April 22, 2024 • 31 mins
Episode 59 of the "Reclaiming Man" podcast starts with Preston, Michael, and Brad discussing the concept of freedom, both in physical and mental aspects. Brad shares his journey towards reclaiming freedom, particularly in his pursuit of becoming a day trader to escape corporate America. He discusses his progress, including earning two paid performance accounts through a proprietary trading firm after multiple failures.
The conversation delves into the challenges of pursuing personal goals while balancing day jobs, highlighting the importance of perseverance and gratitude. Preston reflects on the complexities of freedom and responsibility, emphasizing the freedom to say no and yes to certain opportunities.
They briefly touch upon the ongoing conflict in the Middle East, acknowledging its historical roots and the complexities involved. The discussion concludes with light-hearted banter about Morgan Wallen's antics and Brad celebrating his upcoming ten years of sobriety. Check out Brad on Instagram
The episode provides insights into personal struggles, successes, and reflections on the multifaceted nature of freedom in various aspects of life
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Preston (00:05):
Welcome to episode 59 of the proclaiming man podcast.
You got three boys tonight.
You got me, Preston SouthernCanuck.
We got Michael, the mastermind,not Z mastermind tonight.
It's just Michael.
And we got Brad LieutenantDawson.
I'm just calling you Lieutenantas your nickname right now,
Brad, because I don't know.
(00:26):
I just like that.
I think it's fitting.
We can figure stuff out as wego, but reporting for duty, sir.
And we were just coming to youtonight because Brad really has
like a heavy opinion on why hewanted to tell you guys about
how much he supports Palestine.
And he really wanted to get intothat tonight.
I'm just kidding.
We're just tonight is a topic.
(00:48):
We're going back to thereclaiming freedom.
And Brad and I were talking on apolo while the three of us were
earlier about just Is it aboutlike actual physical freedom
stuff is about like freedom inour mind freedom in our world?
And it's all the above, so I'dreally have anything else to say
(01:08):
at the moment No, I think
Michael (01:10):
That's a really good Intro here Preston and some of
the things I was thinking aboutfrom a reclaiming freedom
perspective.
You mentioned all of the aboveNot really focusing on heavy
things as much as we're checkingin as a group where we're at
with what are reclaiming freedomjourney looks like, and just
(01:30):
going back to what it originallywas about, which is, as we go
through life, there's a ton ofstuff that a ton of setbacks
that we're going to haveinvariably on.
The, maybe it's in my case, thejourney to become a day trader
for instance and, be able toescape corporate America in the
(01:51):
next five years.
That's what I have on theroadmap.
Or maybe that's what I had onthe roadmap two years ago.
And I still have it on the fiveyear roadmap.
I feel like, I'm slowly gettingcloser to it, but I was hoping
to just use this episode as aquick check in between the three
of us about where we're at.
And I mean, I feel progress,certainly not perfection is,
(02:12):
definitely the description forme lately.
And so I'll share a quick fewminutes and then Preston, Brad,
if you want to jump in withsomething too, you can,
otherwise you can take it in adifferent direction, but, I
think.
I've been working the past,actually, I looked at my
subscription.
I'm a member of this groupcalled chart champions.
(02:35):
It's a paid subscription monthlyfor educational content.
It's an online platform anddaily live streams and live
coaching.
All sorts of really great stuff.
I can't say enough good thingsabout it if people are
interested in learning how totrade.
But I subscribed in January of2021.
(02:57):
Right before the big crypto kindof explosion.
And I really wasn't paying toomuch attention to it.
And, I basically was gamblingthe first year and a half that I
thought I was trading, right?
I had no idea what I was doing.
And then I decided to starttaking a bit more seriously.
And then in the last year and ahalf, I've been really focusing
(03:18):
on completing all the courseworkand the modules still mainly
looking at tradingcryptocurrency though.
And then had a really.
Good introduction to the futuresmarkets.
And so I know I don't want toget into too many details about
specifically what I'm doing, butultimately over the past four
(03:40):
months, I was able to earn twopaid performance accounts
through a proprietary tradingfirm.
So basically.
I can trade now a hundredthousand dollars worth of, risk
capital.
And so it's a really, I think,something that I just wanted to
bring up, cause I don't think wetalk about like celebrating some
(04:02):
of our successes.
And I just wanted to share thatin order to get those two paid
accounts, I failed theevaluations, 23 times.
So these are the 24th and the25th times that I've tried.
This year I got one of them inJanuary and now I got my second
(04:23):
one.
You can get up to 20 of them.
But these are accounts where nowI can actually earn money
trading instead of just paymoney to learn how to trade.
So it's been a pretty goodjourney for the, I would say the
side job that I have, and I onlyget to spend.
Maybe an hour or two a day topsdoing it based on the fact that
(04:46):
I'm still working a jobsometimes from six 30 in the
morning until five at night.
So it's a, bit of a good successstory, but I just wanted to
share that with our listenersbecause it is really a
substantial part of progresstowards me getting to that
reclaiming freedom in my life.
(05:08):
This is something where mycoaches.
No lie are making anywhere from10 to 40, 000 a day.
And it's not inconsistent andit's very common.
And you add that up, right?
That's so are they just
Preston (05:29):
Are they just following like the Pelosi trades or
something or no.
Michael (05:36):
These guys are, so these guys are so their trades.
Preston (05:39):
Like how can you just, yeah,
Michael (05:40):
you can.
But they don't give us likespecific calls of, Hey, well,
sometimes it feels like they do.
Cause there's so much real timeinteraction with our coaches,
but I don't have the flexibilityto be there during the day when
they're providing that real timeguidance.
Most of the time, I'm doing itbefore the market opens or after
it.
And the overnight session, likeit is right now, but yeah, they
(06:03):
have over the past few yearsthat we've gone through a few
different coaches, but the groupthat's there is just, Absolutely
incredible.
And so they give you real timeguidance, but they don't give
you the exact.
They'll give you screenshots andconfirm like, Oh, this is, these
are the trades that I took,these are the levels that I'm
interested in.
And they give you really a lotof support and learning how to
(06:26):
trade, and it's fantastic,honestly.
So they're, helping me get tothat position and I'm going to
be very patient going back toone of our earlier episodes.
About that process, but it'staken me, a few years at this
point, and I know I'm justscratching the surface, so
(06:48):
that's my update for.
Brad (06:50):
That's huge, man, though, for the two accounts.
I mean, I've only heard thisbriefly and have a very little
understanding of it, but that'sgood stuff.
I mean that you stuck it out andyou're making that progress.
I mean, that's what we talkabout in our lives.
It's like half of this is justshowing up.
(07:11):
Well, more than that.
I mean like 90 percent of thisand I say this life, but I was
podcast.
Yeah.
Podcast.
I mean, dude, I, you're notalways going to feel good.
Michael (07:26):
Yeah.
Brad (07:27):
I had to like really come to grips with this.
Like I'm a recovering alcoholicaddict.
Like my brain just tells me Igot to feel good all the time.
All (07:34):
Yeah.
