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A late August 2022 Friday session. Van takes patron questions heading into the Labor Day weekend. Summer winding down.
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good morning everyone weather report there's a suggestion that summer is drawing to a close but there's also the possibility that
it's going to be a hot day um today is a little weird i asked a
question on the comments i'm sorry i asked a question in the description to both the announcement for
this live stream and the live stream post itself um asking you guys what the channel is
about and this has been a persistent uh problem for me because people ask me
what the channel is about and i'm just i just seize up because i can only think of very
specific um and strange answers and you want to give this person a sort of non-general idea non-vague idea like well it's about life uh and at the same time not too specific that they have no idea what you're
talking about so i was on a ferry last week and there was a couple on the ferry sitting across the table from my son and me
it's one of these ferries where that you have like six chairs that face each other with a table in between kind of
like the tgv in in pair in france and she was in her 30s he was in his 50s and he was not her father and um they were from toronto and these were like kind of cultured people who had seen things and been places and knew things and
read books and so forth and they said what's your and but they're probably not youtube people they probably vaguely know about youtube and
that there are some people on youtube that make a lot of money that's probably all they know about youtube and they've probably seen eight youtube videos in
their lives in their lives if that and so they asked what's your channel
about and i just was like stumped i couldn't even i couldn't think of anything you don't want to say it's about
repair because then they're just like then they just think of like um
i'm trying to think i don't even know tv shows that are about repair
because it's i mean i guess i could say that and then so anyway i asked you guys
you know for just a short bullet answer and i think the trick what's difficult about this is that
when someone asks me what the channel is about i have to consider who the who's asking you know if it's some youtuber
you know with millions of views then i can be very specific if it's
an old person who's never watched youtube i have to like kind of relate it to something tv that
they might know about if they're young there's certain you know words i can't use if they're old so i think the best thing is to have sort of
three canned little like slugs um a slug is the thing in the met in the
magazine that's below the title shocker in ireland and then the little thing below the the thing that says five
people get drunk at a soccer match or whatever that's that five people get drunk at a soccer match is the slug
um so i think that the move is to have like three or four slugs that i just rattle
off the top of my head and then three examples of videos that sort of
illustrate the slug and the videos should be as disparate as possible so one like way out here one
one way out here one way out here and then one that's sort of in the middle i mean it's
it's it seems trivial but it's not because you know you want as many people you want to peak people's curiosity like if
i'm at a baseball game like at my kids baseball game and i'm with all the dads that i see every week then i can just ramble on and on and be
very slow and think about blah blah blah but i'm with like my if i'm with my dad's friends my dad's like a working class he's not a
working-class guy because he owned a business but all his friends are like working class like like well-paid working-class people
with very um what i would say um mainstream tastes like uh
network television tastes or network television and netflix now tastes and i would need to give them a
completely different answer um so so anyway you guys sent in a bunch in
the comments you sent in a bunch of really great ones i only wrote down eight because a lot repeat and then a lot um
were a little bit too we're a little long or something let me see what i'm going to look in these comments right now in real time
oh this is a good suggestion adam schafer says maybe it could help to think about what your videos do rather than what they're about
that's a that's a that's a good thought oh and then there's another sort of um
landmine that i don't want to step on i don't want to sound pretentious i don't want to sound highfalutin i don't
want to sound woo-woo i want to talk to you know the guy driving the bus i want to talk to you know the
the guy who's seen everything you know i want to talk you know and i i want to i i don't want to say like it's
about the genius of lulu and the introspect unless it's a like a little bit poking fun i don't want to be too um self-serious or whatever i kind of want it to be very
like what my description and obviously this is a developing process where i just kind of be testing things out
and i think i'm asking this now is because now i'm starting to interact with more strangers at now that you know we're out out of
the um covid restrictions i'm like starting to i hadn't been on an airplane in three
years and then last week i went on an airplane and it's pretty much the same i skipped all the mask stuff i skipped all of that
it's just back to its same terrible business as it was before the pandemic
although i must say i flew out of burbank instead of lax absolute
night and day i love love love small airports california has some of the great small airports
palm springs is a is a great one i can't think of another one but burbank is just the baggage check
it's outside there's a back door to like the the the jet blue terminal
there was like a back like i went through his crosswalk there's the main entrance to the building and i see this door and i just see through the glass of the door a little
desk in there a woman had a computer with the jetblue uniform on and i went with my son tried the door boom it's like right inside
the airport and then you're on the same ground level with the airplanes with the jets so when you look out the window you see
like the landing gear of the jets and the guys like loading the bags into jets and when you there's no jet way you just walk up and walk up like stairs
outside like in the olden days when people were fleeing cuba and in the godfather and walk right on
so anyway um you know i meet a lot of strangers now and strangers to youtube and i don't
want to sound pretentious i want to peak their curiosity i want to maybe they're going to go check it out and i think the key is three like catch phrases that
aren't pretentious and through maybe two or three examples that are kind of universal the examples are
hard it's weird i've made almost a hundred move videos i think and it's hard to come up with three that are different from each other the one i
always come up can come up with it's the only one i can come up with is the one where i fix the door lock on the i don't know if you guys have seen that but the
door when you open the door from the outside of my tacoma the passenger door it locks the lock so it jams and you gotta like
so i drilled a hole in it and made a little pin that holds the thing up and then and then when i give
that example all i can think of are the tacoma videos and and so the person will just be like oh yeah he he makes videos about toyota
to come fixing his or like adding little doodads to his toyota tacoma i was like well i made a movie about
sobriety so that's probably a good one but then i don't want to do like sobriety gratitude and
um nostalgia because then it's like oh he makes a movie about like feeling he's like a self-help guy
and so i don't know let me read you some of the ones that are just i think are really good in their like they're general and their curiosity uh
spiking so um a guy who calls himself alchemical abominations said non-toxic masculinity
that is terrific because i hate the the phrase talk toxic masculinity
um i don't use it i try to ignore it because i think it's going to go away eventually but i like
that if i were to say non-toxic masculinity it doesn't necessarily mean that i subscribe to the notion
that there is the notion of toxic masculinity or the idea of toxic masculinity
um why isn't it like toxic i guess toxic masculinity rolls off the tongue but there's all these i get it i get why it exists because
almost everyone that's in prison is a man like almost all prisoners are men
and almost all violent criminals are men so i get it but
i don't know there's something simplistic about it but non-toxic masculinity is a is a good one because then they'll be like like what it's like
well like fatherhood like building things like uh career and how to handle like your anger
with your wife so that's a great one also non-toxic masculinity is a good
like mnemonic for me to explore it it makes me think of different videos so that's a good one um scott
said thinking with your hands mind and soul so i would edit off the mind and soul because you think with your mind
and i don't know that you think with your soul or maybe you do but that goes like that gets a little bit a
