ladies and gentlemen here we are four years in a row the end of year mill awards where we get together and we recap the year we make up a bunch of categories we make up a bunch of answers and we reflect on how the year is gone with with our awards ceremony so sam are you ready i'm ready i feel like i could rude where i know i could be what i want to from at all in it like a days off on a road let's test you get start wearing this stuff more often it feels like a little suit of armor yeah i i already got a compliment this morning inside the house so i think maybe i should start dressing well maybe that's gonna be my change of the year we'll see it's december twenty six you gotta compliment this year probably the only compliment you got all year yeah that only looks compliment for sure men don't get compliments so you should wear jackets for alright where do we wanna start alright we're gonna start category we have eleven eleven awards to give out we're gonna start with number one best investment of the year and these are personal by the way these are are personal best investments worst investments that's sort of think so sam what was your best investment of year what do you think i'm gonna say oh the s and p five hundred the s and p five hundred up twenty eight percent but that one's boring i don't wanna just say that the best investment i we had this year i'm do you remember jason cohen we had on the pod jason cohen started what's it called wp p thirty p of that guy like no i just can't remember the the company anyway he made a comment i think after the pod where he talked about tipping and i was like i like to tip you know i was like i i just hit out five so he goes fives you should be handing out twenties like he goes i tip like crazy and i started doing that after the pod and so i carry around about a thousand dollars of twenties at a any given point and i am just dishing that shit out like crazy and you wanna know something it's made to be so happy and so that's been a great investment might but be and i want to bring that up because my investment strategies are pretty boring but man i'll tell you what i'll go to a restaurant and it'll be like sixty dollars because we don't drink and like it's like a cheap for cheap dates i'll i'll easily leave a hundred of then you stick around to wait for the for the reaction to you you're like did you you see that just wanna make sure you get those right under there listen i thought it was tacky to do that but i say screw i'm doing something nice i wanna wanna like a compliment like it makes me feel good too i'm doing this for selfish reasons it makes me feel good so i don't mind it as long as i'm not filming it it's okay that's what i think do you guys share these or is that all yours right there no alright so you but seriously tipping has made me happier but investment but it's it's hard for me to say best investment because i am so boring although i do have one angel investment and figure that's gonna pay a lot of money so far on paper okay so sam ice cream is vanilla alright here we joe what do you want to say am i supposed to make something up alright i will make up for your boring answer with i have two answers i'll give you the first one okay so sam best investment when i think of the perfect investment right what's my type my type would be you some people like blonde some people like burnett here's my type my type is a passive investment that is tax advantage that beast market returns that is un correlated to my the rest of my portfolio tech crypto has low downside and i'm betting on a beast of an operator who has an unfair advantage it sounds like you're trying to sell me a times share close it's real estate you got it and so i for the first time made some serious investment it invested a few million dollars into real estate this year and it was great i for a long time i had thought i should probably be doing real estate she'll probably take this magic internet money put it in real estate so that i have kinda of both i have real world tangible assets that pay cash flow and then i have this like kind of crazy upside tech stuff and i never could figure out the way to do it i was like do i buy my own and manage it that seems like a pain do i use one of these kind of like funds or whatever but they all just fee monsters and the answer was sitting in my in my own wheelhouse so my brother law is an amazing real estate operator the guy's built like a billion dollar real estate portfolio for himself and so i just started giving him money and it's been amazing i don't lift a finger and i'm getting like you know thirty forty percent returns with all the tax advantages so that was my best investment and i'll be doubling down there but i have a bonus answer for you the bonus answer is i made a couple of stock trades i know you don't approve not supposed to buy individual stocks but i did but i did it in a very specific way that i think you might dig which was i just have been trading against the all in podcast for like two years now are you're kidding me and it has been phenomenal give do an example and also like is this like casino gambling money or is this like like do in my opinion anything above a hundred thousand dollars is like no general okay so real bets then okay so you're basically big bets but i just view them as as safe like they're not like they're not like a obscure or penny amazon or something so what will happen is all in podcast podcasts love listening to it very entertaining guys very smart guys i just don't think they're right a lot and they're not right in one specific they've have one specific leak which is that they have like an agenda which is often you know either talking to their own their own book or it's anti woke anti left anti big money tech i make money know that i like the make money first you no anthony getting good gains so like you know jc ka goes out and it says the most likely case is bitcoin zero it tweets this out and then on the all in podcast they're talking about crypto and all the problems with it look guess what i decided to buy bitcoin that day and then the and then google releases its new ai model and it has this problem where you say show me a picture george washington and it shows you a black guy yeah and they're like google so woke going down the drain well you're your year to date on google is forty one percent yeah exactly so easiest tray easiest money to make was just to trade it against the olive bucket so here's an example cha off tweets out the growing short against facebook and he says and regulation is a problem taxes is a problem antitrust is a problem all the stuff i bet on facebook i'm up five so i've made five hundred percent on that trade and so basically they went anti bitcoin for a period of time and then they they swung back they went anti meta and they made this case why z was being an idiot he was investing way too much capex into ar and vr more money that had ever been invested in the development of the iphone this all sounds very very smart but my little simple brain went back to like no i think i think sucks the man i i know i spend a shit like i have e commerce business every dollar i can spend on the facebook ad engine i spend felt you're the allowed to take more money yeah oh ios fourteen is it was a problem no no i i still spend more than i spent before that i i know there's no better place to spend a dollar in advertising bet on facebook yeah the close second was google right so when they went anti google for being woke i bought google when they went anti facebook i went i bought facebook anti bitcoin i bought bitcoin and it's just been very very profitable for me to do this that's amazing that's really funny i think it's of like the in inverse kramer or inverse gallo indexes where they just they just literally whatever this popular popular figure head says they just bet the opposite basically been doing that for about two and a half years against the all in podcast only now was i willing to say it dude by the way i you we had this guy on the party he become a great friend of my named val him and i he was the main guy i was a very small investor we bought a building in brooklyn i killed it on that i think i had a twenty eight percent annual like return not including the tax stuff but my worst investment this year do you remember how i said i was remember how i bought a ranch right i sold it this year so stupid maybe i lost i lost money because i could've have used that money to invest in something that made a lot more but i basically like kinda of broke even so it wasn't that huge of a loss but it was so stressful and my learning is that i had this issue where i sold the company i made money and i thought i was on top of the world and i thought i could buy i so i i fully bought three different pieces of real estate and intending to like turn into projects not one of them was great two were bad one was breakeven and i that's been my biggest failure is like thinking like hub and thinking that i'm amazing and and and also buying real estate that you have to operate it's just like starting a small business that you have to work ten hours a week on it's sucks right it's hard yeah my rule is if it's active it has to generate more than fifty percent the bar is way different if it's passive it could be seven percent is fine but if it's active it's gotta be more than fifty percent if it's active investment and so that's why i gave you the traits the same passive tax advantaged beats some market right like i had this list if i could ever find an investment that does that and finally found on i thought it would be cool to like you know that's like every you know like that's like one of the five things that men love is like they always say they wanna own a lot of land and i did it and i hated like dude listen