And
Brad (07:34):
it's like I think that's huge hearing your story, because
a lot of people, sign up for thegroup, pay the money, they put
in a little work, it didn't,they didn't see a return
immediately, and they're like,ah, this is, whatever like,
you're sticking it out and youprobably did your homework and
picked a course that waslegitimate because there's a lot
of them out there, everybody'sgot a dang course out there now.
Michael (07:52):
Well, maybe I can get my coach on for a podcast.
Oh,
Brad (07:55):
that'd be cool, dude.
Yeah, I wanted to ask you,
Michael (07:57):
he's
Brad (07:58):
from
Michael (07:58):
California.
Brad (07:59):
I wanted to ask you, what's your day job?
Cause I didn't even know whatyou do
Michael (08:02):
during the day.
I work at a, an energy companycalled XL energy.
And I work in their supply chaindepartment.
Gotcha.
And get to do, I mean, a ton ofactually really, cool stuff.
I like, my job.
I just know I'm buildingsomebody else's dream and not my
(08:23):
own.
Yeah.
Brad (08:24):
Well, and that was like, Preston was.
Alluding to on his polo earlier,like, he's just like, I spent
all this time at a job that Idon't like, I'm building, I'm
doing it for someone else.
Man, I want to get on Broadwaymore.
And, I, when you said that, I'mjust like, all right, I need to
just look at it from wherePreston's sitting because I'm
(08:46):
there and I'm over here, beingground down a little bit and I
got to remember this is what Iwanted to do.
This is the goal.
I'm in it I am to get candidabout mine a little bit.
It's like I'm pushing if I cando the numbers I'm doing right
(09:07):
now playing which is a lot Icould maybe make six figures
Yeah, like I'm looking atdoable.
My trajectory is like 80, 000right now.
Michael (09:17):
That's
Brad (09:17):
totally
Michael (09:18):
legal.
Brad (09:19):
But this is also like Being an athlete too.
So there's like, all right, man,I can't do too much.
Like I can't say my hands, mywrist, yeah, so there's a
balance and it's about gettingthe better gigs that pay more
and playing less and making moremoney.
And then I'm like, okay, is thisit though?
I'm just gonna have to do this.
So there's something else thatyou, get to where you're like am
(09:41):
I just where can I go from here?
I could land a big tour orsomething, but that potentially
won't make me, That'll make meless money.
Probably this is, I got toremember, I'm just not in this
career to really make money.
It's I'm reaching the cap ofwhat you can do.
I think as a professionalmusician, other than landing the
retainer for Jason Aldean, whereyou're making a hundred K on
(10:05):
retainer, even then they'remaking what I'm making.
Preston (10:07):
Yeah.
Brad (10:08):
But then they could do your side hustles and have your
other streams of income.
Man, thanks for sharing thatthough because I need to hear
about successes.
I'm having my own successes Butam also and I wanted to just
share this for anyone listening.
Like it's just you're not alwaysI wanted to share my story, you
know a little bit what it's whati'm just going through right now
(10:29):
because Everything is good.
I have nothing to complain aboutbut I just feel run down and
it's like what am I doing andit's I gotta remember, I gotta
stay grateful, and my head isspinning a little bit.
I had a little moment earlierwhen I was listening to the
polos, I had a text message andthe guy said, Hey, you're
playing with me tonight, right?
(10:51):
And I was like,
Preston (10:51):
gosh,
Brad (10:52):
I was like, wait, what?
Preston (10:54):
And your post about looking for a drummer.
Yeah.
Brad (10:57):
Yeah, dude.
And Jay was like, I looked backat the text message and it said,
Hey, are you available tomorrow?
He didn't say Thursday.
I even put it in my calendar isThursday.
Dude, you got to slow down.
Like I got to slow down.
Yeah.
How did I misread that text?
I have no clue, dude.
And I just owned up immediately.
(11:19):
I felt like crap.
I said, dude, I effed up.
Let me reach out.
Let me start finding somepeople.
Apologize.
Please don't hold this againstme.
I totally screwed up.
And I just owned it.
And the singer was like, I knowboth of them really well.
And they were just like, it'sall good.
We found somebody.
So hopefully it truly is allgood.
But yeah, anyway.
(11:41):
I have freedom, man.
I have freedom today.
And I gotta remember that.
I chose to be here.
I am right where I chose thiscareer and I'm killing it in a
lot of ways.
Sometimes I need to just growup.
Sometimes I just need to like,grow up.
(12:04):
Quit complaining.
Share, share about it though.
Don't stuff it, share about it.
Like I am tonight.
I'm just like, guys, I'm justlike I almost didn't know my
next polo, I almost made anotherpolo.
I was like, can we not do thepodcast?
I did, And my headspace justdidn't feel right.
And I was, I don't, I was like,I don't know anything about what
we're going to talk about.
(12:24):
And I was like, you know what?
It doesn't matter because I'mthere right now, like I am
there.
And this is just what the grindlooks like sometimes.
I'm just not on a high right nowand that's okay.
And I'm just gonna keep workingman.
Like I'm just gonna keepworking.
I went and played golf todayYeah, you were commenting on my
hat and my shirt earlier.
All (12:44):
I went and played
Brad (12:45):
golf.
It wasn't great I'm really hardon myself on the golf course
because I hit some really greatshots.
I'm a good golfer.
I shoot in the 80s but dude Iwas like Beating the two guys I
was playing with and the onedude walks up to my cart and he
looks in and he goes nopressure, but You're up on us by
three strokes.
And I was like, Oh my God, justto get in my head.
And I was like, I didn't know wewere like competing.
(13:07):
And he did, he got to me.
He got to me.
I, blew some holes on the backand then my other buddy ended up
winning and I, lost to the otherdude or I beat the other guy,
but, anyway, it's just I did getto go do something fun today.
Today was my day off.
Abby's out of town.
And she's my rock in a lot ofways.
(13:27):
So
Michael (13:28):
no, I don't know.
That's still, I feel like a goodpiece and helpful to get that
insight too, because you have toremind yourself a lot that the
work that you've done has ledyou to the opportunity you're at
right now.
And I'm in the same place wheresometimes that's why I think the
(13:51):
gratitude journal is soimportant to keep me grounded to
start my day that way, becausesometimes it's easy not to be
grateful for the work that wehave, which.
It's awesome.
I mean, like that's part of thefreedom, right?
That we do have that originally,like our country was founded on
the idea of being able to freelypursue what you wanted to do to
(14:13):
make money doing it, and yeah,that's pretty sweet that you can
do that.
Preston.
So let's, hear from you, man.
Preston (14:20):
Yeah, we get, I think we forget that life is hard.
And it's always going to be hardand that's not a bad thing like
that's such a good thing youbring up Well two things our
country being founded and thenBrad like you're like, I need to
get my perspective It's like I'mon Broadway doing like what
Preston's trying to get out ofhis realm Doing and do that and
(14:40):
it's like it doesn't mean it'sgonna be easy being James
Hetfield in Metallica It's likehe's James Hetfield from
Metallica, but it's like hestruggles with alcoholism He
struggles with fame like hislife is not You Easy.
Yeah, they couldn't even get,they couldn't even get along.
Yeah.
