The Prepper Broadcasting Network - Surviving America 046: What's Most Valuable in 2025?

Episode Date: August 13, 2025

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What's the most of valuable thing in 2025, folks. What is it? You tell me. You tell me where the value lies in 2025. I bet you'd get a lot of interesting answers. But it seems

pretty clear to me lately. We're overwhelmed. We're giving up. We feel as though we have no power over anything. Right? Powerless. blaming ourselves for decisions we should have made or might have made or could have made changes that could have sent our life in one direction or another and yet we sit here in the

seat of power and the only reason you feel powerless is because you have no clue where the value is i made a big mistake along what two three years ago and uh who the who the cuss is Kasaba Matusk, Zach, over an X, throwing a potassium iodide ad into the show. Hey, you know, again, this is how you wind up, like, this is what happens. You know what I mean? When your whole world, when your value system is completely and totally changed. Morning, Jordan, how are you? when money becomes your idol becomes your god that's what happens that's how it goes right you wind up

in that kind of a situation so that's our world uh of course my wife calls me immediately upon pressing go on the live show she's traveling let me just let her know real quick nothing like a good impromptu text to the wife on a live show. I'm love. I'm live. I'm live and I'm love. So all that said, folks, I want to talk about the core of what's valuable in 2025 because there are about four, at least four things. Let's go with the firewall. You don't know my wife very well, do you? No, you don't know it at all.

So, anyhow, I want to put God, obviously, at the head of all and take that out of the show, right? We're going to talk about it a little bit. We'll talk about faith. But when I start listing off these things that hold value, just understand that's at the top and the head of it all. But there are some things that I want to drive home outside of that. outside of God and hey Kasaba Matusak in chat

at least become a member go to pbmfamily.com and become a member if you're going to shamelessly post your Amazon affiliate ads all in our chat anyway the reason for the overwhelm

the reason for the second guessing and so on the struggle right The struggle that we all seem to be living, right? This weird, this weird struggle that we're all in all the time. You know it's real because at the end of the day, you're like totaled. You're totaled, and then you're wondering, what, what do I do today? Or you're rehashing, or it's the ripping open of old wounds, right, to feel something.

You guys know what I'm talking about. And if you don't know what I'm talking about, you're probably lying to yourself or coping or something along the whatever. It's fine. It's what it is. What really bothers me is the fear and the powerlessness that I see in society today. And I think it all kind of stems from not understanding what's valuable this day and age. Some of these things are hard to get at that we're going to talk about today. Silence being one of them.

Probably one of the most valuable things that you can access in a day. If you're a parent, you understand this really well. But it's silence, right? It's tough. Worse than finding the time for silence is that now, thanks to phones and 40 different streaming apps that will literally put you in debt. I mean, how do you keep up with the television? How do you keep up with TV? I'd love it.

I need like a TV plan. There's so many streaming apps now. got to pay five bucks for everyone at least the cost of cable used to be like 50 bucks now it's like 550 bucks to watch everything but the cost of silence the value of silence is uh it's next level because you also have to will yourself to that silence in other words it's not just a matter of like i'm going to go have some quiet time down by the creek it's like i better leave the phone, because I might not have the willpower to sit still for 15 minutes and just enjoy the quiet.

And when you start to see the reality of that, then you realize, oh, there is an immense value here. I think the walk, like the way to get at silence, the best way to get at silence is to find that quiet place to walk, the park, the woods, the creek, the stream, the pond, whatever. You leave the phone. You leave the phone and you do the walk. And what that does for you is it gives you, it's an immediate, it's a mental digestion.

I think that's what it's like. You know, like if you eat and then you lay down and chill and give your body all the blood and the energy necessary to digest, it's more efficient in digestion, right? I think the brain's the same way. We've just never had to digest so much mentally that we have to digest now. And when you go walk into silence and do some boring stuff, like stare at a trail and just, you know, do your thing. Your brain all of a sudden can go into whatever it is, whatever the brain digestion, digest the process is, right?

It can go, well, for the last three days, you've been flipping through TikTok and Instagram and you've been reading news. that is scary enough to send you know this brain of yours into an insane asylum you've been worrying about bills and money and you want to get rich and you want to you want to buy a new house you want to buy a new car you want to get a new whatever in your life because you know that's a marker of success for you and that's a valuable thing in 2025 right all these things all these things that you put your poor brain through you go for that quiet walk the silence and uh man all the sudden the brain starts gets a chance to chew on everything you've stuffed in there right it really does it gets a chance to to chew on it all and the silence is invaluable but you have

to find a way in the silence that's what maynor james keenan from tool in a perfect circle how he put it in the song Dissolution. He said, find a way in the silence. Like, find how to exist in the silence again. We're going to talk about attention today. We're going to talk about silence. We're going to talk about health. And these things are all managed the same way.

