Podcasts about I Understand

Patsy Cline - "Walkin' After Midnight" [0:00:00] Patsy Cline - "Love Me, Love Me, Honey Do" [0:06:49] Patsy Cline - "Yes, I Understand" [0:09:42] Goldie Hill - "Sample My Kissin'" [0:11:36] Wendy Smith - "Carter Family" [0:13:23] Cathy Collins - "This Tie That Binds" [0:15:53] Music behind DJ: The Exotic Guitars - "Indian Love Call" [0:19:00] Jean Shepard - "Second Fiddle (To An Old Guitar)" [0:21:24] Connie Hall - "Heartache Avenue" [0:23:30] Lorrie Collins - "Blues In The Night" [0:25:52] Lesley Gore - "I Don't Care" [0:28:48] Linda Brannon - "Just Another Lie" [0:31:11] Music behind DJ: The Exotic Guitars - "Indian Love Call" [0:33:38] Jo Ann Campbell - "The Girl From Wolverton Mountain" [0:36:27] Marcy Dee - "We Could Grow Old Together" [0:39:03] Chrystal Page - "Be Good To Him" [0:41:32] Judy Lynn - "What's A Honky Tonk Woman" [0:44:08] Jeannie Carroll - "Men With Broken Hearts" [0:46:58] Music behind DJ: The Exotic Guitars - "Indian Love Call" [0:49:23] Liz Madison - "Bring Home The Bacon" [0:51:44] Brenda Kaye - "I'm Gonna Get You Off My Mind" [0:53:38] Bonnie Henderson - "As Long As I Got You" [0:55:50] Judy Comer - "When I'm Right You Don't Remember" [0:57:37] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/152310

Patsy Cline - "Walkin' After Midnight" [0:00:00] Patsy Cline - "Love Me, Love Me, Honey Do" [0:06:49] Patsy Cline - "Yes, I Understand" [0:09:42] Goldie Hill - "Sample My Kissin'" [0:11:36] Wendy Smith - "Carter Family" [0:13:23] Cathy Collins - "This Tie That Binds" [0:15:53] Music behind DJ: The Exotic Guitars - "Indian Love Call" [0:19:00] Jean Shepard - "Second Fiddle (To An Old Guitar)" [0:21:24] Connie Hall - "Heartache Avenue" [0:23:30] Lorrie Collins - "Blues In The Night" [0:25:52] Lesley Gore - "I Don't Care" [0:28:48] Linda Brannon - "Just Another Lie" [0:31:11] Music behind DJ: The Exotic Guitars - "Indian Love Call" [0:33:38] Jo Ann Campbell - "The Girl From Wolverton Mountain" [0:36:27] Marcy Dee - "We Could Grow Old Together" [0:39:03] Chrystal Page - "Be Good To Him" [0:41:32] Judy Lynn - "What's A Honky Tonk Woman" [0:44:08] Jeannie Carroll - "Men With Broken Hearts" [0:46:58] Music behind DJ: The Exotic Guitars - "Indian Love Call" [0:49:23] Liz Madison - "Bring Home The Bacon" [0:51:44] Brenda Kaye - "I'm Gonna Get You Off My Mind" [0:53:38] Bonnie Henderson - "As Long As I Got You" [0:55:50] Judy Comer - "When I'm Right You Don't Remember" [0:57:37] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/152310

Grace Cov Church will be doing our new series which is a 6 week devotional study looking at histories best selling book, 'The Bible'.In the last week 6 of this series we will be looking at: "How do I Understand the Book of Revelation"Micah looks at the book of revelations speaks on the varies chapters that are there. He also speaks about what lens should we use to study this book in the bible.1) God is Sovereign2)Jesus is Lord3)Reward for the SaintsLets not be afraid of looking at this book of the Bible as it speaks how god loves us

Grace Cov Church will be doing our new series which is a 6 week devotional study looking at histories best selling book, 'The Bible'.In week 5 we will be looking at: "How do I Understand old Testament prophecy" - "why do I need to understand old testament prophecy"We can by the following:1-The Prophetic books of the bible are god-Breathed2-The Prophetic books make up a large Percentage of the bible.3-The Prophetic books are linked to the rest of the bible 4-The Prophetic Books were both read and used by Jesus.Ian Oliver encourages us to read the bible as a book that we can go to and help us follow the way like Jesus

Grace Cov Church will be doing our new series which is a 6 week devotional study looking at histories best selling book, 'The Bible'.In week 4 we will be looking at: "How do I Understand the old Testament"we will be looking at the Laws of the Old Testament:1.what we need to consider 2.The Law helps us understand: spoke from Leviticus 19:2 and Romans 3:203. The Law could not : Spoke from Romans 3:20 and Jeremiah 31:33Mike Cowie encouragement :.."NOW WE REALLY LIVE" In Christ we live under a new Law..“'Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.' ….Love your neighbour as you would love yourself - Matthew 22:37-40

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Clinical Psychiatric Services Because Your Mental Health Matters Vision “Our vision seeks to create a model of equitable, compassionate, and comprehensive mental health care for all people including historically underserved communities to understand historical day-to-day trauma and healing.” Mission “Our mission utilizes a holistic and human-centered approach to bring healing in the area of mental health through therapy, diet evaluation, and traditional means to compassionately address mental health issues in our communities” Hi, I'm Crystal I am here to help! I have worked in the field of nursing for the past 23 years and the last 5 years have been in Advanced Psychiatric Nursing. Though I have worked in many areas of nursing over the years, I came to realize early on, that mental health holds a special place in my heart. Though the complexities that come with mental health are various, the commonality is the desire to be heard, seen, and treated as human and to attain the highest level of functioning in life. One of my goals is to help take away the stigma of mental health through education and awareness. My goal is also to provide relief through treatment. I Understand mental health impacts individuals, families, communities, and, ultimately, the world and this drives my desire to contribute my part in these areas. I am board-certified in Advanced Psychiatric Nursing. This has provided me the opportunity to create a plan of care with individuals to meet their mental health needs. I diagnose and treat adults with an array of conditions including trauma, depression, anxiety, mood disorders, and psychosis. @https://inspire1wellness.com/contact-us/# #MentalHealthMatters#InspireWellness#CrystalTurnerInspires #MindfulLiving#positivemindsets

This show will be very personal to so many of you. Alzheimer's affects so many families these days. Millions and millions of families in America right now are dealing with a loved one who has Alzheimer's, or at least the early stages of dementia. Somone who knows about this very well is Rober Pace, the author of the fantastic book " I Understand... You Forgot To Say Goodbye".

On this Episode 425 of Health Solutions, Shawn Needham R. Ph. discusses the benefits of meditation with William Martino. William is a speaker on human development, meditation, and an inner energy adept. William Martino has apprenticed with some of the world's greatest leaders in human development since he was 8 years old. His lessons brought him before dignitaries and leaders of all sorts. Will has guided and helped people worldwide from every walk of life providing measurable results. His programs are threaded with humor, clarity, and effectiveness. He has received outstanding endorsements from universities, hospitals, schools, businesses, and by people from every walk of life. 00:00 - Start 01:00 - William Intro 02:41 - Meditation Overview 04:29 - Using Meditation to Increase Energy 05:44 - How Meditation Relates to Sleep 06:28 - Benefits of Meditation 10:56 - Benefits of Sleep 14:35 - Types of Clients William Works With 15:45 - William's 7 Steps 15:48 - Step 1: Where Don't I Understand? 18:59 - Step 2: Slow Down 19:45 - Step 3: The Transcendence 21:51 - Step 4: Rooting 22:09 - Step 5: Blooming 22:24 - Step 6: Pre-Processing 22:47 - Step 7: Sweep the Floor 23:56 - William's Passion 24:28 - Contact Information 26:23 - Closing Comments Episode Resources Facebook ~ https://www.facebook.com/themastersskill Instagram ~ https://www.instagram.com/wmartino108/ Twitter ~ https://twitter.com/evolutionrevo0 YouTube ~ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0K4dg13Cu4y50B8QOSOwBA Website ~ https://williammartino.com/ Amazon ~ https://a.co/d/aBsQOHh EP 425: William Martino Discussing the Benefits of Meditation with Shawn Needham R. Ph. ~ #meditation #meditate #healthylifestyle #healthybody #healthyliving #healthy #sleep #sleephealth #sleephygiene #energy #podcastshow #podcast #podcastguest #optimalhealth #healthfreedom #medicalfreedom #medicaleducation #medicalcare #HealthCare #PriceTransparency #freemarket #Liberty #FitAfter50 #FitOver50 #fitover40 #fitafter40 #Boise #IdahoFalls #Tricities #SiouxFalls #Wenatchee #EducateAndEmpower #NeedhamHealthSolutions #TeamNeedham #ShawnNeedham #HealthSolutions #MosesLakeProfessionalPharmacy #MLRX #SickenedTheBook #ShawnNeedhamRPh #ThinkOutsideTheSystem #OptimalHealthMatters #ItsTime ~ *** #BenShapiro & #DaveRamsey Fans. Learn how to be in the driver's seat for your healthcare choices {not the system or doctors!}

There are times when things happen in our lives and we really think that maybe God doesn't know what He's talking about. I talked with Paul Granger about trusting God, being patient, and using this waiting season as a time to get to know Christ better!Paul's Website: https://www.wheredidyouseegod.com/Time Stamps:2:00 - Helping Out Youth Have a Mission - 6:38 - Identity is WAY More Important7:58 - Here to Help Gather12:00 - Why it is Important We Get to Know Christ?22:14 - God's Wisdom is Way Better Than Man's26:00 - Listen to The Good Shepherd27:00 - When God Chooses Not to Heal us Immediately30:30 - Trusting God With the Eternal Perspective37:00 - Thinking of Maybe Changing the Name of the Podcast45:00 - "I Understand. I am here. I love you." (What I Feel Jesus Would Say)50:36  - Getting to Know Jesus on the Day to Day52:55 - Be Still My Soul AlarmQuotes:4:30 - "God invited me to trust Him in a space of unemployment, and particularly not to operate out of financial fear."32:00 - "Don't retreat away from God's vision of you. If you have a glimpse of it - go after it."35:22- "We don't know sometimes what we are yielding for and what it's going to YIELD but if we trust God there will come a point where we will be able to look back and recognize the wisdom of God and our foolishness.41:00 - "The discomfort I feel is NOTHING compared to the future opportunity."48:57- "When He's calling out to you it really is good to let Him in quickly."Support the show

In this heartfelt episode, we explore the intricacies of supporting grieving mothers with compassion and sensitivity. Dr. B navigates the challenging terrain of conversations surrounding loss and grief, offering valuable insights on what to say and, perhaps more importantly, what to avoid.Supporting a grieving mother requires sensitivity and thoughtfulness. By reframing questions and responses, we can create a space that allows for meaningful conversations, fostering healing and understanding. 1. Avoid Asking "What Happened?"When engaging with a grieving mother, resist the impulse to inquire about the details of the child's death. Asking "What happened?" can be perceived as selfish, fueled by curiosity rather than genuine concern.Instead, focus on the positive aspects of the child's life by asking, "Tell me about your child." Encourage the mother to share memories, preferences, and the child's unique personality, shifting the conversation towards celebration rather than the circumstances of their passing.2. Skip the Generic "How Are You?"Especially in the immediate aftermath of grief, asking a grieving mother, "How are you?" may not yield an authentic response. The complexity of emotions during this time makes it challenging to encapsulate one's feelings in a simple answer.Instead, inquire about their thoughts and feelings at the moment. Ask, "What is going through your mind right now?" This opens the door for a more nuanced and honest conversation, allowing the mother to express the various emotions she might be experiencing on any given day.3. Avoid Saying "I Understand"Grieving is a deeply personal experience, and each person's pain is unique. Refrain from asserting that you understand the specific pain a grieving mother is going through.Instead, express your willingness to support by asking, "How can I help you?" or inquire about their preferences regarding discussing the loss. Avoid comparisons, such as equating the loss of a child to other experiences, as this might hinder genuine connection and vulnerability.

The Great Awakening. This story was written by yours truly in her senior year of high school circa 2004ish... Before I ever knew about Hawaii, I cared about Hawaii and I knew HER STORY in my heart... I just had no clue it invoved me and and my friends.. Or maybe I always DID KNOW... And the world is about to find out... The Awakening has begun. Find your people. And come drink from the wellsprings of TRUTH Coming to you live Via the Yana Project pod... Whenever and however it NEEDs to COME THROUGH ME. More episodes coming soon. Also looking for an illustrator for this story: please email me at theyanaprojectpodcast@gmail.com if you're interested in a co-lab for the keiki of Lahaina. And some OLD SCHOOL GLC right here for ya: https://archive.org/details/glc2005-06-24.matrix.flac16/glc2005-06-24d2t04.flac Have PHUN. My stories these days ARE the helping phriendly book and I definitely do talk to Trey... Well at least I UNDERSTAND him... iykyk :)

Are you saying to yourself "I can't do ____ because I don't have the money" ?The #1 regret of people on their death bed is that they wished they went for their dreams. & I REALLY don't want that to be you. But at the same time, I UNDERSTAND money is a real factor. In today's episode we are chatting about:WHY you need to go for your dream & why it MATTERSNot saying "I CAN'T" anymore instead asking yourself "How can I?"Creating a PLAN: dreams with no plans don't happen!Getting rid of all or nothing thinking: You CAN save money/pay off debt & still go after a dream Are you FIRED UP from this episode to go after your dream but feel you need some extra support? Your Limitless Life, my 6-month 1:1 coaching program is for you! This program is for the woman who wants to break the cycles that are holding her back & start paving her own unique path forward! This includes breaking the cycles of our self limiting beliefs & money blocks.Learn more information +Fill out the application:   YourLimitlessLife — Journey to Limitless (jtl-lifecoaching.com)Connect with your host, Court:Court | Podcast Host (@journeytolimitless_) • Instagram photos and videosLove the Journey to Limitless Podcast?Leave us a 5-star rating and review on your favorite listening app! Take a screenshot of the Journey to Limitless podcast on your phone and share it to your Instagram stories! Make sure you tag @journeytolimitless_ so that I can personally say “Hey thanks!” Showing your support for the podcast is SO appreciated and I definitely don't want it to go unnoticed! 

Welcome to the "Bloodlin3: Mercy" Album Review Podcast! In this episode, we delve into the captivating world of Bloodlin3 and their collaboration-filled album, "Mercy." With surgical lyrics, well-produced instrumentals, and an infusion of styles that resonate with both the internet generation and earlier hip-hop enthusiasts, Bloodlin3 is a group that demands attention.Drawing inspiration from legendary artists like Bone Thugs-N-Harmony, Three 6 Mafia, and Eminem, Bloodlin3's lyrical mastery is on full display throughout the album. Join us as we dissect each track, exploring the unique storytelling abilities that create a cohesive and immersive album experience.From the haunting intro that sets the stage with foreboding elegance to the emotional introspection found in "Where Did All My Homies Go," Bloodlin3 demonstrates their range and ability to touch hearts with their lyrics. The tracks "Execution Day" and "Please Don't Bother Me" showcase the group's collaboration skills, seamlessly blending their flows with talented artists like Bizzy Bone, AC Killer, and LaRoyce "Rausko" Flemons.As we progress through the album, we encounter a fusion of styles in "Panic Attack" and witness Bloodlin3's versatility and execution in "Take Me Away." We also experience the soothing side of the group in "I Understand" featuring Jaelyn E. and Samantha, before being uplifted by the rise in "Until I Fall."To close out the album, the "Swishahouse Remix" of "Execution Day" featuring DJ Michael Wattz, Bizzy Bone, and AC Killer brings a powerful and energetic conclusion. With streams aplenty and placements on popular Spotify playlists, Bloodlin3's "Mercy" album is making waves in the industry.Join us on this musical journey as we explore the tracks one by one, unraveling the intricacies of Bloodlin3's lyricism, production, and their ability to captivate listeners. If you're a fan of surgical rhymes and a fusion of hip-hop styles, this episode is for you. So, tune in, listen to the album, and follow Bloodlin3 for more killer verses!LISTEN THE ALBUM ON SPOTIFY : https://open.spotify.com/album/6Ks7gMiXnKEMkYpy8mAJ9q

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Introduction: Trusting the Word of God, no matter how I feel, because God promises a good result. Do I Have Faith? (Hebrews 11:1-3) Does faith determine my Conduct ? (Heb 11:3) Is faith how I seek God's Approval ? (Heb 11:2) Romans 3:28 - For we hold that one is justified by faith apart from works of the law. Romans 4:5 - And to the one who does not work but believes in him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is counted as righteousness... Ephesians 2:8-9 - For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one may boast. Does faith determine how I Understand the world? (Heb 10:28-29) "I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else." - CS Lewis Romans 10:17 - So faith comes from hearing, and hearing through the word of Christ. Sermon Notes (PDF): BLANKHint: Highlight blanks above for answers! Small Group DiscussionRead Hebrews 11:1-3What was your big take-away from this passage / message?In your own words, define Biblical faith.How exactly were people in the Old Testament times saved by faith if Jesus didn't offer His sacrifice yet (Heb 11:2)?Why do you think creation is the first illustration of faith (v3)? How do you see God's truths in Genesis 1-3 undermined today?BreakoutPray for one another.

The wise ruler In a beautiful land once ruled a king, but on his territory the people were poor, the harvests were changeable, the soil difficult to cultivate. The subjects feared the king and because of the many famines they were dissatisfied and disappointed, they blamed their ruler for their predicament. Now the ruler truly could not change anything about the circumstances, he tried his best, but his possibilities were limited. On a particularly beautiful day, the ruler called his subjects together in the main square; he had news to announce. With grumbling the inhabitants of his capital gathered, full of fear and curiosity they waited closely for the appearance of their regent. What will come, what is so important to call a meeting? The worries of the waiting people increased, the clamor of voices reached its peak when finally the monarch appeared in front of his palace. The king greeted the waiting crowd politely and with great kindness, the people's worries quickly diminished, the people hung spellbound on his lips. My son shall not grow up as a prince, the king said, he shall get to know the life of the people normally, like any other child of my people in my country, without privileges, without status. Only then will he become a good king, only then will he truly understand his subjects. So I gave my son to a family some time ago, his new parents do not know who he is, I exchanged the child of a simple family with my son, the other child is now growing up here in the palace. But I instruct you to take good care of my son, no harm shall come to him, if something happens to him I will call you all to account! Then the ruler said goodbye and went back to his palace. The crowd remained perplexed, and after a while they all went their separate ways. But in the minds of the subjects what they had heard remained ever present, no one forgot the words of the monarch. And they began to treat all the children in the city and in the country very well, after all, every child could be the king's child. Time passed, year after year passed, the children grew up, had children of their own, still no one knew who the prince was. Through the love and new cohesion of the community among themselves, the city and the country developed splendidly, the territory of the ruler developed rapidly, there were many Schools, libraries and hospitals were built, and children's voices were also heard more than in other countries; a child's opinion now carried great weight in this country. People were content and happy, achieved a certain prosperity, the country was unrecognizable. And why? Because everybody treated everybody like a king. WHAT YOU TELL ME, I FORGET. WHAT YOU SHOW ME, I REMEMBER. WHAT YOU MAKE ME DO, I UNDERSTAND. - CONFUCIUS - KONG FUZI (CHINESE 孔夫子) - CHINESE PHILOSOPHER - 551 B.C. CHR. UNTIL 479V. CHR. Copyright: https://shaolin-rainer.de (Please also download my app "Buddha-Blog English" from the Apple and Android stores) Please rate us on Apple, Google, or Spotify podcast to help us promote the show

I Understand the Struggle and Pray Our Holy Spirit continues to teach us All how to Grow through Universal Love...as well as with our Careers...Amen☀ --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/positive-advice/support

Welcome to the Damn Dude Podcast! This is Season 2, Episode 104!- Fucked is Fucked.- For the First Time in Life, I Quit, and I Give Up.- Being Threatened With GARBAGE Restraining Orders.- Fake Understanding and Compassion- Pissing People Off by Continuously Not ACTUALLY listening.- "I Understand", "I Have Compassion/Empathy" does not equal or mean Having Actual Understanding or Empathy for another being, Especially When the next words out of that persons mouth are of NOT Understanding or having Compassion.- Saying Phrases Like that only to Not Actually Understand,  Pisses People Off.- Don't Say Words Just to Say Words, Mean What We Say.- When I Die....Did You REALLY know me? Remember to say 3 things you're Grateful for every morning and every night!- Available on all major platforms!@RealCaliforniaCal@DamnDudePodcasatAvailable on all major platforms: https://damndudepodcast.buzzsprout.com/- Apple Podcasts- Buzzspout- Spotify- Audible- Google Podcasts- Amazon Music- iTunes- Stitcher- iHeart Radio- TuneIn + Alexa- Podcast Addict- PodChaser- Pocket Casts- Deezer- Listen Notes- Player Fm- Podcast Index- Overcast- Castro- Castbox- Podfriend- YouTubeDaaaaaaamn Duuuuuude!!!!!Be sure to leave a 5 Star written review on Apple Podcast/Listen Notes! :)If you'd love and support the show, please feel free to make a donation to the Damn Dude Podcast!(link below)Anything and everything is Appreciated! :) Much Love, Love All.CashApp: $DamnDudePodcastSupport the show

Gordy and Kelly Alderson are dear friends of mine. We have known each other since they joined me 25 years ago in a company called NII. They are solid rock business people and are honest, ethical, and hard-working. We originally featured them in session 143 of this podcast.   LISTEN …. I UNDERSTAND! I wouldn't believe what you are about to hear if I were you, but it is 100% True. In their first 40 days of marketing the Ihub Global ERC program through Bottom Line Concepts, they have submitted a business that will pay them over 1 million dollars in commissions. They are not the only ones. Ten of the Top 25 Affiliate partners in Ihub Global are currently part of our team. We are focused and working hard.   At some point in the future, I will have Gordy and Kelly on live to hear their story, but at this point, it makes no sense to take them out of the field, even for an hour. Here is the story.   Over the past 18 months, thousands of people have already become millionaires. You can hear the entire story here:   http://www.HalleysCometBiz.com   This is the most lucrative income generator I have seen in 40+ years as an entrepreneur. If you know me, you know If I say it I believe it and that statement is backed by documented facts.   This is 100% documented.   In less than 2 months since our company introduced this vertical ………   I have over 10 team members that have created contracts worth $100,000+ in commissions to them.   I have two that have done over $300,000 in commissions   1 that has done over $400,000 in commissions   AND Gordy & Kelly have done over 1 Million Dollars in commissions   IN LESS THAN 2 MONTHS! Without recruiting anyone! All of this in less than 40 days!   So when I say you can become a millionaire in 2023, I MEAN IT!       This vertical was introduced 40 days ago. We have no product to sell, no autoship. We are helping small businesses recover ERC funds. If you have not heard about this yet, you will.  Odds are you have seen the TV commercials or heard the radio ads.      The only way to describe this is a Halley's Comet Opportunity. As you know, Halley's Comet can be seen once in a lifetime. That is what this is. You can get the details here:  http://www.halleyscometbiz.com       I say this is the most lucrative opportunity I have seen in my life, I MEAN IT. If you have any entrepreneurial blood running through your veins, you owe it to yourself to stop wasting your time in nickel-and-dime niche business social clubs, and GET THE FACTS FOR YOURSELF! www.HalleysCometBiz.com

