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What is The American Dream?
Recorded: April 17, 2025 Duration: 3:20:12Space Recording
Short Summary
In a thought-provoking discussion, participants explore the intersection of societal values and the crypto landscape, emphasizing the importance of partnerships, community growth, and the evolving concept of the American Dream as it relates to financial independence and innovation in the blockchain space.
Full Transcription
The road is long
With a many a winding tongue
That leads us to who knows where
Who knows where
But I'm strong
Strong enough to carry
He ain't heavy
He's my brother? So on we go. His welfare is above concern. No burden is here to bear.
We'll get there.
Oh, I know he would not end at all.
The world not at all.
He ain't heaven.
He's my brother.
If I'm a leader at all, I'm a leader at all.
I'm a leader with sadness that everyone's heart
is in fear with the gladness of a leader. You will be glad now. I'm alive.
Oh, I'm alive.
It's a long, long road.
Dude, that song has been in my head for like the last couple weeks.
And I don't know if I told you this last week.
I know there's not a lot of people I like when you're welcome to come up at any point in time.
But I'm going to tell you a little story about that song.
So like, it's kind of this corny song.
And I don't know who I was telling this to.
Maybe I said this last week and I forget it already.
But my brother would always call me and like,
he likes to have a drink and he would just sit, kind of belt out the chorus of that song.
He's my brother. And this song came up the other day and I've been thinking a lot about,
as you guys know, just like, what is it that, I don't know, what something has struck me in the, you know, what's, what's, what am I thinking about a lot?
And I think one of the things that's been lost in this, I guess, in our country is that we don't really view each other as like neighbors.
I don't feel like we used to, or maybe we do on a small scale, literally in your neighborhood or maybe your small suburb or something.
But it's not something that, I don't know, everything feels to be that we're meant to try to distrust each other.
And like I was listening to the song and one of the lyrics is like, you know, I guess the story of this song, which is called He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother.
story of this song, which is called He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother. The story is that
some kid was carrying his brother who was unable to walk into a church or something,
and the priest was like, oh man, he must be heavy. This kid was 12 years old, and his brother was
eight or something. And he said, he's not heavy he's my brother you know and uh
it that imagery of that is like so cool but one of the cool things about the song is that he says
you know i would kind of like i'd do anything for my my brother right and meaning on a grander scale
my neighbor my friend my uh my countryman type of thing but he says because i know he wouldn't
encumber me like he wouldn't purposely make my,
make it difficult for me. So it's kind of like two sides. It's not like you, you give, uh,
without expectation of anything in return, you know, you, you share in that load in a way,
but I don't know. It's kind of a peace hippie song, but it meant it tied into what I've been
thinking a lot about, but see, uh, Litecoiners, thanks for coming in.
I would like to talk a bit about Litecoin if there's any announcements.
I don't know if anything exciting has happened.
I know they're taking over people's accounts,
but I guess why Litecoin, you could do a technical analysis if you want.
But yeah, I mean, obviously we're trying to do something different.
And I did want to talk about the American dream.
And if you guys have opinions on this, I don't know, a house with a family, a couple of kids, the white picket fence, you know, this kind of 50s imagery of, I don't know, I guess it called suburban life of what got built.
what got built. And it's not for everybody. It's not what people's goals are. But I feel like
if we don't have the belief that an American dream is possible, and it doesn't take much,
like at some point in time, if a certain portion of the population doesn't see that as a viable future that they want or that they even
think is possible, then what are we? I don't know if you guys listened on Saturday. One of the
things that kind of hit me and I hadn't really even thought a lot about it was this idea that
we were talking about national security and I thought about, well, what is national security for? The only thing national security is for is to protect kind of your identity or what you, who you are, your way of life, the way you conduct yourself.
Because another country could come in and fly a flag.
And if they fly the Canadian flag or the Chinese flag or the Mexican flag. It wouldn't matter if you weren't defined by your culture.
You wouldn't be sacrificing anything by just putting up a different flag.
It would be meaningless to you.
And I almost feel like a lot of what has happened in the last 50 years has been this disillusionment, this like dissolving of the American culture and the American identity.
And it's almost like we're just kind of given up and said, well, the American dream is not really that important.
It's not really important that people have opportunity and that they can build a life for themselves. long as they have, you know, enough dollars in the bank, or as long as they have a big enough
television on the wall, or their car has heated seats, then who gives a shit if the rest of society
around us is crumbling? Because it's worth it for this crap. And I think a lot of people, you know,
maybe this is new to me, and I'm speaking something that everybody's already felt, but really putting a definition behind it of like, what is exactly this American dream or what is the American culture?
Amazingly, I feel like it's been kind of, I don't know, removed or again, dissolved to the point that maybe we don't even know if we have an accurate definition anymore.
So, all right, I'll bring up, is this going to be, all right, Litecoin fan.
You are one of my, I got to say, he a fan, he a fan.
What's up, man? How you been?
It's been a while. You know, you jump in from time to time.
I tried adding you, it won't let me add you
Litecoin love
so you'd have to leave and come back maybe
it just says I have trouble adding you
oh wait no here you go
maybe
it says Litecoin fan can now speak
but then it says it has an error
trying to add you
try leaving and coming back.
I don't think I have you blocked.
You don't have me blocked.
We follow each other.
Okay, I don't know.
I don't block people.
So I mute them.
I do mute people from time to time.
Well, so, hey, I see Animal came in.
Yeah, so this is what maybe defining what we see as the American dream or I'd actually be interested from you, Animal, if you have a definition of this from your country.
If you have kind of like the whatever, the idyllic life, is it the same as ours?
And like what's at the core of that?
Um, like what's at the core of that?
Because I think that's important to say, like, what are the things that we all kind of collectively agree on to, you know, again, not everybody's going to agree.
Now I'm able to add animal.
You can try again, Litecoin fan, if you want.
Let me see if Litecoin fan will.
You can try again, Litecoin fan.
If he wanted to chime in.
What, are you shredding papers there?
Yeah.
Yeah, I just finished my taxes, bro.
And you shred them?
Jesus.
That's hardcore.
No, it's actually a water...
A water pump.
Hold on, LitecoinFan is connecting. um no it's actually a water uh a water pump all right hold on light coin fan it's connecting i know he's gonna come out here and go you know you think the american dream is impossible bro
like you're fucking ridiculous man man i was watching this really interesting documentary
on what it's like to live in china as a american slash canadian expat yeah and um some of the cultural differences and differences in work culture um we were talking
about culture last week right oh yeah and it's just it's uh it's fascinating it's fascinating um
you know the guys like it's just that they have this really hardcore can-do attitude, you know,
this gumption from being, well, from being able to remember what it was like to be super poor, because most people, like, you know, China's made a lot of progress in the last 20 years, right,
a lot of progress in the last 20 years.
Right.
Prior to this globalization
push.
So it's really, it adds fuel to their
fire and whatnot.
It was fascinating and
real interesting. I haven't finished watching it yet
because
my girlfriend was able to take a break from work
so we could finish watching Reacher.
But anyways, I'm going to finish it up later.
I'd be interested to add her legal expert.
Does she ever feel the need to chime in or does she just stay away?
Oh, she corrects me all the time.
She's like, what do you mean?
When I'm talking, I'll say something.
And it's not like A is either dumb or not relevant or not legal, legally accurate.
Yeah, she'll let me know.
Sometimes actually I come back and I take credit for it and be like, actually, you know what?
Oh, you correct it and you act like you thought of it?
Exactly.
That's called plagiarism. thought of it. Exactly. That's called... Plagiarism?
Appropriation.
Appropriation?
Passing it off as your own, yeah.
Yeah, but there's no IP law, apparently.
Okay, like a fan, it says you're a speaker.
There we go.
All right.
B, just waking up and do it,
getting to do what I love every day.
That would make me very happy.
I could just wake up and very vague.
What's doing what you love,
build and create for others.
That would make me very happy.
Yeah.
Right.
Exactly.
What would you, What would you build?
What's your forte?
Lately, I've been working on my own PC.
And I've been emailing these PC building companies to hire me.
But some of them, I guess the ones I've emailed
don't seem to be hiring me. I've basically begged them. But I don't know.
Or like Geek Squad?
I think, no, there's a local, very local close to me company, this PowerGPU. You can look them up on
Twitter. These guys, they have a very small team. But their PCs are not the highest of the high level.
I was just looking at this computer case that costs – getting into PC building is just money plus time.
Like this PowerGPU company, they take computer parts.
I priced out all their parts around like $3,500,
and they'll sell the computer for $4,500.
So their margins are small, but I don't know.
It's hard to be a PC builder right now.
Well, yeah, I think it's –
Well, are computers getting more to be pretty, like I don't want to say idiot-proof, but...
There's so many different levels and potential.
There's so many different levels and potential now to build,
whether it's hardware building, computer building, software operating systems.
There's all sorts of different games.
Yeah, there's a lot of pitfalls.
And if you don't know what you're doing, you can get stuck on any given step. There's all sorts of different games. Yeah, there's a lot of pitfalls.
And if you don't know what you're doing, you can get stuck on any given step.
But yeah, once you have a formula, I would imagine these guys have set builds and they have a part list that they know is compatible.
But certainly as a home gamer, someone like you, Grant, you could spend hours troubleshooting shit, right?
It isn't a thing to do, though, like, CoinFan. I would look at it going...
Because I remember we had a local shop like that, and I was like, hey, this is what I'm trying to do.
I just want to record some stuff.
My daughter and I might play some games on YouTube.
They were trying to guide me a bit,
but they were fairly limited.
Like I don't think they,
I guess maybe they had options.
Like if,
did I need to get a GPU?
Could I just stay with,
I forget what the other,
I really don't know this shit at all,
but yeah,
like customize.
It's,
it's very,
it's much more simple than what you realize.
There's only really a few main aspects of a computer.
The power supply, the graphics card, the CPU, central processing unit, and then the motherboard, and then the case.
And then you need fans, I guess, to cool everything.
But it's not as complicated as it's made out to be.
And then you need some sort of storage or hard drive or whatever.
But it's getting so much easier.
Everything in life is getting easier now that AI is here.
You can just work and build side by side with it, and nobody's going to do anything you want.
I mean, nobody's going to really stop you, obviously.
So I just think, yeah, computers are an easy thing, though.
Cars are a difficult thing, in my view.
I wouldn't want to build cars.
That sounds...
No, fixed cars is a bitch.
And what's made it crazy difficult with cars is that they're built in such a way now
that makes it very difficult for even just your amateur
to tinker around on a lot of models. Some, some are still pretty good about being able to actually
access things and not requiring special equipment to fix them, but it's, uh, yeah, it's becoming
everything that gets so specialized if you don't have the right equipment and those guys you're
talking about, they probably, like animals said, they probably go out and buy a pallet of the GPUs that you're looking at and they're buying them at a better rate.
Right.
So they're making a couple hundred bucks on parts as well, which, you know, you should more power to them.
That's going to be a tough business to be in, you know, because everyone wants to go to Walmart and just buy whatever's on the shelf.
Maybe.
Maybe. But I
definitely wouldn't do that.
But I'm poor. I like
welfare.
I like things for extremely
cheap, if possible. I'm the
cheapest person if I try to be
as humanly possible.
There's some things I will spend money on.
Building it yourself,
you'll save some money.
Do you yourself have a good build?
My build's
getting better, yeah. I just upgraded
my power supply to a much
higher wattage, but I
have some more stuff to work on. I haven't
got around with it. Dude, I was
hitting on women the other day.
You want to hear my story about hitting on women?
You know, it's funny you say this because I just watched a YouTube video about it.
And I was watching some pretty sad attempts at hitting on women.
And I'm old enough I could maybe give you some guidance.
But go ahead.
Okay.
So I was basically like I was at Target.
Okay.
I walked up to this woman like i go around i
sometimes i see uh for you have to scope out if they have a ring that's a big thing if they have
a ring then you can know just don't approach them don't you know because they're going to be married
so hey man but yeah this work okay sure well she was so this so i met this woman at Target.
She's 20.
Her name's Emma.
This story is so embarrassing.
I actually don't even want to tell.
How old are you?
How old are you?
I'm 27.
So I'm a little bit older than she is.
Okay.
It's acceptable.
Do you think 20 and 27?
I don't know.
That was the rule.
Half your age plus seven, right?
So you're right.
Dude, you're right on the cusp. You're pushing your luck. Sure. Yeah. Well, I don't know.
Emma, you walked up to Emma and you were like, I don't, I don't even want to tell you.
Have you ever heard of leg coin? Cause, cause when I, when I approach women, I'm, I do it out of,
Because when I approach women, I do it because I'm horny, not because I want to really get her number and take her to dinner.
I don't want to have to court women.
I feel like life goes too fast to court a woman now.
Maybe that's crazy to think, but man, courting a woman, making plans and texting her, and going out and getting food with her and like doing all this.
To me, that just sounds exhausting.
Do you like women though?
Do you like their company at all?
For the most part, truthfully, no.
Truthfully, not, man.
Because I just, they, we're not, for for the most part i've almost never met a woman
that's interested in the same things as i am so true that's interesting i mean you know it's funny
because like you know you do have to just it's a lot of luck right it's like you feel like
i feel like if you stick to your guns and you're just like, this is who I am.
And I'd like to find someone that's like me.
You might be surprised.
Like if you let your guard down, the thing I see, and again, I'm out of the game.
I've been out of the game a long time.
But definitely times have changed, right?
Everyone's attention spans are shorter.
They're all dating apps.
And they're being fed fucking pictures of the most attractive people in the
world every day. Right. So the temptation has got to be crazy. You got to be interesting to them.
But like, I think the interesting thing today would be to be like genuinely interested in wanting
like, not just like, Oh, I want to have sex. That's every fucking dude on the planet. Right.
So you're not standing out.
The cool thing is to just be nonchalant.
Like, hey, be cool.
Because it was funny, because I'm not joking.
Last night, my daughter was playing this video of a guy on YouTube.
He was kind of mocking some of the dating coach guys.
You know, this is how you approach a woman and get her number.
And these guys were so cringy. It was horrible.
Once I just go up, say, hey, you know, if you're not busy, you want to grab a coffee or something sometime?
If they say no, say, all right, hey, thanks a lot.
Sorry to bother you.
And just move the fuck on, right?
And you do that enough. Yeah, I asked her if I could buy her lingerie.
Truthfully, I really did.
Just a random woman I met at Target, I'm like, can I buy you lingerie?
Then she reported me to the guard.
She literally reported me to the guard.
I just don't care.
I don't care.
I have nothing to lose.
I don't care what the guard says, if he kicks me out or whatever, bans me from Target.
Okay, okay.
You're a guy.
What did she want? She wants me to ask her for her number or snapchat that's what all young women
want and i'm not gonna do that fuck that i don't even have a phone i don't own a phone anymore
because i feel like a phone is just a apple is just a crime syndicate basically and a phone is
just a they're just our google apple microsoft those people are bad people
in my view so i try to avoid them but no i'm not going to ask for her snapchat or her number fuck
that well no don't no but so what do you what do you want what do you want with them exactly
you don't want to know i'll give her my proton mail address. No, I wanted to, it would be nice to,
what do I want with them?
I want to fuck them, Animal, truthfully.
That's about it.
That's it?
Yeah, I'd fuck her and then give her my email.
Give her my proton address.
And that would be it.
I mean, so I think, like, email me.
If that's all you want i
mean the apps are there for that right like you can be straight up no app no app no app i i just
approach them in real life just all right i'm not gonna court them i'm not gonna go through the
process then you're gonna end up alone a a lot. Well, that's fine.
That's fine.
But what's the long game?
What's the long game to this?
Because I know people in my life that have been trying to play that game
for 20, 30 years.
Like, at some point in time,
it's going to get old.
It actually gets old pretty fast.
Because it's like, what's the the point don't i have a future don't i want to
actually like am i just gonna be asking yeah am i asking just women to uh if i can buy a laundry
until i'm 60 years old like like no that is fucking ridiculous right yeah i don't mean even
before all that like at some point,
that I want to get involved with.
just having a strictly physical connection. I've never really felt like I've met a woman
I mean, I want a woman that's like...
Well, if you're going up and asking chicks
if you can buy their laundry,
how are you ever going to get to...
That can really understand me.
That's what I really want.
Did you have any girls in high school?
I feel like no women I've ever met understand me. Well's what I really want. Did you have any girls in high school? I feel like no women I've ever met understand me.
Well, I don't...
Have there been men that understand?
Go ahead, Grant. Talk.
Talk about the American Dream, dude.
Are you here?
Can you hear me?
I can hear you, Grant.
Yeah, I think we lost him again.
I mean, okay, so look,
Litecoin fam, if you're going. Yeah, I think we lost him again. I mean, okay, so look, Litecoin fam,
if you're going to reconnect, maybe you'll hear the recording
of this, but I'm just going to say one thing.
Yeah, dude, that's
like chasing after
sex like that. Like you were saying,
Grant, it gets old and
eventually
you kind of feel
dirty, right? You feel awful about it and you seek a deeper connection.
And that's, I think, I mean, look, he's young, he's 27.
And I think, I think a lot of men growing up, right?
