Let me ask you a question. How old are you? In seconds. Now, you were probably able to answer the question pretty quickly when I first asked it, until I added the extra stipulation of, in seconds. So let me make a guess. Or actually, let me make a guess presuming that you are one of my students.  That's an estimate to the closest decade. And if I do that, how do I convert that into seconds? Well, it's pretty straightforward with some numbers that we know. We know in 20 years there are 365 days in one year, and there are 24 hours for every one day. And there are 3,600 seconds for every one hour. Now, I could have split that up into minutes, 60 minutes per hour, and 60 seconds per minute. But when I take that, and I cancel out the appropriate units, so I end up with the final answer in seconds, I get a value here, and I'll pull out my precalculation instead of a calculator, and get 630,720,000 seconds. So how good is that estimate? Would that suffice to answer the question, how old are you in seconds? Well, if I made that guess, and then I really think about most of my students, most of my students tend to be in the last two years of high school, either juniors or seniors here in high school in the United States. So a better guess might actually be something like 17 years. Maybe instead of guessing to the nearest decade, I do a little better, and I make an approximation to the nearest year where they might be 16, 17, or 18, but 17 years is a better approximation. And when I do so, and follow the same multiplications, I get something that looks like this. 536,112,000 seconds. So is that a good estimate? Now, if I'm asking for it in seconds, why would I need it in seconds if years would have been good enough? Also, a lot of younger people I know, for example, my son, when he was 11, for the longest time he was 11, but as soon as he turns 11 and a half, he definitely made sure that we knew he was and a half. We could be a little more accurate than just that 17 years. Let's say some of my students are coming up on 18 and they like to think I'm very close to being 18 soon. So let's go ahead and assume that instead their age, they provide that extra and a half. How does that change the number of seconds they are old? Well, notice the actual number of seconds doesn't change, but my estimate for how many seconds they are does. Let's take a look here. 17 and a half years, 551,850,880,000 seconds. Okay. Can we do better? If I ask you to calculate how many seconds older you are, are you satisfied with that answer to the nearest half year or so? What if we got a little bit better? Because it's not too difficult to figure out, okay, what month is it now? What month is my birthday? Maybe instead of 17.5 years, my student is 17 years and four months. So that's going to be 17 times a 365, which we did, plus, let's see here, 17 times 365 plus four times. And how much is a month? Well, it varies, but let's estimate that at being about 30. And that would give us a number of days. And then we can translate that into 546,536 million, 480,000 seconds. All right. Notice my numbers are changing, but some of the numbers aren't changing so much. Here, I had six. Now I have five and I still have five and I still have five. So I seem to be getting a little bit more detail. I'm honing in. I'm getting to be what's called more precise. And my number over here, certain aspects of it are changing, but some of them aren't. Let's keep moving forward. What digits are changing as I get more precise with my age? Let's go to the nearest half month, 17 year, 4.5 months. So 17 times 365 plus 4.5 times 30 to estimate the number of days. And actually, I can put the number of days in here. For previously, this was 6,325 days. And then this becomes 6,340 days, because now I'm beginning to break this up, and then I do my final calculation of hours per day and seconds per hour. And in this case, I get 547,776,000 seconds. So let's continue and go a little bit more precise. 17 years, 4 months, and 10 days. Just probably a little less than half a month, but close. And if we do that, I get 17 times 365, but now that we're talking about days and we're getting a little bit closer here, maybe we have to think about the difference before. We assume there were 30 days per month. Maybe we have to start thinking about the difference that's happening in each month. So I'm going to say plus 30, plus 31, plus 31, plus 30 to represent the past few months that have happened. Challenge for you. Can you tell me which month we're doing this in? And then we'll add all those together. 6,337 days. And we get our value here of 547 million, I keep saying that, 516,800 seconds. So we started talking about different days, but some of you might have said, well, what about leap years? Aren't there extra days that have been counted in? Indeed, somebody who's been around for 17 years has lived through an extra day that's been added on. So interestingly, this was a problem that humans had for a while, settling on how long the calendar should actually be. And in fact, the Julien, it wasn't until 45 BC with the Julien calendar that we even started thinking about adding the leap years, that we had the day for leap year. And so let's see here. So we're going to go ahead and assume, instead of being 365 days a year, it's actually 365.25. So if we actually redo that same thing, 17 years, four months, 10 days, but now we're going to take into account leap year, 17 times 365.25, that'll add the quarter day in there. Now it doesn't exactly add the leap year's account exactly, but that's going to estimate and take into account adding a day for every four years. Plus R, let's see here. I believe this adds up to 122. And I forgot the plus 10 days, which wasn't, which was in there, but plus 10. So that's 132. The plus 10 was included in that 637. I just didn't write it. We end up with 6341.25 days, which if we again convert to seconds becomes 547,884, 547,884,000 seconds. All right. So you can understand here as we look, the more information, the more detail I have about my student or that whoever's calculating has about themselves, the more our numbers tend to not change as we add the detail, but we can have these numbers. The question is, is this good enough? Have we estimated the number of seconds closely enough for whatever your purposes are? Let's go ahead and try just a little bit closer. Okay, here it turns out that this 0.25, humans studied in history and figured out that even that wasn't quite close enough. In fact, it was after about a thousand years, I'm sorry, more than a thousand years, about 1,500 years in the year 1582, that they discovered that the Julian calendar was a little bit off. Even adding leap years was putting things so that the normal times considered different times a year were beginning to shift it. And in 1582, Thursday, October 4th, the next day after that was followed by Friday, October 15th. They had to add 11 days because the calendar had gotten so far off of the actual revolution of the earth that they needed to add an additional 11 days. And now we actually account for that by having some extra rules associated with leap year, things along the lines of we do observe leap year except, let's see if I can remember the details, as long as the, actually I'm not going to remember all the details there. Went on centuries, certain centuries, I believe we don't have a leap year except every 400th century, then we do have a leap year, something along those lines, but I'm going to leave that to you to go look at. The main point here is that this number 0.25 could be better. In fact, the number that we should be using if we wanted to get more precise, let's use the same four months, 10 days, but we'll do 17 times 365.2422. Now we've gotten a lot more precise with the amount of days per year. And when we translate that, we get 6,000, let's see here, 6341.1174 days and that ends up giving us 547,872,543.36 seconds. Now this is where I want to pay a little bit of attention because many of my students do this. We have now calculated this and we had lots of precision, lots of detailed information here. And when we multiplied this out, we ended up with lots of detailed information over here. The question is, is that detailed information any good? Suddenly we went from having lots of zeros over here or mostly zeros over here to having details down to the nearest 100th of a second. But we're only estimating to the nearest 10 days. And this is where we start leading to this idea of significant figures. Which numbers are important to keep? Which numbers are available to keep? Do we really need all this stuff or is it even meaningful at the end here when we're only estimating closer to the nearest day? Remember, a day is going to be something on the order of, let's see here, four times 3600 is 86,000 seconds. So are we worried about the nearest 10th of a second? Probably not. Maybe none of that at the end really has any meaning for us. Let's keep going. Let's get just a little bit more precise since we've got all this precision here. Maybe we can have a little bit more precision. We asked the student, okay, were you able to figure out four months, ten days from your birthday, yes, you know what time you were born. Let's add seven hours. So we add