LIVESTREAM FRIDAY, 8.09.22, 9am PDT
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An August 2022 Friday session. Van fields questions and talks through current builds with the Patreon community. Midsummer pace.
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weather report this week a 40-foot oak tree fell down on x's
little cemetery where he always plays as he was ascending the stairs to go to it isabelle stopped him
she heard the tree shaking and she thought it was a bobcat running down through the woods because she just heard rustling in the trees and
she was like x weight and then this 40-foot tree fell down and i ran outside the house
are you okay are you okay and he was okay the men were here all week clearing it um there's a
like setting deadly heat wave in los angeles our our central air conditioning though we hire a maintenance man who
comes every month to inspect and clean it though he assured us in july that there
was no danger of the machine breaking it broke labor day weekend when it was like 105 degrees out so we spent one miserable
night in the house and then i moved the family into a hotel
and so that's the weather report both were weather issues i think the tree had just
it had dried out the oak and had been like attacked and it was all rotten at the roots they're not at the roots at the base of
the tree there was a yellow jacket hive inside that tree so they were just
like everywhere attacking the workers uh what else was there another thing that happened this week it was one of those
weeks where it was just like the queen died it was just one of those weeks where uh
you know fastball after fastball but but with the heat
i was like now is the time to tint the windows of the land cruiser now i'm from the east coast where tinted windows are
like you know we have a i'm from the northeast i was raised in connecticut so we have this we have a very sensitivity to us we have
a great conservative sensitivity to aesthetics and a younger van neistat would have been
totally against tinted windows but that land cruiser though it has
brand new powerful air conditioning is a furnace is a furnace in the california heat and
i had done it for four years and i got ceramic window tinting which blocks 56 or 62 percent of the
of the heat of the heat from the sun i don't know how they quantify that it's not like if it's 100 degrees it makes it 44 degrees
in there is it calories like what does that mean 50 of that are fifty six blocks fifty percent six percent of the heat
anyhow um i just got it back yesterday but it was like the sun was setting so i don't know how how powerful it is but i have a feeling
it's going to make an enormous difference and i did that because monday i am driving the land cruiser
to overland cruisers in bozeman montana to swap the engine and i'm flying back like
thursday and uh this week was like the turn i feel it was like for a bunch of other reasons i
can't talk about it's like a turning point where life it's like the it's like the it feels like the official end of the
covid era for me and my family and it feels like the fun stuff is just starting and i've
been so foreign it's been so foreign to me the fun stuff and that's how all this came from it was
just another version making videos was just another version of having fun it's just another like wise ass rebellious
a-hole activity to have even more fun and like sort of got primed with this is
still the weather report got primed with uh going to the east coast with my son and seeing my brother
and and now just tinting those windows and we're going to a wedding and uh of a friend up in ojai this
weekend and she's like colombian and those trucks i think are super
popular in colombia and they're judging by the film narc by the series narcos which is where isabel got the
idea which is all cartagena cartagena and sinaloa is that mexico or or i can't remember
um so we're going to that wedding hopefully there's a lot of colombians there who like see the truck although i'm thinking today maybe i
won't bring the truck i might just ride the motorcycle and then have isabel do the tacoma so that we have bikes when we're up there anyhow
i think the beginning of the fun season has like arrived and the end of hell
um pandemic season is over and it went out with like the falling of the tree because these guys
there's these protected oaks here we live in a watershed and we live in a state park like protected area like the building for everything's super hard and
we had this tree that was like it wasn't that great i mean we're all supposed to worship trees and
everything and we couldn't cut it down and it was like right in this spot that like if we cut
it down we could build a beautiful blah blah blah blah blah and we couldn't cut it down and then just literally an act of god
force measure this thing just came down we had severe winds and it didn't come down in the severe winds and then the super super
heat the tree came down and now it's gone and now we have a better view
it's not any hotter in the yard it's um you know i i would never cut down a tree
like that but with it gone it's like a strange improvement and just remember nature is the enemy okay that's the end of the of
the um of the weather report weather report is just for late comers because weather's boring okay
so the questions this week i haven't read them all i've read like maybe 10 of them and they're really they're they might be the
best they've ever been so i'm gonna try to tear through all of them there's 43 questions i'm going to try to get through all of them
um and these were the ones that were said and sent in after i posted the announcement for this live stream
and i read them early bird gets the worm so i read the oldest one first so the first person to post i read that one first generally
speaking um okay what brand are the lamps you have plugged into the belkin power strip chandelier okay so this is from
kellan and so i'm going to just show y'all at home or wherever you are y'all on the devices
let me just see if this works this is the this is what he's talking about is that focusing all right which is over
my our kitchen table it's like 10 everything's custom made the little plugs are custom the cords are custom
cords the certain gauge cord that's the best gauge for using my wire stripper thing and so
i guess kellen's building building one of these and he's trying to figure out what lamp fixture to use
and so i took one of the lamps down it's right here and i'll just take it apart i hope i don't break it but
let's say lobby these things are really fragile these they're really fragile but they're super cheap so
um let me see and it says fantado f-a-n-t-a-d-o i should take it out so you can see what you're going for oh god these are so these are made out of paper oh and the trick with these and
the hard part especially in california because i think incandescent light bulbs are illegal to sell in california i can't find them at any chain stores
although i do have a couple sources of mom and pop stores where i can find them and the key is getting the little tiny
guys like if you're doing this size i guess i don't know what size kellen's doing maybe he's doing the giant ones i don't have high enough ceilings to do
the giant ones but you can do the giant ones um i think these are 25 watt or 40 and
you're gonna want a dimmer switch because if they blast out i don't know it depends on your actually know what i take it back it depends on your application but for these little balls i
think these are the eight inch these are the eight inch china balls is what they're called um
the you want this because the other light bulb hangs down the other kind of light bulb hangs down too far um
and then the light it doesn't make the it doesn't illuminate the whole sphere it just illuminates like a bottom hot spot
anyway this is what the fixture looks like and it's you unscrew
i basically buy these you know the cheapest one of the the price difference between the cheapest one of these in the world and the most expensive one in the world is like
one dollar versus maybe seven dollars so i buy whichever one has the easiest
like the most user-friendly install and i think you just feed the wire down through here
