Pingtr1p: Is AI Ruining Content Creation? 🤖 The Truth About Algorithms | DSH #1444

And yeah, I get it.

They said death to Israel, death to America.

I don't care.

I think they would say that a lot less if we get out of their business, if we'd leave them the fuck alone.

I think they would hear a lot less of death to America.

I don't know about death to Israel.

I wish Israel the best of luck, but I'm not gonna go fucking fight Iran.

You know, sorry, dude, you started that shit.

You better have a plan to finish it on your own.

You better not be depending on us.

Okay, guys, we got Ping Trip here today.

We are in Houston.

Thanks for driving over from Austin.

Thanks for having me on, dude.

Yeah, you are one of the most interesting accounts I've seen.

You've been shouted out by some of the biggest podcasters in the world.

Yeah, I've been very lucky.

You know, it's I make fun of them and they laugh at it and then they give me like props and react sometimes.

So that's cool because when I first started making them, I thought I might be pissing people off.

But everybody has a great sense of humor.

Oh, yeah.

So no one ever really popped off at you negatively?

No, the only people that ever have a problem are like the social media platforms and like borderline stupid people who don't watch the whole thing and they watch like the first 10 seconds and they go, this is fake.

He's trying to make Joe Rogan look bad.

It's like, yeah, watch the whole thing.

It's clearly a comedy piece, you know?

But some people are just stupid, dude.

And then they want a virtue signal about like how they realize it was fake.

It's like everybody knows it's fake.

That's not the point, you know?

But yeah, no, I've never really had a problem.

Everybody's been really cool.

Pretty much every single person that I've had in my videos has been cool.

Theo's reposted it.

Rogan's reposted, I believe.

Yeah, yeah, Theo's been cool to me.

I talk a lot to Theo and Zach, his producer.

I give them, you know, when I make anything with Theo now, I always, because they a lot of times want to post it, so I just give it to them.

So, yeah, it's, I don't know, man, it's been crazy because I just, what is it?

It's 2017, eight years ago, I just was sitting in my room after getting laid off and trying to figure out what's, what am I going to do next with my life?

Oh, let me just fuck around because I need a hobby just to fill my time.

Let me just fuck around with editing.

And

yeah, I edited some shit from a crazy idea I had.

And the next thing you know, Joe Rogan's talking about it.

Yeah, it took off that quick.

Yeah, yeah.

Joe Rogan, in 2018, Joe Rogan was already reposting his shit on Instagram.

So you hit gold fast.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Yeah, I guess no one really was doing that, right?

At the time, no,

it's a branch of YouTube poop, right?

So YouTube, YouTube poop's been around for a long time.

I don't want to discredit the YouTube poopers.

I remember those days.

They get pissed off.

Like, if you, you know,

be careful when you talk about the YouTube poop community.

But it is kind of like inspired by YouTube poop.

But I try to take it to another level of kind of reaching more of like a sketch comedy piece as opposed to just random, like, hey, I'm here.

Look at my dick.

You know, it's like, like, what random thing, word can I put in there, you know, which YouTube poop is like, the more random, the funnier, right?

Whereas I try to make like sketch just, you know, like more believable.

Yeah, a storyline, something you feel like you're watching a scene from a movie.

And yeah, it's just, I don't know, man.

I had an idea is all it it was.

I had an idea and then I made it and then people liked it.

For me, they're so funny because I'll watch, I watched the original podcast episode before and then I'll see your stuff after.

And I'm like, no, that's actually hilarious because he just didn't say that, you know?

Yeah.

Yeah.

It's getting very high level now, too.

Like the AI has helped me kind of get to a new level.

It's not like everybody expects you're just going to go and like type in the prompt.

Hey, make, make a funny edit of Joe Rogan.

No, it's like the tools that it's unlocked for me.

It's unlocked the ability for me to like search all the transcripts of every rogan episode

you know so i i didn't know how to code but i go into chat gpt and i'm like it gives me a uh code i don't even know the names of the the the apps or the programs i mean i should remember them but i just followed what the hell chat gpt told me to do and now i got a little uh browser i go into where i can search every Joe Rogan's episode and find any line that I need to like create a sentence that I need.

That's brilliant.

You can't even find a word if you need a word.

Exactly.

Yeah.

I mean, this can be weaponized too.

Like Like

if you're trying to cancel Joe Rogan, like him saying the N-word 100 times.

I get his fake ads on TikTok all the time.

Yeah, the fake AI stuff.

Yeah.

I mean, those, I don't know, they're not very believable yet.

They're getting better.

Yeah, it's going to be scary when they're believable.

They're getting better.