this whole thing 17 times 365.2422 plus 132. Plus since we're talking about days we'll say seven hours at a 24. So a fraction that we add in there. And then we got our number in days which is 6341.4091 days which we then get to be 547,897,746.24 seconds. When are you ever going to stop? Well, let's try one more. Because now we've gotten down to hours but can we get down to minutes? Seventeen years, four months, ten days, seven hours, four hours, 13 minutes. And we do the multiplication there. We have this same piece and this same piece and this same piece. And then we add 13 divided by 1440 which is the amount of minutes in a day. And we get 6341.4181 days and final value of 547,898,523.36 seconds. Now, you're probably asking yourself we've been watching this video for a number of minutes. So even if I took the time to figure out the number of seconds by the time I did the calculation the number of seconds would be obsolete. The question how old are you in seconds is changing every second. And do we even believe in this 0.36, this 0.23 there? It's changing as we move forward from every minute. Every minute we're changing here so some of that stuff is not important. The main reason for this exercise is to look and talk about how the number changed as we were beginning to hone in to what reality was. In this case, we think reality is somewhere close to this value. How close? Well, it probably depends on how close we are in minutes. If we are really to the nearest minute a minute is 60 seconds so somewhere around here. But let's look and see which of our various numbers how these things change as we move forward. Up here, I made a guess to the nearest decade. That too, I'm not quite sure about but I know it's pretty close. It's a reliable number within one or two values of it. Okay? And if we look here this number here, this 6 is different than the 5 down here but it's within one or two. So our reliable number here is this 6. Anything after it is kind of meaningless. I could have said 600 million seconds and been just as accurate. More or less. Then I got a little more careful. 17 years. So I knew the 1 was correct and I knew the 7 was close. Maybe it's 7, maybe it's 8, maybe it's 6. And when I did that you'll notice the 5 is the same all the way down. The 3 is the same. The 3 is now the one that's close. That's reliable but not perfect. This one is correct. That one is reliable but not perfect with a little underlining on it. This leads to a concept that I like to call the fuzzy digit. There is a number that we're not quite sure of and that we're going to it's going to be an estimate of what reality is. And in this case over here I was sure about this one. This one's a little fuzzy. My second digit is fuzzy. Over here my second digit is fuzzy. I get a little bit better. I'm certain about these two and this 5 is fuzzy. I do my calculation. I look over here. Well there's my 5 there. This 5 is not the same as the 4 but if we round them it's the same thing. So we're talking about something that's very close but also even better than close. It's close. It's the same if we round them. So this is the one that if I change this if I move this down a couple notches it would be 549 and then we'd be exactly the same. I know it's a little hand wavy but that's the idea here is that if I change this by a couple the other two would be pretty certain and this one is the fuzzy one. I get a little more precise. Let's look here. Now the 5 and the 4 are good. The 6 is still a little bit fuzzy but then I get a little closer. Now the 5, the 4 and the 7 are good and the one that's a little bit off is the 7 and as I continue down this line you can start seeing that I'm beginning to approach now the 8 is the same and this 8's a little bit off. The 8 is the same.  Now we have 8, 9, 7. The 9 is the same but that 7 is a little bit off. As we keep moving we have more faith more reliability in the numbers that we see. More and more digits are more and more reliable if we're trying to compare to what we consider to be the correct answer correct as we can get it. How reliable is this itself? Well who knows but if we're talking about being to the closest minutes we're probably pretty reliable if we're talking about 500 seconds, we're probably within 100 seconds of what we're talking about if we are close to the right minute. So I use this demonstration as the first piece of a discussion of significant figures. We'll talk a little bit more about some of this discussion in the second video.


Welcome back to my YouTube channel guys. I'm not going to lie. Not in the best mood for talking about taxes today. I've just done a deep dive and a refresher on some of the US tax laws and man it does not make me happy. So this video is going to overview the differences between paying taxes in New Zealand compared to the US and also a little bit of a deep dive into American expats that live abroad and how to pay your US taxes and some of my thoughts on that and sharing some personal experiences. So even if you are not an expat, I would recommend that you watch this video just to get a sense. It gives you a sense of what it's like for Americans living abroad or just just dealing with American tax law in general. So here we go. So if you are new to my channel, welcome. We are a family of six. I have moved from the US to New Zealand and have been here for seven years and today we're going to talk about paying taxes. This is one of the questions that I get so often from my clients and they've been begging me to do a video. So this is a video. I also want to do a shout out to our sponsor today Bright Tax for sponsoring this video. You guys, if you are moving to another country, you are going to need a tax service and I highly recommend Bright Tax. I will talk about that a little bit later, but they are sponsoring this video. So thank you. Here we go. Okay, this is how we're going to do this video. I'm going to overview doing New Zealand taxes and then I'm going to go into paying your US taxes when you are living abroad and some of the things to watch out for. So let's dive into New Zealand taxes. A couple of things I want to say about this. I have been living in New Zealand for seven years now and have been paying taxes and let me tell you the first thing I want to say is that it's so easy comparatively. Now, if you don't know, the US tax is difficult. So difficult in fact that they have all this. There's whole businesses that thrive because it is difficult and so that's why they keep it difficult, but don't know. So paying taxes in New Zealand, so easy. When I first moved here, I got a like a three fold pamphlet they filled out and it like took a few minutes. I'm like are we being serious? Actually, a Canadian friend of mine and I were like called each other were like, is this for real? Like this is so easy and so straightforward and so reasonable, but now they have developed a whole system through the IRD system where it just automatically does your taxes for you.  It's automatically done. If there's things that you need to add or changes that happen, you know, within that financial year, then you have to go in and add that. You normally have to just kind of go in and just answer some questions and make sure that everything is the same and then it just prompts you, you know, 15 minutes, right? And you see your taxes. Now, another big difference that I want to highlight about this is that they take taxes out of your paycheck just like they do in the US. The difference is that they don't take too much.  There's a concept in the US. They always take more out and then you have to file your taxes in order to get your money that you earned back at the end of the year. And then they make you feel like the government is giving you a tax return when really it was just your money to begin with. So yeah, that's what we're dealing with over there. But here in New Zealand, they don't do that. They take out legitimately what you owe in taxes and generally not more than that. And if they do, it's they automatically give it back to you. So like it's amazing.  You know, because like I always feel like when I'm doing my US taxes, I'm like, okay, I don't want to forget something that I did in the year because I'm filing it this one time. But what's nice about New Zealand taxes is a lot of different features that allow you to just, you know, within the next four years or two years, you know, report it. So you don't feel like this pressure to like remember everything or like, oh, that's right. We gave to that. And you know, we could get 33% back if we, you know, registered that as a charity that we contributed to during the year. So just a lot of great things about that. Also doing business taxes, as you know, I have a business here as well. And pretty straightforward, quite easy. I mean, you just considered a different entity. So it has its own tax return. But again, also very, very simple compared to what you have to do in the US. And I'm not going to go into all of that because it depends on your industry and different things on what you have to pay and how much you make. And so I'm not going to touch on that, but I just wanted to kind of do an overview of how amazing it is to have to pay taxes in New Zealand coming from the US. And so keep in mind that when I lived in the US, I always paid my own taxes, did my own taxes. I own multiple small businesses. And I just felt because tax law changes often, it affects your income dramatically. If you know what's going on and then how you structure your business or how you do things matter. And so that's why I always kept up on it. And so I was very familiar with American tax law and how to do it. And so, so that's why I can speak quite clearly that it is much easier here, because I was always doing it there. And in fact, I, true story, I continued to do my own US taxes when we moved here. And I ended up checking a box wrong, got a $20,000 fine, took me 18 months of working with IRS to get that removed. Like it was an actual mistake. I had to hire a CPA in the US and she had to work it out. She's like, Oh, you literally just checked a box wrong.  