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So I actually, in my notes, have written a multitude of failures.

And I just compile the list of times.

I don’t know if I failed or circumstances failed me or my brain failed, but

there is an element of failure. And maybe

this was, again, more an exploration of how

failure works.

Sometimes it’s me, sometimes it’s the world, sometimes it’s circumstance.

You got to take responsibility for what goes on in your life, but you can

also see how things are

sometimes out of your control. And so I thought I would explore that a

little bit by going through.

Basically, laugh with me by laughing at

me with me is what we’re trying to get to.

So like everyone who finishes university

and I was particularly bad at education,

I was trying to get a job. And so I

was just like, hey, throwing it out there.

Let’s try to get any job we can. We just want to get started in life.

And I thought, “Oh, what’s a noble thing I can do? Let’s try to make myself

the best self I can be.”

I also maybe had taken on too much information for movies like that things

work out really nicely

in the end, which found real life. They don’t really

work that way. Like, I’ve got, I’ve had a very.

blessed life, but at the same time, if you, what my aspirations in my

reality, there is a significant gap.

there. So I was trying to get a job right out of university. And I didn’t

really know how things.

worked. One of the things, university, high school, all education says it’s

supposed to prepare you

for the real world, supposed to prepare you for stuff. It doesn’t even come

close. Like, I think.

middle school elementary school should have a course on how to study.

That’s been a big sticking point for me for the last little while. It’s been

years now.

Well, I think about education is that

education never teaches students how to study.

They say, “Here’s math. Take this math and go study it.” They don’t tell you

how to study it.

Should I just copy it? Should I do like other activities? Should I make up

my own formulas?

Should I just look at it? Should I put it under my pillow and use osmosis?

They don’t explore anything.

Because again, I think every kid’s probably a little

different. And so what’s successful for one kid.

won’t be successful for another, but you got to try the different ways to be

successful. And then

find what works for you. So then by the time you get to junior high school,

high school, you know

what kind of studying works for you. Therefore, you can study more

effectively. When you’re going to

the end of university and you’re trying to get jobs and stuff, they got to

tell you how jobs work.

And that I think was maybe the first failure, where school has failed me

miserably. So I said, you know,

again, maybe being a little aspirational in my thinking, I decided to apply

to CISIS. Now CISIS is

CSIS. It is the Canadian. I forget what

it stands for. Canadian. It’s not secret.

And I’m going to have to look it up. Let me do that real quick.

What does CISIS stand for? Oh, there you go. Okay. It’s Canadian security

intelligence services. So

this is essentially Canada’s CIA or Canada, because the FBI is national and

the CIA is international.

Canada has the RCMP is national and CISIS is international. So they deal

with international crime. Now.

they’re spies. This is Canada’s version of spies. And I just thought, oh,

right, a nice letter and

a resume, which had like, I sold dog food for six years on it and send that

into the CISIS head office

because they do have an office, which actually is in itself kind of weird.

And I didn’t do any research.

I didn’t think of what requirements they had. I didn’t actually apply for a

specific job. I just

sent a letter to the Canadian security intelligence services and said, I’d

like to work for you.

Now with a little life experience, I see why this wouldn’t have worked out.

because I don’t think CISIS

just accepts applications. I think they recruit. I think they’re going to go

to the military.

They’re going to go to police agencies.

They’re going to go to specific things.

Again, perhaps banks need like forensic accountants and whatnot. They’re

going to find the people

who fit the roles they need and then they’re going to recruit them. They’re

not just going to take

applications off the street. It’s why you’ve never looked on Craig’s list

and seen an ad for CISIS agents.

Now I didn’t think I was realistic enough to think

I’m not about to be a spy. I’m not going to be like.

the Canadian version of James Bond going around the world shooting things

and solving crimes.

I thought I would probably be doing a lot of data input. Maybe I’ll get good

enough at that.

That I’ll actually get a job as maybe as a data analyst or compiling other

people’s information

and doing stuff for them. I was pretty, I’m not even going to say good, I

was pretty good with computers.

I was adequate. I was better than average at the time. That’s certainly now

that’s not the case

because computers have come so far. But at the time, I could have done some

Excel sheets that maybe

other people couldn’t do. I could put

some things together that other people do.

So I sent them a resume and a letter in a

cover letter and I actually got a response,

which I now in my head think this was

very nice of them to not make fun of me.

And then the response was a very short letter and I just said I don’t know

where you would fit.

in the organization. And it was a very nice way of saying like what the fuck

are you talking about?

You moron kid. But at the same time, it was respectful and it maybe even

took a moment to

recognize like this kid wants to do something bigger but just doesn’t know

how. Which I think was

the case. I wanted to do something good with myself in the world. I just

didn’t know how to do it yet.

Anyways, so I did not get a job at Canadian security intelligence services.

And that’s the first step

to how I live my life now is not a spy. So then I’m still looking for a job.

This is the same

era again with so I’m still in a situation. So now if I was going to get a

job, I’d do a lot of

research. I would find out stuff. I would make sure I know what I’m talking

about before I made any sort

of application. I’ve done internal interviews within the company I work in

now and I did as much

research as I could to get as much like background as I could so that I

could present myself very well.

Back then, I was just so ready to get a dream job out the gate that I just

thought any my brain was

making things look good that were not good for me. So there was a company

and I saw an ad and this was.

back then because this is when I’m in my 20s. So the Internet is functional

and it exists but it’s

not common. So most jobs, even it, you know, very technologically advanced

companies, you would still

send in a physical resume so you’d send it in the mail. So I saw an ad. I.

think it was on the Internet.

It must have been on the Internet and it was looking for a script writer.

Now I am a pithy guy.

I drizzle sarcasm. I am artistic and I’ve written lots of stuff. By that

time I’d actually written

a full novel. We’ll get to how that failed in a minute. I got quips. I could

do it. I can write

scripts. I could write scripts that dazzle people. I could even do drama. I

could do serious stuff.

Comedy is a hard thing to write. Drama is easy, comparatively speaking. So I

got this. So what I did is

I took some scripts that I had made for a mini Internet show I had at the

time. You can see that

this aspect of my life has not changed much. And I compiled those scripts

and I wrote, I made a list

of other things I’ve written in amazing scripts I’ve put together and then I

wrote an original script

for them and I made this package. And I thought, man, this is a pretty good

package. This has like

sketch comedy. Has little drama. Has some novel things to it. Like long form

literature style

writing. It shows that I am very diverse in my abilities. They’re going to

be creaming their

pants to get a hold of me. This is going to be awesome. And so I was putting

the envelope, the package

into the mailbox. And as my hand released, I realized, and you hear that

slam, you know,

when it slabs, and that’s the note that you’ll never get this back. This has

gone forever. This is

now in the world. This is in the hands of the person who you’ve sent it to.

As I released my hands

and heard that little pff, I realized it’s a computer company. They’re

looking for computer.

scripts. Not comedy scripts or drama scripts or any kind of script. It’s not

like a sketch show.

They had a, the reason I kind of conflated these things in my mind. This was

sort of the height

of flash and flash cartoons were huge. And my mind had put together, they

needed someone to write

scripts to make their flash cartoons. But what they actually probably wanted

was flash scripts.

Like if a then b go to 10, all those kind of, you know, basic things. They

wanted Python scripts.

They wanted SQL scripts. They wanted PHP scripts. They wanted database

access scripts. They wanted

a script writer to write computer scripts. And as I let go of that letter, I

realized, in that moment,

I realized, this is wrong. I have not done, I’ve not interpreted this the

way it is in reality.

And I’ve really messed up. And I couldn’t get it back. Now, thankfully, the

company never contact

because I now felt enough sort of self-humiliation, self-embarishment and

how stupid I was

that I was now dreading the call where they would ask me to come in and

actually talk to them about

scripts. And I was, part of my brain was going, they’re computer guys. What

they’re going to do,

is see this guy who’s so dumb and has made this huge mistake. They’ll bring

him in. They’ll sit down

and talk to him. And they’ll just be like this office joke. And I will, and

I, you know, I would have gone in.

Because I was out of university, I was in

debt. I needed a job. I would have gone in

for the interview knowing that I had applied for a job that didn’t exist,

knowing that I was doing

a thing that they were just laughing at. I still would have taken the shot.

And that would have just

added to the embarrassment. It would have been insane. I am thankful that

they never contacted me.

It is painful. I actually have a friend who ended up working at that company

for a short time. And he

said that it never came up. So they didn’t sit around. The office talking

about that one guy who applied.

for a script writer doing scripts, but not actually computer scripts. But I

mentioned in that story,

my first novel. Now, I actually have a tattoo of the title of the novel on

my back. And there’s

a secondary story. I got it on my lower left of my back. It is inches away

from being a tramp stamp.

