TrueLife - Invisible Enemies: COVID-19, Radiation, and the Psychology of Fear

Starting point is 00:00:01 Darkness struck, a gut-punched theft, Sun ripped away, her health bereft. I roar at the void. This ain't just fate, a cosmic scam I spit my hate. The games rigged tight, shadows deal, blood on their hands, I'll never kneel. Yet in the rage, a crack ignites, occulted sparks cut through the nights. The scar's my key, hermetic and stark. To see, to rise, I hunt in the dark, fumbling, fear, through ruins maze, lights my war cry, born from the blaze.

Starting point is 00:00:49 The poem is Angels with Rifles. The track, I Am Sorrow, I Am Lust by Codex Seraphini. Check out the entire song at the end of the cast. It looks like we're made it. Why doesn't he sing more often? That guy should be on American Idol. Maybe Star Search with Ed McMahon. Go up against the comedian.

Starting point is 00:01:30 You know the guy? with the puppets, I'd probably crush them. Listen, ready? It looks like we made it. Ha ha! I know it's horrible. Come on, man. You think I don't know that's horrible?

Starting point is 00:01:44 Ah, it's Friday. We made it, my friends. I want you to take your right hand and just reach over your back and just give it a couple pat. Just a pat, pat, pat, pat, pat. Or maybe take one hand in front of the other and give yourself a high five right there.

Starting point is 00:02:04 Hey man, thank yourself. You've been going around telling people thank you. I think you should thank yourself. You've been crushing it. Congratulations. You are amazing. And I am happy to have you. I am so happy you're taking a few minutes to hang out with me.

Starting point is 00:02:25 Man, I thought we'd do like a little Friday wrap-up. Why not? why not do a little Friday wrap up just kind of go over some thoughts we've been thinking about and ideas for the week and try to give you a little

Starting point is 00:02:42 something to chew on for the weekend how's this COVID treating you? You guys getting, are you restricted? Are you wearing a mask right now? I can't do my podcast with a mask on sound all muffled. Yeah, COVID's pretty nuts. Pretty nuts.

Starting point is 00:03:07 I've been thinking, like I've seen a lot of side effects. I got a little, uh, didn't have the COVID, but I was sick a little bit of a stomach bug or I think I, I probably didn't eat too much junk. My body's not used to it. But, okay, let me, let me just stop right there for a minute. Did you hear that word? I use the word, but shouldn't use that word. Shouldn't you use um, you shouldn't use uh,

Starting point is 00:03:37 or but funny story in my house i noticed a lot of my family members my lovely wife however mostly my young daughter was saying the word um um um um um in order to correct that habit my wife and i we made this jar like a big glass pickle jar and on there we wrote the word um And ah. And anytime someone in our house says that, you got to put a dollar in the jar. The funniest part about that is for the first few days, my daughter said it five times.

Starting point is 00:04:27 However, you know who says it way more than my daughter? Her parents. I think I have like 30. My wife has 20. So here I am trying to correct this behavior in my daughter. And now she's pointing it out to me. Hey, Dad, you just said the um word. And I got to tell you, it's really annoying.

Starting point is 00:04:50 Really annoying. I thought I was doing her a favor, but she's corrected my speech. I guess I should be thanking her. However, it's a great project. If you can incorporate it into your family life and just put it on the kitchen table or on the counter or something, it will definitely bring attention to your speech patterns. And it's something that I have found to be incredibly helpful. Okay, back to my COVID story.

Starting point is 00:05:17 There's a quote that says if you want to know, I think it was Voltaire. If you want to know who rule, if you would like to know who rules you, then think about the people you're not allowed to criticize. If you want to know the truth of COVID, think about what you're not allowed to talk about. I know it's an election year. However, I never got too deep into the 5G rabbit hole. Yet it seems to me like a lot of the side effects of COVID could be radiation poisoning. I have noticed people with a lot of rashes. I have noticed people swollen lymph nodes.

Starting point is 00:06:07 I have noticed people, I have a friend who's a dentist, and he had mentioned that there's been a lot of people coming in lately. I could also be radiation poisoning. The 5G rollout is worldwide. as is the COVID rollout. The areas that are hardest hit, California, New York, Australia, these are all places where the 5G rollout would in fact be almost impossible to put up if it had attention on it. The ramifications of 5G are not known. If you look at, if you look at, if you look at it.

