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life. Hello, everybody, and welcome. You're listening
to Soul Decodes, episode 61. It's a gorgeous
day. And here in Central Florida, we're in the
Treehouse on Phillips Island, Treehouse Studio.
I'm with the amazing Sarah Tirri. Oh, God,
that's good. Yeah, you are amazing. And you're
fun, and it's always good to see you. What's
on your mind today? Well, so some shit went down
on Tuesday at my house, so I want to talk about
that. I want to explore it. And, okay, so...
I put, my husband had put the garbage cans out
and he'd left the house. So they're down at the
street, right? So we have three garbage cans,
two are recycling, one's garbage. And it's about
a thousand feet from the house, the gates. So
I was walking around my house on a Tuesday morning
and I looked down at the road and it just looks
like the just worst mess you could ever possibly
see, right? So I get in the truck and I go down
there. And the garbage is everywhere. literally
everywhere and we'd unpack something that had
a lot of styrofoam sheets of it and then that
had been put in and that was everywhere and then
I had about 400 pages I didn't want to archive
anymore so I just threw them in the garbage can
but they weren't they weren't together so there's
400 pages of a manuscript all over the place
there were four or five garbage cans that had
one had a chicken carcass in it and then one
has some steak scraps and they were just everywhere
all over the place and I am just I couldn't believe
it right and I was actually about to exercise
so I have to turn my reaction into something
positive because I don't want to be reactionary
by adding to that so I thought okay well at least
it's 75 degrees and it's nice and breezy Could
be worse. I could have been on the turnpike with
a blown out tyre. That would have been worse.
So I go into my comparisons and I'm going to
be picking up a lot of fucking garbage. So my
hamstrings are going to get a good workout. So
I prepped myself and I had a drink with me, which
was good. So I started to pick up this garbage
and this truck pulled up. And he got out and
he said, could I help you? And I just was instinctively,
oh, no, no, I've got it. It's fine. And I had
my system of what I wanted to do. And he said,
no, let me help you. And I said, no, I said,
I've really got it. And I really appreciate you
pulling over. It's really, really nice of you.
And he said, oh, raccoons, huh? And that's what
I had assumed. This was raccoons that got inside
the garbage can. And then I turned around to
pick something up. And he has a raccoon in a
cage in his truck. And then he brings it around
to the back of his truck. truck and he puts it
down and he said yeah he said this is what I
do for a living and he captures raccoons and
I said to him what do you do with the raccoons
and he said I set them free on my friend's property
down on 33 and I thought that was nice that you
set them free that you're not shooting them and
then I walked up to this raccoon and it just
sort of looked at me and I just thought that's
weird like if you'd have just caught this he'd
be much more afraid of me so and I said and then
he gave me his business card and then I picked
up all the garbage and I went back and I thought
have I just been set up so I called my husband
and I explained what I just explained to you
and my mind went there and I thought you're just
being paranoid Sarah but his went there too as
this guy is responsible for this and what he
wants to do is secure a contract to keep my garbage
can safe from raccoons and that he was responsible
for doing it so that was the story and they're
the two points of view either it was just he
happened to be in the right place at the right
time with a raccoon and um so i just this is
how i'm so let's go into the metaphysics of that
but what i've decided to do now is use the dump
so we have a transfer station which is three
miles down the road monday wednesday and friday
i'm not even going to use my garbage cans anymore
because i just don't want to deal with that and
i'll just you know take the garbage to the transfer
station so i don't know there was um That was
my Tuesday. What a happy day. Funny day. It does
sound kind of... It does kind of sound suspicious.
Just so you know, the transfer stations open
Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. Actually, it's
Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday. I just don't want
you to know. No, is it? Yeah, I don't want you
to go on the wrong day. It's like, damn it, they're
always closed. Yeah, no, I would check the dates
because they changed them recently. Now, let's
go into a thought experiment that I was set up.
OK, let's just go back. Let's give him his innocence.
He just happened to be a really good gentleman
passing by, taking care of raccoons and totally
benevolent. So. what of doing that for a living
I mean your base and he said to me he said oh
you've just moved in haven't you and I don't
usually give my business away but I moved out
for a year to the lake and we renovated the house
and I said oh nice I've been here for 30 years
he said because you've painted the house white
what of someone setting a business up like that
that they're now he he was willing to help me
pick it up which I thought was interesting he
would have been willing to help me do that so
he did have some conscience So this is the...
I mean, what a way to make... We've talked about
this multiple times. This is episode 61. I've
probably brought it up like four times. The Hegelian
dialectic. Hegelian dialectic. Problem, reaction,
solution. So the question becomes... There it
is. Yeah. Let's create a problem. Let's get you
to react to it. Yes. And let me give you a solution.
Yeah. But this is what happens. There it is.
Look, the Federal Reserve does it. Your politicians
do it. The school district does it. Everybody
in the world does this. But I'm not saying that
that's the case. No, but the thought experiment
was, we're just saying if that was a dastardly
act, that's what it represents. I mean, he could
have been a nice guy. Who knows? So, I mean,
that's a pretty synthetic way of creating business.
Yeah. From an entrepreneur standpoint, which
I teach entrepreneurs. It's pretty genius. Well,
it's actually kind of dastardly. It's dastardly.
It's dastardly. But effective though, because
if he just thinks I'm going to believe that he
was very polite, very nice, offered his help.
They always are. The government's biggest thing
is we're here to help you. Yeah. We're going
to create a big problem. Now, metaphysically.
But I'm talking about government, but you're
talking about metaphysically. Well, let's go
into that. So you've now. being a horrible person
and i consider you my enemy i'm not talking about
i hate you or anything but i didn't you have
just come to my house disturbed something in
order to extract money from well i mean right
that's pretty fucking shitty well i mean that
isn't going to be good for him and i would love
to say that there's nothing good's going to come
out of you doing this i mean this is really careful
about that i mean you're going right down to
the the philosophical root of life itself are
we here to Are we here to establish your clear
karma from the past or make sure we have clear
karma for the future? Could it be my karma metaphysically,
right? I was thinking about that. You've got
all this trash. I mean, you could make an argument.
You could do, and I do all the time. You could
make an argument that you summoned him into your
world, that you actually created that situation
just for yourself. I might have created it for
myself, and if the reason I've done that is because
of this, what's it called, heglectic argument?
It's called the hegalion. Hegalion. Hegelian
dialectic. Yeah. Hegelian dialectic. But that
was an example of that, if I'm right about it.
Right. So as an entrepreneur, what we do is we
identify problems. We don't create them. That's
the issue, isn't it? It's the creating it. A
true entrepreneur doesn't create the problem.
But I will tell you, this is interesting, because
I go to this thing once in a while, it's called
A Million Cups. And it's a Wednesday morning.
It's a meeting of entrepreneurs, helping entrepreneurs.
I talked to you about it. Why cops? Cups. C -U
-P -S. Oh, cups. Okay. Helping each other, your
cups run over. That makes more sense, yeah. I
don't know what the genesis of the organization.
