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Sa. Sam, I got the flu real bad today. Been vomiting since this morning, several times. But Brute is a man of the people and the show must go on.

So I'm here, I got my fucking penicillin, which, if you know what I'm talking about, this natural, organic American spirits that is the fucking panacea. But yeah, I got some fucking crazy stomach bug right now. Been a wild day. Been basking in the fucking sun, hoping it would disinfect this thing.

But your boy's probably got another 24, 48 hours to ride this one out. Anyway, I got a DM that intrigued me. Very few DMS actually raised my hackles, but this one did. This youngster, young, young enthusiast, 21 years old, comes right out of the gates and shares with me that he

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a cold approach addiction, which made me laugh out loud when I heard it. I almost closed the message, but I read a little further and this guy goes on to tell me that he has cold approached 150 women in the last week. It's all he does. He gets up early, goes out and just fires missiles at women.

He's 21 and he tells me that he's the freest he's ever been in his entire life. He's getting, he's riveted. This is like the most exhilarating thing he's ever done, is mustering up the courage every day to just talk. And he says, he claims that he's talking to the prettiest women that he can find.

And this guy's just roaming the streets dropping missiles. Now I love guys like this, of course I do, but he goes on, on a very long winded story and you know these types of messages. I, I, it's a blue moon that I ever even bother to reply. But I could just tell from the spirit in which he was writing this to me that this was riding some kind of wave and he needed some guidance.

And so the first thing I asked him, because it did pique my curiosity, I said, share with me. Out of 150, cold approaches. How many you hitting? Like, I was really curious, how many have you bagged?

Approaching 150 women. And this dude gets raw with me, which I respected even more, and he's like, brood, I, I haven't hit a single one. He's like, I'm, I'm zero. I'm zero for 150.

Zero. And immediately I start stitching together the psychology behind this, the psychology behind this, this little, this little tirade this guy's on. Look, listen, here's what happens, okay? Addiction to failure is a real thing.

It's a real thing. You see it in sales. You see it in. There's a lot of modalities where people get addicted to the process.

People cleave on to the process, and there's comfort in guaranteed failure. And if someone is approaching 150 women, I don't give a. If you're that little hunchback from 300 with that little shield and that little broad sword. If you're some gangly looking.

If you're approaching 150 women, you should be hitting one. So I came to the conclusion, and this was instantaneous. This fell upon me from the heavens that this guy is purposely failing. Like, he doesn't.

There's a part of him that doesn't want to succeed because there's a guaranteed safety net. And there's comfort in knowing that essentially he's rolling into things and. And he's on it. This guy's on a kamikaze mission is what I want to tell you.

It's. It's almost like a suicide mission. Like it makes him feel alive when he rolls up to a woman way out of his league and gets his fucking head blown off. Motherfucker, all his hormones are fucking charging, secreting out of every fucking pore.

And if you're paying attention and you're familiar with my work, you probably know where I'm going with this. There is the point of the process, Any process that you find yourself mired in. The point is obviously always to win, right? And the thing with women that a lot of guys truly don't understand is there's an upper crest.

There's an upper crest. There's an upper tier, an upper antechamber, which once, once you breach this particular tier, and it's a status thing, it's a hundred. This guy's low status, okay? That's his problem.

He's low status. He's 21, doesn't have a fucking penny to his name, doesn't have a body of work, doesn't even know who the fuck he is, okay? But he's getting his rocks off by this little game he's playing with himself. And here's the reality.

When you ever try to make a science and you try to isolate and make a science out of an entire portfolio of knowledge and wisdom that should just be naturally ingrained in a winning process. You are cutting off your nose despite your face. That's what you're doing. In other words, any time you boil down the science of picking up women or you isolate that factor and you become a pickup artist.

You label yourself as a guy who has to get women. You are pointing the blade. You are poising the blade at your own heart. Because like I just said in the upper crest, the upper echelons of life, the rules of engaging and picking up women are 100% inverted.

Which means there is no pickup at the top. When you are a high status, powerful man, women approach you, you, you are roaming around town doing whatever the fuck you want to do. And these things manifest organically. It's an afterthought.

Do you understand? There is zero intentional curation. And I'm here to tell you that the longest standing relationships on planet Earth all have that nature in common, which is that the meeting was serendipitous. It was benevolent and it was organic.

There was no orchestration. Do you understand? So the success level, what this really needed to do was he needed to get more time in building himself, right? He needs a fucking skill set.

He needs to fucking grow. He's a move out the fuck out of his hometown. I just made a tweet a couple hours ago. Those with a keen eye, with a sharpshooter eye, saw what I said.

I said your home, wherever you start or like the hometown that you were born in, that's a failed start for a man. I don't give a fuck if you're born on Star Island. Your hometown that you were born in is a failed start because it is a rite of passage. Every man has a duty to move out, start from scratch when you're a nobody and turn yourself into a somebody.

That's actually how you get confidence. That's how you get confidence. And I went on to say that indulging in the process of moving should also not be done too often. Because it's similar to taking a psychedelic.

You take too much psychedelics, you take too many, and there's no links that form anymore. Do you understand? You're just a blob. You're a blob of a human being getting kicked around.

And so that's what this motherfucker needs to do. He's the uproot himself and he's to get more life experience. And women need to be drawn to him through osmosis. There is, look, there is a level in the upper echelons.

I've reached this, okay? I'm telling you, the high percentage shots is, is when life gets real fun. When you have enough life experience and you are so adept because you've seen everything you Understand human psychology. You pick up the cues.

I. I cannot remember the last time when I was younger, when I approached a woman and got blown out of a set. It just, There was a lot, like I went on like a two year stretch where every single one that I did choose, it was a fucking make. It was a fucking slam dunk.

Because you just sort of get this repertoire. You get this, this natural wisdom, this natural understanding of the signals and the cues. Like you just know for. You can predict it.

There's like a precognition. You just know exactly how this is going to play out. You know what she's going to say, you know what you're going to say. It's already fucking chamber loaded, ready to rock and roll.

And then it's just fucking easy. Life gets super easy at that point, you know what I mean? Then you're using the sniper. You're using the fucking lethal sniper instead of that shotgun grape shot approach, which is what Oldboy was doing.

But old boy has a psychological issue with the addiction to the process and failure. And you see this in sales, too. There's a lot of guys who are. Look, if you are, if you have to cold call hundreds of times a day, hundreds of times a day, you have no leverage.

You know what I mean? Like, that is the bottom of the barrel strategy. That's the sludge at Arco. That is like literal 87 gasoline.

You're gonna choke your fuel line eventually. We all know this. We all know this subconsciously. We all know some people are playing a very different game.

Or the clients, the gravitas, the. The magnetic field, people just gravitate to them, and that's really where you want to be and you want to make, when you never want to make women, the primary function, they should be tailing along as you are sojourning through life, you know what I'm saying? Your train is bulldozing. And if they want to hop on the caboose, then they can.

But that window needs to be very short because men keep it moving. Men keep it moving. Another thing this guy, you know, archetypically, he has, There's. There's some strengths here.

And I think this is what drew me to the message. The guy has balls. He's got 90 of it right there. He's got courage, right?

But there's a nuance to this. And I want you guys to understand when you intentionally embark on quests that are so difficult, way above your pay grade, that you literally, you know for a fact, you ain't gonna Hit it. Okay? Because it's just way over your head and you're purposely getting blown out.

That actually morphs into a form of cowardice. Do you understand? So what started as a courageous, gallant, valorous venture has now deteriorated into cowardice. This dude's being a coward because he's afraid to play the real game, which is to build yourself a real life, you understand?

So you get blown out of sets 150 times. Now you are beclowning yourself. You know what I mean? You're not, you're just a dancing monkey, you're a court jester.

And you're purposely getting your head chopped off, like I said. And so now it becomes a cow, it becomes a cowardly act. And this is where, if you notice, a lot of my work is very binary. I, I love paradox.

I love paradox because paradox, the truth is extremely paradoxical. It is. Let's look at the loser winner dichotomy. All right.

The loser winner dichotomy is fascinating because it's, the line is a lot closer than you think. Winners swing. There is a pendulum drop from being a winner and a loser. And it happens often.

So like a winner can be in a loser's phase and then pendulum swing the other the other way very quickly. This happens all the time, you know, I've drawn comparisons to the billionaire, the crusader, the artist, the fat guy, the conqueror. I said they're all the same. The alcoholic, the drug addict.

I said they're all the same. Do you know why? They're all the same. I'm going to tell you why.

The billionaire is a junkie for momentum. Just like a fucking alcoholic. Families are falling apart, friends are drifting away and they just can't stop. Anyone who's successful, they cannot stop.

They have to keep going. And the blast radius, the collateral damage, the nuclear waste that ends up spreading, oftentimes many loved ones get hit with friendly fire. How is a look at an Elon Musk? You know how much damage has been caused while he power punched his way to the top?

You know how many fallen relationships have taken place along that journey? Hundreds. He can't stop. He has to continue building his.

He has to continue being at the top. The guy literally can't help himself. The makeup, the constitution, that is the exact same prototypical behavior of an alcoholic. It's no fucking different.

It's just one has north momentum and one has south momentum and that line is very close. And if you look at my tweet yesterday where I mentioned, and this is why depression is so Dangerous, by the way. Depression is dangerous only if you stagnate in it. And what a lot of people who are in a depression don't understand is that when you are in depression, you're actually closer to the wraparound effect of being at the top, being at the apex of the emotional spectrum.

If you just drop a couple levels lower than depression, and this is where people make the mistake. They get caught, they get ensnared in the depression. But if you, if things get a little bit worse and you keep trying and you keep failing and you experience a little more pain, you actually drop through a trap door underneath depression into absolute fucking hilarity. It's true.

The funniest moments, the most genuine joy, belly laughter you will ever experience. The mirth happens when you're in despair. You're almost hit this like, delirium where everything is just so funny because nothing's clicking. And then you know what, there's that wraparound effect.

You drop another floor beneath that, boom, you're back at the top, back into joy, back into abundance mentality. That's why I've always said the most dangerous thing, place you can be in a man, is stagnant. As long as you are moving, it doesn't matter if it's up or down. The momentum can be going completely in the opposite direction.

As long as you're dropping, dropping, dropping, you're gonna arc back up and then you start the cycle again, you understand? So it's a north, south cycle. And people are afraid of the pain and the despair and the torture of dropping even below a rung on the ladder lower than depression. And so they just stop.

They stop fighting, they surrender, they wave the white flag and they stay put. And that is the most dangerous place to be. Because momentum, north or south, will get a man through. It don't matter if things are going bad, as long as the momentum is keep taking you down, down, down, you're going to fucking rebound.

It's a guaranteeing deal. It's a guarantee. You know, one of the great tragedies of modernity is the fact that a lot of there's two classes of people on the long tails of the distribution that push society forward, okay? It's dumb people and it's extremely smart people, Very intelligent people take risks.

