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Podcast Andre Popa

Your Money’s Being Stolen, What Can You Do About It

Intro 0:00 Who's a badass? That's right. You're a badass. Welcome everyone to the weekly show where we will go deep into the human dynamic and what makes us all extremely special. We're breaking the stereotypical mold of the badass on a Harley with tattoos, and we're rebranding the badass with any human being that's happy and free. One can have all the money, houses, the Harleys and tattoos, Lamborghinis yet if they're not happy and free, what's the point? Let's push some buttons and start some shit. Welcome to the weekly show, Who's A Badass. Andre 0:42 Welcome, you guys. Whoo, this exciting? Yeah, there's a lot of stuff happening in the world, we're going to focus on what's coming up in the next few months. I'm assuming most of you know there's been a transition in the finance game, in the finance world, and it affects literally everybody down to your last penny. And if you don't know it yet, if you're not aware yet, my goal here is to wake you up to the fact that your money's being stolen, and what you can do about it, and how you can hold on to it for longer, etc. So, and what's interesting, as we'll talk today, what I'm finding is that most people don't realize how bad it is. So, for example, I'm at Costco yesterday, and I'm looking at cucumbers that used to be $4.99. And now they're $5.50. So, most people will say, "Well, it's only $1.50. What's a big fucking deal? Relax, Andre, don't be an idiot." So, here's the problem. Here's where most people don't break down numerics or their money down to a fucking science. People that have money will do this because they're trained in mathematics. They're trained to see numbers, they're trying to go for percentages. So, most people will say it's $1.50. But here's the problem. When you go from five, sorry, it went from $4.99 to $6.50. It went up $1.50. Right? So, from five to $6.50. That to me is a 30% increase in the same food I was eating two weeks ago. I mean, I haven't because I'm on carnivore, but I'm just, I'm making a point, dammit. There's an inflation that people don't realize how big it is. You have Pellegrino in the same Costco. Pellegrino that used to be 14, 13 and change, call it 14 bucks. Now, it's 20. So, this went up what 40%? Because it's imported from Italy. 40%. It's still flying off the shelves but people are like, well, it's only a little increase. Not that big of a deal but when you start breaking down, what you're making, your income today, and where the inflation, where prices of food, and fuel, and insurance, everything went up, you guys, look at your, I bet your auto insurance, home insurance. Everything is going up. So, we'll chat more about that. We'll, damn it, we'll get right in. Biden, the arrest, the fires, is the Biden clown show. Yeah, see my point. That's my point. It's every day, every minute. Our heads are spinning because it's by design. If they wanted us to stay focused on three things, they wouldn't give us a thousand. But every two minutes like something new, something new, squirrel, squirrel squirrel, so we forget the... where's the Maxwell list? Right? That's all we should be... two things matter right now. The 2020 elections and the fucking Maxwell list. Nothing else matters. Everything else is a show, everything else is bullshit. And everything else is to keep your head fucking spinning. So, alcohol, nicotine is the same. Correct. They're very good at things that are bad for you. They know, and this isn't historically hasn't nothing to do with the current situation, but you know very well, like marijuana, things that are actually good for the body, they've outlawed so the CIA can run the shit and control that and make all the money as opposed to making it public and letting people just grow shit in their backyard. Obviously, it's more loose today but same idea. You are correct. It's a clown show. Don Peebles. Welcome. 100 degrees in Southeast Texas. Hello. And what's interesting is south east, so you're like, there's a little town there. Fuck. God, what's that little town? Anyway, I mean, it's not little but it's, you know, so the bottom left, it's the southeast. Anyway. So, it's interesting. Gas. Everybody's talking about gas. It's up. It's high. It's crazy. It's, in some parts of California, it's jumped seven bucks a gallon. And I made a comment. Like, as soon as it started going up to three months ago, whatever that was it started going into the $4 and the $5. And oh my god, people are panicking and it's like six bucks, $6.99. So, back in the day two months ago when is the spike started happening, people bitch and people post about it. People talk about it. People complain about it, people... but it's like my big problem with humanity as a whole is why are we just complaining and doing nothing about it? Yeah, are there like a tiny handful of people doing something about it? Yes, but are most people just fucking complaining? Yes. So, I have two predictions. Number one, we're not going to see more people walking or riding the bike, checkmark, three months later you don't see fucking increase in traffic on bicycles or pedestrian alerts, right? People are still driving their fucking asses everywhere and we adapt. We're like fucking monkeys. Monkey see monkey do. And it's annoying because it's not only in the gas department that we're doing this, we're doing this everywhere. Like right now, masks are coming back. Why? Because we have midterms coming up. I did a post a few days ago where, hey, it's about to happen and literally the next fucking day, California I think, yeah, LA County, literally the next day, the next morning, LA County says, hey, as of July 29, full mask on, indoors, full mask, numbers are going through the roof. That next, that same fucking night... so, listen to this. So, people, they take these alerts because obviously the news is there to feed us all the stuff that we need to get scared and they're good at it, you guys, they are very, very good at it, there's nobody better. And it goes to the top of the pyramid chain of all the bad people and all these bad people all own all of the news stations, all the MSM. So, when you're getting fed info, please understand you're not getting it from God. Okay, the TV has not God. TV is literally the enemy. So, what they're feeding us, for those of you that watch, you're getting fed bullshit, which means fear. So, automatically, in the last two weeks, I've seen a daily increase in mask usage in stores. Literally, anywhere I go, I see more, and more, and more, and more people wearing masks. And I'm like what the fuck? Right? And you know what's coming on. Like, you know they're talking about it. You know it's midterms are coming up, you know the election is about to get flipped. Like we know, we know like, we fucking get it. But desperate people do what? Desperate fucking