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Streaming wit @stillgray
Recorded: April 7, 2025 Duration: 2:33:42Space Recording
Short Summary
The upcoming token launch in Dubai from the 29th to the 3rd is generating buzz in the crypto community, highlighting trends in partnerships and fundraising efforts that signal growth opportunities. As the market anticipates this event, discussions around yield and the impact of news on trading behavior reflect the dynamic nature of the crypto landscape.
Full Transcription
Okay.
Wait, okay. All right, I'm missing the blank. i don't have a mic on this uh pc but i have i mean a camera but i have a camera i have a macbook
and a phone but i would prefer to share i would to, like, share my screen if ever needed from the PC, though, without the camera.
Yeah, so you can download this thing called Camo on both your iPhone and your PC.
Okay.
Camo Camera is going to make it so that you can use your iPhone as a camera input on your PC.
All right, perfect.
It's super easy to set up, too.
It shouldn't take you more than five minutes.
Yeah. Yeah, let's see here. We got a... Do I download the camera thing, camo camera on the iPhone as well?
Yes, you need it to connect because it's going to connect over Wi-Fi.
So both your PC and your iPhone have to be on the same Wi-Fi network.
Excellent.
Yes. Thank you. Thank you. nice okay um yo um miles what do you think yeah what are you thinking real quick before we
kind of jump into it um do you want to are you
going to be able to get on your computer and share your screen yeah i should uh in two minutes i
should have everything done oh okay okay cool all right um well feel free to just like i think just
like you can just like kind of turn on your camera and um it doesn't have to be i think i'm setting that up we're
just gonna go through and record the whole thing so the the start i wanted to start off by um first
giving uh while you get set up basically uh i'm just gonna run through some topics with
ian and we're gonna look at twitter um yeah you know we're gonna go through just some of the
tweets about tariffs and and see it from ian's perspective and then i think midpoint we have a
little segue i actually added you to the i message chat so you can review there um on this still
great content team but uh how the world basically you're you're coming in for um how the world is reacting to this
and how the tariffs are showing up in the markets you know what i mean so okay so right now you don't
have to do anything but i would pull up a couple charts maybe um you know or even tweets that you
wanted to show from yesterday you're like yo i i called
the move i i liked how you i liked how you said uh typically altcoins or something dumps 20 percent
and uh you get a nice pullback right and it worked it was like a really good trade idea yesterday
uh that he tweeted about okay i mean i just that was something i thought was cool
um but also you know you could you could show hey this is when the tweet happened
look at the fucking price of uh stock nasdaq uh you know just run through that and that'd be
really cool to supplement uh after me and ian go in on the uh on the thing you know
oh that the information about, like, the 20%,
that was, like, in, like, my group.
That was on a tweet.
Oh, okay.
Yeah, yeah, exactly.
So I don't really have a tweet that necessarily solidifies, like, too much.
You did say, I mean, you typically tweeted to call those, call that, um,
those coins.
I mean, it's an idea.
I don't know that, I'm just giving you ideas uh if you want to just
look at charts and talk tariff some on effects on the market just just just go with that yeah
definitely that's kind of like what i prefer to speak about as well yeah all right cool are you
able to see my screen and camera? I can see your camera.
Okay.
I can see your screen as well.
If you can't see his screen, you might have to check show non-video participants real quick,
and then you'll be able to see.
Oh, yeah, okay.
Because for some reason, the screen share doesn't show up when it should.
Okay, yeah, I see it now.
Yeah, yeah.
Also, Miles, real quick, on the
left side of Camo Studio, there's going to be like an overlay section, and you pick the one
without the watermark. All right, where's the overlay? Oh, okay. Let me open it up real quick.
a bit small.
So in scenes and watermarks,
it's going to be, I think...
Did I get it?
Yeah, yeah, perfect.
All right.
In the chat, if you look at it right now,
Priya says that
on the stream, Max's mic is only working
on the left side of my headphones.
LOL, is this happening to anyone else?
No, not to me.
Interesting.
Max, you've been, uh, downsized to, uh, mono.
What?
You've been sent to mono and only on one, uh, only on the left.
Oh, yeah, wait. Actually, he'd be on one, only on the left. Oh, yeah, wait.
Actually, he'd be on stereo
because it's on left.
Oh, right, right, right.
Yeah, and the left one's just,
or the right one's not working.
What's the mod dashboard for Twitch again?
I see.
Okay, so it says here,
she says that he sounds fine on Discord
and everyone else is fine on Twitch.
So you're only coming through
the left side on Twitch.
Okay, you need to, like,
down, what do you call it, downsample to mono on your Twitch or on your OBS thing. so you're only coming through the left side on Twitch you need to down
what do you call it, downsample to mono
on your Twitch or on your OBS thing
you need to actually set it so that
it comes through
you need to use downsample
to mono
it should be in your
source settings on your OBS
you right click it or something
and Max you need to right click your source it or something. And yeah, Max, you need to like right-click
your source settings or your microphone on Twitch,
not anywhere else.
Yeah, and put that on.
On OBS, you said?
On OBS, yeah, yeah.
Because like right now he's like,
if you watch him on Twitch,
he's only coming through one headphone
on the left side, yeah.
Okay.
So my microphone, Twitch, not anywhere else.
Yeah, your microphone, yeah.
On OBS, yeah.
So in the source settings there, you should be able to like maybe right click it,
and there's like an option there to downsample to mono, or downmix to mono, I think it's called.
Yeah.
How about now?
Is that better?
Yeah, I mean, like, I'm listening to you through Discord, you're fine, but it should be better.
Maybe ask Priya, she's replying right now.
She says I'm echoing.
I mean she says I'm echoing.
Maybe I'm echoing because i'm coming through both
the twitch as well as uh discord that would be why so you'd have to i think mute me on discord
so you only hear me through twitch if you uh change to deafen uh on
discord here you should not hear anybody else on the Discord. You'd only be able to hear people on stream.
Yep.
That would be the best way to record.
Otherwise, you're going to hear everybody echoing.
Yep.
Yep.
Discord here, you should not hear anybody else on the Discord.
You'd only be able to hear people on stream.
Yep.
That would be the best way to record.
Steph, what's the mod dashboard
in Twitch?
Let me go to Twitch real quick.
They changed it and I really
don't like it. Where you can
only be in the mod view or in the regular
and you can't do anything in the regular actions.
Creator dashboard?
Uh, yeah, yeah, so down by the chat settings, there's chat highlight settings, chat settings, mod view, and turn on shield mode.
So you want to click that little sword and that will send you to twitch.tv slash moderator slash some fatty tuna alright
um okay Okay. Okay. I didn't get that, but maybe you can pull it up.
Okay, cool.
Yeah, I have it up.
Alright, are we ready? Can I see the chat?
I can't see the chat.
I don't know why Restream doesn't let me see the chat.
There we go.
Bang.
Nice.
Alright, we got it both.
Beautiful.
Alright, cool.
Then we need to get the recording. Recording. Looks good to me how we sound.
We're good?
Okay, cool.
Alright, we can just jump right into it. I think Piyos says I'm echoing. Am I still echoing when I speak?
Or no?
Let me know.
She's saying, Max, can you say something?
So that way she can hear you.
Yo, yo, yo.
Yo, yo, yo.
And she says that the mono audio isn't fixed yet.
The echo has been fixed, so the echo is fine.
But my echo has been fine.
But you're still mono on Twitch.
Mono on Twitch.
I don't even know what that means.
Just Google OBS mono downmix or something,
and it will tell you how to set that up.
Okay.
Yeah, there's a guide.
Because a lot of microphones have stereo for some stupid reason,
even though they're just recording mono.
They're not binaural.
Yeah.
It doesn't make a lot of sense
discord automatically downmixes it okay
hey everybody this is pun the frugal streamer and i have a quick video for you. First you may notice sounds like...
Thank God for AI.
Settings.
Audio.
Devices.
Mic auxiliary audio. Is it working now?
Let's see what she says.
Is it better for him now?
Is it anything yo yo yo so great where are you based out of right now uh dubai oh nice yeah
Dubai.
Oh, nice.
Yeah.
How's the weather?
Sunny.
Miles, are you going to come to Dubai?
Oh, what, for token?
Yeah.
When is it?
I don't know.
Ian, do you know?
It's end of this month. It's, I believe, the 29th to the 3rd. Ian, do you know? It's the end of this month.
It's, I believe, the 29th to the 3rd.
Oh, nice.
Yeah, you should come.
I'm having the baby soon.
Oh, crap.
So, congratulations.
She says, we'll see.
You're still only on the left side, so it hasn't been fixed yet.
Oh, my gosh.
Yep.
Okay, I'm going to try
one last thing.
I'm only on left side?
Can somebody double check this?
Everyone else.
Yeah, what's your Twitch username?
SunfettiTuna.
SunfettiTuna.
I'm only on left side?
The echo is better, but it's back a little bit.
Yeah, what's your Twitch username?
I'm listening to myself.
I'm only on left side?
It is only on left side. Oh. All right, we're close.
I'm just testing my own voice here to see what that sounds like. Down next to mono.
Monitor off.
Advanced audio properties.
I want to look for your micro.
Okay, here we go.
Monitor off. Oh wow, you're right. There is like an echo in my voice for some reason.
How about now?
It's like an echo in my voice for some reason.
Is it working? Is it working?
I don't know. I'm fixing my voice because I can hear an echo, which is super annoying, actually.
I think it sounds better now. It's like an echo in my voice for some reason.
Is it working?
Testing to see what I sound like.
Oh, you sound good.
I think it sounds fun. It's not the end of the world. Oh, you sound good. I think it sounds fun.
It's not the end of the world.
I think we're good.
If it's not game-breaking,
give us a go-ahead,
and we will pursue.
I'm going to look up some tweets
and get us started.
yep mono fixed echo fixed cool sweet nice
dope love it yep all right i'm gonna pull up some tweets i shared my screen we got the kimball musk tweet we got um
the pencil any other any other tweets that i should pull up
uh kimball musk has two tweets that you want to address like even look at his timeline right I sent
you only one where he is basically calling Trump a retard there is another
one before that where he actually talks about like it has more substance to it
okay oh the bill Ackman situation yeah you want to talk about that for sure. Here we go. Celebrating China by causing this one.
Yep.
That's the R word one.
There's one before that.
Let me see.
I'm scrolling through his timeline.
I'm going to highlight it for you.
Okay.
Bill Eklund's thing for sure.
Okay, yeah, there's thing, for sure.
Okay, yeah, there's one from seven hours ago where he said,
Who would have thought that Trump was actually the most high-tech American president in generations?
It's a pretty long post, so you can click read more.
If that's when you want.
Oh wait, do you have it in front of you?
Yeah.
Just copy the link. Yeah, I'll paste it here.
All right, sweet.
It's easier.
Yeah.
Here we go.
The chat here.
The pencil.
Here's the pencil.
Love this video.
Great video.
All right, I guess we'll get started.
What up, guys? Yep. Yo. Yo, yo. How we doing? All right, so we'll we'll get started what up guys yep yo yo how we doing all right so we got
my buddy uh miles in here today too ian how we doing brother big news tariffs uh a lot of uh
a lot of unrest and a lot of consequences that have shown in the market. That's why we brought Miles here today as well.
But I guess, Ian, you could just get us started with...
Let's start from the beginning of what happened here, tariffs, and what is going on.
Right.
Yeah, wow.
There's a lot to go through. But if I were to explain what is happening with tariffs, I would say it started with Liberation Day. That was last week where Trump announced Liberation Day and people had no idea what it was. And now we know it's tariffs. And he originally presented it as reciprocal tariffs, meaning that if a country had 5% tariffs on
America, America would hit it with 5% back.
Turns out that's not really the case.
The tariffs are not really reciprocal.
That's never been the plan.
The way they calculated the tariffs was through trade deficits.
And if you ask any economist, they'll tell you that a trade deficit is fine.
When you have a rich country, of course it's going to buy more stuff from a developing country or a poorer country.
They're not going to buy as much of your products.
But Trump doesn't see things that way.
For him, he's a real estate guy, and so is Howard Lutnick.
They're both real estate guys.
And for them, trade deficits are a bad thing thing because for them it's a zero-sum
game. That's how it is in real estate. So that's where we're at. A lot of countries,
even America's main trading partners including Japan, Taiwan, South Korea, which primarily
trade with America rather than with China or anybody else, have been hit the hardest
and they are being penalized for doing business with America.
Trump is demanding that they buy American products.
So if you're in Vietnam,
he wanted to buy more Herman Miller shares
to make up for it, essentially.
I'm being facetious here,
but that is essentially what they're asking for.
So when you're earning $900 a month,
I don't think you can afford a $5,000 share.
I'm a Herman Miller right now, by the way. Just throwing that out there, boy.
Oh, me too.
Same, yeah.
Fantastic brand made in America. Just the best office chairs.
Great.
So Americans do make good products, right?
And I think a big part of why there's even this deficit to begin with is because a lot of people,
even those who can afford
it, would prefer to buy those cheap plexi-spot chairs. They're not bad chairs, but they're not
Herman Miller chairs, but they'd rather spend, you know, $200 on a really nice office chair versus,
you know, $2,000 on a really, really good office chair. So that's a big problem. And I think that
comes with mentality. That's not something that's going to change overnight. But Trump is not happy with that deficit.
And he wants to fix it with tariffs.
And so here we are.
It's Monday.
Some people predicted that it would be Black Monday.
It's not really been that way.
If you look at the stock market, it's gone up a little bit.
It's a bit up and down.
It's rocky.
It's not.
No one's saying it's in a good place.
It's really not. But it's not as bad as it could be. For everybody else, though, like for
America's trading partners, you know, they saw some of their biggest losses in decades. For Taiwan
in particular, the worst in history, the worst drop off in history ever. A lot of them had to
simply freeze trading because they couldn't handle losses. That's not good for the global markets.
