Mike Truong: The Harsh Truth About Modern Authenticity | DSH #1472

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Speaker 7 You just learn a lot.

Speaker 8 You do? Watching people.

Speaker 9 Like when I go to the mall, I'm like watching people how they interact.

Speaker 3 It's interesting.

Speaker 10 Yeah.

Speaker 11 Do you kind of like eavesdrop as well?

Speaker 3 I eavesdrop off.

Speaker 12 If I'm close enough, I'll listen to their conversation.

Speaker 14 Yeah, me too. I'm like, man, what are they talking about?

Speaker 15 Like, this is so like, it's so like surface level.

Speaker 17 Yeah.

Speaker 18 Like, they don't care about each other. They don't like each other.

Speaker 19 Okay, guys, got Mike here from Canada.

Speaker 20 Long ass flight.

Speaker 12 Yeah, I know. Let's go, man.

Speaker 21 Yeah.

Speaker 11 Happy to be here, man. Thanks for the opportunity.

Speaker 20 First time in Vegas for you?

Speaker 22 Second time. Okay.

Speaker 21 Do you remember the first time?

Speaker 7 Were you blacked out?

Speaker 24 Nah, probably, yeah.

Speaker 25 Always had a drink in hand here.

Speaker 7 You Canadians love to drink.

Speaker 27 Oh, fucking love it. You spent your whole life there?

Speaker 28 Yeah, born and raised in Edmonton.

Speaker 29 Okay.

Speaker 30 How'd you get into the business stuff?

Speaker 32 Well, for one, just

Speaker 34 I, you know, as a kid, I kind of knew like everything was a scam.

Speaker 36 Yeah. Yeah.
Everything was just

Speaker 37 a system known, put in place.

Speaker 11 So as a kid, ever since kindergarten, I was just like looking at my teachers and I was just like, how?

Speaker 42 Like you're learning from someone else to teach me these things and you have to go out and get certified,

Speaker 36 like get certified to teach me these things.

Speaker 22 Right.

Speaker 14 So I just knew as a kid, like ever since I was five, I just knew.

Speaker 43 Wow.

Speaker 12 No one told you.

Speaker 30 You just knew on your, by yourself? Yeah.

Speaker 36 I was just sitting at the desk and I was like, this is bullshit.

Speaker 44 Kindergarten? Yeah.

Speaker 45 I feel like I didn't wake up till like college.

Speaker 23 Oh, really?

Speaker 7 Kindergarten's early.

Speaker 46 Yeah, kindergarten's very early.

Speaker 11 And then obviously, you know, the programming got me a little bit later in life, you know.

Speaker 48 Yeah.

Speaker 42 I was a bit of a nerd growing up.

Speaker 48 So, you know, you can't.

Speaker 7 And all Asians are, right?

Speaker 47 Yeah, all Asians are.

Speaker 36 And then eventually you just wake up again and be like, wow, I can't believe I lost myself.

Speaker 30 Well, there's a lot of pressure from our parents to do well academically.

Speaker 51 Yeah.

Speaker 52 So we kind of get in that system and don't even question it.

Speaker 53 Oh, yeah.

Speaker 54 You ever had your mom be like, you're going to grow up, be a doctor?

Speaker 46 You're going to grow up, be a doctor.

Speaker 45 Oh, it was always, yeah, go to college, get straight A's, you know, be a doctor, be a businessman or whatever.

Speaker 10 Everything.

Speaker 58 But I like,

Speaker 47 I knew it was a scam from the beginning, so I never listened to my mom.

Speaker 54 I'd be like, yeah, I'll do it.

Speaker 51 That's really impressive because that's pre-social media. So you have no outside people because now people know it's a scam with social media and podcasts and everything.

Speaker 61 But back then, wow, you had good intuition. Yeah.

Speaker 41 And that's the interesting thing about that is like now people know.

Speaker 39 So they pretend to put on like this sort of persona that they were always like that.

Speaker 11 It's kind of funny. Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 64 I see that for sure.

Speaker 66 I see all the people I grew up with, and they're all working like nine to fives.

Speaker 9 Most of them hate their jobs.

Speaker 30 And it's like, damn, that could have been me if I didn't wake up.

Speaker 53 Yeah.

Speaker 68 Yeah, for sure.

Speaker 39 I mean, like, not to shit on anyone that works in a nine to five because we need the construction workers.

Speaker 26 We need, you know, people for us,

Speaker 55 for the people.

Speaker 33 So, but yeah, I couldn't do it.

Speaker 42 I could even stay in school.

Speaker 51 No, my issue is not with the idea of a nine-to-five. It's more like they don't enjoy what they're doing.

Speaker 52 Yeah. That's my issue.
Oh, yeah, for sure.

Speaker 46 Yeah.

Speaker 19 If you're working, because you work your whole life.

Speaker 66 Yeah. So if you don't like your job, I don't care how much you're making.

Speaker 29 I can't respect that.

Speaker 60 Yeah, for sure.

Speaker 48 Yeah, absolutely.

Speaker 12 Yeah. So you said you didn't make it through college?

Speaker 41 Yeah, no, I didn't want to go to university.

Speaker 11 I didn't want to go to college.

Speaker 34 Nearly failed high school because I just didn't show up, right?

Speaker 34 Didn't show up, but I passed with like a 50, which is like the bare minimum to fast and graduate, right?

Speaker 30 So you were just skipping class?

Speaker 51 Were you getting high or something?

Speaker 72 No, no, I don't do any drugs.

Speaker 37 I just, I just hated the fact that I had to wake up, show up, and then just sit there and then listen, right?

Speaker 24 Like, I didn't like that.

Speaker 66 Yeah. Wow.

Speaker 52 My school had attendance, so you really couldn't skip too much.

Speaker 41 Yeah, mine did too, but

Speaker 47 I figured out a way.

Speaker 67 As long as you got a 50, I guess it doesn't matter.

Speaker 75 Yeah, it doesn't matter. Yeah.
Yeah.

Speaker 12 We had like a rule, I think, 16 days, more than 16, you can't graduate.

Speaker 52 And that's not even that many.

Speaker 76 Yeah, no, it's not.

Speaker 19 16 out of 180.

Speaker 77 I feel like, I don't know, it's not a lot of opportunities.

Speaker 34 I mean, nowadays you get so many holidays just to not even show up.

Speaker 51 But I'm glad people are waking up because I'm not sending my kids to public school.

Speaker 61 No, no shock.

Speaker 75 No either. Yeah.
No way.

Speaker 66 There's no possibility that happens.

Speaker 51 Maybe private, but even some private are compromised.

Speaker 78 You know,

Speaker 34 I think

Speaker 43 like just giving them like a sport, like a direction or like a, not a career choice, but like giving them a sense of direction without school to be much more beneficial.

Speaker 60 Yeah. Right.

Speaker 11 Because like us as adults, we can learn from other people.