things. So, the same day that LA County says, hey, full mask, July 29, all indoor, that's it, game over because a phenomenal spike and COVID numbers. Then, the fucking health administrator of LA County does a press conference that same fucking day. This is how people are waking up and it's beautiful. Right? But that's why this is called a great awakening because if we don't wake up, we are fucked. We are waking up, right? All of us here. I don't care where you are. We're waking up. And here's the trick. So, this the head of the health whatever this guy was white coat, older gentleman, he literally goes out and says, "Hey, you know, we're told..." this is the fucking head of LA County. He says, "We're told numbers are, spiking numbers are through the roof. But I just want you to know..." he's doing a press conference, "I want you guys to know that we don't have any numbers. We don't have anybody in the ER with anything that has to do with pulmonary respiratory issues. Zero." This is the head of fucking health in LA County. LA County ain't small, it's about 16, 17 million people. That's a lot of motherfuckers. So, this guy comes out, literally against the state saying, without saying bullshit, he's saying, "We just don't see any numbers." He didn't call them liars but he called them liars. He didn't say, "You're making shit up." But he said, you're making shit up. He didn't say fake news. But he said fake news. And he literally said, "Hey, right now, our ERs are fucking empty. We have zero. Do we have..." and he actually threw a number like, "Do we have 18 positive COVID tests? Yeah, we do. But those are just positive tests. These people don't have symptoms." You see my point? So, in that same fashion, people just follow. People just follow. Fear kicks in. And now, what's happening is because we've been two and a half years of masks, two and a half years of fear, two and a half years.... oh, my God. Sorry, squirrel. But oh, my God. Look at New York. I also told you, guys, on Facebook when I do my little post my goal is to just spread little seeds of information. You, guys, see the lineup of people in New York getting the fucking the monkey pox shot? You can't make this up, you guys. You cannot make this up. You cannot make this up. People are lining up to get the fucking monkey pox because the five COVID shots, the 18 boosters, the booster plus, the platinum version, the extra elite, the extra lunar, and the Hyper Sonic boosters weren't enough. Now, we got to get the fuck monkey pox. Come on. Like, just come on. Right? But my point is, we're doing the same thing. We're repeating history. Until we wake up, we're fucked. And that's just my analogy. And it's amazing because some people are waking up right now, they're gonna do it again, they're gonna bring on full masks, full this, they're going to restrict travel again, they're going to shut shut down. Why masks? And you guys, yeah, most people just put on the mask and they just, because it's just what to do. It's what we do today. It's just normal, I'm just going to be cautious. I'm going to be respectful of the other people. But what's happening is it's become this sense of belonging. And this is a scary fucking part because at core, you have to remember we're animals, and I get some Christians saying we're not animals, we are creatures of God, and I'm like, fuck you, still an animal. Okay? The difference between our DNA and the fucking chimpanzee is point 4%. Okay, we're animals. So, we want to belong, we are tribal, we want to belong to groups. And when fear sets in, and when you're not, sorry because I really don't want to insult people, but when you fall for the game over, and over, and over again, what happens is the intelligence, and I'm going to get to August in a minute for a reason, like I'm saying this for a reason, the intelligence level and the decision making process of our system literally dwindles. So, when we want to belong, because I'm just going to wear a mask because it's just respectful to everybody. And yeah, those people are out there like, all the fucking time. But why? Why now? Why now? We're about to go into August. Why are they going to push masks in August? What are masks doing to the health of the human body? But more importantly, what are masks doing to the brain? What does... this is trivia here, you guys, what does the mask do to the human body? How does it hurt the human body? And as you, guys, think about this, and are like desperately excited to answer my question, here's what's up. Our decision making process gets put to sleep. When we don't get oxygen when we're not able to exhale carbon dioxide and inhale, oxygen, oxygen and carbon dioxide out, there's a reason for this flushing, right? Good and bad out good and bad out. But now, when you have a mask on, you know what happens? You're recycling your carbon dioxide. So, you're killing a lot of your abilities on the inside. I'm not going to go into the immune system. I'm not going to go into the real true deep health issues. But you know what happens the most, is your decision making process dies. It dies. It kills the pineal gland. It kills your wanting to take action, to fight, it takes that edge away. There's all kinds of shit, you guys so now here's August, hottest month of the fucking year. And some of us have it real hot like Texas. People will get lit up. We're not that bad in California but it's still hot. People are going to fucking wear them because it's for the good of humanity. Right? Special. So, if you can't make a decision, if you can't fight, if you're not going to stand up for what you believe in, and you got midterms coming up, doesn't that sound birdie? Yeah. Meanwhile, prices of food are going through the roof. truckers are not able to deliver food anymore. Farmers are being paid millions of dollars to destroy their crops, to not plan crops, to sell their land. You have Chinese and Bill Gates buying up so much farmland in the US. Ask yourself why. So, everything coming out of my mouth, you guys, say, well, why does that happen? And why is that happening? Why is Bill Gates buying land? Why are the Chinese buying land? Why are current farmers being paid millions of dollars and some are actually falling for it? Because they think it's for the good of humanity? That's how good the evil side is. So, are we getting to a place where prices and availability will get to a fucking bottleneck? The answer is yes. A recession I believe, like we've never seen before, is peeking its head out of its own asshole. It's giving birth to itself from an anus. And you're like, wow, that's dirty, Andre, whatever. Deal with it. So, the recession is coming. Real Estate's going to blow sideways. It's going to literally like diarrhea, like you know that explosion, like, poof, sideways explosion? It's going to explode just like that. So you're like, Well, how do you know? We'll just watch numbers. Just study. If you don't