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00:00.00 Dr_ Placebo Pretty funny before they wouldn't They wouldn't know what I wanted like they didn't understand what come sit stay meant so I was like yeah that's Fine. You're just Puppies. You don't understand what I want now. I'm certain that they understand what I want and sometimes they just won't do it. There's like a little rebellion phase that's happening right now. 00:31.38 mikebledsoe This payback. 00:35.46 Dr_ Placebo And well you know so far. We've just been using carrots. Basically no stick for our condition and. 00:45.42 mikebledsoe Ah. 00:54.30 Dr_ Placebo My special lady friend is a really kind soul it it would she would like lose her mind if I struck a dog I don't want to anyway. But I I get this feeling that they know that I'm all bark and no bite. And that's why they're like yeah okay keep talking big fella like I'm just going to do what I want to do. 01:17.51 mikebledsoe Yeah, um I learned this trick for dominating dogs which is you want to make sure you got control of their snout when you do this because I've done this with a big pit before which is you bite their ear so you take like your. 01:32.74 Dr_ Placebo M. 01:34.67 mikebledsoe Your canine and you dig it into their ear until they until they yelp and then they know because that's how dogs talk to each other right? like 1 dog is going to dominate the other and then they they bite an ear or they put their their mouth around their neck and then the other dog kind of gives up. 01:45.40 Dr_ Placebo Right? right. 01:54.57 Dr_ Placebo Ah, oh man, my dogs battle each other so aggressively all day long I mean I'm glad we got two I can't imagine just getting 1 dog and I don't like to say that too much. Because I don't want to make everybody who just got the 1 dog feel bad but it seems like they have some level of communication between them that I will never really understand they're on the same level. You know what? I mean. 02:20.95 mikebledsoe Yeah, yeah. 02:25.85 Dr_ Placebo They can play in a totally different way. They communicate in a totally different way. Um, but man it is it is aggressive and then I remember like oh yeah, playing it is two things. it's ah practice for killing and and it's ah socialization that's that's what play is and for humans that's not how we play typically but that's in the animal kingdom that's what play is that's how you first learn how to how to kill things or not get killed depending on what the animal is. If you look at though I'm trying to think of ah what play looks like for herbivores. It doesn't occur to me right now. But for carnivores there's its play is basically practice for killing and it doesn't it's. Just reminds me of the circle of life. Something needs to die so that you can live and it doesn't matter if you're a vegetarian you got to kill that plant and that plant becomes part of you so it's kind of like the highlander there can be only one like you can. Eat it or it eats you basically and then when you die provided you you don't put yourself into one of those fancy boxes then you get eaten again after it's all said and done and that's ah I mean that's a funny thing maybe not cemeteries aren't funny. 03:56.41 Dr_ Placebo In a traditional sense. Maybe but it is weird that we try to take the the physical body out of the ecosystem. It's a really interesting practice. 04:07.50 mikebledsoe I Mean it's happening. You know we build homes we built. Ah, you know because nothing in nature is Square. You know have straight lines like I look around my house I've got a flat floor flat ceiling flat walls and they all meet at Ninety degree corners. And for the most part So We we basically separate ourselves from nature by putting ourselves in these boxes and then when we die we want to continue the separation So casket we go I need a new buck. This one doesn't have to be as big. 04:24.31 Dr_ Placebo And. 04:36.49 Dr_ Placebo I need and I need a new box. 04:44.60 Dr_ Placebo Um, that is kind of funny. That's like the whole whole life is like I need a new box I need a car that's like a mobile box and then I need a new house and that's a stationary box and then I need a coffin That's a very snug. Ah airtight. 04:58.30 mikebledsoe Yeah, you leave you leave the box. That's your house to get in the box that your car to go to the box. That's your work and or or maybe you're just building boxes for your work too. Like yeah yeah. 05:01.72 Dr_ Placebo Waterproof box. 05:07.72 Dr_ Placebo Oh. 05:14.33 Dr_ Placebo Yeah I mean if you're in construction you're building boxes. Basically it's it's funny. It's just so it's more ah comfortable on the inside right? I'm surprised. There aren't more oh it's It's actually because Ah. Squares tessellate the best so you can line a flat plane full of squares and rectangles. But if you try to do it with Circles. You have a lot of space left over but I think ah, a big dome would be really cool. 05:45.32 mikebledsoe Yeah, there's um I'm sure you've been in some cathedrals where the the ceilings you know they're they just kind of go up into a point where I've been in. Um I've been in big malokas. 05:52.56 Dr_ Placebo Beautiful. 06:00.30 mikebledsoe And the jungle where they're doing medicine ceremony and it all goes up to a point and I heard somebody talking about why don't we build our homes with a point um and or a cathedral like what why don't We build our home like a cathedral where there's this. Point that's going up right? and I think it might be that It's a little ungrounding and your attention gets funneled into that single place whereas with a box you can diffuse your attention a little more easily. 06:39.15 Dr_ Placebo Um I think it's probably that plots of land are rectangular and a rectangular house will maximize your living space on them honestly and. 06:46.70 mikebledsoe I Mean what if you had a rectangular house with ah with your ceilings coming to a point like to a single point like a tepee. 06:57.30 Dr_ Placebo And and no ah, no rooms just 1 big room and. 06:59.49 mikebledsoe Yeah, may well that that would suck So the round room doesn't really. 07:06.40 Dr_ Placebo Right? I mean there there are some cool. Ah, there's some cool domes. There are some really cool like I've looked into it. Ah you know me I've looked into a lot of different alternatives for how to live and how to eat how to live how to exercise like what alternative is there. Let me. 07:15.65 mikebledsoe Ah I mean. 07:22.79 Dr_ Placebo Let me at least examine it and you can you can get a house built like a dome you can buy yourself a plot of land and you can have basically a kit sent to you because it's all triangles you know Buckminster Fullers the inventor of the geodesic dome. And it's ah it's a kit that 2 people can put up this whole thing because it's just like 1 row at a time of the ah same side same size triangles the whole way through and it's really kind of an interesting thing. Um. 08:00.27 Dr_ Placebo But I think a lot of it has to do with the the plots of land and blending in.. There's most places that people live. There's a homogenization right? You you kind of want your house to look sort of like everyone else's and everyone has. This idea of what a house should look like like a fancy house looks like this and a medium fancy house looks like this and a not as cool house looks like this or whatever and we have these ideas of what it should look like right. Um I think it is if you have a rectangular plot of land though you're going to get more ah space with a rectangular house that that's for sure. 08:49.78 mikebledsoe Yeah, well I think we need to start creating triangular plots of land. Let's see what we can do with that you might be able to fit more houses in a single in ah in an area who knows. 09:00.11 Dr_ Placebo Um, that would make the thing that would make the well you also need roads too right? So it's ah it's interesting though to look at um. 09:05.91 mikebledsoe Those damn roads. 09:18.80 Dr_ Placebo Like New York city right is basically a grid like you know if you're on a and tenth street. you know exactly how to get to b and Twelfth street you know exactly how to get there 09:27.74 mikebledsoe Well the but 1 of the best grids on the planet is phoenix completely flat. It is a straight up grid. Well I think about I think about ah like New York or Boston you look at the East Coast and 09:34.65 Dr_ Placebo Because just straight up grids. Yeah. 09:44.51 mikebledsoe A lot of those roads were built when you know it was horse and buggy or carriage and so they're not that wide and then only that they have to they have the there's might be some old buildings that to go around So it's not it is grid but not as great as Phoenix which was way more planned and then you have to worry about the. 09:53.90 Dr_ Placebo Aha. 10:00.49 Dr_ Placebo And more modern right. 10:03.36 mikebledsoe Yeah, the the coastline you have the coastline that you have the that you have to work around. That's why on the west coast like you know like you can end up on a street that you're going east 1 minute and then north the next minute because it's having to go around everything but you go somewhere like Phoenix where it was. 10:17.40 Dr_ Placebo Right? so. 10:19.64 mikebledsoe Laid out in a grid. It's flat. There's nothing to go around is just a desert and now you now you get like this really, you can you can go to a street in Phoenix and look down the road and see blocks and blocks and blocks and blocks down the way without without any any blocking your view. 10:25.91 Dr_ Placebo Great. 10:37.20 Dr_ Placebo Um, and a lot of older cities are are more like um branches of like root systems or capillaries. Like Paris for example, there's like a central location and then it branches off. It's not really a grid. It's more like branches and rings. It's it's really interesting to see how we try to ah transport people around and if ah. If a place is growing um it it actually makes a lot of sense that it would be more like ah, a branching type of thing like a root system. 11:15.75 mikebledsoe Yeah, well I think about shapes and um, what that does relationally for people or communally and one of the things that happens at burning man is everything's done circular so you have the center of the city. 11:21.65 Dr_ Placebo Nothing of 1 11:30.84 Dr_ Placebo And. 11:31.66 mikebledsoe Basically black rock city and then ah the roads are by time so 2 to 15 to 30 so you've got a clock so those are your roads that that extend out and then the rings going around are abcd and of course. 11:42.26 Dr_ Placebo Oh. 11:51.55 mikebledsoe Every year that like the D is different like you know, depending on the theme or whatever. But in this circular community. 12:00.81 Dr_ Placebo So of course I don't understand that less. 12:04.34 mikebledsoe Ah, what do you mean? Oh sorry, No no, no, no like E might be a different word. Yeah elephant one year. Yeah. 12:09.82 Dr_ Placebo Abcd and then it's different like it's bigger or. 12:17.25 Dr_ Placebo Like Elephant Okay, got it? Okay, ah you're like of course I'm like am I supposed to feel stupid now. 12:24.33 mikebledsoe But the whole point of this podcast and see if I can make max feel stupid. But ah it hasn't It hasn't worked I don't know. Ah so that I think the circle um. 12:34.14 Dr_ Placebo I Always feel stupid. Ah. 12:42.60 mikebledsoe When people this is this really cool topic to talk about because we're talking about environment. How environment it's what raises and rings. Yeah Raisin rings are who I like that. So with the raisin rings. What I what I think is happening. There is it. 12:47.58 Dr_ Placebo So it's rays and rings. it's it's rays it's Rays Rays and rings. Yeah. 13:01.51 mikebledsoe Creates more? Um, it's It's hard to to say this is where this ends and this begins as much and there's more opportunity for people to interact from someone across town. So I can just follow this road and then now I'm on the other side of town. 13:20.52 mikebledsoe Whereas with a block. It's like if I want to go? Yeah, you know if I want to go anything other than North Southheast or west if I want to like cut across town then I'm zigzagging or I'm having to make this big loop. But with the raisin rings you you can start at the center and then get anywhere. You want. 13:22.30 Dr_ Placebo So. 13:35.18 Dr_ Placebo A. 13:38.86 mikebledsoe By just pointing and going. So I think there's. 13:47.61 Dr_ Placebo Um, I mean you're always going to have to take somewhat of a circuititous path no matter if it's a grid or raises in rings that's kind of the nature of roads. 13:50.14 mikebledsoe No matter what but I wonder I wonder what creates how what the social impact is if we're say say you're in ah and a structure you go into a tepee. 14:03.17 Dr_ Placebo And. 14:05.59 mikebledsoe Or you go into like a lot of like places where you do ceremony. They're all circular structures almost always yeah and it's because it it's like diminishes hierarchy and then ah. 14:16.80 Dr_ Placebo Nights of the round table. Totally. 14:24.10 mikebledsoe I Think it makes things more communal people are more if you're sitting in a circle you're more likely to talk to each other than if you're sitting in a square then it kind of feels a little weird. So I wonder. 14:34.83 Dr_ Placebo Or like a big long rectangular desk where I sit at the head of the table in a really really big chair which is of course how I like to have all my interactions with all my lackeys lining the sides. 14:36.42 mikebledsoe Um, yeah, exactly? Yeah, so yeah. 14:48.71 mikebledsoe A good example like I had dinner a few weeks ago where there was a dozen of us at a table at a restaurant and half the table I didn't talk to almost the entire time. But if we were sitting in a circle. It would have been a completely different experience so thinking about cities that are designed to be squares or circles. Um. 14:53.16 Dr_ Placebo Yeah, right. 15:03.46 Dr_ Placebo M. 15:08.71 mikebledsoe Also I I heard this recently that ah cities that are more circular based get more rain on average I need to find the information like actual data on that. But yeah. 15:27.32 mikebledsoe Yeah. 15:27.47 Dr_ Placebo More rain all fit I mean that's ah I have no clue what you're talking about I Understand the words you said and I wonder if it has to do with places that have more rainfall had. Earlier civilization and earlier civilizations had more circular ah systems of travel. But yeah, that's really interesting. Yeah. 15:53.14 mikebledsoe Could be could be yeah I Just I think about um the older I get the more I think about how the environment is shaping. People's behavior in general because I think that the majority. 16:07.33 Dr_ Placebo Button. 16:10.68 mikebledsoe I know we talk about incentives here a lot too. But if you look at in what your environment and how that shapes someone's behavior and then the incentives put in place those 2 things are likely the biggest drivers of ah behavior. 16:21.32 Dr_ Placebo Click m. 16:29.33 Dr_ Placebo Yeah, right? So where where you are and then the carrots and the sticks. Basically when I was doing a lot of ah virtual reality. It made me think a lot about environment because when you set up ah like a fancy. 16:29.94 mikebledsoe Yeah. 16:47.13 Dr_ Placebo Vr system. They have basically different areas where you can do different stuff. It's very compartmentalized and of course as you know I've been learning a lot about compartmentalizing with the puppies because you need to have them in a specific zone that is cleared. For puppies to not destroy all your shit basically and then you know I had this idea of basically you have a console for work and that's where you always do work and then you have a console or you have an area for eating. And that's where you always do your eating and then you have a place where you do your bathing and your bathrooming and we sort of have that. But um, just to even focus it down even more So. There's no question about what you do. When you're in a specific Area. You're like okay I'm at the console I'm doing ah you know writing and emails boom and that's the only thing I do in that place and when you're in a virtual reality. It's It's exactly that you can't do. Anything else because as soon as you're like oh I think I'm going to play a game. You actually are like teleported basically to a different place so you're not even there Anymore. So I think that's actually pretty valuable is to have a place where you go to work. 18:18.83 Dr_ Placebo Place where you go to eat a place where you do this. It's not necessarily very very flexible. But I think it can help you get into that laser versus the lantern type of focus. 18:29.11 mikebledsoe What you know? ah when Covid hit a lot of people were concerned that you know work wasn't going to get done and then they found out that people were working even more hours when they were working from home and they're. 18:45.40 Dr_ Placebo E. 18:46.55 mikebledsoe Inability to compartmentalize work from the rest of their life was demonstrated and and a lot of people didn't know how to manage that. 18:57.91 Dr_ Placebo So so so they all became entrepreneurs. 19:01.95 mikebledsoe Well, ah, the the amount of freelancers that exist is has skyrocketed in the last few years Tons of new freelancers. Um I did a presentation recently where I was highlighting that it was um I want to. Can I remember off top my head I want to say at least 15 % of the workforce in the us of freelancers maybe more um and it's just like it's growing at ah at such a fast pace and it's and it's a sign of the decentralization of. Of labor and ah these companies don't want to have you know people don't stay with the company for 203040 years anymore like they used to the last time I heard a figure on it was the average and this was like. Ten years ago they were talking about how average employment link has gone from 30 years to 7 I'm sure it's more like three or four years now so people are switching jobs a lot faster. Um companies want to be more agile. 20:05.13 Dr_ Placebo Whoa. 20:12.81 mikebledsoe Which means they need to be able to exchange their people out faster which means that employment contracts get replaced with with and and people are becoming more specialized due to technology. So now it's like I specifically work in this type of marketing you can hire my firm which might just be me. 20:26.63 Dr_ Placebo Who. 20:32.42 mikebledsoe And might be me and a team and now I'm ah now I'm contractor so now these what's happening is companies are even the big ones are reducing the amount of employees they have and they're increasing the amount of ten ninety nine s they have the the contractors. 20:35.89 Dr_ Placebo Right. 20:50.17 Dr_ Placebo In. 20:50.38 mikebledsoe And um I my theory is this is this is part of the why they want to hire 87000 irs agents is because you have a bunch of people who have had taxes deducted out of their paycheck. 21:01.93 Dr_ Placebo I. 21:09.32 mikebledsoe Every paycheck for their entire life. They just went freelancer. They just turned ten ninety nine they didn't file their they didn't ah pay quarterly payments. They went to file realized they didn't have the money to pay the tax and not only that we're in the middle of recession. 21:17.12 Dr_ Placebo So. 21:27.88 mikebledsoe So and people are out of money already anyway and so now that's one I'm sure that's a ah factor. It's playing in in this decision try to squeeze the middle class more All these freelancers is ah is because of ah. 21:31.97 Dr_ Placebo And. 21:42.62 Dr_ Placebo I. 21:46.15 mikebledsoe People don't know how to file their taxes now. So now they gotta hunt these people down. 21:54.29 Dr_ Placebo Well I mean I I think it's even more simple than that if you hire a bunch of those thugs. It's ah 2 ways to win and no ways to lose because you're not even paying them with money that you earn you're paying them with money that you steal. So It's like.. It's kind of like two ways to win and no ways to lose which is a good way to go through life If You're an individual like give yourself opportunities where you have multiple ways to win and no ways to lose. Ah so I think it's more just like they can and why wouldn't they if that's their prerogative. But. 22:26.93 mikebledsoe Yeah, um, no. 22:30.90 Dr_ Placebo I Mean we don't want to have the whole podcast be ah, just about that. Probably just just another episode of fucking Max Angry. Ah. Episode 51 max is pissed Again. Ah. 22:50.41 mikebledsoe Ah, it's not fair. 22:53.35 Dr_ Placebo Ah, oh man, but it's not fair, but then again like once again like it's so important to have perspective and recognize that there's this constant rebalancing between business. And state where the the business is like okay you know you're going to work in our coal mine and by the way we have a little general store on the way out so you can spend all your money at our general store after your you know. 23:25.56 mikebledsoe That I tell you about this. 23:28.16 Dr_ Placebo 12 hour shift in the coal mine you know because I feel I feel like ah yeah, yeah, yeah, like only 30 episodes ago. Ah like you you basically have your you basically own this little work town more or less. 23:33.55 mikebledsoe Yeah man that shit blew my mind. 23:46.97 Dr_ Placebo And South Park app actually did a little episode about that. Ah, where all a lot of the people were working for Amazon and then ordering packages on Amazon so they basically just got a job at Amazon doing grunt work. So they could support their habit of buying shit from Amazon it's like work 16 hours what do you get another day older and deeper in it. It sounds and it's like this whole thing. Ah so there there's like a constant. You know rebalancing of that right? but it still it still falls into the natural order of an alpha dominating everybody else and it doesn't matter if you're a wolf or something like that. You know it doesn't matter what animal. There's always this pyramid. Type hierarchy and um, you know that's I know you talk about decentralization a lot where everybody is more or less free to make their own choices and once again, that's what that's what America was originally intended to be I think was. Everybody's more um, sovereign over their choices and the consequences of those choices which is a big part of it right. 25:05.19 mikebledsoe Yeah, with that comes the responsibility right? The yeah and that's I mean I think that's the key to the development of consciousness and people's ability to get in greater contact with reality is to. Suffer the consequences or reap the rewards of your behavior and when you're shielded from any of that. 25:32.58 Dr_ Placebo And that's also the worst. Oh that's also the worst type of governance is when the people making the decisions don't assume the consequences for their behavior right. 25:45.11 mikebledsoe Right? Well this this happens in um and business as Well, right? So when we look at and it usually so government creates Corporate. You know the idea of corporations right. Some some businessman comes along and says look if you allow me to create a corporation then I can and it'll shield me from liability from personally personally from my decisions in business and they go Oh. There's a great idea. It's gonna make a lot easier for. For investors. 26:26.93 mikebledsoe I lost you for a second you there? Okay, good. Um and so and so this idea that people are now shielded from liability now you've got. 26:27.22 Dr_ Placebo Yep. 26:32.78 Dr_ Placebo Oh yeah, I'm here. 26:43.76 mikebledsoe You know, ah was just we can take it up and in their notch. You know you got Pfizer who was had the largest fraud case in all of human history and had to pay out all you know how much money it was it was a ridiculous amount. Not as much as Alex Jones Doesn have to pay for running his mouth but ah, that wasn't a fraud case. So this is like 1 of the biggest fraud cases in all of history less than a slap on the wrist and then ah, what. And which results in people dying. The results are people dying and what happens with a Ceo fizer the one who's ultimately responsible for the company. Nothing nothing the company pays the fee pays the fine. No repercussion. And a lot of people go well, that's capitalism and I go no this is this is a people who are capitalistic who are capitalizing on the use of government for violence so without without them leveraging government. Pfizer would be in every individual if you take the government out. Well then people start looking around with well who do we blame you know and you can start pointing fingers now I don't think that I think that the. 28:12.29 mikebledsoe Even going after the Ceo of a company that just makes a drug is a diffusion of responsibility I would say what doctor prescribed this doctors are are shielded from liability as long as they follow these rules now they can't be found guilty of anything in court. Even if they were truly negligent and not practicing medicine appropriately as long as they follow the algorithm so you have all these things all these rules that are put in place. All these things are shielding liability that create an environment where people actually. Are not practicing judgment from moment to moment. They're just doing what they're told. 28:57.60 Dr_ Placebo Like which is what you would want if you were in charge hundred percent like if I'm in charge I don't want people questioning what I say I would like to have a small secret group of advisors. 28:59.31 mikebledsoe Um, which is yeah. 29:15.61 Dr_ Placebo That help me make decisions but I wouldn't want the broad population to question anything I'm saying under any circumstance because that would just make things very difficult to do what I want right? So It makes sense that you would not want that. What's. Interesting to me is you know there's all this like wrongful death. Let's call it I think that's what we would Call. That's let's call it wrongful death if you can if you can pay a fine for wrongful death. Why can't you have a slave. 29:52.24 mikebledsoe Ah. 29:53.14 Dr_ Placebo Like like if there's a number that they've decided is like okay that's all right? You paid the money you you do your thing That's fine like why can't you have an indentured servant or something like that. It just seems I don't know. 30:09.77 mikebledsoe Stop using your logic max. You're gonna you might trigger somebody. Ah. 30:17.75 Dr_ Placebo It's like we try to say oh you can't value a human life and yet we do all the time. 30:21.34 mikebledsoe Ah, it's worth $15 an hour for minimum wage for for minimum people. Um. 30:33.61 mikebledsoe I Mean we do have all right all right? So so. 30:35.58 Dr_ Placebo Yeah, it's It's a little bit weird the way we try to like value human life. Ah like monetarily it sort of makes sense I guess like what you'd like I don't know the way that we. 30:44.40 mikebledsoe Well, this is how I break it down look. 30:51.48 Dr_ Placebo The way that we punish wrongdoing is really weird it Most of the time doesn't really provide any relief to the victimized party right? Someone commits a crime and we're like we're going to send you to Jail but then the victim is just fucked basically still. 31:07.60 mikebledsoe Um, yeah. 31:11.38 Dr_ Placebo So the taxpayers foot the bill of this alleged criminal now. But there's no like rested I mean once again like a lot of the stuff is done as badly as possible but like you say it's all about the incentives at play more than anything. 31:24.30 mikebledsoe Yeah, if someone wrongs somebody else or say we want to be humane right? We're not going to pay him back? Yeah, so like you Rob somebody maybe you you injure somebody and. 31:31.95 Dr_ Placebo Pay him back. Pay him back. 31:41.67 mikebledsoe They lose an eye or an arm or whatever it is. They can't do their work anymore. It's like all right? Well now you're working for them. You're not gonna enter. 31:50.63 Dr_ Placebo Insurance companies figure it out insurance companies figure out exactly how much they're willing to pay if you hurt your leg. They know exactly if you have a pancrea Titis they have a schedule. 31:55.35 mikebledsoe Exactly. 32:06.63 Dr_ Placebo For exactly how much they're going to pay to help you resolve your pancreatitis. So why don't we have I mean look you just put me in charge and I will fix everything ah right before I'm assassinated. 32:08.30 mikebledsoe Um I Love how we're solving all the world's problems right now. 32:20.75 mikebledsoe Ah, yeah, so I mean this is interesting like you're right? There are all sorts of formulas for figuring out what the cost should be so somebody injures somebody else. It's like okay you owe me X amount of dollars and you've you've got to give me. 32:27.25 Dr_ Placebo And then ah. 32:40.88 mikebledsoe 2 wo-thirds of your money that you make until then and so you're basically you basically lose your freedom of labor and time and of your own life in exchange for your wrongdoing and no one had to die that person could still improve their skills. 32:44.49 Dr_ Placebo Right. 33:00.25 mikebledsoe As a and they're late their skills of labor that could still contribute to society. They could still help build the wealth of the society and the person who is wrong gets made right. 33:13.89 Dr_ Placebo Well and that's what taxation is right? It's part-time servitude and people don't recognize what an imposition that is especially when you consider the fact that there's no incentive for the people spending those stolen dollars to be efficient with them. You know. 33:25.68 mikebledsoe Um, right? But what about the roads max. What about the roads. 33:33.53 Dr_ Placebo Um, we would We would never have roads ever unless we were like deeply gouged every fucking year. There's no way. No one would think to lay down asphalt. 33:41.42 mikebledsoe A lot of the roads out in California were not poured by anyone wasn't paid for gut by government. It was private roads that were built by lumber companies and other things that were later. 33:49.24 Dr_ Placebo I Mean it's ridiculous like these arguments. But. 34:00.60 mikebledsoe Purchased by the government but government didn't build those roads. 34:06.55 Dr_ Placebo Well and just to push back I agree with you and I'm also glad that we didn't just let the lumber companies go full hog and completely take down every tree that existed in the western side of the United States because when you start looking at how efficient we have gotten at processing the environment. It is. It is really insane honestly, how good we are at catching fish. How good we are at processing lumber. Um the speed with which we can. Expand and procreate I mean even with relatively few offspring ah per couple per coupling. We can spread crazy fast. Um and I was I was watching this thing the other day it was about. 