This Violinist Survived a Crazy Stunt! | THMPSN DSH #610

You and Tarzan need to do a collab, man.

We did a video where I was playing violin and he was doing donuts around me on a quad bike and then he drove into me.

So he hit you?

Yeah, by accident.

Yeah.

Jumped his motorcycle over while we're doing it.

It was just like this wild video.

And the guy who jumped his motorcycle over the top of us, he slammed into his handlebars to put his front teeth through his lip.

So we were out rattlesnake hunting in Vegas in the desert.

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we don't have a dog, so like he's not used to them.

Yeah.

So he shits himself.

But this one, I think I want to get them used to him.

Damn.

What do they like to do?

Just hang out.

Yeah, they jump around a lot.

Yeah, they kind of like, and they're a little more skittish, right?

Because kangaroos, since they're six foot tall, like they don't really have any predators, so they're way more chill.

But like wallabies, you kind of have to work with them to like really tame them down because they got more predators in the wild.

So they more skittish, run away.

Oh, interesting.

So was he scared when you first got him?

No, she's been really, really.

Oh, yeah.

She's like seven months old, but I think she's because like she just thinks that we're her mom.

Wow.

I didn't know you can own these out here.

Yeah.

That's why I'm in Vegas.

Yeah, I might have to look into that.

Everybody's like, why'd you move to Vegas tax reasons?

Like, save money.

I'm like, no, like, I want illegal animals at work.

Well, they're animals that were illegal in California are illegal here.

And this way I can still drive to California when I need to work.

But if I go to Florida or something like that, it's kind of too far out.

Yeah.

Florida is far out, man.

It's not close enough to like LA for like other stuff that I do.

Yeah.

I used to want a flying squirrel when I was a kid.

Yeah, I have six of those.

I got to stop by your house, man.

I heard they shit everywhere, though.

Yeah.

I mean, animal shit.

Yeah.

So your house is just full of different exotics.

Yeah, but we have like half an acre, so there's like space.

Nice.

That's awesome, man.

What was the first exotic animal you got?

Probably I have a yellow anaconda that was like somebody was scared that it was going to eat their dog.

But in Australia, I used to rescue parrots.

Oh, yeah.

I had like a hawk at one point, like all kinds of different things.

Yeah.

What goes into a parrot rescue?

You get a call and then you should show up.

I used to work at this one swimming pool when I was younger and I was like in the bush and like we had like a hawk that just had a broken wing that I took home.

And then my uncle had a parrot that fell out of a nesting box in his backyard.

And then I just hand-raised it.

So you feed it with a syringe thing down its throat like every two hours.

So, but then it bonds to you so you can't re-release it.

So it's like you're kind of screwed.

So

I try to take it somewhere to get it re-released, but yeah, they're like, no, like this parrot will never survive.

So in Australia where I'm from, they're just kind of like falling out.

Basically, if like, if they have more than one baby, the parents will kick the run out and then you just end up with that one.

And I feel like the parrot, one parrot I had was kind of like that in that Happy Feet movie where like it never grew its feathers for ages.

It was like that.

Like it just took forever to fully fledge out to a parrot because it was just a little runt.

Yeah.

It was like the cutest little thing.

I love that, man.

So you're big on animals.

I heard Australia has the deadliest animals.

Yeah, we have like a bunch of like poisonous snakes, stuff like that.

You ever have any near-death experiences with those?

Nah.

I've like go to the beach and there'd be sharks.

I think we have like one of the most amount of shark attacks where I'm from.

That's scary, scary, man.

Yeah, I've seen videos of like the poisonous animals out there.

You just take the wrong step and you're dead.

Yeah.

We have, well, yeah, I've had rattlesnakes here and I have the world's most poisonous tarantula right now.

Holy shit.

And I think, too, like you can have, like, if you get bit by it, like, you can just have a reaction.

Like, your liver will shut down.

It kind of depending on like the person you are and like how you react to like the poison.

Yeah.

But I hand, I've like handheld the rattlesnakes.

Bro, you got balls of steel.

You have to do it because it's crazy because like you feel a normal snake, they're kind of like smooth.

I don't know if you have you felt a snake before?

No, it's like a fingernail.

It feels like a a fingernail right a snake yeah yeah but a rattlesnake feels like an armor plate armor plated like it's like are they thicker yeah damn it's crazy like they're so like just thick and yeah wow you and tarzan need to do a collab map oh yeah we did one once before he drove he did um we did a video where i was playing violin and he was doing donuts around me on a quad bike and then he drove into me oh what yeah so he hit you yeah if i accident that sounds like a lawsuit yeah

and then this guy was drop jumped his motorcycle over while we're doing it it was just like this wild video video.

