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  1. “Oh, he's suffering, like you'll find that people are way more forgiving than you thought if you're vulnerable. If you get caught and then you have to make an apology video, then everyone's gonna be like, screw this guy. But if you're willing to be like, listen, here's a major problem I have. Here's a real weakness that I'm suffering with. Like I wake up and suffer. I have pain, physical pain from mental thoughts, that kind of stuff. If you're able to just open up and be vulnerable, you'll find, I think, almost every time people will bend over backwards to try to understand you and say it's okay and like try to help you.”

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  2. “And that's important to realize about humans for people who are wanting to do something like this, who are wanting to get something painful off their chest or admit to an addiction or just anything you know what it is right now as you're listening you're like oh it's this thing for me because we all have our different things To realize that people are more forgiving than you think they're going to be because, like what we talked about earlier, people are all suffering in their own way. There's some sort of like, it helps to know that you're suffering too. Not like misery loves company, but like.”

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  3. “You're not alone, right? Like And that's why I've been motivated to talk about it because I feel like my story can help a lot of people. And I think that in general, that idea of, listen, society, let's not be so hard on each other. Like let's forgive each other and let's be okay with each other's weaknesses. That we can become stronger.”

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  4. “Timothy Ferris. I can't believe I just said that I drank alcohol for so long. Please forgive me, mom. I love you. I would say this.”

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  5. “And I ended up killing my first elk on that trip too. That was a crazy story. And then my brother cooked us up steaks that night, and I hated it. Because I have like, I like animals a lot. So when I was eating that steak, I could just see that elk's eyes looking at me. As I shot him 40 yards away, and the neck. So I I didn't do great on that. And that's why I have been vegan in the past, but not as much now.”

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  6. “Waking up at 5 in the morning and not being able to say a thing because my brother will yell at me if I'm too loud out on the mountain. My brother's a professional hunter. That's what he does for a living. He has a YouTube channel. So you can't snicker or make little jokes like I like to do when you're trying to hunt big game with a bow and arrow. And so I had to be quiet at the same time of being in like the most grandiose mountains I've ever seen. And so I had a lot of time to think like right after I had made that swimming pool decision. So that two weeks or I think it was like more like eight days hunting for elk in the mountains of Idaho was a real good therapy for me. And I recommend, I mean, I was at the point of alcoholism where me and my wife were calling rehab centers. Like I was like, I'm just going to disappear for two weeks, whatever it takes. I'm going to go to Malibu, you know, like how stereotypical we moved to LA. I became an alcoholic and I had to go to rehab. You know, and I was like, I don't want to do that. I don't want to be that person.”

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  7. “In the pool, that was my justification. I was like, well, I'll quit on the hunting trip because I'm going to be with my dad and my brother and my son and I'm not going to dream. I'm not going to want to, normally I would have. I would have found a way to hit it. But I was like, I don't want to drink on the hunting trip. It's like a father son, not only my dad, but my brother and my son. It's like three generations. Like this is a meaningful man's trip. And so in the pool, I was like, well, I'll quit when I go on that hunting trip, but I knew I had to quit before because of what I said. So it was like three days before. But anyways, we went to the mountains and hunted elk for two weeks. And that was a very, you know.”

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  8. “It scared me so much to the point that I'm like, okay, that's the answer. I have got to quit right now. And I got out of the pool and I told everybody that was there. There was a couple people. I said, I quit drinking. And they all laughed at me because I drank a lot. And that's in my personal community, like my friends that were, you know, my wife, my wife knew, like I talked earlier about how I didn't tell my wife, but my wife definitely knew after the eight months I told her, you know. So everybody knew that was in my close. And they knew what a big part of my life it was because I was the one at parties who was like, didn't want any ever, I never want anybody to leave. It was like, wait, you're leaving? No, come on. Like, I never wanted the party to end in a sense. And so I quit. And the thing that really saved me is right at that time, like I think it was the next day I went on this hunting trip with my dad and my brother and my son. And we were up in the middle of the mountains where there wasn't.”