35:03.98 Dr_ Placebo Another animal documentary. You know I love that stuff and these fish these fish these herring on near Vancouver island they go to lay their eggs. There. They do 20000 eggs per fish up to and they they plant them all individually. Everywhere. So. There's this huge influx of like a million fish. They each drop off like 20000 eggs and a lot of them get eaten by in the environment and then you have these wolves on Vancouver Island and they have like 2 wolf pups like 2 compared to 20000 so the amount of sophistication required and the investment per offspring is so significant the more complex of an animal you get. But I mean look how crazy good humans are at keeping offspring alive. It's incredible. So. On the one hand I guess I'm glad we didn't just go total free rain on ah you know, cutting down all the forests and eating every single animal. Um, but at the same time There's an incentive if you're a lumberjack to not. Ah, cut down every single tree right? So once again, you just want the incentives to be in place I always think of the Roman Bridge builders that's like my favorite example, you build a bridge you have to stand underneath it when we test it out that that's my favorite example. 36:33.23 mikebledsoe Yeah. 36:40.89 Dr_ Placebo So when you're looking for someone who's going to work for you. Make sure that their performance and their incentive are related. Simple is that if you're looking for work ah make sure that your performance and incentive are related. And all the other stuff we're talking about is mostly mental masturbation. Um, because it doesn't really affect the bottom line of what an individual can do what an individual can do is um, get clear on their values. And figure out how to provide value so value and values and regardless of what you decide to do as a profession just make sure that the incentive and the ah consequences are in the like the same place. Basically. So you can get so you can earn more if you do better and you earn less if you do worse and that way you really have Um, you're like the master of your destiny so to speak. 37:43.94 mikebledsoe I Want to go back to the lumberjacks. So there's no one So there's an incentive for them not to cut everything down but the problem is sometimes people are short sighted. You need somebody else to come in with an objective. 37:59.22 Dr_ Placebo True. 37:59.67 mikebledsoe And objective perspective and go hey hey I'm looking at the bigger picture here. Don't do that anymore. Do it like this and then people either listen or don't listen, but that's where government comes in this because the government says well you have to listen to me or else I'll conduct violence on you? yeah. 38:17.44 Dr_ Placebo Shoot you right? or put you in a box back to our boxes. We'll put it. We'll put you in a box that you don't want to be in you want to be in this other box. But we're going to put you in this one. 38:18.40 mikebledsoe So you know yeah. 38:31.43 mikebledsoe So How do you?? How do you motivate people I mean some people will argue that um I mean I do which is the lack of of ah the repercussions hitting that person individually is what's keeping them From. Understanding their their um the impact they're having and that's been going on generation after generation after generation they're shielded from it so people are actually become too dumb to realize the the impacts of of their behavior. So How do we. 39:07.96 mikebledsoe How do we do? How do we do that without threatening violence like how do we get people to expand their awareness and not do dumb stuff without threatening them. 39:07.99 Dr_ Placebo Well ignorance it. 39:21.76 Dr_ Placebo Ah, well, it's like ah it's like heaven and hell basically it's it's a carrot or a stick and people are the natural condition of humans is ignorance the natural condition of any animal. Ignorance so you need to have some sort of carrot and some sort of stick and ah heaven and hell are really good examples of that but you need to have some sort of ah constructive incentive I Think that's why religion did work so Well. And has continued to work really well because it's like ah it's It's an untouchable goodness and badness like you can't even imagine how excellent heaven is and you can't even imagine how awful hell could possibly be.. You're like oh. You know about hell if you burned your hand.. It's like way worse than burning your hand.. It's like a thousand times worse than that and it's forever and you're like oh fuck forever that seems like a really long Time. You're like okay I guess I won't covet. My Neighbor's goods or something like that right? so. I Guess it's kind of the same thing. Um and some people don't give a shit about whether the local wildlife stays alive and some people take it way too Far. They're like oh you can't You can't build this. 40:52.70 Dr_ Placebo Bridge here because it's going to impact the spawning of the the spotted pigmy something or other you know what I mean and you have like 5 ah people working full time to figure out and. Make up some fancy charts about why it's bad that you can't ah bad to build that bridge. So I don't I don't think there's a definitive answer other than you need to have with any group you need to have some sort of hierarchy because it's got to ultimately be somebody's decision. 41:29.66 mikebledsoe Yeah, um I guess my question is does the hierarchy need to need to include violence you you guys just that's human nature. We need somebody who's gonna like to say you know what you better behave wrong gonna beat you down. 41:38.85 Dr_ Placebo Well I think. 41:50.73 Dr_ Placebo You know, a lot of people are robbing stores right now. Um from what I understand and I don't know if I'm getting bad information or not well I mean at my local home Depot I See a lot of ah tools. 41:54.57 mikebledsoe I mean it's mostly in in Northern California 42:07.15 mikebledsoe Ah, ah. 42:07.86 Dr_ Placebo That are now locked up that were no were not locked up before and ah, you know there are some like there are some things that you can go on like next door and it's mostly a bunch of curtain twitchers like look lo and busybodies. 42:22.41 mikebledsoe Yeah. 42:27.76 Dr_ Placebo Just like oh can you believe these damn kids were riding their bikes without a helmet and it's like yes, kids are stupid and 1 of them might die and that'll be really sad but like do we really need to talk about it. Um, but they also discuss like what's going look and and you might die. 42:36.10 mikebledsoe Ah I never wore a helmet when I was a kid just for the record. 42:46.57 Dr_ Placebo You know it's just you got to accept the consequences right? code of Hamurabi had clear consequences for every crime if you pluck out a man's eye your eye gets plucked out if you kill a man you get killed if you rape a woman. Have to marry her and pay her dad 50 silver shekels. It's really weird rules but they had a clear consequence for every crime that there was and so people are talking about folks just walking out of stores with a bunch of stuff and I can't imagine. Being a business that's open all the time that people can just jack your stuff and walk out because the consequences of trying to stop them. Are you probably get sued or something crazy like that which is. Is way worse. We're talking like ah you know the litigiousness of our of our culture is so pathetic. Honestly, it's ah it really makes it harder for everybody. 43:51.77 mikebledsoe Well this is the difference between what I saw between California and Florida we could take the 2 extremes here is you had people writing and stealing and all that stuff and in California you know you actually tried to stop. 44:08.43 Dr_ Placebo And. 44:10.29 mikebledsoe Like if you harm somebody and trying to stop them from stealing from you like you're going to be in trouble and they're not going to charge a person for theft and they're just like no property rights just aren't honored there or in Florida my buddy he lives in Miami and. All the rightots were were going pretty strong like two and a half years ago and I forget exactly what what person in government said this you know don't know if it was like the sheriff or if it was the mayor or the governor or whoever it was they were like all right. If you own a store and people are coming in that try to Rob you, you can shoot them. We encourage you to they basically encourage the behavior that you're gonna get you know? Ah, ah, what's it called. They're gonna try to do something to you in California. So. 44:56.92 Dr_ Placebo And. 45:06.18 mikebledsoe All these business owners. They're like okay so they go to their stores. They aren't armed I think 1 or 2 guys got shot they died and then all the writing stopped and it it's the you that um. 45:06.81 Dr_ Placebo Right. 45:16.48 Dr_ Placebo Yeah Incentives work the incentive to not get shot is tremendous. 45:26.47 mikebledsoe But the thing is is what you have in in Florida was the government getting out of the way you say you know what we're actually not going to ah get in the way of you protecting your life your property. Your labor because your property is your labor It's a product of your labor and you know our job is to make sure that ah we're not going to fuck that up and that if someone else comes and fucks up your your property your labor your your life then we're going to help you know, bring. 45:53.27 Dr_ Placebo Yep. 46:04.00 mikebledsoe Some type of ah Justice there. But in the meantime if you are going to be able to bring your own justice very quickly and defend yourself because if you break if someone breaks into your house. They have to me they initiated violence. They just. They broke a window. They didn't harm me physically but they they have just that they put their life on the line there because I have no idea what their intentions are right. 46:36.70 Dr_ Placebo I totally agree and you don't have enough time to figure out if they're just trying to take your television or if they're trying to murder you and then take your television like there's no way to tell so basically in Florida what they did is they. 46:45.38 mikebledsoe There's no way to tell. 46:53.29 mikebledsoe Right? right. 46:54.37 Dr_ Placebo They did not interfere with self-defense. That's all they didn't do right? So if you just don't interfere with self-defense things have a way of rebalancing themselves and it reminds me of when I was in Oklahoma with ah my grandpa. 47:12.21 Dr_ Placebo He took me to this jewelry store where ah we didn't have to go there like he wasn't going to pick up jewelry or anything. He just knew the owner of the jewelry store and wanted me to meet this guy and see the bullet holes in the wall. 47:28.29 mikebledsoe Ah, and yeah. 47:28.30 Dr_ Placebo Because this guy I was like fourteen years old I was like whoa this is pretty heavy stuff. Ah, and so basically some some guy came into the jewelry store and said to the owner give me your money but the jewelry store owner had a shotgun mounted. Underneath the ah ah like display case and he just fired out like both barrels of a shotgun basically and he left the little beeb's ah, some of them were red some like red Beebe's in the far wall and he just left them. There. And I was just saying wow that is like a strong incentive to not do that and it's like if that's not ah if it's not okay to defend yourself. Do you really want to be part of that group and I think for most rational people they would say no. Right? I don't want to just be a sitting duck. Basically. 48:27.59 mikebledsoe Yeah, well I think it's um I found it interesting over the last couple years how a lot of the same people who have been preaching consent around sex are the same ones that. 48:43.54 Dr_ Placebo Oh yeah. 48:45.60 mikebledsoe Ah, will be the first ones be like don't defend yourself and went from things that aren't rape. It's like it's like it's like it's like ah sex gets put in a super special category I think I think I. 48:52.82 Dr_ Placebo Totally. 49:03.61 Dr_ Placebo Rape is not about sex Rape is not about sex. It is about choice almost everybody really likes sex. It's just that they want it to be their choice right? That's it. It's like most people like food. 49:11.00 mikebledsoe Um, yeah. 49:20.80 mikebledsoe Yeah. 49:20.57 Dr_ Placebo They just don't want to be like force fed food through a funnel or something like that. It's all about choice. It has nothing to do with sex is like just barely the ah the medium for that removal of choice. 49:32.29 mikebledsoe Yeah I think I think when it comes to sex is extra touchy because women specifically are at a disadvantage in those scenarios right? It's very rare. 49:45.93 Dr_ Placebo Well why would you say that I don't understand can you explain because women are just as strong as men. 49:52.38 mikebledsoe So ah. 49:57.86 mikebledsoe Ah, they can also have penises. 50:04.50 Dr_ Placebo And their penises are just as big. Ah god. 50:04.70 mikebledsoe Ah, yeah, ah actually to make this a little bit more clear for people. Um, yeah, if you're if you're a man then your your job and for sex is to penetrate and then for the woman is to receive that Penetration. So. 50:22.56 Dr_ Placebo Oh God I've been doing it all wrong. 50:26.76 mikebledsoe Ah, so ah, yeah, it that the the the penetrators are are more likely to be the rapist is what I'm getting at so that's right the point. 50:38.31 Dr_ Placebo The penetrators are the perpetrators is what you're saying. 50:42.38 mikebledsoe More often than not so um, so I think that in our society sex is ah yeah, that for some reason it's way touchier when it comes to consent when it comes to sex but it. There it when it comes to physical violence or when it comes to injecting people with experimental drugs go going to War Consent. It's I. 51:11.10 Dr_ Placebo Going to war taxation. 51:16.78 mikebledsoe Tell people who go who have the realization that I'm um, talking about here and they go holy shit like these people are like arguing for consent here but not over here and there's a lot of things like that I go. Well yeah, it's because people don't understand principles. People are. Ah, if they were actually principally based they would then say well consent matters in every situation. There are no special occasions for when consent is is not okay or you know isn't isn't useful. 51:53.63 Dr_ Placebo Agreed greed. 51:54.25 mikebledsoe And so ah, the majority of people in politics the majority of people who care about politics are very hypocritical so you know if you're getting mad at somebody else about you know because if you look at the left. They basically say we want consent for this but not this if you look at the right They say the same thing we want consent for this but not this and they're basically just arguing over who's going to be able to boss the other one around and who's going to not be bossed around. 52:29.21 Dr_ Placebo Right? There's like 5 things that they'll never agree on and never budge an inch and then 1000000 things that everybody agrees on because it's just super obvious and that's what keeps people divided the five things that no one will budge on. 52:35.67 mikebledsoe Yeah, yeah, the 5 the 5 things. 52:49.10 Dr_ Placebo Ah, yeah, you're 100% right it is all about consent I think um I mean there's not much else to say really, it's just that people are trapped where they're just feeling something. 53:02.65 mikebledsoe 5 my. 53:04.75 Dr_ Placebo Something just feels wrong to them. But the other thing feels right to them and we're we're trained to seek authority from some higher figure and that person is going to make it right. That Authority figure is going to make it right? and it's always like people are always in favor of that people want the leader with a big stick who says my way or the highway until the other guy gets in charge like I feel like a broken record sometimes. But it's like everybody is like oh we hate that guy in Charge. He's doing all these executive orders and then the next guy comes in and they're like yeah look at our guy taking charge making those executive orders. It's like no dude What? like? okay. 53:53.18 mikebledsoe I. 54:00.46 mikebledsoe Terrible. 54:02.11 Dr_ Placebo Democracy is also a bad idea. That's why capitalism at least true capitalism would be a lot better because look if 51% of the people vote that it's okay to rape the other 49 of their stuff or their anuses. Whatever. Right? It doesn't matter. That's okay, according to democracy because it's still just glorified mob rule that they put their leader in charge and they can pretty much do whatever the fuck they want because they have the biggest stick around and it's just crazy that people think that is the best way to go go about it. Rather than mostly leaving it up to the individuals each and every day to decide what they value and how they want to spend their dollars how they want to spend their time how they want to spend their ah resources right. 54:51.12 mikebledsoe Um, but how could we control them the ah. 55:02.27 Dr_ Placebo I Mean some things you need if you're going to be a leader though. You do need to have some sort of um, incentive for people to want to be part of your group right? That's the. 55:11.42 mikebledsoe Yeah, you got gotta to make someone else the villain you know like I'm gonna save you from these people over here I mean I learned most of what. 55:17.82 Dr_ Placebo That's the main thing. 55:24.16 Dr_ Placebo I'm going to save you from an invisible scourge that is ravaging the world by the way. It's totally invisible. You can't see it don't breathe the air. It will kill you. 55:33.67 mikebledsoe Other Invisibles scourges inflation. Let's see inflation is Evil Ah, ah, there's another one. Ah and this up. 55:46.70 Dr_ Placebo So do we talk about how we're trying to fix inflation by printing more dollars and giving everyone more money. Do we talk about that. 55:50.81 mikebledsoe And and inflation terrorism. These are things that are invisible that ah you can you can scare the be Jesus out of people. So like you know we're gonna get those terrorists I'm like who are the terrorists. You know the terrorists like can you show me one of them. 56:06.81 Dr_ Placebo Well, if terrorism if Terrorism is controlling people through if terrorism is controlling people through fear. No one is a bigger terrorist than our own media and government. No question. Not even. 56:08.67 mikebledsoe Are they wearing a uniform. 56:16.44 mikebledsoe Yeah says Cnn. 56:24.25 Dr_ Placebo not even close. It's not even close it's so it's so crazy far ahead like Al Qaeda we shouldn't even know their name based on the small percentage of terror they've instilled versus these media conglomerates which people are mainlining. Every day like a fucking drug. They're like oh god I forgot I wasn't supposed to be I forgot I was supposed to be afraid every second of every fucking day right. 56:51.34 mikebledsoe I Think the same thing goes for um I got the inflation I think dude. 56:57.20 Dr_ Placebo Oh my god North Korea North Korea is going to get us that country across the sea that can barely feed themselves. Oh god thanks for reminding me to be afraid of North Korea 57:08.12 mikebledsoe Yeah, yeah, ah was it last night I was hanging out with some friends and they were talking about the chinese have created an artificial sun that's 5 times hotter and I go well where is this. And go it's in a nuclear. They got some like reactor or whatever and I'm like man I'm having a really hard time believing this because the chinese are terrible innovators. They're very good at copying things ah like 80% as good as it was originally intended to be but they're not making anything new. They're definitely not creating a sun and extracting energy from it and they were getting I think something like that. 57:54.42 Dr_ Placebo Well, do they just mean a nuclear reactor that is more efficient because those things are very those things are very hot and you'd be sort of I I believe we can make stuff that's hotter than the sun. Um, don't quote me on that. But I think there's a lot of stuff that we can. Make that's hotter than the sun. It's not necessarily true that we can extract a ton of energy out of it Although Nuclear power plants are crazy efficient compared to anything else that we've sorted out So if they have a nuclear reactor. That's even you know 20% more efficient. 58:18.12 mikebledsoe Yeah, yeah. 58:31.20 Dr_ Placebo That might actually already be hotter than the sun but probably whatever information they read is so misleading right? because now we're trying to get eyeballs that have just been skull fucked every day for the last decade of like the 1 thing you should be afraid of or. 58:50.24 mikebledsoe Um, well there' a the conversation I was having with my friends yesterday went from it went from China's got a sun. It's hot than the sun or ah, that's hot than yet the sun and then. 58:50.26 Dr_ Placebo Is the apocalypse happening today here's what you should do. It's like every this is like oh my god like how could you? ah. 59:04.89 mikebledsoe It was all ref in the conversation about ah Russia and nuclear war unlike I'm like oh you just got like spun up so anything that you could be afraid of from a country that's on the other side of the planet. You're freaking out and then they're like yeah I mean they mean nuclear war I'm like I'm like. 59:12.20 Dr_ Placebo Great. Okay. 59:24.52 mikebledsoe Russia can't is not gonna get a warhead into like America. It's not gonna like they don't have the they they could shoot something this direction but I don't think it's gonna make it and and again, yeah, it's not good. 59:39.72 Dr_ Placebo And if it did what's the probability that it hits you. 59:42.69 mikebledsoe Yeah I mean people are then they're like oh the fallout and all this I'm like unlike maybe but here's the thing with the chinese sun and the russian nukes I can't do a damn thing about either 1 of them like I I'm not. Ah. 59:59.57 Dr_ Placebo Better start building that Bunker blood. So the blood so bunker. Okay here. 01:00:04.16 mikebledsoe Ah, oh we should start selling this all right. The new new New direction for the show. We scare the shit out of people. 01:00:12.36 Dr_ Placebo You can order your blood so bunker and it it 5 5 3 2 4 5 call now to reserve your blood snow bunker. It comes with six months of food six months of water. You're welcome simple simple as that right. 01:00:17.30 mikebledsoe That's a. 01:00:25.80 mikebledsoe that's ah that's Alex Jones's that's Alex Jones ' whole thing just scares the shit of you. Oh my god the world's gonna end the pedophiles are gonna drop nukes on us. But and then it's like commercial comes in. It's like. 01:00:30.56 Dr_ Placebo I Mean. Totally yeah. 01:00:40.98 Dr_ Placebo Yeah, the pedophiles are going to drop new on. 01:00:41.31 mikebledsoe Buy the fair supply by my food supply. 01:00:47.74 Dr_ Placebo Right? Totally by this bucket of slop that will keep you alive in your bunker and okay so one 1 thing that's practical insurance and acceptance most people aren't spending their lives all that well anyway. 01:00:50.17 mikebledsoe A. 01:01:06.87 Dr_ Placebo Now I'm not 1 to judge right? But if you're just afraid you're just afraid all the time like is that really a way to live and there are only 2 things you can do about the future insurance and acceptance and if you're going to get insurance. 01:01:07.36 mikebledsoe Um. 01:01:22.78 Dr_ Placebo You got to set it and forget it Otherwise the insurance is a waste of fucking time. It's like buying fire insurance and then every day worrying that your house is going to burn down. It's stupid. Yeah, very nice. Excellent. 01:01:31.13 mikebledsoe That's why I cover my house with water every morning you know, just in case. Yeah. 01:01:41.25 Dr_ Placebo I'm sure it takes ah a really long time. Ah, just and I'm sure it's really good for the materials to be constantly drenched in water. 01:01:44.56 mikebledsoe Um, oh I I got ah I got a buddy who lives in tahoe and was it last year. Yeah, it was last year basically tahoe was on fire. 01:02:00.27 mikebledsoe While burning renegade burning man was happening so he walks out of his house. He sprays it down with a hose and then he just leaves the hose on to try to make the property as wet as possible gets in his car and goes to burning man for a week 01:02:12.80 Dr_ Placebo Ah. 01:02:20.28 mikebledsoe And that was acceptance. He's like he's like I did the best thing I could do and you know my house and might not be there when I get back. 01:02:24.80 Dr_ Placebo That's an option that is an option. 01:02:31.96 Dr_ Placebo Insurance and acceptance you got to figure out what'll make you feel comfortable and just set it and forget it. There's no point in buying the insurance If you're going to worry about it all the time and you ultimately. Like everything comes back to accepting your own impermanence and the ego is only ever trying to gain more and more permanence so they're at odds with one another. So unless you bring acceptance into it. There's no amount of insurance that'll make you feel really safe. You'll be.. You'll be deep in a bunker. You'll be like oh fuck I forgot about Earthquakes I'll be totally fucked down here in this bunker If. There's an earthquake and then you're like okay I need a I need it to be in the Sky. No I need it to be on the Moon. And then you live on the moon and you're like fuck. There's no asteroid defense on the moon and it's like ah I don't know kind of like the same Hedonic treadmill where you are just so focused on material. Um things. You're like oh I need a better house and a better car and a better this and a better that and you know realistically ah, most people just want to feel ah like they're in flow with whatever the thing they're doing is some sort of play. 01:04:01.73 Dr_ Placebo For some people play is playing cards with their friends or having ah an adult beverage with friends and just talking but people really just want to play more than anything else. But if you're so hellbent on like I got to get safe I got to get safe I got to get safe. You're just gonna be stuck in your lizard brain. So You're not going to make a very good forwardthink decision. You're gonna make short-term decisions that assuage the fear of the lizard. So You know we have those 3 tiers lizard mammal and wizard and if you don't feel safe. You're gonna be stuck in Lizard mode and be like I got to get safe I got to get safe I got to get safe. You won't go to the mammal level where you're like I got to find love I Got to find love I Got to find love of course it's the easiest thing to find you just you just be Love. That's it. It's it's like. The easiest thing ever and the hardest thing for most people to do and if you feel safe if you feel that not only are you loved but you are loved then you have this wizard brain that can be creative and think of new things and. Tell jokes and play music and play games and think about what would be good in the future without being totally trapped by the fear of the lizard or the lack of love in the mammal. But if you're if you're stuck just like being bounced around from fear to fear. 01:05:34.19 Dr_ Placebo Via Terrorism I mean you're just playing into the hands of the people who are profiting from that terrorism right. 01:05:39.82 mikebledsoe Yeah, yeah, and you got to be careful I mean media? What what media are you consuming the fact that you're here consuming this media I think you've made a good choice. But yeah, if you're consuming Cnn Msnbc Fox News they're gonna be just scaring a shit out of you all the time. Um. And then. 01:05:59.37 Dr_ Placebo And it and it probably won't even change your decisions in like a constructive way. It'll just make you. It'll just make you more afraid right. 01:06:03.38 mikebledsoe Not in a good way Now it'll make you more it. Ah you know you got fight flight freeze most people freeze you know I don't know what to do I'm going to freeze and they they they freeze in. 01:06:13.20 Dr_ Placebo Yeah, yeah. 01:06:20.43 mikebledsoe Being able to move forward in their life. Um, so you got also need to look at who you're hanging out with if you're hanging out with people who are always talking about prepping for the apocalypse you're probably not going to make a lot of forward motion in your life. Ah, if shit hits the fan. You might be a little more prepared may probably not. 01:06:34.11 Dr_ Placebo Totally. 01:06:39.15 mikebledsoe Because my my whole thing on it is I hang out with some people who sometimes get a little far into the prepper mode and I help you know fish them out a little bit and then I also have another group of friends who that never crosses their mind whatsoever and every you know unicorns and rainbows are coming. 01:06:49.62 Dr_ Placebo Yep. 01:06:55.75 Dr_ Placebo At once. 01:06:58.91 mikebledsoe The reality is somewhere in the middle and the but it's helpful because I like to visit the friends that are unicorns and rainbows because it helps balance me out ah from like hanging out with people who are like freaking out the end is coming I'm like look. 01:07:00.72 Dr_ Placebo Right? so. 01:07:17.88 mikebledsoe Things are gonna change. It may be really uncomfortable but like as you were saying the impermanence is always there So how it changes and you think you're gonna predict that I've never predicted how something was going to go accurately. Ah. 01:07:29.70 Dr_ Placebo Right. 01:07:37.27 mikebledsoe I Mean only vague predictions will be like oh this guy will win. This guy will lose or this even then my predictions aren't that great like the the track record's not amazing is like oh this business work. This one won't well I thought all my businesses were gonna work and not all of them did so not the way I. 01:07:45.00 Dr_ Placebo A. 01:07:55.82 mikebledsoe Not the way I wanted them to um, they worked in their own way and so same thing with life. 01:07:59.75 Dr_ Placebo Right? Ah so you want the preppers you want the preppers to set up your insurance and you want to hang with the unicorn and rainbow crew because it's going to be a lot more fun. Ah. 01:08:07.67 mikebledsoe I Don't let out my secret man. 01:08:17.27 Dr_ Placebo Oh Wow I couldn't have figured that who could have figured that out. 01:08:18.94 mikebledsoe Ah, blowing my cover bro. Yeah. 01:08:23.52 Dr_ Placebo Ah, ah boy I'm sure no one would think of that your plus plus if everyone else do is does it then you can't right? That's like ah it. 01:08:32.18 mikebledsoe Yeah I mean we might end up with a lot of really healthy adjusted people if they all did what I did but instead I need to keep some of them in the clouds and some of them in in deep fear. 01:08:44.66 Dr_ Placebo Yeah, it's not ah, it's well it's not a 0 sum game right? It's actually the more like so the micro level like for you and I as individuals. Um the more value that. We can provide the better off. We are the more concrete. Um, our values are the more that we know and can love ourselves the easier it is to make decisions and broadly speaking in a community the more value every individual provides the healthier that. Community is because if you have people who earn nothing and don't provide anything of value. Well here's what you can do you can work. You can beg and you can steal and those are the only 3 ways you can get stuff Basically so if everyone. Has something valuable then we can all work and earn and the overall value and the health of the group economy community whatever is significantly higher I mean that's hopefully what's happening here is there's a small group of people. Maybe a large group of people who are listening to these are like oh yeah, you know what? I I now can work past this fear I was having and maybe I can ah accept my own

