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July 27, 2024 - Toxic Culture - Rob Agueros

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America's Declining Education System

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	And that's what everybody knows you by, too.
	On Twitter, on YouTube.
	Well, dude, thanks for joining me, Mr. Mindset Mike.
	Everybody who doesn't know, this is Mike Reardon.
	He is the owner and founder of Revan Concepts.
	And Mike, thank you for joining me.
	You want to tell people what Reverend 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 a life coach?
	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, 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, you know, Reverend Concepts, and I imagine it's reverendconcepts.com?
	Yes.
	Okay, so when they go there, and what will they see and how, 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...
	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 and 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.
	Because we've had, you know, we've run security for a lot of the stuff we do.
	And, you know, we take trips out of town.
	And, you know, we've been on countless trips.
	We've talked a bunch.
	And I remember when you, I think you were already doing this, but you kind of took it to the next level.
	And you were 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 promo video that you had.
	You were like, yeah, I kind of want to do a Family Matters theme.
	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 kind of, you are friends with.
	Like 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.
	I'm definitely a life coach, bodyguard in all aspects because if we think about Just our security and our safety in 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'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...
	Did you do 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.
	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.
	I had to kick the father out of the pool.
	Yeah, that's a great story.
	We'll get into that, too.
	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've 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 would 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.
	Talking to a lot of the fans, the callers who call in, and you can tell, I used to be scared.
	I was afraid of backlash or I was afraid of failing.
	I agree with that.
	Fear is a big factor that holds a lot of people back.
	So being a teacher, what is the most important thing 2016 was the last year.
	That was like when the wormhole started.
	Yeah.
	I got out just in the nick of time.
	So what is the biggest 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...
	No.
	Luckily, no.
	I mean, the pandemic changed teaching 100%.
	I mean, from kids having to wear masks 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...
	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.
	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 our 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?
	Y!
	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 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.
	Reading Rainbow!
	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've been spending money in the wrong direction, right?
	And we can...
	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, I mean, they're not any better than a fourth grade reading level, which is wild to me.
	Like, how does that, how really, how does that happen?
	Well, it happens because...
	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 in the 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.
	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. We cover it so much during the day.
	Even during toxic culture, politics is a part of culture, sadly.
	You can't get away from politics.
	Especially if you're in tune with reality.
	You can't because you understand that sets the precedent for the next couple years at the very least.
	If you think about these Democrat 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 if their kids are going to school.
	fatherless homes is the biggest problem in America.
	I think if every home had an assigned 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...
	And they're shackled.
	And they have to teach to a broken curriculum, an agenda-filled curriculum.
	That circle right there, they basically broke that neighborhood.
	They broke that city.
	They broke that child.
	They broke that school.
	That system is a broken system.
	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 Superman.
	Now, 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 magnetic schools.
	And magnetic 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 inundated 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 college.
	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.
	There's 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 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 there, but I hit a point in seventh grade where 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 was a different mindset.
	I've already kind of learned all the basics that I need to learn.
	I was getting into algebra.
	Pre-cal.
	Letters and numbers started coming together and I was like, nah, I don't need this.
	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 fail.
	They're going to give up because they don't have to try anymore.
	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 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, etc.
	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 the school district I went to school in, 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, not everybody's going to get in.
	And especially, you know, there's going to be the whole story of 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.
	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 it's like, hey, we have this whole school now.
	And it's like, so everybody who didn't get in, you know, just come over here.
	But it's two sides of the same coin.
	Now they're forcing this.
	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 any pointers of what they should do to try to...
	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 learning.
	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 XYZ or ABC, 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 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 remember this teacher care.
	Just, you know, even though I gave them a hard time, 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 is pretty cool.
	and you might not know what that is.
	And it might be that 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.
	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 do the ringer.
	But you have to be that shining figure.
	Think of a superhero.
	The hero's always smiling.
	The hero's always saving the day.
	And you have to be that hero for them.
	Now, it might be difficult, especially 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.
	Caring 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, the odds of them finding that is a lot slimmer.
	As an adult than you are as a kid.
	So, I want to show this video.
	I mean, it segues perfect into what we're talking about right now.
	And I see these videos time and time again, man.
	If I was a parent with kids, if this was one of my kids'teachers, I don't know how I would react.
	Hi, so I have a small dilemma.
	Yeah.
	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 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.
	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.
	Explain that it's young kids, too.
	It's young kids.
	My class is gonna 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.
	Um, any advice would be great for 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 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?
	Revan 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 going to instill limiting beliefs into children, right?
	It's crazy to me.
	There was a teacher, this is when I was still a swim coach, Because something happened, a teacher was sick or whatever, and there was 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 window.
