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Speaker 1: H'm my Boris and this is Striketalk.

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Speaker 2: The three c's.

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Speaker 3: Control what you can control, concentrate on what counts, cope

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Speaker 3: with what you can't control. I think we would all

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Speaker 3: live a better life.

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Speaker 1: Beedro Skoulan, Welcome to Straittalk.

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Speaker 2: Mike, thank you, Mark, appreciate it. Just take me back.

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Speaker 2: What's your story?

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Speaker 3: The Soviet Union had occupied Armenia, so my dad did

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Speaker 3: whatever he needed to do to bribe the Communist government

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Speaker 3: for us to go on vacation to Italy. He went

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Speaker 3: to the American consult and landed in Los Angeles, California,

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Speaker 3: as political refugees. At that time, we don't speak the language,

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Speaker 3: we don't understand the culture. We have two hundred and

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Speaker 3: ten dollars in our pocket. But with that said, coming

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Speaker 3: to the United States so young, I believe it gave

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Speaker 3: me an advantage to build myself into an entrepreneur with

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Speaker 3: multiple companies, and today I get to serve humanity because

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Speaker 3: of that. At twenty one, this gentleman Jim Franco, he

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Speaker 3: was mentor to me. He taught me how to become

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Speaker 3: an entrepreneur, how to create value and exchange for money,

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Speaker 3: how to solve problems the more complex. The problems that

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Speaker 3: you solve, the more money you can make. We are

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Speaker 3: wired to serve, but if you don't have a sense

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Speaker 3: of purpose, routine, the need to serve, we will start

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Speaker 3: self destructing and digging holes in our life alcoholic drugs, pornography, food,

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Speaker 3: social media.

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Speaker 2: How do you find out where your purpose is?

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Speaker 3: Good question, Well, I'll have two purposes. I'll start there.

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Speaker 3: Your first purpose.

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Speaker 1: Is dro schooling.

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Speaker 2: Welcome to Rye to Mike, thank you, Mark, appreciate it. Actually,

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Speaker 2: welcome to us, try to It is a pleasure to

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Speaker 2: be here. It's a wonderful place.

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Speaker 1: What are you guys doing You do on a tour

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Speaker 1: or something? What's happening?

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Speaker 2: Yes, yeah, so we're on a tour.

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Speaker 3: The tour is called Rise to Greatness Phizz Productions, and

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Speaker 3: so tomorrow will be in Melbourne speaking there, Rise to

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Speaker 3: Greatness Brisbane the next day and then on Saturday back

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Speaker 3: crowd again. Rice to Greatness is going to be a

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Speaker 3: wonderful event. You've spoken at one like that before.

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Speaker 1: It's sold out?

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Speaker 2: Yes, well yeah, the Sydney event has already sold out yet.

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Speaker 4: Wow, that's cool and by the way, you got to

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Speaker 4: what you gotta do tonight. You got to watch the

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Speaker 4: New South Wales as the Queen's then we've got the

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Speaker 4: talking about rise to greatness.

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Speaker 2: I mean, this is the greatest clash of.

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Speaker 4: Unadorned warriors that anyone's ever going to see. So I'm

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Speaker 4: just giving a quick tip. Get on a nine now, yep,

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Speaker 4: and watch that tonight, mate, because you're going to love it.

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Speaker 2: And tell me who I'm rooting for. You've got to

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Speaker 2: go from yourself yourself belt, please done?

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Speaker 1: So occolion. Now, So when I hear.

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Speaker 2: Names with I A and on.

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Speaker 1: The end of it, I immediately think of our Omenians.

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Speaker 2: Are you a Meanian? I am? I mean? And our

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Speaker 2: cultures are very similar.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, the Greek culture and our meaning cultures are very

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Speaker 4: similar in fact. But you and you guys love a

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Speaker 4: barbecue too, absolutely, Yeah, you love a barbecue, and so

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Speaker 4: we Greeks we love a barbecue as well.

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Speaker 2: We don't call a barbecue, but we do love a barbecue.

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Speaker 4: But just take me back, though, because you're obviously American

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Speaker 4: as in USA, take me a little bit back. How

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Speaker 4: did you become an American? And what's your story?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, so I'm actually transplant into the United States. My

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Speaker 1: Years whereabouts in the USA in Armenia.

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Speaker 2: In Armenia as part of the Soviet Union.

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Speaker 3: Ye as you know, the Soviet Union had occupied Armenia,

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Speaker 3: and in nineteen seventy four, my father became a member

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Speaker 3: loves American music, loves American culture, so he was like

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Speaker 3: an American who was born in a Communist country. And

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Speaker 3: so my brother, who's older than me by sixteen years, wow, sorry,

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Speaker 3: by fourteen years, he was about to go into the

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Speaker 4: As a conscription though, like as part of conscript like force, yes, yeah, exactly.

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Speaker 3: And back then the Soviet Army was fighting Afghanistan, and

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Speaker 3: of course these young men were coming back with limbs missing.

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Speaker 3: And my dad said, there's no way that we've been

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Speaker 3: us to escape into Rome. We spent ten days in Rome,

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Speaker 3: we went to the American consult and on day eleven

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Speaker 3: July sixth, June sixteenth, nineteen eighty we landed in lax

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Speaker 3: Los Angeles, California as political refugees.

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Speaker 2: Wow.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, so literally a former Communist now in the United States.

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Speaker 2: At that time.

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Speaker 3: We don't speak the language, we don't understand the culture.

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Speaker 3: We have two hundred and ten dollars in our pocket,

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Speaker 3: a family of five. I'm the baby of the family,

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Speaker 3: six years old.

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Speaker 2: So three kids mom, yeah, correct, three.

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Speaker 3: Kids in mom and dad and I'm the oops baby.

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Speaker 3: So in other words, my brother's fourteen years older, my

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Speaker 3: sister is sixteen years older, and I was born by accident.

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Speaker 3: But of course my thank god. Yeah, my parents say

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Speaker 3: that I'm their biggest blessing. And so with that said,

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Speaker 3: coming to the United States so young, I had the

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Speaker 3: good fortune to assimilate easier I assimilated, I was able

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Speaker 3: to live the American dream. We certainly lived in Section

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Speaker 3: eight housing, which is government insisted housing, which is low

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Speaker 3: income housing in Santa Anna, California, which is southern California,

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Speaker 3: Orange County. Santa Anna is the armpit of Orange County.

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Speaker 3: Is the only way I could describe it. It's even now.

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Speaker 3: It's not the greatest place. Nineteen eighty ganged infested, horrible community,

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Speaker 3: but we were blessed and grateful to be in the

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Speaker 3: best they could. My mom and dad, older brother, older

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Speaker 3: sister worked as much as they could and got us

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Speaker 3: out of there and moved us into Anaheim, California, cleaner,

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Speaker 3: better place. And today I live about thirty miles away

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Speaker 3: year from dementia. But I live in Chino Hills, California.

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Speaker 3: It's just outside of Orange County. Beautiful place to be,

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Speaker 3: and it actually reminds me Southern California reminds me so

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Speaker 3: much of Sydney in terms of the climate, the weather,

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Speaker 4: Yeah, that's do you have a thing to yourself about

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Speaker 4: the brivery, the courage and maybe the commitment that your

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Speaker 3: Mark, When I think about it, and I always tell

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Speaker 3: my son and daughter. So my daughter is sixteen, my

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Speaker 3: son is eighteen, Andrew and Chloe, and I tell them

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Speaker 3: it's not even the equivalent of like if we went

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Speaker 3: to Japan, from the United States to Japan, because today

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Speaker 3: you have Google Translate, so you could speak English and

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Speaker 3: it'll translate in Japanese. I said, it would be the

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Speaker 3: equivalent of escaping and going to Mars, where you're meeting Martians.

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Speaker 3: You're learning a new culture, a new language. There was

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Speaker 3: no Google Translate. They may want to kill you when

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Speaker 3: you get there. In fact, let's say the United States

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Speaker 3: would not be happy if we left. Like when I

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Speaker 3: think about the severity of punishment that my dad could

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Speaker 3: have faced if he got caught. Holy smokes, Like the

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Speaker 3: man risked his life, He risked our life to put us,

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Speaker 3: his kids in a better position.

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Speaker 2: What does that mean though?

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Speaker 4: To like A, I mean, you may not remember because

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Speaker 4: you're six, but perhaps you do. Perhaps your mom and

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Speaker 4: dad sort of relate stories to you. Your dad's my mind.

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Speaker 4: Dad probably related the stories to definitely your older brother

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Speaker 4: and sister. World to did you have to sort of

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Speaker 4: a holiday.

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Speaker 1: What's the deal?

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Speaker 3: So, so here's here's a great story for you, probably

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Speaker 3: about six months before we fled. Now I should tell

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Speaker 3: you to preface the story. My dad was in a

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Speaker 3: communist country. Everybody works for the government, right, and my

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Speaker 3: dad worked for a clothing manufacturing plant.

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Speaker 2: So he made.

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Speaker 3: Suits and he would put patterns like a vest, pants, slacks,

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Speaker 3: My dad got so clever he would put the patterns

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Speaker 3: so tight together that after making ten or eleven suits,

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Speaker 3: he had enough material and he would smuggle that go

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Speaker 3: the black market. This is how he raised twenty five

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Speaker 3: to allow us to go on vacation on a holiday

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Speaker 4: So this is like a sawd hustle, an absolute side hustle,

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Speaker 4: the school saw hustle man Mark.

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Speaker 3: In fact, one night, I remember it was dark, there

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Speaker 3: once you're a Communist party member, you do well for yourself.

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Speaker 3: But they had gotten word that my dad might be

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Speaker 3: planning an escape, so they said, we have to check

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Speaker 3: warrant in any of that stuff. They come in. I

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Speaker 3: remember they lined us all up against the hallway wall.

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Speaker 3: We're standing with our backs against the wall. They check

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Speaker 3: for everything. They look for a bimble, chalk, a meter stick,

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Speaker 3: anything that would signify that my dad is running a

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Speaker 3: side hustle. My dad was so good at hiding everything.

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Speaker 3: They found nothing. And my dad is fluent in five languages,

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Speaker 3: one of them being Russian, and these were Russian KGB agents.

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Speaker 3: So my dad said, look, let's not make this a

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Speaker 3: wasted trip for you. I've got this bottle of vodka.

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Speaker 3: Let's have a seat at the kitchen table and drink

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Speaker 3: and talk all night. They drank, He got them drunk,

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Speaker 3: made them happy, and sent them on their way. Six

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Speaker 3: months later, we were on our holiday to Italy, and

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Speaker 3: that was our escape.

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Speaker 4: And just pardon mignrance, but I don't know much about

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Speaker 4: Soviet Union time that time.

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Speaker 2: Was it okay to you on holiday.

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Speaker 4: So was that a thing you could say, OK, we're

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Speaker 4: going to get a holiday, but we're going to come

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Speaker 4: back them.

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Speaker 1: And how did it all work? An application?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's okay to go on a holiday to a

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Speaker 3: approved country, and of course Italy at the time, being

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Speaker 3: Communist sympathizers, Yeah, that was on the approved list. And

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Speaker 3: the story we had to make up, as the story

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Speaker 3: goes like this, that my mom has a sister in Rome, Italy,

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Speaker 3: which she did not.

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Speaker 1: I had to make the story up.

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Speaker 3: Oh, we had to make up a story. And we

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Speaker 3: had to make it look like we're going on a holiday.

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Speaker 3: So we left everything behind to family, to cousins, aunts

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Speaker 4: But when it comes to work ethic, maybe you could

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Speaker 3: from people to say, Mark, You've changed my perspective about money,

439
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Speaker 3: about wealth, about generation wealth. I can change my family's

440
00:21:04,480 --> 00:21:06,840
Speaker 3: trajectory in life. That feels good. Who doesn't want to

441
00:21:06,880 --> 00:21:09,800
Speaker 3: experience that? And so I think the people who say that, man,

442
00:21:09,840 --> 00:21:11,240
Speaker 3: if I just win the lottery, or if I have

443
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Speaker 3: half the money that you did, I'd buy a boat

444
00:21:13,080 --> 00:21:16,080
Speaker 3: and retire, never to be seen again. Yes, but I

445
00:21:16,080 --> 00:21:19,720
Speaker 3: also think within a few months you would start self destructing.

446
00:21:20,200 --> 00:21:24,560
Speaker 3: You would find the vice alcohol, drugs, infidelity, pornography, whatever

447
00:21:24,640 --> 00:21:28,000
Speaker 3: it is, and we are wired to serve. I'll give

448
00:21:28,000 --> 00:21:31,560
Speaker 3: you a great example. I've got this beautiful dog. She's

449
00:21:31,600 --> 00:21:35,120
Speaker 3: part German Shepherd, part mastiff, a big dog. She's nine

450
00:21:35,200 --> 00:21:38,840
Speaker 3: years old now. We rescued her she was eight months

451
00:21:38,840 --> 00:21:43,320
Speaker 3: old and eighty pounds, a very heavy dog, big dog.

452
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Speaker 3: We live in southern California, so we flew to San Francisco,

453
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Speaker 3: my son and I when he was small. We rescued Cookie.

454
00:21:50,800 --> 00:21:53,280
Speaker 3: Her name is Cookie, and we drove back for eight hours,

455
00:21:53,960 --> 00:21:59,040
Speaker 3: and in those eight hours, Andrew and Cookie bonded. We'd

456
00:21:59,080 --> 00:22:02,680
Speaker 3: never had a big dog, Mark, and so this dog

457
00:22:02,920 --> 00:22:05,760
Speaker 3: was pulling my wife and kids all over the property,

458
00:22:06,040 --> 00:22:07,840
Speaker 3: to the point where Chloe was falling on her face.

459
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Speaker 3: We only had small dogs, and so I decided, I'm

460
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Speaker 3: going to get a dog trainer to come. This lady

461
00:22:13,200 --> 00:22:15,920
Speaker 3: comes and works with Cookie for three weeks. At the

462
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Speaker 3: end of the three weeks, calls me over. She says,

463
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Speaker 3: this dog right here. You have to make sure that

464
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Speaker 3: you have a routine with her. I said, we'll kind

465
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Speaker 3: of routine. Well, maybe you can play fetch with her

466
00:22:25,960 --> 00:22:28,119
Speaker 3: every morning, throw the ball ten or twelve times, make

467
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Speaker 3: sure she fetches it. She's already bonded with your son.

468
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Speaker 3: You have to make sure she bonds with your daughter

469
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Speaker 3: and that she feels like she's protecting them, shepherding them. Okay,

470
00:22:36,840 --> 00:22:38,800
Speaker 3: got it, And she says, I really want to make

471
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Speaker 3: sure you're understanding me, sir. She could tell that I

472
00:22:40,880 --> 00:22:43,040
Speaker 3: was rushed, like, come on, lady, I've paid you, You've

473
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Speaker 3: done the work.

474
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Speaker 2: Thank you. Cookie is now, she sits, she heals, she walks.

475
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Speaker 2: You could leave.

476
00:22:47,760 --> 00:22:49,720
Speaker 3: She kept stressing the point, and she said, if you

477
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Speaker 3: don't do what I say with this dog, she will

478
00:22:52,200 --> 00:22:55,639
Speaker 3: start getting depressed and anxious, and she'll start digging holes

479
00:22:55,680 --> 00:22:57,720
Speaker 3: in your beautiful backyard, in that rose garden, and she

480
00:22:57,760 --> 00:23:01,080
Speaker 3: points to our rose garden. I said, how come, she said,

481
00:23:01,080 --> 00:23:05,400
Speaker 3: in the absence of having a routine and the need

482
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Speaker 3: to serve, she will start getting anxious and depressed, and

483
00:23:08,920 --> 00:23:10,760
Speaker 3: she will give herself something to do, which is to

484
00:23:10,800 --> 00:23:13,960
Speaker 3: dig holes all over your backyard. We're no different as humans.

485
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Speaker 3: If I don't have if you don't have a sense

486
00:23:16,800 --> 00:23:20,639
Speaker 3: of purpose, routine, the need to serve, we will start

487
00:23:20,680 --> 00:23:23,040
Speaker 3: self destructing and digging holes in our life. How that

488
00:23:23,080 --> 00:23:26,600
Speaker 3: shows up could be, like I said, alcoholic drugs, pornography, food,

489
00:23:26,720 --> 00:23:28,200
Speaker 3: you name it, social media.

490
00:23:28,520 --> 00:23:29,360
Speaker 2: There's so many.

491
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Speaker 3: Vices that people use to escape their realities from I

492
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Speaker 3: myself feel that my contribution to humanity will continue until

493
00:23:37,480 --> 00:23:39,600
Speaker 3: I take my final breath, because if it doesn't, I

494
00:23:39,600 --> 00:23:42,360
Speaker 3: will self destruct. I will find a way to destroy myself.

495
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Speaker 3: I feel you probably feel the same way. I think

496
00:23:45,280 --> 00:23:47,560
Speaker 3: most people are wired the same way. They just think

497
00:23:47,640 --> 00:23:50,520
Speaker 3: that if they had the money, that they would go

498
00:23:50,560 --> 00:23:52,879
Speaker 3: off on a boat somewhere. But we have the money,

499
00:23:53,000 --> 00:23:55,920
Speaker 3: and here we are creating content to serve humanity.

500
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Speaker 4: Yeah, and that's a very interesting take on the whole,

501
00:23:59,240 --> 00:24:01,760
Speaker 4: on the whole, a very interesting definition of the whole

502
00:24:01,800 --> 00:24:05,720
Speaker 4: process because I want to just take one step more

503
00:24:05,960 --> 00:24:08,520
Speaker 4: and I don't want to sort of double down too

504
00:24:08,600 --> 00:24:13,160
Speaker 4: much into the work ethic part. But for me, sometimes

505
00:24:13,440 --> 00:24:16,480
Speaker 4: these types of virtues being a hard worker, or being

506
00:24:16,480 --> 00:24:20,520
Speaker 4: a person who's prepared for give somebody, just having these

507
00:24:21,640 --> 00:24:28,200
Speaker 4: virtues characteristics in our makeup sometimes and there's nothing wrong

508
00:24:28,240 --> 00:24:32,440
Speaker 4: with this. It's nearly a selfish move because and there's

509
00:24:32,440 --> 00:24:35,360
Speaker 4: nothing wrong with it because it's a good selfishness because

510
00:24:35,400 --> 00:24:37,560
Speaker 4: there's a good outcome for everybody else, not just yourself.

511
00:24:38,080 --> 00:24:40,119
Speaker 4: Let's I hate the phrase win win, but it is

512
00:24:40,160 --> 00:24:42,960
Speaker 4: a win win, like you win, they win, And to me,

513
00:24:43,080 --> 00:24:46,959
Speaker 4: that's the best addiction you can have for me, and

514
00:24:47,000 --> 00:24:49,160
Speaker 4: I wonder whether this is the case for you. I

515
00:24:49,280 --> 00:24:57,439
Speaker 4: selfishly chase the work ethic. I selfishly chase helping others

516
00:24:58,440 --> 00:25:00,720
Speaker 4: because some thing happens in my brain.

517
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Speaker 2: I don't know what.

518
00:25:01,200 --> 00:25:04,040
Speaker 4: Hell, it is probably some sort of chemical that gets

519
00:25:04,080 --> 00:25:06,520
Speaker 4: expressed in my brain that makes me feel good. I

520
00:25:06,560 --> 00:25:09,680
Speaker 4: get rewarded, and it cased me alive and in case

521
00:25:09,760 --> 00:25:12,520
Speaker 4: me happy enough, and I mean happy, but just happy enough.

522
00:25:13,680 --> 00:25:14,000
Speaker 1: Is that?

523
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Speaker 4: Do you think that's the hallmark of an entrepreneur like you?

524
00:25:17,200 --> 00:25:20,520
Speaker 4: That selfishness that it's not self centered, yeah, but selfishness.

525
00:25:21,119 --> 00:25:23,840
Speaker 3: Because there's two forms of selfishness. There's a selfishness that

526
00:25:23,880 --> 00:25:28,080
Speaker 3: I could self destruct and go inward and obviously be

527
00:25:28,160 --> 00:25:30,760
Speaker 3: a bad example of humanity to my family, to my kids,

528
00:25:30,800 --> 00:25:33,240
Speaker 3: to the world and be hurtful and be hurtful, or

529
00:25:33,280 --> 00:25:36,280
Speaker 3: I could be selfish in creating companies and organizations. Look,

530
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Speaker 3: I've donated millions of dollars to Shrine As Children's Hospital.

531
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Speaker 3: These are a seri of twenty two hospitals across the

532
00:25:40,880 --> 00:25:44,040
Speaker 3: United States that help children whose families can't afford medical procedures.

533
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Speaker 3: A dear friend of mine, thirteen years ago he was

534
00:25:48,000 --> 00:25:51,200
Speaker 3: a police officer very limited income. He had a child

535
00:25:51,200 --> 00:25:54,720
Speaker 3: who needed a wheelchair. The spine was deformed. Shriner's Children's

536
00:25:54,720 --> 00:25:57,720
Speaker 3: Hospital helped that young man, and when I found out,

537
00:25:57,800 --> 00:26:01,360
Speaker 3: I said, when I become rich, I will keep donating

538
00:26:01,400 --> 00:26:03,600
Speaker 3: as much as I can. Today, we've donated millions of

539
00:26:03,640 --> 00:26:06,600
Speaker 3: dollars to Shrine our children's hospital. I've got ninety seven

540
00:26:06,680 --> 00:26:11,680
Speaker 3: kids adopted through Compassion International. Every Christmas, we spend anywhere

541
00:26:11,720 --> 00:26:14,479
Speaker 3: from thirty to fifty thousand dollars in our community at

542
00:26:14,480 --> 00:26:18,960
Speaker 3: the local Target store to buy Christmas gifts for kids

543
00:26:18,960 --> 00:26:21,440
Speaker 3: who would otherwise not have a Christmas gift Christmas morning.

544
00:26:22,440 --> 00:26:26,000
Speaker 3: That sounds very like, Gee, you're a really great human

545
00:26:26,000 --> 00:26:28,960
Speaker 3: for doing that, Betros, But it's also very fulfilling for me.

546
00:26:29,000 --> 00:26:32,119
Speaker 3: It's the most selfish thing I do because as a

547
00:26:32,440 --> 00:26:38,240
Speaker 3: young boy, I've dealt with sexual abuse, physical abuse, and

548
00:26:38,400 --> 00:26:40,320
Speaker 3: one of the most healing things I do is to

549
00:26:40,359 --> 00:26:43,320
Speaker 3: donate to these three charities that are all kid based,

550
00:26:43,440 --> 00:26:46,760
Speaker 3: child based charities. It's not lost on me. It's absolutely selfish,

551
00:26:46,760 --> 00:26:49,359
Speaker 3: but it creates a win and it allows me to

552
00:26:49,440 --> 00:26:51,520
Speaker 3: get that dopamine hit. It allows me to get that

553
00:26:51,560 --> 00:26:54,600
Speaker 3: serotonin hit, which keeps me happy enough so that I

554
00:26:54,640 --> 00:26:57,879
Speaker 3: don't self destruct, because I also realize I'm wired to

555
00:26:57,920 --> 00:27:00,600
Speaker 3: self destruct because of what's happen to me as a

556
00:27:00,600 --> 00:27:03,199
Speaker 3: young man. I have enough self awareness, and I've had

557
00:27:03,200 --> 00:27:06,240
Speaker 3: a great therapist as well explain to me that I

558
00:27:06,280 --> 00:27:08,320
Speaker 3: will self destruct. In fact, I asked my therapist many

559
00:27:08,359 --> 00:27:10,360
Speaker 3: years ago. His name is Kevin. I said, Kevin, I've

560
00:27:10,359 --> 00:27:13,080
Speaker 3: got seven companies and growing. We're donating millions of dollars.

