What’s up, folks? Welcome to Nino’s corner, man. I’m with a good guest right now. A friend of mine I’ve met during this since. Really? I don’t know. I started talking a few years ago, but we’ve been on the same path. And folks, I want to introduce you to a Mike Z. Mike Z is Mike Zillion if you know the drum company. Right? That’s what it is. Drum symbols.

Yeah, those are my cousins. Yeah, that’s a big, big name in the music industry. That’s huge. Yeah. The only tattoo I have is that logo. Luckily, I was smart enough to stop after that one. I wasn’t. I can contain myself, but I know some people that take it to another level. Oh, man. I look around now and I’m like, guys, what are we doing? Yes. Just already when I was living in Hollywood, I knew this beautiful girl, gorgeous.

She had a full back tattoo. And all I could think was, I wonder what that’s going to look like when you’re in your die young. Maybe. I don’t know. I mean, some chicks can rock that, though. Some chicks can rock. No, I get it. But only for a while. You could put a couple of cute ones on there and they’ll still look good as you get older. I don’t know.

What about now? You know when chicks used to get those tramp stamps? Back in our day, right now they’re like going down their ass, like running down their. Oh, yeah. And it’s like open. I knew. I knew this guy in LA who swore he was straight and he had a tramp stamp tattoo. And I was like, dude, I don’t know. That’s bad as getting like a fucking piercing, bro.

But, well, look, I wanted to let everyone know, listen, I’ve been sober now four years, and you’ve joined me in this journey. And it’s not easy, is it? It’s difficult. I mean, you’ve been sober now eight months. You’ve lost a lot of weight, by the way. Well, that’s most the first six and a half months of not drinking. I didn’t lose any weight because I was eating like shit.

But these last three weeks, since the new year, I’ve barely been eating just to clean my body out. So it comes off fast when you do that. But obviously not drinking helps a lot. Like you people. Someone asked me today, I played golf with a couple of buddies that are in town from Alabama, and they’re like, well, my budy’s like, well, why’d you stop drinking? I’m like, well, because I was really good at, like.

Like, you. I’m not your size, but I could just drink all night, man. Dude, why does everyone say everyone looks at you like something’s wrong with you? When you say you stopped drinking, you notice that, like, oh, jeez. Wow. Mostly it’s been, know. I’m from Boston, and there’s some guys up there that were like, know, but they’ve seen me do really silly shit when I’m drunk. So when they asked me, why’d you stop drinking? I’m like, remember that time we played poker at your house and you made me sleep over, and then you woke up and I wasn’t there and my shoes were there, but your slippers were gone, and I drove home? That’s why I stopped drinking, because I don’t trust myself.

I wish I had stories like that, bro, that’s like, g rated. Yeah, you said g rated you wanted to do, but my stories are, like, knowing what I did. I remember I woke up in jail one time, and my knuckles were swollen, and I had no idea why I was there. And I just know I got arrested for a DUI, but I did not know. It was scary because I didn’t know if I killed somebody.

I had no recollection of why I was in there. I couldn’t figure it out. And that scared the shit. That scared the shit out of me. I thought, dude, I’m probably going to jail for life. And just sitting there for hours in a cell, a small whatever it was, six x six cell with the slat, trying to get answers. The dos were just not even talking to me.

Nobody wanted to talk to me. I didn’t know why I was there. That right there was probably the single moment in my life that I’m like, lord, I got on my knees. I’m like, you get me out of this one, I’ll quit forever. And I still didn’t. I still went on, you got me out of this one. That was close. I’ve had those, man. I’ve had those. And here’s the g rated version of that.

I was a concert promoter up in northern California. After the shows, we would go to the local dive bar, a cowboy bar, and I’d walk back to my hotel. I’m walking back to my hotel one night, shit faced, and this cop stops, and he’s like, what are you doing? I’m like, I’m walking to my know. And he’s like, well, you seem pretty drunk. I said, I am. That’s why I’m walking.

Yeah, and that fucking little bastard arrested me for drunk in public. They never charged me. And the people. Do you believe that, man, the people at the jail, dude, if, man, I wanted to light this kid up. He was totally the kid that got beat up in third grade, and now he has power. I’m like, what are you doing? I’m literally not bothering anybody, and I’m 100 yards.

You’re doing the responsible thing. You’re walking home. Right. But again, to the point for me now to get into what we’re talking about tonight, I can’t put myself anywhere near a position right now with the stuff that we’re doing. Right. No, exactly. And that happened to me one time. I was walking. One time, I remember I was walking out of a bar, and it’s like, they asked me, where are you going? And I was stumbling.

I was like, I’m going to go catch an Uber. You think you’re going to go catch an Uber? They got me for public intoxication, and at that time, I was training really hard, and believe it or not, I was still out drinking. I used to juggle extremes anyway, but I was in shape. I was ready to fight anybody. They put the handcuffs behind me, and they had to use two pairs of handcuffs because they wouldn’t fit me on my back.