Speaker 43 So why not let your kid learn from other people? Yeah.

Speaker 60 Right.

Speaker 30 Were you listening to a lot of hip hop back in the day?

Speaker 24 Yeah, slightly.

Speaker 32 Like, I used to listen to a lot of

Speaker 38 soul rap and then RB and electronic music.

Speaker 68 Yeah. Our style, EDM.

Speaker 30 What do you think of the current music space today with all the modern rap, hip-hop, programming?

Speaker 11 Yeah, I mean, it's just garbage. It's garbage.

Speaker 41 It gives people almost like a, like an outer shell to be someone that they aren't.

Speaker 31 right? They

Speaker 25 from the inside, they don't even know.

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Speaker 67 who they are to begin with right and they're just kind of floating in space and then rap music comes along right and they they listen to this garbage and then they pretend like they are that yeah but it's not a reflection of their inner self right it's just a facade it's just a persona and these days authenticity is so important because of the rise of ai the rise of just people bullshitting like people i think people are getting more smart on like detecting bs yeah you know yeah and that was normal back then now it's just people see things

Speaker 69 even like all these rich guys like are they really rich yeah like they just post as if they live that lifestyle and then they reuse the same content over and over again and people can't detect it even like if you see all the kids that watch it they think they can live that lifestyle and you you see the direct reflection of it from them when they go to school like oh i'm gonna make it one day oh like look at this video like this is gonna be me no man like it's not realistic no it's not realistic yeah a lot of social media comparison these days yeah that's why when i see people flexing materialistic things on social media i used to get impressed when i was younger i'm not gonna lie but now it's like almost a red flag to me when i see someone doing that yeah it is you know what i mean yeah it absolutely is like

Speaker 36 you just gotta be yourself man yeah yeah figure that out like don't take someone else's personality and put it to yourself like live life and then be yourself that's the only way you can be yourself Yeah.

Speaker 51 And a lot of those guys are sensitive on social media.

Speaker 30 Oh, yeah.

Speaker 85 They have haters and then they'll respond to them.

Speaker 66 They'll get in fights in person or whatever.

Speaker 41 Yeah. Super emotional.

Speaker 51 Yeah.

Speaker 45 It's almost like they can't take a joke.

Speaker 82 Yeah.

Speaker 78 Yeah. Weird, right?

Speaker 34 Yeah. It's super crazy.
I mean,

Speaker 11 I like to split things up into like different types of people, right?

Speaker 84 So the people who can't take a joke, they're kind of more logical in a sense.

Speaker 32 Like they'll react to X, Y, and it has to equal Z.

Speaker 28 Like

Speaker 47 if someone's spewing out like a piece of knowledge, right? And they're like, oh, it's clearly not that because according to Google, it's this.

Speaker 11 So that means you're wrong.

Speaker 32 Well, through my experience, this is correct.

Speaker 80 Right.

Speaker 39 And then they'll, well, we'll make like a certain like sarcastic video about it.

Speaker 58 They'll be like, what?

Speaker 5 This is so fake. This is not real.

Speaker 5 You're just bullshitting.

Speaker 86 And then like, this is the right way to do things.

Speaker 17 It's like, it's clearly sarcasm.

Speaker 32 Yeah. Right.

Speaker 17 And I feel like sarcastic people are a lot socially smarter.

Speaker 21 Yeah.

Speaker 51 You have to have some sort of intelligence when you're making sarcastic jokes.

Speaker 52 Yeah.

Speaker 61 Yeah. Because you wouldn't be able to if you were dumb.

Speaker 26 Yeah.

Speaker 34 You know, and you'd be too sensitive to make those jokes. Right.
You'd be like, oh, this guy's going to think that. Oh, I'm going to get canceled, whatever.

Speaker 81 Yeah.

Speaker 30 Have you been in any online beefs yet with people?

Speaker 24 Oh, all the time, man. Yeah.
All the time.

Speaker 53 Who have you called out so far?

Speaker 71 Just random people. I don't know.

Speaker 28 I like to find in the comment sections.

Speaker 8 Oh, not even like known people?

Speaker 72 Yeah, not even known people.

Speaker 16 Yeah. I just, I just, I just go there and I'm like, oh, yeah.

Speaker 31 So what are you?

Speaker 24 Like people who are like, I have a video on this.

Speaker 88 It's like, oh,

Speaker 46 that's not it, G.

Speaker 80 I'm like, G,

Speaker 41 you're not a G.

Speaker 16 You're just some high school kid.

Speaker 22 Like, what?

Speaker 16 And they're saying these things.

Speaker 39 So I just like, I just kind of trip them a bit.

Speaker 12 They got influence from Tate, probably.

Speaker 24 Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 69 Influence from Tate. Populot.

Speaker 12 What do you think of him?

Speaker 55 He's pretty good.

Speaker 14 I think he's a double-edged sword.

Speaker 68 Yeah.

Speaker 11 Yeah, he's definitely a double-edged sword.

Speaker 56 I agree.

Speaker 76 I like a lot of what he says, but definitely takes it extreme.

Speaker 89 Yeah.

Speaker 39 So let's say, like, I don't like to put people on the spectrum, but like, like the people on the left, obviously they're going to fall within mainstream media.

Speaker 39 They're going to fall for all the demonized words against him.

Speaker 72 And then the people on the right, far right, they're going to take everything he says seriously.

Speaker 28 Yeah, idolize him and then adopt his persona, right?

Speaker 55 But they have nothing like him going on.

Speaker 28 They have no real life experience.

Speaker 54 They don't do anything.

Speaker 40 So it's, it's a double-edged sword. And then people in the middle are like.

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Speaker 34 Okay, well, I kind of see this from him.

Speaker 11 I've been through what he lived through, so I kind of understand what he's saying.

Speaker 39 And usually the people in the middle are like the best.

Speaker 41 Like from the creatives to the logical people, they're the best.

Speaker 51 I try to stay as objective as possible.

Speaker 21 I don't fall into the political trap.

Speaker 3 Oh, yeah.

Speaker 19 Because that's how you get brainwashed. Oh, absolutely.

Speaker 53 You label yourself something.

Speaker 54 Yeah, absolutely.

Speaker 51 Yeah, they get a lot of people on that one, man.

Speaker 21 Every day I see political

Speaker 66 commentators.

Speaker 35 Dude, it's annoying.

Speaker 27 Is it like that in Canada, too?

Speaker 60 Oh, yeah. A lot of politics.

Speaker 72 Yeah.

Speaker 11 I mean, we have Trump fans in Canada. Really?

Speaker 46 Yeah, we do. We have a lot.

Speaker 22 At least in Alberta.

Speaker 63 I'm from Alberta.

Speaker 60 Yeah, well, we definitely influence Canada here.

Speaker 70 Yeah. Right.

Speaker 90 Oh, 100%.

Speaker 38 It's not even a question asked, right?