Starting point is 00:07:03 at the discussions that were had in Congress. The question was posed to the senators, how much money has been spent in the ramifications health-wise of 5G? And they answered zero. There's been zero studies on it. We have no idea. Also, we've noticed that the tech industry has been called to the Senate, and called to the House of Representatives multiple times under the guise of monopolies, under the guise of political campaigns. They could just easily, just as easily be going up there

Starting point is 00:07:50 to answer questions about 5G. If you look at all the new tech coming out, it's going to be in 5G. The Internet of Things relies on 5G. If they would like to have this system up and running, they must put in the infrastructure. If the infrastructure causes hazardous conditions to the biological organism, and the people were aware of that, they would not be able to put in this infrastructure.

Starting point is 00:08:26 You could also make the case that the vaccine could have the chip in there. The vaccine could make us all transmitters. All you need is a small RFID chip. Then each person would be able to transmit the same. signal from phone, each person would in fact become an antenna, which would make communications lightning fast. It would also make it possible for you to be a red flashing dot on a grid in a, on a computer screen. The more that I think about it, it's possible. You know, if you look at, Again, I think it was Bill Gates who, when he released Windows 95, they did zero troubleshooting.

Starting point is 00:09:23 They went up with a new business model that said, we're not going to debug it. We're not going to troubleshoot it. We're going to release it to the public. And then we'll allow the public to go out there, find the kinks, send them to us, and then we'll fix them. It's a better business model. You could argue that that same business model is being implemented with five, Yeah, there's going to be some people that have radiation poisoning from this particular frequency. However, once we find the hot spots, you know, we'll turn it down or we'll fine tune it.

Starting point is 00:09:58 But we have to use the only way to get the system out there is just to go out, release it, and there's going to be some people that die from it. There's going to be some people to get radiation poisoning. However, as we fine tune it, we'll get it to the right frequency where it doesn't hurt people that bad. I think that's what we're seeing. Or at least it's plausible. Again, it's worldwide. It's worldwide.

Starting point is 00:10:26 It was an outbreak in China. You could say that they were the first to install 5G. Another point I was thinking about was the great reset people are talking about. Everyone knows that our economic system. is on the way out. Everybody knows that the stock market is rigged. Everybody knows that the dollar is probably going to collapse in the near future. You can't print trillions of dollars and have the value of that currency stay the same.

Starting point is 00:11:11 Everyone knows that we're not being told about the bailouts that are currently happening in our government. Everybody knows we're not being. given the true nature of Black Rock taking over the Federal Reserve. I think there's an aspect to COVID in the de-dollarization

Starting point is 00:11:41 of the world. You know, it provides pretty good cover for the people in positions of authority. If you, I know most of you probably remember 2008 and how many bankers were getting death threats.

Starting point is 00:11:56 how many people were calling their congressmen how many people were calling their senators and they still passed it they still passed it because the politicians are paid off i think it was john dewey who said government is the shadow cast upon people by business and anyone who thinks that it's not big business writing the laws and then just handing them to the senators to read on the floor is out of their mind. The last real senator we had was probably Jim trafficking. And he was ran out of, he was ran out of the government. So I just want to give you guys that positive message on Friday to keep you smiling. I'm sorry. I'm sorry about that. What do you want me to do? We're talking about COVID. We're talking about the situation. It's not, it's not that happy. But I'm happy.

Starting point is 00:13:01 And I think you're happy. And I think you're happy. And I think you have to try to find ways to remain happy. Excuse me, I'm sorry. You have to find ways to keep yourself in the right frame of mind because, well, what you think is how you act, is what you portray, is how people perceive you. So you must find and look, you must look and find that silver lining. It's there. it's there somewhere.

Starting point is 00:13:37 There's better eye contact. You guys notice that when you're wearing the mask? You have to look at people in the eyes? I have seen such beauty. And I'm telling you, I think that there's a deeper connection when you're forced to stare at someone for that long,

Starting point is 00:13:57 for the entirety of the conversation. I think it's beautiful. And I hope that's a positive part of COVID. I think it can be. I think it can be. can be. I do worry about the long-term psychological ramifications of our children. I think I may have spoke on this previously.