I think if a low IQ person can believe what's out there right now,

I'm assuming that's going to get better and better.

I'm not a big fan of like AI generated content.

I am very intrigued and a fan of AI as a tool to improve your content.

Same.

Yeah.

So I've used Opus and I've used other, it's not there yet.

Yeah.

And I'm not impressed at all.

And, but it helps.

Yeah.

Yeah.

There's just a lot of AI generated slop that's just taking up space right now.

Yeah.

And because it's got AI hashtag in there, it like gets views.

Yeah.

From content that's, you know, that should be getting the views.

Yeah.

But yeah, the algorithm is a whole different thing, which I wanted to ask you, man.

I mean, you've been fucking interviewing.

That's what I see.

It's most of your interviews.

Nobody's asking you questions.

Yeah.

We need to do a podcast where it's just you talking about yourself so people know.

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Who the fuck?

That'd be probably smart.

I'm 1500 episodes in and no one knows who I am.

I just see the wall, but I was watching.

I was like, who the fuck is this guy?

Yeah, so many people say that to me.

And it's so funny because we were one of the most viewed podcasts.

But when I asked people to come on, they're like, Yeah, I've seen your stuff, but I don't know who you are.

Yeah.

You know what I mean?

Yeah, you got what, number six or two in education?

Change changes every day, right?

Now, Umba could be anywhere from two to five today.

That's the same.

I mean, mean that's that was impressive dude yeah on apple and then i see your youtube views and i'm like oh yeah of course they're throttling and shadow banning all my youtube is for you interviewed andrew tate and you interviewed nick fuentes and

a lot of other people that will probably get you shadow banned and throttled but a lot of anti-dig pharma which i think it was mainly those at first and then tate definitely didn't help yeah yeah it's it's like a It's a reason why a lot of people turn them down.

Like, you know, you're going to get a fuckload of views.

Yeah.

But then you're going to get punished on the back end for it.

If I were to do what most people do which is rely on the platforms as a revenue source as their primary income i would be screwed yeah i'd be so unprofitable i'd be living making a couple thousand a month like it'd be terrible luckily i found other ways to monetize well because you also diversify the platforms too right you're not just dependent on youtube yeah that's great which is needed you can be because like i've been over by every platform pretty much um facebook the worst facebook just totally restricted my monetization and i've noticed and i've heard other personalities talk about this but like the more viral you go,

the more the likelihood of they're going to come in and have a problem with what you're doing.

I could see that because in order to go viral these days, you have to be controversial.

Yeah.

And that's the thing, too, is like, you got to be kind of edgy, controversial, especially in comedy.

Like that, so I think what happened is I went too viral with me on YouTube.

I feel like I'm in the same boat as you.

Like I'm not getting recommended at all by YouTube anymore.

Yeah.

Like you probably still are a little bit.

You're probably a little bit, but when I search the guests and then podcasts after, I'm usually not on the first page.

Yeah, yeah.

So you're just, you got a search ban too.

Yeah.

I'd love to see one day like all the labels that they're throwing on shit behind this.

I know, because Twitter exposed their shadow banner.

Yeah, and I knew how Hilan took over.

And that was awesome to see because I was so shadow banned on Twitter.

I just, I can imagine like this crazy ass blue-haired chick just sitting in our office like, well, this is problematic.

Oh, I think we're going to need to add a sensitive topics, Cariboy.

I think that's how it works.

They're like putting labels on that kind of

limit your reach or like backseat you.

That's what Facebook did.

They got exposed for that, right?

Yeah.

COVID stuff, the vaccine stuff.

Well, some of their press conferences too kind of reveal that they're doing that, you know, like the freedom of reach and not freedom of speech, right?

The authoritative sources, like they've come out basically and said, like

authoritative sources sound good, right?

But it basically just means if you're a corporation or if you're independent, right?

So if authoritative sources get higher ranking and

treated better in the algorithm than your average independent creator, which I think has

not just been about news.

I think it's been about like the whole

entertainment sphere where really what it's about is about corporation versus independent media.

Even if it's comedy, even if it's news, even if it's

seems that way.

It seems like there's a tiered system because I think like if you have an agent, you probably have a backdoor way of contacting YouTube.

Oh, yeah.

They call them media panels.

Yeah.

I know those exist.

So isn't that a little weird?

You got this tiered system where the independent YouTuber who can get big, but no corporation backs him.

So like me, I have no access to go to youtube and go come on guys you guys are throwing my channel what did i do i made a comedy video as opposed to a comedian who has an agent who can reach out to youtube and go am i making sense here does this seem kind of up yeah no it is flawed because a lot of people can't afford that yeah well i mean it's not i mean no agents offer me a job and do i want to i mean not a job well they would want money from you Is that how it works now?

