WEBVTT 1 00:00:01.800 --> 00:00:23.160 The following presentation is a Al Marvis Studio's production. When 2 00:00:23.239 --> 00:00:29.839 you look on the sky, do you feel the poll? 3 00:00:30.000 --> 00:00:32.960 The question why. 4 00:00:34.039 --> 00:00:40.960 The stories told and left behind in shadows where the 5 00:00:41.079 --> 00:00:48.359 truth we find? They build their tails on crafts and 6 00:00:48.880 --> 00:00:51.119 lights on theories. 7 00:00:51.240 --> 00:00:54.119 They stake their designed. 8 00:00:55.240 --> 00:00:57.799 Put down here. 9 00:00:57.039 --> 00:01:03.200 On this solid ground the answer screen there. 10 00:01:03.600 --> 00:01:07.239 Welcome back truth seekers from around the world. It's time 11 00:01:07.280 --> 00:01:11.480 for another edition of the Flat Earth Files. I'm your host, 12 00:01:11.560 --> 00:01:14.040 as always, George Hobbs. Thank you so much for taking 13 00:01:14.079 --> 00:01:17.439 the time to listen to the podcast. We greatly appreciate 14 00:01:17.560 --> 00:01:20.079 all the support. We have a great guest standing by. 15 00:01:20.719 --> 00:01:23.879 Before we bring Phil on, just a couple of quick reminders, 16 00:01:23.920 --> 00:01:28.680 please do stop by the website. It is theflatearthfiles dot Com. 17 00:01:29.359 --> 00:01:32.799 I do have a little catching up to do, very 18 00:01:32.879 --> 00:01:35.159 much under the weather the last ten days on the rebound. 19 00:01:35.239 --> 00:01:38.760 Feeling much much better, but my apologies for not getting 20 00:01:38.760 --> 00:01:41.040 all the information for last week's post, but that should 21 00:01:41.040 --> 00:01:44.480 be done by close of business today. And check out 22 00:01:44.519 --> 00:01:48.799 the chatroom. Lots of folks there having conversation, the forum, 23 00:01:49.480 --> 00:01:52.000 a lot of deep dives. There lots to do the 24 00:01:52.040 --> 00:01:54.840 flat eearthfiles dot com. If you would like to join 25 00:01:54.879 --> 00:01:59.079 the podcast like Phil is today, shoot us an email 26 00:01:59.159 --> 00:02:04.680 and that email is fe filesguest at gmail dot com. 27 00:02:04.719 --> 00:02:09.599 Again it is fe filesguest at gmail dot com. We 28 00:02:09.719 --> 00:02:12.319 have some openings that are coming up, so feel free 29 00:02:12.360 --> 00:02:14.520 to reach out and we'll get them filled just as 30 00:02:14.560 --> 00:02:17.680 quickly as we can. And that's all the housekeeping we 31 00:02:17.759 --> 00:02:19.599 have for today. We're going to bring on our special 32 00:02:19.639 --> 00:02:22.960 guest who sits I guess about two hours north of 33 00:02:22.960 --> 00:02:25.439 me in the great state of New Jersey. His name 34 00:02:25.520 --> 00:02:27.560 is Phil. Welcome to the program, Phil. How are you, sir? 35 00:02:28.360 --> 00:02:29.759 I'm doing well. How are you, George. 36 00:02:29.960 --> 00:02:32.599 I'm doing really good. I'm doing much better, I should say, 37 00:02:34.199 --> 00:02:37.039 beautiful day, and I'm just thankful to have you on today. 38 00:02:37.280 --> 00:02:40.360 Certainly a lot to talk about, and feel free to 39 00:02:40.439 --> 00:02:42.919 take a few minutes and introduce yourself to the audience. 40 00:02:44.680 --> 00:02:48.280 I am a forty five year old chef by trade, 41 00:02:49.039 --> 00:02:53.479 my own my own small business, which has a lot 42 00:02:53.520 --> 00:02:57.000 to do with what led me to contacting you in 43 00:02:57.039 --> 00:02:59.960 our conversation today, with being shut down in a pandemic 44 00:03:00.960 --> 00:03:04.439 and the way that left me feeling. The main thing 45 00:03:04.479 --> 00:03:07.560 I do with my business, though, is I work alone 46 00:03:07.560 --> 00:03:11.479 in my kitchen by choice because I came to this 47 00:03:11.520 --> 00:03:13.560 conclusion that I wanted to see how much I could 48 00:03:13.599 --> 00:03:17.280 create with my own two hands, which led me getting 49 00:03:17.280 --> 00:03:21.960 into procuring wild food. So my restaurant, I buy the 50 00:03:21.960 --> 00:03:27.000 proteins and everything else is I source from nature. And 51 00:03:27.039 --> 00:03:28.639 I heard one of your shows a couple of weeks ago, 52 00:03:28.719 --> 00:03:31.840 and you