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Hey everyone, welcome to the um you know what, Dan?
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This is our first episode.
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So not we'll talk a little bit, we'll talk about what we're gonna talk about on the episodes, okay?
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Um so we're gonna just do this.
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It's gonna be once a week on Saturdays, is when it's gonna be dropped.
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Um and this is called the Positive Focus uh podcast.
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So we're gonna talk about mindset, physical health, all kinds of stuff that relate to living an exceptional life.
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And I don't know if you ever you ever listened to the uh Dan, I don't know if you ever listened to uh Jim Rohn's Art of Exceptional Living.
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Um, I used to have, I think that was a nightingale Conan program.
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It was, it was it was.
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I I used to, I I mean, I had stacks of their audio cassette and CD programs around here, and I know you did too.
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Um, but so that's kind of what it is.
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How do you design a great life?
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How do you live a great life?
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Um, I'm currently working on a book called Abercadaber, How to Live a Magical Life.
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And it's gonna, I'm gonna connect it to my magic, you know, profession.
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So, you know, along with philosophy on silence and being in nature and creativity and those kinds of things, I'm gonna connect it to magic tricks too.
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But sort of that's what the podcast, that's how I see it, is something not necessarily hacks, because I'm not sure I like the idea of a shortcut, you know.
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A shortcut is what it is to shortcut, because sometimes you got to go through shit to get to the other side, and not you, there are no shortcuts.
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But I just see it as you and I discussing books or programs or ideas or philosophies, science, medicine, literature, art, um, religion that can help people tap into the best versions of themselves in their life.
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How do you see what we you want to what we're gonna do here?
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That that that pretty much matches what I was thinking.
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Um I just have to make a disclaimer.
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I I've reached a point in my life where I'm able to admit, I think what the Chinese call beginner's mind.
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Like, I know nothing.
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You know, the stuff I thought I knew is all been talking.
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I gonna let my son in, I'm gonna let you keep talking about it.
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Oh, okay.
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Tell him what you're thinking.
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I've been told that the highest form of intelligence is not IQ, it's not being able to memorize long streams of numbers, all the stuff, you know, we've been told that you can measure intelligence.
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Um, the highest form of intelligence is metacognition, turning turning the mind in on itself and right, right, thinking about thinking.
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Yeah, not many people do that practice.
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Um, because what happens is with the with the few people I know who've done it regularly, and my experience has shown, as soon as you start turning the mind on itself and start examining your beliefs, a couple things happen.
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Um you discover none of your beliefs are your own.
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They were implanted by other people, other entities, other organizations, and you discover that all or a majority of them are untrue.
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And then that leads, and this is the reason why nobody ever does it, because that leads to, well, now your entire frame of reality has been turned upside down, and this the the obvious next result of that is the ego death, which feels like a real death and is extremely uncomfortable.
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Um so I've been doing that the past several years, and you know, it's I've had to re-examine everything.
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So you know, I I'm a seeker, but I have to admit I know nothing.
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I've done a lot of research and reading, and some stuff makes sense, most of it doesn't make sense.
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So I just say that disclaimer up front.
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I'm just sharing personal experience, you know.
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Well, me too.
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I I I've always I guess for me, and I this this whole thing for me, gosh, I for I don't know why, but I it's almost like a quest, right?
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I mean, you're you are a seeker, you're on it's like uh in the tarot, the very first card is the zero in the in the major arcana, and it's the fool.
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They call him the fool.
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Not because he's stupid, but because he's he's his mind sort of is tabla rasa, and he's seeking, right?
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So he's in the back in the background of the cards you can see the sun rising.
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He's got a little white dog nipping at his heels, right?
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And every one of these, and then he's got a little stick with his pouch on, he's carrying his belongings, and basically everything is he's on a quest to find himself, to seek knowledge, to and and that's what it is.
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I and I'll say the the same claim.
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I am not claiming to be an expert in any of these things, right?
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This is you and I have sharing our experiences of the quest we've been on over the last 63 years for me.
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And I think I started mine.
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Gosh, I was probably 10 or 11, 12 years old.
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I remember going, my mom would take me to uh uh like new age bookstores and stuff like that, and then being in the martial arts.
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So I'd always yeah, Buddhism and Zen, and then and then all that.
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This and like you and I were just talking about, one thing leads to another, to another, to another.
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And you it just it's ever and then the more the more I the more I read, the more stuff I study, the more I listen to, the more I know I don't know, right?
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And but you're absolutely right.
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When you turn the mind in on itself, you realize, man, I don't really know anything.
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Most of what I do know, somebody else planted in me.
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Um, when I teach my roadworthy communication course, I tell them that.
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I said, you know, where did your beliefs come from?
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And beliefs are the cornerstone, right, of our identity, our ego.
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And they came from our parents and our family and our friends and our culture and our church and the media and politicians.
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There's a book that was written, oh gosh, probably back in the 90s.
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I'm not sure it's in printing more.
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It's called Viruses of the Mind.
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And basically it was a research study, I forget what college did it, and they came to the conclusion that most of the thoughts and beliefs, values, principles people hold are not their own.
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Somebody else gave them, they implanted them through propaganda or repetition, or, you know, it's a it's a the person who did it was somebody we looked up to as a an authority figure, you know, a teacher, uh, a pastor, a parent.
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And they just, and you just accept this, right?
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It's like Earl Nightingale when he talks about the strangest secret, he said, it was so funny listening to all the older people around him talking about wealth and money, and none of them had any.
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He said, So how valid were any of their opinions or beliefs?
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And I think that's really what it is.
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So our my goal is every time I read a book or come across something, you know, I just want to share it with somebody else.
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Because one of the things I've learned as a teacher is I've always learned more teaching than I did learning.
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Right.
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Yeah.
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You know, I do.
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I it opens up all kinds of vistas because when you're going to go in front of a group of people and talk about something, you better know it pretty well because you're going to get questions and you're going to get pushback.
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And even if you don't have the answers, it may be you now see, wow, there's a different way to I then look at it like that.
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And now they've opened up a whole new avenue for me to explore.
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Right.
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Yeah.
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That's the cool thing about teaching.
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It is.
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I've I learned that pretty early on.
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I said, man, I've learned a lot teaching, probably more than my students learned from sitting in the classroom and listening to me talk, right?
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You know, because you've got 30 or 40 people in that room, and you're it's a shared experience, and they're all giving you their perspectives, some more valid than others, or some more educated than others, but you're still getting the different, at least a different viewpoint on it, right?
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That's right.
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Yeah.
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It's so, I mean, that's sort of the goal is just to share with anybody listening or watching some new ideas, some food for thought, the idea that maybe you should sit down in some silence and think about thinking.
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What is it I believe?
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Why do I believe that?
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Where did that come from?
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Has that belief served me in the past?
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Is it serving me now?
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I mean, you know, and you're right.
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I think once you realize all that comes crashing down that framework, it is a death of your ego because that's your identity, right?
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And it does, it it's it's it's painful existentially.
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It's a crisis, sort of, and you've got to rebuild.
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And now you're trying to rebuild with new blocks and new ideas, and hopefully they're not, they're not flawed.
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And they probably are, right?
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Yeah.
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To some degree, or at least maybe your understanding of them.
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So before we started the show, you and I were talking about both of us have had, I don't know if I'll disclose mine.
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I had a heart attack um three years ago.
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I thought I was doing everything right.
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I never smoked, I never drank, never did drugs.
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You know, I exercised most of my life as a martial artist.
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I meditated since I was a kid.
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Um, I ate my share of crap.
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Don't get me wrong, I ate french fries and hamburgers and stuff like that.
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But there was a good portion of my life I was a vegetarian.
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And so I thought, man, I'm doing everything right.
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That's if if anything gets me, it's gonna be cancer and not heart disease.
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And then lo and behold, out of nowhere, I have a heart attack.
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Unfortunately, it wasn't.
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Didn't some people only get one.
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And uh, for me it wasn't, I lucked out, it wasn't too bad, still damaged to the heart muscle and had to go through two years of surgeries and therapy and stuff.
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But that experience for me, and I know for you in many ways, um, man, it exposed to me the shortcomings of our medical system in a lot of ways, and uh the fact that they are very rigid in the way they think, their philosophy, the way they execute medicine.
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I think a lot of that's money driven, but that's been my experience, and it's it's it's kind of frustrating.
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So part of what we're gonna talk about here, certainly, once again, neither of us are doctors, not giving you health advice, but just our experiences and maybe give you at least something to think about.
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Yeah, absolutely.
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You know, so I had two heart attacks in May of 2024.
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The first one I was at the gym and uh I was in good shape.
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Well, you're in good shape now.
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I mean, you just won what a couple months ago, what how many gold medals and medals at at senior bodybuilding competition?
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Yeah, that was if you can see Dan standing up, he's ripped.
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That was my that was part of my comeback.
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I thought this will make a great story if I can come back from two widowmaker heart attacks and and compete in bodybuilding, but yeah, you know, um it's it it's a wake-up call, right?
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Like you I was 59 at the time and thought I was in really good shape, but um yeah, it it it it wakes you up, makes you look at things differently, and then you are deep in the system at that point, you know.
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You know, once you get in the system, it seems like most people never get out, and the system eventually kills them, not necessarily the dis disease they have, but the treatments kill a lot of people, millions of people, the treatments themselves.
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I guess they say if you add up um deaths from improperly prescribed meds, procedures that never should have been done, but add on top of that properly prescribed meds and properly prescribed procedures, the medical system itself would be the number one killer in the U.S.
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I no, I totally believe that.
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I think one of the most scary and dangerous places you can be is a hospital.
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Yeah.
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Right?
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I mean, on top of all those things, medical, and it's just amazing when someone dies as a result of a surgical process or over medication or the wrong medication, or like you said, the right one that just didn't work the right way.
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They call it, I mean, the euphemistic language is just incredible.
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You die as a result of any of those processes, it's called a therapeutic misadventure.
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God now, tell you know, do you ever see that that skit where George Carlin talks about language?
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Right?
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This would be an ex an example of how we have taken, you know, hey, we screwed up and somebody died to therapeutic misadventure.
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You know, if somebody said that to you, you'd look at him and go, what does that mean, what the hell does that mean?
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Yeah.
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I mean, if the doctor might have said, I'm sorry, your husband had a therapeutic misadventure, I don't think anybody in the room would know he died.
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It doesn't explain anything.
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It just sounds very benign.
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Right, right.
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And that's the whole goal, right?
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And you know, for me, and I know for you, I I'm still on some meds and I'm trying my best to get off.
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I've looked for every alternative measure like you have to to, you know, because the deeper you go, the once you're in this system, like Dan said, deeply, you start realizing, man, the limitations of what they can do and diagnose.
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For me, this is my story.
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Uh uh after my heart attack, they put in a stint.
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I'm on stage in Atlanta five or six months later having chest pains.
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I come back, they do an echocardiogram, they do an EKG, they do, you know, a stress test, they do the D-dimer, they do a troponin numbers, everything they all their little tests.
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And they came back and said, Well, your heart's fine.
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I said, Well, it's not fine.
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I'm having chest pain.
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So they finally say, Okay, we're gonna go do it, we're gonna do a calf.
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This is where they go in through an artery in your leg or your arm, and they put a camera in there and they look at your heart.
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And lo and behold, they look at my heart and he goes, You need a bypass.
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He said, No, wait a minute.
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Four months ago, I had a stint put in.
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He goes, Well, they missed this.
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I said, How the hell did they miss that I needed a bypass?
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He said, I don't know.
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So now I go get a bypass, right?
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I literally, fortunate for me, like Dan and I were just talking about, I got to have robotic surgery.
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We will see if that's a blessing or not as time moves forward, right?
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Um, at the time it was, it's not near as painful.
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They don't cut you open, it's a much smaller scar.
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They went in and they moved an artery and and re-rerouted the blood, right?
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Five or six months later, I'm having chest pain again on stage.
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End up back at the cath lab.
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He finds another small artery that needs ballooned.
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So, in the three years, two and a half years since this, I've had a heart attack, a stint, a bypass, and a balloon.
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My gosh.
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And still to this day, I'm having some pressure and chest pain.
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And I know and it gets frustrating because you go back, they do the same test they've always done, they don't find anything, and then they go in and maybe and I'm hoping they don't find anything, right?
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But it gives you no confidence in their testing modality.
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None.
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So you say I'm c my heart's clear, but every time you've said that, it has not been clear.
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So why do we even do these and how am I supposed to trust them?
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Yeah.
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And then you and I we we look at the literature on cholesterol and all the stuff they say we need to do, and the actual science doesn't support any of that.