I don't know anything about it. Sounds very tarot
with cups. They invite me to come and participate
because I'm an entrepreneur and I know about
technology and stuff. Whenever I'm able, I go
and I participate. And they're good people. I
like to help out. Sometimes it's a sales pitch.
We talked about that. But this last time, this
guy came up and he's just some CPA. He works
in Orlando. He's got this business idea. And
pretty much everybody in the room was like, after,
you know, he talked for like, he gave his pitch
and what his problem is that he's trying to solve.
And the whole room's looking at each other like,
what? I don't understand what problem you're
solving. Yes, that's an important one. He literally,
they went around and there's this one lady, she's
pretty bold. She's like... Okay, you've been
talking for 20 minutes and I'm still confused.
Yeah. What is the problem? What is the problem
you're trying to solve? Yeah. That other applications
or other programs or other... Or inferior. What
are you trying to solve that's not already solved?
Can't you just be selling a competitive model?
Well, you can. Yes. Which is going to be... All
of that will be solving. And the very first entrepreneur
to chime in with help, he said, listen... uh
can you refine for me the the unique proposal
like what is your unique marketing what's unique
about what you're doing and how you're doing
it or what you're doing like what is you you're
bringing to the market yes that is so compelling
and so unique that somebody's going to want to
buy your product yeah i mean that's it isn't
it and the guy couldn't answer it oh poor him
but but we went around the but he's just He's
not an entrepreneur. He's a CPA with an idea.
Yeah, he's in the wrong environment. And I even
tell you, so I was the last person to ask questions
because I like everybody else to ask their questions
because... Well, it all could be sewn up. That
way I can fill in the blanks. Like whatever's
not been asked, I can fill in the blanks. So
I always try to go last. I'm always the last
or second to last. But I introduced the idea
of Web3. You know, like everything you're doing...
The reason it doesn't work efficiently is it's
on Web 2 .0, which is the existing Internet,
but it could work. Now, go through why that's
inefficient again. It's inefficient because someone
can shut it down. Web 3 .0 allows you to not
be interfered with. So here's a couple. Web 3
.0 means different things to different people,
but for a layman's person, a layman's explanation,
the novel, novel, novel things about Web 3 .0
are, number one, It can be public or it can be
private. Number two, it blows a hole in the traditional
money -making rails. So traditionally, let's
just say you have podcasters. You can have a
subscription to the podcast where you pay a monthly
fee and you get the subscription. Or you can
have advertisers or commercials. All of those
suck. even on a good day or donations. Yeah.
Yeah. A donation is like, well, kind of, kind
of the same kind of money. It's a, yeah, whatever.
You just, you're pandering for money. So web
free gives people and I, uh, an opportunity to,
if you, if you and I make a 60, 60 minute podcast
and somebody wants to pay a half a penny or a
penny a minute, we can charge a penny a minute
commercial free. And all they do is just, Pay
as they go. No subscriptions, no advertising.
And if you have a 30 -minute drive to work and
a 30 -minute back, you listen to our one -hour
podcast, you give us 60 cents and we're done.
And it's a good podcast. No commercials, no subscriptions.
If you don't like it, don't listen to it again.
Right? There's no need. Yes, it's 60 cents of
entertainment for an hour. Right. Yeah. And it
can be a half a penny or a penny per minute.
It doesn't matter. It's some number. I'm just
using a penny. So that's another novel thing.
The third novel thing is that if you go on private
rails, the data is secure. It's private. So you
get away from all of the people. Like whenever
you use something with ChatGPT or any of these
AI models, and you send it off into the cloud,
You're giving the world... You're brainstorming
this novel idea. There's this really good idea
that you want to put out there. And it's now
out there. It's going to solve audio engineering
problems forever. Yeah. All right? So now you
have this audio engineer masterpiece. You're
putting it out there. And it's out there on the
cloud. And somebody else can pick it up. So how
does Web 3 .0 protect that? You can do it on
a private. You can do it on your private stuff.
So you can make your AI work on your own private
server. Right. So you can use AI technology on
your own private server. Oh, that's really interesting.
Yeah, I mean, they're all valid points, aren't
they? That's not necessarily unique to Web3,
but it's certainly someplace we're going. So
Web3 has to do with data privacy, with different
ways of making money. We talked about this with
Visa and MasterCard. If you go and you and I
go buy a cup of coffee and I swipe it and it's
15 bucks for our snack and coffee or whatever.
Visa, MasterCard, they're going to charge 2%,
whatever the number is. 2%. They didn't add any
value. The coffee doesn't taste any better. The
vendor didn't. Well, you've got the convenience
of being able to swipe a card and not carry cash.
We somehow can think that we're paying for the
convenience. We can also borrow that and pay
an interest rate. So we're using a loan service.
That's what we're paying that for. So watch what
Web 3 does. It's fine if I'm buying, you and
I have to spend $10 for a cup of coffee, right?
That's fine. They're going to get their... 2
% of $10? Yes. Okay, fine. But what if instead
of 2%, I swipe it and it's a tenth of a penny?
If you were a vendor, if you were a merchandiser,
if you were somebody selling something... You
wouldn't like it. Your profit's right down when
you do that. They're charging 2 % because it's
making them money. They're charging 2%. They're
skimming off of you as a provider. Well, they're
saying they're providing me with a service to
borrow money. But what if I can provide the same
service for a tenth of a penny? And then can
you lend these people the money? Can they use
this credit card and have $20 ,000? They can
use it however they want. So here's where we're
going. Let's just, like some of the new legislation
that's out, let's just pretend I've got a million.
See, I've got, let's just say that I've got a
million dollars in cryptocurrency right now,
right? And I've done smart investing and I've
got cryptocurrency as an example. Well, if I
have a million dollars there, but the balance
on my mortgage is $400 ,000. why shouldn't I
be able to take a loan against my own cryptocurrency,
be my own bank, instead of using a bank that
I'm paying interest to? Wow. Why don't I just
use, I don't need to get rid of my cryptocurrency.
I can take a loan for myself, pay off the mortgage,
and then pay myself back. I can be my own bank.
I've never even, it's just such a radical idea.
I can be more efficient. I don't need a bank
to get in my way. I don't need a government.
To get in my way. I don't need a politician to
get in my way. I need all you people to get out
of the way and let the entrepreneurs take over.
Because we're going to change the world. Good.
So these are things with Web3. So we stood up.
Yeah, we accept so much as being normal, don't
we? We just suck it up and this is such a great
idea as an alternative. But if you have a great
idea, like see an engine that runs on water.
You have an automobile engine that runs on water.
