The Complete Guide to Happiness Podcast with Dr. Fantastic: Maj. General Dr. Dilawar Singh Interview

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[00:00:38] A fantastic day to one and all. Thanks for joining me. You're in for a fantastic show again.

[00:00:46] It is The Complete Guide to Happiness. And I'm going to do something completely different.

[00:00:54] You know, I have what's called the Be Fantastic YouTube channel. Thousands of videos, always positive, uplifting, you know, kindness and all those warm fuzzy things.

[00:01:05] On this particular show, we talk about everything. We'll talk about politics, we'll talk about religion, we'll talk about business, and today we're talking about war!

[00:01:15] Now I hope you can hear this, because you can just say, what does war have to do with happiness?

[00:01:20] Well, first off, let's play this. Let me see if you can hear it.

[00:01:44] Okay, so you might agree with that. I mean, war is about greed, in my opinion.

[00:01:48] And we've had wars throughout the centuries, you know. We've had World War I, we've had World War II. Supposedly we're in World War III, or it's coming around the corner.

[00:02:01] I wrote down a couple of the other ones, which you probably have heard of, because it makes a lot of money for a lot of people, these wars.

[00:02:09] It really does. I actually make notes nowadays. It's kind of interesting, if I could ever find them.

[00:02:14] So the wars, then there's the Korean War, a little bit before my time. The Vietnam War, my time. The Persian War. The Afghanistan War. The Iraqi War. Oh my goodness!

[00:02:30] Then we had the Civil War in America. Oh, we love wars, because they make so much money. It's so profitable.

[00:02:38] Anyway, so I looked up the definition of war, like I did earlier in my earlier broadcast on trust.

[00:02:45] I'd like to know what the definition of these things are, according to learned scholars.

[00:02:51] So war, the definition is, a state of armed conflict between different nations or states, or different groups within a nation or state.

[00:03:03] It's always something to fight about, and it's always about money or religion.

[00:03:09] So then I asked, well, okay, let's see if it's got anything to do with happiness.

[00:03:13] So I asked Google, my favorite assistant, can happiness come from war? You ready for this?

[00:03:22] You know, we could think, how can we be? If there was no wars, obviously we'd be happier, I think.

[00:03:27] Well, some people would be a little broker. But anyway, here's the answer from Google on, can happiness come from war?

[00:03:35] The answer. Wars may also increase happiness by providing shared experiences, raising national pride, and ennobling people.

[00:03:47] Complex flow increases individual soldiers' subjective happiness.

[00:03:59] Doesn't that beat all? I mean, let's have some war so we can be happier! Motherfingers!

[00:04:06] Oh! And then I said, where does happiness come from?

[00:04:10] I don't know. I see everyone on the show, what's your definition?

[00:04:14] But so I asked Google, where does happiness come from?

[00:04:16] And Google says, happiness is something we choose for ourselves.

[00:04:21] It is a choice. You can choose to be happy or you can choose to be miserable.

[00:04:25] It is our inner feeling that creates happiness along with how we interpret the events of life.

[00:04:34] I look at everything in a positive manner.

[00:04:36] I mean, my computer broke the other day.

[00:04:38] It cost me a few bucks to get it fixed. Now it's faster.

[00:04:41] They said the sound wasn't great, so I bought this thing.

[00:04:44] So now, hopefully, the sound is fantastic.

[00:04:49] It's just...

[00:04:50] So, leading that introduction of war, our guest is a major general.

[00:04:57] Now, we have over 9,600 ambassadors around the world in every field there is.

[00:05:06] We have the billionaires, the celebrities, the heads of state, the doctors, the lawyers, the Indian chiefs, and quite a few military folk.

[00:05:14] This one is our newest ambassador.

[00:05:16] He's an Indian, so he was a major general in India.

[00:05:22] And I'm going to learn about him as you learn about him because he's our newest ambassador.

[00:05:28] Now, I'm putting the word out to my ambassadors who wants to be interviewed.

[00:05:31] Everyone's busy.

[00:05:32] So, if a new one comes along, and he sounds interesting because I love to learn more stuff.

[00:05:39] Like, I lived in Cairo and in Egypt for some years, and they have to serve.

[00:05:44] There's a lot of countries where you have to serve, at least for a few months.

[00:05:48] France is the same way.

[00:05:49] So, I'm going to learn what the rules are in India.

[00:05:54] And, you know, you could learn a lot.

[00:05:56] I wasn't much from the military because I never liked to be told what to do.

[00:06:00] And they tell you exactly what to do, how to do it, when to do it.

[00:06:03] And I'm not one to take instructions very well.

[00:06:06] So, the military wasn't for me.

[00:06:08] That would have been the Vietnam War because I'm an old folk.

[00:06:10] But, so, coming up is our newest ambassador, Dillaway, from New Delhi, India.

[00:06:19] So, stand by for that.

[00:06:20] And in the meantime, whatever you did last week or today or last month or last year or in your life that made you happy, keep doing it.

[00:06:31] Do what makes you happy.

[00:06:33] Don't listen to other people because you're not doing it for them.

[00:06:36] Hopefully, you're doing it for you.

[00:06:38] So, do whatever makes you happy.

[00:06:40] You know?

[00:06:41] And if it's skateboarding, go out and skateboard.

[00:06:44] I like to dance.

[00:06:46] Do I look like, to some people, a fool when I get up on the bar top and dance?

[00:06:50] Maybe.

[00:06:51] I don't give a hell a darn.

[00:06:54] Because I'm doing it for me.

[00:06:55] Because I love to inspire people to get them up and get them all excited.

[00:06:59] And typically, whenever I get up on the bar, everyone else gets up on the bar and dances.

[00:07:02] So, I like to lead the way.

[00:07:04] You know?

[00:07:04] Break the ice, so to speak.

[00:07:06] And have fun.

[00:07:07] Have fun in life.

[00:07:08] Life is for being happy and having fun.

[00:07:12] It goes by too quick.

[00:07:13] Before you know it, you're going to be old.

[00:07:16] Now, I hope I'm never going to be old.

[00:07:18] But one day, I might be old.

[00:07:20] I don't even like old people.

[00:07:21] I can't relate to them.

[00:07:23] Because some people say I'm old.

[00:07:24] I think I'm ageless.

[00:07:26] But, you know, when you think like a 26-year-old your whole life, it's hard to break the habit.

[00:07:30] And I think it's a fantastic habit because I love to dance.

[00:07:33] I love to sing.

[00:07:34] I love to chase the girls.

[00:07:35] I love to have fun in life.

[00:07:37] I love to drink.

[00:07:38] I love to dance and be married.

[00:07:39] Why not?

[00:07:40] And I encourage you guys to do that.

[00:07:42] Follow my lead.

[00:07:44] You know, don't listen to other people.

[00:07:46] Because their opinion and their advice isn't for you.

[00:07:49] It's for them.

[00:07:50] It's going to make them happy.

[00:07:52] Or maybe to see you miserable.

[00:07:54] Because people love...

[00:07:54] Misery loves company, as they say.

[00:07:56] Okay.

[00:07:57] So, he's standing by.

[00:07:58] So, let me take a little break here.

[00:08:00] And I'll come back.

[00:08:00] And we'll have some fun with D-I-L-A-W-A-R.

[00:08:06] The last three letters in his name are war.

[00:08:10] What are the odds of that?

[00:08:12] Isn't life fantastic?

[00:08:15] Okay.

[00:08:16] Talk to you in a bit.

[00:08:16] Well, everyone, I'm happy to introduce my newest ambassador.

[00:08:21] Well, one of my newest ambassadors of kindness.

[00:08:23] He is in Delhi, India.

[00:08:26] And he's a major general.

[00:08:28] His name is Dilwar Singh.

[00:08:31] And he's ambassador number 9631.

[00:08:35] Dilwar, welcome to the complete guide to happiness.

[00:08:39] What's going on in Delhi today?

[00:08:43] Thank you.

[00:08:44] Thank you so much.

[00:08:45] So, basically my first question to all my guests are,

[00:08:49] how do you define happiness?

[00:08:54] Happiness is basically satisfaction of your desires.

[00:08:59] Satisfaction.

[00:09:00] It sounds very...

[00:09:01] What are the India prophets?

[00:09:03] There's a lot of India prophets that you probably come to mind, right?

[00:09:07] Because India is a very old culture.

[00:09:10] It's a very large culture.

[00:09:12] I haven't been to India yet.

[00:09:14] And I'm going to come visit you.

[00:09:15] Because my goal is to travel around the world.

[00:09:20] Professing the three commitments to kindness,

[00:09:22] which I feel solve all mankind's problems.

[00:09:25] So, India has a lot of famous prophets, yes?

[00:09:29] In our country, every third person is a prophet.

[00:09:32] There you go.

[00:09:33] That's what I was trying to get across.

[00:09:34] Every third person is a prophet.

[00:09:36] And we have had a large number of them.

[00:09:38] And what we follow is basically whether prophets say something or not,

[00:09:43] we have an ancient sort of belief,

[00:09:46] very ancient belief that we have a lot of scriptures which tell us,

[00:09:51] unlike the other religions,

[00:09:53] Indian, the majority religion is the Hindu religion.

[00:09:56] Right.

[00:09:56] And in Hindu religion,

[00:09:58] we have large number of scriptures,

[00:10:00] thousands and thousands of scriptures.

[00:10:02] And amongst them,

[00:10:04] the one which is most followed,

[00:10:06] most read and most popular,

[00:10:08] is a book known as Bhagavad Gita.

[00:10:13] For ease of understanding, call it Gita.

[00:10:16] In that, the most appealing and omnipresent character is that of a God,

[00:10:25] God known as Lord Krishna.

[00:10:29] Lord Krishna, okay.

[00:10:30] Lord Krishna.

[00:10:32] And Lord Krishna, when the battle of Kurukshetra is about to take place,

[00:10:41] and when one set of people are ready to fight with this other set of people,

[00:10:48] the hero of the battle, who is known as Arjuna, he gets double-minded.

[00:10:54] He gets double-minded because he says,

[00:10:58] my own kit and kin are standing on the opposite side.

[00:11:02] How can I kill them?

[00:11:05] Right.

[00:11:06] So, it is at that point that a large sermon is given by Lord Krishna.

[00:11:15] In that sermon, he motivates him to not only fight the battle, but conveys a large number of things,

[00:11:23] which are very, very relevant, not only to our religion, but they are universal in nature.

[00:11:30] Even you follow them.

[00:11:32] Everybody else follows them across the world.

[00:11:36] Okay.

[00:11:36] So, following him, there are a large number of prophets.

[00:11:40] And everybody tries to interpret things the way they understand.

[00:11:47] Right.

[00:11:49] Yeah.

[00:11:51] So, there's a lot of people in your country.

[00:11:54] And so, it's a peaceful country, yes?

[00:11:59] Yes.

[00:12:00] Now, you're a major general.

[00:12:03] I was a major general.

[00:12:05] And after retirement, or rather just before retirement, I was promoted further.

