#229: How To Instantly Face The Fact That You Might Be A Raging Narcissist Like Jim Carrey in Bruce Almighty
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Law Smith
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Eric Readinger
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Listen to these guys. Idiot.
Law Smith
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Law Smith
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Interest getting tighter it's not feels good. I think it's because all the super creative creatine, I've gotten this bang drink.
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Yeah. So you had alerts on that too.
Law Smith
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You haven't seen any dishes? drinking this energy drink? Yeah, I've seen one today. Yeah. But I'm saying like, you got it. It's like you know what? Well first off the flavors are like rainbow unicorn, cotton candy, blue jazz shirts jazz
Eric Readinger
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with a
Law Smith
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well could be with an eye. I don't know. I don't know how to scat like that. But it's, this is definitely where we're in idiocracy times. That's kind of why I got it. I think it's, I think it's kind of funny and it's made by a red line. Which if you've ever had the red line one, it's the one that That's like, at your favorite gas station. It'll be like, this is like three Red Bulls and one, two. That's what makes your skin
Eric Readinger
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crawl, right?
Law Smith
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It's like a pre workout drink kind of thing. Yeah. But we are now in those times where we have just mixed both things together. We're idiocracy times Yeah, we it has to be, like made to look for, like, kids should want to drink this. Oh, yeah, it's that looks delicious. It looks like it's fun. Yeah. Oh, Rainbow unicorn. That's the name. That's so. I don't even know it's called bang. It's literally called bang. Yeah. Like, we're gonna bait today. Yeah, like in that movie. Go away bacon.
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Yeah.
Law Smith
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I'm setting our livestream up on Facebook and making sure we're sharing a watch party. Huh? You know what, I'm sorry. I'm out. Yeah. You guys know. I did it once
Eric Readinger
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and didn't understand what I was doing.
Law Smith
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Yeah, what it does is It basically, we're getting to these kind of interactions where, you know, hey, I want to watch the Irishman and make fun of it with you while we're watching it. But we're companies are trying to figure out how, like, how to make these things interactive that we've now taken away from being interactive.
Eric Readinger
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Yeah. You know, yeah, it's a it's a lot. They got too many, you know, options that aren't clear. They all kind of seem like the same thing. As schedule it as a premiere. Have a watch party. Have your kids found the Disney plus stuff yet? Is that Oh, we're watching Santa Claus to starring Tim Allen last night. Super. Super underrated is really funny.
Law Smith
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What surprisingly, yeah. No way. Yes. Yes. That makes a parody of like a contract. Yes, because it's the Santa Claus Mrs.
Eric Readinger
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Claus. But that's not you know, Tim Allen's funny. I'll give him that.
Law Smith
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Whoa. I've never pegged you as a Tim Allen fan. I mean, he did a lot of coding. Yeah, exactly. He went to prison. That's what
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got badass mug shot. mustachioed
Law Smith
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isn't that crazy though the guys that like he? He went to prison for a while. Yeah, yeah. But you know started comedy in Denver. Yeah, but it's a funny movie. I know a lot of Tim I love the
Eric Readinger
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idea of you know, if you murder Santa, you get to be Santa.
Law Smith
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Oh, is that the first one?
Eric Readinger
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That's how we become Santa Claus. That's just Highlander. Santa Claus falls off his roof and dies in his yard. And then I think he puts his outfit on for some reason. And then he Santa and he gets fat overnight and grows a beard.
Law Smith
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Yeah, I remember that part. Spoiler alert that that so it's kind of like Highlander meets the Part Seven where they feed him too much food. Yes. I don't remember that part. Oh, yeah. Let me
Eric Readinger
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Yeah, I remember now.
Law Smith
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If you're watching this. If you want If you're watching this live feel free to ask any questions live we'll try to answer them on air. It's we're trying to do a lot of things as we don't ever or earth or tripod. Or john paul will pour some out isn't dead. He's just not awake. Probably
Eric Readinger
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though he's awake. He just doesn't want to come over my house. Because he's got his own place now.
Law Smith
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This cave he doesn't leave it once makes your studio we're doing here. We went over this watching us we went over this last. That'd be even worse if he didn't come over. You're literally like a mile away that even Yep. five minute drive. You could walk for sure. It's a 20 minute walk. Yeah, it's 60 degrees out. So it's like almost perfect walk beautiful leather. But yeah, it's one of those things where if he's watching it not over here. That's funny. I know. That's a certain kind of, like progressiveness. Yeah, I'll say it. Maybe I'll come over here.
