In this episode, Cole discusses the Crumbling of the Oscars, the state of the cinema, and his plans for a new podcast. This episode ends with a song from Lumba who is receiving 60% of your Satoshi Donation in a modern podcast app.
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Cole McCormick:
Let's all go to the movies. What's up, everyone? It's America Plus. I'm your host, Cole McCormick. It's another week of the episode. What's going on, people? It's Sunday, March 10th. March 10th, everybody. Oscar, Sunday. It's a beautiful day to be alive here in North Hollywood. Sun is shining. Clouds are blowing in the wind. I am in my kitchen as usual, folks. Welcome to another beautiful week of America Plus. Yeah, man. Just no a normal week doing my thing, just working, planning, strategizing, getting satoshis, boosting, just involving myself more and more in this podcasting 2.0 world, dude. Value for Value is lit this week.
I got a great song to play at the very end of this episode too, so stick around for that. Guys, honestly, this week, I I wanna just hang out a little bit. I wanna chill out. I wanna just like do what I usually do with my friends like you, and just talk about movies. We're talking movies. We're talking innovation that's happening with me. What I wanna start off with guys is it is the Oscars. We got award it is award season, man. Does anyone else not care about the Oscars? It just it's it's lame. Right? Nobody like, barely anyone gives a shit about them. I am going to a little Oscars party today though. It it feels like before the pandemic, the Oscars were somehow relevant, and then, like, they just got more and more irrelevant.
Like and I'm talking about like myself. I'm talking about like, within the movie world, within like my Hollywood friends, like, some people still care, but a lot of people have just, like, stopped caring. And we're really just watching the Oscars just so like like, we're we're we're making bets really. We're making we have, people are always filling out those, like, who's gonna win cards, the the brackets. Who's gonna win the Oscar brackets? And, a lot of us are just watching it just because of so many of us are Christopher Nolan fans. Like, all of my friends are are Chris Nolan fans, and we're all pretty certain that Chris Nolan and Oppenheimer, they're gonna be sweeping. They're sweeping the Oscars this year, and, honestly, what I just wanna talk about like, the state of the movies. The state of the cinema. The soul of the cinema.
I've talked about movies a little bit, just like the the general vibe of how are movies changing? How how are the cinemas changing? What's going on right now, man? And we are in a transitionary period. We are figuring out, like, as like a culture, the marketplace. We're figuring out why are we going to the movies, and that's a really important thing to to think about because that goes into art. It goes into how you consume. It goes into how artists distribute their work, and it goes into podcasting 2 point o as well. So pretty much, I I I wanna start off with a clip.
A quick clip. A quick clip from the Joe Rogan experience. Let me pull this up. I thought I had this up, but I don't right now. Here we go. So Joe Rogan this past week, he had a really famous filmmaker named Zack Snyder. Anyone know Zack Snyder? He directed the movie 300. He's the director of Watchmen. The director of, Man of Steel, Batman v Superman. He also did his own he had he did Justice League, but there's a whole saga. There's a whole story around the Justice League movie in 2017. He had to leave, he had to leave during post production because there was a family emergency. Somebody in his in his family died, and then there was this whole, like, ker muckus because the studio change changed the movie.
And then during the pandemic, the the fans forced Warner Brothers to bring Snyder back, and to make his to to finish his vision of his movie, and so, Zack Snyder is like this, like, megalithic, like, fanboy, like all the fanboys love him. He's really into comic books, and him on Joe Rogan was like, more than a perfect match. Like, him and Rogan just like really hit it off, and, they had a really good discussion about about his movies, about art, about technology. And I wanted to start this off because Snyder, he he's this guy who, like, he's famous for, like, his effects. Right? For his visual style. When you look at how they filmed 300, it was all in front of a green screen and blue screen.
And really, like, the discussion of, like, celluloid film doesn't really come up with Zack Snyder a lot, but as I've gotten older and as I've done more research in movies, I've gravitated towards film. Like, I've been going to theaters that have the film reels. I've been looking for screenings that are, like, 70 millimeter film, and listening to this podcast, Snyder said something really interesting about technology and how he archives his movies,
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and it just seems smart. So check this out. All of our data is in on hard drives. All of it. Yep. And there's just paper books, hard drives, and that's it. So if something big happens, everything's useless, and we start from scratch. Yeah. Paperbooks are still kinda work, but Yeah. A lot of the modern,
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like, innovations are probably even in paperbooks. Oh, a lot of them. Yeah. A lot of them. Well, it's funny because, like, the movies, for instance, one of the things is I always archive a film print of all my movies. Because the digital storage of movies, if you ask anybody in even in the the business, they don't know whether in 10 years, you'll be able to play a movie that you have now. Like, whether Wow. You physically, or what or how it degrades, all those things they don't know. That's crazy. And so I'm, like, I that's why I make film prints, because I'm, like, I know that, like, we keep it that we keep the film prints in the in the, in this, you know, locker, and you can at least pry them out and and always have it. But, like, I just think it's crazy that you we don't know We don't know whether movies will exist. It's a crazy thing. Don't worry about it, Zach. It's in the cloud. Yeah. It's so fucking in the cloud. Cheers. Cheers, brother. Thanks for also a thing you don't need to worry about or understand. It's also beautiful. It's fluffy. It's in a blue sky. And all your info's safe in there. Yay. Nothing can hurt it except for everything. It's just horseshit.
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It's total horseshit. It's so crazy. It's on hard drives. It's so crazy. And if you had to start from scratch, if you know, imagine stumbling upon some ancient Egyptian hard drives and go, okay. Where do we even begin? You can't play it. Yeah. You can't play it. What is this? You might you might be looking at and you don't know. Yeah. Yeah. How is it encoded? What is the equipment I need to to connect it to in order to does it play out loud? Do I see it? What is this? Do I experience it in my head? It's like when you show your kid a,
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vinyl record. Right? Right. I'm showing my kids a vinyl record, and they're, like, this is incredible. How does it work? I'm, like, well, the needle kinda bounces up and down on that on those grooves and makes sound. Sounds like sounds like a song. And they're, like, that's how that's an insane technology. I'm, like, no. That's not insane technology. Your Ipod or your fucking phone, that's insane technology. That's that's a thing you can't that doesn't even you can't explain this to me. K? I can I just explained that to you? It's so much easier to explain, like, the analog
[00:07:50] Cole McCormick:
situation when it comes to, like, when it comes to technology and art. Like, no one can really explain an iPhone. Right? Like, how do you explain how your Mac works? Like, can you? How does an iPad how does an iPad work, dude? No one can explain this, but you can explain how a vinyl works. You can explain the grooves, and, he mentions how he archives his movies on a film print, and what that means is so he films his movies movies digitally. Right? In every movie, unless you're hyper specific, unless your name is Christopher Nolan or Denis Villeneuve, who made Dune. Dune part 2 is out now.
Unless you are a huge huge huge named Quentin Tarantino, any of these guys. Right? Paul Thomas Anderson, your movie is being recorded on a digital camera, on hard drives. And unless your name is huge, and you're really specific, and you're old school, then you're gonna use film. But what Snyder does, he records on digital, and then he archives, they transfer that digital, onto a film print, and the film print is kept in a climate controlled area. There's a few different spots, like, there there's a few different foundations that preserve these films.
Martin Scorsese actually founded, this one foundation called the Film Foundation, and they hold, like, almost all of film. Like, they they literally, like, imagine any film from, like, the early 1900 to now. It it's their mission to sustain the quality of these film prints, so that these stories and these movies can can live around forever. And of course, there is power in in the digital in holding it digitally, but as he said, like, no one knows how that technology really works. No one really knows the future of of the degradation of those files. Like, how does that really how does that work dude?