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00:00.00 mikebledsoe Welcome to Monday morning with Mike and max and today we're going to be talking about decentralization now this is a word that's being thrown around quite a bit I don't think that people necessarily know what it means and when it's used. It's normally used specifically for. Currencies they're talking about decentralized currencies alternative currencies like bitcoin ethereum and a bunch of other shitcoins that are out there but the idea of decentralization is much bigger than that and when we look at technologies that allow us to decentralize. We can see how it disrupts. 00:37.94 mikebledsoe Economics It Disrupts social constructs and it yeah entire societies. So we're gonna talk about as decentralization occurs what you can do to position yourself to be in the best place possible. Um, and not get completely screwed over like some people are gonna experience. 00:58.54 Max Shank Well I think this is gonna be perfect for us to talk about because you and I have really different perspectives on this I'm not very schooled in cryptocurrency because I don't quite understand the stability of it. Um. But I am deeply interested in increasing the amount of freedom I have in my life as well as that of our listeners. So I'm excited to discuss it with you today. 01:27.44 mikebledsoe Yeah, yeah, so let's start here the the decentralization um as a concept is that there's a smaller group of people that have absolute control over what's going on in their world. 01:46.14 Max Shank Um, that's centralization. You mean. 01:46.84 mikebledsoe So right now decentralization. Well there's ah what I mean is like you're grouped into a smaller group So there's greater responsibility for the individual in a decentralized society. 01:58.88 Max Shank So the individual has more agency over their money their time their food that sort of thing. Okay, yeah, that makes sense. 02:03.31 mikebledsoe Yes, yeah, yeah, more agency more autonomy more choice. Um in some cases so in ah and a centralized setup. 02:15.43 Max Shank A. 02:21.72 mikebledsoe Which is primarily what we're existing in right now if we have we have centralized money we have centralized food supplies. We have centralized energy systems. So when I talk about decentralization or centralization. This is a global conversation. Not necessarily. Talking only about cryptocurrencies or only about farming so with that being said is if you're we are being driven into a decentralized society because of ah you know this twofold one is people desire. It. Enough people desire it and that desire has helped people to generate technology which makes it possible and due to a lot of centralized power and a lot of money coming into a very small group people a lot of technology has been advanced. That used to only be available to a few that's now available to many an example of this is I remember when and you've probably noticed this max is Amazon um, and this is just a function of capitalism Amazon has. Always has better technology than the average ecommerce store. They have better tracking. They've got more data on their users. They've got ah their ability to sell at scale is just incredible and there's so many pieces of technology that. Only existed for http://amazon.com five years ago and now you and I have access to Facebook ads that targeting targeted ads that most people don't know much about ah because of Facebook and ah. A lot of this stuff that only really advanced marketers with a lot of money had access to special software. That's now been made available to all of us. So um I mention that because because of the way that things have been built up at this point is what actually creates the opportunity for a. Decentralized technology do exist now. So one's not better than another one just gives birth to another and the technology that's available will basically demand that you things be more decentralized and that each person takes more personal responsibility. And for those who don't take personal responsibility. It's gonna be a hard transition. 04:56.23 Max Shank I think you brought up 1 of the big advantages of centralization which is called economies of scale. So one of the reasons that people we can feed more people and one of the reasons that we can get more people a cell phone. 05:05.25 mikebledsoe Go. 05:15.98 Max Shank Is because these companies are able to do it at a much lower cost because as the number of units goes up the cost per unit thanks to efficiency goes down so not just. Thinking centralization bad decentralization good is important and I would also agree that as long as the consumers are free to choose their product then that will yield the. Best efficiency as long as you can choose whether you want to go to Walmart or the farmer's market or something like that I think that's kind of inherently good and the more we are allowed to choose the better. The outcome is and the more people are forced to obey. the the worse the outcome is historically and presently. 06:15.79 mikebledsoe Yeah, this conversation makes me think about Atlas shrugged. You've read the book. Yeah, okay, ah so in out. 06:23.99 Max Shank People either really like that book or they really hate that book's guts don't they no no, one's like it's all right I guess. 06:32.38 mikebledsoe Yeah, well you know anytime I run it when I run into people that hate it it I've learned to to focus in on 1 thing in the conversation that will totally break them and that is did you finish it. 06:50.33 Max Shank First. 06:51.91 mikebledsoe Did you read the whole thing because I've yet to meet somebody who's actually read the whole thing that still hates it so you know usually people hate it because they read something that someone else wrote about it or they're part of a ah social group that. Thinks that ein Rand is the Devil. So ah, it makes me think about that because you know you're saying choice. But right now they're essential like so let's just forget forget that but the where things are going when decentralized decentralization becomes possible technologically possible I think is what's going to happen is what happened in atlas shrug which is the most productive people in society are going to choose decentralization now. Decentralization wasn't. Necessarily a concept in that book. But the concept in the book was that the people who were the most productive and the people who took the most responsibility for themselves and their companies and things like that once that once they were being taxed. And the government was demanding and and social groups were demanding that they be more like slaves than independent and people they basically burned down their factories and walked away from their jobs and shut down the railroads and all went hiding in a valley in Colorado. And a lot of and then people in society are going. You can't do that and goes I can do whatever I want I'm not a slave and so I think what's gonna happen is the the atlas shrug is happening but we're not gonna have to go hide in a valley in Colorado. And where we're we were you know able to hide from planes and radar and shit what's going to happen is we're me able to hide technologically or we're going to be able to opt out of the current system. Ah and technologically and then everyone who's productive goes there and the people who are mediocre at. Best will still subscribe to the to the centralized model and so when we start talking about choice. It's like yeah you do have a choice but the being a part of a centralized model in 2020 or 2019 or whatever was. Really probably the most convenient choice. It was you you ended up having a lot of luxury a lot of really cool things were available to you. But as time goes on if the best producers on the planet decentralize. They've now removed themselves from your economy. So you're not getting the best anymore. 09:43.84 mikebledsoe And the the beauty of a centralized economy and a centralized society is you don't have to think so much because people can become much more specialized and they don't have to consider. You know where does my food come from. You know what's really going on with the currency people right now. For instance, you could take a computer programmer and they've gotten really good at computer programming. They don't know Jack shit about anything but computer programming and so that's because. They can pick up their phone and have their groceries delivered to their house. They can just automatically have their money. Ah go into an Ira that you know someone from their job told them it was a good idea and that could they're they're outsourcing their wealth. Their health. Just outsource all these things something goes wrong physically, they don't have to be aware of it. They just go to the doctor and they write him a prescription a pill to fix it and so. 10:42.41 Max Shank Well, that's comparative advantage. You hunt the food I'll cook the food and this guy here will protect us in the night and this lady over here will take care of all the children. 10:51.76 mikebledsoe Totally but in a world of centralization where we're dealing with hundreds of millions of people. We'll we'll talk about the United States specifically it's become. It's we've gone past the point of diminishing returns. There is a massive benefit to it. But now we're seeing the repercussions of it for instance, the average person unless you're a health expert your health is really poor. 11:19.31 Max Shank That's true and we could think about the causality of that and to piggyback on this centralization theme I think it's really important to differentiate between which sectors. Of Centralization. We're talking about So I like to simply think of it as you have no choice of where to go you have to come to us basically right? and so there's education which I'm no fan of I think it's child abuse. 11:42.50 mikebledsoe In a centralized model. 11:54.28 Max Shank I Think it's a really bad investment I think it's yeah public school I think it's one of the worst things you could do to a child. It's a horrible investment I could it's obedience school. Let's keep a simple language obedience school listen to this guy at the front. 11:54.41 mikebledsoe Government education. 12:01.14 mikebledsoe We should just call them indoctrination system governmental indoctrination systems or something. 12:13.23 mikebledsoe Did you you send your kid their obedience school today. He's been acting up. 12:13.56 Max Shank Sit down shut up, ask permission to go to the bathroom god forbid it I ever have a kid I would never send it to school not in 1000000 years um under no circumstance. Yeah well, it's ah you know I don't want to assume it's gender. 12:22.85 mikebledsoe If I won't have a kid as long as you start referring to as long as you refer to it as it. Um, you might get yourself in hot water there in California. 12:33.55 Max Shank Ah, so I don't want to be 1 of those hateful people who used to think that genitals identified your gender. Ah I'm woke now. Ah so anyway, so. 12:49.23 mikebledsoe Congratulations max. 12:50.61 Max Shank Centralized education gets away worse result. Ah the bigger. The centralized government is the worse. The result is because it's the difference between the pie makers and the pie slicers and you have to Zoom way out and. And way in to really understand what's happening so zooming way out to what it's like to be a creature who's capable of doing things and surviving in the world is really difficult on your own. In fact, it's impossible on your own. So the whole purpose of our culture. Is to reduce chaos and that's why actually why games and play are so critical for building relationships and also building skills because if you have the chaos reduced through culture but you don't have any dosage of that excitement or chaos. You're going to be a really sad little monkey and then you also need to really zoom in on what I call rules of engagement so you have to consider the interactions between entities. And reduce it down to the fewest parts possible to really understand what's happening. You know if 3 people live on a cul-de-sac and 2 people vote that they should Rob. The third one is that okay and interestingly enough in democracy. Yes, that's. That's perfectly. Okay, in fact, that's exactly how it works as long as most people want to Rob the not most people then is totally fine. So all of this back and forth. 14:33.33 mikebledsoe It. It's interesting. How people people lose the concept of morality at scale it. What you? what you say makes no sense when it's a hundred people but the moment it's a 0 people it's 14:43.50 Max Shank The. 14:52.23 mikebledsoe Somehow has eluded people What what do you think that is. 14:55.22 Max Shank The the greater good The fallacy of the greater good. Um, and it has to do with arrogance. Some people want to be saviors so they have a messianic complex of some kind and they want to be the guy who saves everyone some people are just sadists. And they want to dominate and control people and typically those are the only type of people who want ah positions of Authority like I I don't want a position of Authority over anyone but myself because I think I'm I'm a reasonable person. Ah, it's totally unreasonable. To want to be in charge of hundreds of millions of people. It's totally unreasonable. Um, but that's why. 15:40.86 mikebledsoe There's a book about this There's a political pourology I I began it I've read about 20% and then I had to start it was one of those books where it started getting I was gonna have to invest more energy into it. When I want to put my energy somewhere else. I'm definitely going to come back to it but the concept I had gotten to that point was psychopaths make up 4% of the population. This is a so this is a known psychological statistic. 15:59.26 Max Shank M. 16:14.72 mikebledsoe And just like the rest of Society. The psychopaths tend to you know they the thing that makes a psychopath so powerful is not only are they not experiencing emotions the same way we are so we experience emotions and. Creates turbulence and it impacts our decision making and yeah, we just we just do really strange things to fit in and somebody who's a psychopath the the really good ones understand that other people. Are having a different emotional experience than they are. They know it and they know how to exploit it and so yeah, so not only not only do they, they're not experiencing the same emotional stuff so they actually become very apathet on a become I think they just are that sounds like they're born this way. 16:55.20 Max Shank They leverage that perceived weakness. 17:10.91 mikebledsoe They're very apathetic which is kind of a problem but then on top of that they understand how you can be manipulated with your emotions and so ah, just like any group of people they're the ones that are really smart and then they're the ones that are really dumb. The dumb ones end up in prison and the smart ones end up in Dc and the so there they are attracted to pout. So you tell about being unreasonable this book makes the um makes the case that ah. They're drawn to power over other people and so. 17:48.40 Max Shank Exactly and like what you just said, it's rhetoric driven. It's tugging on people's emotions rather than focusing on fundamental rules of engagement. You know there really shouldn't be that many laws and every law should be in simple language. But of course. 17:52.84 mikebledsoe Yeah, yeah. 18:07.74 Max Shank That is not incentivized by the people who are writing up these laws. You know so. 18:11.90 mikebledsoe Yeah I like what you're talking. Ah I want to go back a little bit because we're a little off track but the it was worth touching on the the as you were talking before I was thinking about incentives because when we think about people who are in in a centralized power structure. And you always mention this first we got to look at incentives so someone in a centralized power structure where is the incentive for them to make the decisions that they're making so what is the incentives of the news media. The centralized news media outlets Cnn ah Fox all these things a highly centralized stream of information because they're all reporting the same shit. They've got the same narrative. There's a centralized There's a centralization of information there and then. 19:06.00 Max Shank I would say they're opposing narratives but they're about the same thing and that thing doesn't matter very much compared to the real situation which is jurisdiction and Authority who's in charge and when do they exercise that authority. 19:08.30 mikebledsoe There. 19:13.18 mikebledsoe Well. 19:21.20 mikebledsoe Yeah, yeah, and well that episode that you recommend to me last week Joe Rogan with Gavin De Becker he talked about how man that was one of the best Rogan shows I've ever heard. Ah, he talked about. 19:29.55 Max Shank Is champ. 19:38.50 mikebledsoe How all the news media outlets basically agreed to call Iver mechton horse paste and there wasn't a major news outlet that wasn't doing that and so what they got. 19:42.80 Max Shank Right. 19:49.96 Max Shank It's a coordinated assault on people's minds to maximize their attention and to maximize their fear because fear is deeper in the brain than anything else. So you have to recognize that that. You have to recognize that the news is a hostile entity and you must take precautions to protect yourself from this because of the incentives you know, um, the whole idea of good and evil. Is um I think it's a trap all on its own. You know, don't believe the red guys are evil the blue guys are evil whatever just recognize that they're um, traumatized animals just just like almost every person right? and they're just doing. What is in their best interest with no regard for you but rather than ah say this is evil this is good. This is what whatever you just have to recognize for yourself that that is a hostile attack. On your mind and it's not going to help you exist in the world better to pay attention and it might even feel ironically a little more scary at first to not like know what's going on in the world but when it distracts you from. 21:16.30 mikebledsoe Yeah. 21:22.60 Max Shank The fundamental. That's why I come back to rules of engagement if I have value that I can provide to you that you believe is truly valuable as long as I can communicate with you. You will take it. And it'll be a win-win situation. That's why I say the customer is always right? The coercer is always wrong and the more you focus on serving your customers something that they really value the more abundant your life will be and the more you focus on. Plugging in to a machine that is literally trying to destroy your mind and break you into thinking that you are alone and isolated and powerless and convince you that some asshole in a big chair. Knows what's best for everybody else because he suddenly like figured out his version of utopia How could utopia be the same thing for Everybody. We're so different. You know some people like having their nipples hooked up to car Batteries. Do I Want that guy deciding what utopia is no way. 22:30.21 mikebledsoe Um, yeah, ah, circle back. But the going back I wanted to finish on the incentives thing is is ah going back to the fear. The the media creating fear the incentive there is. The more fear they can create the more you're gonna consume their content and the more you consume their content the more you're gonna buy from their advertisers and their advertisers are going to send more money to the news agency and so you know. 23:03.11 Max Shank And the more you'll trust what they say if you if you just expose yourself to it more you will start to trust what they say more and more and more and more and more and that's why you have right now, People who blindly Trust one outlet and blindly distrust another is the classic. 23:07.31 mikebledsoe Yeah, yeah. 23:11.54 mikebledsoe Yeah, yeah. 23:22.71 Max Shank God and the devil situation. Blindly Trust whatever God says which is your favorite news outlet and blindly distrust whatever the devil says which is the fucking other guy. It's just it's us and them type of shit and you would think we would be past this but we're still just. Ah, half-retarded chimps looking for food and love. 23:47.78 mikebledsoe There's um I want to point out you said something really important is the it's the repetition creates beliefs. So if you if you were consuming that news outlet every day. It's the repetition of something that makes it believable. We talk about the there's there's ah, a handful of ways that you learn something and if you want to ingrain something as ah as a skill and I think about skills and beliefs the same exact way is. Every skill you want to get better at hitting baseballs. You're gonna fucking swing that baseball bat a lot of times if you want to believe that something is true. You'll go to church every Sunday that way you get that repetition and so that you ingrain it. Whether it be good or bad I'm not saying either 1 is good or bad. But this idea of good and evil ah playing out and saying yeah red team bad blue team good whatever it is. It is is really. Great to look at through the lens of centralization versus decentralization because in a in a centralized model of society you can create groups of people and just say that entire group over there is bad or that entire group over there is good because not only is the information. There's um, there's so little deviation from one narrative about who's good or bad There's no opportunity. It. Yeah, it just creates very few options. It's like you're either like good bad or independent and you're kind of a dick for not you know. Deciding you're good or bad or not and so the decentralization of good and evil requires and here's the thing is decentralization requires people to think and that's why a lot of people are are resistant to it because you have to think. And if you have to apply moral law in your own mind to each individual that you come in contact with then instead of just being able to label them and not have to be curious about them and think about them and listen to them. It's it's a form of laziness. And people are ah again going back to repetition. People are repetitively ignoring information they're being ignorant by choice and they've done it so much that they they don't even think there's a way to consider and. 26:31.91 mikebledsoe And make a moral judgment themselves on an individual instead of an entire group people because someone else did the thinking for them. 26:37.79 Max Shank Well, there's a reason that um, we do that is because trust saves calories. It's really valuable to be able to trust other people that way you're not assessing every person you interact with and go oh is this guy going to attack me and steal my. 26:44.70 mikebledsoe Yeah. 26:57.78 Max Shank Will the beast meet or whatever it is I'm guessing be different now but trust saves calories so it can be a very powerful tool and if you trust nobody man life is extremely hard and it feels very isolated So it's. 26:58.57 mikebledsoe Um, am. 27:11.81 mikebledsoe Yeah. 27:16.36 Max Shank No surprise that we want to trust somebody that we want to. It's all it's trust is pure efficiency it. It is like language faith Trust all this stuff if I can outsource my health to someone who knows better. 27:28.32 mikebledsoe 5 blame. 27:36.23 Max Shank And I can outsource my finances to someone who knows better and I'm saying legitimately. Also they legitimately know better that that's going to give me a much better outcome if I can trust a farmer who's much better at farming to make my food I'm going to end up. So. Crazy wealthy. It is like a superpower to have all of these different experts and that's the core of comparative advantage but you got to be careful who you put your faith into right? That's why I think um, The. The most flexible culture is one that is based on free choice because if trust is broken in one sector, there's another sector to soften that trauma basically. 28:29.20 mikebledsoe Yeah. 28:30.62 Max Shank You know what? I mean as long as there are multiple options for where you can go to school buy your food. Um that sort of thing. It's ah yeah, multiple places multiple doctors you can go to and of course everyone because of. 28:41.60 mikebledsoe Well that this is where. 28:49.60 Max Shank Power structures we want to go from survival up to supremacy. It's like survival sex and supremacy and sex and supremacy are so closely interrelated because that's how ladies choose the more ah exalted or elevated you are in the hierarchy the more. Ah, you are going to alert the sounds so weird alert The females to your viability genetically right? So you have to look at these. 29:19.30 mikebledsoe Yeah, yeah. 29:25.00 Max Shank Raw instincts underneath all of this stuff so because there are people who are looking to dominate and protect their authority. They're also going to stomp out other alternatives and maybe even with good intentions. Do some? Ah arguably evil stuff the greater good just anytime you like hear or even feel that sense of the greater good. Oh My God that person. 29:49.30 mikebledsoe That's where book burning comes in hand comes in handy. 30:02.45 mikebledsoe Yeah, that's ah, that's a slippery one. Um, why the ah book burning I mean the modern day book burning is getting banned from Twitter or Youtube or whatever it is um. 30:02.86 Max Shank Come on get out of here. Good lord. 30:14.78 Max Shank Yeah, that's pretty wild. 30:19.42 mikebledsoe It's pretty fucking people people think are advocating for if they were actually burning books on the street they might freak out but they don't think they're not able to think and connect the dots that these the the way it's happening is the same thing or. 30:34.68 Max Shank Censorship is an admission of guilt we should. We should be able to have we should be able to have ah a Martin Luther King guy and a hitler guy have a nice debate with each other that would be interesting to watch and like. 30:36.97 mikebledsoe Um. 30:45.32 mikebledsoe Yeah, yeah. 30:49.94 Max Shank What you have so little faith in humanity that everyone's going to go like you know what after that crazy guy yelled for a while I think I am going to go for ethnic cleansing now. It's like what come on. 30:58.35 mikebledsoe Yeah, oh man. Ah yeah, there's so much to talk about there. The I think that I want I Want to point out that decentral late decentralization is not isolation. It's quite the opposite and I think what's going to happen in the future is that. 31:20.88 Max Shank It's of specific aspects to it's not absolute decentralization because that that wouldn't be very efficient at all I think you're mostly talking about currency I think you're mostly talking about currency. 31:27.39 mikebledsoe Right? You can decentralized to right right? You're not, We're not decentralizing down to the individual all I'm talking about but no I'm talking about food I'm talking about energy all these things. Ah the the it's not. It's not well. 31:37.30 Max Shank In most cases right. 31:44.95 Max Shank Talk to me talk to me about him separately though. So I can understand better. 31:46.49 mikebledsoe I say this because what? ah my isis. Okay well I suspect that the media in the future. The mainstream media is gonna start trying to talk about deset people who are doing decentralized things forming decentralized communities. They're gonna be considered isolationist and. You know they're gonna try to you know, burn them. But ah, they're racist. Yeah,, they're already doing it. You're racist if you don't want to participate in this this narrative that we have going On. You must be a racist trumper and you can't be Trusted. We're gonna have to. 32:08.38 Max Shank They're racists. 32:22.50 mikebledsoe You know, hold some trials at some point down the road because of you. 32:26.69 Max Shank It's just ah, a new agey fancy way of saying you're the devil. We don't listen to that guy at all. It's it's an ad hommonym censorship I mean it's so obvious once you filter it down to the real meaning of what's going on and if you're not even willing to have a discussion. 32:32.29 mikebledsoe A. 32:43.53 Max Shank And sell somebody on an idea and you have to force an idea upon someone is it really that good of an idea I mean if you need to spend billions and billions of dollars marketing your drugs are they really like all that good. You know it has no marketing for it whatsoever. Cocaine. Ecstasy marijuana psilocybin guess what people do shitloads of with no marketing whatsoever. All those things so if something is really good. People will find out about it as long as they are free to communicate. 33:20.58 mikebledsoe Yeah, what? what were you wanting I agree what were you wanting me to explain separately. You only said right out. 33:20.92 Max Shank Freely with one another. 33:25.83 Max Shank Ah, okay, so decentralization of currency and banking. Let's say versus or alongside decentralization of other aspects. So let's say food. Education maybe even governance because that's ah, that's a tricky thing right? How do you? really How do you live in America without participating in America. 33:54.95 mikebledsoe But well governance is at the core of all decentralization. So That's the that is how are we going? What are we? What are we agreeing or how are we agreeing on the decisions we're going to make as a group. You know what are the rules that we're gonna abide by what are what are our values? um. 34:16.31 Max Shank We already have a perfect method for that. We have lobbyists who pay the politicians to decide what kind of laws they want to exercise over the people and then. Over time. The people have less and less authority over their lives. It's perfect system. 34:34.63 mikebledsoe Yeah, it works. Yeah, just shut up and go home. Don't don't go outside. Ah so the but let's talk about this so you want me to talk about currency and then talk about food as examples of this I think I think currency. 34:47.94 Max Shank Sure just just ah, make them separate. 34:54.25 mikebledsoe Which one should I start with the food might be make the most sense I think it's people can put their eyes on it and so decentralizing your food I'm involved in a project that is decentralizing food at this point and so um, there both. 35:07.69 Max Shank For yourself or for lots of people. 35:13.59 mikebledsoe So so this is what decentralization is it's about me my my objective is to create as much. Um, value for myself as possible and that is true value being ah my lifestyle. You know my my ability to critically think is valuable having a roof over my head is valuable the community I hang out with is valuable. The things that are of true value is I want to create as much value in my life. Ah as possible and. If I do that? Well enough I can then distribute some of that value outside of myself and so ah in a decentralized food network. For instance I'm gonna just give some hypotheticals because this is this is happening around. Awesome Texas right now. So some of it's hypothetical because it's in the. Plan and it hasn't completely been executed yet. But these things these are things that are in the process. So say that there's a twenty acre farm over here a sixty acre farm over here 200 over here five over here. Everybody has the ability to ah grow all sorts of stuff and. What you do is is you grow enough to where if you couldn't leave your own farm. You're good. You may not have all the shit you want. You're not going to get you know I don't I I have lamb but I don't have any beef and so and a decentralized model with food is we would then exchange. Locally with other farms now then it extends beyond that even fewer items might get exchanged between regions and we're also sharing information so we're farming in Texas someone else might be farming in Louisiana or California and we're exchanging. Not just goods and services but information as well instantly on what's working. What's not working and so in this yeah I mean we're not going to talk about economics as you know as a part of it but ah it. 37:12.33 Max Shank Um, so it's kind of like bartering. 37:24.27 mikebledsoe There's an so this is where I was thinking about timing money into it which is now I'm I'm like interlacing the 2 already which I didn't want to do but I was trying to stay away from that so the but I think that the the way that currency is going the decentralization decentralization of currency is making this possible. The other thing that's making this possible is daws decentralized autonomous organizations so you mentioned earlier that people need to exercise trust in order to save calories and so that's actually that's one of the big reasons that there's centralized power right now and dows actually help. Decentralized governance so daws are are basically governance models that are executed with smart contracts if this then that so right now if you and I go into a contract with each other and I say I'm gonna give you. Money for this service or whatever and then you don't do it and or or maybe you do it and I don't pay you. What's your recourse you then need to go to a court and then you need to so on and so forth. So as technology is advancing. We don't need a court to verify that something was completed or not there is there is a smart machine that is watching I mean depends on the service but but to make it easy to understand because this will extrapolate out to like farming. Um, if. You complete a project that we can track on your computer and you do it and you hit the complete button now. Automatically, the money is sent if I want to dispute it. There's really nothing I can do and that's possible because we're not using banks anymore and I'm not going to go dispute it and create a legal issue out of this. It just is and so. In the early days of dows which we're in There's going to be some stuff where people set up some rules and then they regret setting up those rules and then they're like oh we need to think this further out we didn't consider this and they're going to have to update things as they go along. It's going to become very sophisticated. And these rules aren't being drafted by lawyers lawyers are pretty much the people that are running and governing the world right now and like you were saying earlier. They use all sorts of tricky language. It doesn't make any sense to the layperson. It's very confusing and you can pretty much if you're a good lawyer. You could. And trap anybody in anything kind of like the Irs can basically you know if you follow all the rules as you see fit. You're probably going to be wrong or they could make you wrong if they really wanted to so in. 40:11.22 mikebledsoe With dow's decentralized autonomous organizations which are run on the blockchain trust becomes unnecessary. You don't have to trust what someone says it just is um so last you there a second. How long were you gone? Okay, not not long at all. Ah, so yeah, the doubt dows are beginning to They're not going to completely eradicate the necessity for trust, but the future we won't have operating agreements in the future. 00:04.83 Max Shank I'm back um, 3 seconds yeah 40:49.56 mikebledsoe It'll be your business will be a dow and. 00:26.10 Max Shank Well, it will still be an operating agreement. It'll just be executed by computer software. So it's software as a service basically which is responsible for a ton of efficiency. 40:59.79 mikebledsoe Yeah. 41:07.28 mikebledsoe Yeah, and with the blockchain software with Blockchain is basically recorded everywhere instantly and so you can't go fuck around with it and that's what makes it where it's it's like oh people are fallible. The legal system is prone to fuckery. But. 00:44.58 Max Shank Right. 41:27.20 mikebledsoe Over time. The dows are going to become more and more solid more and more useful and their use cases are going to expand and so um, what I see a future where the dows we talked about this. We have the farms. We talked about this like a year ago yeah and the. 01:15.78 Max Shank Um, yeah. 41:45.78 mikebledsoe The currency is decentralizing the same way if I buy if I buy bitcoin but I want ethereum or you have ethereum and we want to make an exchange I can quickly and easily convert my bitcoin to ethereum and then exchange with you and then I can take. You give me ethereum and I could exchange it over to bitcoin it was it used to be.. Yeah yeah, um, and so what I see is that people will join. They'll be using so particular currencies based on their values. 01:40.38 Max Shank Provided someone else wants what we're selling right. 42:23.50 mikebledsoe And if I want to exchange with somebody inside my value group. We all agree that we like to farm regeneratively and so on and so forth. Yeah let's just get on the same currency. We'll make it easy. Ah, each organization has their own dow each farm has its own dow that also can. Plug into another dao and so there there can become there can become hierarchy I think there will be really cool hierarchies that are designed with das and what's gonna happen is ah I'm gonna be making this food over here and you're making your food over there and or maybe. And then another guy has a solar farm down the road and he's delivering batteries to people who don't have space for solar so you know that's the decentralization of energy and so and all this is running on 1 cryptocurrency. That are multiple daalas plugged into a greater dao and if this happens then this happens someone is signaled. Oh this guy is low on energy that this guy delivers it and then there's ah the currency you can see the current start to work there and ah a current is always moving. And so the the system we're existing in right now it can take days for money to transfer. It's it's all these weird bureaucratic administrative steps that we got to go through in order for this or that to happen accountants. And bookkeepers those jobs those are jobs of the past. Those are not gonna be They're gonna they're gonna look very different or become unnecessary. They'll be It'll be more of like a reporting thing. Um, and so. 03:43.91 Max Shank The. 44:16.47 mikebledsoe Because what's going to happen is. 03:50.36 Max Shank It seems like you have more ah control over what's going on but it it seems a little bit less efficient because you don't have the same economies of scale. 44:27.75 mikebledsoe You're not going to have the same economies of scale. Ah and well and that's not that's not necessarily. Yeah, you're not going to accumulate. It's going to reduce the amount of of Deca billionaires. 04:05.67 Max Shank Um, it's kind of like um self-reliance. Well so I like to think in extremes. 04:17.76 Max Shank Well, it's just going to reduce your individual efficiency. So I like to reduce things to exaggerated Exc Extreme extremes. Ah for fun and for clarity and so I think of the ultimate decentralization like we've talked about is you run your own farm. 44:50.25 mikebledsoe Yeah. 04:37.51 Max Shank You run your own solar farm. You have ah a plot of land on a River all your own so you can make everything you need to make but the more you are relying on yourself. You have to have less. 45:23.13 mikebledsoe M. 04:56.34 Max Shank Um, sophistication and complexity right? if your computer breaks down and you don't know how to fix a computer you're screwed. So What's the solution is it to learn how to fix a computer in addition to being a farmer or is it to live without a computer which ah. Is probably good in some ways and in other ways it's it's far more difficult so you just have less efficiency and less overall power. Um, if you're reliant on a smaller group so you don't have the efficiency through economies of scale. 45:49.83 mikebledsoe Well, a lot of those things are. 45:56.68 mikebledsoe Well, and ah if you Google decentralized network. So the the idea of decentralization that that word was made you popular in the IT community so ah now I can install a network inside of my house. It's highly decentralized. 05:37.18 Max Shank The here. 46:15.82 mikebledsoe And everything just flows and I can be on one side of my house and I I get perfect connectivity and I don't have to hop from router to router and all that stuff so decentralized networks. Um, the way it works is 1 thing could go down and it doesn't impact everything else. 05:58.68 Max Shank The. 46:32.84 mikebledsoe But everything else can pick up the slack for that 1 thing that went down so in your in your case where you're talking about the farmer whose computer breaks or whatever. He's not isolated. There are still people who are going to specialize. There are people in his community that are specialists and computers down the road and then all he has to do is flash up the bat symbol. 06:06.92 Max Shank And. 46:52.27 mikebledsoe And says you know I have this issue and so that's something where like we're talking about different specializations there and so you. 06:27.30 Max Shank Right. 06:34.57 Max Shank But that's where we get our efficiency from is through that comparative advantage.. That's why the whole concept of money in the beginning was so damn Useful. Ah, some people say money is the root of all Evil I think it's probably more greed is ah the root of some. Evil stuff that happens but the advantage of money is if you are a baker and I'm a candlestick maker and I still want bread but you don't want any candlesticks I can still get bread. 47:30.49 mikebledsoe Yeah, yeah, and so decentralization doesn't make that that makes that even more possible look. We've got billions of people on the planet. We don't need 1 manufacturer of 1 thing in order for it to be really good. There's there could be many many and. 07:20.15 Max Shank To and and I'm not advocating for that at all that there should be like 1 1 person who makes all the food. 47:49.72 mikebledsoe Yeah, so I'm not saying we should or shouldn't but a decentralization doesn't mean that what the the main thing the benefit of the decentralization that I see is in a centralized model. We have single points of failure so you know there's 3 just as ah, ah this isn't totally accurate, but there's there's in ah in a centralized model and a centralized model like let's just assume that there's very few Usda. 07:46.44 Max Shank Do you mean multiple points of failure in a decentralized model in a sense. Okay, got it. 48:28.52 mikebledsoe Butchering facilities. 1 guy gets covid in one facility and now it completely stops up all operations and it breaks down the entire supply chain to where the farmer has to start euthanizing pigs because and this is this actually happened yet. These farmers have to start euhanizing pigs because the cost of keeping them. Alive isn't worth it because they got to keep feeding them. Plus they got more pigs coming. They're being grown and when a pig gets a certain age. You don't want to eat that meat anyway. So like there's like this very specific. 08:18.48 Max Shank Right. 08:26.22 Max Shank Wild. 49:01.57 mikebledsoe Way of doing things and there's single points of failure in a centralized model and a decentralized model that one farmer could get I've gotten Covid and kind of fucked up. You know say he gets some some type of weird plague thing going on and and then and then the rest of it doesn't ah impact the entire. 08:47.12 Max Shank I Totally yeah I Totally understand that I think for like. 49:20.42 mikebledsoe Global community it impacts a very small person 1 person or very small group of people and the ability for these other ah because you're never disconnected in ah in a decentralized model. There's always interaction with the outside. It's just. 08:55.98 Max Shank Right. 49:39.60 mikebledsoe Just not centralized I might have instead of I always I only have a you know one way to get in that of my neighborhood I now have 20 and it take it may take me longer to get from point a to point b but I'll never get stuck in traffic. 09:32.44 Max Shank It's kind of like insurance. It costs you more money than not having insurance unless something happens yet. 50:02.92 mikebledsoe Setting it up is expensive. You know it's it's a time it takes time energy. Um I'm doing things with decentralized currencies decentralized food. Ah, ah, I'm talking my buddy Jesse about doing decentralized energy. He's working on that. Um, I think that's also important and so really focusing on on on getting all these things done is a huge investment of time energy money right now. But when something goes wrong. When there is when steaks are at $100 I want to go get a stak. It's me a hundred dollars because russia's not exporting the ingredients we need for fertilizer right now. Ah then I'm not going to have to pay a hundred bucks for my steak I I just go over to the farm and I pick up my food. Because I already contributed already made my thing I'm already I yeah we yeah we could we could eat steak exactly and so um, yeah, it's not cheap, but it is. 10:34.62 Max Shank Or maybe you start selling steak and you start eating something else. 10:47.40 Max Shank That's why I like thinking of it like insurance. Well it makes sense to me. Yeah well and you have to assign some probability of risk in your mind. 51:15.31 mikebledsoe It is valuable. It's ah it's a you have to think further out and ahead in the future than most people are willing to do. 11:00.65 Max Shank Like what is the probability that x will happen. What is the probability that y will happen and we talked about this in our in an earlier episode too. You have to ask yourself like what is the probability that I won't have access to food for three months six months one year and um. Everybody has a different perspective on that That's why thinking of this like insurance is helpful for me because in when times are good. It's going to be less efficient. But if there's some ah risky occurrence that happens. 52:04.34 mikebledsoe Yeah, if something terrible happens if something if supply chains get fucked up and all that then we're living like Kings right by comparison. But here's the thing but it is already happening. 11:39.10 Max Shank Then it's going to be well worth it. 11:44.90 Max Shank Right. 11:50.80 Max Shank But when it's not happening. You're not working as efficiently as you could and you're outlaying more capital to set it up. Well I mean. 52:24.30 mikebledsoe So Here's the thing is there's canaries in the coal mine and there's very few of there's very few of us that are picking up on it I've been picking up on it for a long time Decade I Read Omnivore's dilemma and you look at that and I and I look at what's happening with the farming and I go. Yeah, I'm willing to invest a lot of energy in a farming even if nothing ever happens to the supply chain stays exactly the same I Still want to do this because ah the food that we have access to right now is not very nutrient dense and it's not it. It's already Poor. So The thing if I'm going to invest in my health then I'm going to invest in the farm If things stay the same but we all know the experts all agree and this is widely agreed upon whether you're on the left right? Whatever is. Soil is being degraded. You know there's only what 50 or 60 crops left that can be farmed on the soil the way it's being done so that every day that goes by the average nutrient nutrient density of our food. Is going down. It's going down. It's going down so I look at that and I go look even if we don't have a huge fertilizer shortage which is going to lead to skyrocketing food prices and rights in the streets and all that even if that doesn't happen I Want to do this anyway. Ah, the idea that something like that might happen definitely has spurred a little more urgency around the matter because I've been thinking about this since 2011 and it's 2022 and I'm just now getting to it because before it there was no. 13:29.32 Max Shank Um. 54:14.50 mikebledsoe There was no potential danger like oh this is coming now. It's just a slow trip. You know we're frogs in the boiling water. You know, just. 13:56.70 Max Shank I think we should talk about food next week because what you're telling me now is a very different reason for decentralizing your food or ah taking more control over the lifecycle of your food and I think it's extremely valid. 54:39.40 mikebledsoe Well, that's the case with everything that's the case with energy. That's the same with currency. It's It's not like it's not like I'm buying bitcoin or other cryptos because the dollar might fail that might cause someone to like oh fuck I need to get some now. 14:15.94 Max Shank Because you. 54:57.45 mikebledsoe But the reality is is we've got we've had ah you know we came off the gold standard in the 70 s and the value of the dollar is slowly degraded. It's the same thing as the food. It's just slowly happening. We're just watching it. But it's so slow that you don't notice and you don't feel the sense of urgency to make change. And so I think that I don't think we need to cover food necessarily again, but your your view of it being insurance is is that's only part of the conversation of like the benefits of decentralization. Ah, because. 15:06.53 Max Shank The. 55:35.19 mikebledsoe Yeah, it's just I think it creates a healthier system. Overall. 15:14.32 Max Shank And maybe not as efficient but healthier. 55:44.20 mikebledsoe Um, I Well when you say efficient I I think I think it'll be more energy efficient Overall like right now we've got food being shipped from chile and. 15:24.99 Max Shank Energy in versus energy out. 56:03.38 mikebledsoe Steaks from Australia New Zealand and we're having it to make an impossible burger. You're having to get some ingredients from 20 different countries. That's highly centralized and inefficient. It's only efficient financially. It's not efficient. It's not efficient use of. 15:52.74 Max Shank Right. 56:22.19 mikebledsoe Oil. It's not the efficient use of people's time and huh. 15:59.82 Max Shank But it has to be Efficient. It has to be efficient use of all those things The idea is that the amount of energy to produce it locally including everything has to be more. Than it would be to import it from somewhere else unless there's like dirty dealings or something like that. But you know if you're a company you're going to try to maximize efficiency. 56:42.90 mikebledsoe And well well well part of it's cultural right? and part of it's cultural like it. It would be more energy efficient to get your food all locally. Um but the thing is is. You're not going to get people to farm because they expect to get more money almost everyone use 95% and now and now we got like yeah computer programmers in the city and and whatever fucking jobs are happening in the city going. Keep going back to computer programmers. 16:38.41 Max Shank Um, well almost everybody used to be farmers and but and and and poor. 57:20.94 mikebledsoe Only because you before the show. Ah, that's ah, that's pretty much it they like the most like the most useful people to me I Do you make shit. 16:55.57 Max Shank Um, in our in our in our community. There's only farmers and computer programmers. You can be a farmer or a computer programmer or get the fuck out. 57:40.17 mikebledsoe You make awesome software and can you feed me then I'll be your friend. 17:19.46 Max Shank That does cover a tremendous amount of bases. Actually you know plumber Electrician there are other things that are similar to but you need like a tech guy and a food guy. Basically. 57:48.40 mikebledsoe Yeah. 57:55.11 mikebledsoe Yeah, tech guy and a food guy is it right? because that's all technology. The plumbers are you know they're working with technology. You know. 17:38.60 Max Shank But I wouldn't trust a computer software guy to do my plumbing or the or the electrical well and that's what I mean you could figure out anything. It's ah it's so. 58:07.24 mikebledsoe No no could I figure it out. 17:57.48 Max Shank Amazing to be able to exercise the benefit of comparative advantage in a community whether that community is large or small. The reason for currency is so you don't have to rely on the barter system which necessitates that you have something the other guy wants. 58:41.37 mikebledsoe Yeah. 18:17.80 Max Shank And you want something of his so I definitely agree with you. The quality of food is questionable in a lot of places and inflation is a very sinister tax that is hidden and really. Fucks The bottom percentage of the population the worst. Ah by far. So ah, you know I try not to think in good and evil but that shit's pretty fucking evil. 59:03.23 mikebledsoe Totally, it's like the ah. Ah I saw was I saw a meme a few weeks ago that was like Biden saying we're not gonna tax the poor rolling in tax the rich and then they print off a shitload of money. It's like yeah a fucking snake. Um, but here's something we haven't talked about but. 19:01.42 Max Shank Um, yeah, it's yeah, inflation's not good. 59:30.78 mikebledsoe that I that I've begun to experience and I think we both kind of do this is neither one of us optimize for finances. We really value happiness and connection and. Like was it ah a year ago or more you took a lot of time off of Instagram you said? Yeah I'll make a little less money. Yeah I'll make a little less money but you know it's not worth my happiness. 19:31.66 Max Shank Yeah, like 2 years but if I hadn't prioritized but if I hadn't prioritized wealth before that I wouldn't have been in that position to do it either. 01:00:07.23 mikebledsoe Totally yeah you you thought I had Yeah, that's maybe to have I mean to have the same exact lifestyle you have then sure. But when I think about. 19:51.20 Max Shank If money is the goal then I think you're missing the point I think if freedom is the goal then money is a good tool for that. Just like exercise and language are good tools that can facilitate freedom. 01:00:30.71 mikebledsoe Well I think people people do get caught up on the money equals freedom piece and the truth is is that if I took away all your money could you still be free for sure. Yeah, but you it doesn't. 20:18.16 Max Shank Yeah, free to sleep in the gutter until I figured things out. No, you'd figure it out. Yeah you I would figure it out I will say this though. Ah because I don't want to sound like ah super asinine I mean the reality is. 01:00:49.30 mikebledsoe But not the same thing. Yeah freedom is freedom and money is money. 20:38.80 Max Shank Money won't solve all your problems but it will solve many of them instantly that a poor person might agonize over. Ah you won't necessarily be happier. What's that. 01:01:07.65 mikebledsoe totally totally I'm not saying I solve problems. Well they that they've they've done studies where more money this is I mean the studies over a decade old. So the numbers may seem a little small, especially with inflation. But they said that? Ah what they looked at was getting a pay raise making more money actually increased people's happiness up to $75000 after $75000 no change in happiness happiness didn't go up. But it it did actually tend to go down a little bit and so yeah, there's in seventy five Thousand ten fifteen years ago it's pretty much talking about Maslow's hierarchy of needs is you have all those things you're experiencing some safe you probably can afford a home in a place where you feel. Ah, somewhat safe. You have a shelter you're able to eat food and whatever so 75 hours after that no more but I bring up the happiness thing because do we really need to. Keep on going down the path of ah, having more and more specialization advancing technology and innovation and all this stuff that is happening at at a very fast rate with the centralization of power and by the way it actually might advance more quickly in a decentralized model. If we look at open source software. That's ah, that's a good example of of ah of a decentralized system where there are a lot of people contributing separately and doing their own experiments but like I use an operating system on my phone that is. Much more secure and a lot more advanced than ah than Android you know it it utilizes android but this company that created the operating system I use. It's open source people are contributing to it from all over the world for free and then Android then later adopts it. And then everyone else gets it because it was the the advancements are being made in ah in a decentralized model but going back to the happiness piece is you know I could have a shitload of money I could be flying in private jets to my 5 different homes around the world and all that but also which. 22:57.26 Max Shank Ah. 01:03:41.20 mikebledsoe I Could still do in a decentralized model that type Lifestyle doesn't completely go away there. But if I say hey I'm gonna take a pay cut and I'm going to live more simply and I'm gonna spend more time on the farm and I'm gonna and I'm gonna do more varied Activities. So this past weekend I did a little bit of gardening I did some work on the house I did some home improvement stuff hung out with a friend of mine to do all of it and I felt incredibly happy and incredibly wealthy. Um in that space. But if I. 23:48.29 Max Shank Sounds like that's going to really interfere with your hustling and grinding though and you're giving 110 I I think it's good. You bring that up too because not only are people poisoned by the news but they're poisoned by. 01:04:22.21 mikebledsoe That's right. 24:08.26 Max Shank The false idols of culture in general. So people chase things that they are made to believe will bring them satisfaction and and then I'll be happy if I if I get blank then I'll be happy if I do blank then I'll be happy. And the reality is people are are different I know that's an outlandish thing to say people are different but we are and people have different wants and desires for a lot of different reasons. We have different upbringings and who's to say. That you're better off working at something you hate for 20 years so you can retire before you're 40 or doing something that you just purely enjoyed doing because you would do it anyway and making enough money but working until you're 80 years old ah, and there's not a right answer to that we want to especially the guru types and the leader types they want to say this is this is the way but it's like is it really the way like I don't know for you. Man. 01:05:44.31 mikebledsoe By the way max and I are coming out with a product. It's called the way. 25:25.74 Max Shank This is called this is the way do it or else. 01:05:53.49 mikebledsoe Ah I think you brought up an interesting thing is because a lot of what people desire is based on what they seen on media right? No one knew that they wanted that car or this or that and so I mean if we go far enough back and. 25:45.74 Max Shank It's all about sex people look. It's food and survival and then it's sex and sex is directly proportional to your position in the hierarchy and Ferrari's and glittery tits are the new currency. 01:06:26.63 mikebledsoe Yeah, totally now if we look at the influencer culture and so we go on Instagram and we look at ah, what's his name ty lopez and. 26:00.63 Max Shank For your position in the hierarchy. It's all this stuff is deeper than language. 26:09.98 Max Shank The. 01:06:41.83 mikebledsoe You know he's got the lamborghinis and the books and he's got this lifestyle thing going on all the glitzing lamb a lot of that was a lot of that was based off of hollywood so like people saw hollywood stars and people wanted to be like the the actctors and actresses back when you know television. And movie stars were the only influencers you know the I think you heard about that on that that podcast that we both listened to you talked about? Ah, there was only like 5 influencers in the world that that back in the 50 s or whatever it was or 60 s. And then yeah, yeah, like there's only a handful people that are known by millions or billions of people and now there's a shitload of people that are known by so many people and the influencers have become decentralized one. 26:54.66 Max Shank When we were talking about like Elvis I think right? Yeah right. 01:07:38.70 mikebledsoe We added channels to the television. You know we went from print media to video media audio video then it was internet Instagram Youtube and now there's there's more influencers than we can count and so that's decentralized so I think that. In the centralization of influencer culture. There was only a few ways to live your life. You saw their lifestyle on you know the lifestyles of the rich and famous and you go oh I want to have that mansion in that pool and all this but now like I talk to a lot of people that are my age and younger. And they look at that kind of stuff and they just kind of go hey and there's definitely ah, a lot of young people that are doing the glitz and glam and all that. But it's it's becoming less popular and it's actually made fun of a whole lot. It's the. They become comical means it's like yeah that is true, but everything's decentralizing. So now I you know I may follow some influencers that I like that that share my own values and so I think we're gonna see um where I think we're gonna see a lot healthier. Social environment with the decentralization of the influencers as well because I think where I think we've had to go through a point where everyone realizes oh I can be an influencer and they become extremely egotistical and it becomes it's not. 28:39.42 Max Shank Ah. 01:09:08.99 mikebledsoe It's such a weird thing and I I think that a lot of people got fucked up by that in the last decade but I think on the other side of that. It's growing pains on the other side of that everyone kind of goes. Oh yeah, everyone's connected to everybody and everybody's unique and I don't need to be like anybody else or. You know I want to I want to be a part of this crew over here I don't need to to try to kill myself to live up to some fake standard that I'm noticing over here. So I think that with with well with tech. Well but what one of the things that technology is really doing and ah. 29:11.38 Max Shank I Hope people are thinking that way that sounds awesome. 01:09:46.92 mikebledsoe Bitcoin's a good example of this is transparency is you can see all the transactions between all the wallets anytime you want and so the well I mean my only my email is tied to my my wallet. 29:24.13 Max Shank Yeah. 29:32.34 Max Shank Doesn't leave much for privacy though. But that's okay I guess. 01:10:05.97 mikebledsoe So you wouldn't really be able to figure out who I was if I didn't want to be found Um, ah and you guessed it. Ah so but um. 29:45.34 Max Shank Mike Underscore blood so at Gmail I wonder who this is. 29:53.82 Max Shank Who could this possibly be. 01:10:21.26 mikebledsoe The thing is is we've had an incredible level of transparency in our culture but it's been one-sided Only only intelligence agencies were allowed to have ultimate ah transparency you know there's anyone can go look at any my shit. 30:10.19 Max Shank M. 01:10:39.32 mikebledsoe I mean if they want to be in my computer and my ph

