UNFILTERED: Alcohol & Drugs, Gen Z, AI, Religion, and the Modern World

Yeah, I guess. And then, I mean, to complete this, the wrap up the story about sobriety, it wasn't like it wasn't an overnight thing, you know? Like, I tried to quit in 2019. And when I did quit, I wasn't like a heavy drinker. I wasn't, you know, if I was drinking, I was open to, you know, dabbling with other things, but I was a weekend warrior and I just wanted to, I was already being productive.

You know what I mean? And I was like, I wanted, like, I'm like, I was like, I'm already pretty cool. I'm already pretty good at things. That sounds conceited. But I was like, I could be really sick if I just quit killing my momentum on the weekend. So I failed in 2019 and then 2020 when I quit, I knew it was over and I never wanted it even itched for it.

Like, it was like, I, I truly feel like if you completely change your core beliefs on something, it makes it easy. So it's like. People see it as like you need discipline, you know, like if you tell them that they're like, oh wow that you know It must be so challenging and it's like no like I just don't want to do that anymore Like I have better things to do.

So I don't know. I was a little tangent, but I hope that answered your question Oh, yeah, that's all pretty relevant. I sort of had the same thing I mean I got into a little bit of alcohol, but I mean that's just typical, you know, young kids stuff We want to experiment try it. But yeah, I kind of had the same thing, you know different realizations Always hanging out at Barnes and Noble, getting that Eckhart Tolle power now.

Yeah. Like, what new age book can I get to somehow change me and I read it, get the good feelings. Oh man, my life is going to change now. I get it. For me, I found that that stuff, it was helpful in generating the momentum, but it wasn't something that could sustain you at all. It was like, you always have to get that dopamine hit from that next new age book or whatever.

And. Eventually you get down to just living raw life. You got a raw dog life for real. And that becomes your greater motivation when you do that.

For sure. I'm always impressed now. Like, I don't regret what I did because it gives me like an edge in a way because I experience those things and But I'm always impressed by people who are like, I don't know, just don't have to go the extreme path to learn that kind of stuff. I don't know, it's just like, sometimes I'll see someone that's like, they're just straight edge, like, they know exactly what to do, they don't dabble with any drugs, like, they're successful, they, they produce, you know, quality for everyone around them, and they're happy, and it's like, wow, like, you know, it's impressive when I, people go through stuff like that.

I do think there's, I think there's a lot of value in, this is somewhat of another point, but I think there's a lot of value that gets lost in people who are like extremists. Where there's people who are like very like lukewarm and are like, Oh, like you just have a problem like, you know You can't handle your alcohol or whatever.

It may be, you know, you can't handle your sugar You're whatever it is And I think that they're kind of missing the point because they don't ever push their limits so far They see what it can really do and I think it actually crushes them It's almost like I feel like it's almost more debilitating to be trapped in that like complacent Place where it's like, oh I can just dabble here and there with all these different things and then you know You're on your deathbed and you're looking around like well, was that really what I wanted?

Like, I don't know, like That's pretty interesting because that's how life has basically forced me to be. Whenever I'm in a lukewarm position I'm somehow always Metaphysically drawn to the edge of some type of thing. Maybe that's the Sagittarius sort of, you know, archetype playing out I don't know, but I have to live on the edges I mean, you gotta live on the extreme.

Definitely, dude. And it chooses you at a certain level. I mean, with Forex trading, for me, it definitely chose me. And that's an extreme thing. When I was doing it, you know, I started eight years ago. People around me, they didn't know what that was. They all tried to start it with me, and they gave up a month later.

Oh, it just doesn't make money. Okay, just gonna go back to my job. And for me, I never, I just never quit. And that's extreme, and you have to be extreme to get what you want in life. And I think the New Age stuff, it kind of beat that out of me for a while, because it's like, Just be, exist, it's fine, get lower and lower, and let go of the world.

And to me, I've always been trying to find, where's that middle, where I can have what I want, with clarity and confidence, and I'm not like a materialist, but I can embed some of those metaphysical findings. And how can you bend the rules? And that's an extreme, it's very rare to find people like that because they're either, either like hippies or they're super in the material realm.

There's no in between. Yeah, I definitely agree about, I mean, the 4x stuff is so relatable and it's pretty much the same timeline too. That's what's crazy. And to latch on to the extreme thing even more, I remembered a video that I watched of yours on your YouTube. I forget what it was called, but it was something about entrepreneurs and like the entrepreneur mindset and just how it's like, it's...

It's like weird to be like you're young and you don't like understand it yet But you have this like pool to like lock yourself in the basement turn the lights off and just build stuff And it's like it's just such a drive and I guess it's probably not exactly parallel for everyone where it's like maybe someone's more entrepreneurial when it comes to building things or dealing with technology and then someone might be more like marketing and dealing with people and stuff, but it's It's not for everyone, and I definitely think it's maybe only like 20%, but I think that there's still like a pinch of that that can be learned from you know, the more like average, I guess, nine to five people.

I mean, I still work a nine to five job and there's nothing wrong with that, but it's like you don't have to be entrepreneurial mindset to still like have passion about different things and be a little bit extreme. Just like how you're talking about balance where it's like, yeah, I probably need to chill sometimes, you know That's why I have my family around, you know to kind of like, hey, we're here.

