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Cole plays clips and talks about the inspiration for the next film from Francis Ford Coppola "Megalopolis" and seeks wisdom from the elder.

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Buh buh buh buh buh buh buh buh buhh buh Buh buh buh buh buh buh buh buh buh buh!200:00:06,420 --> 00:00:07,480What's up everyone! It's America Plus!300:00:07,480 --> 00:00:08,340I'm your host, Cole McCormick!400:00:08,340 --> 00:00:10,000It's another week and another episode!500:00:10,000 --> 00:00:11,420What's going on!600:00:11,420 --> 00:00:12,220People happy to be here.700:00:12,640 --> 00:00:14,560Hype!800:00:14,560 --> 00:00:18,540Folks! Welcome to another beautiful week here at America Plus!900:00:18,540 --> 00:00:20,020What have we got to talk about?1000:00:20,020 --> 00:00:24,700It's June 11th, it's almost two o'clock here in sunny California.1100:00:24,700 --> 00:00:27,780Gloomy, gloomy June, California, I should say.1200:00:27,780 --> 00:00:29,180I don't like this weather.1300:00:29,180 --> 00:00:34,400never liked this weather. I hate the clouds. I need the sun. I'm a lizard boy. Two days1400:00:34,400 --> 00:00:40,700ago the sun was out and now the sun is not. I'm pissed. I'm writing a letter to the mayor1500:00:40,700 --> 00:00:46,960that we need to get the sun back out and we'll see what happens from there. Folks, welcome1600:00:46,960 --> 00:00:52,100to the show. It's going to be a good one. I, I, I, I, I, normal clips. I have normal1700:00:52,100 --> 00:00:57,820clips. We're talking cinema. We're talking Francis Ford Coppola this week. I really want1800:00:57,820 --> 00:01:06,220to dive deep into this famous director's newest movie that's coming out next year, 2024. And1900:01:06,220 --> 00:01:12,500I could not be like, like there, there could not be more wisdom coming from this man. So2000:01:12,500 --> 00:01:16,980that's what we're, that's what I'm focusing on. Last week I spoke with a different director,2100:01:16,980 --> 00:01:21,740my friend, the director, Andrew Brown. And how do you guys feel about last week's episode?2200:01:21,740 --> 00:01:28,180Did you listen to it? I got a few more downloads than usual. My average downloads, um, like2300:01:28,180 --> 00:01:34,180per episode is around like, like, what did I say? 300, 400, whatever. Technically it's2400:01:34,180 --> 00:01:40,140like 430 downloads per episode. And this last, this past one, I got like another, like 1002500:01:40,140 --> 00:01:45,340another, like another little, like 130, whatever. So hopefully people liked it, but I did see2600:01:45,340 --> 00:01:51,020like a lesser amount of boost. So maybe that's just like an economy thing. I got more downloads,2700:01:51,020 --> 00:01:56,860but less boosts, a little strange, but we just keep on keep on keeping on. I want to2800:01:56,860 --> 00:02:02,300do more conversations. I think one of the problems is, um, like there isn't like immense2900:02:02,300 --> 00:02:07,980value from the conversations yet. So maybe that's why the boosts were down. Um, but like,3000:02:07,980 --> 00:02:11,900that's not like, like it's like a concern, but it's not like the main concern. I'm not3100:02:11,900 --> 00:02:17,100worried about the money. I'm worried about the value being given to the listener. So3200:02:17,100 --> 00:02:23,780I, I, I'm just getting better at conversations. I'm getting better at, um, letting the person3300:02:23,780 --> 00:02:27,780talk. I'm getting better at trying to like intervene when I need to intervene, when I3400:02:27,780 --> 00:02:34,060need to just like pick it up. Um, last week was also a totally new style of podcasts for3500:02:34,060 --> 00:02:40,620me. That was the first time I had edited like a very long audio file. Um, even though it3600:02:40,620 --> 00:02:46,900was already long, it was over, over an hour and a half. Um, I had recorded like two hours3700:02:46,900 --> 00:02:52,500of stuff and I, and I was able to edit out like 40 minutes of extra whatever and ums3800:02:52,500 --> 00:02:58,100and pauses and just like awkward parts, you know? So that was the first time that I really3900:02:58,100 --> 00:03:05,780like did that. And then last week, it just piled up last week. Then I had the audio issue.4000:03:05,780 --> 00:03:09,980My friend's microphone was having like pops and buzzes. I was like, Oh great. Like what4100:03:09,980 --> 00:03:13,940are we going to do now, dude? What are we doing here, dude? So I had to like try to,4200:03:13,940 --> 00:03:18,180I try to solve that problem. So I got more downloads. So maybe people like the background4300:03:18,180 --> 00:03:22,380music. Maybe I shouldn't even be worried about that, but I had to, I tried to salvage it4400:03:22,380 --> 00:03:29,060with music and I think it worked. I liked it. I enjoyed where I was with it. So that's4500:03:29,060 --> 00:03:34,620just how it is, dude. Um, I had a good time. I want to talk more with people who make things.4600:03:34,620 --> 00:03:40,660I want to talk to more artists and I want to talk to, I want to talk to people who are4700:03:40,660 --> 00:03:47,420really trying to, to do their own thing. Um, that's something I'm interested in. Um, and4800:03:47,420 --> 00:03:52,860artistry within anything, you know, artistry within movies or classic art, or like, I think4900:03:52,860 --> 00:03:57,740entrepreneurship is art, you know? So I want to talk to those people. I want to talk to5000:03:57,740 --> 00:04:03,940everyone who's creating their own system. You know, if you own your own company, you,5100:04:03,940 --> 00:04:07,680that's just, that's a very simple example of owning your own system, creating your own,5200:04:07,680 --> 00:04:12,020your own system. And I want to learn from that. I want to do that. I want to replicate5300:04:12,020 --> 00:04:18,860what I can. And, um, this entire experiment, this entire podcast is just me trying to learn,5400:04:18,860 --> 00:04:22,580learn from my mistakes and other people's mistakes and listen to people. And I feel5500:04:22,580 --> 00:04:28,420like I, I should lean down with more, um, lean down the rabbit hole with more conversations,5600:04:28,420 --> 00:04:33,060but I just don't have a lineup yet. You know, that's going to come later. Um, but until5700:04:33,060 --> 00:04:38,980then I have, I have clips and this week, the clips are amazing. Um, this is all inspired5800:04:38,980 --> 00:04:44,620yesterday. I gathered all of these yesterday and, Oh, I got a new ISO by the way. Um, a5900:04:44,620 --> 00:04:51,980new boost ISO. Oh, I'll share that later. Um, but this ISO comes from these clips. I6000:04:51,980 --> 00:04:58,180was on Instagram yesterday morning on the toilet and randomly on my feed, I see Francis6100:04:58,180 --> 00:05:05,980Ford Coppola, whom I do not follow. And I, it's this like, it's a real, it's a video6200:05:05,980 --> 00:05:11,340and he's talking about his new