Justin @90skid4lyfe | Discussion Combustion Podcast | #246

[00:00:00] We'll have this discussion. Discussion, what discussion? This is a discussion

[00:00:04] Combustion coming to you from Denver, Colorado. This is Discussion Combustion Podcast

[00:00:12] with your hosts, Kevin Batstone and Arthur Rawe. Yes it's definitely great to be back

[00:00:18] and we have an amazing man back on the couch tonight Justin. What's up? Have

[00:00:24] seen so much growth from you. You've been bringing so many smiles on people's faces

[00:00:29] but what's great about this conversation is that people will get to know you better than

[00:00:37] just the content you put out and this is your second appearance on Discussion Combustion.

[00:00:40] Welcome back man. Welcome back. 13 months later, I mean I'll be back man.

[00:00:46] That flew by too it seems like you were just on. You brought us those gifts last time at the old

[00:00:49] studio course but it's been really fun to watch your growth. Yeah I just came back from Japan

[00:00:54] and then I actually had my old hat. I got my old hat back sent from Japan. They pulled over.

[00:01:01] Nice $70 mail-in express for it. It was left behind there. Yeah I left it in Tokyo and luckily

[00:01:07] they're like yeah we have your hat it'll cost like $70 to ship it back and I love this thing so much.

[00:01:11] That was like it's fine. Do you leave it like the hotel? Yeah I left it in the hotel. I always

[00:01:15] leave some at the hotel and it's usually my phone charger. Yeah it's the easiest thing to leave

[00:01:18] behind I feel like or in the Nintendo Switch charger. Yeah I did that too.

[00:01:24] And then you guys if you guys got a new studio it looks so nice and so clean in here.

[00:01:29] Yeah yeah a lot of growth transitions it's crazy. Yeah it's fun to watch each other grow and

[00:01:34] support each other and you know you've been a big support for us on social media we try to do

[00:01:38] the same for you of course and it's funny because I was talking to my brother he's like you know who

[00:01:41] you got on this week and I was like you know that video that you posted on your Facebook the other day

[00:01:45] it's like that guy he's like wait a minute because my brother didn't not even knowing oh really

[00:01:49] that you were on before or that you were coming on was already sharing your content I'm like yeah

[00:01:52] that guy's coming on he's like no way is it a zoom like no he's in studio. That's awesome.

[00:01:57] Those are the kind of moments that make what we do really fun yeah you know you reach so many

[00:02:00] people bring in bring enjoy and that's what's great about podcasting and content creation in general.

[00:02:05] Yeah absolutely and this guy has a fit machine looking how skinny you are man it's crazy.

[00:02:11] Yeah I'm gonna so I haven't really said this publicly yet but I'm gonna put this out on Facebook

[00:02:16] like I'm looking forward to writing this out. So this month about halfway I'll be celebrating

[00:02:23] 36 months off of opiates. And the way that my life has turned around I've overcome weight

[00:02:31] weight over being overweight I've overcome like drinking better eating habits like everything so

[00:02:38] I want to write some stuff out on that and it's it's been interesting recently because whenever

[00:02:44] we get a repeat guest everyone's always like oh man the weight loss and I'm like I'm so excited

[00:02:50] about it and I keep it up right and it's a daily battle um it's a lifestyle change yeah I guess

[00:02:57] I can ramble easily so that's what I'm gonna say to kind of encapsulate is that I made major

[00:03:03] lifestyle changes and it took a long time you know I took a long time but I stuck to it every day

[00:03:09] so you've done good man and you motivate a lot of people you know we'll run into people in the wild

[00:03:12] they're like you know arts help me stay sober for a day or something like that that's that's where

[00:03:17] like it becomes a little bit more than what is going on in this room it's like wow we're actually

[00:03:21] doing something it's almost like I feel like the progress I've made I have to maintain it now to

[00:03:27] continue to be like that that pillar you know yeah and it's such a nice outlet too from going

[00:03:32] from like addiction to something that's beneficial to your health like getting addicted to

[00:03:38] bettering yourself getting better health eating better working out more so it's a cool progression

[00:03:43] to see from here's where I was at looking how far I've come at the person you look in the mirror

[00:03:48] that's such a cool success story man yeah it means the world to me I could easily get emotional about

[00:03:54] it but in this post I want to put older photos of myself next to where I'm at now and really going

[00:04:00] to a detail so then you know people can see that like yeah if you stick because you don't see

[00:04:05] the change day by day like you just have to stay in it you have to stay in it and and you know I

[00:04:11] encourage everybody to do that and you know that's how we see growth in business and like our passions

[00:04:17] because you know not to jump back and forth but like the 90s nostalgia like that started as a

[00:04:22] project for you and it just blew up and and continued to blow up but I love I love seeing that

[00:04:30] and it's like the daily thing like we have to we have to do it daily if you actually want to be

[00:04:34] successful yeah you know so see the forest through the trees kind of thing if you're too close you focus

[00:04:41] on the micro when you want to look at the big picture and that's much easier when you can go back

[00:04:46] three years and be like oh man here was my bottom here's where my health was and then you see now

[00:04:52] that's gonna motivate you even more it's like I've already come this far skies a limit on what can

[00:04:56] be next yeah for me keep trucking yeah and it opened up my mind that there is truly multiple lives

[00:05:04] within this one existence you know I'm kind of on the fence like maybe reincarnation exists

[00:05:09] I know that's a whole nother conversation there but um but like I feel like I've lived a couple

[00:05:14] lives in this one existence and everybody can do that and regardless of how difficult it may seem

[00:05:23] to be today regardless of if you're an abusive situation or toxic relationship or eating like

[00:05:28] shit or fuck on fulfilling job like whatever it is like there's always like a way out and like

[00:05:36] there's oh but it's it's always difficult it's always gonna be difficult that's the thing is like

[00:05:41] fuck this corner cutting quick uh easy result bullshit like it doesn't exist

[00:05:46] clash in the pan yeah it doesn't exist yeah so I'll go off on all that but but okay there's no

[00:05:53] finish line yeah to this there is no finish line and you can always continue to grow and help others

[00:05:59] while you grow so you gotta stay humble though as you continue to grow and like you know become more

[00:06:05] influential like you have to stay humble because I was lying piece of shit at one point in my life

[00:06:11] and that was still part of my life so I'm no better you know on this than that so I don't know

[00:06:16] it's that's the whole thing I can I give Ram Blonde for 30 minutes right there and I appreciate

[00:06:20] you bringing that up and that shows how humble you are um as a creator as as a human being and it's

[00:06:25] awesome to collaborate with you again so cheers cheers cheers to have that again and appreciate

[00:06:30] the compliments man so much it's gonna be a good one we're gonna have some fun for sure man just

[00:06:35] the tail is old as time sitting around a table and shooting a shit yeah that's the best part about

[00:06:39] me absolutely and you know give your followers an opportunity to hang out on the couch as well

[00:06:43] and kind of live by carelessly as we go through this evening and just kind of shoot the breeze

[00:06:47] there's no real agenda there's nothing scripted then that's kind of my favorite part but I do have

[00:06:50] a lot of questions I mean I have the wood you're rather answer questions for I'm all for it we've

[00:06:54] got some good stuff but you go Kaff oh no I was just saying you know in regards to being a content

[00:06:58] creator right I mean you've been in it you've been doing it you've seen the ups and downs you've

[00:07:01] seen the strolls the challenges what do you think has been like since our last visit because

[00:07:04] I know we touched on this a little bit last month yeah 13 months yeah 13 months yeah 13 months I

[00:07:08] mean as far as you know at the business side of it and all that what's what do you think's been the

[00:07:11] biggest challenge uh probably just finding new ways to reach or connect with your audience in

[00:07:20] a you know for someone like my content you can be heartfelt you could go a lot of different routes

[00:07:26] you can go like emotional you can go comedy you can go serious for for me I try to stick on the

[00:07:31] lighter side of things I like being funny I like being self deprecating I like making people laugh

[00:07:37] but you don't want to get too played out right or like one you know a lot of people on tiktok they

[00:07:43] do the same skit over and over because the algorithm pushes it so from a business perspective make sense

[00:07:49] you know they'll make the exact same skit change the maybe a couple videos a couple words but they'll

[00:07:55] do the same thing over and over again it works because it pushes it out instagram I think it's a

[00:07:59] little different than it is on tiktok as far as what the algorithm wants plus I think the demographics

[00:08:05] a lot different like the crossover for skits I do on tiktok I would say maybe translate 50% of the time

[00:08:12] over on instagram like if I try and copy and paste a video half the time it goes overwhelm with my

[00:08:18] audience and half the time they're like what is this is really stupid right um so it's always just

[00:08:24] trying to find okay what's a new series what's the next series because you can start a series and

[00:08:28] then maybe do that for a couple months couple weeks or something then it's on to the next thing

[00:08:33] because it's always the challenge of I want to keep my existing audience but I also want to

[00:08:38] continue to grow my audience and if you stay stagnant with the same thing that's never going to occur

[00:08:45] so there's some loyalty to the people that you know which content brought them here

[00:08:50] but you want to switch over too so that's the biggest challenge is like

[00:08:54] damn finding the time outside of my day job of what are some creative ideas or skits that I can do

[00:09:00] to keep people engaged get new traction find new audiences trying to be funny because original content

[00:09:07] is almost impossible nowadays like there's no original thought I mean maybe maybe there is once in a

[00:09:13] blue moon but it's been done no matter what you do someone's going to comment it's like oh

[00:09:17] somebody already did that or you're a copycat and I think that's true to a degree

[00:09:22] but it's like you see something and then you put your own variation on it and then you know

[00:09:27] you make it your own but you know trolls are gonna be trolls people are just gonna be like you're

[00:09:31] always gonna have it anyways always gonna have them and you know what good because when you have

[00:09:35] haters you know you're doing something when people have something to say whether it's negative or

[00:09:38] positive yeah you're doing something and I would relate to what you're saying to music a little bit

[00:09:41] because we see cover tunes yeah we see bands that are like oh that sounds like this song it's like

[00:09:46] well yeah there's only so many notes on a guitar there's only so many chord progressions like

[00:09:49] eventually it's been done yeah you just put your rendition on a little bit and give your flavor to

[00:09:53] it yeah and some of the best versions of a song said I've heard our covers like someone originally

[00:09:59] wrote it but then like who wrote fast car originally oh yeah yeah and then loops came out with it

[00:10:08] and I prefer that version but it's not his but again it's just what what you're into personally

[00:10:15] but yeah that's that's probably the toughest thing is just finding new content and

[00:10:21] not taking stuff personally I've actually as far as my mental health goes I've just stopped reading

[00:10:26] comments bringing the best all together yeah just because I would get so invested in these comments

[00:10:31] and it's like 95% positive like a majority of the comments are super nice people find it funny

[00:10:38] or engaging or brings up some sort of story and then you see that like that one comment you're just

[00:10:43] like and it just gets under your skin yeah and the worst part about being a creator is there's no good

