Valuetainment - May 22, 2026


＂Stop Living In Buildings＂ - Paul Saladino WARNS This Is Why You're Anxious & Depressed


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00:00:00.000 There's a book that my assistant told me about 20-some years ago called 101 Questions to Ask
00:00:06.820 Before You Get Engaged. And it was by this man named Norman Wright. And I said, have you read
00:00:12.300 it? He said, no, I've never read it. I said, do you think you need to read it? So I read it. And
00:00:14.980 one of the questions on the, by the way, it's literally a book, 101 pages. It's just questions
00:00:18.900 and blank, questions, blank. I eventually ended up bringing him to an event. I bought a thousand
00:00:23.420 of this copy of this book and I started giving it away to people. Patty Lopez, Sandra Lopez,
00:00:28.660 Leo's wife gave this to me
00:00:30.500 She was listening to Christian radio
00:00:32.800 She said you should listen to this 0.99
00:00:34.020 With kids
00:00:35.780 How are you going to have the conversation
00:00:37.840 I don't even know maybe you haven't thought about it
00:00:39.800 What's the faith conversation going to be with your kids
00:00:42.220 I think I'm going to go
00:00:44.360 I'm going to show them nature
00:00:45.440 And for me this is my personal experience
00:00:49.160 I think
00:00:51.400 There's a couple things I think about here
00:00:52.860 When I feel beauty
00:00:54.760 When I feel moved
00:00:55.900 I think how do I feel that
00:00:57.740 you know, there's got to be something bigger than me. What is beauty? What is my sense of beauty?
00:01:04.380 When I'm in the ocean, when I'm looking at a mountain, I'm like, that is beautiful. What is
00:01:09.160 that, Pat? That to me, the fact that I can sense beauty is a reminder that there is something
00:01:16.240 bigger than me. And then I look at humans biologically. My biological mind kicks in
00:01:21.640 and says, look at us. Look around us. Things that are alive fight entropy. We stay organized. Entropy
00:01:28.620 is one of these laws of thermodynamics. The universe tends toward disorder. If you have
00:01:34.880 something and it is not alive, it decays, right? You put a piece of bread on the counter, it becomes
00:01:40.820 moldy. You know, a fruit rots. You know, it's been picked from the vine. A fruit doesn't rot on the
00:01:46.280 vine. It only rots when it's dead, generally speaking, sometimes maybe. But you can see that
00:01:50.440 like the human body doesn't decompose until we are not alive. There is some sort of life force
00:01:56.220 in a human that fights entropy. And what is that? That's interesting to me. What is this animating
00:02:03.520 force of life at the level of our mitochondria, the level of energy production that allows us
00:02:08.980 to fight entropy? Why does a tree, when you kill a tree, it falls apart, you know? But a tree is
00:02:14.800 alive it fights entropy a rock maybe not alive beautiful minerals doesn't fight entropy it
00:02:20.860 decays right you get erosion you know that's interesting to me that we are we are anti-entropic
00:02:26.500 machines and that's sort of the combination of like my overly analytical thinking and some sort
00:02:30.620 of philosophy what's your birthday by the way what month's your birthday june june what june 29th
00:02:34.900 june 29th interesting june 29th we got married on june 26th my youngest daughter's born on june 26th
00:02:43.720 And Tom Ellsworth is born on June 23rd.
00:02:47.520 You know, when you're talking about this, my son, oldest son,
00:02:52.660 I'm a sports guy, so I'm hoping my kids want to play professional sports one day.
00:02:58.240 Oldest son, I would take him in my backyard.
00:03:00.000 He's eight, nine months old.
00:03:01.060 I'm giving him balls, you know, basketball, baseball.
00:03:04.140 Could care less.
00:03:04.840 He goes straight to dirt.
00:03:06.200 And he's picking up a worm.
00:03:07.740 And he's picking up dirt and just playing with it.
00:03:10.680 I would, you know, we would take him places.
00:03:12.700 Could care less.
00:03:13.420 Oh, my God, we're sitting front row, seed, sports.
00:03:16.340 He's sleeping on the couch.
00:03:17.640 We took him to Alaska.
00:03:20.040 Paul, it was a whole different experience when we took him to Alaska.
00:03:22.940 We're walking up in nature.
00:03:24.480 This kid is enamored.
00:03:26.700 Switched on.
00:03:27.340 He switched on.
00:03:28.520 We went to all this.
00:03:29.820 It was the biggest.
00:03:30.980 I think Alaska has, like, we're the biggest mating area for bass.
00:03:35.300 I don't know if I'm – can you type on Alaska bass mating?
00:03:39.000 And so we went there.
00:03:39.900 We went in the mountains.
00:03:40.780 He saw this big eagle that was shot, and his beak was broken.
00:03:44.540 He was fascinated by it.
00:03:46.180 What kind of fish is it that's a...
00:03:48.760 Salmon.
00:03:49.360 Salmon.
00:03:49.820 Go salmon.
00:03:50.340 Yeah.
00:03:50.520 Is it a salmon mating return?
00:03:54.440 Yeah.
00:03:54.740 And by the way, they were swimming up.
00:03:56.380 It was a beautiful thing to see.
00:03:58.340 But nature is a beautiful thing.
00:04:01.640 And sometimes we do need to go out there and see it,
00:04:03.360 because you see how beautiful the world is.
00:04:05.220 You see how beautiful the universe is.
00:04:06.640 I mean, don't you think that if, you know, like that's, again, like I said, I don't think, I don't necessarily call what's bigger than us God, but if they're, you know, that's God's creation, you know, that's God's palette right there.
00:04:19.100 You know, that's one of the ways that nature is incredible.
00:04:22.360 It's very humbling.
00:04:23.400 And I think that as humans, we forget this.
00:04:25.560 And I think that a lot, I think I don't really spend a lot of time in the political sphere, but I do think a lot of political decisions would be made differently.
00:04:34.180 A lot of the decisions people make broadly in government and the decisions that I get frustrated about, I think would be different if people had more time in nature.
00:04:41.680 I think one of the things for us as humans that's caused us to go off track is that we're not spending enough time there.
00:04:46.240 And that sounds passe, but you know what I'm saying.
00:04:48.660 By the way, I think we need people like you to remind us of that regularly, to go in nature.
00:04:54.620 I really believe that because we're getting more and more so caught up in business, buildings.
00:04:59.500 We're not going out there.
00:05:00.200 It's a beautiful thing when you're going out there and seeing it.
00:05:01.920 Hey, guys.
00:05:02.640 I am Paul Saladino.
00:05:03.700 you can find me on Manect. If you have any questions about diet, health, recovering from
00:05:08.420 chronic illness or autoimmune disease, I'm excited to connect with you guys all there,
00:05:11.880 and I'll see you in there. If you enjoyed this video, you want to watch more videos like this,
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