	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?
	Don't even bother.
	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?
	Challenge accepted.
	I'm like, you don't tell me what to do, all right?
	And so it was...
	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.
	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, well, 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.
	Oh, this is hard.
	Don't worry about it.
	Not everyone's going to be this.
	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, alright, 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, 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 could 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 or being like, you know, being brought out like Tic Tacs for these kids.
	And it's because they have not created.
	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...
	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.
	There's too many.
	There's too many to remember.
	Yeah, 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 would 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 in 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 But yeah, they think it's a joke, man.
	And these are the people who are teaching our kids.
	So, I think it's a good transition to talk about.
	You said that they're giving out these ADHD.
	They're giving out pills like Tic Tacs.
	You're absolutely right.
	So, thinking when I was in school, it was just Ritalin.
	You know what I mean?
	And then now, I mean, it's turned into Adderall, Ativan.
	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 could 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.
	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.
	Yeah, 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 call 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're 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 him 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 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 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's what I was going to say next.
	There's no finances.
	There's no life lessons.
	There's no...
	Put all that on top of 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?
	that they can only survive basically what they do.
	And typically what they do And the peer groups don't have to be positive.
	They can be negative.
	So when I was teaching middle school, and middle school is tough, because you can really see the change in hormones and individuals and mindsets.
	And you can see these sweet 5th and 6th graders come in for the first time in middle school, depending on your state, because middle schools are different by state.
	You're going to have these children just 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 would be stealing their parents'cars, going out, getting...
	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.
	And, like, everybody in the gym had guns.
	Yeah.
	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.
	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?
	Because they know you when you're trying to get out of it.
	They know when you're telling the truth.
	They know when you're lying.
	Are you sick?
	or you're not.
	And even like the nurses have Everything is failing in these school systems and nothing's being done about it.
	And I think that more teachers are going to follow your role and the other guy's role.
	If they don't want to teach children, they need to start teaching these adults.
	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.
	That's going to be the light created from the darkness that's coming.
	But from there, I transition to I want you to see this video.
	I mean, these doctors and nurses, everything is kind of really just going to shit.
	And I just want to get your opinion on what you think of above.
	I mean, these are, this is the doctor.
	But you can see kind of, you know, they have replacement migration where they bring people over.
	I think they've been doing that across the board in America with teachers, with doctors, with nurses, with everything.
	they're all transitioning to it's this whole DEI It's like the diversity inclusion.
	It's like, so these pawns, these puppets of theirs are getting younger and younger because the older ones aren't First of all, 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.
	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 and is 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.
	Right.
	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 people...
	Right, yep.
	And then podcast coaching in 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 a 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, alright.
	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 is 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 average.
	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, I'll say two years, black community has kind of been waking up and realizing.
	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.
	I don't know if you know about the situation that's going on in Boston right now.
	I know it's happening everywhere.
	They're kicking out homeless veterans and 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.
	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, I think that, Because now 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?
	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, 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, right?
	They would, you know, 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.
	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 would run away and were afraid.
	They will 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's very dominant in nature.
	They try to shut them down.
	Alex Jones, 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 and 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.
	I agree.
	And 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 are, and I really hope that humans aren't like ticks or like fleas to where But you're right.
	And I guess where my hope is is to where a child...
	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 they grew up in.
	And that's why there's a story about these ants.
	Just take leafcutter ants.
	I don't know exactly what strain of ants it was, but they go out and they do things a certain way.
	Alright, that's just, that's that kind of ant.
	That's exactly how, 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 that connection ever.
	And I feel, I mean, that's exactly what we were just talking about.
	Like, 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 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, 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 definite 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.
	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?
	Yeah.
	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 you're exactly right, that lockdowns and COVID, that 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 the people who are like, 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 indulging 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, ah.
	You had never had people hate a certain president ever more than Trump.
	There's a lot of people who hated Obama, but it wasn't like the show they put on for Trump.
	And I don't know...
	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 that 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 reeducation camp?
	For lack of better words, I don't really mean reeducation camp, but there is a market for parents who want to...
	Have you ever thought of having that?
	Have you ever had people come up to you and, 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.
	My coaching is typically individualized to the person.
	It's not so much of, alright, 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 would 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've got big butts, too.
	So you're like, whoa, this is pretty nice, right?
	Yeah, you see the million dollars, but you're like, hold on, is that going any way 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, OnlyFan girls and stuff like that.
	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 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 So if you're trying to change, if you're a parent and 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, oh, 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.
	There's two types of people in this world, people who want and people who kind of want it.
