Kyle Kingsbury Podcast - #241 Mike Bledsoe

Episode Date: February 25, 2022

Mike Bledsoe is back baby! Like we said, it’s been a minute so we had some catching up to do on this dualcast. He defines Sovereignty for us and we dive into all the things that striving for that can bring into your awareness. I dropped a library of books to check out as always. Go follow him, tune in to The Bledsoe Show and show us love on the Gram, Zion and wherever you want to reach out.  Connect with Mike:   Website: thebledsoeshow.com  Instagram: @mike_bledsoe  Facebook: Mike Bledsoe  Twitter: @michaelbledsoe  YouTube: Mike Bledsoe  Show Notes:   A History of Central Banking(book)  Fruit from a Poisonus Tree(book)  Meet Your Strawman: And Whatever You Want To Know(book)  Sponsors:   Organifi Go to organifi.com/kkp to get my favorite way to easily get the most potent blend of high vibration fruits, veggies and other goodies into your diet! Click that link and use code “KKP” at checkout for 20% off your order! Upgraded Formulas from our boy Barton Scott!! Get your mineral levels figured out and head to www.upgradedformulas.com, punch in “KKP15” at checkout and get 15% off your order including the hair mineral test! PaleoValley Some of the best and highest quality goodies I personally get into are available at paleovalley.com, punch in code “KYLE” at checkout and get 15% off everything! Sovereignty Head to https://sovereignty.co/kyle/ to grab their flagship product PURPOSE+, my favorite CGN/ Nootropic on the planet. There is nothing like this product for energy and cognitive function! Use codeword “KKP” for 20% off. Connect with Kyle:   Fit For Service Academy App: Fit For Service Academy  Instagram: @livingwiththekingsburys   Youtube: Kyle Kingbury Podcast  Kyles website: www.kingsbu.com  Zion Node: https://getzion.com/ > Enter PubKey  >PubKey: YXykqSCaSTZNMy2pZI2o6RNIN0YDtHgvarhy18dFOU25_asVcBSiu691v4zM6bkLDHtzQB2PJC4AJA7BF19HVWUi7fmQ   Like and subscribe to the podcast anywhere you can find podcasts. Leave a 5-star review and let me know what resonates or doesn’t.

Oh boy, oh boy, oh boy. We got a whopper today. The return, the long-awaited return of my brother and dear friend, Mike Bledsoe. Mike Bledsoe was, of course, best known for his long-term, as a long-term host of Barbell Shrugged and a number of their spinoff podcasts. He started the Bledsoe Show a few years back, and then he started getting into more of like a weekly routine with another guy whose name is slipping my mind right now. Should have written that down. We'll link to it in the show notes. But basically, Mike's been doing a lot of current events. Every single Monday, him and another guy break down what's happening in the world, their take on it. And it's fantastic. It's definitely a hard right, hard left, whatever you want to call that. It's a U-turn from his typical podcast, which ventures

kind of all over the place, as this podcast does. But he's felt a strong calling to run the Bledsoe Show back and then split off this kind of weekly report with it. It's all there. They haven't been siphoned off yet. So when you go to the Bledsoe Show, you're going to be able to catch up and really see what Mike's been up to. And he's going to start getting weird and diving in deep with a number of other topics, health-related and beyond. Decentralized finance, like you name it. Mike has a wealth of knowledge and many great things. And so for this one, I needed an episode,

you know, and I knew he wanted to interview me, but I said, let's just, let's do a conversation and run it on both. So that's what we're doing. He's got several Bledsoe shows already recorded in the can. He's going to release them one by one since he already has a fairly big ass following. He doesn't need to do the typical save five to 10 and then roll them all out at once. Um, so with that, you know, I'm, I'm thrilled that he's back in the podcasting game at this level and, you know, he never really left it. Um, but he, he's a guy who, you know, he moved here in the last year. And our conversations on the phone, I'd like to say I have some influence on him coming to Austin. But truthfully, Mike has had a brilliant take on a lot of the events that have transpired over the last couple of years.

He was in the military and served for this country. And I always love the perspective of our veterans. So fantastic way to really look at things. I dropped a number of books in this podcast. I did speak quite a bit more than Mike. I wanted it to be more even Stevens, but I had a lot to talk about. I am going to have a solo cast come up here. That's pretty much going to be a lot of new content and it'll all co-relate to the events that are happening in the world. But again, with the sole focus of if so, then what? If this is true, how do I respond? And if there has been disempowerment, how do we bring back self-empowerment and the

empowerment of others? That is the focus. That will most certainly be the focus of the books that I discuss on this podcast with Mike. And it is certainly going to be the focus as I dive into that on a solo cast a bit deeper into each one of these things that I'm studying, mostly having to do with Commonwealth law, natural law, and some of the conversations that I've had in the past with Jesse Elder. I've really been able to rabbit hole. I've had great conversations with Dr. Nathan Riley, who was a guest on this podcast. I call him the young Zach Bush, OBGYN and a hospice care doctor who delivered a child and in the same 24-hour cycle helped someone pass

on to the next plane of existence. Just a fascinating, amazing human being that I met at Paul Cech 60th. And he's been in my ear on some of the greatest books that I've ever read. Some of the most eyeopening jaw dropping books that are hard pills to swallow, but at the end of the day, more important now than ever and really empowering when you come to grasp that. So that is the nature and the goals of where I want to take this show in 2022 and beyond. We just had two, 22, 2022 on a Tuesday. And yeah, that's when we were recording this. So I like that corny shit, but I've been getting into numerology with Paul and getting weird. And this is really what we want to create right now.

So what I want to create in this year and the years to come as we alchemize the last three years is the ability for us to stand on our own two feet, you know, really addressing what sovereignty means in all aspects of life. And how is that achieved? And to what degree can we actually achieve that while still remaining in a society, functioning or not? And just really understanding the ins and outs that go with that. What is health? How do we accomplish health? At what point, at what point with health as my number one responsibility, do I become immune to negative ideas? Do I become immune to whatever's floating around in the air? There is a point in which that happens. And I firmly, I don't believe that I know it. I know it through the way the Gnostics knew with Gnosis, G-N-O-S-I-S, not knowledge, K-N-O-W,

Gnosis. And the Gnosis comes through experience. So anyhow, we, we backtracked, um, kind of the trajectory of where my show's gone the last couple of years. Mike had all the questions. He was prepared to interview me and I just ran with it. But Mike offered so many great things as well. So if you're wondering why the hell I'm talking so much on this one, again, it was supposed to be on Mike's, and I wanted to co-release. Still a fantastic episode. If you love hearing me speak, it's even more fantastic. And I highly encourage everybody to check out the Bledsoe Show because he has been on the same train and offers different perspective because of our different backgrounds.