little woo-woo for me but thinking with your hands i like that that's really good but i think it's incomplete because
i think there's maybe more because some of the like the graveyard video isn't really about thinking with your hands
so it would be another it would be like another mnemonic or like another
if i were to say non-toxic masculinity i could go you know like thinking with your hands um
[Music] jason said if the war of art was a youtube channel which is perfect i mean i hope i hope that's what this is i mean
that is so great um of course the danger is if the person has never heard of the war of art then you have to go into an explanation of the
book now you're explaining two things um peter said blue collar art i like that
carolina said audio visual craftsmanship which it's like both of those it's like
audio visual audio visual craftsmanship and then craftsmanship
it's about all three of those things um sasha said the bob ross of fixing things
and uh oh i didn't write down who said this but someone said becoming self-reliant and i did for a
while i did say self-reliance i did say that but then that kind of sounds like
that sounds like um self-help and then also no one's really
self-reliant except for those people in that tv show alone and they only have to last like a
hundred and something days to win the contest so nobody's really self-reliant takes you know how many thousands how many
millions of people does it take to make this imac that i'm looking at right now um
[Music] but the idea is there the sentiment is there and then i think my favorite one is uh oh well here's another here's one will gave me two and one of the ones that will gave me is my favorite one
um and so the first one he gave me was existentialist repair essays which is great but also not all of them
are repair essays right um and then gen x yankee workshop was i think is the coolest one but that's only
if i'm talking to someone who's gen x basically or older because people don't know what new yankee workshop and then again you're
explaining two different things like i don't know that you know maybe you guys maybe every single person watching this thing knows
what new yankee workshop is and has known their whole lives what new yankee workshop is but you're a very specific audience
i don't know that that's like universal enough but these are all things i can just throw out it's like and then i can just be i can just do the
casey neistat thing which is so brilliant when the per and the person
will say something like you say um it's uh gen x yankee workshop and then the person comes back and says something
like oh like the ellen degeneres show casey neistat would just be like exactly and then he would just move he would just like leave the state this he'd be
very friendly and then he would just like go away but if you're sitting across from someone on a ferry you're gonna have to
and they're only half-life they're only being polite because they were canadians they didn't give a [ __ ] um
okay so that's all of the let me look over here let me see what all these are and if i'm not reading hers it's because
um uh that's a lot for a lot of reasons okay i mean i could i guess i could also say for me it's about trying to be the best storyteller i can be and the subject matter i use is
pretty mundane like little stories that tell big stories like
um and then i'm stuck and then i'm stuck like i haven't made this yet but i'm probably gonna make it next week as part
of a bigger video but making a self-timer for my fujiroid my like fuji
instant camera that takes the old-fashioned you know polaroid pictures but it's not a polaroid because it's a fuji
um making a which i found on youtube i found like the device to use but the man who made the youtube
video just kind of used a rubber band and i'm going to build the whole like a whole like mounting system so it can
be easily removed and you don't use it and but a self-timer so you can you know take your fuji roid put it on a tripod
turn the self timer on and then whatever 10 seconds later it snaps the photo because my son's in a new school now and
they needed photographs that they hang up i guess they hang them up over there like cubby hole or something so they know where to put their
stuff that's how they did it at montessori and they needed it yesterday and like i didn't want to go through do digital
print it out let it dry all that and i was just like i have this thing and i tape or bungee corded it to a bungee cord to the camera to a tripod
there's no quarter inch mount on the bottom which is something i'll also add and then i just had to
clamp it down in such a way that it didn't restrict the picture from coming out of the camera that it didn't um
and then it like didn't block the lens and didn't hit the any of the buttons and then i just used a big steel pole
and like it took me three tries um but that was because of the exposure but it was kind of hard to do and i had to like push the button
which meant we could only be as my arm's length press the pole away and then my hand with the poles in the picture but that's kind of cool
and so i got the idea oh let's just make a self-timer that's a cool video um i i don't know i i've just lost my
total train of thought but that would be a good that would be an easy example for me to give when i was talking if i was describing
the channel um let me read over here okay so adam schafer said the the ones to pick are the motorcycle series the one about how how you raise your kids to
be adventurous and the one about nyc yeah those are good i mean
yeah i made a video about how new york city is overrated i made a movie about dangerous things i let my kid do
and i made yeah yeah i do love non-toxic masculinity and i love uh
maybe i'll lead with uh gen x yankee workshop and then if they get it i'm like oh this person's cool and then i can keep going or maybe
they are cool but they don't get it and then i can try non-toxic masculinity and then bang bang bang bang
um oh one thing i'll say about burbank parking the
the um they have a valet service we which i thought oh my god this is great because it's only a little bit more than like
whatever long-term parking you just drop off your car and you go you know you give them your key they give you a ticket you go inside on the
website they make you fill out when your your flight number when your flight's gonna arrive they say they say that you're gonna have your car ready
when you get back it's a longer process than just walking to you know the parking garage or long-term parking and just getting in
so um [Music] and then you have to go like wait in a line and redeem and do this and scan a thing from your phone i'm like you have the ticket i did this already on the
internet so i'll never use the long term part i mean i'll never use the valet parking again but
clean up your act then uh uh burbank i almost said ventura for some reason okay this is a great idea
hoser moto said one thing you could do is make up business cards with short biddly links
to your youtube videos or qr codes that link to them well or also like aqr code
and um i guess we started using qr codes from from during the pandemic and now they're just kind of an everyday thing but i remember trying to do a qr code idea maybe 10 years ago and the person
said to me have you ever used a qr code with your phone and i was like no you're right i'm not doing it but now it's i mean use it at menus and
so yeah a business card with a qr code on it and then maybe you could write out on the thing the three
examples or the show it's about this is about blah blah blah this is new york workshop for blah
blah blah non-toxic it's a great idea um in your videos like the thing is you guys can see these comments too so it's
not like i'm revealing anything uh i'm like oh check out you know you have all of these too one
thing you do makeup business okay your videos and your videos i appreciate you sharing how you find purpose and joy from
shaping the world around you yeah it's a real oh you know david mamet the guy who wrote he wrote coffee is for closers he made that up from the ether put the coffee down coffee is for closers second prize is a set of steak knives
third prize is you're fired he wrote glengarry glen ross which i think he won the pulitzer prize that's how it's
pronounced pulitzer prize um not pulitzer or pulitzer
pulitzer prize that's how i've been corrected um like by pulitzer family members
um he said david mamet said artists make art because they are annoyed i'm pretty sure that's what he said and that is the truth that's the god's
honest truth yeah that's the reason that's what it is i
mean i i think that's it that's i think that's it you're like
you know i'm annoyed that the polaroid doesn't have a self-timer on it so guess what [ __ ] you i'm not buying
another camera i'm gonna make another one um my brother was telling me about i didn't
watch his videos when he was doing his vlog because i didn't he's so he has he so easily influences me because we're
brothers i'm sure the same goes both ways and i i didn't want the influence but he was but i love it when he tells