And the guy who jumped his motorcycle over top of us, he slammed into his handlebars to put his front teeth through his lip.

Oh.

So he split his lip open.

So he was bleeding everywhere.

And yeah, Tarzan drove into me.

Oh, that video disappeared.

We were out rattlesnake hunting in Vegas in the desert.

Damn.

Yeah, we left my house at like 5 a.m.

or something.

He showed up and we just went out to like find rattlesnakes.

Holy crap.

Yeah.

I want to get out to their sanctuary.

It looks really cool.

Yeah, it's in California right now.

Yeah, I got it.

He wanted to move to Tarzan to Tarzana so we could be like the real Tarzan in Tarzana.

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That's funny.

And then who's Jay Prehistoric Pets?

Yeah, he's really cool.

Yeah, yeah, me and him have been being friends forever.

Oh, nice.

He's he, the one he like, he gifted me a rattlesnake because he was on the voice.

I don't know why.

He was on the voice?

He was on the voice with rattlesnakes.

So he brought them rattlesnakes for some episode of The Voice.

I'm like, why the heck would they want like a hundred rattlesnakes?

Yeah, but he had his little baby ones, so he gifted me that.

And then I get like snakes and stuff for him.

But I used to like help him like film some YouTube videos back in the day, too.

Nice.

Me and him have been friends forever.

Small world.

Yeah, you blew up with that violin stuff, man.

Oh, yeah.

Yeah, that's how I found out about you years ago.

Yeah.

Yeah, because I feel like violinists never were on social media before you.

No, but it's funny because like, well, the reason was I used to run people's YouTube channels.

And then I stopped running this last guy's, like, like, you know, a lot of big bodybuilders, I used to run their stuff.

Yeah.

You wouldn't know who they are.

And then I started working with the last last one and then I was like what am I gonna do and just I understood understood social I was like I'm gonna do this and it blew up because like it's just I wanted the juxtaposition so when you see it you're like even if you love it or hate it you'd be like you couldn't forget it you stopped scrolling yeah then also be like the rappers would be like oh this guy's wild and then I could go work with him in the studio which is what happened but then of course now like social has changed so the last two years I've been taking kind of a break I know to start yeah you stop but now I started again like just recently but I'm doing clean content and already in the last three days I've been I grew like 11,000 people in the last three days so starting because the algorithms all different now they swapped it all around yeah because it used to be hot girl violin and famous person yeah was the formula because it was like you had to get reposted by a big page and then people had to be like well this is crazy they click on your profile go to your thing but that's like three clicks right yeah where now it's more like get it stuck in that infinite loop and then you see something cool and you're like oh well this is cool the next thing must be even cooler maybe i don't want to leave the loop so you're like well i like this so they just press the follow button because that follow button never used to be there on the reels right so now it's like but the thing is so if you get in that algorithm, which is really good, like you have to give them what they want.

So you have to get extremely niched up and then just feed it the exact, pretty much same thing over and over again until it figures out what audience that you're for and then it starts exploding you.

So yeah, the last two months I've been posting clean content and a few of the videos have already got over a million views and like 15,000 shares each or whatever it is.

It's just purely just me playing violin to like popular songs.

Oh, not even like girls anymore?

No, because that because that, because they know with the AI, they recognize the flesh tones and and everything.

So they just shut you down.

They don't put you in that algorithm.

Oh, I didn't know that.

And that's what I'm saying.

So if like, if you don't get put in that algorithm, but say a big page reposts you, there's too many steps, right?

Yeah.

Nobody wants to press like, oh, this is cool.

Let me go to his page and then follow.

There's too many steps in the way.

Like they just want to go in the infinite loop and just follow what they're seeing.

That's why like there's one guy I know who plays cello went from like 2,000 followers to 3.7 million

in less than a year with nothing but just organic reach because of like how the algorithm has reshifted.

Dude, that's impressive.

I always wanted to play that.

They made us pick an instrument in fifth grade.

That was the one that I was attracted to.

It's like the learning curve's too hard.

It's too hard.

So I went with trumpet and I sucked ass at that.

So I gave up.

Yeah.

Yeah.

But at least with some instruments like piano, right, you just hit keys and at least you can play something that's recognizable.

Yeah.

But the violin doesn't have that.

There's no frets.

So like you have to have perfect pitch to start with.

And then you need to have bow control with the fingers at the same time to make it even sound half decent.

Because I used to teach music.

Everybody would be like, I want to play violin.

And I'm like, don't even try.

