# 84 - Unfiltered with Kels

The Divide in Canada: Understanding the Growing Disconnection

Discover the roots of Canada's societal divide and how it affects our daily lives. Explore insights from Kelsey of "Unfiltered with Kels" and learn actionable steps to reconnect with your community.

In today's rapidly changing world, many Canadians feel a growing disconnection within their society. This feeling is not just an emotional response; it stems from a larger divide in leadership, truth, and community values. In this post, I’ll dive into the conversation I had with Kelsey from Instagram, known as "Kelsey and Filter," where we explored these pressing issues and how they impact everyday Canadians.

Understanding the Disconnect: What’s Happening in Canada?
The divide in Canada has become increasingly apparent, leading many to question the state of their country. Kelsey points out that there is a significant gap between what people experience in their daily lives and what they are told by leaders. For instance, while some officials claim that Canadians are thriving, many face rising costs and job shortages, leading to confusion and frustration.

The Reality Check
Kelsey shares her experience of watching her own children struggle to find jobs, despite the narrative of economic prosperity. This discrepancy between perceived and actual conditions breeds distrust in leadership and media. People are increasingly skeptical of the information presented to them, feeling that their lived experiences contradict the official stories.

The Role of Social Media in Shaping Perspectives
Social media plays a crucial role in shaping public opinion and community connection. Kelsey turned to Instagram to share her observations and engage with others who felt similarly disillusioned. Her journey from a casual social media user to a prominent voice highlights how digital platforms can amplify individual experiences and foster community discussions.

Finding Connection in Online Spaces
Through her posts, Kelsey aims to resonate with those who may feel isolated in their thoughts. By sharing content that prompts critical thinking, she encourages her audience to question narratives and engage with their intuition. This approach not only empowers individuals but also helps them feel less alone in their concerns about the future.

Leadership, Truth, and Responsibility
The conversation with Kelsey also touches on the themes of leadership and responsibility. Many Canadians are seeking leaders who genuinely address their concerns rather than perpetuating narratives that do not align with their realities. This desire for authenticity in leadership is essential for rebuilding trust in our institutions.

What Can Be Done?
To bridge the gap and reconnect Canadians with their communities, Kelsey suggests a few actionable steps:
- **Engage in Conversations:** Start discussions with friends and family about current issues and share different perspectives. 
- **Stay Informed:** Seek out diverse sources of information to gain a well-rounded understanding of the challenges faced by your community.
- **Support Local Initiatives:** Get involved in community projects that aim to address local issues and foster a sense of belonging.

Key Takeaways
- There is a significant divide in Canada, leading to growing frustration among citizens. 
- Social media can be a powerful tool for fostering community and conveying individual experiences. 
- Authentic leadership is crucial for rebuilding trust in institutions and addressing the real concerns of Canadians.

In conclusion, understanding the divide in Canada requires open dialogue and a willingness to engage with different perspectives. By taking action and supporting one another, we can work towards a more connected and informed society. 

Transcript

SPEAKER_03 0:03

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SPEAKER_04 0:44

Welcome back, Mindset You Playbook. Curtis Pelchet here. Today I am joined by Kelsey from Instagram, better known as Kelse Unfiltered. And this is um, I think this is a conversation a lot of Canadians need right now. Because uh a lot of people feel like something is off. Off in Canada, not just politically, not just mentally, emotionally, or culturally. There's a divide. There's a divide in Canada. Common sense feels almost controversial. People are exhausted. A lot of people don't even know what they're actually reacting to anymore. So today we're gonna get into some of this: leadership, truth, freedom, responsibility. How to stay clear and grounded without getting swallowed up by all the noise. Kels, great to have you. How are you doing?

SPEAKER_00 1:35

Good, thank you. Thank you so much for having me. Happy Sunday.

SPEAKER_04 1:38

Happy Sunday. Here we go. This is for me, this is an interesting one because I don't know. You know, I I always listen, I always read. And it was funny a few weeks ago, I guess about maybe about a month ago, I followed you on social media. So when I I kind of made a decision to go start really diving in and okay, what are what are people really talking about? What's going on? Like I I know my view, and there's a part of me that goes, fuck, I wish I did not make that decision. Because now it's like, Jesus. I'm glad I did because I know that that we we have some work to do in Canada as Canadians. And um what Kelsey, what what what has prompted you to go from Bronco loving Instagram account to tinfoil out wearing conspiracy theorist Canadian lady?

SPEAKER_00 2:29

Oh goodness. Well, I mean, I I've I've always had a curious mind. My parents would attest to that. I definitely have always had a very strong like intuition. My gut screams at me when something's not wrong. But what I found like over time was that I'd ask these questions and nobody'd be able to answer them for me, or they'd think I'm a little bit crazy. But I honestly, what really was the nail in the coffin for me was I I did start speaking up during COVID. Lost my job.

SPEAKER_02 3:10

Something just felt very off.

SPEAKER_00 3:12

And I of course just felt like it was my duty to run my mouth. But once I started doing that, I realized very quickly that everybody was on very different pages with that situation. Of course, after I I did lose my job, I took a break for a while just for my mental health. I mean, uh there was a a point after COVID where everything kind of settled down. You know, if it felt like, you know, and I same with same with me. I just I just forgot like it, I mean, it happened, but I just continued on with life. I didn't even look at politics for about two years. And then something happened in around October. Actually, a girlfriend um from the island reached out to me and sent me an article. And so I started reading it, and everything that I had said was going to happen in 2020 was well on its way, if not happening already. I had a little bit of a panicked episode and made my first video on October 23rd, and yeah, that was it. I just kind of made that decision that I just made the decision that I had, I I just couldn't, you know, I don't want to leave this future that I see for our children. And um, yeah, it was that's how I I guess I I kind of got started. It was mainly for the kids, and I guess a little bit of We're doing it for the kids and the troops here, everybody.

SPEAKER_04 4:44

You know, it's all for the kids and the troops. Jordan Peterson is I'm a big fan of says something. Um when you have something to say, silence is a lie, you know, and it's not it's not always about being honest because our version of honesty and truth is sometimes very, you know, it's it's it's out of our lens, it's what we see. But not lying is a beautiful thing, and I think that's something that you're doing right now. What was it like, you know, so you go on, you talk, you say some words on social media, again, your Bronco lady, and then well, I mean, you have 40,000 followers on on Instagram. I don't know what other what what like is that your strongest social media? Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 5:32

Like I my like a my other I just like have a personal one just with for my kids and the family. I have to do it.

SPEAKER_04 5:38

Like you're you're on F you're on F or Twitter, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 5:40

Yeah, I'm on I'm on all of them. Instagram is definitely my strongest. I have about 20,000 everything else, and Instagram is when did it start to crank up?

SPEAKER_04 5:50

When were you like because I don't know, I can assume Bronco Lady maybe had a thousand to I don't know how many followers.

SPEAKER_00 5:56

I had I had twelve hundred followers.

SPEAKER_04 6:00

And when did it when did it start to go like October 23rd? Really?

unknown 6:05

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 6:06

I uh I posted that first video. Somebody reached out to me actually and was uh asked if I wanted to collaborate on that video, and it just took off.

SPEAKER_04 6:16

What did that feel like? How was that?

SPEAKER_00 6:18

Honestly, everything happened so quickly. Like I got obviously got invited to that conservative convention with all of these amazing influencer content creators, political ones. I felt like a fish out of water. It was very eye-opening. And even at the convention that day, because it was it was draining. I was with Jasmine Lane, Mario, Sondren, and just the people coming up to them constantly asking for pictures. And I'm not, I'm not normally I'm I I would like to be behind the scenes in life. So that type of attention, I suppose. When I left the conference, I thought to myself, I really need to think about this. Is this what I want for my life? Because it does ch it does change. Like I went, I was out yesterday and somebody recognized me, and it's just, it's weird, I guess. You know, it's weird. Um, I don't view myself as yeah, like an influencer or what what defines an influencer? Like, do you know? Do you even know what defines? I mean, I guess anybody that's out there putting, you know, influencing others by, you know, so there's good things.

SPEAKER_04 7:30

I think there's good and bad, right? I mean, it's it's it's are you a truth teller? Are you a bullshit, you know, selling?

SPEAKER_00 7:36

Yeah. But it's so it's it's hard though. Be and I even struggle with that myself. Because I, you know, some days I'll I'll be down that rabbit hole and I'm researching and pulling everything I possibly can. And I think, am I crazy? Like maybe this isn't happening, right? Like it's it's hard to decipher what is true and what is not. Unless we actually lived it, how do we know for sure?

SPEAKER_04 8:03

And that's a hard part about social media, and and I can appreciate what you're doing, but I think where there's smoke, there's fire. There's truth to anything you see on social media.

