak and I could cut that a bunch of different ways.

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There’s a ton of like mock back there on that second board.

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That would be like mock boneless ribs.

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You know, what do you think you’d pay for that much meat if you walked in the store and bought in retail packaging just off the cuff?

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I buy ribeyes and they’re, you know, $30 a piece, depending where we buy them.

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And that wouldn’t be that expensive.

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But I did the math on that.

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It’s about $240 a meat at supermarket prices.

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I paid $81.87 for all that meat.

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Now, people would say, well, it’s commercial meat or whatever.

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Yeah, it is.

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But I also did it to kind of demonstrate things.

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You get back to the same shit I was talking about.

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You try to help people and they want to tell you why it won’t work.

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Right.

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So like when I say, well, I have a guy down the road, I can buy half a cow from once a year.

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I don’t have that.

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So you give them another alternative and they tell you why it doesn’t work.

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And that’s why I still think we’re in this point of like reality has not yet said it has not.

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Like so the people that are deferring this now will be the ones that are living on soybeans and ramen noodles in a couple of years.

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That’s because they don’t learn how to adapt while you can.

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Here’s a question.

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Are you looking for a new meat sponsor like, oh, I don’t know, Polyface to replace ButcherBox?

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I am.

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I don’t know that I can use Polyface as a sponsor because I don’t know that they have the volume of meat to deal with something like that.

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I’d ask them because they have a pretty decent volume.

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What happened with ButcherBox?

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They got taken over by ESG type diversity inclusion and Wokey bullshit.

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I had no idea.

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the dude that I’ve worked with for five years left and his replacement left.

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And I ended up with these three chicks that wouldn’t even talk to me about it.

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They just said, we don’t want it.

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We don’t want to give you free meat anymore.

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And they said, if for every 12 boxes I sold, they’d give me one box of meat.

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I told them to go fuck themselves.

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Um, before I did that, I was very cordial.

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I said, I would like to get you in a stream yard room.

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I would like to show you back in metric.

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So you can actually see what’s going on here.

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I have no interest, man.

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No, they just, they didn’t want to, they didn’t want to, what they did is they made it so untenable.

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They knew I would leave.

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And then they kept giving me free meat for like four months.

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Cause they were too stupid to figure out how to turn it off.

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I figured out how to turn it off.

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They finally figured it out this month and I finally got charged and then I canceled my account.

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But I’ve been talking to a company called Good Shop.

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I would like to bring on another meat sponsor.

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I would definitely be open to bringing on Polyface.

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But I mean, you’ve got to have the ability.

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I don’t know exactly what they’re doing.

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Right.

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So, you know, I guess maybe if he’s reached out beyond his own herd, I guess, or his own supply, because, you know, I can do a really conservative estimate.

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So there’s probably 2,500 customers of ButcherBox out there just from TSP.

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And so you kind of need a company that can scale with that kind of model.

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I don’t care that they get to the point where like we can’t do anymore, but then that doesn’t work as a sponsor.

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You see what I mean?

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Because now you’ve kind of maxed out, right?

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And then I’m still asking you for money every month.

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So I don’t know what I’m going to do.

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I’m thinking about some of my sponsorship spots, converting them more to affiliate type things because I honestly make more money that way.

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I make a lot more money.

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I don’t charge shit.

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I charge 300 bucks a month to be a sponsor of my show.

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I look at it this way.

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If you can’t make money on that, you have a business problem, not a sponsorship problem.

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I don’t know how else to put it.

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Yeah, I’d talk to him and see because he’ll be up front about if they can handle it or not.

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I don’t know who oversees that part, but they seem to be able to do fairly decent volume and ship it out.

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You know another neat thing?

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I don’t really want money.

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I want meat.

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I mean, that was the deal I had with ButcherBox.

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It’s so asininely stupid.

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It’s millions of dollars of business a year if you add it all up for a $160 box of meat once a month.

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And they don’t even know because they didn’t give me the opportunity to explain it.

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And that’s what I’m saying.

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That’s back to people not being in touch with reality.

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And I could have gone scorched earth.

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I could have just picked the first person that said yes.

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And I could have just immediately started flipping people.

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And then just said, does that hurt enough?

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Does that hurt enough?

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Does that hurt enough?

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Does that hurt?

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But I’m just not that guy.

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Yeah.

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That stuff bites you later.

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Yeah.

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But I always have these elaborate fantasies of what I could do.

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I’m just like, I know I could flip 500 customers in a quarter on a recurring subscription at that rate.

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That’s about $2 million a year.

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Even a big company might notice $2 million of revenue missing.

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I don’t know.

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I don’t know where to send them to, but we could definitely tell people to stop using them.

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I mean, it comes up pretty frequently.

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I’m trying not to be a prick that way, you know, but I probably should.

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I’ve announced it.

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That’s why it was even asked that they’re not with us anymore.

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It’s sad.

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The only reason it’s a problem.

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I’ve had sponsors go away before.

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I don’t care.

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The reason that sucks is because we did so much together so effectively.

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And I don’t think what they realized is you have inside and outside sales and people always look at like podcast advertising at all.

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It’s like an outside sales role.

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There’s a point where it becomes an instant.

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This is now we’re back to more general content that might help people.

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Yeah.

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There is a point with podcasting where a sponsorship relationship becomes an inside and outside combined role.

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And so then my job becomes for you, not just to give you business, but to help you retain it.

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And a lot of these companies that are out, you know, willing to sponsor podcasts, they’re still looking in old school media in their mindset, or they’re thinking of like the podcast that’s the talking head from a TV show that has a podcast too.

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Like those people don’t have the loyalty that we do.

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You know, people know the names of Mike Dawgs.

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People know my birthday.

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People know the names of my grandchildren.

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You know, like people know the names of some of my birds.

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You don’t have that kind of relationship in any other form of media that has the reach that podcasting does.

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But these new people into these companies, especially as they start bringing this diversity bullshit in, they don’t understand any of that.

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And if they did, you know, Bud Light would still be the number one beer of rednecks in America.

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Or Target or any of them, man.

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Yeah.

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It’s just,

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Really?

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Did you think this was going to help you?

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And I don’t even know that they do think it’s going to help them.

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I don’t think they care.

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It’s the ESG stuff.

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They don’t care, man, because the money’s not coming from us, the customer.

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The money is coming from the financing on the back end.

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Have you heard this pushback about BlackRock owning all this stock?

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And they say, but BlackRock has non-voting shares.

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But BlackRock has non-voting shares.

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John, let’s say your SOE was a much bigger company.

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It was public.

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And it was, I don’t know, a $500 million company.

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Good mid-cap size company.

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If I’m holding 20% of your stock and I call you up and say, hey, John, if you don’t fucking do what I want, I’m going to dump you.

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15% of your total stock volume tomorrow.

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Whether I have a voting share, does it matter a square root of all that I don’t have voting shares in your company?

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Or can I take your stock price at will anytime I want to and get you fired from your own company?

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Because once you go public,

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Even John Willis then becomes like chairman of the board or whatever.

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And the board can ask frigging if you could dig them up.

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I guess Tim, not Tim Cook, Jobs, right?

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Can you get fired from the company you founded?

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Absolutely.

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It happens all the time.

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So how much leverage do I have when I’m sitting on 15, 20% of stock of any public company, let alone a thousand of them?

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Yeah, it’s Vanguard, State Street, and BlackRock.

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And that’s it, right?

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We start these companies.

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And then once these companies go public, we really have no say and we lose interest in the company.

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The people running the company, they don’t care about the company, right?

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They’re getting a check no matter what happens.

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Most of the people following those orders, it doesn’t affect their bottom line revenue.

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It doesn’t affect them in their lives at all.

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They have no vested interest.

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Most of the people running the companies didn’t start any of those companies.

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Yeah, I would never take a company public at this point in history.

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I would never do it.

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I think like one of the few things that really made sense about what Elon did through the purchase of Twitter was taking it private.

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Not like buying it in the public space and leaving it.

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Like if he left it as a public company, he would have no control over it right now.

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He had to take it private.

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I think he’s done some other dumb shit, but at least he was smart enough to do that.

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What, you don’t approve of the name change?

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I don’t care about the name change.

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That’s his own stupidity.

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I love hearing everybody talk about it.

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I love when people are writing articles six months later still going X, formerly known as Twitter.

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That means your brand change did not fucking work.

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That’s what that means.

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Man, I think that’s great.

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I should do that with my company because everybody talks about it.

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We are here talking about it.

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I think everybody still uses the platform.

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You should call it the brand formerly known as SOE.

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We did.

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When I came back from prison, it was original SOE gear.

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Yeah.

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And then there was a lot of question as to what those were, you know?

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Yeah.

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It worked.

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The brand formerly known as SOE.

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Yeah.

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I like SOE media.

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SOE media.

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Well, we get… They jump on that because that’s Sony Online Entertainment.

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So…

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We’ll see the GamerKids question in that when that name comes up, typically on Reddit.

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Yeah, yeah.

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Again, back to the core thing, though.

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I think we’re in a point where people don’t understand where we’re at.

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I don’t.

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I think the pain that’s coming is…

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I think some people do and they refuse to accept it because you don’t want to look at it.

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You feel a giant lump growing in your intestine or your side and you think it’s probably cancer, but you won’t go to the doctor because when it gets diagnosed, it becomes real.

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I think that moment is happening for a lot of people economically right now.

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This is why I think this whole thing about the home equity thing that we were talking about in the beginning is yet to be the trap that falls over.

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There are a lot of people I believe right now that are maintaining their homes by the skin of their teeth.

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And they’re going deeper into credit card debt at 20, 24, 25% interest every month.

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And there has to be a point where they realize, okay, I’m never going to pay this off.

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It’s never going to happen.

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Even if the economy gets better, you guys have had to pay off debt before.

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You know what it’s like.

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The average person, if they’re sitting on a $30,000 credit card bill with a 24% interest rate, you could double their income.

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They’re not paying that off in 20 years.

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Took me five, $40,000.

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But you made it very, like you are 1% of people that will make that, like come to Jesus moment.

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This has to end.

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I’m going to do this.

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That was not a happy day for me when I realized how much of my money that came in every month just went to service interest.

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I was like half of my income is now going to interest.

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This has got to stop.

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If you are out there listening to us and you need to have Nicole’s moment,

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To do something about this problem, you need to think about it.

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I phrased this probably back in 2009.

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I think it was the first time I talked about this.

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You need to stop measuring your debt in dollars.

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Measuring debt in dollars is a way to hallucinate yourself or hypnotize yourself into thinking it’s okay.

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And believing bullshit like, if you don’t owe somebody money in America, you’re nobody.

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Some other bullshit like that.

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Measure your debt in time.

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How many hours of my life do I have to give up to make this go away?

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And then realize that number gets bigger every day until you bite the bullet and do it.

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And when you do, it should, if you’re a breathing, thinking human, scare the living hell out of you.

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You start realizing this is five years of man hours of my life.

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It’s terrifying.

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When I did it, we had about $50,000 in debt a long time ago before TSP.

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And I’m like, I’m not doing this anymore.

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That’s downer.

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We’re supposed to be excited.

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I know it’s the new year.

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Let’s talk about that.

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But I mean, a lot of people right now are looking to change what they want or where their future goes.

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And it is worth every bit of pain I ever had to have had that moment and to have continued to make myself pay off that debt.

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for five years.

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And if you listen to my early podcasts, I was paying off debt the whole time.

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And all of the things that I learned from you, Jack, and I learned stuff from John when I was like, by the time John and I were talking, I was mostly out of debt and growing the income side.

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And he totally helped me see that with a different perspective.

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Like all of those steps wouldn’t have happened had I not taken the time to do the math, to figure out where I was and that I was going to die poor.

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with my social security, like being debited by somebody basically, if I didn’t make a change.

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I was trying to celebrate for Mike there, but my reaction thing’s not working.

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Yeah.

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What’s up?

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There we go.

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Yeah, Mike says he’s got three years left and his house is paid off.

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That’s great.

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Okay, Nicole, let’s play devil’s advocate.

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So you just explained the pain you went through to get out of debt.

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And this is going to be the response to half the people that are in debt right now.

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Yeah, but…

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What you did, it was easier.

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Well, that too, right?

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I was going to let that one go.

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It was easier back then.

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Interest rates were lower.

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Inflation was lower.

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And I can’t do it now.

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It must be nice because you got it done when you could do it and I didn’t.

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What do you tell that person?

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Oh, that’s just a load of crap.

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It was never easy.

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And even if it’s harder now, if you do it now, the skills you get will be better than mine.

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But really, it’s like I started by stopping the bleeding.

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And then I started getting ahead of the game and I learned a lot of different things.

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It wasn’t just the debt snowball thing that I did.

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I learned about rolling cards to cards at 0%.

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You pay 3% to do that.

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So my requirement was it was 12 to 18 months minimum time so that it was just that 3%.

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And then I was able to take my interest and divert it to principal.

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And that was a lot of the trick.

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But when you do that, the trap is now you have two cards.

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And you can run up the other one.

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So I had to just not have them with me.

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Like I literally had to learn like a little baby how to manage my finances.

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But, you know, that’s a lot of 18 months is less than 20% a month for 18 months.

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Right.

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And I know a lot more about from scratch living because of that time, because that was how we still like I didn’t do beans and rice, rice and beans.

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We ate great food that we grew.

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All of these things that you learn on a homestead or foraging or any of those things

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I learned about them during that time.

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Like I was on hyperdrive during that time.

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And even the health things that you learn, like the herbal remedies, if you keep yourself out of the doctor, then you don’t spend as much money on the doctor.

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And then you can use that money to pay off your debt.

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If you get your body healthy, you don’t, you know, you don’t have to spend money on, on as much medication.

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And that is money you can use to pay off debt.

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So I know it’s hard.

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I know it’s, it’s still hard for me to stay disciplined about not going back down that road because it’s real easy to look at the, the fancy new shiny, like super, super duper canner or whatever electric canner.

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Cause I love canning and decide, well, I can put that on a card and pay interest on it, or I can wait and get the money for it and just buy it.

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And learning not to buy the little things between here and there was also something that took me a while.

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Somebody told me the other day, because I just did a motivation week on my audio podcast where I went back and I chose five episodes that keep you motivated to take control of your health, your finances, and your future.

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John, you’re on one of those.

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And sorry, Jack, you’re not.

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That’s because I knew we were doing this one today.

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So

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Along the way, somebody like I replayed an episode 61, which was my second year of podcasting.

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Somebody’s like, wow, the difference in your mindset from the poverty perspective is amazing.

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Like you used to always buy the cheap thing to get as an interim step.

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And now I just stopped doing that step and just waiting and, you know, figuring out how to do like, you know, somebody can’t buy a grinder, a meat grinder.

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then mince that shit up with your knife and put it in a stew.

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And it’s not the same as ground, but who cares?

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Like you literally can spice it as taco meat or whatever.

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They call it mince in the UK.

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And then get the grinder that will actually grind the meat.

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So you don’t like blow your brains out with frustration.

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Or that one, I would say there is no problem with buying the $25 used grinder off eBay.

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Yeah.

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Using it till you can afford the good grinder.

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Then either save that one as a backup or throw that bitch back on eBay and get your $25 back.

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There are certain purchases to make in the secondary market that can just be recycled.

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My old buddy Hal Dodd, who unfortunately passed away way too young, he was a master of this.

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He would buy shit.

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He would buy kid shit.

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Not really kid, like adult kid shit, like badass go-karts.

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Drive it around his neighborhood like an ass clown for like three weeks.

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Throw that bitch back on eBay and make 50 bucks on it.

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So he got paid 50 bucks to behave like a child for three weeks and he enjoyed himself, you know?

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And if you’re going to die young, you might as well, I guess, you know?

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So, I mean, there are, there are some places that, but I think, yeah, not, not buying things you don’t need in that interim is a huge thing.

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But I think like the balanced approach is kind of like what you mentioned, like getting for me is like, let’s cut off the bleeding.

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And then John, you grow the revenue.

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You have to do both one way or another.

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Like the things I want to be really hard on in 2024 with my content is

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Bitcoin won.

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That’s coming tomorrow, guys.

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We’re going to talk about being generation zero in Bitcoin tomorrow.

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And would you get on a multi-generational starship?

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But also growing revenue.

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And I don’t care if you’re an employee.

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Well, then you better be the best damn employee out there.

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You better figure out how to make more money as an employee.

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How to make your money go further.

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and how to grow the fuck up.

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I mean, I hate to put it that way, but we have a generation.

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We have generations.

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Least I’d be just picking on the young children in the audience.

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Generations, three or four of them concurrently existing today, and all of them have an unbridled share of children among them.

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In fact, the one that we should pick on the least is the Zs.

