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What's next for America? | ZFS 98
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This one is different. No graphs, no headlines, no breakdown. Just me and the mic asking a question I have not been able to shake. What is next? For this country, and for me.
I have spent four and a half years calling out what is broken. The banking system, the housing crisis, the corruption, the wars, the surveillance state going up on every corner. And lately I keep asking myself whether calling it out is still the work, or whether it is time to start calling people in instead.
I talk openly about where my head is at. The affordability crisis crushing an entire generation. The missing virtuous path for young men who cannot afford a home, do not trust the financial system, and do not want to serve a country that feels like it stopped serving them. Whether real change is even possible from inside a system that was built corrupt from the start. And the two directions I actually see in front of us.
Mostly this is about what I want the next twenty years to look like. I want the person hearing my voice to end up better off. Fitter, clearer, more connected, prouder of what they see in the mirror. I want to be the reason somebody picks up a weight, puts down the phone, goes on the walk, mends the relationship. That is the work I actually care about, and I am thinking out loud about how to do more of it.
Thank you for being here for the real ones.
Welcome to episode number 98 of the Zach Faust Show. Two to three episodes a week on what's going on in American economics and how you can make the right next moves because of it. Unwinding the patterns of the past so we can understand the future a bit better. Hi, my name is Zachary Faust. And welcome into all those live as we record. We do this Monday, Wednesday, Friday here on YouTube and Twitch. And I gotta be frank with you, uh, this is probably the least prepared I've been for a pod in quite a few episodes. I have my cucumber with me. He's a three-hander. Yeah. Maybe a three and a half hander. Yeah, maybe a three and a half hander. Pretty big guy. This is uh one of the 268 cucumbers we were able to pull out of our garden this year, which is just 267 more than I thought we were gonna have. We have so many cucumbers.
SPEAKER_01We're gonna create a farm stand next year, and uh the goal is for our garden to be a community donation-only garden. Allow people to come and take what they like, take what they need, potatoes, tomatoes, uh, herbs, spices, uh, cucumbers, obviously.
SPEAKER_02Y'all ever like wonder what's next? Not not to be super deep on us this morning, but do you guys ever wonder what's next? What's up, Michandrius? Like, what's actually next?
SPEAKER_00Not just for um I got I got two topics really today. It's America and me. This is gonna be a selfish podcast. Alright? This is gonna be a selfish podcast. I'm gonna just let you know right now, this is egotistically based, pride-based. Um, I'm talking about me today.
SPEAKER_02Y'all ever think about what's next?
SPEAKER_00I mean, I know it can go as deep and dark and rabbit-holy as we'd like by talking about, you know, what's next with our foreign relations with other countries.
SPEAKER_01It doesn't seem like we're gaining any hegemonic power around the world. It doesn't seem like we're gaining soft power around the world.
SPEAKER_00It doesn't seem like we're gaining any real financial leverage around the world. It seems like all those things are kind of fading. When I look at what's next in the world, I look at like our administration, our current president, our past president, the president before that. I haven't really seen somebody that I'm really excited to lead the country. Does that mean that we're gonna get somebody exciting in the future? Maybe, but the past patterns don't seem to show that. I look at our economy and I look at the affordability issue from health care to housing, clothing, hotel stay, airfare. I mean, you look at anything over the last 15 years, it's going to have gone up, but the most significant ones are the ones that mean the most. The hotel, the airfare, the TVs, they've actually been okay. But you look at oil, you look at energy costs, you look at foods, you look at housing, you look at child care, health care, insurance, taxes, the items that are a necessity for life have become egregiously more expensive, far more expensive than the 52.7% that the Federal Reserve would have said inflation has been since 2010. Which, by the way, that's a true stat. Since 2010, our Federal Reserve, our central bank, will say that inflation has only been 52.7% when a lot of items have more than doubled. So I I ask, do you think about what's gonna happen next? When an entire generation, not entire, because there will be some successful ones, and I hope some of those are in here today. There's an entire generation that's screaming there is not enough money, there is not enough jobs, there's not enough opportunity going around per the amount of people graduating from college, per the amount of people that are actually grinding, per the amount of people that are putting in the 40, 50, 60 hours of work. I'm not here for handouts. I'm not here to give to the ones that are not putting in work. I'm not here to say if you're lazy just because you're in America, you deserve to have a lifestyle. I'm not saying that. All right. I am capitalist at the end of the day. When you get down to it, I do want to see a world where we can take advantage of the fact that we built an ecosystem where if you do indeed work harder, you do indeed get results. Now, has that always been the case for all genres of jobs in America for the past decade and a half? Or I'm sorry, hundred years