SPEAKER_02 8:14

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 8:15

Maybe it's not the exact truth, but it's coming from something. It's being developed from something. It's a matter of how deep do you want to dig into that? So you know, there was a there was a the other night. Um, I think it was opening day. I saw you posted something. And I wanted to write, like, hey, it's opening day. Would you fucking beat it for fucking five minutes? Like enjoying personal. And uh when is there ever time sc I think I see it, I think I see it through your social media where you're just like, okay, I need to fucking I need to turn this shit off today. Like how of how often does that happen and how often do you catch yourself going, Oh my god, like because your nervous system must be torched sometimes.

SPEAKER_00 8:55

It is torched. Yeah. I it's honestly it's very hard. I just had this conversation the other day um with a friend of mine. I went out to her house and we had a fire, and it was nice to disconnect her in that regard. But I j yeah, I did say it's it's definitely changed me. I can't unsee it. I d I definitely everybody keeps saying, you know, you still have to live and you still have to be happy, and I definitely agree with that. But I've kind of put myself in a position where I am in taking so much information on a daily basis that it is quite heavy. I am very thankful to have a lot of friends that I've made through this platform or all of my platforms that I could bounce things off of. You know, like a couple weeks ago I called Jasmine because I was just like, Am I cr am I going nuts? Like, can I can I bounce this off of you? Like, does this sound crazy?

SPEAKER_04 9:56

Because sometimes it's you you guys have two different vibes. She's you know, she's sipping on Rose talking about stuff, and you're just like, everybody fucking lock in. We're about to get shit's about to go down.

SPEAKER_00 10:08

I don't want like you know it's so funny, Curtis. When I started this, I was like, okay, I'm gonna be very honest when I saw the direction that I was, because I was like, there are I'm in Alberta, right? So Alberta's a different breed. We are a different breed over here. We're we're I lived in Texas. Yes. It's it's just, you know, everybody is like Alberta is not going down without a fight. And I understand that because I'm watching all of these content creators and I'm seeing, you know, everybody, there's so much room for everyone. There's so many of us. We all bring something to the table, and not we're not always gonna be everybody's cup of tea. That's why there's you know, the beauty of choice for now. Yeah, yeah. Um, so for now.

SPEAKER_02 10:54

I thought you put for now in there. Oh well.

SPEAKER_00 10:58

Um, I think when I when I started it, I I thought to myself, because I grew up on Vancouver Island and very much liberal NDP for decades, seems like. I don't know if they've ever had, I don't even know. Like, I don't even honestly personally know when they had a conservative government. The last time if they ever have. But I think when I started it, I wanted to resignate to the boomers.

SPEAKER_02 11:29

Mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_00 11:30

Okay. Right? Because they are the ones that I want I I guess I wanted my content to come out in a way that was thought-provoking that made people go, wait a minute, that make that actually does make some logical sense. Maybe I should think. Because I I do feel that people have been put in a position now that they don't think for themselves or they don't listen to that intuition. And there's a lot of things, obviously, we I could go down a deep rabbit hole on that, on what's brought society to that point, but critical thinking doesn't seem like it's there as much anymore for a lot of people.

SPEAKER_04 12:08

I'm gonna give people a break on this in a sense, because it's kind of what I do is is people lack capacity right now. They don't have room for logic. There's no room for common sense on things that look terrible in a headline. They are torched by social media, they're torched by what's going on in Iran, they're torched with every single thing going on. Did my fucking Alpha Cobbler turn out proper so I can post it onto social media and you know, pick this kid out and my kid now plays baseball. It doesn't just require baseball, it requires seven lifts a week, it requires this session, that session. So what's happening is we're we're low, we're high on awareness, low on capacity.

SPEAKER_00 12:51

Yeah. I'd I definitely think like again, if you know my content, I do believe that that's been intentional. I mean, it's like information warfare. When people are I mean, you you can go back in history and and look at all of this, right? When people are emotionally tapped out, when and COVID was the start of that, right? Everybody that was a huge shock for a lot of people, and a lot did not recover from that. And now, I mean, we have we have a war, we have Trump, we have crime, there's the education system in Canada, regular politics, Mark Kearney, like there are every single day there's something that's happening, a new hedge.

SPEAKER_04 13:43

Immigration, DEI, like you know, throw it, throw it all in, right? It's it's it's always been there, it's always been in its own bucket of some sort. Why, you know, again, like you're saying, why is it now all of a sudden being thrown in our face? And you know, I think this kind of leads me to like let's let's go kind of first, not that we're not on first topic, but let's get a little bit more intentional because I want to make this more something that can put help people go in the right direction as opposed to just some cathartic, you know, conversation that we have. Why do you think so many Canadians feel disconnected from the country right now?

SPEAKER_00 14:19

Personally, I think that I mean, there's a gap between what people are experiencing in their actual lives and what they're being told is happening.

SPEAKER_04 14:32

So for instance, Mark Carney saying we're in the best spot we've been financially, costs are down, blah, blah, blah. And then you walk to the grocery store, you go fill up the gas, and you're just like, is it opposite day today? I don't understand.

SPEAKER_00 14:45

That I mean, that one, that one's a that one, that one's a a rough one, I think. I just actually posted a video late last night and then this morning on the rest of my platforms. There's a job, a youth fair, a job youth fair in Calgary.

SPEAKER_02 14:58

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 15:00

Thousands of kids. And again, I have a 19, almost 19 and 17-year-old. They both have jobs, but they are in the restaurant industry. And I'm not going to lie, it's it's not good. They're they're barely getting shifts, and it's not like they're hardworking, it's just very slow. Their friends, so many of them, have been applying, trying to get jobs, and they can't and they can't. Like you, so you on one hand, you have our leader saying, you know, affordability is is the best that it's ever been, and Canadians are thriving. But then we see a video like that, and we're, you know, yeah, we have these temporary. I mean, my first job was Tim Hortons.

SPEAKER_02 15:39

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 15:39

I'm telling you, like some of these kids, there of course are going to be teenage and and youth that don't want to work at Tim Hortons, but there are a lot of those kids that would do that just for the that's the that's their their entry into life. That's how they gain that responsibility. And, you know, like we've we've we've taken that away. So yeah, I think that when that gap gets too big, like what I said earlier about that gap between what people are actually experiencing and their own lives, when that gap gets too big, people stop trusting what they're hearing.

SPEAKER_04 16:14

So that's the disconnect. They're their experienced lives versus the story that is being told in parliament. Or anywhere, or anywhere. That's CVC's broadcasting or something like that.

SPEAKER_00 16:26

Yeah. And I've said that a lot, especially like with the older generation, because every like I see this this disconnect quite quite clearly on social media. How I don't understand how people can't see what's happening. I don't understand. It's right in front of your face. But if they have never been wronged by the government or any situation, why why would you have a negative outlook on it?

SPEAKER_04 16:49

That's it. That's it. And that's why, you know, I I can appreciate your attempt and effort to go after boomers, but I can't imagine that's going too well. You know, it's it's you kind of you kind of gotta hide it in a uh like a lasagna recipe and post it.

SPEAKER_00 17:02

Yeah. I do I do see, I do, you know what? Like my parents gave me hope and my sister, to be quite honest. They my sister now like she actually reached out to me. She was visiting with my family, and this was I think when the digital ID started. Because I was in COVID, I was just and people were like, like, go get enough, go get some more tinfoil. Like, just that's never going to happen. Yeah. But my sister had messaged me when she was there, and she goes, Mom and dad and I all just had a conversation on remember, Kelsey was telling us about this. She literally like, because they were having a big conversation about politics and how like how life has changed. And um, yeah, so that that kind of was gave me a little bit of an a motivator there to hit hit that generation. But unless, like I said, unless they've been wronged or their children have been wronged, um, or somebody close to them, I don't, I just don't know if they're going to see it, unfortunately. I think it's gonna be one of those situations where, well, I guess there's another part of this too, because a lot of that population, unfortunately, there is like especially in the eastern countries, they're very social assistant dependent. A lot of seniors in, like I was chatting actually with Jasmine about this because she's in Manitoba. And it's not like it's not like here. We have we have like a young population in Alberta. It's it's very different. There, a lot of them are very dependent on government assistance. And when you put people into a position where they are fully dependent on the government, you're gonna, you're going to continue to need to be dependent on the government. And that's where the conservative government gets a they don't like that because then they think that they're gonna get all their benefits taken away from them. So yeah, I think there's a I mean, I think there's a there's a lot of people as a whole don't feel united. They're confused, they're disconnected, and honestly, they I think a bit on their own.

SPEAKER_04 19:12

Yeah, it definitely like when I when I jumped in, I wrote an article, you know, about how I felt about it was to be Canadian, you know, it was it feels different, you know, it feels very different to being somebody who lived in Texas and has a lot of very, very Republican friends, and you know, even even some friends who are Democrats down there. It's like they believe, you know, at the end of the day, they're they're still American. You know, they're still American.

SPEAKER_02 19:42

Like I said to some people, I'm like being Canadian, I'm like, meh. Yeah, sorry. Sorry about that, you know, sorry for being Canadian right now.