Because unless you start with piano first and you have an understanding in music you're going to quit immediately and everybody's like no i want to do violin i'm like cool like to quit in like two weeks so it's one of the hardest instruments it's just to get starting it's like pretty much impossible wow i didn't know that yeah and that's what you play right violin yeah and piano and piano yeah i like piano I used to play a little bit, but my mom would smack the shit out of me.

I fucked up.

So that's why my mom was like that, too.

My mom used to teach me piano.

A little traumatized from that.

And she watches all these.

So shout out to mom.

Oh, there you go.

It's part of the game, man.

Yeah.

You know, Asian parenting, get a little face slap.

Yeah.

Australia, that's what happened too?

Yeah, like my mom's like, she's just like hardcore when I was a kid.

Yeah.

And was she a music artist?

Yeah, she's a pianist.

Oh, okay.

So that's where I grew up.

I didn't know like that people didn't play music.

You know, when you, because like my mom played three hours a day and then taught music for work.

Yeah.

So that's all I ever heard after school.

So when I started playing music, I was like, yeah, this is what everybody does.

So I didn't think that you could quit.

I thought that's what everybody just did.

Right.

So that's when I was like,

I have to play piano.

I was like, I want to play violin.

And there wasn't like,

like, I just, I don't know.

just I didn't realize you couldn't quit.

Yeah, yeah, the cool thing about you, though, is you play these classical instruments and you're cool in person, like you can socialize.

I feel like a lot of those guys are kind of in their own world, yeah.

Because also, sometimes we'll get a little bit uptight, and they're like, It's classical music, like that's all I can listen to, and that's like all I'm about.

Yeah, and they just don't talk to people, yeah, yeah.

But you're like a normal dude, like you know what I mean.

Yeah, I just get interested in weird stuff.

That's like why I have a kangaroo, yeah, well,

how uh, you said they only get to three feet, yeah.

Wow, that's cute.

That's how I feel about certain dog breeds.

I wish they could stay in that puppy size, yeah.

So it makes it like easier, but I want to get the I'm gonna get a full-size kangaroo soon.

Yeah, yeah, because that's the idea.

It's like, so, like you were saying, so Jay has prehistoric pets in Irvine, and then I have a few other friends that are like scattered around with like but reptile places and like other sort of animal rescues and zoos.

And that was kind of the idea of coming to Vegas anyway.

It's just like there isn't really anything here.

There's a lion sanctuary.

I've been there, yeah.

Yeah, yeah, so you can't do shit there.

No, so there's a lion sanctuary.

There used to be a little mini zoo, but apparently it moved to another state, like Oregon or something.

And then I know the tiger king guy was here because my friend was living in his house and she said there was like pistains on the carpet from tigers from being in the house.

I didn't know he lived in Vegas.

Yeah, like it was like the one, the one that doesn't like Joe Exotic, that's always, I don't know, whatever it was.

But so I was like, well, I want to like build out my own like kind of animal facility.

Yeah.

So I figured Vegas would be a good spot because like everybody comes through Vegas.

Everyone.

Yeah.

And that way I can have a spot kind of like what Jay has, but I can have mammals because that's where you can have like sugar gliders, monkeys, these kind of things.

You can have sloths.

That'd would be sick, dude.

I'd love to help you with that for real.

Yeah, so I want to build out a facility out here.

And then also there's an endangered black-headed lizard in Vegas.

So I want to do a program where I breed it and re-release it into the wild sort of help the population.

We were just at a place in Texas and they're breeding like pygmy hippos, which are like, I think 2,000 left in the wild.

So basically alongside with them.

with their other breeding programs and everything else they're doing, they're also breeding like nearly extinct animals and like helping the

bring back the natural population.

So, I want to do a bit of a bit of that out here, sort of bring awareness by having the facility, then also like have a spot where people can come in and do cool stuff with animals and eat them.

We're like, yeah, that doesn't exist here right now.

I love that.

Vegas needs that, bro.

There's no animal sanctuaries or anything here.

Yeah, I don't know why not because like this is such a good hotspot, especially like, especially for influencers and stuff like that, or musicians or any, any, if you're, if you are somebody, you will kind of, you're going to come to Vegas like probably at least once a year.

At least, yeah.

Because UFC, you got T-Mobile Arena, you got big events here.

I think Super Bowl was just here.

Yeah.

And like LA is just so limiting now.

LA is limited.

It's good to visit like once a month or two, but I like living here more.

Yeah.

Like I love LA because of the beach and the weather, but like just the amount of things I can do here and the fact that also you can drive everywhere within five minutes is real nice.

No traffic.

You get a mansion for the same price as an apartment in LA.

Yeah.

I mean,

no brainer.