You can't like deal with it. It's very stressful. Then they kept sending me letters in the mail saying, Hey, we haven't had a chance to look at it. You're going to have to give us another three months. And, you know, so anyway, it got removed and everything's fine. But yeah, it's just like the IRS is scary and dangerous. And that doesn't go away when you leave the country. And let's get into that right now. Okay, let's talk about paying US taxes. Now, I just want to say that I'm not a professional. This isn't tax advice. I suggest that you talk to bright tax about this, but I'm just going to go through. Like I said, I am familiar with tax law, have paid taxes for my adult life. And so I feel like I can just give you a nice brief overview as a teacher and try to put it in terms that are quite easy to understand. So first off, if you don't know, Americans have to pay US taxes no matter where they live and work in the world for ever, as long as they are citizens, as long as they have a US passport. And so no matter where, there's only one other country in the world that requires this, but the US, yeah, it's interesting. And I'm going to be honest with you because I have just been deep diving into it the last couple of days. And I'm very frustrated because it's like the whole concept of the US was started where people escaped from Britain to, you know, because no taxation without representation, but nobody's representing US expats. There's like millions of us around the world, and we are just taxed like crazy, like you're about to find out. And quite unfairly when you start to see the penalties. And we have no representation and we don't even use the services in the US or in the state that we're from. And so it's, it's very interesting and a little bit frustrating. So here we go. Okay, so if you're an expat that has moved out of the US and have decided, Hey, you know, I'm going to check out life abroad. America doesn't like that. They're not making it easy and you can see it through their tax law. Okay, so it's the greatest country on earth, but they just don't want you to see the way other people do it because it might be better. So yeah, let's talk about this. So there's three things that you need to kind of think about. Now there's a lot more, depending on what country. So this applies to anybody living in any country, any American living in any of any country and have to pay taxes. Do not avoid it. Definitely go and file your tax return with the US government. There's no way around it. If you don't file it, you will have to at some point and pay all the back taxes.  I would define myself as a complicated tax individual. I have a small business in the US that's complicated and I have two in New Zealand and I have, I'm a complicated tax person. And so I have had New Zealand accountants, US accounts and I've never gotten that feeling that they really are doing everything correct because they don't always understand the other laws until I met bright tax. And let me tell you, they have saved me. It was the first time that I felt that I was working with a company that really understood because all of their CPAs are expats as well. And they really understand US law and that's what you really need. And then they also understand New Zealand law really well. And I was like, this is fantastic. And so, and I always ask them questions. They're so friendly. They're so responsive. Just anything that kind of comes up in my mind, I just email them. It's great. I would highly recommend you're an American expat, no matter where you live in the world that you work with bright tax because they are really good. They're very friendly and they only do expat taxes. So they really understand because when it comes to doing US taxes, you have to understand the different country agreements and they're really good for that. So definitely go check them out. The link is in my description. Bright tax is where it's at. So I don't know if you've noticed if you're an American that has left the US, everything is difficult. It's not just the tax situation. It's also dealing with stocks and bonds and companies with that, even dealing with your credit card company with your bank. They make everything very difficult. It's like, we don't like that you left, but we have. And so we have to deal with that. So let's talk about foreign-earned income exclusion. So this is number one thing. So most countries, I guess I shouldn't say most countries, I don't actually know a lot of countries. So there's this foreign, there's an agreement between the countries and there's a foreign-earned income exclusion. This is true for New Zealand. And so individually, let me check the number. Hold on, 112,000 as of 2022, you can exclude. So if I live and I work in New Zealand and I make 112,000, I will not also have to be double-taxed with the US government on that money after anything after that I would. And so if you're filing jointly, then it's 224,000. So as long as you make less than that, you're fine. And so if you make more than that, but then there's also ways around that. So that's when you need the accountant. Okay? So there is a foreign income exclusion. So there is an agreement between New Zealand and the US. So you don't have to pay double taxes on that. But after that, it gets a little bit hairier. And I'm not going to try to tackle everything with that. But that's the first thing you should know. The second thing that you should know about is called FATCA. I'm going to just read this so that I don't do this wrong. Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act of 2010. Now this is, you must report this if you have, and it's a certain form, it's a separate form, but it's pretty high limits. So like I think of it's jointly, it's like $400,000. So if you don't, you know, if you make less than that, or you have, it's just reporting your financial assets. If you have less than that, then I don't think you have to report it. But if you do, but a lot of people do, like if you still have your house in the US or, you know, you have different retirement accounts, it all needs to be reported. And so this is really just used for just making sure that you're compliant to, you know, the foreign tax and financial things. There is a penalty. If you meet these limits and you have not submitted, you have to pay $10,000, it was a $10,000 up to like $50,000 a year for not doing it. So like, don't not do it. So definitely talk to, you know, an accountant or definitely bright tax because it's like really good. I'm like, oh my gosh. And this is recent, you know, 2010. And so it's not great. And so this is where you're seeing a rise in Americans renouncing their citizenship because of all of these new rules. But we'll get to that in a minute. The second thing I want to talk about is called the F bar. Now this one is most likely you will have to file, but it's more in the intent of this one is informational. And I don't know what F bar means. So financial accounts reporting bank account reporting. So it's really, it's reporting your foreign bank account totals to the government. And you just need to do this. And if you don't, you're charged $10,000. I'm like, and I think that there's like a minimum you have to have in the bank account to do this again, but it's definitely something you should know about. Look at the F bar is, you know, you definitely need to do it.  And it's like, then I like, I did a deep dive. So like what's willful and what's non willful? And there's no, it actually says there's no like actual, um, you know, determination as to what those are. And so it's just kind of left up to the discretion of a court, I believe.  I think it's, you know, sometimes it's associated with criminal activity or, you know, I don't know.  And it's like, wow. And there's, yeah, there's no guidance for willful or unwillful, um, participation in this. And so like, yeah, these are, these are things that consider like, so it's not just that we have to pay taxes to the US government. We actually have to show the US government, all of our assets, all of our bank account totals, so they can make sure that we have paid them their due amount. And if this wasn't enough to make you crazy, this has promoted a lot of people not wanting to be citizens anymore. So they don't have to keep reporting this taxes because it's not just reporting it.  And then as you're making more money, there's more craziness and penalties and oh my goodness. And so you're seeing that in the 2010 or 2011, when this went into it, you're seeing like a rise of people renouncing their citizenship. But right now they raise the price of that to $2,350 to hand them your passport. So yeah, per person. So like my family of six through that calculation. Not that we're looking to do that at all at this point, but like, wow, I'm like, okay, so not only do you have to pay the fee, you also have to pay exit taxes. And that's based on your income over the last five years. And it literally says on the government website on the IRS website, get a tax professional to help you with this, because this is complicated. So they're not making it easy. You can't get out of this tax situation very easily.  It's just all I'm seeing. And so I highly recommend that you reach out to Bright Tax. They are so great. This is like the kind of the first company that I felt really comfortable with. And like I really, I feel like they really knew what to do from a US tax perspective and a New Zealand tax perspective. So don't hesitate. Their link is below. And I will see you guys next week. And hopefully you're on a much happier topic.


