In this episode, Victoria, an immigrant from the former Soviet Union who has built a successful practice in nutrition and health discusses the themes of resilience, Adversity, and the philosophy of living a life based on actions over words. The conversation spans a wide array of topics including personal growth, political ideologies, the shortcomings of modern education, the influence of big pharma and big food, and the importance of free speech. Victoria shares her personal journey, from her difficult childhood to her success in the U.S., offering insights into the challenges she faced and how they shaped her mindset.
Episode Highlights:
02:25 Victoria’s Journey from the Soviet Union
15:55 Experiences of Communism and Immigration
22:06 Challenges of Assimilation and Cultural Differences
52:16 The Influence of Social Media
57:57 Parenting and Societal Changes
01:09:45 Historical Parallels and Modern Consequences
01:26:37 Education and Media’s Role in Society
01:31:28 Critique of DEI and Identity Politics
01:32:22 The Importance of Free Speech
01:32:27 Censorship and Social Media
01:37:58 The Role of Media and Misinformation
Episode Transcript:
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Acta Non Verba is a Latin phrase that means actions, not words. If you want to know if somebody truly believes, don’t listen to their words, instead observe their actions. I’m Marcus Aurelius Anderson, and my guest today truly embodies that phrase. Victoria is a multifaceted and mysterious woman.
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but we are going to have a tremendous conversation about all things from politics to health to coaching to nutrition. But I’m not going to be able to do her justice by giving her a bio that’s just written on a piece of paper. So Victoria, thank you for your time. Thank you for being here. Thank you for making yourself available. And if you were to tell people about who you are, what would that look like?
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That is such a complex thing. First of all, Marcus, thank you so much for having me on. I appreciate it. And as Communism Survivor is her IG, I would absolutely recommend following her right now for sure. But I already stepped on your intro, so please do speak. Well, Communism Survivor is definitely my passion. have really, politics has really become my passion. I shouldn’t say as of late. It’s been my passion for many years.
01:53
I think I used to argue with lot of people on Facebook and that got tiring. So I just decided to kind of like move off that platform and create a little anonymous account, which I never in my life envisioned that it would turn into what it is today. I just wanted catharsis. I wanted to be able to say what I want to say without people unfriending me or yelling at me on Facebook. so Commodity Survivor was born and here we are, almost 100,000 followers later. So it’s been a surprise to
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Mostly me to be honest with you. But I think one of the reasons that politics has been so important to me is because of where I come from. So I was born and raised in the Soviet Union in Kiev, actually, in Ukraine is where I originated. And my parents and I were lucky enough to escape that regime for many different reasons. And we came to the United States when I was fairly young. I was about 10, 11 when I got here.
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You know, my father told me so much about his life there and so much about his experiences. And my father is one of the most brilliant men I’ve ever known. And he really trained me to understand philosophy and politics. by the way, I think he really always wanted a boy. So he always raised me like a boy to be very independent and to work and to study and to really focus on my mind and my cerebral capacity more than over anything else. And so as I grew up,
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One of the things that I was really, you that was really important to him was to teach me the evils of communism and how lucky we were to be in this incredible country. And I’ll tell you, when I came here, the only thing I wanted was not to be Russian or Ukrainian or, know, back in the day was all Russian, but now it’s, you know, specifically Ukrainian or Soviet. I just wanted to blend in. I wanted to assimilate with all the other kids. I didn’t want to be different. And so I really focused on my studies and made sure that
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I refused to speak Russian to my parents because I wanted to get rid of the accent and everything. I went off to school, I did my studies, I studied international business. And then I started, I got my MBA and I went into management consulting. So that was my first career. I did that for many years. And then I just got really tired because it was, it was a tremendous amount. It was very taxing on me.
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Physically, spiritually, mentally, I was working 80 to 100 hour weeks. I really had no life whatsoever. I was really unhealthy. I was smoking, was drinking, was pretty overweight. And I was just really unhealthy in my life. And so I really felt like there was more to it. And I retired from that career. I tried a couple other things. I started a couple of companies, one we sold, one we’re still working with.
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And then I really, you when I had my daughter was really when I had this epiphany because I really wanted to offer, so I wanted her to be healthy and I wanted to lead by example. And I was, I was still really unhealthy. And maybe it’s my management consulting background, you know, as an analyst or maybe it’s just my natural curiosity, but whatever it is that I get really interested in, I delve in full force, 150%.
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So I was interested in health. So I started reading everything I could get my hands on. I started researching everything. And I got, you know, after my pregnancy, I gained like a crazy amount of weight. was like 70 pounds. And I remember about four months after I had her, I was looking in the mirror at myself and I thought, you know, okay, I just need to be one with this body. Like, obviously I’m never gonna wear a two piece bathing suit again. I’m just this, I’m a mom now. That part of my life is over. I think I was turning.
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And I said to myself, yeah, this is not going to work. This is not how I, I’d much as give up. So I really, I really started focusing on myself and you what, you know, cause I, again, I wanted my daughter to look at me as an example and I didn’t want her to see kind of an unhappy, you know, out of shape overweight middle-aged woman. And I wanted her to kind of get, you know, emulate what I embody.
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So I grew up in a Russian Jewish household where everything was about food. And so it was really easy to be overweight there because it was like, when it was the day before breakfast, my mother was asking what I want for dinner the next day. And so was everything revolved around food because that was her love language and she just wanted to feed everybody. And so I didn’t want to do that to her because that was one of the things that made me really unhappy was just being out of shape and all those things.
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I started doing all this research, I went back to the gym, and I got myself in the best shape of my life. people started asking me what I had done. And I realized that I really loved talking to them and teaching them and helping them. And so I thought, wow, I need to go back to school and I need to explore this because maybe this is my next career. And that’s kind of what I did. And I loved it. And I eventually started my practice and I started adding on because first I was just a nutritionist, then I was just a nutritionist and a trainer.
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And then as I started working with people, I realized a lot of people have these emotional issues that they’re not addressing, which is causing them to feel like there’s a hole that they need to fill with food or whatever it is. And so exploring these things has really been incredible for my practice and for me as well, because I think it is helping all these people I think has healed parts inside of me because…
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I had, you know, my childhood was very difficult. You know, my, my teen years were very difficult. And I think that there were a lot of, I experienced a lot of trauma that I never really addressed. And I think that helping people helped me feel those parts of me that never really got any attention, if that makes sense. It absolutely does. The person that we are most qualified to help is the person that we used to be. That is 1000 % correct. And I think that that’s one of the reasons that I work with the people I work with because
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I was that person. I was working 8,200 hours a week. I get them and they know that I do. So it’s a very easy kind of transition for me to speak to them from both sides of my life, both parts of my life. I absolutely agree. And because we’re informed by that, we can see it because we used to do it. now I can, when that person gives me like that little like bullshit answer, I can call it the bullshit and say, really?
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100 % and and also they feel you right because we want to work with people who get us and not just work with you We want to be with people who get us because for I think for all of us, right? What is the one most important thing in any relationship you have you want to be gotten you want to be hurt? So when somebody finds similarities with you when they feel like you’ve been through what they’re going through Not only do they trust you
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but they know that you see them. That’s it. People want to feel seen, they want to feel heard, but most importantly, they want to feel felt. Absolutely. And once you have that and once they see that you understand, like you said, and they may get the piece of advice from any other person, but if it’s from you and you’re there and you’re in the moment and we’ve got through all this other stuff and now you tell them, you hold their feet to the fire and they say, yeah, you’re right. And now they stay on the path and that’s when they transform. That’s when they break. And by the way, I don’t tell them.
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I never tell anybody anything. I just ask questions that they have to answer. Yeah, because those questions are going to help them find that. I can’t tell anyone what they should or should not do in their life. That’s not my place. It’s not my right. That’s my opinion. And they don’t need opinions. They need to figure out what they need to do for their life. And the only thing I can do is act as a guide and ask them the right questions. And they had the answers inside. we the questions. all do. We all do.
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So did you have this knowledge when you were a young girl? Oh god no. I was a disaster. mean listen, when you’re you you’re I think that some people are born as old souls whatever that means and they have some innate wisdom that they’re just you know I don’t know where they get it from right? I wasn’t one of them. I mean I was a disaster growing up. Like I said I mean I had a hard childhood. was
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I’ve always been fiercely independent and it’s very difficult to control me in any way. And my parents tried very hard. And so I gave them a hell of a run. My father always said, more people learn from other people mistakes, dumb people learn from their own mistakes. Well, I was always pretty dumb. I had to make my own mistakes. I had to learn from them. And you know, I did. I mean, I’ve had many different experiences. I traveled the world and I…
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met incredible people, not so incredible people in my life, and everyone that came across me taught me something. There’s something to be said for that. So I think that, you know, I’m a big, I’m a racist reader, although now I think I listen to most of my books. I used to be, I don’t have as much time as I used to, but I think that that helps, you know, reading and reading different authors, reading different philosophies and things like that, it helps you grow.
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uh, provides you wisdom on life, your own and others and your place in the world, et cetera. So, um, I think the wisdom I have acquired over the years is from my own experience and also through work, meeting so many and working with so many, um, brilliant people. And I got to tell you, I mean, I, it’s really interesting because I think my clients sometimes teach me more than I teach them. Well, a thousand percent. Yeah. In the martial arts, say when one teaches to learn because I’m teaching them and then
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Lots of times they’re reinforcing the lesson or maybe they’re doing something different. Maybe they come from a different perspective and maybe they teach me something. It’s like, wow. So maybe it reinforces this is why we don’t do that. Or who knows that’s where some of the those brilliant accidents occur. And we cultivate the environment that allows that to happen. And now we’re both learning. And then it goes from one teaches to learn the statement becomes one teaches to learn.
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And then the more that we do that, the more that we can continue to learn and absorb. Absolutely. I think, and I have to tell you that I think that one of the biggest impediments to people learning, to people becoming wiser and better as human beings is their ability to listen. Because most people, that’s really a skill that you have to hone as you become better and wiser and evolve as a human being. Because
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the inability to listen really hinders you from not only understanding the person that is speaking to you, but yourself as well. And I think that that is a skill that is not taught, it is not emphasized, and most people out there just don’t have it. Because when they’re listening to other people, they’re not actually actively listening, they’re not hearing them. What they’re doing is already in their head, they’re coming up with a response. So what am I going to say next? How am I going to respond to this?
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but they’re not hearing. So one of the things that I say in my practice a lot of times, because I work in relationships too. So my practice has morphed in lot of different ways, but I work with people who have issues in their relationships, things like that, and couples. And one of the things that I make them do always, and this is really important exercise, and not just in your relationships. mean, this is important. You can do this with your boss, with your kids, everything. When someone says something to you.
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When you’re having a serious conversation, when you really want to make sure that you heard them correctly, you need to repeat it back to them. Because that ensures a couple different things. Number one, it ensures that you understood what they said. And when you can say it back, it resonates differently in your own head. And it also tells them that you’re listening, that you heard them. And that’s really powerful.
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Holding space is one of the most powerful things you can do. It’s the biggest compliment you can give anyone in your life. I do the exact same thing with companies. I’ll come in and it’s a listening exercise and it’s an intense 30 minutes, but I’m asking specific questions. One side has to listen. The other person answers the question for three minutes. The side that’s listening, they’re not allowed to speak, not allowed to stop them, not allowed to fix them, not allowed to interject.
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Because what are they doing? They have to get used to, actually haven’t put their hands over their mouth to reinforce that they’re just listening. And then once they’ve done that, we breathe. And now it’s the other person’s turn to listen. And it breeds this reciprocity. It breeds this trust. you ask with a very, you start with a very small question and eventually you’re actually able to get to this point with two strangers where you’re asking them about some of the most difficult things that did.
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the deepest adversities they’ve ever faced. And if you build them up properly and you prime them correctly, they’re breaking down, they’re crying, they’re hugging at the end of it because for the first time. They hurt each other. Right.