And Trump is sticking to the tariffs, right? Right now he's making a lot of
deals with different countries and they're going for a zero tariff approach.
It's unclear if he will accept those deals because again it's about trade
deficits for him. It's not about reciprocal tariffs. So they could say,
hey we're reducing our 5% to 0% and he's going to say, okay, big deal. You still have a deficit.
And that's where we're at, right?
Like China is obviously responding.
So, I mean, there's plenty to go with, right?
So let's get into it.
Yeah, no, definitely.
Definitely.
Well, let me just draw up a couple tweets that we wanted to jump into.
There's actually a lot of tweets. And I think you could we could probably just spend more time going through all the different viewpoints over the course of the week, because each country now has different responses, right?
They're all going to take place in response to the different differentiated amounts of tariffs that are going on for different countries.
differentiated amounts of tariffs
that are going on for different countries.
We already talked about
Canada, China, the implications
between...
Everyone's
essentially going to meet with Trump now.
Yeah.
Except for China.
Right.
Well, then we're not going to meet.
Which is really interesting. He wants a trade war
with China. I mean, this is horrible if you're a producer, if you're a manufacturer, or you're like an
American company.
That's really bad.
And he has essentially, and I'll let you get back to it, threatened to impose an additional
50% on all of their products, every single one, right?
So they were already hit by like 50 plus percent.
He wants an additional 50% on them unless they rescind their reciprocal tariffs
and they simply responded by selling off 50 billion dollars of Treasury bonds
that's not great if your goal and this will get into the whole narrative thing
later where a lot of like influencers on the right have claimed that Trump's
goal was to reduce the rates of the treasury because they're pretty high
uh well that's not happening if china's going to sell off the bonds they're going to have to
increase their rates anyway that's just how it works so that sort of fell apart wow this is
these tweets are ridiculous wow by the way um question for miles are you are you first of all
i want to see what uh i want you to pull up a chart maybe and
share it to the discord that we can pull up as a reaction uh market reaction but also i want to ask
like are you looking at these tweets and seeing impact in the markets on like a low time frame
when trump just drops these bombs on twitter like this oh yeah it's definitely and for traders it's kind of annoying because
you know you could be in some type of profitable position or you know let's just say your profitable
position and you can even be in the unprofitable position and every five minutes every hour um you
know that could actually change drastically like you could be like oh i'm up five thousand dollars then there's a tweet and then minutes later you could be down 15 000 um and then it will switch back and forth so
the the amount of emotions that come with this type of volatility is it's pretty wild yeah because
it's because it's crazy because not only is he announcing the tourists on the from using his
you know presidential powers but he's doing
it on twitter too to add fuel to the to the market fire um and not only that not only that like there
was even fake news this morning with uh you know i think watcher guru and then trump announced that
he's gonna pause all tariffs that even moved like bonds, the dollar, like it moved the entire like every global market moved massively off of that fake headline.
And, you know, at one point I was up like sixty thousand dollars.
And then like a second later, I find out that the news is fake.
Then I'm essentially like almost up only ten thousand or something, you know, kind of crazy.
You want to you want to pull up a chart, uh, just Bitcoin or, uh,
Bitcoin SMP just like clean, clean charts, I guess. Um, or whatever,
whatever you, whatever you like to show. Let me just,
I'm going to stop streaming on my screen for a sec.
Yes. Okay. And then, yeah, we can have you put yours up real quick yeah mine's up now okay cool
watch the stream all right sweet okay cool yeah so essentially um you know we were just dumping dumping dumping dumping all night
and we finally reached the bottom about uh three o'clock which is about an hour after the european
session opened um give or take and that's kind of like actually when we started to we stopped
selling off and we started to like bottom and kind of like move up and uh around like the market open there was like a pullback
and then we got that fake tweet or that you know headline um the market i gotta pull up bitcoin
alone bitcoin alone pumped seven percent off of that seven percent and then you know minutes later
uh we ended up pulling back about four percent but the funny thing is is
we are actually getting really close to getting back to the peak um of where the high of that
move was on that fake move uh that fake announcement which is actually it's pretty
bullish um and just to give you an example uh some altcoins have, like some of the biggest ones, for example, like XRP.
XRP had already bounced up 25% today.
Wow. At the highest point based off the fake news.
And even just now, we're up 17%.
Taking a look at Ethereum, Ethereum bounced like 7%.
Solana, Solana hit a low of $95, bouncing all the way up to about $113.
So just about 20%. So a lot of altcoins bounce very, very strongly today.
And that's a really good indication that we're probably getting close to a bottom.
The bottom might be in for altcoins.
More bad news and uncertainty, like with the trade war and like china specifically
it could dump us again but it seems that pretty much the worst fear the market is kind of
priced in could be wrong about that so there is a pretty good chance that we're really close to
a bottom a bottom might be in but ultimately as a trader and investor, Bitcoin in a bull market will typically correct
about 30%. We saw about a 33% correction, give or take from top to bottom from this morning's low.
And that's really like in a bull market in the uptrend, that is like the ideal area to buy.
And altcoins, like just to give you an example, like Dogecoin from top to bottom from the low of last night, this morning, down 72%.
So some like really strong, really good coins, you know, are down significantly, making new lows last night, like XRP down 50%.
This is for me as a trader investor, like this is where you want to be buying.
You don't have to go all in right now, but this is really a good area where you definitely want to like dollar cost average.
It gets some exposure at these discounted prices. And I do think I'm very confident in the next 60
to 90 days, we'll probably see new all new highs for crypto, maybe new all time highs for Bitcoin,
especially if we follow like the four year cycle for Bitcoin. Like that should be very,
very likely.
We're in a bull market.
Despite all the FUD, fear, and panic, Bitcoin will correct about 60 to 90 days before making a new leg higher in these four-year cycles and where we are at now, about the second quarter.
So I think we're going to be seeing higher prices.
And the market is probably, based on what Trump is doing right now, it's a chess move.
It's a very strategic move that he's doing, in my opinion.
Could be wrong about this.
I'm not an expert.
What he's doing is he's ultimately trying to get lower prices, these trade deficits out of balance.
And that's going to cause the Fed to cut rates.
That's going to inject more money into the market.
Lower rates.
We're going to have lower prices, lower inflation.
All this stuff is like a tool to honestly pump the market.
And that's why Trump is saying, like, you're going to be so tired of winning.
I think that his plan is going to work.
It's already working now.
We've already had about 70 countries already reach out to Trump to come to some type of term.
Some countries like China might not be as easy, but other countries will. And I think those headlines, once they really start to come out and snowball on top of the Fed futures is now pricing in more cuts.
These two factors alone, I think, are really going to push the market up in the next 60 to 90 days or so.
Would you say it's a good idea to buy an altcoin right now?
Oh, definitely.
Is this the bottom?
Nobody could say that Is this the bottom? Okay.
Nobody could say that this is the bottom.
For me, like, XRP, I don't see it going any lower.
Like, just to give you an example, this is one particular coin I'm trading.
I don't really see XRP or Solana making a new low,
unless there's some, like, really bad FUD that drops.
But the low that we did see today within the past 24 hours
that is an ideal place to buy and if you buy right now um or buy very close to the low which
you maybe have done maybe not um or have averaged near this level and a discount for cryptos i do
think that you will probably very likely see um higher prices in the next 60 to 90 days.
I'm not saying that these altcoins are going to 3x or 5x, but you could probably catch a nice bounce for sure.
Like 20%, 30%, 50%. We'll probably see a lot bigger than that.
I liked it.
I mean, last night, I copied one of your trades and it worked out well.
I mean, I copied one of your trades, and it worked out well.
But also just, you know, everyone on the timeline will basically scream despair
nonstop into one of these, like, massive dumps.
And obviously, you want to buy low and sell high.
So I saw your tweet last night, Miles, and it was like the only one that said
he was going to – I'm buying some here on the timeline, it seemed like,
and it ended up working out.
Yeah, I have some trades that are in profits.
Like I bought XRP.
I have a group and stuff.
We bought XRP at $1.67.
It hit already $2.02 today.
If you would have bought at that level, you'd already be up nearly 20%.
And if you have some capital behind that, for instance,
if you have a million dollars,
you'd be up almost $200,000 in a few hours.
And it's not about, like for me as a trader,
my job is I'm here to buy low and sell high.
And I'm here to extract money out of the market.
I'm not here to like catch these crazy big moves.
I'm here to just consistently like buy low
when it pumps up, sell, take profits.
And in like an instance like this, this is not an area where I'm really looking Just consistently buy low when it pumps up, sell, take profits.
And in an instance like this, this is not an area where I'm really looking to sell so quickly to scalp for a profit.
This is an area where I'm looking to hold for a little bit longer, especially after such a deep pullback and correction. The market is going to bounce up, especially once there's more clarity and certainty in the markets.
Yeah. to bounce up especially once there's more clarity and certainty in the markets yeah
no it's it's it's uh it's definitely been crazy i mean i think that also like you know
one of the things i mean i even started trading again because regardless of which direction it takes the volatility uh gets people excited to trade and now there's more avenues for people
to trade in either direction.
This is actually, you know, true for both the stock market and crypto, I would say,
I would say it's in all markets, it's become easier for retail to play with options,
or to short or to make money really on any side of the trade. You know, more than ever,
you have like hyper liquid and crypto, and you know, other perp exchanges that people are using stocks.
You know, you have Robinhood and apps like that.
And so even on these big moves where the stock market is moving down, there is still a huge influence of social media.
You know, these tweets coming out affecting the market now in either direction.
And people are focused on social media, like, trading
as active as ever on both the upside and the downside, it seems.
Yeah, definitely.
There's a lot of ways to make money and capitalize off this
volatility. And the more volatile the market is, you know, there's a faster, bigger chance for you to essentially capture part of these moves versus like the market not really moving much, kind of just going up, down a little bit.
Yesterday, most of the major altcoins were down 20% in a single 24-hour period.
Just based off physics alone and how the markets work, you have a 99% chance if you buy at some point near the bottom of some type of 20% crash on Solana or something big like that, that you could easily capture 5%, 7% or something like that.
And which, again, a lot of them have already bounced up 20%, 10%, 15%.
And that's like the easiest way for me to make money.
That is the most highest probability way as a trader for me to make money
is getting involved when there's like an emotional fear panic event.
That is where like the money is made.
The money is not made when things are pumping and already up.
That's when money is lost.
Money is made when everyone's panicking and there's blood in the streets.
You know, as Warren Buffett says, you know, you know,
they have the mentality of like when there's blood on the streets,
that's when you want to buy.
You don't want to be buying when things are, everyone's happy and up.
Everyone's happy and up because based on physics, when things go up, you know, they eventually
Because based on physics, when things go up, you know,
once the excitement and everything is in the interest goes down, people just slowly start
to sell off and that creates that big sell off.
And then that's what starts volatility again.
Let's look at the S&P like on that.
Yeah, I mean, that's chaos is a ladder.
Say again.
Oh, chaos is a ladder is the popular saying, right?
Yeah.
This is 100% the time to get into the stock market
if you want to, you know,
profit.
Yeah, definitely.
Even if you don't have a lot of capital.
I mean, like, you know,
I'm not a financial advisor,
but if people want to have fun,
maybe, you know, put $200 in,
buy something, and just play with it.
That can be your baseline, right?
Yeah.
Don't spend more than that.
Yeah, just play with that $200, see where it takes you.
You might make $10,000 out of it. At what point do you have to diversify yourself?
Diversify yourself.
At what point does the fiat system – we're currently experiencing market collapse on the back of countries screwing around with their fiat money, right?
Yeah.
You have to own a multitude of assets and be able to be a little bit agile, whether it's real estate, whether it's foreign exchange.
You're pretty much always on changeable ground in a sense.
Right. But yeah.
Plus it's a casino. It's fun.
You know, and if you don't overextend yourself and you don't, you know,
spend your life savings on it, don't do anything stupid.
Just play with that $200, like I said, and see where it takes you.
Whatever profits you make from that, use that.
That's your capital.
Right.
And then go pay for Miles' calls and lock it.
Wait, let's look at this chart, actually.
So this is what are we looking at here?
I want to look.
This is the NASDAQ.
Yeah, I would love to hear your take on the nasdaq
uh ian any questions you have uh in regards to like any any assets you want um miles to look at
and give you an opinion on and that can i think it's interesting because we can talk about oil
we can look at like commodities we can look at anything you want, like gold, whatever.
And especially if it applies to some of these tweets, right?
This is the S&P 500 futures, so the ES futures.
It is actually, just in the past hour
it's up like 1.4 the nasdaq is already up like 1.5 so futures is pretty positive um and the
futures will typically move based on the information that the market understands so
like this is essentially the market and the market
will move in accordance with certainty and you know whether it's bullish on certain events taking
place and the information that has come out through the day so um even with that fake news
like we're getting close to actually you know touching the high of that fake news for the nq
which is the nasdaq what was the fake news even the s&p 500 the fake news was the NQ, which is the NASDAQ. What was the fake news? Even the S&P 500.
The fake news was Trump dropping,
or pausing terrorists for like 90 days.
Got it.
Yeah, except for on China.
Yep, and everybody bought it.
Which shows that there is strength in the market.
There is confidence that people are willing to give Trump a shot, which is great.
And I'm seeing a lot of like, you know,
talking on the right. People are saying, hey, if Japan offers you a deal, you is great. And I'm seeing a lot of like, you know, talking on the right.
People are saying, hey, if Japan offers you a deal, you need to take it.
Right. Even if it's just a zero tariff deal and not a trade deficit deal, take the deal.
It's a good deal.
Well, I don't think Trump is going to take the deal, but that's what people are saying.
Right. Right.
Yeah. I mean, it's back to that question of whether he's playing chess or checkers.
