Cole talks about his recent experiences and observations, including a karaoke night, unhealthy Climate narratives, and the ranking of environmental activists. He also discusses the importance of effective communication and the upcoming updates for the show. The episode features a song called 'Hold the Line' by Death by Lions.
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Cole McCormick:
It's my dick in a box. What's up, everyone? It's America Plus. I'm your host, Cole McCormick. It's another week, another episode. What's going on, everybody? You made it to another beautiful week. What's going on, folks? It's Sunday, December 3rd, 357 in the PM. What's going on, everybody? Happy happy happy to be here. Happy to see you. Happy to Hear from you again, folks. Beautiful day to be alive. It's a nice day here. Nice sunny day in Los Angeles, Southern California. Last night I gotta talk about last night real quick. My girlfriend and I, I got the photo up. If you're in a modern podcasting app, you're able to see this chapter image. It's a hilarious photo. Last night, my girlfriend, Shannon, and I, we went out, to a karaoke bar. Couple of our friends were Having, like, a goodbye party. Both of them are moving across country, and, we're just saying bye, having fun. And the theme Was Justin Timberlake and oh, no. Not just Justin Timberlake. It was lonely island lonely island themed. Do Do you know this group? This music group?
It's a it's a deep cut SNL sketch from the 20 tens. Does anyone know this? I think I'll get, like, banned from YouTube if I played any any of the music, but pretty much, there's a viral Song from the lonely island on SNL with Justin Timberlake and Andy Sambergen. They got these insane costumes with their dicks in a box, and that's The costume, Shannon and I went as, and we sang that song, and it was lit. We got the entire bar, cheering us on. It was awesome. It was a really good time. It was a really fun time last night. Had had a mule or 2. Had some alcohol. Don't really have. You know, it's so rare when I have alcohol, but it's also not rare when I have alcohol. That's where I'm at in my life. It's like, no. I don't drink. But you know what? When I think about it, The most times I go out, I might have a drink. So I think I might drink.
It's a good time to be alive, folks. What we're doing this week, we're having a good time. We are experimenting. First of all, I got some insane updates for you. Some Some incredible updates for the show. As we're moving forward into the new year, into the new phase, into phase, What are we in? Phase we're going into phase 2. We're in phase 1.5 right now. We're going into phase 2, and We're trying to update the show, man. And so I got a really special, special thing towards the end of the episode. I'm I finally have, like, music available, so maybe we'll be able to listen to music today. So we're talking about innovation, but we're also talking about just, like, Silly little narratives that I keep seeing online and why like, it's just like, these unhealthy narratives that I see, like, they're just not America Plus. They're just not embodying a better world, a healthier world, or any healthier systems. I was scrolling online today, and I see these, this link from a guy I follow, scientist. His name is Paul Stamets. Does that name sound familiar to anyone?
Paul Stamets, he's a a mycologist. He's a mushroom scientist, and, he posted a link of himself being, featured in a Reader's Digest article, pertaining to people who are it was like a top ten list of people who are Helping save the earth. Helping save the environment. And I was like, oh, cool. That's awesome because, You know, he does legitimate stuff. If you know anything about Paul Stamets, he's been on Joe Rogan a handful of times. I think he did a podcast for a minute. He has a bunch of YouTube videos. He has a really incredible story about his mother, using the, turkey tail species mushroom, for, in, the she put it in her regimen for her stage 4 cancer, and she's cancer free right now. She's still alive to this day. And, you know, turkey tail mushroom, you know, definitely helped her. And so, this guy's a resource that I've given to my father who has cancer himself. This is a guy who I've listened to, just pretty sincerely. Like, he has really good information, And, he's just a normal guy. So I was like, oh, dope. Let's see where he's at on this list. Like, where does he rank?
I would love to see where he ranks at. And I click on it, and this is what pisses me off. This is the unhealthy narrative. I click on the Reader's Digest, and number 1, The number 1 person on earth on the planet that we subside on who's doing the most. Say it with me. Greta Thunberg. Folks, Number 1 on this stinking list is Greta freaking Thunberg. Where's Paul Stamets at? Where's Paul Stamets? Oh, by the way, by the way, Paul Stamets has information about mushrooms saving the bees. Paul Stamets has information about how mushrooms can help, re help soil regenerate.
Paul Stamets has information about how mushrooms can literally affect ecosystems in a positive way. Mushrooms can help Bring about more symbioticness, more symbiosis within the ecosystems. And where is he at? Where is he at? He's beneath Greta. I know that for a fact. He's number 3, ladies and gentlemen. Number 3. Why are you doing this to my boy, Digest? What's going on right now? They said the good things. Like, the like the the little blurb they had, like, he's He's changing the world. He's he's, you know, the he's doing all this research, but it just hurt me, dude. It hurt me to see this Paul Stamets guy, this nice guy. This guy, his hats are made of mushrooms.
That's who this guy is. He's obsessed. And it it it's insane when you can care about the environment and you seek out Real information pertaining to, the negativeness of the environment. Like like like, what are the negative things going on? What's the real problem? Is it climate change? Is it global warming? What's going on? I continue To get to the, conclusion that it's still pollution is the main problem, and that pollution creates, Unbalances within the ecosystem. And Paul Stamets, his information, his science, his research, you know, There's just way too much research about how mushrooms can create more symbiosis in your body and within nature.
On Joe Rogan, he spoke about how there's a certain species of mushroom that can help sustain bee colonies. It can help keep the comb healthy. And, you know, if you know anything about the environment, you know, if you If you do any research, you know that bees are dying. You know? And we need more beekeepers. We need, like, more like that. Like, bees are, like, fundamental to Earth. And, you know, the globalist people, the Greta Thunberg people, You know, they might point to that. They might talk about that point how the bees are dying. And then they'll say it's climate change, and we need to drive electric cars As if that's gonna do anything.
The solution is within the ecosystem. How can we Help the ecosystem be more balanced, and it's the people who seek profit who tell you to buy things. You know, you gotta be what's, like, the joke with Apple? Like, you gotta buy the iPhone to be carbon neutral? You know what I mean? Like, there's this, like there's just a scam. Like, these lists, this climate change narrative is a scam When people like Paul Stamets is number 3, when we all know, legitimately, He is doing some the most. He's doing some of the most. You know? It's just wild. Just wild. And then, I didn't plan on talking about this, but there's a Elon clip today.
And not today, but but but this week, Elon went viral this week because he was, like, talking shit to the New York Times. And Elon had said the words, I am the 1 person on Earth who has done the most for the environment ever. I heard that, and I was like, okay. Sort of. Maybe. Just because you made more products on Earth. Like, It baffles me how it baffles me how a person making cars is somehow doing more Good for the environment than the guy helping ecosystems sustain. Is this ass backwards or not? Like, it seems ass backwards to me, folks. I just don't understand. And when you read about Greta, you know, They don't lie about her. Like, she's an activist. She's she's a young voice from Sweden. And on Fridays, she has a little club called Fridays for Future, And that's where she encourages she she is this is what it says. Greta encourages students worldwide to strike for climate action.
Are you fucking joking, dude? Meanwhile, Paul Stamets, mushrooms are saving environments. Like, it it it's wild, and it breaks my heart. It breaks my heart. Now Paul Stamets, he has his platform. He has his social medias. He's not suppressed. You know, this is not that sort of a situation, but there is a problem with how we discuss solutions To anything environment. You know? And these types of discussions are really important for the future, and they're important for For how your brain works, like, how do you ask questions? Because the authorities and the people in the meet the mainstream media, You know, they might frame the problem a certain way.
