What A Rooster, A Beach And Earthquakes Taught Me About Resilience, What Is Important And Investing

What A Rooster, A Beach And Earthquakes Taught Me About Resilience, What Is Important And Investing

There's a rooster in this neighborhood that's like an adolescent and it can't quite do it. The cock-a-doodle-doo. And that, of course, that's the one that gets up at 4:30 before all the real roosters wake up because.

You see this? You better shut up or that's going to be your kids. See, it works. Just got to speak their language.

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That opening clip of the show. The prequel clip was a very odd experience for me, impactful. I was in a place called Playa Santa. Playa, I learned means beach. And so like St. Beach, like Santa Claus beach. So like holy beach. It's a little town outside of Guanica, Puerto Rico.

And what's amazing about Playa Santa is it's regarded as one of the best beaches in Puerto Rico. And it is on the Southwestern little tip kind of sorta of Puerto Rico. And I don't know how it is like in Puerto Rico, that's where God keeps all the sunsets, because there's just something about the way the sunset.

Like I never took a bad picture of a sunset to the point where, you know, of course all my friends back in the United States are getting sick of it. Okay, we get it. There's a beautiful sunset, but no, I'm like, you don't understand. This is God's studio and Playa Santa is situated in such that you could go to by my remote beach, I will tell you about in a minute and watch the sunrise.

And then later that day in Playa Santa just maybe two and a half miles from where you saw the sun rise, you can see the sunset. Think about what I mean, like if someone ever said look at this beautiful sunrise, I go, oh yeah, I can beat that times two look at this sunrise. Look at the sunset. It's not a competition in bicycle racing, which has been my passion for a long time.

I always say when one man rides a bike, it's a bicycle ride. When two men are together riding their bike, it's a race competition, but plays Santa was a place that I had decided to move to. I had signed a lease on a beautiful location overlooking the water. And every other day I drove to a remote beach just outside of town.

And by remote, it was practically impossible to get there to the point where I had to buy a Jeep gladiator. And once I bought the Jeep gladiator and drove to my remote beach, I was able to then explore further roads that I could not pass with a rental car. And I just discovered that with a Jeep.

This road, God knows when may it was made by the Romans or something back in the empire days, because it was a primitive road. Didn't look like anyone had ever driven on it. And I would find unbelievable spots to pull in these like hidden beach. I can't even describe it. I'm just, it was just like, I have an app on my computer.

It's called Grammarly and it records, it corrects all the typos I make when I write and I write a lot, my brain goes quickly and my fingers go slower. And so there's just carnage behind my racing cursor and Grammarly also keeps track of all of my writing and then reports back to me like how I'm doing.

And I've always, since I've been, since I signed up for the application started using it, I've always been about 96 percentile. And what that means is I am more productive than 96% of users by vocabulary is like the 98th percentile. That's not to boast. It's just to say that Grammarly has given me feedback that I always have something to say.

I say it in a way that other people don't and I typed 1.1 million words in the last 12 months. And what's staggering about that number is that is just the words tracked by Grammarly. I only have used that. I can only use that app when I'm online, typing something. Most of my writing is on desktop applications on my computer, like Word or whatever.

And so what, maybe I type 3 million words last year. And the beauty that I saw at a Playa Santa in that area, like I'm struggling. I'm like sputtering to describe for you how beautiful it was now. I want you to take just like every human being. I think I hope anyway, can be moved by a beautiful scene in nature.

There's nature, a remedy to a troubled soul. It can be a source of inspiration. It is a place where we can forget the troubles of the artificial human made baloney that we have to deal with every day. And so just imagine how you would feel if you found one of the most beautiful places in the world and how thrilled you would be to just realize, oh my goodness, this is just the tip of the iceberg. Like you could spend a lifetime here and find one scene of inspiration after another. And that is why the Puerto Rican's that I encountered while I was there always w believed in, would say without exception that regardless of their economic condition, regardless of how hard they work, they live in paradise and gosh, darn it.

They do. Now. I also point out to you. I played a little thing about the adolescent rooster in the beginning of the episode, to juxtaposition it and to explain, let's give context to the very next clip. And I use that term juxtaposition because I'm yelling at roosters at 4:30 in the morning because the night before I'd gone out with my friend, Jose and candidly woke that morning, a little hung over. It's not my fault. Look, Puerto Rican's very different culture. Like when you say, oh, like a Glenlivet neat. You know what they say in Puerto Rico? The bartender say when I'm like, first time I heard it, I thought he was kidding. I realized, oh no, wait, stop.

We had a little bit of fun the night before and 4:30 in the morning, the rooster start. And sometimes you can take it and sometimes you can't Puerto Rican's have great respect for animals or at least the privacy of animals. And therefore you do not see dogs unleashes in Puerto Rico unless an American is behind it, the dog.

And they have horses that just wander around and chickens and roosters everywhere and they get up and they, it's country living and I grew up in that a farm community, a small one. So it speaks to my soul and but the roosters are doing their cock-a-doodle-doo. And so I said, either I lose it, go running into my my rental and pull out a carton of eggs.

And I yelling at these roosters, showing them the carton of eggs. You'd like to see you shut up because there's going to be your kids. It was fun. A break from that. Every other day I drove to that remote beach I referred to earlier and would pick up plastic off the beach. The whole time I was there.

I only saw it to other human beings. So remote, it is remote. My theory is that this beautiful beach that was just strewn with plastic. It was the Caribbean that had vomited it onto the beach, like choking on human disrespect for nature, because there's not enough Puerto Rican's certainly not enough in that little area that was country living or in the entire light, maybe all of San Juan, if they ever went threw plastic on that beach, like maybe you could cover it.

So I don't know where the plastic is coming from, but the beautiful beaches and Puerto Rican are just pockmarked and sometimes just covered with plastic. It's horrible. I am not an environmentalist. I'm not a sort of guy that gets worked up on stuff. I am from the Pacific Northwest and we do tend to like our hooted owls, but that is not part of a pattern of my past, but I just got angry. This is ridiculous. No one's going to do it. So I'll do it every other day. I drive out there. I've been sitting in front of computer for 25 years. So I'm telling you bending over and picking up plastic off a beach man. That is grueling work. And I, by the time I had threatened the descendants of the roosters, you see these eggs, these dozen eggs, these are going to be your kids if you don't shut up, which worked for a moment. But I jumped in the car as was, or the Jeep as was my tradition and got the plastic bags and the mosquito repellent and drove to this amazing place.

Unfortunately, by the time I arrived to the beach, I had received notice a text that my, my grandmother had a major stroke and was not expected to live. And in fact, she passed away, I think within 24 hours.

And this is how, by the time I got to the beach, you can hear the impact it had on me. That experience was at Playa Santa. And I then go on to give some background that is relevant to episode three. So just imagine a 55 year-old attorney, getting out to a beach and then being hit with this.

So after I yelled at the roosters, threatened their descendants, got a message from my cousin that my grandma had a stroke. You got to understand I was with my grandma when I was three years old. Grandma and I were riding in that pickup with grandpa. He was driving. She was in the right side. I was three years old in the middle of no seatbelt. That was back in the late sixties. And he had heartburn we pulled over to get comes to on for the on down the road, pulled over to a wide spot in the road.

And he opened up the pickup truck and got out and then fell down and never got back up. So I was with her when that happened and that event changed everybody's life. And so I was raised by my grandma and my mom.