Yeah.

So if you go to CAA, you're paying them.

They're not paying you.

I thought they just signed you up and then got you work and it took something of what you made.

I guess it depends on your agent.

I guess if you're like big time or some shit.

Yeah, it depends on the agent in the situation.

But from what I, from what I've seen with my friends, CAA, UTA, all those WME, you're paying them.

Okay.

Yeah.

So

it's pretty obvious to me that those big agencies have access to YouTube to see

Facebook panels.

Yeah, all the platforms.

In ways that the average person doesn't have.

So like if I'm

so-and-so celebrity with a big agency and my channel gets throttled because I said something that triggered the algorithm you have a way of getting youtube behind the scenes beyond the normal system we all have of fixing that right so that is to me that's not a fair system we're playing favorites but i don't know maybe people think that's okay yeah yeah i'm sure if you talk about israel iran right now you'll get censored or something are you ready to go die for israel bro i mean you're at the age you're six foot six i mean you make a good fucking target bro yeah oh right you're six foot eight

it depends on the afros jesus christ This guy, I don't know if you can tell.

Is that my Kim?

I don't know if you can tell behind the scenes.

This guy is like a giant.

People get shocked when they see him.

You can kind of tell.

Like, I could kind of tell you were tall, but you don't really realize how tall you are.

Yeah, I get that a lot.

But yeah, the Israel-Iran thing, dude.

Yeah, I mean, are you ready for regime change?

Are you ready?

I wouldn't fight in that war.

I'm literally seeing former veterans talk about how they forget fighting in previous wars because they were orchestrated.

Yeah.

My generation, I told you how old I am.

I'm fucking old.

I'm in my 40s.

I lived through the Iraq bullshit.

I fell for the Iraq bullshit.

We all did.

It was after 9-11.

Yeah, it was after 9-11, and we were terrified.

And the fear-mongering works when you have an event like that, right?

And

eventually it doesn't take long before you realize it's a lot of bullshit.

Eventually,

Bush...

became like one of the most hated politicians.

Like all of mainstream media was just non-stop attacking Bush as the idiot.

He rightfully was.

I don't think he was really an idiot.

I think he was playing an idiot.

I think Bush was a lot smarter than people realize.

But yeah, so it's the same playbook they're using right now.

The same exact playbook.

And it's just now it's nukes instead of weapons of mass destruction.

And it's what the neocons have always wanted to do.

The neocons,

I don't know if you're old enough, but you remember the Access of Evil?

When it was

I might be getting the $10.

i i remember them calling them the axis of evil and if i remember right it was iran north korea and russia right so this has been in the the the plans for a long time to get iran and a lot of people think this was their ultimate goal really was to get iran and then russia the ultimate prize

so this is the neocon fucking

empire building spread democracy christianity shit that you know we already rejected 10 years ago when obama got elected

So yeah, it's just sad to see people falling for it.

And then you can see Netanyahu, guy blush him.

I'm sure he's a good guy.

And this is the thing, you can't even criticize this.

If you criticize this, you're now an anti-Semite.

Like I could give a shit.

I'm not someone who even talks or gives a shit about Israel.

I could give a fuck if Israel wanted to go in and blow up.

Like to me, they had all the...

Miway after October 7th to just go in there and just do whatever the fuck it wanted with Gaza.

I would give a shit.

I know some people would care, but I wouldn't give a shit.

I don't understand.

But now you're talking about dragging America into a war with Iran, a country of 90 million, trying to get us back into a situation that we just got away from, which is, because this is not going to be a, you know, people think, oh, Trump's just going to go through.

No, this is, if we get involved with this

and the, you know, we want to actually do regime change, this is going to be a long-term thing.

And

that's just not works.

Like, name one time, it's worked.

You just, you remove the stability from.

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In the region, you end up with somebody most of the time who's worse, who's more radical, and they get more desperate.

You know?

I don't know, man.

Time and time again, man.

I mean, I watched the Sean Ryan show.

You've probably seen that one, right?

Yeah, I've heard of it, but I don't watch it.

Former CIA guy, former military, and he talks about every war that's happened in the past 20 years, how they were all orchestrated, basically.

Yeah.

it's crazy they've all been a complete waste of time and have sold out the future of our of our country because i don't know if you i mean it'd be nice if you had a jamie here a pull-up like how much did you spend on iraq and afghanistan like how much did we spend like that's money that's out of the future of like the citizens of this country that's money that could have spent been spent in america it's money could that could have not been spent and you know maybe our fucking deficit wouldn't be so bad right now And

there's just no point in it, man.