Speaker 39 Yeah.

Speaker 91 A lot of countries kind of follow our suit, I feel like.

Speaker 32 And when the Canadians are talking about tariffs and stuff like that, I'm like, why didn't you buy Canadian in the first place?

Speaker 54 And now, like, this whole tariff situation is going on and you're preaching about buying Canadian and like, oh, oh, we don't need America.

Speaker 41 It's like, well, we needed them for how many years?

Speaker 16 It's so, and the other thing is like, how does this influence your life?

Speaker 31 Well, like, are you in a position to be able to live even with the tariffs in place?

Speaker 47 Yeah.

Speaker 40 Like, why, why do you care so much about this?

Speaker 11 You should care about what's going on in your life.

Speaker 28 And I mean, that's the direct influence.

Speaker 34 in every every aspect of their lives.

Speaker 66 If they care so much about this, they're going to care about how they dress, care about how they look, you know, and it's nothing to do with what's inside yeah that's a good point yeah a lot of people aren't being their authentic selves yeah it's really interesting when you just look at the population like what percentage of people do you think are actually being themselves very few which is crazy right yeah it's like the people who are authentic has a platform like you and me right like we we want to help them even even if the way that we present things might be more direct or more controversial.

Speaker 41 We're just trying to help people be more authentic.

Speaker 52 It's just such a good way to live life because I lived life not authentically, trying to be someone I wasn't trying to fit in, trying to be popular.

Speaker 51 And it's just like you get caught up in your own lies.

Speaker 20 It's just like mentally not happy.

Speaker 40 No, it's not. It's not good.

Speaker 7 Now I could wake up.

Speaker 51 How I'm talking to you now is how I talk to my friends.

Speaker 12 Oh yeah, same.

Speaker 53 Like it's the same shit.

Speaker 10 Same, same thing.

Speaker 51 And most people are living a lie.

Speaker 93 Dude, yeah.

Speaker 25 it's it's a big big fat lie like you can walk outside and when you're not like in that zone of being like non-authentic, you can just see it.

Speaker 17 Like these kids, they wear oversized t-shirts, baggy jeans, dunks, Jordans, and with like a taper fade.

Speaker 22 And they look the exact same.

Speaker 41 You can walk one down one street, turn the other street, and there's going to be a kid that looks exactly like that.

Speaker 36 Yep.

Speaker 77 Like, I hear NBA players talking about this because all the old school guys, they would travel the world and each city used to have its own kind of culture, its own vibe.

Speaker 50 Now, when players travel, it's the same girls.

Speaker 66 They all look the same, same haircut.

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Speaker 56 Same surgeries.

Speaker 20 It's like we're all becoming the same.

Speaker 11 And social media really gap that reality, right?

Speaker 28 They really close the gap

Speaker 11 between what's real and what is it.

Speaker 41 So whatever they see on social media, they think it's real.

Speaker 48 So they bring it to the real world.

Speaker 34 And that's why everyone kind of looks the same.

Speaker 20 Yeah.

Speaker 30 It's not cool, man. No.

Speaker 52 Like, I want natural beauty in a girl. Yeah.
I don't want any surgery.

Speaker 12 Yeah, same.

Speaker 20 Like, nothing fake. Yeah.

Speaker 65 No ass surgery.

Speaker 73 No, no BBLs here. BBL nozzle.

Speaker 12 You go to Miami now.

Speaker 51 I bet more girls have fake asses there than have regular ones.

Speaker 71 Dude, you can see it.

Speaker 41 You can see how fake they are, and people still fall into it.

Speaker 26 I don't get it, man.

Speaker 20 It doesn't feel the same.

Speaker 14 Yeah, it doesn't feel the same. The energy is not the same.

Speaker 73 They don't feel human. No.

Speaker 16 It's almost like we just lost another human soul.

Speaker 14 Like, that's what it feels like.

Speaker 51 Is Canada turning into that too?

Speaker 65 Yeah, a little bit. Surgeries out there?

Speaker 47 I don't see much.

Speaker 63 I mean, I'm from Alberta.

Speaker 37 We're more like traditionalist, conservative, but

Speaker 11 I don't see much

Speaker 95 from where I live, but I'm sure there's a lot.

Speaker 61 It'll spread.

Speaker 83 We set the tone here in America with weird stuff, transgender shit.

Speaker 12 Like, we could go down so many rabbit holes with this.

Speaker 72 Oh, yeah, I know. Yeah.

Speaker 14 There's a couple of that in Canada.

Speaker 26 Oh, yeah. Actually, a lot.

Speaker 9 Yeah. That's so sad, dude.

Speaker 66 That should never be a thing.

Speaker 41 No, it shouldn't.

Speaker 7 It's the

Speaker 26 devil's work.

Speaker 49 You're a Christian?

Speaker 78 Catholic. Catholic? Yeah.

Speaker 21 Yeah.

Speaker 21 Your whole life or a recent?

Speaker 24 Whole life.

Speaker 8 So that's a big part of your life.

Speaker 37 I would say so, yeah.

Speaker 11 It kind of sets the tone for how I live my life and stuff like that.

Speaker 30 I think it's good to have a belief system these days.

Speaker 88 It is.

Speaker 91 You know, a lot of guys are lost, misguided.

Speaker 45 I see it every day.

Speaker 93 Yeah.

Speaker 26 I mean,

Speaker 34 you got to have something to back you up when you're lost, right?

Speaker 21 Yeah.

Speaker 30 You think you're going to stay in Canada for a while or you like America?

Speaker 38 I want to move to America, man.

Speaker 10 Yeah.

Speaker 90 Even though it's a little bit crazy here, I like it here.

Speaker 51 It's hard to beat America.

Speaker 12 It is.

Speaker 67 I know a lot of people talk shit about it, but for entrepreneurship, what we do,

Speaker 51 I can't see a better country other than like

Speaker 67 Dubai or like a tax-free spot.

Speaker 53 But it would be tough for podcasts in the middle of nowhere like that, too.

Speaker 88 Yeah, it is.

Speaker 81 I mean, people can talk as much shit about America as they want to, but

Speaker 39 they're a point in conversation for a reason.

Speaker 28 They stir things up for a reason.

Speaker 69 And when you come here and then you see the people, you see all the different types of people, entrepreneurs, I don't know, transgender, whatever, whatever the case.

Speaker 22 Like,

Speaker 22 there's no place like this, you know?

Speaker 76 I always tell people, we got the best of the best because we win the Olympics every year.

Speaker 45 We got the best podcasts.

Speaker 76 We got the best, whatever, entrepreneurs.

Speaker 91 We got the worst of the worst. Yep.

Speaker 51 That's America. So you kind of get to choose where you want to go.

Speaker 34 There's always a balance in life.

Speaker 25 Yep.

Speaker 11 If there's, if there's an imbalance and something's going completely wrong.