But what we need to remember what people need to remember are Something called first principles. You know what I mean? And this is something that I'm still grasping, you know, but pretty much first principles thinking. You know, Elon's done this. A lot of people in Silicon Valley have done it. A lot of people who are successful think like this or or Apply this type of thinking to problems. You know, just look at the problem at its most fundamental level. Look at the and and when what that means is the solution is on a fundamental problem. Like, the solution is right next to the problem. You know? It doesn't have to be big and huge, and that's what points to Paul Stamets' stuff.
If there's a problem with the environments, then we need to Do something. We need to move the alchemy. We need to move the dirt around somehow. We need to change something so the environment can be more in balance, Because we had we have created imbalance. So this is wild, dude. Just wild how mushrooms can be an answer for environmental problems, but the number 1, help is Telling kids to strike. Just nuts, dude. So I just wanted to express that and just call out the bullshit with that because that's not what I'm looking for. That's not healthy, and I don't like that legitimate science is number 3 on a list of things that's helpful.
Just ridiculous, dude. So if you wanna read the article, if you wanna see the list, I got it linked down below. Just more globalist stuff. You know? A lot of these people are, you know, part of, like, giant institutions. You know, it's you really got You got the whole checkbox. You know? You got the whole list of, of boxes being checked off right now, in in in terms of, who's helping who. You know? So it's very interesting very interesting to see these things. Do you care about the climate? Are you afraid? Or or, like, Is it possible to be an environmentalist while not fully buying in to the climate change narratives? You know, it's one thing where, You know, I can see changes in the weather and also see that the climate is pretty normal. Climate's fairly stable. What? You know? That that's my opinion. That's my view. That's all I have. All I have is my eyesight. You know? Southern California hasn't really It's it's pretty Southern California over here. It hasn't really is it too hot sometimes? Sure. But it's warm. It's the desert.
I'm right by the beach. Isn't it supposed to be warm by the beach? I just don't buy any of this stuff, dude. So how do we move from that? How do we take these weird narratives? Like, how we what is the proper way to move forward with Pushing healthy narratives. I think it's just about just a matter of talking about them, a matter of being casual about the truth. This is something that I've been, trying to practice myself. I don't wanna get in fights. I don't wanna get in arguments. I don't want this. This creates division. And especially when it comes to these hot button topics, like climate change, Like technology, like Bitcoin, like, politics, like, whatever. You know? People are gonna have a lot of strong opinions on whatever they have.
And so I just wanna be casual. Like, I have made a practice to be casual about the truth or try to be at least. And that's a little hard because, like, I get passionate. I get, like, a I get heated. I get heated really fast, And, it's almost like a meditation. It's almost like an active meditation that I gotta sink into when I Talk to someone about a subject that, you know, I know that I'm on the other side of. You know? And I'm And I'm not always good at that. You know? Sometimes I do lean into like, sometimes I poke the bear. You know? Sometimes I wanna upset the person a little bit, but I bring this up today. I bring this environmental, narrative up today because I want you to know that Real science is out there, and there's real answers out there, and they're just you just gotta scroll down a little bit to see them. It's not all propaganda.
It's not all lies. You know? The truth trickles through. You know? No matter how many Globalist influencers, this list may have, or any list, there there are people who are doing legitimate work, And it's important to not get caught up in the emotions of what might of what situations might be implied from, you know, whatever these narratives imply. You know, when it comes to the climate change, a lot of Authoritarianism is implied. A lot of control is implied. And when you start thinking about that, when you start thinking about Then, like, those things, you can get pissed off. You can get riled up. You can get really, You know, just really anxious, really angry, really fast.
And that is like, that's not a healthy place to be at. And America Plus You know, I want America Plus to be this calm focus seeking the answers. You know? That is necessary. It's necessary. So and you always move through it. Right? Like, even me today, I read this and I got pissed off, and I and I got I moved through this wave and the this current of an emotional experience. And, more so lately, I've been getting to a point where I'm like, I just gotta be relaxed. Like, just Point to Paul Stamets. Just point to that answer. Just point to the mushrooms. Just point to the real answers to the problems, like, in any situation I'm in. You know? Whether it be just a conversation online, if I can just talk about how the bees are being saved.
You know? The a, that's a positive narrative, and, b, There's real data to back that up. You know? I can say that to someone who says Earth is dying, and we shouldn't have kids. You know? Well, that's how I feel I need to do in this war. If I can use that term really quick in this in this information wars, You know? Because that's really what we're in. If you're paying attention, we are in we have been in information wars for a very long time. And It's only been recently that some people have been waking up to these things, to this information war. So How am I approaching it? I'm really just saying just try to stay calm, try to stay focused on the real answers, And use those answers in your life.
Use those answers in your life. Use and For me, personally, it's mushrooms. I see mushrooms as an answer. A for mental relief when it comes to the psychedelics and the psilocybin. You know? That's my own journey, And that's my own opinion, and I continue to explore that. I continue to explore different, Routes and routines with that. You know? And it it's also about just sharing with my dad the turkey tail, Sharing with my dad what types of things might help his cognition, what types of mushrooms might help my grandma's brain. You know? People are open to these things if If you just, you know, casually bring it to them.
You know? No one wants to be hassled. No one wants to be pitched. No one wants to be sold. You know, I really don't believe anyone wants to be sold. And because I'm someone that can fall down rabbit holes and I can get A lot of information really quickly, and I can memorize things. Sometimes I'm afraid that when I describe the thing that I'm into at that moment to someone, I'm afraid that I'm, like, pitching it to them. I'm afraid that I'm coming across as, like, you need to believe everything I believe, and that's so not what I want.
Even though I'm coming from a place of I believe my information is true, I have been actively reminding myself that the other person is just they have what they have. And certain words might be walls to them, and other words that I say might be an open door. You know? Other words might be just like a A window that they're looking through. You know? These are all just, like, analogies I'm coming up with right now. You know? Some words like, some people might be put off by the words you say. Other people might be inspired. And so I've approached this. If I see Bitcoin as a solution, I wanna bring Bitcoin up in a casual In a calm way.
And if I do, you know, maybe they might be more receptive to it. And maybe if I can show them like, if I can get them curious about it. You know? If I can get them curious about something. So, you know, man, that's just that that that's on my mind right now. That that's really what I wanted to express. How do you talk? Do you do you focus on on how you talk? This sort of connects to a book I read a while ago, long time ago, actually. This book had a really deep influence on how I communicate with folks, like like, person to person.
And, the the book is called How to Win Friends and Influence People, and I believe it came out in, like, 1933 or something like that. It came out in the thirties for sure. And, it gives you a lot of detail of, like, what a person wants to hear. A person wants to hear a question about themselves. Like, a person is interested in themselves, and they're more willing to talk about themselves and, you know, In in engaging with a person, knowing those truths can help you, like, get more friends and win them over. You know? That's Really what the book was pointing to, and that's influenced me how I how I communicate the information I have.
If I want value for value to be popular, if I want more people to be receptive of value for value, then that means I, I need to get them curious about it. I need to see where they're at. And that's where I've been sort of, bouncing around a little bit. So and that takes me to back to last night back to last night. Before I before I sang dick in a box, I was filming a short film, with, with Shannon and with a buddy of mine, Soren. I've worked with worked with him before. We were at his apartment, And we're, getting set up, and, right by the kitchen, there is a guy that I know, but I had never met in real life before. This guy that I, had worked with, his name's Joey.
