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Well, hello, ladies and gents 
Robert Sykes ketose a.com. 

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Today I've got special guest, 
Eli Helper and on the line and 

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we dive into a little bit of 
everything. 

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So he is the CEO of golden 
Cricket which is a cricket 

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protein, powder bar. 
So I kind of want to pick his 

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brain about the Inception of 
that, how that whole process 

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works, why crickets etc, etc. 
But we didn't talk about that. 

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That much be. 
Honestly, kind of got into his 

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story. 
He's done a ton of different 

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drugs, bunch of psychedelics, 
bunch of mushrooms, bunch of 

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marijuana. 
Lots of stuff that I don't have 

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a clue about but he's been sober
for 31 days as of this 

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recording. 
So kudos to him there and he 

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kind of just talked about some 
of his realizations in being 

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sober and what he's learned 
throughout that process where 

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he's motivated to go with the 
business. 

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He's also a stand-up comedians. 
We talked about that, he does a 

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lot of MMA, we show up with a 
bit everything. 

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So it's kind of interesting to 
get some of life's perspective 

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through his eyes because it's a 
very different path. 

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And I've taken, But I've got no 
doubt that you will enjoy it. 

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Nonetheless. 
So without further Ado, sit 

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back, relax and do a podcast 
with Eli. 

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We are live Eli. 
How are you man? 

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Hey, I'm doing good. 
How are you? 

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I'm doing red wonderfully. 
Well man, wonderfully well I 

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kind of want to dive into I want
to talk about your business. 

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I want to talk about Golden 
Cricket, but before we dive into

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that, man, I kind of want to 
just get some more back story on

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you because you and I don't 
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well. 
So what got you into the 

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nutrition? 
Space that mindset space. 

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Like what weirdest all even, 
what's the origin story? 

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Well I think the origin story is
not that special just like any 

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other man, you know, I wanted to
be a strong prominent figure in 

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this world and leave my mark and
one way or another. 

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You got to just go down the 
nutrition route because to be a 

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strong figure, you have to be 
physically strong and that comes

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with nutrition, not totally. 
So I got into nutrition when I 

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was You know, I started lifting 
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weightlifting was my main thing 
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started doing martial arts. 
And now that's my main thing. 

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Nice man. 
What kind of martial arts I do? 

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Jiu-Jitsu Muay Thai, boxing and 
MMA. 

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Very cool, man. 
We had, we've been trying to get

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into MMA as well. 
I've got a gym here at my 

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warehouse. 
We've got employees, and one of 

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them got big in the MMA. 
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aside time every week. 
Like to spar together, learn 

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different techniques. 
So I've just started introducing

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Jiu-Jitsu to the mix and it's a 
pretty humbling sport, man. 

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I love it. 
Oh yeah, I hate you Jutsu. 

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I get my ass kicked every time 
and that's why I forced myself 

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to do it because there's nothing
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Just crushing you and you 
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Like you can't do anything and 
just being able to leverage your

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Technique and skill set to get 
out of that, really teaches you 

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a lot about, Life that no matter
how bad life is smashing you and

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you feel like you can't breathe,
you can get out of it. 

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Everything in Jiu-Jitsu is like 
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Yeah, for life. 
I feel like, for sure, for sure.

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And like you said, you had a 
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was in weight training, might as
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Jiu-Jitsu when you assume that, 
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backgrounds, going to really pay
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jiu-jitsu and you just gonna 
dominate but then like you have 

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some wiry person £50 Island. 
You just Dominate and you 

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because I got better technique 
it teaches you. 

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To really focus on the technique
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Oh yeah, there's there's no 
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I mean if you're big enough and 
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you somewhere. 
That's not gonna do nothing. 

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But yeah, it's really just 
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over technique. 
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But the technique is leverage, 
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And that's just using what body 
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with what body weight they have?
Do you compete with with MMA or 

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do you just do it more? 
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development, well, I've competed
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I haven't been as consistent 
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striking MMA boxing and Muay 
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I'm like, 63. 
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tall and punch people than it is
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I'm there's a lot of people with
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than me too. 
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it's it's I don't know. 
I know there's it's just more 

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fun to punch people in the face.
Yeah, I've done. 

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I've done a few done to Muay 
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below amateur level, so it's 
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I've only been training martial 
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years and I'm 30 now. 
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game. 
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and I do plan to continue 
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technically old. 
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sport of martial arts specially,
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training. 
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Right. 
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I just do squats and pull-ups 
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That's it. 
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know, you've got that base and 
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the MMA to the point where 
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injury, and you're doing some 
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Like, you can just keep getting 
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I'm 31 and I decided to name a 
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like I don't feel like being 30,
31 has kept me there. 

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Yeah. 
That people have been doing it 

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since they were, you know, kids.
Doing Jiu-Jitsu since they could

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crawl like they're they're going
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with me. 
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get better and better and better
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good base and you just I mean 
like weight training in general.

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Like you just keep getting 
stronger as long as you're doing

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things correctly. 
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They well the key is just not 
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Yeah, for sure. 
So you wait trying to do squats,

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you do all different forms of 
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What's the rest of your day? 
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wake up at 9 a.m. post, some 
motivational content, I train 

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for like two to three hours, I 
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minutes in my backyard in the 
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Eat a pound of beef. 
Answer emails, work on business 

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stuff, do podcasts like this one
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track with that today. 
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comedy and hang out with a bunch
of friends telling a pretty good

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life to meet man. 
Oh yeah. 

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Yeah. 
I'm living the dream right now 

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there's it's hard to strive for 
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everything I want but but 
maintenance takes just as much 

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work as a enhancing, you know, 
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probably not just maintaining. 
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maintain the same, you know, 
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getting better in your honing, 
your craft with each of the 

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things that you feel your 
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So I don't think you're just 
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getting better. 
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I guess what I meant by that was
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thing without anything getting 
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I will get better at all. 
The things I do by continually 

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doing them because life's all 
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I don't know, I think time is 
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So if you just cycle through all
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just improve. 
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I feel like my superpower if 
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just do the day-to-day 
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excel at over time and play that
long game. 

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Like a lot of people like that. 
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you know, stumbling block. 
They don't like doing things in.

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Definitely. 
I feel like when you're able to 

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do things that you enjoy doing 
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So indefinitely, you can't help 
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craft. 
Oh, yeah, that's definitely a 

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superpower. 
I don't have that as much at 

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all. 
That's why I do so many 

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different things. 
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entertained, by just being all 
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stay disciplined with martial 
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up and then be like, I'm done 
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well, I'm still capable of 
getting beat up again in the 

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real world. 
So there's like that that real 

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world. 
Threat of allowing myself to get

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beat down by the world, 
literally, if I don't trade. 

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Yeah, hundred percent. 
So, kind of going back to your 

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day-to-day routine there, like 
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routine. 
Like you're waking up your 

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meditate and you're doing 
positive, you know mindset, 

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work, your training, you're 
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you're out in the sun. 
I doing all the right things at 

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what point in your life, did you
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thing? 
Like when did Like did you live 

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a life that was full of the 
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And then realize that you had to
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did that come to be? 
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superpower is being sober. 
I spent a lot of years drinking 

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partying doing drugs. 
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around about three years ago. 
When, after the pandemic, I just

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spent like a month, just 
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candy and watching Netflix, 
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do. 
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time. 
This was during the pain that I 

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was like. 
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Yeah. 
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complete piece of shit. 
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I moved to Austin Texas, which 
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serious about martial arts. 
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turning point just taking that 
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addiction and the foundation, 
because everything kind of has 

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to follow. 
Follow a rigorous training 

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schedule, you know, in terms of 
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partying really gets in the way 
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Yeah. 
And I mean I was still smoking 

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weed and doing mushrooms pretty 
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that's fine their natural. 
But I mean not the way I was 

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doing. 
I was doing like three grams of 

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mushrooms a day and yeah, like 
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I was just tripping and high as 
fuck all the time and life was 

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going well, but there's there's 
mood issues. 

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I couldn't control and You know,
I've done a lot to challenge 

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myself and like I fought a guy 
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much proved that. 
I can do some crazy shit. 

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And I'm at the point where I 
just want to prove that I can, 

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Be happy sober because I mean I 
just explained my daily schedule

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is pretty awesome. 
That shouldn't need any 

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enhancements so I just took some
time to, actually, I went to 

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Thailand for like, a month or 
two and I just got back, like, a

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few weeks ago, to kind of like 
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lot of the, a lot of the 
intoxication and drug use was to

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assist in socializing, because I
value friendship and connection,

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more than anything. 
And I for years, I just felt 

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like I couldn't get in the 
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communicate with people 
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Lie in a social setting and I 
knew that I just had to go sober

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and rep it out. 
So and going sober in my city, 

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like just going from being high 
all the time to just going sober

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and just being around the same 
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And then just trying to, like, 
play it off, was like difficult 

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to do. 
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I'm gonna go to Thailand and 
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all these foreigners and and, 
You know, I just hit a bunch of 

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awkward conversations and then 
like, okay yeah, don't say that.

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And so I went through this 
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And when I came back I was like 
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where for the first time in my 
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myself and who I am as a person 
and as long as I'm You know 

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keeping that schedule day to day
where I'm proud of that, I'm 

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proud of all those things. 
I'm proud of that. 

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I trained and Chase my goals 
everyday. 

