Well, dude, thanks for joining me, Mr. Mindset Mike.
Okay.
Everybody who doesn't know, this is Mike Reardon.
He is the owner and founder of Reven Concepts.
And well, Mike, thank you for joining me.
You want to tell people what Reven Concepts is and what it's about?
Yeah, definitely.
Toxic culture, right?
Long time in the making.
I've seen you build this.
And this right here is going to be a testament of what someone can create.
And what I do is I help people with their paths in life, right?
Because if you think about it, we all have limits.
The limits are created from our parents, from the teachers, from society in general.
And I help people start to uncover, start to unlock those locked doors that they have given themselves.
And we start to look at the areas in their life where they might be more stressed, more anxious.
And then we try to find ways that they can live a more purposeful and fulfilled life.
So would you call yourself like a life coach?
Would you call yourself, like what if you had to put a general title to what you do and your company does, what would that be?
Life coaching is the most common one.
When I speak with people on the streets, if I don't really want to talk to them, it's going to be, I just do life coaching.
It's easy to explain that.
But the work that I do is mindset coaching because we look at the mind primarily.
Life coaching is more of, let's look at your life, the different areas.
We do do that with career, with focus on family.
But when it comes to mindset, it's more of asking the question of, well, why are you not doing this?
Versus doing it every day, holding you accountable.
Life coaches tend to be those cheerleaders saying, hey, I'm checking in every single day.
Did you do your workout?
Did you eat the foods that you're going to eat?
Did you say you love your wife this morning?
That's what a life coach is typically doing.
A mindset coach is good to say, well, why are you not saying you love your wife?
Why are you not going to the gym?
Why are you not eating the healthy foods?
It's more of the why aspect.
It's more of getting to the bottom of why somebody is doing something instead of telling them, hey, this is what you should be doing.
So when somebody goes to Reverend Concepts, and I imagine it's reverendconcepts.com?
Yes.
Okay, so when they go there and what will they see and how will they get in touch with you from there?
How does that process work?
Easy enough.
You just go to the contact page.
You can fill out a contact form.
Someone will reach out to you.
You can go straight and just sign up and book your appointment.
That's going to be an option.
However, we are going to be changing our system very soon.
So you're going to have to just fill out a form and someone's going to reach out to you.
Okay.
And what type of services or what all do you help people with as a mindset coach?
And I mean, you are a life coach, but that falls under the category of being a mindset coach, basically.
Exactly.
What all can people, you know, what all can you help people with?
Basically, it's the gambit.
It's going to be your life, family, relationships, health and fitness, personal, professional development.
That's going to be the totality of what people truly want in their life and they need some assistance with.
Okay.
And Mike, I just want to let you know, man, I really appreciate, you know, you coming on and because we've had, you know, we've run security for a lot of the stuff we do.
And, you know, we go, we take trips out of town.
And, you know, we've, we've been on countless trips.
We've talked a bunch.
And I remember when you, I think you, you were already doing this, but you kind of took it to the next level.
And you're like, hey, man, how do I do this?
Or what do you think about this?
And that was like, what, two years ago?
Three years ago when you sent me the first kind of the promo video that you had.
You were like, yeah, I kind of want to do a family matters theme.
And then so as you say, this studio was a long time coming.
I mean, you've grown so much and come so far just since I've known you.
And we've always, you always have a motivational nature in you with everybody, with all the crew members, with anybody you are friends with.
You always want to see people succeed and you always want progress.
And personally, that's much appreciated, man, because there's not too many people who have that personality and want who, like you live off, you live for helping others.
There's not many people who do that.
Appreciate that.
I'm definitely a life coach bodyguard in all aspects because we think about just our security and our safety and our life, right?
We need people to love us.
We need people to care for us.
And not enough people have that.
And so if I can be that resource for people to just come in, confide in, and especially for men, because men, I know this is a hot topic.
I'm sure we're going to get into in toxic culture is should a man open up to their ladies?
No, they shouldn't.
They should find a friend, a coach, a mentor to confide in, because for some reason, ladies will throw that in your face later on.
So I'm basically that security for many people that they are lacking in their life.
And that, yeah, it's a good segue into the first topic I do want to get into is you help so many people with so many things from teaching because you were a teacher.
That's where you started before you went into this other.
I mean, I know you did security at the same time.
Were you security at the same time as a teacher or were you teaching full-time?
No, I did.
I was a swim coach and I was a teacher.
I always had two jobs.
That's right, yeah.
He was a great swim coach.
Yeah, I never forget the story about the little girl who couldn't swim and then it was only because her dad kept coming around.
Oh, yeah.
Had to kick the father out of the pool.
Yeah, that's a great story.
We'll get into that too.
But what do you see?
What is the biggest issue that you see from either relationship-wise, just life coach, mindset-wise?
What do you see is the constant or the biggest issue so far in society?
And what is the most constant that you have seen?
Fear is probably the biggest, right?
People just not willing to put themselves out there.
They want everything to be perfect, right?
Think of the studio, right?
You had many hurdles along the way.
How many people will go through those hurdles time and time again?
Not many.
Many people will say the first time, you know, what's the point?
It's not going to happen.
A lot of people, they give up too quick.
And that would probably be the biggest thing I see with people.
It's the moment they try one thing one time, they struggle, the challenge, it gets too tough.
They say, you know what?
Not for me.
And they give up.
Yet, you have to go through that struggle.
You have to go through that fear.
That onset is going to be for greatness.
Yet many people don't want to go through that valley.
And as long as they are afraid to go through that valley, they'll never have true happiness or true fulfillment in life.
Yeah, I agree with that.
Just talking to a lot of the fans of the callers who call in, and you can tell, it's like, I used to be scared.
I was afraid of backlash or I was afraid of failing.
And I was afraid of, so yeah, I agree with that.
Fear is a big factor that holds a lot of people back.
So being a teacher, when was the last time you were a teacher?
When was the year you started?
2016 was the last year.
Oh, shit.
That was like when the wormhole started.
Yeah.
I got out just in the nick of time.
So what is the biggest, the difference between school now and school then?
What is the biggest issue?
School now, like when I was growing up?
No, no, no.
No, when you were a teacher.
Oh, I mean.
Did you have to deal with a lot of this stuff that a lot of these teachers and kids are dealing with now?
No.
Luckily, no.
I mean, the pandemic changed teaching 100%.
I mean, from kids having to wear a mask to the distance learning that they had to do, teachers had to go through the gambit.
And a lot of teachers actually left their job when they had to be presented with a choice to get vaccinated or not get vaccinated.
And I actually interviewed a gentleman.
He was a high school band teacher and he had the option to, you know, get the vaccine or to leave his career.
And he loved teaching.
And you could tell he was a skilled man.
But he decided to leave and start a speaking career about education and things along those lines.
So education has changed.
It's still the same.
More testing for kids.
It doesn't help.
Bullying.
I mean, we can go down all the negative aspects of education.
Teachers are still handcuffed and shackled.
They can't really teach.
It's all about the curriculum.
It's all about the standards.
It's all about what the politicians want versus what the kids truly need.
You know, I can't imagine a kid who's 16 years old and they can't read.
Like, how did that happen?
And typically what happens is teachers are just burned out from everything else.
They just say, hey, we're just going to pass you along and now you're no longer a problem.
So eventually it's going to be someone's problem, a teacher who truly cares and wants to help this child, but there's going to be very few of those teachers and a lot of those teachers have left the teaching career.
What letter is it?
Yeah.
A new documentary laser focused on a growing problem in America, what it calls an early reading crisis.
When I first started teaching in Oakland, there were only two kids in my class of 35 who could read.
In 2022, 66% of fourth graders in this country were below proficient in reading.
That's according to the National Assessment of Educational Progress.
37% were below a basic reading level.
We are in a scary place for most of our kids.
LeVar Burton is an executive producer on the film.
He's spent most of his life as an advocate for literacy, dating back to his time as host of PBS's Reading Rainbow for more than 20 years.
Burton says this documentary speaks to an urgent need.
Kareem has been a teacher at all levels, principal on down.
And he says in the documentary, imagine being in the stone age and you don't have any stone.
Imagine being in the bronze age and you have no access to bronze.
We're in the information age and our kids aren't getting access to the information because they can't read.
Burton says that while the film shines a light on the problem, it also elevates what he sees as a solution.
We were asking kids to memorize words and take their cues from the pictures as to what the words on the page mean.
We now know that that doesn't work.
The problem, as the experts see it, is that we just, we've been spending money in the wrong direction, right?
And we can change that.
What you need is the phonics.
You need a really scientifically based approach to reading instruction.
Burton says the right to read explains how a turn towards structured science-based reading tactics is creating better outcomes for children.
And he encourages parents to ask questions about what's happening in their children's classrooms.
Parents can ask their school board.
They can ask their child's teacher, how are you teaching my child to read?
Are you using evidence-based curricula or not?
Because if they're not, then there's a problem.
And once you identify the problem, only then can you address it to fix.
Yeah, I think that's really insane how they were just passing people because they didn't want to teach them.
And it's like, like, yeah, how does it get that bad to where schools in Maryland and California, like they are, these kids who are in high school are reading and going off.
I mean, they're not any better than a fourth grade reading level, which is wild to me.
Like, how does that happen?
Well, it happens because school is about politics.
It's not about, okay, let's do the best job we can for our children anymore.
It's all about how much money can this institution make.
Basically, education is a money-making institution.
How much money a school gets is dependent on how well the children are going to be getting into testing.
So if they get good grades in the test, good scores in the test, guess what happens?
The school gets more money.
But now for the schools who need the most money, who need the most resources, they get the less or the least amount of money.
And because they're not basically showing the goods to the politicians.
And now it's just like the people who need the love the most and need the care the most are not getting it.
So that's why certain cities, especially like Maryland, Chicago, like inner city stuff, New York, Brooklyn, those children are going to be struggling the most.
See, and I think that kind of just, as you were speaking, it kind of hit me how it all ties together.
How honestly, I mean, I don't want to say I try to stay away from politics.
We cover it so much during the day.
And it's like, even during, you know, toxic culture, politics is a part of culture, sadly.
You can't get away from politics.
And especially if you're in tune with reality, like you can't, because you understand that that sets the precedent for the next, I don't know, couple years at the very least.
So if you think about these democratic policies that they have in these cities where they're letting out criminals, they're basically it's the wild west in a lot of these cities.
So if you go to broken neighborhoods in these cities, parents aren't really caring that if their kids are going to school.
You know, fatherless homes is the biggest problem in America.
I think if every home had an assigned, imagine if they just started putting veterans in fatherless homes.
Like that would change the course of America instantly.
I mean, of course, it would take at least five years for it to see the fruit of those fruits from that tree, but that would make a big difference.
But you think about putting lawlessness in these cities.
Now parents aren't caring what their kids are doing.
Either their kids are not going to school or they might be in Juvie.
Well, then they're not going to school.
So like you said, that school's not getting any money anymore.
So then these schools don't have, there's no motivation for the teachers to actually teach.
And they're shackled and they can't really, they have to teach to a broken curriculum, an agenda-filled curriculum.
Like that circle right there, it's like they basically broke that neighborhood.
They broke that city.
They broke that child.
They broke that school.
That system is a broken system.
And it's just, it's a circle.
It's like a snake eating itself.
And it's in every Democrat city.
And it's just spreading more and more.
There's a movie called Waiting for Superman.
If you are a teacher, I recommend you watch the film.
Waiting for a Superman.
The movie is about talking about these troubled schools.
And basically, the Superman aspect is going to be the good schools in the neighborhoods.
And typically, those are going to be the magnet schools.
And magnet schools are all about lotto.
The way you get into these schools is not by, okay, you're in this district, you're going to be assigned to this school.
It's all about drawing.
You put your name in, and if your number gets called, then you can be part of the school.
Now, there's also an aspect if you know the right people, but that's going to be very few people in the neighborhood.
So a lot of these people are waiting for Superman to come save them when it comes to, you know, having their kids go to these magnet schools because parents can't afford to send their children to private schools.
So they look for the best option, a magnet school.