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Of course they’re children.

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Look at their age.

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They’re supposed to be children.

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It’s okay to be a child when you are a child.

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But when you’re 40, 50, you got to grow up.

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And I think there’s a lot of opportunity to grow up in the coming decade.

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And boy, you better do it.

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Because it’s, man, I’m getting to the point, I’m sure you guys are, we’re all the same age.

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You start looking and go, at 20 years, I’m going to be 70.

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I’m going to be in my 70s.

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I better do some shit with that time.

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Well, I’m here to tell you, if you’re 30 and you’re like, uh-huh, you’ll be 50.

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It’ll be like that.

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Do some of your dash, man.

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These are the good old days, right?

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Everybody wants to talk about the good old days and why they can’t do things.

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These are your good old days.

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They’re never getting better.

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They might get easier depending on what you do right now.

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Everybody’s waiting on the cost of ammo to go down.

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cost of bags or the cost of whatever that shit’s never going down when they added the fuel sarge the fuel tax that motherfucker didn’t go away they just stopped itemizing it when they added the covid tax we literally had bills of lading invoices coming in that had covid tax on them that shit didn’t go away they just stopped telling you they were doing it the price is never ever going back down and like sunny said we when you’re poor you can’t afford to buy trash and nicole

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You know, you want that canner.

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I don’t have any concept what canner we’re talking about, what that costs.

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Let’s say it’s 500 bucks and you simply can’t afford it.

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I go back to, I’ve been saying for years, the most valuable thing you have is an audience right now.

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If you went out and wanted that thing and you know you could buy it on credit,

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You could put up a post.

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Hey, I will can these things.

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You bring me the meat or I’ll provide the meat.

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This is the price.

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I will spend all this weekend canning.

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You can come pick this up.

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This is the cost.

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Now you could pay that off.

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And I would wager to guess since we can get a Harvest Rite freeze dryer through Home Depot, Home Depot will give you six months same as cash, right?

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So you can go buy that larger XL freeze dryer.

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and you can put it on that credit card and you have six months to make that shit work.

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I’m of the belief, leverage yourself to the point they’re going to take all your shit, burn those boats.

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You’re never going to have any option to fail and you’re going to make it work, right?

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You’re not going to go to sleep.

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When am I going to go to sleep?

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While I’m sitting there on that sewing machine and my head hits that machine.

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When am I going to go to sleep?

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While I’m loading those trays into that freeze dryer.

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And we both know that a freeze dryer

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their runs for, you know, 36 to 48 hours.

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So we got a lot of shit.

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We can can a lot of shit.

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We can cut up a lot of beat.

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We can run that pressure canner.

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We can run that water bath canner and we can have people pouring in to give us money and pay those cards off.

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And now you own the equipment.

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If you truly want the equipment, it’s just how people look at it.

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You know, we don’t have time.

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Okay.

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yeah, we don’t have time to convince motherfuckers to get out of the city anymore.

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Those people are going to be dangerous.

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Stay away from stupid people.

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Don’t go stupid places and do stupid things with stupid people this year.

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And more importantly, disallow your access.

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If somebody’s irritating you, remove them from your life.

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What’s the number one question if all of us get

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if we, if we really, I mean, there’s several of them, but one of them is how do I, how do I get my wife on board?

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Why do you have to get out your wife on board?

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Right?

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Why aren’t you just doing those things?

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You know, just do it.

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Whether she’s on board or he’s on board, man cave, she shed.

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Why do we have to have that shit?

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Why don’t you just have a life?

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Why don’t we just have a life where we want to be inclusive?

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You know what Amanda did?

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Amanda was like, Hey, I want this backpack.

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We’re looking at, at, I’ve got 85 backpacks hanging out there.

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My, my woman is,

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We’re setting up an apothecary in an outdoor, an outside kitchen in one of the other buildings, right?

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I’m very lucky in that.

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But if you’re wondering how to find your spouse, then maybe you should be the person that she wants, right?

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Be the person that your future family needs before you even have the future family.

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Fitness is free.

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There’s a ton of shit we can do, but everybody’s worried about what we can’t do.

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Yeah, divorce her.

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That’s right.

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That is so Sonny right there.

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If you don’t know Sonny, that is not a joke.

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Yeah.

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How do I, how do I get my, you married the wrong bitch.

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Like we say that all the time.

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We’ve said it so many times.

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It became a podcast that Amanda and I do.

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Well, how does somebody stop you from making your life better?

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Like when you decide nobody should be able to stop you.

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Yeah, I mean, you motherfuckers sneak and hide money because you’re in some fucked up relationship where you have to do that.

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Can you not sneak and work out?

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Can you not sneak and lose some weight?

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Can you not sneak and fucking save some money someplace?

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I mean, come on.

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Yeah, the working out thing, like getting in shape, that’s going to be another one of my big things to push to the audience.

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And like this all ties together because as soon as you say that, well, then we got to alter diet.

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Like working out’s great.

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Working out’s great for building muscle.

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Working out is great for tone.

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Working out is great for your cardio fitness.

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It’s good for your mind.

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But you can’t outwork eating garbage.

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I’m sorry.

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And I don’t know, John, you eat a lot of fucking candy and shit.

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Maybe you can, but most people can’t.

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I don’t eat a lot of candy.

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I don’t know.

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You said something about candy or cookies or some shit.

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I don’t know.

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Uh, but you can’t, you can’t like, you can’t go around eating garbage all the time when you’re 28.

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You know, Jesse was just saying 28 is a long time ago.

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You can get away with a lot of things you, you, you can’t get away with in your forties and fifties as you age.

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And so you have to change your diet.

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So now you have to change your diet.

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Well, now you have to eat better.

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Well, now let’s, we need to up the protein and the fat.

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All right.

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So now we’re going to start cutting meat.

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Now we’re going to save money.

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But then you got to tell people, like, we just did a show with Ken Berry right before the shutdown about different levels of improving your diet.

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And we didn’t start off with, go carnivore, you’re going to die.

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I had to make a deal with him, but he wouldn’t say that before I let him on.

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But we started out with just cut all the seed oils out of your diet.

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Cut all the seed oils, all the high fructose corn syrup.

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That’s it.

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That’s all you have to do, stage one.

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I know your carbon take is going to go down because every single thing in a box –

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Everything on the shelf, as soon as you pick it up, you’re going to go, can’t eat that.

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Can’t eat that.

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Where are you going to go now?

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You’re going to go into Nicole’s world of cooking from scratch because you’re going to find out that everything is pre-made.

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It’s all got that shit in it.

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So then you’re going to have to make your own food.

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Well, that’s going to improve your health.

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And that’s also going to give you more money.

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Now you’re going to have more money.

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Now take that money and instead of going, woohoo, I have more money, go invest that shit in yourself, in your business, in your education, in your equipment, whatever it is.

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We need to be asset building.

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The real difference between rich people and poor people isn’t about debt or anything.

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There’s different ways that can be leveraged.

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Lots of rich people leverage that, but it’s really about what do you buy and never sell assets that accrue value?

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What do you never buy with your own money?

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Assets that decline in value, right?

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You never buy an asset that declines in value with your own money.

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That’s dumb.

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You let somebody else’s money do that stupid shit and you put your actual equity into things that appreciate value across time.

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Well, that includes not just like real estate or something like that or Bitcoin or silver or gold or whatever.

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It includes you.

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It includes your mind, your skill set, your abilities, your business.

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And you all have a business.

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I’m going to say this one.

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You all own a business.

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You ink.

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You that goes to work every day for a guy like John who just says, get the fucking work or you’re fired.

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You have a business.

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And if you work for a guy like him, you’re actually better off than if you work for HP.

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Because if you went into John and said, I just want more, he’ll go, what do you want?

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Get on it.

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Show me.

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I’ll help you make it happen.

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And there’s so many of you, you’re sitting with employers like that.

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You think he’s an asshole because he actually requires you to show up on time.

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I don’t mean the people watching this.

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I mean, you think your boss is an asshole because he actually requires you to show up on time.

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He gives you shit when you don’t.

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And he starts to fire you if you don’t do your damn job.

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That’s not an asshole.

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That’s running a business so it doesn’t go under, so he can keep paying you.

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That person could be your key to your next level if you went in and gave it 1,000%.

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And if you treated it like it was your business versus your job, even though you’re still being paid on a W-2, you would.

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And we have got to get in that mindset because two classes of people are not going to be poor and rich.

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They’re going to be entrepreneurs and non-entrepreneurs.

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That’s your class differential going forward.

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And it doesn’t necessarily mean owning a business.

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It means the mindset of how you treat the value of your knowledge, your labor, your skill.

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So Sonny is saying this, they buy gadgets, but refuse to learn proper pushups.

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They listen to motivational speakers, but can’t force themselves to be constantly consistent.

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As a person who struggles with consistency, what I learned is if there are things you need to do every day, you do them first.

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Like what I do with my first hour of the day gets me over that.

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And then the rest of the day goes fine.

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So if I know that I need to exercise, it’s best if I just get up and exercise every day.

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Correct.

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Out of the shoot.

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Like I didn’t today because I wanted to do things for this, but I am scheduled to exercise right after this.

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And I made that decision.

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This book is called Outlive by Peter Attia.

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And this is one that Doc Barry recommended on a podcast.

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I think it was an interview John and I did with him this summer.

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And I walked out of that and my dad, I told my dad to buy it.

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And he said, I loved reading that.

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I wish I had read it when I was your age.

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And this is about what you can do to set yourself up for longevity and having your health last longer into your later years.

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Is it a promise that if you do all these things, it’ll happen?

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No, but

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You know, motivation, get this on an audio book and go out and start exercising and listen to this while you’re exercising.

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Listen to that episode Jack just did with Doc Barry.

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Listen to things that keep you focused on being a better person.

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100% on do it first.

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So way back, I’m talking, I was in my 20s, my first big sales job.

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The mentor I had said, if you cold call enough to get one good lead a week,

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you’ll sell a million dollars worth of contracts in your first year.

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That’s all you have to do is cold call enough to get one good lead per week.

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If you get one a day, you’ll make more money than our CEO.

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And so he said cold call for two hours a day.

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You know what I hated doing?

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Cold calling.

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Being cold to go get F’d.

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Like 27 times right after you shut up for work sucks.

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No one likes it.

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But what I realized, like I was working out on my way into work and I’d be at the gym and I would be like, I’m wearing my lifting gloves and shit.

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And I felt like I’ll just kick anybody’s ass.

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Right.

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Like you’re all pumped.

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So I started going in.

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I’m like, I’m cold calling for the first two hours.

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I’d shut my door and lock it, leave me alone.

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Unless the building’s on fire, do not bother me.

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I put a full length mirror on that door and I throw my lifting gloves on and I put a headset on my phone.

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I’d start making cold calls.

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And I was just in complete de-gaff mode.

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Like, I don’t care what this person says to me.

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If they’re going to tell me no, I want to know now.

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I want to know in the first five seconds so I don’t waste another breath on the person that’s going to tell me no.

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I became the top salesperson in that company in seven months.

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Because of doing the thing that sucked the most first.

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I’ve done shows on prioritizing your homestead.

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I make a list.

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If I don’t do this, something’s going to die.

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Guess where that goes?

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First.

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I really hate this.

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That goes second.

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This needs doing, but I hate it.

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It goes second.

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And so unless something’s going to die or somebody’s going to die, the Coles way, always do the thing you don’t want to do first.

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No, you guys all have social media footprint.

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Every one of you should.

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I don’t do social media.

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You’re on social media right now watching this.

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Put out there what you’re going to do.

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At 8 o’clock every morning, I’m going to work out.

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Don’t worry.

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Nobody’s going to even notice you’re doing it, right?

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But the first time you slip up, there’s going to be three assholes calling you out on it.

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If you’re really going to do it, prophesize it.

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Put it out there.

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Make it a big deal, right?

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Hey, I’m going to do this.

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I’m going to tag three people that need to do it.

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Don’t worry.

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They’re not going to interact with you.

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They’re just going to ignore you.

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But the first time you don’t, one of them will be there to be like, hey, what happened?

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I didn’t see you.

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Yeah.

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If you’re going to do it, do it.

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That’s why CrossFit was such a good fit for me when I was doing it.

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If I had missed a workout, I’m getting text messages.

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Nicole, where are you?

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Are you sick?

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Why aren’t you here?

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Is it because you can’t get off your butt?

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Get off your butt and come to the later class.

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We haven’t seen you today.

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The gym I was in was very helpful in that way.

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And I needed it.

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And I knew I needed it.

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So I set myself up for that.

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That’s actually why I declare public things on the podcast.

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It’s like, well, now I told my audience I’m going to do 75 hard.

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So I really can’t fricking fail.

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That’s why for the first 70, 80 days of when I, when I started losing weight, I did a, I did a YouTube segment every day that had nothing to do with the podcast.

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It was totally separate because now I’m accountable every day.

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I was giving my weight, what I ate, you know,

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The day I picked up a 35-pound plate and dropped it on the floor and said, that’s how much I’ve lost in the past three months, it was worth it.

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It doesn’t feel like it’s worth it when you’re not having a drink when you want one or you’re not eating something at a party or something, but once you get to dropping that weight, you realize I was carrying that shit around.

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And so many of you, you’re carrying around not just excess body weight.

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You’re carrying around so much bullshit.

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Every single time you’re like, well, I would if I could, or I wish I could, or it must be nice.

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That’s all bullshit you’re carrying.

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I heard somebody explain this, and it was about getting rid of a relationship, but I’ve kept it.

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I heard this back.

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I was in my teens, and this guy was explaining to this chick, this guy was a complete loser she was with.

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And he was sucking all the energy out of her.

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And he’s like, it’s like you have a busted-ass car with bald tires.

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And then you have all this baggage and this dude sitting on the roof of your car.

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Your car won’t go anywhere.

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The first thing to do is throw his ass off the roof.

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Now your car will move.

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And then you can get to work.

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And then you can buy some new tires.

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And then you throw all the baggage out and get some new tires.

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Now the car really goes.

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And then you can buy a new car.

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But until you dump this shit, you’re just going to sit there and spin.

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You’re not going anywhere.

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And you’re having all this sucked out of you.

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Well, that’s a metaphor for so many people in life.

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Right.

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Like there’s so much bullshit about my past.

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You don’t know what it’s like if you’re using terms like you don’t know what it’s like or you know, like it doesn’t even matter.

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We can play the whole like who’s poor you or the son of a bootleg coal miner if we want to do that or whatever.

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But that doesn’t really help you.

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Right.

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To know where I came from or where John came from or where Nicole came from.

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What helps you is to realize as long as you’re doing that, you’re clinging to your bald tires, your busted-ass car, and your baggage.

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And that shit needs jettisoning.

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I know it’s New Year, and I’m not talking about a New Year’s resolution.

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The number one way to make sure you don’t do something is call it a New Year’s resolution.

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That’s almost a guarantee for failure.

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If you doubt me, just stick your head inside a gym today.

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You don’t have to join.

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I’m sure there’ll be a dude in there named Chad like, yo, bro, let me tell you about the gym.

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Don’t even talk to Chad.

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Just stick your head in at about 5.30, 6 o’clock in the evening to any gym in America this week.

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Wait 30 days, February 2nd, 3rd.

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Stick your head in that same gym and tell me New Year’s resolutions work.

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Go ahead, tell me.

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And chat will be like, yo, bro, come on, man.

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There’s lots of room now, right?

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Like that’s, you need a trainer, yo?

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You need a trainer, yo?

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Right, that chat will be there.

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I promise you in February.

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Or you can do it because you need to do it and you don’t care what the date is.

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You shouldn’t care what the day is.

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But if the new year is what motivates you to make a change, then go for it.

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I just don’t think you will.

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I just don’t think you will if you phrase it that way.

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Well, if your goal is to lose weight, don’t make that your resolution.

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Make your resolution something that instills discipline like…

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working out once a day or whatever.

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Yeah.

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Make it something that like you can speak and eating keto or like you immediately can be like, no, that’s bad, bad.

54:44.314 –> 54:47.517
Like put it around your leg.

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Whenever you don’t work out, shock yourself.

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You’ll go work out, you know?

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Yeah.

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I mean, that’s what 75 hard really taught me as I’ve had time to think about it is the small decisions I make every single day matter way more than whether I buy that $4,500 roaster or whether I move to a new homestead or any of those really huge things that we spend so much time deciding.

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I’ll give you the 75 cent life improvement plan.

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You’ll get two really good rubber bands, stick them around your left wrist.

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And every time you’re not doing what you’re supposed to be doing, pull them out as far as you can and smack yourself in the fucking wrist.

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It’s just like, whack, ow, that hurt, go do it.

