Breaking Free from the Bullshit Machine

Welcome to the Living the Dream Podcast with Curveball. If you believe, you can achieve. Welcome to the Live in the Dream with Curveball Podcast. A show where I interview guests that teach, motivate, and inspire. Today's guest is Neil First, author of the Bullshit Machine Trinity, a provocative three book series that digs down into systems that shape the way we think, live and decide. Driven from decades of high pressure sales and hands-on trade where Neil brings a perspective to most questions that people never stop to ask. Are those questions are those thoughts your thoughts? Are they outputs of something deeper running the show? This conversation is not about politics or conspiracy. It's about awareness and discernment and what changes when you finally see the machinery behind your life. So we're going to be talking to Neil about his book series and everything that he's up to and gonna be up to. So Neil, thank you for joining me.

Thank you for having me.

Why don't you start off by telling everybody a little bit about yourself?

Okay, uh, well, my name is Neil. Um that's my given name. And uh I uh I spent over 20 years in the car business. Um to you know, just to kind of give you a context of uh the particular kind of flavor of of BS I've I've endured over the uh over my my adult career. Um but be uh uh before that uh my story you know kind of kind of begins in in childhood with uh with like an abusive childhood. Um where you know I was I was hit a lot in uh in childhood and you know just kind of I was I was raised by a tyrannical feminine personality. It was it was just it was basically my mom. My dad uh wasn't around very often. So um, but so I had a kind of a rough childhood and I carried that into adulthood and I used that uh I used that kind of that victim uh mentality, I use that uh that story to uh turn myself into an alcoholic, right? And um, you know, the uh at one point I had I was drinking so much, I was drinking like 25 to 30 airplane bottles of vodka per day. And uh and uh it uh doctors had told me that that I had uh they they had given me a two weeks to live prognosis. So um that was back in October of 2016, and uh, you know, so I kind of went home in uh in kind of like a you know, kind of like a half terror, half, you know, kind of believed them, kind of didn't believe them. Uh so obviously that didn't work out, you know. I I'm still here. So the prognosis was wrong. And uh about a year after I got out of the the hospital um from that prognosis, I had this breakdown. Um I had like this this uh the or or a breakthrough, if you want to call it. Um I was uh I was about to take a shower and I was walking to the shower and I passed the full-length mirror and I saw what I was looking at, and I was and I was all fat. Um I was I was inflamed, my I was unhealthy, I felt unhealthy, I looked unhealthy, you know, my thoughts about myself weren't good. Um I was just in this in this spiral, and and it that was the moment. Um I call it the moment in the mirror in my first book. Um that was the moment that I I just I sat down and I and I looked and I and I just cried. I I I cried it out for for like like three days. Um and I had this this big this big release of energy, you know, and I was I was kind of uh you know asking for forgiveness, you know, in that in those in those days, and I was uh, you know, from from all the you know, just like the the the thoughts that I knew that I had, you know, like if I was ever like angry at somebody or anything like that. And and I was also uh you know, giving out forgiveness to you know people that may have been uh passed on or you know, or people in my life that I felt may have wronged me. Um in that, you know, and then in that moment I just wanted to forgive everybody and everything. So um it was, you know, it's like it was an awakening, you know. So uh after that, after those few days, I made a decision. Um, actually, I made a lot of decisions. I um I wasn't gonna, you know, listen to to doctors anymore. Um you know, I wasn't going to listen to friends who were telling me, you know, that I shouldn't be doing things, uh, you know, like to make myself healthy. Right. Um I wasn't gonna I wasn't gonna take anybody else's advice anymore because it seemed like like that advice had uh you know, with obviously with my help, I had I was the one who had to take it, but that advice had had made the person that that I didn't want to be in that mirror. So I was just gonna, just me and and God, right? Or source, or you know, however, however you want to you want to say it. So I was just gonna listen to my my inner compass. And uh that was something that you know I I hadn't done. I hadn't I hadn't had that, you know. Um that was kind of you know the way