John Lovell - Navy SEAL and Army Ranger Discuss What's Destroying America | SRS #80 Part 4

previously on the Sha Ryan show how do. you reconcile The Duality of being a. Christian Warrior the balance of loving. God and yet prepare for war and the. removal of threats to human. life for this I mean Ecclesiastes 3. there's a time to kill time to. heal and so there's a time to kill um. the Bible says do not murder and this is. a bad translation where we take the Ten.

Commandments and we take one of those. Commandments Thou shalt not kill it's. actually Thou shalt not murder let's go. back to Iraq you were there for the. invasion forward here a little bit we. had big army doing a big push through. and we're grabbing high value targets up. as they kind of squirt so it's a it's a. coordination and I wasn't first boots on. the ground but I'm still early enough. into Iraq where I be like yeah I was I.

was. there is it heavy right off the bat it. was all up close it was moving an Urban. Terrain and kicking in Palace. doors how do you how do you deal with. loss how did you overcome that uh I. don't think I've overcome loss any more. than I've overcome fear some guys that. were like my platoon uh you know and and.

some of my buddies who got shot up it's. not this huge tragedy on their part it. is on ours who are left behind and. missing. them when was the warrior Poet Society. formed and I came to call it the warrior. poet way you know Warrior Poet Society. that was my own personal. Journey.

I wanted to touch on feminism sure and. how it's affected society today I've I. have opinions and things to say on this. me and my wife actually discussed this. quite a bit but I would love to hear. your take on how it's affected today's. society um I think it's destroyed. families made men and women. miserable I think that the feminist. movement has created a lot of confusion. in society as well I mean.

you. go it's you don't really know where. anybody fits in anymore you know there's. chivalry is dead yeah completely dead. you know. and. I I wish I know would have known we were. going to dive into this I would have uh. thought about this a little bit more but. you know you see it's in it's in. everything you know I you don't know. anymore whether you're supposed to to.

open the door for a woman one minute you. might get yelled at for opening the door. the next minute you might get yelled at. for not opening the door you know I. always open the door you know. but I I mean I see this stuff too and I. hear about it you know I mean my wife. right now we're what 7 months pregnant. you know that's awesome 7 months. pregnant half the time she goes to the. store nobody helps her with the. groceries nobody opens the door for her.

nobody help you know helps her load up. the card if she's at Home Depot and I'm. at work whatever it is. chivalry is dead and. then she comes home we have a discussion. about it and this is what I I'm like. nobody knows what to do anymore yeah you. know you get yelled at for doing one. thing and you get yelled at if you don't. do that one thing like opening the door. and you know and I I can't tell if the. this is.

a I can't tell if this is just the. bubble that I live in or if it's like. this everywhere but from my observation. there seems to. be a new movement. of kind of coming back to gender roles. yeah I see a lot of women at least. around here in the area that I live in. wanting. to leave the corporate world.

and get back to being the head of the. family you know or or or raising the. kids homeschooling the kids just being. there for the kids and um and uh are you. seeing that or is that just is that just. me a huge Resurgence homeschooling has. just gone crazy you know millions and. millions of folks were able to see what. was happening in the government schools. through the corona scare and in that.

they checked out and they like this is. terrible and they had to homeschool. during the um pandemic and what they. found is is oh homeschool actually can. be really enjoyable if you do it well. and you're you're smart and you do some. homework and you figure out like oh this. is how you do homeschool like that's. actually easier than I thought and it. was really enjoyable it turns out that. people love their kids it's kind of like. oh this is great and now I'm not. spending massive amount of money on.

child care and you get to actually raise. your kids and you know what's going in. their brains and it people found out. that it was better and now there's all. these resources of like homeschool. co-ops homeschool movement has. exploded you I'll be speaking at. homesteaders oh I'm sorry homesteaders. of America I'm doing that but um great. homeo homeschool conventions that's it. GHC great homeschool conventions uh. they've got like like five conferences.

next year from California to Ohio and um. anyway a few other I think Missouri is. one South Carolina that's four out of. five not bad but I'll be keynote. speaking at all five of those great. homeschool conventions uh in the next. year uh and I just say that to say this. is how invested I am in this if you if. you want to rescue uh the Next. Generation uh we've got to take them out. of government schools whatever it costs. go into debt if you have to uh but and I.

I do not like that so I I when I say. that that actually is a big sticky point. for of like bro this is how important it. is Take Your Kids back from the. government now whatever the cost I know. it's hard figure it out maybe you can't. turn that key today make a plan over the. next year to get them out of the. government. schools I agree with you think it was it.

may have been Nick fedus that was that. was saying it um you know. you you could take a poll and ask just. about everybody doesn't matter what side. of the aisle you're on do you trust the. government yeah how many people trust. the government did you know I had I. interviewed some people on uh like. recently and somebody said that they did. trust the government I don't believe him. but that just like but I have it on. video on my channel where somebody said.

that so I have to say well there was. this one wing nut of a person who said. they trust him but your point remains no. one no one trusts the government point. being why would you trust your kids to. be educated by the government. right VOD Bachmann said uh don't be. surprised when you send your kids off to. Caesar and they come back as. Romans like that's it that's it man. you're wondering why everyone's gone.

woke and is has no idea what bathroom to. use anymore just if like what happened. to our kids I'm like well you gave them. to the government for for their entire. childhood you saw them at dinner and you. attended their sporting events but the. government raised your kids and social. media. helped and video games or whatever but. you saw them every day but you didn't. raise them you didn't log enough hours. each day to counteract all the poison.

and time wasting and ideological. propagandistic crap that they were. getting fed year after year after year. and so millennial generation and now Jen. Z has gone. woke and we feel like oh what happened. to my my daughter we raised him better. than that. no I mean this in love but you didn't. raise him at all.

that hurts to say because I know it. hurts people to hear but the government. raised them and that's what happened. government and social media um hijacked. a generation and we trusted that they. were being taught good information that. wasn't undermining our values but. there's been a scop in play for decades. which is undermining our values and uh. Waging War against the family. unit what do you think the goal is. behind that. control control of everything yeah I I.

think the people in power want one thing. it's what all people in power have. always wanted for all human history the. people in power want more power for. longer who do you think the people in. power are um how deep do you think this. go I think a lot one is the ones you see. are the puppets there are politicians. there who's dangling those puppet. strings higher off uh you know if they. think there's powerful um companies that.

you've had enumerated on this channel. and uh billionaire trillionaire types. around that want to control in the. shadows uh so there's certainly players. like that and you see their fingerprints. everywhere um with all the woke stuff. that actually has a very formal funding. mechanism behind it it's not just a. ground swell of what people want it's. actually being pushed from the top down. on culture forced on culture quite.

literally in our school systems and in. our corporations it's being crammed in. and so you can't see that and not deny. that there are uh folks who have really. figured out over the last uh 50 60 70. years how to perfect tyranny in a model. that doesn't lead uh to some of the. upsetting overthrows that that their. forebears of mellini and Paul pot Mal.

