Full Transcript for Do Hard Things | Discipline, Ownership, and Self-Reliance

Does irritate me, but that's also part of the reason why I think we, we as a people, as a culture, as you know, Californians or whatever state you might live in, you have to be willing to have discussions. 00:05:59.279 --> 00:06:02.959 You have to be willing to say this is this is not right, this is messed up. 00:06:03.040 --> 00:06:06.160 It doesn't matter what your political party is, it doesn't matter any of that stuff. 00:06:06.319 --> 00:06:21.680 We can all agree that what's happening is wrong, and the only way to stop it is to take back control of our own lives, to take back control of our own money, to take back control of our own health, to take back control of the way that we look at things. 00:06:22.000 --> 00:06:27.759 People go along with party lines in politics to our own detriment. 00:06:28.000 --> 00:06:34.399 This whole left, right, Republican, Democrat, like it's all bullshit. 00:06:34.800 --> 00:06:38.720 And I tell people it's it's it's left foot, right foot. 00:06:38.800 --> 00:06:40.639 They're walking in the same direction. 00:06:41.600 --> 00:06:54.160 And until we realize that we have to be more responsible for ourselves, our own actions, our own lives, it's just like um when they tell you about like the victim mindset, right? 00:06:54.240 --> 00:06:57.600 Like if you're blaming somebody else, then they have control over what's going on. 00:06:57.759 --> 00:07:04.079 If you take ownership and you blame yourself, now you're in control again because you get to pick the next move. 00:07:04.240 --> 00:07:05.920 You get to pick how to fix this. 00:07:06.160 --> 00:07:13.199 And that's where I feel like if we kind of shake, like you do have to acknowledge politics. 00:07:13.360 --> 00:07:16.959 It does have a huge uh impact on our lives, right? 00:07:17.120 --> 00:07:20.560 And you should vote whether you believe the system is broken or not. 00:07:20.639 --> 00:07:22.959 Like, you know, just do your part. 00:07:23.439 --> 00:07:30.560 But at the end of the day, stop looking at it through the lens of a political party and start looking at it as we're all people. 00:07:30.800 --> 00:07:35.920 What's good for us collectively in the long run and look at the big picture? 00:07:36.079 --> 00:07:45.759 And if you regardless of how you cut the pie of fair, not fair, you know, who got a better start in life, this, that, and the other, we're all on the game board where we're at. 00:07:46.720 --> 00:07:59.759 So we have to do everything that we can do and work with each other, not based on skin color, political party, whatever, whatever, whatever, but as people. 00:08:00.160 --> 00:08:04.879 I want what's best for you, you want what's best for me, I want what's best for your kids, you want what's best for my kids. 00:08:04.959 --> 00:08:07.439 Like we all have to live in this together. 00:08:08.399 --> 00:08:15.040 And the best way in history has been to be responsible for yourself. 00:08:15.360 --> 00:08:15.600 Yeah. 00:08:15.839 --> 00:08:18.160 Work through the noise, get through the brush. 00:08:18.560 --> 00:08:18.959 Right. 00:08:19.120 --> 00:08:53.039 Just take take the ownership, put in the work, and if we can do that at on a on a grander scale, on a mass scale, it would greatly change everything that's going on around us from people disagreeing uh over stupid stuff and fighting and not liking each other for whatever reasons, all the way to this, where it's like our our state funded systems or our tax dollar funded state systems, I should say, are actually keeping us from being able to go out and be productive and go out and be fruitful. 00:08:53.279 --> 00:08:56.080 And that's the part that just making it really hard. 00:08:56.320 --> 00:08:56.639 Yeah. 00:08:56.799 --> 00:09:21.440 And if we if we push in the same direction together for the the common benefit of every family being able to afford food and gas and a roof over their head without having to have both parents working, two jobs and the schools and whoever else raising your kids for you, and every like it's that's that's crazy. 00:09:21.600 --> 00:09:22.240 It's insane. 00:09:22.320 --> 00:09:29.679 But the only way to fix it is for us all to get on the same page, and so but half a trillion dollars, that's crazy. 00:09:29.919 --> 00:09:51.679 Half a trillion dollars a year, and that was one of the things like I have heard people say, like, oh, uh, how much Elon Musk could help uh people with a trillion dollars, and he's spent his whole life working through that noise changing the way the world does things, you know, like he didn't invent a new set of fucking shoes, you know. 00:09:51.759 --> 00:09:58.320 He's like he's sending rockets into space, buying Twitter, like, and he made one trillion dollars in his whole lifetime. 00:09:58.799 --> 00:10:13.440 California brings that in every two years, and the state looks the way that it does, you know, and the only way to to fix that is to have skin in the game, and that is where people will start caring. 00:10:13.679 --> 00:10:21.200 And if you you keep chasing like a bigger dollar per hour, that's more tax revenue they're taking off of you. 00:10:21.360 --> 00:10:25.360 But if you go out and you build something on your own against all odds, is it going to be easy? 00:10:25.519 --> 00:10:26.720 Absolutely not. 00:10:27.279 --> 00:10:36.399 But at the end of the day, if more people did that, more people would take pride in themselves, they would take pride in their home, they would take pride in their family, they would take pride in what they're building. 00:10:36.720 --> 00:10:49.120 And then it's a lot harder to just let your outcome be at the mercy of some bullshit election, really is what it boils down to. 00:10:49.360 --> 00:10:58.000 We if enough people were invested enough, I think that there would have been a hard line drawn in the sand already. 00:10:58.159 --> 00:11:01.039 People would have already said a long time ago, enough is enough. 00:11:01.279