I was raised. Uh, you know, it uh wasn't a real paternal uh childhood, right? I didn't have a I didn't have a real man authority figure in my life. And you know, that's that's that's that's what a a young guy needs for to to find his inner compass. Um so I just started using that. I just I was like, you know what? I'm just gonna eat uh grown food. I'm gonna eat God's food. I'm gonna eat stuff that that had a heartbeat, uh, stuff that you know that grew in the ground. I'm gonna stop with the uh with the the uh processed foods, the sodas, the you know, all the nonsense. Uh, I was gonna drink the cleanest water I can find. Um, I was gonna move the body that I was in. You know, um, that was I I realized I real one of the realizations I had is that the technology of our human body is so far and above anything that that we could create that mimics us. You know, you think about what your eyes can do, you know, uh the the the smells that you can smell, that like I'm somehow I'm making this noise, and you can somehow process it in in your realm, you know what I'm saying? In your consciousness. Like, like what's animating me? So I really started thinking about the body as as like a technology that that we're in. That's that's better than than any of the the rectangles, right? I call them the the phones and this the the screens um that are there to entertain us and you know tell us that there's a pandemic happening and tell us that you know all the world's events and blah blah blah blah blah. Uh so I use that intercompass and four months uh four months later, I was down 75 pounds and I had zero desire to drink alcohol. And I was like, whoa. I'm like that, like it just you just kind of I just were reflecting one day. I'm like, man, I'm like, this is something like really, really good here. You know, I learned to meditate. Uh or not learn to do, I just sat there. You know, that's really what meditating is. You just sit there and you you process the stuff and and you don't identify with it. Uh, you know, so I I I learned to do that. I learned to move my body. I learned to uh I was like real big into breathing and stuff. You know, breathing uh is is kind of your the that's like the remote control for your body. Like you want to you want to control your body, you want to that's you want to control your breath. Um, you know, and and I'm still learning breathing exercises and and and uh with my diaphragm and and all that stuff. So um, so I knew I was on to something. And uh, you know, I I started I started doing a lot more uh research into what I was doing. One of the one of the guys I found was Dr. Joe Dispenza. Uh this is back in 20 2018. Um, I found Dr. Joe Dispenza and guys like uh Bruce uh Dr. Bruce Lipton, you know, uh talking about how uh the body is always trying to heal itself if you give it the environment to do so. And you know, uh I I started to give myself evidence that that I I was the one creating that like I if I was the one who uh made the this this start this healthier version of me, then I was also the one who created the the bullshit machine version of me. You know, and that's where that that bullshit machine came from. Because no matter what we think, you know, no matter what what your uh uh issue is, you know, whether it's uh whether it's weight, whether it's gambling, whether it's the you know, people say I can't help it, I can't help it. Well, of course you can. Of course you can. You're just not willing to. But but there's a there's also another uh part to that where you know it's also stuck in your tissues, right? Like where these impulses and these these energies, uh, this is where abuse in childhood comes in. And it gets, you know, the we we brace to be hit, or you know, you brace for somebody's anger or somebody's emasculating you, and this stuff, uh, you know, these energies, it it sits in the pelvis and it sits in the fascia and it sits in the sacral region and uh and that solar region. And you know, uh so it while you, you know, so that's your childhood sitting in in your in your fascia, you know, so it reacts like you're you're an adult, right? And and you had let's just say you have a boss, but your boss scares the shit out of you like you're like your parents did, right? That's that's you're you're consciously an adult. You know you're an adult, but it's the it's the memory in the fascia. It's the the body remembers uh that that aggressiveness. The body remembers that how you braced, right? And it's um and so so it just as it remembers that it it will brace in that moment, and then all of a sudden you think you're scared of of a peer. You know what I'm saying? So um, well, that's that's a little bit about me. Do you have any are you have any other questions? Or what other questions do you have? I'm sorry.