Hitler of like they had the control that. these globalists want but they were also. targets and they had uprisings against. them how do you control people without. ever being a Target and while giving. them the feeling of collectivism so that. they feel free but they aren't free uh. or will thought maybe it'll be by uh. Force you'll do it uh all tuley thought. no you rule them through their desires.

through dumbing them down by allowing. them to entertain themselves to death. you can control them indefinitely and so. what they did is like oh we'll take some. more W and we'll take some Huxley we'll. blend it together in a massive s up so. we can have massive amounts of power and. control forever the thing that would. stand in the uh way of it uh a few. things of like one uh religion religion. is the thing that you know won't bend a. knee it will unreasonably not.

compromise and so if you eliminate. religion people will worship. politics uh if if if you don't if if. they H hold out religion then there's. something higher than politics that. holds uh that uh politicians have to be. or world uh controllers have to uh bend. the need to and uh and it's in. competition that's why uh Marxism or any. tyrannical communistic system.

immediately moves to eradicate religion. because totalitarian control cannot. exist while there is a vibrant and. widespread religious Faith going on I. think that's very hard for Western. culture Americans in particular to wrap. their head around you know and. but mean look at what's going on in. North Korea yeah you know those people. actually believe.

yeah king jamun or whatever his name. whatever his whatever the new one's name. is Kim Jan right they think he's God. they think King jamill was God they. think that that that is the state is the. religion yeah that is the end all be all. incredible you know so I I I think. religion is something that that they. want to quilm and Destroy and they they. done a good job of that uh also I think.

um the family unit the family unit is a. Bull workk against this Progressive. ideology and so they've destroyed the. family unit uh and they want to take. over America's youth if you if if you. can take over the next generation and. educate them up uh you can you know uh. you can force you can get them to. believe whatever you want to believe you. know and so that's how you get the next. generation is you train them for.

compliance you demoralize them utterly. and that's happened to Jen Z they are. utterly demoralized uh and another thing. is you want to uh you want to um declaw. the strong men and so there needs to be. a war on the family there needs to be a. war on masculinity there needs to be a. war on religion and what do you see you. see all these very late in the game. where all all these uh institutions for. lack of a better word are just barely. limping much much less alive in the.

sociological structure that we see this. is very late in the game for America uh. the jury is out on whether we survive. this because all of our institutions of. power have been hijacked the American. people are now uh Wide Awake hate all. this but without any of our institutions. of power it's kind of like look more. corruption anybody going to do anything. about it. anybody no no one's doing anything about. it we just let it slide. okay we're letting it slide but you.

should do something about it they're. guilty they're corrupt and we're just. shouting into the wind nothing changes. because it's all super. corrupt um and our institutions of power. have been hijacked so it's very. interesting time I do not know how this. is going to play play out uh the. optimistic part of me is dying yeah it. still dares to Hope a little bit I'm. glad my hope is in a different.

world um than this Fallen. Rock I'm glad that's where my ultimate. faith and joy and hope is because. there's just not a lot to be found. here um but still while this place is my. home here and now I'll I'll go down. fighting for. it um. Y at Grand Canyon universe they believe. that the military men and women are the.

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what. does.

I I think we're very similar in this I'm. I'm uh a little. pessimistic you know I don't. see I don't really see a realistic way. out of this um but there are some things. you know that that. that being honest I think about this all. the time yeah man it just consumes me. yeah uh because you know I got to be. honest I don't really.

care for what I have to endure anymore. because I don't think this is going away. but it does really bother me that my. kid's going to have to live in this [ __ ]. yeah you know and um so I. am always looking for some type of Hope. what what is there anything particular. maybe anything that you've jened up in. your head I brought some stuff up about. advertising that's my latest maybe.

that's going to get the hope and I'll go. into that in a minute maybe but adver. what do you mean well you know we were. talking last night at dinner you know we. were talking about we were talking about. I believe the woke agenda right and how. you know I don't think we need to go. through it all again um. but on here but you know the the gender. everything everything you see you know. is is backwards yeah what's down is up. what's up as down was black as white you.

know the deal. and we got to talking about companies. Black Rock Vanguard State Street you. know in in in numbers we did have this. conversation last night correct you know. and what I think maybe maybe a glimmer. of hope is you are we are all watching. in real time the demise of mainstream. media yeah it is coming.

apart uh fast yeah man ever since 2020. mainstream media is falling apart at a. record Pace very fun their numbers their. numbers are down but they still have big. advertisers yeah Golden Globe awards. Grammy Awards all these big celebrity. events that I never watched them but a. lot of people you know are enamored with. this these type of award ceremonies and. in in the lives of celebrities.

and nobody watches it anymore no I know. so it is so bad that a lot of the. celebrities a lot of the actors a lot of. the the the musicians they don't even go. to the awards ceremonies anymore because. they don't want to spend the money on. the fashion the makeup the. hair the the time that it takes to go to. receive the award the award because they. know nobody's even watching them yeah.

not to mention they know that it's not. about the best actor anymore it's about. whatever the current agenda is yeah. those numbers are dropping Sports. numbers have fallen off a cliff yeah NBA. down NFL down MLB down you know and late. night TV everything is so. politicized that nobody and nobody. trusts anything anymore you know the all. the late night shows numbers are down.

you know I just had a a a meeting with. with. um a I don't know what you call an. agency like a kind of like a agent or. management. agency and um we were kind of going over. some some of my numbers and they were. saying you know look if you look at some. of these late night shows they're only. getting two or 300,000 viewers no a day. wow you know some of these shows have.

four 5 million views yeah you know and. so where I'm getting at is you see. mainstream media numbers falling off the. cliff Sports numbers falling off the. cliff movies when's the last time you. went to a movie. yeah I I can't even remember Top Gun too. yeah same same thing that's about it and. there was no agenda yeah you know I did. go see sound of freedom but I saw that. too and everyone should go everyone.

should go see that movie like I've. already seen it go see it again yeah but. point being all these numbers are. falling everywhere all the stuff that we. used to watch it is the numbers have. been cut in half maybe even more. advertisers want they need to be seen. you know Ford. trucks they can only pay you know they. can only pay the th those those major. dollars for so much longer before they. realize nobody's seeing the.

advertisement because you ruined the. network yeah with your agenda yeah where. are the numbers going they're going to. YouTube channels like yours YouTube. channels like mine podcasts YouTube robs. me blind bro so no doubt YouTube is. making money off me they're just not. giving it to me I'm not going to argue. with that but what I'm but what I am. saying is now there's this now there is. this demand and this need for that type.

of content you know because it's not. scripted it's not filtered you know it's. real it's vulnerable that's what's drawn. in the numbers it's truth yeah you know. and eventually I think that there I hope. that there may be some type of a. possibility where these advertisers come. to this realization and they're going. wait hold on we're paying all this money. for no numbers and this stuff over here. the the the friend. content is what has all the numbers.

eventually if they want anybody to buy. the [ __ ] that they're pedaling they're. going to have to go to where the people. are I hope so I hope so this all is so. far above my pay grade uh but I would. really like that to be true the more. pessimistic uh part of me might may say. of like yeah but what if those globalist. what if State Street and Vanguard and. blacku they're so they're so wildly rich. uh doing Market manipulation stuff they.