movie. And this is the first time I ever saw like a video6300:05:11,340 --> 00:05:16,220of him speaking directly about his movie, his newest movie called Megalopolis that's6400:05:16,220 --> 00:05:20,940coming out in 2024. And it's this thing that he's been, he's been writing and rewriting6500:05:20,940 --> 00:05:27,460since apocalypse now in, in the 1970s. And I've spoken about it before, but there's an6600:05:27,460 --> 00:05:31,740opportunity to just dive deeper into it today. And there's an opportunity to, there's real6700:05:31,740 --> 00:05:38,220wisdom. There's, there's a culmination of generations and I just love what I got right6800:05:38,220 --> 00:05:43,340now. So let's just go into it. Francis Ford Coppola. This is a, the clip that I saw yesterday6900:05:43,340 --> 00:05:48,500morning on the toilet. This is, um, him just talking about, so this is vaguely connected7000:05:48,500 --> 00:05:55,540with AI, you know, like art, artistry versus AI and styles of creation. Um, this is just7100:05:55,540 --> 00:06:03,620like, this is a true, a true master of cinema. I'm speaking about his own style and what7200:06:03,620 --> 00:06:04,620inspires him.7300:06:04,620 --> 00:06:10,580And indeed I was working on Megalopolis, which was going to be my, I figured I'm getting7400:06:10,580 --> 00:06:15,960old now and I've made movies in every style known to man. I've made movies in this style7500:06:15,960 --> 00:06:19,360and that style and that style. I've learned all styles. Now I would like to find out what7600:06:19,360 --> 00:06:25,060is my style. And I, I'm just going to slowly pick a subject matter that interests me and7700:06:25,060 --> 00:06:29,900then just write an original screenplay from that. And I did, I was took notes and I read7800:06:29,900 --> 00:06:35,660a lot of stuff and I became interested in a peculiar little wrinkle in Roman history,7900:06:35,660 --> 00:06:39,860which is known as the Catiline Conspiracy. The Catiline Conspiracy really was a story8000:06:39,860 --> 00:06:48,540of someone whose position was very classical and old, that the old traditions are good,8100:06:48,540 --> 00:06:54,860which is so, you know, versus a conflict with someone who was more futurist, that we should8200:06:54,860 --> 00:06:58,040leap over the old and into new ideas.8300:06:58,040 --> 00:07:03,340So right off the bat, this man, he is, he's a classical man. He's into old Roman history.8400:07:03,340 --> 00:07:11,620He's, he wants to write about something important and he speaks of, speaks of, he touches on8500:07:11,620 --> 00:07:17,540multiple things. First of all, this Roman conspiracy thing, that's interesting. He,8600:07:17,540 --> 00:07:23,260it's his moment in Roman history where there was a failed coup against the government.8700:07:23,260 --> 00:07:29,860From this man, Catiline. I got a thing right here. The Catiline Conspiracy, sometimes,8800:07:29,860 --> 00:07:35,900sometimes second Catiline Conspiracy was an attempted coup, de, de, de, deited. I mean,8900:07:35,900 --> 00:07:41,980I'm not sure how to read this word. I'll screenshot it and put it in the chapters. Deited by9000:07:41,980 --> 00:07:52,300Lucius Sergius to overflow the Roman consuls of 63 BC. So long ass time ago. He's inspired9100:07:52,300 --> 00:07:59,700by that. Reading a bit into it, the history on this individual who led this coup isn't9200:07:59,700 --> 00:08:06,260like very clear because he lost. So therefore the leaders and the, and the Roman empire9300:08:06,260 --> 00:08:10,780was able to write this history. So they're going to write them off as like some evil9400:08:10,780 --> 00:08:15,580guy. But the way that Francis Ford Coppola speaks of it, clearly he's done more research9500:08:15,580 --> 00:08:23,060is that there's a possibility of this coup mindset being led by like, like wanting to9600:08:23,060 --> 00:08:29,500improve for the future, wanting to leap into the future, which is interesting. Very interesting.9700:08:29,500 --> 00:08:38,780You know, immediately you're pulling from, from human history that can actually give9800:08:38,780 --> 00:08:45,780human history some context, help human history evolve. You know, you should know your history,9900:08:45,780 --> 00:08:50,300you know, if you don't know history, those who don't know history are doomed to repeat10000:08:50,300 --> 00:08:56,340it. You know, that's, that's radically true. So here we are an artist is pulling from there10100:08:56,340 --> 00:08:59,300and trying to express something. What does he say in the beginning? I forget what he10200:08:59,300 --> 00:09:03,100says. He says something. He was inspired by the, hang on.10300:09:03,100 --> 00:09:12,020The styles is what I was talking about. Isn't that the entire fear with AI? Everyone's like,10400:09:12,020 --> 00:09:17,100Oh my God, the AI is going to do this. And in the Van Gogh style, Oh my God, the AI is10500:09:17,100 --> 00:09:24,060just going to steal your style. It's always been like people have always emulated different10600:09:24,060 --> 00:09:29,580styles. And what he says in that clip is when you go back to his past films, like, yeah,10700:09:29,580 --> 00:09:34,420every movie is a different style. He gets popular. He gets wicked famous for one particular10800:09:34,420 --> 00:09:42,940genre. And that's that, that, that was the Godfather, which is an adaptation of a novel.10900:09:42,940 --> 00:09:49,900So whatever people love him for wasn't even his original work. And he's in his seventies11000:09:49,900 --> 00:09:54,740in his, he's in his late seventies now and he's really going after his own style. I thought11100:09:54,740 --> 00:09:59,780that was fascinating because just because of the truth of it, he's in his seventies11200:09:59,780 --> 00:10:05,300and he doesn't know his style. And here I am mid twenties. You know, I have this vision.11300:10:05,300 --> 00:10:14,300I am beginning with seeking my own style. So there's a meeting in the middle here. There's11400:10:14,300 --> 00:10:20,620this cast, first of all, is stacked. Let me get the cast pulled up real quick. Ah, damn11500:10:20,620 --> 00:10:26,740a mega law. I didn't know I was going to read the cast. I have pictures up. Um, but the11600:10:26,740 --> 00:10:33,540cast is insane. Shia LaBeouf is in this folks. Lawrence Fishburn is in this folks. Um, the11700:10:33,540 --> 00:10:40,180amount of people in this is truly like it's stunning. Aubrey Plaza from parks and recreation11800:10:40,180 --> 00:10:48,660is in this Adam driver is in this movie, dude. Dustin Hoffman, forest Whitaker, John Voight,11900:10:48,660 --> 00:10:56,100bro, the list just doesn't stop. They have been chosen. They have been chosen. And I12000:10:56,100 --> 00:11:00,860have gathered a specific amount of clips from some people. The timelines are scattered.12100:11:00,860 --> 00:11:06,060Some of these interviews are from before filming. Some of them are after I want