In this live episode of America Plus, host Cole McCormick navigates the exciting world of live streaming while reflecting on personal growth and societal observations.
The show wraps up with a value-for-value segment, encouraging listener engagement and support through various means, including Bitcoin donations and a song from Henry Invisible!
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What's up, everyone? It's AMERICAPLUS. I'm your host, Cole McCormick. It's another week, another episode. What's going on, everybody? It's Sunday, February 2nd, 4:46
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in the PM. I'm happy to be here folks. We got a beautiful time for you. I'm so happy to be here right now. I'm having such great vibes. This is a live stream right now. I'm actually live streaming, which is incredible. I live streamed one time a few months ago, but I completely failed. I, like, did not do the proper procedure for it. I didn't follow the instructions like I usually do. That's probably why I graduated high school with a d plus average. So now we're doing it live correctly this time. I double checked the apps, and I'm just happy to be here with you. I shout out to Kyron Down out in Australia for helping me troubleshoot this situation.
I'm trying to do 2 things at once right here. I'm recording a live for the podcast, but I'm also recording a a episode of my podcast Normie series for Pod Home, for the podcast Normie YouTube channel. So I can help out Barry. So I can help out that company, because I just love podcasting so much. So, yeah. 2 things at once, which is pretty cool. So just thank you for being here. I don't know how to check if anyone is actually a part of the live stream. So if you wanna DM me or if you wanna I don't know what's the right way to do this. No nobody knows. I'm not Adam Curry. I don't have some live chat. I need a live chat. That's what I really need.
But I'm excited to be here, and I'm excited to be live, and, I think the future is live podcasting. Right? So, we're just gonna keep on trucking. Gonna keep on going on. This week in America Plus, we're talking about I just wanna hang out with you today because it's a live episode. We're gonna just be chill about it. I wanna talk about a few things. I wanna talk about, my exercise today, and I wanna talk about some Nostra experiences that I've had in the last, couple weeks. And, I wanna just, yeah. We'll see where it goes from there. So for the first off so first off, today's been a good day. I did a Santa Monica beach workout, with my friend, Case. Case Bradford.
He's like a health influencer. Him and I became friends of, last year. Him and I met up at at at a raw dairy convention, at a raw dairy farm. We were camping with the cows together, and that was a fun time. Case is really cool. He's like one of those, like, jacked he's like a shredded guy who's, like, in his thirties, and, like, he drinks raw milk and only works out in nature, and he's just he just looks healthy, dude. So I'm trying to get on his level. I got a little I got a little belly, you know? I got a little I got a little my dad just died belly, so I gotta I I gotta work on this thing right now. I gotta work on my summer 6 pack, 2025 6 pack, you know?
That was really a really fun time. I met a new guy named Jules Horn. This guy's like a male model, and, he led after the workout. So we do just like, what we do in the work in these beach workouts is we do, like, body movements. We're doing crab walks back and forth in the sand, and we were doing lunges, and we were doing some sprints. We were doing I brought my mace. I got this giant steel mace that I swing around. That that's one of my favorite workout, tools. And, Jules, he brought some of his maces, but his maces are wooden. So just like a different experience, a little thicker on the grip. You know, really fun time.
And, we were just we go through, like, these little, like, cycles. Right? These little, like, circuits of working out. We had, like, 3 mesas, and then we had some kettlebells. We did some curls. We did some squats. We did some crab walks. And that was at, like, 6 in the morning. I should say 6:45 this morning. So I chose to get up early, and, drove all the way down to Santa Monica. When it's no traffic on a Sunday morning, when the sun's not even up, it's a really nice drive. It's just like a 30 minute drive to the beach, which is pretty legit. Any other day, it's a straight up hour and a half, which is you know, these beach workouts, I love them, but I just I I can't do them most of the time because I just don't have
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Like, I could probably get there at a good time, but then I you know, depending on if I have work or something else, you know, like, I just like it doesn't. The time doesn't work out. Like, it there's a time crunch. And so I was happy that I could, go for it today. There's a beach workout yesterday too, and I just totally forgot about it. I had the day off too. I've had this whole weekend off of work, which has been nice. But, I was like, why how did I forget about Saturday? How did I forget about Saturday? But Sunday happened. It was a great vibe. I'm sore. My arms are like, after that workout, I had a little conversation with a old friend of mine.
I don't wanna say his name because I'd like I think he likes his privacy online, but my an old friend from high school. So shout out to you, guy from high school that I spoke to on Sunday, 2nd. Shout out to you, brother. I love you. We had a great time, dude. There's I've been a part of this really interesting situation where the men around me are now, I'm not sure if, like, this is just my perception as if I'm just, like, I'm just noticing it more, or maybe the men around me are actually doing it themselves, and they feel comfortable around me. But the men around me have been a bit more honest. They've been talking about their life experiences. They've been seeking to live a better life. They've been expressing how they're more aware of what's going on in their life.
And so I've been a part of some, you know, I would say just manly conversations about living and about going through life, and I'm in a scenario where I'm able to actually give some I mean, I think I can give wisdom. I think I can. I I I don't wanna assume that I'm like some freaking life guru, but I'm always willing to listen. I seek to share my light, and, it's this is, it's just important. You know? A a a lot of men are going through a lot of different things, And that makes me think about you know, there's all these, like, narratives about men online, like, what a man should be, and, like, what knee what what a man needs to do to be masculine.
And, you know, we got these fucking we got these guys like Andrew Tate, and Jordan Peterson, and, you know, is Joe Rogan in that in that list? I don't really know, maybe. You know, I'm not trying to criticize these men, but whenever there's like someone talking about what needs to be for you to be a man, like, someone's trying to give a definition on your existence, I just don't I've I've never vibed with that at all. And so when it comes to me in these conversations with these men in my life, you know, it's it's just clear that there is no simple definition for what a man is, and there needs to be more open discussion about what you're going through and how you can approach your mentality. Maybe you have a bad mental. Maybe you haven't maybe you don't know how to connect to your spiritual life. You don't know how to connect to your soul or God.
You know, these are really important things, and these are getting more and more serious. And so I feel blessed to be in a in a position where I can actually discuss these these things in a somewhat confident manner. You know, on my manhood journey I guess we're talking about manhood today. On my manhood journey, I have been, you know, seeking my own path, never really assuming that I'm a man. I still feel like a boy, but determine, determined on my father's death, you know, this that is a real line in the sand of, like, dude, like, grow the fuck up. And that's not to say that I've been fucking up or screwing up or being, unfocused.
I have been. I have been these things. I have been focused, and I just simply feel a new sense of confidence when it comes to how I want to move in the world, and how I am moving, and seeking to be more confident. You know? And so when I talk to these men in my life, I can sort of see, oh, this guy sort of this guy's insecure, or he's he's probably going through something right now, and maybe he's not ready to talk about it, or maybe he doesn't know how to talk about it. And so I I always wanna make sure that I'm opening up myself for men to to open up to me, specifically, like, men my age, you know, because that's just we're we're just all going through a lot. You know? I'm 27. I I turn 28 in about a month and a half or or in about 2 months, whatever that is. And, you know, Gen z, elder Gen z, how are we all doing, folks? This is a interesting generation that we are a part of, and we're finding ourselves coming of age within an incredible crisis, you know, if you read the 4th turning book, or some people say that we're at the end of a certain cycle.
