In this episode of God Mode Podcast, I sit down with my first guest, Rich Cooper, to talk about his journey to playing life at a higher level. Rich is a man who was born in Eastern Europe, raised in Slovakia, and now lives in Canada. He is a self-taught teacher, entrepreneur, and YouTube channel host. He has a unique perspective on life, which I think many of us can learn from. In this episode, we talk about what it means to live life on your own terms, how he got started in his career, and what it takes to live a life that is completely on his own terms. I hope you enjoy this episode and that it resonates with you in some way. God Mode is a series of interviews with men who are living life on their own terms in order to help you live your best version of life. God Mode is a place where you can learn how to live your very best life by living in alignment with who you are and what you believe in, and how you should live your life to the best of your ability to achieve your full potential. If you like what you hear, please HIT SUBSCRIBE and share it with a friend or become a supporter of this podcast. It helps spread the word to the world. Thank you so much. -Tristan and I appreciate your support. Timestamps: 3:00 - What is God Mode? 4:30 - What does God Mode mean to you? 5:15 - How do you live life in alignment? 6: What are you trying to achieve? 7:00 8:00- What is your best? 9:00 | What does it take you want? 11:40 - What do you want from life? 12:20 - How can you put yourself first? 13:30 14:50 - How you can be a better version of yourself in the world? 15:30- What you want to be better than someone else? 16:50 17: What is the worst thing you can do? 18:40 19:10 - Why do you need to put yourself out of your best self? 21:10 22:10 | How do I live life at your best on your best potential? 23:30 | How can I live a higher standard? 26:20 | What s your definition of a good day?
00:00:01.000Essentially, we all know what it means.
00:00:03.000When we used to play video games when we were little kids, there used to be a little cheat code that made you transcend from the rules of the game.
00:00:11.000Now, I don't follow the rules of the game or the rules of life.
00:00:14.000I'm a man who lives life completely on his own terms, so I can think of nobody better as my first guest on the God Mode podcast than this man right here.
00:00:24.000Now, if you know me from Twitter, you probably know who the man sitting Next to me, on my screen at least, is.
00:00:30.000But if you are from Romania, Eastern Europe, Slovakia, maybe a few of the guys in the UK and you don't know who this guy is, he lives his own version of God Mode over in Canada.
00:00:40.000He certainly is not following the rules of the game.
00:00:42.000Most 46-year-olds aren't built like him.
00:01:02.000I started a YouTube channel about five or six years ago, really just to interview my friends and their success rides and pivoted to kind of deal with the wounds that I needed to make my work and just started talking about a lot of Red Pill concepts, understanding women better and how guys can get better results out of life by applying some basic skills, which a lot of guys still struggle with, especially the white knight type fellows.
00:01:26.000But I was an entrepreneur long before I got anywhere near any of this content or even thought about it.
00:01:32.000I had a number of successful business, a couple that flopped, but yeah, that's the too-long-didn't-read sort of version of my life.
00:01:40.000Yeah, and when you're talking about your core values as such, which you like to preach on your YouTube channel, people can find you at Rich underscore Cooper on Twitter, by the way, if you didn't know that already.
00:01:51.000Social status, fitness, was this something that you were conscious about and interested in your entire life?
00:01:56.000Or is it an epiphany that kind of hit you later on?
00:02:00.000I was not aware of any of these specific details that you get when you kind of start consuming, like starting with Rollo Tomassi's work, you know, for example.
00:02:10.000I was always always naturally alpha, right?
00:02:12.000Like big guy, strong, always muscular, rode motorcycles, drove fast cars, didn't really have a hard time with women, even when I was losing my hair and, you know, had to start wearing glasses for shade vision and stuff like that.
00:02:23.000But playing life at a higher level is always going to be accomplished and achieved when you see things as they truthfully are.
00:02:31.000I don't really like the whole red pill stuff and the manosphere.
00:02:38.000Yeah, like I look at it more along the lines of, do you like comforting lies?
00:02:42.000Or do you prefer the uncomfortable truth about the way the world works and the way that you can operate to get better results to make yourself, you know, put yourself first?
00:03:32.000The other thing too was I had some stuff going down in my business where Competitors and very large financial institutions with pockets deeper than God could potentially change the legislation, the landscape, which would put our business out of operation.
00:03:49.000I was super busy with that, dealing with lobbyists.
00:03:51.000I spent a ton of time and money dealing with all those things, trying to try to solve those problems and then exiting the divorce machine.
00:03:56.000But the thing that really kind of red pilled me, like this is the thing that really pushed me over the edge.
00:04:00.000I was stupid enough after my divorce, once I got clear of it to get involved with a single mommy for a few years, she had two boys and that was the thing that red pilled me.
00:04:08.000Like that was a point where a friend of mine was like, dude, you need to read this book. And he's like, read rational male.
00:04:14.000I downloaded the audiobook listen to it on my flight back from this men's retreat and then that's kind of what pushed me into okay.
00:04:20.000There's a lot of stuff going on here that I kind of knew and I saw happening but I didn't want to believe because I watch way too many Disney movies or I spent too much time watching cable television growing up and My dad was pretty much a beta.
00:04:33.000He was a big, strong guy, but he was always bending the knee to my mom sort of thing, right?
00:04:36.000So all of this programming, I really had to unplug from and kind of subscribe to some new beliefs that would get me better results.
00:04:44.000Yeah, I mean, divorce, it's guys like you listening to guys like you and every older man I know who's been an influence in my life.
00:04:51.000Some of my mother's brothers, my uncles have warned me about marriage and they've warned me about divorce.