Very dumb people take risks. Midwits do not take risks. They're too scared it's going to disrupt their entire life if they get, if they get clapped, right? What New age wisdom has accomplished, it has taken dumb people and it has moved them into the middle.

Because knowledge is so common, because forums are so common, because knowledge is aggregated so well. Everybody has access to a plethora of. Not of human knowledge. Like the, the human consciousness has been uploaded on the Internet and everybody has access to it.

So a lot of dumb who would have struck it so huge because they were too dumb to know any better, they've also been lassoed and they've been corralled into the middle, which we all know is the fucking buzzsaw. That's where dreams go to die. That's where dreams go to fucking die. And so that is the great tragedy of fucking New age wisdom.

And all this common self help knowledge is. It's taken people who would have been better off being ignorant, who would have taken a shot, made an invention, done something wild and actually scored big and rocketed to the skies, pole vaulted into the atmosphere. And a lot of that has been devastated, it's been contaminated, it's been Nagasaki. And it's a great shame.

And that's why I've always said a lot of people would be way better off. Way better off not. Look, here's a, here's a, here's a zinger for you, all right? What you see on Twitter, Twitter actually silences the outliers.

It silences the outliers. Like what you think is so special and so great on Twitter is actually just a regression to the mean. There's really almost zero outliers flourishing on Twitter. And what happens is this common lifestyle that gets promoted.

The fucking red meat, the lifting. Like you guys don't understand that's actually turning you into a fucking midway. It's turning you into a midway. Like you think this is esoteric shit and it's not.

It's not. You're being pushed into the fucking middle all. I mean, everyone's parroting, everyone's fucking saying the same thing, thing on here. Everybody except a few.

And I'll be, I'll be very humble right now and not put my name in that hat. It's insane. You're not grasping hold of that primordial fire like it's, it's really not happening on here. It's, it's, you know, it's.

What's very fascinating to me is watching these young guys come up. It's like one of my little side hobbies right now. I'm. I have a keen eye on a couple of these young up and comers, like these young accounts, because I'm just, I'm very curious as to what kind of strategies they're deploying to try to grow their accounts and super interesting, because obviously the landscape has drastically changed over the last couple years.

And there's a couple dudes I have my eye on, a couple. Couple smart cats. But one thing that I do want to share with you guys, and this kind of circles back to the first conversation, is I think a lot of these young guys don't understand how age is truly status. And women love, love, love status.

Like there's only so serious someone's gonna take you, even if you're a fucking whiz kid hotshot at like 22 years old. Like, you can get in front of the video camera all day and spit fire. If you're 22, yeah. People are gonna take it with a grain of salt.

Like there's. There's really only so much status you can garner at that age. And that's not a bad thing. That's not a bad thing at all.

It just means you got to let the good times roll. But a lot of these motherfuckers genuinely don't understand that if you did it right, I don't even think men peak until their 40s at all. I think 40s is the best decade for men, hands down. If you did it properly.

You just get respect from all sides. You get respect everybody beneath you, and you get respect from everybody above you. You know what I mean? You kind of hit that golden mean.

So when you're young, when you're really young, when you're in your 20s, it's.

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It's.

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It's really you. You gotta stop putting all the pressure on yourself. Everyone's talking about how when you're 23, you gotta have all your ducks in a row. You gotta prime yourself for your thir.

Nonsense. Nonsense. It's. It's a demolition derby.

When you're in your 20s, it's a demolition derby. It's okay to test out a lot of different information, blow things up, see what works, see what sticks, see what clicks. Figure it out. No shame in that whatsoever.

You're not gonna have all the answers in your 20s. You ain't even gonna have all the answers in your 30s. But you'll be a lot closer if you played the game right. Let's.

Let's open the floor. I want to play some ping pong right now. Some. Let's get our boy Zacky up here.

He was good last time. Yo, Zacky. What's up, buddy? Give me something good.

00:26:32CALLER 8

What's up, Bert? I wanted to bring that back. We're young cats. Coming up on Twitter, the ones you have your eyes on, what's your opinion on even having a growth strategy in the first place?

Like, especially now, because everyone's doing the same thing. I don't think it's worth. Especially if you're a young, young guy, young account. Unless you're really trying to grow your account, say, for inbound leads, because it's your business, just leave it and tweet what.

Treat what is in your mind. Because at least for me, I have a few things that I'm working on in different domains. And then once they're done, they'll speak for themselves, like, I have no growth strategy or whatever.

00:27:07HOST

Yeah, I mean, you're preaching to the converted there, brother. I mean, I. You know what I think about growth strategy? I think it's the gayest thing ever.

Look, I mean, my account is a Hallmark example. I didn't have to shake hands with any. I didn't play any circle jerk games. I wasn't in any group chat.

Group chats, no retweet for retweet. All that shit's gay. As I built my off the ground with my bare hands, just having a good time on here. And I stand by that principle.

I'm not saying it's easy, but that's how I did it. Growth strategy? What the is that, man? That's like Huberman micro optimizing on how to have gay sex.

Telling you, man, this Huberman, these protocols everyone's trying to rock with, I mean, that turns you into a dork real quick. Real quick.

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Yeah.

00:28:02HOST

Understand. I mean, look, we all need systems to a degree, but the system has to be tailored to you, not the audience in my eyes. Like, you have to. You have to.

You have to put systems in place that prop you up and keep you in the throne, in the saddle so that you can continue to do what you do best. It's not like systems for other people, dude. That's. That's not the fucking way to go.

And that's what these motherfuckers are doing on Twitter right now, Especially some of these young cats. It just blows my mind every day that these guys really don't see it as a cul de sac. They don't see it as a dead end. I mean, these guys are going through my shit from, like, 2020, 2021 and repurposing my tweets from, like, three years ago, thinking no one's gonna see it.

And it's like, buddy, if you just keep saying what I said over and over again, like, not only do you have a hard cap on where you can go from there, but how are you ever going to get in front of a camera or host the spaces? Like, like, what's your end? What's your end game?

00:29:06CALLER 8

I think it's purely backwards too, because people are trying to do the influencer route first rather than the other way around. Like, I was looking today at some big people I saw when I was like 15, 16, there were influencers coming up and they're still influencers. Like, that's their life. They haven't done anything else.

Whereas if you lived your life till 25, 30 and then you got online instead, then it's not your, your income stream.

00:29:27HOST

You're doing fun 100%, man. I mean, that's been my whole game from the start. I didn't, I never asked to be in this position. This happened by accident.

Every good thing in life happens by mistake, by the way. I will say that. Like, you put your best foot forward every fucking day. And then there is like a stochastic kind of chance in the cosmos that'll just, that'll just throw things and then, and then it's up to you to take the reins.

Like, I, I was donated this platform and now I've just taken the reins and I've taken over and I'm like, all right, I have a civic duty to keep going. I just, I just feel that there's no, there's never been any ulterior motive. I just felt it, you know what I mean? Everything I've ever done on here, nothing was premeditated.

It's just like I feel something and I, I load my guns and I shoot. And that's been the story of my life. And I think the most beautiful thing. Like that's.

Look, that's the, like, you want to kill the whole money argument right now. We could do that right now. We can tango with that right now. The money thing, what guys don't understand is that the cars, the women, all the.

That you say you want, it happens by accident. And the only type of. That get to the place where they have those things are the same type of. Who are ungrateful to have it in the first place.

Like, everything comes to the ingrates. It's the people who don't even have their eye on it. They are so overshooting. They are so overshooting.

Because, look, in life, you only get a fraction of what you shoot for. You're only going to get a fraction of what you shoot for. So you might as well Shoot as high as you can fucking go, because you're only going to get a little bit. You're only going to get a little piece of the fucking pie.

And the thing is, with the Lambos and the cars and the women and the houses, all this. These people want. I'm telling you, one day you wake up from success and from just putting in the hours, and you just find yourself sitting in one of them. Like, that's what happened to me.

One day, I just was in a Rolls Royce, and I was like, how the Did I get here? Oh, it makes sense to me now. This is the parochial wisdom that everyone's been groping for. I landed in the Rolls Royce because I didn't give a fuck about the Rolls Royce.

I was overshooting the Rolls Royce. And so it was a mistake. And the best things in life that happen to men are mistakes. They're mistakes.

But you gotta have a keen eye, and then you gotta capitalize on it. Like, nothing in my life has been done intentionally. I'm just a flowing, freewheeling. I'm like Zorba the Greek, you know what I mean?

I'm just out here doing my thing and good things happen. 90% of the success is just being in the scene, by the way. That's why I say, maximize entropy. It's just being in the scene and things happen, and then you're the epicenter of things happening. Yeah, 100.

00:32:17CALLER 8

I feel that. I mean, that's what all I wanted to talk about. So I'm gonna give it up to the next guy.

00:32:22HOST

Thanks, brother. Taking another penicillin shot. Yo, briegle. Regal.

Come on, buddy. You got to keep the flow going.

00:32:47CALLER 7

What's up?

00:32:49HOST

What's up, bro?

00:32:50CALLER 7

What are the answers that you said?

00:32:53HOST

We are kind of looking for?

00:32:54CALLER 7

Like, you said it at our 30s.

00:32:57HOST

You don't even. You will know many answers, but it's like your mission. What, you know, who you are and that stuff. Or like, what are these answers?

Or perhaps the question that I'm asking. Dude, that is the most ambiguous, vague question I've ever been asked in my entire life. But I feel. I feel merciful right now.

Can you. I'm going to give you one chance. Can you just restructure that for me? That was insane.

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I don't know.

00:33:24HOST

I have another one, which would be if you can define truth or how would you define it? Is that too philosophical or ambiguous? Yeah, bro. Too abstract.

I'm gonna keep it moving. Appreciate you. All right. Michael.

What's up, buddy? Michael, you're Live.

00:33:54CALLER 2

Yo, thanks, dude. I listened to your last one. It was super inspiring. And I just wanted to say I launched my agency about nine months ago and I was hyper focused on my competitors.

And then something switched about a month ago where I started focusing more on how I can compete with myself. And I was wondering if you could lay some knowledge on me and the rest of the listeners about how we should frame our focus on our competitors and business and in life.

00:34:25HOST

Yeah, man. I mean, look, I had a fucking. I had a sterling tweet about this a bit ago about the prestige and the dichotomy of. I said basically, the winner is always just chilling.

And what I meant by the winner is chilling. And look, the winner puts in a lot of effort, of course, but it's done with sort of a lightheartedness. And they don't give a fuck about what, anything, what anybody else is doing. They don't give a fuck.

And the guy who's always chasing the winner always fucking loses. He drives himself into a tizzy, a tailspin that he can't get out of even on Twitter. I never once had my eye on what anybody else was doing, saying, I don't give a fuck. I never cared about.

I never saw any opponents on here. I never saw any foes. Not once. I didn't give a.