and then you know you you splice the wire you pull the casing off of the wire off of the
cord is that right and then oh no no no i'm wrong i think i bought these on i think i bought these on um
[Music] amazon and they came with you know those little wheel power click click it's like a little box with a wheel in it click
click and they came with a plug end right like an eight foot cord
and then one of those switches and i cut all those switches and i use them for all kinds of different [ __ ] and then i got this
is a um it's this loom i don't know what kind it is but you you open there's a little tab here and a little tab here with a screwdriver you peel this open you want them kind of
warm like leave them out in the sun and then you slide this on this part onto the cord
take the case strip wire strip the ends and then there's just like two phillips head screwdriver screws and you just screw the wire into here so yeah this is
from a click click click light and it comes with the cord pre-installed here and i can't
and it's ul certified you know it's like real where does it say it doesn't say where it's manufactured but yeah it does have a um
it does have a brand name on it and it says fantado f-a-n-t-a-d-o
and yeah these things have been they have not failed you have to be really it's so sculptural it looks really easy
but like each cord is kind of a different length and you gotta like eat like because if you do them all the same length when they bunch up they don't do
like a beautiful pattern and it's i don't know what the code is or whatever but it is an extremely satisfying project
get yourself klein wire strippers with all the different little holes in them get like good 35 klein wire strippers
with the good like rubberized soft handles and make an extremely focused effort to
never cut a hot wire not that it's dangerous or anything but what happens is you put a little it arcs it like arc
welds a little notch out of your out of the cutting part and you start living with that because the cutting part is the thing
you use least often and you can use a bunch of other tools to do the same thing but it is such a gross mistake and thank god
i've had those wire strippers probably for 15 years and i've never thank god i've never arced
um one i've never arched one but i've like even in sax's studio you'll see like a few pairs that have been arced and i'm just like man but those guys are
professionals and they work under extreme speed so they're justified it's like in the last week's formula one race one of the um
what is wrong with ferrari what why would anyone buy one of those cars seeing the way that like the way that
their formula one team performs they just tear the victory out of their drivers or the drivers tear the victory
out of the the crew one of the guys left first of all they didn't have enough okay you have two seconds to change all
four tires that's what you have to do it in two seconds to change all four tires you know the the the margin for error is you know one
or two or three or something 10 seconds for the whole race so that's how much the winner wins by so you have two seconds or three seconds to
change all four tires um i think with carlos signs pulls into the pit they only have three tires for him
three wheels and the guy who didn't have the fourth wheel leaves his gun leaves his
his wheel gun in traffic so the num their biggest rival red bull i think it was um
it was uh checo sergio perez he pulls out and runs the gun over and destroys the gun
totally legal czecho did nothing wrong the guy was obstructing traffic um don't be that person don't arc the wires
oh ferrari i can't even have sympathy for them because they're a race car company who can't beat a f
energy juice company okay enough about that uh dominic in your opinion what are the biggest differences between american
european and eastern films i think fundamentally the biggest difference is that
i think generally speaking eastern european and european films are publicly funded in part
when you watch there's like films blah blah blah of no film blah blah blah of the eu film blah blah blah like they have a large
contributions from the from the from the government from the public and that relieves them i believe of a
lot of corpora i'm sorry commercial pressures therefore some of them can be super boring and
oh that's the guys if you hear the chainsaw that's the guy's clearing the tree um that on one and that that
makes great sometimes there's incredibly great films and some of those films become commercially successful in spite of being
publicly supported um some of them are extremely boring
and then on the american side generally speaking um they're made even if you're making these
days if you're making an independent film your investors want to return and there's a generally speaking there is talk
and there is pressure to who is the audience who is this for who you know and
i don't know i don't really have any uh have been much experience i have a little but not too too much
experience with that but i think like my friends josh and ben saftey they get a lot of european backers for
their films um i don't know if that's still the case but i know for the early ones there was a lot of them were backed by french people and
greek people i think uh but i think it just it comes down to money like almost everything um
i think that's the fundamental technical difference and then as far as like what you're watching i feel like the
european movies are less generally speaking are less fantastic fantasy based
and more about just everyday there's that guy although there's that guy who mixes both so great
yorgus lanthamos the greek guy in all of his movies are great and they're just based on like one
there's usually like one um [Music] like what are they called magical realism principle within the movie and it's just
and he just builds this whole incredible drama around these premises and they're really funny um
he did the lobster um so the premise of that movie was what if you weren't if you weren't married by
a certain age or something then they turned you and you went to this clinic to find your as the last chance to find someone to love
and if you didn't find them then they turned you into a an animal or something and there's that scene where they're all
out in the woods wearing disc man i have a disc discman walkman and they're wearing headphones and they're all dancing
oh my god anyway european film uh you know i think generally speaking they're a little bit more subtle but
then you see something like come on come on the mike mills film and you're just like no americans make those films too
and they're great they're as great as the europeans or the eastern europeans uh and then
they're also i find them they're generally the eastern european films are a bit slower and i really love that because i live in la and
you used to live in new york and i do love that i hypnotize you into that world so that's it
okay this one's great ken asks i can say your last name because these are i think public posts ken lane uh howdy van even as a runner your
running video is one of my favorite running movies on youtube do you feel that your post your past substance abuse issues have contributed to your lack of
enjoyment of exercises of exercise such as running or have you always hated running as a right runner i
find it difficult to understand how someone who runs as much as you do can hate it so much i wonder if you've possibly fried those endorphin receptors
and if there's anything you can do to fix such a problem i think that is true i think that's what
happened because uh i find it very difficult to find joy in anything everything is just feels like a task to me and i think i'm just
exact like i just had so many crazy experiences that were
[Music] also mixed with drug experiences like i was a very productive addict and very like high functioning
addict um and i so you know climbing mount kilimanjaro is a huge
will throw a ton of all those endorphins what's the other one there's endorphins and then there's
what's that other drug i don't remember uh and then i was stoned most of that because those guys all have weed you