want to study, follow people that do the studies and you can get information from them. So, real estate is going to eat shit. The bubble that we saw where real estate was just climbing and crazy and beautiful, gone. Right? That's already settled. It's dropping. You have a company called Blackrock that's buying up huge amounts of real estate all over the country. Why? That's a big question. Who is BlackRock? Why Why are they buying a bunch of real estate? What are they buying off Wall Street? And who is Blackrock? Even more important, and what does Blackrock own? Who are they? Dammit. And this is how you start going down the rabbit hole of Holy shit. Damn. I never knew. But now I know. So, real estate's gonna go funky, which means we're going to see not just a settling of prices because they really got inflated, they got stupid. Like where we live, we saw probably 50 to 70%. I'm not exaggerating, shit, they used to be a million bucks is going for 1.8, 1.9. So, fuck, we're talking 60 to 80, 90% just incredible. Anyway, so, let's calm down. We're going to see now houses, mortgages flip. We're going to see, we're going to see foreclosures, we're going to see the market turn in a bad, ugly way. It's just inevitable. Has this been planned? Yes. August, September, October. August, September, October, we have 90 days, sorry, we have about, I don't know, 70, 80 days depending on exactly when in October, they will drop the market. But if you understand astrology, and if you understand when they dropped markets, if you look back in history, when we've had crashes, it's always October. It's the wrong October fest. It's October fest for them because it's by design. They drop the fucking market. They eat everything up. And then they sell it back to us. Hmm, interesting, huh. It's a mofo. What's exciting for you is that this could also mean opportunity. So, my goal today is to say, hey, there's a there's a fucking recession coming. You can either sit back like we did, meaning we my wife and I, we sat back we thought we were invincible. 2000, shit. '18, '19. '18, God, I'm sorry. 2008, 2009, 2010, those two years right there, we... sorry. So, let's back up. I mean, we're making great money. We had a $3 million house on the beach. When I say ocean view, it was like out of a fucking magazine. Gorgeous, beautiful, beautiful everything. Like everything was beautiful. It was perfect. Meanwhile, the market starts to turn income wasn't in the same volume as it was before. We were in all kinds of businesses. We're in real estate. We're in construction. We're in MLM. We're in all kinds of shit but we're killing it. We're making great fucking money but all of a sudden, it goes from like, climb and then we're killing it, killing it, and it goes cliff dive. Bam. Now, when a cliff dives and you're exposed, you know what happens? Everything goes away. The house went, the cars. We had seven cars. I mean, everything's just fucked, prrrt, within months, like poof, gone. Nothing ever happened. So, now, I had probably two years or so of anger around the whole situation because I didn't think it was fair. I was pissed with Bank of America, you motherfuckers, I was pissed with so many people. The government. Yes. Again. Was it a setup? Yeah, it was. Was it by design? Absolutely. So, I had issues around a lot of stuff. But I finally had to get around the concept that it was still me. I was not prepared. Were there others that were prepared. And then as soon as it crashed? They went shopping. Yes. And I'm like motherfucker, dammit. So, I had a bunch of friends that just went into fucking shopping spree and they just killed it where I needed time to rebuild. So, today, this is about to happen again in the world, right? Not for me, but in the world. So, here's what I've learned. You can either get ready, prepare, position yourself to get through, to cruise, at least cruise through the dark times. There are going to be dark times ahead. So, you can either get fucking hammered the way we did. And it wasn't fun. I gotta tell you, we had two little girls, fun zero fun in that process, but learned a shit ton. So, what I'm sharing with you, guys, today is actual experience. Should you want to prepare, the best thing you can do today is start getting around people that understand money, understand what's going to happen in the market, and then understand not just money as to how to make it but how to become frugal. This is where and I'm not saying to become frugal, like, gotta bite every penny. I'm not saying frugal to that point. But just get frugal to where you at least control the bleeding. So, a lot of us are just used to, well, it's just Starbucks. It's $4. Yeah, but here's the problem. Just like I told you, guys, a cucumber example in the beginning where it went from $5 to $6.50, people are like, "Yeah, but it's only $1.50. It's not a big deal, Andre." And I'm like, it is a big fucking deal because it's 30% increase. But people, the mind that is not trained in numbers, and in money, and in business, just sees only $1.50, that's not going to affect me this week. But 30%, across the board of all of your food will affect you. So, understanding how to be frugal from the perspective of understanding where your money goes. Like for example, tracking, there are many, many apps where you can track your money just like you track calories, and what you ate for breakfast to lose weight, to get buff, to do all that shit. Track your money. So, literally, you track what comes in. So, you get a paycheck, whether you have a job or you have a business and you pull money, however you get paid, it's called income. It's in come, it's coming in. You want to track that motherfucker. So, if you got 1000 bucks, or 100 grand, or a million dollars, whatever it may be, drop it down. And now, every single day, start writing down what you spend. Because here's the problem. You're like, it's only four bucks at Starbucks. Yeah, but here's the problem, fucker. If you do it every single day for 30 days, that's 120 bucks. And over 12 months, that's going to be like, 13...frickin $1,300. And you're like, but yeah, but what's the big deal? I enjoy Starbucks. Here's the big fucking deal. You can make the same coffee at home for pennies on the dollar, number one. Number two, check this out. Because again, we are not taught to think through everything that affects everything. And here's my point. You're like, it's just Starbucks. It's just four bucks a day. It's only $1,300 a year. Okay. Do you have to take your car to Starbucks to get the coffee? Yes, you do. So, you got the car cost, gas, insurance, wear and tear on the car. Because you're like, but it's only Starbucks. It's only a mile away. Yes, it's only a mile away. But you can get to go there and come back. That's two miles. So, you now start adding up how much your car costs per mile. Taking in consideration your payment, wear and tear, the overhead oil cost, insurance, everything, the gas. What does it cost per mile? You're like, holy shit, it's $6 per mile. Then that's like, back and forth. $12. Holy shit, but nobody taught us this. So, it's just like, it's just Starbucks. And it gives me a good emotional feeling. And it's just great. So, we don't stop because it's emotional. Oh, I gotta get that hot cup of coffee. I just need. I just need coffee. I need Starbucks. How much do we lie to ourselves just to keep this bullshit, fucking, fake as gain going called Starbucks or whatever fucking coffee you drink? This is an analogy to start breaking down you because it's about you. It's about you understanding how much the cup of coffee really costs per mile. You got two miles, that's 12 bucks. Over 30 days, that's $360 over 12 months. That's like what almost frickin 40, 5,200 bucks? 