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That's right.
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I mean, so I mean, you currently I think are on no drugs at all, right?
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I mean, you just went drug free, basically.
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Yeah, I I took myself off all that stuff, cold turkey.
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You know what's interesting is so I had a double bypass.
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It was an initially supposed to be a triple bypass.
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My my lower ascending, whatever, I forget what it's what its name is LAD, the largest artery in the heart, it was 99% blocked.
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The second largest artery was 99% blocked.
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That's why they call it the widowmaker.
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When your LAD artery is more than 90% blocked, like only 6% of the people who have that heart attack outside of a hospital survive it.
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Wow.
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And um, you know, nobody survives having their two largest heart arteries 99% blocked, but the surgeon was saying because of the way I've been training for like a year before the heart attack, he thinks that you know the heart could be pretty resilient.
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He thinks that what it did is it built some alternative circulation around those two arteries that allowed me to function.
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Like tributaries.
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Yeah.
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Um, but yeah, so they only did a double bypass.
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I you know, I should have asked why, because my the third largest heart artery was 75% blocked.
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Yeah, why would they not bypass?
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I mean, they're in there, or what they'd already cracked my chest open.
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I don't know why they didn't take care of it.
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Right.
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It's like when they take, you know, if the water pumping your car's out, you may as well replace some belts while you're in there, right?
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Yeah, I exactly.
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You know, which I don't know if that's a good thing or a bad thing.
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I all I can tell you is I'm never going through it again.
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So whatever was done, that's it.
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I'm ending it there.
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But then they like cleared me for I think it was October.
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I had the surgery in June, then they cleared me for get back to full activities in October.
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And uh my heart rate was sky high, my blood pressure was sky high.
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So I went to I had moved then, so I saw a different cardiologist.
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The first one cleared me to go back to full activity, you know, and then a month later I'm having all these issues.
00:17:49.119 --> 00:17:57.599
I went to a new cardiologist, and um, you know, they they ordered tests and stuff, and he doubled my meds.
00:17:57.680 --> 00:18:04.559
I was taking metropolol, which is a heart med, and which which has a black box warning on it.
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Yeah, which I had not read at the time.
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Um and in a blood.
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Just taking the drug, black box means just taking that drug has a certain percentage of killing you just taking it.
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Yeah.
00:18:18.640 --> 00:18:22.079
Unfortunately, I didn't read the black box warning until nobody does, right?
00:18:22.480 --> 00:18:31.599
After all this stuff, he doubled my meds and my heart rate shot up even higher, like the stroke level high, and my blood pressure also.
00:18:32.079 --> 00:18:35.759
And a friend of mine who's a chiropractor said, When's your follow-up?
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I said, in two weeks.
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He goes, Here's what's gonna happen.
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So this was this was October of 2024.
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He goes, It's your follow-up.
00:18:46.000 --> 00:18:53.920
Since doubling it made things worse, he's gonna triple the dosage, and you will not make it until the end of the year.
00:18:54.079 --> 00:18:55.599
You won't even make it through the year.
00:18:55.920 --> 00:18:57.359
So think about that logic.
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They double the meds and the conditions and symptoms get worse.
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So what are they gonna do?
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They're gonna triple them.
00:19:02.480 --> 00:19:09.279
I mean, instead of going, wait a minute, maybe we need to rethink this whole process, they just keep dumping, dumping the garbage on you.
00:19:09.920 --> 00:19:17.839
It was after I talked with my chiropractor friend that I read the black box warning on metropolol or metropolol, however you pronounce it.
00:19:18.000 --> 00:19:21.519
And um it was pretty scary.
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Like it causes heart attacks in one out of a hundred people.
00:19:25.359 --> 00:19:26.799
That's a lot of people.
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Right.
00:19:27.680 --> 00:19:37.440
And one of the side effects is high blood pressure, another side effect is high heart rate, the exact thing they prescribe it for to lower it.
00:19:37.680 --> 00:19:40.799
You know, and there's a lot, uh I unfortunately I also suffer gout.
00:19:40.960 --> 00:19:44.000
Almost all the gout medicine causes gout.
00:19:44.960 --> 00:19:55.519
So I mean you it's just you know, I mean, I'm not the the brightest bulb in the in the in the in the place, but you think, whoa, how does that work out?
00:19:55.680 --> 00:19:55.759
Right?
00:19:55.839 --> 00:19:57.039
How does that make any sense?
00:19:57.200 --> 00:20:00.319
And a lot of drugs are like this, right?
00:20:00.799 --> 00:20:09.759
Um and that's why immediately once you're in this system and you start seeing how it isn't working, you start looking for alternatives.
00:20:09.839 --> 00:20:13.920
I mean, it's just a natural human nature to go, okay, there's got to be another way, right?
00:20:14.000 --> 00:20:22.319
And this is where you start stumbling on, you know, other doctors, other modalities, other philosophies, and you start experimenting with them, right?
00:20:22.400 --> 00:20:28.880
And and trying to alleviate your symptoms and extend both the quality and quantity of your life.
00:20:29.839 --> 00:20:46.240
You know, it makes me wonder heart medications that are prescribed to lower your heart rate and lower your blood pressure, and the side effects are raising your heart rate and your blood pressure.
00:20:46.400 --> 00:20:49.839
That is so stupid, it makes me wonder if that's done intentionally.
00:20:50.160 --> 00:20:50.400
Right.
00:20:50.559 --> 00:20:53.839
I mean, you gotta you so you do have to be suspect a little bit, don't you?
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And you know as well as I do, maybe the maybe the physician is even well-meaning, but the new drugs, the new modalities, the new stuff that's being dumped into the system, they don't have time to read all the literature.
00:21:06.640 --> 00:21:12.160
And they are the drug reps come in and sell them, hey, this is the newest widget we've got.
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It'll do all these things.
00:21:13.839 --> 00:21:16.240
You know, they probably do very little to no research on it.
00:21:16.319 --> 00:21:18.559
They just take the word of the drug company.
00:21:18.799 --> 00:21:22.799
Of course, you know, we all know there are kickbacks involved in this whole system.
00:21:22.960 --> 00:21:24.880
Everybody's making money somehow.
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The drug rep, the drug company, the doctor, I mean, the middleman, the drug manufacturer, there's so much money involved.
00:21:32.000 --> 00:21:33.359
You know, you gotta be suspect.
00:21:33.519 --> 00:21:50.240
That's why, you know, I was thrilled when when Donald Trump appointed Robert Kennedy, you know, as his health guy, because he he's all about this make America Healthy Again movement, which is all uh basically an all natural approach because what we're doing now, I mean, think of the think of this, Dan.
00:21:50.400 --> 00:21:58.000
The billions of dollars we have poured into cancer research and heart research, and and it's all of it's worse than it was before.
00:21:58.160 --> 00:21:58.559
Yeah.
00:21:58.799 --> 00:22:01.200
Now that that doesn't Make none of that makes sense.
00:22:01.279 --> 00:22:07.599
You can't pour billions and billions of dollars into something and it not getting any better.
00:22:07.839 --> 00:22:25.519
And the advice, when we now know we look back, and the advice they were giving us in the 70s and the 80s was you know, hot what would they tell look at the the food pyramid prior to Trump and Kennedy was literally the first two or three tiers were basically carbs, simple carbohydrates.
00:22:25.839 --> 00:22:27.359
So sugar, right?
00:22:28.079 --> 00:22:30.240
Fill your body with sugar, that's gotta be good for you.
00:22:30.319 --> 00:22:35.440
And we all know now we know that sugar is more addictive than cocaine and more toxic than most drugs.
00:22:36.720 --> 00:22:37.279
Right.
00:22:37.599 --> 00:22:45.359
It causes the inflammation, which causes disease, raises cortisol levels, and damn near every disease is a process of inflammation.
00:22:46.880 --> 00:22:47.839
Exactly.
00:22:48.079 --> 00:22:52.079
And I so I mean you just start to look for different answers.
00:22:52.160 --> 00:23:01.920
And you know, I uh you know, I went to a place here where I spent I literally cost me two grand out of pocket to get this massive blood panel done.
00:23:02.160 --> 00:23:10.720
They came back with these numbers, and most of them were not too bad, but he said, the way I this way we look at numbers, the way the traditional system, this number says you're okay.
00:23:10.960 --> 00:23:12.640
This is a number we would like you at.
00:23:12.799 --> 00:23:14.160
This is okay, really.
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And basically that came down to diet, exercise, and supplements is essentially what it was.
00:23:20.720 --> 00:23:26.640
And you know, and then I went back for the the the next panel and everything was better, you know.
00:23:26.960 --> 00:23:28.640
So I'm I'm still on that regimen.
00:23:28.799 --> 00:23:31.759
I I literally take 33 vitamins a day.
00:23:32.640 --> 00:23:34.720
I mean, it's a it's a shitload.
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It is.
00:23:35.519 --> 00:23:36.160
It's a lot.
00:23:36.480 --> 00:23:40.160
I'd rather take that than take none, you know.
00:23:40.319 --> 00:23:42.000
Can you get vitamin toxicity over?
00:23:42.240 --> 00:23:43.200
Yeah, you can.
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Uh, but it the chances are lower.
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But there's no black box warning on any of these vitamins.
00:23:48.640 --> 00:23:52.079
If you take vitamin C, this might kill you, you know.
00:23:52.319 --> 00:24:03.519
And you know, when you're when I was in the uh the cardiac and uh ICU unit, you know, they were doing stuff to I was getting, I mean drugs pumped into me right and left, not knowing what any of it was.
00:24:03.680 --> 00:24:09.039
And then later on I find out almost all these drugs they were put into me had a black box warning.
00:24:10.319 --> 00:24:10.799
Yep.
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You know, and so it's just by the grace of God I got out of the cardiac IC unit and actually got home.
00:24:16.160 --> 00:24:21.440
Because I asked, well, I asked my cardio, my surgeon before the surgery, I said, What's the mortality rate?
00:24:21.599 --> 00:24:23.359
He goes, Well, nobody dies on the table.
00:24:23.440 --> 00:24:24.640
He said, That's very rare.
00:24:24.799 --> 00:24:27.279
He said, But people do die after the surgery sometimes.
00:24:27.359 --> 00:24:29.359
And he was trying to, he would give me some numbers.
00:24:29.599 --> 00:24:31.599
And I now know why, right?
00:24:31.759 --> 00:24:33.119
I mean, yes.
00:24:33.680 --> 00:24:35.440
And so that was uh for me.
00:24:35.519 --> 00:24:37.119
So that's my story and Dan's story.
00:24:37.279 --> 00:24:49.920
I just and I and today I just wanted we want to talk about I think uh of anything that comes out of this is this if you end up in a hospital, this is my personal opinion, A, have an advocate there for you.
00:24:50.720 --> 00:25:00.079
Somebody, not you, that knows what the hell that's gonna be, somebody who's tenacious, somebody who's a bulldog, somebody who's a pain in the ass, because they're gonna question everything.
00:25:00.160 --> 00:25:01.759
And you that's what you need in a hospital.
00:25:01.920 --> 00:25:13.119
Because I was just a couple months ago, they did two or three surgeries in a hospital in Nashville, and the bags were supposed to be filled with saline, they were filled with a drug that killed two people, paralyzed two others.
00:25:13.359 --> 00:25:17.200
It wasn't until the fourth surgery, and then we're talking knee and back surgeries.
00:25:17.519 --> 00:25:20.400
It wasn't until the fourth person coded that they go, huh?
00:25:21.200 --> 00:25:22.079
Something's not right here.
00:25:22.240 --> 00:25:26.079
Yeah, the pharmacy was putting into the bags the wrong drug.
00:25:26.480 --> 00:25:27.599
Jeez, man.
00:25:28.000 --> 00:25:30.720
And they killed two people, paralyzed two others.
00:25:31.440 --> 00:25:34.160
So you go in for knee surgery and you end up dead.
00:25:35.119 --> 00:25:35.519
Wow.
00:25:36.000 --> 00:25:39.039
That would be what we call a therapeutic misadventure.
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Right?
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Right?
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And so I think yeah, I this is my take.
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Have an advocate.
00:25:45.519 --> 00:25:52.319
Uh, I I have a friend who is uh uh she's a PA and uh and a nurse and ran emergency rooms.
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It's Larry Faulkner's wife.
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And I always joked with her.
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I said, if I ever end up in the hospital with something serious, I'm gonna fly you here because she knows the system, she knows how it works, and she they can't they can't blow smoke at her because she's been there, she's done it.
