00:13:53.820they forge real men. With pure ingredients from their family farm and a mission rooted
00:13:58.660in Christian excellence, they're building a new standard. Do you want to be chiseled
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00:14:12.940That's what businesses exist to do. A good business serves people. It loves your neighbor.
00:14:16.980it takes care of your countrymen hopefully if we're doing it right so um yeah i i agree it is
00:14:25.000infuriating but the only thing to do is smile and build yeah well i think it hit me years ago
00:14:32.700this is sometime around covid people were you know talking about cryptocurrency and different
00:14:38.180ways to store the value of your money and i remember elon musk saying like yeah ultimately
00:14:43.340you need wealth generation. Like that's the thing that you've got to get into. But I like part of
00:14:49.100your story too, Steven, because it's not just wealth. There's so many aspects of legacy building
00:14:55.460that have to be a part of what you're doing. And part of what you're doing is the classical
00:15:00.620education. So I wonder if you would just talk a little bit about what you're involved with there,
00:15:05.600why that matters, like why invest your time, energy and money into what you're doing there?
00:15:11.340Yeah. So I am the chairman of a K through 12 classical Christian school, and we've seen a lot of growth over the years, mainly due to the failure of the public school system.
00:15:20.620You know, especially during COVID where people essentially were missing a year of education. It's just become more desperate for a lot of parents.
00:15:27.380And so thinking about how we build that and how you can create a school where this is something where parents can enter into it.
00:15:37.840Right. These are parents who have suffered under the public school system and it's still accessible to them, but at the same time, good for the people who have started up from the beginning.
00:15:47.320It's a challenge. It's a definite challenge because you're going to have to take people from the outside who have missed one year, two years of real education.
00:15:53.960Yeah. Well, we've seen this, too. I mean, it seems like especially like you said, since like COVID, but the number of people fleeing the public education system, which is actually I mean, for us, actually encouraging that people are starting to take this seriously.
00:16:07.840but i remember there were like families who got sent home with like curriculum and videos to watch
00:16:13.200so parents for the first time were like engaging with what the curriculum was from the public school
00:16:18.140system and we had like neighbors come to our house and they were like do you know what they're
00:16:21.300teaching our children and we're like yeah that's why we don't go there but we do but then after
00:16:28.000that it really was funny because a lot of people they were like yeah we we're not doing that
00:16:33.200anymore we got to find an alternative homeschool or whatever we were all the we were the weirdos
00:16:37.820because we were homeschooling but then all of a sudden they're like hey how did you do that
00:16:42.360yeah we've just we've lost trust on so many levels with the architects of culture and leadership in
00:16:47.740our society that it is it's not actually wrong that a parent should be able to think on some
00:16:54.380level oh i can trust the leaders of my society to do good to me because that's their whole thing
00:17:02.640They're supposed to do you good, right?
00:17:04.700To praise the good and punish the wrongdoer.
00:17:07.580And however, you're naive today to think that they are because they're not.
00:17:12.380They're actually socially engineering your kids for the good of their ends, which are
00:21:14.800I've always been interested in the continents of Africa, just as it's a place that's exciting.
00:21:20.620It's really challenging in terms of operating logistics and being able to do that from a distance.
00:21:27.540If you think it's a challenge to make a snowplow magically appear somewhere in New Hampshire for one of your tenants, it is even more challenging to do that across nations.
00:21:36.840But there's a huge marginal advantage there for an American to invest into Africa.
00:21:42.000For one thing, the currencies in Africa are much, the inflation rates are much higher, right?
00:21:52.540So the effect of that is if you were to invest in real estate in the United States,
00:21:58.400your mortgage is going to get cheaper over time because we're inflating, right?
00:22:02.220And we all realize this because we have, you know, boomer relatives who bought a house for, you know, a pack of bubble gum and a couple hundred dollars.
00:22:09.480And before long, their mortgage is essentially nothing by the time they're done with their 30-year term.
00:22:15.080Well, imagine doing that same thing in a country that has an inflation rate of 10% per year, right?
00:22:20.240Now, the trouble for doing that, that you have in doing that, is that, you know, if you're somebody who's local in Africa, you're not going to be given credit, right?
00:22:31.080But as an American, you have a higher marginal advantage going into that situation.
00:22:34.500You can also, as an American, go into these countries and get a meeting with one of the
00:22:38.400developmental leaders, a government leader, very easily compared to, yeah, somebody else.
00:22:43.800So was that, I'm just curious, like, how do you even, how did you even start with that? Like,
00:22:47.780if you asked me like, Eric, how do you become the next Cecil Rhodes? You call another guy named
00:22:53.300eric uh-huh eric prince and you say eric help me out guy yeah well it's just crazy like to even
00:23:02.100think of that seems so like far-fetched but as you're saying it's not it's not that crazy to do
00:23:07.620it isn't um and so many people in general are just uh scared about getting into real estate to begin
00:23:13.580with and then you add on to that well getting into real estate or business business projects
00:23:18.020in Africa. I mean, so few people actually venture into doing it that there's an enormous opportunity
00:23:24.200there, again, if you can navigate the difficulties with it. And I would never recommend that everybody
00:23:28.440put all their eggs into that basket. It is more of a higher risk. But there's just incredible
00:23:35.020opportunities there for an American to be investing in there. So when you think about investing in
00:23:39.720Africa, because you're very much in America, you love America. You want America to thrive.