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So if I just have that internal 
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reflect on people around me and 
cause others to want to respect 

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me and associate with me and 
we'll just make it Easier to 

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exist. 
Just because I I'm following my 

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path and Manifesting my vision. 
Yeah, I would feel like as well 

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like when if you're if you're 
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living under some form of 
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alcohol or whatever. 
Like there is, it's probably 

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harder for you as an individual 
to really pinpoint who you are 

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like what is your identity? 
And because of that you have to 

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kind of like manufacture this, 
I'd self-identity thing, but you

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don't really feel confident in 
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Able to just gain a clearer, 
understanding of who you are, 

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what you value, what you're 
passionate about, what your 

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interests are, what your value 
towards others is, and then you 

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can just more confidently, be 
the embodiment of that person. 

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So it's more of a true 
confidence. 

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Yeah, yeah, exactly. 
When you were in Thailand, I've 

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never been to Thailand. 
I've got friends that are that 

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are tie. 
I would imagine that having 

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conversations there with them 
and kind of like, cutting your 

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teeth on socializing and that 
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America. 
Like they value different things

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to some extent and like it's 
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learning to socialize their 
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I want to clarify. 
I was mainly associating with 

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English speakers because talking
to Thai people is very easy 

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because there's only so many 
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sense. 
It's actually way easier to 

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socialize with people that don't
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English is, the problem is not 
being able to communicate and 

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it's like, well you already know
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communicate. 
So it's like that barriers kind 

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of blown through. 
It makes sense. 

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That makes sense. 
And you were there for how long 

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too much you said? 
Yeah, what was that? 

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Like, apart from the 
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just simply getting out of 
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different cultures different 
environment. 

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Different value system probably 
is therapeutic in and of itself.

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Well, it wasn't my first time I 
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to get away from what kind of 
kind of what you were saying, 

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how, like, losing sense of self,
mmm in, not only because the 

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drugs, but, because I know a lot
of people here, everywhere I go,

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I am surrounded by people. 
I know, and I love that, but 

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everyone has like a perception 
of who I am. 

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So, I'm kind of like, Held in 
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perceived which can, which 
caused a potential loss of self.

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So I just kind of wanted to 
remind myself who I am without 

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anything. 
And turns out, I'm pretty cool. 

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So that helped assist. 
I like it. 

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Man. 
I like it. 

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So what were you as you come 
back to Austin and you've been 

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in Austin for how long now. 
Three years, three years, 

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Austin's, a cool place. 
May I go to Austin a few times a

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year and like, actually I'm 
gonna be in Austin in three 

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weeks for a conference. 
I'll be speaking at but like 

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Austin's got a really cool vibe 
to it. 

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It's like it's like the Melting 
Pot right now. 

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Like everybody's going to AAS. 
I think it used to be La where 

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you're from, but then now it's 
like, it's like, it's awesome. 

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A man. 
Oh yeah, Austin is the fucking 

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best, man. 
I love every single person here.

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I and that it's the, the future 
of Comedy is right here. 

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I mean, we have like four comedy
clubs within walking distance of

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each other right? 
Between, you know, Rogan's 

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comedy club, and the LA was the 
entertainment capital. but so 

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Austin has comedy and it has 
music and it doesn't have any 

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actors, which those are those 
are the people that People have 

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negative things to say about 
when they don't like La, it's 

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like, oh, they're fake people. 
Well yeah, that's their job. 

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Their job is to be fake. 
That's what an actor is. 

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Yeah, but comedy is real musics 
real. 

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It's from the heart you coming 
from experience. 

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So the people here are our real 
and real cool. 

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I like them. 
How long you been doing comedy? 

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We didn't come to the almost 
eight years now is that kind of 

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like your main thing is that 
like more your enjoyment thing? 

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Well, that's, that's always been
my main dream ever. 

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Since I was a kid, I wanted to 
be a stand-up comedian. 

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Um it's it's hard to excel in 
that and I haven't always put 

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the most effort into it because 
it's pretty hard and unlikely to

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make money in it. 
So I've always been doing 

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e-commerce like my first 
business was opening an eBay 

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store when I was 12 years old. 
When I found out that eBay was 

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it thing? 
Yeah. 

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And That's pretty cool though, 
man. 

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Like comedy. 
I feel like I've only recently 

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been watching comment. 
I watched a Rogen Netflix 

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special and then I watched a 
Chappelle Netflix specially at 

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night as those like literally 
the only two special ever. 

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Watch never really been one to 
sit down and watch a comedy 

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special, but I feel like the 
world needs to laugh more right 

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now. 
Yeah. 

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Yeah, the world is hungry for 
comedy right now, for sure and 

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the there's proof of that where 
every time I post a comedy clip,

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it seems like I don't even, they
don't even have to be good 

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jokes, I mean they are because 
I'm hilarious but they don't 

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have to be because once you've 
someone sees a guy holding a 

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microphone there like? 
All right, let's see what he's 

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got to say. 
Yeah, and I'll throw them up on 

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YouTube shorts and they'll blow 
up to 1000 like real quick. 

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Every time. 
Nice, nice, Philip with comedy 

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to like it's like the only 
everybody Sensitive right now 

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and they get sensitive about 
everything. 

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There's so many things that are 
banned from the conversation. 

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Like, you can't talk about 
certain things, but comedy kind 

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of gets this like free pants. 
Like you're able to just talk 

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about things and as long as you 
do, so in a somewhat tactful 

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manner, people don't really take
offense to it, like there's 

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certain people that will take 
offense at anything, but 

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generally speaking, you can get 
away with saying a lot more shit

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in a comedy, you know, scenario 
because it's supposed to be 

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taken lightly. 
Yeah, I mean the whole point of 

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Comedy is just you can you can 
say whatever as long as it's 

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funny. 
Yeah. 

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And I think that's important, 
that's how Humanity has managed 

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to survive this entire time. 
Like we're in probably the best 

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ERA in recorded history that we 
know of and we've been through 

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tremendous atrocities and 
massive amounts of suffering to 

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get here. 
And I mean, you think everyone 

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was just sobbing and weeping the
whole time. 

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Like they were cracking jokes. 
Yeah, that's how they push 

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through. 
What do you do to know when when

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people say like you shouldn't 
joke about that terrible stuff? 

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I think that more terrible. 
It is the more you should joke 

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about it. 
Yeah, there's definitely. 

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There's definitely therapy and 
just simply laughing. 

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I just mean, look at the the 
chemical, you know, if you look 

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at it, what happens internally 
from a chemical standpoint, the 

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endure endorphins you release, 
like all the benefit of that has

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to come from? 
Just simply laughing like that 

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that you can't really argue the 
science there. 

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Yeah. 
Like you ever have so many bad 

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things happen to you in a row 
that it's just funny. 

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Yeah. 
And there's a point to that for 

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then. 
When it comes to like comedy 

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man, like, I don't know much 
about come like, suddenly watch 

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to Netflix specials. 
Like, how does one go about? 

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I'm assuming there's probably 
different for each comedian, but

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I'm assuming you have like a 
like, a structure that you 

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follow, when it comes to 
figuring out, what your B going 

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to be figuring with the punch 
line is going to be kind of 

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structuring that like, is it 
something that you've taken 

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inspiration from other 
comedians? 

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Just let me totally just drum up
inside yourself the night before

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you go up first and look like 
how do you structure that? 

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At this point, I kind of just 
have thoughts and I'm like, 

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that's funny and then I write it
down and then I say it on stage.

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Gotcha. 
You can just memorize all that 

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and keep like, know what to pull
from depending on have a you 

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kind of read in the room. 
All I mean, it'll kind of come 

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from conversation and hanging 
out with people. 

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But sometimes I'll just be 
alone. 

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I'll think of something, but I 
will definitely like test stuff 

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out. 
Just socially. 

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Yeah, which you're not really 
supposed to do or like, people 

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talk shit about that but I don't
care. 

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It works. 
Hey, if it works, it works man, 

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if it works, it works. 
But yeah, if I'm just hanging 

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out with people and I say 
something and everyone laughs, 

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I'll be like, okay, I'll use 
that. 

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Yeah. 
Because I don't know. 

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I'm I think my purpose is to 
make people laugh. 

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I think that's what I'm here to 
do and post any of your 

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stand-ups like online to or 
people. 

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Just have to go there in person 
to see him. 

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Yeah. 
I have a ton of stand up on my 

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YouTube channel. 
Yeah. 

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Actually, I wonder who I helped 
her. 

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H. 
LP e RN. 

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Nice. 
Nice. 

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You mentioned earlier, when you 
kind of go into your name that 

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you eat a steak in the morning, 
some of them Eat a pound of 

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Bison. 
Ground bison. 

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Meat, usually, are you doing 
like a carnivore diet? 

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no, I I don't stick to a 
specific diet, I'll usually, 

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I'll usually get a couple pounds
and then I'll eat, I'll eat like

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a pound, like several days in a 
row and then I'll be like, okay,

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I'm sick of going home to cook 
every day that I'm gonna go out 

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to eat. 
So I don't stick to a rigorous 

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diet. 
I just, I train like two or 

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three hours a day to the point 
where I don't need to worry 

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about my diet that much, I just 
try to maximize protein intake. 

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Yeah, totally. 
Totally what about talking about

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your company, golden Cricket. 
So, you have a Cricut, protein 

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bar, how did that come to? 
To me, like, were you just 

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getting tired of your pound of 
beef and a side of me? 

