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- 0:00A racing thought was a runaway racing
- 0:03loop that was just unstoppable. All I
- 0:05could do was say, "I'm going to stop
- 0:07thinking about this." And then about 20
- 0:09seconds later, it's I'm right back to
- 0:12thinking about it. And so all of a
- 0:14sudden, I found found myself really
- 0:16taking 8 to 10 doses per day. Um, it
- 0:21gets expensive. You suddenly find
- 0:23yourself spending $500 to $1,000 a
- 0:26month. And I knew I had to get off of
- 0:28it.
- 0:29just felt I just felt numb like a robot,
- 0:32you know, just like a robot waiting to
- 0:34be activated. I I just want to think
- 0:37about nothing. That's when I found your
- 0:39product. Um, you know, I I can't say
- 0:43100% that it's the unwind, but I can say
- 0:47that this is my situation. Now,
- 0:53>> welcome back to Project Unwind. My name
- 0:55is James. I'm your host. Today we have a
- 0:57super cool guest, Glenn. For the
- 0:59audience who don't know who who you are,
- 1:01can you give us a bit of a background on
- 1:04what makes Glenn Glenn?
- 1:07>> Uh, hi. Well, my name is Glenn and um
- 1:09I'm excited to be here today. I'm a big
- 1:11fan of the Unwind product. Um, I uh work
- 1:16in the uh entertainment industry for
- 1:18many years. I was a host on Playboy um
- 1:21Spice Radio on SiriusXM
- 1:24and have really kind of hung around um
- 1:27both in Los Angeles and Las Vegas, the
- 1:29entertainment industry for quite a
- 1:31while.
- 1:33Have you been doing that for like as
- 1:36soon as you started your career or has
- 1:40things
- 1:42or or is this something that you kind of
- 1:44joined later in life or or I guess the a
- 1:46better question would be what was your
- 1:47was this your first job? No, you know, I
- 1:50was uh in corporate America from uh 1987
- 1:56or no, from 1989 through
- 2:00um 2001
- 2:04and there was quite a uh dot bubble.
- 2:07Many people don't remember it at this
- 2:09point, but 1999,
- 2:11you could just put a bunch of tech
- 2:14companies on a dart board and pick one
- 2:17and you would make a ton of money up
- 2:20until, of course, the bubble burst in
- 2:232000 and 2001. And so I was actually
- 2:27founder of a high-tech company in Dallas
- 2:30and Austin, Texas
- 2:32called Apperion.
- 2:34And uh we we made um data centers. Now
- 2:39back before data centers was a big
- 2:41thing, but we we we did web hosting for
- 2:43companies. Uh we were kind of an early
- 2:47uh provider of that. we had a different
- 2:48way of doing things than other companies
- 2:51had been doing it because because back
- 2:52then when you wanted to in um increase
- 2:56your internet bandwidth. Uh that
- 2:59actually meant that guys had to dig
- 3:01holes in the ground and put fiber in the
- 3:04ground to get you your more bandwidth.
- 3:07Today you just say, "Hey, I'd like to
- 3:11increase my bandwidth." And you know,
- 3:12you snap a finger, they hit a button,
- 3:14and you're good. But our company had a
- 3:17way of doing it that was much quicker
- 3:19than other companies. And so it it gave
- 3:21a lot of flexibility to companies that
- 3:24um needed they were expanding rapidly.
- 3:27So we did that and we were great at it
- 3:29until 2001 when the market the stock
- 3:32market kind of fell apart on everybody
- 3:35and it was a extremely stressful thing
- 3:38for me. I wish I had your product back
- 3:40then. But at the time of uh me leaving
- 3:44that company,
- 3:45>> I had a lot of companies that said,
- 3:47"Hey, you know, your skill set is
- 3:49raising money from corporate uh from
- 3:52investment bankers. Everybody needs a
- 3:55guy that can do that." So, I had a lot
- 3:57of offers to to stay in that industry.
- 3:59And I said, "No,
- 4:01I can't take it anymore. I can't handle
- 4:03that kind of stress." And uh I got in my
- 4:06car and drove to California with no real
- 4:10plan and just started hanging around. I
- 4:13actually went to Central Casting
- 4:15uh and and just said, "Hey, put me in
- 4:18some movies." Central casting is where
- 4:20you go to be an extra in movies.
- 4:22>> And so movies like Anger Management, for
- 4:26example,
- 4:27you could find me somewhere in there in
- 4:29a scene where Jack Nicholson is bouncing
- 4:32a basketball down a hall. I'm somewhere
- 4:34behind him or whatever. But by doing so,
- 4:37I got to know the industry and learn
- 4:40about
- 4:41um all of the business side of
- 4:44Hollywood. And so I I then bought into a
- 4:47talent agency and was was doing uh
- 4:51putting extras in movies. And so just
- 4:53one thing kind of led to another. I was
- 4:54a DJ at KCSN 88.5.
- 4:58I had a show called The Smok and Blues
- 5:00Show. Uh, and then some other things,
- 5:03other opportunities arose and, um, and
- 5:06then somewhere down the line, uh,
- 5:08Playboy Spice Radio was looking for a
- 5:11host to do some things and and, uh, I
- 5:13joined up with that and I ended up, um,
- 5:15doing several different radio gigs after
- 5:19that. Just, you know what, life is like
- 5:21a river. If you're willing to trust the
- 5:26Lord above you, you can just jump into
- 5:28the river like you're on a raft and
- 5:30float and see where it takes you.
- 5:32>> I feel like I don't think like anything
- 5:35in life is like wasting time. I feel
- 5:37like things always build to the next.
- 5:39You just kind of don't know what's
- 5:41happening in that next um uh chapter of
- 5:44your life, but then whatever skill sets
- 5:47you learn, it's it's somehow going to
- 5:50play into it. is I'm a Christian too, so
- 5:52I believe everything in life happens for
- 5:54a reason. Um,
- 5:56>> absolutely.
- 5:56>> But
- 5:58when you said we're going through that
- 6:01bubble burst and you had all that
- 6:03stress, is this kind of like where your
- 6:05mental health journey started or is
- 6:07there a different starting point?
- 6:10>> Uh, well, it was a big part of it. I
- 6:12mean, it was that was the point in time
- 6:14where I realized that I needed more help
- 6:18than just um reading books on how not to
- 6:21be stressed out. Um you know, that was a
- 6:25tough we were dealing, we're talking
- 6:26about hundreds of millions, even really
- 6:28a billion dollars of of corporate
- 6:31valuation at the time. And when the
- 6:35market crashed, you know, like at the
- 6:38time,
- 6:39investment bankers, whatever,
- 6:41stockholders, uh, our board of
- 6:43directors, no matter what company you
- 6:44work for, they were trying to get you to
- 6:47increase the price of the stock. Um, and
- 6:51I remember I would get up at the the
- 6:53board meetings and say, "Listen, guys,
- 6:57this is going to lead to disaster at
- 6:59some point. You can't make business
- 7:01decisions on increasing the price of the
- 7:04stock without uh worrying about
- 7:06profitability first. You you just can't
- 7:10do that. That's unsustainable.