--> 00:11:04.559 But I think because we have our creature comforts provided. 00:11:05.279 --> 00:11:06.399 We don't make moves. 00:11:06.639 --> 00:11:12.879 We we don't make moves, and we don't want to lose those creature comforts, so we're afraid to to change anything. 00:11:12.960 --> 00:11:25.840 Like, how many people do you hear that won't uh they don't want to make more because it would affect whatever they're getting, their social security, their welfare, their, you know, whatever it is. 00:11:25.919 --> 00:11:28.480 Oh, well, if I make too much, I won't get that assistance. 00:11:28.720 --> 00:11:30.960 So they're capping their self at that. 00:11:31.039 --> 00:11:32.480 That's my ceiling in life right there. 00:11:32.559 --> 00:11:34.320 It only will ever get that good. 00:11:34.879 --> 00:11:39.679 And that is the mindset that I think needs to be changed. 00:11:39.840 --> 00:11:53.919 Like more people need to be willing to put something on the line for your future generation because if we keep moving down this road, our kids are screwed. 00:11:54.080 --> 00:11:58.080 Yeah, and yeah, we're allowing it for the crooked system. 00:11:58.320 --> 00:11:59.279 Right, exactly. 00:11:59.440 --> 00:12:04.159 And it's for the the ease, the convenience. 00:12:04.320 --> 00:12:10.799 We've we've traded everything away for the disguise of security and convenience. 00:12:11.120 --> 00:12:23.840 And now it's it to the point where if if we don't if we don't change that course quickly, I think we're we're headed to to repeat history. 00:12:24.159 --> 00:12:24.480 Yeah. 00:12:24.639 --> 00:12:28.960 Yeah, that's I kind of have the same gripe with the the MBRC. 00:12:29.120 --> 00:12:31.279 It sounds like they operate like the state. 00:12:31.600 --> 00:12:38.799 The National Board of Restoratory Care, they uh provide all our credentials, you know, the testing, the proper testing for credentials. 00:12:39.200 --> 00:12:48.240 This company has less than 50 employees, and their CEO makes almost a million dollars a year on salary, you know, on paper. 00:12:48.320 --> 00:12:50.399 So who knows how much more he makes. 00:12:50.720 --> 00:12:57.120 They have over a million dollars in assets, which I don't know what those assets are. 00:12:58.320 --> 00:13:01.840 But it's like they don't push the field, they don't like push for growth. 00:13:02.240 --> 00:13:03.840 You and I are their assets. 00:13:04.080 --> 00:13:13.120 We're forced to pay every so many years, so they know that if you want to stay, you know, licensed, you're gonna pay that. 00:13:13.200 --> 00:13:14.159 I I bet you. 00:13:14.399 --> 00:13:15.840 And we're not going anywhere. 00:13:16.000 --> 00:13:16.720 We're not growing. 00:13:16.879 --> 00:13:21.279 No, we're despised, we're the bastard children in the healthcare community. 00:13:22.720 --> 00:13:32.720 Um, we get a lot of push, uh down push from nurses, from physicians, like they don't want us growing. 00:13:33.200 --> 00:13:36.799 And no one's standing up to be like, dude, we can do more. 00:13:37.360 --> 00:13:38.000 Right. 00:13:38.320 --> 00:13:43.919 And that is exactly the same, you know, on a smaller scale. 00:13:44.159 --> 00:13:45.600 It's same deal, yeah. 00:13:45.840 --> 00:13:52.000 They're taking advantage of the revenue that's available through forced compliance. 00:13:52.559 --> 00:13:57.519 And they can because they're the only body that's allowed to do this by the s by the by the states. 00:13:57.840 --> 00:13:58.480 Right. 00:13:59.279 --> 00:13:59.759 Right. 00:14:00.080 --> 00:14:02.080 We gotta start our own. 00:14:02.399 --> 00:14:04.399 Bro, at least audit these guys. 00:14:05.120 --> 00:14:06.559 See what kind of scams are running. 00:14:06.799 --> 00:14:08.240 The real board of respiratory care. 00:14:08.559 --> 00:14:09.200 Yeah. 00:14:09.679 --> 00:14:12.559 Oh, it's um it's and it's set that way. 00:14:12.720 --> 00:14:28.000 Like I think there's a there's some connection, and it's uh, you know, lobbyists or whatever, right? 00:14:29.120 --> 00:14:48.960 Where everybody up there, the, the the corporate world and the government or the you know, they're they're working together hand in hand, but then they're pointing fingers at each other of who's the bad guy, and then that keeps us all arguing and fighting because they're both the bad guy, right, in their own way. 00:14:49.519 --> 00:15:00.240 And with us all fighting against each other, nothing changes, or you get hopeless, or you feel like how long has the NBRC been around? 00:15:00.559 --> 00:15:01.600 Since the 60s. 00:15:01.919 --> 00:15:09.279 So there's a lot of people who have entered their career and that was already in in existence, so they never knew the difference. 00:15:09.360 --> 00:15:11.039 It was just something you had to do. 00:15:11.279 --> 00:15:12.320 No explanation why. 00:15:12.480 --> 00:15:14.879 Like you said, it's not growing us, it's not benefiting us. 00:15:14.960 --> 00:15:18.000 They're not I mean, we're growing at a very slow rate. 00:15:18.240 --> 00:15:18.720 Right. 00:15:18.960 --> 00:15:22.159 Not at um a million dollar a year rate. 00:15:22.399 --> 00:15:25.200 Yeah, not uh how much money they're pulling in. 00:15:25.440 --> 00:15:25.919 Yeah. 00:15:26.480 --> 00:15:27.120 Rate. 00:15:27.840 --> 00:15:32.960 Yeah, I mean, how do you even go about challenging that? 00:15:35.840 --> 00:15:37.120 And that's why I'm pissed off. 00:15:37.200 --> 00:15:37.759 I don't know. 00:15:38.000 --> 00:15:38.879 Right, right. 00:15:39.120 --> 00:15:43.440 And that's where you're building something on your own, right? 00:15:43.519 --> 00:15:43.679 Yeah. 00:15:44.240 --> 00:15:47.039 And you never know how big this could get. 00:15:47.120 --> 00:15:58.559 You think this is maybe a personal company, or other people think maybe this is a personal company, and I don't know exactly what your your grand ambition is with it, but the sky's the limit. 00:15:58.720 --> 00:16:00.960 Whatever you

