Cole discusses hands on thoughts with AI and speaks cleary what he wants the podcast to provide to The People.
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Let's do it. Bub-bub-bub-bub bu-bub-bub-bub-bub-bub-bub-bub-bub-bub-bub-bub-bub-bub-bub. What's up everyone? It's American Plus. I'm your host, Cole McCormick. It's another week, another episode! What's going on, people? It's Sunday! November 19th! 3 for the 2 and the PM. What's going on, everybody? You made it to another episode of America Plus! I'm gonna be here, guys. Yeah! Yeah! How's it going, guys? Uh, thanks for being here. Uh, it's a beautiful day in sunny Los Angeles. Um, I'm coming to you in good vibes, man. Um, I've been just been chilling all day.
It's been a good Sunday for me right now. Uh, took a walk. Um, just hanging out and doing my thing. Just vibing dog, vibing with the dogs, vibing with the cats, with the homeless cats, um, vibing with everything, everything around my life, dude, I've been working more, got some more hours at work. It's Thanksgiving coming up. Um, Oh, that's what I got a Thanksgiving, dude. Next week is Thanksgiving. I'm working on Thanksgiving. What? Like that sucks, but it's okay. I won't be able to go home on the holiday, but I will be able to visit my family next weekend.
So, uh, next weekend is going to be an Arizona podcast. Might be talking to my family, might not be, we'll see what the vibe is. Sunday, they told me I am going to a, to an Arizona Cardinals game. So next week I'll be watching some footy footy football. I'm pretty excited about that. I'm excited for Thanksgiving, um, regardless, you know, I, one might be upset that they're working on a holiday, but. You know, I semi anticipated it and you know, I've been looking for more hours and I need more money and you know, it's just one of those things right now. You know, it's one of those things that I can't really complain and there's no real need to complain.
Of course the preference is to be home and to see my whole family on the Thanksgiving holiday, but whatever, dude, I get to see them a day later, a day and a half later, no, pretty much a day later. Cause I fly in like the next night. So it's fine. It's fine. Um, but yeah, man, I'm excited to see my family. It's always nice to see my family. You know, we, um, I'm blessed to be able, I'm blessed that my parents, uh, want to get me a plane ticket to visit home. I'm very blessed for that. Um, they're very nice to me. My folks are nice people.
My folks are nice folks. You know what I mean? Um, today guys, what I want to talk about, um, I'm talking about a few things. I just want to talk about some basic, some basic updates on my short film, magic mushroom fun time, uh, some general observations I've been having, uh, with all the tools I've been, um, I've been using. And, uh, I also want to talk about incentives, dude. Uh, I was listening to a mere mortals podcast with Kyron and Juan, and they were talking about incentives for like, why you should listen to them, you know? And when I was listening to that, it was like a light bulb and off was like, I need to do that.
You know, I got to figure that out. So we're sort of like going through like, what is giving us value? What is giving an incentive to use it or to listen to it? And so I'm trying to just like evaluate that for myself. And to just get my head straight as to how I should move forward into 2024 with America plus, because I definitely want to be better, you know, absolutely. I need to be better. So, um, the first thing, so, okay. So magic mushroom fun time, uh, we're talking about what I'm creating. This like Fantasia little Marvel esque movie, dude, little short film of mine. Um, it's moving.
It's moving. I'm telling you that right now. I I'm tripping away. I get a little bit done here and there. Um, and I feel good about it right now. I've been leaning into the AI and talk about incentives with AI. Um, I have firsthand experience and I'm getting more and more firsthand experience, um, of using AI for narrative purposes. And right now, right at the bat, I can tell you like just a few weeks focusing on video and, um, and, and trying to figure out like how to, how to get, how to get the images going. I can tell you right now, AI is not like, it's just objectively not perfect.
I tried getting, I tried getting a video of hands slapping a drum. Like, uh, I typed in like tribal hands vigorously, uh, hitting a drum. And the video was like, like disformed hands and like the hand are just like vibrating. They weren't slapping anything. They weren't hitting any drums. And, um, it was sort of like a problem. It was most likely a prompting issue on my part. Maybe I just don't know how to prompt the thing. Uh, but regardless, it got like a third of the way there. I saw the drum. I saw the hands and they were sort of moving. But ultimately it just wasn't happening.
And, um, it made me think, oh shit, maybe, uh, the AI doesn't, maybe it's not as perfect as one might've thought it was, um, cause that's like how it's always pitched, right? That's what everyone is always saying. There's all these people, if you just do a quick scroll on Twitter, you know, you're seeing so many folks saying that Hollywood is being disrupted. AI is taking over Hollywood, um, a movie in your pocket in five minutes or whatever, like just all these things. And I just don't know how it's going to do that. I just don't, I cannot comprehend how AI is going to be able to take over that much decision-making for narratives.
And maybe that maybe I'm a little out of pocket, but I'm not sure. Maybe that maybe I'm a little out of pocket, but just my experience, dude, like I literally need to control, like as a director, I'm realizing that I need to control every pixel. I need to have the ability to manipulate every little aspect that's on the screen. And the AI you're barely able to do that. You just write something. You're right. Something and then it interprets it. And then like, if you want to change it, you got to write something new and hopefully it gets it.
And it's just like, it's, it's almost like a maddening process. Like you, you always have to write something new to get a different version of what you might be looking for. And I don't know. I just feel as though the creative process is a lot more fluid when it comes to speaking with a person directly, say animator, a director speaking with an animator and being able to reference something, being able to have an example of another artist, you know, and of course, maybe all this, there's discussion that all of this sort of like creative discourse can happen with the AI, but right now it's not happening right now.