Speaker 12 Yeah.

Speaker 12 I believe in that too. Has cancel culture come for you yet?

Speaker 72 Yeah, man.

Speaker 16 About three, four years ago,

Speaker 31 I also

Speaker 11 found out about Tate and I was like, man, why is everyone hating on this guy?

Speaker 40 Like, I see him all over the news, misogynist, whatever.

Speaker 34 I'm like, is misogynist even a real word?

Speaker 79 And then, and I'm like, yo, guys.

Speaker 39 What's going on here?

Speaker 87 She's speaking facts.

Speaker 39 And everyone's like, no, you're just stupid.

Speaker 32 And then eventually it just gets canceled because you're more traditionalists and

Speaker 34 you have real values that matter in the world, and then they just don't like it, so they just brush you aside. They call you all these names.

Speaker 28 I lost all my friends.

Speaker 35 Damn, yeah, you serious, yeah, everyone.

Speaker 20 Over supporting Tate, you lost your friends, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 30 I guess you were so early because now, if you support them, you're cool, yeah, no, it's like whatever, no one cares.

Speaker 39 I lost everyone, and um,

Speaker 59 my

Speaker 39 fiancé now, uh, when I was dating her, they were like, Are you sure you want to date this guy?

Speaker 17 Like, he supports Tate.

Speaker 73 Do you know what he's saying on Twitter and all this stuff?

Speaker 87 It wasn't much. I was just replying to like a Tristan Tate tweet.

Speaker 96 And then they used to follow me on Twitter and they're like, this guy's a massage.

Speaker 73 He's going to beat you.

Speaker 14 Like, are you safe?

Speaker 22 I'm like, holy.

Speaker 24 So, yeah, I've dealt with it.

Speaker 80 But I think one good thing, I feel like everyone should get canceled.

Speaker 12 It humbles you, right?

Speaker 22 It humbles you.

Speaker 25 And then you learn real life values.

Speaker 11 And then you can be your authentic self.

Speaker 14 If you don't get canceled, you just kind of trail along with what everyone else is doing.

Speaker 76 Yeah, your ego will never experience an ego death and you'll just do whatever.

Speaker 93 Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 46 Ego death.

Speaker 21 Yeah.

Speaker 58 I like that.

Speaker 30 I think it's important to get grounded, whether it's through getting canceled or like something happening to you.

Speaker 94 Yeah.

Speaker 10 Yeah. I mean, I

Speaker 18 shouldn't say this, but I feel like everyone should get canceled.

Speaker 16 Everyone should get canceled at least once.

Speaker 34 So you know what it feels like to have no one.

Speaker 12 Yeah. Well, an unchecked ego is deadly.

Speaker 93 Yeah.

Speaker 51 So it's rather, it's good to get it over with quicker in your entrepreneurial journey like earlier than later when the stakes are higher oh absolutely you know what i mean yeah absolutely yeah yeah that's why like for me i've made and lost my money twice now but i'm glad that happened when i was in my 20s yeah now i could rebuild yeah yeah if that happened when i had kids and i'm in my 40s like other people are affected

Speaker 24 it's all about the lessons you learn along the way man that's why i say real real world experience is the best yeah it's the best that's that's the way you can really be your authentic self did you uh make up with those old friends or you just cut them all off no just just cut them all off they i mean they they don't like me damn they don't like me anymore they probably support tape by now though maybe because i feel like he got through to a lot of people over the time like at first i was like you know what this is weird but as you get to know him and not read the headlines

Speaker 25 like he's been on the podcast i got to know him solid dude yeah i mean if if you can see between the lines which is where the

Speaker 27 the kind of middle guys or like the kind of guys for human or you know that love just love people and just like go out and connect with people you can see he's just a normal dude yeah online yeah online whatever you can say whatever online but deep down he's just a regular guy that just has fun with life it's crazy that your friends left him for supporting him yeah every single one of them was that the lowest point in your life when you lost all your friends

Speaker 27 um

Speaker 82 i wouldn't i wouldn't say lowest like were you depressed No, no, not really.

Speaker 11 I felt like this was God's message.

Speaker 50 So those weren't friends then.

Speaker 60 Those weren't real friends.

Speaker 11 No, they weren't real friends.

Speaker 76 Yeah, a real friend would at least have the conversation with you, not just leave you.

Speaker 93 Yeah.

Speaker 11 And one of them did try to have a conversation with me and it just turned into like trying to bring me back to that side.

Speaker 28 Like they're just trying to like, oh, you should, you should believe in the things that we believe in.

Speaker 41 Not, oh, maybe, maybe this is better for you.

Speaker 11 Or like, you know.

Speaker 97 Yeah.

Speaker 77 But a real friend would have opposing views and still support you.

Speaker 23 Yeah, of course. Yeah.
Yeah.

Speaker 51 Like, I don't believe that all friends should have the same views.

Speaker 93 There's no growth in that no it's impossible to have the same sense of direction yeah that's the problem with politics yeah you you want all these people to have the same opinion when obviously they don't yeah makes no sense

Speaker 41 i feel like one thing that we should like have all the same things

Speaker 10 like the same idea is like let's just all be for us like community community right nowadays we lost community so i feel like we should all just be together like have one idea for the love of humans.

Speaker 76 Yeah, it's such a crazy concept because there's these huge cities now that no one actually, like very few people actually have their own community within the city.

Speaker 93 Yeah.

Speaker 53 Even though there's millions of people around you, you don't have like a set of five, 10 people that you could rely on.

Speaker 3 Yeah.

Speaker 28 And that's where things are lost.

Speaker 32 That's where, that's where love is lost.

Speaker 11 And we all just, we all just hate each other. We say one little thing, we just hate it.
Yeah.

Speaker 67 I've had to really do a lot of self-work on myself because I used to get very triggered easily.

Speaker 9 And now people could say whatever.

Speaker 52 I get so many hate comments.

Speaker 12 It's crazy, but it doesn't affect me.

Speaker 12 Oh, yeah. I had some

Speaker 37 past insecurities as well.

Speaker 48 Like

Speaker 27 and I'm not going to hide the fact that I was once insecure about like the way I look, the way I dress, you know, what my hair was.

Speaker 34 But once you get past that and once you really understand like maybe there's more to life than this, obviously making money is a good thing, but there's more to life than just how you look.

Speaker 35 People will grow a lot more from that.

Speaker 50 Yeah, I used to be so insecure about my looks. Yeah.

Speaker 44 Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 12 I think it might be an Asian thing, right?

Speaker 47 It might be an Asian thing because usually we're kind of kicked down in the dirt, man.

Speaker 97 Yeah, girls don't fuck with Asians, no, they don't, no, they don't.

Speaker 20 We're like on the bottom of the totem pole, yeah.

Speaker 10 I never got girls grown up, yeah, yeah, I was skinny, and yeah, same, yeah, it wasn't a good combo, and my confidence was shot, yeah.

