 So guys, I'm uh, I'm just testing out some gear here and I'm making sure Hello, I'm testing out some gear trying to see how things are working I'm gonna be going live on Tuesdays 8 30 maybe 9 o'clock. I'm not quite sure I'm just trying to figure out some of this gear to make sure Everything is working properly Do you do? Yes, I lift back doing lives. Hey Drew Actually, I'm testing all this at the moment because I do want to get back alive. I just got some new gear so If you can if you can hear me, let me know you can hear me Well, let me know you can see me. Well, because I'm just testing it all drew and I need your help We're gonna be doing this on Tuesdays, I think at 9 a.m Sounds decent so far. Well, that's good to know drew. All right. Well See how we got this running and and drew is here Drew guess what you're gonna help me test this buddy Yes, I'm gonna hang out here. We're gonna hang we're gonna hang out for a bit and chat so I have something to look at How does it look? Nice poster in the backs of me. Thank you very much. That is Keith. Yes, one of my heroes I'm gonna I have a bunch of pictures. I want to switch that up with So As I mentioned, I'm testing some stuff out so I'll hang out with you guys for a bit So I have some some film to look at oh Boy, the visuals good sounds good. All right. Well this new Brio camera is doing the trick drew and I'm still I guess how's that? That picture looks good. The background looks good. I guess it looks oh I have to see what it looks like after I'm finished with this. So anyway I'll go ahead and talk about what we're gonna be doing and that you give me plenty of film to look at so For the new year, I wanted to get back doing lives again I was doing them for six months last year and I was going live every day for a half an hour And I found it to be it was quite fun A lot of times I woke up in the morning not really sure what I was going to discuss so I would look to the news to discuss about current topics and Try to look at it with an objective lens To try to make sense of the world and that started when COVID started however, you can imagine drew and for those of you who are following along that The political landscape due to all the issues that we were having and it'd be an election year COVID everything else was going on that discussing Politics objectively every morning became incredibly Increasingly more difficult to do so much so That it was bumming me out. I felt bad about it I didn't there's so many other people who do politics and talk about politics and I'm and I'm In more knowing way a more educated Manor than than I could and besides Do I really need to get myself in trouble and get my YouTube channel taken down and just all the other stuff? that goes with being a political commentator in today's politically charged world so That bummed me out and then besides trying to find great things to talk about every morning was difficult I'm not you know And I would be going on live after Scott Adams So I'd be rehashing a couple of the topics that he was and he doesn't and he's gonna do a better job of that sort of commentary then I would do and I try to give it a different spin, but It is what it is. Anyway But AJ asked me if I would go live again, and I said yes, I would love to go live So now I'm going to go live Once a week where I will discuss a couple Topics in the news a couple topical items I'll also do a review of the podcast that gets released and then I'm going to do a micro lesson do from that podcast and and that will give me an opportunity to go live and then I'm gonna cut that how-to video out as a separate video for our YouTube channel and that will give me plenty of Content to work with in YouTube as as I want to spend this year trying to build up this channel so With that drew some meat and no one. What do you guys think about? That huh? Why don't you guys tell me what you guys think about that and then if you have? suggestions of Topical or ideas that you would like to see from this then you could go ahead Can we invite you on our podcast love and support from India? Well, Raul, I would love to come on your podcast. I think that would be totally rad You can write me at Johnny johnny at the art of charm calm and I would be happy to you know, and it's funny we have a lot of Indian folks who listen to the show and I hear from you guys all the time So thank you very much for all of your support in India and in fact Because of the way our channel is set up and because of how many folks in India listen to us When I'm doing the tags for YouTube, they always suggest Some Hindi versions Translations I don't know anything about India. So forgive me if I offend anyone But so I'm guessing that is a a certain dialect or language for I know it's a large country within good with an incredible a population So I would imagine there was probably a few different dialects, but it asked me if I would like to Translate anything to Hindi. So it's something to think about Drew is saying politics is always touchy. Even when you're looking at the from an objective. Yeah, man it just got to the point where just not gloom and doom which we're still dealing with but You know, I don't I want to look at the world through a positive Lens to be able to extract from it the most value for myself and for the listeners of the show Makes it difficult Sameed says yes, Hindi is the most widespread language right on. Okay. We'll see I