The Simple Life with Gary Collins

Are you struggling to find unbiased information to make political, educational, or just life decisions for that matter? Well, you are not alone, and you know I try my best to give you the most accurate information possible.

Ken Lecorte drops in to help us. Ken, formerly of Fox News, is on a mission to get the best information possible and a platform to voice our opinions. But DO NOT be misled. Ken is no "water holder" for the right. Just like a lot of us, Ken sits firmly in the middle on most matters.

Ken has worked as a media consultant for over a hundred companies and candidates in the United States and internationally, including presidential campaigns in Colombia, Guatemala, and Venezuela.

In 1997, he challenged California law by publishing the state's Megan's Law list. Despite a warning from the state's Attorney General, LaCorte hand-copied the state's high-risk sex offenders and published them online. In 2004, California officially published the Megan's Law database on the internet.

LaCorte became the Western Region Bureau Chief for the Fox News Channel in 1999, the national Director of News Editorial in 2003 and the VP of Fox News Digital in 2006. 

Ken was a longtime protege of Roger Ailes, first in the political world and later at Fox News. At Fox, in addition to running the .com for a decade, he was best known for leading the company’s efforts against Media Matters, as well as successfully spearheading the release of kidnapped Fox staffers in Gaza.

LaCorte left Fox News at the end of 2016. In 2018, he recruited former NPR editorial director Michael Oreskes and former Fox News executive editor John Moody to launch LaCorte News, "a digital news startup with the stated goal of restoring faith in media." After watching the media’s self-destruction, in July 2020 he launched the Media Action Network which has three primary goals: 1) expose the dishonest media pretending to be non-partisan, 2) protect the victims of censorship and slander, and 3) help build the conservative ecosphere in media and online world, with a focus Silicon Valley tech.The Media Action Network’s daily email gives its subscribers the ability to not just complain about the liberal media, but fight back. You can get a good sense for their campaigns at www.MediaActionNetwork.com

Topics Discussed with Ken Lecorte:

* Why Ken decided to create his own news network* How the media has been taken over by extremist, mainly on the left and that isn’t good for any of us no matter what your political beliefs are* How and why our education system needs to be changed, so we can choose freely how and what we want to learn* How to solve the media problem in this country* What is Section 230, and how it effects our interaction and relationship with social media companies* How political tribalism has shown to be destructive throughout history, and why we must move away from this political mindset if we truly want to live free* Why the freedom to choose is actually what freedom is all about* How to counteract the big companies with political agendas from silencing us* Why we need to creat...

To most of us in the health world, it is obvious we are in a health crisis in the United States. I would even say the entire world is facing this problem of declining health, but the U.S. is in the lead… by far. You might think I’m talking about Covid-19, but you would be wrong!

It appears along with our political divide, Americans have decided to kill themselves willingly, with a fork and a spoon. If you even mention, that you know a way for people to lose weight and be healthy, outside of what I like to call “the healthcare and pharmaceutical industrial complex”, you face the possibility of being banned from all social media and a target for “cancel culture”. Don’t even think of calling someone “fat”, well, when they are actually fat and, in most cases, obese, you will be called a “fat shamer” and insensitive. Today, I have a guest, who like me thinks this is complete BS, and this type of thinking of “it’s not my fault” has to end. Marc Lobliner is very outspoken in the health world, and most importantly he is tired of people not taking responsibility for their actions.

Marc Lobliner, AKA; ‘The Machine‘ is an entrepreneur who owns a supplement and clothing line business – mtsnutrition.com, alongside being a chief marketing officer of several different companies.

Marc is also a bodybuilder and an internet personality, with fans from across the world following his diet, workout, and supplementation advice.

While Marc now enjoys a successful career and happy life, this wasn’t always the case. For the better part of his childhood and teenage years, Marc faced trauma after trauma – being bullied because of his overweight looks, and later, facing the death of his father.

However, he pushed through these adversities; building a dream lifestyle for himself through hard work, persistence, and a strong mindset.