Speaker 28 I was, I was skinny, fat, like,

Speaker 38 yeah, I don't know.

Speaker 67 How'd you build the confidence up?

Speaker 52 Was it over time? Was it a specific moment?

Speaker 11 It was, it was a bit, it was a bit before I got canceled.

Speaker 39 I felt like I felt like I needed to change, right?

Speaker 80 And

Speaker 32 it was more like a mindset thing, right?

Speaker 28 It's like, if I can't be the person that I want to see myself in the future, then there's no point in living this life, right?

Speaker 31 So

Speaker 11 I took small but necessary steps to changing that, like, you know, working out, um,

Speaker 36 fixing the way I speak, uh, grammar, whatever.

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Speaker 81 Whatever, whatever.

Speaker 51 Did you have a stutter or something?

Speaker 35 Yeah, I had a bit of a stutter. Really? Yeah.

Speaker 36 I think I still do, kind of.

Speaker 53 I haven't seen it today, so.

Speaker 65 Well done. I'm glad.

Speaker 22 Oh, thanks, man.

Speaker 21 Yeah.

Speaker 51 Stutter definitely fucks your confidence up.

Speaker 12 Oh, it does.

Speaker 80 Yeah. It does.

Speaker 43 And when you ask someone, like, oh, what do you do?

Speaker 54 Like, what kind of, like, what's your value in life?

Speaker 33 And you have nothing to say.

Speaker 81 And then you have a problem. Yeah.
Yeah. You have a problem then.

Speaker 34 And that's when I knew when people asked me, what is your goal in life?

Speaker 43 What's your mission?

Speaker 11 What values do you hold?

Speaker 34 And I couldn't answer them. Yeah.

Speaker 28 And that's when I knew I wasn't.

Speaker 29 Most people can't, to be honest.

Speaker 12 No, they can't. Yeah.

Speaker 76 What's your go-to when you get asked I know?

Speaker 37 What do you? i just say i'm just a dude that just likes to overanalyze human behavior i just like to look at the world and over analyze everything and self-analyze myself

Speaker 89 but i'm just a dude yeah just a dude it sounds weird to say this but i love people watching yeah like that sounds creepy as fuck but like you just learn a lot you do watching people like when i go to the mall i'm like watching people how they interact it's interesting Ah, yeah.

Speaker 11 Do you kind of like eavesdrop as well?

Speaker 3 I eavesdrop off.

Speaker 21 I'm close enough.

Speaker 13 I'll listen to to their conversation.

Speaker 14 Yeah, me too. I'm like, man, what are they talking about?

Speaker 15 Like, this is so like, it's so like surface level.

Speaker 18 Yeah. Like, they, they don't care about each other.
They don't like each other.

Speaker 51 I don't, I also don't want to get detached from reality as I become more and more successful.

Speaker 13 So I like just seeing what everyday people are doing, talking about, you know, it's important because you see a lot of these successful guys, they get so detached.

Speaker 54 Yeah, they do.

Speaker 89 Like, it's insane. Yeah.

Speaker 41 They think they're on the top of the world, but we should just all be, just all be one, man.

Speaker 11 Like, even though you don't agree, whatever, whatever they say, just shut your mouth and just move on with your life, right? Yeah.

Speaker 12 Yeah.

Speaker 50 I'll treat everyone the same on the first interaction.

Speaker 66 Like, obviously, I respect some people more than others, but like, it's a good rule to live by.

Speaker 30 You never know who you're going to meet and where.

Speaker 11 Oh, exactly.

Speaker 52 Like, I've met podcast guests that I found on the show in the lifetime, Sana,

Speaker 56 random hotels.

Speaker 53 Like,

Speaker 9 you know, it's always worth chatting it up with some people.

Speaker 80 And

Speaker 41 I feel like you shouldn't also like

Speaker 80 kind of,

Speaker 32 you know, what whatever they look like, you shouldn't like give them like an identity before you actually talk to them.

Speaker 12 That's a big one. Yeah.

Speaker 61 I'm guilty of that.

Speaker 76 Yeah. Definitely guilty of that.

Speaker 52 Still am.

Speaker 57 I've been working on it, but looks are deceiving, man.

Speaker 17 Looks artistic.

Speaker 64 And I've tested this myself.

Speaker 95 I've walked into the Rolex store in sweatpants and a hoodie.

Speaker 72 No one comes up to me.

Speaker 47 Yeah, no one does.

Speaker 95 Even though I bought from the store before.

Speaker 21 Yeah.

Speaker 30 And then I'll walk in with a Rolex the next day, five people come up to me.

Speaker 53 Yeah.

Speaker 32 And that's only because,

Speaker 84 like, going back to it, it's only because they don't, they don't, they're not themselves.

Speaker 36 They're not authentically themselves.

Speaker 32 They don't know who they are. It's an inner self-reflection, right?

Speaker 88 It's like,

Speaker 28 if I wear a suit and I have no money, and then people think, oh, this guy has money because that's what they see on social media, or what they see every single day on their phones or like with people that they interact with.

Speaker 40 Oh, this guy doesn't wear a suit, then he's broke.

Speaker 41 It's just, I don't know.

Speaker 11 It's like never judge a book by its covers.

Speaker 76 We all have these preconceived notions.

Speaker 19 We're like NPCs.

Speaker 78 We're controllable, right?

Speaker 68 Yeah, very controllable, very influenced.

Speaker 43 Very influenced.

Speaker 50 Yeah, some people worse than others.

Speaker 89 Oh, yeah.

Speaker 23 Oh my gosh. Dude, I can't believe how controlled some people get.

Speaker 30 It's actually upsetting to me at this point.

Speaker 19 Yeah.

Speaker 41 And it always starts when you're young. It always starts when you're young.
Like,

Speaker 28 what you see, like, what you see is what you get. But

Speaker 28 in this modern age, it's what you see and what you don't get.

Speaker 34 And let me expand on that.

Speaker 41 When you're a kid and you watch TV, right?

Speaker 55 Let's say you grow up, like I didn't grow up very, very rich.

Speaker 34 And I see all these kids with nice toys and stuff like that.

Speaker 41 It's like, what you see, what you don't get. So you want that in the future, right?

Speaker 55 So when you grow up, you're like, oh, why does this guy have it?

Speaker 24 And I don't have it.

Speaker 55 So I'm going to go out and buy it.

Speaker 28 And then people slowly become more broke because when they grow up, they didn't have what they had,

Speaker 81 what other people had.

Speaker 90 So eventually,

Speaker 58 like.

Speaker 33 You just fall into this hole of getting influenced by a life that you can't live.

Speaker 40 And it always always starts when you're younger.

Speaker 62 Yeah, always starts when you're younger.

Speaker 20 That money trap, right?

Speaker 21 Yeah, that money traps.

Speaker 45 Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 50 A lot of people, well, we're in a very materialistic society.

