LIVESTREAM: FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 2022, 9am PDT
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A Labor Day weekend 2022 session. Van takes patron questions heading into September. Short session, end-of-summer feel.
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good morning weather report yesterday was heat stroke during my run at 10 30 a.m
today i ran at 7 00 a.m and it was the perfect temperature for running and maybe it was 10 degrees
warmer than the perfect temperature for running but it wasn't heat stroke temperature uh
i might have when i did this setup for this live stream i might have there's this setting that you do for the
comments and it allows and it sets the frequency for the comments like how often they come up and i might have nope it's five seconds
okay i think it's five seconds i might have accidentally left it at defaults at 60 seconds but i might have and i usually change it
to five seconds so after you write a question it takes five seconds to come up
all right so i i've never done this before but i'm simultaneously uploading this week's
youtube video with um as i do this live stream so if there's any weird technical
glitches that's probably the reason although it says upload complete on the on the youtube studio here
and normally i print out normally i read ahead of time and print out the questions that you guys write in
uh on the patreon page but today i i i mistimed i mistimed it so i'll have
to be reading them in real time uh as i answer them so first one and then i'm i'm just gonna
go in oldest to newest so the early bird gets the worm on this one so
ben asks me what's your advice on using copyrighted music for video projects i would say just don't do it don't get in the habit
of doing it either download this is what i did i worked with a musician for a long time
and then um he got too big for me to afford i will once i'm bigger once i have more money i
intend to go back and book him but now he's big and um his name's gray gersten and um busy so
and then he he taught me a lot about composing and scoring for um
for uh videos and i have no there's like the musical side that's in your heart side of musical
um competence right and then there's the math side with all the lines and the scales and all the dots
and stuff and there are some musicians who don't like famous professional musicians uh
who don't know how to read music and don't know how to write music and then there are
classically trained musicians like flea i think flea was trained the the bassist for red hot chili peppers i'm pretty
sure he was trained at like a conservatory like he's like a real deal uh musician but he can rock out and go
crazy like everyone else so i have absolutely none of the the math side the writing side and um
it's prohibitively just boring i'm a super crazy slow learner and it's um
i don't know i've never had the will to learn that side having said that i play with musical instruments and
you know there's all kinds of electronic music musical instruments that you can download and sort of play with
um that and you can make tones maybe not music but maybe not structured music but you can make tones that sound
pretty good with your videos and you probably shouldn't be using narrative music with your videos
anyway i mean they're very very very very very v there's like three people in the world who can use narrative music
um and have it match with the tone and with the um with the uh
story of their project like like wes anderson is one of them and martin scorsese used to be one of
them and he is no longer like he has somehow i don't know he's like burned that skill out or something
but there's this temptation what happens when you use copyrighted music that's excellent is that the music becomes the foreground
of what you're making and when the thing that you're making psychologically you think it's much better than it
actually is because the music is so damn good like it's almost impossible to use a bob
dylan track in a movie although wes anderson can do it he used um but he just used a musical track and
it was a soundtrack from a previous movie which you should never do unless your name is wes anderson he's like
wes anderson there's like there's certain levels this is obviously this is all my opinion and i'm just talking out of my ass but
that's what you're here for um there are certain levels of skill and mastery within like
making motion picture narratives and some things seem easy
and they're for everyone but they're actually extremely sophisticated and they're for like four people
and one of those things is using um iconic music from a movie like a music that has been married to the movie
to such an extent that there's no like when you hear that song the movie comes up like highway to the danger zone
like okay ad companies like pepsi will use that but it's going to be in reference to the to top gun
but then like all that surfer music from from um from pulp fiction sorry you can't use it
you can't use any of that surfer music now wes anderson used um this some of the score from pat
garrett and billy the kid that bob dylan scored but how many you people seen pat garrett and billy the kid it was like 50 years
ago 40 years ago um also i was watching this movie called
i'm not going to remember the name of it and i'm going to blow the whole story
[Music] never mind but certain people certain cinephiles like wes anderson can find these songs from old cinema
that none of us saw that and then use them better in their movie like um uh
um in true romance which uh tarantino wrote but i believe it was
directed by like tony scott yeah i think it was directed by tony scott who did uh who um made
um top gun and there's that like i don't know who i don't i don't know the musician it's like i don't know if
it's classical music or if it's like 20th century music but it's like that
that he used and it was originally in originally i don't know what it was for but it was in i feel like it was in days
of heaven and i also feel like it was in once upon a time in america although i might just be confusing the imagery
because the imagery in those two movies are a little bit similar some of the imagery and tony scott pulled it off
but maybe just he pulled it off with me because i hadn't seen days of heaven when i first saw true
romance um you know anyone else tries to use that music forget it i'm just i'm either in true romance or days of heaven
and um and it might not even be days of heaven it might be uh the other one
um badlands it might be the badlands see but you know these are masterpieces these are the three like terence malek
who made badlands and who made days of heaven he's one of the three or five masters who who can do this thing
so that's a very very i have lots and lots of thoughts on copyrighted music and so forth but i would say do not use
it because you know if your video is you know plan for success like if your
video gets a million views and you've used copyrighted music i mean that's a million views you're not going
to be able to monetize and you know that's whatever that's ten thousand dollars or something plus keep people
you know keep people uh there's tons of musicians who can't figure out how to make money i am a hundred bucks
um and then there's you know musicbed which sponsored my um channel um about a little over a year
ago and there's services like that but uh yeah i would say do not use it unless you have a budget i've used it i
used it in a space program but i had a budget i think from nike um to use um
a couple things but the credits we used debaser by the pixies and
it's case by case whether or not there's no rule there's no like i mean i've read in the comments here that like no no you're allowed to use
two seconds and it's blue blah no it's case by case it depends there's guidelines but it depends on the owner
of the copyright like those guys who did bittersweet symphony like they they all the rolling stones got all
their money there's worse i've i've looked into this man i've read about like somebody stealing like you know three notes
and getting all their you know the losing the lawsuit losing all the money that they made from and that's that's within the music industry
so you know you get the lawyer who knows how to do it you get all the paperwork and do it that way and to me it's just not worth it now if
i was doing like a big feature film and i absolutely depended on the some piece of pop music or something i would have to
do the lawyer and budget it out but i would say don't do it i would say just either make your own or find a