and a half? No. There are plenty of people who work their ass off that get absolutely nothing for it. I'm somebody who wants to see the opportunity present. Okay, I get excited by opportunity. I get pumped up by opportunity. When I see that there's something on the other side of whether it be hard work or teamwork or a well-executed plan or whatever it may be, when I get to the idea of something being possible, something flips in my brain. It gets exciting for me. It pumps me up. Something that normally would have would have made me feel like, oh, I don't want to do that. All of a sudden is the most exciting thing. And maybe I'm speaking out loud for myself. I don't feel as excited about what's going on in this country as I did 10 years ago, five years ago. And I have to ask myself sometimes, is that what I want for me for the rest of my life? Do I want to live in a picture I have painted of this country, a picture I've painted of this economy based off of affordability and marginalization from the top down? I've built this world where I can see the Uniparty in action, I can see the corruption throughout history, I can see it from banking, I can see it in the pharmaceutical, I can see it in the food, I can see it in the way that we discuss and discourse around political issues, I can see it's how we treat war, it's how we treat other races, it's how we treat other religions. How many different things have to be Kablooy for me to not get to the point where I just want to get out of the system altogether? And then what does that mean? What does get out of the system altogether even mean? Leave America? I don't want to do that. I love this country. I served for this country, I went overseas and fought for this country. And like I just said, the the the the capitalistic ability to go out and get something, though, when that free market is actually available, many would argue since 08 it's no longer available. But that free market ability to go out and get something just because you want it in America is really cool. But that seems stripped from America at this moment, especially post-COVID. Sports are a circus, food's trying to poison me, there's a flock camera popping up on every corner in Milford, Delaware. Everybody hates each other so much that they're not even able to talk about these issues that matter without it becoming some political discourse argument. And I have to ask myself, am I gonna be the guy for the next 20 years that continues to just expose and yell about the problems, or am I gonna somehow become a part of a solution? And what is that solution? Am I a piece of the solution? Am I a leader of a solution? Is the solution political? Is the solution physical? Is the solution mental? Is the solution spiritual? Is it a combination of all of these things? One second.
SPEAKER_01Joe Bayer just called me. You're live on the podcast. What's going on, baby?
SPEAKER_02Oh, you're on the pod right now.
SPEAKER_01I'm on the pod right now.
unknownOh.
SPEAKER_01I'm scheduling. I'm sorry. No, you're great. How are you, buddy?
SPEAKER_02Nothing. I was I was getting ready to leave the crib. Oh, just seeing.
SPEAKER_01If you want me to come through and help do uh outline reviews or edits before I head away for the next week.
SPEAKER_00I would say yes, but let's let me call you after the pot. Let's not do it right now. Could we do maybe like two?
unknownYeah, you're good. Now you're on the butt.
SPEAKER_00Hell yeah, dude.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, I'm recording one thing because we didn't have Friday. Sounds good. Love you, brother. See you.
SPEAKER_00Like, I like connecting with people. I love connecting with, I love the connection I have with Joe, with Sean, with my pops, my best friends John, Reese, Brandon. I love the people I got to just connect with out in Idaho, these men that just wanted to grow themselves. I have to wonder to myself, am I for the next 10, 15, 20 years going to be the guy with political discourse around what is going on without any real say in a change moving forward so that what is going on doesn't continue to go on? And am I being too am I being too unicorn and rainbow to think I could possibly have some way to change an outcome of a country?
SPEAKER_02I'll be real.
SPEAKER_00I don't think I do. I don't think there's much I can do that could actually affect the outcome of this entire country, this 351 million and dropping population country. Because it's been built on filth. It's been built on a foundation of corruption. You can go back to the founding of the country, the funding of the country, the banking infrastructure of the country, the corporate oligarchy was set up centuries ago and is now just being taken advantage of it. It is now just being taken advantage of. And no, no, I don't want to run for office because guess what running for office means? It just means I'm entering into the system that is corrupted at its core already. The systems, the rules, the regulations, they're not set up for real progress. It's set up for politicians to create careers out of profiting from their position. It's built on constant discourse and division between the bipartisan system we have, this red versus blue system that we have, this you gotta be Democrat or Republican system that we have, and this fake ass democracy where they trick you into thinking your vote works.
SPEAKER_02I just don't know, guys.
SPEAKER_00I just don't know where I sit in all this. And to be very clear on my s on what I mean. I I don't mean that we can't make the change.
SPEAKER_02I mean I know I can't do it alone.
SPEAKER_01Like for example, I have an inflation document right now that I've been working on to find the true inflation from 2010 with sourcing, and I need some help on that.