561
00:27:13,080 --> 00:27:15,520
Speaker 3: This is fantastic. I feel like I've got a new addiction.

562
00:27:15,640 --> 00:27:18,800
Speaker 3: He said, great, do not stop this addiction. You are

563
00:27:18,840 --> 00:27:21,320
Speaker 3: an addict, and if you do stop this addiction, you

564
00:27:21,359 --> 00:27:24,320
Speaker 3: will be addicted to something that will destroy you. I said, Well,

565
00:27:24,320 --> 00:27:26,080
Speaker 3: then how long do I keep this going? He said,

566
00:27:26,080 --> 00:27:28,359
Speaker 3: and till you die? I said, check, got it. I

567
00:27:28,400 --> 00:27:30,119
Speaker 3: don't ask a lot of questions from people who I

568
00:27:30,119 --> 00:27:32,600
Speaker 3: feel are smarter than me. He said, keep going. He's

569
00:27:32,640 --> 00:27:34,359
Speaker 3: good for me. I'll keep going until I die.

570
00:27:34,480 --> 00:27:35,119
Speaker 2: So do you.

571
00:27:35,760 --> 00:27:36,280
Speaker 1: It's funny.

572
00:27:36,320 --> 00:27:38,600
Speaker 4: I'm glad I'm having this conversation with you. By the way,

573
00:27:38,640 --> 00:27:41,199
Speaker 4: the reason I do these shows is because I end

574
00:27:41,280 --> 00:27:43,040
Speaker 4: up meeting people like yourself and end up having some

575
00:27:43,080 --> 00:27:45,879
Speaker 4: brilliant conversations which I would otherwise never probably have the

576
00:27:45,920 --> 00:27:48,640
Speaker 4: opportunity to have and then lets me learn about myself

577
00:27:48,760 --> 00:27:49,520
Speaker 4: so selfishly.

578
00:27:49,560 --> 00:27:50,560
Speaker 2: Again, I'm learning.

579
00:27:50,400 --> 00:27:53,480
Speaker 4: About myself by talking to you about your experiences. And

580
00:27:53,840 --> 00:27:57,840
Speaker 4: so I mean, if we move beyond selfishness, and to

581
00:27:57,840 --> 00:28:02,360
Speaker 4: some extent, it's about us be coming more aware of ourself.

582
00:28:02,920 --> 00:28:05,440
Speaker 2: So you know, for me, it's an awareness.

583
00:28:05,480 --> 00:28:07,520
Speaker 4: So you know, I've accepted that I do these things

584
00:28:07,560 --> 00:28:09,439
Speaker 4: selfishly because at the end of the day, like you

585
00:28:09,480 --> 00:28:13,280
Speaker 4: just said, I probably would self destructed because I do

586
00:28:13,400 --> 00:28:17,600
Speaker 4: probably have an addictive personality in some respects. And you know,

587
00:28:17,640 --> 00:28:21,560
Speaker 4: I mean, I've experienced those times during my life. I'm

588
00:28:21,560 --> 00:28:24,160
Speaker 4: a lot older now, but during those younger years when

589
00:28:24,160 --> 00:28:28,639
Speaker 4: I didn't have great judgment relative to now, that I

590
00:28:28,680 --> 00:28:31,560
Speaker 4: would probably do things were a bit destructive of me

591
00:28:31,600 --> 00:28:32,399
Speaker 4: and people around me.

592
00:28:32,640 --> 00:28:34,320
Speaker 1: And which is terrible because I got four.

593
00:28:34,160 --> 00:28:36,440
Speaker 4: Sons and they are usually the closest people that totally

594
00:28:36,520 --> 00:28:38,800
Speaker 4: they are they always are ex wives. I've had three

595
00:28:39,040 --> 00:28:43,200
Speaker 4: ex wives, I've got four sons, these got three grandsons.

596
00:28:43,200 --> 00:28:48,440
Speaker 4: But like, I know what the outcomes are because I'm

597
00:28:48,480 --> 00:28:51,480
Speaker 4: self aware, and I think that people listening to this

598
00:28:51,600 --> 00:28:53,600
Speaker 4: and having the opportunity to listen to someone like you

599
00:28:54,320 --> 00:28:58,000
Speaker 4: in this environment, you know they if they want to

600
00:28:58,040 --> 00:29:01,760
Speaker 4: be entrepreneurs. There are a lot of traits that entrepreneurs

601
00:29:01,840 --> 00:29:05,000
Speaker 4: have in common. Probably the most important thing, though, is

602
00:29:05,040 --> 00:29:08,719
Speaker 4: to build self awareness of yourself absolutely. And you know,

603
00:29:08,720 --> 00:29:12,560
Speaker 4: it's great that someone like you makes these admissions because

604
00:29:12,560 --> 00:29:15,880
Speaker 4: a lot of people, you know, someone's I don't want

605
00:29:15,880 --> 00:29:17,120
Speaker 4: to say that. I don't know whether they want to

606
00:29:17,160 --> 00:29:18,280
Speaker 4: keep it a secret or not, but they don't want

607
00:29:18,280 --> 00:29:21,600
Speaker 4: to talk about why they act what drives them. What

608
00:29:21,680 --> 00:29:24,040
Speaker 4: drives me is self awareness of if I don't do

609
00:29:24,080 --> 00:29:26,480
Speaker 4: these things, I'm going to have a bad outcome. I'm

610
00:29:26,480 --> 00:29:28,239
Speaker 4: going to be sitting around thinking about what else can

611
00:29:28,280 --> 00:29:30,720
Speaker 4: I get up to? Even at my current a I'm

612
00:29:30,720 --> 00:29:33,080
Speaker 4: sixty eight, Like even now, I was started thinking about

613
00:29:33,120 --> 00:29:34,840
Speaker 4: It's one of the reasons I wrestle with Larry, who

614
00:29:34,840 --> 00:29:36,760
Speaker 4: you've been wrestling with, And one of the reasons I

615
00:29:36,840 --> 00:29:39,680
Speaker 4: used to box, because it's sort of like a nearly

616
00:29:39,720 --> 00:29:42,040
Speaker 4: like a self destruct thing. I've got to get in

617
00:29:42,080 --> 00:29:45,480
Speaker 4: there and get ruffed up by someone like Larry is

618
00:29:45,640 --> 00:29:47,960
Speaker 4: much better than probably both of us at the end

619
00:29:47,960 --> 00:29:50,160
Speaker 4: of day. You know, he's an expert, but it puts me,

620
00:29:50,240 --> 00:29:50,960
Speaker 4: brings me back.

621
00:29:50,840 --> 00:29:53,120
Speaker 2: To ground to reality all the time. Mate.

622
00:29:53,280 --> 00:29:55,320
Speaker 4: You know, just remember how old you are, who you are.

623
00:29:55,960 --> 00:29:58,360
Speaker 4: You know you're not King Kong. Do you go through

624
00:29:58,400 --> 00:29:59,840
Speaker 4: those same processes yourself?

625
00:30:00,160 --> 00:30:00,760
Speaker 2: Absolutely?

626
00:30:00,800 --> 00:30:03,760
Speaker 3: In fact, I currently have a torn tricept and it

627
00:30:03,840 --> 00:30:08,120
Speaker 3: was because last year I was boxing, testing myself, challenging myself,

628
00:30:08,160 --> 00:30:09,920
Speaker 3: and as I went to throw a left cross, I

629
00:30:09,960 --> 00:30:12,160
Speaker 3: got checked and pop went my tricepts.

630
00:30:12,200 --> 00:30:15,480
Speaker 1: I've done that, okay, faves. I had to get reconnected though.

631
00:30:15,480 --> 00:30:15,840
Speaker 2: There you go.

632
00:30:15,880 --> 00:30:17,560
Speaker 3: I have to get my reconnected. I just haven't made

633
00:30:17,560 --> 00:30:20,440
Speaker 3: time for it yet, and so that again grounds me.

634
00:30:20,520 --> 00:30:22,920
Speaker 3: It reminds me that who I am, that I'm not

635
00:30:23,160 --> 00:30:25,920
Speaker 3: indestructible like I used to think I was, That there

636
00:30:26,080 --> 00:30:30,040
Speaker 3: is repercussions to actions. We need that especially we're type

637
00:30:30,040 --> 00:30:34,760
Speaker 3: A tightly wound high speed. When people say describe yourself,

638
00:30:34,800 --> 00:30:37,320
Speaker 3: I say, type A tightly wound high speed, and I

639
00:30:37,320 --> 00:30:39,920
Speaker 3: can immediately spot someone just like me. We're cut from

640
00:30:39,920 --> 00:30:41,640
Speaker 3: the same cloth like I. As soon as I met you,

641
00:30:41,680 --> 00:30:44,160
Speaker 3: I'm like type A tightly wound high speed like this,

642
00:30:44,200 --> 00:30:46,280
Speaker 3: man will lose interest very quickly, or he will lock

643
00:30:46,320 --> 00:30:49,000
Speaker 3: onto a conversation if it interests him. And that's how

644
00:30:49,040 --> 00:30:51,960
Speaker 3: I am, and again I think most people can get there,

645
00:30:51,960 --> 00:30:53,760
Speaker 3: but it takes a high level of self awareness. And

646
00:30:53,800 --> 00:30:55,960
Speaker 3: I think the question to ask is how do we

647
00:30:56,000 --> 00:30:57,640
Speaker 3: develop a high level of self awareness?

648
00:30:57,640 --> 00:31:01,280
Speaker 2: That is the question right what you'll what show you it.

649
00:31:01,200 --> 00:31:04,720
Speaker 3: Is to bring down your ego defenses because as men,

650
00:31:04,920 --> 00:31:08,040
Speaker 3: especially male entrepreneurs especially, and this is where women I

651
00:31:08,080 --> 00:31:12,800
Speaker 3: believe are much better than us in this category, we

652
00:31:12,840 --> 00:31:17,000
Speaker 3: are driven, driven, driven, driven, driven to create an outcome.

653
00:31:17,280 --> 00:31:19,480
Speaker 3: We want to kill, fuck and conquer. That's what men

654
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Speaker 3: want to do. And so it takes a high level

655
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Speaker 3: of ego to stay focused on that, to think that

656
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Speaker 3: you're better than everybody else, that no one else can

657
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Speaker 3: do what you do, and that I'm indestructible, and I

658
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Speaker 3: will build a team, share my vision with my team,

659
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Speaker 3: and we will attack the goal.

660
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Speaker 2: But at what cost?

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Speaker 3: And so if you can bring your ego defenses down,

662
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Speaker 3: you can bring up your self awareness. Ego goes up,

663
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Speaker 3: self awareness goes down. Those two things are related. I

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Speaker 3: learned that eleven years ago at the age of thirty eight,

665
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Speaker 3: when I had a massive panic attack. I thought it

666
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Speaker 3: was a heart attack, and I remember thinking, Who's going

667
00:31:56,040 --> 00:31:58,200
Speaker 3: to walk Chloe down the Aisle. If I die right now,

668
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Speaker 3: who's going to teach Andrew my son to be a

669
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Speaker 3: modern Dante. And I remember thinking to myself, if I

670
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Speaker 3: could just be spared, I'll change my ways. Needless to say,

671
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Speaker 3: it wasn't a heart attack. It was a panic attack

672
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Speaker 3: of many that I would have subsequently. But it took

673
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Speaker 3: reducing my ego, realizing that I'm not indestructible, that I

674
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Speaker 3: don't have the answers to everything that I do need

675
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Speaker 3: to yield at times. And also you know this, with

676
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Speaker 3: time comes wisdom. Time plus experiences wisdom. Yeah, right, And

677
00:32:26,280 --> 00:32:29,240
Speaker 3: so as the ego goes down, self awareness comes up

678
00:32:29,280 --> 00:32:30,640
Speaker 3: and you realize I am a human.

679
00:32:30,720 --> 00:32:33,400
Speaker 2: I need to serve. If I stop serving, I self destruct.

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Speaker 4: So you hit on the very topic entrepreneur and also

681
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Speaker 4: ego versus awareness self awareness. This way, I don't want

682
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Speaker 4: to be in delegate, but one of the one of

683
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Speaker 4: America's big as entrepreneurs. You know, he managed to make it,

684
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Speaker 4: get himself voted in as the President of the United States.

685
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Speaker 4: You know, there's not much more you can do as

686
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Speaker 4: an entrepreneur in life. You know, you go from a

687
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Speaker 4: businessman to becoming the president. Not a career politician, but

688
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Speaker 4: I'm going to become the president. That's that's the he

689
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Speaker 4: did it, and Trump did that. He got grazed. There

690
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Speaker 4: had to have been a couple of millimeters in your

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Speaker 4: case of centemeter in your case, and he American a system.

692
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Speaker 2: He might have.

693
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Speaker 4: Been in a dreadful position and USA could have been

694
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Speaker 4: in a bit of chaos because I would have thought,

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Speaker 4: you tell me, it seems to be division in the

696
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Speaker 4: United States. And do you think there would have been

697
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Speaker 4: an overreaction if something had to happen to him.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, there, let's just be honest. There was an attempted

699
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Speaker 3: assassination on former President Trump. They tried to cancel him,

700
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Speaker 3: then they tried to stop him at using the court system,

701
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Speaker 3: the legal system, and the third and five attempt is

702
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Speaker 3: an assassination. This was an assassination attempt that did not

703
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Speaker 3: work out. I don't know if God's hand, I don't

704
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Speaker 3: know if it was God's hand. I don't know if

705
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Speaker 3: it was just sheer luck that he turned his head

706
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Speaker 3: in the right moment that the bullet grazed his ear

707
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Speaker 3: instead of hitting him in the back of the head

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Speaker 3: and killing him. Whatever it was, I believe if that

709
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Speaker 3: bullet had hit the intended target in the head, Trump

710
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Speaker 3: in the head and he died, we would have seen

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Speaker 3: the breakout of civil war. Because, sadly, and it breaks

712
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Speaker 3: my heart, man, my dad risked his life, risked our

713
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Speaker 3: life to bring us to the United States. The United

714
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Speaker 3: States today is not the United States that I came

715
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Speaker 3: to the United States that I came to. Yes, it

716
00:34:41,239 --> 00:34:44,400
Speaker 3: still had problems, but people were somewhere in the middle.

717
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Speaker 3: Today it's so divisive, it's so divided, and I believe

718
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Speaker 3: that if Trump had died, that would be the final

719
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Speaker 3: straw that would send the country into civil war.

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Speaker 4: Well, it maybe can help me out, he because I

721
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Speaker 4: just tend to understand where it came from.

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Speaker 1: We have a little bit to vision here.

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Speaker 4: No, we need to extent what we observe in the

724
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Speaker 4: US at the moment, and probably the same in the

725
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Speaker 4: UK at the moment too.

726
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Speaker 2: And perhaps other places.

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Speaker 4: But what do you think it is that they are

728
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Speaker 4: so diametrically opposed, Biden and Trump and the red and

729
00:35:16,080 --> 00:35:19,640
Speaker 4: blue and the left and the right, so diametrically imposed,

730
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Speaker 4: like it's just like so much so that when I

731
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Speaker 4: watch TV, I will go from sending to Fox like

732
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Speaker 4: your stations and they are completely different.

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Speaker 3: Well, I'll give you a great example when it when

734
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Speaker 3: the assassination attempt happened this past Saturday, July thirteenth, CNN

735
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Speaker 3: said President Trump was whisked away by Secret Service after

736
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Speaker 3: a fall. After he fell during his press conference. You

737
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Speaker 3: go to Fox News and it says President Trump just

738
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Speaker 3: feaced an attempted assassinate and Secret Service wisked them away.

739
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Speaker 3: That's how far the story is. So if you only

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Speaker 3: if you have tunnel vision and you're only getting your

741
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Speaker 3: news from CNN. And just so you know, I'm neither

742
00:36:10,000 --> 00:36:12,520
Speaker 3: left or right, I'm right down the middle. I'm right

743
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Speaker 3: down the middle. I'm a constitutionalist. Let's just go by

744
00:36:15,040 --> 00:36:18,640
Speaker 3: the Constitution. And by the way, you know, my family

745
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Speaker 3: and I we went to dinner in southern California about

746
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Speaker 3: two weeks ago. There's this beautiful road car called Carbon Canyon,

747
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Speaker 3: thirteen miles of twisting turns that connects Brea and Chino Hills,

748
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Speaker 3: my city and the city that we were having dinner.

749
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Speaker 3: In ten o'clock at night, I said, hey, let's go

750
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Speaker 3: through this beautiful scenic road. And as we come around

751
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Speaker 3: one of the corners, we see two cars that have

752
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Speaker 3: just crashed into each other, a tesla and a Midsubishi hatchback,

753
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Speaker 3: a young Asian man in one, Hispanic lady, and another.

754
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Speaker 3: A white couple had just pulled over to help them out.

755
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Speaker 3: And you're probably wondering whysely naming off ethnicities. No police yet,

756
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Speaker 3: no fire department, nothing. I've got a first aid kit.

757
00:36:56,480 --> 00:36:59,520
Speaker 3: I'm first s aid certified. I pulled over, had my

758
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Speaker 3: wife nine one one while my son and I ran

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Speaker 3: out to help. In that moment, the young man with

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Speaker 3: the gash on his head, I could see his skull,

761
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Speaker 3: the woman in the tesla with the bloody nose, and

762
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Speaker 3: the white folks who stopped. No one asked me, and

763
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Speaker 3: I didn't ask them what is your political affiliation? We

764
00:37:15,880 --> 00:37:18,920
Speaker 3: just wanted to help. I believe that's most of America,

765
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Speaker 3: that's most of the citizens. The divisiveness has taken place

766
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Speaker 3: now where the extreme on the left and the extreme

767
00:37:27,160 --> 00:37:30,280
Speaker 3: on the right have gotten so loud, and social media

768
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Speaker 3: is a great amplifier of the extremes.

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Speaker 2: That's it. It's a great amplifier of the extremes.

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Speaker 3: And I remember driving off thinking, you know, I don't

771
00:37:38,360 --> 00:37:40,560
Speaker 3: know that guy's sexual orientation. I don't know if he

772
00:37:40,640 --> 00:37:43,520
Speaker 3: votes Trump or Biden. Quite honestly, I don't care if

773
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Speaker 3: he's a transsexual unicorn. He needed help, I was there

774
00:37:47,000 --> 00:37:49,760
Speaker 3: to patch him up. The police came, I drove off.

775
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Speaker 2: That's it.

776
00:37:51,200 --> 00:37:53,759
Speaker 3: Yet on social media he could very well tell me

777
00:37:53,840 --> 00:37:56,279
Speaker 3: to go f off and pound sand And so I

778
00:37:56,360 --> 00:37:59,759
Speaker 3: realized that social media amplifies divisiveness. Most people who are

779
00:37:59,800 --> 00:38:02,760
Speaker 3: in the middle, we just want to have a good life,

780
00:38:02,840 --> 00:38:05,000
Speaker 3: we want a secure community, we want to make sure

781
00:38:05,000 --> 00:38:08,000
Speaker 3: there's some legacy for our family, et cetera. Those on

782
00:38:08,040 --> 00:38:11,160
Speaker 3: the extremes are the ones, the squeaky wheels that require

783
00:38:11,160 --> 00:38:14,960
Speaker 3: the oil that are amplified. Why this has amplified so

784
00:38:15,080 --> 00:38:18,440
Speaker 3: much post pandemic, I'm not sure. I'm not sure, but

785
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Speaker 3: I can tell you that there seems to be I'm

786
00:38:21,040 --> 00:38:23,520
Speaker 3: not a conspiracy theorist, but there seems to be an

787
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Speaker 3: agenda to erode the American constitution and to get more

788
00:38:31,719 --> 00:38:34,640
Speaker 3: control and compliance over the population, and that I don't

789
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Speaker 3: agree with.

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Speaker 1: Do you think is it social media though.

791
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Speaker 4: Amplifying it on purpose, or is it the extreme left

792
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Speaker 4: and extreme right.

793
00:38:46,440 --> 00:38:49,320
Speaker 2: Leveraging social media to their purpose.

794
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Speaker 3: I think it's the latter. It's the extreme left and

795
00:38:52,320 --> 00:38:55,160
Speaker 3: extreme right leveraging social media. And great example of this

796
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Speaker 3: we saw when Elon purchased Twitter. He proved that certain accounts,

797
00:39:01,719 --> 00:39:07,680
Speaker 3: certain voices were muffled, were throttled, were turned off. In fact,

798
00:39:08,120 --> 00:39:10,400
Speaker 3: the FBI had a finger in the whole process. He

799
00:39:10,600 --> 00:39:15,640
Speaker 3: exposed everything. And so, now, who's given the FBI the

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Speaker 3: orders to reach out to Twitter and to decide who

801
00:39:18,840 --> 00:39:21,719
Speaker 3: gets a voice and who doesn't. Because Twitter, for the

802
00:39:21,760 --> 00:39:24,839
Speaker 3: most part was America's town hall. It's kind of how

803
00:39:24,840 --> 00:39:29,520
Speaker 3: we look at it, right, and so originally originally, originally, yeah,

804
00:39:29,840 --> 00:39:31,160
Speaker 3: so who's giving those orders?

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Speaker 2: I don't know. Is there a deep state? I don't know?

806
00:39:33,560 --> 00:39:35,319
Speaker 3: And so I go back to what I know, which

807
00:39:35,360 --> 00:39:38,040
Speaker 3: is I will take an internal locus of control. I

808
00:39:38,120 --> 00:39:40,480
Speaker 3: know the people who I care for. I will look

809
00:39:40,520 --> 00:39:43,000
Speaker 3: out for them. I will take control of my own finances.

810
00:39:43,080 --> 00:39:47,160
Speaker 3: I will create my own sovereignty. I will have my thoughts.

811
00:39:48,480 --> 00:39:50,959
Speaker 3: I will curate the thoughts that occupy my mind. Whether

812
00:39:51,000 --> 00:39:54,920
Speaker 3: it's I listened to the radio, a podcast, television, social media,

813
00:39:55,239 --> 00:39:57,600
Speaker 3: news media doesn't matter. I control the thoughts that occupy

814
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Speaker 3: my mind and the people I surround myself with. Those

815
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Speaker 3: two things have the highest influence on my behavior, and

816
00:40:02,719 --> 00:40:05,920
Speaker 3: then my behavior determines my outcome in life. And so

817
00:40:06,160 --> 00:40:08,200
Speaker 3: I don't know what is going on in the United States.

818
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Speaker 3: I don't know why there was an assassination attempt on

819
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Speaker 3: our presidents. I don't know why the Secret Service for

820
00:40:14,360 --> 00:40:17,040
Speaker 3: a good forty eight seconds or forty seven seconds, knew

821
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Speaker 3: where the bad guy was and did not shoot him.

822
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Speaker 3: Why they waited for him to take shots off. I

823
00:40:21,719 --> 00:40:24,080
Speaker 3: could go down the rabbit hole like every other American

824
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Speaker 3: and start wringing my hands over conspiracy theories. How's that

825
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Speaker 3: going to help me make more money, have more meaning,

826
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Speaker 3: and develop self mastery?