you were mentioning how you you believe that 53 00:03:32.000 --> 00:03:34.439 when somebody gets their food from nature, you know, it 54 00:03:34.479 --> 00:03:38.039 gives them a closer relationship with things. And for me 55 00:03:38.120 --> 00:03:41.879 that that was a closer relationship with God and trusting God, 56 00:03:42.719 --> 00:03:47.599 and you know, seeing the interest trickisses in different plants 57 00:03:47.639 --> 00:03:51.360 and the intricacies and a flower. It was it was 58 00:03:51.400 --> 00:03:54.199 through all that that And I mean I pick hours, 59 00:03:54.319 --> 00:03:57.680 hundreds of hours a year, walk hundreds of miles a year, 60 00:03:58.840 --> 00:04:01.879 and it was through all that time alone that I 61 00:04:01.919 --> 00:04:05.280 was looking at these things and I was like, there's 62 00:04:05.319 --> 00:04:08.960 no Maybe one thing was by accident, right, maybe one 63 00:04:09.000 --> 00:04:11.039 thing was by accident, but there's no way when you 64 00:04:11.080 --> 00:04:15.680 put everything together that you can say that there is 65 00:04:15.719 --> 00:04:19.240 not a creator. And that's what led me down the 66 00:04:19.319 --> 00:04:22.720 road where I'm at today, and it really is what 67 00:04:22.879 --> 00:04:26.720 led me to accepting and believing in flat earth and 68 00:04:26.759 --> 00:04:29.600 I believe that I was led down this path in 69 00:04:29.639 --> 00:04:31.480 my life to come to that conclusion. 70 00:04:32.879 --> 00:04:35.360 That's amazing and number one, kudos to you. And that 71 00:04:35.480 --> 00:04:38.199 is something that I closed my business about a year 72 00:04:38.240 --> 00:04:41.120 before COVID hitting. I'm not going to sit here and 73 00:04:41.639 --> 00:04:45.319 say that I knew something was going down particularly, but 74 00:04:45.399 --> 00:04:50.120 I could see I was retail, brick and mortar. Most 75 00:04:50.160 --> 00:04:52.439 people in brick and mortar could see. I had a 76 00:04:52.439 --> 00:04:55.279 lot of friends that were within the brick and mortar 77 00:04:55.800 --> 00:04:58.000 content in them all. We all knew each other, and 78 00:04:58.000 --> 00:05:01.160 we talked and we saw how you know, businesses like 79 00:05:01.240 --> 00:05:05.759 Amazon and congal conglomerates like Walmart, et cetera, you just 80 00:05:05.800 --> 00:05:09.439 can't compete with them as far as buying, et cetera. 81 00:05:09.480 --> 00:05:11.680 But I would never would have thought that a year 82 00:05:11.759 --> 00:05:16.439 later that the government would pick and choose who could 83 00:05:16.519 --> 00:05:19.720 operate who could not operate, and then on top of that, 84 00:05:19.839 --> 00:05:23.639 taking taxpayers money and just passing it out and saying, 85 00:05:23.759 --> 00:05:28.160 you know, basically here is almost it felt like a bribe. Right, 86 00:05:28.160 --> 00:05:29.959 you take this twelve hundred dollars and you're just going 87 00:05:30.040 --> 00:05:32.399 to accept what we do. I don't know exactly how 88 00:05:32.439 --> 00:05:35.519 you perceived it, but what was that like for you, I. 89 00:05:35.839 --> 00:05:39.560 Like, it felt really dirty at like a bribe Like 90 00:05:39.600 --> 00:05:45.600 you said, it felt really dirty. It was. I had 91 00:05:45.639 --> 00:05:49.759 to go through the custody system. Unfortunately I had to 92 00:05:49.800 --> 00:05:52.399 fight for my son, which was one of the really 93 00:05:52.480 --> 00:05:56.199 eye opening things in my life. Like that that was 94 00:05:56.240 --> 00:06:00.319 really insulting, this rival in comparison with it. I mean, 95 00:06:00.399 --> 00:06:04.639 I'm a chef every Friday and Saturday night of my life, 96 00:06:05.199 --> 00:06:09.319 my adult life. I've worked every friend's wedding, every friend's 97 00:06:09.319 --> 00:06:12.600 birthday party, every child of my friend's birthday. I've missed, 98 00:06:12.639 --> 00:06:15.000 you know, and then the invitation stopped coming. And that's 99 00:06:15.000 --> 00:06:17.800 fine because I said on a path. You know, I'm 100 00:06:17.800 --> 00:06:20.639 not trying to cry well with me, but it's like 101 00:06:20.720 --> 00:06:24.920 here I sacrificed my life to earn to learn