Because I got it on my lower back before tramp stamps were a thing. And then

about two years later,

girls are all sort of getting like flurries or flashes or like barbed wire

and shit across the

bottom of their back above their butt. And actually all these slutty girls

ruined my tattoo.

But anyways, I wrote a book. And this was in university. I was actually very

proud of it. The basic premise

of the plot. There were actually two main characters. There was a police

officer. And the police officer

had this uncanny ability to always hit what he shot at. So one day, he

encountered a repist who

was raping a girl and he shot him. But he could sell that. I did just

explain tramp stamps. Because

I needed to give context to there was a time before tramp stamps existed.

Because before

tramp stamps existed, if you got a tattoo on your back on let’s say your

lower back like I did,

there was no negative connotation to it. There was no association with the

tramp aspect.

So I felt it was necessary to make sure everyone understood. I know I’ve had

people say it like I

say I got this. This tattoo on my back. And I’ve had people go, do you not

know what a tramp stamp is?

Not realizing there was a time before tramp stamps. There was a time before

that was a thing. So I

have a tattoo on my shoulder. And I thought for balance, lower on the other

side of the body on my

back would be like a nice balancing feature of the tattoos. That’s why I got

it there. And then

honestly like two years later, tramp stamps got wicked popular. Weird one I

saw, no whatever,

I’m not talking about tattoos, Ignats is just put in the chat in the 1800s.

Yes, in the 1800s,

that is when I got my tattoo. And in the 1850s, tramp stamps became popular.

That’s why you’ll see so

many cowboys talk about tramps. They’re not actually talking about homeless

people. They’re talking

about women with tramp stamps. So that’s just a little more in-depth

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Anyways, now you’ve ruined the plot of my book. It

was a shitty book anyways. I wrote it when I was.

in my early 20s. So you know it wasn’t. I think it was again, conceptually

good. I think again,

I just need to work on, I needed to practice writing more. But the idea was.

that there was this guy

and he, if he shot something and he killed it, he knew inside. So as a

police officer, he could say,

you know, I shot at him and I hit him and

he died and that’s just a circumstance. As

whereas deep down inside, he knew he shot him on purpose because he had

essentially perfect aim.

The secondary main character was a ghost and the ghost had no context for

what being a ghost was.

So again, all media we’ve ever heard is that ghosts remain because you have

something left unfinished.

But the ghost himself didn’t know what he had left unfinished. So he was

going to try to find out

what he needed to finish so that he could move on. Not even knowing if there

was a place to move on

to. This is all conceptual. So he essentially tries to help the cop with

some issues and solve a

crime and whatnot. It’s a weird buddy cop thing but also they both have

these like really deep-seated.

issues which was supposed to be the heavy part.

Anyway, I didn’t conceptually quite a good book.

I wasn’t ready to write something that high, high-falutin yet. So I decided

I’m going to say,

but again, I’m still in the stage of my mind

where if I just do it and I do the thing,

it’s going to be successful because I’m young and stupid and I don’t know

how things work.

So I sent this book. Now at the time you had to send a sample of the book

with a cover letter

with a stamped self-addressed stamped envelope in it with a postcard that

said whether you wanted

your manuscript back or not. And I sent

it to every publisher in North America.

And then the rejection started coming because every

one of those self-addressed stamped envelopes.

came back to me and every single one of them came back with a rejection and

you want to know what

rejection feels like. You get to the point where every single day for weeks

and weeks and weeks.

There’s a letter for you. And in that letter is something saying that the

thing you spent a year,

two years working on, it is not good enough for anyone else to ever see.

Thank you for your time.

Goodbye now. And of course, it’s not. Now again, with the benefit of years

of experience and stuff,

I know that it wasn’t very good and it would take years

of editing and stuff. I did have one publisher say,

this is interesting. We’d be interested in looking at your next project. The

next project never came about in a realistic

amount of time. I did an internship at a

publishing company that was a

only did poetry. So they only did poetry. And we got dozens and dozens of

manuscripts every day.

And it was hardly any event was poetry. And the guy who ran the publishing

company said,

like, Peter, here’s a good job for you. I want you sit down and write the

rejection letters for these.

Now, it’s basically a form letter, but he’s like, if you can put in

something encouraging and positive,

that’s really nice. And me having had the similar experience of being

rejected by every single publisher

in North America, I had sympathy for these wannabe writers. The thing is, I.

read some of the worst

trash ever. And there’s one that sticks out to my mind and my memory. And it

was like a pre-50 shades

of gray concept. It was a BDSM kind of thing. The only bit I remember now is

the dominant man and the

submissive woman meets in a grocery store and he takes her hand and then

they’re frozen food

section. And that’s already funny if you’re being honest. And he takes her

hand and he puts it on.

her frozen Turkey. And he holds it there against the Turkey for an extent

time until her hand goes numb.

And it’s so cold it starts to hurt. And I was just pissing myself laughing

the whole time. Because

it’s just the idea of holding a frozen Turkey as being sexually stimulating

anyway. It was just a bit.

much. I guess if you’re horny enough, it probably worked. I mean that guy

probably the guy wrote it. He

probably was, he was probably into that kind of stuff. Ralph says, damn, I

wish I finished writing

novels. It is hard. I mean, that’s it. I think everyone has the ability to

start. It’s the getting

through the middle and finishing. So last six months ago, I wrote and.

recorded Montana LDablo.

If you go to Montana LDablo.com, it is a choose your own adventure. And that

took me a year to write.

And then I got sick and was in the hospital. And then I got out and I was

working on it really hard.

And then I got COVID. And then I decided I’m just going to finish it. So I

don’t think it’s very

strong. I think it’s a really good first effort. I’m working on the concept

and stuff for a second

choose your own adventure book. But I really enjoyed making it. And I think

that made a huge difference.

Right now, what I’m doing is taking the first Montana LDablo story. I’ve had

some AI transcribe it

from voice to text. I’m going to go through and fix it and add stuff. And

then actually self-publish it

on Amazon. Yes, conceptualizing and starting is easy. And that’s actually

where everyone falls

apart. Because everyone has like a notebook like this with like probably a

good idea in it. I don’t

even get a sh*t on people. Most people’s ideas are pretty solid. It is

sitting down in again, a book.

It’s a year-long process, probably minimal. And then do you have the where

the will to sit down

and edit? Do you have the will to cut half the sh*t you wrote because you

realize it’s not very good.

or rewrite it to make it better? Anyways, working as an intern in a

publishing company was very.

eye-opening. And that was probably more leading me to understand how the

world works. And again,

why I wasn’t getting these jobs that I was completely doofing in the first.

place. I did do again a very

movie-like thing. I thought, “Oh, you know what I’ll do? I’ll take my novel

that I’ve written. I’ll leave it

on the publisher’s computer.” And then one day he’ll go, “Oh, what’s this

file I don’t recognize? He’ll

click it open and start reading and go, “Oh, it’s a novel by that young

intern, that young very handsome

and intern with lots of hair.” Oh my god, this is brilliant. I’m going to

publish this. And then that would

set off my publishing career. What actually happened is it was on his

desktop. He just deleted it.

He’s like, “I don’t recognize that file. It was gone.” So I’ve realized like

the movie concept of

how success works has no relationship to reality. And these lessons are the

lessons that get us

through there. So that’s a lot of rejection I experienced. Variant, I claim,

I claim, I act to,

Rao probably has not heard the story

of the failure of my judo career. Which.

since we’re here,

I got one more story after this. This will probably be edited. But I have

done judo my whole life

since I was like 10 years old. So now I’m 50. I’ve been doing judo for 40.

years. In university, I was on

the university judo team. I really, really, really wanted to go to the

Olympics. So I was like working

really hard towards it. I was huge. So the body you see now is nothing. I.

was like four at one time.

So this is how sad you can get if you don’t maintain that. I was doing judo

four or five nights

a week and going to the gym four or five mornings a week. And I was sleeping

10 hours a day. I.

basically one half the country. So I got this the like the West Canada part

and I went to the nationals.

And so I’m in the nationals. I’m fighting and then I have this moment. And

you know, this is

getting towards that peak, that moment. And my opponent grabs two of my

fingers and pulls them

backwards. Now I probably, so 50% of my mind thinks he did this on purpose

to cheat. 50% of my mind

thinks he did this as an accident. So he broke, broke these two fingers. So

this little finger,

so I can close, you can close your finger all the way. This little finger

doesn’t. Like I can do

that and try to push it. It does not close because it was broken. In the

movie, not the movie, but in a movie,

what happens is the hero gets injured and then they maybe tape it up or they

go off and they take a

break. And they use their heart, their spirit to will them to win. So they

go back in and then they

would using some special move or some some, so just the purity of their will

to win and be better.