me about them and he said and i knew exactly what he was talking about he said i think he got a ticket i'm not sure if he was on his bicycle or
if he was in a car i can't remember but for coming off of the williamsburg bridge and i'm not sure if this is when he lived no it's not when he lived on
clinton street near the williamsburg bridge and it was because the the traffic routing was just all wrong and it caused all these traffic jams and then he made
with like drones and all this stuff like how it what was wrong with it and how it should be
and they changed it they like the the city like contacted him like the mayor's office and they rerouted the whole thing
and they changed it according to his suggestions or when we did the ipod's dirty secret video where we were like yo apple why is this battery
this 300 device in 2001 this 300 device you have to throw it away after a year because the batteries
are die and you can't replace them we were annoyed um casey was annoyed with that you know i
was annoyed that the lock wouldn't go down in the car um
but i don't remember how i got onto that one oh i want to tell you why um i think
that lex friedman might be the he's one of the greatest interviewers who's ever done
uh telephotographic interviewing um he's one of the greats he's you know
uh morley schaefer or um oh who's the guy who's the other guy from 60 minutes that was so good who did
the bob dylan one bald guy beard i can't remember um
one of the i think the reason he's able to keep the thread of the conversation
he he gets you back he gets whoever he's interviewing he gets them back on the thread that's a tremendous skill he's also
extremely intelligent that helps what's the difference between self-reliant and spirited that's a good question
well you can be self-reliant be totally just full of dread and like miserable and be like ugh which
i guess i mean we all feel sometimes i feel it sometimes too but that's not what the show is about the show is about
how people with this spirit and i guess if you're self-reliant you've got to have some kind of spirit it's very hard to articulate
i heard um john lennon in one of his like late interviews when he was
um it might have been his last interview after the you know obviously after he was in the beatles and he said
he's like if you hired me to write a song i could write a song but i don't you know i don't do it for the money he's like i
it has to become it has to be inspired it has to come from the spirit
and i think that's what i think that's what a lot of us are after is to be able to live a life where
that's how you're living like that i mean you're never gonna avoid certain things you just aren't i don't care
you're just not gonna avoid them all the spirit in the world is not gonna get you out of paperwork and all the
and you can't just there's certain paperwork you cannot delegate because you will get robbed i mean you just will no one's a good enough judge of
character to not get robbed um and you got to be on top of certain things
and you've got to do paperwork and that's very very unspirited like i'm always trying to think of how to
delegate things and i'm like yeah but there's this little loophole right here where they could
just get me like in order to do this i have to divulge this password and then this person has access to this password and if they
end up resenting me down the road or feel like i've slighted them or what or snap then they have access to all and
you know even lex friedman who designs ai systems and worked at google he's an engineer
even lex friedman got ransomwared they hijacked his servers and ransomwared him and he had to pay
the ransom even lex friedman so certain things it doesn't matter how spirited you are you're gonna have to
unless i'm gonna take that back unless you die young unless you go so
fast and burn so hard that you're dead at like whatever 30 27
young before all that stuff because all that stuff's just gonna pile up like if you're some rock star i guess we all know this but if you're some rock star and you're just on the
road i don't care how many stadiums you're selling out something's gonna happen something's gonna happen if you're not on top of things and not
paranoid about you know you know safety law all you know all that stuff
and that's not spirit at work um and that happens to people all the time i just heard a a louis ck
interview he was on i think he was on rogan i listened to all like a lot of the ones that came out
so i don't remember which specifically one because he's pitching he's like plugging his fourth of july movie on his that's on his website
and he was talking about sort of his attitude that led him to getting
into trouble and he didn't say like i can't remember exactly what he said he said something
like there was an ease to being that way there was like a it was like very natural to be
oh man i'm screwing this whole thing up because i can't get the language right but i knew exactly what he meant
it's not arrogance it's kind of like cockiness but it's not quite that simple um
but for me that would manifest like if i had if i at a young age had tons and tons of money i would just not do any paperwork
and i would get in so much trouble because i hate paperwork it this is a i'm i'm a dramatist so i'm
obviously saying something that's dramatic and not literal but it's almost it almost it comes up to the point of
making life not worth it or making like doing all of this like being your own boss and being living through your you know creative
efforts it all it very closely comes to being not worth it because
and i do so little of it like i had to do a couple hours of it yesterday after being away from work for a week
like i had to book a trip and uh no one else could do it because i have to you know all my preferences what
hotels what's time the thing i do the whole plan and everything but man paperwork i can't stand it okay
okay um all right ed bradley that's it ed bradley ed bradley is the genius
uh interviewer he was he was my favorite um he was my favorite and i think the best
um 60 minutes um journalist oh one of the things i do say is that
it's and then nobody knows i say it's like a magazine column but then that's uh
what's that word anachronistic it's like it's like people kids don't know what that means really like a new yorker column you know and
then that's pretentious because new yorkers supposedly like the pinnacle of of of like opinion
supposedly um all right i think i am i think i'm ready to move on
oh i'm curious this is great eric vega says i'm curious how tom sacks describes your artwork or your videos um
me too i should ask him i had dinner with him last week hung out we're doing an adventure uh in october
gonna be maybe a series maybe i'll get three videos out of it um one will be sponsored by ecoflow
because uh he used all this ecoflow stuff for this new project that he's doing um
and it was nice to see him and it was nice for him to see my son because he hadn't seen my s i don't know that he'd oh he'd seen my
son when he was here he saw my son when my son was like 18 months old or something and now my son's four and he has a five-year-old son
and uh you know we went to the studio he has this incredible project that he built and he set up this whole
presentation for us it was so great and so well done and had been rehearsed really well and the lighting was perfect
um yeah i'm curious what he would say too all right i'm going to move on to the thank you so much for all these super helpful and i'm better now i'm like
i'm already more comfortable like when people ask me i'm gonna be more i'm gonna be more um scintillating
or uh there's a word that means like curiosity inducing but i can't remember what it is
um okay so here's some of the questions that i wrote down and get to all of them i don't think but i took a bite out of
some of them um so max said he's moving into his first dedicated art studio and then he asked
me for suggestions and one thing you got to be really conscious of when you have your art okay so the it's so sacred
for an artist to get their own studio that is a huge huge accomplishment so congratulations
that is a and that's a big jump we all dream of it our whole lives and when you get one boy it's really it's a
sacred big deal thing like the ccp the first thing they did to ai wei away is they destroyed like they physically destroyed
his studio and i remember watching that documentary and just being like those jerks those bureaucratic jerks
those pencil pushing following commie jerks have no idea what it's like
to be an artist and and and and and acquire the resources through the
things that you make or however you do it to have your own studio in the sanctity of a studio
and it made me sick when i heard that and then when they put him in jail a bunch of my friends i i unfortunately did not do it regrettably didn't do it
they went and just protested outside the chinese um embassy and i'm pretty sure a friend of mine owned the building that the
chinese embassy was in could that be i think so i think they leased it from anyhow
um this uh suggestion i one thing to be cognizant of and one thing to be really hyper aware of is that studio is your sacred space and that energy you get to
make your thing is not turn on turn off it takes a long time from a day-to-day practice it takes a long time to get into that