want to put into it, you could make it, right? 00:16:01.120 --> 00:16:06.960 And you could be a challenging uh governing body to NBRC if you wanted to push it that hard. 00:16:07.360 --> 00:16:08.399 It's a possibility. 00:16:08.639 --> 00:16:09.279 Absolutely. 00:16:09.519 --> 00:16:12.000 You know, find that group of people that relate, right? 00:16:12.320 --> 00:16:13.440 Feel the same. 00:16:13.679 --> 00:16:15.200 And then storm the NBRC. 00:16:15.440 --> 00:16:16.799 Storm the NBRC. 00:16:17.120 --> 00:16:18.720 Do they even have an address? 00:16:18.960 --> 00:16:20.000 They're in Kansas. 00:16:20.240 --> 00:16:21.039 Kansas. 00:16:23.519 --> 00:16:40.320 No, I I think that if if more people followed those little inclinations like you're expressing right now, you don't always need to know the full map to get to where you're going, but if you just keep putting one foot in front of the other, you know, you get there. 00:16:40.480 --> 00:16:44.639 And that's that's with anything. 00:16:44.799 --> 00:16:56.320 I mean, I know I said it in uh to several different people, but when like when COVID happened and everything shut down, my life was relatively unaffected. 00:16:56.879 --> 00:17:13.680 I had I was growing my own food, I was growing and slaughtering my own animals, I had my own eggs, I had you know clean water, I had already for some reason, I don't know why, but I already had an auto subscription on Amazon for my toilet paper. 00:17:13.759 --> 00:17:18.559 So when everybody was fighting over toilet paper, I had I had an overstock on accident. 00:17:18.640 --> 00:17:21.119 It was like Bob Ross, a happy accident. 00:17:21.599 --> 00:17:31.440 Um but it's just those little steps that will fortify your position in life, in business, in a relationship. 00:17:31.599 --> 00:17:52.000 It in anything, if you're looking out ahead and you're just doing consistent consistent action in the right direction and you're building like you're building a you're building castle walls around you, and then you're building a moat around those castle walls. 00:17:52.079 --> 00:18:01.279 Like if you are in a relationship and you're always doing um like thoughtful things for your partner, right? 00:18:01.440 --> 00:18:06.480 In time, you're building credibility, you're building a balance in that bank account. 00:18:06.640 --> 00:18:08.000 It's the same thing in business. 00:18:08.160 --> 00:18:13.119 You might not you might be afraid to make a little move here or there because things are working. 00:18:13.279 --> 00:18:16.720 Just if it's not broken, don't fix it, you know, mentality. 00:18:17.119 --> 00:18:24.960 But if you take calculated risks to grow, you know, and it's the same thing with your health. 00:18:25.039 --> 00:18:31.119 It's the same thing with like my position and where I was saying I was living at the time of COVID. 00:18:31.519 --> 00:18:32.720 I enjoy those things. 00:18:32.799 --> 00:18:38.400 I enjoy gardening, I enjoy, you know, uh raising animals and things like that. 00:18:38.480 --> 00:18:40.640 It's kind of somewhat therapeutic. 00:18:40.880 --> 00:18:53.359 So it's easy to do little things like that, but it's not always easy for people that are having a hard time with working out or having a hard time putting a little bit of extra into their job or their business or whatever. 00:18:53.680 --> 00:19:02.880 But if you just do those little things, you're you're building, you're putting deposits into your own position in life, you know? 00:19:03.119 --> 00:19:08.160 And that could be an extra conversation with your kids, that could be anything. 00:19:08.319 --> 00:19:19.200 But if you're doing if you're pushing in the direction of your dreams and your goals consistently, it's going to grow and strengthen over time. 00:19:19.440 --> 00:19:27.359 So dude, what do you think of this Ebola training that California is pushing on us right now? 00:19:30.799 --> 00:19:32.640 I think everything has a reason. 00:19:32.799 --> 00:19:34.480 I think everything has a purpose. 00:19:34.640 --> 00:19:44.240 Um I mean their thing is they're saying that Africa has a significant outbreak right now, but I feel like Africa always has an Ebola outbreak going on. 00:19:46.000 --> 00:19:48.480 I think it's like anything else. 00:19:50.000 --> 00:19:56.559 I think that they there's always these things are always going on, like you just said. 00:19:56.720 --> 00:20:07.839 I think that the cameras get pointed in a certain direction, and I think that people generally it's gotta be some kind of funding thing, they're getting money for it. 00:20:08.160 --> 00:20:12.240 Uh it's a lot of times it's funding, but I think a lot of times it's a distraction too. 00:20:12.319 --> 00:20:19.039 When I see big things happening in the news, I look for the smaller things that are going on behind them. 00:20:19.279 --> 00:20:31.279 I feel like there's a lot of smoke and mirrors that go on, and I think that's just to keep the masses chaining chain chasing the shiny object, you know, and then they keep keep doing what they're doing. 00:20:31.359 --> 00:20:33.119 But I think it's a waste of time. 00:20:33.359 --> 00:20:34.960 This work picture came through this morning. 00:20:35.039 --> 00:20:36.880 Did you see it from one of the classes there? 00:20:37.119 --> 00:20:37.599 The training? 00:20:37.680 --> 00:20:38.240 Yeah, yeah. 00:20:38.400 --> 00:20:45.839 They're all like geared up in the proper PPE, and it's like, dude, why? 00:20:46.799 --> 00:20:51.839 We like we already know how to PPE, you know, the proper way. 00:20:52.079 --> 00:20:52.400 Yeah. 00:20:52.640 --> 00:21:00.240 But it's like that's also kind of like a waste of resources, and they're all taking pictures of it, like, oh, look at us. 00:21:00.559 --> 00:21:08.240 My you know, the well, like the I see what you're saying with that, but I also think like if they can make training fun, let them. 00:21:08.480 --> 00:21:13.440 Um, do you know who David Hackworth,

