Holiplagues | How to Not Suffer from the Self-Imposed Poverty Causing & Dream-Killing Disease Known As “The Holipagues?” + Did Both Genesis & Exodus the Pattern of the 6-Day Work Week? + FDR’s 40 Hour Work Week?

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(Speaker 6)
Overeating and deadlines forgotten. Cause nobody else cares about how small your bank account’s gotten Taking more time off while your business does run Will take your business right to the bottom And that’s not good unless you’re a proctologist Learning Thanksgiving is not a month Will make poverty go away, that is my hunch Not working for a month will make you quite poor If you take off the Wednesday and the Wednesday before Thanksgiving You’ll end up living in a van down by the river. Oh, jeez. When you take time off and live carefree, a van down by the river is your destiny. Pushing around a shopping cart, living under a blue top will be your destiny. Unless you resist the harlot plague.

(Speaker 1)
Jackass. We’re headed into this time of the year that I call the holoplaques. Now, Dee, I’m not saying that you’re a calendar expert. You are a graphic designer. You do a great job. Natalie, you’re a business consultant.

(Speaker 1)
You do a great job. But I want to ask you just some rhetorical questions. I want to get your thoughts on this as we head into what I call the holoplaques. This is the time of the year where people increase their spending to an all -time high. They’re buying gifts. They’re buying more food.

(Speaker 1)
They’re celebrating the peak of American holidays. But yet their income is at an all -time high. low if they’re self -employed because they’re not working. Their income is at an all -time low and their expenses are at an all -time high. Now Dee, I’m not saying you’re an accountant or a bookkeeper, but what do you think would happen if the average business owner, their income is at an all -time low because they’re taking more days off than ever and they’re spending more? What do you prophesy might happen?

(Speaker 4)
I mean I can see a capsize of sorts happening where you know things just kind of flip on on end and you know it’s just not sustainable.

(Speaker 1)
Why is it not sustainable for someone to increase their spending to an all -time high while also taking off the most days of work possible?

(Speaker 4)
Well, I mean, it just doesn’t add up. You know, at one point, you’re going to run out of what you have. And, you know, it’s just the math doesn’t math.

(Speaker 1)
Now, you can be self -employed or self -unemployed if you’re self -employed or you make some kind of commission and you decide not to work. So as for you, as for me, as for our team, we’re going to continue knocking out action items for our great clients. However, somebody out there needs to hear this, Natalie. What’s going to happen if there’s a farmer out there, a farmer? Follow this analogy. There’s a farmer out there and the farmer decides not to sow seeds while at the same time cranking up the amount of food that his family consumes.

(Speaker 1)
Let me try this example. Let’s say we live in a self -sustaining community and a farmer decides to increase the rate at which they’re eating while decreasing their farming slash harvesting slash sowing of the seeds. What do you think’s going to happen?

(Speaker 7)
They’re going to run out of food. They’re not going to have any income because they’re not farming. So not only one is the family going to run out of food, but they’re also not going to make any income from not farming.

(Speaker 1)
All right, so I’m going to throw out the holidays that are celebrated currently by the average American out there today. And D, I want to get your thoughts. You tell me whether this is or is not a holiday in your mind, OK? Because these are the days the average American and American business owner is taking off, OK?

(Speaker 6)
I have a list.

(Speaker 1)
Here we go. Here’s the list. This would be the day before New Year’s Eve.

(Speaker 4)
New Year’s Eve, I mean the day before New Year’s Eve?

(Speaker 1)
The day before New Year’s Eve, Dave.

(Speaker 4)
Okay, I never heard of that one.

(Speaker 1)
But you know they take it off.

(Speaker 4)
I didn’t know, okay.

(Speaker 14)
Come on!

(Speaker 1)
Natalie, you know they take it off.

(Speaker 38)
The day before New Year’s Eve.

(Speaker 5)
Come on.

(Speaker 1)
Well, it’s the day before, you know, the day before the eve of New Year’s, you know, I’ll be off.

(Speaker 13)
Is that cool?

(Speaker 1)
Natalie, you see it.

(Speaker 7)
Oh yeah.

(Speaker 11)
Okay.

(Speaker 1)
So that’s not a holiday in your mind, right?

(Speaker 4)
No, no, no, not to me.

(Speaker 1)
What about New Year’s Eve? Is that a holiday, D?

(Speaker 4)
Um, not to me, but if they counted as one, then…

(Speaker 1)
You would count it as one?

(Speaker 4)
I wouldn’t take it, but…

(Speaker 1)
Natalie, what do you think? Will most people, most business owners take off New Year’s Eve?

(Speaker 18)
Oh, yeah.

(Speaker 7)
I’ve already had people messaging me, hey, can’t meet on New Year’s, can’t meet New Year’s Eve, or the day before.

(Speaker 1)
What about New Year’s Day? New Year’s Day, dude. New Year’s Day, is that a holiday in your mind?

(Speaker 4)
In my mind, it is, I guess.

(Speaker 1)
Can you take that one off?

(Speaker 4)
if you so choose.

(Speaker 1)
Now if you take that off, I mean I’m not attacking you, I’m just asking the question. Because so far we have three days already related to New Year’s Eve.

(Speaker 4)
Yes, most people will take that one off.

(Speaker 1)
Okay, let’s continue. Now this is a good one. The day before Martin Luther King Jr. Day. The day before Martin Luther King Jr. Day.

(Speaker 1)
I see people, they say, hey, Martin Luther King Jr. Day, it’s off tomorrow, so can I take off today? Because it’s a long weekend, long week.

(Speaker 4)
Is it in your mind?

(Speaker 31)
No.

(Speaker 1)
Should we take off the day before Martin Luther King Jr.? No, not at all. Okay.

(Speaker 16)
What about Martin Luther King Jr.

(Speaker 26)
Day, D?

(Speaker 1)
Should we take off Martin Luther King Jr. Day?

(Speaker 4)
Okay. Next one is the day before President’s Day.

(Speaker 1)
Should we take that day off?

(Speaker 4)
I wouldn’t.

(Speaker 1)
I wouldn’t suggest taking that off.

(Speaker 30)
What about President’s Day?

(Speaker 1)
I wouldn’t suggest taking that off either. The day after President’s Day? Not, not, no.

(Speaker 7)
This is one I’ve heard recently.

