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Dealing with Stress w/ Charlie Robinson
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Charlie Robinson is the author of The Octopus of Global Control, a controversial and humorous book that takes quotes from over 500 witnesses to some of history’s greatest events, and uses them to piece together and expose a century-long plan for world domination.
He is also the co-author of the #1 Best Selling book The Controlled Demolition of the American Empire written with Jeff Berwick from The Dollar Vigilante, now available on Amazon. His latest book is
When he isn’t writing books, he’s the host of the Macroaggressions podcast which can be found on iTunes, Spotify, I Heart Radio, Rokfin, YouTube, and Ickonic. He also is the co-host of the wildly popular roundtable podcast, The Union of the Unwanted, with Sam Tripoli (Tin Foil Hat), Ricky Varandas (The Ripple Effect), and Midnight Mike (OBDM).
Charlie’s website: http://theoctopusofglobalcontrol.com/
Macroaggressions Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/macroaggressions/id1501964274
The Union of the Unwanted: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-union-of-the-unwanted/id1543392645
The Octopus of Global Control - https://www.amazon.com/Octopus-Global-Control-Charlie-Robinson/dp/1521818495
The Controlled Demolition of the American Empire - https://www.amazon.com/Controlled-Demolition-American-Empire/dp/B08M21XKJ5/
Hypocrazy: Surviving In A World Of Cultural Double Standards - https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B09GWF56Z7
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Transcript
Introduction and Guest Welcome
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Welcome back to the Connected Minds podcast. Christian Jourdanoff here. Today's guest needs no introduction. It's the one, the only, Charlie Robinson. Charlie, how are you brother? I'm good. It's great to be here with you. I'm always, I'm always, even when I'm not here with you, I'm thinking about you because I've got
00:00:24
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all of these supplements in my bathroom that I take all throughout the day. You're the one that put them there in a sense that I know that I have them because of you. I wanted them. I wanted your feedback. This isn't a bad thing. This is a good thing. But when I look at the
00:00:47
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the pharmacy that I have in my bathroom now, it is 100% due to you. So thank you, I guess, for that. And I feel good. I always feel pretty good. And I want to maintain that so that you've been part of that. So thanks for that.
00:01:04
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Yeah, man, my pleasure. I love working with people.
Analyzing Organic Acids Test and Healthy Lifestyle
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Like I was saying to you before, I knew we were not going to find much when we test you, but like I told you, we always find something. And normally the organic acids test, the lab generated report is about, I think 12 to 13 pages.
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Your report, the longer it is, the more auto-generated comments from the lab about all this imbalance, all that imbalance. Your report, I think, was nine pages. I don't remember exactly, but it was at least two, maybe three pages shorter than the normal reports we get. So that's a testament to your diet lifestyle and I think ability to probably maintain your calm and composure in these crazy times, that's important.
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I need it. I need it physically. I need it mentally. The nootropic component to this, this is something I had never really explored. I knew a little bit about it, but I didn't know the ins and outs. So to have that
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have the protective component. I like to have the optimization part for my mind. I need that to have the creatine side for my muscles, you know, cause I do go to the gym and work out and to have the sort of supplement. I'm not, look, I'm not trying to, I don't need steroids. I'm not trying to get big. I'm not trying to impress anybody. I just want to know that
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I want to be as efficient as I can. If I'm in the gym, I want it to have the best bang for its buck, and I want to make sure that I'm protecting my brain from not just optimizing it like the nootropics do, but protecting it, like you said, with the vitamin E and things like that that are adding this additional layer.
Charlie's Health Journey and Diet Challenges
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Look, I have to unlearn just about everything that I
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Thought I knew about health, wellness, and nutrition, because in America, we're taught nonsense about that. The four basic food groups are like potato chips, sodas, hamburgers, and pie. If you look at the people, it's obvious. It's an embarrassment.
00:03:41
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America pretends that it's like this country that's impenetrable. We have oceans on both sides. Nobody can defeat us. We're defeating ourselves. We're a sick, unhealthy, embarrassing population that didn't always used to be like this. We've allowed ourselves to go down that path. I try to
00:04:08
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be proactive with everything that I can, but especially my health. I got into some good habits early on though, too. This sort of started it because I started going to the gym and doing weights and cardio five days a week when I was 19, and I'm 51 now. I've never stopped. If I don't go, I feel like I've left
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my house without my cell phone or my wallet or something. Something's missing throughout my day. In one regard, I was already on the right path because I had always got myself in good habits with that.
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But i needed help i needed help with the nutrition side of things because i don't need enough vegetables and i know that and i don't i don't drink enough water and i know that. Sometimes i need a little kick in the butt to remind me that.
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that I could be doing things differently. And you brought that to me in a scientific way, which I thought was super helpful for me to be able to have that organics acids test and just look at it and go, oh, I see like, I feel good and I feel like I look physically like I look like I'm in good shape, but you never know what's going on under the hood, right? So that gave me an option to take a look at things that I couldn't see.
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And then you come in and you're like this conductor that knows exactly, we need to adjust this, increase this part, lower this part, do more of that, don't do this. And you can come in and really fine tune it. So I tell everybody about you.
00:05:59
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I tell everybody that I ditched those Western doctors that are trying to kill me. I went to this guy in Portugal who's trying to keep me alive. I like him a lot better. Yeah, not just surviving, but thriving, ideally. That's kind of, I think, I think a lot of people, man, it's not even funny. I know you said, you used the word embarrassment and it's kind of is an embarrassment, not just the USA, but just Western civilization, what we've become.
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What have the men become and how emasculized we become? I think a lot of people are surviving and when you're running on coffee and then maybe you have a drink or some weed in the evening to calm you down, you got it together. It seems like you got it together, but it seems like people are just barely surviving and not thriving. I want to be a part of that change. We need to change that.
Christian's Upcoming Book on Health
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What you said is so right.
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So for my book now that i'm writing i'm trying to come up with a very simplified model of what's killing us at a high level and i'm kind of today i'll be thinking about it i'm thinking.
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It's three things, right? One thing, it's one thing that we can separate into three things. So stress, and then stress, we can separate stress into stress, oxidation, and inflammation. So anything, all of those things are stress. So psychological stress, toxins, deficiencies, these things are all stressful to the body because it has to figure out how to deal with them. But
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If we can deal with stress, if we can reduce inflammation, and if we can reduce damage from oxidation, I think that that's like a very large part of the equation that is longevity. And I think I'm kind of trying to elucidating it more in the coming weeks and months in the book. But what I wanted to ask, I don't want to get too personal now, Charlie, but the
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The reason stress is number one is because it is a killer. Like in the literal sense, when cortisol literally melts your bones, your brain, literally parts of the brain, things like that, right? So I don't want to get too personal with you, but were you always this easy going? Because I think that's such an important part of longevity is to be able to not just deal with stress if it arises, but not created in your mind, body.
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in your meet suit to begin with. So I think you got that somehow. What's your secret?
Personal Impact of Stress: Charlie's Story
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Well, I'll tell you, while you were saying that the number one killer was stressed, I was nodding in agreement. When I was 16 years old, here in America, we have Thanksgiving day. Thanksgiving's a big deal. Everyone's off school and you have a big dinner or you have a big lunch or whatever, football games are on.
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It's the, it's a Thursday and then you've got Friday off and Saturday. So it's a four day weekend. Everyone has a good time. Families come and go and do that stuff. So I'm home from boarding school. I'm in high school. I'm home from boarding school the night before, before Thanksgiving, my dad says to me, I'm going to go, uh, I'm going jogging in the morning.
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And I said, well, wake me up then because I want to go too. Cause I was on the soccer team and I, and I was going to be off from practice side, but I wanted to run, you know? Um, he didn't wake me up that morning. He, he, he just, I think he thought he was going a little too early and he went out for a jog and he died. Oh, dude. He just, he just had a heart attack and died at 46 and you know, cause of death.