	So if you're a parent, teacher, 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 1000% 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 of people don't understand the power of...
	with the power they have within them and i think it's it's you how do you feel about you know higher consciousness and you know do you you are you versed and kind of in you know And we are in three.
	We're in a third, right?
	for 3D dimension right now.
	We got, so writing it down, that's, Case in point, we're 3D, 2D.
	You're writing these things down.
	1D is a line.
	2D, you're connecting the lines.
	3D brings them all together.
	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...
	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, a starting point for the 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, they have to write it out and figure out what they really want.
	And I think that manifestation is one of the biggest things.
	Case in point, we were having this conversation earlier about the studio, about what you have.
	You were a teacher.
	I kind of don't want to do this anymore.
	What am I going to do?
	And then you're like, well, this is my power.
	This is my passion.
	And you manifested that to where now you have different websites.
	You have different content under your umbrella.
	And a lot of people, like I said, they just need to realize that 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 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 going to 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 heights, 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?
	Oh, 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.
	It sounds crazy, right?
	seems almost impossible.
	We have to look at what is impossible and make it 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 the things that you'll find and create.
	While you're trying to get to this impossibility, it's going to be astounding to you because you're like, 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, the biggest factor being fear.
	But that's how you learn.
	Every aspect from when you're a kid, walking.
	Crawling.
	You see a kid learning how to crawl.
	He's going to hit his face a couple times and he's going to learn.
	They start walking, they're going to fall a couple times.
	Running, same thing.
	It's literally learning from failing is embedded in us since we were born.
	They have brainwashed people to think they're scared to fail to the point to where they'd rather not do anything.
	That's very alarming and concerning to me.
	If you have that issue, go to reverendconcerts.com.
	Mike Reardon will definitely help you with that.
	Just think about it.
	Like, for school, right, is 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 experiencing.
	It's going to be choices that you made as a parent.
	And this is a hard pill to swallow for many parents.
	It's 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?
	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 flow chart, 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 parent, but there is going to be 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 that's where we end up.
	We're in this inverted reality, and then you're just like, oh, how did we even get here?
	So let's take this to kind of current events.
	We're in 2024.
	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.
	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.
	Habla espanol?
	Un poquito.
	A poquito, a poquito.
	Me también.
	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 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, 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 gonna be different aspects that can make your life easier.
	But no matter what, wherever 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 are so worried about who is the president when the president has limits.
	Yeah, that don't really...
	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 does 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 The way I like to think of a modern day civil war is going to be how we have the Bloods and the Crips.
	They can all be in 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're going to 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're like, we're so unhappy, we're just going to burn down local businesses.
	And these businesses had nothing.
	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 It's going to progress.
	Now, we do have different aspects of 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-on-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 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 and clean and sanitize 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 reasons.
	I agree with you 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.
	Out here, a lot of Democrat cities defund the police, defund the police, defund the police.
	So why are the police going to defend you when you want to call them in an emergency when you wanted to defund them?
	Yeah.
	I'm watching the midterms, then 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're gonna Trump?
	You're gonna Trump?
	Damn!
	What the fuck?
	Get out of here!
	What the fuck?
	Get out of here!
	I love you!
	You're the president.
	You ain't supporting Muslims.
	withdницы has called a shot adherent of what you can do with Brexit
	Muslims.
	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 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 Walgreens and Target and all these stores who aren't persecuting, prosecuting people who are stealing from there.
	And then it leads just like to this video.
	So you have to see this video now.
	It's of Ayanna Pressley.
	Do you know who this bald-headed bitch is?
	No.
	All right.
	Well, I might know if you show me.
	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...
	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 f***ing way.
	Look at this.
	6100 Milwaukee.
	Oh my god.
	...by the Best Buy.
	Block them in.
	...by the Jefferson and Roosevelt as well as Canal and Roosevelt.
	...or Clinton and Roosevelt.
	All right, 102 Sam says there's a rear parking garage behind that Best Buy also.
	...by the Best Buy also.
	...by the Jefferson and Roosevelt.
	...by the Jefferson and Roosevelt.
	...by the Clinton side of the building.
	...by the Jefferson side of the building.
	...
	Jefferson and on the Clinton...
	...on the Jefferson side and on the Clinton side.
	...20 emergency.
	...20 go.
	...I've got a multiple vehicle accident and one...
	So...
	That's what they're doing.
	They're leaving these neighborhoods because 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.
	And you're racist for leaving.
	Catch-22.
	Make it make sense, right?
	There you go.
	I'm so speechless.
	Make it make sense.
	And it's so difficult because Walgreens is not the only store to do it.
	Walmart did it.