SPEAKER_04 19:53

Um But yeah, I mean, you know, Vancouver Island here, Victoria Oak Bay. You know, what we're seeing right now with with all the uh land being taken back is its own craziness as well, you know. It's I understand, you know, I understand that people lived here once upon a time, and but you know, you're getting these poor, you know, you're getting people who are, you know, fixed income property taxes are going up in certain places to get like it's just it just doesn't stop.

SPEAKER_00 20:25

It doesn't. And unfortunately, I think I mean when does it stop?

SPEAKER_04 20:32

When when does it when do we see an end to the madness of this?

SPEAKER_00 20:36

I mean, I'm on personally, I don't know if we're going to. I think like for myself, I'm slowly gonna get to that point where I start s switching, you know, my content a little bit to I don't know, trying to give people uh some hope and direction on becoming more sovereign because I think that is if you look at like I mean, I again I grew I grew up on the island. It was a very easy life, right? I grew up on a farm. My grandparents owned a logging business there. They have a big farm, and I lived on the farm for most of my childhood. Just a different life. It's like it's a quiet, peaceful life. And you know, I actually was out at on a ranch yesterday here in Alberta, and it's just it's so simple, it's so quiet. And if you can't, we've gotten so far from that. We've been conditioned to believe that we need to consume everything. We're, you know, even like I actually said to my my daughters the the other day, you go to the mall and you order anything from the food court, and the portions are so large and they're so expensive. I I thought to myself, like, why can't we have smaller portions, which would be more healthy? Because to be honest, I threw half of mine out. I'm not going to eat it all, nor am I going to truck it around the mall. We are very wasteful.

SPEAKER_02 21:59

Mm hmm.

SPEAKER_00 22:00

Right. And I'm seeing that more and more just with how how wasteful people are. And yeah, just and of course the it comes with a lot of things though, because if you're if you're down or you're depressed or people need that instant gratification, they spend money.

SPEAKER_02 22:18

Yeah, of course.

SPEAKER_00 22:18

Right. And it's just, yeah, it's gotten to a point where we we it's like we feel like we need all of these things, but we really don't. We we grew like I grew up in such having such a simple life, you know. I went I went back to school shopping once a year with my mom. Like it wasn't, it wasn't like, oh, I need a new shirt, I'm gonna go to the mall. Like we have a mall around. Yeah, I that wasn't even an option for me growing up, nor what like I had drived into Naima, which is about 40, 45 minutes out of the city to even go to the mall. But yeah, I think it we just we've definitely got so far away from that.

SPEAKER_04 22:55

How do you how do you okay here? I mean, this is this could be a great segue into some help for some people in a sense of like how do you how do you help your kids with with with being online and social media? You know, what are your uh you don't have to divules or anything like that, but obviously, you know, kids are tied to their phones. That is something that this generation, we have to kind of accept that it's part of it, but how how do we and our generation is not going to fix it because we had no experience with it. But what do you see out of your kids in a sense that way? I know if you don't again, we cut this part out, it doesn't matter to me. Um, you know, are you doing anything around that?

SPEAKER_00 23:35

Yeah, I mean, I definitely see that the I mean, as a whole, kids are very reliant on their phones, especially now, you know, you have AI. It's I do think it's affecting their capacity to learn. Which is kind of terrifying, and I d you know, that's a whole nother conversation, but I do it's it it is hard too, because like obviously I'm very much involved, and it's a lot of it's online research and and everything. When it comes to the political side and what's going on in Canada, I don't I've had some conversations. Actually, my girls and I had dinner last night and I had a conversation with them about this because it is overwhelming, and that's both that's what they both had expressed to me. They're like, if I if I read it or I talk about it or I listen to it, it makes me feel really anxious and depressed, and they're just like, I want to live. What if we only have one more year before things get worse? Like, I just want to live.

SPEAKER_04 24:41

Um so are you like, what uh well, like are what you're saying? I don't care. Are they like, do you think that your concern for it has has affected them a little bit?

SPEAKER_00 24:53

I mean, I definitely think so. However, I really don't I don't have very many conversations with them about it.

SPEAKER_04 25:01

Do they follow you on? I I mean if I was your kid, I would block the hell out of you, but um So I actually have blocked them from seeing my stories.

SPEAKER_02 25:08

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 25:10

They do follow me, but I they don't watch my stuff, and I've told them to be honest, I don't want them to watch it. I the the conversation and what I said to them last night at dinner was just know that I am like I know, like I am doing this so that I can stay informed and protect you. But you know, like if it comes to a point where, you know, something's changing, just trust that I that I know what's happening and and that's all, right? Like you guys can live your life, I'll take the burden of it. I still want them to not this, the I guess not the scary things, but I still want them to be a little bit aware of what is going on. So, because I mean, realistically, their generation is going to be very much impacted, and I want them to talk about it with their friends and try and get them to understand what's happening because I do think that I see a very large difference in the Gen Z population mentally and emotionally than what maybe we were at that age. I see a lot less motivation.

SPEAKER_04 26:23

Yeah, I mean, again, it's a capacity issue. You know, no nothing has changed for us physically, nothing has changed for us cognitively. Like we we we 50 years ago to today, we we're still the same biological being, right? And now all of a sudden we're supposed to like, you know, we're we're built to know what 500, 200 people, like that that's our capacity. And now these kids are expected to follow this person, you gotta follow this person. What am I wearing today? Comparison. I gotta go here, I want to wear this, and I'm seeing this, and shit. They probably don't even know what's you know, like I got a 17-year-old daughter, she shouldn't really know what's going on in the world, she knows what's going on in the fucking Mormon housewife show or something, but like, you know, it's like, and then I gotta be like, come on, you know, like lock it in, man. Like, I know, but you know, it's and it's um, you know, it's that's the issue. That's what I deal with in in a lot of sports with with youth. They're like, hey, my kid is um, you know, they need a mental performance coach, they need to learn some stuff like kind of yeah and no, like they need to unbecome a lot of things that they are right now because it doesn't serve them, yeah. You know, and that's that's what I'm seeing out of a lot of society is everybody's there's a lot of people trying to routine, understand, and execute things that they don't need to do. And it kind of brings me back to you know, common sense. Like it's it's becoming weirdly rare at this point based on based on lack of capacity and and environment, you know, when you're in an environment for so long, it does condition you.

SPEAKER_00 28:00

So oh, of course, you know, it's I think again the constant information, constant noise, and no time to process what's happening. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, well people are burning out, or they just shut down, or they swing between the two, which is exhausting.

SPEAKER_04 28:15

So I'm gonna bring this back a couple steps too, because this is something, and this is again, I want to share this because it does help. I mean, it has helped my family in a sense of what do I do with this information, uh, et cetera, et cetera, is um a little while ago I made a um a family charter for our family. It has worked out with my wife and my kids see it, and it's a work in progress. It might take a year to really kind of go in the right direction, but it's uh it's core values, it's something our family lives by. Like these are our rails, we keep the train on the tracks, we don't veer off. And what this charter allows us to do is make decisions based on something we all believe that we set at a time and we were all clear-headed. So it's not like we're not reacting, right? We're responding to things, and and that's the importance, I believe. And this is where I think not just Canadians, but the world, the world is reacting, nobody's responding accordingly because it's coming at them so fast. Like, it's like remember that fruit name again? It's like everything's coming at them, right?

SPEAKER_00 29:19

Yes. You don't need to form an opinion instantly, right? You don't need to react to every single headline. Honestly, yeah, taking a step back and actually thinking that is what's becoming rare. Because as soon as like everything flies at us so quickly, and we just now have been trained to react right away.

SPEAKER_04 29:41

Where we don't we don't Yeah, and and you know, it is hard, you know, as again we talk about boomers, they weren't, you know, it's hard. They don't it's I think I wrote this in in something I I I posted a while ago was that like I really, really admire them. Yeah, they use a little bit of social media, like I said, you know, they'll they'll post a picture of their dog and it's a little fuzzy, and then they'll post like, you know, their upper cobbler from last week, and then they'll go for a walk, and then they'll plan a camping trip, and then they'll go to bed, and it's like, huh. It's a freaking day right there. Yeah, that's it. That's it. And they have these boundaries that by default, by how they grew up. And they were not affected through their tran you know, their their formative years. Like, where are you know, people in their 20s, 30s, 40s? We're using a lot of this technology because we have to for work, for business. And by default, we're seeing other things, and it sucks us right in, and that's what it's built to do. But it it's hard for you and I because our parents don't know how to you know like, oh, okay, cool, you know, mods. Hey, I see this, and what's going on here? Oh, okay, cool. Well, what do you want for dinner, hon? It's like that sounds nice. And then we are in this middle part of like, okay, that generation is not helping, the next generation is fucked. What do I do to help? And I think it's like kind of like you're doing kind of like what I do, and why I don't I try not to is is I gotta know what's going on. I gotta have my head on a swivel, I gotta check everything out, I gotta see what's going on.

