1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:04,560 Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the sheep get sheared podcast. 2 00:00:04,560 --> 00:00:07,400 I'm your host, Austin Creed and my friends. 3 00:00:07,400 --> 00:00:16,240 I think we need to discuss hope because from Star Wars to relationships to politics to 4 00:00:16,240 --> 00:00:23,640 religion to pretty much everything in between a lot of people hope that their life will 5 00:00:23,640 --> 00:00:24,640 improve. 6 00:00:24,640 --> 00:00:26,360 They hope that they'll get the things they want. 7 00:00:26,360 --> 00:00:32,320 The word hope is used so much. 8 00:00:32,320 --> 00:00:35,640 It's used to the point where I want to ask you a question. 9 00:00:35,640 --> 00:00:44,000 Do you believe hope can be a hazard or that it is a has I think that there's a duality 10 00:00:44,000 --> 00:00:52,560 to hoping in the hope strategy that leads a lot of people to want a lot and get even 11 00:00:52,560 --> 00:00:55,400 less. 12 00:00:55,400 --> 00:00:58,720 I don't know about you my friends and I would love to hear what you have to say on this 13 00:00:58,720 --> 00:01:04,320 fact but throughout my relatively short life. 14 00:01:04,320 --> 00:01:06,880 I've had to work very hard to get the things that I want. 15 00:01:06,880 --> 00:01:11,560 Number one and number two, I've had to define goals in my life. 16 00:01:11,560 --> 00:01:16,360 Ones I've reached and ones that I am currently still going after all of us have goals like 17 00:01:16,360 --> 00:01:17,480 this. 18 00:01:17,480 --> 00:01:20,680 We have aspirations, dreams, whatever you want to call them. 19 00:01:20,680 --> 00:01:22,480 We have things we want to do. 20 00:01:22,480 --> 00:01:27,840 A lot of people say, oh, I hope I'll lose weight or I hope I'll make a million dollars 21 00:01:27,840 --> 00:01:33,040 or I hope I'll find the girl of my dreams and using that type of language makes it seem 22 00:01:33,040 --> 00:01:35,320 like it's outside of your control. 23 00:01:35,320 --> 00:01:41,160 Like some mystic force God, the force, whatever is going to just show up and give you this 24 00:01:41,160 --> 00:01:43,280 because you asked for it. 25 00:01:43,280 --> 00:01:47,640 Yeah, that's not how the world works. 26 00:01:47,640 --> 00:01:54,520 To me, this is the most damaging part is it almost makes you say, oh, don't worry, I'm 27 00:01:54,520 --> 00:02:01,440 just going to get it in a roundabout way instead of defining exactly what you want, how you're 28 00:02:01,440 --> 00:02:05,680 going to get it, what sacrifices you're going to make. 29 00:02:05,680 --> 00:02:09,240 A lot of people just use the hope strategy. 30 00:02:09,240 --> 00:02:11,440 They say, oh, well, I hope this happens. 31 00:02:11,440 --> 00:02:14,720 Meanwhile, they're not making sacrifices. 32 00:02:14,720 --> 00:02:21,600 They're not trying to get out there and actually achieve that goal with sincerity. 33 00:02:21,600 --> 00:02:27,320 One of the most important things that anybody will ever encounter in their life is relationships, 34 00:02:27,320 --> 00:02:32,960 both with God and with girls as a man. 35 00:02:32,960 --> 00:02:39,360 And let me tell you, some of these women out here, some of them I've met, they crazy, they 36 00:02:39,360 --> 00:02:45,520 cuckoo for cocoa puffs, you ever seen an old commercial from like the 2000s? 37 00:02:45,520 --> 00:02:50,440 She cuckoo, they cuckoo, they cuckoo for cocoa puffs, man. 38 00:02:50,440 --> 00:02:54,400 Now there are also some women who they're not unicorns. 39 00:02:54,400 --> 00:02:56,560 Don't get it twisted. 40 00:02:56,560 --> 00:02:57,760 They just make it work. 41 00:02:57,760 --> 00:03:00,160 They make sacrifices to make this work. 42 00:03:00,160 --> 00:03:04,360 But as their high school sweethearts, they stay married and they have kids, they don't 43 00:03:04,360 --> 00:03:05,600 cheat. 44 00:03:05,600 --> 00:03:06,800 Those aren't unicorns. 45 00:03:06,800 --> 00:03:08,160 Those are just sacrifices. 