They're making
Brad (14:55):
hit records and they couldn't even stay together.
Preston (14:57):
But you don't want life to be hard because that's what
makes it better.
That's what makes itchallenging.
It's was it easy for ourforefathers and all those first
Americans to like, Get thiscountry started?
Hell no, it wasn't.
Fuck, a lot of people died.
I mean we look at what's goingon with, not to bring up the
World War 3 coming like thestuff going on with Israel and
(15:19):
Iran.
That's scary.
And a lot of people that arehaving a hard time out there.
But they're fighting forsomething that they believe in
and we won't get into thatbecause like we mentioned on our
polo, I don't understand.
Anything about what's going onin the Middle East as far as, I
don't even know what, picking aside.
None of it makes any sense tome.
But when life is hard, it's belike, have you guys ever heard,
(15:41):
do you guys know who JockoWillink is?
All (15:42):
Yeah.
Oh
Preston (15:43):
yeah.
He's got this thing on YouTubeand it's just like him talking
about good.
My alarm went off at four in themorning.
Good now, I gotta get up andwork out and it's like it's this
two minute thing where he's justsaying like all these Shitty
things he's like good and it'slike you listen to it and you're
like,
All (16:00):
oh
Preston (16:00):
fuck Yeah, but and it's just like it's so true.
It's just embrace the hardthings It doesn't mean that you
can't lean on us and lean oneach other and be like, yeah But
today just fucking sucks.
It's yeah, sometimes it does butit's like it's never going to be
easy because when it is You Thenit's just gonna be boring,
Brad (16:22):
yeah, and it's like you don't, Jaco's like you don't
have to, you get to.
Preston (16:29):
Totally.
Brad (16:30):
You get to do this.
Preston (16:32):
Yeah.
Brad (16:35):
Something popped up before I'd lose it.
It was, we were talking aboutfreedom, and I realized there's
another side of the coin, right?
And this kind of goes back to,Zach talked about it when he
transitioned out of the Navy andwe talked about it when inmates
are released from prison orjail, so freedom, what comes
with freedom is this weight,this sense of responsibility,
(17:02):
right?
So there's like another side tofreedom that, yeah, you get
freedom.
But what comes with that is awhole bunch of opportunity for
you to screw it up.
Yeah, that's right.
Michael (17:14):
You know what I mean?
And it's like opportunity onboth sides.
And
Brad (17:18):
I just realized that when we were talking, I was like, oh,
man, like this is all comingfull circle.
And usually when I have thosemoments, the beginning of this
podcast when I was sharing withyou Michael like I was my head
was just spinning I didn'treally know i'm like dude I
don't even know if i'm evengonna be able to contribute to
this and then guess whathappens.
It's like all of a sudden i'mlike dang shut up Yeah the bell
(17:42):
goes off.
It's like The light bulb turnson and I said it on the golf
course today.
I had a blow up.
I hit a great tee shot and I waslike, man, I'm going to hit this
great next shot.
Michael (17:51):
And
Brad (17:51):
I threw it.
I hit the shot in the woods and
Michael (17:54):
oh gosh
Brad (17:55):
I slammed my club on the ground and had a blow up.
But then like after the blow up,like the, I was done.
I was like, oh, all right, I'veblown up now.
I like let everything go.
And then I just played my roundand everything went.
Pretty good after that, it'sthere's two sides to this thing,
and hopefully this is makingsense, but, yeah, when you're
(18:19):
free you're, also, don't knowwhich way to go sometimes.
Preston (18:24):
Well here's, like the most the best example of that, I
think, is, use your, son for anexample.
If you let him make whatever hewanted for dinner tonight, What
would he make?
I'll tell you what my son wouldmake.
He'd probably, at this stage inhis life, given that much
freedom, he'd probably haveReese's peanut butter cups on
(18:44):
cookie two step ice cream.
That's a great dinner.
It's yeah, once in a while.
But like, when you're like 21and you're living on your own if
you have that for dinner everynight, You're gonna be fucking
dead in six months, oh, yeah soit's like that freedom like it's
really easy to see with our kidslike how they don't know how to
(19:07):
What to do with it and we're thesame way as adults as dads.
It's we struggle with that, too
Brad (19:15):
So what is freedom then?
Michael (19:19):
It's the ability to say no, you know it's the option to
say no to things that you don'twant to do because Your
priorities and the amount oftime that you get to spend on
those priorities actually align.
So that's what I look at mychief aims in life is to have
the freedom to Be selective andsay no to the things that I
(19:40):
don't want to do that Yeah, youknow aren't contributing to the
people that I care about themost whether it's my family
directly Extended family myfriends my community being able
to give back time and contributeto those You Types of
relationships with the rightamount of time and energy and
(20:02):
not be like worn down becauseI'm spending 50, 60 hours a week
helping lead the clean energytransition at XL energy and
getting some wind farms.
And solar farms built that's,for me, the definition.
(20:24):
It's not about, having somethingas much as not having to do.
Some of the things that take usaway from relationships and
people that we care about.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I don't know.
What do you think, Preston?
Preston (20:39):
Yeah, I think it's, I like the idea that you said the
freedom to say no.
I like to think of it also asthe freedom to say yes to the
things that I want to do.
I know that.
For sure.
Cheesy.
But I want to be able to just doall the things that I want to
do.
And I don't mean that in thesense of I want to go to
Disneyland all the time andthings like that.
But just, I want to be creativeand make money doing things that
(21:04):
I and, work hard.
Like I was mentioning to Bradearlier I don't want to spend 13
hours working for FedEx.
It'd probably be harder to spend13 hours working on Broadway if
I'm being honest.
But like, it's at least for meand like doing something that I
enjoy and.
At the end of the day, it'slike, well, I got to do that and
I can take that wherever I needto take it.
Brad (21:27):
So having like being in like the physical state of
freedom, like we are in America,like that's a big risk.
If you think about it, that's abig risk for a country to move
forward on that idea, because ifyou think about it.
You're given freedom, which Ihad to Google the, I wanted to
Google the definition.
(21:47):
I wanted to see what it saidand, it's interesting.
It's like the power, right?
To act, speak, or think as onewants without hindrance or
restraint.
Well, there is restraint, butthat restraint needs to be from
yourself rather than.
Through an outside party.
So you get to this point wherethere's some people that believe
(22:10):
they're superior to others andthey go, well, we can't trust
them.
We can't trust them to makedecisions on their own, or
they're a criminal and they'vegiven up their right.
So now we have to tell them whatto do or they give up their
trust on their own and join themilitary or something like that.
And then we tell them what theyneed to do.
(22:31):
It's very interesting to thinkabout freedom.
As I start now, I'm like, well,is there really actual freedom?
I mean, cause at some point youdevelop the ability to restrain
yourself.
So I guess that's the freedomthough, is that you're,
Michael (22:45):
I mean, that's what growing up is though.
Yeah.
That's what I feel like.
And that's the whole aspect ofreclaiming man.
It's, it is.
Taking hold of the values thatwe should and apply the right
level of discernment to what wesay and how we say it and do so
(23:06):
in a manner that's truthful thatas much as possible represents
fact.
