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Speaker 0 (0s): All right. My friends it's Wednesday also known as hump day, depending on how you want to define hump, that could be a, something on a camel, or it could be an act of lust, maybe. So are you guys all wondering what the answer to the riddle is? Never the little we did yesterday, it was a, what, what is something that not even the strongest man can hold for nine minutes, but is lighter than a feather. I bet you, that was just driving you guys crazy, huh? Well, is there any, any guesses, any guesses? Do you guys think of anything? The answer is your breath because no one can hold their breath for nine minutes and it's lighter than a feather. I was talking to a friend of mine yesterday who was asking me about the podcast and what I'm going to talk about. And he says, Hey, you ever talk about conspiracies? And I said, I talk about them all the time, but I've yet to really kind of get in depth on any kind of podcast and talk about one. So today my friends, we're going to step out onto the Wu tree. For those of you that don't know the Wu tree, the Wu tree is a lot, think of like a large, like a large tree with all kinds of branches, but the branches as they grow longer, they grow thinner. And my argumentation is like going way out on a thin branch. And the reason that is, is because if you were to go out on a very thin branch, that branch would not be able to, that that branch probably would not be able to hold your weight and it would break. Thus, my foundation for the conspiracies is like the Wu tree. It may not hold up. So let's just, let's just jump in here with both feet and try to cover some ground today. You know, one of my favorite conspiracies is the magic Johnson conspiracy. You know what I mean? Remember that guy? Great basketball player. Number 32. I always think of chick Hearns. When I think of magic Johnson, remember whoever every time they would be about to win. You'd hear chick Hearns, just say, all right, well, it's the jellos jiggling. The eggs are getting hard. The butter's cooling time to put this one in the fridge. Speaker 1 (3m 1s): This game is over. I think it was something like that. The jellos jiggling eggs are cooling and the butter is getting hard time to put this one in the fridge. I miss that guy, but magic Johnson. Remember that when I was growing up, he was a, he was a bad man. I think he's still in the, I think he's in the hall of fame, right? Doesn't he own the Clippers. It doesn't own part of the Lakers now. However, when I was coming up, I was in high school and it was right when they, the AIDS crisis was coming in. And for people that don't know the height of the AIDS crisis, it was considered mainly like a gay disease or a disease for intervening, his drug use users. Those are the two main groups of which the majority of people inflicted with AIDS. That was the tool. Then one day, there's this big press conference and magic Johnson comes out and he says, you know, I knew standing there with his wife and his teammates. And he was like, you know, I just want to let everybody know that I tested HIV positive. And the whole world was like, Whoa, magic Johnson, HIV positive. And it kind of, it was big news. It was big news. It was all over the news channel. No, there's, there's two major conspiracies here. Let's, let's go over the first one. First. The first is that he never had AIDS. He's never HIV positive. He did it as a publicity stunt to draw attention. Okay. And get money to help come up with a cure for AIDS. That's one, one spot. And there's a lot of evidence. Like if it was mainly a disease for gay people and drugs users, I'm sure there's plenty of people that would call magic Johnson bag, but he's not gay. And he never, he never participated in that kind of sexual activity. At least not to my knowledge. He's definitely not a heroin addict. So he's not shooting drugs. However, he I'm sure that that guy got around. Right. I'm sure all of those athletes have a number of women they've had sex with. And that number is probably well into the triple digits. If not quadruple digits, it was kind of odd though. I mean, he's standing up there with his wife talking about, Hey, I got AIDS, you know, the fruit, his wife's gotta be like, well, how did you get that? How'd you get that magic? Oh, you know, I think it was the fifth number five Oh seven. The 507th woman has said was gave it to me. That's another thing like how does a out of the women's stay with all those pros? They just are constantly cheating on, I guess it's the money, right? Anyways. So that's one idea. One idea is that it was a publicity stunt to, to draw attention, to, and get money for the cause. The second conspiracy theory, which I think is much more interesting is that magic Johnson, he was HIV positive. He had AIDS. Now magic Johnson does not have AIDS. He's not HIV positive. He no longer has a trace of the virus in his body. Pretty amazing. Right. He had it no longer has it. He had it. He no longer has it. He had it. He no longer has it. That in itself is worth study. But even more interesting is that his name is magic Johnson, magic Johnson, magic Johnson. It's a euphemism for a magic penis. This man has a magic Johnson. He got his magic Johnson, gave him AIDS and then his magic Johnson allowed him to get rid of his AIDS. You see what I'm saying? The guy is a magic. He's magic to the, I made HIV disappear with his magic Johnson. That is pretty funny. Right? I thought that was pretty funny. You look at it though. He probably never had it, right. He probably thought, Hey, I'm going to raise money. I'm going to raise awareness. I'm going to help out these communities. Then he goes out and he tells the public, Hey, look at me. I got AIDS, but now he doesn't have it on his body. You know, you got to think that maybe the insurance companies are, can you imagine, like you go out and you tell the world, Hey, I'm HIV positive. Here's my test. And then you try to get life insurance and they're like, Hey, fuck you. You're HIV positive magic. And then he's gotta be like, well, you know, I'm, I'm actually not. And they're like, well, fuck you. Why'd you say on TV? Oh, well just trying to raise awareness for the group. Well, we're going to want you to take a test. You know, you got to imagine that just probably the stigma that comes with that disease probably cause that guy a lot of grief, but I don't know. I think that he, I don't think he probably ever had it, but I like to think of the second one about him having a magic Johnson and, and not getting rid of it. I think that's a kind of a funny one. That's one, that's one conspiracy theory. People don't talk too much about another conspiracy. How about the new world order about those guys? What the hell is the new world order? People talk about it a lot. You know, it's all over YouTube. And I think Henry Kissinger wrote a book called world order. A lot of people talk about the new world order and the deep state shadow government. I think that's pretty simplistic. There's clearly, there's clearly forces at work that control the narrative. But I would think it's more like in my, I think at some sort of conglomeration of intelligence companies, you know, we talked a little bit yesterday about private corporations hiring their own private securities, which are own like their own private armies. If you think about corporations, they're kind of like a country in a way. I mean, some of them have, if you think of the corporation as a state and then all its little hubs like cities and all the workers in those hubs as citizens know it's its own economic model, it's its own entity, it's its own sovereign nation in a way. And a lot of people talk about that being the new world order, not so much as a conspiracy of countries coming together in order to divide and conquer their people, but a new method of governing people, a new world order, instead of there being sovereign nations, there's just multinational corporations. And if you look at some of the Rockefeller literature or some of the council on foreign relations or trilateral commission, you know, or even even our own military actions and other countries where we just go in as a military and wipe out the people there or clear the way for our corporations to start doing business, you could make the argument that, that there's a lot of people throughout government and business that are trying to establish a new world order in that being that business is the ultimate authority. There's an interesting debate. I saw a while back between Peter teal and bill Gates and they were debating the economy of the future. And it was obvious to me, at least that Peter teal does not like bill Gates. You know, he was letting fly a lot of ad hominem attacks about how, you know, bill Gates is responsible for a lot of problems and third world nations due to his vaccines and his ideas on business and eugenics. And there was some really funny lines in there. You know, there was some, one line was Peter teal had made a really articulate statement and then bill Gates followed up to the moderator and bill Gates to something like this. Let's just pretend that everything that he said is not true. It was, it was pretty funny. I think that, I think that's kind of what's when you think about the new world order or you think about the emerging, the emerging economic issues, I would say that what we're seeing now, if I was to label myself as a conspiracy theorist, or just give you my hunch on what's happening, I think that we're moving towards a more technocratic society. And then we define what I mean by a technocratic. Technocratic is rule by science, Speaker 0 (14m 54s): By the idea, the technocrats believe that politicians are worthless, that they are greedy and selfish and easily manipulatable, too much willing to give in to what the people think should happen instead of doing what the right thing is, where the technocrat compiles as much data as he can, and then tries to establish the most, not fair but effective and efficient distribution of those resources once he has, once he's compiled this list, once he understands the patterns of commerce, once he understands the pie, the patterns of consumption, then according to the technocrat, there'll be able to better make our society about effective and efficient. So it's a rule by science and the rule. The problem I have with the technocrats is that I think they're the same as the politicians. They're both corrupt, they're broke, they're both easily manipulatable. So I think it just as human beings, we have this, we have this blind spot, this sort of confirmation bias that makes it almost impossible for us to truly understand complexity too often. We, we either give up our critical thinking to someone who knows about something, or we tend to believe in people that just because they're smart in one area, we tend to give them credibility in all areas, but it's not true just because you're smart in one area. Doesn't mean you're smarter in all areas. In fact, if you're really smart in one area, that probably means that you're lacking in the other areas. I would say that, you know, if, if, if we go down the technocrat trail and the conspiracy minded mindset, now that that has something to do with the COVID-19. I think one thing we can all agree on is that no one knows what's going on. Is it real? I know people that have had it. I know a guy that was on an incubator incubator is that right into Bader. I've had people in my family that have had it. Why is it that the media reports that COVID-19, it affects more people of color. In fact, it it's numbers. According to the media on people of color are a multiple of white people, but the very same media then tells people of color to go out and protest in one breath, they say, listen, people of color are more susceptible to COVID-19. Their symptoms are worse. The lasting damage is worse. And then in the very next breath, they say, people of color should go outside and protest and subject themselves to COVID-19 like, how, how can they, how can the media say that? And then people not think critically about that. It's weird that the hardest hit States are all democratic States. They all have democratic governors. It's weird that a KCO Cortez deleted a tweet that said, we must lock down the States to ruin the economy. So Donald Trump won't get elected. And just so everybody knows, I don't, I don't have a dog in this fight. Like I, I think Trump and Biden are equally silly. You know, if the Democrats wanted to win, why wouldn't they run one of the young guns? There's a lot of things that don't make sense. What about the rule Haun lab, right? Did you see the guy from Harvard that got arrested for taking money from, from China? How about dr. Fowchee roll in the hand lab? How come that guy was studying there? Is that where the virus came from? Like it may have come from a bat, but I don't think that bat with the virus was consumed by an individual at a wet market. It clearly seems like some sort of a bio weapon to me. How can you have a vaccine for the Corona virus? The vaccine people take for the flu works? I don't even know if I would say that. I don't even know if I would say that it works. It's effective. Maybe 10% of the time. They never know what strain it is. They, they just are injecting you with something that they believe is going to help stimulate your immune system. Isn't it also funny that pharmaceutical companies cannot be sued or the harm their vaccine does. So part of me was thinking that the solution to the COVID crisis, if an, if it is indeed a bio weapon, or if it is indeed a pandemic, one of the reasons why people can't go back to work is because the insurance companies can't find out who's liable. Is it the employer? That's like, who's accepting his, his employer, employees to unsafe work conditions? Or is it the employee who, who maybe has the COVID that is the person who's liable because they are bringing it into the workplace. Is it the guy that owns the restaurant? Or is it the patron of the restaurant? As far as I know, it's all of their faults and there's really no way to sort out that liable <inaudible> unless, unless, unless you could get, if everybody, a vaccine and then say, look, everyone's had the vaccine, no, one's liable. And you can't Sue the pharmaceutical companies. Right. Then everybody has to go back to work. And if you get it and die, Oh, well you got a vaccine. Some people say that the COVID stands for certificate a vaccination ID, 2019 certificate of vaccination ID 2019. Okay. And if you look up bill Gates and MIT, you can see that what they've been doing, working on there, it's called a quantum dumb dot a quantum dot. And it's like a, it's a lot like a, almost like a little tattoo with maybe like some RFI, like an RFID chip in there. I'm not sure exactly, but it's my Newt. And once you have that particular quantum dot embedded in your skin, you know, it serves as a easily scannable chip that could be used to track you. It could be used to keep track of your records. It could be used to keep track of you of a new currency. If we were to go on some sort of a digital currency and you know, it's like, it's like tracking cattle, except instead of putting that thing in your ear, it's going to put it right in your arm. I think that there is, there's some dark forces out there that really want this to happen. They really think, and it comes back to the technocratic ideas of, Speaker 2 (23m 49s): Of understanding patterns of commerce and behavior. If they could just, if they could just chip everybody, they could see who's spinning wa where they're spending their time. And then they could better understand how to set up a smart city. They could better understand people's patterns. At least that's their idea. That's what they think. And look no further than Africa right now. Like this is actually ongoing in Africa right now. You could look it up and check it out. It's it's almost seems like we're in a movie. Would you, are you guys taking the chip? If they bring it in here? Hey, this is the vaccine. You gotta take this thing. Hey, you can't work. Hey, you can't get on an airplane. Hey, you can't get a driver's license unless you have this. It's a fascinating, it's a fascinating thing to think about it all could be it all. There's a lot of talk about the great reset. Is there going to be some sort of like a great reset where debt gets wiped out? Is there going to be some kind of great reset where everyone takes a, like a, like a banking holiday or I don't know. I mean, how, how would that even look? Okay. No one has any debt anymore. Okay. There's no college debt. Okay. There's no mortgage debt. You would definitely stimulate the economy, right? No one had any debt you could start over. It's fascinating to think about what's happening on wall street right now. It's fascinating to think about albeit scandalous and kind of demeaning. It's still fascinating. We're printing so much money and just giving it to the banks. Could you guys see the, on the PPP loans that banks made like $12 billion just in processing fees? Isn't that just a way of bailing out the banks? Okay. We're going to come up with this loan scam where we're going to give anybody that wants money. If they can say they have a business, we'll give them up to $2 million. And then the banks will process that fee. You know, it's maybe that's the reason why the wording on those PPP loans was so vague because they needed the banks to get at least, you know, $12 billion. So that way they, they knew that if the banks were going to charge 3% or 5%, then they had to give away at least, you know, however, like a trillion dollars or whatever. So the banks could get, you know, a percentage of that deeper in it. If we're in so deep right now that the government is just giving money to wall street and giving money to BlackRock and giving money to everybody. Like there's no, there's no way out. Right? I think about people that have been in their house now for, I don't know, five months or six months, and haven't paid any mortgage payments, haven't paid any rent payments. And if you live in a tourist destination, how about all the people that work at the hotels at some point in time, either, you know, it seems like we're getting another stimulus package, but at some point in time, those people are gonna run out of money. Right? Or does the government just keep on sending it out? I don't know. Since we're going down the Woohoo tree, there are some, there are some people talking about that. This whole thing, right. I know is because we're about to get hit by an asteroid or multiple asteroids. Imagine that one, imagine that they're trying to keep people happy and not panicked, but come September. You're gonna start to see things in the sky. And then everybody's going to realize, Oh shit, we're about to get deep impacted, know it on some level you could think, well, that's why essential businesses running. There's not a whole lot of danger right now. However there's going to be. And we don't want people out. We don't know where these rocks are going to hit. We know there's going to be a lot of them. We don't know where they're going to hit, or when they're going to hit, we want to keep people in their houses. We want to, you know, how do we get people to start getting prepared without scaring them? How do we, how do we get people to change their behavior for an event that we don't want to tell them about? And it's worldwide, right? COVID is not just in the U S it's worldwide. Maybe, maybe it's maybe it's just a pandemic. Maybe the earth is like, Hey man, getting sick and tired of you, parasites just squander and everything. And it's time for me, the earth to let you guys know that you are an evolutionary culdesac, adios, Amigos. It could be that we're just suffering from stagnation. It could be that there's no new ideas. It could be that all the banks, all the companies have bet big on tech. They have bet big on, on the ideas of flying cars and new technologies. And they made big bets with side chain derivatives. And none of those companies panned out. None of those companies produced the product they promised that's plausible. It's plausible. It could be that we are preparing for the great reset and we already are putting the new system to work. And what am I, what I mean by that is have you guys ever read, excuse me, that book ready player one. It's if you haven't read it, you should totally read. It's a great book. It's a fiction book. I know it's been like fiction, but you should read it, but it just talks about this boy who in the future, you know, he's, he's going to school, but what's important about the book to this topic is the way he was going to school. He was going to school via virtual reality. So we have like a headset and like a console. And then he would, you know, you just, you put on your headset and then you go to your Google meet and then your boom you're in the virtual class. Speaker 1 (32m 10s): No, Speaker 2 (32m 13s): I don't, I don't have the, I don't have the, the Vive or the Oculus. I got the one headset where you can put your phone in there. However, I've heard good things about the Vive and the Oculus. And I, I can't imagine, imagine if you had a really cool headset and you put that headset on, and then you're in virtual reality with kids from all over the world, taking classes like an elective from a history teacher in Switzerland. And if you'd like that guy that everybody does puts on their headset and go that guy's class, you know, kind of does away with the education in your community, right? Whether that's magic or tragic, I don't know. Hmm. It could be one opportunity for like truly global learning and truly a coming together of global ideas, whatever it is. I think it's important to note that power, be it, the government official, the corporate executive or the military leader power has never given up people don't give up their position. Power is taken. Power is taken. It's always taken. It's never given up, has never advocated. It's either it's either overthrown or it's taken. And that kind of brings us back full circle. Cool to propaganda. And you know, the printed word and linear speech and linear thinking throughout your whole life, at least in the U S what are you taught? non-VA Hey, I don't condone violence. Hey, let's try to find a nonviolent solution. No, it's like the keep on the top or trying to from a very early age influence kids, not to fight. When, if you look back at history, the only real change has come from violent revolution. I mean, you can, maybe this is a conspiracy, but it seems like at least the men in some parts of the country have been softened up with this whole theories of nonviolence and transgenderism and soy boys. And, you know, Lord knows what's in the food and the lower testosterone counts. That's one thing I really, I really admire about Hawaii is it, it's still at its core, like a warrior culture. If you're in the, you say the wrong thing to the wrong person, you're, you're going to get your ass kicked. And then like, as, as a man, there's something about it's kind of liberating. Like yeah, that guy deserved to get punched in the face. Yeah. That guy deserved to get his ass kicked or Hey, that guy didn't deserve to get his ass kicked, but that was a hell of a fight. There's something about standing up for what you believe in. There's something about not backing down from what you think, even if it's wrong, but you believe it to be right. There's something refreshing about fighting for that. I think we're missing a big part of that. I would like to see a return to a return to questioning authority, a return to the rebellious spirit or return to violent protection of your ideas, right? Anything in life worth having is worth fighting for. I think that which leads me to another 0.1 way of fighting. And the first, the first line of fighting is verbal. And I think that's one reason why people aren't taught the Trivium just to be clear, the Trivium is grammar, logic and rhetoric. And it was a, a course that was taught to all scholars in ancient times, right? Grammar. We talked about a little bit grammar is the ability to understand the structure of language. And the reason that's important is because the way grammar is structured is the way your reality is structured. Logic is the ability to think critically logic is the ability to forecast potential outcomes. Logic is the ability to forecast intent rhetoric is the ability to persuade the people with whom you are speaking. If you can master those three, if you can just have an idea of those three, then it's like having a, a purple belt in linguistic jujitsu. And I kind of want to go, I think in a later podcast, I'm going to try to dissect each of those and try and break it down and try to give everybody a foundation. And each cause I think that that's, we know we've spoken a lot about propaganda and we've spoken about how to recognize it and that those are great defensive moves being aware of what's coming your way is a great defensive move. But I think we can work on some offense. And I think oftens would be working with our grammar, working with our logic and working with our rhetoric, understanding the means in which we decide to use argumentation, understanding the logical Valley policies, like the appeal to authority or the appeal to emotion, understanding techniques that can help you in crucial conversations. I guess we could talk a little bit about them now. I don't, I don't have a lot of the work in front of me, but we can talk about a few strategies. Here's something you can try today. Whenever you speak first off, know this, what is the purpose of an argument? What is the purpose of an argument? What is the purpose of an argument? The purpose of an argument is to solve a problem. You see too many of us when we were, when we are in an argument, we forget the purpose of an argument. And instead of trying to solve a problem, we try to win. See it triggers that fight flight mode, and it can trigger some emotions and it can trigger your adrenaline. And all of a sudden, instead of staying on topic about what it is you're trying to solve, all of a sudden an ad hominem attack is thrown your way. And by that, I mean like a personal attack is throwing your away something off topic, but it's just thrown at you to kind of throw you off base. And so it's, it's important to be aware of that. If you can be aware that in any argument, the purpose is to solve a problem that will automatically stop or at least slow and or hinder the fight or flight response. So you, so you won't feel the anxiety rise, you won't feel your emotions rise. You won't feel your anger arise because it's not an attack on you. It's a, it's a lack of understanding between two people. So if you can know that and repeat that to yourself. When you find yourself in a confrontational situation, you can better use your words to protect yourself. So that being said, something you can do to practice and use it a conversation and use an argumentation is that whenever you speak to somebody start like you normally would, and then let the other person talk. And as soon as that of the person talks, don't answer them right away in your mind, count to five or seven. So I'm talking right now, as I'm talking to you, I'm going to show you what a silent, this is called, the silent pause. I'm going to show you what a silent pause looks like. We're talking, we're talking. That was seven seconds. You could probably do five, but if you do that, just try it out today. Just when someone says something, count to five or seven in your head. And I bet you before, you can even say another word in that seven seconds. The other person is going to say something else. People aren't used to. People are not used to other people listening and not saying anything. In fact, that magic number of seven, because you haven't said anything in seven seconds, that other person begins to wonder why you're not saying anything. And it's just long enough for them to start second guessing what they said. And nine out of 10 times, they will, especially in a conversation where someone who claims to be in an authority position is trying to say something to you. Hey, you know, I noticed that this thing happened over there. Do you want me to, you want to talk to about that seven seconds? That person in seven seconds will begin to think that their strategy is the wrong strategy and there's nothing, you know, there's no law that says you have to answer people at all, but try the seven seconds thing, try it out, get good at it, understand it, understand its power, understand why it works, you know, and teach it to your kids. The younger people can use these strategies, the better it's going to be. But that is an effective one. The second one, which can be used on the heels of the seven, seven, second silent pause is to answer a question with a question. So let's say you're sitting down with someone they're like, Hey, can you please tell me why you decided to go and do that thing? When you say thing, what thing are you talking about? Are you talking about the thing I did yesterday? Are you talking about the other thing? Okay. So you see what I did there? Let's break that down. They asked me a question. I waited seven seconds. And then I answered their question with a question because subliminally subliminally on an unconscious level, the person asking the questions is usually the person in charge. Have you ever heard people say, Hey, I'll ask the questions here. It's because they want to be in charge. Usually the person asking the questions is the person in charge. So to follow up, if you, if you find yourself in that situation, the person brings you into wherever they ask you a question. So you wait your seven seconds and then you answer your question with a question it's called the Socratic method. So