WEBVTT 00:00:00.879 --> 00:00:04.299 My friends welcome to the sheep get shared podcast. 00:00:04.299 --> 00:00:07.059 I'm your host Austin creating my friends today 00:00:07.059 --> 00:00:10.179 We you know yesterday we talked a little bit 00:00:10.179 --> 00:00:14.779 about Politics talked about Israel and Ukraine, 00:00:14.839 --> 00:00:19.500 you know You will not hear Israel or Ukraine 00:00:19.500 --> 00:00:23.280 Outside of what you just heard on the show today. 00:00:23.300 --> 00:00:26.940 I'm over. I can't open my news app. I can't go 00:00:26.940 --> 00:00:30.480 on social media without seeing it being shoved 00:00:30.480 --> 00:00:34.020 down my throat every two minutes. I'm not doing 00:00:34.020 --> 00:00:38.280 it. So instead, instead of focusing on that today, 00:00:38.280 --> 00:00:42.020 which I refuse to do, we're instead going to 00:00:42.020 --> 00:00:46.799 talk about the struggles of man yet again. You 00:00:46.799 --> 00:00:50.600 know, the three pinnacles of this show is people, 00:00:51.179 --> 00:00:53.320 politics, and popular culture. The three main 00:00:53.320 --> 00:00:56.750 P's on the show. I think we need to refer back 00:00:56.750 --> 00:00:58.549 to the people again. We talked a little bit about 00:00:58.549 --> 00:01:00.829 popular culture and about politics. Let's get 00:01:00.829 --> 00:01:06.609 back to the everyday struggles of the people. 00:01:06.769 --> 00:01:10.370 I think that's incredibly important. When it 00:01:10.370 --> 00:01:11.909 comes to men, you know, I had a very interesting 00:01:11.909 --> 00:01:13.430 conversation with my girlfriend. Apparently my 00:01:13.430 --> 00:01:15.030 girlfriend actually likes listening to the show 00:01:15.030 --> 00:01:18.030 when she's cleaning our house, which I find very... 00:01:18.030 --> 00:01:20.909 I find that very ironic. Am I weird in that? 00:01:21.109 --> 00:01:22.849 Am I weird to think that that's weird that my 00:01:22.849 --> 00:01:25.299 girlfriend likes listening to me talk? to the 00:01:25.299 --> 00:01:28.319 boys while we're uh talking about very complex 00:01:28.319 --> 00:01:31.540 topics is that weird any other women who listen 00:01:31.540 --> 00:01:33.859 to the show do you do you listen to me talk while 00:01:33.859 --> 00:01:36.040 you're cleaning your house let me know let me 00:01:36.040 --> 00:01:39.480 know in the comments on youtube or go on x i 00:01:39.480 --> 00:01:41.739 cheap get cheered and followed it follow me follow 00:01:41.739 --> 00:01:44.980 the show but i mean let me know i could be could 00:01:44.980 --> 00:01:48.200 be more normal than i originally thought but 00:01:48.200 --> 00:01:50.159 going back to i was talking to my girlfriend 00:01:50.159 --> 00:01:54.140 about this earlier today actually And we were 00:01:54.140 --> 00:01:56.700 talking about the struggles that men have and 00:01:56.700 --> 00:01:59.379 women have in life in general. And I thought 00:01:59.379 --> 00:02:02.299 it was incredibly interesting to talk about how 00:02:02.299 --> 00:02:05.700 it's easy, especially on the more red pill content, 00:02:05.739 --> 00:02:07.519 it's easy to get sucked into women have real 00:02:07.519 --> 00:02:09.580 easy. And it's really easy to get sucked into 00:02:09.580 --> 00:02:11.800 if you're a woman and you're a feminist, then 00:02:11.800 --> 00:02:14.099 men have it. Oh, the world was made for men. 00:02:14.159 --> 00:02:16.979 Men have it so easy. And I stopped and I said, 00:02:17.099 --> 00:02:18.840 wait a minute, hold on a second, Austin, hold 00:02:18.840 --> 00:02:22.539 on a second. Everybody has their own unique struggles. 