In this thought-provoking episode of Rush to Reason, host John Rush is joined by Dr. Scott Faulkner and guests to challenge the conventional routines of modern men. They explore the perils of slipping into passivity and discuss effective ways to build strong familial bonds. Tune in as they explore life’s distractions and reveal profound insights on aligning with personal and spiritual values.
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Welcome back listeners, Dr. Scott Faulkner and friends. We have Regina Mae Britt. You got two last names, so…
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Well, I’m Regina Ney professionally. And if you look me up, I’m Regina Ney, N as in Nancy, A-Y. But I’m married to a wonderful husband who supports my career. Yes, Sean.
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And I added the Brit. Shout out to Sean.
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Yes, Sean Brit. So I take that with pride. But I am professionally Regina Ney.
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Okay.
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So whatever, whatever.
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Yeah. Just don’t call you late for dinner. Yeah. And then we have Jeremy Sova.
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Great to be back for a third hour, and I think this is our 10th episode since May. So time’s flying, but we have so much more ground to cover.
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Yeah, I was just showing you, people can’t see this, but we have about a two-page outline of bullet points that we were going to hit, and we hit maybe a third of it. Of the first page. Of the first page. So, yes, a lot more to come on future episodes. But I would tease this in the very first hour when we started and we had that moment of silence for Charlie Kirk, and I appreciate you guys allowing us to do that. But a lot of folks are just getting in their cars, heading home. Please drive safely. The sun’s about to set in the west, bright, so just be extra cautious out there. But I wanted to take this final hour – And really call out men. I make no bones about the fact that I am a Christian, that my Lord and Savior is Jesus Christ, and I know where I’m going to go. If I were to meet a fate like Charlie Kirk, like Charlie, I am solid in my faith. And what I am seeing is an epidemic of weak men. Especially Younger men, Gen Zs, millennials, my heart aches for my daughters because the choices of men is so slim. These guys are playing video games. You guys are spending a lot of time watching sports. You’re drinking alcohol on the weekends. Guys who are married are not investing in their families. you think that it’s okay to spend three hours cheering for a team that maybe it was your alma mater, does absolutely nothing for you. You’ve graduated from college or university. That’s great that you went to the university of whatever. Get the little thing off your license plate. Nobody really cares where you went to college, by the way. Take off the sweatshirt. You’re no longer a co-ed. Start to man up and take care of your family like God commanded you to. It’s hard. Yes, I understand that you spend hours working through the week and, oh, geez, nobody understands what I do, so I’m going to decompress on the weekends. I’m going to sit down and I’m going to watch this mindless sport that I used to play in my glory days, and I’m going to drink a six-pack, and I’m not going to spend time with my wife and kids. And, geez, I wonder why my wife doesn’t want to fool around. Because I’m getting liquored up and I’m watching a mindless sport for three hours and she’s looking at you sitting on the couch going, dude, really? Gross. Why don’t you grow up and lead your family? Why don’t we go hiking in the mountains? We live in Colorado. Why don’t we go for a bike ride? Get out in the fresh air. Connection. Why don’t you teach your kids how to shoot so they don’t become an Antifa member getting stupid and shooting people, right? Learn the respect. That’s what my dad did for me of what does a firearm do?
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or role model for your children how to not check out.
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Thank you very much. Why not go to church on Sunday, be that man, and, oh, well, I can’t find a church that I like. Well, keep looking.
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It’ll find you if you put the effort in.
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That’s exactly right. Oh, I’m going to go chase a little white ball for four hours with my friends. No offense, Jeremy. Oh, I feel attacked.
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Ten times a year.
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Come on, Doc. But you’re taking your son with you. It’s that father-son time.
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That’s right. Or my wife’s in the cart with me, and she’s enjoying the day out there. Even if she’s not playing, we have four hours together in the cart, in that connection. She loves it now. In the beginning, it was a… Oh, I’m just going to sit there. And then all of a sudden, you’ve got the cart, and you’ve got the food, and you’ve got the sunshine. You’ve got the camaraderie with other people. And now she loves it. And eventually, she wants to learn how to play the game, probably in retirement for her, because it’s a hard game to learn.
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Yeah.