Today's episode of the Anthony Anderson show is brought to you by Sunwarrior, sunwarrior.com and mountgoxmtgox.com. You're going to see everything coming in. Good company. Greetings, everybody. This is Anthony Anderson coming at you live from New York City. And today we are with a very special guest. His name is Eric Niece. Many of you will know him from early on back in the day, real world, the grind, the first reality show, very cool. Much more importantly though, he is now a very well known health activist. Getting people into the holistic living lifestyle and he's actually doing a march, not against Monsanto, but a march to wake people up about truth and labeling from New York City to Washington. Yeah. 313 miles. Cool. Cool. So tell us a little bit about for the people that are just getting into this, your journey about, you know, getting into the holistic lifestyle from when you grew up in New Jersey. Yep. Yeah, I grew up on the Jersey Boy down by the Jersey Shore. Cool. I've always had an interest in health and wellness as a kid. I was, you know, an athlete, so we were always looking for good things to eat. But, you know, at a young age and, you know, growing up in America on the standard American diet, you know, we thought we were doing the right thing. But then you meet new people and you read a book and you gather some new information and then you just start to evolve and just start to search deeper and deeper. And yeah, the last, almost five years now, I've been pretty much a raw foodist. About 95 percent, a hundred most of the time when I travel, I have to adjust. Because you're not really sure where the foods are coming from. And I can wither away pretty quickly. So I can go from about 170 pounds to 160 almost overnight. So I have to be careful about that. But yeah, you know, it's been a spiritual journey. First and foremost for myself, for self-empowerment. But then as I got older, it started to become more personal with me about the future generations and my nieces and my nephews and the kids that are growing up in this country and around the world. Through the entertainment industry, I got heavily active in being involved in a number of different organizations over the years through charity work and raising money for different charities like Pediatric AIDS and Kids with Cancer, Childhood Obesity and things like that. And the more that I offered myself or my service to the community, the more I became aware of what was actually happening, the truth of what's happening not only in our country but around the world. And it really opened up for me when I helped to organize a campaign to raise awareness for childhood obesity. One of the parts of the campaign was us driving cross-country from California to New York visiting the 15 most obese cities in America. And along the way, we visited school systems. We spoke to mayors, governors, parents, teachers, nurses, doctors. We did a whole bunch of press along the way. When was this? This was about six years ago, six, seven years ago. The name of the project was called Get Tiny. I partnered up with a group of guys and the gentleman who we were working with was Emmanuel Yarbaro. He was a world amateur sumo champion. And when I met him, he was about 860 pounds, six, seven. Guinness Book of World Records, world's largest athlete. So we went to Tiny as his nickname and we asked him if he would be interested in being the poster child to fight childhood obesity. And he agreed. So we went through this two-year journey to bring him back to his fighting weight and get him healthy to go to the Olympics in Beijing, China. That's a long story, but the reason why I'm telling you this is because as we were traveling across the country, I saw firsthand the reality of what's going on in this country, especially with the food and the school systems. And as we went from city to city, and we met with these, the teachers and the parents and the nurses, most of the time we were greeted with tears. Some were tears of pain and suffering, but some were tears of joy because they saw us as pioneers at the forefront or leading this revolution of changing the food systems in the school systems. And it really, it struck a chord in me because you don't have to be a rocket scientist or a biologist or a licensed nutritionalist to know that processed foods are not good for you. You need minimal education to understand what that's all about. And what was shocking to me is how many teachers and how many parents and how many people really were aware of what these foods were actually doing to these kids and why the childhood obesity issue is such a big problem in our country. And then that's when kind of the anger set in with me, where I took it personal and I was like, you know, we know that these foods are bad, but they continue to put them into the school systems. And I said, well, why is that? You know, I'm the type of guy that asks why. Why is this the way that it is? And why are we not doing something about it when we know that childhood obesity is the worst epidemic that the world has ever seen? And it's the first time that our children are going to die before their parents because of heart disease or diabetes or high blood pressure or whatever it is. So I said, why? Why are they not doing something about it? And they still don't, you know?  And I want to know why. I want to know why we allow companies like Monsanto to produce genetically modified organisms and put them into our food and not tell us about it. Why do you think that is? How much time do we have?  What are you willing, what are you willing to do to fight this? But yeah, I obviously believe that there's an agenda. There's always an agenda, you know? Nothing is done without a reason. So there obviously is a reason and I would love to uncover what that is. I can't speak firsthand of why I think this is happening. I have my opinion based off of my own, you know, research and understanding, but ultimately I don't think that a government that aims to control people want unique, individual, powerful, healthy, vibrant, loving human beings walking around in their government. They don't want that because really truthfully and honestly, I'm useless to them because I don't buy their drugs. I don't eat their processed foods and I don't play by their rules. I live outside of their box. So if 200 million people were walking the path that we're walking, what do they gain? How do they make money off of us? Right. They don't. So of course they want us to be unhealthy and sick.  But that's not me. So I'm insignificant to them, but I'm very significant to the people in this country and around the world that are suffering and that are in pain and that are depressed and have low self-esteem and are insecure and essentially are living in fear because that's really what this whole game is about. Do you live in fear or do you live in love? Who are you? And what side are you on? So that's what I'm all about. That's what my message is and that's the work that I do today and I've been doing that for five years. I created a program called the Beauty Way. It's a transformational program that I take people through a three to four week process which helps to transform and transform their perception of themselves and their place in the world. It's a physical, mental, spiritual, emotional, transformational journey that I take people through because I want people to be able to stand up on their own to develop their own belief system and who they are and have a strong understanding of why they're here and where they came from and know where they're going and walking through this life with purpose, with a meaning and a belief that comes from their heart. So in a nutshell that's what it's all about but this guy right here, a little Sugar Ray, the Seed Saver is going to be leading the way on the March and that starts on Saturday, October 1st. October 1st? Yeah. Sugar Ray. This is Super Food Super Dog, Sugar Ray, Robinson Cooper, the Seed Saver. Where did you meet him? Sugar Ray is a rescue. He was actually rescued from East LA and they used him