I had only, like, communicated through, like, text messages and Instagram with Joey. And it had been, like, years since him and I had had really spoken or done anything. I was like, holy shit. Like, he's right there. Like, Joey, what's up, dude? Nice to meet you in real life then. And he was like, yeah, man. Dude, like like, same, dude. Same. Like, what's going on? And, Joey, he's a musician. Right? And I wanted to bring up value for value music and podcasting. And he was one of 2 people that I had a conversation with this week about this topic. And, the interesting thing is that, you know, Joey, he he he he's my age. You know? He grew up on the Internet. He's He was, doing music on his computer. He has a whole setup. You know? Like, he knows, like, he knows that. Like, he's fairly tech savvy. He's working with a band Out in, out in England. So, you know, Internet communications, Internet creations, you know, this is in his field of stuff.
And I was able to talk to him about it, and I, I was telling him, hey. Like, did you know That, there's music in podcasts. And this is how I've been trying to, like, pitch it. You know? This is how I've been trying to just, like, tell people about it. Did you know this? Did you know there's music in podcast now? And, he was he was open to it. He was receptive to this. And The thing that always, gets everyone whenever I bring it up to someone, whenever I bring up value for value and, And the music stuff and and this podcast, the thing that always gets people is Bitcoin.
Oh, I use Bitcoin. We're using a payment system that's global, and it's, it's not controlled by anyone. Do you know anything about Bitcoin? And they're always like, no. Bitcoin? Oh, okay. Like, sometimes it's like, oh, I really don't know anything about it. And other times, they act like the person hearing me acts like I'm, like, pitching them to buy Bitcoin or something like that. And then I try to demonstrate it, and they have, like, literally zero clue what's going on. But I'm talking to Joey last night, I'm like, do you know anything about Bitcoin? He goes, oh, yeah. For sure. I go, oh, dope.
So you, like, you know that it's, like, Not controlled. Right? And goes, yeah. Just like, yeah. It's it's a currency that's decentralized and yada yada. I was like, oh, thank god. Thank God you know something about that. He didn't know much about lightning network. He didn't know much about the podcasting 2 point o stuff. Of course, You know, it's super niche, but he knew at least at a basic level what Bitcoin was And how it could be used, how it might be able to be used. And that's interesting. That's interesting. Because when it comes to narratives that are helpful for the world, you know, we're going to need to get those types of people more curious about the solutions.
So maybe we can get people like Joey, more curious about Bitcoin. I I showed him boost the gram ball. I showed him, or at least I told him what I'm doing with my show, adding more music, interviewing more musicians, yada yada. I really see value for value and and in in music podcasting as a real, demonstration. Like, it's one of the few things like, it's a like, It is an ecosystem. Value for value music podcasting is a brand new ecosystem that can be Demonstrated to anyone across the world in real time, and any other one of those people can start doing it themselves If they have the Internet. If they have a computer and the Internet, they can do it.
And That's a solution to, you know, all the all the bottlenecks of creation. That's a solution to How a person can express themselves and maybe make some money from it, maybe pay a bill or two from it, or just or just connect with people. You know? So much of art is to just connect with people. So I was really happy about that. I was really happy that Joey was open to it, and I was it just got me thinking about narratives. Like, how do I how do I talk about this? How do I talk about the solutions? I need to get people curious. I need to get them a little curious, and I need to continue to, like, refine down How I say things, because I kept stumbling over my words when I was talking to him. I always stumble over my words when I talk about Bitcoin and when I talk about the podcasting stuff. And, You know, it's it's always something that I continue to learn about because it's not something I'm an expert in, of course. You know? Is anyone an expert in Bitcoin? Is anyone really an expert in podcasting?
Nodded. We're all just, like, we're all experimenting. It's always an experiment. So I continue to to remind myself about that, and I hope when it comes to you and your life and and your conversations, like, are you are Are are you poking the bear? Are you starting fights? Are you engaging in an in a healthy way? How are we innovating? How are we Bringing forward a healthier world, healthier communities. You know? That's what we need. So Maybe you can figure out just think about your own life. Like, what's an answer that you think people need, and what's the best way to communicate that?
You know, you gotta figure that out. Go go. You figure it out. That's really the value, folks. That's really the pitch. And with that with that, that that means we're gonna head on into the boost, ladies and gentlemen. With all this talk about value, I gotta remind you that America Plus is a value for value show. That means that the audience puts puts the value on this show, to pay pay what you want. We're we're doing this through Bitcoin. We're doing this through the through the lightning network. There's a suite of apps that you can choose from, and you can listen to the podcast, engage with it. There's 3 main ways that you can engage with the podcast. It's time, talent, and treasure.
The time part, you know, if you're listening, if you're returning, thank you. That's your time. Thank you for giving me a little bit of your time. And if you see any value in this, if you're watching the video, we're we're we're on whatever platform, Like it. Subscribe. Repost it. Please just engage with it whatever however you can. That is your time. Thank you so much. That's your attention. The talents I got a really fun example for the talents for value for value. I offered my talents to, my friend, Kyron my friend, Kyron Down in Australia. He does a book review podcast, And he's been having me, read off these quotes from the books. And while he's been presenting the review, He plays my little voice over, in between his stuff. And, that's an example of How one person can share their talents with a podcaster.
If you have any information to give me, if you have any other insights About the topics I give, that's your talent. If you have any artistic talents, you know, I'm making movies. I'm talking about my movie after this, so stick around. I'm talking about Magic Mushroom Fun Time, and I'm giving, like, more updates on that after I go through the boosts. The boost the grams. The talent is necessary. I need people around me. I need talented people around me. I I am slowly building, a larger team of people who can help me do podcasts and movies. Podcasts and movies. A podcaster who makes movies. That's the vision. That's the brand. That's what I'm moving with, and I wanna use value for value, a part of that. So if you have any connection To, to any type of storytelling, to any type of, resources involving that, you know, reach out. You You know, let's just start chatting. Maybe if you wanna just have a conversation, see you know, just let's just hang out. Like, Let's just connect. I'm I'm just trying to connect to more people to this medium. You know? That's the real thing. That's the real hope. And then the last thing is treasure. I've been talking about Bitcoin.
You can go to any modern podcasting app. You know, I'm talking about Podcast Guru, Fountain, Podverse, just to name 3. There's, like, a a bunch of others. You're able to send me small bits of Bitcoin, called Satoshis, and you're able to stream or boost. And I'm gonna be reading the boosts right now. These are all the boostograms coming from coming from fountain. Fountain's oh, by by the way, fountain's like my favorite 1, by the way. Go to value for value dot info for more info, then download the fountain dot f m app. It's the best way to support the show. That's value, the number 4, Value dot info. That's a website you can go to to get a better breakdown of what the whole model and system is. And then, yeah, I've been using Fountain for a long time. It's it's The place where a lot of people are boosting. There's a lot of transactions happening on fountain.
But you can boost, from any app, really. You can boost me from anywhere. That's the magic of Bitcoin. You can it's an open source, open field. It's just programmable money. So wherever you're at, You're able to boost me. And, I'm gonna be going from the lowest lowest to the highest. Well, first off, shout out to Kyron for streaming me sats last week. He usually streams me, like, 18 or 19 Satoshis a minute. So just thank you so much for that, man. This first boostagram comes from at Username 404. They send in 100 sats. Last week was number 98. Titled it Thanksgiving and the rapture. I went deep on the Bible. Went deep on talking aliens, and all this stuff.
Listen to that one. That that that one was fun. They send him 100 sats. They say Amazing questions are rising in this incredible podcast, and we are all trying to understand how it all works out. I love the things and thoughts that were involved. Hopefully, we all survive. And props to the movie coming out soon. Yes. Thank you. Boost. Thank you so much. Username 404. I appreciate it. Yeah. I hope we survive as well. I hope I hope we all live through the Through the rapture. This next one comes from at Shannon p. What up, Shannon? She sends in a lucky 333 sets.