- 7:12But our guys would say, well, you what
- 7:15we need to do to increase the price of
- 7:17stock is get another round of financing.
- 7:18And in order to get another round of
- 7:20financing, you need to announce that you
- 7:23pick up any buzzword of the time. um you
- 7:27know application hosting suddenly was I
- 7:29can't remember what the buzzword was but
- 7:31you know the board of directors would
- 7:32say let's start up a division of the
- 7:34company to do application hosting
- 7:38and I would say but we're not
- 7:40uh our core competency is physical
- 7:43server hosting let's be the best in the
- 7:45world at that first and they would say
- 7:48no no that's completely wrong you need
- 7:50to go into something else before you
- 7:53know just don't even worry about that
- 7:55other part of the business, going to the
- 7:56next part of the business so that we can
- 7:58do a big press release announcing all
- 8:00this stuff so that the price of the
- 8:01stock would shoot up. And I knew that we
- 8:05were doing something that was going to
- 8:06end up getting us in big trouble, you
- 8:09know, just in terms of of
- 8:10sustainability. And so I sat there
- 8:13saying, you know, so this was stressful
- 8:15for me.
- 8:16>> Uh, and I I don't know if that's the
- 8:19time I started on Xanax. probably not at
- 8:23that point, but I do remember going to
- 8:27herbal uh store and I can't remember
- 8:31what pills they gave me, but they, you
- 8:34know, I I started trying all kinds of
- 8:36alternative
- 8:37uh uh pills to try to learn to relax and
- 8:41not let my mind loop. Because what
- 8:43happens is is that if you got an
- 8:46overactive mind like myself, you're
- 8:48going to get stuck on a problem and
- 8:51you're going to keep looping through it
- 8:52over and over and over again
- 8:55>> all night.
- 8:56>> Yeah. Yeah.
- 8:58>> And you need something. I mean, look, no
- 8:59matter whether it's a legal drug or an
- 9:01illegal drug, what everyone is trying to
- 9:03give you is something that turns off the
- 9:06little voice in your head or quiets it
- 9:08down and lets you stop looping on
- 9:12things. So,
- 9:14um, you know, that was, but at the time
- 9:16I thought herbal was a better way to go
- 9:18than than getting, uh, addicted to
- 9:20Xanax. And now I remember how that
- 9:22worked out cuz I remember seeing a
- 9:24psychiatrist and they immediately wanted
- 9:26to load me down with, um, prescriptions.
- 9:30And I was I was thinking to myself, so
- 9:33this is just going to be an addiction.
- 9:35And I I didn't want to go. I wish I
- 9:36could remember though what they were
- 9:38giving me at the herbal store because it
- 9:40didn't really work.
- 9:43I I think back in the day, supplements,
- 9:46uh
- 9:49whatever you saw on the label didn't
- 9:51always match what you took. So, I I know
- 9:54that was a problem back in the days, but
- 9:56now there's just so much more because
- 9:57the supplement business has grown so
- 9:59much. There's so much more scrutiny, so
- 10:01much more information
- 10:03outside on like what does what. So, it's
- 10:06um a lot of the supplements now there's
- 10:08like brands like Thorn that like have
- 10:10like really really high quality
- 10:12supplements, but I've I've heard like
- 10:15back then it wasn't like that. Which is
- 10:17why there's that there's still that
- 10:19stigma that supplements are just all
- 10:22talk, no walk is complete BS.
- 10:27>> You don't know what you're getting until
- 10:28you try it. Yes. Um but I remember like
- 10:30Valyan root
- 10:32>> for sleeping. Um, what's the one that
- 10:36everyone now uses? Um, that slips my
- 10:39mind, but uh, you know, there are
- 10:42variety of sleeping things that you can
- 10:44take that are made from roots and
- 10:46whatevers, and none of them really
- 10:48helped me very much. But, but you make
- 10:50the point that back then, nobody was
- 10:53regulating this stuff. So if you decided
- 10:56valyan root was the solution, you didn't
- 10:59really know whether you were getting uh
- 11:01what dosage you were getting of Valyrian
- 11:03root even if it said 200 milligrams. I
- 11:06mean it's you know depending on how pure
- 11:09the the 200 milligrams was.
- 11:12>> Yeah.
- 11:12>> But melatonin is the other one that you
- 11:14know now everybody uses melatonin,
- 11:16right? But
- 11:17>> yeah,
- 11:19>> but back then we were just experimenting
- 11:21with stuff and not really realizing what
- 11:23was going to work and what wasn't. I
- 11:24think I remember melatonin just made me
- 11:26feel really groggy the next morning.
- 11:30>> You know, fun fact with melatonin, you
- 11:31actually have to take it about 90
- 11:33minutes to two hours before bed because
- 11:36it takes time for it to like break down.
- 11:39Um so, so when I go traveling or if I
- 11:42know that so I try to take it early to
- 11:45help I mean you still get a bit of the
- 11:46groggginess but then it helps prevent um
- 11:50lessen the groggginess.
- 11:52>> Yeah.
- 11:53Uh, that's good to know. Actually, I'll
- 11:55have to keep that in mind. So, I do have
- 11:57a product here that is a melatonin mix
- 12:01that I take some nights. The other
- 12:03interesting thing is compounding now,
- 12:05right? Is that um all of these herbal
- 12:08supplements, whereas they used to give
- 12:09you one thing, nowadays they'll give you
- 12:12something that's got 10 different um 10
- 12:16different substances all compounded
- 12:18together. And then you really don't know
- 12:20what you're getting. and and you don't
- 12:22know whether maybe eight of the 10
- 12:26things helps you and then two of the
- 12:28things you have a bad reaction to.
- 12:33>> You mentioned something about that
- 12:35wasn't the time when I started Xanax. Do
- 12:37you remember what was going on when you
- 12:40actually decided to jump over to
- 12:42prescription meds?
- 12:44Um, that happened in
- 12:50probably 2010 or so. Um, I was living in
- 12:54California and expenses just got crazy.
- 12:58I feel bad for anyone who lives in
- 13:00California.
- 13:02Uh, you do you live in California?
- 13:04>> I just moved out from there. I lived
- 13:07there my whole life. I moved out this
- 13:09year, March. So, it hasn't even been a
- 13:11year yet.
- 13:12So, here's the problem with California.
- 13:14The biggest problem in California is
- 13:16that state legislature is a full-time
- 13:18job there. You know, just for comparison
- 13:20purposes, in Nevada, where I live in Las
- 13:23Vegas, the state legislature meets once
- 13:25every two years. California, it's a
- 13:29full-time job. And not only that, but in
- 13:31Los Angeles, they have the county
- 13:33commissioner job. Um, I believe there
- 13:36are eight of them. and they drive around
- 13:38in limousines and they have sort of an
- 13:42unlimited secret budget. And the bottom
- 13:45line is that if you are in California
- 13:49um and you want a law passed, there's
- 13:51always somebody willing to take a bag of
- 13:53cash and who can put that law in front
- 13:56of the state legislature immediately.