And he's somebody that I look to for a lot of wisdom in times like this. He's just a brilliant, brilliant, beautiful soul brother. There are a number of ways you can support this podcast. First and foremost, just share it with a friend. You know, you hold the, click the share link and throw it in your messages and send it out to a couple of friends. You can do a swipe up on the gram or something like that. We are more or less untaggable on Instagram now. If you don't punch in living with the Kingsbury's with the exact spelling, you could be living with the Kingsbury with no S at the end and our name doesn't come up.

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Not last but not least, without further ado. No, not without further ado. And without any more wasting of time, we bring on my brother, Mike Bledsoe. Kyle, it's been a while. It has been a while. Mike, it's been a while, brother. Yeah, man.

Make sure I'm still here on the video. Yeah, so we've known each other for a while, and our lives have gone through a lot of different changes. And we find ourselves here in Austin, Texas, which is a really beautiful, beautiful spot, beautiful community. And, yeah, I'd love for you to just update people on what's happened for you in the last few years because I know almost everybody went through a lot of change. Yeah, well, shit.

I mean, it's in the last few years. It's really the last couple. It would have been the big ones. We had lockdowns. I was out camping with Bear in March of 2020. And we were Peter Nellis Falls, really cool spot. And I kept hearing from people because I didn't have good reception. They're like, oh, man, shit's getting weird.

They might lock stores down. And I'm like, fuck, no, they're not doing that. You know? And like the big debate was, um, is this the bubonic plague? Like, is this going to take out 10% of society, you know, or 7 million people going to die, um, or not, you know? And, uh, I, I, we had just had our asses annihilated from a cold. I talked about it on a solo podcast that happened in December of 2019. So right around when things started hitting the U.S., I think it was late November, early December. And so Christmas, I actually shit the bed. Like literally, I shit my bed Christmas Eve.

So this is how I don't get my ass kicked by colds often. The last time I had the flu was when I got the flu shot in 2012 because I was going to be an EMT and firefighter. I don't get my ass kicked by a cold. And this felt unique. You know, all of us got hit. Tasha was pregnant with Wolf, and so I was super concerned with the baby.

Bear and I sweat through our sheets all night long for eight days straight. So every morning we'd get up, we'd peel the sheets, we'd wash them, we'd wipe the bed down, spray a little essential oils for eight fucking days. Nothing mattered. It didn't matter if we took like, I gave him children's ibuprofen at one point to see if I could reduce the fever, did nothing. So we just stayed hydrated. By the time I got to Christmas Eve, you know, I'd been used to sleeping in my own sweat. So when I shit the bed, I couldn't, it was straight liquid. I couldn't tell that anything fucking happened. Right. I was just like, I really couldn't tell. I just, I thought I was laying in

my sweat. And then I woke up and I was like, wait, did that happen? It kind of felt like a dream. And I looked down and there's fucking just diarrhea everywhere. And I was like, oh fuck man. So yeah, we, we got our asses handed to us. On Christmas Day, it was the only time in 40 years that I couldn't sit up to watch or open presents. I was laying down on a floor while Tosh and Bear were opening presents. It was gnarly. So I don't want to graze over the fact that people have died.

People have had their asses kicked, myself included. And, you know, even though many experts say that a virus's job is to get progressively weaker over time and not kill its host, and I attend to that and believe that, or believe what they're saying at least, you know, at that time it was a big deal. And at that same time, it wasn't any more fucking close to what the media was putting it out to be or any of the powers that be, you know? And so like little by little, you know, the spider sense started tingling and I kept having different experts on, you know, a lot of them are friends, Dr. Paul Saladino, the carnivore doc, Dr. Kirk Parsley, former Navy SEAL, medical doctor for the Navy SEALs,

still practicing medicine, banned on Twitter. I can see him getting banned. Yeah. I mean, one by one, having people on and with, you know, we have a similar background in health and wellness. And I've known about the fuckery with our food and the joke that is the FDA and the USDA for over a decade. So it wasn't new to me that some of the people who hold power in government don't give a flying fuck about us. That wasn't a new notion that I had to grapple with. It was like, huh. And the why wasn't necessarily there yet. It's always power.

Paul Cech talked about this fantastic book written by Dr. Naomi Klein called The Shock Doctrine. And it's still up on YouTube, her documentary. It's like an hour and 18 minutes. But it's incredible. It shows how they figured out economically, Milton Friedman, who's been touted. You know, a lot of our,

Sal from Mind Pump loves the guy. He's been touted as one of the greatest people of all time for the economy, right? Milton Friedman. Freedom to Choose is a series that he did. Yeah. I think for PBS. Yeah.

Back in the 80s. So this guy's been around for a long time, right? Back when capitalism was popular. And so it just showed the way that crisis gives an opportunity for real economic change to take place. Meaning, when shit hits the fan and no one's paying attention, that's when you do a fucking complete overhaul of the government.

Yeah. And this has happened throughout history. I'm willing to bet if we take this back thousands of years to fucking Egypt and beyond, this was happening then. Yeah. So this is known and it's just not well known among the public, but this documentary really points that out. And, um, I got turned on to the fourth turning by my buddy, Ben Stewart,

which is a great book. They, they illustrate these 20 year cycles. Each one is a turning from the high to the awakening, which was the psychedelic sixties to the unraveling, which is when we were born in the eighties and how that's shown through culture, right? Like you had the introduction of gangster rap, a grunge rock, you know, slowly you're starting to fucking peel the wheels off. And then you enter a 20 year crisis period. These guys wrote that book in the nineties and they predicted plus or minus three years that 2005 would start the crisis. Yeah. So you add three years, what happens in 2008 housing crisis? Right. Exactly. And was, and then in hindsight, was that happenstance from a few greedy people

or was that manufactured? Right? So there's plenty of documentaries out there where you go, oh, that was fucking by design. And when I think about things being by design in that way is I really look at the incentive structures because I think that's, I think that's how the design works. People, a lot of times they go, well, the bankers weren't

really, you know, they weren't doing this on purpose. And, and, uh, I look at it as like, there's just a lot of useful idiots out there and they end up in a system where the incentive structures are set up that if I just follow the rules, it's going to take us a certain direction. So there's, the more I've studied, the more I look at it, I go, oh, there's very few people pulling the strings, but they know how incentives work with human beings. I mean, if you want to see how incentives work, just look at, you know, what gets bought at the grocery store primarily. It's incentivized to eat processed food. So these are people, people's bodies don't want that. They want something else, but they're incentivized economically.