SPEAKER_00 31:23

That's so funny. That's exactly what I say. I have to have my head on a swivel. Yeah. You know, everybody asks me that, like, how like how do you intake so much information? Or and again, I'll I'll I'll swing this back to everything that we have been taught in high school, in elementary school. It's again, it's all a narrative. I mean, I'm not I won't sit here and discredit history, but you know, the people that write the history books are the ones that are holding, holding the pen at the end, right? Like, so I'm not and I'm I'm not gonna say that none of that happened, but none of us were there. None of us were actually there. And and whoever is writing that book is it's one narrative. Everything is narratives, and that's where the critical thinking is so important, right? Um, if it doesn't, if the seems something seems off, it's it's it's off.

SPEAKER_04 32:08

The difference of of where we are. We're in the middle of boomers and you know, the Gen Z and and we're our head is on a swivel constantly because of what we learn. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 32:18

I said, like I I'm in taking so many different narratives. And and I'm gonna be honest, I have no, I I have a pretty good idea of what certain groups are wanting, right? Like I said, I follow I follow the World Economic Forum and and I the globalist, you know, AI, all of that. I I see where that's all going. But then there are so many different narratives, right? Like these are the end of times Jesus is coming, or um, you know, we're in a simulation and this is what's gonna happen. I like that one. I don't actually know what is going to happen. I do know that I do feel very strongly that it's not good where we're headed for society, but I want, I go down every rabbit hole because at the end of the day, I want to be prepared for whichever one's gonna check out. Because I don't know, right? Like, I I don't know. Even even if it may seem a little bit strange or like a wild conspiracy, I'm still going down there and I'm I'm intaking and I'm rationalizing just to essentially have my head on the swivel. So if that is the if that is what what comes at me, I know I am well versed in knowing that I know how to I know how to handle that situation, I suppose.

SPEAKER_04 33:36

Are you how are you able to climb out of that rabbit hole and then I mean, if I'm gonna be honest, I'm definitely still getting, I guess.

SPEAKER_00 33:48

Well, I'm still trying to find that balance on a regular basis because currently, right now, everything just seems so immediate and alarming.

SPEAKER_04 33:58

But Okay, so I I found that out. I I did that little experiment for a couple weeks there where I I followed everybody I could. I basically went through whoever was following you and and other people. I was like, okay, let me let me see what this is like. And I was posting political, I was posting my opinions. I found that when I was going to bed, I was like, okay, what am I gonna talk about tomorrow? Which one do I even talk about tomorrow? Where do I start? How do I go at this? What's the angle? I fucking I think I slept two to three hours some nights because I wanted to write and I had thoughts. And after that couple weeks, I was like, good lord, like this is taxing.

SPEAKER_00 34:31

Like Yes. I was averaging for probably three weeks. I think around when the war started, I was averaging maybe three, three to five hours a night of sleep because I couldn't turn my brain off. And I was very much, you know, I I definitely will say I jumped the gun in the I mean, not to say it's not happening in other countries. It is. Obviously, these lockdown, it's gonna get to that point in like Australia and Europe, and it's it's gonna hit them. But I do feel like we're we're okay in that regard in Canada because of Alberta and part of Saskatchewan and how much oil we have. Where we're gonna see that, I think, is more so in the grocery stores and you know, like that's what's electricity bills and all of those things a bit more. It's just gonna get more unaffordable for Canadians. Same thing with the United States, but I don't think we're gonna hit a massive energy lockdown unless something massive happens here to prevent that from happening. But um, that I I had to get to that point. I had to have conversations with people.

SPEAKER_04 35:40

Okay, so let me ask you though. Let me ask you. And now that you know that, now what? Now what do you like now that I know that we're not going to Yeah, after all, after you find all this information out, and this is I'm very curious sometimes too about you know um, you know, how you know you have your platform providing information, you find something out, you you post it. What what do you do with that now? Do you do you just go, okay, that's done? Like, I know that.

SPEAKER_00 36:08

No. I usually do. Like I have I recorded a video the other day because a lot of people uh well I got a I I had a couple comments on some of my posts that this stuff seemed a bit more fear-mongering than my previous content. So I recorded a video on that, just addressing that situation. I also want to lead, I I don't want to create fear, first and foremost, but I do believe that change doesn't happen when you're comfortable.

SPEAKER_04 36:37

Oh, you bang on. Absolutely. I agree. I agree.

SPEAKER_00 36:40

We have to feel that, right? We have to have a little bit of fear. Not not a lot, but a little bit. And and if anything, like I said, I I try at all in all of my content to say, you know, I'm not trying to promote fear, but like you can disclaimer it all you want, right? I know. I mean, and people people are going to be fearful.

SPEAKER_04 37:00

It's kind of like it's kind of like me going, don't take a fence, but you're a fucking idiot, right?

SPEAKER_00 37:04

Yeah, I think like I just, you know, it's I want people to be prepared. Nobody was prepared for COVID. And look at that. It made it made it worse for everyone, right? It made it worse for everyone. Like nobody had toilet paper. Like, I'm just trying to say to people, food is gonna get more expensive. And we're seeing those hits everywhere, right? Where like my video from yesterday, we're like the all the egg facilities are on fire. The avian flu is is taking over our food supply. Like in food, our independent farmers are taking a huge hit. Huge. And we are we are already like cattle was down 75% in the United States already, and it's just getting worse.

SPEAKER_04 37:44

So the war, the war is screwing it too, right?

SPEAKER_00 37:47

You know, yeah, the fertilizer, it's and they're all farmers are already preaching and and they're upset because of all these new rules and regulations because we're supposed to be going green and network. Yeah, we're but the thing is, is I don't like this makes me quite angry because I don't understand how we're supposed to achieve net zero when those AI data centers are going to use more resources and admit more like than anything else, right? We're giving up farmland where we could be anything.

SPEAKER_04 38:16

Like, why do we have to get to zero? Like, why not zero like why does it have to be such an extreme cost?

SPEAKER_00 38:21

Like, we're getting to a point where it's very obvious that they have a different agenda for society going forward. Because if if it was about sustainability and if it was about climate, we wouldn't be seeing the things that are happening right now. We wouldn't be seeing farmers getting priced out of their land. Like again, Canadians are wondering, you know, we're judging Kearney on the prices of the grocery store. He told us we could do that, right? He stood up there and said Canadians will be able to. But I I'm not really sure what planet he is living on because truly, I mean, he he says that at the very beginning of his term, and then he stands there this week past week saying that Canadian lives are are are more affordable and we're doing so great. So I'm like, what lives on the planet. I go buy a bag of coffee.

SPEAKER_04 39:15

Lives on the planet billionaires pulling his strings.

SPEAKER_00 39:17

Yeah, and I go buy a bag of coffee and it's like$35. And I'm like, that's not affordable. You know, like that, what it would again, like I don't understand. But we then we watch all this money, and I I mean, I I the divide is very apparent between I've never my entire life, I've never seen a divide the divide as strong as it is right now between different races, cultures, religions. It is, it is blatantly obvious and it's getting bad. And then when you step back, especially Canadians, I mean, we're the we're the we're the nice ones, right? It's and that is apparent as well as ever nobody, nobody wants to stand up. Nobody wants to be the voice. I mean, there are obviously people that are doing that, but for the basic everyday person, they they no, that's fine, right? They don't they don't want to talk about it.

SPEAKER_04 40:06

That's the Canadian way.

SPEAKER_00 40:08

That is the Canadian way, unfortunately, but we've been conditioned, I feel. And now, I mean, when you look at what's happening, like I said, the job fair, and it doesn't, it doesn't align with reality, what you know, what he's saying, and what's I personally feel that this divide is manufactured.

SPEAKER_02 40:28

Okay, all right.

SPEAKER_00 40:30

We see, I mean, yeah, I riddle me this. No, I don't you see Canadians and seniors that veterans, they put in their time, right? They did they did what they were were asked to do, they paid for it heavily, and we were supporting them, but now we've cut back their supports. But we're giving all of this money to people, and it like I've done my research on this, and I that was one of that one of my very first hard-hitting videos was the asylum benefits because they're getting like$85,000 a year in government support. And that's that's just an income. Then they have double health care. They get and that so and it's not that you know you have members of parliament in the House of Commons speaking about these things and like they're all aware that this is going on and that there's a disconnect from Canadians, right? We shouldn't have to work harder so others don't have to work. And that, and that right there tells me it's manufactured because they are taking advantage of Canadians. And that I think that's the part that's upsetting to me. I mean, when you do look at these situations, and I'm not it's hard for me to say that I'm conservative because I do have some liberal values, right? I I it's hard for me to look at the world and go, well, you can't live here because you weren't born here. And, you know, it it I don't view it like that. I do think that we need immigration. I do think that it's important to, I do, I do quite enjoy having a diverse country, multiculturalism, but it's gotten too far. When it's in when it's affecting Canadians, when we are we are being priced out of life, and that is what we're seeing. Like buying a home, it's been it's it's not the Canadian dream is not there anymore. But then we're but we're giving a the Canadian dream to people that are coming here, right? And it would be different, of course, if again, the reality matched what what is happening, but it doesn't. We're seeing asylum seekers getting all of these benefits that are coming from countries that aren't even at war, right? The the systems, the system, the immigration system is severely broken. Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_04 42:54

And don't do anything is crazy, you know, like shouldn't shouldn't bankers be a little bit more conservative? Wouldn't you think that?