00:04:58.000Essentially, what they say is no matter how sweet a woman is, no matter how much she loves you, when it comes time to get divorced, the love is gone.
00:05:06.000Well, they always say that the woman you marry is never the same woman that you divorce.
00:05:09.000She completely pivots when she has access to family law and realizes how beneficial that is for her to leverage it so she can get access to the kids, control decision-making processes, and get more money from the father.
00:05:48.000They're pretty similar throughout most of the West.
00:05:50.000So, I mean, I've talked to thousands of guys now in my coaching sessions because I do a lot of one-on-one.
00:05:56.000So, when I'm doing videos, guys have the opportunity to book me for consoles, you know, if they want to deal with trying to figure out how to untie the knot.
00:06:02.000So, I've talked to guys all throughout most of Western Europe.
00:06:05.000So, England, France, Germany, all throughout North America, even guys that are expats that are dealing with women that they brought back to North America from places like Asia or, you know, other places in the world.
00:06:15.000But It's incredibly hostile towards fathers, generally speaking, in North America.
00:06:21.000There's places in the states where it's a little more friendly, like there's some states like Nevada and Florida, you know, for example, which are a lot, well, I'm not gonna say a lot more friendlier, but they're a little more balanced towards fathers.
00:06:31.000But generally speaking, everything within family law is designed to give the mother as much control and as much resources as possible.
00:06:41.000And that's going to come at somebody's expense, which is always going to be the father.
00:06:45.000So what most guys usually end up seeing happening is she takes the kids, she gets a new boyfriend, he spends more time with his own kids than he's allowed to while he ends up sending her money every month and he watches her alienate him from his own children.
00:06:58.000Um, so it's, I mean, it's a pretty shitty deal.
00:06:59.000Cause, cause I mean the whole point to having children is siring children to pass on your name, to pass on your DNA is so you have some influence and you have some ability to raise them and you know, be a part of their lives obviously.
00:07:10.000But family law doesn't really allow men in the West to do that today.
00:07:27.000And, you know, power corrupts, as they say.
00:07:29.000A lot of people actually ask me, Richard, why I live in Eastern Europe.
00:07:32.000I'll tell you about a law that you'll like in Slovakia.
00:07:35.000So I have a friend from Slovakia, lived in England with his Slovak wife, got divorced, decided to move back to his country.
00:07:41.000When they first joined the European Union, a lot of women were taking these men's children and moving to the West, moving to Germany, moving to England to work jobs.
00:07:48.000And these men were stuck without their kids.
00:07:50.000Slovakia actually passed a law in the early 2000s, preventing the child living outside of the country of the person who finances the child.
00:08:28.000Like, men throughout history have never been valued.
00:08:30.000Men have always been a disposable commodity, right?
00:08:32.000I mean, if you go back 10,000 years, if warring tribes were in conflict, and there was a conquering tribe that would, you know, come in, the first thing they would do is they would fight off and kill all the men.
00:08:42.000And any men that didn't die in the conflict will either be Tried to be put into slavery, and if they refuse to be slaves, then they just kill them.
00:08:50.000Boys of fighting age were either recruited to be new soldiers in their army, or they were killed or put into slavery, and the women were kept as war brides.
00:08:58.000So, they were used for copulation, for reproduction, you know, for childbearing, and all that sort of stuff.
00:09:02.000So, women have always been preserved throughout history.
00:09:05.000Like, they've always been the protective sex.
00:09:07.000Men, on the other hand, are just always disposable.
00:09:09.000It's just what we are, and that's okay.
00:09:10.000I mean, you just have to accept that that's how the world views it, and then act accordingly.
00:09:14.000Yeah, and you mentioned a book that really helped you out.
00:09:17.000A lot of the guys watching will be Eastern European, but there is a book, The Rational Male by Rollo Tomasi.
00:09:21.000I've actually listened to it on audiobook.
00:09:23.000I have personal close friends of mine who've said that book literally saved their lives and saved them from their boring sexless marriages.
00:10:17.000I very rarely read books unless they're only available in paperback, but even then I'll just wait for the reading and I'll always listen to it.
00:10:27.000Driving is a great way to get through books.
00:11:22.000I've got the Huracan Evo coming soon, and that is slightly bigger and slightly more forgiving.
00:11:27.000So, supercars are one of those things where everybody wants them.
00:11:31.000Every young man wants them, certainly.
00:11:33.000And when you get one, people love to come at you with bullshit reasons of why nobody should have one, why you shouldn't want one, why having one makes you a loser.
00:12:07.000Bro, when it comes to hate, the way that I look at haters is hate only ever comes from beneath you.
00:12:14.000Nobody ever gets jealous of a loser, okay?
00:12:17.000I mean, I'm never getting messages like that from billionaires like Elon Musk or Jeff Bezos or you guys, you know, for example.
00:12:24.000It's always some guy that has a bus pass and wants to have a supercar but can't afford it, so they just point and sputter at you like a woman, right?
00:12:31.000Yeah, I mean, that is the best response.
00:12:33.000People say, oh, women only like you because of... I'm just going, so?
00:13:03.000You buy the supercar when you already have other things.
00:13:08.000Like when the average Joe that works the nine-to-five job and going to his job and he's got a 300-pound wife and 3.1 kids and he's miserable with everything, making $60,000 a year and he's driving his Toyota Tercel or whatever it is that he's rolling in.
00:13:23.000To him, he's buying it after he's paid for his housing.
00:13:26.000He's got his RRSPs or his retirement savings plan or whatever you want to call it.