now not only have you kind of thrown them off their base by the silent pause, but now you've begun to ask the questions and a tip on this part, like a little side channel of asking questions. Think about how questions. So for example, Hey, why did this happen over here? Like that? You wait your seven seconds. How would you have done it better? So now you're answering them. You're answering their question with a question, but you're using a how question. And when someone asks you how to do something, it changes your thought patterns. It changes the way the other person thinks. Especially if, if they have a script of what they wanted to talk to you about, I'm going to ask this guy about that. I'm going to challenge him on this and see what he says. You've already thrown them off their game. You've given them the silent pause. You answered a question with a question. And now the how question that forces them to think from your point of view, it's like a forced empathy. How would you have done it better? Now that person is obligated to tell you how they would have done it. And the chances are, they don't know how to do it better than you. The chances are. They didn't think about how they would do it. The chances are, they probably would have been at the exact same way. You did it. And by asking them, how would you have done it? It forces them to think about that. It forces them. And what that does is it takes them off their script and it forces that empathy to be like, Oh yeah, well, gosh, I'd probably would have done it the same way you did. Or a lot of times what happens right there is that the person with whom you're arguing, they get mad right there. They realize that they've just lost the argument. And they're way out in the woods. Like they were they're way out in LA LA land because someone yelled at them. Now they're trying to use the same techniques to yell at you, but you have successfully sidestepped and use their momentum against them. So there's three techniques right there and I'm just going to go and we'll go over them again because repetition is the mother of skill, right? Repetition is the mother of skill. Repetition is the mother of skill, the silent pause, seven seconds. Answer a question with a question and try to use how questions you make. Good eye contact. It's a great place to start. And those are effective methods of solving a problem, not trying to win an argument. They're all. So those are all things that you should be thinking about to be a better communicator. Those are all things you should be thinking about in order to get your point across. Those are all things you should be thinking about to talk to your children about. All of us will find ourselves in a situation like this. And the truth is the best leaders are the best communicators. If you can understand someone's point of view, if you can put yourself in someone else's shoes, if you can explain your thoughts clearly, then you can better understand your motivations and other people's motivations. There's a lot of interesting techniques that we can use neural linguistic programming part of which is priming in pacing and mirroring. There's also some really interesting concepts about language that I'm going to do some more research on and get to you guys that truly, I mean, they just, they get to the real foundation of what our language is. And you know, sometimes I feel like, you know, we're the barbarians because we just babble all the time. You know, we just pop, pop, pop, pop out, just babbling. We forgotten what, what language is like. We've forgotten how to truly communicate. There's some schools of thought that say poetic verse is in fact, the real way of communicating when you speak in a style of poetic metaphor and everybody knows what I mean, have you ever read a good poem? And it makes you get goosebumps or you read a good poem and you start crying or you read a poem and it, it helps you clearly see a vision in your mind. Like that is language that is linguistics. You know, it's not written in poetic form contracts, user agreements, insurance contracts, you know, none of that's written in poetic metaphor. In fact, I'm just thinking out loud here. Maybe, maybe that is the answer. Maybe that is the answer, but getting back to, I think it's called like a, you phonics and there's a story about, there is a story. I think it's from, Plato's create a list. Here's a little blurb. And let me read this little blurb. The primary text in you, phonics is Plato's cradle is a Socratic dialogue about the origins of language and the influence of archetypal sounds on the formation of words. It is subtitled on the correctness of names. The debate is between Socrates and two other characters create a list who claims to know the science of nomenclature and what there is in a name, which makes it correct or otherwise. And Hermanis who denies that there is any science or inherent correctness in naming things. His contention is that whatever name you choose to give anything is its right name. The third party, Socrates examines, both arguments and comes down on the side of cradles. The dialogue is long intricate and in parts quite misdefined in speculating about the original forms Speaker 3 (54m 19s): <inaudible> Speaker 2 (54m 21s): Of names, Socrates teases, his listeners without rages, puns and obscure illusions, which modern scholars are at a loss to interpret. He claims no special knowledge of the subject, but offers the view that a name appears to be a vocal imitation and a person who imitates something with his voice names that which he imitates. There are good names and bad ones. And a good name is one that contains the proper letters. Letters are appropriate or not in a name according as they serve to represent through their sounds, the qualities of whatever is being named. Thus the proper name for a thing is a composition of those sounds, which imitate the ideas associated with it near the end of the dialogue. Socrates speaks about the inherent meanings of individual sounds. The R sound he says is made by the tongue and it's most agitated and it is therefore expressive of rapid movement. It also, he adds later stands for hardness. The Greek words containing are with which Socrates illustrates his statement justify modern interest in this subject for the English translations also feature the letter R they include run RO trembling, rush race among other examples, given are the L sound, which has a sleek gliding motion sound. And the G sound, which is gummy and gluttonous. I don't know when I think of GE, I think of good-looking greatness, gregarious, good humor, giant hammer George Monte. That's just me though. That's what I think. But you guys get the point, you know, if, if there's a proper name for things and each letter has a true meaning, didn't shouldn't you apply that letters true. Meaning to the object. Another way to think about it is that formation of names or words from sounds that resemble those associated with the object or action to be named, or that seemed naturally suggestive of its qualities. The example given is cuckoo, and there are many other words such as plop click buzz per his, him, and ha, which are obvious attempts at imitating a sound similar. Our temp, similar attempts are made in all languages. The question which then arises is to what extent these imitative sounds influenced the meanings of the longer composite words in which they occur. A previous essay on the poetical alphabet forms a chapter in a book called pleura verse American philosopher, Benjamin Paul blood. He begins by telling of a discussion he once had as to why an icicle could not fiddly be called a tub nor vice versa. It is in the nature of its name. He concluded for a tub to be short and stubby, whereas an icicle sound spindly and slim at the sound of icicle to irrational mind throws up the word bicycle, which is also spindly and often cold explaining, perhaps the popular acceptance of that word, to name a pedal crank to Wheeler. You see what's going on there, the nature of a word, the, the letters of that word, put an idea in your head, and that idea should be congruent with the object that it explains, right? Like plop click buzz per hiss. These are words that are imitations of sound. So shouldn't the names of things that we have imitate. It's an interesting concept. And it, if it is indeed true, it just shows how far we've fallen from using the language appropriate to explain our environment. When you think about names, you remember when you were in kit, you were a kid and certain people got made fun of, you know, one thing I've noticed here in, in Hawaii, and this is a little bit about what we're talking about and it's about culture, but it's a, it's it straddles the fence between what we're talking about in culture. Sometimes people that come to the United States, they come from like a, an Asian culture where the Alphabet's different and it's difficult for people in the United States to pronounce names of different alphabets. And so that person will take on an American name. There was a guy on my route that was, I think he was Chinese. And his last, he took, he took the moniker. He, his American name was Peter pan, right? Which every American kid has seen Peter pan. And so it goes without saying that, no, it's just a lack of like, he didn't understand this culture. People didn't understand his culture. However, because he, that name is stuck in the American lexicon as like a, as a, the boy who never grew up, all of a sudden that image is tied to it. Therefore this guy from China is imitating Peter pan. Like he can't escape that he chose the wrong name, but it goes, it goes to what I'm talking about as far as, you know, if you're, if you're on the playground or you're naming a child, you know, when you're naming a kid, you got to think of like, Oh man, is, if I named it, if I named my girl Paulie, she's going to be perk Paulie or depressing Deandre or bill blunt or Willie week, or cheeky Charlie or big Bertha or slippery said, you know, there's, there's certain words that fit together that can be humorous. And if you're not thinking about that, when your name and your kid, you can subset them to hours and hours of torment on the playground. You know, you know, this may seem childish and erotic, but behind such trivialize, a feature of language, which poets have always more or less consciously acknowledged names and words are made up of sounds. And each sound has some kind of natural meaning expressing any Woking, a certain human emotion. In some cases, even the shapes of letters, the serpentine sibilant S for example, seem to accord with the sounds. They denote academic linguists and etymologists amid they're serious studies of secular durations and verbal migrations have no time for such a whimsical notions, but to a poet, this oral approach to language is all important. Every sensitive writer is concerned, not only with the proclaimed meaning of words, but also with their esoteric subliminal qualities, their pitch and ring, and the irrational feelings produced by the sound. And sometimes by the side of them, that's, that's kind of a mouthful like, but it's true. If you're in tune with your language, you cannot deny that some words have irrational feelings produced by the sound. Some words have subliminal qualities, their pitch, and their ring. Just the very sound of some words can cause you to feel a certain thing. And that's never, it's never talked about, imagine if you were a kid and at a young age, you begun to learn what the sounds of letters evoke. What if right from the beginning in school, you learned that the letter S it's it's serpentine nature, it's sibling as like, look at it. Like if you think of an S it kind of looks like a snake. What is the word? Snake start with an S the serpent surreptitious, seductive salacious, S S that's a sound of snake makes like the letter S embodies that particular emotion that the snake produces, thus, the snake or the serpent is a great symbol of the letter. S every letter has something like that. And what happens when you could string those letters together to form the right names for the right object? I would argue that if you're able to do that, the world would make more sense to you. Not only would the world make more sense to you, if you could learn to speak in such language, people around you would be amazed, the sentences you would stitch together. The words that you could flip off the end of your tongue would dazzle the masses. It's an art form. And if kids could learn at an early age, how to master that, which they can the world to be a better place. I think that that's a pretty good spot for that. That's kind of the beginning of, of the Trivium that we're going to work into a little bit upcoming we'll can go through a bunch of letters. I, I do have a little bit here on the, like, so we talked about S let me read you a little bit about the letter, a vowels hold emotions and feelings while continents hold thoughts, and the intellect, a Japanese Sage gives the explain explanation of why people falling off building shout, ah, on their way downwards. It is because they naturally wish to ascend. And the, ah, sound is characteristic of uplift. Whether in body or spirit a gives a sense of alacrity, of active, happy alert, agile attentive, aware, awake, lads, and lasses. The appropriate bird is the Lark, which might thus be addressed. Audacious avian arise, ascend a loft to Azor skies, alert to your angelic strain or aspirations soar a gain. So you can see that the proper application, the proper use of language and understanding grammar, understanding the power of each letter, how it influences people, how it, what emotion it might be able to evoke. If you knew what letters evoked, what emotion, then you would know which words to use to tell people, to get the desired response, fundamentally changing the way people communicate. In fact, that should be, that would be an awesome legacy, right? What if your legacy was fundamentally changing the way people communicate? I would like that to be my legacy. I would like to help as many people as I can fundamentally change the way they communicate, not only so that they have better relationships, not only so that their life is more fulfilling, because it would make the world a better place. Well, my friends it's time for me to get on out of here. I love you guys. Thank you for listening today. Thank you for going way out on the Wu tree branch of high speculation. We had a nice bird's eye view from that branch. And as the foundational branch began to break, we jumped down from the tree and landed into the linguistic arts of language. I hope you're able to take a little bit from this. I hope that there was some argument, argumentative augmentations you can make along the way, and I hope that you can change your relationships and change your life and teach your kids some of what we learned. So I love you guys Aloha.

Aloha Everyone, you can see a full transcript of all my podcasts here.https://app.podscribe.ai/series/1069658Speaker 0 (0s): All right. My friends it's Wednesday also known as hump day, depending on how you want to define hump, that could be a, something on a camel, or it could be an act of lust, maybe. So are you guys all wondering what the answer to the riddle is? Never the little we did yesterday, it was a, what, what is something that not even the strongest man can hold for nine minutes, but is lighter than a feather. I bet you, that was just driving you guys crazy, huh? Well, is there any, any guesses, any guesses? Do you guys think of anything? The answer is your breath because no one can hold their breath for nine minutes and it's lighter than a feather. I was talking to a friend of mine yesterday who was asking me about the podcast and what I'm going to talk about. And he says, Hey, you ever talk about conspiracies? And I said, I talk about them all the time, but I've yet to really kind of get in depth on any kind of podcast and talk about one. So today my friends, we're going to step out onto the Wu tree. For those of you that don't know the Wu tree, the Wu tree is a lot, think of like a large, like a large tree with all kinds of branches, but the branches as they grow longer, they grow thinner. And my argumentation is like going way out on a thin branch. And the reason that is, is because if you were to go out on a very thin branch, that branch would not be able to, that that branch probably would not be able to hold your weight and it would break. Thus, my foundation for the conspiracies is like the Wu tree. It may not hold up. So let's just, let's just jump in here with both feet and try to cover some ground today. You know, one of my favorite conspiracies is the magic Johnson conspiracy. You know what I mean? Remember that guy? Great basketball player. Number 32. I always think of chick Hearns. When I think of magic Johnson, remember whoever every time they would be about to win. You'd hear chick Hearns, just say, all right, well, it's the jellos jiggling. The eggs are getting hard. The butter's cooling time to put this one in the fridge. Speaker 1 (3m 1s): This game is over. I think it was something like that. The jellos jiggling eggs are cooling and the butter is getting hard time to put this one in the fridge. I miss that guy, but magic Johnson. Remember that when I was growing up, he was a, he was a bad man. I think he's still in the, I think he's in the hall of fame, right? Doesn't he own the Clippers. It doesn't own part of the Lakers now. However, when I was coming up, I was in high school and it was right when they, the AIDS crisis was coming in. And for people that don't know the height of the AIDS crisis, it was considered mainly like a gay disease or a disease for intervening, his drug use users. Those are the two main groups of which the majority of people inflicted with AIDS. That was the tool. Then one day, there's this big press conference and magic Johnson comes out and he says, you know, I knew standing there with his wife and his teammates. And he was like, you know, I just want to let everybody know that I tested HIV positive. And the whole world was like, Whoa, magic Johnson, HIV positive. And it kind of, it was big news. It was big news. It was all over the news channel. No, there's, there's two major conspiracies here. Let's, let's go over the first one. First. The first is that he never had AIDS. He's never HIV positive. He did it as a publicity stunt to draw attention. Okay. And get money to help come up with a cure for AIDS. That's one, one spot. And there's a lot of evidence. Like if it was mainly a disease for gay people and drugs users, I'm sure there's plenty of people that would call magic Johnson bag, but he's not gay. And he never, he never participated in that kind of sexual activity. At least not to my knowledge. He's definitely not a heroin addict. So he's not shooting drugs. However, he I'm sure that that guy got around. Right. I'm sure all of those athletes have a number of women they've had sex with. And that number is probably well into the triple digits. If not quadruple digits, it was kind of odd though. I mean, he's standing up there with his wife talking about, Hey, I got AIDS, you know, the fruit, his wife's gotta be like, well, how did you get that? How'd you get that magic? Oh, you know, I think it was the fifth number five Oh seven. The 507th woman has said was gave it to me. That's another thing like how does a out of the women's stay with all those pros? They just are constantly cheating on, I guess it's the money, right? Anyways. So that's one idea. One idea is that it was a publicity stunt to, to draw attention, to, and get money for the cause. The second conspiracy theory, which I think is much more interesting is that magic Johnson, he was HIV positive. He had AIDS. Now magic Johnson does not have AIDS. He's not HIV positive. He no longer has a trace of the virus in his body. Pretty amazing. Right. He had it no longer has it. He had it. He no longer has it. He had it. He no longer has it. That in itself is worth study. But even more interesting is that his name is magic Johnson, magic Johnson, magic Johnson. It's a euphemism for a magic penis. This man has a magic Johnson. He got his magic Johnson, gave him AIDS and then his magic Johnson allowed him to get rid of his AIDS. You see what I'm saying? The guy is a magic. He's magic to the, I made HIV disappear with his magic Johnson. That is pretty funny. Right? I thought that was pretty funny. You look at it though. He probably never had it, right. He probably thought, Hey, I'm going to raise money. I'm going to raise awareness. I'm going to help out these communities. Then he goes out and he tells the public, Hey, look at me. I got AIDS, but now he doesn't have it on his body. You know, you got to think that maybe the insurance companies are, can you imagine, like you go out and you tell the world, Hey, I'm HIV positive. Here's my test. And then you try to get life insurance and they're like, Hey, fuck you. You're HIV positive magic. And then he's gotta be like, well, you know, I'm, I'm actually not. And they're like, well, fuck you. Why'd you say on TV? Oh, well just trying to raise awareness for the group. Well, we're going to want you to take a test. You know, you got to imagine that just probably the stigma that comes with that disease probably cause that guy a lot of grief, but I don't know. I think that he, I don't think he probably ever had it, but I like to think of the second one about him having a magic Johnson and, and not getting rid of it. I think that's a kind of a funny one. That's one, that's one conspiracy theory. People don't talk too much about another conspiracy. How about the new world order about those guys? What the hell is the new world order? People talk about it a lot. You know, it's all over YouTube. And I think Henry Kissinger wrote a book called world order. A lot of people talk about the new world order and the deep state shadow government. I think that's pretty simplistic. There's clearly, there's clearly forces at work that control the narrative. But I would think it's more like in my, I think at some sort of conglomeration of intelligence companies, you know, we talked a little bit yesterday about private corporations hiring their own private securities, which are own like their own private armies. If you think about corporations, they're kind of like a country in a way. I mean, some of them have, if you think of the corporation as a state and then all its little hubs like cities and all the workers in those hubs as citizens know it's its own economic model, it's its own entity, it's its own sovereign nation in a way. And a lot of people talk about that being the new world order, not so much as a conspiracy of countries coming together in order to divide and conquer their people, but a new method of governing people, a new world order, instead of there being sovereign nations, there's just multinational corporations. And if you look at some of the Rockefeller literature or some of the council on foreign relations or trilateral commission, you know, or even even our own military actions and other countries where we just go in as a military and wipe out the people there or clear the way for our corporations to start doing business, you could make the argument that, that there's a lot of people throughout government and business that are trying to establish a new world order in that being that business is the ultimate authority. There's an interesting debate. I saw a while back between Peter teal and bill Gates and they were debating the economy of the future. And it was obvious to me, at least that Peter teal does not like bill Gates. You know, he was letting fly a lot of ad hominem attacks about how, you know, bill Gates is responsible for a lot of problems and third world nations due to his vaccines and his ideas on business and eugenics. And there was some really funny lines in there. You know, there was some, one line was Peter teal had made a really articulate statement and then bill Gates followed up to the moderator and bill Gates to something like this. Let's just pretend that everything that he said is not true. It was, it was pretty funny. I think that, I think that's kind of what's when you think about the new world order or you think about the emerging, the emerging economic issues, I would say that what we're seeing now, if I was to label myself as a conspiracy theorist, or just give you my hunch on what's happening, I think that we're moving towards a more technocratic society. And then we define what I mean by a technocratic. Technocratic is rule by science, Speaker 0 (14m 54s): By the idea, the technocrats believe that politicians are worthless, that they are greedy and selfish and easily manipulatable, too much willing to give in to what the people think should happen instead of doing what the right thing is, where the technocrat compiles as much data as he can, and then tries to establish the most, not fair but effective and efficient distribution of those resources once he has, once he's compiled this list, once he understands the patterns of commerce, once he understands the pie, the patterns of consumption, then according to the technocrat, there'll be able to better make our society about effective and efficient. So it's a rule by science and the rule. The problem I have with the technocrats is that I think they're the same as the politicians. They're both corrupt, they're broke, they're both easily manipulatable. So I think it just as human beings, we have this, we have this blind spot, this sort of confirmation bias that makes it almost impossible for us to truly understand complexity too often. We, we either give up our critical thinking to someone who knows about something, or we tend to believe in people that just because they're smart in one area, we tend to give them credibility in all areas, but it's not true just because you're smart in one area. Doesn't mean you're smarter in all areas. In fact, if you're really smart in one area, that probably means that you're lacking in the other areas. I would say that, you know, if, if, if we go down the technocrat trail and the conspiracy minded mindset, now that that has something to do with the COVID-19. I think one thing we can all agree on is that no one knows what's going on. Is it real? I know people that have had it. I know a guy that was on an incubator incubator is that right into Bader. I've had people in my family that have had it. Why is it that the media reports that COVID-19, it affects more people of color. In fact, it it's numbers. According to the media on people of color are a multiple of white people, but the very same media then tells people of color to go out and protest in one breath, they say, listen, people of color are more susceptible to COVID-19. Their symptoms are worse. The lasting damage is worse. And then in the very next breath, they say, people of color should go outside and protest and subject themselves to COVID-19 like, how, how can they, how can the media say that? And then people not think critically about that. It's weird that the hardest hit States are all democratic States. They all have democratic governors. It's weird that a KCO Cortez deleted a tweet that said, we must lock down the States to ruin the economy. So Donald Trump won't get elected. And just so everybody knows, I don't, I don't have a dog in this fight. Like I, I think Trump and Biden are equally silly. You know, if the Democrats wanted to win, why wouldn't they run one of the young guns? There's a lot of things that don't make sense. What about the rule Haun lab, right? Did you see the guy from Harvard that got arrested for taking money from, from China? How about dr. Fowchee roll in the hand lab? How come that guy was studying there? Is that where the virus came from? Like it may have come from a bat, but I don't think that bat with the virus was consumed by an individual at a wet market. It clearly seems like some sort of a bio weapon to me. How can you have a vaccine for the Corona virus? The vaccine people take for the flu works? I don't even know if I would say that. I don't even know if I would say that it works. It's effective. Maybe 10% of the time. They never know what strain it is. They, they just are injecting you with something that they believe is going to help stimulate your immune system. Isn't it also funny that pharmaceutical companies cannot be sued or the harm their vaccine does. So part of me was thinking that the solution to the COVID crisis, if an, if it is indeed a bio weapon, or if it is indeed a pandemic, one of the reasons why people can't go back to work is because the insurance companies can't find out who's liable. Is it the employer? That's like, who's accepting his, his employer, employees to unsafe work conditions? Or is it the employee who, who maybe has the COVID that is the person who's liable because they are bringing it into the workplace. Is it the guy that owns the restaurant? Or is it the patron of the restaurant? As far as I know, it's all of their faults and there's really no way to sort out that liable <inaudible> unless, unless, unless you could get, if everybody, a vaccine and then say, look, everyone's had the vaccine, no, one's liable. And you can't Sue the pharmaceutical companies. Right. Then everybody has to go back to work. And if you get it and die, Oh, well you got a vaccine. Some people say that the COVID stands for certificate a vaccination ID, 2019 certificate of vaccination ID 2019. Okay. And if you look up bill Gates and MIT, you can see that what they've been doing, working on there, it's called a quantum dumb dot a quantum dot. And it's like a, it's a lot like a, almost like a little tattoo with maybe like some RFI, like an RFID chip in there. I'm not sure exactly, but it's my Newt. And once you have that particular quantum dot embedded in your