They win the fight and they become the champion. I went out two broken

fingers. I taped them up to

this third finger. I’m like, okay, I’m going to do it. I’m going to go back

in. I’m going to be the

hero that everyone’s seen in every movie. They’re going to make a movie

about this guy right here.

And I go in and I get my ass kicked because judo is not a thing you can

fight with only one hand. You

need two hands to do it. I got absolutely destroyed.

Got up. You have to bow. So I bow and I walk off.

And that’s when the tears just started. Like I’m going down the side of my

face because this is it.

That’s the end of my judo career right there. And that’s reality. And again,

it’s not even sad.

It’s just that’s what happens. That’s real life.

Like you get hurt. You don’t become the champion.

It ends your career. You try really hard. Sometimes that does not enough.

And you can’t just like,

it doesn’t suck. It’s just real life. So

sometimes it sucks. Sometimes it doesn’t.

So I, that was the end of my judo career. I ended up though, but because I

had that experience in judo,

I came to Japan. And I have a really nice life in Japan. I credit that to

judo. So I think, yes,

I lost this one thing that would have kept me in Canada. But I got this

other thing that landed me in

Japan where I’m actually really happy. So that’s kind of the end point of

what I would end up

be getting to is like, how can I tell that one’s actually better? If I

become champion, I maybe would

have had a shitty job and been doing judo the rest of my life in Canada in

the country where no one

gives a shit about judo. Whereas now I’ve come to Japan. And as a mediocre

player, I get this status

because I’m a foreign guy who does a Japanese thing and does it really well.

And you know, really cares

about it and wants to share it with other people and they think I’m awesome.

I have an immediate

group of support, group of friends. It’s great. I think it’s, I see in a way

probably better.

And it was my last story. So again, this is the same period. End of

university trying to find jobs.

I go on and I find an online job recruiter and they’re actually based in

California. So I go, okay,

call them up. So I’m calling them long distance. I go, hi, I’m in Canada.

The job market’s tough.

I’m looking for jobs. I was wondering if there’s anything available in your

region because California’s

very up and coming. This was like the beginning and the very soon the end of

the first Internet.com.

bubble. I talked to them for quite a long time and then the recruiter said,

come on down and I’ll

get you working. And I was like, okay, I will arrange that. Hang up. I

immediately start looking for tickets

to San Jose. How much did they cost? I talked to

my parents because again, I’m in debt. How can I.

afford to go and get a job? But if I can get a job in California working for

a computer company,

I don’t be making tons of money really soon. So this is worthwhile. Let’s

try it. So I borrow money.

I get an airplane. I book a hotel. Really cheap cheap cheap. So cheap hotel.

I’m in San Jose. I call up the recruiter and I go, yeah, so I’m here and you

can just hear this

pause on the other end of the phone. They’re like, what? I go, well, I’m

here. You said, come on down.

You get me working. So I came on down and I’m

here now. What’s the next step? And they go,

and then they try to talk around. I’m like, oh, for fuck’s sake. They were

being euphemistic. They were

not being honest or direct. They weren’t being real. They were just saying

this because they’re

essentially a salesperson. So they talked to me for a bit and they’re like,

well, let me make some

arrangements and I’ll call you back. They didn’t call me back. So I started

calling the agency that

they worked for. And I got passed on to someone else who’s like, come on in.

But I’m like, I’ve now hit.

like deep, deep depression at this point. Come on in. We’ll see what we can

do. I come in. I mean,

we haven’t talked about visas or anything. So there’s no way I can get a job

in America. You can’t

just show up in America and get a job. You need a green card. You probably

need the job before you can

get all the shit I would need to get a job. So I’m

now in a position where I’m in San Jose. I have.

spent more money than I have. I’m completely lost.

I’m sitting in the shitty, shitty little hotel.

And this notification notification comes out and they call the hotel. They

call the room.

And it’s there’s been a chemical leak up the road of this big factory. And.

what they’re saying is

please don’t leave your room under any circumstances. So I can’t even go

like walk around. This is like

San Jose. It’s like sort of the bright sun shiny California weather. No, I

can’t go outside. Go,

you know, get a drink somewhere. No, you can’t go outside. I have to stay

indoors. I’m staying in this

place. And at this time, again, this is late 90s early 2000s HBO exists, but

it only plays two

movies a day and it just plays them on loops. So I don’t remember what the

other movie was, but I watched

Stuart Little four or five times in a 24 hour period because I could not

leave my hotel room. I

couldn’t leave the place I was staying. I was in the depths of depression. I

found it difficult to

motivate myself to do anything. And I’m just watching Stuart Little over and

over and over again.

And it’s talking about like if you have big dreams, you’ll like be

successful. And all I’m doing is

sitting in this shitty hotel room with chemicals apparently all around me,

probably giving me cancer

as I speak. Being as unsuccessful as humanly possible and I think Stuart

Little lied to me.

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(Upbeat music)

So this is a convergence of several
different things that have all happened.

I heard a story, it
was on the Internet and

it was about a meeting
at the white house.

So this is basically, we’re
gonna talk about millionaires

and billionaires and how to
attach the air from reality.

I think everyone knows
their detached from reality

because they live in a different
world than a normal person.

So they think about things a different way.

And the story was that Jeff
bezos was at the white house

with Obama and John Stewart was there.

John Stewart is a comedian
that I fell in love with

on the, he was former host of
the daily show fort trevinoa.

And I think I watched every
episode of the daily show that he did.

And he was socially
conscious and he was incisive

and politically aware and then all
those were all very appealing traits to me.

So he was telling this story.

Jeff bezos is at this meeting.

So of course Jeff bezos is
there because he’s super rich.

I think of that probably the
richest man in the world at that time.

And the story goes that he
was talking about the future

and the way he saw the
future that there would be

like a cabal of billionaires
and industries and services

would all be catering towards
the needs of these few people.

They would essentially
be running the planet

and everything would be geared
towards making them happy.

Now, John Stewart pointed
out that this is horrendous.

This is,

Jesus drops in more Dave.

Yeah, content irrelevant, more
Dave, but more Dave is good.

I’m thinking I’m hoping he’s
gonna take a nap while I do this.

It actually ruins my posture.

If you look at my shoulders,
man, this is ridiculous.

So Jeff bezos has made the statements that

the future of the economy is
not going to be about people.

It’s going to be about
multi-millionaires and billionaires.

And John Stewart then speaks up and says,

“this is one step away
from the French revolution.

This is one step away from
people taking away all their wealth.

This is one step away from
basically a new form of monarchy

where several big companies,
it’s all the dystopian books.

They always have three major
corporations are at war with each other

with private militaries
and stuff like that.

And Jeff bezos is talking
about that like it’s a good thing.

And Obama agrees with John
Stewart that this is a bad thing.

And so that got me
interested in Jeff bezos.

So I listened to two episodes
of behind the bastards.

Where they talked about Jeff
bezos’s youth and his history and stuff.

I’m not gonna go into that
because if you want to listen to that,

you should absolutely
subscribe to behind the bastards.

I shouldn’t be
encouraging people to

subscribe to non-chompe
beef chess podcasts.

But let’s do both.

Subscribe to behind the bastards.

It’s a very good podcast.

I got into it because of Steven seagull.

I wanted to see if
there was anything that

they brought up that
I didn’t already know.

I knew everything.

I was obsessed about it, man.

I’ve listened to like a
cadaphy and a bunch of people.

Basically I picked out all the
people I were interested in.

I was interested in and I listened to
those ones and I was very happy about it.

It’s very thorough, very smart.

It’s really good stuff.

This is Chuck mcbeath chess, c. Mcbeath.

Not to be confused with the, I
believe it’s Brazilian military operations

that also has the same name.

I’m actually gonna try to start beef
with them, which seems a really bad idea.

But there’s a c, c-m-c-b, which is like,

I think it’s Colombian
military, something base.

And so I believe it’s a training
program and they have their own podcast.

So there’s two c-m-c-bs in the world.

One is this where I talk about
just the most random stuff

and one is some very
serious people who

probably want to be
like professional police

or in the military.

I also produce news news Japan.

News news Japan is about news from
Japan, but you’re not there for the news.

You’re there for the color
commentary that I give about it,

which is how I, you know,
I’m a very thoughtful person.