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00:00.00 mikebledsoe Welcome going to Monday morning with Mike and max Today we're gonna be talking about money. We. We're big fans of it I imagine you're a big fan of it too and sometimes you probably get really mad at it or maybe mad at yourself about it and ah, it's a very. Very touchy subject for a lot of people and if you can master money then your life is going to get a lot easier because money solves a lot of problems. Not all of them but a lot of them. So. 1 thing I really want to discuss by the end of this show that I want people to get a handle on is a a definition that I received from one of my teachers. She defines financial freedom as having enough passive income to handle all of your living expenses and that that passive income means. Maybe you have real estate that's income producing. That's that's rental properties that money is coming in and it's profit getting dividends from your stocks or and there's ways to do this with crypto as well where you can you can pull off profits so having. I'm sure we can talk about some other asset classes that are income producing. But I personally have many friends who have already accomplished this and and I am on my way to doing the same thing for myself. So max. You're what's ah, what do you What's your relationship to money like these days. 01:39.42 Max Shank First off am am I getting paid for this. 01:44.80 mikebledsoe I'm sure you'll get paid at some point down the road. Yeah yeah. 01:46.74 Max Shank Seems like a bad business decision for me to just give it away for free like this. Ah I think that money is energy and it makes trading easier and all of the emotional. 01:51.21 mikebledsoe Um. 02:06.42 Max Shank Baggage We attach to it is something that needs to be worked through that the real key is to understand that it makes trading easier you know and to focus on delivering value because we can talk about. 02:17.84 mikebledsoe Oh. 02:25.47 Max Shank Ah, money on a micro and a macro and it's best to focus on micro first which is like yourself essentially and there are only 2 ways to improve your financial situation and that's to increase your income and reduce your spending. And in order to do that. You have to be very honest about what the difference is between a luxury and a necessity and I think it's wise to really focus on delivering value on being able to scale. The value that you deliver and also being comfortable with less. You know live a very spartan lifestyle as long as you can because um, it's really not fair. Once you get ahead of the game in in money. It's like once you have a million dollars saved up you can invest it at a you can invest it slowly and 5% is still going to give you 50 grand a year and that's more than enough to live well on you can eat well, you can never have to worry about a roof over your head. You're never going to um, have to drain that nest egg and it's going to provide for you just by having it there. So I yeah very safe. Potentially. 03:49.63 mikebledsoe And that 5%'s a very safe investment that's that's a very low aggressive. Not lowress. It's ah, whatever the safe? Yeah, not aggressive safe. Yeah. 04:02.47 Max Shank Yeah, yeah, um, and you know we can talk about specific stocks that have different dividends like usually a Verizon or something will have a higher dividend which is what they pay out and you can reinvest the dividends or you can take it out as cash. But anyway. 04:08.36 mikebledsoe Oh. 04:20.61 Max Shank The the key point is realizing that money is energy getting rid of the emotional baggage focus on delivering value and scaling that value you deliver living a Spartan lifestyle and accumulating a fat chunk so that you can. Invest into securities or real estate or reinvest into your own business as well because that is that is the best investment is being confident that you can always make more. 04:48.95 mikebledsoe Yeah I think I want to hit on a point you were making and and you know living a spartan lifestyle and and only living with the necessities. It's it's a really big challenge for a lot of people and I just went through a financial course this past year and one of the things that. Was noticed because everyone in the the course together are are all entrepreneurs and when we did a survey of the room of how many the entrepreneurs that were there to learn grew up with no money or with very little money. It was almost all of us. It was was we were the majority and the teacher she one of the things that she noted was that a lot of times what happens when we grow up poor and then we make money is we buy ourselves all the things that we. 05:28.45 Max Shank Right. 05:46.95 mikebledsoe Couldn't have when we were a kid or when we were younger and so there a lot of people end up adopting this attitude of you know I'll just get it and I need to treat myself or whatever to make up for you know what I didn't have and and another pitfall is amongst people who. 05:58.94 Max Shank And. 06:06.70 mikebledsoe And this was me for a while is I'm so good at making money like so confident that I could just go make more money that the the feeling the necessity to save and invest wisely just didn't seem that important. Whereas you've got a lot of people who are making 50 to $100000 a year on a fixed salary and they're trying to max out their ira but to an entrepreneur who can make a hundred grand in a month if they really fucking put the screws to it that ah. That seems kind of ridiculous like why would I scrounge and take that money and invest it in something that's going to earn such a slow rate of return when I could just go make it real quick and so ah, for for there. There's pit for. 06:43.79 Max Shank The. 06:59.89 mikebledsoe And that's not the majority of the people that were my class by the way I was I was one of the few people that were like oh yeah, if I want more money I just go make it and yeah, yeah, yeah, so yeah, definitely. Ah. 07:01.97 Max Shank Yeah what's like the Richard Branson style it's good to understand the different personality types because what you say. Is like the opposite of my approach. 07:18.26 mikebledsoe Yeah, this is a good conversation for max and I to have because we are very different in in how we've approached money in the past I bet we were probably closer to each other at this point but we'll see that but the thing I want to touch on that I learned in the class. Um, is the you don't have to be Spartan You don't have to only go to the necessities but you need you need to be real ah with your numbers and looking at and being present with the amount of money you're spending on this and that and then actually making the choice. So. 07:51.60 Max Shank Oh. 07:56.30 mikebledsoe I Wouldn't say that I live an extremely Spartan lifestyle but I do a lot more saving these days in in intelligent investing and I like to split my purchases up into first before I just going what do I need and what do I You know? what's an option is I go What's meaningful. 08:14.30 Max Shank The. 08:15.59 mikebledsoe What is a meaningful purchase does this? Yeah I don't need it but does it really bring enough meaning to my life because I'm not going to wait until I'm retired to have all the stuff that you know to enjoy my money I'm going to enjoy my money along the way. So one of the things I Really ah appreciated about her course was. 08:28.69 Max Shank Great. 08:35.46 mikebledsoe It wasn't this like Dave Ramsey approach where where it's kind of like you know, super hard rules and like if you know you gotta do it like this or it won't work. It's more like you know here's some things that you can apply in your life and you can live life now but just realize that every. Every dollar that you spend now takes away from your future financial freedom and and and if I go is this worth my future financial freedom then? yes I'll purchase it hey if I go is this worth my future financial freedom because every time I spend. Now is money I don't get to invest in crypto stocks real estate. These are every every penny is something I can't invest in the future that that'll give me a future return so holding that frame has been a game changer for me for somebody who. Who tends to be ah you know, ah very risk tolerant and aggressive that is extremely helpful. 09:43.13 Max Shank Well and that's the personality type I'm talking about too oftentimes like the Richard Branson type there's a survivorship bias because there's a lot of people who try his same strategy of. You know triple mortgaging his house so he can buy an aircraft engine. Ah and it goes horribly wrong and you don't hear about that guy. You only hear about the winners and you know when you're talking about saving now. You know you're listing things that have the potential to. 10:06.84 mikebledsoe Yeah, yeah. 10:17.69 Max Shank Lot of things that have the potential to have compound returns and that is something that is really difficult for people to understand in their mind because when you spend a dollar on something now that's not that's not going to be a dollar. In 20 years if you're willing to be patient because the compound effect is really hard to understand in the present moment what it could potentially be 20 years from now and that's why um you know you gotta find something that suits your personality type and. What you're saying sounds like you are more. You're not spartan but you're more conscious and aware of the spending and more conscious and aware of the income. So. It's an appropriate energy balance. Rather than just this like freewheeling reckless abandon like I'll just make more I'll just make more I'll just bla but da da da da da and you know I I see that from my perspective which is like you know the further ahead you can get quicker the more. That what you put away will compound and especially when you're young I assume like most of the people listening to this are going to be somewhere around like 30 year old fellas maybe 20 to 40 right? something like that. Um you know, live as simply as possible when you can because. 11:44.37 mikebledsoe Yeah. 11:53.33 Max Shank Part of the the keeping up with the joneses thing is such a killer on so many levels. It's this extra ego baggage that doesn't serve you and you don't see the balance sheet of those people who are trying to get into those comparison Competitions. You know why? Why are we. Trying to keep up with the joneses. The joneses are Broke. You know you want to be like ah you want to be a secret millionaire as quick as possible and have the ability to move and act and create from a place of. Safety and abundance and when you have that when you have that separate investment that Accrues income and has a compound return I mean frankly, it feels like cheating you know you you get yourself. Ah, property like a home and you invest the rest into your own business into securities and I mean if you want to do something else. There are all kinds of other options. But it's basically it's not fair like money is ah about as fair. 13:07.20 mikebledsoe Oh. 13:11.56 Max Shank As nature itself. It's not fair I mean we could get into like fractional reserve banking and stuff later and go like whoa what the hell is that. But um, it's not It's not fair that a lion can tear a Gazelle to Shreds and it's not fair that if you have. 5 or $ 10000000 as long as you're not a complete fool. You'll never have to worry about money again even a million and so getting ahead as quick as possible living as spartan as possible to begin with is really good advice being able to defer that gratification for later. Same thing with creating a business for yourself. You know most of the big income I've had is through exponentially scalable things like online courses and videos and books that I've written and if you can build something one time. It may take you six months or a year in some cases sometimes 2 years projects I've been working on but I can build it once and then sell it 10000 times. Most people just aren't willing to do that and it's it's hard to it's hard to see into the future. Ah. 14:20.31 mikebledsoe Oh. 14:27.82 mikebledsoe Well, you're an early adopter of the digital information product and so it's you know this is definitely when those things were being early to the game. It's easier to have a big payout your marketing didn't have to be as. 14:27.88 Max Shank For most people that way. 14:45.10 mikebledsoe As good as it does Now there's a lot more. It's a lot more competition in the online marketplace and a lot more noise whether it be direct competition or just like I said that and that noise that's out there. Um, yeah, and. 14:56.57 Max Shank Ah. 15:01.30 mikebledsoe 1 of the things that you mentioned you you threw outt the number of a million dollars will give you this much. Ah income. You know say at 5% a million dollars that give you $50000 a year of income and so I I think. 15:08.21 Max Shank At 5% yeah 15:20.77 mikebledsoe That was one of the things that I didn't sit down early enough in my life and just realize that that's all I need is like oh if I want to have by the way. Ah, ah, most people need to make more money than they need to make and what I mean by that is due to the debt that they're holding. They actually have to make a lot more money in order to pay all all that interest and all that that past purchasing and so for the average person a hundred hundred and fifty thousand dollars is is if your debt free is a lot of money. You know my number is. Two hundred fifty thousand dollars I want to I'm a little bit I'm a little bougie at times so I look at that. Yeah I have to have you know 5% you know $5000000 and in income producing assets. That's that's just knowing that number. Just knowing that that exists and I have a frame on that and like I can. That's my target my motivation after having that realization to make money went way up and before it was again. It was about how much do I need to make it through the next month or 2 or the next year but when I started thinking more long term it became a lot easier to do that and having an actual number that was not arbitrary because one of the one of the things that I one of the mistakes that I made early on in my entrepreneurial career is that. I had bought into this like ah it's like a silicon valley thing I bought into this like okay you build this business and one day you can sell it and and like I put all my eggs in that basket and I never. I only paid myself what I needed to pay myself and I kept kept all my money in the business and then one day the business has a hard year and which means that I personally have a hard year and I didn't have anything saved up. So. My ability to make decisions in the business were was hindered because I was personally in ah in a poor position and so that happened me 1 time and I said never again. Um, and then it it um the the same teacher I learned from recently. She pointed out that the that so many entrepreneurs try to build wealth in their business. She said stop thinking about your business as a wealth creating tool. It's an income producing tool. Your business is about creating as much. 18:09.35 mikebledsoe Profitable income is possible so that you can then go invest it in things that are asset producing ah or sorry ah income producing assets that are outside of your business and having a true having a true diversification. Yeah, and so like a lot of times. 18:20.62 Max Shank Well, it's diversification basically is what she's saying. Yeah. 18:28.63 mikebledsoe The argument in entrepreneurial community A lot of times is ah you know oh I'm gonna invest my money in something. What's the thing I trust the most oh my own product. The thing that I get to control and so that's that's how I used to think that's how I watch other people think. 18:41.68 Max Shank Right. 18:47.58 mikebledsoe And that that's a that's a high high risk game that you're gonna have you're gonna hit a pitfall at some point it's not. It's not an if it's a win. 18:57.25 Max Shank Well I think it's important to understand that concentration versus diversification. So concentration can give you the absolute highest return but you have to guess right. 19:14.77 mikebledsoe Ah, oh. 19:15.80 Max Shank And if you guess wrong then it is catastrophically bad diversification. You will not make the most plain and simple the the more you diversify the more stable it is the less chance you're going to have to outperform the market. Because otherwise you should just buy the whole market and like what 4% every year or something like that depending on which timeline so it's very understandable that the people who make the most are the ones who just constantly reinvest into 1 thing. 19:52.10 mikebledsoe Right. 19:53.53 Max Shank You know they they pick the right 1 whether they operate it themselves or not Elon Musk is a good example. boom reinvest everything into his own companies and then there are some companies out there where you know they they bet big on alibaba let's say. And that becomes a hundred times bigger than the rest of their portfolio. I mean there's a company that invested in alibaba maybe like 5 % of their portfolio or something and then twenty years later alibaba was like 95% of their portfolio because it grew so much more. 20:28.33 mikebledsoe Who. 20:32.80 Max Shank And everything else and that was just one that was just one bet so thinking of life as a series of bets basically and you can put all your money on double zero on the roulette wheel and you will make the most. 20:33.78 mikebledsoe Well, that. 20:49.19 Max Shank But you also can lose absolutely everything So it's important to understand what the point of diversification versus concentration is. 20:58.80 mikebledsoe Yeah there's um, there's ah, there's a really cool concept by the guy who wrote anti-fragile and black swan his name's Nasimm. He's ah a turkish fellow that lives in New York really great economist and. Ah, really successful investor and he has this method which is the barbell method. So which is you know invest a large portion of your money into stuff that is extremely safe. You know, gold you know? ah. Just stuff. That's that's incredibly stable. It's not going anywhere and then on the other side go into startups go into the startup world. Go go buy those shitcoins. Whatever it is that you think might hit because the truth is with a startup. 21:48.80 Max Shank Ah, so. 21:56.69 mikebledsoe Or with some of these cryptocurrencies. You could see a hundred X Return This is this is a possibility This is a real possibility and so um and and he says you know just spread it out that way but he's. 22:09.73 Max Shank Yeah, there are all kinds of ways to get that. 22:15.35 mikebledsoe He start you know state he says he he likes to stay out of the middle because that's where the that's where the majority is the majority is in the middle and the majority I mean if we if you want to get like mainstream results do that. But it's as. 22:18.18 Max Shank Yeah. 22:29.76 Max Shank Threat. 22:33.67 mikebledsoe Who wants mainstream results mainstream is fat sick almost dead and and broke. You know it's like why would you like it's it's the it's the last place I want to be and so I really like his approach to that because it does. Scratch the safety itch and it also may if if you're like myself it scratches that you know let's throw some dice down here and see if we can make a million dollars 23:02.15 Max Shank You know that's ah, a good strategy and you also have to know yourself and know what's going to allow you to sleep at night and focus on what you're best at too like if you want to be. 23:15.56 mikebledsoe Yeah. 23:19.39 Max Shank Actively investing your own portfolio and researching companies great if you want to focus on what you're best at and just create more income from your books or videos or courses or you know wood pellets or whatever you're. 23:33.40 mikebledsoe You know. 23:38.28 Max Shank Your business is ah you can also just buy the SAndPFive hundred and then there's no, there's like no management fee. Basically so you minimize, um your spend you also do minimize your returns but you also minimize your risk and. 23:42.39 mikebledsoe Yeah. 23:57.46 Max Shank It's a lot easier to sleep at night doing that than you know researching startups and things like that just to give like the other side of that coin because I think the strategy you outlined has a lot of merit to it. But I think knowing your personality type. 24:03.15 mikebledsoe Right? well. 24:15.88 Max Shank And recognizing how much you want your involvement to be how active into those investments you want to be same as if you want to buy real estate. Do you want to hire a property manager and eat up most of your return or do you want to manage it yourself I mean these are things that. You got to consider from your personality and Lifestyle standpoint. 24:35.52 mikebledsoe Yeah, nasim talks about that in his book is basically that investors. Yeah, if they stayed within their logic would majority of time make a lot of money but people are so emotional. You know they can't sleep at night they can't they go to bed that night worrying about their money and if you're having that experience and investing if you're investing and you're worried about it and you can't sleep and it's the you know last thing you think about when you go to sleep and the first thing you think about when you wake up, you're in over your head and you're. You're likely going to just make poor decisions and so ah, which actually brings me to one of my rules which is I only invest in the things that I understand there's so many especially and with cryptocurrency right now. I invest in crypto I actually just sold off 90% of my my ah portfolio for crypto the other day and um and and it's because for good and I'm watching the market continue to go down right now. 25:44.33 Max Shank For good reason right. 25:50.95 mikebledsoe Because what I'm doing is I'm I'm just going to hold cash by the way in the voyager app by the way if anyone wants access to be able to ah look at Voyager just hit me up I've got good connections there but in in the Voyager app. If I store my us dollars as Usdc which is a which is a token tethered to the us dollar I get a 9% api on that annual. So it's ah you can't get 9 % guaranteed anywhere but you can there so there are. 26:23.69 Max Shank Weird. 26:26.54 mikebledsoe Yeah, there, there's I won't I don't quite understand entirely how they're able to do that. Ah, but I I do have a feeling there's aspects of it that that I that I do get but I like to invest in things that I understand like I understand bitcoin at its. At its base I understand ethereum I understand ummatic I understand these some of these currencies I understand their purpose I I get what's going on I've I've been tracking them and then there's other ones that people like like shib came out and everyone's like you got to get shit I'm like why. Or doge coin you got to get doge oh because Elon Musk I'm like whoa whoa whoa I don't understand this I'm not going to touch it and of course these things skyrocket and then they plummet and you know some people make a bunch of money. Yeah, and it's like and. 27:14.72 Max Shank The foma will get you. 27:21.55 mikebledsoe And I've learned to be completely. Okay with it whereas I have some friends who you know they're trying to make that dollar right now they're deep in the Nfts they're trading fucking dragons and and you know magic bears and dragonflies I don't fucking know what these people are are I get. 27:37.40 Max Shank Third. 27:40.15 mikebledsoe I Get what's happening I mean look the wealthy have been storing their the wealthy have been storing their money as art for a long time as a tax haven I get it and it's a very intelligent move and I do think that a lot of things that only the wealthy have done the rest of us get to take advantage of and. 27:50.45 Max Shank Her. 28:00.13 mikebledsoe And this decentralized blockchain world. But most of you have no idea what the fuck you're doing and so even if even when I do understand the fundamentals of something if I see too many new people flooding into it I get out and I stay out until I let the dust settle. Could I potentially miss out on making a shitload of money. Absolutely I could get in there but you know what? and this is the point you were getting at too which is I would rather spend my time producing value in the world that makes the most sense to me I know how to teach coaches how to build a coaching doesn't. So I know how to help coaches be better coaches and that's the that is the value I bring to the world that people are going to exchange with me for money. No matter if the dollar goes away if we moved totally to cryptocurrencies if we end up on the yen. Whatever the fuck it is it doesn't matter what the currency is. I'm gonna be fine because I can always create value in which people are gonna then whatever it is. We're trading at the time they're gonna give it to me and so I think I want to say first off your best investment is in yourself so invest in traits in yourself that allow you to make the most money sales being the. The most valuable skill on the planet. So if you can learn how to sell if you know how to market you know how to sell it doesn't matter what the market does. You're going to be fine and so in so a. Invest in yourself be invest in things that you understand or another way of putting. Ah, another example of this um was learning from this guy. He primarily makes money trading stocks and he was talking to a bunch of us entrepreneurs who you know I'm not. Um, not really that much of a stock guy but ah 1 of the things he said that just made a lot of sense. Super simple concept is if you use the service own the company if you do you use Amazon go buy some Amazon stock. do you watch you know do you have a Netflix subscription. Buy some Netflix like you stop using it because you don't like it. Maybe you should sell your stock like you don't have to study the market so deeply and try to run crunched numbers and sounds like look if you like like if everyone who bought an Apple Computer invested and Apple stock when they bought their Apple computer because they love it so much. There'd be a lot more wealthy people out there right now. Ah so that was a because that that's a form of understanding if you if you like a product use a product you understand enough about that company. 30:48.82 mikebledsoe Doesn't mean that it's a surefire way and it's a completely safe thing. But I think it's a great way to if if someone's like I don't know what to invest and I don't know how to get started I don't know what do you buy. 31:02.47 Max Shank Oh I mean I really I really like what you said before which is invest in yourself and invest in things that you understand I think um, buying a stock just because you use. The product is too small of a sample size. I think it can be a good starting point though. Like oh like I use that because I think the word price is really important to explore like how do we get at the price like there is a time where you could have owned Coca-cola for 5 20 years actually and had a zero percent return so there you can have a great company at a horrible price and you can also have a horrible company at a great price and actually either of those would probably be a mistake. Um. 31:42.19 mikebledsoe Yeah. 32:00.36 Max Shank And investing is very paradoxical because you're trying to balance risk and reward and whenever there is more risk There is typically more reward but the price of something is just what people are willing to pay. Um. 32:13.74 mikebledsoe Um, yeah. 32:20.19 Max Shank And that is determined by how valuable it is to a person and you know a lot of the a lot of the cryptocurrencies are Tulip Mania all over again for sure I won't say that about all of them. But if and like an Nft just because someone. Values a digital magic dragon at a thousand dollars today doesn't mean anyone will ever pay a dollar for it later in the future and so I think it's a good starting point to say what do I use but it. Doesn't necessarily make it a good investment. In fact, um, you know a good product can be ah, a bad investment from a stock standpoint and that's I mean that's why markets are that's why markets are not ah rational. That's why markets are irrational. 33:08.72 mikebledsoe It can be. 33:17.56 Max Shank Because people are irrational and and if you go to college. They'll tell you that markets are are rational markets are like in balance Basically but that's how could that be the case if it's people who buy the stuff. We're not rational. 33:32.45 mikebledsoe Well in Academia we got to make sure we can measure everything there's ah, there's a there's a really good book by the way I agree the just because you use the product doesn't mean it's a good investment but it's a good place to start looking now. 33:35.60 Max Shank At all. 33:47.81 Max Shank Absolutely good place to start looking. 33:52.19 mikebledsoe There's ah, there's a book that talks about tulip mania amongst many other things the the money the the history of our our current monetary system. 1 is you know the the. You alluded to it a little bit earlier fractional reserve banking that basically the modern way of banking or the modern um version of money has described really well in the book. Extraordinary popular delusions and the madness of crowds. So. I think it was in this book I could be wrong because I don't think you were recalling it quite the same way I was and we both read the book but ah from what I from what I gather it the current monetary system is about three hundred and fifty years old and. Came out of Europe which is basically banknotes people coming up with banknotes and coming with bills. You know, getting away from coinage where there's an actual silver or a gold coin getting away from the coinage and getting into the bank bank notes that represent a certain amount of gold held by the bank. And so instead of having to lug around all this gold now I could just have this banknote and this banknote is certified by this bank and we can trust them yada yada yada and so ah, the it started off as a very trustworthy system I think it was France who did this first. Which was the king goes to one of the banks and says I'll make you the only bank that can issue notes in all of the kingdom of France and and I forget what the deal was and of course a banker. Who is in the business of increasing wealth. They they hear this and go oh I'm about to get an immediate monopoly fuck it. Let's go and ah in the book it it outlines the ah the progression over time. The king putting pressure I think maybe the king died and then his son came up or something like that but pressure was applied to the bankers to basically print off some banknotes that aren't backed by gold you know, basically fake money and. So they started diluting the money supply and the banker in in the book basically says hey that's a bad idea like talks about how the banker tried to resist it because he's like you know that. 36:32.97 mikebledsoe I see what you want I see why you think it's a good idea, but this is why it's a bad idea. It's only gonna lead to a collapse and sure and and the thing is is. It's kind of it's kind of like one of those things that once it gets out. You know, opening up a can of worms you can't get them back in so the or what. There's a better analogy for that I forget what Pandora's box and basically the moment you get off of a representation. Ah an actual representation of value then it get you get into like really dangerous waters and getting back to that is going to be impossible with that banknote. 36:53.79 Max Shank Pandora's box 37:11.37 mikebledsoe So it's kind of like people think if they can get the Us dollar to be ah, go back to the Gold Standard Yeah, never gonna fucking happen. It just be how you just have to create a whole new currency. So. 37:15.53 Max Shank Back to buy gold again. Yeah good luck impossible. Well I mean maybe if the price of gold went up by like a hundred fold or something like that I don't I don't know exactly what the numbers are I mean if. 37:28.60 mikebledsoe Ah, yeah I don't know what it is either. 37:33.96 Max Shank I Think for the average person this like banking and macro stuff. You should just avoid it until you're rich already like just from ah a functional standpoint like don't don't concern yourself ah with the economics of. 37:41.96 mikebledsoe We mean avoid it. 37:53.85 Max Shank Banking and fractional reserve and fiat currencies and things like that just if you don't have a lot of dough right now just focus all your attention on increasing your income and amassing some wealth first because you can go down this rabbit hole where you will become. Um. And I think rightfully so like paranoid about the ah fragility of our our financial interactions our socioeconomic situation here like ah getting off the gold Standard Huge mistake. 38:17.32 mikebledsoe I. 38:31.38 Max Shank Um, I Understand why you would want to be able to print unlimited dollars. Nobody really understands what the cost and benefit of doing this will be and I think if you're just trying to deliver value and create wealth for yourself. Um, it's best to just accept these macro truths and not invest too much of your precious and limited attention into them because you're you're not going to be Happy. You're you're going to have a bunker full of gold and only properties and you're gonna be like ah. 39:01.30 mikebledsoe Well yeah, have you. 39:08.26 Max Shank You won't use Banks you'll just stuff cash under the mattress. Ah. 39:10.44 mikebledsoe Ah, well well you know I don't know if that's necessarily completely true like if you have no money saved and you haven't invested anything I agree but for for somebody who's is like okay I have a little extra money I want to invest it in something this Ah this is my argument for crypto and and. 39:18.17 Max Shank The. 39:29.76 mikebledsoe Say Bitcoin is because Bitcoin is ah is is powered by electricity and it has an actual cost which means it has an actual value and it and it can fluctuate depending on the.. How much energy costs and how much how many transactions are happening and and all that which makes it a little more fluid than say gold. But ah, way easier to trade. 39:56.34 Max Shank Way easier to trade than gold I mean trading gold like if you think about trading gold like it's really hard like first off like if you want to buy gold like I don't have a fucking gold tester in my pocket like if someone sells me gold. I'm going to have a hard time knowing if there's lead in there or not and vice versa and vice versa. You know so um, bitcoin is certainly easier to trade. It's just hard to figure out what the price should be because you can't know if something's a good investment or not. 40:18.10 mikebledsoe Well, even if we well but that does happen. Yeah. 40:35.87 Max Shank Ah, without understanding the price and a potential future price. 40:36.37 mikebledsoe Yeah, the the problem the problem with a lot of the crypto conversation right now is that it's all based on the Us dollar so at the Us dollar like if you log into any trading platform. It's how many bitcoins is worth how many dollars you know? and. 40:53.92 Max Shank Right. 40:56.50 mikebledsoe It's ah instead of it just being its own thing. But I I think that they're I think in the next five or ten years in the next I guaranteed I'll put money on it 10 years ah I don't that's a terrible thing to say not guaranteed. 41:01.86 Max Shank How could it be its own thing. 41:12.75 Max Shank I Think ah I think I might have a bet on my hands here. 41:14.21 mikebledsoe Ah, but out prediction. Oh we should you want how big a bet you want to make right? We'll see I'll tell you what it is and then we'll go 10 years ah well if I'm wrong, you might be right? and. 41:22.96 Max Shank Too big for you to cover it. What. Um, yeah I. 41:31.86 mikebledsoe So in 10 years ah I think that that that problem is solved so 10 years the the how does how do we value it. There will be there will be some 41:45.65 Max Shank Is it going to be a flat chart that says 1 bitcoin equals 1 bitcoin. 41:49.96 mikebledsoe Yeah, yeah I mean what's it for the dollar now right? So the it I mean it's the dollar is fairly arbitrary and the pricing and all that. But I think with. 41:57.17 Max Shank Yes. 42:03.60 Max Shank Well, the dollar the dollar is backed up by a really big stick a a huge stick wielded by Uncle Sam and it's ah and it's attached to oil which currently makes the world go around. 42:07.41 mikebledsoe But right. Yeah, yeah, yeah, there's always yeah to energy itself. Yeah, so um, but I think that I think that I think that being able to say this currently is worth this much. 42:22.79 Max Shank Yeah anyway I. 42:32.87 mikebledsoe Compared to this currency I think that's gonna be figured out I don't I have no fucking idea how to get figured out I I imagine it's gonna require some a lot of computing power but at the same time. Um, living in Austin Texas is is pretty great if you're in the crypto. Currency conversation because so much of tech is moved here so much of crypto entrepreneurs are here and so and I know so I know some of these people they're fucking smart they're they're they're blowing me away I just. 43:03.78 Max Shank Yeah. 43:08.71 mikebledsoe Um, just like yeah um, I'm doing the best I can to keep up and I'm gonna you know make some trades based on what I'm hearing but sorry for that I don't fucking know and I mentioned that because I just see people ah coming up with some really amazing solutions that that. There's all these problems that crop up when there's a lot of transactions happening and then someone creates a new ah coin a new currency that that solves that specific Problem. It's moving in incredibly fast breakneck Speeds I can't keep up and I'm somebody who. Really loves keeping up with these types of things. It's it's It's very interesting to me and so I think I think a lot of that will be solved all right I Think let's let's get out of this out of this crypto we gotta get out. 43:54.42 Max Shank We got to get out of the macro stuff. This is what I was saying is like it's It's not practical. 44:00.72 mikebledsoe Yeah, we gotta get out of it. So um, let's move into this is what I get for So I get for bringing up the the modern day money I So you say you say that you see money as. Energy. Can you say more. 44:18.37 Max Shank Yes, it's a representation of energy. It's kind of like a claim check on other people's time. Um, you know some people say ah money is the root of all Evil I completely disagree I think greed is a source of some. 44:23.86 mikebledsoe Okay. 44:37.89 Max Shank Unsavory behavior but money is not inherently good or evil Um, it's a claim check on other people's time and it's stored up energy The fact that you can use money to bring real physical objects into your. Life is incredible. The fact that you can trade money for food is incredible. The fact that you can trade money for a house is unbelievably cool and if it weren't for a currency like that it would make trade so difficult so it makes. Trading so easy. Otherwise you have you know if you're a baker and you want a cow you have to hope that the farmer wants some bread and a lot of it. 45:24.38 mikebledsoe Yeah, yeah, I Really like the exchange for time conversation. That's and so I was hearing that recently from somebody else they they go. You know it's just an it's you're gonna buy your time Back. You're just gonna buy back. Ah, by buying food at the grocery Store. You didn't have to go grow that food. You didn't have. There's so much time was was purchased and so yeah, forget who I was here Ac is just a storage of time and the more you have the more time you have like oh it's very very interesting. 45:58.44 Max Shank Yeah, well, what's interesting is you can trade your time for money you can trade money for other people's time which can save you time but you can never get time back. 46:01.50 mikebledsoe Um. 46:13.30 mikebledsoe Yeah, yeah. 46:16.37 Max Shank Time time is your most precious resource by far and unless you learn how to leverage your time. Ah, you're you're gonna be stuck trading hours for dollars pretty much and that's what I mean when I say you want to find a way to scale your effort. 46:34.59 mikebledsoe Um, yeah. 46:35.50 Max Shank Basically so leverage your effort into something that is scalable exponential. 46:40.29 mikebledsoe Yeah, this makes me think about the predictable stages of entrepreneurship that I've witnessed which is which is people get to people want to get to the point where they they have all this accrued money and and able to to. 46:45.66 Max Shank The. 46:59.44 mikebledsoe People say buy their time back. You don't get a bat but like you're able to purchase like you can spend your time the way you want to the more money you have and the predictable stages of entrepreneurship. The first stage being I hate my corporate gig I'll do my own thing and so many people. When they start doing their own thing and they're making enough money to get by. They feel like and I hear a lot of people say this is that's financial freedom but it only lasts for so long because. They're so excited about not doing this corporate gig in which they had built up their mind as something that they hate that they overlook the the burnout you know I think there's some type of saying that says you know as an entrepreneur you know you quit your 40 hour work week that you hate so you can take on it. 80 hour work week that you love or something like that. You know it's like it's really really ridiculous and I've watched a lot of people go into business for themselves who end up wanting to go back because I go wow I just get because I know so many people that they have their corporate gig. At five o'clock when they knock off and go home. Do you know how much they think about work. They don't they go to the gym. They go to the bar. They don't think about that shit at all as an entrepreneur after five o'clock maybe still, you're working even if you're not working. You're thinking about work. You're always problem solving this shit. Shit is real. So um, it people will over. They're so excited and I see that excitement can last about 9 to 18 months of excitement when somebody has given themselves a job. You know they have a. Self-employed. They wake up one day and they realize oh man I just gave myself a job. This is actually not any different. It's more responsibility same thing that I was doing before um and and they can either go back to their job or they can become an owner and I bring this up. Based off what you're saying is because when you turn into an owner. That's when you start actually leveraging your your time your attention money. That's when you it's when you start when you zoom out of the business. You're able to work on it. You're no longer working in it and you're you're hiring delegating systemizing. This is all the things. These are the things and the responsibilities that have to be taken on in order to have that lifestyle that people dream of when they go I want to be my own boss I want to be an entrepreneur I want to I want to run my own business I don't want to have a boss it really requires. 49:45.58 mikebledsoe Becoming an owner and I know there's not many people I've Met. Um I'm trying to recall one now and I can't bring one to mind of someone who went straight from I Hate my corporateri gig to I'm an owner I think the only people that really do that may have been working in financial services and then. They they moved over into investing right away. But if you become a business owner then the level up from that is investor where you are at at each level you are looking at this thing from ah a higher landscape and. Are doing less of the work and more of the directing of where that energy goes if we think about money as energy I'm going to direct the energy to go this way. It needs to go that way instead of it being something that I'm I'm having to crank in order to generate. 50:40.21 Max Shank It's like you have investing in ditch digging on opposite ends of the spectrum investing you potentially don't have to make very many choices at all I mean it's the easiest work there is and as long as you ah bet correctly. 50:43.62 mikebledsoe Yeah. 50:57.71 Max Shank You know you can have like ah basically no no work hours. You just have to make good choices once you become an investor and so it's like I really relate to it's funny. You said 9 to eighteen months it sounds kind of like the 2 year itch 51:04.85 mikebledsoe Yeah. 51:16.13 Max Shank For excitement and relationships too ah is kind of similar right? So you have this fantasy idea of what it will be like to be a business owner. Yeah, right? yeah. 51:16.30 mikebledsoe Oh yeah. 51:24.17 mikebledsoe You're on drugs you're on drugs you got 9 to 18 months to be to be in this drug and do state. You know we talked about drugs last week. So you you get what I'm saying. 51:34.43 Max Shank Love and other drugs. Ah, and you know people don't consider what will intrinsically make them feel fulfilled right? figuring out what they want to give rather than just what they want to get and if you can figure out what you. Most want to give to people and then optimize that that's probably the best way to go to go about it because I see it as like ah maybe 2 opposite ends of the spectrum on the 1 hand you're like okay well um, I'll be a banker. Because banking has the biggest potential for me to get very rich and I don't necessarily love banking but I want to be rich so I'll be a banker and then on the other end of the spectrum you think about um who you would really like to serve like what would make you feel alive and just be intrinsically enjoyable. You pick your role you think about oh man I really like um massage or I like painting flowers or whatever and then you find a way to scale that passion. See what I'm saying so you can either start with a passion and then figure out a way to scale it or you can just pick something that is the fastest method for getting wealthy because I think a lot of people who want to own their own business. They really just. 52:54.34 mikebledsoe So. 53:05.12 Max Shank Ah, want to be rich and not be told what to do. 53:09.19 mikebledsoe Yeah, yeah, yeah, the you know as I've gotten older I'm like man maybe I should have done a little more work that I was less passionate about that get me ah more bucks in the pocket but you know that was never my style. Um well I want to talk about. 53:12.43 Max Shank Um. 53:28.66 mikebledsoe The reasons why people won't reach third fighttro goals and in fact to same this is the reason why half the stuff that max and I said on on this show up to this point, you never even heard it like you didn't hear it today. You went right through your head and you weren't able to grasp it and that is due to. Not because of an intelligence not an intelligence issue. It's ah it's a relationship to money issue and so how people relate to money and how they relate to wealth forms their beliefs and the beliefs become constraints on. Their ability to to do something in that realm. So if you have beliefs about money. Those beliefs are actually ah, they're serving as a constraint in some way now this constraint at some point likely served you but it's not going to make you wealthy. And this is why most people are not wealthy because the information to become wealthy to be an investor all these things widely available. You can go on Youtube and get a lot of really great advice. It's out there. You can get some poor advice too. But you spend enough time you get to sift through it and figure it out now. People's relationship to money is poor because usually we just get it from our parents we but we get these these beliefs from our parents who pass them down to us whether they did it intentionally or not. It could have been a phrase that they said it could have been how they behaved around money. You know I've I've worked with clients where you know their mom had to hide their spending from their dad and you know as a child they mate they now they have this belief that formed and and now that's impacting your life now at at a subconscious level. Which actually makes it hard for them to even hear certain advice because it flies in the face of some belief that they had built up for decades and now because it's when when you're operating from belief then ah, you're automatically filtering out some information and. 55:22.25 Max Shank Can. 55:34.90 mikebledsoe And accepting other information. 55:36.55 Max Shank Man is so on point I mean I think that's the the only barrier to becoming wealthy is belief and whether or not you believe that you are not deserving of money or whether you believe. Ah. All rich people are evil which is something a lot of people believe that money is a 0 sum game and in order for 1 person to get wealthy. Someone else has to be basically stolen from or victimized and it comes back to that drama triangle right? You got the villain victim and the hero. 56:08.83 mikebledsoe Yeah. Man The politicians love to make it look like the wealthier gonna are there to fleece you like it's their fault while you're poor. 56:14.20 Max Shank And ah you want to hang around. 56:23.93 Max Shank Dude no charity has done more for poor people than Walmart by by any stretch. Um and boy talk about an unpopular topic at dinner parties I'm like the worst and best dinner party guest of all time. Because I have I'm a little ass burgery and I also read a lot so it's just very It's just very fun like so yeah, it's money is not a 0 sum game. 56:44.12 mikebledsoe Yeah, that is why I s smokerk weed before I grow out in social environments that way I just keep my mouth shut. 56:57.12 Max Shank Ah, but the the beliefs that become constraints is is so huge like whatever you believe about money is true for you and when you take away the goodness and the evilness of it and just treat it like energy. You can let it flow. You can let it stagnate. You can let it hold power over you? Um, but it really comes down to what you believe about it and. It can be tricky to get out of but it's all the more reason to be selective who you associate with because if you hang around with people who say rich people are evil and they themselves are poor. Most likely you're going to adapt. To that group so it can be very tricky to pull yourself into a better friend group and I think I even mentioned it last week you know if you hang around with people who don't think 10 grand is a lot you start to believe 10 grand is not a lot and you're. 57:48.22 mikebledsoe Yeah, um. 58:03.75 mikebledsoe Yeah, yeah. 58:06.93 Max Shank You're like oh I got to step up my game and of course it just goes on and on and on too but seeing it not as ah, a means to an end or seeing it not as an end in and of itself like keeping up with the joneses. But as a means for capturing back some of your time. And using energy to promote the ideas that you really care about like a mission or a meaning or something like that. That's that's powerful I mean the fact that you can get your time back is incredible like you never have to go shopping again. If you're willing to pay like an extra little delivery fee. Someone else can go get your grocery someone else can go pick up your dry I don't have anything that requires dry cleaning. But if you had dry cleaning like ah Mitch Hedberg has it. 58:50.59 mikebledsoe I got like 1 thing I wear every three years. Yeah I'm with you. 58:59.68 Max Shank Mitch Hedberg has a great joke about that he goes this shirt is dry clean only which means it's dirty. 59:04.20 mikebledsoe Um, yeah, brilliant. Ah yeah, you said something. It's not a 0 sum game and an analogy I like to you cause some people that's ah that's a belief that is they don't think the belief they don't think the words. 0 sum game but the belief that because somebody's wealthy means that somebody else has to be poor or it's the poor or the reason that there's somebody who's wealthy I mean we could also you know because being poor and wealthy is really just a comparison for 1 so. There's always going to be poor and there's always go be wealthy. Like the poor in the United States have flat-screen Tv's air conditioning and ah are and have an excess of caloric intake. So these people are by world standards. So if we compare them in the United States they make. Say $30000 a year. They're fucking poor right? from re exactly. 01:00:02.59 Max Shank The comparison has divorced people from reality if the people who are called poor are dying from overeating that's divorced from reality like we're out of our fucking minds. 01:00:15.00 mikebledsoe Yeah, and but if you look at the the world population and income if you make $30000 you are in the 1% you are in the 1% of income earners in the world if you make more than $30000 a year. 01:00:33.16 Max Shank And if I compare myself to the rock I'm a fat brokeke loser I should just go fucking kill myself. It's It's all what you compared to. But there are some realities like what you said about financial freedom before if you don't have to trade your time for food and shelter anymore. Basically. 01:00:34.74 mikebledsoe And so. 01:00:39.80 mikebledsoe I. 01:00:53.00 Max Shank For your expenses that that's super worthwhile. 01:00:54.55 mikebledsoe Yeah, but the the 0 sum game there. There's an analogy here which is and I think people will grasp this which is people don't have to be unhealthy for you to be healthy right. I look I look at health and wealth the same way I can if everybody were healthy. We'd all be healthier for every unhealthy person walking around the planet they're dragging us down right? And so the if we. 01:01:19.10 Max Shank True kill the fatties I'm just kidding I'm just kidding. 01:01:29.50 mikebledsoe No, they just can't do it to themselves but the ah by the way, not a judgment. But if you're fat. You're you're dying faster than us. But that the the more people the more people who are healthy. Yeah. 01:01:41.59 Max Shank How dare you sounds I don't know if that's racist or sexist I know it's wrong though. 01:01:50.14 mikebledsoe Ah, probably both. Ah, it's not a 0 sum game. So everybody has the chance to be healthy and in fact, the more people who are healthy the easier it is to be healthy the same thing with being wealthy. Everyone has the opportunity to be wealthy are. 01:01:51.85 Max Shank A. 01:02:08.34 mikebledsoe Now compared to each other maybe not but we all have the chance to have a really solid roof over our head be able to travel the way we want to travel all these things and the more people who are able to accomplish having these things the it drives the price down of certain things it it creates more peace around the world. It's gonna be a lot less conflict. There's all these things but there are some people who do play the 0 sum game. They they believe it and they say I've got to make other people lose so I'm not saying that that does not exist in the world. There are people out there that they're called thieves that they have to actually take from somebody else to have for themselves. And so ah, the people who are operating out of a zerosum game are usually immoral in their practice. So if you hear somebody talking about it being a 0 ero-sum game and they're rich. They're probably immoral. In some way and the way they're getting rich is they're ripping some people off, but there's a lot of people who I'd say the majority of the people who are wealthy have created more value for others and have gotten a fair exchange in return. 01:03:16.74 Max Shank Let me add a little bit on that because I agree and I think it's even more potent than that because I'm sure our listeners have realized by now that you and I are in favor of a little thing called freedom and when there is. 01:03:21.84 mikebledsoe Oh. 01:03:34.85 Max Shank Profit and a voluntary exchange that is always a net positive that that's like if if it's really a voluntary exchange where there's Profit. You're always creating a surplus of value if I sell you a sweatshirt for $20 And you buy it for $20 The only way that happens is if it's worth it for you to buy it and worth it for me to sell it so it has to do with something called Win-win Theory which is very Self-explanatory. So Even if you don't buy into the other stuff. Realize that when you are creating a profit you are in an energetic surplus and you are promoting voluntary action I mean look at the things that work the worst it's when people are stolen from and there's no Incentive. You know there's an incentive. For a company if there's no ah, political or policing interference to create a product that people value at a price that is affordable. You know and so you are. As a company. You are essentially a slave to the customer rather than um, under taxation where you are a slave to ah basically ah, a guy with a huge stick that will punish you if you don't pay up so that's why you get a better result when there's voluntary action. So huh. 0 sum game whenever there's a profitable exchange that's Voluntary. You are actually creating wealth on both sides you are creating value on both sides of that transaction. That's huge. 01:05:24.81 mikebledsoe Beautifully said beautifully said. Um we don't want to go from here I think we I think we should um there was. 01:05:31.27 Max Shank We could call it there that would be my final thought anyway because I think it ah clearly I have one more at least if you focus on that. 01:05:40.45 mikebledsoe It sounds like your final thought. Ah. 01:05:51.23 Max Shank Like you will feel intrinsically good because it sounds corny but it really does feel the best to give if you find yourself if you start out very broke and then you become rich. Um, you do go through a phase where you buy yourself all the toys. Ah. Went through it myself I bought like every toy I ever wanted and then I realized that the thing that felt the best was like taking my friends out for lunch or getting stuff for them or bringing them on experiences like buying stuff is very hollow. But when you are. In a emotional and energetic balance. It's ah it's a profitable exchange like you are offering up so that people truly value and appreciate enough to put their money where their mouth is. You know and you also are filtering out the people who aren't actually that interested like I could give my programs away for free and people would be less likely to do them. But if I work really hard on something and I believe in it and I charge money for it and someone believes in it enough to pay for it. That is what feels good is those mutually beneficial exchanges where both people are investing ah their energy which can be in the form of time or Money. So I Think that's what actually feels the best is to give. 01:07:07.26 mikebledsoe Um. 01:07:24.83 Max Shank And if you are doing it at a profit then you are in a mutual energetic Surplus that's based on voluntary action and dude. What's better than that. That's how you promote this this freedom and love so there you go. 01:07:37.31 mikebledsoe Yeah, yeah, so what I want to leave with is it comes down if you want to be wealthy. It comes down to mindset and skill you need both of these to be present and so the mindset my favorite way to look at that is to look at your beliefs. And the first thing you can do to look at that is sit down and write down about what your mother or what you learned from your mother about money and wealth and wealthy people and what you learned from your father. Ah these are 2 different. Journal entries these what you learn from your mother is gonna be different than what you learned from your father and it's not important what they wanted to teach you or what they try to teach you. It's about what you learned. That's the important thing to remember here. So if you want it. Any any type of money mindset training that you're wanting to do needs to start there if you're starting somewhere else. You're you're not going far enough back I mean if you want to go further back which I've actually done is I I start looking at my dad's childhood. So like how you know what was that like. And how did that form. Ah, the the lessons that got passed down to me so mindset and skill and the other part is the skill and that is simply the the people have tend to have negative emotions associated with money. They don't check their bank account. They don't budget. They don't do certain things consistently because they don't like how it makes them feel and so they just avoid doing it all together. So that's a mindset deal. But once you get past that and you're actually able to be present with your cash flow. Then the skill of managing that cash flow comes in that is setting aside up money for taxes setting aside enough money for investing for a rainy day and then and then allocating how much of that money. Are you going to set aside for meaningful expenses and and and necessities and things like that. So. Having the mindset having this skill they need to both be online and most people can't even look at the skill part until they've handled the mindset. So go do those journal entries about your parents and that's all I got for yall today you good max. 01:10:00.64 Max Shank Ah, yeah, you're like a financial freud. Ah. 01:10:05.68 mikebledsoe Ah, we should name the show that one all right brother. Love you see all next week 01:10:09.72 Max Shank Ah, love you. Thank you guys see ya.