skin, you know, it serves as a easily scannable chip that could be used to track you. It could be used to keep track of your records. It could be used to keep track of you of a new currency. If we were to go on some sort of a digital currency and you know, it's like, it's like tracking cattle, except instead of putting that thing in your ear, it's going to put it right in your arm. I think that there is, there's some dark forces out there that really want this to happen. They really think, and it comes back to the technocratic ideas of, Speaker 2 (23m 49s): Of understanding patterns of commerce and behavior. If they could just, if they could just chip everybody, they could see who's spinning wa where they're spending their time. And then they could better understand how to set up a smart city. They could better understand people's patterns. At least that's their idea. That's what they think. And look no further than Africa right now. Like this is actually ongoing in Africa right now. You could look it up and check it out. It's it's almost seems like we're in a movie. Would you, are you guys taking the chip? If they bring it in here? Hey, this is the vaccine. You gotta take this thing. Hey, you can't work. Hey, you can't get on an airplane. Hey, you can't get a driver's license unless you have this. It's a fascinating, it's a fascinating thing to think about it all could be it all. There's a lot of talk about the great reset. Is there going to be some sort of like a great reset where debt gets wiped out? Is there going to be some kind of great reset where everyone takes a, like a, like a banking holiday or I don't know. I mean, how, how would that even look? Okay. No one has any debt anymore. Okay. There's no college debt. Okay. There's no mortgage debt. You would definitely stimulate the economy, right? No one had any debt you could start over. It's fascinating to think about what's happening on wall street right now. It's fascinating to think about albeit scandalous and kind of demeaning. It's still fascinating. We're printing so much money and just giving it to the banks. Could you guys see the, on the PPP loans that banks made like $12 billion just in processing fees? Isn't that just a way of bailing out the banks? Okay. We're going to come up with this loan scam where we're going to give anybody that wants money. If they can say they have a business, we'll give them up to $2 million. And then the banks will process that fee. You know, it's maybe that's the reason why the wording on those PPP loans was so vague because they needed the banks to get at least, you know, $12 billion. So that way they, they knew that if the banks were going to charge 3% or 5%, then they had to give away at least, you know, however, like a trillion dollars or whatever. So the banks could get, you know, a percentage of that deeper in it. If we're in so deep right now that the government is just giving money to wall street and giving money to BlackRock and giving money to everybody. Like there's no, there's no way out. Right? I think about people that have been in their house now for, I don't know, five months or six months, and haven't paid any mortgage payments, haven't paid any rent payments. And if you live in a tourist destination, how about all the people that work at the hotels at some point in time, either, you know, it seems like we're getting another stimulus package, but at some point in time, those people are gonna run out of money. Right? Or does the government just keep on sending it out? I don't know. Since we're going down the Woohoo tree, there are some, there are some people talking about that. This whole thing, right. I know is because we're about to get hit by an asteroid or multiple asteroids. Imagine that one, imagine that they're trying to keep people happy and not panicked, but come September. You're gonna start to see things in the sky. And then everybody's going to realize, Oh shit, we're about to get deep impacted, know it on some level you could think, well, that's why essential businesses running. There's not a whole lot of danger right now. However there's going to be. And we don't want people out. We don't know where these rocks are going to hit. We know there's going to be a lot of them. We don't know where they're going to hit, or when they're going to hit, we want to keep people in their houses. We want to, you know, how do we get people to start getting prepared without scaring them? How do we, how do we get people to change their behavior for an event that we don't want to tell them about? And it's worldwide, right? COVID is not just in the U S it's worldwide. Maybe, maybe it's maybe it's just a pandemic. Maybe the earth is like, Hey man, getting sick and tired of you, parasites just squander and everything. And it's time for me, the earth to let you guys know that you are an evolutionary culdesac, adios, Amigos. It could be that we're just suffering from stagnation. It could be that there's no new ideas. It could be that all the banks, all the companies have bet big on tech. They have bet big on, on the ideas of flying cars and new technologies. And they made big bets with side chain derivatives. And none of those companies panned out. None of those companies produced the product they promised that's plausible. It's plausible. It could be that we are preparing for the great reset and we already are putting the new system to work. And what am I, what I mean by that is have you guys ever read, excuse me, that book ready player one. It's if you haven't read it, you should totally read. It's a great book. It's a fiction book. I know it's been like fiction, but you should read it, but it just talks about this boy who in the future, you know, he's, he's going to school, but what's important about the book to this topic is the way he was going to school. He was going to school via virtual reality. So we have like a headset and like a console. And then he would, you know, you just, you put on your headset and then you go to your Google meet and then your boom you're in the virtual class. Speaker 1 (32m 10s): No, Speaker 2 (32m 13s): I don't, I don't have the, I don't have the, the Vive or the Oculus. I got the one headset where you can put your phone in there. However, I've heard good things about the Vive and the Oculus. And I, I can't imagine, imagine if you had a really cool headset and you put that headset on, and then you're in virtual reality with kids from all over the world, taking classes like an elective from a history teacher in Switzerland. And if you'd like that guy that everybody does puts on their headset and go that guy's class, you know, kind of does away with the education in your community, right? Whether that's magic or tragic, I don't know. Hmm. It could be one opportunity for like truly global learning and truly a coming together of global ideas, whatever it is. I think it's important to note that power, be it, the government official, the corporate executive or the military leader power has never given up people don't give up their position. Power is taken. Power is taken. It's always taken. It's never given up, has never advocated. It's either it's either overthrown or it's taken. And that kind of brings us back full circle. Cool to propaganda. And you know, the printed word and linear speech and linear thinking throughout your whole life, at least in the U S what are you taught? non-VA Hey, I don't condone violence. Hey, let's try to find a nonviolent solution. No, it's like the keep on the top or trying to from a very early age influence kids, not to fight. When, if you look back at history, the only real change has come from violent revolution. I mean, you can, maybe this is a conspiracy, but it seems like at least the men in some parts of the country have been softened up with this whole theories of nonviolence and transgenderism and soy boys. And, you know, Lord knows what's in the food and the lower testosterone counts. That's one thing I really, I really admire about Hawaii is it, it's still at its core, like a warrior culture. If you're in the, you say the wrong thing to the wrong person, you're, you're going to get your ass kicked. And then like, as, as a man, there's something about it's kind of liberating. Like yeah, that guy deserved to get punched in the face. Yeah. That guy deserved to get his ass kicked or Hey, that guy didn't deserve to get his ass kicked, but that was a hell of a fight. There's something about standing up for what you believe in. There's something about not backing down from what you think, even if it's wrong, but you believe it to be right. There's something refreshing about fighting for that. I think we're missing a big part of that. I would like to see a return to a return to questioning authority, a return to the rebellious spirit or return to violent protection of your ideas, right? Anything in life worth having is worth fighting for. I think that which leads me to another 0.1 way of fighting. And the first, the first line of fighting is verbal. And I think that's one reason why people aren't taught the Trivium just to be clear, the Trivium is grammar, logic and rhetoric. And it was a, a course that was taught to all scholars in ancient times, right? Grammar. We talked about a little bit grammar is the ability to understand the structure of language. And the reason that's important is because the way grammar is structured is the way your reality is structured. Logic is the ability to think critically logic is the ability to forecast potential outcomes. Logic is the ability to forecast intent rhetoric is the ability to persuade the people with whom you are speaking. If you can master those three, if you can just have an idea of those three, then it's like having a, a purple belt in linguistic jujitsu. And I kind of want to go, I think in a later podcast, I'm going to try to dissect each of those and try and break it down and try to give everybody a foundation. And each cause I think that that's, we know we've spoken a lot about propaganda and we've spoken about how to recognize it and that those are great defensive moves being aware of what's coming your way is a great defensive move. But I think we can work on some offense. And I think oftens would be working with our grammar, working with our logic and working with our rhetoric, understanding the means in which we decide to use argumentation, understanding the logical Valley policies, like the appeal to authority or the appeal to emotion, understanding techniques that can help you in crucial conversations. I guess we could talk a little bit about them now. I don't, I don't have a lot of the work in front of me, but we can talk about a few strategies. Here's something you can try today. Whenever you speak first off, know this, what is the purpose of an argument? What is the purpose of an argument? What is the purpose of an argument? The purpose of an argument is to solve a problem. You see too many of us when we were, when we are in an argument, we forget the purpose of an argument. And instead of trying to solve a problem, we try to win. See it triggers that fight flight mode, and it can trigger some emotions and it can trigger your adrenaline. And all of a sudden, instead of staying on topic about what it is you're trying to solve, all of a sudden an ad hominem attack is thrown your way. And by that, I mean like a personal attack is throwing your away something off topic, but it's just thrown at you to kind of throw you off base. And so it's, it's important to be aware of that. If you can be aware that in any argument, the purpose is to solve a problem that will automatically stop or at least slow and or hinder the fight or flight response. So you, so you won't feel the anxiety rise, you won't feel your emotions rise. You won't feel your anger arise because it's not an attack on you. It's a, it's a lack of understanding between two people. So if you can know that and repeat that to yourself. When you find yourself in a confrontational situation, you can better use your words to protect yourself. So that being said, something you can do to practice and use it a conversation and use an argumentation is that whenever you speak to somebody start like you normally would, and then let the other person talk. And as soon as that of the person talks, don't answer them right away in your mind, count to five or seven. So I'm talking right now, as I'm talking to you, I'm going to show you what a silent, this is called, the silent pause. I'm going to show you what a silent pause looks like. We're talking, we're talking. That was seven seconds. You could probably do five, but if you do that, just try it out today. Just when someone says something, count to five or seven in your head. And I bet you before, you can even say another word in that seven seconds. The other person is going to say something else. People aren't used to. People are not used to other people listening and not saying anything. In fact, that magic number of seven, because you haven't said anything in seven seconds, that other person begins to wonder why you're not saying anything. And it's just long enough for them to start second guessing what they said. And nine out of 10 times, they will, especially in a conversation where someone who claims to be in an authority position is trying to say something to you. Hey, you know, I noticed that this thing happened over there. Do you want me to, you want to talk to about that seven seconds? That person in seven seconds will begin to think that their strategy is the wrong strategy and there's nothing, you know, there's no law that says you have to answer people at all, but try the seven seconds thing, try it out, get good at it, understand it, understand its power, understand why it works, you know, and teach it to your kids. The younger people can use these strategies, the better it's going to be. But that is an effective one. The second one, which can be used on the heels of the seven, seven, second silent pause is to answer a question with a question. So let's say you're sitting down with someone they're like, Hey, can you please tell me why you decided to go and do that thing? When you say thing, what thing are you talking about? Are you talking about the thing I did yesterday? Are you talking about the other thing? Okay. So you see what I did there? Let's break that down. They asked me a question. I waited seven seconds. And then I answered their question with a question because subliminally subliminally on an unconscious level, the person asking the questions is usually the person in charge. Have you ever heard people say, Hey, I'll ask the questions here. It's because they want to be in charge. Usually the person asking the questions is the person in charge. So to follow up, if you, if you find yourself in that situation, the person brings you into wherever they ask you a question. So you wait your seven seconds and then you answer your question with a question it's called the Socratic method. So now not only have you kind of thrown them off their base by the silent pause, but now you've begun to ask the questions and a tip on this part, like a little side channel of asking questions. Think about how questions. So for example, Hey, why did this happen over here? Like that? You wait your seven seconds. How would you have done it better? So now you're answering them. You're answering their question with a question, but you're using a how question. And when someone asks you how to do something, it changes your thought patterns. It changes the way the other person thinks. Especially if, if they have a script of what they wanted to talk to you about, I'm going to ask this guy about that. I'm going to challenge him on this and see what he says. You've already thrown them off their game. You've given them the silent pause. You answered a question with a question. And now the how question that forces them to think from your point of view, it's like a forced empathy. How would you have done it better? Now that person is obligated to tell you how they would have done it. And the chances are, they don't know how to do it better than you. The chances are. They didn't think about how they would do it. The chances are, they probably would have been at the exact same way. You did it. And by asking them, how would you have done it? It forces them to think about that. It forces them. And what that does is it takes them off their script and it forces that empathy to be like, Oh yeah, well, gosh, I'd probably would have done it the same way you did. Or a lot of times what happens right there is that the person with whom you're arguing, they get mad right there. They realize that they've just lost the argument. And they're way out in the woods. Like they were they're way out in LA LA land because someone yelled at them. Now they're trying to use the same techniques to yell at you, but you have successfully sidestepped and use their momentum against them. So there's three techniques right there and I'm just going to go and we'll go over them again because repetition is the mother of skill, right? Repetition is the mother of skill. Repetition is the mother of skill, the silent pause, seven seconds. Answer a question with a question and try to use how questions you make. Good eye contact. It's a great place to start. And those are effective methods of solving a problem, not trying to win an argument. They're all. So those are all things that you should be thinking about to be a better communicator. Those are all things you should be thinking about in order to get your point across. Those are all things you should be thinking about to talk to your children about. All of us will find ourselves in a situation like this. And the truth is the best leaders are the best communicators. If you can understand someone's point of view, if you can put yourself in someone else's shoes, if you can explain your thoughts clearly, then you can better understand your motivations and other people's motivations. There's a lot of interesting techniques that we can use neural linguistic programming part of which is priming in pacing and mirroring. There's also some really interesting concepts about language that I'm going to do some more research on and get to you guys that truly, I mean, they just, they get to the real foundation of what our language is. And you know, sometimes I feel like, you know, we're the barbarians because we just babble all the time. You know, we just pop, pop, pop, pop out, just babbling. We forgotten what, what language is like. We've forgotten how to truly communicate. There's some schools of thought that say poetic verse is in fact, the real way of communicating when you speak in a style of poetic metaphor and everybody knows what I mean, have you ever read a good poem? And it makes you get goosebumps or you read a good poem and you start crying or you read a poem and it, it helps you clearly see a vision in your mind. Like that is language that is linguistics. You know, it's not written in poetic form contracts, user agreements, insurance contracts, you know, none of that's written in poetic metaphor. In fact, I'm just thinking out loud here. Maybe, maybe that is the answer. Maybe that is the answer, but getting back to, I think it's called like a, you phonics and there's a story about, there is a story. I think it's from, Plato's create a list. Here's a little blurb. And let me read this little blurb. The primary text in you, phonics is Plato's cradle is a Socratic dialogue about the origins of language and the influence of archetypal sounds on the formation of words. It is subtitled on the correctness of names. The debate is between Socrates and two other characters create a list who claims to know the science of nomenclature and what there is in a name, which makes it correct or otherwise. And Hermanis who denies that there is any science or inherent correctness in naming things. His contention is that whatever name you choose to give anything is its right name. The third party, Socrates examines, both arguments and comes down on the side of cradles. The dialogue is long intricate and in parts quite misdefined in speculating about the original forms Speaker 3 (54m 19s): <inaudible> Speaker 2 (54m 21s): Of names, Socrates teases, his listeners without rages, puns and obscure illusions, which modern scholars are at a loss to interpret. He claims no special knowledge of the subject, but offers the view that a name appears to be a vocal imitation and a person who imitates something with his voice names that which he imitates. There are good names and bad ones. And a good name is one that contains the proper letters. Letters are appropriate or not in a name according as they serve to represent through their sounds, the qualities of whatever is being named. Thus the proper name for a thing is a composition of those sounds, which imitate the ideas associated with it near the end of the dialogue. Socrates speaks about the inherent meanings of individual sounds. The R sound he says is made by the tongue and it's most agitated and it is therefore expressive of rapid movement. It also, he adds later stands for hardness. The Greek words containing are with which Socrates illustrates his statement justify modern interest in this subject for the English translations also feature the letter R they include run RO trembling, rush race among other examples, given are the L sound, which has a sleek gliding motion sound. And the G sound, which is gummy and gluttonous. I don't know when I think of GE, I think of good-looking greatness, gregarious, good humor, giant hammer George Monte. That's just me though. That's what I think. But you guys get the point, you know, if, if there's a proper name for things and each letter has a true meaning, didn't shouldn't you apply that letters true. Meaning to the object. Another way to think about it is that formation of names or words from sounds that resemble those associated with the object or action to be named, or that seemed naturally suggestive of its qualities. The example given is cuckoo, and there are many other words such as plop click buzz per his, him, and ha, which are obvious attempts at imitating a sound similar. Our temp, similar attempts are made in all languages. The question which then arises is to what extent these imitative sounds influenced the meanings of the longer composite words in which they occur. A previous essay on the poetical alphabet forms a chapter in a book called pleura verse American philosopher, Benjamin Paul blood. He begins by telling of a discussion he once had as to why an icicle could not fiddly be called a tub nor vice versa. It is in the nature of its name. He concluded for a tub to be short and stubby, whereas an icicle sound spindly and slim at the sound of icicle to irrational mind throws up the word bicycle, which is also spindly and often cold explaining, perhaps the popular acceptance of that word, to name a pedal crank to Wheeler. You see what's going on there, the nature of a word, the, the letters of that word, put an idea in your head, and that idea should be congruent with the object that it explains, right? Like plop click buzz per hiss. These are words that are imitations of sound. So shouldn't the names of things that we have imitate. It's an interesting concept. And it, if it is indeed true, it just shows how far we've fallen from using the language appropriate to explain our environment. When you think about names, you remember when you were in kit, you were a kid and certain people got made fun of, you know, one thing I've noticed here in, in Hawaii, and this is a little bit about what we're talking about and it's about culture, but it's a, it's it straddles the fence between what we're talking about in culture. Sometimes people that come to the United States, they come from like a, an Asian culture where the Alphabet's different and it's difficult for people in the United States to pronounce names of different alphabets. And so that person will take on an American name. There was a guy on my route that was, I think he was Chinese. And his last, he took, he took the moniker. He, his American name was Peter pan, right? Which every American kid has seen Peter pan. And so it goes without saying that, no, it's just a lack of like, he didn't understand this culture. People didn't understand his culture. However, because he, that name is stuck in the American lexicon as like a, as a, the boy who never grew up, all of a sudden that image is tied to it. Therefore this guy from China is imitating Peter pan. Like he can't escape that he chose the wrong name, but it goes, it goes to what I'm talking about as far as, you know, if you're, if you're on the playground or you're naming a child, you know, when you're naming a kid, you got to think of like, Oh man, is, if I named it, if I named my girl Paulie, she's going to be perk Paulie or depressing Deandre or bill blunt or Willie week, or cheeky Charlie or big Bertha or slippery said, you know, there's, there's certain words that fit together that can be humorous. And if you're not thinking about that, when your name and your kid, you can subset them to hours and hours of torment on the playground. You know, you know, this may seem childish and erotic, but behind such trivialize, a feature of language, which poets have always more or less consciously acknowledged names and words are made up of sounds. And each sound has some kind of natural meaning expressing any Woking, a certain human emotion. In some cases, even the shapes of letters, the serpentine sibilant S for example, seem to accord with the sounds. They denote academic linguists and etymologists amid they're serious studies of secular durations and verbal migrations have no time for such a whimsical notions, but to a poet, this oral approach to language is all important. Every sensitive writer is concerned, not only with the proclaimed meaning of words, but also with their esoteric subliminal qualities, their pitch and ring, and the irrational feelings produced by the sound. And sometimes by the side of them, that's, that's kind of a mouthful like, but it's true. If you're in tune with your language, you cannot deny that some words have irrational feelings produced by the sound. Some words have subliminal qualities, their pitch, and their ring. Just the very sound of some words can cause you to feel a certain thing. And that's never, it's never talked about, imagine if you were a kid and at a young age, you begun to learn what the sounds of letters evoke. What if right from the beginning in school, you learned that the letter S it's it's serpentine nature, it's sibling as like, look at it. Like if you think of an S it kind of looks like a snake. What is the word? Snake start with an S the serpent surreptitious, seductive salacious, S S that's a sound of snake makes like the letter S embodies that particular emotion that the snake produces, thus, the snake or the serpent is a great symbol of the letter. S every letter has something like that. And what happens when you could string those letters together to form the right names for the right object? I would argue that if you're able to do that, the world would make more sense to you. Not only would the world make more sense to you, if you could learn to speak in such language, people around you would be amazed, the sentences you would stitch together. The words that you could flip off the end of your tongue would dazzle the masses. It's an art form. And if kids could learn at an early age, how to master that, which they can the world to be a better place. I think that that's a pretty good spot for that. That's kind of the beginning of, of the Trivium that we're going to work into a little bit upcoming we'll can go through a bunch of letters. I, I do have a little bit here on the, like, so we talked about S let me read you a little bit about the letter, a vowels hold emotions and feelings while continents hold thoughts, and the intellect, a Japanese Sage gives the explain explanation of why people falling off building shout, ah, on their way downwards. It is because they naturally wish to ascend. And the, ah, sound is characteristic of uplift. Whether in body or spirit a gives a sense of alacrity, of active, happy alert, agile attentive, aware, awake, lads, and lasses. The appropriate bird is the Lark, which might thus be addressed. Audacious avian arise, ascend a loft to Azor skies, alert to your angelic strain or aspirations soar a gain. So you can see that the proper application, the proper use of language and understanding grammar, understanding the power of each letter, how it influences people, how it, what emotion it might be able to evoke. If you knew what letters evoked, what emotion, then you would know which words to use to tell people, to get the desired response, fundamentally changing the way people communicate. In fact, that should be, that would be an awesome legacy, right? What if your legacy was fundamentally changing the way people communicate? I would like that to be my legacy. I would like to help as many people as I can fundamentally change the way they communicate, not only so that they have better relationships, not only so that their life is more fulfilling, because it would make the world a better place. Well, my friends it's time for me to get on out of here. I love you guys. Thank you for listening today. Thank you for going way out on the Wu tree branch of high speculation. We had a nice bird's eye view from that branch. And as the foundational branch began to break, we jumped down from the tree and landed into the linguistic arts of language. I hope you're able to take a little bit from this. I hope that there was some argument, argumentative augmentations you can make along the way, and I hope that you can change your relationships and change your life and teach your kids some of what we learned. So I love you guys Aloha.