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That’s fascinating. The other thing that I just read a study and I remember it said that it’s eye contact. Eye contact actually changes the chemistry in your brain. It helps you trust the person that you’re speaking to. It helps a connection between you. It actually helps your body create bonding hormones and emit those. So that’s another thing. The positive serotonin release.
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It’s impossible to deny. So for those that do not understand, once you came over to the United States, we’re going to talk about some of the communism component for you getting away from that. What did it feel like? What was the biggest surprise for you when you came over to the United States as a young girl with freedom? Oh, my gosh. I mean, there were so many surprises. could talk about I could talk about the way that we’ve left. You know, I have it’s funny when I talk to people, they’re always surprised.
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how vivid my memories are from a very young age. And I think that when you have traumatic experiences, it is absolutely seared into your brain forever. And when I say vivid, mean like, think you’re gonna, I think your jaw’s gonna be on the floor when I tell you this, but one of my most vivid experiences, and I’ve had a few of them, was I think I was six years old and I had my tonsils out back in the Soviet Union.
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where they tied me to a chair and literally ripped them out of my throat without any anesthesia. And I remember what the doctor looked like. I remember that entire experience. So, mean, as vividly as if it happened yesterday. And by the way, that’s socialized medicine for you. Oh my goodness. So there have been a few of those where they, you know, they were very vivid.
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The one thing I remember is just and maybe this is it’s interesting as I talk about maybe this is where my need to fit in was so strong when I came to this country because in the Soviet Union there was no standing out right from the moment that you went to school you know I started school some people went to kindergarten my parents didn’t want to send me so at seven at seven I have to go to school I was going to say public school but there was no other kind obviously and we all had the same uniform and we all had
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The only difference in our uniform, because it was a brown dress and we had either white lace collar with a white apron on holidays and special occasions or every day we had a black lace collar with a black apron. And that was our everyday uniform. And the only difference in that was the ribbons in our hair. That was different from person to person and the lace that we had on our apron and on our collar.
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That was the only difference. Everything else was identical. We all looked like each other. We had to wear our hair in similar ways. All the boys had to have a certain haircut. It was down to the point where we were taught immediately in first grade how to sit at our desks. And there was no slouching. We had to have a posture. We had to have our arms crossed like this the entire lesson. And if you raised your hand, it had to be like this. There’s no, yeah.
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So everything was the same. If you were left-handed, that was a big no-no. They taught you how to write with your right hand. And by the way, if you meet people who come from the Soviet Union, if you look at their handwriting, it’s almost identical because we had to write the same way. And so there could not be individual differences between us. We were all the same. And by the way, if one of us failed, all of us failed. So this way, they ensured the wrath of
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the entire collective, right? So it wasn’t just you that they punished if you were misbehaving in school, whatever, it was the entire class. So you had a lot of pressure on you because you had the pressure of the entire collective. So maybe that’s what it was for me when I came to the United States because I was trained from that very young age, right? To never stand out, to always be one with everyone else in your collective because that was
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what we were taught. And I will never forget when I was, it was the end of first grade. And this is how deep the brainwashing went. At the end of first grade, my teacher asked the class a question. And she said, if you had the choice between your parents and Lenin, whom would you choose? And of course I raised my hand, she called on me and the answer was so easy, it was Lenin. I mean, of course I would choose Lenin over my parents.
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And what’s interesting about that is what I’ve been seeing, you know, over the last, and I really, I have to point to Obama is when this started because I remember, I’m old enough to remember when coming out as a socialist or especially a communist, you know, was unheard of. I mean, you would be immediately smacked out. Nobody was brave enough to go, that was a dirty word. You should be ashamed of yourself, coming out as that.
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Because there’s a point where, you know, we had standards. And with Obama, when he went to office, that one of the most surprising things that I saw immediately was all these socialists and communists came crawling out of the woodwork like cockroaches, right? And all of a sudden, they were, they were proud to say that they were socialists. Bernie and AOC and all these people who announced their affinity with that system, right?
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And so I just found that incredible that we were able to, that we went to this place all of a sudden. It reminds me of what I had to do in the military where everything was uniformed. We all had to look the same way. And then that mess, everybody was like, one guy was messed up. Like you said, we’re all messed up. And then we’d all get the beating. We’re all doing burpees out in the rain until somebody throws up or until they decide that we go back in, right? Right. And in the military, you have to do that, right? Of Because you all, yeah.
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But life is different. And the whole point is, right, it’s all about the individual. And that’s why, you know, that’s one of the reasons that my father fought so hard to bring, oh, I know what we were talking about. And I’m sorry, you said, I think you asked me what was difficult, the difficulties that, know, when I, especially when I came here and it was different. And so I went off on many times and I’m gonna work my way back to that. So we talked about the uniforms and, my need to, you my training to fit in.
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And some of my memories, I’ll tell you, when we first, and I think every Soviet that left during that same period of time took the same route, because we didn’t just get in a plane and fly from the Soviet Union to America. This was kind of a difficult and laborious process that we went through.
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And I’ll take you through it because it was quite something, you know, not so much for me because I was young at that time and I just didn’t understand. It was difficult in terms of me being taken out of the only home that I ever knew, leaving everything I knew, language, culture, all of my friends behind. But for my parents, it was completely different situation, right? So my parents were adults and in the Soviet Union, we had no way of knowing what America was going to be like.
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I think that my father, you know, imagined what it would be like, but the images that we were shown in the Soviet Union, you know, it was homelessness, it was unemployment, it was chaos, it was protests, right? Because they wanted you to see the juxtaposition of this horrific capitalist bourgeoisie society to the order and the law abiding, you know, citizens and the employment and the apartment and the equality and…
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by equality, have misery for all that we had in the Soviet Union, right? So seeing those videos, and I remember, by the way, I remember seeing those going, oh my God, this is where we’re going, this is gonna be awful. I mean, it was basically like, they would show you like the depths of Detroit, you know, and this is America. And so my father knew that there was more to that. And he really operated on that. we didn’t know much more than that. I remember when I was little, I used to collect these postcards. We didn’t have any toys, we didn’t have a whole lot of anything.
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And so the one thing that was plenty of was like postcards, like greeting cards, things like that. And my entire building, like all these kids from my age, we would trade them. Like I’m sure you did with baseball cards and things like that. And I had one of the best collections of all time of these postcards. And I remember when my father finally told me that we were moving to America, which by the way, they had known for two or three years, my father had to leave his job. So he wasn’t associated. used to he used to build military ships.
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And he did lot of work. Well, obviously everybody did work for the government, but he did work for the military and things like that. And so if they had put him together with what he did, then he would have never been allowed out. So he had to quit his job. We could barely put food on the table. It was a really tough couple of years. And he was afraid to tell me because he was little. I was going to go tell other people. Nobody was supposed to know. So when he finally told me, I remember that I went and I traded my best postcards.
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like my most valuable ones because this kid had some like, wasn’t even a magazine. was like, I think it was like an ad from a grocery store. And one of the pictures, and I remember this, was there’s an image on the back of it and it was this woman who was taking the groceries out of a shopping cart. And there was like a stock boy helping her and she was taking the groceries, the bags, bags of groceries. I cannot emphasize this enough.
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because I’m gonna tell you what I mean by that, bags and bags of groceries. And she was putting them in the trunk of her own car. And there was a pineapple in there and I was like, dad, what is this? Because I’d never seen one before. And he was like, ah, this is pineapple. And I was bewildered on so many levels because groceries and car and a boy helping and a shopping cart, I’d never seen them. And that was one of the first images where I thought, wow, this might be okay. I think we could have food.
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but…
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It was a…
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It was interesting, you know, and then what happened was, so when we finally got going, our first stop was a place called Chook. And Chook was a border town. And we had, we and everybody who was integrating were in this train station in this border town. It was a military town. And I remember getting there as
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probably nine, 10 years old. I just saw it was chaos. Everybody was sleeping on the floor and just families just laid on the floor, you know, for days. And we were there, I think for two, I can’t remember exactly, it was two days, maybe three days, sleeping on the floor. And it was, my family consisted of my parents, me and my three grandparents. So was my father’s mother and father and my mom’s mom. And between the six of us,
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We had three suitcases. We weren’t allowed to take anything out, right? Because we didn’t own anything. Everything we owned belonged to the state. the government, yeah. To the state. So we weren’t allowed to do anything. And my mother had a tiny little diamond ring. And when I say tiny, I mean, this might have been a quarter of a carat of a diamond, right?
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And she, don’t know why they did this, everybody, if you ask any immigrant from the Soviet Union, they covered their diamonds in soap. I don’t know whether it was supposed to look fake or what it was. But I remember they, as we were going, when we finally went through this horrific process of being checked where they searched us and every third family was searched fully and we just happened to be in a third family. So they took us and I as a child and they searched me in ways I’m not even explained to you on camera.
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But the…
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They went through everything, right? And so they took away my postcards, my bag of postcards, because they thought that maybe there’s some secrets. And that was the most meaningful thing I had. was like, you know, taking away a kid’s teddy bear. My father, my father was, he’s a PhD in welding engineering. He’s quite renowned in that world, or he was when he was working, he’s retired now. And my father has,
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I don’t even know how many patents to his name. brilliant. He’s made a lot of inventions and he would always write. My mother used to call it tic-tac-toe because he’d have all these little pieces of paper when he would write down his formulas and nobody knew what it was except him. And of course he had one of those in his pockets, which was a terrible thing. that was one of the reasons that we were chosen as one of the families that they searched because they took it out of his pocket and they thought it was some code. He was taking out like, you know, who knows what they thought.
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And he was terrorized by this because they almost, he thought that they weren’t gonna let us through. And if they hadn’t let us through, you understand that our lives would be over because we were already, we were traitors. We betrayed the motherland by leaving. So our lives would be completely over if they did not let us leave. So imagine his fear, and I’ve never seen my father in fear ever in my life. And I remember looking at him.
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and the fear in his eyes because he thought that that was it and he had ruined his entire family and our lives. And so, so we went through this process, this awful process that again is forever ingrained in my head. And we finally got on this train, which I remember vividly, was this green train and I remember getting on this train and kind of…
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looking outside as it took off and thinking to myself and I was crying. I think it was the first time I cried about it because I just thought, good Lord, this is the last time that I ever see this home. My friends, I will never see them again. That’s it. And I didn’t know, I had no idea what we’re going. I had no idea what was in store. you know, I finally went back into kind of our little compartment that we had.
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was like little sleeping compartment. And I remember, I fell asleep like I was sleeping on my father. And I remember being woken up, the train had stopped. And it had stopped on the border. And on the border, all this military police with dogs ordered the train and started searching the compartments. And I remember my father grabbing me and I remember his hands shaking.
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because, and he told me later that he was sure that they were going to kill us. He thought that was it, that they thought this, he thought this was a process that they were going to kill us all at that moment. And he grabbed me and his hands were shaking. And I remember this military police just coming into our compartment and with the dog that was barking teeth. And I just remember just being terrorized, right? Cause that was the last thing that they could do to terrorize us all before we left.
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And then it was just quiet, right? It was a sphere and then it was just quiet. And we arrived, our first stop was in Austria. And we arrived in Austria and I remember getting off the train, it was just so completely different from anything that I’d seen with all these uniformed buildings that every, all the clothes that people wore were gray and drab and everybody kind of looked the same. And everything was different. The buildings were different. Everything was colorful. People were different, speaking a different language. And one of the most,
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profound memories I have from being in Austria was going to the grocery store with my mother for the first time where she, this is gonna make you cry, she just broke into tears. She was hysterical when she went to the grocery store because she’d never seen anything like it in her life. And she had to leave because she just, she couldn’t contain herself. Yeah. Well, that abundance was so overwhelming for her. It was so
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overwhelming and it was so much and I think it was also just this realization.