And it's no coincidence that I've arrived in this position because I've, I've remained steadfast to that principle in everything that I've done. Like, even when I Olympic lifted. I'm. I'm a objectively top 1% Olympic lifter in America.

Objectively never had my eye on anybody else. Would go in the gym, do my and leave. I've always been that way. It's always been me versus me.

The only motherfucker who's ever stood in my way was me. You know what I mean? And there's a lot of fucking examples of this. Jon Jones is similar that the only guy who could beat Jon Jones was Jon Jones.

There's a lot of these Tiger woods, you know, all these, with these shadowy sides. Even, even Djokovic. Djokovic is a very interesting character, premier athlete, marquee athlete, has a lot of dark energy, grew up in war torn Serbia, has racial memory of bombs and uranium raining down his people. And he's harnessed that energy correctly into being a champion.

And he's got a chip on his shoulder. And it's not pretty. It's not pretty. And this is why I always tell people, if you look under the hood, if you look under the hood of anybody who's doing anything real or successful, it's very ugly.

There's nothing like, there's nothing functional or healthy about the pursuit of success at all. People have this completely up, like, they're the desire to get out of the middle and get out of homeostasis and do something incredible and leave a footprint in this reality. It is. That is an unhealthy endeavor.

Very unhealthy. There's nothing remotely sane about that quest at all. But it's like, pick your poison. If you want sanity, then be happy being lassoed in the middle.

You know what I mean? Like, you don't, bro. The competitor. The whole competitive thing is.

Is. Is nonsense to me. It just. It doesn't exist.

Like, I. If I was. If I was a UFC fighter, I would never study an opponent ever. There's something very dishonorable about it.

I can't put my finger on it right now, but I feel in my heart of hearts that I would not give a fuck about what my opponent's doing. I wouldn't give a fuck. I'll adjust in the fucking zone. When we're squared up toe to toe, I'll make the adjustment.

And I do think that's the winning philosophy in every domain I do. Someone's gonna be real, real hard pressed to knock me off the pulpit on that one, so. That was a good question.

00:37:56CALLER 2

Thank you. Appreciate you.

00:38:03HOST

Yo, Everett. Yo, yo, yo. I'm kind of new. I just, like, followed you a couple days ago, but lucky you.

What. What did you want?

00:38:17CALLER 7

What.

00:38:17HOST

What was, like, your real mission on the come up? Freedom, bro. Just do whatever you want. Do whatever the fuck I want whenever I want, but actual fucking detachment.

I said this the other day, man. The apex philosophy I'm 100% convinced is some sort of Zen or Buddhism. But what's interesting is you have to be pain stricken and you have to be forlorn, and there has. You have to be heartsick so many times in order to ricochet at Zen like you.

You cannot reach a state of true internal freedom by studying Zen. There's. There's no practice. There's no.

There's no art there. Like, it's you. You wing it. You freestyle.

Yeah, you freestyle, and then you end up ricocheting at some of these, like, Apex philosophies. And it's like, I just. Perfect. Perfect corollary again.

It happens by accident. I'm likely the most Zen I know. I likely am. I have a very cool, calm, poised demeanor.

Nothing rattles Me. And it's because I have had my heart and my guts torn out so many times that I'm somewhat numb to it. And look, this is the strategy. If you were in the beginning of the spaces, the guy who was doing the cold approaches to the 150 chicks.

To some degree, there is some strength to what he's doing, because what he's doing is he's numbing himself. He's numbing himself to rejection. And I do believe, and we talk about the. How success is unhealthy.

I do think the apex state of being for men is jaded. I think men are supposed to be jaded. Men accomplish the most in their life when they're totally fucking jaded. And the reason I know that my barometer is if something is bad for women, it's good for men.

That's a principle that I came up with and it's never failed me. Name any behavior or behavioral pattern that's beneficial to women is bad for men and vice versa. In other words, if bipolar disorder, because people use this as a pejorative term to downplay women, right? They call women bipolar bpd.

That's. That's a known knock on women, right? If BPD is bad for women, I will venture to say, and I will go on record saying this, that BPD is good for men. I think if you're a man with a bipolar personality and you learn to harness that, you have a hundred times ROI than trying to fucking remove that supposed character flop.

I've just, I've done the math, like the mental math, and I've never seen this crisscross. I've never seen it do me wrong, you understand? So my point is being jaded is terrible for women. Women are supposed to remain like, retain that sort of light, you know, spark of life.

And so that's how I know men are not supposed to be wired that way. Men are not supposed to be happy. Go lucky. I've also been rotating a theory that I think is impenetrable as well.

And this is something that I've kind of been sitting on, is that I. I do believe the. The happiest men, the truly most content happiest men are deeply miserable on the inside. And I think the most miserable men externally are the happiest on the inside, if that makes sense.

They're. They're too. The men who are too cozy and too comfortable internally end up in a severe state of misery that manifests in a very rough exterior. But the men who are constantly tortured internally are truly the Happiest men, because being a man is not fucking easy.

It's a juggling act. You have to keep so many co factors together. You have to be cohesive. You have to maintain simultaneously so many different philosophies at once.

It's an extraordinary feat to truly be a great man. It's because it's torture inside. But those are the happiest men, and they carry it to the grave. They die miserably internally, but happy on the outside.

Like any man that I know who complains incessantly all the time tells me how they're depressed, they hate their life, they. They're too happy internally. They're just. Their life's not difficult enough.

They don't truly have the responsibility to reverse that process. And so I guess my point to you, my brother, is that my mission in life, like my come up, has all been about doing the opposite. The opposite of what the fear mechanism in the brain has told me to do. The voice inside your head that tells you to tap out and tells you that you've had enough.

Life does not begin until you breach that garrison and you get beyond that event horizon. That's where the actual playground is. It's past the voice. Most people are a slave to the voice in their head that tells them to stop.

They've never even seen the phantasmagoric world that lies beyond that point. They've never even seen it. They've never even explored it. There's an entire fucking realm beyond that where you can will yourself.

It feels like divine will. Into a state of fury and blood drunkenness where you literally feel like you cannot be fucking stopped. Appreciate your question. Master of the game.

What's up, buddy? Yo. Hello. Yo, yo,

00:44:27CALLER 3

yo, Brute man, Long time listener. Just wanted to ask you a question because I believe that you said that you did recently have a kid in the last one or two years.

00:44:38HOST

Yeah, my son's three years old. Okay, that's cool, man.

00:44:42CALLER 3

So my son's actually 10 months old. He just turned 10 months old today. And I was wondering, how have you balanced having a son and being active in his life or trying to be, you know, cordial with the mother and build a relationship with both of them at the same time? Living a life of your own adventure because obviously on the one hand, you're kind of tethered with that family life.

But for me, I see it as somewhat of responsibility because I want my son to be just as much of a badass as me, if not more. And I see as if I'm not here. The beta male conditioning is. Is gonna skyrocket through the roof.

So, pretty much just asking, how do you balance that adventurous lifestyle with being a figure for your son?

00:45:32HOST

I don't balance it at all. I. I am an active participant in his life. However, I will tell you this.

I 100 believe that nature is a thousand times more potent than nurture. I believe that. I think the seeds of destiny that are sown into our young, into our offspring, are far more powerful than the environment itself. And I believe 100%, knowing that my son has my fucking DNA coursing through his veins, I do see myself as an instructor.

I see myself as a kind of, you know, proctor. But the reality is, and I look at my own life, I think there's really only so much you can teach. I do believe that your offspring is pretty much going to take the shape of the vessel that it's destined to be. One way or another.

One way or another, it's gonna foment into the type of life form that it's supposed to be. And I think that's why what's more important than anything else is just picking the proper mate. Picking the proper mate and having really good genetics is the name of the game. I think blood is king.

I think blood is king. So I don't. Look, there's no restraints in my life. Like, having a son has not tamed me.

I haven't. I haven't changed any of my nature, any of my nature. You know, I'm leaving. I'm leaving a massive body of work for my son.

My son will be able to comb through my book. He'll be able to comb through a lot of my wisdom, you know what I mean? Plus my obvious physical role. But the bottom line is, is I know that motherfucker's in great hands because he's my, you know, he's my son.

He's got my DNA. And I stand. I stand by that.

00:47:14CALLER 3

So would you be willing to have kind of multiple sons? Like, do you think that's a problem? Or, or would you even care if you, let's say, had three, four more sons by different women and you just kind of let them kind of fend for themselves?

00:47:28HOST

Not really.

00:47:29CALLER 3

That's a model.

00:47:29HOST

Not really fend for themselves. But I do think that's a model. Like, I. I've always.

I've. I've said this openly. I've always spreaded my seat. I've never given a flying.

Even when I was like 19, I didn't give a. If I got A girl pregnant. I knew I would just handle it. I don't think men are ever really ready to have kids at all.

I think that's a myth. I think you pretty much have kids and then it kind of straps you in the saddle, and then you end up just kind of riding the horse like Hidalgo. Like, that's just kind of how it works. Yeah.

Like, you're never really. You're never really ready. And so for me, I've just never had fear. I mean, look, dude, it's.

I'm a gambler, so I've always played Russian roulette with that type of thing. I've never had an issue with it. But fen for themselves is interesting. Like, look again, the.

The most important thing to me is I will not sleep with a woman unless I don't mind having kids with her. Like, that's my rule. I don't. I'm not sleeping with any woman unless I don't mind if she got pregnant.

So I'm. I'm golden. I've got all bases covered. I'm golden no matter what I do.

Yeah, I agree. I agree.

00:48:32CALLER 3

And I was kind of thrust into the fatherhood role pretty randomly as well. And luckily, luckily for me, it was with the woman I was ready to commit to. So, good answer, and thank you for taking the time out today.

00:48:52HOST

Yo, Boski, what's up, buddy?

00:48:56CALLER 2

Yo, Bruce.

00:48:57CALLER 3

Can you hear me?

00:48:58HOST

Yeah. Yeah.

00:49:00CALLER 2

So in a lot of your past spaces, you've talked about some different main points. I just want to know what you think about this. You said you need to be urgent, you need to take a lot of risk, and you also need to be very abundant for success. Do you think those are the three things that you really need?

Or is there more or is there less?

00:49:24HOST

I mean, yeah, dude. I mean, look, my whole ethos, obviously, but the thing is, is, like, my content is very nuanced because I'm really speaking to the 1%. You know what I'm saying? Like, that's why I don't.

I don't. Everything that I espouse, I don't consider it prescription at all. Like, I'm. I am speaking to a specific caliber of man.

And I believe for the rest of the people who tune in, I believe they're just living vicariously. And I know in my heart that they're really never going to take any of these leaps. It's just entertainment. Like, my content is truly just entertainment for the average person, but for the select few, which is who I'm talking to, which is why I get up on this pulpit and speak in the first place for the ones who do aspire to be great and break out of the middle.