don't actually need budlight or Target. or Disney to do well they don't actually. care they don't need it they can. generate all the money they want in uh a. myriad of different ways that they don't. care and so money isn't real they. they've gotten so much control and power. and into everything just Monopoly over. kind of everything that they've got it. all and so they can afford to lose what. to us would look like billions and to.

them it's kind of like no just Shuffle. in the deck who knows what their balance. sheet actually looks like but maybe it's. just reshuffling the deck for them and. they're like nope we're uh we're here to. get more power and control we're paying. billions of dollars in losses over this. to push this kind of agenda which. demoralizes and ultimately gives us the. whole kit kitten Kaboodle in 10 years. mhm of like they're fine to lose. billions when they're going to get.

trillions and trillions of like no no. we're buying your. country you know we're fine to let these. Brands tank because the ideology we're. pushing through allows us to literally. take over countries and so I hope that's. not true again this is all just. speculation based off data points and. things uh that uh I people I've heard. that I feel like these guys have decoded. The Matrix if what they're saying is.

true then this and so it's my own. working out of that a priori so well is. there anything that does bring you hope. that's that's just my latest H maybe may. I mean this is what I think about yes. you know all of these these things. absolutely what brings you cuz when I'm. done watching everything through social. media and the television screen just. going completely the wrong way I go home. to my little farm. and I greet my smiling wife and I play.

with my children and we go down and. maybe we ride some horses and then we. read a book before uh going to bed and. uh we have a good dinner and none of. that stuff falling apart touches my. sweet family time and my friend circles. and the church I go to uh back home. and um. there is still opportunity right now to.

have a really full vibrant Peaceable. sane life in your home and in your. community you can make your own your own. Community with friends and family that. isn't buying into all this stuff and so. whereas I visit the world I check in and. I engage in the fight to make it better. cuz this is this I'm a part of this. world but when I am done with that I go.

to my own little Homestead and I hang. out with my family and then I see my. friends and we go on me and my wife go. on dates and we go through uh walks in. the woods right now the economy is in. shambles and we're you know everyone's. feeling the squeeze so we're spending. less and so hey we'll go on some walks. you that's not expensive you can't tax. that yet and so yet yet but yeah there's.

some hope there uh and a lot of folks. are struggling with real bad anxiety and. mental health and it's cuz they're not. unplugging from all the bad news and. they're carrying that home with you and. it's just too heavy too much too. ubiquitous you've got to be able to. leave it at the door uh and have a life. outside that still let's enjoy Freedom. while we have it and then let's fight. for it too but you got to make some. boundaries for yourself man or you're.

just not going to make it yeah I'm with. you let's talk about your YouTube career. sure. what so you started the warrior Poet. Society was it it originally was. training correct it was YouTube videos. really it started as a YouTube chn. started as YouTube videos what were your. what was your first video uh it was just. me shooting some targets real quick on a. range t t you know that's it uh that was.

for mine but I went on someone else's. even before that you know James Jager I. do yeah um I never met him personally. okay well it's a shame you had an online. Persona and then there was the the man. James jger who is a personal friend and. I I I loved uh deeply all the virtues. and vices of any military grun or SWAT. team dude You' have loved him um um but. uh anyway he he got me on his YouTube.

channel and he thought I did a really. good job and he says hey man you should. do this and I'm like what just record. myself doing what he's like whatever you. want I'm like whatever I want he's like. yeah. man but you should do this I'm like all. right maybe I'll do this and you know. I'm a I'm a man with a message of like I. want to communicate for life change. that's what I want I want to communicate.

for life change I want a journey love to. be able to document that and bring. people along so I just kind of did that. you know I just here's my Reflections. here's my thoughts here's a war story. here's me shooting and I just kind of. threw all kinds of stuff against the. wall and uh you know not e yeah see what. sticks but I was documenting my own. Warrior poet. Journey right and so it struck a cord. and people started following and then it.

kind of blew up it turns out. people wanted to grow uh simultaneously. in these areas because what I saw is. this big gap in the internet and that's. where everyone's kind of like a lover or. a fighter and the fighters don't really. talk about husbandry or kids or or you. know being an actual you know sane.

normal real person you're the thousand. yard stair steel eyed killer SWAT. operator blah blah blah blah blah I'm so. dangerous we're all Special Operation. blah blah so but it was this chest. beating bravado mhm or it's this you. know sweety pie thing and I'm like no no. no I want to do both I want to be a. lover and a fighter I'm on that Journey. where who embodies that who is out there.

that I can follow that's on that journey. and I'm like you know there is not a. lot well I'll just start walking down. this road and maybe some people want to. join in and they did and it. grew you know I I got to compliment you. you there are so many I 100% agree with. you too on the on the on the fighter. stuff yeah and um and uh I. when I started this I noticed that so.

many. people become a character yeah you know. it's not authentic at all and then you. start seeing them get tired of being. that character because it becomes. exhausting because you become that. character everywhere you go people. expect you to be that character right. and one thing that I got at dinner last. night with you is you are the exact same. person that I see online.

talking you're a very authentic. genuine humble human being and um with a. massive online presence thanks in a huge. business and um you know you just don't. you don't run into that very often I. could say the same thing about you which. pisses me off a bit because we really. should have got together years ago we. talked about we agre read hey we should. hang out and at the time you had alpacas.

and a Brussels graffan this ridiculous. little dogs little gremlins and we did. too and I'm like bro former door kicker. you got the funny little dog you got the. alpaca surely this means we should hang. out and be buddies but I think you just. got busy and so did I but what I'm. embarrassed at is you're not far away. from me either I didn't realize you were. that close me neither better late than. never better late than never but H I.

feel like I lost time with you you know. we could have been homies it's all good. we are now we are now but I I will say. you know I I don't know if you feel this. but a lot of times and it's funny nobody. thinks this. because this channel started as kind of. a gun tuber Channel and and then when I. started the the podcast it was all it. was all military guys and then in but. I'll be honest you know a lot of it's.

almost to the point where if you are. a from the Special Operations Community. that's a almost a strike against you. it's like I don't know if I want to yeah. I probably am not going to get along. with this person it's going to be. extremely competitive and is that. tedious competitive like what bro why do. we got to. compete how about this you win yeah. you're the dangerous super Secret. Squirrel sniper ninja and uh I'm not so.

way to go now we can just move on can we. be friends. now mean is that do you mean that it's. hard to just be friends because there's. always that kind of rivalry or is it. hard to interview them or what do you. mean I'm not talking about the guys that. I interview okay I'm talking about I. mean I mean you have to get this too. because you have such a big platform you. know you get you it should be them it. should be them that.

trained whoever it should be them that. has that platform it should be them. that's F on the courses and. and and then there's like like I had. mentioned earlier Special Operations. what is it I mean everything from day. one you said it as well is a competition. you in ranger battalion it's earning. your keep in in every single day. wondering if you're good enough to be. there and um and that carries over I. think we all have a common enemy.