zone where you get your subconscious where you're working through your subconscious and that's how you're going to do your best work so you have to be
very very strict and very very deliberate about managing your studio visits because a lot of people are going
to see your studio as a cool social place to go hang out and smoke cigarettes and drink whiskey and smoke weed and take acid and blah blah blah
and talk and [ __ ] and you've got to really have a i don't know if it's a set of rules i i don't know there's a beautiful there's a
beautiful picture of my brother's the door of my brother's studio which we used to share and it says no social
visits ever or something like that no no unannounced visits ever so i that's a big suggestion i would
have i would also have a really make it like have it organized such that
it can be reset in like an hour no matter what storm of creativity has destroyed and
pulled every book off of the shelves and every tool out of the drawers have a system in place where you can reset it perfectly because you're going
to want when you go from project to project you're going it depends on the personality i'm just talking from myself and those i know you're going to want to
start from beauty and perfection and like a a strange kind of silent so those two things i are the are the biggies
um what else yeah don't use it as a storage facility
stacks and i wrote for his for this book that we're writing together we wrote a whole thing a whole chapter about the studio and about like
you know store things up in the ceiling if you can if you have rafters that's a good storage space but your studio is a
factory it is not a warehouse once you finish your thing get it the hell out of there don't let things in there you know if they have to go in storage if they
have i don't know if you have to sell them i don't know i don't know what you're making so get them i'm lucky everything i have is on a hard drive so it doesn't you
know just it's microscopic but uh yeah when you're finished making something unless it's an artifact for the studio when you finish making it get
that get the hell out of there um [Music] yeah that's enough that's good um oh this is good ray asked in i think he was talking maybe about my gratitude video
uh what does being a sensitive man mean and i think that the
psycholo the psychology term i might have this wrong but i'm pretty sure the psychology term for the word
sensitive is neurotic and that just means um i think that
means um you have a propensity to negative emotions but also sensitivity is
i think it's a feel it's a feel for when things are very beautiful or things are very sad it's like a heightened
emotional um response system within your within your
body and mind um it's not exactly insecurity it's not i mean there are people who are sensitive
who could tear your head off your shoulders there are people who are sensitive who could fly into a village and kill
um you know 50 000 people or maybe not that many you know it's it's not it's not a lack
of strength it's not that it's a it's a it's a form of like it's a form of strength because you're willing to
feel i think it's a willingness to feel um a willingness to feel i guess like a
willingness to just endure like to feel and then ace it's hard to talk about without a sensitivity without using the
word sensitivity but then the feelings probably affect sensitive
people i imagine more acutely than they affect people who are not sensitive and that's why the
arts are generally filled with sensitive people because these little tiny little teeny teeny things drive us
absolutely crazy like vinyl siding you know it's against the law in um columbia south carolina to put vinyl and in the historical parts of columbia
south south carolina to put vinyl siding on your house therefore all of the houses are beautiful they're all done in like clapboard or if they're
you know brick then they're brick buildings and that's something a sensitive person would appreciate
and then a non-sensitive person like should i just should i say it no like people i know
like people i know that you don't know um they you'd have a very very very very
difficult time even if you had the two materials in front of the person you would have an extremely difficult time explaining the
difference between vinyl siding and wooden siding so but i don't i just it looks exactly the same
it is indistinguished like homie you can see the brush strokes in the in the in the in the wooden
siding you can see like how they they crack differently where the two boards meet um
there are sensitivities i don't have like with food i don't care this is salty sweet and has fat i like it
and i don't i don't like i don't like fine i hate fine dining um
[Music] and and then i have i don't know yeah a sensitivity is just like a like a geiger counter or like a seismograph
ideally you want to be a seismograph you can detect if someone's walking in the building but you can withstand a 9.7
earthquake and record it but yeah neurotic is sort of the
uh pejorative word for sensitive and i also think it might be the scientific word for it high in negative emotions
oh eric asked my favorite question how's the engine swap coming so yesterday
i booked my hotels and returned flight from montana because i made the decision
that i'm going oh i i now have enough money to pay for the labor i bought the last year
i had enough money to buy the engine and the transmission which cost a
ktm six days enduro motorcycle and then a 30 more of like one and a third ktm six
days motorcycle which is a pretty expensive enduro beautiful motorcycle that i would love to own so
that's how much the parts cost and then i have additional parts that they have to make and the labor and that's about
two more ktm six days and so i have that money now i know i
have half of that money now so i can bring the bike i can bring them sorry the land cruiser up to montana to
overland out fitters where they like their specialists in doing this swap and they have all the they have the special bell housing for
the transmission and they have all the wire harnessing and they've done it a bunch of times they know all the little hang-ups and the this and oh this one's
wired parallel and now remember for the headlights this is the there's all this mini this is not something you will figure it out you don't want that
guy changing your engine so i decided i was gonna ship it i was like back and forth back and forth drive it
it's more poetic to drive it um you know and shipping it and i'm used to
like the prices of when gas wasn't expensive and i'm used to the prices of when we shipped isabelle's car out to california and my motorcycle out to
california was like not that expensive i was like okay it's cheaper it's not a week where i'm not going to be able to post a video because i'm
going to be driving to montana that week and um you know there's less risk that can that
that something can go wrong on the on the trip or whatever and then i called shipping places
uh and it was twice as expensive or about three times as expensive as i thought it was it was like more than
twice as expensive as shipping a car from in 2016 shipping a car from new york to los
angeles and it's half the distance maybe even be less than half the distance and so then i was like you know
subconsciously i really do want to drive the thing there and um i want to see just how tough this
engine this old engine is and i want to see if i can manage this thing and get it there because the the
reason i'm i'm i'm i'm sweeping swapping the engine out of this 87 land cruiser has a 2h
diesel 6 straight 6 engine in it with a toyota um oem toyota not oem no i don't even know it's toyota turbo and toyota
turbo like intake manifold and then uh you know sort of custom plumbing and stuff of the turbo
but even with the turbo there's i this thing has i don't know how many horsepower it's got to be with its age it's got to be well under 100 like 85
horsepower or something this big like 5 500 pound truck and so going up mountain passes
um 35 miles an hour with your foot on the floor um and the thing redlining at 3000 rpms
i was driving it to um just up to malibu cafe a few weeks ago and i'm torture testing it you know i'm
getting rid of the transmission and the engine i can do whatever the hell i want to this thing um i could drain all the oil and drive it and blow that you know
seize the thing up if i wanted to so i was driving to malibu cafes a couple months ago and uh foot on the floor it
was 100 degrees out um it was 95 degrees out or 90 degrees out air conditioning on full blast going up
a mountain pass and um you know the the temperature gauge was
past red but those temperature those gauges are notorious for when they move
a little bit or when they move to a certain mark they just all go because it also said beyond full tank of gas it all said
beyond like my battery was blah blah blah those gauges just go haywire so you can't really trust that
gauge and if you knock on the on the on the temperature gauge it'll kind of come back down but when i got to
malibu cafe uh there was smoke coming out from the underneath the hood and i so i popped
the hood and then the fiberglass shielding that goes around the um turbocharger