In your early twenties and your, in your teens and stuff in high school,
you're, you're not, you're not, you don't have the same value as you do
as you get older on the dating scene
you know he's going after a 20 year old
chick and I remember when I was 20
you know all the 20 year old girls that I liked
were going after you know 30
40 year old guys you know what I mean
so at some point
at some point you have something to prove to yourself
and then
and then you get over it
and you're like you kind of you know it's like that post not clarity hits you and you're like
what am i doing with my life what am i what did i just do with this human being you know it's it's
it's uh yeah or they get they get they read or they believe there's something there right
and you realize like oh i'm just like hurting these people's
feelings like i'm not trying to be that right i'm not trying to make the world the worst place
that ain't me right and i think there's yeah you cross that that point at which you either
just become that person and that's going to be your identity and you're just going to be
i don't know jumping around and just become numb to the fact you're doing this to other people
and that's if you're fooling them i mean some people like you said they're just into it like
they're cool with it it's a casual thing they want the same thing as you but again that's kind
of temporary and you'll you'll recognize if you find people that are have the same attitude as
you like coin fan you're really gonna you're really going to be like a fucking out sort of
a fucking out, Dre.
I'm saying if you did find you started having success
just meeting girls,
fucking them, and moving on with your life,
you're going to find a lot
of them would get connected to you because it's a more
connected relationship,
you know, to them,
generally, that physical makes a mental connection,
emotional connection. And you'll realize like, oh, I'm actually this person got a connection to me,
and they like me. And I'm sitting here just rejecting him or treating him like a piece of
garbage. To move on to the next one, like, what am I doing, right? It's not fulfilling to you,
is what I'm going to say.
But what I was going to say is that
if you find people on an app that
or wherever some website
that are just cool with hooking up...
I won't use apps.
I'm not going to use apps.
Apps are for women.
I have websites, fine, whatever.
No, I'm not going to use a website either.
I'm going to go right up to them in person
and ask them to buy a lingerie
and I don't care what happens to me. I just don't care, Grant. What if she's like, okay,
let's go. Then we're going to go do it. That's what I want her to say.
I'm telling you, if it'll happen to you, you'll be like, okay, and she'll give you an address or
something and you'll be following her back and you'll be like, what the fuck am I doing? I'm
going to get my ass fucking killed or something. You know what I'm saying? And and you'll be like, what the fuck am I doing? I'm going to get my ass fucking killed or something.
You know what I'm saying?
And then you'll be like, what type of woman would just invite a random dude back to her house?
As she's sleeping with hundreds of men?
You know, like, what am I getting myself into?
You'll realize, like, these are not the kind of people you want to be around.
And you don't want to be that person is what I'm saying to you.
I mean, look, everybody goes on their own journey in life right and so this like only fan is 27 i don't want to judge you harshly because i remember what i was doing when
i was 27 it wasn't much better you know what i mean um so i don't't know. It's not like I, it's not like I, uh, sexually assault grabbed or something like that.
Or, you know, like there's much worse things that could happen to a young woman.
What you did is creepy, but it's not like you.
No, it's not.
No, it's not.
Grant.
It is not creepy.
Uh, bro.
I got it.
I got to tell you guys a funny story.
It's actually creepy.
Animal. Ask your girlfriend. See if she thinks. Okay. Creepy. Bro, I gotta tell you guys a funny story that's actually creepy.
Animal, ask your girlfriend. See if she thinks creepy. Oh, okay.
I asked her if she was...
If a guy walked up to her in Target
and asked if he could buy her lingerie,
would she find that creepy?
Of course she wouldn't.
What?
I'm not asking her that.
Would she call the police?
No. She wouldn she call the police? No.
She wouldn't call the police.
But she would probably not even respond
and then pretend as if she didn't hear him
and then walk the other way.
Right.
Be like, oh, okay.
Well, that didn't happen.
And she'd probably call me and be like,
you wouldn't believe what just happened
to me yeah exactly exactly who knows maybe she'd be into an animal how well do you know your
girlfriend well but yeah let me tell you something fucked up uh some dude at work oh my god
he was telling me about how he had this crush on a girl at the office
and he sends her a message on Teams.
You know, and the message is of, well, he's like, you know,
they're chatting, you know, he's trying to ask her out.
She's like, yeah, no, I'm not really, you know, I'm busy and stuff.
He's like, okay, okay, whatever.
And he keeps going and he sends her at some point a picture of uh and it
was around halloween i don't know if i said that already but of a jack-o'-lantern in bdsm gear with
like a big hole in the mouth where you're supposed to stick your dick in i guess i don't know and he
sends this image to her and then she stops talking to him outright and he's like yo yo yo animal what
do you think this like she's i sent this to
her and she hasn't responded i'm like bro what the fuck like this is you did this on the work
computer like you're fucking you'll be lucky if she yeah well that's it's like you'd be lucky if
she doesn't tell hr man and you still have a job like what the hell um Yeah. I mean, yeah, that's weird to me.
Unless she was kind of like, unless they were like that with each other,
like that they communicated.
They weren't.
Yeah, that's fucking great.
They weren't.
Yeah.
Like some kind of, he just got frustrated and was like,
I'm done being the nice guy.
I'm going to shoot my shot that maybe she's just into this shit.
No, I mean, like, it's hard sometimes because, like, a girl be nice to you
and, like, you might misinterpret it, right?
And especially in a work environment where, like, she has to respond.
It has to be nice.
It has to keep things, you know, pleasant and stuff.
But, you know, what's going on in his head is, like, oh, she's into me.
Like, she's responding positively.
Normally, like, in everyday life, like oh she's into me like she's responded responding positively normally
like in everyday life like chicks just straight up fucking ghost me and she's actually still
talking you know what i mean like so and it took it took for him to like really push the boundaries
to figure out that no actually like she was just being nice because probably because she was
you know in this uh professional environment and had to keep things professional.
She knows every day and says hi, and she knows my name.
And she's hottest.
Right, yeah.
We had these long conversations and stuff like, yeah, well, she's stuck in a building with you for eight hours a day.
If a woman shows me that she's not interested, even at all, then I will completely stop talking.
I will not be involved with her.
Yeah, you seem all right.
You seem like you're super to the point and direct.
I'm just saying this is a funny thing.
I mean, kind of sad, actually.
I think, you know what?
I'm going to tell you the truth, Lightcoin fan.
I know I bust your balls a lot, but I think you got a good personality.
You're very, like, open.
You're very honest.
And people will appreciate that if you're just yourself.
Don't be this extreme version of yourself.
Just be someone who likes to, I don't know, talk shit.
And, you know, again, honest with your shortcomings and honest about your feelings.
But, like, I think if you say it in a way that's like you're not aggressive in any way, and some people might find that charming, you know?
Great.
Thank you, Grant.
I'll try not to be aggressive.
Yeah, honest.
Can I ask you?
Yeah.
Do you feel like you've lived the American dream?
This was on the American dream.
I mean, you have a daughter.
I know you have a job in manufacturing.
You have a Twitter account with a large following.
You're popular online.
Maybe in real life.
I don't know your friends or what.
That's part of what I kind of put on here.
What is the American dream?
Yeah.
Have you lived it?
Have you lived it have you lived i would
say you've lived it oh it's a good question yeah i would say yeah absolutely i mean i grew up and i
grew up i had both my parents at home you know my whole life they're still together today and i grew
up in a good neighborhood where you could ride your bike around and hang out with your friends.
I had, again, school was always easy for me, that type of stuff.
I went to college.
I've worked my way up.
I've worked some shitty jobs.
Even after I got out of college, there just wasn't much available.
I stayed around my hometown.
Yeah, I got married.
I don't know when I got married. 26? That was when I got married. I don't know when I got married.
That was when I got married.
And yeah, bought a house, had a couple of kids, had a mortgage, you know, gone through the, having debt, paying stuff off, like very stereotypical American dream.
And some of the things that kept me going are things like, shockingly, like I've got some debt.
I bought this house because that's what I was kind of told to do.
And I got bills to pay.
And I mean, you know, you got to grow the fuck up.
You can't just complain about it.
You got to like, you got to be the one.
It's on you to figure out how to budget, where to spend money, what to invest in, what not to invest in, what to, should I apply for this job? Should I quit this job? Because you get frustrated at jobs. And it's not all fucking peaches and cream.
having a wife is like having somebody who's on your side,
you know,
like that you can bounce fucking ideas off of like,
Hey,
should I go give this girl lingerie?
You know,
this wife got there.
We go,
don't fucking do that.
but having a partner.
Yeah,
but there's no,
there's no ideas I could ever like,
what are they?
Are they your assistant?
It's not like they're your assistant.
They're your partner.
They're your partner. They're your partner.
Okay.
You share ideas with somebody you work with.
No, you share ideas. Make decisions together?
I was thinking like, should we...
I don't know.
A good one for my old house.
I didn't know anything.
I've learned a lot working at this lumberyard. So. Like I, I didn't know anything.
I've learned a lot working this lumber yard.
And so I was like, I'm going to try shit.
Hey, I'm going to put windows in the house.
I'm just going to cut a hole in this wall.
I think I know what I'm going to do.
What do you think?
You know?
And if they're like, that's a really bad idea.
You might go, okay, maybe you're right.
And if they go, you know what?
Give it a shot. You can always call somebody. They can be the devil or the angel on your
shoulder that helps you make those decisions where you're like, you might have a little
more faith in yourself if you know you have somebody there to back you up. And I think
that's an important part of it is having... How did you meet your wife, Grant?
At a bar.
How did you meet her?
At a bar, okay.
You walked right up to her?
You know, yes, actually.
I don't know.
I think I was at the bar getting a beer and she walked up and I probably...
Actually, I told her I thought she had a good smile.
She had great teeth.
That was the first thing I said to her.
Classic.
But, you know.
Good to know.
Because why?
And, you know, I did.
I had a fucking, I'd gone to the thrift shop that day.
And I got this shirt for $3.
And I was so fucking thrilled with my $3 shirt.
And I was like, hey, dude, how about this shirt? I got
this thing for $3 today. And you know what? Cause I was an open book. That's I've been living this
my whole life. It's a, it's a charming quality. People appreciate when you're just yourself and
you're not trying to put on any kind of fucking show or, uh, they feel more comfortable with you.
You know, they feel like, okay, there's a guy who's
not trying to bullshit me. I feel like he's going to be honest with me. And that goes a long way
with girls, man. Cause there's so many fake motherfuckers out there. There's so many guys
that are just trying to use them and leave them that they find somebody they feel like it seems
cool and like laid back and isn't going to fucking be all stressing me out all the time.
Hey, man, that's step one to getting the door open, you know?
This has become dating hours.
It's become old man Grant's dating advice.
How about you, Animal?
How'd you meet your girl?
We met on an app. what was what was your line you connected what what was my line did i have a line suck oh she she liked me because i was normal apparently
apparently.
that's the biggest back i wasn't trying too hard and i wasn't creepy
That's the biggest back.
I wasn't trying too hard and I wasn't creepy.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I mean the,
like the rest of the,
like,
I think the rest of,
the guys on those apps really set the bar quite low.
I think that's apparently all you need to do is,
I think it's true around the world.
If you like,
you go,
that's what I hear.
There's a lot of dudes that you're like,
you might think,
okay,
that dude looks good.
He's taller, but he might be just a fucking cheese dick.
You know?
That's, that's what I hear.
There's a lot of guys that are, um, rude and weird.
I don't know.
I don't know what that means.
Look, this is what she's telling me right now.
Oh, she probably could talk.
Now she wants to log on.
Yeah, now she wants to talk.
She's like, yeah, a lot of guys should send us pictures of them in their underwear.
Yeah.
Oh, yeah.
It's got to be a weird experience.
Like, it's so polar opposite.
Great, great.
Can I send you a picture on Twitter?
Sure.
Will you respond?
Okay, this is...
Put it in DMs.
Just you've never seen me. in dms i'll send her
in dms this is me and my uh this is a woman i used to talk to but i stopped talking to her like
at the start of the year this is a picture from maybe like a year a little bit longer ago
this is me and her so you can see what i look like are you putting are you dming me
yeah i'm gonna DM it right now.
Yeah.
Okay.
I'm going to guess without looking. Here's what I'm going to guess.
I don't know why. I could be so wrong.
I'm usually so wrong at this.
All right, guess. Let's hear it.
Okay, this is probably so bad.
I picture you're a skinny guy.
Probably like
five, nine.
Short hair.
A little taller or short hair.
Okay.
You like to wear like,
I vision you like a,
you may be like a skater dude a little bit back in the day,
like that kind of chill skater type of guy.
But,
and then like a white guy with dark hair,
curly hair,
you might be Mediterranean.
How'd I do?
Okay.
Where's the picture?
I don't know.
I have a picture yet.
I sent it.
I sent it.
DMs.
Oh, oh, see, you're, uh, oh, dude, you're so like middle America white dude, man.
Dude, you could.
Yeah, that was, uh, that was... She was Indian.
She was an Indian woman.
She's very pretty, yeah.
Yeah.
So what's your problem hitting women?
Are you kidding me?
No, I don't have a problem, man.
I don't...
I'm just telling you, you're a good-looking dude.
You could be yourself.
Yeah.
Yeah, if you're taller than me, you're like... you're already an eight for oh that's a nice secret i'm just i think we would we would make
a good i mean you're just going through this phase where like you're you're like you're using
women for their bodies and stuff and that's that's fine you know you'll you'll get over over
it though i think at some point you might realize it's just you know what when you're feeling like
that you just rub one out and then uh get back to work you know what i mean okay so tell me about this girl
you're so why are you not together anymore i i agree animal i agree with you about that i agree
with you about that a lot i realize a lot of the time you just need to if you just jack off you
will not care about women afterwards right it's just uh did you jack off before it's magic at
least until tomorrow.
Yeah.
Yeah, I agree.
Is that really why you got removed from Target?
Well, yeah.
I don't... I didn't jack off that day.
I should have.
I should have.
And then I wouldn't...
So hang on.
I wouldn't have done it, maybe.
This girl, is she...
Why'd you break up?
Because she was this this chick was just too
difficult how you say and
didn't share my interests
etc difficult
didn't share interests
didn't behave acceptably
there's like a
group of reasons
didn't behave acceptably
alright interesting
bad behavior
we could go down this road forever
now I want to know
what are Litecoin fans rules
of behavior
yeah what did she do
was she just partying too much or was she like
religious promiscuous she said I had yeah what did she do was just partying too much or was she like uh religious
no she said i had she she i don't know she never we just like we never really were in a relationship
i mean we hooked up and did other things i guess you say. But we did some stuff.
We went to bars.
We went to parks.
This is at a Chinese light show we went to, this photo.
And I don't know.
We hung out.
See, I'm a sucker.
She's got a good smile.
She looks like a kind person, you know?
Do you wish you were still with her like if you had you want to go back out with her again
i don't know i haven't i ghosted her i stopped talking to her so dang, she's probably all boned up. She's probably like that fucking Litecoin fan.
I'm never buying Litecoin again.
She doesn't know.
She doesn't even know what Litecoin is, dude.
I know.
I tried to explain.
I talked to her about crypto.
I tried to explain to her how, like, Doge was under 25 cents when we talked about it.
And I was like, would you rather have 25 cents or Dogecoin?
What sounds better to you?
I like probing people with those sort of questions
bro that's that's a mistake yeah i don't know i wouldn't bring crypto into it
hey like if they're into it they're into it if they're not there's practically nothing that you
can do to sell to them like yeah but how can you how can you be with a woman if she doesn't share
your interests like what how can you you You have to be involved in her interests?
Yeah, but I'm multifaceted, man.
I'm not just obsessed with crypto.
I like a whole bunch of other shit.
I actually don't think that I'm a Litecoin fan.
I would say my wife and I,
we like some of the same movies and stuff.
We'll hang out and watch TV together.
But we have very different interests today.
Like, I...
You know.
I'm into crypto.
She could care less about it.
You know, I'm interested in stuff like politics and AI and I like sports and she didn't want any of that shit.
But whatever.
I'm interested in learning weird new shit.
You know?
But whatever.
I think what I came to realize well what mattered most of me
sorry chief you can talk in a bit but like uh you know the ground was saying like the girl in the
picture looked like a nice person right like that for me like what's in someone's soul is so much
it it's so much of it it It is almost...
I can't be with someone.
I couldn't...
At some point, I realized I couldn't even sleep with someone if I thought they were assholes.
You know what I mean?
If I thought someone was mean, I was just not even...
Even if they were objectively beautiful, I just couldn't.
I didn't find them attractive.
I couldn't sleep with them. Actually, I didn't find them attractive. I couldn't sleep with them.
Actually, I didn't want to.
Yeah, and so that's...
My girlfriend's an angel, honestly.
She really is.
She's super nice.
Yeah, she's really cool.
She likes to nerd out on stuff.
I thought that was fun, having a good nerd conversation with her.
All right.
This is a recorded space, so you have to say that.
And she's right next to me as well, but it's true.
I'm not going to go back and listen.
I know they were talking about us last night.
Listen to every spaces to finally hear you say something about her.
Well, what's up, Chief?
Nothing, man.
I'm going to go to a Dodger game in about 15 minutes,
so I just jumped in for a little bit.
Well, you're out there.
You're out there in the dating world like Litecoin fan.
Is it rough?
I don't think.
I mean, I'm not saying I get action all the time,
but I don't think it's rough like that, you know?
I mean, it looks like he wants a pet, to be honest.
That's what it sounds like.
Okay, so do you have, like, are you dating someone or do you just kind of date a few people?
I talk to someone.
Of course, we all, I think we all have companionship and shit, but nothing serious.
But those relationships are like semi-relationships
in a way it's not like you're dating boyfriend girlfriend but you know you're cool with each
other or is it all yeah because we're older now i mean i'm well at least i'm old i don't know how
old is light coin fam but i'm i'm old already so i'm 35 that's actually i'm sorry. Damn. I actually turned 37. Not 35. What the fuck?
That was the COVID year. That was the COVID.
Yeah. I'm 37. So, you know, it's easy.
It's always been easy for me, though. Like you said, don't be fucking rude.
Be chill. Don't act desperate.
You know, communicate with her and you should be fine with any woman.