learned something every day Drew says the micro lesson sounds awesome as it reinforces the main pod Yeah, so drew the idea would be I would pull out and those We always get told that our episodes of the podcast are Incredibly intense. They're they're very in-depth and There is a lot of lessons within one hour long episode. I like Long-form content and I like to dive deep into our subjects And I think it's the the Rogan effect when you dive in you have the opportunity to discuss it you're able to look at Certain ideas from multiple different angles that Jordan Peterson idea of getting on a 360 high-resolution view of the topic and I love doing that but because it's an hour-long show Sometimes the immediate Lessons sort of get lost in there and I would I'd like to do is to give Everyone who would listen to this an opportunity for a micro lesson that they can think about throughout the week And it would be my hopes that that micro lesson would enhance their lives And the other thing about it is with everything that is going on I think all of us could use new tools and to develop the tools or cognitive tools that we have to Enhance our lives in a in a way that not only helps ourselves But it helps those in our immediate surroundings friends family our community. So that would be that would be the idea So I'm glad that you dig that drew enough So Samit and drew Raul and no one of you guys You guys let me know what you think about that. So So far I've been on for nine minutes here I decided I was just going to come on today and talk and see what this all looks like So if you guys have any questions Go ahead and post them and then I'll answer them that will give us something to talk about and then also I wanted to talk about this show So yesterday we dropped a new episode. It was a toolbox episode And I don't know if you guys have noticed but we haven't done many toolbox episodes this year This was our second one because we had started the year last year in January and February we did two toolbox episodes One was on charisma and one was on core values then the pandemic hit and We were just as confused and Not sure of everything as much as anyone else and the production house that we were working out of our Contract was coming up. We had We weren't able to go into the studio and we had to make our own pivot to bringing everything from our recording of the podcast to our boot camps programs and other Information products we had to transition everything online and though COVID gave us an opportunity to focus on That transition It was still a lot of uncertainty that went along with it and now AJ had moved I had moved them out here in Vegas and we have solidified that transition and we're now able to focus on Building again, which I'm really excited about because that will give me something to occupy my time rather than stewing on the Uncertainty and insanity that COVID has brought with it to all of us who are dealing with it. Well our global community So what do you guys think about that kind of stuff, right? Um Some eats that sounds perfect. It would be a really great for people Who are a little impatient for long duration content? Well, that's that's exactly it to me Not everybody is going to sit through an hour-long podcast And this is what's incredibly bizarre to me and I've been dealing with as a content creator There is content that I enjoy making which is long form And which is I was a little bit nervous even coming on today because going live and talking to you all through a camera is Is quite nerve-wracking in itself, but in just doing this right now I remember how much I enjoyed going live when I was going live every morning. So this is rad But also I'm making I make content for Twitter and I enjoy Twitter That's fun. And then I create content for Instagram and I will tell you that I don't like making content for Instagram. I find the platform a bit a Bit juvenile and the content is is in in our terms of where we are in a society I feel that it is bit It's disposal disposable content where it's just in this Streaming screen Scrolling and you and you're looking for Anything that hits you emotionally and then you click on it and watch. It's very mind-numbing and it's not very Engaging and then because it's Facebook owned I I just find the content superficial and so you can't really dig into it This what I'm doing right now talking to you guys This is what I like doing. This is the content that I like making so Yeah, there are people who are patient, you know, I put little lecture pieces up that are two minutes long on Instagram People seem to enjoy them. I Don't consume content that way. I also don't own a television. I like to read there is a there is a saying I can't remember who said it, but it's secrets are the secrets to life are within the pages of a book and That's the kind of content that I like to consume books allow me to read a passage Mall it over see how it affects and works in my life and then I'm able to implement it I also like to wrestle around with ideas and Books allow me to do that. I could read something. I could put it down. I could think about it Whereas video or television or Instagram. I find it. It's just very passive. It doesn't really It's difficult for That content to stick so Now I wanted to you if you guys have any questions feel free to ask I Said I appreciate Wow, there's seven of you guys So for those of you who just tuned in I am testing