obviously we have a common enemy when. we're in you know in an in in an. environment or a profession like that. but then when you take that common enemy. out yeah turn on ourselves yeah that. that's perfectly said um I don't pay. attention to a lot of it it'd be hard. for me I'm not cruising checking in on. what gripe anybody hat typically I'm not. I'm not just searching for that stuff. and so I'm not consuming a lot of that.

content so maybe some of those guys. really like me some of them really hate. me maybe they don't care I don't really. know their attitude and disposition yeah. um on purpose I'm not interested I know. what I'm doing I know I'm providing a. good service for a certain part of you. know certain part I'm after soccer dads. you know for lack of a better I'm after. average aage Joe's who are I want to be. a good dad I want to work well and I'd.

like to make a few small steps to be a. little bit better protector I'm like I. like you you're my bro let's hang out. let's do gun stuff yeah um and so that's. who I'm after and I'll let all the. operating guys operate operationally to. you know make ninjas out of everyone. else MH and I'll just be over here doing. my thing and if you hate me for it I get. it yeah sometimes I don't like me very. much either so I'm sympathetic I I get. it I get it I get it well let's get back.

to your channel so what did the channel. develop into I know you've taken some. turns throughout your your your career. yeah so I really pressed into more. teaching tactics and this is how you. shoot and this is how you you know can. clear rooms and here's some flashlight. reviews and here's some Kit reviews and. I was doing that at a time where there. was a a gear boom going on and a. training boom uh this was before.

politics had swallowed up all other. avenues of life now since that time. politics ate everything so even if you. talk about something as benign as the. weather well oh climate change can't do. that of like there's the science which. science was science no science TM you. know Anthony foucher he is the science. you know like uh all the science stuff. of me there's not a single area of life. that hasn't been gobbled up by politics.

and so when I saw that move uh and I saw. uh big moves being made against first. and second amendment I'm like all right. my days on this platform are numbered I. saw algorithm switches over namely. September 2017 algorithm switch over by. YouTube uh you know that that's the move. hugely against the gun world so all of. the sudden our analytics just fell off a. cliff and if you were small gun Channel.

good luck getting big because that door. kind of shut M uh and I was already like. a 100,000 followers so I kind of made. the cut off so I was able to grow and. keep growing but I was growing Leaps and. Bounds and then the ad apocalypse. happened the algorithm rewrite and then. my analytics just crushed I can. literally look back in my lifetime. analytics and see every time they made. an rthm. change um and so right now uh though I'm.

many times bigger making far more views. my money from YouTube is 2018. level. wow they hate me that bad yeah I think. I'm heading down that road as well yeah. and it's because um when everything went. political like I'm I hate I hate. politics I hate it and I don't like. politicians either you know like people. have like John run for office how about.

no how about never no what the Lord. would have to call me to it you've never. considered it I have considered it and I. after considering I'm be like hey no way. I do not want that I get it that it's it. is a way to make millions of dollars. broker a lot of power and get a lot of. you know. uh recognition and Limelight the problem.

is is I don't care enough about those. things those are not good carrots for me. uh I would rather live far more simply. and I like the sphere of influence I'm. already operating in I like that I have. no constituents or handlers I'm beholden. to no one I can say whatever I want and. yeah the algorithm is going to punish me. and eventually put me out of business um. but I have to stay the warrior poet I'm. going to be true to who I am how I built. what our message is good for you and I.

hope uh that our big Tech overlords will. allow us to continue to have uh free. speech and that they wouldn't rig the. deck to our ultimate destruction but. right now I'm the problem of they just. don't notify my subscribers when I post. videos yeah that's the big that that's. it of like great rob me blind take my. money do whatever you want but if people. ask you to no defy them when I post a. video please notify them and they won't.

do that my wife is subscribed. notifications Bell on she never gets. notifications when I post videos you. know and this happens many times I'm. just saying my own wife can't get a. notification for my channel and she is. supportive she she didn't really care. about some of the content that I make. but she loves me and maybe I'll say a. silly joke and maybe I'll give her a. little cutesy flirty shout out sometimes. because I do that all the time I'm I'm. getting kind of I'm kind of sweet on her. you know and so anyway she's supportive.

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it I I see this guy up there and he's. laying there sleeping he's just starting. to wake up dude's getting up and he's. swinging up and I'm going don't don't. I'm I'm just looking at I'm going don't. do it don't do it why was I doing that. the rules of engagement I could have. taken him right when I walked out on. there cuz he was up there in security. and had a gun next to him done but I. didn't I was going towards him or still. walking towards him closeing the. distance and then the guy just like. right there goes and he drops it and he.

because he saw it so it's alien versus. [Music]. caveman we are sexual beings and so a. problem that a lot of religions do is. they cross sexuality down to a point. when they cause problems and I'm think. that's part of what happened to me was. within a religious institution where. actuality was forboding it was like you. don't even say the.

word I'm going start living a BL right. now and trying to figure out who I am. and part of the figure out who I am was. part of that isolation always want to be. my sister as a kid just like got. [Music]. sad the Iron Man. suit I did a lot of really good projects. I went in a lot of rabbit holes you know. and then for whatever reason I started. he I don't know how it happened but I.

talked about the Iron Man project Chris. you can call a lot of people idiots. after what I've just heard you talk. about and so that's when I started going. into the ancient times like you're not. going to tell me the sky is blue I want. to I want to know why it's but to give. these puberty bers out is a prison data. from all those pados that's what they're. using. yeah can I ask if you're attracted to. women I'm not you're not no and you fell. in love with with Kristen.

[Music]. mhm um and uh Twitter's kind of touch. and go but Twitter's the freest place I. know of that is Public Square large yeah.

there's all kinds of these other. platforms I'm like yeah he like John you. should get on Rumble I've been on Rumble. for years he like get on Rumble no I'm. there you just don't see me watch me or. find me I'm there I get I get that too. and I'm like yep I'm there and the fact. that everyone keeps telling me to get on. Rumble proves to me that Rumble is not. the place to be mhm it's still the. largest search engine in the world. without anything even remotely close to. the uh in second place YouTube and.

Google yep it is the internet um you. know so yeah you know I wanted to give. you props as well because we we and we. had spoken about this last night as well. but you know you are one of the few. people. from our. community that. made a pivot around 2020 2021 time frame.

yeah. and. that pivot what I'm talking about is you. standing up for what you believe in. standing up for your core values you. appeared to. have maybe not put your business on hold. but you you you made a major pivot. knowing that it was a that. there could be some serious. consequences and to your business and um.

and I made that pivot yeah I saw you. make that pivot um maybe before me maybe. it was right about the same time but um. there's not very. many people that I saw made the pivot. and you know I. had I. had around that time period i had made a. pivot as well you know I'd got I gotten. out of uh guns and tactics got into.

podcasting started taking the podcast uh. very seriously and then I and for a. multitude of reasons uh one being. sensorship of the Second Amendment. genre I'm no longer willing to. compromise yeah you know and. and I I I just I see. these there's just so many people that.