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  9. “And so I had that realization in the swimming pool and it terrified me. I just thought, where does this lead, right? Where does this alcoholism go? What is the natural progression? I was able to see where it had taken me to that point, which was feeling like crap in the mornings, being overweight, you know, you know, saying things every once in a while that were a little like, whoa, I can't believe he said that. You know, like I didn't like that feeling. I don't want to be that person. And I guess the ultimate goal is deciding the person you want to be on purpose. And that is not who I wanted to be. So I quit. That stroke, that breast stroke. I was like,”

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  10. “drinking, I was really physiologically feeling it. Like I had that addiction. And so I'm like, how am I going to quit? How am I going to quit? And the realization came to me in that swimming pool that if you don't quit right now, write this second, like when you get out of this pool, you're a non-drinker, then you'll never quit. And that terrified me. Like I had that realization like somebody spoke it to me. Like if you don't stop right now, like right this second, like if you don't say, I'm done, I'm quitting, you'll never quit. And I knew that that was true. Like the second that I thought that, I was like, I won't because I'll always think of another reason. I'll always say tomorrow. I'll always say next week. And it'll never end. And the progression, like, how many of you listening right now have ever done or said something that you totally regret while you were drunk?”

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  11. “Anyway, so I was having this conversation as somebody who believes in an eternal creator. I was kind of talking to God in a sense in my mind. And a lot of times my conversations with God are, I think, really honest conversations that I'm having with myself. Like I see God as this, you know, this eternal creator that loves me. And I was having this conversation in the swimming pool like, I'm going to quit in two weeks because I have this. You know how you always have like life moments? Like I have to do this and then I'll quit after this. And it's always the next morning, right? Like the diet starts tomorrow. And I just was swimming and I had this revelation or something. It's like, if you really are serious about quitting and you really want to quit, the only way that you're going to quit because I was terrified of not being able to quit. Like I was really in that moment where it was taking control of me, where when 4 p.m. rolled around, if I didn't start...”

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  12. “Of you right now are probably like, this guy doesn't know what I was swimming, Kind of drunk. And I was kind of having a conversation with God, honestly. Like I was swimming and I was like, I need to quit. I need to quit. One, my buddy is telling me I'm drinking too early. Two, I'm a fatso. Like, I was drinking my calories. Like, I have a very large capacity. I could drink a 24-pack and still like have this conversation with you. Like I. Just the way that my body is.”

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  13. “He just taught us you work your ass And I grew up with that where it's like, if it's not working, then just work harder. You know, so I definitely see the value and hard work. Cass and G, my buddy I was talking about earlier, he has a house in Venice Beach with a swimming pool, and it was an early morning scenario like you were talking. It was like 11 a.m. And I remember me and my brother going over to Casim's house and he had a bottle of whiskey there and we're going to sit in the pool and stuff. And it's like, hey, let's have a few shots of this whiskey. So I remember my California friend, my atheist friend, Casim, being like, dude, it's not even noon. And I'm like, wow. Like all of a sudden, I'm like, how far have I come where when I first moved out here, I couldn't believe that these people didn't believe in God? And now all of a sudden they're lecturing me on drinking too early and in the day. And so I was like,”

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  14. “Anything you take out, there's a void. There's a hole. And if you don't put something back in that hole that's healthy, that same negative thing will go back. Just like you're saying with the wine in the morning, we as humans are prone to the path of least resistance, right? It's not easy to get better. It's tough. And our natural inclination is towards addiction and towards the things that are easy, right? Like it's easy to drink alcohol and take away the pain. It's easy to not wake up in the morning and exercise. It's easy to go through the drive-thru and buy a big Mac, right? What are you willing to do that is hard? And I think understanding that and being able to embrace that work specifically. Like I remember my grandpa was like work will work when nothing else will work coming from the military.”

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  15. “So, I mean, the reason I'm willing to talk about this now, and I've been wanting to talk about it for a long time, is because I know that there are so many people suffering through this still right now, because I remember being in that spot. I remember thinking about quitting. And I remember thinking, but how will I have a good time? How will I have fun? Like, what will I do? The very first day that I quit right around 4 p.m. rolled around and I was like freaking out. Like, what do I do? Like I was like anxious. I remember I had to leave the house and go rock climbing. I'm like, I have to do something. I have to do something. I'm going to drink again. And that's just advice if you are taking something out of your life like alcohol. You have to replace it.”