Speaker 0 (0s): Woo. Good morning, Monday, Monday, Monday, Monday. Well, you be go start another week, right? I'm going to try to be like a James Brown and get on the good foot. Right? Remember that song gotta get on the good foot. How'd you guys. We can do anything fun. I did. I did some cool stuff. I did some cool stuff. I got some time to think about a few things about, about our place in this world about interacting and transitioning and learning. Maybe judging, maybe some empathy. It seems to me that right now, our country, our world is in a pretty big transformation. In fact, when you start thinking about that, you go, yeah, there's a lot of things changing right now, but isn't that always the case. Isn't things always changing. It just seems that now things are changing at a pace that has picked up steam. And it's hard to, it's hard to understand where you're supposed to go. Unless you have a map it's hard to understand the right place to be at. Unless you have a guide it's difficult to know where you're going to end up, unless you can study about history or you can, unless you can understand where people before you have been in the same situation and what they've done. It also seems to me like there's a pretty big gap in demographics and, and intergenerational ideas. So what I mean by that is that people who are in authority positions tend to be, especially now, there seems to be a really big gap between like those people run in for mayor right now in Hawaii that are 90 years old, 75 years old. And while I'm not, I'm sure those people have a lot of good ideas. However, I'm not sure that there are, there are in touch with what the youth of today want the world to look like in the future. And it seems to me Speaker 1 (3m 0s): That you know, what, what it seems to me that a lot of the older generation, you know, they're living longer and they're, they're healthy. And they, they want to contribute to the world. They want to make their Mark. They they're beginning to think about their legacy and they, they want there to be a little bit of some of the great things in the future that was in their life. And so they're trying to make those things happen by clinging to power and staying in roles of leadership and, and leveraging their finances and their authority to stay in positions of power. And I think it's detrimental to the society at this point in time because the youth don't want what a lot of the older generation ones, you know, my, my nephew he's 10 years old and he was talking to his mom the other day. And he, this is what he told. This is what he told her. He says, mom, I don't understand why the people got to go and work so much and have so little, you know, why, why is it that corporations just don't hire twice as many people and give half the people six months off. And then the other people have six months off and you can, I mean, on some levels, it's a naive perspective, but it's pretty beautiful, right? Why not? Why not allow people the freedom to be creative? Why not allow people to have the ability to explore their inner nature and explore their own dreams. Now you can say, Oh George, when no one has to work for anybody, you're free to go out and explore and start whatever you want. Yeah. Kind of, kind of, but you don't get to pick who your parents are. You don't get to pick where you're born at. And if you come from a family that has it as well to do, it's much easier to go out and start something. Then if you come from a place of poverty, however, I'm kind of getting away from myself a little bit. I think that there's a, a road we could take where the older generation could maintain a high level of relevance and also, and also create a better place international bond. And I think we're missing in our society is like a Rite of passage. If you study like a lot of the Indian cultures and a lot of other cultures, you know, like in the South American culture is like a girl turns 15 and she has like a keen scene yet. All right, well, she becomes a woman like the Jewish boys have the bar mitzvah, come on, man. Some of the Indian culture, they had like a vision quest where they would go the men and they would, they would go out for their first hunt or they would be exposed to some sort of mind altering situation where it was signified that they were brought in to the next level of their life. And I don't think kids have that today. No, you could argue that the college experience is a of, but if that's the case, then not enough of our kids are getting the Rite of passage. And that's something that the older generation could do. They could develop a set. They could, we could develop as a society. As older generations, we could develop a Rite of passage that would simultaneously show the child. Hey, you've become part of the group. Now your roles have changed. You are no longer able to engage in, engage in activities that don't benefit the group as a whole. I mean, you can have your free time and stuff like that, but now you are going to, Hey, look, now you're a man. Now your responsibilities lay in providing service and providing for the betterment of the community. I think the Rite of passage serves a lot of things. It establishes a group cohesiveness. It establishes respect for your elders. It establishes, it establishes respect for, for the elder group, but it gives them purpose. It helps the younger generation to understand that, Hey, these guys that have gone before me have been in similar situations and are the best people to help me. It nurtures the mentor, mentee relationship. There's quite a few different ways to have a Rite of passage. I was reading this book and they were talking about how in this particular culture, when a boy turns 12, know he's free to do whatever he wants and play and learn. But when he turns 12, the men in the village, they dress up like demons and ghosts. And prior to the child's 12 year old birthday, the people begin telling the child, you know, there comes a time in a boy's life where his mom can't protect him and the spirits of the village come for him. And they kind of start psyching this kid out. And the kid's like, what, what are you telling me this for? And then on his 12th birthday, the men dressed up like spirits and goes, they come into the boys house and they, they awaken them. Right? And they start scaring them and they're like, the boy starts freaking out. So he runs over and tries to hide behind his mom and his mom. I mean, she knows what's happening. So she tries to protect them a little bit. But then the boy has wrestled away by the ghost in the spirits who are the men in his family. And they take him out into the forest and they, they then begin the initiation, the Rite of passage. And there's all these trials and tribulations that he has to go through for multiple days upon after graduating the trials, after being taught that the spirits and the people dressed up as demons are really the men in his family and the spirits and demons that attacked him are the forces of nature that will try to corrupt him. Then he begins to understand the nature of the Rite of passage. And it's beautiful in that the men are dressed up like the forces of nature, like greed and lust and corruption. And each man teaches the boy, be aware of this beware of beware of greed. You could have all of this, but you'll lose all that. And so it's just amazing what can be taught to a young individual's mind if five or six men or a female, mind to five or six women are able to take that child and show them the Rite of passage. Like, listen, you're moving onto this next spot of your life. Here are the things that are going to affect you, but not only tell the child, but act them out. So you, you communicate on a multitude of different levels. What's coming in life. How to be a better man, how to be a better woman. And it just seems to me that in today's society, we've gotten away from the right of passage. Speaker 0 (12m 50s): Let me ask you this question. If you, and I pretend that a tail is a leg, how many legs does a dog have? What are you thinking five Wrong? My friend, you're wrong. If you and I pretend to tail is a leg, Then a dog still has four legs, right? It doesn't matter what you and I have. Pretend it doesn't matter what a group of people pretend It matters. What people believe it matters, what people perceive the truth to be. And you can ask a child how many legs a dog has. And that's how I we'll say four, because just cause you and I agreed on something, doesn't make it right, just because you and I agreed on something, doesn't make it true. Speaker 1 (13m 59s): It's an important concept Speaker 0 (14m 6s): Too often. People in positions of authority too often us in our life, we decide to make a tail, a leg. We decide to perceive the world in a way that is inaccurate. We decide to come up with solutions that are not solutions. And when you do that, when you take the path of a non solution, it's going to lead you to real problems, regardless of what you pretend. I think that's something that is detrimental, not only in, in the individual's life, but in the life of a community, in the life of a government, in the life of a business. We just go down these, these rabbit holes of abstract thought, which it's amazing human mind has the capability of such abstraction. However, it sometimes keeps us from changing the harsh realities that need our attention. A lot of times I think about our monetary system and, and how it, you know, money is such an, it has become this abstract idea. I've heard people well define money as a store of value or a medium to exchange goods. However, I think it could be better described as a set of lies. Agreed upon. I often think of like, I've been thinking a lot about cryptocurrencies and what can that change the monetary system? And if it does change the monetary system, what does that mean for the individual? Does that mean that we're going to have more rights? We'll pay less taxes, we'll have more freedom to purchase things that we want. Okay. We'll be less able to be bought off by lobbyists and greedy politicians. That's the hope for cryptocurrency? However, I don't know. I don't know how it's it's, it's an, yeah, it's really abstract. And one of the major criticisms against cryptocurrency is that there's nothing behind behind it. If you, if you look at some of the debates, it seems to be the major criticism from the nonbelievers in cryptocurrency is that there's nothing behind it. And there's no, there's no value. There's nothing there. And on some level I get it for a long time. I was persuaded by the idea that I can shit changing the money. Some can change our value system. And so I, I want to believe in the revolution of cryptocurrencies. I want to believe it's going to take us there. However, Speaker 1 (17m 50s): The more I listened to some of the leaders in cryptocurrency, particularly Bitcoin, it seems to me that it's just becoming a convoluted tool of change. And by that, I mean, it's going to change one set of leaders with another set of leaders. It seems that the majority of, of products being used by the cryptocurrencies now are these tools of speculation. You know, I can take, I can buy cryptocurrency and then give it to this cryptocurrency bank. And then they load it to other people to speculate with. And then I get a percentage of that. Excuse me. That's no different than what we already have. And if, if the new currency can be used to speculate like the old currency, what's the point of getting rid of the old currency? I guess you could say to flush out the old guard, Speaker 0 (19m 6s): Which Lord knows we need to do. Let me try to tie this all together here, the motivations of the young and the old rites of passage money in its old form, potential new ideas of money. I think the underlying foundation of all these things are the ideas, thoughts, and beliefs that motivate us whether consciously or unconsciously, which is the foundation of behaviorism, which is also a principle of propaganda. I'd like to read to you. It's a quick couple quotes from the book propaganda by Edward Bernays. This general principle that men are very largely actuated by motives, which they conceal from themselves is as true of mass. As of individual psychology, it is evident that the successful propagandist must understand the true motives and not be content to accept the reasons which men give for what they do. It is not sufficient to understand only the mechanical structure of society, the groupings and cleavages and loyalties. An engineer may know all about the cylinders and pistons of a locomotive, but unless he knows how steam behaves under pressure, he cannot make his engine run. Human desires are the steam, which makes the social machine work only by understanding them can the propagandists control the vast loose jointed mechanism, which is modern society. So, so often the things we do have multiple motives. We can look at something like grinding our way to the top and tell ourselves we do it because we want to provide for our family. We tell ourselves I don't, I don't know exactly if this is the right thing to do, but the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few. You know, we come up with these euphemisms or these things that we tell ourselves, you know, we come up with ideas like the tail is the leg, but if you take a few minutes, to be honest with yourself, I bet you can find a more deeper motive, a deeper meaning to why it is. You do the things you do. You know, maybe it's to have a feeling of power. Maybe it's a, an attempt to have the feeling of control over your life. And it's important to take time, to understand your motivation, because if you don't understand your own motivations, then there are people who will manipulate you because they understand your motivations. You know what I mean? By that, like a lot of times it's hard to see things when you're in the relationship, but it's easy to see it. If you're a third person, like everybody's had you ever had like a friend and they're in a relationship and you're like, Oh man, that's never going to work. And you just see all these red flags, but your friend in the relationship, they can't see him. And they don't understand like why these things are happening. And you're like, well, look, they're happening because of this. And depending on how much your friend cares about your opinion, he may or may not. Or she may or may not want to remain friends with you. But the point is it's, it's easy to see motivations from a third person, point of view. It's not easy to see him in a direct relationship. And the direct relationship I'm talking about is the relationship with yourself. There was a famous politician that kind of summarized leadership and politics in a few, in one statement, I'm going to give you that statement. And then I'm going to say it in a different way, but I want you to think about these two statements. I must follow the people. Am I not their leader? You see, there's a kind of a dichotomy there to say, I must follow. The people is absurd. I'm their leader. That's the statement that guy gave. So if he got criticism, like why are you not doing what the people want? He would say to them, why would I do those? Are I lead those people? I don't do what they say. The second statement is I must lead the people. Am I not their servant? So I'm going to read them both together, back to back. So you can just think about them. I must follow the people. Am I not their leader? I must lead the people. Am I not their servant? So it's kind of a fancy way of saying the same thing. And I think a lot, a lot of us have difficulty, truly interpretating interpreting that, that role of a leader. What does a leader do? Does a leader lead his people or does a leader do what's best for his people by listening to what they have to say? And at what point does the group get too big for the leader to listen to everybody? I would argue that most people begin to climb the ladder of leadership in an order to, I think it probably starts out as a need to want to help people. But I don't think you have to get too far up the ladder of leadership to realize that you're not going to make it to the top of the leadership ladder, unless you have a thirst for power and a thirst for power is a thirst that is rarely quenched. When you thirst for power, you begin to want power just for power sake. Right? Man takes the power power, takes the power power takes the man. When you start coming up with more ideas of, Hey, I'm the leader because people should just do what I say. Then you're surrounded by opulence. Are you surrounded by the means to create change? And you begin to think that, you know, more, you have more, you begin to think that you are in fact, the instrument of change. I think too many of our leaders have gotten to that place where they think I'm the leader. The people follow me. Therefore my ideas are what's best for the people. I think that's what God has gotten us into the conundrum we're in today. And I think you can protect yourself from that by truly understanding your own motivations. You can enhance your relationships by understanding the relationships you have with people around you, by understanding the motivations of the people around you. And that's why listening is so important. Like I catch myself all the time, thinking of things to say while people are talking and I'm trying desperately to end that pattern of nonsense because you know, you're not being fair to yourself. You're not being fair to the other person. And you're not being fair to the relationship. If you're not listening to what people say. And the more that I've cultivated this habit, the more I've been able to fundamentally change my relationships. You know, I was talking to some, one of my friends the other day and I feel I'm getting to the point where I can, where I am a better listener. And I actually could see my thoughts change, where we were having a conversation and I was listening. And instead of saying what I was going to say, I just listened. And that changed. That completely changed my rebuttal. It also makes you really aware of your patterns of thought. If you can do that, it takes a little bit of time, but just thinking about it now will become a seed that will grow into a pattern that will grow into a behavior. So if you pull anything from this lesson, just know that you should be conscious of your thoughts and be a good listener. So we've got for today, my friends, I love you. I'll be back tomorrow and we'll do it again. Aloha.