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You know, I'm gonna eat some 
crickets and see how that goes. 

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Well, so my first time in 
Thailand, when I was 22, which 

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is also when I decided I wanted 
to move to LA and start doing 

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comedy, I ate a scorpion and it 
was delicious and I did some 

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research and it turned out that 
insects are incredibly healthy 

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and like, crickets are 65 
percent protein by weight. 

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They contain all nine essential 
amino acids are high in calcium.

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Magnesium, zinc, iron potassium.
Omega-3 omega-6, there are a 

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natural Prebiotic. 
They also take two thousand 

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times less water to produce than
whey protein and a fraction of 

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the space and time because you 
can Harvest them in like 30 

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days. 
So I mean, compared to plant 

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protein, that's 12 times more 
annually. 

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And I think it takes like 5 
years until you can get milk out

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of a cow or maybe that's when 
you can Slaughter it. 

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But either way, it takes years, 
To get milk out of a cow. 

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Before it can start producing 
milk. 

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So it's incredibly nutritious 
and Incredibly sustainable and 

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it was just kind of a belief. 
I held that people should be 

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eating bugs because like why 
not? 

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They are super healthy. 
They're not the most delicious 

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thing but like there's a whole 
like negative stigma against 

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them and I never really 
understood why. 

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So that was just kind of a 
belief that I held for years and

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I never really did anything 
about it. and then, after doing 

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martial arts and you know, being
part of an MMA team and having a

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lot of people That support me 
and stuff. 

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I was like, well, I've always 
wanted to just create something 

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Innovative, that's weird and 
funky and make it happen. 

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So, I came up with powder Rising
crickets crickets because there 

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is already the existing 
infrastructure. 

448
00:25:08,900 --> 00:25:11,600
Hmm, to be used as food for 
like, reptiles and fish. 

449
00:25:11,600 --> 00:25:16,200
So, the FDA or they just 
piggybacked on top of that and 

450
00:25:16,200 --> 00:25:19,900
got FDA approved for human 
consumption, so I could find 

451
00:25:19,900 --> 00:25:22,800
Cricket powder for sale pretty 
quickly. 

452
00:25:23,800 --> 00:25:25,700
I formulated something in my 
kitchen. 

453
00:25:26,900 --> 00:25:30,100
Peanut butter, chocolate banana 
Cricket, protein bar, peanut 

454
00:25:30,100 --> 00:25:31,900
butter. 
Chocolate banana is the smoothie

455
00:25:31,900 --> 00:25:34,700
I make. 
So I was like, what a, you know,

456
00:25:34,700 --> 00:25:37,600
that flavor combo doesn't exist 
in a protein bar. 

457
00:25:38,300 --> 00:25:42,000
So, I wanted to make that a 
reality and came out the shiny 

458
00:25:42,000 --> 00:25:47,300
gold packaging, cool logo, fun 
marketing. 

459
00:25:48,100 --> 00:25:52,200
Our Instagram at Golden Cricket.
Ink is pretty evident of that 

460
00:25:53,200 --> 00:26:02,100
and started sponsoring martial 
artists and yeah, we got we 

461
00:26:02,100 --> 00:26:07,700
raised about 150,000 dollars in 
funding by seven months after 

462
00:26:07,700 --> 00:26:09,800
launch. 
Nice. 

463
00:26:09,800 --> 00:26:15,700
You like doing crowdfunding now?
No, we got an investor and 

464
00:26:15,700 --> 00:26:20,400
alone, pretty cool. 
Yeah, I mean you're packaging 

465
00:26:20,400 --> 00:26:23,100
like it looks legit man. 
Logo looks freaking awesome. 

466
00:26:24,400 --> 00:26:26,500
I don't personally have a 
negative stigma against eating 

467
00:26:26,600 --> 00:26:28,400
eating crickets. 
Like I've been camping and 

468
00:26:28,400 --> 00:26:31,600
eating crickets before and they 
are pretty nutritionally dense. 

469
00:26:31,600 --> 00:26:33,900
I mean that there is a great 
source. 

470
00:26:33,900 --> 00:26:37,100
I definitely prefer Taste of a 
big old juicy ribeye but I think

471
00:26:37,100 --> 00:26:40,100
most people would, but I think 
from a sustainability factor in 

472
00:26:40,100 --> 00:26:42,200
from a you know, Mina profile 
standpoint. 

473
00:26:42,400 --> 00:26:44,900
I mean, nothing worthwhile 
looking at crickets. 

474
00:26:46,400 --> 00:26:47,200
Yeah. 
Absolutely. 

475
00:26:47,200 --> 00:26:50,000
And there's also another 
humorous layer to it, where it's

476
00:26:50,000 --> 00:26:51,800
like, you know, you're doing bad
at comedy. 

477
00:26:52,400 --> 00:26:53,900
You hear crickets in the 
audience? 

478
00:26:54,200 --> 00:26:56,900
Yeah. 
So I'm gonna kill those crickets

479
00:26:56,900 --> 00:26:59,300
and use them as food. 
I actually hate crickets. 

480
00:26:59,300 --> 00:27:02,200
I think that's kind of also why 
I want to eat them because 

481
00:27:02,200 --> 00:27:03,900
there's like revenge in every 
bite. 

482
00:27:03,900 --> 00:27:05,300
There's there's so many layers 
to this. 

483
00:27:05,300 --> 00:27:08,200
It's just a lot of fun and I 
just really believe in the 

484
00:27:08,200 --> 00:27:11,100
science behind it. 
Is it cool man? 

485
00:27:11,100 --> 00:27:12,600
As cool and when did it 
launched? 

486
00:27:14,900 --> 00:27:18,500
March 21st of last year, March 
twenty first, and last term. 

487
00:27:18,500 --> 00:27:20,700
And it's been pretty pretty 
well-received this far. 

488
00:27:22,600 --> 00:27:25,800
In person. 
Yeah online there's a lot of a 

489
00:27:25,808 --> 00:27:29,200
lot of hate. 
A lot of hate like house up. 

490
00:27:29,200 --> 00:27:30,800
Yeah. 
Don't because they have that 

491
00:27:30,800 --> 00:27:32,200
negative stigma towards eating 
bugs. 

492
00:27:32,800 --> 00:27:34,200
Yeah, they're just like, Fuck 
this. 

493
00:27:34,200 --> 00:27:35,800
I'm not eating this. 
Yeah. 

494
00:27:37,200 --> 00:27:39,500
Huh. 
But in person that everyone is 

495
00:27:39,500 --> 00:27:40,500
like, this is really 
interesting. 

496
00:27:40,500 --> 00:27:42,600
This is a lot of successful 
people. 

497
00:27:42,600 --> 00:27:47,500
A lot of marketing professionals
have told me that it's a solid 

498
00:27:47,500 --> 00:27:51,400
business, a good idea. 
Great product, people who know 

499
00:27:51,400 --> 00:27:55,700
what they're talking about, have
given it, good feedback a lot. 

500
00:27:55,700 --> 00:28:00,400
A lot of people what is the the 
cricket protein flour taste, 

501
00:28:00,400 --> 00:28:05,100
like by itself without any other
flavoring components just the, 

502
00:28:05,100 --> 00:28:07,500
the cricket protein fats up. 
What's that taste like? 

503
00:28:10,000 --> 00:28:13,100
Likes and it's not really, 
doesn't really taste like 

504
00:28:13,100 --> 00:28:17,800
anything. 
Maybe, like maybe Pencil 

505
00:28:17,800 --> 00:28:22,700
shavings and slow jamming. 
If you sprinkled a little bit of

506
00:28:22,700 --> 00:28:26,100
that Ramen packet on it. 
Kinda, it's not salty, though. 

507
00:28:26,200 --> 00:28:28,400
I don't know. 
There is like an earthiness to 

508
00:28:28,400 --> 00:28:31,000
it. 
It's very mild though. 

509
00:28:31,000 --> 00:28:33,800
They don't really have a taste 
and how many crickets like when 

510
00:28:33,800 --> 00:28:35,500
you're comparing something like 
whey protein? 

511
00:28:35,500 --> 00:28:39,900
Like, most scoops of whey 
protein, have 20 25 sometimes, 

512
00:28:39,900 --> 00:28:45,100
28, 30 grams of protein in it. 
How many crickets would make up 

513
00:28:45,100 --> 00:28:47,900
that much protein. 
Depends on the size of the 

514
00:28:47,900 --> 00:28:51,500
cricket bat, the average grades 
like a half a gram to 1 gram. 

515
00:28:51,500 --> 00:28:59,200
So 30 grams of cricket flour. 
Could be up to like 60, grams 

516
00:28:59,400 --> 00:29:02,200
are 60 crickets, nice. 
So, you Revenge the Crickets. 

517
00:29:02,200 --> 00:29:05,900
Your Kiln, 60 crickets with 
every every bite you take, man. 

518
00:29:06,000 --> 00:29:10,700
I like it. 
Yeah, they gotta pay - why do 

519
00:29:10,700 --> 00:29:12,000
you know like trick it discusses
strange? 

520
00:29:12,000 --> 00:29:15,000
When I never heard of that 
before, I don't know. 

521
00:29:15,000 --> 00:29:18,000
I I've never been scared of 
spiders, but crickets for some 

522
00:29:18,000 --> 00:29:20,000
reason they got that. 
It's the yellowness. 

