 Welcome back to the 21 convention. I hope everybody enjoyed their lunch as much as I did our next speaker up He's a huge in the paleo diet blogging and as well as nutrition He runs his own website free the animal calm I'd like for you to check it out as soon as you get a chance and without further ado I'd like to welcome Richard Nicolai to the stage Thanks How's everyone doing everybody having a good time this convention is? Any any ideal men out there yet, or is it a process? That's why they do these things, huh? It's a process it never ends right so My like he said my blog is free the animal calm and if I ask you if I ask you How many of yourselves? regard yourselves as an animal human animal Like on the prowl for a pickup or maybe even in the bedroom, you know bonus points if you're Told you're an animal, but do you take it fully? Do you take it fully to heart in all of its facets in everything you do in society in your in other Relationships in in business the way you interact with people Do you literally or figurative for example, do you literally or figuratively you know Confess your sins to some big guy in the sky. Do you feel guilty and shame about yourself as a human being? by your very nature do you for instance You know ring your hands and agitate and Look forward to stepping into that booth so you can vote your one in three hundred millionth say in your own affairs Are you anxious? Concerned do you argue with other people about who should rule you next? Do you eat like a human garbage can in your waking hours? Can you go more than two or three hours without? Putting something down your face. I came to give you a perspective on Being a human animal in all of those things I just talked about and in my looking at you know kind of I didn't know much about the 21 convention and I you know did my Research on it looked at some of the videos and I see that there's that how it kind of originally started and I actually interviewed Anthony way back there's a I think video on his website as well as mine and You can see that The way it was formed originally has become different now you have things like money management and you know entrepreneurship and all of these other aspects other than just man-woman relationships and So I'm here to kind of expand that hopefully expand that a little bit more Give you some more things to think about about how you can carry this kind of rational Being the ideal man To other areas of your life other than just what's already been covered. So hopefully hopefully I'll touch on some new ground So I'm here to talk about diet and and and generally stated individualism But I want to do it from a framework That unites these topics and Gets into some things like I just like I mentioned in these questions about you know a little bit of religion philosophy social interaction social philosophy Politics government the state So a Good way to look at this is that most of you out there are you know young 20s I see and so this is a good time because you have an opportunity To avoid some of the mistakes that I made and I didn't make them all but I made if I made a few of them and So it's a good time now so that you don't end up you know becoming some if you want your choice I mean you can always you know Get married have two and a half kids become a Democrat or a Republican go vote go to church do all these things If that's the life you want you're welcome to it, but I don't think it's a life fit for an Animal I don't think it's a life fit for a free animal And I'm gonna talk about that So I'd like you to consider That if you are this human animal I talk about what how is how is that constructed in Society in your life today. I like to use the phrase Zoo human or human zoo see I don't I don't consider I don't consider the society in which we live anything like What you might term as a wild human animal and by wild I don't mean You know out there You know using other people to your to your means or using force or anything like that I'm just talking about living naturally so so I think there's a there's this concept of this human zoo and That we're actually more domesticated as animals than we are Free animals so now Who am I and? Why am I here? He said he talked about the blow. I want to give you a little bit of background And and I also noticed you know, I actually considered You know doing a whole different speech all together once I saw all the people in vibrams here This this morning So I thought I'd talk to you for an hour about just going to the next step and just going barefoot So you're welcome to join me by the way. I do a lot of barefoot. I used to I have vibrams But I I actually do a lot of a lot of barefoot walking I walk it pretty much every day I walk the dogs around the neighborhood barefoot, so you know people see me walking around and it's like whoa, it's crazy so So Principally, the reason I'm here is because I used to weigh like about 240 pounds That was 60 pounds ago There are I emailed Anthony about three photos of what I what I looked like in that sorry state about four or five years ago and So they'll be on a computer if you want to ask Anthony or you can go to my website free the animal calm and on the right sidebar There's a picture and it's there's a link to latest Vote and it's a whole series of posts about you know the progress of losing weight along the along the way So you could check that out if you want to so that's my you know claim to to fame I guess you could say so it was sure it was it was that whole thing I you know I got fat of course because of not managing my diet properly But it was really more than that because why would you allow yourself? To get that way You know Sure, it's the food, but that's not the that's not really the fundamental cause. That's not what it's work it's something dysfunctional in the way you think because You don't see fat animals in the wild. Do you? Do you? How often have you seen a fat animal in the wild unless they're designed to be that way such as Such well, yeah, it's it's it's that's the way it is by nature. You don't see any skinny hippopotamus See, there's no they're all the same, right? You have a bear gets fat and then he goes to sleep for five months, you know So, you know if humans hibernated I suppose it would be appropriate to get into the state that I got in and and many people do and What's really important to consider at your age those of you who are young 20s is that you can most of you can get away with it Now you can get away with eating Garbage and crap and it doesn't start catching up with you. You know when I was when I was young 29 eat what I want, you know pizza beer Fast food whatever of course, it's gotten worse because it's so intensely marketed right now I'll get into that a little bit more but