Objectification of humanityhttps://app.podscribe.ai/episode/483413990 Woo. It looks like we made it. We made it everybody. It's Friday, man. You believe it. Time flies when you're having fun. Tell you that much, huh? And no, one's having more fun than us. No one is having more fun than we are right now. I'm on my way to work. It's a beautiful day. Got us some coffee. Just trying to organize my Savage thoughts of the day you ever have. 00:00:370 Like just some like sometime, Oh man. Sometimes I think to myself, the way other people describe us may be eerily accurate. And in this instance I was thinking about Nick cannon and I got, I got to tell you, I want to say thanks to that guy. I don't really agree with a lot of the stuff you said, but the guy spoke his mind. 00:01:100 It may not be a solid foundation for an argument that I would put together. But the guy said what he thought was true. And he, he stands by it, man. You got to like it got to like it. And it makes me think about, you know, different races and different colors and different, you know, just different people have different ideas about other groups of people, You know? 00:01:420 And it doesn't mean they're wrong. It just means from where that particular person is standing, this is how the world looks. And if you want to get into like the Buddhist mindset, everybody, you are everyone. You, yeah. You, the guy, you, you young lady, you little young, sir, you are everyone. So everything you hear is an opinion about how you look from a different point of view. 00:02:150 I know that's a, it's a mouthful, but if you take time to dissect, it it'll make sense. And so like, if you think about Nick cannon gon these white people are savages. You know, a lot of people get mad and they're like, Hey, dammit. I'm not a Savage. You're a Savage. No, you're a set. No, you're a Savage. Like, just see, I don't look at it like that. Like I, I look at it like, okay, from where that guy is standing, his life experiences have taught him that, you know, these, some of these, I don't know. 00:02:490 I think he said white people were savages. And from where he's standing from his life experience, that is his truth. There's nothing wrong with his truth. Does it have to be your truth? It's his truth. But it got me thinking, you know, I think to myself like, Hm, you know, initially when you're younger, you, you get upset when someone says something because you think that they're, you think it's a, an ad hominem attack just leveled at you, but it's not. 00:03:210 It's just his truth. So I try to think about it objectively. And I'm like, are white people savages? And it, you know, what about Randy macho man Savage was that guy as Savage. That guy was definitely a Savage. Oh snap. And his LinnDrum is Elizabeth, right? His name was Randy macho, man Savage. And he was a white guy. 00:03:510 But how about in other areas are white people savages? Well, let's, let's think about criminals. Let's think about, I that's kind of a loaded term. Like we're all kind of criminals. However, let's look at the people that are incarcerated for crimes that are major. What if there was an award for best criminal bank robber who would win that? 00:04:240 It wouldn't be Willie Orton, even though that guy has a great line of, Hey Willie, why do you Rob banks? Because that's where the money is. It's where the money is. The best bank robbers are people like CEOs of banking companies. That's a great bank, Robert, because he doesn't see, he's taking his time to realize you can't break in the front door and hold up a squirt gun to a teller and ask for some money. 00:04:560 You don't get that much money, but if you infiltrate the system and take it over, you could take all the money. This is a way better way to Rob an institution. I don't condone robbing, even though I'm a Savage. But if you look at the people in positions of authority that commit white collar crime, I would argue that a large percentage of them are either white or Jewish. 00:05:380 If you look at serial killers, I think white people, when that one hands down. And if you think about it like that, all of a sudden Nick Cannon's ideas about savages kinda make sense. You know, even like I can't experience life from a different person's perspective, however I can pretend to. And so, you know, I look at myself as like, I think to myself, like I'm kind of a Savage, like I think crazy shit sometimes, especially if I'm tired or if like I'm a mad at something like sometimes I think a funny Savage, like I got to go every day at work. 00:06:280 I have to go through like this metal detector. And it's so asinine because the reason I have to go through the metal detector is because the people at my work are afraid. I'm going to come in with a gun and kill him. That's the main reason you have to go through a metal detector of my work. So get you like you gotta ask yourself, how does a company get to the point where they want their people to be patted down and have their belonging search for weapons? Like what the fuck does that mean about the company? 00:07:010 Okay, we got to put up this. We have to hire a private security team to check our employees, to make sure they won't kill us. That is Savage. That's a different kind of sandwich I'm saying as me coming in, like, I think it makes anybody coming in, feel automatically dehumanized. And then it just reinforces the feeling of negativeness or it reinforces the ideas that the people that are supposed to be your leaders don't trust you. 00:07:490 And that's the very first message we send to the employees when they come into the, to work. Hey, before you get into work, I just wanna let you know that. I think you might kill me and I don't trust you one bit. So a lot of times what happens is that the guys come in, they come in, they're in there, whether they're conscious or unconscious, they just, they get mad. Cause they don't like their shit searched. And then it I've seen guys blow up on the security guards that are searching their stuff and I've done it before. I've got all mad at him. 00:08:200 I'm like, dude, you here. Why don't you look at everything inside my bag here. This is a toothpick. I have 25 of them. Let's go over each toothpick in here. And I want you to say the name of the little color of plastic on the fucking toothpick as I pull them out and then we're going to count them. Right? And then you just hold up the line and there's 25 people behind me and I'm fucking going into, okay, this is toothpick. Number 75. What color is it? Okay. Now I want you to rename every color of toothpicks so far in this cricket. 00:08:530 It's like, do what the fuck are you talking about? And I'm like you to search through my shit. Right? Let's search through my shit. He here, you know? And then I think like, this is where like the Savage part comes in. Like now I carry some old underwear in my bag. It's clean, but nobody knows that. So now when the security guard wants to look through my bag, I pull out the old underwear and I'm like, Hey man, this is a pair of my old underwear. Sometimes I drink too much milk and like I fart, but a little bit of shit comes out and I just want you the security or to take a look at it and let me know if you think I should use like powdered soap or liquid soap, just, just smell it Rufus. 00:09:330 It doesn't smell bad. But I was wondering what, what would you use to get this shit stain out of my underwear? You know what I mean? Like the fact that I would think about that and potentially have that in my bag. So I could pull off that maneuver is fucking Savage and it's not that guy's fault. He doesn't want to look at my shitty underwear. He probably doesn't want to look at my back. He probably doesn't want to be at work. But the fact that my, where I work at is so afraid I'm going to come in and kill him. 00:10:050 Like they're setting the tone for that. I would never, ever hurt or kill anybody. However, it's just weird to me that where you work has to be worried about that. Maybe instead of being worried about their employees, doing something negative to them, maybe they should change the policies in which the people feel like they're dehumanized enough, hurt them. Right. Right. 00:10:380 Now this is starting off to be a good morning, man. I, I started off, I was going to have an awesome idea about Fridays and language. And here I am talking about negative things going on and okay, let's, let's fast forward a little bit. Where do we go from here? 00:11:140 So that leaves me. It's actually, you know what? It actually is a really good segue. It segues into what I want to get into. And what I'm passionate about is language, right? The policies that dehumanize, what are policies, policies are a set of rules or language that lays out the structure of the environment. 00:11:520 In previously, we had talked a lot about change your language, change your life. We have talked about how the ideas you have, the thoughts you have become ideas, become feelings, become patterns, become habits, and that all starts with your thoughts. And that's why it's important to watch your thoughts. 00:12:310 So getting back to language, you know, in language, in our language, the English language, you know, I remember being in high school and, and thinking to myself, probably because it just didn't seem like an interesting subject to me. And you could blame, I could blame the teacher. I could blame my, it doesn't matter who you blame. For whatever reason. When I went to school, English was not interesting to me. I thought to myself, I already speak English the hell do I got to learn it for, I don't get it. 00:13:060 I can already speak this. You know, you got people like the dangling part of simple as over here, all the verb goes here. This is an adverb. For whatever reason, I didn't find it exciting. But now that I'm older, I begin to understand that how you structure your language, you structure your life. And whether you choose to do it consciously or unconsciously, you're still structuring it. 00:13:430 And as we read yesterday, we look, we know we're also working on language and social engineering, because language is a huge part of social engineering. So let me define how language is a is a key component in social engineering and the English language. We have the subject object relationship, right? This part of the grammatical structure, the subject is the person or thing, doing something. 00:14:140 And the object is having something done to it. Does that make sense? So I love you. I would be the subject. You would be the object and that's how our language is laid out. If you look at the structure of language and the way in which we talk to one another, then you will see one person is usually being the subject and the other person is being the, and so when you think about subject and object, not only in linguistic terms, but in reality, what is an object? 00:15:110 An object is something that you do something to. Let's say that object is the ball. I take the ball and I throw the ball. The ball is the object, but what, what, you know, what is, here's the soccer ball? I take a soccer one. I kicked a soccer ball. It's an object. It's easy to, you could kick a soccer ball. You could punch a punching bag, right? The punching bag is the object. 00:15:420 See, it's easy. And then, and then here we go. That's what it means. When we objectify women. I know people have heard that term, right? That's kind of what porn does. Porn objectifies women. It turns them into an object and everybody knows that one. Everybody knows the term objectifying women, but that's just the beginning. What we've done is we've objectified humanity. 00:16:130 Does that make sense? There's this, the subject object relationship of grammar has fundamentally changed in a negative way. Our societal structure of relationships, the language we use subject object creates a world where people are inferior. The subject object relationship creates a world in which there can be no semblance of equality. 00:16:490 The subject and object are not equal. They will never be equal. It's our language that is holding us back in life. It is our language that is not allowing us to reach to the levels of prosperity that people deserve to have regardless of their skin color. It's our language that is limiting us. 00:17:230 No, I was talking to a couple of friends of mine last night and just a real quick side note. I love all you guys. I love you guys. I have this one friend that can fix goddamn anything. And it's so infuriating because I can't fix shit. I mean, I could put some duct tape on things, you know, I can rig it. So with a work, but I fucking make it look like new. 00:17:540 And I have one friend that makes it look so effortlessly and I love him, but I get so mad cause he can do it and I can not really mad, but there was one instance where we were, I think we were working on my we're trying to move my washer and dryer and, and drill a hole and stuff. And like, you know, I was working on his goddamn thing all day. And then I finally called that guy and break down and he comes over and he's like, he did the equivalent. Like I've been working on something for hours. And he did the equivalent of just turning the nut, like 15 degrees. 00:18:290 And it was perfect, you know? And it just dawned on me. When I think about that, it's like all the profound, it seems to me that a lot of the profound leaps forward in our society, haven't been this new ID or have a, been this grand scheme. They've just been a small tweak on something we already have. 00:18:590 And I think that that's our language and it gets me back to a previous talk. I gave about where we need a new dimension in language. And I think there's something to adding a prefix and a suffix to language that would denote intent. Right. And as I'm, as I'm mowing this over in my head, you know, I think that intent is a problem because we have so many people right now using ambiguous language that say all these things. 00:19:400 That don't mean anything, all these euphemisms and all of this just junk and there's industries surrounded by it, all this maritime law and all these certain ways of speaking in a court that allow you to have control of the floor and these formal argumentation strategies and the Trivium. And like, you know, just all these ways of getting out of what you're supposed to fucking do. 00:20:170 Is there some form of, of getting back to basics? You know, in some ways I think to myself, our language has deteriorated because people have tried to find ways to simplify it, to make people responsible. You know what I mean? By that, like if you sign an insurance contract, they, you have all this literature. 00:20:470 And then at the end they say, look, we've got, you're totally covered unless there's an act of God. And you're like, what? He's like, yeah, it sounds pretty good. Right. Listen, man, we're going to pay you a million dollars if your house, if this happens. Or if that happens, if this happens, we're going to, we've got you covered, man, you got the, you got a golden platinum plated fucking appall policy right here, man. You got it. And I'm like, yeah, what's the, what's the last line again? Oh, the last line says, unless there's an act of God, what the fuck is that? 00:21:200 Well, that would be like, if there was an act of God would be something where we don't want to pay you. We see, we just wanted to leave a little bit of wiggle room in case we want to tell you to go get fucked. Well then why would I pay you anything? Listen, man, you got to have insurance. It's the fucking law. You said like that is, is why we could change. We need to get rid of this ambiguous language. 00:21:510 And I think if we could use a suffix or a prefix, we could have new language or a contract where Hey, this contract is written in fifth dimension language using the X prefix, thus anything written in this contract, it was written with an intent to not have malice there for there's no act of God where they, where you won't pay me. I signed on for insurance. 00:22:220 You said, you'd do it. Fuck you pay me comprende day. Now I know what you're thinking. You're like, well, what about fraud, George? Rather the guy who fucking burned his house down, we'll see that the, the new language, the, the prefix would denote the insurance company having intent. 00:22:590 And then the suffix would be the guy that had intent that it's a, it's an extreme honorific form of language. So the insurance company that would fucking agree to this policy, they would pay you regardless of what happened, the person who filed for the claim. If there's malice, the penalty for that guy is death or you committed fraud. 00:23:340 We're going to kill your fucking family. And the same thing for the insurance company. Listen, are you going to fuck this guy up here? We're going to kill you. You entered into the fifth dimension, prefix suffix contract with honorific language. If you don't abide by it, you die. How about that? I would sign on to that con like I would, I would be the guy that do, I'm not going to burn my house down. 00:24:080 So fuck you pay me right. I think that would get us away from the ambiguous language. I'm not sure that that gets us away from the subject object. Part of the relationships though. And I need to work more on that. I need to try and figure out how we get away from the subject object relationship. And one thing you might be able to do. I was talking to another friend of mine and we were talking about how, remember when, when Google was a noun, it was a Google. 00:24:470 It was a noun. It was the name of a company. But because Google is a search engine, it became a verb. It went from a noun to a verb. We changed the noun to a verb. And what happened when Google the noun turned into Google, the verb, you know what happened? They switched their motto from don't be evil. They took that out. So could you make the argument that when we change our language from nouns to verbs, it changes the very idea. 00:25:310 It changes the structure. It changes the mission statement. It changes the good intentions behind the word. It changes the intent of the word, changing the changing a noun to a verb, changes, intent. See, that's going to fit in somewhere. That's going to fit in into the intent of language. It's going to change it somewhere. I know this is rough. 00:26:010 I'm just working this out of my head. I don't, I don't know if I'm going to post this, but this is are just, these are, this is how I work it out. It's how I work it out. So changing. And why not? Why can't we change more nouns to verbs if we change nouns to verbs. And if we change other parts of words to different structures, and we know it changes intent, won't that also change the way we operate in life. 00:26:370 If we follow the premise that the world is made of language, and now we begin using our language in a different way, how can it not have profound effects on the way we see and operate in the environment? It has to, it has to, you know, one extreme form of the subject object relationship is these fucking God damn weirdos on TV. 00:27:090 It's not fair to always pick on the Kardashians in some ways. I'm sorry. Like, I feel so horrible for them. Like, but they are objects, right? That's an object. Like how much money? Like think about the sun. Like the subject is the company that owns the object. So if we say Kylie Jenner is a product owned by fucking Lord knows how many people own a piece of that fucking object. 00:27:410 However, the subjects control her. Like that's why she pays people to have her babies imagine fucking that. Like you are a woman who is a fucking object and you're so worried about your body changing. You're going to pay someone else to have your fucking baby. Yep. That's so fucking twisted. Every man who's had a kid has put his hand on the stomach of the woman. 00:28:130 He loves and been like, get goosebumps and think to themselves. That's my child in there. Do you think like Kylie Jenner's fucking, I don't even, I don't know. Can you imagine a woman who pays another woman to have a baby? I guess I should qualify it with, you know, if, if a woman can't have a baby that's different, but a woman who's completely capable of having her own baby, but has enough money to pay another woman to have her baby. Do you think the husband goes over there and puts the hand on the stomach of the surrogate? 00:28:450 I'm like, that's kinda my baby in there. Do they go over together and do it like, think about how sick of a society we have to be? Well, a woman would rather not wreck her fucking body and have more money. That's what I mean by like, our society is so sick that the people who appear to be thriving are the sickest. 00:29:200 It's so twisted. You know, I, on a related subject, I, I was looking at like, if I want to take a video, okay, this is kind of sinister, but it's, I think it's informative. Let's say that. I want to promote a video I do on Facebook or Instagram or pick your poison. I can pay those companies. 00:29:520 Say, let's just go with something like a, let's say I pay Facebook a hundred bucks and they say, no problem. Hundred bucks. We'll show your ads. 20,000 people in 10 days. Would you like to pick your target demographics? Okay. Again with the language target, demographics, target demographics, target demographics, the fuck. 00:30:260 Does that mean first off? You want to target some people? When I think of a target, I think of a gun site, right? Hey, I put a target on that. Guy's back. Let's target the people we want to buy this. There's almost an implicit threat. When you target something, it's almost like you want to kill it or you want to shoot it. You want to nail it. You want to hit it. Hitting is violence. The word target implies violence, target demographics. 00:31:030 What are demographics? Oh, well demographics is a way that we, as a corporation are able to quantify and qualify a subset of the population who is most likely to respond to what you're saying. Hmm. So tell me more. Oh, okay. So let's say that I want to sell some shoes to a group of people that really want to buy shoes. 00:31:370 Okay. How would you do that? Well, I would find a guy that is charismatic. I would find a guy that is maybe serves an ability to have a huge name, that we can build a story behind and is successful. 00:32:080 Okay. What kind of story could we build? Well, let's, let's, let's find somebody who likes shoes. People that love sports, love shoes. They gotta have them. Okay. People that work now, everybody needs shoes. Okay. Well let's for this particular exercise, let's find a group of athletic men who want to wear shoes and we could, we could find someone that stands up for the rights of these particular people. 00:32:430 And maybe, maybe, I don't know. I kind of lost myself there, man. I don't know. There's so fucking fucked up to me. Like, like how does Colin Kaepernick stand up and talk about different race relations? When he works for a goddamn company who has slave fucking labor, Colin, fuck face you fucking retard. 00:33:200 You have the opportunity to be a God damn phenomenal civil rights leader. And yet you are going to take millions of dollars from a company of fucking white people who employ fucking slaves in third world countries. You'll fucking dickhead. How can your message have any fucking bearing? You have zero weight in your fucking arguments, dumb ass. Why don't you fucking tell Nike to go get fucked? 00:33:530 And then your message will have something because you don't have the fucking balls to tell the people, giving you money. They're wrong. You'll stand up and fucking run your mouth to people that don't matter. But when you fucking go face to face with the fucking very slave owner, that's fucking sending you a check. You stick your tail between your legs and run like a fucking coward, right? It makes me so upset. Like if you want to know a phenomenal civil rights leader, you should look at Muhammad Ali. 00:34:280 Like if I could talk to Colin Kaepernick, I would say, Colin, why don't you start watching some fucking videos of Muhammad Ali? You have any idea how articulate that guy was. You have any idea, the fucking messages that guy was putting out to the community that he cared about. And then it just goes to show you how owned the fucking messages, how owned that is. It's ridiculous, man. And it makes me mad to see people I care about regardless of their color, listening to a guy whose message comes from the very people they're claiming to fucking be away from. 00:35:090 If you just, you know, if you just take your fingernail and scraped through the cold grease is pretty easy to wipe away the fucking gunk and see what's happening. I don't know. I just, I don't get it 00:35:421 Anyways. I love you guys. Oh, LA. 