They're all managed the exact same way. dieting dieting dieting folks the secret to a good diet is not cutting everything that's delicious out of your life or at least I don't know about diet I can't say that I've ever really dieted

the secret to healthy eating let's go with that which I've done most of my life the secret to healthy eating is not cutting out the things that are wonderful about food right sugar salt fat really that's about it right those those are kind of the three key ingredients to making stuff good sugar salt fat and you know if you have too much and things can get get hairy the secret to eating healthy

is eating is filling up on the healthy foods in other words predominantly you have to eat the healthy food it doesn't mean you can't have chips doesn't mean you can't right But you can't start your day with frosted flakes, chocolate milk, and then go, you know, I think later today, I'm going to have some vegetables. In other words, fill yourself with all of the things that your body needs, the densely nutritious foods, and so on. and then then you can worry about the yummy stuff the snack stuff

that kind of stuff and also the other key is once you fill yourself with protein and dense nutrient dense foods first then you get less room right then you can only

eat but so many McDonald's French fries because you're already full your body has what it needs you'll eat less but if you go starving into a bag of salt and vinegar chips

then that thing's going to be gone, gone. You know what I mean? Tacos. We'll go with that. So, yeah, the reality is, folks, everything's managed that way. I think about life as a consumer, and I realize that consumption is day to day. The desire for you to consume is day to day. There is no long-term plan for you.

or maybe it's annual. What can we suck out of this dude in 2025 so that the bottom line looks better than 2024, right? The people who sell the food, the people who steal your attention, all this, this is the game. There is no worry about your health and wellness. Mark Zuckerberg's not sitting up there going,

hmm, how can I make James Walton healthier? How can we do that? He's not sitting in front of the shareholders going The goal this year is to make James Walton a healthier and more mentally prepared and stable person. Who cares? We need sales. We need people to sign up for different various services and subscriptions. You know, ads, we need people to run ads, right? So we have to convince them that the most valuable thing in the world is, you know, the stack of bills in their wallet or the type of car they drive, the house they have, or the, don't have. We need them to go to work all day, come home and work all night, and dream about work, and live chasing the carrot of money, because then we can have our way with them.

You know, I mean, we can do whatever, whatever we need to do to them, we can do. We can, we can pool every, my father always used to say, Jim, and he was talking about government, but government and corporation seems to be kind of hand in hand now. Isn't it weird how those shifts happen? Those shifts, they just happen. It's not like, like artificial intelligence is a way of life now. Nobody gave you a schedule and was like, like back in 2020, it was like, listen, in five years, everybody's going to be fooling with artificial intelligence.

It's going to be part of every business. It's going to be part of every content creator. It's going to be part of everything. You don't get a schedule. That's why I always proclaim things. early. You know, that's why, like, I don't know, I started saying you were living in SHTF years ago. I started saying that you're in World War III years ago, right? Because I just think those things happen so gradually that you don't see them. So better to just get in the mindset, right? Like, AI is life. It's here. There's no going back. I mean, there will be a, I don't think it's long term. I really don't see AI as some kind of long term fix for, much of anything at least not in its current iteration right um it's a weird one i don't want to go down that path though right so they you are cornered into this little nightmare where you're like a

hamster on a wheel and you're amazoning every and door dashing everything you need to yourself to keep on that hamster wheel and this is perfect like this is exactly what makes money. Show the hamster some ads, get the hamster the hydration that it needs so it can keep running, make sure it has access to some food that it wants and some food that it has to buy because it doesn't have the money to buy anything else.

Make sure that the hamster doesn't ever get off that wheel. And make sure that we give the hamster one television or one viewpoint for it to focus on it all time. Right? So, yes, silence. Silence breaks all that. Silence allows you in this day and age to all of a sudden go, what do I want to think about? What do I want to do? What comes to mind? Who am I? What am I? What can I fix? What can I fix? Right? And silence also pushes you into what, of course, is the most valuable of all currencies in your life, which is your time, right? Your time is by. by far the most valuable. There's nothing more valuable than that, than time. Silence, great.