Eric Readinger
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I highly doubt it. So I don't mind me changing Keyboard batteries.
Law Smith
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So we've been wanting to talk about how about how about we'll get into narcissism in a second. How about it, but what about me? I found I found I didn't find it was just in my feed, but I liked it enough. How about some good news for the end of the year? You know, 29 2019 illustrations is on board Panda, which I was always I was like the sights good. It's not too much. Never heard of it. What's a panda? So it's Fidel it board Bo r Ed. Panda pa en da
Eric Readinger
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Okay, calm. I just didn't know if it was like Bo a RT
Law Smith
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o like, chairman of the board. Yeah, could have been but that nor McDonald clip on Conan. You ever see that? He's talking to God who's the hot chick from Ally McBeal and like Lissa Flockhart wrong. No. Good to see jumps in and Revenge of the Nerds. I want to say. Maybe the fourth one where they could have Daytona Beach. I don't want to look it up and this is there's like two nerds listening to this. Like, her name is blah. But it's it's superfluous. So normally, this is from the 90s. This isn't normal on Conan. And she's on she's in a movie starring with starting with Carrot Top. And it's called chairman of the board and then norm pipes. And he's like, are you sure it's not? Chairman of the Board? Bo r Ed on K. Yeah, it was like our McDonald's. Yeah. And like Conan, like loses his shares. One of my favorite it's one of the best clips ever. But he had that locked and loaded. I don't know it seemed pretty impromptu. Just like when you're really proud of yourself when it's
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off the cuff.
Law Smith
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So that Yeah, so basically, this article was from that they recycled some content from it looks like something called the happy broadcast. Which would be kind of the opposite of our show? Probably but but I guess, but uh, but the world like it's like 50 illustrations that have good news we see all this bad shit all the time in our feeds.
Eric Readinger
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Yes, I love it. Thank you.
Law Smith
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So this one's lighter me up the world is literally a greener place than it was 20 years ago. NASA satellite study finds Yeah, that's great. Yeah,
Eric Readinger
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more trees now than ever and then my climate change deniers or anything
Law Smith
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my brain immediately goes to someone talking about climate change right? Well that's because you know some of that is belted in now that's why Greenland's actually green down you're like, Okay, how that gets into my brain. That conversation is not good. That's like an intrusive thought.
Eric Readinger
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Yeah, I don't like it either. There's a lot. There's a
Law Smith
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cop out there too, though.
Eric Readinger
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I know. But I mean, that's why you know, that's what it is, though. It's like, I just don't want to have that conversation. There's something better. Just that conversations.
Law Smith
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Galapagos iguana makes return to the island after almost 200 years after Charles Darwin recorded him there.
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Where did he go?
Law Smith
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I don't know. Just
Eric Readinger
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that doesn't make sense though. That would be me. Nick Guana returning to an island. How does an iguana return to an island
Law Smith
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because maybe you don't maybe wanted to go flex your father's like, south south america and a swim back. Look, man, I'm not saying all these a lot of them have holes in them. I'm gonna poke holes and all this shit. Yeah. These aren't condoms. Man. Taiwan's guys do. Taiwan's Parliament passes historic same sex marriage law, make it the first place in Asia to do so. So let's
Eric Readinger
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move to Taiwan, Taiwan.
Law Smith
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We're that much closer. I mean, we're not Thailand. Look, if if there is domestic partnership for I was thinking about that. When I read that one. I was like, do gay people. I know we legalized it. At one point. It was a big deal. A year and a half ago and it came out of nowhere felt like but I don't know if they still get domestic partnership benefits because it's like a state
Eric Readinger
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thing right? I don't know either. I'm gonna have to call Well, I've got my gay neighbors that right down the street that probably No,
Law Smith
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well let's let's go let's just take the cameras in lockdown. Okay.
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Got a pretty long cord. Let's see a lot of equipment
Law Smith
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I don't know I I'm trying to find one that's not gonna make you angry.
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Now just to give it to you.
Law Smith
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Scientists found an edible mushroom that eats plastic. It can clean our landfills
Eric Readinger
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today what mushrooms are magic. They are magic. It doesn't even talk to psychedelic mushrooms, right? There's crazy stuff that guy who's on Rogen, what was his name? We got the mushroom hat.