know they're like they've lived they're mountain guys they're like mountain guys they're like vermont guys here or whatever they all smoke weed and they all have weed and it
just probably grows wild on the mountain there the the um your crew that you go up with so i was just smoking weed the whole
time i didn't smoke weed on the summit day i mean i smoked weed when we got to camp probably and um
you know that would like super because in my 30s weed was so great super enhance
the experience and i just think yeah that may be uh that stuff's fried and then i don't know this next i got i celebrated 10
years yesterday of sobriety and uh also i you know my 40s has been the decade that i've
been so i got sober when i was 37 so in my and ray dalio says like 45 to 55
is the most miserable time in your life um that's ray dalio's opinion he's a
multi-billionaire so but uh and so it could just be that it could just be that like i'm not enjoying this
also my body's old and doesn't like running my brother on the other hand casey he's training he's working
i never know like what the hell is secrets and no if you tell more than three this is what the torah says
if there's more than two people if you tell one-on-one it's automatically a secret whether or not you say this is a secret if you're in a
one-on-one conversation it's automatically a secret but if there's more than one person then it's
default not a secret so he told this to a bunch i heard him tell this to a bunch of people he's like working with an olympic trainer he's trying to break
three hours in a marathon and he's like said he's never had more fun he's never had more energy he's never like
he's like feeling stronger than he's ever felt and he's 40 one so who knows i don't know who the hell
knows but he's not like he's not an addict or anything um but he loves sugar i'll tell you that
much um so yeah it's possible i've fried them but i'm just too lazy to do the tests and then what are they gonna do doctors just love drugs they're just gonna put
me on more i do take ritalin because i've tried i made very
strong efforts to not take it for many many years and then multiple psychiatrists when i when i meet
over the years when i've met with multiple psychiatrists it's been just get on the effing ritalin you know
they're just like well try you know they give me the diagnostics and then they say try it and then i try it and what it does is it just
eliminates the um dropped calls in my brain you know it's just i'm able to get like i can't
notice the ritalin there's it doesn't have any kind of it's just a background medication so like if i'm
writing a list of like to do stuff for friday um but the the ritalin will allow me to kind of finish writing and then move on
or if i'm like checking emails it allows me to just stay click on the email the email opens read
it answer the email move on to the next thing it's not me email oh oh this these the keyboard is dirty let me clean it up
let me it just like eliminates that and uh they have me on such a low dose when i
told a friend of mine who's been on ritalin since she was like um a little kid it was like when they first started
prescribing ritalin and she was the f her family was the reason i found out about adhd it was like in the early 90s or
maybe even late 80s but when i told her the dose i was on she goes that's the dose i was on when i was eight years old
so it's like almost none but uh i think that's uh uh the the neurologically what the what the ritalin does is serotonin receptors
there's a problem with your with my serotonin receptors in that i guess when my brain releases
serotonin the some i don't know serotonin the cells don't receive it or something and then you
take the ritalin and the cells receive the serotonin i don't i don't know i don't know i think of everything in terms of cars
and she's like oh the fuel injectors are blocked up um do you always carry the swiss champ or
do you use other everyday carry night everyday carry knives uh i around the house if i'm not losing leaving the
property although sometimes i make a mistake i carry the leatherman that tom sachs gave me he only made a hundred of them
they're extremely limited and they have white handles and nasa logo on them so around the house i carry that because it has great pliers great tool but i
am so terrified of losing it that i don't generally don't bring it outside of the
of the property um and then this person also says what's your opinion of germany and germans i love
them both uh is for oh john john asks is 45 on two excuse me is 45 too old to learn how to ride a motorcycle no and i would say
under 30 is too young to ride a shifter bike motorcycle i think because you really depending on your personality of course and i gave my kid
a bike already but they're so powerful and you have they're so fast and you have such an
edge over the traffic and it makes you feel godlike when you're writing these things that you sort of need to be of a certain
maturity level just to be trusted with the machine having said that you know neve shulman's been riding shifter big harleys and
stuff and ducatis and bmws since he was like 19 and thank god he hasn't had any major incidents
so i guess it depends on your personality but 45 is not too old i would say learn how to ride on a bike with a low seat that's a shifter bike i mean learn you know learn if you don't
know how to do shifting and clutching and [ __ ] do whatever do the the whatever the scooters and all that
[ __ ] and then um i always say tw 200 is the best first bike to have 200
cc's jig big giant tires you can run over curbs they have like they come stock with these like knobby tires so you're okay on dirt roads
um the new ones have fuel injection they're not that expensive they go 65 i mean you're going to really
earn that 65 they don't have like the takeoff and torque that a like a motorcycle gives you but uh that's the one i really
really recommend the yamaha tw 200 it's got the big fat tires on it and then i
think a great second bike is the bike i got isabelle which is a husqvarna 401 but if that's
called a svartpillin and uh 400 i think is a good bore size for your
second bike you don't necessarily have to work your way up my first shifter bike like i learned to ride on a dirt bike in the in
my friend's yard in my friend's farm on a 220 xt 220 yamaha
and then uh my first motorcycle trip ever on the like on roads i had a learner's
permit was in i left from salzburg austria and then rode all the way around the border like
the circle of austria to like switzerland and italy um probably dipped into france on this
uh honda trans alp which is a 650 twin very pretty relatively heavy bike for a 650
and um torky's terrific bike super heavy i like it was a rental i was with tom sacks
i dropped it four times on that trip i got caught in the snow i had a bald rear tire i ran out of gas this is the first motorcycle trip
and so uh the first bike i ever bought the first shifter bike i had owned um
mopeds like three mopeds when i was younger but the first shifter bike was a bmw r1150r
with uh anti-lock brakes and it's like the street version of the bikes that like ewan mcgregor rode
around the world in that movie a long way around ewan mcgregor and charlie borman they wrote these big bmw gs
1150rs this is an r1154 r the like road um and it has the boxer heads that stick out of the side of the bike that's why people don't like them because they're ugly but they're they've been making that bike since like
1921 that design has a shaft no no um no um chain and i really learned how to ride that was like my first bike super heavy big consequences if you drop it kind of hard
to control hard to move around i was um 30 let's see i got it in i think 2005 or 2006.
so i was like 30 or 31 and like i bought it in pennsylvania and i rode it my first time ever riding
the thing besides in a parking lot i had to ride it from pennsylvania to manhattan i had to ride through manhattan traffic new jersey traffic
through holland tunnel all of this oh maybe not maybe not the hon tunnel but uh maybe the one tunnel and then i had i had to shoot that night
and it was the shoot with uh if you can find it i don't know where it is casey and i did a campaign this is when casey invented youtube before
youtube invented youtube so it must have been 2004.