827
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Speaker 2: It's not.

828
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Speaker 3: And so while I'm fully aware of what's going on,

829
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Speaker 3: I choose to control what I can't control, concentrate on

830
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Speaker 3: what counts, and then cope with what I can't control.

831
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Speaker 3: And I think if more people did that, the three c's,

832
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Speaker 3: Control what you can control, concentrate on what counts, and

833
00:40:48,320 --> 00:40:50,719
Speaker 3: cope with what you can't control, I think we would

834
00:40:50,719 --> 00:40:52,239
Speaker 3: all live a better life, no matter if you're in

835
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Speaker 3: the States or in Australia.

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Speaker 4: So do you think in your case at least is

837
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Speaker 4: your advice then to listeners and anybody for that matter

838
00:41:01,000 --> 00:41:01,920
Speaker 4: who seeks your advice.

839
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Speaker 1: Extract yourself from the noise.

840
00:41:04,960 --> 00:41:07,400
Speaker 2: It's the only way because people.

841
00:41:07,200 --> 00:41:08,960
Speaker 1: Do get caught up in the conspiracy because it is

842
00:41:09,000 --> 00:41:11,040
Speaker 1: sort of interesting. I mean, it's sort of.

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00:41:11,680 --> 00:41:14,680
Speaker 4: More sometimes some people are obsessed by it, but there

844
00:41:14,719 --> 00:41:17,239
Speaker 4: also is a curiosity around it. Like, OK, can you

845
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Speaker 4: imagine that someone, as you say, like sitting in the background,

846
00:41:20,160 --> 00:41:22,239
Speaker 4: and there's a whole movement sitting around them, and they've

847
00:41:22,640 --> 00:41:26,319
Speaker 4: infiltrated all these various places and they're all acting in

848
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Speaker 4: concert at the same time, and there's a supreme ruler

849
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Speaker 4: of this conspiracy, and you know, we don't know who

850
00:41:32,719 --> 00:41:33,520
Speaker 4: this person will be.

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Speaker 1: It's nearly double O seven stuff.

852
00:41:36,320 --> 00:41:40,040
Speaker 4: But and then it it amounts to nothing for us,

853
00:41:40,120 --> 00:41:44,200
Speaker 4: any one of us normal people. An extraction of yourself

854
00:41:44,239 --> 00:41:46,440
Speaker 4: from the noise, but at the same time still listening

855
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Speaker 4: to it.

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Speaker 2: How do you do that?

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00:41:48,440 --> 00:41:51,000
Speaker 4: How do you manage extract but at the same time

858
00:41:51,120 --> 00:41:52,480
Speaker 4: still be engaged a little bit?

859
00:41:52,600 --> 00:41:57,440
Speaker 3: Yeah, awareness, but not addiction. Be aware of what's happening,

860
00:41:57,680 --> 00:42:00,400
Speaker 3: but don't be so addicted to the chaos that you

861
00:42:00,480 --> 00:42:02,480
Speaker 3: forget what's happening here. And I'll give you a smaller

862
00:42:02,480 --> 00:42:05,480
Speaker 3: example on my show on my YouTube show. I always

863
00:42:05,480 --> 00:42:08,160
Speaker 3: talk about this, and I remant for it. I say,

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00:42:08,239 --> 00:42:10,960
Speaker 3: you know your favorite baseball team, your favorite basketball team,

865
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Speaker 3: your favorite football team. You know all the players, you

866
00:42:13,120 --> 00:42:16,279
Speaker 3: know their stats, you know who got traded where and how,

867
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Speaker 3: and how much they're making and what they're at batting averages.

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Speaker 3: You don't know your own fucking anniversary. You don't know

869
00:42:22,520 --> 00:42:26,040
Speaker 3: your kid's birthdays. You don't know exactly how much money

870
00:42:26,040 --> 00:42:27,520
Speaker 3: you have in your bank account, you don't know what

871
00:42:27,560 --> 00:42:30,279
Speaker 3: your financial trajectory is. Yet you carry the name, you

872
00:42:30,280 --> 00:42:32,319
Speaker 3: wear the jersey, you wear a jersey with another man's

873
00:42:32,400 --> 00:42:34,840
Speaker 3: name on your back, and you don't own the team.

874
00:42:35,200 --> 00:42:37,640
Speaker 3: And I'm not opposed to rooting for teams. Like I

875
00:42:37,680 --> 00:42:39,880
Speaker 3: said todight, I'll be watching the game and I'll be

876
00:42:39,960 --> 00:42:42,800
Speaker 3: rooting for h Who am I rooting against South Wales?

877
00:42:42,840 --> 00:42:46,839
Speaker 2: New South Wales? It's about to make it? Got it,

878
00:42:47,160 --> 00:42:47,480
Speaker 2: got it.

879
00:42:47,800 --> 00:42:50,160
Speaker 3: But I do have a big problem when people are

880
00:42:50,280 --> 00:42:53,520
Speaker 3: fully invested in that, yet they're going broke here. Their

881
00:42:53,560 --> 00:42:57,200
Speaker 3: relationship is a mess, their kids are addicted to social media,

882
00:42:57,239 --> 00:43:00,360
Speaker 3: and they're depressed. Yet yet they're fully watching what's happening

883
00:43:00,360 --> 00:43:02,719
Speaker 3: with Biden and Trump. It doesn't matter if Biden goes

884
00:43:02,760 --> 00:43:05,239
Speaker 3: back into office, or Trump goes into office, or they

885
00:43:05,280 --> 00:43:08,720
Speaker 3: bring in Gavin Newsom from California, who gives a crap.

886
00:43:09,640 --> 00:43:12,040
Speaker 3: I control what happens in my family and my economy

887
00:43:12,120 --> 00:43:14,000
Speaker 3: more than anyone sitting in the White House.

888
00:43:14,520 --> 00:43:15,960
Speaker 1: And that's like that.

889
00:43:16,200 --> 00:43:18,640
Speaker 4: I think that's an extremely good point in terms of

890
00:43:18,680 --> 00:43:22,080
Speaker 4: advice to people around mindset, because because we waste a

891
00:43:22,160 --> 00:43:23,799
Speaker 4: lot of time and we don't have much time. Time

892
00:43:23,880 --> 00:43:26,000
Speaker 4: is a bit mesty precious resource.

893
00:43:26,600 --> 00:43:28,399
Speaker 2: But I can make more money, I can't make more time.

894
00:43:29,560 --> 00:43:32,000
Speaker 4: And you must make as much money as you can

895
00:43:32,840 --> 00:43:35,640
Speaker 4: and as much enjoy as much of the time as

896
00:43:35,680 --> 00:43:38,320
Speaker 4: you can. So therefore you've got to eliminate those wastage

897
00:43:38,320 --> 00:43:40,240
Speaker 4: areas where you don't influence it. You have no control.

898
00:43:40,280 --> 00:43:43,279
Speaker 4: Every you mentioned your YouTube, your YouTube channel. Just tell

899
00:43:43,320 --> 00:43:44,759
Speaker 4: me through what are you doing on your YouTube channel.

900
00:43:45,000 --> 00:43:45,920
Speaker 4: Let's let's hear about that.

901
00:43:46,480 --> 00:43:48,359
Speaker 3: I created a show called the Bedroos Cooling a show,

902
00:43:48,360 --> 00:43:50,960
Speaker 3: and this was on the heels of the pandemic. I

903
00:43:51,360 --> 00:43:54,280
Speaker 3: knew something was going on. Specifically, there was an attack

904
00:43:54,400 --> 00:43:57,080
Speaker 3: on masculinity. There was an attack on the way that

905
00:43:57,120 --> 00:44:01,759
Speaker 3: men are. You're competitive, you you want to build a legacy.

906
00:44:01,960 --> 00:44:07,040
Speaker 3: You want to acquire things and everything that a man is,

907
00:44:07,040 --> 00:44:09,440
Speaker 3: you want to speak your mind, and everything that I

908
00:44:09,520 --> 00:44:12,320
Speaker 3: just said that a man is is considered toxic. And

909
00:44:12,360 --> 00:44:14,840
Speaker 3: I couldn't figure out why, and it had gone on me.

910
00:44:14,880 --> 00:44:17,799
Speaker 3: One day post pandemic, about a year and a half

911
00:44:17,840 --> 00:44:20,600
Speaker 3: into the pandemic, I realized, I remember, we're in the

912
00:44:20,680 --> 00:44:24,640
Speaker 3: United States, and so Canada is right above the United States.

913
00:44:24,680 --> 00:44:27,960
Speaker 3: So I'm explaining this to the CEO of my company, Bryce.

914
00:44:28,200 --> 00:44:30,120
Speaker 3: I said, Bryce, if you and I wanted to put

915
00:44:30,120 --> 00:44:33,960
Speaker 3: together a military so that we can attack Canada, we're

916
00:44:33,960 --> 00:44:36,600
Speaker 3: going to take over Canada, I said, Bryce. Do we

917
00:44:37,520 --> 00:44:40,920
Speaker 3: care about the children of Canada standing in opposition against us?

918
00:44:40,920 --> 00:44:43,359
Speaker 3: He said, well, no, of course not. Do we care

919
00:44:43,400 --> 00:44:47,040
Speaker 3: about the elderly in Canada standing in the opposition against

920
00:44:47,040 --> 00:44:49,840
Speaker 3: our army as we invade? He said, no, of course not.

921
00:44:50,239 --> 00:44:54,200
Speaker 3: Do we care about the women standing in opposition against us?

922
00:44:54,360 --> 00:44:55,919
Speaker 3: Do they have a chance? He said no, of course,

923
00:44:55,960 --> 00:45:00,000
Speaker 3: Not said the only opposition would be Canadian able by

924
00:45:00,239 --> 00:45:03,160
Speaker 3: men to stand in opposition against us as we attempt

925
00:45:03,520 --> 00:45:04,280
Speaker 3: to take Canada.

926
00:45:04,320 --> 00:45:06,400
Speaker 1: He said, yes, that that's your target.

927
00:45:06,560 --> 00:45:09,320
Speaker 2: Yeah, right. The others are what your target? Exactly? Children,

928
00:45:09,400 --> 00:45:12,040
Speaker 2: women early, but at the man. Yeah.

929
00:45:12,080 --> 00:45:15,759
Speaker 3: So if I want to not shed any blood and

930
00:45:15,800 --> 00:45:18,440
Speaker 3: I want them to hand Canada over to me, the

931
00:45:18,520 --> 00:45:20,960
Speaker 3: easiest way will be not to march into Canada with

932
00:45:21,120 --> 00:45:25,080
Speaker 3: guns and rifles and missiles, but to spend several years

933
00:45:25,320 --> 00:45:29,239
Speaker 3: demoralizing and deconstructing the men, making them feel that they

934
00:45:29,280 --> 00:45:32,080
Speaker 3: are toxic. They are they are not to act the

935
00:45:32,120 --> 00:45:35,440
Speaker 3: way that God has intended them to act and behave,

936
00:45:36,000 --> 00:45:39,279
Speaker 3: to build and to want legacies and to acquire and

937
00:45:39,320 --> 00:45:42,840
Speaker 3: to question things and to think freely and to come together.

938
00:45:43,960 --> 00:45:46,799
Speaker 3: Everything that we've been seeing happening post pandemic is to

939
00:45:47,000 --> 00:45:51,960
Speaker 3: dismantle masculinity because men us men, we are the greatest

940
00:45:52,000 --> 00:45:55,560
Speaker 3: threat to the opposition. And if they can get greater

941
00:45:55,640 --> 00:45:58,480
Speaker 3: levels of control and compliance over men, then they have

942
00:45:58,520 --> 00:46:02,160
Speaker 3: greater control over and compla over the country. And I

943
00:46:02,200 --> 00:46:05,840
Speaker 3: believe that's what's happening. And so I started my podcast

944
00:46:05,960 --> 00:46:09,640
Speaker 3: with the intention of empowering men and helping them become

945
00:46:09,680 --> 00:46:14,600
Speaker 3: free fingers unite as men create money. My whole show

946
00:46:14,640 --> 00:46:16,960
Speaker 3: is based on money, meaning and self mastery. If you

947
00:46:17,000 --> 00:46:19,479
Speaker 3: can create money, money is a vehicle to freedom. Money

948
00:46:19,520 --> 00:46:21,640
Speaker 3: is a vehicle to access you and I both know

949
00:46:21,719 --> 00:46:24,560
Speaker 3: that there's levels to the game that we play, and

950
00:46:24,600 --> 00:46:27,040
Speaker 3: I'm nowhere near your level, Mark, but I could only

951
00:46:27,120 --> 00:46:29,680
Speaker 3: imagine at the Mark level, like holy smokes, right. But

952
00:46:29,840 --> 00:46:31,759
Speaker 3: the quality of my life right now, the access that

953
00:46:31,800 --> 00:46:32,600
Speaker 3: I have to people.

954
00:46:32,920 --> 00:46:33,839
Speaker 2: I could drive up.

955
00:46:33,800 --> 00:46:35,279
Speaker 3: And down in any one of my cars on the

956
00:46:35,360 --> 00:46:38,880
Speaker 3: highway that I've adopted. My company's name is on my highway,

957
00:46:39,160 --> 00:46:43,560
Speaker 3: Highway seventy one and Chino Hills on both ends. The

958
00:46:43,600 --> 00:46:46,239
Speaker 3: litter pickup is adopted by a fit Body boot camp,

959
00:46:46,239 --> 00:46:47,840
Speaker 3: and I can speed up and down that highway and

960
00:46:47,840 --> 00:46:50,080
Speaker 3: the police will pull me over, Oh hey, Betros, and

961
00:46:50,120 --> 00:46:52,640
Speaker 3: they'll let me keep going. Now, I'm not bragging about that.

962
00:46:52,680 --> 00:46:56,040
Speaker 3: What I'm saying is I use my money to influence,

963
00:46:56,160 --> 00:46:59,480
Speaker 3: and so I could imagine how money is used to

964
00:46:59,600 --> 00:47:04,760
Speaker 3: influences our politicians and to act and support specific things.

965
00:47:05,320 --> 00:47:06,120
Speaker 2: And I share that with you.

966
00:47:06,200 --> 00:47:08,600
Speaker 3: Because men need to acquire more money, they need to

967
00:47:08,960 --> 00:47:11,759
Speaker 3: have greater senses of meaning and purpose. We are no

968
00:47:12,000 --> 00:47:14,640
Speaker 3: men especially are very much like my dog Cookie. We

969
00:47:14,680 --> 00:47:17,160
Speaker 3: need to have purpose, We need to have significance, We

970
00:47:17,200 --> 00:47:19,800
Speaker 3: need to have meaning. If we don't, we will self destruct.

971
00:47:20,280 --> 00:47:22,960
Speaker 3: And then we of course need self mastery, you know,

972
00:47:23,000 --> 00:47:27,400
Speaker 3: stop your addictions, your vices, pornography and fidelity, and develop

973
00:47:27,480 --> 00:47:30,200
Speaker 3: to the higher level self, the self that is connected

974
00:47:30,200 --> 00:47:33,360
Speaker 3: to God, to universal consciousness, to whatever your higher power is.

975
00:47:33,600 --> 00:47:36,080
Speaker 3: And if we can have more money, more meaning, more

976
00:47:36,120 --> 00:47:39,920
Speaker 3: self mastery, we can prevent the opposition government and the

977
00:47:40,080 --> 00:47:44,960
Speaker 3: lobbying pharmaceutical companies and food conglomerates and the military industrial

978
00:47:45,000 --> 00:47:49,600
Speaker 3: complex from influencing the government to oppress us further.

979
00:47:50,360 --> 00:47:51,920
Speaker 2: And it's sort of like a bitress it's sort of

980
00:47:51,920 --> 00:47:55,279
Speaker 2: like a bit of a new concept. Five or six years.

981
00:47:55,320 --> 00:47:58,000
Speaker 4: I mean, sure we had moments where men had to

982
00:47:58,000 --> 00:48:00,359
Speaker 4: become much more aware of had I open right, And

983
00:48:00,440 --> 00:48:01,600
Speaker 4: I think that's probably fair enough.

984
00:48:02,400 --> 00:48:03,640
Speaker 1: But there has been.

985
00:48:03,560 --> 00:48:08,760
Speaker 4: A movement against in Australia at least a white male,

986
00:48:09,600 --> 00:48:14,719
Speaker 4: homosex heterosexualosexual like, which is you know, I got four

987
00:48:14,760 --> 00:48:18,480
Speaker 4: sons and three grandsons like and all of us at

988
00:48:18,480 --> 00:48:23,040
Speaker 4: this stage fit into that category. But like, my mother

989
00:48:23,120 --> 00:48:25,080
Speaker 4: is like a goddess to me when she passed away,

990
00:48:25,120 --> 00:48:26,040
Speaker 4: but she was like a god.

991
00:48:26,160 --> 00:48:27,920
Speaker 2: To be sure that my mother was the biggest influence

992
00:48:27,960 --> 00:48:28,359
Speaker 2: in my life.

993
00:48:28,840 --> 00:48:32,920
Speaker 4: And women are extraordinarily important to me in my family,

994
00:48:32,960 --> 00:48:36,160
Speaker 4: in my life, extra I might have been divorced three times,

995
00:48:36,160 --> 00:48:39,000
Speaker 4: but that's I'm still good mates with all of them,

996
00:48:39,000 --> 00:48:41,120
Speaker 4: and I still talk to my and I have high

997
00:48:41,440 --> 00:48:44,280
Speaker 4: regard for them, particularly those who are mothers and my kids.

998
00:48:46,680 --> 00:48:50,280
Speaker 4: I'm always scratched me. Where did this whole program come from?

999
00:48:50,840 --> 00:48:52,000
Speaker 4: I mean, do you think is it like?

1000
00:48:52,920 --> 00:48:55,080
Speaker 2: And I don't want to get down the conspiracy.

1001
00:48:54,920 --> 00:48:58,719
Speaker 1: Hole, but is it? Why would anyone be trying to

1002
00:48:58,719 --> 00:49:00,000
Speaker 1: break down what has always been?

1003
00:49:03,040 --> 00:49:03,799
Speaker 2: I think.

1004
00:49:06,760 --> 00:49:11,080
Speaker 3: Every January first, there's new laws enacted. You've been around

1005
00:49:11,080 --> 00:49:13,319
Speaker 3: for a long time. You said you're sixty eight. Have

1006
00:49:13,440 --> 00:49:16,640
Speaker 3: you ever celebrated a New Year's Day where the news

1007
00:49:16,880 --> 00:49:20,040
Speaker 3: didn't say, hey, there's no new laws and no new regulations.

1008
00:49:20,120 --> 00:49:22,840
Speaker 3: Every year in the United States, I think there's thirteen

1009
00:49:22,920 --> 00:49:25,480
Speaker 3: hundred new federal laws that are passed on average, thirteen

1010
00:49:25,520 --> 00:49:28,520
Speaker 3: hundred statewide, about six hundred new laws. So I look

1011
00:49:28,560 --> 00:49:30,439
Speaker 3: at it this way, if there's a noose around our head,

1012
00:49:30,600 --> 00:49:33,600
Speaker 3: around our neck, every year that news gets tighter and tighter,

1013
00:49:33,640 --> 00:49:37,319
Speaker 3: more regulation, more regulation, more laws. There's never a year

1014
00:49:37,520 --> 00:49:40,480
Speaker 3: where they say, hey, we took away thirteen new laws,

1015
00:49:40,760 --> 00:49:43,600
Speaker 3: old laws, and you have more freedom. You have more freedom, right,

1016
00:49:43,760 --> 00:49:45,640
Speaker 3: you can pay less taxes. You can just go into

1017
00:49:45,680 --> 00:49:48,040
Speaker 3: Australia without a passport or a visa because.

1018
00:49:47,880 --> 00:49:50,359
Speaker 2: You're a human. You're a human.

1019
00:49:50,640 --> 00:49:55,120
Speaker 3: Look, man, a whale can swim from Australia to Mexico,

1020
00:49:55,160 --> 00:49:58,839
Speaker 3: to the United States and to Vancouver, BC. I don't

1021
00:49:58,840 --> 00:50:01,200
Speaker 3: see a whale carrying a pass and looking for a visa.

1022
00:50:01,320 --> 00:50:03,319
Speaker 3: You and I can't do that. We're not as free

1023
00:50:03,360 --> 00:50:06,759
Speaker 3: as we think. Who is trying to control us? I

1024
00:50:06,800 --> 00:50:09,319
Speaker 3: don't know. I do know that there's controlling compliance. The

1025
00:50:09,360 --> 00:50:12,080
Speaker 3: noose is getting tighter for a reason. I do know

1026
00:50:12,160 --> 00:50:16,160
Speaker 3: that if they force again call this conspiracy or not,

1027
00:50:16,560 --> 00:50:19,719
Speaker 3: but if they are forcing a shot on you, a

1028
00:50:19,800 --> 00:50:23,520
Speaker 3: vaccine on you, and saying that otherwise you can't open

1029
00:50:23,600 --> 00:50:26,400
Speaker 3: up your business, your kids can't go to school, which

1030
00:50:26,560 --> 00:50:28,440
Speaker 3: happened here, it happened there in the United States, it

1031
00:50:28,480 --> 00:50:32,680
Speaker 3: happened in Canada. Otherwise it will freeze your financial bank accounts. Like,

1032
00:50:32,880 --> 00:50:36,279
Speaker 3: wait a minute, Wait a minute, At what point in

1033
00:50:36,360 --> 00:50:40,120
Speaker 3: history was it okay to start doing that? And who

1034
00:50:40,200 --> 00:50:43,120
Speaker 3: is going to be the opposition to stop that? Men,

1035
00:50:43,760 --> 00:50:46,520
Speaker 3: not the women, not the children, not the elderly. It'll

1036
00:50:46,520 --> 00:50:49,520
Speaker 3: be the men standing up in opposition against big government.

1037
00:50:50,040 --> 00:50:53,799
Speaker 3: And the pharmaceutical companies that are lobbying, bribing. Let's just

1038
00:50:53,800 --> 00:50:55,600
Speaker 3: call it what it is. It's not loud, it's bribing

1039
00:50:55,640 --> 00:50:59,319
Speaker 3: big government. How the fuck does Nancy Pelosi have better

1040
00:50:59,360 --> 00:51:03,719
Speaker 3: stock options picks? She can pick stocks better than one buffet?

1041
00:51:04,440 --> 00:51:05,160
Speaker 3: How does that happen?

1042
00:51:05,239 --> 00:51:07,279
Speaker 2: You have to ask yourself the question someone's telling you.

1043
00:51:07,280 --> 00:51:09,920
Speaker 3: Is that insider treating? Of course it is. If I

1044
00:51:09,960 --> 00:51:12,080
Speaker 3: were to do that, I'd be locked up. You'd ever

1045
00:51:12,120 --> 00:51:15,440
Speaker 3: seen me again? Yeah, And so let's let's clean up

1046
00:51:15,480 --> 00:51:16,759
Speaker 3: what needs to be cleaned up. So I don't know

1047
00:51:16,760 --> 00:51:18,880
Speaker 3: who the puppet masters are, but I don't have to

1048
00:51:18,960 --> 00:51:21,000
Speaker 3: know that there's a puppet master. I don't have to

1049
00:51:21,040 --> 00:51:23,319
Speaker 3: see the fire if I can smell the smoke. And

1050
00:51:23,360 --> 00:51:24,480
Speaker 3: so I'm going to react.