Yeah, I was gonna say you talk a lot about internal operating systems. So talk about what that actually looks like for people in real life.

Well, um, so the internal, like the uh the architecture of belief, you know, um beliefs are supposed to be uh, at least in my opinion, uh, beliefs are supposed to be temporary. Um, a good a good way to think about that. So the the first type of belief is uh orientation belief. It's if I do this, I believe this will happen, right? It's something you can you can verify, you can test it in real time, right? So I want, I believe that I will get strong by lifting weights, right? So you you set a date, you know, you're you know, you say, okay, so four weeks from now, you know, whatever. So you lift the weights, the you get stronger, then you can lift heavier weights. So you what you believed just got turned into a knowing, right? So that's the way we're you know, like that's a healthy way to move through the world, um, is is using an orientation belief. So uh the next one would be identity beliefs, uh, where people think they'll they'll say, I am something, like I am a redneck, or I am a Democrat, or I am a Republican. Um you're not if if if you are that, like if you're those, like you you you've adopted that set of beliefs, right? You had this track of beliefs that you didn't have before, but now you do because now you're on a team. So instead of you uh being true to actual like what's in the moment, you're gonna identify with that, with that idol or with that, you know, with that Democrat or Republican thing, right? You're gonna identify well, us Democrats believe, or or like if you if you identify as a redneck, you say, um, you know, well, I'd do it like a redneck does, right? And and if your if your version is is a uh of a redneck is a guy who who drinks and you know uh kicks his dog and stuff like that, that's you're living through that bullshit machine, you're living through that identity rather than uh the the the true version of yourself, which is which is presence, right? Because if you're off in in Republican land, you can't be here in the present moment. The two don't don't co they they don't coexist. They're not they're it's like two two solid matter masses can't be in the same place at the same time, you know. So um, so that's the identity belief. Uh the next would be an anesthetic belief. And uh, you know the word anesthetic for anesthesia, right? Something that'll put you to sleep. Um this is where uh body positivity is an anesthetic belief. Say, I, you know, I I my I might have visceral fat all over my organs and I might be sweating profusely when I walk up those three steps. But you know, I I believe my beliefs in in this God are gonna uh are gonna make it okay. You know what I'm saying? So it's like you're numbing, you're numbing your behavior, right? You say, oh, I'm a good person. I can I can go uh you know kick that dog, or what, you know, whatever it is uh you think you think you can get away with, right? We we use that that anesthetic belief to to numb uh well let's just say biological feedback. You know, when when you get when you when you go through the drive-thru at McDonald's every day, right, you get a biological feedback. But some people might take their anesthetic belief and say that God's punishing me because maybe I believed the wrong belief. You know, well, no, dude, you just stop with the McDonald's. You know? Uh so that's uh that's an anesthetic belief. It'll it'll put you to sleep. Um, and then the uh the last one, um, and these aren't like clinical terms or anything. This but the the last one is this closed loop belief where you're you're just it's almost it's almost dementia, where if somebody is upset with something that you did, it didn't happen. And if it did happen, it was their fault. And if it did, if it you know, if it wasn't their fault, they had deserved it. You know, that that that whole closed loop loop where you see this, you actually see it like you see a lot a lot of talk about narcissism right now. And uh that's that's a a a symptom of that. That's that closed loop belief where where the narcissist can't be wrong. And it's like, well, okay, well, you know, if if that's if that's how it is, but that's it's and what that does, so and how somebody can get like that is you you build uh you build a foundation of of wrong beliefs, right? Um so like the the first the first the the two two the two beliefs that that every institution needs you to believe is that you are not enough, because that creates a a gap between you and and reality, right? Because your presence here, you are enough. Like you were you were invited here. You know, you're you're here by uh by the by the grace of God, by the the the grace of source. I mean, you know, um so uh and then the other one is that you need us to get where you're