what year was it oh it was for gillette and we did this
they built a website where we uploaded four films and then everybody else was allowed to upload we encouraged others to upload four films
pretty sure i don't know i have all the years wrong i could just like look it up but whatever point being you don't have to necessarily shy
away from the big bikes and the bigger bikes are generally safer because they have better brakes and better engines and they're faster and more torquey and
you can get out of the way of danger and you have to ride kind of aggressively on a motorcycle i have found
my experience is riding aggressively keeps you safe and you are not you cannot ride it the way
that you drive a car you're not wedding letting people in about no you're the aggressor you are taking the da da da you're staying and you are getting away
from traffic as fast as possible because no one sees you um and the danger thing the safety thing
the danger is like you keep it in the you develop all these habits you you know you have to marginalize all the little things never
i even when i was severe alcoholic i think maybe once i i rode a motorcycle drunk and it was just across central
park to my apartment and it was like it was like seven o'clock on a saturday so there was no traffic anywhere
um but other than that and you always you know the helmets and no flip-flops and because i have a friend that one of the
guys i did the uh the aborted baja trip with matt perdue and he said motorcycles aren't dangerous
until you learn how to ride them because you get all confident and cocky like nah i'm just i don't i'm i can just wear
flip-flops i'm just going to the end of the road or whatever it's just like all right and then every time you crap for me
every time i have a crash i take away the privilege so now no more night riding no more riding in the rain
um [Music] no more passengers um i can't remember and the end the taking away the privileges has nothing to do with the crash like it wasn't
because i crashed at night it wasn't cause i crashed in the rain it was okay so there's that okay max
says started reading vonnegut could you talk a bit about what specifically resonated with you about breakfast of champions what made you
decide to type the novel out well the what made me decide to type the novel out is that i read it when i was probably 20 and then i read it when i
was 40 and when i read it when i was 40 i was struck by how much of my life's point of
view and like the way i think about the world had come from this book all these like i have it right here all these
just i mean it's just one this is underlined i don't know if by me not judging by how straight the underline is it's not by me but it says they even had a saying about the futility of ideas if wishes were horses
beggars would ride i was describing earthlings uh it's just a fantastic book it you know what i love about vonnegut is he takes these extremely sophisticated
ideas and makes them very very simple he writes in a way you know some of these books are required reading in high school like i think slaughterhouse five
is like required reading in heist for high school kids and these sophisticated ideas and they're written very simply and
straightforward and funny and funny and probably that it's probably an aspirational thing that's who i want to imitate that's who i want to be i want
to be kurt vonnegut you know for you know artistically i want to be him not personally um
can you talk a little bit about final cut pro big projects gone wrong in media management just bought final cut pro for this project hoping it
would help with organization okay so felix you're a patron go download right now uh the media management scene and like
print it out because that has that's that goes into it in detail about how you manage all the media so i'm not going into it there you'll have
it in writing um final cut pro let's see so i don't know why people hate it i think people hate it because they learn okay so you have
okay so pc when they first started out you know it was dos and you had to type in all this code
right and then apple ingeniously said i'm you know i guess i'll just credit steve jobs you know my brain doesn't
work like that my brain is works in pictures so i think this little mouse with the pointer and you click on things and they open
that's how a computer should work and that's how i van neistat was able to be computer literate because i was i don't care what the
rewards were i was not going to learn that dos [ __ ] i was not going to be typing commands into a comp into a keyboard
you know for 25 minutes to make a little uh turtle make a square like there's
this programming language called i think it was called logo or maybe so or basic and that's like all it could do i was i was like i'm not gonna do
that but then when the macintosh came out i was like oh i get this you can and then you could explore okay so
i think you have two kind of kinds of brains maybe and you have
like a brain that just wants numbers and wants everything straightforward
and like if they were to describe an ice cream cone to you they would start with the molecules and how they come together and
the temperatures and so forth and then you have the kind of brain that is like an ice cream
is a reward you get when you're a child and it's messy and you have to eat it
fast and it was a special reward you'd get when you're a child therefore you never get sick of ice cream and even
as an adult you can channel that childhood feeling by eating an ice cream cone
that's what like final cut pro and apple and [ __ ] is made for it's made for that kind of brain it's made for those kind of people
people who just describe things in like in terms of adjectives and like feelings
and so forth so it's a less technical i found it's less technical than what the hell is the other one god damn it adobe
premiere okay um which i never bothered learning because i just i just thought it was ugly i just
thought it was an ugly interface and like you invest a lot of time in learning these pieces of software
and so i think there's a big divisions now what adobe did is they made it i'm pretty sure i could be wrong
but they made it so that in order to use adobe premiere you must be connected to the internet it's not a standalone
thing and then they i'm i could be wrong but i'm pretty sure you must pay a um
subscription fee so s f that since i first since i got my first final cut pro
15 years ago or 10 years ago or however long it was i've just been able to use that i've never had to buy it again i've just been
able to like take it off of you can only use it on five machines at once i've been able to take it off of old machines put it on new machines download updates
blah blah blah there's great plugins for it and it's native to the apple machine like the hardware is built around that
software it's astonishingly good it's incredibly good and it fails so much less often than it used to fail
um it's and um it's for me it's intuitive and it's like a very it's
uh um once you learn the art of it you can adapt like i'm i'm pretty positive i
could jump on an avid suite which is like the cinema standard editing platform i'm pretty sure i could jump on that and like learn
in a month or something and then just be as good but just learn all the new tools when i learned final cut pro tom sachs hired me
this guy named alex wales who's basically like a buddhist monk this guy and he literally wrote the book
on final cut pro 10. he wrote i think like the final i'm sorry final cut pro 7 and um
when he finished it they discontinued he wrote like a whole operator's manual for final cut pro 7 and then when they finished it
and then when he finished it 10 came out which is a complete axle-up redesign
of the old final cut pro a lot of people jumped off of final cut at when 10 came out and then they jumped
onto adobe premiere because it was more similar adobe premiere was more
similar to final cut pro 7 than final cut pro 10 was to final cut pro 7.
so the diet the loyalists who had been with final cut pro 7 felt betrayed because now they had to
kind of learn a new platform i started with 10. sax hired me alex wales to teach me final cut pro 10
and i was editing um a space program and alex wales would come in like once or twice a week and i would have a list of
how do you do such and such how do you do such and such what is this how do i do such as as i was editing so when i first started he would sit next to me
and it was like how do i make a cut how do i import the file how do i name the file how do i save it and then i just ended up writing this
little like manual for myself of what all the commands were and then i don't know if you've ever seen that
movie a rival or is it a rivals it's either arrival or arrivals
i can't remember which but amy adams is a linguist and aliens have parked their um
spaceships in like five spots on the world in the entire world all of the major powers of the world are trying to
translate the language that these aliens speak that's the premise of the movie this one it's one of my favorite movies
and amy adams is like the top most senior super genius uh she was hand selected to be one of
the people uh by the u.s to be and she's working and she's working and she's coming up with all these theories and she's making little progress she's
making well with products and then all of a sudden one day she just looks up and goes i understand it it's
unbelievable it's like she goes from just knowing like a few of the of the like if you were
studying spanish she goes from like yeah i know what like trier means and i know how to like say