because it's not factory turbo it's not factory installed turbo and everything's too close together so you have to put this shielding on it it was
on fire and so i have a you know thank god i have a fire extinguisher under the driver's seat and i put the thing out
so i'm gonna be driving it in september it's super duper duper hot in september i have to cross the mojave desert
um i have to go up gigantic mouth go up to rockies i have to go you know i have to go
through i mean i'm a little bit familiar with this drive i think i think i've done this drive before and anyway i'm familiar with
driving out here and like even the first pass i have to go over is major so i'm going to be in the breakdown lane 35 miles an hour hazards on trying to get
this thing to bozeman montana and that's the status so i booked all
the hotels i'm going to be staying in on the way i'm going to do the trip in three days even though i could it's i could it's supposed to be like a 16 hour drive i'm
still bringing up in three days just in case something goes wrong i can deliver it to them in time uh and then i'm flying back and the
flight back was like 88 it's like 100 super cheap to fly back from bozeman montana to lax
and that's the status and that's uh septem september 12th and then six weeks after that they say i
get to drive it home with a new engine that weighs about 300 pounds less than the old engine which is significant for an engine
it's like having two fewer passengers in the car it's significant and has way more horsepower way more torque and then
the guy who owns the business says he has my exact setup he says i have the same transmission and the same
engine and he said the thing will do like 80 like no matter what because it has torque it has so much torque and he's like i drive over mountain passes every
day in montana on my way to work and he's like doesn't care guess 25 miles to the gallon so i'm really and then when the warranty
is up i'm going to have it chipped i'm going to have it tuned there's a place that you get you can get 40 more horsepower and like 100 more foot-pounds
of torque it's a place in um albuquerque but there's probably a place here too that does tunes these specific cummins is but that's the that's what's going on
i got new tires for it i got yokohama um i went in there i was like i just want them quiet i don't care i don't care
about off-road i don't care about snow i don't care about anything i just want them to be as quiet as we can get them and so he gave me these
yokohama geolanders which aren't the ko2s that everybody has the you know the bridgestone ko2's is what everybody puts
on everything but i like the smooth ones i like the way they look because i have 15-inch it's like tiny little wheels instead big
fat tires around them like big bubble tires around them and they still they're still a lug sole and they still do okay and dirt and sand and all that stuff
so and then i got the alignment done which i'll probably have to get done when i get back from
yeah i'll have to get it done again when i get back from uh montana but yeah that's the status and of course i can get maybe
a couple videos out of this so uh that's coming up um time is that [ __ ] i have i haven't run
yet today okay steven asks the best arguments against film school
okay so um okay obviously it's super crazy expensive i don't okay the okay um i think you all i don't know what today's landscape is but i think if you want to make cinema
and it is extremely unlikely that you will even if you go to the one of the two
best film schools in the world it's all it's still unlikely and those schools are hundreds of thou they're probably seventy thousand dollars a year
six usc and nyu and i kind of don't think any of the other ones really matter but maybe i'm wrong but because i
don't really know about that stuff but i will say the successful people that i know who make their own direct who who make their
own films or direct studio films they all went to film school and that
system that cinema system um i'm sorry not the cinema system the studio system or the give me a shitload
of money give me millions of dollars so that i can make this script into a
you know blockbuster or whatever hollywood movie with smoothie stars in it is a very very closed system you have to deal
with people who have inherited their way who's who are legacy in that system that system doesn't generally trust
people who weren't born wealthy i mean um and i'm pretty sure it was josh safty
who told me that and he wasn't he didn't grow up i mean you were wealthy compared to me because he grew up in new york city but that guy's a genius i mean that guy's
brilliant nothing was going to stop him and he's working with his brother who's equally brilliant so you have two of those that nothing was going to stop
them they happened to go to byu film school their film uh the pleasure of being robbed did not get into the byu
um the byu film festival the i'm not b by u i'm sorry b u boston
university i'll just say that they went to film school at boston university josh and ben did and
josh's movie called the pleasure of being robbed that he wrote and directed did not get accepted into the boston
university film festival the same year that it did get accepted into the cannes
film festival so i asked you is was it smart to go to that you know did he really is that film
school really to be trusted um so i'm sort of playing both sides of the fence there here it's like if you want
to go into that cinema system and it's it's very unlike i keep saying cinema i'm sorry the studio system of
making you know traditional movies that you think of like movies with um you know ryan gosling in them you know
those big movies i think it's sort of almost impossible to do it another way i
mean and then the outliers you know thousands of people make make films thousands
and then we use these outliers that are extraordinary geniuses and we say well i don't have to do it the way that everybody else does it because
tarantino didn't do it it's like okay well he's one of the greatest ever and you're not that person you know you're probably not that person
because you're you know if you are it's already it's already happened for you you know it takes it takes maybe it takes those guys like three years to get
their first film from off get to get it made because they're so the thing about a lot of these guys
they're unbelievably savvy and crafty and incredible businessman and and they just get it done so
my argument again i mean the chief argument is that it's expensive in that um it doesn't i i don't think it it it
necessarily guarantees anything um [Music] uh um if it depends on what you want though like if you're going to be a cinematographer i think you have to go
and you're going to have you're going to get jobs you will get jobs there's i don't think there are enough cinematography and i don't mean a guy who knows how to use a camera i mean a
cinematographer i know a guy i mean i mean a guy who knows like all the different kinds of if you've ever seen the cinematographer
like union book of all the equipment a guy who or gal who knows all that stuff who knows what lights do what with the
reflection and what chemicals and how to long and this stop bath and this and they know film they know um did they know all the
different sensors and cameras and oh and you know like a university educated elite mind
cinematographer then go to film school yes and you will make your money back and you get in the unions and um
yeah or like an editor all those union jobs but if you want to be a filmmaker you want to be the top you want to be
stanley kubrick or you know martin scorsese or whatever very very very very
or even people you know just a career director very slim chance i mean if you can swing
it go that's what i say if you can swing it and not go into debt go someone will pay for it go um but if you think going
to film school makes it more likely that you will make a film that you write and direct i don't think that that's true because you can
take the 250 300 000 whatever that you would have spent on film school you can take that and make a film
and then boom you're a filmmaker so that's another argument against or maybe that's the same
argument against it um and then the arguments against like do you have youtube
you can build up you know the equipment is very it used to be that was the only way you had access to the multi-million dollar
equipment you know there are panavision lenses that cost millions of dollars um and all of the
and the and the very excellent equipment is cheap you can afford it with you know a summer job you know i'm talking about now digital
equipment to make a film and the editing software is 300 bucks and it's you can learn it pretty quickly um and you can learn
being the thing about like uh being a big big high personnel filmmaker is you really have to be an excellent manager and i mean that like in a non-arty way like an
excellent manager you have to be extremely good at working with people you have to be very good politically you have to be very good at like
working with people who are way above you who are insanely um belligerent and terrified and could lose their job