And there's other factors going on that sends them down that route. Yeah, no, and there's a lot of that, you know. So I grappled heavily in 2020 with, you know, my own Dark Night of the soul from, um, five of me, Oh journey. And, um, which literally lasted a while, you know, two and a half weeks. Um, thankfully check really like pulled me back. He grounded me into my body and I was able to make my way through that. But I mean, that's the, as above so below, and I don't need to make shit esoteric or spiritualize it, but the world I view externally has an impact on my internal. We know that through psychology,

through anything. And what I was seeing in the world and grappling with for sure had an impact on a psychedelic journey. Like there's no, that's pretty fucking undeniable, right? Oh yeah. I know a lot of people who were like, this hit, and they went and ate five grams of mushrooms immediately. I'm going, I don't know if now's the time for that. Yeah, not the right time. So that ended up being a huge positive. But, you know, all the while, still looking into stuff, still trying to figure out what's going on. And, you know, listening to David Icke and being like, all right, man, I hope this guy isn't right.

And then little by little, the shit he's saying makes more sense. Yeah. Yeah, I'm a little hesitant on David Icke and being like, all right, man, I hope this guy isn't right. And then little by little, the shit he's saying makes more sense. Yeah. Yeah. I'm a little hesitant on David Icke and a lot of what he's predicted has come true. So it's, I think, I think it's actually, I think part of it, why I say I'm hesitant on certain people is because that, uh, if, if you align too hard in one direction, an entire group of people stop listening. But if you just stick with, I don't know, maybe I'm wrong here, but I think if you stick with a certain,

if you just go with what is and it's very obvious, which to him it is obvious. Yeah. But I think the same thing happens for me is I talk about things and people are like, oh, you're crazy. I'm like, this is so obvious. Yeah. But I think the same thing happens for, for me is I talk about things and people are like, Oh, you're crazy. I'm like, this is so obvious. So it's like, well, maybe that's what it is. I mean, everyone's speaking from a place of what's obvious to them. And they, uh, if you get, if you color too far outside the lines, then people throw rocks. Yeah. You know, there's been,

you know, so many great articles written and columns written about how a psyop actually works. How the great work for ourselves is not just the great awakening where we come to know God and we are one, it's to come to know the world as it actually is. And that takes balls and it also takes letting our view of the old world die, right?

Like, they have to collapse every belief that I've held around what type of society I live in, my thoughts on America, you know, my thoughts on patriotism, my thoughts on all these things, and then what was good from that? Like, the Constitution is fucking awesome. Yeah. And as it turns out, there was a lot of things that pertain to right now in this moment with our law structure. It's like why it was created was for these situations. I mean, there's been a lot of things that have been done out of emergency powers that they go, oh, we're doing this.

And everyone goes, well, it's okay because this is a special situation. I go, save our life. I'm like, that's why it was written. It was written for the special situations. It wasn't written for the, you know, it's like you don't train to fight. You train to fight or you carry a gun or whatever in case some bad shit happens. Not because you want to all the time. It's a pain in the ass to learn how to fight.

It's a pain in the ass to protect yourself, like learn It's a pain in the ass to learn how to protect yourself. But when the day comes, you're glad you have it. And that's what the Constitution was for. It was for if shit, when shit hits the fan. And the founding fathers also said, I think it was Benjamin Franklin was like, I give it 200 years before. People want a king again. They want someone to be in charge.

They want that one person to make the decisions for them because it gets too difficult. And there's been a systematic dismantling of people's conscience and people's ability to make decisions for themselves. And it's demonstrated by how many people are just following orders. We look at Canada right now. These fucking cops aren't wearing name badges.

They pulled their fucking badges off. They're wearing masks. And I look at that. I go, this is really bad. They're breaking a lot of rules that are in place that are there for the purpose of accountability. And when you remove the ability to hold someone accountable, the responsibility diffuses. So you got a cop wearing a uniform already is diffusing responsibility. Even if you got your name on your jacket, you take that name off,

it diffuses even further. Now it's that much easier just to follow orders. And in my opinion, following or just following orders is the root of evil. Cause if you do that, then you're not practicing your own consciousness. You don't have your, your, your soul is not playing the game anymore. It's sitting in the back seat. There's a recent episode on Rogan's that I'm almost done with that was going fucking haywire. Majid Nawaz, episode 1780. He breaks down all of this. Former Islamic extremist, self-said.

And not in the sense of bombing places and shit like that, but trying to infiltrate governments and overthrow with ideas. And really through work with a Sufi, which is like the mystical aspects of Islam, really started to come to a different understanding of what his religion was, who his people are. And because it was coming from a Sufi, he was open to it. It spoke to his lineage,

right? It's a brilliant, brilliant podcast. And he really dives into the military grade psychological operation. The joke that is the media. I mean, like the problem is we heard fake news first from Hillary, and then we hear it from Trump and it became, it's like between the two of them, there's somebody you don't like. There's somebody that you don't trust. Between the two of them, right? It's guaranteed. Nobody.

So when you hear terms like that, it's almost like they're just tossed out ahead of time to kind of train us a certain way. Like conspiracy theory was a coined term from the CIA. Yeah. But what is a conspiracy really? I mean, it's any person or group of people that come together, I'm paraphrasing the fuck out of this, I don't have Webster's in front of me, not that I trust Webster's anymore at this point.

But I don't trust anyone. They've changed a few definitions the last couple of years. Quite a few, dude. Any group of people that would come together and conspire to change an outcome, above law, below law, with law. Like the law of peace isn't necessarily equated to that. It could be, you know, like in a huddle, a football team

conspires to get a first down. So the thing that people are missing in this is, is there a group of people conspiring to shape society in a certain way? And right now, and of course they point this out, they play Darth Vader's music, you know, on this podcast with Rogan while Klaus Schwab from the World Economic Forum speaks. And what does he say? He says, we've introverted all of the governments with our people from the young, the young future of tomorrow, you know, like whatever the fuck that name is, for where they train leaders. To give you an example, Justin Trudeau, graduate.

Bill Gates, graduate. What's his name? Maron? Marcon? A French prime minister? Yeah. A graduate. Young. You make it into power. You make it to be the top. Several of our presidents and

candidates. So that's undeniable. Then he writes a book, COVID-19 and the Great Reset, right? And Rogan points out like, yeah, that used to be a conspiracy theory. People saying like, it's for the Great Reset. And then he actually writes, the dude writes a book with that in the title. They used to call it the Fourth Industrial Revolution. Now it's coined the Great Reset. Well, the interesting thing is, is if you bring up the book and what it says, people will call you a conspiracy theorist. You go, it's not a conspiracy theory. It's a conspiracy fact.

And he's right. It's written. It's public. And it's the dude that is trying to shape the world. It also has, since the World Economic Forum started, I think in 73, within two years, every world leader was in attendance. Think of how quick that rises.