00:13:30.000Like, he's got that out of the way and he buys a car that he can afford.
00:13:33.000So, I mean, whether you're buying an R8 or a Bugatti Chiron, you're buying it because you can afford to pay for it, not because you're a Muppet and, you know, you're leveraging everything you have just to show up in a nice car.
00:13:43.000People that have nice cars, this is what a lot of people that don't know about supercar owners and supercar clubs, and you already know this because you already participate in rallies and stuff like this, but These are some of the coolest fucking people in the world.
00:13:56.000Buying a nicer car gives you access, gives you the privilege to hang out with other guys that have cool shit too.
00:14:03.000So you guys all get together and you hang out and you have events and it's like, you know, you become the average of the five people that you spend the most time with, right?
00:14:08.000So when you surround yourself with excellence, you can't help but become better yourself, right?
00:14:13.000Yeah, I mean, it's exactly the same principle.
00:14:15.000When I was young, I used to hear about people who spent a lot of money in nightclubs, and I think 10,000 pounds in the night.
00:14:20.000If I had 10,000 pounds, I'd buy a new car, and I'd buy a new bed, and I'd rent a better apartment.
00:14:24.000But the guys who are doing it, the guys who are spending that money, already have all of those things.
00:14:30.000So, yeah, those are exactly the same answers as I'd give, but I'd like to hear them from someone else because I'm tired of preaching to my audience again and again and again.
00:14:53.000Oh yeah, so what will typically happen is I posted this on the community tab of my YouTube channel.
00:15:03.000I'm just trying to think what the lyrics were, but it was something along the lines of, if a woman says, you know, we're just friends, say fine, grab her phone and then text the guy, I'm horny, let's bang.
00:15:14.000She's either going to freak out when you start doing it, and you won't get through the process, or the guy's going to get the messages, and he's going to be all over it like a fat kid on cake.
00:15:23.000And then it just concludes with men and women can't be just friends, right?
00:15:27.000So what ends up happening is, of course, all of the crazies find that, and then the Twitter mob comes in, and then they find it, and they post it somewhere on social media like Facebook and some private caring group, and they all get together, and they swarm in, and they start shitting on it, and then they watch your videos, and they start shitting in the comments over there.
00:15:43.000And this entire snowball starts to happen, which is fine, because I end up getting an extra 20,000 views an hour on the videos, which helps me out at the end of the day.
00:15:51.000It's like all these haters spend all this time watching my stuff.
00:16:08.000And a few times they've called my bluff and their friendship with that man was essentially ruined after he texts back, oh, I'm so glad you left that idiot Tristan.
00:16:21.000In fact, the only thing I have and the only thing any man can have remotely close to a female friend are girlfriends of my brother, girlfriends of my cousin.
00:16:31.000I wouldn't ever hang out with them, but I can say hi to them, speak with them, and have a conversation in a completely platonic way because you're loyal to your friends.
00:16:41.000Yeah, aside from that, what do you have in common with women, right?
00:16:45.000Like, do they know how an, you know, like the size of the engine and your Huracan Evo that's coming down the road and how much power it has and why you're buying it and, you know, Does she know about the four wheel steering system and all that stuff?
00:16:57.000She doesn't know about any of those things.
00:16:58.000It's just she's going to look pretty in the passenger seat with her outfit and her handbag and her makeup on, and she'll be able to post a picture on social media proving that she's hot.
00:17:38.000So, like you, I'm real tight with my brothers.
00:17:41.000I mean, one's five years younger, the other one's eight years younger.
00:17:45.000Um, we get on well, we've lived together before.
00:17:47.000I, I, at, at your age, I was actually probably still living with my brothers, I think at the time, because I had a house and they were with me.
00:17:55.000But to me, like that's like, that's friendship.
00:17:58.000Like that's a brotherhood, you know, blood is thicker than water.
00:18:01.000They're like, Women don't offer anything friendship-wise that I'm looking for.
00:18:07.000I don't have deep conversations with women about shit that matters to me.
00:18:27.000And the answer was, well, He was looking for a best friend in the relationship too.
00:18:31.000And I was like, whoa, this guy's watched way too many fucking Disney movies.
00:18:34.000He doesn't know what the hell he's talking about.
00:18:36.000But that's, but that's what a lot of guys think.
00:18:38.000You know, it's, you know, men and women should be best friends, like your wife, your girlfriend, your partner, whatever should be your best friend.
00:20:37.000But there's a lot of people that I just don't fucking trust because I can't see them.
00:20:40.000I can't look into their eyes and I can't judge their character.
00:20:44.000I can judge their character by their voice.
00:20:45.000Like there's some faceless Anon accounts that broadcast over YouTube or Twitter, for example, and you hear their voice and they sound like soy, right?
00:20:54.000It's like, dude, you sound like somebody with a, you know, with a patchy ass neck bird, probably living in your mom's basement with low tea drinking soy milk, right?
00:21:03.000But lots of guys will follow that advice.
00:21:05.000And I think that men especially need to evaluate, they need to consider the source.
00:21:11.000My dad always used to tell me when I was a kid, Rich, you know, you always have to consider the source.
00:21:15.000When somebody throws hate at you, ask yourself, are you willing to change your life with this person?
00:21:30.000And what you have to look out for, the add-on accounts as well, are the famous, I call them the mask slips, when they play their character.
00:21:38.000And there was, and I don't remember his name, but I remember someone outed him, but there was a guy who tried to play the rich kind of playboy type of character, and he did it quite well for a while.
00:21:47.000And then someone found out he was like some 19 year old fat kid living in his, living in his mother's basement, who walked around in shorts and sandals all day.