00:02:23.430 --> 00:02:26.270 I don't care if you're a man, woman, dog. Everybody 00:02:26.270 --> 00:02:28.490 has their problems. I don't care if you identify 00:02:28.490 --> 00:02:30.610 as a cat and you live your life with a litter 00:02:30.610 --> 00:02:36.250 box. Everybody has their own struggles. And in 00:02:36.250 --> 00:02:40.030 a weird way, we try to make our lives better 00:02:40.030 --> 00:02:43.310 by pointing out how we don't have a certain struggle 00:02:43.310 --> 00:02:48.270 that other people have. I find it merely odd, 00:02:48.629 --> 00:02:52.580 frankly, but You know when it comes back to the 00:02:52.580 --> 00:02:55.319 struggles of men I think one of the biggest struggles 00:02:55.319 --> 00:02:58.080 that I think was not Reiterated to me enough 00:02:58.080 --> 00:03:01.680 when I was when I was younger in my mid 20s now, 00:03:01.680 --> 00:03:07.240 but when I was younger I didn't realize how Unbelievably 00:03:07.240 --> 00:03:12.219 difficult it is to try to develop a life outside 00:03:12.219 --> 00:03:15.139 of the matrix I think Andrew Tate was really 00:03:15.139 --> 00:03:17.199 the one who popularized and I'm sure there are 00:03:17.199 --> 00:03:21.259 people before him. I don't doubt that But to 00:03:21.259 --> 00:03:23.659 my knowledge he was the one that really popularized 00:03:23.659 --> 00:03:27.659 this notion of The Matrix applying outside of 00:03:27.659 --> 00:03:29.560 the movie The Matrix itself back in the late 00:03:29.560 --> 00:03:34.080 90s Them or that was the early 2000s. Oh god, 00:03:34.080 --> 00:03:37.479 I don't remember but anyways the I notion of 00:03:37.479 --> 00:03:41.080 the matrix that we live in this program society, 00:03:41.080 --> 00:03:44.800 you know, I I Didn't really get turned on to 00:03:44.800 --> 00:03:49.129 it Until I started going more entrepreneurial 00:03:49.129 --> 00:03:51.889 with my endeavors to make money. When I started 00:03:51.889 --> 00:03:56.050 to go outside the normal trading time for money 00:03:56.050 --> 00:04:00.150 aspect of I'm making a living, I realized how 00:04:00.150 --> 00:04:03.509 true it actually was. And so if you're I don't 00:04:03.509 --> 00:04:05.009 care if you're a man or a woman listening to 00:04:05.009 --> 00:04:07.449 the show, I really think it's important for us 00:04:07.449 --> 00:04:09.710 to highlight the struggles of entrepreneurs is 00:04:09.710 --> 00:04:12.469 the struggle of not having a nine to five. Now, 00:04:12.469 --> 00:04:14.729 if you have a nine to five job, you could still 00:04:14.729 --> 00:04:17.519 have a side hustle. And I know people who have 00:04:17.519 --> 00:04:21.079 done that. They start their own business on the 00:04:21.079 --> 00:04:23.839 side with their wife or by themselves and they 00:04:23.839 --> 00:04:28.279 start to build something using the matrix money 00:04:28.279 --> 00:04:32.639 to mold that money into a new venture to where 00:04:32.639 --> 00:04:36.660 they can now become the boss. Instead of having 00:04:36.660 --> 00:04:38.959 to pay homage to their boss for the rest of their 00:04:38.959 --> 00:04:42.180 life They're using that as a means to an end 00:04:42.180 --> 00:04:44.680 to build something for themselves and their children 00:04:44.680 --> 00:04:47.240 in the future I actually respect that quite a 00:04:47.240 --> 00:04:50.779 lot But I think one of the main struggles and 00:04:50.779 --> 00:04:53.699 I can't talk from the female perspective. I won't 00:04:53.699 --> 00:04:57.259 do it I'm not gonna feign feign sympathy for 00:04:57.259 --> 00:04:59.680 women. I'm not gonna feign sympathy for men I'm 00:04:59.680 --> 00:05:04.279 only gonna speak on notions I know and lives 00:05:04.279 --> 00:05:08.250 I have lived That's all I can do. I will not 00:05:08.250 --> 00:05:11.149 pretend to know what it's like to be a woman. 00:05:11.250 --> 00:05:15.910 I know I'm not So what we're gonna do is we're 00:05:15.910 --> 00:05:19.209 gonna talk about the struggles of Men because 00:05:19.209 --> 00:05:21.790 I am a man in case you can't tell by the deep 00:05:21.790 --> 00:05:24.149 notion of my voice I know there are some transgender 00:05:24.149 --> 00:05:26.509 people who have deep voices. I am NOT one of 00:05:26.509 --> 00:05:30.250 them. I Think it's important for us to realize 00:05:30.250 --> 00:05:33.589 that as men we have to decide who we want to 00:05:33.589 --> 00:05:35.939 be You as women, you got to decide who you want 00:05:35.939 --> 00:05:38.439 to be. But as men, we have to decide who we want 00:05:38.439 --> 00:05:43.660 to be. We have to decide, what do we live our 00:05:43.660 --> 00:05:45.279 life for? What gets you out of bed in the morning, 00:05:45.360 --> 00:05:47.199 as cliche as that was? I