6,200 bucks? Plus the 1,300 coffee. We're at 7,500, 7,600. Come on, whatever the numbers are. That's a lot of fucking money. But it gets worse. You guys ready? It gets worse. Because most people are not trained to respect themselves. What this means is your self-worth, how much are you worth? We just put value on the coffee, we put value on the car, gas, all that shit. But how long does it take to drive a mile, to get the coffee, to drive a mile back every day? What's your time worth? Let's say just in comparison, because you're like, "Well, what else would I do with my fucking time?" Like there's a recession coming up, motherfucker, figure out how to make more money. Or go hire a bookkeeper, or an accountant that can help you slim down, cut your expenses and a half. You can put, invest time into something productive that will give you a return. If you keep spending in the same fashion, guess what? Everything you spend goes away. When you invest, you get a return. Remember that. Expense is gone, investment comes back. You expect a return on your investment. It's called an ROI. So, you're like well it only takes a few minutes to go there and come back. But let's say by the time you drive a mile, that's a four minutes there, four minutes back, park it, and go inside, get the thing, or maybe you do drive thru because you're like, efficient as fuck, so, you go to the drive thru and you get whatever but the whole thing maybe takes you 12 to 15 minutes per day, per day. What else could you do with 12 to 15 minutes per day that can actually change your life, that can make you more money, that can get you healthier, that can change the world, that can maybe get you a better relationship with your spouse? Maybe you need to hang out with more with your kids. Maybe you need some friends that are lacking time. I don't know. But where can you grow? You understand my point? So, once... but This all begins with being fucking disciplined. So, this whole game that I'm talking about here is discipline, discipline, discipline discipline. Every single year over the last, we'll go into the recession, if you will, the '08, '09, from there, every single year coming forward, I got more, and more, and more, and more disciplined. And it's funny because there's a book called The compound Effect, Darren Hardy, get the book, phenomenal. It's a small book, quick read, get the audio, get the book, I don't care. But it taught me the compound effect. And it's, I feel it. I feel it now. For example, like I've been working on releasing weight for such a long time. And I did diets, I did exercise, I did, you fucking name it, I hired this coach, that coach, for whatever reason, it didn't happen. But I stayed the course because I knew what I wanted. And what's interesting is, as I became more and more disciplined in everything in my life, in money, in who I hang out with, Oh, my Lord does this here, this... this here can make you or break you. Who you hang out with. Investing into the wrong people, investing your time, into the wrong people is going to get you a return on that investment. Be very careful who you hang out with. So, the more I became disciplined in everything I touch, do, literally, my time is so fucking valuable, I know how much I'm worth per minute. So, if somebody wants 10 minutes of coaching, no problem, you're going to pay a certain amount, 20 minutes, 30 minutes, one hour, a week, whatever. I know exactly what I'm worth. So, once I know what I'm worth, then I'm not going to waste time watching some stupid fucking show? No, because I'm wasting right as opposed to investing. And in the same discipline, the same process goes into your money, your health, your habits, your friends, family, spouse, kids, everything you do and touch, become disciplined in it, become a motherfucker. And you know what that means, right? It's... there's an energy of fucking attacking this thing, that you own it, you're going to make that thing your bitch, whatever it is. So, back to Money really quick, because this conversation is about the recession coming up and for you to know what to do with it. So, number one, become disciplined in your money. Start tracking every single penny. I'm going to give you an example. I'm not going to use names but I just helped someone. A few days ago, I helped someone do this, literally this fucking exercise because this person is like, "Man, I'm working my ass off. I'm doing all this stuff. I'm blah, blah, blah. But you know, it's like, I'm not getting ahead. I'm just I'm, you know, I can't do this. I can't do that. You know, real estate, blah, blah." So I said, all right, cool. Like again, I'm not giving names. So, I said, all right, let's do an exercise. Today, is whatever it was, July, let's just say July 15, so, today is July 15. How much have you brought home, take home cash money from the beginning of the year to now? And this person says, "Well, I think, sort of, roughly, possible, definite, maybe this amount." Now I'm like, so what you're saying is you don't fucking know. Number one, you don't fucking know. You want to change your life but you don't have any fucking idea where you are nor where you're going, let alone how to get there. You follow me? So, when I'm telling you, guys, here start fighting for you start getting so detailed in your shit that you would scare yourself. So, here's what happens. So, I had this person literally go back through all bank statements, and whatever cash, whatever this person had, and pull out literally all income. And it was like ho... this person freaked out because this person had no fucking idea how much money this person and this is not a he she they gender bullshit. I'm just saying that because I I'm not really. I'm not gonna say who it is. But so, the number came out as to the total income this person flipped the fuck out. It had no idea. It had no idea was that much, it was that high. So, it just created the problem even bigger because the problem here was "I can't get ahead. I can't do all this stuff. How am I supposed to buy real estate? How am I supposed to... how am I supposed