musician or you know i don't know it's work with sound does work on sound design maybe instead of music
because it it's a i mean the first thing that all of us make when we first are making when we first sit down to an editing platform
and we're making videos the first thing we do is make like music video it's make music videos we
take a song that we really love and then we cut a you know but you know a bunch of image to it
but i i think once once you've learned the software and once you've
once you're trying to be your own be an author um it's kind of you should just move on
and then when you get big enough people pay you to use their music or you can use their music for free if you just put a link in or however
so that's mine um so johnny asks me when am i doing something with casey
ah the video coming up today the video coming up today casey shot some of it casey's in it and uh i mean
we didn't consciously make a video together we just we always have cameras on us and uh i saw him um
a few weeks ago and you know there it was um and also last week for his
can video which is out i'm pretty sure is out he was asking me he was like oh do you have footage of us from when you know
lullab when we went to cannes do you we we were have any footage of me he's like i only have footage of you for obvious reasons and i and so i just
went through my archives and just texted him you know with the at the imac you can like text video miracle just texted him
clips from can 2008 so yeah so that's when um and y'all and then johnny johnny lee
also asks how do you find motivation when you're feeling blue got i think the main thing is talking to people
and not so much complaining or like although i am a huge complainer i think if you're going to complain
like for an hour or for like more than 30 minutes you have to be paying the person so you get like better help or um
or like a psychiatrist or a psychologist or something which is really hard to do it's hard to find therapists especially around here but better help's pretty
good because they have uh i mean they're not a sponsor of mine or anything but i've used them before because you just go through a screening thing you write they ask you a bunch of questions and
then um and then they just give you all these options you can pick your doctor based on how they look if you want and then
like it's pretty cheap i don't know a couple hundred bucks a month and then you know one day a week you talk to the person and uh
you can just complain but if it's your friends you kind of can lead with the complaint try to get their
experience with the complaint and then do but i think that's the best cure um exercise does not work for me exercise
depresses me i get home from like yesterday i got home almost every day when i get done running i just want to
go to sleep i have to like it's like i drag myself up the stairs and like take a shower and so forth so
but they say exercise is supposed to be really good and maybe exercise just brings me up just brings like my tide up
so that i'm at a level where i'm not like and then for certain things you just have to feel it like for certain like
death tragedy um [Music] longing stuff like that you just have to feel it and one of the best ways to mitigate the
pain of the feeling is to write down in the most unpretentious and least decorative language that you can
conjure just write down what's going on and what it's doing to your feelings
so that's what i do that's how oh how do i find motivation uh when i'm feeling blue i guess that's
what it's like i can use this there's something to this but you know pay attention to it also meditate i'm a
meditator and meditation sort of teaches you that the feelings are a third party
that's kind of living in your body and they're not real and so you can kind of it teaches you how to sort of observe the feelings and
like oh i see what this is so there it is um so eric asked me i trust my instincts as an artist more than anything else but sometimes i land to answer
oh answer already developed by but sometimes i land to answer already
developed by other artists tend to answer i um this connection
makes me very happy do you feel the same when you make your art i don't really i trust my instincts as an artist more
than anything else but sometimes i land to answer already developed by other artists like
i think what he's saying is sometimes i like come up with an answer
that somebody else has already come up with and then he says this connection makes me feel very happy you feel the same when you make your art
yeah like when you've like if i've made something and then i see somebody else made something and
i beat them to it i'm pretty psyched like elon musk named his kid x
after i named uh two years or something after i named my kid or we named architects um
then i'm pretty psyched and then if i really like the thing and or if i've done something and then i find out
after i've done it that somebody else did a similar thing but i didn't know about it then i then i loved that too
uh yeah it's nice it just makes you feel like you're in that
like david lynch talks about that like that current that flows through the universe that like current of creativity this pool where you just drop your hook
and pull out big fish and it's nice to know that we're all in that we're all like fishing out of that same current um
[Music] max max asked i loved your fort in nyc i wondered what was the kitchen set up i couldn't see any cooking appliance
in the pic in the pictures p.s i started reading vonnegut's books and i'm thoroughly enjoying it all right so let me see if i can remember the kitchen i'm pretty sure
i had a toaster oven but then i think i got rid of it and i had a camp stove like a nice swedish titanium
uh isobutane where you had to buy the new canisters you didn't like fill it with white gas and pump it it was like you bought these pressurized canisters
and you screwed them onto this um hose and then turn it on light it with a lighter and
that thing you know you could flash fry a 300 pound buffalo in five minutes but i want it now um
and that was good for like cook i could cook just about anything on that um and then you know there's no water in
the room so i had like a two gallon one of those poland springs two gallon water things that was just on a shelf like a google glug and i just fill it up in the
sink down the down the hallway and then like two forks two knives two spoons uh like
two plates and then a little mini fridge in the in the like a college mini fridge in the in the uh in the closet there
what else did i have i think that was about it you know new york it's it's pretty much cheaper to eat out
because you know dollar slices although i don't know maybe they don't have those anymore you have dollar slices and then the chinese food is very
inexpensive in new york and um you know if you don't have the fundamentals in your kitchen like the
butters and the milk and the salt and all the different spices and the it's you know it's you and you're only cooking for one you're going to kind of
lose money on on on on cooking for yourself all right
questions about step okay so this is from jake questions about status symbols what status symbols make your role make you
roll your eyes and what status symbols do you respect are there any status symbols that you know you shouldn't care about but you
can't help it i like this question okay so a status symbol that you just absolutely cannot deny the nobel prize
you cannot deny that like the nobel prize maybe they've made a few mistakes here and there maybe some people have
cheated here and there but like bob dylan sal bello tony morrison john steinbeck
the literature one i don't know enough about science and stuff to to to judge the other ones but like that's a status symbol wherein if that
person they don't give it unless it's someone is worthy they don't just give one out every year there has to be a body of work that they
that the nobel committee that the nobel committee feels worthy
um education uh physical um accomplishments like the iron man
triathlon like anyone who's completed an iron man if you're not done by six it's not something like a there are these marathons where it's
like dude a marathon in 79 hours it's not like that like if you don't finish that iron man in 16 hours they
come with a sweeper truck and they've closed the route down and you get kicked off a bit because there's it's
142 miles of course and it's usually in a city that winds through the city it's too much of a disruption so anyone who's
completed an ironman they've done it under 16 hours oh here's my boy hey buddy i'm doing my live stream uh i'm done at 10.