as a bait dog in pit bull fights and they would put him in the middle of the ring and then get the dogs all fired up before that they would fight. So we saved him and he's been in my life for almost five years now and I share him with his mom Lisa and we have an amazing, amazing connection. I actually, he randomly ran after some geese on a frozen lake one time and fell in and I actually had to crawl out on the ice and dive into the water to save him. So we have a really strong connection. But his next mission in life is to walk to Washington DC to stand up for the right to know about GMO labeling. Yeah. That's great. Yeah. It's such a good idea. Yeah. And it's going to be a two-week march? Yep. It's a two-week march. It starts off here in New York City and there's about 500 people that are signed up to march the whole way. And then along the way we make stops. We do about 20 miles a day and then there's just the road show. There's speakers that are coming out to talk about the issue and there's like little events and parties and stuff that are going on. And then also, you know, it's not just between here and Washington DC. There's all kinds of events happening all over the country. Oh, great. So, you know, we're anticipating and we're hoping that millions of people stand up because if less than 50% of America stands up, then there might not be transparency with our food. And we might not know what is genetically modified. Yeah. And that would be very sad. Yeah. Do you think it's been going on, like, since they've introduced it, maybe 10 years, 20 years? I think so. Yeah. But I think almost 70% of the farming now in America is GMO farming. Yeah. Like where I'm from in Minnesota, you drive around and all you see is corn fields and soybean fields. And the governments pay the farmers to grow that stuff. It's not like they're even making money selling it. It's that they're making money because the government's paying them to grow it. Right. So you really see the connections. And how they're just supporting people. And it's all these plants that are designed to be sprayed. Right. It's not like they're GMO so they don't have to be sprayed, you know? But they're designs that they can take heavy amounts of pesticides. And that's a very interesting point that you bring up is that, you know, why?  It's also incredibly harmful to the environment, to livestock. You know? But for me, the thing is, is about the seed. It's about the life. It's about the life force in the seed. And why I got involved in this is because of the Terminator seed or the Suicide seed, which means that they have genetically modified the seed to only yield one crop. So even if a farmer, you know, uses this seed and it produces a vegetable or a fruit, it will only do that one time. So I started to think deeply about that. And as I was thinking about this, this thought came into my mind, imagine if you were sleeping or your wife or your girlfriend was sleeping, somebody came in, they genetically modified your seed.  It's the same exact thing. So to me, they've really personally attacked not only me, but humanity on a whole. And that's very deep and very powerful if you really sit, you know, and meditate on that for a little while, because that's my life force energy. I need the energy from that seed personally from my growth. I mean, that's why I'm a raw foodist. And that's why I don't eat things that are cooked because I don't want it to destroy the energy of the food, which is what I need to grow. So when you have a strong understanding of that, you take it very, very personal because I feel like this is a personal attack on myself. And then I think about my family and my friends and my loved ones. And then my personal connection with the humanity and the universe in a whole. Yeah. These people are like playing the hand of God. Seeds have been around for how many thousands and thousands of years. And now we have a large percentage of the planet where those seeds don't exist anymore. They've been modified and changed. And now what's that going to do to my nieces and my nephews?  We are, right now, the living guinea pigs for genetically modified organisms.  And that's, that's crazy. Yeah, yeah. And I think they almost do know already because they have been testing it on animals. Like the animals have been eaten. I've heard about studies in Japan with, they're eating GMO soybeans, these little, the guinea pigs actually, or rabbits or mice or something. And after the third generation, they're sterile. So it's almost like this planned sterilization. Well, there you have it. Yeah. That's what I just said. It's about being sterile. Yeah. So now let's even think about that even more. Talk about control, population control. I mean, this is crazy and I don't want to go off into conspiracy theory zone. But it really makes you think. Yeah. If you look at the studies. Yeah.  Because nobody wants to believe that our government doesn't have our best interest at hand. But as soon as somebody talks to me about that, I go right back to the lunches in the school systems. You know, why don't they change that? Forget about everything else. We don't need to talk about politics. We don't need to talk about war. We don't need to talk about anything else. Let's just talk about why they don't change the school lunches. Are you familiar with Jamie Oliver and what he did? Do you know whatever came of it? Was there some kind of change? He's still going. There's a petition. There's over a million people now that have signed it. And I know that he's still going. But Jamie, somebody that I would love, I'm sure that I'm going to cross paths with Jamie in the future, especially after this March. But now is the time. Jamie, he's an incredible human being. And he's done so much on his own. And he's got a lot of celebrities and people in the industry that have a voice that have joined on and support him. But now it needs to be not a million people. We need 200 million people. We need humanity to step up and humanity to create a revolution, not just one person. We all need to wake up and say, yes, we need a revolution to happen. And I think that's what we're talking about now. You have Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution. Now you have the right to march, which is a revolution. And I think we're going to see now towards the end of this year and going into 2012, more that word revolution, you're going to hear more and more and more. Because people aren't going to stand for it. It's a serious battle going on right now. And a lot of people don't realize the severity of it. No, no. Yeah, it sounds very extreme, but I really do feel like there's a war going on right now against us. And that sounds very defensive and everything. But if you look at the facts and look at what they're doing, it does seem like they're using the Sammy Agent Orange and Roundup. That's right. I just came back from Vietnam. I was in Vietnam for six weeks. And I started to do some research. Because when I'm over in Vietnam, it's a communist country. So you have no idea. There's no labeling of organic or anything like that over there. And I found out that they are doing GMO rice, GMO soy, and cauliflower or broccoli, and potatoes. What? Yeah. And so I'm going into the local places, the places that I know in Saigon where I can eat, where the monks eat. Because you try to look for certain people to see where they're going to eat and try to file them to think that they're making the right choice. Because you really, I can't go into a restaurant and ask the owner, is your rice GMO? They don't know what I'm talking about. Is it like the golden rice? It was like golden rice or something? I think so. Yeah, but I actually connected with someone in the agricultural department. And that's how I found out that they actually were using it. So here I am, fully aware of what's going on. I'm in a country for six weeks. And I'm walking into this only restaurant that I know. And now I'm looking at a bowl of food with rice and tofu and vegetables that potentially could be GMO. And I'm thinking about that as I'm eating. So when you talk about a war that's going on outside, there's the same war going on on the inside. Because now at a cellular level, our cells are trying to figure out what to do with these new ones. Because they're not resonating. The vibration is different. So they're trying to figure out a way of how to adapt and change to this new energy that is now coming into their body. That's the main reason why I'm raw, is because I know that my body is made up of fire, water, air, and earth. So that's what I want to put in my body. And I don't want to put it in my body where it's been manipulated or changed. I want the same vibration to come into my body. So I resonate, I harmonize, and I shine. And I glow from the inside out. So everybody who has been ingesting these GMOs for the last 10 years, all this processed foods, internally at a cellular level, they're confused. They're trying to figure out how to adapt to these changes. So on an emotional level, how does that affect you psychologically? And it goes back to what we were talking about walking up the street when we were on our way here, is I have this big question in my head, do people really care? And that's the