 All right Hope everyone is doing quite well. I just want to grab my coffee here. We'll get started You know I had some Things that I want to discuss today More of some some more social phenomena that it's just blowing my mind All right, let's get the coffee going But before we get to all that I want to do some Some gratitude stuff first for my own sanity Ryan Peterson, how you doing Ryan? That's girl. How you doing? So for a lot of you guys You know right now in this period I think I've been stating it a lot that gratitude is incredibly Incredibly important to what we have going on it keeps Perspective in mind and and helps us get through you know a crazy time So for me for myself today, I wanted to start with the gratitude of AJ my business partner at Art of Charm Dropped over some tech gear here that I'm messing with and And and some kettlebells yesterday because I've been stuck in my apartment I haven't even been able to work out to the well to the best of my ability and I was getting quite bored with Body weight exercise, but I got to say Not only am I appreciative of Being able to do this exercise getting some weights yesterday, but I'm also appreciative of Having this time to reflect and think about how things are going and just Yeah, I've probably haven't been so focused and Quite a long time as well considering that Focus wise What else am I gonna do except focus on Art of Charm stuff AOC business and and everything that we got going on here So those things were really important to me and so I'm appreciative of having The opportunity the time of focus to do things to be able to work out as I for those of you who follow me on Twitter Know that I've been posting What started out as prison workouts to gratitude workouts seeing how we're gonna be in this mess for a little while, so that's Where I'm at with that Hopefully We'll be out of this mess soon. This is a little over two weeks for myself here in Hollywood being Quarantined and I gave you guys some stories of what was going on in Hollywood yesterday If you're interested in checking that out, you can go to my periscope just today I hope everyone's doing well. If you have any questions or comments throw them in the chat throw them in the Periscope, I'll be happy to get to him One of the things that I wanted to chat about today, which is just Concerning is How the apps that we have all the social media has been training ourselves as well as our youth to To just do things for attention For instance, have you been following any of the media for? Whatever since this thing started There's a few focuses of the media Yeah, Trump sucks. There's that part of the media. There's here's everything that we're doing wrong part of the media Here's all the scare mongering of the media All of that stuff is awful and it drives me nuts and I'm sure it's only Hightening the panic and the anxiety that everybody is already feeling at a heightened level But there's one more piece to this that social media one of the most powerful Systems of influence that we have on That is in co hoots with the media the second most powerful System of influence in the world. So the two most powerful influences of influence is number one media Number two social media both of them and the one that they've come in together into and co hoots is is Social media has been training people that attention is good and that you can get attention in Two ways One you can do amazing things and share them and people will watch them and and You can get adulation of followers and the rest of the thing But there is no difference on social media between Good publicity and bad publicity It amplifies this idea that all publicity is good publicity Rico, how are you doing buddy? Long time no see so good publicity is no different than bad publicity and How do we know this well because we see this and how social media works even stupid things that you do are You gain attention for you gain followers for you gain Attention and there's no difference between the great There's no difference between the adulation you get of Practicing a craft and doing it over and over again and getting really good at it and showing it on YouTube or Periscope or or Instagram, right? You're you're learning guitar skills all your life and you make a video and you put it out there and a bunch of people They find it and they and they follow it There is no difference between that licking an aisle of deodorant For shock value and getting followers for that There is no difference Now I grew up with in a two-parent home But and when I was in high school my parents separated, but I stayed with my dad now When I did things that were stupid My dad if he caught me or saw it would be sure to let me know That what I had done was stupid and there would be ramifications after that And it wasn't so out of line that I would get bopped upside the head if I did something really stupid right so as a child if I was to lick an aisle of of Deodorant guess what I would have been bopped upside the head now We already know through studies and stats that That a lot of children today are growing up in a fractured family Which puts both parents in a position to be emotionally manipulated by their children? so either parent Cannot be looked at as The disciplinarian because that could jeopardize their visiting rights If a father is only it's already only getting weekends and the child now doesn't want to go over because he's grounded So regardless, I'm not getting and that's a whole another story However if there is no one to hand out consequences for Doing stupid things like licking an aisle of deodorant and yet because you're not getting Discipline for that. You're not getting a bop upside head You're not being told that that is stupid and you are being Rewarded with attention and followers Agulation all publicity now is good publicity any publicity Then then we are going to be raising Generation stupid now. I am not anyone to say that because I'm generation X that I'm over it Everyone is dealing with the dilemma of of Social media and putting themselves out there and how they're how they want to