Don't tell chat BG to brainstorm it with you
and then send it up to the cloud. Or just look
at the history and find out who's done that in
the past. Yeah, who's plagiarized it. Who bought
the patent and stowed it in their basement so
you have to buy petroleum products. Yeah, greed
and power. It's mine, mine, mine. So we talked
to this Web3 guy and pretty much went around
the room, gave his ideas and stuff, and it was
just like, I'm sorry. your idea is not going
to work. I mean, that was the takeaway. Well,
he didn't really have an idea. He was just selling
another product. Well, in his mind, it was a
good idea. But when you bounce it off of... Small
business owners, entrepreneurs, creators, business
owners. So it's quite a brutal environment. I
mean, you actually should do that. It's like
being on Shark Tank, isn't it? Have you seen
that show? I've heard of it. I've seen it once
or twice. Yeah, and you've got billionaires saying
whether it's a good idea. It is quite brutal,
but it's also what you'd want to know. You don't
want to keep going with this idea if it's got
flaws that you haven't foreseen. Well, it's going
to save you a lot of time and effort and money.
Yes, exactly. But the takeaway was, you know,
we try to frame it up so it's very kind and gentle.
but also very truthful. It's like... Brutal.
It's like, Sarah, I love you. You're amazing,
but your breath... Your idea sucks. Your breath
smells like sewer water. It's like, you know,
it's like... Last night I went to an event. It
was a career day for a bunch of high schoolers.
There was a hundred high schoolers. It was pretty
fun. Not really fun for me, but fun for them.
It was a good experience. So right before the
event, we had just, they had some salad out there.
They had pizza and salad, so I'm not going to
eat their pizza. So I ate the salad. And so I
looked at my friend Banks and I looked and I'm
like, do I have stuff in my teeth? Because you
just eat a salad. You don't want to talk to a
hundred students. Yeah. You know, like a green
thing in your tooth. But we were there and it
was. You know, if you want to do that, get your,
go to your photographs and then reverse it and
you use it as a mirror. Oh, look at you. So that's
what you do. That becomes a mirror because you're
filming. You're not filming. It's just going
to be a photo and then you can see. So if you
don't have a mirror, you've got your phone. I
did not have a mirror. Note to self. Thank you.
So anyway, I don't know how we got onto the Million
Cups. We talked about Web3. We talked about Entrepreneur.
No, you're talking about the high school. The
high school. Well, that's where I left off, but
I don't know how we got into that because we
never know where we're going on this stuff. But
did we close off the previous subject we were
talking about? Well, that was about my raccoon
situation. I closed it off in my head. Okay.
Yeah. So we talked about Web3. We talked about
entrepreneurs. That was the thing. And he was
an entrepreneur, but he was causing the problem.
Yeah. So an entrepreneur that causes a problem,
that's a thief. That's a criminal. Yes, exactly.
That's a politician. I like the micro example
of that. I mean, it's funny. Well, there it is.
That's that's just if it's in politics at very
high level, that filters through and it came
down at a very local provincial level, doesn't
it? Doesn't it? Some hustlers up the road thinking
I can make some money out of this rich bitch
with a big house down the road. Well, I always
pay attention. It's like, how how close is he
and how much does he know where he knew that
you haven't been there? Yeah, well, he saw the
house being painted. He must be new in the area
because I've been in that house for 26 years.
You've never seen me before go in and out. So
he's new to town. Oh, OK, I got you. Him and
his new raccoon. Yeah, that was the part. This
raccoon is not behaving like it should. He's
a pet. He's a pet raccoon. And what a hustle.
I mean, in a way, I saw the poetry of it just
from a poetic standpoint. It's like, wow, you're
on a real hustle. You could do that. You could
go to all these big houses, come out. Now his
raccoon, if... If he was doing that, the raccoon
hadn't done it right. He's in his cage in the
car. So this guy's literally going through your
garbage can, going like that, putting little
holes in everything. You're going to go to the
local diner one day and you're going to go into
the diner and he's going to be sitting there
with his raccoon and they're going to have lunch
together. And you know what I'm going to do?
I'm going to pick his meatloaf up and I'm going
to stick it on his head. Well, I will say, if
you want to... Well, Tony said get cameras out
there, but I don't want to do that. I don't want
cameras at my house. I've never wanted that.
I mean, I might if I... Well, if they're facing
away from your house. Yeah, I could do that,
and that's probably the logic. And we do have
power down at the gate, or I could just take
the garbage to the transfer station. That is
where I'm immediately going. I don't want this
encounter with garbage and this guy anymore.
I don't want him doing that again to me in a
month. So I will call him because he gave me
his card. I just want him exit stage. left I
never want him around again yeah I mean if that
maybe is legit but I mean what if he's not what
if he's legit if he's a really good person then
there's no I was lovely to him I said thank you
for letting the wildlife free thank you for stopping
and picking up because at that point it wasn't
until I went to the post -mortem of it that my
mind even went to have I'd be so I was great
I was a great neighbor handled it well never
have to see you again there was nothing there's
no bad energy I just told him that he was marvelous
well I'm going to tell you where my mind went
was we don't even have problems with our trash
here because we don't have uh dead animal carcasses
in our trash i feed my dogs dead animals yeah
so it's like we don't have raccoon problems we
can let the neighbors have yeah there wouldn't
be any smell would there no there's no smell
yeah well we recycle all of our scraps well like
we'll go we can go like two or three weeks before
we have a full trash can yeah like we don't we
don't produce waste no like almost nothing guys
i produce so much of it I produce almost nothing.
Three full garbage cans a week. So last night
was interesting. About a week ago, I got a note
from a girl. She had reminded me that I said
I would support her with her career day. It was
just up in Tavares. Okay. Tavares. Tavares, I
call it, yeah. It was up in Tavares, and it was
just for like 100 teenagers. It really, you know,
when you do good things for other people, you
get good, you get returned back to you. Yes,
exactly. But the world is built like that. It
was just amazing. And the career day is talking
to them about what they might want to do for
a living or what they do want to do, giving them
options. What's the structure of a career day?
So the idea was that there was 12 professionals
from different career fields, whatever. And they
were there just to... It was like a speed dating.
It was like round robin where I'd have five students
for five minutes and then they'd ring a bell
and then they'd switch to the next table and
they would go around. It was like five or six
students and they would just switch, switch,
switch. And over the course of like an hour.
And what was your speciality? So they wanted
me to come and talk about holistic natural health,
be a holistic doctor. And I said, I love you.
I want to do that, but I don't. I don't want
to talk about holistic natural health. It's not
the right forum for it. I only do it, I only
do it, the holistic natural health stuff to help
people. And I do it for free because I love helping
people. Yeah, but this is career advice. This
is career advice. Yes, it's different. Yeah,
and I don't want to. I agree with you. I don't
want to put this idea in their head that this
is a good career because it's really not. Like
if I didn't, like I know how to pull it off,
but for a brand new kid out of school, that's
not something that. Yeah. I mean, we can talk
about it, but I'm not going to advocate it as
a career. So she said, well, what would you talk
about? I said, I mean, if I had to talk about
anything, it would be aviation. Yes, I was going
to ask that. Because aviation is like my thing.
I love it. I wake up every day. I think of every
time a helicopter flies by, I'm thinking about
it, right? Yeah. I know. But you didn't, you
made sure it was technology. So what I did was.
