Playing to Win - 015 - Richard Cooper

00:00:00.000 All right. What is up, my brothers? Episode number 15 of the Playing to Win series.

00:00:08.420 And I am joined today by my good friend, Curtis Moe. He cooked up this idea the other day,

00:00:15.080 saying, why haven't you been interviewed on your own show yet? And offered to do it. So here we

00:00:20.720 are. You've got a list of questions that you're going to chuck at me and let's just hop straight

00:00:26.300 into it, man. Curtis, take it away. Sounds good. Well, thanks for the opportunity, Rich.

00:00:31.720 This really came from, I don't know if I want to start with the question that sparked the idea,

00:00:36.300 but I was just thinking of what, you know, you've been writing this book for a while and most authors,

00:00:42.320 like, you know, the first book is the pivotal one, either whatever it produces or whatever it

00:00:48.980 changes in them, that process. So how has it been for you going through this process, taking on an

00:00:54.820 endeavor? You know, I don't think you've done a writing of this magnitude before. So just,

00:01:01.280 you know, what's been the lessons in that? This is the third book that I've done, actually.

00:01:07.140 I did two before. They're on Amazon. You can find them. But they're just, you know, get out of debt

00:01:13.160 yourself sort of books. Yeah. Something to throw a monkey wrench into the Dave Ramsey, you know,

00:01:19.180 rule book. But I'm not an author. I'm not a very good author. I'll be honest. This is taking a lot

00:01:27.500 longer than I thought. I was actually doing some of the writing today. And I went looking for a

00:01:33.280 chapter, which I thought that I had already written. And I didn't. And it was actually like

00:01:38.340 the catalyst that wanted me to get started on putting all the thoughts down in the books. I kind

00:01:42.500 of like distill it all and just put it out for people to have. So I started writing a chapter that I

00:01:47.160 thought that I already done. But I've got about 25 chapters. And I'm going to probably stop at 20.

00:01:53.060 I don't know if I'll do like a volume two after it. Or maybe I'll just, you know, throw them out on my

00:01:56.860 email list. But it's interesting. I don't really like it. If I'm being honest with you, I'm not I

00:02:01.520 don't feel like I'm great at it. And I really prefer to do things that I'm great at. I feel like I'm good

00:02:07.480 when I can put thoughts together. So I don't know. We'll see. We'll see how people receive it. But my

00:02:12.500 intention is really just to take all of these conversations, some of the experiences, some of

00:02:17.220 the experiences from the coaching and really just kind of put it together and about 20 different

00:02:21.220 chapters on the biggest lessons that I think guys should really get their head around as they're

00:02:26.480 kind of navigating life just so they don't screw it up. Because it's a lot easier. It's a lot cheaper

00:02:30.580 and easier to learn from somebody else's mistakes and to make the same mistakes that I and others have

00:02:34.780 made that I've basically put in the book.

00:02:36.280 Yeah, that's so true. It's but sometimes don't you think it's like it? They can hear people can

00:02:43.500 hear the same thing. But it's when it gets that clicking point for them. Or even though they may

00:02:47.720 have heard it 30 other times from a handful of different sources. I think sometimes when it comes

00:02:53.200 to a lot of the stuff that guys goof up on, unfortunately, we need to we need to hear it more

00:02:58.160 than five or 10 times. It's almost like somebody's got to grab you and pin you up against a wall and,

00:03:02.680 you know, just just shake the crap out of you and let you have it and tell you how it's supposed to

00:03:07.920 be. But yeah, guys don't guys don't really like to hear the uncomfortable truths, man. They really

00:03:15.620 like the comforting lies. We've been force fed our entire lives. It's a fact is my audio or is my

00:03:21.920 video? Okay, because everything looks frozen to me, but your audio is coming through just fine.

00:03:26.320 You're a little bit grainy. But how does he sound just in the chat guys? You know, let me know if

00:03:31.020 you can hear Curtis, okay, or if he needs up his level or down his level, but I can hear you fine.

00:03:34.960 You're just a little bit grainy. That's all. Okay, excellent. Excellent. That that takes me to

00:03:40.520 another one of the questions I was thinking of. What do you think? You know, right now, everyone's

00:03:44.620 focused on, you know, what's what's the next best investment that's going to pop? What do I need to

00:03:49.600 look out for there? Or, you know, they want to become, you know, because they're hearing about gold.

00:03:53.760 Now they want to figure out what's up with gold. What, what are guys missing right now when they're

00:03:59.200 getting hyper-focused on these little shiny objects? Well, it's not for everybody, but I think

00:04:06.100 that your best ROI as far as a shiny object should be you. You know, it kind of goes back to the mental

00:04:11.340 point of origin thing. And you should put your time, efforts and energy within yourself. I always get

00:04:16.620 this question. Like I got to $250. I got $2,000. I got $5,000. What should I invest it in? Right.

00:04:22.380 Yeah. And it's like, I never answer that question because it's always the same answer. It's, it's,

00:04:27.180 you should really invest it in yourself. Your, your best ROI is going to be starting up a business,

00:04:31.900 but it's not for everybody. Not everybody has the gumption to do it. Not everybody,

00:04:35.740 you know, is willing to fall down nine times and get back up 10th to be the successful,

00:04:42.500 um, guy to have a story to tell. But, um, I don't, I don't particularly like giving out

00:04:49.020 investment advice cause I don't feel like I'm great at it. Um, I've made some money in the market.

00:04:54.960 Like my strategy really is just to kind of follow the trends and take advantage of them because

00:04:59.900 there's times where you should be strong. Like right now I'm probably 85% cash, right? Like I've

00:05:06.020 basically gotten rid of all my positions in the last three or four months and I've made some money on

00:05:09.920 the way out. So I did pretty good, but, um, I'm well diversified gold, you know, like metals,

00:05:16.600 Bitcoin, you know, stocks, I've got, uh, private equity loans out and personal and retirement

00:05:23.180 portfolios. I got real estate deals. So, um, you just want to get out in as many different places

00:05:28.620 as possible and not get tied into one industry. Cause you know, you can become really vulnerable.

00:05:33.180 I always, you know, talk to you guys about anti-fragility and, and trying to get into the 1%

00:05:39.000 and really be, you know, being a top shelf man. So you got to start somewhere and kind

00:05:44.220 of get your head around it. But at some point you want to be able to be in a position where

00:05:48.620 something like coronavirus hits and you can't work for months or you don't have a source of

00:05:53.460 income or it dries up or something like that. And you don't really, hopefully not hurting by the

00:05:58.840 end of it. If anything, you should be better by the end of it. If you've done, done a good job at it.

00:06:02.640 Yeah. You bring up an interesting point. Uh, I just heard this term today, uh, on another podcast

00:06:11.300 called, uh, jurisdictional diversification. So we, we talk a lot about the asset diversification,

00:06:19.020 be in real estate, be in the stock market, have some gold, have some Bitcoin. Um, and this is the

00:06:23.400 sort of more, more goes in line with the, with the Caleb Jones, uh, five flags model. What do you

00:06:28.080 think about that? Where, you know, having like the one business in one country, your residency here.

00:06:33.020 Um, and I forget the whole site. Yeah. Like he, you know, he kind of goes a little bit more on the

00:06:39.320 extreme side of, uh, diversifying and it's not, it's not a bad thing. It's going to be better for

00:06:45.340 you, you know, in the long haul. But I always look at the risk assessment. It's like, you know,

00:06:49.800 is the juice worth the squeeze? So the amount of work I'm going to put into, you know, structuring the

00:06:54.600 businesses and getting the passports and maybe buying real estate if I have to. And the other

00:06:59.000 thing is I'm not particularly mobile right now. Cause I've still got shared custody, you know,

00:07:04.240 for the next, uh, whatever it is, nine or 10 more years. Um, so I don't really have the ability to

00:07:09.780 maneuver as easily as somebody like Caleb does. Cause his kids are all grown up, but, um,

00:07:15.260 probably looking at something like that when I've got the maneuverability, if that makes sense.

00:07:22.100 Yeah. Yeah. And, and I think it's, it's one of those things where, I mean, if it's a guy right

00:07:30.060 out of college, just tendon bar with 500 bucks in savings, it just doesn't even make sense to think

00:07:34.280 about the complexity of that operation, make some money, get, get some assets first before jumping

00:07:41.020 into anything like that. Yeah. Yeah. Um, when you first read mail, like what, what was, what was the,

00:07:49.680 what concept shocked you most? Um, or just hit you in that press, press the face and call that.

00:07:55.420 Say that again. Cause you broke up for a bit. One second there. When you, when you first read

00:08:00.540 the rational man, what was the concept, uh, you know, one principle or Redville principle that,

00:08:04.760 you know, really was the one that just shocked you the most, um, or was, I don't think there was

00:08:11.720 one, man. It was just like my, all that across the face. Yeah. Like there wasn't one. It was just

00:08:15.680 like my, um, you know, my entire understanding, you know, how can I put it? You ever, you ever sit

00:08:29.140 out in the dark and you like whip out like a lighter and you spark it up and it's like, Oh,

00:08:33.720 you know, you can see a little bit. And then somebody hands you like a flashlight and it's one

00:08:39.020 of those led xenon daylight mofos that can like light up an entire neighborhood. That was, that

00:08:44.620 was basically what it was like after reading the book. It's like, Holy crap. This is, this is really

00:08:49.040 lighting a brand new path. And we're going to have to go down this rabbit hole a little bit more.

00:08:53.620 Cause, uh, it was, uh, dude, it's like so weird because people don't really get the impact that,

00:09:00.600 that, that, that, that book, like that collection of essays that Rolo's put together from his own

00:09:05.440 experiences and his collaborations from other people. I think it's one of the most useful books

00:09:09.360 that guys can read. And there's a lot of people that give them a lot of flack for it still. And

00:09:13.320 I really don't know why, but, um, you know, it's, it's got some different ideas in it and they're all

00:09:18.300 very, very useful to met. Like I still say this all the time, but it's, it's pretty much the groundwork

00:09:26.220 that I build most of my concepts and videos on, especially when it comes to the sexual marketplace

00:09:31.920 and attraction and arousal desire and all that sort of stuff. I mean, I sometimes get criticized

00:09:37.580 for it like, Oh, you're just ripping off Rolo's work and blah, blah, blah. It's like, no, even

00:09:41.140 Rolo will tell you that's not true. But, um, yeah, it's a big eye opener. Like it's a big, long,

00:09:46.120 deep rabbit hole. And I know like, we've talked about this, uh, privately many, many times, you know,

00:09:52.320 we've, you know, we've had drinks and chats over this quite a few times, but what do you like,

00:09:58.340 what was your big takeaway on it? I'm curious what your perspective was.

00:10:02.520 If there was one thing, I think, I think it was the, it's sort of the, what you,

00:10:11.100 what your observations told you about, um, female nature confirming them, which is, yeah,

00:10:18.140 which is what you knew. And then it's just sort of the words coming to that. I think that was it.

