In this episode, Cole discusses going live for the first time, Raw Milk news in America, Tyler Perrys reaction to AI, and possibly picking up a trade. this episode ends with a song from Sora Satoh who is receiving a 60% split of your Satoshi donation. Enjoy!
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Cole McCormick:
Shows, episodes oh, I'm live right now. Oh, my god. It's live in America. Oh, it's live in fountain. Oh, my god. I just got shivers down my spine. Holy crap.
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Okay. We gotta go. We gotta go. We gotta go. We gotta go. Here we go.
[00:00:15] Cole McCormick:
Live for the very first time. It's America Plus. What's up for once? America Plus. I'm your host,Cole McCormick. It's another week, another episode. What's going on, everybody? It's Sunday. February 25th, 4:30 2 of the PM. Folks, it's a beautiful day to be alive, isn't it? Beautiful day to be alive, folks. I am your host, Cole McCormick. Welcome to America Plus. We are streaming live for the very first time. Guys, live. America Plus is live. My Pod Home my hosting site Pod Home is upgrading themselves. Let's go, dude. I'm trying to put this on Twitter right now. Add the location, papa. Here we go. Flip the camera.
Going live again, guys. We are good to go. Click the link. I'm streaming live on Twitter right now just because. Welcome to America Plus. This is where we speak about innovation. This is where we talk about a new beautiful world, that our hearts know is possible, man. We are building this new beautiful world, this more beautiful world, and I got a lot to talk about. I got a lot to share. First off, this week has been good to me. I feel good this week. I'm becoming more of an adult this week. I'm I'm My birthday's next month by the way. In 1 month, I turned 27 everybody. So that's exciting. On March 25th, I become even more of a human being on this on this beautiful planet Earth, and, we're running with scissors.
This whole live thing, this lit thing, this is interesting. I'm super scared. The the way that I usually record, I model the recording off of, Conan O'Brien. Before the pandemic, I was working at Warner Brothers and I had the experience of, working on the Conan O'Brien late night show, and what all the late night shows do is or what every talk show does is they do this thing called record live to tape, and what that means is you just pretend that it's live, and if you need to edit, you do edit, and if there's any mishaps, you can just like edit that out. But now I'm actually going live, and with with the whole podcasting 2 point o situation, I I I think I am able to to replace the live audio with the pre recorded audio, so I'm sure I'm sure it's all gonna work out in the end.
I see it live in fountain, so like that's that that's the best thing I got right now. What we're talking about this week? This week, an update on some on some health narratives that I've discussed in the past. First off, I've been posting more about raw milk on Instagram and stuff like that. I'm trying to just I I keep pushing this narrative of raw milk. Raw milk is healthy for you. Raw milk is good for you, and I've connected with some of the audience already about that, but I saw some headlines about, Colorado and West Virginia.
First of all, West Virginia, their house, the West Virginia state house, has been just pushed, just approved, raw milk to be legalized. I believe that has to go further through the government, for it to be official, but West Virginia is another state that is on the path of legalization, along with Colorado. The state of Colorado, I think it's legal, or it's legal right now, and, just more more and more states, more and more people are waking up and changing their laws around the types of foods that they are allowed to consume, which is incredible.
If I were to go to Europe right now, any country in Europe, all the milk is gonna be raw. All of it. All of the milk will not be pasteurized, and for some reason in America, there's this narrative of raw milk being unhealthy. Unpasteurized dairy is somehow bad for you when it comes to the United States of America, and that's a bunch of malarkey. It's a bunch of bullshit, to be totally honest with you, and I I'm a person who has his own story of being quote unquote lactose intolerant, and in 2022, I realized I'm actually not intolerant to anything. The only thing I'm intolerant to is shitty food products. You know what I mean? And this is something where people need to really think about it. I'm not sure what the raw milk laws are in Australia or any other country, but I know for a fact that in Europe, it's mostly like, it's it's super common to have raw milk, and in in America, it's not common.
And whenever I discuss this online, it's either met with, there's like 2 reactions to it, or a few different reactions. It's either no reaction, or someone's gonna comment saying, I'm actually interested Cole. What are you saying here? And then someone's also gonna reply with, Cole, this is not healthy at all. You're not supposed to drink dairy. Humans are not supposed to drink cow's milk. Cow's milk is for the cows, and, I had all of those experiences this week. Blessed blessed be, Instagram, because 2 of my peep no. Blessed be Instagram and Twitter, because one person commented on my story, and they were like, where do I get this? Like, where do I get raw milk? Gave her the link, shot her the the name of the grocery stores, and now, like, hopefully, this this wonderful mother, who I knew in high school, like hopefully, like, she gets on this raw milk train. I was able to get my other friend from high school interested, and, I'm happy that I have this influence.
I'm happy that I can push a narrative that I really believe in, and people, like, somehow, like, something in the dam breaks, you know, and and people people start asking questions. And there was a third person that interacted with me, and this person is, this person is clearly plant based. This person I don't I and I'm not trying to drag this person. I'm not trying to talk shit about these people because it's really just information. These people don't have, like, legitimate information. What they do have is information that is cemented in, propaganda and institutionalized narratives, and there's real no data with it. Because when it comes to data, with raw milk, you know, you can go to studies.
You can look at interventional studies and see that children who consumed raw milk were was less likely to have any sort of respiratory illness or along with, I I forget the other diseases, but they were objectively healthier. There were interventional studies that shown that that that showed that children were healthier when they were consuming raw dairy, and that's legit man. That's legit, and people need to see this. I need to get those links, and just just keep talking about it. And clearly, people in West Virginia and Colorado are moving forward with it.
I'm very happy about this. People are waking up. People are waking up. Even if it's just for raw dairy, like, people are waking up that their bodies are not ill. Their bod like, there's nothing wrong with your body because the government the the the large dairy narratives might say that 70% of the world is lactose intolerant. But what that really means is 70% of the world is unable to digest milk that's been boiled at 300 degrees. And that that makes total sense, dude, but our bodies are able to digest, just natural milk. When it comes to this person who, who's plant based on Instagram, this person was telling me that, you know, just a common thing. Cow's milk is is meant for cows, and if you really want to consume milk, you should be consuming, goat's milk, because it's a lot easier to digest, and that narrative right off the bat is just it it doesn't make any sense. For that narrative is inconsistent because if the cow's milk is only for the cows, why is it okay for me to drink goat's milk? Shouldn't the goat's milk be only for the goat as well, if we're gonna be straight here?
Like if we're not supposed to have any animal products, why is it okay to have this one animal product, and not other ones? And so there's just like a like the small fallacy in that sort of a thing, and this person was also telling me that, you know, they're just of the opinion that we shouldn't be eating any animal products. Humans should not be eating this, and there's ways to make your own, plant based milks, without any fillers, you know. Because during this conversation I was having through Instagram, I was talking about how just my whole story of how I was drinking almond milk for for 7 years. I dropped dairy after high school because I was quote unquote lactose intolerant, and I never had any good situations.
My digestion was not good when I was drinking almond milk, And I was able to identify it's the seed oils in those milks, and it's the fake gums in those milks as well. And and I told her straight up, like, my digestion got better with raw dairy. And she responds with, I understand that you might be able to digest a little better, but you'd probably be able to have a lot that you you your body would be able to digest even better if you drop dairy altogether, and that just doesn't, like, that that's not my experience, you know? And this takes me to what she said next is, she she told me that when she was a kid, she would have milk straight from the cow, and she was still able to not digest it.