523
00:29:20,000 --> 00:29:22,600
And then the, the black I just 
always staring at you. 

524
00:29:24,500 --> 00:29:26,600
Yeah, yeah, I can see that. 
I can see them. 

525
00:29:27,400 --> 00:29:31,100
And also crickets crickets eat 
like anything. 

526
00:29:31,200 --> 00:29:33,600
If you were if you had your 
hands tied up. 

527
00:29:33,800 --> 00:29:36,300
If your hands tied behind your 
back and you were locked in a 

528
00:29:36,308 --> 00:29:39,600
small room with like a million 
crickets, they would eat you 

529
00:29:39,600 --> 00:29:42,900
alive so it's really US versus 
them at this point. 

530
00:29:43,200 --> 00:29:44,900
Yeah. 
Yeah, it's funny, man. 

531
00:29:44,900 --> 00:29:47,900
Like you look at bugs, like, 
they're like the strongest, my 

532
00:29:47,900 --> 00:29:51,500
insights, like the strongest, 
you know, Animal by their body 

533
00:29:51,500 --> 00:29:53,200
weight throughout their body, 
weight of anything. 

534
00:29:53,600 --> 00:29:56,500
So, like, if they ever got 
bigger than humans, and it's 

535
00:29:56,500 --> 00:29:59,400
game over. 
Yeah exactly. 

536
00:29:59,400 --> 00:30:01,500
So why not eat the strongest 
thing. 

537
00:30:01,500 --> 00:30:05,100
If we're eating protein for 
strength which is that's that's 

538
00:30:05,100 --> 00:30:07,400
the point of protein intake for 
muscle and strength. 

539
00:30:08,700 --> 00:30:11,500
Hmm. 
What's the whole the process 

540
00:30:11,600 --> 00:30:14,500
around harvesting Cricket 
protein? 

541
00:30:14,500 --> 00:30:16,500
Look like, what does that look 
like from behind the scenes? 

542
00:30:16,500 --> 00:30:20,000
Cause I have no idea. 
They're basically. 

543
00:30:21,400 --> 00:30:27,500
In. 
In like egg cartons stuffed into

544
00:30:28,100 --> 00:30:34,500
plastic bins or the bin size and
material can can change our 

545
00:30:34,500 --> 00:30:37,200
cricket Farm is a free-range 
Cricket Farm? 

546
00:30:37,500 --> 00:30:39,100
What does it free-range Cricket 
Farm? 

547
00:30:39,900 --> 00:30:42,500
I honestly, I don't really know.
It's, I just think it's 

548
00:30:42,500 --> 00:30:44,100
hilarious. 
It's just a bigger. 

549
00:30:44,300 --> 00:30:47,000
It's just a bigger box really, 
and bigger box. 

550
00:30:48,600 --> 00:30:51,400
I like it man. 
A bigger box. 

551
00:30:51,800 --> 00:30:56,300
All right. 
So they ran and they get After 

552
00:30:56,300 --> 00:31:01,100
about 30 to 45 days. 
Depending on the temperature, if

553
00:31:01,100 --> 00:31:02,900
it's if it's warmer, it'll be 
quicker. 

554
00:31:04,400 --> 00:31:09,200
Or or in the summer, rather the 
the temperature controlling the,

555
00:31:09,200 --> 00:31:11,800
they still somehow know if it's 
winter and you're just turning 

556
00:31:11,800 --> 00:31:16,500
up the heat like I'm not, you 
know, fooling me humans. and 

557
00:31:16,500 --> 00:31:23,600
they get a They either get 
frozen or CO2 gas. 

558
00:31:24,900 --> 00:31:27,300
To suffocate them. 
That's how they get killed. 

559
00:31:28,000 --> 00:31:34,600
And And then they get like 
heated up and dehydrated. 

560
00:31:34,800 --> 00:31:38,900
So they get hot enough to 
sterilize them and also 

561
00:31:38,900 --> 00:31:41,900
dehydrate them. 
And then they just go into a 

562
00:31:41,900 --> 00:31:46,400
blender and just powderized into
a dry powder immediately. 

563
00:31:46,400 --> 00:31:51,400
So, there's no room for any 
moisture for any sort of 

564
00:31:51,400 --> 00:31:55,600
bacterial growth or parasites or
anything, and it's the entire 

565
00:31:55,600 --> 00:31:58,600
Cricket, it's in the flaps and I
cured D heading the cricket and 

566
00:31:58,600 --> 00:32:00,800
separating the legs. 
And it's like all the cricket 

567
00:32:00,800 --> 00:32:03,600
gets into the powder. 
Yeah, yeah. 

568
00:32:03,600 --> 00:32:05,800
Now there's not just some guy 
with tweezers, just like picking

569
00:32:05,800 --> 00:32:09,200
off the leg meat. 
Gotcha, just the whole thing. 

570
00:32:09,600 --> 00:32:12,600
So, like in the end, you know, 
keto carnivore space, were 

571
00:32:12,600 --> 00:32:14,300
always talking about the 
importance and the 

572
00:32:14,300 --> 00:32:17,600
bioavailability, and just the 
nutritional component of, you 

573
00:32:17,600 --> 00:32:21,300
know, grass-fed, grass-finished 
beef, all the good things there.

574
00:32:21,600 --> 00:32:24,000
And, you know, you always get a 
lot of Kickback from vegans 

575
00:32:24,000 --> 00:32:26,800
because you know, you're killing
a cow, you killing a pig, you're

576
00:32:26,800 --> 00:32:29,500
killing a chicken, you kill him.
Something, do you get much 

577
00:32:29,500 --> 00:32:32,400
pushback from the vegan 
Community, when it comes? 

578
00:32:32,500 --> 00:32:34,300
Killing crickets or they just 
like that. 

579
00:32:34,300 --> 00:32:39,700
Kill them all. actually, no, the
vegans have been incredibly 

580
00:32:39,700 --> 00:32:45,100
supportive of it because there's
much less death farming crickets

581
00:32:45,100 --> 00:32:49,100
than farming, any other food 
source, because only the 

582
00:32:49,100 --> 00:32:53,200
Crickets are dying, but you're 
obviously not using pesticides 

583
00:32:53,200 --> 00:32:59,400
because that would kill the 
Crickets and They're, you know 

584
00:32:59,400 --> 00:33:05,500
when you're farming vegetables, 
you're killing rodents and foxes

585
00:33:05,500 --> 00:33:07,100
and whatever else is in the 
field. 

586
00:33:07,200 --> 00:33:11,000
When you harvest, hmm, not to 
mention the trillions of insects

587
00:33:11,000 --> 00:33:13,200
that are just dying for nothing,
they're not even, you know? 

588
00:33:13,200 --> 00:33:15,200
They're just going to waste. 
They're not being used as food. 

589
00:33:16,500 --> 00:33:21,300
So we actually have a lot of 
vegans that have converted to 

590
00:33:21,300 --> 00:33:23,500
Golden Cricket. 
So our company is like, the only

591
00:33:23,500 --> 00:33:27,200
company putting an end to 
veganism which is funny. 

592
00:33:28,100 --> 00:33:30,500
It's interesting for sure 
because like you would think 

593
00:33:30,500 --> 00:33:35,600
that they would place the life 
of a cricket on the same tier as

594
00:33:35,600 --> 00:33:39,600
the life of a cow because a life
is a life but I guess that's not

595
00:33:39,600 --> 00:33:43,800
the case. 
No, I don't think they think a 

596
00:33:43,808 --> 00:33:46,300
life's a life because plants are
alive. 

597
00:33:46,500 --> 00:33:49,300
Yeah, but crickets are 
technically animals. 

598
00:33:49,700 --> 00:33:52,900
Yeah, for sure. 
The prominent sentient though. 

599
00:33:52,900 --> 00:33:55,300
They probably don't know. 
They have a conscience or have a

600
00:33:55,308 --> 00:33:57,600
conscience rather. 
Well now you're getting into a 

601
00:33:57,608 --> 00:33:59,500
whole nother thing, you're 
talking to a guy who just quit 

602
00:33:59,500 --> 00:34:00,800
doing 3 grams of mushrooms a 
day. 

603
00:34:00,800 --> 00:34:05,500
So, I that's a good point. 
Good point. 

604
00:34:05,600 --> 00:34:10,300
What's it been like having? 
No, no substances like that, 

605
00:34:10,300 --> 00:34:12,100
man. 
Like going from, you know, one 

606
00:34:12,100 --> 00:34:15,000
extreme to the other. 
Has that been a pretty easy 

607
00:34:15,000 --> 00:34:22,500
transition, or a little hard? 
It's been, it's been great, 

608
00:34:22,500 --> 00:34:26,900
babe. 
I I have no desire to use any 

609
00:34:26,900 --> 00:34:31,400
drugs because I already know 
what they're going to do. 

610
00:34:31,500 --> 00:34:32,699
I've already, I've done them. 
I've done. 

611
00:34:33,600 --> 00:34:36,400
I've experienced every possible 
Epiphany. 

612
00:34:36,400 --> 00:34:39,600
You can have, like, I've seen 
the afterlife. 

613
00:34:42,300 --> 00:34:46,300
Has it been easy though? 
So I did 27 days, sober. 

614
00:34:46,300 --> 00:34:48,699
I'm at 31 days right now. 
Nice here. 