Law Smith
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Yeah, I just had
Eric Readinger
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to play that game. But you know, he was talking about just like pest control. Mushroom fun guy guy. Yeah. But you know, there's uses so
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funny yes like we got it yes thank
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god
Eric Readinger
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kinds of crazy uses for mushrooms like just like I said pest control at your router that is eating plastic patch or roof whatever changed your life have a psychedelic amazing transport your
Law Smith
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hymen back together all those things. Yeah. Let's see here. There's more there's medical, there's 50 I really tried to find the ones that you wouldn't hate like, I don't really like this one San Francisco's cuddle club unites senior people and senior dogs who need companionship exercise and affection. It's I
Eric Readinger
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don't know one of those that are in for a very sad, you know, how often is that happening? This is when I don't want them dies.
Law Smith
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This one I don't like because I know. I know about the economics of Iceland through Michael Lewis. Well, who doesn't? Iceland becomes first country In the world illegally enforced equal pay for for women and men, and that one's tough because there's 300,000 people in Iceland. That's roughly the city size of Tampa, Florida. If you didn't know,
Eric Readinger
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yeah, it's a lot easier for them to implement stuff.
Law Smith
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Well, a lot of these are out of like Iceland, Netherlands, Sweden, Finland, all this like fun stuff where they put like, gardens on top of, like in, in the Netherlands, on top of like bus
Eric Readinger
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tour bus pitches
Law Smith
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where they have the little awnings, they just put little gardens seems pretty easy. there like that helps the bees and some shit like that.
Eric Readinger
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Okay, they've got it figured out those Scandinavians?
Law Smith
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Yeah. But it's not. I heard it's a misnomer. How all they're doing so much better than us. What what's good about America? I'm talking about our America, not Central America. Definitely not. or South America. I'm talking about it. The US have a what's good about us is as a collective whole, we have low self esteem. Like we we will always, we think we're racist. And then when you look at it against like, any other fucking country in the world, we're like the most extreme. We're like the most open country there is.
Eric Readinger
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Well, I don't know about that. Why no. But most open? Oh, yeah. Well, I mean, sure, yeah, technically, but the whole thing the whole
Law Smith
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idea of the United States is it's a united thing of like, every it's it is the melting pot. Yes. Right. Yes. And so, yeah, you go to Sweden. How many black people are in Sweden? Well, it's too cold, man. What does that have to do with anything? I'm saying so like, what I'm saying is we're way more inclusive than like, almost every country in the world. Yeah.
Eric Readinger
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Okay. I guess.
Law Smith
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Sure. You're gonna say Germany.
Eric Readinger
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No, I say I'm not gonna go any others. That's
Law Smith
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what I'm saying. Like off if you don't off the top of your head. Like get past you get to like,
Eric Readinger
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you know, things. Easter and Easter have really been like Well, yeah, I mean, I think they legalized gay marriage and like 1880 or something insane.
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Yeah, they, I think they still have a lot of
Law Smith
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a I think there are more Zena phobic than the United States than the United States of America. Well,
Eric Readinger
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in general America, it's it's about individuals like they do these meta studies. It's like rice is the happiest country in the world. Like there's still shitty people in Finland that are grownups and they, you know, nobody wants to talk to him and all that shit ain't happy no matter what you do. Oh,
Law Smith
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yeah, whatever. Watch any films that come out of there. They're the creepiest. Yes. And that that that will tell you something because the more art that comes out of an area sometimes they say the more strife there is like Russia has the best ballets has the best theaters and all this stuff. It's because they had they had so much bogging them down. Yeah. What a country
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Talk about about the Russians. I'm fine with the rooskies hacking or
Law Smith
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they're not hacking anything. We created the the thing, the mechanisms for them to hack, they don't make anything they just destroy it. That's true.
Eric Readinger
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I heard about I heard that Putin has a phone that can he uses like, Windows seven or something that's like, easily hacked, that he just refuses to get off of
Law Smith
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you think he uses a sat phone?
Eric Readinger
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You think, hmm, but, you know, the hubris, the narcissism on the you know, there you go, I'm gonna do bring it back around.
Law Smith
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Before we get to that narcissism in Rome. You can now pay for Metro ticket with a plastic bottle. I like that. Yeah. 350,000 bottles have been recycled.
Eric Readinger
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And actually Russia the there's like a machine that you can do squats. And it'll spit out a subway ticket.