going. So we they we get we have these these beliefs installed that we're not enough. So what that not enoughness uh uh allows allows to happen is uh commerce. Um so if you're not enough, then then you need the Air Jordans, you know. And I I experienced this a lot when I was a kid because I always wanted the super brand name stuff, and I and I had a very like low self-esteem. Um because of, you know, because I was I was hit all the time. I thought I was I thought I was bad. I had I had all these these real dark beliefs in me as a kid, and that made me a good, a good consumer, right? Because if I you know I feel bad about myself, so I need that car, um, or you know, I need that that diet plan or that or you know, that that pill or or I need that that alcohol or something. That's that that you that I am not enough to versus what you actually are, that's that's the a gap. Uh that's the gap that all the the bullshit machine fills. Um so when you build on that, you build on that I am not enough, you become a materialist, right? But so but if you take that, what if you you you change that wrong brick, that brick that that says I am not enough, right? That foundation, and you say, Well, what if I am enough? And all of a sudden, everything on top that was built on that that bullshit brick, the all those, all those beliefs dissolve, right? Like, like uh all those material things, all those things that you think you need to be like a complete person, you only need to to remove that one brick because that that one that one uh foundation of I am not enough is the thing holding up all the other uh beliefs. But the problem is, and not the problem, is that that's people's personality. You know, people people want the dolce and gabbana. People that's their personality, they want the they want the stuff, and I get it. Um but I'm just I'm so I'm just telling you like where it comes from. You know, so it's I'm not I'm not judging what anybody does. I'm just telling you what's uh what what is what has happened for me. Um so so these things, you know, it and it it's like if that stuff is stored in your tissues, then it keeps getting manipulated. Uh you know, they they know the music and on the commercials to use, they know the uh the the images to put in front of you. Um they they I mean it's all that it's it's marketing. It's it's not like a conspiracy or anything like that. It's just marketing. We all see movies about it. I've been I was in the car business for for 20 years. Uh, you know, it's it's just marketing. And and we uh the the goal is to get you to to identify with it. And the the more identified you are with your beliefs, you know, the I am this, I am that, uh, then the the better customer you are.

Well, kind of tell us about that uh three book series. Uh tell us uh what we can expect when we read it and where we can get it.

All right. Uh well the first one is uh um called The Bullshit Machine Transcending the Delusion of Who We Think We Are. And uh that one's like real, raw, and honest. Um there's a uh there's a like a real innocence to it where um you know I'm I'm cracking jokes and and there's there's a lot of stuff. I'm I'm just you know, like I I can tell that that I'm seeing for the first time and I'm writing about it, and I can you can feel the excitement in it. Um that's a uh that's it's that's actually free on my website to listen to, uh, which my website is bullshit machine.net. Um so in the second one is uh it's called Well, Bullshit Machine 2, navigating the the design of what we are. And uh that's where I get into the the architecture of belief and um you know a lot of the uh like you were like knowing your origin, right? You know, people people are like, you know, people talk a lot about the the origin of uh of life. And if you like if you just focus on your personal Personal origin. Uh, and you don't like you were not like we weren't we were we were alive nine months before before the uh before the birthday, right? So when you know your origin, the origin is fertilization. Once fertilization happens, you have the single zygote, right? They call it the the zygote, and that has all of the information that is the man I'm talking to now, right? The the multi-trillion cell being that I'm talking to now and talking from now. My the the zygote, I and I and the zygote are one, right? Where it's it's the same information. Um, and you realize that that you're not you're not really aging, like you're you're just developing. This is I because I don't believe in the in the uh the monkey to man evolution uh Darwin stuff, but there's there's it's it's true in the uh in the womb, right? The single cell, right? The big bang is either you could either it's either your parents or the uh the zinc flash that that creates the zygo, could be the you know, and then it starts multiplying and