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spending her entire life in this misery, in this country where there was nothing, and seeing what was on the other side. And that was, I think, that was one of these memories that really kind of, it had such an impact on me, right? Because that’s what I think about when I see these idiots, right? Who are pushing this ideology.
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without having any understanding what it is in practice because their professor taught them something ridiculous. And they have no understanding that there are theories and then there is reality. And the two don’t necessarily go hand in hand. And I always laugh because I think I would love to see these people without their wallets being sent off to Cuba for like a year.
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or China and really living not as tourists, you know, listen, every, all the, you know, because most of them are so privileged, right? And the reason they believe this bullshit is because they have this innate guilt about being born into privilege. And somebody taught them that this was instead of thing, Oh my God, I am a member of the lucky sperm club. You know, they’re saying, Oh, I’m so guilty. I should, know, but in their guilt, they’re not giving away their money.
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They want you to give away yours. So they want this equality because they think that this, not even equality, I’m sorry, equity, right? They think that equity is going to bring everybody up to their level instead of the opposite because we’re all in equity. We don’t lift anybody up. We actually have to go down to the lowest common denominator. And that’s what you see in every single communist country that ever was.
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There is no rise in standard of living. There is an incredible downfall in the standard of living. the only, and listen, capitalism is not ideal, but it is the only ideology that actually helps raise the standard of living for everyone. And that’s what these people just don’t see because…
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They don’t have enough experience. They don’t have enough brain cells. They’ve been brainwashed. I know what it is, but we have had so many years of examples all across the world. Exactly. And you show me one that hasn’t ended in death and misery and lack of hope. There is it. Yeah. Anybody that tries to point out combination is that you can ask them, show me one where they’ve. Well, you know what they’re going to say to you.
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You know, they didn’t do it correctly. Sure. We’ll do it But I’m sure these people are going to do it differently. Yeah. And it’s all these shades of gray. I’ll ask you, why is it that we see this happen so much in academia? Why do we see that as the sort of the breeding grounds? Oh, that’s such an easy question. What most people don’t understand is what they’re seeing now is the fruit of the labor that was put into the
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into all the Western countries by the Soviet Union back starting probably after World War II. They flooded our universities with their own people. They flooded our universities with, in Hollywood, the media, with communists, communist sympathizers. So how are we surprised? I think it was Khrushchev that said, listen, can’t expect Americans to
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become communists overnight. So if you could join piece by piece, right? Piece by piece by piece in little ways. they’re, you know, they, I gotta give them credit. They played the long game brilliantly and where the Soviet Union stopped trying to pick up. So, yeah. I, uh, I thought it’s fascinating that people can’t understand.
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They, they, they, because what happens is communism takes out the human element, right? And I think what happens is they think that giving, we’re too greedy as individuals and we can’t be trusted. So we’re going to give our power away to the government, which is not greedy and not worried about their own, you know, individual self interests. instead of.
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all of us being self-interested and concerned about ourselves and our families and working to improve our lives, we’re going to allow the government and the people in the government who are obviously not greedy, who are not self-interested, who are only working for the people to dictate our lives and take all that control out.
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So I don’t know, I gotta tell you, I never thought that the plague that we escaped would follow us here across an ocean. But here we are. And it’s not just the red plague, is it? It’s also the green plague. Which are now cohorts together in the most unholy matrimony.
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The truth is totalitarianism by any other name is still totalitarianism. And, you know, they might be friends today because their goal, right? have a mutual enemy. Absolutely. The enemy of my enemy is my friend. And that is the destruction of the West and individual values and all those principles that make us amazing and free. Right. They’re going to have their own war, you know, when, when, when the West falls. And I say when, because I have to tell you.
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It’s a pessimistic view, but it’s also a realistic view because I don’t see us. There are too many bread. We have too much bread and circuses. Right. If you know what I mean. I absolutely do. I don’t see us getting our muskets and engaging in a revolution. We are no longer those people. We’re watching TV. We’ve got our headsets on with the, you know, AI and virtual reality, this and that.
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Kids are sitting in their mother’s basement playing video games all day. We don’t have the mental capacity, I think, to fight. it’s really, when I look at, you maybe our generations do still. But when I look at the younger generations, where are the men? Where are they? I agree. It’s funny, I’ll just give you funny juxtaposition. I live right outside of New York City, and I go into the city quite a bit, and you walk around the city.
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And you ask yourself, where are the men? Because nobody even looks masculine anymore. Like truly. And I was in Las Vegas a couple years ago and they had some kind of like Western rodeo event, which I’ve never personally seen in my life. It was really like a novelty, but I have to tell you, like that’s the first time I actually saw manly looking men anywhere in the United States.
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So there’s this incredible feminization going on. And from a nutrition standpoint, mean, all the chemicals and all the toxins are exposed to the food and everything. That has a great deal to do with it, but also in the mind, right? Also emotionally where now men are like, oh, you should cry. You should let it out, which, you know, listen, you should absolutely do that, but not at the expense of being a man. We need men.
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we really need men. And all the men have been told we don’t, oh, all the women, we don’t need men. we can, no, no, we need men. These women are idiots. And that’s why they’re so unhappy in their lives because their cats are not going to do it for them. I can promise you that. And this, this idea that this masculine, toxic masculinity that men need to be more feminine,
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in nature and in their nature and their demeanor, um It’s it’s doing a number on our society And it’s because we’ve allowed ourselves this luxury of bleeding this philosophical bullshit I guarantee go ahead and i’m so sorry to interrupt you but it’s What you said is absolutely correct the luxury because I can promise you that people poor people Who are worried about putting?
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food on the table, they’re not worried about Maslow’s hierarchy of needs, right? They’re not worried about self-actualization and philosophy and what gender am I today? Okay, they’re not worried about anything, right? That is the privileged class that is worried about philosophy and this ideology and oppressor, oppressed narrative and gender ideology. All of this bullshit is coming out from the privileged sector.
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not the people who are working their butts off. Right? That’s it. The privileged sector are the ones that want to take your guns because they already have somebody that is armed that will protect them. again is the privileged sector. It’s same class. And when the chips are down and there’s barbarians at the gate, I guarantee you want a toxic masculine man that will pick up a weapon and do what needs to be done because you’re not going to be doing, you won’t have the capacity to do it. They don’t even have the middle bandwidth to understand what violence looks like. And because they haven’t,
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They had this ideology in their mind that, well, if I’m a pacifist, I’ve never met a pacifist in my life. I’ve met cowards. But if anybody has ever attacked, I guarantee you the human instinct is what? Protect yourself. There’s always a defensive wound somewhere, whether it be with a bullet or with a blade. And if you’re not willing to at least look at that potential of you to defend yourself or someone you love, then you’re already deciding to capitulate. And I have to tell you, I think that many of
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not us, them, have. And here’s how you see it. And here’s how you see it. Oh, they’re going to defend themselves, for sure. Because that’s just, I think that’s an innate human response. I don’t think could be, unless you’re mentally ill, it cannot be taken out of that. And I think there’s a lot of that going on, by the way. That’s another conversation. But what I’m going with that is a man doesn’t just protect himself. A real man protects himself.
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his family, his loved ones, and probably those who can’t protect themselves, even if he doesn’t really know them, right? And you can see now what’s happening, how these people, look at, his name just flew out of my head, the guy in New York, right, who was on the subway. Right, who took the guy down, yes. That’s exactly right, who’s protecting the woman and her child that he was, this lunatic was threatening. And look at what they did, right? Here’s one man in New York.
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who actually did what he was supposed to do. And look at what they did to him. So tell me, because this was all over the news everywhere, what did the children learn from this experience? you can’t, you know, have people being beaten up on the street. I’ll tell you another funny story. So I lived in this area. My family and I moved out of the city and we lived in this very liberal area, highly liberal. Like we had to actually move out of there because it was off the charts. And I was of course the pariah because I…
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I don’t know how to shut up about my beliefs and I won’t honestly like I always say my parents did not risk everything in their lives for me to come here and stand in line or be quiet. So I went to the nail salon and by the way, this is this whole crowd where they are like, you know, running around with their, you know, no bullying signs and oh, no bullying bullying is so bad. I was sitting in this nail salon and there’s little park.
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right outside. And I’m getting my nails done and I’m sitting with all these women, right, from the neighborhood, who I’m sure carry the no bullying signs at some point in their lives. And there is a little black kid who is being terrorized by a bunch of like bigger black kids, like real bullies, right? And I’m hearing the screaming, I’m kind of, the door was open, I’m kind of listening to this and all these women just sitting there. And I was the one that finally got up.
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And I like, I’m going to go and I yelled at them and I said, I’m going to call, you know, you better leave them alone. I’m going call the police. I was the only person, by the way, I’ve never had no bullying sign in my life. Okay. Because this may be an unpopular opinion, but I a little bullying is actually good for the soul. It absolutely is. I can expand on that later, but I was floored that not one of them had the balls, moral clarity to get up.
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and say something because they’re like three or four of them against this little kid. Right? So, but this is, this is an example of virtue bullshit, right? And why I say virtue bullshit, because it’s all words. It’s not backed by any action. None of these people are going to get up and do anything about it. They’re just going to hold up a slogan. They’re going to hold up a sign and that’s where their activism ends. They’ve got no skin in the game. No, it’s
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You mentioned that idea about communism and theories. Theorists and realists are different because a theorist believes that theory is reality. A realist knows that theory is not. It is not reality. The way you conduct yourself in the face of adversity is an indication of how you would do everything else in your life. And the reason why you had the wherewithal to do that was because you had to stand up, because you had to go through adversity to become conditioned. One, to recognize it, and two, to realize if I sit here, I am just as complicit as everybody else. I’m just like that bully out there because I’m allowing it to continue.
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and your fingers in your ears and acting like it’s not there, you’re just as bad as everybody else. You know, I think we all have a moment, and some of us don’t, and maybe that’s the problem. I think, and this is where the bullying thing comes in, I think we all have a moment in time where we have an epiphany, right? It’s a defining moment in our lives. Sometimes we know it, sometimes we don’t, but it changes the way that we think about our life, our position in the world, and the world itself, right? And it changes you fundamentally. And I can point.
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to what it was for me, because if you remember when we started this conversation, I talked about the fact that when I first came here, because of my training and everything else, and I just wanted to be, I wanted to be invisible, I wanted to be just like the others, you know? I didn’t wanna stand out in any way, I didn’t wanna cause any problems, I didn’t stand up for myself, I just wanted people to like me, that’s it, I just wanted to be liked, which is funny for anybody who knows me today, it’s so the opposite of who I am.
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this is what happened. remember there were kids in school who were mean to me. I remember being called, my nickname was Scummy Commie because I was from the Soviet Union and my parents didn’t have any money. So had like one pair of jeans, two shirts that I kept wearing over and over again. And I had no idea that in America you had to change every day. But I I kind of smiled and I just I try to make nice. I never ever
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confronted anybody, I never did anything. And then I think I was about 16 years old. And I remember I had a best friend who, and this is so irrelevant to the story, but not the point of the story. I had this best friend and she was dating this horrible guy. And I remember he cheated on her and I told her because I was her friend. And I was like, look at what he’s doing. And he cornered me one day when we were all in this big group together. And he said, come here, I wanna talk to you.
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And he took me outside and there was a payphone because we had those back then. And he grabbed me by the neck and he almost lifted me off my feet. And he said, if you ever say anything about me to anyone again, I will fucking beat the shit out of you. And I remember, you know, I think I had like a bruise on my neck. I remember like the physical pain of it was nothing compared to the humiliation that I felt.
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And there were some people nearby, they saw what was happening, nobody stood up for me. And I was all alone in this. And that moment, I remember when he left and I kind of put my tail between my legs and I went the opposite way because I couldn’t face anybody. I remember thinking to myself.