46 00:03:08,160 --> 00:03:11,720 They're making sacrifices for that relationship. 47 00:03:11,720 --> 00:03:15,440 The whole idea and notion of unicorns is based on the hope strategy. 48 00:03:15,440 --> 00:03:18,400 I hope I find someone who's different. 49 00:03:18,400 --> 00:03:22,720 I hope that I can make things work regardless of what happens. 50 00:03:22,720 --> 00:03:26,680 And that that is extremely dangerous. 51 00:03:26,680 --> 00:03:31,040 It's dangerous because not only does it set your expectations to not from the reality 52 00:03:31,040 --> 00:03:39,560 setting to the fantasy setting, but it also it creates within yourself a resentment towards 53 00:03:39,560 --> 00:03:45,200 the world and yourself if you don't get this fictional note, this fictional thing that was 54 00:03:45,200 --> 00:03:47,600 never meant to be obtained in the first place. 55 00:03:47,600 --> 00:03:53,920 So a lot of us, we grew up on Disney, we grew up on Time Warner, we grew up on these cartoons, 56 00:03:53,920 --> 00:03:59,120 these stories that are actually based off of real fairy tales that are ancient, but 57 00:03:59,120 --> 00:04:03,840 they have a twist to them instead of the ending that's supposed to be teaching you a lesson 58 00:04:03,840 --> 00:04:06,400 they have they happily ever after. 59 00:04:06,400 --> 00:04:12,560 They have this fake notion that leads people to hope, oh, I want true love. 60 00:04:12,560 --> 00:04:15,160 I hope that I find this forever person. 61 00:04:15,160 --> 00:04:17,920 I hope I have a partner. 62 00:04:17,920 --> 00:04:18,920 Ugh. 63 00:04:18,920 --> 00:04:21,040 The word itself just makes me. 64 00:04:21,040 --> 00:04:22,040 Ugh. 65 00:04:22,040 --> 00:04:23,040 Ugh. 66 00:04:23,040 --> 00:04:27,720 It makes me shudder and gives me chills because it's all based on a lie. 67 00:04:27,720 --> 00:04:29,640 A lie. 68 00:04:29,640 --> 00:04:32,680 The lie that damages you. 69 00:04:32,680 --> 00:04:37,320 My friends, hope can be great. 70 00:04:37,320 --> 00:04:42,640 One of my favorite lines from the Hunger Games is when President Snow was talking to the 71 00:04:42,640 --> 00:04:47,440 game maker Seneca Crane and they're in the garden, they're picking roses and he says 72 00:04:47,440 --> 00:04:52,960 everybody likes an underdog, the game maker and President Snow says I don't. 73 00:04:52,960 --> 00:04:59,720 And he says why and he grabs a rose and he says a little bit of hope is effective. 74 00:04:59,720 --> 00:05:01,520 It keeps them in order and keeps them alive. 75 00:05:01,520 --> 00:05:09,520 It keeps them from rebelling too much hope can be dangerous. 76 00:05:09,520 --> 00:05:10,680 And I think he's right. 77 00:05:10,680 --> 00:05:12,080 I really do. 78 00:05:12,080 --> 00:05:19,440 I don't find myself agreeing with dictators very often, but when I do, it's interesting 79 00:05:19,440 --> 00:05:26,560 because hope is one of these things that people use as a way to have desires and justify their 80 00:05:26,560 --> 00:05:31,600 unrealistic expectations instead of breaking it down into a science and saying here's 81 00:05:31,600 --> 00:05:32,600 what I'm going to do. 82 00:05:32,600 --> 00:05:33,600 Here's what I'm going to sacrifice. 83 00:05:33,600 --> 00:05:35,320 Here's how long it's going to take. 84 00:05:35,320 --> 00:05:36,760 I've written it down. 85 00:05:36,760 --> 00:05:38,120 I'm working towards it every day. 86 00:05:38,120 --> 00:05:39,640 I'm thinking about it every day. 87 00:05:39,640 --> 00:05:40,760 I'm trying to improve. 88 00:05:40,760 --> 00:05:42,200 I'm trying to get there. 89 00:05:42,200 --> 00:05:46,160 They just make it seem like, oh, you know, it'd be nice if it happened, you know, at 90 00:05:46,160 --> 00:05:51,360 some point and whatnot and doing so. 91 00:05:51,360 --> 00:05:56,720 They don't create opportunity for themselves. 92 00:05:56,720 --> 00:06:02,680 This is all part of the normie thinking that we talk about on the show almost every day. 93 00:06:02,680 --> 00:06:06,560 The normie thinking, the stuff that we naturally have a leaning towards. 