Barn Talk - Fighting The Enemy Within

Episode Date: September 3, 2021

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And the most dangerous monster that there is is the one in your head. Yep. Because you can be more self-sabotaging than any person that you're going to run into. And I feel like women have this worse than men because they're probably more honest with themselves. Because I think most men get out of the shower and look in the mirror and go, damn, you're a good-looking guy. Maybe that's just me. That is just you. All of the food we eat and much of the clothing we wear

comes from plants and animals that are raised on farms. Farms are different in type, in size, and even in name. Welcome to Barn Talk. What happens at the barn stays at the barn. Until now, we're going to let it all out for you guys. Today, it's a solo episode. Just Dad and I, no guest. Next week, we're going to do.

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Well, maybe quite a bit. Tork. AKA Tork and More. Yes, right. Thanks for your support. Thanks for the comments. um today uh we're we're a little we're an a m we're an a m recording this morning because it was just so stinking hot yesterday that we decided we'd get up and do it uh do it early in the

morning so that's why we're so bright-eyed today yeah it's awfully it's awfully hot we had to get so damn hot this in the morning like yesterday was just we were going to record yesterday but then it was just so damn hot at like nine o'clock so we were like oh boy so we'll have to do it tomorrow which is today yeah in the in this world time doesn't matter because we can make we can make any time be the right time right for barn talk for you guys we can do we'll make it work we'll get an episode out for you guys one thing i wanted to address before we get started because i know you're looking at me a little funny right now over there you guys i got this big old i don't know what this is it looks like a scratch so what happened was my girl

girlfriend loves popping zits i don't know if any of you out there have this same problem with your wife your girlfriend what's up with the women loving popping zits i don't know anyway i had a zit on my face it was a really deep kind of zit it was big and she tackled me to the ground and just went to town on that thing and now it's just there's a big old scratch looking thing on my face i hope it doesn't scar over but i just wanted to get that out of the way so people don't are you an abusive relationship Maybe. Is this a cry for help? Do I need to get...

Somebody needs to help me. I'm just kidding. She didn't tackle me or anything. I kind of let her do it. So, yeah, I just wanted to get that out of way. We don't have any makeup people on the set, so we can't look all beautiful all the time. We don't have a makeup department.

I was listened to a podcast yesterday that the All-In podcast, and I would highly recommend it, especially... So last week, our topic, we had Micah Roberts on. and we talked about what's going on in Afghanistan. We're going to touch on that a little bit today. Because there's been some updates. Yeah, I mean, there's more going on there. But anyway, they had a real good show about it.

And through the process, they were talking about they have six people, six people that basically edit and produce and post-production and all that, their podcast, which the guys that are on that, they can afford it. They're very successful. but our staff we're hiring, but the benefit package is pretty low. Pretty low. Pretty low right now. So anyway, we got to get some damn sponsors.

We don't have makeup. Yeah, it's just dad and I. We're trying our best here. So harvest is near around here. So I'd say there'll be some people, I bet you there'll be people trying to do some corn in two weeks. Like our corn on corn ground is drying. fast, drying faster than the bean ground. And we were really dry. We were, we were really dry a week ago.

And in fact, the beans, they were starting to look kind of tough. And then we got, we got a big rain, I don't know, about four days ago probably. And that, I mean, that pretty much, we're good to go. That was nice. That was really nice, especially for the beans. But so the corn, it perked up a little bit, but it's drying down and everything is moving in that direction. And I made the decision to sell all my old crappy Parker wagons, and there's an auction coming up, I think the 8th of September that we're selling them. And I thought, yeah, I'll get rid of them, and then I'll find another, like a Brent, 657. They'll be wanted an auction.

And guess what? I haven't found any. I'm going to have to really start scrambling this week and call around because I need at least one more harvest. I've got two six-fifty-sevens and I wanted to get one more and I didn't think it was going to be a big deal, but it's kind of turning out that good used wagons are few and far between. So anyway, we'll get that figured out. I'll give you the market update. So this is the close for Friday.

and corn at ADM in Cedar Rapids actually had the high bid, 656, and 613, maybe 615. I forgot to check on that, but locally about 613. Soybeans 1376 at Muscatine and 1348 locally. I threw a wheat bid in there because... We haven't ever talked about wheat. Yeah, well, there isn't much wheat production in the state of Iowa. But it's kind of been on a roll. So the September contract for a week closed at 718,

which is pretty, if you got it, I think that's a pretty good price. Hogs for October hogs, 91. So a week ago, I think they were like 80, 86 maybe. So they were working up on that new month that they went into and not much change there. Cattle, 122. Cattle have been 120 for whatever month you want to look at for, I don't know.

Long time. Yeah, all year long. Bitcoin, $49,000. So it's been floating around trying to get through that $50,000 market, backed off. It got down $46,000. It got past $50, but then it went back down.

Yeah. But I think it's just kind of consolidating here. To the moon, baby. To the moon from there. So Ethereum, $3,200. Tesla had a good, end of the week $712 and squares 268. So that is the market. Kind of impromptu sponsored by the mercantile, my wife's store in Washington, and the reason

is she doesn't even know she's a sponsor, but... Better get your mic out of the way. Oh, yeah. So, there you go. So men out there, when you do something stupid and you need to redeem yourself. The mercantile on, or mercantile on Marion.com, you can buy something for your sweetheart online if you need to save your butt. We'll put it. We'll put the link in the description. So if you got to kiss some ass, if you did something dirty, you need to. Yeah, you can, we ship nationwide now, I think. And so she's the impromptu sponsor because I'm pretty sure I use her credit card for the last case of beer I bought. So you're just, you're trying to make up on Europe. Oopsie. Yeah, maybe I need to get on and get something.