And, that's something I've been thinking about more. I've been seeing a lot more. I've been seeing more positive cases for using film, and, I've even tried to like look into like using film for myself. Like how much would buying film for a movie cost, and what's crazy is that, and I've mentioned this before, a film reel. If you were to buy a film reel from Kodak, you know, that shit's gonna cost, like, $700, dude. Like, if you wanted to buy, like, like, how much is it? It's it's gonna be you're you're gonna get, like, 10 minutes of footage, and it's gonna cost, like, close to $700 depending on the type of film that you buy.
Of course, there's like ranges, and there's tiers and stuff, but it's expensive. Film has gotten so much more expensive now, and so it's more economical to film on digital and archive it on film, and I think he had he he's he's done a few, film screenings, of his movies, and today, I'm seeing Dune part 2 today, and I'm seeing it on film. I'm going to the IMAX, Cinema, in Universal City today, and I got a screening for for an IMAX 70 millimeter viewing of Dune part 2. I was just there there last week, and I saw Tenet in 70 millimeter as well, man, and when it comes to the quality of the image, when when it comes to me sitting in the cinema, like, what is the purpose of of sitting in the cinema? Like, I sort of get off on knowing that there's a physical thing having light be shined through it, and there's an image coming on.
I even got this cool collectible when I saw Tenet, that that they gave us and Chris Nolan has done this before where you get a 70 millimeter like film collectible, and it's actually like a real film strip, and you shine light through it, and you see the image perfectly. It's crystal clear, and there's, I guess I'm not sure how to confirm this, but I guess there's higher resolution within the film print. To my understanding, the Imax film print, the Imax 70 millimeter film, it's equivalent to like 18 k or something like that. Like, our TVs are 4 k, the film print is like 18 k. I don't know how you measure that, but that's what Chris Nolan says, so I believe what Chris Nolan says. And when I see this movie in the theater, I see the quality. Like I really do, and if I were to go to like a normal theater, like every other theater is gonna have a digital projector, It's not easy to tell the difference, but in the back of my head, I know that it's just a file, and if it if I were to know that there was, like, a real thing that I could hold, like, that just seems, like, more important to me. It seems more cool to me. It's just cooler that I can actually hold the image.
You know? Like, can you really hold a file? You can hold a USB drive, but can you really hold a file? And and that goes into the just this conversation of Hollywood changing, movies changing. You know, Hollywood is crumbling. You know, just just to bring that point up. Hollywood, the system of Hollywood, it's falling apart. It's totally done. There's so many bad movies. Like, there's always been terrible movies, but when it comes to movies in the theater, people are going to the theater less, and a part of that reason is that so many movies suck ass. There used to be a time period where you just go to the movies, and if the movie was bad, it was like, okay, whatever. The movie was bad, but then you probably go to the theater next week.
It was a part of the culture, and now people are wanting they want a guarantee of quality. It's about quality. And, you know, Chris Nolan, like, Oppenheimer, this is, like, the the most peak example of quality. You got a 3 hour historical drama. Half of it is in black and white, and that shit made a $1,000,000,000. You know? And it's not just because of the name. It's not because of the branding. It's not because of Robert Downey junior. It's not because of the star studded cast. You know? Those names are just like a plus. The movie is quality, and that's really what it comes down to. I remember reading an interview with Tom Cruise, and and the director of the of the newer Mission Impossibles, and they were watching Oppenheimer, and they were like, dude, this is about quality. Like, movies are about quality, because the newest Mission Impossible movie, it it made money, like, it did, like, good numbers, but it didn't make what they were expecting, and that's because, like, the quality wasn't all the way there. Like, there was like, you could identify things that could have been better about it.
And for a person buying a ticket, you know, it's about quality. It's about quality, man. And that's why I'm seeing Dune in 70 millimeter, because I know that it's a quality thing. Everyone's been talking about it. Everyone on Twitter. I mean, I I I'm just on the film Twitter algorithm, but, you know it's a good movie. You know it's a the the the the there was real heart and soul put into it, and that's why you wanna go to the movies. Right? Because there's soul, you know? I already freaked out about AI taking over movies, and now 2 weeks later, I'm in a a lot better head space about that, because the viewpoint of AI not taking over movies is people wanna see humans. People wanna see souls.
People wanna know that there was a human craft into this into this thing, into this creation, into this story. And I connect the physical film prints to that human creation. I've been more drawn to the film prints because I know that there was hands on it. You can see the little scratches. You can see, like, a little a little, like, flicker of hair. You can see, like, someone's hair follicle on the film, and maybe that, like, degrades the image quality for the moment, but in reality, you know, it just means that it's real. You know, that's just it it makes it more authentic, and I'm more into it, man.
On my notes here, what do I got? It's about quality. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I was like, I I I I there's not really too much to say. You know? It's about quality. I like film. I think more people should see film, and I think when it comes to digital stuff, with digital releases, this connects me to my short film Magic Mushroom Fun Time, and the entire philosophy around distributing your stuff through RSS feeds, there's a connection between those two things. Like, I would love to be able to have a film print of my thing, and also, like, be able to point to a modern podcasting app. It's like, you can see this here.
You can stream it on this podcast app, or come to this theater at this time, and we got the film print going on. It just seems a lot cooler to me. And with the Oscars going on, like, so many movies suck, you know? Like we got Barbie, we got, we got Oppenheimer, we got whatever random independent movie that they're promoting. The Oscars are just it's it's like the art in Hollywood is bought and paid for. The awards are bought and paid for, and there's a real movement. There's a real shift of an individual, an independent, creator building their own name, making their thing, distributing it through through some avenue, and actually getting getting seen.
Like, it's not about the awards. You know? It's not about getting paid big bucks. It's just about quality, and if it's quality, then it's quality. And what I'm reminded of right now is the movie, John Wick. Like, does anyone is anyone aware of John Wick? John Wick was not a hit in the movie theater. It was barely in the movie theaters. It it might have had like a 2 week run-in the cinema. John Wick got famous because of, renting. It was on v o d, video on demand, and people were renting it, and then word-of-mouth spread, and then, like, John Wick became John Wick.
Like, there is not one avenue. Like, the cinema is not one avenue of of people identifying something, like, quality will pop up in many different areas. And so, like, the state of the cinema, the soul of the cinema, it comes down to quality. It comes down to to the intention of the filmmaker, and of the humans making it. And that's why movies like Dune are so important and so good, because the guy directing Dune, the guy who wrote and directed it, like, he loved the book, and he won't, like, shut up about how much he read it when he was a kid. And that's important, man. Like, there needs to be more movies like that.
And then when it comes to my own stuff, you know, I'll just keep producing producing on RSS. I'll keep distributing my own independent things, and I see a path of I can ride these both things. I can ride the RSS, and then I can make connections with some sort of producer, some sort of financier. I don't know what that path is, but like it's just not like I'm not stressed about it is what I'm saying, and of course, I'm talking out of my ass, like I don't really know I don't really know what I'm talking about. I don't have the wisdom of of Chris Nolan, but I know that cinema is about soul.
That's the final thing dude. Cinema is about soul. And, that takes me to what I wanna talk about next. Last week I mentioned a new podcast, and, how like, what what else do do I wanna express my soul with? You know? My soul wants to do more with podcasting. My soul wants to do more with storytelling and making my own stories. I went to the audience and I asked you guys, how would you feel about a new podcast, hosted by me, voice acted by me, and it was, like, either public domain readings, or it was original stories, or poems, or whatever, like what do you want to see? And I've gotten a few reactions. I've gotten a few responses, and I'm actually really happy with them. What I wanna share now is, so someone on Twitter, what's this guy's name on Twitter? Let me go to Twitter real quick. I forgot who this guy what's his name on Twitter, dude? He's he's from I think he's in the same, he's from the same region as Adam Curry. This guy is on this guy's name is Tom Tomski, on Twitter, or at at NLDTMV.