It's not our job to go around deciding what other countries should do.

If they're attacking us, we should just wipe them off the face of the earth.

If we have to go to war, we destroy them.

Otherwise, we let live, man.

And then the idea that, like, oh, why would Iran want a nuke?

Well, look what happened when North Korea got a nuke.

You hear everybody messing with them.

Yeah, all of a sudden we don't hear shit about North Korea.

So

why wouldn't Iran not want to get a nuke?

Like, that's the way to guarantee some country isn't going to come fuck with you.

Yeah.

And yeah, I get it.

They said death to Israel, death to America.

I don't care.

I think they would say that a lot less if we get out of their business, if we'd leave them the fuck alone.

I think they would hear a lot less of death to America.

Arobab death to Israel.

I wish Israel the best of luck, but I'm not going to go fucking fight Iran.

You know, sorry, dude, you started that shit.

You better have a plan to finish it on your own.

You better not be depending on us.

But, you know, if they do get whipped or some shit, I guess we're going to go.

There's no way we wouldn't go in and suddenly have to fucking save them.

Did you see the Tucker Ted Cruz?

Yeah.

Yeah, I watched that.

I I reacted it on, I did a live stream reacting to it.

It's um, it's embarrassing.

Ted Cruz has always been a neocon.

He tries to pretend like he's not a neocon, tries to pretend like he's uh, he's MAGA.

But, um, there's a that's a big problem: a lot of these people got smart, you know, the Ben Shapiros, the Ted Cruzes, they realized how powerful the MAGA movement was, and there was no reason because remember, they were anti-Trump, they were never Trumpers at the beginning.

Yep, and Trump's not perfect, Trump's, you know, there's so much wrong with Trump, you know,

but he's not Kamala.

So,

anyway,

yeah,

there's so many neocons that are hiding under the MAGA movement.

And it's very clear now.

They've always wanted war.

They just want to read, they just want to jump right back to the plan that they were going to do under Bush, but they lost the political capital to do it because they lost and Obama took over and then Trump took over.

And now that it seems like, I don't know, man, I don't know if Trump's going to just...

This was always my biggest concern with Trump.

It's like, I hate the Republican neocons, but I was like, I'm willing to take a chance because he went after him so hard.

But now it looks like he might listen to him.

That concerns me.

But I think the last thing he said was like, he's going to give it another two weeks, right?

Yeah.

So maybe he, if I was to give him the benefit of the doubt, maybe he's just playing hardball.

And I think he's playing a little too much hardball on X and shit.

But behind the scenes, he's really working for peace because.

That's like what pisses me off is it doesn't seem like anybody's escalating, you know, and Israel will have their excuses like, hey, we had to do this.

They're going to have a nuke.

We're preventing them to get a nuke and blah, blah, blah.

It's like, dude, you just escalated this

to where it might be a full-blown war.

Now your citizens or the citizens of Iran are fucking dealing with bombs.

You know, it's like, it's never worth it to go to war.

That's like last resort, dude, last resort.

And it seems like they didn't wait till last resort to decide to just shoot the message over.

You know, I don't know, man.

I don't know.

It's tough.

It's tough.

Yeah, it must be tough to be in Trump's shoes.

We could only, I guess, imagine

that decision for him.

He's probably got so many people in his ears on both sides.

Yeah, I think he's listening to too many neocons.

Yeah.

I think he's got to go back to listening to the Steve Bannons shit.

He just met with him.

Did he need a Steve Bannon?

Yeah, they had a little sit-down yesterday.

Yeah, I like Steve.

You know, I don't agree with him on everything.

But, you know, America First is, I mean, you can just look at Trump's old tweets when he talks about Iran.

It says it all.

Look at his old tweets.

I don't know if you got an editor to pull that shit up, but just pull up how

different the shit he's saying now compared to.

I miss the old Trump tweets, bro.

I used to look forward to waking up and seeing those.

Yeah.

They don't hit the same anymore.

When you're president, man,

it's such a different game.

No, I'm saying even when he was president and tweeting like in his first term, his tweets used to like be interesting.

Oh, yeah, yeah.

He's getting old.

Yeah, that's true.

It has been.

And the shit he said about Tucker, it shows me he's a little out of touch, too, because he was like, well, have him get a job.

on the on the what does he say that get a job on the news channel so people hear what he has to say like basically denigrating like independent media and um just shows me he's out of touch because that's that's nobody gives a about mainstream media yeah tucker was the wrong one to go after yeah he's got a really loyal following you know he's right he's absolutely right like they want to make it about anti-semitism and they're all this is like no we just don't want to go to war yeah like i i wish the best of israel like i if if i was to pick a side i have more in common with israel than iran i don't want war for either country but i think i would have to be like yeah i think i'd rather israel win but i don't want to go to war there

You're going to make the same mistake, Israel, that we've made before, which is, you know, we went through a terrorist attack and then we went and overstretched.