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  16. “How do you define alcoholism, right? Like, I don't like calling myself an alcoholic, but if you drink more than three days a week, maybe you drink four days a week and you have more than one or two glasses of wine, to me you're an alcoholic. And there's obviously different levels, but it's like, why do you drink? Do you drink to get drunk? Do you drink so that you can open up to people? You have to be, like I said earlier, your own devil's advocate. You have to ask yourself those hard questions.”

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  17. “It was definitelyn't taking over my life because I was able to, I guess I was a functioning alcoholic, you could call it. And I think a lot of people do that. And I think a lot of people do that more than they're willing to admit.”

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  18. “Right, I am bad at moderation, so I have to make decisions, you know, because some people, why can't you just have a few beers and be fine with it? I'm like, one, beer, I mean, it's an acquired taste. It tastes like the first time you drink beer. I remember the very first time I drank beer as a 19-year-old. I'm like, this is disgusting. Why do people drink this? And if they say they like it, they're lying. It's disgusting. Anyways, I mean, we could talk all about that. Towards the end when I let the natural progression of addiction happen, which it will, if you're not very conscious, I was drinking every day. And I was drinking, if not every day, six days a week. And if I went 48 hours without drinking, I was like, man, when's the last time I had a drink? Wednesday, that's forever ago. Like it got to the point where”

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  19. “Came hard to connect if you didn't drink. And I hated the fact that people wouldn't open up until they've had a few drinks. Like as a sober person now, I haven't had a single solitary hand to the square. Drink in four years, it annoys me to the point of infuriation when I go to like after parties or something where nobody will get on the dance floor until they've been drinking for like 30 minutes. I'm like, why do you need this substance to loosen up a little bit? And that's what I liked about alcohol, is I liked being able to like finally talk to people in an open manner where it wasn't like, well, we have to worry about all the proper PC things. It's like, let's just really talk here, right? Like quit being so presumptuous. I have this saying that is just specific to my personality that is this. If one is good, then all is the best.”

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  20. “And Cisco, even you have It was so weird because I feel like I had lived, you know, I had lived in Dallas, Texas. I had moved around selling pest control. I was in the West Indies for two years as a missionary. But moving to Venice was weird because it wasn't like the friends that I talked to, it wasn't like if they believed in, it wasn't like what religion. That was all my life before was like, well, are you Hindu, Catholic, Muslim? What are you? But them in Venice, it was like, oh, you believe in God? That's cute, Shay. Pat on the head. Do you believe in Santa too? And I was like, whoa, whoa, whoa, wait. You guys don't even believe in God? Like at all. And my Venice beach friends are like, no. Like, how can you prove there's a God? I'm like, well, I guess I can't, but that was just a weird concept for me. So having a few beers wasn't a big deal to them, you know, and so that became easy for me. Not only are these my friends and people I looked up to creatively, but these were my business partners.”

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  21. “It was something I was like, if she knew about this, or I don't know whatever, you know, this was years and years ago. So then I found YouTube, right? Then I got onto YouTube. We started making videos and through the process I met a bunch of people on YouTube, made friends, and moved to Los Angeles, California to start this company called Maker Studios that we talked about at the beginning that sold to Disney with a bunch of people that I met. You know, there's like seven or eight of us. And living in Venice Beach was the biggest culture shock I'd ever received. And I had the”

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  22. “And we're just kind of trying to make ends meet. And the guys that I worked with at the Granite Shop afterwards, they'd get a few beers. And I'd be like, that seems fun. What the heck? Like, let me try a few beers. And I didn't tell my wife, right? So at first, I was like, and that's the part of the Mormon culture where it's like I couldn't even go tell my wife like, hey, I had a few beers today after work because I was afraid that she would, almost even to the to the extent that she would leave me. Like, what? You did what? I'm out of here. And of course, that's just like my overactive brain, like thinking the worst, which we all do. But it became a thing where I started drinking every once in a while. And this was way before YouTube even started. And I was lying to her for like eight months almost where I wasn't telling her that I was drinking, where I would, you know, have sunflower seeds or something like that to cover my breath.”