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the time together is the point here. That’s like, even if, if you do like football, take your wife and kids to the Broncos game, get the hot dogs and, you know, and get the water and the sugar-free Gatorade and enjoy that family time together versus to your point, sitting on the couch, drinking a six pack, yelling at your wife to quiet down because it’s third down and you want to make sure that, you know, that they get the stop. So there’s, There’s different ways to skin the same cat in the eyes of the Lord. And I’m going to admit that, like all of us, we’re sinners. I’m a sinner. And I was raised very strict, devout Catholic. Dad was a Catholic altar boy, fire and brimstone. I wasn’t allowed to talk to the Baptist kids or, God forbid, the Church of Latter-day Saints kids. And then I went to college and, you know, got indoctrinated and educated like a lot of people. And then I got into the workforce and worked my tail off. And then I got to the point where, you know, I realized that there was some loss. You know, I lost some folks or I lost some friends. And I always knew I could turn to the Lord. He was always there. And every time, every time in my life that I prayed for something important, it came true. Every time, whether it was a month, a week, a year later, it had to do with back pain or health or family. So then the bullet grazes President Trump’s ear. I guess he was President-elect Trump at the time or running for the second term. Looked up at the border data and it grazes his ear. That was divine intervention. That was the Holy Trinity, God, Jesus, putting their arms around him and turning his head slightly so he could do everything he’s doing to help our country. And that woke me up. And then Charlie Kirk gets assassinated three weeks ago. And that made me stand up. I went into my bookshelf of hundreds of books in my office, and I pulled the Bible down that I hadn’t opened in 30 years. And I started reading it cover to cover. I’m about 35% through, and I’m reading the Old Testament and the New in parallel. And I am now putting everything that I have into becoming a better man. And I got a long way to go. But you got to start somewhere. And the healthier you get your body and your mind and your spirit, the physiological changes that you’re going to put into place with everything that we’re talking about on this podcast… coupled with your spiritual belief and faith in the one and only Jesus Christ, things will start to fall into place that you cannot believe. And I’m speaking from experience, and it’s recent experience as well. And my new quote is, any time that I feel a little anxious or a little upset, give it to God. It’s that simple. Give it to God.
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So I sort of had one of those… Pardon the expression. Come to Jesus moments. And it was actually my wife. And because I was a diehard Bronco fan, right? I was three sport athlete through my whole life. Things just came naturally to me. My dad never missed. He missed, I think, two games in all those years. And I remember that. Right. And he died at 45. But one day the Broncos had played. It was on a Sunday. So yes, we went to church, but we got to get home really fast and quiet everybody. And we’re watching the Broncos. And of course they lost in like the last two minutes after they’d won a couple of Super Bowls. Then the team started to just go downhill. And Judy looked at me one day and she said, you know what? When the Broncos lose, you’re a pain in the ass to be around. Yeah.
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Because you took it personally for no reason. I mean, there was a reason.
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She was right. I was in a surly mood the rest of the day. And it was like somebody punched me between the eyes. And I stopped, and I looked at her, and she says, I’ll tell you what. And this is back when Pat Bolan, before he had Alzheimer’s and died, when he was the owner. She says, when Pat Bolan pays you a million dollars to give him advice on the Broncos, I’ll let you care. Wow. That’s awesome. And that was the wake-up call that I needed. It’s like, you’re right. Whether they win or lose, it has absolutely no bearing on my life. So we started going on hikes and biking. And then I got the golf cart because my girls were taking lessons. Because back in Fort Morgan, we were right above the country club. And I was in hog heaven. I’m like, oh, the girls are playing. Judy’s starting to play. Our son Jacob, who we had just adopted, he didn’t know what he wanted to do. He just was happy to be on the cart. And I’m like, I get to chase this little white ball because in my mind I was Tiger Woods. Not even close. And so but after about five times this time of year, I would come squealing into the driveway, right, and get out of the hospital, come home, and then say, girls, get on the golf cart. Let’s go. And we didn’t care if we started on the seventh hole or the 17th hole. So long as I was chasing a little white ball, I was happy, right, if we get three holes in or whatever.
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Just playing with each other.
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Just playing and being there together. And then my daughters looked at me and said, Daddy, we don’t like golf like you do. And I was crushed because I had just gotten the membership. I got the golf cart. I had the extended seat put on there. I was like, what? But I had to make a decision right then and there. Do I sacrifice my family on the altar of that little white ball and spend two to four hours away from them? Or do they win? I sold everything. I said, we’ll find other things to do. So then the girls started getting into horses and rodeo and things like that. And I thought, you know, this is a great life lesson because I grew up outside of Fort Collins and we had horses. I said, I want my girls to learn to take care of something bigger than themselves. Whether it’s snowy, cold, or whatever, that animal is relying on you.
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That’s a huge responsibility.
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It’s exactly right. But it taught them that lesson. So that was my journey.
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What a great purpose.
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So when we come back from the break, Regina, I want to hear what your dad, the Marine, did for you. So we’ll be right back. You’re listening to Dr. Scott Faulkner with Regina and Jeremy filling in for John Rush.