I don't think that has quite the same bang for the buck when you buy something from your wife to give to your wife. That's a pro tip. Don't do that. If your wife's a florist or owns a gift shop or whatever, don't buy their product to get yourself out of hot. Trouble. Anyway, so today's topic is, I guess what we want to call it is fighting the enemy within. And the way that this came about was Sawyer and I were talking this week, and we've been trying to line up guests and get people on.

And we've had some meetings with some people that we work with and talked about, you know, talking about the future, talking about what we're trying to do. And it was really good. But as we grow this thing, organization is, key and we both are very guilty of not being well organized and then we had some we had some electronic malfunctions like we we cut some clips I cut some clips uploaded them and then saved them and when I saved them to the hard drive the external hard drive for whatever reason they didn't they didn't save correctly and there's no real way to get them back

for to use for anywhere else other than I got them up on YouTube to edit there, but to use them for other things. So pretty much I'm going to have to go cut all them again, and it's just time. But we were talking about scheduling, we were talking about getting up and getting our hog work done and all the other stuff. And it got us thinking about, you know, really one of the greatest things that you face in any business you're in, if you're self-employed, really if you're working for somebody else is being accountable to yourself. And so that's where we came up with the idea of the enemy within. And there's a lot of aspects of that, you know, friends, family, co-workers, there's plenty of distractions.

But anyway, that's what we're going to talk about today. We're going to start with kind of an Afghanistan update. And I'm going to be honest with you, when we started this podcast and kind of this brand, we didn't really ever want to touch on politics. But I feel like it's very important, especially right now, that no matter who you are, you got a voice, you got an influence. And the way that this country is turned, you know, the where we're going as a country, it's a little worrisome. And I think if people start to show other people that they're not alone in the fact that, you know, we're pro America. because I feel like a lot of people that are pro-America are just being silent because they don't want to share their opinions because they think they're going to get censored, which you very well could.

But it's really important because you want to show people that, you know, they're not alone in thinking that. And I think we're not alone. They just want to, they just want you to think that we're alone. They want to divide us. They want us to shut up and just listen and be a sheep. But no more of that shit. We're going to touch on it a little bit because I think it's important to get that. message out. And it's not going to be all about politics. I don't want that to be all about it.

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Call 16-531-260 or visit connexonterio.ca. So all the politicians, not to bag on politicians because politicians come from all of us. You know, everybody that's a politician started out doing something else and then decided to be a politician. But the political system that we have and the environment or the culture of politics in this country has gotten so, toxic that there aren't enough good people with strong, strong backbones to run for political office. I mean, it starts all the way down to your local school board and your local city council and all that.

So many of us that work, so many of us that work full-time jobs or own our own business or farmers, ranchers, you know, welders, plumbers, electricians. we all get caught up in this. We're so busy just trying to make ends meet to provide for our family. And when we come home, I don't want to turn on the news. I don't care because I feel like when I see a lot of what's going on, it really doesn't give you hope. It doesn't give me hope.

I feel like that, and we said this, I just feel like the political system does not have our best interest in mind. and their agenda is to consolidate power. And what you said about standing up for yourself, it's not, we're not going to be political because I don't feel like this is a left-right Republican Democrat thing. It's both sides. We're talking about politicians on both sides.

There's corrupt politicians on both sides. And it's like what we talked about the other day. It's like people think, oh, if you have one belief on the law, left and you're mostly a lot of beliefs on the right, you can only be right or you can only be left. You can't believe anything on the left or you can't believe in one thing on the left and then believe everything on the other things on the right. You have to be either conservative or liberal. And that's not the way it is. I have some things that I believe in on the liberal side of things and then I have some things that I believe on the conservative side of things. You know,

that's fine. And I think that's not a bad thing at all. And I think most people are like that. So really what I what my viewpoint is today is I'm just tired I'm tired of the division So I am I I hope we can all get back to a point that we're all Americans first and we're not the group that somebody puts us in first and then American second Because so what's really sad is so many of our elections today We we don't vote necessarily for somebody we vote against somebody. So a lot of people's votes,

they may not like the candidate that is the alternative, but they dislike him less or her less. So they vote for that person because they really don't like the one that they've got or the other one, which that just tells you the lack of good quality people

that are running for those positions. And so I'm pretty sure I'm not electable. and I wouldn't, I'm not, I am, I wouldn't be good. But people that have that gift of working together with differing points of view, we need more people to run for public office that have in their heart that they want to help, and not, genuinely want to help. Not want to end up on the board of some defense contractor because, as Micah touched on, you know, when you get to the top, it really doesn't matter.

I've always said this. You can take Republicans and Democrats at the highest level of government. If you throw them in a wash machine and pull them out, you can't tell one from the other. Because they're all there to consolidate power and to make money. To make money for themselves. Anyway, we'll go on. So after Micah was here, and thanks to him for being on, sadly, we had a, suicide bomber there at the airport and 13 American servicemen died, which is a sad.

Very sad. It's just a deep condolences to, you know, those families and those guys. And it's the ultimate sacrifice. And it's just very sad that they shouldn't even have been, if this would have been handled a whole different way, that that shouldn't even have happened. Which we don't know. I mean, we don't know, but we know that this wasn't handled well. And I saw a clip.