00:10:22.700 And it was just like, wow. And then, and then another thing is just sort of, you know, when you're

00:10:27.160 reading the book in front of you, then you realize, Holy crap, there's other people who think exactly

00:10:31.400 like, you know, have, have the thoughts I've had or the stuff I had. Um, yeah, it's gotta

00:10:39.160 be that just understanding the nature and sort of, sort of, it's almost like removing the

00:10:43.340 mystery of it. Yeah. It's like, it's like you wear glasses, you know, it's like putting

00:10:48.940 on your glasses and you're like, Oh shit, I can see now. Yeah. I was just thinking of the,

00:10:53.700 the Nick Cage national treasure movie where he's got these glasses and then he puts this

00:10:58.000 one lens down and then it shows all this 3d stuff on whatever map they were looking at,

00:11:03.300 uh, what, whatever they were looking for. But it was like that, you know? Yeah. Um,

00:11:10.120 best advice you could have given yourself in your twenties, thirties,

00:11:14.420 twenties and thirties. Okay. Best advice I could have given myself in my twenties.

00:11:19.940 Uh, stop putting women first. Um, stop chasing tails. Stop making them such a big priority.

00:11:30.940 Like I've said this before that, um, you know, guys act like women are the prize and they'll put

00:11:38.680 them up on a pedestal. But the truth of the matter is, is highly competent, successful, masculine,

00:11:44.740 you know, alpha men that are in the top 1% are the prize. You know, the reality is your best ROI

00:11:52.420 and your time invested in your twenties is going to be on yourself. You should never get into an LTR.

00:11:57.260 And it's really hard for guys because their entire lives, like, you know, leading right up to their

00:12:01.780 twenties, all we saw was movies, media, Hollywood, everything school taught us, everything that,

00:12:07.920 you know, we saw in magazines and it was all chase tail. You'll get the pretty girl sort of thing,

00:12:12.460 right. You always kind of wanted to have the, have the hot girl off your arm. And you're a dude,

00:12:17.700 like you're a healthy guy with, you know, strong levels of testosterone. You know, you want to bang,

00:12:22.100 you want to have fun with life and you make it a priority. But if I could have a conversation with

00:12:28.360 my 20, 20 year old self, I'd, I'd, I'd certainly have that conversation. Yeah. And then as far as 30,

00:12:33.700 fuck, um, don't get married. Just never, never, never live in a way that allows a state to decide

00:12:46.940 what happens to your money and your access to your kids. So you can call that marriage or whatever

00:12:52.340 you want, but don't live in that way. Um, do you think so without, without red pill knowledge?

00:13:00.980 So, I mean, do you, giving, giving yourself, unless it's like back to the future and you are

00:13:07.320 appearing before your former self and you're like, look, dude, don't do this. But in any other

00:13:12.420 situation where you had that advice, it's almost like we're, you know, we just had to go through

00:13:17.260 it and get burned before that advice would actually make any sense. Yeah, I know, but it's an expensive

00:13:23.100 lesson, right? I mean, we've, we've all lived it. I know a lot of the brothers in the 1%, we all share our own

00:13:29.980 war stories and struggles along the way and the shit that keeps up, you know, keep us, keeps us up

00:13:35.420 at night. And I bet every one of those guys, I mean, like, I know I would, um, you know, I can't

00:13:40.980 speak for them, but I know that I would, I would have loved to, um, you know what, if I'm being honest,

00:13:47.360 if I could go back to my teens, I think that that's the time when men, boys, you know, boys

00:13:54.560 becoming men need, need to learn the lessons on things like, you know, competency, making bank,

00:14:01.880 you know, becoming strong, learning combat sports skills, you know, problem solving skills. Like

00:14:07.600 a lot of the stuff that happens in school, um, you know, the schools here in Canada anyway,

00:14:12.820 they don't really structure the programs and the education system to, uh, facilitate success

00:14:19.080 and, you know, great results for boys. I mean, I was not a good student. I was a terrible student.

00:14:25.260 I mean, if I pulled up my report card, probably a C average student, I think I got like an A once in

00:14:32.820 math, just cause my parents were shitting on me so much. I'm like, fuck, fine. I'll just go study and

00:14:36.520 get this done so I can get them off my back. But, um, yeah, the way they teach school, I was,

00:14:41.580 I was very bored. I didn't feel challenged and I was at many times just sitting there going,

00:14:47.100 all right, fine. You know, I'll sit here and listen to this, but how am I really going to

00:14:50.500 use this in real life? Um, many, many times, dude. Right. But yeah. Yeah. Same, same C student.

00:15:00.240 Um, let's see. All right. Here's, here's one from one of the guys in the group. What's, what's your

00:15:04.600 method for large impacting decisions in business? Do you go with your gut or do you, you have a method

00:15:10.560 that you, that you go through? I, I'm a, I'm a big fan of, um, preparing and researching and

00:15:20.780 then taking all that and then just kind of going with my gut. And I use that for all choices now.

00:15:25.920 I mean, I'll give me a good example. I was talking to this guy yesterday, he's out in the West coast

00:15:31.780 and he's got a very limited edition, uh, R8. There's only eight in Canada and, um, you know,

00:15:39.000 it talked to me, gave me a walk around the car, like on a video call. And I'm like, yeah, you know,

00:15:44.320 I was looking at all the specs and what it has. I'm like, you know, this could be, you know,

00:15:47.280 potentially a decent buy, but I kind of sat it on my gut for like a day. Cause I was going to call

00:15:52.000 in to get like a PPI set up a pre-purchase inspection to get it trailered over to a dealership

00:15:56.520 and have them inspect it. And if it's good, you know, do the purchase. But, um, I just,

00:16:01.500 I just didn't feel it, man. So I was like done. So for me, like the gut trumps everything at the end

00:16:07.660 of it now, which is really tuned in my intuition, but my gut usually arrives at its conclusion based

00:16:14.120 on the time that I spend researching the idea and the concept of what it is. Yeah. Yeah. Whenever

00:16:19.920 I go against my gut, I'm pretty much always wrong or that's what I've noticed anyway.

00:16:24.960 Right. And, and, but going into it, have the most informed gut you possibly have.

00:16:31.740 Yep. Sorry. I got chat questions popping up in here guys. I'll get your super chats in a second.

00:16:37.220 I'll just throw them up on the screen when Curtis is kind of between his stuff.

00:16:43.560 Um, what is it? Let's see. Ooh, here's, I don't know. I almost didn't want to ask this one,

00:16:49.020 maybe too personal, but I'm going to, I'm going to change it a little bit. Do you still,

00:16:52.880 do you still find yourself dealing with any wounds from the past, whether it's parents or past

00:16:59.200 relationships still coming up and things you maybe have to just mentally battle once in a while?

00:17:04.780 Yeah. I mean, why wouldn't you? You're like, I'm 46 and I really didn't start to adapt and change my

00:17:15.020 thinking. Um, like thinking differently for me, like significantly differently really only happened

00:17:21.200 about three or four years ago. Whenever I started this kind of stuff when I was broadcasting live on

00:17:25.900 the channel, but, um, you know, if you've been running on software for 42 or 43 years or something

00:17:33.240 like that, and all of a sudden you update the software and you give it the new version, you're

00:17:37.740 going to have some bugs in there. You got to work out still. Um, that's the way that I like to look

00:17:42.140 at it anyway. So yeah, I mean, there's, there's, there's always moments where you're like, you're

00:17:46.540 about to do something. You're like, Oh, I'm glad I caught myself. Cause that might not have

00:17:50.820 worked out or it may not have served me or, you know, anything, but, um, yeah, it's, it's a, um,

00:17:59.840 you know, it's a constant reminder of, um, who you're trying to become when you catch yourself

00:18:05.800 cause at least you're catching yourself. Right. And you're course correcting. Yeah. And I think it's,

00:18:11.520 uh, it's a testament to it's, it's definitely a journey. Yeah. And by the way, like, I know you

00:18:17.640 got a list of questions from all the guys in the community, but just ask anything, man. I mean,

00:18:21.180 if it's too personal, then I'll just say, hold on, we'll leave that one for the community only

00:18:24.380 and I'll answer it on the page. Gotcha. Um, but you see the guy, you know, every once in a while

00:18:32.740 I'll post, uh, you know, when, when have I reached red pill or is this red pill? And it's kind of like,

00:18:37.600 man, yeah, I like to respond with, you know, once you're six feet under, you know, because you can

00:18:42.880 have those moments where, you know, you do slip back and that can, you just always got to be in your

00:18:46.860 guard because that can become the starting point to just going back, uh, being a beta.

00:18:53.100 Yeah. Yeah. There's a lot of beliefs that, that you need to change when you, um, intentionally work

00:19:00.520 on becoming better than what you were yesterday, last week, last year sort of thing. So yeah, you

00:19:05.440 have to, you have to course correct, you know, when they fire a missile and it's got a target,

00:19:11.100 it's got to hit, it's going to deal with wind, gravity, rotation of the earth. It's going to deal

00:19:16.100 with all kinds of variables that are going to try to throw it off course. It's got it. It's got to

00:19:20.920 be able to course correct to hit the target. So as long as you got the target in mind, you should be

00:19:25.780 able to course correct along the way to bring yourself back on the path. That's where a lot

00:19:29.480 of guys go wrong because you don't even have the self-awareness of what the target is or where

00:19:34.460 they're going. Right. When you know what the target is, when you realize, okay, I'm going this way

00:19:39.040 and I need to go this way, then you course correct and you adjust to go over there. A lot of guys just

00:19:44.140 kind of sleepwalk through life. They don't really pay attention to that.

00:19:47.340 That's so true. That's so true. I love what Sam Harris saying is, to paraphrase it, it's something

00:19:53.840 like this. You can go from one thought to the next and from one reaction, emotional reaction to the

00:20:00.120 next through your entire life and completely miss life. Yeah. I think that's nothing more to add to

00:20:07.880 that. Hey Curtis, I'm going to throw this super chat on here real quick just to grab Neo. Thanks for

00:20:12.440 that, dude. The money that thirsty guys pay women on cam girls, only fans could be used

00:20:17.520 that same money on self-improvement books, coaching to learn to actually hook up with

00:20:21.360 these types. Yeah, totally, dude. It's a good point. You see a lot of these guys throwing all

00:20:25.820 kinds of money and attention at women. It's brutal, man. It's pathetic sometimes. I share some of the

00:20:31.500 posts on Twitter and it's just like there's guys buying women's pee for $10,000. There was this other

00:20:40.200 guy that chimed in and he said that he knows this porn star that pays her accountant with

00:20:44.480 jars of her pee. She doesn't give him money. This accountant, this beta guy, is doing all

00:20:51.240 of this work in exchange for a jar of pee, if you can believe that. It's sad, man. I can't

00:20:58.020 believe it. I thought I was pathetic when I was younger. I thought I did some pretty stupid

00:21:03.540 things, but there's guys out there buying jars of pee from women, so I don't feel so

00:21:07.920 bad sometimes.