SPEAKER_00 43:04

You would think that, but I mean if you if you do if we're if we're gonna talk about one central banker specifically, if we look at the track record, I don't think it checks out.

SPEAKER_04 43:14

I see you taking pauses and thinking, are you cautious of what you're saying?

SPEAKER_00 43:19

I mean, maybe a little bit.

SPEAKER_04 43:21

I'm just curious, you know, it's it's it's you know, because we don't know.

SPEAKER_00 43:26

I can get it, I can get ahead of myself and I I mean I don't I don't want to o I never want to come across as too I feel like once you say something that's like very conspiracy people stop listening to you, right? And I think that's where I've tried to find that balance in my content, but yeah, but it's in you, right?

SPEAKER_04 43:49

You know, I mean that's I think that's what you want to say, and that's sometimes it's hard to beat around that.

SPEAKER_00 43:53

Um it is. I I mean, I just yeah, like I think it just seem it just seems so intentional that they're doing it to make it it's making us more upset but guess who it's making us upset at we're looking at each other and we're not looking up and we should be looking at because we feel people like we we can't do anything.

SPEAKER_04 44:14

We're little people here. Like how do we make it how do we how do we do anything? Let me let me come I just want to come back to my the question about how you you know you're you're very involved you're very you know this takes up a lot of your capacity I assume. Have you have you set yourself some timelines or parameters around you know where this is going to go so that I mean how long have you been how long have you really been diving into this?

SPEAKER_00 44:45

Like the content like that last week of October like probably like October 20th is when I I started going back into it.

SPEAKER_04 44:53

Okay and that this has been that's not a that's not a huge timeline. Where where where does it end for you? Where does it stop? Dude like have you thought about that or are you just like hey I mean I've definitely yeah I've definitely thought about it. I've definitely had minutes where I've can you go once a week and go tinfly Tuesday or something you know it else it's like I don't know like for me like I and this is this is something I always wonder because of what I did for the couple weeks there was that it just it absolutely it gripped me. It really gripped me it took me right in and I had a hard time not being on my phone looking at things because see something on the news right see something on Twitter I see something on Instagram be like okay well fuck I gotta learn about this.

SPEAKER_00 45:40

There's got to be six layers below that well yeah and I mean I'm sure you can imagine when I open my inbox every single morning I have people are just constantly sending me stuff. And and that's one thing too is you know at the very beginning my balance was not there. And I I've I had these conversations with Jasmine and when we were at that con conference because I was having a hard time with that balance and they said you don't have to open them you don't have to you don't have to respond to every single person right um Mario only follows his wife on he's got like 4000 followers plus and he only follows his wife um I mean I had I even send him stuff on there and he never responds and it's it's again it's because it's overwhelming and and everybody everybody has an opinion right and I felt like I had to respond to people like it was my duty and then I realized no I don't because that is I I have a kind of a boundary I like it's around 150 I follow.

SPEAKER_04 46:39

So if I go and I follow like five people it's like okay fuck I gotta go unfollow five.

SPEAKER_00 46:43

Yes. I mean I've definitely made some really good connections around the globe like there's people in the United States that I chat with there's people in Europe that I chat with because again you're not you all you have to be willing to social media right I mean that's the whole concept of it is to be social and yeah. You have you have to be able to take everything with a grain of salt. Like I've been saying this for a while now how convenient that all of this is ramping up when AI is at its peak for us, right? Because the government can easily say oh that's AI or you know or like it just it's very it's very hard to decipher what is real and what is not right now. And I do it's good that I have these connections and I can talk to these people because there has been minutes where yes I've wanted to just I can't do this. I can't do this. I went on a trip to Mexico um and I said to my sister she was with me and I'm like I'm preemptively made a bunch of content before I left so I could actually take a break.

SPEAKER_04 47:43

How was it for you to take a break hard?

SPEAKER_00 47:46

It was really good. It was good. I mean I'm I'm definitely a very firm believer that you need to take these breaks it's important for your mental health do I always live by my own rules absolutely fucking not like it's scary I I am I'm bad like again I said I I I have ADHD well yeah excellent so I I I hyper focus and I lock in and I'm I'm not one to quit I'm very stubborn that way. So it's definitely this has been a learning journey for me too. And I have I I did release a video not that long ago where I said my mental health took a dive I was in a pretty dark place that one week because it was just like I thought the world was ending because you're just getting everything. It's not and that's going circling back quick to what I said to my kids don't like my stuff. Like you just don't right like I mean it sometimes I'll post little thing like funny reels like I made one the other day and they they think it's funny and you know they'll like it. But because the minute that you that you watch my content your whole algorithm is showing that and that's how I started it with the girls I'm like can I can I see your phone I want to see what your algorithm is right it's funny you say that because I had to really go and work yeah to like to like blon girls watches in baseball right I guess yeah it's like you can imagine what mine looks like it's not like people tell me the things that are going on like you know just like little like little things like oh oh the the Mormon housewives did you see Frankie Paul? I'm like absolutely not why would that show up on my feed like yeah yeah I I get it.

SPEAKER_04 49:13

I mean you have you found that you stopped doing certain things that brought you joy ever?

SPEAKER_00 49:19

You know like I oh yeah because I I don't even leave my house I I barely leave my house in those two weeks where I was doing it the world baseball classic was going on and there was a portion of the world baseball classic I'm like they're like hey do you see that game I'm like no I fucking I'm you know do you see what's going on in fucking here and there but I also yeah it's it's that too I also find I have less patience because I'm stressed right I'm I'm I'm I'm I actually I have eczema really bad right now and I haven't had it since I'm a kid and I know it's stress. I know that that it's just you know even though I might not feel it in my everyday life waking up it's there. I feel slower I'm I feel my even my cognitive you know abilities it's it feels a bit disconnected at times.

SPEAKER_04 50:04

It's your we've you know I said at the beginning it's your nervous system right you know is really taking a hit from all this and you have you know I'm not here to diagnose you anything but you're putting yourself in fight or flight mode every day.

SPEAKER_00 50:16

Every day I I feel personally feel like I've lived that my whole life regardless but it's definitely I mean I'm I can't I've definitely uh noticed it um sorry it's okay cat yeah there you go we can't do that um I've definitely noticed it like I I mean I've been big into fitness my whole my whole life um I did fitness competitions and I've rarely missed the gym these last couple months I don't even recognize my own self that way it's it's just hard for me I think to it's hard for me to shut it off it's hard for me to it's hard for me to be in public because I look at people and I I watch them and it it just seems very well it's I it probably seems like a what what was the word you use a simulation yeah yeah that's how you even when I walked through the mall like I mean I'm not gonna lie I used to have a pretty bad shopping problem like I myself was that person that would you know use it as a as a crutch and I I walk through the mall now and I watch I just I yeah I don't I don't want any of this stuff.

SPEAKER_04 51:30

I actually I'm I've been selling things and get donating things because I just don't want have you built your bunker yet lady so funny I was talking about that this weekend with my girlfriend I said if we we end up if we win the lottery that's the first thing I'm building like we're out of here one thing I noticed and something happened I was pushing you know pushing my cart and some lady just flew in front of me and I was like Jesus lady what exactly that was my reaction and she I don't have patience for that well but she looked back and she said I can't find my kid was like oh fuck okay okay so I put my cart to the side I chase after her upstairs she's like he's two he's wearing a little vest a little red vest okay so she starts running around we go downstairs I go back upstairs anyway what what I really noticed it must have been it felt like an eternity you were running around this store looking for this little child but what what really caught my attention was and I actually saw this in real time we are both moving at a fast pace looking to do do I didn't get the kid's name I was just looking I was looking for a little kid in the best everybody else just on the phone still shopping and I'm not you know saying anybody has to help but like the first thing I thought to do was like oh shit I gotta help a slave finder kid like if I see people panicking and running and looking at something and nobody else is noticing there there's a problem here there's a real disconnect going on.

SPEAKER_00 52:57

I last a couple weeks ago here in Calgary a car struck a 12 year old little girl in the crosswalk drove off she was laying in the middle of the crosswalk and I can't tell you how many cars just went around her nobody nobody stopped like I'm gonna cry even talking about it it made me physically ill okay it was in the area that I um I work in and watching her she rolled you see it I watched it on camera no I would have stopped I said I would have I would have blocked my Bronco I would have parked my Bronco and so nobody could have moved. Yeah and she rolled off the road like it was bad and I just thought to myself like yeah what kind of society are we are we living in now you know that this is the norm like why that child needed help and nobody stopped.