dividing and multiplying and dividing. And that and they say that you know the the the universe is continuously expanding. Well, that's true in your cells, your cells are constantly multiplying and dividing, and it was all from that one singular zygo, that one single cell, right? And you look like a tadpole, then we look like a monkey, and we were we were actually born in the waters. Uh, you know, so I mean there's there's there's truth to it. It's just in the uh in a in a different uh in a different frame. So um, so that book does that, and it also goes over the um, I call them the eight fundamentals. Um it goes over how to because it's not adding anything. What what I wanted to do in these books is subtract things, right? So what what I what because you're you're you're this perfect being piled on top with bullshit piled on top, right? And it's all the bullshit's fine, nothing's wrong with it. Like you keep it, no, nobody's saying take it away, but learn what you are underneath it, you know. So then then you can probably choose your bullshit a little bit better, right? So so I have these these eight fundamentals, and these are just the things that I have learned over the years, and I call them fundamental because they're fundamental, right? Fundamentals is the foundation, it's like just just do the thing, it's real real simple. So I'll go over them real quick. Um, the first one is love and gratitude. If you're in a place, like if you're seeing the world from love and gratitude, and you can't always be in gratitude on love and stuff like that. I get emotions happen, but you always want to get back to there. Because if you're grateful that you exist, you're just like, man, I exist, I'm in this technology. I'm I like I get to do whatever I want. And your programming might say something different, but the truth is that you can do whatever you want. Okay. So uh, and and when you when you're in a place, when you're in that grateful that that you just exist, right? You don't have to be grateful that that you just stubbed your toe, but you're grateful that you exist and then you had that stub toe experience. Now the stub toe experience is just an experience and it didn't ruin your week. So love and gratitude, you want to carry that. That's your foundation, because then it makes everything else work for you and not a chore. Okay. The second one is a digital detox. Do do this uh as as much as you can. Um, the goal is to get away from the screens, you know, because the the screens, you know, they'll they'll move your overtin window of what you think is possible. You know, you have uh you saw you see it with with COVID. They they have all these these images of these uh viruses and then they these movies, and they and people people have this uh this fear, whether it's real or not. Uh they have this fear of this this thing that they can't see that's supposedly dead and then supposedly mutates and blah blah blah blah blah blah blah. Uh you got to get off the screens because the screens are making you crazy. Okay. Uh so you know, start with start, you know, uh take uh, you know, carve certain hours out in the day, right? Maybe from five to to six or something like that. You know, you you know your life, you know uh what works for you. But uh the ultimate goal is to not be attached to it. It's not it's not that you never want to use it again, it's that you lost the attachment to it. It's not your bib, it's not your your your pacifier. Um the next one is just start drinking distilled water uh and a high quality salt. Distilled water is pure water, there's absolutely zero minerals in it. Um it it has to be distilled because if uh like you know that it like you know that it's distilled, it's nothing they can't put uh like tap water in distilled. Um so what anyway, uh what distilled does is it's a pure water and it's it's negatively charged. And when it goes through your body, it picks up all the positively charged uh stuff that's in there, and that's all the synthetic garbage, all the the heavy metals and the and the processed stuff and the the unnatural stuff, right? So that's gonna start like cleansing your cells from that. And what you want to do is you want to rehydrate your cells and you want to follow that up with a couple pinches of like a high quality salt that has the the 80 trace minerals uh in it, you know, like a Celtic salt or a um or a Baja gold or you know, whatever, whatever, you know, Himalayan pink, all that stuff. So um, and that's going to, you know, just start detoxing like the fog. Like once you start realizing that you're you're hydrating your yourself and your your brain is hydrated, and like, because you don't know that you're dehydrated until you hydrate, right? You just think something else is, you know, happens. You hydrate and see what happens, and and you'll get exactly what