He mentioned to me he listens to the podcast. He he said, you should do, like, children's books. You should voice record children's books, and that would be really smart. And I was like, okay. Cool. Like he said, I feel like children might really grab onto your voice. Because that's the real key with podcasting. Right? Like, who's gonna grab onto the voice? Who's gonna relate to it? Or, like, what's the best type of medium for the voice? And children's books is super smart, and I I feel like kids would grab onto my voice, just because, like, I have history with working with kids, and I've always enjoyed, like, making kids laugh and telling stories to kids.
And I've gotten a few other responses of, like, Joel w. You see in the boostagram soon in the boostagram section, Joel w, he even said to me he was like, why does it have to be or? Why does it have to be public domain books or originals? Like, why not just mix it up? And I was, like, dude, like, that's like, you're smart, dude. Like, I love that. Like, why am I thinking about either or? Why can't I just think in terms of and? Public domain and originals and poems. And so that's pretty much where it all leads to. When it comes to the second podcast, I'm leaning towards mixing all those things together, and I'll be writing my original stories, like short stories. Maybe they'll be like around 10 minutes or so, and I'll I'll I'll also do public domain readings. Like, I definitely wanna read Peter Pan. I I don't know why, but I'm just drawn to that story, Peter Pan. I've always loved the cartoon, and I would love to give my own spin on reading the book. I've actually never read the book before, and, it'd be interesting to to to create my own vibe around that.
Kieran, Kieran Down in Australia, he suggested poems. He'd be really into, like, like if I were to read a poem, he tells me that he would play that poem on his podcast, and do another, like, value for value split with me. So there's the opportunity with value for value there. I read something. I do some voice acting, and somebody is able to create a time split on their podcast, and, like, my voice, like, those stories will be have the opportunity to be on other podcasts. You know? That's the real opportunity. And then, of course, I'll do, I'll do, so if I read poems, I'll do that. And then I'm also thinking about Bible stories.
Just doing my own spin on the classic Bible stories. Maybe there's music involved. I I know some musicians, and I also wanna get involved, my my other, voice acting friends. I got this friend in Arizona. She's a voice actor, and she has a really nice voice. I would love to get her involved with it, and just try to get more people involved with value for value, and get get people in on the splits. So I think I'm leaning into that, man. My instinct is there. That's why I keep bringing this up. My instinct is telling me to do this, to to go forward with it. And I think it should be, like, a rhythm of, like, poem, book, original you know, like, something like that. Like like, maybe it's weekly or something, but just something, like, enough of variety. Like, there's power in variety of stuff, and so maybe a person will cling on to the poems, maybe a person will cling on to the originals or or the books, you know?
And that's where I can get more people in on it. Like people can suggest, like, what books I should read and and stuff, and there's this image in my head that I keep thinking about when it comes to this new podcast. And this image is the face of my nephew, Wyatt. Wyatt is 5 years old, and the last time I was with him, I was I was with him in like November, December. Of course for Christmas, but the last time I was with him, Wyatt just kept asking me to tell him a story. He goes, uncle, uncle, tell me a story. Uncle, tell me a story. And I would, like, be he would put me on the spot, and I would have to I have to just make up some random story, of whatever. I I think I'd try to retell the story of Harry Potter, but like, try to not involve demons and death. Try to just make it a little 5 year old friendlier.
But why it just keeps popping up in my head, and I think it's I think it'd be interesting to have more family friendly content as a podcast. Because, you know, like, America Plus, like I'm cursing on this. I'm talking about I might be talking about politics, might be talking about vaccine, might be talking about whatever, government shit, but I want there to be an, something that's you can listen to at night. You know? Like, what if a kid could listen to to these stories at nighttime and sort of fall asleep to them? And what what if Wyatt could just fall asleep to my voice, You know, I I sort of have this, like, romantic view of that, of him just, like, I wanna listen to Cole. I wanna listen to uncle, and my sister will be able to just play the podcast and play some story, and maybe he'll maybe he has a favorite story or something like that, you know. And so the focus is Wyatt. Like, this podcast is or I should say, the second podcast is sort of being focused on being given to my nephew, and being given to to children and families, and what stories should be told to children and families.
That's I that that seems to be really important, and that sort of really resonates with me. It resonates with my soul right now. I've seen a view there's a few podcasts with Jordan Peterson, and he talks about, storytelling and stories, like, stories of humanity, stories that that help society, and, you know, I used to be a a Jordan Peterson fanboy. I'm not anymore, but I have tried to, like, mingle with his with his newer stuff, and he does seem to have a big a a big point on the stories in society, like, changing, like, within Western society, they're, like, just whatever institutions are in charge of telling the story of life, the story of people, of society, like, these stories are changing, and they're being manipulated, and there needs to be, like, a regrounding.
There needs to be a regrounding of stories, and maybe a new interpretation, or some sort of fresh take on these stories. And he's interviewed some people who are like creating their own stories, or they're doing their own spin on stuff, but they have this view, like, the the there there's people who might agree with Jordan Peterson, and they're, like, we gotta create a new institution. We gotta create a new standard. And when you think about that, like, that just doesn't align with with how any classical story came about within the Zeitgeist. Like, was Walt Disney like, when Walt Disney was making Snow White and Peter Pan and all those classics, you know, like, he was using the public domain stuff.
And was he really trying to create a standard of stories? Was he really trying to become a new like, become the symbol of those stories? Or was he just trying to tell a story in a really, like, fun way? You know? Was he just trying to give his own take and his own spin, and somehow culture just grabbed onto it? That's sort of how I see it. I think culture just grabbed onto it, and it became the standard. Disney's versions became the standard because of culture, and I don't wanna force anything, but I do believe I do believe that I have my own take, I have my own viewpoint, and I have my own, like, vibe.
And, it it it would just be smart to do that, man. So I know I wanna read Peter Pan. I know I wanna write originals. I have one poem that I will be reading, and so, if you have any suggestions, on what of these things of what books or poems and stuff I could, read and bring up, like, I would love to see and hear your suggestions. I know my mom, like, my mom has stories that she wants to tell as well. I can help her out with that. Just stories that are good for people, you know, like, this seems something really important. I might be calling this podcast Coal Story. It's a Coal Story. Sort of like Toy Story, but it's a Coal Story.
That's, that that's a name that's been popping up in my head a lot. So yeah, man. What do you think of that? Do do you think it's cool? Do you think it's interesting? I think it's valuable, man. I think it's very, very valuable. And, with that guys, we're gonna head on into the value for value section of boostagrams, everybody. America Plus is a value for value show. Everything you hear me talk about, I'm really just trying to present a valuable narrative to the world. I'm trying to recreate or not recreate. I I I'm trying to inject a healthy narrative. I'm trying to identify unhealthy narratives, and I'm just trying to make my own narratives for the world, and that's the value I try to give.
More positive stories, and, I got some boostograms. Oh, first of all, there's there's a few main ways that you can support America Plus. There's 4 main ways. You can listen, share, clip, and boost. Okay? Just listening and sharing, like, these are the same quality as money. Okay? Just you returning. Thank you for returning. Share this. Talk about this with your friends. When I do the new podcast, share that with your families and kids, man, because that's gonna be huge. I really feel it in my bones. You can also clip this show if you have the fountain.f
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f f f m app. Go to value for value dot info for more info, then download the fountain dot f m app. It's the best way to support the show. Fountain has a great clipping feature or just, like, screen record the podcast and post it somewhere,
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because, you know, clips are important. Or you can send in a boost. You can send in some money. A boostagram is through a modern podcast app. You're sending me small bits of Bitcoin. Please send in some, some sats. I would love that. I'm gonna be reading some boostograms, from last week. I got a ton. The community is growing. The America Plus community is growing. Boostograms are my favorite way. I also have a PayPal. If you want to send in normal dollars, go to the America Plus PayPal for that. But I'm reading the boostograms right now. Going from the lowest to the highest, got a ton here. This first one comes in from at Jen in Indy.