(Speaker 1)
The Thursday before Good Friday. Natalie, in your mind, is the Thursday before Good Friday a good holiday? I wouldn’t even consider that a holiday. What about Good Friday? I have a lot of clients that aren’t even Catholic, they’re not even Christian, they don’t celebrate Good Friday, but they’re like, hey, Good Friday. I’m taking that off.

(Speaker 1)
I just talked to a guy true story. This is a guy who wants to be a client. God bless him. He can’t be a client. He wants to be a client. I’m not going to take him on and he

(Speaker 1)
has taken off the last three weeks. He’s had to reschedule our 13 -point assessment three times because he’s traveling. But the reason why he wants to meet is because he’s hemorrhaging money and he’s losing money. Well, how are you going to save money or get on top of your finances if you live in a perpetual vacation? That’s just something to think about here. Let’s continue.

(Speaker 1)
Now, this is big here.

(Speaker 6)
Okay, this is the Thursday, the Good Friday.

(Speaker 4)
We talked about that. The Saturday before Easter.

(Speaker 1)
Dee, is that a holiday? No, no.

(Speaker 4)
The Saturday before Easter is not a holiday, no.

(Speaker 1)
What about Easter in general?

(Speaker 29)
Are you taking off Easter?

(Speaker 1)
If Easter falls on a Sunday, I mean, maybe. Do you have issue with the eggs in Easter? I don’t do Easter eggs. You don’t do the Easter eggs, the old Ishtar eggs? You’re not a big fan of that?

(Speaker 37)
No, I don’t do Easter eggs.

(Speaker 4)
Someone should look that up.

(Speaker 29)
I -S -H -T -A -R eggs.

(Speaker 1)
You don’t do that?

(Speaker 4)
No, no. That’s interesting. You don’t celebrate the death and resurrection of Jesus by putting out eggs?

(Speaker 1)
No, I don’t know. I don’t really honor pagan gods. You’re sick. I can’t believe you’re not eating. It’s weird that you’d want to focus on Christ during the Easter.

(Speaker 32)
Okay, let’s continue.

(Speaker 1)
The day after Easter.

(Speaker 36)
You taking that one off?

(Speaker 35)
Monday?

(Speaker 4)
No. The day before Memorial Day?

(Speaker 1)
No. Memorial Day?

(Speaker 4)
Most cases? No. The day after Memorial Day, the day before Independence Day, Independence Day, the day after Independence Day, the day before Labor Day or Labor Day.

(Speaker 1)
Are you taking off Labor Day? The only reason, the only way I take off Memorial or Labor Day is if we had something planned.

(Speaker 2)
But other than that, no, no, just not.

(Speaker 1)
Just because everybody else is doing it, no. Now according to Business Insider, okay, Business Insider did an article called, check out how much the average American works each year compared to the French, right? And right now it means the average American is only working 42 weeks a year, right now. currently. And I don’t even think it’s that much. And I think what it is, I think there’s a self -imposed poverty that occurs when you choose to never work five days a week.

(Speaker 1)
Now let me give you some knowledge here. Folks, did you know that in the Bible, in the book of Genesis and in Exodus, the Bible instructs us to work six days?

(Speaker 7)
Did you know this?

(Speaker 1)
In the book of Genesis and in Exodus, the pattern established by God is you work six days. Are we aware, are we tracking with me? Natalie, you track it with me? Oh yeah. Work six, rest of the seventh.

(Speaker 28)
However, in 1938, a man who probably had a lesbian wife, who was the president of these United States, FDR, a man who probably had a lesbian wife, in 1938, he rolled out the concept of the 40 -hour work week.

(Speaker 1)
Now, I want to ask you this. Do you see FDR in a standard Bible, Natalie? When you open up your Bible, do you say, wow, I see him, he’s in Genesis, he’s in Exodus? No. So why is it, I just want to know, why is it that forever, for the history of America, the founding fathers, the founding mothers, you know, these people, the pilgrims, they all were working six days a week. And that was the way they did it.

(Speaker 1)
That’s the way that the Amish are still rolling today. Why is it that now we go, well, I should, you know, I should work 40 hours a week. Why is it that that’s acceptable? And then why is it that people that are working 40 hours a week are always wanting to know, well, I don’t understand why I’m not reaping a harvest like I’m working six days. when I’m only working five days. Well, what is that, D?

(Speaker 1)
What is the detachment? Because the Bible’s very clear.

(Speaker 4)
We should observe the Sabbath, take that day off, one seventh of your week, and we should work six days.

(Speaker 1)
Why is it that the average American who even goes to church, the concept of working six days a week is almost sick. It’s almost considered to be sick or savage or unhealthy or you’re a workaholic. Why is it that people are so demonized who choose to work six days a week? I mean I think I think it’s honestly I feel like there’s a lot of narcissism that’s crept into our society I mean just as a whole to be honest and I think we like to focus on you know what makes us happy than than anything else I mean there’s other cultures and other countries that focus on that kind of thing but yeah that’s crept into the church a lot, just crept into American society. Natalie, what are your thoughts here? All my clients, all my clients that are the top earning clients, every single one of my top earning clients, they all say, hey, with Thanksgiving coming up or Christmas coming up, I know I’m not gonna be working on that day, so could I meet you maybe Saturday, or could I meet you the Wednesday before Thanksgiving, or could I meet you on Saturday, or could I meet you on, they all wanna get that week in, they wanna get that work in.

(Speaker 1)
Why is it that all the top clients Overeating and deadlines forgotten. Cause nobody else cares about how small your bank account’s gotten Taking more time off while your business does run Will take your business right to the bottom And that’s not good unless you’re a proctologist Learning Thanksgiving is not a month Will make poverty go away, that is my hunch Not working for a month will make you quite poor If you take off the Wednesday and the Wednesday before Thanksgiving You’ll end up living in a van down by the river. When you take time off and live carefree, a van down by the river is your destiny. Pushing around a shopping cart, living under a blue top will be your destiny. Unless you resist the Harleplague, Jackass We’re headed into this time of the year that I call the holoplaques.

(Speaker 1)
Now, Dee, I’m not saying that you’re a calendar expert. You are a graphic designer. You do a great job. Natalie, you’re a business consultant. You do a great job. But I want to ask you just some rhetorical questions.