00:09:49
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blockage, you know, artery, you know, carotid artery blockage and yeah, you know, okay, fine. Actual, I mean, real cause of death, stress. I mean, it just straight up killed him, you know, and I was clearly aware of that. Definitely come from the same mental makeup where the guy that cuts me off in traffic can
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you know, would send my dad over the edge, you know, and me too. And so it's been a battle I've been fighting my entire life, but I now have that sort of check in myself where it's like, when I'm just about to go off the deep end and worry about, you know, about something that doesn't actually matter in my life, I have that in the back of my head, like, is it worth it? You know, like, is it, you know, you expend all of this,
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this energy. And I remember my mom and I standing above my dad's casket at the visitation a couple of days after. And my mom said to me, where did all that energy go?
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you know, she's just looking at him and she just said, I don't understand. Like, where did it all go? Cause he had all this, he was energetic and, you know, talkative and, you know, like I said, things would like stress him out and maybe spiral. But there was, there was movement and energy and then there wasn't any, you know, and we just kind of were standing there looking at this and it was like looking at a mannequin.
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or something, you know what I mean? It was like, it's an out of body experience as a kid, really for anyone, but but especially when you're 16 years old, you're just going, I can't even believe this is happening, that this is a real thing. But it's very real. And then it kills a lot of people.
Transcendental Meditation Inspiration
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And it doesn't get talked about, you know, stress is like,
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I mean, where's the money in stress? Where's the meditation? So back in 2010, I signed up for a four-day Transcendental Meditation class.
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and sat with this teacher for a couple of days, all day, talking about things, going through these techniques. And one of the things that he was explaining to me was how like when you get proficient at this meditation practice, that the internal dialogue in your head
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It shuts some of it off. The sum of it is like,
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Well, I would say to that guy this thing, and then that guy would say to me this thing, and then I would say this thing. In conversations that aren't actually happening, that you're in your mind, you're role-playing them, and you're getting stressed out, and you're going down a path, and you're finding yourself like, oh yeah, well then he'd say that, and then that would make me really mad. And it's like none of this stuff is even happening. It's all in your head. So it was about quieting the voices in your head, so to speak. I mean, you say that, when you say voices in your head, everyone wants to put you in a
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straight jacket, put you in a padded room, but the internal monologue, the things that you think about or worry about or whatever, that was able to calm that. What was funny about it was that
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I remember hearing Hugh Jackman on Howard Stern's radio show and they were talking about this because Howard Stern is big into transcendental meditation and Hugh Jackman was as well. And they were talking about like what it did. Howard was saying, well, what did it do for you? And he said, I was he said, well, I was always anxious. He said, like, as an example, when I was driving,
00:13:58
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I drive by telephone poles, and if I drive by a telephone pole, I'd have to have my foot off of the, I'd have to have my left foot, the foot I wasn't using. It'd have to be off the ground, off the floor of the car, every time I went by a pole, for no reason. He was explaining, this was just some quirky thing that he did. It was in his mind, or he was always tapping his foot or something.
00:14:24
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And he said it just sort of calmed all that down. And I remember listening to it and I went into the session, the four-day session with this TM teacher. And when I signed up for it, he reached out to me and he said, oh, I'm really glad you
00:14:40
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signed up because we have to do these in groups of two. So I'm going to put you with a partner. There was a guy that had been waiting, but we didn't have another partner for him for a while. So you now that you've signed up, now he's got a partner and we can, we can get ready and we can go. I was like, all right, well, good. So I guess I'll meet this guy, right? So we go to the TM teacher's house and, uh, the first day, and then I, we're sitting on the couch and I meet the guy next to me. Hey, nice to meet you. And, and the teacher goes, I'm just curious.
00:15:09
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why are you guys here? Like, how did you even find out about this? And the guy next to me goes, well, I'll go first. He goes, it's kind of embarrassing for me to even mention it. But like, I listened to a lot of Howard Stern, he talked about transcendental meditation. That's why I'm here, too. You know, he's like, Oh, I don't feel so bad anymore. It was funny to me that of all the reasons, we both had the same reason. It was like we listened to Howard Stern of all people who, who
00:15:36
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If you don't listen anymore cuz now he's like a woke moron but but but back then he was the abrasive jerky guy that like to make chicks get naked in in his radio studio and throw bologna at them you know what i mean so like you wouldn't necessarily think that this is the guy that's gonna talk to you about.
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and all of this, but he kept having conversations with people that had that, that also were doing that. And they were talking about how their success in life just kind of took off afterwards. And I thought, well, there's got to be something to this. I mean, at the very least, let's say my success isn't, you know, I'm not, I don't know if it's what this is going to do for my career necessarily.
00:16:20
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But just as a human being, is it going to make me better? Is it going to make me chill out on stupid, just not get crazy about stupid stuff? And it did. And I don't do it as much as I should now, but there was a period of time where I was in the morning and in the evening and it really kind of got me
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It got me through a rough time. It got me through a real rough time. And it put me on a different trajectory where I don't know if I can say that, oh, well, my career is better because of this. But I'm easier to deal with now. And I think that's helpful for any career. So the stress level, it's a constant battle for me.
00:17:09
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I know some people are just a little bit more, you know, they're wired differently. They're a little bit more mellow. But for me, I'm very much aware that stress is a killer. You know, we've got here in the States, it's it's heart disease and cancer and then the medical in the American medical industry number three, and the heart disease in the cancer
00:17:32
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Like, I don't know if it's if it says that stress is sort of related to it, but in my mind, it's related to both of
Stress and Disease: The Cortisol Study
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them. Well, I'll tell you right now, just this morning, I was looking at a study.
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In fact, I can even bring it up right here, the quote that I was going to use in my book. Anyway, there's too many studies, but basically they were saying that high cortisol is high in cancer. Here it is. Here's a quote from the study. Cancer is an example which clearly shows that high cortisol precedes diseases
00:18:17
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as proven in experimental work on animals as well as in pre-disease epidemiological studies in humans. And that's a study
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from 1997 called cortisol, high cortisol diseases and anti-cortisol therapy. So basically the list, everything from HIV, multiple sclerosis, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, to depression, heavy drinking, heavy smoking, substance abuse, ulcers, myocardial infarction, diabetes,
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pain conditions, eczema, psoriasis, skin problems, acne, these all have a component of high cortisol. Wow. Yeah. Interesting. So we're right in a sense that if you put somebody in a stressful situation, their whole lives or parts, you know, like you come home and every time you come home, you're dealing with some jerk that you live with who stresses you out.
00:19:17
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Yeah, I mean, I feel like everybody feels psychologically bad in those situations, but maybe they don't make the connection that it translates into your physical wellbeing or as a result of it. There's a thing called stress hyperglycemia because cortisol, one of its main jobs is to raise blood sugar when your blood sugar falls down or when your blood sugar drops.
00:19:44
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Cortisol is one of the stress hormones that mobilize amino acids and kind of the breakdown tissue to raise the blood sugar. That's what we were talking about earlier. How important is your blood glucose level? And we're being told by the mainstream to restrict the things that supply an efficient fuel for that. But so
00:20:07
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Cortisol, it's a lifesaver without it, you die. But if you're chronically stressed, in fact, in diabetes and all these insulin resistance, stress is a great component of diabetes. People are like, oh no, diabetic people just eat too much candy, have too many sodas, and just can't control their freaking appetite or whatever.
00:20:30
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No, it's not true. A lot of people just plain old stressed. I was talking to somebody. I was getting interviewed on his podcast two, three months ago and he, his, I think his brother passed away and then I think his mother passed away in a very short period of time. And then a few months later, he went to the doctor and the doctor diagnosed him with diabetes. This guy was a freaking trainer. Like he trains people, fitness for a living. You know, he wasn't diabetic from, from food.