Let's hang out Yeah, I remember that video. It was like the dark side to being an entrepreneur or something like that And basically I was elaborating that to be an entrepreneur. You have to be a little bit psycho Like you have to be detached from reality You have to believe in yourself to a degree which other people probably aren't gonna believe in you in that same amount So you slowly detach from relationships, everything goes downhill, you still, you still like suffer through it and it's fine even though it gets worse and like, that's the journey of sobriety I'm sure as well.

And entrepreneurship, you have to go through things that are tough and hard. And when you do, and you finally make it, people are like, Oh, man, so great, it worked out this like, where we all and when I was in the trenches, man, he likes to be there. Yeah, this world is wired for comfort and stuff like that.

Yeah, it's like it's built for the lowest common denominator. Yeah, you gotta find a way to still address all the things that you want in life without like letting too many things get you down. And that's a hard balance, man. I mean, especially like being an entrepreneur today. I mean, I guess I'm an entrepreneur still, even though I don't really consider...like myself to be doing anything like I'm making a podcast. It's not really an entrepreneur thing, but there's still, you have to be strong and know what you want in the world. And if people just have that, it always makes me very interested. Cause that's the thing that I don't think most people have.

They don't even know what they want. Yeah. Yeah. It's like, there's two types. It's like people who have too many options. And then people who don't have any, and in, in regards to like where, like goals, it's like, like I can give you some of mine, like I have, you know what I mean? Like I have to narrow it down.

That's my problem. And I think there's people that are like lost and it can be like, you know, it can bring like a sad sort of like state where you don't know what to do. And then in the same regard, when you have too many, you're just kind of like confused. Yeah, that's always been the case for me, and that's what I think I've seen in your videos.

I was like, out of all the things that I think this person could be doing, he's choosing to make these kind of like, funny videos that don't make sense, and that was always interesting to me. I was like, Yeah, it made me think differently about stuff. So. It's very interesting. Cool, yeah, no, I, it's like, I don't know, my, my angle, like I didn't have an angle, like, you know, I came in hot and, it's, I, I spent so much time off of social media, really, like, I, I, I was one of those people, like, I quit Facebook and Instagram in like, 2015, and just got off it, you know, I'd hop on Reddit to get like actual real reviews from real people.

And you know, on YouTube to learn things, whatever, you know, but as far as like having an actual personal profile, I was MIA and uh, one of my buddies, me and him were working, you know, starting up a project together or whatever. And he was pumping out some Instagram videos where he was kind of like talking and giving some motivational advice.

And I was like, you know what, like, I, like, I, you know what I mean? It was time. I was like, I'm just going to go start putting myself out there a little bit. And. I just went for it, and I don't know. It's been fun, dude. Like, here we are, I'm talking to you, and you're cool as fuck, so. You gotta meet people in the world.

It's my hardest problem. And the people that you really want to meet, they're probably won't talk to you unless they see something within you that you're doing things. Yes. So most of my social isn't even for me, it's for, can I find people who resonate with my message, and aren't normies or robots, and okay, cool.

And kind of build an ecosystem around that. That's the future man Because you go out there into the real world man. You gotta fly through a bunch of robots and You know things like this

No, dude, I was thinking that same thing like last week about how if like if you just put yourself out there it kind of allows other people to see what you're about. Like, if, like, it's just like you record a bunch of random stuff, even if it's just for fun, and then you can find more relatable people and It's like I've been, you know, where it's like I'm living on discord and talking to people in different countries for you know The past five years as well and you're connecting with a lot of people I mean, what are the chances that you're gonna find someone in your general specific vicinity?

That's you know, really like close on the same like interests and you know, just like mindset and stuff So if you put yourself out there, it's definitely huge and I agree that it is It's coming. Like, I think more people should do it. I think we need more people doing, you know, putting themselves out there.

Like that's, it's a call to action. It's like, you know, don't be afraid to just like talk, put yourself out there and, you know, inspire other people to do the same because it's almost like a fight against like the media machine in a way. Because it's just so much nonsense and I'm seeing so many different YouTube channels and creators.

Just like within your Discord group and how you have that channel about putting new creators and stuff and even on YouTube, like how you said how the algorithm's recommending, you know, people with 30 followers. It's happening, like the change is happening and I think it's good. I think we need more people to put their message out because it's not gonna be for everyone, but there's gonna be someone that it helps.

That's the important part. That's what people don't get I think sometimes is that like, if you... Like your message is kind of people see you saying something and then connect your ego to your message where and then call you Egotistical or arrogant or something where in reality? It's actually the exact opposite Like, it takes, like, do you think I want to be on Instagram, like, getting hate from 14 year olds for, you know, my, my silly posts?

It's like, that's not necessarily fun, but if you separate yourself from the message and just focus on the message, there is someone out there that it's gonna resonate with, and it's gonna help them. Because there's so many things that I've found online that have helped me. That's so funny. I mean, isn't it kind of funny that we share the internet with, like, preteens?

You know, like there is no gate at all, it's like, they can look up your username, they can be 12 years old and just start watching you, like, that's just kind of funny, man, when you think about it, how we're contributing to this global database of the internet, but people of all ages can watch you. It's just so, I've thought about that a lot lately, you know, what do the young kids think about this and how can we create content for the younger generation and, you know, prevent them from turning into robots.