- 13:59And so they end up passing if if you
- 14:03know if if they have a problem
- 14:05that they need they think they need a
- 14:07solution for the solution is always
- 14:08going to be pass some laws and the then
- 14:11the end of those laws that they pass is
- 14:13always going to end up being we need a
- 14:15permit to for people to do what they
- 14:17want to do plus an inspection period
- 14:20etc. So I was working in my
- 14:23entertainment jobs at the time doing
- 14:24film making and my costs had risen
- 14:29uh from tripled probably and suddenly a
- 14:34guy who had been successful from 2003
- 14:38until 2010 was just making money
- 14:40handover fist was suddenly struggling
- 14:43with how do I make my expenses um less
- 14:47than my incoming revenue and the The
- 14:50stress took me to the point where I had
- 14:52a great doctor. I love the guy a lot.
- 14:54And he said, you know, listen, your
- 14:56problem is you got an overactive brain.
- 14:59If you want to take Xanax for when you
- 15:01have um sort of panic attacks, anxiety,
- 15:04etc., this will help you. And so I
- 15:07started taking Xanax. And you know,
- 15:092010, like the problem with all this
- 15:12stuff is that we don't really know the
- 15:13long-term effects of something until
- 15:15it's been a long term.
- 15:17>> Mhm. and and back then doctors could
- 15:20prescribe stuff without really asking a
- 15:23lot of questions. And so he gave me um
- 15:27Xanax and Somas because I had a um hip
- 15:32bcitis problem
- 15:34>> um because I was taking martial arts and
- 15:37the the my legs my hips just couldn't
- 15:41take all of the things that we were
- 15:42doing in these shaolin campo classes.
- 15:44And so
- 15:45>> the doctor was happy to prescribe stuff.
- 15:47But soon I found myself taking um Xanax
- 15:50and Soma
- 15:52which was uh you know it was okay it was
- 15:56great I don't know bad or good but they
- 15:59stopped letting doctors do that.
- 16:00Nowadays a doctor cannot prescribe soma
- 16:03without a lot of work. You have to have
- 16:06a code that they change like every week.
- 16:09Um, so I mean almost, yeah, it's a lot
- 16:12that they put into preventing people
- 16:14from getting somas, which is a muscle
- 16:16relaxer.
- 16:18>> Okay.
- 16:18>> Xanaxes are a little bit easier, but
- 16:21it's a controlled substance. And so you
- 16:23have to go to a licensed psychiatrist to
- 16:25get it. You can't just get Xanax from
- 16:26your regular doctor most of the time,
- 16:29>> or so I'm told.
- 16:32>> So I did become a Xanax addict.
- 16:36>> Oh, got it.
- 16:38And
- 16:39Well, have you So, it's been a few
- 16:42almost two decades since since then. Has
- 16:47are are you would you still consider
- 16:49yourself like a Xanax addict or is was
- 16:52that like something in the past?
- 16:55>> That's in the past. Um although I did
- 16:57take Zenex for a long time until I
- 17:00started taking um I've got a lot of I've
- 17:01got a lot of friends who are pro
- 17:02wrestlers and some of my pro wrestling
- 17:05friends recommended I start trying
- 17:08and I started taking instead of the
- 17:11Xanax and that was I think a pretty good
- 17:15thing for a while.
- 17:17Um, I was taking cratom uh cratom and
- 17:21cava in a little shot bottle thing that
- 17:24they would give me and
- 17:28>> uh
- 17:29I can't remember if it was blue maybe.
- 17:32Yeah, it was a darker color.
- 17:34>> Yeah.
- 17:36>> So, that was that product actually
- 17:38worked out pretty well for me. um until
- 17:41they started coming out with derivatives
- 17:43of cratom that were much more powerful
- 17:46uh which is 7-0.
- 17:49I don't know if you're familiar with
- 17:50that.
- 17:51>> I am.
- 17:52>> I am now. I am now just because I didn't
- 17:55know what it was. Uh if you spoke to me
- 17:58one year ago from today, I wouldn't have
- 18:00known what it was. But I I had one
- 18:02customer mention it, mentioned Kratom
- 18:05and then I kind of and then his podcast
- 18:08reached um I guess with the algorithm it
- 18:11reached like the creative community and
- 18:13then someone tried it for 70 and then
- 18:16I've been ever since then just because
- 18:19the algorithm is is scary like that I've
- 18:22been getting more and more people
- 18:23texting me about like hey like I I've
- 18:26been using your product to help with um
- 18:29aquariums have no wage or There's like
- 18:31products called like MGM stuff like
- 18:33that. Yes.
- 18:34>> And then I've been hearing it more and
- 18:36more often.
- 18:37>> Um and it's kind of Yeah. I mean it's
- 18:42it's and I' I've been hearing the
- 18:43stories of like of people going through
- 18:46those brutal with withdrawals when
- 18:48trying to get off.
- 18:49>> Yeah. I mean so the good news is that
- 18:54works um you know and 70 works even
- 18:57better. Uh the bad news is that they're
- 19:00highly addictive or at least um 708 is
- 19:03much worse than cratom. Regularratom is
- 19:06pretty darn good. I should have just
- 19:08stuck with that. But as they started
- 19:10coming out with better versions, I was
- 19:12like, "Hey, let's see what this one
- 19:14does."
- 19:15>> And so that was like a couple of years
- 19:17ago. I started on 70.
- 19:20And in the beginning especially, it was
- 19:22fantastic. But
- 19:26uh look, I think all drugs should be
- 19:28legal. I'm a libertarian. I uh think
- 19:30people make their own decisions. So I
- 19:32made my own choices. But uh the
- 19:36companies that are selling you these
- 19:37products
- 19:39sort of encourage you to keep bumping up
- 19:42your dosage and and you know, they do it
- 19:44sort of subtly just by basically saying,
- 19:46"Oh, you bought 30 milligram dosages
- 19:48last time. uh you know, here's a special
- 19:51for um we can give you 100 milligram
- 19:53dosage and we recommend that you cut
- 19:56them up into four pieces, but you're
- 19:59going to get a much better price break
- 20:00if you do 100. And in fact, usually I
- 20:03would order 30s and then somewhere in
- 20:06the package they would go, here's a free
- 20:09300 mgram pill, which is insane. um you
- 20:14know, but if you took that 300 milligram
- 20:16pill, all of a sudden 30 milligram is
- 20:18going to seem like nothing to you. And
- 20:21so then you're like, well, you know, 30
- 20:23milligram pills doesn't do it for me
- 20:24anymore. I got to buy the 60s and 70s
- 20:26and hundreds and so on. And in fact,
- 20:29suddenly, like you'd go to the store and
- 20:32you wouldn't even be able to find your
- 20:3430 milligram pills anymore. Suddenly,
- 20:36you know, everything that popped up on
- 20:38the page would be 80, 90, 100
- 20:40milligrams. And so I've read all kinds
- 20:42of horror stories about people who, you
- 20:46know, started taking 30 milligrams once
- 20:48in a while who ended up taking 1,500 or
- 20:532,000 milligs per day of this stuff. And
- 20:56that's where the problem is because if
- 20:59you could stay I mean I'll get to I
- 21:01guess you know the rest of my story and
- 21:04where I am at with that now but if you
- 21:07can um control your usage of 70 then
- 21:12you'll find it's a pretty good product
- 21:14for anxiety and um uh it also kind of
- 21:19regulates your digestion.