And so when it comes to these raw milk narratives, I think I need to under I think I need to remember, and more people need to remember that maybe there is a small population who's not able to have milk at all, like even the most natural form of it, people are unable to digest. Now, I don't know her body. I don't know her gut health. I don't know her story, you know, I don't know the cleanliness of the cow. I don't know the type of the cow. It could have been a type a one cow, opposed to a type a 2 cow, which is usually what people are looking for when it comes to dairy.
I I I don't know those details, but I was able to just give her my experience. There was love. There wasn't an argument. I was just like telling her my side, and I sent her the videos that I watch. I sent her Paul Saladino, which is like the main guy who got me into it. The main guy who got me into like the whole animal based situation, and I'm gonna keep posting about it. I'm gonna keep making videos about it. I'm gonna post a video later today about why I buy raw dairy, why I buy raw milk, and the health benefits, the vitamins in it, the vitamin a, b, a, b, c, and d, you know, like, here are the a, b, c's of raw milk, And it's really wild how something as simple as milk is is like taboo, you know. People really think it's disgusting, and people really are just like, revolted by it. And so that that's that's a narrative that I wanna continue to just to just continue to break.
I'm gonna break the narrative. We're gonna break the Internet just like Kim k, you know? So I'm blessed about that. So raw milk is great. We should all drink raw milk. The next thing I want to talk about, a little controversy, we're going into technology now. Going into AI. I wanna talk about AI for a second. We all love AI. AI is amazing. I saw this, I saw this interview, from the Hollywood Reporter with a gentleman named Tyler Perry. Anyone know Tyler Perry? He's legitimately one of the most successful producers of all time. He is literally like, a, he's super famous. B, he's super rich. C, he has a studio in Atlanta that he runs, and like he knows how to make things that make money. He knows how to tell stories that make money consistently, and so he's objectively successful.
And this week, OpenAI put out a new text to video AI, and pretty much this is like it blew my mind, first of all, and it and it really it blew everyone's minds when it came out. OpenAI's, it's called Sora. This text to text to video AI, SoRA. The it's the most realistic thing ever. It's the most realistic AI that you can actually get your hands on right now, and it's based off of physics. The reason why it's so, like, realistic is because the AI somehow the way it calculates the physics and the images that it already has, It's able to sync all that up, and if you if you wanna have some some golden retrievers playing in the snow, it actually looks like golden retrievers are naturally playing in the snow, and the snow looks it's falling down the fur in a really realistic way, you know.
Within the earlier video AI's, it might look a little, like, gooey or the video might look a little, like, it it's clearly fake, of course, but what I'm talking about is the aesthetic of the video. The aesthetic of OpenAI's videos is is crisp and and real because of the physics, And, clearly people are gonna be building off of that, and it's gonna get better. Like, we're in February 2024, and the AI is just gonna get better. And Tyler Perry saw it, and he did an interview, with it. He did an interview, talking about it, and the main thing that I want to bring up is, first of all, the the big headline was Tyler Perry pauses. He indefinitely halts an $800,000,000 expansion to his studio in Atlanta.
He was going to build 12 more sound stages and expand the back lot. So he was gonna build a bunch more stages and just just make the whole thing bigger, and the the interviewer says, what in particular was shocking to you about about its capabilities? And, he says, I no longer would have to travel to locations. Tyler Perry is like straight up like, I don't need to travel anymore. If I wanted to be in the snow in Colorado, it's text. If I wanted to write us a section if I wanted to write a scene on the moon, it's text, and this AI can generate it like it's nothing.
If I wanted to have 2 people in the living room in the mountains, I don't have to build a set in the mountains. I don't have to put any set on my lot. I can sit in an office, and do this with a computer, which is shocking to me. It makes me worry so much about all the people in the business because I was because as I was looking at it, I immediately started thinking of everyone in the industry who would be affected by this, including actors, and grips, and electric, and transportation, and sound, and editors, and looking at this.
And looking at this, I'm thinking this will touch every corner of our industry. Whoops. Like it's that serious dude. It's that serious. You got Tyler Perry. Like the guy knows how to make movies, You know? Regardless if you watch the movies, regardless if you think he, like if you like the movies, like, he's just one of those guys who just, like, he he's a staple in Hollywood. I certain I mean, personally, I grew up watching all of his TV shows on TBS. So I've been aware of Tyler Perry for a long time. I've thought that his stuff was funny for for a while. Sort of died off from my point of view. I'm just like, I personally lost interest, but he's been going for it, and it's hard to make movies. Like, it's hard to build set. It it's hard to the the reason why he's like revered is because he figured out a business model to to pump out the content in a consistent manner.
And when you, do some research, like, on Twitter and when you do some reading, you know, there is a there is an attitude towards the way that Tyler Perry makes things that might be a bit, like, harsh. I don't have any experience working on his sets, but people have said that, like, he's like hard to work with, or like he demands a lot. Just tough schedules, not like he doesn't. Maybe he doesn't pay everyone the best. I don't know for a fact, you know. That's just speculation on Twitter. But what I'm reading here is that him as a businessman, he sees AI as beneficial for the bottom line of his company, And that is literally what every other company is seeing AI as.
It is beneficial for the bottom line. And when you're able to just type in the moon, and then all of a sudden you got the moon on the screen, like it it's right there. Like it it just needs to look real enough. You know? It just needs to look real enough. And, pretty much, like, he he didn't have anything, like, cement to say, like, this whole interview is him talking about how the, the industry needs to come together and figure out the guardrails. Everyone's moving at, like, a 100 miles an hour trying to catch up, but but no one's really, like, understanding how fast it's going. Like like it's like, what are the answers?
No one really has the answers right now, because in the next week, it's gonna get better. And, I saw this and I said, woah. This is this is a big deal for me. This is a big deal for everyone in Hollywood. What is it going to mean for these big studios? You know? There throughout the pandemic, there was already discussion about, tech companies buying up studios. There's already already discussion of, like, streaming services replacing, home video and movie theaters. And that whole conversation is still sort of up in the air. You know? What is the culture around movie theaters? What is the culture around movies?
Are movies a staple in premier entertainment? I saw another interview with the actress, Natalie Portman. Natalie Portman was in the Star Wars prequels. She was she played Jackie Kennedy a few years back, you know, and Natalie Portman, she was also in that movie, Black Swan. She might have gotten the Oscar for the Black Swan. I don't remember though, but Natalie Portman, amazing actor. Right? And she was talking about social media and how, like, she straight up said that movies are not the premier source of entertainment. They're not the premier source of of culture. You know, people are not the the the masses are not gathering around movies like they used to. It's a lot more democratized, and she even says that her own children are more interested in someone famous on YouTube or TikTok, rather than an actor.
And that and that really speaks a lot, man. And I'm reading these things from these successful people, and I myself am, you know, I've been open about how I wanna make movies. You know, I've been I've always enjoyed performing, and I'm seeing the entire world change in front of me as I'm still at a young age, and I I think to myself, how can I use this to my benefit? How do I react to this? You know? Hollywood is already like anti social media, but when it comes to AI, how are they gonna be anti AI when literally anyone will be able to make a movie?