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This is Rush to Reason on KLZ 560. Welcome back, listeners. You’re listening to Dr. Scott Faulkner on this Health and Wellness Wednesday. And this is part of that wellness that is the health and wellness part. Focusing on calling out men really to start to steal their spine. The Lord says that we are supposed to be bold like a lion. And if you go into Revelation chapter 21, I think it’s verse 8, the Lord lists all the things that he hates. And did you know on that list, the very first thing that the Lord hates is a coward. I learned that from my brother. He was the guy who went after Osama bin Laden seven times. And I’m like, really? And so I broke open my Bible and I went there and I’m like, I’ll be darned. You’re right. So do not be a coward. So Regina, you are going to give us your perspective on all of this.
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Right. So you mentioned my father growing up. I love that you gave us your experience, Dr. Faulkner, in reference to how your wife called you out because she’s your teammate.
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Yeah.
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She’s your teammate. And that’s what a relationship is, a partnership. It’s a team. And you have that comfort with Judy. And that’s beautiful. This is what we strive for. And I feel that that is not happening. We’re not able to call each other out. And listen, truly listen to what’s behind. You listen to Judy. You listen to her. What she was telling you is to be better. And that’s what we want. We want someone to help us be better, not to stay stagnant, to stay in our darkness. And that spiritually, that’s what happens is we become dark. We become dark with the same habits, the same habitual things that we think that we’re relaxing. And you’re not relaxing. You’re actually creating a isolated behavior that you’re detached from the things that are actually going to help you live and be present. And we’re detached.
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That’s true. I mean, think about all the times you go out to dinner. In a family of four, all four of them are just staring at their phones.
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I get upset.
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On Valentine’s Day, a couple to our right never looked at each other their whole dinner. They were in their phones on Valentine’s Day.
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Because they were putting a checkmark in a box. I went out to dinner on Valentine’s Day. Right.
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Now, we have a rule when we go out with couples. Everybody puts their phones in the middle of the table. First person to grab it pays the bill. I love it. And it’s incredible. These things are so helpful, and they’re giving us the AI to help us reverse our age. But they’re weapons at the same time.
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You need to learn boundaries. And that’s the problem is I think as humans, and this is where the weakness, the coward behaviors come in, is we’re not holding ourselves accountable to be better. And what does that mean? Check how much you are on social media. Take accountability. If you’re on it for three to four hours a day, you’re basically detached three to four hours a day of opportunity to be there in a relationship with your wife, to be there in a relationship with your children who are actually watching you. And what are you doing? You’re role modeling detachment. And then you’re teaching your child to be present. Good luck with that. Good luck role modeling detachment behavior. And your child… is being told verbally, be present. Hey, pay attention. Hey, did I have to repeat myself? Well. Look at you. You’re checked out. You’re checked out. Oh, because I worked all week and I did all this this week. Okay, what do you want, a medal? I’ll give you a medal. I’ll give you a hug. Now get over it.
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Yeah, right.
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Get over it and learn that the only way you’re going to have a successful relationship is by being present and having boundaries with yourself, learning to check in, not check out, learning to check out with your family, just like you said, golf, switching it up. Hey, everybody, I really am into golf. All right. Does anybody else want to practice that? And then, Dr. Faulkner, you mentioned this example. What if your family is not into golf? What if they try it and they don’t like it? Well, you know what? We’re a team. Let’s come up with a game plan. Everyone put an idea in a glass jar. And we’re going to try one thing once a month, but we’re going to try it for a month together. And everybody gets to express themselves and be involved in this team.
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Yeah. Yeah, we’ll give one small carve out because these phones aren’t going anywhere. No, they’re not. So, like, for instance, my wife and I will flirt with each other using Instagram reels and memes.
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That’s what my husband and I do. Yep.
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You know, so it’s not all bad. No. It’s how you use the tool. Right. Right. Like, don’t use the hammer other than to put the nail in the wall, not for anything bad. But it can be used for good. It could. If you just pay attention. Yeah. and like listen to your gut and listen to your mind and make sure that you’re moving the relationship stronger and down, you know, downfield or whatever. He’s a sports analogy.
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Um, when you have to remember that too, is whatever you are taking in with your senses, your five senses, you’re taking it in and your brain is processing it. Here we go into the science. It’s, it’s D it’s, Either removing dopamine and serotonin or adding to dopamine. We are happiness. Happiness, dopamine, serotonin. And when you’re watching this, you are adding to this emotional response system. And what happens when you stop watching it? You think that emotional response system is like, okay, I’m done watching that. I’m going to go be a balanced, calm, peaceful person. Because that’s what creates happiness in a relationship. It’s actually not being happy. It’s being calm and peaceful. But you are all… You’re amped up. Oh, you’re jacked up after watching whatever your reels are. And then your wife is having an emotional thing that happens. Oh, I can’t take this. I worked all week to watch all this on the thing. I watched the Denver Broncos. They lost. The Broncos team lost. Oh, I’m just going to stay in silence.