SPEAKER_00You know, I need I need help. I need help working on that document. I have a corruption web roll mapping altogether the corruption from the Rothschilds on down to today. And you guess what? I need help on that. You know, streaming a couple times a week, podcasting a couple times a week, all while remaining a top-tier father as best as I can, a top-tier husband as best as I can, a top-tier gardener chicken farmer as best as I can, staying in the gym, eating healthy, getting my gallon of water. There's quite a bit that I'm keeping up on. And I wonder in 10 years, am I gonna look back and think I've wasted time? Because here's here's my caveat. Because I want I don't want this to be taken as Zach's quitting. That's not the case. My case is am I better served? And and listen, listen, just hear me out here. Am I better served doing exactly what I am doing and continuing doing exactly what I am doing, creating the short form content that's exposing the environment that we live in, continuing to push people in a direction of thinking more, asking why, asking questions, figuring out where they stand on thing where they stand on things. And attempting mass change. And had two different people roll down their windows while they're driving and yell, Zach! Love you, bro. What's going on? That's so weird. You know, somebody saw me on a scooter while they were driving. We're both moving, they saw the back of my head and knew who I was. Bro, that's crazy. The strength of that parasocial relationship is crazy. I don't take that for granted. I'm so humbled by that. It's it's such a weird thing for me to conceptualize. But am I better served instead of trying to change the world, instead of trying to wake up the country, instead of trying to get an entire generation to see what I'm seeing? Am I better set on grabbing a group of 50 men and saying, We're gonna grow the greatest set of men that we've ever seen? We're all gonna hold each other accountable, we're gonna be in shape, we're gonna be mentally strong, spiritually strong. You know, am I better set creating a movement around building better men and building better leaders and pushing a new ecosystem of man into the system so that the system by itself naturally begins to change?
SPEAKER_02Um I don't know.
SPEAKER_00Like I've to get you guys to the point where I'm out in my mind, I don't believe the system has saving as an option. Like I don't I don't think the system has saving as an option. We we are indebted to other countries. We are blackmailed by other countries. We have seen the most evil, incarnate accusations come to be real, put into our face, and no one did shit about it. We saw Epstein come to the light, we saw everything come to the light, and we didn't do shit about it. We're watching a digital tech surveillance state pop up in front of us, and we ain't doing shit about it. We're watching the wealth gap continue to grow at the behest of CEOs, billionaires, and Zionists, and we're doing nothing about it. Nothing is happening. Myself included, I'm sitting in a basement. I don't have a pitchfork and a torch. I'm not doing anything right now. I want I want the people that are listening to me, I want the person that's listening to me to get off of that podcast, get done watching that clip, get done watching that video, and feel better. You're right, it's not my job to fix the hellscape. You're absolutely right. So is it my job to continue to call it out, or is it my job to continue to try to get people out of it? I can keep calling it out. I've been calling it out for four and a half years now. Is it still my job to call it out, or is it time to call people in?
SPEAKER_02I want people that are in contact with me to be better off in their life for it.
SPEAKER_00And some may argue, well that that's that's what that's already what you're doing. You're you're doing a great job. And maybe, maybe, maybe I'm being too uh Maybe I'm being too harsh on myself.
SPEAKER_02I want an opportunity for you specifically to be in a better place in your life.
SPEAKER_00I want you to be physically fit, I want you to be mentally fit, I want you to be able to get inside yourself, I want you to be able to meditate, I want you to have good relationships with your wife, I want you to have good relationships with your kids, I want you to be able to do the hard thing, I want you to look up at yourself in the mirror and be proud of what you see. I want your head to hit the pillow and be satisfied with what you did within your day. All of these things that we can talk about, from Epstein to ICE to Iran to the economy to an administration to a political system that seems like a uniparty that doesn't give a shit about us. We can talk about the change that's needed for that all day and night.
SPEAKER_02But there's only two things that I see.
SPEAKER_01There's only two directions that I see. And I'll let you know very clearly which side I stand.
SPEAKER_00I see revolution or retaliation. And when I say revolution, that's exactly what I mean. When you when you when you think in your head, what does revolution mean? What does he mean by that? It's exactly what you think I mean. There is no political solution. I'm not trying to be corny. There is no political solution. Hence why I don't run for anything. Hence why I got no plan to run for anything. Could I make small local changes here in Delaware, maybe here in Kent County, Sussex County, Milford, Delaware? Sure. Could I join a board? Should you join a board? Sure, maybe. Could you become a state legislator, make some real actual shifts for your for your state? Maybe. But if you expect me to believe that by being one of the 535 lawmakers is consistently being ousted by corporations, by countries, bribed, pushed into ways of thinking that they never campaigned they were a part of.
SPEAKER_02Revolution is the only option or retaliation.
SPEAKER_00And when I say retaliation, I mean retaliating against the system. Going local, being in community, baking your own food, getting your own water, understanding how to actually live on earth without the need for the government's place. I my brain shifts more toward I want men who are in shape, women who are in shape mentally, physically, spiritually. They have control of themselves. Because guys, a lot of us don't feel like we have any control, and that's the thing, we don't. We don't have a lot of control on what's going on with this bullshit, with this evil, with this darkness. And I get that feeling often, myself, that this is an unpeekable mountain that we have to climb of evil and corruption and just a foundational pattern of shit that this country has led us up to to today. And we're watching a country, by the way, watching a country that does not deserve the place it has within the world, fumble the bag it has in its power amongst the world. Like right now, what's going on in Iran, right now the way that we're treating foreign policy, right now the way that we're treating our dollar, the way that we're treating the lesser uh the lesser lower classes, the way that we're treating the younger generations, the way that we're treating workers and laborers, the spine of this working class economy, the way that we're treating, I mean, everything seems to me like we're fumbling the bag.
SPEAKER_02We're fumbling the bag.
