Finding Freedom Through Weather Wisdom, Self-Reliance, and Life Beyond the System

Speaker Identification

Speaker 1 – Helen Taylor, Host: Identified because she introduces herself at the beginning as Helen Taylor and welcomes listeners to Inspired Radio.

Speaker 2 – Anthony Violi, Guest: Identified from the file name and the host’s introduction of him as the guest. The raw transcript renders the surname as “Veoli,” but the uploaded file title identifies him as Anthony Violi.

Speaker 1 – Helen Taylor, Host:
Welcome, everyone. I’m Helen Taylor. Welcome to my show, Inspired Radio. I’m here with you every Wednesday at 10 a.m. Melbourne, Australia time, and Tuesday at 7 p.m. Central Time for Canada and the U.S., for conversations and stories to inspire you. This is the BBS Radio TV platform, and we are going live to over 200 outlets worldwide.

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Inspired Radio is all about change, getting uncomfortable, shaking up the status quo, breaking free from limiting systems and limiting lives, and embracing our infinite potential. My guests are here to tell their stories, because storytelling is creating a new world.

Let me introduce today’s guest. We’ve got Anthony Violi. He is the weatherman. Today he’s—oh, I’m sorry, I just went right off on a tangent there. He is a veteran Australian weather forecaster with more than 30 years of experience studying our unique climate.

Anthony’s passion for weather began on his family’s 90-acre strawberry farm in Victoria’s Yarra Valley, which is out the back of, well, for those who can see the video, it is out the back of my window here. He learned firsthand, working from the age of eight, just how powerful the weather can be when your livelihood depends on it.

Over the past three decades, he has built a reputation for long-range forecasting using advanced computer modeling and deep analysis from more than 130 years of historical data. His predictions have gained attention for their accuracy, including forecasting major flood events well ahead of time when others missed the mark. He is just a weather legend.

Anthony, welcome.

Speaker 2 – Anthony Violi, Guest:
Thank you, Helen, and thank you for having me. It’s fantastic to be on again.

Speaker 1 – Helen Taylor, Host:
Yes. So where do we start? I want to let everyone know first that Anthony is much more than a weatherman. We are going to touch on a few other topics, but let’s start with the weather.

You’re over in Manila now. Last time we spoke, before the lockdowns, you lived in Victoria. You moved and packed up everything and went to South Australia to get away from what you knew was coming our way, right? Then you moved from South Australia and exited Australia and went to Manila. Tell everybody why you did that.

Speaker 2 – Anthony Violi, Guest:
It is actually Malaysia, not quite Manila, but very close.

Speaker 1 – Helen Taylor, Host:
Oh, big mistake. Very close. That’s okay. They are very close. Philippines, Manila, and Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur—they are pretty similar.

Speaker 2 – Anthony Violi, Guest:
I think, like all of us, you have to understand what is happening. There are two types of people in this world. There are people who can really see what is happening, and there are people who cannot. A lot of them are comfortable in their own lives and do not really care what is going on. They just live their own lives, ignorant to the facts of the things that we know.

It is apparent to me, and I have said this before on your show, that the financial sector is where people’s lives are really being affected. Five or six years ago, we would have thought COVID and health were probably the big things. I think now we have moved on to something different, and we are now looking at the financial reasons and impacts that we are seeing.

In the last 24 months, my wife and I have been traveling to Southeast Asia, particularly Malaysia, with a view toward living more comfortably. I am very lucky. I can speak for myself. I am very lucky because I can work online, so I do not need to live in Australia if I do not want to. I can still earn an income online.

That being the case, we are semi-permanently over here. We are not permanent yet. That will come next year, when we get our two-year visa, and then we will look at being permanent after that.

The answer to your question is that the reason we did it was simply because of the housing crisis, the cost-of-living crisis in Australia, and the taxes that these governments are bringing in, which is just ridiculous. You guys in Victoria would know that more than anyone.

We left Victoria in 2017, like you said, because we knew what was coming. We lived in South Australia near the hills, which has been very good for us. There is no crime there, and it is quite calm. But the standard of living and the cost of living are really getting out of hand now. There are no rentals anywhere in Australia, as you know, so you do not have options.

A lot of the time, in a financial situation where things are getting tough, you would probably downgrade. You might say, “I do not really need a four-bedroom house; the kids have moved out. I can go for a two-bedroom.” We do not have that luxury in Australia anymore because there are no rentals around, because the government is bringing in 100,000 immigrants at once.

Over here, there is an abundance of properties. In Kuala Lumpur, in the city center, there are 4,000 rentals available, and it is all high-rise. That is probably skewed a little bit, because it is not really comparing apples with apples, but there are more options.

Speaker 1 – Helen Taylor, Host:
Yes, more options.

Speaker 2 – Anthony Violi, Guest:
Much more options, and much cheaper. We are talking about $150 a week, which you could only dream of in Australia. At the moment, we are paying $600, $700, or $800 a week just for a standard house. If you are in New South Wales, it is probably a lot more than that. It is probably over $1,000 a week rent. Melbourne, I am sure, would be pretty close to it.

That is basically the reason we did it. One thing that we have really noticed here, Helen, is that the food is much better. One thing people do not realize is that in Asia, you are actually not allowed to spray your crops with Roundup and other things we do in the Western world.

Speaker 1 – Helen Taylor, Host:
Oh, gosh. I love this, Anthony.

Speaker 2 – Anthony Violi, Guest:
They have really strict rules here as to what you can and cannot do. From the time we came in 2024 to now, and we have been here many times, this stint is actually a three-month stint, a long stint this time. The food here is very easy to digest. You do not bloat. You do not feel fatigued. You do not feel achy.

In Australia, if I eat a loaf of bread or a box of crackers, it does not matter what I eat, I feel terrible because of the amount of stuff they put in it. We do not have that issue here. You can eat rice here and digest it. Most people think, “I am not going to eat rice because it is carbs. I will not be able to go to the toilet.” That is not the case here. The food here is much better.