Some people wanna say it's totally different and whatever and all these things, but I think, it's important to talk about it as men, and it's important to talk about life, and it's important to, experiment. I think men should be experimenting with their lives and their, routines. I don't think a man should now okay. This goes like both ways. I personally right now, I don't think there should be a definition for what it means to be a man. You know? Because ultimately, I would say the definition of be a man is equivalent to what it means to be a woman, and that would mean to be a good person.
And that would mean to be loving. That would mean to be self conscious of your thoughts and your actions, you know. I'm always looking at things from a spiritual perspective, so maybe that's why I don't wanna put a specific definition on a gender, but I think it's I think it's absolutely necessary to to hone in on yourself and to audit yourself, you know. Last week let me just talk about last week for a second. I spoke to a wonderful girl, a wonderful woman named, Emily Hughes who made a Bitcoin board game. And, you know, her and I were talking about spirituality and God and, like, our own personal journeys. And, you know, I invited her on America Plus because I had heard her on the Plug Chain Radio podcast. Shout out to Plug Chain. And I just I just I vibed and I related, and I was like, wow. Like, so much of what she went through, I went through. And it's not like a boy or girl thing. It's like just like a person thing.
And I was like, wow. I I need to talk to her. I need to figure out, like I just need to talk to her a bit more about her mental health and her and her like, what she went through spiritually and with her drug use and, you know, doing a bunch of like, she was on prescription drugs and she was smoking weed all the time and then she did mushrooms and then, you know, she has this whole journey. And it's like, well, that's sort of similar to, like, me. Not not the prescription drugs, but, you know, a few other things. And so I guess what I'm getting at is I have a bias towards men, but I'm identifying that what it means to be a man is to also just be a general human.
And I hope the world is I hope more people in the world are becoming aware of this, because it's just getting more important. The world is going through a wild place right now. The world is changing. It's morphing. I from my beliefs, I believe that earth is evolving, and consciousness is expanding, and we are heading towards a more beautiful world. I truly believe that. And to for that more beautiful world to exist, that means that people must look at themselves in the mirror and make a change. Michael Jackson made a freaking song about this dude. It's incredibly simple.
It's a it's a little cheesy, but it's so real. It's so reality. You know? The the cliches of life is absolute truth. You know? Have you ever thought about that? When my dad died, I realized that the only thing I cared was just how grateful I was that he was actually a good dad to me. You know, and it's like and if he was alive and I tell you that if my dad is alive and I tell you, hey. This is my dad. He he's a good dad. You might nod your head, like, cool. But now that he's dead, and I can and I tell you, my father was a good father. You might have a bit more emotion, or you might be thinking about something else. You know? I definitely feel something else.
I like, in high school, I would say that, yeah, I might like, I have a good dad. Like, he's nice to me. He's loving, and he works hard. But that didn't like, there just a different weight, you know? It's a different weight, and that's such a cliche about life. Like, life is about love. Life is about family. Life is about the people around you, and the relationships you have, and the lessons you learn within those relationships. And for some reason, our culture gets caught up with way too many things. Way too many things. Like, with money, with debt, with propaganda, with, drama, within the government, and celebrities, and Grammys, and Super Bowl, and sports. And these are all fun things to get involved with and discuss sometimes, but I think there's way too much there's way too much weight put on these things.
And so as time moves on, I I believe that we are figuring out just how to refocus ourselves on what is most important. And I'm grateful to be in a position where I'm able to express that and express this, you know. Because I see myself as an artist, I see podcasting as, like, my art form, one of my favorite art forms, and I don't know anyone else who's just like I I I so sometimes I see some people talking about similar things, but I don't know any other podcaster really talking about this stuff. So, I'm just grateful to be here, and I'm grateful to to be aware of these lessons right now. It's really cool. And working out at the beach, just working at the beach and talking to my buddy old buddy from high school just showed me that, you know, like, this is some like, things are moving.
Things are moving. Things are changing. People are becoming awake. You know, becoming awake to their greater reality. You know, whether that means to take on personal responsibility within their physical world, or to seek a deeper connection within the spiritual world. I think these two things are very relevant. So yeah. What do you think of that? So that's what I did today. That that's what I did. That's what I'm thinking about. I guess I could move into Nostra a bit. I've been hanging out on Nostra a a good amount of time the last couple weeks, and I've been doing a bunch more social media, videos.
You know, just trying to do that whole social media thing. Here's what I found out. I found out that a person that I know, a different person that I know who's into, like, the, this person does, like, social media managing, for, like, either a couple companies or or just one company or something like that. This person did you know that a social media manager can make upwards of $6,000 a month? 6,000 a month for managing the social media, and it's not even, like, their face. They're literally posting memes and photos for the company, and they they pay this person 6 grand.
6 grand. So I'm trying to get on this social media manager vibe right now, dude. I've been applying to jobs. I've been reaching out. That that's why I've been on on freaking Instagram. That's why I'm on social media. I'm trying to build up my social so I can get some credibility, and then maybe I can get, like, a better job because, you know, like, my current job is, like, that doesn't pay enough, not enough hours, not enough money. Just it's it's it's a definitely a fiat job. Maybe social media is a fiat job as well, but I need a better fiat job. You know what I mean?
I'm trying to get paid 6 k a month. Who's trying to get paid 6 k a month? Anyone else here? Who wants to get paid 6 k a month, dude? 6 k a month. That's incredible. That's so incredible. So, yeah, that's, like, my goal, dude. And when it comes to Nostr, I know that, you know, so many the culture on Nostr is so big. It's it's it's so heated. It's heavy. We love Bitcoin. We love Zaps. And there's a crossover between Nostr and podcasting 2 point o, and we're melding and we're meshing. And, I'm still learning Nostr. I'm still trying to get used to it because it's a different way of engaging with people. When I engage with people on Nostr, I'm hoping that someone sees it in, like, the hour.
Mhmm. Because the whole thing is chronological, which is pretty cool. But the one thing that I really like about about, like, any other social media is that there is a chance that a video from, like, a few days ago could, like, still get likes and still get, like, you know, still get views. You know? I think that's a cool thing. And maybe people people in the Nostra community will just, like, bash me for this. Maybe, Cole, what are you talking about? But, you know, I'm not a hater on social media. The the this is this is my thing. I don't know why people on Nostra wanna hate on social media because what the hell were you posting to get banned?
Like, what were you really posting to get banned, dude? Now when it comes to things to post to get banned, I don't wanna post about Jews. I don't wanna post about Nazis. I don't wanna post about anything that's like I don't know. Like, it seems to be pretty clear what the thing would get banned for. If you get now if I get banned for posting about raw milk, then we live in a fucking topsy-two of your world, and I need to get my account reinstated. And Meta is, Meta is a shill for for pasteurization. But, you know, raw milk content is pretty flourishing on the platform.
And so, therefore, like, I guess, like, maybe I'm just biased because I still am on these platforms and, you know, I, I the stuff that I wanna engage with is still on there. And so but and everything that's, like, serious. I just think that everything that's serious, everything that's, like, quote unquote important to talk about, you know, I sort of talked about it last week with with Emily, but let's just take COVID for example. Like, if I wanted information about COVID or information about any sort of vaccine, the information within a podcast is a lot more digestible and a lot more shareable and a lot more decentralized than if any other information about that topic or those topics is on Instagram.
I might watch a video about these things, but, you know, I don't care about that type of content on Instagram. There's way too much conspiratorial stuff on Instagram, you know. Even though, you know, some people might be posting true things that are considered quote unquote conspiratorial, misinformation. And maybe those things are false, you know. I just take that whenever, like, whenever a tech company wants to lie about the validity about information, you know, it's just, I just take it as, like, I put it in the same vein as, like, marketing. Like, isn't marketing lying? You know?