Starting point is 00:14:22 When you think about the widening wealth gap, the widening wealth gap comes from or is a derivative of the widening education gap. And there has never been a bigger gap in education than there is now. If you read the research, if you talk to the teachers, if you talk to the, I hate using this word, but the experts, they'll tell you that the majority of the widening gap in public schools comes from summertime. So, for example, let's say two first graders go in and they're both B students or they're around equal on a cognitive level. And then summertime comes and one of them goes and travels to Europe. and the other one stays at home. And they come back to next year.

Starting point is 00:15:22 The one that traveled will probably have been challenged, will probably have seen new things, will probably have had a richer learning environment. And so they will either maintain the level they were when they left or will be exceedingly higher, while the child that stayed home, whose parents are both working and having a difficult time or a lot of times it's a single parent, then that child will either remain at the level they were when they start at summer

Starting point is 00:16:00 or they will fall a little bit lower because they haven't been reading. They haven't been challenged. They haven't had any sort of high level engagement. And one summer is not that bad, but when you string that along from first, grade to eighth grade. Now you got eight summers, right? You have almost, you have over a year of non-learning, of forgetting what you learned during the school year. And another child has another year. And not only do they have that other year of learning through summer, but they've come back the following year and learned and absorb more and applied to the new year what they

Starting point is 00:16:40 learned during the summer. And that's one reason a lot of people think, think that the widening gap in education leads to a widening gap in wealth later in life. So let's apply that to COVID now. How many kids are going to a public school where the work for the child's semester is available online, not by a teacher, but on a website that gives them a list of assignments to do and that you may or may not turn in those assignments and you're not going to be graded. Well, if two parents are working,

Starting point is 00:17:27 even if one parent is out and one parent is at home, assuming it's a two-parent household, I can tell you from experience that if your home and your child is in first to fifth grade and they're trying to learn over the internet, you're not going to get a whole lot done at home, at least in the beginning. because the child's not really internet savvy as far as understanding how to navigate a Zoom a meeting

Starting point is 00:17:58 or a Google meets meeting or you know when they go to class they have an instructor there that gives them their attention so if you as a parent are trying to if you have what if you have two kids or three kids and you're trying to get stuff done at home and you're also trying to trying to navigate the educational course of three children. It's almost impossible, I think. Excuse me for the cough. You know, you're seeing more and more and more of that. And the gap is widening and widening and widening.

Starting point is 00:18:35 And it's going to continue to do so. So I don't know what can be done about that. I think that it is a problem. I think that it's going to cause a widening gap. Just the time that we have off now. I guess if there's any sort of resolution, or if there's anything you can do, it is to focus on your family first and then on your community.

Starting point is 00:19:20 It's also interesting in that if you have a young child right now, where do they learn their social skills? Well, they learn them at school. where do they learn their level of competition? Where do they learn their level of social order? Well, they learn it at school. What happens when they're not subjected to those particular sets of rules? I don't know.

Starting point is 00:19:56 I know some homeschooled children that are brilliant, really well-rounded. Maybe it's better. Maybe the stuff that they're learning in some of the schools is what's keeping them down. You could make that argument. I guess it's sometimes I feel like we're just in this huge social experiment where maybe right now we are someone just flipped over the table and all the board pieces fell over and all the cards fell down and the board collapsed.

Starting point is 00:20:36 And now we've got to get up. I'm going to put the board back on the table. to shuffle the cards, set everything up, start over. Might not be a bad thing. Might not be a bad thing at all. However, I think history shows that ultimately we end up in the same area. But if we are starting over, where do you want to be? If indeed this is a reset, how do you set yourself up for the future?

Starting point is 00:21:20 You got to read your history. what is it right now that you are doing to reinvent yourself are you learning some new skills are you learning a new language have you done some meditation have you sat back and realized okay look i can drive this truck all day long however what else can i do to make my life better in the future what can i do to bring value to my community? What can I do to bring value to my family? Can I reach out to some old friends?

Starting point is 00:22:06 You know, the older you get, the more you need, the people you knew when you were young. Is there some people you could reach out to and reconnect with right now to reinvent yourself? Are you at a stage in your life where your kids are a little bit older and you have some free time? If so, what are you passionate?