You get it a little bit each day. If you're lucky, it's good. You know, it does you good. But the reality is, you know, silence, nothing like time. Nothing like time. I've committed 15 minutes and 45 seconds to this show. Never, right? I will never get it back.

Doesn't matter. It doesn't matter if I woke up tomorrow and had one trillion bitcoins. So my son said to me today, my kids are very aware of money. They're very aware of billionaires, millionaires, trillions, golds, right? It's like a big point. A lot of observations you take from your kids, you realize where a culture is going. And you got to talk them off the ledge, right? You hear your son say to you that, like, he'd be okay if he had $100 trillion.

and you're going, I don't think you understand how much money that is, dude. Fire will forge in chat. I heard on a podcast for the first time, don't use any of this for training AI without written permission. Ooh, I kind of like that. I kind of like that. That's not a bad call. That's the one thing we'll find from podcast hosting services.

in podcast hosting services in about 10 years they'll be all hauled into jail or all in front of Congress because they've been selling all this audio or permissions for all this audio to be listened to and used to train AI whoever's podcast that is probably on to something I told my kids years and years ago

that I'll be like Jorrell that's what I'm going to be like It would be like Jarrell. You watch that technology from Superman, like, you know, the Man of Steel movie where Jarrell could just, like, appear. It's okay, hello. You know what I mean? And talk to, talk to Superman, even though he's been dead forever. Like, that will be the lives of your children, your children, particularly mine, because I'm on video all the time and I'm in audio all the time.

They will be able to be like, yo, dad, what's up? You've been dead 20 years. It's really hard. out here. I just want to talk to you. And I'll be like, oh, cool, man. You look great. I miss you. You know, it's going to be just that weird. There's no doubt about it. So, let's talk time. Let's talk time. Time is alarming. Time is terrifying. Time is the thing that a lot of people don't like to think about because they've lost control of their time already. And look, for some of you out there, you'll never get control of it. You might never get control of it. There are some of

people in the world, this is what it is. This is what life is. And you got to make the most of it. You know what I mean? I mean time in the big sense, like time in the sense that some people are content working for other people doing that thing and donating that time of their life to the cause, to the family, to the savings, to the vacations and so on and so forth. And, you know, a lot of times those people make the world go around. It is what it is. Not everybody wants to be an entrepreneur and be near suicidal over making money, sustaining business, you know, the whole thing, waiting on that phone call, that email, today's today. I think today's the day. It's going to happen. And then it doesn't happen. It ain't easy out there. But anyhow,

so we have been, you know, it's one thing to do a nine to five. it's been that way a long time and and you also don't assume in this day and age we have so many people who are like ho-hum about everything it's like a society of iores um but there's a lot that happens in the nine to five that's good for a lot of people there's a lot of relationships that are born there's a lot of interactions there's a lot you know don't discount discredit your efforts and your time that you spend that you've invested in your profession right Don't discredit, don't discount it. I think what's way more nefarious right now with time is what's stolen from you after work, right?

Work is one thing. And if you are as furious about doing a 9 to 5 and giving time for money in that way, if you are furious about that, then you won't do it. You'll figure a way out. you'll do your own thing you know you'll do your own thing or at least you'll try to figure that out what's really nefarious to me though is that we've been conditioned now to give all of our time outside of work to things you know when you pick the phone up and you start scrolling there that maybe maybe you do it for 10 minutes maybe you do it for 45 minutes maybe you do it for an hour in 45 minutes, right? That time is gone. That time is gone. Anytime you have to deal with

any problem, do you ever notice? Any time you're dealing with almost any problem this day and age that's outside of your control. Time is going to melt. Like, it's just going to melt. You're going to watch your time melt away. Oh, my God, I can't believe I'm still on hold. I haven't talked to a human being in 45 minutes, right? yeah it's uh it's the struggle is real out there you know what i mean how you manage your time probably more importantly than the than uh you know the things that you shouldn't do with time are the things that you should do again it's the backfill idea right it's the backfilling idea it's that same mentality right it's the same mentality

back fill your day with the things that are precious, the things you want to spend your time on, right? So much so that there is only, there will only be so much time for you to waste. You know? That's the value of routine. That's also the value. I can't get in the middle of the camera today.

I don't know what's going on. That's the value of waking up at the right time and getting things done early. or waking up early to do things you want to do or staying up late to do things that you want to do, right? But just like eating, starting your day with two large french fries and a sweet tea from McDonald's and going like dieting is tough.