1051
00:51:24,200 --> 00:51:27,759
Speaker 4: To it, and I'll quickly give you a quick, quick,

1052
00:51:27,760 --> 00:51:29,839
Speaker 4: short story about it, because you just reminded me of something.

1053
00:51:30,440 --> 00:51:33,440
Speaker 4: And again, I neither one of us want to be conspiracists.

1054
00:51:33,440 --> 00:51:38,200
Speaker 4: I mean, I'm not into conspiracy theories. But in Australia,

1055
00:51:38,280 --> 00:51:41,920
Speaker 4: and in Sydney in particular, we had one individual who

1056
00:51:41,920 --> 00:51:45,480
Speaker 4: brought COVID into Australia by virtue of being.

1057
00:51:45,280 --> 00:51:47,520
Speaker 2: A high car driver who picked up.

1058
00:51:47,480 --> 00:51:50,960
Speaker 4: Some people who were from an airline. They were like

1059
00:51:51,360 --> 00:51:53,000
Speaker 4: in a pilots and stuff like that, and had to

1060
00:51:53,080 --> 00:51:53,880
Speaker 4: drive them to a hotel.

1061
00:51:53,880 --> 00:51:55,800
Speaker 2: And those individuals had COVID.

1062
00:51:56,200 --> 00:52:00,359
Speaker 4: And this particular driver stopped in a shop rand here

1063
00:52:00,360 --> 00:52:04,360
Speaker 4: where I lived and to buy coffee. And when the

1064
00:52:04,360 --> 00:52:06,000
Speaker 4: individual was in their coffee shop, I went into that

1065
00:52:06,000 --> 00:52:07,680
Speaker 4: coffee shop to dout myself coffee because I was going

1066
00:52:07,719 --> 00:52:08,160
Speaker 4: to my farm.

1067
00:52:08,200 --> 00:52:09,640
Speaker 1: I was on the way. They put I just went

1068
00:52:09,680 --> 00:52:14,719
Speaker 1: to the takeaway and OK.

1069
00:52:14,920 --> 00:52:15,640
Speaker 2: When the farm came back.

1070
00:52:15,640 --> 00:52:17,799
Speaker 4: Two days later, I I was getting these random phone

1071
00:52:17,840 --> 00:52:20,440
Speaker 4: calls by a private number, and someone had an actually

1072
00:52:20,440 --> 00:52:22,200
Speaker 4: American accent on the things, saying.

1073
00:52:22,000 --> 00:52:22,880
Speaker 1: That I needed to call them.

1074
00:52:22,880 --> 00:52:23,719
Speaker 2: I just ignore them.

1075
00:52:23,760 --> 00:52:25,960
Speaker 4: In the next thing, that day, the police turned up

1076
00:52:25,960 --> 00:52:29,879
Speaker 4: to my house and they said, you need to call

1077
00:52:29,960 --> 00:52:31,080
Speaker 4: this number that's been calling you.

1078
00:52:31,080 --> 00:52:31,600
Speaker 1: And they knew me.

1079
00:52:31,640 --> 00:52:34,640
Speaker 4: I knew the cops, and I said okay, and they

1080
00:52:34,640 --> 00:52:36,320
Speaker 4: said it's the Department of Health. So I rang the

1081
00:52:36,360 --> 00:52:38,640
Speaker 4: health department and they said, well, you know, you're now

1082
00:52:38,680 --> 00:52:41,759
Speaker 4: quarantined for forteen days because you were outside the shop.

1083
00:52:41,840 --> 00:52:43,359
Speaker 4: I said, how do you even know I was there?

1084
00:52:43,640 --> 00:52:45,200
Speaker 4: They said, you pay by your credit card. We rang

1085
00:52:45,239 --> 00:52:48,319
Speaker 4: your bank, and we were the banks and got the

1086
00:52:48,400 --> 00:52:50,239
Speaker 4: which we got all the bank details, and we rang

1087
00:52:50,280 --> 00:52:52,560
Speaker 4: every single person we there, so I had who went

1088
00:52:52,600 --> 00:52:53,759
Speaker 4: and bought coffee from a credit card.

1089
00:52:53,760 --> 00:52:55,319
Speaker 1: I wasn't even in the shop. I was outside of the shop.

1090
00:52:55,360 --> 00:52:56,839
Speaker 4: I remember the dude in it because I remember hearing

1091
00:52:56,880 --> 00:53:03,240
Speaker 4: in cough. I got locked in my house for fourteen days.

1092
00:53:03,560 --> 00:53:05,080
Speaker 4: It wasn't that bad. But you know, I'm luck. You're

1093
00:53:05,120 --> 00:53:07,080
Speaker 4: live in a nice place, blah blah. But I can't

1094
00:53:07,080 --> 00:53:08,279
Speaker 4: imagine want to be like if I live in a

1095
00:53:08,600 --> 00:53:10,239
Speaker 4: one bit of a probably like your family did when

1096
00:53:10,280 --> 00:53:12,080
Speaker 4: you first came to fact to America, you know, with

1097
00:53:12,120 --> 00:53:13,920
Speaker 4: a couple of kids, and you know, blah blah blah.

1098
00:53:13,960 --> 00:53:16,359
Speaker 4: But I'm lucky. But still I was still at my house.

1099
00:53:16,840 --> 00:53:19,680
Speaker 4: They would ring me every single day, the health department

1100
00:53:19,960 --> 00:53:21,960
Speaker 4: every day to check in to check up, check where

1101
00:53:21,960 --> 00:53:23,560
Speaker 4: I was. And one day I thought I decided to

1102
00:53:23,640 --> 00:53:27,440
Speaker 4: turn my my location services off on my phone that

1103
00:53:27,560 --> 00:53:28,600
Speaker 4: often the police called up.

1104
00:53:28,960 --> 00:53:31,920
Speaker 2: Imagine that, And I thought to himself.

1105
00:53:31,719 --> 00:53:33,920
Speaker 4: Now at the time, it was sort of not that

1106
00:53:34,080 --> 00:53:35,840
Speaker 4: big a deal. Like I just thought it was a

1107
00:53:35,840 --> 00:53:38,520
Speaker 4: bit annoying. But you know, now post COVID and post

1108
00:53:38,560 --> 00:53:40,480
Speaker 4: all these bloody vaccinations that we had to get in

1109
00:53:40,640 --> 00:53:45,000
Speaker 4: order to travel. I think to myself that was really

1110
00:53:45,040 --> 00:53:48,080
Speaker 4: worth stealing my my freedom absolutely.

1111
00:53:47,520 --> 00:53:47,680
Speaker 2: You know.

1112
00:53:48,000 --> 00:53:51,280
Speaker 3: It was like if your sovereignty was your sovereignty was

1113
00:53:51,280 --> 00:53:52,040
Speaker 3: was eroded.

1114
00:53:52,160 --> 00:53:54,640
Speaker 4: If I had the flu, I'm still free to go

1115
00:53:54,960 --> 00:53:58,160
Speaker 4: to coffee. My responsibilities marked don't go to work, or

1116
00:53:58,239 --> 00:54:00,960
Speaker 4: don't be close to someone, or lock yourself up at

1117
00:54:01,000 --> 00:54:03,680
Speaker 4: the office, but not I'm going to get the police

1118
00:54:03,680 --> 00:54:06,160
Speaker 4: to make sure you stay home. And I think a

1119
00:54:06,160 --> 00:54:08,480
Speaker 4: lot of people around the world have realized are starting

1120
00:54:08,480 --> 00:54:12,920
Speaker 4: to realize I should say this outcome. And I think

1121
00:54:12,920 --> 00:54:14,120
Speaker 4: there are a lot of people around the world who

1122
00:54:14,200 --> 00:54:17,200
Speaker 4: want to take more control of over our what you

1123
00:54:17,239 --> 00:54:18,760
Speaker 4: call sovereignty, our.

1124
00:54:18,680 --> 00:54:20,160
Speaker 1: Rights, our actual rights.

1125
00:54:20,160 --> 00:54:24,759
Speaker 4: I mean, you guys got you guys got something at

1126
00:54:24,760 --> 00:54:27,239
Speaker 4: a Manae, your constitution giving people human rights. We don't

1127
00:54:27,280 --> 00:54:28,719
Speaker 4: have that in Australia. We don't actually have a Bill

1128
00:54:28,760 --> 00:54:31,000
Speaker 4: of human rights. We don't have that, which is scary

1129
00:54:31,040 --> 00:54:31,239
Speaker 4: to me.

1130
00:54:31,280 --> 00:54:32,160
Speaker 2: It's very scary.

1131
00:54:32,360 --> 00:54:35,720
Speaker 4: And in each state of Australia they can operate differently.

1132
00:54:35,960 --> 00:54:38,120
Speaker 4: So in the United States at least things are more uniform.

1133
00:54:39,280 --> 00:54:42,840
Speaker 4: And I often want to myself where we're going with

1134
00:54:42,880 --> 00:54:44,279
Speaker 4: all this and what are our kids going to how

1135
00:54:44,280 --> 00:54:45,760
Speaker 4: our kids going to live their lives and our grandkids

1136
00:54:45,840 --> 00:54:49,160
Speaker 4: going to live their lives? And I guess that you know,

1137
00:54:49,280 --> 00:54:51,560
Speaker 4: a person like you putting yourself out there having a

1138
00:54:51,600 --> 00:54:54,000
Speaker 4: YouTube series to talk about this sort of stuff is

1139
00:54:54,000 --> 00:54:57,239
Speaker 4: sort of fairly courageous because you know, people come after you.

1140
00:54:57,320 --> 00:54:58,839
Speaker 2: Sure I get my fair share of death threat.

1141
00:54:58,960 --> 00:55:01,480
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, you do it. Yeah, And in America you

1142
00:55:01,520 --> 00:55:02,800
Speaker 4: got to take that stuff.

1143
00:55:02,840 --> 00:55:05,799
Speaker 3: Very seriously, seriously, and we have precautions for it, you do,

1144
00:55:06,120 --> 00:55:06,439
Speaker 3: he goes.

1145
00:55:06,440 --> 00:55:08,719
Speaker 4: You know, Australia, we don't we don't have gun. People

1146
00:55:08,760 --> 00:55:10,640
Speaker 4: don't have guns, and we have you know, there's laws

1147
00:55:10,680 --> 00:55:13,359
Speaker 4: around possessing a Firearm's not that easy to get a gun,

1148
00:55:13,600 --> 00:55:15,879
Speaker 4: mind you. You know, people getting stabbed the left fronts

1149
00:55:15,920 --> 00:55:17,600
Speaker 4: and there's no rules about getting.

1150
00:55:17,320 --> 00:55:19,000
Speaker 3: So and they take away knives. People will get run over,

1151
00:55:19,080 --> 00:55:20,439
Speaker 3: my cars totally old.

1152
00:55:20,360 --> 00:55:21,840
Speaker 1: That'll each other back of the able to battle or

1153
00:55:21,840 --> 00:55:22,399
Speaker 1: something like that.

1154
00:55:22,560 --> 00:55:25,280
Speaker 4: So you know, so I think it's a really courageous

1155
00:55:25,280 --> 00:55:28,439
Speaker 4: thing you're doing. Like, you know, having a YouTube series

1156
00:55:28,560 --> 00:55:29,359
Speaker 4: is called what's it called?

1157
00:55:30,040 --> 00:55:31,759
Speaker 2: It's just a bedroom's cooling your night?

1158
00:55:32,480 --> 00:55:33,840
Speaker 1: And how many episodes you've done.

1159
00:55:34,200 --> 00:55:36,959
Speaker 3: We are now ninety four episodes in and the show

1160
00:55:37,120 --> 00:55:39,080
Speaker 3: has blown up, which is what what made me come

1161
00:55:39,120 --> 00:55:41,520
Speaker 3: to Australia in the first place. When Rob Theo and

1162
00:55:41,560 --> 00:55:45,120
Speaker 3: his wife who you know well, they found my show.

1163
00:55:45,160 --> 00:55:47,279
Speaker 3: They resonated with the messages said you have to come

1164
00:55:47,320 --> 00:55:49,880
Speaker 3: out and speak in our three three cities Melbourne, Brisbane

1165
00:55:49,920 --> 00:55:53,640
Speaker 3: and Sydney. And so this is why I'm here. And

1166
00:55:54,000 --> 00:55:56,520
Speaker 3: while I'm grateful for it, I hope we reach a

1167
00:55:56,640 --> 00:55:59,200
Speaker 3: time where my message. I hope I never have to

1168
00:55:59,239 --> 00:56:01,160
Speaker 3: do my show. I hope reach a time where there's

1169
00:56:01,160 --> 00:56:04,120
Speaker 3: so much freedom and sovereignty that we don't have to

1170
00:56:04,160 --> 00:56:08,799
Speaker 3: worry about big government oppressing us and forget about us.

1171
00:56:09,000 --> 00:56:12,520
Speaker 3: I'm worried about my kids, my grandkids. How much tighter

1172
00:56:12,560 --> 00:56:15,600
Speaker 3: is the noose around their neck going to get? Before?

1173
00:56:16,080 --> 00:56:17,960
Speaker 3: You know, Like yesterday, were at a nice restaurant. I

1174
00:56:18,040 --> 00:56:22,880
Speaker 3: order a nice ribbi wagou a five steak? Are my

1175
00:56:22,960 --> 00:56:26,319
Speaker 3: kids going to be eating dehydrated grasshopper? Their kids gonna

1176
00:56:26,320 --> 00:56:27,760
Speaker 3: be eat like what are they going to eat?

1177
00:56:28,160 --> 00:56:28,359
Speaker 2: Right?

1178
00:56:28,600 --> 00:56:31,080
Speaker 3: I don't want that for them. I am the American

1179
00:56:31,160 --> 00:56:35,040
Speaker 3: dream and I believe my father bringing me here like

1180
00:56:35,120 --> 00:56:38,040
Speaker 3: he risked his life. I have to risk my life

1181
00:56:38,080 --> 00:56:41,759
Speaker 3: in saving and supporting the American dream. And I know,

1182
00:56:42,000 --> 00:56:45,239
Speaker 3: whether you live in Sydney, Australia or if you live

1183
00:56:45,280 --> 00:56:48,920
Speaker 3: in Paris, France, the American dream is a worldwide phenomenon

1184
00:56:49,000 --> 00:56:50,040
Speaker 3: and I have to support that.

1185
00:56:50,400 --> 00:56:53,600
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's uh. For Australians.

1186
00:56:54,000 --> 00:56:57,520
Speaker 4: We look up to Americans because of the American Dream.

1187
00:56:57,920 --> 00:57:00,480
Speaker 4: We follow you TV show as we follow. But everything

1188
00:57:00,520 --> 00:57:02,480
Speaker 4: you guys do, we tend to do here in Australia.

1189
00:57:02,560 --> 00:57:04,120
Speaker 4: The problem is now we're tending to follow some of

1190
00:57:04,120 --> 00:57:06,640
Speaker 4: the stuff that's happening in America relative to politics right,

1191
00:57:06,760 --> 00:57:08,839
Speaker 4: and you know, we are getting the divide between left

1192
00:57:08,840 --> 00:57:10,239
Speaker 4: and right, and it's neantly like you have to make

1193
00:57:10,280 --> 00:57:13,560
Speaker 4: a decision. It's nearly like in this country today you

1194
00:57:13,680 --> 00:57:14,560
Speaker 4: must make a decision.

1195
00:57:14,600 --> 00:57:16,040
Speaker 1: You're either left or you're right.

1196
00:57:16,080 --> 00:57:17,200
Speaker 2: Mark. That's unfortunate, you.

1197
00:57:17,200 --> 00:57:18,680
Speaker 1: Know, But I shouldn't have to make this. Don't want

1198
00:57:18,680 --> 00:57:19,160
Speaker 1: to be in the middle.

1199
00:57:19,880 --> 00:57:22,600
Speaker 4: Do you think there'll be some stage a political party

1200
00:57:22,760 --> 00:57:25,040
Speaker 4: that will come up and say, look, we're called the moderates,

1201
00:57:25,040 --> 00:57:27,000
Speaker 4: so we're called the middle parties some along those lines

1202
00:57:27,000 --> 00:57:29,600
Speaker 4: and actually garner all of those of everybody and actually

1203
00:57:29,600 --> 00:57:31,280
Speaker 4: take on the left and the right, someone right down

1204
00:57:31,280 --> 00:57:31,640
Speaker 4: the middle.

1205
00:57:31,760 --> 00:57:33,720
Speaker 2: I think we're getting there. I think we're getting there.

1206
00:57:33,760 --> 00:57:36,320
Speaker 3: I think that here's what's happening, because of inflation, because

1207
00:57:36,360 --> 00:57:41,320
Speaker 3: of high interest rates. And now, as you see, everyone

1208
00:57:41,760 --> 00:57:44,880
Speaker 3: is experiencing the financial burden of this. No matter how

1209
00:57:44,960 --> 00:57:47,919
Speaker 3: left you are, how extreme you are, how liberal you are,

1210
00:57:48,280 --> 00:57:50,920
Speaker 3: you're experiencing the financial burden. And for the first time

1211
00:57:50,920 --> 00:57:55,120
Speaker 3: people are realizing that, you know what, I'm left, extreme left,

1212
00:57:55,840 --> 00:57:59,000
Speaker 3: but I'm barely able to pay my rent, my car note,

1213
00:57:59,400 --> 00:58:01,720
Speaker 3: all these things. Maybe I need to come more center.

1214
00:58:01,840 --> 00:58:01,960
Speaker 2: Now.

1215
00:58:02,000 --> 00:58:03,920
Speaker 3: I'm not saying right, because the right has its own

1216
00:58:03,920 --> 00:58:06,240
Speaker 3: issues as well. YEA, somewhere in the center is where

1217
00:58:06,280 --> 00:58:07,920
Speaker 3: the rest of us want to live. And I believe

1218
00:58:08,040 --> 00:58:11,600
Speaker 3: there's like seventy percent of us seventy seventy five eighty

1219
00:58:11,640 --> 00:58:13,439
Speaker 3: percent of us are in the middle, and then there's

1220
00:58:13,440 --> 00:58:15,960
Speaker 3: a ten percent fifteen percent on either side that are

1221
00:58:15,960 --> 00:58:19,440
Speaker 3: going batshit crazy. Yet they are the loudest, they are

1222
00:58:19,480 --> 00:58:21,920
Speaker 3: the most vocal, and it is amplified by social media.

1223
00:58:22,080 --> 00:58:25,400
Speaker 3: And therefore we feel that the whole world is divided,

1224
00:58:25,880 --> 00:58:28,440
Speaker 3: and what do we naturally want to do as humans? Anyway,

1225
00:58:28,480 --> 00:58:30,280
Speaker 3: Like you said, the game is happening tonight. We want

1226
00:58:30,280 --> 00:58:33,200
Speaker 3: to divide into teams, and so they're using our natural

1227
00:58:33,320 --> 00:58:36,840
Speaker 3: instinctive desire to divide into teake trouble to be tribal.

1228
00:58:37,280 --> 00:58:40,880
Speaker 3: And if we can divide men by you are pro vaccine,

1229
00:58:40,920 --> 00:58:42,760
Speaker 3: you are not pro vaccine. You're pro gay, You're not

1230
00:58:42,800 --> 00:58:46,880
Speaker 3: pro gay. You're pro police, you're not pro po prob. Yeah,

1231
00:58:46,880 --> 00:58:48,840
Speaker 3: there's so many pros and cons. We can divide in

1232
00:58:48,840 --> 00:58:51,960
Speaker 3: faction that small clusters of men can do nothing. And

1233
00:58:52,000 --> 00:58:54,480
Speaker 3: when men come together as a tribe, we are invincible.

1234
00:58:54,720 --> 00:58:59,560
Speaker 1: So in that regard, how do you keep their energy up?

1235
00:59:00,040 --> 00:59:03,080
Speaker 4: You've got this business called Fit Body boot Camp, So

1236
00:59:04,120 --> 00:59:07,160
Speaker 4: did you do that initially to keep your own fitness up?

1237
00:59:07,160 --> 00:59:08,200
Speaker 1: I mean, what's the deal there?

1238
00:59:08,200 --> 00:59:12,760
Speaker 4: Because I mean because for me, I cannot operate unless

1239
00:59:12,760 --> 00:59:15,080
Speaker 4: I feel physically fit. Right, if I feel like shit,

1240
00:59:16,160 --> 00:59:18,919
Speaker 4: I will operate like shit. So I have to force

1241
00:59:18,960 --> 00:59:22,440
Speaker 4: myself on a routine. I have a really like I

1242
00:59:22,480 --> 00:59:24,560
Speaker 4: can't live without my routine. Like last week, I had

1243
00:59:24,600 --> 00:59:25,360
Speaker 4: to do a bit of traveling.

1244
00:59:25,920 --> 00:59:27,920
Speaker 1: I was in hotels, various other things that just like

1245
00:59:28,160 --> 00:59:30,360
Speaker 1: the gym, whole scene wasn't right for me. At the

1246
00:59:30,440 --> 00:59:32,200
Speaker 1: end of the week. I wasn't depressed, but I felt a.

1247
00:59:32,160 --> 00:59:34,919
Speaker 4: Little bit flat. And I'm so good, I'm so glad

1248
00:59:34,960 --> 00:59:38,200
Speaker 4: to be back into my routine. What's your fit body

1249
00:59:38,280 --> 00:59:39,400
Speaker 4: boot camp? What's that about?

1250
00:59:39,480 --> 00:59:40,960
Speaker 2: And how does your routine look?

1251
00:59:41,480 --> 00:59:43,640
Speaker 3: So I used to be a fat, overweat young man,

1252
00:59:43,760 --> 00:59:46,760
Speaker 3: really even throughout high school. No, yeah, yeah, yeah, true story,

1253
00:59:46,800 --> 00:59:49,160
Speaker 3: true story. Being an immigrant to this country. My mom

1254
00:59:49,200 --> 00:59:51,080
Speaker 3: would fry everything, and we need it. So it was

1255
00:59:51,120 --> 00:59:53,040
Speaker 3: like fried bread, fright, potato.

1256
00:59:55,480 --> 00:59:57,520
Speaker 4: That's how you eat. That would but that'd be working

1257
00:59:57,520 --> 00:59:58,960
Speaker 4: in the fields or something that'd be.

1258
00:59:59,120 --> 01:00:01,360
Speaker 3: Yeah, except I wasn't working in the fields, because now

1259
01:00:01,360 --> 01:00:04,200
Speaker 3: it's nineteen eighty, nineteen eighty five, nineteen ninety right as,

1260
01:00:04,240 --> 01:00:06,240
Speaker 3: I was a fat kid. And thankfully, in one of

1261
01:00:06,960 --> 01:00:09,560
Speaker 3: my high school classes, in science class, there was an athlete.

1262
01:00:09,640 --> 01:00:11,960
Speaker 3: He played football. His name is Dave. I said, David,

1263
01:00:12,000 --> 01:00:14,200
Speaker 3: you're in great shape, man. You have muscles, you have confidence,

1264
01:00:14,200 --> 01:00:16,360
Speaker 3: you have swagger. He wouldn't talk to me outside of

1265
01:00:16,400 --> 01:00:18,680
Speaker 3: the class because he was with the athletes and the jocks,

1266
01:00:18,680 --> 01:00:21,200
Speaker 3: the musicians were over here and the fat You know,

1267
01:00:21,320 --> 01:00:22,840
Speaker 3: I wasn't even a nerd, so I can't even say

1268
01:00:22,840 --> 01:00:24,880
Speaker 3: I had good grades and the nerds hung out over there.