00:20:59
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It's from the cortisol. Wow. Interesting. Yeah. So we've got to play that game too, where we've got to keep an eye on our stress levels because not just for our mental wellbeing, but our physical wellbeing as well. Yeah. Interesting. Good thing to know. And in fact,
00:21:20
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Cortisol can atrophy regions of the brain. I think it was the hippocampus, I think the amygdala and I think the prefrontal cortex, I believe. And these are regions of the brain that are not the amygdala or something else, but the hippocampus and the prefrontal cortex, these are involved in learning memory, executive function. So literally cortisol stress can make you more dumber. Wow.
00:21:51
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Yeah, but if you're in a situation, really bad situation growing up as a kid, stressful, terrifying environment, you know, dad's beating mom up or whatever, and you're witnessing this the whole time and then the kids turn out messed up.
00:22:08
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It's not just from witnessing this, it may also physically be like the manifestation of all that stress turning into cortisol, turning into like a brain eating virus, right? Exactly. And then people self-medicate with drugs and alcohol, whatever else. And that's our suboptimal way of self-medicating, you know, so I think a lot of
00:22:29
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I mean, Gabor Mate has been talking about that for years now, but a lot of addiction and depression, it comes from the people that self-medicate might not get depressed, but then they might get addicted. And then the people that are too sort of, maybe they were in a puritanical environment or something and you can't get addicted.
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but then you can develop depression. So I think stress definitely is at the core.
Balancing Dark Research with Humor
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Biochemical, psychological, physical, there's different kinds of stress. It's nice to see you because also you deal with the darkest of the dark, dude. To me, people like that
00:23:12
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they, I don't know how they don't snap. Like I really don't, I had to stop doing the research because I definitely was a little bit depressed last year, I believe so. Yeah, it's my defense mechanism for that is humor. And I try to find, you know, I try to laugh at how absurd everything has gotten and how crazy it's been. My last book was more
00:23:41
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taking a look at like the insanity of the hypocrisy of the double standards that we have in this world. And it was like, take a look at this, how crazy this is. And it's funny. So that was like a lighter vibe for the book. And I try to, sometimes I try to make it without,
00:24:09
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without being disrespectful to the topic, in trying to not minimize the serious nature of some of these things. But at the same time, trying to keep that sense of humor about, you have to laugh at how crazy things have gotten. So that keeps me going. I also try not to get into, there's some things that I know that if I
00:24:34
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topics or videos that I watch, I know it's going to just put me in a bad mood or a bad frame of mind. So some things I just try to stay away from if it's
00:24:55
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children getting hurt or something. There was a period, especially when my daughter was really young, that I couldn't watch a news story that was like, child, mom accidentally pulling out of the driveway, backs over, runs over their kid. I can't even watch, I can't watch the story. It was too much for me. So I had to get picky about my topics and make sure that I wasn't,
00:25:26
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make sure that I wasn't going down paths that were going to really make me depressed. Because like you said, the information is tough to handle. It's really hard to process it. I've come to understand a lot of it, a lot of the evilness. I don't
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I mean, understand in the sense that I recognize that it's out there. I'll never really understand it, of course, but I mean, I recognize that it's out there. And so I treat it like I'm a mortician or a pathologist doing an autopsy. I try not to think about
00:26:10
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this guy had dinner plans. This guy was making plans for next week and now he's on my table. I try to take that emotion out of it when I can because if I live in that emotion, it's hard. So I try to be as cold, I just try to be as, I try to treat it like I'm the coroner and I try not to take it, get personal with it, not because I don't,
00:26:41
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not out of disrespect for the person, but out of respect for my brain, for my own sensibilities. You're right. You can't live in the darkness all the time and you have to pull yourself out for
00:26:58
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come up for air every now and then just to keep your soul intact, you know? Yeah. I think it's like being a cop or a fireman or something, you know, you've seen enough. It's like me when I was kind of, at one point I was really, I'm a pretty empathetic person. So like when my clients would struggle through a program, you know, a few months in and there would kind of be like two steps forward, one step back, and they'd be like going through a rough period.
00:27:27
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Like I used to just think about it a lot. And I'm like, man, this is not gonna really work out well. Like you have to be empathetic. I think this is one of the worst thing about medicine is they kind of teach the doctors to not give a damn about the patients. I think that's really, part of helping a person heal is to see them where they're at. But it was kind of really draining, you know what I mean? And it shouldn't be.
00:27:55
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I don't think giving should drain you. And that's what it looks like when you come out with the podcast. It feels like after you're done with the podcast, first of all, everybody's screaming for more. It's like, ah, is the hour gone already? But it feels like you're energized. So it feels like you're putting in the right kind of energy where you're giving, you're spreading the information, you're bearing the brunt of it, it's like the
00:28:23
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the analogy of the shaman, the wounded healer. They get hurt so then they can help others heal. So it's like you go into the darkness, so shed some light on it, help us understand it a little bit better. And I think if you come from the right place, feed the right energy into the craft, then you're energized as opposed to drained from it. Yeah. And every time I go into... Like when I go to
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When I go to an archipelco this coming February, before I go and do any of the stuff that I'm gonna do there, the hosting, MC and all that stuff, I'm gonna find their shaman.
00:29:09
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His name is Bear Heart. I know him. I've met him before. He does not look like how you would expect a shaman. No feathers? Six foot five, 260 pounds. Ripped. Huge, giant guy. Shaved head, big beard. Wearing a robe. Saw this guy walking down the hallway. Who is that guy?
00:29:38
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That guy's somebody. I don't know who he is, but that guy's somebody. You know what I mean? They go, oh, he's the shaman. Oh, oh. Okay. White guy, white guy, right? You know what I mean? Like in, in, in, in Mexico, you know, so I met him. I started talking to him and he was so calm that I got calm just by talking. Have you ever met somebody like that? That's so chilled out that you recognize you're like, oh, I'm at a, I'm going too high of an energy. I got to bring it down a little bit for this guy.
Preparing for Anarchapulco with a Shaman
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When I get to an archipelco, I'm gonna find him first, and I'm gonna say, let's go for a walk, or let's go talk, or let's go somewhere where you can sort of get my head right before this, because I feel like I need, every now and then, I need to be reset. I need you to power me all the way off, give me a minute, like your computer,
00:30:37
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go do something else, come back, then start it up again, let everything reboot and start in the right frame of mind. I'm going to find him. I've been thinking about that because I talked to him throughout the whole week last year and I really enjoyed him and I thought he was great and I hope he comes back. I think he is, he's sort of their guy for that. He does a lot of the retreats and I want to make sure that I'm
00:31:04
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And I want to make sure I'm in the right frame of mind. And I personally don't see any sort of problem with checking in with a guy like that every now and then, or, you know, like people to meet with psychiatrists or they meet with, they have counselors or therapists or whatever you want to call it. Somebody that can see you from another perspective that can say, you seem okay here, but I'm noticing
00:31:34
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I'm noticing anxiety, I'm noticing hesitation, you seem a little stressed or whatever it is that I can't see, maybe he can see it. And I want to make sure that I'm in the right head space for what I'm about to embark on for that week, because it's going to be great. And it's going to be a lot of work, but it's not going to feel like work. But I want it to be great. I want my performance
00:32:04
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there to be the best that it can be. And I know that I sometimes need to shut up and get my head straight and be humbled a bit and come into it.
00:32:26
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Just come into it the right way. You were gonna crush, baby. I hope so. I hope so. I think if I get there and I do, I think that that crowd is magic.
00:32:46
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And I've said this because I've been a speaker there on three different occasions and I meet everybody that I can and I mingle around and I talk to people beforehand. And I've started off at least one of the presentations with just an acknowledgement to the audience that you're my type of people.