can i have and i know what a lot of the nouns mean i know what like taco means going from that for months and months and or maybe it's weeks and weeks and
weeks and then all of a sudden you can read don quixote in spanish
and i had that moment with um i remember having that moment with final cut pro i don't remember the moment but
i remember that epiphany and just being like i know how to use it i can use it the way i use because i worked on
imovie i did like the hp we did the hbo series and all that [ __ ] on imovie i didn't switch until 2012 i didn't switch till
that's when i switched to final cut uh and then just all of a sudden boom but i had all of the fundamental editing
principles under my belt i wasn't learning how to edit i was learning how to do final cut pro um and since then i'm so glad that they
still manufacture they still make it i doubt it makes any money i mean is it is that a foolish thought it doesn't seem and i when i come across
all of the it gets more and more deep and i just can't believe like how the hell did it's conceptually no matter how many people you have how do you come up
with this stuff it's so right it's so like the logic goes through i mean of course it drives me mad at times too and there's certain
things like it should remember certain preferences i have and stuff but i don't know maybe that's the os anyway that's my opinion
of final cut pro 10. i think it's the best one i'm a final cut pro 10 person i'm not switching um unless
apple ruins it and then somebody else has something better i'm not switching all my files and stuff i'm just married
to it it's 300 bucks it's totally worth it um uh so george says none of us know as much as all of us thoughts so
what's okay so two thoughts one is david mamet says that each individual audience member is an
idiot but collectively the audience is a genius which is absolutely true like if no one likes it it's not good if no one
laughs it's not funny and oh and then i was with a friend of mine who's an orthodox jew and he's a a talmud scholar he's like studied that
he's done a daf yomi i don't know if you know what that means i don't know if you know what the talmud me is the talmud is the torah
in the original i'm not a scholar i'm just telling you what i think it is okay i don't want to be fact checked on all this this is my
understanding of what the talmud is so it's the torah in the it's a beautiful book it's 24 volumes 17 volumes like big thick
bound so it's the torah and it's the in the original hebrew and then you know the torah is 5000 years old and
then all of the surrounding the torah is like notes is like footnotes from tom
tom or torah scholars throughout history like the greatest and so it's interpretations of
the of the original text i believe that's what it is and there's this thing called da fiomi where
you with a bunch of other with a couple other people you read a page of the talmud a day and it's that's how thick it is you get
through with others you get through it doesn't take all day it probably takes an hour or two maybe a day but it's every day and to
get through the entire talmud i think it's something like 7 years or 12 years and this person who i went to i went to some
some huge something where there was hundreds of thousands of people
and he said in the torah this person who reads the talmud who's done daphyomi who's done it i think maybe twice has been through the talmud's place he said
in the torah it says that if you have 600 000 people in one place that it represents all of
human thought and that to me is astonishing and that's really stuck with me whenever you see the giant it's like
all the i mean maybe you know all of the human thought unless elon musk is not one of the 600
000 people right okay um okay this one n-n-y-i-t-i niyati niyati i knew a neo-t i wonder if this is the same person okay how do you finish your projects i always start with great enthusiasm but
it quickly diminishes over time i have 10 projects i'm in the middle of but i have no motivation to finish
all right i'm not i'm not going to spoil it but nia t you must watch today's video
you must watch today's video and this is how you finish your projects you're not allowed to start a second
project of its kind until you've finished the first project and that encourages you to do a shitty job but to
finish the job and then it rewards you and and also encourages you to do a better job the next time and that's the only way that's
not the only way but that's in a very effective technique for learning how to get better is the
dissatisfaction with the last job and uh losing enthusiasm is part of the
process everyone loses enthusiasm it's part of the process it's why it's so rare for
creative people to be able to earn a living by making things and selling them for money because of that because of the
lack of enthusiasm or the wall that you get sometimes you get to a wall where you're just like i cannot figure this out i cannot figure this out i'll just
move on to the next thing no you won't no you finish damn it that's like you know the number one
rule in filmmaking is finish um [Music] yeah and creative people unfortunately they have they're very good at like workarounds and they're very good at like all you
know alternative processes for accomplishing a goal and that can bite you in the ass because an alternative
is sometimes quitting or just oh i'm going to do this other thing i'll figure it out and no just fight and get through it do a bad job you have a permission to
do a crap job but you have to finish it and then when you finish it and it's bad oftentimes you're like oh
you know the last 10 the last what the last 10 percent takes 80 of the time or something like that or the last
2 takes 90 of the time or something you know you just you got to keep going keep going keep going that's one of the things i
appreciate about youtube is that it rewards you for consistency it rewards you for volume and artists need that
artists need to be working on not all artists geniuses my advice and the things that i say and stuff do not
apply to the geniuses the geniuses should be taken out of the data pool nothing applies to them nothing
the only thing that applies to geniuses are the other geniuses we're not the geniuses we're not so for the rest of us
that demand of quantity it's it's you know that's what the 10 000 hours stuff is about you know the reason the beatles had 10
000 hours being in in uh uh uh when they by the time they left wherever it was hamburg um
is because they were broke man they had to it wasn't a choice that was how they were going to live there and keep their visa or what however the hell it worked or keep their apartments and eat and
stuff it was just they lost enthusiasm they weren't even they were 17 years old or whatever but
yeah you just you can't move on to the next one until you finish the other one and just finish it and do a bad job who cares just do a bad job that's it do a
bad job and then and then move on okay do you have any strategies for dealing
with information overlord overload oh my god these are such good questions oh my god it's one of the biggest pains
of my life it's so information overload is is my cross to bear is the like
it causes me more suffering than any other phenomenon i think just too much stuff too much stuff i write everything down i
should be sharing it with other people i should spread my i should uh outsource all of the information
that i'm responsible for and tasks and stuff that's why i like yeah how do i i guess my i don't really
have good strategies but one of them is to just focus you know that's another blessing of having of
of of um uploading every week and i miss i miss weeks but another
advantage of it is that you [Music] you can focus just on that one thing and block everything else out sometimes it comes back to bite you and sometimes it doesn't but
i'm not smart enough to i can't hold a lot of information in my head i just i can't um
but so no i don't really have good strategies for dealing with information overload i scream [ __ ] scream and just start screaming
i start screaming [ __ ] you like over and over again as loud as i can now in private in a quiet in a room where no one's around
and that that helps uh okay so mr jake parker in adam savage's book he mentioned it's collaborating with tom sacks wondering
if you two have ever bumped into each other and if so what's he like in person and would you ever do a collab with him and test it i've i know adam savage i've
met him a bunch of times i've had meals with him i've met him i think i met him and i've i've like hung out with him in
japan in los angeles in new york um yeah and he's fascinating and he's done everything so when you so when i hang out with him i just listen i just listen to all because he's full of he has all these
tricks he knows all of this stuff and uh yeah sure i'd do a collaboration with
him but then how am i going to get to my video out that week i guess i don't know yeah i would
ken o'brien how i just uh oh this he ken is just paying me a compliment thank you ken
very encouraging words um vacation he likes vacation from the camera
um [Music] do you ever approach the page with a blank mind no ideas from chad simon so there's like a discipline to this and
i approach the blank page with one idea so i don't approach a blank page with no
ideas so i'll in some moment of inspiration in non
in in just out in the world or however or whatever they come at the most inconvenient times i'll get an idea that
is worthy of me to write down on you know on you know a post-it note or something like this one 8 21 20. what bothers me what grips me