94 00:06:06,560 --> 00:06:08,160 I'm not immune to either. 95 00:06:08,160 --> 00:06:15,680 I'm not immune to the normie tendencies because I was programmed with them since I was a kid 96 00:06:15,680 --> 00:06:25,000 by parents, by teachers, by religious leaders, by politicians, by friends, by other family 97 00:06:25,000 --> 00:06:26,000 members. 98 00:06:26,000 --> 00:06:27,000 I mean, you name it. 99 00:06:27,000 --> 00:06:30,200 And it's not meant to necessarily be insidious. 100 00:06:30,200 --> 00:06:35,000 It's meant to slowly influence you to the point where you don't ask these hard questions 101 00:06:35,000 --> 00:06:37,200 of is hope dangerous? 102 00:06:37,200 --> 00:06:38,600 Will hope sabotage me? 103 00:06:38,600 --> 00:06:40,960 Can it be a hazard to reaching my goals? 104 00:06:40,960 --> 00:06:45,000 And the answer is it can if you are not careful. 105 00:06:45,000 --> 00:06:49,040 You know, one of the things about medicine that I find fascinating, my friends, is when 106 00:06:49,040 --> 00:06:53,520 you really break down medicine, it's all burn, cut and poison. 107 00:06:53,520 --> 00:07:01,480 But you want to burn, cut and poison the bacteria, the viruses you want to get rid of the dead 108 00:07:01,480 --> 00:07:06,240 weight you want to get rid of the foreign invaders. 109 00:07:06,240 --> 00:07:07,880 But it's still burn, cut and poison. 110 00:07:07,880 --> 00:07:12,200 You just don't want to burn, cut and poison the healthy cells, the cells that you want 111 00:07:12,200 --> 00:07:14,560 there. 112 00:07:14,560 --> 00:07:20,640 And when you look at it very closely, we have to have the same mentality with hope. 113 00:07:20,640 --> 00:07:23,560 It can be dangerous. 114 00:07:23,560 --> 00:07:26,720 Hope can be if we don't use hope in the right way. 115 00:07:26,720 --> 00:07:33,120 If we don't use our desire, our longings for something better in a productive and realistic 116 00:07:33,120 --> 00:07:38,440 fashion, it can be used to make us seem like we can't do what we want. 117 00:07:38,440 --> 00:07:39,960 We're not going to ever get what we want. 118 00:07:39,960 --> 00:07:41,440 We can't achieve our dreams. 119 00:07:41,440 --> 00:07:46,400 That's what we're going to think because it doesn't happen in the timing we want, the 120 00:07:46,400 --> 00:07:51,000 way we want, because we are not willing to sacrifice certain things in our life because 121 00:07:51,000 --> 00:07:53,000 we want to have it all. 122 00:07:53,000 --> 00:07:58,160 Huge misnomer, huge problem, by the way. 123 00:07:58,160 --> 00:08:02,600 We oftentimes we're trying to put our hand in the cookie jar and take out all the cookies 124 00:08:02,600 --> 00:08:05,400 and we can't get our hand out of the jar. 125 00:08:05,400 --> 00:08:08,640 We just hope that if we keep trying, you know, happen. 126 00:08:08,640 --> 00:08:09,640 No. 127 00:08:09,640 --> 00:08:15,000 The definition of insanity I once had described to me was doing the same thing over and over 128 00:08:15,000 --> 00:08:20,960 again in the same way and expecting a different result. 129 00:08:20,960 --> 00:08:24,640 That's how I had insanity described to me. 130 00:08:24,640 --> 00:08:25,640 What do you think? 131 00:08:25,640 --> 00:08:31,920 Do you think it's insane to try the same thing over and over again in the same way and expect 132 00:08:31,920 --> 00:08:34,720 a different result? 133 00:08:34,720 --> 00:08:38,000 I think there's an element of that. 134 00:08:38,000 --> 00:08:41,960 I think a lot of people would sooner give up than to continue to try over and over again 135 00:08:41,960 --> 00:08:45,360 in a different way. 136 00:08:45,360 --> 00:08:50,640 And my friends, I've said this before, but if you listen to this show, you're not normal. 137 00:08:50,640 --> 00:08:52,640 Normal people. 138 00:08:52,640 --> 00:08:57,280 First of all, the idea of normal is kind of the deception. 139 00:08:57,280 --> 00:09:00,480 If you really think about it, because what is normal? 