LIVESTREAM #7 Friday, April 8, 9am PDT

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Livestream number 7, April 2022. Van takes viewer questions and continues finding the rhythm of these Friday sessions. Seven livestreams in and the format is starting to hold.

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uh [Music] [Music] all right that'll get us demonetized but we don't monetize these anyway braxton just explained to me that they uh that youtube will just

uh automatically monetize the unlisted live stream once uh it goes vod um but i don't care because that's a

great song and i got a question from jed and he writes have you ever had a day where everything goes right and i think i had one of those days

maybe like wednesday this week within the last week i had one and for me like over this last year it has that has been

so unusual and there's three songs that i know of there's more but there's three great songs that are about when you have

a good day when everything goes right and i imagine those songs were written on one of those days

and of course the best one is good day by ice cube

just waking up in the morning gotta thank god i don't know but today seems kind of odd

and then there's one by mike d and miho hattori on this album called

handsome boy modeling school which is an absolute masterpiece we would listen to that thousands of times

over and over again maybe five ten times a day we would listen to the album uh while we were building

nazis back in 2003 and that one's called good day and it's oh it's so good and in the end of the

song mike d does a little homage to ice cube and he and the song's fading out and he

goes page is still blowing up there's a line from good day by ice cube and then

this one david lynch good day today how do i do this

[Music] my big head's in the way um off of his album crazy clown time and david lynch as as incredible as a musi as a

filmmaker and artist that david lynch is he is also an incredible musician

and i've heard him talk about it and i think the guy he works with is named ben or something i make music with my friend

ben um and he has this album called crazy clown time just go buy it i don't know whatever it's ten bucks i don't know go

buy it it's fantastic and then there's another song and i don't know that it's on that album and i don't know all of his albums

but there's this other song and i think it's called strange and unproductive thinking

and it's about meditation and it's really great it's just i don't

even know if it's lynch it's just someone talking about um when your mind gets wonky

and the context of your mind being wonky that the song talks about

is when you have a toothache oh it's so [ __ ] good um so those are the three songs and that

was the first question have you ever had a day where everything goes right and oh man those are the best days and

i know when my life is going right the thing that that um manifests

the f i think the first thing that manifest is my timing is like the timing starts

the things start the timing of things work out um in a sort of organic and

maybe uh unintentional manner you know you pull up to the restaurant exactly at the time of your

friend pulling up to the restaurant and you're two minutes early um you know bills come in like a wire

transfer goes through and then a bill or some you know the timing starts and then then i was i always wonder if

like being have being in that good space is that just a function of like something triggers you

into it and you start just looking through the world looking at the world through this like

good filter and then more and more good things come to you kind of like bader meinhof

uh phenomenon uh and i heard rogan joe rogan talking about

when he took dmt and he started while he was on dmt he when he would go

into negative thoughts he would see negative like reality and then he could stay

steer back into positivity and then he would see a positive reality like like a very kind

of literal in your face imagery so uh good good question jed and yeah

and just kind of happened to have a good week um okay so

thatcher asks is it possible to be a successful creator slash artist if you're not able

to put all of your time into your work um can you have set success with your

channel by just being a hobby and of course you have to kind of define what successful means

yes the answer is yes the ant the the example i like to give is like there are some like especially youtube creators out

there who their content is from their day job so there's one guy in utah his name his youtube channel is matt's off-road recovery which i also think is the name of his business he rescues trucks that

gets stuck out in the desert he has these cool rigs where he like toes them out of the out of ditches and sand and

i haven't watched any of these videos but they always come up in my feed he has a lot of subscribers his videos get tons of views

and he's still doing the business he just i i bet he brings an iphone or a gopro with him he probably has someone no maybe he does the videos himself i

don't know and you know he probably had the business 20 years or something before he even started the

youtube channel so there's an example there's another guy named scotty kilmer he has almost i

think he has 5 million subscribers and he is sort of the car talk of our day i don't know if you all are

old enough to remember this npr show called car talk and it was clicking clack the tapit brothers and they were from massachusetts or from boston or

something and like people would call in and say i got a 1972 chevy nova and when i push the accelerator down i get a really bad

smell and i can't tell if it's the brakes or the clutch and then he would be like does it smell you know the guy would be like does it smell like a donut

wait what's boston what's boston harbor does this smell like a donut

or is it more like you're burned wait boston boston's hard boston's hard to do

it's kind of like british does it smell like a doughnut anyway they do these diagnosis diagnoses they

were mechanics and engineers and they would do diagnoses over the air live on the air

i think they were like the biggest show on npr and they they started out i mean that

was in a different era that was not the youtube era so it was a lot harder for them to get the npr channel than it would be if you're a hobby person to

start your youtube channel but a lot of channels start that way i think that i happen to think that that's the model

to go for is start with something and then have your

youtube channel be about that some something that earns money not another

speculative thing like art or music something that like earns money and then

youtube can be about that thing um yeah scotty kilmer he has um

a youtube channel and his titles are great his his um his thumbnails are great he's like add

this to your car and save thousands and then he's just an incredible personality and he has something like 40 years