out stuff And I'm basically doing a flyby to see my pants show So I have something to to mall over look at as I I'm gonna Perfect this whole thing in the next couple weeks. So thank you guys Samit says true that I've been creating content for my blog for more than two years. And yes, Instagram is my least favorite Yeah, I don't like it especially with the weird algorithm change which hardly gets me any reach So That I can totally understand and that's definitely difficult And this is the thing that I hate about the algorithms You put in all this effort to make great content and if no one sees it It's it's the moralizing it's the fetus that deflates you it sucks out the energy I recently picked up a new YouTube how-to video With and some new tools to help this grow So I'm looking forward to putting in some efforts to see how that works Drew is asking. What's the verdict so far on the move to Las Vegas? Well, Drew, thanks for asking. I Have to say Considering the situation It's great. I was in LA LA's on total lockdown My friends can't even go get a haircut or a beer. I could get a haircut and I can get a beer. So With that I will say Much better. Also, I enjoy the The outdoors aspect of Vegas, it's a little cold right now. It's like the high 50s, but Another week another month or so and things will be getting nice. I can finally get out and start doing some more hiking Here's one for you Drew I'm actually starting to think about Picking maybe a bicycle a bike to entertain myself or I even thought About getting a skateboard at 47 years old reason being I used to be a That's all I used to do as a teenager all the way up into my 20s But now I'm in Vegas. I don't really know anyone out here because I moved in the middle of the pandemic It's granted you go get a beer, but you still can't be social and so I don't I'm always looking for new things to be able to do to occupy my time and to be productive But also to blow off steam and I think perhaps a bike or skateboard will do it I do want to get back into running as well. So Samit says what kind of questions would you love to answer right now? Would love to ask. Well, how about this Samit? You can ask me anything that you want as I'm gonna hang out here for another few minutes And then I'm gonna head out and I appreciate you guys Being on with me as you watch me fumble through this as I Have some film to look over as I'm testing out this new gear. So for those of you who joined I'm gonna be going live every week once for now. I might be interviewing somebody I might be doing a review, but it's going to be on Tuesdays and Yeah, we're gonna have some fun with it I'm looking forward to making a lot of new content to meet up with trooper a to rate 88 He is a poker player in Las Vegas with a vlog and he is a skater and more advanced age Okay, well that sounds pretty rad if you want to If you drew if you want to shoot me his info, I'd be happy to take a look at it hit me on one of the other platforms or You could shoot me that and I'll look into it maybe perhaps he's somebody to interview The other reason guys that I'm gonna be doing live is Because of the way the podcast is set up We have a certain type of interview that we usually do it's usually a psychologist an author an expert and one of the areas that we're generalists in and We dive deep into some of those areas, but I don't have an opportunity to create content around people that would be outside of Those parameters so for instance In a few weeks and Samit you might enjoy this I have a buddy named Andrews coming on he's he is from India and he he now lives in America And he started his own record label and I have watched his online magazine grow as he went from reviewing metal bands and then promoting metal shows in Los Angeles to Starting his own label and he now has his own Distribution deal and his bands are getting put out there and he did all this himself and I and I helped Andrew with this now what I find Andrew's story so exciting is that he saw iron Maiden in India as a kid in the front row and that inspired him to come to America and start a record label Now that's one of the kind of stories That That I really enjoy it has self-expression It has um growing after your dreams your passions. It has music involved Rock and roll metal So That's a story that I would love to present to you guys from a With the lens of self-development chasing your dreams self-expression to be an individual To to become the person that you want to be and how do you follow that out? Now? That's a story that that I couldn't bring you on the podcast, but I can bring you as extra content on youtube that interview is going to be done in a few weeks Um, and so that's how i'm going to do that. Um JJ says go shoot a machine gun. You can do that in vegas Right on Uh, yeah, I had not done that but I have been out to prump to front site JJ Uh, Drew says I have a feeling he's already done that recently Uh, JJ. Yes. That is true Um, but all right. This is man. This is so rad So that's the plan guys. That's what I'm going to be doing and I wasn't expecting it coming on here for this long day So now I'm actually going to try to do a piece of content from the show and then I'll I'll head out Um, where is that? there was Something I wanted to discuss you know I'm so many Shows on the podcast ahead that I forgot even what we dropped yesterday this week. Oh, yes Toolbox episode and we talked about the