Like, marketing is lying. And so if they wanna lie about how good their app is, they're also gonna lie about how accurate information that you're posting is. They're just gonna lie. It's all for their benefit. It's all for their self interest, you know, and that's just true. And I'm willing to just accept that and just move on, You know? And I like that Nostra exists. You know? So so many people on Nostra wanna they always wanna talk about how shit all the other social medias are, and I'm just tired of that. Like, I don't wanna engage with that. I don't wanna, like I put out a few posts, like, oh, x sucks or whatever like that. You know? Like, I I just get tired of that stuff, dude. Like, I don't I'm not trying to get big on Twitter. I'm just trying to post what I wanna post.
If I see myself as an artist, I just wanna post what I wanna post. I just wanna create what I wanna create. And, people get caught up in the algorithms, and they get caught up in the, different incentives that the algorithm makes, for you to gain them. And so as an artist, you know, if I really really wanna be counter cultural, if I really wanna be against the grain, then that means that I need to just not care about any other thing. I need to just post what I wanna post. You know? Like, is it good to be ideological as an artist?
Even though maybe I am ideological, I I stand by some pretty firm beliefs that, that are not common. You know? I I do like Bitcoin. I do like Nostra. I stand by raw milk. I will die in the raw milk hit hill. I definitely think Pleiadians are real, and I think the UFOs are real. And so maybe these things are ideological, but I just I'm I'm just I'm just reading things, and I just think what I think is true. And so, I guess I seek to just be my truest self that does not allow myself to get angry. May maybe ideology justifies anger.
That's an interesting idea. Maybe any ideology that justifies your personal anger or your personal disdain towards a different person or system, maybe that's a bit unhealthy. You know, maybe we should ascend the ideologies, and maybe we should allow just allow it to be. You know? There's this concept of, attachment within Buddhism, you know, to not be attached to things, to detach yourself from, you know, from your personality, from your thoughts, from your material, you know, like, sort of, like, nothing is yours really. You know, so many people there's so many people on Nostra who wanna own social media. You are the algorithm. You own the algorithm.
And it's just like, do I own my iPhone? Do I really own anything? Do I own the most important things that I need to live? Do I own the air? Do I own nature? Do I own the water that's coming out of my tap? Do I own, like, I own so few things that are so important for my life, you know. And when it comes to important things in my life, I'm renting them. I'm renting the power. I'm renting like, I pay for the water and power, You know? I pay for gas. Gas is a rental. I pay for gas, and then then I use it. Do I own the gas? No. And for some reason, there's narratives within specific niches of the Internet that think that you can own an algorithm. You can own your social media.
And I just, like, I just I I'm seeking to be detached. You know? I don't wanna be emotional about about these things. You know? I see I see RSS, and I see my podcast as, like, ground level, the foundation, the spine of my platform. And then I see the the mainstream social medias as just just free outlets to market myself. And then I also see Nostra as another way to market myself and to engage with people and to build a community, and I was only into it because I wanna make more Bitcoin for my content. You know? It's harder to make money on Instagram where I am right now. It's easier to make money on Nostr where I'm at right now.
And that's really my that's really my thing. I wanna stack stats. I wanna make money in stack stats. And so when it comes to if I wanna be, like, if I I just don't wanna hate on social media. Is anyone else agreeing with me here? And maybe this is super out there. Maybe this is not what you wanna hear. You know? Because I'm not trying to I'm not trying to play to your emotions. You know? I'm not trying to play to your emotions. That's a lot of that that's a lot of other people. That's Tim Pool. That's Jordan Peterson. That's you know, pick your pick your other podcasters. Like, I'm not trying to do that.
I really don't care about like, I care about your emotions. I care about I I care that you're regulating your emotions. That's what I care about. But I don't care about making you emotional. Like like, if I wanna make you emotional, it's probably because I'm making a movie. You know? Like, I wanna and and that's because you're you're willingly giving your emotions to whatever is on the screen, you know, whatever story that you're, that you're watching. And, you know, regardless, even if I'm not trying to control your emotions, you're also you're also just naturally giving your emotions to whatever's in front of you, you know, and you have that choice. We always have a choice with how we react emotionally in our current moment.
I just saw a movie last night, called Flight Plan or Flight Risk. You do you know that movie, Flight Risk, with, Mark Wahlberg? He it's when he's bald. He shaved his head, directed by Mel Gibson. Great movie, by the way. The whole movie is about, like, this, like, this prisoner is getting transported from Alaska to DC or something, and the plane gets hijacked by some inside guy who had inside information. Mark Wahlberg is the bad guy. And, the FBI agent, this woman, they're like, go, she has to, like, protect the passenger and herself.
And it gets to a point where, like, they figure out that the the the pilot isn't who he says he is. And she knocks him out for a minute, and the and the
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the prisoner, he's like, oh my god. Oh my god. Oh my god. I'm so stressed. Oh my god. I pissed myself.
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And she's like, all we can do she's like she says, we can't worry about the past, and we don't know what the future is. All we can do is handle the moment in front of us, or she says, all we can focus on is how we react to the moment in front of us. And, you know, that's just like a real life lesson, you know. It wasn't like a dramatic thing in the movie. It was just like a sort of like a like, we gotta keep going, dude. Like, fucking stick with me. All we can do is just be in this moment right now. Like, don't worry about what happened. We can't change the past.
And I took that to heart, you know, with, like, social media because everyone on social media wants to say, like, oh, look what happened back then. This is terrible. Look what they did. Look what they did back then. Oh my god.
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Or a person might wanna say, oh, dude. Look how beautiful everyone was. Look how healthy everyone was. Look how terrible things are now. Oh my god. Where are we going? Where is America going today? Oh, no. I'm afraid for the future. I'm I'm sad for the past and afraid for the future. Woah ee, woe is me.
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It's just a fucking sob story, dude. And no one approaches social media as, like, just like what they're doing right now. Express yourself right now. Talk about what you're doing right now to improve yourself right now. Talk about what you're doing to improve the system that you are in right now. I'm failing at that personally. Personally, I you know, the system I'm in what system am I in? I'm in a system of corporate kitchen. Am I doing anything to improve that system? No. Because I don't see a path forward in that system. I'm just gonna let that system crumble, and I'm doing my best to detach myself from that system.
I don't wanna be attached. I don't wanna hold any anger towards work. You know, that's even more negative. I can't hold like, we shouldn't be holding negative emotions within our bodies. And that's not to say that we should ignore these things, but that is to say that we need to develop a process to let go. We need to develop a process to let go of the negative emotions in our bodies. This is a deep, deep spiritual truth that you must learn. I am on my own path. You must learn this. You must learn that. And if you don't, then, like, you're screwed. Like, that's just what it is. If you don't learn to let go of anger and frustration and negativity and resentment, then you're fucked.
Just straight up, dude. You're fucked. And that's why people get caught up in certain things. People get caught up in their ideologies, because it justifies anger, and they can redirect whatever frustration they have in their life towards a group, towards a person, towards a system. And I think this is unhealthy. I think this is very unhealthy. But, you know, what do I know, dude? I'm just the guy in my kitchen. I'm just live streaming for the first time ever. What the hell do I know? I really don't. I really don't know anything. Do you do you hear my do you hear my cat blue?