Speaker 1 – Helen Taylor, Host:
I learned that myself in Chiang Mai, Thailand, about 10 or 15 years ago. We were at the back of Chiang Mai doing a bit of self-development work, and those of us who had intolerances and whatnot were encouraged to eat all the local food. What we learned was that it was not the food making people sick. It was what was put on the food.

Speaker 2 – Anthony Violi, Guest:
That is correct. Asia is sort of under one umbrella as well. You could go to Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand, Japan, and have similar things. They have very strict rules, and they do not poison their food.

Speaker 1 – Helen Taylor, Host:
I had no idea that they were not allowed to spray their food, so their food is a lot more chemically free than ours.

Speaker 2 – Anthony Violi, Guest:
That is correct. Rice and wheat are the big ones. They are not allowed to spray them with Roundup.

Now, you could still go into the supermarket here and find your Twisties, crackers, chips, maltodextrin, and other things that are no good for you. There is no question that they exist here. However, with the locally grown food, if you eat that, you would have no issue whatsoever. We do that, and we love it here.

Speaker 1 – Helen Taylor, Host:
Yes. That is wonderful. I like firsthand advice and firsthand experience from people, not just quoting what you think you know or what is out of a book. You are living the difference.

Speaker 2 – Anthony Violi, Guest:
That is correct. This was one of the big eye-openers for us because we were originally attracted to the fact that financially people are much better here. Australia to Malaysia is a 2.8 conversion. One Australian dollar gives you 2.8 ringgit, so that is a very good conversion.

On top of that, the standard of living here is much cheaper. If you wanted to go to Melbourne, for example, say you went to Melbourne Central or the casino and wanted honey chicken with rice, you are looking at $28 or $30. Here, you are looking at about $5 maximum.

If you are independent as far as running your own business and you are getting paid in U.S. dollars or Australian dollars, you have made yourself extremely wealthy. There are a lot of people doing this now. We have met, in our journey, many people from England and Australia. There are not many from America, but there are a lot from the U.K. and Australia who are over here.

We have run into many couples and spoken to them, and they have said the same thing we did. They wanted a way out. Most people have sold up their houses and moved. It depends on whether you have children or not, I suppose.

In the U.K., for example, the conversion is five to one. You could sell a 200,000-dollar home in the U.K.—which they probably do not have, but let’s assume they did—and that would be one million Malaysian ringgit, which would last you many years, at least ten years.

There are many benefits to doing it. Then when you put the health side on top of that, I think it is a no-brainer.

Speaker 1 – Helen Taylor, Host:
Absolutely. Your money spreads out 2.8 times more than before, and you have a healthier lifestyle and healthier food.

Speaker 2 – Anthony Violi, Guest:
And the standard of living is lower, so you gain there as well. It is not just the conversion. Your rent can be $150 a week, and your food can be $5 a meal instead of $30. There are a lot of advantages to it.

Speaker 1 – Helen Taylor, Host:
Absolutely. But you have to go through a few hoops in terms of getting a visa to get there in the first place and then working your way toward getting citizenship of some sort.

Speaker 2 – Anthony Violi, Guest:
If you have an online business, you can get a two-year nomad visa, which we are going to apply for next year. From there, you have options. You have options to get a permanent visa. We could get a permanent visa now, but the cost is around $30,000, so it is pretty expensive. For the nomad visa, it is only a couple of thousand dollars. We are going to go down that path and then build up our wealth accordingly over the next couple of years.

Can I tell you about my U.S. trip just quickly?

Speaker 1 – Helen Taylor, Host:
Of course you can.

Speaker 2 – Anthony Violi, Guest:
The reason I wanted to bring this up is because we just went to the U.S. My wife’s bucket-list item was to get to Graceland and see Elvis Presley.

Speaker 1 – Helen Taylor, Host:
I have been there.

Speaker 2 – Anthony Violi, Guest:
We had never been able to go because we had kids. Our children are now grown up, and my youngest is now 18, so we can travel. We had actually planned to go in 2023, but my daughter made representative netball. She has been a really good netballer, so we had to travel around Australia for this competition. That was the priority.

Long story short, we went a couple of weeks ago. The food problem there is just as bad as it is in Australia. It is actually probably worse. Everything we ate there either made us sick or caused us to put on an extraordinary amount of weight. You know how America has the obesity-capital tag? I can tell you firsthand that that is exactly what it is like over there.

The other thing I wanted to point out is that we talk on your show about the fact that governments are doing what they are doing, and we know they are not helping us. We saw firsthand over there something we did not expect to see. In New Orleans, for example, we were there for four days. The number of homeless people we saw on the streets, passed out and living on the street with no homes, no food, and anything like that, was startling. The government has actually removed food stamps from them.

Speaker 1 – Helen Taylor, Host:
Right. They have, yes.

Speaker 2 – Anthony Violi, Guest:
The minimum wage in New Orleans, if your listeners can believe this, is $7.50 an hour. No one is surviving on $7.50 an hour anywhere in the world, let alone in America.

The other thing that was really startling to us was that the cab drivers were telling us that usually the government would come and pick these homeless people up and put them in jail so they could feed them and look after them. They are no longer doing that. They are just leaving them to fend for themselves.

It was a really sad experience for us, because it was really bad. We went to Dallas. We went to Oklahoma City. None of them were like that. New Orleans was just unbelievable poverty. It was really poor.

In a way, it was good for us to see that because we now understand how lucky we are in Australia in that regard, because we have not got that yet, though I think we will get to that. In Malaysia, we certainly do not have that. It was a good eye-opener for us. I just wanted to point out to your listeners that it is really bad over there.

It was a good place to visit. We loved it, but the food is very hard to digest and eat.

Speaker 1 – Helen Taylor, Host:
Yes. They are very much a fast-food capital. Everything is fried there.

Speaker 2 – Anthony Violi, Guest:
Everything. All fried chicken.

Speaker 1 – Helen Taylor, Host:
I do not think any of that is a surprise to us, but it is good to get firsthand experience. Like I say, it is invaluable. It is a terrible story. It is really sad.