I feel so fucking stupid saying that.

There’s also, it’s like a one-off
thing called daily affirmations weekly.

So basically it’s an affirmation you
can listen to every day for the week.

The longest ones may be a minute.

So they’re usually about 10, 20,
30 seconds long, which is great.

There’s Montana ldablo, which
is a choose your own adventure,

which you’re not allowed to
say ’cause I can get sued for that.

So it’s a user-driven narrative experience.

That’s four projects that are
all relatively active in some way.

And then there’s the old velocity
podcast, which has been retired,

seemick b replaced that.

But also behind the bastards, which I have
nothing to do with, but it’s very good.

And since I’m talking about
podcasts, three being salad,

it’s the most British thing ever.

So it might not be for everyone,
but it is my favorite podcast.

And it’s what I would like to do
’cause it’s just three people sit down

and talk about something, but
they just basically shoot the shit,

but they’re all really funny.

So those are my recommendations for now.

Anyways, write all that
down, go into your podcast.

Oh, you listening to your
podcast right now, kind of.

So you should probably just open your
podcast app and subscribe to all those.

So anyways, Jeff bezos is a
psycho, but he’s lived most of his life

in a world very different from this world.

So I kinda get it.

Discord just went off,
so I’m gonna silence that.

Just give me a second.

But it got me then thinking
about millionaires and billionaires.

And again, they’re so
different from regular people.

How did they live that way?

Or how did they get that way?

So I went on to, not on purpose though.

Like this all sort of,
again, this was a astrology.

This was a conflation of planets
coming together and aligning.

So I had all this information
hit me at the same time.

This was written by someone
on the anti-work subreddit.

I do enjoy the anti-work subreddit a lot.

The title is, “I’ve written several books

with multi-millionaires
and it made me understand

something critical about the
world of work and business.”

And so that was where,
it’s like, oh, this is interesting.

This is relates to the
Jeff bezos question of like,

how does he live and
what’s going on in his head?

I believe that they’re surrounded by
people who wanna make them happy.

It’s the same thing that happens to stars.

I think about Justin bieber.

Justin bieber was a kid, he got famous,

and then he’s surrounded by people
who tell him he’s great all the time.

And that actually isn’t good for you.

But these businessmen
probably are at the same point

where they’re surrounded by people
who are so desperate to make them happy.

So they can make money that they spend

mostly their life thinking, everything I
say is smart, everything I say is good.

I’ve seen and met the president
of the company that I work for.

Now, he is not a tuned
in guy, and he’s not

like one of these
multi-millionaire dudes.

He is rich though.

He runs a fairly large company in Japan.

I wouldn’t trust him with anything.

If I’m being really honest, I wouldn’t
trust him to do the most basic tasks

that need to be done properly.

And I think that seems
to be like a universal idea.

But then how are these people
so important and so fond upon?

But this was interesting.

I wanna go through sort of the
main points of this anti-work thing.

‘Cause this is quite long.

And I don’t wanna read the whole thing.

I just wanna get the main points because
it sort of illustrates the next points

that I wanna get to.

I’ve been working as it
goes right or for some years,

and over this period I’ve written several
books with entrepreneurs and businessmen.

Several of these clients were extremely
wealthy, not in the Elon Musk league,

but easily rich enough to invest their
money, have a very comfortable income,

own at least one property
and never work again.

But of course, none
of them were doing this.

Now I will never hit that level of wealth
because the instant I came close to it,

I would start minimizing
how much work I do.

And I think that might be a
very normal instinct people have.

A normal person doesn’t wanna work.

I weirdly do though.

So if, like you think about what I
do, today is Tuesday, it is my day off.

I wake up in the morning, I drink
water, ’cause I like to hydrate.

I take day for a walk, I come back, I go
over my notes for an engineer’s Japan,

I record an engineer’s
Japan in the morning.

Normally in the afternoon, I
would then make and eat lunch,

and then I would record
c-micb in the afternoon.

I’m actually recording this in the morning

because this afternoon, i’m
talking to a guy on another podcast.

I then later in the afternoon,
edit an engineer’s Japan,

and if I feel like I have time, I’ll edit
the c-micb, so I’m ready for this week.

And then I’ll play video games,
which I will stream on twitch.

And then I will make dinner for my family,

and then probably after
that, just play video games,

and then go pick
up my kids from their

various things that
they’d do in the evening.

All of that is unpaid.

I don’t make any money off the streaming,

I don’t really make any
money off the podcast.

I’ve sold a couple t-shirts,
I mean, that’s great.

But I mean, when you think about,
I’ve been making podcasts for years,

the $30 I’ve made off t-shirts,
isn’t really compensating my time.

So I do have the work
ethic for creating stuff.

So given the opportunity to quit my day job

and do something like
creating content, writing,

stuff like that, I would
absolutely jump at it.

So I might do that work forever,

but it’s because I would find
that work personally satisfying,

whereas most people, these
millionaires that are running companies,

do they find running those
companies personally satisfying?

Now they are surrounded again, I
said by like, yes men, and those yes men,

probably it feels good
to have people tell you

your genius, your genius,
you’re really smart all the time.

But at the same time, work isn’t fun.

But it seems like I think what they wanna
do is make money and that money is status.

And so this isn’t, I’m not
actually creating podcasts

to create status, I create
podcasts because I like making stuff.

And I like putting it out there,
and I like interacting with people.

These billionaires want wealth and status.

So that’s the first, I haven’t even got it

this second paragraph yet,
this is gonna take forever.

Over time I’ve become more
and more fascinated by the factors

that drive people who are wealthy
to attempt to accumulate more

and endure experiences that
aren’t in any way enjoyable.

So that’s my point.

They’re doing work that they don’t enjoy,

that is painful or takes huge
amounts of time or is very stressful,

whereas I’m doing stuff
because I enjoy writing,

recording, I enjoy editing,
I enjoy putting it out there

and moving on and making the next thing.

There are many characteristics that in
my view underpin this, including narcissism

and the love of attention.

Now I can’t actually say
I’m different from that.

I want my podcast to be successful.

So I must have a desire for attention

and that includes a certain
amount of narcissism.

But I think it’s on a more
normal level where it’s like,

I want people to like the stuff I’ve made.

I want to interact with those
people, but I’m not seeking fame.

If I was seeking fame, I would
have given up on this year’s ago

’cause I’ve been doing
this literally four years.

Insecurity, obsession with
status, attempting to compensate

for some perceived weakness or
inadequacy, upbringing and social example,

and just simple lust for money and power.

So those other ones, I, people do
not accuse me of being insecure.

I have been accused of anything.

It’s gonna be overconfident.

Obsession with status, I,
to a degree, is choose status.

I am sort of the leader
of a team at my work.

I don’t really like being the leader.

I like helping other people.

So when my team needs something
done and I do it, I feel good about that.

But I don’t really like
being the boss, per se.

I am not particularly worried about having
a perceived weakness or inadequacy again,

’cause that comes with being overconfident.

My upbringing and social
alization is pretty normal.

I do not have a lust for money and power.

Other than I would like to have enough
money that I don’t need to work anymore.

So that I could do
creative stuff and have fun.

I also believe that making money simply
becomes a form of compulsive addiction.

And if heightened attention or being placed

in some form of pedestal is added to
the mix, it can become highly potent.

But through interviewing
successful entrepreneurs,

I realize something critical will
have a business people generally.

If you want to be successful in business,
it’s a disadvantage to be intelligent.

Probably most people
have realized that

there is no correlation,
let alone causality,

between intelligence and business success.

But I would argue that intelligence
is actively disadvantaged.

Now that was where
this got really interesting.

‘Cause what they’re saying
is that to be a successful

business leader, being
smart doesn’t help you.

By virtue of not being
intelligent, number one,

they don’t question whether or not
they’re what they’re doing is worthwhile.

So I do question that.

Now, worth whileness comes
from in my view satisfaction.

So I make podcasts that, I mean, my most,

in interviews with Japan is the
most successful podcast I make.

It makes about, it has a core
audience of about 800 people,

maybe a really big one will get 1,000.

I put a cmeb on YouTube
that got 11,000 views.

It was on the movie triple r.

But I made no money off it.

So is it worthwhile?

It was worthwhile because
I had a good time doing it.

But they don’t question that
because that’s not relevant to them.

So if I considered it not
worthwhile, I would not do it.

Number two, they’re
less likely to feel empathy

for people that they exploit trample on.

This is more debatable,
but there is some evidence

that intelligence correlates with empathy.

I would love to get a Dave cam.