But I think that's another thing too, like, you know, for me, I was never going to be a robot. It was, it wasn't even the cards for me. And I think that that effect is playing out where there's this compression of all the compartments of ourself, which are coming online, the collective consciousness is, you know, raising its frequency, whatever.

And I think people are just going to get smarter. They're going to get smarter than the algorithm, they're going to get smarter than all the The fake news and they're just gonna be like, well, where do I go? And if we can make these little hubs around herself, like, Hey, come here. We have the information.

There's nothing more rewarding than that, man. I mean, there's nothing more rewarding than that. Yeah, dude, I totally agree. And that makes me think about something else. I was pondering the other day with because I've seen you a lot of you're taking shots at religion, bro You know, I'm about it. I'm you know, let's pull up but It made me think too though cuz it's like then you start, you know, cuz I you like to consider all options you know and like try to actually critical think and not just watch every single little Instagram real and like absorb everything that's, you know, punched into your face.

But it made me think about religion in general and how it's just completely disappearing, dude. I mean, it's gone. But like you've been talking about, there's a lot of these rises of influencers who are trying to like, you know, insert it back into Gen Z and whatever else. And it made me think about organized religion as a whole.

And just like, The belief systems that those subconsciously instill within the youth when they're younger, so in their formative years. You know when you're in like in your environment like no matter what whether you're paying attention to it or not There's things that are you're absorbing and it's having an impact on you so just like having like foundational beliefs, it seems like a lot of that has disappeared with the religion disappearing where it's like nobody has like a framework of What's being a good human is like like the golden rule, right?

Like Like, what is being a good human really supposed to mean? And they don't have any sort of like rules or whatever. So it's like, okay, how do we transition that into a world? This is more of a question for you. Like without organized religion, how do we transition into a world where people are still getting those foundational beliefs instilled into them when they're young?

Is it families? Is it communities like this? What is it? I think for the rec, continue to push religion on a new trend, I think it's still technically fine. Like it's not going to do any major damage. Right? None of these things are, if you can believe it, and that's fine. And all I'm really saying is, is there a way to extend the religions so far out to their actual functionality of how they're allowing you to behave and things that you believe that at that scale of abstraction.

Is the religion, the beliefs of where the God or whoever, where it came from, does that even matter? Because would that thing even care if you just abstracted away to the functionality of it and didn't love the God it came from? Like, well, what would a God be if it really required its love from you? And the whole thing breaks down all these different meta levels.

But I think that that's really an important question these days is how can we orient ourselves properly. In this world, but kind of attach it to things that aren't directly, you know, tied to a religion because all the religions have their dogma and the propaganda and I'll kill you if you don't believe in my God and like, that's what's going on.

That's what this whole war is about, isn't it? It's just like my God is better than your God. If you don't think so, I'm going to kill you. And even in Islam, you know, certain figures as well have said that, well, it's fine because The one who defends their religion the most is the true religion. Like, for instance, you know, Andrew Tate has said that Islam is the true religion now because it's the religion that has these strict rules that, you know, there's a punishment if you go against it.

And on the surface, it's a decent criteria to look at religion that way. Like, you're right, if the religion still enforces the rules, then that means that they uphold a certain standard, which then makes it valuable. What I'm saying is, all this shit just has to go away, religion in general, man. ChRist, Buddha, Krishna, the peaceful ones, the evil ones, just the whole thing.

And if we just went back to, what is a human, where are, do our beliefs come from, what are moral systems, what are the functionality of humans that extend beyond our body, but more in the consciousness layer. We kind of throw away science and all that, I mean. 98 percent of the people on the earth right now can't even differentiate between what the shape of the earth is.

I was just having this conversation yesterday. So the whole thing I think needs to be kind of thrown out to be honest with you. Yeah. Yeah. No, you, I mean, I like hearing it from you cause I haven't put as much you know, mental energy into that. So it's, it's definitely interesting to hear you talk about it.

Um, but yeah, I think we need RD installed on every, you know, child. We need like a headset on every kid, zero to seven, one hour a day required by law. Mandatory re education. Yeah. Well, then you just become another religion, man. Right. That's what I think we're trying to say is what is... Like if it's not a religion, how do you get people to adopt the similar belief system?

The thing is people need motivation to think a new way and in also another way They kind of need a threat to think a new way It's like I know so many people that only believe in Jesus though They'll say because they love, you know, God and they believe he's the son of you know God and the Trinity and all this type of stuff But deep down you can just feel from within them that they actually just don't want to go to hell And so their best bet is to just believe in Jesus, but that's so at the lower level of themself that they can't even comprehend that, you know, because if you were to ask them to defend their ideas and think about it and, Hey, here's a gap in how this doesn't work.

Like, can you add more information though? You know, kind of freak out and say, Oh, you know, I just know it's true, I believe. And anything that stops your like critical thinking and go into that next layer of logic. Always is some type of psychic wall, which prevents people from going further. So I'm saying what, what happens if we just go further hit a wall?

Oh, that's interesting. What's what's after that wall. It's like programming, man. You have to make functions and in the function, you have to define more functions in that you, it's like a fractal, man. Right. Reality is a fractal. Yes, sir. Have you ever played with that program called Mandelbulb 3D? I'm guessing it's a fractal generator?

Oh, bro! You have to download it. Yeah, it is. You've probably seen visualizers. Mandelbrot 3D? Yeah, Mandelbulb 3D. I think there's Mandelbrot too, like what you just said. Mandelbaum? Oh. Yeah, Bulb. Like B U L B.