a craft, 102 00:06:24.920 --> 00:06:27.040 to learn a trade, to excel at a craft, to 103 00:06:27.120 --> 00:06:30.360 excel at a trade, and here I have a Governor 104 00:06:30.480 --> 00:06:32.720 Murphy telling me that, like, you know, you got to 105 00:06:32.759 --> 00:06:34.759 do this, you got to do that. And it was 106 00:06:34.800 --> 00:06:38.040 one of the most insulting things that I've ever gone 107 00:06:38.079 --> 00:06:40.319 through in my life. But I mean, as we'll get 108 00:06:40.319 --> 00:06:42.680 through in the conversation, I leaned on my faith in 109 00:06:42.800 --> 00:06:45.120 Jesus to get through it, and that's when I really started. 110 00:06:45.600 --> 00:06:48.079 I used to pick some wild food and I used 111 00:06:48.079 --> 00:06:51.160 to buy some wild food for purveyors nationwide. There's some 112 00:06:51.240 --> 00:06:54.000 of them. And it was at that point I said, 113 00:06:54.040 --> 00:06:55.879 you know what I'm done. I'm just going to pick 114 00:06:55.920 --> 00:06:59.399 all my own food and Jesus is going to provide 115 00:06:59.399 --> 00:07:02.040 for me in this and it's his creation, and that's 116 00:07:02.040 --> 00:07:03.759 what I'm going to cook with, which is where I'm 117 00:07:03.800 --> 00:07:06.720 at now. I mean we're five years removed now. I'm 118 00:07:06.720 --> 00:07:08.959 going through something where it's like, you know, I go 119 00:07:09.000 --> 00:07:11.360 to the restaurant, I make food. People see the food 120 00:07:11.800 --> 00:07:14.040 and they're like, oh, it's just amazing. But for me, 121 00:07:14.120 --> 00:07:17.399 it's like, well, do you understand I'm cooking with like 122 00:07:17.480 --> 00:07:21.279 the creation. That's where I'm at with it now. And 123 00:07:21.399 --> 00:07:23.279 I've done a lot of interviews. I mean I've done 124 00:07:23.319 --> 00:07:26.279 them with the major papers in Philadelphia. I've been and 125 00:07:26.360 --> 00:07:28.959 I had interviews. They get published throughout the whole state 126 00:07:29.000 --> 00:07:31.120 of New Jersey for what I do because it's unique 127 00:07:31.199 --> 00:07:34.079 what I do. But every time I want to talk 128 00:07:34.120 --> 00:07:37.240 about something, you know, like that, like faith or Jesus, 129 00:07:37.240 --> 00:07:39.240 they always want to mark it up to oh, you 130 00:07:39.399 --> 00:07:42.160 mean Mother Nature and it's like, no, I don't mean 131 00:07:42.240 --> 00:07:45.360 mother nature. You know what I mean. I didn't say 132 00:07:45.399 --> 00:07:48.800 mother nature because I don't mean mother nature. So it's 133 00:07:49.120 --> 00:07:52.079 been this whole for me, the journey I'm on, which 134 00:07:52.079 --> 00:07:53.839 is why I reached out to you, is because I 135 00:07:53.879 --> 00:07:55.639 want this is what I want to talk about, you 136 00:07:55.639 --> 00:07:58.040 know what I mean. And it's like I listen to 137 00:07:58.079 --> 00:08:01.519 your show or other shows, and it's the control the 138 00:08:01.600 --> 00:08:05.199 media has goes down to even like the smallest publications 139 00:08:05.279 --> 00:08:07.480 on not getting the word out about Jesus and not 140 00:08:07.639 --> 00:08:10.839 really getting the word out about faith or your truth. 141 00:08:11.079 --> 00:08:14.639 You know, absolutely they want it controlled, and like you said, 142 00:08:14.680 --> 00:08:17.079 they want to tip the captive science. That's why they 143 00:08:17.160 --> 00:08:20.839 want to encapsulate it as mother nature. And even you know, 144 00:08:20.879 --> 00:08:24.480 every now and then you'll hear the President mentioned God, right, 145 00:08:24.639 --> 00:08:28.879 you know this God, But rarely will you ever hear 146 00:08:29.160 --> 00:08:33.360 someone in a position of power actually give glory to Jesus. 147 00:08:33.559 --> 00:08:38.919 And that's one thing that I think people kind of miss. Right. 148 00:08:38.919 --> 00:08:41.360 We do give our glory to God, but we are 149 00:08:41.559 --> 00:08:45.279 saved through Jesus. And I wish that that people who 150 00:08:45.279 --> 00:08:48.320 were in power would mention Jesus more because that is 151 00:08:48.360 --> 00:08:51.840 who who died on the Cross for us and gives 152 00:08:51.919 --> 00:08:54.840 us eternal salvation. And I think there's a lot of 153 00:08:54.879 --> 00:08:58.960 people who are deceived, you know, whether it's sports or whatever. 