[00:10:50] outcome if you try and respond right because it's gonna be one of two things either because I want

[00:10:56] to clap back all the time yeah in my opinion I think I'm very witty and I can get under people's skin

[00:11:01] but it's like you comment back then it's just going to snowball of other trolls being like oh it

[00:11:05] looks like you got under there's like he got under your skin stop being a baby and all that stuff

[00:11:10] or Instagram will flag you and be like or tiktok or whoever and yeah or they'll punish you it's

[00:11:16] like this was in a harassing or bullying so for for you to respond there's no benefit as much

[00:11:21] as you want to to just belittle someone who's being a total dick my whole view point on all that

[00:11:27] whenever anyone has something to say about anything that is going on in my life or whatever

[00:11:34] as the view is really beautiful from the high road it's gorgeous you know you're out there you just

[00:11:42] got that it's beautiful yeah or like the when people try to tell I don't know if you deal with this

[00:11:47] but people are like you should do this or you should try that and it's like constructive criticism

[00:11:51] is one thing yeah you know I'm fine with that we're trying to help someone out but it's another

[00:11:55] when they're like you need to do it this way because you're not doing it right or whatever and it's

[00:11:59] like and like you know I know we both had this thought it's like well then maybe you should start

[00:12:03] your own podcast and you do however you want that's right you know if you're such an expert they go

[00:12:07] they go for it I don't get too many of those I get people who give me ideas and I think it's from

[00:12:12] like a genuine like oh here's an idea for you and it's from a place of wanting to help me yeah but

[00:12:18] yeah I get all those sometimes I get DMs where it's like your gross or dude your creep and people

[00:12:23] out like go fuck yourself huh it's like where is this like yeah where's that come from like it's just

[00:12:28] jealousy it's wild a lot of jealousy I think yeah and for the close people that I've made a lot of

[00:12:33] friends on social media like some close friends and I have a group chat with some some guys I've

[00:12:39] met that I have the same humor as I do they're like you just can't listen to it like don't even

[00:12:44] don't even read it because there's no benefit to just ruining your emotional state from someone

[00:12:49] that has absolutely no impact on your life and is my numbers keep growing I know it's just

[00:12:55] gonna keep getting greater so but yeah I was I was being mentored by another creator he's a

[00:13:01] military content creator um and he's just like don't read it just don't even like post

[00:13:07] and then get out like and then move on yeah that's a bit every like successful content creator or

[00:13:12] guys have these millions of views on YouTube or whatever like don't read comments yeah don't read

[00:13:17] the comments yeah I've heard that one a lot I mean that's that's typically what most of them will say

[00:13:20] yeah because there's it's like you don't get as high of a high as you think from a good comments and

[00:13:25] then as soon as you read a bad one it's like damn that just ruined my day well yeah and it's like

[00:13:29] you know I get it in the very beginning like oh shit someone left a comment like I've started

[00:13:36] something people are actually paying attention to it like you're you're really interested you're

[00:13:39] invested like what is this thing that I'm building yeah but as as the creative content like becomes

[00:13:45] a staple in your life and like you realize this is something I'm doing and it becomes like it

[00:13:50] doesn't matter when anybody else thinks yeah you know you're doing it for you like I know for

[00:13:55] a fact you enjoy making that content yeah like and it's fun for you and so that alone that you're

[00:14:01] creating happiness within your day and and something that is fun for you to do like that's worth it

[00:14:06] alone let alone all the other people that are also enjoying the content and if people have like

[00:14:11] stuff to say on the sideline like that's cool but it's at the same time it's like you know

[00:14:19] generally if people are saying negative things like that it's like a it's like a poison of

[00:14:23] the mind like this gossipy poison like negativity right and it's like if that's what you're putting out

[00:14:31] there then like I hope your day gets better you know that that's how I feel about like if people

[00:14:37] are acting like that's like I really do hope that your day gets better and that you can enjoy the

[00:14:40] clouds a little bit because you know it's life is happening you know my favorite thing is when

[00:14:45] my audience claps back at people that is like when I get like when the team my fans like defend me

[00:14:52] in the comments where I don't even have to respond that is like that's gonna be fun that is like

[00:14:55] the epicenter of like oh this dude got put in his place by someone else so I don't have to worry

[00:14:59] about getting flag they can get flag but team comes in yeah yeah here's my squad here's my loyal

[00:15:05] fans but yeah it's I it's dumb I know I shouldn't take it personally but everyone's human so it's

[00:15:11] like man but why especially when it comes to like my content specifically I could get someone

[00:15:18] like someone who has like political views or views about sexual orientation getting attacked

[00:15:25] makes total sense but like when it's so family oriented with my stuff I just don't understand

[00:15:29] like how I could offend people but we're in 2024 a lot of things are offensive yeah I mean

[00:15:37] I'm offended by how your eyes pop in the videos that's what everybody said dude I'm a

[00:15:43] talk I'm offended by it yeah everyone on tiktok's like what's wrong with your eyes like he

[00:15:47] how higher you're on opiate he has to be using your face you have to be using a filter to get that

[00:15:52] kind of pop all the time I get I get told like I'm like 24 7 on on actually I'm both of them I'm

[00:15:57] like how high like look at how pinned his eyes are and I'm just like my eyes are always like this

[00:16:02] like I have a job where I can't do drugs I get drug tested like I've never thought that watch

[00:16:06] the videos I don't know it's absurd but yeah well and also like if you're staring into like you know

[00:16:13] a light like your pupils are gonna get smaller like they get smaller like they react to light yeah

[00:16:18] people are always gonna have something to say about something that's just the bottom line is

[00:16:20] Bill Bell check said ignore the noise and do your job yeah at the end of the day there's always

[00:16:25] me noise you get to go out there and get it done and I like to post that you put up here recently on

[00:16:29] on RIP Toby Keith yeah and you know heard you kind of react to that a little bit and I know I was

[00:16:34] talking art about that when we got to the studio you know what he did for country music was unreal

[00:16:37] and you know here in Utah your story about it kind of growing up on a little bit of farm ranching

[00:16:41] background yeah you know how to big impact in your life well and it was you know the great thing

[00:16:46] about Toby Keith is how much he supported troops and my dad was military for 20 years so I had

[00:16:50] that added like another layer of respect I saw him I saw Toby Keith at shine frontier days in 2004

[00:16:58] actually it was uh gosh what's his name sings a song what was I oh dear expendly

[00:17:05] dear expendence he opened for Toby Keith at that that that concert so yeah I mean oh four that

[00:17:09] would have been Derrick's first record yeah yeah he was he was just getting started uh and it was

[00:17:14] it was an amazing concert out there but it was just sad because I had multiple Toby Keith albums

[00:17:20] and then you know he's so young you know 62 yeah and then seeing him at the the CMA awards of

[00:17:27] how he looked like he was like 120 pounds and just he looked rough it's sad to just see one of like

[00:17:33] a country music star that or just anybody right that you grew up watching like how fleeting life is

[00:17:40] and it just is like man I'm getting old if these people ahead of me are I don't right already dying

[00:17:45] yeah I mean you know we know life and death is a part of it but it's it's always a reminder

[00:17:49] yeah not to take life you know for granted and that it can go away at any moment but you know

[00:17:53] stomach cancer that's a rough one for sure and I don't know man and he pretty much made he came

[00:17:58] to peace with it though you know he said that one of his last interviews because he did a show like

[00:18:01] five days before he asked he's like man I'm just gonna go out rockin doing what I love playing for

[00:18:06] my fans and whatever happens happens he made peace with he tried the surgeries he did the chemo yeah

[00:18:10] he's like you know it is what it is at this point and that's why I think it's like CMA show was

[00:18:14] was just like saying goodbye to the audience but it's just it sucks seeing all these people

[00:18:19] Apollo just that judge oh yeah oh yeah job from happy Gilmore yeah that's a tough one

[00:18:26] after a lot of people have died a lot of people in the bucket yeah I mean this is part of it

[00:18:32] and that's also what makes it so so great too is that it is truly temporary and the more that we

[00:18:39] can appreciate our time while we got it then then the better right and it sounds so cliche right

[00:18:45] like it really is like I'm coming up on 37 and I'm like all these cliches are true but

[00:18:51] anybody who is having a hard time like last one's last time that they sat there and actually tried to

[00:18:56] apply this shit to their like like it's easy to say the cliche but when you actually go to apply it

[00:19:01] like that's that's where you really realize like okay what how authentic am I like you start

[00:19:08] thinking about yourself and it's like I don't know man with life just being so precious and everything

[00:19:15] like having these moments and the experiences that like I've overcome and that I've seen other people

[00:19:21] overcome like it's really just about like having a sense of awe like not losing your inner child

[00:19:31] and I think that's also what kind of like keeps people really in love with the content you do

[00:19:38] is it brings us back to our childhood and stuff even like the other day like on the Xbox I got

[00:19:44] all the remastered perfect dark and all that shit yeah and like I want to go shoot somebody in

[00:19:49] perfect dark and I had just like smoke some pot and so I was like in this zone and I felt so nostalgic

[00:19:55] and but like what I found is that as an adult creating the right priorities of my life I'm able to

[00:20:03] see like the beauty in life again and have the creativity of a child with like things that are

[00:20:09] just fun and anyone could do that anyone can tap into their inner child and like start being an

[00:20:16] awe of life again and like starting to like see that light again um that's kind of like my piece on

[00:20:23] you know mortality and since since we're all gonna die one day and like our parents are getting older

[00:20:28] and like you know all this stuff is happening like how can we make the most of it and it's like

[00:20:33] you got to make the most of it this very second like right right now you know yeah get up so I

[00:20:40] don't know that's like a whole another thing there we could get off on I like it it makes me want

[00:20:44] to wake the F up I'll tell you that so we did this last week we're going to do it again yes once again

[00:20:50] yep this is a tremendous brand of smelling salts he's been a big thing it's been a big thing in

[00:20:54] the athletic world for a while John out there who owns this company four-time bodybuilding you fighter

[00:21:00] does amazing things I was like man I'm buying this product we're gonna give it a go now you've never

[00:21:05] done smelling salts I've not okay have you seen other people do it yeah like you see NFL yeah NFL

[00:21:10] when they get hit they need a wake up on on the sidelines and like people at faint you know

[00:21:15] they'll this will bring them back oh my god and so it's like pure ammonia it's it your it is a

[00:21:20] ammonia gas is ultimately what it's doing but you know you just oh I can already smell it

[00:21:24] yeah you just kind of get that that hit and it just kind of wakes you up a little bit

[00:21:30] you're well your reaction is priceless yeah oh my god I'm terrified he's going in

[00:21:36] oh wow yeah how would you describe that to people I haven't done it because it's hard to put

[00:21:46] that in words what it feels like oh my gosh I'm trying to think I yeah I have no idea something

[00:21:54] died is what that smells like something died I've heard a lot of folks say it reminds me of jumping