SPEAKER_00So it's even more frustrating. It's like shit, we hardly deserve the platform we have at this moment as a country. We're fumbling it live in person. And I'm supposed to sit here as somebody who's somehow over the last four years become one of the names of calling out what's going on. I want to fix what's going on, guys. I want to create lasting economic change that ripples in the future generation. Generations that creates permanent prosperity for those that deserve it. I'm not talking about handouts. I'm not talking about welfare. I'm not talking about all this bullshit that will get into this red and blue discourse on where the money should go. The money should stay in the country. The hardworking individuals that make this country what it is should be rewarded for such and shouldn't have to live in a country that is bombarded by racism, that is bombarded by this idea of you're better than thou because of the identity you take on in your political party. If you say that you're red, you're this way. If you say that you're blue, you're this way. Or this feudalistic classic system where the more money you have means the more value you have, the more net worth you have, the more personal worth you have. That's bullshit. Right? They divide us between blue and red so they can chase green. A kingdom divided amongst itself cannot stand. We are right now that kingdom divided against itself. And part of me wants to fight it, the other part of me wants to gather men and just grow. Read together. Detach from doom scrolling, detach from this world, go into the woods every now and then.
SPEAKER_01I just did a little of this in Ohio, in Idaho. Talk.
SPEAKER_02How many men out there need to talk?
SPEAKER_01How many men out there need an opportunity to speak their feelings, whether they know it or not?
SPEAKER_00How many men out there right now have been holding things in, have been keeping things to themselves, have been letting things fester for days, weeks, months, years?
SPEAKER_02There's still beauty in this world.
SPEAKER_00And and that that unresolved trauma that has people blindly repeating the past, Jack, isn't being dealt with. And that unresolved trauma is then being met with real life evil. And men are confused. Men are are lacking virtue because they're not being given a virtuous pass or a path. Like the virtuous path of going to college, getting your four-year degree, and getting into a job, that path is shutting down. The virtuous path of graduating high school and joining the military and serving your country has become something that we now know to be a bit of a fleece. And people don't want to do so. That's not the virtuous path. What about the virtuous path of getting married, having a kid, getting a home? Well, now unaffordability has caused that to become more of a luxury. So then Tua asks, where is the virtuous path for these young men?
SPEAKER_02Where is the virtuous path for these young men?
SPEAKER_00They don't believe the financial system is gonna be around in 15 years. They don't want to serve this damn country for Israel. They don't want to go out and get married and bring a kid into this fucking weird ass world. They can hardly afford the house to raise the kid in. Never less the diapers in the formula. Where's the virtuous path?
SPEAKER_02What are they supposed to do?
SPEAKER_00I'm supposed to go make another video about fucking black racks doing some bullshit to send them more into a mental spiral? That's what I'm supposed to do? That's my job now? I went from trying to figure out why my homies couldn't afford houses. I went from feeling like my homies couldn't afford houses, right? 2022, 2023. All my homies were buying homes before that. You graduated college, you graduated high school, you got a GED, don't matter. I could probably get you into a home. Decent job. You know, I was getting all if you were in the military, easy. E3 and above, you didn't have a stupid Mustang with an 18% interest rate? Got you.
SPEAKER_02Got you. Where is the virtuous path today?
SPEAKER_00I can't even get someone into four walls of drywall so that they can cry on their own in their own home. They gotta cry in the basement of their parents' home or with roommates and friends around, and they gotta keep it quiet.
SPEAKER_02I don't know the next step of the country.
SPEAKER_00I'm not gonna sit here and pretend I know what it's going to be. And I'm also not gonna be the type of person that sits here and ruminates over it and lets it bother me for the rest of the week. This is it. This is the bothering that's gonna happen. But let me tell you right now, it really makes me wonder what I want to be for the next 20 years because I want to be the reason somebody doesn't fall into the system.
SPEAKER_02You're right, BJ.
SPEAKER_00I want to be the reason somebody picked up a weight, somebody got in a cold tub, somebody went on a walk, somebody put down their phone, somebody improved their relationship, somebody put down the beer, somebody put down the smoke, somebody put up something that was beneficial for their life long term. I want to help be the conduit that leads that person to that lifestyle. How can I do that when I'm constantly staring down the evil that's been brought into this world when I want to be on the good side of that spiritual warfare?
SPEAKER_02And I'm a dad. Let me be let me be very clear about my priorities. I love y'all. I love y'all.
SPEAKER_00But you'd never see me online ever again if it meant to be better for my daughter.
SPEAKER_02You'd never see me ever again if it meant that I would be a better dad for my girl. I love that girl to pieces. And man, what am I prepping her for?
SPEAKER_00What what career? Like, what what what career job is she going after? What what house am I having her save for? Am I am I saving for her house right now? Is she seven years old? Yeah, because I think she won't be able to get one. Like, what what type of atmosphere is she going to walk into? How am I best leading her to that position? And all whilst doing that, am I helping those around me be better from having been around me?
SPEAKER_02I don't want to be corny.