of mechanic experience and all these little tricks i mean i watch i watch him some of his

some of his titles are tricks and i don't know why he gets away with it but i also don't care and he's like

they say things like um it kills me to have to say this but goodbye

and then you click on it nothing nothing to do it's like or i'm shutting down the channel thank you for your support and

then you click on it nothing to do with that yeah i clicked on it but i don't know

why i subscribed to him scotty kilmer oh my god he's he is funny and also he loves toyotas and so do i

oh he does these great ones about the top 10 worst cars or he ranks the cars japanese

autumn or asian car makers in order of um best or worst to best

and then he does ones that are like um expensive cars only stupid people buy

range rovers sorry but it's true range rovers are garbage sorry if you have one

and i'll tell you how you know why because if you can get a fully loaded 1994

range rover county which was their top of the line for like 2500 bucks and if you were to get like a

1990 um toyota land cruiser the competitor which was way cheaper when it was new than the

the new range rover if you were to buy like a 19 land cruiser

it would be 25 000 versus the 1500 or 2 000 range rover and it's all the little things and the engines go and they're just they're not very good cars beautiful they're very beautiful cars

but i don't even know that it would be worth an engine swap because of all of the probably the whole drivetrain is is crap

just saying i don't know so scotty kilmer says and i agree with him um

braxton haugen please don't he's sitting right next to me please don't claim this video mr lynch okay

what's my favorite food i like my favorite food is junk food chinese food and pizza which is all just

forms of junk food like american fast food chinese food and pizza

that's what i like the best because you know i'm like from uh working town america uh

[Music] eric bega i sent you some art and i wondered if he received it yes you might be there's a couple people i've sent thank you notes to and then i have a stack of art that is for sending thank you notes and maybe

eric i haven't sent you your thank you note yet but thank you very much i believe you sent a drawing

i'd be surprised if i didn't send you i'll i'll see i'll see what's going on um i'm no different than anybody i'm

very i'm i used to be good at thank you notes but i'm not very good at it anymore but

you know we can always improve oh somebody said have you ever been able

to not fix something or break it more hair dryer just throw it away and buy a new one tried to fix a hair dryer once it was

it's just too much going on that heating thing it's super high wattage there's like little circuit boards in there computer stuff i i don't bother trying

to fix unless it's some you know if the screen breaks you could put clear packing tape on the screen to get you for you know a couple days or

weeks um [Music] you know generally the things that are higher quality are more receptive to repair repairability is a mark of quality is one of the things i say my grandfather who i got my fixing gene from

he said you can't fix a broken waffle iron um what else i mean there's so many things that

if it's just not good enough so i did this repair station and um i felt kind you know i'm just going to

say this here i feel insulted when you bring me like a one dollar thing to fix or like something that's like has a five

dollar value and you're gonna take whatever 20 minutes of my time and make the people online there's 10 people

online waiting out in the sun you're gonna make them wait 20 minutes while i fix your five dollar

throw them away you know car hearts um but you know i did it for the repair station um but i was able to fix those oh i know some at the repair station people brought

one guy brought a broken um it was a kodak camera and

it was the end of the day and there were it was like the sun was going down i was there maybe an hour passed when we were supposed to have packed up so it was four you're supposed

to leave at three and there were a couple people behind him maybe waiting a long time and i'm gonna put this shade down

there was a couple people behind this guy waiting a long time so i looked at this camera it had like

it was like uh it had a little lens cover that folded up into a flash if i have it

correctly and the camera wasn't broken to the point where it wasn't functional the camera was broken where there were

pieces of the plastic were broken out and plastic as it gets older some plastics they get more brittle and there was just

i i couldn't think of anything fast to fix it with in real time and it wasn't a really high

quality camera so i just had to be like i can't help you another thing that breaks

is glasses when they break right here i have a very expensive pair of barton fiera glasses and i love them because

they have glass lenses which very rare very rare it's very hard to find especially sunglasses with glass lenses

and glass doesn't scratch as much and it gets cleaner and it doesn't get micro scratches so i kind of covet glass lenses

uh i they were a gift from a friend of mine pat towersy i think his father either owns the company or has

controlling shares in the company or something super hot like 600 glasses pat gave them to me

and i like keep them up here to protect the lenses and i did something where i was like laid down in the in my car to like reach

something and just and they snapped right there now those glasses were of such a high quality and meant a lot to me that i spent a lot of

time i took a brass hinge solid brass hinge and cut little links

that would go they kind of look like bicycle chain links one that would go on the outside of the

bridge and then one that would go on the inside of the bridge it was a big job and then i reinforced it with um plumber's epoxy

and used a polishing wheel on my dremel and made rivets and heated it up with heated the brass up

with a blowtorch and like stamped the the brass the red hot brass with vice grips so it had teeth so that the teeth would kind of dig into

the plastic and then little micro screws it took a long it took a few tries to get it right but someone i fixed that but someone

brought me some ray-bans at the repair station and they had broken like right here and they were just plastic wayfarers and they kind of

looked like knockoff ray-bans and it didn't seem and i didn't do those either i didn't repair those either i