I'm saying. Uh, number four is meditation. The the body processes information with uh without input. And meditation is that it's just part of the design. It's not it, it's not new agey. Uh, you know, Jesus talked about meditating, like it's it's it's just it's just how the body works. It's just a fundamental of of the design. Uh back in uh on old TV shows, you know, dad would come home from work and then he would be like he would go in this room for a half hour, right? He just wanted to sit there and you just have to just have to let it just let the thoughts come and go and and realize that you're not them, right? You can do uh you can get into all sorts of meditation practices, but you know, uh see find what's comfortable for you because the body or the uh the the body processes the information with without input, right? Then you can realize that the triggers, like when you say somebody triggers me, they're not triggers, those were inside you already, those were just waiting to come out, right? It's not that person did it to you. Yeah, they they triggered it. Um my bad. I said it wrong. Uh they triggered it, but that was already inside you. That's not that other person's fault, right? So when you squeeze an orange, you get orange juice, right? You don't get, you know, that's what happens. That's what's already inside of it. So uh meditation, you start realizing you're like, oh, well, I'm the bullshit machine. I'm the one who's who's carrying all this stuff around. It's not, you know, uh, I don't have to be such an angry dickhead all the time. Uh the next one is is fasting. Uh Jesus did 40, you know. Uh uh fasting is uh the body is designed to heal itself without input. Okay, same thing, same concept is met as meditation. It's designed to heal itself without input. And but the input that you do want to put in is the distilled water and the high quality salt, right? So while the while the body heals itself, you'll find out all sorts of things that are that are going on in your body. And then that way you can you can target uh the fix for it. Uh I just did a five-day fast um where I realized that uh my gut lining needs it needs repair, right? I I had thought, I mistakenly thought that it was paralyzed parasites, right? Because I it's it there's um you know there's evidence that you know there's uh like there's that parasites can get uh out of control and stuff like that with like heavy metals and uh and uh that stuff. So uh, but it wasn't that. It was it was my gut lining. And so now I'm I'm doing a uh like a collagen collagen thing. And I had five days of of basically zero input. I just I just focused on the salt and the uh the water and then the the collagen. Um so my body's like that's a reset for the body, you know, and then you like you want to eat healthier after that. So um the next one would be selfie therapy is uh selfie therapy or or journaling. It's basically talking into the mirror so you know what you're trying to say. You know, uh I was I was making a video for uh um and I and I kept I kept messing up. I don't like to uh I don't like to to uh have scripts, you know. So I kept messing up and finally I was just like, you know what, screw it. I'm just gonna keep talking. Well, I started talking and I started saying all these honest things. You know, I started saying like all these things I needed to hear, and I got mad, I got sad, I got I cried, I I uh I mean just there's so many things. I'm like, huh. So I started using that. And and it's I don't like it's not like a uh a rigorous thing, but like if you want to get out your bullshit, talk into the phone or a mirror, but the phone you can record it, and then you can go hear yourself be full of shit, right? You that all you know when you're full of shit. So go go figure out when you're full of shit. It's it's it's part of the design. Uh the next one is is body decompression. Uh, I I did this thing, it's called Gota. Uh, and Gota's one just uh I just had a buddy who did it. Uh it's G O A T A greatest of all time actions, and it's it's about body decompression. You can look this up on YouTube. Everything's everything that I'm talking about is free, except for that you got to pay for the salt in the water. But um, so your body decompression, you we sit in chairs, uh, we we lay on couches, we're in recliners, we're doing all this stuff. Your body gets decompressed or gets gets compressed, uh, your pelvis tilts forward. You know, my I got one rib uh that I'm working on. My my right side of my ribs are all high and stuff, uh, and it's and it's slowly but surely it's it's coming back. I'm I'm releasing the fascia. Uh so body decompression. I'm I'm 49. Dude, I feel better at 49 than I did when I was 25. And that's not that's no bullshit. Because when I was 25, I was drinking and eating McDonald's and watching pornos. You know, it's