big thing about this march me. That's one of the main reasons why I decided to be a part of this march is because I want to know how many people in this country really do care. Because when it comes time, I want to know who has my back. I want to know who I can trust that will look after me. I want to know if there's like-minded warriors of the light, peaceful warriors out there that got my back. I know 100%. I can trust you. But I want to know where America stands. Like in Europe, 80% stood up. Yeah, I wanted to ask you about that. Because in Europe, it's totally different. So you would think that it's a global plan or something. But in Europe, somehow they were able to fight back the tide of GMOs. Right. This is why I think it was easy to do it there. If you live in Spain, everybody who lives in Spain, most of them, the 90-something percent of the people that live in Spain are from Spain. If you're in Italy, over 95% of the people are from Italy. So it's not going to be too hard to convince a fellow Italian, a fellow Paizan, hey, this is what's going on. We all need to get together. No problem, I got your back. Well, in America, we're in a melting pot of cultures. And a lot of people have left where they originally came from for a different life. Because maybe they didn't believe in that way over there. So they came over here, and they kind of believe in the American way. You know, they maybe believe that this is a place for the people by the people. Don't know how real that is. But I don't think most Americans, they don't know what they believe in. They're just following what everybody else is doing. So this is a huge test for America right now. And it's a huge test also for me, too. Because I'm not so sure I want to live here anymore. I mean, I'm here for the good fight. I'm here because I will stand up, and I want to help my neighbors, my brothers, my sisters, my nieces, my nephews, like I've said before. I feel like I am a warrior of the light, and I will stand up against the darkness. But I want to know who I'm standing up with. Yeah, yeah. So, yeah. In the States, too, I think people still, for some reason, it's been shown to people that they're still kind of like this. It's not as bad as we think it is or something, but, and people think they still have too much to lose if they start speaking out. And before they know it, it's going to be gone, you know? Like, it's going to be gone, but they're like maybe being quiet because they don't want to lose their job, or that, you know, they don't want to. They're scared. Yeah, they're scared. There's a lot of fear. Well, the media and this government does a great job at instilling fear in everybody. Yeah. We're bombarded with fear all day long. Everybody's terrified. Paralyzed. People right now think that the end of the world is coming next year. Yeah, yeah. That's it. It's done. December, 2012, it's over. I've seen 10 movies out of the destruction of the world right now. It's like, yeah. So why bother, probably, you know, it's what they think. And I have friends in my inner circle that believe that. They actually really do believe that, that this is it. Yeah, yeah. I believe there's, I mean, the change is happening. That's the thing. It's like, I think we're in the change. We're in that big of the cycle. If you look around, I mean, there's major shifts occurring. So it's almost like it's happening, but it doesn't mean the world's gonna be destroyed or anything. But what does that mean, the end? Is this really an end? I don't know. I don't think so. I think it's maybe a shift, and the shift's occurring with all this stuff. Right. You know, I think we're in it right now. And you know, there's just so much. It's really an interesting time to be alive. Let's do a quick sponsor mention, and then we will get right back to the conversation. So let's start with SunWarrior.com Raw Vegan Protein. They have a really great, they started off with the rice protein, and it's 98.2% absorbable. And it's brown chocolate, vanilla, and regular. And they are recently coming out with the Warrior Blend, which is a blend of hemp, cranberry, and pea protein. And then they added in a little bit of coconut in there as well for the medium chain fatty acids. They've got other products as well. SunWarrior.com, check them out. It's a really good company. And Mount Gox. 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You've got a lot of material possessions, and where do you see yourself setting up shop in like a, any ideas yet? Would you go Southeast Asia, Latin America? I'm not really sure. I attended this gathering about seven months ago up at the Menlo Retreat. And it was the first time that the original people from the South met with the original people from the North. The first time ever in the history of the world. It was the Koji mamas from Columbia met with the Shoshani's up here in North America. And the reason why they came together was through prophecy. And both of them, a lot of, all of the indigenous tribes and the Native American Indians, the Indians from the South and from the West and the North, they're all receiving prophecies of this time that we're discussing and we're talking about the end of times or this shift or this purification, the Hopes, you can go online and you can watch videos on YouTube about Hopi elders talking about this great purification that the earth is going through. Well, the purpose of this meeting, this gathering that happened and the reason why the Koji mamas came here was because one of the clear messages that they received was that they needed to start to take back their sacred ceremonial grounds where they would pray. And a lot of these places were taken away and they've actually gone and they've asked to take them back and they've actually been given back to them. But the interesting thing that I got from them and one of the things that they talked about was that these sacred ceremonial grounds, anytime that there was a natural occurrence, say a volcano or an earthquake, tornado, tsunami or what have you, these lands were avoided by these natural occurrences. And that was, I was like, hmm, that's interesting. So I reached out to an elder that I'm close with and I asked her, do you have any plans on moving or living on one of these sacred ceremonial grounds that's protected? Because I personally believe and what we've been seeing already, obviously as the earth is going through a great change, the crust of the earth is shifting and it's moving. And that's why we're seeing volcanic activity and earthquakes and the tsunamis and things that have happened. So I'm just putting my faith in my belief, my connection to spirit, that I've surrendered to what's happening right now and that I'll be guided to it. I think that it's going to be a place at a higher elevation because I do believe that the waters are gonna rise and obviously, if you and I were doing this interview from Japan, this conversation would be going in a completely different direction and you and I would be like, yeah, I can't live next to the beach. It's time to move to a higher elevation. But I'll tell you an interesting story. When I started to research and read about all this, I started to travel and ask different people in different places, shaman, shaman's, medicine men, elders. And I went to the Sandblast Islands off of Panama about three years ago. And while I was on the island, I asked the guy, one of the guys who was taking care of us there, I was like, is there a medicine man on the island? He said, oh, there's a medicine man on all the islands. And I was like, well, do you think that I could have a word with him? And he said, sure, no problem. So the next day he brought me to him and he didn't speak any English. The medicine man didn't read at all. And I had a translator and I started talking to him about this, about the purification and the shift and the rising of the waters and everything. And I said, have you spoken to your spirit guide about this? And he said, oh yes, I've had many conversations with my spirit guide. And he said, within the next year, I'm moving my people to higher ground. That was just a random interaction that I had on vacation going to the Sandblast Islands. So I said, you know what? Let me see what this guy thinks. The Hopi's are talking about it. All of it, you know, in South America they're talking about it. In Tibet they're talking about it. And in Africa they're all talking about it. So I just wanted to test it out. And sure enough, he said it. So my brother and I have been talking for years about moving to higher ground, into the mountains someplace, into a safe zone. So I'm just kind of waiting for it to present itself. There's other reasons why I really don't want to live in America. So I'm not really sure where it's gonna be. If we, the people, take the land back and it's given back to us and the Constitution, you know, stands really for what it's supposed to stand for. You know, all of these changes and things that have taken place are reversed. Then maybe I'll consider it. But I don't want to live in an environment like this, a controlled, policed environment.  And we're supposed to be safe and protected here. And I travel all over the world. I go to Southeast Asia, I go to the Fiji, the South Pacific, you know, South America. And nowhere in the world is more paranoid than America.  