of this like i would drive up to i would i had a tesla at the time i would be in the country and i would have these like workers to come to like decide to put in a bid to pave the driveway i would get a seventy thousand dollar quote in a three thousand dollar quote like that's that was the delta and it was all because of the way i looked and they're like this guy doesn't oh shit you know like it was crazy i got taken advantage of so many times it sucked so i i i don't think i'll doing that anytime soon and for that reason i'm matter alright what about worst investment that was my worst investment was was okay any fully owned real estate any real estate that i was a investor in i loved it anything that i fully owned and wanted to like make it my thing because of pride i i failed miserably alright my worst investment this was a little bit hard i did well this year but i would say it over if i i had to stretch back a couple of years and say what was the first worst over the last couple of years and i would say i made a general rookie mistake which was i would buy on the ups swing and i would sell during the panic times meaning i would i would try to hedge bets or try to time market so when covid happened i thought oh my god the whole economy gonna shut down and i was right for a month and then right after that stocks exploded and i was sitting on the sidelines where the stocks that i already owned started soaring and i had to buy back in at higher prices crypto crashed with f and other things and when morale was at its lowest my conviction was done as lois i i behaved i behaved like a club i'm not i'm not i'm not proud to say it i'm ashamed to say it i behaved like a plea when when things were bad my conviction went low when things were good my conviction went high this is the opposite way to make money i kinda knew this but in the moment it was a lot harder than i expected to actually master my own psychology as an investor what is the word p are you thinking that means p i say p you're saying really which one of us is wrong i don't know which one though i don't have enough conviction but that you might have taken another l there exactly such a plea i don't even saying yeah it's it sucks to be doing things that you know you it would advise people not to do in the moment in the moment way by way this is why information is not power knowledge is not power so would covid happened i think it was february in san francisco and you know we were all in our apartment sticking the world was literally going to end and i remember i is the only time i've ever done this it the market dropped i think thirty percent literally the day it was its lowest i sold one hundred percent of everything i owned yeah exactly i thought bodies are gonna pile up in new york i thought the world's ending and i had friends who did the opposite of me and our returns were drastically different right that was the lesson and that like that moment had to teach me do not do this you know when warren buffett he says all these smart phrases and they sound cool and you're like yeah i'm in i'm in when the tide goes low i could see everyone swimming naked i'm in that's all you gotta to do and i'll be a billionaire there but then when it actually happens it's hard it's scary it's emotional and i fell victim to that and it's sounds like you did too at least once a hundred percent also during that time i was picking i remember between two stocks i was like okay i think the future is some version of ai but also potentially vr and ar and i plowed a bunch of money into unity instead of nvidia i was looking at the two and i was like i unity or nvidia you and i should just bet a both but instead i picked unity and unity has has done nothing in nvidia became the most valuable company in the world so you know sometimes you do that too that's also a a way to lose what did what did unity become i've lost like sixty percent of my investment on is the unity got nowhere is there like a threshold of like for your what's your lowest trade dollar amount is it like one thousand dollars or always above a hundred thousand more like a hundred thousand got it so you i don't have like an actual minimum but i wouldn't i'd be going and put it in a thousand dollars is it's not really like that exciting or it's kind of a waste time right it depends how you look at it like for example i think stock picking is stupid but i think that you're like well i spend like five grand over the couple months just going to the casino like this could be an exciting thing like i remember for that when the amc shit was going crazy i thought be fun if i was like i was like alright i'll do the thing and i'll put like only a grand and this is like just to play the game and maybe i'll talk about it on here and it it was dumb it was stupid i it wasn't i've done that with like dodge coin and stuff like that but but yeah that that's that's the true gambling budget alright let's do the next one biggest l you took personally this year dude so my daughter was born fifteen months ago and i gave myself four months to like just be kinda lazy and not be on top of like my time management and that like you know like on thanksgiving you're like yes tonight before like the cookies are being made i just kind of the same day as thanksgiving it's okay if i splurge but then like friday happens did you're like well they're leftovers hours like i gotta gotta eat them and then my sunday you're still kinda taken out a little bit i basically did that for like six months where i was like pretty horrible with my time and i wasted so much time this year and it really bothered me and so this year i've made some changes that i'll i'll talk about when we get to that category of like changes we're making next year but i wasted so much time when my daughter was born and it wasn't and this isn't like people that even be like well you should have downtime to hang out with her it's like yeah i i did that i was totally present six months on the line when she's at their nanny and i'm still kinda like moving and slow but like you know what i mean it was kinda so what what do you mean by wasting what are you talking about here i'll give you an example so i would shift my schedule like my workout schedule so i could be with her in the morning but and and that actually meant that she actually wouldn't out a bed until seven the nanny would come at nine and so between seven and nine i would hang out at home and then work out from you know nine to ten thirty which is like a pretty lazy morning for me versus working out what i used to do at seven thirty and so the nanny now comes at eight and i like dude i should've just switched to like i can now start my day a little bit earlier but i didn't so i was still going to the gym later and just lounging around the house for hours things like that but like there was five things whereas it's like accumulated whereas like do four hours five hours a day which just wasted it sounds like you're bit hard on yourself but okay i'll i'll i'll accept your l each man's l the own to to carry it's a burden he carries you didn't have where you wasted time when you had your kid like it's okay i think to like be lazy for you just described as your unproductive day was sort of my productive day so i don't know i don't know what you're talking about like wait so you you took care your kid and worked out in the morning that sounds great sounds like a great morning i don't know what you're talking about it was just like i just i i didn't get after it at all and i found myself to be like you and also when you have a kid and i experienced this where i'm like oh nothing else matters but you should still kinda pretend it does so you could like kinda be productive and i kind of like acted like nothing else mattered alright i the biggest ally took there were so many to choose from to be honest so from forgetting our anniversary and then trying to recover and guessing the date wrong that was not great and by the way she didn't even care which was like oh damn i've lowered expectations to that to that level okay got so that was a quick l i took the whole i don't know if you guys can you solve can you solve this for me for or should anniversaries be the first time you dated or when you got married and once you get married it switches to the marriage it should official stance i have been trying to say that it should be dating the whole time because you know what i mean like sometimes so date for three years you could do nothing for the marriage fuck that it should be when you start what you under it should be your first date that's what at anniversary should be in my opinion the first time we kissed with tongue that's alright so i so then another l i took was i was a i was collateral damage to this whole i don't know if you know about the elf in the shelf fucking insanity like i lost my so chris month and i you know i went like a window thing and they were like what and i was like no i just lost her to elf the shelf like this is has been crazy she's up every night for four hours preparing this elaborate you know elf you know set up and then she sleep she has sleep during the day and i don't know what's happening i don't know what who tricked women in america into doing this but is it's like doing seventy five hard except for you wake up at two in the morning to do it and you do it for thirty days what is it so it's like a doll that stares of the shelves and like is omni president and watches your children so you could scare them into not doing bad stuff so okay so i think their original theory was like you get a l comes to your house and it sits on a shelf and in the morning it moves and you're like oh my god it moved how what's up with that but women on the internet have taken this to a whole new level it doesn't just move it