Right. And he's playing both. Yeah. Maybe he's playing, that question of whether he's playing chess or checkers, right?
And maybe he's playing both, right?
But yeah, it's pretty crazy.
So, okay. So we looked at the S&P. What about the DXY?
The dollar is correcting. It's kind of like pulling it back after such a strong move. Okay, cool.
So you're looking at the DXI.
What does this tell you right now?
Honestly, I feel like the dollar was a bit more informative for me before Trump got in
office.
Now that Trump has gotten in office, the dollar has rather strengthened uh to a degree um actually
no we've been kind of pulling back yeah ever since trump got in office the dollar like really
was like strengthening and then like we started to correct kind of like once he got in um but for me
the dollar when it would go down that's typically like a more bullish sign for like risk assets um
but as of late i just personally am not really like paying too much attention to it
because the dollar is going up for you know various reasons but um there are certain times
when there is like a negative opposite correlation when the dollar goes down stocks go up cryptos go
up but that's not always the case and i I haven't really found such a strong correlation lately.
How about gold and Bitcoin?
But that typically can be a sign.
Yeah, gold, Bitcoin typically follows gold, and as we, since the 2nd of April, so around the time of, like, World Liberation Day or the tariff announcement, gold has taken a haircut top to bottom.
Would you say gold and bitcoin are trading similar because this is a question that i that i have and that seems to be coming up on
on x a lot which is uh people are seeing gold being the highest it's ever been amongst wars
and what's going on with tariffs and uh these these fears over the global economy is bitcoin following gold in that pathway to being this
neutral ground for you know companies uh and being like the it seems on crypto twitter that
everyone is just saying hold bitcoin only uh and and achieve salvation and nothing else that's kind
of yeah the maximalists yeah the maximalists are winning today. I don't think they're being realistic.
Because, you know,
for a while,
right over the weekend,
Bitcoin wasn't tracking
with the stock market.
In fact, it was fine.
And then latency caught up
and it dropped.
Like crazy.
We saw that today.
Right?
It just dropped below 78,000.
That's terrible.
So I think they're wrong.
I think it's just slow to move.
But I'm not a Bitcoin expert, so I don't know.
Yeah.
I don't think anybody knows.
Gold follows.
I think Bitcoin will typically follow gold.
There is a decent correlation there.
That's good.
Because they are to a degree like risk assets.
And gold will typically go up in times of uncertainty um you know with you have like high inflation with certain currencies
around the world so um gold is kind of like a safe haven and a hedge against that uh in certain
mindsets you know but gold really hasn't like um i would have to take a look at like the performance, but, um, gold is up from like September of 2022, about 84%. That's, that's pretty big.
Right. It's still going up. Oh yeah. I mean, like right now it looks like it's going down, but that's just a one day thing. And it's really not that big of a drop. If you, you know, zoom out, like you, you're showing right now. It's actually nothing. It's literally a nothing burger, right?
For gold, it's on the rise and it seems like a good long-term investment.
It's not something you want to create on a day-to-day basis.
You can't predict it.
But long-term, that's actually pretty bullish.
Yeah, definitely.
My dad's very big into gold.
He's been begging me to buy gold for the past three years.
I just never did it.
And cryptos, they far outperform gold. He's been begging me to buy gold for like the past three years. I just never did it. And, you know, cryptos, they far outperform gold, far outperform. So it is a good asset. Like it is
gold will typically because there's, you know, it's limited, it's very limited. Gold is going to
appreciate over time. I definitely see that occurring for sure. It's your, I mean, it's,
it's in your, this is your like favorite section
right like gold and silver are things you look at often yeah but they're not gonna necessarily
help me to make like any big financial decision it's just something to pay attention to because
for instance like today with the fake news what you can typically do when there's news out is you can take a look at gold.
You can take a look at bonds, you know, just a plethora of things and to see like, OK, what's happening?
What's moving? Is there anything like out of the ordinary?
And then whenever you see something really extreme, that can typically be a signal as to what is kind of causing whatever is occurring at the time.
Let's this bonds. Let me stop you on bonds.
I mean, that's an interesting point of discussion, right?
Howard, what is, let's go over what's happening, I guess, in the bond market, right?
Because that's, yeah, definitely.
Probably the last area of tenure.
I'm not a big bond guy, so I'm not an expert at bond by any means.
I'm not an expert at bond by any means.
Right.
But we could take a look.
But we could take a look.
I asked people in X what they thought of the possibility that China would sell off its treasury holdings
because it has, well, had something along the lines of $760 billion in bonds.
And they sold $50 billion today.
And the market reacted almost immediately if you look at it they were you know trump was expecting the rates to you know go down
but it actually went up right like i mean yeah so people were wrong and i think um the great
part about this is we can even if we don't even if we need
like we there's a lot to talk about like we can utilize these uh streams and podcasts to go find
the uh the bonds expert and and kind of yeah utilize the problem and us streaming to search
for more information you know like yeah 100 because if you ask x you're just gonna get a bunch of ignorant people who heard
something from some influencer who make some claim like oh china is uh you know it's teetering on the
brink they're gonna collapse uh this hurts them a lot but if you actually speak to chinese
influencers they'll tell you the exact opposite so i mean who's telling the truth right i mean
opposite so I mean who's telling the truth right I mean some people have just
more context and they'll tell you that for China this is not a stock market
thing they don't really care about it if you look at their economic situation
for like you know their average person the average person there is a house 92
percent of Chinese families own a house they've got cars and they've got savings
like at least a hundred thousand US dollars in savings. That is each Chinese family. That's a lot of money. Americans,
on the other hand, you know, it's something like only, what, 46% own a home and millennials
don't own homes and most of them have debts. So in a game of chicken, if we're playing,
you know, a game of attrition between China and and the US who can handle pain longer well it would probably be the Chinese although the
Americans do have a much stronger market on the account of the fact that you know
your US dollars this is worth a lot more and the Yuan is devaluing itself right
now China may be able to hold out longer and China has a different attitude
towards the stock market or who it towards like foreign trade in general because they've got this concept called face, saving
face, losing face, you know, it's an ego thing.
And if Xi Jinping were to back down from Trump when Trump is threatening him openly with
these tariffs, if he were to back down, he actually loses the mandate of heaven, which
is a thing, right?
Like that's how the chinese think about him wow and he becomes useless to the chinese communist party and they'll boot him out and they'll replace him somebody else who can stand
up to trump so he will not back down you know playing chicken with him is a bad idea he's not
gonna ever back down he cannot afford to back down on account of the fact that yeah the communist
party would just boot him out they'll be like well we want stronger leaders we don't want to elite leader it's a really good point i mean i mean if we if we think about
it too like there's there's inclinations of a larger war there that is underlined by the trade
between the u.s and china which has kind of been honestly memed i'll say memed a little bit because
of china back in the early uh it was almost like you know when you
create a meme you know these things can they can become something later on it's like it's like
ripples but um that's that's just been kind of brewing for a long time um the it's it when you
put it like that too with the war of attrition you know, I think we touched on it earlier. I think that therein lies because,
you know,
anything could happen.
It could be great or it could be bad,
right?
it could be the worst thing in the world.
I think that the war for many of the world,
Elon has talked about this in one tweet where he said,
it's about who builds the
drones right chinese china by the way he's he's subtweeting china in that because we know that
most of these fucking drones in the world are all made by china um you know that's the best
manufacturing it like was that it is it is that was the first thing that i read when I read Elon's tweet that talked about those drones. And
yeah, that's just, that's, that's the biggest thing that that war of attrition, they're equipped
to handle all this stuff. And not only that, the war is going to happen in the country itself,
right? Like, it's like, kind of going to be like like who's going to be able to fuck with internally
uh the most right and and over the last couple of years i mean when i was living out west i remember
there was just so much amounts of chinese money just coming in um and buying up the land and stuff
i just it's very obvious that uh it's easier to have an influence and you know you have these
migrant positives easier to have an influence in the american markets than it is the chinese markets uh american influence in the chinese markets i
think uh 100 they're patriotic most americans are not well at least like 40 60 are not patriotic at
all if you look at the streets right now you have 55 of center-left people they did a poll today
55 said that they would want to kill President
Trump, that they'd be okay with this assassination. That is an insane amount of people, right?
And these people are center-left, not far-left, center-left. So they're saying that, so there's
no patriotism there, they want him just gone. In China, I bet you, if you ask the average
person, they don't want Xi Jinping gone. They went from being a a quote unquote developing nation to a developed nation he brought them there and they
remember it he did a lot of rural population as well as the urban
population so they love him that's why he's got a mandate of heaven you can't
turn the Chinese against the Chinese this is not gonna work right this is
not like Taiwan which is fractious where you know 50% want to reunite with
China the other 50% don't.
It's not America where you have Antifa on the streets burning Teslas.
This doesn't happen in China, not just because they have a surveillance state.
It's just that they wouldn't want to do that.
They don't want to do that.
They don't want to live like that.
So it's very hard to influence the Chinese population.
And on top of that, there's a language barrier, right?
The Chinese speak only
Chinese, and if you're like an American foreign influence operation, how do you affect Chinese
people by only speaking English? It just doesn't work. Whereas with American, I mean, everybody
speaks English. It's kind of easy to, for anybody, you know, it doesn't matter if you're on the left,
right, a communist or fascist, whatever, you can have some measure of influence, whether domestically
or internationally. If you look at, measure of influence whether domestically or internationally
if you look at what al jazeera that's a qatari influence operation they have a massive influence
on america not just in terms of like the colleges that they fund but also on social media on their
own media channels they're driving certain narratives that are you know anti-right so to
speak yeah it's true i mean it's showing itself too through social media.
It's showing itself through the internet,
I guess the battle for the internet,
these countries that have VPNs
and force VPNs on their users
because they control the internet.
I mean, the internet is very much a geolocation battle
more than it's ever been.
I think social media platforms like x
i think play a big role in that as well and and split up these demographics where you have digital
states uh of the platforms themselves that expand across different nations and then you have the
nations and their their isps uh controlling the communication and's true that a lot of these Asian countries, they just,
they don't allow this stuff. It allows them to move faster and in unison, whereas American
democracy in some ways has created, you know, a ground for which anarchists can kind of come in
and screw it up at the advantage of these tighter net nations.
I think I almost find it hard to say that there are literally any holes in that statement.
Obviously, I don't think I can make those kind of blanket statements,
but to me, that seems really just –
It just seems so true.
As a half-Asian person myself, i can kind of like you know see the difference
right between asian culture at least korean and and um and american um yeah it's it's i think it's
i think it's a really it's a really interesting thing that's unfolding one thing that i think
you know to keep the idea of
the markets and the cash you may be here for miles is like uh i actually think that this trade war is
probably in a lot of ways bullish for bitcoin i think that like if there's anything that's giving
me this political stuff combined with how miles is is suggesting that we're going to, that the bull run is still among us.
I do think that the fact
there are a limited amount of Bitcoin
and the fact that it, you know,
it even has mind share by the US government
and the Chinese government
is enough for its price to pump
in the fact that there are two big superpowers
attempting to own more
kind of of every asset right um globally they both benefit yeah like if they're if they're
going to own everything they might as well own the bitcoin too it seems like the golds the fort
knox like but um what i mean what do you think um in in regards regards to trade wars and war stuff, Miles, when it comes to price impact and crypto?
As far as them wanting to get more?
Well, just like how do you take – there's been a lot of – in the market, right?
We've had a lot of different countries come out from El Salvador saying they were buying Bitcoin to, you know, some president
launching a meme coin, all kinds of stuff. Forget the meme coins for a second, but more just the
government and Bitcoin, I would say. Like, what's your stance there and how do you view, you know,
that whole segment, countries buying Bitcoin and then the trade war in tandem.
Yeah, I mean, it's quite clear that, you know, every country is rather bullish.
I mean, the majority of superpowers are, they have a lot of Bitcoin, they have a lot of crypto.
And now that, you know, these countries are becoming more publicly accepting of it as well. And these are definitely, these types of events are, you know,
these are for insiders.
And let's be clear, you know,
there are definitely people benefiting massively off of, you know,
these policies and this trade war for sure.
And people that know about it, like 100%, you know,
like this is an opportunity of essentially like a lifetime.
Like we're essentially seeing the same type of crash
and correction, not necessarily with crypto,
but in the stock market equities of like COVID
and the people that bought the COVID dip,
the COVID crash made fortunes.
You know, I think we're in that similar type of situation.
And it's a way to like give people those entries and even insiders, countries as well, you know, to buy these stocks and cryptos at these discounts.
Because the people that buy, if they really are going to be pushing everything up, you know, they're going to benefit massively and they're going to be able to
attribute it to the person who started it.
Yeah.
Yep.
I mean, if you look at Russia, President Putin very recently removed taxes from capital gains
taxes and Bitcoin earnings.
So that was a big thing.
That was a big move.
And so now a lot of Russian
traders can get in on the market and start buying into it. And I think this is a fantastic
opportunity for them. And if you're interested in making money, you want to move alongside them,
right? Because they're looking at this as an opportunity. Yeah, definitely. That's pretty
exciting for them. Yeah. And it's like the relaxation of Bitcoin ownership, of capital gains, taxes being removed.
I mean, you even see this in the US where, thanks to David Sachs, right, they decided
that they're not going to call certain like holding tokens if not a security, right?
So, yeah, we don't make money on it.
Yeah, that's a huge thing
so it's like now is a great time to buy you know shit coin really the um yeah essentially well well
then you also have the um the creation of digital dollars right so i think one of the news things
that went kind of under the radar and continues to go on the radar because people don't really
get it is the announcement of usd1
being the official digital dollar for the u.s i mean this is a whole can of worms that
i think people are worried about the market they just like i feel like the news has forgot about
this one but this has massive implications if the u.s actually backs and adds something to the likes of USDT, USDC, and it's a different stablecoin.