Speaker 51 I feel like you measure your success off wealth.

Speaker 53 I don't know if Canada's like that too, but in America, for sure.

Speaker 95 So, you judge people based off your wealth.

Speaker 81 Yeah, all the time.

Speaker 35 Which is,

Speaker 19 I have mixed feelings on it.

Speaker 45 For me, it worked, it motivated me, but I could see for people that it could be harmful.

Speaker 60 Yeah. You know what I mean? Yeah.

Speaker 81 It's just how you control it, man.

Speaker 80 How you control it from within.

Speaker 95 You need to really respect that relationship.

Speaker 66 Like at first, it probably didn't work for me.

Speaker 85 I was comparing myself too hard and depressed and stuff.

Speaker 9 But now I'm at a good spot now where I see success and it motivates me.

Speaker 52 You know what I mean?

Speaker 11 There's one thing that I kind of strayed away from, like at the start of my journey was at first I love the material things as well, as all do.

Speaker 11 Like you just want to show off, you want to flex and all that. And then eventually you start to realize that the relationships are better than the material things.

Speaker 34 You just want to be friends with those type of people.

Speaker 55 Right. Right.

Speaker 32 Whether you talk business or not, it's just nice to have fun with them.

Speaker 31 Right.

Speaker 38 And then the money will come, whatever will come.

Speaker 81 Right.

Speaker 54 So just kind of,

Speaker 11 if whoever's starting out their entrepreneurship, throw away all the material things that you think about and start building relationships. Yeah.

Speaker 21 Yeah. I love that.
Yeah.

Speaker 76 I don't even use most of the dumb shit I bought to be honest.

Speaker 14 Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 34 You just buy it because it's shiny and then you toss it aside.

Speaker 39 You're like, well, I don't really need this.

Speaker 19 No, I got watches and suits that I haven't worn in years.

Speaker 46 Yeah.

Speaker 66 And I spent a lot of money on them.

Speaker 93 Yeah.

Speaker 67 But relationships, man, that's how I started the show.

Speaker 52 Getting these guests on all relationships.

Speaker 76 And some of these guys are going to be at my wedding.

Speaker 85 Some of these guys will be in my life the rest of my life, hopefully.

Speaker 48 Wow. That's awesome.

Speaker 64 Yeah. But that's what life is.
Yeah.

Speaker 29 You know? Yep.

Speaker 52 And I diversify my relationships so I don't just have on one set of people.

Speaker 30 I think it's important to get all walks of life in your circle.

Speaker 30 So you're not in an echo chamber.

Speaker 23 Yeah, absolutely.

Speaker 11 And that's where that's where the love comes from.

Speaker 37 There's a saying from Shakespeare.

Speaker 69 This is about like the ideology ideology about competitiveness, right?

Speaker 28 So we live in a competitive world.

Speaker 81 Yeah.

Speaker 90 But Shakespeare said

Speaker 11 whoever is in the competition, whether it's like men, women, men, men, like in war or whatever,

Speaker 32 they look very much alike.

Speaker 41 They are always the same people fighting over something dumb.

Speaker 94 Wow. Yeah.

Speaker 9 That's crazy to think about, right?

Speaker 21 Yeah.

Speaker 11 So when you build meaningful relationships, there's nothing to fight about.

Speaker 11 You just have a good time with them.

Speaker 30 Yeah, I'm not big on conflict, man.

Speaker 91 I see all these wars, and then you look into why they're fighting.

Speaker 9 It's all orchestrated.

Speaker 75 They're not actually fighting. No, they're not.

Speaker 65 Crazy, right? Yeah.

Speaker 14 They all just want to stop.

Speaker 67 It's such a crazy concept, though, because you'll see who's funding the war.

Speaker 51 They're funding both sides.

Speaker 57 It's all a money thing at the end of the day.

Speaker 11 And speaking of competition, I I just want to tie back to like the modern-day culture about clothes and all that and hair styles and how people look the same

Speaker 34 is that they're fighting to look better than the next person, right? They're fighting to look slightly better, even though they're following the same thing.

Speaker 11 So that's why I like that quote a lot: where competition is just from people that look very much alike. Yeah.

Speaker 76 Did you see what Kanye West's wife was wearing?

Speaker 7 Or not wearing, I should say.

Speaker 73 Not wearing, not wearing very much.

Speaker 11 That's where fashion's heading, man.

Speaker 80 I know. Crazy.

Speaker 90 I know. They slowly want to strip you away, literally.

Speaker 76 I just saw, I think it was Kim Kardashian, she launched some skims with like nipples on them, just some weird shit, dude.

Speaker 54 It's so weird, man.

Speaker 54 I don't know.

Speaker 30 The woman is being over-sexualized these days.

Speaker 75 They are.

Speaker 50 Like, I go on my Instagram.

Speaker 60 I can't even open it next to my girl anymore.

Speaker 53 No, you can't.

Speaker 26 Because I get half-naked girls.

Speaker 61 She's like, what the fuck is that?

Speaker 19 Yeah.

Speaker 66 I'm like, I don't even like these.

Speaker 45 It just pops up. Yeah.

Speaker 32 And if you click one, like, their strap, it all turns up like a third strap.

Speaker 47 Like, you can't, can't run away from it. Yeah.

Speaker 77 But think about it.

Speaker 30 There's like, like, we're grown men, but like, there's 12-year-olds on Instagram seeing that.

Speaker 51 Yeah.

Speaker 34 Isn't that crazy? Yeah, it is crazy.

Speaker 67 I mean, I didn't get exposed to that stuff until I was 15.

Speaker 47 Well, I have one personal experience.

Speaker 34 I remember this being as a kid, but,

Speaker 41 you know, on TV, when you see advertisements, right?

Speaker 11 I saw this commercial and it was about like glasses, like prescription glasses.

Speaker 81 But, but the lady, like the model for the advertisement was a skinny blonde girl.

Speaker 6 Right.

Speaker 24 So they try to program you early on.

Speaker 17 And it's been like this forever.

Speaker 11 So if we're saying like 12 or 15 year olds have been seeing this now, whatever's happening now, it started way back then.

Speaker 14 Wow. Because

Speaker 62 I remember it.

Speaker 20 I didn't even think about that, but that probably happened to me too.

Speaker 12 Yeah. Because even in movies, they always sexualize.

Speaker 59 Oh, all the time.

Speaker 76 The woman. Even like kids' TV shows.
Yeah.

Speaker 66 If you think about what we grew up with with Disney Channel and Nickelodeon, it's always like a teenage woman that they put a bunch of makeup on. Yeah.

Speaker 3 Yeah.

Speaker 58 And then um, you ever play any video games, you know, the first God of War, there's literally like a sex scene in the game, and you're like a kid playing this, like that's crazy, right?

Speaker 53 Yeah, so it's not cool, man.