[00:21:59] into a chlorine pool and getting that rush of course yeah of chlorine I don't know if I get that

[00:22:03] as much I more reminds me of just something that's that I shouldn't be smelling yeah you know at the

[00:22:08] end maybe like roadkill I would say really the death from this that's interesting but what it does

[00:22:15] is it jolted like if you think about and I don't know how much you've been around like dead animals

[00:22:19] but after they read hey there's like gases that they give off it kind of gives me a reminder

[00:22:24] yeah that is some potent stuff it'll burn your eyes for sure and there's even more potent stuff

[00:22:29] on the market than this you know from what I've heard but this does the jump so if you're in the

[00:22:32] market for smelling cells check out yep give them a go for sure that's a great way to wake up in

[00:22:36] the morning it gets you going because it jolted your respiratory system and it's supposed to

[00:22:41] increase alertness and focus or cold bath cold plunges see I don't have the balls to do that I

[00:22:46] don't either you know I'm worried about just like shrinkage and a lot of things that go with getting

[00:22:51] into cold water I mean it is tough so like the cold water it's like what 60 seconds in it like how

[00:22:59] long do they sit I think a minute yeah some people can I mean some people can do longer but you

[00:23:04] they build up they you want to at least do a minute one which is crazy because I want to do it

[00:23:08] because I hear all the health benefits about it but then it's like I'm just such a pansy I don't

[00:23:12] want to wake up first thing in the morning cold freezing I don't like I have a check in our nose

[00:23:16] I'm cold but then after you do it you're gonna be like feeling like that's what everyone says

[00:23:21] like your clarity or mental alertness well and also I've heard that like if you do like the cold

[00:23:27] thing cold plunge then it will release dopamine in your brain for like eight hours afterwards like

[00:23:33] yeah something like it's a slow release yeah yeah something ridiculous like for the rest of the day

[00:23:36] like you're just feeling good and when you do something that you don't want to do the sense

[00:23:42] of accomplishment after you do it like that's almost second to none yeah I've heard the best

[00:23:48] I've heard the best way to build up to it is like you take a warm shower and then your last like

[00:23:53] 30 seconds or a minute you just flip it to cold just to kind of like build up that tolerance so at

[00:23:58] least you're comfortable on the front end and then your is there like a health risk where you can

[00:24:02] get like a heart attack from like going I'm sure there's like a hybrid risk risk or something like

[00:24:07] I don't know I would say I would say maybe but you're probably doing a cold plunge in a controlled

[00:24:12] environment so you're only frozen for a short period of time but I'm sure if you already have

[00:24:16] pre-existing conditions it's probably not smart yeah I prefer sauna more than anything where

[00:24:22] I like to yeah I love working out like a hot works I'm a member of and I actually doing those

[00:24:28] like ellipticals are cycling in an infrared sauna yeah does that get your heart rate up really

[00:24:33] high doesn't it yeah like the cold kind of brings it down but it's so nice because you're it's like

[00:24:37] because now the traditional waves like I always did cardio and then went into a sauna this like

[00:24:41] knocks two birds out with one stone so it's nice I can just do everything and for like an hour

[00:24:45] I'll just go in and cycle 130 degrees 130 how many calories do you burn in that I mean they say

[00:24:52] like anywhere from 500 to 700 so it's pretty solid workout plus there's a lot of health benefits too

[00:24:58] of like what sauna I think for if you're a male and you do sauna like four to five times a week

[00:25:05] it reduces your risk for like cardiac episodes by like 70 percent I guess some insane number

[00:25:12] you know it's because of elevates the heart rate I mean I guess all cardio does but the heat kind

[00:25:15] of naturally elevates the heart yeah sure maybe it's like the detoxing of your system

[00:25:20] yes now they're actually like sweating and detoxing getting stuff out yeah well that I mean you do

[00:25:26] semi cold I don't know when you go swim so I'm sure that water so the pool is and it's a huge

[00:25:31] benefit to where I live is it's a year-round pool but it is outdoors got it it's heated oh but

[00:25:37] it's not it's like you know 55 degree I don't know what the the temperature is when you first

[00:25:41] jump in it's chilly like you feel cold you start moving around but then after you swim for a

[00:25:46] little bit then you get acclimated to it like it takes like two to three minutes and then you're good

[00:25:51] do you swim in the morning or in evening I swim really when I can it opens between 10 a.m.

[00:25:56] to 10 p.m so anytime between them for a start like start up I you think it would be open

[00:26:02] like early in the morning the the gem is open 24 7 so you can go into the gem anytime

[00:26:10] I was thinking oh yeah detoxing and sweating it out so here's an odd fact when you hold

[00:26:16] in your flatch lens if you if you hold in your farts it's it's no good for you and guess where

[00:26:23] the fart fart leaves from if you hold it in and you don't allow it to release do you burp it out

[00:26:29] so there's different couple ways that it comes out so it can come out through your breath

[00:26:34] it could come out through burps and your sweat sweat it has to leave your body well it's just like

[00:26:40] has to leave for folks that can't shit you know those toxins go somewhere right like your body

[00:26:45] reabsorbs is no good it's no good yeah you know that part though you need you need to you need

[00:26:50] to let your body do its thing I'm usually pretty regular with farting I've always been like even

[00:26:55] on like I've been on first dates well fart yeah you know I'm like sorry I had to fart like I'm

[00:27:00] not obnoxious about like lifting a leg and bringing attention but yeah you know yeah I mean look

[00:27:07] look I feel like that's okay and if if it's a natural body function then can we just break the

[00:27:13] stigma of being embarrassed about this stuff but like I agree there's like a respectful way

[00:27:17] to do it to do it like you can obnoxiously burp or you could have like you know like that burp

[00:27:23] like that's respectful yeah that's obnoxious yeah that's a bog creature burp but I but I wouldn't do

[00:27:29] that in this professional set no no not in this setting yes I can sound like a bog creature for sure

[00:27:34] you have to have you have to respect the bodily functions what's your thoughts on this yourself

[00:27:38] I mean I'm not I don't I just don't do that stuff like ever you know fart you don't

[00:27:45] almost never really yeah what is your diet man are you eating crucifixion I wish man I actually

[00:27:51] just started carnivore diet okay two days ago just because I have not felt good about my body since

[00:27:58] like last year ruined me I had two big vacations at all inclusive resorts I was in Jamaica for

[00:28:04] 10 days at a sandals that was so I love Jamaica I've been it's awesome I love the the amount of

[00:28:11] food I ate in Jamaica was I was probably eating like 8,000 calories a day just because they had like

[00:28:17] doledging well they have like eight restaurants and then they had like and then they have like

[00:28:21] personal pizzas you could get delivered to your room at anytime in the day so I was like I would get like

[00:28:27] I'd go breakfast and I would go eat snacks and I get lunch then I have pizza delivered right before

[00:28:31] I'd go out to dinner so I was just like stuff in my face along with drinking an absurd amount of

[00:28:36] calories and then I went down to Tukwata Mala for five days for a sail fishing trip and then that

[00:28:42] was at an all inclusive resort so it was just like nothing but drinking and eating then and then of

[00:28:46] course that led into the holiday season so you have like a Halloween eating crap tons of candy

[00:28:51] that's left over from trick-or-treating and then you go Thanksgiving and then Christmas and then

[00:28:56] it's just like damn I can't get a break from eating calories so it's like all right I need to make

[00:29:01] a change my my boss does has been on carnivore since the beginning of the year and he's down like

[00:29:07] 30 pounds from it and he said he feels really good and I saw a bunch of stuff on social media about

[00:29:11] something like I'll give it a two-hundred minute fast I've like I did a

[00:29:16] so last year actually did a 21 day pure fast really like straight 21 day yeah after day three

[00:29:24] it was fine so we were drinking like broth or no it's just lemon water it's just like water so

[00:29:29] I was like I didn't feel good I was back up at like a weight I didn't like so anytime I break 210

[00:29:35] I'm like all right I got to do something because this is getting out of control so I was like

[00:29:40] all right I'm gonna do and this was before going to sandals so I was like man if I'm at 210 and

[00:29:46] I go to an all-inclusive resort that is gonna be like bad bad news so I just like three and a half

[00:29:52] weeks before I went on vacation I was like all right I'm just gonna culturky try a 21 day fast

[00:29:57] because I saw some stuff at social media and I went from two thirteen down to 180 to 21 days oh man

[00:30:04] and it was I felt I felt so good yeah like after that 21 day fast I felt like a million bucks

[00:30:12] was the first thing you ate broth because they said you got to read it but then it was like two

[00:30:17] days later I've stuffing my fate I felt like the first day and a half in Jamaica I felt like

[00:30:23] absolute garbage like I just was like I introduced food way too fast and like toxic food too

[00:30:29] and that was and so it was that and just fourth of July I was so much eating inside in keep it off

[00:30:36] like I should have but yeah I felt I like fasting I like fasting a lot I think people

[00:30:42] overestimate how much their body needs I would agree with that people think they'd be eating all

[00:30:46] the time and they get addicted to that yeah who's getting who people are digging to food I mean we like

[00:30:50] the taste we like flavor I love flavor treats whatever um but so during those did you work out during

[00:30:55] that 20 I did too like I just I was like if I'm gonna make myself suffer like I might as well

[00:31:00] just like really go at it yeah so I would be like I would go I wouldn't be eating I would go to

[00:31:06] hot works and workout for like an hour an hour and a half so I'd add sweating on top of that

[00:31:11] and then I would just come home and it was like you know the first three days you'd have like hunger

[00:31:15] pains like true like this is like this sucks yeah and then it almost became just like

[00:31:21] almost just like a nagging in the back your head where it's like okay I recognize I'm hungry but

[00:31:26] it's not it's not causing me any issues it's just kind of irritating and then that was just

[00:31:31] like a baseline so after like day three it it's like like you said right you get addicted to seeing

[00:31:37] progress so after day three you see drop like 10 pounds in those first three days yeah it probably

[00:31:45] most of it was water weight on that first hat or the first drop but then it's like then you get

[00:31:49] to like day seven between like day seven when you're like you're calling out yeah completely at

[00:31:54] that point but then it's like you see the progress because it's like every day it's like oh shit

[00:31:58] I dropped two pounds today and I haven't eaten anything and I know that's not water weight because

[00:32:02] waterways out of my system and then you see like in the mirror it's like holy crap this is first

[00:32:07] see in the face and then you see in the stomach and everywhere else but it was it was cool because

[00:32:11] I didn't want to just do it for the weight loss like I didn't want to just do it because I knew

[00:32:15] I was gonna be a fat POS in Jamaica I was like I just want to challenge myself mentally that I can

[00:32:22] do something like this if I set my mind to so it's like man if I'm strong enough to not eat a single

[00:32:28] meal or any sort of food for three weeks straight like there's very little that can be thrown at me

[00:32:33] that I can't overcome yeah like it was his name's Dave Goggins Guggins Goggins yeah

[00:32:39] Goggins is a fuck all at ease yeah but I thought of that that mentality that dude like who's