remember when I joined 00:05:47.199 --> 00:05:51.300 the military. When I joined the military, I was 00:05:51.300 --> 00:05:53.639 in the Air Force for about two years. When I 00:05:53.639 --> 00:05:56.379 joined the military and I went through every 00:05:56.379 --> 00:05:58.939 day of basic training, every night when I looked 00:05:58.939 --> 00:06:04.540 up, there was a small little barred window. in 00:06:04.540 --> 00:06:09.240 my building and I look out of my cot with 20 00:06:09.240 --> 00:06:13.139 other dudes going down both hallways with our 00:06:13.139 --> 00:06:15.899 lockers. Every night when I hit the pillow, I 00:06:15.899 --> 00:06:19.040 look up at the ceiling and I would think to myself, 00:06:20.160 --> 00:06:23.920 why am I here? Why? Why did I choose to do this? 00:06:24.139 --> 00:06:27.339 I don't like it. I don't feel good. Why did I 00:06:27.339 --> 00:06:29.279 choose to do this? Why did I not just go work 00:06:29.279 --> 00:06:33.139 at Burger King? Why didn't I just... I don't 00:06:33.139 --> 00:06:36.500 know, go find a regular job. Why did I choose 00:06:36.500 --> 00:06:38.740 to do this? Because prior to that I worked at 00:06:38.740 --> 00:06:42.860 Chick -fil -A. My life wasn't so bad. But I decided 00:06:42.860 --> 00:06:46.500 to take a risk. A lot of men, they take the wrong 00:06:46.500 --> 00:06:50.540 risks. They take the risk of getting into a relationship 00:06:50.540 --> 00:06:54.939 too early on. They take the risk of maybe trying 00:06:54.939 --> 00:06:58.360 to make fast money. Instead of taking a risk 00:06:58.360 --> 00:07:00.920 that's... gonna serve a larger purpose. They 00:07:00.920 --> 00:07:04.620 take a very short -sighted risk, which leads 00:07:04.620 --> 00:07:08.300 them to taking either short -term rewards and 00:07:08.300 --> 00:07:10.759 getting screwed over in the future, or they try 00:07:10.759 --> 00:07:13.519 to get out and they have this period of trying 00:07:13.519 --> 00:07:17.180 to rebuild what was burned in this attempt to 00:07:17.180 --> 00:07:21.660 make short, fast money. And so, my friends, I 00:07:21.660 --> 00:07:23.959 return back to the question of who do you want 00:07:23.959 --> 00:07:28.000 to become? And I and make no mistake about it. 00:07:28.000 --> 00:07:30.620 It will change over time. It's changed for me 00:07:30.620 --> 00:07:35.579 over time. I Want I originally wanted to do talk 00:07:35.579 --> 00:07:37.899 radio talk radio is something that I grew up 00:07:37.899 --> 00:07:40.699 on to an extent and I also I Respect people who 00:07:40.699 --> 00:07:42.800 do talk radio even if I disagree with the politics. 00:07:43.360 --> 00:07:46.379 I Like the meaning of talk radio to me more than 00:07:46.379 --> 00:07:50.569 watching things on YouTube I'm not as much a 00:07:50.569 --> 00:07:53.149 visual guy when it comes to that kind of learning 00:07:53.149 --> 00:07:55.889 I prefer to listen when I'm learning in the same 00:07:55.889 --> 00:07:59.069 way that that's why I Used to do more face content 00:07:59.069 --> 00:08:01.269 and I will because that's how you win in the 00:08:01.269 --> 00:08:03.589 world of content today It's very hard to make 00:08:03.589 --> 00:08:06.870 a oh any kind of living doing what I'm doing 00:08:06.870 --> 00:08:10.550 podcasting wise just doing an audio show You 00:08:10.550 --> 00:08:13.389 know those days are long gone with all the theatrics 00:08:13.389 --> 00:08:16.850 that in help Completely saturated the podcasting 00:08:16.850 --> 00:08:21.379 universe has become But nonetheless it's incredibly 00:08:21.379 --> 00:08:25.000 important for you to have a beacon You don't 00:08:25.000 --> 00:08:26.959 want to be a ship just sailing around having 00:08:26.959 --> 00:08:31.519 no port of destination You have to realize what 00:08:31.519 --> 00:08:34.220 do you want to be at this current moment? You're 00:08:34.220 --> 00:08:38.019 gonna want to be an astronaut a doctor I don't 00:08:38.019 --> 00:08:40.759 know a stockbroker could be anything under the 00:08:40.759 --> 00:08:43.299 Sun But you need to have a goal you need to have 00:08:43.299 --> 00:08:46.860 a reason to look better a reason to try in life 