can you come back can you go see mom and then come back when i'm done
or do you want to just be very quiet in here you want to have wet
[Music] okay but you have to be quiet because i'm doing my i'm doing my live stream all right we slipped through the cracks um
what's that symbols make you roll your eyes uh big clothing if they are in fact a
status symbol like big like brand name clothing like first of all there's so many fakes out there it means nothing
and the big logo thing uh [Music] i'm from new england man we're we're like we're british colonies very conservative and uh
i read this book called class by paul fusell that sort of explains what actual status
symbols are and um that the big i think that the big clothing logos roll my eyes i also think
it's foolish to buy to buy expensive clothes unless they're like that last a lifetime or they're
um of such an incredibly high craftsmanship that they wouldn't have a logo on like a like a savile row
like a handmade savile row suit or something like that you would so x is gonna x is working on
a new song he said that's coming out at halloween so we're going to hear him play his he calls it a guitar but it's a ukulele
in the background um there any status symbols that you know you shouldn't care about but you can't
help it cars i love awesome cars and like an old classic car i don't know what it's a what status it's it's showing that this person cares that their thing works really well and
that they take that's the status that they take very good care of their thing but i am a sucker for that because i can just see the work that has gone into it even if the person
just bought it perfect like it doesn't matter to me that like like rogan has the the
like that land cruiser that uh 80 series land cruiser that jonathan ward at icon built for him and
ward said it was three thousand dollars i'm sorry three thousand hours of labor went into building this machine it has
has 500 horsepower like uh ls motor in it and that to me
and but you can't it's a sleeper you can it's just a 1997 toyota land cruiser you have to really look you have to sort of know oh this is
a special thing um but yeah cars i'm just like wow those are so beautiful um
nick asks having had struggles with them in your own life how will you address the topic of drugs and alcohol
with your son when he gets older uh he comes to a lot of aaa meetings with me he comes like once a week to an aaa meeting
and so i've already talked to him about it first thing i say is it's really really
super fun and that's why people do it and then you know some people you know gets out of control and there's
not and they just they can't do it some people are like basically allergic to it and they can't do it and then he's like his mother's not an
alcoholic so he sees that she can drink i'm just a lot i heard a mom from around here oh actually she's one of the patrons she
might be listening talking about how um [Music] when the kids become teenagers the drugs is sort of a problem but i'm hoping it's just like marijuana and
and um what are those other ones called the psychedelics because i think people should take those they're pretty good
some unless you're unless you have psychosis in your family because you can have psychotic breaks that you don't recover from
so i don't know hopefully he's driven enough that if if that is if the drugs are a problem
he will understand that they're in the way of whatever he's trying to achieve and so um
[Music] yeah i think that's we'll just take it case by case and pray that he doesn't have a problem [Music]
okay so lucas asks me how do you figure out what to do as an artist when making your craft a career seems impossible
yeah it's uh i think you have to put a timer on it i think you have to have
and not a ver not like to the hour kind of timer but you have to have a sort of goals
and um like what's it called milestones milestones
so if it seems impossible that you're ever going to make a career and if you're a musician it's pretty much impossible i mean it's not like nba impr
impossible but it's like finishing the dakar rally impossible like it's really unbelievably difficult
although there are a lot of people you know there's like weddings and there's you know public musicians doing there's all kinds of opportunities i think with
musicians you gotta really one of the things that you're one of the things that you're
that you have going for you as a musician is from what i've seen and this could be totally wrong is that your
peers your musician peers sorry are pretty profoundly lazy business-wise and pretty
profoundly entitled business-wise sorry i'm not i'm just saying generally speaking and the ones we know about are
the ones who've like really like come up with little models you know using social media and using it
using social media and using whatever to generate money and putting money forward um but yeah i would concentrate on the
money and do time stone time stamps that one opportunity for musicians is
um you know licensing like i was talking about earlier and there's so many youtubers out there
just figure out some kind of system where you can protect your music somehow or invent this thing i don't
know where you can protect your music but then you can also issue licenses for like 50 bucks but if you're doing it and
but and musicians tend to be able to crank out like 10 little riffs or stems a day or an hour i mean when i sit
down to my synthesizer and plug it into my mixer and stuff i can do in two hour in an hour i can do like 30 little tracks that
i end up using and so if if you're a musician and you could just i mean it's a hard thing it'll take you a year to figure it out
but what the hell else do you have to do you know figure out how can i have some kind of platform a website something
where in if they use this music without the license they get flagged on youtube and i get all their money
but they can easily buy a license for 25 or whatever and use it on youtube
and and then it's and then that you get into this musician thing which is like the pic but dude i don't think
work like okay fine [ __ ] you and just be broke and live at your mom's and be a
pure artist but you know you live in a in a capitalist society and uh it's not the 60s it's not the 70s
the 60s and the 70s like the musicians were like youtubers are now but better because you only had to have one song
and then you could you could have one song hit and then buy a house and buy three houses in topanga with the money and buy yourself a ferrari with the
money but and i i think a lot i don't know i think my generation of musicians i
generally speaking i think thinks that that still exists because it exists for five people
whereas like you know the travis scots of the world and the i don't know billy eilish they all i
think they all started on social media or youtube or whatever and then the other ones that make a lot of money they have all these great little business um oh i was listening to there's a great
rogan podcast and he's has the um one of the guitarists or the guitarist from mega death on
the podcast it's from a couple weeks ago this guy was so ahead of everything he had like megadeth.com in like 1993 or
something you know like but way before everybody and he has and it was like and he's like a rich
guy and he does very well he was in metallica for a little 20 years old i mean he's an old guy he's older than me now he's probably in his
60s but he was always on the cutting edge and he's still at it he has a band he's still doing the music and i think
yeah so that's that's what i would say if if you're a musician if you're asking for yourself then just find all the where are the
places that musicians aren't exploiting the money that can be made and give yourself a timeline and give yourself targets
but um you know you live in new york when i i lived in new york a long time i have a relationship with new york and one of the things you you meet is a lot
of you meet a lot of people who can just get by and they were artists or they are artists and they had a couple breaks and they had a couple things and it's like