[00:32:45] like stop being a pussy just do it yeah it was like that's the boats and shit yeah and so

[00:32:48] and it was cool it's like I can say I fasted for three weeks and it was that's amazing I've never done

[00:32:54] that I've never done that I just saw Dana White you know from the UFC he just posted they did 86

[00:32:58] hour faster something yeah and he showed like a before and after picture like this fasting thing

[00:33:02] definitely has something to yeah for sure but of course he preface it with you know if you have

[00:33:06] medical conditions or something take that in considerations three weeks is a long time yeah say

[00:33:09] you can live up to three weeks without food right yeah water I think you can only go X amount but

[00:33:15] I think you can go further what was that it was a former Broncos player that there was an article

[00:33:20] or last year where he did 40 days no food and he lost a hundred pounds deal that's 40 days I mean

[00:33:27] your body your your forcing your body metabolize the fat resources that it has yeah yeah and I'm

[00:33:32] sure you're gonna atrophy some so you're gonna lose of course muscle just yeah yeah nature it's

[00:33:36] going to be but I think I think it's a great like at least kick start right like you said your body

[00:33:42] yeah I mean even if you do reap let's say you you do fasting and you lost 30 pounds even if

[00:33:47] you rebound five to ten pounds you're still you're still 20 pounds further down then you were yeah see

[00:33:53] I don't do I haven't done true fasting where you actually like don't eat you only have water

[00:34:00] for like 24 hours or whatever that is so I'll just do intermittent fasting like five days a week

[00:34:05] where it's 12 to 16 hours no food yeah no food and then when you do eat you do portion control right

[00:34:14] like you don't just over the fuck eat for eight hours so what I realized which really radiated with

[00:34:20] me is like what you said how people they overestimate what they need to actually sustain the energy

[00:34:27] in the body and I completely agree with that because when I'm doing that and I'm sticking to that

[00:34:32] regiment like I'm I'm working out I'm waking up I'm doing the pot I'm doing my normal job I'm

[00:34:40] going out on dates I'm like doing all this shit on barely anything and it's like this scarcity

[00:34:46] like mentality that I started to develop like it's like you know on the minimal how much can I do

[00:34:52] on the minimal right now yeah and like you start getting into it and you realize like the body

[00:34:57] is actually super resilient and it's built to do because we're nomadic at heart and we're omnivore

[00:35:04] too so like we should be eating meats and vegetables like that's how our teeth are are made and

[00:35:09] we're meant to be walking and moving and nomadic like that's what our bodies were designed for

[00:35:14] and eating a little bit and when you die and when you dive into to doing that like there's actually

[00:35:20] all these health benefits that kick off and actually stuff that I was listening to and this is all

[00:35:26] stuff that I listened to like opinion based we're not a health provider here but like they talked

[00:35:31] about like how eating less can help prevent the hormones and stuff that get that create cancer yeah

[00:35:41] like free radicals and stuff yeah I've seen like how it helps with all that stuff so I've seen a lot

[00:35:46] of supposed studies again I don't know how much of this is back science I don't know which websites

[00:35:52] are resources to trust but it's like yeah fasting is shown it can prevent cancer it can prevent certain

[00:35:58] heart diseases plus it's just like you giving your body a break to detox too which I think is probably

[00:36:03] the biggest like benefit of it it's just naturally getting everything that's that's built up in

[00:36:09] your system number was of 14 to 16 hours is when you hit like that detox and like you could have

[00:36:16] water you can have coffee um that's about it yeah like that's like you I would probably see in like

[00:36:22] some green tea okay green tea is my guess yeah greener black tea no no a half and half though you

[00:36:28] can't be put in a half and half just has probably be black coffee straight my guess straight yeah not

[00:36:32] adding any dairy or anything like that oh that makes sense for sure and everyone's body is probably

[00:36:36] going to react differently to it because it's just like working out yeah right like some workouts

[00:36:41] work well for some people and then not good for others you almost do intermittent fasting already

[00:36:46] like a lot of times joe denner and you won't eat until lunch the next day yeah I mean you got

[00:36:50] to consider beer into that because that's a lot of carbs and calories so typically I'll finish my

[00:36:54] last beer at 10 11 pm at night and then I won't eat or drink any other than water until maybe two

[00:36:59] three the next day yeah afternoon yes that's like that's a little bit of it's like a 14 that's

[00:37:04] like a 14 hour faster something I usually one meal a day really like even just my norm I just

[00:37:10] eat dinner okay I just I feel like if I eat breakfast I'll either it'll be two things either

[00:37:15] I'll feel heavy the rest of the day or it'll start just want me to like once I start like all I

[00:37:22] want to do is eat so I'd much rather just wait till the end of the day have a meal and then not

[00:37:27] worry about it I think that's the best way to do it I mean we were conditioned to do three meal a day

[00:37:31] breakfast lunch and dinner heavy calories which I think is like capitalism yes we don't have to

[00:37:35] get into that fair there's definitely I think I was intentional by the American business model that

[00:37:41] you should eat three meals a day the food pyramids changed how many times you know we used to

[00:37:46] learn about the food pyramid back in the you know growing up my tin for a school now don't worry

[00:37:50] I have a lot of we won't even get into the medical system we won't even touch that no I don't

[00:37:55] want to find another people but food has to do with that too food food pharma you name it the food

[00:38:00] we eat puts us in the hospital like what is that I have a strong part of me wants to move to Europe

[00:38:07] because I do not trust the American foods this how can you how can you well what what I mean what's

[00:38:13] crazy is like if you research like how much of America's food is banned in Europe yeah like food

[00:38:18] that people eat here every day and but what's funny is like I went to Japan like right before

[00:38:25] I was on here last time I was there two full weeks I don't I try to stay away from carbs because carbs

[00:38:31] here in the United States like I even look at a bagel I'll put weight on for real yeah and then

[00:38:37] I went to Japan I literally ate pasta every single day I had ramen udon noodles like sushi like almost

[00:38:44] it was it so good I had there was one chicken broth ramen I had when I got completely shmammard

[00:38:52] in Tokyo it was amazing it was a bar crawl trip but it was like I came back I didn't put on any weight

[00:38:59] from Japan and that was two weeks of just gorge eating everything like I'm drinking

[00:39:04] deserts drinking all of that and then it's like man if I did that same kind of diet here in the

[00:39:08] United States I know for sure I'd be I'd be and people talk about on social media all the time

[00:39:14] about they go broad they eat bread pasta whatever they want they actually lose weight and then

[00:39:19] they come back to the United States as soon as they eat something that was here in the United States

[00:39:22] like whether it's processed food or there's something from the grocery store they rebound and it

[00:39:27] just makes you think it's like okay are there what do we have over here in our food that just

[00:39:32] makes you feel so shitty I mean when you look at the ingredients of like quaker oats for example

[00:39:37] you know oatmeal yeah the the European version versus the American version I mean the ingredients are

[00:39:43] significantly small yeah and then over here you have all these things you can barely pronounce

[00:39:47] it's it's kind of that's so scary yeah and it's like you wonder why the biggest

[00:39:55] the biggest thing killing men under 50 is colon cancer like it's well did you hear about this

[00:40:00] article too like okay so uh florida college tested toilet paper and they found that like a large

[00:40:10] percentage of toilet paper has forever chemicals in it and is a contributor to colon cancer

[00:40:18] and they didn't they didn't drop the names of the brands like I tried to find oh but guess

[00:40:23] them so I've read the article and then I tried to find the brand suit out of the mine yeah couldn't

[00:40:28] find the brands but I'm I'm suspect that it's like that super cheap one ply type like that you get

[00:40:35] it in office building like if you're wiping your butt at the office building all the time dude like

[00:40:40] I don't know I feel like you're at high risk or is it almost go the other way or you think it's

[00:40:43] the extra cushiony we would you think it's the cushiony like extra strong people ply yeah that one

[00:40:49] with the bear you know yeah so yeah so you're playing red there's paying yeah paying extra think

[00:40:55] about it can think about it because if they're if they're paying money to do that right to put these

[00:40:59] chemicals in there yeah that's gonna come back to the consumer I mean dude I can't even wipe my ass

[00:41:04] without fucking feeling like I'm getting got over here it's like you go on some media it's like

[00:41:09] new thing kills you every day don't drink from this wild animal yeah we don't eat vegetables like

[00:41:14] this will kill you in California yeah no like that you're not safe from anything well yeah and then

[00:41:18] that's the mental poison and Kevin and I were talking about this before so I'm curious what your

[00:41:22] thoughts are on it as be is perception being reality yeah and if if I'm constantly telling myself oh

[00:41:29] that's gonna get me sick or I'm sick all the time then you probably are sick all the time yeah

[00:41:34] opposed to if you're like saying like I'm strong I'm healthy my body is constantly like I don't get

[00:41:39] I I'm always healthy then you barely ever get sick do you do you believe in like the power of

[00:41:45] like that I think it that like manifestation is like very powerful because I think there's

[00:41:50] plenty of things in this universe you can't explain like what happens but when it comes to

[00:41:55] I think your mind plays in a lot of what attributes to your body because if you have a negative thought

[00:42:02] is probably going to put your body in an unhealthy state and it's gonna break down internally I think

[00:42:07] there's a lot of truth to that but I mean it's bizarre right because you see people that are

[00:42:14] fitness freaks that die when they're 60 and you you probably all have that one family member that

[00:42:18] chain smoked chewed tobacco and drank every day that lived to like 95 so I think genetics has a lot

[00:42:25] to do with it but I mean I'm curious to see a lot of those people that lived to 95 were that

[00:42:30] generation that grew up in the 20s 30s and 40s before all this chemical bullshit was put into food

[00:42:36] one social media too because I feel like that's like a a can be a mental poison oh

[00:42:41] there's not can be it is yeah I think I think I think was it I know Instagram is now having filters

[00:42:48] of like they're cabin campaigns on how to limit time that your children spend on social media and

[00:42:54] how to like keep them from going down negative thought processes but I mean what I'm sure the

[00:43:01] suicide rate in the United States has gone up exponentially ever since the internet's come 100%

[00:43:06] past two there we were talking about on happy friday last week there's a bill in Kentucky which

[00:43:10] I think passed in Indiana about banning cell phones and classrooms for you know middle school high

[00:43:15] school I guess even grade school and it's one of those things I can see both sides of the argument

[00:43:19] but because we grew up in a time where we didn't have that yeah we didn't have the smart phone

[00:43:23] and all that shit in the classroom it's easy for us to say well absolutely ban the

[00:43:27] cell phones get rid of the distraction I kind of agree with that but I can understand the other side

[00:43:31] of the argument well I mean if you need a cell phone just give them a brick phone or flip phone fair

[00:43:35] like like if the whole conversation is we want to make sure they have some way to reach someone

[00:43:40] in case of an emergency then okay give them something that like doesn't have internet like because

[00:43:44] I remember in seventh grade because both my parents worked multiple jobs I usually had to bike