Cat, you wanna hey, cat. You wanna do a little meow? Little meow meow? Oh, you're meowing all the time now? No. You don't wanna meow? Okay. Whatever. Whatever, broski. Whatever. Oh, great. Great. Can you hear that? I hope you can hear that. What do I wanna do now? Okay. So okay. Let's just go into the value for value section, folks. America Plus is a value for value show. What that means is I bring forward, some interesting topics and some, ideas that I think is important for the world to discuss. And, I just do my best to be my honest self, and you're able to reciprocate that value through 3 different ways, time, talent, treasure. If you're tuning in right now to the livestream, thank you so much. Talent, if you wanna give me some any extra jingles like this for the boostagrams. Just basically, you put Bitcoin with anything, and all of a sudden, that is more efficient. I need more jingles. I'm working on more jingles. I also need to update my RODECaster Pro 2. I I it almost crashed on me a few days ago, so help me out with that. I need talent, folks. I need talent. If you wanna be on the podcast, if you have any ideas on who might be a good guest on the podcast, I'm open to discussions.
I'm looking for more conversations. I'm I'm, lining things up right now with people as we speak. And the last way to engage with value for value is treasure. Okay? America Plus has an official PayPal. You can send me dollars if you like, via the Internet, and you can also download the fountain.fm
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He sends in a wonderful 325 satoshis. That's a special number. Boost. 325 is my birthday. Do you remember that, Satan Sats? 325 is my birthday, bro. Thank you for that. He says and this is from last week. He says, very interesting conversation. Normally, when people start talking about psychedelics, I tune out. But this was really fascinating. Boosting is loving. Saying, Saj, thank you so much. I'm happy you weren't, like, turned off by that conversation. I understand what you mean. You know, whenever people wanna talk about psychedelics, sometimes they wanna only talk about the science, or they only wanna talk about the crazy things they see, or whatever other bullshit. You know? And I think we need to we need to approach it from a more spiritual perspective, and that is not to say to, like, to put another definition. You know? Like, I don't think we need more definitions. I think we need more expression about these things. You know? Something that I have an issue with, like I mean, it's an issue, but I thought it's also just like it's I'm just taking it for what it is. Aubrey Marcus. You know, does anyone know who Aubrey Marcus is? He's in deep into the the plant medicines and psychedelics on his spiritual journey. And I I like the guy. I respect the guy. I've met the guy before, and I'm just wondering if, like like, does he need to change something? Like, what how can we change what he's doing, his approach?
Can we correct the approach as in, like, when I watch Aubrey Marcus talk about psychedelics, can I do it better? You know? Is there a better way to talk about it? And, hopefully, that conversation with Emily last week was. So thank you, Saint Satz. I think it's very important. And then this next one, the last one comes in for Matt Pies. What up, Pies? He sends in a beautiful 1,420 satz. Yeah, baby. And now as the French say, it is time for the boost. 4 2420, and he has to say, v for v, beers clinging, beers cheering, and a little mushroom emoji. Thank you so much, sir. Bustar. Bustar. Those are my people, folks. That's the America Plus crew.
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That's the America Plus crew. If you wanna be a part of the crew,
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download found, send me a boostagram. Download the primal app. That's a Noster app. And, follow me on Noster as well. Send me a zap if you want it. I think it's really I just think it's important, dude. I think it's important. What I wanna do as well so this is the part of the value for value thing. I okay. So I play music to end, to end every show. But,
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what I usually do is I have the artist wallet hooked up for the livestream.
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I don't know how to do that for the livestream right now. I need to figure out how to do that for the livestream, but we'll figure that that out. We'll figure that out later. When I post this, the the artist's wallet will be up on the official, like, posting of the podcast. But I always play a value for value song at the very end of the episodes, and the artist always gets, 90% of your satoshi donation. And what I wanna do let me go to Wave Lake. Let me go to well, what did I why did I click out of this, dude? Let me go to where is it at? Catalog. I need to go to catalog.
I'm gonna play a song from Henry Invisible. Henry Invisible? Hell, yeah. Henry Invisible is one of my favorite artists right now on the value for value world. Value for value space. And, we're just gonna vibe with it. Just hang out with, hang out with Henry Invisible. And, he was on this, live show, out in Austin, Texas. I think he lives in Austin. He's just a sick, like, solo, like, solo band guy. Like, it's him. It's only him. He makes the beats. He makes the lyrics. And, dude, I just like his vibe, dude. He's just awesome. And, when this podcast is officially posted, he's getting 90%.
So tune in, or, like, check back in if you wanna boost. If you wanna boost them, zap them. Go for it. Yeah, dude. And then, this has just been a really fun time. So thank you for hanging out with me on this live broadcast. I'm hoping this is actually being broadcast that I think it is. I'm pretty sure it is. But, yeah, maybe I'll do this more often. Maybe I'll do live more often. I wanna build up my my live muscles. My live muscles.
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I put things up and put them down.
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Anyway, Henry Invisible, that's America Plus, folks. Enjoy. This is okay. This song is called Get It Right by Henry Invisible. Enjoy.
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See a lot of people human being. I see a lot of puppets pulling strings, but sometimes I ain't having that. Sometimes I wanna skip a track, but you know what I'm gonna do because you know I'm human too. Gotta
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That's America Plus, bitch. Stay free. Whoops. That was weird. I didn't hit pause. Alright. Dope. Wow. That was cool. That was cool. So okay. So thank you for everyone for tuning in if you're still here. So I was recording the video on my iPhone. I wasn't able to see the boostograms coming in live, but I see that chat f. Well, shout out to chat f. What up, chat f? Go to value. Nope. It's basically you put Bitcoin with anything, and all of a sudden, that is more efficient. Chad f. Yeah. You're boosting from fountain for the cat. Right? Yeah. Boosting for the cat. I love it, dude. That was awesome, bro. Thank you for boosting for the cat. We got iSeeum or, yeah.
Iyceum, Lyceum,
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coming in from True Fans. What up, True Fans? Hell, yeah. True Fans. Audio is okay. Testing. Testing. Audio is good. Hell, yeah, dude. Thank you, Lyceum.
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And, yeah, dude. This is, hell, yeah, dude. I'm so happy people are here. Thank you so much for tuning in. I gotta do this more. I love doing the live thing now. I really do. So now that I know to do it so now I I use the Podhome. I use the Podhome thing to, like, force me to do it live. And now I know how to do it live, and now I'm freaking confident. And now that it's so easy, holy shit. Now I gotta do it all the time. Bada bing bada boom. Right, dude? Now I just gotta have an actual plan for a podcast. So easy as that, folks.
So shout out to all those. I'll I'll probably read those boostograms, next week as well. So just so you know. And I think we're doing I think we're back on on once a week as well. Every Sunday. Tune in every Sunday, folks. Every Sunday around this time. Ex we'll see how it is next week. Next week is this is the Super Bowl. So we'll see how it is. I don't know. I'll let you know. I'll let you know. But with that folks, thank you so much for tuning in. That's been America Plus Live, the live experiment. Yeah. I love you.
Bye bye.
We're actually live this time.
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What's up, everyone? It's AMERICAPLUS. I'm your host, Cole McCormick. It's another week, another episode. What's going on, everybody? It's Sunday, February 2nd, 4:46
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in the PM. I'm happy to be here folks. We got a beautiful time for you. I'm so happy to be here right now. I'm having such great vibes. This is a live stream right now. I'm actually live streaming, which is incredible. I live streamed one time a few months ago, but I completely failed. I, like, did not do the proper procedure for it. I didn't follow the instructions like I usually do. That's probably why I graduated high school with a d plus average. So now we're doing it live correctly this time. I double checked the apps, and I'm just happy to be here with you. I shout out to Kyron Down out in Australia for helping me troubleshoot this situation.