00:21:54.000I can't remember the exact case, but yeah, a lot, Well, I mean, we've seen a few.
00:21:57.000Like, there was one guy on Twitter that, I don't know, your brother had a falling out with, but he was in a full-on, like, you know, faceless account.
00:22:17.000And a lot of this stuff sounded very good.
00:22:19.000And he literally had a full on mental breakdown and threatened to kill himself over an internet girlfriend, which I don't even think the term is real.
00:22:26.000Internet girlfriends are, as far as I'm concerned, working for somebody like me, hustling you for your money.
00:22:31.000If you haven't met the girl, that's what she is.
00:22:53.000At the very beginning, when Andrew first kind of went public, he was verified on Twitter with his first account, and a lot of people started coming at him.
00:22:59.000It never bothered Andrew, but it bothered me.
00:23:01.000I'm like, these people are saying these things.
00:23:29.000I saw a conversation between Bill Burr and Joe Rogan, and they were talking about this very thing.
00:23:35.000And I can't remember who it was that said it, but post and ghost.
00:23:38.000It's post and never read the comments.
00:23:41.000And I find if you waste too much time reading the comments of these faceless non-accounts of people that have an opinion for everything, They don't know what the fuck they're talking about 99% of the time.
00:23:51.000They're just, oh, I'm an expert because I have an internet connection and I can now post things on somebody's video or a Twitter post or whatever.
00:24:00.000It's like, dude, hop on a cast like this.
00:24:20.000Famously, an account I came out with, I came out with him recently, Rivelino, bragging about how many women he sleeps with and what a playboy he is.
00:24:27.000And I literally said to him, I was like, yeah, you post... Is that the guy with the lines?
00:25:24.000Not saying that he fucking just broke down.
00:25:27.000The mask does slip eventually, and he said something stupid like he slept with seven women in four years or some bullshit.
00:25:33.000Good number for the average dude, I guess, but you're a playboy, and you think that's the number?
00:25:38.000It reminded me of the scene in The 40-Year-Old Virgin, when the guy's talking about feeling that girl's tit and how it felt like a sandbag.
00:25:45.000He's just throwing things out there, hoping that he's going to land a hit.
00:26:02.000Yeah, we're going to move on from add-ons.
00:26:04.000It's more about what you teach because you're one of the guys that I can look at and I can think, okay, I can learn something from Rich Cooper.
00:26:10.000When I'm 46, I mean, you're in great shape, you're strong, you're still driving around in your super car, you're still living life on your own terms.
00:26:16.000I'm not going to ask you about your relationship status, et cetera, but you look like a very happy, very fulfilled man.
00:26:22.000And I've met 46 year olds who look like shit.
00:26:24.000They're one or two years away from a heart attack.
00:26:26.000I mean, they literally are at the end of the road and I don't feel anything could save them.
00:26:30.000So you're the kind of guy that can teach people things.
00:26:34.000So you talk a lot about maintaining frame.
00:26:36.000Now, I'm asking you this, honestly, because I don't really understand what that means.
00:26:42.000Because I think frame, the way you put it, some guys have it, and some guys don't.
00:26:46.000I think characters like myself and my brother have always held our frame, I guess, quite well.
00:26:51.000I've never had to learn anything from a book.
00:26:53.000But we do have 535 people watching us right now.
00:26:56.000A lot of people don't know what that is.
00:26:57.000Can you touch on that and go into it a little bit?
00:27:00.000Well, why don't we use the example that you guys preach the most, which is comply or goodbye.
00:27:07.000It's, you know, these are the boundaries that I'm going to set for you, sweetheart, because I love you and I care for you.
00:27:13.000And if you go outside of those boundaries, it's goodbye.
00:27:16.000And that's all that frame control really is, is she needs to be in the frame of a strong, masculine man that she admires, that she respects, that she adores.
00:27:25.000And that's essentially what you're aiming to do.
00:27:28.000What they'll do is they'll just get a stamp, like Chris Rock talked about in his standup, Never Scared, I think it was, and they'll just stamp everything.
00:27:37.000And The process of making all of these concessions over a period of time is known as betatization over a thousand concessions.
00:27:45.000It starts with something like, honey, put the white socks in the white hamper and the dark socks in the dark hamper and don't brush your teeth over there by the window because it's going to get on the carpet, blah, blah, blah, chirp.
00:27:55.000And it turns into, let's go vegan together.
00:27:57.000And then a few years later, it turns into, I love you, but I don't love you anymore.
00:28:01.000Because over time, and you see these guys all the time, right?
00:28:04.000I mean, like, you see all these 40-year-old guys, 50-year-old guys, they've got, like, the barbed wire tattoo, like, around their arm, you know, when it was cool back in the day, but now they're fat, you know, they look horrible.
00:28:13.000They've got some care and wife chirping them all the time, who's 300 pounds, that doesn't respect him, hasn't had sex with him in forever, and he's just miserable.
00:28:22.000And this is why frame is important, because in every relationship, one person enters the other person's frame.
00:28:29.000If you're a strong masculine guy running God mode, she's going to be in your frame.
00:28:40.000But for the most part, the vast majority of society with men, men are operating in their wives frame.
00:28:53.000You know, it's why you see guys like one of the things that makes me sick is when you see these guys make these posts on social media, a picture of him and his girlfriend or him and his wife.
00:29:02.000And it's like our five year, our 10 year anniversary, my much, much better half.
00:29:07.000I couldn't have done all of this shit without her, blah, blah, blah, blah.