- 21:22uh it gives you uh it's mood uplifting
- 21:25is a great product except for that it
- 21:28turns out this is what the big part we
- 21:30didn't really know back in the beginning
- 21:32is that cratom is just something that
- 21:34comes from a leaf 70 is when they take
- 21:36that cratom put it in a laboratory and
- 21:38create a synthetic opioid
- 21:42>> and once you start getting addicted to
- 21:44that synthetic opioid you're pretty much
- 21:47the same as being addicted to oxycottton
- 21:50or or vicodin
- 21:52And the funny thing about that is that
- 21:54people are you are using 70 to get off
- 21:58of their addiction to Vicodins and
- 22:01Oxycottton.
- 22:03But now you have a new addiction.
- 22:07>> How great if you're very disciplined and
- 22:10you say, "Well, great. I'm going to use
- 22:12this in small doses." But once you start
- 22:15upping and upping and upping your usage,
- 22:17you get into trouble. And if you want,
- 22:19I'll talk now about how I did get into
- 22:21trouble. I ended up becoming um addicted
- 22:24to 70 and then I had a real problem on
- 22:27my hand.
- 22:28>> I definitely want to hear that. I just
- 22:30had a quick question. I heard the
- 22:32tolerance for seven I never tried it
- 22:33myself. I was addicted to benzo um and
- 22:36alcohol and a few and a few other
- 22:38things. But then did you did your
- 22:42tolerance for 70 go up quickly? cuz I
- 22:44heard it went up like the like if you
- 22:46started with 30s if you continue 30s for
- 22:49a month the 30s would not work even if
- 22:50you did not go up it wouldn't work the
- 22:52same way it would last shorter so then
- 22:55you would end up needing more that's
- 22:57what I've heard from a few other
- 22:59customers is that the experience that
- 23:01you had
- 23:02>> that may be the case um
- 23:05>> because I found myself taking more and
- 23:07more per day is the problem it's like at
- 23:11first I was like oh I'll just take one
- 23:13pill per day. Um, but when that pill
- 23:17doesn't last very long, then yeah, you
- 23:19want to take another pill. So maybe
- 23:21you're right that it's not so much the
- 23:22tolerance was the problem. It's the the
- 23:24halflife on the thing. It's, you know,
- 23:27you would take it initially was, you
- 23:28know, it gives you 4 hours, but then all
- 23:31of a sudden you're you're not feeling it
- 23:33after 1 hour or two hours, so you take
- 23:36one. And so all of a sudden I found
- 23:38found myself really taking eight to 10
- 23:42doses per day.
- 23:46>> At which point I realized I had a
- 23:47problem.
- 23:49>> How many milligrams is that? Like um
- 23:52>> so that depends on the person and that's
- 23:54the difference between me and a lot of
- 23:55people. But my uh my 10 doses let's say
- 24:00added up to
- 24:02um maybe 3 to 400 milligrams per day.
- 24:05>> Wow.
- 24:06Yeah, but you know, again, you gota it
- 24:09depends on what you compare it to. A lot
- 24:11of people were taking 1,500 milligrams
- 24:14per day.
- 24:15>> So then when you get to the question of
- 24:17when you realize you have a problem and
- 24:19you say, you know, 10 doses per day, and
- 24:23by the way, the math um it gets
- 24:25expensive. You suddenly find yourself
- 24:27spending $500 to $1,000 a month. And you
- 24:30know, most people can't afford that. But
- 24:34you know, you realize one day that Yeah.
- 24:36I started, you know, I remember started
- 24:39taking one first thing when I got up in
- 24:40the morning cuz I'm 57
- 24:44years old. Am I 58? I don't know.
- 24:49I try not to think about it, but I'm I'm
- 24:50late 50s and uh you wake up with a lot
- 24:54of back pain and I go I hike over a
- 24:57thousand miles a year and I like to take
- 24:59hiking.
- 25:00>> Yeah. Oh, sure. Yeah. Great. Great. And
- 25:02thank God that the weather changed last
- 25:05week
- 25:06>> to the point where I could start hiking
- 25:08again with my dog. And I was atund
- 25:12148 pounds at the beginning of last week
- 25:16and I'm now down to 141 just from one
- 25:19week of going back to my routine of
- 25:21hiking every day.
- 25:23Hiking is really good for you. Um,
- 25:25>> and you live in Nevada, so you only have
- 25:28a few months where you can hike because
- 25:30in in the summer when it's like over
- 25:32hundreds, it's that's
- 25:34>> Yeah,
- 25:34>> that's brutal.
- 25:35>> Okay, but that's a misperception that a
- 25:37lot of people have about Nevada. Um,
- 25:39it's kind of the other way around. You
- 25:40have three months of the year where you
- 25:43cannot hike. Um, not with a dog at
- 25:45least. Uh, June, July, August. Usually
- 25:49September things cool down enough so
- 25:52that you're good to go again. This was
- 25:54an unusual year. Our entire September
- 25:57was was over 85°.
- 26:00Um, and so, so 4 months out of this
- 26:04year, we're gone. But we get 8 months.
- 26:06That's unbelievably great weather. And,
- 26:09and to me, I noticed this the other day.
- 26:12I had forgotten how great it was cuz the
- 26:14temperature was about 55°. I was bundled
- 26:17up. I went on a hike. It was cloudy out
- 26:20when I started, but then the sun came
- 26:21out and then I felt felt the rays of the
- 26:25sun coming down on me and and suddenly I
- 26:26stopped and looked up into the sky and
- 26:30said, "All right, I'm just going to stop
- 26:31here and let the the sunlight wash over
- 26:34me, you know, because you know in July
- 26:37you can't do that. You're going to burn
- 26:38to death if you stop and let the
- 26:39sunlight wash over you." But I two days
- 26:43ago I I stopped, let the sunlight wash
- 26:45over me, and I felt it's this incredible
- 26:47rush of joy and happiness.