um oh this uh someone asked um who was it like what should i write about someone i think someone asked jordan peterson what should i write about and peterson said what bothers you and what grips you that's what you should
write about so i i just wrote that down sometimes i get an idea and i just write it down and then i get
an idea for an episode i'm lucky because i have my medium i have my focus and it takes a long time to find your
medium and your phone takes a long time that takes a long time i'm sorry and it feels like it's forever and it feels like you're never gonna find your medium
and you're never gonna find your focus and sometimes your medium and your focus has not yet been invented um
so lucky for me i know what i'm my ideas that are coming are going to be a video
and so you know i i'll have an idea for a video and i'll write it down on a post-it note
and i'll just write episode or i'll speak it into my phone it'll just say episode and then i'll say what the episode's about and in that moment i'll have all of
these ideas about it and that's why i'm compelled to write it down because i have a whole f i don't have the whole thing fleshed out i don't have the
surprise fleshed out or maybe i or maybe that's all i have i don't have the whole thing fleshed out i don't have the structure i don't have anything i just have something that i
catch myself um there's a word obsessing but it has a negative comment connotation but i guess
it's sort of obsessing a lot of times it happens on my run a lot of times i'm doing boring things um and most of the time it happens when
i'm super relaxed like i'm reading a book or something just get this impulse and start thinking
and it's like you will not remember it the idea is so big it will take over and i will like pour gasoline into my kids
cereal bowl because i'm i'm so enthralled by this idea but it will go away if i don't write it again i will never remember it unless i
write it down and so i leave the i have a system for where i don't know if you guys can see it because i'm looking at the
yeah you can right these things right here this is this right here is this one's called the
future this one's called episodes and then this one's like
do lists is right there and so if i know it's an episode i just write it down on a post it and stick it
on a big white sheet of paper and so that's the idea i start with when i sit down with the blank sheet of paper i have a post-it note on it like this
week's video actually it wasn't my idea this week's video wasn't my ideas one of y'all's ideas and uh
it was someone had written me a letter i think this is what happened i don't remember my memory's garbage
someone had written me in the um messages like some like prohibited prep practices in the
studio or something and said you should do a video about prohibited uh practices in the studio
and so that was this week's but i just had prohibited practices in the studio that's what the post-it said so that's one idea
and you really kind of need three ideas for a video so you know and then i had to just sit there with the blank page in the
typewriter but one idea and then say well what are the ten and i think throughout that week because i knew i was doing it you know throughout the previous the
previous week or the prior week there had been i've been doing a little work in the studio and i was coming
across things oh this don't ever oh this is something because that a lot of these things i'm not conscious of i've just learned the hard way to such as with
such severe consequences that these in my mind are just scripture like no trip wires um
and so no i don't start with a blank with no ideas and a blank page i start with one idea and a blank page and
sometimes i have a whole bunch of stuff and a blank page and just it's the repetition of it it's the repetition of it's a great podcast
with rhett and rhett and link these guys they have like one of the most successful youtube channels on the platform they were on
last week they were on colin and samir which i extremely recommend the colin and sameer everything everything they put out i recommend it um
but it was on their podcast and it was probably on their video channel on youtube and rhett and link these guys they do um
mythical something ethical morning something i don't know and they were talking about
when they went from the transition of working from inspiration only to grinding
and like they were like that whole i'm only gonna write something if i'm feeling inspired think that's amateur hour if you're
gonna be pro [ __ ] you man you're grinding it out you can put out bad stuff you are grinding it out you're not picasso
brother you're grinding and uh and it's great training it's great
practicing i think you can do that once you've retired once you don't have people depending on you once you've made it and you don't have any money concerns
or any concerns whatsoever you can probably do that i only work from inspiration thing maybe but i wouldn't know you gotta
grind in the beginning it's all comes from inspiration but the grind is the it's the furnace
so what is your guilty pleasure i'm so glad someone asked me this because i was just thinking about this okay
this week i was thinking about this and i was thinking i hope someone asked me what my guilty pleasure is okay my guilty pleasure
i love reality tv shows that are about people that have jobs where they're trying to accomplish something not so much the real housewives
right although i love those too but for instance okay so my current um
guilty pleasure and i only get on saturdays or sundays i get a chance to watch some of these things
because those are my rest days um it's called there's one called selling
sunset and it's about these real estate agents here in in los angeles who sell these out these amazing houses in the hollywood hills
and then there's another one called selling the oc and it's about these real estate agents in orange county it's the same it's
called the oppenheimer group or something it's the same real estate agency and it's these
oh these killer women they are so great and in the um
anyway i love i love that i love that i love those i love those shows those i'm trying to think of other examples but i
can just get caught up in them where it's i think i don't know maybe it's the women ones i love too
where you get to see these women like just it's they're insane you get to judge them and all this you know so
that's one of my guilty pleasures and another guilty pleasure i love like washing
my cars and like my motorcycles i have this spray that's for aircraft and so you don't need to use water you just
spray this stuff on and you wipe it clean and then it leaves a little film and then you buff that film off and it makes it shine it's like
a wax excuse me and i think because it takes so much water to clean like a gulf stream or
whatever or a bombardier private jet that that's what these things are for
yeah that's why but it's perfect for california because we don't have any water here i can't remember the name of it it's blue i spray it on and i wipe it off and
you know the more time i have to do that the better and i i'm really indulgent and i like to do the armor all on the dashboard so it doesn't crack in the sun
and so yeah reality shows about badass [ __ ] and uh cleaning my car that's that's what i like
uh oh and like the kardashian one because those ladies are all workers they're all doing these and
they're building this and their job is building multi-billion dollar empires they like each have their own they're
insanely great business people and then they're so good with their families they're so like family first
and it's insane watching these people like i used to judge them like everybody else or paris hilton i don't know if you've seen that youtube
um documentary i can't remember what it was called but it's just like
oh every single person was wrong about her except for her fans she is an insanely
um exemplary human being like i don't know how she does it i don't know why she does it she was like at
first i said i kept telling myself i was going to stop when i had 100 million and then she said and then i got there and it just became a billion but she
really she i think she's very much in touch with the
effect she has on the her fans and what it does for their lives and the spirit and lady gaga same thing if you watch five foot one
the same thing that's why they do it i think the greats and those two are definitely the greats um i think that they
they accept the responsibility and understand how important their uplifting spirit
is to the people who essentially make them rich and make them famous and uh
i don't know how i got on that but that's one of my guilty pleasures how would you say your channel is different from laura comps i i don't know her very well i don't know her work very well i
know she works with sax i'm pretty sure um so i can't really comment i've just seen like thumbnails and i i don't know
her shop is so looks so effing awesome when i see it um so i don't know i have to check her out more
what makes you feel most confident in yourself brian when i finish a project when i finish a youtube video and i get
it upload and i'm done i don't know if it's confidence but like like i've finished this week and this
week was murder it was so hard and it was and i it was so hard and um finishing this
week so that i could go to montana next week so i go to this wedding this weekend and i had to do a spot for my kicks for a kickstarter back or i had to do like
another probably to do a little ad in the beginning which looks really easy but it isn't because i had to write the script and so forth