just said i you know it was also the end of the day and i was just like i'm so sorry but i can't i can't help you with that

but of course you can fix anything it's just the amount of time you want to put into it and you know do you really want to fix a one dollar frame from ikea

i don't but i one kid he brought a one dollar frame from ikea and it was a rectangle and he wanted a square

and it was like a straightforward job so i just did it and it had like you know it was interesting visually so i did it

but it was like come on don't bring this [ __ ] to me um but yeah a lot a lot of things oh

dishwasher we had a dishwasher break i took i took the cover off i took the like the motherboard thing out and i

just couldn't make heads or tails of it so you know if there usually there isn't something

obviously broken like a wire disconnected i can't fix it my son had this toy that

someone gave him and it was like a little b fan that looked like a bee and it had led lights in the

and the uh you pushed a button and it turned into a fan and then the handle was candy it was like a candy dispenser this is a little

electric fan and it broke this thing probably cost three dollars it broke but my son loved this toy so much so i

took it apart i took the batteries out and it just the a little soldering soldered wire had come undone so i just soldered it back boom still

works so there's an exception but yeah tons of things i can't fix tons and tons of things i can't fix

um so yeah eric vega you sent me our it was great i'm so sorry if i haven't replied it's either on my thing i don't know but i very much appreciate

it thank you [Music] do you have any video ideas you consider to be too easy or low effort that you pass up on them from carter drones

do you have any video ideas you consider to be too easy or low effort that you pass up on them no if it's easy i'll do it the problem

is if it doesn't have an interesting like narrative arc that will keep the person's attention i don't do it

um yeah a lot of times you know you think you have an idea for a video

but a video is three ideas so sometimes one idea just isn't enough like

oh i want to make a video about pencils okay well what's the story

of the pencil that's one idea i don't know that's like the and sometimes a subject matter

is not the story like a lot of the branded stuff i do like i did this

this eco flow uh it's it's not called branded content it's called

embedded content so i did with eco flow they were they're a sponsor

but i had had this idea so i can't just okay so the a lot of the people that ecoflow

sponsor they just take the eco flow okay and they say it has such and such watts you can plug in a blah blah blah for

this amount of time it charges over this amount of time it has this many amps it can power these things blah blah blah

those videos get millions of views but my brain just oh this does answer your question

my brain doesn't go doesn't think like that it's not that that's too easy to do

it's just as complicated and a pain in the neck as the way i would do it it's just my brain just doesn't do that and i have

theory that it speak i talked to a neurologist my friend christina is a neurologist and

i said is there a big difference between left-handed people's brains and right-handed people's brains and she said

no except for processing language and she said the the left-handed people process language completely different than right-handed

people and then she went on to say it was fascinating but i couldn't we're at like a big dinner and it was like i couldn't just monopolize her

so i didn't get to get into it but maybe i'll talk to her about that at some point maybe i'm one of these that would be really cool

um uh so with the eco flow thing i had wanted to do the repair station for over a year a mobile repair station but electricity was a significant

problem how am i going to power this thing out how am i going to power all of my tools at the free repair station how am i going to power them out in the

wild where i don't have guaranteed access to electricity and so that sponsorship just worked out

so perfectly and it's also it's the best one it's like the best one there's like a bunch of companies who make the

power battery pack things i don't know about tesla's different i don't think tesla does a portable one but the ecoflow one is just it's fantastic they won i guess a red

dot design award this year so integrating that video

into a story is a more natural fit for me than just doing the it has a hundred and

blah blah blah watts and it charges over blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah but having said that the guy who does the

the just straight up um i guess instructional video

he's got way more hits commands a higher rate and that's that so doesn't always work in your in your favor but

i'm just wired to you know it has to it has to i don't know there has to be which is

not to say that all of my stuff has stories sometimes it is just a it's just a

a novelty or just interest and there is no story i'm sorry this this donging sound that's

i don't know if you guys hear that it's just if i barely touch anything and i'm a super clumsy and hyperactive person so i'm

oh it's so sensitive ugh so i try to keep my hands to myself okay okay the other ideas you can start to

okay where in the bronx was your studio okay so it was in um port morris

uh what subway stop was it it was like the six train but not the six in the diamond the six in the circle and it was like not the you know there was like a

there's like a there's two different six in the circle trains the new york subway system is an absolute abomination there's like two different

one of them ends in point blah blah blah and the other one ends in blah blah blah blah blah and so if you take the blah blah blah blah one that's in a circle

and that's the six it's the wrong one and it doesn't go so it was like a couple stops into the bronx i used to just ride my bicycle over the third street bridge

so i'd ride over the third third avenue bridge sorry third avenue bridge no is that the name of it no the third

avenue bridge would go the other way i would come over the oh it's also a shortcut to get to the um

i've totally forgotten i've totally forgotten i don't know you go over this bridge it's not the third avenue bridge i think it's the next one south of the third avenue bridge

you take a right you go straight and it was in this big beautiful pre-war brick building it was enormous it's 2