I'm trying to do 2 things at once right here. I'm recording a live for the podcast, but I'm also recording a a episode of my podcast Normie series for Pod Home, for the podcast Normie YouTube channel. So I can help out Barry. So I can help out that company, because I just love podcasting so much. So, yeah. 2 things at once, which is pretty cool. So just thank you for being here. I don't know how to check if anyone is actually a part of the live stream. So if you wanna DM me or if you wanna I don't know what's the right way to do this. No nobody knows. I'm not Adam Curry. I don't have some live chat. I need a live chat. That's what I really need.
But I'm excited to be here, and I'm excited to be live, and, I think the future is live podcasting. Right? So, we're just gonna keep on trucking. Gonna keep on going on. This week in America Plus, we're talking about I just wanna hang out with you today because it's a live episode. We're gonna just be chill about it. I wanna talk about a few things. I wanna talk about, my exercise today, and I wanna talk about some Nostra experiences that I've had in the last, couple weeks. And, I wanna just, yeah. We'll see where it goes from there. So for the first off so first off, today's been a good day. I did a Santa Monica beach workout, with my friend, Case. Case Bradford.
He's like a health influencer. Him and I became friends of, last year. Him and I met up at at at a raw dairy convention, at a raw dairy farm. We were camping with the cows together, and that was a fun time. Case is really cool. He's like one of those, like, jacked he's like a shredded guy who's, like, in his thirties, and, like, he drinks raw milk and only works out in nature, and he's just he just looks healthy, dude. So I'm trying to get on his level. I got a little I got a little belly, you know? I got a little I got a little my dad just died belly, so I gotta I I gotta work on this thing right now. I gotta work on my summer 6 pack, 2025 6 pack, you know?
That was really a really fun time. I met a new guy named Jules Horn. This guy's like a male model, and, he led after the workout. So we do just like, what we do in the work in these beach workouts is we do, like, body movements. We're doing crab walks back and forth in the sand, and we were doing lunges, and we were doing some sprints. We were doing I brought my mace. I got this giant steel mace that I swing around. That that's one of my favorite workout, tools. And, Jules, he brought some of his maces, but his maces are wooden. So just like a different experience, a little thicker on the grip. You know, really fun time.
And, we were just we go through, like, these little, like, cycles. Right? These little, like, circuits of working out. We had, like, 3 mesas, and then we had some kettlebells. We did some curls. We did some squats. We did some crab walks. And that was at, like, 6 in the morning. I should say 6:45 this morning. So I chose to get up early, and, drove all the way down to Santa Monica. When it's no traffic on a Sunday morning, when the sun's not even up, it's a really nice drive. It's just like a 30 minute drive to the beach, which is pretty legit. Any other day, it's a straight up hour and a half, which is you know, these beach workouts, I love them, but I just I I can't do them most of the time because I just don't have
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I don't have the time available to me.
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Like, I could probably get there at a good time, but then I you know, depending on if I have work or something else, you know, like, I just like it doesn't. The time doesn't work out. Like, it there's a time crunch. And so I was happy that I could, go for it today. There's a beach workout yesterday too, and I just totally forgot about it. I had the day off too. I've had this whole weekend off of work, which has been nice. But, I was like, why how did I forget about Saturday? How did I forget about Saturday? But Sunday happened. It was a great vibe. I'm sore. My arms are like, after that workout, I had a little conversation with a old friend of mine.
I don't wanna say his name because I'd like I think he likes his privacy online, but my an old friend from high school. So shout out to you, guy from high school that I spoke to on Sunday, 2nd. Shout out to you, brother. I love you. We had a great time, dude. There's I've been a part of this really interesting situation where the men around me are now, I'm not sure if, like, this is just my perception as if I'm just, like, I'm just noticing it more, or maybe the men around me are actually doing it themselves, and they feel comfortable around me. But the men around me have been a bit more honest. They've been talking about their life experiences. They've been seeking to live a better life. They've been expressing how they're more aware of what's going on in their life.
And so I've been a part of some, you know, I would say just manly conversations about living and about going through life, and I'm in a scenario where I'm able to actually give some I mean, I think I can give wisdom. I think I can. I I I don't wanna assume that I'm like some freaking life guru, but I'm always willing to listen. I seek to share my light, and, it's this is, it's just important. You know? A a a lot of men are going through a lot of different things, And that makes me think about you know, there's all these, like, narratives about men online, like, what a man should be, and, like, what knee what what a man needs to do to be masculine.
And, you know, we got these fucking we got these guys like Andrew Tate, and Jordan Peterson, and, you know, is Joe Rogan in that in that list? I don't really know, maybe. You know, I'm not trying to criticize these men, but whenever there's like someone talking about what needs to be for you to be a man, like, someone's trying to give a definition on your existence, I just don't I've I've never vibed with that at all. And so when it comes to me in these conversations with these men in my life, you know, it's it's just clear that there is no simple definition for what a man is, and there needs to be more open discussion about what you're going through and how you can approach your mentality. Maybe you have a bad mental. Maybe you haven't maybe you don't know how to connect to your spiritual life. You don't know how to connect to your soul or God.
You know, these are really important things, and these are getting more and more serious. And so I feel blessed to be in a in a position where I can actually discuss these these things in a somewhat confident manner. You know, on my manhood journey I guess we're talking about manhood today. On my manhood journey, I have been, you know, seeking my own path, never really assuming that I'm a man. I still feel like a boy, but determine, determined on my father's death, you know, this that is a real line in the sand of, like, dude, like, grow the fuck up. And that's not to say that I've been fucking up or screwing up or being, unfocused.
I have been. I have been these things. I have been focused, and I just simply feel a new sense of confidence when it comes to how I want to move in the world, and how I am moving, and seeking to be more confident. You know? And so when I talk to these men in my life, I can sort of see, oh, this guy sort of this guy's insecure, or he's he's probably going through something right now, and maybe he's not ready to talk about it, or maybe he doesn't know how to talk about it. And so I I always wanna make sure that I'm opening up myself for men to to open up to me, specifically, like, men my age, you know, because that's just we're we're just all going through a lot. You know? I'm 27. I I turn 28 in about a month and a half or or in about 2 months, whatever that is. And, you know, Gen z, elder Gen z, how are we all doing, folks? This is a interesting generation that we are a part of, and we're finding ourselves coming of age within an incredible crisis, you know, if you read the 4th turning book, or some people say that we're at the end of a certain cycle.
Some people wanna say it's totally different and whatever and all these things, but I think, it's important to talk about it as men, and it's important to talk about life, and it's important to, experiment. I think men should be experimenting with their lives and their, routines. I don't think a man should now okay. This goes like both ways. I personally right now, I don't think there should be a definition for what it means to be a man. You know? Because ultimately, I would say the definition of be a man is equivalent to what it means to be a woman, and that would mean to be a good person.