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That is the last time that anyone disrespects me ever again, ever. And that was a defining moment for me, truly, because I lived that. And I can tell you that I never allowed it to happen again, not to me and not to anyone else that I was around. So I’m happy. And that’s, that’s the bullying part, right? Because I think that if that had never happened,
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I would probably still be this person who needed others’ approval and needed to be liked. I just don’t feel that at all. At this point, my motto is I much prefer to be loved and loathed than to be felt ambivalently about. Because what that means is I stand for something. If everybody likes you a little bit, you stand for nothing.
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There’s no meaning there in your personality. There’s no character. No, I’ve been attacked by both sides that I wasn’t too much of whatever it was. And I’ve realized that the minute that you stand up and say something that you believe in, people want to take the other side of it. Well, you didn’t say about this or you didn’t say that you didn’t agree with that. It’s like, I don’t need to. I’m not here trying to make this this proclamation. I’m just standing up with my actions, right?
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It’s funny that you say that, right? Because we’re going to take that back to politics for a second. Let’s look at the two parties, right? Whether you’re on one side or the other, you have people kind of falling into this bucket. what’s really dangerous about this is that they adopt every single tenant of that philosophy. That ideology, yes. And so I say, whatever side of the aisle you’re on,
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If you are, you go down a list of their beliefs, if you have checked off every single box, that’s not your ideology. You’re not even thinking for yourself because there’s no freaking way that an individual, that a thinking human is going to be able to agree with every single thing on the list, right? You’re going to say, okay, I agree with 80 % of it, but I don’t agree with this, that, the other. And if you don’t, if I say,
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I’m a conservative, but I don’t believe this or if I don’t believe that. Then I have my own people coming for the jugular because, oh, how can you not believe that? Then you’re not a real conservative. Who are you to tell me what I am and I am not?
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People don’t even know what they are. How dare they try to put have no idea what they are. They’re not thinking. They’re just agreeing. They’re listening to and I find this a lot because of my platform. It’s interesting because I read, I try to read. There will come a day when I will not read all the comments. I’m struggling to do it now. But I probably shouldn’t read all the comments because it does make my blood boil. And now I’m actually better at it because I don’t respond to it.
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everybody, which before I felt the need to prove my position. I’m kind of like, right. But I’ll tell you what’s interesting about this is that there are these keywords, right? There are these sound bites that people hear. And I know all of them now because they all repeat them. And whether it’s the right or the left, right, arguing with me about some point or whatever, they only use those same soundbites.
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And I just find this amazing because clearly these are not your thoughts. These are not any of these people’s original thinking. They heard someone say these things and now they’re parroting them back as if they’re fact, as if they’re not somebody’s opinion who may or may not even be educated on the topic. So this is where we are today because of this proliferation of social media and now everybody’s an expert in everything, even though they have no clue what is
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really going on in the world. You have these pseudo-intellectuals or pretending to be intellectuals or pseudo-influencers, name that I really can’t stand. I hate the word. It makes my like, odyssey just, it gives me the ick. These influence, and that’s why I use it, as far as these influencers who are using that platform to spread bullshit because they have no idea.
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And then you have these other people who look to them and they’re like, oh, yes, because this person has, you know, a million followers, they must be correct.
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Yeah. And I think that’s very dangerous today. It’s dangerous and we see that. What do we see if you so as you were mentioning, let’s say you have a person that’s saying something that’s unhinged in a comment and you were to sit down with them and you were to talk to them and unpack, you know, this besides the emotion, emotions assassinate the truth. So they’re that gets them really worked up. And then they want to try to say this thing. They regurgitate this quote, this mockingbird kind of mentality.
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And that if you ask questions and unpack it and try to understand where they’re coming from, they will double down. They will have this cognitive dissonance. They will have this confirmation bias and they will lean into that because to them, they would rather have the comfort of the familiar, even if it’s incorrect, even though you’ve shown them all the data, even though you have experience. I think that your false assumption, and by the way, I suffered from the same false assumption for many years and I’ll tell you why. You’re assuming.
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that these people have the capacity for one, civil debate, logical thoughts, the ability, self-awareness, the ability to process contradicting information and to actually conclude that they may not be right. So I always thought, right, in…
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in my world, growing up with my father, we would have debates all the time. And my father really trained me to think logically. To some degree, I’m like Mr. Spock sometimes. I’m a very unusual woman where my emotions take a backseat sometimes to logical thought. Because I think that as humans, we are gifted with that ability. That’s what sets us apart from
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animals. Unfortunately, not all humans have this ability. And I always thought that whenever you sit down with an intelligent person, sit down with, argue on Facebook, because I’ll tell you, I did a lot of that. I mean, I used to write dissertations on Facebook. And that’s what really taught me because I always thought that if you have more information, wisdom, a better argument, then if you have two intelligent people sitting across from each other, the one with a better argument, better
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facts is going to win. And the other one’s going to say, you know what, either you’re right or you know what, I didn’t think of it that way. Let me take that away and think about it. Right. Cause that’s, that was my impression of what an intelligent person would do. So I would have these, you know, discussions with people. I would write these dissertations, what I would research the crowd. mean, literally they were like term papers. I would write out Facebook and they would come back at me and they’d say, fuck you racist.
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And that’s about the time that I started moving over to Instagram because I was like, oh my gosh, the world is really not how I see it. There’s really not that many intelligent people in this world. And most people just stand in their comfort and they cannot, they cannot be challenged. They feel so much discomfort when they are not, when their philosophy is challenged, or ideology is challenged, when their thinking is challenged.
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that they can’t be in that space. And so they’re just going to show you the finger and run off with their tail between their legs, thinking that they won the argument. Right. And then they’ll continue to find other people that will corroborate that belief. 100%. Confirmation bias, All day. They’ll seek that out. We also see, as you were talking about the human being, there’s a lot to this person, right? So if they’re sleep deprived or if they’re distracted by this misery device that we call a cell phone,
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or if their diet is jacked up or if they can’t process because they have all this hormonal imbalance because of the way that they are not going out, being physically active, not trying to get vitamin D, any of these things. All those things have this component. Are you familiar with the hungry drug bias? With the what? It’s called the hungry judge. And they talk about how the- I’ve never heard of this. So the bias is that a judge in the morning will eat. So they have stable blood sugar and they’ll go through their entire docket.
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And they will sentence in a more lenient manner until around 1030, 11 noon, when their blood sugar begins to drop, cognitive fatigue kicks in. Then they have lunch. They’ve had the break. They’ve gotten away. They’ve gotten a nice amount of carbohydrates and fats in their body. And now all of sudden they can go through the rest of the time so that they were seeing how that they would actually give less lenient judgments to people as their blood sugar and the fatigue.
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was decreasing or increasing. And so I assume that every person that I’m even driving, I assume that that person is distracted in some capacity. I assume that they are an angry judge in some capacity. I also assume that they probably are sleep-dep or anything else is going on. So instead of trying to make this person understand that they’re wrong or hank on my horn, I just step back, I give them a wide berth. I just let off the accelerator, let them do what they’re gonna do.
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because I do not want to be collateral damage to their incompetence, whether it be intentional or unintentional. And if we understand that about people online, like you said, the people that are just throwing the malt off cocktail at us to try to get some sort of emotive response, right? Well, don’t forget also that online there’s two other things at play. First of you don’t even know if it’s a human or a bot. Exactly. Number one. And number two, if it is a human, they are sitting behind the veil. Exactly. Of a screen, right?
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The things that people say to you are nothing that they would ever say in person. The derogatory remarks that I get on my appearance constantly. Because it’s so funny, they don’t attack, I don’t find that people attack men on their appearance. The one remark that’s constant for me is something about my appearance. I’m wearing too much makeup. My…
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plastic surgeon has gone wrong. I have my hair is too, like it just goes on and on and on. Like, oh my God, yeah, absolutely. So those are the comments that, so they attack me, know, physically rather than attack my ideas or my ideology or my philosophy, you know, they know that, you know, maybe I don’t know if they know, but, maybe that’s just a modus operandi, but that’s what they go for because they think that that’s going to impact a woman maybe more than I know, maybe it’s misogyny. don’t know what it is, but the things that people say,
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whether it’s my appearance or my argument, whatever it is, is incredible. The venom, because again, never in a million years would these people look at me in the face and say these things, right? So it’s a very different situation because people feel free to be able to attack others, you know, in ways that they would never do interpersonally. Yeah. And there’s also this Hawthorne law that states that that which is observed has changed by observation. So as you say,
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If people were having this conversation instead of online where everybody can see or comment, anybody that has a wifi has opinion now. If that were the case and you were to sit them down in a room, they wouldn’t be doing that. But, but again, a lot of the people that are propped up by an ideology or like you were talking about the influencer bullshit, they are, it’s in their best interest, right? They’re trying to tow this line because it helps them either an influencer or money or both. And usually one because the other. So of course they’re going to tow that party line. Of course you’re going to stay in this.
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fight even when they’re wrong. And it’s sad to see that because as you’re saying, if we assume that this person is intelligent, this person is rational, that I can talk them off this ledge or explain to them why they’re incorrect. And then they come back with, know, oh, you’re a communist or you’re a racist or you’re a bigot or whatever it is. Like you said, it’s a waste of cognitive capacity. think the mistake that we’ve been making is assuming that people are intelligent. I just read, I just read this statistic that blew my mind. I think it was like six months ago.
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The average IQ in the United States is 98. Yeah, it’s it’s 98. Yes, in the toilet. And that’s the average IQ, which means that half of the population is below that. And the attention span also, it used to be an insult to say you had the attention span of a goldfish, which was eight seconds. And now it’s a compliment if you were to say that because it’s so funny that you say that because my daughter watches all these TikTok videos and I look at these TikTok videos and so
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the screen is cut in two and there’s a person talking and on the bottom there’s like a cartoon or a person. So how could we be alert to anything where we can’t even focus on somebody saying a word for a minute without some other, you know, something else going on on the screen? Yeah, some other, exactly. It said in advertising, you were talking about how based on what the demographic is, they will do advertising in that capacity. as you’re saying,
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younger demographic, you better have titillation, better have change, better have noise, flashing lights or whatever. But if you have an older demographic, you’ll just have the very slow pan to try to bring them into, you know, your insurance or whatever you try to sell. Look at the movies, right? Look at a movie from the 80s or even the 90s. It is a completely different pace than movies today. Right? People actually have a dialogue for a while, right? Today, it’s like
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how, food, like all this stuff going on on screen, can barely keep up, right? Because it’s that TikTok generation, right? Because we need, if it’s longer than six seconds, five seconds, people lose focus. I don’t have time for it. And now with AI and everything else, people are not going to be able to write. And if you can’t write, you can’t think. You can’t articulate a thought. You can’t have a thought, right?
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And by the way, in order to have a thought, you actually have to have a conversation. How many people are having conversations anymore, not texts that, you know, abbreviated into little, you know, acronyms, right? You can’t have a conversation. You can’t have an original because by the way, you have to, you know, to have a thought, you actually have to stop for a minute. If you your phone down, right? How often do these kids do that anymore?
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It’s easier to just give an opinion or judge than to have a thought. Give an opinion, read an opinion, then use it your own. In the same exact words. Yeah. It’s rampant. And though we see that this is something that is negative, I believe that that gives people to have an authentic voice, to have the capacity to critically think. The people that can even unpack a Socratic method in an environment like this, it gives them a huge advantage. It gives them a tremendous capacity.
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to do well in whatever they’re doing or to help people or they can even dominate a market with it if they’re willing to be aware of where the advantages and disadvantages of that lie. But again, if we’re assuming that AI is gonna do that for us, what is it? We have more connectivity than ever, but less connection. We have more information out there, but less like knowledge and wisdom. We claim that we want all these things, but yet if we have to do anything that is even remotely inconvenient, I don’t wanna do
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Absolutely. Yeah. 100 % because we have been, you know, and this is really a parenting fail. know, I joke often. And, know, in, in, Russian, there’s a saying that every joke is only half joke. Right? There’s a lot of truth in it. There’s a lot of truth in it. So I can tell you that I joke often, you know, I, you know, my, my, daughter will say, well, you know, do you like this friend?