- 26:50>> Um, so eight months out of the year here
- 26:52in Vegas, you can get that. You got a
- 26:54lot of great mountains to go to. You can
- 26:56also do it during the summer if you if
- 26:58you drive up to Mount Charleston where
- 27:00it's 30° um 30° lower usually. And so I
- 27:04do a lot of that. Um, but anyway, I I
- 27:08was taking 10 doses a day, 300 to to 400
- 27:11milligrams. And I knew I had to get off
- 27:13of it. And that is when I made a
- 27:17horrible decision because what I should
- 27:19have done is just tapered down. 400 mg
- 27:22is not so far that so far gone that you
- 27:26can't just taper off of it. At 1500
- 27:29milligrams, you're screwed. Or 1,000
- 27:31milligrams, you need to go to a
- 27:33provider. But I went to a tele medicine
- 27:37provider
- 27:39um and start and and got on a program of
- 27:42Suboxone. Familiar with Suboxone?
- 27:45>> Yes. It's kind of it's the uh people use
- 27:48it to get off opioids, but I heard it's
- 27:49been working really well for 70 as well
- 27:52with at least with the physical
- 27:53withdrawal side of things.
- 27:55>> Yeah. So, it works and essentially it is
- 27:58a um it it is an opioid
- 28:02uh I can't remember the other word but
- 28:05but anyway what it does is it you have
- 28:07opioid receptors in your body in your
- 28:09brain and if you're taking 10 doses a
- 28:13day of 70 your brain needs those opioid
- 28:18receptors to be hit 10 times a day and
- 28:21if it doesn't get it you start going
- 28:23through withdrawals you start your eyes
- 28:25tear up your nose gets kind of runny.
- 28:28Um, and then you start feeling kind of
- 28:30weird anxiety. So, you take suboxone and
- 28:33all you're doing is replacing the 70 or
- 28:37your oxycottton or whatever with uh with
- 28:41Suboxone and the Suboxone aderes to the
- 28:44the opioid receptors except for it
- 28:46doesn't get you high and then you don't
- 28:48have the cravings.
- 28:50Great. except for Suboxone has horrible
- 28:53side effects. And by the way, Suboxone
- 28:56appears to be more addictive than um the
- 29:0070 that you were addicted to in the
- 29:02first place. So once you start taking
- 29:04Suboxone, they tell you that you can't
- 29:06get off of it, not without months and
- 29:09months of a planned tapering and
- 29:12withdrawal.
- 29:14And that's the problem. But the problem
- 29:17I got into is that if you look at the
- 29:19list of side effects from Suboxone,
- 29:21>> crushing depression is one of the side
- 29:23effects. And you know, obviously
- 29:26different people get hit with different
- 29:27side effects, but I start things wrong
- 29:31with me from from the minute I started
- 29:33taking it. Like suddenly I had no
- 29:35personality at all. I went on a trip um
- 29:38a family reunion to Costa Rica and I sat
- 29:42there with no expression on my face the
- 29:45entire time not wanting to converse with
- 29:46people. Just felt I just felt numb like
- 29:49a robot, you know, just like a robot
- 29:52waiting to be activated.
- 29:54But but the worst part is that the
- 29:56depression started hitting me. And by
- 29:58the time I'd been on Suboxone for 10
- 30:00days, not talking about months here, 10
- 30:03days, I was ready to take my own life.
- 30:10Yeah, I just wanted to let that sink in
- 30:12for a second there. How bad Suboxone can
- 30:15be. 10 days and I've never had suicidal
- 30:18thoughts in my life before. But I was
- 30:20sitting there thinking, um, I can't take
- 30:23this. Like, everyone in the world hates
- 30:25me. I don't, you know, my life is
- 30:28miserable. Everything is wrong. I just
- 30:31don't care anymore. I just want to come
- 30:33up with a way of taking my own life. And
- 30:35I started changing my will and fixing
- 30:38things up to get to make sure that all
- 30:40the people in my life were taken care
- 30:42of. Uh but but I was, you know, suddenly
- 30:45ready to do that. And
- 30:48I don't remember who talked some sense
- 30:50into me, but I had some friends that
- 30:51were looking in on me. Certainly my
- 30:53brother was one of them. Uh and I
- 30:56decided to just stop taking the suboxone
- 30:58cold turkey.
- 31:00>> So I needed, you know, I just like I
- 31:02need to get off of it. And they tell you
- 31:07do not do that because you're going to
- 31:10have things that l that stick with you
- 31:12from the suboxone for months and months.
- 31:15Um I can't drink alcohol. This has been
- 31:17two months. I can't drink alcohol now
- 31:19without getting kind of a weird feeling
- 31:21like suddenly I'm angry and irritated.
- 31:24Um, so Suboxone's pretty tough, but you
- 31:27know, and I I was feeling withdrawal.
- 31:28And what I ended up doing was going back
- 31:31from
- 31:33Suboxone to very small dosages of 70,
- 31:37but that didn't cure my problem of
- 31:40depression. it, you know, the suboxone
- 31:43was still hitting me, but I was just
- 31:46dealing with the opioid receptor problem
- 31:48by instead of taking um 3 to 400
- 31:51milligrams of 70 per day, I was taking
- 31:5375. So, real small dosage. That's when I
- 31:58found your product and and I think I
- 32:03texted you. I mean, I got an ad from you
- 32:05guys on Instagram saying, "Hey, this is
- 32:08a product that helps people who are
- 32:10going through withdrawals, uh, I think
- 32:12was was the thing that caught my
- 32:13attention and I said, you know, I'm
- 32:16going through this through these
- 32:17withdrawals and this this mental health
- 32:20disorder right now, and I think your
- 32:22product mentioned that it's uplifting
- 32:24and um gives you some energy and some
- 32:27some mood benefits." So I started trying
- 32:30it
- 32:31and
- 32:33two it took two weeks but after two
- 32:36weeks suddenly I found I would take it
- 32:38with my morning smoothie and feel joy
- 32:41and happiness again and suddenly I was I
- 32:43was smiling again. Uh, so I mean I think
- 32:46your product had a huge effect on me
- 32:50because even though I had switched back
- 32:52off of the suboxone, the suboxone was
- 32:54still hitting me and giving me a lot of
- 32:56depression and and it was it was unwind
- 32:59that helped me climb out of that
- 33:01depression.
- 33:05>> I do want to do like one small
- 33:07clarification. Uh, when I actually
- 33:09created a mind, it I didn't have
- 33:11withdrawals in mind. It was just for my
- 33:13anxiety disorder just because I I get
- 33:16those racing thoughts just like you do.
- 33:18But it's like nonstop from the moment
- 33:21you wake up till even when you're trying
- 33:24to go to bed. Sometimes I even wake up
- 33:26in the middle of the night with the
- 33:27thoughts. And I do for over
- 33:32a decade and a half, I've been just like
- 33:35I I've been putting the tools, the
- 33:37meditation, the journaling, the
- 33:39exercise, clean diet, but then I just
- 33:41needed a little bit. Yeah.