It's just not it right now. No one is making a movie with it right now. Right now, no one is being really that creative with it. Sorry to say, all the people on Twitter, I'm sorry, like your little, like 30 second short film is just not, it's just not good. It's it, these people, they always use it. Everything's AI. They, they use AI music, AI video, AI faces, AI narrator, AI script, like AI everything, and it just doesn't work, dude. It just, it's also gross. Like it's revolting. I don't like it. And, you know, that's why I sort of, I chose to, to, to film things live action for, for certain sections, for larger sections of the short film and have AI be more of an accent, you know?
And so I, I'm evaluating this tool, this AI tool and the incentive that it gives me, the only incentives it gives me is that it can, it can give me a different image, you know, that's the incentive. It's just different. The AI videos is different. You know, that's all it is. So I see that and I want to lean more into animation that pushes me to like, I've been sort of circulating around things that I was like, I'm circulating back to some certain topics that I was looking at in 2022, this time around. And one of those is like blender and animating. And I originally, I remember last year, man, I remember saying, I wanted to make an animated short and I was like on this like animation kick and, and then AI popped up, right.
And then, and then all this AI stuff started to blow up and then I was like, Oh, maybe AI is the answer. And to a degree I leaned into the AI for a little bit of laziness. We got Shannon Passy in the house. What up, Shan? Admittedly, I went to the AI because of my laziness, because I thought it might be easier to do an animated thing. But ultimately that's not where we're at. That's not what's happening now. So, and that vision has changed, but now I'm, as I'm in the depth of magic mushroom fun time and figuring out what tools are the best, I'm coming back to more traditional animation tools to tell stories and I'm beginning to see the benefit I'm beginning to see the incentive of, of just like the normal animation apps, the normal softwares.
And the incentive is, is the ability to just, is to manipulate everything, manipulate every little pixel, every little movement, every shade, every gradient, that's really the key. That's the key. So maybe one day the AI will be able to give you that much, uh, handling. You'll be able to change the hues and, and dial in something and have something move a certain way. You know, we'll see just right now. That's just not happening, man. And I will keep experimenting. But, um, this is where I'm at right now, man. Um, and magic mushroom fun time just keeps on going, dude.
I'll tell you the other thing I'm doing with it. Um, I'm trying to make it a video podcast so that I can have a time splits, time value splits, uh, the magic, the magic wallet switching technology. I'm trying to get that on my short film so that the artists, the people who helped me make it, you know, they all get an equal split. So I'm walking down the avenues to figure that out. If you have any suggestions, if you are a podcaster within the podcasting 2.0 realm, if you want to, if you can help me at all doing that, um, I've already spoken to Karen about it, him and I have been brainstorming ways, um, his suggestion, his thinking the best route for me.
So this thing's going to be like 10 minutes, right? Um, the best route might be no agenda tube because you are able to boost on no agenda tube. And I've seen a couple of videos on there. I just don't fully know how it works. I set up an account or I requested an account. Um, so I'll see if the, I'll see if they like approve that. Um, but we're moving forward with that. That's the real innovation, you know, what I'm trying to move forward with what I'm, the scissors that I'm running with is value for value cinema. Okay.
So I might like this right now, like this podcast is a value for value podcast. I'm trying to implement value for value cinema. Okay. And that will be utilizing V for V music, you know, and, and, and like, that's the system I'm trying to engage with, you know, or at least engage in mostly, or just a little bit, like, like the, the value for value thing for me is so beautiful and so important. And I just, I want to be a part of it so much because there has to be a bigger story to it. There just has to be. I, I don't, you don't just stumble upon a new model and a new way of living.
And just like, just go about your day, man. Like I'm trying to shout it from the freaking rooftops, dude. Value for value, man. Value for value cinema is what magic mushroom fun time is. And I just know it's going to be good. I know it. I know it in my heart. I got nothing else to say about it. I got nothing else to share about that. I just, I know in my heart, it's going to be good and it's going to be from the heart. You know, that's the incentive that you have listening to me right now. It's all coming from the heart. That's been like the main incentive for the last, uh, close to two years.
Now you've been listening to me, just be radically honest about what I'm doing and my thoughts on things. So if you've enjoyed that incentive, I hope you've enjoyed it. So if you've enjoyed that incentive, uh, thank you for returning. Thank you for, um, engaging with that. Um, anything else magic mushroom fun time? I don't think so. Um, we'll just see where it goes, man. I want to make more cartoons for sure as well. After magic mushroom fun time, I have a rough concept of the types of videos that I want to continue to produce the way that I'm going about it. I've been playing with this idea of doing, um, just roughly named Coley tunes, like loony tunes, but Coley tunes, Coley tunes.
Coley is what like my girlfriend and mom call me. So Coley tunes, dude. And same, same thing. We'll get value for value music and then we'll animate it. We'll do, we'll try to do like a little, uh, animation thing, like character, like animals or like, like some sort of like wacky, like story, like Popeye. I guy, like, I don't know, like something like that, like some old fashioned 2d cartoon, um, but to value for value music and all these videos or video podcasts where you get the time value split and people can boost in, you know, and that's how I sort of like, that's something that I've really been thinking about for a long time.
So I'm trying to lean more into that, man. After magic mushroom fun time, that's sort of like the next sort of project that I've, that I think I'll be leaning into. Um, there's some, uh, there's some certain animation apps coming out that I think might be beneficiary beneficial to me. So I'll be experimenting with those and, you know, trying to figure out more of a team, um, trying to figure out if there's an option for more of a team with, um, with future stuff, with the future of the podcast production, movie production, like how can that, like who else wants to be a part of that?