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And I’m like, yeah, I really like her. You know why? Because I know that her mother beats her too. So. So I have to tell you, you know, what did we grow up with? Like I, mean, I got the belt. I’m not saying that’s the right thing, but there were several times that I got the belt. And guess what? And I got spanked when I was a kid. And guess what? I learned what not to do. Right.
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I learned how to behave in public. didn’t run around restaurants. I mean, not that we have restaurants, but we had, know, we’d go to other people’s homes. The kids, what was I saying? Steen, not hurt, right? We were taught how to behave in polite society. We were taught manners. We were taught to think, but not defy our parents, To respect.
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authority to some degree. And today, there’s no parenting going on, right? There’s zero parenting going on. I see these parents and they want to be they want to be cool because their own self-esteem is so low. Yes. That they find it more important to be liked by their children than to actually give their children what they need. And that is parenting discipline. They want to be their friends. They want to be their friends. They want to be liked. They want to be cool.
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And so that shows because and this is the worst thing that you can do for your children because they’re going to grow up to be insufferable adults. And if they are in sufferable adults, guess what? We see them in protest all the time, right? With the green hair and the cats and these, you know, tattoos here and there everywhere and their need to conform to some group, which may be horrific because
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they’re not going to have a sense of who they are or a goal to improve because that’s what the parents always say. Oh, you’re the best. Everything that they do is so great. So they go out into the world thinking they really are, you know, philosophers and, and Intel intellectual giants and nobody can compare to them. Right. And so that’s one of the reasons that you see these people online, you know, pontificating on complete bullshit. Right.
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And they have no idea. mean, the Dunning-Kruger effect is real. I just remember as a young man for me doing martial arts, I started doing martial arts, traditional martial arts when I was 11. And it was very much about this idea of you’re doing pushups on your knuckles. There was always a repercussion. And like you’re talking about, we need to have very bright boundaries for people because if they grow up in an environment where everything is good and everything they do is incredible, then it sets them up for failure when the real world punches them in the face with some adversity.
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And then they had the audacity to be surprised and then they’re upset because they can’t find a job. So what’s happened instead of looking at the system that set them up to fail, they look at the world and say, well, this isn’t fair. so then all of a sudden anything, I’m going to flip that instead of looking internally and saying, I am probably not doing this right. Right. They are looking at the world and saying,
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The world has failed me. It’s this person’s fault. It’s capitalism’s fault. It’s the Jews. It’s the Republicans. My parents. My parents, right? I want to take, actually, what you just said, I want to take that back to the first story that I told you, right? When they asked me, when my teacher asked me in first grade, if you had the choice between your parents and Lenin, which would you choose? And the reason I want to bring that back is because today, and I think I was trying to touch on that earlier, but I think we went off on a tangent and I forgot.
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Today, we are seeing this incredible divide between families, between friends that we’ve never seen in this country before. Because I remember it’s, I’m enough to remember a time when people could have differences and just disagree. I could debate with other people and leave as friends, but not anymore. And this is exactly what I was going to say when I said, remember when I lost my track of thought and I said Obama, it started with Obama, so I’m going to bring myself back here.
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And so this really started with Obama, right? Because all these socialists crawled in the woodwork and so started sowing division between us. And not just division, because they’ve been trying to do that for decades and decades, right? Because that’s what ignites change, right? The friction between groups. that’s their, know, they can’t wait for that to happen. That’s their utopia to have everybody at each other’s throats, because that’s how they can come in and take control of everything. So…
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But today, I find the similarity is astounding and it’s terrifying to me that children are giving up their families for their ideology. I don’t want to go have things getting with my parents because my parents voted for Trump. They can’t have a conversation with their parents. They exclude everybody out of their life that does not fit into whatever mold of ideology they have selected for themselves. That week.
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Exactly, because it’s fluid, right? It’s fluid. Clearly. So using their terminal. Anyway, the bottom line is this is a very dangerous place to be because now we can no longer get along this society. We can’t have intelligent civil debates or conversations, right? We are now at each other’s throats. And now we’re getting into even more dangerous territory because not only are we going to defriend you, exclude you,
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You know whatever cancel you but now we’re gonna kill you right? So now you have the United CEO that this entire group, you know The United Health Care CEO who was murdered and cold blood and now you’ve got this entire group of people celebrating the murder of a man Okay, so maybe you don’t agree with him. Maybe he was a bad man, but Where’s the morality? You have this couple that was just
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gunned down in front of a Jewish museum in Washington DC in daylight and because they are Jewish and one of them wasn’t even Jewish, their killer is being celebrated. We are getting into very dangerous territory because we’ve gone from, okay, you know, I agree to disagree, which I don’t really like that terminology either, to be honest with you. We’ve gone from agree to disagree to, I don’t want be friends with you anymore, to you’re
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You know, you’re no longer my father. I don’t want to have anything to do with my family anymore, too. It’s OK to kill you if you do not subscribe to my ideology. And that is exactly the trajectory that we’re on. And. It’s it’s pretty scary because there’s no coming back from that. These these people do not have a strong sense of morality. They don’t understand what is right and what is wrong. They’re universal. They’re they’re they’re. Listen, we might have.
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disagree on what color you like or what food you might like or even politics. But there are certain morals that should be universal. Thou should not kill. Thou shall not steal. And we’ve moved away from that tremendously. And by the way, the more secular the society becomes, the easier it is to discard morality and
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What’s that saying that I really like? If you don’t believe in something, you’ll fall for anything. Absolutely. And back to what you were saying, you and I can have a civil debate and we can disagree venomously about something, but we can still respect each other. you were saying with family, we’re seeing now as you’re saying, and I’m, I am seeing exactly what you’re talking about with people that are being cut off by their kids because of
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who they voted for. It’s so tragic, honestly. Well, and I also see that I had a psychologist on here recently. She was talking about how somebody disagreeing with you is not trauma. Somebody voting the way you didn’t vote is not trauma. pointing out. is not violence. Right. None of these things are violence. But yet if you were so delicate that any of that stuff is going to crush you, then how in the world are you going to survive? go ahead. How can you not be delicate? When you were raised.
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by people who are the best thing since I spread and you could do no wrong. So that’s why these people need safe spaces and know, counselors and you know, trauma and words are violence because they’ve never been you. They’ve never heard the word. No, nobody’s ever critiqued them. I have, you know, I have friends who are professors at universities and I have friends who are, you know, who, who are CEOs and do a lot of hiring and you know, an HR and they’re all saying like,
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I can’t even grade my students’ papers anymore. Like, can’t critique people because they break down. And so where is the root of this issue in the home? Absolutely. In the home. And to these young people that are wanting to cut off their parents or their families, they’re doing that now because there’s convenience. They have some friends around them that believe similarly. But there will eventually come a time when you need help, when you’re in the shit.
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Those friends are not going to help you. Those friends will not have the capacity or the bandwidth or the finance or the interest. Because you will know. There are very few people in your life, no matter how popular you think you are. There are very few people in your life who, if any, who will really go to bat for you like your family will. That’s it. Right. And that’s what they don’t understand. Well, they don’t. And then when they are in that situation and then they do come back asking for help, it’s like, well,
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This is a relationship is we both give. We both are part of it. This is not a situation where you just come and knock on the door when you’re in trouble or when exactly what we thought would happen happens. And I know that there’s a lot going on there and there’s a lot of dynamics, but at the same time, that’s the beauty of adversity because it strips away all the bullshit. It gets down to who and what is really happening. And it makes you take a good, hard look at yourself, all the imperfections, warts and all, and it makes you
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figure out that’s where you are. And from there you get to decide, I going to take some sort of accountability in my life and change? Or am I going to just try to put my head in the sand again and hope that this will pass? To be honest with you, I can make a universal statement and I can say that the best, the wisest and most interesting people I’ve ever known are the most, the ones who are most damaged in our lives. Because
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That is what builds character. You know, it’s funny. Like I remember when my daughter was little and one of my friends came over and she brought me this book, you for her birthday or something. And it was like, you know, this, this how great you are. This will build your child’s confidence kind of thing. And it’s like, I’m so great and I can count to 10. I’m perfect. And, you know, I was like, what is this bullshit? You know, this is not what builds confidence. You think like
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How easy would it be if you could just repeat 20 times to someone like, oh my God, you’re amazing, you’re smart, you’re beautiful. No, people don’t believe that. That’s not what builds confidence and character. You know what does that? Being able to overcome challenges, adversity, difficulty, that’s what builds confidence, right? Not to mention neural pathways in your brain, which make you smarter and being more adaptable to and flexible to different things that go on around you.
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But that’s what builds confidence. And I think this is one of the biggest errors. And this is why we have this crisis in this country, right? Where people have no idea who they are because they’ve never faced anything. That’s why like, oh my God, you’ve misgendered me. I am going to jump out the window. Really? Really? This is what’s going to make you jump out the window? But that’s why. Because they have zero ability.
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to handle anything other than you’re perfect, you’re great. Oh my gosh. I love your hair color. It’s also, this is, you’re going to laugh at this. When you have these- I laugh at everything by the I was going to say, I do too. When you’ve, when you’ve died, everything’s funny. So you have this far leaning left that are threatening violence. That to me is hilarious because it’s like, wait a minute, you guys don’t even understand what violence is. You’ve never been in a fight. You’ve never picked up a weapon. You don’t even understand-
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You know, while I agree with you in theory, I was going to say, but because these people are so stupid and inexperienced and they really just don’t understand. They don’t even understand the consequences of their own actions because they can’t think that far. They may be some of the most dangerous people at all. As we’ve seen, you know, with the United CEO and United healthcare CEO and this attacking Teslas and everything else. That’s correct.
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Because they can’t, they’re so stupid that they can’t even think like, oh, this Tesla’s covered in cameras, my face is gonna be all over the place. I can’t even purport to pretend that I understand what goes on in their head. My guess is not a whole lot. But the dumber they are, the worst thing that you can do, correct, the worst thing you can do is discount how dangerous stupidity can be.
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They were saying how the reason why Hitler was able to invade Russia was because they were like, there’s no way that this person intelligently will try to fight a war on two fronts. That doesn’t make any sense whatsoever. And so when he would start putting troops on the border and Russians are coming back and saying, we’ve got intel, he’s right here. They’re like, always bluffing, always trying to hide something else. There’s no way he would do it. And then as it happens, it’s like, are you kidding me? So again, thinking that somebody
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has the intelligence to know better can be pretty dangerous. Hitler wasn’t stupid. He just never played risk. He didn’t know not to go into Russia in the winter time. Well, and neither did Napoleon. Napoleon thought he had the idea, and Hitler’s like, I have an idea. Now it’s the same idea. Same idea. This winter’s brutal. We’re all going to die. Exactly right. So it’s crazy how, and this is the other part, I’m 53, so I’m not a young guy. So I’ve lived long enough to where I’ve seen
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these parts of communism and they’ll try to use different ideologies or they use different semantics of what the philosophy is. Again, that quote of they’ll feed it to us little by little because I remember reading that. Progressiveism. Progressive. I apologize for fusing. it’s so progressive. That’s it. It’s so progressive. And that shows that I’m enlightened because I’m progressive and I’m trying to have this idea. Bullshit. So yeah, I remember how they would come through and
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That piece by piece comment, remember them feeding that to us slowly, this indoctrination, and it would just kind of catch us. These shades of gray, these small steps towards this ideology, this progressivism. And I remember how there’s no way that could possibly happen in the United States. I remember thinking of that as a young man and then seeing how it would continually get propagated. And then, like you said, because I remember I was actually in the military when Obama was the commander in chief. He was my boss.