And like, it just was not good for our country in a long way.

We overreacted.

And it seems like they're doing the same damn thing, you know?

And I mean, look at the generational effects from 9-11.

Yeah.

I mean, that impacted generations of families.

Yeah, I had friends that I had one friend who was like,

he wasn't even there.

He had PTSD just from watching it on TV.

He's like, every time I see a plane, I get terrified and I'm crazy.

It didn't affect me like that.

It was sad, but PTSD.

I was too young.

I was sleeping when it happened.

Really?

I was four years old, so I don't remember it.

I woke up at 2 p.m.

I was up playing Counter-Strike all night.

I woke up at 2 p.m.

And my dad was like, we got to see what the fuck's going on.

So yeah, yeah, maybe that's why I was sleeping through it.

Maybe if I saw it live, I would have PTSD.

Yeah.

What are you playing these days?

Counter-Strike stuff?

Yeah, I play a little Counter-Strike too, man.

It's just, you know, it's one of those games you have to really put in time to not suck.

Bro, those.

They've been playing the same game for 20 years.

Oh, yeah.

I mean, I started, I was, I was, I don't know, this won't mean anything to you because you're too young, but I was Cal Invite.

This might mean something to people who played Counter-Strike back in the day.

1.6 and, you know, the original.

But, yeah, Cal Invite was like the pro level

of the scene at that time locally in America.

And yeah, that was my life in my early 20s.

So you were nasty?

Yeah.

Well, yeah, it's all I did was, but it took over my life in my early 20s.

I fell in love with that game.

I was up doing telecommunication work in Redmond, Washington, and there was

a LAN.

Remember those?

They used to have little...

Heard of the word LAN, but I've never used it.

Little stores where there are computers.

Like anybody can go pay $2 an hour or whatever.

And they got all the games loaded on the computer.

You can play against people there.

There's like an internet cafe.

Got it.

You pay to use their computers.

And everybody's playing Counter-Strike.

And I just fell in love with the game.

I suck so bad.

Every minute I wasn't at work, I was at that fucking land center just playing that game.

Then I finally got my own computer.

And I was just obsessed with the game, man.

It was, it was, it was like

sometimes something, maybe I'm a little autistic or something.

I don't know, but like, I couldn't put it down.

The best of video game players are autistic.

I couldn't put it down for like four years.

Yeah, there's no debate about that.

Yeah, yeah.

So, yeah,

I was on a team called Team Super and

They kept winning Cal Premiere.

And then the last

couple of seasons I came along, Cal Premiere was the league before.

And then we won CPL winter 2004.

We beat a Cal Invite team on a land.

It's the biggest tournament of the year or the second biggest.

CPL Summer was the biggest, I think, at the time.

So yeah, anyway, that's boring.

But yeah.

No, I nerd out on stuff like that.

I play Fortnite right now.

You play Fortnite?

I never played Fortnite.

I don't like the kiddie color shit, man.

I like the realism.

Damn, I'm a sweating Fortnite.

I don't like the cartoon.

You're old school.

Do you like Call of Duty?

No, Call of Duty, I've played it on console, but I definitely hate the fuck out of it now because they have that auto auto-aim on the controller shit.

I hate that, the cross-play with Xbox.

They don't miss their shots.

They want all the women to feel good and be like, oh, I killed somebody.

It's like, no, the game fucking aimed for you.

It realizes you suck at the game, and now it's aiming for you, so you can have a little bit of fun and not quit right away.

I don't know if COD does this in Counter-Strike, but in Fortnite, there's a third of the lobbies are AI.

So like, say you have 100 players in your game, at least 33 are AI.

And they're terrible at the game.

So because they don't have enough to fill it out or just...

They have enough, but they just want you to feel good.

They want you to get kills.

Gotcha.

So they just have some shitty NPCs that you can kill.

But they're god-awful.

You could tell right away they're NPCs.

So they don't, yeah, yeah.

I mean, sometimes I guess you

program them that way on purpose because I've seen some NPCs that are harder to kill.

Oh, really?

Like,

Counter-Strike, there's some...

I don't remember if it was back in the day.

I forgot what it was, but I've played these computer robots that will just shoot you the moment they see you.

Damn.

Just Just instantly.

Reminds me of Combat Arms.

I used to play Combat Arms.

Yeah.

Which one's that?