Law Smith
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No way. Yeah, what
Eric Readinger
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you do like 20 squats and you can get a subway
Law Smith
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ticket. Man, they're gonna have like Brazilian asses. No time. Yeah,
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look out for takeover instant. Where do you see that? Reddit? Everything comes from Reddit.
Law Smith
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Why aren't you procuring more Reddit stuff? What is that? It's only like 30 rubles is about not even a dime. But 30 squats. I love that. Yeah, that's See that's like I like incentive based stuff where it's like, you don't want to do it. You don't have to do it. It's fine. Right? You pay you pay $1 to not be obese. It's really, or to be obese to be obese. Excuse me to be lazy. Right? Yeah. 30 squats. Not it's not nothing.
Eric Readinger
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It was 30 that was the ticket price.
Law Smith
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As the ticket price is like 90 cents Ba ba ba ba ba ba but now just 30 squats are enough to ride the train. Yeah, Moscow. Huh? Interesting. Doing 30 squats within two minutes in front of a squat to ride ticket. machine. Oh, interesting. Wow. This is old too. This is like 2013 This should spin around around. And I you know,
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what, what do you start talking about?
Law Smith
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narcissism or some of the fun good news?
Eric Readinger
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Yeah, we finished on the last one.
Law Smith
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Let me finish over back here in a second. I had one more Oh, this one was. So I'm poking holes through some of them, like YouTube is banned white supremacist content and thousands of hate speech channels will be removed. Here's the problem with that. It's also it's not done manually. So that one's like, this one's really good musically. Yeah, it's done by bots. It's done by like, you say like, I've heard our friend of the program and probably our most famous guest, Sam Tripoli, who has tinfoil hat podcast. I've heard him talk about it. A lot. It's like, he got his channel taken down completely. And he's like he's not talking about. He's honestly if you listen to it, he's not talking about anything that's like, let's start a riot. Let's you know, cuz free speech is free until an X. What like the ability to it's like you can't say fire in a in a in a right building you can't enact like a riot site site. Yeah, yeah and so a slippery
Eric Readinger
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slope though especially when it's bots
Law Smith
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and how I want to look this up how much is uploaded to YouTube every minute
Eric Readinger
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where are they keeping all this shit?
Law Smith
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servers and stuff right so, so you can't have humans really going through everything. About 5 billion videos are watched on YouTube every single day about 300 hours of video uploaded to YouTube every minute It what's that almost doesn't like make sense in your brain for you have to like really? 300 hours are uploaded every minute. I don't how does that work? And you just have so many people just out there uploading garbage? Yeah, most of its garbage like, the wishy like YouTube's probably like, I wish we could have made this more of like a Yelp thing where some people are.
Eric Readinger
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Yeah, like ratings. They kind of do it anyway. But, you know, subscribers are their own little sort of rating. But
Law Smith
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yeah, a premium version of creators because there's only like, people talk about I want to be a YouTube celebrity and you break down the numbers of how many people actually like kids were 35 I think anybody you know, younger than us that has wild ambitions to do something like be famous on YouTube. Too late. It's like 50 people.
Eric Readinger
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Well, I saw on Reddit that broke down the top YouTube channels from LA 2008 compared to now and it was basically showing the difference in like, individual people who started their own YouTube channel and blew up compared to like celebrities who got met, you know, they got joined up with a PR company and then they, you know, skyrocket because of their name. Next slide. It went like, it went from, like, 80% to like, 20% of regular people in the top 100 or something that actually like, just not associated with another company or something big.
Law Smith
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Yeah, yeah, yeah. If you eventually just can't do it on your own kind of thing. Yeah,
Eric Readinger
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it's like, you know, I came in imagine what kind of crazy shit you'd have to be doing to blow up now on YouTube. All the gamers already today they've already
Law Smith
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Twitch is its own deal. That's its own platform.
Eric Readinger
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portal. I mean, yeah, but there's YouTube gamer guys. My kids watch all the time.
Law Smith
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Well, they do both. Right. So like, we should be on Twitch.
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And we know if we should go
Law Smith
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If we can, if we might have to cut back to restream.io. And just like use that and just just play, what we haven't done is what you know. Again, we haven't taken our own advice, where it's like to get to the marketing aspect of this show or any advice we give to any client, about kind of marketing as like, we haven't set our own budget, what our own resources are. We talked about this a couple episodes ago, the cobblers children has no shoes dilemma, where, you know, he the cobblers fixing all the kids in the town, fixing their shoes, their clogs, probably, yeah, and that parable, but not his own kids. And so for my child abuse, I'd say dick, What a dick. You know, how long could it take? He's a pro shoe cobbler.
