Aug 28, 2026 · 39 min · 20 segments
Are you suffering from doomscrolling and headline anxiety? You aren't alone. Today, we are putting down the toxic news cycles to look at the big picture. John shares a practical guide on maintaining…
No, no, no. There's a real point in there because a quarter of the planet doesn't have access to clean drinking water.
Little kids all around the globe are dropping like flies, dying today because of waterborne illnesses that were completely preventable.
I get it that we take it for granted, but the whole point is, no, no, no, don't take it for granted.
And what we can do so easy in our hunt to get more and more stuff, we just completely blank out on bare necessities.
I think every time you open your refrigerator, you should say, behold, I am a king.
You can do three square meals a day and then glutton out if you wanted to with late night snacks.
Not like American hungry, like, you know, I skipped lunch and it's two o'clock, I need a snack.
Another thing, and this will round out just basic necessities, you got to shelter over your head.
If you're any type of student of history, guys, any type of student of history, regardless of what time period you visited, you know, ancient, medieval, Enlightenment time, industrial revolution, any time throughout all history and really anywhere on the globe, a commoner, it was such a brutal fight to just have these basic necessities.
No, no, no. There's a real point in there because a quarter of the planet doesn't have access to clean drinking water.
Little kids all around the globe are dropping like flies, dying today because of waterborne illnesses that were completely preventable.
I get it that we take it for granted, but the whole point is, no, no, no, don't take it for granted.
And what we can do so easy in our hunt to get more and more stuff, we just completely blank out on bare necessities.
I think every time you open your refrigerator, you should say, behold, I am a king.
You can do three square meals a day and then glutton out if you wanted to with late night snacks.
Not like American hungry, like, you know, I skipped lunch and it's two o'clock, I need a snack.
Another thing, and this will round out just basic necessities, you got to shelter over your head.
If you're any type of student of history, guys, any type of student of history, regardless of what time period you visited, you know, ancient, medieval, Enlightenment time, industrial revolution, any time throughout all history and really anywhere on the globe, a commoner, it was such a brutal fight to just have these basic necessities.
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