00:21:09.740 It doesn't end well, man. Things need to change, that's for sure. Which makes me... There was

00:21:19.580 an interesting post in the group recently, and it was where... I'll spare the name, but I think

00:21:25.400 you know what I'm talking about. One of the members basically wanted all of us to verbally

00:21:31.780 kick his ass so he would stop choosing the same type of women that he keeps choosing and

00:21:37.020 women that are not good for him.

00:21:38.900 He's in the waiting area right now, by the way.

00:21:43.900 Okay, that's good. Let's go into that. Obviously, I think it's a thing where we're just throwing

00:21:52.940 the usual red pill solutions. It might be something a little bit deeper than that. What

00:21:57.640 do you think?

00:21:59.440 Well, it's really as simple as the solutions that you discuss, but the problem is that for

00:22:06.580 you to apply those solutions to the problem that you have, you need to view the world

00:22:13.460 differently. You need to have different beliefs to apply those solutions to what you're doing.

00:22:19.180 You can't... You know, it's like putting diesel fuel into a petrol-powered car. It's not going

00:22:26.420 to go well. So you have to do a bit of an overhaul. And with that guy, I know he's in

00:22:33.140 the waiting area. I'm not going to name him or talk about what he brought up because it's

00:22:36.760 private. But very, very successful in life, in his career, makes bank, just makes some bad

00:22:45.480 choices around women because of a belief system that hasn't served them. Because it's always

00:22:49.660 beliefs, choices, results. Very similar, very, very simple process. I sometimes get flack

00:22:56.140 for it, but I don't know why. It's a very simple flow system, right? You believe something,

00:23:02.900 and then you make choices based on what your operating says, whatever your belief is. And

00:23:06.820 then the results you get come from the choices that you make. It's very consistent. It's an easy

00:23:11.020 flow. So all I do is I just go down beneath the surface and fix up their beliefs. And

00:23:18.220 I got you, brother. I see you in a waiting area. We're going to get you fixed up.

00:23:26.020 Gotcha.

00:23:28.920 Speaking of beliefs, this is an interesting one. So binary thinking is pretty rampant in the red

00:23:34.720 field. Everywhere. It's everything or nothing. How do you avoid the trap with others? What do you do

00:23:43.540 for yourself when your own thought process tends to just, Michael, one way or the other?

00:23:53.100 My preference is actually very simple thinking, binary thinking, if you will. So it's one of the

00:23:59.500 reasons why Aaron Cleary's book and Rolo's book really resonated with me when I first read them a

00:24:07.240 few years ago. It's like, it's cut and dry, right? It's obvious and clear, right? You know,

00:24:12.360 you can either make a good choice or bad choice. You can have a spectrum. I mean, you can have 32

00:24:16.700 flavors like Baskin Robbins, right? But, you know, things are a lot simpler when you narrow it down

00:24:24.260 and not complicate your life. So that's the way that I like to try to do it. So maybe I'm guilty

00:24:30.340 of that, but I found that, I mean, at the end of the day, my results speak for themselves and I'm

00:24:36.280 doing better now today than what I was five or 10 or 15 years ago. So I'm constantly working on

00:24:43.380 improving that part of me. And if narrowing down options to two or three or a more binary system of

00:24:49.340 making choices based on inputs works better, then I'll just stick with it, right? Like

00:24:54.380 why complicate your life?

00:24:58.480 Yeah, maybe I said it wrong in terms of when I think of that, I think of

00:25:04.360 man, maybe it may be just a bad question. Skip it.

00:25:13.100 While you're thinking about rephrasing it, let me just throw this up real quick because

00:25:16.280 got a super chat from Savvy BG. Thanks for that dude. He says, you said in your 30s,

00:25:21.660 no marriage. What about 40s? Still, it still applies a hundred percent, man. You do not live

00:25:26.800 in a way that allows the state to decide what happens to your kids or your money. If you want

00:25:32.800 to have kids, that's fine, but figure out a way to do it. And there are ways to do it where you're

00:25:39.320 going to reduce or eliminate the risk entirely. It's mostly a reduction of risk, not a full elimination

00:25:45.540 because you always have child's mother, uh, you know, who can unilaterally change your mind at

00:25:51.620 any given time. But, um, you want to walk into that risk. I think that you should assess it properly,

00:25:56.980 but definitely not with the tag marriage where I live. Anyway, it would never happen again in my

00:26:02.760 lifetime. It's just a, it's just a really dumb way to live here. Um, here's a good one from, uh,

00:26:11.940 a buddy, Paul. If, uh, if you were wiped, if you were wiped out overnight, all assets, except your

00:26:20.260 house and a vehicle, but all assets, um, all income streams, you're wiped out overnight. What would be

00:26:25.740 your, uh, first three actions? So if I was wiped out and I had nothing when I woke up in the morning,

00:26:32.540 no income streams, no assets, just your house and a vehicle. Oh, that wouldn't be too bad. Um,

00:26:40.620 start all over again, man. As long as I have a connection to the internet and I'm healthy,

00:26:46.660 I'll be just fine. Um, it's very, very easy to recoup. I mean, I mean, if you're talking about

00:26:55.180 me waking up in the morning with nothing, no roof over my head, no food, no electricity,

00:27:00.520 no society, I'm just in the middle of a jungle. Somebody just dropped me in the middle of the

00:27:03.720 jungle, it bonked me over the head and like, you know, put me out and just dropped me in the

00:27:07.640 middle of a jungle. Then I, then I'd have a real problem. Then I'd have some serious like work to do

00:27:11.960 there, but waking up in my house with all of my assets gone and just a house and a car.

00:27:16.900 No problem. I'll sell the car and get a connection to the internet and everything

00:27:19.700 will be fine in a short period of time. Yeah. It just start, uh, flipping things

00:27:24.340 like Jeff Duhon, scale it up. Yeah, man. Um, that guy's a hustler. I like that. He is, he is. Um,

00:27:32.800 the, along the, along the business lines, there was, uh, another question guy having trouble

00:27:36.880 finding a niche in a digital marketing. And I think the question was really along the lines of

00:27:42.940 how do you merge, you know, an interest, uh, in a hobby with, with, uh, you know, you need that

00:27:49.600 paying market. So how do you merge those two? And, and maybe, maybe he's asking how do I know

00:27:56.300 that this interest will, will have a pain market for me? I'm not sure I understand the question.

00:28:00.060 Can you maybe phrase it again for me? He was having trouble finding a niche for digital

00:28:05.480 marketing consulting business. And the niche he was looking at was something that was an

00:28:10.160 interest of him, but he, his question was more was around merging that interest with an actual

00:28:16.360 paying market.

00:28:17.220 That sounds like a very complicated way to say, how do I, how do I make more money and

00:28:24.020 get more customers?

00:28:25.020 Maybe. Yeah.

00:28:28.500 Um, that's my answer. That's not what he's looking for, but you're complicating the way

00:28:34.720 you're asking the question. So I'm not really sure how to answer that. If I'm being honest.

00:28:38.560 Hey, we're, we're great at complicating things and making excuses.

00:28:43.160 Let me, uh, grab the super chat here while you look for the next one. Dan says, uh,

00:28:46.780 what advice to give about determining the content of a book that's being written will be marketable

00:28:51.820 or will it be picked up by a publisher? I am not an author, so I'm not going to give you

00:28:57.860 the best advice here, but my intuition, like my instinct based on my very, very, very, very

00:29:02.860 limited experience. I do know a couple of authors, obviously. Um, if you're going to write

00:29:10.640 a book, have an audience already. There's a lot of guys that I've talked to that are writing

00:29:15.580 books or they have, they have finished writing a book and they have nobody to give it to.

00:29:21.040 They have nobody to sell it to. Uh, I've got a huge audience on YouTube and social media.

00:29:27.600 I have a private community of men. All of you guys, by the way, in my community are going

00:29:31.040 to get a copy of the book for free. You're going to get a PDF. They're just going to upload

00:29:35.240 to the files tab, but, um, you have to have an audience to sell it to them, right? You have

00:29:40.200 to have an email list to market it to. Otherwise you're going to upload it to Amazon and you're

00:29:45.120 going to get crickets. And I know because I've uploaded two books to Amazon around 2012 and 13.

00:29:52.700 Uh, one was a do it yourself guide to get out of debt. Another one was more of like a pamphlet,

00:29:56.800 which was more of an introductory to, uh, to debt consolidation loans. Um, and people don't

00:30:02.580 really look for that on Amazon and for you to get ranked, uh, you know, for your book, you have to

00:30:07.520 have a strong launch. You have to get in your top five categories and sit there for a bit so that

00:30:13.440 you can get some, excuse me, decent ratings and kind of pump it from there. But, um, yeah, books

00:30:20.260 like there's only a few people I know that make decent money off publishing books. And when I say

00:30:26.340 decent, like I'm talking 10 to $20,000 a month, right? I know, I know of a couple of people that

00:30:33.380 make 40 to $50,000 a month, um, on Amazon publishing books. And I don't know if they

00:30:38.340 still do it, but I listened to a podcast at one time. I think we chatted about it even once, but

00:30:41.980 there's a guy that James Altucher had on that basically puts out a book a month and each book

00:30:47.240 focuses on solving one problem, but he's got such a large audience and following now that every time

00:30:51.420 he publishes it, it almost gets picked up by everybody. So, um, yeah, you can make some money off

00:30:56.280 it as far as, uh, putting it out, but I think you really want to have yourself an audience. So

00:31:00.840 you like most people that write books that do well, that get good reach and get a lot of reviews

00:31:07.020 already have somebody to sell it to. All right. Good question. Um,

00:31:15.540 how's your day mapped out? Do you do when you wake up every morning, do you already have it written

00:31:21.600 down? Any tools that you use like wonder list or, or, um, I use, I use stuff like this for my video

00:31:29.880 ideas. Like I have a system that I got from this guy, um, Patty something or other, I can't remember

00:31:36.060 his name, but he, uh, but he basically dissected the way that guys like Casey and I snap put out

00:31:42.080 content and how they draw the storyline around it. So I've got video ideas, you know, like written

00:31:47.580 down here in my little, uh, sheet for the storyline. I've got a stack of envelopes to open. I usually open

00:31:55.640 my mail, like once every two weeks that comes in. So there's bills to pay and taxes to deal with and

00:32:00.560 stuff like that. And, um, that's really it. Everything else is on my desk calendar. Like

00:32:06.440 I still use a good old fashioned paper desk calendar, right? I mean, you can't see it,

00:32:09.740 but it's, you know, one of those big ones you get from the dollar store and that's what I use for

00:32:14.120 that. Gotcha. But that's how I pretty much map out my week, right? Um, all right. This one's from,

00:32:23.160 uh, Shelby, uh, acceptable nested in regards to playing to win. I don't know if he's looking

00:32:29.900 for a percentage or an actual number. And along that same line, uh, he's asking if your risk

00:32:35.500 tolerance has changed, uh, your risk tolerance financially has changed over life. What was it

00:32:41.020 like? Yeah. You're, you're, you're breaking up a little bit. You might want to kill your

00:32:46.000 video feed and just run audio. I don't know if you got, got that easily available to you

00:32:50.940 on your, I, my screen is frozen and has been since we started. So yeah, maybe just kill

00:32:56.980 your video feed. See if that works. See if the audio sounds better. Oh, hang on. You pulled

00:33:06.780 yourself out. Okay. Well, um, Curtis, if you're still watching, just click the link and just

00:33:11.540 join back in and I'll pop you back in the, uh, the stream. Um, so I think the question

00:33:16.900 that he asked was about, um, getting the week plans. No, I'm sorry. We dealt with the week

00:33:24.900 planning. We're going to have to try to improvise here. Actually, I know what I can do. I can pull

00:33:29.420 up the question list. Oh, there he is. How's that? There we go. Yeah. It made me go out,

00:33:34.300 but I killed the video. Hopefully that's better. Yeah. The audio sounds a lot better. Okay. So

00:33:37.900 just repeat the question for me again. Oh, what was it? Oh yeah. Um, this is from Shelby,

00:33:44.660 uh, acceptable nest egg in regards to playing to win. And then also has your risk tolerance

00:33:49.960 changed financially over, over your life? Yeah, that's a good question. So acceptable nest

00:33:55.220 eggs. Now I've, I've seen people say that, well, all you need is a couple hundred grand and you

00:34:02.820 can go and retire in somewhere Southeast Asia and live like a King. Okay. Maybe, uh, I don't know

00:34:11.660 that you'd be living like a King. You might be able to retire and take care of all your basic needs.