154 00:08:59.039 --> 00:09:01.320 They'll give glory to God, but you know, we should 155 00:09:01.399 --> 00:09:05.399 really be talking about Jesus Christ as well and spreading 156 00:09:05.440 --> 00:09:06.519 the gospel of his word. 157 00:09:08.399 --> 00:09:10.960 Yeah, I agree. And then to touch on another point 158 00:09:10.960 --> 00:09:14.919 of the pandemic, the thing that and like, I have 159 00:09:15.000 --> 00:09:19.159 a lot, you know, I have friends that are like Trump, 160 00:09:19.480 --> 00:09:23.360 and I'm gonna get my bunker to like the other side, 161 00:09:23.399 --> 00:09:25.840 you know, And like I don't care about politics. I 162 00:09:25.840 --> 00:09:28.759 think it's all corrupt. I think it's all evil, and 163 00:09:28.879 --> 00:09:31.480 I don't trust any of them. Do what does that 164 00:09:31.559 --> 00:09:34.320 make me anti government? I have no idea, you know, 165 00:09:34.799 --> 00:09:37.799 even that has a stereotype anymore. But what really did 166 00:09:37.840 --> 00:09:42.879 me in during the pandemic was the restaurant revitalization fund. 167 00:09:42.919 --> 00:09:45.200 I don't know if you remember that vaguely. 168 00:09:46.080 --> 00:09:51.279 Yeah, so I got approved for it and I lost. 169 00:09:51.600 --> 00:09:53.519 I lost a ton of money in that time, you know, 170 00:09:53.840 --> 00:09:56.559 And and it's money I could have invested from my future, 171 00:09:56.879 --> 00:10:00.399 you name it. And the restaurant right revitalization on was 172 00:10:00.440 --> 00:10:02.799 the one where if you were a white person you 173 00:10:02.919 --> 00:10:06.519 had to wait twenty one days for your application to 174 00:10:06.559 --> 00:10:10.679 be improved, and the money had run out by then. 175 00:10:10.919 --> 00:10:14.440 And I just found it insulting because like my family 176 00:10:14.480 --> 00:10:16.519 came to this country from Ireland and Italy in the 177 00:10:16.600 --> 00:10:20.720 nineteen thirties. So it's like I always find it crazy 178 00:10:20.759 --> 00:10:22.639 that I'm just the white guy, you know what I mean, 179 00:10:22.720 --> 00:10:24.679 Like you're just going to get rid of my Italian 180 00:10:24.720 --> 00:10:28.559 and Irish heritage. And that really did me in because 181 00:10:28.960 --> 00:10:31.840 it really showed me what was there was. You can 182 00:10:31.879 --> 00:10:33.600 see that there's an agenda there, you know. 183 00:10:35.320 --> 00:10:38.720 And yeah, I'm kind of looking through the old news 184 00:10:38.799 --> 00:10:42.000 and apparently this ended up going through the court system 185 00:10:42.840 --> 00:10:50.519 because I think that was prioritizing women and minorities, and 186 00:10:50.639 --> 00:10:52.559 it looks like a lot of people ended up taking 187 00:10:52.600 --> 00:10:55.240 this to court. I'm saying there was some rulings through 188 00:10:55.240 --> 00:10:56.200 the sixth Circuit Court. 189 00:10:57.200 --> 00:10:59.480 Yeah, and like I said, I mean, okay, you know what, 190 00:10:59.559 --> 00:11:01.559 Like I said, I have faith in Jesus and like 191 00:11:01.879 --> 00:11:03.879 he will provide for me. It's not about that. But 192 00:11:03.960 --> 00:11:06.440 I do have a thirteen year old son. I do 193 00:11:06.440 --> 00:11:10.919 do physical labor. That's how I put food on my table, 194 00:11:11.039 --> 00:11:12.440 and know what I mean, that's how I pay my 195 00:11:12.519 --> 00:11:15.759 electric bills. So like I mean, it was upwards of 196 00:11:16.000 --> 00:11:18.679 well over one hundred thousand dollars that like I got 197 00:11:18.679 --> 00:11:21.799 to prove for and I just didn't get because because 198 00:11:21.840 --> 00:11:23.639 of the color of my skin. And then you can 199 00:11:23.679 --> 00:11:25.600 tell some people that and they'll be like, well, now 200 00:11:25.639 --> 00:11:27.679 you know how this person felt. Now you know how 201 00:11:27.679 --> 00:11:31.279 that felt. And it's like, you know, you kind of 202 00:11:31.320 --> 00:11:33.039 just