They were talking, I mean, they were basically asking our president why the Taliban was doing perimeter security. And, you know, on the one hand, he said that nobody trusts the Taliban. We don't trust the Taliban. But it's in their mutual interest with us because they want us out that they're going to do a great job. You know, they're going to, we can trust that they're going to do security because they want us out. And I thought that that was just, I thought that was one of the, the most nonsensical answers by a politician that I'd ever heard. And it's just, it's just sad. And this is going off, this is off script a little bit, because I just heard this yesterday.

And here's something for you to think about. And this isn't, this is, this is just the world we live in. But you can, we spent two trillion dollars, we spent over two trillion dollars over there. and we're leaving and we aren't going to have anything to show for it except for a lot of a lot of pain and a lot of questions about how it was handled and there's going to be a power vacuum there and the Chinese are already willing to fill that and what they're going to do and you can write this down and come back and tell me Torque you're totally wrong on this and I might be but my guess is that the Chinese are going to go there and they're going to invest a pile of money and they may spend two trillion

yen in there or whatever but what they're going to do is they're going to build infrastructure because Afghanistan has one of the largest deposits of rare earth minerals in the world and rare earth minerals are all the the trace minerals that you use in building magnets and in chips in computer chips they're used in very small quantities, but they're very difficult to get to, and there's very few places in the world that you can get them. And in fact, in the United States, there's only one mine in the United States that has access, one place really that we know of that we can get rare earth minerals. 70% of the rare earth minerals today come from China. And so when you're trying to make the next

generation chips that are going to be in products for the military, electric vehicles, basically everything that's going to drive the economy in the future, you need rare earth. minerals and we're in really bad we're in a really bad position in the fact that we've got to get a lot of that from China and China knows that the future for their economy if they want to dominate that that's what they want and they're they don't have the ethics that we have they don't care they aren't going to care about the oppression of women well they just don't care what the Taliban does they're there to get something and if it means partnering with them and look in a blind eye to what they're doing socially to get something economically.

They're willing to do it. Yep. And so America's going to get put at a disadvantage, and you really got to ask yourself, you know, why are we doing the things that we're doing? And maybe we should look at things. We need to play a longer game than what we are. That's, we're so, we touched on it in last podcast.

America's so short-term thinking on our nation. And China is playing the ultimate long game. They want to dominate. They want to dominate the world. they want to be the number one world power. Yeah, and that book's not written, but I mean, that's what they're working towards, and they've got their own problems,

and there's a lot of things that can happen to change that direction, but they're definitely, they're going to fill that power vacuum for sure. And so lots of problems to fix, but we're not going to fix them all here today, so we're going to try to give you, we're going to try to give you some thoughts and tools

maybe to help you with some of the smaller problems. Yeah, how much, how many, billions of dollars of equipment was left or was it millions? No, it was billions. Billions. 38. No, it was like 80 something. 83. $83 billion worth of equipment? Well, maybe, I feel like, so they said it was over 200 vehicles. Helicopters. Over 200 aircraft. Aircrafts, shitload of weapons. 750 vehicles, 600,000 small arms and weapons. So I don't know. Whatever. I don't know how much it was as far as. price but it's just like all this stuff he they we just left all that over there we didn't blow it up

we didn't grab it we didn't try to like not give it to the talban they just we just left it and the taliban have now have it and they have a great armory they have a better armory than they ever had before and it just it just brings up the question like how this is so bad this was handled so poorly that it's like it almost seems calculated. Like I just don't, I can't imagine that the people in power could think up a plan this bad unless it was calculated and they did it on purpose. And I know a lot of you are out there. Are you a conspiracy theorist? Well, if you want to call that a conspiracy theory, whatever, but it's called thinking for yourself and not trusting really what the hell's all going on because literally if I and you and I can think up a better way of handling

that how could they not how could they not have thought that okay how all this has been handled is just terrible and here's here's another theory for you but uh truly I do think it's calculated I think it's handled so bad on purpose um I know that they're trying to spend that Biden is incompetent incompetent and he is but it's for it's for what's coming next. And what's coming next is Biden is going to step down and Kamal Harris is going to step up. And that was always the plan. We've been saying that from the very beginning that Joe Biden's been elected. That is definitely the plan. He's taken all the blame for this. Hell, he might get impeached. Who knows. But Kamal Harris is going to step up. And that was always a plan. And that's my,

that's my opinion on it. Because I just can't imagine the U.S. government handling this so poorly. It is so poorly done that it seems almost calculated. I just can't imagine you not knowing all these things. Well, we'll go a little further on this subject. So in the podcast I listened to yesterday, a point that I had not heard that came up, which is very, plays into what you're talking about. And I hadn't thought about this.

So there's an inspector general that was appointed that keeps track of how the money that has been spent in Afghanistan is spent and reports on basically if it's been poorly allocated, which obviously it's been very poorly allocated. And there's report after report after report that nobody outside of government really ever reads, and it is publicly available. But anyway, in there, they talk about how that the military has set, The way they set their goals, they changed their goals as they were there to make them attainable

and to make it look like they were making progress when in fact it was just a stalemate. And so one of the ways that they measured their gain there was by the number of Iraqis that they were getting trained and into military units. and they would have a report every month of how many Iraqi soldiers. And Afghan. Or how many Afghan soldiers they had trained. And every month it was more and more and more. And you have to understand that the military promotes from within.

And if you're at the bottom, the way you get to the top is the commander that's ahead of you, recommends you for a position that comes up. Or as they move up, they recommend you to replace them. So it is not in your best interest to complain about the orders that you were given, which in turn means that in big picture, when the Joint Chiefs' Staff told Biden that they had a force there of how many 100,000 Iraqi, or I'm sorry, Afghanis, if you talk to the guy at the bottom of the rung that was actually training those, there's many, many stories where say they train 20,000, or say they trained 10,000 soldiers in a month, 70% of them were on drugs, or only 50% of them could pass the physical endurance tests. They were literally just rubber stamping these guys. Because it made it look.