She sends in 3 heart emojis, and she says, I love hearing you talk about the holidays and gratefulness with a new perspective. Yeah. Boosting is loving. I love it. Yeah, Shan. I, I feel good. Like, this holiday season, I feel good. I feel like I'm in good spirits. I'm in a focused headspace, and I'm I'm moving forward. I'm running. I'm running. This last one, the biggest one of the week comes from our friend Joel w. He sends in, his favorite, Satchel of Richards, 1,111 sets. He says, always thought the Pleiadian slash intergalactic federation thing to be nonsensical, but Thought provoking episode, nonetheless.
And now as the French say, it is time for Le Boost. Yeah. Joel. Basically, you put Bitcoin with anything, and all of a sudden, that is more efficient. I thought it was crazy too, the stuff. If we could just talk about the stuff from last week real quick. This is a new topic for me. Okay? Literally, in the last, like, month, Have I stumbled on this type of a narrative on what the larger context of the universe and Earth is? And I thought it was new, or, like, I just didn't know what to think about it. And as soon as I start bringing bringing it up to people, it's as if, like, A lot of people know about it.
Like, a lot of people have heard about this thing. A lot of people have heard about the Pleiadians and the Galactic Federation. A lot of people. And if it's nonsensical, like, I'm open to that. That's totally cool. All I'm looking for are the answers to the UFOs. What the hell are the UFOs, and what the hell is the rapture? And I'm looking for I'm I'm looking for cohesiveness. So if you have cohesiveness to these types of stories, to these types of narratives, I'm looking for an answer, dude. We'll see how it goes. Thank you to everyone who, chimed in and gave in, that value sent in that value. It's basically oh, whoops. What do I got here?
I feel like I have 1 more. What's this 1? Let me just do this one one more time. I love this one. Boosting is loving. Thank you to everyone who boosted in. Those are the boostograms. Go to fountain.fm if you wanna send 1 or download any podcasting 2 point o app. That's the main spot, dude. This is the revolutionary area, dude. This is how we do it. This is America plus. This is how we sustain ourselves. What I wanna get into now is, what do we got? What do we got? Oh, magic mushroom fun time. More guests. More guests in that magic mushroom fun time.
I'm putting all of my in energy this month into my movie. My short film, Magic Mushroom Fun Time. I continue to refine it. I continue to figure out the edits. I continue to figure out the AI video that I need. I'll be filming live action scenes here very soon in the coming weeks. It's coming out Christmas Day 2023. And all I wanna say about it is I know it's gonna be fun. Like, I have I have all the hope in the world that it's gonna be good. I don't care if it's good, though. I just know it's gonna be fun. You know, that's why it's called fun time magic marching fun time. You know?
And I know and I really wanna push this whole value for value cinema thing. So as I'm working on the movie, I'm trying to get all my filmmaking friends, in on it in on the value. And so that's why I'm trying to pitch them Bitcoin. I'm trying to pitch them this whole thing. You know? Like, because that's how I wanna make the movie. So I don't know where a lot of people are at. You know, it's still you know, people see Bitcoin as stocks still, which is insane. And they see it as some investment thing. They don't see it as a currency. They don't see it as a as a thing to use. So as this month goes on, we'll see how my friends are, Are receiving to it, and, I just don't wanna spoil anything. Honestly, I, Do I have anything to share? I don't really wanna share anything.
I want it to be like a big surprise. I know that magic mushroom fun time will not be what you expect. You know? That's a fact. That's a fact, and that's where I wanna be at. I'll be doing the time value splits. I think there'll be 2 songs. You know, as this process goes on, I've been focusing in on this, like, 1 song. And they're and I've been saying there's gonna be multiple, But we'll see how that goes. We'll see how that turns out, honestly. The movie is making itself. That is what's always Spoken. Whenever you watch a behind the scenes documentary, when you listen to something from a Martin Scorsese or a Francis Ford Coppola Or anyone, really.
The movie shapes itself, and the movie tells you How it should be. What the story should be. And as the director, I need to listen to that, and I need to direct that energy into that into that current. I need to direct that energy into that alignment. And that's how I that's how I view the role of the director. That's how I view the role of me right now. I want to direct the energy into alignment. And that's, like, the best thing that I can that that that's the best way that I can put it right now, man. I That's who I am. I wanna direct the energy into alignment. Like, we can do this. We can do this.
And with that, that just means more guests on the podcast. Everyone who's helping me make the movie is gonna be a guest on the podcast. I don't have the schedule for that yet, because I'm making the movie, but a lot of guests are are are in the works, dude. And I'm playing around with formats. I'm playing around with, with a few different things. But the list of Guests coming on the show just keeps getting bigger and bigger. I recently, 1 guest I'll be having on soon. I'm about to schedule this. Maybe I shouldn't promise promise, but, I recently switched over, my podcast hosting companies, And I reached out to, to the guy who made this thing. The, I switched over to Podhome.
Podhome is a new hosting site, And, I think it's only been around for, like, a few weeks. Like, it's a really young hosting site, and I reached out to the guy who's running it, to see if he wants to be on it. His name is Barry. And he was like, yeah. Like, sure. Let's do it. So, I think I'm getting Barry on soon. That's gonna be lit. Getting more musicians on too. I've been talking to musicians. We're getting that all scheduled. And, I want you to think about phase 2. I want you to think about how America Plus is going to upgrade itself because You need to upgrade too. Like, we are kicking it into a higher gear.
That means you got to as well. Like, come on, dog. Come on. Come on. Come on. What else do I got? What else do I got? How how long has it been? We're at 40 minutes. Do I have anything else honestly? Like, I'm excited for the movie. It we're doing value for value with the movie. We are Manifesting incredible fortune. We are doing everything we think we should be doing. We are working our hardest in the kitchen. We are focused. This is one of those episodes where you're you're you're getting pure cold, dude. Pure cold. I really don't have much else to say. What I wanna do now, guys, this is where we this is where we really, get into it. This part, this is where we experiment. This is where we run with scissors.
What's happening now? I because I switched over to this to to this Pod Home hosting service, they supply me the ability to have time value splits. And what that means is I'm able to put a song in my in my show and attach that to my feed and hook up the artist's, lightning address or node address, to my feed, And you are able to stream and boost the song when it plays. And right now, I got and this has happened this is the new structure. This is the new permanent structure for America Plus. At the end of every episode now, I'm going to end with a song. I will end each episode with a song, and this is going to be the 1st official song that wraps up Episode number 99, dude. Not even at we're not even at triple digits, and we got music, dawg. Like, come on. We are can.
We're on it, dude. Like, give give me a round of applause. Like, please, man. This is not just some silly shit. This is not some music show, dude. This is not some silly bullshit thing on Spotify. This is value for value music podcasting, time value Splits, this is podcasting 2 point o. In your face, man. We're playing one of my favorite songs from this independent band called Death by lions. Hang on. Let me do that one more time. Death by lions. This band is dope as fuck, people. I heard them on 1 show. I heard 1 song, on some other podcast.
I believe it was upbeat upbeat beats or something like that. One one of those things. And, I like the song I heard, and then I went to the album. And then I heard another song that I just became obsessed with. And this is like a rock band. This is like a like a, what how do you wanna say it? It's like an almost alternative, almost heavy metal. Like, it's it's a really good vibe. So this song is called by Death by Lions, hold the line, folks, and it's So America plus, check this out, everybody. This is Woo. Woo. Hang on. Hang on. Hang on. Why did I hit that button? I didn't mean to hit that button. Hang on, guys. Let me start Here we go. Ladies and gentlemen, from Jet by Lions, we got Hold the Line.