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75 cents for two rubber bands and you’re golden.

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I should come up with a program, long sales copy and all,

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Like, I guarantee you, you follow the Jack Spierko Life Improvement Protocol.

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And what you get in the mail for $99.99 is two rubber bands and an instruction card.

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Dude, don’t be cheap.

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Send them four.

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Four rubber bands?

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They’ll have a backup.

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Backup.

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You know what?

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It’ll be four different rubber bands of different strengths.

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And you start out with the one that’s the strongest, that hurts the worst.

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And then you wean yourself off.

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Now it’s $199.99.

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Money-back guarantee.

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If you send in your journal of doing it, you have to do it for 60 days.

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You need a mastermind group on Telegram where people talk about how they’re rubberbanding.

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The rubberband mastermind group.

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We scared John away.

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Yeah, he’ll be back.

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He’s probably going to build something to hurt people with.

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So you can hurt yourself like a Khalees or something, you know?

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Possibly.

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Maybe he’s going to come back in and go full.

56:29.170 –> 56:32.094
So when he was talking about being accountable, that’s kind of your three things.

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Why don’t you tell people about that that maybe have never heard about it?

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Because I think that’s one of the best things you’ve ever done.

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Yeah, the My Three Things method is a way of cutting through all the crap that we tell ourselves we have to do every day and narrowing down to up to three things every day to move yourself forward.

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And if you do it right, you start by having your long-term life vision.

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Jax, I think, how many stomps did you have?

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12 stomps?

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Yeah.

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That really can help you get there.

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I have a method for developing that.

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You set your life vision, you describe how you want your life to be, not what you’re doing.

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And then you talk about how you’re doing it.

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And then you talk about some like 18 month big picture accomplishments that you want to have.

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Like one of mine was getting out of debt way back when that was something I was in the middle of.

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But then every day you choose up to three things.

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You can have one three thing, but you cannot have four three things.

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Three things because that’s what your mind can manage.

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And I ground mine because I have a strategic plan that focuses on financial, it’s financial and then physical, mental health, and then a more particular relationship community-based goal.

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I choose one thing from each of those three areas almost every day.

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as my three things, unless it’s self-reliance festival, which case my one thing is self-reliance festival during that event.

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That’s it.

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That’s all that I’m there for.

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I’m not there to do anything else.

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I used that to change my life in my 20s.

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And ended up reaching my goal within five years, one of which was to travel all the time.

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And it turned out it did not like that.

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And so I did it again.

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And I changed to what I do now.

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And it’s been great.

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I just finished writing the book about that.

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So that’s rolling out this year.

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And it walks you through how to do it.

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We have a mastermind group on Telegram, as a matter of fact, to keep people accountable.

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You post it publicly.

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Yeah, I think quitting is highly underrated if it’s done for the right reason as well.

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So if you quit trying to lose weight because you decided that you want to eat cheesecake, that’s a bad form of quitting.

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But like what you just said, like I made this goal.

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I want to travel the world or whatever, travel all the time.

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And then you do that and you’re like, well, this sucks.

58:40.411 –> 58:44.234
Well, that you should quit doing as soon as you figure out that it doesn’t give you what you wanted out of it.

58:44.744 –> 58:44.944
Right.

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Like that’s that’s not good.

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We did have a question here.

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I’ll hit this because it’s probably a good time.

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Survivalizer says, sorry to ask again before the subject.

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What kind of brushes you recommend for loose skin prevention?

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So when I lost weight, I knew I was going to lose so much weight.

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I was afraid of having to go and have cosmetic surgery where they actually take skin off of your body because I lost in total about 80 pounds.

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That’s a lot to lose.

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And usually you would.

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Well, I didn’t.

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And I’m not recommending a brand here, but he’s asking.

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So I’m just going to say this is the type of brush for like five bucks.

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It’s just a stiff bristle brush.

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And all I did is before every shower, I basically brushed all my skin, like especially around my gut and everything.

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And then I took a shower.

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And then after I dried off, I brushed my skin with it dry again.

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That’s all I really did.

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Plus, you know, I think, you know, Ken says keto alone will help with that because you’re providing the collagen.

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And you’re also it was also like it’s beyond that.

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I didn’t even really know that.

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that it really mattered what I was doing it, but I was doing intermittent fasting.

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And then you get into autophagy where your body’s actually consuming the things that are unnecessary at that point.

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Like they need to be recycled.

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So your body actually starts to eat those skin cells, but those two things together, I don’t have any hanging flabby.

01:00:06.929 –> 01:00:08.630
And I’ve seen a lot of people who have lost weight.

01:00:08.690 –> 01:00:11.171
It’s like, dude, you really need to go see a plastic surgeon.

01:00:11.798 –> 01:00:15.142
And for me to say that is a big deal because I think most plastic surgery is stupid.

01:00:15.482 –> 01:00:18.686
Like if you get disfigured, that’s what plastic surgery is for.

01:00:20.148 –> 01:00:28.037
Like trying to stay young when you’re 90, like look at celebrities that do it and get addicted to it and you’ll see why I don’t recommend it.

01:00:29.813 –> 01:00:31.474
It’s that surprised look they have.

01:00:31.915 –> 01:00:32.215
Yeah.

01:00:33.036 –> 01:00:33.736
Yeah.

01:00:33.956 –> 01:00:39.161
There’s some point where no matter how much money you have, a doctor should say, no, bro, I’m not doing this.

01:00:39.201 –> 01:00:43.764
But I guess when you have that kind of money, Joan Rivers looked like the Joker by the time she went.

01:00:44.425 –> 01:00:45.546
She wouldn’t smile.

01:00:45.586 –> 01:00:46.787
Was she the one who wouldn’t smile?

01:00:46.807 –> 01:00:49.029
I don’t think she could stop smiling.

01:00:49.069 –> 01:00:50.169
She was literally like this.

01:00:50.710 –> 01:00:51.070
Okay.

01:00:51.270 –> 01:00:51.791
It was somebody else.

01:00:51.831 –> 01:00:52.411
It was that lady.

01:00:52.471 –> 01:00:53.412
I can’t remember her name.

01:00:53.472 –> 01:00:53.932
Never mind.

01:00:54.233 –> 01:00:54.653
It’ll come to me.

01:00:54.673 –> 01:00:57.876
I think they killed her because she told everybody Obama’s wife was the tranny.

01:00:59.421 –> 01:01:14.248
yeah man that rumor will not die she’s like it’s not a rumor like three weeks later you know in the arms of the angel like she’s gone it won’t that rumor won’t die because that’s not a rumor yeah

01:01:15.534 –> 01:01:18.476
No one’s explained yet what the bulge on Oprah was.

01:01:18.656 –> 01:01:20.556
So I’m just going to leave it there.

01:01:20.596 –> 01:01:21.997
When you explain that, we can talk.

01:01:22.637 –> 01:01:28.200
And if you don’t know what I’m talking about, just put Michelle Obama penis on Google.

01:01:28.360 –> 01:01:31.041
Make sure safe search is on because God knows what you’ll find otherwise.

01:01:31.681 –> 01:01:35.283
And go to images and then you tell me what that is.

01:01:36.284 –> 01:01:37.884
Just put in Mike Obama tranny.

01:01:38.404 –> 01:01:39.965
Safe search.

01:01:40.505 –> 01:01:40.966
Safe search.

01:01:45.444 –> 01:01:47.886
Okay, I’m trying to get a question up, but it’s fighting with me.

01:01:48.587 –> 01:01:49.728
This is about Coinbase.

01:01:51.530 –> 01:01:51.790
Okay.

01:01:53.832 –> 01:01:55.013
Network fees have gone up.

01:01:56.254 –> 01:02:01.559
Yeah, so I don’t want to turn this into a Bitcoin episode because we’re going to talk about this tomorrow on my show.

01:02:01.899 –> 01:02:02.820
But the short version.

01:02:03.769 –> 01:02:10.934
There’s a thing called ordinals and there’s basically space in the Bitcoin blocks where people are creating these stupid JPEG images and encoding them in the blocks.

01:02:11.414 –> 01:02:18.239
This is making sure that all the blocks are full so there’s more data in each block as each transaction block goes through Bitcoin.

01:02:18.279 –> 01:02:20.140
This is raising fees for everybody.

01:02:20.501 –> 01:02:23.283
It’s actually a network where the more use, the more cost.

01:02:23.883 –> 01:02:24.323
OK.

01:02:25.124 –> 01:02:28.586
And, you know, there’s a lot of debate in the Bitcoin community of how to fix this.

01:02:28.646 –> 01:02:31.047
Some say, well, they’ll get tired of wasting their money and go away.

01:02:31.487 –> 01:02:32.788
Some say it’s an attack factor.

01:02:32.868 –> 01:02:33.768
We should do something about it.

01:02:33.968 –> 01:02:36.170
And you can’t wait for that to happen.

01:02:36.730 –> 01:02:40.272
The solution right now is to do what I’ve always said, self-custody your Bitcoin.

01:02:40.912 –> 01:02:44.994
But I also have always said, like, I’m not worried about the fact that you have 800 bucks on Coinbase.

01:02:45.454 –> 01:02:47.035
I’m worried about the fact you have $80,000 on Coinbase.

01:02:49.056 –> 01:03:03.027
So simply, if you’re DCA-ing or whatever, and you’re doing this like weekly, daily, whatever, let your balance accumulate until it’s enough that it makes sense to do a withdrawal and then withdrawal to your cold stores.

01:03:03.067 –> 01:03:04.388
That’s your short-term solution.

01:03:04.408 –> 01:03:10.372
So if you’re buying $100 a week from Coinbase right now, do not immediately withdraw, which is what I had always recommended up till now.

01:03:10.853 –> 01:03:14.796
Wait until you have $400, $500, $600, and then your percentage that you’re paying for that withdrawal.

01:03:15.136 –> 01:03:17.358
And I will also tell you that I have found that the lowest cost…

01:03:17.978 –> 01:03:23.742
I shouldn’t say this, but the lowest cost for withdrawals tends to be Sunday mornings, U.S.

01:03:23.782 –> 01:03:24.002
time.

01:03:24.522 –> 01:03:27.925
So early Sunday mornings, withdrawals from Coinbase tend to be really, really low.

01:03:29.146 –> 01:03:32.248
But it’s ordinals and inscriptions that are causing this cost thing.

01:03:33.088 –> 01:03:35.430
What are you currently recommending for off storage?

01:03:37.662 –> 01:03:39.903
Trezor Model T. Trezor?

01:03:40.443 –> 01:03:41.144
Yeah.

01:03:41.444 –> 01:03:46.006
And if you get one of those, you want to plug it in about once a month in case there’s an update.

01:03:46.026 –> 01:03:47.467
You kind of need to keep it up to date.

01:03:47.527 –> 01:03:47.787
Yeah.

01:03:48.107 –> 01:03:53.209
And if you screw that up, just put it on a different computer and do a restore with your seed.

01:03:54.030 –> 01:04:01.413
Have you seen all the stuff going around about CIA or NSA having invented Bitcoin?

01:04:01.614 –> 01:04:03.034
And what’s the guy’s name?

01:04:03.674 –> 01:04:04.655
Satoshi whatever.

01:04:05.097 –> 01:04:09.200
There’s a, there’s a paper out there and it’s the two names are transposed.

01:04:09.340 –> 01:04:09.641
Yeah.

01:04:10.742 –> 01:04:10.942
Yeah.

01:04:11.002 –> 01:04:12.503
From, I guess, right.

01:04:12.523 –> 01:04:15.566
You’re talking about who keeps insisting he’s Satoshi and everybody knows he’s not.

01:04:17.687 –> 01:04:18.328
It’s all nonsense.

01:04:18.348 –> 01:04:20.690
There’s a whole, so we’re about to go into another super cycle.

01:04:22.569 –> 01:04:23.570
It’s mathematical.

01:04:23.770 –> 01:04:24.631
It’s a four-year cycle.

01:04:24.651 –> 01:04:26.312
We’re going to have another halving in a couple months.

01:04:26.972 –> 01:04:28.013
And so all the shit starts.

01:04:28.433 –> 01:04:37.340
Roger Ver and Craig Wright stick their heads up like groundhogs every four-year cycle like this and start all their bullshit about Bitcoin Cash and BSV and all that.

01:04:38.221 –> 01:04:42.424
And Craig is just desperate for people to believe that he’s Satoshi Nakamoto.

01:04:43.124 –> 01:04:44.465
He’s not Satoshi Nakamoto.

01:04:44.505 –> 01:04:46.107
And it’s very, very simplistic.

01:04:46.747 –> 01:04:48.569
There is a huge amount of Bitcoin.

01:04:49.309 –> 01:04:53.512
that was mined in the beginning, that’s sitting on addresses that Satoshi mined.

01:04:53.532 –> 01:04:54.092
We know this.

01:04:54.372 –> 01:04:56.114
It was in the forums when it was being developed.

01:04:56.654 –> 01:04:57.114
It’s there.

01:04:58.175 –> 01:05:01.397
None of it has moved since it was put there.

01:05:02.278 –> 01:05:03.379
Now, we can do inscriptions.

01:05:03.399 –> 01:05:04.139
We just mentioned that.

01:05:04.159 –> 01:05:06.401
You can record data into the blocks.

01:05:06.881 –> 01:05:09.763
So he could move one Bitcoin.

01:05:10.771 –> 01:05:16.376
he could put a transcription on one of those blocks that says, you know, I am Craig Wright.

01:05:16.496 –> 01:05:17.276
I am Satoshi.

01:05:17.857 –> 01:05:20.339
But he won’t because he can’t because he doesn’t have access to him.

01:05:20.359 –> 01:05:21.260
He says he lost it.

01:05:21.620 –> 01:05:26.644
So this genius computer programmer lost access to his multi-billion dollar Bitcoin.

01:05:26.945 –> 01:05:27.785
No, I’m sorry.

01:05:28.226 –> 01:05:29.547
That doesn’t hold any water at all.

01:05:29.947 –> 01:05:32.749
And the most interesting thing is the first time he did this,

01:05:33.630 –> 01:05:39.879
Satoshi must have still been around at the very beginning because all of a sudden on one of those blocks, a little inscription popped up.

01:05:39.959 –> 01:05:40.600
You know what it said?

01:05:41.321 –> 01:05:42.082
Craig is a liar.

01:05:42.102 –> 01:05:43.083
Yeah.

01:05:44.417 –> 01:05:45.978
Now, as far as CIA, I don’t know.

01:05:46.078 –> 01:05:46.718
I’m done with that.

01:05:46.758 –> 01:05:48.059
I’ve heard this shit my whole life.

01:05:48.920 –> 01:05:50.681
Did the CIA create the internet?

01:05:50.761 –> 01:05:51.241
Probably.

01:05:51.281 –> 01:05:56.845
And we all sit around using it today because once you let something go like that, it’s like letting animals go.

01:05:56.885 –> 01:05:57.965
It doesn’t really matter who did it.

01:05:58.466 –> 01:06:02.068
Like Jurassic Park and the last one where they took over the whole thing.

01:06:02.588 –> 01:06:03.809
That’s what Bitcoin is today.

01:06:03.849 –> 01:06:04.910
You can’t turn it off.

01:06:04.950 –> 01:06:06.090
You can’t shut it down.

01:06:06.771 –> 01:06:07.411
I’m sorry.

01:06:07.671 –> 01:06:08.532
It is what it is.

01:06:09.553 –> 01:06:11.053
There’s a lot of shit going on because of the ETFs.

01:06:12.310 –> 01:06:14.971
It’s probably going to be approved in about six days.

01:06:16.051 –> 01:06:18.832
We’ll probably get the approvals on all the ETFs that are out there.

01:06:18.872 –> 01:06:23.093
I mean, these companies are already starting to develop television advertising for them and stuff like that.

01:06:23.873 –> 01:06:27.374
They have back channels that are telling them things or they wouldn’t be doing that.

01:06:28.134 –> 01:06:29.915
And that’s going to open up this giant wall of money.

01:06:30.675 –> 01:06:37.397
At the same time, Pocahontas, Liz Warren, has drafted another bill that she’s introduced to ban Bitcoin.

01:06:38.658 –> 01:06:39.859
Meanwhile, she buys it.

01:06:40.139 –> 01:06:41.961
Yeah, meanwhile, she’s buying the shit out of it.

01:06:42.141 –> 01:06:43.903
Yeah, probably, probably.

01:06:44.583 –> 01:06:47.345
You should look at Nancy Pelosi’s husband’s Bitcoin holdings.

01:06:47.385 –> 01:06:48.446
That would probably tell us a lot.

01:06:48.927 –> 01:06:50.428
But this is what people tell me.

01:06:50.488 –> 01:06:51.269
Liz Warren, Liz Warren.