00:29:10.000And then you click through on her and it's fucking crickets.
00:29:13.000She's got nothing nice to say about the guy.
00:29:17.000You know who runs that relationship, right?
00:29:19.000So that's really what frame is, if that makes sense.
00:29:21.000Yeah, I mean, the equivalent, I guess, for the younger generation is when you see a guy going to exotic locations.
00:29:29.000I mean, he's in, I don't know, Jamaica, Mexico, Barbados with his girlfriend, and there's pictures of them holding hands on the beach, and there's pictures of them eating dinner together, and there's pictures of them at the restaurants.
00:29:37.000And then you click on her profile, and it's just so... You know he's holding the camera.
00:29:42.000That's the guy he is, you know, taking the hot Instagram pic so she can have her Yeah, he's the Instagram boyfriend.
00:30:08.000And then I'll turn around and walk away and I'll be like, you know she's going to use that to get the attention of other guys on her Instagram account.
00:30:17.000I mean, I always say, if you, if I have a main chick or a side chick even, if I'm running, I don't know how many, depending on how many relationships I'm running, if I have a girl who says she's in love with me, I'll hang out with her, I'll say delete Instagram.
00:30:29.000If she doesn't instantly comply and delete her Instagram and not give a fuck, does she really love me?
00:30:33.000Like, no, because women love attention.
00:30:57.000I'll put it this way because I spent some time in my book and a couple of chapters on this very topic.
00:31:02.000But if you're vetting a chick for a long-term relationship, I mean, for mother stock, if you're looking for a wife or something like that, for whatever crazy reason, you're thinking about getting married.
00:31:11.000If she's running an Instagram account and it's not a business, like she's not selling something, she doesn't have a product or service that she sells, that's the reason why she runs it and it's public.
00:31:21.000She's basically on the ice trying to score a goal.
00:31:24.000She's going to be selling herself and marketing herself publicly with the post.
00:31:27.000So, if you see these sexy posts, these provocative posts, it's just her and all this sort of stuff, then you've got somebody that's still looking to actively upgrade.
00:32:06.000By all means, you know, because then she can still show off her life, show off her little vacation, show off her new shoes and whatever and try and build her following because maybe she wants to be a fucking influencer or whatever it is.
00:32:15.000But it's very clear she has a boyfriend and some girls do have Instagram accounts like that.
00:32:19.000There are some girls with millions of followers who are with their husbands, she's married and half their pictures are with their husband.
00:33:04.000I don't fly girls out, you know, unless I mean long-term girlfriends I'm going on vacation with, but I don't fly girls out to Dubai who I don't know.
00:33:34.000Now, you preach a lot about maintaining social value.
00:33:37.000Now, I've seen guys actively, so this is advice you could probably give to me, I've seen guys actively deteriorate from the ages of 30 to 40 in quite a big way.
00:33:47.000Obviously, I think I know how to avoid that.
00:33:51.000I see myself and my value as a man certainly going up every single year.
00:33:58.000What would you say to younger guys, maybe guys of my age or late 20s about maintaining your social value as you go?
00:34:07.000Well, I think your social value – I mean, if you're a guy on a purpose that's chasing excellence in life, it's going to go up by osmosis.
00:34:13.000It's not like you're going to have to try that hard.
00:34:17.000You and your brother, as an example, I can't see why you wouldn't be wealthier as you get older and have more reach and more influence.
00:34:24.000I mean, as long as you don't do anything stupid and fuck it up, basically.
00:34:28.000You'll be on the right path and the right trajectory.
00:34:31.000The thing that guys need to understand is there's still, you know, the importance of optics, right?
00:34:56.000I'm a year or two away from that, by the way, you know, my hair is not what it used to be when I was 25.
00:35:00.000But I mean, it's still there for now, but one or two years, I'll just shave my head, you know, and I'll grow a bigger beard.
00:35:05.000Yeah, it's, it's, it's part of life, like it's part of aging, like you understand, but You know, like as I look around at other guys my age, like I'm 47 now, but as I look around at other guys my age, most of them don't even look anything close to me, right?
00:35:19.000Like I can date women as young as her early 20s all the way up to 50 if I want.
00:35:25.000I mean older even if I want, but I don't even mess with anything that old to be honest with you.
00:35:29.000But yeah, like you want to look the part.
00:35:33.000What's the point in having money, having a great social circle, having fun stuff to do if you're living in an unhealthy, inflamed, sick body, you're overweight, your knees hurt, you can't fucking walk, you know, you get out of the shower and you look down.
00:35:47.000Yeah, you get out of the shower, you look down, you can't see your dick because you got a big fat belly covering it up.
00:35:51.000Like, there's so many guys out there that could improve their lifestyle just by taking some ownership and really doubling down and doing some work on themselves.
00:36:13.000I mean, I always say anyone can do it, but not everyone can do it.
00:36:17.000In terms of, you know, because if everyone did it, it wouldn't be special.
00:36:20.000So, I mean, if everyone stayed in shape and got rich and drove supercars around and, you know, read books and became smart, I mean, it would suck.
00:36:30.000You know, that I find funny is there's so many guys complaining about stuff online on an ongoing basis, and they just sound like these whingy, whiny little bitches, and they don't understand how unattractive that is to the world, to women.
00:36:44.000Like, women want to be with high-value guys.
00:36:53.000Or just shut up and sit in the corner and cry about it with, you know, the rest of the people that want to cry about it.
00:36:58.000And when these crybabies call people like you lucky, I've used this example on myself, but I'm going to translate it to you.
