WEBVTT 00:06.450 --> 00:11.870 Hi, it's Mike and Alan again with some great wishes for your future during this Thanksgiving. 00:12.270 --> 00:13.090 Alan, how are you doing? 00:13.590 --> 00:14.190 I'm great, Mike. 00:14.430 --> 00:14.550 Thanks. 00:14.830 --> 00:15.290 Happy Thanksgiving. 00:15.790 --> 00:16.150 How are you? 00:16.790 --> 00:17.910 I'm doing fine. 00:18.550 --> 00:24.670 And yes, I'm going to spend Thanksgiving with some friends and big turkey and I'm making 00:24.670 --> 00:30.570 some mashed potatoes and yams and stuff like that as my contribution. 00:30.570 --> 00:36.070 And so, yeah, I've got a lot to look forward to it should be great. 00:36.550 --> 00:36.990 Amazing. 00:37.970 --> 00:38.290 Nice. 00:38.530 --> 00:42.550 Well, I wanted to take a minute and just express some of the things that I'm grateful for. 00:43.010 --> 00:45.070 You know, it's that time of the year. 00:45.450 --> 00:48.470 So if you don't mind, I have a big list. 00:48.610 --> 00:52.630 I narrowed it down to five things that I'd like to share with you and with our audience, 00:52.890 --> 00:54.210 things that I'm grateful for. 00:54.610 --> 00:56.290 If that's okay with you. 00:56.910 --> 00:57.270 Yeah. 00:58.050 --> 00:58.670 All right. 00:58.670 --> 01:03.870 First of all, the essentials, the absolute essentials, food, water, clothing, shelter, 01:04.470 --> 01:07.870 electricity, abundant energy and the breath of life. 01:08.750 --> 01:09.910 So every day is a gift. 01:10.150 --> 01:15.190 And I try to remember that multiple times every single day, just thankful to be alive. 01:15.710 --> 01:17.530 So that's really the starting point. 01:18.090 --> 01:18.930 I appreciate it all. 01:19.510 --> 01:23.070 I'm thankful for the people, family, friends, colleagues. 01:23.870 --> 01:28.770 This is my home, my partner, my dog, my cat. 01:29.350 --> 01:31.510 And this photo was taken in Mexico. 01:32.210 --> 01:35.630 We were on a road trip and everyone was really hot, crammed in the car. 01:35.970 --> 01:37.670 And we tried to take a selfie. 01:37.930 --> 01:40.330 It took like 10 tries and then we finally got this one. 01:41.370 --> 01:42.590 Everyone's just looking at it. 01:42.590 --> 01:47.190 That was back when we first started working together then during your Mexico trip. 01:47.470 --> 01:47.690 Yes. 01:47.870 --> 01:48.530 That was 2019. 01:49.630 --> 01:50.030 Okay. 01:50.030 --> 01:53.490 This is one of my favorite photos of all time. 01:53.750 --> 01:55.190 A lot of memories behind it. 01:55.470 --> 01:55.910 Okay. 01:56.450 --> 01:56.890 Awesome. 01:57.790 --> 02:00.330 And this is a friend of mine who invited me to India. 02:00.570 --> 02:03.090 And this is a friend who we met in India, just a random guy. 02:03.210 --> 02:06.930 And I still talk to him very regularly, almost once a week. 02:07.150 --> 02:08.590 And that was over a year ago. 02:08.890 --> 02:11.050 So made some good friends there. 02:11.270 --> 02:14.930 And then of course, you and me from Puerto Rico earlier this year. 02:15.170 --> 02:17.730 I can't remember if that was April, but yeah, that was this year. 02:17.730 --> 02:18.030 Yeah. 02:19.010 --> 02:21.550 Very thankful for all the people in my life. 02:22.530 --> 02:24.290 I'm also thankful for my country. 02:25.110 --> 02:27.910 I think the United States of America is the greatest country in the world, 02:27.910 --> 02:30.850 especially when we follow our founding principles. 02:32.050 --> 02:36.310 It's the greatest source of prosperity for everybody when we stick to those 02:36.310 --> 02:36.750 principles. 02:37.430 --> 02:41.570 And sadly, when we deviate from them, it can be a great source of suffering 02:41.570 --> 02:42.390 for many people. 02:42.730 --> 02:44.210 So anyways, I love my country. 02:44.210 --> 02:45.790 Very fortunate to be born here. 02:45.930 --> 02:47.090 Very fortunate to live here. 02:47.750 --> 02:51.990 And very fortunate to be able to embody those principles to the best of my 02:51.990 --> 02:53.310 ability every day. 02:54.770 --> 02:57.630 This might sound weird, but I'm very thankful for money. 02:57.850 --> 02:59.070 Just the fact that it exists. 02:59.610 --> 03:00.630 Gold, silver, Bitcoin. 