And the magnet schools are better than the public schools.
However, if you just inundate it with enough bad individuals or people who are just kind of there because their parents wanted to be there or them to be there, then you start to have a culture in that school where that grade or those students that are going to be around these individuals that don't necessarily want to be there, you'll see that the class becomes tainted.
Now, this is different than your public schools because the principal and the administration, they have full right to who goes to this school.
Now, they can't just willy-nilly just say, hey, we don't like you because of your behavior.
Let's get rid of you.
It takes a certain amount of, I guess, disobedience that is going to be grounds to get rid of these individuals.
So it's almost like they're in the system, maybe a three-strike rule depending on the school, but it's still a better option.
And most parents, once they see their kids are like on strike number two, are going to say, listen, you're going to have to either fix it or you're going to be in this school and this is going to be your future.
And some kids are like, I just don't care.
And they just have that mindset of just not caring.
Yeah.
I was kind of, I would say I was kind of there, but I hit a point in seventh grade.
I didn't want to go to school anymore.
And it took about a week for my mom to kind of shake that out of me and she couldn't understand.
But it wasn't, mine was a different, it was a different mindset.
It was because I felt like everything, I've already kind of learned all the basics that I need to learn.
I was getting into algebra and, you know, pre-cal and I was like, I'm never, letters and numbers started coming together.
And I was like, nah, I don't, I don't need this.
Like, I don't, I didn't.
So, but to people who don't have, for kids who don't have people behind them who are going to make sure they don't have that mentality, they're going to, they're going to fail.
I mean, they're going to give up because they don't have to try anymore.
They, they just, they can do whatever they want and they don't really care about the repercussions because at the end of the day, a lot of kids were like, oh, it's not going to kill me.
Like, so what's next?
And if they have, if they have a shitty life, then they're not going to, like, who knows?
Jail might even be better than their home life.
But I think a lot of these problems need to be addressed within, I mean, now, if there's going to be change in the school system, if there's going to be change in kids.
I mean, I just, I feel like a lot of these kids have so much against them.
You know, they need more people to be able to let them know that there's other options.
They're fighting an uphill battle for sure.
And when they're presented with information that's not relatable to them, the natural thing to do is just to turn off.
Why would I need this?
Why would I do this?
And especially with technology right now, I don't need to go to the doctor.
I can go to Google.
I don't need to learn pre-calculus.
I can literally type in the equation and get the answer.
So for them, it's like, what's the point?
And education, there's different avenues you can go down when it comes to education.
Education can be a means to an end, you get a degree, you want to be a doctor, a lawyer, et cetera.
You need a degree for that.
But if you are a person that wants to do trade, you want to be a mechanic, you want to do hair, you don't need an education really for that.
So, for individuals that want to do careers like trade, there's no point to education.
So, they already check out.
And if they already checked out, it's hard for teachers to get them checked in.
No, absolutely.
And I think, you know, the school district I went to school in, from middle school, you get to kind of select what magnet school you want to go to.
But it's kind of the same thing.
Not everybody's going to get into this.
So they had a business school, they had a performing arts school, they had agriculture, they had the science and technology.
But like you said, it's not, not everybody's going to get in.
And especially, you know, there's going to be like the whole story, what you just said, some might not want to be there and got in.
And some who do want to be there can't get in.
So they are steering away.
I mean, there's a lot more government-funded schools now, you know, and that worries me because that's what expedited these agendas that has put us in this situation from the beginning.
And now it's like, okay, you used to have to go through this lottery to go to a magnet school.
And that's like, hey, we have this whole school now.
And it's like, so everybody who didn't get in, you know, you just come over here.
But it's like same side of, it's two sides of the same coin.
Like you're not going to, now they're forcing this.
And now it's just a whole, it's like a government private school.
You get in for free, but you're going to get indoctrinated.
And there's just more and more of those popping up.
So as teachers, as a former teacher, what do you think, do you have any advice for people who are in teaching who don't agree with a lot of the stuff that's going on right now?
And do you have, do you have any pointers of what they should do to try to, because like you said, there used to be a lot of good teachers and there's still teachers that want to do the right thing, but like you said, they're handcuffed.
Do you have any advice for them?
For individuals that are still in the teaching career that love their job and they want to do good for the children, I always encourage them to do the best they can when it comes to following the curriculum.
Now, the curriculum is very wide, right?
Basically, you have a standard that you have to be able to accomplish by the end of the grade.
So if you're in first grade, you have to do X, Y, Z or A, B, C, right?
Whatever it is, you have to know this knowledge before you go to grade two.
However, we can look at that's not really working because I doubt you're going to be 14, 15, 16 years old and not know how to read.
Somewhere there is a gap where teachers are just passing the baton, passing the troubled kids away to the next teacher.
Now it's someone else's problem.
So for the good teachers, when you have a student like that, that's going to be a problem child for you.
You just have to, again, dig deep.
You have to be that resource.
You have to be that resource for them because if you're not that resource for them, no one will.
And they're going to make it all the way to 16 and they're not going to be able to read.
And that child is actually going to remember you.
They're going to say, hey, I remembered this teacher care.
Even though I gave them a hard time, even though it seemed like I was absent, the student truly feels if a teacher is there.
And all the students that I worked with, they kind of gravitated towards me.
Where it's just like they can naturally feel.
It's almost like how people have different energies.
Certain people, you kind of say, I'm staying away from this individual.
Versus some people, you're like, you know, this person's pretty cool.
And you might not know what that is.
And it might be that you just care.
And that's the secret.
You just have to care.
You just have to care enough and let them know that you care.
And you just can't be wishy-washy with how you operate.
You can't be the star teacher one day.
And then all of a sudden, you're berating kids and you're just so stressed out.
You have to find that equilibrium.
When you go into the classroom, nothing else matters.
The kids matter.
And a lot of teachers, they come in with their own opinions, their politics, their outside family problems.
And when they start to mix that, it becomes more challenging for the kids to truly understand who the teacher is.
So ideally, who you want to be in the classroom is who you always want to present for those children, right?
The role model, the person who's always smiling.
I mean, you can go through the ringer, but you have to be that shining figure.
Think of a superhero.
The hero is always smiling.
The hero is always saving the day, and you have to be that hero for them.
Now, it might be difficult, especially like when you have administration and you have all these politics in school.
But if you keep doing your bit, you make sure that you show up every day 100%, nothing else matters.
Absolutely.
I agree with that.
Karen goes a long way.
And like you said, that gravitational pull, that energy that you have, it is like a magnet.
And kids are in search of that.
And if they are robbed of being able to have that type of connection with somebody, they're going to try to look for that validation their entire life.
And then at that point, you know, there's not really the odds of them finding that is a lot slimmer as an adult than you are as a kid.
So I do, I want to show this video.
I mean, this kind of, it segues perfectly to what we're talking about right now.
And I see these videos time and time again, man.
And if I was a parent with kids, if this is one of my kids' teachers, like, I don't know how I would react.
Hi, so I have a small dilemma.
I am starting a new job on Monday, and it's a teaching job.
So the kids are going to call me either Mr. or Mrs. Jamie.
It depends on what I want.
But I, as a non-binary being, I don't know what to pick.
I feel like Mrs. would be easier for the kids, but Mr. makes me feel better.
But I also kind of want to try Mix, but I don't know if the kids can do that.
I don't.
And then what do they do when they ask me if I'm a boy or a girl?
I'm not.
I don't know.
It's young kids.
My class is going to be four-year-olds.
So, I don't know.
And then I don't know if I want to go by Jamie or Jamie Ray, because Jamie Ray is the name that I go by now.
I don't know.
Any advice would be great.
any non-binary teachers.
SOS, save our ship.
SOS.
SOC, save our captain.
Thanks.
So yeah.
I am starting a new job.
That's interesting.
That's interesting, but that's a lot of teachers today, though.
Yeah.
That's a lot of teachers today.
It's not just her.
Yeah.
So, like, this is who's teaching our nation's future.
I understand.
We're in trouble.
We are in trouble.
And that's a mild one.
Listen.
That's mild.
The whole aspect behind my business, right?
Reven concepts just means never backwards for anyone who wants to know why Revan, right?
And then we can even get into the aspect of why bird.
But Revan is just never backwards.
And I would never forget the day I decided to go against teachers who are good at instill limiting beliefs into children, right?
It's crazy to me.
There was a teacher, this is when I was still a swim coach, who basically had a student and I was doing makeup lessons that day, right?
Because something happened, a teacher was sick or whatever, and there's a whole bunch of makeup lessons.
So I basically had a list of kids that weren't my regular students.
And so I had one of the students that the instructor was there doing her typical day.
And she basically told me, because we were looking at if he can swim or not, and he was a great swimmer.
We were over in the shallow end though.
And the moment I was like, all right, well, let's spice this up a little bit.
Let's bring this into the deep end and let's get you doing some laps and everything like that.
He froze.
And he just couldn't move.
And he basically said, I can't do it.
I can't swim in the deep end.
But yeah, he can swim perfect over on the shallow side where he can touch the bottom of the pool.
And eventually the instructor comes by and she says, don't even bother.
He can't do it.
She said that this is a private swim school and these parents are paying like $50 for a half an hour, $60 for half an hour for these lessons.
And the instructor was like, yeah, don't even bother.
He can't do it.
And now I'm like, game on, right?
I'm like, you don't tell me what to do.
All right.
And so it was me nonstop for about 20, 25 minutes because the lessons are going to be only 30 minutes.
And I'm just there trying to get this guy.
And I have to build trust.
Basically, in order to get people to swim in the deep end, they have to be able to trust you and they have to trust themselves.
And basically, long story short, I got the kid to swim in the deep end, right?
Got him to jump from the side of the pool and I gave him everything he needed to be successful.
And it's so funny because after the lesson, I was exhausted.
I was literally nonstop talking.
I don't even know if I took a breath, but I had to take a breath if I'm here right now talking to you.
But the mom came over to me and said, you did more in one lesson than he has had his whole entire career here at the swim school.
And I said, whoa, that's interesting because now this kid has been being limited for how many years?
And now you basically corral children into a way of thinking.
Oh, you can't swim in the deep end.
Okay, not a problem.
All right.
Oh, this is hard.
Don't worry about it.
Right.
Not everyone's going to be this, right?
This is the issue with when we have limiting beliefs.
And now we have limiting beliefs being taught to our kindergartners, essentially, that, oh, you have to be careful in how you talk to people, how you think about life, who you are.
This is no longer, all right, this is black and white.
You are a boy.
You are a girl.
And when you start to say, well, you can be anything now, you know, it's like a full barge of chaos because now you have these children who are confused because you need identity.
And if you have limits, you cannot create your identity.
And if you have basically limits in that, which is the confusing part, that you can be anything you want.
You can be non-binary.
You could be a boy.
You could be a girl today.
You could wear skirts.
You could wear high heels.
It doesn't help them create that.
And so there's a structure that I follow when it comes to helping parents understand what their children need.
From zero to seven, it's all about helping them build who they are, right?
Their identity is going to be coming a little bit later, but you have to give them the aspects of love and emotion.
And when they don't even know who they are, how can they love themselves?
A lot of kids are struggling now with loving themselves.
Depression is so high.
Anxiety pills are being like, you know, being brought out like Tic Tacs for these kids.
And it's because they have not created a foundation for themselves.
And so these children who are four or five years old, they have no foundation.
They don't know who they are.
And these teachers that are coming in and they're saying, hey, oh, I don't know who I am either.
Now the kids are like, well, the teacher doesn't know.
How would I know?
And you have a whole chaos of confusion.
And the solution is to leave politics out of school.
Gender is science.
There's both, you know, there's only two genders.
There's male and there's female.
And when you go in with all this woke nonsense of, oh, I'm non-binary.
I'm cis or whatever.
I don't know all of the phrases.
But basically.
You don't know all the phrases?
Well, there's too many.
There used to only be two.
Now there's like 200.
Well, like, look at the gay community, right?
Before it was just a gay community.
Now it's the LGBTQXYZ.
It's too many.
That's too many.