beat you down to the point where it's like 203 00:11:33.279 --> 00:11:35.240 I don't even want to talk to you then, because 204 00:11:35.320 --> 00:11:37.840 like that's not even when I'm trying you know, that's 205 00:11:37.840 --> 00:11:40.679 tell what I'm trying to say here, I'm talking about 206 00:11:40.720 --> 00:11:43.080 me in my life, Like I had nothing to do 207 00:11:43.159 --> 00:11:45.240 with the things you're bringing up. You know, it's like 208 00:11:45.279 --> 00:11:48.960 this mass retribution that we have to pay for. 209 00:11:49.720 --> 00:11:52.759 Right, and people need to realize that throughout the history 210 00:11:52.799 --> 00:11:56.399 of our world, the sixty five hundred years, every race, 211 00:11:56.679 --> 00:12:01.320 every gender has been dealt some type of blow, and 212 00:12:01.480 --> 00:12:06.159 instead of uh, you know, continuing to play the card, 213 00:12:07.559 --> 00:12:11.919 you know, instead of moving forward, they continued to use 214 00:12:12.000 --> 00:12:14.879 these things to divide and conquer us. So instead of 215 00:12:14.879 --> 00:12:17.559 focusing on the real problems, which is the ruling elite, 216 00:12:17.720 --> 00:12:19.360 they keep us fighting amongst each other. 217 00:12:21.320 --> 00:12:25.840 Yeah, I would one hundred percent agree with that. So that, Yeah, 218 00:12:25.879 --> 00:12:27.759 that was COVID For me. It was tough. You know, 219 00:12:27.840 --> 00:12:32.039 I was working, I was homeschooling. I did take out 220 00:12:32.080 --> 00:12:33.480 for a little while, and then I went in to 221 00:12:33.559 --> 00:12:37.960 cooking people's houses. But I also, you know, I soaked 222 00:12:38.039 --> 00:12:41.679 up in an old school style. I soaked up all 223 00:12:41.759 --> 00:12:44.080 the windows of my restaurant. You know, it's a small 224 00:12:44.080 --> 00:12:46.759 little restaurant, and I was doing you know, so called 225 00:12:46.840 --> 00:12:50.279 illegal dinners in there. And I'm just sitting in there 226 00:12:50.320 --> 00:12:52.200 and I'm like, you know, for regular it's people that 227 00:12:52.240 --> 00:12:54.200 I really know that still wanted to go out. We 228 00:12:54.200 --> 00:12:57.399 weren't so concerned with the whole thing. And I'm sitting 229 00:12:57.399 --> 00:13:00.320 there and it's like, I'm in my own business. I'm 230 00:13:00.360 --> 00:13:02.440 not scared of the thing. These people aren't scared of 231 00:13:02.480 --> 00:13:04.279 the thing. But the whole time, I'm afraid the cops 232 00:13:04.320 --> 00:13:06.080 are going to like, you know, bust through the door, 233 00:13:06.480 --> 00:13:09.159 and who knows what's going to happen. You know, Why 234 00:13:09.200 --> 00:13:11.600 I got to live like that? Why am I being 235 00:13:11.679 --> 00:13:15.519 forced to live like that? Was the was the major 236 00:13:15.840 --> 00:13:18.720 thing for me that was so hard, you know, Like 237 00:13:18.759 --> 00:13:21.440 what I went into a threst store one time, and I, 238 00:13:21.840 --> 00:13:24.000 you know, I'll put the mask on. I'll put the 239 00:13:24.080 --> 00:13:26.360 mask on. You got to use hand sanitizer, I said, 240 00:13:26.399 --> 00:13:29.000 I don't use hand sanitizer. Well, you can't come in here. 241 00:13:29.559 --> 00:13:32.080 I said, you know what, then, I'm not coming in 242 00:13:32.120 --> 00:13:34.480 here and I'll just take my money somewhere else. You know. 243 00:13:34.559 --> 00:13:38.480 The control thing. I don't like being controlled in life 244 00:13:38.799 --> 00:13:41.320 like that. And that was the hardest thing for me. 245 00:13:41.519 --> 00:13:44.200 Was just like there's so many rules that just didn't 246 00:13:44.240 --> 00:13:47.519 make sense, just that we're tied to that just nonsense, 247 00:13:47.720 --> 00:13:50.519 you know, scientific data. This guy said this, this guy 248 00:13:50.559 --> 00:13:54.559 said that, and here's your life as an individual. Just 249 00:13:54.679 --> 00:13:57.960 like then, I'm glad I had faith in Jesus in 250 00:13:58.039 --> 00:13:59.720 that time, or I don't know how I would have 251 00:13:59.720 --> 00:14:02.080 got throw it. I don't know how. You know. 252 00:14:03.000 --> 00:14:05.039 Yeah, that was a very difficult time for a lot 253 00:14:05.080 --> 00:14:10.360 of people for many reasons, and especially for business owners. 