(Speaker 1)
I want to get your thoughts on this as we head into what I call the holoplaques. This is the time of the year where people increase their spending to an all -time high. They’re buying gifts. They’re buying more food. They’re celebrating the peak of American holidays. But yet their income is at an all -time high.

(Speaker 4)
low if they’re self -employed because they’re not working. Their income is at an all -time low and their expenses are at an all -time high.

(Speaker 1)
Now, D, I’m not saying you’re an accountant or a bookkeeper, but what do you think would happen if the average business owner, their income is at an all -time low because they’re taking more days off than ever and they’re spending more?

(Speaker 4)
What do you prophesy might happen? I mean, I can see a capsize of sorts happening where, you know, things just kind of flip on on end.

(Speaker 1)
And, you know, it’s just not sustainable. Why is it not sustainable for someone to increase their spending to an all time high while also taking off the most days of work possible? Well, I mean, it just doesn’t add up. You know, at one point you’re going to run out of what you have and You know, it’s just the math doesn’t math.

(Speaker 34)
Now, you can either be self -employed or self -unemployed if you’re self -employed or you make some kind of commission and you decide not to work.

(Speaker 1)
So as for you, as for me, as for our team, we’re going to continue knocking out action items for our great clients. However, somebody out there needs to hear this, Natalie. What’s going to happen if there’s a farmer out there, a farmer, follow this analogy, there’s a farmer out there and the farmer decides not to sow seeds while at the same time cranking up the amount of food that he’s going to need

(Speaker 7)
consumes. Let me try this example. Let’s say we live in a self -sustaining community and a farmer decides to increase the rate at which they’re eating while decreasing their farming slash harvesting slash sowing of the seeds.

(Speaker 1)
What do you think’s going to happen? They’re going to run out of food. They’re not going to have any income because they’re not farming. So not only is the family going to run out of food, but they’re also not going to make any income from not farming. All right, so I’m going to throw out the holidays that are celebrated currently by the average American out there today. And D, I want to get your thoughts.

(Speaker 1)
You tell me whether this is or is not a holiday in your mind, okay? Because these are the days the average American and American business owner is taking off, okay?

(Speaker 4)
I have a list. Here we go.

(Speaker 1)
Here’s the list.

(Speaker 4)
This would be the day before New Year’s Eve.

(Speaker 1)
New Year’s Eve.

(Speaker 4)
I mean, the day before New Year’s Eve?

(Speaker 32)
The day before New Year’s Eve, Dave.

(Speaker 14)
Okay, I never heard of that one. But you know they take it off.

(Speaker 5)
I didn’t know.

(Speaker 13)
Okay. Come on. Natalie, you know they take it off.

(Speaker 1)
The day before New Year’s Eve?

(Speaker 18)
Come on.

(Speaker 1)
Well, it’s the day before the eve of New Year’s.

(Speaker 4)
You know, I’ll be off.

(Speaker 1)
Is that cool? Natalie, you see it.

(Speaker 4)
Oh yeah.

(Speaker 1)
Okay, so that’s not a holiday in your mind, right?

(Speaker 4)
No, no, not to me.

(Speaker 1)
What about New Year’s Eve? Is that a holiday, Dee?

(Speaker 33)
Um, not to me, but if they counted as one, then…

(Speaker 7)
You would count it as one?

(Speaker 1)
I wouldn’t take it, but… Natalie, what do you think? Will most people, most business owners take off New Year’s Eve?

(Speaker 4)
Oh yeah.

(Speaker 1)
I’ve already had people messaging me, hey, can’t meet on New Year’s, can’t meet New Year’s Eve, or the day before.

(Speaker 4)
What about New Year’s Day?

(Speaker 1)
New Year’s Day, dude. New Year’s Day, is that a holiday in your mind? In my mind it is, I guess. Should you take that one off? if you so choose. Martin Luther King Jr.

(Speaker 1)
Day, D. The day before Martin Luther King Jr.

(Speaker 32)
Day.

(Speaker 11)
I see people, they say, hey, Martin Luther King Jr.

(Speaker 1)
Day, it’s off tomorrow, so can I take off today? Because it’s a long weekend, long week. Is it in your mind?

(Speaker 26)
No.

(Speaker 31)
Should we take off the day before Martin Luther King Jr.?

(Speaker 1)
No, not at all. Okay.

(Speaker 4)
What about Martin Luther King Jr.

(Speaker 1)
Day, D?

(Speaker 4)
Should we take off Martin Luther King Jr.

(Speaker 1)
Day?

(Speaker 30)
Nah.

(Speaker 1)
Okay, next one is the day before President’s Day. Should we take that day off? I wouldn’t, I wouldn’t suggest taking that one.

(Speaker 7)
What about President’s Day?

(Speaker 1)
I wouldn’t suggest taking that off either. The day after President’s Day? Not, not, no.

(Speaker 12)
This is one I’ve heard recently. The Thursday before Good Friday.

(Speaker 1)
Natalie, in your mind, is the Thursday before Good Friday a good holiday? I wouldn’t even consider that a holiday. What about Good Friday? I have a lot of clients that aren’t even Catholic, they’re not even Christian, they don’t celebrate Good Friday, but they’re like, hey, Good Friday. I’m taking that off. I just talked to a guy.

(Speaker 1)
True story. This is a guy who wants to be a client. God bless him. He can’t be a client. He wants to be a client. I’m not going to take him on.

(Speaker 1)
And he has taken off the last three weeks. He’s had to reschedule our 13 -point assessment three times because he’s traveling. But the reason why he wants to meet is because he’s hemorrhaging money and he’s losing money.

(Speaker 6)
Well, how are you going to save money or get on top of your finances if you live in a perpetual vacation?

(Speaker 4)
That’s just something to think about here. Let’s continue.

(Speaker 1)
Now, this is big here. Okay, this is the Thursday, the Good Friday.

(Speaker 4)
We talked about that.

(Speaker 1)
The Saturday before Easter.

(Speaker 4)
Dee, is that a holiday?

(Speaker 1)
No, no. The Saturday before Easter is not a holiday, no. What about Easter in general? Are you taking off Easter? If Easter falls on a Sunday, I mean, maybe.

(Speaker 11)
Do you have issue with the eggs in Easter?

(Speaker 4)
I don’t do Easter.