[00:12:10] I became the director general.

[00:12:12] And then, I finally retired as a director general.

[00:12:15] Wow.

[00:12:17] So…

[00:12:17] I was in charge of the youth development throughout the country.

[00:12:22] It was a national director general role.

[00:12:25] In India, are you obliged as a young man to serve a certain amount of time?

[00:12:30] Does everyone have to serve their country?

[00:12:33] No, not everybody.

[00:12:35] It is by choice.

[00:12:36] By choice.

[00:12:37] Okay.

[00:12:37] Because in France, many countries, you have to serve.

[00:12:41] Yeah.

[00:12:42] In Singapore, it is compulsory.

[00:12:44] Okay.

[00:12:45] So, now, there's…

[00:12:46] Do you have the army, navy, air force, all that America has?

[00:12:50] Or just an army?

[00:12:51] You have all…

[00:12:52] We have a very, very large army.

[00:12:55] We are perhaps the second largest army in the world.

[00:12:58] Wow.

[00:12:59] And you were in charge of how many people as a major general?

[00:13:03] As a major general, I was in charge of about 30,000 people.

[00:13:07] 30,000 people.

[00:13:09] 30,000 people.

[00:13:09] That's a lot of people you're responsible for.

[00:13:12] Yes.

[00:13:13] And…

[00:13:13] Do you have like a Pentagon, like America has, where all the generals get together?

[00:13:20] Yes, we have.

[00:13:22] We have.

[00:13:22] What's it called?

[00:13:24] We have an annual meet.

[00:13:28] Annual meet?

[00:13:29] Yeah.

[00:13:30] Okay.

[00:13:31] That's a lot of people to organize.

[00:13:33] How many in the total is there in the services?

[00:13:37] All the services?

[00:13:40] Depends on what occasion the meet is and what purpose it is.

[00:13:46] No, but I mean you have the army.

[00:13:48] You have the navy.

[00:13:49] You have a navy.

[00:13:50] You have marines.

[00:13:51] Or not, maybe not marines.

[00:13:52] We have…

[00:13:53] We have the army, which is the largest.

[00:13:56] Okay.

[00:13:57] Which is about 1.3 million.

[00:14:04] 1.4 million.

[00:14:06] Did you have a billion people plus?

[00:14:08] What?

[00:14:08] What do you have?

[00:14:09] 1.2 billion in your country?

[00:14:11] Yeah.

[00:14:12] We have a billion plus.

[00:14:14] 1.4 billion.

[00:14:15] Well, Dilavar, we need more ambassadors of kindness in India.

[00:14:21] You know, I truly believe that I've made it so simple because there's too many wars.

[00:14:27] I think there's 30 wars going on right now.

[00:14:29] There's too much violence.

[00:14:31] There's too much greed.

[00:14:32] There's not enough education and there's too much poverty.

[00:14:36] India has a lot of poverty.

[00:14:37] And I truly believe if we start teaching the children about kindness, we might have a chance at our future.

[00:14:47] Because I'm calling the situation on the planet the insanity of humanity.

[00:14:52] As you know, this is being pre-recorded for broadcast in a couple weeks.

[00:14:58] But yesterday was November 5th, 2024.

[00:15:02] And I did a little video.

[00:15:04] I called it a day that will live in infamy.

[00:15:08] Because whether President Trump won or lost, it was going to be an amazing day.

[00:15:15] And I think I was proven right.

[00:15:17] Because last night, I don't know if you were watching the results or you watched the videos, but it was an incredible night.

[00:15:28] Nobody slept last night, I don't think.

[00:15:31] I understand.

[00:15:31] I understand.

[00:15:32] So now that changes the course of history.

[00:15:35] You know, you could say every day will live in infamy.

[00:15:38] I believe it was when that was coined, that saying, it was the start of World War II, if I'm not mistaken.

[00:15:47] You guys were involved in World War II.

[00:15:49] I'm not a history buff.

[00:15:50] So I'm from a different planet.

[00:15:52] So I just like to ask questions because I'm curious.

[00:15:55] No, you're welcome to ask the questions.

[00:15:57] My great grandfather fought the World War II.

[00:16:01] Oh, your great grandfather.

[00:16:03] My great grandfather fought the first and the second great wars.

[00:16:08] Wow.

[00:16:09] Yeah.

[00:16:10] He was part of both.

[00:16:12] So how does, in your opinion, how does happiness come out of war?

[00:16:19] Happiness in war will be from a few factors.

[00:16:25] The first factor is that you are doing something to defend, to protect, and to safeguard a large number of civilian citizens of your country.

[00:16:42] So it is a matter of pride and happiness that you are useful to your country.

[00:16:48] You are useful to your countrymen.

[00:16:51] And that perhaps is a matter of great pride and huge happiness.

[00:16:57] The second part of happiness in war is that you are able to cooperate and fight with your team, shoulder to shoulder, in the face of the most grave dangers.

[00:17:15] And that gives you a thrill, thrill and happiness of its own kind.

[00:17:22] Third is when you are attacking or being attacked by the enemy.

[00:17:29] Okay.

[00:17:30] And when you are able to neutralize them.

[00:17:34] And when you are able to kill the notorious ones.

[00:17:40] That gives you satisfaction and happiness.

[00:17:44] And at the end of the war, when you go back.

[00:17:50] And when you meet your families, you meet the other civilian friends of yours and the community and the population.

[00:17:56] The way they greet you.

[00:17:59] The way they feel happy for the contribution made by you.

[00:18:04] That gives you the ultimate happiness.

[00:18:08] Brilliantly put.

[00:18:09] Thank you for that.

[00:18:10] You know, they had a war here.

[00:18:13] It was called the Vietnam War.

[00:18:16] And unfortunately, the soldiers came back.

[00:18:18] You know, they didn't start the war.

[00:18:19] They were fighting for their country or fighting for a cause.

[00:18:22] You know, you know, wars, I think, are really based around money and greed.

[00:18:26] But in my opinion.

[00:18:28] But when they came back, they weren't treated very well.

[00:18:31] They were treated horrendously or spat on.

[00:18:34] They weren't respected at all.

[00:18:37] Because everyone has a different opinion.

[00:18:39] And no matter what you do, you're going to piss off half the people.

[00:18:42] No matter what.

[00:18:43] And that's what my video was yesterday.

[00:18:46] A day that will live in infamy.

[00:18:48] Because if Ms. Harris would have won, it would have been real big turmoil.

[00:18:52] Because half the country loves Donald Trump.

[00:18:55] And I really think Trump is going to bring the country together.

[00:18:59] Because the people I've met that have met him personally.

[00:19:02] He's a different person than the one that's in the media.

[00:19:05] And the media is a tainted broadcast network that's just a titillation network, you know.

[00:19:16] News is an entertainment program.

[00:19:18] For some reason, humans love destruction.

[00:19:21] They love to see how many people died that day.

[00:19:24] And how many horrendous natural occurrences were in the world.

[00:19:28] And the hurricanes and tornadoes and floods.

[00:19:31] And horrible things.

[00:19:33] And they tried the good news in America, the network.

[00:19:38] And it didn't work.

[00:19:39] Because people want bad news.

[00:19:41] Matter of fact, India.

[00:19:43] I'm doing a project in India for aerospace.

[00:19:46] I don't know if you like aerospace or not.

[00:19:48] But you guys had some horrendous flooding.

[00:19:50] I don't know if you still have it or not.

[00:19:52] But the project I'm working on are gyrocopters that will transport humans in the air.

[00:20:00] Because a gyrocopter is the safest vehicle in the air.

[00:20:04] And these particular gyrocopters are jet propulsion electric.

[00:20:09] So they're silent.

[00:20:10] They're fast.

[00:20:11] They're economical.

[00:20:12] So that's a nice project I'm working on.

[00:20:14] And India seems to love it.

[00:20:15] Because you guys are a big country.

[00:20:17] And when you're flooded, you need to get around.

[00:20:19] I mean, this is a project that all countries are going to need.

[00:20:22] It's called EJET.

[00:20:24] Take a look at it.

[00:20:25] EJET.tech.

[00:20:26] T-E-C-H.

[00:20:27] It's an amazing proposal for the future.

[00:20:32] You know, the future is really pretty wild.

[00:20:35] We've got some amazing technologies.

[00:20:37] We've got some amazing people.

[00:20:39] But we still need to curb the violence, I believe.

[00:20:42] You know.

[00:20:43] But like you say, maybe war keeps it in check.

[00:20:46] What was the last war India had?

[00:20:48] Were you in a war?

[00:20:50] The last war that we had was 1999.

[00:20:55] 99?

[00:20:56] 25 years ago.

[00:20:56] What happened?

[00:20:58] This was the Kargil war as we call it.

[00:21:02] When our neighbor, our western neighbor, Pakistan.

[00:21:07] They entered into our area and they captured.

[00:21:11] Not captured really, but because in winters, both sides used to withdraw to.

[00:21:16] From the places where there is too much of snow.

[00:21:19] Too much of snow.

[00:21:23] So, surreptitiously, they had come and climbed and occupied those heights which belong to India.

[00:21:31] But they had come with a malintention if I'm a call it.

[00:21:39] What did they want to do?

[00:21:40] Did they want to come to the country?

[00:21:42] What did they want to do?

[00:21:44] Then we had to evict them.

[00:21:46] Right.

[00:21:47] What was their intention coming to your country?

[00:21:50] They worked.

[00:21:51] They can't.

[00:21:51] I mean, Pakistan is a small country.

[00:21:53] They can't conquer India.

[00:21:56] No, you see, we have areas which are very, very difficult terrain.

[00:22:01] In fact, I can call it treacherous terrain.

[00:22:04] Very difficult terrain.

[00:22:06] In those areas in the winter, there is a lot of snow.

[00:22:11] In areas that are more than 10 feet of snow.

[00:22:14] Okay.

[00:22:14] So, it was the understanding between both the countries that both armies can withdraw to summer locations as they were called.

[00:22:27] Locations which were not having that much of snow.

[00:22:31] And as soon as the winters are over, they again go back and occupy closer locations.

[00:22:38] So, when a location is vacant, if somebody surreptitiously comes and occupies that, that is not ethical, not correct, not fair.

[00:22:49] That's what they did.

[00:22:51] And therefore, we had to then punish them and evict them.

[00:22:56] How long did that war take?

[00:22:58] That was a short conflict, about a month or so.

[00:23:06] Oh.

[00:23:07] Okay.

[00:23:07] But you consider it a war, not a conflict?

[00:23:12] We call it Kargil War.

[00:23:15] War, yeah.

[00:23:16] I once, I was living in Egypt for some years and I picked up this Bible that was laying on the side of the road.

[00:23:22] And, you know, I'm not a religious man, but I opened it up literally to the middle of the book.

[00:23:28] And I looked off to the left where a section has started.

[00:23:31] And it was, and this is exactly what it said, which blew my mind.

[00:23:35] It said, it was spring, the time when kings go off to war.

[00:23:41] I'm thinking, because it's good weather, we're going to go to war?