03:01.610 --> 03:04.950 And as I put this together, I was reminded of a quote and I forget who said 03:04.950 --> 03:05.150 it. 03:05.410 --> 03:08.690 Money is valuable because of the risks you don't take. 03:09.370 --> 03:13.170 When you don't have money, when you're stuck using currency and when 03:13.170 --> 03:16.850 you feel the purchasing power deteriorate on a daily basis or a 03:16.850 --> 03:21.010 monthly basis, you're forced to take risks that you otherwise 03:21.010 --> 03:21.670 wouldn't take. 03:22.030 --> 03:22.590 You gamble. 03:22.850 --> 03:24.110 You gamble with your currency. 03:24.270 --> 03:25.330 You gamble with your time. 03:25.710 --> 03:29.050 You might gamble in the stock market or in the crypto market trying 03:29.050 --> 03:32.030 to find something that's going to 10X or 100X. 03:32.610 --> 03:35.070 And those are risks you really don't need to take. 03:35.270 --> 03:38.670 You also might take risks with drugs or alcohol or other 03:38.670 --> 03:41.270 things you put into your body or things you do with your body. 03:42.310 --> 03:46.990 And when you have access to a technology, a savings tool like 03:46.990 --> 03:50.550 money, you simply don't take a lot of those risks that you 03:50.550 --> 03:51.550 otherwise might. 03:52.110 --> 03:55.030 So I'm very thankful to have access to these tools. 03:56.350 --> 04:01.230 And finally, my job, this opportunity to be here, to make 04:01.230 --> 04:05.450 this video at goldsilver.com, not only the website but the 04:05.450 --> 04:06.110 YouTube channel. 04:06.110 --> 04:09.410 So it's absolutely a dream come true to be able to do this, 04:09.450 --> 04:12.850 to be able to do it with you, Mike, and to be able to share 04:12.850 --> 04:15.050 everything with such a fantastic community. 04:15.410 --> 04:17.410 So these are the things I'm thankful for. 04:17.650 --> 04:18.310 So thank you, Mike. 04:18.610 --> 04:19.150 Thank you, everyone. 04:20.570 --> 04:23.430 Yeah, you know, some of the things that I'm grateful for, 04:23.470 --> 04:25.170 I have to start with my parents. 04:26.250 --> 04:30.950 My father especially always encouraged the entrepreneurial 04:30.950 --> 04:35.170 spirit in me to try to start my own businesses to just 04:35.170 --> 04:36.410 be my own person. 04:37.650 --> 04:41.950 And, you know, he started a business for my brother and I. 04:42.350 --> 04:47.410 I believe I was 11 or 12, and my brother is four years 04:47.410 --> 04:48.290 younger than me. 04:48.330 --> 04:51.570 So he was like seven or eight years old when we had 04:51.570 --> 04:52.610 Pat and Mike's warehouse. 04:53.310 --> 04:57.610 And, you know, he was the sales manager for what very 04:57.610 --> 05:02.150 quickly became the largest motorcycle helmet manufacturer on 05:02.150 --> 05:02.690 the planet. 05:02.690 --> 05:07.250 They went from a gear manufacturer to being like six 05:07.250 --> 05:11.210 times larger than the next competitor in a very short 05:11.210 --> 05:15.090 period of time when Easy Rider came out and they had the 05:15.090 --> 05:15.970 American helmets. 05:16.510 --> 05:21.030 And so I've got this picture of me when I'm like 12 years 05:21.030 --> 05:23.830 old and I was shipping off. 05:24.630 --> 05:27.230 And, you know, we ran ads in the back of these motorcycle 05:27.230 --> 05:30.950 magazines and we got orders from all over the world, 05:30.950 --> 05:32.830 South Africa, New Zealand. 05:33.110 --> 05:34.910 And it was just, it was very exciting. 05:35.730 --> 05:40.730 And so that was actually the beginning of my entrepreneurial 05:41.490 --> 05:42.090 career. 05:42.810 --> 05:47.570 And my father was always a very, he was a stoic man who 05:47.570 --> 05:51.230 had been through the worst of World War II, the battle of 05:51.230 --> 05:53.530 the bulge, a liberator of Dachau. 05:53.910 --> 05:57.810 He had seen horrors that I can't even imagine. 05:57.810 --> 06:02.110 But he never talked about it. 06:02.210 --> 06:08.610 He was just, I can't figure out how people do this where 06:08.610 --> 06:11.770 they raise a family and they have a job. 06:12.870 --> 06:16.610 And I wish that I could sit with him today and tell him 06:16.610 --> 06:19.730 how sorry I am for the hell I put him through when 06:19.730 --> 06:20.430 I was a teenager. 