She reminded me that I committed to this and
I'm like, oh crap, I totally forgot. Got to get
a lesson plan together. So I, not only a lesson
plan, but she said, I'm going to have like an
eight foot table. I can put out anything. And
you've got to pick which area of expertise is,
where do I best apply it? So what I ended up
doing was I'm like, okay, there's, I've been
flying since 1981. I flew gliders and I've flown
helicopters and I've flown jets and I've done
all this stuff. So what I did was I. I dug into
my attic or my garage and I pulled out my flight
suit. Oh, you did it on aviation? My helmet,
which I realized I get emotional because my helmet
was issued to me almost exactly 40 years ago
because it was 1985. I had just graduated from
the Air Force Academy and went to flight school.
And right about this month, 40 years ago, I was
issued my helmet. I was like, what? This is crazy.
So I got a lot of hours under that thing. Yes,
God, so much experience. But it's in still good
shape. I cleaned it up a little bit. I put that
on display. I put my leather jacket. I wore my
flight suit. You wore it? Yeah. Oh, that was
pretty cool. I know, my military patches. You
really acted the part. My little name tag. That
was so cool. I had my flight scarf on. You know,
I had to play the part. And then I took my JetBlue
stuff, like the scarf, the JetBlue scarf and
the JetBlue, the little wings, you know, that
you put on your chest and stuff. The little stripes.
The little stripes, the four bar. Epileps. Yeah,
the four bar epaulets for captain. So I put those
there and then I put my little model of an airplane.
It was my, the airplane I was. It's like show
and tell at school. It was like show and tell,
but you know what? So the girl that invited me
there. Were you talking about flying or recommending
it for a living? What was your angle? So what
I did was I, thankfully the girl who invited
me there said, she said, just so you know, there's
a good chance the students are just going to
sit there and listen to you with a blank stare.
Like they don't, they're not going to synthesize
intelligent questions and talk to you. They're
just going to sit and listen. And absorb. Bend
tight. They may not ask. So you might want to
lead with something that's like, you know, ask
questions and stuff. I'm like, shoot, I can get
anybody to talk. So, I mean, even from being
friendly at the post office to interrogating
them about, you know, in a prisoner of war camp,
you know, I can get them to talk. So I sat down
at this table and I had everything out and they're
going around. So I was thinking, okay, how do
I get these kids to loosen up, right? Because
first of all, if you're coming and there's all
this military, aviation stuff, and I'm in a uniform,
and I'm tall, I'm powerful looking, and it's
like, yeah, that scares people. And these are
18 -year -olds. And these are just impressionable
18 -year -olds. So as soon as they sat down,
there's like five or six chairs in front of each
table. I said, lean in. lean in, lean in. And
they're all like, they did what you just did.
They opened up their eyes like, what, what? I
said, just so you know, you're at the cool table,
just telling you, you know. And it got them to
smile and laugh. And I said, hey, so the world
out there knows me as Dr. Phillips, but today
I'm Captain Phillips. And I want to talk to you
about how that came to be. But first, I wanted
to let you know, and I said, my friends call
me Tia Jolie, and I shook hands with all of them.
And they told me their names. And then I asked
each one of them. Five minutes is up at that
point. So I went one, two, three, four, five.
Beautiful name. Cool. Neat. I love your shirt.
Oh, chili peppers. So I just immediately made
rapport like within within a minute, 30 seconds,
minute rapport with all of them. And I said,
what do you all love to do? What brings you joy
and what brings you passion? so i'm not talking
about that's good that's a good question and
they you know they said this this there's a few
answers some of them were they quite spontaneous
with the answers they were actually very reserved
not many people have goals and dreams evidently
oh god that's it was really sad that part was
sad i found that to be very depressing very surprising
and sad yeah Like I would have thought one of
them would say, yeah, I'd be a scientist or veterinarian
or, you know. Yeah. None of them said politician.
Good. Yeah. But so we go around and she said
that, you know, I just talked to them and just
real briefly. And if one of them had a spark.
Like maybe one of them is an athlete. I'm going
to be an athlete. I'm a soccer player or whatever.
You were going to give to the one with energy.
Whatever. And you just got all these blank faces.
But this is a good thing. So I found out what
they love doing. And whether or not they said
anything that they loved, I said, well, listen,
when I was a child, my earliest memory was about
flying, specifically airplanes. And it brings
me joy and happiness. So I decided when I was
very young to do that. And something happened.
The world, everybody told me that. All that's
very difficult. Only a very small percentage
of people can do that. But you believed you could.
It's expensive. I have so many people tell me
that that's not doable. It's not possible. Only
one out of 20 ,000 people get to be an Air Force
pilot and all this. I got all of this pushback.
They were just trying to prepare you for disappointment.
It was just, yeah. And it's so sad. But in your
mind, it's like, no, fuck it, I can do this.
But I told them, I said. Whatever I said, if
you take nothing out, we're going to talk about
aviation here, but if you take nothing else,
if you want to do something, if you want to have
your own business, if you want to have a certain
career, do not let somebody tell you you can't
do it. If it's going to bring you joy and happiness
and you want to do it, go do it. And if it turns
out to be the wrong thing for you, you can change.
Go do something else. And if you want to do two
or three or four different things, you can do
it. Get started on something, get started, stay
started until you change your mind. And was there,
did you overshadow, overlay, believe in yourself
is what I get. Just believe in yourself that
you can do it. That's the thing. Yeah, and that's
a really tough thing to say because what does
that even mean to believe in yourself? My dad
used to say to me, the world's your oyster and
you can do anything you put your mind to. And
he said that from a young age and I just believed
it. I just believed it. So I think that might
be something that parents would say, but I just
thought, well, why not? But from what you're
saying, now I just want to go, so these kids
are 18, right? Yeah, well, some of them were,
they were 10th, 11th and 12th grade. So 10th
grade would be like 15, 16, I guess. OK, well,
that's... But, you know, mid to late teens. So
let's go back, what you call the scandemic. Let's
go back five years. And then we have this pandemic
and then they are alienated from people around
them. They have to be behind a screen. It's all
just really freaked out. Everyone's freaked out.
Yeah, it's a tragedy. And there's something that
might have... Because it's really shocking and
disappointing that you've got such mute people.
I mean, at that point, you should be asking a
lot of questions. I mean, I should be wanting
to settle you down to some degree if I'm in authority.
But they didn't have any idea or didn't even
sound like they had many social skills. And was
that something that was robbed from them because
of something? I think you're right. Sarah, that's
a really good insight. In fact, this morning
I told Robin because she, you know, I got back
a little later and we didn't talk about it last
night. She was tired. So we just talked about
it this morning. She reminded us, when we were
children, when there was a career day, say in
middle school there was a career day or something,
and somebody was talking, maybe there's a firefighter
or a veterinarian or something. Somebody was
doing something, right? Those tables were swarmed.
I mean, we as students, if there was somebody,
there was a professional doing something, we
were... Wanted to know. Even if it was a heavy
equipment operator. The guy was swarming with
kids. Well, it was a novelty. There's something
going on that I want to know about or I'm interested
in. So I think it's a very fascinating thing
that, you know, in a matter of just a couple
of generations, we've gone from swarming, asking
about careers, asking questions to... To sitting
there quite limply. Like almost just despondent.