00:26:06.000 --> 00:26:16.240
And when they took me into the hospital here, um, I'm my wife was on the phone with her, and they were getting ready to move me out of the ER up to the heart room unit.
00:26:16.559 --> 00:26:21.279
And the cardiologist refused to come in, refused to come in.
00:26:21.440 --> 00:26:23.440
It was Sunday, he wasn't coming in.
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Multiple calls from the house nurse, emails, text messages, phone calls, he would not come in.
00:26:29.039 --> 00:26:33.279
They were getting ready to wheel me out, and Lisa says, Don't let them take you out of the emergency room.
00:26:33.359 --> 00:26:44.400
She goes, the second you leave the emergency room and go to a uh a wing of the hospital or another level, your status in the hospital changes and it changes insurance and it changes how they treat you.
00:26:44.480 --> 00:26:45.759
It changes a lot of stuff.
00:26:45.839 --> 00:26:50.960
He said, and the nurse heard her say that, so she pulled wheels me back in to the into my ER.
00:26:51.359 --> 00:26:52.880
She goes, So what do you want to do?
00:26:53.039 --> 00:26:56.160
I said, Well, you know, this I trust this woman implicitly.
00:26:56.319 --> 00:27:00.880
So if she says we stay here until XYZ happens, that's what we're gonna do.
00:27:01.599 --> 00:27:08.240
You know, so I think having an advocate is critical because you the everything has to be checked because you know, they're number one, they're human.
00:27:08.400 --> 00:27:10.240
Number two, a lot of times they are overworked.
00:27:10.319 --> 00:27:12.559
And number three, sometimes I just don't think they give a shit.
00:27:12.640 --> 00:27:13.279
You're just a number.
00:27:13.359 --> 00:27:17.200
You're another guy, you're just they're gonna clean the room out and put somebody else in it.
00:27:18.319 --> 00:27:22.079
You know, I think this is something that's becoming more common.
00:27:22.240 --> 00:27:27.359
I didn't hear about advocacy until when I was in the cardiac unit.
00:27:27.519 --> 00:27:41.519
One of my friends who's an investigative journalist called me and uh and gave me the name of this company, which I cannot recall right now, but um Yeah, they will be they you pay them and they'll be your professional advocate.
00:27:41.920 --> 00:27:44.480
Pay them and they'll basically be your advocate.
00:27:44.559 --> 00:27:45.680
They'll look over everything.
00:27:45.920 --> 00:27:53.440
I think I think this one that he recommended, I think the primary person was a nurse practitioner, not an MPC.
00:27:53.599 --> 00:27:54.640
I think I know who you're talking about.
00:27:54.720 --> 00:27:55.920
I think I've heard of them too.
00:27:56.240 --> 00:27:58.960
But like he he highly recommended it.
00:27:59.119 --> 00:28:01.359
Like you you shouldn't be in there alone.
00:28:01.839 --> 00:28:08.799
No, because I mean, number one, you're in pain, you're out of it, you know, plus they're pumping you full of drugs, you never know what those are doing to your mind.
00:28:09.039 --> 00:28:15.599
And now, I'm because I remember sitting there many times, my wife was in the room with me, and she's like, She could tell I was zoned out, right?
00:28:15.759 --> 00:28:18.799
I mean, um got you're in pain, they're coming in doing all this shit to you.
00:28:18.880 --> 00:28:20.480
It's like a never end 5 a.m.
00:28:20.640 --> 00:28:29.839
you wake up for a way in, and then you start doing, you know, your your uh your uh breathing therapy and then you do your occupational therapy and it never stops.
00:28:30.079 --> 00:28:35.599
Yeah, you're getting visit with nurses who are through throwing pills at you and shit all the time, and you have no idea.
00:28:35.680 --> 00:28:40.240
I mean, it's it's the last place you're gonna get rest is a hospital, that's for damn sure.
00:28:40.480 --> 00:28:42.720
Oh man, they're constantly waking you up.
00:28:43.039 --> 00:28:43.519
I know.
00:28:43.839 --> 00:28:47.599
I was in the cardiac unit for three weeks because Wow.
00:28:47.839 --> 00:28:50.880
I mean, it could have been less than that.
00:28:51.039 --> 00:28:53.920
It's just this was in a small town, right?
00:28:54.000 --> 00:28:55.759
This was in Ocala, Florida.
00:28:56.000 --> 00:29:04.240
And at that hospital, they only had two cardiac surgeons, and the one had just left to take a better paying job at the other hospital.
00:29:04.319 --> 00:29:06.559
So they were down to have one.
00:29:07.279 --> 00:29:15.359
So I was in there, I was I was on a constant heparin drip for, you know, three weeks.
00:29:15.599 --> 00:29:17.519
Yeah, heparin's waiting for surgery.
00:29:20.319 --> 00:29:20.559
Yeah.
00:29:20.880 --> 00:29:21.359
Mm-hmm.
00:29:22.319 --> 00:29:41.519
Yeah, and in the in the the the chiropractor I told you about, who I talked to about my meds, he called me when I was in the cardiac unit and he said, one of my friends is a uh uh not neurosurgeon.
00:29:41.839 --> 00:29:44.240
Was he a neurosurgeon or orthopedic?
00:29:44.400 --> 00:29:45.440
One one of those two.
00:29:45.680 --> 00:29:45.839
Right.
00:29:46.000 --> 00:29:47.599
Now he was a neurosurgeon.
00:29:47.680 --> 00:29:49.039
That's some pretty heavy-duty stuff.
00:29:49.200 --> 00:29:49.680
Oh, yeah, absolutely.
00:29:50.720 --> 00:30:00.720
And he goes, I asked my neurosurgeon friend, you know, I told him that you're gonna be in the hospital for a long time, and I asked him, what's your primary piece of advice?
00:30:00.880 --> 00:30:03.759
And he goes, tell him don't eat the food.
00:30:04.400 --> 00:30:08.960
He is after a few days of eating that hospital food, you will be malnourished.
00:30:09.279 --> 00:30:10.319
Oh, I believe that.
00:30:10.400 --> 00:30:11.920
That was it's all crap.
00:30:13.039 --> 00:30:13.839
So what do you do though?
00:30:13.920 --> 00:30:18.720
You unless you have somebody who's gonna be coming and visiting you every day and bringing you some nutrition.
00:30:19.519 --> 00:30:21.359
Yeah, you're stuck eating the food.
00:30:21.519 --> 00:30:34.400
Although I got lucky, I had I had a girlfriend at the time, and she was there with me damn near 24-7, and then my sister came into town, so they would bring me food, you know, and still it wasn't great food.
00:30:34.480 --> 00:30:39.680
It wasn't the food I'm accustomed to eating, you know, because they would get it at a restaurant or something.
00:30:39.920 --> 00:30:40.640
Right, sure.
00:30:40.960 --> 00:30:44.000
But it was still a hell of a lot better than the hospital food.
00:30:44.480 --> 00:30:54.400
I think it number I think you'd be malnourished, and I think probably impacted too, because I mean that food is devoid of fresh water, it has no water in it.
00:30:54.640 --> 00:30:55.839
Yeah, yeah, exactly.
00:30:56.720 --> 00:30:58.400
There's no fruit with water or vegetables.
00:30:58.480 --> 00:31:02.559
I mean it's just it's all it's all processed, every bit of it.
00:31:02.799 --> 00:31:04.559
Yeah, all processed food.
00:31:04.880 --> 00:31:09.200
The very thing that's probably caused the problem you're having is the food they're feeding you.
00:31:09.519 --> 00:31:17.599
And probably has seed oil, processed seed oils in it, which is the most heart toxic thing you could possibly put in your body.
00:31:17.839 --> 00:31:18.160
Absolutely.
00:31:18.720 --> 00:31:29.039
If I get a hamburger out now, it's it's it's either at it's either at In and Out, which is not local here, unfortunately, or at um steak and shake because steak and shake, yeah.
00:31:29.119 --> 00:31:31.359
They went to they did away with all seed oils.
00:31:31.519 --> 00:31:31.680
Right.
00:31:31.759 --> 00:31:33.759
So it's tallow and it's grass-fed beef.
00:31:33.920 --> 00:31:34.160
Yeah.
00:31:34.480 --> 00:31:38.880
I mean, and you know, and I all you know, I just read a study, Dan.
00:31:39.279 --> 00:31:44.079
Um they they took the keto diet and put it head to head with the Mediterranean diet.
00:31:44.319 --> 00:31:49.039
Guess which one came out as better for you overall and for heart health.
00:31:50.000 --> 00:31:51.839
You know, that's a tough call.
00:31:52.000 --> 00:31:52.559
I don't know.
00:31:52.640 --> 00:31:54.400
I can't even take a guess at that one.
00:31:54.720 --> 00:31:57.519
It was the keto diet outperformed the Mediterranean diet.
00:31:57.759 --> 00:31:58.559
Did it really?
00:31:58.720 --> 00:31:59.119
Yeah.
00:31:59.359 --> 00:32:01.039
What do they attribute that to?
00:32:01.440 --> 00:32:01.920
I don't know.
00:32:02.000 --> 00:32:12.880
I this it was a it was a brief, um, it was a brief article, not didn't go too deep into it, but they did a double-blind study, and I think they did, I think it was a thousand participants or something.
00:32:13.680 --> 00:32:23.519
But um essentially it came back that it was about 33% more effective at lowering cholesterol and having more heart healthy.
00:32:24.240 --> 00:32:31.920
So when they did blood work and other testing modalities, the Mediterranean diet literally was a third less effective.
00:32:32.160 --> 00:32:38.400
I mean, if you all things being equal, if you're gonna eat a traditional Western diet or a Mediterranean diet, go Mediterranean, right?
00:32:38.640 --> 00:32:49.440
But maybe some combination of Mediterranean and keto, but eating basically protein, healthy fats, and maybe some kind of fibrous vegetable is about what you should be eating.
00:32:49.759 --> 00:32:50.400
Yeah.
00:32:50.640 --> 00:33:06.160
Well, it makes sense because a lot of the you know, well, definitely processed food and and grain, you know, processed grains like bread and stuff like that, like that those are big causes of sugar inflammation.
00:33:06.640 --> 00:33:06.799
Right.
00:33:07.039 --> 00:33:07.599
Because it's sugar.
00:33:07.920 --> 00:33:08.079
Yeah.
00:33:08.559 --> 00:33:18.160
You know what else is interesting, the keto diet, your the majority of your nutrition comes from fat on that diet.
00:33:18.400 --> 00:33:18.480
Right.
00:33:18.799 --> 00:33:21.759
Like animal fats or healthy fats.
00:33:22.240 --> 00:33:23.839
Chicken, chicken, beef, fish, right.
00:33:24.400 --> 00:33:26.160
Which they told us would kill us.
00:33:26.480 --> 00:33:26.640
Right.
00:33:26.720 --> 00:33:30.880
Well, see, once again, you go back to the 70s, 80s, and 90s, fat was bad.
00:33:31.039 --> 00:33:37.119
Fats, that and we were told eggs caused eggs caused cholesterol, the egg, cholesterol, and eggs cause cholesterol in the body.
00:33:37.279 --> 00:33:37.680
Not true.
00:33:37.759 --> 00:33:39.200
The body creates most of the cholesterol.
00:33:39.440 --> 00:33:42.480
It's not, it doesn't come from the food source, it comes from the liver.
00:33:42.799 --> 00:33:43.440
That's right.
00:33:43.759 --> 00:33:44.000
Right.
00:33:44.079 --> 00:33:46.559
So, I mean, there's no correlation to any of that.
00:33:46.799 --> 00:33:52.799
But most cardiologists are operating off of 70s and 80s information.
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Yeah.
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I mean, if it's available to me, and I'm not a cardiologist, now being a cardiology patient, I'm very interested and motivated to get the information.
00:34:01.839 --> 00:34:03.279
You would think they would be too.
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If nothing else, you'd think you'd have at least one of those people on your staff keeping up to date on research and then filling you in.
00:34:10.480 --> 00:34:11.840
Like this is what we're finding.
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There was just a study done here in Israel or Austria or wherever it was.
00:34:15.119 --> 00:34:17.679
You know, and then okay, what's the how valid is this research?
00:34:17.760 --> 00:34:18.800
Is it double blind?
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Did they follow who funded it?
00:34:21.039 --> 00:34:21.760
Right, exactly.
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Who funded the research?
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Right.
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Was it funded by, you know, Canola, right?
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Or the General Mills company?
00:34:30.800 --> 00:34:31.039
Right.
00:34:31.119 --> 00:34:33.199
So you so you who funded it, right?
00:34:33.360 --> 00:34:37.199
And so, you know, Kui Bono, who stands to gain from this research?