	There are certain places that if their crime is too high and they lose so much, then sure.
	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 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, diapers, is basically what she was saying.
	She was pulling at Teva's heart strings.
	These people who live in this neighborhood can't go to Walgreens to get these things.
	First of all, who only goes to Walgreens for that type of shit?
	Walgreens is fucking expensive.
	I don't know if y 'all have been to Walgreens lately.
	That shit is fucking expensive.
	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.
	Walgreens is only good for one thing.
	Passport photos.
	If you need a passport photo, you go to Walgreens.
	What do you call that section where they do the cameras?
	Their photography section?
	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 and they're like, what is this?
	They're nosy.
	I don't want to berate everybody who works at Walgreens, but a lot of these stores don't have People who are going to put up a fight when someone tries to steal their stuff.
	That's their system.
	It just blows my mind that they're just double speaking, basically.
	I'm glad people are finally getting tired of it, but she's in Congress like that.
	You know what I mean?
	There's so many dumb people who are bringing up dumb issues like this and tugging at your heartstrings, trying to make it seem like it's like it's, They're making it seem it's your fault for leaving when you let all this stuff happen.
	I don't know, man.
	That's politics.
	Basically, it's you're the problem.
	COVID is a great example of that.
	You know, 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 that's a 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 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 it fits 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 were 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 on a person.
	It's all about violence.
	It's all about harm.
	And looking at it from that aspect, when things were segregated, it's literally black and white.
	It's black and white.
	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, the black community fell for.
	The 50s, the 40s, 50s, 60s, maybe the 60s, too much 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.
	The last names, they're literally, a Smith could be black or white.
	You don't even know why 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 dressed in the 50s.
	Look how white people dress now.
	Look how black people dress now.
	Look at the mentality.
	Look at the mentality of people, 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, they have driven that culture to where the 50s, and they started standing up for themselves in the 60s, oh, oh, we can't have that.
	So the 60s and 70s came, it was a little more, there was no more segregation, there was a lot more integration.
	And more people started coming together and thinking a certain way.
	The 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.
	Music changed.
	Like, the elevation, not the elevation, but, you know, the growth of music from...
	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.
	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.
	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.
	We're still literally fighting over race.
	And we've had that same fight since the 50s and 60s.
	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 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 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.
	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.
	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?
	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 lotto 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.
	No, absolutely.
	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 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.
	It's because they have become Americanized.
	What we need to do is essentially un-Americanize these people who have been indoctrinated in the system.
	How do we do that?
	Not 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, get out there and fucking make it happen.
	Yeah, but the aspect.
	Of Americanization now.
	It's 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 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, we're not going to have fondue anymore.
	Everything is going to be a la carte.
	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, they're 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...
	It's like, bro, we're in America.
	Like, if you want to go by your narrative...
	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.
	You know, it's a whole other type of story.
	So they are ruining the things that...
	We already have diversity.
	We already have equity.
	We already have inclusion.
	We gave you fucking Pride Month.
	Like what more inclusive is America to give you Mike has nothing to do with this.
	We already gave you faggots a whole fucking month.
	How is that not inclusive?
	I don't understand.
	We have black history month, like all this shit is All of 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.
	Sorry, I kind of got mad there.
	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, yeah.
	That's wild.
	And it's because the culture, right?
	We can call them, you know, niggas or whatever, whatever.
	The culture is, right?
	And so you have white people saying, oh, are you a nigger or whatever?
	Or 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 gangbanger 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...
	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 in the 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.
	Or if you're a good person, I'm going to associate with 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.
	And it all comes down to judging.
	Yeah, absolutely, and I think, see a lot of people don't really, they don't understand how judging, how Because that's the case 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.
	We have to get rid of that.
	There's some things that I try to tell this to my friends and my family.
	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.
	How has something been said for generations and people just don't care?
	I don't care.
	It is what it is.
	They still judge people.
	And a lot of people just don't even realize.
	It's just a reaction they do.
	And yes, there is certain things that you can know.
	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...
	You kind of get a general sense of how they are.
	But this whole thing of just seeing somebody in the parking lot and being like, you know, that's, You have issues personally.
	Not only do you have a general...
	So, yeah, I do.
	That's 100%.
	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 their door, they should roll down the window and ask their pronouns.
	Yeah, right?
	Excuse me, are you him or her or they or them?
	Because then you'll get a good understanding of who you need to, you know, pull them in.
	Are they a gangbanger or are they a loving family member?
	Yeah, yeah.
	That's funny, man.
	Just politics can, yeah.
	So I was at a bar and this girl's height's like kind of hitting on me, right?
	And I knew right away...
	No, no, no.