And they were paying. And we were paying them. We may not have been directly paying them. We may have been given money to the Afghan government that was turned around and paying them. So anyway, this went on month after month. after month after month. So when it gets to the point that we're going to draw down and the Joint Chiefs to have all this paper that's been generated and it goes up the line from from this guy to this commander to this commander to this commander all the way up and they're all they're all

rubber stamping it because they don't want to look bad and they're getting it and the guy that's actually doing it he doesn't want to look bad because there's no chance of him at advancing if he says you know this is the stupidest thing ever. So we get to this point and And I truly believe that within the administration, they believed that they had an Afghan army that was going to buffer this advance of the Taliban because they had all these people. Well, they had, their information was terrible because their army was a paper. It was a paper army, pretty much. And as Micah said, fear.

Fear. Fear runs it. And we haven't been instilling fear over there for a very, very long time. No, we gave up on that a long time ago. And the Taliban have probably started to emerge on. Somebody said that we spend more time. So this is true. We spend more time counseling soldiers. Soldiers on toxic masculinity than we do on tactics of war, because that's what we're all about now in the United States as pronoun.

So I'll get down off my box after that. But there's so much that goes on that you just, that's the problem. We don't really know what. at any level of government, we don't know what's going on. We just don't know. And we don't know why these decisions are made. But I can tell you this, that if Joe Biden ends up resigning or getting thrown out and you get Kamala Harris, nothing changes on that side of it because she is a product of the same machine. And I will say, she's a product of that machine. The Bush family was a product of that machine. Bill Clinton was a product of that machine. You can argue whether Barack Obama was or

wasn't, but I think he's much more connected to it than what you'd think. I don't think Donald Trump was. Donald Trump had a lot of flaws, and he made it hard on himself, and he's not very tactful, but he was an outsider, and I think universally both sides of that, both sides of the aisle resented that man greatly because he wasn't part of... page he wasn't trying to make a he lost more money being the president than he did well i think that's all right but he wasn't doing it for money he wasn't doing it for a board seat and you know he was just doing it because he thought it needed to be he wanted to do good by the country i think he was a businessman he's seen what's going on in the country and he wanted to do something about it and he knows how

the systems played yeah and people didn't like that from both sides because they're like you said they're getting a check right they're in politics for that seat and for money both sides, conservative, liberal, whatever, Democrat, Republican. Well, yeah. We've done much more of a rant than what we were going to do. But anyway, I think you pretty well know how we feel about it. And we're going to leave it about it. Oh, yeah.

And, you know, just to touch on this, I think it'd be great if I am all for a woman president. I'm all for a woman becoming president. I'm all for an African American becoming president. but I don't want Kamala Harris being my president. I'd rather have Kanis Owens be my president. If we're going to pick an African-American lady to become president, I want Canis Owens all day, every day. I don't give a shit what your color is.

I don't give a shit what your gender is. I don't care who you're having sex with. If you want to become the president, your pals. If you have the ideas. Yeah. And I think most people are in that category. They want to tell you it's about race. You're racist or you're sexist.

Or you're liberal. Most people don't give a shit about that stuff. We just want to know what your policies are, what you're going to do by the country, what good things you're going to do for the country, and actually do them. That's the key. Actually freaking executing him and doing them. And it's going to take a lot more than a president. That's why every, you know, I mean, it all comes down to it, every governor matters. And it's not, the thing is, we've got to get back to candidate.

We've got to get people involved in politics that actually cares. about the people they're representing. And they're not there for their own self-promotion. And that's very difficult because the machine is, it's so hard to get elected. And you need so many people to help you that you end up with people that are self-serving, that have weak morals, that are willing to bend at every turn

to satisfy the person that's writing them a check. and when those people, when they start out as a city council member, and they get to state representative, state senator, they get to the U.S. Congress, they have bent and bent and bent and bent, and by the time they get to where they're in real power, they are bought and paid for by special interests. And that's the problem we have.

I mean, that is the problem we have. Every level up is just another like, oh, yeah, they love it. And I don't know how bad it will have to get before enough people, enough people decide that they've had enough. And it's, there's a lot of pain. There's a lot of, this country is going to have to go through a lot of pain, I think, for us to get back. Back to having a political class that is for the people and by the people. Because right now it's by the people, but it's not for the people. That was good right there.

Oh, yeah. That should be on a T-shirt. Boom. You need a freaking bomb. But, yeah, I just. again, I just want to say it's important. We all have a voice. You all have influence in your life. Go to those meetings. Go to your community meetings. Go to those school board meetings. Stand up for yourself. We got 1,700 subscribers. We got, I don't know how many listeners we get on each

podcast, but we have a little influence in this world. And we just think right now it's very, very important to have these conversations. We need to show people that we're pro America. Most people do think the way that we think. You know, it's okay to ask questions. It's okay to be sometimes considered a conspiracy theorist. I don't, thinking for yourself is a good thing. I don't know why people look down on that. They don't want you to think for yourself. I mean, thinking outside of the box is a good thing.