What we are talking about, and especially what you have been doing, is staying ahead of the game.

Speaker 2 – Anthony Violi, Guest:
That is correct.

Speaker 1 – Helen Taylor, Host:
Keep a step ahead of the game, people. Open up your mind and open up your heart to the possibilities of what you could be doing instead of just struggling and handling what is going on.

Speaker 2 – Anthony Violi, Guest:
I also think the opportunities we have today have never been stronger for starting an online business. Many of us were not doing this five years ago. Now, funnily enough, the people I have run into here from overseas are all running online AI businesses. Whether it is a print-on-demand store or whatever they are doing online, they are all trading online and running programs online so they can travel.

I think they also understand that Europe is just as bad as Australia, cost-wise and financially. They are also being priced out of the market. I think a lot of people are starting to wake up to this. There is a lot of opportunity at the moment. You just have to find it.

Speaker 1 – Helen Taylor, Host:
It is becoming a smart move. To me, it has always been Plan B. Plan A was still being connected with the corporate and government world out there. But Plan B is how to exit those, how to not be reliant on government and not be reliant on big corporations.

For me, the question started with, first, how do I get back to basics in a simple life? Then it became, how do I live the life I want to?

Speaker 2 – Anthony Violi, Guest:
Absolutely. That is basically the premise we have been living under. For my weather forecasting service, when I started in 2016, the motto I used was “one step ahead,” because I like to think I am one step ahead of the curve.

I say this all the time to people who ask me: when we look at computer models and weather forecasting, it is very much old technology. What we have known to be the case in weather patterns in the last 30 years is now no longer the case. We have to evolve.

If an El Niño is coming, it means the Pacific is going to warm. The model thinks an El Niño is coming, and it will forecast a certain set of parameters because it thinks an El Niño is coming. That is a very simplistic explanation. That is not the way the weather works anymore.

There are many factors at play, including the amount of warmth in the oceans at the moment. Of course, the government will tell us it is climate change and man-made warming and all this garbage. We know that is not true. The warming we see in the oceans, in my view, is from underwater volcanoes, which have been going on for the last 40 years and increasing. In fact, the underwater volcanoes and the global temperature have a perfectly correlated graph. You can actually see that graph online, which they will not tell you about, of course, because they want you to believe that if you are driving your cars and using your air conditioner, they can tax us down the track. That is what their plan will be.

You have to evolve and see what is happening in the world. Now that I have studied that pretty well over the last 10 years, I have a really good handle on how weather patterns can be forecast better. My last three years of forecasts have probably been my best because I do not really believe what the models tell me, because I know they are flawed. In anything in life, you have to be one step ahead and keep ahead of the curve.

Speaker 1 – Helen Taylor, Host:
With our weather, they started replacing a lot of the different points around the suburbs, the countryside, and the cities with new technology, new ways, and new devices. Anybody knows that if they look at their phone, even the forecast for the day changes during the day. The forecast they give you for the coming week is something you could not bank on.

Speaker 2 – Anthony Violi, Guest:
Not at all. It is so changeable, not to mention what they are doing with the weather, which we have talked about before. Also, the automatic weather stations 100 years ago did not have bitumen roads next to them. Now they do, so of course they are going to be hotter.

We have built up our cities. We are talking about Victoria in 1908. Do you think there were many concrete jungles and concrete roads in 1908? I would not have thought so. It was 30.4 degrees overnight in January of that year. It was really hot. If you correlate that to today with our concrete jungle, we are probably looking at a 35-degree temperature overnight. That is how hot it was back then, but they do not tell you that. They just say, “No, no, we are warming,” to run their agenda. I am sure their agenda is to tax everybody.

Speaker 1 – Helen Taylor, Host:
So you are saying that we really cannot put a lot of faith in forecasts telling us what old forecasts were anymore and trying to align them that way, because it just does not work that way anymore.

Speaker 2 – Anthony Violi, Guest:
That is correct. Not at all. You definitely have to evolve.

The other problem we have with weather patterns is that they are using anomalies. An anomaly is a difference or deviation from the normal. At the moment, they are saying that this La Niña that is coming this year is going to be three degrees above normal, and it is going to be the highest number we have seen in 30 or 40 years. If it reaches three degrees above normal, it will be very high. But it is an anomaly, so it is comparing against the baseline, and we do not know what that baseline actually is.

Speaker 1 – Helen Taylor, Host:
As you were saying that, I was thinking it is predicting, but the predictions are based on the information that is put in.

Speaker 2 – Anthony Violi, Guest:
That is correct. They use a 1991 to 2020 baseline, a 30-year period. But they adjust them all the time. They adjust them minutely, every week, by 0.001 of a degree, slightly lower, to make today look warmer. That is how they get away with it.

I have been on this bandwagon for a long time. I think I might have said to you in our last interview that in 2013, I went to the government and asked for a government grant to do a research project. They said, “No problem, but you have to tell us that global warming is caused by man, or we will not give you any money.” That is when I thought, “I need to support the little guy.” That is why I started my own business in 2016.

Speaker 1 – Helen Taylor, Host:
Independent.

Speaker 2 – Anthony Violi, Guest:
Independent, yes. I wanted to be real. I did not want to be someone who was paid off by the government to read all those Facebook pages and weather services we see at the moment. Most of them are paid off to promote climate change. I was never going to do that.

Speaker 1 – Helen Taylor, Host:
The government is a corporation, right? It is looking for its own survival just as much as any other corporation out there.

Speaker 2 – Anthony Violi, Guest:
Of course. Have you ever heard the saying, “It is a big club, and we are not in it?”

Speaker 1 – Helen Taylor, Host:
Yes.

Speaker 2 – Anthony Violi, Guest:
That is the story. You are either in it or you are not. If you are in it, they make heaps of money. Unfortunately, people are the ones who cop it, and that is what is happening at the moment. You pay the price for it.