01:06:51.589 –> 01:06:53.431
Liz Warren’s been a senator, I think, since 2014.

01:06:54.171 –> 01:06:57.995
She’s passed zero bills that she’s sponsored.

01:06:58.843 –> 01:07:00.504
Well, it’s not that she sponsors, it’s that she originated.

01:07:01.004 –> 01:07:02.465
Because people sponsor shit all the time.

01:07:02.545 –> 01:07:06.407
But her bills have never, she’s never passed a bill in the United States Senate.

01:07:06.908 –> 01:07:08.189
I’m not worried about Pocahontas.

01:07:08.629 –> 01:07:09.809
And do whatever you want.

01:07:09.829 –> 01:07:14.132
I think it’s time that we, you know, accept that we’ve heard all this stuff for years.

01:07:15.493 –> 01:07:15.773
I don’t care.

01:07:15.793 –> 01:07:19.115
Like I said, I’m going to do tomorrow the show, like basically, would you get on a generational starship?

01:07:19.568 –> 01:07:32.417
Yeah, I’ve been trying to figure out what the argument is when people tell me they won’t do Bitcoin because, you know, because it’s the CIA project and they’re going to get you with it.

01:07:32.437 –> 01:07:34.279
And I’m like, how are they going to get, like, how?

01:07:34.779 –> 01:07:37.641
Tell me how, and they don’t know how it works, so they can’t tell me how.

01:07:38.081 –> 01:07:40.302
So it’s two basic arguments, right?

01:07:40.362 –> 01:07:43.844
It’s a new world order front, and Bitcoin’s going to become the global currency.

01:07:44.444 –> 01:07:45.085
Great.

01:07:45.125 –> 01:07:47.466
You should buy all of it, right?

01:07:48.127 –> 01:07:49.467
The government’s going to shut it down.

01:07:49.787 –> 01:07:50.468
So they hate it.

01:07:50.528 –> 01:07:54.070
So you should buy all of it.

01:07:54.310 –> 01:07:58.192
Those are my two responses, but I have gotten to where my real answer is what I just gave you.

01:07:58.332 –> 01:07:58.572
Okay.

01:07:58.732 –> 01:07:59.533
I’m not going to buy Bitcoin.

01:07:59.613 –> 01:07:59.733
Okay.

01:08:02.790 –> 01:08:03.871
I get to buy more until you do.

01:08:04.412 –> 01:08:06.674
Because what do you think is going to happen when these ETFs get approved?

01:08:07.575 –> 01:08:08.456
I know it’s going to happen.

01:08:11.258 –> 01:08:13.801
That makes me want to buy more Bitcoin in the next six days.

01:08:14.221 –> 01:08:15.503
Yeah.

01:08:15.523 –> 01:08:15.943
Just saying.

01:08:17.785 –> 01:08:18.305
Let’s see.

01:08:19.366 –> 01:08:22.470
And it probably will sell the rumor by the news.

01:08:23.160 –> 01:08:23.360
Yeah.

01:08:23.760 –> 01:08:25.921
So people will expect that this will happen overnight.

01:08:26.021 –> 01:08:27.741
It won’t blow up overnight.

01:08:27.821 –> 01:08:31.883
It’ll take time for it’s going to take things like people say it was wall of money.

01:08:31.903 –> 01:08:34.644
And they’re talking about like all the Roth IRAs and all this stuff, right?

01:08:34.704 –> 01:08:34.864
Okay.

01:08:34.904 –> 01:08:39.125
Well, the first thing that’s going to happen is most of that money is in 401ks provided by employers.

01:08:39.965 –> 01:08:46.787
It’s going to take employees going to their employer and going, why can’t we buy Bitcoin in our 401k?

01:08:48.388 –> 01:08:50.849
It’s going to take that to open up that money.

01:08:50.869 –> 01:08:52.189
That’s not going to happen instantly.

01:08:53.496 –> 01:08:53.716
Yeah.

01:08:54.936 –> 01:08:55.497
Here’s a question.

01:08:55.517 –> 01:08:59.998
What’s your biggest goal that you want to accomplish in 2024 from Hogs14?

01:09:00.098 –> 01:09:01.898
I’ve decided that’s how you say that name, by the way.

01:09:04.879 –> 01:09:07.060
I heard you try to say his name once on one of your live streams.

01:09:07.140 –> 01:09:08.560
I’m like, that happens to me too.

01:09:09.120 –> 01:09:11.361
If he wants his name said right, he needs to make it easier to pronounce.

01:09:11.401 –> 01:09:11.961
He’s Hogs now.

01:09:12.301 –> 01:09:12.461
Yeah.

01:09:15.002 –> 01:09:15.562
You go first, John.

01:09:17.603 –> 01:09:18.703
We’re just doing the same shit.

01:09:19.624 –> 01:09:21.004
What was today’s what?

01:09:21.044 –> 01:09:22.625
The second yesterday was the first.

01:09:22.745 –> 01:09:26.606
On the first day, I had a new sheep born.

01:09:26.706 –> 01:09:28.447
I’ve got another one that’s about to drop one.

01:09:28.907 –> 01:09:31.648
I went out and built a lean-to yesterday.

01:09:31.668 –> 01:09:37.530
I started framing in this other tiny house that has a porch to make it a greenhouse on that front porch.

01:09:38.491 –> 01:09:39.511
I did all the other shit.

01:09:39.631 –> 01:09:40.071
I was up at 430.

01:09:40.131 –> 01:09:40.371
I worked out.

01:09:42.412 –> 01:09:46.413
I ate prime rib or ribeye twice yesterday and already ate it.

01:09:46.473 –> 01:09:47.474
I’m doing all the same shit.

01:09:47.894 –> 01:09:49.034
All the exact same shit.

01:09:49.454 –> 01:09:51.655
I’m not trying to figure out how to spend less money.

01:09:52.015 –> 01:09:53.635
I’m trying to figure out how to make more money.

01:09:53.695 –> 01:09:54.816
Not really trying to figure out.

01:09:55.096 –> 01:09:58.097
It’s just simple inaction if I’m not making more money.

01:09:58.737 –> 01:09:59.737
I’m going to do the same stuff.

01:10:02.078 –> 01:10:05.019
I am looking to buy an old truck, like a really old truck.

01:10:06.999 –> 01:10:08.400
But we’re just doing the same shit, man.

01:10:08.420 –> 01:10:09.900
Okay.

01:10:11.004 –> 01:10:11.644
Jack, how about you?

01:10:11.664 –> 01:10:17.949
I am aggressively building an online education program for people to learn how to grow their own food.

01:10:19.029 –> 01:10:23.452
And I have completed my first course, which is on bioreactor composting.

01:10:23.592 –> 01:10:24.113
It is done.

01:10:25.373 –> 01:10:30.017
Tom is finishing up the site so we can expect payments and do discounts and stuff like that.

01:10:30.517 –> 01:10:32.818
We’re filming kind of a bonus video to go with it.

01:10:32.858 –> 01:10:35.540
And once that’s integrated, I’m actually raised the price on the first course.

01:10:35.580 –> 01:10:39.743
First course is cheap, 35 bucks, because I want people to be able to come in and get a look at it.

01:10:39.823 –> 01:10:41.824
And I believe that it’s something that anybody can do.

01:10:42.345 –> 01:10:47.028
And it’ll make a major difference in your homesteading, your gardening, your food production, your pasture, any of that stuff.

01:10:47.688 –> 01:10:48.289
It’ll work for.

01:10:49.289 –> 01:10:56.251
It also has helped me learn how to develop courses as courses versus just raw teaching like I do on a podcast.

01:10:56.791 –> 01:10:58.411
And it was a lot more work than I thought.

01:10:58.491 –> 01:11:02.632
So we now have a six chapter course, five quizzes at the end of each chapter.

01:11:02.652 –> 01:11:10.714
And after the final chapter, a final 40 question comprehensive quiz or exam, I guess you’d call it with full certification signed by me, et cetera.

01:11:11.195 –> 01:11:12.155
And we’ll be releasing.

01:11:13.215 –> 01:11:15.357
Early in this year, three courses.

01:11:15.958 –> 01:11:17.739
The first one is the bioreactor.

01:11:17.779 –> 01:11:19.200
The second one’s going to be on cover cropping.

01:11:19.220 –> 01:11:21.662
And the third one is going to be on biochar.

01:11:22.903 –> 01:11:25.545
And they’ll kind of go into a trifecta of certification.

01:11:25.606 –> 01:11:27.567
And we’re going to build that platform out.

01:11:28.608 –> 01:11:34.333
And what’s always held me up on it is I feel like I give away all this information for free.

01:11:35.475 –> 01:11:36.375
And I’m like, just go do it.

01:11:36.415 –> 01:11:40.457
But then people keep asking for classes, courses, more material on how to do it.

01:11:41.137 –> 01:11:44.458
And so we’re going to find out, is it toolbox fallacy or are they willing to put a little bit of money in the game?

01:11:44.478 –> 01:11:47.079
Because I think if you won’t pay $35 for a course, you don’t really care.

01:11:47.959 –> 01:11:52.301
I mean, people that will say that’s too much money go out and spend $35 a week on Starbucks.

01:11:53.146 –> 01:12:01.173
So if you want to learn how to grow more food, I have that platform coming and then we’ll get into the aquatics, you know, after that, as we build that out.

01:12:01.293 –> 01:12:09.019
But I don’t want to give away the site yet because it’s not ready for prime time, but we are doing a hands-on class Saturday this week.

01:12:09.099 –> 01:12:20.628
And if you’re in my audience and you signed up for it and you paid for it and you didn’t get an email yesterday, you need to let me know because I put up a public post, but I didn’t give away like my address and my phone number and stuff like that.

01:12:21.028 –> 01:12:21.949
So that’s my main goal.

01:12:22.109 –> 01:12:22.830
Get that going.

01:12:23.581 –> 01:12:24.762
And that’s evergreen content.

01:12:24.783 –> 01:12:27.346
You’re going to reach a ton of people that are not your normal audience.

01:12:27.726 –> 01:12:31.551
And that’s something that people every day can give you money for, for doing nothing.

01:12:31.591 –> 01:12:34.274
But then when you promote it, you’ll get even more money.

01:12:34.554 –> 01:12:36.577
Your audience, some of your audience will buy it.

01:12:36.657 –> 01:12:40.381
But I bet you find that the majority of the people that buy that are not even your audience.

01:12:41.358 –> 01:12:49.844
That’s my goal is to make it an outside funnel that one makes money and to some portion of that funnel becomes part of the audience and to have something that I can sell.

01:12:49.864 –> 01:12:51.606
I do a lot of speaking engagements and stuff.

01:12:51.706 –> 01:12:55.248
And the best speaking engagements are where people don’t know you.

01:12:56.109 –> 01:12:56.269
Right.

01:12:56.309 –> 01:12:58.250
At least half the audience doesn’t know who you are.

01:12:58.831 –> 01:13:01.193
Well, a lot of those people are these these things that I do.

01:13:01.673 –> 01:13:02.914
They’re not really podcast people.

01:13:03.993 –> 01:13:05.515
I need something for them too.

01:13:05.555 –> 01:13:06.657
I need something I can promote.

01:13:06.677 –> 01:13:09.461
If I’m going to do, I want to do more interviews this year too.

01:13:09.641 –> 01:13:11.384
I mean, go out and be on other people’s stuff.

01:13:11.644 –> 01:13:13.707
I need something I can sell beyond, Hey, come listen to my show.

01:13:14.722 –> 01:13:19.483
And so I’m actually going to format for each of these courses, sample interviews.

01:13:19.523 –> 01:13:25.864
Like I require people to basically give me what my interview would be for my guest form, which somebody else uses because it works so well.

01:13:27.165 –> 01:13:39.287
I’m going to actually develop like a push out version of that and go out kind of do the podcast circuit, maybe two interviews a month where I go out and pimp this and push this more than the podcast.

01:13:39.947 –> 01:13:41.868
Because I’ve been around as a podcaster long enough.

01:13:41.908 –> 01:13:43.148
If you want to find me, you found me.

01:13:44.131 –> 01:13:45.192
That’s kind of the way I look at that.

01:13:45.312 –> 01:13:50.677
But people are hungry for raw skills and they’re going to be hungry for food.

01:13:51.117 –> 01:13:53.059
I’m trying to fit both of those into this.

01:13:53.259 –> 01:14:02.286
And I’ve kind of come up with these three things fitting together in a way like the production I had last year in a relatively modest garden was beyond anything that I’ve done.

01:14:02.847 –> 01:14:04.448
And this year, I mean, Nicole was here.

01:14:04.508 –> 01:14:06.210
We had a full on freeze.

01:14:07.628 –> 01:14:16.173
And I had freaking tender annuals like peppers survive freezes unprotected because of what we’ve done with soil.

01:14:17.113 –> 01:14:18.714
I think there’s value in knowing how to do that.

01:14:19.895 –> 01:14:21.516
There’s a lot of value in knowing how to do that.

01:14:23.138 –> 01:14:29.606
My biggest goal is to hone in on the best places to put my attention.

01:14:29.666 –> 01:14:31.528
And that is my word of the year is hone.

01:14:32.429 –> 01:14:33.630
And it means a lot of things.

01:14:33.690 –> 01:14:36.233
I have some ambitious projects.

01:14:36.273 –> 01:14:39.196
We’ve got two more self-reliance festivals coming up.

01:14:39.296 –> 01:14:41.759
My spring workshop is going to be focused on

01:14:42.640 –> 01:14:44.701
more back to the basics on skills.

01:14:44.761 –> 01:14:47.702
So some wildcrafting and some other things like that.

01:14:48.342 –> 01:14:50.503
And the book, My Three Things is coming out this year.

01:14:50.583 –> 01:15:03.689
I’m doing a homegrown cooking project with Don Gorham where we go nose to tail on animals because people buy whole animals and then they stick around with that cow’s tongue in their freezer until they feed it to their dogs.

01:15:03.749 –> 01:15:07.291
And it’s one of the best cuts actually of the cow if you cook it right.

01:15:07.351 –> 01:15:08.211
And it’s not hard to cook.

01:15:08.311 –> 01:15:10.312
So we’re going to be doing a lot of fun stuff like that.

01:15:11.465 –> 01:15:19.809
But what I realized last year is I was focused so many different places that I needed to make better decisions about priority.

01:15:20.109 –> 01:15:23.150
And so this year it’s like every day I journal about it right now.

01:15:23.630 –> 01:15:25.131
Where am I putting my attention?

01:15:25.171 –> 01:15:27.972
What’s bringing the best benefit for the community and for me?

01:15:27.992 –> 01:15:30.713
So it’s not really a goal.

01:15:30.973 –> 01:15:31.794
It’s just a focus.

01:15:33.634 –> 01:15:34.255
It’s not a goal.

01:15:34.275 –> 01:15:35.295
You just did it for me.

01:15:35.555 –> 01:15:36.876
I have a word of the year now.

01:15:37.036 –> 01:15:37.316
Build.

01:15:37.336 –> 01:15:38.156
Tone.

01:15:40.901 –> 01:15:58.288
I’m going to on tomorrow’s episode I’m going to push that and give you credit for it that everybody needs the word of the year that you judge your progress for the year by that word and no matter don’t take my word or Nicole’s word unless it fits

01:15:59.321 –> 01:16:04.844
Like when you, when you said that immediately after what I just said, that word came to my mind.

01:16:04.884 –> 01:16:06.324
Give Jenny credit for it though.

01:16:06.625 –> 01:16:06.985
This is okay.

01:16:07.145 –> 01:16:07.365
All right.

01:16:08.686 –> 01:16:09.426
I took it from her.

01:16:09.746 –> 01:16:11.367
It totally fits my, my three things.

01:16:11.527 –> 01:16:18.450
I have a chapter on it in my book, but I told her that from her as much as I would love to have credit for that.

01:16:18.470 –> 01:16:19.151
All right.

01:16:20.311 –> 01:16:21.392
They’ll give you dual credit.

01:16:22.216 –> 01:16:23.997
Cause you’re who I heard it from and she’s the source.

01:16:24.137 –> 01:16:24.417
Right.

01:16:24.477 –> 01:16:30.398
So like, yeah, like build, like everybody should have something that you’re gauging your life by all the time.

01:16:31.199 –> 01:16:38.161
And no one knows your capacity to fuck up or achieve better than you.

01:16:38.721 –> 01:16:38.901
Right.

01:16:38.941 –> 01:16:42.682
No one knows that we’re our own worst critics, but we’re not our own best critics.