00:34:16.980 Um, but I don't think there's any acceptable minimum. I mean, it really depends on where you

00:34:23.940 live. I mean, if you live in North America, if I were to give you an acceptable minimum,

00:34:27.100 I'd say five to $10 million. I mean, minimum five, a couple of million dollars really isn't that much

00:34:32.640 in North America, especially if you're 25 and you're going to retire, you're going to work for

00:34:36.980 the next 40, 50 years of your life. Um, so it really depends on where you live. I mean, yeah,

00:34:41.680 you can get away with less than other parts of the world, but if you want to live well, and I mean,

00:34:47.200 my view is I want to be spoiled for choice. I don't want to skimp, scringe, you know,

00:34:53.380 want something that I can't afford because I don't, I don't see anything other than the life

00:34:59.560 that I have right now. So I've said this before, you know, if I die and there's a bonus round that

00:35:04.600 comes after that, awesome. If not, at least I left, I lived the best life I did here and now. Um,

00:35:10.660 so I definitely want to be able to do what I want when I want and work when I want and not work when I

00:35:16.320 want and tell people to pound Sam when I want to. So I'm going to say five to 10 million dollars

00:35:21.380 minimum. Gotcha. And I think, I think a lot of, unless you've, you've done the traveling and unless

00:35:29.560 you've done the digital nomad life, you just don't know how you're going to react to it. So you can't

00:35:35.220 really just, you know, predict that you're going to be okay living in Thailand once you retire for.

00:35:41.200 It's, it's not, it's not good planning. Like it's really lazy and stupid planning to

00:35:46.200 say that all you need to do is have $200,000 and go and live in Southeast Asia because

00:35:52.640 it's not a good way to plan your life. In my view, you're not going to live a great life. I mean,

00:35:59.980 what happens if you have a medical emergency? What happens if you get cancer? What happens if you need

00:36:04.600 half a million dollars, you know, instantly in the next, you know, five days to take care of something,

00:36:09.920 or there's a great investment opportunity. You can't get into it because all you have is peanuts on

00:36:13.880 you. Right. Um, so I don't see it as a smart way to approach it, but yeah. Oh, here I got, um,

00:36:20.320 I got, I got Bob here, so I'm going to pull him in. Let's do it. I'll let you ask the question.

00:36:25.080 Speaking of Thailand. Yeah. Speaking of Thailand, man, what's your view on retiring in Thailand on,

00:36:31.120 on $200,000? What do you think? Cause I mean like you're there right now.

00:36:35.040 Yeah, I am. You can live like a King here for five grand a month. I mean, I'll be honest. I feel like

00:36:40.140 it's free to live here. Everything is so cheap. Like I feel like I've, I'm not exaggerating. I've

00:36:45.020 probably spent 150 bucks tops on food since I've been here. Could you, could you go to Thailand at

00:36:53.720 40 with $200,000 USD and live there for the rest of your life like a King? Or are we talking like

00:36:58.460 that money's going to run out in 10, 15, 20 years? Easy. You could. Yeah. The reason why is because

00:37:04.460 a penny saved is a penny earned. I mean, your, your expenses would be reduced so severely.

00:37:09.280 Like I said, it feels like you're living for free. So you could, you could take all that cash and free

00:37:13.340 up paying the big bloated expenses here in the West and just invest it and turn that 200 grand into

00:37:19.020 millions. All right. Just be cheap. Your cost of living would be. All right. Well, I'm not right

00:37:24.340 about everything. I mean, Bob's got a good point there. Yeah. Oh yeah. All right, dude. So what's the

00:37:29.100 question? I throw it at me. Yeah. Yeah. And then I'm going to, I got my walking gear on getting ready to

00:37:33.240 head out for my morning walk, but, uh, did you always rich, uh, like from childhood, did you

00:37:38.900 always know you'd be like a millionaire one day or have you like unexpectedly exceeded your,

00:37:43.680 I knew, I knew sitting at the bus stop when I was like 15 years old, waiting to take the bus to my

00:37:50.140 part-time job at, at white Rose, making three 70 an hour or whatever the hell it was. Um, that I was

00:37:56.380 not going to be poor because my parents would always be like, you know, I don't have the money for that.

00:38:01.620 We don't have the money for that. We can't afford that. And I remember the heat, not being on that

00:38:05.820 high in the winter time. And you know, the house being like a sauna in the summertime. And

00:38:10.020 there was times where I wanted to eat something and I wasn't allowed to, cause I had eaten my

00:38:14.100 portion for the day. I was a real skinny kid. Um, so yeah, like I didn't want to sit there and look

00:38:20.920 at a hot car and see some other guy with a hot girl in a passenger seat driving by. And that wasn't me.

00:38:26.260 I knew at like basically 15, when I was sitting there waiting to take the bus that I was not going to be

00:38:30.600 poor when I was older. Okay. Yeah. We're very similar in that regard. I grew up on welfare in

00:38:36.080 Detroit and I used to always say, man, my poverty drove me into wealth, dude. Like it's crazy living

00:38:41.220 on both sides of like growing up on socialist welfare and then being a capitalist when you're

00:38:45.860 an adult. It's kind of, kind of a crazy ride. Yeah. Yeah. And you're up next too, by the way,

00:38:50.880 when you get back, uh, we're going to throw you on playing to win. Absolutely. Cool guys.

00:38:55.980 See you, brother. See you dude. Have a good walk. All right. Go ahead, bro. Next question.

00:39:04.120 Let's see. Um, Chuck, Chuck C. PUA techniques to date Vietnamese strippers in your twenties.

00:39:14.880 He's kidding with that one. I know he's joking. I can see him laughing in the waiting area. He

00:39:17.900 can't even hold the camera straight. Um, let's see here. Oh, here's a good one. Uh, from Ben

00:39:27.720 Gritman. Um, what does it mean to be relentless? And follow up question is what's the hardest

00:39:33.360 artist business decision and personal decision you had to make?

00:39:38.420 What does it mean to be relentless? Um, I would normally say not giving up, but there's a time

00:39:47.580 when you have to give up, like there's a time and place to know that this is never going to go

00:39:53.400 anywhere. Yeah. It's like beating a dead horse. Let's just stop doing this and do something else.

00:39:58.040 Right? Like you have to understand that, you know, the definition of insanity is doing the same thing

00:40:01.660 over and over again, expecting a different result. When you get to that point, that's when you have to

00:40:04.700 quit aside from that. If you haven't gotten to that point, um, keep going, man. You know, a winner is

00:40:12.900 just a loser that, you know, got back up one more time sort of thing. Um, there's a great book. I

00:40:19.340 think it's Tim S. Grover is the author. And I believe the title is relentless. If I'm not mistaken,

00:40:24.640 that's a great book. If you haven't read it or hang on a sec, let me, let me dig it up while you

00:40:30.080 look for the next question, but I'll tell you what the title of the book is. Uh, it is a must read.

00:40:34.360 Yeah. It's actually a relentless by Tim S. Grover.

00:40:37.220 What's his, what's his background? Uh, actually the, um, I think the intro was written by Kobe

00:40:46.480 Bryant cause he was a, uh, performance coach for a basketball teams. So he basically talks

00:40:52.180 about all of the stuff that athletes would have to do to, um, achieve the level of success

00:40:57.700 that they got to. Gotcha. Okay. Okay. Here's one. Um, you don't suffer

00:41:07.100 fools, but do you ever have a day where you throw up your hands in frustration? And when

00:41:12.220 you have those days, what's your coping, uh, yeah, what's your coping tips?

00:41:22.360 I think that when you start to understand that you can only control one part of the universe

00:41:27.680 and that's you, you can't control anybody else. You know, you can control your responses

00:41:33.120 to inputs, but there's not much else that's within your control. Um, you just, uh, meat

00:41:39.820 covered skeleton on a big rock flying around a burning ball of flames a million miles an

00:41:46.280 hour. I can't remember what those lyrics were, but you get the point, but, um, yeah, you just

00:41:52.420 basically throw your hands up in the air. You have your hissy fit over it. Hopefully it lasts

00:41:56.360 less than a second. And then you kind of get back to work and you get down to it. Right. Um,

00:42:01.300 you just don't sulk over it and, you know, complain or whine or go on social media and post, uh,

00:42:07.880 people and look for a pity party. Just get on with it, man. Yep. Yep. Um, what, uh, any,

00:42:16.580 any business opportunities you see coming out of the current state of affairs?

00:42:20.200 Yeah. Yeah. There's a, there's a couple of people that were asking about, um, you know,

00:42:23.500 post COVID and all that sort of stuff. Um, society dating, you know, business opportunities. Um,

00:42:30.380 well, I think some of the, some of the largest, um, fortunes in history were made, um, out of

00:42:39.580 chaos. I don't think that's, uh, disputable. So there's a lot of opportunities out there. Um,

00:42:48.100 you're going to see, I believe anyway, I put out an email to people that were on the list that,

00:42:53.140 that, that got the red flag chapter. So I'm trying to remember what I wrote in that cause it was over

00:42:56.380 a month ago, but, um, I think you're going to see a lot more people working from home. You're

00:43:00.400 going to see a lot of companies, not hire people back, um, because they're going to realize that

00:43:04.760 they don't, they don't really need them or, you know, they can produce, you know, sufficient levels

00:43:09.980 of return for shareholders on whatever level of staffing they can. Um, they're probably going to

00:43:17.040 encourage people to work from home. You're going to see a decline in commercial real estate, uh,

00:43:20.680 values for sure. Um, I think, I think commercial real estate is going to take a big hit. Uh,

00:43:25.560 they're saying residential real estate is going to take about a 15 to 25% hit depending on where

00:43:29.880 you're at, but commercial real estate probably go quite a bit lower than that. Um, more at home

00:43:37.000 delivery services. Um, maybe there'll be a new Amazon that comes out of this. I doubt that they're

00:43:41.700 going to be able to, you know, find somebody that can compete with something that big. Like it's,

00:43:48.420 it's essentially monopoly. I was, I was looking at a list of, um, businesses, Curtis, that somebody

00:43:54.800 posted on the 1% community the other day. Um, I think the guy said, uh, what do you think of

00:44:00.040 Trump's new board of advisors? And he listed all the, uh, CEOs of all these American companies.