It was Nexon.

Have you heard of them?

Asian Company.

They made MapleStor.

No, I've never heard of that, man.

Yeah, they're more niche.

I used to be a big nerd, RuneScape and all that.

I quit a lot of gaming for a long time.

I got too busy with my career.

Yeah, now it's more of like a de-stressor.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah, pretty much.

It's like, I don't want to watch television.

I want to occupy my head.

I don't want to get programmed.

I want to.

Yeah, yeah.

It's good, man.

You know, my dad's getting really old, and I wish i tried to get him on video games like 20 years ago

because uh it's just great exercise for your brain yeah it gets a bad rap but i think

good quality games that where you have to learn them like that's exercising that part of your brain the learning part of your brain and it's like very good long time for people i agree i attribute a lot of my mental fortitude to video games that's how especially the team building ones That's how I got my first job, basically.

Well, not my first job, sorry.

That's how I got my best job when I was in my, like, I'm putting it terribly.

I became a field engineer in telecommunications, basically because I was so good at computers and everything was computers.

And I was so good at computers because of counter-structure.

And everybody else is like old fogies.

They didn't know ship-up deciders.

Like they would get a laptop and like pretend like they didn't know how to turn it on or that they didn't know how to turn it on.

That's sad.

Being in Houston, I got to, being in Texas, I got to ask about the THC ban.

Oh, dude, I was going to bring some of the edibles, but I was like, is it banned today?

I think it's up till till September, right?

Holy crap.

I don't know.

I just heard about it.

Is there any, man, I could look it up on my phone, but I should have looked earlier.

Today is the day.

I think he's got to veto it today.

And if he doesn't veto it today, it will go through.

Crazy.

So you can either veto it, sign it, sign it, it goes through, or not veto it, it goes through either way.

So the only way it doesn't go through is if he vetoes it today.

And at this time, it's like, what, three o'clock Friday?

Yeah.

I haven't heard anything, but I haven't been looking.

It's such a moneymaker for the state.

I don't understand why they wouldn't allow it.

Oh, because three licensed companies that provide medical marijuana that are licensed by the state for the teacup program,

they're going out of business because nobody's using the teacup program when you can go down the street and get the same shit for cheaper.

And you don't got to go to a doctor, get a prescription, pay more, and it's weaker.

So, yeah, the three licensed companies who are licensed by the state of Texas.

They're probably, I don't know for sure, but they're probably lobbying somebody to shut this down before they completely go bankrupt because nobody's using their program.

And maybe they're just mad because nobody's using their program.

No one gives a shit about their stupid teacup program.

By the way, it's a dumb name.

Yeah, I know.

Call something teacup.

It's like you're making fun of potheads.

Hello, you little teacup.

Oh, you need some weed for the pain.

You little teacup.

I wonder who thought of that name.

Oh, yeah, a dumbass Neo Conrad Puckett who fucking thinks weed is like the devil's lettuce.

You know, he's watched too many.

He's like sits there watching fucking,

what's the one where the guy goes crazy and like starts killing people with an axe?

Reefer Madness.

you know, watching Reefer Madness on repeat every night.

Yeah, I think with one of these guys, I think one of their kids might have got too high.

Because look, there is the edibles.

You got to be careful.

I got some bad edible stories.

Dude, I got some too.

But that's, you know, all part of the journey.

That's on me, though, because I got cocky and I ate more than I should have.

But see, if they would just legalize regular weed and then just regulate it properly, it wouldn't be that much of a problem.

And people like to talk shit about like THCA, like the shit that is legal here.

It worked great.

It works really good.

It's not as strong as the regular shit, they say, but some of these edibles will, I should have brought it out and gave you an edible.

You could, you could try one.

It would have been a fun planer at home.

Yeah, yeah.

You got to make sure you don't take too much.

That's the key with edibles.

Always kind of test it out small,

let it ride, and then come back tomorrow.

If that wasn't enough, try again.

Like what people always do is they get a little ballsy.

And yeah, I get the, when I do it, it's too much.

I get the sweats and the shakes, the heart racing, and I've never

gone to the hospital, though.

I have.

See, that's where you're a bit.

Not even from an edible.

No, no, no.

I had to, bro.

I'm talking about from an edible, from weed.

Because it'll make us think you're going to die, but you're not.

I agree with you on that, but I was also having Xanax withdrawal.

Okay.

And I just happened to be hot.

Yeah, yeah.

So it wasn't just from weed, but no.

No, I definitely agree with you.

No, because

if I didn't know better,

And maybe if I don't know how I was able to not go to the hospital, because most people,

you feel like you're going to die.

Your heart's racing.