Speaker 11 Yeah, so you get exposed to it very early on, it's just now it's more extreme because they're trying to desensitize you, right?

Speaker 54 Yeah, yeah, and then, and then the guys on the other side they see Tate and they want to be that, and they get to desensitize when they see like a Rolex or AP or you know, a nice suit or a supercar, they get desensitized, They don't even care anymore.

Speaker 40 They just, they just develop that sort of persona already and they think that they're them.

Speaker 21 Yeah. When they have nothing going on.

Speaker 52 100%. Yeah.
Yeah.

Speaker 13 That false confidence. Yeah.
Yeah.

Speaker 12 That red pill movement is low-key dangerous, I think.

Speaker 52 It is. Even though I've had on a lot of those guys on the show, I think it is damaging.

Speaker 37 It is damaging.

Speaker 30 Yeah. Yeah.
Same with the feminist movement.

Speaker 93 Yeah.

Speaker 7 I think both are super damaging.

Speaker 34 And any extreme is always damaging.

Speaker 9 Yeah. Like you said, you need to be in the middle, the objective.

Speaker 93 The objective. Yeah.

Speaker 19 Make your own decisions.

Speaker 33 Be authentic. Yeah.

Speaker 51 Like when I make important decisions, I'm like, okay, why am I making this decision?

Speaker 77 What is it based off of?

Speaker 19 Because we are internally biased.

Speaker 60 Yep.

Speaker 30 I think whenever we make a decision, it's based off our previous experiences.

Speaker 51 Absolutely. Like I've been scammed in the past and that hurts me because now when I work with someone, that's in the back of my head.

Speaker 66 Yeah, always.

Speaker 13 You know? Yeah.

Speaker 51 But I need to fix that because that's not fair to the other person.

Speaker 30 Same with dating.

Speaker 51 I see this all the time in dating.

Speaker 52 Someone gets cheated on.

Speaker 45 Now they have trust issues.

Speaker 83 It affects the next relationship.

Speaker 37 You know, yeah, it's never a bad thing to be more careful based on, you know, past experiences, but you also know how to have to know how to like control your decision making.

Speaker 11 Yeah, it's very important.

Speaker 45 That's cool that you got a good girl by your side, though.

Speaker 76 That's important.

Speaker 14 Yeah, it is.

Speaker 90 Took some work, though.

Speaker 16 Because, you know, most girls nowadays, they're also influenced at such an early age.

Speaker 21 Oh, yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 33 They're super influenced.

Speaker 41 So as a man, this is my personal opinion, but as a man, you really need to guide them.

Speaker 21 Yeah.

Speaker 31 Don't shit talk to them.

Speaker 54 Don't hate them, but you have to guide them.

Speaker 34 You're like, like ask questions, like, why are you doing this?

Speaker 28 What makes you think this way?

Speaker 34 And even some guys, I know some guys are more

Speaker 11 arrogant than others.

Speaker 59 But if you have a close friend that you want to help, try your best.

Speaker 11 If it doesn't work, then just let it go.

Speaker 54 Yeah. Let it go.

Speaker 52 To me, these days, when I work with someone and choose friends, I actually value if they have a girlfriend or not.

Speaker 76 Like if they're serious, because

Speaker 30 if you're just hooking up with a bunch of girls, like that's not a good character to me.

Speaker 28 You're no different than the girls doing the same thing.

Speaker 38 Yeah.

Speaker 47 Yeah, you're no different.

Speaker 17 You're not taking yourself seriously.

Speaker 53 Not at all.

Speaker 94 Like, I won't work with people like that.

Speaker 29 No. You know?

Speaker 93 Yeah.

Speaker 51 It's just not the lifestyle I want to be exposed to.

Speaker 61 And it shows you don't have commitment. Yeah.

Speaker 51 Like, I'd rather you not even date at all.

Speaker 12 Yeah.

Speaker 95 Than be hooking up with five girls a week or whatever.

Speaker 84 Yeah, what's the point of, like, I see people put their like girlfriend or boyfriend on a pedestal.

Speaker 96 They're like, oh, my girlfriend does this and that. Oh, I love her so much.

Speaker 73 Oh, oh, my boyfriend does this.

Speaker 96 I love him so much.

Speaker 11 But you guys are still boyfriend, girlfriend.

Speaker 37 You guys, it's not serious. Yeah.

Speaker 54 He can leave you the next day and not even think about you.

Speaker 78 Yeah.

Speaker 76 You got to be serious, man. Yeah, I know.

Speaker 13 You're pretty young, huh? You're engaged.

Speaker 93 Yeah.

Speaker 70 How old are you?

Speaker 39 I'm actually only 25. Okay.

Speaker 21 Yeah. That's early.
Yeah.

Speaker 34 I got engaged because, well,

Speaker 11 rest in peace to my grandpa, but I wanted to have a kid when my grandparents were still alive.

Speaker 24 I live a very different life.

Speaker 39 I don't live a normal life.

Speaker 92 Not normal

Speaker 54 in the state of like I'm extremely rich or anything like that. But

Speaker 37 my family is super dysfunctional.

Speaker 78 Really?

Speaker 41 Super dysfunctional.

Speaker 81 And then I got canceled, so I don't have much friends.

Speaker 54 So I got engaged early because I wanted to have a kid early for my grandparents.

Speaker 12 I love that.

Speaker 34 But now grandpa's sadly gone.

Speaker 7 Rest in peace. Yeah.

Speaker 21 You got to grow up fast, man.

Speaker 30 Kindergarten, you already knew the world was a scam.

Speaker 65 I know, dude.

Speaker 13 You aged at 25? Yeah.

Speaker 41 My dad pushes me pretty hard.

Speaker 20 I don't live with him.

Speaker 88 Like, he's not really there, but he always tells me to do things like get a job early.

Speaker 62 Why are you doing this?

Speaker 36 Stop this.

Speaker 28 Like, he's very demanding. Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 72 And

Speaker 68 that kind of forces me to grow up a little bit earlier on.

Speaker 50 Asians work hard, man.

Speaker 66 Yeah. Can't deny that.

Speaker 12 High standards, hard workers.

Speaker 53 I think I get my work ethic from my mom for sure.

Speaker 60 Yeah.

Speaker 53 But it is mentally traumatizing.

Speaker 51 It is. No doubt about it.
Yeah. And you're not allowed to express it too.

Speaker 75 Yeah, you're not.

Speaker 53 But like, they'll think it's a joke if you bring up some mental health issues.

Speaker 97 Yeah, I know.

Speaker 84 They're like, this is, this is stupid.

Speaker 87 Shut up.

Speaker 40 Make some more money.

Speaker 67 I used to have to go to school even with a fever.

Speaker 12 Yeah, like

Speaker 12 nothing worked. Yeah.

Speaker 62 No excuse.

Speaker 32 I remember running as a kid and I like fell on like cement with like gravel and stuff, right?