[00:23:44] I mean, it's the insanity of humanity.

[00:23:46] We've had wars.

[00:23:47] I mean, are you a historian?

[00:23:50] We've had wars since the dawn of man, right?

[00:23:54] No, I'm not a historian.

[00:23:56] Yeah.

[00:23:56] Plus you said you have a memory problem like me.

[00:23:59] Yeah, I am.

[00:24:01] What is that building behind you?

[00:24:04] This building is the parliament building.

[00:24:06] Parliament?

[00:24:08] Ah.

[00:24:08] Indian parliament.

[00:24:10] Okay.

[00:24:10] Is that in Delhi?

[00:24:12] Yeah, it is in Delhi.

[00:24:14] What do you like about India as far as just a beautiful place to visit and what are your favorite spots in India?

[00:24:26] India is one of the most beautiful countries.

[00:24:30] We have every single kind of terrain here.

[00:24:34] From the highest mountains, which go up to say 28,000 feet, 29,000 feet.

[00:24:43] Down to the large coastline that we have.

[00:24:46] We have huge jungles.

[00:24:48] We have deserts.

[00:24:50] We have very cold climate.

[00:24:52] We have very hot climate.

[00:24:54] a lot of rivers.

[00:24:56] A lot of natural landscape.

[00:24:58] A lot of natural landscape.

[00:24:58] So that is as far as the natural beauty is concerned.

[00:25:02] And as far as the other places to visit are concerned, we have a large number of these ports, which you can call it his are places of historical interest.

[00:25:13] Then we have large number of temples, places of worship.

[00:25:19] So they are very, very beautiful, large, ancient and very old places of worship.

[00:25:25] They are really worth seeing.

[00:25:27] Their architecture, their beauty.

[00:25:29] And a lot of people have immense faith in the religion, faith in the gods which reside in those temples.

[00:25:37] And those are next set of, should I say, places of beauty.

[00:25:42] Beauty of architecture, beauty of faith, beauty of, should I say, a very, very long history.

[00:25:48] So we have then man-made these buildings of different kinds.

[00:25:55] And amongst them now we have also these modern new sub cities and townships, which are very, very beautiful.

[00:26:03] So we have all kinds of places to visit.

[00:26:06] And for doing so, we have a very large number of airports.

[00:26:11] We have very large number of railways which are running.

[00:26:15] So very, very beautiful.

[00:26:17] And the people are very nice.

[00:26:19] People of India are very nice people.

[00:26:21] They are very warm people.

[00:26:22] They welcome everybody.

[00:26:24] In fact, if somebody is not seen India, then I can say that the person is missing a lot of it.

[00:26:32] India is one place where if you come, you'll never feel like going back.

[00:26:36] Very beautiful place.

[00:26:38] It's a continent, yes?

[00:26:40] Yes.

[00:26:42] Subcontinent.

[00:26:43] So there's seven continents in the world, if I'm not mistaken.

[00:26:48] It is subcontinent.

[00:26:50] Oh, subcontinent.

[00:26:51] Yes.

[00:26:53] The main continent is what's called Asia, I guess?

[00:26:56] Yes.

[00:26:57] Okay.

[00:26:59] Yeah, I look forward to visiting India, that's for sure.

[00:27:02] I guess you can't see it in a week, that's for sure.

[00:27:04] It's like America with 50 states.

[00:27:07] It's got quite a diverse landscape as well.

[00:27:11] I love traveling.

[00:27:12] I'm on what's called the Be Fantastic Kindness Tour.

[00:27:17] And I'm traveling the world, professing the three commitments to kindness, which as you know, are be kind to yourself, be kind to all others, and be kind to Mother Earth.

[00:27:26] And so whatever I can do to promote that, and I was invited to host this podcast, the Complete Guide to Happiness, because isn't that our goal in life is to be happy?

[00:27:38] Yes, certainly, certainly.

[00:27:40] Certainly.

[00:27:40] And I can tell you that a very large number of people here today are trying to follow that path.

[00:27:47] Very large number of people.

[00:27:48] In fact, I'll be very happy to mention that coming 10th of December, we will be conducting a huge event.

[00:28:01] That huge event is World Digital Detox Day.

[00:28:10] World Digital Detox Day.

[00:28:12] World Digital Detox Day.

[00:28:12] And this itself has the element of kindness in it because the thought is of kindness.

[00:28:19] We want to be creating awareness and trying to make people to volunteer to follow a balanced life.

[00:28:32] We understand that in today's environment, in today's current system, we cannot stay away from all the digital equipments.

[00:28:43] We will have to use them.

[00:28:45] Right.

[00:28:45] But then we need to be balanced because otherwise there are large number of health effects which have started taking place.

[00:28:54] Very, very large number of people are getting their eyes which are getting affected.

[00:28:59] Then their shoulders are getting affected.

[00:29:03] They're starting to develop spondylitis.

[00:29:05] Then people are developing low backache.

[00:29:09] Then people are developing, say, your gut health issues and other issues.

[00:29:16] So this digital detox aims to create awareness for balanced life.

[00:29:24] For a good healthy life.

[00:29:27] For a life full of wellness and life full of happiness.

[00:29:32] And life full of happiness and wellness can only come if you are very, very kind to each other.

[00:29:38] And as you rightly said, the kindness has to start from yourself.

[00:29:44] Be kind to yourself.

[00:29:46] Lead a very happy life.

[00:29:47] Lead a balanced life.

[00:29:48] Lead a meaningful life.

[00:29:52] And for that we are trying to now hold this event.

[00:29:55] It is an international event.

[00:29:56] Large number of people from all over the world come there.

[00:29:59] I will also be going there.

[00:30:01] I'm one of their global ambassadors.

[00:30:04] So we'll do that.

[00:30:05] Then there is another thing which I'm engaged in and that is supporting of the Paralympic sportspersons.

[00:30:14] I don't want to call them disabled sportspersons, but we call them Paralympic sportspersons.

[00:30:20] So that is what I do.

[00:30:22] We run a small academy also for training them.

[00:30:25] Then we try and help them in as many ways as possible.

[00:30:30] So aim is to have a very inclusive, affirmative kind of a society which is kind to each other.

[00:30:37] In fact, you'll be happy to know that the area that I belong to, the villages are beautiful, small communities.

[00:30:46] Very beautiful, small communities where the principle of kindness runs through the complete living of everybody.

[00:30:56] For example, if I may tell you that if somebody's daughter is getting married, he need not to worry whether he has money or not.

[00:31:07] Because all the arrangements will be done by the entire lot of villagers.

[00:31:14] Everybody will contribute something and the wedding will take place and the parents may not feel any, should I say, stress at all.

[00:31:25] So everybody is very, very kind to each other.

[00:31:28] They're islands of kindness, if I may call them.

[00:31:33] So very wonderful environment, if I may say.

[00:31:36] That's fantastic because kindness leads to happiness.

[00:31:40] A note on Paralympics.

[00:31:42] I found that humans, when they lose a limb or they lose a sense, they're usually happier afterwards.

[00:31:51] Because they're doing things they've never done in their life.

[00:31:53] They joined the Olympics.

[00:31:55] And it's amazing how the mind can compensate for loss of something.

[00:32:01] Exactly.

[00:32:03] It is a very, very beautiful feeling.

[00:32:06] And helping others.

[00:32:08] Like what you're doing is helping others obviously brings happiness.

[00:32:12] I also want to mention, you were talking about the world digital detox state.

[00:32:16] The detox I can see is like, come to a new consciousness.

[00:32:20] You know what I mean?

[00:32:21] Unfortunately, we're all glued to these devices.

[00:32:24] You know?

[00:32:24] It's kind of horrible.

[00:32:26] You know, the kids aren't exercising enough.

[00:32:30] They're not playing in the yard.

[00:32:31] They're glued.

[00:32:32] And then this is a babysitter now.

[00:32:34] They give this to two year olds.

[00:32:36] So they don't have to deal with them because, you know, it's a hectic life out there for

[00:32:40] a lot of people.

[00:32:41] A lot of people are stressed.

[00:32:42] And as a philosopher, I talk a lot about stress, how to reduce it.

[00:32:46] But I want to mention that I wrote a speech that I hope to one day deliver to the United

[00:32:53] Nations.

[00:32:53] But I figured, you know, that's one small moment in time to deliver that speech.

[00:32:59] And it will fall on obviously legislators and leaders' ears.

[00:33:05] But I think it's more important to fall on the people's ears.

[00:33:09] So I'm going to share that with you.

[00:33:11] I'm going to send it to you after this interview.

[00:33:14] And I would love any opportunity I get to speak whether it's Zoom or in person at conferences

[00:33:20] like you're doing there.

[00:33:22] I totally believe in logic, hundreds of thousands of people, now 9,600 ambassadors.

[00:33:31] And science have proven that words matter.

[00:33:35] And when we use the word fantastic, it makes you smile, which releases stress, anxiety and

[00:33:40] depression.

[00:33:41] And it brings happiness, the smile.

[00:33:44] So I'm on a mission and I need more people to hear it.

[00:33:48] But this program here is getting out to a few people.

[00:33:50] I'm getting some really great, I mean, the ambassadors I have in this group that you're

[00:33:55] part of, Dilamar, is amazing.

[00:33:58] It's, they're billionaires, they're movie stars, there's generals now.

[00:34:04] I'm not sure how many generals I have, but my sister was a general or she wanted to be an

[00:34:10] admiral or something like that.

[00:34:11] Anyway, it's, I'm just really proud and happy that my words are resonating more so lately.

[00:34:19] I don't know if my message is more succinct.

[00:34:22] And, but the, the level of, and the caliber of ambassadors that are joining this kindness

[00:34:29] revolution are incredible.

[00:34:31] And I have what's called WhatsApp groups all around the world, over 700 local.

[00:34:37] I started with countries.

[00:34:39] I had India is fantastic.

[00:34:40] I had Germany is fantastic.

[00:34:42] And I, I felt that everyone felt like me, they would encourage their whole country to be

[00:34:48] kind, but that didn't work.

[00:34:50] So now I have local groups because this has to be spread in a community.

[00:34:55] You know, India has many, many cities, many towns, villages.

[00:34:59] Uh, so we need to spread it locally.

[00:35:03] And what happens is, um, we create a group.

[00:35:05] Let's just say Delhi is fantastic.

[00:35:07] We get someone that has a few minutes of their time each day to invite people in to hear about

[00:35:12] the three commitments, to hear about, um, the complete guide to happiness, which is helping

[00:35:17] a lot of people, uh, look at life a little differently.

[00:35:20] Um, and so basically an admin, it's a very easy job, you know, to invite people digitally.

[00:35:27] And then if they get really excited and they really are ambitious and passionate, they become

[00:35:31] the country's director.

[00:35:33] We only have one director in every country.

[00:35:35] So if you were one day to become, uh, India's director, that's, that's a pretty big, uh,

[00:35:41] directorial ship, but it's just guiding the admin to, you know, the information that we

[00:35:47] release that we have on our multiple websites that we have throughout all social media.