You're sweating.

You're hot and cold at the same time.

You might even start shivering a little bit.

It's weird.

And so they'll go to the doctor and then like, oh, so that's been kind of part of their argument as to why they want to make it illegal, like more doctors' visits and it's causing heart problems.

And it's like, no, it's just people that took too much and they just need to go drink some, here's what you do.

I've learned.

I've learned after having it happen enough time.

I've learned to embrace it and how to get rid of it.

Have some chamomile tea ready to go.

If you fuck with edibles, just have a supply of chamomile tea.

Drink that chamomile tea.

It will calm you down.

It will help you calm down and keep yourself busy.

Don't just sit there, you know, go play a video game.

Go do some chores.

You know, keep your mind active, dude.

100%.

And you'll be fine.

When you're just sitting there, you're the worst enemy.

Yeah, sometimes because it makes you feel real sleepy.

So you'll go lay down.

And that's the worst thing you could do.

The worst thing you can do is lay down.

Do not lay down.

And you start hearing everything.

You was not hearing anything.

It's like your heart, you feel your heart more.

And like now it's just, you're just in your own head.

You got to get out of your own head.

And camel mill tea.

Also, breathing exercises.

You can slow your heart rate down by

inhaling.

There you go.

And then when you exhale, you kind of pucker your mouth and grip.

You slowly exhale.

The exhale's got to be like longer than the inhale.

Yeah.

And just keep doing that.

Next thing you know, you're yawning.

It's also good for falling asleep.

Damn, look at you with these methods.

I know a lot, dude.

Let's go.

That's an important hack because I've had some terrible edible experiences.

Dude, you don't understand the amount of shit I know, bro.

Are you on the web?

Just researching?

No, so there's like a lot of drugs right now.

I'm on creatine, caffeine.

I'm on creatine.

Is that even a drug, though?

It's got to be a drug.

Caffeine, Demboy.

Yeah.

Edibles, I'm on some edibles as well.

Yeah.

I love me some creatine.

I just started buying one last month.

I just,

I won't ever take it.

And then my producer, Jimmy, I was tired as fuck, dude.

I didn't get...

I didn't get a good night's sleep.

And then the drive over here is like, you just, you know how it is in the car sitting there for fucking three hours.

So yeah, he was like, like, kind of take some creatine.

So I'm like, all right, we'll see.

I still feel tired as fuck.

And then he's like, all right, well, let's go get a shot.

I'm like, all right, we'll get a shot.

No, that's, that didn't help.

Now I'm even more tired.

Now I'm a little drunk, Jimmy.

Thank you, bro.

Oh, an all-nighter?

Uh, not all night.

I got like three or four hours of sleep.

Sex.

So I've been doing live streams at like 9 p.m.

I was covering the fucking riots, you know?

All dive stuff.

It was like nine-hour live streams.

So I've been, my schedule's been getting late.

Like, you know.

You're not all.

I had to wake up early today to get all shit taken care of and get out of here.

So yeah, it's just, I'm getting old, so it's harder to flip my schedule around like that.

Yeah.

Where, like, if I'm used to waking up at like 12 or 1, and then now I got to wake up at 8, I'm such a bitch at this age that I feel jet lagged all day.

Yeah.

Because I, you know what I'm saying?

They say, I'm a bitch.

I'm an old bitch.

Look, you think this won't happen to you?

It will happen to you.

Father time.

You will get old.

Father Time.

Sitting there in your 20s.

It was a fucking boomer.

I'm not a boomer.

I'm a millennial.

But I'm still old and I get tired.

Dude, it's crazy.

In college, I would sleep three hours and feel fine.

Yeah, I used to do that too.

I used to stay up for a crazy amount of hours.

And, you know, but there's a point where you get old and like you're going to kill yourself doing that.

You can feel that you're going to kill yourself doing that.

Like, it's just, yeah.

What's the next big focus project for you?

What's the main focus, I guess, for the rest of this year?

Well,

I've been doing a lot of live streams talking about a lot of shit.

And

yeah.

That's basically that.

Is that on YouTube or on YouTube?

Yeah, I do YouTube.

Sometimes I've done them on Twitter.

But yeah, I do them on YouTube on my channel.

I Pink Drip.

And I have Pink Drip too.

I'm going to start putting

more of my podcast format shit.

You guys, I did an interview with Matt McCusker and Ari Shafir.

Nice.

So I'm going to try to build that up over on the second channel.

But yeah, I do live streams on the first one.

And I enjoy them, man.

Like, it is stressful because I do them mostly by myself.

You know, I'm, you know, Reacts content, whatever the fuck I'm interested in talking about.