Despondent, that's right. That's kind of how
it sounds at its best. But the good news is out
of a hundred... So my message was this. I would
basically go through and I'd say... Don't let
anyone tell you you can't do it. My family was
pretty broke. I mean, we didn't have money, but
I had this goal, this dream, and I found a way
to do it. And you can do it too, whatever you
want to do, whether it's aviation or something
else. Now, let me tell you about aviation. Then
I go in and talk to them about the fact that
I went to school with the Air Force Academy,
went to flight school, and I showed pictures.
I took the pictures off my wall. I showed them,
this is the airplane. This is my first choice,
which is a C -141. It's called a Starlifter.
When you turn on the news and the president's
in South America and there's the limousines and
Secret Service people, somebody had to get them
there, and that was us. And if you see troops
getting dropped out of an airplane, that was
us. And if you see... Americans in another country
that need to be swapped out of the embassy. And
that was us. So I've been to 50 countries. And
if you want to travel, that's a great way to
do it because you get paid to go see the world.
So you'd also set the bar real high for what
you can get from life. You don't have a measly
little idea. Think big. This is what it could
be. I wanted to build a dream because if they're
sitting there despondent across from me, there's
a chance for me to influence. Yes. It's not about
aviation. It's about the idea of opening your
mind up to dreaming again. Yes, exactly. Because
as a child, you dream. But now as a teenager,
have you been beaten up that much? So I don't
know. So then I went from there. I went to, I
said, after flying around the world to 50 countries,
I started a family. I wanted to be home. So I
became an instructor and I showed them the T
-38. I said, the Thunderbirds that you see flying
the performance airplanes for the Thunderbirds
flying F -16, prior to that plane, this was the
plane they flew. And I was an instructor in this
for three years. And it was fun. It was supersonic.
And it was a really good experience. And if you
want to do this, I'm not sure they fly this particular
plane anymore. But if you want to fly, if you're
a college graduate, you can do this. So I was
just trying to get that. Well, you're just trying
to tell them something they might not have thought
of. That was unavailable conceptually, and now
you've made it available. But that doesn't have
to be AVA. It could be anything large in whatever.
That's nice. And then I transitioned. I said,
after the Air Force, I was unemployed with kids.
I had a family, so I didn't have income. But
I needed to solve the problem, so I got some
jobs until I could find another plane to fly.
And this is the plane I flew, and I showed them
the corporate airplane, the 400XP. And I said,
I actually became an instructor and an examiner
pilot in this plane. And then I got found by
a company called JetBlue. And if I want to go
fly airplanes, I can go back now and fly for
JetBlue. And none of that impressed them. Like,
none of that impressed them. I'm like, okay.
I said, do any of you like to travel? One or
two hands. Where have you been? I said, if you
look to fly, if you don't want to fly the airplane
itself, there are other things you can do that
are tangential to the aviation being a pilot.
The aviation career, if you like to work on electronics,
you can do that. work on uh customer service
flying waitress if you want that's what i did
i did i told her there was a flight attendant
um my girl my girlfriend lenka was in the table
behind me i said the girl in the green there
is a flight attendant into every cut yeah and
let me tell you about that yeah if you want so
did they respond more to the travel aspect because
they think something's out there and they're
furious about it that's they responded more To
the travel, instead of being in charge of the
airplane. And I think if you sit there and you're
talking about flying whatever you're, what's
the biggest, fastest plane that you flew for
the military? Not the biggest, the smallest.
Well, I flew an F -16. Okay, F -16. When they're
conceptualizing that in their head, they're not
even thinking that's remotely attainable to them.
You'd really have to give them the bit straight
because they might not have ever heard that.
But the traveling part is, and everyone wants
to travel. I actually couldn't, I wouldn't care
if I never left. the american continent again
because i've just i've just i'm not curious about
it anymore but i was and that's why i wanted
to do it so i recommend that you do it i love
what you said because i feel the same way i love
i love where i live yeah and there's the grand
canyon and there's oh there's yellowstone you
have everything here beaches yeah so um so they
all want to travel so i talked to travel and
some of the lights went on and then I said, and
we just talked real briefly about travel, and
this is chop, chop, chop, very quick, because
you only have like five or six minutes, right?
So then I said, do any of you like, so I rounded
out the career. I said, if you're good with people
and you like to solve problems, maybe it would
be customer service. If you work for an airline
and you want to work on engines or throw bags
or cut lines, whatever you want to do. Either
in the military or the airlines, you're probably
going to find something you can do. And no one
said, I want to be a firefighter. I even told
them that. I said, you can be a firefighter on
the airport. But no one had an idea. Or they
articulate. They didn't want to articulate. They
just wanted you to say what you were there to
say and they were just going to listen. I knew
what I wanted to do from age 12. And I knew when
I was a kid too. But I can't say no one because
there were some people that were outliers. There
were exceptions. Yes, of course. But it was pretty
rare. Now, what was cool was the thing that sparked
them was some of them were sparked by travel.
And then I said, how does traveling for free
sound? Because if you work, say you're a booking
agent for an airline. You get the discounts.
You can actually get discounted or free flying.
Like you and your spouse, your partner, you can
actually jump on an empty seat and go someplace,
right? And they're like, really? Now they're
starting. Yeah. And I said, do any of you like
to make money? Yes. And they're all like, yeah,
you know, they're all about money and travel.
All of them raise their hands for money. I mean,
basically it's leisure that they're working for,
isn't it? Money and travel. They don't actually
want a job. Well, I told you. They want what
the benefits of that gives them. It's interesting
you say that because the way I framed it up,
I said, well, so here's the thing. If you are
willing to work for it, if you're willing to
work for it, you can be a senior captain like
me and my peers. Where you get in there, you
work hard, you study, you work, you work, you
work. And the reward is... For a long time. For
a long time. The reward is after 19 years with
this company, you can make, in my case, $365
an hour if that's what you want. And then there's
time and a half. So you can make over $500 an
hour. And their eyes were like this big. I said,
but what you have to hear is it requires work.
It requires dedication. It requires discipline.
So even if it's not this, you can do something
else. And in the case of being a pilot, you've
got to have a decent IQ. I mean, that's a lot
to freaking respect. So here's the punchline.
So the one hour, whatever, hour and a half passes.
The speed dating passes. And afterwards. there
were actually some people that doubled back to
my table, brought their parents with them, and
said, we want to know more about what you were
talking about. So they're the ones that you're
there to reach. Yes, that's great. Oh, that makes
me happy. I know, me too. Good. I was like, oh,
why? That's good. And interestingly, all of them
were girls. Oh. And the girl, they brought their
parents with them. One lady came back to me.
Her son's an instructor pilot up in Astatula
or something. It's north of here. Leesburg. Yeah,
somewhere up there. There's an airport in Leesburg.
Maybe it's there. Yeah, I don't know. She just
dropped me his card and dropped me their little
brochure. I don't think Astatula has an airport.