[00:43:50] seven or eight miles to go home from where I lived in northern calirado at the time it was like far

[00:43:55] away from junior high they said here's a brick phone it was a Nokia like 3011 and that was like

[00:44:02] I had snake that would distract me in class when I was kid playing that but what a great game

[00:44:06] it was me but I mean if I needed to call my parents I had a cell phone to call so I mean if it's like

[00:44:11] I get now where it's just basically a computer in the palm of your hands I can see how they would

[00:44:16] want to cancel that but yeah I would I would be all for that and if they need a cell phone just

[00:44:20] give them an old-school flip phone that doesn't have internet. Basic communication. Yeah yeah yeah

[00:44:26] it's interesting because I mean you think in the last 20 years even not even 20 years 15 years what

[00:44:32] Facebook was 08 Instagram started like God that makes me feel so I know it's still so fresh like

[00:44:37] it's still pretty new media is so new that like we don't surely know the long term effects of this

[00:44:42] and I'll tell you just from my own personal experience that I get the dopamine hits just like

[00:44:48] everybody else says like oh you know they're from the hood if they do this like those kind of dumb

[00:44:54] videos like they're so stupid they don't mean anything but they still hook me in and then I'm very

[00:45:01] aware of how I feel and like my thought process like I've worked on that for years so I'm hyper

[00:45:07] aware of how I'm feeling and I've noticed that after I scroll and look at meaningless brainless

[00:45:14] shit for like a like an hour like I feel less motivated um distracted slightly uh in less of a good

[00:45:25] mood like my happiness level drops and then I'm like dude I need to put this down but and then my

[00:45:31] muscle memory keeps going for it yeah keeps going for it and even like I'm practicing this constantly

[00:45:35] like I'm still getting baited by this yeah and I'm like I just need to go on a walk and I'll tell

[00:45:40] myself before I pick up my phone sometimes I'm like there is nothing for me here I'm like there's

[00:45:44] nothing for me here and I and I put it down like angrily sometimes because it like keeps trying

[00:45:49] to get me I think the the best way to at least like as a way to get yourself off it or at least feel

[00:45:56] better is just like all your FYP is driven on what you engage with so you're for you for you

[00:46:02] page so like if you're on Reels or you're on TikTok when you're swiping up that's considered

[00:46:07] your for your okay for you profile which means based on yeah based on you've like this or you've

[00:46:14] watched this for an a certain amount of time or you shared this they're gonna keep going so if

[00:46:19] say you watch like a stupid video that doesn't sit well with you but you're sucked into it yeah

[00:46:25] they're gonna keep showing you that because you engage with it sees it now if you start looking at

[00:46:31] like puppy videos or traveling or fitness videos then all that's gonna change so if you're like

[00:46:39] running into the trap I'm falling down this rabbit hole of these really videos and that's all I see

[00:46:44] then just start searching like fitness videos or vacation videos or like our animals goofy shit

[00:46:50] like with them share with your friends watch on rhythm and then it's gonna your algorithm will

[00:46:55] switch in like a day and all you're gonna get is that the fun stuff so if you're like looking at

[00:47:00] negatives all it's gonna continue to do is show you like the dark side of the internet yeah I think

[00:47:05] we've all experienced it so like for me it's cooking videos I always get sucked into guys smoking

[00:47:09] meats so that's how cooking stuff I mean it is I that's like I spent a lot of time on the screen

[00:47:13] looking at guys cook things yeah this looks awesome yeah that's fine and so usually when I'm

[00:47:17] scrolling it's all different cook like people haven't received before doing cooking new things

[00:47:21] eating this and trying to cook see that's a healthy usage of social media in my opinion I guess

[00:47:26] because like chemical get all excited and then he'll like go to make that in real life yeah yeah how

[00:47:31] is that negative so I do agree with what you're saying like we have control of what goes on this

[00:47:37] page and yeah and so we can actually make an effort search thing so that's what I need to do I

[00:47:42] need to go in there and search like motivational quotes and throw that in or like some

[00:47:46] yeah yeah yeah some animal yeah silly yeah silly animal videos that's good advice yeah right I

[00:47:53] mean it's like you can't not laugh it's good to have that be algorithm and who's getting who the 90s

[00:47:57] nostalgia I'm not just saying this guy around the show I always love looking at you I'm like man I

[00:48:02] forgot about that yeah and then like I'll send my brother like remember these candies are like

[00:48:05] don't careuse or something that like meant something to us yeah you know that's that's what's great

[00:48:09] about I think nostalgia is good it is yeah I think that's the reason that the pages become

[00:48:14] are my my medias have become so prolific now because you know last time I was on with you guys I was

[00:48:21] around like a hundred and ten thousand followers and I mentioned it grew from like 58,000 in

[00:48:26] October like a hundred thousand in December so it was like huge growth and then it just like skyrocket

[00:48:32] terrible like and again crazy man we were we were watching and like you were actually celebrating

[00:48:37] with us we're celebrating with you man that that was cool because we did stay in touch like the whole

[00:48:43] time yeah even though it's been 13 months since you've been on like we've always kept in a loop and

[00:48:48] support each other and oh man it's awesome to see that success and I think like relating to where

[00:48:54] it's at as you said mentality I think it's just as millennials get older mortality seems closer

[00:49:04] and closer and closer right the older you get the more the more your your mind goes of man

[00:49:09] deaths coming up or I got X amount of it's more of a countdown than something looking for as a kid

[00:49:14] like his kid you're looking to become an adult yeah think when you get an adult you either want to go

[00:49:18] back to being a kid or you're like scared of oh my god I'm getting so close to death or I'm

[00:49:22] getting closer to death and so I think for a lot of millennials now they saw with their parents

[00:49:27] are like man the world's not a very fun place right now anyway so they revert to things that bring

[00:49:33] them joy and happiness and for them it's you know their childhood you know not for everybody some

[00:49:38] people it's really rough childhoods but for majority people they're like I want to go back to

[00:49:42] feeling good and so it's kind of it's kind of I would say a drug for some people right like I think

[00:49:51] everybody has their vices whether it was you know like you your your substance abuse I think

[00:49:56] everybody has their poison right pick your poison I think for some people they get addicted

[00:50:00] into nostalgia because it brings them joy and I think there is a fine line of like crossing over

[00:50:07] to where it's too much for me personally you know I've made cross that line because you buy all

[00:50:13] the nostalgic shit you have all the certain that's right I think you have to be mindful of it to not

[00:50:19] get like sucked in and people are like you know I get mean messages where it's like dude you're just

[00:50:25] going down a rabbit hole like you're you're being super unhealthy you're just regressing you're

[00:50:30] looking too far into the past I'm like you have no idea what I do in my my free time like I travel

[00:50:35] the world like I'm gonna be fine living in the moment but I think for some people that don't get

[00:50:40] those opportunities that could be a very serious concern where it's like they're looking back so much

[00:50:46] they forget to live and now and so I think that's I always need to be careful of I should probably

[00:50:53] preach that message more my social media is like hey don't forget to enjoy what you have going on

[00:50:58] but I think people just need an escape for whatever amount of time whether it's you know an hour

[00:51:02] scrolling through stupid media or just a couple videos every here now and then but it's healthy

[00:51:07] it's healthy to zone out like as much as I preach like you know having the new lifestyle sticking

[00:51:12] to it being diligent being fucking committed to something like you also need to be committed to

[00:51:18] checking the fuck out yeah having a day off and eating whatever the fuck you want to yeah that is

[00:51:23] all productive to me that's all productive anything in moderation yeah this is kind of what it is

[00:51:27] and regardless of what is wherever addiction living in the past current you name it but there's

[00:51:32] something like reminiscing I think is a healthy thing that's one of my favorite things to do and

[00:51:35] I kind of feel that way a little bit appreciate life yeah but like with the nostalgia stuff I feel

[00:51:39] like it's reminiscent because it'll remind me oh I remember playing that game with someone so

[00:51:42] who lived over here yeah things like it's unlocking things that maybe I wouldn't have thought about

[00:51:46] I think it's good mental stimulation to a point right because like you said everything is a

[00:51:50] triggering mechanism to something else like you see a toy it's not that toy specifically that

[00:51:56] that brings you joy you think of what is that toy it's you're supposed to yeah it's like

[00:52:00] attached to oh I got this for my my seventh birthday from my dad and my grandparents and my

[00:52:05] friends were there so it attributes some sort of trigger memory with it that that brings you

[00:52:12] happiness and I and I think it's good because I think people really struggle with a lot of mental

[00:52:19] illness now there's a lot of I mean Alzheimer's and dementia's coming up and I think maybe it's a

[00:52:25] good thing for your brain just as like muscle memory to try and like think of all the events that

[00:52:30] occurred but yeah everything in moderation even as like a creator like I can't spend all day

[00:52:37] creating content like I have to live life outside of that just like a job you don't want to work

[00:52:42] 10 hours a day so you know it's finding a balance between working creating content living my own

[00:52:49] there's a lot that's like juggling into that but yeah I think I think the push you're seeing now

[00:52:55] is millennials are getting older more mortality is in their face all the time with you know

[00:53:02] war going on you know all the things that they see negativity in the news as they get older and

[00:53:07] I think that's why you see such a big push now from brands bringing nostalgia back I know it was

[00:53:13] it old navy has a big millennial push like y2k push targets got a y2k push like there's so many

[00:53:19] companies that are pushing 90s and early 2000s stuff and it just makes sense because I think we're

[00:53:25] just getting crossing that threshold I wouldn't say mid-like crisis but I think it's like

[00:53:30] really wanting to go back in time it's a good marketing opportunity yeah because people love

[00:53:34] that stuff like crystal Pepsi did it they brought it back for a little bit limited time that brought

[00:53:38] people back taste the 90s yeah they ran that whole camera just came back surge had a little I mean

[00:53:44] surge was like it was 2015 to 2018 so they had to come back I'm trying to think of like other snacks

[00:53:50] right now and even just like that $15 t-shirts at Target like to have all the old school PlayStation

[00:53:56] logo and so I do have and that's perfect segue into my would you rather I have in this

[00:54:01] style okay would you rather for you I thought about this on the car right over let's go let's go

[00:54:06] so you have to pick between one of these two consoles got it Nintendo 60 or or the original

[00:54:18] so it's funny I thought about doing a post on this okay and I still might but it's like I feel

[00:54:23] like it was almost like you were divided into houses like Harry Potter growing up you were either

[00:54:29] you were either team PlayStation or you were team okay so why is it the PlayStation or the

[00:54:34] because my favorite game of all times Final Fantasy 7 oh okay and so I have such great memories

[00:54:39] attributed to that game and spending like that game that game takes like 70 to 80 hours

[00:54:45] well and wasn't it like a four disc three disc three disc game back in the day like they had

[00:54:49] the fantasy series multiple discs and this yes so you have to you have like multiple memory cards

[00:54:54] and three disc but that's like my favorite game actually excited for rebirth coming out on the 28