Yeah, I mean, everything that I say is completely valid. It's the. That I'm saying is not going to work for 95% of people. I'm.

I'm totally okay with that and I'm totally aware of that. So, yeah, I mean, look, like most people, if they take an extraordinary risk and they get mopped, they're not coming back from that. Like, average person goes bust, though, they're not coming back from that. I mean, in my book, I'm sharing some very gory details about what.

This has been the toughest year of my life. From. From January to September, I have experienced a special type of hell that I don't wish upon my worst enemy. And it's incredible that I'm still up here drawing breath.

It's incredible that I even have the flu. And I'm speaking right now, like, I should have been ended. I should have been ended last year with the types of losses that I've experienced. But I soldier on because I know who I am and I know it's all coming back and I know it's going to be better than it ever was before.

How many have that kind of conviction or have that kind of to call upon? Very few. Very, very few. What was that first.

What was that first principle you said? I heard the risk. What was the other. What were the other two?

00:51:30CALLER 2

I said, hold up. I said urgency and abundance.

00:51:37HOST

Yeah, urgency is important because I do, like I said, there is sort of this low hum. Anxiety. Anxiety that I think has to linger in a man's head. Like a man has to kind of feel like he's racing against the clock.

I think that does bring the best out in men. It also brings out the worst in men. But again, the truth is paradoxical. So I do think that there has to be some sort of, like, fantasy clock in your head that you're running against for sure.

So I think the urgency is important. And look, This just reminded me that ADHD tweet that I said the other day is extremely powerful. And it's powerful in a way that I don't think a lot. It went over a lot of people's heads.

What happens is with a lot of men is they will let problems stack the up on their shoulders that they won't address, even though they have the latent potential, talent and power so to overcome them in that moment. But they, like, almost want to go to the razor's edge. And they want, like, a fingertip left on the edge of the cliff. They want to feel the breath of death on their neck before they spring into action.

And I'm 100% convinced that the reason why people do this and the reason why people let problems get so bad before they solve them is because the fear. The fear mechanism of feeling like the grim reaper is hovering above you puts men in the state of fury where they end up over correcting the problems that they have, so they end up overshooting and over killing the problems that have stacked up on them, and they end up actually landing higher in a position than they would have been in if they just handled each problem piecemeal. Does that make sense? It has, like, a slingshot effect.

And this is for motherfuckers with, like, severe ADHD that can only wrangle a task that they care about. And everything else just feels soul killing, like, these will push it all the way to the brink, where everybody around you is like, dude, what the are you doing? What are you doing? How could you let it get this bad?

But they just have this sly grin because they know one morning they're gonna wake up and be so enraged that they're just gonna go tear through every problem that's been bogging them down, and they're gonna overkill it so hard that they're. And they're gonna end up landing on a higher summit than they'd ever reached before. And the idea is that this is progressive. Then they do it again, and they let things stack up again, and then they're on the brink of death, and then, boom, they overshoot again.

Now they're on a higher summit. So it's like a two steps forward, one step back game. They're playing with themselves because they suffer from that existential boredom. It's kind of like the curse of the talented.

It's usually people who find things to be very easy in life, so they have to play these very sinister mind games with themselves in order to make progress. This is, like, a huge thing in the human condition that's very real. Very real. A lot of experience this daily.

So it's like, those have the urgency, they have the power. They have the control of the situation, but they want to just kind of sit. Yeah, can you hear me? Yeah, yeah, yeah.

00:55:07CALLER 2

So on the abundance thing, like,

00:55:23HOST

Yo, I can't hear you.

00:55:28CALLER 2

Yo, yo, yo, Brute.

00:55:30HOST

Yo, pause for a second. I just added somebody else. I want to see if his connections get. Hans.

Hans, you're live. All Right. Go ahead, man.

00:55:52CALLER 2

All right, so back on that abundance thing. Like, do you need to, like, sit and, like, be abundant and would just come to you type thing? Or like, if you just keep working your ass off, you will end up just being abundant in itself. What do you think about that?

00:56:11HOST

So again, it's a horse. There's a horseshoe phenomenon with abundance, which is that when you've tried everything and you've exhausted every resource and you're so down on your luck, you actually do end up horseshoeing into abundance mentality by mistake. Like, you have nothing else to lose. And so you end up sort of having this gravity, sort of having this magnetic field where you start being the epicenter of everything around you, like I said.

And then things start happening. That's been a very, very, very tried and true practice. A lot of men have experienced that. And it's.

It's like I said, man, it's the horseshoe. A lot of these things, a lot of these things that people want in their life, they haven't yet figured out that you got to travel the exact opposite road to get there, because everything bends. That's how reality works. Like, you want to talk about quantum leaps?

Everything wraps around. It's the Mobius strip. You know what I'm saying? Like, everything has that wrinkle in the middle, but if you keep traveling, you end up right back where you started, but at a higher peak.

Everything that I've seen work happens this way. It happens by complete accident by traveling the opposite destiny. So it's like you don't fall into abundance until you. Until you have nothing left, until you've exhausted literally everything in your soul and you've literally.

You're standing in a. In the rubble. You're standing in the rubble, and you're like Nero playing the proverbial fiddle while Rome burns. Like that metaphor of Nero playing the fiddle while Rome burns.

It's one of the best analogies of all time because that motherfucker was in massive abundance when that was occurring. Whether it's a fake story or not is irrelevant. The fucking parable, the, you know, the folklore wisdom remains the same. That sort of.

That's the thing, dude. That's the thing. It's the exact opposite. It's like you set targets, and like I said, you're only going to achieve a fraction of the target.

It's how life works. And. And I said on the last spaces, and I want to reiterate this, that repeatability, I think, is the most important factor in improve in demonstrating male competence. Repeatability so it's like, all right, you got a 10, but can you do it again?

Can you get another 10? Can you get another 10? Can you get Another 10? All right.

After five or 10 times that, you've been able to lock down a 10, boom. You're competent, but a lot of men cannot recreate the same beautiful results that they've had, and that's a major problem.

00:58:51CALLER 2

Yeah, that makes a lot of sense. All right, thanks, Brute.

00:58:58CALLER 3

Yo, I got another question. If nobody else is asking.

00:59:00HOST

No, master. We're gonna keep it moving, bro. I appreciate that, though. All right.

Yo, Quantum. Yo, yo.

00:59:12CALLER 1

Hey, man. Love your content. I've been tuning in, like, past week and just wanted to say, like, you know, I had. I had a question regarding, you know, how do you maintain the.

Because, like, how do you. How do you maintain the perception in life to continue to get the results that you once did before? I mean, in my personal experience as a trader, you know, I've made millions, I've lost millions. I've had opportunities to make 100 million, and I missed it, and I.

And I made back millions, and I've lost money again. The question is, how do you sound

00:59:48HOST

like my kind of guy?

00:59:49CALLER 1

How do you maintain the heart to find the needle in the haystack, as you did for the past 10 years? Because I feel like over time, you start racing age, priorities change, you start having children, and all of a sudden that. That hungry boy that you had starts to get dimmer.

01:00:06HOST

Yes. 100. 100. And that's a great question. I'm glad you brought that up, because here's. Here's how it works.

When you get older, like, I'm in my mid-30s, okay. Objectively, your strengths will deteriorate. The things that have propelled you and catapulted you to where you're at will objectively get worse. I've.

I'm experiencing it. I'm not as strong as I was when I was 29, but here's the thing. Here's the edge and here's the. The infinity fuel that man has access to.

And it's in the spirit. The spirit. The human spirit will carry you into old age and give you sort of that youthful, playful spirit that you had in your 20s. It'll never be extinguished as long as you continue to cultivate that fire in your belly.

The human spirit, dude, is where all the marginal edges are as you get older. It's a very, very powerful fuel. And that is why that. That exact analogy is why I am a massive anti.

Ambassador for Steroid usage. Because what happens is who jump on steroids. What they've done is they've toggled, they've toggled the human mode out of the spirit and they are using the exogenous substance as an auxiliary spirit. Does that make sense?

So now you are dependent upon your testosterone injections as a spirit. And that is a very disastrous long term consideration. Very disastrous. Like, I'm not, I will never do TRT ever.

But I'm 36. I'm running circles around these fucking 20 year olds. I talk to these 20 year olds at the gym. These are taking like three hour naps during the day.

They're despondent. They have no energy, they have no spirit whatsoever. My spirit is burning fucking bright, you know what I'm saying? Like it gets me up in the morning, it keeps me fucking hungry and vicious and ferocious.

And the only way you can maintain that spirit is to continue to live life on your terms. That's the key. Like when we use the, the analogy that things are soul sucking, doing activities that you don't want to participate in, but you feel like you have to out of obligation. Those are all the types of things that chip away at the human spirit.

They will wither it down to nothing. To nothing. And a lot of people are engrossed in these games every day they're working a job they literally fucking despise. They hate every part of their life that tears apart the fabric and the constitution of the human spirit to an irrecoverable level at some point.

That's why guys like you and me, we can take the million dollar hits and keep going. You understand? It's meaningless. We're playing a different game.

01:02:57CALLER 1

Do you feel like, do you feel like you potentially die in installments? Like, I just like, men are supposed to be jaded. Do you feel like in some way that, you know, every decade you're dying in installments in regards to your ability to experience reality the way you used to experience it. Like, is that at risk?

01:03:16HOST

Dude? Yeah, dude, I, I literally say this joke all the time. Like I am dead. I've already been dead.

And that is when the pilot light of the human spirit actually flicks on. Like the human spirit flickers at its brightest intensity when the exterior is dead. Like, I am literally almost in a zombified state. But the irony of being in the zombified state is that's when your spirit is shining the brightest.

Like I can just absorb damage after damage after damage after blow after blow after blow. And I have total amnesia. I will wake up the next morning and have zero recollection that I just torched a million dollars the day before on a baseball game. It doesn't even register that occurred.

It's a new day. It's a fresh slate. I'm getting after it. You're in a zombified state, you know, and there's.

There's. Dude, there's guys who perform at very high levels like this. There's that guy that reminds me of this. This guy has an extreme extraordinary human spirit.

If any of you truly want to see, like, what I'm talking about with that zombified state, but the human spirit is shining BRIGHT. Go on YouTube and look up Tony Ferguson, that UFC fighter Tony Ferguson. That guy's a tomato can. He's literally walking into fights getting annihilated now.

Doesn't give a. He literally gets stronger the more damage that's inflicted upon him. Like, that is the holy grail of human existence. And that's a crude example, but, like, I'm like that.

Like, the more damage that gets flick inflicted on me, the more enraged and the more powerful I become. You know what I mean? You're just like chewing bullets. There was the dude.

This archetype permeates history, by the way. And it. It also permeates itself in cinema and film. If you've ever seen the movie the Mask with Jim Carrey, the villain in that movie, and this is like an ode to this concept that I'm talking about.