Today, let's broaden our perspective of reality by attentively examining what is on the inside.

Dr. Haifaa Younis: "Why Can't I Understand the Qur'an" Part 1

I Understand that many of you are keeping the feasts best you can here, but with all that is going on while we are still captives I don't feel much like celebrating, although I will not let this tIme go unnoticed, I just don't feel we deserve to fully feasting till we get right with Yahuah as a collective body. Half of us don't even know when it truly is anyway, and for that very reason it is impossible for us to carry it out properly in these lands of our captors. But Yall enjoy best Yall can while Yall trying to get back to the ancient ways.. I am not knocking Yall. I just don't think we are getting the big picture, and the fact that we worry more about the feast days than waking up the lost and dying is a problem. So while some are arguing over dates and times, and new moons, and Sabbaths, I am sounding the ⏰ WAKE UP AND START WORSHIPPING IN SPIRIT AND TRUTH. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/batyah2real/support

  In this episode, as you will discover if you listen, which serves as a bridge between what the podcast has been for the last two and a half years and where it is (hopefully) heading, Kevin interviews himself. Or, more accurately, his wife Wendy was kind enough to facilitate a discussion and the two of them chop it up about gateway drugs into girl pop, real hip-hop, and giving people their flowers. For additional information about the verbose and depressive music website Ahendonic Headphones, click here!   Episode Musical Credits: Opening Theme Music- "Flava In Ya Ear" (Instrumental); written by Osten Harvey Jr, Craig Mack, Roger Nichols, and Paul Williams. Bad Boy Records, 1994. Closing Theme Music - "Feelin'"; written by Rashad Harden. Hyperdub Records, 2013.   "Run Away With Me," written by Carly Rae Jepsen, Mattias Larsson, Robin Fredriksson, Karl Johan Schuster, Oscar Holter, and Jonnali Parmenius; performed by Carly Rae Jepsen. Emotion, 604/School Boy/Interscope, 2015. "Cruel Summer," written by Taylor Swift, Jack Antonoff, and Annie Clark; performed by Taylor Swift. Lover, Republic Records, 2019. "...Baby One More Time," written by Max Martin; performed by Britney Spears. ....Baby One More Time, Jive Records, 1999. "Yesterday, This Would Have Meant So Much to Us," written by Andrew Hargreaves; performed by Tape Loop Orchestra. Single originally released by Hibernate, 2014. "N.Y. State of Mind," written by Nasir Jones and Christopher Martin; performed by Nas. Illmatic, Columbia, 1994. "I Understand," written by Kim Gannon and Mabel Wayne; performed by The Ink Spots. Original recording information unknown—Trees Lounge Original Motion Picture Soundtrack, MCA/Universal, 1996.  "Lost Myself," written by Crispin Hunt; performed by Longpigs. The Sun is Often Out, Mother Records, 1996. "Dreamdaddy," written by Keith Ferguson; performed by World Leader Pretend. Punches, Warner Brothers, 2005. "Go Get The Cops," written by Ricky Brennan, Brendan Harney, and Scott Leveque; performed by Wheat. Per Second, Per Second, Per Second...Every Second, Aware/Columbia, 2003.  "Coke," written by Brandin Lea and Cory Kreig; performed by Flickerstick. Welcoming Home The Astronauts, 226 Records, 2000. 

Today the mantra, "I Understand"  replaced forever in my heart the usual mantra of "acceptance.'   We are told to accept the things we can not change, which is a way to surrender to that which is out of our hands to control.   I have struggled with that word (acceptance) because it is so strict and in a way triggering to my rebel soul.  My heart has expanded in a capacity to UNDERSTAND - which is for me a deeper way of acknowledging the difficulties, struggles, and sufferings of life.   Yes, obviously there is an acceptance or surrender to this...but different words land more profoundly on each one of us. "I understand" is an expansive way of embracing the Mystery of Life, a different perspective.  A sweeter acceptance even in gratitude of all that life brings.  This amazing gift that sometimes is so intense and difficult, but with UNDERSTANDING of the greater purpose is softer to navigate.    Asé   G

Learn Polish in a fun way with short Episodes. On this episode we talk about 6 Ways to say I Understand or Don't Understand (6 Sposobow zeby Powiedziec)   All Social Media + Donations https://linktr.ee/learnpolish   To listen to all Episodes + The Speaking Podcast + The Meditation Podcast + Business Opportunities please visit http://roycoughlan.com/   Now also on Bitchute https://www.bitchute.com/channel/pxb8OvSYf4w9/   Youtube https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9SeBSyrxEMtEUlQNjG3vTA   To get Skype lessons from Kamila or her team please visits http://polonuslodz.com/   In this Episode we discuss:   Rozumiem- I understand   Nie rozumiem- I do not understand   Czaję- I understand   Nie czaję- I do not understand   Kumam- I understand   Kumasz polską gramatykę?- Do you understand Polish grammar?   Ogarniam- I get it   Nie ogarniam- I do not get it   Nie mogę zrozumieć- I can not understand   Nie chwytam- I do not get it   Nie łapię- I do not get it   Nie czaję tego, to jest bardzo skomplikowane- I can't get it, it's very complicated   Czy Wy znacie te słowa?- Do you know these words?   If you would like Skype lessons from kamila or her team please visit http://polonuslodz.com/   All Polish Episodes / Speaking Podcast / Meditation Podcast / Awakening Podcast/ Polish Property & business Offers - http://roycoughlan.com/   All Social Media + Donations https://linktr.ee/learnpolish   Please Share with your friends / Subscribe and give a 5* Review  - Thank You (Dziekuje Bardzo :) )   #learnpolish #speakpolish #polishpodcast

I Understand... The World has been strange as of lately. Here are some Golden tips to help us All persevere and get through ..Amen❤️

Holy Spirit Connects Us All... I Understand its been Crazy and Racism has affected each of us in some way ... This Pandemic is helping with bringing this to surface...so we can eliminate Old ways of Thinking into The New Age ... Lets try to Build a Better tomorrow

Today, Michael Rupert is back! He talks about his experiences starring in City of Angels, Ragtime, Elegies, On The Town, Legally Blonde, and more! Here about trading replacements with John Rubinstein, developing "I Understand," his directing career, how William Finn changed, and more.

I Understand this is a Big Topic ... May The Holy Spirit continue to guide our hearts towards Healing....We will get through All things with The Almighty...Amen . ..................................................... ~

In this episode my boys Stone, J-Mac, Kellen, and Reese jump on the pod to talk NBA Finals. To start the show Kellen gets some stuff off his chest about Dallas Cowboys during the I Understand segment of the show. We talk takeaways from the series thus far. I go on a Lebron rant and we finish things off talking about the future of the NBA.