all they care about is the money yeah. and in their business in their growth. and it it's it's like man I'm going to. tell you something buddy you know if you. don't start sticking up for what you. believe in because that inspires others. to do the same you're not going to have. a business yeah you're not going to have. an income stream and and now fast. forward and I to talk to you about this. I mean I I think I think this entire. thing is done I think I think YouTube.

will be obsolete within the next 5 years. wow I think I mean in and one I think. people like me and you will just be. deleted never to be heard from again um. but on top but it doesn't end there I. mean on top of on top of these company's. agendas there's artificial intelligence. that is just taking over everything yeah. and and we talk about deep fakes and and. and stuff that's happening I.

mean there's already technology that. could have a fake you and a fake me. having this exact conversation and it's. becoming more and more realistic every. day yeah you know and I I I do I believe. in the ne I mean that's part of what the. Hollywood strike is about you know they. don't need writers anymore they don't. need actors they can do animes and. and it's all I mean it was a good run. how crazy would it be to let's say in a.

few years down into our dystopian future. we're kening toward uh they delete you. and I and they have an AI Avatar that. looks like us and they script us and. tilt us more left so so basically like. you think you think that Sean Ryan who. just uh walked away from his faith and. endorsed you know Hunter Biden who's. running for president and kick and tail.

uh. sorry some people are like stop. no I hate this this is gone I hate this. I hate this future delete back next. video uh but of like to literally. supplant us with an AI digital whatever. to borrow on past credibility people. don't know you know like and Meanwhile. we're rotten away in solitary. confinement forever with January 6 folks.

no man I hope not but you know I mean. that's just where I see this going you. know every I mean we saw re we were talk. there was me and my wife discussing this. this morning but you know it was eight. tracks cassette tapes DVDs or CDs DVDs. MP3s now I don't even know what we call. them you streaming services and and I. mean YouTube's been around for a while. it's going to become obsolete eventually. and I think IIA uh AI is going to be.

what takes it out you know AI is this. big wild card where I can make I can. make. General guesses on what's going to. happen and I don't have that prophetical. kind of gift not in the capital P. biblical spiritual Prophet kind of sense. but to to figure out what's coming like. Orwell George Orwell amazing ability to. to kind of predict out what's going to. happen of like I don't have that impulse. uh but I can imagine some of it with AI.

it's Uncharted I have no idea where. that's going uh but it does look. like the most powerful tool for control. ever conceived and created by man that. to me looks more dangerous than a. nuclear bomb by far um and so I don't. know how that's shaken up but if you. already don't trust there would be uh. Power that be you give them that a. perfect mechanism to uh manipulate.

propagandise and control the world and. all the flow of information that's bad. but you could imagine a world where you. people just. finally I'm off the internet here's my. community and we're. homesteading they're just done and I'm. moving that direction really uh it's. been one little decision at a time. without this big referendum of it's all. going to die and you need to you know.

rewind the clock a hundred years and. live as a homesteader of like no but. we've just been you know a little bit. over time doing that Homestead life and. investing in local community and we like. that it's a healthier life and it makes. us feel Freer and it's healthy for our. sons to grow up you know taking care of. chickens and and uh hering cat battle. and driving our side by side through the. woods and you know playing with some.

guns and we have our own little spot. carved out it's nothing huge nothing. fancy a simple little Farmhouse but. that's ours that this is ours and so at. some point you're just kind of like what. I'm gaining from plugging into the. Matrix every day is not worth what it's. costing me and you just unplug and. you're done and then you got to figure. out still well how do I make a living. and that's going to be different with AI.

and this Brave New World um but I wonder. if the whole idea is of homesteading is. just. self-sufficiency what if I got myself to. a place where my skills and my resources. around me were at such a place that I no. longer required. wealth what do you use wealth for well. you buy food and you buy you know things. you pay bills and your C what what if.

what if you're kind of more. self-contained right there you know you. grow some food you slaughter a cow every. once in a while you shoot a deer uh. you're kind of hold up there you barter. and trade a bit you got a little money. for. XYZ I don't know if I'm trying to live. more and more. simply I'd like to no longer require. wealth as if to get some huge Nest EG. kick my feet up and you know make trips.

back and forth to toah heiti every once. in a while why I live in a mansion. that's so far gone from my per that's. not that was the goal you know a decade. to go for me that's retirement I never. plan to retire now I'm always going to. be adding value somewhere somehow and I. want to live humbly and. simply and uh I just want to be left. alone do you feel better now than you. did when that that was your when when. you had the Mansion Dei go yeah much. much better we have a simple little.

farmhouse on our own little Homestead. and we're very content and happy there. was that your wife's goal as well my. wife W my wife was raised extremely poor. she had no idea how poor she was in a. very small town in a very poor area uh. she was on free. lunch you know she she just dirt poor. tiny little house she lived in I love. that about my wife is I think it built. character for her in a real cool.

way and uh she is just easier to please. and she's been broke with me before we. have been absolutely broke and then. deeply in debt uh and we had to climb. out of that and that was awful and me. and her we we've been through the ringer. together and um now one thing that is a. requirement is we're still generous you. know we may be you know and we're not. living like poppers by any means of like. we got some Creature Comforts we we we.

spend some money you know but I mean. like uh the goal is to live and I think. we've been good stewards of this we live. below our means by a good shot uh and i'. like to do even. more um and I think that's the way to. travel it's uh stop buying the big. houses and the big cars and leveraging. yourselves to death you're that's not. the way the world is going we need to be. leaning up uh we or we need to lean we.

need to run far leaner than we are you. need to be content with L stop chasing. that carrot it's going to kill you and. the When the Music Stops you're not. going to have a place to. sit it's a good way to put. it I guess kind of what I was getting at. was when when. your when your goal changed when you. went from let's let's amass this huge. amount of money this big nest egg to be.

able to do whatever we want to I mean. how did that how did that happen did you. just come home one day and you're. like this is a new. plan we're going to lean up work less. you know more family. time we don't need all this money so I. don't know that I ever dreamed of having. this huge amount of money or something. it was just kind of the default setting. for all Americans MH that's what we. expect you make a huge amount of money.

so that at a certain age you can retire. and you live pretty well very well or. extremely well based off that for the. rest of your life you do some vacations. you get to win a Bago and you do your. thing you know and so margarit is on the. beach and whatnot and that's just kind. of I think the neurological rut that's. the default setting for a lot of. Americans um it was uh pandemic kind of. stuff that was the scare and I realized.

how dependent we were on our grocery. stores for our food and we're all we're. all on top of each other and I didn't. have actually any skills of I how to. grow food or you know deal with chickens. or anything like that of like uh all of. our money is in the bank account for. what we you know what we have and of. like we're locked in these neighborhoods. and big cities and Co was a little bit. of experiment and how self-sufficient.

are you people found out of like I'm. hopelessly dependent of what all of a. sudden there's this Nationwide run on. toilet paper and then it's gone toilet. paper. what really that's the thing and then. and then the gas stations empty out yeah. that's happened a couple times you know. over the last decade or so all of a. sudden huge gas lines and then the these. gas stations are out like what uh and. then grocery stores just empty of food.