It's fun, bro. And there are a couple tutorials on YouTube that get you started. But it's one of those things where if you try to make an animation, it'll take like, you know, days to render. That's interesting. Yeah. You're gonna love it, bro. Sheesh, man. Yeah. You know, I'm actually got a new whole suite of animations that are coming soon.

They're all geometrical, so. Maybe I'll look at this and maybe I'll improve my workflow. We'll see. Check it out. Yeah, it's, it's super fun. You can get lost in it cause you just type in, I mean, it's really as far as you want to take it with those fractal generations, but no man, I wanted to thank you for putting me on.

Obsidian, and I've been spreading the word. I need your referral code, or I'm just gonna get my own. I love it. Like, I, I don't know, you just kept tweeting about it, and I was like, I'm getting this thing, and like, I was, you know, pretty organized, and I'm busy, right? I do a lot, and It's changed my life, man.

I love it. And I put it out like I put my friends on my buddies like oh my gosh, like This is this is amazing obsidian's great man. And have you customized your your theme at all? It's just html and css. That's what's crazy about it No, I haven't. I need to because I've been complaining about the themes, but I did all the, you know, I created a daily note template and with a checklist and I just have a, like a nice daily note with my schedule and it's been super helpful.

Just all the little, like, brackets and different keystrokes to, like, shortcuts and stuff, it's, it's super useful. I think I should probably make a download. I think we're going that designers, we obviously want you to design your reality and provide a set of tools to do that. And Obsidian is one of those.

I mean, you can build your own world in there, man. So, I'm 3D graph for Obsidian. You've probably even seen that on Twitter or whatever, but... Are you talking about on your, on the RD website, or? Yeah. Okay, I, I was on it like a week ago and I, dude, that website is cool too, just exploring through that little like virtual world and a little, it's like very immersive.

When I, when I first saw your uh, website, when, you know, we first linked up on Instagram or whatever, I was like, wow, cause the, you know, I'm working on, one of the things I'm working on is this app that does like soundscaping and almost like an always on sound. And visual generator, but like an app, you know, on your phone, um, something that people can plug into at any, you know, moment in the day and have like a specific sound kind of linked up to their circadian rhythm.

So it kind of like, well, it's like smart tech, I guess, to pick up on, but more like ambient, I guess. Anyway, that was the initial scope when I hopped on Instagram and I saw your website and like, I saw your website and I saw Forex trade. I was like, dude, shut up, like get out of here.

That reminds me of a focused life force energy. You know about that website? No. And you gotta look at flfe. net. So they basically have this subscription service where they send out harmonizing frequencies to the location of your device. So you can like input your phone number and from their like little system they've got some energy thing where it can beam to your cell phone and radiate.

Like a positive energy field around you What? Yeah, it's pretty far out, man It's like the healing, you know, self edgy o frequencies Yeah, stuff like that, but they have a device that they can't even really share. There's no pictures about it They're like super, you know, it's like some Tesla stuff and That kind of reminds me of your app I mean that would be cool if you have a little app that That is playing silent subliminal music that's targeted to like, I need to be in work mode.

And you can't even hear it, but like, it's something's happening, you know, in the frequencies I would use. Nice. Yeah. Well, the silent part that was, I mean, I got to give you credit for that one, but yeah, it was, I mean, essentially like, I don't, I don't know if you've heard of binaural beats before, but like just brainwave type.

You know, alterations and stuff like that, but having it be, I think like apps are going towards like always on, I mean they already kind of are, but things that tune themselves to you and your daily rhythms, like your specific, it knows when you go to sleep and it's set for that, like, just kind of like a blue light filter but more extreme.

Yeah, that's, that's pretty good. Some people are afraid of that, you know, the endless personalization of tech and AI and how much it's gonna know about whether or not it's gonna make a replicate digital clone of us in a different dimension and affect us there and target us in digital dimensions and change our real life.

There's all this talk about it, but, to me, I like it. I, I like personalization of everything. That's why I use Obsidian. Yeah. That's why I use all the tools I, I, I mean, my whole life is on my computer, and That's a, that's a really cool thing, man. You know, we're all carrying around our life on a hardware anyway.

Reminds me of this one, a TV show I started, you know, just watch and it's called upload. You'd probably like that. What's it on? Is it, I get it from like this one website, which may or may not show it for free. Gotcha. But It's basically like, they sell you a version of the afterlife. And when you die, they put you on a hard drive and then put you into a digital heaven where you can still be alive and interact with the real world.

So your relatives like, can always like video chat you or FaceTime you as you're in heaven. And back and forth. It's kind of a funny, I'm not into that kind of stuff. But it's just sort of funny that We probably will go that direction at some point in our society, man. Yeah, for sure. I used to joke when I was dabbling with psychedelics that humans, it was just a precursor to humans having psychedelic capabilities.

There are humans, you know, realizing their dormant psychedelic capabilities and I haven't thought about that in a while, but sometimes I dabble on the idea that we're just kind of generating superpowers, pretty much. It goes back to the age old question, where does consciousness really even come from, man?

I mean, It's clearly not in your brain, you know? Our whole reality is like already a screen of reality, you know? You have your front end of your reality, you have the back end, and then we're somewhere in the middle. We're like the API layer between these things, you know, the feedback loop. Yeah, so. You know, it makes sense that you could go back into your own server of your own self, tweak some things, bloop, bloop, bloop, bloop.