Jen in Indy. What up, Jen? She sends in, 333 sets, and some of these boosts are in Spanish. Last week I was talking about Spanish, how I'm learning Spanish right now. She says, what does it say? K chevre. K chevre. Don't know what that means, dude. Let me look this up real quick. What does k chevre mean? Let's do a translate translate Keshevri Keshevri? For some reason, it's not giving me the translation. Thanks, Apple. So thank you thank you, Jen, for thank you, Jen, for that. Boost. Thank you very much for the 333 stats. She also tells me she comments, work your way through a book in Spanish. Thank you, Jen. I I think I will.
And then we got Joel w, our friend Joel w. He sends in his, a beautiful 333 sats, and of course, I just clicked out of the page. He sends in 333. He says, does it need to be public domain or original? No reason you can mix it up. Boosting is loving. Joel, I'm taking your advice so hard right now, bro. Thank you for that. Joel sends in another 333. He says, it's a Spanish one, I think he said, this song is fire. I think that's what he said. The the song last week was a Latino song, Latina song. Phenomenal song last week. Go back to that. Check out okay. If you want more music, check out the playlist on Fountain.
The playlist is called is called Heard on America Plus. Got all the music that I've played so far on that, that's legit. So thank you Joel for boosting that, and 60% of his boost went to the artist, so that's that's amazing. We got another one from Jen, another 333 from Jen and Indy. She says, love the idea of a raw milk documentary. That's right. I was talking about raw milk. I'm doing oh, I'm also focusing on the raw milk doc. No update on that, but I the the small update is I'm lining up more interviews with farmers.
I'm trying to line up this one interview with some people in they're in Central. I forget where they I forget what what state they're in, but they're into raw milk, and, just more more conversations with that. The raw milk doc might be another, what do I wanna call it? An RSS, documentary, a value for value documentary, whatever. It's a raw milk doc. She likes it. She's into it. Jen Jen likes it. I think I'm gonna call it utter conspiracy because of the because of the utters. You can milk anything with a nipple. Jen says, it's such BS that raw cream that that the raw cream I buy has to be labeled not for human wait. Hang on.
Has to be labeled
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not for human consumption.
[00:35:05] Cole McCormick:
I know. It's insane. It's probably one of the most nourishing things on my grocery bill. Like, Jen, you're totally right. Whoops. Hang on. Not the right one. Boosting is loving. Yeah. Jen, thank you for that. You're totally right on that. Raw cream is healthy, dude. And then we got another one from that, Joel w. He sends in a beautiful 1,111¢. He says, hola, papi chulo. I think it says, hello, pimp daddy. It says, thank you very much, Joel. Thank you very much. Yeah. I speak a little Spanish as well. And then, got one from Mere Mortals, my boy, Kyren. What up, Kyren? I, his normal, Sackle of Richard's 1,111.
He says, talking about Spanish, a second language as an adult is a hard journey, but you've got the right building blocks. Consistent practice, even if only a little, and a strong reason to learn it. Duolingo won't teach you what those guys in the kitchen, say, as it'll mostly be slang, but it's a necessary bass. I maybe listen to some short stories, would have to test them oh, and then he talks about the podcast. I'd maybe listen to some short stories. Would have to test them to see if I like them or not. Definitely would tune in to inspirational quotes, poems, and speeches if you read them out. Thank you. It's basically, you put Bitcoin with anything, and all of a sudden, that is more efficient. What speech do you want me to talk about? You want me to do to do some Hitler speech?
Dude, what speech do you want? You want the Gettysburg address, Kyren? What do you want, dude? What speech do you want? I'll inspire the fuck out of you, bro. And then he's got another one, sexual Richards. He's got a Spanish one. Tyrone says, vamos. Thanks, Cole. I'll be adding this to a v value for value episode in the near future. Thank you very much, Kyren.
[00:37:14] Unknown:
And now, as the French say, it is time for the boost.
[00:37:19] Cole McCormick:
Thank you so much, dude. Thank for the Spanish. I love the Spanish boosts. I didn't know everyone would, like, comment in Spanish. I love that. And then we got another one from at frillis. I haven't seen frillis in a while. I see frillis streaming in stuff, but he boosted 2,000 sats. Thank you, frillis. He says, great episode, Cole. A raw milk doc would be,
[00:37:43] Unknown:
burr. Go to value for Whoops. Boosting
[00:37:45] Cole McCormick:
is loving. Yes, sir. One more. One more. Just just for shits and giggles.
[00:37:51] Unknown:
And now as the French say, it is time for Le Boost.
[00:37:56] Cole McCormick:
Boost. Thank you so much, Frillist. Thank you to everyone who donated. Thank you for your value for value, man. I I haven't had that many, boosts in a long time. I usually, like, there's just like 2 or 3. So thank you everyone who who donated. You can be a part of that community as well if you get a modern podcast app like Fountain, Podcast Guru, Podverse. Frillist was boosting in from Podverse, by the way. It's cool to see those those cross, like, boost coming in from different apps. I wanna see more apps on the analytics of my show. I I promote fountain so much. Literally, here's a real statistic.
93% of my listens, of my downloads are on fountain. So I'm like a fountain king right now, dude. So thank you to fountain. Thank you to everyone on fountain, but I I wanna try to space out the modern podcasting apps as well, dude. I got like 1% of you listening on Podcast Guru. I got Frillis. I think Frillis is like the only one on Podverse. So let's promote it more. Send out those links, people. I gotta we are expanding this, this universe. This value verse. The value verse. Let let me do another. The value verse. I'm trying to do this, I got these I got this, the sound board. I don't use these voices too often. Adam Curry always uses uses his voices.
I gotta use them more, dude. Alright. What do I want now? Let's play a song. Shall we? Let's wrap it up with a song. This song, I just found today. I always go to wave like the day of. I got this artist coming in from, where is she from? She is from Oh wait. Let me go to her Twitter. Her name's Loomba. Her name's Loomba, her official Twitter. She's from a country called Zimbabwe. She's a Zambian. She's a Zambian indie singer songwriter, and this song's legit. So this song is called, The River, everyone, and it's like 4 minutes long. It's it dude, you feel it in your soul, dude. Just get ready for this, man. She's getting, Loomba's getting 60% of your satoshi donation. This is how America Plus does it. We play a song, the artist gets 60% of your donation, and we just vibe, dude. Thanks for hanging out with us. This is Loomba, the river. Enjoy.
[00:40:33] Unknown:
Bring yours onto the river. You can bring your soul to the river. Bring your soul to the river. We won't drop your soy in the river. Veeded and be 3 baby steps towards me go in. I said he must lead to satisfaction. I said 1, 2, 3, then you'll learn how to swim, Kuri. Your city must lead to satisfaction. Oops, a daisy, I didn't mention it. You won't ever really be happy to keep coming back for more when your soldiers can take the goal. You keep coming back for more when your soldiers can take the ball. Deliver. Deliver.
Deliver. Bring your heart to the river. You can bring it if it's better. Bring your heartbeat. We won't drown them all in ever. What, 2, 3, maybe, stops towards me. Your city must lead to satisfaction. I said 1, 2, 3. How to swim. Good. City must lead to satisfaction. Oopsie, Daisy, I should've mentioned it. You won't ever really be happy to You can bring your father. Bring your mother. Bring your family, double drown the maw
[00:43:22] Cole McCormick:
in the river.
[00:43:24] Unknown:
You can rain, your brother. You can rain, your sister. We will drown your soul in the river.
[00:44:21] Cole McCormick:
That's America Plus, bitch. Stay free.