01:16:43.237 –> 01:17:05.031
coaches and we should be because you can no matter how good a coach is you can bullshit a coach but if it’s athletic you can say i pulled my tendon or some shit you can’t bullshit yourself you know when you’re lying to yourself and so that accountability i think is awesome accountability john will not comply tell us about that john

01:17:06.645 –> 01:17:07.806
It says, do not comply.

01:17:07.846 –> 01:17:08.767
The back says freedom.

01:17:09.087 –> 01:17:13.330
The freedoms you surrender today are the freedoms your grandchildren will never know existed.

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We do a shirt every week.

01:17:15.272 –> 01:17:16.553
This is this week’s shirt.

01:17:16.853 –> 01:17:19.736
They are online at soetacticalgear.com.

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Are we doing the go around thing right now?

01:17:22.298 –> 01:17:22.898
Is that what we’re doing?

01:17:23.899 –> 01:17:24.739
Or are we still going?

01:17:25.080 –> 01:17:26.441
We’re still going unless you need it.

01:17:26.561 –> 01:17:26.781
Got it.

01:17:27.041 –> 01:17:27.221
No.

01:17:27.682 –> 01:17:28.242
I just saw that.

01:17:28.282 –> 01:17:30.344
I mean, that shirt is so simple and beautiful.

01:17:30.904 –> 01:17:32.906
We all wore different shirts today.

01:17:33.787 –> 01:17:38.790
Jack, what was that planned community you guys were working on years ago?

01:17:39.330 –> 01:17:40.230
Perma Ethos.

01:17:41.371 –> 01:17:43.232
How much property was that going to be?

01:17:44.553 –> 01:17:46.474
The place we tried to do was 110 acres.

01:17:47.014 –> 01:17:47.294
Got it.

01:17:48.054 –> 01:17:51.076
It was never going to be what I wanted it to be at that location.

01:17:51.116 –> 01:17:57.119
It was a hybrid attempt that I let some people talk me into trying.

01:17:57.659 –> 01:17:59.960
I would actually love to do it as a real community.

01:18:00.321 –> 01:18:00.841
Doing it

01:18:01.744 –> 01:18:08.167
in a way that would really work starts to get into some interesting, complicated things with people like the FTC.

01:18:08.927 –> 01:18:09.188
Yep.

01:18:10.648 –> 01:18:14.290
So we’re doing homestead apprentice, uh, which kind of started as man camp.

01:18:14.310 –> 01:18:24.775
We were just going to have a bunch of, you know, men and kids, women to come together and just teach people how to do basic things, change a tire, cook an egg, you know, just, just stuff that kids don’t know how to do.

01:18:25.095 –> 01:18:28.557
And Evan said, man, we should do that as kind of a, um,

01:18:29.207 –> 01:18:35.631
a tryout, a selection for apprentices, and then take the apprentices and turn them into employees.

01:18:36.211 –> 01:18:42.855
And that kind of has evolved into Homestead Apprentice, which we have the website and all the socials there for, and we’ve been shooting content for.

01:18:43.416 –> 01:18:45.757
But we’re looking at running what’s called the gauntlet.

01:18:45.777 –> 01:18:55.523
We’re going to bring in 50 people and just do a three-day intensive selection and then whittle that down to two 12-man teams that’ll come and actually live here

01:18:55.984 –> 01:18:57.105
for six weeks.

01:18:57.165 –> 01:19:02.708
And it’s going to kind of be a cross between the apprentice, you’re fired, and then the experts.

01:19:02.989 –> 01:19:05.230
And you provided a lot of training.

01:19:05.250 –> 01:19:07.091
There’ll be a ton of different training in there.

01:19:07.391 –> 01:19:09.293
And then as well as business development, right?

01:19:09.693 –> 01:19:12.074
People kind of gravitate to the things they want to do.

01:19:12.335 –> 01:19:18.999
That’s what I was really talking to Salatin in the interview about was, and he says, you know, we don’t push people into these jobs.

01:19:19.019 –> 01:19:20.220
They kind of select the job.

01:19:20.260 –> 01:19:20.400
So

01:19:20.868 –> 01:19:23.189
For instance, I use eggs as an example, right?

01:19:23.229 –> 01:19:26.491
If somebody really likes taking care of the chickens and gathering the eggs, that’s cool.

01:19:26.891 –> 01:19:28.432
How do you make money off of that?

01:19:28.472 –> 01:19:31.573
We can put a road stand out there, but how do we bring more people?

01:19:31.613 –> 01:19:32.494
How do you market that?

01:19:32.514 –> 01:19:33.654
How do you advertise that?

01:19:34.035 –> 01:19:35.155
How do you monetize that?

01:19:35.255 –> 01:19:39.958
How do we now take that outside of the immediate, you know, five mile area?

01:19:40.338 –> 01:19:41.618
And that’s what we want to develop.

01:19:41.778 –> 01:19:44.940
And then take that person, take those last people standing and

01:19:45.450 –> 01:19:48.953
And provide jobs for our companies that are involved in this.

01:19:48.993 –> 01:19:51.836
Radio Made Easy, Special Operations Equipment, Hauler Roast.

01:19:53.357 –> 01:19:56.680
And then as well, give them a piece of property.

01:19:56.720 –> 01:19:59.122
What we’re looking at is a 10-acre property right now.

01:19:59.603 –> 01:20:04.207
And then the winner, the primary winner, will be given an acre on that property.

01:20:04.847 –> 01:20:06.809
And that will be his property.

01:20:07.594 –> 01:20:21.620
And then when we run the second class selection, Homestead Apprentice, we will use that workforce to develop the common areas on that 10 acre property, pond, water catchment, whatever, and then kind of go from there.

01:20:21.680 –> 01:20:23.821
So we’re just working on that.

01:20:24.081 –> 01:20:25.561
We’ve got dates on there.

01:20:26.221 –> 01:20:29.683
We’re taking applications, video applications for people interested right now.

01:20:30.803 –> 01:20:37.326
But anybody interested in that, you can see it at homesteadapprentice.com and then all the socials there also for that.

01:20:38.939 –> 01:20:39.860
Yeah, it’s coming fast.

01:20:40.260 –> 01:20:41.141
That’s bad ass.

01:20:41.602 –> 01:20:42.262
It’s in May.

01:20:42.382 –> 01:20:44.104
May is almost upon us.

01:20:44.825 –> 01:20:44.985
Yep.

01:20:45.205 –> 01:20:49.349
When I originally tried to do my vision of this, we had found like a 500 acre property.

01:20:49.369 –> 01:20:50.811
I remember.

01:20:51.051 –> 01:20:53.433
And it was very affordable for what it was.

01:20:53.974 –> 01:20:59.899
And I put out some feelers and I had about four and a half million dollars worth of pledge capital in about 48 hours.

01:21:01.883 –> 01:21:15.198
And then I, and then fortunately, or unfortunately, depending on how you look at it, I went and did the first perma Churchill voices as a speaker and a guy that worked for the FTC came up to me and said, if you do this, they will put you in prison.

01:21:16.530 –> 01:21:17.451
He didn’t say they might.

01:21:17.892 –> 01:21:20.054
And he said, like, I’m not here to rain on your parade.

01:21:20.094 –> 01:21:20.675
I love what you do.

01:21:20.695 –> 01:21:21.696
I’ve been listening to you forever.

01:21:21.756 –> 01:21:22.757
But this is who I work for.

01:21:22.858 –> 01:21:25.641
And it’s not if it’s that they will put you in prison.

01:21:26.262 –> 01:21:29.485
And then I had a whole bunch of monkey fucks in my audience like, you should do it anyway.

01:21:29.986 –> 01:21:33.090
Well, that’s really easy for you to say.

01:21:33.530 –> 01:21:33.850
Right.

01:21:33.910 –> 01:21:35.692
Like, are you just going to be afraid of them?

01:21:36.152 –> 01:21:42.037
Well, in some instances, like if it’s a thing that if I do this, then this will happen.

01:21:42.097 –> 01:21:43.118
And I already know that.

01:21:43.198 –> 01:21:43.878
And I do it.

01:21:44.479 –> 01:21:48.362
You’re going to be the first person to tell me I was a dumb ass for doing it after I do it and go to prison.

01:21:48.642 –> 01:21:51.144
You’re not going to be there helping me out.

01:21:51.785 –> 01:21:55.127
The execution of the federal search warrant won’t be on their premises.

01:21:55.467 –> 01:21:57.409
No, no, no.

01:21:58.130 –> 01:21:59.110
No, he’s like, yeah, they’ll put you.

01:21:59.190 –> 01:22:00.191
You’re a public personality.

01:22:00.211 –> 01:22:01.132
You cannot raise funds this way.

01:22:01.874 –> 01:22:13.949
We’re looking at it as we can find people of like mind that we want to invest time and money and effort into and also bring people into the community to build the community, right?

01:22:14.609 –> 01:22:15.550
We have the footprint.

01:22:15.590 –> 01:22:16.692
We’ve got the attention.

01:22:17.358 –> 01:22:19.439
Now let’s find the people that match.

01:22:19.499 –> 01:22:27.201
Because I say often, you know, I used to jokingly say, I’m like, I don’t need to know that guy’s name for 90 days until they’ve given him a nickname.

01:22:27.781 –> 01:22:30.822
Because people will really, they’ll come in and put the best foot forward.

01:22:30.842 –> 01:22:35.284
They’ll do everything to get the position and then do nothing to keep the position.

01:22:35.604 –> 01:22:38.625
And a lot of those people, I really believe if you’re not growing, you’re dying.

01:22:39.145 –> 01:22:42.106
And if you’re dying, you’re necrotic and that infects other people.

01:22:42.206 –> 01:22:46.547
So you really don’t know what you’re dealing with until you’ve been through some hardship together.

01:22:46.929 –> 01:22:51.433
and put forth and sweat and blood and actually developed and, and, you know, built something together.

01:22:51.453 –> 01:22:55.156
You really have no idea because there’s no, nothing is pressure tested anymore.

01:22:56.217 –> 01:22:56.457
Yeah.

01:22:57.258 –> 01:22:58.159
FNG, right?

01:22:58.379 –> 01:23:01.282
That’s, that’s that person.

01:23:01.342 –> 01:23:04.825
And they got to be that for at least 90 days, at least 90 days, you’re the FNG.

01:23:04.865 –> 01:23:06.046
And if you don’t know what that is, look it up.

01:23:06.693 –> 01:23:06.933
Yeah.

01:23:07.193 –> 01:23:08.734
You’re not going to say it live on the internet.

01:23:08.974 –> 01:23:13.776
No, there’s, there’s plenty of guys that make it through special operations selections for, for every group.

01:23:14.257 –> 01:23:15.877
And then they have, they get peered out, right.

01:23:15.917 –> 01:23:24.441
They might make it through SQT and they might’ve made it through all the buds phases and everything, and then get to a platoon and you can still be peered out by your peers.

01:23:25.882 –> 01:23:26.082
Yep.

01:23:27.683 –> 01:23:28.503
Yeah.

01:23:29.204 –> 01:23:29.504
Yeah.

01:23:30.084 –> 01:23:30.384
Yeah.

01:23:31.625 –> 01:23:33.586
Jack and I were in a highlight war.

01:23:34.086 –> 01:23:34.466
Yeah.

01:23:34.586 –> 01:23:35.306
That’s why I always do this.

01:23:35.346 –> 01:23:35.467
Yeah.

01:23:38.257 –> 01:23:39.638
Yeah, I like what you’re doing.

01:23:39.678 –> 01:23:41.699
I think the smaller approach is probably a good idea.

01:23:41.719 –> 01:23:51.103
I think I tried to bite off a lot more than was probably going to make sense at the time, and it may be a blessing that we didn’t actually get it done at that time.

01:23:51.123 –> 01:23:52.023
I don’t know if I was ready to do it.

01:23:52.083 –> 01:23:54.044
I do know if I ever do something like this again.

01:23:54.705 –> 01:23:57.186
When we did do it, we did it in West Virginia.

01:23:58.166 –> 01:24:01.368
If I cannot get out of bed at 6 o’clock in the morning,

01:24:02.188 –> 01:24:05.129
And by 10 to 11 in the morning, step foot on the place.

01:24:05.289 –> 01:24:06.250
I will never do it again.

01:24:07.610 –> 01:24:14.693
If you’re going to put your name on something, you have to be able to completely take command of it whenever necessary and make hard decisions.

01:24:14.933 –> 01:24:16.693
And this is what I’ve learned.

01:24:16.713 –> 01:24:18.654
People say, well, you know, you can do it remotely.

01:24:18.794 –> 01:24:22.276
And, you know, no, you can’t because people will lie.

01:24:23.036 –> 01:24:25.457
So I’m not going to get into the gory details of it.

01:24:25.537 –> 01:24:30.599
But I had in that situation two people that were supposed to be working together, giving me completely different stories.

01:24:31.599 –> 01:24:39.306
And until I had them both report to me every morning like children, which I don’t ever want to do again in my life, I wasn’t able to get those stories consistent.

01:24:39.726 –> 01:24:48.753
When they realized that I was doing it to both of them, which took them about two weeks because they were both a little slow on the uptake and didn’t realize that the other one was doing it too.

01:24:49.474 –> 01:24:51.596
And that started to give me a clear picture of what was going on.

01:24:51.616 –> 01:24:56.800
And then I was able to take corrective action where if I had been there, I’d be like, you’re both full of shit.

01:24:56.820 –> 01:24:57.381
Go do it now.

01:24:58.393 –> 01:25:00.694
But I couldn’t do that because I didn’t really know.

01:25:00.734 –> 01:25:03.154
And you don’t want to be that person when you’re wrong.

01:25:03.774 –> 01:25:06.735
It’s okay to be that person when you’re fully informed.

01:25:07.435 –> 01:25:14.577
But when you’re wrong, you damage relationships with people that work with you and for you in ways that you can never repair.

01:25:15.057 –> 01:25:18.138
So you have to be very cautious about taking that hard line.

01:25:18.938 –> 01:25:21.659
But you have to be able to do it when you need to, if that makes sense.

01:25:22.315 –> 01:25:23.115
You have to be present.

01:25:23.155 –> 01:25:26.137
I mean, I got a building right up the road.

01:25:26.177 –> 01:25:27.718
It’s literally a quarter mile up the road.

01:25:27.758 –> 01:25:29.519
And we had thousands of animals there.

01:25:30.019 –> 01:25:32.620
And I had two full-time guys taking care of reptiles.

01:25:33.160 –> 01:25:40.404
And if I didn’t go there every week, and it really needed to be every other day or so, you would go in there and find we were breeding rats.

01:25:40.444 –> 01:25:41.325
We were producing 200 rats a week.

01:25:42.571 –> 01:25:48.495
And you’d go in there and find flooded trays and you’d find water, five gallon hoppers up top with no water.

01:25:48.875 –> 01:25:54.479
If I’m out of water in a five tray stack, that means they haven’t put water in that thing in two weeks.

01:25:54.979 –> 01:26:02.044
And these are high paid people who have a, they seeked me out to do the job, right?

01:26:02.084 –> 01:26:04.686
I wasn’t like, will you please come take care of these animals?

01:26:05.186 –> 01:26:07.828
These are like legit, like zookeeper type people.

01:26:08.508 –> 01:26:12.391
And if you’re, man, if you’re not there, if they know that you’re not going to be there,

01:26:13.732 –> 01:26:14.713
you’ve got nothing, man.

01:26:15.233 –> 01:26:22.979
If you’re not just dropping in and I wasn’t ever checking on them, I would drop in literally to take pictures of animals, to post them on social media at night.

01:26:22.999 –> 01:26:26.241
And I’m like, where is this, you know, $800 snake?

01:26:26.621 –> 01:26:27.402
Oh, I moved it.

01:26:27.582 –> 01:26:30.684
And then you find it in the, you know, you find it in the dumpster out there.

01:26:30.704 –> 01:26:33.106
You just happen to, I’m like, well, this place is a mess.

01:26:33.466 –> 01:26:37.409
I’ll come in here at three in the morning and clean out, you know, and vacuum all this shit up.

01:26:37.759 –> 01:26:40.342
And then you find an animal just in the dumpster dead.

01:26:40.962 –> 01:26:46.087
If you’re not there, man, I couldn’t even imagine trying to manage a project in another state.

01:26:46.388 –> 01:26:50.192
I’m literally five minutes up the road and had that shit happening.

01:26:50.851 –> 01:26:52.572
Yeah, yeah.

01:26:52.653 –> 01:26:53.593
See, that’s what I’m saying.

01:26:53.613 –> 01:26:56.756
That’s why I don’t like, I don’t know how you do it with employees, John.

01:26:56.936 –> 01:27:01.960
I at one time was the COO of a company with 1,250 contractors.

01:27:02.981 –> 01:27:04.222
I don’t ever want that.