to pull up Lawrence12200:11:06,060 --> 00:11:12,900Fishburn. Um, he was promoting John Wick for he had just got done wrapping. They finished12300:11:12,900 --> 00:11:19,660filming the film, um, in this past March, March of 2023. And this is Lawrence Fishburn12400:11:19,660 --> 00:11:24,140who has worked with Coppola before he was in the film apocalypse. Now that came out12500:11:24,140 --> 00:11:31,380in 1978, he was 17 years old when he made that film. When, when Lawrence was that age,12600:11:31,380 --> 00:11:35,620he was just like this young kid in Vietnam, you know, that was his role. Now he's a older12700:11:35,620 --> 00:11:40,820gentleman. He's in these action films and here comes the master asking him to, to act12800:11:40,820 --> 00:11:48,180again. And here's his experience. Yes. I just finished for him again on Megalopolis. And12900:11:48,180 --> 00:11:52,780what was that? What was that experience like? It was great. I mean, listen, you know, Francis13000:11:52,780 --> 00:12:03,940is the master, you know, um, he's this great American cinematic master. And, uh, I was13100:12:03,940 --> 00:12:11,860just honored and, and excited to go and work with him again. Um, you know, I think, I think13200:12:11,860 --> 00:12:18,780my hope that, you know, the, the, this project, um, is as successful as it can be for him13300:12:18,780 --> 00:12:23,140when he's, when he's done with it, he's been dreaming of making this movie since I was13400:12:23,140 --> 00:12:28,580a kid. Wow. Did you talk, I mean, do you remember him talking about it when you made him as13500:12:28,580 --> 00:12:36,940a teenager made apocalypse now? Oh, wow. He must've been almost, uh, like at the very13600:12:36,940 --> 00:12:42,320least a mentor on the set of apocalypse now. What, what, why do you remember about your13700:12:42,320 --> 00:12:46,700relationship then and what you learned from him? Cause you were so young. I learned, I13800:12:46,700 --> 00:12:53,300learned a whole lot. I mean, basically apocalypse now was my film school, you know, um, but13900:12:53,300 --> 00:12:58,300Francis is very much an uncle. He's very much, you know, a teacher, which clearly shows up14000:12:58,300 --> 00:13:04,380in his films, this idea of family, this idea of like infrastructure, familiar, familiar14100:13:04,380 --> 00:13:09,220infrastructure. Right. I think he's always dealt with these things. Um, if you just look14200:13:09,220 --> 00:13:15,860at the trailers of his movies, um, they're always dealing with the person's inner mind.14300:13:15,860 --> 00:13:20,020Usually they're dealing with the person's inner mind. Um, especially the Godfather films,14400:13:20,020 --> 00:13:24,140like there's so many times, there's so many shots of Al Pacino just standing there, staring14500:13:24,140 --> 00:13:31,020out, you know, he's thinking and like, Francis is always trying to get you into the mind,14600:13:31,020 --> 00:13:37,460into the eyes, you know, into this, and into this, um, into this character's thought process14700:13:37,460 --> 00:13:43,180at least. Um, and that's his skill, you know, that's why so many people have such a visceral14800:13:43,180 --> 00:13:48,380visceral reaction to his, to his movies, not all of them, you know, Francis Coppola, he's14900:13:48,380 --> 00:13:54,100one of those directors where he's considered the master, but he's only known for like15000:13:54,100 --> 00:14:01,860two or three movies. He's, uh, he's made a ton. He did a musical in 1978. He did a classic15100:14:01,860 --> 00:14:08,780musical with Fred Astaire in the, in 1968 people. This trailer is insane. I'm not going15200:14:08,780 --> 00:14:12,820to play it, but this trailer is like, it's just totally sixties, dude. Please look that15300:14:12,820 --> 00:14:20,540up. This, uh, it's called Finian's Rainbow and he did it before the Godfather and it's,15400:14:20,540 --> 00:14:27,220it's madness. Like I can't believe it, but he, that, that's what he means by style. I15500:14:27,220 --> 00:14:31,260want to do a musical. Who doesn't want to do a musical? That sounds fun. I would love15600:14:31,260 --> 00:14:36,300that. Um, here's Aubrey Plaza talking about this. Now here's the younger generation coming15700:14:36,300 --> 00:14:43,820into play. We have this, this hilarious girl who funny enough, uh, Shannon and I were watching15800:14:43,820 --> 00:14:49,340Parks and Rec. Um, she's never seen it. I've only seen like the first like season and a15900:14:49,340 --> 00:14:53,620little bit of it. It's a new experience for us and she's hilarious. Uh, but Aubrey Plaza16000:14:53,620 --> 00:14:57,740is the funniest person on the show. You know, they're all hilarious, but she has like a16100:14:57,740 --> 00:15:02,620special little like zing and I can just feel like she's, she's been trying to get different16200:15:02,620 --> 00:15:07,820movie roles. Um, they've usually been comedic. I don't know what this will be about. We don't16300:15:07,820 --> 00:15:14,220know her role yet. Um, but this is her talking about what she hopes the experience will be16400:15:14,220 --> 00:15:16,220like. This is before she films.16500:15:16,220 --> 00:15:20,860What do you think makes him one of those master storytellers? Oh, I mean, I, I, it's a dream16600:15:20,860 --> 00:15:27,420come true to get to work with him. I'm, I cannot wait to get there and, um, he's just16700:15:27,420 --> 00:15:33,820so passionate. I think it's, it's, it's so inspiring to, to know his process and to see16800:15:33,820 --> 00:15:40,660his, have seen his films, um, and to know just how such on such a deep level where they're16900:15:40,660 --> 00:15:45,780coming from. And I, I think this experience is going to be, I hope similar to all the17000:15:45,780 --> 00:15:50,140things that he's done and just driven by, by just raw passion, which is what I love17100:15:50,140 --> 00:15:51,140him for.17200:15:51,140 --> 00:15:54,540I was literally crying yesterday watching that clip. I don't know why I was getting17300:15:54,540 --> 00:16:00,820like emotional. I was like, I want passion. I have passion. I have raw passion. There's17400:16:00,820 --> 00:16:06,800a story Al Pacino talks about when he was filming the Godfather. Uh, it was after a17500:16:06,800 --> 00:16:12,940long day, it was 6 PM and the producers had a hard out at 6 PM and they were trying to17600:16:12,940 --> 00:16:20,380get this one shot. And, um, Pacino says he was like getting dressed and he sees Coppola17700:16:20,380 --> 00:16:25,060outside by a tombstone. They were filming by a graveyard, a real, so he was sitting17800:16:25,060 --> 00:16:29,140by a real tombstone, just kneeling down and he walks over and he gets closer and he sees17900:16:29,140 --> 00:16:34,560that Francis is crying. He's bawling his eyes out. He's incredibly sad. He's kneeling down18000:16:34,560 --> 00:16:40,380and Pacino goes down. He's like, Frank, what's wrong? What's wrong, Frank? And