That might be the next project is some,

a camera pointed at the
bed he usually sleeps in,

and a second camera
that somehow points down

at my lap right now
because he’s unconscious.

Because he’s lying on his back
and I’m just scratching his belly.

This is very bond villain old school stuff.

I think I can say I have
average intelligence.

Maybe I’m a little smart.

I managed to do a bunch of stuff.

But I would never say I was really smart.

I think I have a shallow
knowledge of many things.

Am I empathetic?

It’s weird.

I think I can turn it on and off.

But I could say that overall, I don’t want
to abuse other people to be successful.

I think that’s very important to me.

So I don’t know if that’s empathy.

But I think there is a moral implication

to putting down other people or
abusing other people to get ahead.

I don’t think I could really
do that consciously or well

because that’s not in my nature.

I love to do stuff by myself.

So that’s, again, this
whole podcasting project,

making it, producing it,
editing it, putting it out there.

I do that all by myself.

And then adding
people in, I would never

want to do that to
someone else’s detriment.

So number three, critically,
crucially, they don’t get bored.

They can talk about business for hours and
hours and hours, and they never get bored.

Trust me.

They never get bored.

And that, again, business– I mean,
there are interesting aspects to it,

but sort of like the day-to-day
stuff– I couldn’t talk about it for hours.

And so that is interesting because it
means they can focus on something.

I think that’s basically the
premise of the rest of it.

It was only through having meetings with
several rich people that I realized this.

If I’m not doing something
creative or actively enjoyable,

so I think I relate to the author in this.

I get bored extremely quickly.

The Internet has probably
contributed to this.

But I think its a tendency
is inherent within me.

I remember that when I had a
conventional job, all I ever used to do–

all I ever used to think about at
work was when I could go home.

I am not that bad.

But what I do want to do is go home and
make stuff or stream or do other things.

Conversely, the capacity to hold meetings

and talk for hours about
stuff that doesn’t even

need to be discussed can
only be described as heroic.

Meetings are the literal
bane of my existence.

It is insane how many meetings people
have and how pointless they could be.

I usually go to meetings,
and then I write up notes

and distribute those to
my team, demonstrating

there is no need to have
a meeting in the first place.

Because if I can just type
it up and send it to my team,

all that stuff could just be typed up as
a report and sent to me in the first place.

And then I would actually
have something to reference.

So that’s terrifying.

That’s why it’s a major disadvantage
to be intelligent if you want to succeed

in the capitalist rat race.

Because not only will you
question whether or not

it’s worthwhile, clearly
it isn’t worthwhile.

But what you have to do to succeed will
become utterly tedious, extremely quickly.

Whereas less intelligent
people are able to concentrate

on these boring
things, these activities

that are a benefit of
any form of creativity,

that are bereft of any form
of creativity or engagement

for inordinate amounts of time.

While I’m skeptical
about some of the claims

about the extended working
hours, it’s also partially

explained by business people are able
to invest such punishing hours in work.

While this is physically
tiring, tiring, the main reason

is that it’s hard to do is that
it becomes mentally draining.

Your eye could never do this
because our brains would tell US,

you’ve been doing the same
thing all day, this is boring,

it’s all pointless, stop doing it.

But that never happens to them.

This is also why they can’t
understand why everyone isn’t like them.

And I think that’s another important point.

The author of this talks
about the lack of empathy,

but lack of empathy also means
a lack of ability to relate to others.

So it’s the idea, I don’t understand
why you don’t think like me.

And this is something you see
a lot is that the ceo is confused

as to why workers don’t have the
same investment in the company

that they have, despite the fact
that they don’t take a moment

to realize they’re not getting the same
reward for being successful as the ceo.

So we hear about CEOs make like,
i– man, I wish I had the number now.

It was like the top CEOs
of a certain set of companies

made the entire year’s
salary of their employees

by 9/30 the first day of the new year.

Something like that.

Because they make so much
money within the first hour,

they had already outpaced
every worker that works for them.

Here’s a quote.

They want obedient workers,
obedient workers, people

who are just smart
enough to run the machines

into the paperwork
and just dumb enough

to passively accept all of
these increasingly shittier jobs

with the lower pay, the longer hours,
the reduced benefits, the end of over time

and the vanishing pension that
disappears the minute you go to collect it.

Because they want to be able to abuse you.

And so that’s the conclusion
here is that these are the two

main characteristics that separate
the owner class and the working class.

The owner class usually born into it.

Secondly, they’ve worked out that it’s
better to be the owner than the worker.

That’s not like we didn’t work this out.

But you just can’t just be
born into something anyways.

A vast majority of these
people who love to work

at any level succeed
in the corporate system,

they are just smart enough
to fill in the paperwork

and just dumb enough to never get bored by
doing it or question why they’re doing it.

That’s the perfect
person to work in business.

So that gives US like a framework
of what the successful rich person is.

And then I got to this
other article, which I found

very interesting, which shows the
failure to really understand their value.

So the super rich preppers planning to
save themselves from the apocalypse.

This is a very long article.

And I think it’s from a book.

So let’s get down to the bottom
and give some credit to the author.

Let’s do that for the other one as well.

The author of this was
on Reddit user wub1234.

So maybe– oh, that’s got to be like–

like a second account because
they don’t want to get in trouble

for ripping on rich people.

It’s actually very smart.

Don’t do that.

The author of this article
is, this is an edited extract

from survival of the
richest by Douglas rushgolf.

So I want to make sure people
get credit for the stuff they do.

But I found this interesting
because my first thought was,

they don’t see how this is
going to work out for them.

Now, I was thinking about
the movie don’t look up

with Leonardo DiCaprio, where
they’re predicting an asteroid

is going to hit the
earth and kill everybody.

And then all these super, super rich
people– I’m going to give a spoiler.

So if you haven’t seen
it, it’s post-credit scene.

So that’s not the end of the movie.

But the post-credit
scene has super rich people

have actually managed
to get to another planet.

And they land on the other planet.

So it’s going to be politicians, rich
people, famous people, was all like that.

The people have enough money to get
on their ship and get to the other planet.

And it shows them getting off the planet.

And they’re looking around
and it’s all new and beautiful

and wonderful and they walk out.

And then it shows like
dinosaur-like creatures

coming in to kill
and attack them all.

That actually, to me, was
not what would happen.

Because in that situation, they didn’t
bring anyone who had any survival skills.

A rich– you take Elon Musk or Jeff bezos,

and you plop them in
the middle of a forest.

They would die in a day or two because they
don’t know how to take care of themselves

because their life has revolved around.

I order something.

I say something and it comes
and appears and it happens.

Which is actually how
they run their companies.

I say I want this to happen and
then the engineers make it happen.

Elon Musk is the ceo of
six, seven companies now.

The interesting part to me of
that– someone commented,

I believe it was on Twitter or something,

said like, if you can be
the ceo of six companies,

it actually makes it very clear
that the ceo doesn’t do much.

You go around and get
saying like, it was bill burr,

had a comedy thing and it was
like everyone idolizes Steve jobs.

But all he did was say, take my
cds and put it in this little box.

And then like 50 engineers
went and made that happen.

But he got credit for it.

Just like Elon Musk gets
credit for a bunch of stuff

that he didn’t do any of that stuff.

Someone he ordered to do did it.

But that’s the world they live in.

That’s what they understand.

I say it and that it happens.

And that leads me to the failure
of these super rich preppers.

And what they’re doing
is they’re saying like, we’ve

seen that the climate crisis is coming.

We’re going to build bunkers.

We’re going to staff those bunkers.

And we’re going to live in them and live
out through the apocalypse essentially.

So they’re talking about
mad Max being real.

We want to get ahead of
that so that we don’t suffer

the consequences of a lot of
the things we’ve actually created.

We’re going to skip the intro.

It was quite good, though.

They sat around the table
and introduced themselves.

Five super wealthy guys.

Yes, all men.

Not a surprise.

From the upper Echelon
of the tech investing

and hedge fund world, at least
two of them were billionaires.

After a bit of a small talk, I realized
they had no interest in the speech.

I’d prepared about the
future of technology.

They had come to ask questions because
they don’t care what you have to say.

They care to have
their thoughts reaffirmed.

That’s the yes men
mentality of the billionaire.

They started out innocuously
and predictable enough

bitcoin or ethereum, virtual reality

or augmented reality, who will get to
quantum computing first, China, or Google.

Eventually, they edged to
their real topic of concern,

new Zealand or Alaska, which
region would be less affected

by the coming climate crisis.

It only got worse from there.

Which was the greater threat,
global warming or biological warfare?

How long should one plan to be
able to survive with no outside help?