[00:35:53] And, um, and then of course what will happen eventually after we have one, uh, director

[00:35:58] in each country and there's 195 countries, as you know, um, we will have what's called

[00:36:03] global ambassadors, one for each continent.

[00:36:06] So we'll have seven global ambassadors, 195 directors and 10,000 plus admin.

[00:36:12] That's my vision.

[00:36:14] That's my goal.

[00:36:15] And speaking of 195 countries, one of our ambassadors is from a place called Granada, St. George's

[00:36:21] Granada.

[00:36:22] And he's got a program, a very ambitious program to go around the world in 365 days, visiting

[00:36:31] all 195 countries in a caravan, a very expensive project, of course.

[00:36:36] And it's about climate change because you know, you know about climate change.

[00:36:41] It's not our fault.

[00:36:42] We contribute to it surely, but throughout history with the earth has had many climate

[00:36:47] changes.

[00:36:48] And I feel that if everyone uses one third less everything, it will help drive a third less

[00:36:53] of the time.

[00:36:54] Use a third less toothpaste.

[00:36:56] You buy a third less clothes.

[00:36:59] Eat a third.

[00:36:59] If you're fat, eat a third less food.

[00:37:01] I mean, you're going to lose weight.

[00:37:03] So I call it the third rule.

[00:37:05] I made a video on it yesterday.

[00:37:06] Um, so basically, uh, uh, Johan who's heading up the one, the website is 195 in 365.com.

[00:37:14] Uh, and it's, it's, it's again, it's the youth, the youth are our future.

[00:37:19] And, uh, as you might know, I have what's called the global kindness pledge.

[00:37:24] And I'm going to have you repeat it after me because I want you to feel it.

[00:37:28] And I want the people listening right now to repeat it after me.

[00:37:31] So a deal of art, this is how it goes.

[00:37:33] Of course, I pledge to be kind to, I pledge to be kind to.

[00:37:38] And love myself and love myself.

[00:37:41] I pledge, to be kind to I pledge, to be kind to

[00:37:44] and strive to love all others and strive and help all others.

[00:37:50] Love all others.

[00:37:52] I pledge to be kind to, I pledge to be kind to love and respect our Mother Earth.

[00:37:58] .

[00:37:59] and respect our mother earth. India is fantastic. India is Gnardik. We are all fantastic. We are all

[00:38:09] fantastic. You are fantastic. You are fantastic. I am fantastic. I am fantastic. How does that make

[00:38:17] you feel to say that? Excellent. If the children of the planet, the children in every country

[00:38:24] were to recite this pledge every day, here's what's going to happen. It will build their

[00:38:31] self-confidence, which as you know, is the most important thing in life because if you're not

[00:38:37] confident and you're not happy, you can't be of service to your God, your country, your family,

[00:38:41] yourself, your business, nothing, right? So that builds self-confidence. Imagine every day looking

[00:38:47] in the mirror and saying, I am fantastic. Unfortunately, people beat themselves up and

[00:38:51] say, I'm a loser. I don't have enough money. I don't have a girlfriend, blah, blah, blah.

[00:38:55] They beat themselves up. We all do that and it's a shame. So basically that pledge creates

[00:39:01] self-confidence. It also creates in a group camaraderie like the army does. And this pledge,

[00:39:08] by the way, isn't commercial because this is my gift to the world. It's free. It's not religious

[00:39:15] and it's not political. It's a pledge for the future of humanity to be kind. So the second,

[00:39:24] you know, pledge is to be kind to all others, the golden rule. And the third is be kind to Mother

[00:39:29] Earth, you know? So those three commitments literally solve all mankind's problems. It stops war,

[00:39:38] violence, killing, lying, stealing, cheating, bullying, teasing, raping, all evils that man does.

[00:39:45] Those three commitments literally solve if we're kind. Two words that save the planet, be kind. And

[00:39:54] I want you to help me if you have some time. You're retired now, right? Yeah. I'm retired too. And this

[00:40:00] is my retirement plan to go around the world, visit India, visit, I'm really big in Africa. I've got 34 of

[00:40:07] the 56 countries with ambassadors in it. I've got just five really passionate or no, eight really

[00:40:15] passionate directors. And they are inspiring their admin in each of the cities in that country. I've

[00:40:22] got Kenya, Uganda, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, and a couple others. And that's very exciting to see it built

[00:40:29] because really I'm just at the start after five years of doing this at the start of really starting

[00:40:35] to get some momentum. It's like a snowball rolling down the hill. People are getting it. People, and

[00:40:42] then they're volunteers. It's a 9,600 volunteers that see the logic and what will come of being kind.

[00:40:54] And you're retired. Maybe you have a couple minutes each day to help make India great again,

[00:41:02] speak, spread. It's all about exposure. So if I were to have a Zoom call or come to India for that matter,

[00:41:10] for that world digital detox state, I would love the honor of speaking. I could make a speech in five

[00:41:21] minutes or I could speak for five hours. But obviously at an event like that, five minutes is all I need

[00:41:27] because it's just introducing three commitments, three simple yet hard commitments that improve your life,

[00:41:36] improve the life on our planet, and the environment. You know, I mean, it's, it's, I'm excited to have come

[00:41:43] up with it. I mean, you know, I've been around the planet a few times. I've done a lot of things in my life,

[00:41:48] met the most amazing people, done the most amazing things. I've got a book published called Lester's Legacy.

[00:41:53] I'm coming out with a new book and it's called How to Be a Fantastic Person. And it's all my philosophies.

[00:42:01] And every day you're getting them now. I don't know if you, I'm reading it. A lot of people don't

[00:42:06] have time, but I take a famous philosopher or celebrity and I pick a subject and I post their

[00:42:15] motivational or inspirational quote on that. And alongside that, I give one of my quotes because I

[00:42:21] got more quotes than Carter's has pills because I love life and I, I just, I just have a passion

[00:42:28] and love for, um, for what I'm doing. And that's the secret to happiness, by the way,

[00:42:33] to jump out of bed each morning, looking forward to your day. I jumped out of, you actually,

[00:42:38] it was late night last night. I didn't jump out of bed this morning. You dragged me out of bed.

[00:42:44] You reminded me that I was supposed to call you and I apologize for being a little bit late,

[00:42:47] but see as in retirement, I don't have a clock. I don't even know why I wear a wristwatch. It's

[00:42:53] just a nice piece of jewelry now because I, sometimes I don't know what day it is. I really

[00:42:57] don't care what time it is. And if I have an appointment, typically they remind me like you

[00:43:01] did. And thank you for that. You know, being a general, you got to be on time, right?

[00:43:07] Yes. Always. And too many people aren't on time. I think it's a travesty. I think if you want to

[00:43:13] succeed in business, show up an hour early and leave an hour late. Imagine if all your,

[00:43:18] all your soldiers were to, um, show up late. Oh, speaking of soldiers, I got a story for you.

[00:43:25] I was at Quantico, Virginia. You ever go to that modern day Marine, uh, show there each year,

[00:43:32] they have a show called modern day Marine and all the services come in to see all the warfare,

[00:43:37] and, uh, I was asked to go there to showcase, um, a new invention. And as I was there, I was the

[00:43:44] first time in my life. I was surrounded by the military, all, you know, all branches. And it was

[00:43:49] quite impressive, you know, the uniforms and, you know, everybody in a uniform looks really sharp.

[00:43:54] I was hoping you were going to wear your, your, your uniform, but that's okay. Um, you're still a

[00:43:59] major general. Uh, and, uh, so I was there and I came up with an idea because a lot of people want to

[00:44:06] thank the military for what they've done. And they really typically can't thank them because when

[00:44:12] you're in an airport and yesterday you were at an airport and tomorrow you're going to be at an

[00:44:16] airport, I guess. Um, and you're dressed like that. No one knows you're a major general.

[00:44:20] If you wore your uniform, you'd be stopped every five minutes to thank, be thanked for being a

[00:44:26] general. So I came up with a thing called supporting our servicemen and it became a non nonprofit.

[00:44:32] And, uh, it was quite successful for a while. Um, and basically it was to help and thank our

[00:44:38] veterans, giving, um, giving them a, um, or giving the country a vehicle to thank them, you know, and

[00:44:44] it was quite rewarding to do that. I was featured on a TV show and have you, but, um, I started,

[00:44:51] I came up with that concept because I'm a thinker, big thinker. And I would grab it and I'd say,

[00:44:55] Hey soldier, come here. Cause I thought everybody in the military was a soldier and they got offended.

[00:45:01] I'm not a soldier. I'm a Marine. So I apologize. So I realized that day that there's soldiers and

[00:45:08] there's Marines and there's a corpsmen or whatever. There's different titles, right?

[00:45:12] At any rate. So, um, I came up with that concept and I created a website and, um, I did charity

[00:45:19] events and I thanked a lot of, um, servicemen and I was able to help people thank them by offering

[00:45:26] discounts to them. People would have a badge and they would come and it's people would see the

[00:45:31] badge and they say, Oh, you're a serviceman and give them a discount. Cause if everyone knew you

[00:45:35] were a general, when you go shopping, a lot of people would give you a discount to thank you.

[00:45:39] And that's how we can thank people. We can shake their hand. We can say, thank you for serving my

[00:45:44] country or, or they can give you the discount on a coffee you just bought, you know? And, and, and

[00:45:49] that's, and that was fine. But now I'm on a, uh, a bigger mission. It's for the world. It's yeah.

[00:45:56] And I'm hoping that one day that the badge we have today, it's called be kind would be also, um,

[00:46:02] every ambassador who has one would get a discount because they're kind. Let's get, let's thank

[00:46:09] people for being kind, random acts of kindness. I was in, uh, uh, Alexandria, Egypt and you know,

[00:46:17] you've witnessed, um, I'm sure, um, I'm going to ask you for your story in a second, random acts of

[00:46:22] kindness. I'm in a horse drawn buggy in Alexandria, Egypt. And the guy pulls the horse back, ties it up,

[00:46:29] jumps out of the cart, runs back and helps it like a 90 year old woman into a taxi with her groceries.

[00:46:36] And he didn't speak a word of English. He got back in the cart without saying a word and we

[00:46:40] continued our tour at the end of the tour. You know what I did? I gave him a bigger tip because I was

[00:46:45] so impressed with that random act of kindness. What, what, tell me about random acts of kindness that

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[00:47:27] share. Say that instead of talking about random acts of kindness, let's talk about major acts of kindness.

[00:47:44] Even better. Right? Sure. A lot of my mentees, a lot of my students and mentees are doing some very wonderful

[00:47:54] jobs as far as kindness is concerned. And I would like to first mention about a young girl. Her name is, uh,

[00:48:05] Rashmi, Rashmi Gulia. She has been doing exceedingly well in her own education, whether it was at the school

[00:48:17] level or whether it was at the college or post-graduation. She's been ahead of everybody else. She'd got a very decent

[00:48:25] government job in the defense research. She did that only for a year and plus few months.