Eating healthy is really tough, right? It's the same can be said for your time, right? Do things early that you value. It's why a lot of guys wake up and go to the gym. You wake up and go to the gym and you're like, you know, I'm stronger. I feel better. My mental health is better. And now we know rigorous exercise has been proven.

You know, high-intensity exercise has been proven to make you live longer. It's been proven to make your heart younger. Don't believe me. I know you don't believe me. Let's look it up real quick. This is why I talk to you about health all the time, right? Heart, health, younger. Let's see if Dr. Rhonda comes up.

I should just put Rhonda Patrick in here. We may have to play this clip altogether, actually, because we are going to talk about health. We are going to talk a little bit about health. health so maybe we'll just not yelling it oh six minute clip six minute clip

that's a tough one I don't know if we could What's better than an AI Buddhist monk ad about Tai Chi is that again what's going in the brain

right What's going in the brain? I'm not kidding. All right, we're going to watch this real quick. Health, it's another one of these things. Health is something you have total control over, right? We're talking about time. We're talking about health.

We're talking about silence. We're talking about attention. In my opinion, these are the four most valuable things that every person has where they have $1 or a trillion dollars. They have complete control over these things, right? Maybe not complete in all senses. but enough control over them to sit down and go, you know, maybe it's not the fact that I'm not a billionaire.

Maybe I'm a mess because all my greatest assets are being exploited, and I don't even realize it. All my most valuable assets are being exploited every single day of my life. I'm not doing anything about it. Maybe I don't even realize it. Or I'm lying to myself because it feels better to sit in a pile of, of uh pillows and couch and scroll perpetually right or whatever else whatever else see i never like talk about drugs and drinking and stuff because i don't relate you know but i see the scrolling

i do the i get it i get the struggle is real so let's uh this is one of those things so i told you about some of the voices in my world that are the most valuable, right? Dr. Ronda Patrick, from a fitness and health standpoint, is probably the most, I joke and say she's like my nutritionist. Why not? Why not? The things that, the biggest changes in my life that I have made almost always come on the back of Ronda Patrick research. And this is something I've never really talked about on this show, but it's, it's amazing. It's amazing research, and it's really kind of blown me away. Let's listen to Dr. Rhonda real quick.

But 30 years of aging does on their cardiovascular system. And do you want to know what is insane? 30 years of aging was not worse than what three weeks of bed rest did. Oh my gosh. That's crazy. It was not worse than three weeks of bed rest in terms of their cardiorespiratory fitness, which I personally think is one of the best markers for longevity that we can measure. What she's talking about is

there was a study done that put three young healthy men on bed rest and healthy their whole life. I think they were in their mid-20, something like that. And then, you know, they measured their heart health before, measured their heart health after. And that sedentary, that three-week sedentary bed rest literally aged the heart. The heart looked older. It looked like the heart of like, I don't know, a 40-year-old or something like that. But the amazing thing is the opposite is true, too, you know? Two max.

How often are you studying? I've actually never tested my V-O-2 max. So I... How often do you test it? Good question. Okay. So, embarrassingly, I do an estimator for it. I have...

So how do you measure V-O-2 max? Okay. You have to go into a lab and maintain for that 12 minutes. So it's flat surface where you're running. So you have to find, like, a track field, and you want to run as... As fast as you can maintain for that 12 minutes. So it has to be a sustainable 12 minute speed. You don't want to go too fast, but you don't want to go too slow.

Right. So it has to be like a sustainable speed, but you're really pushing hard, but you're able to sustain that for 12 minutes. And you do that 12 minute run test on a flat track. So you can do on a track now also, right? Yeah. Yeah. You just have to measure your distance.

So measure your distance that you ran and the time. And then there's an equation you can plug it into. It's called the Cooper test. And that'll give you pretty much, that's what your Apple Watch is doing. I'm supposed to be here, but I'm... Top 10% right, yeah, exactly. Come on now.

Activity requirements. We hear two and a half hours of moderate intensity exercise a week, right? That would be, you know, the kind of exercise where you can, the talk test. So you can talk, you can have a, sort of have a conversation, but you're breathy, right? You should be doing how much. hit training a week well so this is where you can't talk right well that well so that how many minutes a week it depends right so people that are doing two and a half hours of this moderate intensity about 40 percent of those people still can't improve their VO2 marks until they add in high

intensity right now the question is well how much how much do you want to improve right i mean obviously you don't want to like burn out like like all your exercises hit like it's a bit much right but um you know if you're doing some of the best ways to do it would be like a longer So like a wonderful best ways to improve your cardiorespiratory fitness. And in fact, that same guy researcher, Dr. Ben Levine that I talked about with the Dallas, it's called the Dallas bed rest study. It's just phenomenal. Well, he, in my opinion, has done an even more interesting study where he took 50-year-old.