they don't have families they don't have kids their apartment is still the apartment they had when they were 24 years old and they locked it in it was like the best thing they could afford then and it's crammed crammed crammed
with stuff and you know you don't really get to choose i don't think whether you're like an
artist in your soul or not but and you kind of have to and you have to you have to make things
if you're a creative person you just have to or you'll just [ __ ] die but
it's a we live in a in an extremely abundant civilization and
there are it's out there you can just concentrate or just keep it as a hobby and find a job that pays you really well
that's awesome too um colin asks if you didn't need to make
money and were able to spend your life making art because you wanted to see it come to life what would you make in my and why um
i've i do this exercise all the time because i love all that tony robbins stuff and i and i think isabelle's uh
i don't know she has all these questions that i think she got from some from a tony robbins something or other um oh no i think she has his his book his
money book and um one of the things is like what would you do if you didn't have and i've thought
very long and hard about it and you know what i would do if money was no option i would spend money that's what i would do that would be what my artist
i would spend money and um and i would like things like um
okay like this which is a magnet with a clock on it
you know these little i would just have i would really really indulge in all the micro
tiny like improvements and inventions of things like i would that would be what i would do
kind of for that would be what would be my creative out put like i would
work on the the land cruiser doing little tiny insane detail things
and everywhere i went and that's what it would be but i wouldn't make movies about it because it's too much
stress on my brain to make the movies it's like it's almost like it's
ugh it's like it feels like i'm doing brain damage because of the number of calories i think i'm burning with
with the writing and editing and shooting it's extremely taxing
so that's probably what i would do i would do the i would and i do there's so many little things that i make that i don't record because i'm just i just i
can't be bothered and that's temporary i will have a system wherein and we're developing it now where and every single thing i make gets recorded and it's not
a hassle but the tripod and the moving it and the lighting it and then no no no no no no no no and it's like just have a person
who grows okay fine but no because i want solitude and like things come to me and i just want to do
it right that second so um but that's what i would do i would just
make lots of little gadgets travel the world go see all my friends probably wouldn't be able to not write about things
and then maybe i would end up making videos which just all naturally evolved they'd just come out really slowly like one a
year i don't know um but that's it i mean yeah okay i just moved to la what's one thing i should absolutely do and one thing i should avoid at all costs
okay one thing you should absolutely do in la you should drive mulholland drive like as much of it as you can and if you
could if you have a motorcycle do that um there's a lot to do here but it's mostly
outdoor physical activity stuff yeah drive mulholland drive drive
old topanga canyon road drive um yeah drive through the um
through the mountains through the santa monica mountains go to bob's big boy on a friday night or a saturday night to see all the classic
cars there bob's big boy in the valley and toluca lake um
[Music] and to avoid i mean you gotta kind of see everything right i don't know i really find hollywood boulevard and like the tourist
side of la extremely depressing and really just horrible and i like found out hollywood
boulevards where they have the stars in the street you know and it says like i don't know lawn chaney or
whatever but i find found out that that's the the celebrities that they just buy those stars they're like i don't know 50 right they
used to be 50 000 or something like maybe you have to be in one of the unions but it's also fake and hollywood boulevard's
really sad right now it's just people like vagrants and open-air drug markets and
yuck i would say avoid that but also you kind of got to see it i don't know oh avoid surfing
don't surf here i would say um uh i mean go watch them surf
but avoid surfing la's just like it's for movie fans and it's for creative people because there's so many resources
and it's for um people who love cars and motorcycles and moving around
it just can't be beat you just can't beat it but um it's really great in the winter when it
rains too when there's water and it's all green but uh yeah absolutely drive like mulholland
drive and absolutely avoid surfing because it's stupid surfing in la i think is stupid you drive down pacific coast highway at
like 8 o'clock on a sunday and or 8 30 on a sunday and you see so many people
so many surfers in the water and it's and it's not that many people it's like the water is packed with
surfers and there's like 60 of them i don't know it's just a i don't know i would avoid it
um do you ever talk with the safeties anymore would you do an episode or something with them yes i do we're both very busy um we're well all three of us are very
busy um i don't talk that's kind of what this episode coming up is about i don't talk to them enough i don't talk to any of my old chums enough but i'm gonna change that next year um
[Music] i'd definitely do an episode with like one with josh one with ben and then there's a lot then there's a bunch of other guys on there
well there's a few other people on their team that would be very interesting to do stuff with um
but yeah should kindergartners this is from felix should finish kindergartners be forced to stop something they're interested in without any pushback from the teacher
be forced to stop something they are interested in without any pushback from the team oh meaning that the teacher can't say no
um what should the expected behavior be at this age so my son just enrolled in public school
for the first time like last week and uh it's a pre-k program at the
kindergarten at the elementary school here in town and um
[Music] i'm already having problem like not real not actual problems but just like philosophical problems with it i'm
already in that mind spay that rebellion mind space that probably led me to this whole thing to
begin with and like i know certainly led my brother casey to begin with he had a problem with his
seventh grade okay casey was extremely intelligent and extremely [ __ ] bad in school um you know he wasn't mean he didn't
hurt people but he was like a bad kid and he was frustrating for if you're an administrator but they can't recognize
brilliance i don't think i mean they can recognize obvious test score brilliance but they can't recognize like i don't think they're
capable of recognizing artistic brilliance so his he tells this story i don't know if it's apocryphal but i believe it
that the the um in seventh grade he had been casey had been suspended a few times and the the
the principal of the junior high school this is a grown man probably in his 40s or 50s and he's talking to a 13 year old
he said you're nev i can't even believe he said this i can't believe he said it but i'm gonna believe because i know this man
and he was a mean dude he said you're like something to the effect of you you're not gonna amount to anything or you're never gonna amount to
anything in case he looked him in the eye and he said remember you said that i'd love to know what that guy's up to
right now um so uh i don't know the whole education thing i i don't get it i don't i it is
so that the montessori school i totally got it i totally got it it was just teaching kids how to be with each other and how to master
certain little things within their environment i got it certain schools like the steiner school the steiner school or the waldorf school