And we're communicating.
Articulating what we believe,but also what we know to be true
instead of, purely propaganda orthings that are meant to
increase the number of viewsthat we have.
So I think there's a lot offreedom that we have in doing a
(23:28):
podcast to express that speechwith obviously, yes, some
restraints where we've learnedthat we should restrain
ourselves.
But, there's also the otheraspects that you mentioned, just
like freedom of.
The lack of control that thegovernment theoretically should
have over our lives.
(23:49):
That's a freedom, right?
We don't live in this yettyrannical, government like many
other countries do around theworld.
And so I still think it's, oneof the best places to live and
gives us the best opportunitiesto pursue some of the stuff that
we're doing.
So that's, my thoughts on it.
(24:11):
I don't know.
Yeah.
All (24:14):
Thanks
Brad (24:16):
I read when I was sitting in the truck, I had some free
time tonight.
My son was at flag footballpractice and, I was just
handling some stuff andanswering messages and
forgetting I had a shift andlistening to polos and I was
like, I'm going to go type intoYouTube what's really going on
in the Middle East, and I foundlike an unbiased, what I think
(24:39):
was just an unbiased, like,educational video.
I almost sent you guys the link.
Very complex chain of events.
I'm not gonna try to go intowhat it was about very in de
like in very much detail.
But it basically just said thatthey're just fighting over that
land and they've been doing itfor a hundred years.
The biggest misconception isthat it's been happening for
thousands of years.
(25:00):
Now wars have been happening forthousands of years, sure.
But really this conflict startedin the 1900s.
And after World War I when theOttoman Empire lost control of
that area.
And they divvied up the area tolike French and the British.
And the Jews just had nowhere togo.
And so they, just felt like theyneeded a place and they said,
(25:23):
you can have this place here,and the Arabs didn't like that
because that place expanded alittle bit more into their
territory.
And so they just naturally didwhat they had to do.
Everyone wants to make the Arabslook bad and all this stuff.
And I'm not saying that I'm notsupporting that, but as I got to
learn the history a little bit,I'm like, okay, well they have a
side and a point.
Now, the way they do it bycreating extreme groups and
(25:45):
going about it with extremeviolence, which every party.
Does they all resort to violencebecause they all actually want
peace, which is what's crazy Idon't think that it ever started
with we're just trying to createchaos Like I don't even think
that's what they wanted Theyjust needed to create an extreme
group to somehow go in there andtake back this land because the
(26:07):
jews were actually makingsettlements in the In these
little areas that weren'tactually part.
Anyway, I am going into detailnow, But you should go watch
this I'll maybe i'll send youguys the link and it was really
just it was really just thehistory of it and it just put
some clarity on What they'reactually fighting over and of
course now we're at thisconflict that it Is what it is
now and other allies and otherpeople want to get involved
(26:29):
because there's profit to bemade there They have their
interests or whatever but It wasjust crazy to actually hear that
It's really not supercomplicated.
And it was actually prettysimple to understand, but they
just can't find a happy ground.
They just can't, they can'tsettle on whose land is what and
(26:52):
where that line is, whether it'son the East West bank or
whatever,
Preston (26:57):
wherever it is.
Yeah.
Brad (26:58):
Yeah.
And it's like, it seems to belike, we're splitting hairs
here.
It's like, But apparently this,land really matters and I'll
have to keep educating myself alittle bit on it, and I find
that's the best way to learn isgo, seek out videos that are
unbiased and watch your owncontent instead of just flipping
on a channel and listening,because it's just the spin they
put on it is
Preston (27:19):
And it's still confusing, even after you watch
a video like that, it's justlike,
Brad (27:22):
wow.
Oh, I know.
I was like, Oh, I was lost afterlike two minutes,
Preston (27:26):
but yeah,
Brad (27:27):
but it was still interesting
Preston (27:31):
like, same kind of a desert.
He's like, why don't we justmove all the Jews over to
Mexico?
It'll make Mexico like 10 timesbetter.
Cause like the Jews come in andthey just get the economy
roaring and I'm butchering thisthing, but it's much funnier
when he tells it and not thatwould ever work because.
The Holy Land is not there, butI've always thought like, yeah,
(27:53):
like at what point is like, Idon't know.
I mean, you think even when youthink about like, well, we came
here and like killed a bunch ofNative Americans and took this
for ours.
It's like, what if they startedtomorrow, like retaliating?
We're like, well, we want ourland back.
It's like, well, it'd besomewhat similar in a sense.
I don't know.
Brad (28:12):
Yeah.
I mean.
We can fight over, it forcenturies.
Preston (28:16):
Yeah.
Brad (28:18):
I
Preston (28:18):
don't know.
Or we can just crack a Bud Lightand call it a day.
Brad (28:27):
I'll have to just like light a cigar or something.
Preston (28:29):
Exactly.
Oh, you could have one of those,like, I've got these what are
those non alcoholic IPAs I had?
I've still got a few I forgetthe brand.
Athletic.
Brews or whatever.
Have you had those Brad?
Brad (28:41):
Yeah.
Yep.
They're
Preston (28:43):
they're really good.
Brad (28:44):
Oh, yeah I've got the what are they called?
I was drinking one last podcastI've got a couple of those in my
fridge still I can't rememberthe name I was gonna try to keep
plugging them in.
Preston (28:54):
Yeah, same with the Guinness non alcoholic I had one
of those in st.
Patty's day and it tastesexactly like a Guinness to me.
Brad (29:01):
Yeah Alright.
Hey before we get off currentevent I got one.
Got go.
I don't think we talked aboutthis yet.
Did I talk about Morgan Wallenthrowing a chair off the top of
chiefs?
Did we talk about that?
Preston (29:16):
I think it was slightly brought up last week, but we
didn't go into detail.
Brad (29:20):
Oh, I just think it's funny.
We're just making fun of themleft and right on stage.
All (29:24):
Yeah, I
Brad (29:24):
It's great.
I wanted to share some of whatwe've done.
So my one buddies anything youcan do to just get people
laughing or, yeah.
Engaged.
Someone came up and requestedMorgan Wallen and we started
playing George Strait, thechair.
Preston (29:37):
Yeah.
And
Brad (29:39):
I was like, and then my one buddy goes, They gave Morgan
Wallen an award, he's thechairman of country music.
I thought that was good.
Preston (29:49):
That's a good one.
Brad (29:51):
I think we already talked about this last week though,
Preston (29:52):
I don't know.
My brain's mushed
Brad (29:55):
tonight guys.
Preston (29:56):
It's alright.
We got it.
We got some good stuff in there.
Oh for sure.
Brad (30:01):
Oh, I'm sober for ten years, May coming up in May
we'll have to do a, we'll haveto do a some sort of,
Preston (30:09):
I don't know, who knows what, something, I don't know,
man.
Totally.
Fuck yeah, dude.
Brad (30:14):
If there's anybody out there that struggles with
sobriety or anything, or isinterested in being sober, I
certainly would love to talk toyou and Reach out to me somehow.
Michael (30:25):
I'll put your Instagram in the show notes.
Perfect.
All (30:32):
Hell yeah.