00:08:46.860 --> 00:08:49.490 because I think What civilization the way it 00:08:49.490 --> 00:08:51.830 is today and the longer lives were living thanks 00:08:51.830 --> 00:08:54.590 to the miracles of modern science a lot of people 00:08:54.590 --> 00:08:57.889 have the convenience and yes, I do mean convenience 00:08:57.889 --> 00:09:00.269 of Sitting there and saying I don't know what 00:09:00.269 --> 00:09:03.570 I want to do and I kind of just will coast There 00:09:03.570 --> 00:09:05.990 used to be a time where you couldn't just coast 00:09:05.990 --> 00:09:10.690 you either had to get in gear or get run over 00:09:10.690 --> 00:09:14.950 and Nowadays, that's not as obvious as it once 00:09:14.950 --> 00:09:19.500 was And I think it's incredibly important that 00:09:19.500 --> 00:09:22.480 you, if you want to win, I think everybody wants 00:09:22.480 --> 00:09:24.019 to be rich. I've never met someone who wants 00:09:24.019 --> 00:09:26.539 to be poor. People who are poor want to be rich. 00:09:26.620 --> 00:09:30.399 People who are rich want to get richer. But people 00:09:30.399 --> 00:09:33.740 don't know what they're willing to give to get 00:09:33.740 --> 00:09:36.860 the life they want. And getting rich doesn't 00:09:36.860 --> 00:09:38.639 mean you're sitting on a hoard of money or diving 00:09:38.639 --> 00:09:42.169 into a pot of gold like Scrooge McDuck, it means 00:09:42.169 --> 00:09:44.370 that you have options in your life. Contrary 00:09:44.370 --> 00:09:47.049 to popular belief in what you'll hear on a lot 00:09:47.049 --> 00:09:51.730 of people's shows or in the media itself, being 00:09:51.730 --> 00:09:56.149 poor is not a virtue. I know it might be put 00:09:56.149 --> 00:09:59.750 that way in a lot of religions and a lot of political 00:09:59.750 --> 00:10:02.750 spectrums, but it's not true. In fact, I've met 00:10:02.750 --> 00:10:05.710 a lot more people who are poor, who are goddess, 00:10:06.490 --> 00:10:09.580 bums of the lowest order. Trying to steal from 00:10:09.580 --> 00:10:11.639 you every chance I got trying to lift your wallet 00:10:11.639 --> 00:10:13.340 out of your back pocket every time he turned 00:10:13.340 --> 00:10:15.899 your back And I know people who were rich who 00:10:15.899 --> 00:10:20.299 have helped build thousands of jobs Helped people 00:10:20.299 --> 00:10:22.700 pull themselves out of the cover and provided 00:10:22.700 --> 00:10:26.659 people with opportunity Now you're gonna find 00:10:26.659 --> 00:10:29.720 goniffs who are rich and you're gonna find gangsters 00:10:29.720 --> 00:10:33.059 who are poor you're gonna find everything because 00:10:33.059 --> 00:10:36.070 life is a spectrum yes, there's Black and white. 00:10:36.389 --> 00:10:38.629 I believe there are absolutes when it comes to 00:10:38.629 --> 00:10:41.809 good and evil Some things can never be good and 00:10:41.809 --> 00:10:45.610 some things can only be only be bad in the same 00:10:45.610 --> 00:10:51.110 notion that's not the majority the majority is 00:10:51.110 --> 00:10:53.990 Somewhere in between the two I just described 00:10:53.990 --> 00:10:55.570 some things will always be evil and some things 00:10:55.570 --> 00:10:59.269 will always be good and you need to find in between 00:10:59.269 --> 00:11:02.389 Where that gray area is that you live in and 00:11:02.389 --> 00:11:04.889 what you need to define your own moral code? 00:11:05.120 --> 00:11:08.360 The reason I say that is because a part of my 00:11:08.360 --> 00:11:10.519 philosophy in biblical bachelor is you have to 00:11:10.519 --> 00:11:14.740 define Who you are to then define who you want 00:11:14.740 --> 00:11:19.340 to become? You can't become something else if 00:11:19.340 --> 00:11:21.940 you don't know what you currently are Because 00:11:21.940 --> 00:11:24.100 you don't know what changes you'll have to make 00:11:24.100 --> 00:11:27.019 in the same way that a doctor Can't diagnose 00:11:27.019 --> 00:11:29.019 you unless they know what the problem is and 00:11:29.019 --> 00:11:30.860 then therefore know how to treat the problem 00:11:30.860 --> 00:11:34.509 They need to know you have a problem You can't 00:11:34.509 --> 00:11:37.409 