SPEAKER_04 53:51

Yeah yeah nobody had the capacity to just stop and make sure she was okay get her out of the middle of the street so that the next person that's not paying attention you know like yeah yeah it's it's it's um unfortunately it's quite common you know it's it's it's a society we live in everybody's cursing at each other in traffic and I should I can put little post-it notes up just to relax like yes you know it's like I don't know if that person is stressed or just lost their job and isn't paying attention to traffic for five seconds like who the fuck am I?

SPEAKER_00 54:24

Like just go I honestly I've I've said this for as long as I can remember even my kids even if you're at a green light I say and somebody hasn't moved I said just before you get upset just remember I mean maybe their mom died that day you know we don't we don't know what anybody's going through and at the same time how we react as well I mean we are in control of that if we react poorly and somebody else doesn't have the capacity to let that go, right? You don't know. You don't know what they're going through. You don't know maybe that's going to set them over the edge and yeah so I think we don't have as much pain it's just it all just boils down to the fact that everybody's just stretched too thin and it's it's a it's a national nervous system over logically we don't know how to deal with it.

SPEAKER_04 55:17

No you know we everybody feels helpless and we're trying to solve civilizational scale problems while neglecting our own best interests. You know the human the human scale responsibility you see I get I get into I like one of my pastimes is going onto local news kind of Instagram pages and just shutting liberal when we were able to see that. Yeah yeah yeah well it's it's uh they get around it here you know it's it's funny there's one that's called Victoria Vibrant Victoria or something like that. And I like to just go shut down liberals when I'm posting about you know their their the protests and stuff and I always get I always get blocked. Like they block me right away because I think I could come back but you know and I'm never rude I'm never mean I never swear but I always ask like hey like how is your life going? You know like are you okay? Like I'd be happy to offer you a free session you know if you want to talk this through further and then they go you're a fucking laser and block me and I'm like there you go. But again I I think it really comes down to and this is kind of you know where I want to take this is is what what can we do every day if you feel helpless to make a small difference and and it's it's one of the things I try to do is is like A am I living am I am I making myself available and living my best life for my family that I can help them. Now when I do that and I go upstairs and all my girls are upstairs and my wife's there and they get the best version of me and I can be present for them. Now they feel good. Now hopefully that can continue and it's such a small thing you know okay guys let's go with you know the small shit of making your bed and making sure your house is clean and making sure your yard is clean.

SPEAKER_00 57:02

Routine routine keeps us you know balanced to answer your question about how what people can do to make a difference. I think that I think people underestimate how much influence they actually have in their own circles you don't need to have a huge platform to make a difference. Thinking for yourself is a very big deal right now having honest conversations instead of just reacting online that matters not feeding into division that matters too um yeah I mean I don't have all of the answers.

SPEAKER_04 57:40

I think I think unprompted prompted sources of of of you know validation is such a big one like sometimes I gotta go around and I'm like okay everybody's a golden retriever today to me. Okay hey good job good good job buddy like hey thanks you know pat on the back like hey good great work or someone I don't even know like hey I love your shoes.

SPEAKER_00 58:04

Yeah I you know like I actually it's funny because I was where was I yesterday oh I went to well I took my girls for dinner but we went we were at the mall because where we went for dinner was in the mall and uh we went into a do you trade them to New York fries or what? No we went to uh it's called surfy surfee it's like a we love we love like um seafood so it was like fish tacos and that kind of thing but this girl I I bought a couple things and I had to go back twice to the till and oh it was a coffee it was a coffee shop there. I grabbed a coffee when I first got there and she complimented me twice on something and I just you know like it says something that's not very you know like I I really do try to go out on my day to just say one little thing especially if I can I mean I'm very I I feel like I'm very good. I have good intuition I can pick up on people's energy very quickly I work in healthcare so um energy all day long. And I feel that one little just one little thing like that sometimes grounds people a little bit oh that was really nice.

SPEAKER_04 59:14

It can fill your empathy tank back up in a heartbeat. I can imagine with working in healthcare your empathy gets drained pretty quick and then you come back into your life and you don't have a lot of it. Right? Um yeah but yeah it's to me it's a small daily action so we have a choice you know it's not honking the horn or saying sorry like a good Canadian should when you drive by someone and you did absolutely nothing wrong. You know, but um I don't know it's we're losing it. We're losing it Kels. We're losing it tell me about okay so tell me about your preparation kits and and all that. Because about six months no about a year ago I went deep. My wife thought I was losing my fucking marbles. She thought I was My kids think I'm losing my marbles she thought I was there was like an apocalypse happening because I got bins and I got storage and I got things in every bedroom. I got escape ladders and I got just like everything you need radios and toilet paper and all the stuff and it's all portioned go through and I change out the clothes because the kids are growing tell me about that because it seems it's something on your social media that you offer yes um I've been I mean I've been I mean one thing about me is that I spent one thing yeah okay I spent most of my childhood I mean I I will say I'll just say trauma aside my childhood you know I I spent a lot of time outdoors my dad we had a like a family shared cabin in like couching and we also my my dad was the campsite host at Cycuse for my whole childhood. He would pick us up so you can literally say this one time at band camp kind of thing.

SPEAKER_00 1:01:01

Yeah he would pick us up the day that school went out or got out with the fifth wheel the truck my mom was following him with the boat we would go up to the campsite and we would spend pretty much seven straight weeks there no service no and I mean of course once I got into my teenagers I didn't like that but I learned a lot right from those experiences. I can start a fire I can fish I can hunt I can do you know like those those skills that people just don't have anymore. Like a lot of people we I mean we don't even teach cursive handwriting anymore but I I know I know I could survive and I have the will to survive but I was like I need to start and I again we just we can't take life for granted we can't we can't sit here comfortably thinking that you know what we see that's going on in the Middle East could never happen here because we don't know. Yeah and like and to think that it can't is quite naive and I don't I don't know if that's something that people especially in Canada have been conditioned just to you know like it's privilege. It is it really is privilege. And I keep saying that anybody that has doesn't have the experience that is like with this war especially like it's privilege that we don't we we are privileged. I definitely do think though that there is an importance to being prepared I'm not trying to tell people to go panic by and do all of those things but I am going to start making some content on just how to prepare I made a little like a little Excel spreadsheet well I got a document that I've I've put on my page and people have been purchasing it to be quite honest.

SPEAKER_04 1:02:40

Bug out bags or you know it's yeah my wife has a bug out bag my kids have bug out bags.

SPEAKER_00 1:02:45

Like life straws you know like there are certain things that we should definitely just have just in case you know I mean I spend the purpose of me buying the Bronco too is I I spend a lot of time in the mountains my friends and I go up and we go into the bush with no service and I want you know I I have this thing in the back of my Bronco that has like it's a built-in box um with drawers so I can keep stuff in there and it can just stay in there for emergencies. Yeah so yeah like we I just I'm gonna start making some of that content a little bit as well just to help people along the way you know like I I purchased some Mylar bags and canning and all sorts of things that you can just be prepared for that like solar I've got a solar generator I have um our hand crank radio just again we can't well and that's I mean you said it we can't you can't rely I I we we have a mall not far from us and my girls have kind of grown up there because it opens so early and the kids can run around.

SPEAKER_04 1:03:44

Yeah and we're there all the time and what what dawned on me a lot was I don't know one day it just kind of hit me I'm like you know what if shit went down here I would be the one who would have to take control. I can't rely on anybody here. Like everybody looks like I don't have the politically correct word for it. That's all I can say. They they just they look like they will not be useful. They look like they will be absolutely useless and they look like I cannot rely on them. So I have to be the one who's self-reliant.

SPEAKER_00 1:04:14

That's a one thing that I will say is very important that I've learned in my own research for this is that when people aren't prepared, they're the ones that are going to crack first, right? Because when you put people in a situation of like oh my God like again let let's just hypothetically say that something happens that really severely affects like maybe we have a blackout we'll just go with that whatever it could be here.

SPEAKER_04 1:04:40

It could be a tsunami it could be flooding right it could be anything like there's natural disasters everywhere.

SPEAKER_00 1:04:44

Grocery stores are only they only carry three days worth of food. Well tell me about it we live on the island right you know it's like we need ferry service. Exactly so and our food supply in Canada is already under severe strain. So buying a little bit extra here and there is not panicking it's just it's just being prepared because if something does happen right and the one thing though that I do say is pay attention to your neighbors right because like like I look around I I'm very aware like I'm when I go anywhere it's it's very hard for me and this is another part of staying home more regularly because I never I used to I would think I was a social butterfly but I'm quite introverted.

SPEAKER_04 1:05:27

I'm quite introverted but I I don't like windows with bars on them now don't you I don't like to go I don't like to um I don't really like to be around too many people I have sensory issues but I people watch anytime.

SPEAKER_00 1:05:41

If I'm at the if I'm at for dinner with the girls I'm facing the door what what's coming? Um I always want to be ahead. I just that's just my personality but I thought like oh like I'll be the house with power and it's gonna be very obvious that I have power

SPEAKER_04 1:06:00

The hard part with that is that you're gonna have to defend that power now.