- 33:42>> More and that's where the pride comes
- 33:44in.
- 33:44>> And I know
- 33:47>> like ever since that one podcast I had
- 33:50with the person who was trying to get
- 33:51off PRM and Xanax at that um at the same
- 33:55time
- 33:57and it's more and more people have been
- 34:00using us as a tool for for like creative
- 34:06related products. I I never intended it
- 34:09for it, but I guess it's just like it it
- 34:13kind kind of helped some people. Uh, and
- 34:15then I love to hear that it it did help
- 34:18you when you and
- 34:22it since then since you've started
- 34:25taking us is it's how how have are are
- 34:30you still getting like those bouts of
- 34:32like the depression or or what are some
- 34:34of the biggest things that's that has
- 34:35changed?
- 34:36>> Yeah. Well, and just to clarify your
- 34:39clarification, too, I texted you um at
- 34:42the beginning of this thing and said,
- 34:43"Hey, I I got your product and I'm gonna
- 34:46be using it to get off of 70." And you
- 34:48said
- 34:49>> you were very upfront and said that's
- 34:50not really what it's intended for.
- 34:53>> Um so, but I had seen like in Reddit
- 34:58forums or whatever that some people were
- 35:00using it for this. So, but the the issue
- 35:03here is that you've got the cravings and
- 35:06then you've got the um the depression.
- 35:09So, it's it's two different things that
- 35:11you're attacking here at the same time.
- 35:14No, your product does not really help me
- 35:16at least with the cravings. Um and I but
- 35:20I've been I've solved the cravings
- 35:21another way just by taking really small
- 35:23doses of 70.
- 35:25But the depression is what it helped
- 35:28with. So what unwind does for me is no,
- 35:32I'm not feeling depression most of the
- 35:33time. There are some days where I still
- 35:36just have too many things happen to me
- 35:38and I get, you know, a little bit
- 35:40overwhelmed. Um, but mostly the the
- 35:44unwind is a is a mood elevator for me.
- 35:47It's a mood enhancer. It it gives me a
- 35:50little bit of energy. It gives me a
- 35:52boost. And you know, part of um using a
- 35:56mood enhancer of any kind is that it's a
- 35:59it's a cooperative effort. If you don't
- 36:03if you take any kind of a mood
- 36:05enhancement pill except for, you know,
- 36:08cocaine, right? Um which I'm not
- 36:11recommending. I've never tried cocaine,
- 36:13but I'm just saying that um uh when you
- 36:16take any kind of a mood enhancement
- 36:18pill, you have to then say to yourself,
- 36:21I'm going to be happy. You have to smile
- 36:23until you're until you have to fake the
- 36:25smile until you're actually feeling the
- 36:27smile. You have to start forcing
- 36:29yourself to play a song on the radio
- 36:32that you like or on the radio on the
- 36:35whatever kids use these days. MP3 player
- 36:40>> Spotify.
- 36:41>> Spotify. So you're putting your song on
- 36:44Spotify and you got to start listening
- 36:45to it and feeling your groove. And then
- 36:48if you've got something that's enhancing
- 36:49your mood, it can it has something to
- 36:51enhance. And so
- 36:55um you know it's still up to you to do
- 36:57part of the work here. So I found that
- 37:00and again like you I tried meditation
- 37:02and uh a variety of different methods
- 37:05and I I still needed something on top of
- 37:07that. But unwind gives me that base
- 37:11inside me of there's a feeling of joy
- 37:14and happiness and and energy inside me
- 37:17that I need to tap into and I can do so
- 37:20by um you know starting to just smile or
- 37:24just you know dance around the room do
- 37:27something but it's there whereas before
- 37:30I was reaching for it in my head and not
- 37:32finding it. M
- 37:36>> you mentioned that like racing thoughts
- 37:39is something that you've had for for
- 37:40many many years now. Has have you seen
- 37:43any improvements in that area?
- 37:46>> Uh I think so. I I don't really have
- 37:50uh the racing thoughts or at least you
- 37:52know you know what it is is that
- 37:54sometimes I'll go into a racing thought
- 37:56mode and I'm able to turn it off now
- 37:58pretty easily. uh something enables me
- 38:01to just go, whoa, it's not I'm okay. I
- 38:06don't need to keep thinking about this
- 38:08and and then like I just can it's I can
- 38:11turn it off. Back in the old days
- 38:13though, a racing thought was a runaway
- 38:16racing loop that was just unstoppable.
- 38:19All I could do was say, "I'm going to
- 38:21stop thinking about this." And then
- 38:23about 20 seconds later, it's I'm right
- 38:26back to thinking about it. It was just
- 38:28an unstoppable loop. Now I find that I
- 38:32go, well, I need to stop focusing on
- 38:35this issue right now. And then I'm not
- 38:40like I I'm able to to to shut it off to
- 38:44the point where nothing is attacking me
- 38:46in my brain that way. Because you could
- 38:48think of it as like an attack, the
- 38:50racing thoughts. It's like something you
- 38:52shove away and it just comes right back
- 38:54at you. But um you know I I can't say
- 39:00100% that it's the unwind but I can say
- 39:04that this is my situation now is that I
- 39:06have a lot of situations where suddenly
- 39:09I have uh you know this week especially
- 39:12there have been a lot of problems I've
- 39:14had in my business life plus a couple of
- 39:16personal problems. You add this all up
- 39:18you find yourself really racing. And
- 39:21I've been amazed at how I've been able
- 39:23to just go, hm, let's just stop thinking
- 39:26about this for a few minutes and I'll
- 39:29just blink a couple of times and and and
- 39:33maybe control my breathing and then I'm
- 39:35not really stuck in that loop.
- 39:39So, I would say that your product has
- 39:41helped me with with the mind loop.
- 39:45I always make a joke that being able to
- 39:48because like anxiety and racing thoughts
- 39:50happens to everyone all eight billion
- 39:52people but then the normies like the
- 39:55normal people that's exact like how you
- 39:57described it of like they don't stay on
- 40:00it for hours that's that's how it's
- 40:02supposed to be but then for the smaller
- 40:05subset of people like us where our
- 40:07brains just maybe we're just a little
- 40:09bit more hyperactive than others
- 40:11>> we tend to stay in that loop So, it's
- 40:14just just like you like just cuz I take
- 40:16it by scoop of my mind doesn't mean
- 40:18anxiety and my racing thoughts magically
- 40:20vanish. But I'm able to
- 40:24see things more from a distance. It's no
- 40:26longer in the driver's seat and be
- 40:31>> more like a normie just
- 40:35>> seeing it from a distance is a great
- 40:37analogy there.
- 40:38>> Yeah. is that suddenly you can back away
- 40:43from it and see it as a
- 40:45compartmentalized problem as opposed to
- 40:47the thing that's dominating your mind.
- 40:49>> Yeah.