000 square feet i shared it with um dustin grella who's an animator i was huge i could bring my all of my

motorcycles on the freight elevator into my studio which is a childhood dream i would ride my bicycle i could get into my studio without leaving my bicycle i

could ride up push the elevator button ride around in circles in the loading bay then when the elevator door ride into the elevator push the button in the

elevator it would come up open up into the hallway ride out the hallway ride ride to the door of my studio open the

studio and ride the bike into the studio but yeah i was in port morris south bronx uh the most dangerous neighborhood

that in brownsville were the most dangerous neighborhood z in new york city according to michael bloomberg

and i saw horrifying things i came up the the out of the elevator um

i'm sorry i came out of the subway and up the subway steps one morning and they were just covered in blood just like someone had dumped a gatorade

bottle full of blood down the stairs you know i saw child abuse

you know um and just you know like psychological child abuse um

it's very very very very very very very difficult to be poor it is incredibly difficult it is an extremely difficult

career because it is your career i was i did a podcast with uh colin and samir i say i think i repeat this a lot

and he and and samir said money isn't everything no money is and

yeah so it was heartbreaking to be there but america poor is different than global poor

and there are two you know living if you live in port morris you are uh i don't know what the subway fare is now three 3.5 i don't know four dollars

away from manhattan the you know capital center of the planet so

i don't know what to say about that it's not completely hopeless but it's pretty hopeless

um i think i have another one written down how do you reframe oh this is from skeeter rabbit how do you reframe success and change

tactics when the rules change and by that skeeter rabbit was talking about i'm just holding pulling that sort of out of context he was talking

about when you take on more say you take on an employee but you don't necessarily have more revenue

and i don't think you do reframe success and the changing of tactics generally speaking is you just kind of have to adapt and leverage and re-evaluate

okay am i still am i still doing this you know you pick your target and then

the path of the arrow is sort of negotiable you know you kind of learn

i know from my experience kind of learning how to micro adjust so for instance this channel the youtube

channel has been up for a year now i think it went up march 9th and the and the um

the kickstarter thank you the kickstarter campaign ended april 9th so i marked the

anniversary as april 9th because that was my decision point it was just if i made the money from the

kickstarter i would this would be my career and over the last year i knew the first year

going in making these videos would be in research and development year and as moving after the first year

i would focus uh on the successes and try to channel the the um format

and content of the successful videos moving forward and so we're in the process of that

today we're going to be publishing the first prototype of the year 2 videos

so there's going to be six prototypes and it's um you'll see it's a it's a it's um

it's a format that i'm finding successful but it's faster to produce than

some of the um early some of the uh more complicated

productions i mean we'll still be doing complicated productions but probably less often and

so the the new videos are a result of a format that we've discovered in making last year's videos like oh these work so you'll see so there's going to be six prototypes

and then we'll commit um to a new format but that'll be today it's about the one year anniversary

tomorrow's the one year anniversary um uh connor taylor says i just watched the documentary hoop dreams it was one of the best movies i have seen do you have any must-see documentaries

oh my god i have so many i remember when hoop dreams came out it was like a big deal it was like a national

documentary i think it won best documentary academy award that's a heartbreaking that was a heartbreaking story but it was also kind

of beautiful about a couple high school prop prospects uh like poor kids that were had nba

potential in this documentary follows them on the process of going from best in high school to

nba question mark so i think maybe the best documentary

there's i flip flop but maybe the best one is called the fog of war by aero morris and aero morris is

probably america's greatest documentarian and it's about this man named

robert oh god he was the secretary of defense under kennedy he was the first non-ford family chairman of ford or ceo of ford

robert mcnamara robert mcnamara and he is a he was one of the strategists in world war ii that did data analysis he sort of was part of this team it was a new technology to use data analysis as

as a weapon as a strategic weapon so in world war ii these are some of the first computers ever made

they used all of this data analysis to determine well what was the most what are the most important objectives and he was part of that team he was part i'm

pretty sure he was part of the fire bombing strategy that kind of just that destroyed japan basically just burned

tokyo to the ground and he's a very controversial figure and this documentary is him

in a chair and arrow morris asking him questions for two hours and you're listening to

this man robert mcnamara who's an incredibly intelligent person top 1 10 top 100 000th

percentile intelligent and he's an old old man and he's not a bad man this is a good man but his his

historically i think he's been judged as like basically a murderer because he also was an architect for the vietnam war it wasn't his policy but it

was his job to run the vietnam war and it's incredible and

it's called the fog of war is the name of the documentary and morris frames it in sort of i think it's like 11

insights from robert mcnamara and those weren't robert mcnamara's framing that wasn't robert mcnamara sort

of protested that after the documentary and said oh those wouldn't have been my eleven but aero morris took

sound bites from mcnamara and made them into like it was like insight number one empathize with your enemy

and then he goes through all all all 11 of them but it's magnificent to see this man talk to listen to his side of the story

so that's a just an incredible documentary my favorite documentary genre is the rockumentary like documentaries about

incredible musicians one thing i the best at that i think is is is martin scorsese because he picks

an era he's very smart very savvy um documentarian so he did a documentary

called no direction home about bob dylan but it's not about the bob dylan broadly

it's about its two story lines basically and they've told simultaneously and the story lines is

the zero to one storyline so bob dylan as robert zimmerman from hibbing minnesota as a kid

becoming bob dylan at the whatever it was 1964 um uh newport jazz festival where he's

saying how many rules where he became you know that journey where he became basically a national figure you know he was one of the guys

when martin luther king delivered his i have a dream speech bob dylan was there at like 20 if that was