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  23. “I didn't drink a ton because of the culture I came from where the Mormon church has a code of health called the Word of Wisdom that says no alcohol, no tobacco, no coffee, tea. And it also says that you should eat fruits and vegetables. And it also goes as far as saying that you should eat meat sparingly. And in fact, only in times of winter or famine. This is a code of health that Joseph Smith revealed in the early 1800s that is what the Mormon culture lives on. And it's a big part of the Mormon church. And it's not talked about. And it's this weird, I mean, we could go into hours of this, but basically after I got married, we were living in Utah. I was working at a granite job, getting paid nine fifty an hour. My wife, bless her heart, was doing a call center job every day. And we had one kid at the time. We, in fact, just had our”

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  24. “So I guess I should talk about it. My audience is probably freaking out right now. My mom's probably freaking out right now. But I think listening to Morgan Spurlock's podcast that you recently had on where he talks about being able to own your scars or talk about your scars or the hard times. And I think in general, that is a societal thing that we all need to work on because there's a lot of people suffering and people don't want to tell you their suffering. And so they'll suffer in silence and maybe even commit suicide if it gets to the horrible end of the spectrum. But more than that is just the daily suffering that people are going through because they're afraid to tell their close friends and family their problems and what they're suffering through. So with me, it was when I started drinking, I drank in high school a little bit. Like boys will be boys kind of like we're seniors senior night.”

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  25. “Oh well talk about that one I think this would be shocking to my audience for those that are listening that have come over here from my section of the internet but I battled with alcohol For four or five years. And that was tough. That was something that kind of, and it's something that I haven't talked about, honestly. And maybe I'll want to cut this out of the podcast later.”

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  26. “You can't make good decisions if you're in a bad mood. Like the decisions you make when you're in a shitty mood are going to be shitty decisions. If you can make yourself become happy through these things or just a better state, you're going to make better decisions.”

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  27. “It's a very purposeful, like you sit up straight, you're breathing in a specific way, you're thinking specific things, and you can do things with your body that will change your entire mental perspective on things.”

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  28. “Seen in a bad state, like people get in bad moods. And that goes back to using your body to change your mood. I recently went to a Tony Robbins event and he talks about that a lot. You have to change your physiology, like your body, these bones, when I, for instance, when I ran my first marathon and I lost 100 pounds, it was weird to see my stomach so thin, like so close to my rib cage, if you will. And I remember sitting in the shower after I ran the marathon and like, it's just such a weird thing to say, but like my bones are right there. Like looking at my knee and thinking about what it looked like inside of my body. And if we realize that these bodies are tools that will help our mental state, we can use our bodies to help us feel better. So your question earlier was like, what tips and tricks and things do you use? Tony Robbins teaches this thing called priming in the morning where it's similar to meditation, where you're thinking about things.”

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  29. “That's a very good point. And to me Realizing that what that means is people aren't really trying to hurt you. You know, I think a lot of times you think, well, that person is a vindictive, evil, mean person when really they're just not paying attention. Really, like they're not purposely trying to hurt you or say mean things, you know, nobody ever, it seems like everybody only does things for personal reasons, right? Like they're not trying to hurt you. They're just trying to better their lives in a sense. So knowing that helps when you feel like you're being attacked by somebody, which is not necessarily the case. It's just them not communicating well or one of those things.”

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  30. “Yeah, exactly. That's the point. Or like a psychiatrist might have that same effect where they're the person that everybody comes to to talk to and they feel like they have to be the strong one and they can't talk about their own weaknesses. So then they end up committing suicide. Or if you've ever known a friend, you know, it's like, why didn't you talk to somebody? And it's this fear of being vulnerable, I guess.”

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  31. “Not judging somebody or not trying to, you know, say a person is a certain type of person without knowing their whole story, right? I guess to define that, like whenever I see celebrities in the news, like so-and-so did this. It's like, well, I don't really know the suffering that they're going through. Like you think about somebody like Prince, who we all look up to or thought was amazing. And then you just think, man, he must have been in a lot of pain. He must have been really suffering. But somebody like Prince can't come out and say that, right? He can't come out and be like, I'm really struggling.”

