jeremyb Posted July 31, 2017 Posted July 31, 2017 My name is Jeremy and I have listened to steph since about 2012 (Ron Paul days) and I did even go back and listen to the all of the older shows as well on my long drives to work that I used to endure so to say I am a grateful listener is an understatement. In the summer of 2014 I moved to my own tropical paradise and well I had become quite the nihilist so I think that was my motivation to get out of my old town. I started making major changes in my life. I quit smoking after 20 years (smoked since I was 12),.I quit drinking soda after 20 years. I started exercising again and in fact set out to get in the best shape of my life. Well there I was life was becoming very easy, I had everything I could ask for and being a single white male making just over six figures in my early 30s, life felt really easy like I had it all figured out for once but the realization that I am powerless to make a real difference in this world well that was really depressing. All be it I was accomplishing things in business, I really wanted to change things, I needed a legacy. So in winter 2014, I am listening to another gentleman call in on the call in show as I am longboarding on the beach one day and he is a nihilist as well, a very depressed one, he is frustrated he cant do anything to change this world and how he feels helpless and steph passionately tells the guy that you have to set an example by living your principles. This really inspired me so I started doing all I could to start to live the non-aggression principal, I mean really LIVE the non-aggression principle and set a powerful example for others. This show really was a big piece for me to finally really change my life and to create a legacy. Now here I sit the new father of a young boy who was not mutilated at birth who will never know what its like to have his mother or father hit him or nationalism or religion. One of the most powerful things I am doing to change the world and funnily enough the easiest thing I found to change most of you will find shocking , and many of you will get very defensive as its a touchy subject as it touches us deep in our psyche, the biggest impact I have made is in protesting societies abuse and killing of innocent animals by living as an example; I stopped eating all animals and I stopped buying animal products like leather and those tested on animals, yes its a little tricky sometimes and I find myself making excuses to be lazy about it frequently but its relatively easy to find alternatives to products made from the killing of innocent beings, you just really have to give a fuck and do your best and my best its only gotten better, of course it will never be perfect. For me the bottom line is that we can be happy and healthy without eating animals therefore killing them is needless, thus its an unnecessary act of aggression toward another. So I would like to encourage everyone just to make an effort to stop needlessly supporting factory farming, its difficult to change at first but its really easy once you make the change, I will never go back to my old ways. I watched an old youtube video in 2012 which steph mentioned he thought factory farms were horrible and that he was cutting out meant , never heard it mentioned again so am curious on how that is going? This is the video he says he became a vegetarian that I was thinking of:
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