Sign us off.
Lieutenant Dawson.
Brad (30:34):
Is the end of episode 59.
I'm Lieutenant Dawson.
This is, I'm here with Preston,the Southern Kook Rodsky.
And we got Michael, themastermind Beckwith we had a
great time talking with you guystonight.
And be sure to, reach out to usand support and follow and
(30:56):
subscribe and all those goodthings.
And, Yeah, if you want tosponsor us, hit us up.
Michael (31:02):
Yeah.
We really could use a sponsor.
Straightforward.
Welcome to episode 59 of the proclaiming man podcast.
You got three boys tonight.
You got me, Preston SouthernCanuck.
We got Michael, the mastermind,not Z mastermind tonight.
It's just Michael.
And we got Brad LieutenantDawson.
I'm just calling you Lieutenantas your nickname right now,
Brad, because I don't know.
(00:26):
I just like that.
I think it's fitting.
We can figure stuff out as wego, but reporting for duty, sir.
And we were just coming to youtonight because Brad really has
like a heavy opinion on why hewanted to tell you guys about
how much he supports Palestine.
And he really wanted to get intothat tonight.
I'm just kidding.
We're just tonight is a topic.
(00:48):
We're going back to thereclaiming freedom.
And Brad and I were talking on apolo while the three of us were
earlier about just Is it aboutlike actual physical freedom
stuff is about like freedom inour mind freedom in our world?
And it's all the above, so I'dreally have anything else to say
(01:08):
at the moment No, I think
Michael (01:10):
That's a really good Intro here Preston and some of
the things I was thinking aboutfrom a reclaiming freedom
perspective.
You mentioned all of the aboveNot really focusing on heavy
things as much as we're checkingin as a group where we're at
with what are reclaiming freedomjourney looks like, and just
(01:30):
going back to what it originallywas about, which is, as we go
through life, there's a ton ofstuff that a ton of setbacks
that we're going to haveinvariably on.
The, maybe it's in my case, thejourney to become a day trader
for instance and, be able toescape corporate America in the
(01:51):
next five years.
That's what I have on theroadmap.
Or maybe that's what I had onthe roadmap two years ago.
And I still have it on the fiveyear roadmap.
I feel like, I'm slowly gettingcloser to it, but I was hoping
to just use this episode as aquick check in between the three
of us about where we're at.
And I mean, I feel progress,certainly not perfection is,
(02:12):
definitely the description forme lately.
And so I'll share a quick fewminutes and then Preston, Brad,
if you want to jump in withsomething too, you can,
otherwise you can take it in adifferent direction, but, I
think.
I've been working the past,actually, I looked at my
subscription.
I'm a member of this groupcalled chart champions.
(02:35):
It's a paid subscription monthlyfor educational content.
It's an online platform anddaily live streams and live
coaching.
All sorts of really great stuff.
I can't say enough good thingsabout it if people are
interested in learning how totrade.
But I subscribed in January of2021.
(02:57):
Right before the big crypto kindof explosion.
And I really wasn't paying toomuch attention to it.
And, I basically was gamblingthe first year and a half that I
thought I was trading, right?
I had no idea what I was doing.
And then I decided to starttaking a bit more seriously.
And then in the last year and ahalf, I've been really focusing
(03:18):
on completing all the courseworkand the modules still mainly
looking at tradingcryptocurrency though.
And then had a really.
Good introduction to the futuresmarkets.
And so I know I don't want toget into too many details about
specifically what I'm doing, butultimately over the past four
(03:40):
months, I was able to earn twopaid performance accounts
through a proprietary tradingfirm.
So basically.
I can trade now a hundredthousand dollars worth of, risk
capital.
And so it's a really, I think,something that I just wanted to
bring up, cause I don't think wetalk about like celebrating some
(04:02):
of our successes.
And I just wanted to share thatin order to get those two paid
accounts, I failed theevaluations, 23 times.
So these are the 24th and the25th times that I've tried.
This year I got one of them inJanuary and now I got my second
(04:23):
one.
You can get up to 20 of them.
But these are accounts where nowI can actually earn money
trading instead of just paymoney to learn how to trade.
So it's been a pretty goodjourney for the, I would say the
side job that I have, and I onlyget to spend.
Maybe an hour or two a day topsdoing it based on the fact that
(04:46):
I'm still working a jobsometimes from six 30 in the
morning until five at night.
So it's a, bit of a good successstory, but I just wanted to
share that with our listenersbecause it is really a
substantial part of progresstowards me getting to that
reclaiming freedom in my life.
(05:08):
This is something where mycoaches.
No lie are making anywhere from10 to 40, 000 a day.
And it's not inconsistent andit's very common.
And you add that up, right?
That's so are they just
Preston (05:29):
Are they just following like the Pelosi trades or
something or no.
Michael (05:36):
These guys are, so these guys are so their trades.
Preston (05:39):
Like how can you just, yeah,
Michael (05:40):
you can.
But they don't give us likespecific calls of, Hey, well,
sometimes it feels like they do.
Cause there's so much real timeinteraction with our coaches,
but I don't have the flexibilityto be there during the day when
they're providing that real timeguidance.
Most of the time, I'm doing itbefore the market opens or after
it.
And the overnight session, likeit is right now, but yeah, they
(06:03):
have over the past few yearsthat we've gone through a few
different coaches, but the groupthat's there is just, Absolutely
incredible.
And so they give you real timeguidance, but they don't give
you the exact.
They'll give you screenshots andconfirm like, Oh, this is, these
are the trades that I took,these are the levels that I'm
interested in.
And they give you really a lotof support and learning how to
(06:26):
trade, and it's fantastic,honestly.
So they're, helping me get tothat position and I'm going to
be very patient going back toone of our earlier episodes.
About that process, but it'staken me, a few years at this
point, and I know I'm justscratching the surface, so
(06:48):
that's my update for.
Brad (06:50):
That's huge, man, though, for the two accounts.
I mean, I've only heard thisbriefly and have a very little
understanding of it, but that'sgood stuff.
I mean that you stuck it out andyou're making that progress.
I mean, that's what we talkabout in our lives.
It's like half of this is justshowing up.
(07:11):
Well, more than that.
I mean like 90 percent of thisand I say this life, but I was
podcast.
Yeah.
Podcast.
I mean, dude, I, you're notalways going to feel good.
Michael (07:26):
Yeah.
Brad (07:27):
I had to like really come to grips with this.
Like I'm a recovering alcoholicaddict.
Like my brain just tells me Igot to feel good all the time.
All (07:34):
Yeah.
And
Brad (07:34):
it's like I think that's huge hearing your story, because
a lot of people, sign up for thegroup, pay the money, they put
in a little work, it didn't,they didn't see a return
immediately, and they're like,ah, this is, whatever like,
you're sticking it out and youprobably did your homework and
picked a course that waslegitimate because there's a lot
of them out there, everybody'sgot a dang course out there now.
Michael (07:52):
Well, maybe I can get my coach on for a podcast.
Oh,
Brad (07:55):
that'd be cool, dude.
Yeah, I wanted to ask you,
Michael (07:57):
he's
Brad (07:58):
from
Michael (07:58):
California.