I mean, obviously, don't let it be someone out of your league and shit, you know, communicate with her and you should be fine with any woman. I mean, obviously don't let it be some, someone out of your league and shit, you know?
Yeah. Yeah. That's the other big mistake that people make. I mean, my brother's like this,
he's old and he's never been, he's been in a few long relationships, but he will go out and he'll
be like, I think that girl kind of digging me. And I'm like, dude, you're A, 25 years older than she is?
And she's hot as fuck.
And you're like, you're a good looking dude, but you're 25.
Like, why in the world would she be interested in you over, like, literally anybody else who walks in?
She could have whoever she wants.
The shoot's so high.
It's like, goddamn, dude.
Know your role.
This is true i a couple years ago i forgot how old i think i was like maybe 2022 i forgot how old i was and i went to a bar and i realized i was the old one there because
everybody was like 21 23 oh yeah i was like yeah i'm gonna leave i'm gonna leave out this bitch
yeah like i go out.
Literally, last week, I was out with my brother, and it was like,
these girls were, like, 24.
And I'm gonna be 46.
He's 49.
And he's like, I think he'll call the next day.
He's like, I think those girls, because he just moved back.
He's like, I'm kind of encouraged, you know?
I kind of feel like those girls, if we would have stuck around,
might have even wanted to hang out with us.
And I'm like, they're literally half your fucking age, dude.
It's crazy.
So, I don't know.
Maybe help out, LightCoinFan.
What do you think?
Just chill.
Just be your goofy self.
Talk about your computers.
No, dude.
They all want me to, like, I've done this to multiple women.
And they want a phone number
or they want a snapchat they want some quick interaction and then they want to go digital with
like whatever communication say like here's your do ready say i'm gonna say give me your talks id
that's what i should say yeah what's your talks id write down your talks id they like well here's
the deal i'll invite him
out like right away like i got this thing i'm going on this weekend and actually i'd rather
instead of just texting just get together you know just go for it ask the date right out of
the gate because it's not like five minutes of conversation is going to matter they're either
attracted to you or they're not right if anything If anything, strike while the iron's hot.
If they see you and they have a good positive reaction to you right out of the gate, boom, date time.
Lock it down.
No, I don't want to text you.
I want to take you out.
They'll be like, oh, shit, this guy's fucking serious.
He must really be into me.
You know?
Look at me.
I'm really knocking it out of the park.
Let's do an earpiece.
I'll get in the earpiece with you.
You know, like the movies?
It could be like Q.
Yeah, Roxy.
Yeah, I don't know.
Do you text your woman, Grant, a lot?
No, not now.
I don't know.
I'm not like that.
I don't know.
I don't know if I can do.
I don't like online communication very much.
That's the thing I don't understand.
When you see people complain like, oh, they expect a good morning text every day.
It's like, okay, that's fucking bizarre.
Dude, America's become so dystopic with the iPhone,
I feel. Not to go on a side tangent here,
but it's...
I go out in society and everybody's
looking at their phone. You go to see
younger, 13, 14
year old kids on their phone
all day. Not to be like...
They feel like a grandfather, old when I say
that, but...
You see people like i saw somebody
the other day i was picking up food and he's waiting for his food just watching swipe it on
tiktok it's just like yeah i think the phone's ruined the world dude i don't have a phone anymore
i got rid of my phone like four months ago and i'm much i feel like I'm much happier. Yeah. I think a phone's a scam.
I really do.
It's just cheap American flop doled out.
It's junk.
It's compromised.
Your keystrokes are probably logged by Apple, for all you know.
And it's a spy device.
It's like in the US, you pay the government to spy on you.
In China, whatever.
Dude, why don't you just get a new phone, You pay the government to spy on you. In China, whatever.
Dude, why don't you just get a new phone,
get a prepaid card,
don't tie your identity to it.
You don't even have to remember your phone. Like a burner phone.
Yeah, just get a burner, exactly.
Tons of dudes do that, you know?
Yeah.
For just that reason. I don't know maybe a crack my mom wants me to dude animals are a crack dealer he's like come on man just get back into the phone
just a little bit it's not gonna hurt you can't have anybody quitting no i honestly you know how
i feel about phone numbers i i agree i think phone numbers are archaic and we should uh we should
outlaw them well the, the cell network.
There's no, there's no reason why we still need the phone system.
And we got like, you know, encrypted communication channels.
I feel like the phones could be, it'd be cool if they came out with like a,
a very lightweight phone, meaning like it didn't have a lot.
It didn't need to have a lot of shit.
It was like just basically a phone, a camera.
And I don't know what are some other basic apps
you know a recording device journaling that type of nothing no social media capabilities
no gaming capabilities no music anything just purely and then just have the battery be lighter
and be slimmer almost like a card you know that that's kind of yeah that's halfway there i would like to
see like the old gsm and like 3g totally abandoned i think starlink is a good alternative because
that you can enable you know um you can enforce rather encrypted communication channels, like encrypted SMS or something, messaging channels.
Because the current 3G, 4G system,
like if you're in a rural area and you don't have 4G,
you default to 3G, which is basically plain text,
which is like unencrypted data transferring that's happening.
And it's so insecure.
Like anyone could be listening. You can have one of those stingrays up and just intercept
people's data people's conversations and all that stuff you can get location
information from them off of this like it's really it's quite terrible but I
think look at the end of day even with the Starlink solution you're trusting
Elon Musk not to take advantage of that and dox your position to whoever.
I just think with the SMS system
as it is, anyone can do it.
It doesn't take that much.
With $15,000, you can get
a proper relay yourself
and spoof
even more sophisticated
users.
What do you mean?
You remember that Saudi princess that ran away from home,
and then she finally got her father, the Saudi prince,
found out where she was and sent these Navy SEALs to go pick her up?
No, I don't.
You hear about this?
No. Hang on. sent like these navy seals to go pick her up no i don't you hear about this no hang on yeah so this this woman uh she was basically a prisoner in her father's palace right and she convinced
um some guy with a boat to uh help her escape and this guy's like all right cool like i'll do it
and he helps her and they escape and they're and they're somewhere in the middle of the ocean.
And the captain, at some point, sends a text message to someone, right?
And I guess he was known to the father.
And when his phone was active, the father had some connections and he was able to get someone with an SMS.
Was it a GSM relay tower?
I forget what the technical term for it is.
But basically someone had ownership of a cell phone tower.
And one of the text messages was relayed through it.
And with that tower that he owned, he was able to triangulate this guy's location
in the middle of the ocean, I guess.
And I'm not sure if it was in the middle of the ocean
or if he was near a port or something.
He must have been near a port if he was using cell phones.
But yeah, then they found out where he was,
and they sent their ship over,
like I said, some Saudi Navy SEALs.
They killed everyone except for the girl.
I mean, she would
have gone away with it if the guy
would have been using WhatsApp even.
He would have been okay.
They wouldn't have been able to
find him. But he used
SMS.
And that meant
it got routed through these archaic SMS towers, these archaic SMS routes.
Well, okay.
So yeah, I mean, I'm really against it.
Because it did thing happen.
Unless we don't believe her.
What?
Yeah, I guess.
I mean, I don't know.
I don't know.
Maybe she was just like a rebellious kid that was running away
from home like right or was she really just confined to her bedroom and she wasn't allowed
to have any friends i don't know i don't know her situation but maybe she got no she wasn't kidnapped
oh she wasn't kidnapped she she got um she tried to run away prior to this and got caught. Hmm.
She's 41 from what I can see.
Oh, yeah?
Yeah, well, imagine, like,
she's an adult and she can't leave.
I think this is her.
Nope, maybe that's not.
I looked up this girl's name.
All right, well, anyway.
I feel like we're digressing from... We were talking about the phone.
But I would love to see some reform with the infrastructure.
My opinion on the phones is that I think that we're not really supposed to, as human beings,
we're not supposed to be on a phone or be swiping on tick tock or i just think
something about that to me is it's taking time away from real life it's taking time from real
away from really living so right i mean modern society is made it like we're not supposed to be
doing a but like we're not supposed to be eating bread.
Like, we never evolved to eat bread.
Bread came about, like, less than 5,000 years ago.
You know what I mean?
We're not meant to have that high calories in such a little portion.
It's something that our digestive system hasn't really evolved to accept yet, and I don't think ever will.
Well, right.
But, yeah, I mean mean modern society is a thing
we gotta you know but the phone is something that is definitely you know it's brand new and
it's gotten it's getting hyper uh hyper accelerated versus anything new that's been introduced right
it hasn't like it like okay the way for sure the way i sure. The way I see it, if I had a daughter, if I had a young daughter, I would want my daughter out on the farm running around and chasing chickens and playing with pigs.
And I don't know, maybe she could come watch some TV or whatever.
But I wouldn't want her going and learning whatever the hell the Chinese and Apple
and basically Apple's like our government, basically our government couple with the Chinese
are, you know, getting your daughter to do slutty TikToks on the phone or getting her
telling her anything, teaching them anything. I mean, it's just the phone allows a world of access by bad players.
And also you're locked into Apple's thing.
It's just to me, it's just too much of a,
anything that can actually communicate or send a signal,
you have to be aware because I think there's a big difference between a
device that can, like a phone can send,
can transmit information versus a device if can, like a phone, can send, can transmit information
versus a device if it's
electronic and cannot send
signals or transmit information.
I prefer the
second one. Like a Game Boy
for instance. If I had
a child or a younger kid,
whatever, I would rather them
play a game on a Game Boy than
go and be at the hand and
hands and will of all these people on a phone it just doesn't sound it sounds too unnecessary to
me yeah yeah it is tough that's that comes back to the american dream man like i guess your dream is to to have a more uh what is it holistic uh way of life and i think
that's that's hard to achieve these days right because i mean american society has progressed
or progressed progressed too far and we need to regress to get back to something that's more human
And we need to regress to get back to something that's more human.
I think the good thing that you can be...
Oh, go ahead.
Why have we accepted phones like this?
I don't understand how it's just at the point where...
Like my parents, for instance, when I was younger,
I don't remember exactly what age I got a phone,
but my parents, their whole lives have trusted Apple.
And it seems Apple is just a basically trusted entity.
Okay.
And I see how some of these, I see how, like what TikTok's doing to people.
Like, do you think TikTok is like helping society?
Would you say TikTok is helping America?
Hold on, hold on.
So I want to back up though, because you were asking about like, why has the phone basically progressed or why has it been allowed to develop so rapidly.
I don't think we've really understood it.
And I do think there are a lot of people like yourself that are kind of like, I don't like this.
And they've grown up with it.
Like you've grown up, if you're 27, pretty much your whole life there's been iPads, right?
iPad was like 2007, something like that.
iPad, iPhone, maybe when you were 10, 15 years old, you saw it.
So a good chunk of your life, you've had these technologies
and you're getting burned out.
I think that's what's happening to a lot of people.
Social media is, I mean, Facebook had its time
and people burned out on it.
And TikTok, I don't know if TikTok's gotten to the point it's burned out yet.
If YouTube gets to like, like AI might end up burning everybody out on social media completely.
You know, where you go and you're just like, there's just so much fakeness and I don't know what's real anymore.
And it could just be me talking to computers all day.
So I'm just, why am I going to log in anymore?
Right.
It's like any game.
Don't you get that in games too?
Like once you beat the game or you've been there and you played the game two
or three times, like going back is like, uh, I just don't want to do it anymore.
It was awesome in the beginning, but not anymore.
I don't know. I could play Halo forever to do it anymore. It was awesome in the beginning, but not anymore.
I could play Halo forever.
Live, right?
I doubt it.
Yeah, yeah.
Against other humans.
No, you couldn't, because that's what.
You aren't.
You're choosing not to.
You could do it, Animal, today. You could just get rid of your girlfriend, lock it down, and be Mr. Go.
Well, no.
Like I said, I'm multi-fat.
I'll get bored of it
like but uh for the day i'll be like okay that's enough i got my dopamine fixed for the day
and then i'll need to go and do something else right go touch grass or whatever but right after
touching grass for a couple days i'll be like you know it'd be fun like getting people like
headshots and halo would be fun right now dude i feel like grok has made grok has helped
gaming a lot i'll say in my opinion about gaming because you can now all i ever do now is i play
games with grok like if i don't know what to do or don't know where to go at some point i ask grok
and it normally will tell you exactly what the hell to do it's very useful enough for that oh
i didn't thought about it i never thought about it. So, just say, like, you just say,
hey, I'm stuck in the second level or whatever,
and I can't find the key,
and it just tells you where to go.
Yeah, like, I can't
get past this boulder, or
what should I do at this point? Yeah, like,
stuff like that. I've used it for
Pokemon Goldheart,
and I want to use it for
Wind Waker on the GameCube I'm gonna eventually play again
man I used I used Gemini to help me with my taxes this year I gotta tell you something so like I I
was doing my whole Bell's coin thing right like from non KYC I import all those transactions and
the date format isn't the same date format like the thing that you export from non-KYC, I imported all those transactions. And the date format isn't the same date format,
like the thing that you export from non-KYC,
the date isn't the same or isn't accepted by CoinTracker.
You had to add a zero and like in non-KYC was AM, PM type of time
and CoinTracker wants the 24-hour time notation.
And so I had this table, all these transactions.
And I asked Gemini, I'm like, yo, how do I do this in Excel?
How do I convert this date in Excel?
He's like, well, you could do it like this, this, this, and that.
Or like a simple way to do it like that.
But this will give you the best results.
I'm like, fuck.
So I tried doing it this way.
I'm like, I couldn't get it.
I'm like, fuck, can you just do it for me?
And I literally copied all the dates from the it. I'm like, fuck, can you just do it for me? And I literally
copied all the dates from the table and I put in the thing. And Gemini starts, he's like, sure.
And he's like, how do I do this? And then I opened up the, you can expand its reasoning
section. It normally just compresses it or condenses it so you don't see it.
And I uncondense it or expand it.
And it starts thinking, it's like, okay, so to do this, I should use a Python script.
And so it starts creating this Python script.
And then it parses the data.
It transforms the dates into the format that I need perfectly.
And I was just like, fuck, this would have taken me forever otherwise.
Like, awesome. I would have had to, yeah, this would have taken me forever otherwise. That's awesome.
Yeah, it was pretty fucking sick.
It created this awesome script to transform the data.
Something that people
at my
office, this is their bread and
butter, transforming
data. That's all they do is create
different SQL
scripts to transform data. This fucking
thing did it like that and
like perfectly um yeah dude i feel like i feel like compute computing is about to take off now
this is like a very good time i feel to get into building computers or to do it because it
litecoin fan you want you want to build computers this is i, I'm going to give you an idea. With crypto and AI now? I'm going to plan. It's made it infinitely.
Your job is to, well, so, okay.
You got two ideas for you.
One is to be someone who builds AI systems customized to businesses, right?
So like they consult with you, like, which programs should we be using?
How should we be using them?
Can you write prompts for me to give to my salespeople or to my accountants or to my engineers that will be most effective at helping them solve these types of problems? customized AI hardware systems for businesses. So that if you're looking to get into AI,
you need the equipment to do it.
And I know how to build powerhouse CPUs.
I think that's probably the harder one because you'll get burned out.
Being a consultant on how to use AI to a business's advantage,
you could make a fortune doing something like that, dude.
Like literally a gazillion yeah
that sounds that sounds like nice grant but that sounds very complicated i don't know how to build
a cpu a cpu is a little chip do you know what do you even know what a cpu is just be the expert
be an expert in how to use ai to someone's advantage.
Like you go in and you say,
okay, what are you trying to achieve?
And you kind of do a consultation
and then you tell them which AI,
because there's a hundred AIs, right?
Which AIs they should be using
and how should they be prompting those AIs to help them out?
If you just became a business.
Yeah, I don't know, maybe.
I feel like that's pretty straightforward though.
You're telling me everybody doesn't already
do that pretty much
are you fucking kidding me
everybody knows about AI
it's so mainstream now
using it is a whole other animal
like the fact you know
things like you would know
you learn how to different AI
how can I use one AI with a second AI
to basically do something that would be not doable with one.
You have no idea how untrained people are going to be on AI.
If you could write scripts for prompting AI, like typing in, preface your question with this exact phrase and then type in whatever varying
I don't know. I think there's
a business. That's all I'm saying. If you geek out
and learn AI, like if you have that kind of
mind, you could make a fortune
doing it. Alright, the Rand. Go ahead.
Well, I was
kind of like getting into the gaming thing
back in like 95, 96
man, I stayed up from midnight
till 6am.m.
And I beat Mario 3.
And it took me six hours.
And I thought, well, I'm done with gaming.
I think that's the last game I ever played because I beat it.
And everything can be magnified off that or AI.
And it's like, I'm done playing games.
I did it.
Yeah. You hit that Mario step with 100
and get 99 lives and you can program
that. That's all gaming.
Well then let's just do something else
that I'm not playing their games.
I'm not playing games. I'm just going to do
my own thing and let other
people play games and AI.
I would rather play poker on the felt.
No AI.
Right.
Gaming could be so much more.
It could be so much better.
I hope it will get much, much better in the future.
It would be nice if we could get rid of Steam.
We could really own our games
in a much more real way.
Maybe someday.
Right?
My retirement plan,
and not mine in particular,
but I'm pretty sure that by the time I'm ready to retire,
we'll have these matrix things you could just plug into,
and it'll be like, you know,
you can live forever in a machine.
At the rate we're going, you know, I'm 40 now,
another 25 years.
Like, one of my first, my earliest memory was playing, like, Super Mario Bros.
Not even Super Mario Bros, Mario Bros.
And that was like an 8-bit system with, like, these blocky-ass characters.
Now we're at a point where things are photorealistic.