And based on the Trump meme coin,
you've got to imagine that somebody in the background
is going to be making hella money somewhere
in some probably shady opportunity.
And somebody made a tweet about this i gotta find it and it was like
oh you know governments manipulating their currencies is just going to become the norm now
um in some ways it already has been but if you start seeing a lot of uh countries move on to
the cryptocurrency system for digital dollars man in an in an interoperable way, which is going to
be weird getting there itself. It's going to it's going to be like the celebrity meta, I think all
kinds of trash is going to emerge. But I mean, that's a whole that's a whole different can of
worms, right? Like, it's, it's, it's, it's, you know, you got to imagine, like, we're not on this
blockchain system, we're not on this blockchain system we're not on this
all interconnected system for all these uh countries my professor in college he
explained to me from like that from 50 years ago the methodology of the u.s versus china was who
can print money faster. Yeah.
You know, like...
Pretty much.
I mean, they use it for different purposes, right?
China used it internally to subsidize its industries,
and that's why they don't really care about the stock market.
Even now, with, you know... You have people on X who are, like, super anti-China,
saying, oh, look, they're, you know, they're crashing and burning.
They're gonna, you know, self-destruct.
They can't take the pain.
Actually, they can.
Their economy's resilient enough. They've shown burning. They're going to self-destruct. They can't take the pain. Actually, they can. Their economy is resilient enough.
They've shown that.
They could be independent, right?
They're not super dependent on American trade.
They can weather this.
If they think that it's going to end at some point,
they will weather it.
No problem.
So that's what they did.
They shorted their economy.
Well, that's the thing.
It's scary.
I mean, this is the problem.
This is why wars begin is because the reality is there are people and just in the way that centralized fiat money works is the unlimited print has every reason to be misused and it is and it has been for years and you you've you've been creating wealth for so long
that's not backed by any tangible limited assets that it it's you you effectively have unlimited
resources you've created an unlimited resource for some people's system that you can power anything
and what will it power it will power to the point of the cost of human life it will power anything. And what will it power? It will power to the point of the cost of human life. It will power over influence. It will power over attention. It's why Elon Musk and Trump were trying to get assassinated.
there's a certain level of cost that well basically once a person is worth a certain
amount of money then it's like they have to kill them right um it's not about it so that's what
that's that's the scary part i think is like when you have the destruction of uh
into the systems of power it It's like it can be...
It has every reason to be as violent as possible.
The entire creation of Bitcoin in 2008 was for the expectation of a global financial system collapse,
which is finally...
I think it's showing itself finally,
like this far into the future
as wars have begun to pick up.
Yep. And we need a global you know currency because the us dollar which is you know the global reserve i don't think it's going to be
that way for long because trump essentially accelerated its uh you know its disuse with the
selling of the treasury's bonds and the fact that a lot of countries simply, you know, if they stop trading with America due to the tariffs, like we're seeing the Asian nations, the Southeast Asian nations, yeah, Vietnam came out and was like, hey, we'll drop our tariffs, but their tariffs are only like 2.5, so I don't even see how that is going to work.
It's like they are coming together with a plan, together with China, because China is
a part of ASEAN, people don't seem to realize that, but China, like these countries, even
if they prefer America, and even if they don't want to trade with China as much as they want
to trade with America, they kind of have no choice.
China is a big navy, they've got a big military, and these countries are small, right?
They cannot stand up to the Chinese military machine.
They're its neighbors, and they realize that.
It's a geopolitical thing that I don't think a lot of people realize,
because most people don't even know where Ukraine is,
despite having Ukraine flags in their profile.
They just have to play nice with China.
If China says do something, they do it.
Right now, that is what is happening.
There's going to be a reaction to the terrorists, and it won't be a positive one.
We've already seen some prime ministers in the region come out and say,
we reject the American terrorists.
Like, we're going to come up with a response,
and that's going to really significantly impact the American economy
because America sort of depends on these countries for all sorts of manufacturing,
not just from textiles, but
semiconductors like even not we're not talking like the Taiwanese semiconductors. We're talking like the low-end high-volume
super cheap semiconductors that America doesn't produce at all, right?
The factories are there in in these countries and at some point, you know, they're just gonna say no enough is enough
So they're gonna want to trade in their own currencies.
They're not going to trade in the U.S. dollar.
The dollar loses value.
And when that does happen and the prices go up for Americans,
so, you know, right now if it costs a dollar to buy something,
it's going to cost a dollar and a half.
People are going to switch away from it.
And Bitcoin is probably a pretty good way to trade amongst themselves.
I mean, they can't just be all trading with, you know, know their local currencies they need something to serve as a replacement for the dollar and bitcoin is
kind of obviously uh the best case for it america is such an interesting cultural hodgepodge
i mean it's just i mean it's one of the i mean well america's relationship with cryptocurrency
is certainly one of the best relationships out of any country in the world just because of the people that support it and it's never been in relation to the uh
government at all it's been a people thing right the government has actually kind of been like
pretty stupid about crypto basically were uh you know gensler was screwing over all the wrong people sure they protected like you know
a lot of the crime season uh uh you know meme coin saga perhaps um you know but i think that they
it was either one direction or the complete other direction um when it came to regulation which
but yet through all that right america still has like
the problem i would say still like the most effect on the crypto market as a whole like globally right
um they need to pardon roger ver you don't know who he is uh he's a bitcoin jesus they went after
him for tax reasons right but it was all very weaponized.
It wasn't like legit.
And the big reason for that was because he was and still is a huge advocate for Bitcoin.
He's a maximalist.
And he held a lot of it.
And they saw him as a target.
Yeah.
You know what?
He's a libertarian.
Shout out Roger Ver.
Yeah.
Major shout out Roger Ver.
Definitely need Trump to pardon him.
I'm with you on that. Yeah. 1000%. 100%. I love Roger Ver. I mean out Roger Ver. Definitely need Trump to pardon him. I'm with you on that.
Yeah.
1000%.
100%.
I love Roger Ver.
We should all be on it.
Everyone who has been pardoned already needs to speak up right now and pardon Roger Ver.
I saw Elon a while ago.
He was saying...
Yeah, he was like, oh, well, Roger's not American.
Let it be known.
Yeah, he was like, well, Roger's not American anymore. Let it be known yeah there's like well roger's not american anymore let it be known that you know it's not fair what happened
let it be known that miles and i were at space with arthur hayes uh when he got pardoned by
trump at his table at space in miami uh at 7 a.m let it it be not. That's awesome.
He looked at me.
Ian, he looked at me.
There is a... And Arthur is...
He is...
He's the reason we call Space Church.
Because he goes there every year.
And he gets this table there.
And he looked at me.
And we're drinking Dom Perignon.
The table starts at 6 a.m. in the morning.
Okay.
He's like, be ready.
Get some rest.
Wake up.
Dom Perignon.
And he looks at me.
And he's like, look, I just got pardoned.
I'm like, pardoned?
And by the president.
Nice.
So ridiculous. That's insane
it's actually so crazy
I mean
what did they do
Arthur Hayes
sent us six months of home detention
violating the bank secrecy act
along with taking a $10 million fine.
Damn, that's crazy.
But he got the pardon.
He's good.
He's good.
I didn't even know that you guys were being serious about that.
What? That he got pardoned? Or that...
No, he really did get pardoned.
And then he posted that tweet of...
Let's find this.
Wow, that's amazing.
The thing that Roger Ver has going against him is that he gave up his U.S. citizenship, right?
And, you know, you see people claiming that, well, losing American citizenship means that you lose the, you know, the privilege of being pardoned or whatever.
But it's like, well, he had to give it up, though, right?
Because the government was being extremely unfair to him, and it was being very un-American, you know, in the way that they treated him.
It was very unconstitutional so wouldn't relinquishing
your citizenship be the most patriotic thing you could do in that instance if the government was
literally oppressing you right for essentially you know for just being a bitcoin maximalist
that's insane to me what a chad you should be pardoned what a chad yeah no 100 um dude roger beer is an absolute legend for those who don't
know i think it's it's actually there's a lot of a lane for us to talk about some of the old
crypto legends uh they are very synonymous with early days of twitter and x and just free speech in general obviously um yep it's
one of those things that just i i and i think a lot of people have forgotten about it because
that's this is what happens when the implications of something you built happen 20 years later and
you're a human you just like forget that um it's it's way different now right like the bitcoin ideals that we were talking about with roger
veer back in the day i mean it's things have changed so drastically it's insane and it's a
multi-generational industry um but you know in some ways you know what i would also say
and i think people fail to understand this as much is that crypto also is,
it's multi-generational.
So social media is also multi-generational.
It's going through a lot of forms
in the same way that crypto is, right?
It's evolving.
It's very different than it was 20
years ago the social media landscape affects crypto and and and there's they're beyond correlated
they're causative it's it's it used to be correlated now it's causative right um the
entire structure and dynamic of how we communicate and the market itself is changing um and we're going into a hyper digital environment where you know coins
are more prevalent more speculative things things are getting more connected to the internet and
changing right like we got robots that are going to build networks that are going to connect to
each other it's kind of going to be a crazy uh situation what a time to be alive
yeah like for real i love it by the way miles exciting arthur haste is by the dip too
yeah well you and my you and you and arthur think alike
yeah definitely we were calling the correction you know know, like months ago. I remember when I called that 77k.
He was calling for like 70k.
And Ansem was calling
something like 80k or something like that
while we were at like 105 or something.
Yeah.
I feel like you've been cooking the hardest.
Arthur's been cooking pretty hard too, though.
He called that move correctly.
Let's see cooking the hardest. Arthur's been cooking pretty hard too, though. He called that move correctly. Let's see this.
He really got into it after these terrorists.
I got to find this Miami tweet.
It's so funny.
Yeah, right here.
Vibes strong.
This is post-partum. This is post-partum can you imagine
you got pardoned by the president of the united states
after like
after x amount of years and you're just
you're in the club already
so crazy oh man did he know he was getting the pardon or or what like how i like you got to i
got it you got to imagine he had to right yeah well he well well also his three other co-founders
got pardoned at the same time too so you know yeah they would have known yeah i'm sure they
were working on something i mean dude you got to imagine the Trump pardon is probably as much of a Trump homie thing as it is.
You know what I mean?
It's like, it's literally like, like the whole title is like being a homie of the president.
You get, you get like, you get to get pardoned.
All his buddies get pardoned.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Well, I mean.
Because a lot of them have been a fair law fair.
It's kind of – it's fair in a sense because you have to change – you know, being a president, you have to completely change the way you operate completely, right?
Like you become a political target to the max degree out of nowhere, right?
Well, I think it's interesting in countries where the president is not nearly as big of a social media menace as Trump is.
But, um...
Hey, look at this. This is so funny.
Yeah, like...
Toculis scare the establishment. That's the reason why they...
Right, he can't be killed easily.
Arresting Le Pen.
Yeah, they're arresting Le Pen.
And a million, you know, a million French people show up and they're like, no, you can't do that.
That is a huge deal.
Bolsonaro in Brazil has been unfairly charged.
And a million people came out on the street for him today to protest that.
They don't want it to happen.
That's a big deal.
When you have Sao Paulo entirely rising up, it scares people. It scares the establishment.
They can't control it. And that's the reason why they use the courts to shut them down. Like I said with Le Pen, it wasn't a million, a hundred thousand that came out, which is still a lot. Kaelin Georgescu, he was banned from running for office because of his social media presence.
Essentially, they claimed it was Russian influence. It wasn't. It was Russian-style influence,
meaning that he was just really good at social media. So they banned him and they said it was like,
you know, he was endangering democracy. So they don't want a Trump to take over Romania.
And if you look at Orbán, they're trying to do that to him.
The Germans want to do that to him. They're trying to do it to the AFD.
With all their leaders there, with Ellis Vidal, good at social media.
Again, it's a threat to the establishment.
They would rather have someone in charge like, whoever they have in charge, like Mertz.
And he's not a social media menace. He's an old guy who probably doesn't know what X is right. He just knows it's a thing that they need to ban because it scares them
That'd be a good thing to clip by the way what I just said let's do that
chat you know that
Also the thing I said about Roger Ver,
the whole thing we were talking about Roger,
we should clip that as well.
He needs a shout out.
For sure.
I love that.
I can definitely get behind that one as well.
Random question.
Why is this trending?
What's trending?
Elon Musk is an alien.
So funny. I don't know. what's trending Elon Musk is an alien so funny
I don't know
there's something about this post
that just
340k followers
Hassan do you know this guy
hold on
I'm loading up your stream
yeah yeah Hassan Sizwani
yep I know him
I personally know him
okay Elon Musk is an alien 100% yeah yeah Hassan Sejwani yep yep I know him yeah I personally know him yeah okay
Elon Musk is an alien 100% I mean this is just so funny like it's just so funny like
Mike Lee even responded um you know uh is that he's a US citizen
Mike Lee's a funny guy
this is great dude by the way
Mia's been sending me pictures of
Shiba Inus non-stop
cute
thank you
I know maybe I have to get one too
they're super cool
they're incredibly intelligent.
Oh, this is funny. Look at this.
This is hilarious.
You know what we should...
Since we're looking at...
We should just do like...
We should do like an
algo check. You know what I mean?
For a segment. This is so easy.
It's actually
like just like us playing video games miles you get in this too and we get to see the algorithm
from each other's perspective you know what i mean so it'd be cool it'd be cool to like see
different people's algorithms invite them on the show and be like all right let's scroll on your
profile slowly and just kind of see what comes up.
You know what I mean?
Yeah, that'd be sick.
I think it'd be super insightful, too,
because it tells us kind of like what's pervasive in the algorithm
and what's not, you know?
Yeah.
There's some stuff that you know just breaks Twitter
and it just goes to everyone. And it's so funny. Like there's like stuff that you know just breaks Twitter and it just goes to everyone.