Speaker 1 – Helen Taylor, Host:
So stay a step ahead of the game. I found you when I started investigating and researching our government and our banking system. I was looking at ways to exit, just quietly exit and become self-governed in some way, shape, or form. I started unplugging from certain parts of our government systems and started looking at our financial system as well.

I was looking at people who had private memberships, private associations, private trusts, and all sorts of different ways of trying to put a firewall, I suppose, between what you own, what is yours, and the government systems out there. That is how I came across you, because you were doing private trusts at that time.

Give us a nutshell explanation of how a private trust works for people.

Speaker 2 – Anthony Violi, Guest:
No problem. I can still set them up for people. I have had my private trust for about six or seven years.

In a nutshell, anyone can set up a trust. People have this view that accountants need to set up a trust. If an accountant sets up a trust, they will set it up with an ABN, a tax file number, which automatically makes it part of the system and taxable.

Speaker 1 – Helen Taylor, Host:
Correct.

Speaker 2 – Anthony Violi, Guest:
But you and I, or anyone for that matter, can set up a trust that is not registered with the government and is not subject to tax. I also want to point out that this is not financial advice by any stretch, or anything like that. I am not qualified to offer financial advice. I can just give you alternatives.

I have had my private trust for about six or seven years now, and I do help people set them up. The benefits are that they are not taxable. There are many ways to run them.

Back in the day, about four or five years ago, I was doing consultations with people and saying, “This is how you can use them.” In a nutshell, say you had a business doing handyman work. You need to invoice your customers with an invoice. If it has an ABN on it, that will be classed as income and taxable. But if you invoice from your private trust, it does not have an ABN on it, and it is not taxable because it is not classed as income.

The key distinction here, or the key thing to understand for those listening, is that as long as the person you are invoicing is happy to accept it without an ABN, you will be fine. What we have seen in the last couple of years is that the ATO is telling businesses, “You are not going to accept an invoice without an ABN,” because they are trying to make it harder for us to make money that is exempt from taxation.

The way around that is not issuing an invoice and being able to get the money directly transferred into your account, if that makes sense. If you wanted to set up a private trust, you would not be doing it if you were selling at the market, selling crystals, and using Apple Pay or Square. It is more for if I did a service for you and you transferred the money to my account. That is how you use a private trust.

You can also put property into the trust. That protects you. Property protection is massive at the moment. A lot of people are starting to look at property protection, and a trust is by far the number one thing for that.

The other thing I will mention is that just in the last couple of years, they have also started to look at taxing trusts here in Victoria. In Australia, they have just declared that discretionary trusts are going to be taxed 30 percent. The reason is that they do not want people having property in trust.

Speaker 1 – Helen Taylor, Host:
Correct. Because if it is in trust, the trust controls the property, not the person. That was the reason everybody was putting that in their family trust.

Speaker 2 – Anthony Violi, Guest:
Exactly. Then the government went and closed the door in one great piece.

My personal opinion is that a trust is a great idea if you have a good amount of money coming in. If you had a handyman business, you could invoice from your private trust to that entity and do it as a tax break. You could get money coming in as a tax break. There is also a firewall. There are many ways you could run the trust.

The unregistered trust sustains you as the living man or the living woman. It can pay your rent, your mortgage, your food, and your overheads. The bottom line is that if you do not have a trust that is registered, with an ABN and a tax file number, they cannot tax you because it is not in their system.

Speaker 1 – Helen Taylor, Host:
Yes. I have to say that when I set my trust up with you, I went to the bank. I actually have a bank trust account with an unregistered trust. I do not think many people are having success these days because the banks have also been forewarned to look out for these sorts of things, unfortunately.

But you do not have to have the actual trust account. What you are saying is that you can still just have your usual account, with the private trust in the background.

Speaker 2 – Anthony Violi, Guest:
I set up a couple before I came to Malaysia in April, and they had no trouble opening the bank account. It is more of a process now. Four or five years ago, when I was doing trusts, it was very simple. You could go straight to the bank, and it was done straight away, no questions asked.

Now everything has to go through the head office in Sydney, no matter which bank you are using, whether you are using Westpac, NAB, or Commonwealth. We are finding a lot more success with the smaller banks, like the Southern Union banks, Great Southern Bank, and BankSA where I live in South Australia. BankSA has been very successful opening trusts. They still do them. I had one opened not long ago, not for myself but for someone else.

It can still be done. It is worthwhile looking at if you have money coming in because you can certainly have a tax break.

Speaker 1 – Helen Taylor, Host:
But also, you put your disclaimer there, and I will put another disclaimer. You need to know how to manage it. You need to know how to work it. You need to know how to have conversations about it and how to operate it.

Speaker 2 – Anthony Violi, Guest:
Very much so. Yes, 100 percent. Very well said.

Speaker 1 – Helen Taylor, Host:
Good. There is a little tidbit for people to start looking at how to self-govern and how to be the person who is managing your own life.

What about your podcast? Last time I spoke to you, you were doing a podcast with your daughter. Are you still doing that?

Speaker 2 – Anthony Violi, Guest:
No. That was definitely an idea, and then we decided to move to Malaysia semi-permanently. Unfortunately, that is on the back burner at the moment. It was a great idea because I thought I would have a fair bit of time, and I really wanted to bring what we are talking about now to people, just to have a conversation about whatever and where it might lead.

My daughter is well awake, like myself. She is only 17 years of age and is working like a trooper at the moment. She understands that time is running out for us to live our lives as we see fit, as we are at the moment, which is making money. Clearly, they have plans down the track to limit what we can and cannot do, so she is really cashing in on that.

I thought I would leave her be and let her work. She left school early, at the age of 16, at the end of year 10, to pursue work. She has made quite a deal of money over the past couple of years, living and working really hard. I am really proud of her.

The podcast would have been really cool, I thought, but I did not get it off the ground. We decided to come here, and she is back home in South Australia. Maybe one day; you never know where the future goes. It really depends. I am expecting to go back to South Australia, back home, for probably a month in July or August. We are planning to go back on July 20. We may stay for a month in Australia and then come back here.