Um, just slowly building that network out and going back to real quick, the, um, I know I wanted to stay on the boosting. I wanted to stay on you being able to boost the movie. I don't have a strong foundation for, um, like, like I don't have the right incentives to make the movie yet. Which is funny because what I'm saying is the right incentives would be to direct the audience member to buy something or to be on my page or to look at an ad on something eyeballs on something. And, um, that's why I'm sort of using X. I'm, I, um, I know I need my own website, right?
I need my own website. You're able to boost a website. There's like, uh, add ons to a website that you can use and you can look like that's it's the lightning network on your website. Um, I know Kyron's got that on his mere mortals.com. Um, so maybe I can do that for the short film too, on like a cold McCormick.com. Maybe, um, I just know that when it comes to the value for value system, there needs to be like, I need a main spot. You know, I need a main like Lily pad that people land on. Um, and I think practically that might be like my own website, just a, just a personal website, whatever.
So we'll see how that goes. And, and I'm, and I'm putting this out here for value for value. Like if you want to help me out, dude, like, like if you have any ideas of how we can make this more valuable, how we can bring more value to the people, more value to the podcasting 2.0 sphere, like please chime in with that. Please like, give me an idea, suggest something I'm reaching out to the people, I'm reaching out to people. I'm DMing people, seeing if they can help me. Um, you know, I just, I, I want to be a part of the, the 2.0 projects and I really just want to make a short film.
And I think it aligns. I think the value for value thing aligns with what I want to do. And that's what I am doing, dude. Like it just makes sense. Right. So just, just chime in, man. Like chime in, help me out here. We're making a movie, dude. Be a part of making a movie. Um, that sort of leads me to like the incentives of you listening to me. Okay. Now we're, now we're going into this. What are the incentives? And I've been working on this for over two years now, closer to two years. What are the incentives to America plus? What are the incentives that I want you to have while listening to me?
I sort of had to sit down for a minute and like really think about it today. And ultimately, you know, in the future, the future incentives to listen to this, you know, um, is to have direct access to an artist that you'd like, you know, it's, um, it's sort of what, you know, social media has been one of the, do you remember when like social media was like first starting or not? And I don't want to say first starting, but one of the narratives floating around when I was a kid, when it came to Facebook and social media is, oh, you have a really, you have a one-to-one direct connection with, with a celebrity you love.
And that's true. And that's the incentive to a podcast as well. And that's, and if the person's honest, you know, that's why so many people have a podcast, that's why so many people listen to podcasts. So that's the first, first and foremost incentive to listen to a podcast. First and foremost incentive, like you have connection to me. Like this is my God, John is voice. Just like talking about things that I think are interesting. So I don't know how many else, I don't know how many other people are like that, but you know, like this is me and the other incentives are, you know, I, you get access to movies, you get access to seeing how these movies originate.
That's, that's one concept, um, that I'm trying to exercise right now, man. We'll see how that works out, you know, and this could all fail by the way, you know, me as an entrepreneur, me as a podcaster, me as valid for value, this could all fail. This could, I mean, it's all right. This could fall on its head. Like it could go nowhere. You know, that's the failure. That's the risk. That is the risk, you know, but I just don't believe that. I don't believe there is a risk. You know, I'm one of those guys, dude. The risk of being with me is I really, I rarely see a risk.
If I see a risk, it's either because like I'm being more than irrational or I'm being radically rational, you know, that's those are really the two extreme times when I might see a risk to something, everything else I'm game. Let's go for it, dude. Let's just run to it, man. Let's go for it. And so we just keep running and keep running and running and running and running. And running, running, running, running. Um, well, V for V cinema is something that I'm trying to give an incentive to people. Like you imagine being able to just listen to George Lucas talk about star wars while he's making it, you know, like that, like, I think that's cool.
Like the incentive is to get to know people and be like, Oh, I'm cool, like the incentive is to get like data on how to make something. Um, there's a lot of people I know who say they make things, but they low key don't. And I want to be a person who makes things. And that's, that's really like a big deal to me. That's a really big deal to me being known as someone who actually makes things. Um, it's sort of a joke that podcasters don't make much. Podcasts like, like, what does a podcaster do? Podcast or talks, of course there's creation in a podcasting. And that's a, that's just a joke.
It's just a meme, but I actually like, I want to craft something, you know, I have. I have, um, I have this idea of having the podcast be just like this, uh, this hub of answers, America plus can be just a place to hear the answers. You know, that's like my peak, like utopia dream of America plus, you know, every week there's a new answer. That's why I try to talk about plasma. That's why I try to talk about exercise and meat and raw dairy. You know, there's like these answers to health. There are these, there, there, I believe that there's an answer to the universe.
Like, you know, I, I, I believe that there are answers. You know, and sometimes it seems like culture doesn't want you to believe that there are answers. There are, there has to be, there has to be, like there just has to be, there has to be an answer to, to you, to the universe. There has to be an answer to why, why we are living, why bad things happen. There has to be an answer to these things. Why certain fuel doesn't, why certain fuel doesn't, what's the word I'm looking for? Deteriorate as fast as other fuels. That's why I'm talking about plasma, you know, like there's these answers.
And if America plus can be this like small little speck of like inspiration or just a window into a rabbit hole, you know, that's what I want to, like that's the incentive, like I want you to feel interested. I want you to feel curious. The incentive to listening to America plus is to feel curious and excited about the future and to want to explore yourself. That's the real key, man. Like that's, that's the key to a good life. Isn't it? Um, that's just, so I'm just trying to do that for myself, dude. I'm just trying to express that. And if you agree with me, boost me, dude, boost me right now.
Cause we're all, we are headed on into the boost, the boost of grams. Uh, America plus is a value for value show guys. Um, that's the incentive as well. Just you're able to listen to something that you choose the value of. Okay. Not too many other shows really do that. There's like 15,000 value for value enabled shows. America plus is just one of them. Um, this is all part of the podcasting 2.0, uh, modern day, modern podcasting project, uh, uh, visit modern podcasting apps.com. Figure out what your favorite podcasting app is, and then send me a boost to Graham via Bitcoin.