Let's all go to the movies. What's up, everyone? It's America Plus. I'm your host, Cole McCormick. It's another week of the episode. What's going on, people? It's Sunday, March 10th. March 10th, everybody. Oscar, Sunday. It's a beautiful day to be alive here in North Hollywood. Sun is shining. Clouds are blowing in the wind. I am in my kitchen as usual, folks. Welcome to another beautiful week of America Plus. Yeah, man. Just no a normal week doing my thing, just working, planning, strategizing, getting satoshis, boosting, just involving myself more and more in this podcasting 2.0 world, dude. Value for Value is lit this week.
I got a great song to play at the very end of this episode too, so stick around for that. Guys, honestly, this week, I I wanna just hang out a little bit. I wanna chill out. I wanna just like do what I usually do with my friends like you, and just talk about movies. We're talking movies. We're talking innovation that's happening with me. What I wanna start off with guys is it is the Oscars. We got award it is award season, man. Does anyone else not care about the Oscars? It just it's it's lame. Right? Nobody like, barely anyone gives a shit about them. I am going to a little Oscars party today though. It it feels like before the pandemic, the Oscars were somehow relevant, and then, like, they just got more and more irrelevant.
Like and I'm talking about like myself. I'm talking about like, within the movie world, within like my Hollywood friends, like, some people still care, but a lot of people have just, like, stopped caring. And we're really just watching the Oscars just so like like, we're we're we're making bets really. We're making we have, people are always filling out those, like, who's gonna win cards, the the brackets. Who's gonna win the Oscar brackets? And, a lot of us are just watching it just because of so many of us are Christopher Nolan fans. Like, all of my friends are are Chris Nolan fans, and we're all pretty certain that Chris Nolan and Oppenheimer, they're gonna be sweeping. They're sweeping the Oscars this year, and, honestly, what I just wanna talk about like, the state of the movies. The state of the cinema. The soul of the cinema.
I've talked about movies a little bit, just like the the general vibe of how are movies changing? How how are the cinemas changing? What's going on right now, man? And we are in a transitionary period. We are figuring out, like, as like a culture, the marketplace. We're figuring out why are we going to the movies, and that's a really important thing to to think about because that goes into art. It goes into how you consume. It goes into how artists distribute their work, and it goes into podcasting 2 point o as well. So pretty much, I I I wanna start off with a clip.
A quick clip. A quick clip from the Joe Rogan experience. Let me pull this up. I thought I had this up, but I don't right now. Here we go. So Joe Rogan this past week, he had a really famous filmmaker named Zack Snyder. Anyone know Zack Snyder? He directed the movie 300. He's the director of Watchmen. The director of, Man of Steel, Batman v Superman. He also did his own he had he did Justice League, but there's a whole saga. There's a whole story around the Justice League movie in 2017. He had to leave, he had to leave during post production because there was a family emergency. Somebody in his in his family died, and then there was this whole, like, ker muckus because the studio change changed the movie.
And then during the pandemic, the the fans forced Warner Brothers to bring Snyder back, and to make his to to finish his vision of his movie, and so, Zack Snyder is like this, like, megalithic, like, fanboy, like all the fanboys love him. He's really into comic books, and him on Joe Rogan was like, more than a perfect match. Like, him and Rogan just like really hit it off, and, they had a really good discussion about about his movies, about art, about technology. And I wanted to start this off because Snyder, he he's this guy who, like, he's famous for, like, his effects. Right? For his visual style. When you look at how they filmed 300, it was all in front of a green screen and blue screen.
And really, like, the discussion of, like, celluloid film doesn't really come up with Zack Snyder a lot, but as I've gotten older and as I've done more research in movies, I've gravitated towards film. Like, I've been going to theaters that have the film reels. I've been looking for screenings that are, like, 70 millimeter film, and listening to this podcast, Snyder said something really interesting about technology and how he archives his movies,
[00:05:08] Unknown:
and it just seems smart. So check this out. All of our data is in on hard drives. All of it. Yep. And there's just paper books, hard drives, and that's it. So if something big happens, everything's useless, and we start from scratch. Yeah. Paperbooks are still kinda work, but Yeah. A lot of the modern,
[00:05:27] Unknown:
like, innovations are probably even in paperbooks. Oh, a lot of them. Yeah. A lot of them. Well, it's funny because, like, the movies, for instance, one of the things is I always archive a film print of all my movies. Because the digital storage of movies, if you ask anybody in even in the the business, they don't know whether in 10 years, you'll be able to play a movie that you have now. Like, whether Wow. You physically, or what or how it degrades, all those things they don't know. That's crazy. And so I'm, like, I that's why I make film prints, because I'm, like, I know that, like, we keep it that we keep the film prints in the in the, in this, you know, locker, and you can at least pry them out and and always have it. But, like, I just think it's crazy that you we don't know We don't know whether movies will exist. It's a crazy thing. Don't worry about it, Zach. It's in the cloud. Yeah. It's so fucking in the cloud. Cheers. Cheers, brother. Thanks for also a thing you don't need to worry about or understand. It's also beautiful. It's fluffy. It's in a blue sky. And all your info's safe in there. Yay. Nothing can hurt it except for everything. It's just horseshit.
[00:06:50] Unknown:
It's total horseshit. It's so crazy. It's on hard drives. It's so crazy. And if you had to start from scratch, if you know, imagine stumbling upon some ancient Egyptian hard drives and go, okay. Where do we even begin? You can't play it. Yeah. You can't play it. What is this? You might you might be looking at and you don't know. Yeah. Yeah. How is it encoded? What is the equipment I need to to connect it to in order to does it play out loud? Do I see it? What is this? Do I experience it in my head? It's like when you show your kid a,
[00:07:20] Unknown:
vinyl record. Right? Right. I'm showing my kids a vinyl record, and they're, like, this is incredible. How does it work? I'm, like, well, the needle kinda bounces up and down on that on those grooves and makes sound. Sounds like sounds like a song. And they're, like, that's how that's an insane technology. I'm, like, no. That's not insane technology. Your Ipod or your fucking phone, that's insane technology. That's that's a thing you can't that doesn't even you can't explain this to me. K? I can I just explained that to you? It's so much easier to explain, like, the analog
[00:07:50] Cole McCormick:
situation when it comes to, like, when it comes to technology and art. Like, no one can really explain an iPhone. Right? Like, how do you explain how your Mac works? Like, can you? How does an iPad how does an iPad work, dude? No one can explain this, but you can explain how a vinyl works. You can explain the grooves, and, he mentions how he archives his movies on a film print, and what that means is so he films his movies movies digitally. Right? In every movie, unless you're hyper specific, unless your name is Christopher Nolan or Denis Villeneuve, who made Dune. Dune part 2 is out now.
Unless you are a huge huge huge named Quentin Tarantino, any of these guys. Right? Paul Thomas Anderson, your movie is being recorded on a digital camera, on hard drives. And unless your name is huge, and you're really specific, and you're old school, then you're gonna use film. But what Snyder does, he records on digital, and then he archives, they transfer that digital, onto a film print, and the film print is kept in a climate controlled area. There's a few different spots, like, there there's a few different foundations that preserve these films.
Martin Scorsese actually founded, this one foundation called the Film Foundation, and they hold, like, almost all of film. Like, they they literally, like, imagine any film from, like, the early 1900 to now. It it's their mission to sustain the quality of these film prints, so that these stories and these movies can can live around forever. And of course, there is power in in the digital in holding it digitally, but as he said, like, no one knows how that technology really works. No one really knows the future of of the degradation of those files. Like, how does that really how does that work dude?