(Speaker 29)
You don’t do the Easter eggs, the old Ishtar eggs?

(Speaker 1)
You’re not a big fan of that?

(Speaker 4)
No, I don’t do Easter.

(Speaker 6)
Someone should look that up.

(Speaker 1)
I -S -H -T -A -R eggs. You don’t do that? No, no. That’s interesting. You don’t celebrate the death and resurrection of Jesus by putting out eggs?

(Speaker 5)
No, I don’t honor pagan gods.

(Speaker 4)
You’re sick.

(Speaker 1)
I can’t believe you’re not eating.

(Speaker 4)
Yeah, that’s weird that you’d want to focus on Christ during the Easter. Okay, let’s continue the day after Easter. You taking that one off Monday?

(Speaker 1)
No. The day before Memorial Day? D? No. Memorial Day? Most cases?

(Speaker 1)
No. The day after Memorial Day, the day before Independence Day, Independence Day, the day after Independence Day, the day before Labor Day or Labor Day, are you taking off Labor Day? The only reason, the only way I take off Memorial or Labor Day is if we had something planned. But other than that, no, no, just not. Just because everybody else is doing it, no.

(Speaker 18)
Now, according to Business Insider, okay, Business Insider did an article called, check out how much the average American works each year compared to the French, right?

(Speaker 1)
And right now, it means the average American is only working 42 weeks a year, right now, currently. And I don’t even think it’s that much. And I think what it is, I think there’s a self -imposed poverty that occurs when you choose to never work five days a week. Now let me give you some knowledge here. Folks, did you know that in the Bible, in the book of Genesis and in Exodus, the Bible instructs us to work six days?

(Speaker 28)
Did you know this?

(Speaker 1)
In the book of Genesis and in Exodus, the pattern established by God is you work six days. Are we aware? Are we tracking with me? Yeah. Natalie, you tracking with me? Oh yeah.

(Speaker 1)
Work six, rest of the seventh. However, in 1938, a man who probably had a lesbian wife, who was the president of these United States, FDR, a man who probably had a lesbian wife, in 1938, he rolled out the concept of the 40 hour work week. Now I wanna ask you this. Do you see FDR in a standard Bible, Natalie? When you open up your Bible, do you say, wow, I see him, he’s in Genesis, he’s in Exodus? No.

(Speaker 1)
So why is it, I just wanna know, why is it that forever, for the history of America, the founding fathers, the founding mothers, you know, these people, the pilgrims, they all were working six days a week. And that was the way they did it.

(Speaker 4)
That’s the way that the Amish are still rolling today. Why is it that now we go, well, I should, you know, I should work 40 hours a week. Why is it that that’s acceptable? And then why is it that people that are working 40 hours a week are always wanting to know, well, I don’t understand why I’m working 40 hours a week. not reaping a harvest like I’m working six days when I’m only working five days. Well, what is that, D?

(Speaker 1)
What is the detachment? Because the Bible is very clear. We should observe the Sabbath, take that day off, one seventh of your week, and we should work six days. Why is it that the average American who even goes to church, the concept of working six days a week is almost sick.

(Speaker 7)
It’s almost considered to be sick or savage or unhealthy or you’re a workaholic.

(Speaker 27)
Why is it that people are so demonized who choose to work six days a week?

(Speaker 7)
I mean, I think I think it’s honestly, I feel like there’s a lot of narcissism that’s crept into our society.

(Speaker 27)
I mean, just as a whole, to be honest.

(Speaker 1)
And I think we like to focus on, you know, what makes us happy than than anything else. I mean, there’s other cultures and other countries that focus on that kind of thing. But yeah, that’s crept into the. church a lot. Nathalie, what are your thoughts here? All my clients, all my clients that are the top earning clients, every single one of my top earning clients, they all say, hey, with Thanksgiving coming up or Christmas coming up, I know I’m not going to be working on that day, so could I meet you maybe Saturday, or could I meet you the Wednesday before Thanksgiving, or could I meet you on Saturday, or could I meet you on, they all want to get that week in, they want to get that work in.

(Speaker 7)
Why is it that all the top clients want to still put in the work and not act as though a holiday gives them an excuse to not do it. that week? I think that the holidays people come up and the holidays come up, they’re like anxiety, depression, mental health days. It’s wrong. It’s like slapping a baby.

(Speaker 1)
It’s wrong. I mean, seriously, why is it that the top clients all they go, hey, with Thanksgiving, Christmas coming up, I am not going to take that week off. I’m going to still work. I got to, you know, when’s a different time we can meet? Why do the top clients all do that? And I don’t give them this pep talk.

(Speaker 1)
Why do all the top clients, the highest earners, why do they all find a way to meet despite the holidays?

(Speaker 4)
They don’t miss a week. They know that they have to stay on their grind. They have to keep going. They can’t miss a day just because of the holidays. So they might have a day, but they’re going to reschedule and still meet that week and keep the consistency and a calendar and a to -do list. So I just want to encourage everybody out there, if you’re watching today’s show, you’re listening to today’s show, I’d encourage you, go ahead and get out a calendar right now and circle all of the days off that you’re going to have this year.

(Speaker 4)
And I will tell you by default, the average American is only working 42 weeks a year.

(Speaker 1)
And these are people that are still taking off the weekends, every weekend, you know what I mean? So I would encourage everybody to do that and have a realistic look at your calendar, because if not, you’re going to experience this self -imposed poverty that I call the holoplegs. And the holoplegs is where you increase your spending to an all -time high to celebrate the holiday, like the 4th of July or Christmas or Thanksgiving, while simultaneously decreasing your income.

(Speaker 11)
And I think people do that all the time. all the time and d i just i wanted to get your thoughts on this because you’re a designer and you get stuff done and a lot of times i get wonderful projects that you finish on a saturday or a friday night or a thursday and regardless of what day of the week the project falls on you get it done but you’re also a committed grandpa you know but why is it that people demonize d why do people demonize the concept of working six days a week they demonize

(Speaker 1)
it. They just don’t want to work. I mean, that’s my, I mean, it’s just as simple as that. They just rather not work. I think, I mean, I love, I love working. I love doing what I do.

(Speaker 1)
And to me, I mean, you know, it’s a, it’s a blessing to be able to do that.