615
00:34:48,699 --> 00:34:52,600
I did 27 days sober about a year
and a half ago, and the 

616
00:34:52,600 --> 00:34:56,199
difference is when I did that, I
was miserable the whole time. 

617
00:34:56,400 --> 00:35:00,300
I did not want to be sober. 
I ended up relapsing on 

618
00:35:00,300 --> 00:35:01,900
everything because I was just 
like miserable. 

619
00:35:01,900 --> 00:35:03,400
And I was like, why am I doing 
this to myself? 

620
00:35:03,400 --> 00:35:10,600
I'm not happy. 
But, but this time, I don't 

621
00:35:10,600 --> 00:35:15,900
remember exactly what I was 
doing at that time but things 

622
00:35:15,900 --> 00:35:19,600
that things are different this 
time because I don't I don't 

623
00:35:19,600 --> 00:35:22,800
want to go back to the my old 
ways at all. 

624
00:35:22,900 --> 00:35:29,500
I'm really enjoying Building 
this momentum and getting reps 

625
00:35:30,000 --> 00:35:34,800
doing all this stuff sober. 
Hmm. 

626
00:35:35,900 --> 00:35:47,700
And you know, if I can Anyone 
can have a few drinks and go to 

627
00:35:47,700 --> 00:35:52,000
a party and stuff, but not 
everyone can just be sober and 

628
00:35:52,000 --> 00:35:55,500
stay out till 1 a.m. laughing 
having fun. 

629
00:35:56,100 --> 00:35:58,400
Yeah. 
And and I can do that now and 

630
00:35:58,400 --> 00:36:01,200
that I feel like I have a 
superpower and my memory is 

631
00:36:01,700 --> 00:36:07,100
solid, I remember everything. 
I never forget, all these little

632
00:36:07,100 --> 00:36:09,600
things, who Woulda thought being
high all the time, makes you 

633
00:36:09,607 --> 00:36:12,300
forget stuff. 
There's been like the really big

634
00:36:12,300 --> 00:36:17,100
push as Late for people to it 
just seemed to about the society

635
00:36:17,100 --> 00:36:23,300
as a whole has become much more 
accepting of using psychoactive 

636
00:36:23,300 --> 00:36:26,700
substances. 
Using mushrooms getting high. 

637
00:36:27,100 --> 00:36:30,000
You know, going to Mexico and 
trip it on Ayahuasca. 

638
00:36:30,000 --> 00:36:32,600
Like, it seemed like the society
is, as a whole, is much more 

639
00:36:32,600 --> 00:36:35,700
accepting of that. 
Having done all that stuff? 

640
00:36:36,100 --> 00:36:39,600
Do you feel like people are 
coming out ahead for those 

641
00:36:39,600 --> 00:36:42,900
experiences or would you 
recommend? 

642
00:36:43,000 --> 00:36:48,400
People to not go that route. 
Well, I would recommend that you

643
00:36:48,400 --> 00:36:53,200
follow the laws of your local 
jurisdiction but for me 

644
00:36:53,200 --> 00:36:57,500
personally I don't regret doing 
all that stuff. 

645
00:36:57,600 --> 00:37:00,300
Yeah I don't think it led me 
down a dark path. 

646
00:37:00,400 --> 00:37:02,500
I think I caught myself just in 
time. 

647
00:37:03,400 --> 00:37:07,100
I think it opened my mind to a 
lot of ideas and possibilities 

648
00:37:07,100 --> 00:37:11,000
and open a lot of doors for me 
just by being in the right place

649
00:37:11,000 --> 00:37:20,400
by being the the right mindset. 
and, There it was the last like 

650
00:37:20,900 --> 00:37:24,500
month or two of being high all 
the time. 

651
00:37:24,600 --> 00:37:28,200
I Epiphany I kept having was, I 
should be sober. 

652
00:37:28,800 --> 00:37:30,200
Yeah. 
And I was like, that's not 

653
00:37:30,200 --> 00:37:33,100
really an epiphany. 
That's just like, I guess I just

654
00:37:33,100 --> 00:37:37,000
have a problem. 
Because it's, I don't know, man.

655
00:37:37,000 --> 00:37:41,700
We live in. 
If you choose to look, you'll 

656
00:37:41,700 --> 00:37:45,400
find so much wrong with the 
world, and so many bad things 

657
00:37:45,400 --> 00:37:48,700
happening. 
Mmm, and things things in the 

658
00:37:48,700 --> 00:37:55,900
news and whose whoever's running
whatever is going on, basically,

659
00:37:55,900 --> 00:38:02,800
I unfollowed all the I was in a 
conspiracy theories and You 

660
00:38:02,800 --> 00:38:07,000
know, whatever is going on to 
the government and stuff. 

661
00:38:07,100 --> 00:38:10,400
Basically, I unfollowed all the 
pages that were talking about 

662
00:38:10,400 --> 00:38:13,400
that and I realized that I 
didn't have to take on the 

663
00:38:13,400 --> 00:38:15,200
problems of the world. 
Yeah. 

664
00:38:15,300 --> 00:38:20,200
I just living in the moment. 
I never really, and I guess I 

665
00:38:20,200 --> 00:38:21,500
didn't understand what that 
meant. 

666
00:38:21,500 --> 00:38:29,500
And now what that means to me is
literally just focusing on my 

667
00:38:29,500 --> 00:38:31,600
body. 
I think, I think this whole 

668
00:38:31,600 --> 00:38:34,500
dimension is just about your 
body, building your body, and 

669
00:38:34,500 --> 00:38:38,500
fueling your body, and that's 
the whole eating well-draining 

670
00:38:38,500 --> 00:38:44,100
sleeping, whatever. 
Because, Before I would think 

671
00:38:44,100 --> 00:38:46,600
like, you know, I'm in a bad 
mood because this thing 

672
00:38:46,600 --> 00:38:50,400
happened, and that's affecting 
this, and that's affecting that,

673
00:38:50,400 --> 00:38:55,100
and it was like a whole, 
sophisticated, emotional logical

674
00:38:55,500 --> 00:39:00,000
or rational, explanation. 
As to why I was not feeling, 

675
00:39:00,000 --> 00:39:01,800
right? 
Whereas now I'm like, if I don't

676
00:39:01,800 --> 00:39:07,000
feel good, it's like I didn't 
sleep well or I'm hungry or I 

677
00:39:07,000 --> 00:39:10,400
need to train a just simplifying
it and just making it all about 

678
00:39:10,400 --> 00:39:13,000
the body. 
Because I think if you have your

679
00:39:13,000 --> 00:39:16,600
body as your number one goal, 
everything else will follow. 

680
00:39:18,300 --> 00:39:20,900
Yeah, I like them and I feel 
like I can totally get behind 

681
00:39:20,900 --> 00:39:23,500
that message. 
I feel like you've only got one 

682
00:39:23,500 --> 00:39:25,400
body. 
You've only got one tempo so to 

683
00:39:25,400 --> 00:39:27,400
speak. 
And if you're taking it for 

684
00:39:27,400 --> 00:39:30,500
granted and Wrecking havoc on 
it, then you're going to be 

685
00:39:30,500 --> 00:39:35,500
viewing the world through a 
skewed lens because your vehicle

686
00:39:35,500 --> 00:39:41,300
for operating in the world is 
tarnished, Yeah, I mean, I think

687
00:39:41,600 --> 00:39:43,800
Consciousness is just an 
awareness. 

688
00:39:45,600 --> 00:39:48,900
I think the only difference 
between us and a cricket is the 

689
00:39:48,900 --> 00:39:51,000
body. 
I think we're still like viewing

690
00:39:51,000 --> 00:39:53,300
the world, the granted 
completely different 

691
00:39:53,300 --> 00:40:00,800
perspectives, but a perspective,
nonetheless, and he had just 

692
00:40:00,800 --> 00:40:05,100
focusing on the body and 
improving it and taking care of 

693
00:40:05,100 --> 00:40:09,000
it and not ignoring it or 
focusing on on other stuff 

694
00:40:09,000 --> 00:40:11,700
because it's so easy to not 
focus on your body because 

695
00:40:12,900 --> 00:40:18,100
Society has been manipulated in 
ways where There's so many other

696
00:40:18,100 --> 00:40:23,100
things to distract you, but 
really it's all about you. 

697
00:40:23,100 --> 00:40:26,400
It's all about yourself. 
And add. 

698
00:40:26,400 --> 00:40:28,900
Another thing is in living in 
the moment. 

699
00:40:30,200 --> 00:40:34,800
Instead of focusing on the world
problems and keeping it about 

700
00:40:34,800 --> 00:40:38,200
the body is just focusing on 
what is my body experiencing 

701
00:40:38,200 --> 00:40:41,400
right now, right now, I'm 
sitting in a comfortable chair, 

702
00:40:42,100 --> 00:40:46,300
and I'm in my home office. 
I'm well fed. 

703
00:40:46,300 --> 00:40:51,800
I'm hydrated. 
And I have my phone and wallet 

704
00:40:51,800 --> 00:40:55,200
in my pocket. 
I can buy food right after this,

705
00:40:55,700 --> 00:40:58,000
like everything's everything's 
pretty good. 

706
00:40:58,400 --> 00:41:01,100
Yeah, and that's that's as far 
as I need to go with that 

707
00:41:01,100 --> 00:41:03,900
thought. 
I like that, man. 