Eric Readinger
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Anybody can just knock it out real quick. It'd be him. He chooses not to.
Law Smith
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Right. And so my thing is also applies to us by the way. Yeah.
Eric Readinger
24:00
Know that I say it
Law Smith
24:00
a little bit out what kids and so my thing is like, you got to have your strategy where you audit your resources and all that stuff. We probably need to go through looking re looking at the brand, but having a budget before that and then have a content strategy and then have the marketing aspects. And then like what do we want to do? What do we want to get out of this? Eventually it'd be fun to be booked on you know, have better guests, but I think first we kind of get in our studio. Yes.
Eric Readinger
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Literally not enough room in this room.
Law Smith
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It's a little a little hot even though I got my bang energy drink out of sponsor 52 degrees outside it's super creatine.
Eric Readinger
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To see that. Yes, I know. We covered it.
Law Smith
24:44
I know but I mean, super creatine.
Eric Readinger
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It's also mind controlled make you keep talking about it.
Law Smith
24:51
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Eric Readinger
25:08
FDA is like Okay, sure.
Law Smith
25:10
So I heard that this little grid the way this grids designed with nutrition facts, it's designed in such a way that Alright, so we talked about how your website design your app design, we want your eyes to go where we want him to go, right. We're so used to this grid on everything now that it's supposed to be boring. We, because people look at sugar, right? And it goes, Okay, zero sugars. But if you have 0.5 sugar, you don't have to add it into this. Yeah. So does this have sugar? Yes. It has like xanthan gum and all that shit, right? So
Eric Readinger
25:49
that's not sugar. But you know, I'm saying, Well, I have a problem with those things anyways, where it has like, under the carbohydrates, it considers fiber, a carb dietary fiber and it's really like That's not the same. It's not like a sugar, starch sort of thing that's fibers Good for you. It doesn't have a caloric effect. It has caloric energy but it's not gonna in your body not gonna
Law Smith
26:13
make them useful is bullshit. You don't need that either. You see a job diet
Eric Readinger
26:16
up. No, I'm saying I'm saying fiber.
Law Smith
26:19
No, no, I'm saying Metamucil is bullshit. Why? Because these things are told you're told you need it. And you don't. I mean,
Eric Readinger
26:27
if you ever been constipated and took fiber, and then you feel better,
Law Smith
26:30
I'm the opposite. I work. I run hot all the time. So I rip if I'm constipated. My kids do but they're eating a lot of sugar. Like, it's bananas. It's fruit. It's like, Oh, my, hey, let's maybe slow down on that. Maybe a little bit more protein. Yeah, I mean, you know, like, less like biscuits and you know, waffles. It's, you know, the kids. They're gonna buy poor baby girl looks like she's having an exorcism. She's to it. She'll just stop. Wherever she's doing and like why cuz they're assholes ripping open. It's like a lacrosse ball comes out. Yeah, poor kid.
Eric Readinger
27:10
Yeah. I like I assume she's on the toilet but she's not.
Law Smith
27:14
No, she's in the living room. She doesn't wherever she feels like. Yeah, I had one of those ones My mom used to laugh about word shoot up the back. Oh yeah, I've heard she used to laugh about that because
Eric Readinger
27:27
my sister's kids are famous for that.
Law Smith
27:30
Big kids. Big poops. The flame. The flume ride on the air. Oh, God. Yeah. sighs and play here. Oh my god. Yeah, what's going on? I heard a sneeze, by the way, comes out of your sneeze comes out of your face about 100 miles per hour. Just throwing that out there. I don't know why. I'm full of fun facts today. narcissism tests. Okay, so because we're running out of time already, right? So I'm gonna, I'm gonna fill this out for you, you take it, you're probably not going to get an answer. But let's let's do it anyway, they will for me. It's going to be strong. It's going to be, and I saw this narcissism prayer, the nurses this prayer, that didn't happen. And if it did, it wasn't that bad. If, if it was, that's not a big deal. If it is, that's not my fault. And if it was, I didn't mean it. If I did you deserve it? Yeah, that's a I don't know if I read that as clearly but make sense. So now we've talked about narcissism on the show. A lot of people have to deal with it in their everyday life, work life balance kind of stuff. The big thing is, is when you run your own brand, you run your own business, your side hustle, whatever you're doing, it'll absorb a lot of your time. It'll absorb a lot of your thoughts. I've even talked about I thought when I was kind of depressed, you know, your two years ago really bad. That depression in a weird way felt very selfish because your heads up your own ass a lot. I thought that was narcissism. There's a difference between narcissism and self absorbed. I think I'm self absorbed, but I don't think I'm a narcissist or a narcissist. Everybody is self absorbed. That's true, right? Yes,
Eric Readinger
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in general, you're born, your number one thing is going to be get mine, you know, my five, whatever, like, do what's best for you.