And it's so funny.
There's Twitter-wide content
and there's XR content
and there's content that you know
will only stay in one specific niche.
I put a tweet in the Discord chat.
It's kind of funny.
That is so funny.
I'm looking at it right now.
You should click on that.
Which chat? Discord chat. so funny i'm looking at it right now yeah you should click on that that's okay wait or today which which chat discord is that what chat yeah it's latest yeah it's the latest post yeah the
it's in the top right corner you're gonna see show chat there's like a little chat
icon it's like white with the kind of cloud type thing i love the show chat
oh the show chat dude see Discord really is built for this stuff.
Alright, pretty cool.
It's fine.
Alright, crap.
Take it back.
Okay, you should be in a hole.
Yeah.
Yo, this...
Yo, not for nothing, this shit looks lit as fuck.
I know, right? Nah, this shit looks lit as fuck. I know, right?
Nah, this looks crazy.
Nah, we need better than dog racers.
Yo, we need this, bro.
You know how some people watch dog racers, right?
They have those pointer dogs.
I forget what they're called, and they chase a free rabbit.
Bro, this is...
Yeah, yeah, greyhounds.
There's no animal cruelty here. This is way rabbit. Bro, this is... Yeah, yeah, greyhounds. There's no animal cruelty.
This is way better.
Bro, there's no animal cruelty here.
They're having fun here.
It's animal risk.
They're riding a motorbike.
Nah, it's animal risk.
But it's not cruelty, right?
Yeah.
That's hilarious.
That's a real thing, though.
Vietnamese monkey races.
That's crazy. i dude this is
actually a effectively a bucket list thing right now for me if i die i need to see this yeah yeah
we need no no we need this is like i don't know if we can make this happen in dubai i feel like
dubai is one of the places where you can make anything happen dubai probably has this i'm just
i'm just gonna I don't think so.
Yo, look at this. It's CA.
Somebody said CA.
Oh, God.
This is so funny.
Would they be tariffed, though?
Yo, this is hilarious.
This is hilarious. Somebody should totally drop this as a meme coin that's actually hilarious
yo i think this could go
i think this has it
i think this is it
i think it's a major study
that shit is funny
if somebody makes this coin
send me some coins
this is fucking hilarious it's like way more lit than you know watching like
cockfights right which is cruelty and it's and it's illegal yeah or those really boring
peruvian ones where they get like a like a what it was at a hamster or a um
a guinea pig to walk in a you know see which hole it enters this is roulette this is boring you know
like this is creative it's like you've got monkeys on motorcycles like I mean
what who came up with this such a stupid thing and yet so cool
wait I want to say one point crypto hamster racing was pretty big.
Crypto hamster racing.
Where is Elon, where is he playing at him?
Oh, he's playing.
He was playing in his plane.
He was playing Path of Exile. Yeah. was playing in his plane he's playing path of exile yeah okay
yeah look at this it's just trending today they're just they just keep going for it
it's elon and alien yeah that is your that is your your elgo right there yeah elon is an alien thing yeah it's it's keeps going up wait can we wait can you share your screen
um ian uh hold on i would love i would love for you to scroll the alga that would be super sick
yeah i'm gonna i'm gonna going to close my DMs first.
Oh, yeah, you got to do that.
Well, you could just show.
You only need to show the TL.
You don't really need to show.
Right, yeah, yeah.
I'll just show the middle part.
You can crop.
I think you can crop it.
Can you crop it?
Yeah.
Yeah.
All right, let me see.
Well, you can make it you can you can make it
small so you can't see anything right yeah yeah just do it like that make it
make it thin yeah quality I'm just looking to my thing see what it looks like
Can you see this?
Yeah, let me just turn off mine.
Yeah, I can see it.
Can you see it?
Okay, yeah.
So, yeah, there's Mark Pincus talking about some stuff,
and then there's Visigrad.
He says, what, China will fight to the end if the U.S and system tariffs yeah i told you i told you i told you i told everybody and
they're like china's gonna give in it's like you don't know anything about the chinese if you think
they're gonna quit come on give me a break wait can can we give me a break can we go a little bit... Oh, that's pretty good. I guess it's a pretty good size.
Yeah, it's fine.
Yeah, yeah, okay.
And then you have Mike Lee
talking about... I really don't care if my race is
referencing lowercase, if I don't care less.
Don't understand logic here. Oh, this is just some old post about AP and why they lowercase white, whatever.
Raw's alerts, yeah, this is the same thing
that I just posted about.
In fact, I should probably tweet that out, honestly.
I'm going to steal this guy's tweet.
And I'll show you how I do it.
So actually, I won't show you how I do it.
I actually just write it out myself,
so you actually get to see in real time how I do it.
So this is what he said, right?
So yeah, China is not giving up.
Xi Jinping has the Mandate of Heaven.
I should capitalize that.
Mandate of Heaven for a reason.
And it's because he shows strength in the face of foreign adversaries.
Unlike his predecessors.
This is like watching a wizard at work.
Yep.
Proper capitalization on the mandate of heaven.
Yep.
Ministry of Commerce
has issued a statement to say that it will
fight to the
and if the U.S. insists on new tariffs
they are not backing down.
Let's see.
In fact, I'll just say they're not backing down.
China is not backing down.
I don't have to repeat myself.
I'll put a breaking here.
There you go
it is such an art
because tweeting
is one of those things where it's like
it's best for writing
fixing and then executing
it's not good
I don't find it good to be saving in drafts
how often do you go back to drafts
it's always better off the cuff
right
immediately you see it you post it up you don't think. How often do you go back to drafts? Yeah. Never. It's always better off the cuff, right?
Yeah, immediately. Yeah, you see it, you post it up, you don't think about it too much.
You know, obviously get your facts straight.
Don't put up bullshit like Walter Bloomberg and then fuck the economy.
Don't do that.
But that was the right amount of grammar.
Like you spent, like, you kept a controlled amount of proofreading, right? You didn't think too hard about it, right?
Sometimes I think I fuck myself because I sit there and I,
I tweak things too much when I had something fine that was just better.
I could have saved myself the 10 minutes waiting,
uh, made some smaller cuts and just pressed post. That's the,
that was the best advice you actually ever told me
which was like yo just post through it that's the study like always post of course i threw it
yeah absolutely don't don't waste your time you know fixing your grammar all the time and and you
know unless something is so egregious like you really misspell a word don't bother even deleting
or editing your post if you just like mistype a letter in one word
it doesn't matter it really doesn't matter it's not a big deal people look past it don't make a
big deal out of it and no one else will right your your your statement is correct unless you
just completely fuck it up by using the wrong word then okay yeah then okay yeah then okay you don't deserve you don't deserve it
this is a funny post you see oh there you go added and subtracted three trillion from the
market today right and it's a whole timeline of what happened yeah there you go this is the
this is what we needed to show miles perfect miles take a look at this that's right so at
the start rumors emerged a 90- day tariff pause that's when it
went up and then cnbc took that report which they didn't vet so cnbc up there that's fake news
went up went up went up went up and then s p 500 added three trillion from a low of day yeah like
that that's your high and then you know it started to drop when cnbc reports the white house is
unaware of the 90-day tariff pause. So that's what caused that drop.
And then, you know, the White House calls the tariff pause, headlines of fake news,
dropped a bit more, and then the S&P raised like 2.5 trillion.
So it went up and went down, and literally every single stock, the Dow, S&P, you know,
NASDAQ, all went up and down.
It's insane.
It shows you how strong the market is, which is good. You know, you should be bullish about that.
It's like, yeah, U.S. economy is not dead. Like, this is great. It means that
there is investor confidence and Trump, it won't be difficult for Trump
to get it back. All he has to do is make a deal with Japan or Vietnam, whatever.
It's going to rock it back up. Like, that is just a guarantee. And maybe Trump even
knows that. Maybe that's why that came out.
Who knows, right?
Like, they might be playing 40 chess.
Put him up to it.
I'm not sure.
I mean, I think it was an accident.
Like, a happy accident.
But it shows that Trump still has confidence of the market.
He just needs to leverage that confidence and not fuck it up.
I think a lot of people are worried that he'll fuck it up by saying no we
have we're having to tear us forever fuck you right that would that would decimate the market
you gotta imagine someone's testing them like yeah i don't know i i it's hard to tell when we
have so much bullshit and conspiracy quote-unquote conspiracies that are real but it's like the fake news testing the market strength like
come on bro i don't know it's insane i don't know i don't see that happening i do it's just a happy
accident i have a tinfoil it just shows i have a tinfoil hat on yeah i always have a tinfoil hat
on there's too much fuckery going on in these in these markets and there's too much reason for
sure there's some fuckery there yeah yeah like someone made money on that like
what the like you just you guys just who made this mistake and who corroborated this mistake
you know what i mean yep it's cnbc just jumped on it which is insane sounds like a well-coordinated
um you know a well-coordinated like psyop to me yeah i mean I mean, like, I mean, let's, if we were to just like pull away from the stock market
for a second, let's just look at how 51% attacks happen, right?
In crypto.
When that used to be a thing, that used to be like a vulnerability for Bitcoin.
Not anymore, but like the 51% attack would usually be coordinated through psyops.
Sales and then someone would buy it up at a low price
and then eventually they have the 51% and then destroy everything, right? They would just like
rug everyone. That used to be a thing. Now, fortunately, the, you know, crypto is a lot
more resilient to it, like at least Bitcoin and all the main ones are, but that was the result
of psyops. And right now, today, when we saw that rise of $2.5 trillion, $3 trillion,
somebody made a shit ton of money on that.
That's a guarantee.
They knew it was coming.
Yeah.
Like, who did that?
You know, who made the most money from this?
Like, we don't know yet.
We don't know yet.
Any ideas, boss?
You know.
Was it CZ?
Was it Arthur Hayes?
Probably Arthur. It was probably Arthur Hayes? Probably Arthur.
It was probably Arthur Hayes.
Must have been Arthur.
It must have been Arthur.
Not that he's pardoned.
Well, I gotta use the bathroom.
Sure.
Looking at my timeline to see what's uh what's trending there it's just it's just for me it's
uh it's mostly tariff talk it's like kind of thing yeah it's gonna be the headlines for a while
i'm ready for the tariffs i don't want to hear the word anymore i'm ready for that to be over with
the headlines coming out every hour.
Tolerate it for a few more weeks,
likely.
Then there'll be another headline.
There's always a headline.
I do like that,
on a side
note, there is this
culture war that is currently
brewing on the right between the
populists who will pretty much follow whatever it is Trump tells them to do.
They'll just blindly support him and will act like they're educated on the topic.
Some of them are, but most are not.
And I mean, if you support the terrorists for a legitimate reason, like you actually
did the research and you have proper arguments, I'm not accusing you of being like a cheerleader but for a lot of these guys they know
basically nothing about economy or anything like that right oh yeah they're parroting everything
the administration tells them and they're attacking anyone who's like a fiscal conservative or a
libertarian people who voted for trump legitimate patriots people believe in america who don't like
what is going on
and they're attacking them as traitors, as
panicans, you know, that's a term
Trump came up with today and it's taken off
which is smart of him
it's a good way to fight a PR war
you just call them panicans and now they have a term to use
on people who disagree with them, right?
yeah, yeah
I see there's massive pushback
on the fiscal conservative right where they are attacking these attacking these other, the people who are attacking them.
They're pointing out the flaws in their arguments and how, like A.G. Hamilson here, he's a really smart guy, wrote a gigantic threat here, responding to, opposed to a day of rehab boy, who talked about how, how you know they're talking about the nature of
tariffs and how they support tariffs if they're being used as a negotiation
tactic not if the end goal are the tariffs themselves that would be a
stupid thing because yeah that would actually bankrupt America no one
benefits from that that's just it's like the dream and this is my opinion but I
think it's it's solid the dream of making America a manufacturing powerhouse for textiles
and turning everything back into 1950
is just a stupid pipe dream from people who were not born in that period of time
or lived through that.
It's just not going to happen.
America is a service provider, right?
And that's not a bad thing.
For all the talk of trade deficits and how, you know, Europe, like, their deficit is huge.
They sell or trade, like, $20 billion or something or more than that with the United States.
It's like, you know, like, triple that amount, whatever, or 10 times that amount.
What people don't seem to realize is that Europeans are using American services.
There is no American, I mean, a
European equivalent to Google. There is no European equivalent to Windows or iOS or Mac
or, you know, Swift, right? Swift is an American service. That's all run by Americans and the
British, the Europeans. Pretty much the whole world in general is dependent on American
services. And people are not factoring that in. They're only counting the trade deficits and what they sell and what they buy and I don't think that paints a whole picture that that is it's very short-sighted to expect countries that don't have any services to you know to also be buying products when their chief export is our products in America their chief export in America's chief export is its services and they're good services.
That's why people buy it.
So I don't know what people's problem is.
They're just like, oh, you know, it's like they're not buying American products.
What is America making that they want?
Like Europe doesn't need American agriculture.
They have better fruits, better vegetables, better meat.
Why would they need American stuff?
That would destroy their own agricultural system for Saval.
Secondly, they don't want to eat American meat because it's not as good.
I'm not saying it's complete trash, but it's just not as good.
There's all these things, and it's funny when you see these White House guys go on television complaining about how there
are no American cars on European streets. And I'm thinking to myself, have you seen European
streets if you lived there? Like I lived in Rome for a while. The streets are tiny. They
can't even fit a truck. If you own a jeep even, you cannot fit it on the roads. You're
not even driving to the center.
They don't even allow European cars that are sedans to drive into the middle of Rome.
It's...
You can't.
It's illegal because it's too small.
I mean, the streets are too small.
The cars are too big.
So what, you're gonna drive your Dodge, you know, Ram there or your Raptor?