The writers of these movies are smart as. As they understand these mythological archetypes. He has an ability when he's wearing the mask, the villain, to chew bullets. Like, people will be unloading a full Metal Jacket at this, and he's just absorbing the bullets, and he gets more powerful.

There's a lot of villains like that. Like, I want to say the Marshmallow man was like that in Ghostbusters. There's a lot of villains in movies that get stronger the more damage you inflict upon them. Fifth Element.

There was that huge energy wall where if you shoot nukes into it, it gets stronger. Like, this is those media inculcations that they're showing. You are coming forth onto the. The silver screen because some human being has wrestled with that, like, personification and force in real life, does that make sense?

Like, the only way the imagination can build that into a fictional character is that someone saw that happen in real life. That's why I always say fiction is ironically more true than reality itself, because in order to create a perfect work of fiction, the author who infuses the characters with that type of esprit and a claw has to have a wide array of true human experience in order to construct and fashion and confabulate such a character. Does that make sense? So all works of fix, like I tell motherfuckers, I'm like, stop reading nonfiction.

All you're doing is titillating the conscious mind. Fiction strikes at the subconscious, which is where the psyche is embedded, which is where these psychic forces are embedded. And so would you sound like a guy like that? Like, you sound like a guy who.

The more damage that gets inflicted upon you, the more ferocious you become,

01:07:13CALLER 1

I think. You know, would you say that's the Goggins archetype, the David Goggins archetype arc?

01:07:20HOST

I mean, dude, Goggins is. Look, I respect any champion, and I respect anyone who can do human feats to that level. I respect it. But the reality is, he's taught, like, people need a deity.

People need a deity. And one of the realizations. Because people have been tweeting at me about Goggins recently, and I came to an interesting conclusion about Goggins, and I was like, wait a minute. People think that only women are turned on by grandiosity in men, but the reality is men look to deify ordinary human beings in the same way that women do.

Like, David Goggins is a deity to people. People have enshrined this man as some sort of temple God. And it's a very, very bizarre mechanism. But.

But Goggins, the. The. There's weak. Look, there's weakness.

There's weak points in all of these archetypes, for sure. But the thing with Goggins is, like, he's. He's touching upon an instinct that should already be common sense. You understand?

Like, it's like, no, you're not supposed to be a. Why does someone need to remind you're not supposed to be a. As a man? Like, it just shows you how derailed common sense has become to the point where we now d.

You know, deify figures who are just spouting common sense and sort of a cool rapper? I mean, the guy does have sort of a cool rapper, right? He's lean, he's jacked, whatever. He's talking into the camera.

But, I mean, I think all men already have that kind of voice in their head. You know what I'm saying? Like, all men already have the general archetype wearing the buckskin coat in their own head that can Fucking push them. The thing is, you know, the thing with Goggins that I think really rubs me the wrong way is I hate the advice.

Like this advice makes me fucking cringe when somebody tells you just work hard. I just, I tune out like that. To me, that is the lamest, most generic advice. Like, just work harder, buddy.

It's like, dude, that is literally not how life works. Like, if you find a domain that comes natural to yourself, you're gonna naturally push yourself harder. Like, nobody can push me harder than me. Nobody can.

Because I'm playing games that are, that I have a natural affinity for. So like, I don't need a coach. There's no one that's gonna motivate me more than I can motivate me. But everybody has a domain that's unique to them where this is true.

And so if you need a guy like Goggins to tell you to do another, to empty another clip of pull ups, you're playing the wrong game. You understand? You're playing the wrong game. So it's like we can go back and forth all day about the, the thing that I made the other day, the, the point about the fat guy people are the midwits completely butchered that sentiment, by the way.

Like, I'm gonna do a spaces one day about the fat guy archetype and I'm gonna blow minds because the midwits completely capitulated to the wrong idea there. Does that make sense to you?

01:10:44CALLER 1

Absolutely.

01:10:45HOST

Absolutely. So no, dude, like homogenization is not the way. It's just not the way. I mean, dude, like, I laugh every day.

These guys truly believe. These guys have honestly been psyoped into thinking that your physique has any impact on getting women. It doesn't. It literally.

I'm not. It has zero impact in attracting women. Zero. The only women who are going to love you for your physique are ugly chicks.

Because ugly chicks love hot guys. Hot women don't give a if you're hot or not. Hot women give a about status in power. So the hotter the woman, the less she gives a flying about your six pack about your biceps.

It's for mids. It's for mids. And lower. That's all it is.

Is all it is. So like that's why I'm such a fucking critic of this, this generic homogenized advice that every man is supposed to be some fucking God tier fucking GQ model. That makes no sense at all. Last time I checked, the hottest women that I've seen are with motherfuckers who are skinny, fat as fuck, but they're actually doing.

They have empires, they have massive mechanisms, they have massive influence. Like, get a. These guys don't have a clue how this game works. You know, the physique thing is interesting to me because you know how women will.

If a woman is meeting a female friend for dinner, just a female friend, she'll do her makeup for like three and a half hours. She will want to look as beautiful as possible just to meet another chick. Because women are competitive with each other like that. The physique thing is the male version of that.

It's honestly guys that just want to look good for other guys. Because the only people truly that have ever fucking complimented me in public on my physique, which my physique is just a fucking natural product of being strong, are dudes. Dudes are impressed by my fucking traps my back. It's the strangest thing.

Like, yeah, girls like it, but the truly. The people that are impressed by a phenomenal mutant like physique are other guys. It's very homosexual very to even focus on that. You know what I mean?

Like, if physique, if your looks as a man are on the top 50 things that you think about in your head on a daily basis, just start the transitioning. Just start the transition because you were born in a wrong body, it's time to. It's time to get the sex surgery. Sex reassignment surgery.

Anyway, we're bouncing off topic in true brute to force form. Anything else,

01:13:35CALLER 1

I would say, if you don't mind. You know, how do you catalyze pain into action? And how do you stop comfort from putting you in this cycle where pain is the only thing that catalyzes you into action. So, like, you get back to, let's say, 10 mil, now you're in comfort.

Now you lose all the systems in place that got you to that point. And now comfort slowly turns into pain, and then pain turns into loss, and then that catalyzes action again. Is there a way to stop, like, is there a way to stop, like, comfort, you know, is there a way to jump that step and not go through that cycle? I know you were just talking about cycles before.

And, like, if you pay attention closely to everything, like there are cycles in your own performance, whatever it is that

01:14:22HOST

you're doing, how do you.

01:14:23CALLER 1

How do you stop from sliding back down? Like, whenever you taste a little bit of success, it's easy to go and, like, go out and have drinks on the weekend or go out and do the things that didn't get you to that point at least, you know, subjectively speaking, how do you maintain that same kind of hunger that, that, that was there when all the chips were stacked against you?

01:14:46HOST

So I'm getting to the point where I fully believe that you need handlers. And this is why I said every, every prolific man who has that sort of manic behavior that you're talking about, they need a system to outrun their own fumes. So, like, in my case, like, it's not a question of am I going to get to eight or nine figures? That's, that's 100% happening for me.

The question is, when I do experience that comfort, am I going to have the system in place this time? The handlers, the people that I trust around me to build a system where I can sprinkle that money around and people can basically save me from me? Because I despise comfort. I am extremely uncomfortable sitting by a pool, staring at palm trees all day.

I cannot retire in that way. It is a soul killing exercise for me. I have to always be redlining. I have to.

And I know that about myself. So a guy like me, because I'm the old war horse now, you know what I mean? I've done my saber rattling, I'm the old fucking general now. I need a rally cry amongst the youth, like the army that I build, the people, my royal guard, my tribe, the people that I build beneath me are the ones who are going to carry the torch into my future. 100%.

The guys that I sculpt, the guys that I bring the best out of, the guys that I lead, those are the guys who are going to be able to put the systems in place to operate to where I can chill. But I can also lead and get that vicarious hit from watching the guys beneath me do what I did. Does that make sense? So it's kind of like you pass the baton.

Like, there's no way I can live the way I'm living for another fucking 20 years. I mean, I probably can, but I'll be an embalmed mummy by then. So it's sort of like a life pivot. I'm 36, I've got all the life experience in the world.

I've had the millions, I've torched the millions I've been to the highest of peaks. I, I've seen it all already. So that's my job now, is to build my own little cavalcade, my own little cavalry, you know what I mean? Like an army beneath me who can Sort of build that structure on my behalf, if that makes sense.

And that's how I pass my legacy. So you have. You have to build a unique system that's going to protect you from you. That's how all the greats have done it, by the way.

So all the greats have done it. I'll reiterate this. Michael Jordan was the greatest basketball player of all time because he had a gambling addiction. In other words, basketball was really an outlet to fuel his gambling.

Once you see it that way, once you ring that bell, you can't unring that bell. Like, you see this permeate a lot of different industries and fields. You see guys absolutely tearing through industries and becoming titans and getting to the top. And you realize it's because they have behavior patterns that force them to be that excellent.

Because those vehicles of income, those streams, the, you know, the, the endorsement things that they get, it holds the whole structure in place and keeps it cohesive. Like, Michael Jordan can't run out of money. The guy can gamble out of his ears if he wants to. The guy's never going to go broke.

And so that is the great task for people with the mania, people with the personality quirks is you, ha. You have no choice but to be the best at your craft. So you can have those vehicles in place to protect you from you. It's the only way to do it.

01:18:29CALLER 1

Thank you, man. Thank you.

01:18:40HOST

What's up, taylor? Taylor, you're on. Nope. Yo, Omar, so my question is, I saw this tweet that you had put out maybe a couple months ago, and it was related to kind of something that you were hitting on earlier.

Just how, you know, nowadays I feel like. I think it was like people, they just rotate through a library of takes and like, tick tock reels, and they don't really have their own, like, conclusions. And then, yeah, they don't come to the their own conclusions and they just kind of like regurgitate advice that they hear online. So what was like your approach to kind of just like, I guess, finding like this wisdom, you know, on your own and.

Yeah, well, I mean, it's redundant at this point, but I was a guy who lived a very hardcore life before I came in on Twitter, you know what I'm saying? I already had the Chevron stars on my vest. I already had the arsenal in my tool belt. And so it was very easy for me to come up here and just start spitting from the heart.

Because I've lived this life, you know what I mean? I've lived it and so for me to come on this platform and share my experience, strength, and hope has been a cakewalk. It's been a cakewalk. And I don't think that process can be reverse engineered.

I think a lot of people want to reach stardom. They want to reach stardom, and then they want to reverse engineer and go backwards and say, you know what? When I get 20 mil, then I'll start living a life. Then I'll start adventuring and exploring and all that.

And it don't work like that. It just don't work like that. Like. Like I said, it's.

You fall into money by accident. That is the best approach. I've never consciously learned a skill in my entire life. I've never struggled and beat myself up to sit in front of any literary material, any fucking curriculum that did not interest me.