When my mom is able to tell the stories that she wants to tell visually with a few strokes of of the keys. You know? Like, that's a big deal, and that's what I see is happening. I I don't wanna go too deep and, like, into, like, the possibilities of of AI, but but the biggest possibility is everyone having access to make their own movie. If everyone has access to make their own movie, then what's the point of moving into an industry? What's the point of putting your eggs in a basket that's centered around Hollywood or any town?
You know, what's the purpose of that? And how do you make a business around that? And it makes me me think about the, like the influencers, and the personal brands, and brings me back to my own podcast, and my own name, and value for value, and all that. You know, it's the reason why I made Magic Mushroom Fun Time. I'm happy to say that I actually used AI to express myself with the very first value for value cinema experience, Magic Mushroom Fun Time, that it's streaming right now in a modern podcast app. You can check it out right now, and I put my whole crew on value for value, and if you choose to support it with your satoshis, everyone gets an even cut.
You know? And I used AI in that to help me out, and you just can't get away from it. It's like, a AI is legit, like, it's becoming a bigger shadow. It's like it's big it's this goo that's that's forming across the entire Earth, and people just can't get away from it, and Tyler Perry in the same interview, he even says that in his last two movies, he used AI to help him with aging makeup. He didn't want to spend 5:5 or 8 hours in the makeup chair to make himself look older. Let's just use some AI to just do it in post production. Just lickety split, you know. The last thing that he says here, is that I he says, the the question is, how do you think this convergence of the rapid development of AI and the current contraction in the industry is going to play out? And Tyler Perry says, I think it's going to be a major game changer because if you could spend a fraction of the cost to do a pilot that would have cost 15, 20, or even 35,000,000 if you're looking at HBO.
Of course, the bottom line of those companies would be to go the route of lesser costs. So I'm very very concerned that in the near future, a lot of jobs are going to be lost. I really, really feel that very strongly. That's real shit dude. That's real shit. And it makes me think about my own career. Like, what am I really doing here? You know, I I I'm totally committed to podcasting. I'm totally committed to value for value. I'm committed to the Internet, and I've been chasing this Hollywood dream, and it just doesn't seem real. It doesn't seem legitimate.
And I feel like in the past, somebody someone might say that same sentence, but in a in a doubtful way. Like in a I'm not good enough way. You know, someone might say the Hollywood dream is not real because they're not talented enough or something. But the perspective that I'm looking at it from is the Hollywood dream is in illegitimate because of the technology available to me, and I can use it to my own advantage. I've spoken about this a little bit already in past episodes, but it's just the fact that I'm seeing this major producer really talk about it, you know. And, can I just make my own movies?
Like, I I still wanna make movies. I I I'm not uninterested in making movies. I wanna be able to do it on my own. I wanna be able to do it in my own way. If you have an opportunity to do it to do something in your own way, won't you do it? Why would you choose the route of, like, dealing with mega corporations, and negotiating if something is is too risque or or trying to figure out if something is family friendly or not, you know? Why don't you just make the thing you wanna make? Why don't you just tell the story that you wanna tell? You know?
There's all this hoopla around Top Gun, and Tom Cruise, and all this stuff. Tom Cruise being like, the last real movie star, the last action star. You know, and maybe that's just something of the times. Maybe Tom Cruise is the last action star. I remember a while ago, before the pandemic, in 2019, Brad Pitt I was reading an interview with Brad Pitt, and he was promoting the Tarantino movie, Once Upon A Time in Hollywood, and they were asking Brad about, you know, just the future. Hey, man. What do you got going on later? What other movies are you doing? How do you see the future of Hollywood? What's the future of movies, Brad? And, he had something really interesting to say. His his little tidbit was I'm gonna be doing less movies.
The the distance of between movies that I do will be further, and he'll be taking more breaks. And he also said, we'll see if movies are even a thing in the future. He really said that. Brad motherfucking Pitt really said that, man. He really questioned if movies will really be around. And for a movie lover, that makes me sad. Like, oh, my God. Like, is this not gonna be a thing anymore? Is this is this art form dying, or is it it's morphing into something else. It's morphing into something a bit more specific, you know? Like, is movies becoming theater? Like, are movies in the cinema going to be something that only only a few people only a few people go to every once in a while? You know?
Maybe. May maybe not, you know. No one knows the future. But I know for a fact that I have an opportunity as an independent as an independent creator in mind, to do my own thing, and to build my own audience. And, and that means that I also need to rethink a career. I I I I feel as though I'm in a position to to recalibrate and rethink the jobs I do. Like, what type of a job am I doing? Because if Hollywood is crumbling if all or not let's not say crumbling. This interview says contraction. Is if Hollywood is contracting, that means that the companies are going to go towards the people and the brands who have the biggest oomph, who have the biggest bang for their buck.
And for someone who might be on the come up like me, it's looking a bit, like, less probable that I'll be able to make a movie for Disney, a movie for for Universal, you know. I don't want to completely shut that door but there seems to be a wider door for me to make my own movies with AI, with my own crew, and and tell my own stories through podcasting. So Like, what do you think about that? Do you have any thoughts on that? Like, that's really where I wanna see, I I I need to know if that's a legitimate thought, if that's a healthy thought, because this takes me to one of my final things that I wanna discuss, and that's, I was talking about all this with my girlfriend, and she brought up she was like, I feel like you'd be really good at a trade.
She's just Shannon goes, Cole, I feel like you'd just be really good working with your hands, and just doing a trade. And a few days ago was like, was one of the first times that I really, really sat down, and I really thought about it. Because when it comes to AI and South Park made this joke already. There, I I forget what episode of it. It was in the it was in, like, one of the newest season. But South Park made this episode where, you know, AI took over all the all the office jobs, and the people who got the richest were all the handymen, and all the electricians, and all the people who knew how to fix things.
And all of a sudden, the the next billionaires were the plumbers, and, like, everything everything is, like, getting flipped upside down. All the blue collar workers are now billionaires. And, I I that that might be real, dude. That might be real. Like, the the the people who get rich in the next decade might be the handymen. And when I was a kid, you know, unfortunately, because I'm I'm a I'm a millennial slash Gen Z, you know, I was born in 97, there's been, like, propaganda, like, propaganda around, like, anti anti trade, or at least just not exposing the kids to to trade work, and so I approach this this conversation this conversation of working in a trade, fresh, and with with no real bias because it was really never discussed to me. It was always just, like, random people when I was a kid just told me, oh, you should go on a trade. Oh, cool. You should think about going to a trade.
And I would have literally zero context. I grew up with no one around me going into a trade. Maybe 1 person, 1 random person wanted to be a welder, but I really don't know them. And within school, within high school, there was no a, there are no classes. B, nobody really talked about it. And c, if somebody did talk about it, all that was said was, trades are important. Trades are good. Like, that's all what that was said, and it was always some some older guy. It was always some it's like some person that you that a a teenager might just write off. You know? But now I'm in a position where I'm like, damn. Like, AI is taking all the jobs.
AI is actually writing, all the all the news. AI is making the algorithms for the music. AI is making the movies, and I will actually have an opportunity to make a movie with AI. And some and maybe some local actors. I don't know what that will be like, but what what I'm saying is, do I need to be an electrician if I wanna have actually like a good life? If I wanna make a good living? Because the dream in Hollywood has been, you move to LA, you work a shitty job, and you balance that shitty job with doing some creative things for free, and you build up those those creative things, and that connects you, and you you make up a network, and that network then somehow connects you to a small paying job, and then you continue to grow your network, and you keep hopping around from those smaller paying creative jobs, and then you actually, like and then you go up the ladder from there, and that takes years.