No. You know, you're not going to drive a
Cybertruck through it so please the expectation is just you know it's
ludicrous by the way miles you've been staying up quite a while on on the
markets you're still you're still short-term bullish here.
What do you think on this?
Bitcoin's at what?
79.6?
Very bullish.
Very bullish.
You're pretty allocated right now.
Yeah, about 80% allocated.
Wow.
79.6 on BTC.
Dump it on a weekend. If you look at my timeline,
if you look at my timeline,
it's filling up with Jasmine Crockett,
the dumbest member of Congress.
She's advocating for illegal immigration slave labor,
and then
she said, we done picking cotton. So this woman is very interesting. You know, people think she's
stupid. She's really not. She isn't ghetto. She's not from the streets. Like she likes to portray
herself as this, you know, ghetto, black, poor, lower-income woman
who was on SNAP at some point.
That's just not who she is.
She grew up wealthy, lived in an all-white neighborhood,
went to some of the most expensive schools in the country,
graduated from them with honors,
and she's a Rhodes Scholar.
She went to Rhodes, which is... is you got to be really smart for
that um this whole thing is an act where she's pretending to be you know stupid it it resonates
with stupid people but she's actually really smart and really like well-spoken but she dumbs
herself down on purpose this whole thing is phantomime. It's an act. I hate that.
You know why I hate that?
Look, you know, all respect to Razmer,
but I feel like this guy Razmer on Twitter
definitely did that.
Smart kid, made dumbass content
that I would have, like,
I would never do,
I could never see what I'm doing.
But it just, like, it works,
but it sucks. I mean, I hate that just like, it works. But it sucks.
I mean, I hate that.
Yeah.
You've got no self-respect.
Well, it's just not being, it's also just being fake as fuck.
Like, that's literally like, it's literally like the epitome of being deceitful to get
somebody to do something is like, not being yourself, right?
100%.
Yeah.
I mean, like, take me, for instance, right?
Like, people like to say, oh, he's a grifter,
he's a foreigner, or some bullshit. Like, I get
a lot of that criticism, and people don't follow me,
and they say that. I blocked him because
he's not saying things I like. Basically, that's what
they do. They block me because I say things they don't like.
He's a grifter. It's like, well, if I was a fucking
grifter, I would say things that they like.
I could, right now,
right, like, I could very easily be, you know, be like super pro tariff and say,
tariffs are going to make America great again.
And it's going to bring manufacturing back.
And, you know, I would just have to like totally lie through my goddamn teeth and pretend that, you know,
that America can somehow turn into a, you know, a goddamn gigantic Nike factory.
That's not happening.
That's never happening. That's never happening.
You can't make it happen.
Fetch is never happening.
But they'll get mad at you because you didn't lie
and not say how you feel and pretend.
They'll get mad at you.
They'll get mad at you.
Even though you're the one who is being honest,
they would rather preserve their feelings
than have the honest truth.
And then they call me the liar, right?
They'll say, oh, you're a liar.
Who's paying you to say this?
Well, if I wanted to get paid,
I would just parrot whatever the fuck it is
you guys are saying.
It's not difficult. You're literally
choreographing
what your
views are. I could literally parrot it
and do it in a way that is ten times
more effective than your messaging
and be good at it
and influence you
into just agreeing with your own thoughts.
It's an echo chamber, right?
Here's an example.
You've seen a bunch of influencers parrot the exact same line saying that,
well, if tariffs didn't work, then why do 170 countries use it on America?
I'm sure you've seen that, right?
There's fucktons of these people saying the same thing.
They're all influencers.
Somebody's either paying them to say it or, you know,
they started copying from one another. They saw,
oh, that went viral. I'll say the same thing too.
Yeah.
Well, first of all, as I've gotten into understanding
more of the content pipeline, the reality is
for every influencer,
there is five
or a couple fake influencers that are
just run by management teams.
And then the management teams, from a company standpoint,
I mean, in order to expand, they most likely pick up other clients
and have background networks, right, where this kind of stuff is passed through.
I mean, it's probably very easy to for certain aspects to
run or to identify if you're if you're an avid user of like twitter i can tell when somebody's
followers are dead followers or real followers um but like you know it i don't know at least for
twitter like in celebrities right uh the celebrity tweet run is like it's honestly the
most psyop thing in the book and it's always been that way because i know celebs they never use
twitter they used to always like hire the same like one person to handle all the social media
yeah i mean look at taylor swiss uh posts and she's got you know like tens of millions of
followers same thing with Justin Bieber.
They don't use Twitter or X.
And when they post, their followers don't really reply
because their followers are fake as fuck, right?
Yeah.
It's as simple as that.
You see that with some news websites as well.
You know, I think what Huffington Post is a good example
where they have millions of followers,
but they have no interaction.
Why is that?
Because it's fake.
Followers are fake yeah you're you're your whole the whole the whole meta has also shifted it's on its side for things for musicians and and people like you kind of need to build your own
multi-platform um model to keep up and stay relevant in in in in today's broken internet world like you kind of
have to like span a couple bridges and battle a lot of you know platforms trying to get at you
like you have to like kind of make this this way out you know um i don't know it's it's it's a fight
to earn a spot you know now with and you
have all these different platforms that kind of it's a different game on each platform by a lot
right yeah but the diff the the things that make you big on instagram do not make you big on x
and you know those dynamic but those dynamics play out in really interesting ways, like in terms of the global discourse, right?
Yeah.
When you have IG next to X, next to TikTok, really, right?
In terms of content.
Yep.
The style of content is very different, right?
TikTok is easy.
You get on your phone, film yourself, upload it immediately, right?
Or go live even.
Same thing with IG.
There's a similarity there due to reels.
Yep.
Can't do that on YouTube.
YouTube is like, it has to be more, to be effective on YouTube,
you have to actually create a video, a production, so to speak.
Even if it's a low quality production,
it is a time consuming thing where you run it through an editor you know upload it put your thumbnail your your you know the descriptions
the keywords all that and the title title is important you don't really care about titles
on tiktok it's just not a big deal miles you do uh you do a bunch of youtube so what is uh
all right so here's a good here's a good topic of discussion actually.
Number one, what's your experience like with YouTube in regards to what he was just saying?
What do you got to do to be successful on YouTube is my first question.
And then the second part is what would you like to see X do that you really like about YouTube, right?
Yeah.
Yeah, sure.
Yeah, he's definitely very right.
Like with YouTube, it's probably the hardest,
I would say one of the hardest social medias to grow.
But given that, it's also the most rewarding because your followers the people
that like watch you and are consistently like paying attention to your content they like are
there forever and they're like like you build this cult following and these people like they
love you and will literally buy everything you sell or, you know, whatever you tell them to do. But it definitely takes time to build that. What I really like about YouTube is like it will,
it'll get you out there. Like it'll get you in front of people that are, you know, looking for
that type of content. But again, it takes time. And the way to be successful with YouTube is you have to be very, very consistent with the content and the time that you put the content out there.
And also –
Dude, you should make merch, by the way.
That's a good sign.
Yeah, yeah.
You should make wildly merch and just like –
Yeah.
I would buy it.
I'd buy a shirt.
I'd buy a shirt yeah yeah um with youtube
though like you could have the best content out there but if your title and thumbnail is not
clickable you're not going to get like any views for the most part it really depends on certain
factors as well but like right now like if i have like a really shit thumbnail and a shit title
um i won't get that many views but if i like make a really clickable title really clickable
thumbnail i'll 10x my views okay it's it's quite interesting um so it's all about like youtube is
about um the algorithm is very good and it's about like the goal with the algorithm on youtube is to keep
people viewing as much as possible and then like watching your other content and things like that
and that's what will get your content viral when like a bunch of people like start engaging with
it commenting like watching it re-watching it like that type of stuff the algorithm will just
like make you go viral like crazy but it it also depends on the content that you're making
and the topic of your content.
Is it popular?
Are a lot of people searching for it?
Essentially, at the end of the day,
YouTube is a search engine to a degree.
That's pretty much my experience with YouTube.
That's a great point.
YouTube is a search engine.
It's kind of like Twitter.
Never thought of it that way, but that's actually really true.
A lot of parallels.
I'm sure a lot of parallels on an X as well, right?
Just the trending words and the way that kind of works out.
You interact with them.
If you're replying to, like, for example, I follow some video game accounts,
and if I reply to one of them, I suddenly start seeing video game content.
Sometimes it's specific to a certain game, so if the game I was replying to was, I don't know, Grand Theft Auto 6, which is coming out this year, apparently.
I'm going to see, like, five GTA 6 posts in a row on my 4U, right?
And if I don't interact with them, the algorithm will think oh he's not interested
in that let's show him something else what do you think about youtube comments what if i
do youtube comments affect affect the algorithm like x uh yeah they do yeah they do yeah you you
want to get those comments absolutely that's a big thing yeah like i i have built a youtube channel
before yeah it's like they they're the best is it no no is it is it good for getting your like okay if you're a youtuber like
are you using commenting on other people's videos as a marketing strategy for sure like
i wouldn't comment on their stuff is it not really that important what do you say
no i well I wouldn't.
Reply going on Twitter is a great strategy.
Reply going on X is...
Yeah, you have to.
You kind of have to, yeah.
Not on Twitter.
I'm sorry, not YouTube.
With YouTube, the way to be successful with YouTube,
I'm very successful with YouTube.
I know it extremely well.
I've done multiple channels and everything know everything I literally know exactly what
you need to do to blow up with YouTube it's about you're like your first videos
are not gonna get many views but again it depends on the topic if it's a crazy
viral topic you can go viral right away if your topic the niche that you're talking about is
not like highly searched you know you're not gonna get much traction it's gonna take a lot
longer to build it is seo it's like seo totally no yeah so what it what it's about it's about
the people subscribing to your content it's getting them to constantly watch it whenever it's played.
So it's like, you know, the people that are following you, you have to make content for them.
That's your audience.
And if you can continue to make content where every time that YouTube shows it to them, they click on it, watch it, engage, rewatch it, that type of stuff, you're going to blow up.
Yeah.
But again, blowing up.
You know what they're getting, right?
It's like a.
Yes.
It's like a channel, right? I i mean if you're watching or tv show if you know let's say you're watching black mirror and that's
you know you you expect it to be as weird dystopian show where every episode is different and then
suddenly one day you watch it and it's like you know it plays out like an episode of the office
there's nothing weird or dystopian about it you'd probably stop watching the show you'd be like what the fuck is this right because
you got something that you did not expect so when you run a youtube channel it has to be very
consistent and doing things like some youtubers they will make like example a whole series on
i don't know knives for example you know how you know, how to make knives, how to use them, you know,
like historical knives, whatever.
It's all about knives.
And then one day they decide
they're going to stream a video game.
You're losing followers as a result of that.
It's just not going to work, right?
You cannot diversify.
You have to stick to a certain brand.
And if you want to do other things,
just make a new channel, you know?
So, exactly.
And arguably on a different platform, right? Different. Yeah, right different yeah right yeah there's like there's a different audience there's like a
methodology of like presenting yourself on each platform that that is different than the others
you kind of like yeah you meet the platform demands versus i don't know like like there's
like crypto youtube is way different than crypto Twitter. That's for sure.
Oh, definitely.
Yeah.
It's just a nicer place.
It's also, like, a longer time.
You know what's interesting about, like, YouTube?
And I would say, like, you know, Reddit kind of is in this equation. But, like, they're kind of, like, longer form.
It's not as fast as X.
It's just, it's the as fast as as uh x it's just it's the comments youtube it kind of like happens over time
you know like it allows everything is happening on like a people are watching videos that might
be a week old or a couple days old even longer tweets or yeah like certain certain topics like
certain channels uh if you're a history channel, your content can last for years.
If you're a chemistry channel and you're Nile Red,
you know that guy who just makes garbage out of garbage.
Drinks out of latex, for example.
That's a video you can watch 10 years from now.
It will be fine, right?
There's a lot of royalties to it.
Whereas if you're just a news channel,
probably nobody's going to watch your video from two weeks ago.
It's just old news at that point.
If you are a content creator,
you have to think about how much time you're willing to dedicate
to just doing the news,
because news is pretty easy to produce,
and you can get a lot of views from it but it doesn't
last you know once you're past like two days it's done right so unless you get
all your views in that point you're never gonna get residuals from it it's
finished right exactly and that was my problem at my old channel is I did a lot
of gaming news and it was like contemporary stuff so two weeks later
no one gives a shit anymore things have changed so that's really interesting yeah whereas if I
made a I don't know like a more documentary style channel on even if it's the same topic on video
games but I did more like a retrospective or you know political dissection of a video game that
would probably still be giving
me residuals because people would want to watch that years from now i also think it's the medium
of exchange i think like the way i think about it too is if people were more equipped to handle
cross-platform redistribution of their content content through automation that they could all
be better influencers across a multitude because they could reach a larger demographic like most of us these issues seem to be like based in in production and promotion which
is kind of constricted by the platforms a little bit and i think like if if we just all had ways to
you know expand that reach like it would be easier almost like at least the problems that you mentioned like
yeah i mean like it's yeah it's weird yeah excess issues right now in that it prioritizes and not
just prioritizes but like it completely obliterates any kind of content that isn't contemporary right
so you can make a great thread on, you know, like a
historical dissection of Bitcoin, for example, if that's what you wanted to do
and you could write it really really well and have all the pictures in there,
have it just be interesting, you know. It wouldn't last past a day, you know, even
though it's like timeless content, no one's gonna link back to it, right? And
they've tried to kind of fix it with the article system,
but the article system is great because it's well-designed,
but it's not fed into the algorithm.
You will never see a trending article,
no matter how well-written it is,
or even if it gets like a million views,
it is never trending.
It's just not part of the for you.
It doesn't show up.
It's like an external link, essentially,
which is really stupid.
And no one is going to click on somebody's profile to read their articles. Right.