But it was fascinating because I thought, well,
that was a waste of time. I mean, I've... Yeah,
right there. I'm just talking... Yeah. And then
all of a sudden... I'm backing up and people
came. This is my dad. He owns three GNCs here
locally. This is my mom. She's a stay -at -home
mom and she's doing this. The connections we
made after the formal meeting was done and I
was packing up my table made it all worthwhile.
And worthwhile to the ones that didn't circle
back because you don't know what you've left
them with that they were lying in bed at night
thinking about, right? They could be Googling
something now. You could have inspired them.
So you've touched everyone and maybe you didn't
touch the ones that were really closed off. But
whatever that was, it was good for them. It got
them thinking. It got them to stir a bit of the
ambitious juices. What do you want from life?
Do you want to travel? Do you want to be rich?
What do you want? Well, what I told Robin was...
Probably not to work that hard. Yeah, right.
Well, I told Robin was to me, it was very fulfilling
to have those few people at the end double back
to me. But going into that experience, I wanted
to do for them what I wish somebody would have
done for me. Like I would have loved to have
met a pilot that was military, corporate and
airline. And, you know, who? who would just sit
there and answer my questions. I would have loved...
So you should consider doing that again. How
long was it? An hour and a half? An hour and
a half? And maybe what, 30 minutes there? So
it's like three hours of your life. But really
valuable. Yeah, it was about three or four hours,
yeah. Yeah. I mean, I would do it again. I told
the lady I would do it again, but... It's definitely
a service thing, but I think it's necessary.
But repeating myself. Well, then why don't you?
Why don't you do one aviation, one because of
your holistic medicine and your PhD and one and
then, and then do one about Web Point 3 and do
your techie side and vary it for you. Because
I was going to say, that's a lot to keep saying
over and over again, isn't it? That's what I
found tedious. And then you might deaden. But
you've got such vast, you're like a polymath.
You've got all these things. So change it up
for you. your message is still going to be the
same anyway the message is the same yeah you're
very perceptive because walking away from that
experience first of all it was i wanted to give
i mean you could talk about farming and agriculture
i know i wanted to give what i wanted when i
was a child so i wanted to be that person i wanted
to be that person that i wish i had 50 45 years
ago right so i did that i checked that box but
i appreciated having other people there like
um There was a farmer, Farmer Banks, I was just
talking about him. Yeah, I met him the other
night. Yeah, he was right behind me. And so he
was there talking about farming, which is good.
I think people need to talk about farming. Well,
they've got to have a kick in the ass because
you've got to choose something for yourself.
You're either going to go to university or AT
and you're going to get a job. I think that there's
this model in Europe, which is different from
America. And America, it was you work really
hard and you can have a few jobs. In Europe,
Western Europe particularly, is that you want
to have a 35 -hour work week, enough money to
pay your bills, and you want leisure time. And
I feel like that has affected the younger generation
more. They don't want to be just busting their
arse in a job that they fucking hate. They want
to extract something from life, which is travel,
learning, interacting with other people. people
and a decent life but the working your ass off
for it is like lost its lost its lustre so knowing
what you know now if you could just teach the
next generation like they're coming through high
school what advisement what would you What are
the core principles you would teach them? Well,
I would have to say that everything that you
conceive of, you can do in the quantum field.
So I'd come in with a metaphysical side. Do you
think that would blow them off? I don't know.
It depends. But I would have to teach them the
possibilities of your imagination. Lie in bed
at night and really imagine what you want to
do. And then you can research that. Or you could
just ask for inspiration and then see it in full
technicolor. Have that come alive in a vision.
And I would say then take the logical steps to
get to that. And it's totally doable. Yes, you
can. But don't have little thoughts about your
life. Don't be told, no, you can't do it. And
I would tell them to exercise your imagination
because it is possible. So there would always
be that metaphysical bent. But I believe that
is the structure of reality. But we're not told
to use our imaginations. We're not really taught
to dream big. Some people are. But generally,
because you're saying that you've got a load
of lackluster kids. who aren't really interested
in having a conversation or asking questions
about anything, maybe that's because they believe
they can't do it, that someone else can, but
it's not for them. And I would say it is for
you, but you've got to engage your mind. You've
got to engage your willpower to then take the
steps. For me, they were much easier than you.
I got a job with a commuter airline. I knew what
to say. I got the job. I went to British Airways.
It was the only year that didn't require you
to speak a foreign language. So I was very fortunate
about that. And I got my job. I knew what my
career path was and I had everything I wanted
at age 20. And I took the steps to do that. So
you have to take the steps. You've got to put
in the work. But think big. Have a big idea of
what you think you could do. And be an entrepreneur.
Why not? I mean, that to me, you don't want to
have to work for someone. You don't want to be
told what to do. You want to call the shots and
you do want to make money. I mean, without making
money, you're not going to understand how to
be happy anyway because money isn't going to
bring you happiness. It's just not going to happen.
So I would encourage a lot of youngsters. Yeah,
make money a focus, sure. So if you were to advise
a young entrepreneur today, what if somebody
came... I have a very big idea of what this world
is capable of delivering to you. What if somebody
came to you and said, I don't want to work for
somebody else and I don't want to go to college?
What advisement would you have for them? I would
have to, are you prepared to work hard? Are you
prepared to think outside the box? Do you believe
in yourself? Are you very capable? Because you're
going to have to put your money where your mouth
is. You're going to have to cause an income stream
for yourself. See, I would not even give them
advice. I would ask them questions because you've
got to believe in your abilities and you've got
to believe it's possible. You've got to believe
that you can achieve that. That has to be there.
But unless you understand the structure of reality
from a quantum metaphysical level, which is what
I talk about, and this is just an idea, but if
that's real, you can pretty much do anything.
You've got to surf right across to it. It's there.
It's already written into this program. We may
have talked about this previously, but there's
this dichotomy of thought that there's this idea
of freedom and equal opportunity. The idea of
equal opportunity has kind of been tainted and
the notion of what that represents, it's obfuscated.
Yeah, it's not an outcome though. No, but that's
the whole point is I think that there's a couple
of generations here that are expecting equal
outcomes. Right, there you go. And they see the
people with all this, maybe you're driving up
in your new vehicle and they think they deserve
that, but they've not done what you've done.
They've not. put forth the sacrifice, the studying,
the reading, the practicing, the failing. I mean,
you and I probably have failed more than most
people at things. I mean, I'm the biggest failure
I know. I mean, I've failed at so many things.
But learned invaluable lessons in order to not
fail. I mean, literally, I suck at growing food
in Florida. Growing food in Florida. I've failed.
I've killed so many plants. I should be put in
jail for all the murders I've done. But now you're
abundant though. But now I'm good at it. So it
was your failures that taught you how to succeed
because that's what you compare. That's your
comparison, isn't it? Yep. So I would say if
there was a brand new person that did, like if
there was a kid from high school and didn't know
what he was going to do or she was going to do,
I would say look around you and identify problems.
Yeah. Ask people what problems do they need solved.
Like that's a legitimate question. one of the
things that I see right now, like that's a turnkey
thing you could do is wash windows. How many
people do you know that are really good at washing
windows? How many people do you know that love
washing their own windows? I paid a thousand
bucks to have my windows. That's what I'm saying.