And that system is literally being taken over. That system is literally ending. And the one thing that people are not certain on is, are robots and AI taking over trades? In the next 20 years, if you need a plumber, are you calling a robot? Or are you calling a human? And in that same 20 years, if you're talking to a customer service rep, are you speaking to an AI, or are you speaking to a human? You know, we already know that answer. You're already speaking to the AI. You're already speaking to the robot. You've been speaking to the robot. And same thing for banks, same thing for anything like that, you know.
Any customer facing job, you know, it's always a computer. Even Amazon is is recommending you things through their AI. Like, it's wild how it's wild how you might go back in time to, like, the anytime before before the 2000, there were sales reps in the malls trying to sell you on shoes. You know? Like, there's there there really used to be shoe salesman, and now you're just you're just buying whatever pair of shoes online. Like I just bought bought some pair of shoes from from Kanye West for $20 on yeezy.com, dude, and and now they're just coming in the mail. And I and I bought it because I saw some random commercial from him.
And that's not a salesman, you know, that that is the internet sharing a video made by made by an individual. And if and if I'm not doing that, then I'm not just on Amazon, and I'm looking at what their algorithm is showing me. And I'm looking at the reviews, and I'm looking at all these things, and I'm not trusting a human. I'm not trusting a human when I'm going to Amazon. I'm looking for reviews from humans, but I'm also just like looking at the style. I'm looking at whatever. I'm looking at the aesthetic, and so I'm thinking about being an electrician. Long story short. Long story short, I might be an e an electrician soon. I'm looking up all the videos online, the day in the life of an electrician, or any trade, like what are the what's the list of trades?
I really don't know. I know there's electrician, there's plumber. What else is there? I only have 2. I only have 2. That's how much knowledge I have. So that's something I'm doing a lot more research in, and it could be a more viable career. I'm not uninterested in it. You know, growing up, I was always just focused on movies. I wanna make movies. I wanna work in Hollywood. I wanna work at a studio. But the greats, the the legendary filmmakers are dying, and their their work is being bought by Apple. Like Martin Scorsese's latest movie is literally made by Apple, and, you know, it's just like that like, that's wild to me. Like, that's like some topsy-turvy shit. You know, like, George Lucas already sold Star Wars to Disney.
You know? Like, the greatest minds are are already they're already gone. They're already fleeting. And that makes me sad, but there's also it makes me a little hopeful as well because I don't want to look at that and say, like, oh my God. There's no options. Like, no. There's there has to be more options for me. Because on the positive side of things, like, what if I do choose to trade? What if I do choose to go and and and be an electrical apprentice for 4 years, and I start getting paid $25 an hour, $30 an hour, and I get my school paid for, and and I end up making, you know, over $100, and I end up making maybe close to $150, you know?
And what if I could actually have my own business around that? And because I've always wanted my own business, you know? At the core of me, you know, I I I believe I'm an entrepreneur. I want to be a business. I wanna be my own boss, and, you know, that that's sort of how I saw directors, and and creative people. And But if there's a scenario where I can actually be my own boss in a different field, and I can get money, and I don't need that much money to make a movie, maybe that's a possibility. Maybe I can be an electrician, and then I can make my own things. Like, how about that? Because I really don't want to work in a fucking kitchen my whole life.
I and I really don't wanna build a career in a kitchen. I really don't wanna build a career in something that's, like, worthless, or something that, like, gets people unhealthy, you know? If if I'm gonna choose a career, if I'm gonna work, if I'm gonna wake up before 6 AM in the morning. What was that? Oh, that was some car outside. Sorry. If I'm gonna wake up before 6 AM in the morning, I would rather work with my hands, and actually help people. Like, it seems a lot more beneficial if I bring power to a family's home, than doing anything else, you know, if I don't have the opportunity to make a movie, if I don't have the opportunity to tell a story, but I have the opportunity right now.
I have it in podcasting, and I have it in AI. And so these these are just rough thoughts. What do you think? Is anyone else is anyone out there an electrician or working in trades? I would love to connect with you more. Please just like, send me the value you have. If you have any information on trade work, that information is valuable to me because I am really looking into it. I'm really looking into it, man. That's all the value, man. That that that's really what I got, man. That's really what I got. That's the value I got, folks. I think I wanna head on into the value for value section now. The boostagrams, folks. America Plus is a value for value show. We are streaming live on the modern podcasting apps, and, if you're new to value for value, what that means is this is fully listener supported. I don't want to do any ads ever on the podcast. It's it's only gonna be powered by you.
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Hopefully, it's working. I I saw it working in the app. I hope I had not crashed it. Shout out to Barry for, just upgrading the Pod home hosting site. This is really cool. I might be doing more live sessions. Live is important. Do going live is super important for for every, like, for for every podcast, for every creator, like, it's always like a fun thing if it if it's live. So maybe I do it may may maybe I do more. That's only gonna happen if, if you guys want it. You know? Tell me if you want more. Tell me if you want more live stuff, more live America Plus. This whole thing is just one big experiment. I'm just a I'm I'm I'm running with scissors here. You know? The last way to engage in value for value is boosting. Boostograms, this is where you're in the modern podcast app, and you're sending small bits of Bitcoin, little satoshis to me, and that's how you you can support me monetarily.
There's also a PayPal if you wanna send me any dollars. I got the PayPal as well. What I'm doing now, I'm gonna be reading some comments from last week on number 110, dreams. I talked about my dreams last week. Trying to get more into like, lucid dreaming and stuff like that. This first one. This one comes in from our friend, at Joel w. He sends in his normal 1,111 sets. Well, first of all, he sends in that. He just he boosted the show one time with that number, and then he sends in another 1,111 sats, and he says, oops, clumsy thumbs on that first one. He says, Tom Cruise in a bumblebee wingsuit is hilarious. That that's literally what I dreamt of last week, and Joel says, I get weird dreams that make no real sense either.
I somewhat remember them, but but they tend to be so bizarre that words can't describe them. As a child, I had a long time running dream that I was at my great grandma's funeral, except it was always me in the coffin. Holy shit, Joel. Freaked me out, and then he says, then suddenly it stopped. Weird stuff. Joel, first of all, that's wild, and then also Boosting is loving. Thank you so much, Joel, for sending in that boostagram. Anyone else relate to that dream? I've never had that sort of a dream. That freaks me out, dude. That freaks me out. What is your subconscious? Maybe that's like a fear of your subconscious, or maybe that's like some sort of past life. I don't know, dude. That's wild.
And then, Joel sends in another one another 1,111. He's, he boosts, the song last week. The, the band IROH boost. What up, dude? What up? Boost. Yeah. That song last week from IROH was lit. I play a song at the end of every episode. I'm playing a song at the end here soon, so get ready for that. And the, the artist always gets 60% of that boost. So that's why it's a that that's why value for value is amazing. I'm able to link up music and and different wallets, and and give the artists and guests on my show a split of money coming from directly from the audience, and that's that's innovative, man. That's beautiful.