And sometimes the way that this system set up, it's like, how could you not sometimes think outside the box a little bit? And I just think everyone's got a voice and just use it. Use it, you know, talk to people and respect your fellow man and respect other people's opinions because if we can't sit down across from each other and have a freaking conversation without getting heated, that's a problem in itself. You're getting heated right now. I am. Fired up. Those are all the monsters. Those are the monsters in our country right now. So we're going to talk about the monsters within. There you go. We're going to talk about the monsters that we all must

slay to be successful. There is just a huge weight of negativity around, I feel it. I feel like between this Afghan thing and between COVID and the vaccinations and the not vaccination. The election was I mean, stressful. It's so hard to have a positive attitude. And I run into people all the time that are very negative. And that weighs on you. I mean, it's, it's, if you're around positive people, you'll have positive thoughts. If you're around negative people, you're have negative thoughts. And that's, that's something that we've all got to deal with. And we've got to learn that, you know, people that consistently just suck the life out of you, you really have to temper,

you really have to put on your armor before you, if those are people you have to deal with, you have to be, before you go into that meeting or before you go to that picnic or before you go to that store or whatever, you have to say, okay, I know what this is going to be and I'm ready for it. Yep.

Yeah, and it's all about, it's all about, what you listen to too. I mean, people, there's negative people out there, but what you listen to also plays a big factor in that. That's why dad and I really don't watch the news, because you watch it and it's just, like you said, it's a bunch of just hopelessness comes into you a little bit about just the state of the country and everything. And it's just keep that stuff to a minimum because you got to go about, you got to go on about your day. You got stuff you got to worry about, and all you absorb is negativity. Yeah. And your outlook's negative. I mean, you got to have a, you got to have hope and you got to have a positive outlook on the future and what's coming

for you. And just know that there's a lot of people, there's a lot of people and a lot of organizations out there that they prosper off of fear. So I would say that the, the media, the media, the national media, they run on ratings. Their ratings go up when there's a national disaster. Their ratings go up when there's political chaos. Their ratings go up when there's a when there's a pandemic. And guess what happens when they have a high rating on their show? They get paid. Yeah.

Follow the money. The advertising dollars go up. So I honestly think, so Fox News, CNN, MSNBC, the New York Times, whatever you want to talk about, their circulation, their rating, they're watching, those numbers all go down when things are, the better things do, the worst they do. so just no, I'm not, I don't have my head in the sand. I follow the news as far as what's going on, what happens, but I don't sit and absorb opinion journalism

because they have no interest in anything but doom and gloom. And they're part of what wants to divide us and make us suspicious of our neighbor because they don't look the same way we do or they don't have the same opinion on some certain subject that we have. So anyway, but the other side of this is you got to look within. And this is probably my single biggest struggle is for us to get stuff done, for me to get stuff done, I have to plan it, I have to sit down and actually do it, or I have to go actually do it,

and I can't just sit and I can't just sit and scroll. on this thing. I can't just sit on my computer and think about whatever on Google and Google that and then go here and end up. I wonder what that costs and go to Amazon and say, oh, that's neat or go, you know. Yeah, time management's huge. That's a big, that's dad and I's probably biggest flaw, I'd say. We have a lot. We got to get done. And it's just finding time to do it all is the hardest part. And we don't do a good enough job planning. That's one of our flaws. And, I think the best, most successful people out there, they're really good at time management. They're really good at planning out their work.

And I don't think you have to be working all the time. Like, if you're just productive for six to eight hours a day, really productive. I mean, you're not getting on your phone. You know, you're not going on Google while you're at work or whatever. You're actually doing four to six hours of really productive work. I think you can have time outside of that than to do things that you want to do. but it's all about that productive work being actually productive but with that time management it also comes down to you have to plan you have to plan when you're not going to be working so in

other words the time that you have that you're going to say okay i'm going to be with my family or i'm going to do this you have to be purposeful in that in the fact that okay when you're not working and you're with your wife or you're with your kids don't be on your phone scrolling whatever make that time productive also. Like you, I think the difference between the most successful people is that, you know, the saying work hard, play hard, and a lot of people use that like, party. They're more about play hard, you know, and they claim they work hard.

And then some of them, you know, I'm not saying they don't, but it isn't party. That work hard, play hard, it's the same thing as I know a farmer that's got a sign in their shed that says plan your work and work your plan. So if you're as diligent about how you spend your free time as you are, how you spend your working time, you'll be very productive in both and you'll have a healthy life. Marriage, healthy, you'll have healthy relationships and a healthy work relationship. Yeah, that's a good point.

One other thing that I really struggle with is really trying to be in the moment when you're outside of your work. I'm kind of a dreamer a little bit. So when I'm not working, I'm still trying, I still sometimes focus on the future and what I got to get done the next day. But try to limit that as much as you can and really try to live in the moment a little bit because like dad said, you want to play just as hard as you do work. So when you get to that play time, play hard time, just try to really be in the moment

and really focus on what you're doing as far as if it's your with your girlfriend, if it's with your wife, it's with your kids, whatever. Focus on that because you need a healthy balance of all of it to make your life worthwhile. next point, and this is probably one of the hardest ones. Well, they're all hard, but, you know, we all have people in our lives that we've either grown up with or that we met at different times or are part of our family and they're toxic relationships. They're the person that no matter what dreams you have, they are telling you why that won't work. And can Constructive criticism is good because you need somebody that's grounded to tell you the reasons why something might not work or why maybe you shouldn't get ahead of yourself.

But there's a fine line there between that and just trying to squash your shit on someone's parade. Yeah. And we've talked about this before too, but, you know, there's people in your life that we all love successful people. Americans love to see people be successful. Then they also like to see them get torn apart. They like to see them crash because it makes them feel better about themselves, which is kind of sick and wrong. But we do.