So he and his colleagues is lab. They took 50-year-olds that were sedentary. So no, they weren't physically active. They hadn't been identified with any other disease besides sedentaryism, which I think. think it's a disease. They hadn't been identified with type 2 diabetes or hypertension or anything else. So they were quote unquote what they would call healthy, right? They didn't work out. They didn't work out. So I don't want to call them healthy. But this is what you. They were diseaseless. They were disease free. Yeah. No, but they were sedentary. So I wouldn't

say that. That's a disease. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So, but they took them and they put them on a two year pretty intense exercise intervention protocol. Okay. They probably transformed. Unbelievable. They didn't even look like the same person. They, okay. So they went from, not exercising to five to six hours of physical activity a week. Five to six hours a week. A large portion of that, they were doing what's called maximum, maximal, um, maximal sustainable intensity. So you're, you're doing, it's a lot of vigorous exercise. They're like 80% max heart rate, 75, 80% max heart rate. And then they were doing the Norwegian four by four once a week. And they didn't start him out with this right

out the gate. It was like the first six months was like progressive. Right. And after the two years. Okay. So as we age, our heart. get smaller and stiffer, okay, smaller and stiffer as we age. And that affects not only our exercise capacity, but it affects our cardiovascular disease risk, our heart attack risk, heart retention risk, right? All of these things are connected. So after those two years of, you know, five to six hours of physical, pretty good physical exercise every single week, their hearts looked 20 years younger in terms of structure.

Holy cow. 20 years younger. So they were 50. and if you look just at the the structure of the heart their hearts look like 30 year olds wow incredible and it's really i think i mean what else what else is there to be said do we need more study so what you know what it looks like to me in terms of uh what it looks like to me in terms of at least your health you know if you want to if you want to download on health because your health is well in your control if i mean even i don't know if you've gone off a cliff

with your with your physical health and cardio you know and you've got some i don't know you may be able to work your way back i'd say the best thing to do is to start getting active in the asap stop eating sugar right outside of that though if you're just kind of like slowly slumping right you're like well i was this in high school and i was this in college and now i'm this in my 30s 40s or whatever like you should dedicate yourself to making your body as functional as possible just functional you know what I mean in other words like don't worry about benching 450 pounds you know probably never going to even come close to that anyway but what you should really worry about and fire will forge it's almost like you read my mind dude I'm going to

put your comment up. It's almost like you read my mind. You got to be able to move you use your body, right, to the best of its ability. I understand injuries. I understand, you know, people who have real jobs where they do real work, right? That kind of stuff that weighs on you, wears on you. But a huge part of health and fitness is body maintenance, man. Huge. Like, you have to stretch your body out there are so many forces acting against you you can't go through life just assuming like i guess i can never stretch never get my out of breath and my body will be the same as everybody else's body right so for me fitness and health is a lot about maintenance it's a lot about supplement it's a lot about making sure that the body's working and then go

crazy. Then go crazy and recover, you know. And I do, you know, I always thought that going crazy was highly valuable. I always thought that doing workouts that were really pushed you to your limits were highly valuable. I always thought to myself, you know, I'm not getting huge or anything, but the way I feel after this, you know, my endurance, my strength, those kinds of things, like, they're all improving. So something's got to be right. My mental status, right? Something's got to be working here. I didn't even think about the willpower aspect of it.

And those things, they just all populate, man. But you've got to push yourself. But you can't push yourself if you're not taking care of yourself, right? That's the tough part. That's the tough part. It's a grind. you know i get up here and i say this stuff to you and i talk to you about these topics why because i'm not like an investor i'm not a guy who's even really that good in business i'm not a guy

who's good at certain skills that are cool you know what i mean i what i'm good at is doing the same thing every day that's it you know what i mean i'm good at doing the same thing every day So, that's it. I don't know. You know what I mean? Like, I try to impart my strongest investability on you, which is make a routine, stick to the routine, do it every day. Don't invest, you know, like, I don't know.