00:34:37.440 --> 00:34:38.719
And and that's the problem.
00:34:38.880 --> 00:34:48.079
When you have a system, uh and particularly your health system, which is primarily driven by profit, there's very little incentive really to cure anything or make people feel better.
00:34:49.199 --> 00:34:57.119
Yeah, you know, I I used to resent the doctors because I couldn't understand how they could have these.
00:34:57.360 --> 00:35:04.960
I think the I think the mental health term is scotoma, to be completely blind to the facts.
00:35:05.920 --> 00:35:12.000
But I mean, the more education a person has, the more indoctrinated they are.
00:35:12.480 --> 00:35:14.880
Well, really, that's what education has become in our country.
00:35:14.960 --> 00:35:20.079
It's not really you're not being educated to because yeah, education used to be about being able to think, right?
00:35:20.239 --> 00:35:22.960
To be a critical thinker, to question things.
00:35:23.119 --> 00:35:24.960
That's not what education is about anymore.
00:35:25.039 --> 00:35:26.559
It is literally indoctrination.
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It is, this is the system, and we're gonna get you uh totally indoctrinated and steeped in it.
00:35:32.239 --> 00:35:34.639
It's an yeah, it's indoctrination.
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And the only tool they give the doctors is a hammer.
00:35:38.960 --> 00:35:41.920
So when all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.
00:35:42.079 --> 00:35:42.239
Right.
00:35:42.480 --> 00:35:51.119
The only thing, you know, I mean, they're really good at acute trauma stuff, saving you after a heart attack, saving you a heart attack, car wreck, gunshot.
00:35:51.280 --> 00:35:51.679
Yeah.
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We are phenomenal with that.
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Health stuff, they're not taught how to um restore health or maintain health, they're just taught to mask symptoms with drugs that cause even more symptoms.
00:36:05.920 --> 00:36:46.480
But I guess the thing that I can't wrap my head around is how somebody who is intelligent enough to make it into medical school and make it through the process, how are they not intelligent enough to instead of just accept what the indoctrination that was thrown at them, how are they not intelligent enough to do their own research and realize that, oh my gosh, most of our science is complete bullshit that was funded by interests who gain financially as a result of this, you know, with stuff that'll kill you.
00:36:46.639 --> 00:36:51.599
I I don't understand how an intelligent person can continue to operate in that system.
00:36:52.000 --> 00:37:04.239
I do know there are a tiny percentage of doctors um getting out of insurance and getting out of all that shit and doing what they call root cause medicine.
00:37:04.639 --> 00:37:11.519
I found a cardiologist who does that, but I mean, like, good luck finding one of those guys.
00:37:11.840 --> 00:37:29.920
Well, right, because and and once when they do leave the system and start to see the I mean the light, they become in demand because people like you and I, or anybody, people who are in cancer, right, heart disease, any any of these long-term like conditions, right?
00:37:30.159 --> 00:37:34.320
Diabetes, those kinds of things, they realize the system is failing them.
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So they go looking for alternatives.
00:37:36.159 --> 00:37:46.639
They are hard to find, but when you find a man, they're they're a premium to get into, to pay, because they're not operating off that insurance system, so they're not getting that kickback in those dollars, and they still have to be profitable.
00:37:46.800 --> 00:37:48.320
I mean, I totally understand that.
00:37:48.559 --> 00:37:54.639
I think you know, the the answer to the question about the doctors is I think it's a mix of ego, ego, narcissism, right?
00:37:54.719 --> 00:37:56.000
You're how dare you question that.
00:37:56.639 --> 00:37:59.840
Um, I think there's also some cognitive dissonance going on there, right?
00:38:00.159 --> 00:38:00.880
Big job.
00:38:01.280 --> 00:38:35.360
You know, there's no way they don't see it, but they're so invested in the system, and I think they're also comfortable and making a lot of money, and they're willing to um to go along with the yeah, and I think the other part is in-groupness, you know, that that there's a psychology, psychological phenomenon, you know, whether you're a policeman or an airline pilot or a doctor, you're in the group, and you don't want to risk that in-group identity, your status, your, you don't question your that's why you can't get a doctor to testify against a doctor.
00:38:35.440 --> 00:38:36.800
It's in-groupness, right?
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Right.
00:38:37.760 --> 00:38:38.880
And I think that's part of it.
00:38:39.039 --> 00:38:53.039
I mean, I there's so they go outside the system, they get ostracized, they get labeled, they're quack, they're a conspiracy theorist, they're all these things, even though that doctor really knows that, you know, blood pressure is not a condition, it's a symptom.
00:38:53.440 --> 00:38:53.840
Right.
00:38:54.079 --> 00:38:54.320
Right?
00:38:54.400 --> 00:38:59.360
It's a symptom that's something deeper than the kidneys, the liver somewhere isn't working properly.
00:38:59.519 --> 00:39:11.039
You know, like you said, it's type three diabetes, or it's insulin resistance, or you know, it's but all those things which are caused by the food we eat, the air we breathe, the water we drink.
00:39:11.199 --> 00:39:15.679
I mean, it's gotten, I don't know about you, and we'll end with this because I know we're going on a little while.
00:39:16.320 --> 00:39:21.760
It has gotten very, very hard for me to find decent food to eat.
00:39:21.920 --> 00:39:31.039
I mean, it's to the point where I'm I, you know, I kind of go, okay, ever it's it's I'm just going, this is the best option I've got, but it's not still not great.
00:39:31.280 --> 00:39:31.760
Yeah.
00:39:32.000 --> 00:39:38.159
I mean, when we find that they're spraying our strawberries with 30 different kinds of shit that cause they know causes cancer.
00:39:38.559 --> 00:39:44.000
I mean, my air is filled with with shit that they do with their, you know, with the the chemtrails.
00:39:44.239 --> 00:39:45.840
My water is adulterated.
00:39:45.920 --> 00:39:52.239
I mean, I can't even used to be at least in the 70s and 80s, I go buy five fruits and vegetables, and they're okay, they're fruits and vegetables.
00:39:52.320 --> 00:39:54.079
Now they've adulterated all of that.
00:39:54.320 --> 00:39:58.400
Yeah, or or they're and or they've genetically modified them.
00:39:58.639 --> 00:40:00.159
Well, and it's almost all like that.
00:40:00.320 --> 00:40:05.440
So, yeah, so I mean, I mean, I'm I think we're almost at the point where we're going back to the 18th century.
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Gotta grow my own shit, can my own stuff.
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I I buy my meat now from a place called Seven Suns in Indiana that's not too far from us.
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And I know it's grass-fed, and I know it's not filled with all kinds of garbage, and I get my meat there.
00:40:20.320 --> 00:40:22.960
That's why how I get my meat now, because I can't trust.
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I mean, I love Donald Trump, but he just allowed like five billion tons of beef cut to come in the U.S.
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that Europe turned down.
00:40:31.599 --> 00:40:32.400
Jeez, man.
00:40:32.559 --> 00:40:37.840
So what why would so we flooded the market with mystery meat?
00:40:38.159 --> 00:40:44.719
You know, and now we know that you know, we we just find out that Aldi's a servant horse instead of cow in their beef patties.
00:40:45.199 --> 00:40:49.519
Oh, I read, yeah, that was a big expose with Aldi.
00:40:49.840 --> 00:40:50.079
Right.
00:40:50.159 --> 00:40:52.960
Um the ground beef they were selling was horse meat.
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Horse meat.
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Right.
00:40:54.880 --> 00:41:02.480
And so, I mean, so if they can get away with that, what how do you know what's in your hamburger you're eating from McDonald's or wherever, right?
00:41:02.639 --> 00:41:05.519
Unless you truly kind of trust that source.
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Yeah.
00:41:06.559 --> 00:41:11.760
It's uh it's almost to the point where I go we go back to you and I talking about the Rockefellers.
00:41:11.840 --> 00:41:14.000
This whole system was built on that, right?
00:41:14.159 --> 00:41:17.760
It's not a health system, it's a it's a managed decline system.
00:41:18.159 --> 00:41:18.639
That's right.
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People who are tired and weak and unhealthy and don't feel good are easy to manage.
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Much easier to control.
00:41:29.840 --> 00:41:41.119
And so these are the kind of because those are other all topics I want to talk about because you know, uh, you know, uh Bernays and propaganda, uh, all so these are you know, this is the kind of stuff I want to talk about.
00:41:41.199 --> 00:41:47.519
Now next time I'd really like to talk about uh a couple classics, As a Man Thinketh is uh one of my favorites.
00:41:47.599 --> 00:41:48.559
I oh yeah.
00:41:48.719 --> 00:41:52.239
It's like they used to have that in a little tiny Yeah.
00:41:52.480 --> 00:41:54.079
Yeah, you're carrying a pamphlet.
00:41:54.320 --> 00:41:58.880
But I mean, yeah, literally those 32 pages, uh uh you know, and then other books.
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One of the books I'm currently reading now, I just introduced to you, is um, it's called Into the Quiet, Following Jesus in a World of Noise by Mark, John Mark Comer.
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Really good.
00:42:09.039 --> 00:42:10.880
So books and research, stuff like that.
00:42:11.039 --> 00:42:12.079
Well, that's what I want to talk about.
00:42:12.159 --> 00:42:22.159
And and I know you have a whole different take uh as you've gone down the uh uh the course in miracles, and it's taken you to a whole different place, correct?
00:42:22.400 --> 00:42:26.000
Yeah, yeah, which I didn't expect, but it just Yeah, right, right, you know.
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But I next time we're together, I'd love to talk to talk about that.
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Yeah, that'd be fun.
00:42:31.599 --> 00:42:36.400
Okay, because I know you have a I I've read the book and listened to it, but it didn't lead me that next step.
00:42:36.480 --> 00:42:40.800
So I'd like to find out what that next step is and sort of get the rationale behind.
00:42:41.039 --> 00:42:47.920
Um you know, because I know there are because it leads all almost into those other books of the Bible which aren't in the traditional Bible.
00:42:48.239 --> 00:42:49.280
Right, yeah.
00:42:49.920 --> 00:42:53.760
And we're talking like about the Ethiopian Bible, kind of at this point, correct?
00:42:54.000 --> 00:43:17.760
Yeah, in the Nag Homadi texts, all the all the gospels that the Roman government took out of the Bible and then burned all those texts and killed all the people who were you know uh uh using those text, promoting those texts.
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I mean, I mean they they hunted them all down and killed them and thought they'd done a good job of eradicating that information that they didn't want to get out, and then some kid in 1945 in Nagomadi, Egypt, screwing around in a cave, finds all these old texts in a pot.
00:43:36.480 --> 00:43:44.480
And it was all the gospels of the the gospels and other books of the Bible that the Roman government chose not to accept.
00:43:44.880 --> 00:43:49.280
Because they're like there are sixty-six books in the Bible, and there are eighty-eight in the Ethiopian.
00:43:49.840 --> 00:43:55.199
In the Ethiopian, yeah, they still have the three books of Enoch in the Ethiopian Bible.
00:43:55.360 --> 00:44:05.039
In our Western Bible, I forget I forget which book it's in, but I think it's in one of the epistles.
00:44:05.199 --> 00:44:12.480
It refers to the book of Enoch, and it specifically names the book of Enoch, but it's not in our Western Bible.
00:44:12.719 --> 00:44:13.119
Huh.
00:44:13.360 --> 00:44:23.199
So that those are the kinds of things because that's some stuff I'd like to get kind of interested in or discuss a little bit, because I didn't haven't gone that deep into some of those things.
00:44:23.280 --> 00:44:31.920
So, you know, uh, because I think, you know, in the Bible, Jesus talks many times about, you know, heaven is inside you, right?
00:44:32.079 --> 00:44:33.599
It's the it's in you.
00:44:33.840 --> 00:44:36.159
So what does that mean, right?
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And do do those other books sort of spell that out?
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Right.
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Here's what that means, and here's how we access that, right?
00:44:44.880 --> 00:44:47.280
So why would a government want to destroy those books?
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Because it made you less controllable, you would realize your own personal power, right?
00:44:55.519 --> 00:44:58.400
So there's always a you know, there's always a reason.
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They didn't do it just for fun, right?
00:45:00.639 --> 00:45:03.360
So yeah, there's always a reason, right?
00:45:03.440 --> 00:45:06.159
So that'd so I'd love to talk about that next time we're together.
00:45:06.400 --> 00:45:07.440
Yeah, that sounds good.
00:45:07.519 --> 00:45:08.400
I'll look forward to it.
00:45:08.639 --> 00:45:12.480
All right, well, this is our first show, it's an original show.