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Yeah.
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Detach.
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Or I’m going to drink.
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Week after week after week of that behavior. Now we got detachment in a marriage. There’s a couples counselor. They’re Gottman. I don’t know if you guys have heard of them. Gottman. Wonderful. They’re a couple that do couples therapy and therapy. It’s called the four horsemen. And one of the four horsemen is that detachment, is the ability to not be seen, that you just ignore your partner because, oh, they’re happy. They’re doing their thing. I’m doing my thing. It becomes two absent people living in a home that are creating a family. And that is not family. It’s not detached. It’s not living in a house. It’s not family.
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There’s silos.
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There’s silos inside of the same house.
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So is that when the kids all leave the house, they go to college or whatever, they look at each other and say, who are you? I have nothing in common with you.
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That’s right. This is where also affairs happen. This is where the person wants to look for something exciting because their dopamine needs something.
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Yeah, and guys get it with their porn or video games, right?
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Right. Again, detaching. It’s all detaching and not being present. And when you train your brain to be detached, and that’s all you know, you repeat the vicious cycle. And again, it’s a weak option, but it’s an option they think that’s only there. And in reality, if you put the work in to be present with your relationship… then you will have this relationship. You watch like on TV shows, you’ll be happy with each other. You’ll be a team together. You’ll be able to have that wonderful close the bedroom door life that men want, that I often hear get complaints, my wife doesn’t wanna have sex with me. And I’m like, well, what are we doing to create a playground for that? What are we doing to create an intimacy beyond the physical intimacy of that? Where’s the friendship? Are you checking in at least three times a week with your wife? What does that mean? Are you sitting there being with her?
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Really being there.
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Are you being there? Are you being present?
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Being in the moment.
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That’s right. The flirting. The flirting. All the stuff that when you first met. That’s right. And then you change it up too.
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I call it kind of your representative phase, right? You put on your best self for the first 90 days to a year that you’re together. Then you kind of settle into yourself. Well, be that person in the first 90 days for the course of the relationship.
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Yeah. Yeah.
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Yeah. And basically, the first two hours, that’s what we’re trying to recreate on the physical side for folks. That’s right. Right? Because let’s face it. You’ve been in marriage for 10, 15, 20 years. Guy, you’ve put on 30 or 40 pounds. You’re not that star quarterback anymore. Ladies, you’ve had a couple of children. And I know we’ve already discussed this, why it’s so much harder for ladies to lose a little weight. But then… Guys, testosterone level is terrible in the dumps. That’s exactly right, ladies. Your thyroid may be off. Your vitamin D is down. And you just kind of are existing. You take the kids here or there, and your kids are, no offense, they’re brats or they don’t want to have anything to do with you because you’ve already checked out on them. Because dad is watching the Broncos on Sunday or golf or whatever it is. Mom, you’re busy shuttling kids here, there, and everywhere and then hanging out with your friends. And there’s no cohesion or anything like that. So here’s my suggestion. Why don’t you guys do this together as a family? First off, Regina, I loved your idea of putting ideas in a bowl. Whether it’s you guys starting to take up a martial art like Brazilian jiu-jitsu or something like that. All start to roll. Or go up in the mountains. Go hiking. Skiing season is coming together. Pretty soon we’ll have snow. Go up there and ski or sled. Something like that. Get four-wheelers.
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Get motorcycles. That’s the thing. As humans, we know there are options. And that’s accountability.
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Yeah.
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stop saying i don’t know what to do look for what you want we live in a day and age where the answers are all there yeah go bowling go bowling yeah i don’t like bowling well maybe one of your kids will and then you learn to like it right because you’re watching them enjoy it right and that’s another thing is i think parents are not understanding you’re helping your child survive on this earth without needing to be needy they can be self-sufficient and also self-regulate it and be present that’s what you want to teach your children
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And lead by example.
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Lead by example.
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Like just this last week, you know, I’ve been going into Dr. Faulkner’s hyperbaric oxygen therapy chamber and fixing, you know, my insulin resistance and helping my brain health. And I cured my son’s broken wrist in 24 days. He’s playing hockey on Friday night. Orthopedics blown away. Wow. That’s not possible.
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I love when they say this.