I never belabored myself to learn math. I'm not a math brain. I'm not good at math at all. It doesn't interest me one bit.

I have doubled down on all my fucking strengths, and most of them have completely eclipsed my weaknesses. You know what I'm saying? And if I had to get involved in a project that I felt unqualified for, I had no problem biting off more than I could chew and figuring it on the go. Every majestic thing that's ever happened to me happened that way.

It happened by me just biting off more than I could chew, saying yes, diving in and figuring it the out as I go. I never sat there and had to learn guitar. I never had to sit there and understand vocabulary. I read a book cover to cover, and I started talking like Hemingway.

That just happened for me. I never had to look up words. I never had to pull a dictionary. Never had to look up a fucking thesaurus.

I just understood words naturally through context clues. That's it. And so I fucking doubled down on that. And I've ran with the wolves.

It's that easy. I think something a huge misconception people have is life is easy. And I want to. I want to say this.

Life is easy. If you are trying to solve a problem that's too hard, you're. You're working on the wrong problem. You're working on the wrong problem.

If you. If you constantly are butting your head up against a problem that just seems like you can't tackle it, you're working on the wrong thing. Life is about quality. Quality over quantity every day of the week.

Life is easy. If you lean into the things that God gave you naturally. Life really is a Breeze. It's just that people want to force and they want to learn things that they're never going to, they're never going to ever come close to someone who's a natural at it.

And they end up comparing and competing with, with, with other apparitions, other ghosts, literally other specters who have these qualities and they can't figure out why they never catch up. It's like because you're playing the wrong game. You got to play games that are endemic to you and your biology and your chemistry, the way you're wired, the way you think. You know what I mean?

Like that's, that's golden multi million dollar advice that I just gave. If people actually run with it, It's like things really shouldn't be that challenging. It shouldn't pro when it comes to solving problems. And I stand by that.

Good question. Get Caleb up here. Yo caleb, You're live.

01:23:43CALLER 6

First of all, I just want to say I really appreciate the gems you drop off on Twitter. Yeah, since I stay on the app, I'm living a pretty normal military lifestyle right now. And it's the same exact as I was in at the warehouse a couple years ago. Just media mediocrity across the board.

And my question is like I see a basic pathway saved in for guys that stay in and guys that get out because you get out, you got free college. But I just. My question more so is like aggressively

01:24:17CALLER 5

like

01:24:19CALLER 6

financing or putting it into stocks like while you. If you plan on doing a one and done. But I see the same pathway saved them for like guys that just stick around for 20 years and they're just jerk offs and it like my question is just like with the spare time that I have no limit of money that I get out of this, just like using the most out of it. And like with financing, stocks, businesses, because the smart people that I know, they might do like one in one contract or two get their degree and then go into business and marketing or they might just be aggressively like financing from the start.

But I'm really unexperienced with all of those endeavors.

01:25:03HOST

Dude, that was a. That was like 20 questions in one. There's no way I can rehash that. Impossible.

Julian, let's get Julian up here. Julian, what's up, brother? What's up, Root? I appreciate you putting me on here.

I'm kind of new to your stuff, so apologies if you've covered this already. But I'm curious because you mentioned how young guys kind of hate their life and you mentioned human spirit as well, what do you think supporting your. Subordinating yourself to somebody you don't respect does to your character in that human spirit, dude? I mean, if you want to talk about human defilement, I think that's number one contender.

I mean, that's. That's like what these guys are doing, man. These guys are putting themselves in positions where they're under the tutelage of people they don't respect at jobs that they hate. And unfortunately, a lot of men, like I said in the last spaces, they find this sort of masculine virtue in suffering for the sake of suffering.

And what I offer up as an alternative to that is suffering for something that you actually believe in, because that's masculine virtue. You know what I'm saying? Sucking it up and grinning and bearing it every day of the week, because that's supposedly what makes you a man. That's.

That's. That's a coward's game. That's a shell game. And it never ends well.

Never ends well. I saw an analogy on here. I forget when it was, but it was. It was a decent analogy.

Someone said, effectively, they were like, why the. Am I taking orders from a. That I could strangle with my bare hands? Like, to some degree, I like that resonates.

I. I understand that. That's. That's what it does to your soul too, eh?

Like, not to cut you off, but like, at my job, it's. It's in finance, but the people who are above me are only there because they sat in their desk longer, you know, and it pisses you off. It makes you literally want to strangle them. Yeah, man.

Appreciate the question. Yeah. I didn't mean to cut you off. No, you're good.

What's up, Dales? Yo, Brute. What's up? You've spoken a lot about the.

01:27:41CALLER 7

The doubted winner archetype who, you know,

01:27:45HOST

harnesses his dark side to catapult himself into greatness. Michael? Can't hear you, bro. Sounds like you're seven leagues under the sea.

Sounds like you're still scuba diving, bro. Take off the snorkel.

01:28:01CALLER 7

Can you hear me?

01:28:03HOST

Barely. Can you ramp up your volume? Quick, please.

01:28:08CALLER 7

Can you hear me now?

01:28:10HOST

Yes. Way better. You've.

01:28:12CALLER 7

You've spoken a lot about the. The doubted winner archetype who, you know, harnesses his dark side to catapult himself into greatness. Michael Jordan, the obvious example. What do you think about the paradoxical archetype, the one who feeds off the pressure of the, you know, the high expectation rather than doubt, you know, everything expected of you from day one, everyone expects you to win, and you still do.

LeBron James is the other example of that. I hear more about the former, but I don't hear much about the latter. Both are winners, but what are your thoughts on the latter?

01:28:47HOST

Yeah, that's like a Tom Brady type. Just like a guy who just seemed destined to just be bathed in sort of. That sort of paladinian light from. From birth.

I mean, that. That. That energy that he's experimenting with really doesn't resonate with me. I mean, the guy's obviously a certified winner, but even then, I.

I'm hard pressed to not believe that all of these guys do have a trauma point that has basically made it impossible for them to lose. Like, it's just. It's so unacceptable because there's some sort of vengeance over their past that they're searching for. For.

Like, I even believe a guy like Tom Brady, as much as the media darling that he's been and as much as his path has seemed relatively unobstructed, I still believe that dude 100 is being amplified and being animated. Like, his animating principle has to be coming from a place of. Of. Of darkness.

It. It has to be, because it's just the opposing. It's the opposing force in the ecosystem. You know what I mean?

Like, there's no. I said this before, there's no greener fuel. The cleanest fuel a man can burn is anger. It's the cleanest fuel source.

And I think that guys like Tom Brady, Those, like, they 100 have a chip on their shoulder. Whether that's manufactured or fabricated is completely irrelevant.

01:30:15CALLER 7

So they've hidden it better than, I guess, the others.

01:30:18HOST

It's what?

01:30:21CALLER 7

So they've hidden it better than the others?

01:30:24HOST

Yeah, I mean, look, dude, it's. It's. It's like, here's the thing about life. If you do.

If you are. If you. If you are driven by darkness inside, I still think it's extremely important to have a very pleasant, delightful presentation. Like, I think the presentation very much matters.

Like, you can't walk around like a savage mongoloid in public. Nobody responds to that. So it's like all these guys, the Djokovic is the motherfuckers who have propelled themselves. Yeah, they might be fucking tortured inside, but they've also learned how to curate a wonderful demeanor on the outside.

And I think that takes you farther than ever. And I honestly think that is the most badass combination you can have as a man is a tortured inside, but an extremely pleasant, delightful presentation. And Tom Brady has brandished that to perfection. I mean, that you want to talk about a guy with a, with a perfect presentation.

It's almost like he had that presentation from birth and he just ran with it. Who the knows how twisted and contorted that guy is on the inside? But his presentation, his marketing, his personal marketing has been a large aspect of his success. It's like the skills that people have, nobody seems to grasp this.

It's really not about the skills that you have. It's about the performance. Very few people can actually perform and shine in the arena itself. It's never about the skill.

It's all about the performance. Once you're on the stage, what can you do then? That's like literally all that matters. There's, there's so many skilled who nobody knows about, who probably could play quarterback in the NFL.

But their presentation, their personal marketing is horrid. It's, it's abominable and that's why nobody picked them up. So it's, it's. The presentation is a huge factor on all this.

It's a massive factor. And that's, that's, that's why being a man is so tough. Because you can be absolutely aching, you can be ailing on the inside, miserable, but still show up to a party or a function and be the man of the hour. You can still put on that performance with the gadgetry and you can still be gregarious as.

But nobody knows that you've been suffering in a room, in a dark hole, in a bleak space for five months prior to that. Everything's about the arena. That's it. It's the only thing that matters.

01:33:09CALLER 7

Just to follow up, what a different question. What do you think the role of hobbies are in a man's journey?

01:33:18HOST

Man, I could go on and on about that. Dude, there's, there's a very. The hobby thing is extremely interesting. I think a lot of people couch themselves in hobbies because of what I just said.

They're actually afraid to perform in the arena. So they have this little like secret little laboratory in their fucking garage where they're just like fine tuning cars all day. And it's kind of like a secret. Nobody really knows what the fuck it is.

I mean, it's obviously some kind of cope. And I'm not a cope basher in general. I think coping is actually, I think coping is actually a really beneficial thing for men to do. But I find that any man that has sort of this like childish sort of sentimentality from the past or holding on to, like, hobbies, for example, come to mind for me, or like a.

Who collects baseball cards or has like, an exotic, you know, watch collection of, like, vintage watches. And none of that resonates with me at all because I find it to be like a childish, childish sentimentality. And I think people hold on to little trinkets and curiosity. I think the reason is, is that they are holding on to an era.

They're holding on to an era that is now associated with that object in the form of a hobby. And I do believe it is post heartbreak. So in other words, I can almost guarantee you any man who becomes a hobbyist. Post some sort of tumultuous heartbreak.

Doesn't even have to be by a woman. It could be a failed business, could be a failed venture, just something that just really took the life out of them. And then they descend in sort of this catacomb of just treasuring these little things that remind them of a more innocent time. Pre heartbreak.

That's what a lot of hobbyists are doing. They're treasuring an era and holding on to something before they feel like their soul had been annihilated. And it's. It.

There's like the. The hobbyist motherfuckers, like, they never perform in the arena. They just, like their life has almost stopped. And these are the guys who talk about return to tradition in the 70s were the golden times.

And fucking talking about the. The good old days in the 80s, like, they just. They don't move forward. They don't move forward.

And like, that's why minimalism has oftentimes been ascribed to being a masculine thing. And it is because men. It's not a natural impulse for men to collect and hoard. Like, I understand if you're holstering your grandfather's war dog jacket or you have your father's dog tags who died in war.

Like, obviously little keepsakes like that are monumental and important, but I'm talking about these more trivial, trite things. It's a. It's feminine behavior. Because, I mean, just look at the average woman.

Women love to collect, right? Like the feminine. The feminine grace. Collect things.