just say I want to be an astronaut, but you don't 00:11:37.409 --> 00:11:39.210 know what you're doing right now You don't know 00:11:39.210 --> 00:11:40.610 where you're going with your life. You don't 00:11:40.610 --> 00:11:43.190 know anything other than what you want It's a 00:11:43.190 --> 00:11:47.250 good starting point, but you need to know You 00:11:47.250 --> 00:11:49.610 need to have a general idea of who you currently 00:11:49.610 --> 00:11:53.669 are to then know what you need to change or give 00:11:53.669 --> 00:11:58.169 up To get where you want to go. Otherwise you're 00:11:58.120 --> 00:12:00.340 you're going to try to refix things that don't 00:12:00.340 --> 00:12:02.580 need to be fixed or you're going to avoid things 00:12:02.580 --> 00:12:05.259 that maybe you should have paid better attention 00:12:05.259 --> 00:12:12.419 to. Oh, let me get a drink real quick. Also, 00:12:12.419 --> 00:12:14.019 you need to take your nutrition seriously. I'm 00:12:14.019 --> 00:12:18.159 sitting here getting a smoothie. It's actually 00:12:18.159 --> 00:12:20.179 very important. Your nutrition is incredibly 00:12:20.179 --> 00:12:22.000 important. I don't understand how people can 00:12:22.000 --> 00:12:25.129 eat. Lot of the crap they eat today you ever 00:12:25.129 --> 00:12:27.210 go whether it's you're walking or you're driving 00:12:27.210 --> 00:12:30.789 you ever go down the street And they see people 00:12:30.789 --> 00:12:33.129 who are just they look they're fat as horses 00:12:33.129 --> 00:12:35.029 They're out here looking like they should have 00:12:35.029 --> 00:12:37.850 their own gravitational pull and you ask yourself 00:12:37.850 --> 00:12:40.149 you scratch your head How do they get like how 00:12:40.149 --> 00:12:42.470 do they allow themselves to be complete pigs 00:12:42.470 --> 00:12:49.129 like this? Forget the the so -called beauty standards 00:12:49.389 --> 00:12:52.850 Focus more on how can you not like yourself to 00:12:52.850 --> 00:12:54.950 the extent that you're slowly killing yourself 00:12:54.950 --> 00:12:57.750 with food? Because what you're doing, I don't 00:12:57.750 --> 00:12:59.789 care what you say. I care about what I'm seeing 00:12:59.789 --> 00:13:02.649 with my own eyes. My eyes aren't lying to me 00:13:02.649 --> 00:13:04.669 just as your ears aren't lying to you when you 00:13:04.669 --> 00:13:08.669 hear me say it. I don't understand people who 00:13:08.669 --> 00:13:12.230 don't take their health seriously. No, I'm not 00:13:12.230 --> 00:13:14.960 saying a dude who looks like. Arnold Schwarzenegger 00:13:14.960 --> 00:13:17.440 who goes to your gym is healthy for all I know 00:13:17.440 --> 00:13:19.899 he's taking hella gear He's taking tests and 00:13:19.899 --> 00:13:22.600 trend and he's blowing out his liver his kidneys 00:13:22.600 --> 00:13:25.419 and he's killing himself. That's not healthy 00:13:25.419 --> 00:13:30.679 You need to find again I'm gonna refer back to 00:13:30.679 --> 00:13:33.559 what I just said You have to define what you 00:13:33.559 --> 00:13:35.759 want and where you are to get where to where 00:13:35.759 --> 00:13:38.279 you want to go That's how change is cultivated 00:13:38.279 --> 00:13:42.750 change happens whether you like it or not Change 00:13:42.750 --> 00:13:45.409 is gonna find you your life will not stay the 00:13:45.409 --> 00:13:48.129 same in fact. You shouldn't want your life to 00:13:48.129 --> 00:13:51.850 stay the same Yes, I said it you shouldn't want 00:13:51.850 --> 00:13:53.909 your life to stay where it is right now because 00:13:53.909 --> 00:13:56.830 then you're not gonna grow as a person I never 00:13:56.830 --> 00:13:58.950 understood these guys who like wear these their 00:13:58.950 --> 00:14:01.389 baseball caps backwards, and they're like 37 00:14:01.389 --> 00:14:05.149 38 and They look like they try to dress like 00:14:05.149 --> 00:14:08.649 they're younger than me and I'm 25 Trying to 00:14:08.649 --> 00:14:10.970 act like they should be back in college. I don't 00:14:10.970 --> 00:14:16.120 get it It's sick It's sick. They're walking around 00:14:16.120 --> 00:14:18.299 in the midlife crisis But instead of accepting 