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And I remember hearing those words about people that were just very happy to talk about socialism and communism and how they were proud out of it. I, I thought it was a joke. was like, are they, is this like just something that they’re saying like from an ideological standpoint, but to actually put it into a political arena, but then to see how that was literally what was informing the politic, informing the way they were doing so many of these things. It made me sick to my stomach.
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I think that the biggest vulnerability that America had, that the Soviet Union and the communists took advantage of, is exactly what you said. The inability to believe that anything like that could happen here. And yet here we are. And I’m sure you’re familiar with Yuri Bismanov. Yes. Yes. So Yuri Bismanov, for your audience who are not familiar, was a high ranking KGB agent.
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in the 70s who ran away from Russia and he came to the United States and in the early 80s he gave a series of interviews where he literally gave us the strategy, the Soviet strategy to subvert America and the West. And people laughed at it. They’re like, oh, this could be, he saw it like a lunatic, right? Back in the day, people didn’t believe him. But today,
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when you listen to, you know, what he has to say, and by the way, I have it in my stories under politics. Yes. I have, you know, if anybody wants to it, it’s frighteningly accurate. It’s almost as if he had a crystal ball. Yes. And he did. He did. And we didn’t believe it. And that was interesting, too. I went through infantry school in 20. I joined in 2011. And that was when they were still trying to just break you like the first two weeks.
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Not very much sleep, not very much water, not very much food, because they’re trying to weed out the week. And I joined at 38. So like I was really, yeah, that’s a long story. But the idea was to me, once I joined in my mind, there’s no other way out. Like this is uncommitted. But I got stationed in 2012. And then it was interesting because we young recruits coming out of infantry school.
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allegedly coming through the same training that we were, and now they’re holding up these pieces of paper that are stress cards.
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Corporal, can’t do that to me. Here’s my stress card.” And we were unfamiliar with what this was. Finally, there was a brief that they gave, know, E4s, sergeants, et cetera. And they were like, if they hold up a stress card, you’re not supposed to push them. You’re supposed to give them like a break or give them a timeout or whatever. we probably- A timeout in the military. In the military, right. And now, and I can, not that it’s okay- way, I’m sure the Chinese also have a timeout. Oh, I’m sure they certainly do. They absolutely do. It’s like, wait, bye guys.
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Just a second. I know that you’re about to kick my ass, but just a second. And I can almost understand it if it’s a non-combat related. Like if you’re just support and you’re not the guy that’s supposed to have the gun and hunt down the bad guy and be in fire and jump out of an airplane and go do the hard things. I would almost understand that. But if you’re the guy that is supposed to do that and we’re supposed to be in the best shape and the best marksman and have all our tactics and have this resilience unlike anyone else in the world. And then you’re trying to tell me that there’s going to be a stress card.
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They promptly picked up all those cards and they went ahead and had them. We secured them for their safety of the soldier. But I couldn’t understand. was like, what’s going on with this? I mean, I would think that if you pick up a stress card, that’s your way out of the military. I would think it is too. But I’m kind of old fashioned, so I don’t know. And again, that came from that ideology because this was that second year of that second term of Obama being in. And that was part of the idea.
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ideology and it was slowly watering down and infiltrating into the armed services. back to what I said related to what you’re saying with this, you know, the stress card. we’re training our soldiers this way, how do you expect the common man to ever participate in a revolution? That’s exactly right. And that’s why I said earlier that I’m a little pessimistic about the state of the Western civilization. Let me ask you, Victoria.
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What do you think we need to do to turn this country around? What would be your steps? is a million dollar question, isn’t it? Very complex because we can all play armchair quarterback. So easy to say, but I gotta tell you, I think that some of the fundamental institutions really have to be dismantled and rebuilt again. I think that we have gotten so far away from our founding principles. And by the way, it’s not even, I don’t even blame a
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or Biden or Kamala, because they are the symptoms of the problem. The politicians are the problem. The problem is the populace that elected them. The most important thing is our education system. That is really what’s failing us, right? Because we are no longer educating students. We are taking hours of their education. We’re devoting it to what, gender studies? To the sex ed?
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What are we teaching our kids? I would prefer to have an extra hour of math or language or critical thinking or history, right? But no, we’re not doing that. We are teaching them about pronouns. This is what’s important in this world, right? So I think that the fact that we’re dismantling the Department of Education is actually amazing. Absolutely. However,
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problem with that is, you know, we’re throwing it back to the states. So we’re going to have this huge discrepancy because in conservative states, I believe that we’re going to have a focus on education. And even there, I’m not fully confident because they could, you know, teach religion for half of the day too. Right. And I don’t necessarily think that that’s something that should be taught in schools either. This is, this is something that should be taught in church or in synagogue or wherever in, your home, not the school and service teacher, reading, writing arithmetic, you know, maybe
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some home economics and some financial skills would be good, you know, but gender ideologies, sexuality, I don’t think that is a function of schools. And then you’re gonna have the liberal states, which are going to be focusing on that. So you’re have this huge discrepancy of in the workforce and in the mentality of people, even more so than we do today, right? So I don’t know what the answer is to this particular problem, but I know that education is the answer.
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But then you get into the problem, who’s going to be delivering that education? And who’s going to be deciding what’s important in that education? Because we’ve already seen that the educators in this country are compromised, right? They’re all leftist. They have all been compromised and brainwashed and they are teaching our children things that aren’t true, things that will not help us be the country that we were supposed to be. So I think the education is very important. I think that the media
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taking back control of the media is paramount, right? And what I mean by that is the government needs to stop funding the media. The government has no place in funding the media. Only that, I mean, state sponsored media is nothing but propaganda. And that’s what we’ve had for years and years and years. So now you are getting so much bullshit, you know, from every channel and people don’t know what to believe. And so what do they do? They tune into whatever
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confirms their bias in the first place is just getting more of that, right? So that’s the second thing, taking control, taking back the media to, you know, same as education, to tell people what’s really happening in the world, to have, you know, you see these clips that I’ve posted a lot of them on my page where you have all these different cities and all these different anchors from different channels.
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saying the same exact words in unison. It’s not even like the same ideas. They are verbatim the same script that they’re reading from. So this is another problem because that does not speak to a free media, right? So you’ve got education, you’ve got media and, you know, Hollywood part of the media, right? All the movies that they’re making, there’s every single movie I watch, I’m like, oh my God, there it is, right? Because I’m waiting for that.
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Yeah, where’s the agenda? You know, they’re going to shit all over Trump. They’re going to shit all over conservatives. There’s going to be the gay kiss. There’s going to be a trans person in there. And it’s just like it’s clockwork. It’s like constant, constant messaging. Right. And so I just like to see a movie like, you know, I was amazed to see what was it with Tom Cruise? The remake of Top Gun. Right. Yeah. That was a great movie. That one of the only movies that, you know, had like it was it was pro-America. It was masculine. There was this, you know,
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And it did great at the box office. They don’t care. All they want to do is push their agenda and their narrative, regardless of all costs. I think we need to take out this DEI bullshit. think we need to stop focusing on color. The shallowest thing that you could possibly look at is your color, your religion, your ethnicity. We need to judge every person as an individual.
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Regardless of what group they belong to it, you know, and you need to speak to those people You need to teach people that you know what Martin Luther King said right judging people by the content of their character Not the color of their skin or their whatever bias you might have right? That is the crux of it teaching people to critically think again to be able to Debate with people who do not
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share the same opinion to find out why they hold that opinion. I think these things are so key. And then one of the most important things is, you know, free speech, right? We, one of the things that has been really awful over the past four years since COVID is the censorship, which I, I mean, personally, I have been absolutely floored, right? By the way, my communism survivor is my third or fourth account.
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Three of them have been deleted and shadow ban. By the way, I’m still to this day in a shadow ban. And I have to tell you, like I can see my views. My views are, I remember that I used to get about 6.7 million views a month. Now I’m down to 3.1, right? Because I know that they’re censoring me. I know that they’re shadow banning me. And, but what am I supposed to do about it? Right? They’re shadow banning pro-Israel accounts. They’re shadow banning conservative accounts. So.
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I think that making sure that we have free speech is paramount on every social media network, right? And allowing people to express themselves without any kind of abridgment is also key. The only amendment I would make, because I really am a free speech absolutist, is people who are advocating violence against others because of their religion, race.
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Creed, whatever, those people need to be taken off social media completely. They need to be in social media jail. But if you’re expressing your opinion, whatever it is, allow the social media space to take root, allow debate. And if somebody calls me an asshole, I want to be able to call them an asshole back without me, because I’ll tell you, it is amazing to me that people can say, you know, people in my comments will say the Austrian artist was right.
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Okay, they’re glorifying Hitler in my comments. They are saying, you know, all kinds of horrible things. And I’ll tell you, I think I called somebody a twat and I was immediately shot at bed for 90 days before I was taken down. But apparently glorifying Hitler and the murder of 6 million Jews is fine. No problem. But calling somebody a twat, yeah. How dare you.
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How dare I? So I think that’s another one. think that, you know, making sure that we are allowed to express ourselves. No matter what we say, and no, I’m sorry, words are not violence, and I don’t care if you’re insulted. That is not my problem. That is yours. Don’t follow me. Don’t talk to me if you feel insulted. But that is not Facebook’s or Instagram’s or Twitter or X. It’s not their job.
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to moderate my speech because I have a constitutional right to it. And I’ll tell you, they’ll argue that these are private companies, they can do whatever they want. Yes, they are. But today, social media is the town square. It is the water cooler of our society. And nobody has the right to censor speech on any platform for any reason, except if it’s promoting violence.
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And that’s why when we spoke earlier, I said that I don’t have sponsors on the show for that reason. So I can say, I can have whoever on that I want again, podcast doing these things. Uh, we saw that Zuckerberg was on Joe Rogan’s podcast and Zuckerberg was like, I was getting pressured by the Biden administration and blah, blah, blah. It’s like, really? So if they had somehow still in the election, you wouldn’t have come out and said that, you? It wouldn’t be in your best interest to say that. How brave of you now that it doesn’t like it matters. So, and then he’s saying that they’re getting rid of.
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all this moderation on the platform. You smell of shit because it’s still moderating. just got fact checked like two weeks ago on something. it’s total bullshit. There’s still fact checking. I’m still shadow banned. mean, I should, I know how many views I usually get, how many likes I usually get. It’s completely different. And there’s at least before, at least when there was fact checkers, at least before they had the decency to say, this is why you’re fact checked, read the fact check, which was
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bullshit most of the time, but at least you’re like, okay, it was this. Now they don’t tell you why, they don’t tell you what, and they don’t even tell you before it was like, okay, 90 days, this is the day that you’re gonna be released. There’s none of that. I have no idea if and when I’m gonna be released from this social media channel. And again, you have all these people whose voices are amplified for whatever reason, if they are following the approved narrative or what have you. And if you’re not, then you have no voice.
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And that is not what this country is about. It’s not what it was built on at least. And by the way, like you look at X and you’ll see that if people are saying things that are not right, you have community notes, right? They’re not shadow bad, but you have community notes and you have the whole discussion in the comments where people are like, that’s false. And I see that with me too. Listen, I’m not perfect. I’m human. And there have been times when I posted something that was not true because I was like, oh my God, I can’t believe this. I posted it without fact checking it first. And then people are like, okay, that’s not true.
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I immediately retracted, I issued an apology, and I say I was wrong.