to... I can't, I can't there's not enough money. There's not enough leftover." I said interesting. So, you have all these problems but you didn't know how much money you made. Now, you just figured out how much money you made and you're blown the fuck away. But now check this out. We're going to go to exercise number two and this will now scare the fuck out of you. Are you ready to get scared? Oh yeah, absolutely. Great. How much of that money that came in have you spent? Oh, roughly blah, blah. I said good. Do the exercise and come up with the exact fucking number. And here's what happened. This person almost fell over. It's like, holy shit. I made this much 65% of it was gone. 65 of all this money worth, day in, day out, wake up early, go do this thing, 65% of the money gone. Okay, so now, I said, let's go to exercise number three, where did this money go? Where did this money go? ,So, I want to break down have coffee, I want restaurants, I want car, I want fucking everything. I want categories just like you were an accountant. I want you to tell me more yourself exactly where this money went. So, exercise three is now complete. And it's like, fuck. This person freaks out, like holy shit, I had no idea. I was spending so much money here, or there, or here, or there. I said, okay, cool. So, what's bottom line? Now, you have the opportunity to do what? To change it. What do you want to do? My point to everybody here is get very, very disciplined with your money until you become disciplined with your money, your money is going to run you you're not running it. Hear me out. Until you become very disciplined with your money, your money is going to run you you're not running it. And what you... the biggest thing we all want to do moving forward in the next six to 12 months, more six months to 12 months, let's just leave it there. I think the next six are going to be on and then it'll dwindle as the right things will come in. So, there are two games that are being played here. There's one called the Great reset. And there's another on the flip side, there's the good one that's happening, NESARA GESARA. So, there are two games being played. In NESARA GESARA, the market crash, the dollar has to go away, gold comes in, replaces everything. Boom. The great reset, the Klaus Schwab, the new the new world order. Basically, that's a bad reset. They want to strip everybody of owning shit, owning anything, and equal income, blah, blah, blah. So, there are two games being played where I believe the white hats, the NESARA GESARA people are using this one to, the bad one, to do the work for them, allowing the replacement to happen sort of organically this way. They say, "Look what they did, they fuck this whole system up but we came in and we saved it. You're welcome." Anyway, that's what I think is happening. Either way, something's happening. Whatever you believe in, something's fucking happening. So, check this out. Once you figure out your money, you want to now, once you figure out where you're spending, start cutting back, what can you spend less on? Where can you stop the waist? I call it bleeding. So, if you cut your arm, what's the first thing you're going to do? If you right now cut your arm, what's the first thing you're going to do? You're going to run and fucking the first... oh, right? You're going to go stop the bleeding. It's in our nature, it's in our DNA to protect this. If it gets cut, if it gets stabbed if it gets anything, or if you'd like knock your, hit your hand, what do you do immediately? You cover it with the other hand. If you hit your leg, what do you do? Oh my god, you hit your head or when your head hurts, you cover it with your hands. Why? Because we have healing energy in our palms. So, we go to fix. So we are fixers, all of us, it's built in. So, what I'm telling you with money, do the same thing. Start putting your hands around your money. Control your fucking money because until you control it, it's controlling you and you're not going to have any. So, it's time, like right now, today, and if you have questions, please message me. I have no issue responding like, "Hey, what's the app, how do I do it? How do I..." I have no problem helping. So, figure out your money, start cutting back, become very frugal with your money, cut out the Starbucks make coffee at home be fucking smart. Find the bleeding and stop the bleeding. Exciting. Good. The other thing you can do as prices are going up on food, and we don't know how much higher they're going to go but they still are, find... and again, people are at different levels, right, so if you're at a level where you need to be this frugal where, for example, what I'm about to tell you is like I need to do this then please fucking do it. If you're at a level where you have plenty of money and you don't need to do what I'm about to say then don't do it. Either way, either side, money, no money, I would store. I would stock up on some food that could last you two to three months. So, load up the freezer, get some dry goods, get some, and get things that will last the body. Starches, no good. Like don't load up on fucking rice and pasta that need to be cooked. Canned goods, get fats, butters, ghee that doesn't have to be refrigerated. Get things that can last you time. For example, proteins, fats, bacons, porks. Whatever you eat, think what's going to feed me and my family the longest. Meaning, what's going to sustain us in 24-hour period? What's going to keep us going longer. So, really focus on stocking up. If you're at a financial place where it's like, "Fuck, for now, I can't afford it." Find ways to look for stores that have, that sell in bulk. For example, I'm on the carnivore diet. I only eat Tami and I only eat grass fed, grass finished, pasture-raised, no antibiotics, no growth hormones cows, only. Like it's impossible for us to touch anything else. Why, you say. Well, because corn fed and grain fed cows will fuck up your system. So, if you look at the heart disease that's taking place in the world today, it's from grain fed animals because grain fed animals produce Omega-6 in the human body. And Omega-6 is what fucks up the arteries. Omega-3, like olive oil, cleans the arteries. So, we have healthy hearts, and great digestion and full of nutrition, where Omega-6 will fucking kill you. So, my point is this. So, we... and I'll just be transparent, we get our grass fed beef, pasture raised, clean as fuck from Sprouts, and it's $22 a fucking pound and I'm not exaggerating. It's 22 bucks a pound. And we go through about two, depending on the cut of the steak, two to three pounds per day, just between Tami and I of ribeye, just ribeye. The ribeye because it's fattier than filet mignon, for example. And we just happen to love ribeye. So, we go to two to three pounds, we're talking 50 to 60 bucks, easy, per day on fucking grass fed beef. So, I attempted a few online places were you can