creates schemes and plots and tricks and treats like you know by kids wake up to come downstairs the entire living room has been turned into the floor lava there's fire on the ground everywhere the trees covered it looks like a volcano now the elves are hanging from the chan doing crazy stuff or they take all of the underwear that was in all of the drawers of all of the house and they put it all over the roof of the house and you gotta go outside and be like oh my god what do they do so every night they create a whole i are we able to get our toilet replaced because they turned our toilet into a cereal bowl and then somebody flushed and now we use fruit loops just clog the toilet have toilet you just break your shit yeah you just do crazy stuff every every night you come up with like a giant episode of punk by ashton a huge drink occurs and did you have to come up with every night and you buy thousands of dollars of materials because the elves have their own sized stuff that you somebody had a knowing rodent it in their home causing havoc they wouldn't put it on the shelf and say hi to it they would kill it what exactly and so if you don't know about this you're just like what what are you talking about this is weird strange behavior but if you're in it there's guys out there right now that are sort of like ptsd shakes are coming over their body because they've also been experiencing this and i don't know if i'm in the minority i don't know if i mean the the slight minority of the majority i don't know i know how many people will do this i just know that my wife and her friends they do this and she's in these facebook groups with hundreds of thousands of women and every morning they post the elaborate things that they set up and then that spur all of them to go even crazier with it so i'm gonna say that elf on the shelf was one of wine joining you coolest moment alright you give me yours this year i had to go to la for a hampton thing where i had to interview rob du in front of a a bunch of people very randomly someone was like hey i'm going at back home to la i'm in austin right now i'm going tonight someone mentioned that in the morning you're going to la i'm with my wealthy famous friend who i'm not gonna say they actually have a jet and they're going to la tonight and i got this text and i had committed to putting my baby to sleep this was like in the first handful of months and was like i'm gonna be here every night and i was like dude i don't wanna sound like a douche and i want you know that was this is i'm so grateful you offered me but i can't go because you wanna leave it six and i said i'm gonna be here till eight thirty and he was like oh well we'll go at eight thirty and i was like awesome i was like shit again and i don't wanna get dick but my friend neville is coming with me tomorrow morning which he was and i was like i could never bail on him and he was like great we have room for him and and and they totally accommodated me and so my best friend neville and i flew to la on this very wealthy famous person's private jet and i got to spend like three hours like learning from this guy it was so fun and so awesome and that was like one of the my not just because we are flying private it was just awesome that like i got to do this adventure with my friend that was that was the best moment i had all year but if you flew southwest would it have been the coolest moment of the year on the way back nice because we had to change our flights we flu southwest next to the toilet it was a very ying and yang situation and it was still fantastic okay that one didn't win the award though that one didn't win the award but it was fun it's like you know you know you know that meme where there's like a guy in the hoodie says like nobody here knows but i invested in bitcoin in two thousand twelve but that's like alec i felt like in line in southwest west like you know like they should ask me they should right here how'd did you give me that hey you wanna know how i got here in the way here that's all fell i was like somebody asked me you just oh this is so different alright i love that one okay i'll do a quick one i i kinda struggled with this one i guess i'll give you a quick one so for thanksgiving this year we were gonna host it i decided to do a a full family vacation so kind of like you know how do i okay we if we've done well we've had some success how do make sure that that like you know makes everybody have a great time and and that that i care about in my little economy and so i rented out this this really cool house in tahoe i brought my whole family up to tahoe hired a personal chef who would cook us the thanksgiving me alive and i just remember there was one morning where i woke up and it was just the best morning like i took my dog out in the snow my dog was like mind blown at what snow is so i took my dog for a walk early in the morning it was crisp i didn't have my phone i even know where my phone was came inside my kids were all playing with their cousins and that was so cool to see somebody you know making breakfast in the other room and i could smell it me and my brother law we were playing we played the game of like horse on the little nerve hoop that was in the house and i just had the best morning and i just remember being like this this was bliss like if i could catch and and yeah it ticked all my boxes right like whole family living under one roof kids are having a blast i'm playing a silly game on a nerve hoop there's not a worry in the world you know we're not busy we're not rushing it it was just a wonderful feeling so i'm gonna give my my tahoe warning my coolest moment of the year the takeaway by the way should i've done that for two years now i i did the first time i think last year it i when i was doing best moments i was like it was either what i just said or this thing taking family and just paying for it and it sounds like a ridiculous and it's very expensive and it's very challenging for a lot of people but if you can pull it off it is almost always one of the best moments it feels if and the second takeaway is the coolest moments that i think we've had for a lot of these things it's always dealing things that benefit other people somehow do you what i mean like accommodating other people into our lives is the it's the best feeling it's usually not like some huge like traditional career accomplishment it's always like it's always doing something cool for other people so i agree that's a good one that you have although yours was somebody flying you private but the best i if no the best part was doing it with my friend the fact that we got that we had this like shared experience together that was that was great alright i've got a quick one for life hack do you wanna know my you wanna know my my biggest light like life hack before that i started doing and this is so basic to people but on thursday i do this on thursday now on friday i print out i'll shoot i print out everything that i have to do for the next week and up top is my q one focus and goals and that's like you know tell my wife how much i appreciate her every day but also like traditional business goals and also fitness goals and then i have what i did last week and any reflections on it and then i a category that says how my assistant can help me and my assistant every morning prints off at my house and so it's ready for me a monday morning and i carry this piece of paper with me around everywhere like during the workday and that's what i use to make sure i'm getting shit done i don't use notion i don't use a sign i don't use any of that crap and just having this printed out has been so much more helpful for me than any type of digital complicated shit totally i have one over here on the ground it's like i i bought these if you go buy like sketch pads like you know i artists or architects have it's really high quality paper large pads with nice pens such an easy win to go to go analog instead of digital with that stuff by the way i think you should level it up and you need like a seal of sort or some sort of coat of arms for your family i feel like he would like that and like either stamp wax seal i feel like if you just made it more prestigious honestly it would be kind of amusing and it would be fun and i feel like a president scraping i yeah exactly i could just give it a little stamp and be like hell yeah that's me that's how i roll and like this is us i completely official so i i want you to do that to that's a great idea i actually completely agree what yours okay life hack for me the highs and lows channel have i told you about this my highs and lowe's channel it's that for work yeah kind of i mean it's for everything but i have a slack channel for every company i have a slack channel called highs and lows and in it anytime there's a high high in the moment of that business or a low low so you know for example on christmas eve the mexican government decided to ban all imports into mexico of textiles which effectively shut down my entire warehouse on christmas eve and we can no longer like like because our two days ago mexico yeah like two days ago and so you're like here we are business can now not our e commerce business has no inventory for the foreseeable future and i've got millions of dollars of inventory sitting in a warehouse there that now is you know blockade thank you mexican government and thank you new president of mexico for this christmas present and so in the moment where i'm feeling a low something bad happened a lawsuit or a big client gets lost or someone key quits or whatever it is right i go into the channel and i just type what happened but the beautiful thing is instead of addressing the current problem or basking in the glory of the current high what when i go to the channel i just see the last