And, that's something I've been thinking about more. I've been seeing a lot more. I've been seeing more positive cases for using film, and, I've even tried to like look into like using film for myself. Like how much would buying film for a movie cost, and what's crazy is that, and I've mentioned this before, a film reel. If you were to buy a film reel from Kodak, you know, that shit's gonna cost, like, $700, dude. Like, if you wanted to buy, like, like, how much is it? It's it's gonna be you're you're gonna get, like, 10 minutes of footage, and it's gonna cost, like, close to $700 depending on the type of film that you buy.
Of course, there's like ranges, and there's tiers and stuff, but it's expensive. Film has gotten so much more expensive now, and so it's more economical to film on digital and archive it on film, and I think he had he he's he's done a few, film screenings, of his movies, and today, I'm seeing Dune part 2 today, and I'm seeing it on film. I'm going to the IMAX, Cinema, in Universal City today, and I got a screening for for an IMAX 70 millimeter viewing of Dune part 2. I was just there there last week, and I saw Tenet in 70 millimeter as well, man, and when it comes to the quality of the image, when when it comes to me sitting in the cinema, like, what is the purpose of of sitting in the cinema? Like, I sort of get off on knowing that there's a physical thing having light be shined through it, and there's an image coming on.
I even got this cool collectible when I saw Tenet, that that they gave us and Chris Nolan has done this before where you get a 70 millimeter like film collectible, and it's actually like a real film strip, and you shine light through it, and you see the image perfectly. It's crystal clear, and there's, I guess I'm not sure how to confirm this, but I guess there's higher resolution within the film print. To my understanding, the Imax film print, the Imax 70 millimeter film, it's equivalent to like 18 k or something like that. Like, our TVs are 4 k, the film print is like 18 k. I don't know how you measure that, but that's what Chris Nolan says, so I believe what Chris Nolan says. And when I see this movie in the theater, I see the quality. Like I really do, and if I were to go to like a normal theater, like every other theater is gonna have a digital projector, It's not easy to tell the difference, but in the back of my head, I know that it's just a file, and if it if I were to know that there was, like, a real thing that I could hold, like, that just seems, like, more important to me. It seems more cool to me. It's just cooler that I can actually hold the image.
You know? Like, can you really hold a file? You can hold a USB drive, but can you really hold a file? And and that goes into the just this conversation of Hollywood changing, movies changing. You know, Hollywood is crumbling. You know, just just to bring that point up. Hollywood, the system of Hollywood, it's falling apart. It's totally done. There's so many bad movies. Like, there's always been terrible movies, but when it comes to movies in the theater, people are going to the theater less, and a part of that reason is that so many movies suck ass. There used to be a time period where you just go to the movies, and if the movie was bad, it was like, okay, whatever. The movie was bad, but then you probably go to the theater next week.
It was a part of the culture, and now people are wanting they want a guarantee of quality. It's about quality. And, you know, Chris Nolan, like, Oppenheimer, this is, like, the the most peak example of quality. You got a 3 hour historical drama. Half of it is in black and white, and that shit made a $1,000,000,000. You know? And it's not just because of the name. It's not because of the branding. It's not because of Robert Downey junior. It's not because of the star studded cast. You know? Those names are just like a plus. The movie is quality, and that's really what it comes down to. I remember reading an interview with Tom Cruise, and and the director of the of the newer Mission Impossibles, and they were watching Oppenheimer, and they were like, dude, this is about quality. Like, movies are about quality, because the newest Mission Impossible movie, it it made money, like, it did, like, good numbers, but it didn't make what they were expecting, and that's because, like, the quality wasn't all the way there. Like, there was like, you could identify things that could have been better about it.
And for a person buying a ticket, you know, it's about quality. It's about quality, man. And that's why I'm seeing Dune in 70 millimeter, because I know that it's a quality thing. Everyone's been talking about it. Everyone on Twitter. I mean, I I I'm just on the film Twitter algorithm, but, you know it's a good movie. You know it's a the the the the there was real heart and soul put into it, and that's why you wanna go to the movies. Right? Because there's soul, you know? I already freaked out about AI taking over movies, and now 2 weeks later, I'm in a a lot better head space about that, because the viewpoint of AI not taking over movies is people wanna see humans. People wanna see souls.
People wanna know that there was a human craft into this into this thing, into this creation, into this story. And I connect the physical film prints to that human creation. I've been more drawn to the film prints because I know that there was hands on it. You can see the little scratches. You can see, like, a little a little, like, flicker of hair. You can see, like, someone's hair follicle on the film, and maybe that, like, degrades the image quality for the moment, but in reality, you know, it just means that it's real. You know, that's just it it makes it more authentic, and I'm more into it, man.
On my notes here, what do I got? It's about quality. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I was like, I I I I there's not really too much to say. You know? It's about quality. I like film. I think more people should see film, and I think when it comes to digital stuff, with digital releases, this connects me to my short film Magic Mushroom Fun Time, and the entire philosophy around distributing your stuff through RSS feeds, there's a connection between those two things. Like, I would love to be able to have a film print of my thing, and also, like, be able to point to a modern podcasting app. It's like, you can see this here.
You can stream it on this podcast app, or come to this theater at this time, and we got the film print going on. It just seems a lot cooler to me. And with the Oscars going on, like, so many movies suck, you know? Like we got Barbie, we got, we got Oppenheimer, we got whatever random independent movie that they're promoting. The Oscars are just it's it's like the art in Hollywood is bought and paid for. The awards are bought and paid for, and there's a real movement. There's a real shift of an individual, an independent, creator building their own name, making their thing, distributing it through through some avenue, and actually getting getting seen.
Like, it's not about the awards. You know? It's not about getting paid big bucks. It's just about quality, and if it's quality, then it's quality. And what I'm reminded of right now is the movie, John Wick. Like, does anyone is anyone aware of John Wick? John Wick was not a hit in the movie theater. It was barely in the movie theaters. It it might have had like a 2 week run-in the cinema. John Wick got famous because of, renting. It was on v o d, video on demand, and people were renting it, and then word-of-mouth spread, and then, like, John Wick became John Wick.
Like, there is not one avenue. Like, the cinema is not one avenue of of people identifying something, like, quality will pop up in many different areas. And so, like, the state of the cinema, the soul of the cinema, it comes down to quality. It comes down to to the intention of the filmmaker, and of the humans making it. And that's why movies like Dune are so important and so good, because the guy directing Dune, the guy who wrote and directed it, like, he loved the book, and he won't, like, shut up about how much he read it when he was a kid. And that's important, man. Like, there needs to be more movies like that.
And then when it comes to my own stuff, you know, I'll just keep producing producing on RSS. I'll keep distributing my own independent things, and I see a path of I can ride these both things. I can ride the RSS, and then I can make connections with some sort of producer, some sort of financier. I don't know what that path is, but like it's just not like I'm not stressed about it is what I'm saying, and of course, I'm talking out of my ass, like I don't really know I don't really know what I'm talking about. I don't have the wisdom of of Chris Nolan, but I know that cinema is about soul.
That's the final thing dude. Cinema is about soul. And, that takes me to what I wanna talk about next. Last week I mentioned a new podcast, and, how like, what what else do do I wanna express my soul with? You know? My soul wants to do more with podcasting. My soul wants to do more with storytelling and making my own stories. I went to the audience and I asked you guys, how would you feel about a new podcast, hosted by me, voice acted by me, and it was, like, either public domain readings, or it was original stories, or poems, or whatever, like what do you want to see? And I've gotten a few reactions. I've gotten a few responses, and I'm actually really happy with them. What I wanna share now is, so someone on Twitter, what's this guy's name on Twitter? Let me go to Twitter real quick. I forgot who this guy what's his name on Twitter, dude? He's he's from I think he's in the same, he's from the same region as Adam Curry. This guy is on this guy's name is Tom Tomski, on Twitter, or at at NLDTMV.
