Spencer Christensen

That's really, I think, one of the biggest things that the lodge offers.

The world that we live in is so artificial.

Oh, yeah.

In every way imaginable.

Oh, for sure.

I mean, your relationships with other people, artificial.

Yeah.

A lot of the...

content that you see, and even more so now with AI, right?

I mean, how much... Now what you see online, how much of it is even real?

I mean, it's one thing if it's artificial.

It's just infomercial city.

Everything is so artificial.

And I think that our brains as humans aren't really designed...

to function like that, right?

I think that we're designed to have real connections with real people, not online, and certainly not AI connections.

And I also think that there's this really deep, intrinsic, embedded need that people have to connect with nature.

And nature of all kinds, like if you're in Florida or you're on the beach going out and connecting with the Everglades or the beach or whatever, if you're in the mountains, connecting with the mountains, I think that there's something very deeply spiritual, very deeply soothing to the soul to go into nature and break away from artificial social media, artificial everything.

Concrete jungle, I don't think that the human condition has been built to survive, to thrive in a concrete jungle.

I think that a lot of people live, and that's fine, but I think that it's good every once in a while, if you live in a city, every once in a while to break off and to experience more of a disconnected... And this is where Grant Cardone would step into this podcast and be like, well, let me sell you a timeshare.