those sound like philosophically they sound right intelligence the way they're doing but i don't understand why
oh there's a school that gray sorrenti the photographer went to um called the uh
what's it called the the professional children's school so it was a school for kids who were actors and broadway performers gray is a photo
you know professional photographer and this is a high school for those kids and it might even been elementary all the way up i get that i get that school
because you got to learn all the math stuff and you got to learn how to read and you have to learn the principles of science and so forth we just have to know that as human beings
but this system where and it's just a training facility to work basically in the different layers of the
factory like you know either you're on the manufacturing on the floor or you're a manager that's basically it seems to me and then it's also sort of a
screening system for the military um i don't get why that's still the standard except for
laziness and incompetence on the you know on on on that developmental level and they don't get the talent because
who the hell wants to go into the school system the public school system uh if they have you know talent
and so i mean i don't know and i'm just and it's and it's you know what it is at the school this particular school it's
not the curriculum or the teacher's grade it's not it's not the facility it's it's the parking it's the parking man
there is okay there's 230 students in the school the birth rate around here is like 1.8
1.9 let's just say it's 2.0 so that means that's a hunt that's a half so
most parents have two kids in school that say that so that's 115 cars
that line up to pick up the kids every day and they don't have a system to do it
they just you line up in traffic including out to the boulevard and a stoplight and the la and the lane to get
out of the tiny tiny road that is on the school is only wide enough for one car so all of the people who could go right on red
okay they have to wait for the people who are going left and it is the school is about a mile and
a half away from here and it is a 45 minute it's a 45 minute process from the time i
leave the house to the time i get my son back home just because the school system leverages the time of the parents why
aren't there buses why isn't there five drop-off points around the city why because these people i mean i can just go on and on these are government
workers who are guaranteed uh who are guaranteed an income and they have to they have to work through a very thick
bureaucratic system where that discourages maybe even hates uh uh innovation
and then they it's just it's an insane system but i think maybe we should all be subject to it for a little bit i
think we should all maybe be subject to it and maybe those ages are the best you know this is the other side of my brain i think we should also have compulsory
um military like israel you know you just can't you can get out of it but it's much easier just to not get out of it
and just to go along and everybody's in the military no matter how rich you are no matter how poor you are you just mix them all together like tupac said
everybody should get to be rich and everybody should get to be poor and after two weeks you switch
um he said that i think when he was in high school uh and like that interview of him in high school um
[Music] should kindergarteners be forced to stop something they're interested in without push i mean what are they it depends on what
they're interested in they have you know there's all the other kids in the class so that
i don't know should they be forced to stop something they're interested in i mean as a parent you shouldn't afford you shouldn't force your children
to stop things that they're interested in but um [Music] what should the expected behavior be at this age well i think they're learning how to be with people how to listen to people how to
um when they're five you know how to work in a group and you gotta one of the things you
really have to we're all in this understand you know we all have to be courteous and little kids are
maniacs they're crazy okay jonathan asks do you have a cool guide for home ownership in maintaining the house currently live in an apartment
would like to be more successful maybe this just means i need to look up how to do more things
hmm yeah i think all houses need to have like a little manufacturing sector you need your little tool shop that's very
organized and ah there's so many things but um for just little tiny teeny things you
can like loose like there was uh one of the steps on our old rotted wooden steps that go up to
the house one of them like fell like this and it was just a matter of stacking up a bunch of like two by fours and drilling the thing in like
drilling the what's this part of the step the step the stair and just like propping it up with the two by four and
then just drilling it in like you got to be able to do maintenance like that because you're not going to call the guy to fix that but mostly
most of the stuff around the house you gotta hire pros you're not figuring out plumbing you're not figuring out electricity i mean you can wing it and
you can get it to sort of work but those codes are there for a reason um good guide do i have a good guide for
home ownership and maintaining the house yeah keep it clean keep it organized i guess
so eric asked me um pancake canyon seems cool would you consider living anywhere else if so where what city or town would you would
fit like a glove tapanga is my favorite place that i've ever lived and it's
it's it's so stupid expensive here um that of course we always are considering
where else to move and we just can't come up with anything because either you're in you're out of california
um and you have like freezing cold weather horrible weather um or you have burning burning hot
weather like i don't care what any of you say i don't care how many petitions you sign i don't care what you say austin texas is a furnace it is an
unbelievably hot place i am sorry but that is the truth and um you know yeah it gets to 100 here but we
have an ocean at the bottom of the street and at night it cools down and it's windy and it's nice so you know if i've sort of considered
every i can live anywhere i've considered everywhere and in the u.s i think this is my favorite place to live um
[Music] nantucket is a wonderful place it's like a perfect little civilization but okay super expensive remote and it's
more of a vacation place it's not a place where you live live um but to be based out of at this point
from what i know and what i've seen in america this is my favorite place to be and to live plus the people here
are really interesting and there's a lot of new york transplants so you get rid of that like
[Music] often idiotic like hippy kind of mentality um because there's new yorkers here but then it's the new yorkers who are sick of that new york like hostility
so they're like capable people but they're also sweet like they're the people a lot of the people that i know who are here from new york are people who grew up in a sort of suburban or
rural place moved to new york and then so they had like the urban
uh you know adult development and then they had the rural background from when they're a child and they move here and that's kind of what this place is for
because we're in the middle of a city like we've got the airports and we've got the you know there's the private jet airport and van nuys at the bottom of the hill
there so and then yeah i think i just always want to be based here and then
you know other like landing pads throughout the world um
[Music] but yeah this is this is this is the place for me uh what do you think of the phrase that jack of all trades is a master of none but oftentimes better than a master of one uh
do i agree yeah yeah yeah i think that's legit you need specialists but you also need the big
picture person and the person who knows all the a little bit about everything how do you curve the temptation of