1962 or 63 was 1963 bob dylan was 23 years old in front of a million people in the world and posterity because we still see it and he was one of the people up there

so it follows that era and then it follow so it follows that era broadly and bob dylan's

talks about kind of where he got the music from his music that he was listening to and

then it follows very specifically bob dylan on his like electric tour like the blonde on blonde

era tour where the the crowd sort of or his fans sort of turned on him because he wasn't singing the folk tunes with the harmonica and the

and the and the acoustic guitar he was now he has he was with the band the his backup band which

would later come on to become the band um playing in front of you know out

royal albert hall where they would boo him and so forth and it's magnificent it's it's it's a magnificent storytelling and it's bob

dylan who's one of my favorite just most interesting contemporaries um

you know he's the only songwriter to ever win a nobel prize so that's a magnificent

masterpiece i don't like it when the the like there's this great eagles documentary

and i but i don't like it when the documentary tries to give weight to the current work like where it's like it follows like

okay and it's just like i don't like the eagles i don't like their music i'm just so sick of it but you gotta really tip your hat to the number of hits

this band had and it was just like peaceful easy feeling and and uh you know you can hide your lioness and

then just again and again and you're like holy [ __ ] and this is back when like you write one hit song that's number one for one week you can buy like

three houses and a lamborghini because that's you know the music industry was like tech or you know apps or youtube

channels are now and then the the eagles did it like 18 times but then you know it's like and then our new album it's like the guys

are all in their 70s it's like what come on just stick to the hits pal there's another great one called

oh what's up what the hell is it called [ __ ] it's the lcd sound system one it's oh oh it's called let's play the hits stick to the hits [ __ ] or something

like that just play the hits that's a really great one because it's about the them

shut up and play the hits it's about them quitting it's about them hanging it up and it's there's this scene where the

lead singer i don't know what his name is he lives in like williamsburg brooklyn there's this scene where he walks into

this back room and all the equipment is packed up and he just starts wailing crying and

it's just like wow that is beautiful and heavy oh what have some other i also love

documentaries about difficult films so there's one about the making of

fitzgeraldo werner herzog's fitzgeraldo and it's a less blank documentary called

burden of dreams unless blank is a great one to go on youtube or criterion i don't know where you find them all but he did all these really incredible

short films that are shot on 16 millimeter of um the like some of the surviving

innovators of american blues music so like i think he did like a lightning hopkins one um

those are magnificent the the the documentary about nina simone that just came out uh miss something

miss simone that one's magnificent uh let me think what are some of the other

genres that i love for documentary films i mean i feel like all the michael moore ones are great and they're so funny i

mean i basically do not agree with him like almost full stop i love him i love that he exists i love his his work but

like i've listened to his podcast and i'm like are you insane are you trying to get me killed like i listen to some of the things he says i'm like are you

trying to get me killed um uh what are some i i feel like there's ones that i watch and i'm like remember this you gotta oh can you please turn that heater off sorry um

i feel like you i've gotta remember remember this remember this remember when someone asks you to talk about this

one but there's a bunch there's a view for you those are some of the greats oh the the herzog ones just pick just

pick one they're all great uh um white diamond um into the inferno the the one that takes place in a lot in

antarctica there's one called lo and behold about the internet that one's fantastic came out maybe five years ago

would you ever do dmt no do you have any psychedelic experiences yeah i used to go to um

uh amsterdam and eat like you would get these mushrooms and they'd come in a box and they were wet and they were like a strawberry box

and you'd eat the whole like in america you eat like you dry out the mushrooms and you eat like one stem of a mushroom

right but in amsterdam you got a whole box like a strawberry box full of wet mushrooms and you sit by the

canal with a liter of coke and just like chew them up and just got it took like an hour like an hour to eat them

or you get these things called philosopher stones that i think they came in a little box and they were like oh my god it tasted like

you were chewing on like you were chewing on a battery or something and you s

swallowed those down and i had talked about good days that i had some incredible experiences

um in amsterdam with that stuff that was really fun i hated quitting all that um yeah

and with friends super positive vibes and oh i made a donkey i made a movie called five minutes

i don't know where you see that oh that'll be coming out on the director's commentary that'll come out soon five minutes it's one of these movies that i

absolutely love and i'm like don't you see the genius in this and like nobody gets it i think people are

just like uh i don't even know that people finish it but the premise i think i came up with this

math stoned so the premise is one second of video shot every five minutes for 24 hours straight and when you add up all of those one second shots it equals five minutes so the whole movie that you're watching

is five minutes long and you're watching it 24 hours a day

in five minute intervals for one second at a time and i had a little clock that i bought in paris the movie starts out

in paris and ends in amsterdam and i just had it in the lower left hand

corner of the shot so that you just see the the second or the minute hanging five five five every