Sintonía: "Buck Jumpin' " - Fats Waller "Twenty-Four Robbers" - "I Understand" - Sad Sap Sucker Am I" - "Headlines in The News" - "Chant of the Groove" - "Come and Get It" - "Rump Steak Serenade" - "Ain´t Nothing To It" - "Oh Baby, Sweet Baby" - "That Gets It Mr. Joe" - "Bessie Bessie Bessie" - "Clarinet Marmelade" - "Winter Weather" - "Cash for the Trash" - "Don´t Give Me That Jive" - "Your Socks Don´t Match" - "Ring Dem Bells"; todas las canciones cantadas e interpretadas al piano por Fats Waller; todas las instrumentales interpretadas por Fats Waller al piano. El primer capítulo de este "coleccionable" se emitió el 29-07-2020 Escuchar audio

Welcome to the first official episode of Let's Try Adulting! WHOOHOO! Let's get started! Adulting is hard! Trust me, I get it. I UNDERSTAND. While you are adulting and finding your footing, don't forget to take care of yourself. PROTECT YOUR PEACE! Over the past few months, this has been repeated more times than I can count. This episode dives into different avenues of how to take care of yourself on the basic levels. Choose yourself! Do not forget to eat, sleep, drink water, and BREATHE! You cannot control everything, but you can control yourself! It's okay to put yourself first. I GIVE YOU PERMISSION. You cannot show up for others, if you are not showing up for yourself. Finding Your Footing Blog Post ( https://letstryadulting.com/finding-your-footing-through-changes/ ) __ Hi! I'm Kerra! I'm a lifestyle blogger! I want to help you through those adulting moments: the good, the bad, the ugly, and the moments that make it worth it. My mission is to cultivate a space to learn and grow as an adult through trial, error, and shared experiences. We ask questions. We make mistakes. And most importantly, we grow as humans. There are no stupid questions or judgement here! Join me weekly for podcasts. And biweekly on my blog letstryadulting.com ( https://app.redcircle.com/shows/9885db70-8c7c-4f20-bd1f-14cebe766595/letstryadulting.com ). As always: Mindset is everything! Let's Try Adulting! Have a great week! Click here to Connect with Me! ( https://letstryadulting.com/connect-with-me/ ) email: hello@letstryadulting.com

I Understand that as one who believes in God, in receiving His work in the last days, you've received glory and salvation as God works His plan through you. God's work in the universe has focused on you. All of His efforts have been devoted to you. God has sacrificed everything for you, and bestowed the work of the Spirit upon you. You are the fortunate, the lucky ones. He has shifted His glory from Israel to manifest His plan through you, the heirs to His glory and inheritance. You are the fortunate, the lucky ones. He has shifted His glory from Israel to manifest His plan through you, the heirs to His glory and inheritance. II Before, you heard but didn't understand the true meaning of these wondrous words: "For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, works for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory." Now you are fully aware, the significance they hold. These words will be fulfilled in the last days, upon those who are cruelly afflicted by the great red dragon, the enemy of God. Because it persecutes God, believers in this land suffer torment. That's why, God's promise (that's why, God's promise) will be realized in them (will be realized in them). You are the fortunate, the lucky ones. He has shifted His glory from Israel to manifest His plan through you, the heirs to His glory and inheritance. You are the fortunate (you are the fortunate), you are the lucky ones (you are the lucky ones). You are the fortunate (you are the fortunate), you are the lucky ones (you are the lucky ones). III God carries out His work in a land that opposes Him; His work suffers great hindrance, His words cannot be fulfilled soon. So His people are refined as they wait and suffer. God's work is difficult in the great red dragon's land. It is through this struggle that God does this step of work to manifest His wisdom and His wondrous deeds, to make these people perfect and complete. Due to their suffering and poor caliber, their satanic disposition formed in this filthy land, God works to purify (God works to purify), purify and conquer them, that He may gain glory and witnesses to His deeds. This is the meaning of all sacrifice He makes. God conquers through those who oppose Him, to manifest His power. In the unclean land, only people there are worthy of inheriting His glory. God's power is great, but must be revealed in the impure land, as is His will. God's power is great, but must be revealed in the impure land, as is His will. God's power is great, but must be revealed in the impure land, as is His will. God's power is great, but must be revealed in the impure land, as is His will. You are the fortunate (you are the fortunate), you are the lucky ones (you are the lucky ones). You are the fortunate (you are the fortunate), you are the lucky ones (you are the lucky ones). from The Word Appears in the Flesh

I attended a certification course called Certified Online Training Professional. One of the Speaker there said, “Tell me I Forget, Teach me I Remember, Involve me, I Understand” something like that. Same thing with our Dementia patient. And I just realized that, if you’re telling a patient or a person that has Dementia and you’re telling, you’re telling, you’re telling that, they’ll forget that. Teach them, they’ll remember it but if you involve them in the activity, involve them in the staff that you’re trying to do they’ll understand it. I know some patients can’t understand it because they have problems in Dementia, but in general, in life, this is what we need to do anyway. If you’re telling somebody a procedure, they’ll probably forget that. But if you teach them how to do it, what to do it, they’re probably going to remember it. When you involve them and let them do it on themselves they going to understand that. And that’s the purpose of this group, this page, wanting for you to understand Dementia, and that is why it’s called MisUnderstanding Dementia. And I want you to understand more, not only the dementia process, not only the dementia disease but understand yourself more. “Tell me I Forget, Teach me I Remember, Involve me, I Understand”! Get the Caregiver's Freedom Journal here. Enroll in our new course - MisUnderstanding Dementia here.

On this week’s episode of Wesley Impact! radio, Rev Keith Garner opens God’s Word to Luke 9:51-62 and explains why following Jesus is an urgent and important task. Barry Southgate performs the song ‘I Understand’, recorded live at the Wesley Impact! Studio Sydney.

Crown chakra mantra of "I Understand" discussion.   Reference: https://fs.blog/2012/04/feynman-technique/

Connect with Lahana on Facebook, Instagram, and her blog! Don’t forget to book your free 15 minute phone call to let us know what health issues you’re looking to improve with food as medicine + we’ll share how we can help you start feeling better! Welcome to the Thrival Nutrition Podcast with me as your host, Lahana Vigliano – the owner of Thrival Nutrition and a board certified clinical nutritionist! We’re on episode 143 talking about eating healthy on a budget! This is a very popular topic that I got to talk about requested by YOU, tribe! Thankful for all your suggestions all the time + know that whatever you recommend – I’ll put into queue, so I can serve you! Before we start, I wanted to make sure that I mentioned that we have gift cards now available for stocking stuffers! You can purchase them in any increments of $25. They are actually a legit physical card that after you purchase one – I mail it to you, so you can put it in a Christmas Card, Birthday Card, etc. you name it and gift someone the gift of health. They can use this towards any appointment or package with me that they want to. Email me over at lahana@thrivalnutrition.com or go to our contact page and send us a message there!  I’ve actually talked about this I think when I first started podcasting and even did made a little freebie on it that I gave away via your email. One thing that I will start with before going into our budget-saving tips is to be REALISTIC about the amount of food your family consumes (including restaurants!) and putting buying healthy food as a top priority. This is something that my husband struggles with sometimes to this day, because he sees food coming in and then coming out in a stool. His thinking is “why are we paying so much again?” It’s a constant reminder to tell him WHY we put more of our budget towards quality food. Pay now or pay later. So, I want to let you know I UNDERSTAND, we’ve been there with a small budget and worked our way up to where we are now. We were that typical standard American eating family buying mostly processed foods and toiletries and skidding by on $100-150 per week. Granted, it was only three of us back then and Isaiah was a BABY, so really it was only Doug + I eating. Now, we buy all organic, grass-fed pasture raised foods that are wholesome and even some of the healthy packaged foods. Our budget is about $1200 a month to be completely transparent. (Trust me when I tell you that we HAD many many fights about the food budget, as I became more aware of how bad we were eating during my degree program). We’re a family of four and we all are HUGE eaters (even my almost five year old). Now if you’ve made healthy eating a top priority + you’ve sacrificed in other areas to bring more money into the food budget if you need to + you still need to cut costs somewhere – let’s begin! Buy Bulk! This is the MOST common budget saving tips you’ll find online, because bulk is best. Let’s be real! Granted you may be short on space if you live in an apartment, so you might have to get creative with where you’ll put things, but bulk is definitely where you’ll save the most money! This can mean shopping at Costco or it could mean just shopping at your local grocery store in the bulk section – which is the aisle with all the bins. You can find grains, legumes, dried fruit, etc. This also is the same mindset for buying meat in bulk. If you can connect with a local farmer who raises grass-fed beef, this can save you money per lb because a grass-fed steak at Whole Foods is like $20 a lb. You can get it at a local farmer for half the cost. Buying ground beef is usually cheaper too than buying steaks if you really need to cut cost. And buying chicken thighs or even a whole chicken is a better and cheaper option/bang for your buck than chicken breasts.  I buy my grass-fed whey in bulk and it’s about $60 for a 5 lb container. BUT, you guys, that is only .78 cents per serving. This is a great way to add good quality protein to a plant-based lunch (like a salad) versus a chicken breast. Organic or No? This leads me into answering the question “organic or no?” or “grass-Fed or no?” I recommend to only buy organic animal products that are grass-fed or wild caught. Since animal products can easily become tainted and conventional animal products can be more inflammatory than organic ones, I find this area is really hard for me to recommend that this is an area you can cut corners. So again, finding a local farmer or staying up to date with deals at your local store or shopping at places like Trader Joe’s, Aldi, and Costco. These are the places that I’ve found good quality at a good price! With produce on a budget, you can easily follow the dirty dozen list at EWG.org.  Buying Frozen And/Or In Season I HIGHLY recommend buying in season produce. When you try to buy out of season, like berries in the winter, you’re most likely going to be paying double and the taste stinks and the nutrition actually isn’t as high as it is when a fruit is in season! If you do want to buy a fruit or vegetable out of season, check out the frozen section!  You can find berries year around in the frozen section, for example and pay half the price. Frozen produce is *usually* inexpensive.  You can also even plan for your meals to be based on local sales. If you know ahead of time the sales that your store is going to have with produce and meats, you can work around those savings! Only Buy Necessary Items What I mean by this is buying produce, quality meats, grains, legumes, your basics. What that doesn’t mean is the “organic” processed foods – crackers, chips, etc. You’ll never hear me recommend buying regular processed food regardless – budget or not. But the organic packaged foods is where you’ll spend the most money with the least amount of nutrition in return. So, does that mean that you’ll have to be a little cooking more? Most likely – because for example, you won’t have ready made granola bars to snack on, you’d have to make them if you really like them. I do want to say – there is always a sacrifice on some end. You’ll either pay for the convenience of having something ready (that’s the whole restaurant industry right?!)or you’ll “pay” in your time. I do find that when you only buy the NECESSARY items – like the produce, meats, grains, etc. you’ll be eating a more nutrient dense diet that will save your health + money in the long run. Incorporate Plant Based Meals Don’t get me wrong – I think meat has 100000% has a place in our diet as humans. I actually don’t recommend a vegan diet, but if you’re on a strict budget, make sure you make some meals without meat because meat will probably be the most expensive part of your bill. If you do okay with rice with soaked legumes or quinoa, use that to create veggie bowls! I personally still recommend for the majority of people to avoid wheat because of inflammation and what it triggers in the gut.  Eggs aren’t plant-based, but they are a wholesome non-meat protein source that you can whip up easily and add to dishes – think hard boiled on top of salads, frittatas for brinner, etc. If you can find a local farmer, you can usually find good quality eggs for an amazing price! I remember I used to get mine for $4 a dozen! If you have to buy the cheapest eggs to afford them, do it. It’s better than Cheetos or hamburger helper. Other I definitely wanted to cover some of those shopping tips because that’s where you’ll be saving the most money! Some other tips I have for you are to meal plan – this is ESSENTIAL in making sure that you aren’t running out to grab a bite to eat because you have no idea what you were making for dinner and you don’t have anything thawed. FUTURE THINKING YA’LL! Don’t ever shop hungry. You will 10000% be buying foods that you really don’t need, but sound good. Personal experience here.  I know you might already be used to this if you shop at Aldi or Trader Joe’s, but buying a generic label will also save some dollars in your wallet! Like with any other product, a “name brand” will usually always cost more and that doesn’t mean that it tastes better either. And the worst thing you can do is waste food – so make sure you are only buying enough for what you can eat in a week. Since you’ll be eating more wholesome real foods, you’ll have to shop a little* bit more frequently to make sure you’re sticking with fresh produce! Wasted food = wasted money. I hope I gave you some useful tips on how to save some money in grocery shopping and your budget. BUT, I seriously want to encourage you to re-look at your budget if you haven’t in a while and see if there is any way you can sacrifice in other areas to get good quality food in that body. Your health is EVERYTHING – we truly don’t understand the importance of it until we lose it and it’s too late. OR we end up spending that money we’re trying to save on doctor bills because we’re sick all the time. You might be really surprised how that coffee here and there or those meals out to eat could put some extra dough in bringing home the good stuff for you and your family. I’m glad I could touch on this topic again before the new year! I’ll catch you guys next week! 

David Shepard is a Master NLP Trainer and has been involved in the field of NLP for over 25 years. In this lively interview, David shares his journey and insights into NLP. Discover where and as come from and where he thinks it is moving to and his vision for NLP. Discover Davids enthusiasm for NLP and helping other. Be the first to hear about earth breaking news of a new NLP Technique called the "The Elvis Technique." You may be all shook up. Links mentioned in the podcast: The app is www.davidshephard.com Training is www.performancepartnership.com   You May Laugh, I Understand

BrushnSoapnBlade Wetshaving Podcast – Where we look forward to shaving every day! BrushnSoapnBlade@gmail.com – Wet Shaving Questions and Feedback always welcome. @BrushnBlade Everything Wet Shaving on Twitter (and other stuff for fun!) (864) 372-6234 on GoogleVoice – The Wet Shaving Hotline, call me anytime.     SOTD Stirling - Margaritas in the Arctic  Stirling Shave Soaps Exercise! SOTD - Stirling - Coniferous Stirling Coniferous - Click Here Evaluating Others - Do You? SOTD - Something Deliberate! I Understand your History! SOTD - Shave, don't Scrape   Explaining the Why!

[caption id="attachment_598" align="aligncenter" width="300"] You are more than enough![/caption] Judi Moreno "You are more than Enough!" What do you do with $2000 and an idea when you are 24. The answer is begin building your own personal Self Esteem Empire and Billionaire Lifestyle. Every journey begins with a single step, Judi's $2k empire started with opening a modeling and finishing school for young adults in the 1980's. With unforeseen challenges the economy would bring in the form of a Las Vegas labor strike during the early days of her business, Judi learned exactly which tools were required to maintain and grow her business to be sustainable for the long haul. Judi Moreo, is a local Las Vegas television personality, self esteem and business coach and connector of people to life and living.   Here television show based out of Las Vegas Nevada provides reviews and promotion vehicles for authors and publishers of adult and children themed literature. In conjunction Judi is a keynote speaker sought out around the globe. Here book titled, "You are More than Enough" helped to open up a world Judi had not anticipated, giving her the ability to rub shoulders with Speaking and inspirational greats such as Zig Ziglar and Og Mandino.  Judi share some insights concerning the contributions being a member of NSA(National Speakers Association) has provided. Being a National Speaker Association member also provided an added benefit of being in the company of people who perpetually exhibit great supportive vibes and energy. Judi is continuing to expand the self esteem platform to give back to society. "Once you start on the path take a look around, there are other opportunities." From a small school for young adults Judi has kept her eyes and options open. Gathering information from personal and business interaction provided Judi with ah ha insights to grow her business and provide teaching services. Providing workshops, books and keynote speaking has kept Judi busy. Have a listen and enjoy the Podcast. Then go live your Billionaire Lifestyle.   JudiMoreo.com Judi's Blog Judi Moreo Face book  You are more than enough website Emmitt Muckles on Twitter Find the Billionaire LifeStyle on Facebook: Get it in iTunes Download and Listen on Stitcher:   Podcast Transcription: Emmitt Muckles: today ladies and gentlemen on the billionaire lifestyle podcast Judi Moreo Judy oreo is an author and a speaker, she has international best-selling books type of you are more than enough and “Conquer the Brain Drain” so listen up very closely because he took two thousand dollars and made it happen it's an interesting story stay tuned. [Music] Emmitt Muckles: ladies and gentleman welcome to the billionaire lifestyle podcast today I have a really awesome guest and she' actually met one of the people that I adore which is Og Mandino  ladies and gentlemen I like to welcome them Judi Moreo to the billionaire lifestyle podcast how are you today Judi Moreo: I'm great thank you and thank you for having it again Emmitt Muckles: oh I looked at your books and I was like who I have to have this woman just your presence will just make my podcast shine and forgive me for being selfish for having to have you on. Judi Moreo: i'm pretty selfish too. i enjoy doing these shows they're wonderful and it gets great exposure for my book and I'm so proud of my book and to could comment on what you said yes I did have the good pleasure to meet Og Mandino. you know and and no him over a period of years before he died and he was quite a mentor to me really helped me to get my writing going. Emmitt Muckles: so i have written a book myself i'm not going to talk too much about that so I Understand fully you know the challenges it is when you're writing a book you know all the ideas you have but just to put them so another human being can understand them is a challenge itself which lends itself to one of your videos that i saw talking about communication it was so elegant the way you put the words and i made the definition for people to understand communication. do you speak a lot to as a keynote speaker. Judi Moreo: I well I do have a lot of keynote speaking but actually I do more in the field of training. i love training I i like the keynote speaker because you go there you do it for an hour and and you touch a lot of people but with training I get to be a closer up one-on-one so I like to do like the workshops and the breakout sessions and that and the training in the company's and actually really help people to get something they can walk away with.  I feel like in the keynote speech I kind of just motivate people but they don't walk away much, so i have to have a product from to take home to say okay you know this is what she can teach me, whereas with training i can actually do more you know once we have smaller group we only had like 30 people in a in a training class so. i really enjoyed that the most. Emmitt Muckles: so your book is titled you are more than enough can you explain how you got to the process of that and what brought you to that ideology and share it with people. Judi Moreo: well when I when I named the book you're more than enough that was based on the fact that, i keep self-esteem I I do a lot of pro every program i do whether it's customer service for communication or creativity it's always gotta and a part in an on self esteem because how we feel about ourselves helps to create how we treat other people and how creative we are, and so I the attitude and self-esteem is always a part of it.  as I was growing up I didn't have a lot of self-esteem I had to learn it and so I studied and studied and studied and learned it. and I I always overestimated other people and underestimated myself.  and even though my parents constantly told me you are enough you know you can do this you go to try it. somehow I still had that that timidly about me, I was shy and I didn't want to get out there now people who know me can't believe I was never shy can't believe I ever didn't have high self-esteem. but it was something I had to learn and so as i got older i kept meeting women that were older that were saying to me oh I wish I had self-esteem and i'm looking at people who work for the thirties and forties fifties you think of what do you mean you don't have self-esteem you know that was something we had to learn growing up and then I started talking to people and, I thought you know what I'm going to write a book about this since I was writing the book I was writing a chapter entitled you are more than nothing one of my girlfriend's was reading the book and she's quite a successful woman and she said well why did you name your book this because this chapter is what your whole life is all about and I said oh my gosh there appears right in front of me I wrote it down at the chapter title and didn't realize it was the book title and so I i moved it over to be the book title and and it really is you know that we are more than enough and we underestimate ourselves so many of us then and now I just because that book the publisher totally slanted that book for women and yet the men that that I worked with that when i did the audiobook the man that recorded it when you got done he looked at me and he said why did you just do this for women if I have this book 20 years ago I have been more successful. Judi Moreo:so I'm doing a new  book now iíve using some of the same principles but i'm not doing a new book for men and women both entitled you are more than you think you are Emmitt Muckles:  that's awesome you know that you you  bring up a really great point when women do so much in this country now and I realized this a long time ago that women were controlling a lot of businesses and they were making a lot of inroads to areas and it was a quiet storm but one of the things that i noticed that when women produce products they literally stay within the female demographic and it seems like it and,  I'm talking from a male point of view that men are to and if you go and i remember this from 1991 my first marriage. i had hard time adjusting it but i remember going to the bookstore and I saw droves of books to help women. there was literally nothing for men Judi Moreo: I know I know Emmitt Muckles:so your new book that's coming out when do you anticipate that the next year or so ? Judi Moreo:oh I'm hoping to have it out in about three months I've been working on it for about a year already so i'm pretty sure we'll have it out by Middle of march Emmitt Muckles : awesome awesome so that's one thing that we have to do you have to come back here so that we can talk about that thentoo Judi Moreo: i'd love to but you know I just want to comment on what you said because when I wrote the other book I wrote it for men and women both original and the publisher said men don't buy books you have to change needs to be just the women and I wonder if the publishers belief is what causes there to be so many books dear toward women because they believed that women by book and men don't buy self-improvement type books its more leadership type books. Emmitt Muckles : well I think that it's a changing demographic with the Millennial course  if you watch if you watch the Millennials they are about they have their own community and they have their own self awareness and I think that may have been true with a certain man that found to a certain time period but i think that has changed now with with the way the internet is opened up things because now people are how very comfortable in the ebooks Judi Moreo: oh yeah i think i agree with you i agree with you but I think that's why it wasn't a path that people wrote predominantly you know the self-help books for women but I seem an everyday now,  in fact i have a an online program called the achieve more method and I have a lot of men sign up for that program because I think about how you can be more and do more and have more by learning how to  achieve more and very often we don't know how to set our goals and if we do set our goals we don't know how to make them become reality a lot of people write goals the first of every year in two months they give up on them.  and so I I really work with minimum about in fact a lot of my coaching clients are men as well as entertainers. I live in Las Vegas so I get a lot of people from las vegas trip that that come to me to have me help them figure out how to market themselves properly. Emmitt Muckles: awesome , actually i'll be in vegas probably in September i have a conference that i  have to attend that I attend every year they keep having their so I'm not maybe Judi Moreo:  maybe we can have you on my television show all that would be awesome Emmitt Muckles:  that would be so awesome! tell me about your television show tell me about it Judi Moreo: I have a I have of live television show in las vegas it's called the world of book reviews and I review books and talk two authors i have various authors on and i have a guest of a guest co-author and co-host that is eight years old but she's my guest co-host whenever she's available and she reviews children's books and. we talked about children's books and why they're good for the kids her age which is she's really popular people like her a lot and so mainly I just I talked to authors and I thought to people who read certain books who like or don't like him I like to get people's opinions in the show is a live on on the local television station and then it gets archived on AK experts tv.com and so it's always there on AK experts tv.com for people to watch this segment. Emmitt Muckles:  so who led you to your coaching career because I'm you know if you're dealing if you're talking to people of course you're probably going to have to have some kind of relationship to bring them further some people can't just digest information and then move forward and as you said there are some people who make new year's resolutions that's the start but they don't know how to continue the race into the end so how did that come about in your life Judi Moreo: Emmitt, I started my first business when I was 24 years old and I didn't know that you couldn't start a business with two thousand dollars. so I i went out and started my business I just had this idea to start this finishing school and model agency and I had two thousand dollars saved up and I thought that was enough money so I rented the office,  and I started telling everybody about my business and three weeks after I open my business was the first time in the history of Las Vegas that they had a strike and turned out every light on the Las Vegas Strip and so people who aren't going to send their kids to modeling school because that was an extra and the strip hotels weren't going to hire models because they were all closed down so here I was you know like like a couple months in. and I was like my gosh i'm broke you know and i went to my landlord nice that we have a little problem here because I can't pay my second month’s rent and he looked at me and he said well you know the guy next door bet me that you wouldn't last in business six months he said not betting you would so if you can hang in there for six months we can make enough money off him to pay the rent. Judi Moreo: that's a true story and I hung in there for six months and actually i hung in there for 21 years my business became very successful and.  I and I basically promoted my business through speaking that's why i started speaking i started going out and talking to junior high schools and high schools and Girl scout troops and Boy Scout troops and telling them about my finishing school and model agency and why they had to come and go through the school and have personal development courses and learn to believe in themselves and then one day the Tropicana Hotel called me and said do you do mouth programs and I said well what's that they said well when we bring a convention and we need someone to entertain the wives and husbands and I said oh yes i do that makes to go how much you charge and I said fifty dollars which was really thinking and and they hired me and then after they hired me a hundred times i joined the National Speakers Association and i found out, wait a minute you know you should be making a lot more than fifty dollars so by then identify hundred features and I of my price and and that's how I promoted and started that business and that business you know was so successful and then someone bought it for cash my my financial planner said you build a business in order to sell it so i did and i went into speaking full-time and it'  taken me to 28 countries around the world and i ended up working in south africa for eight years and starting a new training company over there.  and then after six years of having a company in south africa brought it back to America could put our our headquarters here in Las Vegas I could be home with my family was but I love South Africa and so that's how I got here where I am today but it was a long hard struggle you know Emmitt Muckles: but most struggles are long and hard did that's one of the things that I hope to impart by sharing people's stories that,  we have this notion that everything is a overnight sensation or it was they went into it and they began to be successful and most of the really talented most of the people that we see in any field genre they've been added a while. they it's it's the and eating an elephant ideology I always say, you have to start somewhere because you just even if you have raw talent you have to refine that talent so life will dictate to you the path but what you must do is you must start on the journey and stay on it that's part one have been one of my biggest flaws 'as because I'm all over the place sometimes actually had a podcast called that and it was called all over the place what I really like is your youtube videos so do you have a youtube channel ? Judi Moreo:yes it's judi moreo, youtube/Judi Moreo Emmitt Muckles:you have several websites so you have lifechoices.com, judi Mario dot-com and you also have one for your new book correct? Judi Moreo: well I have your more than enough dot-com, and then I also had viet read more method dot-com that's our online training program that people can have me coach them online Emmitt Muckles: alright Judi Moreo: oh it's a one year program Emmitt Muckles: so when your program yeah so how much time do you have to spend is it like one day a week or is it monthly or do you have group sessions how does that work Judi Moreo:  well we have all of that, they for the first 21 days if the kickstart program for the first 21 days I seen them three questions a day and they send me their answers and then on the twenty-second day we actually start the lessons because by then I have a knowledge of who they are and what they done and then we actually start the lessons and then they get one videotaped lesson every month in addition to that they get 52 audio affirmations  throughout the year sorry I'm sorry you and then they get daily affirmations and then in addition to that we have a closed Facebook page and they have like a mastermind group with just their group on the closed Facebook page and that's where they asked me questions directly and I answer them and we all work together on their particular goals. it's somewhere between private coaching and group coaching it it's kind of both but I don't have the time anymore to privately coach people I used to coach people privately and it was sixteen thousand dollars a year. and now I i do this online and it works out real well cause i can give them a lot of personal attention but at the same time they're getting the mastermind with other people who are on the same path trying to reach the same success. and the price is really reasonable and it's two hundred ninety seven dollars for the year you can't beat that and so I like it because i get to know people from all over the world and i get to know them on a more personal basis and they get to ask me questions based on my experience in my background and I have you know section extensive background in the business world especially as an entrepreneur. and so for them to be able to ask those questions personally to me it helps them a great deal as well Emmitt Muckles:   great great great one thing I really liked about contacting you are just doing my research on you i really liked your your website your web site is is beautiful i’ve  talk to some people for interviews , several people in the last couple of days and that the websites blow me away because it so clean and so beautiful and how you integrated your blog into your website as well as your blog attached to your website or is there a different address I know people have that Judi Moreo:you know it in the website its judimoreo/blog Emmitt Muckles:  your website is so informative because you can grab media about your media you can get your about you learn more about you you're speaking, your blog, your shop I was just kind of blown away you gave me some some direction and just you mentored me just by having a website can you believe that Judi Moreo:oh Emmitt, thank you thank you i'm gonna tell jake takes my my wonderful Jake naylor,  he's the guy that does all of my website and all of my graphic arts and he's just the most magnificent person and I i like my website because it's clean you made it looks so neat and pretty and I've had a lot of web people tell me all your websites to clean it needs to have more links that needs to be this way or that way and I just insisted on keeping it the way it is because i like this the way Jake get it i think he's a he's brilliant when it comes to putting these together it is Emmitt Muckles: the way I would say it's just it's simply elegant you in and also Judi Moreo:I'm count it and Emmitt Muckles: it shows you are NSA member how has NSA and which for those of you who are not very familiar with it that's National Speakers Association how they helped you to bolster who you are today Judi Moreo: oh my goodness i find the National Speakers Association and 1986 I mean that's a long time ago and that was where i sat down at dinner next to OG Mandino you know I said right next to get it at one of the first dinners I ever attended and I didn't know that was who he was I'd read all of his books and and he was sitting there and he asked me who I was and of course I went on and on and on about who I wasn't what I did and then I said and what you do and he said oh I right little books and I said oh really what kind of me said fables.  and I said oh what's the name of one and he said The Greatest Salesman On Earth. and I was like oh my gosh oh my gosh I i do you know anywhere you know when I said I thought you were dead you said my wife sometimes fix something and it's I you know I just blurted it out like that you know but I mean back then you sat next to people like norman vincent peale and Zig Ziglar and Og Mandino and Joe Charboneau and I mean these were the Great's of the speaking industry and they were all in the National Speakers Association. today many of those people have died but still the best speakers in the world that and the National Speakers association conferences. so i try never miss a conference because I get to meet people I get to hear all the latest things on training and development and all of the the latest technology. and you know it's one of the places that I discovered that the internet is the way for speakers to be selling themselves nowadays. it so that's why I started you know really making a presence on the internet and i started this online program to help people i can reach people all around the world and i would have learned about that if I hadn't been with the National Speakers Association and I mean the about all my best friends are from there so you just meet positive people everybody's coming up you know nobody's walking around complaining about things Emmitt Muckles: that's true Judi Moreo: i like positive people Emmitt Muckles:I've been to a few NSA meetings i started looking into it when I had an idea for a book and actually, I had this conversation with God to said I want to change direction and I had this book that i wrote and it's a and it was inspired by Og Mandino, because it's about the same size but I didn't know anything that do after that I was clueless are probably i'll send you a copy of it and I would like very clear so between that and toastmasters which I just kind of ran through they were like where did  you come from Judi Moreo: Toastmasters it's a great place for people who are learning to speak where National Speakers Association is about more about marketing yourself as a speaker Emmitt Muckles:and that's what i did not know at the time I was a complete novice I was just ignorant in this is information that people would like to hear that's why we're talking about it because it's about the journey and your journey is going to be a textbook for someone else in this little conversation that we're having here because this is this is what this will go on forever I've done podcast back in 2006 and i still get emails about them and I didn't even know they were still online. Emmitt Muckles: where do you see yourself in 2017 were right there at the precipice so what's a good oh Judi Moreo: I write my goal every year on New Year's Eve I have a I have a definite program that i do and i write my goals every year on New Year's even. I like right now I'm formulating all those goals for next year in my mind and then I write them down quarterly I say okay by the end of the first quarter i want to achieve this and by the end of the second quarter this and third quarter this and usually by the end of the second quarter I've already done the whole year because by writing them down and getting real clear on them that happens and so this year my my goal was to put the achieve more method up online and get it going that that was supposed to start 2017 and I got it already so i went ahead and launch it earlier so it's already up and running for the coming year and then i'm going to be doing a little bit more speaking on locally. I'm I'm trying to cut back on doing so much national speaking because national and international travel it's gotten harder and harder and harder i am going back to South Africa for a trip in march i'm looking will forward to that to do a program for a hotel chain over there that I've worked with in the past. it's called misty hills it's a wonderful a chain owned by Recreation Africa so i'm going there and then august i'll be going to Tanzania and 2 Kenya because i want to see the migration of the animals all my life I've been on my bucket list that i want to go and do that hot air balloon flight over the Serengeti when the wildebeast through all my grading and feel like signed up for it i bought it i bought the hot air balloon like I'm ready I'm but that's one of my goals for  this year personal Emmitt Muckles:goal good good good we have to have those you'll have to excuse my voice as i said i have i'm suffering a little bit of a cold here but there's one thing that we have not talked about and that's the country conquer the brain drain Judi Moreo:  oh yes that's it that's the interesting book that I real with me on Fiona McCulloch Carmichael she and i wrote that book a few years back we were hired by one of these women are companies that you go from city to city to city to do public seminars and people find out method and they go you know they pay like a certain amount $39 or $79 are $199 dollars may go for a seminar and the similar company ask us to write a a creativity day camp program for them and we did and then we went out on the road we tested this creativity day camp  across the country and it was very successful and so they bought it and they put it on their their menu of all the different courses that they have and then they had about 30 different trainers that actually trained the creativity day camp and one of the things we noticed when we were out there was they didn't have any product that taught people how to be creative and so we said well why don't we write a book for you and that you know you would put on the tables in the back of the room and so they said okay and we will conquer the brain they actually paid us a fee  to write the book and we wrote the book conquer the brain drain and then we ended up selling it and they had all these trainers across the country that we're selling it back of the room so the book did really really well it's a book about leadership and it is also about how to have more creative meetings because when we were doing our research we found out that people said that two biggest causes of the demotivation in the workplace where boring meetings and poor leadership. so we combine the two to make a book about leaders and how they can make their meetings more interesting to keep people wanting to come back and be in the meeting and accomplish the goals of the meeting.  and then we took the book to South Africa and we invited all the who's who of the Johannesburg to a luncheon and we spoke and we had them as I guess we gave them all the copy of the book and Penguin Books picked it up in South Africa and it became ignite the spark 52 creative ways to fire up your team and it was an international bestseller from there. Emmitt Muckles: you you're busy individual you've done some things in Judi Moreo:  my mind never thought I'm always creating something new Emmitt Muckles:if you could look back in time or if you could tell your yourself when you were let's say 30 if you could give yourself some advice when you were 30 what would that be Judi Moreo:  i would say never give up on your dream i would say believe in yourself and i would say even when you don't believe in yourself and you're scared do it anyway just do it anyway because if you have this little spark of something inside yourself that you want to do you need to go do it in a few years ago I got cancer and the doctor looked at means that you have about a year left and when somebody tells you you're gonna die you think oh my goodness did i do everything I wanted to do in this life bun did I did I handle myself by not having enough self-esteem by not just going ahead and doing things because there were so many things I wanted to do when I was younger that I didn't do because I was scared or because I didn't have the support or because someone said you can't do that or you don't have the education or you don't have the money or you don't do whatever and so when I got the cancer I made up my mind right then and there I am going to do for the rest of my life whatever it is I want to do I'm going to go after it I'm going to be it i'm going to have it i'm going to i'm going to just go forward and do it and you know what it has been incredible and and I applied my formula i have that little achieve more formula that i use and i applied it to my health I thought okay I don't want to die in a year the doctor can tell me I'm gonna die in a year how does he know. nobody knows i'm going to die except God right. so I made up my mind you be healthy and I just really really worked and it's been seven years now and I'm healthier never been in my life. Emmitt Muckles:  now that is a blessing. Judi Moreo: oh it is, it is a blessing because i had to make up my mind I wasn't going to do the chemo I wasn't going to do the radiation i was going to change the way i ate i was going to take care myself. so i would say to people like in their thirties i would say yes it's important to be successful but take care of yourself eat what what you should be eating not just the stuff that we think we should be eating or that we don't think about it all and exercise and get your rest and love yourself because, that's what makes you well that's what makes you healthy and whole and only when you're healthy and whole can you go out and see the things you want to achieve   Emmitt Muckles: I thank you so much for being on the billionaire lifestyle podcast do you have a twitter handle a facebook because those are the ones we cannot covered Judi Moreo:  again its Judi Moreo, i do everything under my name ju di mo re o,- but I want to thank you this has been a wonderful interview live I'd love talking to you and I do want you to send you that but let's see what we can do to help you promote it Emmitt Muckles:i'm going to send you the book and when I am coming to Vegas you pick up your phone because it took to call ready Judi Moreo:we'll go out for lunch you will but the water at the Bellagio and listen to the music or something wild. Emmitt Muckles:your from Las Vegas so. I've been i went to Vegas two years ago seven times in one year because I had so many people because I'm a trainer for a company and every time I would leave their someone would call me back like we need you here you're the only one that can do it after about the third time i was doing with Vegas but Judi Moreo:well you have to get from my eyes then you'll love it Emmitt Muckles: that's awesome and i will take you up on that this has been the billionaire lifestyle podcast you can reach it on Emmittmuckles.com  please download. give us your opinion leave us some stars.  let us know your comments those are the things that make us happy and it if we're happy you're going to be happy to. With that remember there's one thing that we all must do we must love the person in the mirror because that love internally starts and grows and spreads to everyone else till the next time we speak thank you Judy for coming and have an awesome day everybody  