Sometimes it's even hard to tell what's a game and what's
not, what's live-action.
I wouldn't be surprised
if by the time I'm 65,
or by the time I'm 80,
ready to die, I'd be like,
look, you can go out
old school if you want,
or you can live forever.
You know? Right know in the VR
alright well hey Rand while you're up
let's go around the room here
so Litecoin fan
you want to have kids running out
chasing pigs and shit that's your American dream
is that what you're saying
no my American dream
is to wake up every day and get to do something I love.
Okay.
That would be...
That's achievable, dude.
That's pretty...
All right.
Done.
Animal, you're not American.
You don't get one.
The Rand.
That's fair.
Waking up is the top of my list every day.
It'll become the first state.
Otherwise, no soup for you.
Hey, why is Canada going to be
one state? Can't it be like
six different states? They're big enough.
Let's get like 55
states. Not just one.
51st.
I'm on
your side, animal.
Then they'd be running the show. We can't have that.
Dude, I think we really should...
I hope Trump really does take over
Canada. I genuinely hope he does.
Because who's going to... I think who's going to
stop us?
If Trump really wanted to, I don't
know why he doesn't.
There's nobody... They're not going to stop.
They're not going to... They wouldn't fight.
There's nothing they could do.
What would they do?
They would throw these responds at you guys.
The rest of the world would be like,
holy shit, what do we do?
They wouldn't do anything. There's nothing they could
do. They would all
let it happen. They would just all let it happen.
Canada would be begging others to help them, but
they wouldn't fight in a war.
They wouldn't fight.
I just don't understand why Trump doesn't.
I don't know. Maybe he's planning on it.
It's the art of the deal. You say it first, let everybody squawk, and then it happens.
They do plant seeds. I will say that.
So this is something I was thinking about, and I said it because I was listening back, Animal, to what we did on Saturday.
So this is something I was thinking about and I said it because I was listening back animal to what we did on Saturday.
And like I was talking about how like your your national identity is really what you're trying to preserve when you have national security.
And that if you lose that, like you kind of dissolve that identity, you might you're basically letting yourself be taken over.
And so like with Europe, the fact that they gave up their money.
Right. And they're giving up a lot of their rights to the EU, it's like going to be this slow dissolving of those unique identities.
So the borders will just kind of evaporate as opposed to being taken over physically.
what Durand is saying.
Plant the seed
and then just talk them into it.
Make it make sense to enough people
over time and that border just kind of dissolves.
I want to address that.
If you think about
Louisiana, they got Creole,
they got parishes, they're their own,
but they're still part of the United States.
You can have your own identity
in the United States.
We allow people to have speech and we have some...
Right.
We have an overall identity.
Part of our identity is that you can kind of do your own thing as long as you're not hurting somebody else.
There's not a lot of conformity in America.
Part of our identity is being nonconformist.
You know, everybody who came here voluntarily was like, fuck that place.
I'm going to America.
Like, they were kind of adventurers.
You know?
And the same thing with Canadians.
Yeah, we're all definitely, what's the word?
Not pilgrims, but...
Pioneers.
Pioneers.
Pioneer, yeah. but um pioneers pioneers yeah listen my my like my family came down here after the second world
war basically but um no i mean like look the city i live in montreal it's a very international city
it's it's certainly a melting pot so culturally it's quite diverse. I think that's part of Canadian culture these days is diversity.
I know certainly in Quebec in particular has its own French culture that it's trying to preserve.
So that's special.
The rest of Canada is very, you know, it's very similar.
I feel like you have the pioneers of something different.
You go to a pioneer, it doesn't get paid to get here.
A pioneer just forges on his own and hooker by crook.
But the way they do immigration nowadays, it's not a pioneer.
They'll pay you.
So it's different from when let's do the melting pot, let's everybody come over here and make it on your own.
We're not paying you anymore.
That's not a pioneer.
Pioneers you've figured out by yourself, no government involved.
But it's totally different now when they pay people to come to the country.
Do you feel me, guys? I mean, that's not a pioneer if you get like. Oh, right. But it's totally different now when they pay people to come to the country.
Do you feel me, guys?
I mean, it's not a pioneer if you get an EBT card and a cell phone.
It's not an adventure.
And you're flown in.
Well, especially the way it's being done today.
A lot of our people come here for work.
Right.
And it's a prize at the end of the tunnel.
It's not an unknown.
You know, they know somebody.
Hey, I'll go there.
I can make money and send it back home.
It's a really good deal.
But they're subjected to like this process of being smuggled across the border. Right.
Like that's not a safe trip for people.
And it costs them money
and they end up almost indentured in a way so yeah I mean you're totally right
it's it's like there's a prize at the end of the tunnel that you know you're
gonna get it's different than not knowing is what the pioneers just were
literally I don't know running away rather than staying in a bad place.
Running away from tyranny with an opportunity for freedom.
Or I shouldn't say that.
That's a pioneer.
Running towards opportunity.
Right.
I had this.
Well, it's like the American dream, actually.
So, like, okay, what is the American dream?
I asked Grok, and this is what it's telling me.
Oh, perfect.
Okay, so the American dream is the belief that anyone, regardless of background, can achieve success, prosperity, and upward mobility through hard work and determination in the United States.
It often emphasizes opportunities for a better life, homeownership, education, and personal freedom.
And it goes on, but I think that's, that's a gist of it.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I had like, yeah, one of the things I said, opportunity with a fair, with a fair chance
for everybody, right?
Like that nobody's getting a leg up because of some, you know, something that makes them
different, right?
Just because they're not of the main group
or they're not rich today
or they came from a lower class,
it doesn't matter.
They can achieve.
I like refining Grok searches
and you can say,
okay, Grok, that was a good animal.
What Grok said there was good.
So you got to ask it,
is it fair if somebody gets paid to come in
and see what Grok says?
They're going to get to socialism.
Refine it.
Grok will answer.
Well, so I actually get these ideas from time to time.
One, I'm always like, I would love to run for mayor of my little suburb.
I think I could do it.
And I got too much shit on the internet that probably wouldn't work
out. All the things that I said in here, they'd find something right. But no, I always thought
the number one thing, my biggest agenda would be my goal is to make this the most desirable place
to live in the world. Like I want your housing values to go up, right? So everything I'm going
to do is going to be in the interest of making your homes more
valuable because that means that people want to be here because the way of life is so good.
So I want, and the number one thing you want is safety. You know, you want to be in a society
that's safe because if you don't have that, it's everything else is out the window. So I put like work, uh, these are just words I was right now with American
dream work, family, community, homes, safety, respect for each other. You don't cheat other,
cheat each other. Like in business, you have a high trust society. Yeah. Opportunity with a fair
chance. Um, do all you're going to do, do all you're going to say you're going to do
Do all you're going to say you're going to do
And do no harm
There's two rules
Do what you say you're going to do
Do no harm
We don't even want housing to go up
That means the
Whatever you're
Like the dollars going down
Housing should be stable
When I say housing goes up,
what I mean is
I want to create an environment that this is
an in-demand place to be.
That people want to come here.
It's safety, huh?
Safety is number one.
I think if you could have all the
greatest qualities in
a city or state or
whatever,
but if it's not safe,
people aren't going to want to live there.
You know,
they're not going to have a family or right.
If it's not saved.
Right.
So top priority is safety,
man.
And safety comes from the populace being like morally oriented
at something. Like you can only police
so much.
yeah, even the police can be corrupted.
So your general public has to be
morally aligned at something.
And that's like doing right.
Morally aligned on the safety of
because police can be good.
You want safety where other people are like-minded and they're not trying to cheat.
And you can't even trust that in this.
Safety is good.
I want people morally aligned with what I'm thinking.
Protect the family.
Yes.
Wow.
Good stuff, populist.
I like your new name. Yes. Wow. Good stuff, Populous. I like your new name.
Yeah.
It's good.
It's funny.
My daughter had a shirt on, the Litecoin Underground shirt, and I was like, it kind of makes me sad.
I might go just create it again with another account just to have it.
I'll probably get more followers just having the handle Litecoin.
It's amazing how much bot activity
you get.
If I go on a bunch of
specific topics, you get followed.
Do you notice that?
If you post about...
If you start posting about Dash tomorrow,
Animal, you just pick up a bunch of followers.
Some are bots,
some are real.
No shit. And then you can delete the posts yeah you can do that you can change your name too oh no
well so no i would i would definitely that's a good idea man oh my god refined grok uh
say did you try to refine it yeah i did it uh talked i started talking about immigration
and stuff like that and like i don't know uh you want me to read it uh sure i'll that's fine
i'm gonna get on grok here as well so it says uh i asked is it fair for someone is it fair if
someone gets paid to come to the U.S.?
The response is, the question of whether it's fair for someone to be paid to come to the U.S.
taps into debates about immigration, economic incentives, and national policy.
Fairness depends on perspective and context. From one angle, paying people to immigrate could be seen as unfair as it prioritizes certain individuals over others who
follow legal immigration processes without financial incentives. It might strain public
resources or disadvantages since competing for jobs, especially in the low wage sectors. For
example, some posts argue that unchecked immigration, especially with incentives,
undermines workers' wages and burdens taxpayers,
citing studies like one from the Center for Immigration Studies estimating illegal immigration costs $150 billion annually.
On the other hand, it could be viewed as fair if the payment addresses specific needs,
like filing labor shortages in critical industries,
for example, tech and healthcare,
or humanitarian goals, such as resettling refugees.
Programs like the H-1B visa already incentivize skilled workers to come,
and some argue this boosts innovation and economic growth.
Others might see it as a moral good,
helping some people escape poverty or persecution,
aligning with the American dream's promise of opportunity.
Yeah, I mean, pretty obvious answer, right?
Yeah.
Where do you draw the line?
Yeah, I got a question for you guys.
Is it?
Oh, go ahead, go ahead.
I'm sorry.
No, but is that Golden Visa fair, right right is that like oh you know possibly i think i mean look how much can be generated from that but think about think about
what that dollars think about what it says can i interrupt on that golden visa part okay think
about how funny this is though think about this about this. Everyone who's in the Republican Party going,
you know, it's not fair that all these immigrants come here
and they wait in line and they play by the rules
and they go through the process.
They get naturalized 14 years later
and they become American citizens.
And then some other guy just crosses the border
and cuts in line and comes to the U.S.
And yet those same people are
happy that Trump's trying to sell the same
citizenship.
You know?
You're still putting a price
on it, whether it's the person's work
or the power. And the person buying
that ticket, right? Buying the
golden visa. These are people that
probably aren't criminals.
I mean, I think they would do some...
Maybe not, actually.
They could be like Saudis and Israelis and Russians.
What if a foreign
company paid $5 million
for 100 different people
and they were
all criminals?
Yeah, I mean, that's possible.
There's a lot of ways for people to hide how they
gain their wealth, right?
If they're successful enough in organized crime,
they can set up a bunch of shell companies or, you know,
they can have ways to sort of justify how they made the money.
And then, yeah, you've got these badass gangsters coming through the country
importing tons of drugs
and stuff.
I don't know.
So, hey,
this is just something I want to talk about.
I don't know why. I mean, I've had a couple drinks.
You know what I mean?
so this is something I said
a couple weeks ago when I was doing that one on a random one on a Monday
and I was in that hotel room and I was talking about
the iron I had. Remember when I was talking about the iron?
The iron.
I remember. So what I was saying is that the iron
hasn't changed since i was a kid right and my mom had an old iron right so it's probably
this has been 50 plus years the clothing iron is the same right you go to the store you get the
one you can pull a water in it it steams it, whatever. And we were talking about cheap stuff from China
and I was like, so what if this iron, you know, comes from China and who cares? And a thought
hit me and we didn't talk about a lot at the time, but I was thinking about it more today,
is that that iron has not changed in 50 years, probably because it's made in China.
Probably because it's made in China.
Because there's no way to out-compete them by designing something better because the costs are so low.
Their labor cost is so low that even if you came up with a better idea in the U.S., it would cost too much and it wouldn't be worth designing.
It wouldn't be worth designing. Similar to it would have made no sense to grow certain crops in the north back during slavery because the south always was going to have such an amazing labor advantage.
So you wouldn't bother growing cotton in the north or in a free territory because you didn't have the labor that could compete with the South.
Is this making sense?
So that stunted innovation.
So as soon as slavery ends, all this innovation comes around in the South, like the cotton
gin and labor-saving technologies come into existence because capitalism was introduced
into a place that didn't have the freedom before that.
And so I think by proxy, it's a long-winded thing.
By proxy, China's cheap labor has stunted development in these cheap Chinese products.
It's stunted innovation like maybe in speaker technology or monitors.
I'm just trying to think of things that would be made in China, like motors.
Almost all electric motors are made in China.
So there's no competitive environment.
No, there will be.
So we have labor like picking cotton in the 1860s, and then you get an Eli Whitney that makes a cotton gin.
Unless there was a need for it.
But this thing with chips in Hong Kong.
You know what I'm saying?
Right.
Well, the slavery out of China and all these factories is going to prompt something that makes those people
not have to work hard.
By cutting off
China, by cutting them off
from buying their cheap shit,
you're going to force them
to start being ethical
in a way.
Right.
Oh, we got a new visitor here. Hang on.
Pinch Billy.
Not Christian. Anti-Atheism.
Are you up here? Hang on a second. I'm trying to add you. Hold on.
Oh, there you go.
We're just rambling, Pinch Billy. What's going on, bud?
Hey, what's going on?
I don't believe that we're going to be able to force China into being ethical.
I understand where the impetus comes from i just don't think that we have the might the economic no you might be right and by force what i mean is i don't know maybe they have
to drive their costs so low uh that you know to be competitive with terrorists, that they have to end the, I mean, they don't have slavery today.
I don't know. You're right. I know it's a totally different situation, but.
Well, they have slavery. I mean, they have Uyghurs and, but also, I mean, more importantly,
they have trade with the rest of the world who isn't doing this weird tariff stuff.
Yeah, I don't know. I'm interested to see how this is gonna play out because i just don't
know that there's enough demand around the world we just consume so much shit in this country now
it's true although we do offset a lot of what we consume in terms of you know the uh the trade
imbalance is offset by how much soy we, we, we export to China.
Like we're going to have problems exporting that.
So I man,
and like the entire middle of the country is soy.
Now it's not corn.
It's not right.
It's soy.
Yeah.
Yeah,
it is.
I thought about that.
Cause people are talking about all this beef that could be sold to,
China is no longer going to be sold there.
I don't know.
I'm overall a believer that we shouldn't.
Like, okay, I'm all a free.
I was all, I am all, free trade is optimal.
But I don't think that a country should put themselves at a disadvantage
like to have their own people
not work in a trade
imbalance like you should
set up the conditions to optimize
having your communities
be filled with people who are productive
if that makes any sense
so if you could borrow...
I just want to say, Grant...
Oh, sorry, go ahead.
It looks like the current trade agreements
are prior to the Trump administration.
The trade agreements that were established
at the turn of the century
were put in place by corporate interests, right?
Like they were put in place
to make American corporations wealthier
and not to make the American populace wealthier.
They're designed to maximize profits for the elites.
Taking advantage of the cheap labor
because
what you've noticed is
as China has actually had a decent middle class,
you'll notice your tags
are now from Malaysia
or Bangladesh
or Honduras,
something like that.
They're going to keep speaking out.
That's how they've been cheating, though.
They put tariffs on it because
China makes it and you put another country
says, made in Bangladesh, and they get
around it. The tariffs
are exposing a lot
of stuff here that we don't even know.
Yeah, I mean, we're in a pickle, too.
I mean, we need to find ways to
bring in more money.
And I know the American taxpayer pays for it.
It's kind of a consumption tax.
Is there a solution to all those soy farms?
Can they pivot to something else that's more practical and more useful?
Before he says that, I was going to say that
I saw that they were concerned about
where they're going to offload all this beef instead of China.
I'm like, in my mind, I go,
this is going to be kind of nice.
It means beef's going to be a lot cheaper in the United States.
If I could eat, if steak was $3.99 a pound
instead of $8.99 a pound,
I'd be eating steak every night.
You know?
Well, that's true. So, China loves
their pork. So,
they'll pay more for pork
and we'll just get more for beef
and mostly beef
people here in America.
This is going to work out to a balance.
Yeah, we have to change.
We lived in a very strange world.
And we have just infinite abundance.
I always marvel.
You ever go to the grocery store and you look down the row and it's filled with potato chips.
And you could be in any bumfuck grocery store anywhere in the country and it's loaded with fucking potato chips.
And you're like, how is this possible?
Or bananas?
I'd be in Minnesota in January
and there's fucking ripe bananas
on the shelf.
You're going, how is this even
fucking humanly possible?
I can walk anywhere
in Minnesota,
middle of a fucking native reservation,
walk into the store, they're going to have
fucking fresh bananas.
That should blow our mind.
I'm impressed with that beef supply line,
man. How do they get beef to China?
Do they slaughter them on the
boats? That's a good
question. I don't know if they slaughter
them here. I think they slaughter them here and then
probably freeze them or
who knows, dude.
Keep them refrigerated, maybe.
Good beef takes
six months.
So they got time.
Yeah, because they can't.
How does it take six months?
To like six months.
Like let it hang and just.
Oh, to age it.
Yeah, age it Yeah, age
Yeah, so you got time
Doesn't have to get shipped
Overseas like in the next 24
Sushi does
Blast frozen, sushi
Dead, but beef takes time
It's like whiskey
Whiskey takes 13 years or so
You got time for these things
This trade, they can happen Globalism is dead Whiskey takes 13 years or so. You got time for these things.
This trade, they can happen.
Globalism is dead, but you're going to find really good places where you can trade.