1269
01:00:25,040 --> 01:00:28,360
Speaker 3: The foreign fat kid would just walk around. I hated

1270
01:00:28,400 --> 01:00:31,840
Speaker 3: lunch in high school because there you go, that's that

1271
01:00:31,920 --> 01:00:32,680
Speaker 3: was me, always one of them.

1272
01:00:32,760 --> 01:00:34,560
Speaker 2: Yeah, so you can really and I do believe that.

1273
01:00:34,560 --> 01:00:36,040
Speaker 3: I also put a chip on my shoulder to help

1274
01:00:36,080 --> 01:00:38,840
Speaker 3: me become who I am to chips help, by the way, absolutely,

1275
01:00:39,760 --> 01:00:42,080
Speaker 3: And so Dave was kind enough to take me to

1276
01:00:42,080 --> 01:00:44,120
Speaker 3: the school gym and he taught me how to work out,

1277
01:00:44,160 --> 01:00:48,200
Speaker 3: taught me how to eat. Right next next year I

1278
01:00:48,240 --> 01:00:50,200
Speaker 3: come back, which is my final year of high school.

1279
01:00:50,240 --> 01:00:55,520
Speaker 3: I'm thirty pounds lighter, more fit, more charismatic, more confidence,

1280
01:00:55,560 --> 01:00:58,160
Speaker 3: making eye contact with people, getting noticed for the first time,

1281
01:00:58,320 --> 01:01:00,640
Speaker 3: as though I never went to school there, right, I

1282
01:01:00,680 --> 01:01:04,600
Speaker 3: was invisible for three years. I'm in visible. So I realized, Man,

1283
01:01:04,680 --> 01:01:06,680
Speaker 3: I love what fitness did for me. I want to

1284
01:01:06,680 --> 01:01:08,880
Speaker 3: be a personal trainer and I want to have others

1285
01:01:08,960 --> 01:01:12,360
Speaker 3: achieve and experience this transformation. So that led me to

1286
01:01:12,560 --> 01:01:15,080
Speaker 3: becoming a personal trainer. That led me to starting a

1287
01:01:15,160 --> 01:01:18,760
Speaker 3: group training program called fit Body boot Camp. And now

1288
01:01:18,760 --> 01:01:21,480
Speaker 3: we have hundreds of locations between the US and Canada,

1289
01:01:21,520 --> 01:01:24,680
Speaker 3: over three hundred and fifty locations and growing. Yeah, it's

1290
01:01:24,720 --> 01:01:28,320
Speaker 3: a fitness franchise. And to me, if I can keep

1291
01:01:28,320 --> 01:01:32,600
Speaker 3: my if I can have good mental, physical and emotional hygiene,

1292
01:01:33,160 --> 01:01:36,200
Speaker 3: I am invincible and so to me. Even this morning,

1293
01:01:36,240 --> 01:01:38,560
Speaker 3: I woke up, I went through my morning routine. I

1294
01:01:38,640 --> 01:01:40,720
Speaker 3: worked out, and I will work out again tonight before

1295
01:01:40,720 --> 01:01:42,320
Speaker 3: I go to bed. I have two workouts a day.

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Speaker 3: I shield myself from the outside noise that I don't

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Speaker 3: want to subscribe to. I travel with only the people

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Speaker 3: who are positive in terms of contribution to my life.

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Speaker 3: And I'm very vigilant with how I live my life.

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Speaker 3: You know, hey, be strict, very strict, to the point

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Speaker 3: of militant.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: And the older I get, the more militant I become.

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Speaker 3: You're sixty eight, I'm forty nine. As you said. You said, hey,

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Speaker 3: I wasn't depressed when I came back home, but you

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Speaker 3: said I was flat.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: Here I am in beautiful Sydney. I'm flying to Melbourne tonight,

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Speaker 3: going to Brisbane after that, and back to Sydney and

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Speaker 3: then back to California. I can't wait to get home

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Speaker 3: and get back to my routine, get back to my routine.

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Speaker 3: The more predictable my life is, and people ask me well,

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01:02:26,320 --> 01:02:29,800
Speaker 3: whereas the spontaneity, I don't have spontaneity. I don't want spontaneity.

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Speaker 3: I want a predictable, happy, successful, healthy life and that's

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Speaker 3: what I have.

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Speaker 4: So how important, then, therefore, do you think for others

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Speaker 4: if you could share this is a routine and structure

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Speaker 4: within your life. Like in terms of the people keep

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01:02:42,440 --> 01:02:45,040
Speaker 4: saying to me mindset mindset. For me, mindset means about

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Speaker 4: structuring something and structuring my mind in a certain way.

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Speaker 4: And the only thing I can think of is routine.

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Speaker 4: I can't think of much more. I mean routine to

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Speaker 4: do different things. And I go, I'm a bit like yourself.

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Speaker 4: I'm extreme. I get right down to the time I

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Speaker 4: got a bit at night. Not able unless we want

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01:03:01,000 --> 01:03:02,840
Speaker 4: to go to something that's like a functions something. It's

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Speaker 4: normally goes if I'm home, what I actually do before

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01:03:05,880 --> 01:03:08,120
Speaker 4: I go to sleep. You know, there's a few things

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Speaker 4: like routines that go through to make sure that I'm

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Speaker 4: in a sleep mode, what time I wake up in

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Speaker 4: the morning, even down to the point which gym.

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Speaker 1: Or gym's I go to.

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Speaker 4: I noticed you'd For those who don't know, Vedros his

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01:03:19,800 --> 01:03:21,560
Speaker 4: team reached out to me before he came here and

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Speaker 4: he wanted to go to some practice jiu jitsu when

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Speaker 4: the place I recommended is a jiu jitsu dash wrestling

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01:03:28,240 --> 01:03:30,680
Speaker 4: sort of places in MMA place, which he did. He's

1338
01:03:30,720 --> 01:03:33,360
Speaker 4: been there already, He's only been there a few days.

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Speaker 4: That's that's sort of to me.

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Speaker 2: Extreme routine commitment.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and I will keep that extreme. I mean you

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Speaker 3: what you described is like my morning starts the night before. Yeah,

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01:03:47,120 --> 01:03:49,320
Speaker 3: what time I go to bed, what little rituals I

1344
01:03:49,320 --> 01:03:51,920
Speaker 3: go through, the hot tub, the tea one episode or

1345
01:03:51,920 --> 01:03:54,200
Speaker 3: the TV show that my my wife and I watch.

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01:03:55,000 --> 01:03:56,520
Speaker 2: All of it watching. What are you watching?

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01:03:57,320 --> 01:04:02,480
Speaker 3: We're we're currently watching Oh geez, what is the name

1348
01:04:02,520 --> 01:04:02,959
Speaker 3: of the show.

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01:04:03,680 --> 01:04:05,000
Speaker 1: Is it comedy or is it drama?

1350
01:04:05,120 --> 01:04:06,840
Speaker 2: No? No, I hate, I hate drama. I love.

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01:04:07,880 --> 01:04:11,480
Speaker 3: We just finished watching right now, the fourth and final, sorry,

1352
01:04:11,480 --> 01:04:14,800
Speaker 3: the third part of Arnold's documentary on Netflix.

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01:04:14,880 --> 01:04:15,200
Speaker 2: Yah.

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Speaker 3: But previous to that, we were watching VEEP. So what's

1355
01:04:19,920 --> 01:04:26,520
Speaker 3: the VAP bet Julia Julia Luis dreyfus So, the woman

1356
01:04:26,560 --> 01:04:29,920
Speaker 3: who was on Seinfeld. Yeah, yeah, yeah, she is the

1357
01:04:30,000 --> 01:04:33,480
Speaker 3: VEEP Vice President of the United States. She's hilarious.

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Speaker 2: It is just foul.

1359
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Speaker 3: It is banana she can't wait for the president to

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01:04:37,720 --> 01:04:40,320
Speaker 3: die for her to step into his shoes, And every

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01:04:40,320 --> 01:04:42,280
Speaker 3: time she gets a call, she's hoping that the president

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01:04:42,360 --> 01:04:44,160
Speaker 3: is dead. Oh he's in the hospital. Well, I will

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01:04:44,200 --> 01:04:46,560
Speaker 3: be there to see him, to give my condolences. I

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01:04:46,560 --> 01:04:48,600
Speaker 3: mean to make sure he's doing well. And so I

1365
01:04:48,640 --> 01:04:50,520
Speaker 3: love good comedies, but we again make sure that we

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01:04:50,560 --> 01:04:52,680
Speaker 3: only watched one episode and not go down the drain

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Speaker 3: of you known watching an entire season.

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Speaker 4: It's funny because I did the same sort of thing,

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Speaker 4: but I something neutral to neutralize my thought processes.

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Speaker 1: I mean, what about meditation.

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Speaker 3: I love meditating. So in the mornings, I'll meditate. I'll

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Speaker 3: drink thirty ounces of water. I'll even turn on how.

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Speaker 1: Much is thirty ounced water is?

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01:05:12,040 --> 01:05:12,920
Speaker 2: It's a better liter.

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01:05:13,720 --> 01:05:17,360
Speaker 3: Thirty ounces of water is Oh gosh, it's a fourth

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Speaker 3: of a gallon.

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Speaker 4: Quarter of a gallon, gallons quarters eight pints, So it's

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Speaker 4: two pints, which is close to a LITERA yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 4: that's a lot of water.

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Speaker 2: That's it.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, So, within within thirty minutes of waking up, I've

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Speaker 3: I've drink the thirty ounces of water. I've sent out

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01:05:32,400 --> 01:05:35,919
Speaker 3: three gratitude text messages to whom to three random people

1384
01:05:35,960 --> 01:05:38,000
Speaker 3: in my life that I'm grateful for, Yeah, who have

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01:05:38,040 --> 01:05:40,160
Speaker 3: helped me. Could be Jim Franco, my first mentor it

1386
01:05:40,160 --> 01:05:42,600
Speaker 3: could be someone you know, one of my business partners,

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Speaker 3: could be my wife, anyone that I'm grateful for. I

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01:05:45,080 --> 01:05:46,920
Speaker 3: make sure to put myself in a state of gratitude.

1389
01:05:47,040 --> 01:05:49,200
Speaker 3: You know this as an entrepreneur. No matter how structured

1390
01:05:49,200 --> 01:05:51,840
Speaker 3: your day is, you're going to get a caller, a text, or.

1391
01:05:51,760 --> 01:05:53,400
Speaker 2: An email that's going to going to piss you off.

1392
01:05:53,400 --> 01:05:55,479
Speaker 3: It's going to piss you off, so make you feel

1393
01:05:55,520 --> 01:05:58,680
Speaker 3: like shit exactly. So again, remember we were talking about

1394
01:05:58,720 --> 01:06:01,320
Speaker 3: creating that win win scenario. The most selfish thing we

1395
01:06:01,360 --> 01:06:04,160
Speaker 3: can do. Well, if I send Mark a gratitude text

1396
01:06:04,200 --> 01:06:07,680
Speaker 3: message when I wake up sometime throughout his day, Mark's

1397
01:06:07,680 --> 01:06:09,640
Speaker 3: going to send me a thank you message. And I

1398
01:06:09,680 --> 01:06:12,560
Speaker 3: don't know why the universe works this way, but that

1399
01:06:12,600 --> 01:06:15,760
Speaker 3: thank you message for me will come exactly when I

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01:06:15,840 --> 01:06:18,120
Speaker 3: needed it, when I needed to hear it, because something's

1401
01:06:18,160 --> 01:06:20,200
Speaker 3: going wrong in my business or in my life, which

1402
01:06:20,240 --> 01:06:22,480
Speaker 3: is normal. Like I love chaos, and my problem is

1403
01:06:22,480 --> 01:06:24,960
Speaker 3: to fixed chaos faster than they can produce itself. That's

1404
01:06:25,000 --> 01:06:27,800
Speaker 3: what entrepreneurs do with fixed problems faster than problems can reproduce.

1405
01:06:28,400 --> 01:06:30,080
Speaker 3: And so the most selfish thing I can do is

1406
01:06:30,120 --> 01:06:33,600
Speaker 3: send gratitude text messages because that guarantees me three positive

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01:06:33,600 --> 01:06:34,920
Speaker 3: text messages every single day.

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01:06:35,000 --> 01:06:35,800
Speaker 1: And you can bank them.

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01:06:35,840 --> 01:06:38,320
Speaker 2: I can bank them. Yeah, that's it. It's currency. Yeah.

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01:06:38,440 --> 01:06:40,680
Speaker 3: I listened to Jack Johnson's music while I'm showering because

1411
01:06:40,720 --> 01:06:41,160
Speaker 3: I happen.

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01:06:41,000 --> 01:06:43,000
Speaker 4: To object for ies. But whatever happened to Jack? I

1413
01:06:43,040 --> 01:06:45,040
Speaker 4: think you dot and not many new albums out.

1414
01:06:45,200 --> 01:06:45,960
Speaker 2: I love youself now.

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01:06:45,960 --> 01:06:48,480
Speaker 3: Every now and again he'll randomly just put something out.

1416
01:06:48,520 --> 01:06:50,720
Speaker 3: But he does a concert once a year where I

1417
01:06:50,840 --> 01:06:53,600
Speaker 3: surf in Dana Point, California, and so I always go

1418
01:06:53,680 --> 01:06:55,600
Speaker 3: to you know the family, and I go to see him.

1419
01:06:56,600 --> 01:06:59,200
Speaker 3: I love his music makes me happy, right, talk about

1420
01:06:59,240 --> 01:07:01,920
Speaker 3: something neutral makes me happy. Then I'll go downstairs meditate

1421
01:07:01,920 --> 01:07:04,440
Speaker 3: for about fifteen minutes, and then I attack my work.

1422
01:07:04,640 --> 01:07:06,240
Speaker 3: And I say, I use the word attack. I know

1423
01:07:06,280 --> 01:07:08,960
Speaker 3: it sounds extreme, but I attack my work. And as

1424
01:07:09,040 --> 01:07:11,920
Speaker 3: Joan is sitting there, she'll tell you money tasks first,

1425
01:07:12,160 --> 01:07:14,600
Speaker 3: things that will make money first, and then I'll start

1426
01:07:14,600 --> 01:07:16,920
Speaker 3: solving problems that have come through the night via email

1427
01:07:17,000 --> 01:07:19,800
Speaker 3: for my chain of command, my team members, et cetera.

1428
01:07:20,400 --> 01:07:22,160
Speaker 3: And then I go to the gym, get my workout in,

1429
01:07:22,800 --> 01:07:24,720
Speaker 3: go outside and walk for about three miles at the

1430
01:07:24,720 --> 01:07:27,439
Speaker 3: local park, and then I'll go to headquarters by twelve noon,

1431
01:07:27,960 --> 01:07:30,280
Speaker 3: and then my second half of the day starts. So

1432
01:07:31,000 --> 01:07:34,240
Speaker 3: part part one of my day starts at home. Part

1433
01:07:34,320 --> 01:07:38,320
Speaker 3: two starts at headquarters, and I might coach or consult

1434
01:07:38,360 --> 01:07:42,120
Speaker 3: some coaching clients. I might make some big decisions or

1435
01:07:42,280 --> 01:07:44,520
Speaker 3: small decisions, a series of small decisions, or I might

1436
01:07:44,520 --> 01:07:47,959
Speaker 3: make a few episodes of my podcast show. By six pm,

1437
01:07:47,960 --> 01:07:49,919
Speaker 3: I'm at home and his family time, and my phone

1438
01:07:50,040 --> 01:07:52,400
Speaker 3: notifications are off because even if the building at home

1439
01:07:52,560 --> 01:07:55,080
Speaker 3: at work catches fire, I'm not a firefighter. What can

1440
01:07:55,120 --> 01:07:57,040
Speaker 3: I do other than worry about it? So I'll find

1441
01:07:57,040 --> 01:07:58,680
Speaker 3: out in the morning when my CEO tells me.

1442
01:08:00,320 --> 01:08:03,480
Speaker 4: It's very, very disciplined, and is this seven dyes away?

1443
01:08:03,640 --> 01:08:05,800
Speaker 4: I mean, do you have a bad food in terms.

1444
01:08:05,640 --> 01:08:08,520
Speaker 3: Of I just follow my macros in terms of food,

1445
01:08:08,560 --> 01:08:12,400
Speaker 3: so my proteins, fats, and carbs, so I'll have about

1446
01:08:12,440 --> 01:08:14,520
Speaker 3: two hundred and fifty grams of protein per day. I

1447
01:08:14,520 --> 01:08:16,479
Speaker 3: break it up into four meals. I can't six seven meals.

1448
01:08:16,520 --> 01:08:18,479
Speaker 3: I don't have time for two hundred and fifty grams

1449
01:08:18,520 --> 01:08:21,040
Speaker 3: of protein a day, about one hundred and fifty to

1450
01:08:21,040 --> 01:08:23,560
Speaker 3: two hundred grams of carbs a day, and sixty to

1451
01:08:23,640 --> 01:08:26,920
Speaker 3: eighty grams of fat a day. And usually the fat

1452
01:08:26,920 --> 01:08:28,920
Speaker 3: will come from olive oil, avocado.

1453
01:08:28,479 --> 01:08:31,439
Speaker 2: Et cetera. And I love routine. I love routine. I

1454
01:08:31,439 --> 01:08:31,920
Speaker 2: love routine.

1455
01:08:31,920 --> 01:08:33,960
Speaker 3: Now, yesterday we went and had steak, Like I said,

1456
01:08:34,080 --> 01:08:37,720
Speaker 3: I got a little dessert. I got sherbert sorbet as

1457
01:08:37,800 --> 01:08:39,760
Speaker 3: they all might say. And I had a little bite,

1458
01:08:39,880 --> 01:08:41,639
Speaker 3: a couple of bites, and I pushed a plate away.

1459
01:08:41,800 --> 01:08:43,640
Speaker 3: I'm a fat kid, so I could eat every I

1460
01:08:43,640 --> 01:08:46,040
Speaker 3: don't have an off button, so I have to deliberately go.

1461
01:08:46,080 --> 01:08:48,120
Speaker 3: And that's why I have to be disciplined. I have

1462
01:08:48,160 --> 01:08:51,000
Speaker 3: to be structured. I have to be militant. I can eat,

1463
01:08:51,760 --> 01:08:55,240
Speaker 3: I can out eat anybody, and I can out lazy anybody.

1464
01:08:55,640 --> 01:08:58,960
Speaker 3: But I love financial freedom, I love serving humanity so much.

1465
01:08:59,280 --> 01:09:01,439
Speaker 3: I love being fit and athletics so much that I

1466
01:09:01,520 --> 01:09:04,760
Speaker 3: have to be this disciplined, in this militant, and I

1467
01:09:04,800 --> 01:09:07,040
Speaker 3: do it seven days a week. Like why on the

1468
01:09:07,040 --> 01:09:09,439
Speaker 3: weekends would I wake up and be lazy wake up late,

1469
01:09:09,560 --> 01:09:11,960
Speaker 3: be lazy, only to set myself up to lose on

1470
01:09:12,000 --> 01:09:14,880
Speaker 3: a Monday. Because think how quickly our body builds habits

1471
01:09:14,880 --> 01:09:17,240
Speaker 3: and patterns. So if I'm lazy on Saturday and I

1472
01:09:17,280 --> 01:09:19,439
Speaker 3: get a little drunk and tipsy, and on Sunday I

1473
01:09:19,479 --> 01:09:22,320
Speaker 3: sleep in, I get a little drunk and tipsy, Monday

1474
01:09:22,439 --> 01:09:25,519
Speaker 3: arguably the busiest day for an entrepreneur. Now I'm at

1475
01:09:25,520 --> 01:09:29,120
Speaker 3: a deficit. I don't want that difference is on the weekends,

1476
01:09:29,560 --> 01:09:31,800
Speaker 3: I'm not working eight nine hours, but I'll work a

1477
01:09:31,800 --> 01:09:35,320
Speaker 3: couple hours before the family wakes up, still be productive,

1478
01:09:35,479 --> 01:09:38,280
Speaker 3: still feel some self worth, and then go out there

1479
01:09:38,280 --> 01:09:40,599
Speaker 3: and have fun with the family, whether it's surfing or whatever.

1480
01:09:40,880 --> 01:09:43,280
Speaker 4: And in terms of sleep, for those are listening, there's

1481
01:09:43,280 --> 01:09:44,640
Speaker 4: a lot of people in business find it to be

1482
01:09:44,680 --> 01:09:45,360
Speaker 4: able to sleep.

1483
01:09:46,280 --> 01:09:48,120
Speaker 1: What's your sleep mantra?

1484
01:09:48,400 --> 01:09:51,920
Speaker 4: So we listen to pay Tay and Andrew Hoodman and

1485
01:09:52,000 --> 01:09:55,200
Speaker 4: various other people like Simon Hill in Australia. You know

1486
01:09:55,280 --> 01:09:57,160
Speaker 4: you got to get between seven night hours and it's

1487
01:09:57,160 --> 01:09:57,400
Speaker 4: going to.

1488
01:09:57,400 --> 01:09:59,920
Speaker 1: Be a certain top of sleep. What's your sleep regime

1489
01:10:00,000 --> 01:10:01,280
Speaker 1: will and a strategy look like.

1490
01:10:02,200 --> 01:10:06,720
Speaker 3: So as early as eight seven, eight years ago, I

1491
01:10:06,760 --> 01:10:09,479
Speaker 3: would function with four to five hours of sleep, and

1492
01:10:10,800 --> 01:10:13,439
Speaker 3: I almost scoffed in anybody who would get seven or

1493
01:10:13,479 --> 01:10:16,160
Speaker 3: eight hours of sleep today, at forty nine years old,

1494
01:10:16,439 --> 01:10:19,280
Speaker 3: I require seven to eight hours of sleep, and that's

1495
01:10:19,280 --> 01:10:23,160
Speaker 3: a non negotiable. I stopped drinking alcohol two years ago

1496
01:10:23,240 --> 01:10:27,479
Speaker 3: simply because it interrupted my sleep pattern. And I was

1497
01:10:27,520 --> 01:10:30,160
Speaker 3: not a addict where alcoholic. I would have a couple

1498
01:10:30,200 --> 01:10:33,120
Speaker 3: of cocktails here and there. But I noticed as I

1499
01:10:33,160 --> 01:10:36,519
Speaker 3: got older, I would feel a little foggy. It would interrupt

1500
01:10:36,560 --> 01:10:38,760
Speaker 3: my sleep. It wasn't a deep sleep. I like to

1501
01:10:38,760 --> 01:10:41,200
Speaker 3: eat earlier in the day instead of a you know,

1502
01:10:41,439 --> 01:10:43,759
Speaker 3: our culture especially, we like to eat at eight thirty

1503
01:10:43,840 --> 01:10:46,439
Speaker 3: nine pm. Right, Well, shoot, I got to be in

1504
01:10:46,479 --> 01:10:48,800
Speaker 3: bed by ten o'clock. Man, I can't do that. I

1505
01:10:48,880 --> 01:10:51,280
Speaker 3: like to eat at six pm for dinner. And so

1506
01:10:51,720 --> 01:10:55,479
Speaker 3: I've adjusted my my eating, my alcohol, et cetera, to

1507
01:10:56,080 --> 01:10:59,200
Speaker 3: help me sleep deeper and longer at night, which makes

1508
01:10:59,200 --> 01:11:00,920
Speaker 3: me more productive. I know if it's a by product

1509
01:11:00,920 --> 01:11:03,719
Speaker 3: of getting older, or if all those years of sleeping

1510
01:11:03,760 --> 01:11:05,680
Speaker 3: four or five hours have now cut up with me,

1511
01:11:05,880 --> 01:11:07,200
Speaker 3: but I require my sleep.