254 00:14:10.600 --> 00:14:13.000 And it's funny to me that, you know, within the 255 00:14:13.080 --> 00:14:16.200 last couple of years, there have been hundreds, if not thousands, 256 00:14:16.240 --> 00:14:20.399 of articles that that have entailed that the draconian COVID 257 00:14:20.519 --> 00:14:23.799 restrictions did more harm than good. And that is like, 258 00:14:23.840 --> 00:14:27.039 if there was ever a more captain obvious statement in 259 00:14:27.080 --> 00:14:30.360 the history of this world. I mean, after the second week, 260 00:14:30.639 --> 00:14:33.080 like I would say, probably ninety percent of the people 261 00:14:33.879 --> 00:14:36.720 were kind of okay, all right, we're going to do 262 00:14:36.799 --> 00:14:39.399 this for fifteen days and we're going to move on 263 00:14:39.440 --> 00:14:41.759 with our lives. Like a lot of people thought, this 264 00:14:41.799 --> 00:14:44.039 is two weeks where I can take a break. Maybe 265 00:14:44.080 --> 00:14:46.919 even people like yourself who run restaurants and have been 266 00:14:46.960 --> 00:14:49.960 working NonStop for twenty years, maybe they saw this as 267 00:14:50.000 --> 00:14:52.360 a chance to just catch their breath for two weeks, 268 00:14:52.720 --> 00:14:54.559 and then we were going to move on and life 269 00:14:54.600 --> 00:14:57.080 would go back to the way it always had been. 270 00:14:58.080 --> 00:15:02.480 However, however, one of the funniest things I remember from 271 00:15:02.480 --> 00:15:06.919 that is texting my friends a picture and I detailed 272 00:15:06.919 --> 00:15:10.320 my toolbox, you know. So it's like you're saying, yeah, 273 00:15:10.360 --> 00:15:12.639 the two weeks, Yeah, it was. It was nice to 274 00:15:12.679 --> 00:15:14.559 have a little break, I guess you could say. 275 00:15:14.480 --> 00:15:18.639 Right, absolutely, And I thought people and I think that 276 00:15:18.759 --> 00:15:23.559 was the first misstep of the general population. If people 277 00:15:23.600 --> 00:15:27.600 remember Reagan famously said the nine most terrifying words in 278 00:15:27.639 --> 00:15:30.440 the English language are I'm from the government and I'm 279 00:15:30.440 --> 00:15:33.240 here to help. And that is something that we should 280 00:15:33.279 --> 00:15:36.840 have heeded. Actually thinking that they were going to keep 281 00:15:36.879 --> 00:15:38.320 their word and it was just going to be fifteen 282 00:15:38.399 --> 00:15:41.240 days and it wasn't going to turn into something that 283 00:15:41.279 --> 00:15:46.519 it actually did. And you started it. Actually, for me, 284 00:15:46.600 --> 00:15:48.840 it didn't take very long to start to see the 285 00:15:48.960 --> 00:15:52.919 evils of what they actually had planned. And when you 286 00:15:53.000 --> 00:15:56.399 started to see churches shut down, when you started to 287 00:15:56.440 --> 00:15:59.879 see pastors arrested, when you started to see mom and 288 00:16:00.039 --> 00:16:02.720 pop shots like yourself having to to you know, have 289 00:16:02.799 --> 00:16:06.559 you know, do business behind closed doors, because you still 290 00:16:06.600 --> 00:16:10.320 had to pay rent or your mortgage. And of course 291 00:16:10.360 --> 00:16:15.039 they came out with laws which I think hindered property owners, 292 00:16:15.399 --> 00:16:18.840 like maybe X person didn't have to pay rent, but 293 00:16:19.120 --> 00:16:21.919 the guy who owed the banks still eventually had to 294 00:16:21.919 --> 00:16:26.480 pay his mortgage. It was just this, what we know 295 00:16:26.639 --> 00:16:30.360 today is the largest transfer of wealth in the history 296 00:16:30.360 --> 00:16:33.120 of mankind. And that was just one of the agendas 297 00:16:33.120 --> 00:16:33.679 behind it. 298 00:16:35.000 --> 00:16:39.399 Yeah, it really was. And and you know it's just 299 00:16:39.879 --> 00:16:42.360 as I get older, you know, it's like I listened 300 00:16:42.360 --> 00:16:44.559 to you and when you say you got out of 301 00:16:44.600 --> 00:16:47.679 the military, you really started looking into