Colonel David Hackworth, was? 00:21:13.920 --> 00:21:14.240 No. 00:21:14.480 --> 00:21:22.640 He wrote a book called About Face, and he was uh he was in Vietnam, and he came in. 00:21:22.880 --> 00:21:38.000 His big thing was he was turning around uh, I guess I don't want to say like shitty units, but shitty units, like units that were undisciplined, they weren't shaving, they weren't cleaning their weapons, they weren't doing any of that stuff. 00:21:38.240 --> 00:21:47.759 And he had a way of connecting on a personal level with his men, but he wasn't being their buddy. 00:21:47.839 --> 00:21:54.480 He wasn't like he was a soldier soldier, I guess you could say. 00:21:54.559 --> 00:21:58.799 Like he was in leadership, but he understood he wasn't about all the politics, you know. 00:21:58.960 --> 00:22:13.039 But what his what One of his like cornerstones of his training or his thought process was uh continuous and difficult training. 00:22:14.480 --> 00:22:20.880 So always be training, always be getting um getting ready for what could happen. 00:22:21.039 --> 00:22:26.559 And so I'm not against I'm not against them training. 00:22:26.720 --> 00:22:32.480 I do see what you're saying about the PPE, especially with that big fire that just happened with the the Medline facility. 00:22:32.799 --> 00:22:45.039 Um so I don't know, I guess I don't see like a net gain or a net loss uh in the situation, but I do believe that you and I know what to do. 00:22:45.440 --> 00:22:54.720 I think we take our jobs relatively serious, but I do believe that there are always people who are gonna slip through the cracks and just be there for a check, a paycheck. 00:22:55.039 --> 00:23:03.200 So it in some ways, like it's like the training is good for you guys, but I don't need it. 00:23:03.680 --> 00:23:08.319 That's it, so it is annoying in a way, but then I get the the idea behind it too. 00:23:08.480 --> 00:23:14.799 Yeah, but I mean there's a 0.01% chance of any Ebola hitting California. 00:23:15.279 --> 00:23:19.200 So our resources could be going to something that's more likely for the moment, you know. 00:23:19.359 --> 00:23:19.920 Okay, yeah. 00:23:20.000 --> 00:23:21.200 I can agree with that 100%. 00:23:22.079 --> 00:23:23.039 I can agree with that. 00:23:23.359 --> 00:23:24.880 I think it's the shiny object thing. 00:23:24.960 --> 00:23:26.480 I think they want us to be kind of scared. 00:23:26.640 --> 00:23:32.960 I think they want us to they want to keep everybody in a in they, what whoever's running the world. 00:23:33.200 --> 00:23:45.839 Um, but if they can keep people fired up or on edge, then they're easier to pull to the next thing, pull to the next thing, pull to the next thing. 00:23:45.920 --> 00:24:01.119 If you look at it, it was COVID and then Ukraine, and then uh October 7th and Israel, and then Iran, it's just like thing after thing after thing, and they keep people so full of anxiety that they're easier to pull around. 00:24:01.200 --> 00:24:05.039 It's like when you put a nose ring through a bull's nose, right? 00:24:05.279 --> 00:24:11.119 That's how that bull would just destroy you, would murder you. 00:24:11.359 --> 00:24:15.680 But you get that clip on the nose ring and you can pull them anywhere they want to go. 00:24:15.759 --> 00:24:22.160 And I think that's if you keep people stressed out all the time, they're easier to manipulate. 00:24:22.240 --> 00:24:24.799 That's my yeah, my opinion. 00:24:25.039 --> 00:24:26.480 It's just silly. 00:24:27.039 --> 00:24:29.359 Yeah, it's it's something. 00:24:29.519 --> 00:24:30.400 I don't know. 00:24:30.960 --> 00:24:40.640 I don't know, but I do I do believe that we will see another um some kind of outbreak, some type of something, yeah, for sure. 00:24:41.119 --> 00:24:43.279 I just know I'm not wearing an N95. 00:24:44.319 --> 00:24:46.559 I'm buying my own shit that's more comfortable. 00:24:47.680 --> 00:24:55.440 I think it just depends on uh on whatever it is, you know, of how compliant I'll I'll be. 00:24:55.599 --> 00:25:05.839 I called the last one pretty pretty spot on, and some things you kind of had to go along with, especially working in medicine. 00:25:06.079 --> 00:25:21.200 And then any time that I could find a foothold for an argument against what was going on, and it wasn't in a you're wrong, I'm right, or anger or anything like that. 00:25:21.279 --> 00:25:24.799 It was more of um like a Socratic approach. 00:25:24.880 --> 00:25:27.920 I would just ask questions like, does this make sense? 00:25:28.079 --> 00:25:30.720 We know this, so does this make sense? 00:25:30.960 --> 00:25:40.400 And I would let people come to their own, you know, and some people are gonna dig in and you know, on either side, like always, but that's what people do. 00:25:40.559 --> 00:26:20.400 I mean, there's eight billion people on the planet to get everybody to think the same way would be pretty difficult, but um I think just being self-sufficient, being independent, being uh willing to put in the work to take your own responsibility for yourself, whether again, whether that's your relationships, your health, your money, your job, your whatever it is, uh you're you're setting yourself up in a far better place for long-term survival. 00:26:20.640 --> 00:26:25.519 I mean Darwinism, right? 00:26:25.680 --> 00:26:38.319 I mean, if if you can adapt and grow and learn and not just be told what to think, but use your critical thinking, use the fact that you know how to think. 00:26:38.559 --> 00:26:41.680 We were all taught the scientific method in school, right? 00:26:41.759 --> 00:26:46.960 You start with a hypothesis, you end with a conclusion, and you go through, I think it's seven steps. 00:26:47.200 --> 00:26:56.319 And if you put everything that you're told through those seven steps, you will more than likely come up with the truth, the reality. 00:26:56.559 --> 00:27:02.960 And I think that I don't know, that's that's how I operate

anyway. 00:27:03.039 --> 00:27:07.759 I don't really let um I don't really let people tell me what to even the people I trust the most. 00:27:07.839 --> 00:27:10.960 If they tell me something, I I check it myself, you know. 00:27:11.200 --> 00:27:13.119 And you have to these days. 00:27:13.200 --> 00:27:16.240 That is actually the downside of AI, right? 00:27:16.319 --> 00:27:18.240 Like we we see the uses for it. 00:27:18.400 --> 00:27:23.119 We are obviously, you know, proponents like, hey, let's use it to our advantage. 00:27:23.200 --> 00:27:25.039 It's here, it's not going anywhere. 00:27:25.279 --> 00:27:30.000 Um, but the downside is that you don't always know what the truth is. 00:27:30.160 --> 00:27:31.759 And it was like that even before AI, right? 00:27:32.000 --> 00:27:36.079 Like you got a lot of uh conflicting opinions on the internet. 