SPEAKER_00 1:06:03

Exactly. And that's what I'm saying is you need to pay. I mean, I have a I have a plan. I know the back roads of I have a plan. If if things ever were to pop off in the city, I'm I'm out. I'm going to the farm. I'm not going to be here. You know, I've had that conversation with my kids. Like if you're anywhere and something goes wrong, you get home. Like, you know, like if you have no access to cell phones, just get home. Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 1:06:28

There's a really good app on cell phones that you don't need service for. Have you seen that one? I can't remember.

SPEAKER_00 1:06:32

Yes. I actually have that in a and I'm working on a video for that.

SPEAKER_04 1:06:37

Yeah, because it just connects you with anybody else with that app.

SPEAKER_00 1:06:40

There's four, but very important you have them on your phone before anything happens, right? But there's four apps like that. I also am going to invest in the the radios and you know, like the I'm trying to that's I guess the one thing about being having a platform is if I can promote the stuff, I get a better deal. So there you go. Well, hey. Yeah. So I've I've had a couple things like I mean, I just I got approached not that long ago by it's called Prep Medical, and it's on my on my linked thing too. And they're they I haven't gotten the kit yet, but it's a whole kit.

SPEAKER_04 1:07:09

Have a couple splints and have some tourniquets and have how to do that.

SPEAKER_00 1:07:12

Yeah, but this is more prep, I think it's more like um antibiotics and ointment. It's just medicine. Yeah, it's all important. Medicine that we probably would never need, but maybe someday we would.

SPEAKER_04 1:07:22

And here's the thing with it too is you gotta check the dates on those and you have to replace them as you go, right? Because I hope you never use it, but you gotta set reminders in your calendar. You know, my wife works in medical and like hey can you bring this home? We need some more syringes, we need this, we need that.

SPEAKER_02 1:07:35

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 1:07:36

Yeah, we have a like a clean. You know, I I don't want it, I don't want much to change if we're gonna be, you know, whether whether it's blacked out or locked down for a week, you know, it's like I don't know much about peptides, but um I surprises us all it's parabidal even gone down.

SPEAKER_00 1:07:56

It's hard because I just I you know, my sister and I were talking about it in Mexico and I don't know enough about it, and I don't know if there's enough research on it, and I'm I'm always pretty weary about that, you know. Like even now, like I said, I my whole my whole outlook on on everything is very different. I mean, I'm I'm gonna actually do a video on this too, and I'm gonna go through the the grocery store. There's a few items that I've noticed right on the Campbell's soup is one of them, but there's quite a few that people don't understand. It says bioengineered food right on the on the label, and people aren't reading that. So, what is actually in our food, you know, and it's interesting because my sister was, she'd never been to Mexico, and she was very worried about getting sick, right? Because I mean, we've all had those minutes back in the day, it was a lot worse. I'll say Mexico stepped it up when it comes to their washing of their fruits and vegetables. They don't want people to get sick, right? It's not their goal. But both her and I felt so different when we were there. We weren't the food, the food is just different, right? It's not full of all of these things that keep us addicted or are harmful for our health. And honestly, I'm not gonna lie, both of us ended up coming back and going, we both lost weight there, but we were eating.

SPEAKER_04 1:09:12

It's like if you go to Italy and eat pasta for every meal and they lost weight.

SPEAKER_00 1:09:16

Exactly, because the pasta has three fucking ingredients in it, whereas like ours has like 25, right? Like there's a conspira there's a comparison that went around not that long ago that I was showing um my parents, and it's like back then, like ego waffles, they had like four ingredients. Now they don't, you know, like everything is it's it's very different. I mean, I have a very different outlook on what's happening when it comes to those things, but just gotta read.

SPEAKER_04 1:09:42

You gotta look, you gotta read, you gotta know what you're buying. And yeah. I mean, I I mean, there was I went to Whole Foods the other day and I got this like they have these family packs like chicken and potatoes and and beans and stuff. And I was telling the person um who I was standing there in the parking lot with, she was like, Well, is there seed oil on it? And I'm like, you know what? Like, no, but you know what for me, it's like I'm pretty healthy, but I'm like, oh fuck it. I don't I don't I know I don't care about seed oil, like fuck them.

SPEAKER_00 1:10:10

That is the that is the hard part though, is that where do you draw a line? And then I've had that conversation a lot. You know, I I'll be very honest, I I work in dentals, so my boss does Botox and I've been doing Botox for a very long time. But now I'm like Botox, absolutely. Now I'm like, I don't like there's there's so many perfumes, like everything. Yeah, the sun. You know? I well, I mean, I again I think this I think I don't wear sunscreen. I don't like everybody's always like, you're I'm like, no, I don't, I don't, I'm not like if you look even a look at the hospitals back in the day, they the beds were outside in the sunshine. Yeah. Sun heals us. I I firmly believe that. So it's just, yeah, I mean, you you can make I'm not telling everybody to make it's it's too overwhelming where we are as a society and where our brains and our capacity are right now. It's too overwhelming for people to make all of these changes all at once. They're not gonna do it. I've done it myself. Like I have all these things and I want to change, and then all of a sudden I shut down because it's just too much.

SPEAKER_02 1:11:15

What's your blood what's your blood pressure like?

SPEAKER_00 1:11:19

Surprisingly, a very low broad blood pressure. I don't I know, I know, I don't I I've always had very low blood pressure. But yeah, you can't, you just gotta you just gotta you you make a list and you just make a one step at a time. One step at a time.

SPEAKER_04 1:11:34

Just cross one off and when I see I I saw something as well as I did a little bit of research, you stopped drinking a while ago too.

SPEAKER_00 1:11:41

Four years ago, yeah. I I I gave it up and I personally I I think um was the best decision I've ever made for myself. And I do the studies show though too that a lot of people are drinking less.

SPEAKER_04 1:11:52

Yeah, it gives us clarity, big time capacity, you know. It's it's yeah, good, good for you.

SPEAKER_00 1:11:57

It's yeah, I think it's important to for me to have that clarity, especially.

SPEAKER_04 1:12:02

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 1:12:02

I mean, alcohol is a depressant, right?

SPEAKER_04 1:12:04

That's all what you wish for is clarity though, right? You know, it's like fucking.

SPEAKER_00 1:12:07

I can't unsee it. That's that's the thing. I can't turn it off, and that is the hardest part for me. It's very I mean, I I have a trip planned. I keep saying if we make it there, if if they don't price me out of it by fuel, because I'm obviously gonna drive. Back to the island for two weeks to go up to the campsite, and there's no service. I think, yeah, at the very beginning when I started this platform, I didn't expect it to take off the way that it did. I really I really didn't. I never I've never been a person to put myself out there in that way. Yeah. I used to sing the national anthem at the Couch and Valley hockey games.

SPEAKER_04 1:12:44

It's funny, it's funny because you mentioned on one of my posts where I I, you know, I think I posted a gym picture, and I was like, because someone told me not to post gym pictures, and you were like, couldn't, you know, you're like, I have a hard time with doing that. Yet you're on the video, like talking to camera.

SPEAKER_00 1:13:00

So it's it very interesting. I I'll be very honest, I've oh I've never had good self-esteem my whole life. It's been I've never had confidence and I've lacked boundaries. And doing this has opened up, it's unlocked a level of confidence that I never thought I had. But it's also, I mean, I was I was on my way to that regardless. I I mean, I've been in therapy for six years. I'm actually closer to seven now. But this has definitely given me that that I guess almost for myself myself. Like my mom always said, like, I knew that you would do something like this with your life. What I have been doing has not been like I'm very creative. I planned weddings for 13 years. I love decor or decorating, decor. I make the most amazing amazing charcuterie board. Yeah, I make the most amazing charcuterie boards ever. Like I feel I I'm my my brain fires like that. I need that creativity where this has allowed me to do that, but it's also it's giving me a purpose. I always wanted to do something that was helping people. I I thought I wanted to be a teacher, I thought I wanted to be a nurse, like just something to help people. So I do view that in this way as well. But I think it's I it it's allowed me to grow. I definitely have had minutes, like somebody was in my DMs last week trying to get under my skin, and they said to me that it looks like you got or you're much fatter than you were last year. But like to be honest, like normally I can just let it go, but it it got to me because again, I've struggled with that my whole life. I have. And people I think too. I say, you know, like I it's I mean, doing what I'm doing at this point now, I've talked to like Berta Proud Dad for one, he said to me, like, you know, he goes anywhere and people are videotaping him. Oh my god, like you know, like you gotta be careful with what you're doing, how you're how you are acting in in public when you are, I guess I don't want to say public figure because I don't view myself as that, but like for somebody like him, he's got 200 and 205,000 followers. So he is a public figure, you know, how you present, put yourself out there like and like almost like a politician. Like people are watching you.

SPEAKER_04 1:15:23

I think that's good practice for anybody, though.

SPEAKER_00 1:15:26

Yeah. Um but I think for myself, yeah, I mean, I've never I've never been one to want the attention on me. So it's very it's very hard to do that.