like so much stuff gone and not. replenished and whether it's our power. grid or whether it's our food. distribution Network which all these. systems are extremely fragile I don't. know you know maybe maybe nothing ever. really happens bad but I just realized I. would like to be able to be in a little. bit more control over it. uh and I think and really the solution. was is homesteading and homesteading is.

a natural shift in priorities and it's a. natural um. reorientation in uh moving from. lavish uh lifestyle and that carrot to. something that is forcibly more. pragmatic something practical we will. grow this amount of food and see how. that goes by the way we suck at growing. food we've killed everything we're. terrible at it we're getting better but.

we're still bad but like you get some. chickens well a third of your meals are. covered for the rest of the year you. just get some freaking chickens man mhm. a third of your. meals you got it for the rest of the for. at. infinum you know like hey that seems. like a good idea I'll get some cows now. and we just literally right before I. came here. uh yesterday or the day before we loaded. a quarter cow into our deep freezer you.

know so we have cows and we breed them. and then we eat them and then we eat. them congratulations how's that feel is. that the first one no uhuh so we've been. doing this for a couple years but what. I'll do is I'll sell you know uh X. number of cows uh this year I've sold. five cows and I'll do that at the. stockyard and then I'll buy some someone. else's cow so that we as a family don't. sit down and eat Mrs moo who we used to.

pet so some folks would be like bro that. is that is spineless of you you should. be eating your own and I'll be like. maybe so but I took the coward's route. out yeah so my 9-year-old doesn't cry. while he bites into that delicious. hamburger so uh we sold some cows and. then I'd buy one so that's our. system let's get back to the AI deep. fake stuff so I this is something I.

think about all the time too and uh I I. had mentioned here we have a we do a uh. we just started this we started. a a Bible study at my house and uh. there's a couple of us couple uh three. families that do it but. um one. of we have a pastor or Minister I don't. whatever is there a. difference um so there's uh in in the.

Bible there's a few different offices in. the Greek it's Po episcopos and. presbuteros and that's like Elder then. there's Shepherd and then there is um. overseer or bishop and all these kind of. offices are used very interchangeably. and usually they're focusing on the. different aspects of what that person. does now culturally it comes about as uh. one denomination likes the word Minister.

another wants to say the word priest. another one likes to say the word pastor. and still this other one wants to do the. word Elder and all of it kind of means. the sameish thing until you start having. like archbishops and then it's kind of. like a pastor of many or a priest of. many different priests and. so it has to do with more of a hierarchy. that happens more in Catholicism where. you'll have far more of a structured. hierarchy you'll have a little bit.

flatter of a hierarchy and stuff like. methodism uh in Baptist or something or. like a non-denominational often times. it's more what's called. congregationalist and that means it's. more of a self- autonomous uh body with. a far flatter hierarchy and so you'll. have elder or Pastor or multiple there's. probably more than you wanted to know. but don't ask a Bible guy a Bible. question in a interview without a Time. hack you know so well be careful but.

pastor we usually say a pastor okay so. okay so where kind of where I was headed. was you know I think about a lot my. wheels are always spinning what's going. to happen how's this all going to play. out AI yeah you know I think about a lot. and and and you know it's all nobody. believes mainstream media nobody it's. getting to the point no nobody believes. anything nobody believes the government. nobody believes the media nobody. believes uh news articles nobody.

believes magaz you know yeah in in with. this new AI stuff that's happening and. and it's going to get to to the I mean. the Deep fake stuff you have people. calling they can they can mimic your. voice yeah call your wife and say hey. Becca this is John I'm being held for. ransom you see where I'm going with this. right well soon they're going to be able. to do this with FaceTime they're going. to be able to we just talked about it.

they they can recreate your image and. likeness and voice uh to do whatever to. manipulate it to do whatever they want. so I've always. said it's going to get to the point. where. seeing is no longer believing well yeah. well a lot of times I come up with these. things and then I tell myself you're. crazy you're this is just you're coming. up with these own you're coming up with. these conspiracies in your head and then. I hear somebody else articulate it and.

it was. at the first Bible study that we hosted. at our at our home and my friend Todd. said the exact same thing yeah he said. it's going to get to the point where. even seeing is not believing because. everything is going to be fake and as. you know I'm relatively. new with the Bible and I haven't read it. all I'm I I'm breaking it up into.

sections but uh from what I've. heard uh from people you know just. talking about it it this has already. been written yeah that it will get to. the point yes where you cannot tell what. is actually real or. true yeah is this where you think we're. at does it say that I think we're nearer. now to the end than when we first. believed I think this I think we are.

caring toward an ultimate Reckoning with. Creator God um and I think us uh we are. destined to destroy ourselves we are we. are Mary Shell's monster you know uh we. yeah of course we destroy our lives. we're going to destroy ourselves um and. so yeah I think it's heating up to a. Biblical biblically prophesied climax.

now I'm really careful on how I. interpret end times. prophecy uh because you can take it all. kinds of different directions and be. like all right so mark of the beast. actually meant this and and I'm like I. don't know but I'm going to cling to. team Jesus real tight and not do what. the world is telling me to do just just. going to follow Jesus so like I don't. know how all this is shaking out but I. know whose side I'm on and uh so uh but.

the more I see happening in the Public. Square the more I want to just hold up. and and focus on the physical people in. front of me the real world cuz uh just. like you you just. espoused I don't trust my own eyes and. my own ears and more and more uh less. and less social media and the internet. has something to offer me of I'm not.

getting enough nourishment for the. poison that I'm taking in and once AI. has thrown into question the things that. I I I do get information on there of. like well I guess I'll just value my. physical relationships personto person. you know like how we used to live before. the internet when the internet is. completely compromised I guess I'll just. get rid of the internet I'm like what. about banking I'm like I will do banking. in person and I'm like and you know I'm.

not saying I will just not do the. internet well I when I was on the. mission field I quit the internet for a. year I just. quit um I found of like well I'm really. you know just into my books and my. mission and uh so I got a flip phone and. I just kicked off the internet for a. year so our online. banking my wife it have to do and I'd. coach her through it we didn't have much. money anyway we spent it all in the. mission.

field so that wasn't too hard but when. we did have to do something online. banking it was through her you know her. internet connection I didn't even have. it and guess what it was a really good. year it was a cool year you could make. it we survived without the internet. before we could do it. again some stuff would be a real pain in. the neck now I don't know if me and you. could because my business is on the. internet mhm but here we're talking. about a. cataclysmic break a destruction an. unraveling of all kinds of things where.

a lot of our jobs don't exist anymore. and I'm probably way decent to there so. we're we're really trying to really look. out in this uh theoretical dystopia and. so I don't know man are you at peace. with this yet no knowing that the rug's. going to be ripped out from under you um. I mean no but remember my peace doesn't. come from this.

world so I can still have joy and peace. and. hope because this this is not my home. I'm just I'm just passing through in. this life just passing through now I. feel deeply uh distressed by every. everyone else that's kind of caught up. in the fry who are hoping that no we got. to get this guy elected and this leader.