stuff, you know, 302 00:16:48.559 --> 00:16:51.720 And part of my struggle is like and like I'm 303 00:16:51.759 --> 00:16:54.519 a real humble person. I do what I do to 304 00:16:54.559 --> 00:16:56.919 be a father to my son. I'm open three days 305 00:16:56.960 --> 00:16:59.000 a week so I can be a parent the other days. 306 00:17:00.639 --> 00:17:03.080 I applied for jobs and said that I wanted that, 307 00:17:03.200 --> 00:17:05.319 and I was you know, they thought I had cancer, 308 00:17:06.119 --> 00:17:08.440 And so I went on Craigslist and I found this 309 00:17:08.559 --> 00:17:10.920 restaurant and I opened. It's a classic story. I mean, 310 00:17:10.920 --> 00:17:13.039 I made my own tables. I did all the construction 311 00:17:13.119 --> 00:17:15.160 in there. When I say it's like a small little 312 00:17:15.160 --> 00:17:17.920 shoe box, that's what it is. You know. I made 313 00:17:17.920 --> 00:17:20.799 the tables out of plywood, staying them nice. And it's 314 00:17:20.839 --> 00:17:24.079 the classic story of opening night. There was forty dollars 315 00:17:24.079 --> 00:17:27.039 in my pocket and is this gonna work? It's gonna work. 316 00:17:27.039 --> 00:17:30.079 And if it's not, it's not. You know, it worked, 317 00:17:30.480 --> 00:17:33.880 and I believe it worked because I was. I was 318 00:17:34.079 --> 00:17:40.000 living from a pure, honest intention place. And like I've had, 319 00:17:40.319 --> 00:17:43.000 you know, a fair amount of recognition one of the things. 320 00:17:43.160 --> 00:17:44.799 And I don't care about any of it. That's the 321 00:17:44.839 --> 00:17:48.039 point of this. But I got nominated for a James 322 00:17:48.039 --> 00:17:51.599 Beard Award, I think two years ago for Best Chef 323 00:17:51.640 --> 00:17:55.200 mid Atlantic and the whole mid Atlantic region, right, And 324 00:17:55.200 --> 00:17:57.920 this is like one of the most prestigious American awards. 325 00:17:57.920 --> 00:18:02.240 You can be nominated for whatever supposedly, right, So I'm like, okay, great, 326 00:18:03.039 --> 00:18:08.039 So they send you the packet of things to be accepted. 327 00:18:08.240 --> 00:18:11.519 And it's bothered me ever since what I put in 328 00:18:11.519 --> 00:18:14.480 my email because I feel like I went back on 329 00:18:14.559 --> 00:18:17.839 my faith. But it's fine because I think things like 330 00:18:17.880 --> 00:18:20.079 that happen in life to teach you things, you know 331 00:18:20.079 --> 00:18:22.480 what I mean. But in this fact, you have to 332 00:18:22.519 --> 00:18:27.000 sign their ethics rules. You're going to adhere to their 333 00:18:27.039 --> 00:18:30.839 ethics rules to accept this award, which is approval from 334 00:18:30.960 --> 00:18:34.279 man to get this award. And I mean it's very 335 00:18:34.319 --> 00:18:38.160 anti Christian, and it's like if they hear this conversation, 336 00:18:38.279 --> 00:18:40.200 I would lose my award, you know. And it's like 337 00:18:40.880 --> 00:18:44.000 I'm at the point where I'm forty five. I still 338 00:18:44.039 --> 00:18:48.319 need to make a living, but I just can't. It's 339 00:18:48.359 --> 00:18:51.000 eating me up inside more and more. Not to just 340 00:18:51.119 --> 00:18:53.279 speak about what I want to speak about how it 341 00:18:53.319 --> 00:18:55.519 pertains to food. I got into natural food, so you 342 00:18:55.559 --> 00:18:58.400 want to talk about like I started line cooking. The 343 00:18:58.400 --> 00:19:01.000 fish order would come through the door and it would 344 00:19:01.039 --> 00:19:03.440 smell like the ocean just pulled up, and we get 345 00:19:03.440 --> 00:19:06.519 a meat order. The meat was the most beautiful colors 346 00:19:06.519 --> 00:19:11.759 you've ever seen. Now, the food is disgusting. Okay, I 347 00:19:11.880 --> 00:19:14.599 use all organic, I use no hormones and stuff like that, 348 00:19:14.680 --> 00:19:17.079 But the food, I don't know if they changed the 349 00:19:17.160 --> 00:19:19.599 feed to save money or what they did like three 350 00:19:19.680 --> 00:19:21.839 or four years ago. And I have another chef buddy 351 00:19:22.039 --> 00:19:24.519 that's been doing it this whole life rate in my 352 00:19:24.599 --> 00:19:27.200 town here where I live. We've known each other twenty years, 353 00:19:27.240 --> 00:19:29.400 says the same thing. I mean, they bring the fish 354 00:19:29.440 --> 00:19:33.599 and it smells like cat food, and nothing has the 355 00:19:33.640 --> 00:19:36.920 same flavors that it used to. And you think about 356 00:19:36.920 --> 00:19:39.799 all the poison in our vegetables and all the poison 357 00:19:39.839 --> 00:19:42.119 and stuff. This isn't a conversation that like say, the 358 00:19:42.119 --> 00:19:44.079 Philly Inquirer wants to have with you, you know what 359 00:19:44.119 --> 00:19:46.960 I mean. But this is the conversation that needs to 360 00:19:47.000 --> 00:19:50.319 be had. Like it's everybody's called up in their TikTok 361 00:19:50.400 --> 00:19:53.319 videos and all this stuff. It's like, we need to 362 00:19:53.319 --> 00:19:56.400 have an actual conversation about food. Where you're going to 363 00:19:56.440 --> 00:19:59.480 get food? I mean, I live my life. I don't 364 00:19:59.519 --> 00:20:03.599 live in food. I don't if it happens, it happens. 365 00:20:04.079 --> 00:20:08.960 I I don't see how you can live right now 366 00:20:09.079 --> 00:20:11.880 and be like everything's gonna be okay, or things are 367 00:20:11.920 --> 00:20:14.680 gonna get better, you know what I mean, Like I 368 00:20:14.880 --> 00:20:17.599 I just don't don't see it, not with Trump, not 369 00:20:17.720 --> 00:20:19.799 with what's going on in the world, not with the 370 00:20:20.160 --> 00:20:22.640 stock market, not with anything. I don't. I don't see 371 00:20:22.640 --> 00:20:25.759 how you can look at that and say, yeah, everything's 372 00:20:25.799 --> 00:20:29.359 gonna get better. You know, New world order is not coming. 373 00:20:29.559 --> 00:20:32.200 And you sound crazy to some people talking like that, 374 00:20:32.240 --> 00:20:32.720 though you. 375 00:20:32.599 --> 00:20:36.960 Know it is. And I think it's important. I mentioned 376 00:20:36.960 --> 00:20:39.119 this on the radio show yesterday. I think now more 377 00:20:39.119 --> 00:20:42.799 than ever, we have to be more forthright about the truth, 378 00:20:42.839 --> 00:20:46.640 whether it be COVID nine to eleven, but you know, 379 00:20:46.839 --> 00:20:50.319 even more importantly the Gospel of Jesus Christ because if 380 00:20:50.680 --> 00:20:53.400 like exactly what you just said, if you know, people 381 00:20:53.480 --> 00:20:57.279 with discernment in their eyes can kind of see how 382 00:20:57.359 --> 00:21:01.000 quickly things are accelerating. And I'm not here to say, 383 00:21:01.079 --> 00:21:03.400 you know, stand on the mountaintop, say the end is 384 00:21:03.480 --> 00:21:06.599 near and just push fear into everybody's hearts, because it 385 00:21:06.599 --> 00:21:10.480 shouldn't take fear to push people into action. Unfortunately, as 386 00:21:10.519 --> 00:21:12.759 humans that that that's what it takes a lot of times. 387 00:21:13.240 --> 00:21:17.200 But uh, you know, anyone with vision can see just 388 00:21:17.240 --> 00:21:21.279 in the last five years, how things have accelerated, and 389 00:21:21.519 --> 00:21:24.720 you know, I think we do have to do the 390 00:21:24.720 --> 00:21:27.680 best we can, even you know, we all know everybody 391 00:21:27.680 --> 00:21:30.559 who's listened to this podcast has probably at least one 392 00:21:30.599 --> 00:21:34.839 time tried to share the truth, whether it's flat Earth, 393 00:21:34.920 --> 00:21:39.000 whether it's nine to eleven, whether it's whatever, and they've 394 00:21:39.000 --> 00:21:42.079 been looked down upon, they've been ridiculed, And that takes 395 00:21:42.079 --> 00:21:44.279 a lot out of a person, right because it takes 396 00:21:45.079 --> 00:21:46.839 for someone to come out the first time and it 397 00:21:46.960 --> 00:21:49.240 kind of have this conversation like we can talk about 398 00:21:49.240 --> 00:21:52.880 the moon landing and JFK, nobody's gonna ridicule you. But 399 00:21:52.960 --> 00:21:54.799 when you get when you get to flatter Earth and 400 00:21:54.880 --> 00:21:59.799 other things, people will almost excommunicate you for your thoughts. 401 00:22:00.079 --> 00:22:02.559