00:27:36.400 --> 00:27:42.000 Yeah, you have to do your own your own research, you have to look at the data, and you have to look at where the data's coming from. 00:27:42.079 --> 00:27:49.359 And you da-da-da, like it's so difficult to figure anything out, but there are things that we know to be true. 00:27:50.000 --> 00:28:02.480 And if you stand on what you know to be true, and that's your your your glassing point, your vantage point, then you can move forward from there with checking, you know. 00:28:02.880 --> 00:28:25.920 So I don't know, that's not necessarily uh it does tie into business, um, it does tie into really everything, but you know, and I don't want to go, I don't want this to turn into like a full-on like political analysis type of podcast, but politics do affect our everyday and they do affect our bottom line. 00:28:26.160 --> 00:28:33.839 And right now it's it's difficult for people to to make it, let alone to live comfortably. 00:28:34.079 --> 00:28:51.759 And I think if we are willing to put ourselves out there, if we're willing to own a responsibility for ourselves and our own families, and you know, our our neighborhoods, our cities, our, you know, we we start to have to work together as a unit. 00:28:52.079 --> 00:28:56.559 And I don't know, I think that that's the the way forward. 00:28:56.640 --> 00:29:14.480 Like be willing to be responsible for yourself, be willing to go out and take a little bit of risk, be willing to grow something and hopefully have something to leave behind, you know, rather than just being a I lived my life in the rat race and I died, and that's it. 00:29:14.799 --> 00:29:16.319 Now I'm fertilizer. 00:29:16.559 --> 00:29:17.200 Yeah. 00:29:20.720 --> 00:29:25.359 But uh I guess I'll update with my stuff. 00:29:25.440 --> 00:29:27.200 I just got back from a family trip. 00:29:27.359 --> 00:29:30.000 Um, so I'm trying to get back into gear. 00:29:31.119 --> 00:29:33.519 Um still have the storefront. 00:29:33.680 --> 00:29:39.599 Got another idea for some YouTube shorts, you know, involving Rest Tech. 00:29:40.400 --> 00:29:42.559 More from an educational view. 00:29:43.119 --> 00:29:50.400 Um, because I've I've noticed a lot of a lot of people looking into Rest Tech or buying stuff as new grads. 00:29:51.440 --> 00:30:10.319 So I'm gonna try uh Do you notice a correlation between like I don't know how your analytics run, but when people are using your app or they're using the operator mode, are those are those people also people that are buying merch or are is it just random? 00:30:10.559 --> 00:30:18.319 Um like are people all in or half like what's the uh I can't I can't really tell from the analytics for the operator or just for the app. 00:30:18.559 --> 00:30:18.720 Okay. 00:30:20.720 --> 00:30:29.839 Just because people that buy the you know the merchandise right now, I'll like scope out their profiles, you know, and just kind of eyeball it, and it's it's mostly new grads. 00:30:30.079 --> 00:30:30.400 Okay. 00:30:30.720 --> 00:30:38.960 Um try and focus some content towards them, see how that works out. 00:30:39.279 --> 00:30:43.519 And see, I don't want to do too many things at once because that's uh that's also how I'm feeling. 00:30:44.480 --> 00:30:50.240 I want to focus more on one thing, but it's also trial and error testing. 00:30:50.960 --> 00:30:51.519 Right. 00:30:52.079 --> 00:30:55.119 Yeah, that's uh I do that sometimes too. 00:30:55.200 --> 00:31:02.640 I'll go in a lot of different directions and realize that if I would just focus on one thing at a time, I think we've probably discussed that before. 00:31:03.039 --> 00:31:04.880 I'm scatterbrained a lot. 00:31:05.119 --> 00:31:11.200 Um but that's but that's uh it's all relatable to the brand, so give it a try. 00:31:11.440 --> 00:31:19.680 Right, and it's a push forward, like you said, you're you're catering content to the people that are looking at your content, right? 00:31:19.759 --> 00:31:22.160 Or buying uh the merchandise or whatever. 00:31:22.400 --> 00:31:24.480 So I think it's a smart move. 00:31:24.640 --> 00:31:31.839 I mean, if you can keep them engaged and make them better, then and they know they're getting better, they will keep coming back. 00:31:32.000 --> 00:31:33.680 And I think that's a smart move. 00:31:33.920 --> 00:31:40.079 You're you're adding value in in the best areas, yeah. 00:31:40.319 --> 00:31:41.279 Real life approach. 00:31:41.519 --> 00:31:42.079 Right. 00:31:42.799 --> 00:31:52.799 I like that uh that deal you showed me before we started with the where the it's putting you're putting out an article, is it every week? 00:31:53.039 --> 00:31:53.519 Every week, yeah. 00:31:53.680 --> 00:31:56.079 Every week, something that's actually usable in the field. 00:31:56.319 --> 00:32:03.759 Yeah, it's uh it's educational, but more of a real person approach, not just a textbook. 00:32:04.160 --> 00:32:08.400 Did you get a chance to watch that uh Mcrit video I sent you? 00:32:09.119 --> 00:32:10.079 No, I don't think I did. 00:32:10.319 --> 00:32:11.279 On the Crike? 00:32:11.599 -->

00:32:12.240 Oh, yeah, I did. 00:32:12.640 --> 00:32:12.880 Did you? 00:32:12.960 --> 00:32:23.839 Yeah, so after that one, I watched one on um intubation, like peri intubation um codes and how to stop them. 00:32:24.160 --> 00:32:26.079 And I'm gonna send that one to you too. 00:32:26.400 --> 00:32:31.279 If you get the opportunity to check out his stuff, it's it's really good. 00:32:31.440 --> 00:32:39.839 Not all of it is gonna apply to us, but he is he says that he specializes in resuscitation. 00:32:40.160 --> 00:32:45.359 So a lot of his stuff is shock, trauma, um, you know, airway. 00:32:46.079 --> 00:32:50.000 And he's got a lot of really good, uh, really good videos. 00:32:50.079 --> 00:32:55.519 I've been listening to to that for probably close to 10 years. 00:32:55.839 --> 00:33:07.359 And I always, always, always go back to his videos, and then every time I go back to ones that I've already seen, I'll try to throw another one in just to get a little more information out of it. 00:33:07.759 --> 00:33:32.720 But I think you can find some gold on his podcast as uh far as airway stuff goes, and I'm sure somehow tailor to new grads, because I mean, obviously his experience is far beyond that of a new grad, but if they can start picking up little points of of things that they're gonna run into frequently, and that being one of them is like post-intubation codes. 