Well, hello. Welcome to another episode of Erik picks a random book. All right. Yesterday, we picked from this side of the library. This time, we’re going to go across the hall on to the other side of the library and see what we have over here. (silence).
You know what? We’re going to do something completely random. Wait a minute. I mean, like I said, there’s some great ones. This is just random. Horse Packing. All right.
For whenever we go on a trail and we’re going to be cowboys, we’re going to learn how to pack a horse. All right. There it is. Now, again, let’s go through the chapters. I’m going to have to figure out how to do this a better way. So, yeah. Much better way. This upside down? No. It’s not upside down. It just seems like this is easier.
So, we have the introduction. Organization for military purposes, general rules, marching, records of endurance, standard pack mules, cross sling, one-man cargo sling. Oh, wow. These are a lot of different hitches and things. I’m curious because I’m not in the military anymore, or I never was. Organization for military purposes. All right. Let’s look at that. Page 15. All right. How old is this book? It’s not even old at all. It’s 2007. They must have tooken it from someone from a very long time ago.
Originally published by Long Riders Guild Press. All right. Because the way that… Let me show you. All right. So they got the chapter right in the middle of the book. See standard of organization for military purposes. So, all right. So, this is what we need for the military purposes. “A pack train consists of 50 pack mules, one bell horse, and 14 riding mules, one pack master, one Cargador, one blacksmith, one cook, and 14 packers. With the complete outfit for camp and substance and the requisite number of riding saddles and aparejos.”
I guess we need to take that chapter and figure out what that is. Well, that’s it. All right. So, we know if we wanted to go ahead and pack some horses with the military, we’re going to reiterate, we need 50 pack mules, one bell horse, 14 riding mules, one pack master, one Cargador, one blacksmith, one cook, and 14 packers. All right, whatever that means. All right. Horse packing 101. Oh, this is interesting. Look at this.
On the road or trail in any country a packing mule with a load of 250 can make 25 miles a day without… Wow. Wow. That’s longer than what I can walk. I’m not trying to walk 25 miles a day. So, what it’s saying is… This is actually really interesting, is one pack mule can hold 250 pounds a day for 25 miles a day without difficulty. So, that’s what it says is that’s 250 pounds and 25 miles a day was basically normal for the military and the march. (silence).
All right. Well, this is actually got interesting. I was making fun of it at the beginning, but not anymore. I started reading a little bit, and it’s actually pretty interesting. So, what I’m going to do is… Wait a minute. Are we just keep on going through chapters? What’s going on? Well, now I actually want to read the whole thing. There’s 172 pages. I’m not going to do that, but I will eventually. Then it’ll be a much larger class. I don’t know.
Ah. We’re in more of the encyclopedia room. I figured we might as well find something interesting in a series or we might find something interesting that’s not in the series. Yeah. See, we got our great books down here. We got the Native or the American Indians. We’ve got the Vietnam Experience, the Jet Age. Pfister Steel.
I’m not going to read them all, because that’d just be repetitive, but let me move this bed out of the way a little bit. Let’s see what’s over here. Oh, yeah. Boom. Well, I’m up on the bed now. I’m not getting off. All right. Let’s see what we got. Oh. We got some decent books over here. We got the Attacks on the Press. That’s relevant.
We got, Age of the Customer. The Marketing of Evil. I wonder what … Sorry. I had to think. I saw the marketing and I was like, “Oh, that’s a marketing book.” No, it’s probably a religious book. Drucker on Marketing. Oh, yeah. There is a lot of marketing books in here. All right. Well, any which way, let’s look at … 81 Natural Cures. All right. 81 Natural Cures for Cancer, Diabetes, Alzheimer’s and More. All right. Let’s see what we got.
Nutrition and Healing. I forgot to say that part. All right. We got cancer. No, we don’t have cancer. Alzheimer’s and brain health. Mineral breakthrough with helping terminal … No. Brain health is always good, but I don’t have Alzheimer’s. Hart health. Diabetes. Women’s health. Energy and thyroid health. Yep.