Brad (07:59):
I wanted to ask you, what's your day job?
Cause I didn't even know whatyou do
Michael (08:02):
during the day.
I work at a, an energy companycalled XL energy.
And I work in their supply chaindepartment.
Gotcha.
And get to do, I mean, a ton ofactually really, cool stuff.
I like, my job.
I just know I'm buildingsomebody else's dream and not my
(08:23):
own.
Yeah.
Brad (08:24):
Well, and that was like, Preston was.
Alluding to on his polo earlier,like, he's just like, I spent
all this time at a job that Idon't like, I'm building, I'm
doing it for someone else.
Man, I want to get on Broadwaymore.
And, I, when you said that, I'mjust like, all right, I need to
just look at it from wherePreston's sitting because I'm
(08:46):
there and I'm over here, beingground down a little bit and I
got to remember this is what Iwanted to do.
This is the goal.
I'm in it I am to get candidabout mine a little bit.
It's like I'm pushing if I cando the numbers I'm doing right
(09:07):
now playing which is a lot Icould maybe make six figures
Yeah, like I'm looking atdoable.
My trajectory is like 80, 000right now.
Michael (09:17):
That's
Brad (09:17):
totally
Michael (09:18):
legal.
Brad (09:19):
But this is also like Being an athlete too.
So there's like, all right, man,I can't do too much.
Like I can't say my hands, mywrist, yeah, so there's a
balance and it's about gettingthe better gigs that pay more
and playing less and making moremoney.
And then I'm like, okay, is thisit though?
I'm just gonna have to do this.
So there's something else thatyou, get to where you're like am
(09:41):
I just where can I go from here?
I could land a big tour orsomething, but that potentially
won't make me, That'll make meless money.
Probably this is, I got toremember, I'm just not in this
career to really make money.
It's I'm reaching the cap ofwhat you can do.
I think as a professionalmusician, other than landing the
retainer for Jason Aldean, whereyou're making a hundred K on
(10:05):
retainer, even then they'remaking what I'm making.
Preston (10:07):
Yeah.
Brad (10:08):
But then they could do your side hustles and have your
other streams of income.
Man, thanks for sharing thatthough because I need to hear
about successes.
I'm having my own successes Butam also and I wanted to just
share this for anyone listening.
Like it's just you're not alwaysI wanted to share my story, you
know a little bit what it's whati'm just going through right now
(10:29):
because Everything is good.
I have nothing to complain aboutbut I just feel run down and
it's like what am I doing andit's I gotta remember, I gotta
stay grateful, and my head isspinning a little bit.
I had a little moment earlierwhen I was listening to the
polos, I had a text message andthe guy said, Hey, you're
playing with me tonight, right?
(10:51):
And I was like,
Preston (10:51):
gosh,
Brad (10:52):
I was like, wait, what?
Preston (10:54):
And your post about looking for a drummer.
Yeah.
Brad (10:57):
Yeah, dude.
And Jay was like, I looked backat the text message and it said,
Hey, are you available tomorrow?
He didn't say Thursday.
I even put it in my calendar isThursday.
Dude, you got to slow down.
Like I got to slow down.
Yeah.
How did I misread that text?
I have no clue, dude.
And I just owned up immediately.
(11:19):
I felt like crap.
I said, dude, I effed up.
Let me reach out.
Let me start finding somepeople.
Apologize.
Please don't hold this againstme.
I totally screwed up.
And I just owned it.
And the singer was like, I knowboth of them really well.
And they were just like, it'sall good.
We found somebody.
So hopefully it truly is allgood.
But yeah, anyway.
(11:41):
I have freedom, man.
I have freedom today.
And I gotta remember that.
I chose to be here.
I am right where I chose thiscareer and I'm killing it in a
lot of ways.
Sometimes I need to just growup.
Sometimes I just need to like,grow up.
(12:04):
Quit complaining.
Share, share about it though.
Don't stuff it, share about it.
Like I am tonight.
I'm just like, guys, I'm justlike I almost didn't know my
next polo, I almost made anotherpolo.
I was like, can we not do thepodcast?
I did, And my headspace justdidn't feel right.
And I was, I don't, I was like,I don't know anything about what
we're going to talk about.
(12:24):
And I was like, you know what?
It doesn't matter because I'mthere right now, like I am
there.
And this is just what the grindlooks like sometimes.
I'm just not on a high right nowand that's okay.
And I'm just gonna keep workingman.
Like I'm just gonna keepworking.
I went and played golf todayYeah, you were commenting on my
hat and my shirt earlier.
All (12:44):
I went and played
Brad (12:45):
golf.
It wasn't great I'm really hardon myself on the golf course
because I hit some really greatshots.
I'm a good golfer.
I shoot in the 80s but dude Iwas like Beating the two guys I
was playing with and the onedude walks up to my cart and he
looks in and he goes nopressure, but You're up on us by
three strokes.
And I was like, Oh my God, justto get in my head.
And I was like, I didn't know wewere like competing.
(13:07):
And he did, he got to me.
He got to me.
I, blew some holes on the backand then my other buddy ended up
winning and I, lost to the otherdude or I beat the other guy,
but, anyway, it's just I did getto go do something fun today.
Today was my day off.
Abby's out of town.
And she's my rock in a lot ofways.
(13:27):
So
Michael (13:28):
no, I don't know.
That's still, I feel like a goodpiece and helpful to get that
insight too, because you have toremind yourself a lot that the
work that you've done has ledyou to the opportunity you're at
right now.
And I'm in the same place wheresometimes that's why I think the
(13:51):
gratitude journal is soimportant to keep me grounded to
start my day that way, becausesometimes it's easy not to be
grateful for the work that wehave, which.
It's awesome.
I mean, like that's part of thefreedom, right?
That we do have that originally,like our country was founded on
the idea of being able to freelypursue what you wanted to do to
(14:13):
make money doing it, and yeah,that's pretty sweet that you can
do that.
Preston.
So let's, hear from you, man.
Preston (14:20):
Yeah, we get, I think we forget that life is hard.
And it's always going to be hardand that's not a bad thing like
that's such a good thing youbring up Well two things our
country being founded and thenBrad like you're like, I need to
get my perspective It's like I'mon Broadway doing like what
Preston's trying to get out ofhis realm Doing and do that and
(14:40):
it's like it doesn't mean it'sgonna be easy being James
Hetfield in Metallica It's likehe's James Hetfield from
Metallica, but it's like hestruggles with alcoholism He
struggles with fame like hislife is not You Easy.
Yeah, they couldn't even get,they couldn't even get along.
Yeah.
They're making
Brad (14:55):
hit records and they couldn't even stay together.
Preston (14:57):
But you don't want life to be hard because that's what
makes it better.
That's what makes itchallenging.
It's was it easy for ourforefathers and all those first
Americans to like, Get thiscountry started?
Hell no, it wasn't.
Fuck, a lot of people died.
I mean we look at what's goingon with, not to bring up the
World War 3 coming like thestuff going on with Israel and
(15:19):
Iran.
That's scary.
And a lot of people that arehaving a hard time out there.