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I don’t need a third party to moderate me. And as far as what my opinions are concerned, certainly not. But you have a moral compass and a backbone. most of the people on social media, especially people consuming it, many of them did not. That is true. The other aspect is, I think that as you were saying, because the media has been funded for so long by, I mean, how enraged were you
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when we saw Dodge exposing that not only was like all these people that are like the hegemone trying to do all these things to us. And it’s like, well, they’re getting funding from somewhere. And it’s like, oh, they’re getting funding by Soros. But then we find out that Soros has how many NGOs to take the money from us. From USAD, right? And using it, exactly. Listen, it was bad enough when Soros was doing it. Right. And then to find out that, yeah, Soros was doing it, but also
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with my money. It’s absolutely incredible. Yeah, we have no idea where all this money is going. All I know is that they just want more and more and more and more of it. Right. And then at what point do you become, you know, at what point, right, slavery, right? Working for free. So today our tax rate, and this is not even, you know, this is what I, when I think about federal and state and property,
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I mean, we’re well above 50 % and then you get sales and luxury and God only knows that inheritance. So I am going to guess that our tax rates probably around 70 % when you take everything into consideration. Some states obviously higher than others. So what that means is you are working for free 70 % of the year. So tell me at what point are you considered a slave?
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Is it 10 % free? 20 %? 50 %? How many months out of the year do you have to work for free labor with no
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money involved, right? With no compensation until you’re considered, until it’s considered slavery. Yeah. There’s also that component of the people that are still looking at legacy media and they’re still believing it. I could almost understand it maybe pre-COVID. I could almost understand it. But after COVID, during COVID, after everything happened during COVID, and for those of you that don’t understand
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I want to tell you Any time somebody tries to force you, like a used car salesman, force something down your throat that you have to do this and this has to be done right now, on principle, walk away from that, whatever that thing is. Even if it’s something that you wanted, walk away Well, it’s so funny that you say that because I think I mentioned in this podcast before that this is one of my parents just had a really, really tough time with me because I’m a fiercely independent person. And the more you push me,
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But the more I’m like, I’m definitely not going to do it. And I’ll tell you, it’s funny because when this vaccine came out, I was like, Oh, I don’t know. Maybe I’ll take it. Maybe I want, I need to find out it’s brand new. Like it’s like, it sounds serious. Like I think there’s like DNA, RNA, know, I don’t know enough of this is novel. I think I want to see what happens. And I kind of had that attitude in the beginning. And then when I started seeing this
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We’re like, oh, you can get fries with that. I was like, what? That’s immediately, I was like immediately no. No way. I mean, it’s just not happening, right? Because the more you push, the more I will stand back. There’s no way. And I’ll tell you, one of the hardest things was like, I’m a big traveler. Like that’s one of my passions in life. Like I really like to go off and see other.
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places and meet people from different cultures and learn about those. Like I just, I thrive on that. And, um, I’ve done it whole life, you know, and I’ll tell you that was, I really sat down because I thought, you know, I may never travel again because I may never be able to get on another flight. And I said, that’s okay. I’m really lucky that I’ve done all the traveling that I’ve done in my life. And I am going to be okay with it, but I am not.
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going to go along with this forced push to stick something in my body that I just don’t want to do.
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And it’s astounding to me how many people, you know, listen, there were people who just had no choice. I get that. And I don’t know what I would do if I was employed and my family depended on me. mean, that would be, and I don’t decry those people. That’s a really, really, and you can’t, you would have to be in those people’s shoes before you make that statement. So I don’t decry those people. I abhor the fact that they were put in that position to make that choice.
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But then there were the people who just said, you know, I just want to go to dinner. Like I want to go to a restaurant. And I was resigned. Like I’m like, I don’t even like I’m going to cook. Like, just I can’t even imagine having such a weak spine where you were like, I have. Yeah, I don’t really want to do it, but OK, I will know. Yeah, I mean, luckily, as entrepreneurs, we have the luxury of not
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having to do those things if we so choose, it was just horrendous. And then now that we’re starting to see the facts coming out, Fauci, Gates, all the financial incentives, all the Well, you say that, but I think I really believe that that information is still limited. Right. I think that you don’t have the MSM proliferating this information. Right. This is still limited to
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conservative social media groups, because I still talk to other people, even doctors, who are not aware of this. Yeah. And that’s, that’s state of affairs, right? Yeah. I have a, I have a good friend who’s a doctor, uh, to whom I said, listen, you need to, I’m sure you know this, but you know, he had the vaccine and, um, I think I’m sure you know this, but you should be taking the D-dimer, you know, like, I don’t know, every six months or a year, if you have the vaccine.
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And he’s like, So, I mean, I think that we think that this is public information. Now everybody agrees with us because it’s come out and they know they don’t see this. This is still just circling in conservative circles, even though it’s coming out, even though it’s published, even though they’re still covering their butts. Well, that’s why we’re still having this conversation now, right? Because there’s going to be somebody that this is going to be new information for them, whether it be this data.
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communism in general, any of the things that we talked about. And I’m sure these are hot-button issues for a lot of people. And I’m sure that a lot of people would get rather the wrong way, but most of my audience is smart enough to at least say, if I don’t agree with this or I don’t understand this, maybe I can step back and do my own research. And that’s all I ask. That’s all I And that’s all I want too. I mean, I just don’t want people to be falling for any narrative, even my own. Exactly.
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Listen, I never set out to be, you know, we already said how much we hate this world, an influencer, and I don’t consider myself that. I don’t think of myself that way. I never set out to be that. And I want, you know, whatever I do say, I want my audience to go out and do their own research and think for themselves. That’s what I want to inspire people to think for themselves. You know, they’re oh, you’re the cult. No, it’s a cult that inspires people to think for themselves. I’m not sure that that’s the definition of right? I think it’s the opposite.
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It’s completely the opposite. And so and that’s exactly it. People need to advocate for themselves. It’s caveat out there, right? Buyer beware at Latin for those of you who know. and this is exactly that moment. We are living in a moment where propaganda reigns supreme, whether it’s the MSM or whatever influence you’re following. And so I think that every
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intelligent individual.
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has to go out and do their own research. If you really like someone, if you follow someone, and by the way, I should probably back up a second because it’s getting increasingly more difficult to do objective research as well, right? Because now you have the giants like Google who actually, of course, not only do they, and by the way, I’ll give you an example of this. So given what I do, I’ve always been against the flu shot. I just think it’s a bunch of bullshit that just,
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You know, the efficacy rate is what between like 18 and they’ll quote me in the numbers, but they’re in the general vicinity of, I want to say like 18 to 43 % in a really good year, right? And you’re injecting because there’s tons of different blue strains and the scientists have to guess which one is going to come out in the next year, right? So it’s a lot of guesswork and they’re putting this poison in your arm. There’s all kinds of, you know, toxins in the vaccine and you’re putting this in your arm.
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every single year and a lot of these things, don’t break on your body. They actually stay there. So and for what? You’re not even protecting at 18%. Really? If you knew if somebody said, I want you to invest $1,000 in a stock, and it’s between 18 to 43 % to, you know, maybe go up twice, you know, maybe double maybe 50 maybe
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50%, maybe 10%, I don’t know. Would you invest in that stack? No, you would not. But you’re going to put a needle in your arm and you’re going to put a foreign substance in your body that may or may not protect you, but will definitely accumulate and make you sick over time. So I’ve always been against the flu vaccine. And I remember prior to COVID, I used to be able to find all these papers on Google that would talk about this. No one. I can’t find a single one.
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No more. And I am actually bewildered because you cannot find it. So they scrub anything that goes against the narrative and they also prioritize, right? I mean, Google climate change and show me what page on Google you need to get to, to get anything critical of climate change. Yeah, but we were in chiropractic school. They were, as you were saying about the flu or anything like that.
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You were better off building your own natural immunity by being exposed. Just going out and being around it. And as you were saying, the strain that you’re going to be exposed to was probably the most logical one because you’re going to be out there in it. We have this incredible immune system. you know, granted, not everybody there are people who are immunosuppressed and who are sick and God, that the number of people who are sick in this country, you know, continues to multiply every single year. And thank God, I’ll say one of those exciting things.
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For me, given what I do with the Trump presidency is RFK Jr. It’s my dream come true. I was over the moon when they joined forces because I remember listening to him during COVID. I agree, health-wise, and I are completely on the same page. And it’s not that tough. People are like, oh, I don’t know, it’s nutrition. No, listen, it’s so simple. Eat food that are ingredients.
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not has ingredients, right? I mean, that’s as simple as it gets, right? And the people still don’t get that. you know, there’s a little bit more to help. I mean, you need to move your body, you need to have a good mindset, you need to get enough sleep, you need to know how to manage your stress, and you need to make sure that you minimize toxins in your life, right? These are the components of good health. But my point is that we have so many sick people in this country that just keep getting sicker because we have
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this big food industry. And by the way, I’m an expert in it because when I was a management consultant, guess who I worked for? I worked for consumer products packaged goods, which is basic food. So it’s basically big food. And I remember sitting in our meetings with a food scientist who were talking about how do we make food more addictive? And I remember thinking, oh shit, so maybe it’s not me.
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who needs to have, who doesn’t have willpower, discipline, and I want to eat 25 bags of Doritos, maybe there is some kind of chemical in there that is making you eat that. And by the way, I hate taking responsibility out of people’s hands because in the end, you were the one who bought those Doritos, right? And in the end, the responsibility is your own, but that doesn’t help. And people have to know that these foods are bad and addictive.
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and they will be your demise slowly, painfully, right? And I just don’t understand. So, okay, so back to what I was saying, you’ve got big food, eating is a big pharma, So you’ve got, and that is this supply chain, right? You start with a big food and now you’ve got this gender ideology, so you’re…
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So many customers for pharma. I don’t know many people over the age of 35, to be honest with you, who are not at least on one or two big pharma drugs. It just doesn’t exist anymore. So I can’t remember the statistic I just read. I wish I could remember the exact number, but we make up, I can’t remember, like a small percentage of the world’s population. We consume like 70, 80 % of drugs, or some crazy number. Maybe that’s not 70, 80.
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relative to the percentage of the population that we are in the world. It is a very high number. I saw a percentage that was around in the 70 % as well. Yeah, maybe it is. can’t remember the exact number. And we are the only one of only two countries that allow advertising of… I think it’s New Zealand is the other one. The other one, exactly. But the United States is going to be the one that does the most of it, clearly. And like you said, what do we see? You’re describing a business model. 100%.
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This is not food supply. This is, like you said, food products that are created. what it is? It’s planned obsolescence. There it is. Of the human. That’s exactly what it is. Because you are, you know, and for those of you who don’t know what planned obsolescence is, is the light bulb. We have the technology to make a light bulb last probably forever. But we don’t, because if we make a light bulb that lasts forever, you’ll never buy another light bulb. So planned obsolescence means
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The company will plan how long that, how many hours that light bulb will last. And it’s the same thing with big food, because when you buy into those products, you are, they’re planning your obsolescence. And so in order for you not to go obsolete, then you have to go from the food to big pharma and buy their drugs for however long and live in your own misery and pain.
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And that, you know, I gotta tell you is it’s funny because I’m going to touch on the nutrition part of it. Um, one of the things that I hear a lot from my clients, when I, I first started working with them, one of the things that I say is, listen, I don’t want to live to be a hundred. I just want to have a good time. And if I drop when I’m 70, great. hear this almost 80 to 90 % of the time. And then I have to explain to them. That would be a dream come true for you to just drop dead at 70.
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How amazing you just go drink and do drugs and have fun and don’t sleep and stress out and eat whatever junk you want and then boog 70 you go to sleep and you don’t wake up. I do that. That would be great. Except that’s not how it happens, is it? Right. What happens is you suffer for decades. You become a burden on the people who love you. You want sweet death because you’re so sick.