Well, look at this over here, we got digestion and weight loss. Right? We’ve also got immune system and autoimmune disease or whatever that is. Men’s health too. Uh oh. Look at this one, “Become “King of the Bedroom” Again. Powerful three combo helps reverse erectile dysfunction.” I might have to do that one. Not right now, but later on. Excuse me.
Look at this. “Feeling fat? Irritable? No sex drive? “Female” hormone is wrecking your health?” Look at that. It’s in the book. I didn’t say it. Let’s do the energy though, because everybody … I always want to keep my energy levels up. “Keeping your energy levels from sagging, with this seriously misunderstood vitamin fix.”
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Stomp out chronic fatigue and get your old … Get up and go. Sluggish and suffering? Doc says, you’re fine … No. Let’s do the … Right here. Keep Your Energy Levels From Sagging. 375. What else is in here? Essential Health Secrets. Keep killing stress at bay. For more opinions … No more needles. Yeah. We’re going to do the, keep your energy levels high.
And then, if people say … If I get some responses in the, whatever you call it, comments, then we’ll go over Become King of the Bedroom. This is for girls and for guys. You never know. Maybe some girls might want to know how to get their men back in the bedroom, performing at a top-level like a champion. 375. This is a pretty big book. All right.
This is chapter two of this section of the book. Let’s see if we can … “Their energy levels are tanking. Getting out of bed in the morning is a struggle, and they’ve lost the pep to play with grandkids.” I’m not that old. I don’t have grandkids, but we’ll see what they got.
When I recommended a vitamin B injection or advise my patients to start a supplement program, often they’ll object. And it’s because some mainstream doctor has tested their B12 levels and claimed they were just fine or even elevated. Poison themself with B12. And he says, it’s a load of nonsense.
What this B12 test isn’t telling you … “As a doctor, it pains me to admit this. But the medical world got really dumb when lab testing was invented. Doctors stopped using their brains. Conventional doctors tend to use lab results as gospel. They tell a patient she doesn’t have a disease or vitamin or hormone deficiency, even if she has every symptom of it, just because the blood work came back normal.”
Very interesting. And it’s exactly the same deal with B12, if the results come back within the normal range. Yep. Basically, they’re saying … What they don’t tell you is that there’s a big problem with how they define normal. That is very true. Because the average of everything is just crap.
“The conventional medical community has devised those normal lab values, by taking a population and taking the average of them … Established norms aren’t even close to being based on perfect people with perfect energy levels.”
All right. That makes a lot of sense. I mean, think about it. If they tested a whole bunch of out of shape, lazy people, opposed to some in-shape, workout every single day, then the B12 levels would be completely different. Right? It all depends on the testing that they did in that test group, because we’re not … Oh, yeah. Well, actually, it says that.
Are you getting enough of this monumental nutrient, blah, blah, blah. Wow. I had no idea that B12 was that important. It always amazes me how many biochemical processes are tied to B12. It’s responsible for the repair and upkeep of the nervous system and refinement of every blood cell your body makes. B12 lowers your level of … Yeah, that’s a big one. Homocysteine, an amino acid that’s been implicated in stroke and cardiovascular disease.
With your energy and stamina, even helps your body produce serotonin, a brain chemical that regulates your mood. Even better, you feel the results very quickly. Wow. This is incredible. I said, “incredible,” because I see it in front of me. I didn’t like … But it is incredible … Make B12 a staple practice. But it’s like, basically, get that B12 man.
Get that B12 all inside of you. Well, yeah. I mean, we basically went through the whole chapter on accident. But I will read and give you more of a synopsis, without me reading and not reading and all that good stuff. But we’re looking at Cured … Nutrition and Healing in a Natural Way. All right. Everyone got to get healthy nowadays. Yeah, that was pretty interesting. B12. Let’s keep it out. B12, baby.
So, what I decided … Since I have a library and I’m trying to promote everyone to read and get in the spirit of reading and educating their brain, is I decided that I’m going to pick a random book every day, right? And try to find … Or just, I’m not going to read it every single day. Well, I’m not going to read the whole entire book every day, I’m doing that on a different project. But on this particular project, I’m going to pick a random book and I’m going to try to find one little golden piece of nugget.