Within two or three years, you now have the president of the United States. Any major power is attending that by invite. But of course, they're fucking all there to design society. And Noam Chomsky is a little bit easier to handle than like an Alex Jones or a David Icke. Noam's written books for 60 years, I think. Yeah.

He's in his 80s or 90s. Like he's been talking about this for a very long time. This shit doesn't happen overnight. So really, I mean, in the past two years, my thoughts have been around that and I've been very switched on. You know, when you, anybody who becomes a dad, there's a certain thing that ignites within you where you're like, Oh, it's not just about me anymore. It's especially for mom. Right. You're like, yeah. And then the double-edged sword is when am I going to get my life back? You know, like I'll never, it'll never be the same.

We're not going to fuck again. Like all these things, right. Yeah. Eventually you get to be empty nesters, but you're different people at that point. The point I'm making is certain things switch around in the DNA when you become a parent. And it moves from, because I can handle my own shit. I can protect my wife. And I got kids. I got little ones. You know, what do we do if the power goes out?

What do we do? And so I really started looking into this stuff and it's so comical that like you can get flagged on Facebook if you're in a prepping group. And what is a prepper, right? Like you want to learn how to can organically can and store in jars, your own produce fucking red flag. Yeah. I find it interesting as, um, how triggered people become. One thing I've noticed, people get triggered when you become independent. Your independence, you being able to have your own sovereignty is threatening to another person because if you're not part of their group, then you're a threat.

There's this very interesting thing that happens psychologically, and it's a bit upsetting for me because I've just made some comments to try to help other people be more independent, and then people come in, I'm like... If they don't want it, though, you can't grab them by the arm and bring them to the altar. No, no. And I'm like, you guys are getting so upset.

This doesn't involve you. Like, the whole point of independence, I'm not are getting so upset. This doesn't involve you. Like the whole point of independence, I'm not going to bother you. Just don't bother me. And that is super threatening. And it's a one-way street in a way. Because being independent is a passive thing. I'm not trying to force anything on anybody.

And you got the majority of the people that they're fighting over who gets to tell who what to do and that's that's one reason i've had a hard time with voting over the last decade is because once i realized that it's just a people people are so passionate about voting because they get to tell the other group what to do. Who's going to win this fight over who's in charge? And everyone buys into the illusion of government. And when they buy into it and they vote and they pay their tax dollars, it always creates tyranny on one side or the other.

Because on the right, there's things that the right doesn't want people to do. And on the left, there's things they want to control. And it's a big just like fight over control. And it's, I know for you and I both have had the experience of what it means to let go of control. You know, you're in a medicine ceremony. That's on an individual level, you realize you really don't have control over what's happening out here. And when I see people fighting for control, it just looks like a lot of children. It's a bunch of children that are afraid

that someone's going to tell them what to do, so they got to figure out how to tell them, the other people what to do first. I'm going to say it first, yeah. Yeah, so. Yeah, that's a big one. I mean, Graham Hancock and a lot of the greatest minds on going to say it first, yep. Yeah, that's a big one. I mean, Graham Hancock and a lot of the greatest minds on the planet

say it would be a great requirement, a prerequisite for any world leader to have gone through some initiation rite of passage. It doesn't have to necessarily be plant medicines, although that's tried and true, and we know it would work in the right container, but a vision quest, no food, no water for four days. Yeah, simple.

You know, really potent breathwork or darkness, you know, like Aubrey did for six days and nights where you're effectively in a cave, you know, like that DMT switch goes on and you don't get to turn it off like three days in you're there, you know, no puffs necessary. Um, and these are missing components in our society, you know, like a great book that came out by Douglas Murray was The Madness of Crowds and it really painted where we're at as a society from a gay British guy

brilliantly authored he's become buddies it's cool that he talked about this guy Majid Nawaz because they ended up becoming buddies and of course Majid ended up working with Sam Harris and they did some really cool, I think they wrote a book together. This is a fantastic story, but I like giving people little snippets. I've read so many fucking

books and in the last two years, far more because it was more important than ever for me to psychologically understand that, A, I'm not going insane. B, there are people who agree and can verify and point to shit where it's like... It is nice to know you're not crazy. Yeah. And I've done some solo casts where I was like, you know, if you don't agree, that's fine.

Just chalk it up to my 30-gram experience or something else. Maybe I had one too many journeys, but, um, you know, all of these books that are coming out now from oneness versus the 1% by Vonda Neshiva, um, uh, the truth behind COVID-19 by Dr. Joe Mercola. Uh, what was another one that I just finished? That was absolutely fantastic. The Real Anthony Fauci by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will blow your fucking mind. Mind-blowing. They spent an hour on ivermectin, an hour on hydroxychloroquine and how those are systematically taken away. They had 65 years of safe and

efficacious use of hydroxychloroquine. It was over the counter in several countries. And they knew the dose range for six and a half decades. So then when the Gates-funded trial went to test that, how do you figure out how to not get that through? You go 10x above the highest dose possible. And they fucking literally killed people to not allow that to be, uh, in the emergency use act. Wow. And why?

Because it's not, it was fucking off, off, uh, patent. Yeah. It's 10 bucks versus $3,000 for remdesivir, which Gates and Fauci have patents on.

Like, it's just, there's shit like that where they cause kidney failure., it's just, there's shit like that where they cause kidney failure. Yeah. There's, there's things like that. And you're just like, man, but I think, um, you know, what's been important for me throughout all this to keep a sane, sane head and to be able to dad and go to work each day and enjoy life. There are, you know, the serenity prayer. Like I'm always, I'm always looking to what, what is within my control? What can I control? Um, and what's outside of me that I got to let go of and surrender to, you know? And as I keep recircling back on that question,

quite a bit more becomes under my control, you know, and I, and there is a thirst for knowledge. That's why I have, you know, books on regenerative agriculture, biodynamic farming from Steiner. This is, this is a path to sovereignty and a connection to our food, which is super important. That's something I was interested in before. I remember reading Omnivore's Dilemma in 2011. I was on my way to a competition

and I was listening to it. I had my team with me and I started just talking about having a regenerative farm and they were like, Mike is crazy. He doesn't know what he's talking about. And I fantasize, you know, I haven't taken action on it, but I fantasize I've had conversations. It's, it's something that I recognize it's something that has to happen. Yeah. It has to happen. And at some point I got to pull the trigger and, and make the move. And the last two years, it's felt like this is the right type of pressure

to make that happen. And one thing I want to point out, like talking about sovereignty, I think a lot of times people think that's like a response to what's happening, which I think it speeds up that process. But having your sovereignty is, I think I lost my train of thought. Sovereignty, sovereignty, sovereignty. Yeah. Let me throw in a snooze. You want one? We'll see. We'll see how long I can last. Don't keep it in for long. These are the big boys. Yeah, I've been diving a lot into sovereignty. I've got a few books here. One that will change your life, written by a former Marine. Let's talk about the definition of it.