And that would mean to be loving. That would mean to be self conscious of your thoughts and your actions, you know. I'm always looking at things from a spiritual perspective, so maybe that's why I don't wanna put a specific definition on a gender, but I think it's I think it's absolutely necessary to to hone in on yourself and to audit yourself, you know. Last week let me just talk about last week for a second. I spoke to a wonderful girl, a wonderful woman named, Emily Hughes who made a Bitcoin board game. And, you know, her and I were talking about spirituality and God and, like, our own personal journeys. And, you know, I invited her on America Plus because I had heard her on the Plug Chain Radio podcast. Shout out to Plug Chain. And I just I just I vibed and I related, and I was like, wow. Like, so much of what she went through, I went through. And it's not like a boy or girl thing. It's like just like a person thing.
And I was like, wow. I I need to talk to her. I need to figure out, like I just need to talk to her a bit more about her mental health and her and her like, what she went through spiritually and with her drug use and, you know, doing a bunch of like, she was on prescription drugs and she was smoking weed all the time and then she did mushrooms and then, you know, she has this whole journey. And it's like, well, that's sort of similar to, like, me. Not not the prescription drugs, but, you know, a few other things. And so I guess what I'm getting at is I have a bias towards men, but I'm identifying that what it means to be a man is to also just be a general human.
And I hope the world is I hope more people in the world are becoming aware of this, because it's just getting more important. The world is going through a wild place right now. The world is changing. It's morphing. I from my beliefs, I believe that earth is evolving, and consciousness is expanding, and we are heading towards a more beautiful world. I truly believe that. And to for that more beautiful world to exist, that means that people must look at themselves in the mirror and make a change. Michael Jackson made a freaking song about this dude. It's incredibly simple.
It's a it's a little cheesy, but it's so real. It's so reality. You know? The the cliches of life is absolute truth. You know? Have you ever thought about that? When my dad died, I realized that the only thing I cared was just how grateful I was that he was actually a good dad to me. You know, and it's like and if he was alive and I tell you that if my dad is alive and I tell you, hey. This is my dad. He he's a good dad. You might nod your head, like, cool. But now that he's dead, and I can and I tell you, my father was a good father. You might have a bit more emotion, or you might be thinking about something else. You know? I definitely feel something else.
I like, in high school, I would say that, yeah, I might like, I have a good dad. Like, he's nice to me. He's loving, and he works hard. But that didn't like, there just a different weight, you know? It's a different weight, and that's such a cliche about life. Like, life is about love. Life is about family. Life is about the people around you, and the relationships you have, and the lessons you learn within those relationships. And for some reason, our culture gets caught up with way too many things. Way too many things. Like, with money, with debt, with propaganda, with, drama, within the government, and celebrities, and Grammys, and Super Bowl, and sports. And these are all fun things to get involved with and discuss sometimes, but I think there's way too much there's way too much weight put on these things.
And so as time moves on, I I believe that we are figuring out just how to refocus ourselves on what is most important. And I'm grateful to be in a position where I'm able to express that and express this, you know. Because I see myself as an artist, I see podcasting as, like, my art form, one of my favorite art forms, and I don't know anyone else who's just like I I I so sometimes I see some people talking about similar things, but I don't know any other podcaster really talking about this stuff. So, I'm just grateful to be here, and I'm grateful to to be aware of these lessons right now. It's really cool. And working out at the beach, just working at the beach and talking to my buddy old buddy from high school just showed me that, you know, like, this is some like, things are moving.
Things are moving. Things are changing. People are becoming awake. You know, becoming awake to their greater reality. You know, whether that means to take on personal responsibility within their physical world, or to seek a deeper connection within the spiritual world. I think these two things are very relevant. So yeah. What do you think of that? So that's what I did today. That that's what I did. That's what I'm thinking about. I guess I could move into Nostra a bit. I've been hanging out on Nostra a a good amount of time the last couple weeks, and I've been doing a bunch more social media, videos.
You know, just trying to do that whole social media thing. Here's what I found out. I found out that a person that I know, a different person that I know who's into, like, the, this person does, like, social media managing, for, like, either a couple companies or or just one company or something like that. This person did you know that a social media manager can make upwards of $6,000 a month? 6,000 a month for managing the social media, and it's not even, like, their face. They're literally posting memes and photos for the company, and they they pay this person 6 grand.
6 grand. So I'm trying to get on this social media manager vibe right now, dude. I've been applying to jobs. I've been reaching out. That that's why I've been on on freaking Instagram. That's why I'm on social media. I'm trying to build up my social so I can get some credibility, and then maybe I can get, like, a better job because, you know, like, my current job is, like, that doesn't pay enough, not enough hours, not enough money. Just it's it's it's a definitely a fiat job. Maybe social media is a fiat job as well, but I need a better fiat job. You know what I mean?
I'm trying to get paid 6 k a month. Who's trying to get paid 6 k a month? Anyone else here? Who wants to get paid 6 k a month, dude? 6 k a month. That's incredible. That's so incredible. So, yeah, that's, like, my goal, dude. And when it comes to Nostr, I know that, you know, so many the culture on Nostr is so big. It's it's it's so heated. It's heavy. We love Bitcoin. We love Zaps. And there's a crossover between Nostr and podcasting 2 point o, and we're melding and we're meshing. And, I'm still learning Nostr. I'm still trying to get used to it because it's a different way of engaging with people. When I engage with people on Nostr, I'm hoping that someone sees it in, like, the hour.
Mhmm. Because the whole thing is chronological, which is pretty cool. But the one thing that I really like about about, like, any other social media is that there is a chance that a video from, like, a few days ago could, like, still get likes and still get, like, you know, still get views. You know? I think that's a cool thing. And maybe people people in the Nostra community will just, like, bash me for this. Maybe, Cole, what are you talking about? But, you know, I'm not a hater on social media. The the this is this is my thing. I don't know why people on Nostra wanna hate on social media because what the hell were you posting to get banned?
Like, what were you really posting to get banned, dude? Now when it comes to things to post to get banned, I don't wanna post about Jews. I don't wanna post about Nazis. I don't wanna post about anything that's like I don't know. Like, it seems to be pretty clear what the thing would get banned for. If you get now if I get banned for posting about raw milk, then we live in a fucking topsy-two of your world, and I need to get my account reinstated. And Meta is, Meta is a shill for for pasteurization. But, you know, raw milk content is pretty flourishing on the platform.
And so, therefore, like, I guess, like, maybe I'm just biased because I still am on these platforms and, you know, I, I the stuff that I wanna engage with is still on there. And so but and everything that's, like, serious. I just think that everything that's serious, everything that's, like, quote unquote important to talk about, you know, I sort of talked about it last week with with Emily, but let's just take COVID for example. Like, if I wanted information about COVID or information about any sort of vaccine, the information within a podcast is a lot more digestible and a lot more shareable and a lot more decentralized than if any other information about that topic or those topics is on Instagram.
I might watch a video about these things, but, you know, I don't care about that type of content on Instagram. There's way too much conspiratorial stuff on Instagram, you know. Even though, you know, some people might be posting true things that are considered quote unquote conspiratorial, misinformation. And maybe those things are false, you know. I just take that whenever, like, whenever a tech company wants to lie about the validity about information, you know, it's just, I just take it as, like, I put it in the same vein as, like, marketing. Like, isn't marketing lying? You know?
Like, marketing is lying. And so if they wanna lie about how good their app is, they're also gonna lie about how accurate information that you're posting is. They're just gonna lie. It's all for their benefit. It's all for their self interest, you know, and that's just true. And I'm willing to just accept that and just move on, You know? And I like that Nostra exists. You know? So so many people on Nostra wanna they always wanna talk about how shit all the other social medias are, and I'm just tired of that. Like, I don't wanna engage with that. I don't wanna, like I put out a few posts, like, oh, x sucks or whatever like that. You know? Like, I I just get tired of that stuff, dude. Like, I don't I'm not trying to get big on Twitter. I'm just trying to post what I wanna post.