If, you know, like, I react to like.

the riots.

I watch that shit live, pulling up all the 20 different live streams going on trying to be down.

So just whatever, whatever's interesting to me at that time and um yeah i i still uh will make some super cuts but it's hard to make them because um youtube has deemed them something or another i don't know what youtube what the algorithm is doing with them i might be um

i mean it's a long story or i have to piece together like i remember 2020 when they really blew up There was like a period there, like I had three in a row that were like a million views.

And then I turned around and all those were, all three of those were demonetized wow and i i that that that was me reaching that next level and then after those three were demonetized it was a struggle right i wasn't getting close to that anymore 2023 started building again i released probably what was one of my most popular ones which was the

the vigogans bullies stavros halkias for being too fat

That was going insane.

It was the most views I saw in an hour, like the hourly views, right?

It was going to be a million in like no time.

They came and age restricted it

demonetized obviously if it's age restricted and ever since then it's been like uh it's just not the same behavior you know crazy and it's uh it'd be nice to at least know why uh i i i i mean i could theorize you know i can put myself in their shoes and go okay um

well the one with uh stop stavros halcius and uh David Goggins, they tried to say that was sexual content, sexually gratifying content.

So, you know, I, I, what can I say to that?

Like, it's just words, there's no sexually gratifying content in there.

It's, it's just a joke.

Crazy.

So you got to pivot to the line.

I mean, at least, at least maybe name it, say it was hate speech or something.

Then I would go, okay, you're just crazy left.

Yeah, yeah.

I mean, okay, you just, you, but at the end of the day, it's like by their own logic, by their own community guidelines, there should not be a problem.

But there always is, you know, so maybe they got those labels, sexually explicit content, adult content, not safe for advertisers.

You know what I mean?

Who knows, dude?

But yeah, you just see your recommendations just disappear.

And then people look at you when you tell them that, like you're just making excuses, like, oh, you sucked.

I'm like, have you seen my videos lately?

They're all still really fucking good.

I fell off.

Yeah, I like the greatest video I ever made, I put out last month.

Was that the Theo Vaughn one?

No, that wasn't the Theo Vaughn one.

That was Joe Rogan Keep Scaring His Female Guests with

Kim Congden and Sarah Weinshink.

And

it was the great, I mean, like, it just worked so well.

And I was able to use AI for the special effects.

I mean, you'd have to watch it.

It's hard to explain.

It's my best work yet.

Like, the quality is as good as ever, right?

And none of the analytics have changed.

It's not, I mean, they forget that we can see the analytics.

We can see the click-through rate.

We can see the average view direct.

We can see if the audience doesn't want to watch this, if the audience isn't interested.

So that's the other thing, you know?

Like, we're coming from a,

and some people are lying, but for me, I'm coming from a place of like,

I'm coming with evidence.

I see this is happening.

This is not me just being mad because my views are low.

Yeah.

This is me going, this is obviously something's happening here.

No, you're actually shadow banned with proof.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Well, shadow ban is not even the right term because I don't think it's a shadow ban because I think if you search my name, you'll find me.

It's just not, it's just not recommended, right?

i call i think a throttle is the more proper term

right so i think what they stopped doing was they stopped just demonetizing people unless they really had to and they just decided okay well we're not going to demonetize this but we don't think this is good for like a large we think this is niche this is like this or that so we're just going to give you a little bit of recommended we're not going to we wanted to stay down here right because if it gets over here then it becomes a problem and then that's when i get age restricted and demonetized So it's almost like, yeah, we'll stop age restricting you and demonetizing you, but you're not going to get any views.

Yeah.

I don't know, man.

Tough spot to be in.

I can see why you're live staring now, though.

We're all in the dark.

Yeah.

We're, you know, this is why I think social media needs to be made into a utility, that the algorithms need to be made transparent.

And there needs to be regulations on how the algorithms are done.

They should be very simple.

You know, if you think about it, like...

how an algorithm should work should be simple as fuck because very few got me four or five metrics you measure you know and then uh you got all the data on everybody you could figure out what people like and don't like and just give people what they want absolutely it's not right it's not rapid size yeah well pink trip where can uh people find you and watch your live streams keep by pinktrip.com no i'm just kidding i don't have a website just add pink trip all the all the places that pink with the one though right yeah pink trip with the one pink

yeah if you're typing usually if you just search it with an eye it'll still pull me up okay but pinktrip with the one we'll link it below thanks for coming on man that was fun i'll see you next time for helping me brother yeah if you're ever in vegas hit me up all right oh yeah i'll be there there.

Cool.

Maybe one of these days I'm going to fucking go lose a bunch of money, dude.