It's too many to remember.
That was science.
It was just two.
Yeah.
So I agree with that, man.
They started taking God out of the schools.
And then look what happened.
I mean, it's been inverted.
Like, now it's okay for drag queens to be reading to kids inside the library.
Like, 2016, would that ever happen at any of the schools that you worked at?
They don't even do the Pledge of Allegiance.
They don't.
You're right.
They don't even care about the country.
No.
Damn, man.
They will take down the American flag and put up the gay pride flag before they say the Pledge of Allegiance in the schools.
Yep.
There's a teacher who makes fun of kids.
I think she's middle school or high school, but she was like, oh, you want to pledge allegiance to a flag?
Oh, I got a flag for you.
And she goes, This is how I troll all my.
She probably said MAGA students are racist or something, you know.
But yeah, they think it's a joke, man.
And like, these are the people who are teaching our kids.
So I think it's a good transition to talk about, you said they're giving out these ADHD.
They're giving out pills like Tic Tacs.
You're absolutely right.
So I thinking when I was in school, it was just riddling.
You know what I mean?
And then now, I mean, it's turned into Adderall, Adavan.
They got so many things.
So when you were a teacher, what's the difference then to now?
Was there still a lot of pills being pushed then?
Or do you see a big uptick?
Well, my last years of teaching, I actually taught special ed.
So I got to see firsthand IEPs, what kids were taking.
And it all stems, again, from their foundation, from what they're being allowed, what they're being taught.
There's no structure.
There's no strong father figure in the house.
And it just creates a whole array of problems.
And what was amazing to me at least, for me, as you said early on, you know, I can talk to anybody and we can get along.
And I just see the potential in people.
And that's what I did with every student.
I saw the potential.
I didn't see who they were.
I didn't see what the IEP told me.
I didn't listen to what another teacher told me.
It's not helpful.
I would rather do the work myself.
And these individuals who have, and I'm talking about severe behavioral problems, like literally flipping desks, ripping up classrooms, trying to break windows and stuff like that, big problems, right?
Because you have to keep them safe.
These children are just kind of being thrown in a corner, thrown in a box and saying, okay, well, they're a lost cause.
And one of the things teachers would say is, oh, did you take your meds today?
This is crazy to me.
It's like the meds weren't necessary because what was happening was we basically told this individual that you can't calm down unless you have these meds.
So it's almost like a placebo effect.
If you take this TikTok that is your med, but it doesn't do anything, naturally you will say, I took my meds.
So you would naturally calm down.
But it was more so of the boys that they were trying to target.
Not so much of the women, I mean, or the young ladies.
That's what they say about ADHD.
It only affects boys.
I had some girl students.
And what I would say is more widely, the boys are going to be out of control.
And it's not so much that they can't control themselves, it's just that they don't have any structure.
They've never been disciplined to have to control themselves.
Exactly.
And so whenever I started to work with them, it's all about expectations.
I create the expectations, what they need to follow, what they need to do.
And then from there, they're like, okay, well, this guy means business.
And they're going to test you, right?
They're going to see how far they can go.
And the moment they cross that line in the sand that you create, which is your expectations, you stop them.
You say, no, no, no.
Like, we're not doing that.
I don't know who you think I am.
I'm not this teacher.
I'm not that teacher.
We are about business.
We are going to get the work done.
And eventually they learn, okay, this teacher right here is not messing around.
So they basically say, there's no point in trying to tick this teacher off because they get a rise from trying to get an emotional response from teachers.
And it's so funny when they do because they're just laughing, just giggling.
They're just like, look, we made them yell.
And I remember one time I was like across the hall.
This is when I was a music teacher still.
And there was a new third grade teacher that came into the school.
And she was a very nice lady.
And she just was having a hard time.
She had a couple of heavy hitters in the classroom.
I called the problem kids.
She had about three.
And so she was just having a rough day with them.
And she was giving them the emotional response that they were looking for.
And guess what?
They loved it.
They were like, all right, let's keep doing it.
Let's keep doing it.
She was feeding the machine.
Exactly.
And so I was like, this is ridiculous.
I can't even do my lesson.
So I left my room.
It was just right there.
So I just walked across the hall and I was like, well, we're not doing this.
I can hear you across the hall.
I just basically gave them a little speech.
No more issues.
But it's just amazing how we have these teachers who are going to be so emotional where they can't even corral, you know, a third grader or a fourth grader.
We have to learn how to control our emotions.
We are the adults.
We have to show them by example.
We have to lead by example.
And if we're giving the example of non-binary or we're giving them the example of you need some type of pill or some type of drug in order for you to be an effective member of society, we have big problems later on in the future.
And one of the reasons why I did mindset coaching is because I saw how many broken children were being created and being led out into the world.
These 18, 19, 20-year-old children don't know how to live life truly.
Like they don't know how to problem solve.
They don't know how to critically think.
They don't even know how to do basic finances, how to live life.
Add that what you're saying on top of a broken education system.
And they don't learn anything.
That was what I was going to say next.
And there's no finances.
There's no life lessons.
There's no how to respond to workplace lessons and what you're going to deal with in the workplace or how to even go about getting a job and how to build a resume.
Put all that on top of what the mental, everything else they're already going through in their life.
You're putting them against the wall.
You're putting their back against the corner.
What are they going to do?
They can only survive, basically what they do.
And typically what they do from experience is that they look for peer groups.
And the peer groups don't have to be positive.
They can be negative.
So when I was teaching middle school, and I'm middle school is tough because you can really see the change in hormones, in individuals, and mindsets.
And you can see these sweet, fifth, and sixth graders come in for the first time, middle school, depending on your state, because middle schools are different by state.
You're going to have these children to start to change.
And it's not all about hormones.
It's all about Accepting what peers are doing and adapting to the culture because if they don't adapt to the culture, they're left out.
And if you think about community, you have to be a part of the community, it's in our DNA.
We have to be accepted, otherwise, we're going to be outcasted and we need people to live.
So these children are just going along with their instinctual habits of, I need to find these peers.
And it doesn't matter if they're good or bad.
They could be terrible role models.
And so I would have these students, they will be stealing their parents' cars, going out getting weed and drugs from high school students.
And I'm talking about, again, these are fifth, like five, sixth, and seventh graders doing this.
And this becomes their culture.
And I'm sure you've probably seen videos of like students in like Chicago or some inner city and all of them have guns and they're all showing all these guns.
I've seen that video.
They're in the gym.
Yeah.
And like everybody in the gym had guns.
It's the culture.
It's the culture.
This is what my peers are doing.
I need to be accepted.
So I have to do what my peers are doing.
Because if you're not accepted, you're bullied.
And a lot of people would rather be accepted, do the wrong thing than to be bullied and try to do the right thing in life.
Yeah, I agree with that.
And I remember, you know, in elementary and middle school, at the very least, like your nurse, you know what I'm saying, would be the person who would like level with you no matter what.
You know what I'm saying?
Like, because they know you when you're trying to get out of it.
They know you when you're telling the truth.
They know when you're lying.
Are you sick?
Are you not?
And even like the nurses have basically just started quitting.
You know, they don't want to do it.
They don't, like everything is failing in these school systems and nothing's being done about it.
And I think that more teachers are going to kind of follow your role and the other guy's role.
And they're going to, they need to, if they don't want to teach children, they need to start teaching these adults, these adults, how to teach these children.
And I think that's going to be a whole other line of work that's going to be created.
And like, that's going to be the light created from the darkness that's coming.
But from there, you know, I transition to like, well, I want to see you to see this video.
I mean, these doctors, the nurses, everything is kind of really just going to shit.
And I just want to get your opinion on what you think above.
I mean, these are these, this is the doctor, but you can see kind of, you know, they have replacement migration where they bring, you know, people over to.
I think they've been doing that across the board in America with teachers, with doctors, with nurses, with everything.
And they're all transitioning to, it's this whole DEI.
You know, it's like the diversity, inclusion.
It's like, so these pawns are these, these puppets of theirs are getting younger and younger because the older ones aren't, they're not for that.
They're like, first of all, they like you.
Don't tell me what to do.
That's our mindset.
We got that from our teachers.
But the generation under us, they don't have that.
They don't have that same type of discipline.
And they're just really just mindless puppets.
So I want to know what you think about this video right here.
Hey, white men, due to systemic and structural racism that black women have had to endure, they only make 64 cents to every dollar that you make.
So as a fitting start to Black History Month, I want to take what you will make today, multiply it by 64%, and then take that difference and give it to some black women today.
This shows that you are honoring them, that you are appreciating them, and that you are dedicated to equity.
And black women, you know what to do.
So a couple things.
First of all, when it comes to black women, right?
If you see a black woman with a tattoo on her hand, it's visible on her hand, run.
All right?
I don't know if you saw it.
The first thing I stopped listening to her.
I saw the tattoo.
I was like, oh, red flag.
All right.
Another red flag is if you ever see a black woman with like cheetah print, it could be a keychain.
It could be yoga pants.
It could be whatever.
Run.
All right.
This is crazy.
All right.
When it comes to the equality aspect to not showing up in life, it's easy to say someone else is the problem.
Rob, you're the problem.
The reason I can't be successful is because you're alive.
It makes no sense.
Versus we all have the option to elevate ourselves.
And a lot of people, like I said, we're living in our limits and they don't see opportunity.
They see scarcity.
And I talked about this today on the podcast or my podcast where RebanConcepts.youts.com.
Right.
Yep.
And then podcast coaching and session.
The aspect that many people, they live in a box.
Think about it.
How many people, they grow up in their city?
They grow old in their city.
They die in their city.
A lot of people.
A lot of people don't leave their neighborhoods anymore.
Exactly.
It's crazy.
So people are already trained to live the American dream.
Guess what the American dream is?
Go to school, get an education, indoctrinate yourself, become a worker bee, buy a house at a 30-year fix.
That means you're stuck for 30 years of your life in one location.
But then times are going to be hard because you're living in the rat race and your job's not going to keep up with the cost of inflation.
So guess what's going to happen?
You have to refinance your house.
So now you're there 45 years.
And before you know it, you're going to die and you're not going to have the money to pay off your house.
And now your kids are going to have to sell the house.
Is that really, truly an American dream?
But you can change all of that.
There's hacks that you can do.
It's called uprooting.
And the hack is to leave wherever you are.
So if you're in New York, you leave New York, you go to Florida, you go to Kansas, you go to Memphis, Tennessee.
It doesn't matter where you go, but you uproot yourself.
And what you do is you get yourself out of the system that you were placed in.
And then you have an option.
Everyone has the option, but not everyone takes the option.
You get to say, all right, do I want better for my life?
Do I want to have success?
Do I want to have riches?
Do I want to have wealth?
Do I want to have prosperity?
You get to make that choice.
But for the people who stay stuck in a box, they are looking for a handout.
And the black community is going to be the poster community of what is happening with this mindset.
Because now the black community says, well, hmm, the government's going to take care of me if I don't make over a certain amount of money.
So if I make under $29,474, whatever it is now, the government's going to give me government assistance.
I'm going to get food stamps.
I'm going to get whatever else, the government, housing, low housing, because I'm choosing to make less money.
And now we have these statistics that come out where blacks will, you know, like a black person will make what, $29,000, $31,000 compared to a white person who makes what $71,000 is average.
This right here is like, oh, look at this disparity.
But the disparity is a choice.
You get to choose if you want to make $29,000 or if you want to make $71,000.
Most people who are choosing to stay within the means of government assistance shouldn't be looking at other cultures and saying, oh, you're the reason for me being this way.
The reason why you're that way is because you decided to be that way.
It's a choice.
You decided not to elevate yourself.
And most people in life choose the lesser road.
They choose not to elevate themselves.
Yeah, I 100% agree.
And I believe that a lot of that, like you said, the black community is a poster child for that.
And over the past, I don't know, let's say two years, black community has kind of been waking up and realizing.
And the reason why they're doing that is just because they're getting replaced.
They're not used to having to compete for welfare.
They're not used to having to compete for housing.
With all these migrants coming over, all that money that was going just to them is now being divided up.