Next year and the year after, we will be here full time. The only way that podcast is going to happen is if she decides she wants to up and leave and move here, because the visa will cover my whole family.

Speaker 1 – Helen Taylor, Host:
I’ve got you. They could come anytime they like.

That makes me think now. I am looking at the overview of your life and the moves you have made over the last six or seven years. We are not here just to be mums, dads, sisters, and brothers anymore. That is not the way life is anymore. We are here for something much more, are we not?

Speaker 2 – Anthony Violi, Guest:
One hundred percent, and it is with people you do not even know yet. That is the big thing we are finding. We are meeting people all the time. The biggest thing to us is that there are a lot more people out there who are open to listening.

Especially in our travels, we have really connected with people, and all of them want to hear what you have to say. Five or six years ago, when COVID was going on, no one wanted to hear it. They would say, “You are an idiot. You are a conspiracy theorist,” and all that.

Now, I think it is really apparent that something is going on. People are starting to say, “I had thoughts about this. Can you tell me a little bit more?” So I think it is about connecting with people. That is one thing we are really enjoying at the moment—meeting people and talking with them. It is amazing who you meet.

Even in our American travels, we ran into some Europeans who were at Graceland, and we connected with them. They were really complaining about the government and saying it is just a complete takeover there, like it is in Australia, with immigrants and the same problems we face. We are all in this journey together. Like I said at the beginning of this interview, you either see it or you do not. I am really lucky that we have connected with a lot of people who see it.

Speaker 1 – Helen Taylor, Host:
Like attracts like; there is no doubt about it. We all thought we were going to spend the rest of our lives being mums, dads, brothers, sisters, or whatever. But we are actually creating a new world right now, where like-minded people are starting to find each other and pull away from the old system because we do not want the old government, and we do not want the old banking. We are starting to see the corruption and the holes in all of it.

I think you are a very good model to follow, because people have to start looking forward and asking, “Where do I want to live? Where is the best place for me to live? What do I want to own, and how do I own it?” I think it is really important that people start focusing on how they can earn their own income.

Speaker 2 – Anthony Violi, Guest:
I think so. You pointed out a really good point. We are not just fathers and mothers. We are mentors to people. We do not realize we are until the time comes when we have a conversation with someone. Then we walk away from that conversation and say, “They would have got a lot out of what we just talked about.”

It is really apparent now that people are starting to work out that the government is not even hiding what it is doing anymore. They are actively trying to destroy our lives financially. You know my views, and I said this in the last interview we did: there are going to be many people who do not come through this because we are going to see another Great Depression, in my view, a 1930s reset. People are starting to see it because the government is no longer hiding what it is doing.

The media plays a big role in that. We understand how corrupt they are. I go on social media now, and all I see is “free fraud equals a day,” “housing crisis incoming,” and “experts warn of this.” They are actively telling you what is going on, that things are going to turn for the worst in the next few years. You really need to be ahead of that.

Speaker 1 – Helen Taylor, Host:
It is pre-programming. They start planting the seeds of the fear and insecurity that is coming up. People do not seem to realize that we are an enormous creative energy and an enormous creative power. If we are all plugging in to “there is going to be scarcity,” we are co-creating it.

Speaker 2 – Anthony Violi, Guest:
That is right. A lot of people do not realize that part of the code law is that they need to tell us what they are doing. This is how deranged they are. They actually believe that if they do not tell us what they are doing, they will get bad karma. That is why you see these articles in the paper a month before a massive flood, or they say, “La Niña is developing really strongly in the Pacific Ocean.” Then when they hit someone with a cyclone, everyone thinks, “They did tell us La Niña was coming. I know why the cyclone hit.”

Speaker 1 – Helen Taylor, Host:
I have another viewpoint on that. I do not think they are that nice, that they are pre-warning us and think it is karma. If they plant the seed, we will grow it.

Speaker 2 – Anthony Violi, Guest:
Yes, I get that. We will manifest it.

Speaker 1 – Helen Taylor, Host:
If they want a weather event or some awful natural event, they plant the seed into the community and get the community to actually build and create the event.

Speaker 2 – Anthony Violi, Guest:
I agree 100 percent. The mind is so powerful. It is mind over matter. They say that for a reason.

Speaker 1 – Helen Taylor, Host:
They do. That is what is happening. Fear breeds fear. They work on fear. We create it. If we really are a bunch of batteries, and all our battery energy is put toward, “Oh my God, there is going to be a flood,” what happens?

Speaker 2 – Anthony Violi, Guest:
I agree 100 percent.

Speaker 1 – Helen Taylor, Host:
I really want to shove that into people’s heads: be very careful what you focus on. Be very careful and keep away from mass media. I have not had a television for about 12 years now. Keep away from anything that is not supporting and encouraging you.

I think you are right with what you said earlier. It is becoming so transparent. The government is just showing how stupid, greedy, and corrupt it is. I really want people to open their minds and look at Agenda 2030 because it is on your doorstep.

Jacinta Allan, who is the premier here in Victoria, just recently started announcing—and I have not looked into it fully—that a number of suburbs around Melbourne are going to be tested out, because all of the speeds on the roads in those suburbs are going to be reduced to 40 kilometers an hour.

Speaker 2 – Anthony Violi, Guest:
I did hear this.

Speaker 1 – Helen Taylor, Host:
Then the article comes out saying, “What is the point of having a car?” If you go and read Agenda 2030, you will realize these are the seeds being planted to not have a car.

Speaker 2 – Anthony Violi, Guest:
That is correct. They have already done it in Oxford as well, in the U.K. They have started the 15-minute plan.

Speaker 1 – Helen Taylor, Host:
Right. We have already done the zoning and all of that. It is already in motion. I really think people should look at that and start figuring out how to at least get away from the cities.

Speaker 2 – Anthony Violi, Guest:
One hundred percent. I do not think they will be safe.

Speaker 1 – Helen Taylor, Host:
No. It will not be the life that they had planned for themselves. Anyway, there will be people unrest, I think. It will be pretty strong.