So they got two pairs of handcuffs and putting me on my back. And I was just asking. That guy’s like, how are you guys getting off on this shit? They’re like, oh, don’t you have a fight coming up, talking to me like that? I’m like, is this what you guys are doing? Is this what this is all about? You just want to take in? You just want to take me in.

You’re getting off on this. And I was talking to them like this, and the whole thing was that I was trying to do the responsible thing. I was trying to catch an Uber and just get in the Uber and go home, right? I was stumbling. I was drunk. And sure, yeah, that’s why guys like me, I’m a target, dude. And now more than ever, I’m done with that.

There’s just no reason to do this anymore. And you, too, because now you’re really picking up on the podcasting, and it’s like, yeah, you got everything. I got a big target. I mean, I’m not going to talk about it on this show, but I’ve been going after some people that don’t like it. You’ve been doing that for quite a while. When you do that, they come after you.

So you got to be careful, and you got to have your shit together. I have one you just reminded me of. I did wake up drunk. I got in a cab in South Carolina. I was out drinking with my budy, went to a strip joint, the whole stupid shit. He’s like, I can’t find him. I’m like, screw this. I’m getting in a cab and going, this was before rubber.

I’m getting in a cab and going back to his house where his wife lives, that I also went to college with. So I get in the cab. I wake up at the police station. They’re knocking on the window, bro. And they’re like, same thing. They’re like, what are you doing? I’m like, I’m catching a cab back to my buddy’s place. And they’re like, well, you seem pretty drunk.

Same line. I am. That’s why I’m in a cab. They’re like, well, get out. And I’m like, no, I don’t want to do that. They’re like, well, show us your id. And I’m like, okay. They’re like, well, we got to call your friend. I’m like, go ahead. I’m not getting out of the cab. Because as soon as I got out, I’d be drunk in public, and they throw me in jail.

Yeah, and it’s like, anything? That’s just what I’ve noticed with me. It’s like the last time I got a DUI, they pulled me over because I didn’t use my blinker. And they’re like, do you know why we pulled her? I have no idea. Well, you didn’t use your turn signal. I was like, really? Okay. All right. Give me a ticket. Well, you need to step out of the car.

I was like, oh, boy, here we go. And that’s how it starts. It could be for anything. It could be absolutely for anything. So when I saw the lawyer. So this was in California, one of the times, and, folks, I did have a drinking problem. There’s no doubt about it. That’s why I’m openly discussing it right know we’re talking about it. But it started happening more consistently. The cops pulling me over.

It started happening more consistency. It’s like I started attracting that type of negative energy into my life, and I was like, you know what? The only way to stop this completely is cut out. The alcohol is just cut it out completely. And I believe in that. I believe that once you cut the source, then your life starts getting back to normal. It starts coming back into. You start bringing in good energy and that life just.

Anyway, the time before that I was in California again. Fell asleep at a jack in the box window. Cops knock on the window, drive through. At the drive through, dude fell asleep. They knock on the window, and I look at them, and I go, thank you very much. And I just drive off. Thank you for waking me up. And the guy looks at the other, the cop looks at the other cop, and then they just turn on their sirens, pull me over.

And that was a mean. It’s one story after another with this stuff, and it’s just like it never, you know. Now I can sleep at night, and I don’t know about you, Mike, but I can sleep at night knowing, like, I don’t have to go through that, you know, I don’t want to be looking over my shoulder right now like we were talking about, and I knew this year was going to get crazy.

You talk about that a lot on your show, so we don’t have to talk about it here. I know we’re talking about different. Talk about it a little bit, as long as, yeah, no, but we don’t need to. It’s like, we know it’s going to be a crazy year. Make that into whatever you want. Right. Look around. There’s all kinds of stuff going on. There’s already aliens at the mall in Miami, and we’re talking about this stuff publicly, you and I and many others.

And if there are bad people out there that want to stop us from talking about it, we can’t give them any reason to. It’s actually, again, doing this forces you to be the best person you can be because you can’t give them any opening or they’ll take it. Because why? It’s a spiritual war. See, that’s what I believe in. First and foremost, this is completely, 100% spiritual. And they’ll use other.

And the way these demonic forces work, in my belief, is they use the weakest link around you. So whoever is the weakest link or whatever situation is irking you at the moment, it’ll intensify, or a person next to you will break down or cause you to try to get you to fumble the ball. And right now is the best time just to be, for me, at least. I don’t have many people around me.

I don’t know about you. I don’t have many people around me. In fact, I have slim to none. Same. I keep a pretty tight circle. I mean, I got really good family and friends. But, Nino, I don’t talk about this ever. But I’m going to start talking about it because I think people need to understand it more. I haven’t even dated since late 2020 when I found out we were in a war.

Once again, I was like, I don’t trust myself. What if I end up with someone that doesn’t have my best interest, the country’s best interest, and I can’t have that distraction. I need to be focused on this. That’s not fun and great, but it also has been very freeing because it’s something that I’ve broken. Another sort of addiction of always chasing tail and shit like that. Right? And then you make bad decisions when you’re doing stuff like that.