Well, you're so... Oh, you left.
I was about to engage him again.
Oh, I thought somebody else came up again.
Well, anyway.
So my point is, I'm going to go back to this.
So do you think we've lost a lot of innovation because we're kind of socialist by proxy?
And that if we didn't have that cheap labor option, would we have a rash of innovation to solve some of the labor issues we have that are in those current processes today?
And maybe come out with like an iron that's much sleeker and is only two parts because you just click them together.
It's going to happen by necessity.
We're going to have to have innovation in this country.
Maybe that's what we need.
Maybe like little cottage industries using things like AI and plastic printing, right?
What do they call that?
3D printers. Maybe that type of stuff would be utilized more effectively.
If you didn't have this,
or this,
this,
this handout,
like this socialist labor is a handout to the corporations.
And those corporations continue to enrich themselves and they become so rich
that they prevent innovation.
It's like it becomes impossible to compete with them because they're using slave labor.
And you, as a Litecoin fan or anybody who wants to start a home business, they can't compete with free labor.
You know?
So it negates, the advantage is so big that innovation can't overcome it
except in extreme instances
is this all making sense
for sure
I mean
yeah
you look at shoes for example
I mean all these Nikes bro
like they're just they're all the same
we're going back to dunks you know well and let's okay let's say the price of shoes okay let's let's
play this out right um let's say today all shoes were made in china i want to do this hypothetically
and a pair of shoes is a hundred dollars when it shows up on your door and that price goes to 150
that price goes to 200 that price goes to $150. That price goes to $200.
That price goes to $250.
At some point in time,
the price will get to somewhere
where it'd be cheaper for you
to just like sew something at home, Animal.
So you go,
well, I'm just going to make my own shoes.
And then you start getting good at it
and you start realizing,
well, I can make these pretty cheap
and I'll undercut this imported crap.
And it's a better thing, you know?
It's an eventuality that we're going to be able to undercut them.
God damn, I lost my train of thought.
It will balance out to whether you buy something and throw it away or say, oh, I'm going to fix
this or I'm going to find somebody to
fix this for me. It will
balance out.
You have to drive something
so high that
people innovate.
And if there's a real demand for something,
they'll make it happen.
People are
resilient, man.
That'd be another American dream. You know, people are resilient, man. That's the, that's the, that'd be another American dream.
We're resilient people.
That's what we tell ourselves.
And resourceful.
Right.
Creative.
I mean,
I think we've like,
in general,
North Americans have been coddled for like the last,
40 years or so.
And so we're less resourceful than we used to be
but this whole trade war thing could incentivize us to to be more resourceful than what we're used
to and to learn like you're saying to to get back to uh to being self-sufficient i think we've got a
lot um a lot more technology like everybody wake think it's going to make everybody wake up.
It's going to make everybody wake up to what's on their continent and what are your resources, your commodities, what is your work ethic.
This is a big shakeup for the world.
Yeah, and I think a lot of people are going to start learning how to use 3D printers.
3D printing tech is getting pretty advanced.
And the models that you're able to build now,
the things you're able to build are not chintzy little things.
You can make them with really nice polycarbonate filaments
that are strong.
You can have glass fiber reinforced filaments
that are serviceable in mechanical parts,
things like gears and stuff you
can create so i'm not saying you can make a differential with the with through your printer
but like you can make little gears and shit for your low trinkets um i'm sure you can eventually
you can make like a meat grinder for example eventually you could probably make a meat grinder
right which is like when the shit's a fan and you've just got your bow and arrow and like you've got a deer or something, you've got a process.
A meat grinder is a pretty useful thing to have, I would think.
Yeah.
So when you can start making things like that, you know, you could probably make an iron.
Yeah.
At least most of it.
Well, yeah.
Yeah.
This goes back to the thing like that.
We're just makes me crazy when people just think like, we're not going to be able to
figure it out.
Like we have machines that do a thousand times the work that could be done, you know, a hundred
years ago.
And you don't think we're going to figure out how to produce food and get it to people
fresh at a price that everybody can afford.
That's reasonable.
At the end of the day,
a crash out of the dollar would be painful as shit,
but it would be an equalizer
like nothing we've ever seen before.
Imagine the world
post-dollar.
Holy shit, that'd be madness.
Yeah, I don't get why you guys have so much soy doesn't it grow like man boobs in people
doesn't it cause uh
why do they use it in so many things
why is it such an issue
it used to be corn
yeah no soy
somebody's making money off soy
stop the soy
but well
we have a whale of everything
this is a world's bread basket man
we got everything in a mirror
isn't it also inflammatory like
yeah I don't like
not good for you i don't like uh not good for you
i i don't like get rid of soy it's crap it's like here in canada we've got a bunch of canola
because i guess there's some parts of of the prairies that that's the only thing you can
grow or it's like the most the highest yield uh rapeseed yeah it's like the highest yield thing
you can like you, you know.
But is that all it's about?
Like, they're forcing this menu on us just because they can yield more profit?
There's got to be something else you guys can grow besides soy.
That we can use ourselves. No, it's all money.
whatever decision they make you grow it's all for money whether country you're in canada and
Whatever decision they make you grow, it's all for money.
rapeseed and canola it's all money go follow the money stop it just grow what people like
do they control how much and how many people grow soy like is there you have to get a permit or
something and join a registry if you're a soy they just pay you they pay you not to grow corn they'll pay you to grow that it's all money
and they canada or u.s um
like the sda oh maybe we're talking about well that they they pay you to not grow stuff. They pay you
to grow soy.
Your government hates you guys.
Listen, I
could talk about this one
because I think that the government
is one of the few things the government
should be doing is
being sure we're
food secure.
Well, yes, food being sure we're food secure. You know? So.
Well, yes, food secure, but what if
it's really, really shitty food
that they're feeding us?
I don't go for that either.
True.
But, like, I do think you should have a
reserve of
different foods for emergency purposes.
And it would be, or an overcropping every year of certain staple foods is smart,
because you don't know when you're going to have a drought or some natural disaster that will wipe out half the crops.
You want to ensure.
I mean, I think that's, you know, that seems smart.
I would do that if I were a leader of something.
I would say, yeah, let's make sure we have some emergency rations.
Hey, I got a question for the audience, all four or five of us.
I've been having a hard time finding good avocados in Montreal.
Is that like that where you guys are at?
Do you guys buy avocados?
I don't often, though.
Okay.
Because I've been getting small ones or they're super ripe.
I went to the grocery store the other day, like there's a whole fucking pile of them.
They're all literally moldy and super soft.
And it was like, what the fuck?
I went to like three different grocery stores and they're all like that.
Bro, animal, this is such a great question.
I'm going to bring my wife in on avocados.
All right.
Hey, honey, what did you do with the three avocados that you got last week?
You're live.
I put them in the refrigerator in a jar and covered them with water and put a lid on them.
With the skins on and everything.
And they lasted over 10 days.
That's true, my friend.
Say that again.
Say that again.
Hang on. say it again hang on say it again i put him in a container full of water submerged him in the water put a lid on it stuck him in the refrigerator open him up 10 days later green is the day i bought him
no salt or anything nothing Nothing? Lemon juice?
Nothing like that?
Nope.
Just water.
And you're saying after you cut them in half?
No, leave them whole.
Don't open them at all.
After you had already cracked them, I'm like, dang, that's amazing.
But still.
No, don't open them at all.
But they lasted in the refrigerator over 10 days.
So if you buy them them perfectly ripe, you can
preserve them, kind of.
Correct.
That was the TikTok that I
saw, and I tested it, and I'm a believer.
All right.
Hey, let us know every week
a new TikTok hack, okay?
Yeah, she's pretty good.
Yeah, that's cool. Keep that in that in mind yeah we've been having like
no avocados in this city i don't know what's going on i figured like and they all come from
mexico so like they shouldn't be affected by tariffs right like i don't know that's the trick
that's the trick avocados from mexico remember that they we we grow enough avocados in the california valley
but we ship them and then avocados come back and there's tariffs involved so much
this is we can grow this con it can do whatever you want like okay here's the thing, guys. So let's say Trump puts a tariff 3,000% on pistachios.
Well, pistachios come from mostly Iran.
Well, who cares about pistachios?
We'll just pay for it.
But then China says no more Boeing airplanes.
Well, what do we get, two or three from them?
This is such a game guys these these tariffs
you got to look at what they're tariffing and it really doesn't matter like do you eat that many
pistachios a year so so what if there's a three thousand percent on pistachios and it comes from
iran and the the government will say oh trump puts Trump puts 3,000% tariffs on Iran, pistachios.
This is such a game, guys.
Just whenever they're tariffing, look at the percentage.
Where are you getting your information?
What do you listen to?
Oh, it's on the internet, so I know it's true.
Well, no, no, no.
But I'm saying like, I know you get into you and Clinton
and all those guys get into Bix Weir and stuff,
right? Is that where this type of stuff
is coming from?
No, that's just like gold and silver.
Is this just your own
philosophy?
because I just listen.
I do. I listen to everything i even listen to i used to listen
to like on underground but i can't find him anymore yeah yeah mostly i trust my gut and my
sarcasm but i promise if you challenge me on anything i say, I'll Google it and promise you that you're wrong.
You should use Gronk.
Don't Google it.
You should use Gronk.
Google's stealing all your data to sell to God only knows who.
Hey, I'm an AI guru.
I'm happy that your wife got educated on TikTok. The Chinese government educated her about
how to secure
avocado
secure avocados.
You say we're going to find out.
Maybe they're actually
educating us.
Maybe I'm wrong.
Maybe TikTok is improving society
and I'm just wrong and I don't know anything.
I don't know. Have you ever used TikTok, Graham?
I've never posted it. I've looked at it, of course.
You've looked at it? I've never barely even looked at it.
I could never. I could never.
Google, TikTok, Microsoft, Apple, all those people are criminals.
The FBI, the CIA, those are paid
control by those. Those are
like criminal fronts. None of those are real
companies. They're criminal organizations.
And they want to own your
kid and own the minds of your kid.
They're all criminals. And
it's more than that.
It's sick. It's more than that.
Throwing public school teachers in the mix
and you've got a real criminal coalition
I work at a public school
so I know what you're talking about my friend
well so what
you have such an identity
you should be out
you should have a conspiracy podcast
yeah a conspiracy podcast.
Yeah, a conspiracy podcast, sure.
It doesn't take a high IQ or a conspiracy-level knowledge
to understand it.
If I was a parent,
I don't know how parents just trust
these companies.
The companies aren't better
than the government. They're all criminals. The whole lot of them. The government, I just, the companies aren't better than the government. They're all criminals.
The whole lot of them.
The government, the companies.
There's not one honest person out there that's actually very few, to say the least.
But...
Well, there is, that's what I think has been, I mean, I always kind of knew there was this like marriage between corporations and government, but I do see this just incredible alignment.
You know, it's so hard to miss.
Sometimes it's like you get lulled to sleep and forget like, wow, they really are just one in the same.
And the government is just this enforcement arm of the corporations.
And I think the corporations have truly taken over.
I do agree with some of your sentiment around stuff
like Google and Apple having so much
access to your data.
Oh, all the people
at Google, Apple, and Microsoft
are best friends with the FBI, CIA,
and others. They're all a criminal
coalition.
Right, right.
Gary, I know.
I've taken a look
at a few people in the FBI just out of my
own personal interest.
It's
scary, man. It's scary.
I don't know. It just freaks me out
every single time. The whole
Democrat Party scares me to the
core.
It's kind of how we live now, I guess.
On kind of a cool note, though, like,
does the Republican Party scare you,
my friend? Yeah, it does. It does, because I think
the Republican Party is just full of stupid
people. Like, none of them will ever
say what I'm saying here. It's like,
when was the last time you heard a Republican say
Google and Apple are criminal fronts and you shouldn't
let your kids use their products?
They don't give a shit.
Trump doesn't give a shit.
Trump loves Apple because he's dumb.
No, he doesn't.
I'm telling you.
All Trump gives a fuck about his money.
Trump wants Apple to invest all this money in the U.S.
He never speaks out and calls Apple criminals or bad people.
No, he doesn't give a fuck.
He could care less about the people. No, he doesn't give a fuck. He just...
He could care less about the people.
The Republicans are all liars. They just want your money.
They're criminals.
They're not much better.
Some people support Trump.
I think MAGA...
There's going to be things that...
I think
there's some dissent in
MAGA right now about some of the things he's done with, like, the...
Like, in Israel, like, stuff he's doing with Israel,
I think there's some problems people have with his free speech stuff.
And beating up an American citizen to El Salvador?
Yeah, I think there's some dissent in MAGA.
And I think, yes, Trump is the leader.
He's the only thing that's embodied it so far.
But I think he could lose
control of MAGA at some point
in time.
Where he's no longer the prize,
the one that
speaks to their ideals.
Would you agree, Rand?
Because I feel like you're deeper into this than I am.
I don't think MAGA and Trump are perfectly aligned anymore.
There's like a wobble going on
when you get on a motorcycle
and you go too fast
and the front steering wheel wobble, wobble, wobble.
That's MAGA right now.
And it might be able to pull
that out.
It will if Trump listens to him.
Trump has got to listen to him. I think he
even realizes he's lost control
of MAGA a little bit.
You know what I'm saying?
Yeah, MAGA is the lesser of two
evils, but the Republican Party is
not an
organization how I would want
it to be. It's very far from
the level that I want it to be. There's
so much stupid infighting, and I
don't feel like any of the Republicans actually put
out a...
They don't say
the truth. Whether they know it or not,
I'm unsure, but they just don't
speak enough truth.
I think MAGA
needs to exist for
25 years before it can
actually establish
candidates and
unseat old
time Republicans.
People like Mitch McConnell
need to be replaced
with someone who's actually
an actual conservative. need to be replaced with someone who's actually...
Alive?
An actual conservative, right?
And that takes like a generation, honestly.
You don't have to start a new party,
you just have to replace the candidates.
And you could label yourself a MAGA Republican, like a sub-party almost, right?
Or you adhere,
like the Rand said earlier,
you want to be surrounded by people that adhere to the same
ideals you do.
I think it might take a generation,
but the way that
Trump's going about it,
it's going to be like within
oh, no, this is going down right now.
And whether you realize it or not, this is just a shakeup of monetary, political.
It's going down.
He's a chainsaw.
And I don't know if we need it or not, but it's happening.
There ain't no scalper here, folks. It's happening chainsaw. And I don't know if we need it or not, but it's happening. There ain't no scalper here, folks.
It's happening right now.
And figure it out.
This is going down.
And you're getting, whether you're on the, you know, the roller coaster goes over the hill.
And the people in the front cars know what's coming.
The people in the back cars don't know until everybody screams.
I'm in the front car of this roller coaster.
I know what's coming.
The people in the back car have no clue.
But there's a lot of screaming going on.
But I know where we're headed.
I hope that was a good carnival analogy.
I don't know.
Well, Greg, can I ask you?
Name one Republican. I can't
think of one single person
in the Republican Party that I'm actually impressed
with. That I listen to
and I think, man, that guy
really knows what he's talking about.
Like, that guy's a...
I can't think of one.
Not even one.
The Republicans just are... Can you think of any Democrat not even one. The Republicans are just...
Can you think of any Democrat that knows exactly what you're asking a Republican?
The way I see it is Democrats are all criminals and the Republicans are all stupid.
That's kind of how I view the situation.
And it's like, do you want the criminal or do you want the stupid person to run your country?
It's a difficult thing.
I would rather have
stupid because criminal
is not in your best intent.
I would rather have somebody
stupid. I want
Barney Fife
with one bullet in his gun.
I don't want...
Dude, it makes me so mad how many
women are in the world.
That's actually so true. Malevolent is so much worse than
just too incompetent
to actually
be effective.
Yeah, you almost want to be able to run
circles around your government.
But yeah, I don't know, man.
That was a good question. But, LightCoinFan, I didn't know man that was a good question
but I like my fan I didn't hear your exact
question you asked like is there one Republican
or what were you going to say
who do you think is the best Republican
that's like
the most informative
and says truth
I don't know man
you may not believe this I don't pay a lot of attention
to politicians themselves.
Because there isn't any.
They're really funny.
It's so sad.
It's actually dystopic.
I do like the two libertarian guys.
For the most part, I like...
It's not Massey, is it?
Is Massey on the list?
Well, Massey and Paul.
Yeah, I like both of them.
Rand Paul.
I'm not saying they're right all the time,
but I think that they try to be genuine.
Nobody is
right all the time.
And I think
I'm thinking a lot of people are thinking like
me. That's the problem. This is like me being
narcissistic here.
I'm hopeful that I think the libertarians,
one of the things they did is they've gone too far.
They become like too extreme and set in their ways. And I,
I hope that some of them understand that they need to attach themselves to some
of these MAGA people in order to
move their ideas forward.
I think the real problem is
it's a multifaceted
problem, but I think it's like
I don't know.
They won't say
that they're criminals for some reason.
I don't understand why they
just go along with it
like Google and Apple
and Windows
I want them to specifically target
yeah Google, Apple and Windows
I want them to target all the Democrat
corporations
they gotta keep up
the capitalist delusion
you know
dude an iPhone they gotta keep up the capitalist delusion you know okay but that is not um
dude an iPhone is like
what they dole out in North Korea
literally I feel like
and Google and Apple all
are totally cooperative with the feds
they'll give all your data over
your Google account
probably your iOS keystrokes
everything
God only knows you can't trust these people at all.
But yet we're told that we can. And it's actually frightening.
And you have to learn it yourself.
It is a real-life criminal coalition that
want to do bad things to you. And the Republican Party, they don't even say
that. They just let it happen,
but they want to be
like, they want to...