buying [ __ ] that you do not need but want oh that's easy i hate buying [ __ ] i hate it i hate it
i hate almost everything about the process amazon is terrific because
they've eliminated the whole like shopping process so there's certain things i just in order to do my work i need like i have to have post-it notes or my entire
system shuts down and the next thing i'm doing is buying posts i have to stop what i'm doing and buying post-it notes same with like correction tape for the
typewriter or typewriter ribbon or you know olfa blades or it's a whole bunch of stuff so that is just
kind of like maintenance but like i can't like i wear the same thing every day because i hate buying clothes
i hate buying shoes um [Music] so that's how i just um i leverage my laziness so i don't just consume stuff like i don't shop i don't
browse for things i do get caught in traps like say i need a new battery for one of the cameras and i go on amazon to get it and then it's like you might also
like you might also like i get a little trapped into that but i'm just too lazy i'm just too lazy and i'm too busy
usually i'm just like in a rush trying to get whatever so shoes so this person says
uh big one for me is shoes i skate and love shoes i go through them frequently while making them work for their worth but i keep buying new pairs monthly to lightly
wear until they get their turn to be skated used um yeah just keep doing that just make sure
you throw the old ones away you probably buy a fewer new ones um
somebody asking my my thoughts on andrew tate how do you feel about his social media being i know nothing about that i don't have no idea who this person is i
know he has a goatee and he seems like he's in good shape i've seen thumbnails of him and that's it i have no idea i've never heard of this person i don't know what his work
is i heard somebody talking about andrew tate yesterday on oh on the tim dillon patreon bonus
podcast and they said he was maybe on a disney show but it was oh zach and something cody and zach or something like this which is i was you
know in my 30s or whatever when that came out so i have no idea who this person is i have no opinion whatsoever
um how do you deal with unreliable people oh my god this is great some people you can't
get rid of like if they're family people and in that case um try to keep i try to keep
my interactions with them down to one per year one interaction per year and then i'm just totally prepared for their unreliability but for
the most part they don't make it unreliable people don't make it through the wire and there's this really cool
lecture by uh william s burrows and one of the things he says is don't associate with fuck-ups because it
will wear off on you and so you know i'm telling you man new york teaches you some there's no time for
there's no time there's no margin for error in new york and i've just learned so much stuff and like [ __ ] ups don't last long or unreliable
people don't really last that long in new york uh but nope i know i'm i i'm you know
yeah and then you just marginalize them and don't take them seriously um do you like
oh this paula asked me one but i think this is just like specifically to me do you like my suggestion your show is about life repairs i like
it but it's not specific enough it's too broad um i think
and it's uh yeah um would you give a brief history
of your motivate motorized vehicles and the most memorable trip you've traveled with them oh my god no i will not is so many i've had like 12 cars or something
and i spent 20 years in new york people in new york don't have cars um do you have a preheated motor okay my first
motorized vehicle was a 1979 honda 50cc moped two-stroke
my first car was a 1979 toyota celica gt with like a 2.3 liter four-cylinder i
kind of think might have been a 1.7 liter four-cylinder that thing was so awesome it was really easy to fix um
[Music] most memorable trip we've traveled with them i think my most memorable trip was driving down to mexico that was pretty
awesome f350 diesel the 7.3 liter diesel uh standard transmission that thing was
awesome what books would you recommend to a soon-to-be college student
living in america oh my gosh uh what book would i recommend i'm looking
at books right in front of my face right now i would recommend the outlaw bible of
american essays that is just a super book or the out excuse me the outlaw bible of american
literature those are cool and then they branch out they're just little five 10 page stories and excerpts and so
forth and then you can find there you can branch out from the auth it's tons of authors in each of those books and you can read
this guy and read that gal and whatever in the future if you have an opportunity
to make a feature film in a more traditional way with producers and the crew etc will you take it i very very very seriously doubt i will ever make a
feature film in the traditional way with i mean if i had i don't know
it's just not what you think it is it is not a creative process writing a screenplay is but as far as i can tell is from what i
hear from everyone is that it's a managerial process like a person who who makes a feature film
is is is has kind of the same sort of personality as a person who
runs a um i don't know um you know who runs a like chain of of um of of roller rinks or something it's a managerial
job it's not it's i mean there's creative stuff but no you're managing creative people
you're managing you know prop makers and you're managing uh you know
uh writers and managing um maybe maybe you're the writer but that's the creative part you're
managing the director of photography you're just like mitigating all these disasters you're sort of this this diplomat
taking care of all of these problems that go wrong and then
i don't know i'm just too old i'm too old and i don't want to and i think that they're they're not making good movies anymore really are they i
saw one great movie called um [Music] called come on come on by mike mills i'd make a movie like that but he has a track record and so everyone wanted you know not everyone
but joaquin phoenix wanted to work with him and so if joaquin phoenix says yes then you just
the way that josh safety explained it to me you just basically automatically get a certain i mean not
literally automatically but essentially automatically you get a certain amount of money from from investors because
this person joaquin phoenix has a track record his movies guarantee this
much income or whatever and you uh and that's you know the stars
um have a tremendous amount of power getting these things made but no i it's
not that's not something i fantasize about it's not i just feel like all the movies i would like to make other people make
like i wish i had made come on come on but it's also you know it's a life of you have to have been focused in writing
those screenplays after screenplay after screenplay after screenplay to get that one that works and it's just too much poverty and too
much like second job too much like working at advertising agencies or being advertising directors which i think was what mike mills does
for his money money and i just this is better like the youtube thing is better because it can be any it could be a [ __ ] feature
film on that platform like a lot of these these comics are doing their specials on youtube they're putting hundreds of
thousands of dollars into their specials i think andrew oh no it wasn't youtube though it's gonna say andrew
schultz he paid a million dollars to buy his back but he bought it back from one of the streamers and then
didn't do it he didn't do it on youtube he did it on his website and he tripled the money that he paid to buy it back
but my point is uh yeah that traditional thing i kind of want that to i kind of they just it's just
it's not what you think it is it's not the 70s it's not robert um evans
at 26 running paramount and greenlighting you know roman polanski and it's it and and the godfather it's not that it's not what it is it's you're