00:14:18.299 --> 00:14:21.419 who they are and trying to maybe go maybe they 00:14:21.419 --> 00:14:24.379 need maybe they need HRT Maybe they need to get 00:14:24.379 --> 00:14:26.340 their stuff back in the gym. Maybe they need 00:14:26.340 --> 00:14:28.159 to go see a doctor and make sure whatever it 00:14:28.159 --> 00:14:33.299 is Why are they focused more on? The circumstantial 00:14:33.299 --> 00:14:36.019 they're not focused on the long term, which is 00:14:36.019 --> 00:14:38.259 why I think it's important you take care of yourself 00:14:38.379 --> 00:14:41.299 Don't cheap out on yourself. You should always 00:14:41.299 --> 00:14:43.320 want to invest in yourself. That's my opinion. 00:14:44.980 --> 00:14:48.480 I Don't understand people who will cheap out 00:14:48.480 --> 00:14:50.600 on themselves, but buy nice things for other 00:14:50.600 --> 00:14:54.080 people I don't get that that can someone explain 00:14:54.080 --> 00:14:57.659 that to me Why would you cheap out on yourself 00:14:57.659 --> 00:15:00.200 buy nice things for other people? It's one thing 00:15:00.200 --> 00:15:03.019 to do treat yourself. Well and treat others well 00:15:03.019 --> 00:15:05.759 But why in the world would you treat yourself 00:15:05.759 --> 00:15:07.929 like crap? all the while you're doing all these 00:15:07.929 --> 00:15:09.750 nice things for people. Let's say I know people 00:15:09.750 --> 00:15:12.789 and I know people and you know who you are if 00:15:12.789 --> 00:15:15.850 you know me in real life. I know people who will 00:15:15.850 --> 00:15:18.830 buy a nice steak dinner for them for their wife 00:15:18.830 --> 00:15:21.289 or their girlfriend or a girl they want to get 00:15:21.289 --> 00:15:24.070 with. They won't take themselves to that steakhouse. 00:15:25.070 --> 00:15:27.570 They won't take themselves out to do something 00:15:27.570 --> 00:15:30.029 nice, but they'll do it for a woman. They'll 00:15:30.029 --> 00:15:32.149 do it for their parents. They'll do it for somebody 00:15:32.149 --> 00:15:33.990 else. They won't do it for themselves, though. 00:15:35.980 --> 00:15:38.879 And I think it's incredibly sad when I see it. 00:15:38.960 --> 00:15:42.159 And so when we talk about people, especially 00:15:42.159 --> 00:15:44.139 men, because I'm a man, I speak from the male 00:15:44.139 --> 00:15:50.279 perspective, we all too often focus on the cosmic. 00:15:50.659 --> 00:15:54.500 We focus on things that we we feel like passengers 00:15:54.500 --> 00:15:57.980 in the in the car of life. Like we don't have 00:15:57.980 --> 00:16:00.779 the ability to control our lives. I felt like 00:16:00.779 --> 00:16:03.379 that, especially recently, my job. Oh, yeah. 00:16:03.799 --> 00:16:06.000 Oh, yeah. I don't. treat y 'all like you're my 00:16:06.000 --> 00:16:07.700 therapist and I'm sitting on a couch talking 00:16:07.700 --> 00:16:09.720 to you about all my life problems. I'm not that 00:16:09.720 --> 00:16:13.899 kind of content creator. But make no mistake, 00:16:13.919 --> 00:16:17.440 my life's not perfect. Not by any stretch of 00:16:17.440 --> 00:16:19.059 the imagination. So if you're going through hard 00:16:19.059 --> 00:16:21.360 times in your life right now, I don't care if 00:16:21.360 --> 00:16:23.500 your girlfriend, you know, problems with your 00:16:23.500 --> 00:16:26.519 wife, your girlfriend or your professional life's 00:16:26.519 --> 00:16:28.740 having a turn or your life not looking the way 00:16:28.740 --> 00:16:31.460 you like. You're not alone, sir. Not by any stretch 00:16:31.460 --> 00:16:34.279 of the imagination. Let me tell you. You know, 00:16:35.600 --> 00:16:38.279 Social media is one of the things I hate especially 00:16:38.279 --> 00:16:41.600 about Instagram is this idea that you look at 00:16:41.600 --> 00:16:43.879 everybody living their best life. You think everybody's 00:16:43.879 --> 00:16:45.740 happy and you're not. You're the only one that's 00:16:45.740 --> 00:16:48.820 miserable. You're the only one feeling life's 00:16:48.820 --> 00:16:51.940 burdens and know what else is. It's it's not 00:16:51.940 --> 00:16:55.379 true. It's not true. In fact, it's actually the 00:16:55.379 --> 00:16:58.000 opposite. I found the people who are talking 00:16:58.000 --> 00:17:00.580 all the time about, oh, I went to this place. 