	She was a woman.
	She was a snowflake.
	And she didn't even know it.
	She had no idea.
	A white bunny?
	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.
	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.
	She was like, well, no, I'm well versed in politics.
	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.
	Did you get any news from?
	And I'm like, well, you know Google manipulates search results, right?
	Just cannot compute.
	Cannot compute.
	I see her getting red.
	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 kind of tried to let it go.
	I was like, alright, let's just switch the subject, you know, whatever.
	It's a nice conversation.
	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, a 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 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 hair.
	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 general conversation, you can tell.
	What these people are.
	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.
	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 simple.
	I'm like, what are pronouns?
	Well, you don't want to be ignorant.
	Well, make them explain it to you.
	Yeah.
	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?
	That's true.
	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?
	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're 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 believe the problems in the world.
	This is what people are.
	They have that fixed mindset.
	Carol Dweck, she was the one who came up with the fix and the growth mindsets.
	She explains if you are a fix 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 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 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.
	It's gotten bad, man.
	It went from having followed his homes to now they're literally eradicating men.
	They're castrating them.
	They're trying to give these kids Puberty blockers at, you know, 10, 11, 12. You know, they're trying to make everybody eunuchs.
	So, within these last, you know, what is that, 17 minutes we have?
	16 minutes 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, in 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 with as community, nation, men in general, or by community like Red Pill Community?
	Just men in general.
	Okay.
	Because I think more red-pale men, 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...
	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 go buy soy lattes from Starbucks and complain that the person is a mermaid or whatever, not a merman, whatever.
	They have all 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 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?
	let me get some grass.
	And now they have a house made of maybe twigs or whatever, the weakest material possible.
	And then they get upset that 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 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 peer 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?
	Those 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, use that as a reward.
	Because I mean, like personally, when you're using that as an example, if I had a wife and she's like, oh, you know, I make good money, like I'm going to go out and work at this, you know, and that's...
	Because then that comes adversity 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 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, OK, 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, I already see 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.
	There's other aspects to me.
	I wouldn't sit at home all day, wait until my wife gets home, fucking watching TV.
	I don't know.
	It'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.
	I take pride in accomplishing something that was fucking hard.
	Like the harder something is, the bigger accomplishment is the bigger reward for me.
	So 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 use of convenience is people get stuck in that convenience mind state.
	And I think You know, not try and go in and 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 learned 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.
	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.
	And 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 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?
	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.
	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, 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 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 them?
	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 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 mind frame.
	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 a 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 I'm telling men to go happen in life.
	Yeah, it's a great example.
	Manifest your destiny.
	It's been our saying in America since we got here.
	Manifest destiny.
	I 1000% agree that physical fitness is a big aspect of that.
	It doesn't take much to do something.
	Whether you take a walk.
	Walking a mile only takes like 20 minutes, 30 minutes.
	There's paths you can walk.
	A mile in 20 minutes.
	Running a mile in 10 minutes is great.
	Running it in 15, as long as you're doing something.
	And not everybody has time to go to a gym for an hour.
	Everybody gets that.
	I get that.
	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, get, make sure you said it right.
	You'd be bad already because as men.
	That's kind of bred in our DNA.
	Protect their providers.
	Exactly.
	That's 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, this 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...
	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.
	I got my neighbor across the street.
	It's like 15 degrees.
	I got my kid with me.
	You're gonna walk, take 10 minutes to walk, or you're gonna take 5 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 these situations are coming, and with the attack from the government, with the attack from spiritually, you just have to be ready as a man.
	And I think really physical fitness lies at the core of that.
	And even you getting physically fit, it's going to change your mentality.
	If you haven't ran in a while and you start running, you're going to get fresh blood to your brain.
	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.
	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.
	They're trying to get you into this virtual reality.
	You're sitting in your chair, not doing shit all day.
	Then you're going to wonder why did my wife leave me for somebody else?
	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 its own.
	If you can go through that adversity of beating a mile, that's going to be – you're going to – 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 than your wife married.
	If you ever become less of that man in her eyes, The relationship is over.
	Absolutely.
	That's one thing a lot of people don't understand.
	They don't look in a mirror to see what the problem really is.
	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.
	I agree.
	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...
	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, 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 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.
	Beautifully said, brother.
	Beautifully said.
	Well, Mike, thank you for joining me today.
	ReverendConcepts.com.
	Yeah, man.
	That was...
	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, as a matter of fact, let's go get you some turbo for us, so that way you can, you know, finish it.
	I'm ready for today.
	Yeah, exactly.
	Mike, thanks, brother.
	All right.
	It was a pleasure.
	Take care.
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