I don't know.
They're not far enough.
Sometimes I wonder how many Republicans even own
an iPhone.
Do you think MAGA is more
trusting
pharmaceutical MAGA is more trusting of pharmaceutical
companies or less trusting
of pharmaceutical companies than
Democrats?
I don't know. I'd probably say
that's like a...
I'd probably say less, I guess, but
depends, I guess.
Why? So I'm saying there's like this rejection.
And I think the same thing like with technology, like you're talking about.
The people that are kind of rejecting the centralization of all this stuff, like the centralization of the monetary system, the food system, the chemicals that go in your food, the pesticides, the pharmaceuticals.
Gosh, even the defense, like even the Department of Defense, unbelievably,
the military, those people are more likely to be aligned with this Republican coalition right now.
And so, I'm trying to think.
Do you think, can I ask you, would you say that Apple is, And so, I'm trying to think. I'm trying to think of the Republican.
Can I ask you, would you say that Apple as a company,
like people getting a phone, do you think that's improving society?
And this is funny.
This is like a libertarian question.
If people want them... I mean, I don't know.
Wouldn't that...
Isn't it that that's the better thing,
that people want them?
But no, I think overall, no.
Obviously, that's why I changed this whole thing
because I think that culture is super important
and our culture is being just absolutely dissolved
before our eyes.
Yeah.
The phone has a lot to do with it.
Your question was,
was Apple improving society?
Yeah.
Just for your answer.
I saw a young...
Even if you got rid of all the iPhones tomorrow
and iPads,
would a whole lot change?
Probably not.
I saw a kid walking down the road the other day looking at his phone,
and I thought, kid, get off that phone and focus on what's in front of you.
It's just like, I don't know.
It just doesn't seem like it's a...
And plus, you're locked into Apple's thing. I mean, you want to talk about
no freedom? Want to talk about
restriction?
You don't really own your device.
It's a co-ownership with Apple.
Just like how they want to make it so you don't really own
your kid. It's a co-ownership with the government.
Did you hear about that bill in California?
It's a voluntary prison.
Or did you hear about that bill in Colorado? It's a voluntary prison. Or do you hear about that bill in Colorado?
The 1312 bill where they can take your
kid away from you? Do you hear about that
bill, Grant?
Moms for Liberty and others
are most... Say that again? They can do what?
If your kid is trans, you
can keep them. They'll let you go.
If you don't affirm
your child's identity,
they take the kid from you in California.
They just passed a bill.
Or in Colorado, I think they just passed a bill about that.
Moms for Liberty was posting about it, and I heard others were.
Dude, in Canada, they had that.
A couple years ago, a dad lost his visitation rights with his kid because he was unwilling to acknowledge it.
Imagine leaving your kid alone with Apple and Google. Imagine doing that. rights with his kid because he was unwilling to acknowledge his name. Would you say, like, imagine
leaving your kid alone with Apple and Google.
Like, imagine doing that.
And then, like, millions of parents all across
the country just do.
You would...
That's like...
Can I give you a biblical reference
of what you're talking about?
Let me give you a biblical reference
of what you... So you identify your kid as a biblical reference of what you so you identify
your kid as trans or whatever to say look go back to book of exodus when the pharaoh said anybody in
or two male was dead and so moses his mom put him in a bull rush and put him in trans and just go against the government.
And the government actually paid for Moses to be born and suckled and everything.
Don't worry about what the government says.
This is so old.
But it's not just the government, Durand.
That's the thing about it.
When people say don't worry about the government,
that's all fine and well or what have you,
but the government is just...
The corporations and the government are wed.
The whole society is really the concern, in my view.
It's not just the...
What I'm saying is you can get around it.
Yeah, you can, but it's almost impossible.
You have to quit
using... You have to not use an
iPhone. You have to not use
Google's websites, which are
all... They're
certifications, every website that they
are... They verify.
And then you have to not use Windows
anymore. So that's's i literally do all those
things now i didn't used to but i do them all now because i realize that they're just criminals and
it's just what it is but it's not easy and it and i find it very difficult to even realize that
these corporations aren't your friends they're actually just like criminal proxies of our government. Like, they,
why did,
like,
basically,
there's no difference between
leaving your kid alone with Apple and Google
leaving your kid alone with just like
a Democrat,
sick Democrat.
Like,
that's basically what they all are.
But whether they admit it or not,
it's like they're like...
You have to fear not.
You have to fear not.
This is happening for thousands of years.
Who's going to tell people?
Who tells people that these are criminal
fronts instead of companies?
It's been
happening.
You know how to live your life
no matter what the government is doing
it's been happening for millennia
feel free
fear not
do what you feel is right
protect your children
this is not new
this is not new
it's very difficult
in my view to realize
and learn these things.
And I feel that
nobody in society
really... It's like you have to do it
yourself. You have to understand it yourself
and learn these things yourself because
there's nobody in the GOP that
actually has a high IQ. They're all
stupid. They're not going to say it.
You have to learn these things yourself
and nobody's going to help you,
bro. Nobody.
Well, yeah, that's the sad thing.
Yes, well,
then you can take care of yourself.
You can do it, bro.
I like your rant.
I like your rant. I like your rant.
Keep going.
This is great.
I appreciate it.
Grant, do you want to say anything?
No, no, I'm listening.
I hear what you're saying.
I think I'm with the rant.
You're right when you say that.
Are you leaving?
It's not a surprise. You know what I thought was that, like, are you leaving? It's not, it's not a surprise.
You know what I thought was really funny was about the whole windows having all those software licenses or whatever that our government looks like.
There's a,
there's a criminal tie right there between windows and government.
Right.
It's just,
I mean,
look,
look,
this is how blurred the lines are.
Harvard is mad that they're, the government's talking about pulling some funding,
even though Harvard has plenty of money,
and they can do what they want if they don't take the money.
They're allowed, you know what I'm talking about?
The government's trying to tell them, like,
you can't have your whatever, your admissions process isn't good enough.
So they're mad because they're going to pull their funding if they don't change their way of governing the university.
And they're like, we're a private university.
We've blurred the lines between what private even means.
They're asking for government money while claiming they're private.
You know?
Yes, I agree. government money while claiming they're private. You know? Yes.
I agree, yes.
So, these companies
aren't private.
None of it is.
It's all public. Once it becomes a publicly
traded company, you're subject to the rules
of the government. Right.
And they can tell you
to do whatever you want, or you're going to lose everything.
And the CEO has all everything
that his company is allowed to function
and their stock price goes up,
so he's not going to defy the government.
But if you're a local business that doesn't have that,
you might tell the government to fuck off.
I was just looking at this FBI agent
I follow on Twitter the other day,
and he's literally shouting out Google and Apple.
He's literally saying, oh, yeah, you can go on Google and Apple.
He shouted him out, the Google Play Store and the Apple iOS Store or whatever,
and it's like no wonder he's shouting out Google and Apple.
He's shouting out his fucking employers, right?
Which are just criminals just like him.
It's a sad reality.
And it's like, no wonder.
And they're spying on everything.
And your Google account is basically not even your own.
Just like your iPhone is not really your own.
And the computing is like the one way now, maybe somewhat.
But you've got to be very careful about what you trust. And it shouldn't ever be like this. Like this is a country where people aren't
educated, where people hate each other. It's a sad reality. Everything's made in China,
et cetera. I don't want everything I own to be made in China. That's not fucking anything
I would support. You see that video that the Chinese posted about the fat Americans in their sweatshops or whatever?
And everybody's going along with it.
The Democrats literally want you to be a gay, fat, lazy criminal like most of them.
That's what they want.
They want you to hate all the stuff we talked about.
They want you to hate all the stuff we talked about. They want you to hate that stuff.
They want you to hate your family and a home and having a belief system.
But it's more than just the Democrats.
It's their companies.
Like these companies.
Oh, yeah, yeah.
And that's where you get past the life.
It's not a party.
It's a mindset.
It's not a party. It's a mindset. It's not a party.
It's a blob that are like-minded.
They want to sell out.
They want you to abandon your identity for cheap shit.
They want to get a hold of you.
They want you to not be moral and upstanding and good and right.
They want you to just be a consumer and to be decadent.
Because they're trying to sell you shit.
They're not trying to...
They need a consumer.
And for the most part,
making shit that people need
is not very lucrative.
Making shit that people want
and speculate on
and overpay for,
those are the vultures.
I have a question about that, sir.
Yeah.
So, the consumer is the U.S. and the producer is China.
Yeah.
And so, it's a symbiotic relationship.
Because if we don't buy 30% of what producer
this is going to get serious
this is
like I don't know is it the US
that's going to be in trouble
or the producer
China that's going to be in trouble
I'm just curious
I think
here's what I think
we made a big mistake by giving up our ability to be self-sufficient I'm just curious. Here's what I think.
We made a big mistake by giving up
our ability to be self-sufficient.
Whatever
made that happen and how we
let that go on for so long
was really, really stupid.
China can survive longer than us
because they can make their own shit. They can grow their own food.
They can make their own microchips.
Make their own defense systems without reliance on a foreign
government. Like,
that's why we have to
get this back. Did you see
that video? Well, you can't eat microchips.
They make so many microchips,
but you can't eat microchips.
So what do they produce?
Well, microchips make machines that
harvest food. You know what I'm saying? Well, microchips make machines that harvest food.
You know what I'm saying?
Did you see the video the lady, the Chinese woman posted the head of state or whatever about the fat Americans in the factories?
Did you see that video, Grant?
I mean, I saw the AI thing, but I don't know exactly what you're talking about.
The AI thing? You're talking about the special things they paid 10,000
times for Gucci
and these
$5 Nike shoes,
right?
This is what tariffs
expose.
It's going to be an education.
They think we're all fat and dumb
and can't make anything.
They want you to believe that. They think we're all fat and dumb and can't make anything. They have their...
And they want you to believe that.
They want you to believe that.
Think about what the...
Go watch a television commercial, bro.
What do they make you think when you're done watching a television?
So why is everyone so fat and dumb?
Hey, you're a man.
You're the dad. You're dopey. You you're a man. You're the dad.
You're dopey.
You can't fix anything.
You're an idiot.
You need help.
That's what you're told constantly, that you are incapable.
And that's not true.
Americans are not incapable.
We are resilient.
We're pioneers.
Dude, we're the most creative people in the world.
We are a wild bunch,
man.
And we take ideas and we run with them.
And when people succeed in this country,
see,
this is where our culture is lost.
We don't even cheer them on anymore,
right?
Everybody's resentful.
man,
we should be like,
good on you.
You fucking did something and succeeded, good for you.
That's the foundation of who we are.
And the Chinese want you to stop that, because they are socialists, they're communists, and that's demonic stuff, you know?
Yeah, I don't know why we all are so fat and stupid. I feel like it's because our education system is a joke.
We're not...
Like, man, I can't wait to see these fuckers get what they deserve.
We're being influenced to consume.
They're really going to get what they deserve with Elon now.
Elon's going to fuck them up right where they fucking deserve it.
All the public school teacher scum. It's just going to
be, you know what it's going to be?
It's going to be
actually
your kid's going to be programmed by
Grok and AI. And that's what
it's really going to be. And then they'll really
be educated. Then they'll actually
then we can actually start because it's just they end up this way through the failed programming of whoever whatever
public education or in part probably their parents or whatever but when you have a when you they're
even talking about grok teacher have you heard heard of Grok Teacher, Grant? No.
Oh, man, I am so excited.
Because maybe then we'll actually have a country
where it's not all Doritos and TikTok.
And we'll not Mountain Dew Doritos and TikTok
and Apple and government spying
and making sure you're a little good pet
and you're a little good whatever.
Listen to me.
Smart people still eat Doritos and consume tick tock
it's not an education no they don't no they don't they do not you're you
fucking dumb you think smart people consume Doritos and eat and watch
tick-tock you really think that hell no they don't no they don't smart people
smart people eat carrots and they eat healthy, and they eat oranges, and they eat fruit.
And they buy, they go and they make salads.
They make salads, and they, did you really eat carrots?
Okay, that was just a random.
I did, literally.
I always glaze them.
You got to glaze the carrots, you know what I'm saying? With ranch? Okay, that was just a random... I did, literally. I always glaze them. You gotta glaze the carrots, you know what I'm saying?
With ranch?
No, butter.
Okay, I don't know about that.
You gotta do whole carrots.
They eat broccoli.
You gotta buy whole carrots.
Baby carrots are trash.
They don't eat...
They don't eat Doritos and Lay's
and swipe TikTok
and eat all sorts of Greaseys and Hershey's and swipe TikTok and eat all sorts
of Reese's and Hershey's and
candy junk.
Literally, you go to checkout at the
store, it's loaded up with candy.
Don't forget to...
I don't know.
I don't know why that's like that. I don't know
why society is like the way that it is.
Because people
are giving in to their
addictions,
their impulses. It's an impulse
buy. It's why the lottery
tickets are there. There's always temptation
for people trying to make you
do things that you know you shouldn't
Without this
indulgence, again again consumption goes away so we're being i would say
like on fam and then i've been listening to you for like 30 minutes that's pretty good rant i
like you i appreciate the rant i appreciate it you. I appreciate it, the rant. I appreciate it.
And then we're told, also, the most
funny thing about it is we're told that we all
somehow voted for this.
That's the actual icing on the cake
for me. That's the whole thing.
It's hilarious.
It's just all a scam. Voting is
a scam. The corporations and the
government are like a criminal
organization. Okay, go ahead.
No, I agree. I think
voting could absolutely be completely
fabricated. Like, they could tell
you there's 300 million people in America, and you're like,
okay, how would you
ever know that there's not?
You know?
21,000 years to count
them all.
Trust me.
I ain't counting them.
300 million.
No way.
You know, China only has about 500 million people.
Just to let you know, it's 81.4 billion. So wait, you're saying how many people do you think is in the U.S., Grant?
No, I'm saying how would you ever know?
I'm just saying it doesn't matter.
I'm just saying I don't have an answer.
I'm just saying there's no way to actually know that answer.
I don't know if I agree with that.
So I could tell you China's not real.
How would you ever know that?
Well, I could go to China.
Okay, but you could get a rough estimate somehow
in a lot of different ways, I feel.
All right.
Yeah, go to China and start counting by one.
You'll never hit it.
Start counting.
Like they could look at Social Security numbers issued, right?
Is that possible?
Whatever, but those are just names on a page.
I mean, there's nothing there.
You have no idea those people actually exist.
Okay, sure.
Okay, maybe you're right.
If we're going to take it to its extreme,
I'm just saying that's taking it to its extreme.
This concept of
what's
real and what's not.
You could question everything that you're told.
I think you should.
I think you definitely should question everything.
Yeah, for sure.
And it would be beneficial to a government.
It would be beneficial to China
to tell you they have a lot of people.
That would be intimidating to somebody else.
Okay, sure.
You know why?
Because you get more money from the IMF.
That's why they don't
tell the truth.
Look at this dude.
You're a wealth of information.
I've never heard this idea
that China has less people than what they're saying.
I've never heard this.
I believe it.
Yeah, it would be beneficial
because you start
doing the math. That's a lot of freaking people.
This city has
20 million people.
Who's counting those 20 million?
The same way they do redistricting
in the U.S. for government.
It's a money thing.
It's numbers.
So instead of dead internet theory, you're into
dead real world
theory that
most of the people, like this world's
actually very small. We're just led to believe it's
larger than this.
It's a matter of
zeros.
Whether it's population or
indebtedness or trillion,
it's just a click of the mouse.
Zero.
Doesn't matter.
Hmm.
And even though we're told people are having fewer kids every day, here we are.
Population continues to explode every year.
You know?
Population declines.
They add a zero to get the more money.
We don't even have as many people on the earth that they tell us we do.
Right.
You know what I don't understand?
And you know what?
It's weird to me.
I look at all these creepy Democrats.
I spend a lot of time just looking through them.
And a lot of them have
daughters and I can't, I don't know, man, I could never imagine having a kid and being a Democrat,
even a daughter, especially a daughter, man. I mean, I, I get it. You know, Trump made the one
grab him by the pussy comment or whatever, but the reality is that you're giving your daughter
over to fucking illegal aliens. You're giving your daughter over to fucking illegal aliens.
You're giving your daughter over to whatever.
I talk about Tim Walz and his daughter.
She's groomed to hell.
That's why I don't believe in child abuse.
It's because child abuse is a fake idea.
There's no such thing as child abuse.
You don't even have a daughter.
Yeah, sure.
Sure, I don't have a daughter.
Should I have one?
Maybe my
perspective would change.
I can tell
you don't have a daughter because
you said the word grabbed by the pussy.
You don't have a daughter
because if you had a daughter, you would
never say that statement.
But Trump said that.
Who cares?
Right, but yeah, he. Who cares? Right, but
yeah, he doesn't. That's fine.
If I had a daughter,
I would never utter the word,
phrase, grabbed by the pussy.
How does that make any sense?
I would say that.
Dude, there's going to be no good men
left. Don't they understand?
It's all failing.
I don't think Trump is going to revive it. I think
Trump is just a fucking...
I'm not happy with Trump.
I'm not happy. He's not a
serious person to actually fix it.
Fixing it requires fucking up
a lot of these criminal corporations
that just want to
enslave...
True, and that's what the tariff thing has revealed.
The stock market got very scared and these corporations
were like oh shit
and their grip
on things is very tenuous
that if he actually went through
with this stuff and said I'm gonna burn this
bitch down
he could do it
oh he's doing it
I don't know I don't know that he's that
warrior. I'd be shocked.
How is he
going to burn it down?
Just let the stock market crash.
Let people suffer
because
we have a debt to pay.
right this ship, people have to go back to work.