00:17:00.639 --> 00:17:03.200 I met these people. I saw this celebrity in Beverly 00:17:03.200 --> 00:17:06.619 Hills. I'm going to Europe next month. Like they're 00:17:06.619 --> 00:17:11.779 the most miserable people on earth. I mean, maybe 00:17:11.779 --> 00:17:13.779 it's not new and you will fit in that category, 00:17:13.779 --> 00:17:16.779 but I'll tell you all too often. I hear people 00:17:16.779 --> 00:17:19.640 going through that. They are the most miserable 00:17:19.640 --> 00:17:23.079 people on earth because they're trying to find 00:17:23.079 --> 00:17:26.720 happiness somewhere. I think happiness is going 00:17:26.720 --> 00:17:30.240 to Rome or meeting some means some Vimbo in Europe. 00:17:30.359 --> 00:17:33.460 they think that happiness is to be found somewhere 00:17:33.460 --> 00:17:37.640 else doing something else doing somebody else 00:17:37.640 --> 00:17:39.119 they think that's where they're going to find 00:17:39.119 --> 00:17:42.740 their happiness from it's just not true they're 00:17:42.740 --> 00:17:45.319 trying to escape the fact they're not happy by 00:17:45.319 --> 00:17:48.819 going somewhere else meaning somebody else doing 00:17:48.819 --> 00:17:50.859 something else professionally they think it's 00:17:50.859 --> 00:17:53.119 gonna make them happy but the answer is it won't 00:17:55.289 --> 00:17:57.369 Happiness is fleeting, by the way. You should 00:17:57.369 --> 00:17:59.190 never want to focus and never live your life 00:17:59.190 --> 00:18:03.049 based off of happiness. That's my opinion. People 00:18:03.049 --> 00:18:05.849 who chase happiness are the most miserable SOBs 00:18:05.849 --> 00:18:07.990 on the planet. They're the people who do drugs 00:18:07.990 --> 00:18:12.730 and die of a heroin overdose at age 26. Just 00:18:12.730 --> 00:18:15.450 look at all the people on Hollywood. You'd think 00:18:15.450 --> 00:18:17.269 they'd be the happiest people on earth when they're 00:18:17.269 --> 00:18:19.970 making all this money. Knowing all these amazing 00:18:19.970 --> 00:18:22.410 people going to all these fun parties having 00:18:22.410 --> 00:18:24.970 all these nice houses and cars when yeah, they 00:18:24.970 --> 00:18:30.170 they overdose on heroin How do you explain that 00:18:30.170 --> 00:18:32.130 how do you explain the guy in the gutter who's 00:18:32.130 --> 00:18:37.269 homeless is Not overdosing on heroin. Meanwhile, 00:18:37.269 --> 00:18:39.069 the guy who makes a hundred million dollars a 00:18:39.069 --> 00:18:44.450 year and is on top of his game dies of meth at 00:18:44.450 --> 00:18:48.609 a drug party in Beverly Hills, I Don't know Other 00:18:48.609 --> 00:18:51.150 than the fact that everybody's trying to be happy 00:18:51.150 --> 00:18:56.109 and instead of focusing on being fulfilled They're 00:18:56.109 --> 00:18:59.690 focused on filling themselves with garbage filling 00:18:59.690 --> 00:19:02.650 themselves with wealth Filling themselves with 00:19:02.650 --> 00:19:05.170 something that's going to fill the void in their 00:19:05.170 --> 00:19:09.130 soul For some people they find that in religion 00:19:09.130 --> 00:19:12.849 I Think religion is incredibly important. It's 00:19:12.849 --> 00:19:15.890 pivotal to my life, but I don't find my happiness 00:19:15.890 --> 00:19:21.950 in prayer Although I salute you if you do I don't 00:19:21.950 --> 00:19:24.589 I Think it's a piece to the puzzle. I don't think 00:19:24.589 --> 00:19:29.450 it is a puzzle in the same way that people try 00:19:29.450 --> 00:19:32.990 to find it in Having tons of sexual conquests 00:19:32.990 --> 00:19:35.970 or having the dream body through drugs or do 00:19:35.970 --> 00:19:38.430 intense dieting plans and make them miserable 00:19:38.430 --> 00:19:44.289 in their own life my friends You have to realize 00:19:44.289 --> 00:19:46.720 what matters to you You have to ask yourself 00:19:46.720 --> 00:19:48.519 if you don't know the answer, you got to ask 00:19:48.519 --> 00:19:50.539 that question and you got to find an answer. 