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It's my dick in a box. What's up, everyone? It's America Plus. I'm your host, Cole McCormick. It's another week, another episode. What's going on, everybody? You made it to another beautiful week. What's going on, folks? It's Sunday, December 3rd, 357 in the PM. What's going on, everybody? Happy happy happy to be here. Happy to see you. Happy to Hear from you again, folks. Beautiful day to be alive. It's a nice day here. Nice sunny day in Los Angeles, Southern California. Last night I gotta talk about last night real quick. My girlfriend and I, I got the photo up. If you're in a modern podcasting app, you're able to see this chapter image. It's a hilarious photo. Last night, my girlfriend, Shannon, and I, we went out, to a karaoke bar. Couple of our friends were Having, like, a goodbye party. Both of them are moving across country, and, we're just saying bye, having fun. And the theme Was Justin Timberlake and oh, no. Not just Justin Timberlake. It was lonely island lonely island themed. Do Do you know this group? This music group?
It's a it's a deep cut SNL sketch from the 20 tens. Does anyone know this? I think I'll get, like, banned from YouTube if I played any any of the music, but pretty much, there's a viral Song from the lonely island on SNL with Justin Timberlake and Andy Sambergen. They got these insane costumes with their dicks in a box, and that's The costume, Shannon and I went as, and we sang that song, and it was lit. We got the entire bar, cheering us on. It was awesome. It was a really good time. It was a really fun time last night. Had had a mule or 2. Had some alcohol. Don't really have. You know, it's so rare when I have alcohol, but it's also not rare when I have alcohol. That's where I'm at in my life. It's like, no. I don't drink. But you know what? When I think about it, The most times I go out, I might have a drink. So I think I might drink.
It's a good time to be alive, folks. What we're doing this week, we're having a good time. We are experimenting. First of all, I got some insane updates for you. Some Some incredible updates for the show. As we're moving forward into the new year, into the new phase, into phase, What are we in? Phase we're going into phase 2. We're in phase 1.5 right now. We're going into phase 2, and We're trying to update the show, man. And so I got a really special, special thing towards the end of the episode. I'm I finally have, like, music available, so maybe we'll be able to listen to music today. So we're talking about innovation, but we're also talking about just, like, Silly little narratives that I keep seeing online and why like, it's just like, these unhealthy narratives that I see, like, they're just not America Plus. They're just not embodying a better world, a healthier world, or any healthier systems. I was scrolling online today, and I see these, this link from a guy I follow, scientist. His name is Paul Stamets. Does that name sound familiar to anyone?
Paul Stamets, he's a a mycologist. He's a mushroom scientist, and, he posted a link of himself being, featured in a Reader's Digest article, pertaining to people who are it was like a top ten list of people who are Helping save the earth. Helping save the environment. And I was like, oh, cool. That's awesome because, You know, he does legitimate stuff. If you know anything about Paul Stamets, he's been on Joe Rogan a handful of times. I think he did a podcast for a minute. He has a bunch of YouTube videos. He has a really incredible story about his mother, using the, turkey tail species mushroom, for, in, the she put it in her regimen for her stage 4 cancer, and she's cancer free right now. She's still alive to this day. And, you know, turkey tail mushroom, you know, definitely helped her. And so, this guy's a resource that I've given to my father who has cancer himself. This is a guy who I've listened to, just pretty sincerely. Like, he has really good information, And, he's just a normal guy. So I was like, oh, dope. Let's see where he's at on this list. Like, where does he rank?
I would love to see where he ranks at. And I click on it, and this is what pisses me off. This is the unhealthy narrative. I click on the Reader's Digest, and number 1, The number 1 person on earth on the planet that we subside on who's doing the most. Say it with me. Greta Thunberg. Folks, Number 1 on this stinking list is Greta freaking Thunberg. Where's Paul Stamets at? Where's Paul Stamets? Oh, by the way, by the way, Paul Stamets has information about mushrooms saving the bees. Paul Stamets has information about how mushrooms can help, re help soil regenerate.
Paul Stamets has information about how mushrooms can literally affect ecosystems in a positive way. Mushrooms can help Bring about more symbioticness, more symbiosis within the ecosystems. And where is he at? Where is he at? He's beneath Greta. I know that for a fact. He's number 3, ladies and gentlemen. Number 3. Why are you doing this to my boy, Digest? What's going on right now? They said the good things. Like, the like the the little blurb they had, like, he's He's changing the world. He's he's, you know, the he's doing all this research, but it just hurt me, dude. It hurt me to see this Paul Stamets guy, this nice guy. This guy, his hats are made of mushrooms.
That's who this guy is. He's obsessed. And it it it's insane when you can care about the environment and you seek out Real information pertaining to, the negativeness of the environment. Like like like, what are the negative things going on? What's the real problem? Is it climate change? Is it global warming? What's going on? I continue To get to the, conclusion that it's still pollution is the main problem, and that pollution creates, Unbalances within the ecosystem. And Paul Stamets, his information, his science, his research, you know, There's just way too much research about how mushrooms can create more symbiosis in your body and within nature.
On Joe Rogan, he spoke about how there's a certain species of mushroom that can help sustain bee colonies. It can help keep the comb healthy. And, you know, if you know anything about the environment, you know, if you If you do any research, you know that bees are dying. You know? And we need more beekeepers. We need, like, more like that. Like, bees are, like, fundamental to Earth. And, you know, the globalist people, the Greta Thunberg people, You know, they might point to that. They might talk about that point how the bees are dying. And then they'll say it's climate change, and we need to drive electric cars As if that's gonna do anything.
The solution is within the ecosystem. How can we Help the ecosystem be more balanced, and it's the people who seek profit who tell you to buy things. You know, you gotta be what's, like, the joke with Apple? Like, you gotta buy the iPhone to be carbon neutral? You know what I mean? Like, there's this, like there's just a scam. Like, these lists, this climate change narrative is a scam When people like Paul Stamets is number 3, when we all know, legitimately, He is doing some the most. He's doing some of the most. You know? It's just wild. Just wild. And then, I didn't plan on talking about this, but there's a Elon clip today.
And not today, but but but this week, Elon went viral this week because he was, like, talking shit to the New York Times. And Elon had said the words, I am the 1 person on Earth who has done the most for the environment ever. I heard that, and I was like, okay. Sort of. Maybe. Just because you made more products on Earth. Like, It baffles me how it baffles me how a person making cars is somehow doing more Good for the environment than the guy helping ecosystems sustain. Is this ass backwards or not? Like, it seems ass backwards to me, folks. I just don't understand. And when you read about Greta, you know, They don't lie about her. Like, she's an activist. She's she's a young voice from Sweden. And on Fridays, she has a little club called Fridays for Future, And that's where she encourages she she is this is what it says. Greta encourages students worldwide to strike for climate action.
Are you fucking joking, dude? Meanwhile, Paul Stamets, mushrooms are saving environments. Like, it it it's wild, and it breaks my heart. It breaks my heart. Now Paul Stamets, he has his platform. He has his social medias. He's not suppressed. You know, this is not that sort of a situation, but there is a problem with how we discuss solutions To anything environment. You know? And these types of discussions are really important for the future, and they're important for For how your brain works, like, how do you ask questions? Because the authorities and the people in the meet the mainstream media, You know, they might frame the problem a certain way.