01:27:04.643 –> 01:27:06.264
That’s like Satan in my life now.

01:27:06.384 –> 01:27:07.125
I don’t want it.

01:27:08.726 –> 01:27:11.208
And I’ve tried to do partnerships too, and that’s always failed.

01:27:11.288 –> 01:27:13.330
I’ve always given people too much too early, I think.

01:27:15.151 –> 01:27:18.937
And then they just don’t do the thing that they said they wanted to do.

01:27:18.977 –> 01:27:21.642
And I started to realize if they really wanted to do it, they would have done it on their own.

01:27:22.984 –> 01:27:26.149
And so if you want to do something with me, go make it.

01:27:27.466 –> 01:27:32.948
fundamentally successful first and then bring it to me and then we can talk about combining things and taking it to another level.

01:27:32.988 –> 01:27:34.649
But until you do it, I don’t even want to talk to you.

01:27:35.669 –> 01:27:37.730
I’ll help you emotionally, I guess.

01:27:37.790 –> 01:27:39.371
I’ll provide content, whatever.

01:27:39.411 –> 01:27:43.092
But I’m not putting my name next to yours until you’re already successful.

01:27:43.552 –> 01:27:55.097
And I know that sounds like such a dick move and it’s why it took me so long to get there because I remember when I was young and hungry, if someone had given me the opportunity that I’ve given people, you would have had to blow me out of it with dynamite.

01:27:55.816 –> 01:27:56.957
That’s how motivated I was.

01:27:57.117 –> 01:27:58.958
But that’s why I also ended up doing it on my own.

01:28:00.279 –> 01:28:05.303
And people say they want a shot, but what they really want is like they want it to be easy.

01:28:06.644 –> 01:28:12.489
And working with somebody that already has a brand, a name that can springboard you makes it easier, right?

01:28:13.374 –> 01:28:14.975
It will not make it easy.

01:28:15.055 –> 01:28:16.536
None of this is fucking easy.

01:28:17.017 –> 01:28:17.938
None of this is easy.

01:28:18.338 –> 01:28:22.801
All of it requires moments where you’re going to be like, oh my God, can I do this one more day?

01:28:23.662 –> 01:28:26.904
And if you’re not the person that can get past that gut check, stick on a W-2.

01:28:27.725 –> 01:28:28.706
But not for me, man.

01:28:29.246 –> 01:28:39.354
One of the things John said in answer to a question about how to stay motivated was one of my favorites of 2023 was like, what, you think I’m motivated to do this every day?

01:28:39.534 –> 01:28:40.835
No, I just can’t do it.

01:28:41.732 –> 01:28:43.693
I don’t even know if he remembers saying that, but he went off.

01:28:43.853 –> 01:28:45.473
Some days I’m motivated.

01:28:45.533 –> 01:28:50.655
Other days I’m like, I just got to do it because I know that if I don’t do it, then I’m wimping out on my goals.

01:28:51.175 –> 01:28:57.857
You know, the people that say shit like that, that they make like they pop out of the bed in the morning and my alarm clock’s now an opportunity clock.

01:28:57.937 –> 01:28:59.717
You’re full of shit.

01:28:59.857 –> 01:29:02.038
We all wake up and go, I don’t want to get up right now.

01:29:02.558 –> 01:29:03.500
It’s all warm in there.

01:29:03.701 –> 01:29:04.643
It’s cold out there.

01:29:04.743 –> 01:29:05.564
But you know what?

01:29:05.584 –> 01:29:07.268
There’s birds that have to come out.

01:29:07.589 –> 01:29:08.490
My grandkids are coming.

01:29:08.771 –> 01:29:09.432
The day’s going to start.

01:29:09.452 –> 01:29:10.274
I have to do my show.

01:29:10.635 –> 01:29:12.719
So I’m not necessarily motivated to get up.

01:29:13.595 –> 01:29:16.737
But I’m motivated to look around at my life and go, this is pretty awesome.

01:29:17.698 –> 01:29:18.779
I don’t want this to go away.

01:29:18.799 –> 01:29:20.920
And I want it to get more awesome before I check out.

01:29:21.701 –> 01:29:22.822
That’s the motivation.

01:29:22.842 –> 01:29:24.103
The motivation’s out here.

01:29:24.523 –> 01:29:26.364
It’s not when you wake up in the morning.

01:29:28.526 –> 01:29:32.749
When I used to hunt a lot more than I do, and you wake up, and it’s freaking 17 degrees outside.

01:29:32.809 –> 01:29:35.071
I’m not motivated to climb up a tree and sit there and freeze.

01:29:36.131 –> 01:29:38.033
But I would do it if I really wanted the deer.

01:29:39.369 –> 01:29:41.511
So that’s like, you got to find that for yourself.

01:29:41.571 –> 01:29:43.133
But yeah, I’m with you, John.

01:29:43.153 –> 01:29:44.614
I’m not motivated the way they mean.

01:29:45.495 –> 01:29:50.360
No, people, we’ve really ruined people with that word balance, right?

01:29:50.380 –> 01:29:53.543
People watch social media and social media has given everybody a voice.

01:29:54.264 –> 01:29:55.085
And people tend to,

01:29:57.492 –> 01:29:59.533
they’re attracted by things that they like, right?

01:29:59.613 –> 01:30:08.315
So, so if you think your life is difficult, you’re definitely going to consume some content where a dude says, Oh, you need balance and you need to, you know, all these things need to work.

01:30:08.655 –> 01:30:14.056
If you have a business that you want to be successful in, that is your, that’s everything, right?

01:30:14.096 –> 01:30:17.437
If you’re starting a business, everything is the business.

01:30:17.477 –> 01:30:18.638
You don’t have time for family.

01:30:18.758 –> 01:30:19.618
You don’t have time for

01:30:20.268 –> 01:30:20.728
anything.

01:30:21.049 –> 01:30:22.510
Everything is the business.

01:30:23.050 –> 01:30:25.812
If you’re lucky, your family is included in that.

01:30:25.872 –> 01:30:27.753
My kids were raised at my business.

01:30:28.314 –> 01:30:30.655
Baby cribs were in my shop.

01:30:30.956 –> 01:30:36.239
When I slept in the shop, when I drove up to the first shop I had, I couldn’t afford the building.

01:30:36.399 –> 01:30:38.321
I couldn’t afford to turn the water on.

01:30:38.681 –> 01:30:40.362
We barely had the power on.

01:30:40.382 –> 01:30:43.865
When I drove up to the first shop, I ran out of gas.

01:30:43.925 –> 01:30:44.305
The city

01:30:44.949 –> 01:30:49.575
gave me two tickets that night and I got some Marines to help me push the blazer around back.

01:30:50.095 –> 01:30:51.757
I lived in the building for 90 days.

01:30:51.918 –> 01:30:53.880
I didn’t leave the building for 30 days.

01:30:54.421 –> 01:30:55.422
I didn’t have a mattress.

01:30:55.522 –> 01:30:56.423
I didn’t have a bed.

01:30:56.764 –> 01:30:57.785
I didn’t have a shower.

01:30:58.226 –> 01:30:59.707
I lived there for 30 days.

01:31:00.288 –> 01:31:02.471
People just have no concept now

01:31:03.624 –> 01:31:05.586
of what, what they’re capable of, right?

01:31:05.626 –> 01:31:08.027
People have no concept of what difficult is.

01:31:08.808 –> 01:31:13.752
I was building equipment and trading Marines for broken down MREs that they were coming.

01:31:13.792 –> 01:31:15.073
They were supposed to have thrown away.

01:31:15.513 –> 01:31:16.254
I lived on MRI.

01:31:16.294 –> 01:31:19.496
I gained 20 pounds in a 30 day period, just eating MREs.

01:31:19.957 –> 01:31:27.422
And I, I just took a bath with a towel, you know, in, in some water that we filled up in a water cube from somewhere else.

01:31:28.003 –> 01:31:28.123
But,

01:31:29.378 –> 01:31:30.599
It’s just what we do, man.

01:31:30.640 –> 01:31:32.441
People like, this is really hard.

01:31:32.782 –> 01:31:33.262
Is it hard?

01:31:33.582 –> 01:31:41.170
No, hard is me having, if I had to push that skid steer across the property or figure out how to move it with no power, that’s hard.

01:31:41.630 –> 01:31:46.095
Getting up in the morning, feeding these animals, you might not want to do it, but it’s not hard.

01:31:46.475 –> 01:31:48.798
We have changed and reprogrammed people, right?

01:31:49.238 –> 01:31:51.019
There’s a difference between hurt and injured.

01:31:51.059 –> 01:31:51.600
This hurts.

01:31:52.060 –> 01:31:52.601
That’s fine.

01:31:52.641 –> 01:31:54.202
It’s okay to be uncomfortable.

01:31:54.622 –> 01:31:57.524
Injured is something different and everything has been commingled.

01:31:59.005 –> 01:32:00.266
We think shit’s so hard.

01:32:01.007 –> 01:32:05.771
Farmers hold a full-time job in order to be able to farm.

01:32:06.636 –> 01:32:08.639
Most farmers are not profitable.

01:32:09.019 –> 01:32:09.279
Yeah.

01:32:09.300 –> 01:32:17.430
Like my buddy farms 1500 acres and works a 60 hour job and farms 1500 acres.

01:32:17.770 –> 01:32:20.053
And we talk about getting up at four 30 in the morning.

01:32:20.794 –> 01:32:23.338
That dude ain’t gone to bed by four 30 in the morning.

01:32:25.382 –> 01:32:33.886
If YouTube existed in the 70s, there’d be three 50-year-old people saying the same shit we are right now back in 1975.

01:32:34.666 –> 01:32:38.148
It’s not really that this is new that people don’t want to do it.

01:32:38.228 –> 01:32:40.669
It’s that there’s only a small segment of people who will.

01:32:41.610 –> 01:32:44.491
That’s your opportunity because when you were telling that story, John,

01:32:45.746 –> 01:32:53.089
I was remembering it was either Harvey McKay or Zig Ziglar or something back when I was in car university, when I was traveling for my first sales jobs.

01:32:53.509 –> 01:32:55.189
I would listen to stuff like that over and over again.

01:32:55.209 –> 01:33:01.712
I remember one of them told a story about this dude that came from Vietnam right at the end of the war, right after the fall of Saigon.

01:33:02.432 –> 01:33:05.973
His uncle owned a whole bunch of donut shops.

01:33:06.013 –> 01:33:09.234
His uncle said, I’ll give you a job working in one of the donut shops.

01:33:09.254 –> 01:33:10.455
He worked in a donut shop.

01:33:11.574 –> 01:33:13.235
It sounds like your story.

01:33:13.315 –> 01:33:14.756
Him and his wife lived in the back room.

01:33:14.776 –> 01:33:16.177
They took showers in the sink.

01:33:16.597 –> 01:33:21.881
And in six months, he had made enough money to buy that donut shop from his uncle.

01:33:22.921 –> 01:33:26.584
Then they could have taken that, gotten credit, bought a house.

01:33:26.904 –> 01:33:42.356
They lived in the donut shop for another year and a half, so two full years of living in the back room of a donut shop, living on leftover donuts like your MREs, and then they bought their first house for cash somewhere in the mid-late 70s, which was not a great time to buy a house.

01:33:43.457 –> 01:33:44.518
It’s so hard to buy a house.

01:33:44.538 –> 01:33:46.099
Go talk to your grandfather who bought one in 1978.

01:33:47.853 –> 01:33:51.557
Okay, go talk to somebody who bought a house in 1981 about how hard it is now.

01:33:51.837 –> 01:33:52.959
So that’s when he came into it.

01:33:53.019 –> 01:33:55.021
He ended up, this dude, his name was Lee something.

01:33:55.361 –> 01:33:58.845
He ended up being like this incredibly wealthy real estate investor.

01:33:59.929 –> 01:34:07.432
But that was because he lived on donuts and took baths in a shop sink for two years.

01:34:07.853 –> 01:34:10.154
But was everybody willing to do that in the 1970s?

01:34:10.294 –> 01:34:11.534
No, this isn’t new.

01:34:12.255 –> 01:34:14.656
This is the same thing over and over and over again.

01:34:14.676 –> 01:34:16.997
There’s people who will and people who won’t.

01:34:17.057 –> 01:34:19.758
And if you’re somebody who will, then you have an advantage.

01:34:20.098 –> 01:34:25.621
And if you’re not somebody who will, then you do have one play left, and that is you can become somebody.

01:34:26.865 –> 01:34:33.787
You can motivate yourself that you want things to be better in your life enough that you become somebody who will.

01:34:33.827 –> 01:34:39.909
You’ll notice that Nicole and John and I, we will motivate you, but we don’t use flowery language.

01:34:40.230 –> 01:34:41.610
If I believe it, I can achieve.

01:34:41.630 –> 01:34:43.571
We don’t say crap like that, right?

01:34:43.991 –> 01:34:46.892
Even though it’s true at its base, it’s so surface-based.

01:34:48.461 –> 01:34:51.224
It’s like spraying rose-colored oil on shit.

01:34:51.904 –> 01:34:53.025
It’s still shit.

01:34:53.645 –> 01:34:56.027
You got to move the shit pile or compost it, right?

01:34:56.207 –> 01:34:57.368
You got to do something with it.

01:34:57.408 –> 01:35:01.291
You can’t just spray it with some Febreze and expect everything to get better.

01:35:01.752 –> 01:35:10.959
And like, I think it is worse today though, to your point, John, because of Instagram and TikTok and all, because all you have is all these influencers constantly showing the best of the best.

01:35:10.979 –> 01:35:14.061
They never show their, some do, but most, they never show failures.

01:35:14.381 –> 01:35:15.342
They never show misery.

01:35:15.582 –> 01:35:17.384
They never show anything that goes wrong.

01:35:17.904 –> 01:35:23.948
Everything’s always heart hands and beauty and perfect people reading books in their freaking tiny homes or whatever.

01:35:24.328 –> 01:35:25.348
It’s all bullshit.

01:35:25.769 –> 01:35:28.850
Like everybody that got where you want to be suffered.

01:35:29.551 –> 01:35:31.032
They suffered to get there.

01:35:31.692 –> 01:35:34.013
And if you want to start telling me, well, what about the kids that inherited?

01:35:34.053 –> 01:35:34.554
Shut up.

01:35:35.194 –> 01:35:36.935
I don’t give a shit about the kid.

01:35:37.095 –> 01:35:37.636
Are you him?

01:35:37.716 –> 01:35:38.356
Are you that kid?

01:35:38.376 –> 01:35:40.337
Shut up and shut up.

01:35:40.698 –> 01:35:46.441
And are you really trying to be the son of a Rothschild or the people that you really want to be like are the ones that you actually do see?

01:35:46.822 –> 01:35:48.062
They all.

01:35:48.403 –> 01:35:56.968
And if they didn’t suffer, if you didn’t suffer because they inherited it, somebody in that family at some point suffered to create that generational wealth.

01:35:57.408 –> 01:35:58.249
You want it in your family.

01:35:58.469 –> 01:35:59.630
You have to suffer.

01:36:00.310 –> 01:36:03.661
And that doesn’t mean be hung from a tree and be flailed.

01:36:04.062 –> 01:36:07.232
What it means is you have to be willing to go through the kind of shit John was talking about.

01:36:09.798 –> 01:36:12.620
It’s funny because I think this comment is meant as sarcastic.

01:36:12.680 –> 01:36:14.602
John has the voice and temperament of an angel.

01:36:15.202 –> 01:36:26.491
But actually, when I listen to him not respond full aggressive to people giving him a bunch of excuses, he does have the temperament of an angel.

01:36:26.511 –> 01:36:29.433
Because I can just imagine what the voice in his head is saying.

01:36:29.473 –> 01:36:35.617
He’s actually really good at not responding to that stuff and moving on to the people who will listen.

01:36:35.738 –> 01:36:36.979
And Greg’s on my live every night.

01:36:36.999 –> 01:36:37.559
He knows what’s up.

01:36:38.350 –> 01:36:39.390
You guys are super lucky.

01:36:39.430 –> 01:36:49.572
I don’t have a button where I can just vaporize you because most of you are super lucky that the ban button stops at the computer.

01:36:49.672 –> 01:36:55.334
I do line that dot up on the windshield and just imagine being able to disintegrate you.

01:36:56.054 –> 01:36:59.694
We need John and Sonny on a panel at SRF with a vaporize button.

01:37:00.455 –> 01:37:01.035
Absolutely.

01:37:01.055 –> 01:37:02.995
Part of it too is like

01:37:08.982 –> 01:37:10.243
everybody’s like, what should I do?

01:37:10.283 –> 01:37:12.024
I’m not going to tell you what I should, what you should do.