1512
01:11:07,280 --> 01:11:09,320
Speaker 4: It's funny, you know, during that younger years, I mean,

1513
01:11:09,479 --> 01:11:12,160
Speaker 4: I experienced the same thing. It was like you it

1514
01:11:12,200 --> 01:11:16,440
Speaker 4: was like a superpower of people who are good entrepreneurs

1515
01:11:16,640 --> 01:11:18,000
Speaker 4: to be able to go without sleep.

1516
01:11:18,040 --> 01:11:19,800
Speaker 2: In other words, how do you do it?

1517
01:11:19,840 --> 01:11:22,280
Speaker 4: You get four or five hours sleep at night, yet

1518
01:11:22,320 --> 01:11:24,360
Speaker 4: you can work, you know, fourteen fifteen hours a day.

1519
01:11:24,680 --> 01:11:26,400
Speaker 4: And I actually think it was all bullshit. I actually

1520
01:11:26,400 --> 01:11:28,000
Speaker 4: don't think. I don't believe anyone has said it. I

1521
01:11:28,000 --> 01:11:29,599
Speaker 4: mean I used to do it, but I would then

1522
01:11:29,680 --> 01:11:33,519
Speaker 4: crash eat seven days. And these people used to say

1523
01:11:33,520 --> 01:11:35,880
Speaker 4: to me, I know, I never did that. I see

1524
01:11:35,920 --> 01:11:37,760
Speaker 4: four or five hours, you know, and I've been doing

1525
01:11:37,800 --> 01:11:39,960
Speaker 4: it for years. I just I don't know. I now

1526
01:11:40,280 --> 01:11:42,680
Speaker 4: think I don't believe them because it is like a

1527
01:11:42,680 --> 01:11:45,559
Speaker 4: bit of a superpower sort of, you know, I'm a

1528
01:11:45,560 --> 01:11:47,920
Speaker 4: professor of business, so to speak. This is what they're

1529
01:11:47,920 --> 01:11:49,439
Speaker 4: trying to tell us, and that they're better than all

1530
01:11:49,439 --> 01:11:51,439
Speaker 4: of us, which you make you feel like shit. Then

1531
01:11:51,479 --> 01:11:52,720
Speaker 4: you start saying, well, what's wrong with you?

1532
01:11:52,600 --> 01:11:53,240
Speaker 2: You're pussy?

1533
01:11:53,920 --> 01:11:56,280
Speaker 4: Why can't you operate on mark on four or five

1534
01:11:56,320 --> 01:11:59,240
Speaker 4: hours sleep a night for the last twenty years.

1535
01:11:59,120 --> 01:11:59,920
Speaker 1: Well, because no one does.

1536
01:12:00,120 --> 01:12:01,400
Speaker 2: I don't think. I think it's all bullshit.

1537
01:12:01,760 --> 01:12:03,400
Speaker 3: I really think it is. And it catches up with

1538
01:12:03,439 --> 01:12:05,840
Speaker 3: you sooner or later. Yeah, And there's literally pictures of

1539
01:12:05,880 --> 01:12:07,400
Speaker 3: me from ten years ago. People see it, they go,

1540
01:12:07,400 --> 01:12:09,040
Speaker 3: oh my god, you look so old there, I look

1541
01:12:09,120 --> 01:12:11,840
Speaker 3: younger today ten years later. And I do believe it's

1542
01:12:12,120 --> 01:12:15,200
Speaker 3: one stress management, but two I'm getting I'm getting better

1543
01:12:15,320 --> 01:12:16,120
Speaker 3: and longer sleep.

1544
01:12:16,600 --> 01:12:19,479
Speaker 4: And how does nutrition fit into all these things? Like so,

1545
01:12:19,560 --> 01:12:21,800
Speaker 4: you did talk about, you know, the three things you

1546
01:12:21,800 --> 01:12:24,519
Speaker 4: want to have in terms of protein, fats, and cabs

1547
01:12:25,360 --> 01:12:28,600
Speaker 4: and that was pretty precision based. In other words, you

1548
01:12:29,240 --> 01:12:34,280
Speaker 4: have a formula around it. But we keep getting told that,

1549
01:12:34,360 --> 01:12:36,040
Speaker 4: you know, the so called Mediterranean diet is the best

1550
01:12:36,040 --> 01:12:39,080
Speaker 4: die in the world, et cetera. How do you actually

1551
01:12:39,439 --> 01:12:41,840
Speaker 4: formulate what you actually put in front of yourself or

1552
01:12:41,840 --> 01:12:43,400
Speaker 4: what your family has for that matter, I mean, because

1553
01:12:43,400 --> 01:12:45,920
Speaker 4: you know your kids are a little so like you know,

1554
01:12:46,000 --> 01:12:48,240
Speaker 4: do you eversit around, enjoy what your kids are enjoying,

1555
01:12:48,320 --> 01:12:50,160
Speaker 4: or do you try to get the whole family into

1556
01:12:50,160 --> 01:12:50,799
Speaker 4: one regime.

1557
01:12:51,520 --> 01:12:55,040
Speaker 3: We my wife and I brainwashed our kids early on today,

1558
01:12:55,120 --> 01:12:57,720
Speaker 3: Like I said, Andrews eighteen, Chloe is sixteen. They have

1559
01:12:57,840 --> 01:12:59,800
Speaker 3: yet to be inside of a McDonald's. They've never seen

1560
01:12:59,800 --> 01:13:02,040
Speaker 3: me out of the McDonald's. They've never seen a McDonald's

1561
01:13:02,120 --> 01:13:04,919
Speaker 3: or any fast food restaurant commercial on television.

1562
01:13:04,960 --> 01:13:07,080
Speaker 2: Now, because we never had regular.

1563
01:13:06,760 --> 01:13:09,560
Speaker 3: Television, I would realize I was brainwashed by television. I

1564
01:13:09,600 --> 01:13:11,760
Speaker 3: would watch Night Rider and a Team, and then I

1565
01:13:11,800 --> 01:13:14,479
Speaker 3: would see commercials and I would eat frosted flakes and

1566
01:13:14,600 --> 01:13:15,719
Speaker 3: sugar Laiden cereal.

1567
01:13:16,280 --> 01:13:16,800
Speaker 2: And so I.

1568
01:13:16,800 --> 01:13:20,680
Speaker 3: Realized television is a source of influence. And so if

1569
01:13:20,720 --> 01:13:22,960
Speaker 3: I can control the influence that my kids are seeing,

1570
01:13:23,040 --> 01:13:26,080
Speaker 3: and I can build a pattern of working out today.

1571
01:13:26,200 --> 01:13:28,240
Speaker 3: So I started taking Andrew and Chloe to the gym

1572
01:13:28,240 --> 01:13:31,880
Speaker 3: when they were five six years old. And today when

1573
01:13:31,880 --> 01:13:33,920
Speaker 3: I'm traveling, my son will text me, Dad, what's a

1574
01:13:33,920 --> 01:13:34,640
Speaker 3: good backworkout?

1575
01:13:34,640 --> 01:13:35,880
Speaker 2: What's a good leg workout? I could do?

1576
01:13:36,120 --> 01:13:38,800
Speaker 3: They're addicted, just like I came here today and thank

1577
01:13:38,840 --> 01:13:43,680
Speaker 3: you for introducing me to Larry right jiu jitsu, Like

1578
01:13:45,640 --> 01:13:48,240
Speaker 3: I can't break my routine just because I'm traveling, and

1579
01:13:48,280 --> 01:13:51,360
Speaker 3: so I still eat the same way. I still train this.

1580
01:13:51,439 --> 01:13:52,800
Speaker 3: I have to get my two sessions a week of

1581
01:13:52,840 --> 01:13:55,400
Speaker 3: jiu jitsu in because I'm so new to it that

1582
01:13:55,520 --> 01:13:56,360
Speaker 3: I will forget.

1583
01:13:56,640 --> 01:13:57,280
Speaker 2: I will forget.

1584
01:13:57,360 --> 01:13:59,439
Speaker 1: I just just took about that for me. How easy

1585
01:13:59,640 --> 01:14:01,759
Speaker 1: is it? As we get older, oh man, to forget

1586
01:14:01,960 --> 01:14:03,280
Speaker 1: what they showed you.

1587
01:14:03,640 --> 01:14:05,479
Speaker 3: What do they say? They say youth is wasted on

1588
01:14:05,520 --> 01:14:05,880
Speaker 3: the young.

1589
01:14:06,200 --> 01:14:08,639
Speaker 4: My god, like, like they get your in a position

1590
01:14:08,720 --> 01:14:10,360
Speaker 4: and you know you're.

1591
01:14:10,160 --> 01:14:12,360
Speaker 1: Supposed to do something you can't remember.

1592
01:14:12,479 --> 01:14:13,200
Speaker 2: I can't remember.

1593
01:14:13,320 --> 01:14:15,280
Speaker 4: I mean I could learn it last week. I could

1594
01:14:15,320 --> 01:14:17,800
Speaker 4: literally learn it last week. And if they teach me

1595
01:14:17,840 --> 01:14:20,880
Speaker 4: too many things in one session, I'm just saying to

1596
01:14:20,920 --> 01:14:22,960
Speaker 4: just do keep him saying, just give me two things. Oh.

1597
01:14:23,400 --> 01:14:25,200
Speaker 4: And I lay in bed the next before I go

1598
01:14:25,240 --> 01:14:27,559
Speaker 4: the next time, and I'm thinking, thinking, hang on a minute,

1599
01:14:27,600 --> 01:14:28,519
Speaker 4: I haven't thought about this.

1600
01:14:28,479 --> 01:14:30,559
Speaker 1: Since the last my last session. What did he say?

1601
01:14:30,560 --> 01:14:31,840
Speaker 1: Where's my lego? Where's my mum?

1602
01:14:31,920 --> 01:14:31,960
Speaker 4: Go?

1603
01:14:32,800 --> 01:14:33,639
Speaker 1: It seems to be crazy.

1604
01:14:33,920 --> 01:14:37,520
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, it's funny. I think Larry, he's so knowledgeable.

1605
01:14:37,920 --> 01:14:43,560
Speaker 3: He he knows more than I'll ever acquire. And I

1606
01:14:43,600 --> 01:14:45,920
Speaker 3: think he wanted to impress us with how much. I said, Larry,

1607
01:14:45,960 --> 01:14:48,759
Speaker 3: just show us two things. And he showed us two things.

1608
01:14:49,000 --> 01:14:51,040
Speaker 3: And I said, I'd rather just drill this for the

1609
01:14:51,040 --> 01:14:53,280
Speaker 3: rest of the ninety minutes that we have with you,

1610
01:14:53,520 --> 01:14:56,479
Speaker 3: and then roll after that, then learn four or five things.

1611
01:14:56,960 --> 01:14:59,880
Speaker 3: Then I'll mix them all up and know nothing but

1612
01:15:00,080 --> 01:15:03,240
Speaker 3: jiu jitsu it is a human chess scheme. And I'll

1613
01:15:03,240 --> 01:15:05,320
Speaker 3: find myself doing step one and two and then I'll

1614
01:15:05,360 --> 01:15:07,879
Speaker 3: pause and I'm thinking, and I could see my opponent

1615
01:15:07,880 --> 01:15:11,200
Speaker 3: looking down at me, like seeing the wheel spin. If

1616
01:15:11,240 --> 01:15:12,720
Speaker 3: there was any one thing I wish I would have

1617
01:15:12,720 --> 01:15:15,559
Speaker 3: started sooner in life, it would be jiu jitsu.

1618
01:15:15,720 --> 01:15:20,679
Speaker 4: It's funny, there's something about it. It's not really fighting.

1619
01:15:20,720 --> 01:15:23,800
Speaker 4: It's sort of a combination of different things. But it's

1620
01:15:23,880 --> 01:15:26,280
Speaker 4: kind of a brain game and begetting your body to

1621
01:15:26,360 --> 01:15:28,120
Speaker 4: do the thing that your brain wants it to do.

1622
01:15:28,680 --> 01:15:34,559
Speaker 4: And I find it quite cognitively important because someone gets you,

1623
01:15:34,680 --> 01:15:37,760
Speaker 4: especially you know, when you're one of the worst in

1624
01:15:37,760 --> 01:15:40,840
Speaker 4: the class and definitely the oldest. Someone gets you in

1625
01:15:41,160 --> 01:15:44,400
Speaker 4: a position you've got to think, well, I know how

1626
01:15:44,400 --> 01:15:46,000
Speaker 4: to get I've got out of this before.

1627
01:15:46,880 --> 01:15:47,600
Speaker 1: I know what I got to do.

1628
01:15:47,640 --> 01:15:49,880
Speaker 2: But then you've got to make your body do it.

1629
01:15:49,880 --> 01:15:50,639
Speaker 2: It's a bit weird.

1630
01:15:51,120 --> 01:15:53,240
Speaker 4: Your body's not going to do it as we get

1631
01:15:53,240 --> 01:15:55,280
Speaker 4: on when you're when you're twenty, you would have been

1632
01:15:55,400 --> 01:15:56,880
Speaker 4: to do it, no worries. You get an arm by

1633
01:15:57,000 --> 01:15:59,280
Speaker 4: something because you throw your legs up and grub But like,

1634
01:15:59,360 --> 01:16:00,840
Speaker 4: I know what to do a lot of times, but

1635
01:16:00,880 --> 01:16:02,160
Speaker 4: I just my body just won't do it.

1636
01:16:02,160 --> 01:16:03,840
Speaker 1: And I think that's a really important thing as we

1637
01:16:03,880 --> 01:16:05,080
Speaker 1: get older to.

1638
01:16:06,600 --> 01:16:09,320
Speaker 4: For our mobility, and I think it's why people fall

1639
01:16:09,360 --> 01:16:10,360
Speaker 4: over as I get older.

1640
01:16:10,400 --> 01:16:10,879
Speaker 2: I agree.

1641
01:16:11,120 --> 01:16:13,640
Speaker 4: They know that they should be negotiating a certain thing

1642
01:16:13,680 --> 01:16:16,000
Speaker 4: in a certain way when they're walking somewhere, maybe with

1643
01:16:16,080 --> 01:16:18,080
Speaker 4: a bag, or they could be carrying a grain kid

1644
01:16:18,160 --> 01:16:20,639
Speaker 4: or whatever the case may be, but they just can't

1645
01:16:20,680 --> 01:16:23,200
Speaker 4: do the thing they know should do. That's the reason

1646
01:16:23,240 --> 01:16:25,040
Speaker 4: I do it now at my age.

1647
01:16:25,120 --> 01:16:26,160
Speaker 2: Now, that's exactly it.

1648
01:16:26,240 --> 01:16:28,600
Speaker 3: And I realized that I'm not going to stretch and

1649
01:16:28,600 --> 01:16:31,839
Speaker 3: do mobility, but if I do jiu jitsu, it forces

1650
01:16:31,840 --> 01:16:34,720
Speaker 3: me to stretch do mobility, and as you said, cognitively,

1651
01:16:35,160 --> 01:16:37,360
Speaker 3: it connects my mind and body together in a way

1652
01:16:37,400 --> 01:16:39,720
Speaker 3: that I don't think if there's anything else out there

1653
01:16:39,760 --> 01:16:42,000
Speaker 3: that I'd be interested in doing that would connect my

1654
01:16:42,040 --> 01:16:43,519
Speaker 3: mind and body together that way.

1655
01:16:43,800 --> 01:16:44,760
Speaker 1: It's funny the stretch thing.

1656
01:16:44,760 --> 01:16:47,920
Speaker 4: You're right, it's not a thing that I forces to stretch,

1657
01:16:47,960 --> 01:16:48,360
Speaker 4: doesn't it.

1658
01:16:48,520 --> 01:16:49,920
Speaker 1: I don't really dig it that much.

1659
01:16:50,400 --> 01:16:52,719
Speaker 4: I mean, like I did the yog for a little while,

1660
01:16:53,520 --> 01:16:55,719
Speaker 4: mainly because my part of the time she was yoga teacher,

1661
01:16:55,760 --> 01:16:57,080
Speaker 4: but it's.

1662
01:16:56,920 --> 01:16:58,479
Speaker 1: Not something that really gets me.

1663
01:16:58,760 --> 01:16:58,920
Speaker 2: Now.

1664
01:16:58,960 --> 01:17:00,760
Speaker 1: I don't want to be And this.

1665
01:17:00,840 --> 01:17:02,960
Speaker 4: Sounds a bit sexist, but I don't really want to

1666
01:17:02,960 --> 01:17:04,200
Speaker 4: be in a class for a whole lot of girls

1667
01:17:04,439 --> 01:17:06,280
Speaker 4: and I'm the only dude, and there I feel a

1668
01:17:06,280 --> 01:17:09,080
Speaker 4: bit weird. I think yo is great, but it's just

1669
01:17:09,120 --> 01:17:11,120
Speaker 4: I just don't feel comfortable doing it. I'd rather just

1670
01:17:11,320 --> 01:17:13,920
Speaker 4: roll around the joint like you, like we're saying in

1671
01:17:14,000 --> 01:17:16,720
Speaker 4: jiu jitsu, and get put into weird positions.

1672
01:17:16,280 --> 01:17:19,000
Speaker 1: And have to move my body around. And I think that.

1673
01:17:19,439 --> 01:17:22,880
Speaker 4: People listening to this these are new things, like jiu

1674
01:17:22,960 --> 01:17:24,360
Speaker 4: jitsu is relatively speaking new things.

1675
01:17:24,400 --> 01:17:24,960
Speaker 1: I mean don't know why.

1676
01:17:24,960 --> 01:17:28,439
Speaker 4: What he's done is brilliantly by introducing UFC to the

1677
01:17:28,439 --> 01:17:30,360
Speaker 4: world and all of us now seeing jiu jitsu. We

1678
01:17:30,400 --> 01:17:32,240
Speaker 4: would never seen it unless we went to the Olympics

1679
01:17:32,240 --> 01:17:34,320
Speaker 4: and watch the judo or the wrestling or something. But

1680
01:17:34,560 --> 01:17:36,200
Speaker 4: all of a sudden, these are new things that have

1681
01:17:36,240 --> 01:17:38,320
Speaker 4: been put in front of us, and they're very accessible.

1682
01:17:38,320 --> 01:17:40,479
Speaker 4: I don't know your country, bit. In this country, my god,

1683
01:17:40,680 --> 01:17:42,920
Speaker 4: there are so many jiu jitsu gyms in this country.

1684
01:17:42,920 --> 01:17:46,759
Speaker 4: They're everywhere, and it's crazy for us not to access

1685
01:17:46,800 --> 01:17:48,599
Speaker 4: these things for the benefits we get out of it

1686
01:17:48,920 --> 01:17:51,280
Speaker 4: and make it part of our routine, which makes it

1687
01:17:51,280 --> 01:17:54,000
Speaker 4: part of our structure, which helps our mindset, which helps

1688
01:17:54,080 --> 01:17:57,519
Speaker 4: us get through the day and through the year and

1689
01:17:57,600 --> 01:17:58,800
Speaker 4: hopefully successfully.

1690
01:17:59,479 --> 01:18:02,240
Speaker 1: Can we just talk about your tour? Yes, your tour heroes?

1691
01:18:02,320 --> 01:18:04,200
Speaker 2: Right, yeah, So what's the content? What do you what

1692
01:18:04,200 --> 01:18:05,200
Speaker 2: are you talking to everyone about?

1693
01:18:05,439 --> 01:18:07,880
Speaker 3: And so it's by Fizz Productions and the event is

1694
01:18:07,960 --> 01:18:12,800
Speaker 3: called Rise to Greatness and takes place in Melbourne, Brisbane

1695
01:18:12,840 --> 01:18:17,799
Speaker 3: and Sydney, Brisbane, Brisbane, I apologize and that spelled Brisbane.

1696
01:18:18,280 --> 01:18:20,920
Speaker 4: And if you're out and Brisbane people just get Brisbane

1697
01:18:21,040 --> 01:18:22,360
Speaker 4: and we're also was it Brisbane?

1698
01:18:22,400 --> 01:18:23,160
Speaker 2: Brisbane? God it?

1699
01:18:23,520 --> 01:18:26,439
Speaker 3: Thank you for the correction Brisbane, Melbourne and Australia and

1700
01:18:26,560 --> 01:18:30,120
Speaker 3: uh and Sydney and Rise to Greatness not only great speakers,

1701
01:18:30,160 --> 01:18:33,599
Speaker 3: but it's about empowering people to rise to their higher potential,

1702
01:18:33,640 --> 01:18:35,760
Speaker 3: to become the best version of yourself. We all know,

1703
01:18:36,040 --> 01:18:38,240
Speaker 3: we all have a conscience that speaks to us when

1704
01:18:38,240 --> 01:18:42,160
Speaker 3: we're you're up later than you should be. There's that

1705
01:18:42,280 --> 01:18:43,920
Speaker 3: conversation in the back of your head, like, hey, you

1706
01:18:43,920 --> 01:18:46,000
Speaker 3: should be asleep right now. If you're eating something you

1707
01:18:46,000 --> 01:18:47,880
Speaker 3: shouldn't be eating. There's that conversation in the back of

1708
01:18:47,920 --> 01:18:50,840
Speaker 3: your head. I call it a secondary conversation that takes place.

1709
01:18:51,120 --> 01:18:53,760
Speaker 3: That's your conscience, that's your creator.

1710
01:18:53,439 --> 01:18:55,320
Speaker 2: Speaking to you. And what do we do.

1711
01:18:55,360 --> 01:18:57,320
Speaker 3: We ignore it and we just turn up the volume

1712
01:18:57,320 --> 01:18:59,360
Speaker 3: on the television, or we take another shot, or we

1713
01:18:59,400 --> 01:19:01,120
Speaker 3: eat another slice of cake.

1714
01:19:01,160 --> 01:19:01,519
Speaker 2: Whatever.

1715
01:19:01,760 --> 01:19:04,439
Speaker 3: But if you listen to your conscience, it wants you

1716
01:19:04,479 --> 01:19:06,799
Speaker 3: to rise to your greatness, to your highest level of greatness.

1717
01:19:06,880 --> 01:19:10,519
Speaker 3: Think what you've done. You have developed your highest version

1718
01:19:10,560 --> 01:19:15,720
Speaker 3: of yourself, then gave yourself to the world through television, media, etc.