[00:48:35] And thereafter she felt that she needs to be kind to the society. She has taken resignation or rather she's offered

[00:48:44] resignation and come out. Now she is teaching young people, teaching young people to achieve excellence.

[00:48:57] And in large number of cases, she does not charge any money. In many cases, she gives them very heavy discounts.

[00:49:09] But the best thing is that all her students excel in all their exams and the results are better than everybody else.

[00:49:22] So this selfless act of kindness for building the youth, which will ultimately build the society, which will ultimately build the nation and contribute to humanity and contribute to the world, I think makes me to salute this girl for the wonderful work that she's doing.

[00:49:44] There is another boy. His name is Rushi Rajmori. Now, Rushi Rajmori, after doing his education, is doing mountaineering.

[00:50:01] And he has initiated more than 15,000 young people into mountaineering in a very short time.

[00:50:09] Wow.

[00:50:10] And I suggested to him that you do so much of work. Why don't you also conduct some few training programs for the corporate?

[00:50:21] So that you start getting some good money from that. And look at what he says. He says, sir, I'm serving the humanity. I want to be kind to everybody. I will not charge any money to anybody.

[00:50:33] Beautiful. I would like to invite those two young people to be ambassador number 9,689 and 9,690.

[00:50:43] All I need is their first name and their birth city. You don't need to give me your WhatsApp unless you want to follow the mission.

[00:50:52] We are on Instagram. We're on Facebook. We're on, you know, TikTok and X. But all I want to do is there's a list and it's called worldkindnesslist.com.

[00:51:04] And you are listed by your first name. Everyone has a first name. I don't believe in last names or titles.

[00:51:09] So everyone's listed by their first name, De La Var, their city, Delhi, their number 9631, and maybe if they're a student or what they do.

[00:51:20] That's it. It's a voice. It's giving your voice to a better world.

[00:51:27] And if I get right now, if every one of the 9,600 were to give a name, like hopefully you'll give me those, the spelling of those two young people's names.

[00:51:35] We've become 18, 19,000 ambassadors of kindness. And if every one of those just invites their spouse or their, or what's their name?

[00:51:44] Because we have like in Uganda recently, Moses, our director in Uganda, submitted 181 orphans, their first name and their birth city.

[00:51:56] They became ambassadors of kindness. And now they don't have phones, but one day they may have a phone and maybe 10 years from now or whatever.

[00:52:04] And then they're going to see that they're in the 8,000s when we're at the 80,000s.

[00:52:08] And they're going to be appreciative of that because I'm creating a community of kind people.

[00:52:13] And when I hear stories like those two people, I want them to be ambassadors and know of the three commitments and maybe get a little inspiration

[00:52:20] and share what you and I both know is three commitments that quite literally save the planet.

[00:52:27] So please text me those first two names. I spoke to your wife earlier when you went for coffee.

[00:52:33] I'd love her to be an ambassador. Again, her first name, the birth city, and that's it.

[00:52:40] You know, again, I don't need their WhatsApp or their email or anything.

[00:52:47] I just need to know that they're going to try to follow the three commitments, the kindness, which I'm sure these two people do.

[00:52:52] There's many that do. They're just not in our community yet.

[00:52:56] You're in our community, and it's a real special community.

[00:53:00] And eventually we're going to have conventions.

[00:53:02] Why not get a convention where the directors and the admin and whoever ambassadors want to show up?

[00:53:09] We show up to India or wherever around the world, and we all congregate, and it's the most peaceful, the most kind convention.

[00:53:18] We call them kindness conventions, you know?

[00:53:20] I mean, I've got a vision for our planet and our species.

[00:53:25] Because, you know, humans, unfortunately, need to be waking up.

[00:53:29] We have to have a new consciousness that war isn't going to solve our problems.

[00:53:33] Kindness is going to solve our problems.

[00:53:35] Excellent.

[00:53:36] So get me to speak at your World Digital Conference, if you can.

[00:53:41] I'm going to send you my United Nations speech.

[00:53:43] I think you'll love it.

[00:53:46] Everything I do is only, you know, like even the book, How to Be a Fantastic Person.

[00:53:51] All the money that comes from that book, and this is, I have an international publisher that I'm working with, go to my foundation for world harmony.

[00:54:00] I'm just for the money.

[00:54:01] I don't ask for money.

[00:54:02] And, of course, I get asked for money, which I don't have.

[00:54:06] I can give people advice.

[00:54:08] I can give them guidance.

[00:54:09] I can mentor them.

[00:54:10] I can steer them in the right direction.

[00:54:12] I can't give them money at this point.

[00:54:14] One day when we have funders and we have sponsors, we might be, my desire is to help their initiative.

[00:54:22] Because most of our ambassadors, not most, but a lot of them, majority, I would say, have an NGO or charity or a humanitarian initiative.

[00:54:33] I list them on the foundationforworldharmony.org.

[00:54:37] So I'm giving exposure to my ambassadors' dreams and also their companies.

[00:54:42] Because for four years, people said, can I promote my company in your community, your global community?

[00:54:50] I said, well, no, because it's not about money.

[00:54:51] It's not about politics and it's not about religion.

[00:54:54] But I broke down last year and said, okay, we're going to give you exposure.

[00:54:58] We have a group called Business is Fantastic.

[00:55:00] Because we can't talk about business, politics, or religion in local or national groups.

[00:55:06] But we have groups.

[00:55:08] Christianity is fantastic.

[00:55:09] Hinduism is fantastic.

[00:55:11] Judaism is fantastic.

[00:55:12] Business is fantastic.

[00:55:13] Teachers are fantastic.

[00:55:15] So we have specific groups for specific people.

[00:55:18] The general group is just to spread kindness, positive quotes.

[00:55:23] I make videos most every day as I travel the world and share what I'm seeing.

[00:55:29] Because a lot of people can travel.

[00:55:31] So I'm traveling for them.

[00:55:32] So they get to go to the pyramids for free.

[00:55:34] They get to see Old Faithful in Yellowstone National Park for free.

[00:55:38] They get to see the Buenos Strait in Istanbul for free.

[00:55:42] The Nile River in Cairo for free.

[00:55:45] So it's my way of exposing kindness with the world tour.

[00:55:51] And I'm really looking forward to going to India.

[00:55:54] And I'm happy to have a major general.

[00:55:57] You know, I've forgotten most of the people in the group.

[00:56:02] Because, you know, I don't know how many people can remember 9,600 people.

[00:56:05] I mean, I know you can't.

[00:56:07] Because you said you had COVID five times.

[00:56:15] That's amazing.

[00:56:16] You know, COVID is what set me on my trip.

[00:56:20] Because I knew it was man-made.

[00:56:22] And I knew it was released by man.

[00:56:24] And, unfortunately, it was a...

[00:56:27] Well, fortunately for a lot of people, it was a big moneymaker.

[00:56:29] Made a lot of billionaires.

[00:56:31] And, unfortunately, they're going to come out with another one.

[00:56:33] Because, like war, it's profitable.

[00:56:37] But, you know, remember the first year of COVID?

[00:56:40] In America, typically 80,000 people died from the flu.

[00:56:44] Nobody died from the flu that first year.

[00:56:47] Because you don't get any money from the government if you died from the flu.

[00:56:50] Or in a car accident.

[00:56:52] Or a brain aneurysm.

[00:56:53] Or any kind of death.

[00:56:55] But you get 26,000, I think it was, if you died from COVID.

[00:56:59] So, it's all about money, unfortunately.

[00:57:01] War is about money.

[00:57:03] War is very profitable.

[00:57:04] How do we stop that?

[00:57:09] We can't stop that.

[00:57:10] We can't stop that.

[00:57:12] It's inherent in mankind.

[00:57:15] Greed and...

[00:57:16] Reasons are different.

[00:57:17] And the reasons are that since time immemorial, people have their own identities, their own desires.

[00:57:28] Desire to control larger number of people.

[00:57:31] Desire to control larger amount of geography.

[00:57:33] Desire to influence the world.

[00:57:36] Those desires make people to fight more.

[00:57:38] Yeah, unfortunately.

[00:57:40] And if those desires...

[00:57:43] If those people with those desires to conquer countries and conquer people were more kind,

[00:57:51] they probably wouldn't do it, right?

[00:57:53] I mean, I don't think a kind person murders...

[00:57:56] I have a saying I think you're like, kind people, fantastic people, don't lie, steal, cheat, fight, or kill.

[00:58:03] You would agree with that, right?

[00:58:05] Yes, yes.

[00:58:06] But if you must lie, lie next to someone that you love.

[00:58:09] If you must steal, steal away from bad company.

[00:58:13] If you must cheat, cheat death.

[00:58:16] If you must fight, fight tyranny.

[00:58:18] And if you must kill, kill a bad habit.

[00:58:21] So that's my answer to lying, stealing, fighting, cheating, or killing.

[00:58:26] It's kind of a cute way to remember it.

[00:58:28] But so I'm on a mission and I'm so happy that you're one of my ambassadors.

[00:58:32] How can you...

[00:58:34] How would you suggest that you can help?

[00:58:36] How can you help India, me and India?

[00:58:39] Because you're my biggest celebrity, let's say, in India at this point that I can remember.

[00:58:46] We don't have a whole lot of Indians that are ambassadors.

[00:58:51] We have, you know, maybe 100 or something.

[00:58:54] But how can we get the word out?

[00:58:57] I mean, talking to those two young people with their followers would be great.

[00:59:03] Introducing it to the World Digital Detox State Conference would be a smart way.

[00:59:09] Do you have any ideas how you could help?

[00:59:11] Or if you don't want to help, that's fine too because you've got your life.

[00:59:15] But you are in retirement, so you might have a little time.

[00:59:18] What do you do in retirement?

[00:59:19] What are you doing?

[00:59:20] Because I see you traveling a lot.

[00:59:22] So I told you that as far as I'm concerned, I'm actually engaged in a lot of these activities

[00:59:29] where we are spreading kindness.

[00:59:31] Oh, right, right.

[00:59:32] We may not be calling it spreading kindness, but we are doing a lot of things which are actually

[00:59:37] implying that.

[00:59:39] As I mentioned to you that we are supporting the current sportspersons.

[00:59:43] That is kindness.

[00:59:44] We are supporting a lot of people to get educated.

[00:59:48] That is again kindness.

[00:59:49] Then we are supporting people to travel.

[00:59:53] That is again kindness.

[00:59:56] So we are doing these digital detox.

[01:00:00] That is again basically aimed at kindness.

[01:00:03] Then we are doing a lot of these programs for de-addiction.

[01:00:06] What's that?

[01:00:08] De-addiction.

[01:00:10] De-addiction?

[01:00:11] De-addiction.

[01:00:11] Yeah.

[01:00:12] Yeah.

[01:00:13] Yeah.

[01:00:14] We have a lot of activities going on for that.

[01:00:16] So all these activities that we are already engaged in are actually amounting to kindness.

[01:00:22] Okay.

[01:00:23] So if I could ask a favor in your, I don't know if you're giving speeches or if there's groups

[01:00:28] that I could join, just simply telling people that there's three commitments out there that

[01:00:34] will help them.