And that will change how you express and how the world interacts with you. I guess we just got to develop a system for that, but actually people have done that. I mean, that's what Kundalini Yoga is. That's what all the meditation, that's what all of it is. But I think that more than anything, we have to create a system in a language that is for the modern times.

Like a video game. Life is a video game. That's a new one. Yeah. For sure. Cause it's like your ego or you know, your personality is like the character but you're the guy with the controller. Yeah, we're the controller, the camera, the processor, the interpreter, the compiler. Like we're the whole thing and that's a really that's a really strange computer.

Yeah, people are, people are weird. They're hard to, they can be hard to interpret.

Yeah, man. I mean, I try to avoid most of them.

Oh man, it's a struggle. That's kind of the thing, you know, when you live an interesting path where you're trying to develop yourself and grow. I mean, this was my problem growing up. I mean, I've been on this journey since I was like 12 years old, self development, self help since I was 12. I started business when I was 13, started another one when I was 20.

I've always been in a different dimension and, you know, it was a hard and isolating journey. And so now that I'm like getting back in front of people, like I still have to rid myself of some of the autistic and isolated paradigms that I had to be in to grow. It's just kind of funny, man. Yeah, I, I was thinking about that the other day.

It's like, I, now I'm trying to download an app so I can talk better. Like, it's just like, everything is, everything's packaged in like a consumer, you know, it's like, why don't you just go to the market and talk to people? Or like, why don't like sign up for like you know, a Frisbee league? Like if you want to work on your skills, but it's funny.

Cause we're so tied into these computers. It's, you're just in the screen and even right now, I mean, I'm just talking to my computer in a room, but I don't know. It's crazy. Isn't that kind of funny, man? Like, I think that was the major thing that got me interested into computers. Because when I would look at a screen, I would see a world in there.

You know, other people, they're like, Oh, what do I press? The button? You know, you're teaching your mom how to play on an iPhone or whatever. And, and for me, I just kind of grew up with the computers and played video games when I was younger. And it all just kind of made sense. It's like, oh, I can, I can click a button and that can change things.

And what happens when I do that? And then what do I do with this information now? And so the computer basically became an extension of my mind. And the more I started to use computers and video games and stuff, I started to think like a computer and that helped me think. It's a weird loop, what happens, especially when you're learning a programming language, man.

Or just learning how to use the terminal or git. It, it changes your brain in ways which help you. Everyone should learn how to code at some point in time. Yeah. Everything you just said was so relatable because. I, I can't say I was, you know, well I don't know, I was selling comic books in my grade school when I was 7th grade and getting, you know, pulled into the principal's office even though that was the only time I ever did because I was a good kid.

But no, I don't know, I feel like my problem a lot in my life was Attaching myself to the artsy fartsy archetype and looking up to, you know, Jim Morrison and the 27 Club and it was all because I come from a music background, a musicpreneur and I don't know, dude, I just looked up to the wrong people and pretty much got into the wrong things, whatever, and when I got into programming, it really woke up the logical side of my brain and it was like, you know, I was like, Oh, I, I only want to create things when I feel like it, and, you know, just, I'm more of a chaotic person, I would say things like that, or, you know, I like You know, things just more sporadic and stuff, but that's not how the world works like we need systems and To latch on to your programming thing.

It's like the minute I started programming it was hard at first I was like, wow, this is actually a real challenge, but it really puts you in a mindset we're like if this then what and you start to add that into everything that you're doing and It's just it really is a complete Change of how you approach different things in your life, and I always Talk about programming in a positive light when it comes to how rewarding it is on a crumb like basis You can when you're solving Programming problems.

It's like every hour, depending on how quickly you're solving these things. You get a lot of crumbs throughout the day when you're solving these problems and it's very rewarding, but you're doing something actually proper. You're building something, you're creating something. So it's, it's the only thing that's ever made my brain fire, like creating music has.

And I don't know, it's, it's helped my. My music creation, you know, I'm getting more into routing and mixing and, you know, all that stuff it's helped in there. Programming is like amazing. It's, and you know, now we're going to have chatbots that do everything for us, but whatever. Yeah, that's going to be cool.

And we can just,

even our own operating system, there's this new tool I've been checking out. It's called Open Interpreter. It's just a terminal command system from OpenAI or like an extension of it or something, and it basically allows you to type in English to change things on your actual OS. So like, Hey, change, you know, my settings on my, all applications to be dark mode, or take a look at all these files in this folder and put them into a grid or, you know, like a chatting with your, your actual operating system.

And when you can get to that level, you can do basically everything. So it's getting crazy, man. It's just been, it hasn't even been a year since we've had AI like publicly, and yeah, it's already. It's crazy, man, what this has all turned into. It's like, it's like Jarvis. We're all getting Jarvis. And I was thinking about it the other day, cause, you know, messing with different AI, APIs and stuff.

And I'm like, oh, I wonder if I could make something that, like, my mom and my grandma could use. You know, like, something that they could talk to, you know, that's better than Alexa. So that really is a crazy to think about that like everyone is just gonna They already do like when people don't tell me that they don't use chat GPT yet.