00:45:12.719 --> 00:45:17.760
So next time, hopefully it'll be a little more polished and we'll have a maybe a format you and I can discuss.
00:45:17.840 --> 00:45:20.800
But um essentially like to go maybe 30 minutes each time.
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We'll do one Saturday.
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You know, we'll record maybe all four episodes at one time or something and do just we did 45 minutes today, so we'll try to cut it back to 30 minutes.
00:45:30.480 --> 00:45:32.480
It's easy to go long when you talk about stuff you need to do.
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Excuse our long-windedness.
00:45:34.559 --> 00:45:35.119
Right, right.
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Um, but other than that, uh, so everybody listening, please uh uh you can find us on Spotify, Apple, uh, YouTube, and Rumble.
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00:45:53.360 --> 00:45:53.760
All right.
00:45:53.840 --> 00:45:54.880
So good luck, Dan.
00:45:54.960 --> 00:45:55.920
Nice talking with you again, man.
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I will Yeah, it's always good talking with you, Bill.
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Thank you.
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Bye.
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Hey everyone, welcome to the um you know what, Dan?
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This is our first episode.
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So not we'll talk a little bit, we'll talk about what we're gonna talk about on the episodes, okay?
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Um so we're gonna just do this.
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It's gonna be once a week on Saturdays, is when it's gonna be dropped.
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Um and this is called the Positive Focus uh podcast.
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So we're gonna talk about mindset, physical health, all kinds of stuff that relate to living an exceptional life.
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And I don't know if you ever you ever listened to the uh Dan, I don't know if you ever listened to uh Jim Rohn's Art of Exceptional Living.
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Um, I used to have, I think that was a nightingale Conan program.
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It was, it was it was.
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I I used to, I I mean, I had stacks of their audio cassette and CD programs around here, and I know you did too.
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Um, but so that's kind of what it is.
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How do you design a great life?
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How do you live a great life?
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Um, I'm currently working on a book called Abercadaber, How to Live a Magical Life.
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And it's gonna, I'm gonna connect it to my magic, you know, profession.
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So, you know, along with philosophy on silence and being in nature and creativity and those kinds of things, I'm gonna connect it to magic tricks too.
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But sort of that's what the podcast, that's how I see it, is something not necessarily hacks, because I'm not sure I like the idea of a shortcut, you know.
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A shortcut is what it is to shortcut, because sometimes you got to go through shit to get to the other side, and not you, there are no shortcuts.
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But I just see it as you and I discussing books or programs or ideas or philosophies, science, medicine, literature, art, um, religion that can help people tap into the best versions of themselves in their life.
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How do you see what we you want to what we're gonna do here?
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That that that pretty much matches what I was thinking.
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Um I just have to make a disclaimer.
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I I've reached a point in my life where I'm able to admit, I think what the Chinese call beginner's mind.
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Like, I know nothing.
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You know, the stuff I thought I knew is all been talking.
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I gonna let my son in, I'm gonna let you keep talking about it.
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Oh, okay.
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Tell him what you're thinking.
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I've been told that the highest form of intelligence is not IQ, it's not being able to memorize long streams of numbers, all the stuff, you know, we've been told that you can measure intelligence.
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Um, the highest form of intelligence is metacognition, turning turning the mind in on itself and right, right, thinking about thinking.
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Yeah, not many people do that practice.
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Um, because what happens is with the with the few people I know who've done it regularly, and my experience has shown, as soon as you start turning the mind on itself and start examining your beliefs, a couple things happen.
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Um you discover none of your beliefs are your own.
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They were implanted by other people, other entities, other organizations, and you discover that all or a majority of them are untrue.
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And then that leads, and this is the reason why nobody ever does it, because that leads to, well, now your entire frame of reality has been turned upside down, and this the the obvious next result of that is the ego death, which feels like a real death and is extremely uncomfortable.
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Um so I've been doing that the past several years, and you know, it's I've had to re-examine everything.
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So you know, I I'm a seeker, but I have to admit I know nothing.
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I've done a lot of research and reading, and some stuff makes sense, most of it doesn't make sense.
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So I just say that disclaimer up front.
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I'm just sharing personal experience, you know.
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Well, me too.
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I I I've always I guess for me, and I this this whole thing for me, gosh, I for I don't know why, but I it's almost like a quest, right?
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I mean, you're you are a seeker, you're on it's like uh in the tarot, the very first card is the zero in the in the major arcana, and it's the fool.
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They call him the fool.
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Not because he's stupid, but because he's he's his mind sort of is tabla rasa, and he's seeking, right?
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So he's in the back in the background of the cards you can see the sun rising.
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He's got a little white dog nipping at his heels, right?
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And every one of these, and then he's got a little stick with his pouch on, he's carrying his belongings, and basically everything is he's on a quest to find himself, to seek knowledge, to and and that's what it is.
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I and I'll say the the same claim.
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I am not claiming to be an expert in any of these things, right?
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This is you and I have sharing our experiences of the quest we've been on over the last 63 years for me.
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And I think I started mine.
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Gosh, I was probably 10 or 11, 12 years old.
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I remember going, my mom would take me to uh uh like new age bookstores and stuff like that, and then being in the martial arts.
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So I'd always yeah, Buddhism and Zen, and then and then all that.
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This and like you and I were just talking about, one thing leads to another, to another, to another.
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And you it just it's ever and then the more the more I the more I read, the more stuff I study, the more I listen to, the more I know I don't know, right?
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And but you're absolutely right.
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When you turn the mind in on itself, you realize, man, I don't really know anything.
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Most of what I do know, somebody else planted in me.
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Um, when I teach my roadworthy communication course, I tell them that.
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I said, you know, where did your beliefs come from?
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And beliefs are the cornerstone, right, of our identity, our ego.
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And they came from our parents and our family and our friends and our culture and our church and the media and politicians.
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There's a book that was written, oh gosh, probably back in the 90s.
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I'm not sure it's in printing more.
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It's called Viruses of the Mind.
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And basically it was a research study, I forget what college did it, and they came to the conclusion that most of the thoughts and beliefs, values, principles people hold are not their own.
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Somebody else gave them, they implanted them through propaganda or repetition, or, you know, it's a it's a the person who did it was somebody we looked up to as a an authority figure, you know, a teacher, uh, a pastor, a parent.
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And they just, and you just accept this, right?
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It's like Earl Nightingale when he talks about the strangest secret, he said, it was so funny listening to all the older people around him talking about wealth and money, and none of them had any.
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He said, So how valid were any of their opinions or beliefs?
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And I think that's really what it is.
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So our my goal is every time I read a book or come across something, you know, I just want to share it with somebody else.
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Because one of the things I've learned as a teacher is I've always learned more teaching than I did learning.
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Right.
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Yeah.
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You know, I do.
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I it opens up all kinds of vistas because when you're going to go in front of a group of people and talk about something, you better know it pretty well because you're going to get questions and you're going to get pushback.
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And even if you don't have the answers, it may be you now see, wow, there's a different way to I then look at it like that.
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And now they've opened up a whole new avenue for me to explore.
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Right.
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Yeah.
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That's the cool thing about teaching.
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It is.
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I've I learned that pretty early on.
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I said, man, I've learned a lot teaching, probably more than my students learned from sitting in the classroom and listening to me talk, right?
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You know, because you've got 30 or 40 people in that room, and you're it's a shared experience, and they're all giving you their perspectives, some more valid than others, or some more educated than others, but you're still getting the different, at least a different viewpoint on it, right?
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That's right.
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Yeah.
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It's so, I mean, that's sort of the goal is just to share with anybody listening or watching some new ideas, some food for thought, the idea that maybe you should sit down in some silence and think about thinking.
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What is it I believe?
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Why do I believe that?
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Where did that come from?
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Has that belief served me in the past?
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Is it serving me now?
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I mean, you know, and you're right.
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I think once you realize all that comes crashing down that framework, it is a death of your ego because that's your identity, right?
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And it does, it it's it's it's painful existentially.
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It's a crisis, sort of, and you've got to rebuild.
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And now you're trying to rebuild with new blocks and new ideas, and hopefully they're not, they're not flawed.
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And they probably are, right?
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Yeah.
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To some degree, or at least maybe your understanding of them.
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So before we started the show, you and I were talking about both of us have had, I don't know if I'll disclose mine.
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I had a heart attack um three years ago.
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I thought I was doing everything right.
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I never smoked, I never drank, never did drugs.
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You know, I exercised most of my life as a martial artist.
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I meditated since I was a kid.
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Um, I ate my share of crap.
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Don't get me wrong, I ate french fries and hamburgers and stuff like that.
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But there was a good portion of my life I was a vegetarian.
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And so I thought, man, I'm doing everything right.
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That's if if anything gets me, it's gonna be cancer and not heart disease.
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And then lo and behold, out of nowhere, I have a heart attack.
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Unfortunately, it wasn't.
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Didn't some people only get one.
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And uh, for me it wasn't, I lucked out, it wasn't too bad, still damaged to the heart muscle and had to go through two years of surgeries and therapy and stuff.
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But that experience for me, and I know for you in many ways, um, man, it exposed to me the shortcomings of our medical system in a lot of ways, and uh the fact that they are very rigid in the way they think, their philosophy, the way they execute medicine.
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I think a lot of that's money driven, but that's been my experience, and it's it's it's kind of frustrating.
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So part of what we're gonna talk about here, certainly, once again, neither of us are doctors, not giving you health advice, but just our experiences and maybe give you at least something to think about.
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Yeah, absolutely.
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You know, so I had two heart attacks in May of 2024.
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The first one I was at the gym and uh I was in good shape.
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Well, you're in good shape now.
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I mean, you just won what a couple months ago, what how many gold medals and medals at at senior bodybuilding competition?
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Yeah, that was if you can see Dan standing up, he's ripped.
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That was my that was part of my comeback.
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I thought this will make a great story if I can come back from two widowmaker heart attacks and and compete in bodybuilding, but yeah, you know, um it's it it's a wake-up call, right?
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Like you I was 59 at the time and thought I was in really good shape, but um yeah, it it it it wakes you up, makes you look at things differently, and then you are deep in the system at that point, you know.
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You know, once you get in the system, it seems like most people never get out, and the system eventually kills them, not necessarily the dis disease they have, but the treatments kill a lot of people, millions of people, the treatments themselves.
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I guess they say if you add up um deaths from improperly prescribed meds, procedures that never should have been done, but add on top of that properly prescribed meds and properly prescribed procedures, the medical system itself would be the number one killer in the U.S.
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I no, I totally believe that.
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I think one of the most scary and dangerous places you can be is a hospital.
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Yeah.
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Right?
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I mean, on top of all those things, medical, and it's just amazing when someone dies as a result of a surgical process or over medication or the wrong medication, or like you said, the right one that just didn't work the right way.
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They call it, I mean, the euphemistic language is just incredible.
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You die as a result of any of those processes, it's called a therapeutic misadventure.
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God now, tell you know, do you ever see that that skit where George Carlin talks about language?
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Right?
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This would be an ex an example of how we have taken, you know, hey, we screwed up and somebody died to therapeutic misadventure.
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You know, if somebody said that to you, you'd look at him and go, what does that mean, what the hell does that mean?
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Yeah.
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I mean, if the doctor might have said, I'm sorry, your husband had a therapeutic misadventure, I don't think anybody in the room would know he died.
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It doesn't explain anything.
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It just sounds very benign.
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Right, right.
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And that's the whole goal, right?
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And you know, for me, and I know for you, I I'm still on some meds and I'm trying my best to get off.
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I've looked for every alternative measure like you have to to, you know, because the deeper you go, the once you're in this system, like Dan said, deeply, you start realizing, man, the limitations of what they can do and diagnose.
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For me, this is my story.
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Uh uh after my heart attack, they put in a stint.
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I'm on stage in Atlanta five or six months later having chest pains.
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I come back, they do an echocardiogram, they do an EKG, they do, you know, a stress test, they do the D-dimer, they do a troponin numbers, everything they all their little tests.
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And they came back and said, Well, your heart's fine.
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I said, Well, it's not fine.
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I'm having chest pain.
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So they finally say, Okay, we're gonna go do it, we're gonna do a calf.
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This is where they go in through an artery in your leg or your arm, and they put a camera in there and they look at your heart.
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And lo and behold, they look at my heart and he goes, You need a bypass.
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He said, No, wait a minute.
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Four months ago, I had a stint put in.
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He goes, Well, they missed this.
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I said, How the hell did they miss that I needed a bypass?
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He said, I don't know.
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So now I go get a bypass, right?