one that i had because it's right there scrolled up and i just see oh man i had a huge low then that feels like nothing now right or i had a huge high before that also feels like nothing now and it is this stoic trick of the brain to basically just write down i'm having a high or i'm having a little right now but in the place where i'm writing again i see my lap fast higher or low and my the one before that and the one before that and it just like thermal regulates my brain my brain says oh okay it's not as bad as it seems sn as it because it seem it humble me or it keeps my morale hide whatever i need in that moment and it's so effective just to have this little simple channel have you ever heard of negative visualization yeah like sort of imagining what the worst that could happen is the scenarios it's a a tool that i i think it was popularized by the so this the famous stoic basically you sit down for about five minutes and you've been instead of meditating can you just imagine the worst things on earth are true your kid is dying of cancer your wife has already died you're broke like your you know hurt whatever and then if you actually visualize that for like five or you know so minutes it kinda almost feels weird it's really strange and then you wake up and you open your eyes you go oh sick none of that's true how grateful i feel right now and right it's like a pretty useful tool and what you're describing is very similar to that yeah except this is these real moments that i remember and like i have evidence of versus trying to do this i mean this is i've saving people thousands of dollars in therapy if you just create a little highs and low channel you'll therapy yourself because you'll go in and it'll you'll remember i've been high before i've been low before and either way i walk out i it's it's that that richard kip poem i treat triumph and disaster i treat those two impostor the same and this is the the fastest most effective way to do it dude that reminds you know one of my i think conor mac mcgregor has taken a fall from grace i really don't like him anymore but he has a lot of like amazing things that he says that i buy into and he's got this one thing do you remember have ever seen what he says about having the same added attitude in victory or defeat yeah yeah exactly what what is what does he say would you know the exact line he's he basically says i forgot what was was like you know humble in victory and something you know something in defeat which is by the way not what he does at all anymore but yeah no yeah that was his original original piece looking up yeah like i think last time he lost he in the octagon he was telling the he just humble in victory humble defeat and then and actually last time he lost he was telling him man and wife that he like she was cheating on him your your wife is in my dms your wife is in mid dms yeah so he says dude time for ears just like quote though he should layer for some conor gray quotes i really wanna create a compilation to just show it to mckay dude you'll you'll love the guy and to see if see if i'm so this is mcgregor back when we both love them i am cocky and prediction i'm am confident in preparation but i'm am always humble in victory or defeat it's the best right there you go right so we did life act let's do now number eight only four left number eight billy of the year who is our billy of the year we do this segment called billy of the week where we've profile just a big baller shock collar somebody who is either a billionaire or just making big moves who do you think was making the biggest of the big moves this year so my pick is not gonna sound sexy but about make a case do you know i don't know if this ever happened to but in high school sophomore year and everybody has their place in the social hierarchy you know who the nerds are you know who the jo are you know who the theater kids are you know who's the glue guys that i can fit in with everybody and then you all leave for the summer but then there's always that one kid who leads for the summer and they get that little second puberty bump they get that extra you know four inches of height they start growing a little facial hair they they start working out all summer because their cousin came into town and taught them out of work workout you know they picked up a hobby they learned the guitar or they start you know doing mma or something like that and then and they start dressing differently and if you hear rumors that they hooked up with like a college girl during the summer and they had like a fling and then they come back and they just a whole new guy and there's like a conversation was like is is great cool now yeah and undeniably greg is cool mark zuckerberg pulled to greg this year so here's the case for suck his stock is up five five hundred percent in the last twenty four months he's gained a hundred billion dollars of net worth he is now the third richest man in the world but more than that he's not just one of the rich guys right because that that criteria would apply to elon and tried to jeff bezos bill gates there's other guys who are super rich he found a hobby that he loves and it got him in into tremendous shape started doing mma ji striking and now zach fit he's ripped he's got a hobby that he loves that takes his mind off of work he is playing the world's most competitive game which is the ai game and i don't know how much you followed this but z had a a a a j flip basically he had a differentiated way to win you know open ai was in front and google had deep mine z came out and open sourced all of their their models and created an open source competitor to basically compete in this market and he's doing extremely well there he went from a robot to a cool guy he's like dresses like a cool guy now and has like a cool guy haircut so he he did like a personal style upgrade he you know he he's not like you know elon on his you know third or fourth failed marriage you know eleven kids from three different women since college z got his college sweetheart got his daughters pair you know appears to be a really great dad by all accounts and i just respect that i just respect that he's had this all around game agreed right he's just had this really strong four game where he's just covered all the bases of what i consider to be a really good life he's doing what he loves on and off the court and you know as is this lame to say mark zuckerberg but i gotta say mark zuckerberg he have you like you you don't know about running but he ran a five k time he ran a five k recently and he ran it in nineteen minutes that's really fit he's like really fit did you see that post where he talked about his mu his mu times yeah the mu he did it in insane mu dude really like he's he's not he's not like one of these like you know like vince man was like eighty years old like weirdly like old jacked or like you know joe rogan has this too where they have was like really weird body because they're taking like t like crazy it's like it saw these people have these weird oz bodies or t bodies no he's he just like perk out a lot and ain't good yeah he like eats an apple and chicken like he he looks great you know what mean he looks great yeah that's a great one and he's i really like his wife she's turned into like this kind of i don't know like salt leader michelle obama e like you know like she's kinda hip and cool and i care about her opinion a lot like she's kind of like a a little bit of a didn't even know this because i what i love about her is that she's not out there trying to get limelight she don't doing anything that's public right a of just like it with their foundation but i've seen her talk that at at conferences and then i also subsequent going to u and they'll show her in the background at and then one of the fighters is like she or she'll be like hey that choke was cool and he'll be like do you wanna learn it and she'll be like yeah and so she like come be like puts the guy choke like she just kinda of like it at she just doesn't it see seem you know how like people love princess die because she was like you know over to the people it's she kinda has that vibe a little bit and i i i appreciate that i i've not seen that i but i have seen like they there was like interview recently where somebody was like following him around for the day and she was there and she was just so down to earth and cool and was like making fun of him but and like you know like you know when couples are together and it's like you could tell that they have fun together but you could also tell that they don't hate each other so like you can make fun of somebody without being like really bitter on the entire yeah i just thought like the vibe i got it was great just a a little clip what the vibe i got was it was great so mine was do you member meetup dot com's founder scott is it high hyphen the effort he is is all the effort so so so the the the short of it is the story is basically this guy named scott he started a digital ad company that he sold for like fifteen million dollars enough to get like very wealthy as a twenty eight year old he leaves tech and he goes and he joins mcdonald's and he works at mcdonald as you know a cashier or something like that and people like actually noticed him and someone wrote i think fast company wrote an article and they're like what the hell you doing and he's like dude i've been around add executives for the last ten years or fifth or you know five years i've been around tech people i needed to get out of my bubble and so i just went and worked at mcdonald's and i learned it's really hard work and i'm so thankful that i am where i am and i'm gonna go back to he didn't just do it for like a day oh this wasn't like a field trip like he he actually worked there for like months and