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He heals. He’s young. He heals good. So I’ve been taking my Bible in for my sessions. And I did three sessions with him this week. And the first two he took in his honors chemistry book, which is great, right? He’s doing his homework in there. Well, the third day, you know, they’re coming up on fall break. So his stuff is all caught up. I’m like, what are you reading now? And he turns it and it’s a Bible. And I was touched. I was like, wow. Like, I led by example. And he’s following my lead.
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I don’t think men understand how powerful the Father is.
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And it sounds like I’m so amazed by it.
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And I shouldn’t be, but I am.
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Like, it was that little example right there.
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Mm-hmm.
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And our kids are watching us all the time. And he’s asking me questions. You know, Dad, look, they’re talking about, you know, the olives being squished. Is that the olive oil that you’re eating? And all kinds. He’s making philosophical connections, and he’s critical thinking. And, you know, he’s asking if, you know, Jesus talking about the scriptures are the ones, you know, from Abraham and Jacob. Yeah. It’s really cool to have that one experience.
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Well, you’re teaching him that inner voice, that beautiful inner voice that’s going to last him into adulthood for him to be able to hold space for himself and then hold space for others, his loved ones. Right. I mean, you don’t learn that in school. You learn that in your family.
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That’s right. And we’re learning together. I don’t have all the answers.
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Right.
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I’m like, well, when we get out of this thing and we can turn our phones on, let’s ask AI. So it’s really good to have that type of connection.
SPEAKER 04 :
That’s fantastic. It is. So we’ve got to take another break. Sorry, guys. But when we come back, another sore spot in marriages is finances. So I want to hit on that when we come back.
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Number one reason for divorce.
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Yes, sir. So we’ll be right back. You’re listening to Dr. Scott Faulkner filling in for John Rush, Health and Wellness Wednesdays. See you on the backside.
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Welcome back, listeners. Dr. Scott Faulkner with Regina and Jeremy. We’ve got about a half an hour to go, so we want to keep giving you guys great information that you can use on the health side but now the wellness side and maybe to strengthen your marriages, guys, to get you to step up and be the man that you’re supposed to be. Ladies, don’t be that nagging Karen to your husbands. They’re struggling. Help them. Compassion. Compassion. Thank you very much. That’s right. Compassion. So if somebody has a comment, you can give us a call in the last half an hour, the 303-477-5600. We’d love to hear what maybe you’ve done to help your marriage along. But in this segment, I wanted to talk about finances because, Jeremy, you said it. It is the number one reason for divorce. And so… I was, and I’ll use myself again, okay? And no, I’m not perfect. You’re exactly right. But I’ve come a long ways from the guy 27 years ago that married my bride. If you’ve ever heard of Dave Ramsey, and who has not heard of Dave Ramsey? I was the free spirit in the relationship. She was the Dave Ramsey and she’s the nerd. That’s right. And so, you know, when Brooke and Kaylee, they were little before Jacob came along, we would go to Walmart and the girls would be like, daddy, uh, I want this DVD. And I’m like, Yeah, okay, sure, right? Because I’m a sucker for my girls. I will do anything for those girls. My husband is the same. And they knew it. And so my wife, she’s like, you’ve got to knock that crap off because you’re going to raise a couple of spoiled brats. And so but me being me, I couldn’t say no to my daughters. And the other thing that I noticed is that, you know, I just come out of the Air Force, started a new practice and I didn’t know about quarterly taxes. And I thought I was doing really well until I got a letter from the IRS saying, oh, by the way, you need to pay us a lot of money. And I had to take a second mortgage out to pay it. That was the wake up call. that I was too much of a free spirit and I didn’t have a handle because my parents never taught me money management. And so at our church, there was the Dave Ramsey Financial Peace University course. And so Judy and I went through it together, and we got the little envelopes. And that was the first time we had a budget.
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That’s great. I cannot believe that still in 2025 that the private schools and the public schools do not have personal finance as one of the most important courses that you’re teaching these kids. They can’t even balance a checkbook when they graduate and go off to college.
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Personal finance is so important. Do you think it’s by design? The system?
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Do you think it’s by design? I do. Driven by the credit card companies?
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Correct.
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Probably. Yes. But the private schools should know better. They should. I’m not going to call out the one my kid goes to, but they’re not teaching it yet either.
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But maybe they don’t know, right? Ignorance is bliss. Ignorance. So if they don’t know, how are they going to teach your kids? And so they live this life that so many people do, like I was, that free spirit, and you live paycheck to paycheck. And at the end of the… The month, you’re like, well, where did all my money go? Because I do fairly well, but I must have, I don’t know, until you actually sit down and you do a budget and you tell every dollar where to go. So that is my plug for people who are struggling in your marriage. Maybe you’re that couple that you need to sit down and actually start to budget, right? Tell your money what to do.