put themselves Out there what their brand is going to be who they are now as a podcast company The art of charm podcast we have interviewed Over 14 years 15 years tons of different people and in fact Some of those people that we have interviewed have done monumental feats of strength and courage from from from Rest his soul Kobe Bryant to guys like David Goggins. All right two people who have Went out of their way to test the limits of human physical Cape capableness Physicality to the utter limits of of what you can do and and we've also interviewed people who who Play pranks or write books and or We try to do our best to promote people And give people a platform Who have done things that we feel benefits society in a positive manner To the best of our ability now Everybody is hypocritical at one point or another and I'm sure you can go through our history of interview guests and find People who are seriously flawed. I can't Go over all of that. I can't remember everybody But we try to do the best of our ability But social media in its its own way Doesn't do that and tiktok another format We're seeing all a lot of Of behavior that would have resulted in me getting bopped upside the head or a lecture of of Why that was stupid being rewarded now Granted all of that. I've said it all there's your there you are Get off my lawn moment from generation x But I will end it with this I will end this rant with this And I will end the rant with For everyone who I have seen this week licking toilets licking deodorant Having coronavirus parties and the the rest of the social media folk Who have gained adulation and attention for doing dumb ass shit? They've been arrested they've contracted the virus they They have all found themselves in situations that hopefully Will be examples for everybody else out there who wants to continue Doing dumb ass shit That's all I want to say I don't wish this disease on anybody. I I don't wish Any harm to anyone However uh, I I I I We need somehow To figure out a way Rather to encourage this sort of behavior to figure out a way that promotes The promotes behavior that that shows Feets of human ingenuity physicality Very remarkable uh just Things that are that that make us strive to be our best When I was younger there used to be a show called that's incredible Now I don't remember it all too well There was a show that was called that's incredible and there was a show called real people And these were both shows That celebrated The uniqueness in human beings. I guess you could say that they were the They were the original social media entertainment And at the same time They highlighted The things that that made us special that made us unique that showed our our creative output You know so On twitter and I spend most of my time there and if any of you guys are not following me there you can I have a private account AOC Johnny and the art of charm account and one of the things that I've been seeing is The reason I know that these toilet liquors and and coronavirus people are Now having a hard time with the ramifications of their actions is because people have been posting the The ramifications the consequences On my timeline. I'm seeing it in my feed. This person's now arrested. This person's now found guilty of licking this This person is now has coronavirus for their coronavirus party now we have Mob shaming going on on top of The the The consequences of their action and I already posted this week. I was like Don't you think these people Are going to have Enough hard times in life that they are willing to lick deodorant That that they and and I were dealing with the consequences of that That they really need on top of that mob shaming to go along with it. I mean wow so You know, I I'm I'm trying to do my part here and I'm trying not to be I am Trying to be part of the solution not part of the problem I even wrote it was like these people having their It's already set up that they haven't been raised right or that they have found a Another path through life Where they're going to be chasing attention And they're going to be dealing with the consequences of that and let me also state What you chase becomes your god if you're chasing views you're chasing likes you're chasing follows Well, then you become subservient To that chase And you will deal with the consequences of that now Listen I can start all this all I want and I'm Thank you, uh I appreciate that calling me bonjour me. I wouldn't be the first time my friend. I got called um What's the the guy from uh The mike mires movies yesterday. Anyway Listen, I'm I am not saying that I'm above any of this bullshit I am not saying that I I am not guilty of it myself However, when I see these things And I think wow I was young once too. I'm sure I could have done something so stupid. No not really You know why because I was bopped up that side of the head enough times to where I would have thought twice about licking handrails and toilets and deodorant and ice cream and putting it on the shelves and having coronavirus parties to spite the world health organization In jeopardizing everybody else's safety so and and How about this since I just bagged on all of these people I will hand you a story of stupid from when I was young from myself just to even the playing field and Remember tide pods. Yeah, man. That's exactly. This is what I'm talking about now I told this story the other day for those of you who haven't heard it. I will give you this This puts me on an evening playing field. This was I got a page from generation stupid on my own book and there was no social media to give me any adulation Except now many years later I used to live in north carolina and was it 99 98 Maybe 97. I can't really remember. There was hurricane fran hurricane fran Was coming through up the coast and the thing about living in north carolina during hurricane season is Through a season you might have been warned about Four or five maybe six hurricanes and they never came through They would usually roll up the side of the coast through outside of and nip florida and roll up the side, but they never