You can't get too over-invested in the routine. You just have to shut up and do it. If you just shut up and do it, and all aspects of your life are going to get better, you know? So you've got to grab health by the reins. But you also have to sit there, even if you're sedentary, even if you're sitting in a situation where you're overweight and you're saying to yourself,

I'm never getting out from under this. You have to sit there and say to yourself, I can definitely get over this. I can get out from under this. And all it takes is every day. Every day, every other day, whatever it is. It takes some will. I'm going to build that will.

and it might start just walking around the block then running around the block right a weighted vest around the block who knows start somewhere because you own your health you own your health until a doctor

gets a holdy and starts prescribing your shit and then then you're really starting to lose control of your health the moment you're doing this thanks doc thanks doc thanks doc that's when you're starting to lose complete and total control over your health. You know, so you want to stay away from that as much as possible.

Keep your body as strong as possible. So we talked about silence. We talked about time. We talked about health. Another one that was alerted to me from reading the newspaper this weekend was attention. Was your attention? And I never really thought about it this way, but this article titled The Real Bandwidth Crisis, How Modern Life is Breaking the Human Mind. How Modern Life is Breaking. I showed it on yesterday's show. I want to give credit, though, to Kay Rubichick.

She has a quote in this article that I think is phenomenal. We must begin to treat attention as a finite resource and protect our minds as we do our bodies. It's not the first time I've heard it or thought of it. But what this article really kind of put together in my head doesn't say it implicitly really, but what it put together in my head was a reminder that why so much your attention? Why to pool your attention so much? Why is it so valuable? And then I remembered that your intention was so valuable. that it was the best kept secret in Silicon Valley for a very long time. I remember time and time again downloading free things, free games, right?

Free apps, free this, free that, everything free. Wow, how could so much stuff be free? This is an amazing life we're living. How are people making any money if everything's free? Meanwhile, in Silicon Valley, they were sitting there counting their billions because they had your undivided attention. They had your data and your undivided attention. And with your data, well, then they could manipulate your attention.

And reading that article, reading K and how she talks about, right, what makes this even more alarming is that almost no one is monitoring it right no one is monitoring the fact that in 2022 the american psychological association reported that gen z the first generation to grow up entirely in the digital age why don't they call them gen digital gen c um experiencing at least one physical or emotional symptom caused by stress wait i'm sorry the first generation to grow up entirely in digital age is experiencing the highest levels of chronic stress ever accorded with more than 90% of Gen Z adults experiencing at least one physical or emotional symptom caused by stress in the past month, such as fatigue, anxiety, or disrupted sleep.

The rate is notably higher than in the older generations. You know, that's overwhelm. That's all that is. That's overwhelm. That's your attention's pulled in 45,000 different directions a day. You can't process it all. You can't manage it all. You lay down a night to go to sleep, and your mind's going, oh, my God, I finally,

finally get a chance to digest all this. I don't know how long it takes people to get into REM sleep if it's like there's a regular duration, but I'm sure it's getting, I'm sure we have to do some version of mental digestion before we can really get to rest. You know, it's like eating a pork roast before bed. That's what it feels like anyway. So your attention is. And not even from the digital standpoint, but your attention is tremendous. I wrote a poem to my kids in my book, Poems for Men.

And it's all about this life, managing this life. You can get this at Amazon, poems for men. Every man should have it. Every woman should buy it for the man in their life. If you have a son, he should have a copy. it's just it's not just my poetry it's not just me like being oh i'm a poet no it's it's some of the greatest poems that i have ever read in my whole life that are pertinent to men you know what i mean i mean for real like you've been you've been tricked out of poetry if you're a man i'm just

telling you and it's probably because the first poem you were ever read was in school and it was Maya Angelou and you're like, I don't, it doesn't fit, right? I don't know. It doesn't resonate with me. Like, you know what I'm saying? But in the poem to my boys, there's a section about attention. And it's about how valuable a man's attention is to a woman. And it's about how attention to a child is gold. Do you know what I mean? Like if your kids are doing something and you're here it's a very different world for them it's a very different world for them my son's 14 years old you know what i mean like he's about had it with parents not really i mean he's a great kid but you know he's getting to that age where it's like i don't hold his

hand on the way to football practice right but i stand way way back with my arms crossed like some mean guy just because i don't know that's just how i stand comfortably i look i look really shitty when i'm when i'm standing and watching you know i don't i'm not like smiling or anything uh but anyway i'm standing there and something will happen good tackle good catch good whatever you know what i mean and immediately i see the pale face look up at me you know i i your attention is, not just from people trying to steal it and how you need to protect your attention. But what you shine that attention on, what you shine your attention on like makes people, it saves people. You know, you can literally change someone's entire day by putting the phone