00:44:05.220 And I responded, I go, it looks like a pretty good list of stocks to keep an eye on. And I created a

00:44:10.320 watch list today on those stocks just to, you know, just see what they're up to. And there's,

00:44:14.120 there's some pretty strong companies in that list, man. Um, that are well positioned.

00:44:18.420 So I think if anything, um, look for some good opportunities. You're going to find some good

00:44:23.580 opportunities in real estate. You're going to find some good opportunities to start a business,

00:44:26.760 to solve some big problems that are coming out of this. You're going to find, uh, some

00:44:30.700 good opportunities in a stock market to make some serious bank. Um, yeah, just look for the

00:44:35.240 opportunities. I'm a, I'm a big opportunity buyer, man. Like I love, you know, like I love

00:44:39.860 a good deal. I mean, everybody should learn to love a good deal anyway, but yeah, I mean, you

00:44:44.080 look for those opportunities to make some bank, make sure that you come out ahead. And that's,

00:44:47.840 that's really it for me. Yep. Yep. Provide, uh, you know, people are always going to need

00:44:54.080 food, clothing and shelter. Yeah. I like taking care of the shelter piece. Yeah. The, like, um,

00:45:00.920 somebody said the other day, I think it was, um, Amir on his, uh, Facebook, but he said something

00:45:05.220 about, you know, like basic, uh, comfort dopamine hit things like coffee, you know, sugars, you know,

00:45:12.140 like desserts, pies, um, you know, you're always going to need a roof over your head. So multifamily

00:45:17.680 residential is always good. Um, stuff like that, you know, utilities, people are always

00:45:22.340 going to want their electricity on, obviously.

00:45:27.640 Here's a, so when I first started learning about real estate, this is, this is a quote

00:45:32.740 that one of the, one of the gurus I used to listen to would always say, he said, the biggest

00:45:37.500 thing, keeping people, even most people from a great life is a good life. Yeah. What does

00:45:43.640 that mean to you? Um, it's funny you mentioned that. Cause I have an unlisted video on my total

00:45:48.720 debt freedom channel with over a hundred thousand views, why people stay in debt. And it's because

00:45:55.880 they think everything is just fine. And then I told the story about scars as I was growing

00:46:01.400 up. And I thought that everything was just fine until I realized that I needed to accept that

00:46:06.960 there was a problem and I need to, you know, hit it, hit it face on sort of thing. And I think a

00:46:12.220 lot of people, a lot of people live average lives because that's all they want. You know,

00:46:19.320 you know, they just want to be fine. They just want to be taken care of. There's a lot of people

00:46:22.080 out there right now that have been told, go to school, get a degree, frame it mahogany, stick it

00:46:27.380 on the wall, go make your $80,000 a year, pay your taxes, retire and get your gold watch and

00:46:32.060 everything will be done. And that's still a narrative that's in some people's heads.

00:46:36.960 Cause that's fine. You know, it's, it's, it's good enough for some people, but, um, I don't

00:46:42.180 know. I mean, you're going to get out of life. The, like the higher level of standard that

00:46:48.020 you set for yourself, the better results you're going to get at the end of the day. Right.

00:46:55.060 So during, I think this is one of mine during this time, um, have you reassessed your position

00:47:02.800 on like, uh, your, your, your fitness, your, your social life, your relationships, anything

00:47:09.360 and reassessed them and made any adjustments, uh, I'm always making adjustments too. Like

00:47:14.380 I make adjustments sometimes every day. Um, but I make, I make sure that every error, every

00:47:24.340 error in my life is as optimized as possible. You know, we've, we've kind of brushed on the

00:47:29.800 the 1% man. And, um, this may even become the title of my book. I don't know. Um, but

00:47:36.820 if you want to be top in your category for income and assets and self-care, um,

00:47:47.120 purpose in life, like all of these things have my new little breakdowns, like as far as,

00:47:52.620 you know, like understanding women, you know, for example, like if you would put like women in

00:47:56.240 one category, for example, you should be in the top 1% by only allowing a woman into your

00:48:01.100 life. If she compliments it, you know, she's not going to be the focus. You know, you understand

00:48:04.640 female nature, like all of the lyrics that I bang on, you know, when it comes to self-care,

00:48:08.540 right. You know, do you get out of the shower and can you look down and see your feet and

00:48:12.060 your Johnson, or do you have a big belly covering it up sort of thing? Right. Like where are you

00:48:15.960 at with self-care? You know, do you wake up with strong wood in the morning, right? Do you have

00:48:19.160 any health issues that are, that are lifestyle choice, um, related for example. So all of these

00:48:25.760 things are within your control. So when you're, when you're relentless about becoming better and

00:48:33.240 taking care of all those things, you'll, you'll do what it takes. Now, not everybody has the luxury

00:48:38.020 of that because they get themselves in the cycle of just being fine and relying on the government

00:48:42.880 to take care of them, relying on their employer to take care of them with healthcare and benefits

00:48:47.620 and retirement and top-ups. But I mean, you're going to have a pretty basic or an average life if

00:48:54.560 that's, if that's how you want to live it, which is fine. I mean, that's, that's your choice. But if

00:48:59.440 you want to take greater control of it and get better results out of all those things, you got

00:49:05.500 to take the reins in and control all that shit yourself. Right. And you have to make adjustments

00:49:09.140 along the way. Like I'm, I'm in pretty good shape for 46 year old man. Like I fucking work hard at

00:49:14.840 self-care. Yeah. Um, it's, it's not easy. It's not easy because you know, you're not 20 years old

00:49:21.300 anymore. You don't have everything working perfectly in your body. You get cracks and

00:49:25.740 bad joints and shit. It's like, all right, joints are kind of sore. Let's see if we can

00:49:29.620 get some DECA somewhere. And then you kind of add that to the TRT protocol. There's all

00:49:33.640 kinds of things that, you know, you have to be attentive to if you're really going to make,

00:49:37.620 um, everything the way that you live, as far as your health, your wealth, you know, the women

00:49:43.640 in your life, like whatever it is that you're looking at top shelf, right? You know, you have

00:49:46.900 to be attentive to it. A hundred percent real what? Sorry, man, real quick. I'm just going

00:49:54.620 to grab this super chat from JBL. Uh, rich. Thanks for your coaching call last year. Just

00:49:58.840 relocated from Hong Kong to Washington, DC. When is the release of the book? I wish I could

00:50:03.500 remember who you were, dude. I talked to so many guys. Um, I don't have a release date.

00:50:08.840 Yeah. Congrats on the move. I don't have a release date, but, um, that is the, um, link. So get

00:50:16.620 on the email list if you're not on it. Uh, it's just entrepreneurs in cars.com forward

00:50:21.160 slash red dash flags. And, um, just get on that list. You'll get notified when the book's

00:50:26.120 available. Um, even if I were to put it out now, I don't think I could even get it, get

00:50:30.380 it approved. That was, uh, hearing Ryan do his update on his, uh, published book and

00:50:35.740 he's having a real hard time with Amazon because you know, they're on minimal staff and people

00:50:39.980 aren't there. So super hard to, uh, get something out right now, but you're going to see it

00:50:45.000 this year for sure. For sure. Probably, probably by the middle of the year. I mean, I wanted

00:50:48.140 to get it out by spring, but apparently the first chapter that I thought I wrote, I hadn't.

00:50:52.380 So I'm starting with that one, but I think I've got about 15 done now. So we're almost

00:50:56.220 there. We're about three quarters of the way there. Nice. All right. Uh, let's see.

00:51:03.520 Conk, what a, what crucial advice that you got from your father that helped you succeed?

00:51:09.020 What advice did you get from your father that led you astray?

00:51:15.480 What advice did my boss? Okay. So the best advice my dad ever gave me,

00:51:20.020 um, this too shall pass. Um, and that applies for good times too. I mean, you can't expect when things

00:51:34.740 are really sailing for you and you're firing on all cylinders and everything's working well,

00:51:39.160 that that's going to last too. Um, you know, but your life's up and down, man. And like

00:51:44.140 when you're down, just, just get back up. The worst thing that you can do when you're down is stay down.

00:51:50.300 Um, that's a loser mindset. That's a quitters mindset. Winners get back up. So life's going

00:51:55.680 to kick you in the balls. You know, women are going to kick in the balls. Your boss is like,

00:51:59.860 you're going to have life just kicking the balls. I've, uh, I've had it happen with women. Many

00:52:05.300 times. I had to sue my best friend after I knew him for 15 years. Cause he pulled some horse shit

00:52:10.360 on me. I've, I've had life kick me in the balls a lot of times. So it's just a part of that. You

00:52:17.200 just have to get back up. Nope. Hey, so, so since, since the reach has expanded on the channel and you've

00:52:25.340 had higher caliber guests and whatnot, and just the people you're in contact with, that quality has

00:52:31.020 increased sort of since, since that pivot point, maybe since the channel started taking off, what

00:52:36.180 has been, you know, who would you attribute some of the best advice you got from them? You know,

00:52:40.040 what was that advice? Oh, sorry. Um, you had a follow-up question to the worst piece of advice

00:52:45.180 I got from my dad too, right? Oh yeah. Yeah. The one that, uh, what, what advice led astray,

00:52:49.500 led you astray or wasn't, didn't work out? Well, my dad never stopped me from getting married.

00:52:58.960 You would have thought that he would have, um, paid a little more attention or voiced a louder

00:53:03.580 opinion, but I don't know. Maybe that's just me. Maybe it's just cause I say what I feel now,

00:53:07.580 but, um, yeah, I don't hold him, hold it against him, but whatever. What was that second question

00:53:16.320 you had after that? That is a great question. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Oh here it was. So

00:53:22.660 since, um, since your channels expanded and your reaches expanded and that's gotten you in contact

00:53:28.560 with higher caliber people since sort of that pivot point, what has been some of the best advice you

00:53:34.260 got? Um, from people that I've talked to, I'll, I'll, I'll tell you who I really enjoy talking to

00:53:43.720 on, um, one-on-ones. Um, let me think here like conversations that stand out for me are like the

00:53:55.660 one that I had the other week with my friend, Brad Pedersen. You'd never find him. He like, he's,

00:54:01.580 he's not even visible on social media. He doesn't care. Um, he's not looking for anybody's approval.