second a second is kind of a long time and so it's like five minutes later five minutes later five minutes there's a shot in there of

somebody eating mushrooms maybe it was me and it was an exciting 24 hours too it

started out in amsterdam in paris took a train to amsterdam so that's like a six or eight hour train

ride so there's you know a few 40 seconds or something of it is or 30 seconds of the movie is us on that train

and there's this wonderful woman was in it her name is amy handley

and her father was a race car driver and she was sort of the starlet of the thing and

she was so beautiful and so funny and it was my brother and ariel shulman and myself

in going on this little adventure with amy up to amsterdam and

it was cool it was really cool yeah so that was fun i mean i did that a few times

those taking the mushrooms a few times i don't think i've ever done one where it's like super crazy like

the kind where you're strapped to it where you can't like strap to i can imagine it but i've never done one of those like ones where like

there's that one drug they that you can take to make you quit drugs i don't remember

anyway no i i have and i i've done i consider those psychedelic experiences but i've never done any of the ayahuasca

stuff or any of that not interested okay don't drive like my brother and don't

don't drive like my brother listen oh that must be a song

oh question have you sought out your sponsors this is from neil coach dig drive diy

have you sought out your sponsors or have they solicited you what is your criteria for choosing a sponsor um

i have like a management company that comes to me with stuff that says oh these people are interested these people are interested and then

ecoflow came to us they just dm'd me ecoflow was a kickstarter company too

and how i choose them just do i like the thing will i use the thing is it useful is the money right i kind of i say i

don't know that i mean it i was like i will advertise crack cocaine if people want me to advertise crack cocaine i will advertise it

because it's i don't know it's just support for the for the channel

um what is a revered slash this is connor taylor again what is uh revered slash loved film by most but

you just don't like it or get it um this is going to sound very snobby

and i do re all these films that re these american films that we see these studio films that we

that we watch that are just we take for granted that come out all the time they are if you make movies and stuff

they're absolute technical masterpieces they are so unbelievably well made regardless of your opinion of them they are the tops

they are unbelievably well made having said that i don't get the superhero [ __ ] i don't get it they're all the same they're i okay the joker was terrific

and i can see why people like the dark knight thing is that the christopher nolan one i can see why people like that

i guess but to me they never reach any kind of satisfactory conclusion

i understand their franchises and they want to keep them going but still and also they almost all entirely just

devolve into weapons and third there's so much uh exposition explaining in these things i don't get it i don't get why these things make okay yeah advertising blah

blah but i don't get why i'm spo i i don't get it i don't get the thing i don't get

the movie i don't get it it's like they they're yeah i don't think i think

they like spend a billion dollars on the movie and then they have they spend

800 on the script and they have 37 people write the script and

194 people review it and make changes to it and there and it just seems did i already say this they're just all about

weapons it's just like we need the chromag 4 8 if we could just get to chromag 4 8

everything but it's locked up well i got an xz chainsaw and we'll cut through and we and then it's just like five minutes

of them getting the crowmagnon pro 8 or whatever and then they shoot oh my god it didn't work now what are we

gonna do and i don't care and like the shockwave thing they're just all the same they're all the same and there's no

i mean make the breakfast club go ahead do that okay here it is okay it's detention

it's five or six whatever high school kids in detention just like talking about high school stuff no

get it please please hi susie just i i don't just take that guy block him don't let him in here anymore okay

and it's a masterpiece it's fantastic it's incredible it's like an era defining it's it's almost its own genre those john hughes

films but also i'm old and this is what happens when you get old and another thing you realize when you get

old is like oh they're right like my grandmother was right that big band music [ __ ] was [ __ ] way better than

um smash mouth or what whatever um james merc murphy is the lcd sound system guy thank you how do you put the

right meaning and energy into a piece for someone you love what steps do you take to channel the recipient's energy

into a present via sculpture okay so the way you do that how do you put the right meaning

and energy into a piece for someone you love okay the way you do that

first of all you have to the concept has to be correct and that's just a feeling

and it has it's sort of the same feeling as oh this will be funny like a practical

joke it's sort of that and then while you're building first of all if it's a gift you kind of

must to a certain degree remove the deadline oh i'm just going to do it in an hour i'm just going to take four hours i'm

just going to do it in a day but you kind of have to take that away and you have to really indulge in the making of the thing

and then and this is kind of woo-woo you just sort of think about the person while you're doing it not how they're going to react to the

pro present but just them in general just think about them that's why you're doing this thing to begin with

and i think that's how you do it and don't make it bigger than someone's hand that's a general rule of thumb so

to speak keep it small so that if they don't like it they can just keep it in a little box somewhere because they're not going to throw it away because you made it for

them um that's how you do it oh great question peter harbin do you miss working in a big shop with sacks like saks the shop with all the tools

and materials or does the smaller portable set of tools work better or inspire you more i loved all the people

at sax's studio and he also has this fantastic he calls it the galley no what does he call it

he's got a really cool like maritime name for it but like the little kitchen area which had this big oval table this