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You will lose your mind on waste that you find. Oh, yeah. Like, check these kids’ phones for subscriptions. Oh, my goodness. I mean, they’ll open up an app, and Apple will charge your credit card $9.99 a month, and you won’t even notice it, and they haven’t opened that app in, like, 14 months.
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Well, I’m going to revisit. Checked in. That’s the thing. We’re revisiting this again. It’s don’t be checked out. Be present. That means everything you do, have your five senses involved. What do you see that you’re doing? How do you hear how you’re doing? Do you taste it? Do you smell it? Do you feel it? When we make choices in our life, Are you connected with that choice? Are you just blindly making these choices?
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And what you’re going to find is you sit down and do this budget and you’re going to get the HSA account or the FSA account and you’re going to say, oh my goodness, I can afford to take 10 years off of my loan.
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I know because a common thing I hear from my clients, I don’t have the money for that. I’m like, oh, yeah? So I actually invite them. I said, I would like you to write down all your bills. I want to see how you’re spending your money. And they look at me like almost offended. I’m like, you want me to help with your mental health and your well-being? You’re spending $140 a week on Starbucks. Then you need accountability.
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For burnt, bitter coffee.
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So it’s funny that you say it. And calling inflammation.
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It’s causing inflammation. Because mold in the coffee.
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Lots of mold in that coffee.
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Yes. You need purity coffee. Yes.
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But I had this one case. This woman was spending a good… $500 a month on Starbucks.
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Easy.
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Easy. And she was saying, I don’t have money to go get vitamin D shots.
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Who are trying to trans our kids. Oh my God. Right? So folks, get rid of Netflix.
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I mean, seriously, open up, grab your iPhone, open up the subscriptions tab and the three dots on the top right. I’ve done this twice. All your kids and even yourself and look at the subscriptions. I guarantee you’re going to find at least a couple hundred dollars a year that you have no idea that you’re even paying.
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And what a great opportunity, a lesson for a family discussion to sit down, print it out. See, do you see all these subscriptions? Do you realize this is money? Well, you know what? You want these subscriptions, you’re going to pay for it.
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Accountability. That’s what I did to Brooke and Kaylee is now when they had back in cash days, right? We’d have the envelopes and we would go to Walmart and the girl’s like, Daddy, I want this dolly or I want whatever, this video. And I’m like, how much money do you have in your envelopes? They’re like, huh? I’m like, that’s right. I never gave allowances, right? I don’t give people money just for existing, even if you’re in my household. You have to do something. You take care of the pets. You cut the grass. Cut the grass. That’s exactly right. So it’s called a commission. Mm-hmm. You and I work. We get paid for when we work. You work. You get paid. You don’t get paid just to suck air. To exist. To exist. That’s right. So it was fun because now my girls, they would look at it and look at the money. Yes, you work for the federal government.
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Do I want to spend my money?
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Do I want to spend my money on this piece of junk out of China or do I want to save it up for something else? Right. And it taught them great money management.
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I love this because my father did a great job with that. He would give us money for things that we did around the house. And I became a hoarder with my money. I still, I might ask my husband, he says, baby, go, go spend money. And I’m like, uh, well, I don’t really need it. I learned want versus need at a very young age. And I owe that to my father. He always said, well, you could buy that, use your money. And I’m like, What? And he’d look at me. He’s like, yeah, you have $20. You could pay for that. And I would look at him and I’m like, I’m not spending my money. He was like, well, I’m not spending my money. It doesn’t look like you need it. And I’m like, he always repeated that. You don’t need it then. You don’t need it. If you don’t want to spend your money, you don’t need it. And I grew up with that root in my mind when I go shopping. And again, there’s playing. I know how to play with my money, but I have a reasonable amount of what playful money is.
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That’s because your budget shows what you can use as disposable income.
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Yes, yes.
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on the flip side of the coin, you can use your money to make more money.
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Yes.
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Like, so hoarding is great, but breaking off some to invest in something and make sure it’s a good solid person that’s helping you invest it. But compound interest is, will absolutely set up a family forever if you start in your late teens, early 20s. So don’t just keep shoving it in the savings account or getting to a CD that’s getting 1%. Just sitting there. Find somewhere where you can get 5%, 7%, maybe 12% return on that money.
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And what a great thing to do with your spouse. That’s another. Yes. And this is, you know, my husband and I, we we we understand this together. He actually introduced it to me. He explained it to me. I was like, wow, this is great. We started right when my son was born. And we look at the accounts. We show my son. what we’re doing. Teaching moments. Right, teaching moments. And it’s opportunity for also connection, being present with the money, everyone being checked in about the money so you understand where it’s going, where it’s not going, and taking accountability.