Speaker 47 Because in Canada, it snows a lot.

Speaker 11 So in the summertime, when it all melts, it's all gravel and rocks. I fell and I scraped my whole side of my face.

Speaker 59 It was like bleeding like this,

Speaker 59 and then my mom was like, There's nothing wrong, I'm just bleeding like this.

Speaker 73 And she's like,

Speaker 6 Why do you want to go home?

Speaker 73 I'm like, Don't you see I'm bleeding? It's like, No, stay in school.

Speaker 12 I'm like, Oh my god, yeah, yeah, you were not missing school at all.

Speaker 16 No, not missing school. That's why when I grew up, I wanted to skip school as much as possible.

Speaker 51 Have you made up with your dad, or are you two kind of just not seeing eye to eye still?

Speaker 90 Well, ever since

Speaker 33 my grandpa passed, it's been

Speaker 27 harder.

Speaker 32 obviously like one day our dad will go and then we'll kind of feel it but me and my dad are drifting yeah slightly apart damn

Speaker 34 i i still live with my grandma like i take care of her and everything yeah yeah i i held that responsibility ever since because when my parents divorced i chose to stay with them yeah so with your mom no with my grandparents oh but it's on his side oh got it so now that i'm older i take care of them right they took care of me i took care of them yeah that's a vietnamese thing right it's a vietnamese thing yeah or an asian thing thing really yeah i've seen chinese people do that family really matters family is very important in asian culture yeah and that's lost in today's world obviously so lost yeah yeah you see these girls they're like 16 they want to go drink they're like fuck you mom you don't understand me yep and then they're like oh i hate men even though they need their dad for money or to fix their tire or whatever

Speaker 45 same thing it's messed up there's this crazy graphic i got to find it but it's like after you graduate from college how many times do you see your mom again on average or your parents again

Speaker 51 and uh it's like under a hundred times because once you move across the country, you only see them on holidays like two to three times a year for like 30 years until they pass away.

Speaker 66 So the average American is only seeing their parents a hundred times when they graduate college.

Speaker 42 Well, exactly.

Speaker 11 And that's where the, if they're secluded from their family, they have no sense of direction and then they get influenced by all the other bullshit out there, right?

Speaker 59 And then they come home and they're like, no, you're wrong because of this and that.

Speaker 20 And like, your parents are never wrong.

Speaker 11 They have so much experience.

Speaker 7 Sometimes they can be wrong because you probably experience more in that that realm yeah but most of the time they're not wrong when it comes to parenting i listen to them when it comes to business i don't yeah exactly they don't have experience in that exactly there's certain realms that you listen to them and if even if they're wrong you just don't say anything yeah you don't say anything it's not worth it it's not worth it you're gonna get your ass beat

Speaker 76 i don't think i've ever felt like i want an argument with my mom oh yeah even if i was right yeah you know it's your mom like yeah they're just gonna scream at you bring up other yeah it's just there's no point yeah it's no point You want to have kids though?

Speaker 11 You still want it? Yeah, I still want to. Yeah.

Speaker 14 Grandma's still around, so I'm going to try to have a kid.

Speaker 94 I love it. Yeah.

Speaker 61 Yeah. It's going to be an interesting era to raise kids in.

Speaker 10 Yeah.

Speaker 11 I mean, like you and me said before the show even started, like

Speaker 11 we don't want to put them in school.

Speaker 63 We just, you know, put them in a sport or have someone we trust teach them.

Speaker 37 Yeah.

Speaker 11 Because we said relationships.

Speaker 40 are so much more important than whatever they're putting out there, right?

Speaker 41 I can put my kid in a sport.

Speaker 62 Like, let's say I I want my kid to be an F1 driver.

Speaker 37 I want him to experience and build relationships with people that know the field, right?

Speaker 71 They can teach them.

Speaker 90 You can teach, like, mostly English is just conversational. Math is just subtraction, minuses, multiplication, division.
That's all you need.

Speaker 46 That's all you need.

Speaker 12 You don't need the fancy shit.

Speaker 22 Yeah.

Speaker 17 So you can have someone, you have the conversational skills from going to the sport, let's say F1.

Speaker 41 All these kids are doing F1.

Speaker 11 You can talk to the parents, the mentors, the coaches, whatever.

Speaker 55 They can teach you everything.

Speaker 54 They're there for a reason. Yeah.

Speaker 93 Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 76 There's so much useless stuff taught in school.

Speaker 66 It's actually mind-blowing.

Speaker 28 Yeah, it is.

Speaker 66 It's, it's actually probably making your, your brain worse because you're forced to memorize rather than learn.

Speaker 66 Yeah.

Speaker 11 If, if you asked me what I learned in school way back, I couldn't tell you.

Speaker 58 I just remember reading what, like Shakespearean novels and just forgetting it the next day.

Speaker 47 I don't remember anything.

Speaker 74 Yeah, English class was a joke.

Speaker 21 They gave those books that were all woke or whatever. Yeah.

Speaker 45 They should just say, read whatever you want and give me a summer.

Speaker 7 Something like that. Yeah.

Speaker 37 Super easy.

Speaker 12 Like I used to hate reading.

Speaker 95 I thought I hated reading because there was all these books I didn't care about.

Speaker 9 And when I graduated, I started reading business books and stuff.

Speaker 56 I was obsessed.

Speaker 21 Yeah. I loved reading.

Speaker 3 Yeah.

Speaker 46 Same.

Speaker 11 Even after school, like now I read, read a lot.

Speaker 12 Yeah. I'm listening to an audiobook like once a week or a podcast.

Speaker 29 Oh, yeah.

Speaker 21 I love learning.

Speaker 56 When before I thought I hated learning,

Speaker 66 I dreaded going to school.

Speaker 19 So it's just interesting.

Speaker 66 How people are forced to learn to memorize and not learn.

Speaker 34 Yeah, it's just to set you up.

Speaker 81 I I mean, we can go down this rabbit hole, sit you for the nine to five, whatever, but yeah, it's just to set you up.

Speaker 7 100%. Yeah.

Speaker 51 What's the next big thing you're working on?

Speaker 66 Where can people keep in touch with you?

Speaker 47 So right now I'm trying to grow my Instagram page.

Speaker 11 So at Mike VWorld is basically like it's basically like a psychological play where every one of my videos is going to be like kind of sarcasm. There's a little bit of satire in there.

Speaker 27 Yep.

Speaker 11 Like kind of attacking each point or each trend.

Speaker 27 So you can find me there.

Speaker 81 I'm going to work to build that page.

Speaker 11 So

Speaker 11 hopefully see me on the big screen again soon.

Speaker 14 Let's go. Yeah.

Speaker 76 I'll hope you get on some shows, man. That was fun.

Speaker 13 Awesome. Yeah, good conversation.
Check them out, guys.

Speaker 8 See you next time.

Speaker 87 Peace.