[00:55:01] it looks so it looks really good so I keep DMing square e-necks to be like yo can can I can we work

[00:55:08] together and remove they never they never respond yeah but no it that so it's it I got a PS1

[00:55:15] in like 97 like Christmas of 90 would have been 97 or yeah it was 97 and then my dad bought

[00:55:22] that game so it was like that was my memory reduction we had super Nintendo 2 we actually had

[00:55:28] we had both Shaggy and Super Nintendo as a consoles before I guess I would be going back even

[00:55:32] further than Sega or Nintendo correct yeah we had both but I I would prefer Super Nintendo

[00:55:38] over Sega just because you weren't able to save on Sega so that was like the most irritating

[00:55:43] thing in the world if you didn't beat the game all the way through you couldn't go back you would

[00:55:47] just leave it on like you turn the TV off and leave the console on to come back but yeah I mean

[00:55:52] I have such great memories with with PlayStation because I had you know Spyro crash bandicoot

[00:55:58] Final Fantasy tech in some of those original games Final Fantasy is like I watch a lot of people

[00:56:04] play seven I played it never beat it so I played into it and I could see if that like popped your

[00:56:10] gaming cherry no it was great but you had Game Boy 2 like I had pokémon as far as a gamer so

[00:56:17] I had that aspect of Nintendo but for like an RPG game to me there's there's no better game in

[00:56:22] Final Fantasy 7 which is why geeked out when they finally had the remake because they came out with

[00:56:27] that first trailer in summer of 2015 and then they finally released the game five years later in

[00:56:34] like April of 2020 right like the beginning of covid so I like I did nothing but play that game

[00:56:39] and beat it in like three days but now it's been another almost four years that they're releasing part

[00:56:46] two and I don't know if this is like gonna have the rest of the game or just another portion of the

[00:56:51] game we're gonna have to wait another four years but I think like that kind of crossed down to two

[00:56:56] roads because if you were PlayStation then you just kept going like you went to PS2 PS3 PS4 PS5

[00:57:03] if you went in Tendo I think you transitioned to Xbox so if you got an N64 then you went to Xbox

[00:57:09] and then 360 in Xbox one because there wasn't I mean you guessed you could have gone Gamecube

[00:57:15] but then there wasn't really no Gamecube there wasn't there was Wii yeah but it wasn't I mean

[00:57:21] you felt left out if you went Gamecube because it was a battle between like PS2 which is still the

[00:57:25] greatest selling console are the most selling console of all times as far as units or you had like Xbox

[00:57:32] so it was either you played RPGs like Tom Clancy or Final Fantasy 10 or anything on PS2 or it was like

[00:57:39] oh we have Halo on Xbox and if you had Gamecube I think people would laugh at you because it's like

[00:57:45] oh I just have Smash Brothers this is really all it was but it's a Smashbox yeah

[00:57:50] it's not Smashbox yeah that's a very simple breakdown I don't disagree with it because it

[00:57:53] does make a lot of sense because I was an N64 guy before I didn't have a PS so my brother had all the

[00:57:59] console I'd really be playing his yeah he was six and a half years older than me not was is

[00:58:03] yeah so we would play Zelda Ocarina of time yeah Super Mario Bros you know Super Mario Kart all

[00:58:09] these games and like Zelda Ocarina of Time for me was like the first kind of RPG if you will I

[00:58:15] mean I played Link from the past on S.E.N.S you know big Zelda game good stuff well I think

[00:58:19] Ocarina of Time is considered the greatest Zelda game it was so good all time well for a lot of people

[00:58:24] by I think mainly just because Millennials have such attachment to that really fire temple

[00:58:29] did they ever play Breath of the Wilder tears in the Kingdom she's but that's the thing

[00:58:32] the tears that kingdom like wow what a great game I played breath of well I have played

[00:58:39] tears it's so good it's so good but you play Breath of the Wild oh my god there's very few Zelda

[00:58:45] games I have played I have the the one for S.N.E.S. links Awakening yeah which was fantastic yeah

[00:58:51] which is great it was good yeah but in for a super Nintendo the amount of hours you'd have to

[00:58:56] log on that game oh as monstrous monstrous too and actually they have Final Fantasy was at one

[00:59:01] two and three for Super Nintendo also but it was I think that's just how it divided out as you

[00:59:07] got older because it was either I think once you got to like high school it was either Xbox or

[00:59:12] PlayStation yeah I very rarely had people that were just Nintendo yeah see there was like that

[00:59:17] it's good point there's like that beef and I don't you know I was part of it I was team Xbox back

[00:59:21] in the day I went to playstation you know I was playing PlayStation too but all of my closest

[00:59:26] guy friends all went Xbox yeah I was the only PlayStation guy that's kind of how I still am yeah

[00:59:31] yeah they still yeah they all have Xbox like and they're still playing Halo Master Chief edition

[00:59:36] and stuff and Call of Duty and I'm like it's alright I'll just play my here's the thing as long

[00:59:40] as your game and like love for all games yeah absolutely I don't think any gamers really hate

[00:59:45] on other gamers it's more just like it's just fun like no it's like that 4G because Xbox is

[00:59:50] better no it's not it's not it's the most absurd kind of but I actually just saw a news article

[00:59:58] that they might have a crossover for Microsoft games on to playstations platform like Gears of War

[01:00:03] might be available on PlayStation Halo could come up on PlayStation oh my god come back I think

[01:00:09] people I think they would lose their mind I think like Microsoft or Xbox fans would lose their

[01:00:13] mind if PlayStation got out of the game so Grinth of Dotto right so what one of my favorite games

[01:00:18] well time like San Andreas San Andreas Vice City GTA 3 that was a PlayStation exclusive yes not

[01:00:23] or like maybe PlayStation and PC and then Xbox got raised to it later yeah okay I just want

[01:00:27] to make sure I had that right because as we get ready for GTA 6 next year it's in there yeah 25

[01:00:32] which I know people have been losing their minds oh yeah but the thing is is when they dropped

[01:00:36] the trailer for GTA 5 yeah it was the same deal they dropped it in 2011 and dropped in 2013

[01:00:40] it's still a two-year turner yeah yeah so it's I mean games get pushed back all the time they should if

[01:00:46] they're I mean look how cyberpunk no no it's so good now it is so good now I haven't cyberpunk

[01:00:52] is yeah it's so good and honestly I wanted to love it so bad and I was playing on the Xbox one

[01:00:57] when it first came out yes absolute shit and I still thought it was like it had the potential to be

[01:01:03] one of the best RPGs ever and now it's fixed it's worth buying and playing it's such a disaster

[01:01:11] it was horrible disaster they had to give so many refunds because it's literally pulled it off the

[01:01:16] story yeah terrible press for the company yeah and they this was CD project red who released Witcher

[01:01:22] 3 which was one of the best games ever made yeah according to people who played it I never

[01:01:27] played sorry punk I watch you guys playing on a first came out when it was shit oh it was garbage

[01:01:30] it wasn't good it's so much better now what came today I played what was the game I was late to

[01:01:36] the party for that I regret being late to the party for was red dead redemption to oh I got

[01:01:40] that the night dropped really I didn't I didn't play that until like two years ago and I could

[01:01:45] I could not I could not when what's his name yeah yeah for sure yeah that broke me I was like dang

[01:01:51] it they're gonna and then you continue the storyline with with what's his name Arthur Morgan yeah but

[01:01:57] I was just like but it was such an it was such as Arthur Arthur and then it switches over to the original

[01:02:03] guy for red that one redemption one yeah but his name again on the game is it's not Jamie he's got

[01:02:08] the it's not oh we should know this yeah we should we should but I play that game was a two two

[01:02:14] years ago three years ago but I was like four years or three years later because it came out 18

[01:02:18] yeah and I was like this game is one aesthetically stunning yeah and the open world concept where you

[01:02:25] could just mess with anyone or like you get attacked by animals are like catch any horses that you want

[01:02:30] like I spent an absurd amount of time playing like I got addicted to that game like I would play

[01:02:35] like 12 hours a day it's so good I was like wow I need to actually go do something productive because

[01:02:40] I'm spending way too much time but I think there's so many side quests that that game takes forever

[01:02:45] yeah to complete and there's so many Easter eggs two in that game what I see on social media all the

[01:02:49] time like if you go to this cave you can mess with this dude up here or you could find this hidden

[01:02:54] animal but that that was a game that I really really enjoyed I think when it showed us what the

[01:02:59] cave values are with rock star everything I've heard is like the engine that was using grants that

[01:03:03] a four was different than five oh unrelinged in five is going to change it's it's 100% have you seen

[01:03:10] some of those like first person shooter games that they're creating and I'm pretty sure that like

[01:03:14] the Mandalorian that TV show yeah because they shoot that in a studio where it's like three live

[01:03:20] screens like three big ass real screens yeah and they shoot in here in that way the reflections are

[01:03:25] real on everything and I believe that the environments that they make are all made in unrelinged

[01:03:31] five yeah so so literally the environments you see in the Mandalorian show are made in

[01:03:37] unreal I've seen like social media clips of Unreal Engine 5 where it's like you're walking into snow

[01:03:42] or you're walking through the woods and is very difficult to tell the difference like if you were

[01:03:48] just like casually watching like glancing you would think it's real I mean you could see some

[01:03:53] like disparity on yeah just it's like okay this it's fake but it's like it is getting to a place

[01:03:59] where what I'm trying to think of what movie that was it's getting to a plate well you I mean

[01:04:05] ready player ones probably not very far from where we're at now of just like putting in an

[01:04:11] Oculus and people trying to escape reality because it feels like more reality in a virtual world

[01:04:17] than it does in their own I'm curious I've seen the what is it the new Apple vision pro

[01:04:25] yeah very curious of how good that actually looks because Oculus sucks like I had an Oculus

[01:04:29] two or a yeah an Oculus 2 from meta I sold it because it's like it's so grainy like it's so

[01:04:35] pixily like the games are awful like they're a digging like lightsaber super fun but you don't buy

[01:04:40] it because it's realistic if but I'm curious if if like the Apple vision you put it on it's like

[01:04:46] whoa this actually looks I heard I heard it looks good I don't know for gaming for grand it looks

[01:04:51] good yeah that's crazy I mean that's that it's too much it's too much for like any sort of home

[01:04:57] entertainment I feel like as much as I want to have like a racing simulator yeah that's a lot

[01:05:00] of money right there where you get the you know force feedback and the every see note dude I've

[01:05:04] seen some people like 25 like they spend as much on a real car as they do like a legit racing

[01:05:11] setup yeah looks fun as hell like I just want to find someone who has one I know man that'd be

[01:05:15] super fun just like chilling your basement and just pretend like you're in a Ferrari but I can't

[01:05:20] like 30 thousand dollars on a gaming system it's too much yeah I mean let's just have stupid

[01:05:25] money to throw away but did you see grand charisma the movie I've not oh man you guys so good