And then we got, this last one coming in from our friend at Mere Mortals podcast. We got Kyren Down from Down Under. What up, Kyren? He sends in, people are just loving the ones today. 1,111. I this is good luck for episode 111 too. He says, talking about dreams. Lucid dreams definitely require the inner work. I spent ages practicing and managed to only do it twice, mostly via luck. Look into reality checks. Yes, Kyron. I will. And now, as the French say, it is time for Le Boost. Thank you so much, Kyron, for that. I'm gonna check out that. Is that a book? Look into Reality Checks. I haven't Googled that yet, but let me know if that's a book or something or a podcast. Yeah, man. Thank you to all those people who wanted to send in those value.
That's that's value for value, pretty much, dude. Like, this is this is the new system of creators who wanna innovate, and creators who wanna build their own platform, who wanna build their own their own ecosystem, man. That's the beautiful thing. It's it's a real beautiful thing. What I wanna do now is play a song. Oh, wait. Hang on. Is there notifications or messages? I don't know. Just some retweets. I wanna play a song from a guy, that I just found today. Talking about the Sora AI. I found an artist named Sora so, Satau or yeah. Sora Satau or Sore Sato. Sora Sato. This guy's in Tokyo, And, this guy just came out with a brand new song called Let's Get It Started, everybody. So I'm gonna play the song. He's getting 60%, and that's and we're gonna wrap it up from there, man. So, thank you so much for listening right now.
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Live for the very first time. It's America Plus. What's up for once? America Plus. I'm your host,Cole McCormick. It's another week, another episode. What's going on, everybody? It's Sunday. February 25th, 4:30 2 of the PM. Folks, it's a beautiful day to be alive, isn't it? Beautiful day to be alive, folks. I am your host, Cole McCormick. Welcome to America Plus. We are streaming live for the very first time. Guys, live. America Plus is live. My Pod Home my hosting site Pod Home is upgrading themselves. Let's go, dude. I'm trying to put this on Twitter right now. Add the location, papa. Here we go. Flip the camera.
Going live again, guys. We are good to go. Click the link. I'm streaming live on Twitter right now just because. Welcome to America Plus. This is where we speak about innovation. This is where we talk about a new beautiful world, that our hearts know is possible, man. We are building this new beautiful world, this more beautiful world, and I got a lot to talk about. I got a lot to share. First off, this week has been good to me. I feel good this week. I'm becoming more of an adult this week. I'm I'm My birthday's next month by the way. In 1 month, I turned 27 everybody. So that's exciting. On March 25th, I become even more of a human being on this on this beautiful planet Earth, and, we're running with scissors.
This whole live thing, this lit thing, this is interesting. I'm super scared. The the way that I usually record, I model the recording off of, Conan O'Brien. Before the pandemic, I was working at Warner Brothers and I had the experience of, working on the Conan O'Brien late night show, and what all the late night shows do is or what every talk show does is they do this thing called record live to tape, and what that means is you just pretend that it's live, and if you need to edit, you do edit, and if there's any mishaps, you can just like edit that out. But now I'm actually going live, and with with the whole podcasting 2 point o situation, I I I think I am able to to replace the live audio with the pre recorded audio, so I'm sure I'm sure it's all gonna work out in the end.
I see it live in fountain, so like that's that that's the best thing I got right now. What we're talking about this week? This week, an update on some on some health narratives that I've discussed in the past. First off, I've been posting more about raw milk on Instagram and stuff like that. I'm trying to just I I keep pushing this narrative of raw milk. Raw milk is healthy for you. Raw milk is good for you, and I've connected with some of the audience already about that, but I saw some headlines about, Colorado and West Virginia.
First of all, West Virginia, their house, the West Virginia state house, has been just pushed, just approved, raw milk to be legalized. I believe that has to go further through the government, for it to be official, but West Virginia is another state that is on the path of legalization, along with Colorado. The state of Colorado, I think it's legal, or it's legal right now, and, just more more and more states, more and more people are waking up and changing their laws around the types of foods that they are allowed to consume, which is incredible.
If I were to go to Europe right now, any country in Europe, all the milk is gonna be raw. All of it. All of the milk will not be pasteurized, and for some reason in America, there's this narrative of raw milk being unhealthy. Unpasteurized dairy is somehow bad for you when it comes to the United States of America, and that's a bunch of malarkey. It's a bunch of bullshit, to be totally honest with you, and I I'm a person who has his own story of being quote unquote lactose intolerant, and in 2022, I realized I'm actually not intolerant to anything. The only thing I'm intolerant to is shitty food products. You know what I mean? And this is something where people need to really think about it. I'm not sure what the raw milk laws are in Australia or any other country, but I know for a fact that in Europe, it's mostly like, it's it's super common to have raw milk, and in in America, it's not common.
And whenever I discuss this online, it's either met with, there's like 2 reactions to it, or a few different reactions. It's either no reaction, or someone's gonna comment saying, I'm actually interested Cole. What are you saying here? And then someone's also gonna reply with, Cole, this is not healthy at all. You're not supposed to drink dairy. Humans are not supposed to drink cow's milk. Cow's milk is for the cows, and, I had all of those experiences this week. Blessed blessed be, Instagram, because 2 of my peep no. Blessed be Instagram and Twitter, because one person commented on my story, and they were like, where do I get this? Like, where do I get raw milk? Gave her the link, shot her the the name of the grocery stores, and now, like, hopefully, this this wonderful mother, who I knew in high school, like hopefully, like, she gets on this raw milk train. I was able to get my other friend from high school interested, and, I'm happy that I have this influence.
I'm happy that I can push a narrative that I really believe in, and people, like, somehow, like, something in the dam breaks, you know, and and people people start asking questions. And there was a third person that interacted with me, and this person is, this person is clearly plant based. This person I don't I and I'm not trying to drag this person. I'm not trying to talk shit about these people because it's really just information. These people don't have, like, legitimate information. What they do have is information that is cemented in, propaganda and institutionalized narratives, and there's real no data with it. Because when it comes to data, with raw milk, you know, you can go to studies.
You can look at interventional studies and see that children who consumed raw milk were was less likely to have any sort of respiratory illness or along with, I I forget the other diseases, but they were objectively healthier. There were interventional studies that shown that that that showed that children were healthier when they were consuming raw dairy, and that's legit man. That's legit, and people need to see this. I need to get those links, and just just keep talking about it. And clearly, people in West Virginia and Colorado are moving forward with it.
I'm very happy about this. People are waking up. People are waking up. Even if it's just for raw dairy, like, people are waking up that their bodies are not ill. Their bod like, there's nothing wrong with your body because the government the the the large dairy narratives might say that 70% of the world is lactose intolerant. But what that really means is 70% of the world is unable to digest milk that's been boiled at 300 degrees. And that that makes total sense, dude, but our bodies are able to digest, just natural milk. When it comes to this person who, who's plant based on Instagram, this person was telling me that, you know, just a common thing. Cow's milk is is meant for cows, and if you really want to consume milk, you should be consuming, goat's milk, because it's a lot easier to digest, and that narrative right off the bat is just it it doesn't make any sense. For that narrative is inconsistent because if the cow's milk is only for the cows, why is it okay for me to drink goat's milk? Shouldn't the goat's milk be only for the goat as well, if we're gonna be straight here?