00:33:11
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You know, and, and because it's true because I see them and they're thinking about the world differently and they're frustrated with some things and they want to do things differently and they, they know that they can be better, but they need to meet other people and help them and see what everyone's working on. And I just really connect with that. So I'm not worried because I, there's no reason for me to be worried because why would I worry about being around my people? Exactly.
00:33:39
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I just want to make sure that I'm functioning at my ultimate capacity.
Travel, Supplements, and Health Priorities
00:33:49
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And I think that sometimes you have to, you have to be honest
00:33:57
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about yourself from time to time and say, I need, uh, I need some tuning, you know, fix it up, fix me up a little bit, doc. It's, it's kind of funny, but, um, when you mentioned an arc book or a while back and I started thinking about it, my, you know how you, when you go for a trip, you always make a list. If it's like a bigger trip, you make a list of what you need, bro.
00:34:22
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I kid you not, my top three things on my list are my red blue blocking glasses for before bed, right? That's super important.
00:34:35
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and then it's all the supplements, right? So this is like the first thing I start thinking about, okay, so I'm gonna need alpha GPC. Okay, so it's gonna be seven days and then two days trips. So, okay, I need this many alpha GPC and then I'm gonna wanna get this and then I'm gonna, then okay, there's gonna be, I won't be eating the food I eat normally, probably a bit more polyunsaturated fat. So I wanna get more vitamin E and then it's like, and then literally like I've only thought about that
00:35:02
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And then the last day I throw some underpants, some socks, and maybe a couple of shirts, a couple of pair of shorts. And that's kind of how I plan. That's, I don't care about the clothes. I've been thinking about the same stuff too, because like I said, I've got this pharmacy in my, in my bathroom and I go, all right. Do I was, cause I went to Las Vegas a couple of weeks ago.
00:35:26
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And I was there for like five days because I was there with my family, but I, my mom lives there. I have a business out there and anything. So I'm out there all the time.
00:35:36
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but I loaded up this empty acetyl carotene bottle with that I just finished. I was like, okay, I'm going to need five of these and I'm going to need 15 of these. And I'm putting it in. So I'm loading up this thing and I've got this, I've got this whole bottle that's filled with stuff. I'm just shaking it. And now I'm thinking,
00:35:59
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If I go, if they decide to pull me out for some reason and go and tear my bag apart and they find this bottle of pills, they're going to be like, what are you doing with all these, like what, what is this? I'd be like, that's creatine, that's magnesium. That's for you, I'm a GPC. You start giving the guy a lesson there. I was doing the same thing you were doing. I mean, I did it for my recent trip, but I was even thinking about it for my, for the Mexico trip. I'm like, all right, I've got to figure out how many days I'm going to be there because
00:36:29
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I'm now I now am of the belief that I'm going to need, whether regardless of where I'm going, whether I'm going to Las Vegas for nothing, you know, for just a family trip, or if I'm going to an anarchist conference for for seven days, and five of those days, I'm going to be up on stage in front of everybody, I'm going to need to be feeling good.
00:36:54
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operating at high capacity. And this is part of my regimen now. This is just part of the deal. And I'm fine with it. And all those pills and all those supplements, they work well for me. My body will tell me
00:37:08
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what I can't really process. The only thing of all the stuff that you and I have worked on and all of the products that I've got, I'm good with all of them. The one thing I cannot hold down is the zinc. I just can't get it. If that's the case, just skip it for now. I have been. I've had to skip it because it's like, do I want to like
00:37:29
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I don't want to get my brain thinking, well, when you eat these pills, you always want to throw up. Like I've identified which one it is that doesn't that I know which one it is. So I'm like, well, you know, we've got a couple of people that don't really like the zinc, even with food. So empty stomach, you try first, then with a small meal, if it doesn't work, it doesn't work. And then sometimes we go back to it after a few months and then the tolerated better. So yeah, it's the thing is, by the way, I've it's not that
00:37:56
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My wife sometimes messes with me, oh, you were addicted to all these supplements. It's not like I'm addicted to the supplements. But you see, when someone asks me, why are you taking this? Why are you taking that? I can give you a plethora of reasons. Let's say why I take alpha GPC. Well,
00:38:11
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First of all, it's been shown to help people with traumatic brain injury, ischemic sort of strokes, the type of events. It helps to repair and heal the brain. If it's helping to repair and heal the brain and improve outcomes in people with like really serious health problems,
00:38:28
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You think it might help with our brains and improve our brain function? And then it's like the MSM, detoxification. I started talking about mitochondria and stuff, but I noticed generally if I take a supplement, I don't feel a difference. And generally I tell people, if you feel really good after taking a supplement,
00:38:48
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probably were deficient in whatever you were adding there. But I noticed a couple, two, three weeks ago, I was interviewing somebody this time exactly for the podcast. And I forgot to take a few of my things that day that were more for brain function. And because I wake up at like five, six a.m., it's been 12 hours working hard, taking care of my kid, blah, blah, blah. I noticed, dude, at this time, I was I wanted to ask the guy a question.
00:39:15
Speaker
and it was in my head and I was forgetting and I was tired and my sentences were like, I couldn't complete my sentences. And then after that, I was like, oh, so I was working my ass off all day, woke up super early, didn't take my off for GPC, didn't take my other kind of two, three that are part of the new Tropic Stack. So then I was like, okay, so that's what it's like to not be operating an optimal
00:39:43
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That's what it's like to be operating after let's say a 10 hour day and being tired. So these things are a real game changer. If you're like a presenter, speaker, programmer, writer, podcaster, these things, they really only come to shine.
00:40:03
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when you have to really use your head to do something, you know what I mean? If you're just kind of pottering around the house all day, you might not really feel them. But I guarantee you, if you could clone yourself, go to an archipelago, use the stuff, and then your carbon copy doesn't use the stuff, I think I guarantee you, you'll see a massive difference. Well, I'll tell you what, regardless of whether I physically will or not anymore, now mentally I will.
00:40:33
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because now I have associated taking those pills with improved cognitive function. So whether it's real or the placebo effect, at some point it's going to have an impact on me now because I start my day with them. I've got a routine now. I know these are the ones I could take and I taken these in the morning. These are the evening ones.
00:40:56
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These are the ones that take with food. These are the ones that take without, you know, so I've, I'm now on this schedule and it's working for me. And again, like you said, it's, it's hard to pinpoint there. It's not a high, you know, it's not like subtle buzzing, you know, like it's not that it's just, I'm, I'm, I'm more efficient in a way that's not, uh, you know, and I kind of joked a couple of days ago when,
00:41:24
Speaker
My box of stuff showed up where, you know, like I bought more stuff and, uh, I'm opening it up. My wife's like, what, what is it? I'm like, my drug dealer's here. You know, like I opened it up and I pull all this stuff out and she was like, well, this is.
00:41:38
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This is what 51 and taking drugs looks like. It's not quite like what it was when it was 21 and taking drugs. It looks a little bit different. And so to me, this is where I am in my life. And I like that I feel good. And I like that I don't feel foggy. And I do need recall. And now I'm sort of transitioning in, not just from my
00:42:04
Speaker
podcast, but now going into now Monday through Friday radio with guests and I've got to be on my, I've got to be sharp and I got to understand that this is not a static question and answer session that I'm going to be asking questions and getting answers and that I might not be expecting and I'm going to have to adjust. So I'm going to need to be in it's live, you know, so there's no do overs with this. So it's like, I'm going to need to focus for that hour.
00:42:32
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I'm gonna need to just really be in the zone.
00:42:35
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After that, I can do whatever. But again, this is going to play a huge role for me in that process. You're going to be processing current events every day and to 10 different people every week. That's huge. That's a huge, not burden, but it requires energy. Bro, this is why I tell people to eat more carbs, man.