Speaker 0 (0s): Whoo. Hey, guess what? It's Thursday. It's Thursday. Everybody was so close to the weekend. We're so close, man. We're like at the one checkpoint away, prepare to qualify. Hey guys, feeling out there. Cause feeling good another day. And the next day of your today's the next day of your dream life. I don't know what the hell does that even mean today is the next day in your life. That sounds a little bit more on point, right? I guess that's at least honest. I've been doing a lot more thinking about social engineering and I want, I want everybody to read. I read these books. I want people to read the book. Well, propaganda by Edward Bernays. I want people to read the book. Never split the difference by boss. I want people to read the book, nudge by Cass, Sunstein and Richard Thaler. I want people to read the book Pre-Suasion by Cal beanie only after reading these books. Can you truly understand the dangerous beauty of propaganda only after truly understanding the mechanisms of action, which we truly think about things. Can you begin to manipulate things? And if you're listening to this podcast that I got to think that you share a curiosity and a, a unique affinity for manipulation, especially once you realize you've been being manipulated your whole life, what you think about God, what'd you think about family? What you think about race, what you think about school and education and family and gender and orientation. Like these are only the rare few people who take time to go through the books and go through the annals of history. Can truly understand the level of manipulation that's happening. And I don't really claim to be one of those people I'm learning. I mean, just like everybody else, I got to tell you though, there's times where the more time you start reading these books and then you just get blinds signed it like blindsided by something happens and it's man, it makes you want to cry almost like you can see the systematic district over our society happening right in front of our eyes. And I don't know if it's something that's been planned or if it's just the fact that the social engineers got lazy or if, no, maybe it's the it's like in the Qur'an instead of, you know, the Sunni Shia split, right? The reason those two groups fight each other is because one group believes that that the direct descendant of Muhammad should have been the leader. And the other group believes that the law Tom is number one confidant. And the reason I bring that up is the people in charge of power today. Instead of handing off the torch, just the most capable people of being in charge, they handed it off to their families and I get it. I got a family, man. I mean, who doesn't want their family to be better. And I guess that kind of brings up a, that brings up a, an interesting point. Are you going to hand it off to your kid or are you going to hand it off to them? The person that can move the ball forward? I don't think anybody really knows until you get to that point where you have to decide. So, but the propaganda is a, I want to, I want to try and be the guy that pulls back the curtain on the wizard of Oz. Remember that movie, the wizard of Oz, all powerful. It can do anything, but when you pull back the curtain, it's like a little short Rumpelstiltskin, that's greedy and selfish and ugly. And it's just been corrupted by power greed. And I think you can do, I think that now more than ever, it's easier to see the people driving the wedge between us. It's important to think about over the last year or a couple years, the powers or the media. Let's just say the media, the propagandists, the media, how they've been fanning, the flames of divisive tools like racism, group identity and equality. I'm not saying they don't exist. I'm not saying they don't exist. What I'm saying is that by the media constantly talking about it and constantly putting a huge spotlight on cases where it happens. It makes both groups, the group in question, and the other groups, whether they be perpetrators or victims, it makes those two groups at odds and it makes both groups easily. Manipulatable. Does that make sense? The purpose of the media is not to inform you. It is to control the way you think it's an invisible. The purpose of propaganda is to be an invisible government that forms your thoughts. It forms your tastes and it forms your worldview. Right? I think about it. So many of us are so busy. We got families, we have problems in relationships. We have problems with money. We have problems with work. We have problems with communication. You know, we, we rely on these so called experts to keep us informed. But what if the experts don't want you to see the truth? What if they want to show you a certain mythological view? And you can, you can argue the point that every country has a skewed view to further represent their country and their people in their values and on some level. That's obviously true. However, as of lately, I think everyone, regardless of your race could agree that the level of division between us right now is he mess. What is the reason for that? Is it because there's no money? Is it because the policies that have been enacted are not working? Is it the false promise of tech? If you, if you talked to Peter teal, that's what he'll tell you. I don't know if he tell you that, but you can watch some videos where he talks I'll be at somewhat cryptically about problems of today's economy is that there is a huge stagnation in technology. There's been no new ideas. You may think. Well, I don't know, George, I've got a new iPhone and I got a there's this new silicone chip in my computer. And it was a lot faster. Yeah, still a computer smaller. What does it do though? If you walked into a room and 2020, and you took out all the, all the screens, iPad, computer phone, that room would be almost indistinguishable from a room in 1950. So we've, there's this one idea is that there is this concerted effort to, to keep people fighting so that they don't see how much we've been lied to nor the Jetsons George Jetson, his boy, El Rowan Jane, his wife do do, do to do remember. They live in the sky pad apartments up in the, they were like Lando Calrissian. Remember in sky city, the Jetsons had flying cars. We don't even have self driving cars. Remember that five years ago, 10 years ago, no, everyone's going to be automated out of work. There are no jobs for you, all the, all the fast food workers, man, you're going to have flippy. The robot are making your burgers. Where's that? I'll see it. I wrote an article yesterday that talked about the, you know, the, a digital arm that makes hamburgers, you know, how much that piece of shit costs, that fucking thing costs like eight grand and then a $1,500 a month service fee. Think about that. I'm not sure. I'm not sure that's going to replace a 40 year old migrant worker who was willing to work for peanuts and come in every day and never call in sick. I'm not sure that that arm, that $1,500 service fee, you know where all the, Oh, sorry about that. We had a new software crash or, or, you know what? We've got a, we got some probably been hacked. I'm not sure that that promise of automation is going to pan out. In fact, we've been automating stuff for 200 years. We haven't audit. We haven't automated the way teachers, we haven't automated away service jobs. So if you know, if you like a finger nail through cold grease, you can easily wipe away the fucking bullshit about automation. It ain't coming. It ain't coming right. All this bullshit about fogging, Oh man. The new economy, the gig economy. Nope. Right here. And that's what I think a lot of the propaganda is being used for is that, Hey, guess what? There's no growth. And what you know, I'm not saying growth is, excuse me. I'm guessing growth is the catch. All that helps or is the answer. But I know this when everybody's making money, there's a lot of those problems, right? When everybody's got a little bit, we don't fight amongst ourselves. The one there's no money. All of a sudden the of division are drawn. And I think, I think that the people on the top are scared out of their minds because they know they're going to be the first ones to fall. Just the term bankster everybody knows what that means. Who are the people that run the media? Who are they? Are they overrepresented? Is there a certain group that runs the media? There's a certain group that owns the sports teams. I don't know. But I think that the media right now is having a difficult time trying to spin the anger in a fashion that helps them pay attention to what's being said, you can see that the, the anger is focused on the people at top. I mean, there's, there are some things that all communities in the United States agree on and we don't ever talk about that. Right? We don't ever talk about that. You're not allowed to talk about that. I like there's some, I really liked some of Jordan Peterson stuff about 12 rules for life. And I like some of this stuff, but there's areas where that guy wouldn't even touch. And then it just kind of brings into question his whole, tell yourself the truth. I don't want to get too much into that, but you should look into it. Another thing to think about that I've been thinking about is, is how sick is our society, right? Like you could argue, we've been declining for some time. You could argue it's the stagnation you could argue. It's no growth. You could argue that it is the, the fact that so many of us, we don't participate in life. Instead we, we spectate, right? Like, man, don't get me wrong. Some we gonna get mad at this, but I like sports. You know, I go to apply to go to a pottery game, go to a chargers game. I got a, I got a Doug Flutie Jersey, but as I'm come on, man, as a man, you're going to put on another man's Jersey. Really? Speaker 1 (14m 52s): You're going to you as a man. You're going to wear the Jersey of another man. Why don't you be your own man? I, you know, if you're a kid or whatever, man, you got an idol. I get it. You know, when I was in high school, I used to wrestle, right? I got a Letterman's jacket. You who wore my, let him his jacket, my girl, a girl, woman, let him his jacket. It was like a point of pride. Like this is my man right here. The reason I bring all that up is we're so involved in spectator. Like there's a term called spectator sports. The hell is that you're a professional spectator, the armchair quarterback, Hey, let's quit watching and start playing. You know what I mean? By that, I get it. Like sometimes the monotony of the world and the bullshit you got to go through. You just want to have a beer and watch a game or just take a few minutes to decompress and not be part of the world around you because it's so chaotic and you just need a break. I get it. I'm not against, I'm not against that kind of stuff. I like, I like watching boxing and I like you. I used to watch the UFC. I don't really watch it too much anymore since ESPN took it over. But, and it's not that those things are toxic. It's the, it's the, it's the fact that we've gone from doing to spectating. You know what I mean, by that it's bread and circus bread and circus. And if you look at the Roman empire, you can see that they've implemented the Coliseum and bread and circus. When they were on their downswing. In fact, number Caligula, he was the Roman emperor and he was just, he was demented in that he was demanded by excess, nothing exceeds like excess, right? But he had the boat with all like just the perversions and the heat. He was to the Caligula was to the Romans. What Jeffrey Epstein is to us. And the fact that you can draw such a similar parallel, I think speaks to the fact that we are in a similar time. Most people see the United States as that as the title, the United States, but the United States is an empire. We have bases all around the world. And when you look at it like that, if you just look at it from the constitution and the bill of rights and the United States, the foreign policy makes zero sense. But if you look at the United States as an imposter, in which all the countries pay our politicians to make decisions on their behalf, it begins to make sense. Oh, I see why we're over there because this country wants us to kill these people. Oh, they give us money. So we give them arms. Oh, I see we, we want to secure the natural resources of that country for our business and our friends and business and other countries and us as us as the citizens of America, all that's being done in our name and all of that is while widely available to read and learn about it's discouraged to learn about why would you want to, why would you want to learn about that when you can watch the playoffs? Why would you want to think about how we currently have secured one third of Syria, America, we America us. We own one third of Syria right now. Why would you want to start thinking about that kind of garbage when you can, you know, watch a football game, it's hard, it's hard to pay attention to that stuff. It's difficult to, to have any idea about that kind of stuff. When you were worried about your kids or you're worried about your relationships and you're worried about doing the right thing. However, if we don't worry about it, you know, we get, we get what we deserve, we get what we deserve. And so it's in this spirit that I've, I'm picking up the mantle of social engineering and going to try and drive some of these points home. So that on one level we can understand what's happening to us, right? Once you understand the magic trick, you no longer want to see it because you realize it's a con also because the same techniques that work for the people at the top, they worked for the people on the bottom. And I think right now we are in a time where the people in your community need the most help. And that's where you can make the most difference. You know, maybe your, maybe you're a young woman in a position of authority. Maybe you're a young man in a position of authority. Maybe you are, maybe you are someone who can be a role model. And it seems to me, we're in that transition right now. Like there's so many smart and intelligent young people who are taking up the mantle of leadership. And I'm worried that those people are going to be corrupted by the, the tools used by the previous set of so-called leaders. That's one reason I want to talk so much about community and leadership and doing the right thing. A lot of us have kids. A lot of us have a lot of experience in behavior and I've read a lot of books on behavior. And I was lucky enough to be in multiple mentorship programs where I learned how to manipulate those levers of behavior. And I want to share them with people so that they can use those same tools that I have for what I hope will be best for the community. So in that spirit, let me start off a little bit about, you guys know who sun Tzu is. Some zoo was a military strategist and he wrote a book called I think it was Von Clausewitz who wrote on war, man, I forgot I'll I'll I'm killing my son. Cause that's, you know, what sends his buckets? However, one quote from sun zoo is the best way to lose any war is to let the enemy dictate the rules of battle. The best way to lose any war is to let the enemy decide where the war is fought. It's pretty deep, but let me show you how you can use that in your everyday life. If you're an individual, let's say you let's say you work somewhere and you, you are a part of a group. However, as an employee, you do not have the authority, the same authority that the employee you're half white on a one on one situation. If your employer comes to you, the employee and says, listen, I'd like to talk to you for a minute. You see a mate, they take you to a corner or they, they isolate you and talk to you. You see they've dictated the rules of the battlefield. You no longer have a strong position there. You might as well be in the Valley and they're looking down at you, or you might as well have your hands tied behind your back and laying on the ground. And then looking over you, it's all metaphors. So if you want to affect change and you are in that position, what you would want to do, you would want to have 20 people. And if the employer wanted to talk to you, you would be in a group setting because in the group setting, that's where you're the strongest. Does that make sense? Because now, instead of that one person looking at you, now that one person is looking at 20 of you, right? And that now that person, now that person is effectively in the Valley and you've surrounded them. That's why we're, that's why, that's why people in positions of authority, try to isolate individuals from the group because they know that one person in the group can be very dangerous. The one person that truly understands the mechanism of behavior, he can Institute a revolution. He can Institute an entire changing of group behavior with a few key words. He can Institute a whole radical change by understanding the thoughts and motivations of both parties. And there's a lot of different propaganda tools that are used to make groups or people seem a certain way. You know, if you show over and over again, a white cop on top of a person of color, and you put that through, you show that a lot. Well, that's a message of racism. They're not saying that white people are racist, but they're showing you an example of a racist behavior, which puts in the mind of other people. Yeah. That's racist. And that message is a racist message. It's kind of like, let's say that someone, an authority figure, let's say that the authority figure was giving a speech to a group of people like, so there's one executive or one person in charge. And they're speaking to a group of say a hundred people and they're giving their speech. And then one person from the audience says, excuse me, sir, there is a rumor going around that you hate people of color. Could you address that? You see that one individual who made that comment, he has made the implicit argument that you are a racist and now you have to defend yourself against this hundred people. Even if you didn't see the way that that was worded. There's a rumor going around. That individual has now given himself plausible deniability while turning the entire group against the guy in the middle. And in fact, a move like that could irreversibly undermine the very credibility of the so called executive. Because even though the individual who made that statement, didn't call him racist. He has put the idea of racism in the mind of everybody there. Especially if people don't like that guy already, something like that has the ability to change the behavior and having large scale ramifications of the group. Right? It's a, of course I would never do anything like that. Not me. I would never do that. However, it's the same tactic as what the media kind of does. And it's a very sinister way of communicating division. I'm not saying that some people don't, I mean, you know, revolutions happen in countries, dissolve and governments get over thrown. These are the tools of the provocateur tour. Painting a picture in the mind of the masses is easy for an artist. Painting a picture in the mind of the masses is a unique way of changing people's worlds view. And you can do it. You should use your power for good. You should practice it. You should learn to understand people's motivations so that you can better maneuver yourself in the world and make your community better. The art of influence the art of subversion is that should be subtle like a light rain or a, a gentle, consistent layer of snow that slowly saturates the ground to the point where the ground can no longer absorb any more water. You don't notice the drizzle at first, you may notice the smallest snowfall, but there's something beautiful about it, right? You see that is the art of persuasion. It doesn't need to be in your face. It doesn't need to be a knee on the neck. In fact, that type of persuasion, that type of that type of communicating what you want people to do is amateur. And it shows a level of panic when people result to propaganda in that way, it's either that they're horrible propagandists or they're scared and panicking. And I think that the people on the bottom, I think people that get up and go to work every day. I think people that are teachers, I think people that are mentors, I think people that are leaders, they need to understand the way that they're being manipulated in a society that is sick. The person who appears normal is the sickest. Does that make sense? If we are in this society and our society is, is ill, our society is sick. Those who appear to be most normal are in fact, the sickest they're showing the most symptoms. The society is not well. The people adjusted to it are the, are the least, well, does that make sense? I don't have a little shot of water here. You know, I there's a book called up. It comes out every year. I think it comes over here. It's called the DSM. The DSM is a book written by psychologists that goes over mental disease. And every year, you know, they have like some new mental diseases in there. Sometimes they take away mental diseases and it's a kind of an expensive book. It's like probably a hundred bucks, but you can pick up the old ones for next to nothing. And I recommend doing that. I think it's the DSM five. I think, I think DSM five, it might be DSM-V or DSM-IV, but that was the last year that gender dysphoria was a disease. I know I'm kind of jumping around, but just want you to think about that. There is a book of mental diseases written by psychologists who nobody knows their names that tells the world what mental diseases are. That is a profound form of social engineering, profound. Hey, here's this book of experts that tells you what's okay. And what's not okay to think about what the fuck is that, Hey, this person has a mental disease. They have a gender dysphoria. Okay. You know what, actually gender is worse that are disease anymore. Like on one level. And fucking kind of makes me envious, like imagine sitting around with a group of your friends, being like, you know, what we should decide, who are the people that are fucked up in this world? And then we'll write some, some, a bullshit summary on why they think that way. And then we can classify them and, you know, disparage them or put them in mental institutes because they think a certain way. That's the very definition of thought police, right? I mean, there's that age old quote, whoever goes to a psychologist, I'd have their head examined. You know what I mean? So those are, those are some of the thoughts I've had on the social engineering of our nation and, you know, organizing chaos. And if I can, I'd like to read you just a little bit about propaganda. And this is from Edward Bernays, book propaganda, the conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government, which is the true ruling power of our country. We are governed our minds, molded our tastes formed. Our ideas suggested largely by men. We have never heard of this is a logical result of the way in which our democratic society is organized. Vast numbers of human beings must cooperate in this manner. If they are to live together as a smoothly functioning society, our invisible or invisible governors are in many cases, unaware of the identity of their fellow members in the inner cabinet. They govern us by the qualities of natural leadership, their ability to supply needed ideas and by their key positions, in the social structure, whatever attitude, one chooses toward this condition, it remains a fact that almost every act of our daily lives, whether in the sphere of politics or business in our social conduct or our ethical thinking, we are dominated by the relatively small number of persons, a trifling fraction of our hundred and 20 million who understand the mental processes of social patterns of the masses. It is they who pull the wires, which control the public mind, who harness old social forces and contrive new ways to bind and guide the world. In theory, every citizen makes up his mind on public questions and matters of private conduct. In theory, in theory, in theory, in theory, in theory, in theory, every citizen makes up his mind on public questions and matters of private conduct in practice. If all men had to study for themselves, the abs truce, economic, political, and ethical data involved in every question, they would find it impossible to come to a conclusion without anything we have voluntarily agreed to let an invisible government sift the data and high spot, the outstanding issue so that our field of choice shall be narrowed to practical proportions. We have fallen terribly agreed to let an invisible government sift the data. And HighSpot the outstanding issue so that our field of choice shall be narrowed to practical proportions. Did you voluntarily agree to that if by voluntarily agree, you mean that we haven't started riding and killing people then yes, we voluntarily agreed. It's tough because I mean, you've got to ask yourself the question, do you really want to know? Do you really want to know what's happening? Because you can, that information will not be denied to you. If you search for it, you can find it. But once you know it, you can't unknow it. It's a look, it's an honest question. Do you really want to know what's happening? I hope you choose. Yes. I mean, I understand if you don't want to, I understand if you want still the blinders on and say, look, I can take care of myself or you want to, can't worry about that. I think we're about my family. I get it. Like, I think like that sometimes as well, but on some level, if you don't do it, then who will at least on some level, okay, you have to influence the people around you to do it is the right thing, right? If, if, if I can help somebody younger than me, who's going to be in a position of authority later in life. I'm ethically and morally obligated to do that. Even if I get super pissed at those people, if I get super mad at someone, rather than flying off the handle and just using your ability to lecture or using your ability to make people feel like shit, we know that's not why you have the ability, your ability. You should be to point out to that person like, okay, I see why you're doing this. Let me tell you why it's wrong to do that in the long run. Let me explain to you that, you know, what was explained to me and what I want to, I try to, I try to give back this point because it was taught to me and it fundamentally changed the way I think. And that is, but you do sometimes you do all the time. No. When I was young, right? I learned at an early age, you know, the first fight I got into, I was like in fourth grade and his kid just beat that the hell out of me, you know, I'm not a big, I'm not a big guy. And I never forget my, my, you know, we'd go to the principal's office. I get the referral and my dad has to come pick me up. My dad's like, what happened? I'm like I got in a fight. No, my dad's in, did you win? I'm like, Nope, that was it for awhile. My dad taught me to read and my dad, my dad did some cool shit. Initially that was his answer. I go home, talk to my mom. What happened? Same question. What happened to her? Oh, I got to fight. My mom knows I didn't win. She's got a black eye. You know what I mean? Like my mom, my mom knows, but here's what, here's my mom's advice. She goes, you know what, George, you are a very intelligent little boy and you are younger than everybody in your school. You should, you should be. You shouldn't be in that grade. You should be one grade lower. And so you have an issue where you cannot fight boys that are bigger than you. You need to learn how to fight with your words. And if you can't learn to fight with your word, then you probably deserve to get beat up. So from now on George, I want you to learn how to out-think people. I want you to use your words to win the Wars you want. And I never forgot that. I never forgot it. It was just this aha moment. And the reason I went to that story is because what you do, sometimes you do all the time. And if you get really good at arguing, if you get really good at using these logical fallacies or whatever technique it is that you use to win in your daily argumentation, it becomes a habit. If you become really good at finding people's weak points and exploiting those that may help you in the workplace, it may help you in society, but it doesn't help you in your relationships. It doesn't make you a good husband. Does it make you a good father? In fact, it does the opposite of that. So you have to be really, really careful in your relationships, all of them. And as a young man, as a young woman, it's so hard to find your way. It's so hard to be a mentor. It's so hard to be in a position where you want to help people, but the people don't want your help. It's so hard to be in that authority position where one person is telling you to do this, another person telling you to do that. And it's easier to just dictate to people, Hey, do this because of that. And the person talks back to you and then you just crush them because you know something about on Nick and hurt him. She's effective, but it's wrong because that strategy bleeds into your relationships at home. And all of a sudden you use that technique with your wife. You use it with your kids. Next thing you know, you're divorced. Your kid hates you because you've relied on this strategy to be little people. You've relied on a strategy of success in the workplace that doesn't translate, translate to the home place. And it's, it's hard to not use a strategy that works. You must consciously think about the strategies you're using, especially in any sort of verbal environment, just because you can do something doesn't mean you should. And so for guys, my age, you know, getting back to the passing of the torch of power, it's important to me to take, to take the people that are going to be leading the show next and show them a different point of view. And I have faith in the younger generation that they will see that, or at least it is my illusion that they will truly understand that the path of history led us to where we are today. Right? So you don't want to go back to normal. Going back to normal means going back to the same problems we had, we're currently at a juncture w going to norm, going back to normal would be like turning around and going back, we've got to blaze a new trail. Hey, guess what? That pathway was. It got us here. This is a fucking shitty place. Some parts of it are awesome. Some parts of the trail were cool, but the path that got us here, if we went back on that path, that would lead us backwards. So it's important that if you're in a position where you can help people younger than you see things different, you're obligated to, don't be a Dick to the younger kids trying to run shit. They're trying, don't commit the mistakes that people committed to you. I know guys, my age, that they got burned by people older than them. Let's not repeat that cycle. And if we don't repeat that cycle, if we help the people that are going to be in positions of authority, if we help out the younger generation, then I believe we're shaping them to help out the people under them. It's important that we, some people see things the way they are and say why we should see things the way they've never been in. Say, why not? I love you guys dammit. And I'm going to continue banging the drum of social engineering so that we can use these tools to socially engineer, a better environment instead of socially engineering and environment for a small number of people to succeed. Again. I love you guys. Hello? Happy Thursday.