(Speaker 12)
But, um, I don’t look for reasons not to work, so I guess that’s a difference of mindset.

(Speaker 26)
Well, final pro tip I’m going to give everybody out there.

(Speaker 1)
The word avodah, it’s in Hebrew, okay? A -V -O -D -A -H. Avodah, okay? Avodah. People want to pronounce it, Avodah. Great.

(Speaker 1)
Avodah. Let’s go Avodah. That word is the Hebrew word for work, right? And in Hebrew, the word work means worship, and worship means work. So the word work means worship, and the word worship means work. Work means worship, worship means work.

(Speaker 1)
It’s the same word. Right? So when God gave Adam the garden, he gave Adam the garden to work it, right? So work as unto the Lord. So your work is actually your worship, according to the Bible.

(Speaker 6)
It’s not just something you do before the church service starts one day a week.

(Speaker 1)
And I think a lot of people don’t understand that, that work is worship and worship is work.

(Speaker 6)
And the Bible says work as unto the Lord and not as unto human masters.

(Speaker 1)
What the Bible’s trying to teach us, and this is Colossians 3, 23 through 24, the Bible says, Colossians 3, 23 through 24, it says, and whatsoever ye do, do it heartily as to the Lord and not as unto men, knowing that of the Lord ye shall receive the reward of the inheritance for ye serve the Lord Christ. What the Bible’s saying is you’re supposed to work as unto the Lord. So if you’re watching today’s show, listening to today’s show, I would encourage you to avoid the self -inflicted perpetual poverty -causing thing, poverty -causing decision known as the holoplagues and find a way to mentally come to terms with the idea that Thanksgiving is not a month, Christmas is not a month, fall break doesn’t exist. Spring break doesn’t exist if you’re an entrepreneur. If you’re an entrepreneur, the work still needs to be done and you get paid for the value you add to the hour, not for the number of hours you work.

(Speaker 1)
If you’re an entrepreneur, you get paid for the results that you deliver. So you’ve got to deliver those results despite the perpetual distractions thrown at us by every possible holiday. And with that being said, Natalie, thank you for joining us. Dee, thank you for joining us. And on part two of today’s show, we go deeper into The Holoplegs. Thanksgiving.

(Speaker 1)
Although it’s not legal to text and drive, to our knowledge, there are no laws against broadcasting while driving. Here’s yet another edition of the Hummer of Love on the Thrive Time show. I’m recording today’s show on the Wednesday before the Wednesday before Thanksgiving 2017. So right now we got the it’s the Wednesday before the Wednesday before Thanksgiving. So, you know, Thanksgiving falls on a Thursday and the day before the Thanksgiving Thursday is always a Wednesday. I’m talking about the Wednesday before the Wednesday before Thanksgiving to talk about something I call the holoplegs.

(Speaker 1)
Now, the holoplegs are a time of the year where small business owners start acting like employees and start having financial problems as their income goes down while they’re

(Speaker 10)
life spending habits go up.

(Speaker 1)
You see, the rest of the world who are employees, they typically spend more money during the holidays. They buy Christmas gifts and food for Thanksgiving. They travel, that kind of thing. However, they have jobs. They work at a business, right? and uh so they’re not impacted too much by the fact that they’re spending more during the holidays than other times of the year because they’re actually spending more um but they’re making the same income maybe they’re on a salary or they have a consistency of an income and a job but for self -employed people i have noticed over the last 12 almost 13 years coaching that most self -employed people take off the wednesday before the wednesday of thanksgiving they start taking off then And they really don’t get it back together until the Monday after Thanksgiving.

(Speaker 1)
So they miss an entire two and a half week period of time. And then they also do the same thing on the week of Christmas. So the week of Christmas, they take the Monday off. of the week of Christmas, the Tuesday off, they take the eve of Christmas off, they take the eve of Christmas eve off, they take Christmas day off, they take the day after Christmas day off, they take that weekend off too, they take New Year’s eve off, they take New Year’s day off. And what happens is when you are self -employed, therefore you are reliant upon yourself for an income, and you work less than any other time of the year, you generally make less. So if you have a heat and air company, and you service less customers during the holiday season, and you spend more money, you’re spending more and earning less, which I…

(Speaker 1)
Okay, Aaron Antis, guess who’s joining us for the December 4th and 5th, 2025 Thrive Time Show Business Growth Workshop?

(Speaker 25)
Santa Claus?

(Speaker 1)
No, we will not be joined by Santa Claus, but we will be joined by Eric Trump, the star the 45th and now 47th president of these United States. And yes, Amanda Grace will be in the place. And yes, Dr. Stella Manuel will be there, so you know it will go well. Yes, we have Mel K in the house. Pastor Phil and Tammy Hotsenpiller will be hosting this event at their beautiful church right there in sunny Anaheim, California.

(Speaker 1)
Yes, folks, make this a December to remember. Make this a December to remember and join us at the two -day interactive Business Growth Workshops. For over 20 years, folks, I’ve been hosting Business Growth Workshops where we’re going to teach you marketing, sales systems, human resources, accounting, social media marketing, branding, sales training, search engine optimization, accounting, workflow development, financial management, all this and more. How do you get tickets? Go to thrivetimeshow . com.

(Speaker 1)
Again, how do you get tickets? Go to thrivetimeshow . com. I’m Ron Burgundy. need someone to run the companies for him. And so the man that runs the Trump organization for Donald J. Trump, as he was the 45th president of the United States, and now the 47th president of the United States, is Eric Trump.

(Speaker 1)
Eric Trump is here to talk about time management, promoting from within, marketing, branding, quality control, sales systems, workflow design, workflow mapping, how to build. I mean, everything that you see, the Trump hotels, the Trump golf courses, all their products, the man who manages billions of dollars of real estate and thousands of employees is here to teach us how to do it. You are talking about one of the greatest brands on the planet from a business standpoint. I mean, who else has been able to create a brand like the Trump brand? I mean, look at it.

(Speaker 1)
And this is the man behind the business for the last, pretty much since 2015, he’s been the man behind it so you’re talking we’re into nine going into ten years of him running it and we get to tap into that knowledge that’s going to be amazing now think about this for a second nothing is over until we decide it is was it over when the germans bombed pearl harbor german forget it he’s rolling ready or not The lineup continues to grow, and this is how we do our tickets here at the Thrive Time Show. If you want to get a VIP ticket, you can absolutely do it. It’s $500 for a VIP ticket. We’ve always done it that way.