And also I’ve noticed what ties all this together, friends and women and the whole thing is drinking. I didn’t realize how much that ties a social life together. Other you don’t call your friends and you’re like, hey, let’s go have lunch. That just doesn’t happen. You know what I mean? It’s always a, hey, bro, meet me at the bar, let’s have a few drinks. That’s what it was always about when I was always, it’s never, hey, you want to go have a salad? It’s not like that.

Yeah, no, I mean, look again, I don’t go out much, but I do like, I went and played golf today and a couple of guys in the group were in town from out of town. They were bruising. Doesn’t bother me. They go out afterwards and get drunk. And where do you go? Home? Yep, there, you see? Well, I had to come home to go to work. I had two shows before been honestly Nino.

When I stopped, I thought, I hope I can make it a few months because it’s now been almost eight months. Coming up on eight months in like a week and a half or something like that. That’s the longest I haven’t drank in 35 years since I was in my teens, mid teens. But still, it’s crazy when I think about it like that. I’m like, jesus, dude, what was I thinking? What age did you start drinking? 1415.

Me too. I mean, I got drunk first time at twelve, but I started drinking at like 14. We were going to juat is here in the border. We were going to jtown by the time we were 1314 years old, getting hammered. And bars, that’s a different culture here. Yeah, totally. And again, it just became such a big part of my life, so I didn’t know how I would feel about it.

I’ve been out to restaurant bars and all kinds of stuff. Been around tons more people since I stopped drinking than I was before because I didn’t trust myself to not drink too much. It doesn’t bother me. I don’t have any urge. Like, out on the golf course today, I was like, oh, it’d be cool to have one shot. My buddy had a bottle of bourbon. Then I was like, I would just feel like shit.

I don’t even want that. Mentally, dude, mentally, you do that shit, you’d feel. You’d break. You broke if you do. Yeah, but I did it. The thought went by, and then I was like, whatever, I’m going to hit my t shot now. And then I just moved on with my day. Do you still have dreams? I have dreams of getting hammered or it’s always with friends or women that I’m just getting drunk, and I always feel really guilty of my dreams, dude.

I feel like. I guess you could call them nightmares, I guess, but I’m always drinking in my dreams. It’s not often I have them, probably every few weeks, and I know that I’m doing something wrong. In my dream, I used to. The first few months I had that, I think I was texting you about that. I’m like, dude, is this normal? Because it’s happening a lot, and it was freaking me out because they were so real.

Right? Like, you feel like you actually did it. But I also, at those times, even in the dream, I was like, okay, so this is now day one. Now tomorrow is day one. You just start over. And somehow something from above was preparing me. Like, if you break, you’re just going to start over again, so don’t even bother. It’s not even worth it, right? So I haven’t had that in a while.

And like I said, it’s been really weirdly easy. There’s been a couple of days. People are shitty. Like, you want to forget your day, or I have some lower back pain from time to time. You want to numb the back pain. I miss that kind of stuff. Or there was a time at first when I wasn’t sleeping, when I stopped, and I missed being able to rip down a couple of shots and knock myself out.

Did you go the first six months for me? I was doing a lot of sugar binging. I was, like, eating a lot of Reese’s and Eminem. I would go to the 711 and grab a poke. Yeah. Like I said, for about six months, I didn’t lose any weight without stopping drinking, and I didn’t lose any weight, and it’s because I was eating like shit. And a lot of that was sugar.

I actually gained weight the first two years because I replaced it with food. Yeah. And then not until I started a lot of the supplements that I take now and the cutting out food, basically fasting. I started implementing that with everything I’m doing. I think the reason that you and I, I think it’s a spiritual thing. I really do believe it’s a spiritual thing because I think you’re called for a time like this, and a lot of people that are listening to this probably feel the same way that we’re all called for this time.

And you need to make adjustments and fine tune yourself, because we know we’re going into uncharted waters, and we know where we’re going, and we know that this war is about to pick up, and it’s 100% spiritual, and everything’s on the line. And for me, for what we do, I have got to be 100% going on all cylinders. I cannot be at 95%. I can’t be at 80%.

I got to be 110%. Just like going into a fight in boxing, because this is serious stuff, man. And we know what’s on the line. Everything’s on the line. Everything is on the line. Yeah. And look, you said it. This last few weeks, I really decided, okay, last year was the first year I really took podcasting seriously. But this year, I’m like, okay, now I have to do it almost every day if I want to grow a platform.

That’s the only way it works. And I have been, and I haven’t been sleeping much because I’ve been working so much. There is zero chance I would be able to do this if I was drinking. There’s no way. I thought about you tonight, man. I was having some struggles, and you just popped in my head. I was like, I wonder what Mike Z is up to, man. I know he’s newly sober.

I say I’m newly sober, and I’m four years. So you’re a baby. You’re an infant. I did a show with Theo Flurry, the hockey player tonight, earlier tonight. He’s 6600 and something days sober. Wow. He’s been at it for a long time. He was a hockey player, man. And those boys can drink you. They take a lot of shots, too, man. Those dudes. Literally, these shots. I think about that also.