myths of relationships and also we discussed uh, some online dating and this idea That if you find the perfect person then Then you're not going to have any problems in your relationship In your relationship is going to be is going to be splendid now I don't think there's anyone that actually believes that fairy tale, but When you when this when these fairy tales and these ideas are represented in our culture Through movies through platforms like instagram where everything is such a Gives has a fairy tale vibe to it and what I mean by this is when you look at instagram and you go to a To its discover page all you see is a Amazing looking people especially on the half-naked girls dancing tiktok videos but it is these these This you get this idea that life is perfect and pristine and everyone's having fun And that's just that's just not the case and in in order to make the most out of Your life Then you're going to have to take it on proactively Rather than living a a reactive pass of life And if you want to extract value you're going to have to attack life with a plan with a plan to get value out of it and You know that was part of what this podcast was about Was that relationships aren't fairy tale relationships are not happily ever after relationships just like life an order for them to be flourishing and Invaluable for both people to learn about themselves To to strengthen their relationship and build lives together that you're going to have to attack that relationship With the tools that will allow you to build and strengthen it and that's what we wanted to do and I thought we did a great job of that and One of the ideas in that podcast that we discussed was dating apps how They pushed forth this idea that Well, think about dating apps, right? They don't make money by getting you a lifetime partner They get money by getting you to pay for a subscription In Los Angeles There was advertisements for dating apps That promoted this idea of swipe life That life that as you as a young person you should be tasting all the flavors of the rainbow Dating constantly and that the next swipe away Is going to have the the perfect partner and if they don't work And if they're not perfect, don't worry about it because you have another opportunity Just a swipe away. And so all these billboards in Los Angeles Would be promoting swipe life now for those of you who understand marketing advertising propaganda That even seeing these signs peripherally And Extensively seeing them repeatedly That you start and they enter into your subconscious And it becomes part of your lexicon and if it becomes part of your lexicon It becomes part of your reality to where before you even Really know it You have subscribed to this idea of swipe life and And passively you accept it as it is a thing When in reality The idea of chasing limerence The falling in love with the idea of falling in love Well It has a it has a way of Of eating at your your soul so to speak Where your self-esteem starts to take a whack Your picture of a healthy relationships Starts to erode And before you know it What you have grown up to understand about relationships Takes a back seat to these new ideas that are trying to be imprinted Through marketing through advertising through propaganda and when you're standing there wondering why You're not happy Well, then you have to be reflective and start to look at what are the things that are causing the anxiety the you being upset And having complications Upon your life and it's you're looking at it through the these this new lens Of where this is supposed to be the way you're supposed to be living swipe life is just how it is But is swipe life the most Healthiest idea how many ideas have been imprinted on this that don't lead to us feeling good I mean you can think about it through We understand that exercise allows us to feel good, but how much marketing do we see about exercise? We understand what How eating healthy allows us to feel and is eating healthy Exciting it's it's quite boring actually, but yet Advertisement and advertising isn't going to tell you the the boring idea is the best idea That doesn't help their causes so We're stuck in a world that has been Tons of all this information For people's direct benefit of our wallet, but that doesn't mean That these ideas that we're buying into at the end of the day are going to allow us to be happy and healthy and so We have to rethink All of these ideas that we've bought into I think even in the cities it's more difficult because you're exposed to it all the time um, so Stefan Stefan here says profound stuff man. Love the episode right on. Well. Thank you Stefan um, I'm going to be going live Every Tuesday about this time probably eight thirty or nine and then I'm going to I'm going to try to go live and do more stuff even more so that I got to start small Because if I start big and make all these big plans, you know, what's going to happen guys? Absolutely nothing I will cave to the pressure just like everybody else. All right um So that's it guys. Thank you very much Uh, so I want to thank you guys for popping on drew and Stefan and some meat Uh Thank you guys. Thanks for being here. Thanks for helping me out with this Um, I'm going to look over the video. I'm going to see if I can strengthen this Get this frame better And uh, and we're going to be creating some good stuff. So right on guys. I will catch you all later. Thanks