he's going to get it all right I'm like. oh precious child no no that is not true. whatever presidential candidate you're. rooting for he is not the Messiah you. think and though it would be better that. that person got elected versus this. other one they're not going to write all. the ills yeah that's every politician. for all time that's the platform put me. in office and I'll fix everything and. guess what none of them have ever pulled.

it off and the next one though they make. it a little bit better or not quite as. worse as the guys before them or the. guys after them they're not going to fix. everything they're not going to fix you. they'll fix some stuff they're not going. to fix the whole thing though and so. that's where my faith is not in our. political. leaders um and so yeah yeah I can have. peace and. joy um but man my kids are growing up in.

this world you know and there's a lot of. folks out there that are lost and that's. upsetting and I still um you know I. still love my country and I want to. fight for her because I think the ideals. that she embodies is worth fighting for. and so yeah I I I will spend myself. utterly on these things uh but hope and. joy and peace those don't come from the. things I'm fighting. for all right John we're wrapping up.

towards the end of the interview there. is one other topic that I want to talk. to you about it has to do well doesn't. have to do with it is fatherhood you. seem to be. a a very good father you're obviously a. very involved parent so is your. wife what do you think some of the I. mean there are a lot of fatherless kid. kids out there right now today even the. ones that do have a father a lot of. those fathers are not present you see it.

everywhere you go today you see young. men with zero confidence yeah they sit. there and they look at their shoes they. can't talk to you they can't make eye. contact you know and and and you know we. talked about feminism earlier in the. woke agenda a little bit and that's. destroying masculinity but I think that. the biggest assault on masculinity. is the absence of the father in homes oh.

hardcore no close second to that you. know most kids in America are not. growing up with a father in the home the. majority holy. smokes so uh big clap just for the dads. that show up that don't leave that's. awesome um I also want to recognize some. some dads didn't leave they were chased. out as well so both are true what I. don't want to do is buy into that uh. cultural uh Dynamic where the guy is.

always at fault and the girl is did. great and she's the victim I'm like no. some women are so insufferably. impossible to live with and you were the. reason he left usually a marriage falls. apart because takes two to tango both of. you had your own junk you know and and. that sucks and so I'm not judging I'm. I'm not I'm sympathetic to that but just. recognize usually two to tango kind of. thing so man I I I couldn't agree more. that fatherlessness is it's an epidemic.

uh that that's destroying the very. fabric of our society must must must get. fatherhood right now I wouldn't. immediately said hey you're you're a. good dad and I'm like I hope so I really. I really hope so um I think there's some. stuff that I am doing that's very. countercultural and I think I'm doing. some of these things well I can feel it. I know these are good variables there's.

other stuff of like I don't know I I. hope so I hate. how I'm uh I'm I'm so tired and. distracted and doing so much that I can. I'm always thinking of like man I should. really take my kids camping or something. I would take them camping in in a long. time now I'm doing these other things I. just took them to Italy and Austria and. Switzerland and we were together for 2. weeks doing stuff and I'm like I did. that but I think about all the other.

stuff of like the day in and day out. stuff I'll do a little bit of like kids. want to play Airsoft and Nerf and maybe. I say no nine times for every one I say. yes man that sucks I anyway I'm just. venting my own I could be a lot better. I'm just worn out and and I I I've got. to figure out a good time where I can. can have some you know Daddy time with. them and make it count but the jury's. out on how good of a dad I am I've got a. 9-year-old and 11year old and when you.

meet them you'd be like oh these are. confident kids you would Marvel at their. vocabulary it's really qu quite striking. their vocabularies are incredible. because they've read more books than. most college graduates I guarantee you. my 9-year-old even my 11-year-old is the. big reader but even my 9-year-old has. read more books than most college. graduates I guarantee it if you stacked. up the books we've read just as a family. because I've been reading to my kids. since 2 years old uh uh We've read this.

many books you know made to them and and. so that that's been a culture of them. you I think I get a lot of compliments. on my kids so I think I think I'm doing. some good stuff as a dad but who knows. maybe they're going to write a book when. they're 24 on how actually dad sucked. and I was doing such and such maybe I'm.

guilty of ills that I'm not even aware. of you know uh and so I don't know more. than patting myself on the back of the. few things that I may be doing right I'm. hyper Vigilant of I hope I'm not sucking. in ways that I can't perceive so anyway. you thrust the moniker on me and I just. telling you why that made me. uncomfortable yeah yeah well you know I. get it I'm hard on myself too man and. Dad but you know when I come home and I.

see my 2-year-old. Son run into the garage door because he. heard that the driveway alarm go off you. know that's that's a super cute that's a. good sign and uh you know when I go to. work he's grabbing my pant Lake trying. to get me to yeah to play with his new. train or his cars or or whatever I mean. something's right doing something right. good job I'm sure I'm doing all kinds of. bad things and and and things that I can.

improve on but something I'm doing is. Right otherwise you wouldn't be getting. excited and I'm sure you're doing quite. a few things right too John thanks but. what. are mean I hate to like throw such a. general question at you but what are. some of the most important things to. you that you would like to pass on to. your kids some attributes oh wow all. right you went a different route than I. thought.

um great question so I want them to be. uh courageous and bold I want them to be. uh well. educated um I want them. to uh know how to treat a woman they. practice on their mom you know and. so um taking. care uh I want them to know how to. resolve. conflict I want them to be. leaders um I want them to be.

honest I don't really care what they do. for a li I don't I don't care uh as. much um but I want them to live worthy. it's the manner in which they live. that's the stuff that I actually care. about um and I realize the only possible. way I can build that in them is to be at. myself um you can teach what you know. but you can only replicate who you are.

that's it and. so uh there's knowing that there's. no. um there's no what is it supplement. there's no replacement for spending time. with your children you have to spend. time with them and if you spend time. with them and we embody these Val values. they're going to see it and it might. just replicate and. spread so you'll replicate who you are.

assuming you spend sufficient time with. them if you are that way and you spend. time with them it'll almost be. impossible not to replicate those. certain virtues in them and so that's my. plan be better personally and spend time. and I look for teachable moments as we. laugh our way through the years and we. cry through P pains and we grit our.

teeth together as we set ourselves. against different struggles but we do it. all shoulder toosh shoulder and they do. it as they see Dad do it. too um but I'm not living a separate. life that they'll one day learn about in. my Memoirs they're watching me go. through it now so when I go through a. struggle or something something happens. I very well may it bring the boys over. I'm like all right boys I'm dealing with. this right here now this person said.

this to me and I felt like saying or. doing this what do you think about. that what should I. do okay if I do that and and we'll war. game out a little bit of that we'll. figure out that together but I'm. inviting them into our show so we're. very open with our kids about here's the. problems were solving here's what I just. did and it was wrong I raised my voice. at your mother let me tell you why I.

shouldn't have done that and how I. should have done that different and so I. mean they see me apologize when I do. something stupid or when my wife does. and so I'm. trying to hey here's here's here's some. good stuff here's some bad stuff your. dad is fatally flawed and I'm on a. journey and I'm trying to get get better. so we have Grace together for each other. here's my wins here's my. losses uh and so I'm inviting them on.