Like if we're not supposed to have any animal products, why is it okay to have this one animal product, and not other ones? And so there's just like a like the small fallacy in that sort of a thing, and this person was also telling me that, you know, they're just of the opinion that we shouldn't be eating any animal products. Humans should not be eating this, and there's ways to make your own, plant based milks, without any fillers, you know. Because during this conversation I was having through Instagram, I was talking about how just my whole story of how I was drinking almond milk for for 7 years. I dropped dairy after high school because I was quote unquote lactose intolerant, and I never had any good situations.
My digestion was not good when I was drinking almond milk, And I was able to identify it's the seed oils in those milks, and it's the fake gums in those milks as well. And and I told her straight up, like, my digestion got better with raw dairy. And she responds with, I understand that you might be able to digest a little better, but you'd probably be able to have a lot that you you your body would be able to digest even better if you drop dairy altogether, and that just doesn't, like, that that's not my experience, you know? And this takes me to what she said next is, she she told me that when she was a kid, she would have milk straight from the cow, and she was still able to not digest it.
And so when it comes to these raw milk narratives, I think I need to under I think I need to remember, and more people need to remember that maybe there is a small population who's not able to have milk at all, like even the most natural form of it, people are unable to digest. Now, I don't know her body. I don't know her gut health. I don't know her story, you know, I don't know the cleanliness of the cow. I don't know the type of the cow. It could have been a type a one cow, opposed to a type a 2 cow, which is usually what people are looking for when it comes to dairy.
I I I don't know those details, but I was able to just give her my experience. There was love. There wasn't an argument. I was just like telling her my side, and I sent her the videos that I watch. I sent her Paul Saladino, which is like the main guy who got me into it. The main guy who got me into like the whole animal based situation, and I'm gonna keep posting about it. I'm gonna keep making videos about it. I'm gonna post a video later today about why I buy raw dairy, why I buy raw milk, and the health benefits, the vitamins in it, the vitamin a, b, a, b, c, and d, you know, like, here are the a, b, c's of raw milk, And it's really wild how something as simple as milk is is like taboo, you know. People really think it's disgusting, and people really are just like, revolted by it. And so that that's that's a narrative that I wanna continue to just to just continue to break.
I'm gonna break the narrative. We're gonna break the Internet just like Kim k, you know? So I'm blessed about that. So raw milk is great. We should all drink raw milk. The next thing I want to talk about, a little controversy, we're going into technology now. Going into AI. I wanna talk about AI for a second. We all love AI. AI is amazing. I saw this, I saw this interview, from the Hollywood Reporter with a gentleman named Tyler Perry. Anyone know Tyler Perry? He's legitimately one of the most successful producers of all time. He is literally like, a, he's super famous. B, he's super rich. C, he has a studio in Atlanta that he runs, and like he knows how to make things that make money. He knows how to tell stories that make money consistently, and so he's objectively successful.
And this week, OpenAI put out a new text to video AI, and pretty much this is like it blew my mind, first of all, and it and it really it blew everyone's minds when it came out. OpenAI's, it's called Sora. This text to text to video AI, SoRA. The it's the most realistic thing ever. It's the most realistic AI that you can actually get your hands on right now, and it's based off of physics. The reason why it's so, like, realistic is because the AI somehow the way it calculates the physics and the images that it already has, It's able to sync all that up, and if you if you wanna have some some golden retrievers playing in the snow, it actually looks like golden retrievers are naturally playing in the snow, and the snow looks it's falling down the fur in a really realistic way, you know.
Within the earlier video AI's, it might look a little, like, gooey or the video might look a little, like, it it's clearly fake, of course, but what I'm talking about is the aesthetic of the video. The aesthetic of OpenAI's videos is is crisp and and real because of the physics, And, clearly people are gonna be building off of that, and it's gonna get better. Like, we're in February 2024, and the AI is just gonna get better. And Tyler Perry saw it, and he did an interview, with it. He did an interview, talking about it, and the main thing that I want to bring up is, first of all, the the big headline was Tyler Perry pauses. He indefinitely halts an $800,000,000 expansion to his studio in Atlanta.
He was going to build 12 more sound stages and expand the back lot. So he was gonna build a bunch more stages and just just make the whole thing bigger, and the the interviewer says, what in particular was shocking to you about about its capabilities? And, he says, I no longer would have to travel to locations. Tyler Perry is like straight up like, I don't need to travel anymore. If I wanted to be in the snow in Colorado, it's text. If I wanted to write us a section if I wanted to write a scene on the moon, it's text, and this AI can generate it like it's nothing.
If I wanted to have 2 people in the living room in the mountains, I don't have to build a set in the mountains. I don't have to put any set on my lot. I can sit in an office, and do this with a computer, which is shocking to me. It makes me worry so much about all the people in the business because I was because as I was looking at it, I immediately started thinking of everyone in the industry who would be affected by this, including actors, and grips, and electric, and transportation, and sound, and editors, and looking at this.
And looking at this, I'm thinking this will touch every corner of our industry. Whoops. Like it's that serious dude. It's that serious. You got Tyler Perry. Like the guy knows how to make movies, You know? Regardless if you watch the movies, regardless if you think he, like if you like the movies, like, he's just one of those guys who just, like, he he's a staple in Hollywood. I certain I mean, personally, I grew up watching all of his TV shows on TBS. So I've been aware of Tyler Perry for a long time. I've thought that his stuff was funny for for a while. Sort of died off from my point of view. I'm just like, I personally lost interest, but he's been going for it, and it's hard to make movies. Like, it's hard to build set. It it's hard to the the reason why he's like revered is because he figured out a business model to to pump out the content in a consistent manner.
And when you, do some research, like, on Twitter and when you do some reading, you know, there is a there is an attitude towards the way that Tyler Perry makes things that might be a bit, like, harsh. I don't have any experience working on his sets, but people have said that, like, he's like hard to work with, or like he demands a lot. Just tough schedules, not like he doesn't. Maybe he doesn't pay everyone the best. I don't know for a fact, you know. That's just speculation on Twitter. But what I'm reading here is that him as a businessman, he sees AI as beneficial for the bottom line of his company, And that is literally what every other company is seeing AI as.
It is beneficial for the bottom line. And when you're able to just type in the moon, and then all of a sudden you got the moon on the screen, like it it's right there. Like it it just needs to look real enough. You know? It just needs to look real enough. And, pretty much, like, he he didn't have anything, like, cement to say, like, this whole interview is him talking about how the, the industry needs to come together and figure out the guardrails. Everyone's moving at, like, a 100 miles an hour trying to catch up, but but no one's really, like, understanding how fast it's going. Like like it's like, what are the answers?
No one really has the answers right now, because in the next week, it's gonna get better. And, I saw this and I said, woah. This is this is a big deal for me. This is a big deal for everyone in Hollywood. What is it going to mean for these big studios? You know? There throughout the pandemic, there was already discussion about, tech companies buying up studios. There's already already discussion of, like, streaming services replacing, home video and movie theaters. And that whole conversation is still sort of up in the air. You know? What is the culture around movie theaters? What is the culture around movies?