at any moment and they'll blame you and then you have to work with like union guys who've done their job for since before your father was born and
they know a hundred times more about filmmaking than you do you have to work with that guy and he has like some low-level job like he drives a truck
um and you know i don't know i think if you don't have that like disposition of being able to be um you know to work with huge numbers of
people and to handle extreme pr pressure i don't think film school will help you film school
will not help you get a job making films it will help you get an internship making films it will help you get a
labor job working on a film but you know youtube you can earn a living even if i mean you can you can put the time in you can you can learn all this there's all these
master classes there's all this equipment that's relatively cheap
and also we need new blood we need new people who didn't go to film school to make films we need them and
we need that point of view so i don't know those are my arguments against it when if you're in doubt don't go it's
not gonna you know i think a lot of people are like if i have this
i don't know i think they think it's a gateway i think a lot of people think that like film school is a gateway it's like oh if i go to nyu film then i can go you know direct a movie i can write a script and
direct a movie it's like yes but you can write a script and direct a movie if you don't go to nyu film school and it's very unlikely that you're going to be able to write a
script to direct a movie either way so that's my argument against it but having said that all the people i know who've
made you know feature films that have movie stars in them they all went to film school um
[Music] justin asked how do you start learning to fix and create new things i'd say get a swiss champ swiss army knife oh how to
uh start learning to fix and create new things um justin asked that get a swiss army knife
a swiss champ with the pliers in it and then um when things break before throwing them away take them apart and see if you can
fix them and then if you need a certain tool oh if i just had this if i just had a saw if i just had something to cut metal
get a good version of that tool a nice expensive version of that of that tool and then build up your tool collection
and just keep doing things like that and if you have a notion for making something make it all the way through until you're done making it and don't move on to the next thing until you
finish making the first thing even if it's like a coat hook even if it's a shelf and just keep doing that over and over and over again
with everything um oh paulo asks what stains i use i don't
really use stains i use this stain on my son's casket that i made him for his birthday but i usually use drying oils
and uh the one i use the most is called linseed oil and this i don't know what this is probably like eight bucks it's kind of
it's pretty cheap and you just put it on like a rag and then you
[Music] actually just dump it on the the wood and then you spread it very thickly and get it even and then let it sit
there for a few minutes and then wipe off the exit excess and then it over time it turns at this beautiful golden color
also used this on like if you need it to be really sturdy and it needs to sort of resist stains the finish i use this stuff it's super expensive like 50 bucks
for this little thing and it's wax it has like it's natural oil wax based micro porous
water repellent and durable i think it's from germany and uh it's that's what i used on our kitchen table
we have like a what's it called uh live green live green that end
i don't know we have a um i can't remember what it's called but when they take a tree and they fillet it and you just get like the bark too and like we
have a from a sycamore tree and we have that for a kitchen table that's what we used to we bought the
wood from a mill and that's what we used to finish it and it's fantastic because it's just kind of like you just using a rag and wiping on there but it takes you
know overnight to dry um angelique asked do creators rely too
much on animation or special effects i don't really know i don't think i've watched enough variety i have like 10
people that i watch and it's mostly people it's like people who talk about cars or uh
podcasts like lex friedman's or like that so i don't really know
um do i have any new storytellers to recommend i can recommend a movie there's a movie called come on come on that mike mills made not the guy from
rem the film director mike mills and it's excellent i think it came out last year it's so great
um i watched it a couple nights ago he's a really great filmmaker
he also made thumb sucker and he made a short call for my i think he made a short for my friend andy spade called
paper boy not the paper boy not the one with the heartbreak got with the beautiful guy and the nicole kidman
not that one but a movie called paperboy i think about a paperboy it was like a short film um and then illy asked me
all right let me read this nicely let's say you were to talk to your past self about your process when making videos
if you had to tell him you what equipment style or process not to use and if
and what to definitely use what would those things be all right i would say i mean my past self
i mean do i have to go back and i just have to go back in time i don't know i would say adopt when the
when final cut pro 10 comes out first of all yeah when final cut as soon as final cut pro
10 comes out use it um and then i started on imovie but it was
an older version of imovie that was much more intuitive than the new one i believe um
i would say make sure you use if you're recording sound like especially if you're recording someone
someone talking you absolutely and with and there is no way around this and you cannot improvise any other way but an external mic like a
non-camera not not the mic that's on the camera you absolutely cannot use that um
um get the whatever the audio technica or whatever shotgun mic i have i can't remember the name it's the one everybody
gets like 300 bucks um camera just get you know i had that t2i
i think that's the best one if you're starting out because you don't have any money but you can get a whole bunch of different lenses for it um now they have like a t7i and there's
everything's so much cheaper now everything was really hard back then it was hard to make decisions and there was no like it was hard to decide what to buy
because there were so few digital filmmakers so you know the equipment
um the equipment is far less important than the then the storytelling ability and the
writing and the and the like just the persistence and the finishing of the projects
like the equipment is the equipment is almost someone else's job i kind of feel like i you know if i
delegated that whole equipment thing it's like fine just whatever i don't care i i i don't care i don't care just whatever equipment you the other person
who's using it is using is fine by me but if i have to use it it's got to be like the simplest most straightforward and
high quality thing i would say stick to canon but my brother is a sony guy you know i just find canon just easier and that
their logic about their the way their operating systems works is more in sync with the way i think um
[Music] and then you know it's it's really quantity not quality and i cannot emphasize enough the importance
of finishing the project and not going back on your like original idea like i cannot emphasize that much
because it it is impossible to do these things without hitting a wall where everyone else quits and to this day
every single video i make i hit this wall where i'm just like this isn't the right job for me i picked the right i'm 22
years into this and uh it's just like i did i pick i shouldn't be doing this i should be doing another job
and it's just that's just the wall and you have to just get through that and you have to finish every i don't know
how many videos i've ever given up on maybe three i don't even know if i don't know i can't remember any really you just it's
quantity it is not quality it is quantity not a hundred percent but 75 it's
quantity the practice keep going and going and going and going and that's to do what i do and that's to do it the way that i did it
some people spend a lifetime writing a script and it's an absolute masterpiece and it gets made into a film and that
that's that the way that they did it but you're asking me and i say quantity quantity quantity just keep going that's the like the
thing about these youtubers it's so hard it is so so hard these kids that make it look easy these kids that are 19 years old
these you know mr beast and all this stuff they've been doing it even the 16 year olds have been doing it for 10 years and
the ones that get lucky i'm sorry they don't get lucky the ones that get find success i'm thinking of i've never seen any of his videos
but i'm thinking of the kid and he takes like a penny and he's like i'm gonna take this penny and i'm gonna go across the country and i'm just gonna spend this penny
um because i hear about him on like colin and samir all the time like that kid is br he's like 11 years old he's like i don't know how old he is 19 20 21.