Uh, my favorite, uh, uh, lightning, but by the way, from a fountain found out FM. Go to value for value.info for more info, then download the fountain.fm app. It's the best way to support the show. If you download fountain, you're able to load up your wallet with small bits of Bitcoin called Satoshi's. And then you're able to send me a boost to Graham with a message of your choice. Any amount of your choice, send in your favorite number, send in a number you like, send it a number, uh, your friend likes, whatever you want, dude. And send me a message, dude.
Give me some advice. Give me some help here. Uh, tell me how, tell me how crazy I am. Okay. Value for value. Go to value for value.info for more info. That's value. The number four info. Dot info, dude. There's a quick, great breakdown of what the system is, what the model is. It's a monetization system. It's a content format. It's a way of life. It's how the people are surviving. Honestly, that's my belief and what's going on right now. We're reading from last week, number 96, uh, plasma spirits talked about. I've been talking about plasma lately.
Uh, last week I've been reading this, this book. I'm still reading it. Uh, it's called a new science of heaven. And it's pretty much just about this, um, this, this, all the normal science, all the normal understanding of what the matter of plasma, uh, if you didn't know lightning is plasma, you know, plasma, like there's all this like interesting stuff. This book is saying that plasma, like, like our souls can be plasma. There's a possibility. There's an understanding that our souls might be made of plasma. So this book is just going through these details and this information.
And, um, that's what that last week was, uh, from the lowest to the highest. We got some people who wanted to join in and support the show. These people who saw value. Uh, this first one comes in from at Joel W. Uh, he sends in a satchel of Richards, 1,111 sats. He sends in three mushroom emojis. Joel, thank you very much. Boosting is loving. Love those mushrooms, dude. Love those mushrooms. I'm going to have them later with some eggs. Yeah. Uh, next one comes in from Joel. Uh, he sends in 1840, 1,840. What's that number mean to you, Joel? He sends in, he says, well, plasma sounds a hell of a lot more interesting after that synopsis of that book.
Yes, sir. Boost. Yes, sir. I think plasma is cool, dude. Plasma can be limitless energy or it can be your soul, which is limitless energy. And I think that's the connection. I think that's the answer, dude. Uh, this last one comes in from at the mirror mortals podcast. My friend, Kieran down from down under, he sends in a, a cute little road ducks, 2,222 sats. Uh, he says, livewire.io is the website to find the stats. Look for podcast index stats visualized. There are 15,800 shows. I'm one of them with the value block. You're the only person I know trying to create a video with value for value music incorporated though worth reaching out to Alex Gates about what he's working on with the no agenda tube, as he might be able to incorporate value time splits as well.
Kieran. And now as the French say, it is time for the boost boost boost. Kieran, my man. Thank you so much, dude, for all that info. I haven't reached out to Alex Gates yet, but I made the account and I'm reaching out to him soon and like, dude, we're about to go forward, dude. Like we're steaming forward. We're steaming ahead. I'm excited for it. And current, I mean, if you help me out more, if you want to be a part of it, if you want to split in my short film, dude, like please like help me out, do whatever you think, dude, um, honestly, what Kyra just did, Kyra sent in what I call talent, you know, Kyra has information about who might be able to help me and he was able to tell me that, um, when it comes to value for value, there's really three main avenues that you're able to, to help out the podcaster to help me out.
And that's just, and it's time, talent and treasure. Time is just by you listening, you watching the video, you coming back to the profile, you retweeting, just engaging with whatever content is right in front of you. That's your time. That's your attention. Thank you. Just thanks for doing that. Just please continue doing that. That really means a lot. It just helps me out with, with wherever you are. And then the next is talent. Kyra is the best example of that sharing who might be able to help me out with that. Um, and I'll definitely take Karen's, uh, Karen's info as, as reality.
Like I'll, I will reach out. So I'll probably listen to you if you have something to say to me. And then the last way is, uh, and what all my friends just exposed, just, uh, just showed treasure, man, time, talent and treasure. Uh, my favorite treasure is Bitcoin. Send me some little, uh, little bits of Bitcoin Satoshi's, uh, through the fountain app, and if you want to send me some money, some, some normal fiat dollars, I got a PayPal, the official America plus PayPal, um, pretty much what you're supporting, what you're giving money to, you know, there's, there's basic housekeeping stuff.
You know, the, my hosting company is about $15 a month. Um, the, all the subscriptions I use to make my short films, you know, those are just normal money. Um, you know, just try to figure out what do you want to help me with? Because I have different branches, you know, I have different, different things growing, you know, do you want the podcast itself to grow? Do you want the video to grow? Do you want the movies to grow? How do you want to help me out? How do you want to support me? How do you want to just, just sustain the vibes? That's what I'm asking for, man.
That's all it is, dude. That's all I can ask you. And, um, with that, I think we'll just keep it short, keep it 30 minutes. Uh, I think this, the, the end of the year podcasting life might be a bit shorter. Uh, just cause, uh, like, like the episodes might be shorter because I'm just, I'm, I'm trying my best to stay as focused as I can with magic mushroom fun time. Um, I'm also 2024. I'll give you a preview for 2024. I am lining up like I've, I have been. Speaking with people about more interviews and more discussions. And so I can guarantee you that, that, that is being prepared.
More discussions are being prepared for sure. Um, just not right now. Um, I'm putting all of my energy in the short film and then, you know, I'm shifting my energy to, to new horizons in the new year. Um, and I hope you, I hope you feel that man. I hope you feel that. And I hope, um, I just hope you come back, man. Like that's all I can say. That's all I can ask. Right. Value for value. That's America plus bitch. Stay free.