I’m like, why hurt my body any more than it’s already been hurt? I have lower back pain. My hands hurt, my face, my brain. I don’t know what’s going on in there. But you know what I mean? I’m going to try to save whatever I have left. That’s for sure, man. You know what I mean? So, I don’t know. We’re going into this time, we’re going back to what I was saying, that there’s going to be some massive revelations, and I’m dealing with it.

And I think a lot of the people watching this right now, you’re probably dealing with this in your personal life. Whatever’s happening on the scene, whatever’s happening in politics, whatever’s happening in Hollywood, we’re all dealing with our own shit personally. And we’re going to be forced to look in that mirror and confront our demons, each and every one of us. When I say this is spiritual, this is going to happen.

Not just in the government, politics, the entertainment industry. This is going to happen at a personal level. So I’m asking everybody who’s watching this, you have got to really buckle down, pick your lane, and better yourself. Iron sharpens iron. You’ve got to get busy putting your vest on your shield and getting your sword, and understand we’re going into a massive spiritual war. That’s how I look at this.

It is, and it’s on every level. It’s not just drinking. I have friends who are awake that still send me those silly messages of, like, daughters in college, and they’re like, hey, do you see this woman’s college volleyball game with these girls? I’m like, dude, do you understand what we’re doing right now? We’re removing the sexual abuse of children from the world. Don’t talk to me about that shit.

I don’t care. I know we used to joke about that, and it used to be funny. It’s not funny anymore. And it’s gross. Those things, too. Every bit of our lives. And I’m not saying I’ve got it figured out and I’m perfect. I’m saying I work on it every day to be my best, right? And that’s what everybody has to do. Whatever those things are that are holding you back from bringing your best to whatever it is, especially a spiritual war where everything is on the line.

You’ve got to do it. Cut people out, dude. I mean, for me, that’s what I’ve done the first three years. I was like, man, this person. I love this person. But every time I’m with this person, there’s some funky energy, something weird going on with them, or their girlfriends get really caddy towards me, because it’s just weird shit, bro. And then that right there, I’m like, you’re gone.

But I don’t even deal with it anymore. I’d much rather be alone in my space, in my little Vortex, than dealing with. I can’t take on the load. I cannot take any more negative energy. The stuff we’re covering, everything happening in the industry, the Hollywood stuff, all that stuff, is such a heavy burden. And listening to it every day, I don’t have time for any other shit. Nothing.

Yeah. It occurred to me in late 2020 that this is a spiritual war. The great Awakening is about raising our spiritual consciousness. Some people call it ascending to a higher dimension. And then it occurred to me at that time, wow, there’s a lot of people I care about that aren’t going to be coming with me, and that sucks. But look, do you want to go there, or do you want to hang around down here in lower dimensions because you feel bad, like, I’m sorry, not sorry.

I’m going that way. You go wherever you want. I’ll see you when you get there. 100%. I was talking to Gene Diko today, and I did an interview with him, and he was talking about the physics and science behind hell and what it is. It’s called the underverse and the portals that lead up to the whole CERN project. Everything was, he says, allegedly, is accessing the portals to the underverse, and it’s a real thing.

And what they’re doing with CERN and a lot of other places, those kids at the Miami mall and all this, they’re accessing these portals to the underverse instead of the universe or multiverse or whatever you want to call it. It’s called the Underverse. It’s hell. It’s a lower dimensional existence, and they’re bringing these entities up. It’s actually real, man. And I believe this is real, and I think that’s what we’re fighting against right now.

And if you’re weak in any way, shape, or form, if you are weak, you become a host to these. Yeah, yeah. If you give them one inch, any opening. Nina, look at all the stuff you do and how many people follow your shows and all the information you put out there. Of course, you take a lot of shit because you just put all the information out and let people decide for themselves.

But imagine that one of the bad guys, whoever they are, one of the higher ups, is like, well, we want to take this bastard off the playing field. And you give them one slip. You have one beer and driving down the street and get pulled over, and they decide that you’re drunk. Even if you’re not, you just can’t take that chance right now. No, I can’t. Like you said, we are targets.

They would take you down so fast. I just know that where we’re at right now in 2024, man, this shit’s about to intensify. So imagine, I guess, a frequency. It’s just going to go. And you would understand this with music. That’s what this is going to be like this year. It’s already starting. What’s weird is going to get weirder. Weird only gets weirder. And it’s going to get weirder.

It’s going to get really weird. I mean, look at, we’re not even three weeks into the year and look at all the shit that’s happened already. It’s nuts. And it’s only going to intensify into the end of the year, the election time. There’s astrology that points to the same thing around that time, that it’s a big game changer, probably in the positive, which is probably good for people like us who are already on board with the guy that we like.

Yeah, but here’s the thing, is that we’re all going to be forced. My point is we’re all going to be forced to look at our own lives and look at our own messes. That’s cool. Every person watching this right now has something in their closet, some kind of skeleton in their closet they’re going to be forced to look at. Yeah, because look, this country is supposed to be self government.