And a lot of them are just getting pushed out.
Like, I don't know if you know about the situation that's going on in Boston right now is where, or I know it's happening and it's happening everywhere.
They're kicking out homeless veterans and they're closing, or they're basically closing recreation centers, community centers, and making them sanctuaries for migrants.
And now it's getting to black communities and they're not liking it.
So it was fine.
You know, they had that indoctrination.
Oh, it's fine.
Oh, they're going to a white man's neighborhood.
They're going here.
Oh, yeah, they deserve that.
Well, now they're in their neighborhood and they don't like that at all.
So I think that it's, it's, I think that, or at least I hope that they wake up enough to stop it in its entirety and not just be, not just be like, oh, this is only for me and let's get back to where it was before because now they're they're seeing that they don't really care about them.
They need to realize that they've been pawns this entire time.
And do you feel like the black community has the opportunity to turn itself around?
Or do you feel like But the plantation is very, very real and there's a lot of slaves on it.
Let's look at it this way, right?
There's a concept of behavioral adjustment where eventually I can adjust your behavior to do a certain thing or to think a certain way.
For example, slavery, right?
We can go back to slavery and then we can look at some science.
Slavery, if a slave ever did something wrong, they were made an example of.
They would get beat, they would get hanged, whatever it was.
Now the slaves say, uh-oh, I don't want that for me.
I want to live.
I want to survive.
And so the way they survive is by being obedient.
And yet they learn a certain behavior from that.
They don't rebel anymore.
Now, there's multiple sciences and studies from sheep, for example.
What they would do to docile sheep was eventually, you know, it took some time where they would have all these sheep.
And some sheep were the alpha sheep, right?
They're very aggressive.
You know what they did?
They killed those sheep.
And eventually the sheep that were the cowards, the sheep that were run away and were afraid, they would breed.
And so it was inbred in them to be docile.
And for every sheep that was aggressive or dominant in nature, they killed them.
And even in our culture today, anyone who is dominant in nature, it can be anyone, right?
Trump is very dominant in nature.
Andrew Tate is very dominant in nature.
They try to shut them down.
Alex Jones, very dominant.
Alex Jones.
He's very dominant in nature.
Alex Jones was right.
And this is what's happening.
They learn the behavior.
It gets bred into the culture.
And then we can even look at how certain animals and creatures and insects even, there is a study of ticks.
Ticks can jump a certain, or fleas can jump a certain height.
And if you put them in a cup, just a glass cup, right?
They'll jump out.
But if you cover the cup with a lid or whatever, eventually they'll learn that, oh, I can't jump this high because there's a lid there.
You take the lid away.
They jump only enough to not get out of the cup.
This is learned behavior.
Now, what is amazing that happens is that their offspring actually jump even less because they say, what is the point of even jumping that high?
So now you get down the paths of generations, you have all the fleas and all the ticks just walking.
They don't even jump anymore.
So now what we learn is we learn helplessness.
So is the black community going to take, or any community or any individual is going to take the reins of their life and say, I'm going to take control and I'm going to change the outcome of my life in the future generations?
Some, yes, of course.
But we're talking about like 5 to 10% maybe, of individuals who are going to do that.
Because, again, we're being indoctrinated in a system of being obedient and not challenging the status quo.
We're being indoctrinated into a system that goes along with followership instead of leadership, or the aspect of critical thinking versus someone thinking for you.
It's easy for someone to tell you what to do when you do it.
Think of why people don't start businesses.
It's easy to get a paycheck.
It's easy to live in the rent rates.
But if you want to start something for yourself, it's more challenging.
And many people don't want to go through the challenges of life, so they stay where they are and the generations that come after them suffer.
No, I agree.
And that's, I mean, that becomes, I don't want to say it's all about mindset at that point, but it really is because you are changing future generations because you have a simplistic mindset.
And that's very, very, what's the word I'm looking for?
I mean, that's just, that's devastating.
Like you, you are, and I really, I really hope that humans aren't like ticks or are like fleas to where, but you're, you're right.
And I guess where my hope is, is to where a child, I mean, I guess like for myself, I thought very differently as a kid as my parents did.
So, but I think that's because I had the freedom to do that.
If kids don't have the freedom to be themselves, then they're going to mimic that lifestyle that, or that, yeah, that lifestyle that they grew up in.
And that's wild.
There's a story about these ants.
And just take like leafcutter ants.
I don't know exactly what strain of ants it was, but they go out and they do things a certain way.
All right, that's just, that's that kind of ant.
That's exactly how, that's, that's what they do.
Well, they have the same type of ant, same species, just in a different location.
These two species have never talked before, but this other species does the exact same thing and lives the exact same way as this other species does.
And they've never had, have had that connection ever.
And I feel, I mean, that's exactly what we were just talking about.
Like, you, if you were raised this way and this is your system, no matter where you are down your gene line, like that's going to get passed down.
Like that's, and that, that, that right there like blows my mind.
And I think it goes back to, you know, having a strong mindset and having the people behind you to give you that mindset.
And what have you seen in adults mindset wise that really holds them back other than fear or is there more to it?
Is there more of like where how they grew up, how they were raised really affects them mentally as they grow up?
Or do you see a success rate where a lot of these people are able to kind of break away from that?
What happens typically when it comes to adults, right?
They just kind of go through life until something big happens.
And when something big happens, we call it a trauma.
And I'm sure you're familiar with big T traumas and little T traumas.
Therapists love this because this is where the money is for them.
It's like, okay, we're going to look at your little T traumas.
We're going to look at your big T traumas.
And I'm going to keep you in therapy for three, four years.
It doesn't take that long to fix someone's traumas.
It can take you maybe three to six months.
So why are we exasperating the problems?
Because, again, medical issues make money.
Look at COVID.
It makes money.
Medical problems make money.
So keeping adults desiring for drugs, for, again, they're depressed, they're anxious.
They're looking for the Band-Aid effect, right?
They want something quick.
They don't want something long-term.
They don't want to go through the trouble and the struggle.
However, trauma can be the best medicine.
If you give a person enough trauma, it could be a deafened family.
It could be a loss of a job.
Everyone has a different level of trauma depending on your upbringing.
That trauma is going to help instill a new mindset, but it doesn't guarantee it.
It's a possibility.
So if you go through a trauma in your life, a moment where it's really tough, you can come out on the other end with a positive outcome.
But yet many adults, they will go through this trauma.
They will try to survive as much as possible and then they try to get back to normal.
You remember in COVID, they said, let's get back to normal.
What does that mean?
What does normal mean?
Get back to mediocrity?
Get back to weakness?
Get back to the rat race?
That trauma right there was a chance for people to elevate themselves, but yet they didn't.
So it could be fear, but it can also be the aspect that they don't know how to leverage trauma to make change.
Yeah, and that, you know, you're exactly right, that lockdowns and COVID, I mean, that, that changed, it changed a lot of people.
And I will say there was a lot more people who woke up during COVID, but there's a lot of people who also didn't take advantage of waking up.
So it's like they came out of COVID and they learned a lot, but then they slowly started going back into their old ways.
And there is a few, you can tell the big difference, especially people who are like, there's a lot, like a lot of people were leaving the left and going to the right or just going independent now.
A lot of people left the right.
And like me, I didn't really care about politics until I started working here because we're indulged in it.
And then I started, you know, 2016 really changed politics for everybody.
It made people pay attention.
You know, they're like, oh shit, there's kind of, you know, people are attracted to chaos.
They're attracted to somebody who's outcast.
Whether they like it or not, they're addicted to what comes with it.
So that's why everybody on the left was, like they, that's where Trump derangion syndrome came from.
Like you had never had people hate a certain president ever more than Trump.
There's a lot of people who hated Obama, But not, they didn't, it wasn't like the show they put on for Trump.
And I don't know for those people who got who got that lost, like there's going to need to be another massive trauma for them to be able to come out of that.
And that's sad to say because people shouldn't have to deliberately go through bad things to reverse something that really shouldn't have happened in the first place.
And I mean, I'm grateful to have people, people have a place like Reverend Concepts to go to to kind of recover.
So with that being said, have you ever thought about having your own re-education camp?
For lack of better words, I don't really mean re-education camp, but there is a market for parents who want to change their kid back to their normal kid who's been indoctrinated.
So have you ever thought of having that?
Have you ever had people come up to you and I'm like, what do I do?
Or what do you suggest to people who either have kids or just themselves aren't sure how to handle what they're going through?
So there's many different avenues because everyone is going to be individualized to their situation.
Because if a person is bullied, it's going to be different than a person who just kind of becomes conformed to peers.
It's very different.
It's a very different path.
So what they need to get out of that situation is different than what this person needs to get out of the situation.
So there's not necessarily a blanket fix that works for everyone.
But my coaching is typically individualized to the person.
It's not so much of, all right, this is going to be a blanket fix for everyone.
But if we did have to give a blanket fix, right?
Just kind of throwing one out there, we would have to look at what they truly want in life, right?
A lot of people don't even look at where they are and where they want to be.
They truly don't.
They just kind of say, oh, it'd be nice to have some money.
Oh, it would be nice to own this or own that.
And they don't necessarily give themselves a goal, a mission, or a purpose.
Men in life need purpose.
And if you don't have that purpose within you, you're just going to find, you just kind of move through the ebb and flows of life.
The world pushes you where it needs to be.
So you do have to kind of take back the reins of life.
And this is easy to do because the only thing you have to do is get a piece of paper and start writing.
It sounds crazy, but this is the blanket fix.
You start journaling and it takes some time.
Everyone's going to have a different result.
You don't truly know what you want until you can get all the garbage that's forefront in your mind out.
So all the stuff, you need this house, you need this car, you need this type of woman or this type of man.
That's all the superficial stuff.
Then we get down to what we truly desire, what our passions are, what our gifts and our zone of genius is.
That right there is going to be where our focus should be.
But there's so many distractions.
Think of if you go to a strip club and there's like a million dollars like sitting there and you can grab it if you want it, but there's a bunch of strippers with titties hanging out and they're shaking their booties and they got big butts too.
So you're like, whoa, this is pretty.
Yeah, you see the million dollars, but you're like, hold on, is that going anywhere right now?
Exactly.
We get distracted.
And many people, they get distracted by the things that are right in front of them, their initial problems, right?
They're all in survival mode.
Most people are in survival mode.
So they only look for how can I get to the next day?
This is why we have high credit card debt, high debt.
We have a lot of people going into unfavorable situations, OnlyFangirls and stuff like that.
Like, like this is because they're like, what is the better option?
And the option is, well, how can I make the most money?
Conveniently.
Conveniently and easily because they don't want to struggle.
They don't want to go through the hardships of life.
So they find the easy outlet.
And you do have to get rid of all of the stuff that's the easy stuff and go through the hard path of life.
And many people are not going to go through that hard path of life because it's a struggle, because it's uncertain, because of the fear of failure.
All of that is going to inhibit people from truly growing, from truly changing.
So if you're trying to change, if you're a parent, you're trying to change your child, they have to want it because there's two types of people in this world and I make it black and white.
There's people who want it and there's people who kind of want it.
And there's a lot of people in this world who kind of want it.
And if you want to be a person who wants it, you have to be a person who's unafraid to go through the hardship, that goes through the challenge, and that is going to be willing to change at a drop of a dime, at a drop of a pin.
If someone is doing this, you make the pivot if you have to versus, oh, well, let's wait and see.
There's no more waiting and seeing.
It's all about action.
And the action that you need is going to be individualized, as I said, to you.
So depending on the situation, you have to journal.
And then from there, once you are journaling, you're writing down what you need to do, you get your answers.
Typically, what I do is I just do the process with the individual.
So we go through like a flowchart situation where it's like, if we do this, these are the possible outcomes.
Which outcome do you prefer?
And then they say, well, this one is cool.
And then we look at all the struggles that come along with the outcome or the choice that they selected.
And they're like, hmm, you know, like, I don't know if I want that.
You just kind of want it.
Yeah.
There's two types of people in this world, people who want it and people who kind of want it.