1719
01:19:16,080 --> 01:19:19,200
Speaker 3: This podcast and everything. If Mark did not take the

1720
01:19:19,240 --> 01:19:22,120
Speaker 3: time to develop his highest level of himself, then then

1721
01:19:22,160 --> 01:19:25,400
Speaker 3: you would not have the opportunities to serve humanity and

1722
01:19:25,479 --> 01:19:27,800
Speaker 3: to do things for yourself and your family. And so

1723
01:19:27,880 --> 01:19:30,320
Speaker 3: Rise to Greatness is just an amazing event that I

1724
01:19:30,360 --> 01:19:33,240
Speaker 3: think will be transformational for everyone who attends, and I

1725
01:19:33,280 --> 01:19:36,160
Speaker 3: think every year that Rob and his wife put this

1726
01:19:36,200 --> 01:19:39,719
Speaker 3: event on, more people should attend if they're looking to

1727
01:19:39,960 --> 01:19:44,479
Speaker 3: break out of the rat race and win their financial freedom,

1728
01:19:44,520 --> 01:19:48,000
Speaker 3: their mental freedom, and realize there's a better path to

1729
01:19:48,080 --> 01:19:51,040
Speaker 3: life than just being a cog in the wheel telling.

1730
01:19:50,800 --> 01:19:53,360
Speaker 4: You up in the stage foot and is it you

1731
01:19:53,400 --> 01:19:55,280
Speaker 4: an interview or you're doing a presentation.

1732
01:19:55,400 --> 01:19:58,479
Speaker 3: I'm doing a presentation. I'm doing a presentation, and we'll

1733
01:19:58,479 --> 01:19:59,840
Speaker 3: be here eight days in total.

1734
01:20:00,200 --> 01:20:05,040
Speaker 2: But you're on stage during anyone presentation, two presentations.

1735
01:20:05,040 --> 01:20:06,880
Speaker 3: I believe there's a Q and a question and answer

1736
01:20:06,880 --> 01:20:10,759
Speaker 3: session and a ninety minute presentations exactly.

1737
01:20:10,880 --> 01:20:16,240
Speaker 4: And are you heating on things like mindset months of strategies,

1738
01:20:16,960 --> 01:20:18,320
Speaker 4: you know, routines to put destruction.

1739
01:20:18,360 --> 01:20:21,519
Speaker 3: Also specifically how to make more money, how to find

1740
01:20:21,600 --> 01:20:24,360
Speaker 3: your source of purpose meaning right money meaning self mastery,

1741
01:20:24,400 --> 01:20:26,599
Speaker 3: how to make more money, how to find your source

1742
01:20:26,640 --> 01:20:28,639
Speaker 3: of meaning in life, because let's face it, we all

1743
01:20:28,680 --> 01:20:30,160
Speaker 3: need a sense of meaning. If you don't have a

1744
01:20:30,200 --> 01:20:32,479
Speaker 3: sense of meaning, you feel like you don't belong. You

1745
01:20:32,520 --> 01:20:35,120
Speaker 3: start feeling having dark thoughts soon after. But if you

1746
01:20:35,160 --> 01:20:36,920
Speaker 3: have a sense of meaning, like you belong, there's a

1747
01:20:37,400 --> 01:20:39,639
Speaker 3: purpose that you're put on this planet for. You will

1748
01:20:39,640 --> 01:20:42,400
Speaker 3: push through whatever is necessary. So more money, more meaning,

1749
01:20:42,680 --> 01:20:45,960
Speaker 3: and more self mastery. Become the higher version of yourself,

1750
01:20:46,240 --> 01:20:50,719
Speaker 3: drop your ego, connect to higher self, solve through your trauma, heal,

1751
01:20:51,600 --> 01:20:55,320
Speaker 3: stop reacting to things instead of respond to things like

1752
01:20:55,400 --> 01:20:58,400
Speaker 3: like an adult. Like we see great giant adults having

1753
01:20:58,479 --> 01:21:03,760
Speaker 3: temper tantrumsotionally because they are emotionally retarded and we need

1754
01:21:03,800 --> 01:21:06,080
Speaker 3: to I should get canceled for that, I'm sure, so

1755
01:21:06,080 --> 01:21:08,720
Speaker 3: I'll say it again. They get emotionally retarded instead of

1756
01:21:08,880 --> 01:21:12,439
Speaker 3: being emotionally aware. And when you're emotionally aware, you can okay.

1757
01:21:12,479 --> 01:21:14,400
Speaker 3: Am I about to react to what Mark said? Does

1758
01:21:14,439 --> 01:21:17,479
Speaker 3: Mark have any bad intentions towards me? Or maybe Mark's

1759
01:21:17,520 --> 01:21:19,240
Speaker 3: having a bad day and I should say, hey, friend,

1760
01:21:19,360 --> 01:21:20,000
Speaker 3: are you okay?

1761
01:21:20,920 --> 01:21:21,120
Speaker 2: Right?

1762
01:21:21,520 --> 01:21:24,240
Speaker 3: But depending on where my emotional state is, I may

1763
01:21:24,320 --> 01:21:27,360
Speaker 3: react instead of respond and trying to help a friend.

1764
01:21:27,360 --> 01:21:29,280
Speaker 3: Maybe you're just having a bad day and you took

1765
01:21:29,320 --> 01:21:31,800
Speaker 3: it out on me because I'm safe. The person that

1766
01:21:31,840 --> 01:21:34,640
Speaker 3: has elevated to higher self can tell the difference. The

1767
01:21:34,680 --> 01:21:37,640
Speaker 3: person who hasn't now becomes inflammatory.

1768
01:21:38,240 --> 01:21:41,280
Speaker 4: So just in terms of because I mean it, perhaps

1769
01:21:41,280 --> 01:21:43,880
Speaker 4: you and I like you, we've we live this life.

1770
01:21:43,880 --> 01:21:47,639
Speaker 4: But to some people when you say sort of discover

1771
01:21:48,000 --> 01:21:51,599
Speaker 4: or find out what your purpose is? What does that

1772
01:21:51,680 --> 01:21:55,360
Speaker 4: mean to people who might be listening to this, Because

1773
01:21:55,360 --> 01:21:58,400
Speaker 4: you know, am I meant to be a butcher and

1774
01:21:58,439 --> 01:22:03,120
Speaker 4: serve my community where I live? My butcher shop. I

1775
01:22:03,160 --> 01:22:06,080
Speaker 4: want to serve my community. That's called it made possible. Well,

1776
01:22:06,160 --> 01:22:08,360
Speaker 4: what is the purpose? How do you find out where

1777
01:22:08,360 --> 01:22:09,040
Speaker 4: your purpose is a.

1778
01:22:09,000 --> 01:22:12,679
Speaker 2: Good good question. It's actually well, I'll have two purposes.

1779
01:22:12,960 --> 01:22:13,679
Speaker 2: I'll start there.

1780
01:22:14,120 --> 01:22:17,519
Speaker 3: Your first purpose is really and people will ask it

1781
01:22:17,520 --> 01:22:20,000
Speaker 3: this way, They'll say, what is the meaning of life? Bedros,

1782
01:22:20,280 --> 01:22:23,240
Speaker 3: And I'll say, easy, easy, You don't have to worry

1783
01:22:23,240 --> 01:22:25,960
Speaker 3: about the meaning of life. Ask what is the meaning

1784
01:22:25,960 --> 01:22:29,479
Speaker 3: of my life? So you are your first purpose. And

1785
01:22:29,520 --> 01:22:32,120
Speaker 3: I believe again, whether you believe in God or the

1786
01:22:32,240 --> 01:22:36,200
Speaker 3: universe or universal consciousness doesn't matter to me. Whatever, whoever

1787
01:22:36,240 --> 01:22:40,920
Speaker 3: our creator is made us this way with where we

1788
01:22:40,960 --> 01:22:45,360
Speaker 3: will experience trauma adversity. You didn't come with an owner's manual.

1789
01:22:45,360 --> 01:22:46,760
Speaker 3: Did your mom and dad give you an owner's man

1790
01:22:47,160 --> 01:22:49,120
Speaker 3: Nor did mine? Yet I can go by a microwave

1791
01:22:49,200 --> 01:22:51,880
Speaker 3: or a refrigerator comes with an owner's manual. Yet something

1792
01:22:51,920 --> 01:22:55,400
Speaker 3: this complex, with emotions and thoughts and feelings and movement,

1793
01:22:55,560 --> 01:22:58,080
Speaker 3: I have no owner's manual. And I believe God or

1794
01:22:58,080 --> 01:23:01,280
Speaker 3: our creator wants us to figure out what is the

1795
01:23:01,400 --> 01:23:06,200
Speaker 3: meaning of my life? Religive to everybody else, Yes, yeah, See,

1796
01:23:06,200 --> 01:23:08,080
Speaker 3: when we try and understand the meaning of life.

1797
01:23:08,120 --> 01:23:10,360
Speaker 2: That's overwhelming. What is the meaning of my life?

1798
01:23:10,400 --> 01:23:12,040
Speaker 3: Well, how about the meaning of my life is to

1799
01:23:12,080 --> 01:23:14,759
Speaker 3: first be a good father, be a good husband.

1800
01:23:15,400 --> 01:23:16,280
Speaker 2: What does that look like?

1801
01:23:16,479 --> 01:23:18,720
Speaker 3: Raise kids who are going to be an asset to

1802
01:23:18,800 --> 01:23:22,439
Speaker 3: humanity and not a liability. Have a wife who feels

1803
01:23:22,479 --> 01:23:25,960
Speaker 3: like she's heard and understood, and a partner in what

1804
01:23:26,040 --> 01:23:30,400
Speaker 3: I do. Okay, great, manage, have patience, manage my anger,

1805
01:23:30,920 --> 01:23:32,800
Speaker 3: heal through the traumas that I've experienced. Like I said,

1806
01:23:32,800 --> 01:23:36,320
Speaker 3: I've experienced sexual trauma, physical trauma, physical abuse. That doesn't

1807
01:23:36,320 --> 01:23:39,920
Speaker 3: make me a victim, but those things that happened to

1808
01:23:39,960 --> 01:23:41,680
Speaker 3: me as a young man will show up in my

1809
01:23:41,720 --> 01:23:44,320
Speaker 3: life in a negative way if I don't heal through it.

1810
01:23:44,920 --> 01:23:47,080
Speaker 3: So the meaning of my life is first to heal

1811
01:23:47,120 --> 01:23:50,120
Speaker 3: through my traumas and the adversities that I faced, and

1812
01:23:50,200 --> 01:23:52,160
Speaker 3: to raise a family that is going to be an

1813
01:23:52,200 --> 01:23:55,200
Speaker 3: asset and not a liability to humanity. And it is

1814
01:23:55,240 --> 01:23:58,880
Speaker 3: to be myself to be an asset and not a

1815
01:23:58,880 --> 01:24:03,280
Speaker 3: liability on my fellow man. And then from there, I'm

1816
01:24:03,280 --> 01:24:06,519
Speaker 3: now at a place the hierarchy of needs Mapslow's hierarchy

1817
01:24:06,520 --> 01:24:07,760
Speaker 3: of needs. Now I'm at a place where I can

1818
01:24:07,760 --> 01:24:09,840
Speaker 3: go all right now now that I've healed, I've got

1819
01:24:09,840 --> 01:24:13,479
Speaker 3: a family who is sovereign and free and free thinking.

1820
01:24:14,000 --> 01:24:17,120
Speaker 3: How else can I serve humanity? Well, for me, it's fitness.

1821
01:24:17,400 --> 01:24:19,479
Speaker 3: When people ask me how can I get out of

1822
01:24:19,479 --> 01:24:21,000
Speaker 3: my depression? I said, do you have ABS?

1823
01:24:21,120 --> 01:24:21,160
Speaker 4: No?

1824
01:24:21,280 --> 01:24:22,920
Speaker 2: I don't get your abs. What do you mean?

1825
01:24:23,479 --> 01:24:26,120
Speaker 3: Yeah, if you get your abs, you will fall madly

1826
01:24:26,120 --> 01:24:28,840
Speaker 3: in love with yourself. In the process of getting your abs,

1827
01:24:28,840 --> 01:24:32,160
Speaker 3: eating right and working out hard, you will suffer so much,

1828
01:24:33,160 --> 01:24:34,840
Speaker 3: but you'll have to keep going to the gym to

1829
01:24:34,880 --> 01:24:37,080
Speaker 3: burn the fat and build the muscle. And when you do,

1830
01:24:37,120 --> 01:24:40,240
Speaker 3: you will release dopamine serotonin and it will help you

1831
01:24:40,400 --> 01:24:43,320
Speaker 3: escape your depression and anxiety when you do, and you

1832
01:24:43,360 --> 01:24:45,400
Speaker 3: get to the best version of yourself and you start

1833
01:24:45,439 --> 01:24:46,439
Speaker 3: solving all your problems.

1834
01:24:46,520 --> 01:24:47,760
Speaker 2: You know this when you're working out.

1835
01:24:47,960 --> 01:24:50,240
Speaker 3: How many times are you under rolling and someone's about

1836
01:24:50,240 --> 01:24:51,600
Speaker 3: to get you in a rear naked chokehold or a

1837
01:24:51,600 --> 01:24:55,280
Speaker 3: guillotine chokeholder and you're thinking through a work problem, Like

1838
01:24:55,360 --> 01:24:57,519
Speaker 3: some of my best problems solving happens when I'm about

1839
01:24:57,560 --> 01:25:00,040
Speaker 3: to get choked out or armbard or something. Because but

1840
01:25:00,040 --> 01:25:02,960
Speaker 3: I also realize, like I'm suffering, and I do believe

1841
01:25:03,000 --> 01:25:06,320
Speaker 3: suffering introduces a man to his highest self. And the

1842
01:25:06,360 --> 01:25:09,760
Speaker 3: world has gotten so soft, so complacent, that we try

1843
01:25:09,800 --> 01:25:12,400
Speaker 3: and stay away from any kind of suffering, and we've

1844
01:25:12,400 --> 01:25:15,320
Speaker 3: become fragile. We need to become anti fragile. So to me,

1845
01:25:16,160 --> 01:25:18,760
Speaker 3: our second source of purpose is once you've healed through

1846
01:25:18,760 --> 01:25:21,639
Speaker 3: your shit, once you are a good friend, a good husband,

1847
01:25:21,680 --> 01:25:25,040
Speaker 3: a good father, a good business partner. What is my

1848
01:25:25,120 --> 01:25:28,080
Speaker 3: source of serving humanity? For me, it's through fitness, right.

1849
01:25:28,120 --> 01:25:30,400
Speaker 3: I always tell people, if you can get fit physically,

1850
01:25:30,439 --> 01:25:33,880
Speaker 3: you will get fit mentally and emotionally. Now, someone else

1851
01:25:33,960 --> 01:25:35,320
Speaker 3: might say, I'm going to be a butcher, and I'm

1852
01:25:35,320 --> 01:25:37,240
Speaker 3: going to feed you good food, and that good food

1853
01:25:37,280 --> 01:25:38,760
Speaker 3: is going to nourish your body, and you're going to

1854
01:25:38,800 --> 01:25:40,360
Speaker 3: feel good about yourself. You're gonna go out there and

1855
01:25:40,360 --> 01:25:42,160
Speaker 3: do good. I don't know what someone else's source of

1856
01:25:42,160 --> 01:25:45,240
Speaker 3: purpose is, but I do no mine. And I got

1857
01:25:45,280 --> 01:25:47,320
Speaker 3: to this. I knew what my source of purpose is

1858
01:25:47,360 --> 01:25:51,200
Speaker 3: because at first I took time to heal myself and

1859
01:25:51,280 --> 01:25:53,760
Speaker 3: work on my first source of meaning, the meaning of

1860
01:25:53,800 --> 01:25:57,479
Speaker 3: my life, which is to develop, to basically develop my

1861
01:25:57,520 --> 01:25:59,920
Speaker 3: own owner's manual that morning routine. You talked about that

1862
01:26:00,000 --> 01:26:03,040
Speaker 3: evening routine that you have the structure, the discipline. You

1863
01:26:03,160 --> 01:26:07,000
Speaker 3: have written Mar's owner's manual. I've written my own, and

1864
01:26:07,000 --> 01:26:09,640
Speaker 3: everyone needs to write their own owner's manual first and

1865
01:26:09,680 --> 01:26:11,479
Speaker 3: then go out and serve the world with that.

1866
01:26:11,760 --> 01:26:16,400
Speaker 4: How important is honesty to yourself when you are sitting down?

1867
01:26:16,680 --> 01:26:18,760
Speaker 4: You said, get your shit together, like, work out the

1868
01:26:18,760 --> 01:26:20,599
Speaker 4: things that are sort of making you feel bad. And

1869
01:26:20,960 --> 01:26:23,000
Speaker 4: you know, like in your case, you suffered some traumas

1870
01:26:23,000 --> 01:26:26,400
Speaker 4: in your life. How important is it to be honest

1871
01:26:26,520 --> 01:26:30,120
Speaker 4: and confront those things? And do you need somebody else

1872
01:26:30,160 --> 01:26:30,680
Speaker 4: to help you.

1873
01:26:30,640 --> 01:26:31,479
Speaker 2: Through that process?

1874
01:26:31,560 --> 01:26:34,000
Speaker 4: Is it some people just can't do I think just

1875
01:26:34,040 --> 01:26:34,920
Speaker 4: can't do it on their own.

1876
01:26:35,000 --> 01:26:36,960
Speaker 2: Yeah. I think most people can't do it on their own. Yeah.

1877
01:26:36,960 --> 01:26:38,439
Speaker 2: What do they say? They say, what got you here

1878
01:26:38,520 --> 01:26:39,599
Speaker 2: won't get you there? Right?

1879
01:26:40,439 --> 01:26:43,839
Speaker 3: And so you have to be brutally honest with yourself.

1880
01:26:43,840 --> 01:26:46,720
Speaker 3: And I think most people overestimate how awesome they are,

1881
01:26:46,800 --> 01:26:53,799
Speaker 3: how amazing they are, and they underestimate how little problems

1882
01:26:53,800 --> 01:26:56,400
Speaker 3: they have until it's too late. You know, people who

1883
01:26:56,400 --> 01:26:58,840
Speaker 3: have the earbuds in and they're walking through a city

1884
01:26:58,880 --> 01:27:02,320
Speaker 3: at night, estimate how safe they are the former me,

1885
01:27:02,560 --> 01:27:04,320
Speaker 3: the one point zero version of me, the young man

1886
01:27:04,400 --> 01:27:07,000
Speaker 3: who was very angry. I used to carjack, I used

1887
01:27:07,000 --> 01:27:10,120
Speaker 3: to do home invasion robberies, and I today I could

1888
01:27:10,160 --> 01:27:12,920
Speaker 3: see someone walking with earbuds in at night, I could

1889
01:27:12,920 --> 01:27:14,880
Speaker 3: see where their purses. If it's on the street side,

1890
01:27:15,200 --> 01:27:17,760
Speaker 3: they're gonna be easier to snatch. I'm a forty nine

1891
01:27:17,840 --> 01:27:20,400
Speaker 3: year old successful man. I have no intention of robbing someone,

1892
01:27:20,560 --> 01:27:24,960
Speaker 3: but my predatory instincts still make me look, and when

1893
01:27:25,000 --> 01:27:27,559
Speaker 3: I see it, I go. They overestimate how safe they are,

1894
01:27:27,560 --> 01:27:31,400
Speaker 3: and they underestimate how deadly I can be or another

1895
01:27:31,439 --> 01:27:34,120
Speaker 3: bad guy can be. And I think, if you can

1896
01:27:34,160 --> 01:27:37,000
Speaker 3: be brutally honest, you realize most people are sitting ducks.

1897
01:27:37,400 --> 01:27:39,360
Speaker 3: Like several years ago, we were in my family and

1898
01:27:39,400 --> 01:27:44,120
Speaker 3: I were flying back from my MAUI and my son

1899
01:27:44,160 --> 01:27:46,040
Speaker 3: and I were sitting over here in first class. My

1900
01:27:46,320 --> 01:27:48,240
Speaker 3: wife and my daughter were sitting here in first class

1901
01:27:48,240 --> 01:27:51,200
Speaker 3: across the aisle, but we were the last row of

1902
01:27:51,240 --> 01:27:54,480
Speaker 3: first class up front and to the left, in the

1903
01:27:54,560 --> 01:27:57,240
Speaker 3: second row first class, there's a gentleman hitting the back

1904
01:27:57,240 --> 01:27:59,639
Speaker 3: of the seat making the gun gesture. Now it's eleven

1905
01:27:59,640 --> 01:28:02,120
Speaker 3: o'clock at night. Man We're flying over the Pacific Ocean

1906
01:28:02,640 --> 01:28:05,040
Speaker 3: and I had just started training in MMA. I hadn't

1907
01:28:05,080 --> 01:28:06,960
Speaker 3: learned jiu jitsu yet, but in MMA, you know this.

1908
01:28:07,040 --> 01:28:10,120
Speaker 3: You learned guillotine and renicka chokeholds and arm bars and.

1909
01:28:10,120 --> 01:28:10,679
Speaker 2: Things like that.

1910
01:28:12,080 --> 01:28:13,880
Speaker 3: And all of a sudden, I see the flight attendants.

1911
01:28:14,720 --> 01:28:17,840
Speaker 3: They're lacing together two zip cuffs and they're coming down

1912
01:28:17,880 --> 01:28:20,080
Speaker 3: the aisle and I stopped and I said, ma'am, is

1913
01:28:20,080 --> 01:28:23,040
Speaker 3: everything okay? Like, what's going on? He's a flight risk?

1914
01:28:23,080 --> 01:28:25,400
Speaker 3: I said, well, can I help? She said, well, by law,

1915
01:28:25,439 --> 01:28:27,840
Speaker 3: we have to ask him to put these on. And

1916
01:28:27,880 --> 01:28:30,439
Speaker 3: I look at him and he's going berserk Mark He's

1917
01:28:30,479 --> 01:28:32,680
Speaker 3: lost his shit, And I go, that man is going

1918
01:28:32,720 --> 01:28:33,080
Speaker 3: to put.

1919
01:28:32,960 --> 01:28:35,439
Speaker 2: On those zip cuffs. He goes, we hope, so okay.

1920
01:28:35,760 --> 01:28:37,200
Speaker 3: So they get in front of him and you could

1921
01:28:37,200 --> 01:28:39,040
Speaker 3: see the lady, hey, you know you have to put

1922
01:28:39,080 --> 01:28:39,280
Speaker 3: this on.

1923
01:28:39,360 --> 01:28:40,559
Speaker 2: He stands up and starts screaming.

1924
01:28:40,600 --> 01:28:42,040
Speaker 3: She looks at me, and I look at the guy

1925
01:28:42,040 --> 01:28:44,640
Speaker 3: sitting behind my wife, and we had both made this

1926
01:28:44,680 --> 01:28:46,800
Speaker 3: eye contact like if shit goes down, we're going to help.