SPEAKER_00I want to be better. Yeah? I want to be better for every single human within the sound of my voice, is what I'm saying. So when I look at the country that I've been growing up in is just slutted with evil. And then, like even Joe's comment, like the world's bigger than the US, but the U.S. has put its hegemonic control on the entire world for the most part. Every dollar moves throughout every country. Or I'm sorry, every currency moves throughout the dollar. Every country has to bend to the will of the United States in some way, shape, or form, whether it be they have to take insults from our president or they have to take bombs from our military. Or they have to get the immigration from the bombs we've sent in our military. Or they have to have the slave labor that comes from the oligarchs running the system. I want to be a part of the answer, uh, but simultaneously, I don't know if the answer is in the continued speculation around how the evil's doing what the evil's doing, if that makes sense.
SPEAKER_01That's a great point.
SPEAKER_00It sounds like a conundrum that we don't know how to exist outside of a system that we know isn't working for us. Right. The system isn't working for us. The system isn't working for us. They've distorted religion, they've distorted God, they've distorted all these things to make you feel that you are God, your consumeristic tendencies are God, you fulfilling your needs in the moment are God, and none of us know anymore how to sit in the moment in silence. None of us know anymore how to pick ourselves up by the literal bootstraps for the sake of somebody else instead of ourselves. All of us are a bit more egotistical in America than in other countries, and it's because of how we've been raised in the system. Everything is about us, everything is about lust, everything is about an emotion, everything is about a chemical reaction, to the point where now I feel a lot of, especially young men in America, feel numb.
SPEAKER_02It's a constant need for some kind of supplementation to feel.
SPEAKER_00And that could be hooking up, that could be drinking, that could be pornography, that could be a whole slew of different things that people are pushing toward to feel. And I guess I saw it more, I guess I saw it more face-to-face when I went out to Idaho and I got to talk with 32 men that feel this way. Yeah, we may have to have like a Sunday morning, good vibes morning. Maybe, maybe we get up, we get our day started together. Maybe, maybe I let you guys in on my morning routine and we just rock together on a Sunday. How's that? What if we did that? What if on a Sunday I just did like a five-hour stream the entire Sunday morning? We went through my meditation, we went through my workout together. I'm getting the gym set up on the other side of this basement too. Right now I'm going to plan it, but I'm getting this gym set up. Especially when I have the gym set up over there. We could go live, gym it up. I could have y'all follow along a workout with me. We can meditate, we can go through the word, we can walk through the good vibes of what's going on because there are great things in this world. Us being alive is incredible. Us being alive is incredible. The amount of beauty that exists on this planet is incredible. And I hate that we're kind of locked into this echo chamber of bullshit here in America when there's so much that's not bullshit outside of America. A walk and talk. That sounds good.
SPEAKER_02The signal in or around me sucks. But maybe we can make that happen.
SPEAKER_00I want us to be able to, and by the way, there's plenty of people make the argument. Zach, if the econom of the uh economy is gonna be inflating, um, well, all you gotta do is buy stocks your own home and you're gonna play with it. I wish everybody had that opportunity and they weren't thinking about how am I gonna pay my rent, how am I gonna feed my kids. And I know that group has always existed, but that group right now exists at a much larger level and younger level than ever in America's history America's history. They are younger and in a larger grouping, the amount of people who can't afford life, can't afford to raise a family, they are younger and in a larger mass than ever before. So, again, what does the next step look like for this country?
SPEAKER_02And why should I be super pumped to grow up in it? I say grow up like I'm not a 32-year-old grown-ass man. Doesn't sometimes feel like you're just a kid that grew up.
SPEAKER_01Like as a kid, I don't know. Like every every time I had a birthday, I expected that moment where I felt like I was 12.
SPEAKER_02Like if I was turning 12 years old, like I was 11, I was having my 12-year-old birthday. And I was expecting this moment where I felt 12.
SPEAKER_00Am I the only one? I was expecting a moment where I felt 12. And then, of course, too, when I went from 12 to 13, like I'm a teenager now. I was expected that moment where you feel it. I'm a teenager now.
SPEAKER_02And it never happened.
SPEAKER_00And then 18, 25, 30, you never really get that feeling. You never get the the the degree, like you when you graduate from college and say, Congratulations, you're an adult, fantastic.
SPEAKER_02It never happens.
SPEAKER_00And a lot of the childlike thoughts that I had about, you know, this country, though ignorant, have been kind of washed away for me. Have been kind of washed away for me. So now I'm left with, and I'll be very open and frank with you, the past four years, an identity that has slowly crumbled itself. Like, let me just be very, very honest with you. I'm a sports head. I've been a sports head my whole life. I'm an American patriot, dual military raise, joined the military, served in Afghanistan myself. I'm an entrepreneur, sought capitalism as my form of escape from a life where I was being bullied all throughout middle school and high. I had suicidal tendencies when I was a 12-year-old. No young man should have to feel that way. 17 years old, attempted to take my own life. When I started to realize the capitalist system is built on slave labor and it's built to basically uh enslave the lower class of the spine that keeps our system running, and that through greedflation and uh money printing we are exacerbating that problem, I was a little disheartened about the whole capitalist thing. When I realized that sports and especially professional sports is just simply a circus to keep us entertained. I was a little disheartened. Or that the very country I went overseas to serve and was willing to sacrifice my life over was doing so for oil.