making action figures for for for for for target and then no i don't i'm not interested in that so much it's too much paperwork um okay
those plastic clips use to organize cables the ones with two oh what are those plastic clips you use to organize cables
uh they're called like loop straps or cable clamps and the good ones tom sachs gets these white super strong plastic ones that i
can't find i can't even find them on mcmaster i don't know where he gets them but he has the best ones and i get the crappy ones from home depot that kind of
always tear out um you wrote a screenplay what was it about
will you write more fiction maybe i will write more fiction i don't know probably not um the screenplay was about
someone who's a kid whose spirit is crushed and it shouldn't be
and i've seen that happen i've seen it happen to someone and it was just horrific um in the world lost because of it
um need spirited man cooking videos no i don't want to do cooking videos um what does what does make an edit what so
conrad asks what does make and edit good what makes an edit good a lot of people english is their second
language so i can't hold anything against them because i couldn't write it that sentence in any other language what makes an edit good i think
if you don't notice it if it's invisible if it just you're watching this thing and it just feels like it's happening in front of you um
that's what makes editing that's a good edit it's just totally seamless it looks like the whole thing was just shot like in real time
[Music] what is bc slice background story it seems like you have worked on many projects together perhaps this could be a peer discretion video
also are there any items from the kickstarter campaign that are still available for purchase bc is a very discreet man so i won't go
into his story maybe if you can contact him or if you run into him you can you can but you can bug him um
any items from the kickstarter camera are still available for purchase no and i still owe my backers like a cookbook
and um i'm doing this piece with all their names on it and i still haven't done those but i intend to do an episode called debt
in which i fulfill those two debts sorry kickstarters you don't deserve this um
daniel asks very interested to hear any further musings and details that you have on terence
malik malik's work and how it informs you okay so there's that new movie called a secret history i think is what it's
called and it's about okay first of all terence malik is one of the masters and he can do anything and everything he does is unbelievably great
and a lot of people are like oh uh is it called knight of cups is that one of them
oh no the cops like overheard people disparaging it as i was leaving the theater this was in new york
and in my mind i was just like you're wrong you just don't get it you're just not watching it right i feel like he has invented a new
narrative form within cinema like his his his cinema his story is told in a
completely new way that just you can watch it develop from
my me and my brother it just used to be me and my brother we used to do things we used to go places together from days of
heaven which i don't think was his first movie i think maybe the other one was i think maybe badlands would came before days of heaven must have because david
heaven was had so much that was super looked very expensive but uh
from that really heavily uh narrated to almost entirely narrated the new ones
are just almost entirely voice over but not and it's such a invisible
mastery that unless you've tried it i don't know that you can detect how good it is because it doesn't pull
you out you're still locked in it's still the narration is written in these little mysteries and little puzzles that you
have to and it's all beautiful and the editing i've heard his process is he has tons and tons of editors and
he has tons and tons of like cinematographers and they shoot on everything they shoot on like gopros it's like a youtube video it's like made
like a youtube video but with a team of like youtube video makers i don't know the exact mechanizations of
his process but what comes out of them is just so beautiful okay having said that there's this the newest one i think is called a secret history i think
that's what it's called no that's a that's a a book it's something like that a private history maybe that's what it's called
and it's much more the narrative is told the same way it's like beautiful voice overs and little like
um impressionistic imagery but it's all cohesive it's not like woo-woo creativity is the enemy garbage
it's a real story and you can follow it and you care about the characters and i had a fundamental problem with it
because okay spoiler alert i'm telling you what happens oh spoiler alerts you gotta give before you give the plot away you can't be like
bruce willis is already dead spoiler alert you have to give you have to uh give the you have to say it ahead of time
and so spoiler alert it's this austrian guy right and he gets it might be based on a true story
and he gets um drafted into the german army but he will not
uh take an oath to hitler because i think i can't remember the exact reason but i think it came down to his
integrity and my fundamental problem with the movie and maybe this is why he made the movie the movie isn't
propaganda it's not telling you one way to think or another i don't think it really takes a position but the movie was made about this person
and the way that i saw it it wasn't just that he was killed for not taking the
the oath so fine you're murdered i mean you're killed for not taking the oath you want to sacrifice your life that's your business
his family his children his wife everyone with his last name in his village suffered profoundly
like real deal suffering because of his decision and
i think the sacrifice he should have made was sacrificing his integrity it was a and it's just me judging from coming
from a life of 100 peace and ease but you know this was the hero of the story and
i think he should have sacrificed his integrity because in the end i'm just like well this guy's just he's he's going through all this just for the sake of his own integrity just take the oath
and don't mean it and you're going to be out of the war in three years anyway you know and because it wasn't that he wasn't willing to join the army it was that he
wasn't willing to take the oath of allegiance to hitler and um
and i i don't know i didn't feel like his family should have to sacrifice for his integrity and i think that that's an extreme extenuating circumstance but i
lo but what a great movie that it makes you really really dig down and think and think and think but yeah he's a
he's he's a master and his his voice over because voiceover makes the filmmaking process a lot simpler it
it eliminates a very difficult part of the which is having the you know synced sound during the story is very hard to do and you
have to have mics on the people like a camera mic is okay if you're shooting and it's just going to sort of be background
but if what they're saying is you know part of the plot or part of the story and the camera isn't right in front of
their face so the mic is close you got to mic them and sync the sound or mic them and have a transmitter that goes to the
camera that's you know it's just more management and so narration is something voice over
narration is something i put i probably put more time into it than i would have to put into managing the
the sound equipment but uh yeah he's been he's been insanely innovative with just the writing oh and he also goes
along he goes a relatively long period of time between projects and he's a wise man and i think he is a
pro a phd of philosophy i'm pretty sure so there's a lot of very deep
questions in there like that movie tree of life is so great and
and it's you know it's about nature versus grace and it's so beautiful that it's put that
way because we think we romanticize nature and nature is the enemy man like nature
everything we do is everything we do as humans to adapt to stay alive into almost everything we do