- 40:53>> Uh to to me it's just it's just
- 40:55sometimes being able to have nothing in
- 40:58my brain, you know, like sometimes you
- 41:01want to just go there's so much that is
- 41:04on my mind right now. I I just want to
- 41:07think about nothing. And that's what
- 41:08meditation is, right? Is that you're
- 41:10trying to think about nothing.
- 41:12>> I found over the last couple of weeks
- 41:14especially that I can
- 41:16>> just close my eyes and think about
- 41:19nothing for a second here and then
- 41:22there's there's silence. There's quiet.
- 41:25The voice isn't isn't attacking me.
- 41:29I love it. Do you what are some some of
- 41:33your now that you have unwind in your
- 41:36back pocket, do you have any goals you
- 41:39want to strive for professionally, pro
- 41:42professionally, personally, or just any
- 41:45other type of goal? Um, let's say in the
- 41:48next year or two,
- 41:50um, I'm kind of in a mode of being sort
- 41:54of close to retirement. Uh my industry
- 41:57is changing quite a bit, you know, due
- 41:59to AI and other things. Uh and I have
- 42:02been trying over the last year to train
- 42:05some people to be able to do some of the
- 42:08actual film production stuff that we do.
- 42:11I bought an RV,
- 42:14beautiful RV, and uh it's got a shower
- 42:17and a bathroom and uh two beds. Um one
- 42:21that's that pops up on top. Uh but it's
- 42:24still drivable for me cuz you know it's
- 42:26difficult for me to drive one of those
- 42:28big uh class C's. So this is a class B
- 42:31which is basically a van kicked out with
- 42:35um all kinds of great or tricked out
- 42:37with all kinds to it but it's got for
- 42:40example solar panels on the roof. Um
- 42:43it's got a generator built into it. Uh I
- 42:46had the batteries replaced with uh
- 42:48lithium batteries so that now I can last
- 42:51for weeks on this thing. refrigerator.
- 42:53Um, but right now my goal is to be able
- 42:55to spend more time up in the mountains
- 42:58and less time um at work. And
- 43:03to do that, you need to be able to smile
- 43:07and enjoy the mountains. And part of the
- 43:09problem was was that that's a big reason
- 43:12I was using 70. Um, I would take 70 and
- 43:16then and then go walk around the
- 43:17mountains and just be feeling like, wow,
- 43:20this is great. I'm just happy to be up
- 43:22here.
- 43:23>> Uh, you know, and again, I'm not telling
- 43:25people to I don't think 708 should be
- 43:27banned. I don't think people should
- 43:29necessarily stop using it. I just think
- 43:31that if you're going to use it, you need
- 43:33to have it under control and be
- 43:34disciplined about your usage of it. You
- 43:38It's going to work better for people. I
- 43:40I you know, if anybody is listening to
- 43:41this podcast who is using 70, um, cut
- 43:45down, man. This is what you got to do is
- 43:47you need to decide, I'm only going to
- 43:48take it three times a day. And then
- 43:50you'll find it actually works better for
- 43:52you if you um uh let it get out of your
- 43:57system first before you take your next
- 44:00dosage. So, you know, this isn't an
- 44:03advertisement for 70, but um
- 44:07uh but but I'm just saying that like so
- 44:09once I stopped taking the 70 and making
- 44:12my hike be all about me being on a drug,
- 44:17um I have the the unwind. And so I can
- 44:21take the unwind, get up in my RV in the
- 44:24morning, make my little smoothie, take
- 44:26my unwind, go for a walk out in the
- 44:29woods, and feel like I feel the joy and
- 44:33happiness. And I can tune out the things
- 44:36that are interfering with my joy and
- 44:37happiness. Cuz you're in touch with
- 44:39nature when you're out there. All you
- 44:41have to do is look around and start
- 44:43looking at, you know, wow, look at this
- 44:45beautiful plant that's out here. Or look
- 44:47at this little creature. I just saw a
- 44:48little creature pop its head up from
- 44:50somewhere or just look at the view. Um
- 44:53when you're up at Mount Charleston, the
- 44:54views are incredible there. And so you
- 44:57need a product that if you got the
- 44:59racing mind, you don't want to walk
- 45:01around out in the middle of the
- 45:02mountains thinking to yourself, "Oh man,
- 45:05but what about the problems? What about
- 45:07trying to make the payment that you owe
- 45:09on the um line of credit? Um, what about
- 45:12the uh, you know, the deadlines that you
- 45:14have coming up for the film production,
- 45:17the projects that I've agreed to? Uh,
- 45:19all those things. It's like, how do I
- 45:21put them out of my head? And and that's
- 45:24where your product helps quite a bit is,
- 45:26you know, you can take it and then um,
- 45:29be able to absorb things in a better
- 45:32light.
- 45:36I love it. I I live in Colorado now, so
- 45:39I'm surrounded by the mountains and then
- 45:42I just we just did a Keystone trip and
- 45:46um about a month ago and super pretty.
- 45:48There's just something about
- 45:50disconnecting yourself from the constant
- 45:52buzz and notifications.
- 45:54Like in the beginning you it's a little
- 45:56bit boring just because your brain has
- 45:57to adapt to the silence and the lack of
- 46:02pings in your life. But then as soon as
- 46:04it settles, it's just so peaceful. And I
- 46:07used to be a boy scout. I love that
- 46:08stuff.
- 46:09>> Yeah, that comes in handy. Colorado is
- 46:12one of the few places I would consider
- 46:14moving to, actually. What a beautiful um
- 46:18what a beautiful place. You're not going
- 46:20to run out of mountains and wildlife and
- 46:22nature to look out out there in
- 46:24Colorado.
- 46:25>> Yeah.
- 46:27Well, Glenn, I always like to wrap up
- 46:30this podcast with three speed round
- 46:32questions just to throw you some
- 46:33curveballs before I let you go about
- 46:35your day. You ready?
- 46:37>> Uh, yeah. I'm just I'm readying my hands
- 46:39here. Okay. Speed round. Speed round.
- 46:41Speed round. Let's go.
- 46:42>> Okay. All right. What is the dumbest
- 46:46thing you've ever spent your money on?
- 46:50Uh,
- 46:52I bought a water I was an investor in a
- 46:54water park uh back in 1999.
- 46:57The place never even got built. So,
- 47:00$20,000
- 47:01to $20,000. I don't even know why I
- 47:03thought this was going to be a
- 47:04profitable deal, but $20,000 I invested
- 47:06in a water park and never saw that money
- 47:08again.
- 47:10>> Oh, man.
- 47:14in let's say we're in a different
- 47:18universe like the spideyverse and if
- 47:21money wasn't a problem and you can
- 47:23choose any career you ever wanted do you
- 47:25think you would pursue the same career
- 47:27path or choose something different?
- 47:30>> I I would choose the same career path
- 47:32but if you forced me to choose a
- 47:33different career I would probably um uh
- 47:37work at an animal shelter.