We're living in a fantasy world, monetarily.
We've been living in a massive fantasy world by exploiting the cheap labor of other people around the world.
So in a way, just like the North was dependent on the South's free labor, and there were people in the North who thought, boy, if you attack the South, we end slavery, the cost of goods is going to go up.
And they decided it was the right thing to do morally, so they ended slavery. They found a way to end it through war. And after that, guess what? The world didn't fall apart.
You know, people didn't starve in the streets.
But there were probably a lot of people that were very vocal about not ending slavery because it would ruin the market.
Prices would go up.
This is like a deja vu.
But the right thing to do is to stop funding this immoral behavior.
Sorry, go ahead, man. I cut you off.
No, you're right.
This is the right thing to do.
And there was such a fight during the Civil War.
And you do this
and everybody complains.
I don't know if Trump's doing
the right thing, but man,
does he shake it up and let
things figure it out.
I really don't like
these people being sent to El Salvador.
Right? I don't.
Well,
we have a US senator
going down there to bring one back
what the hell is that about
it should be
it's unjust man
bring one back
no I'm just saying you don't
snatch someone off the street
and send them to
a country a third country that they're not a citizen of
with an in-depth and like they don't have the right to a trial or any sort of this.
I don't know.
I get it.
We're in a pickle, man.
It'll take years to unwind.
This might be a play on your emotions about this.
And this might be in whatever's going on with that El Salvador stuff.
It might be a play on it.
listen,
man,
I haven't liked,
cause Kaylee did the same thing.
He just rounded people up based on a gang tattoo and threw him in jail.
And he had a like very serious problem at the time,
but I don't like that.
I don't like that those people were getting jailed
with no charges.
I don't like it at all either.
Trust me.
I don't like it at all.
But no charges.
They have no trial date.
So they're in jail for an indefinite amount of time with no charges or no have no trial date. They're in,
so they're in jail for an indefinite amount of time with no charges or no way
to answer their charges or to plead their case in any way.
We can't be sending fucking somebody who's in this country there without some
sort of trial,
some sort of like determination.
Is this person guilty of a crime?
Did they,
you know,
we have,
you know, we can't just say, oh, you're illegal here.
You're going to some third country.
He wasn't even from El Salvador.
If he was from El Salvador, that might make sense.
Hey, this is your guy.
But I just don't get it.
There's just some things I don't understand
why it's done so sloppily.
Maybe that's just because they don't have time to play games. I don't understand why it's done so sloppily i don't you know maybe that's just because they don't have time to play games i don't know but it is sloppy it truly is but
i'm kind of thinking like why is that so sloppy maybe i'm wrong maybe that person is just the
sacrificial and for a thousand others but this is sloppy
right the way he's going is it like a preventative measure like you're saying
you're basically like maybe in next week is like listen they come out and they say we want the
people who are contributing and productive members of society that are immigrants, you're here illegally, we want to give you an opportunity to come in and at least register, right?
Maybe that's what happens. You scare the shit out of them, and then a couple weeks later you say, look, if you're worried about getting deported, turn yourself in.
Turn yourself in.
For the next six months, we're going to let you come in.
We want to handle this civilly.
We want to give you your process rights.
We want to encourage if people are here working in the U.S., we want you to come here and thrive.
So here's the question.
If you're worried about anything, give me your private keys.
What if the government said that to you? If you're worried about anything, give me your private keys. What if the government said that to you?
If you're worried about anything, give me your private keys.
Well, if I found out that the government was going to people's houses and
stealing their private keys and destroying them, and then a month later
they said, okay, we've got a new program.
We want to end the possession of cryptocurrency um we'll pay you the
market rate as of today you just come in and uh turn things over but if you don't you might get
raided and kicked out of the country and put in a fucking el salvador prison i. That's what they said in 1932. Made it
illegal to own gold.
Bring in your gold.
And we'll pay you for it.
It was the same thing.
But imagine if back then there were headlines of them
dragging owners of gold
and throwing them
in a foreign prison.
How many more people would have gone,
okay, I think I'm'm gonna turn myself in like i
gotta i do have a wife and kids and this gold doesn't mean that fucking much to me i'd rather
live just fight another day right they would have gone out turn themselves in say here you go
here's my gold i apologize you know me not me i I feel you, bro.
How many people would have succumbed
to the pressure?
No. Not me.
Trust me.
Not me.
We literally live in a world
where there's not
a lot of things you can trust anymore,
I'd say.
Trust is a difficult thing.
When you're raised to trust everything, it's just...
I don't know.
But you do have to have some trust in your life.
Yeah, but I would never trust any of these corporations or our government ever.
Clearly, none of them are criminals.
It's a sad reality.
And then they, like, it's sick, dude.
No, no, no, you're right.
You're right.
And, like, what I'm saying when I talk about turning myself in, so to speak, is that sometimes you have to recognize a situation and go,
like, I don't trust them that my best interests are in their mind,
but I also don't want to piss them off.
And so I'm better off just, like, taking the penalty that's humane. Well,
to fix society,
you have to fucking get rid of them.
They will never do well as a society.
And this goes back to what I was saying.
You have,
it's a morality thing top to bottom.
You have to have a moral culture.
The police can always be corrupted.
You can never write laws that will fix morality because the police
enforce the laws. And if they're immoral, they won't enforce the laws morally. So like the Rand
said, you have to get people aligned with your moral structure. And that's, that boils down to
like what I think I got feeling, what hit me in the last couple of weeks ago. I got a
platform and this is meaning, this means something to me. I recognize now that the moral structure is,
is the name of the game. That's, that's the end all be all of how a country ends up the way it is.
If everybody's corrupt, it's a nightmare. You can't trust anybody.
You can't do business if you can't trust people.
If you can't trust your neighbor or your friend
from turning you in to somebody,
oh man, that sounds horrible.
We were talking about Tobago Moss last week.
He said you can't even trust your own children
because they might say something to a friend.
So if your dear leader is not good, you say it in your household and your daughter says it to somebody else's kid and the rumor gets around that you said something that was not in line, you're out.
So we have to have the moral compass.
Free speech, freedom of religion,
right?
That you have to have
due process, and that people
should be treated,
every person should be treated equally
under the eyes of the law.
That's...
Yeah, yeah.
The law is a fake idea anyway. The law is a fake idea anyway.
The law is all fake.
But if we don't have that collective
idea, we have nothing.
So what are you saying?
If you don't have a society,
you have no identity.
You're just
rudderless.
You have to have a
moral structure. You can't,
come on.
A moral structure? Yeah, okay,
you can have a moral structure. You have to have
an agreed upon, this is
good, this is bad. You have to have an honest
moral structure, maybe, but none
of these people are moral. Elon's like our
only hope, man. He's our
only hope, in my view. I know. our only hope, man. He's our only hope in my view.
I know.
Fuck the rest of them.
The only person I trust is Elon.
I don't trust any of the other ones because they've been proven untrustworthy.
And I barely even trust Elon.
I think he's a scumbag too in a lot of ways.
I barely trust Elon too.
I wish he was different, but there's nobody who – I can't get to him and say,
hey, dude, fix this or do this.
And like – I don't know.
He's a pussy.
I don't know why porn is allowed on Twitter.
If it was up to me, I'd ban porn on Twitter in two seconds.
See?
This is funny, right?
This is something I agree with you on.
I think that porn is incredibly pervasive.
Yeah, it's just...
I want you to think about...
Listen to me.
I want you to understand, I grew up...
I did not see porn before like 18 years old.
Maybe like once or twice on a videotape.
Like a friend would have it at a party.
Oh, here you go.
Or we would find some Playboys that somebody's dad had or something like that.
But I want you to imagine that.
I grew up no porn.
Just one example.
That's just one example of how I think Elon is.
And Twitter just sucks anyway.
I mean, it's more than just porn on here.
You've grown up with it your whole life, right?
Yeah, but I've...
So can I
ask you, when did you first see it? How old were you?
If I can buy them lingerie, because
I don't fucking watch porn.
Porn shouldn't be something that is...
You got cut out. When did you first see it?
I was like 12. When I was 12 or something.
Somebody on Xbox Live told me to go to pornhub.com and I did.
Oh my god. And so was it just like you got there the first time and it was like you could see everything?
Like it's... Oh my god, dude.
So you log in
and you're, are you like, holy shit?
I can't even imagine.
I don't know.
I don't remember.
And then suddenly you're like, whoa, like that would fuck up how you think about girls for sure.
Dude, it has nothing to do with the fact
that I watch porn.
Well, no, no, no, no. But you never developed, like,
you never dated a girl
innocently.
You know? That was already
planted in your brain.
You're cutting out a bit,
which stinks, because I...
It's an interesting
conversation. I do think it's one of the... It starts going down an interesting conversation. I do think it's
one of the... It starts going down
the morality road. I do think
porn's got to go.
You keep cutting out, dude.
Oh, okay. I'm sorry.
I'm saying Twitter is not
good. It barely
is good. The whole U.S. internet infrastructure is Google has a monopoly. It's slop. Dude, the internet could be improved 10,000%. We could improve society. We're about to improve society all this slop and we're going to crash
I want to crash all these corporations that are all criminal
fronts. And they all
are like pimps. They're all pimps.
Google's like a, they're all prostitutes.
Literally. Like these women sign off to be some
pimped whore on twitch.com or for Bezos or for on.
Oh, man, they're all over.
The women are pimped.
Oh, man.
It's got more problems.
It's more of a dystopia.
It's worse than what anybody can understand.
You have a choice. It's more of a dystopia. It's worse than what anybody can understand.
You have a choice.
You can either play along or you can decide to go against that, man.
You know, you can try to be,
if you believe that's evil,
you need to go away and go be the good.
And you gotta figure out what that is.
Like one fam,
can I give you a verse in the Bible?
Okay, go ahead.
Sure.
Alright, so Old Testament and New Testament is in the book of Job.
And it's Job 31 verse 1.
Okay?
And you can do this.
It says, I have made a covenant with mine eyes.
It says,
Why then should I think upon a maid?
So look, there's porn going on.
Like you've made, make a covenant with your eyes.
Doesn't mean you can't look at somebody.
Why then should I think upon a maid?
So if you allow your mind to think about it,
that's where it goes wrong.
Doesn't matter. You can look and enjoy beauty.
You have
the control in your mind
to not think
about it.
It's just a verse, Job 31.1.
it just brought me back.
I'm talking about digital infrastructure
and the problems of society.
I appreciate it.
These are ancient wisdoms, dude.
But listen, the rant.
How do you know so much about this?
Are you a
devout churchgoer?
I mean, you're very well-versed in the Bible.
I read it through once,
but I've listened through it at least
11 times, and faith
comes by hearing.
And when conversations come up,
it reminds me of verses
that the Holy
Spirit brings to my mind,
and that's what I feel.
Grant, does your daughter
have a... How do you have these all memorized?
I do.
Okay.
This guy's...
Okay.
Go ahead.
I love what he just said.
Does your daughter have an iPhone, Grant?
I have to know.
Yeah, my older daughter, sure.
How old is she?
She cometh by hearing.
How old is she, Grant?
How old is she?
I have to know.
16. Okay, 16. You're willing to give your 16-year-old daughter
an iPhone? Yeah.
Okay, at what age?
And so you just trust Apple.
You trust Apple alone with your daughter?
No. Their device alone with your daughter?
I trust my daughter.
No, no.
You're also putting trust in Apple
as well in that situation. 100%.
No, I trust her. I trust her that she's morally aligned.
You trust Apple not to fuck with her mind. Clearly, if you're going to be willing to give her a device.
clearly if you're going to be willing to give her a device
Grant
have you ever
let me ask you, have you ever
considered for once that Google, Apple
and Microsoft are
criminal fronts instead of corporations
have you ever even heard that idea?
that's something that you've never thought of before
guarantee
you said it 10 minutes ago
what are you talking about?
I want to know,
have you ever thought of it that way?
Or do you just see them as corporations?
Criminal in what sense?
In the sense that they
want to do
bad things to people.
That they're not honest people.
That they're...
Okay, well bad. What do you mean they want to do bad things?
Explain what you mean by bad.
Because I think we're just talking past each other.
And I don't think you have a clear thesis here.
You say criminal. Criminal would be like they're violating me in some way.
That's why I say, that's why my profile is literal criminal.
That's why I write in my profile, I'm a criminal.
I admit I'm a criminal.
Because in a world where... because they're all criminals.
Once you really start to think about it, like there's no such thing as even, there's no such, the crime is all fake, Grant.
It's not real. You can just say something's a crime. It was once a crime to be a black person.
No, I'm sorry, not even black because that's a fake thing too.
They're just brown people in my view.
That's like a fake thing.
But that's another fake thing.
But it used to be legal to own slaves.
It used to be legal to whip people.
There's no such thing as when you say the laws or the crime or whatever, that's all a fake thing.
We could just change, I could just change the laws so that we could do terrible things to people.
I'm only reacting to you.
You're the one that said they're a criminal organization.
And I'm saying, what do you mean?
What do you mean by that?
What is the crime they're committing?
They definitely do not want to...
They are the same thing as the Democratic Party.
They want to turn your kid gay and make your kid hate themselves.
So what is the crime?
You said they're a criminal organization.
What do you mean?
Yeah, they are.
What do you mean?
They're going to...
What's the crime?
The crime is being not like me.
The crime is a moral behavior.
It's a...
Right.
And they're morally aligned.
And I have faith in myself and my children, my relationship with them,
that they have a good enough moral structure
that if they're confronted with something that's immoral,
It's not about your children, stupid.
It's about Apple.
Do you, do you,
it's not about your children.
Do you have trust that Apple is going to act
in a moral way with your child?
Like with your 16-year-old daughter?
She's not a child.
At 16, you're not a child.
No, but listen.
It doesn't matter.
I can't control the world.
I can't control the world.
So I can't police everything my daughter consumes.
All I can do is make sure to do a little person.
I'm telling you, if I had a 16-year-old daughter, I would never give her an iPhone.
Never.
What kind of iPhone does she have?
You guys know what Proverbs 22.6 says?
Oh, yes, I do.
Take her iPhone, Grant, and say, hey, you're not living a life on a phone.
You're living in the real world.
You're not living a life.
Yeah, that's what she does.
Does she have Instagram?
Zuckerberg's getting all her data Grant these people are all fucking criminals
Do you understand that the whole lot of them are that's why the Jews love the US so much because it's a criminal a moral
Slop-filled country okay, okay, I have to educate you on this stuff
Okay, bro.
Grant, I have to educate you on this stuff.
But listen, nobody has to understand.
She doesn't have Instagram.
Okay.
Why do you think that is?
Thank God.
Why do you think that is?
Because hopefully you lay it down the law.
Okay.
I didn't need to.
I don't need to.
Because she sees it.
She knows.
She's not stupid.
She has her own eyes.
And can make her own judgments about it.
Yeah, yeah.
I want to hear it.
Train up a child
in the way he should go,
and when he is old, he will not
depart from it.
What?
Wait, I need you to slow down.
Start over again.
I thought we were going to have a quick one-liner, and you kept reading.
It's good. It's Proverbs 22.6.
Ready, go.
Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old, he will not depart from it.
See?
That's right.
Give them the moral compass.
And then you solve all the problems.
You train your children the best that you do.
And when they're old, they might fly away, be free, but when they're old they they might fly away before you but when they're old
they'll not depart from old might be 30 40 years old i got kids that are between 30 and 40
and i trained up you do your best when you're a parent and it's not up to you it's up to them
to receive it that's so true because think about the
moral things that like in your own life when you'll be like like your dad my dad's still alive
but even when my dad's long gone i'll still be guided by those principles you know what i mean
i'll still hear his oh yeah they're going to be haunting you, but those are good things.
Yeah, it's the ancient wisdoms, which is the thing where I get into like the male,
why the importance of the male leader in a family is so fucking critical.
The nuclear families, the foundation of a sound culture.
And if you don't have that, it all falls apart, man.
And so you have a responsibility. Grant, take her iPhone, man.
You have a responsibility, Litecoin fan, to not be the male that destroys the culture.
You need to be the one that builds the culture.
You are the foundation.
And you can be cynical
and hate it. That's fine.
But if there's too many of you
and there's not enough of people
trying to actually build the world to be a better place,
it's real ugly.
Do you think I'm cynical?
Oh, a little. Just a little.
That's okay.
No, I'm telling you. He was great. Do you agree that they're? Oh, a little. Just a little. That's okay. No, I'm telling you.
He was great.
You are so dumb.
Do you agree that they're all criminals or no?
That's why I say I'm a literal criminal because in a world, we live in a criminal country.
We live in.
Okay.
Okay.
But you know what a man does in a situation where other people are panicking
is he stays calm and he thinks about how do i solve the problem he doesn't you know the if you
watch a movie or even if you find yourself in a situation you solve it through education dude
you i'm telling you this is what i've just been talking about with how there's no good people in
the republican party you solve it through education and through giving people new ideas to kind of reflect on.
Like I gave you a new idea during this conversation that Google and Apple are criminal fronts
and not really, they're there to do bad things to your loved ones.
They're not honest people.
So, yes, there's an idea you should ponder on,
that these aren't really companies. They're criminal organizations.
Yeah, ponder on that. And that's how you fix it.
Why does no Republican ever say that? Why does the Republican just go around
and let their people, their constituents, buy iPhones
and have Google accounts, etc.
I don't understand that.
I don't know.
The GOP is a bitch-made organization of people that none of them are honest and none of them
really are getting down to what it's actually going to take to fix the society.
But it'll get
fixed someday, maybe, if we can ever get
out of it, to some degree.
If people could start to realize
what these people
are, but you're going to
get to figure it out by yourself.