down and showering them with your attention. And it's so easy to let crazy things get in the way of that you know it's it's so easy to let your worries about money worries about work worries about this worries about that slip in and just get right between you and the most important things in the world and steal your attention and then you know days past months past years pass and you realize I've been distracted from everything that mattered in my life It's my greatest fear. I mean, thankfully, like, I've almost, I feel like I've almost won the battle until I have grandkids or something like that. But it's one of my greatest fears, you know, to look back and go, like, wow, I had all of this and I was like scrolling X.

You know what I mean? Like, I was, I was waiting on emails to come back. I was playing a mobile game to deal with my worries and anxiety instead of really enjoying this life. And that goes back to time, right? That goes back to silence. That goes back to health. A lot of things people can't do because they're not healthy enough to do them. They can't enjoy life that way.

In an age of money, hustle, right? everything's going up in price people are freaking out i need to make more money maybe i can get this youtube thing going maybe i can get this ticot thing going maybe i can get this only fans thing going don't do it uh look in an age like this guys you forfeit everything you will forfeit it all because you'll sit you'll sit or you'll grind or you'll do whatever it is that you have to do to make another 20 bucks make another 50 bucks make another 100 bucks make another thousand bucks whatever it is i can sit in this chair for five more hours i can make a hundred more dollars you know what i mean and uh you'll forfeit it all because the thing about it is the thing about

health it will deteriorate and you will die the thing about time you're going to forfeit it all to one thing or another and you will die the thing about attention you can easily give it all away to something else, to something silly, to something that doesn't mean anything, to something terrible, right? The thing about silence, we have created a world now where it never has to be quiet. It never has to be quiet. From the moment you wake up, you can go roll over in the click, put it on podcast, put on music, put on a podcast, put on an audio book, go in the shower, listen to it in the shower can't be alone can't be quiet for five seconds right in between work during work after work through the night oh it's bedtime put the tv on leave the tv on the whole night

tvs on b b b b b b b b b right never never from this moment forward you can go without silence for the rest of your days with a phone and a television and a box fan and whatever else you can become so disjointed from silence. Sorry, I just had to have a, I just had to have a little, that's a little sip of silence just there, just a moment, because I'm in control. At the moment, I'm a little bit in control of you. I can make you have some silence.

Maybe only for like 30 seconds, and then you'd be like, okay, screw you and turn the podcast off. But I just gave you, just gave you about three, three and a half seconds, the good stuff. I just gave you, I just gave you three and a half seconds of that good black tar silence. It's valuable. That's all I can tell you. But yeah, you can shun it forever.

You can shun it forever. We need more of it. Hold on to these things, okay? Hold on clutch onto your time, your silence, your attention, okay, your health. because they're really once you get a hold of them they're a lot harder to claw away from you and they're way more valuable

than Bitcoin okay they're way more valuable in some gold bar you're going to spend a bunch of money on and sit in a safe because you're going to get hit by a bus tomorrow you understand this life is fleeting

that's about all I have to say about it today folks that's about it I do appreciate you guys guys bearing with me getting through this thing with me i come to you especially on wednesdays with what's really on my heart and this is what was really on my heart today to talk to you about i guess i should say in terms of god faith and religion that you can find silence in the bible you can find you can focus your attention in the bible and through prayer right these things

can stop everything in its tracks. And if you're going to back, fill your mind with something, if you need to listen to constant noise, right? I think it's a good idea to listen to people reading the Bible to you during the day. If you don't have time to do it yourself or you're at work and you're like, I should listen to some of this or some of that. Like, it's not bad to just hear, you know, some book of the Bible, whichever one you like to listen to, or one you've never read before.

or just spoken into your head while you're doing calculations or whatever it is you do at work. I don't know. So take control, folks. We are in control of a lot more than you think. It just feels like everything's off the rails because you're being pooled in so many different directions and you're worshiping idols.

And, hey, look, I get it. Bill's got to be paid. Money's got to be made. We can't all just say like, I'm just going to, you know, skip around the sunflower fields all day and sit down and meditate and pray and who cares about money life don't work that way but there's a lot that you can control outside of your responsibilities and there's a lot we're losing be aware all right check down the description

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