and i had like we were in a hotel and there was no and it was burning hot and you know it's just insanely weak and
like i'm like so psyched right now that i'm done i've gone on my run i've lifted my weights and i'm done for the weekend and monday
i get to like just get in the truck and drive to utah that's day one utah uh and so finishing them that gives me
confidence finishing those damn videos uh how would you say poetry has had an effect on your life who are some of your favorite poets
um oh i should say that better how would you say poetry has had an effect on your life this is from misha moon who are
some of your favorite poets so when i understood what poetry could be
and what it was um and it made me aspire to that level of
um feeling transfer ability if that makes sense like oh i want to be able to do with whatever my medium is to my viewer
what this poet did for me and my feelings with his or her medium so i mean as far as straight poetry like verses written on a page and there's no
music or whatever just like literal poet like there's this guy i have this book called
um the outlaw bible of american poetry and it's hundreds of poets in there and
there's this guy named i'm pretty sure his first name is tom and his last name is brainerd
and there's a thing with poetry is that i think that a lot of i think teachers probably in school are required to teach it and i think
that they don't know what it is they don't know what poetry is and i think that also
poetry has this reputation of being just for smart people and that if you are smart you get poetry and if you get
poetry you are smart and that's not what poetry is and poetry is just a way of conveying
feelings through words written on a page i mean then you so that's like the literal poet
the the medium called poetry so this guy tom brainard he wrote this poem i mean he was a poet
his whole life i believe he might have died of aids but he wrote this poem and it's i want to say it's 100 pages long it
can't possibly be that long and i think if i was a teacher this is how i would teach poetry
is i would have the kids read this poem it's called i remember and he's just and it's just that's so
good he just writes down things that he remembers and you're reading these things and it's
just you read i mean if it didn't take me three minutes to go up and get it and start reading it to
you i'd read it but i sh you know to give an example but that's the premise of the poem of the poem it's just i remember my mother's blah blah blah blah
i remember learning how to ride a bike and falling off and blah blah i remember sequins i remember
um sand i remember you know just it's just so um visceral and simple and poetic that i think that's the entry to poetry
that's like then there are these other poets in this outlaw book that are like murderers that are in prison and they write these
incredible poems like outlaw motorcycle guys there was this poem that uh
that a tea that a professor at william and mary read to to us it almost seemed fake but i don't think
it was and it was just a regular guy like a gearhead guy on it probably not formally educated
and he was writing it was so good i i won't remember uh this is the essence of it okay
he's just talking about this car he built in the most beautiful technical terms not in poetry in the flowers of
the fancy forest of the no he's like it's i swapped the stock 481 for the 392
pop off you know pop off pistons and the rings are done i bored the something and it's just that
that that and then it ends with like it ends with some hook that tears your
[ __ ] guts out um and it's something like and susie said she's pregnant but that she's probably just gonna get an abortion
or something like that it's like [ __ ] um that kind of that like i guess i don't like academic poetry i
don't like any of that poetry where you have to try to figure out what the what the hell it means that makes me crazy robert frost is not like that his poet
his poetry is not like that his poetry is you can read it even if you're a kid and i also try to read it
as literally as possible i don't want any fluff i don't want this means this and this is a symbol for that no you're
not a poet if you think that that's not how poetry is written that's not how that's not what ginsburg says about his poetry that's not what like
um you know i don't know i i guess i love like the really literal poetry that has so much
punch to it i mean bob dylan is probably the perfect poet to me but you know it's got music so he can trick
you with that he can hook you in like i mean i i aspire to be poetic but i'm just tricking you with all these lights and cameras and building these
little things and so forth but uh to me that's the highest level when someone's
if someone calls you a poet someone says you're a poet you know a boxer can be a poet you know
it's like the [ __ ] highest thing uh so that's that's that's the effect it's had on my life
i guess it through i read somewhere this week that you and tom collaborated with frank ocean some time ago what was that like
and what could you tell us about his creative ethos um i repeated this a lot uh we just i
did a shot of him we were doing all the what the heck was it for it was like for the hero's journey or something maybe
it was just one shot of him sitting at a desk and i just dollied in and it was all dark in the studio and then he was lit perfectly and that was it
um and then you know we had lunch and so forth i still don't know anything about his music um i knew that he's like a very famous
musician and tom loves his music uh i haven't avoided it i just haven't listened to it or whatever
because i really need to listen if something's coming that's with a lot of accolades i really need to give it the proper attention and i just
i don't know i have not been doing that lately so i asked him what it was like to um
perform in front of tens of thousands of people to sing and then he took a long long pause and i said is it like a blackout and he
said yes because that's how i would imagine it is like you're just so i mean i've talked in front of thousands of people
and you just gotta like [ __ ] it there's not you know you're just do your body is doing it your brain is not doing it and it's just direct pure
experience oh and i read this great passage from from uh from patty smith and she said that she
when she would get really really into his books she couldn't remember what they were about she couldn't tell you what they were about she couldn't remember anything because she was just so in the
experience and i think that's what ocean was saying when he agreed with me that it was a blackout
um i wanted to ask what's the difference between your low episodes depression now
while sober and with therapy versus before i wanted to ask what's the difference between your low episodes
oh low episodes meaning in life not low video episodes depression now while sober and with therapy versus before
it's harder now it's harder it's harder because before you just get stoned whatever and go out and be wild get
drunk whatever go out and be wild do whatever vice and go out and be wild and now the consequences you know
i know having sat through thousands of hours of stories people telling me what hell they can put themselves and others
through if they go back and solve their problems with that stuff i know it's impossible to go back and i
will destroy everything and it'll be the worst hell and it's some hell i'm too afraid of so now it's a lot of
you know you gotta call you know it's all this all that stuff in aaa is ingenious and it's like there's a whole bunch of
things they tell you to do call someone go to a meeting sponsors and all that stuff it all totally works it takes a lot of your time the big faith of it
is like you you're you know you don't have time for it i mean if you're someone like me or a lot of my peers you don't have time and it's all
it's almost always worth if it was always worth it you'd make time but it's almost always worth it when you take the time
and then some incredible third act twist usually befalls you when you take refuge in all
in the program and in all the recommendations some miracle somehow tangentially like solves the
crisis that you're and it's incredible but you know it's very easy to like not go to meetings very easy to not call people
and you get bigger and bigger things and more and more exciting things are happening so [ __ ] uh what sort of therapy works for you ever struggle getting a therapist you
could relate with yeah it's so hard to find one it takes forever uh i like psychiatrists
because medical school is so hard and then they pick that one and they can give drugs and then i just really try to talk
them out of giving me drugs i'm like no i don't want you to have drugs and the the mds just seem to be
more they just seem to be more scientific about it and they have like a great
great knowledge of all that and you're not special you know you're not going through anything special or anything it's some easy damn thing that's in some big book
that there's a thousand papers about and it's just like oh you just need to do this thing or whatever and then a lot of it it's just like oh
yeah life's hard guys it's very hard and it kills a hundred percent of us so
you know try to have a little fun i guess if you're filthy rich would you have handled your mental health journey definitely oh yeah i'd be dead if i was
like born rich i'd be dead um or i'd be in prison um what would you do differently with regards to your mental health support if
you were filthy rich um well i wouldn't work so much sorry you'd have fewer viewers
you'd have fewer videos to watch filthy rich is another level of existence it's like not