So trusts. What other ways can people take control? What would you say to somebody who is working for an employer at this point in time? Where do they start with looking at taking control of their own livelihood?

Speaker 2 – Anthony Violi, Guest:
The thing I did that most people I speak to have not done was that we started investing in precious metals around 10 to 12 years ago. We set up a self-managed super fund full of gold and silver, and that has done, as you can imagine, extremely well.

Speaker 1 – Helen Taylor, Host:
Is that self-managed super fund in your private trust as well?

Speaker 2 – Anthony Violi, Guest:
No. You cannot put superannuation into the private trust. Superannuation has a whole set of rules separate from any other rules. With our super fund, we did that in 2015 and put it into precious metals. That has gone up around 600 percent in the last 11 years or something like that, so it has gone up an extraordinary amount.

The same with our personal stash. We have been buying precious metals every week. Around 2021 or 2022, we sold our properties and put it all into precious metals as well. That allows us some freedom because we have our money working for us.

In the last interview we did, I talked about the ongoing crisis where interest rates are going to continue to skyrocket. I think I told you then that I had an insider at the bank, and by the end of 2028, he expects a cash rate somewhere between 12 and 15 percent.

What do we have now? We have the war that began in February, and we have the oil price going up, which creates inflation. Now we are starting to see interest-rate rises again, and this is going to happen globally. Inflation is going to become a big problem. Affordability is going to become a problem.

My personal experience is that I sold my property four or five years ago. I knew I was early. I actually sold before the first interest-rate rise in February 2022. The minute the Reserve Bank said, “This inflation is transitory,” I will never forget, I did an interview and said, “They are lying. Rates are going up.” They did 13 rate rises in a row from May 2022 to the middle of 2023, I think it was. We sold our property just before it all happened. I knew I was early.

I say to people now that they need to really think about it. I know it is fantastic to have your own property, and it is one thing we miss. But think about the alternative. In 1930, everybody lost everything. We had the Great Depression, the stock-market collapse, the housing-market collapse, and people did not have food. There was just a crisis.

Luckily, then there were not the debt levels of today. This is the big thing about today. You need to have very little debt at the moment. I am lucky because I have about 900 clients, and 10 years ago I told all of them to get out of debt. That was my main thing, because I also teach them about this stuff.

Speaker 1 – Helen Taylor, Host:
I did this. I have been debt-free for so many years that only a couple of months ago I had an epiphany and thought, “I have no debt.”

Speaker 2 – Anthony Violi, Guest:
Isn’t it great?

Speaker 1 – Helen Taylor, Host:
It is.

Speaker 2 – Anthony Violi, Guest:
That allows you to survive this in some way. Yes, it is going to be tough. Yes, everything is going to get really expensive, and we have not seen anything yet. It is going to skyrocket from here. But if you have no debt, you have a lot of plans.

Speaker 1 – Helen Taylor, Host:
It is all in the language, is it not? The pedal has gone on the accelerator, then it comes off, and then it goes back on again. We know here in Victoria, come the end of June, that was the end of our three months for the interim petrol cost.

Speaker 2 – Anthony Violi, Guest:
That is right. Then it is going to skyrocket and be higher than it was before, probably.

Speaker 1 – Helen Taylor, Host:
Products are going to disappear off the shelves. You can see every step of it coming. I hope this conversation is helping people to do that too.

Speaker 2 – Anthony Violi, Guest:
Private trusts are certainly a way to help reduce tax. There is no problem with that. That is a very good strategy. But the strategy we also need to talk about is how to survive this in totality, because I think everything is connected.

The food supply is going to be affected by what is going on around the world at the moment. It is not going to be just one thing that hurts us. It is going to be a lot of things. Food supply is definitely one.

Back home, I have numerous freezers in the garage full of food. We have been stocking up for a long time, so we have a big supply of food. I was talking to my daughter yesterday, and they have not even eaten anything out of the freezer. I said, “Well, that is good. That means we have more for later if we need it.”

You have to think in totality. It is a big program. It is not just the financial aspect. I have always told people that if they can sell their property, I know they do not want to, but if they can sell it while it is worth a lot of money, they can put it into precious metals and invest that. That will always go up in a crisis. Gold and silver always go up when everything else collapses. That is what we are going to have in the next few years.

If interest rates reach 12 to 15 percent, the price of gold is going to double or triple from here. That is what happens in an inflationary cycle. We understand this through history. You could do a lot worse than selling your property and putting it into precious metals. I know you have to find a rental, and that is the problem with living in Australia. There are very few options for renting.

That is why I am over here in Southeast Asia, because there is an abundance here. There are millions of properties you can rent out for much cheaper than in Australia. Not everyone is going to have the luxury I have, being online with my business and traveling. But I think if you can try to get ahead of it and in some way buffer what is coming, you will be one step ahead.

Speaker 1 – Helen Taylor, Host:
That is all part of your Plan B. Make part of your Plan B. How could you have a home-based business? How could you do something? As you say, just your experience alone and the things you have been doing, you are giving that information away to other people and seeing how valuable it is. There is a resource.

Speaker 2 – Anthony Violi, Guest:
It has actually been life-changing for us. I am not a worrier. I never worry about anything. I will never die of stress. My wife loves to joke about this because she stresses a lot, whereas I do not.

I do talk to people, even the awake ones I know who stress a little about what is happening and the fact that perhaps one day they may come after their gold and silver because they might have a financial crisis. They can take our gold and silver if we buy it on the books, of course. Gold and silver are lucky because you can buy under $5,000 with no identification, so you can get around the system like that.

But I do not tend to worry about things too much. The last two years have really been a game-changer for us because not only did I think I was moving here for the financial side of it, I now understand that the health side of it is a big issue here.

The big thing for us here in Asia is that there is absolutely zero crime. The only crime you have here in Asia is cybercrime, like hacking and things like that. They are not on the streets. They are all sitting in rooms on computers.

The difference here, if I can tell your listeners, is that in Australia, especially in Victoria, there are carjackings happening all the time and home invasions. The people doing these things just get let off. The courts do not punish them. They let them do it again. They bail them out the next day, and they go and do it again.