00:37:06.000In an alternate universe somewhere, sitting in Canada, there was a 46-year-old man named Rich Cooper, who is 6'2", he still has his height, but he's fat, and he's old, he's had two heart bypasses already, and he never gave a shit about his appearance, and he never went to the gym, and he never made money, and he's broke.
00:37:21.000So people say, oh, well, you're lucky.
00:37:23.000There's no luck involved because a lot of work comes into it.
00:37:26.000I mean, yes, I'm tall, but the years of being a professional athlete, all the hard work that went into business, these crybabies don't understand that it's not just luck.
00:37:35.000You're not just a high-value dude or you're not.
00:37:59.000But you have to max out in the areas that you can control, right?
00:38:03.000And see, Women have patience for a 22-year-old guy that's an alpha chad with a plan, but they don't have patience for a guy that's 46 years old with a plan.
00:39:02.000Certainly being in shape is very, very important, but you can be ugly as fucking in shape.
00:39:06.000I know guys who look like monsters with beautiful wives.
00:39:08.000You know, their faces have been smashed up in the MMA cage and, you know, they're dating nine out of ten fucking models here in Romania, certainly.
00:39:39.000How have you found, and the latter part of your answer is going to help me as well, how have you found, let's call it the sexual marketplace or the dating marketplace or just dating or meeting women as a man, different throughout the decades?
00:39:55.000As you get older, you should, in effect, become better with game and with women.
00:40:07.000If you're paying attention to stuff, you should be learning from your lessons.
00:40:16.000Dust off your shoulders and get back to work.
00:40:19.000So, as you get older, your value as a man should increase.
00:40:25.000With that being said, if it is increasing, then you should have better experiences with women.
00:40:30.000Like, I have better experiences now than what I did in my 20s, okay?
00:40:35.000You're never going to get away from, you know, you're going to have the best sex of your life in your 20s because everything's working like all the cylinders are firing 100%.
00:40:42.000Like when you get older, you start getting on testosterone replacement therapy.
00:40:45.000You never thought about things like Cialis when you're fucking 20, right?
00:40:48.000But these are all things that you introduce in your life and your protocol.
00:40:51.000you know, because you want to live as an optimized guy and have a good experience with women.
00:40:55.000But as you get older, you will have to do more work. Like your body does break down, right? One of the things that I always tell guys over and over again, that they probably don't listen to that I probably wouldn't have listened to when I was 20 or 16 or whatever, but time flies, Like, I can think back to times when I was 21, 22, 23, wasting time doing some of the dumbest shit in my life that I probably could have used for better outcomes.
00:41:19.000But I never thought about it because at 22 years old, you're way closer to your birth date than you are the grave.
00:41:25.000At 47, I'm probably closer to the grave than I am my birth date now, right?
00:42:10.000But you said before, and this one I'm 50-50 about, but I'd like you to explain your point of view when you say there's no such thing as that women are either good or women are either bad.
00:42:18.000There's no such thing as a perfect woman.
00:42:21.000Yeah, I don't think there's a perfect woman.
00:42:25.000Yes, but I'm going to throw something out there to you.
00:42:29.000It's kind of the opposite of something that I like to teach.
00:42:32.000I believe if you meet a woman young enough with low enough body count, plenty of naivety, plenty of respect, still a healthy respect for men, so probably a good relationship with her father, I believe you could convert women.
00:43:11.000I mean, I suppose you can train them by enforcing boundaries, but when I say that, you know, women are just women, it's because guys are always like, well, I'm looking for a high value woman.
00:43:24.000And it's like, you know, the thing that you have to understand, like I mentioned earlier, not all women can destroy a man in family court, but all women Could, right?
00:43:34.000So not to say that they're going to do it, but they could.
00:43:36.000So when I say that, you know, women are just women, I think that if you understand female nature, that's what matters more than, you know, let's try to decipher the good ones from the bad ones.
00:43:45.000I mean, you definitely want to keep the bad ones out of your life.
00:43:48.000You don't want to invite them to your inner circle.
00:43:50.000You don't want to have Anything on a long-term basis with them.
00:43:53.000So you should be repelling those out of your life.
00:43:55.000So yeah, you definitely want to make decisive choices when it comes to these women that you invite inside.
00:44:01.000But generally speaking, all women are pretty much the same when it comes to their operating system.
00:44:06.000They use pretty much the same firmware.
00:44:43.000And then suddenly you're 50 and you're still still got the hots for women in their early 20s.
00:44:47.000And yeah, she just doesn't cut it anymore.
00:44:50.000Which is, you know, which is, which is why I think women need to stick to their gender role, have some kids, have your babies in their value is in, in being a mother and gender roles is something that you talk a lot about.
00:45:00.000Now, it's also something that I judge women on who's a good one, who's a bad one.
00:45:06.000I think a very early women is how to stand gender roles.
00:45:11.000Cause it's something that you talk a lot about.
00:45:13.000Yeah, I mean, like, you'll see these women that think that they're high value and they deserve a high value guy because they're a third year law student.
00:45:32.000Like, women don't share their pot of gold with men.
00:45:35.000And in fact, any woman that gets into a profession where It's designed to create acrimony where they're designed to, you know, fight with the other side on a consistent basis.
00:45:46.000That's going to invite itself into your relationship, right?
00:45:49.000Now, why would you want to get involved or mess with a chick like that when you can find a woman that's more compliant, that's more feminine, that will defer to the masculine and look at you as her best option, not, I don't need no man to control me or any of that.
00:46:42.000This is something we may disagree on, because I largely disagree with you in every aspect of this, but I'm going to hit you with some exceptions that you probably haven't heard.
