 Welcome to the 21 report. I'm Frank Pesci and I'm here with speaker Nate Cools Nate is a advocate for traditional family values among many other things Nate. How are you? Thank you so much for having me here. Absolutely. I'm doing great. I'm loving the convention It's it's great to be around like-minded men. This is the first time you've attended the 21 summit. Yes Yes, I actually recently found out about it and I was like All the years I've missed Is it all you ever hope that it would be? Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah Excellent man. Excellent talks. It's really fantastic. Fantastic So you think it's a good place for men to come and visit and get exposure to other men ideas content creators? Absolutely. Absolutely. I would say Any man who is trying to find himself in the world whether it doesn't matter if it's the midlife crisis Or it's the just out of high school or anything like that I would say this would be a great place to not feel like you're fighting the fight alone Like so many of you in the world today because you feel the support of like-minded men who are trying to mentor you and bring you up Not in kind of set in the condescending way, but in the supporting way Understood understood. So as we were talking a little bit for the interview I understand that you're a veteran. You're an entrepreneur. You're an advocate for family values You've taken your family to RV life You guys have traveled the country doing life together and you have a family that fulfills Traditional family roles and values. Yes. I'm very blessed very blessed We've been together almost 16 years now December will be 16 years Dating since I was 15 and we have 10 children our youngest is six weeks children. Yeah, well, congratulations It's a lot of fun. Yes, it's the best Yeah, I've been after the military. I decided I Was tired of working for people So I would make my own business and I did that for a lot of years and Made a couple different businesses some worked some didn't we decided to We wanted to focus fully on just living for each other living for our children and getting rid of the Consumer mindset so that we don't pass that on to our children So that they don't spend their life thinking they deserve more and not being able to enjoy what they actually have Understood. That's pretty what was your speech about traditional family values the traditional biblical gender roles man as the head woman as the follower and then Yeah, just kind of my story how we got there and I use some examples from biblical characters such as Moses Noah And the holy family Mary Mary and Joseph as to these are people who showed us how we can Live this way without anyone Controlling or don't dominating in the sense that the world thinks dominating when a man's supposed to dominate in the marriage But only in the biblical sense that Christ did dominate dominated in as the head of humanity By showing I am the head. I am in charge I have dominion and control over everyone and he goes and he washes the feet of his disciples true Dominion ruling your dominion of your own self as a man is serving your family in protection and providing and so When you do that, it's kind of just a mental talk You create an environment that keeps the woman from having to deal with the nastiness of the world To a degree So that she can flourish and become whatever she wants to be whether that's a mother or maybe that is a career Whatever that happens to be she can become exactly what she wants to become without Without having to feel like she's something else has to be something else when we both fulfill our own roles We complement each other and it works out a lot better fantastic. So what does a day in the life of your family look like? Uh, usually I I try and get up with a wife between five and six and so we have at least an hour or so before the kids get up get some kind of a workout in put coffee on pretty important all the kids and Then we'll get breakfast started. So, you know kind of a A discussion on how we want the day to go. What is our focus and homeschooling for that day? things like that and then kids start waking up and assign the older ones to take care of the younger ones move into bible study and um Get the kids outside before noon make sure they get a lot of sun exercise and then we go over we do a lot of practical skills We like to call our our little uh bus school the school of life. It's not a school of grades It's not a school of here's a here's a stamp for a good mark because you did good equations We do the equations. We do the grammar. We do the history of sciences, but How does that equate out into the real world? We want you to have life skills. How do you work? How do you interact with people older younger? Different sex so on and so forth So where does the socialization aspect come in for your children? Right, uh, we have quite a few good families like Elliot like I mentioned earlier, uh earlier his family awesome influence I have a lot of good family friends from church and uh, we've met Other families mostly from the churches. We've been stopping out around the country. So we have It's kind of like cousins in every city all across the nation now that we that we bounce across and we go see They get a lot of interaction. Do you gauge your children's screen time? Do you Do you have rules that surround that very much very much? Um We do not allow free internet access for any of our children now granted my oldest only 14. She's not that old but We monitor everything before it's fed to them And the reason we do this and we we is because we believe After they head out into the world on their own We'll teach them how to use all the basic