months yeah and he worked there and then he left and he started meetup dot com which i think eventually was worth hundreds of millions of dollars sold it and as of late if you go to his linkedin he has not made an ordeal out of this this is all other people like us talking about it making an ordeal lot of of it but now he's an amazon warehouse worker and he's working in the amazon warehouse and he kinda is doing the exact same thing and i think that's so baller that he's doing that and so baller that he is not doing it for p r it's like some sole searching thing and i think it's fantastic i think it's pretty bad ass so he was kinda don't he's not actually a billionaire but he's quite wealthy i i would imagine bill it's that billy mindset it's that billy he's got that he's got be entered life on your own terms he he is doing that love it okay that that's a good one a good pull alright what's next now this one this one is frame breaking person so we should explain this one so both you and i love one specific thing that i i don't even think other people have a word for we call it frame breaking somebody who breaks your frame scott is a great example of this it's somebody who lives their life or in a way that sort of def solidifies your expectation breaks your frame on what's either normal what's acceptable what's possible what's cool it's somebody who just lives differently in a way that just shatter your your your norm your worldview view norm and i i wanted to make a category for this because this is one of my favorite things when i meet somebody who's like this so frame person who did you have this year i'll i'll say frame is this guy brian johnson so brian johnson is the guy who wants to live forever guy and he's frame breaking not because the he wants to to live forever shit which is definitely cool but i hung out with him and so for those who don't know brian johnson is the guy who started a company that kinda turned to v and a bunch of other things he sold it for five hundred million dollars and now he's spending a lot of money to try to live forever and you see him on instagram all the time he said something to me i was like why are you doing this you know we were just talking about stuff and he goes you know i read this book on magellan and magellan was a a sailor and the explorer in the fifteen hundreds of fourteen hundreds and he basically sailed around the globe and he proved all this amazing stuff and i just thought it was so amazing and i was starting to and i made a list of like the top ten top fifteen people to ever live and what their contributions where you know the wright brothers with flight the person who had invented electricity discovered electricity like people like that and he's like none of them were like rich like it like money didn't impact people it didn't impact the world as much and i just thought that if i could solve like a really hard problem and contribute to the world i thought that that would be a life worth living and i just decided that i'm gonna try and do everything in my day to be renowned in the year two thousand five hundred he's like in two thousand five hundred i hope to create like and contribute to the to society in such a way that in two thousand five hundred they talk about me and i thought that was absolutely bananas i don't know if i wanna do that but i thought it was so cool that he was like i don't care about money because money you and i was like he's like that he's like who was the richest person five hundred years ago was like don't i don't i don't know he's like yeah that's my point but you've heard a magellan and so i thought it was such a frame breaking moment for me to to like hear his reasoning as to why he's trying to do what he's doing which is prolonged death or solve for death he's like if i solve that would you say that we'll i'll be remembered i was like yeah yeah you you will and he's like that's how i wanna spend my day that's an amazing answer i love that he did that just all the things you just said making a list of the fifteen most most impactful influential people ever what what a list i think i i wanna go do that just to even see what that was like it was like it was like or it was the wright brothers it was the the gut press it was magellan like there was like ten of them he was like these changed the world forever and he's like do you know how many of them are like rich people not they're were just like adventures or something like that i thought you're gonna say or red blocker and i was like i'm not gonna i'm not gonna complain if that's the if he he he's on the list okay so my answer for frame person is nick gray and i could this is gonna be a answer but it's my true answer this is my truth that i'm gonna speak my truth is it not it's not elon musk get somebody i met i hung out with i had a a flight so i went spoke at this event and they they were like hey we'll we'll fly you private and i was cool and nick was going to the same place that i was he's like hey can i come with you i was yeah no problem that'd be great yeah and so nick was this nick was the salmon in that situation yeah exactly so i was like one on one with them for like five hours or something on you know which is that's a long time that's a long conversation that's like more time than i spent talking to most people right and i walked away and i'll just gonna read you my text to my sister after i hung out with nick so i hung out with nick i try to play cool and afterwards i get off the plane and i go i just hang out with a guy who has has such a zest for life i go i've hung out with a lot of rich people but this guy rich in a different way he is rich in social wealth he's got tons of friends he is rich in amusement i feel like everything he does in a way everything he does in a day amaze him and he's doing it on his i go he is corny and totally himself in the best way possible and i was i wanna tell you a couple of the things that just stood out to me like prolific things this guy did this year so we've talked about the tokyo blind date or he says i wanna go to tokyo but i don't wanna go alone fill out this google form and i wanna take one person on a blind date with me to tokyo and he gets thousands of responses he picks a girl he almost falls in love on this day it does the whole thing publicly and it goes viral this guy's having fun the next thing he does he goes to india he stays in india for like a month and i'm like what are you doing in india if i'm india i haven't been in india for a month in like ten years and he's like oh i just love the culture i just wanted to go i know i have a couple of friends that i've met in other travels so i just wanna go visit their hometown and so he goes to these like remote towns in india he's learning their way of life and their foods and all the stuff he's blogging about it and he knows that in india one of the ways that people like they don't have hinge or tinder in the same way like the the old school way in india is you run what's called a mat ad in the newspaper so this is how my mom met my dad which was my dad runs an ad it says you know twenty one years old six feet tall you know have a bachelor's degree in engineering you know good head of hair comes from a good family that sort of thing and nick finds this so i'm amusing he's like i gotta do this so he runs a mat at and actually he starts av testing different mat only ads he's showing them me it's like five nine full set of teeth i don't know it's like you you know like he was has a blog i at one point he was like how do i make sure that she's like fit and like not like crazy away way and i was like we were like like could you like put like i have to be able to lift you on my like wanna be able to lift you on my shoulders like i'm not strong yeah know exactly so starts running these ads but he's not running it like as a prank he was genuinely curious and interested to see w and he just he just over and over again at these little life experiments and just followed he just the way i tell text message i go i feel like he's just taking the bounce of the ball of life and he's just going with it so for example i'm like dude you should like start a youtube channel or something he goes have one i go well i never seen it and he shows me his youtube channel do you know what his youtube channel is i've watched the videos but what do you mean what do what it is it's reviews of like cruise ships yeah of which bedrooms he likes on cruise ships because he likes cruises and guess what all his followers are old people who retiring and going cruises and they're like thanks i'm going on its cruise next year i retired i'm seventy four i i was wondering if the bathrooms come with the vanity kit and like sure enough that's what but he's so into it that he just i've always said the best product is you pushed out and that to me is nick gray nick gray he just took it himself and flipped himself inside out and he was pushing himself out in the world and if you love it if you hate it he really could care less it seems like and i just found it i don't know very like eye opening to see somebody who is their own corny self on on full blast and i really admire that fuck for example is i'm interested in stocks he's interested stocks but the way he's interested in stocks is different he is a huge fan of one stock you know the one cloudflare cloudflare he hosts his birthday party a cloud he creates a whatsapp group of other cloudflare believers in every earnings call he text the group and he says like you know i hope the earnings gods are with us today i'm feeling lucky i'm wearing this and i'm just i i i'm ready for all that this q q two called brings us and dude listen to what whole group he what he you know i met nick drake because we were all bloggers like ten years ago and he you know there's like