But what we need to remember what people need to remember are Something called first principles. You know what I mean? And this is something that I'm still grasping, you know, but pretty much first principles thinking. You know, Elon's done this. A lot of people in Silicon Valley have done it. A lot of people who are successful think like this or or Apply this type of thinking to problems. You know, just look at the problem at its most fundamental level. Look at the and and when what that means is the solution is on a fundamental problem. Like, the solution is right next to the problem. You know? It doesn't have to be big and huge, and that's what points to Paul Stamets' stuff.
If there's a problem with the environments, then we need to Do something. We need to move the alchemy. We need to move the dirt around somehow. We need to change something so the environment can be more in balance, Because we had we have created imbalance. So this is wild, dude. Just wild how mushrooms can be an answer for environmental problems, but the number 1, help is Telling kids to strike. Just nuts, dude. So I just wanted to express that and just call out the bullshit with that because that's not what I'm looking for. That's not healthy, and I don't like that legitimate science is number 3 on a list of things that's helpful.
Just ridiculous, dude. So if you wanna read the article, if you wanna see the list, I got it linked down below. Just more globalist stuff. You know? A lot of these people are, you know, part of, like, giant institutions. You know, it's you really got You got the whole checkbox. You know? You got the whole list of, of boxes being checked off right now, in in in terms of, who's helping who. You know? So it's very interesting very interesting to see these things. Do you care about the climate? Are you afraid? Or or, like, Is it possible to be an environmentalist while not fully buying in to the climate change narratives? You know, it's one thing where, You know, I can see changes in the weather and also see that the climate is pretty normal. Climate's fairly stable. What? You know? That that's my opinion. That's my view. That's all I have. All I have is my eyesight. You know? Southern California hasn't really It's it's pretty Southern California over here. It hasn't really is it too hot sometimes? Sure. But it's warm. It's the desert.
I'm right by the beach. Isn't it supposed to be warm by the beach? I just don't buy any of this stuff, dude. So how do we move from that? How do we take these weird narratives? Like, how we what is the proper way to move forward with Pushing healthy narratives. I think it's just about just a matter of talking about them, a matter of being casual about the truth. This is something that I've been, trying to practice myself. I don't wanna get in fights. I don't wanna get in arguments. I don't want this. This creates division. And especially when it comes to these hot button topics, like climate change, Like technology, like Bitcoin, like, politics, like, whatever. You know? People are gonna have a lot of strong opinions on whatever they have.
And so I just wanna be casual. Like, I have made a practice to be casual about the truth or try to be at least. And that's a little hard because, like, I get passionate. I get, like, a I get heated. I get heated really fast, And, it's almost like a meditation. It's almost like an active meditation that I gotta sink into when I Talk to someone about a subject that, you know, I know that I'm on the other side of. You know? And I'm And I'm not always good at that. You know? Sometimes I do lean into like, sometimes I poke the bear. You know? Sometimes I wanna upset the person a little bit, but I bring this up today. I bring this environmental, narrative up today because I want you to know that Real science is out there, and there's real answers out there, and they're just you just gotta scroll down a little bit to see them. It's not all propaganda.
It's not all lies. You know? The truth trickles through. You know? No matter how many Globalist influencers, this list may have, or any list, there there are people who are doing legitimate work, And it's important to not get caught up in the emotions of what might of what situations might be implied from, you know, whatever these narratives imply. You know, when it comes to the climate change, a lot of Authoritarianism is implied. A lot of control is implied. And when you start thinking about that, when you start thinking about Then, like, those things, you can get pissed off. You can get riled up. You can get really, You know, just really anxious, really angry, really fast.
And that is like, that's not a healthy place to be at. And America Plus You know, I want America Plus to be this calm focus seeking the answers. You know? That is necessary. It's necessary. So and you always move through it. Right? Like, even me today, I read this and I got pissed off, and I and I got I moved through this wave and the this current of an emotional experience. And, more so lately, I've been getting to a point where I'm like, I just gotta be relaxed. Like, just Point to Paul Stamets. Just point to that answer. Just point to the mushrooms. Just point to the real answers to the problems, like, in any situation I'm in. You know? Whether it be just a conversation online, if I can just talk about how the bees are being saved.
You know? The a, that's a positive narrative, and, b, There's real data to back that up. You know? I can say that to someone who says Earth is dying, and we shouldn't have kids. You know? Well, that's how I feel I need to do in this war. If I can use that term really quick in this in this information wars, You know? Because that's really what we're in. If you're paying attention, we are in we have been in information wars for a very long time. And It's only been recently that some people have been waking up to these things, to this information war. So How am I approaching it? I'm really just saying just try to stay calm, try to stay focused on the real answers, And use those answers in your life.
Use those answers in your life. Use and For me, personally, it's mushrooms. I see mushrooms as an answer. A for mental relief when it comes to the psychedelics and the psilocybin. You know? That's my own journey, And that's my own opinion, and I continue to explore that. I continue to explore different, Routes and routines with that. You know? And it it's also about just sharing with my dad the turkey tail, Sharing with my dad what types of things might help his cognition, what types of mushrooms might help my grandma's brain. You know? People are open to these things if If you just, you know, casually bring it to them.
You know? No one wants to be hassled. No one wants to be pitched. No one wants to be sold. You know, I really don't believe anyone wants to be sold. And because I'm someone that can fall down rabbit holes and I can get A lot of information really quickly, and I can memorize things. Sometimes I'm afraid that when I describe the thing that I'm into at that moment to someone, I'm afraid that I'm, like, pitching it to them. I'm afraid that I'm coming across as, like, you need to believe everything I believe, and that's so not what I want.
Even though I'm coming from a place of I believe my information is true, I have been actively reminding myself that the other person is just they have what they have. And certain words might be walls to them, and other words that I say might be an open door. You know? Other words might be just like a A window that they're looking through. You know? These are all just, like, analogies I'm coming up with right now. You know? Some words like, some people might be put off by the words you say. Other people might be inspired. And so I've approached this. If I see Bitcoin as a solution, I wanna bring Bitcoin up in a casual In a calm way.
And if I do, you know, maybe they might be more receptive to it. And maybe if I can show them like, if I can get them curious about it. You know? If I can get them curious about something. So, you know, man, that's just that that that's on my mind right now. That that's really what I wanted to express. How do you talk? Do you do you focus on on how you talk? This sort of connects to a book I read a while ago, long time ago, actually. This book had a really deep influence on how I communicate with folks, like like, person to person.
And, the the book is called How to Win Friends and Influence People, and I believe it came out in, like, 1933 or something like that. It came out in the thirties for sure. And, it gives you a lot of detail of, like, what a person wants to hear. A person wants to hear a question about themselves. Like, a person is interested in themselves, and they're more willing to talk about themselves and, you know, In in engaging with a person, knowing those truths can help you, like, get more friends and win them over. You know? That's Really what the book was pointing to, and that's influenced me how I how I communicate the information I have.
If I want value for value to be popular, if I want more people to be receptive of value for value, then that means I, I need to get them curious about it. I need to see where they're at. And that's where I've been sort of, bouncing around a little bit. So and that takes me to back to last night back to last night. Before I before I sang dick in a box, I was filming a short film, with, with Shannon and with a buddy of mine, Soren. I've worked with worked with him before. We were at his apartment, And we're, getting set up, and, right by the kitchen, there is a guy that I know, but I had never met in real life before. This guy that I, had worked with, his name's Joey.