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I literally, fortunate for me, like Dan and I were just talking about, I got to have robotic surgery.
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We will see if that's a blessing or not as time moves forward, right?
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Um, at the time it was, it's not near as painful.
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They don't cut you open, it's a much smaller scar.
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They went in and they moved an artery and and re-rerouted the blood, right?
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Five or six months later, I'm having chest pain again on stage.
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End up back at the cath lab.
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He finds another small artery that needs ballooned.
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So, in the three years, two and a half years since this, I've had a heart attack, a stint, a bypass, and a balloon.
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My gosh.
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And still to this day, I'm having some pressure and chest pain.
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And I know and it gets frustrating because you go back, they do the same test they've always done, they don't find anything, and then they go in and maybe and I'm hoping they don't find anything, right?
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But it gives you no confidence in their testing modality.
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None.
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So you say I'm c my heart's clear, but every time you've said that, it has not been clear.
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So why do we even do these and how am I supposed to trust them?
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Yeah.
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And then you and I we we look at the literature on cholesterol and all the stuff they say we need to do, and the actual science doesn't support any of that.
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That's right.
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I mean, so I mean, you currently I think are on no drugs at all, right?
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I mean, you just went drug free, basically.
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Yeah, I I took myself off all that stuff, cold turkey.
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You know what's interesting is so I had a double bypass.
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It was an initially supposed to be a triple bypass.
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My my lower ascending, whatever, I forget what it's what its name is LAD, the largest artery in the heart, it was 99% blocked.
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The second largest artery was 99% blocked.
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That's why they call it the widowmaker.
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When your LAD artery is more than 90% blocked, like only 6% of the people who have that heart attack outside of a hospital survive it.
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Wow.
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And um, you know, nobody survives having their two largest heart arteries 99% blocked, but the surgeon was saying because of the way I've been training for like a year before the heart attack, he thinks that you know the heart could be pretty resilient.
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He thinks that what it did is it built some alternative circulation around those two arteries that allowed me to function.
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Like tributaries.
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Yeah.
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Um, but yeah, so they only did a double bypass.
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I you know, I should have asked why, because my the third largest heart artery was 75% blocked.
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Yeah, why would they not bypass?
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I mean, they're in there, or what they'd already cracked my chest open.
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I don't know why they didn't take care of it.
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Right.
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It's like when they take, you know, if the water pumping your car's out, you may as well replace some belts while you're in there, right?
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Yeah, I exactly.
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You know, which I don't know if that's a good thing or a bad thing.
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I all I can tell you is I'm never going through it again.
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So whatever was done, that's it.
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I'm ending it there.
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But then they like cleared me for I think it was October.
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I had the surgery in June, then they cleared me for get back to full activities in October.
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And uh my heart rate was sky high, my blood pressure was sky high.
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So I went to I had moved then, so I saw a different cardiologist.
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The first one cleared me to go back to full activity, you know, and then a month later I'm having all these issues.
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I went to a new cardiologist, and um, you know, they they ordered tests and stuff, and he doubled my meds.
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I was taking metropolol, which is a heart med, and which which has a black box warning on it.
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Yeah, which I had not read at the time.
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Um and in a blood.
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Just taking the drug, black box means just taking that drug has a certain percentage of killing you just taking it.
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Yeah.
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Unfortunately, I didn't read the black box warning until nobody does, right?
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After all this stuff, he doubled my meds and my heart rate shot up even higher, like the stroke level high, and my blood pressure also.
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And a friend of mine who's a chiropractor said, When's your follow-up?
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I said, in two weeks.
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He goes, Here's what's gonna happen.
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So this was this was October of 2024.
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He goes, It's your follow-up.
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Since doubling it made things worse, he's gonna triple the dosage, and you will not make it until the end of the year.
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You won't even make it through the year.
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So think about that logic.
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They double the meds and the conditions and symptoms get worse.
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So what are they gonna do?
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They're gonna triple them.
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I mean, instead of going, wait a minute, maybe we need to rethink this whole process, they just keep dumping, dumping the garbage on you.
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It was after I talked with my chiropractor friend that I read the black box warning on metropolol or metropolol, however you pronounce it.
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And um it was pretty scary.
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Like it causes heart attacks in one out of a hundred people.
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That's a lot of people.
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Right.
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And one of the side effects is high blood pressure, another side effect is high heart rate, the exact thing they prescribe it for to lower it.
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You know, and there's a lot, uh I unfortunately I also suffer gout.
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Almost all the gout medicine causes gout.
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So I mean you it's just you know, I mean, I'm not the the brightest bulb in the in the in the in the place, but you think, whoa, how does that work out?
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Right?
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How does that make any sense?
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And a lot of drugs are like this, right?
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Um and that's why immediately once you're in this system and you start seeing how it isn't working, you start looking for alternatives.
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I mean, it's just a natural human nature to go, okay, there's got to be another way, right?
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And this is where you start stumbling on, you know, other doctors, other modalities, other philosophies, and you start experimenting with them, right?
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And and trying to alleviate your symptoms and extend both the quality and quantity of your life.
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You know, it makes me wonder heart medications that are prescribed to lower your heart rate and lower your blood pressure, and the side effects are raising your heart rate and your blood pressure.
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That is so stupid, it makes me wonder if that's done intentionally.
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Right.
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I mean, you gotta you so you do have to be suspect a little bit, don't you?
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And you know as well as I do, maybe the maybe the physician is even well-meaning, but the new drugs, the new modalities, the new stuff that's being dumped into the system, they don't have time to read all the literature.
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And they are the drug reps come in and sell them, hey, this is the newest widget we've got.
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It'll do all these things.
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You know, they probably do very little to no research on it.
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They just take the word of the drug company.
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Of course, you know, we all know there are kickbacks involved in this whole system.
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Everybody's making money somehow.
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The drug rep, the drug company, the doctor, I mean, the middleman, the drug manufacturer, there's so much money involved.
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You know, you gotta be suspect.
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That's why, you know, I was thrilled when when Donald Trump appointed Robert Kennedy, you know, as his health guy, because he he's all about this make America Healthy Again movement, which is all uh basically an all natural approach because what we're doing now, I mean, think of the think of this, Dan.
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The billions of dollars we have poured into cancer research and heart research, and and it's all of it's worse than it was before.
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Yeah.
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Now that that doesn't Make none of that makes sense.
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You can't pour billions and billions of dollars into something and it not getting any better.
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And the advice, when we now know we look back, and the advice they were giving us in the 70s and the 80s was you know, hot what would they tell look at the the food pyramid prior to Trump and Kennedy was literally the first two or three tiers were basically carbs, simple carbohydrates.
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So sugar, right?
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Fill your body with sugar, that's gotta be good for you.
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And we all know now we know that sugar is more addictive than cocaine and more toxic than most drugs.
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Right.
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It causes the inflammation, which causes disease, raises cortisol levels, and damn near every disease is a process of inflammation.
00:22:46.880 --> 00:22:47.839
Exactly.
00:22:48.079 --> 00:22:52.079
And I so I mean you just start to look for different answers.
00:22:52.160 --> 00:23:01.920
And you know, I uh you know, I went to a place here where I spent I literally cost me two grand out of pocket to get this massive blood panel done.
00:23:02.160 --> 00:23:10.720
They came back with these numbers, and most of them were not too bad, but he said, the way I this way we look at numbers, the way the traditional system, this number says you're okay.
00:23:10.960 --> 00:23:12.640
This is a number we would like you at.
00:23:12.799 --> 00:23:14.160
This is okay, really.
00:23:14.559 --> 00:23:20.400
And basically that came down to diet, exercise, and supplements is essentially what it was.
00:23:20.720 --> 00:23:26.640
And you know, and then I went back for the the the next panel and everything was better, you know.
00:23:26.960 --> 00:23:28.640
So I'm I'm still on that regimen.
00:23:28.799 --> 00:23:31.759
I I literally take 33 vitamins a day.
00:23:32.640 --> 00:23:34.720
I mean, it's a it's a shitload.
00:23:34.799 --> 00:23:35.200
It is.
00:23:35.519 --> 00:23:36.160
It's a lot.
00:23:36.480 --> 00:23:40.160
I'd rather take that than take none, you know.
00:23:40.319 --> 00:23:42.000
Can you get vitamin toxicity over?
00:23:42.240 --> 00:23:43.200
Yeah, you can.
00:23:43.359 --> 00:23:45.440
Uh, but it the chances are lower.
00:23:45.599 --> 00:23:48.319
But there's no black box warning on any of these vitamins.
00:23:48.640 --> 00:23:52.079
If you take vitamin C, this might kill you, you know.
00:23:52.319 --> 00:24:03.519
And you know, when you're when I was in the uh the cardiac and uh ICU unit, you know, they were doing stuff to I was getting, I mean drugs pumped into me right and left, not knowing what any of it was.
00:24:03.680 --> 00:24:09.039
And then later on I find out almost all these drugs they were put into me had a black box warning.
00:24:10.319 --> 00:24:10.799
Yep.
00:24:11.039 --> 00:24:16.000
You know, and so it's just by the grace of God I got out of the cardiac IC unit and actually got home.
00:24:16.160 --> 00:24:21.440
Because I asked, well, I asked my cardio, my surgeon before the surgery, I said, What's the mortality rate?
00:24:21.599 --> 00:24:23.359
He goes, Well, nobody dies on the table.
00:24:23.440 --> 00:24:24.640
He said, That's very rare.
00:24:24.799 --> 00:24:27.279
He said, But people do die after the surgery sometimes.
00:24:27.359 --> 00:24:29.359
And he was trying to, he would give me some numbers.
00:24:29.599 --> 00:24:31.599
And I now know why, right?
00:24:31.759 --> 00:24:33.119
I mean, yes.
00:24:33.680 --> 00:24:35.440
And so that was uh for me.
00:24:35.519 --> 00:24:37.119
So that's my story and Dan's story.
00:24:37.279 --> 00:24:49.920
I just and I and today I just wanted we want to talk about I think uh of anything that comes out of this is this if you end up in a hospital, this is my personal opinion, A, have an advocate there for you.
00:24:50.720 --> 00:25:00.079
Somebody, not you, that knows what the hell that's gonna be, somebody who's tenacious, somebody who's a bulldog, somebody who's a pain in the ass, because they're gonna question everything.
00:25:00.160 --> 00:25:01.759
And you that's what you need in a hospital.
00:25:01.920 --> 00:25:13.119
Because I was just a couple months ago, they did two or three surgeries in a hospital in Nashville, and the bags were supposed to be filled with saline, they were filled with a drug that killed two people, paralyzed two others.
00:25:13.359 --> 00:25:17.200
It wasn't until the fourth surgery, and then we're talking knee and back surgeries.
00:25:17.519 --> 00:25:20.400
It wasn't until the fourth person coded that they go, huh?
00:25:21.200 --> 00:25:22.079
Something's not right here.
00:25:22.240 --> 00:25:26.079
Yeah, the pharmacy was putting into the bags the wrong drug.
00:25:26.480 --> 00:25:27.599
Jeez, man.
00:25:28.000 --> 00:25:30.720
And they killed two people, paralyzed two others.
00:25:31.440 --> 00:25:34.160
So you go in for knee surgery and you end up dead.
00:25:35.119 --> 00:25:35.519
Wow.
00:25:36.000 --> 00:25:39.039
That would be what we call a therapeutic misadventure.
00:25:39.839 --> 00:25:40.240
Right?
00:25:40.720 --> 00:25:41.279
Right?
00:25:41.599 --> 00:25:44.240
And so I think yeah, I this is my take.
00:25:44.400 --> 00:25:45.440
Have an advocate.
00:25:45.519 --> 00:25:52.319
Uh, I I have a friend who is uh uh she's a PA and uh and a nurse and ran emergency rooms.
00:25:52.400 --> 00:25:53.759
It's Larry Faulkner's wife.
00:25:53.920 --> 00:25:54.799
And I always joked with her.
00:25:54.880 --> 00:26:05.759
I said, if I ever end up in the hospital with something serious, I'm gonna fly you here because she knows the system, she knows how it works, and she they can't they can't blow smoke at her because she's been there, she's done it.
00:26:06.000 --> 00:26:16.240
And when they took me into the hospital here, um, I'm my wife was on the phone with her, and they were getting ready to move me out of the ER up to the heart room unit.
00:26:16.559 --> 00:26:21.279
And the cardiologist refused to come in, refused to come in.
00:26:21.440 --> 00:26:23.440
It was Sunday, he wasn't coming in.
00:26:23.680 --> 00:26:28.319
Multiple calls from the house nurse, emails, text messages, phone calls, he would not come in.