thirty of us friends who are bloggers he went to each of us and he goes i noticed your website is hosted on whatever godaddy this or that would it be okay if my assistant transferred your account from godaddy to cloudflare or do it completely for free and in fact the hosting property or the hosting thing that you have they're charging you a hundred dollars a month cloud player was it's gonna charge you forty dollars a month i went and got a deal i was like why are you doing this he goes because i'm a shareholder of cloudflare and i need you guys to start using it because i think you're gonna love it even more dude i swear to god he switched my blog to cloudflare for free and i'm saving six hundred dollars a year he's like a shareholder of his own life in a way that i am not he's like activist as shareholder it's like he he was like what are the best gyms that have swimming pools and sauna in new york and he found them and they were super busy but what he realized was that the all the gyms had poor seo and what he was googling for best gyms and son it like nothing was really coming up and so what he did was he started writing blogs about other gyms as if they had the best pool and son not the one that was near him that actually did so that he would go down in the rankings and be less busy so that he would have it more to himself and these are just like little life experiments he were doing and he made millions of dollars doing this too because he loved museums so he created a business about renegade the museum tours where he would take you out on his own tour because museums are boring and he's not boring and he would take you on his own tour unofficially not a part of the museum and ended up selling that for millions of dollars he like he he we did the thing about his gag at the party we're on the way out he's like hey sean call my phone i've got a gag gag he's said yeah i have a gag i wanna do i've a little bit like a bit are you comedian and what's going on and then i call his phone and he whips out this phone case that so it looks like a butcher knife like a machete and he puts it up to his here and goes hello and he just wanted to make us laugh and i'm like this guy just goes to life trying to make himself a laugh i the the the last text i sent my sister i go it's like he you know the movie limitless it light it's like he took the limitless pill but instead of it getting he didn't give him any superpower he just is using that pill to enjoy his life in a way that's where the rest of us are not and so he broke my frame our friend saw hill saw bloom he's got this new sc where he shares like text like he's like in these group chats and guess he'll say like some inspirational shit ed hill like he'll tweet it out he's like here's what i shared with this chat and it's like like a realization this morning first of all we my enemy i had to say i love sa so i'm saying this with love but he'll say some like yeah like live laugh love for dudes step a shit yeah and like you know like you know the thing about wisdom is that you only heard it through like hard shit like you know whatever and then some guy retweeted he goes bro it's a dude that said this at my group yeah he's getting kicked out right away and your sister's replied to that is like like sick she went to a she went to his blog and was just like he looks funny and then moved on with i was yeah i just typed you like an essay about how this man changed my life she's like like google image search you're like dude do you like oprah because i'm doing some oprah level shit right here and she just like dismissed you that's pretty funny and i crazy is the man nick raised the are we gonna do favorite guests no yeah let's do best guest and then we'll do best idea best business idea that we had all the podcast so let's do best guess first who up this is i worked really hard not to have rec bias but i'm ji from rep we barely even talked about like the financials of his business but i'm pretty sure it's like a billion dollar company right or like yeah last last round was like right under a billion dollars so like right he know he built this huge company i think he's only thirty six or thirty seven crazy smart like his blog is so good he's not just smart like you talked to him like you he like is prolific he writes all this amazing stuff he he said one little small line that like i could've have dismissed is like a fortune cookie thing but he was like telling how he makes the decisions based off of what will be a better movie but he gave like eight examples of that and i totally bought in and i thought that he was amazing and one of the reasons was because of that like live light to be a good movie i thought it was fantastic yeah he said whenever i whenever at of fork in the road on a decision of what to do in life i just ask well we'll make the better story yeah and then i just do that one it was great he was so fascinating that episode i on youtube i think it has two hundred thousand views it was it was a huge hit and it was one of those things where we were recording it and he's like he's low energy and oftentimes high energy people will do better because that's just whatever how people are but and i was like i a a ent by this podcast like a lot of times if you spend an hour and a half on zoom you get tired i was totally excited at the end of that pod and he was a very low mellow low energy mellow guy and i was like i don't know if this is gonna hit or not but i i love it and so it totally hit so a lot of people thought he was amazing as well there's almost half a million downloads across youtube and and audio on that one oh really wow yeah it's at three thirty on youtube alright so mine i have two one is the highest viewed episode of the year and what is the lowest viewed episode of the year so i'll start with the obvious one the highest episode this is the episode i did with money par prize it's at two million i think it was it's at two and a half million on youtube alone wow so the first first podcast episode we doing this for four or five years now first podcast podcast episode that crossed like a million on on youtube that was cool to see but in the moment i knew it was a bang like it was i felt like it was the best best in best podcast i've ever done i remember preparing for it for two weeks i flew out there we hired a film crew we went to his house i went to his house the day before and hung out with him to like kinda warm up and prep him like i i gave it my absolute all for that interview and it and it paid off he told he said two things that still there's three things that stood asked to me by him he gave this story on the podcast about what i was like so what alright you've told me about buffett you've told me about yourself you told me about you you know your friendship with charlie mu like what makes a great investor and he basically was he gave me the keys he was like you know people think the money's made in the buyer buying and the selling it's made in the waiting and he basically told the story about he goes you ever watched seinfeld you know that episode where elaine goes on a she gets this new boyfriend and it's going great and elaine loves the guy he he seems so perfect and then they go in vacation together and on the flight she's got like snacks in a movie like all the stuff like entertainer he just sits there asia staring at the seat in front of them just raw dogg it and she's like are you sure you don't want like to watch this or read a book or do you want a stack and he's like no i'm i'm fine and she's like by the end of the flight she's like i gotta break up with this guy like this guy's is a man for just sitting there staring at the seat back by the light of and what a brilliant a brilliant episode idea the i don't right it's how do you come up with that just like he's perfect except be stares at a seat in front of him on flight yeah but just like i can't do it i can't do it and he's like that guy would make a great investment if you can have fun watching the pay you can be a great investor and my takeaway away was like i'm probably not gonna be a great investor got it got it stop being but but at least i i knew what the formula was the other things were by i've i've the life hack of going to these people's houses for the podcast hold on that was a really good comment i know what the form that ain't for me but i what the formula is that's actually pretty cool yes you know i know the answer same thing with omni job goes i've realized you to my advantage my advantage is that i persist i i could push the boulder up the mountain for a long time like i'm just willing to endure and i was like okay cool not gonna compete with you i can't do that you're like i'm happy i know what it takes and i'm good to know i don't have it yeah exactly the girl oh she's really into a guy who's you know got these traits alright that's not me good nice to meet you see you later so go into these people's houses i think it's just this life act where you pick up so much of their energy and their lifestyle and their way of being like i did mon right before i did lo joe lo you go to his house it's this it's this elaborate mansion beautiful beautiful man mansion you know backyard olympic size swimming pool with statues that are shooting water out of their mouth and and he's got like an old gun from the victorian asian that's like what he's into he's got a full staff that's serving us breakfast and just like full staff that just operates in his house and he's like a high performance machine and right after we left elon musk was coming over for a a lunch with the you know the senators of the of of of the area i was like wow this is a lifestyle that i just it you know broke by frame then i go to an malicious house and we're like hey can we come over like yeah sure stop by i'm