Coppola looks18100:16:40,380 --> 00:16:46,780up. He goes, they won't give me another setup. Meaning the producers won't give him another18200:16:46,780 --> 00:16:52,620like one more shot. The producers have like locked down for the day and he, and Coppola18300:16:52,620 --> 00:17:00,180is crying that he cannot get one more shot in the day. That is how much he loves the18400:17:00,180 --> 00:17:05,820process. That is how much he loves making movies. And you have Aubrey Plaza, who's within18500:17:05,820 --> 00:17:12,820this generation. She's famous for characters that are nihilistic. Okay. The entire aesthetic18600:17:12,820 --> 00:17:20,580of Aubrey is like the common girl now. The entire young generations, millennial down,18700:17:20,580 --> 00:17:26,540are inherently nihilistic. I think. Would anyone agree with that? I feel like nihilism18800:17:26,540 --> 00:17:31,500has taken over the youth. Like that's totally real, dude. It used to be fuck you. I won't18900:17:31,500 --> 00:17:38,260do what you tell me to fuck you. Don't tell me anything. I, that is, that's what happened,19000:17:38,260 --> 00:17:46,100right? That's my interpretation. Aubrey Plaza sees this old man with immense passion for19100:17:46,100 --> 00:17:51,380the craft. And of course she's inspired by that. For the same reason I'm inspired by19200:17:51,380 --> 00:17:56,380that. I want to, I want passion. I want to be involved with something passionate. I want19300:17:56,380 --> 00:18:03,420to be involved with something as deep and as audacious as rewriting a script for 40,19400:18:03,420 --> 00:18:10,180for four plus decades and, and to put your money into it. Coppola's putting over $10019500:18:10,180 --> 00:18:16,020million of his own money into this. Like, that's wild. It could be his water world.19600:18:16,020 --> 00:18:24,740We'll see. We'll see. Wait, what was that? I need this. Yeah. It could be his water world.19700:18:24,740 --> 00:18:31,900But it won't be cause he's Coppola, right? Now going back to the older generation, what19800:18:31,900 --> 00:18:35,980does John Voight have to say? John Voight, controversial in Hollywood. He's Republican.19900:18:35,980 --> 00:18:40,900Nobody talked to him. He's Republican. He's weird. He's weird. He doesn't, he's not afraid20000:18:40,900 --> 00:18:47,860of talking about it, but he's such a damn good actor. They got to keep hiring him. Um,20100:18:47,860 --> 00:18:52,220and now he's in Coppola, dude. Like this is legit. And what does he have to say about20200:18:52,220 --> 00:18:57,140this whole thing, dude? Like, is there anything you can tell us about this movie? Well, it's20300:18:57,140 --> 00:19:03,300a work of the imagination. That's quite stunning. I think. And we'll see, we'll see how the20400:19:03,300 --> 00:19:12,380story works itself out. But I'm working with great actors, um, Adam Driver, Shia LaBeouf20500:19:12,380 --> 00:19:21,380and Aubrey Plaza. These, these are three enormous talents from this generation. And, uh, that20600:19:21,380 --> 00:19:26,820it was a pleasure to work with them. So we'll see what happens. Um, it's a, it's very, it's20700:19:26,820 --> 00:19:36,780a very, almost a brave, uh, brave attempt at something that comes from the mind of this20800:19:36,780 --> 00:19:44,260great Francis Ford Coppola. And I hope, uh, I hope that we will achieve what he, uh, the20900:19:44,260 --> 00:19:50,660vision he set out to achieve. How many, how many movies have, has John Voight been in?21000:19:50,660 --> 00:19:56,220How many dope movies has John Voight been in? I grew up with the guy in National Treasure.21100:19:56,220 --> 00:20:01,720So that's how I know him. I just know him as, is she pregnant? Like he makes some stupid21200:20:01,720 --> 00:20:08,080pregnant joke in, in National Treasure. That's, that's like, that's literally like my consciousness21300:20:08,080 --> 00:20:13,420of John Voight. He's really saying Adam Driver, everyone's been saying Adam Driver is the21400:20:13,420 --> 00:20:17,140best actor of this generation, which is a little suspicious, right? The guys from the21500:20:17,140 --> 00:20:22,620military, he was a former Marine. Now all of a sudden he's, he's the guy. So, I mean,21600:20:22,620 --> 00:20:27,060respect to him, but like just like interesting, right? Maybe he's CIA. I don't know. Maybe21700:20:27,060 --> 00:20:38,100Adam Driver, CIA. Who knows, dude, Marine, Hollywood, weird ears, CIA, bro. But it's21800:20:38,100 --> 00:20:44,060totally accurate though. Like he totally elevates Star Wars. He like, he's, he's Adam Driver.21900:20:44,060 --> 00:20:51,020And the fun part about casting, the fun part about actors is that there's real chemistry,22000:20:51,020 --> 00:20:55,780you know, humans have chemistry together. And when you bring together a certain, a certain22100:20:55,780 --> 00:21:04,460class of actor in with, and, and mix them in with, with other actors, you get something22200:21:04,460 --> 00:21:09,300really fun. That's why ensembles are fun. You know, that's why there's certain pairings22300:21:09,300 --> 00:21:16,020that are so fun. That's, that, that's why, what's a, what's a pairing? Emma Stone, Ryan22400:21:16,020 --> 00:21:21,220Gosling, you know, they're in like three different movies together. I'm pretty certain that whenever22500:21:21,220 --> 00:21:26,400a movie wants to have Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling, they have an agreement between themselves22600:21:26,400 --> 00:21:31,100that they're going to like negotiate for the movie together because they've clearly seen22700:21:31,100 --> 00:21:35,200that there's like, there's a demand for them to, to be on the screen together. People just22800:21:35,200 --> 00:21:41,980for some reason love these two actors together. And here's an, an incredibly seasoned actor22900:21:41,980 --> 00:21:48,620talking about the talent and the depth of, of the younger generation. And I also think23000:21:48,620 --> 00:21:53,620Shia LaBeouf too, like Shia LaBeouf is a legend, dude. Like to the, to the men, to the men23100:21:53,620 --> 00:22:02,020in the room, Shia LaBeouf, the guy, my guy, he's, the fact that he's a part of this, like23200:22:02,020 --> 00:22:05,820everyone tried to cancel him. The guy just keeps acting, you know, he's a little bit23300:22:05,820 --> 00:22:11,300method. He's a little bit off. He was a child star. He, he was a troubled child star that23400:22:11,300 --> 00:22:17,100has somehow like found his way still alive and still seeking faith, you know, still on23500:22:17,100 --> 00:22:21,380this journey. He's been open about his faith with God. He's been open about his mistakes.23600:22:21,380 --> 00:22:28,580And here he has another shot with Coppola. And if you're looking at these, at these images,23700:22:28,580 --> 00:22:36,700the set photos, I only have a set few of the set photos. Shia looks wild. Shia is wearing23800:22:36,700 --> 