Topics Discussed:

* How Marc got into fitness and health* How getting healthy and into bodybuilding changed his life* What motivated him to start his own business in the area of health* Why being fat, and morbidly obese today is considered healthy by some people who do not live in reality* Why fat is not beautiful* Why and how the term “fat shaming” became the cry for those who don’t want to take responsibility for their health* How the pussification of America and Americans is destroying the freest and most prosperous country in the world* Why health is critical for your path and finding success in life

Episode Resources:

* Marc’s Website: https://tigerfitness.com* Check out the new course on How to Finance Your Off-grid Dream here* How to be in the Simple Life Circle: https://thesimplelifenow.com/betterlife

Do you dream of being financially free, maybe even being a millionaire, so you no longer have to worry about money…ever again? Well, today I talk with someone who is not only a self-made millionaire but has been one three times during his lifetime. He became a millionaire on two separate occasions and lost it all. But he didn’t cry in his oatmeal… he got up, dusted himself off, and went back to work following his dreams of financial independence. As many of you know, the second leg of The Three-Legged Stool of The Simple Life is financial freedom, so this is a very powerful episode to help you understand what it takes. Remember money equals freedom, and you must use it as a tool to live the life you want!

About Myles in his own words: I was born and raised in the city of Adelaide, Australia. Adelaide was a wonderful place. Clean, great community, great weather, great food. I mean the idyllic place. My parents were not wealthy, but nor were they poor. My father worked all of his life for the same company. My mother was a stay-at-home parent. My parents owned their own home, and paid it off. They struggled financially but were able to put me through private school.  I was an only child - I guess I didn't have to share their focus with another, so I kinda got lucky.

I had always been interested in technology from a young age. I was such an avid learner that I would go to great extremes to seek out things and get involved in clubs, community groups, etc. I rode my bike everywhere - even for hours to the center of the city to spend my Sunday afternoons in the public library. Soaking up every bit of knowledge I could get. Strange things that people often didn't pay attention to. But I did.

One day I got exposed to CB Radios. This was in the 1970s. I became obsessed (as I often did with things). I learned about electronics, physics, communications, etc. This led me towards computers and eventually I bought one of the very first personal computers - in 1978 the TRS-80 Model 1 computer. I learned everything about programming that computer and it became everything to me.  As the computer industry evolved, so did I. I started a software company and became one of the few experts in software development in Adelaide - getting gigs to write software for government departments, big corporations, etc. and I was still not even 20 years old. My passion for technology was matched with a passion for business, which started out well before I discovered technology.  I guess business was in my DNA.

In 1989, I moved to the United States, settling in Los Angeles. I realized that the ability to migrate from one place to another was a life changing experience. It taught me to embrace everything I found within my grasp, learning about business in the USA, I got involved in the music industry and I was able to leverage my computer programming experience to land work in some early startups - one of which became Amgen, the world's largest biotechnology corporation. Although I spent much of the next 30 years living in the USA, I never lost touch with my home of Australia, and in the late 1990s moved back there for a number of years before returning to the USA.

We are in extraordinary times right now. It is more important than ever for you to start working on and mastering the Three-Legged Stool of The Simple Life – Optimal Health, Financial Freedom, and Finding Your Life Purpose. To help you accomplish this, today, I have an exceptional guest and friend for nearly a decade, Abel James. Abel transformed his health and has been preaching and spreading the word of primal health for a very long time. Consider him a brother in arms to The Simple Life!

Abel James is a New York Times Bestselling Author, Musician, and Online Creator. He’s the host of the award-winning Fat-Burning Man Show, rated as Apple’s #1 Health Podcast in 8 countries with over 50 million downloads and 2000+ 5-star reviews.

A “Coach to the coaches,” Abel has worked with thousands of people across the world to optimize performance, mindset, health, and longevity. Abel is named one of the 100 Most Influential People in Health and Fitness by Greatist and has been featured in documentaries, ABC TV, Entertainment Tonight, People, WIRED, South by Southwest, and hundreds more.  