functions of you know, your computer and your search engine and your uh editing and your all of these things but No free internet access because once you go out into the world They have the rest of their life to have as much as they want and it's going to be crammed down there throughout We live in a digital age They only we only have a few years here to instill healthy values Before they're fed everything else. So I now monitor it. How do you monitor it? We just don't give them screens the only time that they're available to have screens or use them is when we're next to them and so We get to make sure they only See the information that we want them to see and they don't get You know all the nastiness that's out there today, especially for young boys and whatnot. Sure. So So Real talk. Yeah modern times modern society parents are on their cell phones all the time too, right or on their screens all the time too, right? How Do you sit next to your children on the couch and as they use the screen monitor every piece of content that's coming across? It would be something more along the lines of we'll pick a movie for them or a show And uh, they were watching the old 50s show leave it to be for the other night Um, so we just turned it on and we'll let them watch and then my wife And I can kind of sit off to the side and have a discussion for the evening or whatever In that in that regard. Okay. All right. So it's truly curated content. It's not free open source Here's a iphone get to work and just watch tick tock. No, no, no, no social media is not allowed social media is not allowed No, your oldest is 14. Is that what you said? Yeah, okay. Got you Do you get resistance from your 14 year old about access to the cell phone or the internet? No, as a matter of fact, we've got positive feedback from her so far From her other friends that she has her age that she does spend time with quite a bit and she's like they They act weird They're they have a hard time holding a conversation because they're always wanting to check their device You know and she's like that just seems wrong to me because as an adult You still have to have conversations. You still have to interact with people. You have to change the diaper You have to be able to disconnect To do life things and these girls don't seem to be able to do that. So she's like No, I'm good with this. Okay. So it sounds like you're raising your kids with you know, um, a program a standard a regimen As it were being a four military guy. You probably are very used to regiments You guys obviously do family bible study together. You talked about biblical family values. Yep What does that look like? a bible study We usually starts in the morning with We have a big felt board. It's a bible felt board and so we folded out. I mean, it's like three by five and they have there's 500 and some different scenes you can make of all the different but biblical scenes And so we'll make the biblical scene for that day that comes from the daily readings of daily mass for that day and uh then I will read or my wife will read the readings While we explain the picture And then we give each one of the kids are the little younger ones a chance To go change the scene and make it their own And then try and explain the scene as best as they can that goes all the way down to our uh three year old And They love it. So it reaches the Visual and the tangible and the audible So all of the different learning styles are engaged And then while the little ones are napping the older ones are doing their math and their sciences and their history and things of that nature Interesting. I like it. You mentioned that you were interested in becoming a speaker a content creator You were putting energy in that direction. What is your message to the world? um Everybody agrees that the world's kind of going to hell on a handbasket as far as uh, all the mainstream narrative and just uh illogical things that they're throwing out there Then they're trying to you know make homosexual marriage the norm. They're trying to make Men be pregnant like it's just it's so far out there I I think We need strong voices in the opposite direction saying No, we need to go counterculture which at this point Is just turning the clock back 75 years And you have a man and a woman taking care of their children Building that microcosm Of structure back solid so that we can begin to re establish a healthy society Understood. Do you think it's important for men and women for that matter to come to events like this particularly the 21 summit? I think it is. I really think it is and the reason I think it is is because You have all day every day. You're getting CNN you're getting fox news. You're getting all this stuff blasted in your face And what they're they're like as far as I'm concerned. They're kind of sitting on both sides They're both they've reaching the point of extremism on both ends And so there's just this division constantly fighting And so when you come to something like this People have different viewpoints, but we're all fighting for the same thing So it brings that you a sense of unity back to your values, which is pretty I think it's pretty needed Awesome. Where do people find you? What do people find me? Um, nat underscore cools on instagram um I think my wife has an instagram. She calls 11 on a big green bus because my bus is like neon green And so uh, that's also an instagram and then nat cools is a youtube channel Um, it's rather outdated, but we're working on that fantastic With the 21 report. I'm frank peshi here with nat cools Speaker traditional family advocate and all around interesting guy. Thanks for joining. Thank you so much