00:54:07.000 Super successful guy. Very, very humble, very smart, very resilient. Like this guy's been,

00:54:14.680 I mean, go watch the episode. If you haven't seen it, I think it's about three or four episodes

00:54:18.240 back on the playing to win series. I got a lot of friends like that and I love having those

00:54:23.120 conversations with them. Unfortunately, not everybody wants to talk publicly, um, about some

00:54:29.080 of their wounds that they made their work. Fortunately, I can tell those stories. I just protect

00:54:33.420 the innocent sort of thing. I just, you know, kind of change it up a little bit, but to get the general

00:54:37.140 message out, that's the way that I like to storytell it. But those are the ones that I like to have.

00:54:40.700 Those are the ones that have had the most positive impact on me. Um, and I'm sure you can see it

00:54:45.160 because they get more views. Obviously, you know, people have more positive comments or they can,

00:54:49.020 you know, feedback based on how I responded to the guests. Uh, but for the most part, I don't have

00:54:54.420 people on that. I don't like, I mean, uh, I've had people say, you know, you should have this person on

00:54:58.440 or have that person on. Well, I'd love to have a conversation with Joe Rogan, but he doesn't know

00:55:03.860 me. Like I'm invisible to him sort of thing. Right. Um, but there's other names that people

00:55:07.720 have dropped and it's like, no, I, you know, if I'm not interested in their life or their day or

00:55:14.240 what they do, then why would I want to have a conversation with them? I'd rather have a

00:55:18.640 conversation with you, Curtis or Bobby or somebody else, you know, within the inner circle, that's a

00:55:25.000 total unknown that has something interesting to say. Um, then, then just have like a familiar

00:55:30.060 face on, like people always say, get this guy in your channel, get that guy in your channel,

00:55:33.480 or when are you going to have a collab with this guy? And it's like, if I haven't, it's because

00:55:37.240 I'm not interested. Yeah. Yeah. And a new channel that I, that I found, uh, George Gammon, he does

00:55:43.340 like economics, um, at a super basic level, but he said, I was watching something. He said the same

00:55:48.460 thing today. He's like, I'll take the suggestions, but he said, I selfishly just want to talk to people

00:55:53.400 that I think are interested. Yeah. Like I'm at that point in my life that I only want to talk to,

00:55:56.880 like, I'm only going to spend time talking to people that I think are interesting or

00:55:59.760 offer some useful feedback. Plus I like people that aren't mainstream. Um, I mean, I've, I've

00:56:06.100 tried to get a couple of people on that have large YouTube followings, um, that won't work with me

00:56:12.260 because of who I am. I had this one guy, Curtis, dude's got a million, um, subscribers on his channel.

00:56:18.440 He does basically car related content. I've been following him for the last five or six years

00:56:23.840 like his stuff. Um, I talked to him about doing a podcast like, um, when I was down in LA, but our

00:56:29.900 schedules didn't line up for his podcast. And then I invited him on and then he got the autoresponder.

00:56:35.760 Um, because I have an autoresponder, my basic, uh, Gmail account for entrepreneurs and cars. I just

00:56:39.560 never bothered to turn it off. It's just on all the time. And the autoresponder offended him.

00:56:43.940 He was like, this is really, really harsh. I'm like, if that's going to fucking offend you,

00:56:48.380 dude, you like, we can't have a conversation. So I guess you just kind of opted yourself out,

00:56:53.260 but I'm not mainstream, right? Like I'm not politically correct. I just cut right to the

00:56:57.720 point. Yeah. That, you know, that, that makes me think of, you know, doing just doing what you

00:57:05.120 enjoy or only interviewing or contact people you enjoy. It was, it was, it was the same way with

00:57:10.560 the doing the YouTube channels for me, man. Cause remember, remember at 21 con I was fired up and

00:57:15.860 I was like, dude, I got a message. I got something to say. But shortly after that, I sort of took it

00:57:20.580 on as, as like an obligation and I put some stuff out there, but until I just removed that and I was

00:57:26.400 like, let's just have some fun. That's when I started doing like daily three a day and weekly

00:57:31.520 stuff. And I don't know if it just felt like an obligation and that's why I didn't do it, but that

00:57:36.600 the motivation was definitely there. You know what I'm saying? Yeah.

00:57:43.940 All right. Oh, just quick super chat here from Jerry. Thanks for that brother. You're always

00:57:49.480 so generous. Thank you. And while you're pulling up the next question, I'm going to throw your YouTube

00:57:58.140 channel in the chat. So if you guys want to follow Curtis, he just launched a YouTube channel. He's

00:58:04.200 down in Puerto Rico. Uh, American guy with some interesting, uh, insight and stories.

00:58:10.400 Minimal viable product. Yeah. Yeah. Check it out. Yeah. We'll, we'll, we'll add as we go.

00:58:17.220 Thank you. Um, let's see. Let's see. Uh, another one from Paul. So, so let's, let's take it back to

00:58:24.400 when you were 15 and you're like, I know I'm going to be rich in the future down the road from there.

00:58:29.780 What were, what were some of the first mentors that you, I don't know if you started reading

00:58:34.540 right away or something like that. And what did you learn from? Um, you know what? I, I had the,

00:58:43.940 the folder here, but I, uh, for self care, it was Charles Atlas. My dad gave me this, um, mail order

00:58:50.800 thing that he got when he was a teenager. It was all like dynamic tensions, doing pushups that had

00:58:55.620 boxing strikes and jujitsu and stuff like that. Um, so for self care, that was my first one.

00:59:01.080 And then I kind of started spending some time into like the, the muscle media magazines and stuff like

00:59:06.560 that. But as far as, um, success icons and entrepreneurs, um, Brian Tracy, Bob Proctor.

00:59:14.740 I remember I had this audio tape. Um, my dad gave me a Bob Proctor that I used to listen to

00:59:19.920 a lot when I was 19, 20. I listened to it a lot at nighttime because, um, I kind of fell asleep to

00:59:27.700 it. It was about an hour, hour and a half long tape. And he would talk about things like how your

00:59:32.700 mind's eye would, you know, perceive things and how you could kind of lead your, you know,

00:59:37.360 like lead yourself to that destination by, um, seeing yourself there, basically having that mental

00:59:43.500 image. Um, Bob Proctor, Richard Branson, probably his biography, Donald Trump's biography. I know a

00:59:50.960 lot of people hate him, but I don't really care. Uh, yeah, mostly the, the business icons at the

00:59:57.320 time. I read a lot of Richard Branson too. Hey, uh, do we got, uh, we got to wrap up here or do we

01:00:07.320 got more time? Uh, we used to do 90 minutes. So we got another 30 minutes. Let me grab the super

01:00:11.260 chat here while you look for the next question. Uh, two seconds. Yeah. Part two, he says any U S

01:00:17.160 States or European countries you would consider retiring and settling down for guys planning down

01:00:22.280 the line based on what you see today, what criteria trends would you be looking? Um, I, for me

01:00:30.160 personally, I'd probably look for a tax haven for sure. A hundred percent. So wherever there's little to

01:00:39.520 no taxes, uh, would be one of the prerequisites, warmer climate, uh, preferably close to, uh, the

01:00:46.940 sea and, or, and perhaps mountains. Um, I like the outdoors, uh, a ton. So those would be the main

01:00:55.440 things for me, uh, planning set it down based on what you see today. Criteria trends, as far as

01:01:01.320 criteria trends go, it shouldn't matter as far as where you're looking, because ideally you could

01:01:06.700 live anywhere today. I mean, we're all connected now with this thing called the internet on a phone.

01:01:12.860 So it shouldn't matter where you live. I don't think that that's particularly significant. You

01:01:17.860 should go where you're treated well by laws and the government. So that's the first thing. Uh,

01:01:24.700 and then you take care, take a look at your other priorities. I mean, if you're younger, maybe you

01:01:28.640 really care about the, uh, chicas. If that, if that doesn't matter to you after a while, then you

01:01:33.320 probably want to look for costs of living, you know, what, what infrastructure, who's all there.

01:01:39.400 You got to take a look at your own priorities. But I mean, for me, um, it's more about where I'm

01:01:43.900 treated well by the state and the tax system would probably be the number one thing.

01:01:49.920 You still there, Curtis, or did you step away?

01:01:52.320 Nope, I'm here.

01:01:53.020 You're back. Okay, cool.

01:01:54.580 Yep. Yeah. And, uh, just to piggyback on that, there, there obviously are a few that you

01:02:02.500 wouldn't even consider, I think, you know, Venezuela, anything where they're, you know,

01:02:05.920 they're in total default and hyperinflation. Um, but then also don't make that decision

01:02:12.280 without you spending some time there first. You know, like we were talking about Thailand

01:02:16.780 earlier, it's just the fool's errand to, you know, just get up and plan to retire in Thailand

01:02:21.280 without ever having gone there at least a handful of times beforehand. So you know that

01:02:25.840 you like it, you know what you like. Um, I should have even done that, you know, even though

01:02:29.660 I'm down in Puerto Rico, I definitely could have used a couple more trips prior to, you

01:02:33.720 know, just getting up and going. Still glad I did, but, uh, there's definitely some headaches

01:02:37.700 I could have avoided in the, in the process. Um, let's see.

01:02:46.900 Any, where'd that go? Any, so in times of resilience, so starting once all this started,

01:02:53.880 is there any individual skills that just became more important than they, than they were prior

01:02:59.620 to, to coronavirus everything? Um, independence, man. I think that people are, you know, what

01:03:12.560 scares me about this whole situation right now is the ease with, with which people believe

01:03:18.680 and follow what the state and the media tells them. Like all that this situation has proven to me

01:03:26.900 is the reality of how stupid and subscribe to state media manipulation people really are.

01:03:36.740 We know coronavirus kills some people, but the response to it, like shutting down the economy

01:03:44.220 virtually and sending people checks, uh, with, I mean, they haven't announced when we're going to

01:03:50.540 restart anything here anyway. So, um, it's pretty fucking scary to me that, um, I mean, it almost

01:03:57.740 feels like they're like, they're trying to reel you back. Like, what are they trying to distract us

01:04:02.240 from? Is what I'm wondering, right? Like, what is this whole maneuver trying to distract us from?

01:04:07.840 Right. Um, but independence from the state for me would be a big one. Like, I think that,

01:04:15.060 you know, as far as where you source your food, fuel, um, electricity, you know, stuff like that.

01:04:26.100 Um, I've been looking at real estate more, um, a little more rural from where I am right now.

01:04:34.640 See if I can get some acreage with a source of clean water. Um, you know, I can make it self

01:04:40.140 sufficient because if you got to rely on somebody for something like you're, you're always going to

01:04:47.240 be somebody or something's bitch, right? It can manipulate you. Like there's a lot of people out

01:04:51.700 there right now that are legitimately waiting for their next check to come in the mail.

01:04:57.400 They don't know if they're going to get called back to work. They're not working. They're just

01:05:00.740 waiting for the next check to come in the mail. And, um, I don't know what that would be like.

01:05:06.220 I mean, fortunately I don't need to ask the government for a check, but, um, independence

01:05:10.760 from that would be what I would be aiming for. Yeah.