he cranks those things out every week he's got a team he has like some of these guys have multiple editors and then they pick the edit they like them
but that is so hard to do it is so hard to do but the thing that they all have in common is they focus and they finish and they do the things
like the grind of youtube is oh i heard a great on colin and samir the one that came out i think yesterday
i heard a great this guy he was like a karate youtuber and he was doing okay he was doing pretty well at it i guess and he'd been doing it for a long time for a
while and then he said um and he's like a professional i think that's how he he's probably like
24 years 23 years old or something like this right maybe he'd be doing it for six years or something and i think he'd he was successful like
maybe he could you know pay for his little apartment and stuff and then he said he set out to make he said it wasn't as fun as it was
it wasn't his fun making these videos and that he set out to make this video
for about um how to train like a teenage mutant ninja turtle and he just was gonna do it just for fun and he said he
was just incapable of having fun he was still worried about the thumbnails and the duration and the story and stuff and i would argue that
this is not fun it's not fun it's work it isn't fun i mean there's aspects that are fun but there's aspects
of almost just about everything that are fun i mean so it's
if if you're not having fun that doesn't mean you're not doing it right and ag and it's like it's a it's just
like a feeling but you really have to go and you have to get a lot of practice and you have to i've made thousands and thousands of these yeah i started a channel two years ago but i started
doing this making videos all the time that was what my did that's that's what i did with my life and i just made tons
and tons and tons of little videos most of them bad um but i learned tons and tons and every single time you
finish when you learn a little bit more and a little bit more and a little bit more and there's no getting around that and um
there's no you know i think don't go pro if you're if you're
not making a liv not a living but like if you're not getting paid two thousand dollars to make a video and you've been at it
a wedding video a video for any kind of video work bar mitzvah whatever if you're not getting paid two thousand dollars to do that and two thousand is
the is the bare minimum should be more like five thousand dollars and you've been at it for you know six seven eight years
i don't know i think maybe you have to consider reconsider it as a as a job this thing about persistence persistence
persistence yeah but you have to be alive you know you're alive and if you have kids and a wife and stuff like what they're gonna
you're gonna make them pay for your thing which might i mean that's just my this is what i'm thinking right now um
because i've seen the kids i have it's it's it's astonishing to me the number of successful people that
were in my community when i was starting out it's astonishing to me because
it is so so so so so rare that people find success with this stuff and so many of them you know lena dunham had had a
had a studio in 368 broadway when i was there and you know she did kids on hbo which is a big hit show greta gerwig
she was one of our gangs she directed a you know wrote and directed a uh oscar-nominated movie um
josh and ben um neve shulman arielle shulman uh henry juiced they just did a
bruckheimer movie um i can't even remember what the question oh but i they found all of those people were very
the success came pretty early not it wasn't 10 years it was like because they knew at such a young age they knew it whatever when
they went to college they knew that uh you know lena dunham knew she wanted to make cinema and she did she made this little movie
called tiny furniture and judd apatow saw it and fell in love with it she how old was she 23
you know i don't know 24 or like arielle and and and henry they were what were they 25
at the most 26 something like that when they made um catfish the movie they made that and it was great and then you know the brother
spun it off and made a tv series and then those guys universal bought catfish so they you know they made their both film school
um who else josh and ben safty that ben made a short called acquaintances of a lonely john
got into can same year josh safety his first feature film that he made with blood with that move
blood he made that movie with it was impossible everything went wrong everything cars broke everything and he finished that movie
can he went to can he was a kid and uh um i just i i hate to say it but it happens like relatively fast it happens and and also it also happens i've found for the
successful people that i know you get these encouraging bumps every month or so something so i don't
know that's something new that's something i would probably tell myself but that's there's no trick there's no it's like talent which is just
intelligence and interest and um and then you know everyone works hard so
you're forced to work hard i heard joe rogan say something it was great he's like you have to work hard but you also have to think hard
it's not just hard work that's going to get you where you want to go it's also it's also hard thinking
so that's it i kind of say this all the time but i'm like i kind of feel one of my jobs is to discourage people because i think the messaging is bs
about you can do whatever you want no you can't you can't i'm sorry i will never play in the and no matter what i do i will never play in
the nba and you know what i'll probably never race dakar and i really want to do that i don't have enough motorcycle
experience it's the most dangerous remote second most dangerous motorsport in the world it's extremely difficult
it's super expensive it's so time consuming i'm 47 years old i'm probably not gonna do dakar and that
was a dream of mine and i honestly thought i could do it if i was persistent enough and so forth but you know what i can't do that and make a
living at making these little videos like i had to pick one and so you know i picked this one
um oh this kind of answers the question sam asked how would i encourage someone to
wake up and try to live their dream go one at a time i think you gotta go one and go small
like if your dream is to win an oscar you gotta rewind you gotta go away when you're so far
away from that how about you about your dream like you know how about move to new york first how about do that break it down
into little pieces because that maybe that's a dream of yours i can't believe like i meet like i would i remember after casey and i had some success with
the hbo show and that was like the first thing that my parents and their peers they underst they knew what it meant they
knew that what hbo meant because you know they were older and they didn't know anything about internet videos or whatever
so when we were on hbo they were like oh these guys have made it you know they've made it that expression and i remember talking to the like some
friends that parents some of my parents friends that i always looked up to when i was a kid and i thought like and still do had like a lot of respect
for and hearing a few of them say i always wanted to live in new york city and in my mind i
mean obviously i didn't say this but in my mind i was like you didn't get that far you didn't get that far like okay that's a big difficult step
but come on you can do that when you're 19. like that you know you can do you can moving to new york that's not the hard part that's not the [ __ ] hard part
so i'd say you know to wake up and live your own dream also it's um
it doesn't work i'm gonna save up my money and do blah blah blah and when i have external i'm going to and
or i'll go i'll move to new york as soon as i have a job in new york sorry you got to move there first
that's how it is with like everything it's like this leap of faith and then you know if you um