So, we’re going to sit down, we’re going to read the table of contents, we’re going to think of something that looks interesting in the book. We’re going to skim through, we’re going to skim the chapter and we’re going to try to find something interesting. So, it’s going to go something like this. It’s not a mock. I’m not going to do it. I’m just going to give you an example. So, as you see, I mean, I got … My library’s not huge, but it’s not small either. And I got books over here too. So, what we’re going to do, we’re just going to pick a random book.
That’s going from … No. Excuse me. Yeah. See, it’s difficult. There’s a lot of books in there and they all kind of look interesting, honestly. Let’s just grab one. All right? Because that’s what we’re going to do, we’re just grabbing some random book. That’s even difficult. All right, we’re just going to grab this one. All right. So, now that we have a book … The book is, The Green Pharmacy Guide to Healing Foods: Proven Natural Remedies to Treat and Prevent More Than 80 Common Health Concerns. All right. I’m going to show you what it looks like. There you go.
So, we’re going to open it up. It’s a new book too. Oh, wow. Wow. This is a lot more than what I thought. So, we’re going to look through the table of contents. There it goes. There I go again. All right. And the reason I said, “Oh wow,” is because I didn’t know that there was 800 different chapters in this book. I thought it was just … We got part one, food medicine, part two food remedies that work. All right? So, on a regular day … Let’s just do it right now. Memory loss. All right, everybody eventually is going go through memory loss.
So, I mean, they got everything. Sunburn, skin problems, shingles, gout, hangover, hay fever, headaches. How foods work. [inaudible 00:03:13], asthma, cold, flu, cold sores, corns, coughs, body odor, bronchitis. I mean, this is literally your one-stop shop on how to cure things, which is interesting. I didn’t know this. So which one are we going to? We’re going to memory loss. So, 264. So, 264. All right? All right. Let’s see if we find … Oh, look at this. There you go. Like I said, one little piece of golden nugget. I don’t want to spend too much time, because what I’ll do is I’m going to summarize more. So not in the videos, I’m going to read it. All right?
Because I don’t think you want to hear me read the whole chapter because it’s a long chapter, right? I mean, it’s not that long, but it’s longer than what I want to read. Then what I’m going to do, I’m going to read and summarize and then take some notes and then it will be available as the notes to memory loss, right? Our one little golden nugget. And what we’re finding right here is healthy foods for memory loss, black-eyed peas. More and more we learn that homocysteine contributes to many [inaudible 00:04:35] and Alzheimer’s may be one of them.
According to American Heart Association, this amino acid may be linked to coronary heart disease, strokes, and peripheral artery disease, a problem related to poor blood flow in the legs. Fortunately, a variety of plant foods, including black-eyed peas may offer some protection. All right? So like I said, if you want to know more, then click the like, subscribe, then in the video what you’ll see is a link to the rest of this. So if you’re interested and you want to learn more about memory loss and black-eyed … Excuse me, black-eyed peas, not the music group, the little vegetable that you eat, then click below. Click the link below and can’t wait to see you on the other side.
All right today, we’re in, this room is kind of like my encyclopedia room. The reason I call it that is because I have a whole bunch of series of things. The Old West, Combat Survival, the Civil War, we’ve got the Vietnam Experience, we’ve got the Third Reich, this one’s cool, The Epic of flight, American Indians. All right, you kind of get the point. That’s why I like calling this the encyclopedia room. I got more over here, but I also have a bed in here. So let’s find something random and interesting. The lights right there. My bad.
Now, remember when we were looking, it’s… I’m a firm believer in don’t buy books only that you’re interested in. I mean, the way I built my library is a little different than most, but the reason I say that, because if you only have a library full of books that you’re interested in at that very moment, then you don’t give yourself time to grow or start looking into different things. I have so many different genres of books, like, look, I just noticed this look, it’s a whole Nicholas Sparks section. I mean, he usually makes his movies in the Carolina, so that’s probably why I have that, but I don’t know why I even put it out. Look at this, all right. “Double Your Money in Antiques in 60 Days”. All right, that looks kind of interesting. “Buying and Managing Real Estate”. All right. And “The Difference Maker”. Hmm. But then also “The Combat Photographer” sounds kind of interesting. Ah man, there’s so many interesting books over here. Matter of fact, before we go any further, let’s just go ahead and… The first one that really stuck out in mind. “Double Your Money in Antiques in 60 Days”. All right.