01:05:15.380 Yeah. Yeah. I, I, as soon as all this started, I, I messaged one of my, uh, real estate mentors.

01:05:23.460 I mean, basically the guy who got me into it. And I just said a snap comparison of, of where I was

01:05:30.640 with the last crisis to now it's not a big distance, but just because of those, a few small

01:05:37.380 moves I made in the last 10 years, the S the feeling of security that I have and, and just peace

01:05:43.660 knowing that, that I'm able to get through that, that that alone is, is well worth the pain that

01:05:49.640 it took. Yeah. Um, anything of any value is going to come, come at a cost. It's going to come at a

01:05:56.220 pain, right? Like becoming red pillow wear comes at a cost for most guys. It comes at the cost of

01:06:02.220 trauma. It comes at the cost of a one-itis. It comes at the cost of divorce rape. It comes at

01:06:06.180 something, right? Yep. Anything worthwhile comes at a cost a hundred percent. Yeah.

01:06:11.480 If, um, Oh, here's an interesting one. If you were say, if you were graduating high school

01:06:17.860 this year or say you just graduated high school, what would you do first? Like with the, just

01:06:23.280 the current, with the knowledge that I have today. Yeah. Knowledge you have today and where

01:06:27.820 we sit in the world today. Shit, man, I'd be a weapon. Um, I wouldn't live in Canada. That's

01:06:34.040 for sure. Um, I'd go to where I would be treated better by the state with very low tax rates to

01:06:39.300 non-existent tax rates. And I'd set up something online. Um, wouldn't let any woman, uh, close

01:06:48.040 to me for at least 10 years, like for my twenties minimum and focus on me and my thing and building

01:06:55.880 something and doing exactly what I want, when I want.

01:07:02.560 I just couldn't say better. Um, here we go. Uh, another one from Paul challenges. And I don't

01:07:13.060 have much more specifics on this, but it was challenges moving from employee to business owner.

01:07:18.500 That's what's a big change. Cause is it, because an employee or a cog in a wheel, right? And as a

01:07:26.220 business owner, you do everything. I remember for the first, for you, you know, few years, I was the,

01:07:32.040 I was the president and CEO according to my business cards, but I was also the cleaning lady.

01:07:37.340 You know, I scrubbed the toilets. Um, uh, I think for Paul, cause I think it's, um,

01:07:47.080 are good for a Chad and he's a military guy. So he's, so he's a problem solver. Um, but I think

01:07:53.780 for most guys moving from salaried employee to entrepreneur is going to mean that, that you're

01:07:59.640 going to have to get really good at problem solving and improvising, um, and being smart with where you

01:08:04.900 allocate your time. A lot of guys, like a lot of guys, when they work for a company will do a lot

01:08:10.720 of mindless non-revenue production tasks. Um, and I don't think a lot of those people are going to

01:08:17.600 get hired back after the situation's over, by the way, but I mentioned that earlier, but, um,

01:08:23.100 there's a lot of things that business owners end up doing that costs them their business and a whole

01:08:28.020 lot of money that are not revenue producing. Um, there's so many guys that I coach that are in

01:08:33.420 early startup phases, you know, very, very short period of time within six months. And it's like,

01:08:37.740 you know, I'm doing this, that, and the other thing that I'm like, cool. How much did you make

01:08:41.060 last month? Well, nothing yet. Well, why not? Well, I didn't ask any customers for any money

01:08:46.880 basically is their response. So why are you doing all this other horse shit for the last six months?

01:08:51.120 Right. You know, the biggest, the biggest mistake that I see guys doing when they transition from

01:08:55.340 working from a corporate environment to working for themselves is focusing on what matters, which is

01:09:00.100 the whole point of a business is to return a profit to its shareholders. And guess who the,

01:09:05.000 who the primary shareholder is when you run a business is fucking you. So get smart about

01:09:10.020 what you're doing and make, and make sure that business is putting money in the business bank

01:09:14.760 account so you can pay yourself.

01:09:20.000 See here. Okay. Um, sort of back to the resilience thing, where, where does, where does freedom or

01:09:26.540 liberty or the just attitude of just let me live my life, where does that stand in importance to you?

01:09:32.680 And then what's your long term plan to maximize freedom? I know you're just talking about,

01:09:36.760 yeah, I'm all about maximum freedom. Um, I don't like, I want as little state involvement in my

01:09:42.800 life as possible. Um, if I could have the state, not in my life whatsoever, not charge any taxes,

01:09:48.960 that would be ideal. Um, they've of course got to generate some tax revenue and I'm more than happy

01:09:54.680 to pay for it. But the way they use it right now is, is it's just like, you're a slave. Like the way that

01:10:01.580 we live today, a lot of people won't, won't see it this way because they're still plugged in.

01:10:05.560 But when you see other areas of life and what you do, you as a high income earning dude are treated

01:10:14.180 like tax cattle, you're, you're doing all the work and they're stealing your money from you and

01:10:20.740 giving it to people that are not doing work. And there's nothing you can do about it. Like it is

01:10:25.240 the, it is the biggest shit test of all time. I've said feminism is a big shit test, but this is

01:10:30.120 the biggest shit test of all time. Cause you literally have to just bend out, bend over

01:10:34.200 every day and realize that you're living in their world. You don't have autonomy. You don't have

01:10:39.480 freedom. You don't like, you can't say, no, I'm not going to pay my taxes. Right. You don't pay

01:10:44.440 your taxes. They're going to screw you. Right. You can't say, um, no, I feel like driving my car up to

01:10:50.860 250 kilometers an hour when I want, when I feel like it, no, there's rules on the road, right? You know,

01:10:55.880 the speed limit says that if you want to break the rule, then there's a consequence to pay. Right.

01:11:01.460 So, um, yeah, there's, we don't really live in a very free world today. I mean, dude, you can't

01:11:09.900 even say shit. You can't even say things about offending people. I say things and people get

01:11:15.980 so offended. They try to get me banned off platforms or try to get me fired. And it's like,

01:11:20.200 I'm pretty anti-fragile. I mean, you can get me banned off, off whatever, but you can't get me fired.

01:11:25.220 I got like eight or nine different sources of income, dude. It's, it's not happening. And I say

01:11:30.420 pretty much what I want when I want, but people still get so offended. It rubs like political

01:11:36.120 correctness to me. We don't have freedom of speech. You know, they say that you've got freedoms. Like

01:11:41.800 if I don't address somebody by the right gender pronoun here in Canada, I could be in a lot of

01:11:46.380 trouble. Yeah. So what do I choose to do? I just don't interact with people that need gender pronouns

01:11:51.820 right. You know, they, they just choose to opt out of my life based on, you know, their insistence

01:11:58.560 of, of using certain, you know, pronouns, you know, for example. So, um, I don't see a lot of,

01:12:05.520 um, freedom because you don't have freedoms, especially with your, uh, financial policies,

01:12:11.740 but, uh, yeah, I don't have a socialist state with a chip in my, you know, like implanted in

01:12:18.800 my wrist, giving me social credits when I'm deserving of them yet. But that's where we're

01:12:24.540 heading, fellas. If you keep voting for liberalism, did you ever read, uh, Harry Brown,

01:12:31.320 Holly Falling the Freedom in the World? No. Okay. Great, great book. Right. Right along this

01:12:36.860 topic. He, um, I mean, he's got a huge story, but, um, wrote this book in the seventies, Ray

01:12:43.400 Khan. Um, Ray Khan's read this too and highly recommends it. Um, that's sort of one of the

01:12:48.420 points we connected on at the conference, but, um, ended up being like a libertarian

01:12:53.360 candidate. And basically that's what it is. It's, it's the different things, the different

01:12:57.200 philosophies and, and tactics that he's done to eliminate that, that type of government

01:13:03.180 control. The problem with like a libertarian government is it's never going to happen

01:13:07.540 because like it's, it's, um, government and libertarianism don't really go together. Just

01:13:13.320 so to say libertarian government doesn't make a lot of sense. I mean, we're always going to

01:13:17.780 be governed by the state because there's too many people that like the state's gotten society

01:13:22.120 to the point where society relies on the state and it's so big, it's never going to go away

01:13:27.760 now. There's so many people that rely on government assistance and handouts and programs. It is impossible

01:13:34.860 to make a libertarian government work. It's just never going to happen. So, um, yeah, that's

01:13:42.760 just my take on it anyway. Yeah. Well, it's the, it's the old debate of, you know, how things

01:13:48.420 should be, but how things actually are. Yeah. Yeah. We should be on a gold standard because

01:13:52.100 it's a sound financial principle, but we just aren't and we have to act because we are, you

01:13:58.420 know? Yeah. Like we should be using Bitcoin now, but we're not. Right. Right. Um,

01:14:04.860 let's see, what is Rolo like in real life? Uh, well, you've met him. He's pretty much

01:14:10.520 the same. Yeah. Yeah. He's not much different. I mean, uh, to be honest with you, he's as

01:14:19.480 real as it gets, man. Like who, like who you see is who he is in person. That's it's for

01:14:26.640 anyone who watches his videos. I mean, right away, as soon as he gets on, he's, he's starting

01:14:30.340 to look at things from the Rolo angle, you know, how he goes deep and you're exactly

01:14:34.580 right. That's, you know, the, the brief times that I did visit with them. It was, it was,

01:14:39.200 that was Rolo always, I don't know, just seeing of how an inner person, how anything interpersonal

01:14:45.000 works between people. Uh, interesting. Yeah. He's a smart dude. He's, he's, he's very attentive.

01:14:51.300 Um, he sucks with making choices with, uh, men and in business. He's great with understanding

01:14:56.640 your women and he'll acknowledge that. So I'm not saying anything that hasn't been said

01:15:00.800 before. Yep. Um, what do you fear most? Um, not much really. Um, what do I fear? Falling.

01:15:11.740 I would, I would never skydive or bungee jump. I think that's retarded. Um, what do I fear?

01:15:18.060 Not much to be honest with you, man. Um, get it like losing my health would, would probably

01:15:27.360 be like the main thing, right? Like, like not be like by the time you get to your mid forties,

01:15:32.780 like you've seen a couple of friends die. They've had a heart attack. Um, you know, you know, you

01:15:37.780 know, quite a few people that have died, you know, family members, relatives, friends and

01:15:42.260 stuff like that. Um, so for most people like health is, uh, it's not the greatest priority

01:15:49.260 and you can tell because something like 43% of North America is clinically obese. Um,

01:15:55.080 and that's not a healthy way to live. I don't, I don't care how much fat acceptance,

01:16:01.280 Tess Holliday, pasting her fat ass on the front cover of cosmopolitan you're going to do.

01:16:06.540 But the truth of reality is, is it's not healthy. And, um, a lot of that's within your control.