- 47:42Lastly,
- 47:43>> or start an animal shelter. Yeah.
- 47:46>> I I guess a quick question about that.
- 47:47Do you think you do animals just on the
- 47:49cats and dogs, or would you do more like
- 47:51horses, maybe some um pigs and like kind
- 47:55of like a more exotic one? I guess
- 47:58horses aren't that exotic, but you know
- 48:00what I mean. Hey, I I've seen those Tik
- 48:02Toks of, you know, where somebody's got
- 48:04like emus mixed with chickens and and I
- 48:08like I like how the donkey on the farm
- 48:10always goes and defends the other
- 48:12animals. Um, but no, no, just give me
- 48:15dogs and cats. I would be uh just fine
- 48:18with with being running an animal
- 48:21shelter of uh of dogs and cats. There's
- 48:23so many dogs and uh and cats out there
- 48:26that need adoption, have been through
- 48:28terrible things. I've uh rescued my uh
- 48:31my dogs in my lifetime. I've had two
- 48:33dogs and three cats that have been
- 48:35rescued. And you can't really see it
- 48:38with the cats, but the dogs, you get to
- 48:40see them go through a transformation uh
- 48:43after they have been through something
- 48:44horrible in their life and then they get
- 48:46to see what it's like to have love. And
- 48:48my current dog is a Dutch shepherd,
- 48:50German Shepherd mix. And I when I got
- 48:53her, she was about 35 pounds and now
- 48:56she's 80 lbs. It's a lot healthier.
- 48:58>> But I mean, she was fully grown, but had
- 49:00been starved and was trying to survive
- 49:03uh out on the streets probably killing
- 49:05and eating um you know, prairie dogs or
- 49:08whatever out there wherever she was
- 49:10living. And uh you know, she had she
- 49:13would just when she saw another human,
- 49:15she would just put her head down and
- 49:16tail between her legs and try not to be
- 49:18noticed.
- 49:20And uh and now I have this absolutely
- 49:22wonderful goofy dog who every time a
- 49:26friend comes over uh you know I've got a
- 49:27friend staying with me right now and the
- 49:29dog sees her and she runs up to my
- 49:31friend and and uh sits and puts a paw
- 49:35out and uh just tries to get some
- 49:38attention and a treat and uh so I'm a
- 49:41big fan of rescues and I I' would stick
- 49:43to dogs and cats. That's plenty for me.
- 49:47>> I love it. Lastly, if you can go back in
- 49:50time and speak with younger Glenn and
- 49:52just kind of give him one life advice
- 49:56that you had to learn the hard way.
- 49:59How old is younger Glenn and what's the
- 50:01message?
- 50:04Uh
- 50:07uh you know the easy one is that back in
- 50:101999 I was worth about 30 million bucks.
- 50:15In 2001,
- 50:17I was worth about 20,000 bucks. Okay.
- 50:21So, the easy thing is to just go back in
- 50:24time and tell that Glenn, the $30
- 50:26million Glenn, that it's not going to
- 50:29get you're at your peak, man. So, you
- 50:31need to get um as much as you can uh out
- 50:34of the investments that you're in. Uh
- 50:36which was mainly the company that I had
- 50:38started. and uh uh you know you need to
- 50:41there or stock methods that you can do
- 50:44but honestly that's that's just um money
- 50:47and I don't know that that's really what
- 50:49I would say is the most important thing
- 50:50in life. So maybe I would go back to um
- 50:57uh 2010, Glenn, and say move out of LA
- 51:02now instead of waiting until 2016
- 51:06and you can you're going to be able to I
- 51:09mean I got pretty I got in at the right
- 51:10time. I have two houses here in Las
- 51:12Vegas and they've both appreciated quite
- 51:15a bit. But if I could have gotten here
- 51:17in 2010, I would have um my whole
- 51:20business would have been much more
- 51:21successful. I wouldn't have had to go
- 51:23through the kind of stressful times that
- 51:24I went through. Um
- 51:28uh like everything I could have been a
- 51:30lot happier person for that period of
- 51:33time and I would have loved to have seen
- 51:34Vegas grow up. From 2010 to 2016, Las
- 51:38Vegas went through quite a boom. And uh
- 51:42I would have loved to have been there at
- 51:43a little bit closer to the beginning of
- 51:45that boom. It it would have to be after
- 51:472008, you know, there was a uh a housing
- 51:50uh crash.
- 51:52>> So that's why I say 2010 is getting it
- 51:55right in after the housing crash would
- 51:57have been the perfect time to move here.
- 51:59I absolutely love Las Vegas. Um, I I say
- 52:02I want to retire, but I'm already here
- 52:04in the place that I want to retire to.
- 52:07And so I just wish I'd gotten here a
- 52:09little earlier.
- 52:13If once I set up like our uh
- 52:18manufacturing here in Colorado and it's
- 52:20fully functioning by itself, my goal is
- 52:22to either set up our like desk like
- 52:26office in Vegas or in Texas. So
- 52:31yeah, I love Vegas, too.
- 52:33>> Yeah. Two, those are two places that
- 52:35don't have a state income tax. So,
- 52:37>> exactly.
- 52:38>> You're good there. But of course, in
- 52:39Texas, they have all these new
- 52:41anti-marijuana laws. And who knows if
- 52:43they will have an anti-Hemp laws. So, I
- 52:46think if you're going to do that, you'll
- 52:48probably end up here. And please make
- 52:50sure you let me know so that we can go
- 52:52hiking sometime.
- 52:54>> Sounds good. Well, Glenn, I really
- 52:56appreciate you hopping on and sharing
- 52:58your story and for the audience. If you
- 53:01guys have any questions for him, leave a
- 53:03comment down below. I'll bug him with
- 53:05some text and try to get some answers
- 53:06for you guys. But yeah, thanks so much
- 53:09for hopping on.
- 53:11>> I'm very happy to do so. Um, to everyone
- 53:14out there, again, I don't I'm not
- 53:16ashamed to say it. I I was um suicidal
- 53:20and the Unwind product helped me come
- 53:22out of that unscathed. So, I really
- 53:26recommend you try it and give it a
- 53:28couple of weeks. Don't just um give up
- 53:31on it after a few days cuz it does take
- 53:33a couple of weeks to to hit you. So,
- 53:36thank you very much for having me on. I
- 53:38appreciate the opportunity to be able to
- 53:39talk to people and tell my story. And
- 53:41again, yeah. Yeah. if people ask your
- 53:44questions. Um, I'm sure there will be a
- 53:46lot of people that want to know how
- 53:48about usage of 70 combined with unwind
- 53:51and how I do it. So, I I'll go on there.
- 53:53You tell me where to go and I'll go on
- 53:55there and uh and respond to everybody.
- 53:58>> Thank you, Glenn. Well, that's it
- 54:00everyone. I'm wishing you all a healthy
- 54:03and happy day. Peace.