We’ve never done it because they’ve never let us, but also because we’ve never been ready for it. With great power comes great responsibility, the Spider man line. And if we’re going to govern ourselves, which I believe we are, we all have a lot to learn. And a big part of learning that is what you’re talking about now, getting rid of bad habits, whatever they are. And I think the people that are going to be the casualties of war, the people that are going to really die off, man, are the ones with still buying into all the bullshit, still walking around paranoid, scared of everything.

They’re the ones you’re in fear all the time. So you’re in fight or flight mode all the time. And the human body is not made to sustain that kind of stress. So those people that have been on level ten of stress for three plus years now, four years now almost, that’s going to be rough. A lot of them aren’t going to make it. I don’t believe with this.

We know what that’s bringing. This is it. This is fifth dimensional or fifth generation, I guess you could say dimensional. Both warfare. Yeah. And we’re all going to have to really look in the mirror and decide what we’re going to change. And I’m asking everyone who’s even watching this, what are some things you need to cut out of your life? Right? Like, look at me and him. We did it.

It’s still a struggle. Tell me this isn’t. You’re saying it’s. No, I don’t want it to put it out there that people think, oh, it’s easy, just do it. I’m kind of shocked at how easy it’s been for me, thinking it would be a vicious struggle and it hasn’t been because God is guiding me. He said, it’s enough of that. You had your fun. You did it, and I did hold you.

I’m going to be 50 this year, which is part of the reason I’m right there with you. Yeah. Part of the reason why I decided to stop. I was like, you know, I should do something nice for my body for my 50th birthday coming up. Why don’t I quit drinking for a year? And I had some friends that had quit and been a few months into it, and they were feeling really good.

I have other friends like you that were encouraging me that had quit years ago. I’m like, you know what? I’m going to do it. I’m going to do it. And I actually was giving myself to my birthday, which was July 1, and I stopped a month early. I was like, you know what? Why do I need to drag this out for another month? I’m done. That’s it. And you know what? A lot of people ask me, why don’t you go to the aa or twelve steps? I’m like, dude, when I make up my mind, I stopped cold turkey.

That was it. I don’t need anything else. I watched some YouTube videos here and there. Here’s what blows my mind is the friends that I was drinking with after boxing, really the last five years before I went sober, which I call the misery phase of my life. When I retired from boxing, I was miserable. I didn’t know what I was going to do with my life. I was broke.

I was just wandering the planet like a sloth. I had no direction, dude. I thought about doing this. I thought I had all kinds of bad thoughts. I mean, demons were really taking control of my life. But the friends that were with me during that time, obviously drinking with me and they would always tell me, dude, you’re crazy, vato. You’re nuts, man. Dude, you got to stop. You’re crazy.

They’re dead. They died once I quit drinking. They kept going. And somehow or another, they always pointed at me and said, man, you’re crazy. Because they know what I’ve been through. I overdosed. I passed away on that. I was brought back with a defibrillator. I got knifed in the throat another time. Almost died there. Lost pints of blood, and they’re telling me I’m crazy. And guess what? They’re gone.

Like, four of them are gone. They all went away in one year. And I’m thinking to myself, how, bro, how did that even. I mean, the guys that told me I was crazy, that pointed at me and said I was a crazy one, they’re gone. I’ve known a couple people in my life. Neither of them were very close, but that literally drank themselves to death. And it’s very sad.

I mean, when I was in Hollywood and doing all that drinking, I did have a friend who was older. He’s about ten years older than me. And he pulled me aside, and he’s like, oh, z, you got to stop, man. You know how many friends I’ve lost to this shit? You’re doing the same shit as them. Like, you don’t know what you’re talking about. I got it. And that seed was planted a long time ago, and it did get me to pull way back over the last, I don’t know, seven, eight years even.

There’s probably only a handful of times I’ve been real drunk over that time. And that used to be twice a week, three times a week. So that led me to this point where I was able to say, you know what? If I did that, I can certainly stop. And I’ve kind of fantasized about stopping drinking for a long time. I wonder what it would be like to just be free from that and be able to not drink and just have fun.

And when we were kids, Nino, they didn’t talk to us about anxiety at school like they do now, right? I didn’t learn about anxiety probably till I was in my shit. Why didn’t anybody tell me about this earlier? They always told me I had a disorder when I was boxing. I always had a lot of anxiety. And my managers and trainers would be like, bro, you got to really control that.

It’s a disorder. I’m like, how do you control it? I’m getting ready to fight one of the best guys in the world. Man, I’m nervous out of my mind. What do you talk about? What do you mean? Control it, man. I couldn’t comprehend that. I’m like, I’m a nervous. Yeah. Kill me if I slip up. It’s done. And I used to think about that, and I would stay up for nights before fights.

This is true fact. I didn’t sleep for, like, two weeks before a fight, man. I was nervous. I’d get 3 hours of rest, a night light sleep, and I would still be training on adrenaline and then still having to spar and fight these guys in the gym and then be going into a fight, man. Seeing tracers, bro. I would be so tired, but so much adrenaline would be in my body, and that’s how I would get through it.