Starting point is 00:22:26 about. If so, what can you provide for the people in your community? What can you provide for yourself? What's a skill you've always wanted to learn? Because now is the time. Now is the time. I would say this, there's something you are good at. There's probably something you're better at than most people you know. And you should be figuring out what that is and trying to teach it to other people. I think that that is a plan of action. I think that is something not only beautiful, but it is something that you can find meaning in. I think it's something that you could find yourself in.

Starting point is 00:23:20 And it's a way to redefine yourself. The world is changing forever. Education is changing forever. Where do you fit in now? What are you good at? What do you want to be good at? What is the change? change you would like to see in the world and how do you create that? Gandhi comes to mind.

Starting point is 00:23:44 Wasn't he the gentleman that said be the change you want to see in the world? I got to tell you, I've talked to so many of you via my Facebook blog or my Instagram or my podcast. I've gotten so much awesome feedback. Even the negative feedback I get is good feedback because it helps me understand the message I'm saying or sometimes I'll put something out there and then someone will say something back to me and I'll be like oh you know what if that's what people think then I failed in putting out the message that I wanted to so I need to go back and rethink that I hope if you're listening to this you understand how important you are I hope if you're listening to this you know that you are part of this solution it takes all of us it takes all of us did you make somebody

Starting point is 00:24:48 smile today? You tell them a joke? That's an easy one. When I get down sometimes, I try to make other people smile. And when I, if I can do that, it kind of snaps me out of my funk. Even if they're regardless if they're laughing at me or with me, if they laugh, I feel like it's a big win. I feel like it's a positive moment. I think there's a lot we can do. I think that we're at a pivotal time, but it's a magical time and that whether you believe you can or whether you believe you can't

Starting point is 00:25:39 either way you're right there's new leaders being born every day like there's new industries being born and even when I worry about the future of education sometimes I hear beautiful things let me tell you a quick

Starting point is 00:25:59 story about something my nephew Valentino said he was talking with his mom my sister and he's a very bright little boy and he says mom i don't understand why people are so stressed out and they're working you know they're they're spending all their time away from their home why do they do that so my wife he's 10 my wife i'm sorry my sister says well you know people have to pay their bills they have to make make a living and they have to go out and and our system is set up so people go and they

Starting point is 00:26:48 work and then they make some money and they can pay their bills and provide for their family and they can also build a community you know their people's place in this world is usually determined by what they can provide for the community so people want to work hard people want to go out and be the best they can be and be compensated for it. And Valentino says, well, it seems like people are really unhappy. Why don't people just, why don't the places that hire people? Why don't they hire like twice as many people? And then half the people can work half the year and the other people can work the other half

Starting point is 00:27:34 of the year and half the time they stay with their family and half the time they go to work. Why don't they just do that? my sister said she's almost started tearing up and she's like you know what that's a beautiful idea why don't they do that so i have great hope for the future i think that the children of today the children that are under the age of 20 the children that are under the age of 15 shoot the the children that are younger than me i think i'm 45 i think while there's a lot of lot of wisdom and those who are older than me. I think that the ideas of the future hold great promise and those are the ideas coming from the children that have seen the heartache of the

Starting point is 00:28:22 parents, that have seen the hard work of the grandparents, that have seen the, the, all the isms. And I'm hopeful that my nephew, my niece, my daughter, your daughter, your son, your nephew, your niece, I'm hopeful and I am faithful that the leaders of that generation will have ideas that we have never thought of. I think they're smarter than us. However, it's our responsibility to show them a good example. And a good example is standing up for what's right. even if it means putting yourself in jeopardy.

Starting point is 00:29:28 Standing up to authority is the example that we should be showing the younger generation. It's hard. It's very difficult to tell someone who has more authority than you that they're wrong. But if they're wrong and you don't tell them, you're part of the problem. I heard a great story one time. I think it was General Norman Schwartzkov and they were interviewing him and asking him, what's it take to be a leader?

Starting point is 00:30:06 He says, tell the truth. Tell the truth to yourself. Tell the truth to the troops. Get people to tell the truth to each other. Because nothing ever gets better until you admit something wrong. And if you take a moment to think about how profound that is,

Starting point is 00:30:24 nothing ever gets better until you admit that something. something's wrong. But none of us want to admit anything's wrong because you don't want to get in trouble. You don't want to look like the bad guy. You don't want to lose what you have. You don't want to be wrong. But if it's not at the level you want, it's wrong.