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And then if you’re going to retire at retirement age, which doesn’t look great for a lot of people these days, and you budget and you invest, you get a return compound interest by the time you get there, then you can spend that time together instead of working yourself into the grave. Because as we’re seeing here physiologically, by age 65, if you’re not healthy, there’s not much runway left. So you spent 90% of your life ignoring each other, working your tail off, ignoring your children. And then you’ve got nothing to show for it at the end of the day where all of a sudden you build the right plan and budget. You’re 58, 63, 66, and then you can enjoy that money as a family and even have something to help boost your children to invest so they can carry it down generation to generation.
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getting a balanced budget, which everybody should be doing. But then he says, okay, take your money and put it in a term life insurance policy. What Dave does not tell people is that he actually sells your data to these headhunters that sell these term policies. Oh, no. Yes. And the industry tells you, oh, if you invest for the long haul at X amount of interest, if you notice the market always does this over the long haul. Well, that’s where I differ with Dave because if you listen to guys like Garrett Gunderson, he wrote Killing Sacred Cows 2 and What Would the Rockefellers Do? It blows that away. So really whole life insurance is the better vehicle. And another book was How to Become Your Own Banker by Nelson – R. Nelson. It starts with an N. It’s How to Become Your Own Banker. You guys can look it up. It’s a small book. It’s been out for a long, long time. And so that’s what we have gone to now. And I showed my kids, I’m setting you up in these whole life policies. We will never need to take another loan from a bank ever again. We’re having a trust. We’re setting this up for generational wealth. This is why. And, oh, yeah, we created a family crest, right? And we’re creating a family constitution of this is what we stand for. That’s right.
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You’ve got to live to that constitution in order to unlock things.
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That’s right. That’s exactly right. Love it. We’ve got the clock saying we have to take another break, and then we’ll come back for our final segment with some final thoughts from Regina and Jeremy and myself. And we’ll be right back.
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This isn’t Rage Radio. This is Real Relatable Radio.
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Welcome back, listeners, to our final segment here on this Health and Wellness Wednesday approaching the 6 o’clock hour. Please be careful out there because that sun is really brutal if you’re heading west. So we are talking in this last hour. I told you we were going to call out men and ladies, too, because sometimes you have a hand in these relationships if your marriage isn’t doing so well. But we’ve given you that roadmap, hopefully, to start to change things. Maybe what you heard here today is that spark to say, you know what? We can do better. God gave us. you to me as my spouse, right? And let’s start walking this journey together and set us separately under the same roof. So we’ve given you ways to make your health better, starting with biomarkers. Do it together as a couple. Start losing the weight. You know, guys, if you drop 20 pounds, maybe your wife might look at you and go, hey, you look a lot better. Ladies, if you get your vitamin D and your thyroid and lose 20 pounds that you put on from having kids, your husband is going to say, hey, you’re that girl that I remember from a while ago. And let’s check your testosterone level.
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When I love that you said that because it’s also accountability, realizing the person you married, and I’ve had to tell these to people, you marry this person and there’s a promise you keep to each other. There is a promise that I’m going to take care of myself and I will take care of you. Yeah, till death do us part. Well, and the thing is, is people are not taking care of themselves, but they’re expecting. They’re expecting this type of relationship that was in the beginning. And I’m like, can you bring me a picture of when you guys first started? What? Yes. You two do not look. Well, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. And I’m like, I understand that we’re all going to be aging differently and stuff. But how are you taking care of yourselves to take care of each other?
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Yeah.
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And I love that you said it’s accountability, calling each other out in a compassionate way. Again, there’s a different way to do it. Because there’s love. There has to be love there. And you have to tell each other, hey, is this the best you got? You got one life to live. This is the best you got, honey? Well, we need to do better. We need to do better for ourselves and each other and show up.
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That’s exactly right. Thank you for that. Jeremy, any thoughts, especially on that financial side? Because you, let’s face it, I think the audience knows that you’ve done well now for yourself in business. And we were talking about how I don’t like Dave Ramsey’s model on the investment side. So what was your advice to help these couples?
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On the financial side, I would say do the budget, find out where the waste is, do it together, and then figure out a way to invest, compound interest, get a return. Don’t just stick it in a savings account or a CD and get 1% because inflation is going to eat that money up. Find a way to get 3%, 5%, 7%, 12%. Get yourself a buddy that’s in the advising space or an accounting space. and start to put money away, even if it’s $50 a month, $100 a month, and that compound interest is going to add up. Then you can invest bigger chunks and create wealth that lets you live your life because the last phase of your life after retirement is usually in poor quality, unless, of course, you follow our guidelines. We’ll get you to $100. But that health span is so important and you waste most of your life running the hamster wheel, living paycheck to paycheck. So that’s very important. And the more overall side of things.