(Speaker 25)
Now, if you want to take a general admission ticket, it’s $250, or whatever price you want to pay.

(Speaker 1)
And the reason why I do that, and the reason why we do that, is because we want to make our events affordable for everybody. I grew up without money. I totally understand what it’s like to be in a tight spot.

(Speaker 10)
So if you want to attend, it’s $250, or whatever price you want to pay. That’s how I do it. And it’s $500 for a VIP ticket.

(Speaker 1)
have limited seating here with there’s a lot of togetherness and closeness camaraderie so again if you want to get tickets for this event all you have to do is go to thrive timeshow . com go to thrive timeshow . com when you go to thrive timeshow . com you’ll go there you’ll request a ticket boom or if you want to text me if you want a little bit faster service you say i want you to call me right now i just texted my number it’s my cell phone number my personal cell phone number we’ll keep that private between you, between you, me, everybody. We’ll keep that private. And anybody, don’t share that with anybody except for everybody.

(Speaker 1)
That’s my private cell phone number. It’s 918 -851 -0102.

(Speaker 6)
918 -851 -0102.

(Speaker 1)
I know we have a lot of Spanish speaking people that attend these conferences. And so to be bilingually sensitive, my cell phone number is 918 -851 -0102. That is not actually bilingual. That’s just saying Juan for a Juan. It’s not the same thing.

(Speaker 1)
I think you’re attacking me. Now, let’s talk about this. Now, what kind of stuff will you learn at the Thrive Time Show Workshop? So, Aaron, you’ve been to many of these over the past seven, eight years. So let’s talk about it. I’ll tee up the thing and then you tell me what you’re going to learn here, OK?

(Speaker 1)
OK. You’re going to learn marketing, marketing and branding. What are we going to learn about marketing and branding? Oh, yeah. We’re going to dive into, you know, so many people say, oh, you know, I got to get my brand known out there like the Trump brand. You want to get that brand out there.

(Speaker 1)
It’s like, how do I actually make people know what my business is? is and make it a household name. You’re going to learn some intricacies of how you can do that. You’re going to learn sales. So many people struggle to sell something. This just in, your business will go to hell if you can’t sell.

(Speaker 1)
So we’re going to teach you sales. We’re going to teach you search engine optimization, how to come up top in the search engine results. We’re going to teach you how to manage people. Aaron, you have managed, no exaggeration, hundreds of people throughout your career and thousands of contractors. And most people struggle with managing. managing people.

(Speaker 1)
Why does everybody have to learn how to manage people? Well, because first of all, people are either have great people or you have people who suck. So it could be a challenge, you know, learning how to work with a large group of people and get everybody pulling in the same direction can be a challenge. But if you have the right systems, you have the right processes, and you’re really good at selecting great ones. And we have a process we teach about how to find great people. When you start with the people who have a great attitude, they’re teachable, they’re driven, all of those things, then you can get those people all pulling in the same direction.

(Speaker 1)
So we’re going to teach you branding, marketing, sales, search engine optimization. We’re going to teach you accounting. We’re going to teach you personal finance, how to manage your finance. We’re going to teach you time management. How do you manage your time?

(Speaker 1)
How do you get more done during a typical day? How do you build an organization if you’re not organized? How do you do organization? How do you build an org chart? Everything that you need to know to start and grow a business will be taught during this two -day interactive business workshop. Now, let me tell you how the format is set up here.

(Speaker 1)
And again, folks, this is a two -day interactive 15 -minute workshop. Think about this, folks. It’s two days. Each day, it starts at 7 AM, and it goes until 5 PM. So from 7 AM to 5 PM, two days. It’s a two -day interactive workshop.

(Speaker 1)
The way we do it is we do a 30 -minute teaching session, and then we break for 15 minutes for a question -and -answer session. So Aaron, what kind of great stuff happens during that 15 -minute question -and -answer session after every teaching session? I actually think it’s the best part about the workshops, because here’s what happens. I’ve been to lots of these things over the years. I’ve paid many thousands of dollars to go to them.

(Speaker 24)
And you go in there and they talk in vague generalities and they’re constantly upselling you for something trying to get you to buy this thing or that thing or this program or this membership.

(Speaker 1)
And you don’t, you leave not getting your very specific questions answered about your business or your employees or what you’re doing on your marketing. And what’s awesome about this is we literally answer every single question that any person asks. And it’s very specific to what your business is. And what we do is we allow you as the attendee to write your questions on the whiteboard. And then we literally, as you mentioned, we answer every single question on the whiteboard. And then we take a 15 minute break to stretch.

(Speaker 1)
And this is also your opportunity to meet some of the great speakers like Pastor Dave Scarlett. You can meet Mel K. You can meet Amanda Grace. You can meet Dr. Stella Emanuel. You could just grab a coffee. You can find me on Facebook. You could get lost in the bathroom.

(Speaker 1)
You could try to go and get a photo with one of the speakers. You could try to photobomb a photo where someone else is getting a photo with the speakers. You could go attempt to find your phone, wallet, and your keys. Now that’s a good idea. That means you have less than 3 % of our population that’s even self -employed. So you only have 3 out of every 100 people in America that are self -employed to begin with.

(Speaker 1)
And when Inc. Magazine reports that 96 % of businesses fail by default, By default, you have a 1 out of 1 ,000 chance of succeeding in the game of business. But yet the average client that you and I work with, we can typically double this. No hyperbole, no exaggeration. I have thousands of testimonials to back this up. We have thousands of testimonials to back it up.

(Speaker 24)
But when you work with a home builder, when I work with a business owner, we can typically double the size of the company within 24 months.

(Speaker 1)
And you say double? Yeah, there’s businesses that we have tripled. There’s businesses we’ve grown 8x. There’s so many examples you can see. see it thrive timeshow . com.

(Speaker 1)
But again, this is the most interactive best business workshop on the planet. This is objectively the highest rated and most reviewed business workshop on the planet. Add to that Eric Trump, the man that runs the Trump organization. You say Clay, I still I’m not going to get a ticket unless you give me more. Okay, fine. We’re going to serve you the same meal both days.