sarin table that he made and then he had the best snacks like a wall of snacks

like dehydrated fruit expensive nuts um you know like jerky

all the expensive like dry goods kind of stuff and then a refrigerator full of

the milk and they had like a beautiful machine to build make your coffee and it was just so fantastic and there were you

know when you went in there there'd be one or two people in there doing a little coffee break or something because he has like a dozen people working at a given time

that was really wonderful and then i think once or twice a week he had a big like company lunch or maybe it was every day i think it was every day we'd all

sit around the table at lunch and it was just us like shooting the [ __ ] around or tom would some every once in a while time

would have like a proposal like a idea that we would all put our heads together on once he

took a it was like a switchblade or some kind of a knife and it was in the package and he handed it to people

and he let us go around the room with it and we took it out and you take it out and examine you said okay what's wrong with this what's wrong with this item

and so we you just looked at it blah blah blah oh the point's too sharp oh it's the wrong color oh it doesn't have the blah blah the

logo is laying blah blah blah and and oksana todorova who's like the smartest she doesn't work there anymore

but she was the longest running of his um fabricators and she's like a counterfeiter like she has perfect hands

and she can make she could counterfeit money if she wanted she's a painter and a sculptor's sculptor

it came to her oh and she's from ukraine it came to her and she goes it's fake

and tom was like you're right it's counterfeit it's not a benchmade or whatever it did come from amazon i think and it was just some counterfeit thing

i missed that i miss uh i miss that i also miss his he has an operation you know he has like

he has a whole audi office operation with like a person who is an expert at photoshop and indesign

and then a business person and you know and she'll get you the hotel in tokyo and the car and the duh and just oh i need

such and such and it just she makes it happen and then there's the tool equivalent of that of those people

in the basement but tom has to manage all that tom has to

bring in the money to pay all those dozen people and pay the god knows what the rent on that place must be

in manhattan in uh nolita uh unbelievable operation

um i wouldn't want a deal and and the whole the tool stuff is amazing he has his own sequestered like micro

lab studio and then separate from him is like the shop and his studio has like

one of all the tools from the big shop but for me i don't want to deal with all that stuff i don't want to move all that stuff i don't want to deal with all

those people i love this little studio i love it it's optimal i love it um and i love my little workshop in the

basement and any projects beyond that i don't want it that are too big beyond that i don't want to do i would love to

have a vehicle like a steel barn vehicle thing and i'd love to have a little bit more

storage to be more organized with storage i can't stand clutter and when things start to pile up and i'm getting worse at being able to

throw stuff away although i'm pretty good at throwing stuff away um

oh it's 10 and i haven't eaten yet so i'm gonna do a few more minutes um

um do you have a planner journal how do you keep your day organized and this is how i do it so i have

this is card stock can you see this god please don't be any oh god just like phone numbers and [ __ ] on

here i just don't call any of these people to bug anyone um i have this card stock that i fold into four this one's from march 8 2022.

and it has like it has layers of of post-it notes with all of my some some one section is like is the day so it says tuesday 308

and then and then i cross out with red pen just for the satisfaction

uh so that's my like these last about a month wednesday march 9th you last about a month and they sort of devolve and they kind of disintegrate and then little notes to bring to the hardware store buy

a door sweep and six dowels and bring such and such to storage uh or if i have to write down you know

dimensions of something i'm building that's this i don't know what this monthly weekly something and then i have the big

paper i think they're called blotters that they come out at the end of the year at staples and they cost you know five seven ten dollars and they're about

they're exactly four sheets of sorry they're exactly like

four eight well maybe not exactly but close enough eight and a half by eleven inch sheets and if you fold it in half and fold it

in half again you can punch holes in it when you're done and put it in a three-ring binder but

while they're live they have two holes in them and i hang them from the wall let me see can i [ __ ] it i'm not gonna bother

uh it hangs from the wall and it's just got the days in little squares and so for big things like what i'm

doing that week what videos i'm doing that week or if i have something big that i cannot miss i write it on there

oh yeah there it is it's right there there's april and and then i have the google calendar

thing for the alerts and uh and then it also you know on your phone and it's also on your computer and they

all talk to each other so that's how i do it but scheduling to me uh it's something i've just been trying

to refine it's super super hard for creative people and it's absolutely essential and it makes your life so much better

and i'm trying to refine trying to get better and better at it especially with the youtube you want that you want to go

up on a schedule you want to be reliable so that's my planning i'm not exactly that

great at it but i work at it um all right well that's 1005. that's an hour and five minutes oh wait here we go then two questions any helpful tips on living your life as

a sober person and are you familiar with beau miles hmm beau miles i might be familiar i'm not sure

um two questions any helpful tips on living your life as a sober person

go to meetings call your sponsor work the steps all that basic all the basic stuff just you know they've been doing

it for 100 years it works if you work it as they say that's what i would do and just don't

drink no matter what uh it's a super power being sober but it

also comes at a cost do you still use the lighter you installed

the light bar you installed on the pickup in your driveway well braxton's been using the pickup for the last month but yes i park it on on

the side of the street and when we pull the land cruiser out the how do i do it i can't do it when we

pull the land cruiser out i hit the remote and it turns on the police lights on the pickup truck so that cars coming around