is is a is something where we where we're manipulating nature
i guess with the exception of not even swimming like did you were you born knowing how to swim no someone had
to teach you how to adapt to the ocean chimps can't swim if you want to escape
a chimp just dive into a pool um and then grace is the
you know grace is grace grace is what is what makes us human one of the things that makes us human or
it's a human quality um do you have a dream motorcycle mine is the bueller from revival
i have a boil now is it pronounced boil or buell i've heard it pronounced both ways so it must be the bueller from revival i
have a buell now but not the same a dream motorcycle i do
kind of have two um i really like there's this company in
um san sebastian i think in uh no it's not in san sebastian it's in
france but it's like on the spanish border i think on the west coast i think it's french but it's in the
basque region i can't remember the name of the company and they made a bike that looks to the untrained eye to a non-motorcycle
person you would look at my motorcycle and you would look at this motorcycle and you would say oh they're the same thing but what they made is a 500 cc ktm
uh that's what they started with with the engine and it has fuel injection and it's just the most like austere
supermoto but like not a true super moto sort of like a super moto flat track scrambler
bike and it's super austere and you don't really see any wires and it's just so beautiful and
you know it's not really outside of my i could probably afford it in a year or something but i'm not going to get it
but i love that just because it's so beautiful small bore bike for like zipping around the canyon and zipping through traffic and stuff
and then i would want you know there's that old saying uh how many motorcycles is enough
and the answer is just one more and then for like a big bore motorcycle
like a big because i miss horsepower like i started out and torque i started out on an r1150r which is like a pan i'm
sorry boxer twin and it and then at the same time my brother had this ducati 916 which is a v twin and they both had so
much torque and they were both and i rode both of them and they were both super fun to ride and fast and you just felt like an animal on them um
uh so if i could have if i was like a rich man with a mechanic or like a a bike person where i could just like
hand it to them and then all the maintenance was taken care of i think maybe one of those 1100 ducati hyper motor motors hyper moto where it's
like set up like a super moto but it's got an 1100 cc um like v twin
just my animal engine but um that would require an entire
infrastructure because those ducatis are insanely broken and they're insanely
infuriating with their with their um like to change the brakes on
okay so you have brake pads they're like on a bmw they're twenty dollars or whatever um and then to change the brake pads on a
ducati multi strata right so the 20 dollar whatever they're they're they're ducati so they're a hundred dollars although
brembo makes their brakes whatever um you know you got to take the rear wheel off but the tool you need to take this is to do it yourself
the tool you need to take the rear wheel off costs 300 and it doesn't really work that well and you mess it up and you got to bring it
to the guy at the dealer and he has to do it and then there's this and then there's that if you know you need this little bolt that holds the ring that holds the the
the headlight on you have to buy the whole headlight assembly for 900.
and i just think like ferrari ducati is abusive to and like california they're abusive
to their customer because the status i guess of their
product is extremely irresistible to certain people um but me i've just written up like i've
written off ducati they're like the ferrari uh valentino rossi's worst season was when he raced for
ducati he went from like three world championships in a row to eighth and it was just because you know they didn't have although i don't know what
they're go what's going on now they might have the moto gp world champion i don't know what's going on with them they were bought by a private equity company i know they were raided they're
i'm pretty sure their houston headquarters was like raided by the fbi a few years ago so i don't know what's going on with them but having said all
that that's would be my dream bike probably like a with all the carbon fiber and all the ulean's
uh suspension and the slick tires and the um you know the billeted aluminum parts uh it would be one of those hyper motors with the 1150
and that would be on the one end and then the ktm but i just love my bike when i try to think of what i really want and i explore around
it's just my bike which is a bmw g650x country but it's been sort of changed into a like a
kind of a supermoto like a 650 supermoto i just want my bike but like dialed like cleaned up and a little bit
more beautiful uh okay well let me see i'll do one more question it's 10 20.
i'll do one more question um it's pronounced be-all fuel um someone said bruce wills died no in the movie bruce willis character you know which one i'm talking about he's already dead
um what whiteout pens do you use and do you have any more tips for customizing your gear i use these
i've tried a lot of them i've tried a lot of different ones so you have the fine point ones
this one art and fly i don't know where i got this amazon or something and then there's like japanese
ones like this this is the very hard one to nail down and the ink isn't that good the fine tip ones and then just for the whiteout pen i use
the presto fine point jumbo correction pen because it's easy to take care of sometimes you have to pop this part off and get in there with lighter fluid into
the tip with lighter fluid and like a really long needle and dig this stuff gunks out in the tip so it'll still have
i mean i don't just just throw it away it take one second on e and on on
it take 90 seconds on on amazon i have them the next day just throw them away just throw it away
don't spend eight minutes i don't know but that's the curse that's the other side of this this
this uh propensity i guess to fix everything that breaks oh this is great greg turner said in a house most things outside the walls you can handle yourself everything
inside the walls or in the attic you gotta call someone hey man amen that is true
okay guys have a good weekend i'm done uploading the video it should be you know we're gonna do the the what's it called the thumbnail and the
description all that so a couple hours it should be uh on youtube and um
what's it called and the title and the title i told brat usually braxton comes up with the titles
but sometimes i have an idea and i'm just like make it this one and the title is called no vacation from
the camera um yeah so that's that'll be today god willing i i i worked hard to make sure that i finished it today all right guys thank you and have a have a great weekend
Products & Tools Mentioned
- BetterHelp mentions — therapy sponsor discussed
- BMW G650X Country uses — motorcycle model discussed
- Ducati 916 mentions — iconic motorcycle discussed
- Ducati Multistrada mentions — motorcycle discussed
- Ducati Hypermotard mentions — motorcycle discussed
- Buell mentions — American motorcycle brand discussed
- Toyota Land Cruiser 80 Series mentions — Land Cruiser model discussed
People Referenced
Gray Gersten, Flea, Wes Anderson, Martin Scorsese, Bob Dylan, Quentin Tarantino, Tony Scott, Terrence Malick, Casey Neistat, Tim Dillon, Jonathan Ward, Joe Rogan, Paul Fussell, Tupac, William S. Burroughs
Books Mentioned
- book about American class structure discussed (by Paul Fussell)
Films & Media Referenced
- Tony Scott/Tarantino film discussed
- Terrence Malick film discussed
- Terrence Malick film discussed
- Terrence Malick film discussed
- Terrence Malick film discussed
- David Lynch film discussed
- Van's feature film referenced
- Mike Mills film with Joaquin Phoenix discussed
- Pixies song referenced
- music licensing service mentioned
- band, Flea discussed