Should a shelter have its own air supply?

What was the likelihood of
groundwater contamination?

Finally, the ceo of
a brokerage house

explained that he had
nearly completed building

his own underground
bunker system and asked,

how do I maintain authority over
my security force after the event?

The event?

That was their euphemism
for the environmental collapse,

social unrest, nuclear explosion,
solar storm, unstoppable

virus, or malicious computer
hack that takes everything down.

And so they talked about
that for the rest of the time.

And I think that is, again,
where they fail to see

that their authority only comes
from their economic wealth.

They have no value in themselves,
and therefore the instant–

so one of them, down later,
says like he has a group of Navy

seals that if he gives a command,

they’re all going to go to the
bunker and then ride it out.

But once the event
happens and the Navy seals

and this tech billionaire,
technology, again, is gone.

Technology does not exist anymore
in this post-apocalyptic world.

What value does that person have?

So the maintaining authority
is actually the question.

Because you’re paying these
guys, but there is no economy.

So paying the money doesn’t mean anything.

Crypto doesn’t mean anything.

What would stop the guards from
eventually choosing their own leader?

And that’s the bit they’re missing.

They can’t stop them.

Once the world falls apart, they’re
not going to be valuable anymore.

They’re going to say,
I want this and people

are going to go, who
fucking cares what you want?

I actually know how to survive.

I actually know how to do things.

I actually have real world skills.

All you have are a few ideas
that are part of the old world

and they don’t mean anything anymore.

This single question occupied
US for the rest of the hour.

They knew armed guards would be required
to protect their compounds from raiders,

as well as angry mobs.

One had already secured a
dozen Navy– oh, there it is.

Doesn’t Navy seals to make their way to
his compound if he gave him the right cue.

But how would he pay the guards
once even in his crypto was worthless?

What would stop the guards from
eventually choosing their own leader?

The billionaires considered
using special combination locks

on food supply that only they knew were
making guards where disciplinary collars,

one of the most stupid
Sci-Fi ideas they’ve ever had.

Because again, basing this on technology
when technology’s failing means they’re

going to figure out how to get it off.

In some kind of return for their survival,

or maybe building robots to
serve as guards and workers,

if that technology could
be developed in time.

I tried to reason with them.

But if we look back at the previous article
from anti-work subreddit, they’re not

going to accept any other idea.

They have an idea they want it to happen.

They want to push it through.

They’re not going to think about you.

They’re not going to think about empathy.

They’re not going to think about
anything to make the world a better place.

I made pro-social
arguments for partnership.

In solidarity is the best approach to
our collective long-term challenges.

They’re not going to understand
that because it doesn’t benefit them.

They don’t understand that
because it doesn’t have empathy.

The way you get your guards
to exhibit loyalty in the future

was to treat them like
friends right now I explained.

Don’t just invest in
ammo and electric fences

or collars, invest in
people in relationships.

They rolled their eyes at what must have
sounded to them like a hippie philosophy.

This was probably
the wealthiest, most

powerful group I had
ever encountered yet here.

They were asking a marxist
media theorist for advice

on where and how to configure
their doomsday bunkers.

That’s when it hit me.

At least as far as these
gentlemen were concerned,

this was a talk about
the future of technology.

So that’s really, again, you can see
where all the failures are going to happen.

By not caring about
other people, by not

caring about the future,
other than your own,

by not caring about the environment, by
not being divested or invested in society

or social systems, these billionaires have
actually set themselves up for failure,

but because they’ve never failed,

because they’ve surrounded themselves with
people who, complete every idea for them,

they can’t understand or see
how that failure is going to exist.

They can’t understand or see
where the future is actually going,

where the first instance,
because these guys are dicks,

these military dudes who want
to just protect their families

or whatever, going to string
them up and get them out

of the way so that they can take over,

and probably actually create
maybe a militaristic system,

but one that’s actually designed
to care about other people.

But it shows, again, I
have actually had episodes

in the past and stuff where
I’ve talked about economists

and economists talk about
growth, endless growth,

and that endless growth is not realistic,

but they won’t accept it
because it means there is a limit

to how much power or how
much money they can make.

These guys, these billionaire preppers
are actually suffering from the same thing.

They’ve fallen apart from realite thinking.

They think they are separate from society

when they’re actually
just a part of society,

and when society falls down,
they’re going to fall down with it

and they can’t accept it.

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(Upbeat music).

I mean, we’re talking about #statistics of naughty topics, so you should know what you are in for with this one.

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Do you have a little more time?

Yeah.

Because this is something I don’t
know if it’s going to work, so I think it

would be good to do now if it doesn’t work.

We can just abandon it.

Okay.

I have the porn hub here in review.

Okay.

I throw that on the screen.

There you go.

The porn hub 2022 year review.

So this is all the information.

So we don’t really care.

Top searches is interesting.

Top searches in porn stars.

Traffic in time.

Popular categories.

Gay searches.

Men versus women.

Demographics, devices.

TV characters.

Video game searches.

Holiday is an events affecting traffic.

And top game searches.

Yeah.

So I kind of want to look at all these.

This actually could be huge or nothing.

That’s the problem.

But topping this year’s trends is reality
porn, which I found really interesting.

The reality category grew by 169%
— 169% — what does reality mean?

Well, so I think that means amateur —
no, because that would be virtual reality.

Yeah.

Well, it says the amateur category dropped.

Yeah.

So I theorized as much as amateur
models become full-time performers.

So that’s what you’re saying.

Amateurs are not amateurs anymore.

They’re full-time performers, which
means they’re not really amateur.

So people are looking
for visitors are still

seeking a real homemade
porn experience.

But with higher quality.

Well, no.

The higher quality ones seem fake.

So this is what people are looking for.

Homemade style.

Yeah.

So in fact, the searches for real
amateur homemade grew by 310% in the

United States and 179% worldwide.

So people are looking for less produced
stuff, which I found really interesting.

Real people.

Yeah.

Because western porn
stars don’t look real anymore.

No.

They don’t.

They look like hyper real.

Yeah.

Yeah.

They look like cartoon characters.

Yeah.

So why do you think people
are looking for homemade?

This is what I was actually interested in.

Why do you think homemade is taken off?

Because.

You have to come up with a theory just now.

Yeah.

Because I think that people are
looking for something they’re not getting.

Ah.

Okay.

I mean, besides all
of this, I’ve just read

a lot about a lot of
countries birth rates

are down.

Yeah.

Like time at home during the pandemic
hasn’t like indeed people to each other.

It’s made people more like tense, I think.

Yeah.

I think that’s true.

Maybe.

Because a child abuse
and domestic abuse went up.

But I’m thinking, my thought was
though, if you’re in a, if you’re in a,

have an abusive person and they’re around
more, it’s going to get more abusive.

Like there’s no way that gets better.

Yeah.

But I was thinking that
people want, they want reality.

They don’t want to, they don’t
want like a fake experience anymore.

So the, the common
homemade search terms are

homemade swingers and
homemade threesome.

So I think that fits in
with what you’re saying.

They’re not getting threesomes
and swingers at home.

Yeah.

But they can see it.

But they also want it to be
not fake like three porn stars.

We’ve all been paid and they’re all like
make up on it’s little made of plastic now.

Yeah.

Women view reality porn 37% more than men.

So I found that interesting.

No, I don’t really.

You don’t find it interesting.

No, oh, sorry.

You said interesting, surprising.

Sorry.

Yeah, that’s okay.

Yeah, I don’t.

I heard surprising.

Even though I did hear you say interesting.

I mean, I guess I find
just all this interesting.

Yeah.

And homemade grew 33% among gay visitors.

Only four countries had reality is
their number one category, Ukraine,

Belarus, Kazakhstan, and Kyrgyzstan.

Oh, wow.

Those are the last three though.

Those are pretty strict
countries on everything.

Morals, I guess would
be the most interesting.

Well, I said the Ukraine’s, I
said the, I left Ukraine out.

Ukraine’s more western to me.

Yeah, but Belarus is basically Russia.

Kazakhstan is kind of middle east.

They’re sort of stuck in the middle between
Russia and the middle eastern countries.

Kyrgyzstan, I actually don’t know
where that is if I’m being honest.

It’s around there.

Yeah.

Yeah.

No, I’m fair enough.

I liked this transgender
category grew by 75%.

Interesting.

I think the most popular
category worldwide.

It’s most of you in Brazil.

Yeah.

So I think the third most
popular in the United States.

And Italy.

See, porn tells the real
picture of what’s going on.

I made a joke with the end of the
Indian news, Japan the other day.

Because I know the number one and
number two searches are both Japan related.