Dalena Dillman Taylor, PhD, LPC, RPT, is an assistant professor at the University of Central Florida, past president of the North Texas Association for Play Therapy (2013–2014), and the play therapy certificate coordinator at UCF. Dr. Dillman Taylor graduated from the University of North Texas with doctorate of philosophy in counseling, with a specialty in play therapy in 2013. Dr. Dillman Taylor is a trained Adlerian play therapist and focuses her research on the effectiveness of Adlerian play therapy with children and adolescents who demonstrate disruptive behaviors or academic difficulties in the classroom and at home. In This Episode:   Child Parent Relationship Therapy, also known as CPRT, was developed as an adaptation of the Gurney’s Filial Model. Garry Landreth adapted this model to be delivered in 10 weeks. This type of therapy teaches parents Child Centered Play Therapy skills in an experiential way. It strengthens the relationship between children and their parents and/or caregivers. This program helps parents step back and look at the child’ holistically while remaining focused on the relationship. CPRT sessions are designed for groups, so that parents can connect and realize that they are not alone while learning from each other.  The group sessions are usually 2 hours per week, and after the 3rd week each parent and child (usually only one child at a time) have a special play session at home for 30 minutes to practice the skills. Each group session is designed intentionally to help them feel successful and proud of what they are learning, so only one main skill is focused on. The child centered play therapy skills are different from regular play time.  They focus on allowing the child to lead in the play without teaching or disciplining, but rather deeply connecting on a meaningful way that can boost children’s self-confidence, self-esteem, feelings of self-efficacy, and so much more. The “Be With” attitudes are an important component of CPRT.  I’M HERE, I HEAR YOU, I CARE, and I UNDERSTAND.”  This is not to be confused with always agreeing with the child or being permissive, but rather embraces a strong element of presence without judgement – positive or negative. Dr. Dillman Taylor mentions Dr. Dan Siegel’s brain research with children.  His work is so valuable when understanding what helps kids self-regulate their behavior and emotions. Dr. Dillman Taylor mentions Dr. Risë VanFleet as a great resource of how this approach can be adapted to work with individuals and couples. The CPRT manual is set up in a way that is convenient and packed full of knowledge and extras such as appointment cards, door hangers, assessments and much more. It’s important for parents to communicate to the child that the special CPRT playtime is important and valued. This type of therapy incorporates role play so that parents really get good practice with the use of some of the skills before they use it with their children. Dr. Dillman Taylor’s favorite rules of thumbs from the CPRT model are the following: (These are directly from the CPRT Manual) “Be a thermostat, not a thermometer! Learn to RESPOND (reflect) rather than REACT. The child’s feelings are not your feelings and needn’t escalate with him/her.” “What’s most important may not be what you do, but what you do after what you did! We are certain to make mistakes, but we can recover. It is how we handle our mistakes that make the difference. “   Knowing how the brain works as it relates to behavior is so helpful.  Dr. Dan Siegel has a wonderful “handy” model of the brain that can support this understanding with adults and children. Dr. Dillman Taylor has  a CPRT Training coming up in JUNE 8-10th.  It is a great training!  If you are a therapist living in or near Orlando, or if you are traveling from afar, this training is so worth your time.  It is one of the most valuable trainings that I have ever had the pleasure of attending.  I highly recommend it.   Click Here to Register   Resources Mindfulness, Brain Hand Model by Dr. Dan Siegel’s Video CPRT Training in June 2016 with Dr. Taylor http://education.ucf.edu/playtherapy/events.cfm Center for Play Therapy in Denton Texas

Wesley: Hi, I’m Wesley.Robyne: And I’m Robyne.Wesley: And this is Obstructed View.Robyne: Today we’ll be discussing Hir at Playwright’s Horizons, written by Taylor Mac, and directed by Niegel Smith.Wesley: Hir follows Isaac, a dishonorably discharged soldier coming home from the war, to discover that his father had suffered a debilitating stroke, and that his mother, Paige, took over the household turning everything he knew upside down.Robyne: The design team for Hir was, scenic design, David Zinn, costume design by Gabriel Berry, lighting design by Mike Inwood, and sound design by Fitz Patton.Wesley: The play setting is in contemporary lower middle class America and the design team really reached for a sort of hyper realistic presentation of this world.Robyne: The attention to detail in this design was exquisite. The designers all worked together to create this very detailed hyper realistic world. The sound design was sparse. I can only really recall two cues: It was the sound of crickets in act II, and the sound of a car driving away in act I, and that was all that was needed. The silence that filled the room when silence was called for was great. Everything else was practical sound.Wesley: What Fitz Patton’s sound design was able to do for me in those rare moments they used sound design, it gave this great sense of this expansive world outside this home we know. It was a vague, not so much foreboding, as it was expansive world of the unknown outside this home. She goes out in the car and you’re left to your imagination what this city looks like. It kind of makes this “everywhere America” kind of feel to it.Robyne: And in conjunction with Mike Inwood’s lighting design, which was discrete and subtle, this world became so defined. The restraint on the part of the designers really created this wonderfully realistic world.Wesley: Something that I initially disliked, which grew to be one of my favorite parts of the piece was this photo-realism, and the subtlety and the refinement with which these designers, including lighting designer Mike Inwood’s work, where it was so small in detail, and in presentation that these people were then grounded as people in a real setting, in a real social structure, and with real personalities and histories.Robyne: From the moment that the curtain went up David Zinn’s set and Gabriel Berry’s costume designs just- you immediately knew who these people were and where we were, within two seconds. Even the slightly absurd opening of this production, you got a very clear sense: who was in control, what the living situation was, what the financial situation was of this family. And, it was gorgeous, it was claustrophobic almost, how trapped the designers made us feel in that moment, in the chaos of the set dressings on this wonderfully detailed set by David Zinn.Wesley: Yeah, so David Zinn’s set, when the curtain opened, it really had this feeling of one of those “Eye Spy” books I had when I was little. Everything was everywhere. Nothing but color. Nothing but handmade mess happening, and the costume design by Gabriel Berry, they were both matched, the same level, which is not abstract mess, but concrete. These were people with a financial background, with an ability to create this sort of mess they have in front of them. This wasn’t generic mess. This wasn’t even high abstract mess. This was a concrete, people creating the world around them. And, as much as I thought those initial moments with Isaac coming into the home were manic and- I thought I was in trouble with the show- it really gave a good background to what this show was going to be about. Isaacs difficulty of getting into this world and his ultimate departure from it.Robyne: The set dressings beautifully illustrated the chaos that was going on at home, beautifully demonstrated the intentional chaos that Paige had decided to exert on her home. Wesley: And there were a couple reveals in act II in the space, once the place gets cleaned up, once you start to see that this home is just a place where these people are able to project themselves, and their personalities, and their desires onto it. Even if it is, the father punching holes in the wall. And these sorts of moments became so grounded with this world being photorealistic.Robyne: Overall I thought that the design for this piece was exquisite.5:00 It was a lot of high detail work, and designers getting out of the way, to allow a piece of this nature to happen.Wesley: Right, as I said before there was something about it that I didn’t care for in act I, mostly because the writing style, and the nature of this world we were in felt more archetypal, it felt more abstract. But come act II, with the grounding of all these characters and their histories, and their lives, it became one of the most important things to make this production a success for me.Robyne: Taylor Mac’s writing in this piece is, in my opinion, a little hit and miss. There are many instances of things being brought up, and immediately dropped. There are moments where reveals happen to no end. It was simply more information that was piled on and contrary, I feel, to the design which was very concrete and hyperrealistic and, as I said, claustrophobic, in a sense, the actual writing and concept of the play felt even slightly farcical, in an unintentional sense. The play occurs over fourteen hours, and we see the first and the last of those two hours. I feel there were a lot of logical fallacies in the reality they had created.Wesley: Absolutely, so we are loaded with a lot of history in this family the second they start, but none of those are revealed very organically. There was a great deal of information we as audience members needed to get really quickly in this piece to understand the complexity of this family and what they’re going through. Often it came off with this sort of improvisational air to me. I think one of the reasons so much of the information is given so ham fistedly in the beginning is that there’s so much to get. We, like Isaac, are dropped in the middle of this insane world. So, Isaac had been dishonorably discharged for using drugs, and was sent back home. Not only had his father, Arnold, suffered this stroke, but his mother, Paige, is drugging him (Arnold) with estrogen pills in order to keep him docile and not only that but his sibling, Max, previously his sister is going through transition and is now going by the pronouns Hir and Ze. Which is something brand new to Isaac and which is where the piece gets its title from. His mother Paige is excited about all of these changes, and all this power she has in the household. Isaac does his best to regain some control in the family, and a great deal of this information is developed in this improvisational air of “here’s this new piece of information, we’ll play with it for thirty seconds, until the next piece of information”, just keeping it on rotation like that, rather than keeping it organically developing a conversation.Robyne: For a world where there seems to be so much consequence for your actions, there seems to be very little consequence for your dialogue, in this world. And I found that very troublesome. The play felt like a divide between wanting to be this hyperrealistic kitchen drama where you see all these people as people, as separate individuals, interesting, quirky human beings. And on the other side, it felt like it wanted to be a very important philosophical conversation. Now to Taylor Mac’s credit the piece did not feel preachy in the least. There was a brief lesson on pronouns, that when looking around the audience I felt was really necessary, but was not exhaustive, and had a beautiful coda where Isaac, not knowing what to do with Max, simply stared and Max said “Hug me, just hug me.” And there was this gorgeous moment where they embraced and Isaac said something about how Max smelled different and Max said, “I know isn’t it cool?” And that was wonderful, and there was a number of these moments in the dialogue, most of them Paige’s, where you see the nonsensical, farcical airs she puts on break in these gorgeous moments of honesty. For instance, when Isaac goes to remove Arnold’s mumu, and clownish drag makeup, and Paige immediately snaps “We will not rewrite his history with pity.” Gorgeous. The underlying structure of the story is fascinating and gorgeous and the conflicts these characters go through are fascinating and it’s so fast. A lot of the reveals are so fast. The amount of time this play is supposed to happen is so fast. If this was a miniseries on HBO, if this was a new “Angels in America” for this generation. If this wasn’t a play, but the structure was longer and we were given more time for these reveals and to get to know these characters. A play is the wrong format for this story I think. 10:00The conversations around gender and trans community would be vastly different than how they are handled in this play in which we only had two hours and it would relieve a lot of the time constraint stress and it wouldn’t seem so farcical.Wesley: That moment you discussed earlier, when she says “we will not rewrite his history with pity,” that was the first moment in this play when I thought to myself, “here is a drama.” Everything up ‘til that point, I thought I was in trouble. I thought it was mania. But when that moment hit it became clear that these characters are to be understood as being people. I think that a lot of the transitions that happen during it, do happen too quickly for the time allotted. They feel shoehorned into this time span of the fourteen hours. Between act I, and act II Isaac refuses to give Arnold Arnold’s smoothie and the results of that are just so extreme.Robyne: He was immediately from this docile invalid, who for all intents and purposes is pity able, because what this woman is doing to him is inexcusable abuse, to a much more functional man, after being off of these drugs twelve hours later, and you can see in him the abuser he was. You can see in him the fun, rebellious kind of energy he used to have. And that is nonsensical over that amount of time. Another issue I had with this piece was Paige’s treatment towards Max versus Paige’s treatment towards Isaac. Paige is willing to go to the ends of the earth for Max, and wants to create this new world for her and Max to live in together. Whereas she has already written of Isaac. She is totally unwilling to put in any effort to save or even care for her son who comes home from the war broken with PTSD. Simply because he was born a man and has been adopted into the patriarchy which just feels wrong for this character.Wesley: I disagree, I feel that Paige’s treatment of the two of them, Max versus Isaac, makes a great deal of sense. Max is in communication with Paige. They’re working together to make this world inside their house. They’re working together to create a new society. Isaac comes in with his version of reality and with his earlier indoctrination by his father, a man who he still, although he has misgivings, he can esteem to the point of humanization. Which is something that Max and Paige have lost both the will and ability to do. And while I agree Paige’s treatment of Isaac’s PTSD, it comes off as horrifying at times, I think that Isaac needs to show a similar respect for Paige’s PTSD, which he is almost never doing. Her PTSD of living with an abusive man who raped her. Who did terrible things to her. It makes sense that she would want this lack of compassion for her to no longer exist in her home.Robyne: I agree, both of these points of view are valid to me. Isaac returning back home and seeing the chaos this home has created, attempts to impose a little order, a little cleanliness. There are dishes everywhere. There’s no food. There’s clothes thrown about willy-nilly. There’s no cleanliness. And his argument is ‘You can’t live like this.’ And coming right from the military, that’s a very strict world he comes from and the shock of coming home to this must have been extreme. Paige’s point of view on the other hand is that they no longer worry about order and cleanliness and they’re free to be the people they want to be, but that goes so far as to extend into their finances, where they no longer keep checkbooks, and if you’re coming from the world of being an adult that is not tenable. That is not a reality you can live in. And the fantasy that she creates is so extreme that that’s how she thinks it should be.Wesley: Something that you’ll notice throughout the production is Max’s moving back and forth between Paige and Isaac, in terms of allegiance. Whenever Isaac demands for the bed to be done in a military style, Max is all for it. Yet, when Paige says it’s time to don wigs and dresses, Max is all excited for that too. 15:00Hir ability to go back and forth between hyper masculine and hyper “matriarchy” perspective, and I’m putting that in air quotes, it shows the nature of this conflict happening in America between old patriarchal style and this sort of “new age” aesthetic.Robyne: And again the time in which Max switches. The time in which Max goes from one side to the next, in the dialogue is justified, my issue is Max switches so quickly. The changes are excused and reasoned for in the dialogue but, the switching of sides occurs in a matter of seconds due to a single instance of pulling out some wigs, and while that’s fun, it’s, again, just nonsensical, and it makes this world farcical, especially when it’s juxtaposed against a hyperrealistic set.Wesley: And it turns the conflict from being a family drama to an archetypal drama, this back and forth. It was one of the reasons I wanted an abstract set in the first act is -these didn't feel like they were supposed to be People first, they were supposed to be archetypes first. We have the fallen patriarchy we have the new found matriarchy, we have the person being pulled between the two sides, and we have the son of the patriarchy trying to reinstall it. We have these archetypes fighting for control, rather than a household trying to remain in peace. And in Act II, something that happened especially towards the ends was these masks of these archetypes were revealed to be just that, masks. That, this person who is supposed to portray the “patriarchy” might have more compassion and forgiveness than this person that is supposed to display the matriachy. That this person who was previously in power and lost it might not deserve this treatment. Every moment that I loved in this play was when people would just stop and understand each other as individuals, and recognize that the battles that they’re waging in terms of these archetypes, in terms of order vs chaos, are the veneer they put on, it’s their drag, in order to fight for just their piece in this household. Robyne: I think that goes a lot towards what Taylor Mac is trying to do with this piece, it just gets clunky at the end, in my opinion. The signals seem to get mixed. I, again, have a huge issue with Paige’s treatment of Isaac and Paige’s treatment for Max. I can’t speak for being in an abusive spousal relationship, in my mind, Paige’s actions towards Arnold are completely justified, whether they are right or wrong I can’t say, she is abusing him, however it is revenge, and it is justified, whether it is morally correct it is neither here nor there. Her treatment of Max is justified, and Max’s treatment of Paige is justified, in this world, in this dialogue. Paige’s treatment of Isaac, in my opinion, is not justified, in the realism, in the kitchen drama that this piece strives to be. I Understand her, but it is not- there is not enough evidence, there;s not enough reason for her to treat Isaac as shittily as she does. And the moment of violence that happens from Isaac is completely justified, because that is what happens when you ignore someone’s PTSD. And then she removes him from the house. And for someone who is so warm and caring and compassionate to one child, to not be that for the other child, is just so illogical. Wesley: I, I totaly disagree with that. I think that her treatment of Isaac as this person who is an infection on the household, this person that is trying to restore a balance that had caused her almost nothing but pain. While I don’t agree with her to kick him, I would like to think that if I were in her situation, I would be able to extend myself further to his situation, but it just gets at what I think all great political theatre gets at which is I understand and I disagree are not mutually exclusive concepts. 20:00And her kicking him out, she did it with a lot of cruelty. But I think it just went further to show her damage. This is a broken person too. We’re not suppose to agree with her, I think, when she kicks him out. I think we’re supposed to be wanting him to stay. But I’m not sure if it’s best for Isaac, as much as it is I’m not sure if it’s the right thing for her to do. She does it with a great deal of cruelty, she gives this horrifying monologue towards the treatment of soldiers when they come back from the wars. And I think a lot of made me okay with it was in Max’s decision to stay, Max’s decision to take care of hir father. I think that in this, in this choice to be compassionate against the person who caused hir such harm, something was learned from Isaac. And the idea that the learning of compassion could come from the person in the patriarchal society, and the cruelty could come from somebody with the veneer of the matriarchal, is the exact kind of discussion I like to hear from these sorts of archetypal presentations. Robyne: I agree, i think those are beautiful moments, and in Act I Isaac is the audience surrogate, the audience’s avatar into this world, where as in Act II the story shifts to being all about Max and Max’s experience and the audience sees the world through Max. I just feel that there are so many ghosts of darlings from previous drafts in this, like the drug use, like the puppet show, that it needs a good cleaning, and could do with a much longer run time, whether that is an extra half hour in the dialogue or - … it does not feel like a two act play, there is too much in it. And these conversations are wonderful, and these lessons are wonderful, it’s just too much and it loses itself in the absurdity. Wesley: Well I agree, that moments of this piece, such as, this puppet show that happens in Act II where we discover more of the father’s cruelty, and the drugs and the, and the sort of Abbott and Costello Routine with turning off and on the air conditioner, they were Vaudeville, they were not realism acting, they were not suppose to give us this sense that these are people. And I agree, they derailed the piece whenever they came in. They might have been decent ideas, and they, a lot of them, were fun, but they did very little to show us the full force of what is happening within this family. And as much as I love abstract theatre, I think this piece works best when it was at its most Chekov, when it was at its most American Kitchen Sink Drama. I like the ornaments on the wall, the handmade feel of everything, the idea that paige and Max created this world, not archetypal “Matriachy”, not archetypal “New Generation”, but Paige and Max created these things, which we got from the design, and which we got any moment there was silence and people looking each other in the eye. But at those points of absolute theatricality, it became dissipated into the playwright’s dreation. Robyne: What made this production extraordinary was the voyeurism we were allowed into these people's’ lives, and that got lost when the play needed to happen. Any issues I may have with characters, I did not have with the characterization. All four of those actors were phenomenal.Wesley: It was some of the best acting I’ve seen on a New York Stage.Robyne: Kristine Nielsen was a Triumph. Wesley: YepRobyne: She was an absolute titan in that role. While again I may not agree with the character’s decision, her portrayal of that woman, her portrayal of that pain and the fight for that facade and the ability to switch into that fantasy she had created for herself, while being totally grounded in that background was exquisite. Wesley: I think that this is what it must have felt like to see the role of Amanda performed for the first time in Glass Menagerie. 25:00She was an absolute force of nature, her joy, her eccentricities, and yet at the same time, the second she went down, to being crumbled, to being angry, it was done with such determination, and such certainty, it’s hard to describe this performance, it’s beautiful. It’s so beautifully rendered, and this Paige is treated with such humanity, but with such an objective sense of the morality of this woman, that it really was one of the things that made this performance for me. Robyne: Agreed. Wesley: Something that could have easily gone very sour very fast was the portrayal of the father Arnold by Daniel Oreskes. But once again, he was incredible, he was incredible. The way he was able to perform somebody with so few lines and so little dramatic internal anguish on the same level as the nuance in Max and Isaac, but to hold his own and not turn it into this Jar Jar binks atrocity or Minstrelsy was phenomenal. Robyne: The restraint and detail work that went into his characterization was phenomenal. The issues I have with character are in writing, in his being an invalid and within just a few hours blossoming into a much more functional human being, and while those were slight illogical fallacies for me, Daniel Oreskes was fully committed to every moment of that. Whether he was much more functional and aware or whether he was being yelled at fifty times to close the door. And his understanding, it never felt farcical and it never felt false. And that’s incredible to do. Wesley: Yeah, it - there was something about it that could have very easily been disrespectful, it could have been played for laughs, and with Paige fighting for laughter so often, it was nice to see this character grounded in his loss of mental cognition. Robyne: Cameron Scoggins Isaac was great, was a far more physical role than I was expecting. A lot of the physical comedy came from him and it felt a little puppet like from the director and playwright. But the honesty, the naivety, the love he has, the fight for what he thinks is right is all prevalent throughout the production.Wesley: His determination throughout the piece and his consistency in what he’s looking for created such a great contrast to characters such as Max and he performed it with such a heart and with such an understanding that this person, who a lot of us could easily dismiss as an archetype of a soldier comes home from the wars, he did it with such nuance and understood that in this insane situation that Isaac is dropped in, a real conflict is created within the character themselves, and a real grounded sense of need to find- to fight for organization, to fight for this household. I never got the feeling that he hated anybody in this house, but at the end when he punched her, when he punched Paige, that seemed to fit as much in the character as him hugging Max, and that speaks very much to Cameron Scoggins skill. And then lastly we have Max performed by Tom Phalen. I’m so glad that his character wasn’t treated by either the playwright or the actor as our voice of reason, as our audience, “Let’s stand in with this character”. This was treated as a teenager, this was created as a kid. Robyne: And beautifully so, the dialogue and the performance were both exquisitely adolescent, there was a lot of righteous indignation and narcissistic self certainty tied together with a complete lack of self-confidence and a self awareness of hir standing in the world. There were a number of times where Max talked about how all ze wanted was to go live with the radical fairies in this farm and how ze didn’t know what the future held for hir, but that that was what ze wanted. And that is so adolescent and gorgeous and it was, it was some wonderful full-bodied textures to this character. Wesley: Yes, and the understanding that while the battle was between mostly Isaac and Paige, knowing that ze was the battlefield. 30:00More than the house more than the air conditioning, the battle was over Max and the future of Max. And to see that there was no clear victor at the end, Max stays with Paige but commits to the compassion of Isaac, was so beautifully rendered, never seemed wise beyond hir years, but still had a wisdom to learn. Incredibly rendered. Incredibly - all these performances gave an idea of a family going through a paradigm shift at their core.Robyne: Agreed. So Wesley, is Hir worth the $65 non-member ticket price? Wesley: I would say absolutely so. If you know this doesn’t sound like your thing, then fine, probably don’t attend, but I do agree when you say this could be the start off a kitchen sink Angels in America. It’s beautifully performed it’s beautifully written and it tells an incredible story of this era. Robyne: Agreed. This is a great piece of theater. Catch it in the next rendition, ‘cause it will surely be back. Wesley: Yeah.Robyne: As always you can find us and join in on the conversation at obstructed-view.com or on Facebook or Twitter. I’m Robyne.Wesley: And I’m Wesley.Robyne: And remember. Wesley: Please, don’t nod.

Tonight On Culture Freedom Radio We Have Savannah Black's Conscious Attack! On this episode Mr. Black will mix a little bit of music, poetry, and my new Format(Jazz) to speak on how The System Of White Supremacy is taking over black culture, and also on events that happened during the week that effected the black experience of those living in Amerikkka and around the world..Tonight We're gonna talk about more Cowards and whether or not The People around You are with You to RIDE or DIE Or Telling A LIE! As You Know I Did the White Jesus Challenge and the responce is Overwelming, but the Support is NOT there From Certain People. It would surprise You how the Truth come out of People who You thought was down with the cause, but for the Challenge and to give Support they PAUSE!!!!! Its not for Everybody to do the BJPC and I Understand, but don't confuse Their Rhetoric as to how They really Feel In Their HEART because In Actuality....WELL YOU KNOW! We'll also talk about  Racism in America, Can the African in America be racist? Also MONEY MATTERS : Will Economic Empowerment Bring About Equality? Will Amassing Wealth Bring Us Equality???? Callers Are Welcome To Partake In This Conversation....As A Matter Of Fact This Basically Is A Free Style.....The Call in Number is 1-347-850-8030....Oh Yeah, The Theme Is....Step Your Game Up!!!

A Wonderful episode with musical master of melancholic comedy, Jonathan Coulton! Check him out at http://www.jonathancoulton.com/ and on Twitter @Jonathancoulton Check out the new episodes of the College Cooking News Feed at http://collegecooking.com/channels/news-feed And the new articles section I've put up at http://mikecomedy.com This episode's song, "I Understand" is available for download at http://soundcloud.com/mblejer Review on iTunes, Tweet me @Mikeblejer and generally say hi! Happy new year folks. 

In this episode we feature I Understand by Jay Woods and Brandon Nagel. “I Understand” began in 1999 as the title of a poem. Today, I UNDERSTAND offers organizations a spirit-led set of 12 principle life skills of understanding through curriculums and supporting items that establish inclusive, peaceful, global coexistence through understanding.