01:37:12.044 –> 01:37:13.264
I’m going to tell you what I would do.

01:37:13.384 –> 01:37:14.685
And you’re either going to do that or not.

01:37:14.785 –> 01:37:17.786
Most people they’re not going to, because they would be doing it already.

01:37:18.427 –> 01:37:23.029
Um, so I don’t know why they just like to interact and be in there somehow.

01:37:23.129 –> 01:37:24.370
It’s like success zombies.

01:37:24.710 –> 01:37:28.872
If you go to 15 motivational conferences, you’ll see the same dude at all of them.

01:37:29.432 –> 01:37:31.553
Um, and that’s, that’s what they do.

01:37:31.593 –> 01:37:35.795
And they just build content off of something that they’ve never actually successfully done themselves.

01:37:36.216 –> 01:37:36.996
But also, um,

01:37:37.489 –> 01:37:40.771
With with the being harsh like that, that truly is who I like.

01:37:40.831 –> 01:37:42.792
I want to say that to people in real life.

01:37:43.112 –> 01:37:48.275
And sometimes you’ll see me just walk away and sometimes you’ll see me really give it to them.

01:37:48.955 –> 01:37:51.877
But it’s very rare that a dude actually takes it and does anything.

01:37:51.937 –> 01:37:59.801
If you look at the dude that we were talking to at SRF, take the ride and Tinker Train is his name.

01:38:00.501 –> 01:38:04.262
his podcast, Tinker Tribe, that dude is working out every single day.

01:38:04.282 –> 01:38:17.227
And I can’t go on any platform, every single place I go on the internet, I see that dude out there every single day, building projects, working out, and actually doing it.

01:38:17.527 –> 01:38:23.749
But also, when you give it to people like that, it keeps you from having to do it a second time, right?

01:38:24.289 –> 01:38:28.491
I can take a 50% motherfucker and me be at 100 that day

01:38:30.225 –> 01:38:32.907
and bring him up to 75, but it brings me down to 75.

01:38:34.167 –> 01:38:36.069
And that charging, you’re a battery, right?

01:38:36.309 –> 01:38:43.493
So if I bring up a bunch of 50% of dude over and over and over, it makes me never capable of 100 again.

01:38:43.513 –> 01:38:46.015
So everybody is contagious.

01:38:46.115 –> 01:38:49.097
Make sure you want to catch what you’re about to catch.

01:38:49.157 –> 01:38:50.518
You can help somebody once.

01:38:50.798 –> 01:38:55.321
Like I’ll give you two chances, but you’re never getting the second one.

01:38:55.381 –> 01:38:57.382
The second chance is me not killing you.

01:38:57.762 –> 01:38:59.163
Like just stay away from me.

01:39:00.205 –> 01:39:01.366
See, he is an angel.

01:39:01.446 –> 01:39:04.387
Remember the old movie, The Prophecy, with Christopher Walken in it?

01:39:04.927 –> 01:39:09.430
And there’s one line in it where one of the guys says, can you imagine being an angel?

01:39:10.290 –> 01:39:14.392
He’s like, have you ever noticed that whenever God needs good news delivered or whatever, he sends an angel?

01:39:14.412 –> 01:39:18.234
But he also, when he needs people laid to waste, he sends an angel.

01:39:18.254 –> 01:39:24.237
It was something to the akin of on one wing, you’re always praising your God, and the other wing is always dipped in blood.

01:39:25.683 –> 01:39:25.843
Right.

01:39:25.923 –> 01:39:30.444
And so there it’s the voice of an angel, like because sometimes the voice of an angel is not good.

01:39:31.224 –> 01:39:34.685
There’s there’s more of them, but there’s more of them.

01:39:34.705 –> 01:39:38.766
But the only two off the top of my head is is that guy take the ride.

01:39:39.326 –> 01:39:41.707
And Evan Dixon right there, Radio Made Easy.

01:39:42.047 –> 01:39:44.628
He was standing at one of the I think the first SRF.

01:39:44.668 –> 01:39:46.228
And I have a bucket full of radios.

01:39:46.268 –> 01:39:49.249
Of course, they’re unprogrammed and none of them will communicate with each other.

01:39:50.114 –> 01:39:53.056
And he’s people kept pulling him out and going, how much for this?

01:39:53.096 –> 01:39:53.756
How much for this?

01:39:54.217 –> 01:39:55.617
Well, we weren’t selling radios.

01:39:55.697 –> 01:39:59.059
They were finding them like under some shit in my personal workspace.

01:39:59.660 –> 01:40:01.081
And Evan’s like, Hey, I have an idea.

01:40:01.121 –> 01:40:03.982
I think I should buy, I should sell radios already programmed.

01:40:04.022 –> 01:40:05.523
And I’m like, yeah, that’s cool.

01:40:05.543 –> 01:40:06.384
You won’t fucking do it.

01:40:07.104 –> 01:40:10.147
I don’t know if I heard it.

01:40:10.187 –> 01:40:14.250
I don’t think I heard his feelings, but he actually did it in a huge, huge manner.

01:40:14.791 –> 01:40:20.916
And Evan has put himself places in business that he’s brought me access in business that I didn’t have access to.

01:40:22.257 –> 01:40:25.740
You know, you’re not going to hurt somebody by telling them, no, you won’t.

01:40:27.555 –> 01:40:32.238
Long ago, I had John Dowey who did the microgreens thing and all successfully at one of my workshops.

01:40:32.258 –> 01:40:35.140
He did like classes every day of the event.

01:40:35.300 –> 01:40:41.904
He did like three separate classes, went through everything, how to find customers from the grow to the marketing and back again.

01:40:42.464 –> 01:40:45.066
And he had tons of people walk up to him and go, I’m going to do that.

01:40:45.186 –> 01:40:45.886
I’m going to do that.

01:40:46.006 –> 01:40:48.348
And every single one would walk away and he’d go, no, you’re not.

01:40:49.529 –> 01:40:50.930
But he never said it to them.

01:40:51.850 –> 01:40:54.712
One dude, a suspended dude named Roger, he’s like, no, you won’t.

01:40:55.580 –> 01:40:56.661
He was the one that did it.

01:40:57.342 –> 01:41:00.184
He was the one that the one that he told to his face.

01:41:00.324 –> 01:41:01.485
I don’t think you’ll do it.

01:41:02.546 –> 01:41:04.347
Was the one that went out and did it.

01:41:04.547 –> 01:41:06.429
And he hooked up with another guy here.

01:41:06.849 –> 01:41:08.791
They built a farm together down by Austin.

01:41:08.831 –> 01:41:12.734
They built a like an FDA approved like processing room.

01:41:12.754 –> 01:41:14.896
And they’ve been successful.

01:41:15.296 –> 01:41:16.798
But he was the one told, no, you won’t.

01:41:18.019 –> 01:41:18.219
So.

01:41:20.081 –> 01:41:26.964
I think that people, and I mean, not most people, I think there’s people when they hear me speak like that, they take it in a negative personal manner.

01:41:27.084 –> 01:41:30.225
And really the way you should take is that I cared enough to actually give you that.

01:41:30.645 –> 01:41:34.647
I was sitting in a Perkins restaurant, the one and only time I’ve ever been in one.

01:41:35.307 –> 01:41:38.348
And there was this goofy, there was this goofy kid in there.

01:41:39.108 –> 01:41:41.549
And I’d made a video about it when I left.

01:41:41.709 –> 01:41:45.711
And that kid, there’s a lot of, you know, cute little waitresses around.

01:41:46.411 –> 01:41:48.853
And they’re texting and just giving shitty service.

01:41:48.913 –> 01:41:54.879
And this goofy kid was the only one giving any good, you know, any good service.

01:41:54.919 –> 01:41:59.203
And when I left, I go, you know, you could have any one of these could be your girlfriend, whoever they’re talking to.

01:41:59.703 –> 01:42:01.385
They’re not here with them like you could.

01:42:01.789 –> 01:42:04.772
have any one of these and you could change the way you look.

01:42:05.133 –> 01:42:15.344
And I, I just, you know, a couple of little sentences and I left and I made, I talked about it on a video and my buddy, Justin Souders hit me up and he’s like, why didn’t you arm that kid?

01:42:15.384 –> 01:42:17.346
Why didn’t you give him the real information?

01:42:17.366 –> 01:42:17.826
And I go, well,

01:42:18.826 –> 01:42:19.446
I don’t know, man.

01:42:19.486 –> 01:42:21.107
He just, I don’t know why I didn’t.

01:42:21.247 –> 01:42:25.450
Like I, it was one of those things like in a movie where you’re in the elevator with Tony Robbins.

01:42:25.890 –> 01:42:33.434
I truly believed that with five minutes with that kid, I could have completely changed the direction of his life to this day.

01:42:33.534 –> 01:42:36.476
This was probably, this was during COVID I think is when this was.

01:42:37.196 –> 01:42:40.318
And Justin reaching out, he’s like, Hey, why didn’t you unfuck that kid?

01:42:40.858 –> 01:42:41.618
And I’m like, I don’t know.

01:42:41.658 –> 01:42:44.620
And I, I regret, I’m talking about it right now.

01:42:44.740 –> 01:42:46.681
I regret not changing that kid’s life.

01:42:46.997 –> 01:42:49.699
And that’s when I tell somebody, I’m like, you won’t fucking do this.

01:42:49.719 –> 01:42:50.540
You’re so full of shit.

01:42:51.101 –> 01:42:54.784
That’s me taking that step because I want you to do it.

01:42:55.184 –> 01:42:58.587
And if you just react even a little, I’ll be there for you.

01:42:58.728 –> 01:43:01.430
Like I can help you change the direction of your life.

01:43:01.889 –> 01:43:06.931
But you have to put some I’ve put too much time and energy and money.

01:43:07.311 –> 01:43:13.273
And literally it destroys me when I when I build somebody and think that we’re going in a good direction and they fuck it up.

01:43:13.773 –> 01:43:17.815
It really it eats on me and it really does take away part of my life force.

01:43:18.595 –> 01:43:21.797
Yeah, I got to a point where I started feeling like I wanted it more for them than they did for themselves.

01:43:21.857 –> 01:43:22.517
And that was cancer.

01:43:24.197 –> 01:43:28.360
I get an email or three a week that are kind of in that kind of tone in my response.

01:43:28.800 –> 01:43:32.844
And, you know, one out of three will email me back all butt hurt and angry about it.

01:43:32.864 –> 01:43:34.325
I was like, you’re lucky you got a response.

01:43:34.985 –> 01:43:35.246
Yeah.

01:43:35.346 –> 01:43:37.768
I cared enough to tell you I thought you were full of shit.

01:43:38.588 –> 01:43:41.131
And I told you you’re full of shit because one, I believed you were.

01:43:41.151 –> 01:43:42.652
And two, I thought you needed to hear it.

01:43:43.459 –> 01:43:43.619
Yep.

01:43:44.240 –> 01:43:46.802
And every once in a while, somebody surprised you and comes back around six.

01:43:46.842 –> 01:43:48.523
Thank you so much for telling me I was full of shit.

01:43:48.623 –> 01:43:49.284
I was full of shit.

01:43:49.704 –> 01:43:50.545
And I dumped the shit.

01:43:50.605 –> 01:43:51.546
And now this is what I’m doing.

01:43:51.586 –> 01:43:53.447
And then you’re like, okay, I just got a payday.

01:43:54.088 –> 01:43:55.509
I don’t think people really understand that.

01:43:55.549 –> 01:43:57.971
Like when you do what we do, like that’s your big payday.

01:43:58.011 –> 01:44:00.473
When somebody says, I have this business, I’m doing this, whatever.

01:44:00.653 –> 01:44:01.514
I just bought my first house.

01:44:01.554 –> 01:44:02.535
I paid off all my debt.

01:44:02.895 –> 01:44:06.578
That’s when you’re like, fucking A, like this is worth doing.

01:44:07.439 –> 01:44:07.679
Yeah.

01:44:08.500 –> 01:44:08.620
Yep.

01:44:11.269 –> 01:44:14.051
And that’s why I don’t do weekly coaching calls with people.

01:44:15.972 –> 01:44:17.613
Weekly coaching calls are an excuse.

01:44:20.655 –> 01:44:32.623
But we, we do the, we just did with, do you remember the girl at SRF, the lady who was super cheery, but also willow sunshine, sunshine.

01:44:32.643 –> 01:44:36.205
We, we did a round table with her in December and,

01:44:37.850 –> 01:44:39.491
brainstorming ways to monetize.

01:44:39.532 –> 01:44:44.996
And before she jumped on that, I asked her about 10 questions and she did like a five page document.

01:44:45.016 –> 01:44:47.078
Like she really answered these questions.

01:44:47.619 –> 01:44:53.764
So we knew like she spent a lot of time before that invested time coming up with concepts.

01:44:54.545 –> 01:45:03.372
And then she left with commitments from people who were in the live stream who would help introduce her to people like funeral home directors and that sort of thing, which makes sense if you watch the video.

01:45:04.213 –> 01:45:10.999
That kind of thing I think can be really helpful, especially if the person does the work before, before the, the, the accelerator.

01:45:12.560 –> 01:45:16.083
If they don’t, if they just walk up there unprepared, then you already know it’s going to fail.

01:45:17.104 –> 01:45:19.666
I gave her, I gave her 20 minutes right out in front.

01:45:19.806 –> 01:45:20.807
And we said the same thing.

01:45:20.847 –> 01:45:22.188
I’m like, you have to monetize this.

01:45:22.228 –> 01:45:23.409
You have to do social media.

01:45:23.869 –> 01:45:25.911
You have to monitor, but I don’t know what my product is.

01:45:25.971 –> 01:45:27.192
I’m like, you are the product.

01:45:27.252 –> 01:45:28.733
Like you are the product.

01:45:29.294 –> 01:45:29.414
Like,

01:45:30.245 –> 01:45:33.467
And like, we just kept going in circles and I finally walked away.

01:45:33.528 –> 01:45:37.951
I was glad to see that she actually did something on your show, but that’s, that’s the thing.

01:45:38.091 –> 01:45:40.293
You are the lead singer of your band.

01:45:40.593 –> 01:45:41.814
Motley Crue sells what?

01:45:42.294 –> 01:45:45.677
Pictures of Dee Snider and music.

01:45:45.737 –> 01:45:47.278
You are the lead singer of the band.

01:45:48.038 –> 01:45:48.799
I don’t think that’s right.

01:45:50.817 –> 01:45:51.418
I don’t know.

01:45:52.058 –> 01:45:53.679
I don’t think Dee Snider’s in Motley Crue.

01:45:54.280 –> 01:45:55.681
I think Dee Snider’s Twisted Sister.

01:45:55.861 –> 01:45:56.982
You’re absolutely right.

01:45:57.102 –> 01:45:58.163
I should know that, too.

01:45:58.243 –> 01:46:01.265
I was wondering if I had a brain aneurysm or something.

01:46:01.305 –> 01:46:03.407
He was awesome in the hearings.

01:46:03.507 –> 01:46:04.788
Yeah, you’re right.

01:46:05.448 –> 01:46:07.850
Your point’s valid.

01:46:08.030 –> 01:46:11.833
I literally was like, wait a minute.

01:46:12.213 –> 01:46:13.634
What is the lead singer of Motley Crue now?

01:46:13.735 –> 01:46:15.356
It went away when you said that.

01:46:15.976 –> 01:46:19.499
Dee Snider killed Tipper Gore in those fucking congressional hearings.

01:46:20.513 –> 01:46:21.474
Vince something.

01:46:21.594 –> 01:46:22.194
Vince Neal.

01:46:22.655 –> 01:46:23.115
Vince Neal.

01:46:23.195 –> 01:46:23.436
Okay.

01:46:23.636 –> 01:46:24.957
I want to say that, but it sounded wrong.

01:46:25.237 –> 01:46:25.898
You jacked my brain.

01:46:25.938 –> 01:46:28.641
Yeah, he looks like a giant food blister now.

01:46:28.721 –> 01:46:30.283
Those are old memories.

01:46:30.703 –> 01:46:32.945
I was smoking pot in high school when that was a thing.

01:46:32.985 –> 01:46:36.829
You do have a freakish memory for detail from the 80s and 90s.

01:46:37.029 –> 01:46:38.151
Yeah.

01:46:38.411 –> 01:46:42.495
Dee Schneider is – I’ve seen Dee Schneider several times.

01:46:42.555 –> 01:46:43.436
My friend Chris Barrett.

01:46:44.408 –> 01:46:47.391
owns some gun shops and stuff, and Dee Schneider’s been out there a lot.

01:46:47.451 –> 01:46:52.896
He’s very, very pro-freedoms, and he just seems like a good dude.