01:16:12.260 A hundred percent, a hundred percent. Um, now here's one. Did, did you have any type

01:16:21.520 of like mental debate before doing your first like red pill themed video or were you just

01:16:27.540 like, I'm talking about this now and you just start talking about it? Um, you know what the

01:16:32.860 first one was? And I don't even think I was red pilled then, but somebody said, um, do a

01:16:39.400 video and the kind of women that you should avoid dating. And I was just like at the point

01:16:43.340 where I was taught and that video did really well, man. I remember we got like a hundred

01:16:46.280 thousand views in the first month and I was normally getting like a thousand views if I

01:16:50.440 was lucky at the time. Um, and I was just like, yeah, you know what? I'm getting tired

01:16:55.900 of these women driving me crazy. And I got something to say about that. So, you know, I picked the top

01:17:00.380 three characteristics that I thought were worth mentioning and women lost their shit over

01:17:06.560 it and dudes loved it. Um, did I, did I have any planning towards that? Not even cause I

01:17:15.260 hadn't even read Rolo's book by that time.

01:17:16.820 Yeah. Yeah. I think it was more of a, like, did you know that you were starting to

01:17:23.320 cross a line? I guess. Oh yeah. I knew that I was starting to cross a line when people would

01:17:31.740 comment on the videos that hadn't previously commented and they were all at home attacks.

01:17:38.060 Um, you know, they really got worked up about something that I was saying. It's like,

01:17:43.120 all right. Uh, the bomber only gets flack when it's over the target. So I'm clearly doing

01:17:49.000 something right here. Like I'm on target here. A hundred percent. Yeah. So all that was, was just

01:17:54.940 assurance that I was going in the right direction, but, but it's not the greatest long-term strategy

01:18:00.760 because on YouTube it's, um, it's more of a PG friendly. I'm not even going to say PG 13. Like

01:18:07.280 it's even more of like a G sort of rated platform. Um, I mean, I try to swear as little as possible

01:18:14.840 when I make videos and I try not to specifically talk about, um, things in depth when it comes to,

01:18:23.220 uh, you know, the dynamics between men and women. Um, I leave the more detailed commentary on that for

01:18:31.740 our private community. You've seen those. Um, but yeah. All right. I think we got one left. I,

01:18:43.080 I did not think we would go through the list so well. Um, throw it at me. We'll see if there's

01:18:48.140 any in the chat before we go, but yeah, if you could change one thing about your past, what would

01:18:53.440 be? If I could change one thing about my past, man, there's so many, there's a lot made a lot

01:19:08.520 of mistakes in my life. I'll tell you that. Um, do you, let me, let me just run down a list that

01:19:15.780 seems really obvious to me. So things about my past that I would change, I would not bring my best

01:19:20.360 friend into my business. Um, twice actually two different best friends. Um, I would, I would pay

01:19:31.000 attention to my intuition a lot more when it came to women and business. Um, marriage, bad idea in the

01:19:39.640 Western world, especially when the state controls the exit strategy. Um, dating single moms, big, no,

01:19:47.440 no, no, never do that again. Um, nothing on a long-term basis. You know, you want to spin them

01:19:52.300 as plates, go for it, but yeah. Um, those would be the main ones that stand out for me. I mean,

01:19:57.480 there's at least three or four there. Do, do you think you could have gotten the lesson without the,

01:20:03.560 without the mistake? Um, yes and no, you don't. I don't think that when somebody tells you

01:20:14.120 something it's the same as you experiencing it. Sure. Um, it's great to learn from other people's

01:20:24.160 mistakes. Unfortunately, there's some mistakes that you have to make yourself. And I think for

01:20:29.780 the most part, guys need to make some really stupid mistakes when it comes to life and choices as a man.

01:20:37.160 Hopefully it doesn't completely derail you or send you off in the wrong direction that you can't

01:20:41.900 recover from. But, um, yeah, like we've always made mistakes, man. Like, you know,

01:20:47.880 sapiens have been on the planet for 26 million years. It's, um, you know, it's as a result of us

01:20:55.760 being very malleable and adaptable. Um, it's, it's, you know, it's a really interesting thing when

01:21:04.180 you understand our Batman origin story as a species, I think.

01:21:08.100 Um, I got a super chat here. Let me just hit on this real, real quick before you go to the next

01:21:17.000 thought. Uh, what video got you on track to a hundred to 200,000 subs? Um, I think, I think if

01:21:24.860 I go to, well, here, I'll throw it up on the screen. It shouldn't be too hard for me to pop this up real

01:21:30.520 quick videos and popular uploads. There we go. And share screen.

01:21:41.940 So this one here got 1.6 million views. That one, that was totally the biggest one that blew up, but

01:21:50.960 all of it's around women. For some reason, these ones, you know, five secrets, women don't want to

01:21:55.940 tell you how to shit test them. The truth about divorce. This is the one that, um, kind of, kind

01:22:01.260 of got picked up in the algorithms. It was this one. And then my own personal story about dating a

01:22:06.880 single mom. Um, that, that, that really pushed it up to that, to that area. But, um, YouTube's a

01:22:14.020 tough place to get recognized today because they're not, they're not particularly friendly to

01:22:19.920 these sorts of conversations. Um, they're pretty hostile in fact. So I wish I could say, say more

01:22:27.520 than that, but, um, you just have to keep doing your thing and thing and you have to be relentless.

01:22:32.680 I mean, you have to understand that you're publishing your content on a platform that's

01:22:37.060 great for getting discovered when it works properly. Yep. Let me, uh, hit this super here.

01:22:43.300 He says, do you think motorcycles are worth the risk? I did a video in the last two months,

01:22:48.020 maybe the last month or so on why I said every man should own a motorcycle. So yes,

01:22:52.300 I think they were worth the risk, but watch that video. Um, it's got a picture of me on my bike as

01:22:57.920 a thumbnail. So check that one out. Okay. Let's, um, it's something interesting around that. So I'm

01:23:05.560 of the same ilk. I agree that every man should have a bike, but for me, I am, I am very grateful

01:23:11.980 that I didn't get one until like my late twenties and was more into cruisers at that point versus

01:23:17.780 I knew if I got one early, I would have got a rocket and who knows what I would have done on

01:23:22.480 that. So I was 19 when I got my motorcycle license and my first motorcycle was a Suzuki

01:23:28.760 Katana 600, which, which was, I guess, categorized at that time as a crotch rocket. I remember the

01:23:35.400 first time I opened the throttle, I was like, Holy shit. Um, and that wasn't even that fast. I mean,

01:23:41.760 I was on some way faster bikes than that, but, um, you just like when you're 19, you've got the

01:23:49.680 hand eye coordination of a ninja. The thing about when you're 40, 50 or 60 is you don't. And when

01:23:57.600 you're young, that's when you're going to ride sport bikes anyway, cause your body can tolerate

01:24:01.800 being contorted in a tight, um, you know, condition for long periods of time, high speeds

01:24:07.680 with wind blasting over your body. Um, my, I would not change anything about my past riding

01:24:15.000 motorcycles. I loved it. It was, it was one of the best times in my life was hanging out with my

01:24:20.160 friends at the coffee shop on a Friday or Saturday night at 11 o'clock and you get a sandwich and you

01:24:25.580 go racing till like three or four o'clock in the morning with, you know, 30 or 40 other hooligans

01:24:30.400 out running cops. You're doing all kinds of crazy stuff. It was, it was amazing.

01:24:33.820 Nice. Um, any more, uh, super chats? Um, no, I think I got them all and we're coming up on 90

01:24:43.220 minutes. So did we get through all the questions? We got through all the questions. Yeah. I've had

01:24:47.560 a couple of bonus. All right. So, um, yeah, we got the one and that one. Yeah, I got them all. So

01:24:53.600 let's do a quick, uh, wind down. Let me do a quick shout out to, uh, men's community stuff. So

01:25:02.600 Curtis is in the 1%. There's a lot of questions that came from, um, that post where he came up

01:25:10.540 with the idea of, um, interviewing me for the plane to win series. So, you know what, instead

01:25:16.520 of me pitching it, what would you say your biggest benefit to the 1% is Curtis? Uh, to, to being in

01:25:24.700 and joining it's, I'd say at this, at this stage, it's still at the beginning, it's the bouncing of

01:25:34.260 ideas and, and posting stuff and getting feedback on stuff. But, but now, and, and I even told this

01:25:40.100 to you privately now it's, it's what keeps me in now is, is all the other guys and, and, and sort of

01:25:46.460 guys where I just feel committed to them. And, and this, you know, this is great for, for Coop.

01:25:50.700 Cause you know, I, I can't, I won't leave because of all the other guys that are in there. And then

01:25:56.040 that's the only way I can explain it because I've, I've met so many great men and, and, and I don't

01:26:00.400 know if guys know this, but I don't know who, who else out there has gone and met other guys in the

01:26:06.520 group, but I've met at least five or six guys on my travels intentionally wherever I go trying to

01:26:12.720 reach out. And some of them have failed, you know, there's guys who aren't in the group anymore,

01:26:15.480 or just people who end up being weird, but, but it's that's that aspect. I've watched these guys

01:26:20.500 grow. I've watched guys like Chuck grow, Jamie over in the UK. There's so many guys who have come

01:26:26.220 and gone. That's what it is, man. I feel like I play a valuable part in their life and they

01:26:30.860 definitely have it in mind. And at the beginning it served its purpose, bouncing ideas off each other,

01:26:36.920 getting that knowledge, you know, called sort of that noob phase. And the group is great for that,

01:26:41.760 but, but what it's, you just can't put a value on what it has become to me, at least hanging out

01:26:47.600 this long. Thanks man. Yeah. There's tons of perks there. So I posted the link. If you want to check

01:26:52.480 that out, there's a video explains how exactly it works. And just real quick shout out to a grand

01:26:58.020 egg soap. Scott's the channel sponsor linked in the top comment or the top pin comment. There's a bunch

01:27:05.140 of links there and you can grab some tactical soap, pheromone fuse, got some beard oil there. Check it out

01:27:10.380 with my coupon code. You get 10% off. So that is that. So, um, I'm going to do another plane to win

01:27:16.340 in two weeks and unless where did my phone go? Here it is. Let me just check to make sure I got

01:27:24.260 the confirmation from my guests. Cause you're going to like this one. This one will be fun.

01:27:28.580 Actually, you know what? I'm going to leave it as a surprise. Yeah, it's confirmed. Um, so on the 30th

01:27:33.760 will be the next plane to win. Make sure, uh, you're subscribed. People have told me they've been

01:27:38.200 unsubscribed from the channel. So, uh, make sure that's on, you get notified when we go live.

01:27:43.340 Cause it's always better to watch live. You can contribute and ask questions. So the next one,

01:27:46.940 you're not going to want to miss in two weeks. It goes way back to the very origin of the channel

01:27:51.660 and what kind of like transitioned me through the red pill to where I am today. Um, it'll be a really

01:27:57.020 cool chat. Curtis, man. Thanks for, um, thanks for putting this together and collecting the questions.

01:28:02.140 Yeah, man, it was fun. Definitely. And that was a good time to chat.

01:28:04.600 Yeah. Yeah. Don't go anywhere. I'm going to end the broadcast and we'll see you guys in the next

01:28:08.260 one. Peace out.

Playing to Win - March 02, 2022

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