Let’s look through here. All right, our chapters. Right when I see one that’s interesting. I’m going to stop and we’ll go there. “How the antique business works”. “My wife ana the Harvard school of business administration”. Hmm. That sounds interesting right there. Like, what? But let’s go down just a little further. “Where the antiques come from”, “where anyone can buy at wholesale”, “how to buy at auctions”, “the great regional auction houses”, “some people are so deceitful”, “how to sell the things you buy”, “how to pay for your winter vacation in Florida buying and selling antiques”.
Let’s do “how to sell the things you buy”, because I can always get stuff, you know what I’m saying? That’s easy. But how to sell it, let’s see if he has any insights that I haven’t thought about. 36.
“How to sell the things you buy, or the general art of getting your buyers to work for you”. All right.
Now remember, I’m just trying to find a small itty bitty golden nugget in here. Now, if you want to watch, or if you want to get the whole review of this chapter, my notes, and then me going more in depth in this chapter, then just click below, click on the side. I don’t know where it is, but it’s here somewhere.
All right. Usually, italicized things are important, and bold. So we got three different things I’m going to read, see which one is most interesting. Offer it to him, and he’s like, get what you pay for, and get your money back so you can invest in [inaudible 00:04:47] tomorrow… No, that’s… I got to read more.
All right. Right here. “Selling” big, bold capitalized letters, because we’re already over at the five minutes, so I got to hurry up. It’s selling because the first principle in selling is ‘involve the customer in the decision-making process’, which is worlds away from a buyer, or not buy process. Long ago, when I sold typewriters for Remington Rand, the first thing I learned was that you never ask a person to buy your typewriter. What you do is you bring two typewriters with you, and you demonstrate the different features of both. Then when you’ve gotten him interested in comparing the difference between the two of them, you whip out your order book and say, “which one do you like best?” I like that. I like that.
So if you stuck around for the whole five minutes, hopefully you got that little piece of gold right there. Now again, if you want to have a whole review of the chapter, then click somewhere around and you’ll be sent off to the link and you’ll get my full review of the chapter with notes, and me going more into it. All right. See you next time.
I just woke up. Well, I’ve been up for an hour, that’s a lie. I have eye boogers.
Whatever. It’s 3:40 in the morning. I like waking up early in the morning. The reason why I wake up so early, usually … Today I woke up kind of late. Usually I try to wake up around 1:00. There’s nothing going on at 1:00 in the morning. You got a lot of people that are still awake. They’re on this part, about to be crashing and going to sleep. And then that’s it. It’s very peaceful. It’s quiet. Just listen. Exactly, you can’t hear anything. Wake up early, you get some time by yourself.
You see, I’m taking notes first thing in the morning while I was sitting here in this room. Remember, I’ve only lived in this particular room for a week, maybe, because I was in my other room. I’m moving in this one because one of my bathrooms is in here so it’s just faster, instead of living in a different room and then walking in here to go to the bathroom. I’m like, well, I might as well just live in this room.
I want to talk a little bit about the importance of having a library, or at least books in your room. Today’s a little bit longer than the five minutes that I usually promise because we’re already at a minute and a half. The reason is, we’re going to talk a little bit about dreams. When you dream, your mind doesn’t really know the difference between a dream and reality. If you were woken up and you’re like, “Wow, that felt so real,” well, to your brain, it was real.