It's not like Substack, which, again, much better platform if you're a writer, because you have an entire digest of stuff
that is more or less guaranteed. You know, like all your readers are guaranteed to see it because they will receive it in their emails.
guaranteed, you know, like all your readers are guaranteed to see it because they will receive it in their emails.
There at the present on X, there is no way to email out, you know, your articles to your followers or even your subscribers.
It's just not a thing. There's no mailing list system. It doesn't exist.
So articles are kind of half-baked when it comes down to it.
The implementation is kind of, again, half-baked. It's shit.
And so if you're a video content producer, you'd probably want to put your thing up on youtube because that's where you know you're
going to get most of your residuals yeah versus on x where you know the videos that trend really
well are like really short they're like two minutes long right or they're like news posts
like little interviews or snippets of what trump just said or anybody else but if you've got a
documentary good luck no one's going to see it yeah well this is the great part i mean this is what we need to
enable on x we need to lead the charge on getting better video they're like there's no reason people
want to leave to rumble like you know it's no they don't i mean i think they should just but you know what it is a thought
because there's also like lots of porn on x and it's so funny like x videos it's unfortunate
yeah i could see why i could see why it's one of those problems that it's like
it's not exactly as important as like ai, for example. So we see the move there with XAI.
We talked about that last time, how XAI bought X.
And also Vine threw it.
I don't know if we're bullish on that coin,
know if we're bullish on that coin but will's will said he was buying a big bag of it um
but Will said he was buying a big bag of it.
oh my buddy uh my buddy uh jamie wants to join i'm gonna add him in you're right he sent you
he sent you guys some beans um okay sure yeah dude i haven't you not slept
i will soon.
Okay.
Just ordered some food.
You're going to sleep after that?
Popping up now.
We got to sleep.
Yeah, I didn't sleep much last night because the markets had to stay up.
Are you glad you stayed up?
Oh, yeah.
Oh, yeah.
It was great.
That was awesome, man.
Well, thanks, dude.
It's good to have you on. i'm glad i could introduce you guys um yeah ian if you ever if you ever need a good good trading advice uh miles is
a guy and and uh sure and some good wrecks down in miami or dubai conversely yeah come here yeah
come over here for the thing
at the end of the month.
Yeah,
I probably will.
I think there's going to be a big,
there's going to be some big,
big parties.
We need to go to the Hayes party.
I think the Doge guys
are going to be out there.
Sounds like there's
some fun shit to go to.
I think you should,
I think you should,
you should lock in.
All right.
Well,
it was a pleasure meeting you.
Thank you for having me on today.
It was awesome.
Absolutely. Thank you for being here here great chatting with both of you
likewise all right guys have a good night bye yeah he's got such a uh he looks like such a like he's so locked in and with that with that, right. He looks like he's about...
How many monitors do you think he's surrounded by?
I don't know.
He's got that whole, you know,
stock treater, day treater, you know,
like nine monitors in front of him.
You know, he does.
And he looks like he's like...
Yeah.
He's about to enter the Matrix in there.
Yeah.
He's locked in.
Yeah, he's like Morpheus and Cypher or something.
Yeah.
What's the... speaking of the speaking of matrix um what's your favorite uh movie uh the first one i would say minus the ending yeah the first one is the best one for sure
because it's like it's never been done before right it was a when it came out there were no
other movies like it closest approximation would be something like alice in wonderland or something
which you know it's just barely a thing right it's barely an approximation so yeah it was original
like there's not there's there was nothing like it at the time you know you had this action movie
that was the way it was advertised the way it was advertised is is like a master class because
they didn't tell you anything about it right it just had neo asking morpheus in front of the um
the empty white room where they have the two chairs it's like what is the matrix right and
any you know like so you want to watch it you're like what is the matrix what the fuck is this
right never heard of it yeah that's why a lot of people
went i remember i have it like i mean so much style for that movie it's it's actually crazy
it's also become like a modern day meme as well but it's just it's yep uh yeah matrix is one of
my favorite so think about that green design too. The color grading.
Did you know that the color grading wasn't as green?
Yeah, it wasn't as green in the original.
It was actually something they added afterwards in Remaster.
Yeah, if you watched.
I like it too.
I feel like that's how I remember it, even though that's not how it actually looked.
It didn't have that green tint on it, and now it like vomit green all over it but you know somehow it's stuck,
right? It's weird. It's just a weird thing. It plays at your memory, it's a mandala effect,
you remember it being green even though it never actually was. They added it in the DVD. So stupid.
So stupid.
But it had this, like it was a smart film, right?
Because it talked about philosophical concepts.
And, you know, if you were like my age at the time,
I think I was like 16 or 17, you know,
then you would have been reading philosophy
because every 16-year-old reads about philosophy, right?
You think you're smart.
So you're reading like Jean-Paul's Tartre and you're reading, you know, Simulacra and Simulation, right? You think you're smart. So you're reading, like, Jean-Paul Start,
and you're reading, you know, Simulacra and Simulation, right?
Like the book by Baudelaire in 1980.
Great book, by the way.
I recommend it.
You know, it tells us what, you know, like,
well, we live in a simulation.
That's where it came from, the whole we live in a simulation thing.
So that tells you, like, we live in artifice, right?
The world that we live in is all fake news.
It's all narratives.
Great book.
But the movie took that, and it made it literal, right? It took the concepts
from those books and it took also Buddhism, again, philosophy, you know. That's why it
resonated with a whole generation of young people. If you're like in between the ages
of 14 and like 25, I would say, you were like, if you're like even a slight bit of a nerd,
you'd be like, oh, I got that reference. He talks about the desert of the real light rather than a book.
It's like, oh, that's existentialism, or that's Buddhism.
So you feel smart watching it.
This is made in a time
in 1999 before nerds
were cool. There was no Elon Musk.
Elon Musk was just one of us back then.
It was uncool to be a nerd,
to be a geek,
to read a lot, and to see a nerd, to be a geek, to read a lot.
To see a movie, a mainstream
Hollywood movie, represent
our geekiness was like, oh shit, this movie
was made for me.
Yeah.
Everything about it made you feel cool.
It made it sexy.
Trinity is like a bad bitch.
Look at the way Neo
is dressed, or Morpheus.
They got fucking leather trench coats.
I sent a picture to Mia
because she kind of reminds me of the bad bitch at Trinity.
I was training for Halloween last year.
Yeah, see?
Do you want to hang out?
Come hang out.
We're not going to the...
The spa.
We're not going to the spa anymore
because we got locked in. I know. It's okay. The spa's not going to the um we're not going to the spa anymore because we got locked in but
so okay so no but so back to the matrix i yeah it made it cool and sexy to um
yeah to like discuss those things huh in a lot of ways, right? It was with all the kung fu and the downloading into the brain.
But what else?
I wonder what else...
Because Star Trek was not...
Obviously, it's nothing like that.
The vibe is...
Matrix is way sexier than Star Trek, for example.
Yeah, it's sexy.
It's masculine, right?
It's masculine.
It caters to your sense of masculinity
in that being a man
is about, like, being Neo, right?
Like, you are the one.
You are the hero. You're the main character, right?
You're the protagonist.
You have the ability, the agency
to, you know, take control of the world, essentially, you know, to literally shape it in your hand.
That's the message, right?
To self-actualize.
Because when, you know, when Neo becomes, actually becomes Neo, he self-actualizes, and that is your character arc.
Right.
So, you know, that's how it's represented, and it's represented in him being really fucking cool and smart, right?
Like, he wakes up.
He wakes up.
That's self-actualization.
That's literally Buddhism, right?
So it caters to that sense that, oh, you know, like you're, you know, a lot of young people
watch, mostly men, and they were looking for themselves, looking for identities, right?
Their identity.
And this movie helped them find it.
You know, it made them feel like, oh, yeah, I get it.
You know, I'm looking for who I really am.
And who I am is a fucking cool badass.
Right?
I think that's how Elon sees himself, really.
I mean, like, look at the way he projects himself.
It's not nerdy.
It's slightly nerdy.
Yeah, sure.
But like, it's nerdy in a cool way.
You know, the same way that Neo is like a cool character.
You know, look at the way he dresses.
Yeah, I love that.
Yeah.
That's a great, this is a great, this is a great, This is a great discussion.
I actually love this discussion.
Matrix is one of my absolute favorite movies of all time.
It's so freaking good.
And Keanu Reeves.
By the way, did you hear that there's going to be another John Wick?
I'm happy.
I'm happy to hear that.
Let me see what the debacle was
I think the debacle was that he had died
in the last movie and that it's kind of annoying
that they're bringing him back
yeah yeah he died in the last movie
yeah or at least
I actually can't remember
so he did die
I don't think he really dies
it's sort of like hinted that he might still be alive.
Does that make sense?
He canonically dies, but not really.
Because you don't see him die.
You don't actually feel it.
It's more like you see Morpheus at the end.
He comes out and he acts like he's dead,
but you can kind of get the sense of it as a viewer that he's not really dead like they're all pretending
that he's dead so like for me it doesn't take me out of it it's like yeah he's alive you know like
and of course he's alive why would he kill him he's a multi-billion dollar character at this point
what are you talking about? I would cry.
That would be tragic.
Yeah, it's just Keanu Reeves.
I'm like, this is my man.
By the way, do you know that he's a writer?
He's like the best person ever.
Like, he's a writer.
I have one of his books here that he co-wrote with China Mivals,
like one of my favorite science fiction authors.
Let's see it.
I'll pull it up.
Yeah, hold on.
We gotta read more
right yeah here's here's the book that you oh you see this yeah oh dude we should definitely
have the keanu reeves reading book club yeah we could we could do this we could have a meet up once a week we could have like a x spaces
yes yes
that'd be cool yeah I mean I haven't read it yet
but like I saw it on the shelf so I'm like wait a second
piano reaps
what a cyberpunk novel
that's so great
that's so great
immediate buy
immediate buy
immediate buy you know it's like he wrote a cyberpunk novel of one of my favorite Great. Immediate buy. Immediate buy. Immediate buy. Immediate buy.
You know, it's like,
wait, he wrote a cyberpunk novel
of one of my favorite science fiction authors.
That is so cool.
He really is like the best.
Like, how?
He's Elon Musk level at this point of lore.
He's like,
Keanu is Elon Musk level of lore.
That's a very hard, like, to do.
Yeah.
What'd you say?
Apparently he drives like a really cheap truck and he like refuses to buy a new car.
Really?
Yeah.
There's like a picture of him looking like a homeless man driving this really big car.
I remember, well there's a great picture of him on the subway just chilling.
Just chilling, yeah. you're just chilling yeah and and he goes to like comic book stores and he'll just like you know
sign people's shirts or comic books or whatever just like just he'll just do it right he's just
like so normal that's so fun i hope to be like him one day me too i think i saw bad bunny on the
subway once i was just looking at him and i was like and he was looking back at me and we were both like
yeah he's reading a book there right
oh my gosh I love this photo
so matrix
just live in the matrix for real
literally what train is he on
it's like an old subway thing
what else were some
what were some other great
great films you know i was thinking
that like it would be fun to also have a um a movie club we've been doing some western yeah
saloon on sundays but it's a really good way to like it's a really good way to like keep a
community together because like you watch a movie and you discuss it yes yep and since we don't all
have like you know sub 80 iqs or even sub 100 iqs uh yeah you can talk about movies yeah no yeah no
it'd be it'd be pretty uh cerebral what's some um what's some good
what are some good movies have you watched any good movies recently
uh yeah i mean what's the genre that you you're looking for i don't know just you
could go spitball any any genre uh let me let me look up the name of the movie it's a
it's a guy richie film that i think you know it's um it it's called, let's see here, I think it's, yeah, Guy Wichis
The Covenant, it's from 2023, that was a really good film, I watched that, it stars
Jake Gyllenhaal in it, it's, so the setting, it's based on like real life and it's about a you know
soldier he goes to
Afghanistan and
Essentially it's about you know him being in Afghanistan and being stationed with like this interpreter and it's it's it's kind of grueling the whole thing
And what's it called kind of puts into a perspective?
into a perspective the Covenant damn good film I guess it's not really based
the covenant
on the true story but it's like inspired by a lot of like you know the
experiences of people yeah yeah he's good
the only issue I have with the movie is that CGI at the start really really
sucks like there's like an exploding truck and it's like the first scene and it's really shitty.
Like they had to spend like zero budget on it.
Just if you can get past that part it is actually a really good movie.
Yeah.
I don't want to watch the trailer.
Just unfortunately it's a shitty scene.
Let's see. Scene?
I'm actually gonna get so much better at this...
At the streaming.
Yeah. John, do you have tallies approaching?
You still don't remember a thing.
I don't remember any of it.
I only remember the interpreter.
Who's this guy, Richard?
Why he wants his job?
I need the money.
The director of Locke's Stock and Two Smoking Barrels. Don't disappoint. Turn out a bit of pain in the ass.
What was it? Stockpoint?
No, no. Locke's Stock and Two Smoking Barrels.
He made that one.
And Snatch.
Yeah, those are classics, right?
Yeah, yeah.
No way.
He's made a lot of good movies.
Yeah, he made the Sherlock Holmes movies.
You know, the ones with Robert Downey Jr.
He made those.
Wow.
He made the King Arthur Legend of the Sword movie as well,
which is also really good.
And last year he made the Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare.
That was really good.
I saw that recently as well.
So he's been cooking in the background.
No, not me, sir.
Money is the only reason he wants this shot.
It's Alabama.
Killed his son.
Stop the vehicle, Sergeant.
We don't want to go down this road.
You're out of your bounds, Ahmed.
You're here to translate.
Actually, I'm here to interpret.
John, you have tellers approaching.
For three weeks, this family believed you were dead.
We owe that man your life.
There wasn't enough for him to carry me across those mountains.
Now he's hiding in a hole somewhere.