708
00:41:03,900 --> 00:41:08,900
I like that. 
Do do you feel like you'll ever 

709
00:41:09,800 --> 00:41:12,700
go? 
Do you feel like you'll be sober

710
00:41:12,700 --> 00:41:16,600
and definitely or do you feel 
like at some point you'll fully 

711
00:41:16,600 --> 00:41:20,500
intend to go back to using 
mushrooms marijuana stuff like 

712
00:41:20,500 --> 00:41:23,200
that or do you have no intention
whatsoever at the moment. 

713
00:41:23,700 --> 00:41:26,500
I have no intention whatsoever 
of ever being intoxicated. 

714
00:41:26,500 --> 00:41:31,400
Again I think it's a huge power 
move to be able to be like, 

715
00:41:31,400 --> 00:41:34,400
yeah, I don't need Anything to 
be happy. 

716
00:41:34,600 --> 00:41:36,900
I feel great as I am right now. 
Yeah. 

717
00:41:37,100 --> 00:41:39,200
Like when I tell people that 
they're like, what the fuck? 

718
00:41:39,200 --> 00:41:42,100
You must be insane? 
Like yeah, I actually am insane.

719
00:41:42,600 --> 00:41:46,700
You have, you have to be insane 
to be sober and happy in this 

720
00:41:46,700 --> 00:41:51,000
world to an extent. 
I mean, I do a great job of 

721
00:41:51,000 --> 00:41:57,500
entertaining myself to like, I 
play a lot of music. 

722
00:41:59,100 --> 00:42:02,800
And recording like freestyle 
raps and just like YouTube 

723
00:42:02,800 --> 00:42:06,400
shorts and stuff and I've just 
like me talking to my phone and 

724
00:42:06,400 --> 00:42:09,800
I do a great job of entertaining
myself and that's kind of crazy.

725
00:42:10,800 --> 00:42:13,000
I'm gonna have to definitely 
check out your YouTube channel. 

726
00:42:13,000 --> 00:42:16,500
Looked at the cricket, you know,
profile but I didn't look up 

727
00:42:16,500 --> 00:42:20,100
yours so I thought some of these
shorts for sure. 

728
00:42:22,400 --> 00:42:24,000
Well I kind of just did a 
rebranding. 

729
00:42:24,800 --> 00:42:28,600
Did you follow the my personal 
Instagram is Cricket lowered, 

730
00:42:28,600 --> 00:42:31,800
MMA Cricket, Lord MMA, okay, 
gotcha. 

731
00:42:31,900 --> 00:42:35,500
And then and then the company is
at Golden Cricket ink Kasia. 

732
00:42:36,600 --> 00:42:39,100
With I realized more that I 
should be putting more effort 

733
00:42:39,100 --> 00:42:42,300
into building my personal brand 
because I think people are a lot

734
00:42:42,300 --> 00:42:46,600
more likely to follow me as a 
person as opposed to a company. 

735
00:42:46,600 --> 00:42:49,600
You know, no one's like Did you 
hear what? 

736
00:42:49,600 --> 00:42:53,400
That company did the other day? 
Yeah, but but people people 

737
00:42:53,400 --> 00:42:55,300
follow people. 
Yeah, I agree. 

738
00:42:55,300 --> 00:42:58,100
People need, don't think of 
themselves as a brand for sure. 

739
00:42:58,200 --> 00:43:04,000
Do you plan on keeping keeping 
the brand long-term, or do you 

740
00:43:04,000 --> 00:43:06,800
feel like you're going to sell, 
sell it off to somebody at some 

741
00:43:06,800 --> 00:43:08,600
point, the future? 
What's your plan with that? 

742
00:43:09,400 --> 00:43:11,100
Oh, you mean the company? 
I don't. 

743
00:43:14,900 --> 00:43:19,000
If I get another ideal sell it, 
but I'm gonna, I need something 

744
00:43:19,000 --> 00:43:22,100
to work on at all times. 
Yeah, totally. 

745
00:43:22,100 --> 00:43:24,700
If I just sold it for like 10 
million dollars, I would 

746
00:43:24,700 --> 00:43:31,400
probably Go into a deep 
depression because I'd be like, 

747
00:43:31,400 --> 00:43:34,300
what do I, what do I do now? 
Like yes I could still do all 

748
00:43:34,300 --> 00:43:37,000
the other things, but comedy is 
a nighttime saying. 

749
00:43:37,100 --> 00:43:39,100
What am I going to do all day 
three hours of the day? 

750
00:43:39,100 --> 00:43:41,900
That's a big chunk but that's is
more than that. 

751
00:43:42,200 --> 00:43:44,700
Yeah, I'm awake for what? 
Like 16 hours a day. 

752
00:43:46,400 --> 00:43:51,400
I will say this being sober and 
sleeping is difficult and I 

753
00:43:51,400 --> 00:43:53,600
would obviously quadrant edible 
is better though. 

754
00:43:53,800 --> 00:43:56,300
Like you may be getting less 
quantity but I would think that 

755
00:43:56,500 --> 00:43:59,400
substances impact the quality of
your sleep quite a bit. 

756
00:44:02,500 --> 00:44:06,000
I don't know man going to sleep 
after an edible s Le crêpe. 

757
00:44:07,300 --> 00:44:09,400
I've never I've never done 
animals and ever done in his 

758
00:44:09,400 --> 00:44:11,800
death so I don't really have any
perspective to pull from here. 

759
00:44:11,800 --> 00:44:19,300
Maybe I'm missing out on ammo. 
I mean how old are you? 

760
00:44:19,700 --> 00:44:22,300
31 31. 
All right. 

761
00:44:23,500 --> 00:44:26,500
I've been doing a joke in my 
stand-up lately that I'm like, 

762
00:44:26,500 --> 00:44:28,800
yeah, if you, if you want to 
level up in life you should be 

763
00:44:28,800 --> 00:44:31,000
sober. 
But first you should do a bunch 

764
00:44:31,000 --> 00:44:34,400
of drugs because if you just 
start out sober and you you're 

765
00:44:34,400 --> 00:44:36,400
just been sober your whole life.
Then you're just a dork. 

766
00:44:36,400 --> 00:44:38,200
You gotta, I'm a dork. 
I don't know what life's all 

767
00:44:38,200 --> 00:44:40,800
about. 
I definitely would imagine 

768
00:44:40,800 --> 00:44:43,400
there's a lot more experiences 
that would have been gained 

769
00:44:44,100 --> 00:44:48,100
Under the Influence, but I don't
know, like, I don't know if I 

770
00:44:48,100 --> 00:44:51,300
would because I've gained a lot 
of experience has totally sober 

771
00:44:51,300 --> 00:44:52,700
too. 
So I mean, it's kind of like, 

772
00:44:53,400 --> 00:44:55,500
Two different paths, you know, I
don't know if one's better or 

773
00:44:55,500 --> 00:44:59,400
worse than the other. 
No, you reach the same. 

774
00:44:59,700 --> 00:45:02,300
I mean, Enlightenment, there's 
one level of Enlightenment, 

775
00:45:02,900 --> 00:45:05,100
there's just many roads to get 
there. 

776
00:45:05,400 --> 00:45:10,200
Yeah. 
I would say without substances 

777
00:45:10,200 --> 00:45:16,200
is probably. more difficult, 
which would be better because 

778
00:45:16,600 --> 00:45:18,700
just taking the drugs to reach, 
it would be more of an instant 

779
00:45:18,700 --> 00:45:21,000
gratification thing, which We 
can. 

780
00:45:21,000 --> 00:45:23,800
All agree is not the best route 
to take. 

781
00:45:24,200 --> 00:45:25,800
Yeah. 
Yeah. 

782
00:45:25,900 --> 00:45:28,800
I like that perspective. 
I don't like, I like that better

783
00:45:28,800 --> 00:45:30,200
than thinking I'm a dork for 
sure. 

784
00:45:31,100 --> 00:45:33,600
I mean, there's, I've heard 
people that come out of prison 

785
00:45:33,900 --> 00:45:38,500
doing like 14 months in the, in 
the, in the shoe or that. 

786
00:45:38,500 --> 00:45:41,800
What's that? 
The private thought of private 

787
00:45:41,800 --> 00:45:44,300
room? 
What you call the solitary 

788
00:45:44,300 --> 00:45:47,600
confinement. 
Yeah, that have reached the same

789
00:45:47,600 --> 00:45:50,400
Revelations. 
I've had on DMT. 

790
00:45:50,600 --> 00:45:53,400
Yeah. 
In that we're all a collective. 

791
00:45:53,500 --> 00:45:57,300
And another thing is that got me
out of my head is that I 

792
00:45:57,300 --> 00:45:59,600
realized I was just putting a 
lot of pressure on myself and 

793
00:45:59,607 --> 00:46:07,200
really focused on improving 
myself and being How to word 

794
00:46:07,200 --> 00:46:13,400
this? 
I basically realized it's less 

795
00:46:13,400 --> 00:46:19,600
important about what I do with 
my life for myself and more 

796
00:46:19,600 --> 00:46:23,500
important of who I am to my 
people around me. 

797
00:46:24,000 --> 00:46:27,900
Yeah, it's not me. 
It's we know I totally agree 

798
00:46:27,900 --> 00:46:31,100
with that. 
Has 0 as long as I'm a part of 

799
00:46:31,400 --> 00:46:35,000
my people's lives and they're 
all winning, then I'm winning 

800
00:46:35,400 --> 00:46:38,800
and just naturally, you know, 
you're the people, you hang out 

801
00:46:38,800 --> 00:46:41,600
with. 
So I'm going to win as well. 