[01:00:35] Be kind to yourself.

[01:00:37] Be kind to all others.

[01:00:38] Be kind to Mother Earth.

[01:00:40] Simply put, that takes less than 15 seconds to say.

[01:00:43] And if it puts a thought in someone's head, well, that makes a lot of sense.

[01:00:47] Be kind to yourself.

[01:00:48] That's the first, most important and hardest.

[01:00:50] Be kind to others.

[01:00:51] It's easier but important.

[01:00:52] And be kind to Mother Earth is essential because if we're happy, which is, this is a complete

[01:00:57] guide to happiness and we've destroyed our planet, it doesn't matter if we're happy because

[01:01:01] we've destroyed our planet.

[01:01:02] But if we take accountability for our actions, you know, don't expect the government to solve

[01:01:08] the problems or the corporations or other people.

[01:01:11] You as an individual have to solve the problem by using less water, using less electricity, helping

[01:01:17] others, being kind, doing in retirement, doing things like you're doing.

[01:01:22] And that's the solution.

[01:01:24] So what I can suggest is, what I can help you doing is that firstly, on this World Digital

[01:01:30] Detox Day, I will ask the organizing committee to send an invite to you.

[01:01:40] You will receive an invitation for that.

[01:01:43] Okay.

[01:01:44] Second thing is that other important programs that we do, we will see how best to integrate

[01:01:53] your themes into our themes.

[01:01:55] Although we do similar things, but maybe we can reword a part of it in a way that it also

[01:02:03] is more congruent with your thought.

[01:02:05] It's a philosophy.

[01:02:07] You know, I mean, once you learn, and I would say like 80% of the people that are ambassadors,

[01:02:13] once they learn about the three commitments and they agree to follow them or try their

[01:02:17] best to follow them, my message is there.

[01:02:19] It's already done.

[01:02:20] It's complete.

[01:02:21] But we do have programs to help the poor people make money to kindness classes.

[01:02:26] My dream is to have, I've written a short kindness class, it's about, you know, half hour long,

[01:02:32] to have the kids read that in class.

[01:02:35] Because it's just, it's like my book that's coming out, How to Be a Fantastic Person.

[01:02:39] Follow the three commitments.

[01:02:40] And there's a lot to being kind to yourself, how and why.

[01:02:44] There's a lot to being kind to others, how and why.

[01:02:46] And there's a lot to being kind to the earth, how and why.

[01:02:48] And they need to be logic.

[01:02:51] It's like use less water.

[01:02:53] You know, I mean, I know you paid a lot of money for your water bill.

[01:02:57] But if you use a third less, it's a third less water, you know, for others.

[01:03:02] But people, you know, they just think they worked hard for their money and they deserve a 20-minute shower.

[01:03:09] I think a 20-minute shower is a travesty.

[01:03:11] I think it's horrible to take a 20-minute shower.

[01:03:14] What are people doing for 20 minutes in the shower?

[01:03:18] I get wet, I soap up, and I rest off.

[01:03:22] It's a shower.

[01:03:23] It takes less than five minutes.

[01:03:26] I mean, does that make sense?

[01:03:27] I mean, am I making sense?

[01:03:29] No, no, you're making sense.

[01:03:31] And as far as we are concerned, let me also apprise you that our own Indian culture,

[01:03:37] our own Indian culture, the philosophy is based on kindness.

[01:03:43] And we say that we have to be kind firstly to the environment.

[01:03:47] You say that's first.

[01:03:49] Well, see, I disagree.

[01:03:50] Because if you're not happy or alive or well, you can't help the environment.

[01:03:55] So you have to come first.

[01:03:57] No, what I'm saying is we...

[01:03:59] You jumped on an airplane yesterday, and they said if the oxygen mass drops, put it on first.

[01:04:04] Then help others.

[01:04:06] Because if Dilavar is not alive, your beautiful wife, you can't be of service to her, your kids, your causes, your country, or anything.

[01:04:14] So again, a lot of people say, no, the environment comes first.

[01:04:18] It can't come first.

[01:04:20] You have to come first.

[01:04:21] What I'm saying is that we need to be kind to the environment.

[01:04:26] We need to be kind to Mother Earth.

[01:04:27] We need to be kind to all the living beings.

[01:04:30] We need to be kind to our family and ourselves.

[01:04:33] And while we do this, it is not first or last, but it is that we have to do all these things every day.

[01:04:41] In concert.

[01:04:43] It is on a regular basis.

[01:04:45] It is not restricted to a particular day or a particular time.

[01:04:49] Every day.

[01:04:49] Every day on the top side of the grass.

[01:04:52] In our way, whether it is war fighting, even in war fighting, we are supposed to be kind.

[01:04:59] Yes.

[01:05:00] As per our philosophy, even during war, we have to be kind.

[01:05:04] Yes.

[01:05:05] Yeah.

[01:05:06] So all those things are very much part of our culture, very much part of our, should I say, practices in India.

[01:05:13] But yes, since I'm not talking to you and we can sort of reshape fewer things, fewer things.

[01:05:21] If that makes us or if that feels that we can do it in a more sharper way or maybe it makes it more easier to understand.

[01:05:29] We can do that.

[01:05:30] And as far as the list of people who are doing kind work is concerned, oh, well, if I start remembering all the names, I can list out maybe more than a few million people.

[01:05:45] There are a lot of people who are doing wonderful things.

[01:05:47] We just need their first name, their first city.

[01:05:50] And also, Dilavar, I would love the honor of five minutes speaking in that building behind you.

[01:05:59] This I can't, sir.

[01:06:01] This I can't.

[01:06:02] I will not, I will not, so should I say, give you an assurance for something which I actually cannot do.

[01:06:09] No, no, no, no.

[01:06:10] I'm just saying that's one of my goals is to speak to governments.

[01:06:13] I speak to city councils, of course, when I travel.

[01:06:16] Now, the higher level I get, because here's the thing, Dilavar, you said the pledge earlier.

[01:06:22] You said the pledge earlier.

[01:06:23] The pledge can be made and how they process it is really up to them.

[01:06:28] Of course, of course, of course.

[01:06:30] But if you don't ask, you can't, you can't, they can't answer.

[01:06:36] Because I don't know, I don't know that you don't know the president of, or is it, India has a president, right?

[01:06:43] Yeah.

[01:06:43] I don't know that you don't know the president, you know?

[01:06:45] And if you don't ask, they can't answer.

[01:06:48] So I always ask.

[01:06:49] I don't mind the word no.

[01:06:50] You said no, that's fine.

[01:06:52] But one day, I hope to speak to the parliament because...

[01:06:56] I only said that I can't do it.

[01:06:58] Well, certainly the system can do it.

[01:07:00] The government can do it.

[01:07:01] Yeah, because you might know someone who knows someone who says, yeah, this guy should get five minutes.

[01:07:07] I certainly hope I have five minutes on the United Nations podium.

[01:07:12] But until that happens, I'm going to distribute my letter or my speech to the United Nations, which is quite astute.

[01:07:21] And it covers all the points that we covered here today.

[01:07:25] And if only one person watches this episode and gets something from it and maybe becomes an ambassador or even just follows the commitment.

[01:07:34] Because there's hundreds of thousands of people that know what I've done, judging by the amount of views I have on...

[01:07:41] You know, I've got 2,000 videos on YouTube.

[01:07:44] One of my most ones is 76,000 people watch one of my videos.

[01:07:48] So I know that people are hearing me, whether they're becoming ambassadors.

[01:07:53] And again, I don't need their phone number.

[01:07:55] I just need their first name.

[01:07:56] I hope today you'll text me those two young people, Rashmi and the other name.

[01:08:05] Rashmi Nadi Mori.

[01:08:06] Yeah.

[01:08:07] So the correct spelling because there's a lot of unique names around the world that aren't familiar to me, especially in Africa.

[01:08:17] But every day I get ambassadors joining.

[01:08:22] And again, they can spend as little time involved or no time or a lot of time.

[01:08:29] But it's very rewarding to do what you're doing for yourself.

[01:08:35] And it's very rewarding what I'm doing for others.

[01:08:37] So, you know, being kind leads to happiness.

[01:08:40] And this is a program that's designed to explain to people how to be happy.

[01:08:46] Because a lot of people don't know how to be happy.

[01:08:49] They need guidance.

[01:08:51] Right.

[01:08:51] And your groups are guiding people to mountaineering, which can bring happiness.

[01:08:56] Exercise brings happiness.

[01:08:58] Meditation brings happiness.

[01:09:01] Yes.

[01:09:01] Positive thinking, I think, brings happiness.

[01:09:05] Yes.

[01:09:05] And I think we need constant reminding of how we can be happy.

[01:09:10] No one's going to make you happy.

[01:09:11] They can bring you happiness and share happiness.

[01:09:14] But it's up to you to make yourself happy.

[01:09:18] I agree with you.

[01:09:19] So, you are now a fantastic ambassador to India.

[01:09:26] We have a journey of a thousand miles begins with but a single step.

[01:09:31] I kind of feel after five years of introducing this to people, I'm just starting.

[01:09:36] Really just starting.

[01:09:37] Especially now in India.

[01:09:38] I had a couple, a lot of people, they love what they hear.

[01:09:42] And they say, I want to help.

[01:09:44] And that's fantastic.

[01:09:45] And then they see that there's no money.

[01:09:47] It's a volunteer at this point position.

[01:09:50] And then they fade.

[01:09:51] Because they got to make money.

[01:09:52] They got to do what they want to do.

[01:09:54] But I am lucky that I'm getting some really fantastic ambassadors that are dedicating some time.

[01:10:00] Because as an admin, it literally is five seconds a day.

[01:10:04] Literally.

[01:10:05] To send a text out, to share a positive post, a positive video that I've created.

[01:10:11] I mean, it's so little effort.

[01:10:14] And it goes such a long way.

[01:10:16] But you can lead a horse to water.

[01:10:19] But you can't make him drink the water.

[01:10:21] Yeah.

[01:10:22] So, I love analogies like the mass dropping.

[01:10:27] I'm offering the world what I consider a piece of cake.

[01:10:31] And it looks delicious.

[01:10:33] And it tastes delicious.

[01:10:34] And it's nutritious.

[01:10:36] And if you eat it, you'll live longer, be happier, be more successful, make the world a better place.

[01:10:42] But you got to taste it.

[01:10:44] And if you don't like it, fine.

[01:10:45] Go your way.

[01:10:46] But if you like it, share it.

[01:10:49] So, that's my analogy.

[01:10:50] A piece of cake.

[01:10:51] Because everybody likes a piece of cake, right?

[01:10:54] In India, they love their sweets, right?

[01:10:58] Yes, yes.

[01:10:59] Like, my son married a Persian.

[01:11:03] And they throw the most amazing parties.

[01:11:05] And it's like a lavish meal, like Indians do.

[01:11:09] Like the Dubaians do.

[01:11:11] And then, after the lavish meal, they have as much in sweets.