00:22:42,980some, I think he's wearing some Roman skirt. He's wearing some Roman Balenciaga dress and23900:22:42,980 --> 00:22:48,260some high heels. Like he really looks wild. I don't think he plays a girl. I think he's24000:22:48,260 --> 00:22:52,980playing something else. He's playing some sort of, just some sort of different thing.24100:22:52,980 --> 00:22:58,540To my understanding, I, this film is a fantasy. This film, Megalopolis takes place in a fair24200:22:58,540 --> 00:23:06,300fantasy version of New York city and clearly is inspired by a section of Roman history.24300:23:06,300 --> 00:23:12,060What is the movie about though? Um, back in December, I saw, I didn't see this in December,24400:23:12,060 --> 00:23:17,380but this video was posted in December, 2022. Coppola is talking to another director. It24500:23:17,380 --> 00:23:24,580was one of these like variety interviews where a director interviews another director. And24600:23:24,580 --> 00:23:29,700he's speaking to this one woman and she's asking him, him, him questions. Um, what's24700:23:29,700 --> 00:23:35,700the movie about? The reason it took so long is because if you look at my films, the first24800:23:35,700 --> 00:23:39,980thing you'll notice, every film I made was totally a different style of the previous24900:23:39,980 --> 00:23:44,700one. I like to make movies. I don't know how to make, if you listen very carefully,25000:23:44,700 --> 00:23:50,340the movie starts telling you how to make it. That's a thrill. The movie says do more of25100:23:50,340 --> 00:23:54,340that, but it says it in a very quiet voice. So if you're sure you know how to do it, you25200:23:54,340 --> 00:23:58,780won't even hear it because I always put the writer above the title out of respect for25300:23:58,780 --> 00:24:04,740what the writer does. And, and, uh, so, so now I have a movie that I really wrote my25400:24:04,740 --> 00:24:11,300way of rewriting it a billion times. And it's, I think what it's about is more clear than,25500:24:11,300 --> 00:24:17,660than it was when I started, you know, basically it's a love story. So I know that if I make25600:24:17,660 --> 00:24:24,020the love story work and it's about a woman between two men, like one pieces and the woman25700:24:24,020 --> 00:24:30,180is torn between, she's going to be either loyal to her father who educated her and gave25800:24:30,180 --> 00:24:38,100her her values and she loves, or she's going to be loyal to this wizard guy who she feels25900:24:38,100 --> 00:24:45,060is the solution. And she's in that position of having loyalty to these two different poles26000:24:45,060 --> 00:24:51,460of her life and the themes that they represent. One wants to leap into the future unafraid26100:24:51,460 --> 00:24:56,180and the other says, no, we have to be careful and build society. That's not going to fall26200:24:56,180 --> 00:25:02,580apart. So in the course of hopefully having a good love story, if you look further and26300:25:02,580 --> 00:25:08,140see the film again, you'll find that there's more in it, I hope. And over the years, more26400:25:08,140 --> 00:25:09,140and more and more.26500:25:09,140 --> 00:25:12,480I think Shia is the wizard, right? Shia has to be the wizard. Why else would you wear26600:25:12,480 --> 00:25:17,220that tiara and high heels and not be a wizard? And I think John Voight is the father. I think26700:25:17,220 --> 00:25:22,220he's the conservative father. And I think Aubrey Plaza is the daughter in between these26800:25:22,220 --> 00:25:28,060two worlds, in between these two themes. And maybe there's a coup, maybe, you know, the26900:25:28,060 --> 00:25:31,980set photos are taking place at a wedding. There's another wedding. If you watch The27000:25:31,980 --> 00:25:36,100Godfather, there's these beautiful shots of a wedding. I'm ready for this. It has to be27100:25:36,100 --> 00:25:40,780three hours, right? All these guys have been making three hour plus films. For some reason,27200:25:40,780 --> 00:25:48,180that's just what's, that's like the common length for our movie now. Endgame, Irishman,27300:25:48,180 --> 00:25:53,740what else is three hours? The Batman. Like this is insane, dude. Oppenheimer is about27400:25:53,740 --> 00:26:00,020to be three hours. So I'm expecting this to be long as hell. I love the idea of a love27500:26:00,020 --> 00:26:04,620story, you know, why not do a love story? Isn't that what's most important in life?27600:26:04,620 --> 00:26:10,100You know, isn't that, isn't that just the overall theme for every story? That's, I think27700:26:10,100 --> 00:26:18,340it's interesting that you have this American cinema master leaning into love, trying to27800:26:18,340 --> 00:26:24,820iterate, trying to innovate with this concept of love and this, these two competing forces27900:26:24,820 --> 00:26:33,620of conservatism and progress and these different themes of moral and immoral. And these are28000:26:33,620 --> 00:26:41,420all incredibly relevant. And from one point of view, from a book that I've read, from28100:26:41,420 --> 00:26:47,300the fourth turning point of view, you know, he, it seems as though Francis Coppola had28200:26:47,300 --> 00:26:54,580this epiphany of creating this type of movie within the period that is known as the, the28300:26:54,580 --> 00:27:03,660awakening. Um, I believe it was the, no, no, no, not, not the awakening, but yes, yes,28400:27:03,660 --> 00:27:08,140yes. I'm so, I'm so lost right now. So there was the boom, the awakening, the unraveling,28500:27:08,140 --> 00:27:15,700yes. So within the awakening, Francis Ford Coppola has this idea. Um, and the, this idea28600:27:15,700 --> 00:27:22,780happens to be about society or, or family just struggling with this idea of where should28700:27:22,780 --> 00:27:26,740they go in life? How do they move forward? How do they, how do they push themselves?28800:27:26,740 --> 00:27:34,860How do they push their name and whatever they do forward into the future? And he, he continues28900:27:34,860 --> 00:27:40,460to iterate. He continues to rewrite. And now we are in this moment where we're in the fourth29000:27:40,460 --> 00:27:45,860turning, which is the crisis. He's been writing it since the awakening. He's been rewriting29100:27:45,860 --> 00:27:51,000it through the unraveling. And now we're in the middle of the crisis here and we are meeting29200:27:51,000 --> 00:27:57,220these questions head on. This is not hyperbole. This is not, it's a little bit of metaphor,29300:27:57,220 --> 00:28:05,660but this is reality. We are at the intersection of deciding which way humanity is going to29400:28:05,660 --> 00:28:12,020go forward. I've seen enough videos. I've listened to enough podcasts. I've, I have29500:28:12,020 --> 00:28:20,740connected enough dots to understand that the, the political, geological, spiritual, physical,29600:28:20,740 --> 00:28:27,940all these realms, all these things, all