Go to a woman's house. She's got little chests of little treasures, gems, necklaces like that. Whereas a man who's properly adjusted in his masculine don't give a fuck about saving birthday cards, doesn't have crazy collections. If his house was burning down, he could load up a duffel bag in three minutes and jet out the door.

Like, everything he needs is within a 5 millimeter. Vicinity of his being at all times. Like, he could literally jam out, have everything burned to the ground, and he's chilling. Whereas men who've had their heart broken, they get that feminine sentimentality.

Does that make sense?

01:37:15CALLER 8

Yeah.

01:37:15CALLER 7

I mean, the one that. The one that came to my mind was golf. You know, groups of young guys going to play golf to get away from their families or whatever. But, you know, if you thought.

If you look at mj, Someone like mj, he played golf to further his vice, which was gambling. So I guess maybe hobbies are only. Only having utility if they're furthering your mission.

01:37:35HOST

100. Exactly. Exactly. That is the true function of a hobby.

That is correct. So I'm glad you underscored that. Thank you. I'm gonna move on.

Thanks, Honey. Thanks. What's up, buddy? Can you hear me?

Yeah. Yeah. So my question is. Well, first of all, I really appreciate your content.

I think it's really dope. So my question is, until you get the resources to leave home, should I just nuke everything on my path to success, or do I play it safe

01:38:17CALLER 6

in an effort to not really offend

01:38:19HOST

anyone until I can leave home? Oh, man. If you're trying to leave home, it's no more Mr. Nice Guy, like, right now.

Like, this is what I've told these guys who are stuck in the middle and are languishing and floundering at home. Like, if you really want to make something of yourself. And this kind of harkens back to what I said about sort of reconfiguring yourself from scratch when you move hometowns, you got to start fires, man. You got to kind of be an arsonist in your personal life, and you gotta be kind of a pyromaniac, and you gotta start fires, which means you got to start problems.

Problems. Because when you start problems and you start fires, you then spring into gear to put out those fires. And so the. The problem with the common man is the common man just doesn't have enough fires to put out, so he doesn't really have to whip himself into gear to do anything because everything's comfy, cozy.

You know what I'm saying? So, like, if you're a guy who's trying to escape the rat race, you gotta, like, light a bunch of fires, and people don't want to hear this, but it's true. You got to rack up your credit card, you got to be in debt, you got to be saddled, you got to be saturated in some kind of debt, some kind of pressure where you're like, you know what? I gotta dig myself the out now.

It's the only way to do it. It's never going to happen any other way. You got to start fires, and you got to be shameless about it, and then you got to put them out. But you do have to put them out.

And it might take forever, but the more fires you start, the more subconscious genius is going to come to the fore. And then you're going to know if you're that guy real quick. And maybe you start a bunch of fires and you never get out. And you realize, you know what?

I gave it my best shot. I'm not built for this. And then you can go back to the. To the cushioned life.

There's nothing wrong with that. But you're never gonna know until you try. You're never gonna know until you try. Thanks for that.

Yep. Try to get a question, but I just kicked this guy off. Let's get Hunt up here. Smoking my way right out of this flu.

Already feeling better. Yo, Hunt.

01:40:46CALLER 2

Yo.

01:40:48HOST

Can you hear me?

01:40:49CALLER 9

Yeah.

01:40:50HOST

All right, fantastic.

01:40:51CALLER 3

Sorry, we got two brute spaces going on phones. So I have a question regarding what you said. So you said something about Israel Adesanya and Sean Strickland, and you spoke about Israel Adesanya was going to test, happened to his feminine energy and slaughtered the table on that fight. Obviously, he was a big favorite.

I want you to talk about that fight and how Sean Strickland won, in your opinion?

01:41:14HOST

Yeah. So let's look at the other side of the coin. I perfectly like a technician, dissected the exact architecture of how you build a guy like Sean Strickland from the troubled background.

01:41:28CALLER 5

Right.

01:41:29HOST

Like, I have surgically, Surgically given the process for how a guy like Sean Strickland wins that fight. Did I miss. Did I miss click with the Israel prediction? Yeah, I did, but what does that matter?

It's. It's, it's, it's. The guy was in what. My point of the story, and it still remains true, is that he was involved in his feminine animal.

Do you understand?

01:41:59CALLER 3

Yeah, I understand that aspect of it, more or less. What do you think went wrong? I. I didn't lose any money on it, but I thought that take about Israel was incredibly interesting about how he was going to tap into his feminine energy and slaughter him.

What do you think went wrong on Israel's end? Did he tap too much into that?

01:42:15HOST

I didn't see. I didn't see the fight. I think UFC is extremely fake and gay and rigged. Just like.

Just like World Wrestling Federation. Obviously, those guys are doing real damage to each other. But have you ever seen a fight go to the decision and you see a clearly win the fight and the judges go the other way? That happens, like, four times a fight.

That happens, like, four times a fight where a clearly wins in the UFC and the judges handed it to the other guy. So that shit's all kayfabe. It's basically glorified karate. Yeah, the guys are impressive.

They're knocking each other up. And knockouts happen, of course. But the bottom line is, once you leave it to a judge's decision, anything can happen. UFC is very rigged.

Do not bet a penny on the ufc.

01:42:59CALLER 3

All right. I appreciate your time. Thank you.

01:43:05HOST

Let's get solitude up here, yo. Solitude. Solitude. The.

Let's get Chris up here. What's up, Chris? Hey, man. So I started smoking.

Like, it's been, like, five months, right. And I got to the point tolerance is so high, I don't really feel the nick. Wondering if that's the same on your side. The is that.

Let's get Ghost Rider up here. Ghost Rider. What's up, dog? Hey, Brute.

Curious if there was a defining moment where you went all in on individual sports, specifically Olympic weightlifting, and the second

01:44:12CALLER 2

piece to that was, did individual sports

01:44:16HOST

make you find gambling, or did gambling make you find individual sports? No, I think gambling's been the wellspring of every endeavor that I've ever taken on in my life. Like I said, I think it's been the source. I think it's been source energy.

You know what I mean? Like, that Rob session has led me to be incredible at anything that I've ever undertaken. Like, there's no doubt that the pathology of gambling has pushed me to be an incredible Olympic weightlifter after. There's no doubt.

Like, those seeds were sown early on, and I was able to harness and tap into it.

01:44:47CALLER 6

That.

01:44:48HOST

That's, like, my point. Like, you want to talk about harnessing an affliction, you take an affliction and you use it to propel other things that are healthy. And that's how you kind of counterbalance the system so the whole thing so the whole all the wheels don't fall off. Like, I've built that solid foundation of health and strength so that I could voyage harder on the risk end.

Does that make sense? Like, the only reason why I give a about being strong in the gym is so I can voyage dangerously in the markets. And because I have that reservoir of strength and health, I can absorb more damage than the average person. Because I got a lot of meat to chew through.

Understood. I can go catabolic for long periods of time, and there is a lot of muscle on my body to get through before you get down to the bone. So I see it as a shield. I see it as a kind of aegis and sort of protection against hardcore voyaging.

01:45:45CALLER 3

Yep.

01:45:45HOST

Totally get it. Appreciate what you're doing. Yep. Yo, maze.

Mace.

01:46:03CALLER 9

Yo, bro. The question is about my little brother, who's 13, and he's an innocent being. And I saw a video of you.

01:46:13HOST

He's what?

01:46:14CALLER 9

He's an innocent being. He's innocent. He's 13. He doesn't know.

He's just happy.

01:46:20HOST

And I sure is not sure. It's not your sister.

01:46:23CALLER 9

No, it's my little brother. Like I was 15 years ago, but I'm not right now. I'm. I'm not anymore.

This. This person I was. And he's just like me before I was the person who I am now. And I wanted to ask, should I break his innocence by showing a video of a white guy getting beaten up?

Or should I. Because I love him. Should I break his innocence by doing something out of love? Or should I.

Or should take. Or should take nature? Take care of it.

01:46:59HOST

Come on, man. Come on. Zero soy. What's up, baby?

Zero soy. You've always got something good to contribute. Take off your mic. Come on, doggy.

All right, let's get Titus up here. Yo, Titus. Yo, yo, bro. Yo, what's up?

Yo? Zero stories up. Fire away.

01:47:49CALLER 4

My question is about Vladimir Putin, the president of Russia. I heard this story where one of his workers, a woman, comes and tells him that his dog has died. And the guy doesn't even flinch. You know, he's like, okay, you can go.

And this girl, she goes and tells it to the press, like, oh, Vladimir Putin is inhuman. You know, the guy doesn't even have feelings for his dog. And my question's got to do with that part of the stoicism, because that's what I treasure about stoicism. Like, you know, the guy doesn't even flinch when you got, like, coming to you, but you.

You don't show it. You. You don't show your cards. What do you think about that?

01:48:48HOST

Yeah, man. I mean, look, like that is kind of the Holy Grail. The stoicism, like I said before, dude, is an. Is an end of life philosophy.

And you can almost say that you want to talk about, like, the. The. The. The.

Like the tertiary part of a man's life. Putin is in that era right now, like he's in. He's in that reigning kind of last, final stages, kind of like last bastion. And so that makes sense.

But the thing is, is like when you are a man who has perceived and seen everything. Like again, dude, this is a perfect question because you arrive at stoicism by seeing the grotesqueries of life and by being exposed to things that are so gruesome that you no longer even have an ab reaction to news like that. You know what I'm saying? Like, he didn't get to stoicism by holding things in and bottling things in.

That got to stoicism by being one of the most ruthless, prolific tyrants ever.

01:49:53CALLER 4

Yeah, yeah, I get that. I get that.

01:49:56HOST

So. So you, you naturally arrive there. I mean, look, there's many aspects of my life that are extremely stoic. 100. Because I have seen so much and like I said, I'm already dead.

That you sort of become a ghost of yourself. And you can take everything in. In a. In a very non dramatic.

It's like, it's. Dude, this is the whole paradox. Things are dramatic, but they're not.

01:50:21CALLER 4

Okay, okay, now that you said that the other day, you talked about the paradox and I thought this is also paradox of stoicism. And the other branch of the thing is not showing it to people that doesn't deserve it. What do you think about that? Like, he's not gonna show it to his secretary that he feels for his dog, you know, he's the leader of the whole fucking country.

01:50:47HOST

Goes back to what I just said about the presentation. It's the performance. It's the Kabuki theater. When you're on that kind of platform, you owe it to your audience to make the show continue to go on.

People are there for the theatrics. It's like, that's exactly the point. You become the character that you're playing over many, many years of time. Those two things have a fusion process and they crystallize themselves, like for all intensive purposes.

That is the performance itself. So. Yeah, of course, dude. I mean, that's part of, like, that's part of the applause.

That's part of the ensemble. Oh, you understand what I'm saying? Like, that's, that's. That is the crescendo.