00:43:08
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that if you just kind of, just your body will figure it out somehow. If you eat a couple of steaks and have some butter, yes, there is potential for energy there, but carbs, clean carbs like honey, maple syrup, fruit, milk, these things, these are kind of clean carbohydrates, none of these starches that can cause gut problems.
00:43:33
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This is like immediately usable by the liver, by the brain. And man, I tell you, once I started my day, instead of just with a cup of coffee, as I used to do, now I have like maybe two, three, four tablespoons of honey up to a liter, like a quart of milk.
00:43:54
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I have a ton of carbs in the morning and I'm coming to ride here. Just dude, things are working much better. Neutropics I know are helping, but at the end of the day, the brain runs on glucose unless you're in ketosis. Even then, it still requires 30, 40% of its energy needs to be fulfilled by glucose. So once people get this start the day with a little bit of honey or maple syrup or carbs, OJ,
00:44:24
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or juice some oranges, or eat some watermelon, and end the day with a little bit of carbs, like a couple of tablespoons of honey. First of all, you're going to reduce the period of time where your cortisol is very elevated. In the morning, when you wake up, you've been running on cortisol for hours.
00:44:44
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And then when you go to bed, if you top up your liver stores with a little bit of honey or with some glucose glycogen from honey or whatever, you are going to shorten that time where you're running on cortisol. So in the morning, you cut it off that cortisol time. And then in the evening, you shorten the period. And then you're living, like think about over 10, 20 years, you're living, let's say, six hours less
00:45:08
Speaker
of your day on cortisol and stress hormones. I believe this is a huge longevity thing that is very subtle and you will only kind of see the effects of it when you're 90 and kite surfing or something. Right, but I want to know it.
00:45:28
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I'm ready for it. I want that information. Whether or not I incorporate that into my life, that's a different story, but I want to know that. It's one of the reasons why I'm really glad that you and I connected because the traditional information that we're given in the US, it's just all wrong.
Critique of American Health Misinformation
00:45:49
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The only question is, is it wrong intentionally? It's undeniable that the
00:45:53
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that the information about nutrition and stress and the way our bodies work, what they tell us in schools is incorrect. Maybe they don't know. Maybe they think that they're giving you the right information. But in the end, the results show otherwise. The results show we have a sick population that doesn't understand,
00:46:21
Speaker
doesn't respect themselves enough or doesn't understand what's happening. I don't know if it's like it turns the caring part of their brain off first before it destroys their physical body. Or maybe when your physical body is getting destroyed, your brain adapts and just don't even think about that. It's so long gone. You don't even want to acknowledge that you're
00:46:46
Speaker
100 pounds overweight anymore. There's a there's a there's a great line from a Jimmy Buffett song. And he says, you know, I treat my body like a temple, you treat yours like tent.
00:47:01
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And I think that in America, there's a lot of people that are walking around with tents, you know what I mean? And it doesn't have to be that way. And that's the thing that I think I guess is maybe the good news and the bad news is that good news is you can change it. Bad news is you haven't yet. You haven't done it. So I fully recognize that there are some things that are out of my control that I can't really do much about.
00:47:29
Speaker
but I can get hit by a bus tomorrow and you can only do certain things to prevent that, but at some point bad luck kind of plays a role. But if I know that eating the things, eating certain foods or drinking certain things, if I know that that is going to be in the long run really bad for me, even in the short run, it's gonna make me feel crappy. I'm like, if I eat that, I'm gonna feel bad.
00:47:57
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That's come from trial and error. I've had to get honest with myself about things. Like, I like that, but if I eat that, I'm gonna feel like hell tomorrow. Or if I drink that, if I do, you know, like as an example with alcohol. I never was much of a big drinker, you know. But you'll go down, you know, go down to Mexico, like this last year at a narco poco, and we're out at the bars afterwards or anything, and I'm having, you know, I'm having a couple beers.
00:48:25
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But everyone's like, Oh my God, I love your podcast. Let me buy you a shot. I just immediately, my immediately announced it's like, no shots, no hard alcohol. I just won't do it. I love you guys. It's fun. I'm flattered. It's cool. I will sit and hang out. I'll drink this beer with you. We can talk, but I know from trial and error, if I do tequila shots with you,
00:48:51
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I will want to kill myself tomorrow. You know what I mean? I just know it. I don't have to go. So some of the stuff I've, I've learned the hard way as we all do, but, but I've, I've learned the hard way. And then I've said, I don't do that anymore. So, so again, and maybe that's age, maybe that's just experience or whatever, but yeah, I don't want to, I don't want to, I know how this is going to end. I don't need to go down that path and do that again as an example with food.
00:49:21
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if I eat a slice of greasy pizza, even if I think I'm gonna love it, if I eat that slice of greasy pizza.
00:49:34
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within 10 minutes of eating it, my face is going to feel as oily to me as that pizza was. And I know that. So I just go, I can't eat it. I can't eat that right now. And it looks good and I would love to eat it, but I know.
00:49:53
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What's that? Sorry, we got a delay there. I didn't mean to interrupt. The only thing I can't not eat is the occasional hot sauce. A few days ago, I woke up, I was all bent out of shape. All the day, I was a bit gassy. I was telling my wife, God damn, did I get some parasites somewhere? I'm already rifling through the ante.
00:50:20
Speaker
anti-parasite protocols and stuff. And then I'm like, wait, wait, wait. I had some, some chili with my car name last night. Let me give this a day. I don't think it was, I don't think it's parasites or anything. So the next day completely fine. I'm like, day God, why do I, I love it so much. It hurts every time. Like at the customs office, if you know what I mean? But I just can't stop doing it, you know? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And I, and I, I just, I just want to feel
00:50:49
Speaker
I want to feel as good as I can. The preventable things, I want to prevent. The un-preventable things, you just put yourself in a situation where you try not to feel bad, or you try not to be out at bars all night. And I've really tried to prioritize
00:51:08
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my sleep. And if I time it right, I don't need to worry about like, Oh, I need to force myself to get I'm just, I've just I'm tired by the end of the night and I've and like the magnesium stuff that you like. I was if I took that earlier in the day, I felt like a little sleepy. So go no, no, no, I'll take that. That's the last thing I do. I'll take this at night. And so so again, part of it is like,
00:51:33
Speaker
getting in tune with where my body is and what works for me and what doesn't. And if I can do it all perfectly, I come in for a nice landing at the end of the night, where I'm just tired enough at the right time and not staying out all night. And then I have a fairly predictable schedule too, which I think helps. And I think a lot of times people that are on the road traveling quite a bit, they
00:52:01
Speaker
their body is just forced to be out of rhythm. And I don't think that's good for anybody.
00:52:09
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I don't think so either. I think, but definitely what you said is, it's all about, and you have to be, it's like, I guess it's a stupid analogy to compare the body to a car, but you know, like guys that are into their car, they can hear when something is kind of, the engine is purring the wrong way. It's not purring like a kitten. And I think this is why we have, what you said is we have to become in tune
Attuning to Body Needs and Experimentation
00:52:34
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with our body. And like, for example,
00:52:36
Speaker
If I don't sleep, I had kind of three sleepless nights or crappy sleep last week and I was like, I have an algorithm. The first thing is that I eat enough carbohydrates in the evening. Then the second thing is, and that was enough to figure it out. It was the temperature of the room because of the change of the seasons.
00:52:56
Speaker
it either is too hot or too cold until we figure out the temperatures and the blankets now it's getting colder so figure that out and then but you can get you can get so much so much deeper it did i have a coffee later in the day but you always have to kind of fine tune and maybe.