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Uh-huh.
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We spent the last couple of hours talking about how to improve, but we’re in the middle of a civil war now of ideals, which is, I think, more dangerous than the last civil war, which was there’s a winner and there’s a loser. This is dangerous. This is amongst your family members, your friends, your colleagues. People are going after each other on social media. The only way… So we’re on the right side of this thing. The only way that this is going to get resolved is by us being good, doing good, killing them with kindness when you’re engaged in political discussions with your family and friends and colleagues. Create a version of yourself that emits this empathy, this kindness, this understanding, no matter how much you disagree, because we know we’re on the right side of this thing and God is with us. But make sure if you do engage, engage with facts, not, you know, some funny meme that some far, you know, right pundit threw at you. Like really get into the nitty gritty details and, educate them on what the regulation is in Congress or what the governor had signed or didn’t sign, and share it in a friendly way away from the heated debate. And like you said, Regina, in educating them and getting them kind of to the other side, there’s a different way to go about the discourse today. And factual data is the best way to start, but every single one of us knows the difference between right and wrong, between good and evil. We know it in our gut. We know it in our minds. We know it in our hearts. Our guts are not going to lie to us, so… Like I know that this particular medium, you know, is on the right side of history, but we got to gain more ground. We got to get less violence out there. And it starts in the family. It starts in the household. It starts with Christ. So that’s, I’m just disgusted by seeing every day there’s another, you know, Antifa engraved bullet that grazes somebody or kills them. It’s really scary, but we can beat this.
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We can by all being like Charlie Kirk. That’s exactly right. He was not afraid to go into the lion’s den and have an intelligent discussion. And he turned a lot of people’s minds and hearts—now, not everybody— Because Satan has his. We know who they are. And when your father is the father of lies, then that’s why, if you’re wondering, why, why is all this happening? Well, okay, well, Satan is real, and he’s been given time on this planet to monkey with his.
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But even an unintended consequence of Charlie walking the walk is certain people on our side that weaponized his reels and drove certain ones without the full context into everyone’s phones of these minds of these men that are aged 16 to 25 and warped their thinking based on false truths and stuff that wasn’t even contextually correct. So you got to get the
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context but i love that you said it starts in the family we need to create this mindset for children help them exercise that way to look at things don’t just look at pieces look at the hole right and if you don’t have the hole then you better sit back and get the hole before you make an opinion like
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Tyler Robinson’s father, poor guy, 27-year sheriff, took the kid hunting with the grandfather with a .30-06, did everything that he thought was right growing up because, you know, his son got sucked in to this world that he didn’t even understand or grow up in. Mm-hmm. And he ended up not taking the reward money. He gave it to Erica, and he resigned from the force because he took that as a father personally, that he was at fault for something that his son was indoctrinated by these evil forces coming through these phones. It’s heartbreaking.
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Fair enough, but I hate to say this, but folks, your government hates you. And if you actually believe the story that Tyler did this the way our government said he did it, if he did, then I’ve got a bridge I want to sell you. Fair enough. Your government hates you, right? Think about this. Antifa runs around in Oregon and Chicago and places like that. Don’t you think that our FBI, with all of their resources, could infiltrate that group? They could find out where the money’s coming from and shut it down overnight if they chose to. Instead of trying to do it the hard way like we’re seeing every day. Correct. Right? They talk all this good stories. Cash is out there. I believe in the men and women of the FBI. We’re going to hold these people accountable. And you have Pam Bondi over here. Yes, heads are going to roll. And you have Lindsey Graham. Yeah, enough of this stuff. And they spied on us. It’s like, dude, they’ve been spying on us since the Patriot Act was passed. But now suddenly you care because it’s you that was getting wiretapped. What about the millions of us? And if you, FBI, wanted to shut this crap down, you would have shut it down a long time ago, which tells me you actually are on their side. You want this, us fighting against each other. So I’m not a big fan of our government. That’s why you need, as a man, to start to step up, lead your family, open their eyes, have the discussion on social media, put it down, start doing things for Christ.
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Be present.
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Be present. Thank you, Regina.
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Thank you for this particular segment, too. It really hit home. You’re welcome.
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So our three hours are up. Thank you again for listening to us, guys. Dr. Scott Faulkner with Regina, Nate Britt, and Jeremy Sova. We’re signing off. We’ll join you probably in another month in November.
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