140 00:09:00,480 --> 00:09:02,880 But we're getting down the wrong track here. 141 00:09:02,880 --> 00:09:07,960 We're not talking about normies, not in extreme detail today, because they're the ones that 142 00:09:07,960 --> 00:09:09,720 hope about everything. 143 00:09:09,720 --> 00:09:12,840 They hope that the right person gets an office. 144 00:09:12,840 --> 00:09:14,680 They hope they get their dream body. 145 00:09:14,680 --> 00:09:16,400 They hope they get their dream job. 146 00:09:16,400 --> 00:09:18,560 They hope they get their dream soulmate. 147 00:09:18,560 --> 00:09:24,240 They hope and they pray and they pray and they pray and they don't actually make rules. 148 00:09:24,240 --> 00:09:28,640 Like, you ever hear these some of these women and some of these men on TikTok and Instagram 149 00:09:28,640 --> 00:09:33,200 and Facebook would talk about, oh, I'm deserving of love. 150 00:09:33,200 --> 00:09:35,160 I'm deserving of my soulmate. 151 00:09:35,160 --> 00:09:40,000 Meanwhile, they're overweight, meanwhile, they're unproductive, meanwhile, they're unpleasant. 152 00:09:40,000 --> 00:09:41,720 Meanwhile, they're not. 153 00:09:41,720 --> 00:09:45,400 They are not putting out what they expect to get in return. 154 00:09:45,400 --> 00:09:47,400 They're just not. 155 00:09:47,400 --> 00:09:52,880 But they're sitting there and singing and saying, if I just say I deserve it, if I I might just 156 00:09:52,880 --> 00:09:57,360 hope just enough and I'll get what I want. 157 00:09:57,360 --> 00:09:59,880 See how stupid that is? 158 00:09:59,880 --> 00:10:01,840 You see how delusional that is? 159 00:10:01,840 --> 00:10:03,960 I hope you do. 160 00:10:03,960 --> 00:10:09,600 Because it's one thing to have a desire and then be willing to make appropriate, dedicated 161 00:10:09,600 --> 00:10:14,320 and detailed sacrifices to get there. 162 00:10:14,320 --> 00:10:18,000 And if another to just say, yeah, you know, I want a million dollars and I don't know 163 00:10:18,000 --> 00:10:21,400 how to get it, but like, I'm going to make it happen. 164 00:10:21,400 --> 00:10:23,720 And I hope it happens. 165 00:10:23,720 --> 00:10:27,360 What the hell is that, man? 166 00:10:27,360 --> 00:10:31,400 I want to be a billionaire and I'm making steps towards that direction. 167 00:10:31,400 --> 00:10:34,480 I'm not I am paying my price up front. 168 00:10:34,480 --> 00:10:39,680 We're trying to be an independent contractor working off of commissions, doing my own thing, 169 00:10:39,680 --> 00:10:47,040 going against the grain up front on the back end up front up front. 170 00:10:47,040 --> 00:10:51,760 See my friends, there is a price to be paid on the toll on which you want to ride the 171 00:10:51,760 --> 00:10:54,760 car of life down. 172 00:10:54,760 --> 00:11:01,920 And the road is not often is traveled because the toll can cost you everything. 173 00:11:01,920 --> 00:11:06,160 You know, one of my favorite villains of all time and I I'm kind of a nerd. 174 00:11:06,160 --> 00:11:07,640 So I like to read. 175 00:11:07,640 --> 00:11:08,640 I like to watch. 176 00:11:08,640 --> 00:11:14,320 I like to observe one of my favorite villains is Thanos. 177 00:11:14,320 --> 00:11:20,920 The reason being is because he was a villain who was making active sacrifices and was the 178 00:11:20,920 --> 00:11:25,120 hero of his own story. 179 00:11:25,120 --> 00:11:28,640 At the end of Infinity War. 180 00:11:28,640 --> 00:11:30,760 He talks about how. 181 00:11:30,760 --> 00:11:36,240 There's a there's a scene where after he snapped the infamous snap happens. 182 00:11:36,240 --> 00:11:42,480 He's in I think he's inside the soul stone and he sees Gamora and as you know, as a little 183 00:11:42,480 --> 00:11:44,360 girl when he first met her. 184 00:11:44,360 --> 00:11:51,280 He's like daughter and she turns around and she says, did you do it? 185 00:11:51,280 --> 00:11:58,320 He says, yes, she pauses for a second and she says, what did it cost you? 186 00:11:58,320 --> 00:12:01,520 And then he looks back. 187 00:12:01,520 --> 00:12:02,520 Everything. 