That's pretty much the idea is to build out this animal facility and then have everybody come through and like get video, take pictures, learn about animals, and then, you know, do some conservation work and everything else.

That'd be sick.

Yeah, you could definitely be the first about what's your dream animal.

Mine is a panda.

Panda would be sick.

Mine was always a polar bear.

Yeah.

But that was when I was a kid because I saw it on TV and I was like, that would be like two different fish.

Like, you're just friends with.

You can just go swim with a polar bear.

I don't know if it'd be friends with you, man.

Have you seen the videos of them?

Yeah, I don't want to get it now.

That's when I was a kid.

I was like, a polar bear.

I mean, like, there's some, I don't know, because I feel like there's certain animals that I'm like, cool having because, like, you know, when they're in their enclosure, it's, they're fine, right?

Like, but then there's other animals.

Like, if you had an elephant, if you leave it, they'll actually cry tears.

Oh, really?

Yeah.

Oh, I i feel that sad so like i would never like the only reason i would have like certain animals like that is like if it's a pure rescue there's nothing else you can do yeah you know but then other animals like like there's certain frogs that literally if they when they sit down in the ground they will never they won't even move for their whole life they'll just sit there what yeah they'll just let food walk past them and they'll just suck up the moisture from the fucking hole

yeah why they don't they don't move because it's funny like because i'll have people come over and they're like why do you keep this snake like this or whatever and i'm like because in the wild it lives in a hole and that's all it does and and then rodents come in the hole it eats it and then it won't leave its hole till it wants to mate like it feels comfortable in a hole but you know like humans like that don't spend a lot of time with animals they just put their own like kind of like my brains like this so this snake probably thinks the same way you know and i'm like no it's like completely different oh so that's why snakes attack people because they're taking them out and they're getting annoyed basically well if you like just with a snake it's gonna be like what the

yeah yeah yeah wow that's interesting man yeah because it's funny how like people be like oh you have a hedgehog like you re-release that into the wild.

I'm like, okay, so it can die.

Like, who are you talking about?

Hedgehog's an interesting one because you can't really pet it, right?

Like, so they get friendly.

So when they're like, they're kind of nervous, they actually make their spines harder.

Oh, I didn't know that.

Yeah, so they get harder and they're like really spiky, but when they're relaxed, they're kind of like softer.

Oh, interesting.

I think they pushed them out to make them hard.

Yeah.

Yeah.

That is cool.

So how many are like freaking hard as fuck?

How many pets you got right now?

Like maybe 200.

Holy crap.

Damn.

And it all started because my my ex-girlfriend won a goldfish at a fair.

That's how it started.

Yeah.

And you wanted the goldfish.

So basically, she won the goldfish, and I was like, I'm going to keep this fucking goldfish alive.

So I went to the store and bought a big fish tank and like did it all properly.

Then I got more fish for it.

And then when I was there, I started realizing like.

I saw a ball python and it has a gene called the Pied, which like basically the pattern gets broken up by these white patches and it just looks fake.

Now there was a fake snake and I saw it in real life.

I'm like, what the heck?

This is crazy.

And then I realized like, okay, yeah, ball python can be $50.

But if you have all these different genes that play kind of like eye colors right you play all these different because uh ball python is the most dimorphic animal in the world so it has the most gene variants so you can create the craziest colors so like you can have this like basically fifty dollar snake or like a hundred thousand dollar snake holding the same animal if it's just been bred different ways with different genes and then like you can kind of like you know pair them up different ways to make different colors different patterns and all kinds of crazy stuff oh yeah because jay's got some colorful snakes yeah so that's pretty much what that is is just playing with all the gene variants damn i don't know that they can go for that much money holy yeah says wow yeah jay showed me some crazy stuff was like you know like where like different genes that they'll just pop up too they'll breed and just something will appear yeah it's like oh shit here's a new gene like like one of them weird ones is like so you know snakes have scales yeah if you breed it to have a scaleless head you can breed it to have like just the head doesn't have scales and if you breed a snake with no scales on its head to another scale a snake with no scales on its head the whole thing will be scaleless which is weird how the genes work so it's like a skinless dog but in a snake yeah yeah so you can have a fully

scaleless snake just playing around with the jeans.

Pink skin or whatever's under that.

But yeah, then I started rescuing animals because they'd be like, I bought this snake, but it's too big now.

Or like it bit me.

Yeah.

Because they're pussies.

And when a snake bites you, it's like less painful than a dog bite.

Oh, really?

Even if the dog's playing with you and it kind of playfully bites you, it hurts more than a snake.

Like these small ball pythons, their teeth are like tiny little needles that are like, you know, like...

like a 16th of an inch or something.