But I got addicted to sleeping pills at that time. Yeah, I was, too, for a while, because I was drinking so much. Mine was different. I was drinking so much. So what people don’t realize is, in the short term, drinking will help your anxiety in the social situation. But guys, think about it. What does the next day feel like when you wake up? The anxiety is almost crippling.

Just why? Most people will take a shot or smoke some weed or whatever, right? Yeah. You fill it with something else. What does everyone do right now? They go get hammered. They’re on Adderall. They take Molly, ketamine, whatever. They take it all while they’re. I’ve tried it all. As have you. Yeah. And then the next day, you feel like crap. So you take a Xanax or you take something like that.

I used to have to take Xanax to go to sleep because I was drinking so much and doing so many drugs that I couldn’t shut my brain off at night. And then you know what woke me up from that was when Michael Jackson died. I was taking Xanax at that time, and they were saying he was taking, like, 20 pills a day. And I had already figured out that your body builds up a tolerance to a drug like Xanax, so you need more and more and more.

I mean, I still remember the first one I ever took. It was the best feeling. I felt like I laid down on a cloud and floated away, and then it never really felt that good again, like most drugs. You know what was weird is someone brought it to my attention when I got off all the sleepy pills and I got off all the Xanax and I was not drinking anymore, I was still taking the substance called kratom.

And people were telling me, like, bro, you’re still on it. You’re still on drugs. I’m like, no bullshit. This stuff, you could buy this at 711. What are you talking about? I’m good. No, that was bad too. Ma’am, what the hell is that? Stuff we used to buy in college, there was this. I can’t remember the name. It was like an over the counter speed, basically. And we would drink.

It was something like that. Mini thins? Yeah, mini thin. We used to get shit faced and take mini thins. So feel like you have spiders all over your. We were crazy, man. We did the stupidest shit. And again, of course, I would never go that far. Now, I’m not a young crazy kid, but I still don’t trust myself on a drink or two, because then you’re like, oh, whatever.

I can have one more and then drive home. It’s only your tolerance, dude. Oh, yeah. Now that you’ve been sober, your tolerance is low. Oh, yeah. Look, again, I’m not thinking about it. I’m very focused on this year, getting rid of more bad habits, not adding other bad habits that I got over already back in. I think 2020 was like a portal year, and I think 2024 is another one.

And I think what we do this year is going to set the pace for the next thousand years. Whatever. I think at least in our lifetimes, whatever decision you decide to make right now is going to last the rest of your lifetime if you do it now. And I think this is the moment, this is the time that we all need to just like your shirt says, rise up, dude.

We got to really put the bad habits behind us and make a change, make a difference, like we’re doing. And it’s not easy. It’s not easy. People always tell me, like, oh, here’s another thing I get, and I’m sure you get the same thing. Like, you don’t hang out with us anymore, you don’t talk to us anymore. And it’s not that I think I’m better than anybody, it’s just that I don’t think I’m strong enough at this point in my life to lift someone else up onto the platform I’m on.

I can’t lift anybody up. I am not strong enough. You’ll pull me down. So I’m staying away out of fear. Yeah, I mean, I had kind of gotten out of the party scene, so I don’t get that that much. And my friends from home that still drink a lot, like I said, I’ll go out with them. I won’t go out with them out drinking at bars at night because there’s too much crazy stuff that can happen there.

But again, I’ll play golf with the budy. This happened a few months ago. He’s like, well, let’s have some beers after the round. I’m like, okay, but I’m going to have a non alcoholic beer. So I did. And he’s like, have another one. Sure, why not? Having fun talking, reminiscing, what it felt like to sit at a bar and drink beers. Next thing you know, this guy, I’m his crutch for him to have an excuse to keep drinking.

I’m like, dude, you can keep drinking. How many non alcoholic beers do you think I’m going to drink? What’s the point? Like, two or three is a lot. Yeah, I had one. I had no duels, like, a few months back, and I got a horrible acid reflux the next day. And I was like, body was going, yeah, your body was like, don’t do that. Yeah, exactly. That’s how I see it.

I don’t. I just. I wanted to bring you on because I know that we’re both in the same struggle. We’re both in the same. Yeah, and I just wanted to get your input, man, because. Yeah, well, look, when I left the music business, Nino, I said to God, you tell me what to do. This is not working for me the way I’m doing. I feel like I’m swimming upstream.

And he had me write a book which was about golf, but it’s not about golf. It was about me publicly talking about all the things that I need to work on so that I would put my ass on the line and be held accountable, because I’m the type of guy that I never want to be one of those people that’s full of shit if I say something to you.

I mean it, period. And so I’ve been on that journey for ten years now, but when 2020 hit, that really ramped it up. These last four years have been very intense, obviously. And as you said, as we keep saying this year, we can all tell, everybody can feel it. It’s only going to be more intense. We’ve got to have our best. Have you noticed? It’s like, this comes to my mind.

My budy owned a ranch, and one time we were driving in his truck, and he was pointing out to all the birds that were flying real low and the cattle was bunching together. He goes, you know what that means, right? And it was sunny, dude, it was sunny. And he was telling me, that means a storm is coming. And I was like, get the fuck out of. You serious? And he’s like, yeah, storm’s coming.