SPEAKER_02A little disheartened.
SPEAKER_00So my identity has been built on Christ, the lone thing that has remained, the lone thing that has remained unremoved from me, the one thing that hasn't been pushed off the table. And more specifically, just the teachings. Just the teachings. Love thy neighbor. Put others before yourself. Don't put the moment in front of the eternal.
SPEAKER_02Community over isolation. Being childlike. Not allowing evil to win. I want to do something for these young men, man.
SPEAKER_01That's what I really want. That's what I really, really, really want. I want to do something for these young men across this country that are struggling. There are a lot of young men across this country that are struggling heavy, and I want to help. I don't know what that is necessarily.
SPEAKER_00But maybe it's just like what y'all are saying. A couple of y'all are saying, I started my garden. That pumps me up.
SPEAKER_02That pumps me up, A.
SPEAKER_00Cause it does start with taking authority. It does start with taking authority. We have to take authority over our own life. And Elijah, as you mentioned, community feeling non-existent. The community side is the biggest part. Because if we had people that want to push against the system, in the in the likes of when I say pushing against the system, pushing against this consumeristic, gambling-focused alcohol sexualization community, a sexualized community we live in here in America, pushing against that and resisting that, getting into the gym, getting your water in, getting soda and alcohol out of your life, pushing forward by trying to not chase the moment, but chase whether it's something longer term or just something that's not for you. When's the last time you pursued a goal where when you fulfill it, the benefit wouldn't be for you? It would be for someone else, especially when it's for someone who can't do anything for you.
SPEAKER_02We need more men like that.
SPEAKER_00And that starts with just being able to resist our own physical urges, our own need for sin, our own need for physical pleasure, our own need for comfort, our own need for security, our own need for validation, our own need for name it, fighting it, taking authority over our life, taking authority over our body, our brain, our spirit. And though it exists in a country that is filled with darkness, we can be the light little by little. I want to see more young men, more young women, more old ass dudes be the light.
SPEAKER_02You guys ever gotten on a plane? You guys ever gotten on a plane?
SPEAKER_00I'll consider the Sunday side, man. I had originally been doing that on the weekdays when we stopped that over the winter, and the reason being was because my daughter was being homeschooled, but coming up here in September, she's no longer homeschooled, she's going to a private school. So I might have that opportunity to do that. If you guys would subscribe to an early morning call with me at least once a week, just throw a one in the chat. I would love to do that.
SPEAKER_02Especially now that the schedule's shifting. Let me wrap this up.
SPEAKER_01I don't want to be the guy online that's the reason for people to feel shitty about this world or this country or this economy.
SPEAKER_00Um, I I don't want to be the person that when people see them come up on their screen, they're like, oh, time to get depressed. I don't want to be the person that's always talking about the negative in the world. I don't want to be the person that's always calling out the bullshit. I want to hold the evil accountable. I want to hold the people that should not have their positions of power to account. I want the people who have committed crimes to be arrested, to be tried, to be hung. I want to be able to take a baseball bat and beat the living shit out of anyone who's touched a child. I want to live in a world or in a country that seems as virtuous as it claims to be. Is as honest and as forthcoming as it claims to be. That bounds itself to a constitution that was beautifully written instead of annihilates it little by little with propaganda, annihilates it a little bit with lie after lie, or tries to skirt the words of it to try to make it mean what they want it to mean. I want us to want each other to succeed. I want us to want better for us. I want a world where we have enough going around that we don't have to fight each other for it, that we don't have to grind 80 hours just to survive. People should not have to have a full second job just to support their rent. That's not the way this world was supposed to work. It's at least not the way this country was supposed to work. I want to help. I want us to be able to lift our hands up to the people to our left and to our right to pick them up when they have fallen on hard times. But guess what? When there's more young men who are themselves falling on hard times, there are less hands going out. We need more hands going out. Which means the bodies attached to those hands need to be able to take care of themselves first. We need to lead a nation of individuals that want to seek satisfaction from being a better man or woman for their community than being a man or woman in their own head that they think they are, letting that ego take over, letting that pride take over, letting that emotion that comes from doom scrolling, letting that feeling that comes from pornography and lust, letting that feeling that comes from the drug or the alcohol be the only feeling that moves you forward in life. I'm telling you right now, that is a feeling that you are going to regret for the rest of your life. And regret is the one thing that you need to avoid like all hell. Your mental health, your physical health, your spiritual health, your family relationships are all that will matter. And I don't want us to be sacrificing it because we live in a world that is constantly pushing us towards it. It's easy to seek after the darkness when the world's covered in darkness. It's easy to seek the vice when you want a distraction from what's going on. It's easy to want a moment, a break, a quick just lithium silence in a world that seems so loud with bullshit.