I'm like why like use it

Yeah, the shift has happened man I mean, I remember I was at a restaurant I

was like in a different kind of state and the daughter told her just to work or just to like look at chat GPT Just type in chat GPT and here I was just like watching them both like on chat GPT not tech consumers not People that are like heavily know about code or like coding and things. They're just like two regular people on chat GPT asking questions about the world.

And that's when it just like shifted to me like, oh man, like everyone's gonna use this. You know, and even it's really like infantile and it's text based. Now we got photos. You can just take a photo and pretty soon it'll be live streaming and then it'll That's when we put the chip in our head, you know, like It's, it's happening, man.

Yeah. So fast. Yeah, it is, bro. It's... Whatever happened to that they put a pause on it, right? The progression? Not that that probably even happened, but is that, I don't know, were you staying up on that? I heard about it, you know, they want to regulate it, there's this big petition, but, I mean, now there's algorithm too.

Riding ai, you can't really stop it. I mean, you'd have to stop, you know, buying more computers and you'd have to stop certain hardware production. You'd have to stop certain programming language functions. You, there's no stopping ai man, . Yeah. Where you know it is happening and it's, it's fine. Yeah. I'm, I'm ready for it, dude.

I, well, I, don't like hold me to that. We don't really know what the world is going to be like in 10 years, man. We didn't know what it was going to be like last year and now look how much different is one year later. We can barely predict a year out. Yeah. That kind of goes with, you know, the Forex thing as well.

I mean, all you can do is react to the current architecture of how it is right now, but you can never really predict anything. You just can align yourself in the best high probability areas and whatever happens, happens. Yeah. Talk about another thing that teaches you a lot of lessons. 4X is like, I mean, it beats you down.

I got so many stories about 4X, man. It's really... You know, it took me five years to figure out like a system that would work for me. And throughout those five years, it was just perpetual losing money, failing you know, putting paychecks from random jobs into the market, losing it, like being broke on the brink of being homeless, life going to shit, finding more jobs, getting fired because I'm just about to realize my dreams, so I don't care about this job anyway.

It took a long time, man. And again, you have to be kind of psycho to realize your dreams. You just, you have to do. It's just crazy. Yeah. Yeah, it really tests you and I'm trying to think, I think I started in 2018,

so I'm a little behind, but yeah, I mean, it took me probably four years. The coding stuff was, I needed to do it because I'm an emotional creature and it's so much like gambling. I don't care what anyone says. Like what you said before, where it's like everyone will try it for a month and then stop. And there's a lot of like, you know, stats out there.

Like, oh my gosh, only 1%. There's just so much mis misinformation about, you know, the percentage of people who are Exactly, who are successful doing it. But, yeah, it'll, it'll chew you up and spit you back out. The market, the market chooses, you know, the market chooses everything when it comes to capitalism.

It's like, you can't change the market, I'm sorry. Trading, coding, those things, that's why I'm so happy I found,I see so many people and I just can't help but think that there's this vast universe of self exploration that people haven't gone through. If you haven't really challenged yourself out of the paradigm that you're normally in. People just want to get a job, and chill, and you know, pay rent, get married, and have a kid, and whatever.

That never was gonna work for me, man. I gotta be a little bit psycho. I gotta start gambling some money, and writing code, and making art, and music, or whatever it is, man. We're wired for the wilderness. For real. Yeah. No, I feel like... A large part of my message now, I feel like I'm tuning towards just trying to kickstart people into doing what I did.

It's like, you know, you're kind of just marketing to the old version of yourself, I guess. But it's like, I want everything I put out to just make people want to Make a change like I want to be a catalyst and I think we need more people who are willing to just break the fucking Door down like say shit like and then figure it out later.

Apologize later. Just say it and I don't know. It's just a call to action. I want more cool people when I was young like there was no cool People who were not drinking and so, you know, who were like sober, it was like everyone and maybe this is just like you know, where you're from, obviously, but it just seems like everyone, it's just so widely spread throughout society, drinking in general, and it just seems like everyone just uses it as a social crutch.

I mean, stop drinking and then go try to talk to people. And there's a reason why it's so embedded into society is because it's such a social lubricant. And when you remove it, you're like, Wow, I actually feel things when I'm talking to someone. Like, what is that? Is that a feeling? How do I deal with that?

And it's like just sensory overload when you stop. And I don't know, I'm getting into like the negatives of stopping, but it's just like, I think we just need more people who are willing to put their egos on the line, take some shots, take some fire. And break the door down a little bit. I don't know. I just, I don't want people to be a carbon copy of their parents.

Like take the good things from your parents, love them, thank them, you know, respect them in all regards, whether they did bad to you or not. Like our parents aren't going to be perfect, but we have to forgive them. We got to love them. We got to pull the good traits out of them. And then. Kind of change up the things that I want to change up.

It's just so many people are like the same thing with like one little thing different and they bitch about their parents the whole time and it's like, okay, we get it. You know,

you got to switch it all up, man. Take what's good. And and to even know what's good or what, what's not good, you have to go on that journey of exploration. Right. I see a lot of people now they're all about like, you know, put your phone on black and white and you know, all your notifications, silence them or this or that. It's like, I don't know how you could be productive if you do that.

It's just another way to, you know, kind of discipline yourself out of a sense where like you need to almost like punish yourself. Like color is now a bad thing. Don't take any color. Like, it's just crazy, man. With this stuff. I actually do that one. So you do that one. Well, then we have a problem.