Yes, all right, dive into that. And then I brought these books with me so I could bring them up because they're quite good. Sovereignty gets into interesting territory because I hear different people use it in different ways. And, you know, oh, I have financial sovereignty or I have legal sovereignty or I have whatever sovereignty. And I think about sovereignty is if you break down the word, you're your own ruler because you have the word reign in there.

And that applies to all things. Nobody is setting the rules for me. Now, there is the grand authority of God that's set the rules, which is things like gravity and natural law. And if I try to fuck you over, then you have every right to fuck me up. And so these are really basic core laws. But the thing is, to me, when I look at sovereignty, that's just all it means.

And getting to that place is where all of society needs to get if we're going to have peace. You're not going to get peace by everybody following the same leader. The only way to get peace is for people to become educated on how to get in contact with their own conscience and be able to make decisions and recognize what's right and wrong and go from that and then suffer the consequences. We have to move beyond the rational mind.

I think you're speaking to that as well. If you look to the founding forefathers, they were true Renaissance men. They knew all sorts of shit like the ancient Greeks. They knew, I mean, Benjamin Franklin was a little, you know, a bit of a tummy there, but that came with wealth for the most part. But these guys, they knew how to grow their own food. They knew how to hunt. They knew how to build their own fucking house. And they did. They, they continue to learn. They knew about law. They knew what didn't work and they knew the real history of the world. You know, like that, I think that is something that it's a task that seems daunting,

but it's a requirement for every person to understand what does health mean? Who's in charge of that? Is it some turd in a white lab coat or is it fucking me? My job, right? And, and, you know, guys like Dr. Zach Bush and my buddy, Dr. Nathan Riley, OBGYN and hospice care doctors, both of them. Dr. Nathan Riley delivered a baby and then in the same 24 hours helped a dude transition. Wow. Like powerful, powerful stories. That's a trip. But what have we done with that?

We've made it a procedure. You know, we take death out of the home. We outsource the delivery. Like I had bear in a, at Stanford hospital was our first, it would have cost more to do a home birth. And then we had wolf at home. It's, and it's not comparable. It's, there's not even fucking comparable. And we had, there's always plan B, you know, people like, well, what if something goes wrong? Like, yes, I'm aware of that. You have plan B. We were eight minutes from a hospital from the ER.

They were notified when we were going into labor. Hey, have a bed ready just in case. Thankfully didn't need it, you know. I caught both our kids. And like that is something that not a lot of dudes do anymore. You know, it's some fucking complete stranger holding your child first. Then they're going to wipe it off and five minutes later put it on mom's boob. Like, no, no, no, no, no. Leave that coat of microbiome right on the skin till it dries and flakes off.

There's no washing for the first week. Yeah. You know, then put the baby right on mom immediately. As soon as dad can take his eyes off of it. I was talking to somebody, I think it was somebody else. They were talking about the baby came out and the nurse started to clean the baby that was me and i said no no no yeah i was like no no we're not doing that leave a mark no that wasn't mean i was talking to somebody it had left like oh wow for for like months afterwards there was a strip where the skin was discolored. Wow.

Yeah, so that really demonstrates in, like once you see that, there is actually something happening here. Yeah. Because you start talking about microbiome on the skin. I was first introduced to that maybe seven years ago. I haven't used soap except for after I do jujitsu or something, but I minimize the soap. I skin brush used soap except for after I do jujitsu or something, but I minimize the soap. I skin brush instead, rinse off, sauna. There's a lot of great ways to keep the body

way more clean and healthy. And when my girlfriend, we've been dating for two years, found out that I didn't shower or I shower, I don't use soap. She was like, yeah, but you don't smell. It's like, well, I don't eat a lot of sugar. I don't use soap. She was like, yeah, but you don't smell. I was like, well, I don't eat a lot of sugar. I don't feed all that bad bacteria. Yeah. There's the thing. People don't equate that piece.

Like, man, that guy stinks. And he's like, I can tell. I've got a couple of friends. One of our buddies, Alex Robchinski. Sometimes the guy fucking stinks. Right? He's my boy. He's been on the podcast.

His wife, Sarah, she's been on it. She'll say it too. You know, like, Alex is fucking ripe today. Well, what is the guy doing differently? He'll know he's the first to know he knows how he smells, but he also knows the why, right? Like, Hey man, I'm doing an intestinal cleanse. That's all I needed to hear. You know, make the hug quick, buddy. I'll give you a peck on the lips. I'll give you a kiss, but we're not doing the long embrace. Um, you know, he is, he is at least, and you know, these guys are high level check practitioners. They know, they know the shit inside and out. Um, most people are still grappling with looking at an, if it fits your macros type program where it's like, Oh, I can

get away with the donut because, um, I'm still under X amount of calories. Like, no, no, no, no. That was like, that was like, that's like what really got me like that when the, if it fits your macros thing came out and people were eating donuts for post-workout. Yeah. That was, that was, that was a big turning point for me where I was, everyone was getting on board and I go, this is, this is, that's fucked up. It's not real food. And so, so when you, you can understand where the general population is still figuring out food doesn't just make me gain weight or have the potential to make me gain weight. It has the potential to influence how I think, how I feel, my cognitive energy or lack of, how I sleep, my response to stress. Fucking you name it, dude.

It ain't just recovery, right? This is why health and sovereignty go hand in hand. Yeah. Because if you're eating processed shit food, you're way easier to control. You can't think clearly. I had my girlfriend and I Saturday night just decided we wanted some authentic Mexican food.

So we stopped by a trailer and picked some up, and it was, you know. It was the real deal? It was the real deal. I could see in the trailer, I go, oh, man, I'm pretty sure they're not using the right type of oil. And for a day and a half, I was foggy. The fog didn't clear until Monday, and I go, wow, people are living this way every day. They're eating three, four times a day,

nothing but shit food, nothing but processed, nothing but that. Everything has some type of vegetable oil. They're experiencing inflammation of the brain. And then when they come across somebody who's actually healthy and we start talking to them, we're fucking crazy. Well, and people like it's an identity thing too, right? I forget. There was a guy in Rogan's who talked about, he had studied

world religion in college, got his degree in that. And he said, you know, people are too wrapped up in their identity with religion. So I got to leave that one on the table. I'm going to write a book on a diet. And he was like, it's the same fucking thing, right? People are so wrapped up with what they eat. Um, and you know, the, the addict is the first to deny there's an issue, right? Like I eat perfect. How many, how many overweight people have I come to coach that say there's diet is perfect. It's, it's an insane number, right? Like, like 90% of them. There's very few that like Paul says, by the time they get to you, they've already tried a bunch. They're already doing

pretty good, I imagine. Nowadays, you know, early on is different. I mean, I helped a buddy of mine lose 120 pounds back when I was first getting into it and first getting into Paul Cech's stuff. But point being, you know, Paul says stop bullshitting yourself. That's when you actually get clear

on what's working or not working for you. But we could rabbit hole that whole thing. Health is a big piece of this, right? The law and government is a huge piece of this. And this brother on 1780, Majid Nawaz, really, really breaks that down in a unique way. And there's tons of books. Like people, A History of Central Banking Ajit Nawaz really, really breaks that down in a unique way. And there's tons of books.