I don’t want to go too much in depth so I’m only going to bring it … that it has to do with books and why I want you to have books close to your bedroom. You tend to dream about the last thing that was on your mind before going to sleep. If you were thinking about your financial problems, then your mind, when you’re sleeping, is going to be thinking about financial problems and all the negative things because you were thinking negatively before you went to bed. If you were thinking of financial problems as a positive thing, like, “Whew, man, this new Porsche, this new Ferrari. I’m glad I don’t have financial problems,” well, then your mind’s going to be thinking about all the Lamborghinis, Ferraris. Whatever it is. G6s and G8s, whatever.
Then you’re going to be dreaming and you’re going to wake up with a little bit more motivation to go get the things that you dreamt about because you dreamt about it. If you’re thinking about a girl before or a guy right before you go to sleep, well, subconsciously, your mind thinks about it all bloody night. Think about it, you’re at work throughout the day, maybe eight, 10, 12 hours. How many different thoughts go through your head? Millions. Or thousands, whatever. When you’re sleeping for eight hours, it’s hyper-focused.
If this has ever happened, you think your dream was for five minutes, but then you realize that you were asleep for five hours. Think about that. Sleep for five hours, you’re going through your dream. You’re going through your adventure in your dream or whatever it is. Everyone’s had some crazy dreams before. That dream that you think doesn’t take very long, is actually hours and hours. Excuse me.
Wouldn’t you want your mind to work for you before you go to bed? Then the eight hours that you’re sleeping, 10 hours you’re sleeping, your mind is just consistently working and figuring problems out or going to different worlds you’ve never thought of before. Having a library close your room or close to where you sleep is vital for this, because where do you want to go when you’re sleeping?
Let’s look. Mind you, it’s first thing in the morning. I already went to sleep and this is part of the reason I did this, because I had some dreams about what I was doing right before I went to bed. I was like, “I’m going to talk about that.” We’ve got Dave Ramsey’s Complete Guide to Money, but you know, [inaudible 00:04:50] biographies before you go to bed, which makes sense because then you get a lot of time to think about.
We’re saying, where do you want to go? If you’re trying to solve problems, obviously you want to get some problem-solving books. Then for eight hours, your mind’s going to be thinking about it. But today, today, it’s already five minutes so I apologize today’s going over, I have been looking at this one book. Well, I’ve been looking at a couple of them. I really want to look at this one, Sublime Nature. I would love to think about that when I’m going to bed. You just look at pretty things and you dream about being at all these pretty places in divine nature. Then we got Night Vision. That one’s another one.
This isn’t my encyclopedia room. The encyclopedia room’s over there. This is National Geographic room because I’m over here looking at a whole bunch of National Geographics, which, always interesting. But, today. This one’s really awesome, too, The Sea. It’s not random, I already looked at it. Maybe one of these days I’ll bring it out and we’ll look through it together. It’s a really awesome book.
The book that has been on my nerves. I don’t really know how to pronounce it. For some reason, it’s the reason we’re going to talk about it today. It’s this one. Baroque. Architecture, Sculpture, and Painting. It was sticking out at me so it’s like, you got to go. You got to do it.
Right, here we’ve got Wolfgang [Jean 00:06:48] architecture in the city in Italy from the early baroque to the early neoclassical period. I’m guessing that baroque is some time in history. Correct me if I’m wrong. I don’t know what it is. It has to be because we’ve got a baroque architecture in Spain, in Portugal, in Latin America, in France. Baroque city planning. What is this?
In the longer video, I’m going to have to Google and see what this word means because it’s all over. Wait a minute. Let me just show you. See what I’m saying? Baroque architecture in Spain and Portugal and Latin America and France and Scandinavia. Netherlands, England, Germany, Swiss, Austria, Eastern European. Then you’ve got sculptures, paintings, paintings. I think I’m going to have to go a little longer on this one. I think we’re going to have to dive in and see exactly what this means. There was a reason why it was calling my name.
That’s a big book too. 430 pages. Obviously we’re not going to go through the whole book. I like going to Latin America. Let’s go, baroque architecture in Latin America. Page 120. Wow. Look at this. 108. Hold on. Spain and Portugal. Ooh, goodness. Goodness. Wow. I’ve been there. Hold on. I’ve been there. I have a picture of it at nighttime.