Abel’s hit podcast is named as one of the “Top 3 Health & Fitness Podcasts of All Time” by Huffington Post and has won 4 awards in independent media, including “People’s Choice” in Health & Fitness at the Podcast Awards. Also a recording artist, multi-instrumentalist, and voice actor, Abel has won several awards including “Outstanding Achievement in Songwriting” in R&B by The Great American Song Contest. 

Hailing from the middle of nowhere in New Hampshire, Abel enjoys playing guitar and piano, writing, reading, sketching, running, hiking, and discovering delicious foods with family and friends. He lives with his wife, Alyson, and a rambunctious yellow lab in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado. 

His new book of irreverent poetry, “Designer Babies Still Get Scabies,” a #1 International Bestseller in Humor, is available now.

Topics Discussed:

* Why you should think about getting off social media… right now* How my website was taken down for just being associated with Parler, meaning everyone is fair game* Our thoughts on this crazy, crazy world we are living in* All the lies we have been told are making us destroy our lives* Why it is far cheaper to be healthy* Getting grass-fed meat is easier than you think * Why national healthcare is not the answer* Why are our rights and free will are slowly evaporating* How the corrupt businesses and fed gov are running our lives* An estimated 1 out of 100 employed Americans currently work for Amazon, and the dangers this is bringing to our free society* How the music industry is almost impossible to make a living in for independent artists* Why you need to support local businesses and pay up for small business products* Why one of the answers to our problems is bringing private businesses to small towns that are slowly dying* Why small towns thriving is so important for living the real American Dream* And much, much more…

Show Links:

* Able's Websites: 

Are you stressed out, or freaking out trying to make sense of the world today? Not sure which way is up?

You're not alone.

Today, I share a recent story and how I handled it. We'll also dive into the best way forward for all of us. Annnnnddd a few Gary rants.

Topics Discussed: 

* What's going on with the podcast's audio* A brief update on projects and release of Going Off The Grid Second Edition* A funny story about life on the road, and when things don’t go as planned* Remember those rants about Amazon, Walmart, Apple and social media in previous episodes…* How and why, we are getting our butt kicked by a bunch of losers (language not so nice in podcast)* How small-town America is dying and what we can do about it* Why complaining, wishing, and waiting for someone else to do something is a huge part of the problem* Seeing now, why I ignored social media and worked so hard to keep control of my content while starting and building my business* Why the problem is no longer about Democrats and Republicans…

How to move forward during these crazy time

Resources and Links:

* Belong to The Simple Life Insider’s Circle: https://thesimplelifenow.com/betterlife* CREDIT: Episode art background photo by Bradley Dunn

Are you struggling with your weight and health, and looking to start fresh in 2021? Well, we all know 2020 sucked, but it is not too late to kick 2021 in the ass! Today, I have a special guest, Best-Selling Author and good friend, Gary Taubes. Gary, is one of the best out there today, when it comes to explaining what is making us fat and what to do about it. Another must-listen episode, so don’t skip this one!

Gary Taubes is an investigative science and health journalist and co-founder of the non-profit Nutrition Science Initiative (NuSI.org). He is the author of The Case Against Sugar (2016), Why We Get Fat and What to Do About It (2011) and Good Calories, Bad Calories (2007), published as The Diet Delusion in the UK. Taubes is the recipient of a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Investigator Award in Health Policy Research, and has won numerous other awards for his journalism. These include the International Health Reporting Award from the Pan American Health Organization and the National Association of Science Writers Science in Society Journalism Award, which he won in 1996, 1999, and 2001. (He is the first print journalist to win this award three times.) Taubes graduated from Harvard College in 1977 with an S.B. degree in applied physics, and received an M.S. degree in engineering from Stanford University (1978) and in journalism from Columbia University (1981).