you truly want something the universe conspires to see that you get it and uh everybody will help you discover what you set out to find
and the faith thing the just faith faith like that's where you get to be a fool
you get to be an idiot and you get to just step off the ledge like an um jones i can't remember which one
but like he's reading all these clues to get to this treasure and he gets the edge of this cliff and uh so ingenious and it's just said
something about having faith and he just walks he just like closes his eyes and walks off the edge of the cliff and
it turns out that there was a like plank that went across the cliff to the other cliff on the other side of the gorge
and if you looked at it from his point of view it was painted to look exactly like the cavern that you would die if
you fell into but when they moved it was done so well when they moved the camera you could see oh no that's like a huge that's just a
board that's painted invisible that moment is always that's it's that all the time all
the time driving next two weeks driving to montana to you know it's a little different now because i have you guys and you're
protecting me from like going broke but you know um
[Music] i'm at it i've been at it for a very very long time and the faith is like a little bit right now when i get to opportunity to have faith in something
it's a little bit of a perversion it's like can't wait to see how this goes because that's another thing you have faith in it things can turn out not what
you thought not what you know you have to be open to that so how how would i encourage someone to
wake up and try to live their dreams just break it up into little pieces i always say put your back up against the wall you know don't have backup
plans and plan b's and all this stuff and just break them down to little ones
you know break it up into the little dreams i've lived so many i mean i'm very very very fortunate and blessed
but i've had um i've lived so so many dreams that i've had that i've just like had this
image or this dream is a great word for it but it's like an image it's like you see yourself doing this thing
and um it's so far away from you it's inconceivable how the hell you're ever going to do that and then you're there
at some point and the i think the chief thing is even maybe above hard work i think the chief thing is faith is that faith like when you get to those steps or you get to those parts where
you're like man this is all the money i have and i'm a hundred dollars short and you do it anyway it's for me it was
money for me it's money for other people it's other things for me it was always money because i have a great imagination i can do anything with money with a
little bit of money you can do anything with money you know so it's like the great life lubricant the only barrier to everything i've ever wanted to do has
always been money it hasn't been any other thing because thank god i'm like a healthy person and um
so and i you know you know you call this what you're doing with all of this and you're living your dreams and going after these adventures
is you're just building yourself into the best person you can be like the bravest you can be the most honest you can be the hardest working you can be
the most thoughtful you can be the most considerate you can be it's all those virtues that they've been talking about since you know i don't know marcus
aurelius or before that and that's what these adventures are is
they're you're exercising and like god i look at someone like joe rogan i'm just like man i'm [ __ ] lazy bum loser like
but you know a couple things he was like his soul his like
the goodness in his soul was able to handle the very fast success
that he achieved and he didn't squander it because he had this focus he did martial arts and and stand-up comedy
which are so very very difficult that and he was committed to them that the humility was undeniable there was no
just because he had a lot of money it didn't mean anything in the face of having to be funny in front of people and having to fight people and um
you know he said i went on two auditions people are like how did you handle your audition process he said i went on two auditions
one or maybe it was like three and he got every single one of them one was like news radio one was fear factor and one was like a baseball show i can't remember what it was called he started
making money when he was like 26 so his struggle he doesn't say he he denies it he's like well i don't really have that that's not really part of my story the
like struggling to make it is not part of my story because you know i at 26 i got network tv show
but he was so focused on these things and he chose like the hardest thing stand-up comedy that's like the hardest and best art
form and fighting those like the two things that that are the most terrifying things to do like when i hear him talking about
like being afraid of riding motorcycles fast through the traffic and stuff i'm like what are you kidding me this isn't scary at
all compared to what you do like every day but i think the point is
i think the point is you know you're making yourself into the best person you can be and that's what
the that's what the adventure is and that's what you know i want to be a filmmaker and i want to make feature films and then well that's the
that's what we get out of it that's the uh that's the um that's like the external uh
not side effect but the um the um not residue the um oh man come on gotta just i gotta i gotta get that what's that alpha brain stuff that rogan sells on his site
um wow i can't think of them i can't think of the word it's so embarrassing and it was the but um you know you're doing the internal growth and you're getting making
yourself stronger including physically stronger and you're learning things and you're refining your morality and you're trying
to be the best person and in your quest to do this thing that's very very
difficult that we call in america we call it like living your dream or whatever but break it up into little pieces
and then don't stop until each one is done okay i haven't ran run yet so i'm like
late uh i'm late not byproduct not residuals not collateral that those three were all
coming to me too i couldn't think of i couldn't think of it um all right i'm gonna think for one minute
what this word is i mean byproducts is fine but there's a
better word all right i'm gonna all right i'm gonna go for my run and uh you guys have a great weekend
and there's no video coming out on the channel because i just got back a couple days ago from the east
but next friday should be a good one or maybe next i'm gonna be able to get it out next thursday all right take care have a good weekend
Products & Tools Mentioned
- Ecoflow mentions — sponsor for upcoming Tom Sachs adventure
- GoPro 10 essential — one camera to keep - pocket-sized
- Canon uses — camera brand preferred for logic and OS
- Sony mentions — Casey's camera brand preference
- iMac uses — computer referenced
- JetBlue mentions — airline at Burbank
- Fujiroid (Fuji Instax) uses — instant camera, building self-timer for it
- Yokohama Geolander tires uses — new quiet tires for Land Cruiser
- linseed oil uses — primary wood finish used
- Cummins recommends — engine swap discussed, Albuquerque tuning
- KTM Six Days Enduro mentions — motorcycle used as price reference for engine swap
- Toyota Land Cruiser (1987, 2H diesel) essential — truck engine swap detailed discussion
- Overland Outfitters (Bozeman MT) recommends — specialist shop for Cummins swap
People Referenced
Casey Neistat, Tom Sachs, David Mamet, Lex Fridman, Ed Bradley, Joe Rogan, Colin and Samir, Lena Dunham, Greta Gerwig, Josh Safdie, Ben Safdie, Neve Schulman, Ariel Schulman, Henry Joost, John Lennon
Books Mentioned
- The War of Art
Films & Media Referenced
- documentary about Klaus Kinski
- film starring Kinski
- film starring Kinski
- film that got Apatow's attention
- documentary, Universal bought it
- basketball documentary by Safdies/ESPN
- 8-episode series
- PBS show about furniture making