[01:05:30] it's really good yeah it's it's a watch whether you're a gaming fan or not or a race fan or not

[01:05:35] it is a good watch it's like the idea of like that that idea of like you play video games to translate

[01:05:40] to something in reality that is incredible that that will no go ahead I was just gonna say on top

[01:05:46] of that to add to the NASCAR will William Byron driver the number 24-hundred motorsports came from

[01:05:50] sim racing really so there's special on Netflix called NASCAR full speed free plug there I know I

[01:05:55] pushed on master gas really dives into that a little bit on how he got to NASCAR from sim racing

[01:06:00] I mean you think about that for people I don't know much about racing oh they just drive in circles

[01:06:04] okay I've heard that conversation for 30 years there's a lot more to it than that yeah but the

[01:06:08] fact remains that what we're seeing now is sim racing is creating for tremendous real-time drivers

[01:06:13] on the track that's crazy that movie was so good that it had me in my fields I was crying like

[01:06:21] motivational tears watching grand charisma and because of like all the stuff that I've talked about

[01:06:29] like overcoming all these different battles and like seeing because in this movie he's like on

[01:06:34] this solo journey like he has family to support him he has like a girl that he's dating and stuff

[01:06:38] but like really all the things times where he's overcoming shit he's solo like he's alone and

[01:06:44] that just really spoke to me because when you go in you fight your own battles like and you don't

[01:06:49] talk about it either and you just go after it and get it like there's something about that

[01:06:55] that that movie evoked that emotion so much for me it's good one of my friends he I'm like

[01:07:00] sitting next to him he's like dude are you crying and I because I had glasses on because I see

[01:07:04] better with my glasses on the movies and I'm always like moving my glasses like and I'm like yeah

[01:07:08] dude I'm crying right now like proud I was there with yeah it was it was good it was so good it's a

[01:07:13] good watch man that's I guess that's the reason why I like doing social media so much is because

[01:07:17] the only one controlling my destiny on the social media stuff is me and that's why you know I

[01:07:23] would like to eventually get to do this full-time if it permits it seeming more and more realistic

[01:07:28] as things for the rest to be able to make that transition but next time we talk next time

[01:07:34] full-time yeah next time you're on the pot at least next time you're on the pot at least my goal is

[01:07:38] end of q2 2025 that is like my rule is to like in I want to give it another 14 months

[01:07:43] see where things are and then hopefully I can transition a full-time but like no one's pushing me

[01:07:50] to do this other than myself like most of my friends make fun of me for it in a fun way like a

[01:07:55] playful way they don't I don't think they understand the potential behind social media and like

[01:08:00] the numbers that it can do and I tell them like this brand pay me x right me this on this app from

[01:08:06] just viewership and they're like oh that's cool but they I don't think it's still like realistic

[01:08:11] of what the opportunities are like I was talking to a pretty big youtuber last night who's trying

[01:08:16] to coach me on building up my youtube channel and he's telling me about like hey you should you

[01:08:21] should build snapchat right like you need to get on snapchat I was like snapchat like why would

[01:08:25] I be on snapchat is like some of my buddies are making like 30k a day on on snapchat oh yeah

[01:08:30] that's like get out of here and he's just you know but it's just the power of social media

[01:08:36] and advertising revenue is crazy but it is so challenging like I I get so irritated that my biggest

[01:08:45] following is on the app that doesn't pay you anything like tick-tock pays you Facebook pays you

[01:08:51] youtube pays you Instagram does not they were when we were talking but they stopped in spring of 2023

[01:08:59] their real bonuses programs where you would just get paid for viewership they cut that which sucks

[01:09:04] so now it's like I don't make anything on instagram and is by largest following now youtube

[01:09:09] that's the biggest money maker but that's the biggest beast you guys both know of how hard it is

[01:09:14] to build a viewership on on youtube because it seems like you have to build organically in each place

[01:09:22] it's very hard to pull followers from one platform to another like sending tick-tock followers to

[01:09:28] Instagram doesn't happen sending Instagram to tick-tock doesn't happen so now I've gotten some traction

[01:09:36] doing some giveaways of like hey follow my youtube because that's really the only one I care about

[01:09:40] now that's like the final frontier for me because I feel like if I can get you know a couple hundred

[01:09:45] thousand followers on youtube that'll snowball over time but that'll and that at least pays you

[01:09:50] enough to be able to do this full-time to make the leave yeah but it's like even still it's like

[01:09:55] you know I gave away an n64 for like a youtube following I got like 1500 followers which again

[01:10:04] is not insignificant yeah but I don't know how many of those are like just my loyal friends who

[01:10:09] are doing it as a favor versus people that was just like all right I'll go follow you because I

[01:10:14] want to go win an Xbox and it's super aggravating too does just see some people that it only takes

[01:10:19] like one even like a youtube short video all it takes is one like mega viral youtube short video

[01:10:25] and you can get a hundred thousand followers and that'll jump start your your youtube creation career

[01:10:31] and I it's like an ego thing it's like I don't feel like a content creator until I have like a

[01:10:35] hundred thousand subs on youtube that is my milestone in my mind like the battle like everybody fight

[01:10:41] their battles my battle is like if I am not a in myself like being humble I am not a content creator

[01:10:47] until I hit this milestone once I hit that okay I'll officially say I'm a content creator but I just

[01:10:54] I don't know like people say it's like no you're like your Instagram famous but it's like I just

[01:10:58] care but what is that even mean that's why me it's like okay what does that mean it gets me some

[01:11:03] exposure to like some brand deals which is cool like it's opened up do it it's funny because like

[01:11:09] until you've done it until you've actually been a creator and realize the the rigging the role

[01:11:16] like people don't understand what the numbers mean yeah like they don't get it no everybody's like

[01:11:22] oh aren't you doing this full time I'm like yeah we think they just they just say they see it's like

[01:11:26] oh you have you have three million followers on Instagram you gotta be making shit tons of mines like

[01:11:31] not really because Instagram doesn't really pay now I get paid from from brand deals but that's

[01:11:35] about it or anything like like I have an Amazon shop link I made like three viral videos I had a

[01:11:43] like a Sega Genesis a Super Nintendo and a Sega Dreamcast Christmas ornament so I made a

[01:11:48] couple videos of just like showing them off those are dope they went they went mega viral like they

[01:11:53] got they all had like five to ten million views and I got like I got like 50 cents or a dollar

[01:11:59] from Amazon for everyone that was sold but I sold like six thousand units so it was like there's

[01:12:04] like five thousand dollars from those those three ornaments that I posted but again I think people

[01:12:10] just have this like over inflated view of like how much you're actually making and you know I've

[01:12:15] debated like polling my audience be like do you want me to disclose what I make with that like

[01:12:21] actually make you want to engage with me more or like me more if I just am like transparent about

[01:12:28] because I do see some content creators are like I made XYZ this is this is what I got paid and

[01:12:33] people seem to really appreciate that I just I find it funny like people are like you must make so much

[01:12:38] money I don't know I don't I want to trust me but it's just I don't know I think they just see

[01:12:46] all these other influencers that either flex like they're making a lot of money or they do like I know

[01:12:51] I'm personal friends with some content creators that make a crap to like yeah seven figures

[01:12:57] on being a content creator and that would one day be the end goal it's not there it's doable

[01:13:02] yeah it's cool it's just there's so many thresholds they have to cross to get there yeah right

[01:13:06] I mean I think you just alluded to it with Instagram people automatically assume because of

[01:13:09] X amount of followers or X amount of subscribers or whatever the case would be oh this guy's ball

[01:13:13] yeah he's doing this full time but it's like you don't really know the nuts and bolts

[01:13:16] and the fact that Instagram is changing things the fact that YouTube changes algorithm

[01:13:19] so the fact that you're constantly going up against that yeah and new content coming into the

[01:13:22] market it's a constant battle yeah Instagram had a massive algorithm change in my perspective I

[01:13:28] can't can no one can confirm unless you work at meta but it was just like I saw all the growth I

[01:13:33] was having again and then in January it just went like it just plummeted and it well I didn't do

[01:13:39] anything different I didn't change any of like my times that I was making posts content was still the

[01:13:43] same it was like everything slowed down and I've heard that from a bunch of creators they're like

[01:13:49] my views of cratered like I'm losing followers it's been like really slow to gain traction

[01:13:55] and I think I think they just test you are they test creators they it's like a forcing you to create

[01:14:01] new content because they don't want you to I think it's their way of secretly saying you either

[01:14:06] need to evolve or get out yeah because we're not going to keep sending traffic your way for doing

[01:14:12] the same thing over and over which I think is good and kind of it's like a coach behind the scenes

[01:14:16] of like pushing you to your limits but it also gets like super aggravating where you feel like

[01:14:21] you finally have a rhythm you have something down and then it's just like nope it's it's it's taken

[01:14:27] a dive but I would say the coolest thing about Instagram is that it's open doors to conversations

[01:14:33] to people I did not think I would ever have conversations with like I'm not gonna name names I've

[01:14:39] talked to a list celebrities on Instagram or a list athletes and it's like I just some like

[01:14:45] this and sometimes it's initiated from them like I'll get a follow from someone like you start

[01:14:50] follow me I immediately follow back just because it's like their big name and then they send me

[01:14:54] a DM I'm like this person really talking to me because I personally don't think I'm very

[01:14:58] interesting or cool but they just see I have the perception of who I am on the internet but that's

[01:15:03] the coolest thing where it's like I can say to my friends oh I talked to to so-and-so or this person

[01:15:09] and it's just like that is such a cool the fact that I'm like now seeing it 20 years ago did I ever

[01:15:14] think I'd have a conversation with XYZ like no yeah and I got to chat with this person that's

[01:15:19] that's cool that's awesome to me yeah and I think I could say the same about what we've done over here

[01:15:24] we've had some amazing people on the show that would have never talked to if it wasn't for it yeah

[01:15:27] so it's like you know opening those doors for yourselves and paving the way a little bit for

[01:15:31] opportunities and who knows where I could lead and networking like networking is a very like

[01:15:35] that's not tangible dollars but it has a very high value to it because you it's like hey there's

[01:15:41] this open job opportunity for you know being an actor being a voice actor or being a creative

[01:15:46] being a writer or you know being a a stand-in whatever I think there's a lot of value to that so

[01:15:53] I'm always in the for all the people I connect with I'm all about just building relationships

[01:15:58] I it's not a quid pro quo I'm not trying to gain anything from you I just want to build some sort

[01:16:03] of relationship like I had a a person reach out he's got like two million followers three million

[01:16:08] followers on YouTube he's like hey and we've had some conversations he's like hey I have this

[01:16:13] business I'm starting you know how much is going to cost for for me to promote it and I'm just

[01:16:18] like I'm not going to charge you anything because like I want to network with other prolific

[01:16:23] content creators I'd much rather get advice from you on how I can can grow and and I'll

[01:16:30] I'll absolutely promote your stuff if you can help coach me because I just I don't want to take