I mean, that's just how it is. But, you know, you have people in your life that as you are, as you have successes, they will turn a little bit. And by that, I mean, we all love our friends to be successful. We just don't want to be more successful than we are. Yeah. And that's where you can get into some pretty toxic relationships because, you know, when you're trying to get a job promotion

and everybody's like, yeah, you should go for it, you should do that. And then you actually get that job, well, if you're, then what happens when you become people, that you're co-workers when you become their supervisor, well, it's a whole different dynamic. And then it isn't always... Sunshine and rainbows. Right. Yeah.

How do I want to say this? If you come from the same place as most of the people you hang around with and then you step out of the box a little bit, they hate that because they see that you came from the same place as them and you're getting success now. They don't like that. It's like, I've said this before.

It's like Amir's looking back at them. When they look at you, and you talk about it or they ask you about it and you start talking it's like a mirror reflecting right back at them because if they see that you're successful and you achieved it and you're from the same place as them well then they talk internally to themselves a little bit like well then why can't I do that or he you know he's just he's he's he's lucky or whatever whatever whatever um so you just got a the biggest thing that I would say and I learned this pretty early on and it's one of the most just like it's it's foundational in my opinion you cannot value other people's opinions of you

you really can't you really cannot value other people's opinions of you i mean to an extent like obviously you want to be known as a respectful person you want to be a good person to your community you're nice you're friendly whatever but when people say shit like about crush shit on your parade a little bit about your dreams or what you want to accomplish and they're like oh that'll never happen for you don't even let it affect you don't even let affect you and i would say the same thing on if you do become successful and people are always, you know, telling you doing a good job or hyping you up, don't let that get to your head a lot either because you're not as good as you think you are. You don't know everything. And then you'll start getting cocky and then that's how you

make mistakes and then that's how people don't like you anymore. So I would just say on both sides of the spectrum, don't listen to people that shit on your parade. And then if you do do something really good for yourself and people are hyping you up, don't let that get to your head as much, like, Take it. You know, thank you. Appreciate it. But don't let your head get full of that shit either because it's not good either way. But that's one of the biggest, that's the biggest thing that I'd say is just it's a good peace of mind to not value other people's opinions of you. Because if you let that go, which is so hard in this day and age with social media and all that stuff. But if you let that go, you'll have a lot of peace of mind. or the orange one. For Jeff, trying any salsa is like playing Russian roulette with a flamethrower. Luckily, Jeff saved with Amazon and stocked up on antacids, ginger tea, and milk. Habaniero, more like habanier, yes.

Save the everyday with Amazon. Yeah, it's all about balance and being true to yourself. And it's very important to find people, you know, find. your tribe they say but find people that you can you can have conversations about honest conversations about what your dreams and aspirations are that are respectful even if even if they may think that those dreams are unattainable they know that they're your dreams and not theirs and they're not going to tell you not going to give you all of the uh reasons why that can never work they're willing to listen.

And that's big for me because, honestly, there's not very many people that I feel like that I can talk to about all the stuff that we've got going and all the stuff that we want to do without them just giving me kind of a weird look like, what in the hell are you doing? And I mean, let's face it, what we're doing here is pretty, it's kind of, it's odd.

It's not odd. like when you get on, when you get on YouTube or you're on your scrolling podcast, there's millions of podcasts and there's probably millions of YouTube. I don't know how many YouTube channels there are. There's a bunch of them. So when you're, you know, when you're on there, you look at it and you're like, well, yeah, it's not that big a deal. But when you actually step in and you start doing it, it's a pretty small, it's a pretty, it's a kind of a, it's a lonely, I won't, I'm not lonely. I'm okay. I'm well adjusted. but it's it's a small group of people that you can share that experience with and people don't

understand why you're doing it and some people think you're doing it for the wrong reasons because they think you're an egomaniac and you want everybody look at me look at me well obviously you know i've got a face that was made for radio i i'm sure i'm more i'm prettier on podcast than i am on the video version of this podcast but it you know it they don't know my why they don't understand why we're doing what we're doing. And that's okay. They don't have to. And that's whatever you're into, whatever you're trying to do, it's the same way. When you get passionate about something, you're going to find there's not very many people that are in your corner. Are in your corner. And I will say, once you find your tribe, you find your people you can tell your accomplishments to,

or they can give you constructive criticism, or they can give you what they would do in that situation, and not think that you're coming off as a smart ass, not think that you're coming off, you know, trying to be cocky, like you're genuinely, you know, trying to get advice for them, seeing what they think about it. If you can find those kind of people's and then they can do the same thing to you too, like they can share their accomplishments with you, and then they can ask you questions without them, without you feeling like they're being a smart ass, you know, look at me, look at me.

That's a really powerful thing. I'm very, very blessed. I'll just give a shout to my guys. I have a really good friend group in the fact that I can tell them, you know, what's going on in my life without them feeling like I'm trying to be a cocky dick, which I'm not, I'm just happy. And they can do the same thing to me and I'll be just as hype for them as they are for me. And also, anytime I want, I need advice, I'll go to them or my dad. And if they want advice, they'll come to me and I'll give them my best advice that I can give them. And we don't take it the wrong way. And that's so, powerful. That is so powerful. You need people that will hype you up that are in your corner and you'll need people that will tell you, you know, this is what I would do in that situation and take it. You know, that's such a, that's such a powerful thing. And I would just say, if you found a few guys like that or a few women like that or a few whoever, you got families like that, stick to them

because that's, that's a really, that'll get you, it's that, it's back to that, um, positive mindset. It's back to that, um, you know, you're not, you're not, you're not, you're not, you're not, consuming a bunch of negativity or consuming a bunch of people that are for you and want you to win that's that's big and that's what you'll talk to yourself internally too if you got everyone telling you yep keep going then inside use yourself you're going to be like yeah i'm going to keep going you know that is a good tie-in yeah to the i would call the biggest monster that we all have to slay and the most dangerous monster that there is is the one in your head yep because you can be more self-sabotaging than any person that you're going to run into.