So if you're a parent, teach your child how to be a person who truly wants it, who would do anything in order to get it, who will suffer for it, who will fight for it, and who is not going to sit there quietly and accept whatever is told to them.
Yeah, I 1,000% agree with that.
And I think what you said there goes very, very far, especially with having these people write it out and them, I forgot exactly how you said it, but basically them not wanting it.
You said there's a lot of people who just kind of want it.
And a lot of these people, a lot, just a lot of people don't understand the power of the power they have within them.
And I think it's, you, how do you feel about, you know, higher consciousness?
And, you know, are you versed in kind of in, you know, science has proven that our brain can handle 11 dimensions.
And we are in three we're in a third right we're 3d dimension right now we got um so writing it down that's you know us being in 3d whatever you're whatever dimension you are you're basically a god compared to the people under the dimensions lesser than you just case in point we're 3d 2d you're writing these things down 1d is a line 2d you're connecting the lines 3d it brings them all together so
you have the power in 2d to write all this down but what people don't understand in 3d you have the power to manifest that so people need to understand that getting all those little things out of the way like you said to focus on the actual things that you want and then manifesting those things is so much easier than a lot of people really really understand and
i think it's very important that people get aligned with themselves and really find out who they are by taking the time to do things for themselves and a lot of people there's a lot of selfish people out there but there's more unselfish people out there they don't realize because they don't want to do things for themselves or be themselves because they're afraid of what other people might say or think about themselves so people need to understand that anything you really want to do you can manifest
and actually make that happen and i think it's people like you who are directing these people to realize that and kind of gives them a trajectory to to start a starting point to for this trajectory they need to go on to kind of catch up and be who they want to be but at the same time like you said you have they have to write it out and figure out what they really want and i think that manifestation is is one of the biggest powers that we
really have as human beings that we don't really take advantage of case in point we're having this conversation earlier about this studio about what you have what you you were you were a teacher you're like i kind of don't want to do this anymore what am i going to do and then you're like well i have this this is my power this is my passion and you manifested that to where now you that you have different websites you have different you have different content within your under your umbrella and a lot of people like i said they just need to realize like they have the power to do that yeah
and a lot of people won't a lot of people are just going to accept their level of of living right we all have this aspect of homeostasis right the place where we feel most comfortable now let's say we want a bunch of money right inheritance lotto whatever we're gonna feel really good initially right and from that moment right the clock starts ticking before we get back to where we are or less actually because studies have shown a large amount of money
that's given to you very quickly is going to elevate your happiness your homeostasis it's going to bring you down to the homeostasis level and then it's going to bring you to the depression level that's why most people who win a large amount of money or get an inheritance it is more problems than what they thought it would be this is all the aspect of what do we want to be versus what do we want to do most people just focus on what to do and
if you only focus on what you want to do you can't focus on what you want to be so when you want to manifest your life to a greater height maybe you want to say you're you know you want to be an nfl player you want to be a basketball player whatever it be you get to choose that you get to do the things that are going to help you get there you meet the right people you get the right trainers you do the hard work but many people they dream first but
those dreams don't necessarily derive action i can dream all day i can daydream i love daydreaming but yet if i don't apply action to those daydreams how can i manifest that how can i turn those dreams into reality many people they struggle with the aspect of how can i do the things that i want to do how can i do the things or how can i be the person that i want to be because i say we are all destined to be a person and that person doesn't necessarily have to be one thing you
can go this path you can become this person think of it i could have been a teacher i could have stayed being a teacher i could have stayed being an accountant i could have stayed doing what i was doing i could have had a decent life i could have married a different girl i could have had a different family i could have had a different life but yet you get to choose what you truly want most people they think of what they want and they are just shy of crazy they say that you need to have dreams that are so big that if you ever told
someone they will look at you like you're crazy but yet many people what do you want to do for your life right i want to be a doctor oh that's respectable i want to be a lawyer okay that's cool oh i want to be a carpenter okay all right cool your dad was a carpenter right makes sense now we are looking at those dreams and we're saying those are reasonable but if you are a person that says i want to be the first person to go to mars i don't know about that that's just it sounds crazy right seems almost impossible we have to look at what is impossible make
it possible again and for the people who are trying to manifest good things in their life look at the impossible and try to make that possible yeah and you'll really find out really what you're made of and then you the things that you'll find and create while you're trying to get to this impossibility is gonna be it's gonna be astounding to you because you're like holy holy shit i didn't know i could do that i didn't know i could do that and it all started with you having the biggest dream out there
and you can't be afraid to fail that's a whole other thing that i think is a big issue that people are scared to fail people don't want to do anything and it goes back to of course being fear uh you know the biggest factor being fear but that's how you learn like every aspect when from when you're a kid walking crawling like you see a kid learning how to crawl he's gonna fall he's gonna hit his face a couple times and he's gonna he's gonna learn they start walking they're gonna fall a couple times running same thing like it's literally fall learning
from failing is embedded in us since we were born.
And they have brainwashed people to think, like, you don't, you know, they just, they're scared to fail to the point to where they'd rather not do anything.
That's very, very, it's alarming and concerning to me.
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Just think about it.
Like for school, right?
It's a great example, right?
The kid is growing up, they're falling, they're tripping, they're getting hurt.
Now, you get to decide exactly what type of child you create in this world.
So I know it's kind of a shot at the parents that if you have a child that's struggling right now, a lot of the issues that they're going to be facing is going to be choices that you made as a parent.
And this is a hard pill to swallow for many parents is because, oh, I love my kid.
I did this.
But everything you have done has been the foundation for them.
For example, if you are a parent and you decide to get a divorce, that is going to be a trauma for that child.
That was a choice you made.
The child didn't say, hey, mom, hey, dad, you should get a divorce.
I don't think many children are going to say that.
I don't even think they know what that means, truly.
So that outcome is a choice that you have made.
Now, it doesn't have to be that severe.
It can be if your child falls, do you pick them up?
Do you fight those fights for your children, right?
If someone pushes your kid, what do you do?
What do you say to them?
All of these things are going to help them.
It's like that flowchart, as I said early on.
If you give them an option and they take this option, there's going to be several good options.
There could be several poor options also, negative options.
And you want to give them as many good options as going to help build them up.
Now, there's no right way to parents, but there is going to be things that parents can do that are going to inhibit the growth of their children.
So if your kid falls or does something dangerous, don't do that, don't do that.
Or, oh, I'm going to pick you up.
The moment they cry, I'm there to save you.
The moment someone pushes them, don't do that.
Don't touch them.
They learn to be helpless.
And so now they grow up and they're helpless adults.
They're expecting that help.
They're waiting for Superman to come save them.
Yeah.
The only Superman that's going to save us is God.
And if you're not applying yourself, I don't think you're going to get very much help.
That's what a lot of people don't understand.
I mean, you're taking God out of everything and this is where we end up.
We're in this inverted reality.
And then you're just like, oh, how did we even get here?
I don't.
So let's take this to kind of current events.
We're in 2024.
You know, it's supposed to be a huge election year.
You see the amount of chaos we've already been going through since, I don't know, September of last year.
Do you think 20, what do you think 2024 has in store for us, for humans, Americans?
For Americans specifically.
Well, America is definitely a beacon for the world.
I remember I had a pen pal in Chile, and him and I would speak Spanish to each other.
so we will learn how to speak the language.
And what we learned was America was a beacon of hope for the world, whether America likes it or not.
Still is, yeah, it's crazy.
Still is.
Even though we, you know, have all these fears and all these issues, it doesn't matter.
America is still the beacon for the world.
Now, it can change.
Will it change?
It's going to probably not be in our lifetime, but there's always that possibility where a power can lose power.
So we look at America.
What path is going on?
What are going to be the possibilities?
Of course, war, civil war, civil unrest, right?
Corruption.
I mean, all of that's already going to be your day-to-day basic.
That's probably just a Saturday night here in Austin where you have all of these issues that people are struggling with.
Yet we have an opportunity this year to make some changes.
Now, whether your political party wins or loses, this is what you have to give yourself.
You have to give yourself an absolute mindset that no matter the winner, no matter the loser, my future is not dependent on them.
Now, it is easier if you have your political party win typically, right?
Gas prices are going to be lower.
So now you can maybe purchase other things that you would not have to spend on gas, right?
Food costs would be lower.
There's going to be different aspects that can make your life easier.
But no matter what, wherever the world turns, if the world's at war, civil war breaks out, whatever, you still handle your business.
And many people are so worried about what is to come versus what they can't do or what they need to do or what they need to be.
They're so worried about who's the president when the president has limits.
Yeah, that don't really fix a lot of the issues that these people have already.
And that's what they think.
I mean, they're waiting for Superman that doesn't have the power to save them.
And what does Civil War look like?
You know, modern-day civil war?
Because a lot of people, they use this term left and right.
Oh, civil war, civil war.
It's like, guys, if you literally take a step back and take the media out of everything and look at society, it's not the same civil war that we had before.
You know what I'm saying?
It's a totally different war.
What do you think that looks like?
What is the reality of a modern day civil war look like to you?
Well, it's going to be chaos because there's just going to be parties pitted against each other.
The way I like to think of a modern day civil war is going to be how we have the bloods in the grips.
They go out being California, but you have different areas that you go, Right, so people are going to shop at certain stores only.
People are going to go support different businesses, go to certain gas stations.
That's going to be the new norm.
You're not going to go to an area where it's just like, oh, you don't go there.
It's very reminiscent of living in the hood, where it's just like, oh, you don't want to go there after dark, right?
That's where all the gangbangers are.
This is where you get your drugs.
People are going to rob you.
This is going to be the new reality.
Like, if you look at BLM, The Riots, George Floyd, what they did was essentially a civil war, but it was just civil unrest where they were like, we're so unhappy.
We're just going to burn down local businesses.
And these businesses had nothing to do with what necessarily happened in the world, what happened with the officer and George Floyd.
It's just that they were so upset because the media says we should be upset.
And the media is going to be the key component to how the war is going to progress.
Now, we do have different aspects to social media like Instagram, Facebook, Twitter.
There's no acts of violence allowed.
So social media is not necessarily going to be the beacon that is going to be pushing the violence.
However, what social media doesn't stop is the depiction of violence.
So we can see black and white crime.
We can see immigrants hurting police officers, and it becomes the new norm.
And the new norm is going to be what people are going to be moving toward.
And so the civil war is going to be just chaos and it's going to be the onset of many officers choosing not to do their job anymore because they're going to say, I'm not even being supported by my chief.
I'm not being supported by my government.
What's the point?
Why should I support these people?
And now the people are going to have to defend for themselves.
And people don't know how to defend themselves.
People don't know how to get their own groceries.
They don't know how to grow their own crops.
They don't know how to procure in clean and sanitized water.
There's going to be chaos.
And the civil war is just going to be person after person.
And eventually there's going to be these small groups forming together.
And it's just going to be a clash for resources.
And I mean, I agree with you, Hity, right on the right on the head when you said that these, case in point, the police officers aren't going to want to do their job because they don't have any support.
Like if out here, a lot of Democrat cities defund the police, defund the police, defund the police.
Why are the police going to defend you when you want to call them in an emergency when you wanted to defund them?
I'm watching the midterms.
Man, you would think our country is Mad Max Thunderdome.
This guy is like, they're coming from Guatemala.
They're coming from Mexico.
There's a liberal mob that's coming.
You want a Trump?
You want a Trump?
I'll be here.
Damn!
What the fuck?
What the fuck?
Get out of here!
You're the president.
You ain't supporting Muslims.
Get out of here!
And you would think everybody in the country is just like to the bunker.
So, I mean, that's literally the lunacy of where we live right now.
And then you hit a case of another, you hit it again on the head when you said that these people are going to shop at different businesses for different reasons.
That's why a lot of these businesses go woke and they go broke, especially with California and, you know, Walgreens and Target and all these stores who aren't prosecuting people who are stealing from there.
And then it leads just like to this video.
So you got to see this video now.
It's of Ayana Presley.
Do you know who this bald-headed bitch is?
No.
All right.
Well, I might know.
But yeah, beware, though.