802
00:46:42,300 --> 00:46:44,400
Yeah, no I totally agree with 
that, for sure. 

803
00:46:44,800 --> 00:46:49,200
So have these experiences your 
past, the substances etc, etc. 

804
00:46:49,500 --> 00:46:56,100
Has that made you like I guess 
long term, it's made you less 

805
00:46:56,100 --> 00:47:00,700
selfish and more 
forward-thinking to you know the

806
00:47:00,700 --> 00:47:05,600
society at large make you more 
spiritual more religious to like

807
00:47:05,600 --> 00:47:08,000
what's it done from a mindset 
standpoint that regard 

808
00:47:08,800 --> 00:47:11,600
Absolutely. 
Yeah, I was a was a stone-cold 

809
00:47:11,600 --> 00:47:15,000
atheist when I was a kid, I 
thought that we were just a 

810
00:47:15,000 --> 00:47:18,700
bunch of overcomplicated monkeys
on a rock flying through space, 

811
00:47:19,300 --> 00:47:22,300
and nothing means anything. 
And we're all going to die and 

812
00:47:22,300 --> 00:47:28,200
none of this matters. 
And then After doing DMT and 

813
00:47:28,200 --> 00:47:34,800
LSD. 
I basically saw the afterlife 

814
00:47:34,900 --> 00:47:41,500
and felt the presence of God, 
which in my experience was a 

815
00:47:42,300 --> 00:47:48,500
fractal, holographic matrix. 
Of intelligent life. in the same

816
00:47:48,500 --> 00:47:51,200
way that Wi-Fi is like radio 
waves, which is light, which is 

817
00:47:51,207 --> 00:47:54,800
made of zeros and ones literally
that are translated by your 

818
00:47:54,800 --> 00:48:02,100
computer, which would be us the 
antennas and I got really into 

819
00:48:02,100 --> 00:48:06,600
studying ancient civilizations. 
and the Sumerian Tablets and 

820
00:48:06,600 --> 00:48:11,900
stuff, and I basically 
discovered this whole ancient 

821
00:48:11,900 --> 00:48:15,800
history of humanity that had 
been covered up by the 

822
00:48:15,800 --> 00:48:19,800
mainstream media and the 
schools, the school system, the 

823
00:48:19,800 --> 00:48:23,800
government, everything and That 
kinda is. 

824
00:48:27,100 --> 00:48:30,300
I was always looking for answers
and then I found all these 

825
00:48:30,300 --> 00:48:35,600
answers and I was blown away and
then it started taking a toll on

826
00:48:35,700 --> 00:48:39,300
my mental state because I was 
like freaking out about all this

827
00:48:39,300 --> 00:48:41,400
crazy stuff that I can't even 
like talk about with most 

828
00:48:41,400 --> 00:48:43,900
people. 
And yeah. 

829
00:48:43,900 --> 00:48:45,400
Part of the sobriety. 
Just letting all that shit. 

830
00:48:45,400 --> 00:48:50,400
Go just I got to the bottom of a
lot of things and I don't need 

831
00:48:50,400 --> 00:48:54,800
to worry about it anymore. 
Yeah I can appreciate a sickly 

832
00:48:56,000 --> 00:49:00,100
basically I think we're We 
reincarnate. 

833
00:49:00,100 --> 00:49:04,800
And this is not our first life 
and not our last and We should 

834
00:49:04,800 --> 00:49:07,800
try to do our best but if we 
don't we'll get another shot at 

835
00:49:07,800 --> 00:49:11,200
it. 
Hmm, interesting. 

836
00:49:12,900 --> 00:49:21,000
Is there like a, is that 
represented in any main accepted

837
00:49:21,000 --> 00:49:23,500
religions or spiritual beliefs, 
or is that just totally your 

838
00:49:24,300 --> 00:49:26,900
perspective based off of your 
own experiences? 

839
00:49:29,200 --> 00:49:31,900
Well, Hinduism believes in 
reincarnation Buddhism believes 

840
00:49:31,900 --> 00:49:38,400
in reincarnation. 
Judaism and Christianity 

841
00:49:38,400 --> 00:49:43,400
initially believed in 
reincarnation, and they tweaked 

842
00:49:43,400 --> 00:49:50,900
it for a Whatever reasons. 
There's also a bunch of Articles

843
00:49:50,900 --> 00:49:56,600
of children that have been born 
and at a young age will like, 

844
00:49:56,600 --> 00:49:59,000
there's this one. 
This is one white kid. 

845
00:49:59,000 --> 00:50:02,000
This one little white, baby. 
I'm just specify because he was,

846
00:50:02,000 --> 00:50:03,500
like, Mom. 
I used to be like a black woman 

847
00:50:03,500 --> 00:50:05,600
in Chicago, and they're like, 
what? 

848
00:50:05,600 --> 00:50:09,400
And then he found the family are
that the parents found the 

849
00:50:09,400 --> 00:50:13,200
family, found a picture and 
showed him the picture and he 

850
00:50:13,200 --> 00:50:15,900
like pointed to all of them and 
knew their names. 

851
00:50:16,100 --> 00:50:20,100
Boys. 
And their story and And that 

852
00:50:20,100 --> 00:50:22,100
that's not a unique occurrence 
either, that was just the most 

853
00:50:22,100 --> 00:50:23,700
recent one. 
There's a lot of kids that 

854
00:50:23,700 --> 00:50:26,800
remember, their past lives and 
have been able to locate the 

855
00:50:26,808 --> 00:50:31,100
previous family from which they 
left as pretty trivial. 

856
00:50:31,100 --> 00:50:32,600
Sure. 
That's crazy. 

857
00:50:33,200 --> 00:50:37,100
You think crickets will be 
reincarnated back as something 

858
00:50:37,300 --> 00:50:41,600
big enough to eat you. 
I mean, yeah. 

859
00:50:44,300 --> 00:50:48,600
But uh, you need them first. 
I don't know. 

860
00:50:48,600 --> 00:50:51,900
I was just, I think you should 
live your life to not be 

861
00:50:51,900 --> 00:50:55,200
reincarnated as a cricket. 
Yeah, karma. 

862
00:50:55,200 --> 00:50:57,700
Huh. 
I don't know how it works. 

863
00:50:57,700 --> 00:50:59,200
I don't know. 
The Reincarnation process. 

864
00:50:59,200 --> 00:51:04,500
I just I just know that. 
It happens. 

865
00:51:04,900 --> 00:51:07,800
Yeah. 
What you meditation practice 

866
00:51:07,800 --> 00:51:14,100
look like. 
I sit my backyard but naked in 

867
00:51:14,100 --> 00:51:17,600
the Sun for 20 minutes, if I 
have time. 

868
00:51:19,000 --> 00:51:26,800
Ten minutes if I got shit to do.
I say, a mantra in my head and I

869
00:51:26,808 --> 00:51:31,000
just focus on sitting still, 
keeping my eyes closed and 

870
00:51:31,000 --> 00:51:34,700
repeating that Mantra over and 
over to focus in a mantra. 

871
00:51:34,700 --> 00:51:38,000
Not really letting your mind 
wander or try, not to let your 

872
00:51:38,000 --> 00:51:44,900
mind wander. yeah, and I 
naturally have a pretty pretty 

873
00:51:44,900 --> 00:51:49,800
chaotic mind. 
So that meditation practice 

874
00:51:49,800 --> 00:51:53,900
helps me. 
Like if I can sit and do nothing

875
00:51:53,900 --> 00:51:56,900
and when thoughts creep in, I 
can just redirect them to the 

876
00:51:56,900 --> 00:51:59,500
Mantra. 
Then like throughout my day when

877
00:51:59,500 --> 00:52:03,800
I actually have things to do and
focus on when thoughts creep up,

878
00:52:04,100 --> 00:52:06,700
it's easier to redirect them to 
the moment. 

879
00:52:08,200 --> 00:52:12,200
I got you Interesting. 
Are you a you read much like 

880
00:52:12,200 --> 00:52:15,900
what are you reading now? 
If so no I don't read, I'll go 

881
00:52:15,900 --> 00:52:21,000
to sleep, listening to podcasts.
What podcast listen to I've been

882
00:52:21,000 --> 00:52:22,800
listening to a lot of West 
Watson lately. 

883
00:52:24,000 --> 00:52:25,000
Wes wants. 
I'm not familiar with that. 

884
00:52:25,000 --> 00:52:29,900
What's it about? 
he's like, He was the guy. 

885
00:52:29,900 --> 00:52:32,900
I was talking about. 
That was in prison. 

886
00:52:33,100 --> 00:52:37,500
He was in prison for like 10 
years and he's a fucking wild 

887
00:52:37,500 --> 00:52:40,300
character, man. 
He's, he's this jacked bald, 

888
00:52:40,300 --> 00:52:42,400
dude. 
That was. 

889
00:52:44,900 --> 00:52:48,300
Like a like a shot caller in 
prison that just like screams at

890
00:52:48,300 --> 00:52:54,100
you, to get off your ass and 
work out. and, but he has a lot 

891
00:52:54,100 --> 00:52:59,300
of the same insights I got from 
psychedelics just from Having to

892
00:52:59,300 --> 00:53:03,400
be alone at this thoughts. 
And in prison, It's interesting,

893
00:53:04,300 --> 00:53:08,200
he was there for her and you 
said, 14, you I yeah, I also 

894
00:53:08,200 --> 00:53:11,000
listened to listen to Jordan 
Pederson for a while. 