So you could have like with almost no money,
a ladder and a bucket, a ladder, a bucket, some
gloves, some basic stuff. You could go and just
go look. But wouldn't you then need to be bonded
and insured and licensed, though? Because if
you fell off a ladder, there is a process, but
you can still do that. So are you willing to
do what other people don't want to do? I mean,
there's always going to be the things you have
to do. In the Air Force, we had an adage, you
know, it's better to beg forgiveness than ask
permission. Yeah, so just, yeah. Let's just hope
it doesn't happen. If I go to your house with
my... And I fall off the ladder. I'm just leaving.
I'm not going to sue you. My bucket, my sponge,
and all this stuff, and I'm ready to wash your
windows, and you don't ask me, are you licensed
and bonded? If you don't ask me, and you're going
to pay me $500 cash for your house. Yeah, which
is how it always used to be. It always worked
like that. I would do it. I think the other thing
is I was motivated really early to work because
I had to, because my parents weren't going to
take care of me from age 17 or 16 to 17 right
over that Christmas. So I had to work. So I was
in a nursing home and I did a night shift. And
it was after Margaret Thatcher had... closed
all the state -run mental hospitals so all the
people that were in the state -run mental hospitals
had to be picked up by the private sector and
where I was in Brighton and Hove there were massive
Victorian houses with like eight bedrooms and
then you could set it up now a rest home was
different from a nursing home a nursing home
you had to have a registered nurse a rest home
you didn't so I at age 17 got this job it paid
really well at night and I'd have to give medicine
but all these people were slightly psychotic
I won't go into that now because I wrote that
in is this the i remember that but it was fucking
horrendous and then i had a job as a nanny and
then i got and so i kept working in order to
provide for myself so i was very motivated to
succeed because i didn't like doing me a new
work so i had to do that though to support myself
so with my children My son, my middle son, he
didn't leave home until he was 28. I made things
very comfortable for him and I was happy that
he could live at home. We had a big enough house.
He was in the guest house. We were all good.
But why I worked hard and succeeded in the way
that I wanted to, because I was forced to, because
I came from quite, that was a kind of a shitty
upbringing and my parents. But if you're a parent
with a child living at home and you're happy
for that and you're interacting and you love
it, that is, it's going to demotivate them to
some. degree but maybe that's not a bad thing
maybe just be at home and enjoy enjoy your family
you know I didn't have that so that's what motivated
me but I was willing to do dirty work but I knew
that I didn't want to do that forever because
I hated me in your work another person came to
my mind there's a girl named Sandy she's she's
probably 75 years old uh she she basically puts
out she's actually where you used to live uh
on the lake there Across the street, there's
a girl, there's a lady, there's a camper, and
every Sunday or every weekend, she'd put out
her little nursery. Oh, yes, I've seen her. I
bought some plants from her. Yeah, yeah, she's
so sweet. I only go there once in a while, but
if there's something specific I'm looking for,
I'll go there and check it out. But she, think
about her business. If you look what she's done,
it costs her basically nothing to operate that.
And when you just sit there for... Sit there
for 10 minutes and watch her take in handfuls
of cash. Really? Just cash. And you put a bunch
of seeds in these things and you grow these,
you spend. You're literally growing money and
she's getting a cash business every weekend.
So she's just got the little plastic pots which
are nothing. She's got some potting soil. You've
got to give it a couple of months. You've got
to nurture the water. But then you've got a product,
haven't you? Yeah, you've got tables. She's basically
got a bunch of tables. You could do bales of
hay if you needed to. And you sit there and you're
selling. It's a cash business. I'm telling you,
just watching her, she's probably making 500.
Good for her. 500 bucks a day, I'm going to say.
I bought geraniums from her once and they were
fantastic. You know, I went there, I bought like.
Because your last year, what you plant last year,
you might have to wait a year to get these big
abundant plants going, but then you've got the
cash crop the following year. So there's a little
bit of patience. So, I mean, I just bought like
maybe 10 plants from her and dropped like 30
bucks. Yeah. Right. That's just me buying just
a little thing. There's people buying trays of
stuff. Yes. So if that's 30 bucks and you scale
that up all day. I love it. You know, she's probably
pulling in. She's out there in the fresh air.
She's meeting people. She's not working for anyone.
Right. She's doing it all herself. She probably
loves gardening because a lot of people that
are doing that love it. I love it out there planting
seeds. But I'm just thinking, you know, if you're
going to be an entrepreneur and people are willing
to buy your stuff. Like right now, out front
there, there's this probably a quarter acre out
front that's. It looks like junk now, but it's
really a lot of native Florida flowers and plants
and stuff. Two years ago, one of my girlfriends
came and she wanted to grow some stuff. So I
gave her space and then she stopped wanting to
grow stuff because it's work. But the stuff we
put up there is growing and it's still abundant.
We have so many sweet potatoes that are volunteers
up there. I probably have. Three bushels of the
purple sweet potatoes. Are they ripe now? Pretty
soon they will. I mean, it's the end of the season.
But what I'm saying is I had zero... My investment
was two years ago helping her grow some stuff.
And now you've got all this. And now I've got
like... bushels of sweet potatoes all i gotta
do is pull them out of the ground and it's so
those things sell those will sell for five bucks
but you're you're a plant -based and they're
beautiful so you can put one in the oven that's
good food for you isn't it that was breakfast
the other day oh absolutely lovely because you
can just take one of those we cook them all at
once instead of heating the oven all the time
but you can put them over an open fire a campfire
and still just cook them you know very nutritious
so that's great but uh my point is for virtually
nothing when you go to like The store and buy
those, those are the purple, the Okinawan ones.
I think they're Okinawan. The purple on purple,
delicious. They don't need any sugar, no butter,
nothing. You just eat them like they are. They're
like five bucks each. And you could grow basically
an infinite amount in the ground. Just doing
that. I was driving to my son's house the other
day and I'm just coming down to the lake and
there's this kid and he's probably about 10 years
old and he's got a lemonade stand set up. And
he's sitting there and I really liked it because
he put himself under the oak tree. His parents'
house were behind and it looked really nice.
He decorated it with yellow as eye -catching.
But I don't want to drink lemonade that some
10 -year -olds made. So I just take a 20 bucks
and I give it to him because I really like the
fact. I've done the same thing. I really like
the fact that you're out there hustling. I've
done the same thing. He was so happy with the
20 bucks. And I really just appreciated his little
entrepreneur. Oh, I love you so much. I do the
same thing. I was like, listen, I'm pulling over
because I want to support you, but I don't want
the lemonade. So I'm going to give you this money.
And the next person that comes by. Give them
an extra one. Oh, that's nice. Just give them
the next one. Oh, I see. That's really sweet.
You're asking him to be generous as well. I want
to teach him to pay it forward. That's right.
It's like, I don't want it for me, but the next
person to come by, ask them if they want an extra
one. Somebody prior said there's an extra one.
So if you want another one for a family. Yeah.