00:23:45.180You're not necessarily investing in Africa,
00:23:47.880not that you don't care about the people in Africa,
00:23:49.540but you're investing in a different country
00:24:11.660are really part of Christendom historically.
00:24:14.060They're part of the Christian West. And that was their story before the Muslim invasions and the changes that happened. But prior to that, these were areas that were sending out missionaries like Egypt, for example. So I think it's important that we understand that this is part of our heritage as well.
00:24:28.620but going further from that and saying, you know, well, how does this benefit us here in the United
00:24:34.360States? The economic model is going to completely change over the next 10 years. And it's going to
00:24:39.400change from what we've seen in the past in terms of free trade to industrial policy in the United
00:24:45.780States. The need for raw resources is going to actually increase, not decrease. So as we see
00:24:51.400that happening, Americans can be at the forefront of that by investing into Africa. So you're
00:24:56.100thinking, resources in Africa, and then a businessman with connections, whether your
00:25:02.080own endeavors or other people in your network here, manufacturing is increasing. We need these
00:25:07.360connections with a note of trust, because trust is really the thing that seems to be of utmost
00:25:13.880importance when you're investing across a border like that. You couldn't just hand money to somebody
00:25:20.100over there that, and, and know that it's going to do anything other than disappear into the
00:25:25.940labyrinth of African fraud or something like that. But if you know a guy and you have an,
00:25:30.300Oh, I know this associate and he's invested here. He can get me that thing I need for my business
00:25:36.080here. That's going to build American manufacturing and bless. And you know, and that, and is it that
00:25:40.180kind of thinking? Yeah. You have to start building up the relationships of trust and there's no way
00:25:45.460to do it, but to take some risk. Yeah. Right. But you can do that through relationships that you've
00:25:49.820built in the United States and connections that people have back to Africa. So once you start
00:25:54.280building those connections, it's like getting reps in, right? You're taking risk, but you're
00:25:58.580learning a lot as you go along. You start off small and then you build it and make it stronger.
00:26:02.440And there's no way to get around it. You just have to go and do it and experiment. Sometimes fail.
00:26:07.840How long until you're the president of Libya, would you say?
00:26:50.480But it's interesting because I grew up really thinking like colonialism was bad.
00:26:55.960The expansion of Christendom was evil.
00:26:58.960But I want to talk about some of the projects you're doing because it sounds like it's actually a blessing to the people there too.
00:27:05.140I think that's what's often missed is that when you can enter chaos, take risk, and then create order, you're actually doing a positive good to the people there.
00:27:15.000So it's not just real estate right in africa
00:27:18.760Can you talk a little bit about some of the things you're involved with?
00:27:22.200Yeah, so I don't want to get too deep into the specific countries that are involved because we have relationships there that we want to maintain
00:27:29.460Industries and tourism also just residential real estate and also agriculture as well
00:27:35.200Agriculture. Okay. And so that does provide for jobs on the ground
00:27:38.600Um, the development of the residential real estate also does as well
00:27:42.020Interesting. So, I mean, to me, that's exciting. Historically, it seems like Europe had abandoned like colonial outposts there. If I'm not mistaken, I think like China is heavily involved in Africa to this day. So it's nice to know we have like good presence, good Christian presence.
00:28:01.560What are some of the challenges? I mean, you've talked about some of them, but the challenges of investing there, building business there in Africa.
00:28:11.480It's the same challenges as you deal with in the United States, but just on a whole other level.
00:28:16.120Like when I'm dealing with, I'll use New Hampshire for an example.
00:47:43.440If you look at our national debt, our national unfunded liabilities, these precious metals are going to continue to rise in the future.
00:47:50.760Now, I mean, really anybody can go and buy precious metals and put it in a safe or put it under their bed or something like that.
00:47:57.140It is an advantage that we are going to do this at scale.
00:47:59.780But really, the key to this project is that we're not just leaving it in a safe somewhere.
00:48:03.960We're going to leverage out against that, and we're going to use it to fund bill projects in Christian boroughs.
00:48:09.800So that the investor who's entering into this can be part of something much larger.
00:48:14.100They can be a patron of young Christian families who are currently just getting destroyed by the current mortgage and housing system and the price of homes that we spoke about earlier.
00:48:22.860So this is an example of a couple of things coming together.
00:48:25.100It's an example of rethinking an existing industry that's highly regulated and set up in ways that are contrary to the interest of the average American.
00:48:36.040It's also set up in a way or an aim to love our people well, you know, like that young
00:49:02.060maybe walk us through the use case or just this is what we'd love to see this do from the
00:49:07.620perspective of a family that's looking to participate or something like that how what
00:49:11.900would it look like what would you envision there yeah so from every stage from the beginning to
00:49:15.580the end we're using christian companies so we're using steadcraft to do the construction high
00:49:19.820quality thousand year homes yeah um just people who really believe in what they're doing we're
00:49:25.300using alpine gold to do the precious metals purchase so another great christian company
00:49:28.840And then that's all flowing into a benefit where we're going to see the young Christian families be able to utilize loans that are leveraged from these precious metals.
00:49:39.360And so from the perspective of those young Christian families, they're able to reduce the amount of interest that they're paying.
00:49:44.980Potentially in the future, we could even reduce principal payments.