Well, I mean, I create stuff. I have to confirm the color ratios are right on my phone and laptop and, you know, whatever. No, I just wanted. Right, it's funny because I do go back and forth because I have to like you said I'm creating stuff So I'm like I go back in settings dude. It's kind of depressing. I have like muscle memory on turning the black and white mode on

Yeah it's all about finding that balance between like what are we doing that feels like punishing ourselves and what are we doing that feels like discipline and How can we love ourselves, but also kick ourselves in the ass As men, I think that's really important, you know, because when I was growing up, I didn't really have that, you know, a lot of us were supposed to have that rites of passage moment where like we go from being a teenager to being a man.

Now, I never had that. I don't know when that was supposed to happen. I sort of perpetuated staying a teenager and that worked for me, but definitely now I feel like there has to be some connection where Like, what was that? Do we have to go like, you know, take down a deer by, with a knife by herself? Or what was that thing, man?

And how do I replicate that in a modern world? Yeah, that's such a good point. What do they call that? It's like a ritual for manhood. Rites of passage. Yeah, there you go. Yeah, because I mean, it's crazy how quickly you turn from a giggly little kid into like the old guy who's annoyed at loud noises, you know, it's like, where, like what, but at the same time, like you can resonate with being younger and still kind of feeling like, it's like when you're younger, you're looking up to the older people and you're like, wow, like that's a different being than what I am.

And then you become that. And it's like, whoa, I need to grow up. You said you're 30, right? I am 30, yes. Yeah, so that's sort of the weird phase that we're in right now. If you're 27, 26 to like 30, we kind of live within this really weird time period where we grew up with iPhones, but also grew up touching grass and we've seen the world progress and change.

And we're not Gen Z, but we're not a millennial. We're just like, you know, in the in between, it's a real interesting group of people. 2010 graduates to 2013 14. Something special. Yeah. Have you seen the... Fourth turning. It's like, I don't know, there's a YouTube video that's like 10 minutes long and I think it's a book called the fourth turning and it just talks about the four stages of civilization.

I'm probably going to like, you know butcher this description, but it's just talking about the four stages that the civilizations typically go through. I think when it said, it was talking about millennials and said that we're the people that need to pretty much save. the world and guide Gen Z into the right direction.

It said Gen Z was gonna be masterful artists, or that they were the best artists of our time are gonna come from Gen Z. It's worth ten minutes. Don't, you know, this is a bad explanation. But it kinda just talks about how the downfall of civilization happens in cycles of four.

Yeah, that's an interesting number. All the numbers like 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, all have their very specific Frequency when you tap into a man, it's just always I always do go back to four though I got a summary summary pulled up here It says a period of societal upheaval and major events will lead to a restructuring of institutions and a new societal order in the 21st century Civil unrest, including war, economic collapse.

It's all happening right now in real time, man. Yeah. This is the end, apparently , this is the end. This is when Jesus shows up and yeah. You know, I'll be saved if I just believe three headed horses. There you go. I could have, I'm here my betts, you know, like I'll, I'll throw a little bit of love to Buddha, to Krishna, to Allah.

Jesus. I just will like won't let them know. And I'll, I'll hedge my bets and like, hope I got the right one.

Yeah, dude. Because there's only one right God, right? So if I just believe them all, it's like a basket that you can throw out and you know, I'll get the right one. There you go. It's like a raffle. Playing like the God raffle. Long and short. That's an interesting thing too about like God, for instance, man.

You know what I mean? I mean, I was raised evangelical, and it's like, really, just believe in Jesus, and, you know, eat potato chips, and go to potluck, and then go work your factory job, and live a slow life that no one will ever know about, you'll never be recognized, don't really develop yourself, just believe, and slowly die.

Like, that was kind of what I grew up with, man, so, that's why I feel very strongly about this topic. That was not gonna happen for me. Yeah. I wanna be exceptional. For sure. Yeah, we gotta be elite, man. We gotta pull the elite out of everyone.

Yeah, I mean, there's all this fear about the elites. The elites, like, dude, we're the 1%, man. We're the 1 percent of the 1%. You know? Yeah. Do you ever wish that... I don't know. Like, do you ever wish that maybe you like dove into things sooner? I mean, maybe this is just like a weird fleeting regret feeling, but it's like when you see some of these things popping up about like, you see like a guy talking about numerology on Tik Tok and it's like, I don't know.

Like, is it like shallow to be like, wow, I was talking about two, two, two and three, three, three back in like 2015. You know, why didn't I make a Tik Tok? Like maybe that's just my human brain, like getting pissed off, but. Dude, I'm always having that conversation in my head, and if I only just decided to get myself very superficial and surface level and just say, you know, what I was learning, I could have had a million followers, man, but now I'm so far into this edge where I'm so unrelatable to the average person that I think I'm really destined to kind of stay very small in my following.

It may be a limiting belief system, but No, you're going up, bro, because I think I'm going up, bro. You are because you're ahead of the curve, man. You know what I mean? If you jump on things when they're popping, it's too late. RD is the move. I'm in. There's this creator, Dan Coe, and he has really I mean, he probably, right?

Yeah, he's pretty good. He popped off like mad. And the thing is, around that, I even know where he lives, too. He lives in Tempe. It's kind of funny. I used to like walk by that same apartment building. But like all of what he's talking about as well is basically what reality designer stands for. Life is a virtual reality video game, upgrade your skills, assemble new traits, you know, think of yourself as a character.