Topics Discussed:

* Why all calories are not the same and why counting them is futile* Why you are a carb addict* Why is the consumption of alcohol a cause for rapid fat storage* What does Keto actually mean* What is the Keto flu* The history of the sugar industry… food company or heroin dealer* How we store fat, and why, and what you can do about it* How does fructose trick the glycemic index and cause insulin resistance* Why does eating fat and protein make us lean and happy* Why we are wired for sweets* Why if you have it in your kitchen you will eat it* What are the solutions to our obesity epidemic

Resources and links:

* Gary’s Website: http://garytaubes.com/* Belong to The Simple Life Insider’s Circle: https://thesimplelifenow.com/betterlife* Credit: Episode album art background Photo by Jez Timms

The Five Principles of The Simple Life started about a decade ago when I started my health company Primal Power Method. Little did I know, at the time, these Five Principles would not only be the guide for my health company, but also my life from that point forward.

The Five Principles of The Simple Life go hand-in-hand with The Three-Legged Stool of The Simple Life. I consider these both to be the foundation of what I teach. Today, I discuss what they are, and what they mean for moving forward in The Simple Life, so I hope you enjoy!

Topics Discussed:

* A brief history of where the Five Principles of The Simple Life came from* Why we must fix ourselves first* Why the "Victimhood" concept has no place in The Simple Life* Each of the five principles shared and explained* The importance of supporting each other

Resources and Links:

* E67: The Three-Legged Stool* Belong to The Simple Life Insider's Circle: https://thesimplelifenow.com/betterlife* CREDIT: Episode art background photo by Aziz Acharki

We are in some strange times today. Battling a virus that very few seem to understand, producing vaccines that may or may not work, and just a lot of bad information. So, what is the solution for now and in the future for you to protect yourself against viruses? Because one thing is for sure, this type of health chaos is not going away from what I can see. Today I have a special guest, Dr. Cate Shanahan, who will talk about the five things we can do right now to boost our natural immunity, which is how we have naturally fought off viruses for hundreds-of-thousands of years as humans.

Dr. Cate Shanahan is the leading authority on nutrition and human metabolism. A board-certified Family Physician with over 20 years of clinical experience, and NY Times bestselling author of The FatBurn Fix, Deep Nutrition and Food Rules. Her primary expertise is fixing the underlying problems that cause metabolic damage and inflammation, leading to autoimmunity, weight gain, diabetes, cancer, and accelerated aging processes. Her passion is helping people feel their best.

After getting her BS in biology from Rutgers University, she trained in biochemistry and genetics at Cornell University’s graduate school before attending Robert Wood Johnson Medical School. She practiced in Hawaii for ten years, where she studied ethnobotany and her healthiest patient’s culinary habits. She applied her learning and experiences in all these scientific fields to write Deep Nutrition: Why Your Genes Need Traditional Food. Together with Dr. Tim DiFrancesco and NBA legend Gary Vitti, she created the PRO Nutrition program for the LA Lakers and helped forge a partnership between Whole Foods Market and numerous NBA teams. In May of 2018, she became the Director of Metabolic Health for ABC Fine Wine and Spirits, a progressive, family-run company interested in saving money to better health. 

Topics Discussed:

* The sad state of our health in the United States* The primary thing you can do to protect yourself from Covid-19* The five things you can do right now to improve your immune system* Some of the biggest lies you have been told when it comes to your health

Episode Resources:

* Dr. Cate’s website: www.drcate.com* Past Episode with Dr. Cate E59: Dr. Shanahan Shares the No Good Evil Culprits Making You Fat* Belong to The Simple Life Insider’s Circle: https://thesimplelifenow.com/betterlife* CREDIT: Episode art background photo by Lily Banse

Are you waiting for that magic pill to make you feel better? Do you often go to your doctor expecting him or her to prescribe safe drugs designed to help you?

What if I told you that the main goal of the pharmaceutical industry is profit, and in most cases, they could care less about your health or curing diseases. I’ll go one step further, most of these companies operate under the protection of our government agencies, while acting as criminal enterprises, and the American public is their victim.