And I feel like women have this worse than men because they're probably more honest with themselves because I think most men get out of the shower and look in the mirror and go, damn, you're a good looking guy. Maybe that's just me. Sometimes I do that, but when I got a freaking huge zit scar on my face, I don't feel that a little bit but when i've got stuff i i feel i feel it when i've got stuff that i've got to get done that's the time that i most hear that voice in my head saying you should you should go get a snack or you should go you should go you should go mo or you should yeah do something completely nonproductive

um you know and then the voice that says you know your alarm goes off at 5 a.m and you go, I don't really have anything I got to do today. Snooze it. Snooze it. Or when you sit down to read something to put positivity in you, the voice is like, oh, just listen to some music. Yeah, let's just listen to some music or whatever. I mean, you're your own worst enemy, and that, if you can keep that dragon in check,

it all starts there. Yeah, it all starts with yourself. and I just say, I heard this a while ago, but I have found in my life, when I'm the most discipline, when I set out, I'm like, okay, I want to go to the gym and work on myself there. I want to be productive in my work, you know, and then I want to read and I want to learn something new every day. And then I also want to have a good relationship with my girlfriend. When I'm disciplined on those things and I achieve all those things, I feel pretty damn good. I feel confident in myself. And I think that's how you really start to, um,

feel just good is when you're disciplined and you do those things, it just feels good. When you're doing it consistently on a week-to-week basis, day-to-day basis, whatever, it feels damn good. It's just really hard to get there because there's so many distractions. And I've heard this many times, but kind of try to look at your life like you're the main character of a video game. Like, if you're playing a video game and you're making decisions, like, I don't know, like, I don't know if anyone's played fallout or skyrim or whatever but like you're the main character and you got to pick decisions and usually when people play video games like that they always pick the best they pick the best decision like you want your person to be good so think about your life a little bit like that like

okay would i would if i'm looking from a third person view would i want my character to like sit on my ass and look at my phone or would i want them to go and do what they set out to do and it'd be, you know, obviously you'd pick, go and do what you set out to do. And once you do that consistently, it's going to feel damn good. So yeah, it's really hard, though. I struggle with it. I struggle with it. Dad struggles with it.

I struggle with getting on my phone, you know. I struggle and sometimes hit that snooze button. It's hard to consistently do it, but I'll tell you, I've had times in my life where I am disciplined and I am consistent. And that feels damn good. Yeah, I mean, You think a jaco, uh,

jaco will say the discipline, and he's like the most disciplined. You don't know who jaco is. He's a Navy, former Navy SEAL. He trains people. He's got a podcast. Yeah.

And he's, he's a badass. He, I don't know anybody more disciplined than he is. Um, but he, his point of that is that the more disciplined he is, he accomplishes so much more.

And it, he's so regulated. that having that schedule that he knows exactly how every day is going to go because he plans so well, it's freeing and he's to the point where he almost doesn't have to, he doesn't have to worry about it. It's like, it's like a relief that he's so disciplined, which is a really weird thing to get. What's you touched on earlier is I'm sure he's disciplined, he plans out his work and then he plans out his play. Yes. It's not like you've got to be disciplined as shit about, you know, your work and you got to be a hard-nosed mother, you know,

You can be... He plans at all. You can plan at all, be disciplined on your work and whatever you're trying to achieve, and then also be disciplined on your plan of like, if you want to take your girl out on a date Friday night, do it. You know, like if you plan to do it, do it. And plan so that you've got all of your crap taken care of and nobody's going to call you. And there's nothing that you need to look at and you can dedicate your full amount of time to that family member or to that experience. And it makes it that much better.

Right. if you if you're lucky enough that you can that you've got people around you like we talked about you know one of the things that keeps me disciplined is soyer and one of the thing that keeps soyer discipline is me because when we're going to do something and he hits the snooze button do you know who calls him and goes where are you yeah and then i get that uh i'm coming yeah so we keep each other accountable now granted we don't keep each other we don't keep each other we don't always do that because there's plenty of times when we both in the news button we both do or one of us calls us and goes do you really want to do that today and we go well no not really all right we'll do

it tomorrow and some things we can do that because we're we're we're for ourselves we were for ourselves which whatever but having somebody and it can be your spouse too i mean my wife and i keep keep each other accountable too on on what is in that window but having somebody to help you stay accountable. That's huge. Because when you do that, if you've got somebody that's pushing you, it's pushing you. It's back to people in your corner. Did you find your thought? Yeah. So another demon that I think, or a monster you need to slay to be successful in ourselves is trying to be grateful. Something that I really struggle with also, man, I got a lot of struggles. And that's, most people are flawed. Everyone's got their flaws. But one thing that I really struggle with is I always catch

myself thinking about, thinking ahead, thinking about my next move, thinking about what investment I want to make, thinking about, you know, my, my, my, what content we got to plan out for next week. You know, I'm always thinking about the next thing, the next thing, the next thing, the next thing, the next thing. And I found that when I'm disciplined and I'm executing and I'm also, I take time out of my day to be grateful for what I have, that is also a really good place to be. because I think being grateful, and I don't think really people talk about this enough, you have to practice being grateful. Like, because there's times in your life where usually it's tragic times in your life.