If I see myself as an artist, I just wanna post what I wanna post. I just wanna create what I wanna create. And, people get caught up in the algorithms, and they get caught up in the, different incentives that the algorithm makes, for you to gain them. And so as an artist, you know, if I really really wanna be counter cultural, if I really wanna be against the grain, then that means that I need to just not care about any other thing. I need to just post what I wanna post. You know? Like, is it good to be ideological as an artist?
Even though maybe I am ideological, I I stand by some pretty firm beliefs that, that are not common. You know? I I do like Bitcoin. I do like Nostra. I stand by raw milk. I will die in the raw milk hit hill. I definitely think Pleiadians are real, and I think the UFOs are real. And so maybe these things are ideological, but I just I'm I'm just I'm just reading things, and I just think what I think is true. And so, I guess I seek to just be my truest self that does not allow myself to get angry. May maybe ideology justifies anger.
That's an interesting idea. Maybe any ideology that justifies your personal anger or your personal disdain towards a different person or system, maybe that's a bit unhealthy. You know, maybe we should ascend the ideologies, and maybe we should allow just allow it to be. You know? There's this concept of, attachment within Buddhism, you know, to not be attached to things, to detach yourself from, you know, from your personality, from your thoughts, from your material, you know, like, sort of, like, nothing is yours really. You know, so many people there's so many people on Nostra who wanna own social media. You are the algorithm. You own the algorithm.
And it's just like, do I own my iPhone? Do I really own anything? Do I own the most important things that I need to live? Do I own the air? Do I own nature? Do I own the water that's coming out of my tap? Do I own, like, I own so few things that are so important for my life, you know. And when it comes to important things in my life, I'm renting them. I'm renting the power. I'm renting like, I pay for the water and power, You know? I pay for gas. Gas is a rental. I pay for gas, and then then I use it. Do I own the gas? No. And for some reason, there's narratives within specific niches of the Internet that think that you can own an algorithm. You can own your social media.
And I just, like, I just I I'm seeking to be detached. You know? I don't wanna be emotional about about these things. You know? I see I see RSS, and I see my podcast as, like, ground level, the foundation, the spine of my platform. And then I see the the mainstream social medias as just just free outlets to market myself. And then I also see Nostra as another way to market myself and to engage with people and to build a community, and I was only into it because I wanna make more Bitcoin for my content. You know? It's harder to make money on Instagram where I am right now. It's easier to make money on Nostr where I'm at right now.
And that's really my that's really my thing. I wanna stack stats. I wanna make money in stack stats. And so when it comes to if I wanna be, like, if I I just don't wanna hate on social media. Is anyone else agreeing with me here? And maybe this is super out there. Maybe this is not what you wanna hear. You know? Because I'm not trying to I'm not trying to play to your emotions. You know? I'm not trying to play to your emotions. That's a lot of that that's a lot of other people. That's Tim Pool. That's Jordan Peterson. That's you know, pick your pick your other podcasters. Like, I'm not trying to do that.
I really don't care about like, I care about your emotions. I care about I I care that you're regulating your emotions. That's what I care about. But I don't care about making you emotional. Like like, if I wanna make you emotional, it's probably because I'm making a movie. You know? Like, I wanna and and that's because you're you're willingly giving your emotions to whatever is on the screen, you know, whatever story that you're, that you're watching. And, you know, regardless, even if I'm not trying to control your emotions, you're also you're also just naturally giving your emotions to whatever's in front of you, you know, and you have that choice. We always have a choice with how we react emotionally in our current moment.
I just saw a movie last night, called Flight Plan or Flight Risk. You do you know that movie, Flight Risk, with, Mark Wahlberg? He it's when he's bald. He shaved his head, directed by Mel Gibson. Great movie, by the way. The whole movie is about, like, this, like, this prisoner is getting transported from Alaska to DC or something, and the plane gets hijacked by some inside guy who had inside information. Mark Wahlberg is the bad guy. And, the FBI agent, this woman, they're like, go, she has to, like, protect the passenger and herself.
And it gets to a point where, like, they figure out that the the the pilot isn't who he says he is. And she knocks him out for a minute, and the and the
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the prisoner, he's like, oh my god. Oh my god. Oh my god. I'm so stressed. Oh my god. I pissed myself.
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And she's like, all we can do she's like she says, we can't worry about the past, and we don't know what the future is. All we can do is handle the moment in front of us, or she says, all we can focus on is how we react to the moment in front of us. And, you know, that's just like a real life lesson, you know. It wasn't like a dramatic thing in the movie. It was just like a sort of like a like, we gotta keep going, dude. Like, fucking stick with me. All we can do is just be in this moment right now. Like, don't worry about what happened. We can't change the past.
And I took that to heart, you know, with, like, social media because everyone on social media wants to say, like, oh, look what happened back then. This is terrible. Look what they did. Look what they did back then. Oh my god.
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Or a person might wanna say, oh, dude. Look how beautiful everyone was. Look how healthy everyone was. Look how terrible things are now. Oh my god. Where are we going? Where is America going today? Oh, no. I'm afraid for the future. I'm I'm sad for the past and afraid for the future. Woah ee, woe is me.
[00:29:14] Unknown:
It's just a fucking sob story, dude. And no one approaches social media as, like, just like what they're doing right now. Express yourself right now. Talk about what you're doing right now to improve yourself right now. Talk about what you're doing to improve the system that you are in right now. I'm failing at that personally. Personally, I you know, the system I'm in what system am I in? I'm in a system of corporate kitchen. Am I doing anything to improve that system? No. Because I don't see a path forward in that system. I'm just gonna let that system crumble, and I'm doing my best to detach myself from that system.
I don't wanna be attached. I don't wanna hold any anger towards work. You know, that's even more negative. I can't hold like, we shouldn't be holding negative emotions within our bodies. And that's not to say that we should ignore these things, but that is to say that we need to develop a process to let go. We need to develop a process to let go of the negative emotions in our bodies. This is a deep, deep spiritual truth that you must learn. I am on my own path. You must learn this. You must learn that. And if you don't, then, like, you're screwed. Like, that's just what it is. If you don't learn to let go of anger and frustration and negativity and resentment, then you're fucked.
Just straight up, dude. You're fucked. And that's why people get caught up in certain things. People get caught up in their ideologies, because it justifies anger, and they can redirect whatever frustration they have in their life towards a group, towards a person, towards a system. And I think this is unhealthy. I think this is very unhealthy. But, you know, what do I know, dude? I'm just the guy in my kitchen. I'm just live streaming for the first time ever. What the hell do I know? I really don't. I really don't know anything. Do you do you hear my do you hear my cat blue?
Cat, you wanna hey, cat. You wanna do a little meow? Little meow meow? Oh, you're meowing all the time now? No. You don't wanna meow? Okay. Whatever. Whatever, broski. Whatever. Oh, great. Great. Can you hear that? I hope you can hear that. What do I wanna do now? Okay. So okay. Let's just go into the value for value section, folks. America Plus is a value for value show. What that means is I bring forward, some interesting topics and some, ideas that I think is important for the world to discuss. And, I just do my best to be my honest self, and you're able to reciprocate that value through 3 different ways, time, talent, treasure. If you're tuning in right now to the livestream, thank you so much. Talent, if you wanna give me some any extra jingles like this for the boostagrams. Just basically, you put Bitcoin with anything, and all of a sudden, that is more efficient. I need more jingles. I'm working on more jingles. I also need to update my RODECaster Pro 2. I I it almost crashed on me a few days ago, so help me out with that. I need talent, folks. I need talent. If you wanna be on the podcast, if you have any ideas on who might be a good guest on the podcast, I'm open to discussions.
