Chad

Proud father and beer 🍺 lover. Always looking for opportunities to expand my knowledge, improve my mental/physical health and increase my financial resiliency.

[Teddy - PolyBackTest.com @Bitcoin_Teddy]

David Goggins dropped a truth bomb that will rewire how you see your entire life:

Even billionaires pull him aside after talks and quietly admit:
“I have everything money can buy… but I still feel like something’s missing.”

His response is ice-cold and life-changing:
“You’re missing the version of yourself that only shows up when you voluntarily walk through hell.
The one you meet when you stop making excuses and start making yourself unbreakable.”

In this electric 3:18 clip, Goggins lays it out plain and simple:
Real peace isn’t bought.
It’s forged.
In the dark mornings.
In the moments you want to quit but don’t.
In the relentless decision to keep expanding your mind, body, and soul when everything screams stop.

That’s where the emptiness ends.
That’s where you stop living at 40% and finally step into 100%.
That’s where you become the rare human who never has to ask, “Is this all there is?”

No shortcuts. No hacks. Just you choosing to become the hardest, strongest, most alive version of yourself—every single day.

Watch this clip. Let it hit you. Then go do the hard thing you’ve been avoiding.

The version of you that’s waiting on the other side is worth it.

[Willem Middelkoop @wmiddelkoop]

Says it all ..

[Mike Behr @mike_behr_]

3. Train about 3 hours a week. That's it.

• 2 strength sessions, 30 min each
• 2 easy Zone 2 cardio sessions, 30-45 min
• 1 short hard session, 20 min

Strength holds your muscle. Cardio burns the fat. No living in the gym required.

[In Gold We Trust @IGWTreport]

At the end of the last two silver bulls, the gold/silver ratio hit 18.1 and 32.6. It is near 60 now.

The median since 1970 is 62.8.

Secular bull markets do not end at the median. They end at the extreme, when the ratio overshoots far to the downside in the final acceleration phase.

The ratio fell to nearly 46:1 by the end of February, the lowest since 2011, before the Iran war pushed it back.

At a constant gold price, 18.1 and 32.6 would imply silver around USD 260 and USD 150.

[Willem Middelkoop @wmiddelkoop]

It’s a pattern ..

[Jacob @pointswithjacob]

If your vagus nerve is damaged, you'll feel exhausted no matter what you try.

Most people don't realize that this one nerve can matter more than 8 hours of deep sleep.

Here are 8 cheat codes to heal your vagus nerve (& unlimited energy):

1) 30-180 second cold plunges

[Teddy - PolyBackTest.com @Bitcoin_Teddy]

Bret Weinstein said something that won’t leave my head:
For the first time in 300,000 years of human evolution, we removed the cost from the single biggest reward nature ever invented — sex and pair-bonding.

Reliable birth control + abortion = you can now cash the evolutionary lottery ticket without paying the 20-year mortgage of pregnancy, diapers, sleepless nights, and college funds.

Result? An entire generation of 18–35-year-olds walking around with the energy, libido, hormones, and protective instincts that evolution spent millions of years calibrating for child-rearing… but with zero actual children. That energy didn’t disappear. It got redirected.

Heather Heying’s observation is brutal: young women especially began treating ideologies the exact way evolution wired them to treat babies. Climate change, social justice, whatever the cause of the month is — it gets defended with literal mama-bear ferocity, the same neurochemistry that once guarded a toddler from predators now guards an abstract idea from wrong think.

And now Elon is promising the second shoe is about to drop: AI-driven abundance will make money as “free” as sex became in the 1970s. Both of evolution’s primary carrots — mating and resource acquisition suddenly cost almost nothing.

Weinstein’s ice-cold question: When producing and protecting actual children is no longer the central organizing principle of adult life… and when creating wealth is no longer required for status, security, or attracting a mate…What is left to give a human life direction, meaning, and structure?

Are we about to become a species that invents bigger and bigger dragons to slay just to feel alive? Or do we drift into total listlessness? This 3:52 clip is genuinely haunting.

Watch it all the way through, then tell me — honestly — does this explain the absolute intensity we’re seeing in culture right now, or is Bret completely missing something?

Real answers only. Quote-post if it hits you in the chest like it hit me.

[Willem Middelkoop @wmiddelkoop]

‘how whistleblowers are silenced’

[Michael Yon: Callsign BIG HONEY @Michael_Yon]

Mike — I just landed in Austin. A cattle rancher sat beside me on flight. She said government telling ranchers to check all their animals every 48 hours for screw worms. I told her this is war to take her land and create famine.

[Willem Middelkoop @wmiddelkoop]

One more reason I will never retire 😇

[Ron Butler @ronmortgageguy]

Real Estate Crash Financial Losses Are Piling Up: Jeez I Get Some Shocking Calls

Couple of calls in the last few days illustrate just how much money individuals have lost & will continue to lose

1) Walked away from a Condo Purchase 2 Years ago but they just Served him NOW

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[Michael Yon: Callsign BIG HONEY @Michael_Yon]

Matt Bracken @Matt_Bracken48 just sent this saying Mike Adams nailed it:

[Chris Martenson @chrismartenson]

Ukraine Hits Russia's Last Major Gasoline Refinery, Trump Targets Iran Bridges & Energy, Australia Youth Cancer Surges

Today's Digest covers Ukraine's strike on Russia's last major refinery, the EU-Russian LNG surge, Iran escalations, Russian sanctions, the space race, vaccine-cancer links, and the AI leasing boom.

#IranWar #UkraineWar #Energy #MAHA
https://t.co/HyFzJ9AoTT

[Miles Franklin Precious Metals @MilesFranklinCo]

Why did silver plunge from roughly $120 to $60 if the fundamentals remain so strong?

@RealRickRule says the answer is “solely sentiment” and warns the silver deficit is actually getting worse.

Rule also explains why he sold 80% of his physical silver near the top, which silver stocks he is buying now, how silver manipulation really works, and why he still sees a path to $15,000 gold and $300 silver.

Watch the full interview with @MichelleMakori on The Real Story:
https://t.co/gybCErJwdJ

[Rick Rule @RealRickRule]

The Truth About Silver’s Collapse, According to Rick Rule https://t.co/a8abo0CcSI via @YouTube 07-14-2026, interview from the Rule Natural Resources Investment Symposium

[Willem Middelkoop @wmiddelkoop]

‘AI bubble is 17x bigger than dot-com - and the fallout will be "much worse"’

[Don Durrett - goldstockdata.com @DonDurrett]

Read this and then rethink why you don't own any gold or gold miners. 🤔

[Chris Martenson @chrismartenson]

This is profound. Russia has turned from a massive net exporter of diesel, jet fuel, and gasoline, and is becoming an importer. It's no longer creating supply for the world; it's now creating demand.

The energy crisis is worse than you've been told.

Full report: https://t.co/clwOnCweo0

[Solstice Laboratory @thesolsticelabs]

Thanks Jesse for your support for the Entropy Trap.