188 00:12:02,520 --> 00:12:08,800 And he was the same guy who said that the hardest choices require the strongest wills. 189 00:12:08,800 --> 00:12:10,200 I know he's a fictional character. 190 00:12:10,200 --> 00:12:12,320 I'm not saying he'd be like him. 191 00:12:12,320 --> 00:12:16,640 I'm saying is there is truth in what he is saying. 192 00:12:16,640 --> 00:12:20,560 He sacrificed everything to get what he wanted done. 193 00:12:20,560 --> 00:12:25,560 In the same way that we must be willing to sacrifice our comfort. 194 00:12:25,560 --> 00:12:27,480 We must be willing to grind. 195 00:12:27,480 --> 00:12:33,880 We must be willing to give up and go without to achieve the goals we want for ourselves. 196 00:12:33,880 --> 00:12:37,720 That doesn't mean we're always going to have to do it, but we have to be willing. 197 00:12:37,720 --> 00:12:40,640 We have to be ready for the opportunity to prevent itself. 198 00:12:40,640 --> 00:12:46,600 Because when an opportunity presents itself, it will knock once, maybe twice. 199 00:12:46,600 --> 00:12:51,720 After that, it's not going to knock again. 200 00:12:51,720 --> 00:12:52,880 So you must be ready. 201 00:12:52,880 --> 00:12:57,840 You got to have your bags packed, ready to roll on a moment's notice. 202 00:12:57,840 --> 00:13:01,720 A lot of people, they just hope that it will be easier. 203 00:13:01,720 --> 00:13:05,160 They hope that another opportunity will come by because they don't want to give up their 204 00:13:05,160 --> 00:13:06,160 comfort. 205 00:13:06,160 --> 00:13:08,000 They don't want to give up where they're at. 206 00:13:08,000 --> 00:13:15,080 My friends, I was back from my best friend's wedding this last weekend and I was back in 207 00:13:15,080 --> 00:13:19,680 my hometown that I hadn't really been in for a little while. 208 00:13:19,680 --> 00:13:21,920 And a lot of memories came flooding back. 209 00:13:21,920 --> 00:13:26,840 A lot of important memories came flying back. 210 00:13:26,840 --> 00:13:30,200 Great seeing people and it was great to be back. 211 00:13:30,200 --> 00:13:32,480 But she and party me said, I don't want to leave. 212 00:13:32,480 --> 00:13:33,480 I don't want to go back. 213 00:13:33,480 --> 00:13:35,560 I don't want to go back to the grind. 214 00:13:35,560 --> 00:13:39,160 I want to stay here at this oasis and then I stopped myself. 215 00:13:39,160 --> 00:13:41,160 I said, you know what? 216 00:13:41,160 --> 00:13:42,320 No. 217 00:13:42,320 --> 00:13:48,120 The oasis is only an oasis when there's a desert around it. 218 00:13:48,120 --> 00:13:52,120 When you're out there and you're grinding and you're working hard and you're trudging 219 00:13:52,120 --> 00:13:54,320 through the difficulties of life. 220 00:13:54,320 --> 00:13:59,360 You know, one of my best friends, not the one getting married, but another one. 221 00:13:59,360 --> 00:14:01,160 He is a author. 222 00:14:01,160 --> 00:14:02,160 He's a philosopher. 223 00:14:02,160 --> 00:14:06,320 He's a really wise and intelligent man. 224 00:14:06,320 --> 00:14:11,320 And he quoted Tolstoy to me the other day and I hasn't, I can't get it out of my head. 225 00:14:11,320 --> 00:14:13,920 It was so amazing. 226 00:14:13,920 --> 00:14:16,880 He looked at me and he said, Austin, I gotta tell you something because I was telling him 227 00:14:16,880 --> 00:14:20,360 about what I'm doing out here in Kansas City and all this stuff. 228 00:14:20,360 --> 00:14:24,680 And I looked at him and he looked at me and he said, Austin, let me tell you something. 229 00:14:24,680 --> 00:14:30,520 Tolstoy said this, a great story starts one of two ways. 230 00:14:30,520 --> 00:14:39,120 One, a man goes on a journey or two, a stranger comes to town. 231 00:14:39,120 --> 00:14:48,440 And I paused when I first heard that and I said, my God, he's right. 