Let's do it. Bub-bub-bub-bub bu-bub-bub-bub-bub-bub-bub-bub-bub-bub-bub-bub-bub-bub-bub. What's up everyone? It's American Plus. I'm your host, Cole McCormick. It's another week, another episode! What's going on, people? It's Sunday! November 19th! 3 for the 2 and the PM. What's going on, everybody? You made it to another episode of America Plus! I'm gonna be here, guys. Yeah! Yeah! How's it going, guys? Uh, thanks for being here. Uh, it's a beautiful day in sunny Los Angeles. Um, I'm coming to you in good vibes, man. Um, I've been just been chilling all day.
It's been a good Sunday for me right now. Uh, took a walk. Um, just hanging out and doing my thing. Just vibing dog, vibing with the dogs, vibing with the cats, with the homeless cats, um, vibing with everything, everything around my life, dude, I've been working more, got some more hours at work. It's Thanksgiving coming up. Um, Oh, that's what I got a Thanksgiving, dude. Next week is Thanksgiving. I'm working on Thanksgiving. What? Like that sucks, but it's okay. I won't be able to go home on the holiday, but I will be able to visit my family next weekend.
So, uh, next weekend is going to be an Arizona podcast. Might be talking to my family, might not be, we'll see what the vibe is. Sunday, they told me I am going to a, to an Arizona Cardinals game. So next week I'll be watching some footy footy football. I'm pretty excited about that. I'm excited for Thanksgiving, um, regardless, you know, I, one might be upset that they're working on a holiday, but. You know, I semi anticipated it and you know, I've been looking for more hours and I need more money and you know, it's just one of those things right now. You know, it's one of those things that I can't really complain and there's no real need to complain.
Of course the preference is to be home and to see my whole family on the Thanksgiving holiday, but whatever, dude, I get to see them a day later, a day and a half later, no, pretty much a day later. Cause I fly in like the next night. So it's fine. It's fine. Um, but yeah, man, I'm excited to see my family. It's always nice to see my family. You know, we, um, I'm blessed to be able, I'm blessed that my parents, uh, want to get me a plane ticket to visit home. I'm very blessed for that. Um, they're very nice to me. My folks are nice people.
My folks are nice folks. You know what I mean? Um, today guys, what I want to talk about, um, I'm talking about a few things. I just want to talk about some basic, some basic updates on my short film, magic mushroom fun time, uh, some general observations I've been having, uh, with all the tools I've been, um, I've been using. And, uh, I also want to talk about incentives, dude. Uh, I was listening to a mere mortals podcast with Kyron and Juan, and they were talking about incentives for like, why you should listen to them, you know? And when I was listening to that, it was like a light bulb and off was like, I need to do that.
You know, I got to figure that out. So we're sort of like going through like, what is giving us value? What is giving an incentive to use it or to listen to it? And so I'm trying to just like evaluate that for myself. And to just get my head straight as to how I should move forward into 2024 with America plus, because I definitely want to be better, you know, absolutely. I need to be better. So, um, the first thing, so, okay. So magic mushroom fun time, uh, we're talking about what I'm creating. This like Fantasia little Marvel esque movie, dude, little short film of mine. Um, it's moving.
It's moving. I'm telling you that right now. I I'm tripping away. I get a little bit done here and there. Um, and I feel good about it right now. I've been leaning into the AI and talk about incentives with AI. Um, I have firsthand experience and I'm getting more and more firsthand experience, um, of using AI for narrative purposes. And right now, right at the bat, I can tell you like just a few weeks focusing on video and, um, and, and trying to figure out like how to, how to get, how to get the images going. I can tell you right now, AI is not like, it's just objectively not perfect.
I tried getting, I tried getting a video of hands slapping a drum. Like, uh, I typed in like tribal hands vigorously, uh, hitting a drum. And the video was like, like disformed hands and like the hand are just like vibrating. They weren't slapping anything. They weren't hitting any drums. And, um, it was sort of like a problem. It was most likely a prompting issue on my part. Maybe I just don't know how to prompt the thing. Uh, but regardless, it got like a third of the way there. I saw the drum. I saw the hands and they were sort of moving. But ultimately it just wasn't happening.
And, um, it made me think, oh shit, maybe, uh, the AI doesn't, maybe it's not as perfect as one might've thought it was, um, cause that's like how it's always pitched, right? That's what everyone is always saying. There's all these people, if you just do a quick scroll on Twitter, you know, you're seeing so many folks saying that Hollywood is being disrupted. AI is taking over Hollywood, um, a movie in your pocket in five minutes or whatever, like just all these things. And I just don't know how it's going to do that. I just don't, I cannot comprehend how AI is going to be able to take over that much decision-making for narratives.
And maybe that maybe I'm a little out of pocket, but I'm not sure. Maybe that maybe I'm a little out of pocket, but just my experience, dude, like I literally need to control, like as a director, I'm realizing that I need to control every pixel. I need to have the ability to manipulate every little aspect that's on the screen. And the AI you're barely able to do that. You just write something. You're right. Something and then it interprets it. And then like, if you want to change it, you got to write something new and hopefully it gets it.
And it's just like, it's, it's almost like a maddening process. Like you, you always have to write something new to get a different version of what you might be looking for. And I don't know. I just feel as though the creative process is a lot more fluid when it comes to speaking with a person directly, say animator, a director speaking with an animator and being able to reference something, being able to have an example of another artist, you know, and of course, maybe all this, there's discussion that all of this sort of like creative discourse can happen with the AI, but right now it's not happening right now.