06:22.850 --> 06:27.790 And then, you know, I'm very grateful for some of 06:27.790 --> 06:31.530 the people that I've met and worked with, Dan Rubach, 06:32.030 --> 06:35.930 especially, being able to travel the world with Dan. 06:36.330 --> 06:41.250 I mean, I've got this photo in London where his friend 06:41.250 --> 06:43.730 Andrew happened to be there at the same time. 06:44.390 --> 06:49.950 But traveling around with Dan, he's somebody that, 06:50.070 --> 06:54.570 you know, in his midlife still looks at the world 06:54.570 --> 06:56.810 sometimes like with a child's eyes. 06:56.810 --> 07:00.270 He always gets the window seat in an airplane 07:00.270 --> 07:03.190 and he's just glued to that window and he's taken 07:03.190 --> 07:06.130 pictures and stuff all the time. 07:06.990 --> 07:10.790 So during the filming of Hidden Secrets of Money, 07:11.210 --> 07:13.290 it was a great privilege to be able to travel 07:13.290 --> 07:16.050 around the world and film at all of these places 07:16.050 --> 07:17.530 with Dan. 07:17.770 --> 07:21.210 And then the animators that he's got, 07:21.810 --> 07:24.950 Aidan and Lincoln, Aidan Magnus and Lincoln Jude, 07:25.870 --> 07:30.330 the support that we get, the creativity that we get. 07:30.730 --> 07:33.550 Being able to work with you has been a great privilege. 07:34.090 --> 07:38.710 And now with the farm, I've got people like Kevin Lally 07:38.710 --> 07:40.690 and Phil Sarsons. 07:41.070 --> 07:45.510 And these are some very high caliber, amazing people 07:45.510 --> 07:50.750 that I'm working with and I'm very grateful for it. 07:50.970 --> 07:53.330 We're trying to change the world in a positive 07:53.330 --> 07:56.470 direction and at the same time, it seems like there's 07:56.470 --> 07:58.850 people trying to destroy the world. 08:00.230 --> 08:03.770 So these are some of the things that I'm grateful. 08:04.330 --> 08:10.630 I'm grateful for the job and the opportunity that I get. 08:10.910 --> 08:15.230 I'm very, very grateful for all the clients of GoldSilver.com 08:15.230 --> 08:17.970 because that is what makes this channel possible 08:17.970 --> 08:19.850 without people. 08:20.510 --> 08:22.970 We have never done... 08:23.550 --> 08:28.190 We used to not run advertising, but it helps the YouTube 08:28.190 --> 08:32.630 algorithms and helps our video views by running advertising. 08:32.850 --> 08:35.450 But we always had the advertising switched off simply 08:35.450 --> 08:38.710 because I thought the message was much more important. 08:39.110 --> 08:40.950 I thought it was too important to be interrupted 08:40.950 --> 08:42.470 with advertising. 08:42.970 --> 08:46.610 And I wanted people to have all of this knowledge. 08:46.610 --> 08:52.390 And now we run the advertising just to help get our views up, 08:52.550 --> 08:57.810 but the opportunity that GoldSilver.com has afforded me 08:58.430 --> 09:02.630 and you to be able to spread this education, 09:03.070 --> 09:06.990 that is something I am extremely grateful for. 09:07.550 --> 09:12.350 And then I'm up here on my farm in the mountains 09:12.350 --> 09:14.910 of Puerto Rico, completely off the grid. 09:14.910 --> 09:18.390 I've got four buildings that are not connected to the grid whatsoever. 09:19.570 --> 09:21.850 We'll probably connect them someday so we can sell 09:21.850 --> 09:23.770 access power back to the power company, 09:23.770 --> 09:26.430 but that's going to be the only reason. 09:28.110 --> 09:31.890 And so, yes, I've got many, many things to be grateful for. 09:33.870 --> 09:35.710 Yeah. Well, thank you, Mike. Me too. 09:35.930 --> 09:36.970 I had a much longer list. 09:37.070 --> 09:38.830 Of course, my mother and father, I left them out. 09:38.890 --> 09:40.010 Maybe I should have included them. 09:40.150 --> 09:41.730 But yes, thank you so much. 09:42.330 --> 09:43.310 Thank you for this opportunity. 09:43.310 --> 09:44.810 And thanks everyone for watching. 09:45.150 --> 09:45.610 Happy Thanksgiving. 09:45.990 --> 09:50.330 Yes. So everybody out there, have a great turkey day. 09:50.810 --> 09:51.810 We'll see you next time.