Ep. 005: NATE SCHOLZ - “KEEP THE FAITH, FINDING AND LOSING RELIGION”
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In this episode I’m talking with Nate Scholz. SAG/AFTRA Actor & Host, Director of Sales & Marketing at DCLA, Freelance Fashion Consultant & Clothing Designer
We talk about his wrong and rightful expulsion from school, his finding and losing religion and how important family is to him. This is a long and interesting episode that could have gone for several more hours.
Nate has many interests, including UFO’s, psychedelics and more which he talks about on his show Nate Night Talks or seen on his Instagram stories and feed.
Links to Nate:
Instagram: @NateAScholz
YouTube: Nate Scholz
Twitter: @NateScholz
Website: NateNightTalks.com
YouTube: NateNightTalks
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“It was amazing I accomplished anything in life…”
(2:20) You are a product of your environment
(3:30) Granddad was a German soldier and after the war immigrated to the US
(6) Has a unique connection to Amelia Earhart
(9:30) Coming to terms with death
(11:50) It was amazing I accomplished anything in life
(12:15) Questioning faith and a problem with authority and created guilt
(14:40) Younger brother’s easy life made him resent him when they were kids
(15:20) Was it conscious rebellion as a kid?
(16:50) He came to religion after a rough childhood in college
(17:30) We’re all brainwashed by our parents
(19) If only he had known his father was a wild
(21) The story of being expelled
(24) A bit about Nate Night Talks
(25) The conspiracy to take Nate down
(29:20) Evil thinks they are doing the right thing
(31:30) Family life was like lord of the flies at home and bullying at schooling
(35:35) Became a cutter, depressed and tried to get expelled to get out of school
(44:15) The book sapiens and the enslavement of the human race by wheat
(48:50) Terrance McKenna
(51:) Realizing what he wanted in school
(52:30) Principal wanted to get him in to debate in high school
(54:) Took any and every job to make money
(57) Reason for not going into the military
(59:50) Knowledge and power of the military to mold you
(1:01:40) What made him chose religion
(1:05) Choice to stay local instead of going away to college for his little bro
(1:08) His ticket out of his hometown – national collegiate competition
(1:09:57) Nate sheds a tear
(1:10:45) He wins over Harvard and all other university students
(1:12:56) Got closer to his dad around this time
(1:14:35) “It’s neither good nor bad, it just is”
(1:16:35) His mom leaving shattered his world
(1:22) Clarity of purpose
(1:30:50) Creating a new system and why the dystopian novels/movies are made
(1:40:50) The labels that hurt us all and censorship
(1:46:30) In a Clubhouse room, Nate started talking, shit got real and 500 people left room…
(1:52:30) Challenging your paradigm and having your world fold around you
(2:00:03) The need for faith… if it gives you purpose
(2:04) Don’t condemn me for your beliefs
(2:05:00) Going back to church helped him find his purpose as an actor
(2:06:20) Being an atheist is your faith and the bed you’re born into
(2:07:30) Nate’s obsession with learning
(2:13) “I just want to know the true nature of reality” I can’t hold on to any one system
(2:19:50) Nate sums it all up