This stuff is getting popular. It's just all about how can we market it in a way that's consumable for people and not be too intricate and fractally, but be service level enough that it gets. The mass is thinking right? For me, that's hard to do. I'm always deep in the fractals, man. Yeah, I know. It's like sometimes I hear you talking.

I'm like, Whoa. No, I love it, man. It's a program, man. Yeah. And the most interesting data is always at those deeply nested layers in the JSON, right? There you go. Find the little data points. I've been working on this program on my, one of my windows. PCs and it's a python program to automate some work stuff And I noticed my dot exe file kept disappearing and i'm just like I did not delete that like why is that gone?

And I found it's just windows defender just deleting the stuff that I create so I had to You know exclude that folder or whatever. I can't delete the executables, man Yeah Man coding is so fun. It it really does teach you so much about Reality. It's I'm constantly like coding something and I'll look at a function and be like, Oh, that directly applies to reality in some way that I can't see. But like, what does it mean to have a constant variable or a variable that can change if you know new things above it?

And it's just kind of funny. Programming is exactly what I needed. I mean, I remember being in like high school and earlier in school, like being top math. And for some reason it would just would not click with me. Because you're taught like, all right, here's the number five plus five, and that equals one zero.

And to me, like, I never really, like, understood, like, what does that mean? I've always needed, all right, take five apples in physical real life. Put another five, which is basically, you know, you could look at it like times two, there's two of them. Like, I've always needed things explained to me in a visual way.

And I've always missed that logic part of my brain, but now I've got it back. I can look at just a piece of code, visualize it from just the text. And, oh man, I get it. I never had that before. Huh? Yeah, that's interesting. It's like you're giving the blocks like bodies. Yeah, that's it. I've needed the bodies of things to like look at and observe.

Otherwise, like the, just the mental compute. Same thing for reading. I'll look, I'll read a book, even still now, I'll read a whole page, ask me to comprehend what I just wrote, and like, I just want, like, the letters to me, maybe it's dyslexia, I don't know, but I have a hard time reading, too, and all of these things were solved when I started programming, because you have to read documentation, right?

You have to do all this stuff. Programming saved my life. The world must know. Yeah, man. And now we're out here reality designing. What kind of reality do you want to design, bro? We'll finish it off with that. Well, back to this farm. I want a thousand acres of Appalachian greenery and like a bunch of A frame cabins with like all my friends and family And just like little tiny homes basically, but like bigger

Have you seen those storage container homes? Yeah. The ones they build them up and kind of layer 'em differently and yeah, those are cool. Yeah, my buddy put me onto those. But yeah, man, reality, I don't know. I mean, I just want. more cool people to hang out with pretty much. So I feel like that's kind of my immediate focus when it comes to my page in general is trying to be that little snippet for people in their life and understanding that your presence to someone else is very short lived.

So It's important to make it of quality and it's also important to not overthink it or worry about being too repetitive because people are only gonna experience you for such a short amount of time that you just have to fine tune your energy so that when they're experiencing you're actually leaving them with your personal song, your personal message, whatever that is.

So, I see a reality of more people playing their song and not being afraid to do it and just kind of fighting back against complacency and negativity and victimhood and just kind of living their best life.

There you go. What about you, man? Yeah, same thing, man. The phase right now is definitely collaboration, finding the right people to build a team, and making sure everything's solid and just keep on going ham. That's it, right? Let's do it. There's nothing else to do. You know, that's sort of where I'm at right now.

I couldn't go work a corporate job. I couldn't do any of the stuff that's so common for people like, and people are still going to college. I was just at Stanford, man. People are still like, sign up, go to college, I'm gonna be a whatever, and it's like, dude, you know, no hate against people that go to college, but, I don't know man, for me, I've always, I've needed something way different, I've needed to have that sort of scrappy side to me, live on the side of the road, go where the wind takes me, I don't even know what I'm gonna do today, I don't even know if I'm gonna eat anything today, or have money to eat just, let's go!

We need that, man. Yes, sir. Grab the canteen. Everything, if I had to leave right now, if we were in a war at all, man, something crazy happening, I could leave in five minutes. I got computer, backpack, skateboard, bloop. I'm out. Yeah. Yeah, no. Right. No, that's a good way to live, for sure. Got everything in a bag.

Yes, sir. I know, it's so funny, it's... I think I even tweeted the other day something about like, you know, you progress through life and then all of a sudden realize that you don't need anything. You know, it's just a little, it's just being able to work on things. You know, like all I need is a desk in my computer.

And it's like, for a while I had this, it was like my header on Twitter and. it Was just a picture of a, a laptop and a desk that I took in this barn and it had a window with light coming through and shining on the laptop and it was just like, like that, it was just a perfect description of all, like, all I need is just that, like, I just want to build stuff.

Yeah, man, I already own nothing and I'm happy and it's not even 23, 2030 yet, so every way the matrix wants to attack or send you some fuck shit, just make it work, you know? We make yeah, for sure This was fun. Yeah, dude. Well, we'll introduce you to the channel and if we got more videos that we want to pop up We'll do it if you Want to just record a video by yourself and like hey just edit it the cool way that you do I'll edit it and I'll put it on the channel and link your shit That's sort of it's a community channel or at least I'm trying to make it that You know Cool for sure.