these cycles, these are coming together. The, there's29700:28:27,940 --> 00:28:34,380a, there's a deep cosmological connection to the moment that we're working through.29800:28:34,380 --> 00:28:39,100And it's not just America that's going through a change. It's not like it is the world. It29900:28:39,100 --> 00:28:44,580is humanity. It is the humans on this planet that are going through a consciousness change.30000:28:44,580 --> 00:28:50,200And my prayer is that it's a consciousness shift to a more beautiful world that our hearts30100:28:50,200 --> 00:28:57,940know is possible. And it, the questions that involve that happening are these questions.30200:28:57,940 --> 00:29:05,300Like how do we move forward? Are we going to abandon our values? What are our values?30300:29:05,300 --> 00:29:12,940What is your value? And for so long we have been, we have been like lied to and manipulated30400:29:12,940 --> 00:29:20,100into thinking that some values are worse than others. Some values are bad. Some values are30500:29:20,100 --> 00:29:27,860good and whatever you grew up with is probably bad. Whatever's on the TV is better. So how30600:29:27,860 --> 00:29:31,780do we move forward? You know, how do we, how, like for me, myself, Cole McCormick, how can30700:29:31,780 --> 00:29:38,860I be my best self? How can I be my most authentic artist? And clearly it's going to lead into30800:29:38,860 --> 00:29:43,380life. You know, like the, the advice for that is going to lead into my personal life. And30900:29:43,380 --> 00:29:49,700here's, here's some wisdom from the elders on how to, on how to live a good life.31000:29:49,700 --> 00:29:56,220If you at 83 now could talk to yourself as 40 at 43, what would you tell yourself?31100:29:56,220 --> 00:30:03,980So I always thought I was just a sweet, affectionate kid. I never did good in school, but then31200:30:03,980 --> 00:30:09,900my life took a very strange turn when I became so famous because of the Godfather. I mean,31300:30:09,900 --> 00:30:15,300it was an accident. And now what I've learned, I guess, is that, you know, don't worry about31400:30:15,300 --> 00:30:20,860your capabilities. Everyone gets a capability and just do it and play with each other. Be31500:30:20,860 --> 00:30:26,660good to people, have fun. I'm never going to say, oh, I wish I had done this. I wish31600:30:26,660 --> 00:30:31,100I had done that. I'm going to say, oh, I got to do this. And I got to see my daughter win31700:30:31,100 --> 00:30:36,460an Oscar and I got to own a movie studio and I got to lose it. And I got all these wonderful31800:30:36,460 --> 00:30:39,020things that I got to do.31900:30:39,020 --> 00:30:42,840Can I ask you a question with Magalopolis, because this is a film you've been dreaming32000:30:42,840 --> 00:30:48,980about for decades. Are the stakes higher for you? Are you more nervous or do you feel more32100:30:48,980 --> 00:30:51,260comfortable because you've thought about it for so long?32200:30:51,260 --> 00:30:56,020Well, I wish I were more nervous because when you're nervous, I think that's a good sign32300:30:56,020 --> 00:31:00,860because it shows how committed you are to give everything. So when I'm nervous, I say32400:31:00,860 --> 00:31:05,300good, because that means I'm going to go all the way. So the fact that I'm not entirely32500:31:05,300 --> 00:31:10,940nervous, as I wish I were, it worries me. It's like, why am I not? I should be more32600:31:10,940 --> 00:31:16,020nervous. Why am I not more nervous? And I don't know why. If you had told me when I32700:31:16,020 --> 00:31:21,020was doing the godfather, this movie not only was going to be remembered, but was going32800:31:21,020 --> 00:31:26,140to be considered good. I thought you nuts because everyone hated it. Everyone hated32900:31:26,140 --> 00:31:29,260what I was doing. So you never know what's going to happen.33000:31:29,260 --> 00:31:34,020Again, this was recorded. That was recorded in December, 2022, before he was filming.33100:31:34,020 --> 00:31:39,980It took him three months to film the thing. If you remember the last week with Andrew,33200:31:39,980 --> 00:31:44,260he was discussing that his most nervous moment is within the editing. I was honest about33300:31:44,260 --> 00:31:51,100that too. In my experience making a movie, I loved filming. I wasn't nervous during filming.33400:31:51,100 --> 00:31:55,900I wasn't, I guess I was a little nervous beforehand, but I really, I was really more excited. You33500:31:55,900 --> 00:32:00,780know, it was really just like excited nerves, excited, anxious to get started, to get going33600:32:00,780 --> 00:32:05,740nerves. It wasn't, and then in the editing, it was like, oh shit, I'm not sure if this33700:32:05,740 --> 00:32:10,220is even good. I don't even know if this is going to work. Nervous, you know? So we'll33800:32:10,220 --> 00:32:15,820see what he has to say about, about the post-production process. To my understanding, there's some,33900:32:15,820 --> 00:32:19,300there's some good amount of special effects in it. You know, he's, he has green screens34000:32:19,300 --> 00:32:25,540on set. So we'll see how, I'm not sure how much green screen he's ever really done. So34100:32:25,540 --> 00:32:33,420we'll see how that is. But I love that everyone has a capability. I love that one because34200:32:33,420 --> 00:32:40,140I'm, I get so worried about my own ability. You know, I, I talk a big game about being34300:32:40,140 --> 00:32:46,980autonomous and, and having skills and all this stuff. And, you know, sometimes I don't34400:32:46,980 --> 00:32:51,420practice what I preach, but I'm also like, I, I'm very hard on myself because I want34500:32:51,420 --> 00:32:59,100to do better. And clearly he's saying like, you're going to, you're going to have a skill.34600:32:59,100 --> 00:33:03,660You're going to have, you're going to have that. What does he say again? Let me do this34700:33:03,660 --> 00:33:09,460again. What does he say? If you at 83 now, Oh, I wish I had done this. I wish I had fun.34800:33:09,460 --> 00:33:13,660I'm going to say, Oh, I got to do this. And I got to see my daughter when I asked her34900:33:13,660 --> 00:33:22,460and I got to lose it. I got all these wonderful things that I got to do. Can I ask you a question?35000:33:22,460 --> 00:33:27,940Now what I've learned, that's what he says. He says everyone has a capability. Don't worry35100:33:27,940 --> 00:33:34,340about not having a capability. You're going to get it. And that's what I get worked up35200:33:34,340 --> 00:33:37,300on. Like, am I going to be good enough? Am I going to be like, am I really doing enough35300:33:37,300 --> 00:33:44,420at my, like, am I just lying to myself while I'm lying to 500 plus people? Like I want35400:33:44,420 --> 00:33:56,060the, these capabilities and I got to get breath. The capabilities that I have are the capabilities35500:33:56,060 --> 00:34:04,340that