I had only, like, communicated through, like, text messages and Instagram with Joey. And it had been, like, years since him and I had had really spoken or done anything. I was like, holy shit. Like, he's right there. Like, Joey, what's up, dude? Nice to meet you in real life then. And he was like, yeah, man. Dude, like like, same, dude. Same. Like, what's going on? And, Joey, he's a musician. Right? And I wanted to bring up value for value music and podcasting. And he was one of 2 people that I had a conversation with this week about this topic. And, the interesting thing is that, you know, Joey, he he he he's my age. You know? He grew up on the Internet. He's He was, doing music on his computer. He has a whole setup. You know? Like, he knows, like, he knows that. Like, he's fairly tech savvy. He's working with a band Out in, out in England. So, you know, Internet communications, Internet creations, you know, this is in his field of stuff.
And I was able to talk to him about it, and I, I was telling him, hey. Like, did you know That, there's music in podcasts. And this is how I've been trying to, like, pitch it. You know? This is how I've been trying to just, like, tell people about it. Did you know this? Did you know there's music in podcast now? And, he was he was open to it. He was receptive to this. And The thing that always, gets everyone whenever I bring it up to someone, whenever I bring up value for value and, And the music stuff and and this podcast, the thing that always gets people is Bitcoin.
Oh, I use Bitcoin. We're using a payment system that's global, and it's, it's not controlled by anyone. Do you know anything about Bitcoin? And they're always like, no. Bitcoin? Oh, okay. Like, sometimes it's like, oh, I really don't know anything about it. And other times, they act like the person hearing me acts like I'm, like, pitching them to buy Bitcoin or something like that. And then I try to demonstrate it, and they have, like, literally zero clue what's going on. But I'm talking to Joey last night, I'm like, do you know anything about Bitcoin? He goes, oh, yeah. For sure. I go, oh, dope.
So you, like, you know that it's, like, Not controlled. Right? And goes, yeah. Just like, yeah. It's it's a currency that's decentralized and yada yada. I was like, oh, thank god. Thank God you know something about that. He didn't know much about lightning network. He didn't know much about the podcasting 2 point o stuff. Of course, You know, it's super niche, but he knew at least at a basic level what Bitcoin was And how it could be used, how it might be able to be used. And that's interesting. That's interesting. Because when it comes to narratives that are helpful for the world, you know, we're going to need to get those types of people more curious about the solutions.
So maybe we can get people like Joey, more curious about Bitcoin. I I showed him boost the gram ball. I showed him, or at least I told him what I'm doing with my show, adding more music, interviewing more musicians, yada yada. I really see value for value and and in in music podcasting as a real, demonstration. Like, it's one of the few things like, it's a like, It is an ecosystem. Value for value music podcasting is a brand new ecosystem that can be Demonstrated to anyone across the world in real time, and any other one of those people can start doing it themselves If they have the Internet. If they have a computer and the Internet, they can do it.
And That's a solution to, you know, all the all the bottlenecks of creation. That's a solution to How a person can express themselves and maybe make some money from it, maybe pay a bill or two from it, or just or just connect with people. You know? So much of art is to just connect with people. So I was really happy about that. I was really happy that Joey was open to it, and I was it just got me thinking about narratives. Like, how do I how do I talk about this? How do I talk about the solutions? I need to get people curious. I need to get them a little curious, and I need to continue to, like, refine down How I say things, because I kept stumbling over my words when I was talking to him. I always stumble over my words when I talk about Bitcoin and when I talk about the podcasting stuff. And, You know, it's it's always something that I continue to learn about because it's not something I'm an expert in, of course. You know? Is anyone an expert in Bitcoin? Is anyone really an expert in podcasting?
Nodded. We're all just, like, we're all experimenting. It's always an experiment. So I continue to to remind myself about that, and I hope when it comes to you and your life and and your conversations, like, are you are Are are you poking the bear? Are you starting fights? Are you engaging in an in a healthy way? How are we innovating? How are we Bringing forward a healthier world, healthier communities. You know? That's what we need. So Maybe you can figure out just think about your own life. Like, what's an answer that you think people need, and what's the best way to communicate that?
You know, you gotta figure that out. Go go. You figure it out. That's really the value, folks. That's really the pitch. And with that with that, that that means we're gonna head on into the boost, ladies and gentlemen. With all this talk about value, I gotta remind you that America Plus is a value for value show. That means that the audience puts puts the value on this show, to pay pay what you want. We're we're doing this through Bitcoin. We're doing this through the through the lightning network. There's a suite of apps that you can choose from, and you can listen to the podcast, engage with it. There's 3 main ways that you can engage with the podcast. It's time, talent, and treasure.
The time part, you know, if you're listening, if you're returning, thank you. That's your time. Thank you for giving me a little bit of your time. And if you see any value in this, if you're watching the video, we're we're we're on whatever platform, Like it. Subscribe. Repost it. Please just engage with it whatever however you can. That is your time. Thank you so much. That's your attention. The talents I got a really fun example for the talents for value for value. I offered my talents to, my friend, Kyron my friend, Kyron Down in Australia. He does a book review podcast, And he's been having me, read off these quotes from the books. And while he's been presenting the review, He plays my little voice over, in between his stuff. And, that's an example of How one person can share their talents with a podcaster.
If you have any information to give me, if you have any other insights About the topics I give, that's your talent. If you have any artistic talents, you know, I'm making movies. I'm talking about my movie after this, so stick around. I'm talking about Magic Mushroom Fun Time, and I'm giving, like, more updates on that after I go through the boosts. The boost the grams. The talent is necessary. I need people around me. I need talented people around me. I I am slowly building, a larger team of people who can help me do podcasts and movies. Podcasts and movies. A podcaster who makes movies. That's the vision. That's the brand. That's what I'm moving with, and I wanna use value for value, a part of that. So if you have any connection To, to any type of storytelling, to any type of, resources involving that, you know, reach out. You You know, let's just start chatting. Maybe if you wanna just have a conversation, see you know, just let's just hang out. Like, Let's just connect. I'm I'm just trying to connect to more people to this medium. You know? That's the real thing. That's the real hope. And then the last thing is treasure. I've been talking about Bitcoin.
You can go to any modern podcasting app. You know, I'm talking about Podcast Guru, Fountain, Podverse, just to name 3. There's, like, a a bunch of others. You're able to send me small bits of Bitcoin, called Satoshis, and you're able to stream or boost. And I'm gonna be reading the boosts right now. These are all the boostograms coming from coming from fountain. Fountain's oh, by by the way, fountain's like my favorite 1, by the way. Go to value for value dot info for more info, then download the fountain dot f m app. It's the best way to support the show. That's value, the number 4, Value dot info. That's a website you can go to to get a better breakdown of what the whole model and system is. And then, yeah, I've been using Fountain for a long time. It's it's The place where a lot of people are boosting. There's a lot of transactions happening on fountain.
But you can boost, from any app, really. You can boost me from anywhere. That's the magic of Bitcoin. You can it's an open source, open field. It's just programmable money. So wherever you're at, You're able to boost me. And, I'm gonna be going from the lowest lowest to the highest. Well, first off, shout out to Kyron for streaming me sats last week. He usually streams me, like, 18 or 19 Satoshis a minute. So just thank you so much for that, man. This first boostagram comes from at Username 404. They send in 100 sats. Last week was number 98. Titled it Thanksgiving and the rapture. I went deep on the Bible. Went deep on talking aliens, and all this stuff.
Listen to that one. That that that one was fun. They send him 100 sats. They say Amazing questions are rising in this incredible podcast, and we are all trying to understand how it all works out. I love the things and thoughts that were involved. Hopefully, we all survive. And props to the movie coming out soon. Yes. Thank you. Boost. Thank you so much. Username 404. I appreciate it. Yeah. I hope we survive as well. I hope I hope we all live through the Through the rapture. This next one comes from at Shannon p. What up, Shannon? She sends in a lucky 333 sets.