it's just there, it's input-output. It's very simple. I'm not, I'm no, there is no wheel being reinvented here. Um, and then the last one I started doing, and I'm starting to get like pretty good at it, is vocal and diaphragm training. Uh, I'm starting to be able to, I'm starting to be able to like like resonate and and and hit these notes and and all of this. And what that's doing is that's that's getting the the that's vibrating the the uh the trauma out of my tissues, out of my fascia. It's it's uh it's making my my windpipe and my my airways uh more symmetrical. It's diaphragm uh uh strengthening my diaphragm, my ribs, uh that's part of the the thing that that's the tight fascia around my ribs, it's loosening that up. So all of these benefits just from finding some guys on YouTube to to like learn to sing and like learn to use my diaphragm. Um I I have a I have a before and after picture on my on my website, my books and stuff like that. Uh and it's just you just see this inflamed little little guy, and then and then you see not, and it's not like a like a you know program or anything like that. It's not like uh uh vanity, but it's just unhealthy to healthy, you know. Um and then the uh the third book goes into uh it goes more into the uh the fascia and it goes more into um how this stuff like actually gets uh gets stored in the body and uh and and fixes uh for that. And it's not not necessarily fixes, but I mean it's the same thing like the um what the fundamentals do. Um just you know, more uh just more in depth. So but um and then I just had one come out today that I did a compilation of all three books. Um that one is awesome. Uh I'm gonna I I keep reading it out loud because I'm gonna do the uh the audiobook for that one. Um it's called The Bullshit Machine Supreme, the Full Art. And basically, like I said, it's a it's a compilation of the three books. And uh man, it's like just the the the undoing of some of the bullshit I believe, like that are stuck in my body while I'm reading it out loud. Um, and it's not a claim. This is just what's what what happens uh what happens for me. It's like like I I like I'll be reading this out loud, and all of a sudden, some some nonsense I believe that was like stuck in my ribs or something or in my lungs, it's like it just it'll like dissipate, and all of a sudden, like things will get clearer, I'll feel lighter, I'll feel better, and I'm like, man, you know, this is this is the way this is supposed to work. So uh, so yeah, and then and then um I also do uh I have a couple of kids' books out. Um, and it's about uh it they're it's called Cuba and the True North Compass. Uh, there's two of them right now. I have a third one in process, and it's about uh uh young kids finding your your your inner compass. You know, uh you grew up without a dad, you know, you you got you got taught by the state. Uh, you know, this this is all this isn't like conspiracy stuff. This is my life, you know. Uh and uh, you know, you you you learn to you learn to only do things when somebody told you to, right? You you don't you don't have an inner compass. And so what this book teaches is this book teaches is to learn, you know, through through like gaslighting and through uh uh unpopular opinions and stuff like that is to is to keep your inner compass. So, you know, a situation will happen, and then uh he'll Kuba will will kind of go into a daydream where he navigates his ship and he's got to keep his compass true north, right? And that's that's his his inner compass. He can't just go along with the crowd because it's it's comfortable, right? Then he's gonna be a cuck, and we don't need many more cucks. So, and then his reward at the at the end is like he he has these these dreams at night, um, that he gets to go to the land of bears. And uh the bears uh they they work with their hands, they grow gardens, they they fix machines, they build stuff, and he gets to learn uh a trade, um, you know, for for his reward. And the the thing behind that is that that's something he gets to take with him for his whole life. It's not he doesn't just get a video game that rots his brain. He gets, you know, like in one of it, one of the things he learns to uh to play piano. In in the second book, he learns to play piano, right? And not not, you know, where he's Beethoven, but he learns that and he learns, you know, the the three keys and and all this. And uh and it's and it's you know, when I when I think about that, it's like, yeah, that's you know, it might be a bit idealistic, but that's if idealistically, that's how life should be, man. So um those are those are uh all on Amazon. And um my website is uh is bullshit machine.net. Like I said, you can find my um uh you could listen to the the first book for free on that.

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