It's not even close. And if you don't leave this country, you wouldn't know. So you just think that we're protecting ourselves from the terrorists.  And the more that I look at it, I think like how ignorant, you know, Americans really are and how uninformed they really are. And then that raises the question, do you really care? Because if you really did care, then you would research and you would look deeper into it. And then you would be reading and finding out the same information that I am and millions of other people that have been doing it. You would be in the know, but they turn the cheek. And that's what I want to know. Why? What are they so scared of? You know? And who knows, I don't know what that answer is yet. There's a strong trend of anti-intellectualism here. You know, there's that and there's a lot of distractions. You know, my big wake up kind of occurred when I was living in Europe in 2003. And that was finally when I could detach from all the distractions and the noise from the states and I didn't have a TV and I could just, you know, kind of unplug and all of a sudden like all these thoughts started coming to me. I wasn't even, I like I read some Thoreau but it wasn't like I was reading very political stuff. But I think it was just the quietness of it all and then the ideas start coming in. And I think that's the whole idea is to just make it as loud and noisy as possible so people can't even think. They're just trying to stay above water and get their paycheck. And then, you know, they're not thinking about geopolitics, food, you know, food politics. I know, I'm ashamed when I see people coming into the states from other countries and they have to get fingerprinted and they have to get the photo taken. It's like, oh my God, I'm sorry. It's like so embarrassing. Yeah. I don't even know why they would wanna come here anymore. You know what's crazy is this was the first trip when I came for Vietnam. There was a couple of times when I was in Vietnam and people asked me where I was from and I told them Australia. Oh, wow. First time this year. Wow. I didn't feel comfortable saying it. Yeah. Jeez. It's terrible. Yeah.  This is my hometown. This has been here my whole life and to not be proud. Yeah. I know. It's not a fun place to be. Yeah, I know. And there's so much potential here, that's the shame of it. Like so many good-hearted people, I think Americans deep down or even not, I mean, at their core, they're very friendly and nice but there's a lot of fear and then there's a lot of, there's a, they're coming from lack, you know. There's all that and it just controls people. But I think they're on the bright side. There's so many people waking up and like what I said, strangely enough, on the walk up, like the foodie movement is really tuning people into not only clean food but like holistic living and then you just get into that rabbit hole. Right. And I think it's like that first little net that catches people is the foodie movement. People that want to eat farm to table and then they start learning about organic and then they, it's like, oh, and then their brain starts working on different levels because they finally have nutrients finally after 30 years and then phew, you know, I think that's the key. I love my inner circle. I love, you know, the people that I'm connected to that are like-minded. It's beautiful. I have incredible friends in a lot of different places, just beautiful, beautiful people with huge hearts and open and honest and caring and loving and not living in fear.  Like, you know, like you're saying, so it's, there is a lot of beauty out there. Yeah. You know, it's like, but it's disconnecting. Yeah. Like you said, it's like when I work with individuals and I take them through the beauty way, that's exactly what I do. I disconnect them. No TV, no phone, no computer, no magazines, no newspapers. We go to the desert and they connect with source, with nature and with themselves. And they get quiet and they listen and focus. And that's when they can tap into their true self because they're not distracted. We're all just constantly distracted from ourselves. Yeah, yeah. So then how could you, how do you have compassion and empathy for another? Right, right. It's very difficult, almost not possible. Yeah, yeah. And that's what the design is here. I think so, I think so. And, you know, there's kind of been some talk, even in my own life of maybe moving to Hawaii or something and living that kind of lifestyle. But then you start to wonder like, wow, would I go bored? Would I go a bored out of my mind?  And people would be like, I'm bored out of my mind. Like I want to go back.  Like I want excitement again. Right. Because we're so used to the, to the, all the, you know. I've been there. That's crazy. I've been in that situation and I could do it, you know, over the years because of the business that I'm in, the job that I have, I could live wherever I want. But to go move to an island, and this is just personal for me. You know, I'm a warrior at heart. I can't, I can't walk away from it. That would be like a retreat. I can't. Yeah. I just can't do it. I agree. And I even say it, like I'll go on vacation and I'll go to beautiful places like that. And I'll even say to myself, man, why don't I just stay on this beach for the rest of my life? Life would be so easy and so nice. And then I go, oh, but my nieces and my nephews and the thousands and millions of kids around the world, the billion kids that are starving. The billion people that are fighting obesity. Like my heart, you know, I guess I can't, my heart can't handle that, the suffering. I'm too connected to the suffering of other people. I just, I can't just stand there and watch somebody suffer and not do something about it. Like I could sit here and really think about it and probably start crying because it's really personal to me. Yeah. So it's, yeah. Yeah. You can't walk away. Can't walk away. Can't walk away. Yeah. Gotta fight. I mean, a soldier will identify with that.  Yeah. They're trained to think that way. Yeah. Boot camp. Year after year, day after day after day. Don't leave one man behind. Right. Right. Conditioned. Right. Trained. Yeah. So it's like, you know, I can relate to that. Yeah. Because without a doubt, 100%, I don't care who it is. If it's my blood brother or you. If a situation happened right now, there's no way I'm leaving you behind. Yeah. I'm not. If there's a fire, I'm gonna try to go inside and pull you out. Yeah. It doesn't, I don't care who you are. Yeah. And you could be the so-called enemy. My heart's just too big. I can't, I couldn't walk away. Yeah. Yeah, that's great. That's great. That was something else we were talking about was, you know, like the dark forces that are at, you know, all the stuff that they're up to, but. Deep down, you know, like we really have to send them love. Yeah. And know that, you know, they're the most tricked out of all of them. They've given up so much of their humanity for money or for whatever control and all that stuff. And they're so deep down in that hole, and they're almost the most brainwashed of them all. Right. They need more love than anybody. Yeah. I thought about, yeah, no. I actually, I thought about that with the president of the United States and his wife and his two children. You know, like I have empathy for his family. Yeah.  He's almost like there's no way out kind of. I can imagine there's that moment where they get, where he gets that call or there's that, that meeting. You know, look, this is what you've done. This is the system that you came up in. And now this is what's expected of you. Yeah. Yeah. Trapped. Trapped. Yeah. I mean, of course we have our free will, but here's the interesting thing. This is the craziest thing of all, Anthony. We are human beings on this planet earth, co-creators, supposedly to have the free will to choose what we want to do with our life. Right now, all of the Americans that are out there eating genetically modified organisms have that, that has been taken away from them. Yeah. Because they are choosing to eat something that they don't know what is inside. Yeah. These people, Monsanto and the government, because there's people that work for the FDA that also work for Monsanto. Three years in Monsanto, three years in the FDA, back and forth, back and forth. So this is our American government. You understand what I'm saying too? It's not a multinational corporation, just Monsanto. This is the American government that is behind these genetically modified foods that have taken away your free will to choose what you want to eat, knowingly. Do you care? And if you don't, please ask yourself why. And if you have children, try to explain to your children why you don't care. Yeah. And if you can't, call us and we'll help you explain and change the way that you think and change your perception of yourself and your perception and your place in the world and help you to develop the ability to not be scared, to not have fear. Yeah. Yeah. That's the thing. It's like we are what we eat, you know? So.  Yeah.  