00:19:51.440 --> 00:19:53.500 Because too many of us, we don't know what we're 00:19:53.500 --> 00:19:55.920 living our lives for. We only know what we don't 00:19:55.920 --> 00:19:57.980 like and what we would change about what we see 00:19:57.980 --> 00:20:01.700 around us. And I think living that way is a recipe 00:20:01.700 --> 00:20:06.859 for being unhappy, not for being fulfilled. I 00:20:06.859 --> 00:20:08.720 live my life to be fulfilled at the end of my 00:20:08.720 --> 00:20:10.359 life. And I look back and I look at what I've 00:20:10.359 --> 00:20:12.960 built, who's beside me. And I think to myself, 00:20:13.240 --> 00:20:16.940 that's what I want. Now do I indulge here and 00:20:16.940 --> 00:20:18.359 there and do things that make me feel good in 00:20:18.359 --> 00:20:20.059 the moment? Of course, I do. I'm a human being 00:20:20.059 --> 00:20:24.440 too. But I'm willing to forego immediate gratification 00:20:24.440 --> 00:20:29.079 in every single situation to go in the larger 00:20:29.079 --> 00:20:32.839 picture because that is what matters. That to 00:20:32.839 --> 00:20:37.480 me is worth it. But is it worth it for you? That's 00:20:37.480 --> 00:20:39.720 the question you have to ask yourself Are you 00:20:39.720 --> 00:20:41.920 willing to give up things to get things down 00:20:41.920 --> 00:20:44.079 the line? In the same way that you're not going 00:20:44.079 --> 00:20:46.079 to show up in a field and have it be full of 00:20:46.079 --> 00:20:48.940 grain You have to plant the seeds. You have to 00:20:48.940 --> 00:20:52.619 be willing to give Give to the earth to get something 00:20:52.619 --> 00:20:55.319 back. You have to give to yourself to get something 00:20:55.319 --> 00:20:58.980 back Otherwise you risk something like a moron 00:20:58.980 --> 00:21:02.539 who says to a furnace give me heat and then I'll 00:21:02.539 --> 00:21:05.630 give you the wood It doesn't work that way in 00:21:05.630 --> 00:21:09.410 life not in by any stretch In the same way that 00:21:09.410 --> 00:21:12.230 you my friend listening to the show you have 00:21:12.230 --> 00:21:16.049 to decide what you want in your life But please 00:21:16.049 --> 00:21:19.430 do not be like that schmuck I saw on on Twitter 00:21:19.430 --> 00:21:23.410 today that this big buff black guy is doing this 00:21:23.410 --> 00:21:25.990 big Trending thing where he's like dunking his 00:21:25.990 --> 00:21:30.640 head in ice water that moron You know that like 00:21:30.640 --> 00:21:32.960 that's how they torture people in China. I know 00:21:32.960 --> 00:21:36.240 they tortured Jews in the Holocaust That's what 00:21:36.240 --> 00:21:38.359 I used to torture people But now we use here 00:21:38.359 --> 00:21:40.500 doing it unto himself and pretending like it's 00:21:40.500 --> 00:21:43.000 some helpful thing to shock your nervous system 00:21:43.000 --> 00:21:45.140 like that and that five o 'clock in the morning 00:21:45.140 --> 00:21:49.119 I Think he's a moron personally Moron with good 00:21:49.119 --> 00:21:51.700 abs that probably got etched out. But hey, yeah, 00:21:51.700 --> 00:21:56.259 he's still an idiot in my opinion anyway My friends 00:21:56.259 --> 00:21:58.220 all about what you want. What do you want to 00:21:58.220 --> 00:22:00.960 give? To get what you want because everybody 00:22:00.960 --> 00:22:04.519 wants something but everybody is willing to give 00:22:04.519 --> 00:22:07.900 Something for what they want and you have to 00:22:07.900 --> 00:22:10.079 decide that you're not gonna get what you want 00:22:10.079 --> 00:22:12.339 Unless you're willing to give up something else 00:22:12.339 --> 00:22:16.200 To get what you want get to lose what you have 00:22:16.200 --> 00:22:20.500 My friends let me know how have you given in 00:22:20.500 --> 00:22:23.160 life and how have you received a return on that 00:22:23.160 --> 00:22:26.140 investment? I'd love to hear it My friends, I'm 00:22:26.140 --> 00:22:28.700 gonna head out of here I will enjoy the rest 00:22:28.700 --> 00:22:32.079 of my day off on Sunday. You do the same thing, 00:22:32.619 --> 00:22:34.480 and I will catch you on the flip side. I'm out 00:22:34.480 --> 00:22:35.180 of here. Peace.