this journey you are setting the. ultimate example that's the goal uh and. so my hope is is they'll learn from my. wins and my. losses so I I screwed up teaching. opportunity hey I did well teaching. opportunity um so either way maybe they. can get strong. here um that's the goal and I don't. always do that awesome you. know you know sometimes you feel like.

you're killing it at work and you're. sucking at home and other times you feel. like you're killing it at home and. sucking at work it's just real hard to. balance those two things really well I. could definitely relate to that. yeah if you could give one piece of. advice to a new father what would it. be uh so brand new. father.

um. man so if you're brand new father brand. new uh babies often times come out. purple with Cone. Heads don't freak out that's just a baby. thing uh I noticed uh our first son and. Mom had this amazing connection I mean I. I love my son I'm kind of like yeah. awesome uh awesome you know.

cool well see you when you're older no. just kidding uh but uh as the kids get. older and start to communicate. especially Sons they kind of shift over. more toward Dad when Mama rules the. first few nurturing years more and I. found myself I got really jealous for my. wife's time because my kids got the. first fruits and so I had to my wife is. holding up these kids but I'm holding up. my wife and it felt a little thankless.

and that I'm after my wife but she just. seems to be after the kids she's not. after me uh but the first year it's. really about keeping those kids alive. you know uh but you still need to pull. her out so that you can invest in the. marriage again a lot of folks will in. our society today we idolator eyesee our. children. and a lot of times the arrival of our. kids marks the beginning of the end for. our marriage because it always becomes.

about the kids so like an example you're. talking with your spouse at the dinner. table a kid runs up with a problem mommy. mommy mommy do you stop allow the. interruption turn and answer the kid and. off on the way is that the answer or is. it no I'm speaking to your father wait. and then you speak maybe a little bit. longer now to make them wait one it is a.

clue that you're idolator your kids at. the expense of your marital relationship. setting a bad PR is teaching this kid. that they're the centner of the world. and then you're going to ruin them for. it and the second one is saying no your. father is speaking and you don't get to. interrupt your father you should be. listening to your father you know and so. here this is uh this is one that teaches. a kid uh humility and um uh good manners.

and patience and restraint and so that's. just one. tiny you know uh show of that but um you. should uh not idolatrize your kids or. you'll ruin them love your spouse more. than your kids and your family has a. really good. shot um some people won't like that but. it's just good advice. the kids will actually flourish in that. Dynamic uh and it's going to teach them. how to do marriage really well and you.

make them into these little uh bratty. Kings these little tiny. napoleons uh when you uh let them be the. most important so make your spouse make. Jesus be the most important thing make. your spouse uh be the the thing um you. know if like it's the adult Center. household and the kids are invited into. it in these parameters not the other way. around that'll destroy it uh for brand.

new dads uh invest in Baby Wise. otherwise your kids even at a as a. babies they're just going to run your. wife ragging into the ground they should. eat on a schedule but look up the book. Babywise holy cow that'll save your. sanity um first couple years you just. survive through the terrible twos and. threes and for me as a dad it started. getting really fun it was fun before you. have lots of Joy but you're worn out. exhausted a lot of times and you're. getting them through at 4 5 6 7 8 9 10.

11 years old those have been party. there's been so fun years 4 to 11 that's. as far as we've gotten so far have loved. it want to freeze them not like Walt. Disney cryogenically you know whatever. uh but I mean like Peter Pan don't grow. up anymore we really love you where. you're at that's been true of every age. since the terrorist tuos and. threes um anyway somewhere in there some. good advice that's uh that's some great. advice and uh you throughout this I.

learned a lot just right there oh you're. gracious just I'm I'm not even joking. around you know the the the dinner table. thing that's something I've never even. thought of when we're not to that stage. yet but that's something that I've oh. I've never even thought about that oh. here's something of the dinner table. thing this is a new revelation and. that's uh I my it's it's hard to get. your kids to eat I don't know what it is. but kids just don't seem to want to eat. they want to play and flip upside down. and here's a toy and you know you and.

your wife cleaned your plate like 30. minutes ago and you're just begging this. kid to eat first off that's not a good. way to do business you should never be. begging your children to do anything. it's like all right you don't want to. eat you got uh 3 minutes to finish that. up if not you go to bed and when you. break up in the morning there's your. this will be your breakfast and just let. them get really hungry until they. appreciate food and anyway that that's. uh your wife isn't going to let you do. that she's going to play the plead game. until she eventually gets really. exhausted and then you'll come in of. like you want me to solve this and then.

she'll say yes I really do I'm like okay. but you can't interfere once you give me. the keys to this and they say okay very. good and then you just like all right. kid you got two minutes to finish that. of like as soon as you're done you go up. to bed go straight to bed you know they. go to bed uh without dinner uh mind you. they won't eat the dinner fine you don't. have dinner go up to bed um dad's know. how to solve this immediately and that's. great cuz dads will know a certain. amount of um dads will know solutions to. problems that moms will not and raising.

kids and vice versa and it's through the. wrestling tension of those two things. that kids actually Thrive I solved that. problem immediately I know exactly how. to solve the eating problem uh and my. son after a couple hours called down. starving you know and I'm like would you. like to eat yes Daddy and I brought him. up his cold dinner and I watched him eat. that food refused to eat earlier and he. had tears streaming down his cheeks. while he ate this thing smiling ear to. ear happy as a clam he got his.

dinner nice his little brother was. asleep beside him and he was crying cuz. he was hungry and he knew that if he. didn't eat that dinner tonight that. would be his breakfast and he don't he. doesn't have to eat that breakfast but. you will not eat and that will be your. lunch and you don't have to eat the. lunch but you'll skip that meal and that. will be your dinner easy easy mom. couldn't do that couldn't imagine it. worked immediately never had the problem. again nice you know and so you are built.

with certain masculine instincts that is. incredibly important in the raising of a. child you get it you get some solutions. that your wife will not she won't she. won't like it it'll be counterintuitive. to her it'll seem harsh and to you it's. clear as a bell uh other ways so your. job is to make them tough to grow them. up to make them strong so that they can. surv or so that they can be well.

functioning members of society that are. useful for something make them strong. her job is to keep them alive long. enough for you to make them. strong and so build them nurture them. and so you've got these two bookends and. it's through the tension it's through. that let's discuss this man and wife to. figure out what's best in any. circumstance if you win all these. interchanges you'll make them a.

heartless. brute just a punk uh and if she wins. they're going to be weak spoiled little. brats uh and so it turns out that uh. kids need a dad and a. mom so. well. John lot of wisdom today a ton of I I. learned a ton I you're gracious thank.

you you should think about writing a. book sometime this. book we're supposed to talk about the. book we never talked about the book we. got carried away guys I got a book you. have a book. so John I just once again I want to say. man it was a it was a real honor to get. to know you in here and have this. conversation last night night at dinner. I mean I'm just so happy that we finally. connected and uh got to meet in person I. wish you the best of luck and and um.

once again for anybody looking to get in. touch with John whether it's training. just want to get in touch with him get. the book warriorpoetsociety.us. thanks for having me on man I had a. great time me too best of luck to you. brother thanks man you. [Music].

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