[01:11:16] It's like, it's ridiculous.

[01:11:18] It's over the top.

[01:11:19] Is that the same way in India?

[01:11:21] Yeah, yeah.

[01:11:22] It's the same way, yeah.

[01:11:23] I love curry.

[01:11:24] I make curry all the time.

[01:11:27] I love spice.

[01:11:29] Are you a spice person?

[01:11:31] You like spicy stuff?

[01:11:32] Well, we all Indians are.

[01:11:34] All Indians are.

[01:11:35] Your wife, she's a great chef?

[01:11:38] Yeah.

[01:11:39] How many years have you been married?

[01:11:42] About 42.

[01:11:43] 42.

[01:11:44] Congratulations.

[01:11:45] That's a good run.

[01:11:46] Thank you.

[01:11:47] In today's hectic society and people of all nations and creeds and colors,

[01:11:53] I feel a five-year marriage is a successful run.

[01:11:59] To be happy for five years.

[01:12:01] To be happy for.

[01:12:02] And you have kids and grandkids?

[01:12:04] I have grandkids.

[01:12:06] Okay.

[01:12:07] They each, you should submit each of their names and their birth cities.

[01:12:11] And I'll issue them a number.

[01:12:15] That's it.

[01:12:15] I don't need their phone number or their internet.

[01:12:17] Any information.

[01:12:18] Just their first name.

[01:12:20] As long as they agree to try to follow the three.

[01:12:22] They'll be listed on our website.

[01:12:24] People can get certificates of ambassadorship from us.

[01:12:29] And basically one day they might love the fact that they're in the 9,600s.

[01:12:34] Because today we're at 9,690.

[01:12:38] Today we'll probably hit 9,700.

[01:12:40] Another milestone.

[01:12:42] Every hundred's a milestone.

[01:12:43] Every person's a milestone.

[01:12:46] And since you've joined, which recently, at 9631, we've had almost 60 people join.

[01:12:53] And you just joined a couple weeks ago, if I'm not mistaken.

[01:12:57] Yes.

[01:12:58] How did you hear about this?

[01:13:00] How, what group were we in or who introduced you to it?

[01:13:05] I got it from one of the American groups.

[01:13:10] Okay.

[01:13:11] We need more American groups too.

[01:13:13] You know, I'm bigger in Africa than I am in America.

[01:13:16] But my Zambian guy, director, I did an interview with him.

[01:13:21] I'm going to interview all my directors.

[01:13:23] And I hope one day you might be a director of India.

[01:13:25] That would be pretty, pretty cool to have a major general as our director in India.

[01:13:30] It's not a lot of work.

[01:13:31] And I said, we're covering the bases from A to Z.

[01:13:35] America to Zambia.

[01:13:37] So to speak.

[01:13:40] Wonderful.

[01:13:41] Yeah.

[01:13:42] I thank you for your time.

[01:13:45] I thank you for believing in the mission, the kindness revolution of being an ambassador.

[01:13:52] I hope you can just squeeze it in and say, be kind to yourself.

[01:13:56] Be kind to others.

[01:13:57] Be kind to Mother Earth.

[01:13:59] The three commitments to kindness that literally solve all mankind.

[01:14:02] So I kept it real simple.

[01:14:05] Five-year-olds can remember it.

[01:14:07] And I think even with your bad memory, Nidavar, you're going to remember the three.

[01:14:11] What are the three commitments, Nidavar?

[01:14:15] The three commitments, as I had in fact mentioned to you that even before I read this thing,

[01:14:21] on my own when I was getting ready to sort of speak to you,

[01:14:26] I had mentioned these four things.

[01:14:29] That first and foremost is one has to be kind to oneself.

[01:14:34] The second is one has to be kind to everybody else.

[01:14:40] And third is that one has to be kind to Mother Earth.

[01:14:43] And last is that we have to be kind even to the environment and to the universe.

[01:14:48] Well, that's the truth.

[01:14:50] Mother Earth, I consider the environment, the universe.

[01:14:53] Because we're not only polluted our rivers, our lakes, our streams, our oceans, our seas,

[01:14:58] our lands, and our skies, but we're polluting outer space now.

[01:15:01] So we're doing a lot of pollution.

[01:15:03] And we need to keep that in check.

[01:15:05] But yeah, I actually had, when I first started, it was four commitments.

[01:15:09] And I realized not only the fourth one was say kind words.

[01:15:14] Because words matter.

[01:15:16] Words affect water.

[01:15:17] We're 70% water.

[01:15:18] The Kyoto Water Study proved that plants, animals, and us respond to words.

[01:15:24] And so say kind words was the fourth commitment.

[01:15:29] But then I realized you don't say kind words to your coffee.

[01:15:31] You don't say, hey, coffee, you are really delicious today.

[01:15:35] You say kind words to people and animals and hopefully plants.

[01:15:39] So the commitment two.

[01:15:41] So fourth ran into two because people can't remember four commitments.

[01:15:44] But they can remember three.

[01:15:46] And three is a golden number.

[01:15:49] They call it the golden number.

[01:15:50] And I'm sure it's very, that number three is very important in India as it is in most cultures, right?

[01:15:57] How do you see the number three?

[01:15:59] Does it resonate with you, that number?

[01:16:03] Number six resonates better.

[01:16:05] Six?

[01:16:06] Yes.

[01:16:07] Well, that's two threes.

[01:16:09] Exactly.

[01:16:10] When I give people their ambassador number.

[01:16:12] I was about to say that.

[01:16:14] When I give people their ambassador number, many times they'll say, I love that number.

[01:16:19] You have the number six in yours, nine, six, three, and one.

[01:16:22] That's almost the, what do they call those digits that are three, six, and nine?

[01:16:29] They call them the, there's a word for it in mathematics.

[01:16:33] I can't think of it offhand.

[01:16:35] But at any rate, thank you for your time.

[01:16:39] You are fantastic.

[01:16:42] Please submit your wife's name, those two people's names, and your kids' and grandkids' names.

[01:16:47] Let's get them in the 9,600s.

[01:16:50] And again, they're going to appreciate it one day.

[01:16:54] As long as they're kind.

[01:16:56] Thank you, sir.

[01:16:57] Thank you for your time.

[01:16:58] And you are really fantastic.

[01:17:01] And let's be kind to everybody.

[01:17:04] Exactly.

[01:17:05] We'll have a better, we'll have a better future.

[01:17:08] Yes.

[01:17:09] Same, same for everybody.

[01:17:10] Everybody.

[01:17:10] So today's episode is sponsored by the Spirit of the Moment Podcast, everybody.

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[01:17:18] We're going to sit here.

[01:17:19] We're going to talk about the news.

[01:17:20] Time to talk about the Minecraft.

[01:17:23] Okay.

[01:17:24] It looks bad.

[01:17:25] We're going to talk about movies.

[01:17:26] That new Joker movie is apparently terrible, and I want to see it so badly because I hear

[01:17:30] it's awful.

[01:17:31] We're going to make some jokes.

[01:17:32] We're going to have some laughs.

[01:17:33] There's a lot of funny jokes in there.

[01:17:35] There's a lot of weird jokes in there.

[01:17:38] The Channing Tatum one will always make me laugh.

[01:17:42] It's amazing when you hear the behind-the-scenes stuff.

[01:17:47] When you hear the behind-the-scenes story of how they just phoned him up.

[01:17:51] Occasionally going to have other people along for the ride.

[01:17:53] A really fun fact, though, is I learned last year that Coraline was Lyca and not Disney.

[01:18:02] Oh, interesting.

[01:18:03] I mean, I can see why you would make that mistake.

[01:18:04] Yeah.

[01:18:06] Because it does seem like it's a different...

[01:18:08] And to be fair, it would be a...

[01:18:11] That would be a horrifying, terrible Disney movie.

[01:18:14] It would be.

[01:18:15] Yeah.

[01:18:16] And we're just going to have a generally good time.

[01:18:19] Jordan, do you have anything else you want to say about our podcast?

[01:18:21] Make people watch it.

[01:18:23] We watch movies.

[01:18:25] Sometimes we watch shows.

[01:18:26] But we always have fun.

[01:18:29] Here.

[01:18:30] On the spur...

[01:18:31] On the spur...

[01:18:31] On the spur...

[01:18:33] On the spur...

[01:18:33] Three...

[01:18:34] Three...

[01:18:35] Two...

[01:18:35] One.

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[01:18:39] Yeah, we nailed it!

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[01:18:41] It's spur of the podcast.

[01:18:44] Yeah, it's spur of the podcast every Saturday.

[01:18:46] We nailed it.

[01:18:47] You can expect awesome content like that.

[01:18:50] We cut flawless promos every single week.

[01:18:52] Well, I hope you enjoyed that interview with Major General Deloire.

[01:19:06] Some interesting facts there.

[01:19:08] And I hope you have a lot more Indian ambassadors.

[01:19:14] There's over a billion people there.

[01:19:16] And I think I only have like 50 ambassadors there.

[01:19:19] Anyway, it's time for Dr. Fantastic Cooks.

[01:19:22] I dug into the archives and pulled out a curry recipe.

[01:19:27] Gotta love Indian curry.

[01:19:28] I love it.

[01:19:29] And if you follow my directions, you know, I think you'll find it very easy, fun, delicious,

[01:19:35] and economical.

[01:19:37] So enjoy the cooking episode, and I'll talk to you in a bit.

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[01:19:55] So it's time to cook some food tonight.

[01:19:58] This takes a little longer, so I'm cooking it a little bit earlier in the day.

[01:20:04] First ingredient, have a little cocktail.

[01:20:08] Now, we're cooking chicken curry, one of my favorite dishes tonight.

[01:20:12] It's my own little recipe.

[01:20:13] So I don't have everything I need, but I'm going to give it a shot.

[01:20:18] You know, I don't have cornstarch, which typically thickens the juice.

[01:20:23] So I've coated the chicken with flour, and then hopefully it'll do the trick.

[01:20:30] So a couple of tablespoons of oil.

[01:20:33] Now, I like to reuse my oil.

[01:20:35] You can use oil more than once.

[01:20:38] Gives it more flavor as well.

[01:20:41] Let's see what we have here.

[01:20:43] The ingredients are chicken, of course.

[01:20:46] Curry powder.

[01:20:48] Onions.

[01:20:48] Garlic.

[01:20:49] I like to put potatoes in my curry.

[01:20:52] You don't have to.

[01:20:54] Do whatever you want.

[01:20:55] Just have fun.

[01:20:58] It's a great time in our history, when we're sequestered in our homes, to have fun in the kitchen.

[01:21:05] Get your kids in the kitchen.

[01:21:06] Get your husband or wife in the kitchen.

[01:21:08] Have fun in the kitchen.

[01:21:09] Family that cooks together stays together.

[01:21:12] And I am, as you might know, in Charmel Shea, cooking up a storm.

[01:21:16] I've been doing a lot of cooking dishes lately.

[01:21:18] It's been a lot of fun.

[01:21:19] And hopefully you're enjoying watching it.