Law Smith
29:36
Maslow's hierarchy of needs is rough. Everybody has self preservation. I'm using self absorbed and not in an absolute way. Right. So when we're talking about this in shorthand, it's really tough to go. You know, everybody's self absorbed. Yes. But there's a gray area, right? I think when we talk about some of this stuff on this show, so people go, Well, you said this about this and it's like, well Black and White, not none of this stuff is ever black and white. No, I think both of us live we see things in the gray. And there is a spectrum not like Asperger's a spectrum just there's a spectrum of as Robert Earl keen has a song called Shades of Grey. Yeah. Got deep on you. Yeah. And 50 Shades of Grey, the book 50. So 50 Shades of Grey deck, great, great porno.
Eric Readinger
30:27
That's, you know, that's a problem.
Law Smith
30:29
That's the idea of the villages. All right, so let's take this test for you. So self absorbed isn't necessarily bad. But when it's anything that that it and I look at this as an addiction scale, right? So anything that gets in the way of you doing anything, like you can drink a lot, but not be an alcoholic. If you're there's a lot of functional drinkers that they don't they take Ubers and lifts. They don't they Wake up and they're fine. They know it doesn't hinder anything. They're doing really great. Except maybe they're marginally their health kind of thing. Yeah, I know that's not your health mentally, right? That's not an addiction necessarily. I would say when it gets in the way, that's when it's addiction. Well, I think itself being a self absorbed narcissism for sure that's the extreme version. That's where things are, you're you can't even see that you don't even have empathy in our airways. Self being self absorbed can do that to where you can use that time. That's why I was talking to someone about this the other day, I was like, I felt like I was up my own ass so much about what's going on in my my world. And once I started minimizing it a little bit it's not that big of a deal. That really helped me and then that created way more time to go do other things for other people. Well, a good I wasn't doing
31:50
a good thing to do in those situations is to volunteer and
Eric Readinger
31:54
this is actually john paul labadie does this for me it's look at something that reminds you how good you Got it. You know, like, he's got this, there's like a guy on Facebook, he's a cop. And he's like a nice cop. And he's friends with all these, you know, basically, some are homeless, some are just yeah, mentally ill or whatever. But he's befriended these people and he does good things and like, you know, his YouTube channel or Facebook page is big. And it's a good reminder that like, Oh, I could be like these people and need of this guy's help. But I realistically, you know, got it real good. You know,
Law Smith
32:27
right, right. Yeah. By being alive. You're you're ahead of the game, in a lot of ways seriously, well, by not by not having kids at having cancer right now.
Eric Readinger
32:38
Yeah, sure, no.
Law Smith
32:41
Now, this is part of the American part where we were talking about earlier, we always want more than what we got. That's the hedonistic treadmill. We're gonna get to a certain area. You own a great house, right? But you're like, you probably look around. You're like, it'd be cool to have that house down the street.
Eric Readinger
32:57
Sure. I don't want to move at all.
Law Smith
32:58
No, no, but you know, I'm saying Like, you get to you get to the next level in the video game and you're like, I now I want to get to this. Yeah, it's, that's the hedonistic treadmill. So here is give me 12341 is strongly disagree. Five is strongly agree. Okay, number one I secretly secretly believe I'm better than most people. Three. Okay. Obstacles rarely slow me down.
Eric Readinger
33:30
Kind of hate the success but yeah three
Law Smith
33:34
I'm great at a lot of things compared to most people for so you agree? Yeah. I press on, even in challenging test
33:47
five
Law Smith
33:49
I know there's something special about me,
Eric Readinger
33:53
too.
Law Smith
33:53
Yeah, I was gonna answer that for you, I'd say. Yeah, thanks. No, you bet yourself. You bet you yourself Delta, okay, it's hard for me to enjoy compliments.