It's just not it right now. No one is making a movie with it right now. Right now, no one is being really that creative with it. Sorry to say, all the people on Twitter, I'm sorry, like your little, like 30 second short film is just not, it's just not good. It's it, these people, they always use it. Everything's AI. They, they use AI music, AI video, AI faces, AI narrator, AI script, like AI everything, and it just doesn't work, dude. It just, it's also gross. Like it's revolting. I don't like it. And, you know, that's why I sort of, I chose to, to, to film things live action for, for certain sections, for larger sections of the short film and have AI be more of an accent, you know?
And so I, I'm evaluating this tool, this AI tool and the incentive that it gives me, the only incentives it gives me is that it can, it can give me a different image, you know, that's the incentive. It's just different. The AI videos is different. You know, that's all it is. So I see that and I want to lean more into animation that pushes me to like, I've been sort of circulating around things that I was like, I'm circulating back to some certain topics that I was looking at in 2022, this time around. And one of those is like blender and animating. And I originally, I remember last year, man, I remember saying, I wanted to make an animated short and I was like on this like animation kick and, and then AI popped up, right.
And then, and then all this AI stuff started to blow up and then I was like, Oh, maybe AI is the answer. And to a degree I leaned into the AI for a little bit of laziness. We got Shannon Passy in the house. What up, Shan? Admittedly, I went to the AI because of my laziness, because I thought it might be easier to do an animated thing. But ultimately that's not where we're at. That's not what's happening now. So, and that vision has changed, but now I'm, as I'm in the depth of magic mushroom fun time and figuring out what tools are the best, I'm coming back to more traditional animation tools to tell stories and I'm beginning to see the benefit I'm beginning to see the incentive of, of just like the normal animation apps, the normal softwares.
And the incentive is, is the ability to just, is to manipulate everything, manipulate every little pixel, every little movement, every shade, every gradient, that's really the key. That's the key. So maybe one day the AI will be able to give you that much, uh, handling. You'll be able to change the hues and, and dial in something and have something move a certain way. You know, we'll see just right now. That's just not happening, man. And I will keep experimenting. But, um, this is where I'm at right now, man. Um, and magic mushroom fun time just keeps on going, dude.
I'll tell you the other thing I'm doing with it. Um, I'm trying to make it a video podcast so that I can have a time splits, time value splits, uh, the magic, the magic wallet switching technology. I'm trying to get that on my short film so that the artists, the people who helped me make it, you know, they all get an equal split. So I'm walking down the avenues to figure that out. If you have any suggestions, if you are a podcaster within the podcasting 2.0 realm, if you want to, if you can help me at all doing that, um, I've already spoken to Karen about it, him and I have been brainstorming ways, um, his suggestion, his thinking the best route for me.
So this thing's going to be like 10 minutes, right? Um, the best route might be no agenda tube because you are able to boost on no agenda tube. And I've seen a couple of videos on there. I just don't fully know how it works. I set up an account or I requested an account. Um, so I'll see if the, I'll see if they like approve that. Um, but we're moving forward with that. That's the real innovation, you know, what I'm trying to move forward with what I'm, the scissors that I'm running with is value for value cinema. Okay.
So I might like this right now, like this podcast is a value for value podcast. I'm trying to implement value for value cinema. Okay. And that will be utilizing V for V music, you know, and, and, and like, that's the system I'm trying to engage with, you know, or at least engage in mostly, or just a little bit, like, like the, the value for value thing for me is so beautiful and so important. And I just, I want to be a part of it so much because there has to be a bigger story to it. There just has to be. I, I don't, you don't just stumble upon a new model and a new way of living.
And just like, just go about your day, man. Like I'm trying to shout it from the freaking rooftops, dude. Value for value, man. Value for value cinema is what magic mushroom fun time is. And I just know it's going to be good. I know it. I know it in my heart. I got nothing else to say about it. I got nothing else to share about that. I just, I know in my heart, it's going to be good and it's going to be from the heart. You know, that's the incentive that you have listening to me right now. It's all coming from the heart. That's been like the main incentive for the last, uh, close to two years.
Now you've been listening to me, just be radically honest about what I'm doing and my thoughts on things. So if you've enjoyed that incentive, I hope you've enjoyed it. So if you've enjoyed that incentive, uh, thank you for returning. Thank you for, um, engaging with that. Um, anything else magic mushroom fun time? I don't think so. Um, we'll just see where it goes, man. I want to make more cartoons for sure as well. After magic mushroom fun time, I have a rough concept of the types of videos that I want to continue to produce the way that I'm going about it. I've been playing with this idea of doing, um, just roughly named Coley tunes, like loony tunes, but Coley tunes, Coley tunes.
Coley is what like my girlfriend and mom call me. So Coley tunes, dude. And same, same thing. We'll get value for value music and then we'll animate it. We'll do, we'll try to do like a little, uh, animation thing, like character, like animals or like, like some sort of like wacky, like story, like Popeye. I guy, like, I don't know, like something like that, like some old fashioned 2d cartoon, um, but to value for value music and all these videos or video podcasts where you get the time value split and people can boost in, you know, and that's how I sort of like, that's something that I've really been thinking about for a long time.
So I'm trying to lean more into that, man. After magic mushroom fun time, that's sort of like the next sort of project that I've, that I think I'll be leaning into. Um, there's some, uh, there's some certain animation apps coming out that I think might be beneficiary beneficial to me. So I'll be experimenting with those and, you know, trying to figure out more of a team, um, trying to figure out if there's an option for more of a team with, um, with future stuff, with the future of the podcast production, movie production, like how can that, like who else wants to be a part of that?
Um, just slowly building that network out and going back to real quick, the, um, I know I wanted to stay on the boosting. I wanted to stay on you being able to boost the movie. I don't have a strong foundation for, um, like, like I don't have the right incentives to make the movie yet. Which is funny because what I'm saying is the right incentives would be to direct the audience member to buy something or to be on my page or to look at an ad on something eyeballs on something. And, um, that's why I'm sort of using X. I'm, I, um, I know I need my own website, right?