00:33:33.039 --> 00:33:37.039 Um the one that I listened to was on pH. 00:33:37.119 --> 00:33:49.359 So it was like if they're uh relying on the Kuzmall's breathing to stay alive because their pH is already through the floor, and then you paralyze and sedate them, what happens to CO2? 00:33:49.680 --> 00:33:50.319 Climbs. 00:33:50.480 --> 00:33:51.839 And then they cut, right? 00:33:52.000 --> 00:33:54.319 So it's just like little, little things like that. 00:33:54.400 --> 00:34:02.400 That like as a respiratory therapist, especially in California, we're one of the few places that I know that is allowed to intubate as respiratory therapists. 00:34:02.559 --> 00:34:04.960 Everywhere else I've worked, you're assisting. 00:34:05.359 --> 00:34:21.599 And so if you just get stuck in that uh button-pushing, knob turning mentality where you're not really thinking about the disease process or you're not really thinking about the physiology of what's going on, you're just like, oh yeah, well, I'm gonna give the doctor the tube. 00:34:21.679 --> 00:34:32.880 And I'm uh yeah, you're not really thinking about what's going on with the patient, but you might be the one to catch a mistake that's about to happen if you're aware of what's going on. 00:34:33.119 --> 00:34:39.519 So it's super um, this is one of my favorite ones to listen to as far as is is in our field, you know. 00:34:40.079 --> 00:34:42.000 Yeah, I'll check that out, see how I can apply it. 00:34:42.159 --> 00:34:46.719 Yeah, I'll send you a couple that I really like and see if you if you enjoy them or not. 00:34:48.079 --> 00:34:55.199 I imagine you will being a respiratory tactician, not just out-of-the-box thinker. 00:34:55.440 --> 00:34:56.960 Right, exactly. 00:34:57.440 --> 00:34:58.400 Exactly. 00:34:59.119 --> 00:35:02.000 So, um, how are the workouts going? 00:35:02.320 --> 00:35:03.599 Well, you just got back from vacation. 00:35:03.840 --> 00:35:08.079 Yeah, I just got back, so trying to find a groove, but uh, workouts are non-existent right now. 00:35:08.320 --> 00:35:10.159 Oh, all right, I'll bug you. 00:35:10.400 --> 00:35:29.199 I just got uh I just got going again, and it's it feels good like you have just that little bit of resistance to getting back in the groove sometimes, but as soon as you're going, it I guess the endorphin release and all that, but then you just kind of catch that. 00:35:29.440 --> 00:35:33.440 So you're back on it. 00:35:33.679 --> 00:35:36.079 Yeah, I jumped back on uh phase two. 00:35:36.400 --> 00:35:40.320 Uh I said last time I didn't want to get back to recording and not be started. 00:35:40.400 --> 00:35:50.559 Now I did not start that day, so made a liar out of myself, but I did start yesterday, so it's day two, and by next recording, hopefully, we'll be a solid, a solid weekend. 00:35:50.639 --> 00:35:51.840 No, not hopefully, we will be. 00:35:52.000 --> 00:35:54.079 We'll be a street, yeah. 00:35:54.719 --> 00:36:02.639 Um, and that's that that was part of the just needing to flip the switch and be like enough is enough. 00:36:02.880 --> 00:36:07.360 And I know I needed to do it, and I've known that I've been needing to do it. 00:36:07.519 --> 00:36:13.119 And even though it was just yesterday, it might just be like placebo or whatever right now, but I do feel better. 00:36:13.280 --> 00:36:25.360 I feel better knowing that like I made the decision, I'm committed to it, and I mean I've already done if you don't count the failed days, right? 00:36:25.440 --> 00:36:31.440 I've already done 105 successful days this year, so I know it's cap like I'm capable. 00:36:31.519 --> 00:36:35.039 It's just the fighting the the inner bitch, right? 00:36:35.119 --> 00:36:36.400 The bitch voice. 00:36:38.000 --> 00:36:40.239 Well, I gotta get back on your level then. 00:36:42.559 --> 00:36:46.400 I don't, I mean, any any uh the more the merrier. 00:36:46.480 --> 00:36:49.119 That's uh I the more people I I can get going. 00:36:49.360 --> 00:36:55.280 And I like that too, because then you have um you have that to talk about too, right? 00:36:55.360 --> 00:37:04.960 Like you start shifting, um and it's not just workouts, or it's not just jujitsu, or it's not just muay thai, but like the lifestyle itself. 00:37:05.119 --> 00:37:12.400 You're not out drinking, you're not out partying, oh, you're hitting new PRs, oh uh eating clean, eating healthy. 00:37:12.559 --> 00:37:25.440 You see that um you notice when you see somebody sit down and they bust out like some bullshit food or like a healthy meal, you know, and you're like, oh, okay,

that's it. 00:37:25.519 --> 00:37:34.159 I don't it just it's like when you started driving your truck, you probably saw every RAM, you know, that was on the I don't know, you just notice it. 00:37:34.239 --> 00:37:34.719 Yeah. 00:37:34.960 --> 00:37:40.960 And um, and it's it's not just a conversation piece. 00:37:41.039 --> 00:37:46.880 I think it's a it's a noticing of another human being's mindset, right? 00:37:46.960 --> 00:37:58.000 If you see somebody that has a bag of McDonald's every day versus somebody who's bringing in chicken and salad and oranges, and like you just know about that person, you know. 00:37:58.400 --> 00:38:10.320 And so it's nice when you when you start getting going on these things and you're pushing yourself, like if you were training for uh jujitsu tournament or uh like James did a Spartan race a couple months ago, right? 00:38:10.400 --> 00:38:30.400 And and you're gearing up for something, it's kind of nice to be able to link up with those like-minded people, and you're you're providing value in what you're experiencing, and you're they're providing value based on, you know, you can run things off of each other, and yeah, I don't know. 00:38:30.559 --> 00:38:32.079 I think it's it's kind of cool. 00:38:32.320 --> 00:38:34.239 No, I mean, I love working out too. 00:38:34.480 --> 00:38:37.679 So I'm just being a bitch about or being lazy. 00:38:38.239 --> 00:38:40.719 I don't know, because I love working out. 00:38:41.119 --> 00:38:50.320 You have um, you know how when you set your alarm, you can set it to be like a a song or whatever. 