Like, that is the old. That is the pen. Ultimate part of the performance. That's the prestige right there.

That's the last part of the act, is that he has that poker face.

01:51:40CALLER 4

I got you. He. He already like, has arrived. You said he's on the third part of his life.

01:51:46HOST

Yeah, he is in the third stages of his life.

01:51:49CALLER 4

And last thing about this is, again, I feel this with a lot of things that the. The press, the media is trying to show it, like, oh, this evil man, that he's got no feelings. And when I. I think the common man reads this, you.

You just say, well, this is a tough motherfucker. It doesn't have the effect that the media wants in a man when they tell this kind of story.

01:52:15HOST

You want to talk about paradoxes. The men with the biggest hearts, the most loyalty that I've ever come across in my life were also the most ruthless and would tear through your chest to get what they want. And they have the biggest hearts. They're soft as inside, and they have a genuine, genuine compassion for life.

Life. You notice this amongst all these, but the. The trick is they have to respect the being that's in front of them, and then they will literally give you the shirt on their back. That's great.

01:52:50CALLER 4

Thank you, bro.

01:52:51HOST

Yeah, Running this machine. You running.

01:53:01CALLER 2

Yo, you want to pass a question?

01:53:06HOST

We got Nico up here. Yo, Nico, it was that you? Ghost Rider?

01:53:18CALLER 2

That's me.

01:53:19HOST

Yeah. Go ahead. Go ahead.

01:53:20CALLER 2

Yeah. So how do you, as a young man who's always had, like, your belly full, you. Money's never been a problem. How do you counterbalance that and kind of like, how do you get, like, that ship on your shoulder if it's not coming from, like, outside factors?

01:53:34HOST

How has money ever been a problem? Parents?

01:53:38CALLER 2

No, it's just I live in, like, suburbia. Like, I can go mow lawns. I can go wash windows. Like.

01:53:42HOST

Got it.

01:53:43CALLER 2

It's not hard.

01:53:44HOST

Got it. So you have an income stream.

01:53:48CALLER 2

Sorry, say it again.

01:53:50HOST

So you always have an income stream. Like, you've never been. You've never been starving.

01:53:54CALLER 2

Yeah, I can always figure something out.

01:53:56HOST

And you're yearning for that.

01:53:59CALLER 2

Yeah, yeah, I'm yearning for, like, the. Like, the hunger. I just don't know how to spark it.

01:54:03HOST

Why?

01:54:08CALLER 2

I'm. I'm not sure. I mean, because you always say it's the guy with the chip on his shoulder who always, like, counterbalances that and comes back. But what are the guys who have no chip on the shoulder do?

Is just innate.

01:54:20HOST

So you want to break out of the middle is what you're telling me.

01:54:24CALLER 2

Exactly. Yeah.

01:54:25HOST

Yeah, that makes sense. So, look. I mean, look, this is kind of a perfect segue. So, like, the.

The immersive experience that I've offered on this platform, like, we all know, we all know the lore and the history of my. Is that the heroic mission that I talk about is the realest thing that you could ever put your hands on. Like. Like, I.

When I say that I'm. I'm here to build an army underneath me, it's not a joke. Like, that's not. That's not hyperbolic talk.

Like, I want to take the worst, toughest cases in this life, and I want to put them under my wings, and I want to go as far as we can possibly go. Like, that is. That is my mission. My mission is to build my own elite guard and have.

Who are struggling to have this kind of chip, who don't know who they are, who have identity issues, who are languid, who are depressed, who are at home, who have no idea what the next chapter is. I, I, my. I offer that immersive experience in real life, who want to take risks, who want to ride my coattails, who want me to lead from the front, take all the heat. Like, guys like you need to ride with guys like me.

That's the only way you break out of the middle, because I've already got the panoply of wisdom. So when I tell these on Twitter, I'm like, look, if you're fat and happy and you're sitting at home and you hate your situation, it's time to start shaking things up. You get on board with a guy like me, we start firing together, we start placing bets together. As an example, as a crude example, you.

You. It is the most dangerous, horrifying experience of your life, but it could also be the most liberating. There's no in between. Like, we're either gonna get clapped.

It's either going to be the worst risk you've ever taken, or we're getting eight figures. Nothing in between. But the bottom line is, is the reason why you have to take some kind of fucking risk, whether it's a personal risk, paint shots at the market is when you do lose, that is when you go through the revival period where you start to summon your real character. You.

There are so many layers within a man that you cannot access until desperation kicks in. Until desperation kicks in. I mean, that's why fucking suicide rates drop to almost zero percent when there's a real war that breaks out. Because when men are willing to die for something and they're willing to die for a cause and go all the way, there's no depression.

It all dissipates. And you're the best parts of your character and the worst parts Again, the paradox, the counterbalancing forces all come to the fore. They all come to the fore. And my whole shtick is that it's not necessarily about the gain or loss.

It's about the journey of taking massive, monumental risks that are way over your head because you will be able to pull yourself into a space that you never dreamed possible when you have no choice. When you are left with no choice and your back is against the wall, that is when motherfucker's true fangs come out and you're able to go to mental places. You're able to institute practices that you never thought you were capable of. And that's how you build a juggernaut.

That's how you build a behemoth. That's how you build an Elon Musk, a who never gives up, pushes boundaries, and takes the craziest risks of his life. And I. I've.

I'm the only one on this platform who has genuinely offered that journey and been very upfront about the dangers and pitfalls of it. Like, we could get royally together, but one thing we don't do is we don't quit. None of the guys that I have on my team who fire with me, none of them have given up. We're always finding angles.

We're always finding solutions. We don't stop. And if you want to touch a piece of history, because I'm. I'm etching myself in history right now, I am documenting the greatest comeback of all time live, then you really should slide in my DMS and get ready to put skin in the game.

And I will teach you everything I know. If there. I am the most dangerous man. If I'm in a room with 10 youthful who are energized, and we're putting our heads together and we build a brain trust and we're ready to attack the world, the possibilities are endless because we're never gonna quit.

And I'm on one of the most monumental runs right now that I've ever been on. It took me four or five, maybe six months to fully recharge, recalibrate. I'm an old general now. I've been on the battlefield my whole life, and now I'm kind of directing and kind of going to the sidelines a little bit and helping some of these younger guys learn some of these strategies.

So if you are one of these that I'm talking about with that cat of angst, and you actually want to literally etch yourself in history alongside me, I offer that to you. You can fly out Tomorrow I'll sit in the room with you, and we will build one of the greatest runs that you've ever seen, and we'll document the entire journey and we'll do.

01:59:57CALLER 2

What's the price point on that?

01:59:59HOST

I usually, guys usually come in for like, minimum 25, 50K. 25 50,000. And then we start from there.

02:00:10CALLER 2

All right.

02:00:13HOST

But that's, that's the heroic mission, because it's again, it's about putting yourself in a spot that's, that's way over your head, biting off way more than you could possibly chew. And from that position, once you find yourself in a position that you've never been in, that's when you start to get very industrious and very resourceful and very creative. And this is when men start to unleash that kind of barbaric, vitalistic spirit that's been suppressed and suffocated forever. And these guys are yearning for this type of thing.

They're yearning for this type of thing because the, like, the modern world is so gay. None of these rites of passage exist. So it's like, yeah. Is the safe return doubtful at times?

Yeah. Is there a chance we get completely mauled? Yeah. But then we wake up the next day and we figure it out together.

And that's the thing. A guy like me is unstoppable. With 10 warriors under my wings. Unstoppable, literally.

The possibilities are endless. And so you want to talk about the heroic mission, version 2.0? There it is. It's open.

I appreciate your question.

02:01:28CALLER 2

Appreciate you. Thank you.

02:01:36HOST

Yo, Zachary. Yo, Brute.

02:01:40CALLER 5

What's good?

02:01:41HOST

What's up, brother? So I guess from here.

02:01:45CALLER 5

So I've been grinding two, five cash games in poker for a couple years here, playing in casinos, playing underground. I know you fire on sports bets, but, you know, from a poker standpoint, I don't know if you've delved into that world. I'm making decent money here and there. The swings can get pretty gnarly.

But, like, something about grinding and in a Dungeon for like 10 hours doesn't seem healthy to me. If you were, when you were playing poker or if you did. Did you ever experience that or what, what's your view on, on that?

02:02:18HOST

Dude, it was miserable conditions. I, I, I couldn't, I couldn't stand it. I had to play. I had to switch from tournaments to cash games because I literally couldn't sit there for 14 hours a day.

People are missing teeth. It's a, it's a wretched place to sit and be and grind it's horrible.

02:02:34CALLER 2

Yeah.

02:02:34CALLER 5

Like, I'm playing in these good games, and, like, some of these people are just, like, bums, and, like, I don't like being around them, but. But they're good to play with. You know what I mean? So it's kind of a.

A weird battle.

02:02:43HOST

Yeah, it's like. It's like shooting fish in a barrel sometimes, but at the same time, it's a really dark place. Metaphorically and literally.

02:02:54CALLER 5

Yeah, like, just. I like seeing people just lose a ton of money and just. I, I. I've seen some horrific.

But when you know the game and you got the skill, it's good. It's just. I just think grinding around that environment is just. It can get toxic after a while.

I used to play tournaments all the time, but like you said, like, I'm sitting at a computer for what, like, 10 hours?

02:03:15HOST

So I don't know if I'm gonna

02:03:16CALLER 5

delve into another adventure, but, yeah, that's pretty much. That's pretty much it, man. I just wanted to hear, you know, some advice on just grinding for 10 hours in a dungeon and see if that's even worth it.

02:03:27HOST

I mean, I mean, I think I said on a prior space is the game of poker has been solved. It really has. Like, the margins are kind of skinny. Yep.

I imagine, because you got all the GTO guys that have figured out.

02:03:39CALLER 5

Yeah, the European nerds.

02:03:42HOST

Yup, exactly. So when they say that the software is eating the world, that's true. And so then we find new games to embark on. But yeah, bro, I mean, that, that poker thing is insane.

I mean, I used to buy into 900, 000 cash games and have 15 million in the pot. Yeah. Crazy, crazy games. But then I would just get bored, and I would get tired, and I would get impulsive, and I would start shipping with garbage because I just wanted to get the out of it.

02:04:09CALLER 5

That's the same thing with me. I get hands for, like, two hours, then I'm like, oh, queen jack off, suit. All right, let's. Let's just run a sick bluff on some dude.

And then I get stacked.

02:04:17HOST

Yeah.

02:04:17CALLER 5

Because I'm bored.

02:04:18HOST

Yeah. Just. Yep. Just send me home so tomorrow I can wake up with the fury of God under me, and I'll.

I'll go back to betting sports and I'll pop these exact. Exactly.

02:04:28CALLER 5

Right. Right. Well, that's pretty much up, man. I appreciate the time.

This has been a good space, so appreciate that.

02:04:34HOST

Of course.