00:53:12
Speaker
I couldn't sleep, or maybe two magnesiums, I couldn't sleep well, let me try three the next night, maybe that works. Let me try two again, okay, didn't sleep as well. Try three again, that works. Now you know, kind of, you've titrated to what? So I love to see people kind of experiment and fine-tune, because like, for example, I tell people, like, try this, try that. And you know, like in your case, zinc doesn't work for you. Somebody else, they have some carbs in the morning, and they feel really tired.
00:53:41
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like sorry i have to have my coffee i'm not having these carbs until like 12 o'clock like do you do you you got to do you man like at the end of the day you are extremely unique even though we look we have genetically we're very very similar like 99 point god knows how much percent we are extremely unique like where we live our history our current
00:54:01
Speaker
biochemistry, nutritional status, all that stuff, stress levels. So it's important. I think this is where people kind of they think or I don't want to like put the blame on the people. I think it's the educational system is lacking where all these 12 years of school, we're not even like we taught very, very basic things about nutrition biology, but we're not taught how to look after ourselves. I don't know. Like I don't think
00:54:28
Speaker
you know physical education it's all about like how fast you can run or how far you can jump but we never we never actually thought like to tune into our body listen to our needs i think the stuff is completely issued by the materialistic sort of paradigm out there.
00:54:45
Speaker
How can the medical industry make money then if you are paying attention to, you need to go talk to the doctor. The doctor's the only one that knows how your body works. That's what they convince you to outsource your thinking to the doctor and say, well, you tell me, doc, what should I be doing? Well, if you listen to them, you'll be on pharmaceutical drugs and you'll be on shots and you'll be on this regimen and then
00:55:12
Speaker
I don't know that that's necessarily going to be the right solution, but I think that if you get good at listening to your body and recognizing it too, sometimes you listen to it and then you go, I'm going to override it anyway. Like I'm too tired to go out and you go, I'm going to go out anyway. And you feel bad and you go, I shouldn't have gone out. Or you feel like, oh, I'm just, I feel like I'm just starting to get
00:55:40
Speaker
beginnings of a sore throat or whatever. I know what to do in that situation. I'm going to go do that and then I'm going to go to sleep. Again, part of it is knowing your body and recognizing what you think is going wrong with it and then acting on it too. There's been a couple times where I felt like
00:56:05
Speaker
I feel like someone close to me was sick, like my wife was sick a couple of weeks ago and I was like, oh man, like, you know how that goes. It's like, you're just eventually, you're going to get sick, right? And a couple of days after that, I started to feel like a little weirdness in my throat that felt different than everything. And I go, you know what?
00:56:25
Speaker
I've got the stuff. I'm going to hit it with ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine right now. Really? Boom. And I'm not even going to screw around. I'm just going to hit it with that. And I did it that day. And then the following day, in the morning, I did it again and it never turned into anything.
00:56:46
Speaker
Wow. So sometimes I've been better about recognizing the onset of that. Another example of that, and this is a weird one that I get, but it's the one thing I get. It started
00:57:04
Speaker
It started 11 years ago. It was the first time I ever got this and I didn't know what it was. I told my wife, I think I have turf toe. I think I sprained my toe somehow. I must've been at the gym doing something, but my right big toe was killing me, right? And I bought like a leg, like a kind of like an ankle brace, like whatever, you know, and I was like, well, maybe, maybe I just need to stabilize my toe.
00:57:28
Speaker
And it got worse and worse and worse. I couldn't figure out what it was. Called my father-in-law, who's a doctor, and he said, you have gout. And I was like, oh, what does that mean? He says, you need medication for that. There's a five-day process for that. You need to go in and see somebody. I was like, okay. So I went in and got the pills that you take over the five days, and that's what it was, and it went away.
00:57:54
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From that time though, it's come back on like three different occasions over the last 11 years. The last time I went, the last time it happened,
00:58:07
Speaker
I had to go to an urgent care, not too far from me to get the prescription for it. But whatever they prescribed for me, I wrote it down and I got it filled because it was an immediate need. But then I also ordered a bunch of it from India, from this pharmacy that I've been dealing with, that I got some things from, like hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin. I was like, oh, what is this? The gout stuff. So now I've got that, I've got a bunch of that, enough to last me,
00:58:37
Speaker
forever, I think. And a couple of months ago, something I was doing something and I was like, Oh, my big toe is starting to throb. And I just said, you know what, I'm not even gonna screw around with it. I'm immediately going to take the gout medicine day one, I took it one day, next day, didn't feel anything. So that is trial and error. That is me starting to like recognize
00:59:03
Speaker
When you feel this, it could lead to that. And if you have, and you're gonna need this other thing to fight it. And so the quicker you recognize it, the quicker you jump into action, the greater the chances are it doesn't turn into the thing that you were worried about. In both cases, I've been like, damn.
00:59:22
Speaker
I've been proactive. The gout thing could have very easily spiraled into full-blown gout and it didn't. The sore throat thing could have very easily turned into whatever it was. It didn't. But that was, again, that was not luck. That was- Education. Education on it, right? Yeah. So part of this, we want to tell the doctors, fix me.
00:59:47
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But the doctors have to ask you a bunch of questions. First of all, how do you feel? If you just asked yourself these questions, you might find that you have the answers already. Like, well, I'm starting to feel the way I feel when I'm coming down with that, this thing that I get every now and then. And so I've just been having to be better about listening to my body. And then once I listen to my body, recognize what it means,
01:00:15
Speaker
and then do something about it. That's the next step, right? You gotta do something about it. Bro, absolutely. Like over the last couple of weeks, my mother-in-law was visiting, so...
01:00:26
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I've been locked up here writing the whole time. They were kind of downstairs taking care of the kid and whatnot. And they both told me over the last couple of weeks, because I have an infrared light in the living room where I have my morning coffee and I usually shine that on myself and I have a red light with near infrared light.
01:00:47
Speaker
So I have red near infrared and red light that I kind of use. And both of them, it's basically like this thing I have here. It's like a $20 light bulb, like you have in a terrarium or whatever. And both of them told me they use the lamp because I told them like, if you ever get sick or if you feel like you have something in your lymph nodes, whatever, like it's hard.
01:01:10
Speaker
or an injury, like an elbow sore, just shine that light a few times a day, if you can, or a couple of times if you can. And both of them told me they shone the light around their throat area once, and both of their, whatever sickness was developing went away. So I'm like, that's why it's four. That's why if you listen to Uncle Chris once in a while, you'll be, they do listen, they do listen.
01:01:35
Speaker
But it's interesting, last night, I kind of, because it's gotten cold here, I was kind of sitting in a weird position riding all day and I kind of messed up my knee, bro. And I know immediately what to take. I take chondroitin sulfate, methyl sulfonomethane, MSM. And I use this light for about 20 minutes in the evening and my right knee, which is where the injury was, I don't know, it was a muscular bone cartilage completely went away. Today was perfect.
01:02:03
Speaker
So I have a messed up elbow and I'm gonna need. I was gonna tell you about it last time. I didn't want to inundate you with
Infrared Light Therapy Benefits
01:02:14
Speaker
stuff though. So this if you go, if you go on Amazon and just type in infrared light bulb.
01:02:20
Speaker
They're about $20. I recommend them to most of my clients kind of that I feel would, you know, go through the hassle of setting it up. What is good for is if you take four of these, you can actually set them up. You can get kind of clamp arms. You want to get something sturdy, not like this kind of wonky thing.
01:02:38
Speaker
because it does get very hot. But if you can set up three or four of these, create a mini sauna, that's all you need. And if you do it, let's say you have your morning coffee or you're watching the news, whatever, if you set it up in a little place where you read your book in the morning and use that,
01:02:54
Speaker
just to shine on you especially in the warmer months that's for most people all you need to get a sweat going and actually start using like you using sauna and that's the easiest way and the cheapest way I can get people to start doing sweating and sauna
01:03:12
Speaker
In a parasympathetic manner when you're sitting down as opposed to like sweating in the gym because it's it's there's less sort of Detox pathways then it's because you're more in the fight-or-flight mode mode if you know what I mean, so yeah, bro this this for your elbow Would really work well, and if you want to look into something else called DMS. Oh die methyl sulfoxide
01:03:37
Speaker
The only problem, that stuff works so well. I had a back injury last year and I put some of that stuff on my back. It works so well for pain that I re-injured myself because I completely forgot I had an injury. So it's that good. That's what I'm saying.