You might think it's an alien, but she's not.
Okay.
But listen to what she says here.
And it literally is exactly what it's like we're already in that civil war.
Mr. Speaker, Walgreens is planning to close yet another pharmacy in the Massachusetts 7th, this time on Warren Street in Roxbury, a community that is 85% black and Latino.
This closure is a part of a larger trend of abandoning low-income communities like the previous closures in Mattapan and Hyde Park, both in the Massachusetts 7th.
When a Walgreens leaves a neighborhood, they disrupt the entire community and they take with them baby formula, diapers, asthma inhalers, life-saving medications, and of course, jobs.
These closures are not arbitrary and they are not innocent.
They are life-threatening acts of racial and economic discrimination.
That is why I joined with Senator Markey and Warren to demand answers from Walgreens, CEO.
Why was there no community input, no adequate notice to customers, and no transition resources to prevent gaps in health care?
Shame on you, Walgreens.
Having a website with talking points about health equity and underserved communities is not enough.
Walgreens is a multi-billion dollar corporation that needs to put their money where their mouth is and stop divesting from black and brown communities.
Police found hundreds of thousands of dollars in stolen items believed to be from Target, CVS, and Walmart.
Los Angeles, San Francisco, Oakland, Houston, and New York are the most impacted by organized retail crime.
Recently, Nora spoke with the CEO of CVS Health, Karen Lynch, about the problem.
I remember back in the day, the really expensive stuff would be under lock and key.
I get that.
But now it's like shampoo and toothpaste.
Why?
Because they're coming in and they're just ripping through like the entire counter.
And so we're trying to keep things safe.
No way.
Look at this.
6100 blocking.
Oh my God.
By the Best Buy.
Block'em in.
102, Sam, FYI, they're...
...to that, uh, set here by the, uh, on Jefferson and, uh, Roosevelt, as well as, uh, Canal and Roosevelt.
Er, Clinton, I know, uh, Roosevelt.
All right, 102 Sam, says there's a rear parking garage, uh, behind that Best Buy also.
Air squad on Jefferson's side and on the Clinton side of the living room.
Jefferson and on the Clinton, on the Jefferson side and on the Clinton side.
One emergency.
Where do you go?
I'm not getting a multiple vehicle accident at one.
So that's what they're doing.
They're leaving these neighborhoods because she literally what she's saying is, Walgreens, you're leaving the hood and you're not letting them rob and steal you anymore.
And then you didn't even come and ask the community who's robbing and stealing from you permission to leave.
So now we can't rob and steal from your, and now and you're racist for leaving.
Catch 22. Right.
Does that pretty, pretty.
Make it make sense, right?
There you go.
I'm so speechless.
I couldn't even.
Make it make sense.
And it's so difficult because this, Walgreens is not the only store to do it.
Walmart did it.
There's certain places that if their crime is too high and they lose so much, the insurance premiums go up for the store.
They don't realize that because, yes, the store is covered from their insurance, but now the insurance is going to say, hey, well, you want to have this store.
Yeah, you want to have the store here.
You're going to have to pay this much in premium.
And the store is like, well, we're not going to do that because the store doesn't even make that much.
So why even be opened in that area?
Because yes, I understand it can disrupt a neighborhood if they have to go a little bit further to get certain resources that they need, especially for children, whether it be baby formula, diaper was basically what she was saying.
She was pulling at Tiva's heartstrings.
These people who live in this neighborhood can't go to Walgreens to get this things.
First of all, who only goes to Walgreens for that type of shit?
Like, Walgreens is fucking expensive.
I don't know if y'all have been to Walgreens lately.
That shit is fucking expensive.
Like, I'd rather go to HEB or I'd rather go to another store that's not Walgreens, not Rite Aid, not CVS, but they've made it accustomed to like, okay, these people aren't racist because they don't prosecute criminals.
Like.
Walgreens is only good for one thing, passport photos.
Yeah.
All right.
You need a passport photo, you go to Walgreens.
All right.
What do you call that section where they do the cameras?
Their photography section?
Yeah.
It's always, those are people who actually want to be there.
They have skill.
I usually go to that line when I have to just to check out because you go to the other line.
They're like, hmm.
What is this?
Like they're nosy.
They're just, And that's just how that's their system.
So it just blows my mind that they're just double speaking, basically.
And I'm glad people are finally getting tired of it.
But she's in Congress.
You know what I mean?
There's so many dumb people who are bringing up dumb issues like this and tugging at your heartstrings to try to make it seem like it's our fault.
They're making it seem it's your fault for leaving when you let all this stuff happen.
I don't know, man.
Basically, it's you're the problem.
COVID is a great example of that.
My vaccine won't work unless you get a vaccine that doesn't make any sense.
All right.
Oh, the reason why this store is closing is because we're looting it, but you should keep it open because these people are struggling.
So we have to give them the resources, even if they have to steal for them.
If you have to pay a little bit extra money for your insurance premium, you should do that willingly to help the black community because, again, we should be making 64 cents more an hour than the white person.
Like all of this is just nonsense speak where they're just using illogical factors when it's trying to say the black community can make a change, but they choose not to make a change.
So if they want to be people who loot and riot and destroy businesses, guess what?
Those businesses have every right to leave.
Just how businesses had the right to refuse people who didn't want to wear masks inside their establishment.
Should we say that, oh, we shouldn't support these businesses anymore because we have to wear a mask in their establishment.
And then they say, oh, it's their right.
It's their choice.
Guess what?
Vaccines, my body, my choice, abortion, right?
It's always their narrative.
As long as if it's their narrative, their goals, whatever they want to push their agenda, again, weakness, right?
To make the black community dependent.
Because they understand something about the black community is that it is powerful, that it's strong.
If we look at times, and I'm not saying that this has to be the specific time in the black community, but we look at how black communities come together during segregation, Martin Luther King, Jim Crow laws and all those things, they came together.
And it didn't necessarily have to be like Malcolm X that we're going to go be Black Panthers and start blowing stuff up.
It didn't have to be that extreme.
We can do so peacefully.
Yet today is all about how much harm can I inflict.
It's all about violence.
It's all about harm.
And looking at it from that aspect, let's just, when things were segregated, right?
You had, it's just literally black and white.
It's black, white.
And this is how black and white this example was going to be about how brainwashed and how controlled one race has been.
And it's not just by one other race.
It's just the common ideology that all these, this, the black community fell for.
The 50s, the 40s, 50s, 60s, maybe the 60s, too much of the 60s, things started changing, but say the 50s.
Look how white people dressed.
Look how black people dressed.
Like, look at the similarities in the names.
Like, The last names, they're literally, a Smith could be black or white.
You don't even know by that last name.
But, you know, Hernandez, oh, you know, they're probably Latino or something.
But look how black people dressed in the 50s.
Look how white people dress in the 50s.
Look how white people dress now.
Look how black people dress now.
Look at the mentality.
Look at the mentality of white people in the 50s.
Look at the mentality of black people in the 50s.
Now look at the mentality of white people now and the mentality of black people now.
You can see the actual decline in, I don't even know what to call it, of life and everything, like the brainwashing that they, they have driven that culture to where the 50s and they started standing up for themselves in the 60s.
Oh, oh, you know, we can't have that.
So the 60s and 70s came, it was a little more, so there's no more segregation.
It was a lot more integration.
And more people started coming together and thinking a certain way.
70s came, the 80s came, they said, nah, y'all can't do that.
Y'all did in the 70s anymore.
You can't do that.
Then what happened?
We had the crack epidemic.
We had drugs.
We had violence.
We had the music changed.
Like, the elevation, not the elevation, but the growth of music from time periods is astronomical.
Like, they were making jazz.
They were making classic music.
They were making nice things.
And now it's just ratchet.
It's just violence.
It's just money, clothes, cars, hoes.
Show your ass everywhere.
Like, you're not successful if you're not getting nude.
You're not successful if you're not a hoe.
You're not successful if you're not a pimp.
Like, that ideology has been drilled into them over generations.
Until this day, it's like, okay, we talked about the Civil War.
I mean, it's already here.
Like, we're still literally fighting over race.
And we've had that same fight since the 50s and 60s.
Like, you're stuck.
They're stuck.
They're stuck in this brainwashing loop.
And I'm just afraid of what's going to happen after 2024 because everybody's starting to come together again.
The world isn't as racist as they make it seem.
You talk to a liberal and you'll be like, hey, you know, oh, there's Nazis everywhere.
There's Nazis all the way around the corner.
And as a black man, I'm like, hey, oh yeah, where?
Show me one.
I've never seen one.
You talk about it all the time.
Y'all call me a Nazi like when I don't agree with you.
So please show me where they are.
And you just take that 35,000 view and you're just like, oh, shit, it's not.
But they're making it that way.
And they have to control the media, of course, but there's still so many people who are stuck in that brainwashing.
And I'm just afraid what's going to come.
We're a community.
Everybody's coming together so much right now.
I'm just afraid of what they are going to use next to control the masses.
Yeah.
Well, paint me white and call me a supremacist because I believe something's wrong with this country.
And if we are going to fix this country, we have to come together as a country.
Absolutely.
And this is going to be the most challenging part for people to understand because everyone is operating in the sense of themselves.
How can I benefit from this?
How can I be better?
It's all a race to the top, right?
We look at the money, we look at all the accolades of life, and this is what people are going to be pushing toward.
And especially the black community, they will void themselves of investing, buy a lot of tickets.
They will not invest in themselves in their future, starting a business in their kids' education.
We just look at them as, okay, well, if you're not doing the things that are going to create a better future for yourself, you can't be upset that you have a rough future or in the future, you're going to have a rough situation.
And many of them see that this is a possibility, as we were talking early on, where they are starting to see, well, now all the stuff that we were getting from the government now is going to our immigrant friends from Ecuador and from Colombia and from Mexico.
This right here is becoming more of a reality.
And it doesn't necessarily just have to be one culture because now this is a nation problem.
Because we become Americanized.
When we looked at maybe, I think it was more so of the 60s and 70s where a large Hispanic community and Latin community started to come to America.
They wanted the American dreams, but they yet most of them retained the culture.
So they stayed in marriages, whether it was hardship or not hardship.
But yet today, the Latin community has the highest divorce rates it has ever had is because they have become Americanized.
And what we need to do is essentially un-Americanize these people who have been indoctrinating the system.
How do we do that?
Not to un-Americanize, we have to un-corrupt them.
We have to un-brainwash them of what they think the American dream is.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Because when I think of Americanize, I think of guns, beers, and titties, you know, and get out there and fucking make it happen.
Yeah, but the but the aspect of Americanization now is like Bud Light and transgender because that's what they are doing, right?
This is what America is.
And basically they're like, what?
Like, that's not what America is.
And so they're just trying to push all this stuff.
Like, this is what America is.
You eat bacon and toast for breakfast with your pistol on the table.
If you don't do that, you're not American.
But that is not what truly America culture is.
America culture is bringing in different aspects of different cultures in the world and we make it work.
It's the melting pot.
And yet we have decided to, you know what, we're not going to have fondue anymore.
Everything is going to be a la card.
Everything is individualized.
You have your Asian culture, that's separate.
You have your black culture, that's separate.
You have your white culture, that's separate.
You have your Hispanic culture, that's separate.
And it's no longer a melting pot.
And what needs to happen again is We need to understand that we're all people who come or want to live in America for the freedoms that America gives, for the ability to change our lives, to manifest the future that we see for ourselves.
But yet, many people are just stuck in their a la carte mindsets.
And as long as they're stuck in their a la carte mindsets, they can never truly be what America stands for.
That's unity.
No, absolutely.
And with that example, what you just said right there, that example is basically they're pushing us back into segregation.
Like they are ruining, like they say, this is one thing that kind of pisses me off when it comes to them is, oh, you need to be more diverse and more inclusive.
It's like, bro, we're in America.
Like, if you want to go by your narrative, immigrants came in and took over a land and let other immigrants come in as well.
And things didn't really play out the way they make it seem play out when people came to take over this country.
It's not as black and white as they make it seem.