I need my own website. You're able to boost a website. There's like, uh, add ons to a website that you can use and you can look like that's it's the lightning network on your website. Um, I know Kyron's got that on his mere mortals.com. Um, so maybe I can do that for the short film too, on like a cold McCormick.com. Maybe, um, I just know that when it comes to the value for value system, there needs to be like, I need a main spot. You know, I need a main like Lily pad that people land on. Um, and I think practically that might be like my own website, just a, just a personal website, whatever.
So we'll see how that goes. And, and I'm, and I'm putting this out here for value for value. Like if you want to help me out, dude, like, like if you have any ideas of how we can make this more valuable, how we can bring more value to the people, more value to the podcasting 2.0 sphere, like please chime in with that. Please like, give me an idea, suggest something I'm reaching out to the people, I'm reaching out to people. I'm DMing people, seeing if they can help me. Um, you know, I just, I, I want to be a part of the, the 2.0 projects and I really just want to make a short film.
And I think it aligns. I think the value for value thing aligns with what I want to do. And that's what I am doing, dude. Like it just makes sense. Right. So just, just chime in, man. Like chime in, help me out here. We're making a movie, dude. Be a part of making a movie. Um, that sort of leads me to like the incentives of you listening to me. Okay. Now we're, now we're going into this. What are the incentives? And I've been working on this for over two years now, closer to two years. What are the incentives to America plus? What are the incentives that I want you to have while listening to me?
I sort of had to sit down for a minute and like really think about it today. And ultimately, you know, in the future, the future incentives to listen to this, you know, um, is to have direct access to an artist that you'd like, you know, it's, um, it's sort of what, you know, social media has been one of the, do you remember when like social media was like first starting or not? And I don't want to say first starting, but one of the narratives floating around when I was a kid, when it came to Facebook and social media is, oh, you have a really, you have a one-to-one direct connection with, with a celebrity you love.
And that's true. And that's the incentive to a podcast as well. And that's, and if the person's honest, you know, that's why so many people have a podcast, that's why so many people listen to podcasts. So that's the first, first and foremost incentive to listen to a podcast. First and foremost incentive, like you have connection to me. Like this is my God, John is voice. Just like talking about things that I think are interesting. So I don't know how many else, I don't know how many other people are like that, but you know, like this is me and the other incentives are, you know, I, you get access to movies, you get access to seeing how these movies originate.
That's, that's one concept, um, that I'm trying to exercise right now, man. We'll see how that works out, you know, and this could all fail by the way, you know, me as an entrepreneur, me as a podcaster, me as valid for value, this could all fail. This could, I mean, it's all right. This could fall on its head. Like it could go nowhere. You know, that's the failure. That's the risk. That is the risk, you know, but I just don't believe that. I don't believe there is a risk. You know, I'm one of those guys, dude. The risk of being with me is I really, I rarely see a risk.
If I see a risk, it's either because like I'm being more than irrational or I'm being radically rational, you know, that's those are really the two extreme times when I might see a risk to something, everything else I'm game. Let's go for it, dude. Let's just run to it, man. Let's go for it. And so we just keep running and keep running and running and running and running. And running, running, running, running. Um, well, V for V cinema is something that I'm trying to give an incentive to people. Like you imagine being able to just listen to George Lucas talk about star wars while he's making it, you know, like that, like, I think that's cool.
Like the incentive is to get to know people and be like, Oh, I'm cool, like the incentive is to get like data on how to make something. Um, there's a lot of people I know who say they make things, but they low key don't. And I want to be a person who makes things. And that's, that's really like a big deal to me. That's a really big deal to me being known as someone who actually makes things. Um, it's sort of a joke that podcasters don't make much. Podcasts like, like, what does a podcaster do? Podcast or talks, of course there's creation in a podcasting. And that's a, that's just a joke.
It's just a meme, but I actually like, I want to craft something, you know, I have. I have, um, I have this idea of having the podcast be just like this, uh, this hub of answers, America plus can be just a place to hear the answers. You know, that's like my peak, like utopia dream of America plus, you know, every week there's a new answer. That's why I try to talk about plasma. That's why I try to talk about exercise and meat and raw dairy. You know, there's like these answers to health. There are these, there, there, I believe that there's an answer to the universe.
Like, you know, I, I, I believe that there are answers. You know, and sometimes it seems like culture doesn't want you to believe that there are answers. There are, there has to be, there has to be, like there just has to be, there has to be an answer to, to you, to the universe. There has to be an answer to why, why we are living, why bad things happen. There has to be an answer to these things. Why certain fuel doesn't, why certain fuel doesn't, what's the word I'm looking for? Deteriorate as fast as other fuels. That's why I'm talking about plasma, you know, like there's these answers.
And if America plus can be this like small little speck of like inspiration or just a window into a rabbit hole, you know, that's what I want to, like that's the incentive, like I want you to feel interested. I want you to feel curious. The incentive to listening to America plus is to feel curious and excited about the future and to want to explore yourself. That's the real key, man. Like that's, that's the key to a good life. Isn't it? Um, that's just, so I'm just trying to do that for myself, dude. I'm just trying to express that. And if you agree with me, boost me, dude, boost me right now.
Cause we're all, we are headed on into the boost, the boost of grams. Uh, America plus is a value for value show guys. Um, that's the incentive as well. Just you're able to listen to something that you choose the value of. Okay. Not too many other shows really do that. There's like 15,000 value for value enabled shows. America plus is just one of them. Um, this is all part of the podcasting 2.0, uh, modern day, modern podcasting project, uh, uh, visit modern podcasting apps.com. Figure out what your favorite podcasting app is, and then send me a boost to Graham via Bitcoin.