895
00:53:12,200 --> 00:53:13,500
For a few years. 
But then after a while, you 

896
00:53:13,508 --> 00:53:17,900
know, he starts saying like, you
have to be a Man capable of 

897
00:53:17,900 --> 00:53:20,300
violence and which I totally 
agree with. 

898
00:53:20,300 --> 00:53:22,400
But like, I could flick Jordan 
Pederson across a room. 

899
00:53:22,600 --> 00:53:29,200
So it's hard to it's hard to 
listen to, or like I've, you 

900
00:53:29,200 --> 00:53:31,300
know, Robert Greene the guy 
wrote 48 Laws of Power. 

901
00:53:31,800 --> 00:53:35,100
Yeah. 
Like he has a lot of good 

902
00:53:35,100 --> 00:53:38,100
quality stuff, but then he'll 
pop up on my feet to be like, 

903
00:53:38,100 --> 00:53:40,200
how to seduce anyone. 
And he just looks like a stick 

904
00:53:40,200 --> 00:53:43,700
of butter. 
It's like, it's hard to listen 

905
00:53:43,700 --> 00:53:46,900
to a lot of people that don't 
live what they speak. 

906
00:53:47,300 --> 00:53:49,700
Yeah. 
So I just, I just try to jump 

907
00:53:49,700 --> 00:53:56,800
around and listen to basically 
Rich successful people that that

908
00:53:56,800 --> 00:53:59,200
live a life that I would want to
live and then just take it take 

909
00:53:59,200 --> 00:54:07,600
a little bit tidbits from each 
of them. usually things about 

910
00:54:07,600 --> 00:54:13,200
like running businesses and 
Having a solid mindset. 

911
00:54:14,400 --> 00:54:18,000
What is your, what is your main 
goal, man? 

912
00:54:18,000 --> 00:54:20,100
I what is the purpose? 
Like what are you, what are you 

913
00:54:20,100 --> 00:54:21,900
here to do? 
It sound like a pretty deep 

914
00:54:21,900 --> 00:54:23,200
question. 
I'm going to ask that on a 

915
00:54:23,207 --> 00:54:25,800
podcast but I feel like you've 
probably got an answer. 

916
00:54:27,200 --> 00:54:29,200
Well, I said that early, I'm 
here to make people laugh. 

917
00:54:29,800 --> 00:54:31,400
Yeah, that's the main thing, 
huh? 

918
00:54:32,900 --> 00:54:40,200
Yeah. 
Well, and through my Dare I say,

919
00:54:40,200 --> 00:54:49,000
wisdom. like, if I can talk 
about reincarnation and also 

920
00:54:49,000 --> 00:54:53,000
make it funny, I think. 
I think that was that would be 

921
00:54:53,000 --> 00:54:56,200
successful. 
Yeah, do you feel like people? 

922
00:54:56,200 --> 00:55:01,100
Yeah, live life better or worse 
in the present moment? 

923
00:55:01,300 --> 00:55:03,400
If they believed they were going
to be reincarnated? 

924
00:55:05,600 --> 00:55:08,600
That's a good question. 
You could go either way, you 

925
00:55:08,600 --> 00:55:11,200
could, because you could be 
like, I'm just gonna go fucking 

926
00:55:11,200 --> 00:55:14,900
crazy. 
This lifetime and jump out of a 

927
00:55:14,908 --> 00:55:16,900
thirty. 
Four story building in Singapore

928
00:55:16,900 --> 00:55:23,500
and I really depends man. 
It there's so many variables in 

929
00:55:23,600 --> 00:55:32,600
everything. 
Also, I don't think I just have 

930
00:55:32,600 --> 00:55:34,200
one purpose. 
Yeah. 

931
00:55:36,000 --> 00:55:38,100
I just know that's my my 
favorite thing to do. 

932
00:55:39,700 --> 00:55:41,700
When's your next test and that, 
man, I'm gonna be like, sending 

933
00:55:41,700 --> 00:55:43,800
me awesome, few weeks, not to 
come and watch you perform. 

934
00:55:45,400 --> 00:55:51,300
let's see, I got April 6. 
I'll be doing a set at Roscoe's 

935
00:55:51,300 --> 00:55:55,500
comedy club, and then April 
11th, I'll be on Creek in the 

936
00:55:55,500 --> 00:55:59,400
cave and then April 14th. 
I'll be at Sunset Strip. 

937
00:56:00,600 --> 00:56:03,100
Nice. 
Very nice. 

938
00:56:03,600 --> 00:56:05,700
Well cool man. 
I'm definitely check out the 

939
00:56:05,700 --> 00:56:07,600
YouTube content. 
Some of the stand up you got 

940
00:56:07,600 --> 00:56:11,300
online and I'm definitely up to 
try some of these Cricket bars 

941
00:56:11,300 --> 00:56:14,100
to for the macros on these 
things. 

942
00:56:14,100 --> 00:56:18,300
You know, have top your head. 
Well, it's 14 grams of protein, 

943
00:56:18,600 --> 00:56:21,500
26 grams of carbs, which isn't 
great. 

944
00:56:21,500 --> 00:56:26,200
But I like I said, I designed 
this bar for me and I trained a 

945
00:56:26,207 --> 00:56:27,700
lot. 
So I eat a lot of carbs. 

946
00:56:27,800 --> 00:56:37,200
Yeah. um, and then, I think 12 
grams of fat Nice. 

947
00:56:37,500 --> 00:56:38,900
And what's the website again for
that? 

948
00:56:39,700 --> 00:56:44,600
The website for that is golden 
cricut.com and then your give it

949
00:56:44,600 --> 00:56:47,000
your own personal website as 
well or just the personal social

950
00:56:47,000 --> 00:56:50,100
profiles. 
No, I don't have a personal 

951
00:56:50,100 --> 00:56:53,400
website. 
Also, I can set you up with a 

952
00:56:53,408 --> 00:56:56,400
promo code right now, what do 
you want your promo code to be 

953
00:56:57,700 --> 00:57:00,900
shoot, man. 
Most people they search Savage 

954
00:57:00,900 --> 00:57:02,100
whenever they're looking at my 
stuff. 

955
00:57:03,400 --> 00:57:08,400
All right, let's do promo code 
Savage for 15% off. 

956
00:57:09,700 --> 00:57:14,800
Lowercase, all right. 
Just some Cricket protein. 

957
00:57:16,700 --> 00:57:18,600
And it's all the one flavor. 
You said, Ryan chocolate, peanut

958
00:57:18,600 --> 00:57:21,100
butter banana. 
Currently. 

959
00:57:21,100 --> 00:57:23,500
Yes. 
But then we are working on a 

960
00:57:23,500 --> 00:57:27,700
horchata Cricket protein powder 
for smoothies which has great 

961
00:57:27,700 --> 00:57:31,100
macros. 
There's not many carbs or fat in

962
00:57:31,107 --> 00:57:34,100
that at all, we're still working
on the manufacturing for that. 

963
00:57:34,100 --> 00:57:36,700
That's not for sale yet, but you
can pre-order it. 

964
00:57:37,400 --> 00:57:40,100
And if you use the promo code 
presale, you get 20% off that 

965
00:57:40,100 --> 00:57:45,600
order which you cannot combine 
with the Savage because you can 

966
00:57:45,600 --> 00:57:49,200
combine discount codes. 
Make sense man. 

967
00:57:49,200 --> 00:57:51,400
Make sense what? 
Dude, I'm excited to follow 

968
00:57:51,400 --> 00:57:53,600
along the journey and said, 
watch some of your stand-up. 

969
00:57:53,600 --> 00:57:56,800
I'm excited to see where the 
company is in a few years, man. 

970
00:57:56,800 --> 00:58:00,300
Like you said, you launched 
March of last year, shoot me. 

971
00:58:00,300 --> 00:58:01,600
I'm just hitting the ground 
running. 

972
00:58:01,600 --> 00:58:03,200
Looks like everything's growing 
so far. 

973
00:58:03,200 --> 00:58:04,700
So it's exciting. 
Times ahead, man. 

974
00:58:06,100 --> 00:58:08,400
Yeah, man. 
Yeah, thank you so much. 

975
00:58:08,500 --> 00:58:10,500
We we covered a lot today. 
We did. 

976
00:58:10,500 --> 00:58:12,600
We did you're very interesting 
individual, man. 

977
00:58:12,600 --> 00:58:15,200
I'm excited to like, say to keep
following along and see see how 

978
00:58:15,200 --> 00:58:17,400
you do things. 
Best of luck on your quest to 

979
00:58:17,400 --> 00:58:20,200
continue the sobriety man, like 
like kudos to you for being 30. 

980
00:58:20,400 --> 00:58:24,500
You said 30 or 31 day so far? 
31 days. 31 days, man. 

981
00:58:24,500 --> 00:58:26,500
Well awesome. 
Congrats on that and keep 

982
00:58:26,500 --> 00:58:29,000
killing it, brother. 
Thank you. 

983
00:58:29,000 --> 00:58:29,900
Have a good one. 
Take care. 

984
00:58:29,900 --> 00:58:30,200
Eli.