I’m sorry. I forgot what page I’m supposed to be on. Latin America. 120. I’ve been here too.
I’m sorry. 120. Here we go. It’s architecture. Literally, it’s just architecture. That didn’t last very long. There’s only one page in there? Hold on, man. That was one page. It doesn’t seem right. It looks like I picked literally the one that had two pages and that was it. So baroque architecture in Latin America. We got Mexico. Brazil. Brazil. Cuba. Brazil. And Brazil.
1700s, 18th century. I hope you guys are excited as this as I am. I’m going to do, in the longer video, in the longer one, I’m going to go ahead and just … Well, now it got me very interested on, what about in England? 162.
Now I think I know what this is, but then you go to England and it’s completely opposite of what I thought. 162. This is the archetype … this type of architecture in England. Okay, look. With the columns and there’s just massive houses too.
What we’re going to do, especially if you’re interested in architecture, what I’m going to do, I’m going to dive a little bit deeper. Mind you, I’m not going to do the entire book because that would be for a completely different class. For this particular one, I’ve already gone way over. It was supposed to be five minutes, we’re at 12 minutes, almost 13 minutes. What I’m going to do, I’m going to read over Spain, Portugal, Latin America, and France. No, I’m not going to do France. Just Spain, Portugal, and Latin America. The reason I’m going to do that is because obviously Brazil speaks Portuguese and the rest of Latin America speaks Spanish. I want to see, since we only had two pages of Latin America, I want to see where it derived from.
We’ll do Spain, Portugal, and Latin America in the more advanced or whatever, the longer video. Mind you, this one’s long. It’s 13 minutes. It’s going to be longer because this is pretty interesting.
Again, let’s get back to, remember, whatever you’re really thinking about before you go to bed … Mind you, I just woke up, but if I was looking at this before I went to bed and I read about all this before I went to bed, then the dreams that I would have probably would have something to do with this type of architecture or the mansions. Mansions, castles, palaces. Whatever you call these enormous structures with all his artwork and everything. This is just amazing. They’re huge. I would not mind living in one of these bad boys. I would have to have quite a few staff because my house isn’t even that big and I have a hard time keeping track of it.
Again, the importance of having books in the room that you sleep and having interesting books, don’t have scary books, don’t have any of that kind of stuff … I hate snakes. I’m petrified of snakes. If I had books all about snakes in here, then what do you think I’m going to dream about? Some bloody snakes, and I’m not going to be sleeping very well. I like architecture. I like castles and mansions and all that kind of stuff.
We’ll just look. We got the National Geographic. National Geographic. National Geographic. Some science. Some trains. Architecture, obviously. We got Islam. Who’s in the Bible? Encyclopedia history. Catcher in the Rye. Ernest Hemingway. Social problems. Seven Pillars of Wisdom. We’ve even got Warren Buffett and George Soros. We got just a lot of different writings and things. We’ve got the great books.
Have books that inspire motivation and inspiration, so when you’re sleeping, you can allow your mind to wander on interesting subjects. Subjects to help you in the future. When you wake up, you’ll be more motivated. If you have problems right now with your finances or something, then before you go to bed, read books on getting yourself out of finance and really try to just dream about it, so your mind is working for eight hours on how to solve your problems. That’s why I said it’s your own movie library. It allows your brain to dream and think at nighttime.
Just build your library. Have one close to your room. Before you go to bed, you don’t have to just watch the big box. TV. You can enhance your brain with pictures and things like this. I would have never even thought about looking up, I’m going to badger the name of this one more time, boque, boskay, whatever it’s called, architecture on YouTube. Why? Because I didn’t even know it existed. Having random books helps you.
Again, Like. Subscribe. Whatever it is you guys like to do. Leave a comment down below if you want to be technical and tell me exactly how wrong I pronounced everything and give me your YouTube definition of what all this stuff is when I have this huge book in front of me, and tell me how wrong I am about everything. That’s cool, you can do that. Or you can be like, “Those pictures are awesome,” and meet me on the other side where I go more in-depth and let’s learn more about the baroque-era architecture, sculpture, and painting.
See you on the other side.
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