But they're fighting forsomething that they believe in
and we won't get into thatbecause like we mentioned on our
polo, I don't understand.
Anything about what's going onin the Middle East as far as, I
don't even know what, picking aside.
None of it makes any sense tome.
But when life is hard, it's belike, have you guys ever heard,
(15:41):
do you guys know who JockoWillink is?
All (15:42):
Yeah.
Oh
Preston (15:43):
yeah.
He's got this thing on YouTubeand it's just like him talking
about good.
My alarm went off at four in themorning.
Good now, I gotta get up andwork out and it's like it's this
two minute thing where he's justsaying like all these Shitty
things he's like good and it'slike you listen to it and you're
like,
All (16:00):
oh
Preston (16:00):
fuck Yeah, but and it's just like it's so true.
It's just embrace the hardthings It doesn't mean that you
can't lean on us and lean oneach other and be like, yeah But
today just fucking sucks.
It's yeah, sometimes it does butit's like it's never going to be
easy because when it is You Thenit's just gonna be boring,
Brad (16:22):
yeah, and it's like you don't, Jaco's like you don't
have to, you get to.
Preston (16:29):
Totally.
Brad (16:30):
You get to do this.
Preston (16:32):
Yeah.
Brad (16:35):
Something popped up before I'd lose it.
It was, we were talking aboutfreedom, and I realized there's
another side of the coin, right?
And this kind of goes back to,Zach talked about it when he
transitioned out of the Navy andwe talked about it when inmates
are released from prison orjail, so freedom, what comes
with freedom is this weight,this sense of responsibility,
(17:02):
right?
So there's like another side tofreedom that, yeah, you get
freedom.
But what comes with that is awhole bunch of opportunity for
you to screw it up.
Yeah, that's right.
Michael (17:14):
You know what I mean?
And it's like opportunity onboth sides.
And
Brad (17:18):
I just realized that when we were talking, I was like, oh,
man, like this is all comingfull circle.
And usually when I have thosemoments, the beginning of this
podcast when I was sharing withyou Michael like I was my head
was just spinning I didn'treally know i'm like dude I
don't even know if i'm evengonna be able to contribute to
this and then guess whathappens.
It's like all of a sudden i'mlike dang shut up Yeah the bell
(17:42):
goes off.
It's like The light bulb turnson and I said it on the golf
course today.
I had a blow up.
I hit a great tee shot and I waslike, man, I'm going to hit this
great next shot.
Michael (17:51):
And
Brad (17:51):
I threw it.
I hit the shot in the woods and
Michael (17:54):
oh gosh
Brad (17:55):
I slammed my club on the ground and had a blow up.
But then like after the blow up,like the, I was done.
I was like, oh, all right, I'veblown up now.
I like let everything go.
And then I just played my roundand everything went.
Pretty good after that, it'sthere's two sides to this thing,
and hopefully this is makingsense, but, yeah, when you're
(18:19):
free you're, also, don't knowwhich way to go sometimes.
Preston (18:24):
Well here's, like the most the best example of that, I
think, is, use your, son for anexample.
If you let him make whatever hewanted for dinner tonight, What
would he make?
I'll tell you what my son wouldmake.
He'd probably, at this stage inhis life, given that much
freedom, he'd probably haveReese's peanut butter cups on
(18:44):
cookie two step ice cream.
That's a great dinner.
It's yeah, once in a while.
But like, when you're like 21and you're living on your own if
you have that for dinner everynight, You're gonna be fucking
dead in six months, oh, yeah soit's like that freedom like it's
really easy to see with our kidslike how they don't know how to
(19:07):
What to do with it and we're thesame way as adults as dads.
It's we struggle with that, too
Brad (19:15):
So what is freedom then?
Michael (19:19):
It's the ability to say no, you know it's the option to
say no to things that you don'twant to do because Your
priorities and the amount oftime that you get to spend on
those priorities actually align.
So that's what I look at mychief aims in life is to have
the freedom to Be selective andsay no to the things that I
(19:40):
don't want to do that Yeah, youknow aren't contributing to the
people that I care about themost whether it's my family
directly Extended family myfriends my community being able
to give back time and contributeto those You Types of
relationships with the rightamount of time and energy and
(20:02):
not be like worn down becauseI'm spending 50, 60 hours a week
helping lead the clean energytransition at XL energy and
getting some wind farms.
And solar farms built that's,for me, the definition.
(20:24):
It's not about, having somethingas much as not having to do.
Some of the things that take usaway from relationships and
people that we care about.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I don't know.
What do you think, Preston?
Preston (20:39):
Yeah, I think it's, I like the idea that you said the
freedom to say no.
I like to think of it also asthe freedom to say yes to the
things that I want to do.
I know that.
For sure.
Cheesy.
But I want to be able to just doall the things that I want to
do.
And I don't mean that in thesense of I want to go to
Disneyland all the time andthings like that.
But just, I want to be creativeand make money doing things that
(21:04):
I and, work hard.
Like I was mentioning to Bradearlier I don't want to spend 13
hours working for FedEx.
It'd probably be harder to spend13 hours working on Broadway if
I'm being honest.
But like, it's at least for meand like doing something that I
enjoy and.
At the end of the day, it'slike, well, I got to do that and
I can take that wherever I needto take it.
Brad (21:27):
So having like being in like the physical state of
freedom, like we are in America,like that's a big risk.
If you think about it, that's abig risk for a country to move
forward on that idea, because ifyou think about it.
You're given freedom, which Ihad to Google the, I wanted to
Google the definition.
(21:47):
I wanted to see what it saidand, it's interesting.
It's like the power, right?
To act, speak, or think as onewants without hindrance or
restraint.
Well, there is restraint, butthat restraint needs to be from
yourself rather than.
Through an outside party.
So you get to this point wherethere's some people that believe
(22:10):
they're superior to others andthey go, well, we can't trust
them.
We can't trust them to makedecisions on their own, or
they're a criminal and they'vegiven up their right.
So now we have to tell them whatto do or they give up their
trust on their own and join themilitary or something like that.
And then we tell them what theyneed to do.
(22:31):
It's very interesting to thinkabout freedom.
As I start now, I'm like, well,is there really actual freedom?
I mean, cause at some point youdevelop the ability to restrain
yourself.
So I guess that's the freedomthough, is that you're,
Michael (22:45):
I mean, that's what growing up is though.
Yeah.
That's what I feel like.
And that's the whole aspect ofreclaiming man.
It's, it is.
Taking hold of the values thatwe should and apply the right
level of discernment to what wesay and how we say it and do so
(23:06):
in a manner that's truthful thatas much as possible represents
fact.
And we're communicating.
Articulating what we believe,but also what we know to be true
instead of, purely propaganda orthings that are meant to
increase the number of viewsthat we have.
So I think there's a lot offreedom that we have in doing a
(23:28):
podcast to express that speechwith obviously, yes, some
restraints where we've learnedthat we should restrain
ourselves.
But, there's also the otheraspects that you mentioned, just
like freedom of.
The lack of control that thegovernment theoretically should
have over our lives.
(23:49):
That's a freedom, right?