I should be in that hole.
Everything all right, John?
No, everything's not alright.
There is a Hulk in me.
Ahmed and his family are in trouble.
We can't intervene.
I am gonna have to get him out myself.
Listen, you gotta be alone.
You gotta adapt.
Here's what you got.
If you can give me the location, if I can get a man out of the country, it's too dangerous.
You'll become very popular with the Taliban.
I miss you.
Love you, Daddy.
You think if I could be free of this death, I wouldn't be?
You think I have a choice?
There is no choice. No, I won't back down.
Damn.
Wow.
Damn.
Yeah, it's a really good movie.
So what's the story? So he was a POW?
No, it wasn't a POW.
So the story is that he goes in with his team, it's like Force Recon, right?
Marine Force Recon, and they get ambushed in a really bad way.
Everybody dies except for him and his interpreter.
So his interpreter carries him to safety.
He gets really injured, almost dies, and the guy just spends literally weeks in the mountains of Afghanistan
carrying him back to safety, delivers him to safety.
But then after that, you know, because of the way the US government is,
they kind of don't give a shit about the interpreter.
So, you know, they promised him and his wife a visa to, you know, move to America.
But they don't bother to get to save them.
So he goes back in on his own and saves them.
Yeah.
That's the movie.
We have to go watch that.
Yeah, that's good.
That'd be good.
Like, it really humanizes the interpreters.
And I know it's not based on a real story,
but it's inspired by a lot of real stories.
But yeah, a lot of these guys, they
worked with America for some, some of them, you know, almost two decades, and it doesn't matter which administration, they just shit on them.
And, you know, you have people back home who are like, oh, the Afghanis just deport all of them. It's like, no one is saying, well, okay, some people are saying, but nobody is saying that you should import millions of Afghans to go live in America, right, or anywhere in the West.
But for the people who work for the US government, put their lives on the line with the promise
that they would get something in return, which is citizenship, keep your promise?
I mean, how hard is it?
Otherwise, don't make those fucking promises to begin with, you know?
It's not a difficult concept.
This is not about mass immigration.
It's like, how many people are we talking about?
Like 3,000 of them?
That's not many. And they risk
everything to help
American democracy, right?
Or America itself. So, I mean,
okay, make good on your word. Don't
fuck them over. Yeah.
That's kind of the film. That's the underlying
message. I think film needs to make a big comeback.
I mean, there's a lot of...
You know, well, I mean, I think it's the unfortunate part about the human condition,
which is typically periods of strong feelings, and especially negative feelings,
will create a lot of very important art that will express itself through film.
Art comes in.
Yeah, film, film video games movies i mean all the
productions will essentially embody um embody that i just you know i mean the the scary part
about is it is is the kind of the what what my brain is thinking about now is how streaming is like a common thing and then also
how AI it's like
we're kind of
hopefully not warping
and making
the dream scenario
like we're making the dream scenario interact with the
reality right we're like converging
almost it feels like
yeah
there's a lot of really
shitty non-art out there like commercial art you know the whole avengers series is i'm not talking
about video game but like the movie series is just garbage it's just shit it's mindless trash
same with fast and furious i mean there's nothing good about them they're okay they're entertaining
but it really is watching the eighth one in a row it's like it's like eating oreos or
you know drink it's like drink it's like eating pringles like it's like
you know that there's some process this is some process junk um
you get nothing it's not art you know it really is an is an art. There's nothing good, really, about it.
It's fulfilling your craving.
You have a craving to watch Fast and Furious.
You get a dopamine rush.
Yeah.
It's like, oh, the good guys win, right?
And you want to see Vin Diesel again.
You love seeing Vin Diesel.
Yeah.
Save family.
You know, like...
It's like, me personally, I hate movies like that.
They're not fulfilling.
There's no substance to them. I want to watch movies like Goodfellas or Pulp Fiction or, you know, the movie that we just talked about, right? The one, yeah.
is why Hollywood in general doesn't invest in movies like that.
You won't see a movie like The Pianist anymore, right?
That's the one with where it's like this Polish Holocaust survivor, right?
Yeah.
They won't make that anymore.
They're super rare.
And when they do exist, they win like a bunch of awards
because they're so fucking rare.
But like back in the day, every movie was like the Shawshank Redemption.
There were so many good movies in 1993 to pick from.
And that's why there were great movies. It's real real now they don't exist anymore now it's like one a year right and
the one that comes out is this is trash i wonder i wonder if it's because that i mean this is like
a stagnation that i feel in video games a stagnation that i feel in movies i actually am a
big subscriber to the belief that the medium actually needs to change.
I mean, we are on the precipice probably of robots doing some crazy amount of stuff with Tesla's robots.
We have Neuralink on the way and we have ways to interface.
VR is a real thing that I think is... I just picked up my old VR headset.
I still think Half-Life Elix is one of the best games I've ever played
I think that we have have you seen the new VR headsets? They're like literally sunglasses. Really?
That's sick. Yeah, look up big picture 2. I think it's called right
They have the big picture one which is out, but they upgraded it to big picture 2. It's literally a pair of sunglasses
That's VR. That's better than the oculus
Impressive as fuck. It's available for pre-order right
now i believe yeah i may order it it comes out in like june areas what the is this this is some
dune i know right like it's it's literally a pair of goggles is what it is and it looks cool you
know it's just acrylic sure but like holy the fact that it's that light and you can put it on just your eyes like that, like sunglasses.
Yeah, we need these.
I mean, that is how VR should be, right?
That is not, like, I don't want to strap a gigantic VR thing on my head.
That's just annoying and tedious.
I just want to, yeah, put it on like that.
Yeah, look at that.
The big screen beyond 2.
For only $1,000.
I mean, this is about the same price as what the Valve Index was for three years ago. ago anyway have you played um half-life of leaks i know i've not i don't i
would say you should put it on for me i would say you want to play right now oh okay i will do that
um it's so fun i need to i need to i need to put it on my windows though i don't really know what
i'm doing i just started playing vr yesterday we probably need to go to h mart in like in like 20 minutes 15 minutes is that the grocery store
yeah it's 10 p.m is it open still it'll be open till 11 p.m okay let's go i'm on a i'm on a three
day fast right now oh my gosh we're breaking it tomorrow i am his supervisor to make sure he's
getting all the fluids he needs yeah me has actually she's actually been very
helpful i'm just like making sure he's not gonna like pass out and die that would be very unfortunate
down the street just like in my thoughts i'm like avoiding eating in front of max i appreciate it
you got mad at me for munching i was like there's no food in this house i'm not
eating anything here this is honestly the coolest fucking thing i have ever seen
yeah i like the orange one looks sick this is so i like the orange i saw that it's very cool
well the dude i mean i bro i think that uh the the your interest as i as i've gotten to know you a little bit more from our calls and
hanging out your interest in both gaming and um technology on top of the political because i feel
it's almost like in a way like the political stuff almost feels like like it's like your job to weigh in
at this point and and report yeah and then it's funny because like for me like as a as an audience
it's like oh he's not just political and and has all the things to these things to say about
politics he also fucking chills and fucking plays video games uh yeah that's how like, it's kind of dope. You know, it's, it's.
Yeah. I mean, this is how much of a gamer I am. I bought the final mouse, you know, like,
that's fire. They make like a thousand of this, like a thousand of this worldwide. I bought two
of them. Well, we need to set it up with, with the desk screen and get some gaming where you,
we see your see your mouse.
Those are the light mouses, right?
Those are the high speed.
Yeah, it is.
34 grams made of magnesium.
Magnesium body.
Okay, so does that actually help you in first-person shooter games by a lot?
100%, yeah.
There's no bulk there, right?
If you use even light.
Okay, so the Logitech Super Light 2 is probably the closest approximation.
I think that's like 54 grams, which is really light.
You can't really feel it.
But compared to like, you know, one of those older mouse from say five years ago,
yeah, no, it's like a big difference because you're just literally,
you feel like you're only moving your hand.
You don't feel like you're carrying anything.
Imagine, you know, phones, I mean, not phones.
It might just be as heavy as a goddamn phone.
Imagine gaming with your phone. It's just you know horrible, right?
You're dragging it around
You can't do that with this. No, it's like it's super light it the latency is non-existent
Right pull pull is like the polling rate is I think a 4,000 or something. So
That's so heavy I would I would totally get rid of that. I hate that.
That's what I was talking about.
It is too heavy.
Holy crap.
I like it because it's like,
it's these buttons.
Like I use these for screen time.
All the macro buttons, yeah.
It's a different purpose.
But I would like to get another mouse.
I kind of like,
I like having a little game room
set up with multiple keyboards,
multiple consoles.
Multiple mice.
Yeah.
I love this great. I mean, my suggestion. Yeah.
So you go first. What you have is what?
Oh, I was just going to suggest like get one of those new, uh,
like keyboard accessory things where it's like a tiny keyboard with just a bunch of keys on it. Use that to replace your heavy mouse. You know,
like wait, you want your macros. You can just like press one of those buttons.
Well, I mean, the thing is though though if i'm using a mouse at all i want it to be in thumb range oh so you're like playing wow right i assume no it's just it's not even for gaming at all dude
i use it for taking a screenshot so rather than having to on my mac do apple shift four i'll just use my thumb and drag
immediately and then if i oh wow if i hold control with that i i have crazy macros especially for
like my windows that's crazy yeah yeah i'll show you my sometime for sure my productivity keyboard
is this thing you know it's got like knobs on it it's got four little buttons on the side yeah yeah it's the uh what is it called the uh uh work something nomad i've actually seen that before it's
funny before louder i've seen that yeah that design before i i uh came over one time and saw it
it's uh yeah it is a dope keyboard i have a diablo keyboard right now. Just like a... Yeah. You showed it to me. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It's a ducky, right?
Yeah. I believe. Oh, yeah. I brought that out. Yeah. Yeah.
I mean, it was fun to type on. I know I had a ducky before. Yeah.
Like a long time ago. Like the original one. Yeah.
Yeah. We got to write all this down, um, and get, get the gaming content
into, so we should pick like, yeah, we should, we probably go to the grocery store in like
10, but, um, yeah.
And we should think about the day that we want to walk in regularly.
we want to walk in regularly um and then i think we should after we get that in motion
put it in the notion um just do it like this like today like this is like a perfect that was that
was a perfect setup right two hours before uh and just and just and go for a bit then i think after
we schedule that we can schedule the gaming one you know and just have like a friday night could be like gaming night and we all just play you know and
like yep i don't know it's like you could like kind of host it in a way and think we could think
of like some multiplayer games and stuff like that'd be fun sure yeah i mean there's like there's
so many of those co-op multiplayer games now and I'm not just talking Minecraft or some stupid shit.
I mean the ones that have a purpose.
You team up with your buddies and you do stuff.
I don't just mean Rust or some survival shit.
I mean mission-based things.
We should play the Marvel.
We could play that.
By the way, Marvel Rivals is actually a game where we could rack up a lot of views
because I think it's underrated right now and it still has room to grow.
We can totally catch that.
Are we good players though?
Are we good players though?
I mean, I don't think...
Well, we'll get good.
That's why we'll get good.
Right.
Yeah.
Well, we can't know unless we fucking lock in and start playing every week
it's just it's just kind of embarrassing when you're like learning a game and you're you know
not the best at it you know yeah and like sure at first and then we'll be pros and then we'll
embarrass others we have to start somewhere i you know i haven't even downloaded the game yet so
i might have to i might have to lock and load it.
Yeah, download it.
Are you going to be up?
Speaking of like this, maybe I'm just going to sleep because it's kind of late.
Okay.
Yeah, I'm probably going to sleep.
Yeah.
I think one thing we can do, though, is we're talking about all the stuff we talked about.
So we're still streaming right now, so I'm not going to spill everything.
But we could do gaming content that's not like streaming you know like I mean like
gaming specific content so earlier we talked with miles about the YouTube's
like why not just have also a gaming channel but it's not the same thing it's
got to be different you cannot upload to the same channel it would be terrible
right so yeah I want to get back to that like I used to run a pretty successful
gaming channel they had like 50 000 followers and subscribers actually it's gonna go up like 100k i i sold it it's gone it's something else they got banned yeah so let's
run it back and and what we should do is um yep well this is you know this is like i want also
the fact that we're doing these shows to be like a central meeting point anyways for a lot of yeah good
people in my network as well you have great people and i want through you're a great uh your platform
is going to be a great way to connect dots and i think like i think once we get all these guys who
are big on youtube just popping in and and basically checking in with with ian uh and the x and the
still gray show it's like now um they'll be able to help spread the word on the youtube stuff and
it'll make it way easier and we can and we can combine both the doing the content with a collab
you know?
Yeah, right.
Yeah, because they'll meet us on X. Oh, 100%, yeah.
It'll be sick.
It'll be super sick.
Yeah, and like if they're a gaming channel, for example,
and maybe they don't want to talk about politics,
they just want to talk about game,
and we have gaming content to produce,
why not a collab, right?
There's a lot of YouTube channels
where they will play some sort of multiplayer game, like whatever team up you know they'll be like oh hey yeah i
got on you know they'll be recording and be like oh yeah i got this guy and this guy and this guy
you know them and you know their viewers will like congregate they share right they share a lot of
content that way yeah it'll be natural too i mean like when we start clipping up the content too
they'll be i'll be giving them shorts to post,
which will end up on YouTube or other platforms.
It will like warm up their audiences to,
like I'm sure a lot of people in Miles' audience,
even though you have that many followers,
like they still haven't seen you.
So like opening the,
and especially because what will happen is people will be like,
oh, like let me check him on his main platform.
I didn't even know he had a main platform.
Right.
It happens all the time.
Yeah.
Yeah.
That's right.
Yeah.
That's that'll be good.
All right.
Well, I'm going to stop the stream there.
Yep.
Good idea.