00:26:29.039 --> 00:26:33.279
They were getting ready to wheel me out, and Lisa says, Don't let them take you out of the emergency room.
00:26:33.359 --> 00:26:44.400
She goes, the second you leave the emergency room and go to a uh a wing of the hospital or another level, your status in the hospital changes and it changes insurance and it changes how they treat you.
00:26:44.480 --> 00:26:45.759
It changes a lot of stuff.
00:26:45.839 --> 00:26:50.960
He said, and the nurse heard her say that, so she pulled wheels me back in to the into my ER.
00:26:51.359 --> 00:26:52.880
She goes, So what do you want to do?
00:26:53.039 --> 00:26:56.160
I said, Well, you know, this I trust this woman implicitly.
00:26:56.319 --> 00:27:00.880
So if she says we stay here until XYZ happens, that's what we're gonna do.
00:27:01.599 --> 00:27:08.240
You know, so I think having an advocate is critical because you the everything has to be checked because you know, they're number one, they're human.
00:27:08.400 --> 00:27:10.240
Number two, a lot of times they are overworked.
00:27:10.319 --> 00:27:12.559
And number three, sometimes I just don't think they give a shit.
00:27:12.640 --> 00:27:13.279
You're just a number.
00:27:13.359 --> 00:27:17.200
You're another guy, you're just they're gonna clean the room out and put somebody else in it.
00:27:18.319 --> 00:27:22.079
You know, I think this is something that's becoming more common.
00:27:22.240 --> 00:27:27.359
I didn't hear about advocacy until when I was in the cardiac unit.
00:27:27.519 --> 00:27:41.519
One of my friends who's an investigative journalist called me and uh and gave me the name of this company, which I cannot recall right now, but um Yeah, they will be they you pay them and they'll be your professional advocate.
00:27:41.920 --> 00:27:44.480
Pay them and they'll basically be your advocate.
00:27:44.559 --> 00:27:45.680
They'll look over everything.
00:27:45.920 --> 00:27:53.440
I think I think this one that he recommended, I think the primary person was a nurse practitioner, not an MPC.
00:27:53.599 --> 00:27:54.640
I think I know who you're talking about.
00:27:54.720 --> 00:27:55.920
I think I've heard of them too.
00:27:56.240 --> 00:27:58.960
But like he he highly recommended it.
00:27:59.119 --> 00:28:01.359
Like you you shouldn't be in there alone.
00:28:01.839 --> 00:28:08.799
No, because I mean, number one, you're in pain, you're out of it, you know, plus they're pumping you full of drugs, you never know what those are doing to your mind.
00:28:09.039 --> 00:28:15.599
And now, I'm because I remember sitting there many times, my wife was in the room with me, and she's like, She could tell I was zoned out, right?
00:28:15.759 --> 00:28:18.799
I mean, um got you're in pain, they're coming in doing all this shit to you.
00:28:18.880 --> 00:28:20.480
It's like a never end 5 a.m.
00:28:20.640 --> 00:28:29.839
you wake up for a way in, and then you start doing, you know, your your uh your uh breathing therapy and then you do your occupational therapy and it never stops.
00:28:30.079 --> 00:28:35.599
Yeah, you're getting visit with nurses who are through throwing pills at you and shit all the time, and you have no idea.
00:28:35.680 --> 00:28:40.240
I mean, it's it's the last place you're gonna get rest is a hospital, that's for damn sure.
00:28:40.480 --> 00:28:42.720
Oh man, they're constantly waking you up.
00:28:43.039 --> 00:28:43.519
I know.
00:28:43.839 --> 00:28:47.599
I was in the cardiac unit for three weeks because Wow.
00:28:47.839 --> 00:28:50.880
I mean, it could have been less than that.
00:28:51.039 --> 00:28:53.920
It's just this was in a small town, right?
00:28:54.000 --> 00:28:55.759
This was in Ocala, Florida.
00:28:56.000 --> 00:29:04.240
And at that hospital, they only had two cardiac surgeons, and the one had just left to take a better paying job at the other hospital.
00:29:04.319 --> 00:29:06.559
So they were down to have one.
00:29:07.279 --> 00:29:15.359
So I was in there, I was I was on a constant heparin drip for, you know, three weeks.
00:29:15.599 --> 00:29:17.519
Yeah, heparin's waiting for surgery.
00:29:20.319 --> 00:29:20.559
Yeah.
00:29:20.880 --> 00:29:21.359
Mm-hmm.
00:29:22.319 --> 00:29:41.519
Yeah, and in the in the the the chiropractor I told you about, who I talked to about my meds, he called me when I was in the cardiac unit and he said, one of my friends is a uh uh not neurosurgeon.
00:29:41.839 --> 00:29:44.240
Was he a neurosurgeon or orthopedic?
00:29:44.400 --> 00:29:45.440
One one of those two.
00:29:45.680 --> 00:29:45.839
Right.
00:29:46.000 --> 00:29:47.599
Now he was a neurosurgeon.
00:29:47.680 --> 00:29:49.039
That's some pretty heavy-duty stuff.
00:29:49.200 --> 00:29:49.680
Oh, yeah, absolutely.
00:29:50.720 --> 00:30:00.720
And he goes, I asked my neurosurgeon friend, you know, I told him that you're gonna be in the hospital for a long time, and I asked him, what's your primary piece of advice?
00:30:00.880 --> 00:30:03.759
And he goes, tell him don't eat the food.
00:30:04.400 --> 00:30:08.960
He is after a few days of eating that hospital food, you will be malnourished.
00:30:09.279 --> 00:30:10.319
Oh, I believe that.
00:30:10.400 --> 00:30:11.920
That was it's all crap.
00:30:13.039 --> 00:30:13.839
So what do you do though?
00:30:13.920 --> 00:30:18.720
You unless you have somebody who's gonna be coming and visiting you every day and bringing you some nutrition.
00:30:19.519 --> 00:30:21.359
Yeah, you're stuck eating the food.
00:30:21.519 --> 00:30:34.400
Although I got lucky, I had I had a girlfriend at the time, and she was there with me damn near 24-7, and then my sister came into town, so they would bring me food, you know, and still it wasn't great food.
00:30:34.480 --> 00:30:39.680
It wasn't the food I'm accustomed to eating, you know, because they would get it at a restaurant or something.
00:30:39.920 --> 00:30:40.640
Right, sure.
00:30:40.960 --> 00:30:44.000
But it was still a hell of a lot better than the hospital food.
00:30:44.480 --> 00:30:54.400
I think it number I think you'd be malnourished, and I think probably impacted too, because I mean that food is devoid of fresh water, it has no water in it.
00:30:54.640 --> 00:30:55.839
Yeah, yeah, exactly.
00:30:56.720 --> 00:30:58.400
There's no fruit with water or vegetables.
00:30:58.480 --> 00:31:02.559
I mean it's just it's all it's all processed, every bit of it.
00:31:02.799 --> 00:31:04.559
Yeah, all processed food.
00:31:04.880 --> 00:31:09.200
The very thing that's probably caused the problem you're having is the food they're feeding you.
00:31:09.519 --> 00:31:17.599
And probably has seed oil, processed seed oils in it, which is the most heart toxic thing you could possibly put in your body.
00:31:17.839 --> 00:31:18.160
Absolutely.
00:31:18.720 --> 00:31:29.039
If I get a hamburger out now, it's it's it's either at it's either at In and Out, which is not local here, unfortunately, or at um steak and shake because steak and shake, yeah.
00:31:29.119 --> 00:31:31.359
They went to they did away with all seed oils.
00:31:31.519 --> 00:31:31.680
Right.
00:31:31.759 --> 00:31:33.759
So it's tallow and it's grass-fed beef.
00:31:33.920 --> 00:31:34.160
Yeah.
00:31:34.480 --> 00:31:38.880
I mean, and you know, and I all you know, I just read a study, Dan.
00:31:39.279 --> 00:31:44.079
Um they they took the keto diet and put it head to head with the Mediterranean diet.
00:31:44.319 --> 00:31:49.039
Guess which one came out as better for you overall and for heart health.
00:31:50.000 --> 00:31:51.839
You know, that's a tough call.
00:31:52.000 --> 00:31:52.559
I don't know.
00:31:52.640 --> 00:31:54.400
I can't even take a guess at that one.
00:31:54.720 --> 00:31:57.519
It was the keto diet outperformed the Mediterranean diet.
00:31:57.759 --> 00:31:58.559
Did it really?
00:31:58.720 --> 00:31:59.119
Yeah.
00:31:59.359 --> 00:32:01.039
What do they attribute that to?
00:32:01.440 --> 00:32:01.920
I don't know.
00:32:02.000 --> 00:32:12.880
I this it was a it was a brief, um, it was a brief article, not didn't go too deep into it, but they did a double-blind study, and I think they did, I think it was a thousand participants or something.
00:32:13.680 --> 00:32:23.519
But um essentially it came back that it was about 33% more effective at lowering cholesterol and having more heart healthy.
00:32:24.240 --> 00:32:31.920
So when they did blood work and other testing modalities, the Mediterranean diet literally was a third less effective.
00:32:32.160 --> 00:32:38.400
I mean, if you all things being equal, if you're gonna eat a traditional Western diet or a Mediterranean diet, go Mediterranean, right?
00:32:38.640 --> 00:32:49.440
But maybe some combination of Mediterranean and keto, but eating basically protein, healthy fats, and maybe some kind of fibrous vegetable is about what you should be eating.
00:32:49.759 --> 00:32:50.400
Yeah.
00:32:50.640 --> 00:33:06.160
Well, it makes sense because a lot of the you know, well, definitely processed food and and grain, you know, processed grains like bread and stuff like that, like that those are big causes of sugar inflammation.
00:33:06.640 --> 00:33:06.799
Right.
00:33:07.039 --> 00:33:07.599
Because it's sugar.
00:33:07.920 --> 00:33:08.079
Yeah.
00:33:08.559 --> 00:33:18.160
You know what else is interesting, the keto diet, your the majority of your nutrition comes from fat on that diet.
00:33:18.400 --> 00:33:18.480
Right.
00:33:18.799 --> 00:33:21.759
Like animal fats or healthy fats.
00:33:22.240 --> 00:33:23.839
Chicken, chicken, beef, fish, right.
00:33:24.400 --> 00:33:26.160
Which they told us would kill us.
00:33:26.480 --> 00:33:26.640
Right.
00:33:26.720 --> 00:33:30.880
Well, see, once again, you go back to the 70s, 80s, and 90s, fat was bad.
00:33:31.039 --> 00:33:37.119
Fats, that and we were told eggs caused eggs caused cholesterol, the egg, cholesterol, and eggs cause cholesterol in the body.
00:33:37.279 --> 00:33:37.680
Not true.
00:33:37.759 --> 00:33:39.200
The body creates most of the cholesterol.
00:33:39.440 --> 00:33:42.480
It's not, it doesn't come from the food source, it comes from the liver.
00:33:42.799 --> 00:33:43.440
That's right.
00:33:43.759 --> 00:33:44.000
Right.
00:33:44.079 --> 00:33:46.559
So, I mean, there's no correlation to any of that.
00:33:46.799 --> 00:33:52.799
But most cardiologists are operating off of 70s and 80s information.
00:33:53.200 --> 00:33:53.839
Yeah.
00:33:54.160 --> 00:34:01.680
I mean, if it's available to me, and I'm not a cardiologist, now being a cardiology patient, I'm very interested and motivated to get the information.
00:34:01.839 --> 00:34:03.279
You would think they would be too.
00:34:03.359 --> 00:34:10.239
If nothing else, you'd think you'd have at least one of those people on your staff keeping up to date on research and then filling you in.
00:34:10.480 --> 00:34:11.840
Like this is what we're finding.
00:34:11.920 --> 00:34:15.039
There was just a study done here in Israel or Austria or wherever it was.
00:34:15.119 --> 00:34:17.679
You know, and then okay, what's the how valid is this research?
00:34:17.760 --> 00:34:18.800
Is it double blind?
00:34:18.880 --> 00:34:20.800
Did they follow who funded it?
00:34:21.039 --> 00:34:21.760
Right, exactly.
00:34:21.840 --> 00:34:22.960
Who funded the research?
00:34:23.039 --> 00:34:23.199
Right.
00:34:23.360 --> 00:34:26.320
Was it funded by, you know, Canola, right?
00:34:26.719 --> 00:34:30.000
Or the General Mills company?
00:34:30.800 --> 00:34:31.039
Right.
00:34:31.119 --> 00:34:33.199
So you so you who funded it, right?