So yeah, you're going to draw a little bit of blood, but it feels like nothing.

Yeah, I get upset when people give up their dogs for bites like pit bulls and stuff yeah yeah it's super sad i don't understand that though if i buy an animal it's for life like i don't like okay i got this i got this pet i'll keep it for like next year and then i'm like good what the heck is wrong with you that's a bar so weird yeah because you're giving them up i mean you're their parents basically and then you're giving it up so yeah it's kind of fucked but then i guess america's crazy too because you'll sell those solcada tortoises for like a hundred bucks i'm not you in particular

like yeah they'll sell a tortoise like a hundred dollars or whatever it's like this big and it's like the third largest tortoise in the world it'll live like 80 years damn and then just people are buying them for their their kids.

I'm like, this is ridiculous.

It's a lifelong thing.

What are you going to do with like a 200-pound giant tortoise?

Yeah.

Oh, they get to 200 pounds.

Yeah.

Hold on.

Have you seen Jay has them?

Like the big soul car tortoise?

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Yeah, because they have like 100 babies at a time and like they just sell them cheap.

And they're so little when they're babies.

Yeah, that's a commitment.

I used to catch turtles and frogs by my house.

Oh, yeah.

Yeah.

I used to catch them barehanded.

It was pretty fun.

Yeah.

But I barely see frogs in the wild anymore.

I don't know what happened to them.

I don't know.

They were knocked off.

Yeah.

Because I used to go to this river and just catch like five to to ten of them, dude.

Yeah.

I went back a few years later and they're all gone.

Yeah.

Sad to see.

I think some animals are going extinct.

Yeah, probably.

I think pandas are endangered.

Pandas are pretty interesting.

Would you ever have one?

Probably get arrested by the Chinese government, never to be seen again, I guess, right?

Yeah, you have to own a zoo, right?

Yeah, because

every pander in like a zoo that's outside of China, I think they have to pay China some like, well, you have to pay them like a

like a like a leasing fee or something.

Like it's like a million dollars a year.

Yeah.

So you basically just you're renting the panda, yeah, a million a year for the pandemic.

Yeah, because San Diego Zoo used to have the pandas, but now they're back in China.

Holy crap, yeah, because no panda outside of China is owned by anybody except for China.

That's a lot.

Yeah, there's a theory on YouTube that people think pandas are humans dressed up.

Oh, yeah, yeah, because have you seen like the stupid panda videos?

Yeah, they just like seem like incompetent.

Yeah, yeah, they do seem pretty dumb.

And her annihilation is really hard to make and breed.

Really?

Yeah.

Yeah, they're fat and they just eat all this.

Yeah, they're just like not that interested.

Yeah.

Certain animals are hella smart, though.

Yeah.

Like octopus.

Yeah.

Dude, I don't know if I'd own an octopus.

They're so smart.

Yeah.

I have to stop eating them because I feel bad.

They don't live very long.

They only live like three to five years or something.

Damn, that's it.

It's pretty short.

I wish dogs live longer, man.

I know.

Especially the big ones.

Yeah, the big guys.

They're only living like five now.

You have dogs, yeah?

Yeah, I got a big guy.

What do you have?

It's a Bernie's Mountain Dog Golden Retriever mix.

Oh, I see.

And then a mini Aussie.

Oh, see.

But I would have like 10 dogs if I could, dude.

Yeah.

Isn't there a limit?

Is there?

I don't know.

Oh, I don't know.

I feel like this, but there must be a limit.

I don't know.

Like 100 dogs and just like.

Yeah, there probably is somewhere in certain states and areas.

Yeah.

Fuck it, dude.

I love dogs.

Yeah, dogs are cool.

Are they your favorite animal?

No, I don't really have one.

I don't know.

It'd be too hard to choose.

Yeah.

I don't even have a dog.

Oh, you don't?

No, you have 200 animals.

That's how everyone come over and they'll see all the animals.

They're like, oh, and you have everything but a dog.

I'm like, yep, pretty much.

Any cats?

I have a cat.

Yeah, it was a rescue.

Yeah.

Wow.

So you're a cat guy.

Yeah, it's just a rescue because basically when I went to like, I was at this place and they're like, this is his last weekend to live.

Like, pretty much he's going to, like, basically it was like 5 p.m.

They're like, nobody's taking him.

He's already had three chances to get adopted.

That's it.

Pretty much.

I'm like, I'll take him.

Was he a like he attacks people type of cat?

No, so the thing is, like, he, he hates other dogs and cats.

So if he's around other dogs and cats, he'll attack everything around him, like even people.

But then like.