[01:21:21] And so far, this has come out pretty freaking fantastic.

[01:21:25] So, I use a large onion.

[01:21:27] Again, if you don't like onions, don't use onions.

[01:21:29] But I have to have onions on everything I cook.

[01:21:34] So, the first step is sauteing the onions until they get nice and caramelized.

[01:21:39] Not caramelized, but softened.

[01:21:41] Just, you know, break them down.

[01:21:47] Now, garlic.

[01:21:49] Garlic.

[01:21:50] I like lots of garlic.

[01:21:52] So, I put more garlic than I should.

[01:21:54] Or than I would.

[01:21:56] But, you know, so, I don't mix it either.

[01:21:59] Because I like the most part, I have a little piece of garlic in the dish.

[01:22:02] Like, it actually tastes.

[01:22:05] A lot of spices, you know, you just all mixed in.

[01:22:09] So, you know, cut them up into small pieces.

[01:22:12] I don't know if you can see this or not.

[01:22:15] That's the garlic.

[01:22:15] I'm going to put that in until a little bit later.

[01:22:19] You know what I've got to do?

[01:22:21] I want to buy some bouillon, but, you know, I'm in Egypt and they don't speak none of the things in English.

[01:22:29] So, I think I bought some bouillon.

[01:22:32] I do believe I bought some bouillon cubes.

[01:22:35] And I'm pretty sure I did.

[01:22:37] And I did.

[01:22:38] Ha, ha, ha, ha!

[01:22:40] There you go.

[01:22:41] So, a couple of glasses of water.

[01:22:42] I was going to just use water if I couldn't find the bouillon.

[01:22:46] But luckily, I found chicken bouillon.

[01:22:49] And you can use beef as well.

[01:22:51] Either one will do.

[01:22:53] This gives it more flavor.

[01:22:56] It is chicken curry, so chicken bouillon makes a lot of sense.

[01:22:59] There we go.

[01:23:01] Okay, where is it at?

[01:23:05] I'm getting organized here in my villa.

[01:23:08] High above Charmelle Shake and the Red Sea.

[01:23:12] Okay, so those are cooking.

[01:23:15] Sautéing.

[01:23:16] Then, of course, you want to put the potatoes, if you're going to use potatoes, into, you know, not small pieces, but not large pieces.

[01:23:26] Inch squares, something like that.

[01:23:34] I just love cooking.

[01:23:36] I hope you guys love cooking.

[01:23:37] Because if you love to eat, which I really love to do, you should really not cook well.

[01:23:43] And, you know, one of my sayings in life is, the more you know, the easier your life is.

[01:23:49] So, if you know how to cook, and your wife drinks you, your life is easier because you can cook your own food.

[01:23:58] Where is the salt?

[01:23:59] I love salt on everything.

[01:24:02] Well, I always salt while I cook.

[01:24:04] I mean, eat while I cook.

[01:24:13] I try not to get full before.

[01:24:18] Let me check on the camera.

[01:24:20] As you know, I've been having camera problems.

[01:24:22] Let me check on it real quick.

[01:24:26] Okay.

[01:24:27] Good news.

[01:24:28] It's still rolling.

[01:24:29] And I have a cameraman.

[01:24:30] Well, I had one yesterday.

[01:24:32] My neighbor.

[01:24:34] Composer.

[01:24:34] He's going to start a band in Charmelle Shake.

[01:24:37] And I said, can I be the emcee?

[01:24:40] Actually, I'd like to be one of the singers.

[01:24:42] Can't wait to learn how to sing.

[01:24:45] So, the chicken has been quarters.

[01:24:49] Quartered.

[01:24:50] You know, I took a full chicken.

[01:24:53] And I, you know, took out most of the skin.

[01:24:59] A little salt and pepper.

[01:25:04] And then I'm just going to fry it up.

[01:25:12] If you want to brown it a bit.

[01:25:14] Get it started.

[01:25:15] Because the water is going to really cook it mostly.

[01:25:18] You know, the cooking of it.

[01:25:26] So you have always a towel around your hand.

[01:25:31] That sort of thing.

[01:25:31] So after I brown the chicken a bit.

[01:25:34] Now I'm going to put the potatoes in.

[01:25:37] I'm going to add the juice.

[01:25:39] I'm going to put some kalamata olives.

[01:25:45] Which I think go with everything.

[01:25:49] I'm going to put some tomato puree.

[01:25:54] I'm going to put tomato puree.

[01:25:57] A tablespoon of that.

[01:26:00] I'm going to put a little cream in it.

[01:26:06] But I have some milk.

[01:26:07] I'll throw a little milk in there, you know.

[01:26:23] Throw the garlic in there.

[01:26:26] That's a lot of garlic.

[01:26:27] I love garlic.

[01:26:29] Can't go wrong with garlic.

[01:26:31] Of course, if you're the only one eating garlic then it's sometimes too pleasant.

[01:26:36] So the bouillon should, they should have put this in the hot water.

[01:26:41] It breaks up a lot quicker when it's in hot water.

[01:26:44] But it'll break down.

[01:26:46] Moosh it up a bit.

[01:26:55] Even if it's all totally not mixed together.

[01:26:57] It's all going to cook after an hour of simmering again.

[01:27:01] Then you're going to serve it on a bed of rice.

[01:27:14] Add some leftover rice.

[01:27:15] So I'm going to use that.

[01:27:16] Use your leftovers.

[01:27:18] Don't throw food away.

[01:27:19] It's a sin.

[01:27:20] Throw food away.

[01:27:28] Not hard to cook everybody.

[01:27:30] It's real easy.

[01:27:34] Okay.

[01:27:34] So then after that, the potatoes.

[01:27:47] A couple tablespoons of tomato puree.

[01:27:52] A tablespoonful.

[01:27:56] The water and the bouillon.

[01:28:10] And I'm going to put some pepper.

[01:28:13] Milk can come later.

[01:28:15] Stir that all up.

[01:28:17] Get it, bring it to a boil.

[01:28:20] And I would say simmer it for at least an hour.

[01:28:24] And you've got a delicious, I hope it thickens up.

[01:28:28] You know, cornstarch, a little mixture, a slurry of cornstarch, you know.

[01:28:32] But we'll definitely thicken it up.

[01:28:34] But if it doesn't, it's not the end of the world.

[01:28:41] So again, you always have to, you're not always going to have the ingredients you need for everything.

[01:28:47] So don't sweat it.

[01:28:48] Don't stress it.

[01:28:50] Just enjoy cooking.

[01:28:53] Dr. Fantastic to another small, easy cooking recipe.

[01:28:58] You've got to make your life easy.

[01:29:00] You know?

[01:29:01] So, you know you can be a labyrinth and cook all day long.

[01:29:03] But it's better just to whip something out and enjoy it.

[01:29:08] And enjoy it.

[01:29:12] Be fantastic everyone.

[01:29:13] If you like these cooking episodes, please like and share.

[01:29:18] It's all about sharing.

[01:29:19] Sharing positive information.

[01:29:21] Saying the word fantastic is sharing.

[01:29:24] Sharing kindness.

[01:29:25] It's an act of kindness to say the word fantastic.

[01:29:27] Try it, you'll love it.

[01:29:29] So anyway, like, subscribe, share and be fantastic everyone.

[01:29:34] I think I'm going to cook either tomorrow or the next day an Egyptian recipe.

[01:29:39] I got one from a local lady I know.

[01:29:42] I'm going to give it a shot.

[01:29:45] Something I have never cooked before.

[01:29:46] It's basically a sausage and mozzarella casserole dish.

[01:29:52] So, I'm going to give it a shot.

[01:29:54] Can't go wrong.

[01:29:55] It's going to be delicious.

[01:29:56] I tried one of the sausages out just to see if, you know, because I bought some.

[01:30:00] It's delicious.

[01:30:01] So, stay tuned for that.

[01:30:03] And every day you're going to have a video from Charmerelle Shape until I get tired of this place.

[01:30:07] I don't think it's going to come anytime soon.

[01:30:09] This place is really fantastic everybody.

[01:30:12] You've got to come visit.

[01:30:14] Come visit.

[01:30:14] I have a room for you.

[01:30:17] And don't forget one of the most important ingredients.

[01:30:20] I've opened these damn things.

[01:30:25] It's so hard to open packages in this country.

[01:30:37] Meaning a foreign country.

[01:30:43] Okay.

[01:30:43] I'm ready for this.

[01:30:46] You guys are going to laugh.

[01:30:48] It wasn't like I was going to forget.

[01:30:50] Or maybe I would have forgotten.

[01:30:52] I do forget things now and again.

[01:30:54] And if I can get this package open, it would be really exciting.

[01:30:58] Yeah.

[01:30:59] Okay, here we go.

[01:31:00] The most important ingredient.

[01:31:02] The curry powder.

[01:31:04] A tablespoon of that.

[01:31:06] Nice.

[01:31:06] That heaping teaspoon.

[01:31:09] Heaping teaspoon.

[01:31:11] That, yeah.

[01:31:13] And then I'm going to put some paprika in it as well.

[01:31:17] Some chili powder.

[01:31:19] Just to add, you know what I'm going to do.

[01:31:22] A little chili powder.

[01:31:25] And my red peppers that I crushed the other day.

[01:31:29] I like it really spicy.

[01:31:32] And that's going to be a spicy curry.

[01:31:35] I always forget something.

[01:31:37] But, uh, as long as you get it in there before it's finished.

[01:31:43] I wouldn't suggest putting it on after it's on the plate.

[01:31:48] But, uh, definitely, you know, I have an hour of cooking here.

[01:31:50] So, I've sauteed.

[01:31:53] You know, I'm getting it to a boil.

[01:31:55] It's already thickening up, by the way.

[01:31:56] Just so you know.

[01:31:58] I put the Kalamata olives in there.

[01:32:01] I'll probably have to put some more water in because it's getting so thick.

[01:32:04] But, it's all working.

[01:32:06] And there it is cooking up the storm.

[01:32:09] And a lot of people say you can't serve this on a bed of rice because it has already a starch in it, the potato.

[01:32:14] But, they never had a koshri in India.

[01:32:17] And this was drop dead delicious, everybody.

[01:32:20] It came out perfect.

[01:32:21] It was a little spicy, but it was perfect.

[01:32:24] I hope you enjoyed the show.

[01:32:26] Thanks for watching.

[01:32:27] Please like, subscribe and share.

[01:32:29] And for all you Indians out there, I'd love you to be an admin in a local group.

[01:32:34] And anyone else in the world, you know, as you know, my goal is to get 10,000 cities, all the cities in the world, to have at least one ambassador.

[01:32:43] And to share the beef and fantastic philosophy.

[01:32:48] And grow the kindness revolution.

[01:32:51] Be kind to yourself.

[01:32:52] Be kind to all others.

[01:32:53] Be kind to Mother Earth.

[01:32:55] And whatever you're doing that's making you happy, keep doing it.

[01:32:58] Until next week, be happy.

[01:33:01] Bye-bye.