SPEAKER_02Absolutely.
SPEAKER_00And as somebody who follows Christ to the T as best as I can, and I fail every day, every moment in my brain, in my body, in my spirit, as somebody's trying to follow the steps that were laid out in the gospels. I don't even say, hey, I'm a Christian because Jesus didn't invent church. He just told us how to live.
SPEAKER_02Religion and government have nothing to do with one another and should have nothing to do with one another.
SPEAKER_00Religion's been used for control, it's been used for war, it's being used actively for genocide, it's being used to create this oligarchic style control, not just the Zionist side either, every religion in its own way, especially when it gets intertwined with leadership, especially when it gets intertwined with government. And it can feel dark, it can feel um nihilistic, it can feel like there's no end in sight, and that's why I want us to take control and push against the system individually but in a group. Individually, but in a group, individually being able to push together the vices to the side, push together the addictions to the side, being able to open up emotionally and open up about our past and our traumas and what holds us back and what we think and what we don't know and what we want to know and what we don't understand and what we're trying to learn more on. And there's just no community right now of individuals that want to push themselves forward individually so that as a group, as a community, we can come out on the other side better, brighter for it. Right now it feels dark. Right now it feels distant. Right now I don't know what's next for America. But I want there to be something that you know for yourself. I want you to know that the next step for you can be brighter. I want you to know the next day can be brighter. The moment you are sitting in that feels evil, that feels dark, that feels nihilistic. Let me tell you this right now, and I need you to hear this.
SPEAKER_02Those are not thoughts you put in your head.
SPEAKER_00The dark thoughts, the negative thoughts, those are not thoughts you put in your head. You may think you put them in your head. You did not put those in your head. Your environment put those in your head. Your environment put those in your head. The people that you listen to, the people that you hear online, the teacher that you had, the friends growing up, the community you were a part of, the basketball team you played for after school, every single little group, every single little moment, every single little opportunity was an opportunity for your young mind to be influenced, positive or negative. So I'm telling you right now, if you're sitting in negative, if you're sitting in a moment where you feel it is all sketch, it is all dark, it is all nihilism, you didn't put that thought there. And this is spiritual warfare. There is evil out there that wants to take care of you because you have a heart and a soul and a mind that wants better for yourself in this country, and those spirits want you dead. I'm telling, I'm telling you right now, and I know there's some people listening, it's like this is a lot. There's one person I know needs to hear this. There are spirits that want you dead. Your brain has been confused into thinking you are not worth something. Your body has been convinced that there is nothing good left, and that is not true.
SPEAKER_02Do not let them win.
SPEAKER_00And if there's anybody you ever need to speak on, speak to please DM me. If it's between you and not making it to the next day, please for the love of fucking god DM me.
SPEAKER_01Legit girl.
SPEAKER_02How do I feel? What's a goal I have for the next year? It could be corny stuff. You can mark out what you had for dinner last night. I don't want to get it twisted.
SPEAKER_00I may have this pattern recognition autism for seeing the evil going on in the world and being able to actually, you know, kind of break it down so that we can understand how it is. Even though a lot of us understand it's evil, many of us don't understand how it's evil. Just because I have that ism for it doesn't mean I want to build a lifestyle that is centered around evil and darkness. I want us all to thrive. I want us all to have a life we are proud of that isn't met with regret. I want to hug another young man that needs it. I want to listen to people that want to be heard. I want to speak to those that need to be spoken into. I want to create environments that allow for people to grow. And this country doesn't seem to give a shit about the growth, the mental health, the prosperity at all of young men. And sorry, women, if you're feeling left out, I have to be honest with you, and this may this may come as a surprise to you. I've never been a woman. Never been a woman.
SPEAKER_01So I can't speak to you. Find your woman to speak out for young women because they need them to.
SPEAKER_00But I'm telling you right now, young man, I understand the battle. I understand the fight. I understand the constant need to feed your brain something new. I understand the constant need to try to feel in charge, the constant need to try to feel like you gotta make a change, or just the constant feeling of feeling like you want to sit down, you feel emotionally l numb, and you don't want to get out of bed.
SPEAKER_02Justin, that fucking pumps me up, dude.
SPEAKER_00Identifying and understanding your emotions has been a life changer, dude. Yes. Yes. Because you're developing a muscle that you'll get to utilize. When you're identifying what you feel at that moment, you're you're assigning a pattern to your body. You're saying when I feel X, I know it's Y. And then every time you do that, you're strengthening that bond. You're strengthening that knowledge, you're strengthening that emotional awareness, that EQ, emotional intelligence. And then as you grow within yourself, you're gonna start to be able to connect it to other patterns in your brain. You're gonna start to feel different things and be able to connect and be like, oh, that's a little offshoot of this. Well, I think I'm feeling a little bit of that. You do that long enough and consistently enough, and then you're gonna get to start seeing in others. And then you're gonna be able to help them in a more empathetic state because you know how it feels and you know where the connections are, and you can lead them through discourse that maybe helps them.