(Speaker 1)
True story. We have we cater in the food. And because simple, I keep it simple. I literally bring him the same food both days for lunch. Who’s with me? It’s an incredible Mexican restaurant.

(Speaker 1)
That’s gonna happen. More and more success stories. So if you’re out there today and you want to change your life, you want to give yourself a incredible gift. You want a life changing experience. You want to learn how to start and grow a company.

(Speaker 22)
Go to Thrivetimeshow .

(Speaker 23)
com.

(Speaker 22)
Go there right now. Thrivetimeshow .

(Speaker 21)
com. Request a ticket for the two day interactive event.

(Speaker 9)
Again, the event’s going to be on December 4th and 5th in sunny Anaheim, California. Great weather. Make this a December to remember.

(Speaker 5)
Eric Trump, the man who leads the Trump organization.

(Speaker 8)
It’s going to be a blasty blast. There’s no upsells.

(Speaker 5)
Aaron, I could not be more excited about this event. I think it is incredible. And there’s somebody out there right now, you’re watching and you’re like, but I already signed up for this incredible other program called Smoke Your Way to Thin. I think that’s going to change your life. I promise you this will be 10 times better than that. It’s like I picked the wrong week to quit smoking.

(Speaker 8)
to the two -day interactive Thrive Time Show workshop in beautiful Anaheim, California. I’m Vince Staszewski, also from Sarasota, Florida. You dragged me here.

(Speaker 5)
Yep, I was here in 2018 and it changed my business and I built another business and now I’m here to do it again. with this business. I’m a brand strategist and it’s been really easy to go to a lot of events like this and just leave really in your head what to do next. Already there’s the strategic, step -by -step, real -life implementation that we can do to our business and I’m so grateful to be here and very excited that Eric Hump is here and that is going to be epic. My name is Erica, and it has been amazing being here at the conference.

(Speaker 20)
I’m learning so much.

(Speaker 2)
Everything is perfect for me. Clay Clark, man, he is one character. That’s a good word for him, character. Yeah, that is it. Good, driven, smart, and I’ve never met a guy who was so hyper all the time. He’s doing so much good.

(Speaker 2)
And then I met his mother, and she just says, She just lets him be Clay Clark. I mean, so he’s endorsed by his mother and he’s doing magnificent work. So it was great meeting you out there and all the people that he surrounds himself with.

(Speaker 19)
His Clay Clark starts his days at five o ‘clock in the morning.

(Speaker 2)
Oh, it’s incredible. Yeah. He’s, he’s like, he’s, he’s a machine. He’s a machine. But his, you know, I got, I have problems with my company starting at nine o ‘clock.

(Speaker 19)
Yes.

(Speaker 18)
Hundreds of people showing up at 5 .00 AM in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

(Speaker 2)
Man, he’s a leader of a leader. He’s a fantastic young man.

(Speaker 3)
No, he is. And the greatest thing that’ll come out of all of it, aside from winning the presidency of the United States, we’ll get to that in a second, was an everlasting friendship between Clay and I, because I’m telling you, there’s not too many people in the world that have this man’s backbone and his tenaciousness and his perseverance. And so, buddy, I love you. And to John, I love you. Flynn, thank you. You guys are incredible.

(Speaker 3)
You guys are incredible warriors. You guys are incredible, incredible warriors. So thank you, my friend. Clay Clark is here somewhere.

(Speaker 5)
Where’s my buddy Clay? Clay’s the greatest.

(Speaker 1)
I met his goats today. I met his dogs. I met his chickens. I saw his compound. He’s like the greatest guy. I ran from his goats, his chickens, his dogs.

(Speaker 1)
So this guy’s like the greatest marketer you’ve ever seen, right? His entire life, Clay Clark, his entire life is marketing. 4 ,000 % from February to February. Now I can better that. Okay, Clay, I don’t think you know this. I don’t think you know this.

(Speaker 1)
I’m pinching myself and if I cry, forgive me. In the last two and a half days, we have bettered our entire month of February in the last two and a half days. So, and the phone’s blowing up. Everything’s just blowing up. You’re right, it is like a rocket ship. So, we’re pinching ourselves, actually.

(Speaker 2)
I learned at the Academy, King’s Point in New York, acta non verba. Watch what a person does, not what they say. We’re going to move into action mode here. So for anybody out there, if you say, I would like to go to Mar -a -Lago. Now, Jackson, you know this just in, they raided Mar -a -Lago. You know about this just in.

(Speaker 2)
And so some people say, you know, that wasn’t cool. I didn’t like that. But you know, so a lot of people out there, we want to kind of stick it to the New York Times. We want Eric to become the number one best -selling author in America. And we also, we kind of also want to go to Mar -a -Lago and check it out. We’ve never been there before.

(Speaker 2)
So what we’re going to do is for anybody right now, if you go to Amazon right now and you buy a copy of Eric Trump’s book, Under Siege, My Family’s Fighter, to save our nation. So you go to Amazon right now, you buy a copy of the book, and you just text a screenshot of your proof of purchase to my cell phone number, 918 -844 -9185. -0102. So text my number, 918 -851 -0102. So again, step one, you go here to amazon . com, you buy a copy of the book Under Siege, then you just text a screenshot of your purchase, your proof of purchase.

(Speaker 2)
You text my number, 918 -851 -0102. You have a chance to win a dinner at Mar -a -Lago with Eric Trump and myself, and there’s more. Mar -a -Lago right there, just for your viewers. It’s the most exclusive private club in the world. $2 million to get into. It’s just base membership fee.

(Speaker 2)
And I promise, we’re going to make your night absolutely incredible. The play goes, listen, why don’t we do this?

(Speaker 1)
Why don’t we put it out to all the amazing Reawaken people, all the people who supported us all around the country, all around at every one of these conferences who adore your family. We’ve got to beat The New York Times. The New York Times is going to do everything they can. Even though we’re number one on Amazon right now, we just hit number one this morning. New York Times is going to do everything they can to keep you from being number one bestseller. You know that.

(Speaker 17)
I know that.

(Speaker 1)
You know the games that they’re willing to play. But Clay goes, why don’t we do a couple of things? First of all, love having dinner with Clay. He’s the greatest. Second of all, why don’t we bring one of the amazing people that I guarantee you I’ve been in front of at all these events? Why don’t we bring a couple to dinner at Mar -a -Lago?