It wasn't like, hey, there's Indians here.
Oh, we're going to try to integrate.
And then, you know, it's a whole other type of story.
So they are ruining the things.
We already have the things they're trying to instill.
We already have diversity.
We already have equity.
We already have inclusion.
Like, you have, we gave you fucking Pride Month.
Like, what more inclusive is America to give you?
This is me talking.
This mic has nothing to do with this, but we already gave you faggots a whole fucking month.
Like, how is that not inclusive?
Like, I don't understand.
We have Black History Month.
Like, all this shit is, all of this is American history.
All this is the integration.
All of this is the diversity.
And they act like it's not already here.
So that way they can ruin it and bring in their agenda, which is segregation, is everything that we've been fighting to get away from.
I just, sorry, I kind of got mad.
But the easy fix is to get rid of all of it.
Take away Black History Month, take away gay month, take away every month, right?
There's no white history month.
Exactly.
Because what that does is we separate.
The segregation begins in our mindset.
Now we start to focus on color versus, okay, I'm in a bad neighborhood.
I lock my door.
It doesn't matter the color.
Versus now I'm in a good neighborhood.
I'm in an HAB parking lot.
Someone locks the door on me, right?
Because I'm black, right?
That's prejudice.
So we look at the different aspects of what we are being instilled with.
And people who come work with me, they speak with me.
They're like, oh, you're pretty smart.
You're pretty intellectual for a black guy.
And this is like, that's interesting.
Do you still get that?
Yeah, sometimes it's wild.
And it's because the culture, right?
We can call them, you know, niggas or whatever, whatever.
This is what the culture is, right?
And so you have white people saying, oh, are you a nigger or whatever?
Are you just a regular black person?
And that's how they discern, right?
Are you a gangbanger?
Are you a good father figure?
And you have a job.
It's either that.
It's one extreme, right?
And in our world, in our society today, we have learned to swing so far left, so far right.
The pendulum is there, right?
We can only be either or.
Either you're a gang banger or you are a father that is, you know, in a happy relationship, right?
It's no in between anymore.
And so when you see a person like, uh-oh, this is trouble or, uh-oh, you know, like we learn about the person, this person's really good.
This person's really smart.
I can trust this person.
It's very interesting how we are now thinking that versus what I do is more of, okay, I have no problem trusting in everyone, right?
Because I'm confident in my skills and my capabilities.
And this is where many people lack.
If they don't have the skills and capabilities to take care of themselves, to protect themselves, whether it be from physical or mental attacks, that's when they become more fear-mongered into sense of, I need to make sure I'm protected from either extreme.
If you're a gangbanger, I need to be able to lock my doors.
I need to make sure I'm not going to those neighborhoods at certain hours of the day.
Or if you're a good person, I'm going to associate you.
I'm going to keep you in my circle.
I'm going to invite you to my church.
We just have to get rid of that.
And we have to say, let me figure out who you are first before I start judging.
It all comes down to judging.
Absolutely.
And I think, see, a lot of people don't really, they don't understand how judging, how judgmental they really are just as a society.
Because that's cases right there, what you said, you can look at somebody.
Till this day, you look at somebody and you make a generalization right off the bat.
Like we have to get rid of that.
And there's some things that I try to tell this to my friends and my family.
It's, you know, it's crazy that it's the same thing your grandma said growing up.
I know my grandma said, I know a lot of people's grandma said this.
Don't judge a book by its cover.
Like that, like how have we come, how has something been said for generations and people just, they just don't care.
Like, I don't care.
It is what it is.
They still judge people.
And a lot of people, they just don't even realize.
It's just a reaction they do.
And yes, there is certain things that you can, you know.
Like you see a duck, that's a duck.
You see a girl with her ass hanging out, she's probably a slut.
You see a dude that sags his pants, calls women bitches all the time, just like, man, fuck that hoe.
You know, you kind of get a general sense of how they are.
But this whole thing of just seeing somebody in a parking lot and being like, you know, that's, you have issues personally.
Not only do you, you have a general, you have a fear of something that goes way further than you can even realize or can understand inside yourself.
So, yeah, I do.
That's, that's 100%.
It's the level of judging that we still do as imperfect beings blows my mind.
They're a bunch of hypocrites too, because they should, instead of locking your door, they should roll down the window and ask their pronouns.
Yeah.
Excuse me.
Are you him or her, or they or them because then you'll get a good understanding of who you need to pull them in.
Are they a gang banger?
Are they a loving family member?
Yeah, yeah.
That's funny, man.
Just politics can, yeah.
It's like, hey, so I was at a bar, and this girl starts like kind of hitting on me, right?
And I knew right away.
She was a man.
No, no, no, no, no, no, no, she was a woman.
She was a woman.
But she was a snowflake and she didn't even know it.
Like, she had no idea.
White bunny?
And yeah, yeah, yeah.
When I mean a snowflake, it's like she used talking points.
And whenever you kind of went against those talking points, she didn't know what to do.
She didn't know what to do.
So she was talking, her example, she was talking about politics.
And I was like, I don't know if you really want to talk about this.
And she was like, whoa, no, I'm well versed in politics.
It's like, I was telling my family, you know, they brought up this whole, they brought up something about Trump or something about politics.
So I was like, where'd you get that from?
So I Googled it and I took a picture and I said, look, this said, Google says this is a right-wing site that you're getting any news from.
And it's like, I'm like, well, you know, Google manipulates search results, right?
Just cannot compute.
Cannot compute.
Like, I see her getting red.
Like, she's mad because she has no argument.
She has no knowledge of that.
She doesn't know if I'm right or if I'm wrong.
She's just, and I, she kind of like tried to let it go.
And then I was like, all right, let's just switch the subject, you know, whatever.
It's a nice conversation.
Or I was having fun because I could see I was kind of triggering her.
So then she proceeds to talk about animals, right?
I'm a dog guy, big dog guy.
I got five dogs, rescue dogs.
I've had up to nine.
And I'm like, oh yeah, I love animals.
I was like, but, you know, I have, I keep one in my house.
The rest of them, you know, they're outside.
They're dogs, you know?
And plus it's easy on the hare.
And then she proceeded to get mad because she was still thinking about the whole Google thing.
You don't let your cats and dogs sleep with you?
Like, they deserve that.
Like, these animals have nobody but you.
And I was like, I have six dogs.
I'm not going to sleep with my dogs.
I was like, hey, do you sleep with your cats?
Absolutely.
She's a fucking crazy cat lady.
You know, so like you can just by having a general conversation, you can tell what these people are.
Like, you're 100% right.
Ask them their pronouns.
And there's people who get offended when you ask them their pronouns.
And then they get offended that you didn't know their pronouns and you mispronoun them.
Like, we're living in fucking idiocracy.
Yeah, it's clown world.
And if someone asks me my pronouns, I'll say, I don't play that game.
It's as simple.
I'm like, what are pronouns?
Well, you don't want to be ignorant.
Make them explain it to you.
And half of them don't even know what, they can't explain what a pronoun is.
I would ask more of the question of why do you need to know my pronouns, right?
Because they might say, well, I need to identify you.
Why do you need to identify me?
I'm Rob.
I'm Mike.
Let's talk.
Let's have a conversation.
Why are you so worried about things that you're talking about?
Why are you trying to put me in a box right now?
Yeah.
And this is where they are.
It's just like, I'm only going to talk to like-minded individuals.
It's no longer, I'm going to look for growth-minded individuals in the world, right?
A lot of these people who are seeking these like-minded individuals are fixed mindsets.
And so they don't change.
They are not going to move.
They're always going to stay rigid to what they believe, whether it be politics, whether it believe culture, whether it be believe the problems in the world.
This is what people are.
They have that fixed mindsets.
And Carol Dweck, she was the one who came up with the fix and the growth mindsets.
She explains, if you are a fixed type mindset person, you're going to have a slow growth.
You're not going to be looking for things that are different than you.
And you're going to always hang around the same people, the people who are going nowhere.
And this is life.
Yeah, absolutely.
Absolutely.
All right, Mike, we got about 20 minutes left before you got to get out of here.
And I think the best, this is a great transition into, you know, talking about snowflakes.
And the biggest issue I think we have in America is the amount of pussies that, you know, the pussification of America, basically, the pussification of men, the degrading of men and the culture of cucks that they have now.
The simps.
Yes, the simps, the cucks, you know, the just, it's getting, it's gotten bad, man.
Like, it went from having followers homes to like now they're literally like eradicating men.
Yeah.
They're castrating them.
They're, you know, trying to give these kids puberty blockers at, you know, 10, 11, 12. They're trying to make everybody eunuchs.
So within these last, you know, what is that, 17 minutes we have, 16 minutes that we have here?
How toxic does America need to get in their terms?
You know, the reason why I call this show toxic culture is because, and the tagline is we weren't toxic until they made us.
You know, we've done as men everything the same for a long time.
And now all of a sudden, we're toxic.
We're bad.
Like, how do, in your mind and your opinion, how do we make men men again?
Well, we have a couple options, right?
And I'm just going to ask you a quick question.
Do you want to go it as community nation men in general or by community like red pill community?
Just men in general.
Okay.
Because I think more red pill men, that's another, that's a whole other conversation.
It's a different path, right?
So if we look at men, right, the quickest way to destroy a country is to weaken the men, right?
To feminize the men.
And in a relationship, you need to have a masculine and a feminine.
And what's happening is many women are taking the masculine roles.
And so men are choosing to be weak, right?
Because what they have learned, right?
And this is the brilliance of the mind.
Because if we can half-ass something, why should we even, you know, push ourselves to do more?
So men said, oh, you know, like I can get married to a 35-year-old Woman, and you know, it's not really that big of a deal.
She has three kids, and you know, I get sex sometimes, and it's an okay deal, right?
Because it's the easy path.
Men need to do hard shit.
If men are not doing hard shit, then that's when they become weak.
And this is the problem: that many men don't want to do the hard shit anymore.
Many men don't want to wake up in the morning, go do the hard stuff.
They want to be Twitch streamers.
They want to go be gamers and they want to, you know, go buy soy lattes from Starbucks and complain that, you know, like the person is a mermaid or whatever, not a mermaid, whatever.
They have all of these issues instead of a mission.
What we need to do for men, if they want to become stronger, is they have to give themselves a mission.
And many men don't want to give themselves a mission.
So if you are weak and you just kind of simp for a woman, you just accept a woman, whatever, you don't play the game necessarily.
You truly don't know your strength, right?
Men are biologically stronger, faster than women for a reason.
Yet we don't use our tools and our resources.
Imagine if I told someone that, hey, I want you to build a house, but you can't use any wood, any cement, any rocks.
You can't use anything, right?
So now they're going to use their imagination.
Well, what can I do?
Well, you know, let me get some grass, you know, like, and now they have a house made of maybe twigs or whatever, like the weakest material possible.
And then they get upset that the, you know, like the wind blew their house over.
We have the tools and the resources to build the strongest empires in the world, the strongest mindsets ever to have come about, be the greatest minds in the world.
Yet we don't take the action.
We don't say, hey, I'm going to be this person.
Why, right?
Similar to how I said about the sheep aspect, right?
We attack the strong sheep and many people don't want to be attacked.
Many people learn payer acceptance.
And if I want to be accepted by my peers, I should do everything else that they're doing.
So if everyone else is being weak, it only makes sense that I'm weak.
And there's going to be a few people that say, why would I choose weakness and I could choose greatness, right?
There's always that choice for people, but weakness brings comfort, right?
Struggle and greatness are going to be filled with adversity and challenge.
Who wants to go that path?
So many men, they choose the path of weakness.
They choose the path of just conforming to what they need or what is happening in the world.
So if a woman needs that man to stay at home, be a stay-at-home dad, I'm not saying that stay-at-home dads are all weak, but what I'm saying is there is the mindset of you can go out and you can create empires and you can build shit and you can go do great things.
Yet if you're just kind of home, just sitting on the sofa after a long day's work for work or whatever, and you go and watch Netflix or you watch Friends for the 15th time, what are you doing with your time?