As some of you know, I used to be a Special Agent for the FDA, so I have seen the belly of the pharmaceutical industry from the inside, and it isn’t pretty. With that said, I have to be careful with what I say, so today, I’m thrilled to bring on Gerald Posner, the author of the best-selling book “Pharma”. Gerald has put together one of the most comprehensive books exposing just how dirty the pharmaceutical industry truly is. 

The author of thirteen acclaimed books, including the New York Times nonfiction bestsellers Case Closed, Why America Slept, and God’s Bankers. Posner was a finalist for the Pulitzer in History. "A merciless pit bull of an investigator,” concluded the Chicago Tribune. The New York Times said his latest book (2020), PHARMA, was “a withering and encyclopedic indictment of a drug industry that often seems to prioritize profits over patients…[it] reads like a pharmaceutical version of cops and robbers." 

Posner was one of the youngest attorneys (23) ever hired by Cravath, Swaine & Moore. A Political Science major, he was a Phi Beta Kappa and Summa Cum Laude graduate of the University of California at Berkeley, where he was also a national debating champion. At Hastings Law School, he was an Honors Graduate and was the Law Review’s Associate Executive Editor. He was a litigation associate at the Wall Street law firm of Cravath, Swaine & Moore before leaving in 1981 to co-found Posner & Ferrara, a New York public interest law firm. Several years of a pro bono legal representation on behalf of surviving twins of Nazi experiments at the Auschwitz death camp led him to coauthor his first book in 1986, MENGELE: The Complete Story, bestselling and critically acclaimed biography of the infamous Nazi “Angel of Death,” Dr. Josef Mengele. Read a profile on Gerald on how the Mengele book led to him to leave the law. Publishers Weekly explains how he changed from being a Wall Street lawyer to a bestselling nonfiction author. In the past, he was a regular panelist on HistoryCENTER, the History Channel’s Sunday current events program.  He has been a freelance writer for many news magazines, and a regular contributor to NBC, the History Channel, CNN, FOX News, CBS, and MSNBC. He is represented by BrightSight Group for lectures about investigative journalism and his books. His wife, the author Trisha Posner, works with him on all projects.

Big Pharma Topics Discussed: 

* Why is the Investigative Reporter dying as a career today* What was it that got Gerald interested in investigating the pharmaceutical industry* What does the term “off labeling” mean* How do “kickbacks” work in the pharmaceutical industry* How did the ...

You would think after being a Navy SEAL, finding a new purpose would be almost impossible. Not for Jack Carr, now a best-selling fiction author. If you are struggling to find your life purpose, this episode is for you.

Jack Carr is a former Navy SEAL who led special operations teams as a Team Leader, Platoon Commander, Troop Commander, and Task Unit Commander. Over his 20 years in Naval Special Warfare he transitioned from an enlisted SEAL sniper to a junior officer leading assault and sniper teams in Iraq and Afghanistan, to a platoon commander practicing counter insurgency in the southern Philippines, to commanding a Special Operations Task Unit in the most Iranian influenced section of southern Iraq throughout the tumultuous drawdown of U.S. Forces.

Jack retired from active duty in 2016 and now lives with his wife and three children in Park City, Utah. He is the author of The Terminal List, True Believer, and Savage Son.

Topics Discussed: 

* A bit about Jack* When and why Jack decided to become a Navy SEAL* What is the main skill he learned as a Navy SEAL that applies to his everyday life * How and when did Jack decide to try and become a fiction author* How much of him is in his main character (James Reece)* How is it dealing with the Hollywood “woke” crowd * Is Jack afraid of eventually being de-platformed from social media, and his books buried in Amazon’s algorithm because of his political views* Jack and Gary discuss how the softness of Americans is ruining the country* How hard is it to balance your opinions, training, and experience in your stories* How does today’s current political climate influence his books * Jack talks about the process of submitting his books to the DOD for approval* How did Jack apply his time as a Navy SEAL to develop his characters and plot for his books

Episode Resources:

* Jack’s Website: https://www.officialjackcarr.com* Belong to The Simple Life Insider’s Circle: https://thesimplelifenow.com/betterlife