01:03:55
Speaker
That's that's how i injured my elbow was because i was finally starting to feel good and i was starting to do a little bit more weight and i got a little ahead of myself and then i injured and i was like what am i doing that's so stupid yeah so it's completely preventable yeah okay for sure yeah
01:04:11
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about 10 minutes three times a day or 15 minutes it will work up to it of course you know gradually it really man it's fucking it's it's amazing it's amazing because in the sun is i think something like 60 70 percent infrared light so it's a nutrient that we are not getting because even if we're outside
01:04:31
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Most of our bodies covered so you're adding back a nutrient like when I was waiting for you to join the room I was kind of reading some stuff I was just getting blasted with infrared light because I'm kind of cooped up in here and it's the days are short so these little little tips and tricks kind of they really
01:04:49
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they add up bro over time they really add up you know you had a supplement here a bit of red light there maybe you you get some blue blockers for the evening maybe you get a like a grounding kit like i have these are super cheap so i'm always grounded at least when i'm here because we know our feet are not touching the
01:05:06
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the mother earth. So little things like that, you know, get an EMF blanket, maybe when next time you're on the plane, you know, or an EMF cap, get a cap or a hat, these little things manage to set up. That's what it's all about. And it's simple. And it becomes a habit. And it's not a, I know in the beginning, people want to have 10 supplements to take their like,
01:05:29
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Oh my God, the whole thing. Then I forgot. And then I thought I messed up. So then I didn't take it because I thought I'd already messed up. So I might as well just like not do it anymore. You know, right. And no, it becomes a habit. It's, yeah, it's part of who, you know, what your team. So it's all good. I'm ready to incorporate the infrared light bulb in them because I'm already, I'm already good with the supplements. I'm already used to that. I definitely need this. I'll just, uh,
01:05:55
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I'll find, I'll get one today on Amazon. I'm interested in these little hacks. And I know that there's so much more that we can always learn about our body. And I know that, look, I'm not going to go get surgery. I'm not going to go get an MRI on my elbow, because if they said, oh yeah, we need to do reconstructive surgery, I'd be like, I'm not going to do that. So I might as well try something else.
01:06:23
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so that the infrared light bulb sounds like a good option for me it's a it's a good um it's a good kind of step in the right direction i would say you could even try it on your toe if you feel a flare coming up yeah i'll try it on everything yeah not that you shouldn't take the the pill to to help because i i've i've heard how horrible galti pain is it's the
01:06:45
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Worst pain I have ever experienced in my life. I've heard that. When you don't know what it is and it goes untreated. I mean, the idea of having even just the thinnest sheet on top of my foot was unthinkable. I don't even want to experience that bro, man. It is so painful. It's such a dumb injury.
01:07:07
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ailment to have. I'm like, didn't Kings that ate cake and drank brandy get this? Darn, isn't this a fat guy disease? I'm like, I don't have any of these things. Why do I have this? I'm thinking, well, I guess if there's one thing I can have, if it's that, then it's not the end of the world. I can fix that.
01:07:28
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Well, as long as you have a weight, sometimes like this is what we kind of, it's not about issuing all drugs. I honestly, like I was telling you when I was on your radio show, TNT, I was telling you, man, we have some of these anti serotonin drugs, pharmaceuticals that can help with cancer and like people take them and they cure their own depression. They use them off label. So we actually have quite a lot of
01:07:53
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good drugs like we're really good at. Specific things blocking the receptors specific enzymes and stuff like that so if we actually order all those billions and billions that have been spent on researching these drugs if they were actually put to truly for the betterment of humanity i honestly think like.
01:08:14
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For example, if you look at antihistamines, I think people that take antihistamines, they've done epidemiological research. Those people live longer. It seems like they live longer. So blocking certain things in the body, like estrogen,
01:08:30
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cortisol not fully but to an extent to like below or close to like low physiological levels like serotonin cortisol estrogen histamine if we can block those there's actually benefits to it you know if you have boost up androgens you know pregnant alone progesterone testosterone so bro we could
01:08:49
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spending billions and billions, we could discover amazing things. We could probably create super humans that were still just meat, not no AI or chips or implants, but they don't want to do that. It's the opposite. Or at the very least, during the time that you are here, you would feel good during that time. I mean, I feel good. I feel I'm fortunate.
01:09:15
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It's not luck. I mean, I make myself feel good. I do the things that you need to do, but I feel good. There's nothing worse than feeling bad. You trade anything. You know what I mean? If you're just somebody that's chronically ill all the time. So again, like, even if we don't extend our life span through the use of this, just enjoying and having higher quality of life now,
01:09:41
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How do you quantify that? You know what I mean? Like, oh, you spend a lot of money on supplements. Yeah. But I feel good. How much would you pay to feel good? You know, if you feel bad, you'd pay almost anything to feel good again. And so why wait until you feel bad to then make that investment instead, the way I see it. And I know you do too, is let's just get in good habits now.
01:10:07
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Not even hard. I'm not sacrificing anything with the habits. I mean, to taking the pills, I mean, it takes me five seconds. There's no, there's no time wasted. There's no, there's nothing. The only thing is money. It's just money, right? You just spend it on that. No, I can waste money on something dumb that I'll never use or a pair of shoes that I don't really love. Or I can spend money on something that I know is going to make me feel just, I'm just going to be,
01:10:37
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a little bit more high functioning. And if I'm a little bit more high functioning, then I feel better, but also I think that maybe I would be better at my job. And if I'm better at my job, then that is, again, hard to measure what that means in the long run. And so all of a sudden that, oh, you're spending a lot of money on supplements, well,
01:11:04
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I'm better at my job now than I was before, so now I'm making more money now. Maybe this was the best investment I ever spent is every month. That's how I view this. I view this as the cost of doing business on this planet, is that I've got to. It's like insurance. Insurance, exactly. It's insurance.
Supplements as Health Insurance
01:11:22
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Yeah. We pay insurance, health insurance.
01:11:26
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And God forbid, if an accident happens, that does come in handy. But for example, like vitamin E, for me, that is health insurance that costs whatever, 10 bucks a month, right? Okay, it's a few other things you might be taking, but you're taking, you have insurance that you're not going to have a subclinical deficiency that will cause certain processes in the body to be downregulated. It's like,
01:11:55
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if you take vitamin E, there's insurance that your brain cells don't get damaged. I don't know how to more clearly describe it. Literally, some of these things protect your brain from freaking brain damage. It's an internal helmet. It's like a helmet inside your brain. It's like vitamin E, vitamin E kind of goes
01:12:25
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Close to the cell membrane like where the lipid the little fatty acids are and if there's an oxidant like a Something is flying around and it wants to destroy something To become neutralized if that's a brain cell membrane or whatever it might a conjure or something vitamin E stops that it's like literally you you've you've got a armor on your freaking lipids that are
01:12:50
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that make your mitochondria your cell membranes your your all these things nervous system tissue so that's what i'm talking about i think
01:12:57
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Once people get it, then they get it and then magical things happen because you get people hooked on health with supplements. The next thing you know, oh, I'm going to get a red light. I'm going to join the gym. Maybe I will stop eating gluten or grains and maybe I'll start buying organic and grass fed and then do like six months, 12 months and then
01:13:23
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Two years like oh, I know I lost 35 pounds and blah blah blah blah I can get an erection again, you know, my wife wants to have sex with me like the amazing things that can happen are Just beyond comprehension. Yeah. Yeah, and it's all within our powers and it's it's about being proactive and and and doing this stuff in advance it's easy to to
01:13:47
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change once you're you're facing like certain death right and just like okay I'll change I'll change I'll change but it's tougher to do it without that threat it's tougher to say I'm going to do it now
01:14:01
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as an insurance against ever having to be in that situation of having diabetes or high blood pressure or whatever, or 50 pounds over, the best way to lose 50 pounds is to never gain 50 pounds. You know what I mean? So, so you, you can do these things by, by, by getting honest and, and, and, and, you know, like part of what I was really helpful with you was that
01:14:28
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I know about some supplements, but when you looked at that test, you were able to suggest a couple of things that I would have never thought of, like the stuff for the candida in my gut. I wouldn't have known that. And you should take this, and then you take these two things and take those until they're done. And it's like, okay, good.