Like people, A History of Central Banking by Stephan Mitford Goodson. And Fruit from a Poisonous Tree. It's one of my all-time favorites by Melvin Stamper, who was in the Marines for 12 years. They will fundamentally uproot everything. How do you know these guys are right? Well, because it's not just these guys. There are several books corroborating this and several different people like David Icke

who's been saying it for 30 fucking years. I don't want to believe that, oh, just because my name's in all caps on my birth certificate and on my driver's license and on my passport, that that somehow makes me party to these ridiculous rules that they make up each year, like four and a half million new laws and most of them are tax laws.

It doesn't make you party, but it makes your corporation. Yep. And then people get confused that they're not separate. What is a straw man? Right? And so there's another really good one that Dr. Nathan Reilly sent me that's very small. It's like 70 pages. You get it on Amazon.

Meet your straw man and other things you want to know. These Riley sent me. It's a very small, it's like 70 pages. You get on Amazon, meet your straw man and other things you want to know. These are brilliant books. They're not shit that you want to, they're not happy books. They're not books where you're like, Oh fuck yeah. Cool. You're like,

Oh yeah. There's a quote I really love, which is the truth is belligerent. It doesn't give a fuck how you feel. In fact, you're probably not going to feel very good as you expose yourself to the truth yeah and i i look at i look at all this information i've consumed a lot of similar information i and the the core thing that i've found that if you do this one thing, then all of that other stuff is very easy to grasp

and just makes sense, which is what's your relationship to authority? I walk around, you've got, what was his name? The psychedelic, he was always telling them to question authority. Tim Leary. Tim Leary. So you've got guys like that saying question authority

and you've got, I see people wearing t-shirts and pins and all this stuff. And then there's two layers to that conversation. One is question authority is look at the authority and question those guys. That's layer one. That's surface level bullshit. Questioning authority means is there authority? Like question the authority. Those people don't even have authority. That you give them the authority. But like, if you truly question authority, you get to the conclusion that I'm my authority.

And then God is the authority. Anyone else who claims they're the authority is complete bullshit. And if you take that, if you truly believe that, if that's a perspective that you hold, then you have to take personal responsibility for everything in your life. Because anywhere you don't take that personal responsibility is subject to somebody else's ideas of how you should behave. And you have no idea what their intentions are.

Yeah. And so... Like the pathway to hell is paid with good intentions, right? Exactly. Dive into that on that podcast with Majid. It is... You have to take intention aside because intention could be great. Like Bill Gates, who now has more farmland than anyone else in the world, he might have great intentions for that.

He also owns a large sum of Monsanto before they sold to Bayer, a German company that was around in Nazi Germany. They make your aspirin, right? That's not the dude that you want farming. That's the dude you don't want farming. You don't want Monsanto spraying and creating new genetically modified strains that infect organic fields around it and then sue the fuck out of those farmers. Watch Food Inc. That's an old one we all watch, right?

Everyone in the paleo effects community, we all got switched on and likely were already into some form of health and wellness before that documentary came out. Vonda Neshiva, who wrote One is Versus 1%, is in that. She's a PhD in quantum physics and regenerative agriculture. Like she is truly fucking one of a kind, right? Yeah. Um, that book exposes so much, you know, and, and, and to your point, like, well, what can you do?

Um, Joel Salatin, who is the star of that has also been on Rogan's. He said one in 10 people must become farmers and the people who don't must know their farmer. Yeah. Right. We vote with our dollar. That was one of the main takeaways. So,

and people tie, Oh, it's easy for you. You got money and all this shit. And it's like, look, when I was fighting in the UFC, making dog shit,

living in my mom's garage, paying 500 a month for rent, utilities, all of it, um, which was the, that's what I needed to do when I lived in the Bay Area, you know,

and I fought professionally. I would save up, you know, any money I'd make at the strip club bouncing and bartending, I would buy organic grass-fed ground beef. I couldn't afford steak. I bought the ground beef, and that was the best thing I could give them. I had something similar.

I was running my gym. I was making a couple thousand dollars a month myself. So it was like, got to pay rent. And I was spending a thousand dollars a month on food. And I remember having clients come in and they go, they go, it's so expensive to eat well. I'm like, I mean, the prices are artificially depressed for processed food.

So yeah, it's cheaper for sure. But it really comes down to what you value. I was spending a third to half of my paycheck on going to the farmer's market, meeting. I remember I got in a debate with a farmer when I was there. My girlfriend at the time was just like so embarrassed. I can't take you anywhere. I was like, he was saying his was grass-fed. I was like, yeah, but is it grass-finished?

He was like, well, all, his comment first was like, all beef is grass-fed. I'm like, I know. Now, is it grass-finished? And then he got all flustered and then, like, started yelling at me because I was, like, pushing his button. And I was like, look, I just want to know the truth. Yeah.

And he was saying the grass-fed thing is bullshit. I was like, I'm going to know the truth. Yeah. And he was saying the grass-fed thing is bullshit. I was like, I'm going to the next booth. Yeah. I was like, don't just go to the farmer's market and buy whatever the fuck is there because you don't know. Talk to the farmers. And you get talking to somebody, I don't need to buy organic or whatever it is that's labeled

because that's bullshit. Organic chicken eggs means that they fed it organic corn and soybean. It doesn't mean that chicken was out on the fucking prairie eating worms and maggots out of cow poop, which as it turns out, that's what a chicken wants to eat, right? Like that's when you get like the darkest, brightest orange, not, you know, pale ass ghost yellow. You know what I'm saying? Like you get an orange yolk that's loaded with vitamin A the usable kind you know not beta carotene and carrots the most bioavailable form of it fat soluble vitamins that are in charge of cell replication

and fucking immune health right that's what you get when you get something that's from its own natural habitat so you and I made hard choices when we were both poor and then because of those great choices that were hard at the time, set us up to have good health, be able to think for ourselves,

and then to later become successful. And then people point at us and go, well, you got money. It's not the same. It's like, that's how you get here. You get here by doing these things. And people don't want to hear that. They want, I mean, I've had people message me and go, here you get here by doing these things yeah and people don't want to hear that they want I mean I've had people message me and go oh it's easy for you to say you were

born like with a silver spoon in your mouth and in California I'm like all right okay I was not born in California I grew up in Memphis Tennessee and it was a little hood and uh yeah I lived inside of my gym but people people look at where people are at currently and think that that's how it's always been. Yeah. Yeah. It's, it's a, it's a bummer, but I think more and more now, you know, like the, you know, the, Paul always said sooner or later your health will be your number one concern. Right. So you either make it so right now, or when you're, when you got fucking stage four cancer or when you're 200 pounds overweight or when your kidneys are failing and you need to go on dialysis. You name it, right?