He mentioned to me he listens to the podcast. He he said, you should do, like, children's books. You should voice record children's books, and that would be really smart. And I was like, okay. Cool. Like he said, I feel like children might really grab onto your voice. Because that's the real key with podcasting. Right? Like, who's gonna grab onto the voice? Who's gonna relate to it? Or, like, what's the best type of medium for the voice? And children's books is super smart, and I I feel like kids would grab onto my voice, just because, like, I have history with working with kids, and I've always enjoyed, like, making kids laugh and telling stories to kids.
And I've gotten a few other responses of, like, Joel w. You see in the boostagram soon in the boostagram section, Joel w, he even said to me he was like, why does it have to be or? Why does it have to be public domain books or originals? Like, why not just mix it up? And I was, like, dude, like, that's like, you're smart, dude. Like, I love that. Like, why am I thinking about either or? Why can't I just think in terms of and? Public domain and originals and poems. And so that's pretty much where it all leads to. When it comes to the second podcast, I'm leaning towards mixing all those things together, and I'll be writing my original stories, like short stories. Maybe they'll be like around 10 minutes or so, and I'll I'll I'll also do public domain readings. Like, I definitely wanna read Peter Pan. I I don't know why, but I'm just drawn to that story, Peter Pan. I've always loved the cartoon, and I would love to give my own spin on reading the book. I've actually never read the book before, and, it'd be interesting to to to create my own vibe around that.
Kieran, Kieran Down in Australia, he suggested poems. He'd be really into, like, like if I were to read a poem, he tells me that he would play that poem on his podcast, and do another, like, value for value split with me. So there's the opportunity with value for value there. I read something. I do some voice acting, and somebody is able to create a time split on their podcast, and, like, my voice, like, those stories will be have the opportunity to be on other podcasts. You know? That's the real opportunity. And then, of course, I'll do, I'll do, so if I read poems, I'll do that. And then I'm also thinking about Bible stories.
Just doing my own spin on the classic Bible stories. Maybe there's music involved. I I know some musicians, and I also wanna get involved, my my other, voice acting friends. I got this friend in Arizona. She's a voice actor, and she has a really nice voice. I would love to get her involved with it, and just try to get more people involved with value for value, and get get people in on the splits. So I think I'm leaning into that, man. My instinct is there. That's why I keep bringing this up. My instinct is telling me to do this, to to go forward with it. And I think it should be, like, a rhythm of, like, poem, book, original you know, like, something like that. Like like, maybe it's weekly or something, but just something, like, enough of variety. Like, there's power in variety of stuff, and so maybe a person will cling on to the poems, maybe a person will cling on to the originals or or the books, you know?
And that's where I can get more people in on it. Like people can suggest, like, what books I should read and and stuff, and there's this image in my head that I keep thinking about when it comes to this new podcast. And this image is the face of my nephew, Wyatt. Wyatt is 5 years old, and the last time I was with him, I was I was with him in like November, December. Of course for Christmas, but the last time I was with him, Wyatt just kept asking me to tell him a story. He goes, uncle, uncle, tell me a story. Uncle, tell me a story. And I would, like, be he would put me on the spot, and I would have to I have to just make up some random story, of whatever. I I think I'd try to retell the story of Harry Potter, but like, try to not involve demons and death. Try to just make it a little 5 year old friendlier.
But why it just keeps popping up in my head, and I think it's I think it'd be interesting to have more family friendly content as a podcast. Because, you know, like, America Plus, like I'm cursing on this. I'm talking about I might be talking about politics, might be talking about vaccine, might be talking about whatever, government shit, but I want there to be an, something that's you can listen to at night. You know? Like, what if a kid could listen to to these stories at nighttime and sort of fall asleep to them? And what what if Wyatt could just fall asleep to my voice, You know, I I sort of have this, like, romantic view of that, of him just, like, I wanna listen to Cole. I wanna listen to uncle, and my sister will be able to just play the podcast and play some story, and maybe he'll maybe he has a favorite story or something like that, you know. And so the focus is Wyatt. Like, this podcast is or I should say, the second podcast is sort of being focused on being given to my nephew, and being given to to children and families, and what stories should be told to children and families.
That's I that that seems to be really important, and that sort of really resonates with me. It resonates with my soul right now. I've seen a view there's a few podcasts with Jordan Peterson, and he talks about, storytelling and stories, like, stories of humanity, stories that that help society, and, you know, I used to be a a Jordan Peterson fanboy. I'm not anymore, but I have tried to, like, mingle with his with his newer stuff, and he does seem to have a big a a big point on the stories in society, like, changing, like, within Western society, they're, like, just whatever institutions are in charge of telling the story of life, the story of people, of society, like, these stories are changing, and they're being manipulated, and there needs to be, like, a regrounding.
There needs to be a regrounding of stories, and maybe a new interpretation, or some sort of fresh take on these stories. And he's interviewed some people who are like creating their own stories, or they're doing their own spin on stuff, but they have this view, like, the the there there's people who might agree with Jordan Peterson, and they're, like, we gotta create a new institution. We gotta create a new standard. And when you think about that, like, that just doesn't align with with how any classical story came about within the Zeitgeist. Like, was Walt Disney like, when Walt Disney was making Snow White and Peter Pan and all those classics, you know, like, he was using the public domain stuff.
And was he really trying to create a standard of stories? Was he really trying to become a new like, become the symbol of those stories? Or was he just trying to tell a story in a really, like, fun way? You know? Was he just trying to give his own take and his own spin, and somehow culture just grabbed onto it? That's sort of how I see it. I think culture just grabbed onto it, and it became the standard. Disney's versions became the standard because of culture, and I don't wanna force anything, but I do believe I do believe that I have my own take, I have my own viewpoint, and I have my own, like, vibe.
And, it it it would just be smart to do that, man. So I know I wanna read Peter Pan. I know I wanna write originals. I have one poem that I will be reading, and so, if you have any suggestions, on what of these things of what books or poems and stuff I could, read and bring up, like, I would love to see and hear your suggestions. I know my mom, like, my mom has stories that she wants to tell as well. I can help her out with that. Just stories that are good for people, you know, like, this seems something really important. I might be calling this podcast Coal Story. It's a Coal Story. Sort of like Toy Story, but it's a Coal Story.
That's, that that's a name that's been popping up in my head a lot. So yeah, man. What do you think of that? Do do you think it's cool? Do you think it's interesting? I think it's valuable, man. I think it's very, very valuable. And, with that guys, we're gonna head on into the value for value section of boostagrams, everybody. America Plus is a value for value show. Everything you hear me talk about, I'm really just trying to present a valuable narrative to the world. I'm trying to recreate or not recreate. I I I'm trying to inject a healthy narrative. I'm trying to identify unhealthy narratives, and I'm just trying to make my own narratives for the world, and that's the value I try to give.
More positive stories, and, I got some boostograms. Oh, first of all, there's there's a few main ways that you can support America Plus. There's 4 main ways. You can listen, share, clip, and boost. Okay? Just listening and sharing, like, these are the same quality as money. Okay? Just you returning. Thank you for returning. Share this. Talk about this with your friends. When I do the new podcast, share that with your families and kids, man, because that's gonna be huge. I really feel it in my bones. You can also clip this show if you have the fountain.f
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f f f m app. Go to value for value dot info for more info, then download the fountain dot f m app. It's the best way to support the show. Fountain has a great clipping feature or just, like, screen record the podcast and post it somewhere,
[00:31:37] Cole McCormick:
because, you know, clips are important. Or you can send in a boost. You can send in some money. A boostagram is through a modern podcast app. You're sending me small bits of Bitcoin. Please send in some, some sats. I would love that. I'm gonna be reading some boostograms, from last week. I got a ton. The community is growing. The America Plus community is growing. Boostograms are my favorite way. I also have a PayPal. If you want to send in normal dollars, go to the America Plus PayPal for that. But I'm reading the boostograms right now. Going from the lowest to the highest, got a ton here. This first one comes in from at Jen in Indy.