SPEAKER_04 1:15:36

Well, I think that that's probably why you have the attention on you, is because you're doing something that means that that means something to you, which is virtue signaling this is actually meaningful. And and that's usually when you get not what you want, but what you didn't expect, is when you're doing something real and organic for the right reason.

SPEAKER_00 1:15:56

So yeah, and I think it also it's it's important for it was important for me to understand that I needed that balance in my page. Like when I started it, I was like, I'm not going to just have it be me talking all the time or just news or just doom and gloom. I by myself, I I think I'm pretty fucking funny. So I love laughter. That's like the one thing. Like even when it comes to like finding like, you know, life partner, dating, whatever, I have to have humor. I do, I have to. And maybe it doesn't, it's not for everyone, you know. Maybe like there are obviously content creators that just put out like the news and then, you know, but I can't. I can't just sit in the darkness all of the time. Like I made one yesterday, just kind of poking fun at the social credit system, right? Like I was sitting at the fire with my girlfriend, and we were thinking, I'm like, I need to make a funny one. I need, you know, like, and then we just, yeah, we came up with this idea and we we shot it the next day. But even my fitness, fitness has always been a big part of my life. And I I think when I when I stopped posting and I I removed all my fitness content, to be quite honest, people noticed. I had people in my DM saying, like, I really appreciate that, like I want that. Like I was following you also because you know, you're motivating me. So I mean, yeah, I I guess I I think the part of me is that you see people. I seen a post on on X actually, and I took it personally. I don't think it was about me, but about oh, these content creators are that say that they're independent journalists and then they have photos of themselves, you know, in a sports bra on their Instagram or whatever. Because again, people are paying attention. Like you said at the beginning, you went all the way down to my page and you seen it was all Bronco, right? People are gonna do a deep dive. I I just I don't want to give up the fact that I'm a real human. Yeah, I think it's important for people to see that.

SPEAKER_04 1:17:54

Yeah, I uh you know, my kind of response to that is right.

SPEAKER_00 1:17:58

I know. I'm getting so good at that though, Curtis. Like, I actually like I and Jasmine, bless her. She said, like, post and ghost.

SPEAKER_02 1:18:06

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 1:18:06

Just get out. Like, just post it, get out. Don't read the comments, you know. But I know too, also it helps the algorithm when we reply. So I'll reply to some of them if I have the capacity. I personally don't, I honestly really don't get a lot of negative comments. I don't get a lot of hate because I I really try to lead by example and not give that hate out. Cause I I do think that I think that we are lacking just basic kindness nowadays. People just don't have the capacity for it. They're less, they're less, they're shorter, they're uh they're a bit more uh snappy, I guess. Um yeah, people myself included, I feel that I feel it as well. And I but I I want I want to lead by example.

SPEAKER_04 1:18:45

So then it's time then it's time to get back to the gym and start filming, man. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 1:18:51

I know. I know. It's my goal this week. I'm gonna do some meal prep. Like that, I mean, I I was always very regimen that way. Sundays were my day of meal prep and cleaning my house and getting ready for the week um and uh going to the gym. I do I do try and balance it between classes and whatnot, because the classes I find get me there a little bit more motivating. But yeah, I I I find it challenging to balance it all, but I'm definitely I'm getting there. I'm trying to just I think the issue was is that I was trying to still live the life, my regular life, but I couldn't because I've now entered into another Well, you systemize it, you know, and if you can systemize it, you know, systems systems solve most problems. Well, and when I would normally go to the gym, it's very early. I was usually I'm usually there by 4:45. And the issue is that I wasn't sleeping, and then I couldn't get up, right? And then it just affects you. And I do notice that. So every every week I try and be a little bit more intentional in finding that balance again. So I'm gonna do my meal prep today. I'm gonna get up, I'm gonna get a good night's sleep. Good. I mean, I get my I get my girls back on Tuesdays, so I'm gonna try and I g I I have to get up in the morning because like I said, by the time I get home and you know you do the dinner and cleaning up, and it's there's no time. That's one thing I noticed a lot is t time feels different.

SPEAKER_04 1:20:21

That's why I wake up when I wake up. That's why at 2 30 in the morning, because it's just time is time is hard to come by, especially.

SPEAKER_00 1:20:27

But what time do you go to sleep?

SPEAKER_04 1:20:29

Uh eight, eight thirty. No, no. Sometimes I go to bed at eleven and wake up at two thirty. It's just what I do. It's like, okay, well, I I I I get the work done, I have stuff to write or I have things to do, and like but yesterday I made up for it. I slept for 13 hours and then I had a two-hour nap.

SPEAKER_00 1:20:43

Do you do this full time?

SPEAKER_04 1:20:45

I I'm a coach, yeah. Yeah, I'm a performance coach full time. And this is just this podcast, it's just kind of a a neat um creative thing I do to to talk to people and and yeah, yeah, it's just fun. I I enjoy it. A lot of baseball content, a lot of performance content, and just kind of whatever's going on in the world, you know. It's it's fun to talk and get people's perspective. So um but yeah, we can wrap it up here, Kels. I I appreciate it. Is there let's go back, let's go back one thing here. Let's leave the people, you know, the people with one thing. What is one small thing people can do today to not so much fix their nervous system, but like put them in the right direction to help this damn country that we're to help the country out?

SPEAKER_00 1:21:32

Um I think personally like I like I said earlier, I you don't understand how much influence you have even in your small circle. And if you can reach one person, hopefully maybe then that person brings it into you know somebody else in their circle. I don't think that everybody needs to intake what what some of us are intaking, but especially because there are so many different avenues to this, but if you even if you just look into one and yeah, just have have conversations with people offline, not not online. Um and I and again I do think too, like be intentional with your conversations. Keep them healthy. They don't need, you know, I find that we are definitely lacking that help that that ability to have healthy conversations because everybody people are very short-fused if they if it doesn't match their narrative or what they believe in, people get quite angry.

SPEAKER_04 1:22:37

Well, I think there's a a big part of people are uneducated as well and they don't want to sound stupid, so they pick the side of least resistance and call you an idiot and and disagree with you because they don't understand what you're saying. Okay. So you know, I would say the very kind of same thing with, you know, for me to leave people with one thing today is I like to kind of compare it to again baseball. You know, when I was a scout, um, you know, you look and you draft a player based on tools. There's five tools. It's like, okay, this guy, this guy's very fast and he throws the ball very well. Okay, so when we put him in a roster, we're gonna make sure we focus on those two two tools. I don't need him to hit home runs. So what are you really good at? You know, what what is your strength? Let's focus on your strength. You don't have to be count everything for everybody and know everything all the time. Yeah. If you don't know something, just be like, oh, I don't know what you're talking about. Explain it to me. You know, don't be that person that thinks they know everything or or has to know everything for every reason because it's like you know, everybody's got something phenomenal to bring to the world. Bring that. Bring that, whether it's your your your sense of humor or or your compassion or your empathy or your whatever it may be, your care, bring that to the world because there's so many different things people need. You know, I just again I think people are trying to be so much that they actually become nothing.

SPEAKER_00 1:24:03

Yes, I agree. I guess like if I can say anything to anybody right now, you know, if you've been feeling overwhelmed or confused or that something isn't sitting right, that you're not alone in that, a lot of people feel that. But it does it doesn't mean that you shut down or spiral. It just means that you need to slow down, pay attention, stay grounded in what you know to be real in your own life because sorry, my kitty. Because that's because that is how you stay steady in a time that doesn't feel steady.

SPEAKER_04 1:24:39

Yeah, absolutely.

SPEAKER_00 1:24:40

No, we have to we have to take care of our our own house first, right? And if we're not if we're not steady, it's gonna come out everywhere.

SPEAKER_04 1:24:49

It is a ripple of ripple effect. Yeah, exactly. Kelsey, thank you for coming on. If you don't know Kelsey, thank you so much.

SPEAKER_00 1:24:56

This is great.

SPEAKER_04 1:24:57

It's unfiltered.

SPEAKER_00 1:24:59

It's unfiltered with kels.

SPEAKER_04 1:25:00

Unfiltered with kelse, unfiltered with kelps. It's way more words. On what uh Instagram, Facebook, X, all the things.

SPEAKER_00 1:25:08

Yeah, I'm on all of them. The only they're all unfiltered with Kelse, except for X's unfiltered you kills, because it was too long, Curtis. It was too long.

SPEAKER_04 1:25:16

What about TikTok? You TikToking?

SPEAKER_00 1:25:18

Yeah, I'm on TikTok, same thing, unfiltered with kelps.

SPEAKER_04 1:25:21

Well, LinkedIn, you I don't love TikTok though.

SPEAKER_00 1:25:24

That that's when I post in ghosts all the time.

SPEAKER_04 1:25:26

Okay, yeah, probably fair enough. Um okay, awesome. Yeah, we're left. Yeah, um good.

SPEAKER_00 1:25:31

Thank you.