get bulk and et cetera. And the quality wasn't there, it wasn't the same. But I thought, hey, let's go to Costco Business. So, I'm now giving you, guys, info as to what you can do to get better pricing, bigger volume, etc. So, I thought, hey, let's go to Costco Business. I used to be in the restaurant business and we would buy bigger fucking quantities. Everything was delivered. Costco wasn't a thing back then. I was 25, 26 when I bought the restaurant. Different times. So 20, what, 27 years ago? It's like a fucking lifetime. I know. I look the same. You're thinking, "Wow, you still look 26," and I know. Back to Costco Business. I thought, man, if they have grass fed beef, that'd be fucking cool. Because it has to be cheaper than Sprouts. No way around it. So, fucking Costco business has the whole ribeye, the whole loin at, so, I'm paying 22 bucks a pound. And it's $9.99 a pound. Not only it's a grass fed, grass finished, pasture raised, clean as shit. It's from New Zealand. And the reason I'm saying New Zealand, New Zealand has some of the best grass in the world. You get some of the best flavor in the beef from cows in New Zealand than you do from anywhere else. Now, is it as marbley and as fat as what we get here from California? No. Is it as flavorful? No. But did I buy a whole loin to try? Absolutely. So, anyways, so now, we're... again we go through two good size, one pound to 1.3, 1.4 per steak between Tami and I, and we do that with eggs. If it's dinner, we'll do it with different things like Tami will have avocado, she'll do cucumber. I did cucumber, like a cucumber avocado salad a few nights ago. Eh, it was okay for me. I don't know if I felt phenomenal the next day but when I do stick to fat and protein, oh, my god. Like right now, it's two o'clock, I would have to... so, listen to me. Before I will do a show a year ago, I would do a 20, 30-minute cat nap before the show. It's been, it'll be five months or six months on the 24th this month, maybe I've done three naps total just maybe because I slept like shit the night before. Naps are gone. I feel fucking amazing, great energy, my physical power of working out because I work out every morning now. Man. It's all changed. Anyway, back to beef. So, Costco has the fucking ribeye loin for 9, 10 bucks a pound. I get the loin we chop it up so we've had it now for a few days, love it. And I think tonight or tomorrow we'll go back and get the whole box where they have 10 loins in the fucking box. So, point is, and now, this is what, 60% off. Because you're thinking how do I save money on food? Become resourceful. Let's say you don't have the resources to buy the $22 steak, become resourceful. Who else could have... where else can I get it? Like there's a place in, not far from here, where I can buy half cow or whole cow that's grass fed and all the healthy shit but I'm like I don't want the whole fucking cow, I want ribeye, right? Become resourceful. Figure out your shit. So, my point is, stores also have sales where for example, Fourth of July was here so you can buy all this meat for half off, you can buy all this bacon for this much money, you can buy whatever it is you eat, or whatever you want to store, or whatever you you want to transition into. Like for example, what's a very powerful food are sardines. Sardines that are stored in olive oil, very, very powerful, huge in Omega-3, any a lot of fish is loaded with Omega-3. Do not eat fish that's farm raised, that show will fuck you up, it'll kill you. It's farm raised for a reason. It has to be wild and it has to be wild caught, otherwise don't fuck up, do not touch any fish for that matter. So, stock up on food, find deals, talked to store managers, sometimes they'll... even like be when things expire. So, you guys, know my story when I was an immigrant, I was a kid. In 1979, we would dumpster dive to get food just so we can have dinner and breakfast the next day because that's all we had. But we were fucking resourceful. So, I'm telling you. Figure it out. But you don't have to do what we did. You could... because we didn't speak English, you speak English. Go to the store manager and say, "Yo, manager, check this out. My family and I are struggling. And I was wondering, at what time a day or at night you, guys, actually throw shit out?" And legally, they're not supposed to give it to people. They literally have to physically put in the trash can. But if you start building a relationship, you can figure out the times you can get a manager to help you you can get a manager to say, "Hey, I can't give it to you, but I can sell it to you for a penny." You see how resourceful you can fucking get. Just figure out what you want. But let's say you're on the flip side where, "hey, man, I have money. I just got to load up. I got to stock up." Bam, attack. Cool? That's the food concept. Figure out your money. Cut the bleeding, start saving money. And the next level as you pack your freezers and your pantry full of food, the next thing you want to do is say, "Hey, what else can I do where I can produce more income?" I get it. There's a recession coming, real estate is going to take a shit, some people are going to lose jobs. Money's not going to flow like it used to. What else can I do to produce income? And this is now, we'll sort of wrap with this. The next thing I want to share with you, guys, is what else you can do to produce income. If you're stuck in a job, meaning that, "Hey, I'm stuck in a job, meaning that I work eight to five and I make this much money a month. And that's it. I'm just fucking stuck." Well, I want to open you up. I want you to open up into what's possible. Because most of us think, "Hey, I only make five grand a month. I spend three grand a month. I invest Blah blah, and that's it. That's my world. It's over." And I'm here to tell you you're full of shit. Right? So, I'm here to call your bluff. Because here's why. If you start figuring out doing time inventory, just like you're doing money inventory, right? Because now, you're tracking your money. start tracking your time. start tracking your time. You wake up at what time? You shit for how long? How long does coffee take? How long does it take shower? How long does it take to get to work? How long are you at work? What do you do during your lunch hour? What do you do, how long does it take to get home from work? What do you do after work between work and going to bed? So, you start doing inventory here, I promise you, you will find so much opportunity to change your life. It will blow your fucking mind away. I guarantee it. So, for example, in your drive to work, do you listen to podcasts that help you change your mindset? Do you listen to podcasts that can help you make more money? Do you listen to podcasts or self-development, anything? YouTube is free, you guys. You don't have to pay me, a coach, to help you. Go listen to fucking YouTube. There's so much information