Are movies a staple in premier entertainment? I saw another interview with the actress, Natalie Portman. Natalie Portman was in the Star Wars prequels. She was she played Jackie Kennedy a few years back, you know, and Natalie Portman, she was also in that movie, Black Swan. She might have gotten the Oscar for the Black Swan. I don't remember though, but Natalie Portman, amazing actor. Right? And she was talking about social media and how, like, she straight up said that movies are not the premier source of entertainment. They're not the premier source of of culture. You know, people are not the the the masses are not gathering around movies like they used to. It's a lot more democratized, and she even says that her own children are more interested in someone famous on YouTube or TikTok, rather than an actor.
And that and that really speaks a lot, man. And I'm reading these things from these successful people, and I myself am, you know, I've been open about how I wanna make movies. You know, I've been I've always enjoyed performing, and I'm seeing the entire world change in front of me as I'm still at a young age, and I I think to myself, how can I use this to my benefit? How do I react to this? You know? Hollywood is already like anti social media, but when it comes to AI, how are they gonna be anti AI when literally anyone will be able to make a movie?
When my mom is able to tell the stories that she wants to tell visually with a few strokes of of the keys. You know? Like, that's a big deal, and that's what I see is happening. I I don't wanna go too deep and, like, into, like, the possibilities of of AI, but but the biggest possibility is everyone having access to make their own movie. If everyone has access to make their own movie, then what's the point of moving into an industry? What's the point of putting your eggs in a basket that's centered around Hollywood or any town?
You know, what's the purpose of that? And how do you make a business around that? And it makes me me think about the, like the influencers, and the personal brands, and brings me back to my own podcast, and my own name, and value for value, and all that. You know, it's the reason why I made Magic Mushroom Fun Time. I'm happy to say that I actually used AI to express myself with the very first value for value cinema experience, Magic Mushroom Fun Time, that it's streaming right now in a modern podcast app. You can check it out right now, and I put my whole crew on value for value, and if you choose to support it with your satoshis, everyone gets an even cut.
You know? And I used AI in that to help me out, and you just can't get away from it. It's like, a AI is legit, like, it's becoming a bigger shadow. It's like it's big it's this goo that's that's forming across the entire Earth, and people just can't get away from it, and Tyler Perry in the same interview, he even says that in his last two movies, he used AI to help him with aging makeup. He didn't want to spend 5:5 or 8 hours in the makeup chair to make himself look older. Let's just use some AI to just do it in post production. Just lickety split, you know. The last thing that he says here, is that I he says, the the question is, how do you think this convergence of the rapid development of AI and the current contraction in the industry is going to play out? And Tyler Perry says, I think it's going to be a major game changer because if you could spend a fraction of the cost to do a pilot that would have cost 15, 20, or even 35,000,000 if you're looking at HBO.
Of course, the bottom line of those companies would be to go the route of lesser costs. So I'm very very concerned that in the near future, a lot of jobs are going to be lost. I really, really feel that very strongly. That's real shit dude. That's real shit. And it makes me think about my own career. Like, what am I really doing here? You know, I I I'm totally committed to podcasting. I'm totally committed to value for value. I'm committed to the Internet, and I've been chasing this Hollywood dream, and it just doesn't seem real. It doesn't seem legitimate.
And I feel like in the past, somebody someone might say that same sentence, but in a in a doubtful way. Like in a I'm not good enough way. You know, someone might say the Hollywood dream is not real because they're not talented enough or something. But the perspective that I'm looking at it from is the Hollywood dream is in illegitimate because of the technology available to me, and I can use it to my own advantage. I've spoken about this a little bit already in past episodes, but it's just the fact that I'm seeing this major producer really talk about it, you know. And, can I just make my own movies?
Like, I I still wanna make movies. I I I'm not uninterested in making movies. I wanna be able to do it on my own. I wanna be able to do it in my own way. If you have an opportunity to do it to do something in your own way, won't you do it? Why would you choose the route of, like, dealing with mega corporations, and negotiating if something is is too risque or or trying to figure out if something is family friendly or not, you know? Why don't you just make the thing you wanna make? Why don't you just tell the story that you wanna tell? You know?
There's all this hoopla around Top Gun, and Tom Cruise, and all this stuff. Tom Cruise being like, the last real movie star, the last action star. You know, and maybe that's just something of the times. Maybe Tom Cruise is the last action star. I remember a while ago, before the pandemic, in 2019, Brad Pitt I was reading an interview with Brad Pitt, and he was promoting the Tarantino movie, Once Upon A Time in Hollywood, and they were asking Brad about, you know, just the future. Hey, man. What do you got going on later? What other movies are you doing? How do you see the future of Hollywood? What's the future of movies, Brad? And, he had something really interesting to say. His his little tidbit was I'm gonna be doing less movies.
The the distance of between movies that I do will be further, and he'll be taking more breaks. And he also said, we'll see if movies are even a thing in the future. He really said that. Brad motherfucking Pitt really said that, man. He really questioned if movies will really be around. And for a movie lover, that makes me sad. Like, oh, my God. Like, is this not gonna be a thing anymore? Is this is this art form dying, or is it it's morphing into something else. It's morphing into something a bit more specific, you know? Like, is movies becoming theater? Like, are movies in the cinema going to be something that only only a few people only a few people go to every once in a while? You know?
Maybe. May maybe not, you know. No one knows the future. But I know for a fact that I have an opportunity as an independent as an independent creator in mind, to do my own thing, and to build my own audience. And, and that means that I also need to rethink a career. I I I I feel as though I'm in a position to to recalibrate and rethink the jobs I do. Like, what type of a job am I doing? Because if Hollywood is crumbling if all or not let's not say crumbling. This interview says contraction. Is if Hollywood is contracting, that means that the companies are going to go towards the people and the brands who have the biggest oomph, who have the biggest bang for their buck.
And for someone who might be on the come up like me, it's looking a bit, like, less probable that I'll be able to make a movie for Disney, a movie for for Universal, you know. I don't want to completely shut that door but there seems to be a wider door for me to make my own movies with AI, with my own crew, and and tell my own stories through podcasting. So Like, what do you think about that? Do you have any thoughts on that? Like, that's really where I wanna see, I I I need to know if that's a legitimate thought, if that's a healthy thought, because this takes me to one of my final things that I wanna discuss, and that's, I was talking about all this with my girlfriend, and she brought up she was like, I feel like you'd be really good at a trade.
She's just Shannon goes, Cole, I feel like you'd just be really good working with your hands, and just doing a trade. And a few days ago was like, was one of the first times that I really, really sat down, and I really thought about it. Because when it comes to AI and South Park made this joke already. There, I I forget what episode of it. It was in the it was in, like, one of the newest season. But South Park made this episode where, you know, AI took over all the all the office jobs, and the people who got the richest were all the handymen, and all the electricians, and all the people who knew how to fix things.
And all of a sudden, the the next billionaires were the plumbers, and, like, everything everything is, like, getting flipped upside down. All the blue collar workers are now billionaires. And, I I that that might be real, dude. That might be real. Like, the the the people who get rich in the next decade might be the handymen. And when I was a kid, you know, unfortunately, because I'm I'm a I'm a millennial slash Gen Z, you know, I was born in 97, there's been, like, propaganda, like, propaganda around, like, anti anti trade, or at least just not exposing the kids to to trade work, and so I approach this this conversation this conversation of working in a trade, fresh, and with with no real bias because it was really never discussed to me. It was always just, like, random people when I was a kid just told me, oh, you should go on a trade. Oh, cool. You should think about going to a trade.