Starting point is 00:30:42 If it's not at the level you'd be proud of, then it's wrong. And every, we deserve to have it right. You've worked your whole life to get to a certain spot. And rather than take the time to correct a mistake, we're willing to, forego some short-term pain. We're willing to give up the struggle in order to be comfortable. Maybe that comes from age. Maybe that comes from looking back on your personal history and understanding that the

Starting point is 00:31:23 amount of struggle you will have to go through in order to correct this mistake might not be worth it for you in the long run. maybe looking at how much the struggle is going to be and weighing that against how much you're currently making now or how comfortable your life is now is not worth it to you. It brings up an interesting point in leadership. Are you willing to sacrifice what you have now? Are you willing to put in the time away from your family, put in the time away from things you love, to correct a small mistake that happened a long time ago.

Starting point is 00:32:10 It's sort of like, have you ever been fishing and you cast out your line? And there's a little knot in there, but you don't realize it. So you cast it out again. And then you look at it and you bring it back, you're like, oh, man, there's a little knot in there. It's not a big deal. So you cast it out a few more times. And then all of a sudden you have this huge rat's nest in there. And the line, like, won't even work anymore.

Starting point is 00:32:34 But if you're just a guy that's going to cast one more time, you know what? It'll work fine. The rat's nest is not going to show up until the sixth or seventh cast after you. So you could forego finding that little knot in there. You could forego taking the time to pull out the line and untie it or clip it or, you know, you can forego that problem because it's not going to be your problem. while you're there. You're going to hand off the rod to someone else and someone else is going to have that problem.

Starting point is 00:33:18 The problem with that is the person you hand it off to is going to realize in a few casts what you did. And they're either going to be upset at you or they are going to say to themselves, well, this is how it's done. You just, you don't go back and fix some things because you're, not going to affect you. I think that's something we all have to think about because there's all, all of us have probably been in a situation where you have to make a choice. Do I fix this little small problem here so the person behind me doesn't have to deal with it? I hope you choose to do that. I know there's been times in my life where I chose to do it and where I chose not to do it.

Starting point is 00:34:10 And I've seen the ramifications of both. On the topic of leadership, I once heard a really good speech. I think it was the pre, I think it was Donald Rumsfeld. The, the, I think it was Donald Rumsfeld, who at one point in time was the secretary of defense. During this speech, it was after his term. as Secretary of Defense, and he was giving a speech at a college or perhaps at the Atlantic Council or the Council on Foreign Relations. But the important point is that he was no longer the Secretary of Defense.

Starting point is 00:34:59 So he is invited down to speak, and there were some speakers before him, and the MC calls him up, and he comes walking out on the stage. and he's got this like a little Dixie cup you know like a little paper cup of coffee and he walks out and he sets it down on the lectern and everyone's clapping

Starting point is 00:35:25 yeah yeah woohoo and they introduce them and he sets his coffee down and he's smiling and the crowd goes quiet and he begins his speech he says you know I've learned quite a lot

Starting point is 00:35:42 about defense and our country. And I've made a lot of mistakes and I've done some things that I thought were good for the country. And we've spent a lot of time in other countries. And there's a lot of things that no one will ever know about. And then he pauses and he grabs his paper cup of coffee and he takes a sip.

Starting point is 00:36:07 And then he just stops what he's doing and he looks at the paper. paper cup and he smiles and it was a it was the silent pause perfected probably 12 seconds and the whole crowd is just kind of looking at him like what what is he doing he's just stopping everything and he says to the crowd he goes you know I had a speech planned there was a lot of things I was going to say however I think I've got something better to say And, you know, the, you could almost feel the anticipation of the crowd. It was really, it was really heartfelt.

Starting point is 00:36:52 And it seemed, he may have, he may have practiced it. However, it seemed to me that it was something that he thought of and it was brilliant. He says, you know, authority, our life, being in positions of power is kind of like a cup of coffee. And he holds up, he goes, do you guys see this paper cup of? of coffee. He's like, I deserve this paper cup of coffee. And much like the crowd was thinking, you're probably thinking now, like, what does he mean? So then he launches into a story. He says, I spoke at this exact same event eight years ago when, in fact, I was the secretary of defense. I was contacted five days before the event to be told about who's going to be at the event.