I'm looking for more conversations. I'm I'm, lining things up right now with people as we speak. And the last way to engage with value for value is treasure. Okay? America Plus has an official PayPal. You can send me dollars if you like, via the Internet, and you can also download the fountain.fm
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app. Go to value for value dot info for more info, then download the fountain.fm
[00:32:54] Unknown:
app. It's the best way to support the show. Fountain is how you send me small bits of Bitcoin, if you're getting any value from this. So you can download it, load up your wallet, with, bits of Bitcoin called satoshis, and you can send me however many Satoshis you want for, like, no cost. It's pretty awesome, and I'm gonna be reading the boostograms. Boostogram is when you send a message, dude. And, I got a couple I got a couple boostograms right here. The first one comes in from our friend at Saintandsats. What up, Saintandsats?
He sends in a wonderful 325 satoshis. That's a special number. Boost. 325 is my birthday. Do you remember that, Satan Sats? 325 is my birthday, bro. Thank you for that. He says and this is from last week. He says, very interesting conversation. Normally, when people start talking about psychedelics, I tune out. But this was really fascinating. Boosting is loving. Saying, Saj, thank you so much. I'm happy you weren't, like, turned off by that conversation. I understand what you mean. You know, whenever people wanna talk about psychedelics, sometimes they wanna only talk about the science, or they only wanna talk about the crazy things they see, or whatever other bullshit. You know? And I think we need to we need to approach it from a more spiritual perspective, and that is not to say to, like, to put another definition. You know? Like, I don't think we need more definitions. I think we need more expression about these things. You know? Something that I have an issue with, like I mean, it's an issue, but I thought it's also just like it's I'm just taking it for what it is. Aubrey Marcus. You know, does anyone know who Aubrey Marcus is? He's in deep into the the plant medicines and psychedelics on his spiritual journey. And I I like the guy. I respect the guy. I've met the guy before, and I'm just wondering if, like like, does he need to change something? Like, what how can we change what he's doing, his approach?
Can we correct the approach as in, like, when I watch Aubrey Marcus talk about psychedelics, can I do it better? You know? Is there a better way to talk about it? And, hopefully, that conversation with Emily last week was. So thank you, Saint Satz. I think it's very important. And then this next one, the last one comes in for Matt Pies. What up, Pies? He sends in a beautiful 1,420 satz. Yeah, baby. And now as the French say, it is time for the boost. 4 2420, and he has to say, v for v, beers clinging, beers cheering, and a little mushroom emoji. Thank you so much, sir. Bustar. Bustar. Those are my people, folks. That's the America Plus crew.
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That's the America Plus crew. If you wanna be a part of the crew,
[00:35:47] Unknown:
download found, send me a boostagram. Download the primal app. That's a Noster app. And, follow me on Noster as well. Send me a zap if you want it. I think it's really I just think it's important, dude. I think it's important. What I wanna do as well so this is the part of the value for value thing. I okay. So I play music to end, to end every show. But,
[00:36:11] Unknown:
what I usually do is I have the artist wallet hooked up for the livestream.
[00:36:17] Unknown:
I don't know how to do that for the livestream right now. I need to figure out how to do that for the livestream, but we'll figure that that out. We'll figure that out later. When I post this, the the artist's wallet will be up on the official, like, posting of the podcast. But I always play a value for value song at the very end of the episodes, and the artist always gets, 90% of your satoshi donation. And what I wanna do let me go to Wave Lake. Let me go to well, what did I why did I click out of this, dude? Let me go to where is it at? Catalog. I need to go to catalog.
I'm gonna play a song from Henry Invisible. Henry Invisible? Hell, yeah. Henry Invisible is one of my favorite artists right now on the value for value world. Value for value space. And, we're just gonna vibe with it. Just hang out with, hang out with Henry Invisible. And, he was on this, live show, out in Austin, Texas. I think he lives in Austin. He's just a sick, like, solo, like, solo band guy. Like, it's him. It's only him. He makes the beats. He makes the lyrics. And, dude, I just like his vibe, dude. He's just awesome. And, when this podcast is officially posted, he's getting 90%.
So tune in, or, like, check back in if you wanna boost. If you wanna boost them, zap them. Go for it. Yeah, dude. And then, this has just been a really fun time. So thank you for hanging out with me on this live broadcast. I'm hoping this is actually being broadcast that I think it is. I'm pretty sure it is. But, yeah, maybe I'll do this more often. Maybe I'll do live more often. I wanna build up my my live muscles. My live muscles.
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I put things up and put them down.
[00:38:04] Unknown:
Anyway, Henry Invisible, that's America Plus, folks. Enjoy. This is okay. This song is called Get It Right by Henry Invisible. Enjoy.
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See a lot of people human being. I see a lot of puppets pulling strings, but sometimes I ain't having that. Sometimes I wanna skip a track, but you know what I'm gonna do because you know I'm human too. Gotta
[00:42:59] Unknown:
That's America Plus, bitch. Stay free. Whoops. That was weird. I didn't hit pause. Alright. Dope. Wow. That was cool. That was cool. So okay. So thank you for everyone for tuning in if you're still here. So I was recording the video on my iPhone. I wasn't able to see the boostograms coming in live, but I see that chat f. Well, shout out to chat f. What up, chat f? Go to value. Nope. It's basically you put Bitcoin with anything, and all of a sudden, that is more efficient. Chad f. Yeah. You're boosting from fountain for the cat. Right? Yeah. Boosting for the cat. I love it, dude. That was awesome, bro. Thank you for boosting for the cat. We got iSeeum or, yeah.
Iyceum, Lyceum,
[00:43:51] Unknown:
coming in from True Fans. What up, True Fans? Hell, yeah. True Fans. Audio is okay. Testing. Testing. Audio is good. Hell, yeah, dude. Thank you, Lyceum.
[00:44:01] Unknown:
And, yeah, dude. This is, hell, yeah, dude. I'm so happy people are here. Thank you so much for tuning in. I gotta do this more. I love doing the live thing now. I really do. So now that I know to do it so now I I use the Podhome. I use the Podhome thing to, like, force me to do it live. And now I know how to do it live, and now I'm freaking confident. And now that it's so easy, holy shit. Now I gotta do it all the time. Bada bing bada boom. Right, dude? Now I just gotta have an actual plan for a podcast. So easy as that, folks.
So shout out to all those. I'll I'll probably read those boostograms, next week as well. So just so you know. And I think we're doing I think we're back on on once a week as well. Every Sunday. Tune in every Sunday, folks. Every Sunday around this time. Ex we'll see how it is next week. Next week is this is the Super Bowl. So we'll see how it is. I don't know. I'll let you know. I'll let you know. But with that folks, thank you so much for tuning in. That's been America Plus Live, the live experiment. Yeah. I love you.
Bye bye.
Introduction and Live Streaming Setup
Multitasking and Podcasting Passion
Santa Monica Beach Workout
Manhood and Personal Growth
Generational Reflections and Experimentation
Exploring Nostr and Social Media
Detachment and Ideologies
Letting Go of Negative Emotions
Value for Value and Community Engagement
Music and Closing Remarks