And sure shit, dude. Like, about six, 7 hours later, a storm came in, a big one. They felt that, like, electric charge or. Yep. As I think, humanity right now, we all feel, look what’s happening in the Middle east, look what’s happening in Israel, look what’s happening with China, Taiwan. I mean, it’s go time. It’s almost like, as we’re going into this shift, it’s like, who wants to control the timeline? Who’s going to control the rest of the next 1000 years, maybe the next 50,000 years, maybe the next 100,000 years, I don’t know.

But this is an important time. For whatever reason, this time right now, especially this year, 2024, is the pinnacle year of control. Whoever wins this wins the whole damn casino Royale. And because of that, each one of us, no matter how awake we are or how asleep we are, we’re all going to take some serious gut punches this year. People that we thought were on our side, that aren’t people, and vice versa.

People that we thought were bad and weren’t, it’s going to be. I don’t even know the right word for it. It’s brutal. Shocking, shocking, brutal. I’ve seen turncoats already. Sure. And I’m like, wow, man, I thought you were my friend. And people just coming out, spreading lies, latent fucking lies. And I’m like, you know what, man? People need to use their own discernment and decide what they’re going to do from here because I can only do so much.

This kind of just happened to me. I didn’t force this on anybody. I didn’t access that. This was all an accident. And what we’re seeing right now, especially within the patriot community, dude, I cannot believe what I’m seeing. Dude, it’s like a bad vampire movie. Like when you get. You’re like, you’re with your friend, and the next thing you know, he turns at you and he’s like, you’re one of them, too.

And it’s like, totally. That’s coming. And what’s coming for the people that haven’t woken up is the truth about the ding and the thing that you write on a piece of paper, and then they change it. All those truths are coming out, man. Oh, it’s going to be brutal, this. But even for us, we’re having what you said, people we thought that were on our side, that aren’t, and big names, too.

There will be some big names, and it’s just going to be unpredictably chaotic. But I do feel, and I do believe that it ends very well towards the end of 24, beginning of 25. I just feel it. And so it’s really a matter of survival. And again, how are you going to survive? Don’t take dumb chances. Yeah, take calculated risks. If you’re going to take a risk at all, maybe this isn’t the year to even take a risk.

I don’t know. People are telling me, oh, hey, we should go here and do this. A patriot event. We should do this tour. I’m like, guys, I don’t know what you’re talking about, but my intuition from God is telling me, stay put, hunker down. You know, you talk about that all the time. There’s going to be some really bad kinetic parts to this in our country probably this year.

Yeah, you could just show up to the wrong event. And guess what? Just like on j six, some wacky shit goes down. You’re a part of it now. You’re arrested. I mean, who knows? It could be like the Super bowl. Who the hell wants to go to the Super bowl at this point? First of all, the cheapest tickets are like $2,500. 03 grand now, which is a joke.

Just like 15 years ago, they were like $400. But why would you want to be around that many people that could be made into a target by a number of different evil people? Yeah, I just don’t want to do that. Not to mention, they’re going to be targeting events like that. With all these illegal immigrants coming in, what better thing to hit than a Super Bowl? I mean, you just don’t know.

They had it at the army Navy game, was at Foxboro at the Patriots stadium. Now, normally, last year, when they had the army Navy game there, first of all, all veterans had the chance to buy a ticket first. They didn’t do that this year. They gave them all to the season ticket holders and made them buy them. But that’s not the big problem. There’s two hotels there, and no veterans could stay in those hotels to go watch the army Navy game.

Why? They were filled with illegal immigrants. Good job, YouTube. Yeah, dude, you’re my hero. That you could still hang out here. I have too big of a mouth. I just start popping off to everybody and then they turn me off. You know what it is? It’s like boxing. It’s like stick and move and bob and weave and it’s fucking tiring. That’s what I’m saying, man, that’s why you’re my hero.

Because I know how tiring it is just to come. Like, not tonight, because it’s just you and I chatting like there’s no big deal. But if I had, again, like, looking over my shoulder, what am I going to say? I have people on my show telling me, you swear too much. I’m like, yeah, well, there’s kids doing awful things to children all over this world. When you end that, I’ll worry about my language.

How about that? Exactly. And I’ve actually made that promise that when we remove that problem, when it’s gone from the whole world, I promise I’ll never swear again. That’s how much that means to me. It’s worth it. I would be happy to never swear again. Dude, I’m with you. I get so much criticism and ridicule. I get hateful emails, threatening emails. People really don’t know what this entails, man.

This shit. I thought boxing was bad. I’m just starting to get a taste of going up towards your weight class on the podcasting world, and they’re already coming for know. I grew up in Boston. My friends. I was on a text group with my friends. They say the most foul shit to me, and we do to each other, right? Just vicious shit. Your Boston boy. Yeah, my budies from Boston.