human existence filthy rich filthy rich to me is like billion dollars like zero consequence there are zero
consequences even in the case of murder you can murder people if you're filthy rich and i don't know what i do differently i
would probably indulge too much in my mental health if i was filthy rich i'd probably spend like years on it
instead of going out and like trying to connect with people so let's uh let's hope when i one day when i get to be filthy rich
somehow uh that i have the discipline to take it lightly
okay i'm not answering a second question sorry um 18 years old i'm taking a gap year
living oh left terrace katsarakis hello van i am 18 years old and i'm taking a
gap year living in amsterdam i remember on the nightside brothers show you mentioned you went up to amsterdam when you were young as well i just wanted to know if you have any advices thoughts or
pretty much anything i have to say about answering them even like places chill i've only ever spent like maybe 48 hours at the most in amsterdam
but my brother this is before i got sober but my brother and i had this tradition of
whenever we flew to europe we would try to get a layover in amsterdam or whenever we flew anywhere i think when we flew to africa we got a
layover in amsterdam when we flew to tanzania and we wanted the layover long enough so that we could get into the town into
into amsterdam and then back to shinpo is that what it's called i think that's what the name of the airport is uh in time to make the flight which
means you got to go back through security and then we would so i've been there a lot but not for long durations of time
and i really loved the this is before there was like legal weed in america and i loved the whole process of getting
uh cannabis and smoking and then just it's what a [ __ ] great city to be stoned in because it's extreme you're
never really lost and you're always lost you're always lost but you can always find your way and it is
astonishingly beautiful and the scale is perfect and the people are beautiful and it's bicycle based and there's all these
bridges it's just an astonishingly wonderful place um i could definitely live there i think
but i don't know i mean you're going to be riding a bike you're going to you know more than i do i don't know places to chill i've been there in i don't know 10 years or something i've
been there in a long time more than 10 probably but i've been there a bunch of times probably dozens of times and it was always super special because it was like
part of the europe trip or part of a africa trip or something you know it was like uh i don't know maybe i just brought great
energy to amsterdam when i went there uh oh ethan cohen asks um or maybe it's ethan cahn uh i was wondering what music the spirited
man chooses as the soundtrack to his life hmm i guess it's the one that it's like
everybody else that's the music that just resonates the most um
oh boy this is so long all right i'm gonna finish in like seven minutes if there's any of you still
watching i tip my hat to ye okay jonathan howard recently watched tom sachs's video that you worked on
with him regarding the hero's journey and i know it has shown up in your work here in that video there's a large focus on the internship in tom's workshop how
much of what was presented there was propaganda as your title in the videos and how much reflects the process
uh how much i was presented there uh well propaganda doesn't mean it's uh not true just means it's trying to make you
do something or think something um it's pretty much dead on balls what it's
like to work there it's just i didn't make it agonizing enough as to how hard it is
do you worry that relying on unpaid labor as much as tom does limits who can participate in benefit from the mentorship that tom and his team
provides i'm not sure if he's doing unpaid labor anymore i don't know about that do you worry that relying on unpaid
labor as much as tom limits who can participate in benefit as much as tom does
limits who can participate and benefit from the mentorship that tom and his team i'm not sure okay do you worry that
relying on unpaid labor as much as tom does limits who can participate in benefit from the mentorship that tom and
his team provides meaning i guess uh you can't like you can't work there unless you can afford to work there
does that limit who can participate limits who can
no i mean at the end of the day you want to make the best thing you can i mean that's it i mean when you get to a certain level at the end of the day that's what matters the project matters
and i don't know everybody has their strategies for making for how they're
gonna do that and tom has his system and um to what end i mean worry like what do you mean limits who
well everything's going to limit peop something people are going to be every single thing that's any good at all is going to
limit who can participate it's called discrimination and it's a good thing i know it gets a lot of bad word i mean
if you discriminate based on someone's race you're incredibly stupid or by their sex or sexual preference you're stupid because
you're cutting out gigantic swaths of talent but other filtration systems can be very effective in cutting out
there's a lot of there's a lot of like people out there who are unworthy of of
of certain [Music] you know responsibilities and tasks and so forth so he'll pay you if if if you're good
enough he'll pay you and he'll probably pay you whatever you want if you're good enough you know i'm sure there's people that he
pays millions of dollars to i mean i don't know that for sure but it's probably true so you know you just have to be undeniable
and um i doubt that that has ever stopped someone who's worthy you know he has to protect
himself i don't know that's the whole thing you have to talk to him about it but
so i see what he said this is something my own field is ha is having to come to terms with and rethinking how we approach introductory work
and if it's excluding people who would like to be in this field but who do not have the privileges necessary to work for
for no to very low pay uh well you gotta pay in my opinion i mean you're asking me about sex you have to ask him i have no idea i don't even know if he doesn't pay people
i pay people more than i can afford and a lot of my a lot of peers and people who are
smarter than me and more successful to me are like are you an idiot you are paying these people way way way too much money you are paying
them more than you get paid so um i don't know i think you just have to pay people
and that's that and um some people want things hard enough that they're not willing that they're willing to work without being paid i think
my grandfather when he died and he was kind of like um he had eight kids so he wasn't really able to just go
after a big dream i mean would he go after a big dream and like dedicate his life to because he had eight kids um luckily he had eight kids in the 50s
so it was like super easy it was america at its absolutely at its most easy for almost
financially i don't no matter what race you were it was um the easiest to be an american
financially in the 50s um probably for like late 40s 50s and 60s and that's i think you can just you
can look at the data on that and i know that you know certain races and certain sexual preferences didn't have the rights that they had today but they
definitely had more money than they have today because of uh the opportunities and the you know with all the
industrialization of america and so forth um but anyway this is my grandfather had eight kids and
he's a very creative person and he did all these little creative businesses and side hustles and stuff for to make money for his family he built this
back when camera equipment was gigantic he built this like mobile camera like mobile like
portrait studio and he'd just drive into in like a i don't know like a tractor trailer truck or something he'd just drive into little towns and do family
portraits and then he had the you know i think he had the um the dark room and everything so you could get your things back right then
you could get your and this is in like the you know 50 something 60 something and he's got eight kids and um
uh you know he did he's in like radio broadcasting i think at the end he was selling ads for
a local nbc affiliate he was like an ad salesman he's a very charming guy and um on his deathbed
he said to me make sure they pay you because he knew what i was doing he knew i was like out there trying to hustle
in the like the creative world and he knew what creative people that was like the last thing he ever said to me and so i'm very sensitive that i think you
gotta pay people but then you know i don't know i don't know it's tough it's tough it's weird
money is so weird and so complicated and you know do you have to pay someone if they
they're dying to work for you if you're bleeding to pay your bills every month right and someone's dying to work for you
right and they have 170 million dollars in a trust fund do you pay them out of principle
even though it's costing you meals and it's costing you like you know i don't know i don't know maybe you do
maybe you don't i don't know okay i think i gotta hang it up i think i was a little bit too wordy oh man thank you for these great
questions have a good weekend what else i don't know uh have a good weekend thank you for your support thank you for being a
patron the new video is up it's ten uh forbidden practices in the studio and i sent it to sax
and he said he loved it and uh have a good weekend take care
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