So I'm paying it forward. I'm teaching this concept.
Did you ever do that with the tolls and pay people's
tolls behind you at Christmas? I did it for about
two years when we had the toll plaza. Were you
here then when we had the toll plaza? So I'm
going to say I've not done it with tolls. And
the reason is because I almost always did the
coin one back when that happened. And also when
I was much younger, I didn't have any extra money.
I was that person that it was all I could do
to pay for gas. If I'm being honest. I like the
idea. And it wasn't very much. It's like a dollar
or whatever. Yeah, I didn't have a dollar. I'm
just telling you. I remember seeing the reaction
of the people behind. And it wasn't the dollar.
It was just the fact that someone had done it.
And you could just see that it was beautiful.
You just paid something forward. There's no skin
off my nose paying your soul. You just thought,
oh, that was really. And so you've just completely
created a beautiful environment by something
that was just. minutely generous right and it
was lovely so paying it forward and every religion
speaks about paying it forward because ultimately
giving is the same as receiving you never give
anything because you actually can have it dumped
right back onto you and that's how the world
goes around and I think paying it forward is
beautiful I love it I like it so um we're getting
to the end of our time I think but You have some
projects you're working on and you wanted to
cover some things. Yes, so this is, do you like
the cover? I think it's beautiful. Yes, isn't
this great? That is so pretty. Tell me, what
am I looking at? So this is called A New Religion
and it's the doctrine and I'm going to be reading
this out. Yes, darling, have a look. I'm going
to be reading from this on the next episode.
That's such a pretty cover. It's beautiful. I
designed that. What? That's really pretty. I
like how simple this is. You inspired all the
pictures. Easy to read. I don't even need glasses
to read it. Yes, I made the font larger. Well,
it was such a, what size is that maybe? This
is beautiful. Yeah, it's lovely. So pretty. And
I got that yesterday and then my daughter, and
that was, I've been wanting to do this for 25
years. And this is a doctrine. This is an airtight
belief system. And I want, I'm going to record
it and I will put it on the website so you can
listen to it. It takes an hour and a half to
read. This is beautiful. I like having pictures
on one side and then the writing on the other
side. And the writing I kept on the right. I
like because everyone prefers to read from the
right -hand page and the left, so the illustrations
are on the left. This is really well done. Yeah.
I love it. Yeah. So whenever you're ready to
proceed on this, we'll do it. Well, I'm going
to record it and then the next episode we can...
Oh, sorry, darling. I should have got up. Nope,
you're good. I've had my legs crossed, so I'll
probably get up and fall over. But yes, next
week, we can dive into this a bit. Now I've actually
got it in front of me. That really happened quickly.
Congratulations. So now it's going to be a cliffhanger
for the others. So how's your week looking? Anything
special coming up? Not really. What's going on
is my son's birthday. He'll be 32. That's on
the 24th. What are you today? The 15th? Yeah.
So I'll just be writing. I've got another book
coming. Don't ask me what date it is. I never
know what date. I don't even know what day of
the week it is. It doesn't really matter, does
it really? It doesn't when you're working for
yourself. I wake up in the morning and I say,
oh, Sarah's coming today. Oh, and actually next
week we have a guest coming. Yes, we do. But
let's not say his name. Nope. I don't even know
what he wants to talk about. But you invited
him. Well, I'm going to ask him a lot of questions.
Well, I need to get another microphone keyed
up and get it all trimmed in. Yeah. I need to
get some balancing and stuff. This will be a
first. Yeah, it's going to be our first guest.
It'll be fun. Yeah. So maybe it'll be the first
of many. I'd love to have people. And it's funny
because... We'll keep it soul decodes. We'll
keep the theme of it. Well, one of the people
I met last... It wasn't last night. It was the
night before at a different networking event.
the girl does T -shirts, like custom artwork
T -shirts and stuff. And I told her about the,
when people come here to Phillips Island, first
of all, I don't have a logo or anything for Phillips
Island, so I need that. I need a graphic artist
for that. PI. But specifically, people come here
and do shots. You've heard about doing shots?
You gave me some shots when I first met you.
And for those listening, it's not like alcohol.
These are like super fruits. These are like really
powerful nutrients and they make you feel better
like right away. And so when I have some people
over, I give them shots at Phillips Island. And
my friend that we're going to have next week
said, he wants to create a t -shirt. I did shots
at Phillips Island. Oh, good. Like kind of like
a... A throwback to the, remember growing up
they had the t -shirts for spring break? Kind
of a throwback to that. I did shots at Phillips
Island. So I thought that would be cool. And
will you design all the super fruits underneath
so people know that it's not vodka? No, no. It's
kind of rock and roll. I did shots. I think just
kind of making it radical. I like keeping it
mysterious and keep it radical. Like what does
that even mean? But then I thought if we're going
to start having guests on this show. maybe we
can have a t -shirt that's like or something
that they can wear or show off that's like i
was a guest on soul decodes okay let's explore
you know what i'm saying just yeah i like it
it's like i was a guest on soul decodes what's
soul decodes and let them start talking about
soul decodes okay great that's good it's just
an idea no i love it Only because I'm a tangential
thinker. Yeah, that's great. Well, this will
be our first guest next week and then we'll start
building around that. I mean, it could just be
a massive flop and it will suck or it could be
brilliant, right? Well, I think that, I mean,
so what should our goal be? I don't want to spoil
anything, but our goal is to... I think our goal
is to just discover and make a new friend. Well,
the person that I met, you already know, but
one of the, he's quick to laugh and he was funny
and he has some funny stories. Now we can keep
that in a context. So to me, I think it's going
to be entertaining because he already was. That's
why I asked. Okay, fair. So I think, so. We have
to kind of, I would think we have to dovetail
in soul decodes. Like, what does it all mean?
Maybe we talk about the value of humor. What's
humor mean in our lives and stuff? I mean, soul
decodes, you can go anywhere. You can go any
direction. So we don't really have to sort of
think too hard because breathing is soul decodes.
I'm so done with thinking too hard. Me too. Okay,
girl, we'll wrap us up. Any final thoughts? No,
I'm good. Looking forward to next week's episode.
And yeah, this book, if you wanted to read it,
A New Religion, It's a Doctrine, it's available
on Amazon, Sarah Thierry, and it was published
two days ago. And I'm going to make it available
on my website, which I'm going to be launching
soon, and it will be free on my website. If you
didn't want to pay for it, but you'd want to
read it, I'll give you the e -copy. And I'm going
to record it so you could listen to that. If
you want to donate $25... You can do that on
Amazon and that's going to be building this church
that I'm working to build. So I'll go ahead and
put a link in the show notes. I'll put a link
in the show notes to this. Brilliant. And then,
and you'll put it on, of course, Amazon, it's
there. Soul Decodes has a link to your Amazon
store. So if y 'all want to go to souldecodes
.com and look for Sarah's bookstore. It'll take
you right to the Amazon store. And it's called
A New Religion. It's a totally new way of conceptualizing
God and your place in reality. I'm so excited.
Thanks for coming out. All right, thank you,
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