Yeah.

But I was like, people are
honest with their porn searches.

I want to find the thing
they actually want to see.

Yeah.

So I might go out in public and lie
like, I hate transgender people, but

then I go home and
search for transgender porn,

which shows that deep down inside I
kind of want it to be a good thing and I

think to see.

Is that like what is it that
cognitive dissonance right

where it turns me on, but I
feel bad about it or something.

So then I have to go
out in public and hate it.

Yeah.

So ftm female to male searches
were eight times more popular.

Mtf.

Really?

And transgender threesome and transgender
surprise were among the topsours.

I love the idea of transgender surprise.

So the guy goes home with a really
hot girl and then there’s a… surprise!

So now they’re not just writing like Thai
lady boy, right in transgender surprise.

Men view transgender
video 22% more than women.

Yeah.

Like that isn’t surprising either.

Trans male transgender was a hundred
and fifty fifteen percent more than men.

Women watch that.

I’m not 100% sure what
trans male transgender means.

I think they just means trans male.

Okay.

I guess I think they’re just
over complicating the search.

Yeah, that seems…

That would actually end up confusing me
as to what I was supposed to be looking at.

Yeah.

Like I went to a man and then
I transitioned back to a woman.

Okay.

So I am a second generation
transgender woman.

Okay.

That’s true.

Yeah, I mean I’m going to have to
believe you because I do not know.

No, I just… no, I
just don’t know.

No, I just don’t know.

25 to 34 are transgender videos are
up 34% more than other age groups.

Gen x, 35 to 44, 25%.

So basically the younger you get, the
more sort of open and honest they are

about transgender being
attractive, which is cool.

I found that ftm female to male searches
grew 202% among visitors at porn hub gay.

Non-binary gender x and androgeness.

Yeah, this is the thing.

I’m now so old a lot of this
stuff doesn’t mean anything to me.

I don’t know what gender x means.

I don’t know gender x either.

Never heard that one.

I understand gender androgeness.

I actually think that would be interesting.

Yeah.

Something that looks in
between a male and a female.

This to me is a korean pop stars.

Yeah.

Korean pop stars are very androgeness.

I’m often like male and female at
the same time, but still it’s kind of sexy

regardless.

So three sims are really popular.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I found that interesting.

I think that… would
you do a three-sem?

Happy?

I have not.

And I think I couldn’t successfully.

And I think that… I want
to focus on something.

I want to… my version of sex is
making the other person happy.

Yeah.

So I don’t think I could
make two people happy.

So I’d always feel like I’m ignoring
someone or as someone else is getting

more attention than the other person.

And I feel like it was unfair.

So I actually have like a
performance issue where I’m like…

I need to satisfy both people.

Can I do that?

Which I don’t think I can do.

No.

No.

I don’t… I don’t
think I could… yeah.

I don’t know.

I can’t view sex that casually.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I think again that’s a
different mentality though.

So the searches…
Oh yeah, go ahead.

No, yeah, you go.

I was just actually…

Well, you were talking, I was looking
ahead and I got to positioning and I

wanted to talk about it.

Well, so the ones…

We can skip a bunch because group
sex and gender reality, that’s fine.

Outdoors, I thought, was interesting.

People… because that’s
got to be like amateurs.

Well, I guess not necessarily.

But like people… just… outdoors is so
vague because I guess it’s just public sex.

Yeah.

But is it like, oh, we’re out in nature?

I want to know if it’s out in nature
or like we’re sneakily doing a blowjob

in a restaurant.

Oh, travel is in there.

So I guess it could just be
like, oh, we’re going to a place.

Yeah, because the third one is camping.

So camping is just… you’re not assuming
you’re not really going to get caught.

No.

Positions though.

Sizzaring grew by 96%
worldwide and 151% in the US.

And then, positions like Amazon,
cc9 and calgary also increased.

But Amazon, I actually only really
found out what that was recently.

No, that’s what I wanted to talk about.

Amazon is… it’s such like
a submissive male position.

Yeah.

And actually, I can
understand why it kind of grew.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

That was one of the few things
in sort of sex that just knew to me.

Yeah.

Because when I grew
up, that was not a thing.

And I don’t even experienced
it as a concept recently.

Because I only learned about it maybe
this year or last year, to be honest.

I’ve known about it for a couple of years,
but I’ve always found it fascinating.

Because it’s like…
To me, it’s like letting…

You found a woman who wants to
have sex and wants to like control it.

Yeah.

And it’s so the opposite of
most people’s experiences.

Which I think would be really
a big release for some men.

Yeah, like, oh my god.

She wants to take control.

She wants to lead this.

And so I can find that position.

I’m very curious about it.

And I don’t think I’ll ever have it.

Because I don’t think I could
ever convince my wife to do that.

It’s one of those things where…

I think part of the appeal from the
female version to the male is that the

male wants her so badly.

Whereas men don’t generally experience
that because the women take on a more

passive role.

And this is like, she wants me, which
is a very sort of rare feeling for men.

Yeah.

Like, she wants me so bad
she’s going to pale my ass.

But we get down to fendham down here.

Fendham grew 28% pegging though.

Yeah.

Was the top trend.

Cuckold grew by 18% and
bondage joins the top 20.

I think pegging in cuckold just became
such common words the last couple of

years as well.

Cuckold was used as
an insult for a long time.

At the last decade because they
were using it as like a liberal cuck.

I don’t really care about
group sex and stuff.

Oh, that’s just describing the each one.

Feet.

Feet grew.

Among females though.

That’s the weird part for me.

Well, this is the details about feet.

So let’s look at that.

Searches for love her feet were trending
throughout the year making foot the

most popular fetish-related term in 2022.

If the category was viewed 38% more
over the previous year, which included a

hundred and forty-five percent increase
in popularity among women and ten

percent of romance.

So that’s huge for women.

Yeah.

So back last year it was
almost the same as that’s a mate.

So something has peaked
women’s interest in feet.

Oh, I know what it was.

Yeah, I don’t know.

Again, this is a huge culture thing.

I haven’t said where though this.

Yeah, so this is the culture thing.

This is one of the interesting things
was the top two searches in the world

were hentai and Japanese.

Yeah.

But in america, hentai was number
one, but Japanese was like number ten.

So there’s a whole bunch
of stuff that took the middle.

But america is the dominant porn hub user.

That’s actually going to be in here later.

Oh, here we are.

The most search terms of 2022.

This is universal.

So hentai Japanese.

Milf.

Milf.

Milf.

Penet though.

Oh, specific.

Yeah.

But I feel it’s just like
searching for Japanese.

And then the next one’s Asian and
step mom and then it gets into sort of the

regular stuff.

Wow, Asian.

Yeah.

Just, I mean, I guess if america is
the heaviest user, maybe like white

dudes want an Asian.

They want hentai and they want Japanese.

Oh, yeah.

That’s just the top two.

Oh, yeah.

Well, penet is a Filipino.

No.

Filipino, yeah.

I think it is.

Yeah.

So that’s very telling.

I found that really interesting.

Anime.

Yeah.

Wow.

I don’t care about the
most popular performance.

Close play.

Yeah.

There’s a lot of.

And then the amateur models, yinli
on like this is I actually found this

interesting because

I was like, these are no way
they’re amateurs, but I was like, I’d be

interested like how
they’re lives, but whatever.

The state of the union.

So I think this is just america, yes.

So lesbian become the favorite search term
in the United States replacing last year’s

hentai.

So I would just look at the chart.

So it’s lesbian, hentai, ebony.

That’s in latina Asian.

This is all very, like these people know
what they’re looking for, like a flavor.

Yeah.

So quite, yeah, like just ebony
latina Asian all being grouped together.

It’s basically non white.

Non white.

Yeah.

Don’t want no carons in my porn.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

But this is the one, this is the one
actually thing Jade was interested in

is the searches
by state in america.

Okay.

Let’s go.

So I am weak on my states.

Maybe Jade will help US out.

But we have up here.

That is Washington state in California.

I forget what this one is.

Fleshlight.

Washington state.

Fleshlight.

Fleshlight.

I would not want to watch that.

That is actually the
bid I found interesting.

California is just Asian.

Yeah.

I get it though.

Indiana in Wisconsin.

Texas.

Texas is panties.

Texas is very uptight.

Okay.

The bid I found interesting right
here is the most racist area of america.

Black, black, black.

Bbw.

Big ass.

Black.

I mean, this is all just we hate
something, but we really want to see it.

I don’t know this state here.

Wait.

Is that like south Carolina that’s gilf?

Yeah.