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This miserable and straight and what you can do. My goal when I work with people is to compress mortality. And what I mean by that is to minimize that time where you feel sick or unwell and to maximize your quality of life for as long as possible. That’s my goal with every single person I work with. But people don’t get that. They have this idea that they’re just going to drop dead now. That we were talking about again,
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clients, CEOs that you have that have put 30 years into a business, but now they’re 40 pounds overweight, they’re pretty hypertensive, they’re type two diabetic essentially, may not even be aware of it yet. Now they have all these ailments as you were saying. And so now if they’re family, if they go on a vacation with their family, which is probably few and far between, they don’t have the capacity to climb up the mountain or go walk all over Italy or do any of these things because now…
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they don’t have the physical capacity or they don’t have the physical capacity to walk to Walmart. Look at all the people in the carts. Absolutely. I mean, those are definitely not the CEOs, right? But I mean, they take a little bit better care of themselves. But my point is that the average American, what’s the obesity weight these days? Like I remember like 10 years ago, I think it was like 66%. And sure, it’s much higher now. I haven’t looked at the statistic, but holy crap. mean, and now instead of instead of
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promoting lifestyle instead of promoting exercise. By the way, that’s a right wing extremist view now, according to newspapers. Being healthy and well is right wing extremism. So I guess guilty. But you have these and now you’re glorifying obesity, right? Because now we call it body positivity. How dare you body shame me. Exactly. So now I have to, you
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And we now have to force, you know, companies to widen their seats and their exits. Victoria’s secret. because, oh my god. mean, so we are glorifying this. And this is what I was saying, like, bullying actually has value. Because guess what? I was bullied. I was overweight. I was like, I didn’t want to be, right?
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So you have this obesity epidemic. We’re glorifying the Even doctors are now saying like, oh, we can’t say this or that to a client or the patient. And now instead of promoting a healthy lifestyle with food, exercise and mindset and know, what have you and healthy foods, we are now promoting osephic. There it is. How many means have we seen where it’s a doctor talking to the patient and they say, hey, you have high blood pressure, you have this, you have this, you have this.
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Dr. What do I need to do? Do I change my lifestyle, my diet? No, here’s a pill. That’s 100 % correct. That is the business. Listen, I think that there is a risk to reward ratio with ozempic. I think that you are morbidly obese and you’ve tried everything and you can’t, don’t have the discipline or willpower. I think that you’re probably better off taking ozempic than not and not losing the weight and dying early. So absolutely, ozempic has its place. I’m not saying that…
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And all drugs do look, I mean, there’s life saving medications. I’m not against the big pharma in general. I am just against using these pills as a means to outrun your horrible, horrendous lifestyle. That’s what I’m talking about. But if you have 30 pounds to lose, even 40 pounds to lose, okay, do it the right way. Nothing is free because let me tell you when you’re going to stop taking eczema,
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That weight’s going to come right back. And by the way, they say that ozephyc is only safe if even it’s safe and effective. Cause I know that I’ve heard that before. They say that ozephyc is only safe for six months and people take it for years because guess what? When they get off of ozephyc they gain all the weight back. Yeah. They compound it back because the body’s like, we’re, we went through the starvation phase. been starving. Yes. We to compensate that. And it takes out muscle. That’s the other thing that nobody talks about, right? They talk about ozephyc face.
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So it attacks the muscle, which by the way, has your immune, there’s immunity in the muscle. It keeps you not only walking straight, you know, not falling over. That’s why older people are so frail. Right, lack of coordination because of lack of muscle, man. I remember seeing, I don’t know if you follow her, but Gabrielle Leone is, I Oh yes, yes, yes. She’s an incredible doctor and she does a lot of research on muscle and what it does in the body. And I remember her talking about the fact that muscle has
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immunity in it. And so the more muscle you have, the less likely you are to suffer from chronic disease or illness or things like that. And so you, know, and this ozepic, takes out, it takes out your muscle. does that. It affects your bone density. Absolutely. Bone density is another one. Yeah. So, so now you’re going to take this to lose weight. You’re going to get thicker in other areas because there’s always consequences, right? Unforeseen consequences, right? When you, when you’re taking these drugs.
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And now you’re going to be taking drugs for the rest of your life for some other reason, right? Because of the consequences of taking a something. So I mean, I take my health very seriously. I think, you you’ve got one life to live. And as you get older, right, it’s you really start understanding because, when you’re young, you’re like, I don’t live forever. Nothing’s going to affect me. But as you get older, you’re like, we should I better start thinking about these things. And, know,
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things start looming nearer for you. And so you start thinking about how do I compress my morbidity, right? Because I don’t want to be a burden on my family and I want to live my life the way I want to live my life. I want to be active, right? I want to do the things that I want to do. Is the ultimate expression of freedom in my opinion. hundred thousand percent. Because the truth is your health is not a priority until you lose your health.
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And then nothing is more of a priority and it’s the ultimate thing that we all take for granted as Long as we have it only the people who are not well understand the importance of good health Yeah, they they say you don’t know what you got to tell us gone, but that’s not true You know what you have you just assume it will always be there and once it’s ripped from you Then you start realizing oh shit. This is a priority Well, that is unfortunately the human condition and that extrapolates to every part
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of the human condition that’s met. It’s not just your health. It’s your partner, it’s your friends, it’s your kids, it’s everything that’s meaning your job. Everything that’s your freedom. That’s a good one. Thank you for adding that. That’s one of the biggest ones of all, right? And you just, you don’t think about what your life could look like. And sometimes even when you do the thought experiment, it’s still not as vivid as when it happens to you.
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It’s not and we had this idea of memento mori, this idea that you know that you will die. But the reality is we can do that and maybe get a little bit of philosophical like adaptation. the truth is… you’re speaking my language. I love getting philosophical. That’s what it is, right? We need another like six hours. Let’s go. Let’s get a bottle of wine. But the thing is there is that idea of what do we see? We see nihilism. We see this idea of, well, if I am going to die, then I don’t really care about that.
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And from a Zen or a Stoic or Taoistic component, we can do that and we can say, oh yeah, that makes an impact on me. But what I would say would be, memoria avratas, like think of adversity, remember adversity, remember that there is going to be hardship, that there are fates worse than death, that there is something worse than complaining about the fact that you don’t have a friend or the fact that this person disagreed with you. There are much worse things that you could be facing.
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And the reality is unless you prepare for them now with these small micro adversities to do something to prepare yourself to build that resilience, when it comes, you are going to be caught off guard. You’re to be caught sideways and you will have no clue what happened. And by the time you realize that this happened, you will not be one step behind in the fight. It will be two or three, and there will be no way for you to regain anything that you’re taking for granted this moment. And I think what you just said is resilience and resilience is not something that you’re born with.
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Resilience is a skill that you learn and it goes right back to the conversation we had earlier where you have to as a parent, I believe that one of the most important functions that you have is to teach your children Adversity and it’s not pleasant. It sucks You know, I grew up with a lot of it in my life and I certainly never wanted my kids to have any of it But I also never wanted her to grow up in
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this unlimited privilege. didn’t want her, I needed her to know the word no. I needed her to overcome challenges. Sometimes I created adversity for her so that she would understand how to get out of it. And you know what? That is what gave her confidence. That is what gave me, it’s giving me confidence she’s going to college next year. And it’s giving me confidence that she’s going to be okay.
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Because when you raise a child without any character, without any challenges to overcome, how can you send them out into the world and feel confident that they’re going to be okay? They’re not going to be okay. And that’s why adversity is a gift. Resilience is the key to a life really, because there’s going to be a lot of adversity when you go out of your parents’ door.
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You know, and I’m talking about the privileged kids. think that the unprivileged kids have a lot of diversity all their lives. Exactly. But for those who are sheltered and privileged, they’re going to experience it and they are going to be wrecked by the smallest minutiae because they just don’t even know what to do. That’s why, again, that’s why they’re like, oh, misgendering. Seriously? If this is the crux of your issues, if this is the biggest problem in your life,
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You’re pretty fucking privileged. mean, holy shit. can’t even, I can’t even imagine. And that’s the thing. If you have resilience, you can have literally anything else you want in this life. But if you do not, you will live a quiet life of desperation and compromise until you die. Think about resilience too, right? Because a lot of the things that we have to do in order to achieve success, they’re not pleasant, right? They’re not supposed to. They’re not, they’re not fun. They’re not pleasant.
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You have to read and study and spend hours in the library and research or if you’re an athlete, you know, there’s a lot of like physical, like, I mean, the things that we that are required of us to be great, hard work, right? They’re not fun. They require discipline and they require commitment and all the things that do not include drinking and partying and
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you know, being accepted by others and whatever it is that they, you know. And so that’s also resilience. The ability to lock yourself down and to be able to think through, achieve, carry yourself through difficult times.
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That’s part of what will make you great. not having that ability as a country, by the way, we’re fucked. We are raising a generation of imbeciles who do not have the ability to focus, to be disciplined, critically think through anything. How are we going to be able to compete on a world stage with anybody? Yeah. If you give up at the first sign of adversity, you are conditioned yourself to surrender when you should be fighting the fucking hardest.
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Absolutely. Victoria, I could talk to you for hours and I think I may have, but I’ve enjoyed this conversation immensely. Me too. What would be the parting information that you give everyone and then where would you direct us to learn more about you, everything you’re doing with communism survivor and everything else you have going on? Oh gosh, parting words. You know, I thought about maybe having like a catchphrase, but it’s just not that person. Oh, please tell us about your favorite part of the Catamonica.
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because I think it ties in beautifully with what we just did. So one of my, I have a lot of favorite books, but that is one of my favorites. And I think one of the things that solidified it as one of my favorite books of all time was, and I’m going to butcher this quote because it’s not the exact quote, but I’m going to paraphrase it. I think it was the second paragraph to last where the count is speaking to the son that he never knew he had. And he said,
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There’s no such thing as happiness or unhappiness in world. There’s only a relativity between the two. And those people who have never experienced true misery will never know true happiness. And I gotta say, mean, life is a rollercoaster. I mean, you want life to be a rollercoaster because an example that I can give in that is that when you look at, you know, not Trump skits because good Lord.
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I got it. The one thing that I got to give him and his wife and ex-wives credit for is that his children are exemplary. They are not anything like what I’m about to tell you. But when you look at children who grow up in privileged, wealthy families, those are the children that get addicted to drugs and commit suicide and have, you know, talk about how depressed and unhappy they are when they have so much more than everyone else because
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They’re flatlining all the way so much higher than all of us, right? But they’re flat. There’s no dip. So they can’t possibly appreciate what they have or where they are. Their lives are boring, even though they have everything in the world. You know who’s happy? People who do this. Because when you go down to the depths and then you rise up, that’s when you appreciate the view at the top.
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because the euphoria that you have knowing that you’ve been down there and you survived and now you’re looking at it from the highest peak. That’s what happiness is and being able to appreciate. And then when you go down to the depths again, you know, they can rise up again. You have the confidence that you, that you will. And that is what real happiness is. Right. It’s not about money, not about fame. It’s about
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understanding yourself, understanding the environment that you’re in, being grateful. Yes. For everything and knowing that whatever situation you’re going to be in, you will land on your feet. That’s it. That’s it. When you have people that have never experienced adversity, they create it innately with drugs, alcohol, addiction. 100%. Because they It’s a different right? Because they know.
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somewhere that they have to get out of this boring mundane-ness of the normalcy. So they want to do something. So they create it on their own. But for us that actually go out and either seek it or have had a thrust upon us, that’s where the beauty is because now we understand, listen, this is going to be hard, but we don’t appreciate what we don’t have to earn in some capacity. And what you’re describing is exactly that path. So I love that so much. Yeah. Thank you so much. Tell us where we can learn more about you, everything you’re doing.
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Well, if you’re interested in politics, follow me on Instagram, communism survivor, one word. And if you’re interested in nutrition, you can check out my website. It’s nutritionny.com. Nutrition is spelled just like the word nutrition, but it’s spelled N-E-W. So new-trition-ny.com. And that stands for nutrition new you. That’s my practice. And reach out. I’d love to meet all of you.
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And we’re going to put all that in the show notes as well and lead everybody to those things. So Victoria, I have enjoyed our conversation tremendously and I hope that it’s not our last one. too, Marcus. Thank you for having me. Thank you for listening to this episode of Acta Non Verba.