When he's by himself, he's like the biggest people person cat ever.

So he's like the nicest cat.

So they had him down as like a piece of shit.

He's not.

Like he's really nice.

Dude, my stepbrother had a cat that they found on the street, and he would attack the fuck out of you.

Yeah.

Yeah.

It was wild.

Yeah.

As soon as you got near him, he's feisty if you fuck with him, but like, he's super friendly.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I feel that.

I'm more of a dog guy.

Cats are hit or miss.

Some of them are super friendly.

I'd like a jaguar.

That'd be cool.

A what?

Jaguar.

Oh, Jaguar.

Yeah.

Have you own those?

Yeah.

Oh, wow.

I didn't know that.

I would own one.

I used to like them growing up.

They're fast, right?

Yeah, every pretty faster than me for sure.

So you need a big ass backyard for that.

So do you have animals living inside and outside your crib?

Yeah.

That's sick.

Yeah.

Anything try to run away?

Yeah.

The cat went for a little walk the other day.

Like snakes will get out sometimes.

There's coyotes out here.

Yeah, yeah.

I got to watch out for that.

But yeah, snakes will get out sometimes.

Imagine just seeing a random snake in the road.

Yeah, you'll have to find the snake like just crawling through the kitchen.

Jeez.

There's a whole nother side to you outside this animal stuff with your podcast.

I want to talk about that.

Oh, yeah, yeah.

I saw some dude sucking some girls' toes.

Oh, yeah.

What the hell is going on with that?

So like, well, because everybody's doing podcasts, and I wanted to do, you know, like do something.

So, I thought it'd be fun to do a dating show podcast.

So, pretty much, like, if the guest has a girlfriend or boyfriend, then I'll bring like a friend of theirs on or somebody else to help coach.

Yeah.

And then, basically, the guest or whoever's going on the dates will go on for like three-minute speed dates, then pick their two favorite for a head-to-head final five-minute date.

So, it's been fun because, like, people are actually being going on dates.

Wow.

Yeah.

And then people are dating.

Yeah.

And then like, I'll have a girl on.

There'll be like four guys that are there to date the girl.

Yeah.

And then they'll end up becoming friends.

And then now they're like best friends and hanging out and doing stuff together.

Wow.

So it's funny.

Yes.

I've had all these people come through and they're like, oh, you've actually been creating this little community of like people.

And now they're all becoming, you know, little friendship groups.

Look at you becoming a matchmaker.

Yeah.

Cupid out here.

Yeah, that's the plan.

Like it'd be fun.

Because when I was a kid, I used to throw a lot of house parties and like I'd bring different groups of friends together.

And I have like three different friends that got like have kids together now.

Cause I introduce them like through different.

Yeah.

You're good at connecting the dots, man.

Yeah.

So that's like kind of the idea is like kind of like start like broad with like different guests come on, do like just wild dates and just see what happens But eventually like I'm hopefully gonna find the right people for people.

I love that.

Is that how you met your girl?

We met after I did the boxing fight in England.

Oh, yeah, I did the misfits fight.

Yeah, yeah, I did the first one because at the time my manager was KSI's manager.

Okay.

So like they were like you got to do this boxing thing like to help with your music career.

And I'm like, I don't know.

Okay.

So I had six weeks and then they six weeks to train?

Jeez.

So you got you lost or?

So I won the first two rounds, but because I didn't know how to pace myself, like the third round, it was like a standing eight count.

Yeah.

But I thought it was a 10 count.

So when I was standing there, they counted like eight and they like waved it off because I'm resting on the ropes trying to get my breath back because I just dumped all my adrenaline.

Yeah.

And I'm like, what?

That's it.

Like I was like, cause I was still good to go.

I was just trying to catch my breath.

But like, yeah, but it was, it was a really good experience.

And they wanted me to do more, but I'm like, why?

Because like my mentality is like, unless like you're Logan or Jake Paul, you're kind of just.

fighting for no reason.

Yeah.

Because nobody's really that interested in the mid-level fights.

There's a small community.

I don't know how many, but obviously, there's a small level amount of people interested in those, but I don't think there's because I see a lot of my friends doing them, but like I don't really see their socials growing from it.

Yeah, not enough to monetize it at that level.

Yeah, and it's just like it's really fun.

It's like totally worth the experience.

I'd never been in a fight in my whole life.

So to do it and then in front of 20, something thousand people because like the arena was already full because like KSI fought at the beginning and the end.

Yeah.

So I got that experience of like literally having a fight in front of 20,000 people.

That was, I didn't even do all-out sparring before that fight either.

So that was my first proper like that's crazy.

Just just go for it fight ever.