00:47:04.000I mean, the extent of your involvement with single mothers, and as you get older, guys, you're going to run into more women that have children in tow from past Relationships.
00:47:15.000I cover single mothers an entire chapter in my book.
00:47:18.000There's really a lot to get in with this one, but at the end of the day, the juice really isn't worth the squeeze because the amount of extra liability that you take on dating a single mother, it's just not worth it.
00:47:28.000I mean, you're far better off finding a woman that doesn't have children because your life is that much simpler.
00:47:34.000You've already hit the nail on the head.
00:47:35.000When you said play him and don't date him, I didn't think you were going to throw that one out there because I had an example for you I was going to hit you with.
00:47:46.000I mean, there was one famous one that was a total smoke show, right?
00:47:51.000Yeah, mine was very attractive as well that I got into my LTR with.
00:47:54.000I mean, she looked like Jennifer Aniston.
00:47:56.000I'd go on vacation, people would be like, oh wow, you know, all this sort of, but the thing that you got to remember is all of that stuff goes away when you start dealing with the drama that comes along with her bringing some other dude's child in tow from a past relationship into your life.
00:48:40.000Yeah, I'll break down the exception for you because I put it in my chapter.
00:48:45.000In the chapter on single moms, I break down every reason why you want to stay away from them.
00:48:49.000Trust me, there's far more why you want to stay away from them than you'd want to invoke in your life.
00:48:54.000The one exception that I would consider it if it existed would be, well, I've got a kid.
00:48:59.000If she had a kid the same age, same gender as mine, and she had all of her shit together, didn't bring any other baggage to the table, had no other red flags, then and only then I might consider it.
00:49:09.000But for that to happen, it's like, you know, finding a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow.
00:49:14.000You don't go, well, if I have the choice between this kid that, you know, this chick that doesn't have kids and the one that's got these three kids from two different guys, who are you going to date?
00:49:23.000And that's what most guys should be doing.
00:49:24.000Absolutely, and it's exactly what I do.
00:49:27.000You read my blog, which is coming out at the end of this year.
00:49:31.000I might turn it into a book, we'll see, but you see that I play on different levels.
00:49:35.000The amount of time I will invest in a woman like that is simply for the, you know, go to a restaurant, have your sex, have your fun, drink some champagne.
00:49:45.000I'd never meet anyone's kids, spend time with anyone's kids, pick up another man's kid.
00:49:50.000You are very, very right on single mothers, but I thought you were going to say, Stay away under all circumstances.
00:49:55.000In which case, I was going to hit you with that one exception.
00:50:02.000I mean, like, I get lots of guys that are, like, sending me field reports and conversations with, you know, single mothers and it's like, look, if you're dating them, like, if you just want to, like, have a friends with benefit type of relationship, okay, fine.
00:50:12.000But when you start complaining to me about the shit that's going down because of her kids behaving badly and the baby daddy drama, it's like, okay, why did you invite this into your life?
00:50:22.000Like, why did you take it to that level?
00:50:26.000And to be fair, single mothers where I live aren't really that common.
00:50:30.000In the United States, I mean, I don't really- They're pretty common here.
00:50:33.000Yeah, I don't date in North America very much, but I swipe on Tinder if I travel, you know, and you just see, I've got three kids, I've got two kids, I've got eight kids, I've got- I'm just like, the fuck?
00:53:03.000Like, you operate in God mode, so you have to understand that, you know, when I say things about certain areas like OnlyFans, generally speaking, most guys, if they're messing with women on OnlyFans, it's because they're simping and they're throwing the money, or two, they're a guy dating a chick on OnlyFans, she's getting all the money and using it, and he's taking the pictures for her, getting no value out of it.
00:53:30.000check and if they're giving you money, fine, whatever. I mean, I wouldn't want like the mother of my kids to be on OnlyFans or anything like that, but I understand the model that you use so I can't really fault it. So we're not in disagreement from that perspective. It's just the way that most guys look at OnlyFans right now in the West. It's like they're just throwing money at these garden tools all day long thinking that they're going to win over their affection, and their attention, their love.
00:54:00.000And then on the flip side of the coin, there's some bonehead that's taking all the pictures while she's raking in all the money, getting all the attention from these guys, and he has nothing to show for it but a bunch of pictures of her on his phone that he's taken.
00:54:13.000But the character of the type of woman, I really do believe that a lot of the flack that OnlyFans girls take is because in the West, The trashiest women.
00:54:51.000But hey, listen, you know, she's making $50,000 a month.
00:54:55.000The good side of it all is she's probably paying him money now because family law is written in such a way that it basically piles both the incomes in a pot and splits them down the middle.
00:55:04.000There's no way he's making $50,000 a month, so at least he's getting that out of it.
00:55:21.000But there's no other way for them to bring in $150,000 a year.
00:55:23.000And they treat it very professionally.
00:55:26.000It's essentially like being an actress.
00:55:28.000But when you meet them in real life, they aren't hoes.
00:55:30.000And I'll say that there are girls on OnlyFans that aren't hoes.
00:55:34.000Shoot me if you like, but I know this business better than anyone.
00:55:38.000I don't have any personal experience, so I have nothing to say about that.
00:55:41.000I mean, I know a virgin who webcams. Literally, I mean, she's not a virgin because I'm the only guy who's banged her, but she was doing webcam for a year as a virgin. So it's hard to call a virgin a ho.
00:55:49.000Yeah, like the flip side of that too, and I kind of got into this with your brother, I don't know, last year sometime, but we were talking about female employees and he turned it into, well, webcam models, you know, basically aren't that bad of a thing.