[01:16:35] advantage of of people that I feel like could benefit me in my own growth when karma is a real

[01:16:41] thing correct I believe in that yeah but if it's like a multi-billion dollar company I'm not going

[01:16:46] to give them favors that's right I don't have any loyalty there. I do I do yeah I think that's a

[01:16:51] good approach all around because you never know what opportunity could present itself correct

[01:16:54] you know and I've always had held that mentality in this business like you never know who you're

[01:16:57] gonna bump into who's gonna see it who's gonna come on it's like hey I'm gonna introduce you to

[01:17:00] so-and-so and then next thing you know you're going down a whole another avenue so it's like it's

[01:17:04] good to keep those doors open yeah absolutely and just build friendships right because you never like

[01:17:09] you said you you never know I mean it's word of mouth or it's it's oh it's like in any job right

[01:17:14] I think companies don't hire the most qualified people I think most companies hire who so-and-so

[01:17:20] recommended to hire like it's true it's good point I agree with that like I just got my buddy a

[01:17:26] job at where I work or I had some influence of like hey this guy is really good I think you should

[01:17:32] hire him and I think it was because of that push that the reference the reference got it and who

[01:17:37] knows like I don't want to discredit them on their own merit but again I think it really is who

[01:17:42] you know relative to how qualified you are so but I enjoy it I just like I like meeting new people

[01:17:50] all the time yeah I would agree I definitely like there's time that I allocate for that like

[01:17:54] the business side of it doing podcasts and being out in the market networking but then I also

[01:17:58] like closing the doors and then doing my own thing yeah like we tell about really that balance

[01:18:01] moderation is key yeah absolutely I and it's just it's constantly evolving like you never know

[01:18:07] what's going to happen tomorrow you might get a DM from some sort of media outlet like you guys

[01:18:12] there might be a you know a media company that wants to buy out your rights or they want to bring

[01:18:17] you on as a partner podcast like it's you never know what tomorrow brings and I've always held

[01:18:23] up yeah we're gonna keep showing up and that's the that's the thing about being consistent actually

[01:18:28] committing is like it's not always meant to be easy like it should be a little difficult

[01:18:35] and like the insights that you have as well on I think it's important to kind of talk about

[01:18:41] some of this stuff and have it on on the recording too is like some of those deeper insights of

[01:18:46] like what it takes to be a creator what to expect like how it's a long journey like you really

[01:18:51] should only create whatever you want to create yeah if it's like passionate for you if it

[01:18:57] if it creates this passion and then also speaking with like you know celebrities and stuff like

[01:19:01] one thing that I wanted to note there is truly I'm sure what you've experienced is that like

[01:19:08] everyone is appear actually we're all equal all people yeah yeah and even though like

[01:19:14] like you know we got Justin 90s kid on here crush and Instagram like no like you're you're Justin

[01:19:20] yeah and and you've shared awesome insights and like you know there's this whole human experience

[01:19:25] behind what you're doing and like people that view the content don't necessarily understand

[01:19:31] the human experience behind it so I love the insight on all that we do ask a question we asked

[01:19:38] you last time yeah before before we conclude yeah you ready for it yeah so what's has your

[01:19:45] piece of advice for humanity changed since last time you came on so if you could give one

[01:19:50] piece of advice the whole world sees it and listens to it what's that piece of advice so everyone

[01:19:57] could be better tomorrow I think I think the one piece of advice that I've learned um or I think

[01:20:03] is more important now is if you're always putting other people ahead of you you're always going

[01:20:10] to be unhappy I have found that as like a core truth like especially coming from social media

[01:20:17] and doing something that coming out of my comfort zone to do this I never would have thought of

[01:20:24] and I think for a lot of people they're influenced by outside noise either their parents their friends

[01:20:31] maybe people they trust that says don't do this it's dumb there's a high failure rate you might

[01:20:36] you're probably not going to be successful stick to something that's solid or you know you have

[01:20:41] confidence in and I think that's such a disservice to people defining their own voice or their own

[01:20:47] calling in this world and people can I just think you can really dissuade people from chasing

[01:20:55] their dreams which I don't think is what you're put on this planet to do so I think if you feel

[01:21:01] in your heart of hearts that you should be doing something or you want to try something out

[01:21:05] go for it I did this on just a whim and it's evolved into something pretty cool is like a nice

[01:21:13] side business honestly to help supplement my income and hopefully transition to a full-time

[01:21:17] career but I could have very easily had someone say this is stupid you should stop spending so much

[01:21:22] time on this and if I had listened to that then I would have never gotten to this point so

[01:21:27] for a lot of people I think they should just so how long did it take you from when you had your

[01:21:32] very first idea to like all right let me do an nostalgic video to like where you actually did it

[01:21:37] and just said fuck it and made it like what was what did that look like the very first so I started on

[01:21:42] TikTok first at the beginning of 2022 and I made a couple videos they went viral not like mega viral

[01:21:50] but they got a couple hundred thousand views and it jumped started to getting followers and then

[01:21:55] within like six months on TikTok I had almost 200,000 followers so I felt like I felt kind of cool

[01:22:01] I was like oh this is this is sweet and then I had like some sort of shadow band from a video that

[01:22:06] got flagged and so I stalled and so I almost quit at that point and I was like you know what

[01:22:12] I'm gonna try Instagram see how it relates I had one video again I had this dumb Walmart video

[01:22:19] that popped off and it got 26 million views that don't surge can yeah yeah yeah yeah

[01:22:24] and it just I got 50,000 followers from that one video and it just started exponentially growing

[01:22:33] from there and I guess that's why it only takes something so simple right it took one video

[01:22:40] to skyrocket what this platform is and that could be anything it doesn't necessarily have

[01:22:45] to be content creation it could be one phone call on a sales meeting or it could be one interview

[01:22:51] that changes your whole outlook on life or like your whole destiny and so I think that's just

[01:22:58] I think people are just so scared of being stuck in the norm or being controlled by other people

[01:23:02] and when I say controlled I don't mean in necessarily an a fairest way but I think people

[01:23:08] just are always listening to other people without listening to their own voice

[01:23:13] and I think that has a massive impact on what their potential is out there so that's great

[01:23:19] your dreams that's what I would say that's great advice I mean and you broke it down in a way that

[01:23:23] it's so relatable I mean we were talking about this for when on my career yeah that's crazy

[01:23:27] not necessarily listening to the outside noise it's serendipitous that that was your advice because like

[01:23:31] yeah we were literally seven before you came in here we were talking the same shit yeah we were

[01:23:35] and you're right it's it's uh you know to quote Logan who was on her show years ago you know

[01:23:39] don't wait for somebody go get your own yeah or don't do it for somebody do it for yourself

[01:23:43] yeah you can apply to relationships work situations you know creation aspects any of it like

[01:23:48] you just mentioned I think that's tremendous advice yeah because at the end of the day you're

[01:23:51] gonna have no one to blame but yourself no one can no one has control over your life more than you do

[01:23:57] yeah I mean maybe some people have influence on your life to from a monetary aspect or just a

[01:24:03] relationship aspect but again what are you gonna do you're gonna look back and you're gonna be like

[01:24:08] man I wish I did all this stuff I just I don't want to have that where it's like yeah I could have

[01:24:12] done this and I probably could have been successful but I never tried like you said light's pleading

[01:24:17] at any point in time like yeah your time could be called and that's and that's it you might as well

[01:24:23] maximize the time you got now full send get out I love that advice um yeah so keeping like being a

[01:24:32] monster in the dark coming up with your own own things following like following your intuition

[01:24:38] doing it within three to five seconds of thinking about it saying fuck what Joe Bob things

[01:24:44] and like and like just live a little bit like be present like I mean these are all principles

[01:24:49] that again are it's easy to say this shit it's easy to talk about it here but when you actually

[01:24:53] apply it and you go into that beast mode like where you actually are like I'm gonna do this I don't

[01:24:59] care what anyone else says and I'm gonna do it to the best of my capability for me yeah you know

[01:25:05] like you're doing this for you like that who who knows you might pop off and then get like four

[01:25:11] million followers on your shit bro that might happen so I know we're celebrating the success man

[01:25:18] we love you as an individual again cheers cheers guys thank you so much for coming in here um

[01:25:23] you're gonna be a constant fixture here discussing the virtual house permanent yeah yeah

[01:25:28] absolutely and um and yeah we're so happy that we network and got involved with with you as

[01:25:34] a person yeah ground floor yeah what I was trying to remember who who preferred me so

[01:25:39] so yeah so Clint's are good buddy of course and he he's like you got to get this guy yeah

[01:25:44] and then it's just funny because like the story I told him the opening my brother shared one of

[01:25:47] your videos facebook not knowing anything yeah and so it's just cool to see everything come full circle

[01:25:51] mm-hmm and I think Clint was excited that you were coming back he was a customer yeah because I was

[01:25:55] just trying to think it's like how did I get in there on the first time it's like guy was like

[01:25:58] oh I have he's like he's like he's going to go on I was like okay yeah that's kind of he's

[01:26:03] just a good guy and he's always looking out for us and looking for opportunities and I'm glad it

[01:26:06] worked out I've known since like second grade oh really he's like a long time friend like that

[01:26:12] like I I did all this stupid shit when we were teenagers I have a feeling that you just

[01:26:15] motivated him to do a 21 day fast because I yeah we know Clint or do try try three day fast

[01:26:21] just three day fast at least like get your your toes wet and just be like okay I can I could do

[01:26:26] this I have you'll probably drop back five I have a plan detox second half of this month okay going to

[01:26:32] Marty grow next week oh so when I get back from Marty grow that's what I'm gonna do crazy too is

[01:26:38] Marty grow as the day before Valentine's Day so you could like find a bool yeah yeah you can find a

[01:26:42] bool take her out to dinner the next how long are you gonna be in four days I'll be there four days

[01:26:48] yeah we're having to adjust our podcast schedule a little bit but you can always count on the

[01:26:51] compete content here yes it's a wild sign get the bees have some fun down there that's going to be

[01:26:56] good man and before we get out here Justin of course where do the people go our listeners viewers

[01:27:00] where they get in touch where do they follow you yeah tick-tock Instagram 90s kid for life YouTube

[01:27:05] as well all the same handle check it out if you love nostalgia be like someone who makes fun of

[01:27:10] himself a lot it's it's good time it is good stuff I can I can defend that I watch it

[01:27:16] frequently it brings me some joy so hopefully it brings you some joy as well we'll include those

[01:27:20] links down in the show notes of course we're gonna get on out here man so much fun let's get

[01:27:24] you back on around that q2 25 when your full time grant that'll six will be out by then so we'll

[01:27:29] have some things to talk about there yeah 2025 was no that's not World Cup this way 26 but yeah

[01:27:35] either way it's gonna be tremendous yeah keep on trucking wish you continued success man

[01:27:39] we super awesome your humble man thanks for sharing some time with us tonight thanks guys

[01:27:43] absolutely be good to yourselves you deserve it