Sooner or later, that's going to become the most important thing. On a global stage, one of the benefits of the tyranny that's transpired in the last two years is it's forced us to look at it. Now, not everyone wants to look. A lot of people are like Joey Panaleone in the matrix where he's cutting a steak, right? And he's like, I want to eat this steak and I don't want to worry if the computer got the algorithm right. You know, ignorance is bliss. There are a lot of people right now that just say, give me whatever you tell me to give me and let's go back to normal. There is no go back to anything normal. You know, and what Ike points to is the same thing

that this episode on Rogan points to is that if you understand the end game of where they're trying to take it, it makes the totalitarian tiptoe really visible, right? Each time an emergency act gets used and what transpires after that, it makes it more visible. And I think, you know, at a certain point, you can't look away. And so then what comes back within my control? Number one, education. Number two, health. Or number one, health. Number two, education. And education on all things. Education on how to grow my own food. Like, what actually makes me sovereign? I got to cover at least the first three bases of Maslow's hierarchy of needs for myself and my kids. If I can do that, you know,

have a sustainable home, uh, that has no debt, um, some land that I can grow enough food on, right. There's some really good companies that are teaching people how to grow in the suburbs and super urban areas. And you can join co-ops if you don't want to farm and don't give a shit about it. At least know the farmer's market, at least know the people you can go to if they close grocery stores. Yeah, that's one thing I like about what's happening over at Kuya right now. Kuya is this amazing mental health wellness clinic. I don't know what you call it, spa.

So it's one of a kind. I think it's the new way of doing things is what's happening over there. But yeah, you can pick up your food from somebody who she is. That's my girl, Jaylene Novotki. She was a Fit for Service member. She's amazing. She's sourced. So that's the other thing.

If you live in a big city, odds are there's someone like Jaylene there. And she's working with a couple other former Fit for Service members to actually start to connect the people like Voltron online. Yeah. So that you know, if I live in Philly, I don't know anyone in Philly. Let me go on this website. Oh, there's someone here that's doing what Jaylene's doing. What Jaylene does is she goes to the best places that aren't well-known. You know, like Rome Ranch is awesome. We're homies with those guys. They're coming back on the podcast. They do Force of Nature products,

all regenerative agriculture, bison products. They're at Whole Foods, Sprouts. They do force of nature products, all regenerative agriculture, bison products. They're at Whole Foods, Sprouts. They're awesome. They're in Whole Foods and Sprouts. They don't need any help. Who are the local mom and pops that are throwing organs in the trash because there's no market for them? There's a market. They just need to be connected, right? And that's what Jaylene's doing, right? So she's getting people, number one, aware of what is healthy food. Number two, connecting them to the farmer. And what's great is I don't have to drive all over Texas. She gets to do that. Right. She meets people for deliveries halfway and she's picking up some of the best grass fed, grass finished, full cream yogurt I've ever had at San Antonio. Then she's getting cheese from a different farm. Then she's getting, you know, she's doing this legwork and you get a box every two weeks of a wide variety of amazing food from the best regenerative agriculture specialists, best meat, dairy, and eggs and produce when it's available. Like that's a fucking cool thing. Take my money. Take the guesswork and the legwork out

for me. Right? Well, this is, this is just an example of decentralization. So the food supply is a major issue that's coming up. I recognize that early on when my buddy, when he was running, his family's running ranches and when COVID first hit and all the restaurants shut down, there was no need for pork for these restaurants. And they're having to euthanize all these pigs in these nearby farms. That was by design too. So in California and a number of places, they deemed pork to be a major contributor to climate change.

So another thing that's been hijacked from Klaus Schwab, Bill Gates, a lot of these clowns is they take a real issue, like we're fucking up the environment, and then they add layers of complexity to it that really don't exist. Rob Wolf and Diane Rogers pointed this out in the fantastic documentary and book, Sacred Cow. Carbon emissions in a closed chain loop.

Dr. Paul Saladino says this. In a closed chain loop, it doesn't matter what they shit in the ground because they're shitting on grass. Then the herd is stomping it back in. A great book, The Soil Will Save Us, dives right into the science on this. For 500 years, it will sequester carbon. So it's not methane farts or burps from a cow. It's not methane farts from a pig that are causing this. We're spraying shit in the air and on the ground. That's causing a problem to our water, our air and our soil. Big problems, right? I think 70% of the insect population is down since the 1970s. Czech says those are the sex organs of the earth, right? Like we can't lose

the bees. We can't lose butterflies. We can't lose dragonflies. That's a real problem. So again, I mean, it's just the, to really understand it fully, you got to dive head first into it. And then, you know, it can become very simple. Okay. What's in my control? What's in my control is what I put in my mouth, what I put in my body, what I feed to my kids. What type of information do I want to gather that is empowering, not disempowering and to know those things. And then again, like you said, decentralize it, right? Like if we know the top down has not worked and it hasn't worked forever, eventually all Rome falls,

eventually they all fall down. Rather than, and I forget the guy, it might've been Brett Weinstein who said like, what do you win in a revolution? It's whoever wins is who inherits the rubble. This isn't, thankfully, it hasn't yet become a physical war, but 100%, this is a psychological war. It's a war on what we believe and a war on what we believe to be true.

And if we understand that, we can search for the truth. The truth is inherent. It's in the wisdom of our elders. It's in the wisdom of the indigenous. It's in the wisdom of farmers that have been doing it right and understand what a living, breathing ecosystem is. And we say, let me be a part of that. You know, we seed that out and then people get healthy and they're like, oh shit, I don't get sick anymore. Oh shit. You know, I'm 10 turns out my natural immunity works just fine. You know, those are, those are things that empower people.

Yeah, and going back to what you said before, it's like the road to hell is paved with good intentions. Even good intentions that inside of a system that's centralized power creates single points of failure. And when you have single points of failure, that means that you only have to have one oops and it fucks everything up for everybody. Decentralize is beautiful

because you may experience an oops somewhere, but it's contained. That oops is just over there. And then everybody else, because of where we're at in the world right now with technology, we get to learn from that oops and then make sure we don't make that oops too.