We don't live in this yettyrannical, government like many
other countries do around theworld.
And so I still think it's, oneof the best places to live and
gives us the best opportunitiesto pursue some of the stuff that
we're doing.
So that's, my thoughts on it.
(24:11):
I don't know.
Yeah.
All (24:14):
Thanks
Brad (24:16):
I read when I was sitting in the truck, I had some free
time tonight.
My son was at flag footballpractice and, I was just
handling some stuff andanswering messages and
forgetting I had a shift andlistening to polos and I was
like, I'm going to go type intoYouTube what's really going on
in the Middle East, and I foundlike an unbiased, what I think
(24:39):
was just an unbiased, like,educational video.
I almost sent you guys the link.
Very complex chain of events.
I'm not gonna try to go intowhat it was about very in de
like in very much detail.
But it basically just said thatthey're just fighting over that
land and they've been doing itfor a hundred years.
The biggest misconception isthat it's been happening for
thousands of years.
(25:00):
Now wars have been happening forthousands of years, sure.
But really this conflict startedin the 1900s.
And after World War I when theOttoman Empire lost control of
that area.
And they divvied up the area tolike French and the British.
And the Jews just had nowhere togo.
And so they, just felt like theyneeded a place and they said,
(25:23):
you can have this place here,and the Arabs didn't like that
because that place expanded alittle bit more into their
territory.
And so they just naturally didwhat they had to do.
Everyone wants to make the Arabslook bad and all this stuff.
And I'm not saying that I'm notsupporting that, but as I got to
learn the history a little bit,I'm like, okay, well they have a
side and a point.
Now, the way they do it bycreating extreme groups and
(25:45):
going about it with extremeviolence, which every party.
Does they all resort to violencebecause they all actually want
peace, which is what's crazy Idon't think that it ever started
with we're just trying to createchaos Like I don't even think
that's what they wanted Theyjust needed to create an extreme
group to somehow go in there andtake back this land because the
(26:07):
jews were actually makingsettlements in the In these
little areas that weren'tactually part.
Anyway, I am going into detailnow, But you should go watch
this I'll maybe i'll send youguys the link and it was really
just it was really just thehistory of it and it just put
some clarity on What they'reactually fighting over and of
course now we're at thisconflict that it Is what it is
now and other allies and otherpeople want to get involved
(26:29):
because there's profit to bemade there They have their
interests or whatever but It wasjust crazy to actually hear that
It's really not supercomplicated.
And it was actually prettysimple to understand, but they
just can't find a happy ground.
They just can't, they can'tsettle on whose land is what and
(26:52):
where that line is, whether it'son the East West bank or
whatever,
Preston (26:57):
wherever it is.
Yeah.
Brad (26:58):
Yeah.
And it's like, it seems to belike, we're splitting hairs
here.
It's like, But apparently this,land really matters and I'll
have to keep educating myself alittle bit on it, and I find
that's the best way to learn isgo, seek out videos that are
unbiased and watch your owncontent instead of just flipping
on a channel and listening,because it's just the spin they
put on it is
Preston (27:19):
And it's still confusing, even after you watch
a video like that, it's justlike,
Brad (27:22):
wow.
Oh, I know.
I was like, Oh, I was lost afterlike two minutes,
Preston (27:26):
but yeah,
Brad (27:27):
but it was still interesting
Preston (27:31):
like, same kind of a desert.
He's like, why don't we justmove all the Jews over to
Mexico?
It'll make Mexico like 10 timesbetter.
Cause like the Jews come in andthey just get the economy
roaring and I'm butchering thisthing, but it's much funnier
when he tells it and not thatwould ever work because.
The Holy Land is not there, butI've always thought like, yeah,
(27:53):
like at what point is like, Idon't know.
I mean, you think even when youthink about like, well, we came
here and like killed a bunch ofNative Americans and took this
for ours.
It's like, what if they startedtomorrow, like retaliating?
We're like, well, we want ourland back.
It's like, well, it'd besomewhat similar in a sense.
I don't know.
Brad (28:12):
Yeah.
I mean.
We can fight over, it forcenturies.
Preston (28:16):
Yeah.
Brad (28:18):
I
Preston (28:18):
don't know.
Or we can just crack a Bud Lightand call it a day.
Brad (28:27):
I'll have to just like light a cigar or something.
Preston (28:29):
Exactly.
Oh, you could have one of those,like, I've got these what are
those non alcoholic IPAs I had?
I've still got a few I forgetthe brand.
Athletic.
Brews or whatever.
Have you had those Brad?
Brad (28:41):
Yeah.
Yep.
They're
Preston (28:43):
they're really good.
Brad (28:44):
Oh, yeah I've got the what are they called?
I was drinking one last podcastI've got a couple of those in my
fridge still I can't rememberthe name I was gonna try to keep
plugging them in.
Preston (28:54):
Yeah, same with the Guinness non alcoholic I had one
of those in st.
Patty's day and it tastesexactly like a Guinness to me.
Brad (29:01):
Yeah Alright.
Hey before we get off currentevent I got one.
Got go.
I don't think we talked aboutthis yet.
Did I talk about Morgan Wallenthrowing a chair off the top of
chiefs?
Did we talk about that?
Preston (29:16):
I think it was slightly brought up last week, but we
didn't go into detail.
Brad (29:20):
Oh, I just think it's funny.
We're just making fun of themleft and right on stage.
All (29:24):
Yeah, I
Brad (29:24):
It's great.
I wanted to share some of whatwe've done.
So my one buddies anything youcan do to just get people
laughing or, yeah.
Engaged.
Someone came up and requestedMorgan Wallen and we started
playing George Strait, thechair.
Preston (29:37):
Yeah.
And
Brad (29:39):
I was like, and then my one buddy goes, They gave Morgan
Wallen an award, he's thechairman of country music.
I thought that was good.
Preston (29:49):
That's a good one.
Brad (29:51):
I think we already talked about this last week though,
Preston (29:52):
I don't know.
My brain's mushed
Brad (29:55):
tonight guys.
Preston (29:56):
It's alright.
We got it.
We got some good stuff in there.
Oh for sure.
Brad (30:01):
Oh, I'm sober for ten years, May coming up in May
we'll have to do a, we'll haveto do a some sort of,
Preston (30:09):
I don't know, who knows what, something, I don't know,
man.
Totally.
Fuck yeah, dude.
Brad (30:14):
If there's anybody out there that struggles with
sobriety or anything, or isinterested in being sober, I
certainly would love to talk toyou and Reach out to me somehow.
Michael (30:25):
I'll put your Instagram in the show notes.
Perfect.
All (30:32):
Hell yeah.
Sign us off.
Lieutenant Dawson.
Brad (30:34):
Is the end of episode 59.
I'm Lieutenant Dawson.
This is, I'm here with Preston,the Southern Kook Rodsky.
And we got Michael, themastermind Beckwith we had a
great time talking with you guystonight.
And be sure to, reach out to usand support and follow and
(30:56):
subscribe and all those goodthings.
And, Yeah, if you want tosponsor us, hit us up.
Michael (31:02):
Yeah.
We really could use a sponsor.
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