232 00:14:48,440 --> 00:14:52,440 It's the guy goes, somebody goes on an adventure or a stranger comes to their town and they're 233 00:14:52,440 --> 00:14:53,440 staying there. 234 00:14:53,440 --> 00:15:00,600 That's how the stories begin that are super well known, super amazing. 235 00:15:00,600 --> 00:15:04,480 And my friends, we got to have that same mentality. 236 00:15:04,480 --> 00:15:05,840 We got to be willing to go on adventures. 237 00:15:05,840 --> 00:15:12,320 We got to be willing to not push away strangers, take risks. 238 00:15:12,320 --> 00:15:15,480 They gain new opportunities and get that leg up. 239 00:15:15,480 --> 00:15:18,360 But we can't use the whole strategy to get here. 240 00:15:18,360 --> 00:15:20,640 You can't just hope things are going to get better. 241 00:15:20,640 --> 00:15:22,720 You got to actively work towards it. 242 00:15:22,720 --> 00:15:28,720 You got to always be willing to change, always be willing to pack your bags and moments, 243 00:15:28,720 --> 00:15:33,920 notice and make those sacrifices to get to your success. 244 00:15:33,920 --> 00:15:38,400 A farmer doesn't just throw seeds around, hoping that they sprout. 245 00:15:38,400 --> 00:15:42,160 You're oftentimes very calculatedly planted. 246 00:15:42,160 --> 00:15:48,000 The same way that you got to calculate where you want to be, what results you want to achieve. 247 00:15:48,000 --> 00:15:51,440 What you want bare fruit. 248 00:15:51,440 --> 00:15:54,400 You plant weeds, you're going to get thistles and thorns. 249 00:15:54,400 --> 00:15:55,800 You plant and cash crops. 250 00:15:55,800 --> 00:15:57,960 That's what you're going to get. 251 00:15:57,960 --> 00:15:59,360 I'm not going to tell you it's easy. 252 00:15:59,360 --> 00:16:00,640 It's not easy. 253 00:16:00,640 --> 00:16:07,480 But that's why it's worth doing, my friends, because it's not easy. 254 00:16:07,480 --> 00:16:11,080 We can't use the hope strategy to get to where we want to go. 255 00:16:11,080 --> 00:16:13,960 We must accept the duality of hope. 256 00:16:13,960 --> 00:16:20,960 We must accept that it can be as equally dangerous as it can be a great tool to get to our destination. 257 00:16:20,960 --> 00:16:23,640 It's all in how you use it. 258 00:16:23,640 --> 00:16:29,760 Be aware of how you use hope and don't let it use you to try to cheat the system. 259 00:16:29,760 --> 00:16:33,960 Because if you try to cheat the laws of the universe, you will pay the price. 260 00:16:33,960 --> 00:16:34,960 You can't avoid it. 261 00:16:34,960 --> 00:16:39,640 It may not be today, maybe not today, maybe not tomorrow, but you'll pay that price. 262 00:16:39,640 --> 00:16:46,160 The piper is going to call, you got to hear his flute and then you go and pay. 263 00:16:46,160 --> 00:16:50,200 These old fairy tales, they've been watered down today. 264 00:16:50,200 --> 00:16:56,960 A lot of very deep and very dark meanings, but they've been substituted out or that 265 00:16:56,960 --> 00:17:02,160 happily ever after that feels good going down, but it rots in the pit of your soul gives 266 00:17:02,160 --> 00:17:04,920 you a stomach ache. 267 00:17:04,920 --> 00:17:06,200 My friends, you take care of yourselves. 268 00:17:06,200 --> 00:17:07,200 You are. 269 00:17:07,200 --> 00:17:09,320 Okay, you understand me. 270 00:17:09,320 --> 00:17:12,880 We live in dangerous times on certain times. 271 00:17:12,880 --> 00:17:18,120 It's important for us to stick our heads on straight and be ready for whatever comes our 272 00:17:18,120 --> 00:17:20,120 way. 273 00:17:20,120 --> 00:17:21,480 Don't use the hope strategy. 274 00:17:21,480 --> 00:17:28,400 Make concrete detailed plans to get to your destination of choice. 275 00:17:28,400 --> 00:17:29,520 My friends, you take care. 276 00:17:29,520 --> 00:17:31,600 Leave your thoughts, your comments below. 277 00:17:31,600 --> 00:17:35,240 If you liked what you heard, then you know what to do. 278 00:17:35,240 --> 00:17:37,720 I'm not going to sit here and beg you. 279 00:17:37,720 --> 00:17:38,720 Take care, Matt. 280 00:17:38,720 --> 00:17:49,740 Peace.