Something happens to a family member, something happens to your friend or whatever, and then, you know, they get better or they don't, and then it really gives you perspective and you're more grateful for what you have. But what I would encourage people to do is just take time. I do it sometimes when I'm brushing my teeth. I don't, again, I don't, I don't do it every day, but I would like to do it every day, you know. I just think about the things I'm grateful when I'm brushing my teeth. And it can be something as stupid as hot water, electricity, because, you know, there's people out there that don't have those things, you know.

Having teeth to brush. Having teeth to brush, having toothpaste, you know, just thinking about those things and it'll give you, it'll keep perspective in your life and it'll keep you grateful. And if you're doing that and you're disciplined, you'll feel pretty good about yourself. That is a good, that is a great spot to finish up the monsters. Yeah. Because my first point of kind of tying it together is that no matter where you're at and how great you think you have it or how horrible you think you have it, if you're alive and walking the earth, you should be thankful. If you're born in America, you should be thankful. Let's put that right now. like you are in one of the best countries in the world even with all this crap going on i mean

we're all very blood we're all blessed beyond measure and if you to watch what's going on in afghanistan you know those people their whole world is up turned upside down what what they've had for the last 20 years up and down um they don't what's coming is not going to be anything like what they've had and that's just one example there's examples there's examples there's all over the world. You know, if you've got a house to, if you've got a bed to lay your head down on and you've got a family, you got kids, you've got people, you don't have to worry about getting shot on your way to work or that you've got, you've got a job to go to and you have food in your refrigerator. You're blessed beyond measure. Life is all about perspective. And it takes

something like I said, it takes sometimes a tragic event to happen for you to get perspective on your life. But like if you guys are wanting some perspective, I listen to a Joe Rogan podcast with this North Korean woman that escape North Korea. And what those people experience every day, they're just trying to survive. Literally in North Korea, it is, it is horrible. It's like Nazi Germany for Jews in North Korea. Like I listened to that and it was just really gave me perspective on man we do have it really good here because those guys those women those men over there they don't have any ounce of freedom they they are just trying to get by every day and survive and not make a mistake because they'll get killed in the streets for it so you know we have we all have

a lot of differences but we're a lot more alike than what than what so much of our society well the media in our political system would want you to believe we're all much we have way more in common than we have a part. I feel like we all need to slow down, and we're guilty of this, because like Sawyer said, we're, we're hustling, you know, we're working on every angle we can, but we all need to slow down, and, you know, the YouTube video that came out this week, I talked about my my account that passed away. And he and I, he and I were totally at opposite spectrums

of the political world. And I would consider him one of my best friends professionally and even personally. And you know what? We didn't agree on much on that side, but we agreed on a heck of a lot just on the,

just on life and hobbies and what we like to do. And we enjoyed our discussions. We got some pretty, heated discussions. But you know what? That's what it's about. And, you know, part of the reason that that was such a good relationship is because we didn't just rubber stamp each other's beliefs. We challenged each other, but we did it in a respectful way. And you need to be, you need to be slow, slow to anger and slow to judge people and quick to forgive them.

And if we can get back to that. And it starts with us. It starts with us. Each and every one of us. Each and every one of us. Everyone's got a voice. Everyone's, you know, everyone talks to people and just try to find the good in people. And if you disagree on things, don't absolutely explode on them because that just, that just makes everybody look like we can't ever get along if we disagree on things. Like, just respect your fellow man.

We always say it. Respect your fellow man. And it's okay if you disagree. And here's the thing. If you disagree with somebody, you might learn something from the other person. side of it, you know? You can learn things. If you, if everyone just thought they were right all the time, uh, and you just fight and bicker and you don't ever like try to respectfully listen to one another, you'll never learn anything. No one's going to ever see your side if you're just exploding on them.

So you can change a person's mind and your mind might be changed if you can, if you can listen and be slow to anger. Yeah. The problem that we have in this, with this country, and I think, I think it's kind of that way everywhere is everybody's very quick to anger. If you have your position and you're going to defend it at all costs, you're not going to change anybody's mind. And the only way that your ideas win is if you can make a majority of people believe those ideas and yelling and screaming and writing people off and tell them they're monsters and that, you know, they don't know.

You're not going to change anybody's mind doing that. And we need to be slow to anger and quick to listen to, you know, quick to forget. give, quick to listen. Yeah. So most of us are all, most people are a lot of like. Yep. There's just some things that people disagree on. And they want to tell you all the things that we do disagree on and just exploit those

things. But honestly, if you, I always, I always say this. It's like, if you walk down a street, most people will say, you know, they'll say hi to you. Most people will see that you're a person. They'll say hi or how's it going. And, you know, that's how 99%? of people are you know they respect their fellow man but they want to show you the one percent that the headlines of things that are going to cause division the things that are going to put us in

categories they want to show those things so that it looks like that's how it is all around the world and all around this country but the truth be told if you walk out go outside and you go around your town or your city you'll see that most people are good most people respect you and you and you respect them so so this week my challenge to all of you who is say hello to your neighbor. If you run into somebody in the grocery store, actually stop and talk to them and be nice to them. And the person, if there's somebody out there that you have a beef with

and you can make that right, make it right. Because there's no use carrying around that baggage. And the other thing I'll challenge you all to is to be the gatekeeper, be your own gatekeeper to who and, what information gets into your mind and you know what you can decide what you consume what you consume i'll challenge you to be try to be grateful try to have a voice try to stand up for what you believe in um but do it respectfully do it respectfully you know if you want to if you want to argue with somebody do it respectfully if you want to speak your mind do it respectfully um next week will be a q and a so

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