1927
01:28:47,040 --> 01:28:49,800
Speaker 3: I really thought this is post nine to eleven that

1928
01:28:50,479 --> 01:28:52,120
Speaker 3: I thought. My biggest concern is I'm going to be

1929
01:28:52,160 --> 01:28:54,160
Speaker 3: the first one there. I'm going to be stuck under

1930
01:28:54,160 --> 01:28:56,479
Speaker 3: a pile of humans. I'm going to suffocate. That was

1931
01:28:56,479 --> 01:29:00,040
Speaker 3: my biggest concern, Like, oh shit, right, little then I

1932
01:29:00,120 --> 01:29:01,160
Speaker 3: know that it was just gonna be me and that

1933
01:29:01,200 --> 01:29:03,080
Speaker 3: guy and no one else. Everyone else had their phones

1934
01:29:03,080 --> 01:29:07,800
Speaker 3: out film me, and so I ran over, got him

1935
01:29:07,840 --> 01:29:09,880
Speaker 3: in a rear naked choke hold, then had to get

1936
01:29:09,920 --> 01:29:11,479
Speaker 3: him in a gillotine choke hold so we can put

1937
01:29:11,520 --> 01:29:13,600
Speaker 3: his arms behind his back and lace him up. The

1938
01:29:13,640 --> 01:29:15,960
Speaker 3: whole time I'm panicking, I'm sweating. God has gifted me

1939
01:29:15,960 --> 01:29:17,920
Speaker 3: with two things, a lot of body hair and a

1940
01:29:17,960 --> 01:29:20,599
Speaker 3: lot of sweat glands. I was sweating profusely, and coming

1941
01:29:20,600 --> 01:29:24,400
Speaker 3: back from Hawaii, I was wearing flip flops, and so

1942
01:29:24,439 --> 01:29:26,240
Speaker 3: I'm sliding out of my flip hoops. So now whenever

1943
01:29:26,280 --> 01:29:28,080
Speaker 3: I'm on a plane, I lace up my shoes really

1944
01:29:28,120 --> 01:29:30,200
Speaker 3: tight because if I have to choke a motherfucker out again,

1945
01:29:30,760 --> 01:29:32,400
Speaker 3: I'm never going to slip out of my flip flops.

1946
01:29:32,439 --> 01:29:34,720
Speaker 3: And he was a tall guy, so I didn't know

1947
01:29:34,720 --> 01:29:36,720
Speaker 3: how to take him down. I just hugged his neck

1948
01:29:36,760 --> 01:29:38,679
Speaker 3: and didn't let go until he collapsed, and then got

1949
01:29:38,680 --> 01:29:40,920
Speaker 3: into a guillotine choke hold. But I share this with

1950
01:29:40,960 --> 01:29:44,080
Speaker 3: you because it doesn't matter where I'm traveling to like,

1951
01:29:44,200 --> 01:29:46,479
Speaker 3: I want it as old as I get. I want

1952
01:29:46,479 --> 01:29:49,320
Speaker 3: to be an acid to humanity. Like God forbid. If

1953
01:29:49,320 --> 01:29:52,519
Speaker 3: I'm on another plane and something goes down, I don't

1954
01:29:52,560 --> 01:29:55,200
Speaker 3: want to be there hoping that someone jumps and saves

1955
01:29:55,200 --> 01:29:57,120
Speaker 3: the day. I want to be the one to save

1956
01:29:57,120 --> 01:29:58,800
Speaker 3: the day. In fact, jokingly I told my son as

1957
01:29:58,840 --> 01:30:02,000
Speaker 3: we were coming to Australia. He eighteen and muscular, and

1958
01:30:02,280 --> 01:30:04,280
Speaker 3: he boxes and he does jiu jitsu. I said, son,

1959
01:30:04,280 --> 01:30:07,400
Speaker 3: if shit goes down, I'm delegating it to you. Only

1960
01:30:07,439 --> 01:30:08,960
Speaker 3: if it gets bad, I'm gonna get up and help,

1961
01:30:09,160 --> 01:30:10,840
Speaker 3: you know, And he laughed about he goes, don't worry, Dad.

1962
01:30:10,720 --> 01:30:13,160
Speaker 2: I got it. He is he is. He don'tlike yourself

1963
01:30:14,240 --> 01:30:17,280
Speaker 2: like at eighteen. Yeah, yeah, yeah. He's fit unlike myself

1964
01:30:17,280 --> 01:30:19,400
Speaker 2: at eighteen. He's fit. He weighs one hundred and seventy five.

1965
01:30:19,280 --> 01:30:24,200
Speaker 3: Pounds, lean, muscular, boxes, does jiu jitsu, plays it just

1966
01:30:24,439 --> 01:30:26,679
Speaker 3: he's I'm in awe of my kids.

1967
01:30:26,680 --> 01:30:27,639
Speaker 2: Man, I'm in all of my kids.

1968
01:30:27,800 --> 01:30:29,479
Speaker 4: Well, they say that, but doesn't drop far from the

1969
01:30:29,520 --> 01:30:31,360
Speaker 4: tree like I mean, that's got to be a lot to.

1970
01:30:31,360 --> 01:30:32,719
Speaker 2: Do with yourself and your wife.

1971
01:30:32,840 --> 01:30:36,680
Speaker 4: Thank you with the mother, and I guess, by the way,

1972
01:30:36,880 --> 01:30:38,280
Speaker 4: your dad is still alive.

1973
01:30:38,479 --> 01:30:42,880
Speaker 3: My dad is alive. My mom died about ten months ago.

1974
01:30:43,400 --> 01:30:47,160
Speaker 4: Long and so, and when you sit down with your dad,

1975
01:30:47,240 --> 01:30:49,040
Speaker 4: because this is sort of where we started, when you

1976
01:30:49,080 --> 01:30:52,240
Speaker 4: sit down with your dad and you talk about he's

1977
01:30:52,280 --> 01:30:54,880
Speaker 4: no doubt very proud of what he has done and

1978
01:30:54,920 --> 01:30:57,120
Speaker 4: his family has done. Do you have a sort of

1979
01:30:57,160 --> 01:31:01,760
Speaker 4: sit down together and reflect on, you know, going to

1980
01:31:01,840 --> 01:31:07,759
Speaker 4: rhyme from Armenia and then off to America and WAYO landed,

1981
01:31:07,760 --> 01:31:08,599
Speaker 4: way you are today?

1982
01:31:08,720 --> 01:31:09,960
Speaker 1: Do you ever sit down reflect on that?

1983
01:31:10,120 --> 01:31:10,360
Speaker 4: We do?

1984
01:31:10,479 --> 01:31:11,599
Speaker 2: We did. He's ninety one.

1985
01:31:11,640 --> 01:31:14,120
Speaker 3: Now. We did more of that when he in the

1986
01:31:14,160 --> 01:31:17,920
Speaker 3: seventies and eighties. Today, at ninety one, his memory is

1987
01:31:17,920 --> 01:31:21,559
Speaker 3: not as sharp as it used to be. But I'm

1988
01:31:21,600 --> 01:31:25,040
Speaker 3: so glad that I was smart enough to ask questions like, Dad,

1989
01:31:25,120 --> 01:31:27,519
Speaker 3: what made you want to escape? And he said, oh,

1990
01:31:27,640 --> 01:31:29,720
Speaker 3: you don't remember when I wore jordash jeans and ray

1991
01:31:29,840 --> 01:31:33,559
Speaker 3: banded sunglasses and listened to the beach boys in Armenia.

1992
01:31:33,560 --> 01:31:34,880
Speaker 3: I said, no, I don't remember that. He goes, oh,

1993
01:31:34,920 --> 01:31:37,360
Speaker 3: I was born in an American just in the wrong country.

1994
01:31:37,680 --> 01:31:40,120
Speaker 3: Holy shit. So he goes, yeah, I just I was

1995
01:31:40,160 --> 01:31:42,439
Speaker 3: in the wrong country and I needed to escape and

1996
01:31:42,439 --> 01:31:44,759
Speaker 3: bring you guys with me. Like he came to America

1997
01:31:44,800 --> 01:31:47,200
Speaker 3: because he felt we'd have a better opportunity. But he

1998
01:31:47,240 --> 01:31:50,640
Speaker 3: felt that he was born in the wrong country. Like

1999
01:31:50,720 --> 01:31:52,800
Speaker 3: what a visionary you know. And so the stories that

2000
01:31:52,840 --> 01:31:56,639
Speaker 3: he tells me. He told me a story actually recently,

2001
01:31:57,720 --> 01:31:59,840
Speaker 3: maybe a couple months ago. I said, Dad, I think

2002
01:31:59,880 --> 01:32:01,640
Speaker 3: you help one of your friends stop smoking. So he

2003
01:32:01,720 --> 01:32:03,800
Speaker 3: used to be a hunter. They would hunt rabbit and

2004
01:32:03,840 --> 01:32:05,600
Speaker 3: squirrel and fox's small.

2005
01:32:05,360 --> 01:32:06,640
Speaker 2: Game in Armenia.

2006
01:32:06,720 --> 01:32:08,880
Speaker 3: I said, can you tell me, because my son Andrew

2007
01:32:08,920 --> 01:32:10,439
Speaker 3: was with mess can you tell me and Andrew how

2008
01:32:10,479 --> 01:32:12,960
Speaker 3: you stopped one of your friends from smoking cigarettes?

2009
01:32:13,439 --> 01:32:13,639
Speaker 2: Oh?

2010
01:32:13,680 --> 01:32:16,280
Speaker 3: He goes, easy, easy, and he tells Andrew goes, Andrew, Andrew,

2011
01:32:16,280 --> 01:32:16,840
Speaker 3: you listen to me.

2012
01:32:16,920 --> 01:32:17,519
Speaker 2: You listen to me.

2013
01:32:18,200 --> 01:32:22,280
Speaker 3: And so his friend, which was a chainsmoker in Armenia,

2014
01:32:24,120 --> 01:32:26,880
Speaker 3: my dad goes and buys a pack of cigarettes, takes

2015
01:32:26,880 --> 01:32:29,400
Speaker 3: one of the cigarettes, takes half of the tobacco out,

2016
01:32:29,800 --> 01:32:33,200
Speaker 3: takes a bullet, takes a little bit of the gunpowder out,

2017
01:32:33,280 --> 01:32:35,800
Speaker 3: puts it in the cigarette. Puts the tobacco back in,

2018
01:32:37,320 --> 01:32:39,160
Speaker 3: tells his friend, Hey, you want a cigarette, and he

2019
01:32:39,240 --> 01:32:41,840
Speaker 3: pulls out the right one and gives it to his friend.

2020
01:32:41,960 --> 01:32:43,360
Speaker 3: Of course, the friend lights it up and the thing

2021
01:32:43,400 --> 01:32:46,200
Speaker 3: blows up in his face and immediately he stops smoking.

2022
01:32:46,640 --> 01:32:48,479
Speaker 3: And he goes, you have to be bold, son, I

2023
01:32:48,479 --> 01:32:50,639
Speaker 3: did bold things to help my friends. And he said,

2024
01:32:50,640 --> 01:32:52,679
Speaker 3: I did bold things to make sure that you guys

2025
01:32:52,680 --> 01:32:55,200
Speaker 3: have the life that you want. Like he was a visionary,

2026
01:32:55,280 --> 01:32:57,920
Speaker 3: Like he did things, he risked his life. And he

2027
01:32:58,120 --> 01:33:00,000
Speaker 3: has a sweet tongue and our meeni and we say

2028
01:33:00,960 --> 01:33:04,680
Speaker 3: cost Lesu a sweet tongue where he was able to

2029
01:33:04,760 --> 01:33:08,360
Speaker 3: finaggle his way through the American consult in Rome, and

2030
01:33:08,400 --> 01:33:10,040
Speaker 3: when we got here, he found a way to get

2031
01:33:10,080 --> 01:33:12,479
Speaker 3: people to help us and like us and not see

2032
01:33:12,520 --> 01:33:13,200
Speaker 3: us as a threat.

2033
01:33:13,960 --> 01:33:15,120
Speaker 2: And I learned so much of that.

2034
01:33:15,280 --> 01:33:18,000
Speaker 3: So yeah, we do get together, especially earlier on, and

2035
01:33:18,040 --> 01:33:21,320
Speaker 3: we talk about like, like, look where we've gotten. You know,

2036
01:33:21,360 --> 01:33:23,160
Speaker 3: the fact that my sister works for me full time

2037
01:33:23,160 --> 01:33:26,000
Speaker 3: and does nothing. That was one of my life goals, right,

2038
01:33:26,080 --> 01:33:27,200
Speaker 3: one of my life goals.

2039
01:33:27,720 --> 01:33:28,479
Speaker 2: Yeah, you heard it.

2040
01:33:29,240 --> 01:33:31,960
Speaker 1: If you don't agree with him, tell me when you

2041
01:33:32,000 --> 01:33:32,479
Speaker 1: say he does.

2042
01:33:32,800 --> 01:33:35,479
Speaker 3: He just said, you do nothing, literally nothing, And I

2043
01:33:35,520 --> 01:33:37,000
Speaker 3: love that and I want that for And that's because

2044
01:33:37,040 --> 01:33:40,240
Speaker 3: when we came to Armenia to America, she had a job.

2045
01:33:40,320 --> 01:33:41,760
Speaker 3: One of the three jobs that she had, she was

2046
01:33:41,760 --> 01:33:43,800
Speaker 3: a waitress at a pizzeria, the same pizzeria that my

2047
01:33:43,840 --> 01:33:44,719
Speaker 3: dad was a busboy.

2048
01:33:45,560 --> 01:33:46,559
Speaker 2: And the owner of.

2049
01:33:46,560 --> 01:33:51,240
Speaker 3: That pizzeria was very suggestive, was very handsy, gropie with her,

2050
01:33:51,320 --> 01:33:53,080
Speaker 3: and she would cry to my dad like, I don't

2051
01:33:53,080 --> 01:33:54,840
Speaker 3: want to work here anymore. He said, one more month,

2052
01:33:54,920 --> 01:33:57,200
Speaker 3: just need the money, one more month. And you know,

2053
01:33:57,600 --> 01:33:59,559
Speaker 3: remember she's sixteen years older than me, so she's also

2054
01:33:59,600 --> 01:34:01,599
Speaker 3: like a second mom to me. And I remember going

2055
01:34:01,640 --> 01:34:04,080
Speaker 3: to her feeling helpless, and I said, hey, sis, when

2056
01:34:04,120 --> 01:34:06,280
Speaker 3: I'm rich, when i'm older, I'm going to be so

2057
01:34:06,439 --> 01:34:09,320
Speaker 3: rich you'll never have to work again. So fourteen years ago,

2058
01:34:10,360 --> 01:34:12,479
Speaker 3: I told her to quit her company job that she

2059
01:34:12,560 --> 01:34:15,360
Speaker 3: had and she works for me, doing nothing, and I

2060
01:34:15,400 --> 01:34:17,080
Speaker 3: love that. And my dad is so grateful to me

2061
01:34:17,120 --> 01:34:18,720
Speaker 3: tell this day. He says, I know what you're doing

2062
01:34:18,760 --> 01:34:20,840
Speaker 3: for your sister and your brother, Thank you for that.

2063
01:34:20,920 --> 01:34:23,000
Speaker 3: And I'm like, dude, it's no worries, it's the least

2064
01:34:23,000 --> 01:34:23,800
Speaker 3: I could do it.

2065
01:34:25,240 --> 01:34:27,200
Speaker 4: I got one stop by an Armenian friend of mine

2066
01:34:27,200 --> 01:34:29,439
Speaker 4: who passed away, and a meaning friend of mine.

2067
01:34:29,439 --> 01:34:30,479
Speaker 1: He told me that, Marke.

2068
01:34:30,520 --> 01:34:32,800
Speaker 4: He said, Armenians the best traders in the world, the

2069
01:34:32,800 --> 01:34:35,360
Speaker 4: best merchants in the world. And I said, because we

2070
01:34:35,400 --> 01:34:38,439
Speaker 4: sit between Europe, or we used to sit historically between

2071
01:34:38,479 --> 01:34:42,000
Speaker 4: Europe and the Middle East and of course China in

2072
01:34:42,080 --> 01:34:43,080
Speaker 4: terms of the Silk Road.

2073
01:34:43,479 --> 01:34:44,479
Speaker 1: He said, so everything had to.

2074
01:34:44,400 --> 01:34:46,320
Speaker 4: Go through Emenia and had to get traded one way

2075
01:34:46,360 --> 01:34:48,599
Speaker 4: or the other. He said, Armenians sort of grew up

2076
01:34:48,640 --> 01:34:51,240
Speaker 4: with this over the century. He's grew up with this

2077
01:34:51,280 --> 01:34:54,640
Speaker 4: sort of history of being able to do deals and

2078
01:34:55,400 --> 01:34:59,559
Speaker 4: build bridges between organizations, but you know, actually sort of

2079
01:34:59,600 --> 01:35:03,680
Speaker 4: broke things to happen and build bridges between people and concepts,

2080
01:35:03,720 --> 01:35:05,800
Speaker 4: people and products, prevalent services.

2081
01:35:06,080 --> 01:35:08,080
Speaker 1: And it sees to me that Bedros is.

2082
01:35:08,080 --> 01:35:11,840
Speaker 4: That what you're doing is that your your in, your

2083
01:35:12,040 --> 01:35:14,640
Speaker 4: in your jobs and your business. Today you've sort of

2084
01:35:14,640 --> 01:35:20,519
Speaker 4: built a bridge between consumers, your audience, consumers of what

2085
01:35:20,560 --> 01:35:23,280
Speaker 4: you talk about, your audience build a bridge between them

2086
01:35:23,320 --> 01:35:27,040
Speaker 4: and what can be possibly with the best version of themselves.

2087
01:35:27,200 --> 01:35:31,680
Speaker 4: So that's quite an important by the way, a big responsibility,

2088
01:35:32,520 --> 01:35:38,400
Speaker 4: a huge responsibility which you've adopted. That bridge is for

2089
01:35:38,479 --> 01:35:40,880
Speaker 4: some people, in particularly some people could be make or

2090
01:35:40,920 --> 01:35:44,240
Speaker 4: break for them, you know, because you're to some extent

2091
01:35:44,400 --> 01:35:47,320
Speaker 4: you're there's potentially the salvation, and they look up to

2092
01:35:47,320 --> 01:35:48,639
Speaker 4: you for that, and they will come along and listen

2093
01:35:48,680 --> 01:35:50,040
Speaker 4: to you and pay money to listen to you for that.

2094
01:35:50,439 --> 01:35:52,919
Speaker 4: Do you fill a level of responsibility in that regard

2095
01:35:53,000 --> 01:35:58,360
Speaker 4: to make sure that they go away with something? How

2096
01:35:58,360 --> 01:36:00,000
Speaker 4: big is that responsibility on your shoulders?

2097
01:36:00,400 --> 01:36:02,599
Speaker 2: There's a massive responsibility where that's concerned.

2098
01:36:03,280 --> 01:36:09,760
Speaker 3: I'm organically, I'm I'm an introvert. I'm an i NTJ introverted,

2099
01:36:09,880 --> 01:36:15,160
Speaker 3: intuitive thinker, judicial very high introvert. And I think and

2100
01:36:15,560 --> 01:36:16,280
Speaker 3: people ask me, is.

2101
01:36:16,240 --> 01:36:16,639
Speaker 2: There a God?

2102
01:36:16,640 --> 01:36:18,599
Speaker 3: And I go, of course, there's a god. He made

2103
01:36:18,600 --> 01:36:21,320
Speaker 3: me a high introvert and then told me my purpose

2104
01:36:21,920 --> 01:36:24,120
Speaker 3: is to do what extroverts do. Get in front of

2105
01:36:24,160 --> 01:36:26,439
Speaker 3: a microphone, get on stage and speak to tens of

2106
01:36:26,439 --> 01:36:30,360
Speaker 3: thousands of millions of people. I fifteen years of speaking,

2107
01:36:30,680 --> 01:36:34,120
Speaker 3: I still sweat profusely. I'm always nervous when I'm on stage.

2108
01:36:34,320 --> 01:36:36,679
Speaker 3: Once I'm on stage, a sense of comfort comes over

2109
01:36:36,760 --> 01:36:39,280
Speaker 3: me and I believe. I say, you know the universe

2110
01:36:39,400 --> 01:36:41,600
Speaker 3: or God speaks through me, Source just speaks through me.

2111
01:36:41,640 --> 01:36:45,280
Speaker 3: I'm just a megaphone. When that happens, I almost go

2112
01:36:45,360 --> 01:36:49,800
Speaker 3: out of body. Sometimes it's fascinating. But the pressure that

2113
01:36:49,920 --> 01:36:52,840
Speaker 3: I feel as an introvert when I'm still stopped on

2114
01:36:52,880 --> 01:36:55,160
Speaker 3: the streets, I don't know how Oh you're badro's cool

2115
01:36:55,160 --> 01:36:56,599
Speaker 3: and I follow you. I didn't know what to say

2116
01:36:56,680 --> 01:36:59,679
Speaker 3: before my wife taught me three things. Hey, what's your name?

2117
01:37:00,560 --> 01:37:01,240
Speaker 2: What do you do?

2118
01:37:02,120 --> 01:37:04,640
Speaker 3: What is your favorite part of my show? Because I

2119
01:37:04,640 --> 01:37:05,559
Speaker 3: don't know what to ask?

2120
01:37:05,640 --> 01:37:07,080
Speaker 1: The three questions are?

2121
01:37:07,120 --> 01:37:09,920
Speaker 3: Those are three questions? Okay, are you an introvert by chance?

2122
01:37:10,040 --> 01:37:10,200
Speaker 2: Yeah?

2123
01:37:10,200 --> 01:37:12,360
Speaker 3: Okay, there you go, There you go. Because I connect

2124
01:37:12,360 --> 01:37:13,800
Speaker 3: one on one like this really well. I could do

2125
01:37:13,840 --> 01:37:15,439
Speaker 3: this all day long. Put me on stage.

2126
01:37:15,720 --> 01:37:18,200
Speaker 2: My armpits are sweating, my backsweating. Put you know.

2127
01:37:18,840 --> 01:37:22,720
Speaker 3: And so while I'm grateful for the opportunities the responsibility

2128
01:37:22,720 --> 01:37:26,000
Speaker 3: that I have, and I think I magnify that to myself.

2129
01:37:26,040 --> 01:37:28,160
Speaker 3: I make it bigger than it should be. But it's

2130
01:37:28,160 --> 01:37:30,760
Speaker 3: also why I might give a shit factor, as my

2131
01:37:30,800 --> 01:37:33,840
Speaker 3: wife says, is so high. I give a shit to

2132
01:37:33,880 --> 01:37:36,840
Speaker 3: the point where I'll I was telling everybody at dinner

2133
01:37:36,920 --> 01:37:41,479
Speaker 3: last night I say, watch tomorrow. Before I get on stage,

2134
01:37:41,800 --> 01:37:43,800
Speaker 3: I'm gonna have to pee and pee again and pee.

2135
01:37:44,200 --> 01:37:45,439
Speaker 2: My bladder goes out of control.

2136
01:37:45,520 --> 01:37:47,800
Speaker 3: I feel like I'm getting a sore throat, I'm running

2137
01:37:47,800 --> 01:37:51,240
Speaker 3: a fever, and as soon as I'm on stage, Mark relaxed.

2138
01:37:51,840 --> 01:37:56,000
Speaker 3: It's fucking nuts fifteen years later. But it's introvert living

2139
01:37:56,000 --> 01:37:56,960
Speaker 3: in an extrovert life.

2140
01:37:57,120 --> 01:38:00,080
Speaker 4: Yeah, so basically, to some extent, it's a performance. The

2141
01:38:00,160 --> 01:38:04,240
Speaker 4: content you perform, you switch on the moment you get

2142
01:38:04,280 --> 01:38:07,400
Speaker 4: on the stage, and you perform with your content and

2143
01:38:07,800 --> 01:38:09,519
Speaker 4: you deliver on your promise.

2144
01:38:10,479 --> 01:38:12,320
Speaker 3: I think I do. I have yet to hear anyone

2145
01:38:12,360 --> 01:38:14,200
Speaker 3: ask for a refund, and it's been fifteen.

2146
01:38:14,000 --> 01:38:16,800
Speaker 2: Years andros cooling has been a great pleasure. Thank you

2147
01:38:16,880 --> 01:38:17,439
Speaker 2: so much much