Yeah, I think so.
Take her phone from her, dude.
Will you, Grant?
No, why wouldn't I do grant no because tell her like tell us
a litecoin man from the internet told me to
he didn't know he suggested it don't say I told you told me to take your phone
away it's time you take your phone.
You trust leaving your daughter alone with Apple.
Dude, I gotta trust my daughter in a lot of things.
No, it's not about your daughter.
I trust my daughter to be alone with her boyfriend. It's not about your daughter.
It's who they're with.
It's what they're doing.
It's what they're reading.
It's what their mind is.
Dude, you can't protect your kids all the time.
Because they'll never
become fully developed
human beings. Like the baby,
the bird, the bird has to
nudge the baby out of the
nest at some point in time.
And trust that it's taught him well. So you're just
relying on her to figure out that
Apple's a
criminal front on her own
because I believe in her to do you think the iPhone empowers her it's something
she wants I don't know I trust Greg go grab her phone and say no more phone
you're living in the real world do you see her on it do you see her on it
You're on it?
Grant, they're in this-
Of course, yeah.
She's a-
No, Grant!
Grant, Grant, Grant!
You are-
You're not-
Oh, man.
Whatever.
You're just an average-
No offense.
I mean, you're like my parents.
You're like-
Like my parents never really told me what I'm saying to you now about how these are criminal
fronts and not real corporations.
How they don't wanna- They're trying to- what what do bad things to you done for you i had to learn
it myself so okay now that you know how has it changed your life what have you done how has it
improved your life well i don't own an iphone anymore which i'm happy about I don't have a Google account, thank God, or I don't use any Google anything anymore.
Right. And
don't use Windows anymore.
So, how has it improved my life?
A lot, dude. A lot.
I'm very happy that I
realized that they're criminals.
I never understood it before.
I thought that the companies were just
all kind of good and friendly. And now I realize that that's not actually what's up.
Well, how were they damaging you, though? What were they doing?
They're there to spy, and they're there to make sure that your daughter is a good little...
They're there to spend some time with your daughter. And then, like...
No, they're
bad people, man.
So I think...
You raise a point of this.
The phone is a tool to get
you to consume, right?
Like, that's the end game of
the phone.
It's even worse than that.
It's like a rape device
almost in my view.
Zuckerberg loves
when little girls give him his data.
He gets his data from the little girls.
There's nothing he loves more than
getting data. I guarantee you.
Apple loves it too. They get the data
off the little girl's
Apple Watch.
They're loving that too they're all
fucking criminals dude you need to understand this grant because i have to tell you because
no other republican actually will say this because they're all idiots and i'm like the
only one that actually knows this stuff and understands it says it out loud what do they do with the data uh grant i would not want my kid personally this is me
i don't i don't i truthfully i don't know maybe they just log it maybe they do other things with
it i could i have no idea what they do no nobody know they sell it anything could happen but i can
tell you as a i would not want my kid giving their personal stuff over to any of these people, whether it's Apple or any of it.
Apple or Instagram or Google or any of these people.
They are all very dangerous people.
They are not to be trusted, man.
And my parents never understood that.
You say they're dangerous.
What are they doing to people?
Explain to me what have they done
that has put people in danger?
They are not trustworthy.
There's going to be some famous cases.
There's going to be reasons why you believe this.
Yeah, because I can tell, man.
Because I think about this stuff all day.
Because I can...
Things are in the app store.
I see what kind of results that this kind of stuff has brought upon people.
What do you mean?
You say they're dangerous.
Dangerous in what way?
Give your daughter a phone and let her stay on...
Give her a phone for a year and she's going to turn into some terrorist Democrat or something.
Why do they all end up with...
Why do all these liberal women post this stuff on TikTok about...
Well, I lost him alright the rant
hey I got an idea
that's not a bad thing bro
you have so much patience
I love your
yeah it was fun
I'm trying to get him to understand that I don't like when people use very...
They make these big claims without any...
I actually think that you put a question out to what they're saying and prove what you're saying.
And if they can't prove it, you're right.
Am I wrong?
It's like I like when you challenge people and what they said.
I approve.
This is the problem I've had with the privacy people in general.
I just don't – I get privacy to a degree.
And I think that – I'm not saying it's not important.
And you do need to have an opt-out from the government, right?
But, you know, sometimes people will be like,
that privacy, they make it sound like,
you've got to have your privacy because of the government.
Because, yeah, they're a criminal organization.
It's like, okay, well, what are they doing?
You should be able to tell me what this horrible invasion of privacy
is going to affect me, average
citizen, just going about my day. If you can't explain that, then
you're never going to convince millions of people that your message
is important. So you need to be able to explain it to me.
And if you can't even explain to me why Apple
what is the crime that Apple is committing, I get it.
They have all this information.
And if we're going to be nefarious and say, oh, well, they leak data, they take children's pictures and they sell them on the dark web and they're making millions of dollars, maybe that's the claim.
At least make the claim.
I'm just trying to say I don't even understand what the crime is that he's claiming
they're committing.
I mean,
they're exploiting cheap labor in China.
We know this.
That's what I know about them.
I'll let you up here one more time, LightCoin fan, but
I actually,
it's late, but also, I just
want to have the Rand bring up some different scriptures.
I like scripture.
What kind?
Well, hold on.
Let's let Light Queen fan finish off here.
Well, what's the crime?
Just say it.
But I'm telling you, man, like leave your daughter with an iPhone.
How long has she had an iPhone?
Leave your kid with an iPhone for 5, 10 years.
See if they come out depressed.
See if they come out a terrorist.
See if they hate themselves or they're...
You left because I asked you a question.
Explain to me the danger that I'm putting somebody in by giving them an iPhone.
You're leaving them in the hands of the world and all these companies that want to do them
bad, do bad things to them. That's what I would say. And you're not encouraging them to live in
the real world and have joyful experiences there.
So when you say danger, you don't mean like danger in the sense
that they're going to
be in some sort of physical
danger. Maybe, maybe they meet
some strange guy, they meet some strange
guy and they say they're going to
go out with him, possibly. But do you
understand that when I grew up, let me just make
this last point.
Some guy who offers to buy lingerie at Target?
Well, I mean, I don't know.
I feel like if it's me, then that's fine, in my opinion.
Have you?
You never did anything.
If I was a dad and somebody did that to my daughter, I would be okay with it, I guess, if I learned.
Are you a dad?
To a daughter?
No, but I can imagine it.
I can think about being a parent
and how I would feel as one.
I don't have any kids myself.
Maybe I should, Duran,
but I'm telling you,
I can see it from a parent's perspective,
almost.
And I know who I trust in this world, and I know, I think
I could raise a very good, stellar
kid.
I've raised
two, and one is good, and
the other half, but I would kill
for both of them. And now
that I have a grandchild, I would just
kill for all of them.
And I would even kill
you if he even, but nothing against you but
if you went against my children i would do it it's different when you have kids
it goes crazy you would just like i would like be the 300 and wipe out the whole grecian army
for my granddaughter it's different.
Man, I got, I don't know, my kid, they mean everything to me.
Good for you, the rant.
Good for you, man.
Actually, that makes me happy to hear because not a lot of people actually care about their kids.
Most people are like, Grant will leave their 16-year-old daughter with Apple.
You know what I'm saying he doesn't even
know who apple is i guarantee you because i don't blame him i don't blame him because that's like
most white parents today or whatever not white necessarily but the most just most parents i guess
they just go along with it they don't really think about these things like in terms of
hey should i really be trusting this company or like like do you like I feel like for a
long time I go I had an opinion that did you read like your rev encyclopedia
Britannica growing up no encyclopedias did you ever use an assignment my my
parents put me in the hands of Encyclopedia Britannica.
You know?
How could they subject me to Encyclopedia Britannica, our great overlords?
Now I believe that. It's not what Encyclopedia Britannica believes.
I don't know what Encyclopedia Britannica believes.
Can I make a point?
When I grew up, I grew up on the Game Boy.
I had a Game Boy, and I had a DS.
I still play the DS.
I love the dual-screen Nintendo DS.
I don't know if you're familiar, Grant, but...
There's a big difference between a device that you cannot commute, that you know...
Okay.
Yeah, no, you're saying.
Yeah, yeah.
I got you. I think there's a big difference
between a DS and an iPhone.
Truthfully, I would be okay giving my
12-year-old kid a Game Boy
or a DS or a 13
or 15.
Let me ask you this. Would you let your 12-year-old kid
go ride their
bike to a
friend three miles away
when they're 12 years old.
Would you do that today?
It would depend on where I lived and what kind of...
Probably not, though.
12 sounds a little bit too young to go off on your own.
Well, see, so that's the trust my parents put in me.
We moved when I was 12, and we moved like 3 to 5 miles away from my old neighborhood
and I would hop on my fucking bike and ride across town
well no they didn't necessarily put that trust in you
they put the trust in
yeah in their town
yeah well their town sure
I don't know if it goes in terms of the whole world
that situation but
their local community sure
sure and so we all have of the whole world, not situation, but they're a local community. Sure.
And so we all have you always have danger in your life.
You can talk yourself into
being paranoid and scared of people all the time
or you understand
that you have to choose to
trust people.
Yeah, but those are not trustworthy.
And safe has to come back from
trust and honesty and that all of our morality aligns.
So the way you fix Apple is that you feel comfortable that there's people at Apple that are moral.
Once you stop believing, this is where you're at right now.
This is where you're at right now. Once you stop believing that Apple's moral or the government's moral, once you stop having faith in those institutions, it's over. Game's over.
Once you see them for who they are, then you can truly live a good life where you're free.
They are who they are because our society's morality has collapsed.
has collapsed.
50 years ago,
there was probably more...
We had a much more
church-going culture.
There was, I would say, higher morality
50 years ago than there is today.
And we trusted our institutions more.
Because it was filled with people like you and I.
All right, Grant.
I'm telling you, take the phone, dude.
I guarantee you she'll have a much better life.
I promise you.
It will improve her life.
There's almost nothing I can think of more
to improve somebody's life.
And make her use AI.
Make her talk to Gronk.
That, what you just said to me,
that connects.
Telling me that it's a criminal organization
that doesn't connect with me.
They are. It's scary reality.
What you just said to me
makes more sense. I'm telling you how to
communicate better with people.
Don't tell them the criminal organization.
Tell them it's the
it'll make you happier.
You'll be happier if you log off.
I like that. Well, no. Not you log off. I like that.
Not necessarily log off, but yeah.
I understand what you're saying.
Get off the social media
on your mobile device.
Alright. As a guy who's on social media
too much, I don't disagree with you. I need to back off.
Fear not.
Do not fear with other...
It's not necessarily
social media, though.
It's...
I think it is. I do think it's mostly social
media. Like games.
Like, you can play a game
by yourself. Eh, big deal.
It can be addictive to a degree.
But it's not going to make you feel bad about
yourself. It's not going to make you want to go out,
you know,
consume or change your morality.
Just playing a video game.
It's the influence of other people.
So the news and social media
that make you look outside of yourself
rather than look inside.
So if you're sad...
I think it's something to do with the mobility of it as well.
Just the fact that it's there all the time.
It's like a thing that the company is attached to your fucking daughter, dude.
And they're like getting off on it for all you know.
Do you understand this, Grant?
I hate to re-exaggerate this point to you,
but they are more criminal than what you've ever known.
I'm telling you, man.
I sheriffed them and found them all guilty.
In my opinion.
I guess so.
Do you have a phone?
Do you have an iPhone?
Yeah, I'm talking to you on it right now. Okay. Okay. Yeah, I'm talking to you on it right now.
Okay, okay.
Yeah, I'm talking to you from a desktop PC.
I know, I know.
You're Mr. I'm a desktop guy.
1995 all over again, you know?
Yeah, I love it.
Because there's so much more potential for freedom on a PC.
Whereas on an iPhone, you're locked into it.
It's a co-ownership.
Literally, you co-own that phone
with Apple, and
our government loves it because
it's a good
spy tool for them that you had to pay
for.
Okay, but that's fine. I'm not doing anything
wrong.
And the sad, the most
sick thing is you can't even exist
without a phone basically anymore.
That's another sick thing about our society.
Like I said earlier, if there was a phone
that came out and it just was phone,
camera,
texting,
and I'm trying to think what else,
like a compass, maps,
like, you know, I would like that, even though I already had like if I could have a secondary device that I could I could pluck certain apps into.
You know what I'm saying?
So I'd leave my main phone at home, my supercomputer phone at home, and I would just pull my kind of mobile device, which only had essential apps on it.
Maps, compass, texting.
I didn't, no email, no social media, no games, just the basics.
What?
Are you trying to compartmentalize?
Oh, yeah, for sure.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah, for sure, eh?
Yeah, the little just, you know, the temptation's always there, you know?
And that's why I do it to myself.
I need to lock down my phone.
And actually, you can do that.
You can block certain apps at certain times a day.
Or maybe I need to do that.
Yeah, I actually have an extension that I need to do that yeah I actually have an extension
that I use to block apps
on my browser
if I ever use Firefox MoVlad browser
and I
it's a Firefox whatever
and I have this leech block extension
which I love love love
it's like a great parenting tool
to be able to block
go on I'm gonna do i'm
gonna do i think i'm gonna do next 30 days i'm going to what i just said to you guys like keep
the critical functions active what i mean by that like for stuff like my work okay and that would be phone, text,
Can I say?
Okay, keep the, sure, sure.
Try it, Grant, try it. But do you remember, there used to be phones
that were, that was a
fucking phone that you was like,
it didn't used to be all this
app slop loaded up.
It used to be, like, a phone that hangs
on your wall that you would pick up and call somebody.
I'm sure in the Rans days, he remembers something like that.
No, I had those.
We had those, yeah.
I had those growing up.
And now it goes everywhere with you.
It's a literal corporate brand on your daughter.
It's like an enslavement tool.
It does no benefit for mental health. corporate brand on your daughter and it's like an enslavement tool. It's doing...
It does no benefit for her
for mental health.
It makes you
depressed. It makes people have all sorts
of psychological problems. Look at how
these... Dude, the Chinese
are just... I hate to
be extreme with this language, but
just having a field day
on the American youth with TikTok,
I'm sure. Oh yeah, they're getting them to believe all sorts of crazy stuff. They're
getting them to hate themselves, for all you know. Everybody's... Oh man, I don't even
want to get into it, because it's so... And our government doesn't give a fuck about
your daughter. Apple couldn't give a fuck less about your daughter
They hate they want to do bad things to you man
Did you say critical functions accurate and activate?
Did you say critical functions activate?
I don't know if I... Maybe I'm wrong.
Wonder twin powers activate.
Form of the Rand.
What?
That was it.
Ready? Go.
I don't know what you're talking about how old are you
me? 46
I'll be 46 next week
or like whatever 10
okay
that's fine
cartoons
wonder twin powers
activate what are we talking about?
Come on, populist
Well, no, I told you I want to hear
I want you to give me your
Give me
You say that the Lord inspires you
What's the scripture you're inspired to
Speak about right now?
It's mostly in the New Testament
and there's like 35 times
where Jesus says,
fear not.
Fear not.
Whatever you're fearing,
fear not.
You can handle this.
Fear not.
Really?
Relat.
Yes.
Is that statistically true?
I'm going to ask Rock about that.
Yeah.
I think it's like 365 times, maybe, in the whole New or Old Testament.
Trust me.
Fear not.
You said, you did say that if anybody Google checks you, you're going to be right.
How many times does Jesus say?
No, not Jesus, but like the whole Bible says fear not.
Give or take. Maybe 35. I don't know.
Google me.
Let's see.
You backed off.
No, I just fear not.
The phrase fear not appears 365 times in the Bible.
What the hell?
Am I right?
I shouldn't have said hell.
Damn it, man.
The darn tootin.
And darn tootin.
Fear not.
Guys, fear not.
There's a fear not for every day that you are alive this year.
Right?
365, if you're going on the Julian calendar.
Fear not, for I am with thee.
Fear not, for behold, I bring you good tidings.
Some scholars note that related phrases like do not be afraid or have no fear
could push the total higher.
But fear not specifically is the standard benchmark. Interesting.
One for every day, like you said.
I approve of that message and thank you for checking
me. Let's say how many times
does Jesus say fear not?
Probably 33. 33 luminati something number
but whatever
he says it
I'm actually interested in this
he says it
several times
but the exact count depends
on translation.
Let's see.
Yeah, Aramaic or like Latin or whatever they say,
it doesn't matter.
He still said it.
Here's Matthew 10.31.
Fear ye not, therefore, ye are more valuable than many sparrows.
Be not therefore, ye are more valuable than many sparrows.
I don't know.
See, I need.
If you're not, ye are of more value.
Oh, same thing.
More value than sparrows.
It says twice.
Interesting.
For it is Father's good pleasure to give you the kingdom.
Is not be afraid.
Do not be afraid.
Be of good cheer. Do not be afraid. Do not be afraid. Be a good cheer.
Do not be afraid.
Be not afraid.
Do not fear whatever comes upon you guys,
whether it's monetary, fiscal, or governmental.
Do not fear.
They want to keep you in fear.
Do not fear.
Right, which stems from being unsure of yourself.
Reliant on somebody else.
That's fear.
Yeah, unsure is fear.
Yeah, dude.
So I think we sorted it out.
Hey, I got a message from LightCoinFan.
He said,
take her iPhone.
They're criminals, man.
In case you guys didn't hear that part earlier. He fears iPhone and he fears Android,
but he doesn't, he can't control his children.
Maybe not.
No, LightCoin, he didn't say that, I assumed.
Do not fear Litecoin.
Fear not.
Alright, I'm going to let you go, man.
You ready?
Bye. See you later man