Here in Malaysia and Singapore and the Asian countries, if you eat food on the train, it is an instant $10,000 fine or a two-year jail sentence. There is no mucking around. There is no crime here because they have very strict laws on crime. No one even thinks about committing a crime here. No one eats on trains. No one chews chewing gum. No one does graffiti. There is no graffiti in Malaysia that I have ever seen, or in Singapore. The penalties are so severe here that they do not muck around with courts. They just throw you in jail, and that system works.

The people are lovely here. They are all English-speaking here. They are salt-of-the-earth people. The standard of living is not high here, so they are grateful for what they have, which is really good. The Western world has become very materialistic. Everyone wants the fancy cars and the fancy handbags and whatever it might be. We do not have that problem here.

Speaker 1 – Helen Taylor, Host:
That was a very valuable thing you just said, because people are grateful.

Speaker 2 – Anthony Violi, Guest:
In many ways, I always think of the 1950s, when we did not have the social media and things we have today, because it is just a distraction. That is all it is. Phones are just tracking devices, and they just want to limit the tracks we make.

It would have been really good to live in the 1950s. My dad grew up walking to school 10 miles, and his parents had no idea where he was. That is what they did.

Speaker 1 – Helen Taylor, Host:
Yes. When I started pulling out of the system and focusing on how to live a simpler, better, and happier life, I kept reflecting back on my nan and pop and that generation. I kept challenging myself. What would have been in my cupboards? What would I be eating? How would I be thinking? I started to really look at them as an example.

Even today, I heard a fellow say that having color on our phones is a huge distraction. It hits all these different senses for us. You can go to a setting on your phone and change your phone to black and white. So I have mine on black and white. It is just another way of not plugging into all of this online world.

Speaker 2 – Anthony Violi, Guest:
That is right. My message to listeners is: nothing is impossible. There are many possibilities out there, and never fear anything. There is nothing to fear. You have control of your own life in your hands.

People look at today and think, “I am limited, and the government is coming after us, and everything is going to collapse.” Yes, that is correct. But we have control of our own destiny. There are many ways to get around this. There are many options available, and I am proof of that. I am telling you real-life stories.

I am seeing over here that you can come to a place where there is no crime. I am not saying people have to come here. Even in Australia, I am sure there are places with no crime, out of the cities and in rural areas. There have to be better options than where you are living. Everyone can do better. It is as simple as that.

Speaker 1 – Helen Taylor, Host:
Have the focus of becoming self-reliant. If the system is going to come after you and you do not have any assets or contribution in the system, then you are free. What is it going to do? You are free to live your life as you see fit.

To me, I see it like something out of a sci-fi movie. The government is a bit like one of those drones. I feel like it comes buzzing past me every now and then, looks at me, and goes, “Nothing here,” so it moves on.

Speaker 2 – Anthony Violi, Guest:
That is a really good way of putting it. Absolutely.

Speaker 1 – Helen Taylor, Host:
That is where I encourage people to become like that. Do not fight the system out there. Do not kick and scream. Do not poke at it. Just walk away.

Speaker 2 – Anthony Violi, Guest:
Absolutely. I think you need to use the system for your own running. For your listeners, go on YouTube and see what the trends are in online businesses. They will tell you what to do. Go to ChatGPT. Type in, “How can I start an online business?” It will tell you easily in five seconds.

Whatever you are good at, whatever it is, plug it all in there and let ChatGPT tell you. It tells you that you can start. I know many people from all over the world, mostly Europeans, who are running print-on-demand businesses. They are just selling T-shirts with designs they created. They do it without any infrastructure. The AI model does it all for them. You do not need a shopfront. It is all online. Everything is online these days, so you should embrace it. Embrace ChatGPT and YouTube. It is easy to do. There are many resources available for us. A lot of people just do not realize that because they are too busy thinking about how they are going to get around this, or not thinking at all.

I would not be fearful. We have many opportunities.

Speaker 1 – Helen Taylor, Host:
I see a lot of things outside of us as programs. They can be called egregores as well. Go to the dictionary and look up egregore. It is pretty amazing. The church knows what egregores are. Egregores are collective thought forms.

I find that most people are focusing way too much on the physical world and not realizing the energy of this world as well. We are creating things, and the government is an energy. It is a program, and you plug into it and become a part of it, or you unplug and start doing something else instead.

Speaker 2 – Anthony Violi, Guest:
When you plug into it, they drain you. They drain your energy, and that is what they are doing.

Speaker 1 – Helen Taylor, Host:
We got on here to talk about weather.

Speaker 2 – Anthony Violi, Guest:
It is funny because the weather is connected to it. Everything that is happening is connected because they are creating the droughts and weather disasters around the world that are really affecting the food supply. It is all relevant to what is happening in the next few years.

Speaker 1 – Helen Taylor, Host:
If you had to quickly describe the things you are worried about in the next few years, please do. We have seven minutes, Anthony. Go for it.

Speaker 2 – Anthony Violi, Guest:
Food supply is number one. These are the things that the normal person cannot see. Food supply is number one, and unemployment is number two. Those are the two things that are going to come in the next few years that people cannot see.

I think everyone can see that the cost of living is going up. They understand that. I think everyone knows the housing correction is coming. They also understand that. But a lot of people, especially younger people under 40, cannot see that unemployment is coming.

You and I remember 1991, when interest rates were 20 percent and we had a huge recession.

Speaker 1 – Helen Taylor, Host:
Yes, we did.

Speaker 2 – Anthony Violi, Guest:
Everybody I knew who was friends with my father around the 40-to-50 age bracket lost everything.

Speaker 1 – Helen Taylor, Host:
I was working in conveyancing. I actually saw people selling their properties, and there were 16 and 17 percent interest rates at that point.

Speaker 2 – Anthony Violi, Guest:
Yes, there were.

Speaker 1 – Helen Taylor, Host:
The difference between then and now is that most people had at least a 10 percent deposit in those properties.