So there's, what I'm seeing is with everything that's decentralizing right now is just a massive evolution of consciousness that's gonna come online, but it has to get away from this. People have to get their mind off of what the central message is and decentralize their information as well.

Yeah. A hundred percent. And then hold, hold that prized possession of what decentralized information looks like, right? We're not getting it on Twitter. We're not getting it on Instagram. We're not getting on Facebook. We're not getting on from YouTube. We're not getting from you Google. There's whole documentaries on Google. Podcast is one of the few places where you can get decentralized information. Absolutely. And that's why Rogan is number one. He's not even primetime. He's, he's uncensored. There's no narrative. Uh, he plays devil's advocate more than I like, you know, but I know why he does it. Yeah. And, and he's got like 11 million

listeners per podcast. Whereas like all the best, the CNNs, the, the 60 minutes, they're like 1.5 million. Yeah. So the, the people, you know, they're voting with their dollar. They're voting with their time. They're voting with attention and you can see where that shift is. And that's why the government's going after him. Yeah. Right. Cause he's, he's just had, you know, overwhelmingly, um, a small handful of people. Thank God he brought this guy on after he made his apology. Cause it's like, cool. He's still going to fucking have the right people. Yeah. And I think a lot of people like us that have understood, um, the direction the world is trying to go and are starting to put their feet down and say, Nope, hold the fucking line. It's,

it's, I've been begging internally for Rogan to fucking have these people on, and he has. So thank you. That's fucking rad. Yeah. Where do we go from here? We've had two years of pandemic. Things get shut down.

People are waking up left and right to what has been happening. I've witnessed a lot of people who were saying I was crazy a year ago who are now coming around and being like, all right, I've got questions for you now, which is a really good sign. Yeah, where do we go? What's the responsibility? Where do people put their effort?

Yeah, I mean, there's a few things. Just on a grand scale, when you come to find out just the lack of health in the ocean, just look at something like that, if we're paying attention to environment, that's a daunting task. And the plastics and all this and that and the acidification due to the chemicals going in there. You look at the soil. You look at any one of these factors on a,

on a global scale. And then you, you look at things, you know, like what, back to you, like, what is the thing that I need to operate at my best? I mean, really fit for service is about that thing. How do I become fit to actually serve another? It means I got to tend my own fucking garden first. Right. So it always starts there. But, um, you know, many of the, the greatest, whether they're spiritual teachers or farmers or any of these, any of these people that have mastery in a certain skillset, they all say, you let your desire guide you. And there's a fucking, if there's 8 billion of us and each of us says like, I'm going to fucking change what's happening in the ocean, or I'm going to change what's happening in the soil. And I'm going to

do it myself. Right. That's, that's me saying that I am going to change the quality of the soil in Lockhart, Texas, guaranteed. And that's a big problem with a lot of people is they're like, there's something wrong. You got to change. We want the government to tell you that you should be, and when they're going to tax you and like, that's the fucking solution. Yeah. We could tax, you could tax carbon emissions away. Yeah. Come on, dude. Come on.

Anytime anyone starts complaining about something, I usually let them get it out. And I go, so what are you doing about it? And then, you know, sometimes I get very embarrassed. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, you know, you can bike. You can get an electric car.

I don't. I've got a big-ass truck, and I've got a small little four- rav four. Yeah. You know, I, the big ass truck was super necessary during the snowpocalypse. It was necessary when I drove bare to Bozeman, it was zero degrees outside. You know, I'm super happy I have that. Um, and, but then there are other ways, right? Like, can I sequester carbon on 120 acres? Fuck yeah. And I make homes with all the neighbors that are already doing it. You know, can we improve some of those practices? Yeah. We're going to spitball ideas and share soil samples and different things with each other.

Yeah, man. That's how you seed locally. You know, the decentralization is all about putting the power back in we the people's hands and allowing them to fortify each of these little nodes of cities and nodes of consciousness and nodes of regeneration. And you don't have to, I would argue that most of us don't need to have that mastery in anything, but to become a jack of all trades and an ace of none, that is pretty important. That is the definition of the Renaissance man, the Renaissance woman. And I think that more and more is becoming the responsibility and like i said it doesn't mean we all become farmers

one in ten has to but you got to support that one in ten yeah it's doing it local right and that's that's the responsibility yeah i know i don't want to farm yeah but i want to know my farmer and i'm going to get my food straight from them and support them yeah and like our 120 acres is going to be a food forest that's the size of a football field. We're putting that in next month. Um, we're going to have probably 50 exotic animals on there for hunting, which we don't have to tend to, but they're ruminants. They're going to help with the grass. They're going to help seed, um, you know, feed the soil and enhance the microbiota of the soil. Um, we've got several ponds, so, you know, water gets shut down. I can take my Berkey over there, fill it up and I'll be good to drink water for six months of pond water, you know,

and several Berkey attachments. We've thought through quite a bit of this stuff. Um, but really, you know, like what you cover the basis for yourself, right? What is my optimal health look like? What is my optimal day look like? You know, like those are still important pieces. And then, okay, from that, what do I do with my time that actually makes a difference? And it doesn't need to be everything. It fucking can't be everything, right? So do the thing that you enjoy. Do the thing that you have a desire to learn.

And if it's teaching people how to get better with their own health and giving them sovereignty of their health, if it's helping people pass in a more organic way to the next layer of the game, you know, so they don't die in fear and they don't die in shame and they get to be around their family when they die. Super important piece. Like all of these things are really important pieces and it just takes us understanding where is the call for me to be, you know, in service of other. Beautiful. Let's drop it here. Where, where can people find you? Cal Kingsbury podcast at living with the Kingsbury's on Instagram. You must punch it in perfectly because we're not quite banned, but you can't tag us. It'll say, you know, there's been too much misinformation around COVID-19 on our account, that kind of stuff.

So that's hard there. I'm on Zion, just Cal Kingsbury community on Zion. I've been thinking about hopping on there. I haven't, I haven't gone all the way in. Yeah. You know, Justin, right? Is it popping? It's not popping yet, but it's growing. I'll introduce you to Justin. You'd be fantastic for the podcast. Yeah. That'd be great. Thank you. And yours back on Mike Bledsoe show. Yep. The Bledsoe show, go to thebledsoeshow.com and on Instagram, Mike underscore Bledsoe show. Yep. The Bledsoe show. Go to the Bledsoe show.com and on Instagram, Mike underscore Bledsoe. Dope brother. Well,

we'll co-release this at the same time on both our podcasts. I'm fucking pumped that you're back in the game. Yeah, man. Thanks. Hell yeah. Thank you.