Who'd you fight against?

Sam Hyde, who's like 6'7?

Damn.

He had the reach on you.

Yeah.

Yeah.

And he was like

280 or something.

Holy shit.

Yeah.

So it was like, it was such a good experience to be like, okay, now I finally get to like actually do a real fight.

You know what I mean?

Because I've never done anything, never been in a street fight, nothing.

So it was a really, really cool experience.

But I'm like, but then to continue that, it's like, okay.

you literally have to train all day long.

You're absolutely exhausted to be like competitive or like at some sort of level.

You got to dedicate three months a year to training.

Yeah.

So you pretty much cannot do anything else.

Yeah, I can't drink or party.

Yeah, so the like the I don't know.

I feel like the amount of effort you need to put in for what you're getting out of it, it's just not for me.

It was

a long game for sure.

If you're just doing it on the side, it's tough.

Yeah, I'm too old to be like a professional boxer now.

Like it's over.

That ain't happening.

So then I yeah, when I see a lot of these other, like my other friends that are like influencers doing it, I'm like, I don't know.

I feel like they do it because they want to help build their other parts of their careers, but I don't think it's really going to do that.

I feel that.

So she saw you get knocked out and she just fell in love.

Yeah, the next day I had a black eye.

It was the next day.

I think it was the next day.

Yeah.

I love that.

So she's from the UK?

Yeah, well, she's Russian.

Oh, shit.

Those Russian girls are different.

Yeah.

Love that, man.

So you live out here now, though, right?

Yeah.

Do you like Australia or U.S.

better?

U.S., because like Australia, there's nothing...

It's the same thing when I was in the UK, right?

So after I did the boxing fight, I was there for three months and I tried to get some work done, you know, just do some creative stuff, whatever.

Like, nobody is really down to collab or.

In the UK.

Yeah, they don't really understand like why you would do that.

Everybody's really in their own world.

And the only people that seemed to really be cool to collaborate were people that had been to America and realized how it worked here.

That was so strange.

I was like, okay, so like, it's just like really...

It's not really like that.

I think because in America it's like really like you can do anything because that's the one problem about America too is like when I moved here is like I want to make a supplement company and everybody's like yeah let's do it together and they have no idea how to even do it like in Australia if I was like I want to make a supplement company my friend would be like you're an idiot like just drink a beer and go to the beach the fuck's wrong with you like why the fuck would you even do that and I don't know how to do that.

I'm not fucking helping you.

But I feel like in America, if you seem enthusiastic about something, everybody will try and be like, yeah, I'll help you, even if they don't know.

Cause they just were like, I want to ride your coattails.

If this works out, like, I'll come for the ride.

You know what I mean?

So that's the one thing you got to navigate here.

Yeah.

But it's more entrepreneurial here for sure.

Yeah.

But that's the thing.

Even when I moved here, like.

Like I was with like all kinds of different musicians and they're like, I'll come to the studio and just jam and play anything and then we'll just record it into the song.

And I'm like, what the fuck is this?

Like, I'm so used to like, here's the music, play exactly what it is.

You know, like, you can't play the violin like that.

It's like a classical instrument.

You have to play it in the style of the composer that is exactly how they want it to be played.

Wow.

And then I'll be with some random rapper and he's just like, play some random shit.

That's, that's, you know, it's like, fuck, that's fine.

That's awesome.

Put that in.

And then they'll be like, let's record it on the phone so it sounds like shittier quality.

Yeah.

So it sounds more like cool and vibey and shit.

Oh my god.

And I'm like, what is this?

Like, this is fucking cool because you can just, you can just make shit up here.

You can just make a random career out of nothing.

I love that, dude.

I've heard Europe in general, not even just the UK, it's pretty closed off.

Yeah, they're just really, it's like, I don't know, just really not like creative in that way.

I used to have, I had a guest on from Denmark, I think.

Yeah, Denmark, and he said he had a nice-ass car and people would just scratch it up because they were jealous.

Oh, yeah, in Australia, if you see someone with like a nice car, like all my friends would be like, God must be a dick.

Yeah.

No, like in America, it's like, oh, that's so sick.

That's a cool thing.

Yeah, I'd be like, what does that guy do?

I want to meet that guy.

Yeah, it's a complete

shit.

But if you're like a normal...

I feel like if you have a normal career, like if you're a lawyer or whatever, it's probably better being in Europe or Australia because you have probably better benefits, like a better quality of life in general yeah but if you're more entrepreneurial and you want to work hard then this is way better because you have the opportunities but like yeah in those countries there's it's already built for that yeah you know i also noticed it's not like that yeah when i went to amsterdam people didn't give a shit about my social media like they don't they don't care to be honest yeah last time i went back to perth in australia like people didn't really have instagram yeah it was just like maybe they had facebook wow in australia yeah damn nobody gave a shit it was funny too because i went to the clubs in perth but this was like three years ago when i back went back last and I swear the music they were playing in the clubs was the same music from like 15 years ago.