She sends in 3 heart emojis, and she says, I love hearing you talk about the holidays and gratefulness with a new perspective. Yeah. Boosting is loving. I love it. Yeah, Shan. I, I feel good. Like, this holiday season, I feel good. I feel like I'm in good spirits. I'm in a focused headspace, and I'm I'm moving forward. I'm running. I'm running. This last one, the biggest one of the week comes from our friend Joel w. He sends in, his favorite, Satchel of Richards, 1,111 sets. He says, always thought the Pleiadian slash intergalactic federation thing to be nonsensical, but Thought provoking episode, nonetheless.
And now as the French say, it is time for Le Boost. Yeah. Joel. Basically, you put Bitcoin with anything, and all of a sudden, that is more efficient. I thought it was crazy too, the stuff. If we could just talk about the stuff from last week real quick. This is a new topic for me. Okay? Literally, in the last, like, month, Have I stumbled on this type of a narrative on what the larger context of the universe and Earth is? And I thought it was new, or, like, I just didn't know what to think about it. And as soon as I start bringing bringing it up to people, it's as if, like, A lot of people know about it.
Like, a lot of people have heard about this thing. A lot of people have heard about the Pleiadians and the Galactic Federation. A lot of people. And if it's nonsensical, like, I'm open to that. That's totally cool. All I'm looking for are the answers to the UFOs. What the hell are the UFOs, and what the hell is the rapture? And I'm looking for I'm I'm looking for cohesiveness. So if you have cohesiveness to these types of stories, to these types of narratives, I'm looking for an answer, dude. We'll see how it goes. Thank you to everyone who, chimed in and gave in, that value sent in that value. It's basically oh, whoops. What do I got here?
I feel like I have 1 more. What's this 1? Let me just do this one one more time. I love this one. Boosting is loving. Thank you to everyone who boosted in. Those are the boostograms. Go to fountain.fm if you wanna send 1 or download any podcasting 2 point o app. That's the main spot, dude. This is the revolutionary area, dude. This is how we do it. This is America plus. This is how we sustain ourselves. What I wanna get into now is, what do we got? What do we got? Oh, magic mushroom fun time. More guests. More guests in that magic mushroom fun time.
I'm putting all of my in energy this month into my movie. My short film, Magic Mushroom Fun Time. I continue to refine it. I continue to figure out the edits. I continue to figure out the AI video that I need. I'll be filming live action scenes here very soon in the coming weeks. It's coming out Christmas Day 2023. And all I wanna say about it is I know it's gonna be fun. Like, I have I have all the hope in the world that it's gonna be good. I don't care if it's good, though. I just know it's gonna be fun. You know, that's why it's called fun time magic marching fun time. You know?
And I know and I really wanna push this whole value for value cinema thing. So as I'm working on the movie, I'm trying to get all my filmmaking friends, in on it in on the value. And so that's why I'm trying to pitch them Bitcoin. I'm trying to pitch them this whole thing. You know? Like, because that's how I wanna make the movie. So I don't know where a lot of people are at. You know, it's still you know, people see Bitcoin as stocks still, which is insane. And they see it as some investment thing. They don't see it as a currency. They don't see it as a as a thing to use. So as this month goes on, we'll see how my friends are, Are receiving to it, and, I just don't wanna spoil anything. Honestly, I, Do I have anything to share? I don't really wanna share anything.
I want it to be like a big surprise. I know that magic mushroom fun time will not be what you expect. You know? That's a fact. That's a fact, and that's where I wanna be at. I'll be doing the time value splits. I think there'll be 2 songs. You know, as this process goes on, I've been focusing in on this, like, 1 song. And they're and I've been saying there's gonna be multiple, But we'll see how that goes. We'll see how that turns out, honestly. The movie is making itself. That is what's always Spoken. Whenever you watch a behind the scenes documentary, when you listen to something from a Martin Scorsese or a Francis Ford Coppola Or anyone, really.
The movie shapes itself, and the movie tells you How it should be. What the story should be. And as the director, I need to listen to that, and I need to direct that energy into that into that current. I need to direct that energy into that alignment. And that's how I that's how I view the role of the director. That's how I view the role of me right now. I want to direct the energy into alignment. And that's, like, the best thing that I can that that that's the best way that I can put it right now, man. I That's who I am. I wanna direct the energy into alignment. Like, we can do this. We can do this.
And with that, that just means more guests on the podcast. Everyone who's helping me make the movie is gonna be a guest on the podcast. I don't have the schedule for that yet, because I'm making the movie, but a lot of guests are are are in the works, dude. And I'm playing around with formats. I'm playing around with, with a few different things. But the list of Guests coming on the show just keeps getting bigger and bigger. I recently, 1 guest I'll be having on soon. I'm about to schedule this. Maybe I shouldn't promise promise, but, I recently switched over, my podcast hosting companies, And I reached out to, to the guy who made this thing. The, I switched over to Podhome.
Podhome is a new hosting site, And, I think it's only been around for, like, a few weeks. Like, it's a really young hosting site, and I reached out to the guy who's running it, to see if he wants to be on it. His name is Barry. And he was like, yeah. Like, sure. Let's do it. So, I think I'm getting Barry on soon. That's gonna be lit. Getting more musicians on too. I've been talking to musicians. We're getting that all scheduled. And, I want you to think about phase 2. I want you to think about how America Plus is going to upgrade itself because You need to upgrade too. Like, we are kicking it into a higher gear.
That means you got to as well. Like, come on, dog. Come on. Come on. Come on. What else do I got? What else do I got? How how long has it been? We're at 40 minutes. Do I have anything else honestly? Like, I'm excited for the movie. It we're doing value for value with the movie. We are Manifesting incredible fortune. We are doing everything we think we should be doing. We are working our hardest in the kitchen. We are focused. This is one of those episodes where you're you're you're getting pure cold, dude. Pure cold. I really don't have much else to say. What I wanna do now, guys, this is where we this is where we really, get into it. This part, this is where we experiment. This is where we run with scissors.
What's happening now? I because I switched over to this to to this Pod Home hosting service, they supply me the ability to have time value splits. And what that means is I'm able to put a song in my in my show and attach that to my feed and hook up the artist's, lightning address or node address, to my feed, And you are able to stream and boost the song when it plays. And right now, I got and this has happened this is the new structure. This is the new permanent structure for America Plus. At the end of every episode now, I'm going to end with a song. I will end each episode with a song, and this is going to be the 1st official song that wraps up Episode number 99, dude. Not even at we're not even at triple digits, and we got music, dawg. Like, come on. We are can.
We're on it, dude. Like, give give me a round of applause. Like, please, man. This is not just some silly shit. This is not some music show, dude. This is not some silly bullshit thing on Spotify. This is value for value music podcasting, time value Splits, this is podcasting 2 point o. In your face, man. We're playing one of my favorite songs from this independent band called Death by lions. Hang on. Let me do that one more time. Death by lions. This band is dope as fuck, people. I heard them on 1 show. I heard 1 song, on some other podcast.
I believe it was upbeat upbeat beats or something like that. One one of those things. And, I like the song I heard, and then I went to the album. And then I heard another song that I just became obsessed with. And this is like a rock band. This is like a like a, what how do you wanna say it? It's like an almost alternative, almost heavy metal. Like, it's it's a really good vibe. So this song is called by Death by Lions, hold the line, folks, and it's So America plus, check this out, everybody. This is Woo. Woo. Hang on. Hang on. Hang on. Why did I hit that button? I didn't mean to hit that button. Hang on, guys. Let me start Here we go. Ladies and gentlemen, from Jet by Lions, we got Hold the Line.
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