I have. All I can do is follow my instinct. All I can do is try to get better, but I don't35600:34:04,340 --> 00:34:11,940need to stress about it because getting better is just the process. The process is to get35700:34:11,940 --> 00:34:19,300better at the thing. Adam Curry, inventor of podcasting is a radically more better podcaster35800:34:19,300 --> 00:34:27,300than he was in 2001. This is a fact. And it's only because of that time and that continuation35900:34:27,300 --> 00:34:32,420and that, that grind, you know, not the grind in the sense that it kills him, but a grind36000:34:32,420 --> 00:34:38,060in the sense that it is consistent and it is, it is close to the ground. You know, it's36100:34:38,060 --> 00:34:44,940not some high in the sky pipe dream. You know, this is when you do something good, you know,36200:34:44,940 --> 00:34:52,220you are grounded, you are smooth. The grind is when you are like flowing, you're floating36300:34:52,220 --> 00:34:56,660on the ground, you know, you're like a half centimeter off the thing and you're just levitating.36400:34:56,660 --> 00:35:01,860I feel like that's a better, that's a better narrative around the grind, you know, like36500:35:01,860 --> 00:35:07,140get to a place where you can actually, you can learn to float when you make it. You can,36600:35:07,140 --> 00:35:12,620you can learn to listen to how the movie should be made. You can actually be in tune with36700:35:12,620 --> 00:35:17,640your surroundings. I feel like that's, that should be the grind, the constant practice36800:35:17,640 --> 00:35:22,740of that. And you don't have to worry about getting good at it. You don't have to worry36900:35:22,740 --> 00:35:27,060about how successful you'll be because if you continue to iterate, if you continue to37000:35:27,060 --> 00:35:36,460listen, you know, that it will come, it will come. The vibrations are there. Folks, what37100:35:36,460 --> 00:35:41,620do you think about that? Is that interesting? Like I, I'm so freaking excited for, for Megalopolis.37200:35:41,620 --> 00:35:50,340I'm so freaking flipping fucking excited. Um, tell me what you think because now we're37300:35:50,340 --> 00:35:57,220heading on into the books. Yes, sir. Uh, America plus is a value for value show. Um, I'm always37400:35:57,220 --> 00:36:01,760trying to give more value. Um, what that means is this is a fully listener supported show.37500:36:01,760 --> 00:36:06,700If you like what I had to say, if you like anything here, if you like my vibe here, if37600:36:06,700 --> 00:36:10,500you want to support me and my creative endeavors, because that's really what I'm doing here,37700:36:10,500 --> 00:36:15,580I'm doing my best to learn from Coppola so that I can make my dope movies too. I got37800:36:15,580 --> 00:36:20,740this animated movie coming out on Christmas that you will be seeing on Christmas day.37900:36:20,740 --> 00:36:27,300And I, I've never made an animated movie and I'm seeking to make my own style. So this38000:36:27,300 --> 00:36:31,500is where the value is. You know, this is, this is the continual conversation of what38100:36:31,500 --> 00:36:37,620I'm trying to do here. So if you send a boost, so this is podcasting 2.0, it's a boost. We're38200:36:37,620 --> 00:36:41,140on the fountain app. Have you ever heard of fountain? You ever heard of fountain fountain38300:36:41,140 --> 00:36:47,060dot FM? We're sending satoshis to each other. This is my favorite way to send value to each38400:36:47,060 --> 00:36:51,300other. If you like what I had to say, you can send me some sats, please send me some38500:36:51,300 --> 00:36:57,860sats. I would really appreciate it. And, um, that will show me what the audience wants38600:36:57,860 --> 00:37:02,940more. That will show me, um, how I can make this feedback loop better and more interesting,38700:37:02,940 --> 00:37:08,380more entertaining, more informative. That's what I'm seeking through the boosts. So it's38800:37:08,380 --> 00:37:12,060all just building on top of each other. Right? This week we have one boost. We got one boost38900:37:12,060 --> 00:37:19,460from a regular, our best friend. His name is Joel W. And he sends in a satchel of Richards.39000:37:19,460 --> 00:37:29,100Um, he sends in 1,100 and 11 sets. He says, so last week Joel, he, he boosted about some39100:37:29,100 --> 00:37:34,060psychedelic shroom book. And I told him about another book and now he's, my book was called39200:37:34,060 --> 00:37:39,780the immortality key. So this is his response to it. I've heard of immortality key, but39300:37:39,780 --> 00:37:45,580haven't read it. Sounds really interesting. Based off the summary I looked up on my list.39400:37:45,580 --> 00:37:53,180Hell yeah, Joel. Hell yeah. Thank you Joel W for giving me some, some satoshis. Small39500:37:53,180 --> 00:37:57,540boost, small list, but a pretty strong list where I'm building a community. That's what39600:37:57,540 --> 00:38:01,780value for value is as well. This isn't an open feedback loop, but I want it to be a39700:38:01,780 --> 00:38:08,220positive feedback loop of this community. I'm trying to figure out if I should have a name39800:38:08,220 --> 00:38:12,260for the people who helped me out. I've been thinking about just sticking with the word39900:38:12,260 --> 00:38:15,860producer. If you want to be a producer, help me out. If you want to be a producer of America40000:38:15,860 --> 00:38:23,820plus a producer of me building my own systems, then, um, the donate, give me some, give me40100:38:23,820 --> 00:38:30,420some sats y'all. I think it's a good idea. I feel like it's interesting because I want40200:38:30,420 --> 00:38:34,620to take all the skills from Coppola and I want to take all the skills from Adam Curry40300:38:34,620 --> 00:38:39,860and I want to put them all together with Bitcoin. And then I want to have my own thing. You40400:38:39,860 --> 00:38:44,220see that? You see those, you see that path right there? That's literally my dream. I40500:38:44,220 --> 00:38:48,160just feel like I got like aligned with the universe. Right? When I said that I'm pulling40600:38:48,160 --> 00:38:53,820everything I can from Coppola and then Adam Curry, and then I'm smashing them together40700:38:53,820 --> 00:39:04,220with Bitcoin. It's going to be this amazing creative sandwich. Um, what's the ISO? Here's40800:39:04,220 --> 00:39:11,860the ISO here. American cinematic master. Do you like that? I need someone to like, to40900:39:11,860 --> 00:39:18,420like to chastise me here. Do you like this? American cinematic master. I think it's dope.41000:39:18,420 --> 00:39:23,140I love, I love that. So like, if you send in a boost, I might be playing that. I might41100:39:23,140 --> 00:39:27,780keep that. We'll see. I do have a bunch of different, a bunch of different ISOs, but41200:39:27,780 --> 00:39:30,780I don't know. Like, I don't want to use all of them. You know, I want to