(Speaker 1)
And I said, absolutely, consider it done. So I said, they have to text you, Clay. They can’t text me, because we’ll be getting 1 ,000 of these. But yeah, go buy a book. Text Clay. And we’ll set up a dinner.

(Speaker 1)
I’ll make sure you guys have the absolute time of your life. I want to pull this up again one more time here, Jackson. I think sometimes I’m a poor communicator, and I need to work on communicating more effectively.

(Speaker 15)
So you go to Amazon.

(Speaker 1)
That’s step one, OK? Yes.

(Speaker 2)
You buy a copy of the book, Pop Quiz.

(Speaker 1)
What book? Under Siege. You buy a copy of Under Siege, and then you screenshot a picture of that, and you text my phone number. It’s 918 -851 -0102. Folks, that is my cell phone number. So we’ll keep that private between you and me and everybody.

(Speaker 1)
And then when you text that to me, you have a chance to win a backstage pass to the actual end. business workshop. That’s a business growth workshop, December 4th and 5th, featuring Eric Trump in Anaheim, California. and you have a chance to win dinner with Eric Trump and myself at Mar -a -Lago. Now, someone says, when does this contest end? Now, Eric, your birthday was hijacked, OK?

(Speaker 1)
So your birthday was hijacked. January 6th is this man’s birthday. He now has to switch his birthday because no one wants to talk about his birthday on January 6th anymore. So we’re going to run this promotion until November 5th. That’s my birthday. No, no.

(Speaker 1)
So we’re going to run it until October 14th. October 14th. It has to be pre -sale. This just in. It has to be between October 14th. That’s why we’re clarifying.

(Speaker 1)
So between now and October 14th. October 14th.

(Speaker 16)
Now, folks, let me just clarify this real quick here.

(Speaker 1)
So make sure I’m leaving you with some good clarity here. One, you buy a copy of Under Siege on Amazon. That’s the step one. Step two, you text a screenshot of that purchase to my cell phone number, 918 -851 -0102. Three, you have to do that before October 14th.

(Speaker 2)
Before October 14th, this just in, it has to be before October 14th. And you have a chance to win a backstage pass to the upcoming business workshop. You have a chance to have dinner with Eric Trump at Mar -a -Lago. And I want to tell you some benefits of buying the book. One, I’ve read the book. It’s incredible.

(Speaker 2)
father out there and you want to learn about mentoring your kids, it’s a great book. If you want to learn about American history, it’s a great book. If you want to make America great again, it is a great book. It’s a book you got to have. Now here is just a quick editor’s note. You do not have to buy a copy of Eric Trump’s book under siege to be entered into the drawing.

(Speaker 2)
Just text the number. All you have to do is just text the number 918 -851 -0102 and you will be entered into the drawing for a chance to win a copy of Eric Trump’s book, Under Siege, and a once -in -a -lifetime opportunity to hang out with Eric Trump and Clay Clark at Mar -a -Lago, and to win a backstage pass at the upcoming Thrivetimeshow . com two -day interactive business workshop. Again, Again, you do not have to buy a copy of the book to be entered into the drawing, but it would be great if you’d buy a copy of the book because that would make sense. However, that is all, and now back to the interview.

(Speaker 2)
Also, Eric, a final question here for you. You are donating a portion of the proceeds to support Charlie Kirk in his continued mission there. Could you tell us about that briefly there, and then we’ll let you get back to what you’re doing today, sir. Yeah, well, I was on with Benny Johnson. Benny Johnson was a great friend of Charlie Kirk’s, as you know, and you know Benny, and Benny’s a very good friend of mine, and you know, Cash Patel is a very good friend of mine, and was a very good friend of Charlie’s. you watch everybody that’s up on that stage every single day as they as they got to the bottom of exactly what happened and they brought justice to what happened or trying to bring justice to what happened.

(Speaker 2)
And it’s it’s it’s kind of unthinkable. But you know St. Jude and I talk a lot about St. Jude in this this book because that’s been you know fighting pediatric cancer has always been at you know a cornerstone of my life. But Charlie truly, truly, truly was the epitome of being under siege, not only in the movement that he helped create, but obviously in how his life was savagely taken. My book came out three days, two and a half days before Charlie’s assassination. You better believe he would have been the final chapter of this book as just another illustration of what these people will do at any cost. to try and win, because it’s who they are.

(Speaker 15)
It’s the not -so -tolerant left.

(Speaker 2)
And we can never let our voices be extinguished, Clay. You stood on that stage, as well as anybody I’ve ever seen stand on a stage. You did at Reawaken events all across the country, which you funded out of your back pocket, because you believed in America. You believed in a greater country. And you were on that stage every single day.

(Speaker 1)
You know I was on that stage with you every single day. And I was on the turning point stage with Charlie all the time. on stages across the country and three campaigns, I’ve stood on thousands of them, and honestly, they don’t want us to stand on that stage. That’s why they’re sending bullets from rooftops. They don’t want us to go out there with a bullhorn and have loud, independent thought.

(Speaker 1)
When they see these beautiful arenas full of kids and they’re cheering, they’re celebrating, they’re holding American flags, they don’t want that. And so they want to silence us.

(Speaker 2)
They want to silence our voice. That’s why they killed Charlie. That’s why they tried to kill my father. That’s why they sent 112 subpoenas to me. That’s why they wanted me in jail and my father in jail and Don in jail. That’s why they made up the hoaxes.

They wanted to see us destroyed and gone with no voice, with no money, with no company, with no political aspirations. Gone. And we can’t allow that to happen. And so we need to make sure that turning point continues. We need to make sure incredible patriots like you continue to spread sensical speech, pro -American values, pro -religious, pro -constitutional values. And that’s why I want to donate the funds to Turning Point.

I want to donate a portion of the funds to Turning Point, because we can’t allow anarchy to win, and we can’t allow voices to be deleted, and we need to keep Charlie’s legacy going. Eric Trump, thank you so much for joining us. Pastor Jackson, thank you so much for joining us. Absolutely. Eric, have a great day. We really do appreciate you.

Everybody go out there and buy that book, Undersea. Just not too early to buy your Christmas gifts. And if you have a Democrat in your family, buy them a copy as well. Eric Trump, take care. Thanks, guys. See you later.

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