And I would have literally zero context. I grew up with no one around me going into a trade. Maybe 1 person, 1 random person wanted to be a welder, but I really don't know them. And within school, within high school, there was no a, there are no classes. B, nobody really talked about it. And c, if somebody did talk about it, all that was said was, trades are important. Trades are good. Like, that's all what that was said, and it was always some some older guy. It was always some it's like some person that you that a a teenager might just write off. You know? But now I'm in a position where I'm like, damn. Like, AI is taking all the jobs.
AI is actually writing, all the all the news. AI is making the algorithms for the music. AI is making the movies, and I will actually have an opportunity to make a movie with AI. And some and maybe some local actors. I don't know what that will be like, but what what I'm saying is, do I need to be an electrician if I wanna have actually like a good life? If I wanna make a good living? Because the dream in Hollywood has been, you move to LA, you work a shitty job, and you balance that shitty job with doing some creative things for free, and you build up those those creative things, and that connects you, and you you make up a network, and that network then somehow connects you to a small paying job, and then you continue to grow your network, and you keep hopping around from those smaller paying creative jobs, and then you actually, like and then you go up the ladder from there, and that takes years.
And that system is literally being taken over. That system is literally ending. And the one thing that people are not certain on is, are robots and AI taking over trades? In the next 20 years, if you need a plumber, are you calling a robot? Or are you calling a human? And in that same 20 years, if you're talking to a customer service rep, are you speaking to an AI, or are you speaking to a human? You know, we already know that answer. You're already speaking to the AI. You're already speaking to the robot. You've been speaking to the robot. And same thing for banks, same thing for anything like that, you know.
Any customer facing job, you know, it's always a computer. Even Amazon is is recommending you things through their AI. Like, it's wild how it's wild how you might go back in time to, like, the anytime before before the 2000, there were sales reps in the malls trying to sell you on shoes. You know? Like, there's there there really used to be shoe salesman, and now you're just you're just buying whatever pair of shoes online. Like I just bought bought some pair of shoes from from Kanye West for $20 on yeezy.com, dude, and and now they're just coming in the mail. And I and I bought it because I saw some random commercial from him.
And that's not a salesman, you know, that that is the internet sharing a video made by made by an individual. And if and if I'm not doing that, then I'm not just on Amazon, and I'm looking at what their algorithm is showing me. And I'm looking at the reviews, and I'm looking at all these things, and I'm not trusting a human. I'm not trusting a human when I'm going to Amazon. I'm looking for reviews from humans, but I'm also just like looking at the style. I'm looking at whatever. I'm looking at the aesthetic, and so I'm thinking about being an electrician. Long story short. Long story short, I might be an e an electrician soon. I'm looking up all the videos online, the day in the life of an electrician, or any trade, like what are the what's the list of trades?
I really don't know. I know there's electrician, there's plumber. What else is there? I only have 2. I only have 2. That's how much knowledge I have. So that's something I'm doing a lot more research in, and it could be a more viable career. I'm not uninterested in it. You know, growing up, I was always just focused on movies. I wanna make movies. I wanna work in Hollywood. I wanna work at a studio. But the greats, the the legendary filmmakers are dying, and their their work is being bought by Apple. Like Martin Scorsese's latest movie is literally made by Apple, and, you know, it's just like that like, that's wild to me. Like, that's like some topsy-turvy shit. You know, like, George Lucas already sold Star Wars to Disney.
You know? Like, the greatest minds are are already they're already gone. They're already fleeting. And that makes me sad, but there's also it makes me a little hopeful as well because I don't want to look at that and say, like, oh my God. There's no options. Like, no. There's there has to be more options for me. Because on the positive side of things, like, what if I do choose to trade? What if I do choose to go and and and be an electrical apprentice for 4 years, and I start getting paid $25 an hour, $30 an hour, and I get my school paid for, and and I end up making, you know, over $100, and I end up making maybe close to $150, you know?
And what if I could actually have my own business around that? And because I've always wanted my own business, you know? At the core of me, you know, I I I believe I'm an entrepreneur. I want to be a business. I wanna be my own boss, and, you know, that that's sort of how I saw directors, and and creative people. And But if there's a scenario where I can actually be my own boss in a different field, and I can get money, and I don't need that much money to make a movie, maybe that's a possibility. Maybe I can be an electrician, and then I can make my own things. Like, how about that? Because I really don't want to work in a fucking kitchen my whole life.
I and I really don't wanna build a career in a kitchen. I really don't wanna build a career in something that's, like, worthless, or something that, like, gets people unhealthy, you know? If if I'm gonna choose a career, if I'm gonna work, if I'm gonna wake up before 6 AM in the morning. What was that? Oh, that was some car outside. Sorry. If I'm gonna wake up before 6 AM in the morning, I would rather work with my hands, and actually help people. Like, it seems a lot more beneficial if I bring power to a family's home, than doing anything else, you know, if I don't have the opportunity to make a movie, if I don't have the opportunity to tell a story, but I have the opportunity right now.
I have it in podcasting, and I have it in AI. And so these these are just rough thoughts. What do you think? Is anyone else is anyone out there an electrician or working in trades? I would love to connect with you more. Please just like, send me the value you have. If you have any information on trade work, that information is valuable to me because I am really looking into it. I'm really looking into it, man. That's all the value, man. That that that's really what I got, man. That's really what I got. That's the value I got, folks. I think I wanna head on into the value for value section now. The boostagrams, folks. America Plus is a value for value show. We are streaming live on the modern podcasting apps, and, if you're new to value for value, what that means is this is fully listener supported. I don't want to do any ads ever on the podcast. It's it's only gonna be powered by you.
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I somewhat remember them, but but they tend to be so bizarre that words can't describe them. As a child, I had a long time running dream that I was at my great grandma's funeral, except it was always me in the coffin. Holy shit, Joel. Freaked me out, and then he says, then suddenly it stopped. Weird stuff. Joel, first of all, that's wild, and then also Boosting is loving. Thank you so much, Joel, for sending in that boostagram. Anyone else relate to that dream? I've never had that sort of a dream. That freaks me out, dude. That freaks me out. What is your subconscious? Maybe that's like a fear of your subconscious, or maybe that's like some sort of past life. I don't know, dude. That's wild.
And then, Joel sends in another one another 1,111. He's, he boosts, the song last week. The, the band IROH boost. What up, dude? What up? Boost. Yeah. That song last week from IROH was lit. I play a song at the end of every episode. I'm playing a song at the end here soon, so get ready for that. And the, the artist always gets 60% of that boost. So that's why it's a that that's why value for value is amazing. I'm able to link up music and and different wallets, and and give the artists and guests on my show a split of money coming from directly from the audience, and that's that's innovative, man. That's beautiful.
And then we got, this last one coming in from our friend at Mere Mortals podcast. We got Kyren Down from Down Under. What up, Kyren? He sends in, people are just loving the ones today. 1,111. I this is good luck for episode 111 too. He says, talking about dreams. Lucid dreams definitely require the inner work. I spent ages practicing and managed to only do it twice, mostly via luck. Look into reality checks. Yes, Kyron. I will. And now, as the French say, it is time for Le Boost. Thank you so much, Kyron, for that. I'm gonna check out that. Is that a book? Look into Reality Checks. I haven't Googled that yet, but let me know if that's a book or something or a podcast. Yeah, man. Thank you to all those people who wanted to send in those value.
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