be selective41300:39:30,780 --> 00:39:37,060with this. I, you know, like that's the brand, man. These sounds are the brand, man. Whatever41400:39:37,060 --> 00:39:42,380download fountain.fm and go to value for value.info for more info, go to value for value.info41500:39:42,380 --> 00:39:47,260for more info, then download the fountain.fm app. It's the best way to support the show.41600:39:47,260 --> 00:39:51,620About 70% of my listeners are already on fountain. So thank you for already being on fountain.41700:39:51,620 --> 00:39:55,340I'm putting all of my energy in fountain. If we could just talk about Bitcoin and fountain41800:39:55,340 --> 00:40:03,780for a second, podcasting 2.0, the future of everything. This open source project, um,41900:40:03,780 --> 00:40:11,300has just upped their game with the new music tag, with these new music apps. And I definitely42000:40:11,300 --> 00:40:15,020want to get involved with this. There's this new thing where you can, so if you play a42100:40:15,020 --> 00:40:21,660song that is on the podcasting 2.0 apps, music 2.0, whatever you want to call it, the Bitcoin42200:40:21,660 --> 00:40:26,940apps, if there's a song on a Bitcoin app, there's a way, if you have all these different42300:40:26,940 --> 00:40:35,940pieces together that you can set up the artist's Bitcoin wallet into your podcast feed. And42400:40:35,940 --> 00:40:44,180then when you, when I, when, when the podcaster plays the song, the value block, the Bitcoin42500:40:44,180 --> 00:40:50,780track, the whole thing's like a train, right? So usually when you boost me, like the train42600:40:50,780 --> 00:40:56,580is coming right at me. When I have, when I do a sasslinger and I got a Shannon on, I'm42700:40:56,580 --> 00:41:01,420given 10, 10 plus percent to Shannon. So we've got a little like train track split right42800:41:01,420 --> 00:41:08,860there. If you play a song on your podcast and you're live streaming, along with like42900:41:08,860 --> 00:41:14,620doing like, like, like after the live stream, there's going to be a natural track switch43000:41:14,620 --> 00:41:19,140of the Bitcoin that's being boosted. And what I love about that is like, I can actually43100:41:19,140 --> 00:41:25,380support other artists if I do that, you know, forget music, you know, this can be music43200:41:25,380 --> 00:41:31,540and like little trailers of other people's like, like filmmaking stuff, you know, this43300:41:31,540 --> 00:41:38,980can incentivize more video in podcasting. This can actually help artists have their43400:41:38,980 --> 00:41:44,020own ecosystem. Can you imagine like, what if I wanted to promote a song, but also some43500:41:44,020 --> 00:41:49,100filmmakers and, and, and, and these two sides made a music video, you know, I play the music43600:41:49,100 --> 00:41:55,580video, you can watch it on the app and then you can boost it. And when I play the song,43700:41:55,580 --> 00:42:00,620the track is going to switch to them. So if you boost to them, you know, your entire boost43800:42:00,620 --> 00:42:05,380will go to them. If that, if that's the deal, if that's the contract, which is, that's so43900:42:05,380 --> 00:42:10,300cool dude. And that's fountain. Like that's this new, it's not happening on fountain yet.44000:42:10,300 --> 00:42:16,740I shouldn't say that, but they are, they will be implementing it. And there are plans of44100:42:16,740 --> 00:42:22,620this whole thing just growing, dude. Every app that's involved with podcasting 2.0 is44200:42:22,620 --> 00:42:29,100on the bleeding edge of innovation. I believe that. I believe that 1000%. And it's just44300:42:29,100 --> 00:42:34,140groups of small teams. Like I've only had the experience of talking with, um, which44400:42:34,140 --> 00:42:40,960is one person on the fountain team fountain is a team of three guys. It's three guys coding44500:42:40,960 --> 00:42:47,140this thing and promoting it. And, uh, that's incredible to me. That's innovation. That's44600:42:47,140 --> 00:42:55,540America plus, but they live in England. So it's England plus bitch. It's amazing. I want44700:42:55,540 --> 00:43:01,620to put so much more energy into it and I am willing to learn more. And I just know for44800:43:01,620 --> 00:43:07,500a fact that this system of value for value is how I want to be my, my own artists. This44900:43:07,500 --> 00:43:14,540is, this is my identity here. I've had the concept of being a decentralized artist, you45000:43:14,540 --> 00:43:18,660know, like that's just sounds interesting. That sounds sexy, dude. Something about it45100:43:18,660 --> 00:43:28,060sounds sexy. Decentralized artists. What's up, baby? I don't know. I'm just talking out45200:43:28,060 --> 00:43:33,820of my ass now. Who really knows what's going to happen, but I think it can happen. Bitcoin45300:43:33,820 --> 00:43:39,540value for value. I think it's, uh, this is wickedly important, wickedly important. If45400:43:39,540 --> 00:43:45,420you don't agree with me, get educated on Bitcoin. You need to get educated. Um, read the Bitcoin45500:43:45,420 --> 00:43:51,320white paper. If you don't know anything about that, dude, like, like this entire situation45600:43:51,320 --> 00:43:55,940is about to go down, dude. Like I believe we're going into a new world and I'm going45700:43:55,940 --> 00:44:02,540to be a better person and I want to be a leader and I want to be, um, someone, someone that45800:44:02,540 --> 00:44:09,260people can look to for a positive message. And I want to be my own man. I want to be45900:44:09,260 --> 00:44:15,860a strong, good man for this new, beautiful world, you know? And I want my art to represent46000:44:15,860 --> 00:44:21,260that, you know, there, there is an evolution of me. There is an evolution of humanity.46100:44:21,260 --> 00:44:27,280There is an evolution of, of filmmaking and of storytelling. And it's only because of46200:44:27,280 --> 00:44:32,860examples like Coppola, dude, we really got Coppola in his seventies making the thing46300:44:32,860 --> 00:44:38,200that he's been dreaming about his entire life. And he's already done the Godfather. He's46400:44:38,200 --> 00:44:45,500already done it. He's a man has already done it and he needs to do more. This is life.46500:44:45,500 --> 00:44:54,040This is creation. That is value. I can, I am so freaking inspired by this man. I'm inspired46600:44:54,040 --> 00:45:00,900by this man. I just love, I love it. I'm sorry. I just went on, I went on a little burst,46700:45:00,900 --> 00:45:06,900but I love it. And I love you for listening. Thank you for listening. If you, if you saw46800:45:06,900 --> 00:45:10,620any value, if you hold any value in this, give me some boosts, help me out, help me46900:45:10,620 --> 00:45:18,220make this movie, be a producer. And that's America plus bitch. Stay free. Oh shit. Hang47000:45:18,220 --> 00:45:19,220on. Sorry.47100:45:19,220 --> 00:45:26,220Thank you.