Speaker 2 – Anthony Violi, Guest:
Correct.

Speaker 1 – Helen Taylor, Host:
They had equity of some sort, so they could at least live on that or start again. Now, I do not think people have that equity.

Speaker 2 – Anthony Violi, Guest:
No. They are giving 2 percent loans out to people. It is crazy. This is the problem. Unemployment is a big one.

I think I may have said this to you last year: we should have a recession every eight years. Australia has not had one since 1990, which is 36 years. That is deliberate, in my view, because the younger people under 40 have no idea what is about to come. They have no idea that unemployment is coming, and AI alone is going to take over jobs anyway. But unemployment with the severe recession that is coming will mean 10 to 15 percent unemployment, and that is going to really hurt people.

Speaker 1 – Helen Taylor, Host:
They will not know what to do with that. They have no experience to rely on in order to help them through.

Speaker 2 – Anthony Violi, Guest:
If we go by previous history, like we saw in 1991, when people became unemployed, the only option they had was to sell their homes if the bank did not take them. So you create a housing collapse because you have all these properties on the market and no one to buy them.

Speaker 1 – Helen Taylor, Host:
That is where we realize the banks can come in at any time, no matter what is going on with your loan. If they revalue it and realize their valuation has increased by 5 or 10 percent, they are going to ask you to pay that money back.

Speaker 2 – Anthony Violi, Guest:
That is exactly what happened in 1990 to all of my dad’s friends. They were all business owners, and they all lost their homes because their homes were used against their business. That is exactly what happened.

History is going to repeat. Unemployment and food supply are the two things I am really concerned about, not for myself, but for society in general. If I can pass that message on to people, that is where things are happening at the moment.

Speaker 1 – Helen Taylor, Host:
People should give some good thought to that. Even if they have to sit around instead of watching Netflix, watching sport, or TikTok, it would be constructive for people to sit around and have a powwow with family or friends about what they would do if this were coming. Have some good conversations about how life is going to work and what they are going to create.

Speaker 2 – Anthony Violi, Guest:
Do you remember in the 80s, especially in Melbourne, when Springvale was taken over by the Chinese?

Speaker 1 – Helen Taylor, Host:
Yes.

Speaker 2 – Anthony Violi, Guest:
That was done because a lot of them came over here, and 10 of them lived in one house, paid it off, and then bought another one. We may have to go back to that model. People may have no choice but to live together with families.

Speaker 1 – Helen Taylor, Host:
I saw that as smart. I have watched the Burmese do it for the last 10 years in the southeast of Melbourne. They all live together. Then you get a lot of people who are struggling, or whatever, who start blaming them. It is like, hang on a minute. They made the best of the situation they had. I think it was very smart.

Speaker 2 – Anthony Violi, Guest:
Asians are smart. They are very switched-on people. It is funny because the people we talk to here talk about government corruption, and I say to them, “You have not seen government corruption until you come to Australia. I will show you government corruption if you want to see some.” What they have here is nothing. They are only little things here compared to what we have at home.

Speaker 1 – Helen Taylor, Host:
So we want to put that on the kitchen table or dining-room table. Everyone should start thinking about living together.

Speaker 2 – Anthony Violi, Guest:
You have to adjust to that. You have to survive what is coming. There have to be ways around it. There is always opportunity. There are always options. There are many of them. You have to think about it and find the best way through it.

Speaker 1 – Helen Taylor, Host:
It is in conversations. That is why I am doing radio and these shows. We can think things till the cows come home, but when you start talking things out, you start to work things out.

Speaker 2 – Anthony Violi, Guest:
That is right.

Speaker 1 – Helen Taylor, Host:
It has to come out. In here, it is in the dark. It has to come out into the light. Sit around the table and chew out different ideas that you can use to get through. Call them hypothetical problems. You and I know they are coming, but even look at them as hypothetical so people do not get too stressed. Really flesh out what Plan B, C, and D are going to be.

Speaker 2 – Anthony Violi, Guest:
That is it. That is pretty simple. Think about living without any money and without any food. What are you going to do? The screws have already been put on in New Orleans, from what I was talking about. It was really different there.

There are poor people now who have not had to hunt their own food. Half the kids do not even know what an eggplant is or where it comes from. We were taught to hunt when I was young. We could survive hunting our own food. Most people cannot. It is a big issue coming forward.

Speaker 1 – Helen Taylor, Host:
It is, is it not? But we will get through it. It will be people like you and me, and there are hundreds and thousands of us, full of experience, knowledge, and ideas. Everybody, just reach out.

Speaker 2 – Anthony Violi, Guest:
Absolutely. If anyone wants to talk about trusts or any other advice, I am happy to talk to people. I do not mind talking to people over the phone, even a stranger. It is good to talk to people and connect. If I can help your audience in some way, that would be good.

Speaker 1 – Helen Taylor, Host:
I have your website here, AV Weather. Does that have your phone number or a way to contact you?

Speaker 2 – Anthony Violi, Guest:
It will have my email and phone number on there. I can give it to you. It is Anthony at AVWeather.com.au. It is pretty simple. People can email me anytime they like.

Speaker 1 – Helen Taylor, Host:
Absolutely. I will put those details in the show notes as well. People can reach out. Anthony is there. I am here. Start reaching out and talking to people about your doubts and fears about what life may look like, and let us help you with ideas and guidance.

Speaker 2 – Anthony Violi, Guest:
Even if you do not want any service or anything, just ring me anyway, or contact me on the chat. It is always good to connect with people.

Speaker 1 – Helen Taylor, Host:
That is great. Anthony, it has been a pleasure. We have been around the world and back tonight, on all sorts of topics. It is always such a pleasure. You are such a well-rounded guy with a lot of information. Thank you so much for being you.

Speaker 2 – Anthony Violi, Guest:
I am always pleased to be on here and share information with your listeners. It is fantastic. Thank you very much for the opportunity.

Speaker 1 – Helen Taylor, Host:
Thank you, Anthony.

Speaker 2 – Anthony Violi, Guest:
No worries. Thank you very much.