In this Episode we talk about the social engineering of our environment. How cultural differences can and are exploited for profit. We ask the difficult  question of do women who get giant butt implants need special toilets so there cheeks don’t hit the ground?Speaker 0 (0s): Well, good morning. How are you? My friends feeling pretty good today. It's Tuesday. You got to, is it taco Tuesday for some of you? Is it a two drink Tuesday? Is it a I'm too tired to go to work Tuesday. That's always a good one. Right? Well, whatever. However you want to describe it. It's definitely Tuesday and I hope I hope the sun is shining where you are. I hope the birds are singing and I hope you know that I am thinking about you man, or ladies thinking about you. I hope you have a great day today. Oh, so I was thinking about what kind of interesting topic can we get into today. And it led me to think about kind of my predicament a little bit tonight. I'm going to tell you a little bit about my understanding of culture. I'm going to tell you about a class. I took about culture, and I'm going to tell you some hopefully interesting and humorous stories about how I, the ugly American, the white truck driver has made a lot of mistakes about culture. And then I'm gonna try to apply that to today's environment. So it's going to be a little embarrassing for me probably, but those are usually the best stories. So I grew up in California, Southern California, and it was predominantly, mostly a kind of a, kind of a white culture with like kind of Hispanic, kind of white, Hispanic culture is where I, I of grew up in between, which is pretty limited, right? It's pretty limited. I learned to speak Spanish. I lived in Mexico for awhile as I got older. However, even that just knowing those two cultures is not, it's like a drop in the bucket. Okay. So fast forward until the age of 29, I moved out to Hawaii and I don't know if any, I know a lot of you have been to Hawaii. There's probably some of you that have not been to Hawaii. Some of my friends I've been talking to from the Eastern blocks, what's up Bulgaria. What's up. Who's Becca, Stan. What's up with my friends over there, man. I'm super stoked to have you guys over there. What's up Ukraine. I got a big team in the Ukraine now. I love you guys, man. Thanks for listening. And so, so I moved to Hawaii and in Hawaii, Hawaii is a real melting pot in that there was a, a really large Asian influence. And by that, I mean, you have people from the Philippines, you have Japanese people, you have Chinese people, you have Micronesian people, you got white people, you got black people, you got some Mexican people, but a really big influx from, from East Asia. And now here's where, so, so I come out to Hawaii and I've, you know, I've, I had never been here before. And gosh, this is going to sound. It's probably going to sound pretty ignorant. However, you have to be ignorant before you learn. And so while it's going to be funny, it's kind of hard for you to tell it. Cause I it's the truth though. When I came here, it was difficult for me to tell, tell the difference between someone from the Philippines and someone from Japan. Now I know to my, to my Japanese friends and my Filipino friends like there's is looking at me like, Oh my God, you are such a white guy. You can't tell the difference between a Chinese person and an, an a Japanese person. You know, I was, I was out at work one day and my boss asked me, he says, George, this package went to the wrong place. You said you gave it to a man. What did the man look like? And so I'm trying to explain to my boss, who's a Filipino guy, awesome guy. I go, Oh, he is a, he looked Asian and he's like, well, was he, what was he Japanese? Was he Chinese? What did he look like? And I'm like, I don't know. I can't tell the difference. And for, for my Asian friends, I know you're laughing, but for all the, for all the whities out there, I bet you a big percentage of you would have that exact same, that exact same situation happened. But hold on my Asian friends because the shoe fits on the other foot. So at my work a few months later, I'm walking around and there's another white guy in there. I didn't even know this other white guy. And he's way bigger than me. He's like six, two doesn't even look like me. And this young Filipino kid comes in and I'm talking to this other white guy. I'm like introducing myself to him. And this Filipino kid comes over and goes, Hey, are you guys related? And it kind of hits me like, Oh, it's not just me being a dumb white guy. It's people who are not exposed to other cultures. Don't thoroughly understand the uniqueness of the individual cultures. Does that make sense? Like the Filipino, the young Filipino guy that saw the two white guy standing together, he asks, are you guys related? I have like a, I speak like I'm from California. And this guy spoke like he was from Texas. Speaker 1 (5m 59s): Now. She gets a very subtle difference if you're not familiar with those two areas. However, if you are familiar with those areas, you could tell, you know, in a heartbeat, Hey, this is a guy from the South. This guy's not from the South. More importantly as the ugly American and not, not all Americans are, there's a lot of ignorance. However, I wanted to just kind of break this down so that we can understand what's going on. You know, when I'm, when I moved here, it's important to not confuse those because there is a lot of history between Japan and China and it's not good. You know, it's pretty insulting to call someone who is from China, Japanese, and vice versa, just due to the long history of war and tragedies that happen there. But most Americans, they don't understand that. Not because not because they're dumb or not because they're ignorant, but because they, they just, haven't been taught that in the schools. Another main difference too, is that as Americans, as a guy from California as maybe the Western tradition teaches us, we have a really argumentative style. And what I mean by that is if I'm talking to someone and they say something that maybe I don't agree with, I'm not afraid to challenge that point of view. You see, that's a, that's a uniquely Western type of argumentation. We believe that by putting forth the best arguments that we will get to the truth and the best arguments will win. And a lot of the Eastern cultures, they have a different outlook and they believe that there's no need to embarrass someone to their face like that. You should allow them to save face, should allow them to not be in an uncomfortable position by challenging what they have to say. On top of that, there is almost a different definition of obedience. I sat in a, in a meeting a while back at us at a, it was a parent teacher workshop and there was a lot of different children's parents there. And then there was a, a couple of college counselors and Luxem teachers. They were going over different psychological strategies for teaching children and philosophical strategies towards the end of the class, towards the end of the workshop, the, the, the educators, you know, they came and they asked for questions. And one of my friends who's Japanese stood up and she says, you know, I really am getting worried because my son is, he's a bit combative. And what I want for my children is to be obedient. And for me, like I almost cringe because I think to myself, the last thing that we need is obedient workers. And I don't want my kid going to a school where they're going to learn to be obedient workers. And I had to think about it for a little bit, cause it, it made me think it really, it just started making me think about different cultures and different value systems and different ideas and different social norms and different ways of thinking about it. You know, on some level when there, when you have a culture where there is obedience and the people at the top command respect from people below them, as long as the people on the top have the best interest of the people on the bottom, it kind of works. However, what tends to happen in the Western society is that the level of corruption of Tom, it just undermines the very definition of obedience. Another interesting cultural point that I have found moving to Hawaii is that in our argument of this style, that in the way we talk in the West, especially, especially men in the West, where we tend to make a lot of eye contact and we tend to speak loud and clear if we want to be heard. One thing that we never think about in the West is that some of our friends in the East, they have total languages. Do you know what I mean by that? So they changed the pitch or the tone of the word, and the word becomes a completely different word. So it could be like sobriety. And depending on where you put the, where you put the accent, where you decide to change the pitch, you can change the meaning of that word. So think about that type of language. You become conditioned, not only to the speech, but the very sound of the speech. And if you've lived in a system where you're conditioned to the sound of the speech, even if you learn a new language that is not a tonal language, you will still be accustomed to feeling emotion with people's tones in their speech. So for example, if I'm speaking to one of my friends that maybe speaks a tonal language and I get kind of, and I get close to them and I, I speak loud and clear and say, listen, here's, what's going on. I'm going to tell you right now. I think this is happening just that very tone can change the way they think, because now all of a sudden, when they hear that tone, that particular tone is reserved for scolding, or that particular tone is reserved for conflict. Even though my words are not meant to inflict conflict upon them, the tone automatically shifts that person's view into almost a fight or flight syndrome. And that radically changes the way the person is going to interact with you. I seen it a lot here in Hawaii. We had a, we had a guy come. That was a, he was a high level executive, and he was one of these. He was one of these guys that, that relied on his size and intimidation. And you ever, you all know the guy I'm talking about, like you've all seen him, right? Real quick side story. You know, the problem with really big guys, the problem with really big guys is that they've always been able to go and rely on their size throughout their whole life. They start out big, you know, they can, they get in fights and they can smash people. And they never had to really develop their ability to speak well. They never really had to develop their ability to be persuasive. They never really had to build up their ability to think of alternative ways to win battles. They've always been able to fall back on intimidation and it works for a long time until they need, I don't know, for example, say a, a short 45 year old guy with gray hair, devastatingly handsome. Let's just say, it's me anyways. That's the Prague. When you've learned a strategy in life that works well, you fall back on it. So anyways, this guy comes out here and he gives a speech that is it's, it's, it's loud, it's abrasive. And it is culturally disrespectful and he's standing up there and he thinks he's crushing it. But as I look around, I think just see all of, all of my friends, like, like looking at them in this weird way, like, Oh my gosh, what an error, arrogant knucklehead. And it hits you mean like this guy has no idea what he's doing. You know, he's, he's giving a speech that is meant for him, a group of working people in a Western environment and history, trying to give that exact same speech to a group of people in a different culture. And it doesn't work. It has the exact opposite effect. In fact, after the meeting, I got up a lot of my friends that come up to me and they were like, George, what is this guy talking about? Like, why would he say that stuff? And I got to explain to him, listen, this guy, he doesn't, and he's never, he's never been around this culture. He doesn't understand what he's saying. He doesn't understand what he's doing. He doesn't understand that when he speaks in that tone to you, he's, he's being very condescending. He doesn't understand that cultural difference. It created a lot of havoc actually in it. The guy did damage to the environment. It's still ongoing. Needless to say, he's, he's no longer working here. No. So, so thinking about that a little bit, I want to share a story with you about, I was at a party a while back, and it was a, it was a very upscale party and it kind of starts off like a joke, but it's not a joke. There's a white guy, an Asian guy and a black guy, and then I'll play in pool. It's you see what I'm saying? It sounds like a really good joke. Right? Sounds like a really good joke. Anyways, these guys are playing pool. Everybody there's friendly. Everybody's having a good time. The host of the party. He comes into the room to the guys playing pool and he has a picture of bloody Mary's and he says, gentlemen, can I get you guys as a drink? Would anybody like a bloody Mary? And he's got an in one hand, he's got a couple of glasses on the other hand, he's got the picture. And so two of the guys, absolutely. And the host pours the bloody Mary's into the glass. And then the third guy says, no, no, I don't. I don't want to bloody Marriott. However, I'll take some money. Champagne, can you grab me some? And the host says, no, I've got to grab you some champagne, go grab your own champagne. Do you think that's racist? Do you think that that is a, do you think that that is someone being racist because it kind of, the following conversation will explain what happened. However, it could be perceived that way. It could be perceived that way. However, what happened there was that the host of the party came around to a group of three people. And in his hand he had bloody Marys. He offered them to everybody. The one person that didn't take the bloody Mary, no, he told the host, I don't want that. Go get me champagne. Right? That's kind of, you could look at it and say, Oh, well, he doesn't like, he doesn't like this color person. Or you could say, no, he likes everybody. It's just that he was being gracious, offering everybody something. And you told him in his own house that you don't want what he had and that he should go get you something else. There's a difference. There it's misreading the cultural norm. However, it could be construed as being raised, or it could be construed as not liking something, but it's just not understanding the culture. See some, while two guys caught that social cue, like you wouldn't ask. If somebody brings you something, you don't ask them to go get you something else. You just don't do that. Right on another scale, you know, it's the same thing. If you go to Japan and you go to a restaurant like the ugly American, so you go to Japan and you go to a restaurant and you order some tea, and then you, you decide that your tea is not sweet enough. So you ask these, the waiter or the waitress for some sugar, the waiter or waitress will smile and say, okay, okay. Yes, yes. But they will never bring you that sugar. You could ask them 25 times every time they come to the table, you could ask them for sugar and they will be kind and say yes, but they'll never bring you the sugar. And it's not because the, the Japanese waiter or waitress is racist. It's because they're trying to save face. Like you don't drink sugar in your tea there. So they're not going to bring you any sugar because it would be shameful for them to bring you sugar and allow you to make a social photo pie in front of everybody at that restaurant. You see what I'm saying there? And I think a lot of what's happening our life is that because we are so integrated now that a lot of people don't understand the cultural norms of the other group, and it's really easy to fall back on. Oh, they don't like me because of this. Oh, they don't like me because of that. But the real case is you've probably violated some sort of cultural norm or you've made it uncomfortable for that particular race or group of people to bring you into the fold. You know what I mean? By that it doesn't mean one group or one race. It doesn't mean anyone's better than anybody else. It just means that all of us have to do a better job at maybe trying to understand the world from a different cultural point of view, because it's real, like communication is so difficult. It's so hard, especially when you're trying to communicate through different cultural platforms. And that's why we tend to fall into that's. Why groups tend to coagulate or tend to, you know, find themselves in the same group. Because everybody in that group knows the norm. Everybody in that group knows the rules. Everybody in that group knows the laws. And when you cross pollinate, you know, it can be done and you can have a lot of good time doing it. Like it's fun to learn about different cultures. It's fun to learn about how different people see things, see the world differently. However, you have to be willing to take some heat. You gotta be willing to be the ignorant person. You gotta be willing to understand that what you did is wrong and you can't immediately fall to the position of, well, you're just making fun of me because of this. You just don't like me because I'm from here, don't get me wrong. There is some of that. However, I think a better understanding, a better way to go through life is to say, okay, what is it that I am missing here? Is it the fact that I am not truly understanding the culture with which I'm trying to interact? Because it probably is. It probably is. No, they say, that's why they say traveling is the best. One of the best education systems out there to go and immerse yourself in another culture to go out and immerse yourself in a different tradition. It forces you to see things Speaker 0 (23m 46s): In a manner in which you've never seen them before. And a lot of, you know, this, a lot of you have traveled. A lot of you have. I've had the good fortune of being able to go out and, and just see the world in a different, in a different part of the world to go out and get to explore the world. You know, literally in a different time, like if you go to a different time zone, you are at a different time. And I just, I think it really gives you an opportunity to enrich yourself and enrich your outlook and enrich your environment. And not only that, but when you're able to better understand the people around you, you're able to better understand yourself, right? You learn so much about your own culture by studying other cultures and you shouldn't be afraid to talk to people and ask them what they think about your culture, because you'll probably learn a lot. It might sting a little bit, but the trick is to not get upset about it. Like someone has just giving you their point of view of what your culture is. And if you can not take it personally, then you can, you know, if you can, if you can take what some people are aiming as criticism, then you can provide an argument to illustrate to them that what they're saying, isn't criticism. It's a lack of understanding. And I think that's the very fundamental flaw that we are having right now. I think it's also made more difficult because there's a lot of people out there that don't have an interest in people standing together. You know, the differences between us, you know, be a black or Brown or white or Asian or Indian. Everybody wants their kid to be better. Everybody wants to go home and be with their family. Everybody wants to be in love. Everybody wants to have the basic necessities in life, right? Maslow's hierarchy of needs. We all want these basic foundations. And it just seems that there's a concerted effort. Like if you look at what is being pumped out through the airwaves, I know I've talked about this before and I'll just briefly go over it again. The level of propaganda being spewed to us right now is it's mind bending. It's mind-bending like, what, what problem that the American, like what possible problem do we, as Americans have with the, our friends in the Ukraine? How about the Russian people? We've got no problems with them. All, all the Russian people. I know all the Ukrainian people. I know all the Bulgarian people. I know I throw awesome people. It's not the people that don't get along. Like we want the same things, but there's a wedge of division being pushed down upon us. And that wedge of division is loaded terms like racism and it's loaded terms like equality and diversity. Like you ever think about like, what's the difference between diversity and inequality, right? If I, if I took seven red solo cups and I filled each red solo cup with a different level of water, would those cups be diverse? Or would they be in equal? It depends on how you, how you want to spin the story. If you want to say, it's a good thing. And you would say, wow, look at this diverse group of red solo cups, they all have different levels of water. That's diversity, isn't it beautiful. Or if you wanted to make it bad, you would say, this is an equal. These red solo cups have different levels of water in them. This is completely any quality it's not right. You see, neither one of those statements is accurate words like that. Like inequality or diversity words. Like those are tools of division they're tools, aimed at dividing. People who don't have enough in their life and people who don't have enough in their life is pretty much all of us. Like we, we are allowing the people at the very top to siphon off more from us by dividing us. Does that make sense? I watched a very interesting set of lectures by this guy, URI Bessman off URI Bozeman off. And he was a, he was a social engineer from Soviet Russia. And as we talk about social engineering, you know, there's a, there's a couple books that you may want to check out. And Robert codine, he ran Hillary's campaign. He wrote a book called Presuasion and you wrote a book called influence Cass Sunstein wrote a book called nudge. I think he wrote it with Richard Faler. Richard Thaler also has a few sets of books out, excuse me, they're both really good social engineers. You know, they, they speak of getting people to make decisions by setting up the environment that makes the outcome likely, excuse me, for instance, in the book, nudge Cass, Sunstein talks about helping children make better decisions at lunchtime in schools by placing the junk food at the very end of the buffet line or at the very end of the cafeteria, kind of almost out of sight. So they would have like the salad and they would have all like the healthier foods up front, and then they would have, you know, right before checkout, they would kind of hide the junk food towards the back. So the kids would see it last. If they saw it at all. And that's an actually, that's a pretty good maneuver for trying to get people to eat healthier. The problem is when we start using those social engineering instruments, in order to fundamentally change the way people think about their life, their relationships, their family, their country, their ideals, and their values. I was thinking today about if you look at TV as a form of social engineering, you know, my, I have a young daughter and like the stuff that comes out of the radio, sometimes it makes me cringe and you know, some of the stuff on TV, like I don't watch it, but I know it's there. I occasionally see clips or hear clips about like Kylie Jenner and stuff. And you know, one thing you can do, if you have a daughter or you have a small child and you, you see like, whether it's the Housewives or whether it's, you know, some sort of ridiculous on TV, or if it's Kylie Jenner, you know, what I'll do is I'll all my I'll show. My daughter be like, Oh my gosh, look at this. And she'll see this. What appears to be a pretty young girl on TV with like a brand new Mercedes and a huge mansion. And I know you can't see me right now. So I just I'll put my fingernails, my mouth and make like this really scared look and be like, Oh my gosh. And just try to put the look of fear on my face. So my daughter looks at me, she sees this look of just sheer, sheer petrified awe like, Oh no, like totally scared. So she'll look at my face and then she'll look at the TV and then she'll look at my face and she'll look at the TV and she'll be confused because on the TV, all you see is what appears to be a woman who has everything. But then she looks at her dad's face and all you appear to see is just the look of horror and pure cringe worthiness. And so she can't rectify the two. So she's like, what is it, dad? And I go look, see that you want to make them look back again. Cause you really want them to make that connection. I go, just look at it. Do you see it? And then they'll look back again and they'll start staring at the screen and they'll start looking for imperfections. They'll start looking for reasons why it is horrific. And then eventually the person will look back at you and be like, what? And you go can't you see it? No man will ever love that woman. It is so sad. It is so sad. In fact, no man, or no one in her family has ever loved her, just look at her. And then the kid will look back at the Kylie Jenner and be like, and she'll start to make this connection of like, okay, that's what a person looks like. Who's never been loved before. Are you starting to get it? We need to make connections in young people's brains about what it looks like to be unsuccessful and let's face it. Like, I don't care how many billions of dollars the Kardashians have. They are a very poor example of what a woman should be. Imagine growing up in that family, like there's no amount of money that can buy that can buy you your humanity. Like how many times is that girl just gone under the knife? You know, I tell my daughter like, look at her, you know? And I, so my daughter's looking at her and I'm like, lady, you know how, when you go to DACA, they take needles. And like, you don't like that. She's like, yeah, I'm like this girl right here. She goes to the doctor and she had someone punch her in the face and break her nose. And then she had part of her chest cutout and put like new, like plastic toys in there. And then she, you know what her sister did. And my daughter's like what? I'm like sister, her sister hated her body so bad that she got her butt cut off. My daughter was like, what? She got her butt cut off. I'm like, yeah, her sister, she hated her body so much. Like she cut off her butt. And then she added like a, like three other people's butts. And now she has a butt. That's like, it's so big. It's like the size of like a gorilla. But my daughter was like gross. I'm like, yeah, her butt's so big. When she poops, it's like the size of a watermelon. She has to have like a special toilet just so she can sit down and poop. My daughter's like, Oh my God, that's so gross. I'm like, yeah, I know. Like why would they do that? And we both kind of laugh a little bit, but I think it's important because there's the social engineering that's going on TV right now. That's an attempt to take our kids and make them products. What you see on TV is an attempt to tokenize and fetishize and make the human being a product. And that is not what we are. We are human beings. And so it's easy to do. You can take what's on TV and instantly use it to show children what's wrong with them world. And it's easy to do because is the programming on there right now is atrocious and it's kind of fun. And I, I hope that all of you will use this example and use it, educate your kids on what the wrong thing to do in life is like, when we see people like that, you know, we should, we should all just, maybe we should call it like a code word or something. Maybe, maybe we can, you know what? Let's go with Chachi. That is Chachi. It's just like the earlier, see what I'm saying? Chachi's everywhere. Chachi is everywhere. When you see Kardashians just be, Oh my gosh, it's so Chachi. When you see a girl that has a huge butt implant, just be like, Whoa, Chachi, what are you doing? What are you doing? Shotty? I love it. I love it. But social engineering is everywhere and everybody can do it. And all it takes is a little bit of understanding of what the people want you to think. What is the program trying to program you to do and just do the opposite of that. What is the program trying to, to tell him, do about culture? What is the program trying to do to influence you of how to act in culture, whatever the TV is telling you to do, do the opposite. And you'll probably be on point another point that I, I always kind of go to is, is thinking about, you know, especially, it doesn't matter if it's another culture or if it's somebody in your workplace or somebody at home or somebody at school, have you ever seen somebody that just kind of rubbed you the wrong way? And you can't at first, you can't quite nail it down. You're like, ah, I don't know what it is. Like, there's something about that person. Maybe they're arrogant or maybe they're weak, or maybe they're, they're kind of Chachi. You know what I mean? Maybe there's, but there's something about them and you don't know what it is like that's happened to me before. And I, it took me a while to figure this out. And that's why I want to share it with you. When you see people and you see something in them that you don't like that quality. And then that you do not like is a quality in yourself that you don't like. So when you see somebody that bothers you, when you see somebody that is doing something that irks, you try to understand what it is because that's something you need to change in yourself. That's a, that's a way of seeing yourself and other people. And in fact, you can only see yourself in other people. And that goes for good things, too. When you see something good in people, it's something that you have in yourself. When you see something in other people that you want to emulate or imitate or become more like when you see a quality in somebody, else's because you also have that spark inside yourself. And that feeling of wanting to be like that person is the part of you. That's like that person wanting to grow and you should nurture that, right? It's like, I think that's con's first critique. We can know nothing about the world, our priori, but trust me on the culture. Trust me on the social engineering, it's happening at an incredible pace right now, a final point on social engineering is that as we see this whole chaotic maelstrom of events happening, we are really divided right now. Right? I think everybody can agree. It's very difficult, whether it's organic or whether it's being manipulated. It's very difficult for people to come together. There's the divide between black and white and Brown and old and young and men and women there's division everywhere. Let me get some water. Do you know what this is going to be scared? Do you know what brings us all together? I'm sure you guys know the only way to rapidly bring us all together in a short amount of time. Can you guys think of the last time America was standing arm and arm and waving flags and talking about how great our country was. You remember when that was nine 11, nine 11? Look, we, none of us know what happened that day, but we all know the attitude of the country after it happened, right? A level of patriotism that was fever pitch. It was the antithesis of what it is today. The reason that's important. The reason that's scary is that if indeed there's multiple factions. If, if we are indeed in a war right now, which you could make that case for we're being softened up economically, there could be some sort of a bio weapon out. You know, we are being pushed into the sort of civil war. You know, we are being heavily propagandized. These are all symptoms of, of being invaded. This is all symptoms of war. These are all symptoms of, of being at war. So the re if indeed we are at war, one strategy for people would be to galvanize the American people. And the only way to galvanize the American people would fit would be for there to be some sort of tragic event, like nine 11, some sort of terrorist event, some sort of extreme event. And that would galvanize America that would turn us around in a heartbeat. And I don't think the powers that be don't. I mean, they don't think that they don't know that don't think that they're not willing to pull that switch in order to save the country or pull that switch in order to send us to war. In fact, that's what I hope. I I'm hopeful that doesn't happen, but it seems to me that that option is on the table for the, the, you know, call it whatever you want for the, you know, for, I don't know what group or, or who would do that. And I don't want to make any accusations, but it would not be unheard of for there to be some sort of event like that. And I think everybody should be watching out for that. The only way to galvanize and turn this around would be for there to have some sort of a road to Damascus moment where everybody just stops and the whole attitude shifts. And that's the only way I know of to fundamentally radically change the consciousness of the nation in a short time. And that's scary to me. It's scary to me. I, I love you guys, all my brothers and sisters throughout the world. I love you guys. And I want all of our kids to have an unfair advantage. I want all of our kids to have a better opportunity than we had. So for Tuesday, I want you to know, I love you. And I got, I got a joke for you. What's the difference between a girl's track team and a tribe of Pygmies. One of them is a group of cunning little runs. I love you guys. Aloha. Thank you for listening. I will talk to you soon. Kitty giddy, giddy.