like is it okay for cup between four and four twenty he's like that come whenever you want and we go over and he's hanging out he's wearing basketball shorts and his his foot flops and he just took an nap which he does every day and he shows us is nap room and he's like yeah like my whole job is to make you know a couple great decisions a year so i just read and i think and i just tried to have a great comp state of mind and i meet interesting people and that's all i do i don't have to like go go go and i don't have to beat the senators and i don't have to have and he shows me his library where we record the podcast he's got thousands of books he's read all of them and it was just so interesting to see these different these different ways to win and then you see him up close in person and that's just a very different style that's shadowing him for a day like with i went in the morning at eight am and i did the morning workout with him and then i had breakfast with him they went up to the cold plunge all of that before the podcast hanging out with these people was the real win the podcast is just the cherry on so that was that was my favorite and then i'll also give a shout out to the lowest viewed episode of the year that i thought was amazing which was the episode i with mike pos also into his house and this had lowe's views because you know he's a rapper musician maybe it's not a fit with our audience i think this guy was amazing he was he was an incredibly positive guy and he had all these little micro lessons that were amazing two of them that stood out to me one was he has this phrase where he was talking about how he he made this hit song his first song went like quadruple group platinum and then he was always chasing that high in his twenties to do it again and the next song went double platinum but it felt like a failure comparison next song single platinum oh my god on this downs and then the next one didn't even go platinum and he's like the mistake i was making was i would go to the studio try to make a hit and i went there to try to make a hit song and at my mom that wasn't well how i made by first hit song first hit song i just did what i thought was dope and then then i just started trying to play the game too much trying to make hits and i i like succeed it was making something i hated and i just thought this is such an applicable thing for business especially for people out there who have not tasted their first big win and all they want is a big win or they have a big win and that they need they feel the need to top that with their next one and they start going to the studio to try to make a hit and he said at the end of the day i figured out i'm just gonna make what's cool to me and sometimes the whole world will agree and i just thought that was such a dope philosophy as a creator to to take which is i'm just gonna make with dope for me and then once in a while the whole world will agree with me which by the way like very meta example here the the i don't know how the audio did but the youtube listed did thirteen thousand that's like one of the lower in the past year i listened to it and i loved it i thought it was so good and then the comments are this is the best episode ever the second comment this was the best episode m m episode ever like people loved it in the comments and for some reason it didn't give views that's insane it's also good not to chase those views i think because this is i thought it was fantastic it's weird why do you think it didn't hit to take his approach doesn't matter i just do what's cool to me and sometimes the whole world agrees and sometimes they don't most of the time they doubt that's okay and so the the you know the two examples i gave in the mona ish one okay it gets three million plays in that case the whole world degree but i felt the same way about the my pose one i'm proud of both of them the same because i thought they were both dope alright last two categories best product what do you have i have a lame answer i'll go quick just chat yeah it's pretty dope it's the same product i would have picked last year but it got way better like the same product it's the same name but it's a totally better product i and and i also have found new ways to use it it's almost like you got on hogwarts and you're learning new like oh you're learning how to use your wand it's like wow i got i could do that spell with it i could do this with it that's how ai feels to me and i just wrote chat my my quick way of saying it dude i had a friend over some family friends over yesterday for christmas and he's worked at open ai for four years i cornered him strapped him dad's his quarter turn out of and he's a lot smarter than me i i had my hand shoulder i was like here you go have a seat ever and todd here's a computer here's all list of questions you wanna start for the top let's get let's get after for it yeah we'll eat turkey later but i have a seat it was just pepper up with questions i think that was like chad is a good one what was yours best product this thing it says well the focus brick the focus is off it's the brick this is a twenty nine dollar thing it has some type of i don't know what it's it called the rf id whatever for the audio audio listener sam holding up a little tiny square it's like you a one inch by one inch and this is a thing that just nukes your phone it's basically it's the size of an not air pod case and it's a piece of plastic with some type of chip in there you download their app think this thing is twenty five dollars every morning when i'm getting ready to go to the gym i walk by my door and i break my phone which means it's completely unusable other than making phone calls so my wife can call me for an emergency spotify and my workout app and so i will keep it like that until noon usually so i can't answer text i can't use slack can't use email wikipedia no chrome all i could use is true coach which is where i have my workouts phone call for emergency and spotify and it is awesome it makes my life a just a little bit better every morning i've i'm i'm a big fan of these guys have you ever used one i've not used it maybe shit that's a good case it's awesome man you can like i have like a workout setting and then you could have like a driving settings so you could just make like youtube and like i i listen to podcast on youtube oh so you could have youtube and maps available like that's it and so it's pretty cool and i can't un break my phone unless i come home and i scan it again and so it's it's pretty amazing so that's been my best product and is there like an emergency oh like oh for real for real i need google maps right now like is there a way to overwrite it if you needed to yeah but i think you'll only get three times to do that and the third time you do it this brick that you purchased it's useless and so it's just like oh but i bought that thing for thirty dollars i wanted to work like that type of like resistance is is just enough yeah i don't know if i'm built for that level of self discipline you know back of the day i bought that wrist wristband called pa lock which is basically like pa training for yourself so it's a wrist wristband where you electro yourself you get us a slight you get you get a small electric shock not actually that small but you get electric shock in your arm it kinda heard when you do something it was like you but you know i using it for my diet and it's like okay i'm gonna eat this piece of pizza and then i gotta like voluntarily push this button to like shock myself and i just didn't and instead all i use it for was just a conversation piece like i'd be somewhere be like what's that i'd be like oh try this on watch this and it became my party trick yeah to be cool and barely really having anything to do check it out i'm i'm a freak i'm unique yeah exactly like so you use this it like no no no does it work i have an idea i don't even try what's the hell though yeah you gotta you should try this it it's pretty awesome and then the change that you're gonna make next year mine's mine's fast i'm getting an office i'm sick of like working from home all the time yeah like i i it's it's cool a few days a week i guess and it's cool when you have to do it but yeah i i we're getting an office i'm getting in an office i need to be around people it's just like you know even when business is going well you're like yeah let's get on of zoom and but your company's remote so you're gonna get an office and then there's local people or what do you we have twenty employees and like eleven of them are new york city so we have enough and so we're gonna not in new so what are you do i live in hour away so i'll just go three days a week oh my god what a horrible decision do i have to talk my friend out of signing up for a voluntary two hours of commuting a day do i need to show him the statistics that show how much you hate your life doing what's like the alternative is that i'm just like in my kitchen and it's like i celebrate with an emoji you know it just like i let you break your phone i let you care about dressing up i let you do all these things that's you know they're they're self harm but i let you do it because there's some greater good commuting two hours a day is a horrible idea dude go to office how often do most of time you saw a coworker i guess you work with your wife i didn't count here's what i did which was way more genius diego who's on this call right now helps with all my content he lived in baltimore as of a month ago and then i called diego and i said hey diego how would you like to live within ten minutes of me and he's like i'd be down and i go cool how do we do that in the next two weeks he's like i guess i'd have to figure out a way to transport my dog and then he quit his job are you quitting job his wife