I was like, what the fuck?

Like, you guys like stuck in like, you know, mid-2000s?

Things have progressed now because of the internet, I feel like.

But I feel like, especially when I grew up, like things were like, you know, so, like, you know, like so far backwards.

Like when I came to America, it's like just like the leaps, how much more ahead everything is.

You know what I mean?

Yeah.

People complain about America that live here, but it's like, dude, there's not any better options.

You know what I mean?

I got in that kind of trap a little bit because when I was living in California, I was like, started to bitching about all the fucking rules.

i get it it's like there's so many freaking people there like it's like the more people the more rules otherwise like this like mayhem right right that's why i think it was like in montana they didn't even have speed limits to like oh really yeah until like recently and it was like the last 20 years because like apparently the government said like you know we're not we're not going to give you your infrastructure money until you enforce speed limits because they are like well like the animals enforce the limits like If you're driving fast and there's a deer, like, you know, how fucking fast to drive.

Like, don't drive that fast.

Like, you'll die.

Like, they just didn't give a shit.

Even now, like in Montana, when you register a car, you don't, they don't even have to see it.

You can like register.

I don't even want to bought like some wheels and a piece of wood, and they'd be like, Here's your sticker.

Like, we got to get out there, man.

Kanye's out there, isn't it?

Yeah, you know that?

Oh, yeah, yeah.

Because you know, that was a scam people running in LA, which one?

Like, they would buy like Bugattis and they would register when they had people do that in Vegas, too.

Yeah, yeah, because there's no tax, right?

Yeah, there's no tax on the car, and then also they don't have to see it.

So you just make a business and you're like, Here's my car.

And then it saves a lot.

If you're buying a $200,000 car, you're saving 20 G's.

Yeah, you save all the money.

And then I think it's registration for, yeah, the registration is for life.

Oh, wow.

So it says like unlimited or something on the sticker.

And then like, but then you just pay your fee for your company that you have out there.

Yeah, LLC.

Dude, I'm paying $1,500 for registration a year here.

Yeah, it's crazy.

You get rid of that.

I know.

Montana.

They probably patched it by now.

Yeah, but I think the thing was like people were driving around with gaddies in LA and the police were like, come on.

You live here.

Really?

Really?

You keep this in Montana?

Yeah, for real.

But yeah, the smaller the state, I guess the less rules it's going to have because they don't need them.

So I get it.

I understand why they have to have more regulations.

Yeah, I get it.

Yeah, hell of people complain about LA.

But at the end of the day, LA is one of the nicest places in the world.

Yeah.

If you look at it from an outsider, I mean, go somewhere else and then see how many rules and shit they have enforced and then see how you like it.

Yeah.

Certain countries, you can't even smoke weed.

You can't do shit.

You can't own certain animals.

Oh, yeah.

Everything's like very black and white, too.

Like in Australia, like this is the rule.

This is how it is.

Like, there's no wiggle room.

Yeah.

But like in America, like it's kind of gray.

You know what I mean?

Like you can, people will be nice to you and like you can figure shit out.

For real.

Was your mother upset with the music path you chose?

No.

Oh, she wasn't?

Nah.

She used to come and watch me do the videos and film them from behind the scenes.

She comes from the classical scene.

Yeah, she said it was funny.

Damn.

Are they like also it's more like the really high-end classical musicians that I'm friends with will like thought my videos were fun and just like a bit of you know a good time It's more like those it's the same with everything right the mid-level people that haven't really made it that want to pretend that they're like all high-end mighty and give you shit for shit.

Yeah, you know what I mean?

Yeah, yeah.

It's always those people.

Always.

Yeah.

I've never gotten hate from someone where I like respect the guy.

Yeah, because

if they're killing it in their own field, doing their own thing, then they just, there's mutual respect there.

Yeah.

They're like, cool, like, that's what you're doing.

You know, you don't go, oh, fuck this guy.

Like, you're only saying that because you wish that you were somewhere.

Yeah, absolutely.

Thompson, fun man, where can people find you and anything you want to promote?

Just I am Thompson online.

They'll find it.

Cool.

We'll link it below, man.

Hope you guys stay tuned for the sanctuary.

I can't wait to see that come through.

Yeah, come through.

Absolutely.

Awesome.

Thanks for watching, guys.

Peace.