out there. You can change your life as much as you want, as fast as you want, but it's up to you. So, turn off the radio, turn off the fucking music that makes you feel good. And start pounding yourself with good information. You got to change this. You cannot change your money until this changes. You cannot change your body until this changes. It all starts here. Nothing happens on the outside. That doesn't happen on the inside first. Please remember that. Like write this bitch down. Nothing happens on the outside that doesn't happen on the inside first. So, you want more money. That has to happen here first. You want to drop 50 pounds. It's got to happen here first. I want a better spouse. It's got to happen here first. Brainwash yourself with what you want to become because the old you got you to where you are today. If you're good where you are today, fucking hang up, get off, this not for you. If you're perfect where you are today, this information is not for you. But if you have a little bit to grow, or a lot to grow, this is what you want to do. You want to let go the past, release the past, and start conditioning yourself with new information that will take you into a new direction. Okay? So, now, the big concept is... so you have, as you do time inventory, you're going to find opportunities of time. Maybe during lunch hour, maybe during your 15 minute break at work, maybe on your drive home maybe one hour, maybe you wake up fucking earlier because you're motivated now dammit. So, maybe you wake up 30 minutes earlier every day, maybe 60 minutes earlier every day, and you start doing something that can produce more money. And you're like, "What the fuck am I going to do because I only know auto mechanics. That's all. I'm an auto mechanic. That's all I know." And here's where I call bullshit. Because can you go... and I'm just gonna give you, guys, like the stupidest shit where you can make money today. Like today. I have personally bought shit on Facebook marketplace and flipped those same items and made thousands of dollars. Do I know what to buy? Sure. Can you do the same thing? Can you go on Facebook marketplace? Craigslist is over for me. I don't know why. But can you go to Facebook marketplace, buy something, whatever it may be clothing, and flip it? Can you go to Marshalls, you know the stores, Marshalls, where they sell the cheap clothes or whatever they are, you can buy a pair of fucking jeans on the sales rack that are 80% off. Yes, go to Nordstrom Rack. You can buy shit for 10 bucks or you can flip online for 50, 60, 80, $100. So, resourcefulness will get you there. You have 10 bucks. You don't have 10 bucks to buy the pair of pants? Go borrow 10 bucks, go to the fucking store, if you have to walk, go to the store, buy that $10 pair of jeans come back home. Facebook is free. And I know you have a fucking phone with all your brokenness. You have a fucking phone. Everybody has a phone. People that are waiting at the fucking bus stop, 70-year-olds at the bus stop, they're like, "Oh, Facebook," because you can see their hand motions, right? That motherfucker's scrolling. Right? Because you gotta be on some kind of social media. My point is when you want something bad enough, you're going to go fucking make it happen. So, the first thing I'm communicating to you, to your soul, to your spirit right now, get serious. It's coming. Get serious about you, not it. Gets serious about you, your home, your family. So, you can flip shit online all day long. Can you go to swap meets? Can you go to swap meets and buy shit for 25 cents, $1, $5, flip it? Yes, you can. Can you go in your neighborhood... Do you know how many people, how many people have shed their garage that's like full to the fucking brim that they want to get rid of, that they don't have time for, and you offer a service like, "Hey, I'm going to do a garage sale or a yard sale at my house. Do you think you have anything that you might want to sell and whatever we get we'll split 50-50? What? Come on. You see how we became resourceful? Bam, you got to knock on the door. You got to take that fucking time, invest your time into the right things that will bring the right return. Right? You get my point you can do fucking anything. Online, you can become an affiliate of any kind, you can become an affiliate with Amazon, you can become an affiliate with Apple, you can become an affiliate with any large fucking company out there to sell their products, and you get paid a commission. And all you got to do is go to their fucking affiliate link and you sign up and you become an affiliate, you get your own link, you send that to your family, and your family buys toilet paper from fucking Amazon. Who gets paid? You get paid. It's that easy. Let's talk network marketing. Some of you have done network marketing. It seems like nowadays, a lot of people, most people have done some kind of network marketing. We used to say back in the day, because we've done a lot of network marketing, we've made millions in network marketing. I love a lot about network marketing. I hate a lot about network marketing. It's a love-hate relationship. My point, though, is network marketing is a system that can help a lot of people, and I'll tell you why. Somebody, the company is doing all the work for you. They're producing the product, they're putting the marketing dollars behind it, they're doing the branding, they're doing the inventory, they're doing the shipping, they're doing fucking everything. So, if it's a product, great, if it's a... whatever, it doesn't matter. Network marketing, you can enroll with a network marketing company, sometimes, for free. I don't recommend enrolling with a network marketing company for free because you have no skin in the game, you'll never make money. It's a setup. Don't fucking do it. Most people think, "Well, I'm just gonna go into business." If you don't know business, you're going to go into... you're going to try the free thing. What's gonna happen is because you have no skin in the game, there's no burning anything. You're like, "Oh, that thing didn't work." Well, because you didn't have any skin in the fucking game. It's just magic. It's fucking law. But if you invest 100 bucks, 500 bucks, 600 bucks, 1000 bucks into this network marketing business of yours. You now get a bunch of product for that money. It's not just a sign up, you get a bunch of product. You can now start using the product, you can now sell the product. But now, you are what's called an affiliate with this company. You get your own fucking website and you can go out there into the world, most companies today are global, so you can go out there and sell your products and also enroll other affiliates in your team that can do the same thing and you get fucking paid. That's network marketing. There are many great companies out there. And there are shitty companies out there. You got them all. So, be