quitting to her job he got broke his lease he rented an rv and drove across the country in seven days and now he lives within ten minutes of me and we each other every day we transformed my garage into an office for ourselves and it's great and that's the way to do it wait so is is the expectation that he's gonna live in an rv for a an extended period of time or is he gonna red the house he got an apartment nearby and lives in a cool place and i told him i hey you're moving to california so here's a pay raise to cover the cost of your move and the and the higher cost of living out here and come live in california who wants to be a baltimore bro and come come hang out with me it's gonna be way more fun and yeah that's need agreed to do it was it weird after not doing that for three year years or whatever well the weird part is like i realize how how distracted my schedule is because i he'll come over and we're supposed to work and then would be like but i gotta like go drop off my kid at school that i gotta come back and then my trainer comes over and then i work again and then like my kid wants to play like jen for a second so like be right back and i realized realizing like oh you know when somebody else is there you're acutely aware that like wait hold on i'm taking a breaker here and how many of those many breaks so i had to kinda re that to be a little more focused time but honestly it was like well it's just bet it's like all all the times we would be doing calls us being in person during those even if it's not perfect so you know for example sometimes he just comes and works out of the office even before i'm there i'm dropping my kids up he's just there he just treats it like an office and then we just happened to be there together a bunch of times but the the key for me is i don't have twenty people right so i do this with because i have two people on my team and that's all i need yeah yeah i but well i might do it in west part where i live but i you know where i work out most days is the library dude i'm in the library and it's just like me and then like sixteen years old out there exercise oh like like type of micah computer like it's like i i i freaking love the library i work out on library all the time and my have a great vibe dude it's so much better than like a coffee shop or we work library are great yeah there's they're you and i were in entrepreneur magazine last year and they have a copy of it like they have like a magazine section and you know i definitely move that magazine to the front and once at all read it i'm like but we're not on the cover right no inside to get open it up i gotta open it up and what people walk by i'd be like who that guy magazine is in oh what it's him for phase sixteen oh did you add did you just ask me if i yeah it is no i like the library what what's yours okay library is a great one what category were are we even on change you're making oh change i'm making this is gonna sound stupid but it's not for me i'm all in on music this year i decided that i wanna be i wanna do more music stuff and so i pick again oh playing and i hired so i basically i hired somebody to come teach me piano because i did like in seventh grade and i can play like fur at elise and that's it how many lessons do you so i'm starting next week and the second one is i i hired it guy because i've always like you can now make like most music is now made out a computer and i'm like yeah i know computers but i know how to make music at a computer and i kinda wanna see what's like the latest and greatest of that so i hired somebody who's like you know those people that know how to like make songs on a computer you're talking about i'm one like like beats or like are you're gonna like record a cover you wanna write or you only order original start with covers yeah start with covers always and then and then learn to make an original song i again that that'll be really fun and so i and the reason why is well three reason wise because it's fun but two i two things are happening one ai is making it easier and easier to make art and software and things that i things that were previously off limits or would take a lot of skill to be able to do something cool now a little bit of coding skill lets you do a lot and a little bit of music skill can do a lot using using these new tools but also i just like i have a a gym i go to from my physical body i wanna a creative gym and i got this idea from tim ferris he was talking about how one of the ways he he keeps his mind right and stays in a like an awesome state of mind and he's able to produce great content and be really creative he works out his creativity like it doesn't have to be in the thing i'm doing so if i'm writing a book it doesn't have to you that i to just practice writing he's like i might paint or do drawing or calligraphy or archer or anything that is sort of like a a creative gym session yeah and i do that in the morning and he's like it's like when you go to the gym and then suddenly you have more energy and you're performing better at at work why is that same thing with a creative gym session so i i like that idea and i thought oh yeah this is something i could see more people doing in the future it makes sense to me i'm gonna start doing this just the way i i i go to the gym in the morning i'm gonna go to the creative gym you know two or three times a week and start doing something that's highly creative dude that's so good i think that's fantastic you know you know sarah takes my wife she takes piano and singing class classes like lessons and he's on top of it you guys can can vibe out but what i'm trying to encourage her to do is sign up for some type of open mic night or just like something where it's like you could have a title well dude i got inspired by my cousin he did this i was like oh i'm gonna do this and then so funny when you put it out there people start just giving you clues on how to win so my sister was like oh yeah do you know our cousin meal he does that he's hired to piano coach she's doing it all the time and then he went to an old folks home and he performs there once a week as a title and it gives them so much joy and i'm like wow what a great win a low stakes way to have a performance yeah that brings other people joy and it's just like so wholesome i was like when you're in my opinion when you're doing these new things you need like a capstone you need like an essay you need some type of beginning middle and end of like alright i have now achieved the level one it's like that's kinda why karate kinda cool because there's belts like you need some type of like break the wood board of you well there's like a it's like a belt like words it's like alright i am working towards this nice i cross the threshold neck right like a that framework is i think a very helpful you know with writing it's like wanna publish a book it is published like you know there's some type of like destination i think that that would be cool that would be cool for you and i think it's by the way great like you you get you you and other people tease me for i i like clothing it's it's the same shit it's just like some type of creative like there's no money there's like it's about the journey that type of like vibe and it is exciting to like you know beauty and art like that shit feels good on the soul i think it's great that you're doing this i think that it would be really fun if you had some type of capstone project thing yeah the other thing i'm doing is i'm taking the jesse twenty twenty five like how to plan your year and i'm actually doing it so like yesterday i was doing his get light part where i'm cleaning out i'm just getting rid i'm getting light before the end of the year and closing out the year properly i did my thanks stuff and i started writing my thank you it's i'm i'm buying in and i'm actually doing it so if you wanna hear it go listen to the jesse interrupt episode i was pretty inspired by that same is we have down a good idea we we have the calendar i we use the calendar so like i i sit in our little area where we have the calendar i i totally use it i think it's fantastic guess it it crazy how some of these things maybe twenty six and twenty seven year old sam sean would have made fun of these things as wack a hundred percent and now it's sort of like even like give you me be like who what what is this this is stupid it's awesome isn't that funny how i'm like going to bed is so awesome like like i used to tell myself all kinds of stories about why i was a night owl how those more fun how you know it'd i'd be lame to go to bed it and if a friend was going to bed at nine thirty i'd be like lame now i'm like jealous if i hear about a friend that goes to bed at nine thirty oh fuck how does he do that i need i need to learn this was a great pod what do you think i think it's great it's one of my favorite traditions thank you everybody for listening another great year in the books the greatest podcast ever created we did something we had to do this like add for spotify and when we did it sean was like you know spotify told us to thank you guys but in actuality you should be thanking us because we're the one who just did all the work to like make this content for you but i am pretty thankful of everyone who works on the pod i'm also thankful for the people who actually listen to this shit like it it like it shocks to me sometimes when people come up to me still and they're like yeah you said this thing in this thing and like it made a difference to me and i feel so much gratitude when like people do those things and i'm so happy that we're able to do this alright and all that out that's the bob i feel like i could rude where to i know i could be what i want to put at all in it like a days off on a road less travel never look back like