00:38:50.480 --> 00:38:58.800 Uh get uh gunnery sergeant Hartman from Full Metal Jacket as your alarm, and then in the morning for wake-ups, you just hear him bang in the trash can. 00:38:58.880 --> 00:38:59.920 Yeah, Revelie. 00:39:00.000 --> 00:39:00.159 Yeah. 00:39:03.679 --> 00:39:05.599 Um yeah, that would wake me up. 00:39:05.760 --> 00:39:07.119 That would also piss off Amber. 00:39:07.280 --> 00:39:07.920 Yeah. 00:39:09.280 --> 00:39:13.039 Which would ensure that you got out of bed because now she's mad at you, you know. 00:39:16.159 --> 00:39:19.519 No, that would be um that would be funny. 00:39:19.840 --> 00:39:25.679 No, I I think again, it's just making the decision, flipping the switch, you know. 00:39:25.840 --> 00:39:27.039 When you're ready, you'll do it. 00:39:27.119 --> 00:39:33.519 And you you train more often than you don't train, so it's not like you're being a bum. 00:39:34.000 --> 00:39:44.480 But I do see like if you catch that that funk or you're in that lull, and that's like even when I was in my funk and my lull, like I do little stuff. 00:39:44.719 --> 00:39:53.360 I'm gonna, you know, do some bodyweight exercises or jump on the pull-up bar before I come inside, or you know, but I'm not doing workouts. 00:39:53.519 --> 00:39:53.840 Yeah. 00:39:54.320 --> 00:40:05.760 And one like yesterday when I actually did a workout, I was like, Yes, this is what I've

been needing, but I've just been talking myself out of it, or I've been doing less. 00:40:05.920 --> 00:40:08.800 Like if I can do 10 pull-ups, I'm like, well, I'm still in shape. 00:40:08.960 --> 00:40:11.039 I don't, I don't need to train every day, right? 00:40:11.199 --> 00:40:21.519 Like you just start making the little little reasons, little uh excuses, or you're justifying whatever bad behaviors. 00:40:21.760 --> 00:40:36.079 I did that, uh, I kept saying I was gonna start, and there was the night before I started, I had got home late from work and I don't know, it was like just a habit. 00:40:36.239 --> 00:40:40.400 I started getting, you know, ready, doing stuff, getting ready for the next day, whatever. 00:40:40.559 --> 00:40:48.320 And I grabbed a beer and I cracked it, and I only took one drink out of it, and I was like, this is what I said I wasn't gonna do. 00:40:48.480 --> 00:40:49.920 And I poured the rest of it out. 00:40:50.000 --> 00:40:54.960 But that literally was the one reason why I couldn't count my first day. 00:40:55.119 --> 00:40:56.159 Yeah, because that's it. 00:40:56.320 --> 00:40:57.440 I had to start the next day. 00:40:57.519 --> 00:40:59.039 Yeah, and it was just why? 00:40:59.199 --> 00:40:59.760 For what? 00:41:00.000 --> 00:41:15.519 For that little bit of ah, you know, just a little satisfaction, but then for that little moment of satisfaction, you gave up all of your own work and self-confidence and self-belief that you were gonna do what you said you were gonna do. 00:41:15.599 --> 00:41:26.880 Now you lied to yourself, now you broke your promise to yourself, and that's what snowballs into all the the extra, you know, spinning completely out of control type shit. 00:41:29.119 --> 00:41:31.119 Yeah, man, I agree with you. 00:41:32.239 --> 00:41:34.880 But uh, yeah, it's not like I never work out. 00:41:34.960 --> 00:41:38.880 I, you know, it's I have these these moments are rare for me. 00:41:40.000 --> 00:41:40.960 Which is good. 00:41:41.199 --> 00:41:43.119 That's uh and you know that already. 00:41:43.280 --> 00:41:47.519 So it's just basically deciding when you're gonna hit that button. 00:41:48.000 --> 00:41:56.000 But uh I think maybe we've gotta start some uh elevation or altitude training. 00:41:56.159 --> 00:42:05.280 We should go run up in the foothills or something, because if we get going, what I want to get going with James, I think we might be planning for some backpacking trips. 00:42:05.360 --> 00:42:08.880 So if you can make that, that would be Oh yeah, that'd be cool, man. 00:42:09.119 --> 00:42:09.440 Awesome. 00:42:09.519 --> 00:42:13.119 We can maybe hit some we're down for outdoor hard work. 00:42:13.360 --> 00:42:18.000 Yeah, there's a couple of good spots before the winter comes that we go up there we can shoot too. 00:42:18.239 --> 00:42:26.079 So if you want to hike around and see if there's any I don't have any tags to hunt animals, but we can target shoot. 00:42:26.239 --> 00:42:33.760 And I think James has some tags, so we'll slay a buck and make somebody drink its blood. 00:42:35.119 --> 00:42:35.760 James. 00:42:35.920 --> 00:42:36.559 Yeah. 00:42:39.119 --> 00:42:40.800 Do you remember that from Red Dawn? 00:42:40.960 --> 00:42:42.480 Did you watch the original Red Dawn? 00:42:42.800 --> 00:42:44.000 I did, but I don't remember. 00:42:44.320 --> 00:42:48.639 Yeah, they they kill a buck and they tell him it's like, yeah, it's a it's a ritual, it's an honor to the buck. 00:42:48.719 --> 00:42:54.719 You have to drink the he drinks the canteen cup full of I think they do that in the in the in the reboot too. 00:42:54.960 --> 00:42:56.159 Yeah, I think so. 00:42:56.880 --> 00:43:01.360 Reminds me of like uh I never did it, but like Jungle Warfare training in the Marine Corps. 00:43:01.599 --> 00:43:05.280 They killed the snake, um, and they always make someone drink the blood. 00:43:05.519 --> 00:43:06.320 Oh, yeah. 00:43:06.480 --> 00:43:12.880 That was uh I I remember, did I send you the fat electrician video on uh the Mark 19? 00:43:13.199 --> 00:43:13.679 Oh no. 00:43:13.840 --> 00:43:16.719 Was he like praising Marines for being crazy for drinking blood? 00:43:16.960 --> 00:43:22.000 Yeah, he goes, it's an he goes, it's an automatic uh no, what did he say? 00:43:22.400 --> 00:43:25.920 It's a it's a machine gun that shoots grenades. 00:43:26.000 --> 00:43:27.440 And he goes, let me say that again. 00:43:27.599 --> 00:43:31.440 It's a fucking machine gun that shoots grenades. 00:43:31.519 --> 00:43:36.079 And he goes, and then they gave it to a bunch of guys that drink fucking cobra blood. 00:43:39.199 --> 00:43:46.000 He says the Marine Corps is the only branch that has been asked uh by PETA to stop drinking cobra blood. 