the blind corner will slow down enough for me to pull out without them t-boning me

so yeah we still use that um oh is there a reason you write type in the format that you do instead of

writing in the standard screenplay formatting um yeah the reason is it's just simpler and

faster and easier in this screenplay thing you got to use that final draft and it's a great software but

um i don't want to use that every time it's just it's great but it's a little laborious

and it takes a while to get into the rhythm of like yeah and just i'm just i know what i'm

doing i you know screenplays are kind of a blueprint for everybody else and i'm just writing these scripts and stuff just for me so i know what i'm

doing so i just it's just faster so yeah it's faster that's why i'd use the way i use it do you ever considering touring i have

considered the touring the repair station around the country but i haven't figured out how to monetize it yet and i'm a writ i'm not a rich man so i have to

um figure out a way to do it so that i can afford to do it and i'm pretty sure that will come just

maybe like a uh sort of like maybe a live show on a stage put the truck and the prepare station on the stage and then have local

repair people from the town wherever the venue is as sort of substations and then

everybody brings something that the fire marshal allows of a certain size so maybe it fits on your lap is the biggest thing you can

bring and then you put your name into like a hopper and then on the stage i would turn the hopper pick a name out

from the crowd his um his uh rashida jones in the in the in

the in the audience and then she brings up her broken whatever uh harmonica and then either i fix it or

i hand it off and someone else fixes it and then i try to tell stories or something or talk with a

microphone to make it all interesting but then how do you monetize that i don't know maybe with nft tickets i

don't know still figuring out but yeah i'd love to do that because i really enjoy doing it i really enjoyed doing it but to

monetize it last time you know had a sponsor had eco flow paid me to make that movie so boom go out there and make it

but i worry that making that same movie over and over and over again people aren't gonna watch it but maybe if it's once a month

or something people will watch it maybe that would be a cool like recurring thing so you know this is year two still refining

and maybe yeah maybe the touring repair station around the country i mean

i don't know about that maybe around la think globally act look think locally

act locally uh maybe around la is like a country within a city so yeah come see us

um sorry i love answering these questions it's really fun and they're always surprises

motorcycle riding better in new england or the southwest and why okay so in all fairness i haven't really

done much riding in the southwest have i i don't know not really i think i've ridden through texas maybe on the way

back from mexico or something maybe a little bit well you got your pluses and your minuses i would say that

riding in california far and away without question not even in the same ballpark better than riding in new

england just not even the same sport way way way way better everything's better the roads are better here they're

twistier here there's more rural stuff here there's more dirt stuff here there's more um there's more world class

um natural phenomena here we've got yellowstone we've got i'm sorry not yellowstone we've got yosemite we've got

uh the we've got um uh giant sequoia or kings canyon national park we've got death valley

we've got these are all like within a day's ride of each other um the the ride through it doesn't really rain here so you don't have to pack not only do you you have to pack

sort of rain gear but you don't in new england count on rain it is definitely 100 percent going to rain it is a

hundred percent going to rain i don't ride in the rain anymore i crashed in the rain and when i for every motorcycle crash i have i

remove uh one of my motorcycle privileges and they don't have to correspond i don't like crashed in the rain don't

ride in the rain anymore but like one of the ones i pulled not riding in the rain anymore but i did crash in the

rain in in um in nova scotia um i don't ride at night anymore i don't ride with passengers anymore

um so yeah i mean new england is incred it is beautiful it is fantastic um but uh you know the kankamangas highway in

in new hampshire is fantastic you know the twisty roads are fantastic um there's lots of like

services and so forth in in new england and in upstate new york um

and it's better than like flat crisp you know flat places that's just a grid where there's no turns and no character

and you do find nice little yeah it's great it's great but california please

please you can also there's stretches in california where you can see 20 miles ahead of you and there's no cops and you can ride 160 miles an hour if you want

you're not going to get caught you're not going to get in trouble um yeah it's it's way way better it's like

the it's like skiing i went to i think it's called g j peak and it's supposed to be the best

in new england and i went there after having lived in california i went with my brother dean and we did like a

couple days second day i just like left i was like i'm never skiing in new england ever again it's not worth it

because i'm spoiled and out here it's just it's a it's like a different sport it's not cold and yet perfect conditions

and the mountains are huge and they're not crowded and they're cheaper so that's my thing i'm a big west coast advocate if i was from here i would be

the same way except about the east coast i would move to the east coast i'd be like oh it's so much better here the people here love the do the same thing but the east coast kids are obsessed

with the west coast and the west coast kids are obsessed with the east coast and that's just the way it goes and i'm an east coast kid and to me you can't

beat california is my favorite country all right guys have a good weekend uh we i think we pop that we publish

all right there's a new one up it's very good um and i hope you have a great weekend and see you next time i think i'm doing this again next week next friday all right take care

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David Lynch, Mike D, Miho Hattori, Scotty Kilmer, Tom Sachs, Oksana Todorova, Adam Savage, Alex Wales, Amy Adams, Kurt Vonnegut, Robert Frost, Allen Ginsberg, Frank Ocean, Patti Smith, Carlos Sainz

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