And I'm not saying that you can't enjoy the simple pleasures of life, but you do need to give yourself a greater purpose and a bigger mission.
Yeah, you got to earn those things.
You have to make yourself, you use that as a reward.
Because I mean, like personally, when you, when you're using that as an example, if I had a wife and she's like, oh, I, you know, I make good money, like I'm going to go out and work.
And that's, that's another thing that men shy away from or successful women because then that comes that diversity of she's going to question you.
She's going to, and if you're not on your shit, then you're not, you're going to have to answer to that.
And most men don't want to have that conversation with women.
But if I had a woman who, and I mean, this is coming, I guess, just from a strong man's point of view, I'd be like, yeah, go to work.
Perfect.
I'm going to sit here and build my empire.
I'm like, okay, how can I, I'll be a stay-at-home dad, but we're not staying home and we're doing a bunch of dad shit.
So we're like, okay, like, I already see my, like, the future for me.
If my wife wants to go and do that, that's fine.
I'm going to set up businesses anyway so where I can raise my children.
So I'm going to be home 90% of the time anyways.
So then we're going to go out and we're going to be farming.
We're going to go out.
We're going to have cattle.
We're going to go do ranch shit.
Like there's other aspects to me.
Like I wouldn't sit at home all day, wait till my wife gets home fucking watching TV.
Like that's, I don't know, that's just counterintuitive to me.
But maybe that's just because I have that strong manly instinct in me.
Like, no, we need to build.
We need to grow.
There needs to be progress.
So I make that a thing.
Like you said, people don't want to struggle.
Like, I take pride in accomplishing something that was fucking hard.
Like, the harder something is, the bigger accomplishment.
It's the bigger reward for me.
So, you know, I don't understand that type of mind frame.
And it has taken, I mean, a lot of people, it's just, like you said, the ease of convenience is people get stuck in that convenience mind state.
And I think as men, if you want to be better, and I think as men, if you really want to be better, you need to apply yourself to doing things that are going to make you better.
You know, not trying going to do something one time and then like, oh, I can't do this.
Let's try something else.
Like, no, you need to try that one thing until you're successful at it.
Then be like, okay, I did that.
Then just do something else.
You may not even like what you're doing, but you learn that you didn't like what you were doing.
And then, you know, you went through adversity, you finished, and you're stronger on the other end.
But we just don't have that anymore.
And that goes back into politics of making it easy.
Oh, you don't have a job.
We got welfare.
Don't worry about it.
Like, you know?
And from the very, I guess from the very foundational level for people who are trying to be better every day, what do you suggest for them?
What if these are people who are like, you know, we're getting a lot of new fans now we're back on Twitter and just Infowars in general is getting a lot more attention.
So for a lot of people who are coming here are still trying to find their traction and their footing in this red pill game and this, you know, being awake, what do you think as a man, what do you suggest they start doing on a daily basis to make their life better to get to where they want to be?
Right.
There's a cycle, right?
And it's a very popular one.
You know, tough times create strong men.
Strong men create easy times.
Easy times create weak men.
Weak men create tough times.
That cycle is going to be perpetual In society, if we let the ebb and flow of life happen, we get to make a choice to give ourselves hard times, things that are going to be challenging.
One of the things I tell most men to do is to have some type of fitness regime, right?
I'm not saying you need to go to the gym, but you do need to take care of yourself.
Think of battle-ready, right?
If you are a fighter, MMA, you know, mixed martial arts, whatever, you have different aspects of fitness.
You are fighter-ready or you're just physical fitness ready, right?
You can run a mile, the cops start chasing, you can run from them.
Now, if you can't run from the cops, then okay, whatever, but you don't have to necessarily worry about that because the immigrants are going to come and tackle the cops and you don't have to worry about it.
You're protected.
You're going to be on your side now.
You are protected.
But we have to look at the bigger issue now, right?
If we are not equipped with the skills that we are God-given, right?
Our strength and our abilities, what is that going to do to the future, us, right?
Because if we were ever presented with a fight or flight situation, what would you do?
Most people can't run because they're overweight.
Most people can't fight because they're not skilled enough.
So my recommendation is to learn martial arts, to learn a craft, to learn a skill, to get in the best physical shape you can be.
To give yourself rules and disciplines and mindsets that you follow every single day.
Because if you're not going to give yourself these rules, life is going to give you rules and they're going to limit you.
And we cannot be limited as men.
We have to be limitless.
We have to learn that there are no bounds to what we can accomplish.
There are people who have created the pyramids.
There's people who have created wonderful things in the world that we look at like man made that?
Yes, man made that.
They did the hard shit.
They did the things that were seemingly impossible.
So you have to give yourself aspirations to what you want to be, what you need to do.
Give yourself the skill set.
So no matter what situation you're in, you come out on top because you are strong.
You have to realize your strength.
And you can't give that away because someone says that we're toxic or that you shouldn't choose this type of masculine mindframe.
You get to choose exactly what you want.
And then if the outcome is going to be creating happiness and fulfillment in your life, then okay, cool.
That might be weakness.
But for many men, if they don't have mission, if they don't have purpose, they find themselves unhappy.
And most men who come work with me, they're going through a divorce.
They're going through struggle.
They're going through career change.
They feel emasculated.
This is because they didn't do the hard shit and they allow life to happen to them when I'm telling men to go happen in life.
Yeah, it's a great example.
Yeah.
Manifest your destiny.
Like it's been our saying in America since we got here, manifest destiny.
So I 1,000% agree that physical fitness is a big aspect of that.
It doesn't take much to do something.
I mean, whether you take a walk, you know, walking a mile only takes like 20 minutes, 30 minutes.
You know, there's paths you can walk a mile in 20 minutes.
Like running a mile in 10 minutes is great.
Running it in 15, as long as you're doing something.
And, you know, not everybody has time to go to a gym for an hour.
Everybody gets that.
I get that.
You know, we're people who work for 12 hours a day.
Even if you do have that an hour to go, even if you're working eight hours, maybe your job is a little strenuous.
But you have to start making some type of sacrifice at some point if you want to achieve something.
And there's, you know, you don't have time to go to the gym for an hour.
You work at a desk, standing up, have a dumbbell.
Every five minutes, do five, you know, do something.
Make sure, you said it right, you're battle ready.
Because as men, it's kind of bred in our DNA.
Protection providers.
Exactly.
Exactly what I was about to say.
We're here to protect and we're here to provide.
And you need to be able to do that on the very, very minimal level if you're going to be successful as a man.
And you can't get caught up in this age of convenience and you can't get caught up in this, oh, I'm going to do it tomorrow.
It's age of procrastination.
Like, no, do it now and be ready for anything that can happen to you because case in point, power goes out.
The winner comes.
Oh, shit.
You won't find a feminist?
Nope.
And you're not going to have, what happens if your power is out?
You can drive your car.
What happens if you need gas?
The gas station doesn't have any power.
Okay, so then what?
You might have to walk.
You might have to, oh shit, it's working cold.
I got my neighbor across the street.
It's like 15 degrees.
I got my kid with me.
Are you going to walk, take 10 minutes to walk?
Are you going to take five minutes and run down there?
So there's a lot of these scenarios that are coming within the last three years.
Like in Texas, it snowed for the last three years in a row.
Before that, it didn't snow since 1985.
So like, you know, these situations are coming.
And with the attack from the government, with the attack from, you know, spiritually, like, you just have to be ready as a man.
And I think really physical fitness lies at the core of that.
And that even you getting physically fit, it's going to change your mentality.
Like, if you haven't ran in a while and you start running, you're going to get fresh blood to your brain.
You know, things are going to start turning.
Things are going to start feeling different.
You're going to have blood flow.
It's going to be like, oh, shoot, you get addicted to that.
That's when you start getting your dopamine hits.
And you get natural dopamine feels so much better than artificial dopamine.
That's what a lot of people don't understand.
We're stuck in this age of looking at this and, oh, this computer, this is what makes me happy.
And they're trying to get you into this virtual reality.
So you're sitting in your chair, not doing shit all day.
And then you're going to wonder why did my wife leave me for somebody else?
Well, because you're a demasculated cuck who doesn't care about anything but convenience.
So I agree with you on that.
It starts with physical fitness.
And that right there is going to set your tone.
If you can go through the adversity of beating a mile, that goal is going to be so substantial that a lot of the stuff you have to deal with in normal life, somebody yelling at you and getting mad, you're going to be like, oh, it's nothing.
So I really feel that physical fitness does go a long way.
And there's a secret to marriage for men.
Very simple.
If you want your marriage to stand the test of time, you need to either be the same man that your wife married or you need to be a better man that your wife married.
If you ever become less of that man in her eyes, the relationship is over.
Absolutely.
Yeah.
That's one thing a lot of people don't understand is they don't look, they don't look in a mirror to see what the problem really is.
They look towards, they look to shift the blame to somebody else.
Absolutely.
All right, Mike.
Well, do you have any last words you want to say that to the crew?
To the people?
Well, they are the crew because they're also fighting the fight.
They're also supporting us.
They're letting people know about Infowars.
They're buying the products.
They're doing everything that helps a business grow, flourish, prosper, and then get the message out.
Because what we are going to be facing this year in 2024 is we're going to be having many different options, many different avenues that we can be going down.
And the more information that we give people, whether it be sharing, liking, subscribing, following, whatever, we can start to build a bigger and stronger community of individuals who are focused on growth, who are focused on manifesting better things in their life than what we have right now.
Now, I'm not saying that what you have right now is terrible necessarily, but what I would love for individuals is to focus on the good aspects of what can come, right?
If you take action today, what's going to be the best option?
If you gave every ounce of yourself, if you did the best job you could, you gave every ounce of yourself, you had no regrets, you gave it all 100%, what would be the option?
At least you can say that you gave everything you had versus many people they leave a lot in their, you know, like behind, they leave a lot in the tank.
What needs to happen is we need to lay it all down.
So if we have an option today to pick up a control and watch a movie or to spend an hour in the gym or to get on the floor and do some push-ups or to build a skill, do that before you do something that's going to be just filled with comfort and ease.
It is easy to go on your phone.
It's easy to just go scroll.
I love to listen to audiobooks.
I love to listen to videos and things along those lines when I'm working out because it doesn't make sense for me, in my mind at least, to just be sitting there and just looking at a video, just like, you know, I'm a vegetable.
I'm looking at this video.
I gain nothing.
Now, if I'm listening to the video, if I'm watching the video, I have no problem doing some push-ups, doing some sit-ups in the gym today.
I was listening to an e-book.
This is just what I do.
I have the option to listen to music.
I can not listen to music also, but I choose education.
And education is going to be the key for many individuals to prosper in life.
You have to continue to educate yourself.
They say that the moment you stop learning is the moment you start dying.
And many men are dying because they're not continually educating themselves.
They're not finding mentors.
They're not finding coaches.
They're not finding people who are going to help elevate them.
And if you get a trainer, you always do better.
If you get a coach, you always do better.
If you get someone in your life that's going to hold you accountable, you always do better.
And if you're a man that's married, you can't have your wife do it.
This is not her job.
Her role is to be the nurturer, the emotional aspect to the family.
Your job is to handle the tough shit and to get things done.
So if you're struggling right now, don't struggle anymore.
Choose the higher path.
Choose to get some help.
You're not alone.
There's going to be resources.
You can come to reverendconcepts.com.
You can learn everything that you need to do in order to be a better individual.
When you're a better individual, your family prospers, you prosper, and then your community and the world prospers just because of the ripple effect.
No, beautifully said, brother.
Beautifully said.
Well, Mike, thank you for joining me today.
You know, ReverendConcepts.com.
Yeah, man, that was toxic culture.
Oh, yeah, dude.
Yeah.
And now, you know, you're toxic as fuck, too, because you come in and say all this toxic shit.
Then you're going to go to work for another 12 hours.
That's what I do.
I'm so toxic.
Yeah, that's what we do.
So matter of fact, let's go get you some TurboForce so that way you can finish.
I'm ready for today.
Yeah, exactly.
Mike, thanks, brother.
All right.
Pleasure.
Take care.
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