01:46:53.476 –> 01:46:57.420
He also cameoed in Cobra Kai, so you gotta give a guy that, right?

01:46:57.440 –> 01:46:57.580
So, yeah.

01:47:00.782 –> 01:47:08.505
Yeah, I did the people that will do something when you give them the hard side of it.

01:47:09.266 –> 01:47:19.210
When you were talking about a job and maybe think of us like if you were running like a drug and alcohol rehabilitation clinic where people come in to get clean, you get three different kinds of people that come in that door.

01:47:19.530 –> 01:47:20.991
You get the person that we can help.

01:47:21.071 –> 01:47:23.132
And that’s the person that says my life sucks.

01:47:24.244 –> 01:47:27.366
I need to do something, and they intentionally go.

01:47:28.287 –> 01:47:32.970
You get the person who is forced into it, and unless something magic happens, they’re going to relapse.

01:47:33.571 –> 01:47:39.815
And then you get the person that wants everybody to shut up, so they say they are going, and they show up and say, I’m here, but they’re not really there.

01:47:40.536 –> 01:47:44.138
And it’s only the first one, and it’s not that the other two can’t be helped.

01:47:44.178 –> 01:47:46.180
They have to somewhere in that journey transcend

01:47:47.320 –> 01:47:49.661
to realize, oh, I really do need to do this.

01:47:50.461 –> 01:48:09.005
And you almost have to go at building something beyond a job as like you’re going through getting off being an alcoholic because you’ve been conditioned your whole life to think in a way that fundamentally cannot work as an entrepreneur.

01:48:09.025 –> 01:48:14.326
I don’t know if you’ve noticed this, Sean, but employees have a tendency to think that companies just have money.

01:48:16.167 –> 01:48:18.991
If you own a company, you just have money to pay them with.

01:48:19.211 –> 01:48:24.517
There’s this box of money that just has salaries on it.

01:48:24.537 –> 01:48:25.999
And that box is always full.

01:48:26.199 –> 01:48:29.303
And no matter what happens to the company, you can still get paid.

01:48:29.743 –> 01:48:34.248
So they don’t take any vested interest in the company being profitable so they can keep their jobs.

01:48:35.211 –> 01:48:37.573
And so that mindset has to die.

01:48:38.514 –> 01:48:47.882
And so if you think of anybody with like a dependency program, there’s a piece of them that they’ve created that needs to die and they have to be reborn in a way to get clear of that.

01:48:48.422 –> 01:48:56.028
I think to go from an employee mindset to a true entrepreneurial mindset and the longer you’ve waited, the harder it’s going to be, right?

01:48:56.048 –> 01:49:01.193
The guy that’s been an alcoholic for 20 years, it’s a lot harder to get through the 12-step program than a dude that’s been an alcoholic for a year.

01:49:02.452 –> 01:49:06.535
And so like you have to let some old piece of you die.

01:49:06.555 –> 01:49:08.217
And this is a funny thing.

01:49:09.778 –> 01:49:14.001
No matter how bad that thing is, you’re attached to it and you don’t want it to die.

01:49:14.822 –> 01:49:20.026
You don’t want to let go of it because then that means I can never like people that need to quit drinking.

01:49:20.046 –> 01:49:21.447
Like, but that means I’ll never be able to drink again.

01:49:21.467 –> 01:49:22.248
Well, maybe you can’t.

01:49:23.131 –> 01:49:24.692
Well, maybe that’s what you need to do.

01:49:25.172 –> 01:49:30.334
So if I can’t ever whine and bitch anymore, that’s pretty hard to accept, right?

01:49:31.934 –> 01:49:32.735
You can still whine and bitch.

01:49:32.755 –> 01:49:34.595
You just can’t use it as an excuse anymore.

01:49:34.635 –> 01:49:36.136
You can bitch while you’re doing the work.

01:49:37.036 –> 01:49:39.457
And that’s very hard for some people to make that transition.

01:49:40.217 –> 01:49:42.098
I bitch all the time, but while I’m doing the work.

01:49:44.286 –> 01:49:45.187
Yeah.

01:49:46.127 –> 01:49:49.169
It’s because you tie your identity and things that are not really you.

01:49:49.670 –> 01:50:02.058
Like one does not, I’m not pointing anybody out, but I know every time I make a significant positive change in my life, I have to mourn something that I was hanging on to for some bullshit reason that makes no sense.

01:50:03.240 –> 01:50:12.307
And that goes from changing how I eat to deciding to build holler roast, despite the economy being kind of crappy.

01:50:12.347 –> 01:50:13.748
Like we’re, we’re right there again.

01:50:13.788 –> 01:50:18.892
I think we’re, we’re going to have a hard year and it’s the best year to grow by the beans.

01:50:18.912 –> 01:50:20.193
I am buying the beans this week.

01:50:20.253 –> 01:50:24.617
As a matter of fact, that should be a shirt by the beans.

01:50:25.077 –> 01:50:25.497
It is.

01:50:25.617 –> 01:50:25.898
It is.

01:50:26.038 –> 01:50:30.381
I believe coffee, coffee should be an easy one to, to build and grow.

01:50:30.501 –> 01:50:31.442
People love coffee because,

01:50:31.724 –> 01:50:35.448
because everybody drinks coffee, even people that don’t like coffee, drink coffee.

01:50:35.809 –> 01:50:49.225
And if you look at what Tim pool and the quartering and Jeremy from over there, who’s Shapiro’s crew over there in Nashville, all of them are running paid promotions on YouTube for their own coffee.

01:50:49.245 –> 01:50:50.927
If you look up coffee brand coffee,

01:50:51.741 –> 01:50:54.583
You, I, we talked about this probably a year ago.

01:50:55.063 –> 01:50:57.485
That’s, that’s, we need to figure out how they’re doing that shit.

01:50:57.545 –> 01:51:05.650
How is it that every damn video I pull up on YouTube, I get a fucking paid advertisement for some food company.

01:51:06.010 –> 01:51:06.791
That might be the best.

01:51:06.831 –> 01:51:08.552
Like I see it so damn often.

01:51:08.592 –> 01:51:09.733
I’m never buying your shit.

01:51:10.293 –> 01:51:16.417
But the coffee companies, man, just figure out what that paid click-through promotion is and do that shit.

01:51:16.557 –> 01:51:19.219
And when you have too much, just turn that promotion off.

01:51:19.279 –> 01:51:27.744
But if you are not sure what to do and you want to be involved in our industry or gun industry or any, whatever it is you like to do,

01:51:28.223 –> 01:51:36.925
Figure out how to do the money-making side, the backside of social media, and you’ll be accepted and welcomed in, and people will give you a percentage of the money you make.

01:51:37.445 –> 01:51:39.525
If you’re sitting around like, what should I do?

01:51:40.086 –> 01:51:40.566
Do that.

01:51:40.806 –> 01:51:50.368
Figure out how to get promotions for podcasts, how to get affiliate links, and then bring that to people who are too busy doing their shit and go, I can get you these five companies.

01:51:50.808 –> 01:51:52.488
This is what your potential to make.

01:51:52.848 –> 01:51:53.148
I want 50%.

01:51:53.188 –> 01:51:54.069
I want 30%, whatever it is.

01:51:57.125 –> 01:51:57.785
You’re not wrong.

01:51:58.486 –> 01:52:01.247
Figuring out how to target on YouTube was not hard, by the way.

01:52:01.267 –> 01:52:05.649
Because we did that with the Joel Salatin videos for SRF.

01:52:06.149 –> 01:52:07.590
It took two weeks to figure out.

01:52:09.391 –> 01:52:11.372
But learning how to sell is always the thing, right?

01:52:11.412 –> 01:52:13.312
In case anybody cares about that targeting.

01:52:13.493 –> 01:52:17.735
It’s actually, I would say YouTube has the best targeting tools out of any of this.

01:52:17.775 –> 01:52:18.115
Yeah.

01:52:18.135 –> 01:52:20.816
Maybe you should sell how to target.

01:52:22.251 –> 01:52:23.531
Oh, that’s a great webinar idea.

01:52:24.572 –> 01:52:25.512
I need 12 webinars.

01:52:25.532 –> 01:52:27.372
So yeah, that would be a good one.

01:52:27.412 –> 01:52:31.313
Because no matter what you’re teaching people, if they’re going to monetize it, they need to know how to do that.

01:52:31.373 –> 01:52:35.174
You know, something I don’t, I haven’t really got into targeting YouTube ads at all.

01:52:35.374 –> 01:52:38.035
It’s a royal pain in the neck to use their interface.

01:52:38.095 –> 01:52:43.016
But once you get past the royal pain in the neck part, actually, there’s some pretty good ways to target.

01:52:43.723 –> 01:52:47.285
I haven’t used pay-per-click on Google forever, but it used to be the best.

01:52:48.245 –> 01:52:49.846
But that took months.

01:52:50.106 –> 01:52:52.227
Yeah, and Facebook really messed theirs up.

01:52:52.287 –> 01:52:54.148
That whole meta thing, it’s terrible now.

01:52:55.049 –> 01:52:55.469
I hate it.

01:52:55.969 –> 01:52:59.491
Somebody else is probably really good at it, though, listening to this going, Nicole, it’s so easy.

01:52:59.551 –> 01:53:00.792
I’m like, yeah, reach out to me.

01:53:01.432 –> 01:53:04.133
But no matter what, learning to sell is the thing.

01:53:04.454 –> 01:53:05.854
People say, what’s the hardest part of farming?

01:53:05.914 –> 01:53:08.736
The answer, if you really know it, is selling the food.

01:53:10.191 –> 01:53:12.835
I can grow food, but you got to sell it to somebody.

01:53:13.475 –> 01:53:15.258
It tends to rot and then become worthless.

01:53:16.159 –> 01:53:18.082
That’s why so many farmers farm commodity.

01:53:18.697 –> 01:53:21.479
They have a guaranteed place they can dump it even if they don’t make money on it.

01:53:21.499 –> 01:53:22.740
They know they can get paid for it.

01:53:23.040 –> 01:53:25.701
And it also can sit in a silo for a couple of months if it needs to.

01:53:26.322 –> 01:53:28.423
But if you’re growing lettuce, right?

01:53:28.523 –> 01:53:32.986
Or if you kill the pig, you got to move the product.

01:53:33.146 –> 01:53:35.187
And that doesn’t change business to business.

01:53:35.608 –> 01:53:37.109
John can sew his ass off.

01:53:37.149 –> 01:53:38.710
He can get other people to sew their ass off.

01:53:38.730 –> 01:53:39.830
He can make all the equipment.

01:53:40.431 –> 01:53:42.212
What makes SOE successful is people buy it.

01:53:42.652 –> 01:53:42.852
Right.

01:53:43.673 –> 01:53:45.074
And what makes people buy it is his…

01:53:46.138 –> 01:54:08.711
yeah personality but he sells it with his personality right people can like literally the formula is right there you just watch it you do it too yeah yeah but that takes discipline too and i think that’s the part for me it took a long time for me to get over my hesitation to like to do the same thing all the time yeah but that’s what it takes yeah

01:54:09.738 –> 01:54:10.098
Yeah.

01:54:10.218 –> 01:54:18.623
And it, sometimes it takes clearing the way to like, when you asked me what my goal was this year to build this educational platform, I had to change the podcast schedule.

01:54:19.543 –> 01:54:19.683
Yeah.

01:54:20.123 –> 01:54:20.584
Had to do it.

01:54:20.644 –> 01:54:25.126
Like I can’t do five shows a week, every week and build a platform.

01:54:26.226 –> 01:54:32.388
For education, I got to a point where I’m like, if I’m ever going to do this, I have to readjust my workflow.

01:54:32.448 –> 01:54:35.049
And if I don’t do it, then I can sit around and bitch about it.

01:54:35.570 –> 01:54:37.530
And then I’m doing the same thing I tell everybody else not to do.

01:54:38.391 –> 01:54:41.852
And that’s one thing like those of you who have gotten successful, you have to be careful.

01:54:41.892 –> 01:54:46.934
Once you’re successful, it’s easy to not grow because you’re comfortable.

01:54:48.502 –> 01:54:50.984
How long are you going to sleep on the floor in the back of the donut shop?

01:54:51.344 –> 01:54:54.786
And I’m done sleeping in the donut shop.

01:54:55.407 –> 01:54:57.408
For me, it was sleeping in the back of a pickup truck.

01:54:58.129 –> 01:54:59.169
I’m done doing that.

01:54:59.870 –> 01:55:07.555
But I think there’s a value in maintaining a small level of discomfort in your life so that you don’t get too comfortable.

01:55:08.716 –> 01:55:10.477
I 100% agree with that.

01:55:11.398 –> 01:55:15.801
Discomfort leads to action, which leads to making yourself better.

01:55:18.792 –> 01:55:20.637
Okay, well, we’re coming on two hours, guys.

01:55:20.677 –> 01:55:22.922
I think it’s time to go around the horn now that John’s back.

01:55:23.384 –> 01:55:25.870
So, Jack, why don’t you start?

01:55:26.869 –> 01:55:30.491
I am Jack Spierko, host of thesurvivalpodcast.com.

01:55:30.592 –> 01:55:35.735
Also available if you’re too lazy to type out all those nasty letters at tspc.co.

01:55:35.755 –> 01:55:39.237
If you go there, you’ll see that we’ve been podcasting for 15 years.

01:55:39.297 –> 01:55:42.199
We have over 3,300 plus episodes.

01:55:42.820 –> 01:55:44.761
And there’s probably something there that you want to know about.

01:55:44.781 –> 01:55:54.287
We talk about everything from good old-fashioned prepping and guns and tactical stuff like that to gardening and homesteading and permaculture and entrepreneurship, investing, et cetera.

01:55:54.367 –> 01:55:56.229
It’s all available again at tspc.co.

01:55:57.769 –> 01:56:03.632
I am Nicole Sauce from the Living Free in Tennessee podcast, Holla Roast Coffee and Self-Reliance Festival.

01:56:03.652 –> 01:56:05.833
That’s three things to type out, but you don’t have to.

01:56:05.893 –> 01:56:09.814
Go to NicoleSauce.com if you find out about any of those things.

01:56:10.054 –> 01:56:18.618
Awesome premium craft roasted coffee, a super event that we do with John Willis twice a year, and a podcast that’ll keep you motivated.

01:56:19.198 –> 01:56:21.219
That’s all over at Nicole sauce.com.

01:56:21.259 –> 01:56:26.620
You can get to all of them, or of course with the podcast, you can use your podcatcher on your phone and search living free in Tennessee.

01:56:26.760 –> 01:56:27.760
And it comes there.

01:56:27.780 –> 01:56:34.462
Plus we do the Tuesday live every Tuesday, usually at 1230, except for this one at nine 30, John, why don’t you close this out?

01:56:35.382 –> 01:56:36.663
So we tactical gear.com.

01:56:36.863 –> 01:56:39.583
We make nylon tactical gear, a lot of lifestyle gear as well.

01:56:39.623 –> 01:56:42.004
We do a different t-shirt every week, this kind of stuff.

01:56:42.424 –> 01:56:45.605
I do a live every night at nine o’clock on my YouTube channel here and

01:56:45.970 –> 01:56:49.852
I’ve got two video podcasts that go up that we do every week.

01:56:50.472 –> 01:56:51.952
And then we’re also on Patreon.

01:56:51.992 –> 01:56:58.855
Make sure you follow Homestead Apprentice on Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube, if you would, and follow that program.

01:56:58.875 –> 01:57:02.657
We’re going to kind of do a TV show and show you as we go what that looks like.

01:57:02.717 –> 01:57:09.800
So even if you’ve already got your stuff set and you’re not participating, there’s still, you know, jump in there, follow us.

01:57:09.860 –> 01:57:15.562
I’m sure some of you will have something that we can actually implement in there as well as have you out to some of these

01:57:16.098 –> 01:57:17.842
events, even if you’re not a participant.

01:57:18.223 –> 01:57:25.779
So if you would follow that and help us drive that program and we will see you guys tonight at nine o’clock on YouTube.

01:57:26.581 –> 01:57:26.942
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It is the last week of the year and I am home, tucked into my end of year regeneration project. My goal for myself is to set a foundation in the home for a fantastic 2024. To motivate myself, I set of a five day series of motivational episodes.

Today, we hear from a group of folks oriented on helping community member Willow identify how to use her passion to also earn money. This is the first in a series of Activation projects that we will pursue in 2024.

This audio will also be highlighted as part of Toolman Tim’s end of year 24 hour radio program that runs from Noon on New Year’s Eve through Noon New Year’s Day.

Happy New Year everyone!!

GUYS! Don’t forget about the cookbook, Cook With What You Have by Nicole Sauce and Mama Sauce. 

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