few stories of my youth. The first is being held at gun point (tickle-tickle gitty-gritty)The second is facing a different type of projectile. “The Spit wad”

Speaker 0 (0s): Okay. So being Friday, what, what are people a lot of people do on Fridays, they celebrate get ready for the weekend. Maybe they have a few beers. Maybe you start your day out with a cup of coffee in the spirit of caffeine and in the spirit of booze and in the spirit of changing your consciousness. I thought today we would talk a little bit. What about drugs? Right? We all do them. We all do them. Pick your poison. They say, what's your favorite poison? It's a good question. It's a good question. But I don't want to talk about just any kind of drug today. I thought we'd talk about a new type of drug that's been on the market for a while. And that type of drug, I guess, would be classified as no tropics in Oh, O tropics. No. Oh, tropics. And what this family of drugs claims to do is to make you smarter. Think about that kind of abstractive first you think of what there's a drug that makes me smarter. I know how that works. Well, let's start with some of the drugs we know that people use that may make them a little bit smarter. Yeah. And try and think about the mechanism of action that would make them smarter. First off you want to think about writers like Stephen King and Christopher Hitchens and all these, all these writers. At least when I was growing up, they were pretty big smokers. And what is the, what is the drug? And in of choice of smokers, usually nicotine, right. And nicotine is almost like a neurotransmitter. And if you listen to some, I think there was a, I think that there was a interview with Stephen King Ray talked about how much he smoked and how, when he was writing and he would smoke a lot. And if you've never been the smoker or you never had a seat, you're right. You're probably like, dude, that's just, that's just disgusting. And you're right. Cigarette smoking is pretty gross. However, it, it definitely does something to you. You know, at first it can give you like a bus. Like when you first start smoking cigarettes, you you'd get like a nicotine buzz. But then after a while it's more of like a common sensation. So it's definitely flooding part of your brain. The nicotine goes in action, like some sort of a neurotransmitter and stuff, simulates parts of the brain, which seems to lead to a more creative process. So you could say that nicotine while ultimately bad for your health. Well, I don't know if nicotine's bad for, you know, smoke is definitely bad for your health active ingredient that leads to creativity and cigarettes is nicotine. And while smoking is bad, nicotine may be an agent of creativity. So there's one caffeine, right? Again, people that tend to, well, how many people wake up and have a cup of coffee in the morning? I don't know if that makes you more creative, but it might make you more productive. And I think you could argue that that is a level of intelligence that that's kind of an abstract argument. However, you could say that being productive leads you to a better life, which would be a smarter way of, I know that's kind of reaching. So those are a couple of mainstream drugs people use to maybe make their life a little bit better. Not sure smarter. I'm not sure it's smarter. I would say the nicotine may lead to creativity. And then you start getting into today's writers. Like if you look at today's journalists, there's probably a pretty good chance. They're like on Adderall. Adderall is like legal meth. You take Mike, if you take Adderall, I think the, one of the best ways to describe it would be like kind of a clear headed, extremely focused high intensity coffee buzz. But it's almost not fair to describe it that way because the level of focus and the level of energy is, is makes coffee look like having a bite of chocolate. Does that make sense? I hope so. On top of that, Adderall lasts, I don't know, eight hours. You gotta remind yourself. You could say that a lot, the different drugs, they put you into a different state of consciousness, thus, allowing you to see things different than you normally do, right? Nat is what in fact creates the creative process big. Now what seems to do big now is kind of psychedelics. And if you look at say mushrooms, it's magic mushrooms, or siliciden for example, there's a lot of work being done at a John Hopkins right now that they thought a lot of success treating people with PTSD. They have had a lot of success helping people, helping stroke victims. And on top of that, what's awesome about that. Research is a lot of it is public. It can, you can see, you can read the reports and you can look at the brain mapping technology. They've used to see kind of what's happening in the brain. And according to some research that I read, it's a lot of, it's a lot big words. And it's a lot of so stuff that you really have to kind of like you start reading something, right? I didn't even know what that word is. They gotta stop. Look it up and you gotta go back to reading it. And then you find another one you got dang, man, I'm not a doctor. Anyways. I'll try to spare you the technical jargon and break it down into digestible chunks that everybody can understand. So in your brain, you have this thing called the default default mode network. Think of it like a, like a black box at the base of your back of your head. Like that's all like the circuitry goes through there and then kind of gets dispersed. And then it goes to these different channels, these big grooves that have been cut since birth, like you've been creating these channels, which is a good way to think about that. Is have you ever gone skiing or do you gone like to the top of the mountain? And there's like, Hey, here's the here is the devil's run. And here is the Pike's peak run. And here is the double diamond Harvey Limon run. And here is the tomato run. There's all these grooves, what'd you to the top of the mountain. There's this sign. And there's all of these cut grooves where people have already been going down the trail. That's that's like the white matter in your brain, right there already been these links, these, these pathways carved into the white matter. And those pathways are carved by continually thinking and remembering and restructuring your memories. So you have these established patterns. Now imagine if you, you go to the ski slopes and you're the very first one at the top of the mountain. Now there's just fresh powder up there, right? There's no, even though the signs are there, there's fresh powder and it was a big storm. And now there's no grooves cut, right? There's no, there's, it's a clean slate. Okay. So most of us listening to this are, you know, way above 20, 30, 40, and we already have the grooves cut. So the default mode network is like the chairlift. And then it takes the, the, you get on the information, gets onto the chair, nothing. It goes to the top. So, so the chair lift is the default mode network. And then it disperses you out to all the ski runs. When you take mushrooms, it shuts down that default mode network. So you can no longer take that particular chair lift to the top of the mountain. So instead of no, now the chair knows close. So now you've got to find an alternative route to the top of the mountain. You can either walk up the back way or, you know, maybe there's an old chair lift working on the other side of the slope that you didn't know about. So you got, got to go over there and take that one, or maybe there's a helicopter. You know, there's other ways to get to the top of the mountain that you didn't know about because you've been relying on this particular chair lift. So as you're using the new method to get to the top of the mountain, be it the helicopter, be it hiking up the backside of the mountain, be taken a snowmobile or be it taking a new chairlift. You begin to see new scenery. Hey, I never noticed that tree over there before. Hey, I never noticed was a cabin over here. Wow. From this helicopter things look a lot different from this point of view. So when you take the psychosis, when you take mushrooms, you can, you can begin the more you take them, the more familiar you get with the new pathways to get to the top of the mountain. So let's say whether you're a microdosing a little bit, or whether you're, you've decided to say, Hey, you know, at once a week, I'm going to take seven grams or whatever method people are choosing to do. You know, let's say you decide to do the seven grams a week and you decide to focus on, Hey, I'm going to take, I'm going to take the, the new chairlift route up every time now. So now you begin thinking friend than you normally did, right? You begin seeing the different scenery consistently because once a week you're taking in this substance that allows you to take a different route to the top. Thus, you see the news scenery. So you're beginning to think differently once a week. And now when you're, when you don't take the mushrooms, boom, your brain goes back to working on the default mode network. You're also aware of this other way, right? You've create, you've created this new run to get to the top of the mountain. You've created this new alternative. So now you can kind of switch between the default mode network and your plan B. You can switch to this other way of thinking. So you do that for a little bit and you become comfortable and you become familiar with the scenery or the thought produced by taking the mushrooms. And now you can apply. You're able to apply a different thought process to different situations. Now you have an alternative pathway. Let's see you've taken the psychedelics. You keep taking the mushrooms. And now, instead of you've gotten kind of bored with the, you know, the second chair lift, and now you've decided to take the helicopter. So you do that for a little while. And you know, just like the, just like the first time you took him. Now you knew, I notice things from a higher point of view because you're looking down on them via the helicopter. And then a couple of months later, you decided to walk up. What I'm explaining is a form of hyper-connectivity that's happening in the brain. So you've stopped using the one you're familiar with and started exploring new routes. And thus you've created new neural pathways. You've created new ways of thinking. You've created different ways of looking at the world than you would normally do. And that is what creates the creator of process. That is what allows you to, to see things differently that allows you to learn from things that may have been monotonous in your life. See things, you know, it's like the old saying that says, some people, people see things the way they are. I see things the way they've never been in. Say, why not? You know? And especially a spouse, Speaker 1 (14m 54s): Especially in today's world where we're so hyper focused on, on abstraction. Speaker 0 (15m 5s): You know what I mean by that? Like, it's like we get so Speaker 1 (15m 9s): Caught up in our own world of tunnel vision that we almost Speaker 0 (15m 12s): Can't see the bigger picture. If you take like a chicken yeah. Speaker 1 (15m 18s): Or a hand or whatever you, Speaker 0 (15m 21s): If you have to put, do you just put them down to the Speaker 1 (15m 23s): Chocolate? Like you grabbed their head and you push into the chocolate, Speaker 0 (15m 27s): That chicken will be, it's a weird thing. I don't know what they call it. But once he's focused in, on that chalk line, he can't move. He's stuck Speaker 1 (15m 37s): For whatever sort of bird brain in ability to move. We know whatever kind of wizardry or, or lack of ability to comprehend, whatever, whatever it is, they're stuck on that chocolate and they can't move. And it's the same thing for us. You know, you start doing something, get up, go to work, come home, get up, go to work, come home, get up, go to work, come home, get up, go to work, come home. Speaker 0 (16m 8s): Like you, you get caught. You get stuck Speaker 1 (16m 10s): On this never ending wheel and you can't get off. Speaker 0 (16m 15s): And so what some of these smart, what, you know, Speaker 1 (16m 19s): If we argue that siliciden or mushrooms, Speaker 0 (16m 23s): In fact, a agent of change Speaker 1 (16m 25s): Or a smart drug, you know, Speaker 0 (16m 29s): Then you could say that the reason this Speaker 1 (16m 34s): Is a smart drug is because it allows us to revisit different ways of thinking. It allows us to reinvision ourselves. It allows us to reinvision our environment. It allows us to, Speaker 0 (16m 48s): To maybe see ourselves the way other people could see us and that having the ability to see yourself the way other people see you, that's like a super power, because then you can get some real work done. You can Speaker 1 (17m 9s): Get some work done on yourself that, and you could do it. Speaker 0 (17m 14s): If you can get to that point Speaker 1 (17m 15s): Where you're honest with yourself and you can Speaker 0 (17m 17s): Go, wow, man. You know what I figured? Speaker 1 (17m 21s): I figured out the things that I don't like and these other Speaker 0 (17m 23s): Or people or things I don't like in myself. And once you figure that out, man, it's a game changer, Speaker 1 (17m 30s): Game changer. And I think that that comes from changing Speaker 0 (17m 34s): Your state of consciousness. Speaker 1 (17m 36s): And I would argue that that's what silicide Speaker 0 (17m 38s): Five and does. So that's, that's one of the smart drugs. Speaker 1 (17m 47s): Another other classes, smart drugs are called race Tams. And it's your, like your Parasso Tam, your Neffer race town, your fiddle, harassed the town and harass the town. There's all these, it's like a family of, of no tropics. And what these do these activate, man, I haven't read the literature on it for awhile. So bear with me here. I believe that this particular set of drugs are more like a, allow you to focus better as a whole. Now, each one of these drugs has, has a little bit different mechanism, you know? So crass, the Tam being the foundation on which the other raised hands are built to me, it seems to have kind of a bit of a focus slash calming effect. And it's subtle. It's not like you take it and you're ready. It's not like a Adderall where you take it. And you're just like all of a sudden you're chewing the inside of your mouth or you're like fence, your fists are clenched and you're just, you know, your focus. And if somebody bothers you, you get upset. Like those are some of the side effects of Adderall, but the prasadam is more of a, like a really subtle focus and a Rasta Tam for me, I got, I felt that my verbal fluency, my ability to recall words, I guess maybe the ability just to recall is heightened, but it doesn't last long. It's like a couple hours, maybe two hours, at least for me, that's where I can really feel the effects that that may be the initial half-life. I'm not sure. I'm never asked, never asked him that to me seems to be, that was one of, one of the ones I found most effective when I, when I tried the different race towns and that one seemed to work on like the nicotine nicotinic nicotine receptors, or, you know, it seemed to do a little bit, it seemed to be a little bit like nicotine to me, which that could be awesome for smokers, federal paroxetine. That's a different animal fennel Prasad, Tam to me is a it's Parasso tan with a fennel ring on it. So it claw, it crosses the blood brain barrier more effectively, but it has different effects. The effects of the fennel, Prasad, Tam to me, were it, have you ever been like, let me see. So I like to get tattoos and sometimes if you get a tattoo and if you're sitting there for seven or eight hours, your body almost goes into like a state of shock and we're, you know, for me, I start to get cold, you know, and then like you kind of start shaking a little bit or whatever, fiddle harassing him in that particular situation for me, when it would ease the shock of the body. So it wouldn't, it would keep your body temperature a little warmer. It would keep you from getting it kept me from getting cold. Additionally, the mental clarity provided by federal the town was vastly superior to any of the other race towns. The thing about the race Tams a well is, is that there's, I have found there to be no side effects. If you read the literature they've been around for a really long time, and it doesn't seem to have any long term lasting side effects. In fact, you know, I think with a lot of the smart drugs, you know, what, whether it be siliciden or whether it be the race Tams or, or some other ones that we're going to get into. I think that once you've created a, a more connected superhighway or once you've established new patterns of thinking or create a new neural pathways, I think that there's long lasting effects in a positive manner, right? Because that's what, you know, I had a friend of mine that his father had a stroke when he was young and he had to teach, the father, had to teach himself how to speak again. And the way he explained to me how it was very difficult for him to watch and that it was sad, but ultimately it was awesome because his dad taught himself how to speech again, I'm sorry, how to speak again. You know, not that interested me greatly. So I looked up and researched that a little bit in basically when people do that, when people have a stroke and they can't with whether they lose their ability to speak, or maybe they lose the ability to move an arm. And in the rare cases where people can relearn that what is happening inside the brain is that there is, think of it as like a roadblock. What the information that used to go from one part of the brain to the other part of the brain is blocked off. So you can't move your right side of the phase, or you slur your words because the neural pathway has been blocked or it's been severed or it's die. However you want to explain it. It doesn't work. So you have to, you have to create a new, like a bypass, the same way you would have like a bypass heart surgery or the valve goes over, or like the, you know, you get the bypass, you have to have a new neural bypass and you can, it can be done by relearning. That's what learning is, right? Like the repetition of mother, the mother of repetition is skill. Is that right? The, the mother, the mother of skill is repetition. That sounds better, right? Yeah. That sounds right. Yeah. The mother of skill is repetition. So when you, when you learn something, the reason it's difficult is because you don't have a neural pathway for it. So if you want to relearn something, you have to create a new neural pathway. And that's what a lot of the smart drugs, I think do have the ability to do, which leads me down. Another kind of interesting pathway is that right now, if you look at neural link or some of the, the ideas coming out of Silicon Valley or the tech industry, or all these startups about having a chip implanted in your brain, like, it seems to me like we're in a race between the biological evolution of our bodies and the mechanistic evolution of our bodies. You know what I mean? Like we are, we're beginning to understand the brain at a level where you know how a lot of the people are like, look, let's implant this little diode, or let's implant this, this chip in your brain. So you can access the web via your eyes. Like that sounds, that just sounds like, that sounds like dr. Mengele to me, like, Hey, let's just let me open up your head. And then I'm going to shove this microchip in here. I'm going to shut this windows 75 right in your brain. Don't yeah, it might crash maybe, but then we'll just open up your head and we'll put it in a new one. Forget about the software crashes. That's probably going to happen. Like not to mention like, you know why they call it window, right? Because bill Gates has a window into your computer. I don't want someone to have a window into my head. I mean, they already have that with all my search history and stuff, but you want that in your body. That's ridiculous. So I, I think I kind of was meander in there. I think a lot of these new compounds people are, you know, you can take an organic compound or you can take a, even a synthetic compound that can fundamentally change the way you think isn't that a better isn't that a better method of, of evolution. Isn't that a better way of, of moving the ball forward than trying to implant this piece of hardware. That's patented by a company that has made all of its money on surveillance, capitalism that I'm taking. I think I'll take the mushrooms versus the Silicon chip. Wouldn't you? I think so. I think it's crazy. I hear ya. Some people are like, dude, what are, you know, you're a truck driver. I'm like, yeah, I'm a truck driver that reads a hundred books a year. When I listened to some of these guys in the, in the tech industry or the finance industry. Like I was listening to these guys yesterday. Talk about like the future of finance and Bitcoin. And these guys were like in their twenties, maybe thirties, maybe these guys were at 33 and this guy, the balls on this guy, this guy wrote an open letter to Ray Dali. Like, I don't know a whole lot about finance, but I know that that guy is like as $150 billion in his hedge fund. And here's these two swinging dicks talking about, well, you know, Ray, the you're really wrong on Bitcoin because unlike the guy, the guy he gave this really long winded argument, it was just based in logical fallacies supported by nonsequitors. He was like, listen, I think if we dif this was, this was his argument, let me know what you think. Like it was something he started off and I get what he tried to do. He's to set up a narrow definition. So it's difficult to wiggle out of his argument. But if you know that, and you're in a debate with a dummy like that, the first thing that you have to do, you have to get me to agree to your definition. And I, I don't think anybody would agree to his definition. His definition was stupid. He goes, listen, I think that we can define money as a tool. He, that was the very first part. And then he goes, you know, and the purpose of all tools is to save time. That's a fucking retarded argument, right? First off. No one, no, I don't think, I think a lot of people would not agree that money is a tool. I think a much better. Kevin I'll get to my definition in a minute. So he says, I think money is a tool. That's one part of your argument. And then in the next breath, he tries to further define money by talking about the purpose of all tools. I think that guy's a tool or you can't say, Hey, the purpose of all tools is there's no, it's not. So not only did you have a poor definition, not only did you have a poor definition of money, but then you immediately used an abstract explanation of a purpose, and then you have all tools. Like why the fuck would you say all, anything? I think all these people are this. I think all birds are that, Hey, dummy. Don't use the fucking word all. How about that? So anyway, that's the first part of your argument. These guys were there. God damn it. These guys, I don't know this guys. I was the CFO of this company and I'm like, dude, you fucking argue like that. And you were a CFO with a company, like no wonder our world is fucked up. You can't even have a goddamn coherent argument. And you're the CFO of a company. So they continue talking and don't get me wrong. I like crypto. I want crypto to win. However, the more that I listened to so called these young bucks that understand the crypto landscape, the more I realized it just seems to me like a bunch of young people, all butt hurt that the system sucks, which it does. It definitely sucks. Lot of people are losing, but it seems to me like these guys solution is like, Hey, we've got to get rid of all these people on top that are cheating. The system of this corruption. We've got to get rid of all of these people. I'm going to start this new system where we can be in charge of the corrupt system. You know, like it does no good to tear down a corrupt system, just going to build a new corrupt system. That's just being, that's just being a bitch. And the more that their conversation continued, they started throwing out stuff like, like in order to solve any issue, you need to have a clear understanding of reality. Think about that on one level. That sounds pretty good. Yeah. You should have a clear understanding of reality. And then you look at this knucklehead talk and he's like 33. And he went to some Ivy league school where he went to school where he learned economics from a professor who learned from a professor who learned from another professor. There probably never worked a day in his fucking life. So if you want to have a clear understanding of reality, maybe you should define whose reality your reality at 33 of not having kids or a family or not having fucking work for a living. Your reality of being a CFO that can't make a coherent argument, or maybe the reality of an economics professor, or I know how about the economics of a wall street trader? How about their reality or what about the reality of a truck driver? What about the reality of a goat herder? You want to implement this digital system, this abstract level of currency? Like how do you explain Bitcoin to a guy in a third world country that makes money grazing goats? Like how do you explain to him this, Hey, I have this magical virtual currency that guy's going to, what the fuck are you talking about a magic? I don't want your magic beans, bro. I don't want your magic beans. Then he goes on to talk about how he goes on to try and talk about scarcity and how we introduced the zero into the number system and how it, how it look. I get it. I get like zero is an important abstract idea. And he's right that adding zero to the numerical system in the West helped us out with mathematics and a lot of ways. But what the fuck is zero Viro is zero is the concept of nothingness. You want to build our financial system on the concept of nothingness. And if you just take a few minutes to think about that, that's a horrible foundation. Well, let's build our monetary system on nothingness. I get, it just seems to me that there's zero philosophy. That there's zero, there's zero hard thinking. That's gone into the world of finance. And like these guys are chickens with their beaks to the chalk line. Like I don't think you should even be able to be in finance until you have a family. You stayed married and you've had a job for 20 years. I think then you should be able to begin to become familiar with the levers of the monetary system, but not until then not until then. You don't know shit until then. Did I ever, did I give my definition of money? I think, I think the best definition of money should be a set of lies. Agreed upon isn't that a better definition of money than a tool. Like a tool is way to simplify it. Anyways. Anyways, I gotta, I gotta go. I gotta go into work like a man, like a provider, someone that builds something, someone that works with his hands, I had to go provide a service for people because they need things. So my love goes out to everyone of you who is out there doing something productive. Who's out there trying to build something is out there trying to chase down some corruption. Who's out there trying to make this world a little bit better instead of trying to build a financial vehicle that moves from a to B and just skims money off the top, right? Let's call it a thief. And somehow I went from smart drugs on, from drugs to smart drugs to finance. I don't know how I manage that, but I did, but I love you guys. I hope you have a great weekend. I hope you. I hope you take a little bit of time to think about the, the nature of our evolution as far as mechanistic versus organic versus the organism versus the mechanism. And man go home and tell your partner. You love him. Give him a kiss on the cheek. If you've got kids, give them a big squeeze and try to focus on all the beauty in life and your, and just know that I love you. And I hope you have a great weekend. Alright, everybody Aloha.