00:34:33.360 --> 00:34:37.199
And so, you know, Kui Bono, who stands to gain from this research?
00:34:37.440 --> 00:34:38.719
And and that's the problem.
00:34:38.880 --> 00:34:48.079
When you have a system, uh and particularly your health system, which is primarily driven by profit, there's very little incentive really to cure anything or make people feel better.
00:34:49.199 --> 00:34:57.119
Yeah, you know, I I used to resent the doctors because I couldn't understand how they could have these.
00:34:57.360 --> 00:35:04.960
I think the I think the mental health term is scotoma, to be completely blind to the facts.
00:35:05.920 --> 00:35:12.000
But I mean, the more education a person has, the more indoctrinated they are.
00:35:12.480 --> 00:35:14.880
Well, really, that's what education has become in our country.
00:35:14.960 --> 00:35:20.079
It's not really you're not being educated to because yeah, education used to be about being able to think, right?
00:35:20.239 --> 00:35:22.960
To be a critical thinker, to question things.
00:35:23.119 --> 00:35:24.960
That's not what education is about anymore.
00:35:25.039 --> 00:35:26.559
It is literally indoctrination.
00:35:26.639 --> 00:35:31.920
It is, this is the system, and we're gonna get you uh totally indoctrinated and steeped in it.
00:35:32.239 --> 00:35:34.639
It's an yeah, it's indoctrination.
00:35:34.719 --> 00:35:38.800
And the only tool they give the doctors is a hammer.
00:35:38.960 --> 00:35:41.920
So when all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.
00:35:42.079 --> 00:35:42.239
Right.
00:35:42.480 --> 00:35:51.119
The only thing, you know, I mean, they're really good at acute trauma stuff, saving you after a heart attack, saving you a heart attack, car wreck, gunshot.
00:35:51.280 --> 00:35:51.679
Yeah.
00:35:52.000 --> 00:35:53.119
We are phenomenal with that.
00:35:53.519 --> 00:36:05.679
Health stuff, they're not taught how to um restore health or maintain health, they're just taught to mask symptoms with drugs that cause even more symptoms.
00:36:05.920 --> 00:36:46.480
But I guess the thing that I can't wrap my head around is how somebody who is intelligent enough to make it into medical school and make it through the process, how are they not intelligent enough to instead of just accept what the indoctrination that was thrown at them, how are they not intelligent enough to do their own research and realize that, oh my gosh, most of our science is complete bullshit that was funded by interests who gain financially as a result of this, you know, with stuff that'll kill you.
00:36:46.639 --> 00:36:51.599
I I don't understand how an intelligent person can continue to operate in that system.
00:36:52.000 --> 00:37:04.239
I do know there are a tiny percentage of doctors um getting out of insurance and getting out of all that shit and doing what they call root cause medicine.
00:37:04.639 --> 00:37:11.519
I found a cardiologist who does that, but I mean, like, good luck finding one of those guys.
00:37:11.840 --> 00:37:29.920
Well, right, because and and once when they do leave the system and start to see the I mean the light, they become in demand because people like you and I, or anybody, people who are in cancer, right, heart disease, any any of these long-term like conditions, right?
00:37:30.159 --> 00:37:34.320
Diabetes, those kinds of things, they realize the system is failing them.
00:37:34.480 --> 00:37:36.079
So they go looking for alternatives.
00:37:36.159 --> 00:37:46.639
They are hard to find, but when you find a man, they're they're a premium to get into, to pay, because they're not operating off that insurance system, so they're not getting that kickback in those dollars, and they still have to be profitable.
00:37:46.800 --> 00:37:48.320
I mean, I totally understand that.
00:37:48.559 --> 00:37:54.639
I think you know, the the answer to the question about the doctors is I think it's a mix of ego, ego, narcissism, right?
00:37:54.719 --> 00:37:56.000
You're how dare you question that.
00:37:56.639 --> 00:37:59.840
Um, I think there's also some cognitive dissonance going on there, right?
00:38:00.159 --> 00:38:00.880
Big job.
00:38:01.280 --> 00:38:35.360
You know, there's no way they don't see it, but they're so invested in the system, and I think they're also comfortable and making a lot of money, and they're willing to um to go along with the yeah, and I think the other part is in-groupness, you know, that that there's a psychology, psychological phenomenon, you know, whether you're a policeman or an airline pilot or a doctor, you're in the group, and you don't want to risk that in-group identity, your status, your, you don't question your that's why you can't get a doctor to testify against a doctor.
00:38:35.440 --> 00:38:36.800
It's in-groupness, right?
00:38:36.960 --> 00:38:37.199
Right.
00:38:37.760 --> 00:38:38.880
And I think that's part of it.
00:38:39.039 --> 00:38:53.039
I mean, I there's so they go outside the system, they get ostracized, they get labeled, they're quack, they're a conspiracy theorist, they're all these things, even though that doctor really knows that, you know, blood pressure is not a condition, it's a symptom.
00:38:53.440 --> 00:38:53.840
Right.
00:38:54.079 --> 00:38:54.320
Right?
00:38:54.400 --> 00:38:59.360
It's a symptom that's something deeper than the kidneys, the liver somewhere isn't working properly.
00:38:59.519 --> 00:39:11.039
You know, like you said, it's type three diabetes, or it's insulin resistance, or you know, it's but all those things which are caused by the food we eat, the air we breathe, the water we drink.
00:39:11.199 --> 00:39:15.679
I mean, it's gotten, I don't know about you, and we'll end with this because I know we're going on a little while.
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It has gotten very, very hard for me to find decent food to eat.
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I mean, it's to the point where I'm I, you know, I kind of go, okay, ever it's it's I'm just going, this is the best option I've got, but it's not still not great.
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Yeah.
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I mean, when we find that they're spraying our strawberries with 30 different kinds of shit that cause they know causes cancer.
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I mean, my air is filled with with shit that they do with their, you know, with the the chemtrails.
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My water is adulterated.
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I mean, I can't even used to be at least in the 70s and 80s, I go buy five fruits and vegetables, and they're okay, they're fruits and vegetables.
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Now they've adulterated all of that.
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Yeah, or or they're and or they've genetically modified them.
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Well, and it's almost all like that.
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So, yeah, so I mean, I mean, I'm I think we're almost at the point where we're going back to the 18th century.
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Gotta grow my own shit, can my own stuff.
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I I buy my meat now from a place called Seven Suns in Indiana that's not too far from us.
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And I know it's grass-fed, and I know it's not filled with all kinds of garbage, and I get my meat there.
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That's why how I get my meat now, because I can't trust.
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I mean, I love Donald Trump, but he just allowed like five billion tons of beef cut to come in the U.S.
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that Europe turned down.
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Jeez, man.
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So what why would so we flooded the market with mystery meat?
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You know, and now we know that you know, we we just find out that Aldi's a servant horse instead of cow in their beef patties.
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Oh, I read, yeah, that was a big expose with Aldi.
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Right.
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Um the ground beef they were selling was horse meat.
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Horse meat.
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Right.
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And so, I mean, so if they can get away with that, what how do you know what's in your hamburger you're eating from McDonald's or wherever, right?
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Unless you truly kind of trust that source.
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Yeah.
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It's uh it's almost to the point where I go we go back to you and I talking about the Rockefellers.
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This whole system was built on that, right?
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It's not a health system, it's a it's a managed decline system.
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That's right.
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People who are tired and weak and unhealthy and don't feel good are easy to manage.
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Much easier to control.
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And so these are the kind of because those are other all topics I want to talk about because you know, uh, you know, uh Bernays and propaganda, uh, all so these are you know, this is the kind of stuff I want to talk about.
00:41:41.199 --> 00:41:47.519
Now next time I'd really like to talk about uh a couple classics, As a Man Thinketh is uh one of my favorites.
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I oh yeah.
00:41:48.719 --> 00:41:52.239
It's like they used to have that in a little tiny Yeah.
00:41:52.480 --> 00:41:54.079
Yeah, you're carrying a pamphlet.
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But I mean, yeah, literally those 32 pages, uh uh you know, and then other books.
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One of the books I'm currently reading now, I just introduced to you, is um, it's called Into the Quiet, Following Jesus in a World of Noise by Mark, John Mark Comer.
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Really good.
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So books and research, stuff like that.
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Well, that's what I want to talk about.
00:42:12.159 --> 00:42:22.159
And and I know you have a whole different take uh as you've gone down the uh uh the course in miracles, and it's taken you to a whole different place, correct?
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Yeah, yeah, which I didn't expect, but it just Yeah, right, right, you know.
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But I next time we're together, I'd love to talk to talk about that.
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Yeah, that'd be fun.
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Okay, because I know you have a I I've read the book and listened to it, but it didn't lead me that next step.
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So I'd like to find out what that next step is and sort of get the rationale behind.
00:42:41.039 --> 00:42:47.920
Um you know, because I know there are because it leads all almost into those other books of the Bible which aren't in the traditional Bible.
00:42:48.239 --> 00:42:49.280
Right, yeah.
00:42:49.920 --> 00:42:53.760
And we're talking like about the Ethiopian Bible, kind of at this point, correct?
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Yeah, in the Nag Homadi texts, all the all the gospels that the Roman government took out of the Bible and then burned all those texts and killed all the people who were you know uh uh using those text, promoting those texts.
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I mean, I mean they they hunted them all down and killed them and thought they'd done a good job of eradicating that information that they didn't want to get out, and then some kid in 1945 in Nagomadi, Egypt, screwing around in a cave, finds all these old texts in a pot.
00:43:36.480 --> 00:43:44.480
And it was all the gospels of the the gospels and other books of the Bible that the Roman government chose not to accept.
00:43:44.880 --> 00:43:49.280
Because they're like there are sixty-six books in the Bible, and there are eighty-eight in the Ethiopian.
00:43:49.840 --> 00:43:55.199
In the Ethiopian, yeah, they still have the three books of Enoch in the Ethiopian Bible.
00:43:55.360 --> 00:44:05.039
In our Western Bible, I forget I forget which book it's in, but I think it's in one of the epistles.
00:44:05.199 --> 00:44:12.480
It refers to the book of Enoch, and it specifically names the book of Enoch, but it's not in our Western Bible.
00:44:12.719 --> 00:44:13.119
Huh.
00:44:13.360 --> 00:44:23.199
So that those are the kinds of things because that's some stuff I'd like to get kind of interested in or discuss a little bit, because I didn't haven't gone that deep into some of those things.
00:44:23.280 --> 00:44:31.920
So, you know, uh, because I think, you know, in the Bible, Jesus talks many times about, you know, heaven is inside you, right?
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It's the it's in you.
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So what does that mean, right?
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And do do those other books sort of spell that out?
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Right.
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Here's what that means, and here's how we access that, right?
00:44:44.880 --> 00:44:47.280
So why would a government want to destroy those books?
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Because it made you less controllable, you would realize your own personal power, right?
00:44:55.519 --> 00:44:58.400
So there's always a you know, there's always a reason.
00:44:58.480 --> 00:45:00.559
They didn't do it just for fun, right?
00:45:00.639 --> 00:45:03.360
So yeah, there's always a reason, right?
00:45:03.440 --> 00:45:06.159
So that'd so I'd love to talk about that next time we're together.
00:45:06.400 --> 00:45:07.440
Yeah, that sounds good.
00:45:07.519 --> 00:45:08.400
I'll look forward to it.
00:45:08.639 --> 00:45:12.480
All right, well, this is our first show, it's an original show.
00:45:12.719 --> 00:45:17.760
So next time, hopefully it'll be a little more polished and we'll have a maybe a format you and I can discuss.
00:45:17.840 --> 00:45:20.800
But um essentially like to go maybe 30 minutes each time.
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We'll do one Saturday.
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You know, we'll record maybe all four episodes at one time or something and do just we did 45 minutes today, so we'll try to cut it back to 30 minutes.
00:45:30.480 --> 00:45:32.480
It's easy to go long when you talk about stuff you need to do.
00:45:32.800 --> 00:45:34.320
Excuse our long-windedness.
00:45:34.559 --> 00:45:35.119
Right, right.
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Um, but other than that, uh, so everybody listening, please uh uh you can find us on Spotify, Apple, uh, YouTube, and Rumble.
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00:45:53.360 --> 00:45:53.760
All right.
00:45:53.840 --> 00:45:54.880
So good luck, Dan.
00:45:54.960 --> 00:45:55.920
Nice talking with you again, man.
00:45:56.000 --> 00:45:58.159
I will Yeah, it's always good talking with you, Bill.
00:45:58.480 --> 00:45:58.719
Thank you.
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Bye.