Or it’s like my state’s not
great either, but holy shit.

I just know that this
area is generally racist.

Yeah.

It’s a whole black, black, black,
black, which I found awesome.

Anime right there in the middle,
hentai right there in the middle.

Rub.

I like golf.

Where?

Wait, where’s Wisconsin and Indiana?

I don’t know.

I think it was about those.

So Wisconsin’s like
up north, right, isn’t it?

Maybe this big square one.

Big Booty.

See, this is the problem is I don’t know.

Wait.

Which one choose a moment?

Yeah, no, but that must be
whatever it is where salt lake city is.

Utah.

Utah.

Utah’s in this area.

Wisconsin is above Illinois.

Illinois.

Okay, let’s know.

Let’s be clear.

You’ve just said something
is above something.

Is you talking to a Canadian and someone
from the UK who do not know the state?

So yeah, I have a vague.

Mormon is Utah.

Okay, so we I guessed right on Utah.

Yeah.

Thank you.

That’s so we Illinois is dirty talk.

Okay, cool.

Let me tell you.

Oh, it’s always good.

It’s baking.

Wisconsin is baking is awesome.

Oh, here we got our
furry up in here though.

Which I was surprised.

It’s the one that’s just sucking dick.

That is Michigan?

No.

It’s south of this, Toronto.

Indiana is directly in east Illinois.

Okay, Michigan.

All right.

Yeah, sucking dick.

So they really want to see that.

It’s so weird.

Because I just assume that most
people using pornhub are men, right?

Yes.

Like the ratio is going
to be the heavily male.

So that’ll be down in the in the thing.

We have I did like
Dominican is very specific.

Like that is a really specific search term.

That’s not even where I
would have expected it to be.

No, I assumed Dominican would be down.

Would be like Florida.

Yeah, where you could actually
maybe meet a Dominican person.

I guess this is sort of close to new York.

New York has a very
big Dominican population.

But down here in Alaska.

Is that like row with Rhode island?

Is that the state?

Rhode island is a state.

Is it?

I don’t know.

I’m trying to think the new england.

New england?

Is that it?

Maybe.

I can’t.

I think we should just give
up on the states to be honest.

Wait, is that Hawaii with amateur wife?

Amateur wife is white, but what is this?

Breast expansion.

I don’t even know what that is.

It’s Alaska.

So weird.

I don’t even– I honestly
don’t even know what that is.

Is it breasts that expand like balloons?

Is that like a balloon thing?

Or is it like, I don’t know what that is?

Wait, pmv is porn music video, right?

I’ll take your word for it, sure.

I mean, I’ve seen it, where
it’s just like so and so pmv.

And then it’s– well, thanks
for explaining that, Jade.

No, no, no.

It’s good.

Yeah, ok.

Jade?

Yeah, they put clips of porn together.

And then we just play music over it.

That sounds quick.

I know.

I think it’s kind of like those videos that

have like the edging thing,
where they have like a beat that’s

going, and then they match.

And they’re like, ok, and then
it slows down and whatever.

I think it’s like that.

But it’s just like a more modern version,

where it’s just music
instead of like instruction.

This is also weird shower.

Shower.

Because I know this is a desert area.

So they really–
they’re signs of Phoenix.

California, Arizona?

Arizona, sorry, yeah,
Phoenix is a city, right?

Phoenix is a city.

Yeah.

And then– and then this is another state

where they’re trying to
get rid of latino people.

And they want to
watch a lot of latino porn.

It’s just– it’s so funny
how ironic half of these are.

But yeah, gilf is quite funny.

Gilf is an area.

Ok.

Yes, new Mexico, yeah.

New Mexico, ok.

Man, Jade, you came in at the right time.

Thank you.

Ok.

Top 20 countries by
traffic, again, United States.

It’s not a big surprise.

United Kingdom, France,
Japan, though, being number four,

almost entirely illegal,
because it’s unsensored.

Oh, yeah.

Not supposed to watch it
in Japan, because it’s illegal.

Look at the difference.

Oh, I know.

Like, United States is more
than the next 10, 15 put together.

But that would also
have to do with population.

Because the population of Japan–
no, but the population of Japan.

Yeah, but the
population of the united

kingdom, France, Japan,
is equaling the states.

Like those three countries.

Yeah, Japan’s like 170 million.

The UK’s like 77 million.

France must be close to that.

America’s only like 300
and something million, right?

I don’t know.

I guess.

But that’s crazy.

That’s crazy to see if
there’s any surprises.

There’s no real surprises after that.

Yeah, no, they spent a lot of time on.

Poor no.

Wow.

Interesting.

Egypt is interesting.

I think– it’s moved
up seven places.

Any Muslim country on
a pawn site is interesting.

But they’ve moved up seven places.

It’s increasing.

France went up a place.

Japan went down a place
because they’re so busy right now.

Mexico and the United States–
maybe Japan and the United States–

Japanese people were
getting something this year.

I don’t know.

Maybe.

Time spent per visit is interesting.

Nine minutes, 54 seconds.

So that actually gives you an idea.

Because when you do– oh, Japan–
Egypt and Japan are the longest.

They spend the most time.

Because they probably watch
the story bit at the beginning.

Or it takes them a while to
find something that they like.

Yeah, because it’s a busy, not per video.

Yeah.

That’s actually interesting.

Minus one second.

That’s so in detailed.

Yeah, I love to keep up with it.

So Jade says that and
smooth looking for a good video.

I agree with that.

Yeah, yeah.

10 minutes or so.

Well, it takes you 10 minutes
to find the video in the 12

seconds.

[Laughter]

Because you’re so ready for this.

It’s my experience.

Yeah.

It takes me nine minutes to find a video.

And 48 seconds to finish the video.

Jade says, it takes me longer
than that to find a good one.

That shows you have more discerning taste.

Because we’re at– yeah.

I just need something now.

I’m ready to go.

I would be interested in
the shortest time per visit.

They don’t have that time.

I don’t think so.

I don’t know.

Again, because they’re
focused on the most time.

Sweden went up 26
places from– wow.

Different people.

Different by eight.

Oh, this is good.

65, they’ve increased by 73 seconds.

It takes them that much longer.

18 to 24 went down by 58 seconds.

They’ve gotten more
efficient in their searches.

Well, they’re all searching
for transgender stuff.

Yeah, they all figured out what they want.

[Laughter]

My age range has been– yep.

No, 14 seconds up.

Oh, we got 14 seconds, though.

That’s a weird amount
of time to go up by, right?

I think 14 seconds doesn’t mean anything.

But again, down to
america, I do like shortest.

That is actually what I was interested in.

No, I’m not saying anything.

I just earlier in the list, trans
was like the most growth– yeah.

Well, just one of the most
growth areas searches.

It was super interesting, that’s all.

Yeah.

Because yeah, gender.

So just for Jade, transgender
category grew by 75%

become the seventh most
popular category worldwide.

Number one, most viewed in Brazil.

That’s all– so we talked about
that for a bit before you got on.

And how transgender three-semin’s
surprise were top searches.

Yeah, super interesting.

Yeah, exactly.

That’s the kind of stuff
we were talking about.

All the people that like
outwardly say one thing.

And then it’s been the same
with politicians for years, right?

But they’re like, no,
they’re going to write.

And then they’re caught in a gay orgy.

In a bathroom, so I can sum do it on.

Ok, so I was interested
in the shortest times.

Ohio, they got the shit locked down.

Yeah, they know what they want.

They know what they want.

But that’s actually an
increase of 38 seconds.

So they’re the shortest, but they’ve
actually increased the amount of time.

So before, I guess, 2021,
they were just busting it out.

But I guess in these state times include
the average of men and women, right?

I would guess.

I would guess so, yeah.

Yeah, because I would feel like women
would be on the site longer than men.

Well, I like, yeah, just–
here’s the best part.

So gay is the most popular
date of visit for a night.

Sunday.

Yeah, because you got to
get one out before church.

You don’t want to go to
church with your bad thoughts.

You have to take care of that.

Friday has the lowest, because you’re
most likely to be out doing something.

The hours people prefer to watch porn.

10 P.M. to 1 A.M. I get that.

That’s when you’ve come home.

You’re getting ready for bed.

You got to take care of some business.

Tonight for me, it’s after the gym.

Oh, it’s because you’re adrenaline.

Yeah, you’re adrenaline.

You test those low-peak.

Oh, there you go.

Favorite times.

The lowest is 5 A.M. on a Tuesday.

That’s awesome.

And in Monday, 11 P.M., I get that.

You’ve had a tough weekend.

You just went back to work.

You’re like, got some tension.