00:56:05.000And I'm like, bro, I'm not working with any women employees on a go-forward basis.
00:58:05.000I believe, and we will disagree on this, I don't know what the United... Different countries have different cultures, man.
00:58:11.000I've met women who love the tattooed look, they love the aesthetics of it, just like a lot of men do, and they have been very good girls.
00:58:21.000And maybe, you know, I live in a traditional Christian country where a girl could think, I'm gonna have a tattoo, and I'm gonna have a tattoo here, and they get the rosary beads sometimes tattooed on their wrist.
00:58:30.000I know in America that's a red flag, and that just means, oh, But I've met some girls.
00:58:34.000Now, tattooed women are sluttier than non-tattooed women.
00:58:48.000My experience with tattooed women has always been they've got a lot of red flags and they really have more problems than a Chinese math test going on in their life and I don't want to deal with it.
00:59:01.000I'm sure that some exist that aren't mentally insane, but generally speaking, the more tats they have and the greater the frequency of them, the more likelihood there is going to be that she's got some red flags going on in her life.
01:00:46.000If you're ever in Eastern Europe, you're invited any single time.
01:00:50.000Now, I've heard, and I'm just going to bring this up in a moment because we're coming up, we're over an hour now, we're going to talk about your books momentarily, but I heard that a character by the name of James Altucher opened your eyes to a lot of things.
01:01:06.000Now, I'm a James Altucher fan, and I don't know if you know this, But after my father passed away, I didn't know who James Altucher was.
01:01:14.000But he famously played a chess game against my father at a tournament.
01:01:17.000And he wrote this big write-up about this character that he respected so much for his indomitable spirit.
01:01:23.000And my dad was obviously very famous in the chess world.
01:01:25.000So I became a James Altucher fan after that.
01:01:27.000So when I heard you were into him, I'd like to know who is James Altucher first for the 635 people watching this podcast.
01:02:35.000I wouldn't lean on him for advice on women.
01:02:37.000I mean, the guy's been married practically three times now, and he hasn't got much of a style about him or exude much in the way of masculinity, but I don't think he would argue those points if I sat beside him and said that.
01:02:51.000So, I mean, we've covered basically everything I want to cover.
01:02:54.000Everybody from Romania, Eastern Europe, etc.
01:02:57.000I'm going to do a bit of a question and answer session for the next, no, for about 10 minutes.
01:03:04.000If I read any good questions coming up now, I am now looking at the feed.
01:03:09.000If it's a good question, I'm going to answer it.
01:03:11.000If it's for me or I'll pass it over to Rich, if it's for Rich.
01:03:14.000But for the next five minutes, I want to ask Rich about his books because I didn't know about your books until a couple hours before this podcast when I was doing some reading up.
01:03:23.000So, I mean, you've written a number of titles.
01:03:29.000So the Unplugged Alpha is my most recent one, really the only one that I would call like the main piece of work because the other stuff I wrote before when I was in the debt business and I was basically putting together DIY guides on how to settle your own debt.
01:03:41.000So this over here again, it's called the Unplugged Alpha, the No Bullshit Guide to Winning with Women in Life.
01:03:47.000It's on Amazon as a Kindle or a print copy.
01:03:51.000If you're in a country where you can't get it because Amazon is unavailable, go to bookdepository.com and they will ship it to you.
01:03:58.000It's basically everything that I've learned throughout my entire life so that you can get better results with women in life and not make stupid mistakes like I did, like get involved with a single mom and her kids or think that women are sugar and spice and all things nice or that marriage is a good idea.
01:04:13.000And I break down in a logical assessed way why you want to pay attention to these things so that you can get better results.
01:04:22.000If you plot out a map and there's minefields everywhere, you know, single mommy over here, a chick with daddy issues, she's got 7,000 tattoos and a notch count of 7,000.
01:04:31.000You know, you just mark those out on the map and you tend to avoid them.
01:05:22.000My brother runs a business actually, so I basically moved out of it with the exception to some basic roles that a chairman would do to consult on.
01:05:31.000Yeah, but I ran that business for a long time.
01:05:32.000It was really profitable in the first 7 to 12 years, so it threw off a lot of money.
01:05:39.000I made some good investments with that.
01:05:40.000I I've just, I've just been clever with the money that I've made.
01:05:45.000One of the things that James Altucher talks about, you know, to kind of reference that is you have ideas and you have money and you kind of have to have these things get together and have idea sex and have money sex so that it can make more of it.
01:05:57.000And it's a skill that you have to get good at and you get good at it by just doing it and applying yourself at it.
01:06:03.000So most of the money has been made over time, but again, you know, it just kind of multiplies itself.
01:06:08.000Like you guys know exactly how it works.
01:06:11.000Yeah, I mean, it's one of those questions that doesn't really need answering.
01:06:15.000Now, a bunch of the questions, I'm actually going to basically dismiss this Q&A, because what you need to do for a lot of these questions is check Rich out on Twitter.
01:07:00.000But yeah, every single question that you're asking him, I feel like it'd be very mundane and with not much point in... This is another video by someone else that you did.
01:07:13.000Yeah, I think it would be very a waste of time to answer these questions right now on my channel when all of the material that you could hope to find is on his YouTube channel right here.
01:07:23.000I've just posted three links in a row.
01:08:02.000A lot of the questions are... Ask me privately.
01:08:06.000I'm not going to burn too much of Rich's time asking these questions because a lot of them are about Romanian showbiz and that's not very important and relevant as to what we're doing right now.
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