And I’m like, guys, do you realize what you did for me? You’ve trained me to laugh at these fools when they insult me online because they can never be as vicious as my own friends. That’s also passive horror, boys. We’re cutthroat, dude. We’re always talking about each other’s moms and shit, dude. Horrible shit. And then you laugh and go out of drink. I’m talking terrible shit. Like, oh, my God.

There’s a group of buddies from Boston that a handful of which have never told me in their life, I love you. But they tell me, go fuck yourself. Which means in their language, I love you. And I’m like, okay, cool, I’ll take it. However, here’s something crazy. I have a friend that these dudes, they’re best of friends, but they’re like brothers, and I’m talking. They used to get in fistfights with each other.

Like, with ugly fistfights, okay? One night they’re out together and they’re fighting, and then the dude. I’m not going to say their names on here. And we’re like, okay, this friendship is over, all right? If he doesn’t died, this friendship is over, bro. They were out together the next weekend like it never happened. I’m like, bro, you shot at him. You wanted to kill him. Oh, we’re drunk, man.

Again. That’s why they call it spirits. Because when you get drunk at that level, these dark spirits latch on to you, and they literally take your flesh suit for a joyride. That person would never do some stupid shit like that sober. When you’re drunk, everything’s a great idea, right? It’s like, everything’s. We’re going to do that. That sounds good. I’m going to grab her ass, take her in the bathroom, and although things like that happen, but how many times was it not a good idea? It’s never a good idea to do something like that unless she’s given you the look that tells you she wants you to.

I’ll say this. The climate, the atmosphere wasn’t like it is now. No, it was more like, oh, game on. It wasn’t like it is now. This is a different animal, man. Again, while you’ve stayed out of it, right? Like, I can’t put myself, especially with the poison that people have put into their bodies. We don’t know what the repercussions of that are. So how could I even, like, I have to go around and ask that question on a first date? Like, dude, I don’t even want to deal with that.

I’d rather stay home and work, man. It’s just one of those sacrifices, and we have a lot of them. And this is only an intense fight. It’s only going to get harder. And I wanted to bring you on the show today because I wanted to introduce you to my audience and just commend you in the fight you’re in. Because I’ll be honest, nobody really did that for me.

When I quit drinking, I was on my own, and I had to make it public. And people asked me, why’d you make your sobriety public? And I was like, because I need to be held accountable. And I knew that would help me and my audience helped me get sober. So, folks, Michael Zilgen. Right? Zilgen. Zilgen. Yeah. Before you, me, I just want to thank you, because guys out there, Nino’s fans, Nino didn’t know me.

We had done one show together. We have a lot of mutual friends. I told him I was quitting drinking. He said, dude, call me or text me whenever you want. I’ll answer. And he’s kept to that, and he didn’t have to do that. And so I just want to thank you, dude. That’s meant a lot to been. I haven’t had that many moments where really, really needed someone.

But just having a sounding board there that knows what I’m dealing with has been immeasurable. So find someone like Nino that can support you. Thank you. I didn’t have a sponsor. I don’t have a sponsor. But anytime you text me, even if I don’t answer, keep texting me, I will get back to you. You’ve never not texted me back when I’ve texted you about drinking. Every single time you’ve texted me back, there’s other stuff I’ve texted you back.

You haven’t. And I’m like, all right, Nino’s busy. No big deal. But every time I’ve texted you about drinking, you’ve text me back every time. Because I know the struggle. Yeah, Mike, thanks for coming on, man. Where can people find you? Thanks for having me. Yeah. Zilosophy for all on rumble, truth and telegram. I got a really big show tomorrow night on rumble that I spell that out for everyone.

It’s zilosophy. So like the Z-I-L and my last name, Zilgen. So it’s philosophy, but with azilosophy. Okay. The number four, all. So if you see this logo on any of those channels, that’s me. All right, cool. Mike. Thanks for coming on, brother man. Let’s do some more shows. We did a lot. Whenever, you know, I was about to get into bed and Nino’s like, I want to do a podcast.

I’m like, okay, I’m not going to bed. I’m going to hang out with Nino. Thanks, man. I just appreciate you, and let’s keep in touch. And we’re doing a roundtable soon, aren’t we? Or no. Oh, yeah, that’s right. On Tuesday, we’re doing a secret societies roundtable with Kathy O’Brien and SG and on and Nino and what? Hold on. I don’t even have that. Uh, it’s 03:00 mountain time, so 03:00 your time.

When are we doing this? Tuesday. Tuesday. Oh, I got you. I got you at three. Awesome. I already. I do have it down. All right. All right, Mike. Take it easy. All right, folks. Let me just end this like this. Whatever you got staring you down right now, whatever demons you got staring you down, you can beat them. It could be a constant struggle. It could be hard, but you can do this.

And I wanted to bring Mike on to let you know he’s an example. I’m an example. We’re doing it together. You guys can join us and do it the same way, whether you’re on pills, whether you’re a sex addict, whether you’re alcohol, it doesn’t matter. You can stop this shit. And this is the year to do it, right, Mike? Absolutely. If we can do it, you can do it.

There’s no question. All right, Mike. Take it easy on that. All right, folks.  Leave comments down below, like and share this video or for Voda later. .

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