01:14:51
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And then you said there's a couple other things that you're just, I know you're going to need regardless of the test results because everybody's deficient in that. So it's like, okay, get those and then get the tailor made customized ones that are specific for me. And I feel like I have the answers to the test before the test.
01:15:11
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I feel like I'm cheating, frankly, and I'm fine with it. That's why I want to call my book. I'm hoping to have it a series, maybe two or three volumes of it, just so they're shorter and easier to read for people. But I think it's going to be called something along the lines of shortcuts to better health, longevity, and mental performance. And I want to make sure that people understand it's shortcut.
01:15:36
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It's only cheating if you're racing against other people, but it's not a race. You're not racing anybody else. This is your journey. And if you can shortcut the process to either restoring your health or optimizing your health, why wouldn't you? You're not cheating anybody. In fact, if anything, you're cheating yourself by not doing the shortcuts because then you are cheating yourself out of more health, better health, more energy, more joy.
01:16:05
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more sort of capacity to create whatever you came here to create on Earth. Yeah. Yeah. You ever hear of those people that sign up for the marathons and then they get busted taking cars from one part of the race to the other? Those people are awful. You're playing against everybody else. That's not good. But if the shortcut means that
01:16:36
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you're going to have more time to spend with your kids, then who are you cheating? Like I said, who are you cheating on this? And if it costs you 20 bucks a month for that, let's say it's a supplement that a lot of the shortcuts or having a couple of tablespoons of honey, some of the shortcuts are gonna be just ditching stupid things that are actually pseudo-healthy, ostensibly healthy, but they're actually hurting us. And I think that's gonna add some value to people. But listen, Charlie,
01:17:06
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Yes We need to wrap this up bro. Yes, but before we do I really I would love if you could tantalize us a little bit about this documentary You're mentioning to me before we wrap it up.
Documentary Plans and Book Promotion
01:17:20
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I Wrote that my first book is called the octopus of global control. It's an eight-part series and when I was writing that book I
01:17:28
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I knew just based on the format of the book, the way I brought, I have 700 quotes from 500 different people. And some of the quotes are from people that are long past. And some of them are from Joe Rogan, you know, like a quote from his, you know, from an episode of his show. And as I'm writing this book, I'm thinking, you know, it's eight parts of the book, it's eight tentacles of the octopus. And I'm thinking it's an eight part series.
01:17:54
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I wrote this book and I was writing it in 2016. It came out in 2017. It had always been in my mind to do that. I've been talking to people about trying to make that happen, a director that I know that wants to do it.
01:18:16
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That's one of the things. I'm going to go to Anarkapulco and talk to some people about, you know, there's a film component to Anarkapulco as well. We have a movie. The Jones Plantation was shown there. I saw a great documentary on the Dutch farmers. It was English subtitles, but it was in French. I think what we were watching was in French. I'm not sure.
01:18:45
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But there's films that get shown there as well. And that really sort of, I was like, I gotta talk to these people about raising money for this. This isn't gonna be like a, I don't need $10 million or anything. But I really thought that like,
01:19:07
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I'm leaving people out of the equation by it only being a book. And I know that some people just aren't going to sit down and read the book. So I want to try and transform the book into an eight part documentary series. That is smart. It's kind of early stages of that, but we're going to work on making that happen. I don't know how I'm going to get there, but I know that
01:19:37
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I will talk to somebody and that person will say, you know, who you really need to talk to is this guy. And then that'll, you know, so I don't know how to get from A to Z necessarily, but I know how to get from A to B and I trust that once I get from B I'll figure out how to get to C and from C to D. And so I know that these doors will sort of open themselves along the way.
01:20:02
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And I think the first part is like coming up with a plan and I definitely have a plan and coming up with a, you know, the, the description and how I want it done. And that's all, that's all done and finding a director. And that's good. I guess in some levels it's, it's, it's simultaneously the hardest and easiest part. I just need one thing. It's money. A lot of, some people have a lot of money and they don't, and to them it's not a big deal.
01:20:29
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And when you need money for a project, it's like, well, get in line, buddy, you and everybody else. But the project is in the... It's meant to be. And as a result of that, after writing the first book in eight parts, when I wrote the controlled demolition of the American empire with Jeff Berwick,
01:20:52
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Jeff didn't maybe realize this at the time, because I came up with the framework of it, and that's written in eight parts as well. My third book, Hypocrisy.
01:21:04
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That's written in eight parts as well. In my mind, it had always been season one, season two, season three. Love it. That's, I think, maybe the next evolution of this. It's like I've been writing and doing the podcast and radio and public speaking and stuff like that. Charlie Robinson.
01:21:27
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Film producer. Has a good ring to it, bro. Oh, that sounds slimy just saying it. You want to get produced? Bro, that's amazing. I think the information is...
01:21:46
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I think this might be one of the few examples where someone will say that the movie's better than the book because you can do more visually. You can put the faces of the people. I think when people see Bush, Kissinger, Rock, when they see these people that are, oh, you know,
01:22:10
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Such respected philanthropists when they see the dirt bags that they are i think we're gonna maybe netflix will pick it up you never know you never know you never know yeah i would i mean i would. My interest in this would be to find the biggest audience right bunch of people that that need to sort of here.
01:22:35
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the words of these people. And I know that the right person that has the vision, like the director that wants to work on this, you can make these quotes come to life. You can find the actual video clip, or you can have some fun with it. Somebody that's way more
01:22:57
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artistically inclined, I think, would see that book and go, oh, let me at it. I can have a field day with it. So we'll see how it goes. And of course, I'll keep you posted. For sure. Yeah, looking forward to that because absolutely, if you look at the amount of people that are going to watch a film, if you look at David Whitehead's Cult of the Medic series, I
01:23:24
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I prefer to read things, but I watch some of it and I downloaded all of them, but it's very powerful. When you put it in visual format, it becomes powerful. And I think you have to be at that point, you have to literally cover your eyes and put carrots in your ears to not get the information into your brain. And at that point, that's on you. That's your choice at that point.
01:23:53
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Yeah, yeah. Yeah. So I'm hoping that that'll be the next iteration of this adventure. But it's always good to see you. It's always good to talk to you. Let's just let the folks know that who don't know where they can find you on the internet how to connect
Charlie's Social Media and Podcast Information
01:24:10
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with you.
01:24:10
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Macroaggressions podcast goes out twice a week, once as a interview on Sundays and once as a monologue on Wednesdays. And you can find that in video format over at Rumble now. I just started a Rumble channel, so it's just getting started. It's over at band.video, which is Alex Jones' place. It's on Rockfin.
01:24:33
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and you can find it in audio format wherever podcasts are available. My information about everything I'm doing, the books and the shows are at theoctopusofglobalcontrol.com. That's the website. And you can follow me on Twitter at macroaggressions. That's probably social media wise, it's the best place to find me. Thank you so much, Charlie. Thank you for having me.