Uh, my favorite, uh, uh, lightning, but by the way, from a fountain found out FM. Go to value for value.info for more info, then download the fountain.fm app. It's the best way to support the show. If you download fountain, you're able to load up your wallet with small bits of Bitcoin called Satoshi's. And then you're able to send me a boost to Graham with a message of your choice. Any amount of your choice, send in your favorite number, send in a number you like, send it a number, uh, your friend likes, whatever you want, dude. And send me a message, dude.
Give me some advice. Give me some help here. Uh, tell me how, tell me how crazy I am. Okay. Value for value. Go to value for value.info for more info. That's value. The number four info. Dot info, dude. There's a quick, great breakdown of what the system is, what the model is. It's a monetization system. It's a content format. It's a way of life. It's how the people are surviving. Honestly, that's my belief and what's going on right now. We're reading from last week, number 96, uh, plasma spirits talked about. I've been talking about plasma lately.
Uh, last week I've been reading this, this book. I'm still reading it. Uh, it's called a new science of heaven. And it's pretty much just about this, um, this, this, all the normal science, all the normal understanding of what the matter of plasma, uh, if you didn't know lightning is plasma, you know, plasma, like there's all this like interesting stuff. This book is saying that plasma, like, like our souls can be plasma. There's a possibility. There's an understanding that our souls might be made of plasma. So this book is just going through these details and this information.
And, um, that's what that last week was, uh, from the lowest to the highest. We got some people who wanted to join in and support the show. These people who saw value. Uh, this first one comes in from at Joel W. Uh, he sends in a satchel of Richards, 1,111 sats. He sends in three mushroom emojis. Joel, thank you very much. Boosting is loving. Love those mushrooms, dude. Love those mushrooms. I'm going to have them later with some eggs. Yeah. Uh, next one comes in from Joel. Uh, he sends in 1840, 1,840. What's that number mean to you, Joel? He sends in, he says, well, plasma sounds a hell of a lot more interesting after that synopsis of that book.
Yes, sir. Boost. Yes, sir. I think plasma is cool, dude. Plasma can be limitless energy or it can be your soul, which is limitless energy. And I think that's the connection. I think that's the answer, dude. Uh, this last one comes in from at the mirror mortals podcast. My friend, Kieran down from down under, he sends in a, a cute little road ducks, 2,222 sats. Uh, he says, livewire.io is the website to find the stats. Look for podcast index stats visualized. There are 15,800 shows. I'm one of them with the value block. You're the only person I know trying to create a video with value for value music incorporated though worth reaching out to Alex Gates about what he's working on with the no agenda tube, as he might be able to incorporate value time splits as well.
Kieran. And now as the French say, it is time for the boost boost boost. Kieran, my man. Thank you so much, dude, for all that info. I haven't reached out to Alex Gates yet, but I made the account and I'm reaching out to him soon and like, dude, we're about to go forward, dude. Like we're steaming forward. We're steaming ahead. I'm excited for it. And current, I mean, if you help me out more, if you want to be a part of it, if you want to split in my short film, dude, like please like help me out, do whatever you think, dude, um, honestly, what Kyra just did, Kyra sent in what I call talent, you know, Kyra has information about who might be able to help me and he was able to tell me that, um, when it comes to value for value, there's really three main avenues that you're able to, to help out the podcaster to help me out.
And that's just, and it's time, talent and treasure. Time is just by you listening, you watching the video, you coming back to the profile, you retweeting, just engaging with whatever content is right in front of you. That's your time. That's your attention. Thank you. Just thanks for doing that. Just please continue doing that. That really means a lot. It just helps me out with, with wherever you are. And then the next is talent. Kyra is the best example of that sharing who might be able to help me out with that. Um, and I'll definitely take Karen's, uh, Karen's info as, as reality.
Like I'll, I will reach out. So I'll probably listen to you if you have something to say to me. And then the last way is, uh, and what all my friends just exposed, just, uh, just showed treasure, man, time, talent and treasure. Uh, my favorite treasure is Bitcoin. Send me some little, uh, little bits of Bitcoin Satoshi's, uh, through the fountain app, and if you want to send me some money, some, some normal fiat dollars, I got a PayPal, the official America plus PayPal, um, pretty much what you're supporting, what you're giving money to, you know, there's, there's basic housekeeping stuff.
You know, the, my hosting company is about $15 a month. Um, the, all the subscriptions I use to make my short films, you know, those are just normal money. Um, you know, just try to figure out what do you want to help me with? Because I have different branches, you know, I have different, different things growing, you know, do you want the podcast itself to grow? Do you want the video to grow? Do you want the movies to grow? How do you want to help me out? How do you want to support me? How do you want to just, just sustain the vibes? That's what I'm asking for, man.
That's all it is, dude. That's all I can ask you. And, um, with that, I think we'll just keep it short, keep it 30 minutes. Uh, I think this, the, the end of the year podcasting life might be a bit shorter. Uh, just cause, uh, like, like the episodes might be shorter because I'm just, I'm, I'm trying my best to stay as focused as I can with magic mushroom fun time. Um, I'm also 2024. I'll give you a preview for 2024. I am lining up like I've, I have been. Speaking with people about more interviews and more discussions. And so I can guarantee you that, that, that is being prepared.
More discussions are being prepared for sure. Um, just not right now. Um, I'm putting all of my energy in the short film and then, you know, I'm shifting my energy to, to new horizons in the new year. Um, and I hope you, I hope you feel that man. I hope you feel that. And I hope, um, I just hope you come back, man. Like that's all I can say. That's all I can ask. Right. Value for value. That's America plus bitch. Stay free.