Starting point is 00:37:51 I was also told that I would have accommodations made for me. The next day, I was called again by my personal secretary who told me that they had made the arrangements. On the day of the event, I was picked up in a limousine from my house, taken to a private airport where I got on a private jet. I flew down here where I was immediately greeted by the sponsors of this event. who picked me up in a nice Lincoln Town car. They whisked me to the event where I was flanked on both sides by bodyguards. I was brought in the back door where I was ushered into a lavish room that had breakfast and a nice ceramic cup of some gourmet coffee.

Starting point is 00:38:48 And I was brought out on stage. I gave my speech to a standing ovation. I was the first speaker. And then I was taken back to the lavish room where there were some more food for me. And I was taken back in a nice Lincoln town car to the private jet. And I flew back to my home all in the same day.

Starting point is 00:39:10 And people who are in positions of authority are used to that kind of treatment. But that's not what happened today. Today I'm here because five days ago, I made the arrangements for my seat. I left my house and my car. I parked at the airport and overnight parking. I made my own hotel accommodations. I flew down here on a airplane that everybody rides. I landed at a regular airport.

Starting point is 00:39:41 I grabbed a taxi. I got here. And when I came in, I asked where I was supposed to go. They had to wait and check my name off the list where I was a nice young man at the door. didn't usher me but told me, okay, you're going to go down this hallway and make a left into the green room. And so I did. And when I got in there, there was multiple people in there who were all busy doing their thing. And I looked over and there was a Mr. Coffee. And next to Mr. Coffee were some paper cups. And so I poured myself a paper cup of coffee and now I'm drinking that coffee. The moral of that story, he says, is that when you are in, a position of authority, you are given a lot of extra perks. When you are in a position of authority,

Starting point is 00:40:35 you are given a ceramic cup of coffee. You are given bodyguards. You have access to private jets. You have access to information that nobody has because that position of authority you are in is important. That position of authority that you're in is something, that is to be respected. And if you're in that position of authority, then you should be mindful of the people that allow you to be in that position. You should be mindful of the responsibility

Starting point is 00:41:17 you have to the people you are supposed to protect, but most people don't. Most people think that all those perks, the private jet, It's the private airport. The ceramic cup of coffee. The ceramic cup of gourmet coffee is for you because you are important. But you are not important.

Starting point is 00:41:47 The position is important. And most people forget that. Most people think it's them. And there's a difference. When you think it's you, you expect those things. You expect people to treat you a certain way. You expect people to get out of your way. You expect the ceramic cup of gourmet coffee.

Starting point is 00:42:13 But life has a way of showing you you deserve a paper cup of coffee. Because you're not that important. And if you are in a position right now of authority where you have these things, you would do well to remind yourself you are there to protect the people underneath you. not to provide safety, not to provide unethical protection for the people above you. That's not why you're there. And I thought that was an amazing speech. People in positions of authority have authority because the position demands it,

Starting point is 00:43:07 not because they're important, not because they're smarter, not because they care, but because that position was designated to be a position to look out for people underneath you, not to protect people above you. Without people underneath you, you've got nothing. Without the people on the bottom, there is no top. It's an interesting idea. And it's one that really changed my mind about authority. And really makes you understand that. the privilege of being in authority. It also makes you understand the narcissistic behavior of people that currently are in authority. And I hope that it makes you take a second look at yourself if you are in a position of authority.

Starting point is 00:44:06 Well, that's what I got for today, you guys. I love you. Hope you're all doing well. Just as a quick aside, I got some really interesting stuff coming up. I'm going to do a series of podcasts about 1984 versus Brave New World. And what world are we most like living in today? Do you think it's 1984? You think it's George Orwell?

Starting point is 00:44:35 Or do you think it's Brave New World? Which one do you think it is, my friends? Which one do you think it is? We're going to find out. We're going to get into some good, some bad, some different ideas. and then I after presenting both sides, I'm going to give you my take on it. So look forward to that coming up. I love you guys.

Starting point is 00:44:54 I hope you're all doing well. I'm going to send you out with some music today. A little something to keep your day up, I hope, keep you happy. Aloha.

TrueLife - Invisible Enemies: COVID-19, Radiation, and the Psychology of Fear

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