SPEAKER_02Quick challenge.
SPEAKER_00I want everybody within the sound of my voice to take 15 minutes of silence today. 15 minutes of silence. I'm gonna start saying that on every podcast. Mark it here. 15 minutes of silence, a quiet 15. You could stare at a wall, you can close your eyes, you can keep them open, you can sit on your porch and listen to the birds, watch the trees, you could go on a walk, you could read a book. 15 minutes of silence. Quiet 15. Put a one in the chat if you're gonna commit to a quiet 15. And if you're listening to this podcast right now, whether you're on Spotify, Apple, you're already in the gym getting that work in, you're heading to your job that you love, that you hate, you're heading home to your wife that you love, that you hate, whatever it may be, wherever situation in life you may be in, I promise you, stopping and taking on that quiet moment is the first step toward bettering whatever state you are in life. It may feel like you're quitting. It may feel like it's a small little move in a world where you need to make gigantic moves to solve problems. I'm promising you this right now. Stop treating life like it's a roulette table. Just because you lost the last couple bets does not mean you need to go all in trying to earn it back. That's the quickest way to go broke. And this isn't gambling advice, you shouldn't be a gambling anyway. This episode is brought to you by Calci. Wouldn't that suck if just right at the end I just had an ad read for like fucking polymarket? We need the better young men. By the way, you can gamble on this. And if it means getting rid of the apps that even allow you to listen to the sound of my voice, do it. If it means getting rid of the YouTube, getting rid of the Spotify, getting rid of the TikTok, the Instagram, whatever it may be, that is forcing your brain into these habits of picking up the phone, of scrolling, of feeling downtrodden, of feeling doomed, of feeling dark, do it. I love you.
SPEAKER_02I'll be here when you're back. I'll be here when you're back.
SPEAKER_00And on the opposite side, if there is a young man in your life that is looking for that financial, looking for that foundational, looking for that environmental guidance on how to walk through this world, especially when they think things are dark, send them this channel. I want to be a voice for young men. If there's one less man that takes his own life, if there's one less man that feels like there's nothing left because of a stupid ass YouTube channel.
SPEAKER_02Something that didn't even exist 25 years ago. Awesome. Awesome. There's nothing more that would make me feel more validated than that.
SPEAKER_01I don't know what's next for this country. I don't even know what's next for me.
SPEAKER_00But I know for a fact there is light at the other side of this tunnel. There is life to be lived, there is beauty on this planet, there's beauty within this country, and there's beauty in your life if you take ownership of it. And I know there's moments in your life right now that you know you're not taking full ownership over, you're not giving yourself full transparent accountability over, you're making excuses over, you're landing in vices over and over and over and over again. Habits that you've been locked into over and over and over and over again, and you're not breaking the pattern. Break the fucking pattern, take control of your life, stop letting the evil win by allowing you to be downtrodden by it. That's a win that they have over me sometimes. I allow the evil that's being portrayed out there to affect me. And guess what? That means they're winning. No fucking more. Wake up, take ownership, live a life that you're proud of, and it's gonna make other people around you better for it. Let me pray on us real quick. Dear Lord, thank you for this opportunity to be able to speak within uh the confines of my home, but be heard outside of it. Thank you for the technology I cannot even begin to comprehend that is allowed for this opportunity. Thank you for placing us on this timeline to be able to connect with one another. Thank you for showing us with full transparency the evil that exists in this world, proving the need for your goodness, proving that we cannot do enough as humans, proving that the spiritual guidance is needed not only within myself, but with on this planet. We need love, we need gratitude, we need peace that surpasses all understanding, and I pray that peace surpasses understanding on every voice within my name. I pray justice upon those that deserve it. I pray death upon the evil ones that lead our country. I pray that the most brimstone and fiery brimstone and fire you have access to is reserved for the evil occultists that operate this world as we speak, the oligarchs that hold our economy down, the oligarchs that make sure that we feel marginalized as a society and a world that you created for abundance. I pray that the spiritual warfare that is unfolding is met with equal forces for good by us, by you, and that we're empowered to feel for ourselves a sense of good, but also that that sense of good roots from you, Lord. I pray within everybody within the sound of my voice, they will feel love, they will feel peace, they will feel satisfaction, and that they will take opportunity to take accountability over this day that you have created for you and me. I pray in your heavenly precious name, Lord Yeshua Jesus Christ.
SPEAKER_01Amen.
SPEAKER_02A proper amount of viewers, Brad.
SPEAKER_00I love you guys. I'll be back here on Monday, Friday. I'm gonna have to push off because I have to go get my car because American Airlines lost my bag, and my bag had my keys in it. And so I had to drive home from the airport with my dad because I didn't have any keys, but tomorrow we're going up to get it.
SPEAKER_01Love y'all. Have a great one.
SPEAKER_00Send this to someone who needs it, by the way. I have not really ever been the guy to say, hey, send this pod to somebody. Send this to someone who needs it. And if you received this, it's because your person loved you.
SPEAKER_02I love you. Mean it. Talk to me.