careful. Watch the company, watch the leadership, watch the ownership, watch, just watch. If you have questions, reach out to me. I know most of the big ones. That's all. So, affiliate, network marketing, flipping online is the easiest thing can do because you can go buy something for a couple of bucks, you can flip it for a lot more bucks. And you can do the shift from home, you guys. And if you have a laptop, and you're learning how to flip shit online, you can be on the beach anywhere in the fucking world. Like I'm not teaching you, guys, are talking to you about like, this fu-fu stuff, it's simple, you just gotta want to fight for it. Check this out. Another powerful thing is if you do have a few bucks, this is something we've done quite a bit in our business journeys, what's called private label or white label. And what that means is that you can get a company with lip balm that will put your brand, like if I want to have Badassery Faactory lip balm, I can pay them to, I can buy so many pieces, but they put my label on this. And I buy 1000 pieces and I go out there and sell fucking badass lips. Ass and lips should not be... unless you're kissing ass. I don't know if that works, anyway, I gotta think about that one. Oh, shit. You get my point? So, you can private label anything. So, think through the next few months and people are going to... some people are going to hurt, they're going to lose their homes, they're going to lose their jobs, they're going to lose their cars, they're not going to be able to afford food like before. What can you do to stay up and over that pain? But you got to start now because if you wait until it happens, like look, the prices of food, already 30 to probably 60, like the Pellegrino, 60% of higher. Does that... did it come out 60%? It's probably 45%, whatever it was. Everything's up 30, 40, 50%, foods just fucking nuts. Are there shortages? Yes. Gasoline? Yes. Diesel? Yes, truckers are... there's going to be a shortage. Shits not going to get delivered? Yes. Is there a global strike of farmers? Yes. Is it going to be fine eventually? Yes, but do we have to get through the storm? Yes. Prepare yourself now to get through this storm. It's just like, come on, you know fucking... what's after summer? Fall. All right. So, you get ready for fall. So, you get, bust out a jacket, you get thicker socks, right? You may be switched to red wine from white wine. You adapt. But then what comes after fall? Winter. What do you do for winter? You winterize your property, you winterize the RV, you get the thick coat, you eat fattier foods, you drink more red wine or harder liquor, vodka, vodka for Mother Russia, you get my point? So, prepare now for the season that's about to kick us in the teeth. But if you have a mouth guard, you see what I just did there? All right, so, you guys are saying, "I just went out and spend way too much money today on random bullshit. I so needed to watch this. Thank you. Thanks." Yeah, so I cannot stress this enough, you guys. We've become these vending machines because we are the design of the system. Like this is... we're doing exactly what they want us to do. We are the design. They wanted these fucking robots to make their money, pay taxes, go spend their money, pay more taxes on the money they just spent. And then you got to spend taxes on a driver's license, on the car registration, taxes for this, tax for fishing license, tax to go hunting, tax to... you follow me? So, how much money are you really taking home after you pay all of these taxes at the end of the year? So, thank you for waking up because this is all about waking up, and it's about doing something different. Yeah, you're making a point about the homeless and the veteran system. It's very difficult topic because now, we're going to go into politics specific to this administration and what they're doing. The homeless situation, if they're not lit up on drugs and alcohol, and most of them are, unfortunately. And yes, the states do provide drugs, and needles, and... just so you understand the fuckery. And if you understand that states receive federal money per head per capita of homeless, it's a fucking business, you guys, it's a business. You're like, "Oh, we got to help the veterans, gotta help the homeless." Yeah, good luck because you're fighting a money machine just, like everything else we're talking about, it's a fucking money machine, they get paid per capita. So, why would they want to fix it? Why would they want that money to go away? See my point? But on the flip side, there are enough evil pedophile Catholic churches in the world that can easily take all the homeless, all the veterans, and not only just give them shelter, they can feed them three meals a day because I have so much fucking pedophile, evil, blood-sucking money that it would fix the problem in 24 hours. That's it. And when I become president of the World, I will create that system. Do not buy electric car tomorrow. If you look around the world, you guys, electricity is becoming a problem. Look what's happening with Bitcoin? It has cost the world more in electricity to mine Bitcoin than Bitcoin as a whole valuation today. Electricity is a big problem. So, the concept of electrical cars... only when electrical cars become solar, do you buy electric cars. Until then, it's the same dumb fuckery that that's been with the oil and the fuel industry. It's just a fucking game, you guys. You're going to pay 30, 40 more thousand dollars for a fucking car that you still have to fucking plug in to your house, or you got to... look at the lines. People are lining up for hours to be able to charge their fucking Teslas at different stations around the country. Why? No bueno, don't do it. All right. Well, that was it. I hope you got value here. Please share. It's all I can do, is ask that you guys share this with anybody. Groups, if you're in groups, get it out there. If you have people that need to hear this, maybe struggling, maybe have no clue what's coming up, just give them a little bit. And I kept this very light in regards to what's coming as far as like politics. So, I get the line, I think, and anybody and everybody can listen to this, whether they're 15 or 80. I think it would wake up the normies. Cool? You, guys, have a phenomenal fucking week. I love you all. And I'll see you on the next Who's A Badass Show. Thank you all for tuning in. Thank you for listening. And remember, the goal here is for you to gain information that can change your life that can set you up for a better tomorrow on your way to becoming a badass. And remember, a badass is simply somebody that is free and happy. If you're not happy and free, on the inside, we're empty. You know what to do. Click all the love buttons, subscribe button, leave a comment, leave a beautiful review because, of course, you're in love with this information. 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