00:43:49.519 --> 00:43:51.360 But yeah, I mean that's badass. 00:43:52.400 --> 00:43:54.480 Mentally, I'm sure you feel like a badass. 00:43:56.320 --> 00:43:57.280 I would imagine. 00:43:57.440 --> 00:44:05.519 I mean uh Going out and and hunting is its own experience, right? 00:44:05.679 --> 00:44:14.559 And if you're if you are at all connected with nature, and I think you'd have to be a psychopath not to be, if you're actually out stalking and hunting prey. 00:44:15.199 --> 00:44:32.960 Um it it does feel badass when you get something, when you kill something, you know, you feel you just you feel like some type of warrior, you're connected to nature, you're hunting, and the harder you make it for yourself, the more gratifying. 00:44:33.840 --> 00:44:34.239 Exactly. 00:44:34.320 --> 00:44:37.760 Yeah, and that's why like we were uh shooting this morning. 00:44:38.000 --> 00:44:39.280 Recurve bows. 00:44:39.599 --> 00:44:56.480 You you got guys that rifle hunt, and then you got guys that bow hunt, and most of those guys use compound bows, and a recurve bow gives you less velocity, so you have to stalk your prey and you have to get closer to them. 00:44:57.039 --> 00:45:03.360 And I've never

shot a deer or anything with a recurve bow, but I would like to. 00:45:03.440 --> 00:45:19.440 That would be super cool, and I enjoy recurve bows, but that that gratifying feeling of doing something the hardest way possible and still succeeding is already, I think, a really, really good feeling for anybody. 00:45:19.519 --> 00:45:24.239 But then you add into it like being out in nature, being out on a hunt. 00:45:24.400 --> 00:45:32.960 Be there's regardless of what people feel about the you know, hunting and whether you should kill and eat animals and all of that. 00:45:33.760 --> 00:45:44.880 The act of getting out there and getting in personal with nature like that is a completely different feeling than what most people feel on the day-to-day or ever in their life. 00:45:45.920 --> 00:45:46.239 Yeah. 00:45:46.559 --> 00:45:48.480 I've never been animal hunting. 00:45:49.199 --> 00:45:50.800 I've been human hunting. 00:45:53.679 --> 00:45:54.800 Back in Ramadi. 00:45:55.840 --> 00:45:59.039 Uh but yeah, I'd I feel like that'd be a good experience. 00:45:59.360 --> 00:46:00.159 The ultimate prey. 00:46:00.320 --> 00:46:00.480 Yeah. 00:46:00.800 --> 00:46:02.159 The prey that shoots back. 00:46:04.800 --> 00:46:16.960 No, if you um if you do want to go, uh like he was talking about this morning, um dove season is in September, and that's a pretty it's pretty easy hunting and it's enjoyable. 00:46:17.039 --> 00:46:18.239 It's not anything crazy. 00:46:18.320 --> 00:46:24.960 It's you kind of just set up in a spot in a flyway, and they come to you, so that makes things a lot easier. 00:46:25.199 --> 00:46:49.199 But uh, if you ever want to get out on the mountain and start, um, you know, uh Danny was just telling me he's gonna go out and start scouting here pretty soon, and there's some some pretty good spots up in the mountains that you get a real good workout, real good hike, get in, start to see how the animals move, looking at their trails, looking at, you know, where they're they're in rut. 00:46:49.280 --> 00:47:03.679 They're you know, uh it's a it's a cool, it's a cool escape from the day to day, and it really does there's just something about it that's spiritual, man, connecting with nature and and stalking animal and watching it. 00:47:03.760 --> 00:47:05.280 It look it just uh it's cool. 00:47:05.440 --> 00:47:06.480 I I love doing it. 00:47:06.559 --> 00:47:16.480 I don't get out as often, nearly as often as I'd like to, but the disconnect from cell phones and traffic, yeah. 00:47:16.880 --> 00:47:17.599 The normal everyday. 00:47:17.760 --> 00:47:19.199 Yeah, exactly. 00:47:19.760 --> 00:47:22.719 It's I don't even think I can put words to it. 00:47:22.800 --> 00:47:28.400 Once you once you get do it, you go out, you get back, and you're just like, yes, whatever that was, I want to do that again. 00:47:28.639 --> 00:47:36.639 And we always say we should do it more and we don't, but yeah, yeah, it's um and that's that is one reason. 00:47:36.719 --> 00:47:44.079 Well all the rant and like bitching about California State and their the way that they spend money and waste shit like all that. 00:47:44.719 --> 00:47:48.800 The geography here is unmatched. 00:47:49.039 --> 00:47:56.000 And to be able to you like you have the Sierra Nevadas, the Cascades, you got the beach, you got desert, you got everything here. 00:47:56.159 --> 00:48:01.039 So it doesn't matter if you want to hunt, fish, ski, sir, like you can't you can't beat it. 00:48:01.119 --> 00:48:01.920 So yeah. 00:48:02.159 --> 00:48:04.480 I keep eating the shit sandwich to stay here. 00:48:04.559 --> 00:48:06.239 So I guess you can't complain too much. 00:48:06.960 --> 00:48:07.360 We all do. 00:48:07.679 --> 00:48:13.199 We gotta do we gotta do what we gotta do to try to make it better, but uh, let's be real. 00:48:13.280 --> 00:48:16.079 I've moved away at least four times and I keep coming back. 00:48:16.239 --> 00:48:19.039 So I guess this is where I belong. 00:48:19.679 --> 00:48:21.440 This is where you're where you'll make it work. 00:48:21.599 --> 00:48:23.119 Yeah, exactly. 00:48:23.679 --> 00:48:24.639 Exactly. 00:48:25.599 --> 00:48:26.800 Well shit, man. 00:48:26.960 --> 00:48:31.039 That's uh yeah, I think uh I think that's good. 00:48:31.199 --> 00:48:37.599 All right, well, uh for all of the listeners, we appreciate you tuning in. 00:48:37.760 --> 00:48:54.639 If there's uh anything that you appreciate, write in, let us know, uh share with somebody who might enjoy you know the conversations or pull some some value or some ideas out of it, and just keep uh keep pushing through. 00:48:54.719 --> 00:49:01.760 Whatever your whatever your goals, whatever your visions, take take one step today and just keep pushing closer and closer. 00:49:01.920 --> 00:49:09.679 Do it uh on a consistent basis, and you'll look back soon enough and you'll have moved farther than you ever thought you could. 00:49:09.920 --> 00:49:14.559 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