Jen in Indy. What up, Jen? She sends in, 333 sets, and some of these boosts are in Spanish. Last week I was talking about Spanish, how I'm learning Spanish right now. She says, what does it say? K chevre. K chevre. Don't know what that means, dude. Let me look this up real quick. What does k chevre mean? Let's do a translate translate Keshevri Keshevri? For some reason, it's not giving me the translation. Thanks, Apple. So thank you thank you, Jen, for thank you, Jen, for that. Boost. Thank you very much for the 333 stats. She also tells me she comments, work your way through a book in Spanish. Thank you, Jen. I I think I will.
And then we got Joel w, our friend Joel w. He sends in his, a beautiful 333 sats, and of course, I just clicked out of the page. He sends in 333. He says, does it need to be public domain or original? No reason you can mix it up. Boosting is loving. Joel, I'm taking your advice so hard right now, bro. Thank you for that. Joel sends in another 333. He says, it's a Spanish one, I think he said, this song is fire. I think that's what he said. The the song last week was a Latino song, Latina song. Phenomenal song last week. Go back to that. Check out okay. If you want more music, check out the playlist on Fountain.
The playlist is called is called Heard on America Plus. Got all the music that I've played so far on that, that's legit. So thank you Joel for boosting that, and 60% of his boost went to the artist, so that's that's amazing. We got another one from Jen, another 333 from Jen and Indy. She says, love the idea of a raw milk documentary. That's right. I was talking about raw milk. I'm doing oh, I'm also focusing on the raw milk doc. No update on that, but I the the small update is I'm lining up more interviews with farmers.
I'm trying to line up this one interview with some people in they're in Central. I forget where they I forget what what state they're in, but they're into raw milk, and, just more more conversations with that. The raw milk doc might be another, what do I wanna call it? An RSS, documentary, a value for value documentary, whatever. It's a raw milk doc. She likes it. She's into it. Jen Jen likes it. I think I'm gonna call it utter conspiracy because of the because of the utters. You can milk anything with a nipple. Jen says, it's such BS that raw cream that that the raw cream I buy has to be labeled not for human wait. Hang on.
Has to be labeled
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not for human consumption.
[00:35:05] Cole McCormick:
I know. It's insane. It's probably one of the most nourishing things on my grocery bill. Like, Jen, you're totally right. Whoops. Hang on. Not the right one. Boosting is loving. Yeah. Jen, thank you for that. You're totally right on that. Raw cream is healthy, dude. And then we got another one from that, Joel w. He sends in a beautiful 1,111¢. He says, hola, papi chulo. I think it says, hello, pimp daddy. It says, thank you very much, Joel. Thank you very much. Yeah. I speak a little Spanish as well. And then, got one from Mere Mortals, my boy, Kyren. What up, Kyren? I, his normal, Sackle of Richard's 1,111.
He says, talking about Spanish, a second language as an adult is a hard journey, but you've got the right building blocks. Consistent practice, even if only a little, and a strong reason to learn it. Duolingo won't teach you what those guys in the kitchen, say, as it'll mostly be slang, but it's a necessary bass. I maybe listen to some short stories, would have to test them oh, and then he talks about the podcast. I'd maybe listen to some short stories. Would have to test them to see if I like them or not. Definitely would tune in to inspirational quotes, poems, and speeches if you read them out. Thank you. It's basically, you put Bitcoin with anything, and all of a sudden, that is more efficient. What speech do you want me to talk about? You want me to do to do some Hitler speech?
Dude, what speech do you want? You want the Gettysburg address, Kyren? What do you want, dude? What speech do you want? I'll inspire the fuck out of you, bro. And then he's got another one, sexual Richards. He's got a Spanish one. Tyrone says, vamos. Thanks, Cole. I'll be adding this to a v value for value episode in the near future. Thank you very much, Kyren.
[00:37:14] Unknown:
And now, as the French say, it is time for the boost.
[00:37:19] Cole McCormick:
Thank you so much, dude. Thank for the Spanish. I love the Spanish boosts. I didn't know everyone would, like, comment in Spanish. I love that. And then we got another one from at frillis. I haven't seen frillis in a while. I see frillis streaming in stuff, but he boosted 2,000 sats. Thank you, frillis. He says, great episode, Cole. A raw milk doc would be,
[00:37:43] Unknown:
burr. Go to value for Whoops. Boosting
[00:37:45] Cole McCormick:
is loving. Yes, sir. One more. One more. Just just for shits and giggles.
[00:37:51] Unknown:
And now as the French say, it is time for Le Boost.
[00:37:56] Cole McCormick:
Boost. Thank you so much, Frillist. Thank you to everyone who donated. Thank you for your value for value, man. I I haven't had that many, boosts in a long time. I usually, like, there's just like 2 or 3. So thank you everyone who who donated. You can be a part of that community as well if you get a modern podcast app like Fountain, Podcast Guru, Podverse. Frillist was boosting in from Podverse, by the way. It's cool to see those those cross, like, boost coming in from different apps. I wanna see more apps on the analytics of my show. I I promote fountain so much. Literally, here's a real statistic.
93% of my listens, of my downloads are on fountain. So I'm like a fountain king right now, dude. So thank you to fountain. Thank you to everyone on fountain, but I I wanna try to space out the modern podcasting apps as well, dude. I got like 1% of you listening on Podcast Guru. I got Frillis. I think Frillis is like the only one on Podverse. So let's promote it more. Send out those links, people. I gotta we are expanding this, this universe. This value verse. The value verse. Let let me do another. The value verse. I'm trying to do this, I got these I got this, the sound board. I don't use these voices too often. Adam Curry always uses uses his voices.
I gotta use them more, dude. Alright. What do I want now? Let's play a song. Shall we? Let's wrap it up with a song. This song, I just found today. I always go to wave like the day of. I got this artist coming in from, where is she from? She is from Oh wait. Let me go to her Twitter. Her name's Loomba. Her name's Loomba, her official Twitter. She's from a country called Zimbabwe. She's a Zambian. She's a Zambian indie singer songwriter, and this song's legit. So this song is called, The River, everyone, and it's like 4 minutes long. It's it dude, you feel it in your soul, dude. Just get ready for this, man. She's getting, Loomba's getting 60% of your satoshi donation. This is how America Plus does it. We play a song, the artist gets 60% of your donation, and we just vibe, dude. Thanks for hanging out with us. This is Loomba, the river. Enjoy.
[00:40:33] Unknown:
Bring yours onto the river. You can bring your soul to the river. Bring your soul to the river. We won't drop your soy in the river. Veeded and be 3 baby steps towards me go in. I said he must lead to satisfaction. I said 1, 2, 3, then you'll learn how to swim, Kuri. Your city must lead to satisfaction. Oops, a daisy, I didn't mention it. You won't ever really be happy to keep coming back for more when your soldiers can take the goal. You keep coming back for more when your soldiers can take the ball. Deliver. Deliver.
Deliver. Bring your heart to the river. You can bring it if it's better. Bring your heartbeat. We won't drown them all in ever. What, 2, 3, maybe, stops towards me. Your city must lead to satisfaction. I said 1, 2, 3. How to swim. Good. City must lead to satisfaction. Oopsie, Daisy, I should've mentioned it. You won't ever really be happy to You can bring your father. Bring your mother. Bring your family, double drown the maw
[00:43:22] Cole McCormick:
in the river.
[00:43:24] Unknown:
You can rain, your brother. You can rain, your sister. We will drown your soul in the river.
[00:44:21] Cole McCormick:
That's America Plus, bitch. Stay free.