Obviously children are not our future because whoever came up with that slogan and whoever's backing that and if it's coming from a governmental position, it's a bunch of BS. Because you don't care.  Because if you really cared and believed and were creating an environment for children or our future, then you wouldn't be putting the foods in the school systems as you just wouldn't. And you spend hundreds and hundreds of billions of dollars on war and going into other countries when 3% of that money could change the food in the school systems. Yeah.   Not even 3%. How about hold off production on two stealth fighters? Yeah. Yeah, really? And, yeah. Change the lunches. Yeah. It's retarded, but. And the kids don't even have to pay for it. Yeah. And they're paying for that lunch, you know? That's the thing. They gotta buy that lunch. Yeah, geez. I'm trying to think back what was, you know, I brought food for a while, but then in high school, you know, they had like Domino's pizza and stuff. All right. And then I get the Domino's. Sloppy Joes, McRibs. Yeah, yeah. All those pizzas. Yeah. It's like we wanted that stuff. That was the funny thing. But we didn't know. We didn't know, yeah. Yeah.  Oh gosh, no way. No way. Not a chance. I wouldn't even let them be in that school system because of all that, because they would be poisoned in my mind. Yeah, I wouldn't even want them exposed to that. What do you do for your daily practice or ritual to keep you, you know, balanced and keep your head right? Because I know that this stuff obviously bothers you and it frustrates me, it aggravates me. And you know, there was even a time in my life where like I felt like I could potentially be dangerous to someone else when I started to gather, you know, this knowledge and understand the truth of really what was going on. I was very, I was angry. Yeah. So what do you do to? Well, I hold back. My angry period was kind of from 2003 to 2004. That's kind of when I started waking up about this and I was a very anti-consumer.  Right. I was putting all my energy on that, you know. I wasn't even thinking about the food yet, really. And so now that's all kind of been digested and I just keep my eye on the prize, you know, looking at the positive stuff, being around good people, continuously putting good food into my body. I think that makes a big difference. Like, if I were to go back home and eat a bunch of junk and stuff, after about two days, I would start feeling kind of depressed again. I can tell. I can be like, wow, this is how everybody feels all the time, because they're eating this processed food. So I feel like eating high vibrational foods, hanging out with high-vibed people. You know, I'm in New York City right now. The air's not the best. Obviously it's better than Vietnam, from what you tell me. So that could be worse. But I just try and look at the positives and know that it is changing. People are waking up. You know, Monsanto is waking up a lot of people about how evil they are, because of all the shenanigans that they're up to and how they're suing their farmers and they're not telling people what's in the food and coming out with like the alfalfa and absorbing whole foods with all this stuff.  So I'm like, okay, they're digging their own hole. All we have to do is just kind of like give them the shovel and just keep the pressure on, keep waking up people, keep positive, tell people about the gardens, tell people about eating clean food. And that keeps me through it, you know? And I kind of bought into the false hope of Obama, sadly, I for some reason thought that it was gonna be different. I kick myself now, but I kind of thought it was gonna be different, you know, whatever. But thank God, like he really, he was a great teacher for me because he showed me that it's not different, you know? They're all employees, they're all minions, and we just have to know that the change comes within us, you know, and more from the private sector, people that aren't attached to politics because those people have been co-opted and we need to realize that we're the ones that we've been waiting for, that's not so cheesy, but. And you know, just laying in bed every day, thinking about what I have to be thankful for and sending love to everyone, no matter what. And that helps, you know? Gratitude. Yeah, attitude of gratitude, you know? I feel like I'm getting through it. There's some days where I can get a little down, you know, by looking at the wrong stuff on the internet, you know? Yeah, sure. You know, there's a forum that I look at a lot called Godlike Productions.  I mean, they talk about everything, it's a forum. So it's like all different stuff and I can get pulled into that sometimes and just checking on the solar flares and what's happening. But overall, you know, I just keep positive and I think the food has a big part to do, that eating clean food, high-vibed food, keeps you in a good vibration. Yeah, it definitely keeps you balancing and keeps my vibration down. What would you say for yourself? Very similar. I have a practice, you know, I do my qigong, I do my rites and now my breathing techniques and my food, my meditation and my service, continuing to do the good work and get involved in things like the march and that kind of stuff. And then I have my work, the service to the people that I work with that keeps me very grounded. It's also very challenging. It's sometimes difficult for me. I have to spend a week or two by myself like laying in the beach in the sand to get my energy back and stuff. I have to, you know, giving so much, so. Yeah. But yeah, you have to find the balance, you have to create the balance. So you have to find something that works for you. Yeah. So yeah, it's very, very similar. Yeah, yeah. We've got a few minutes left. So if you want to just give everybody the quick rundown on where everything's happening, I know there's something happening at Prospect Park on Saturday. Yeah, Saturday morning is when the march kicks off. Okay. That's October 1st in Brooklyn. And then people can follow us to the UN. We'll be at the UN midday, protesting in front of the UN. Okay. And then the day ends off at the Green Festival at the Jacob Javits Center. Okay, we're on the website. And then we continue up the Hudson over the bridge and then the first night ends in Jersey City. But the website for the march is writetoknowmarch.org. Okay, yeah. Which is up here. And then of course, we want everybody to follow Superfood, Superdog, Sugar Ray Robinson Cooper, the seed saver. And there's, he has his webpage is about me, about.me, front slash Sugar Ray. And you can follow him on Twitter and Facebook and YouTube. We're gonna be documenting the whole thing. So you'll be able to see Sugar Ray on the road. Three, these little legs. I was gonna ask you, yeah.  Right, buddy? There he is. What are you gonna feed him? He actually, when I'm with him, he eats raw. And he loves my superfood shakes. He loves Camut and alfalfa. Oh wow. Spirulina, rice brand, vegetables, activated barley, carrot juice, powder. Awesome. He loves, favorite is coconuts. Loves coconuts and coconut water. Any animal products? No, not when he's with me. Wow. No, not when he's with me. Okay. Yeah. And can you recommend any books to the audience? Maybe one or two, I know you, there's a big list. Well, the biggest book, and it's the one that I use in my program is called The Medicine Way. Written by Kenneth Meadows. It's a shamanic journey through the medicine wheel and it helps you to answer questions in your life. Like, who am I and why am I here? Where am I going? Yeah. Am I living my life with purpose? The book that started me off on my journey years and years ago was The Way to Freedom by the Dalai Lama. Okay. Which was a great read. It's an easy read. Bringers of the dawn is very powerful. We'll give you a lot of insight and understanding of what has happened here on the planet from 1992 up until 2012. Okay. This, that 20 year period. Family of light is awesome. Earth is another really great one. What else? I think that's good. That's a pretty good list. That'll keep people busy for a while. The medicine way is incredible. It's just super powerful. Cool. And I think that you'll love it. And the good thing about the medicine way is that it asks you to go out and to perform like activities. Or what are they called? Like adventure tasks. So it's fun. You know, you read the book and then it asks you to go and create a sacred space. Call on the directions and ask questions and wait for answers. Yeah. So that's pretty cool. Yeah. Awesome. Well, good luck with everything. And hopefully I'll be at Prospect Park on Saturday. You better do some stuff. Yeah. If you're still in town. Yeah, I'll be in town. I'll be in town. Well, I'm helping my girlfriend move. So we gotta do some stuff in the morning. Well, I'll help you move for an hour. And then we'll get it done like that. And then we can go to the park. Right on. All right, cool. Yeah. But thank you for having me. I appreciate it. And God bless you. And continue to do what you're doing. Yeah. He's ready. He's ready. It's good to know you. Thank you for being you. Yeah, brother. Yeah. Likewise, man. All right, thanks everybody so much for watching. Peace. Oh, he comes on me. Anthony Anderson, OnlyOneTV.com. Thanks so much, Eric. Really appreciate it, man. Peace, everybody.