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  32. “Know be open enough to accept other ideas and accepting people for different spots in the road. Like we're all at different parts in our life. And because of the internet, because of YouTube, because of the litany of comments that I've received just ripping my life apart, for instance, by reading thousands, I mean, the comment section of YouTube could be considered the cesspool of the human species sometimes. Like the worst things in the world are said in the comment section of YouTube. So I've been ridiculed foreverthing under the sun, whether it's how I installed my kids car seat or me believing that there's an afterlife. You know, like people will just shred any idea that I have apart. And so to me, success is”

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  33. “And sometimes you have to let those people go. Sometimes there's very, you know, like it's weird being an adult now and dealing with your parents in a sense where it's like my mom and dad say things now that I don't agree with at all, but I don't necessarily need to fight with them about that, right? It's being able to.”

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  34. “Okay, I was thinking about that question before I was coming, and without naming specific people, I think to truly define somebody successful to me relationships with people are important. So if you have a person that, and to me it's older people, somebody who has kids To me, the definition of success is being cool with your parents, your grandparents, and your kids. Like being able to navigate the difficult task of dealing with each other, human beings. You know, if you're able to have a good, you know, if you're in good relationship with your mom and your dad and your kids, like to me, that's the definition of success.”

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  35. “Gives you happiness. And so I define success in many different ways. Maybe we'll get this towards the end, but you usually ask on your podcast who's a successful person.”

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  36. “Well, you know that I have money I define it differently because back in the day to me success was money. It was and not just to be rich and not to have cool things, but to be able to provide, to be able to, you know, give things to my wife and kids. That's why I loved Ron Campbell so much early in the day because he had water ski boats and parasails. And I remember a family growing up that was, their dad was a dentist. And I just remember, like, they always had money to go to Hawaii and ski boats and stuff like that. And I remember kids being like, oh, the so-and-so's, they're so rich, blah, blah, blah. And I'd be like, but isn't that a, like, why are you guys dissing on them? Like, they get to go to Hawaii. They get to do cool things. So early on, to me, that's what success was, to be able to provide, to be able to give to my kids and my wife. And now you find out that once you get money, that it is not the answer. It is not what...”

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  37. “Like, that's the secret to life to not hate your job, is to find something that you love to do. And so that became from the day I dropped. And they almost broke a window one day, so I had to tell them they couldn't do it anymore. But that was my ultimate goal is to not hate what I did for a living. When that first $300 check from YouTube showed up, it was like, this is it. This is what I'm going to do.”

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  38. “It's a business. You know, it's a business to make money. And so I was like, I can't find a parking spot. I'm done. And literally that day, I dropped out of college. And I was like, screw this. I'm not coming back. And I went home and my wife's like, I thought you had class. I'm like, nope, I'm done. I'm not going back. She's like, what are you going to do? Like, I'm going to get a job. I think I'm going to start my own business. I want to start my own business. And I guess the one thing that I did learn from college is I had a business 101 class from a teacher who really changed everything for me. And she defined the secret to success as loving what you do. And I, you know, would say that I define it in different ways now. But back then, that was like a prophecy to me. I was like, yes, why do you have to hate your job? Why do you have, like, just so you can get money to buy groceries and get a house, you have to hate most of your life, like there's got to be a better way. So when she said that, that was like an epiphany to me.”

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  39. “And she's eight and a half months pregnant, and I'm going off to school every day. I hated the fact that my psychology teacher, for instance, you could just tell that she was an unhappy person, right? Like she knew all the psychological things from the book, but I could just tell she was a bitch. Like she just was angry. Like you couldn't, if you made a peep in her class, she would freak out. And I'm like, this is a psychology person who's supposed to understand the human workings of emotions and stuff. And she can't get her own stuff together. Like, why am I spending $350 on her book that she wrote and she doesn't even seem happy? Like, this is worthless to me. Like, sure, I'm learning about Freud and all this, but I guess I learn more from people, you know, than like, you know, stories. And so I was just sick of it. I was sick of what I saw as a rat race, as like this convoluted thing to almost like make.”

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  40. “Yeah, yeah, like, you know, you got to take philosophy and psychology and English 101 and, you know, all these general prerequisite classes. And I had met. That's a huge long story, but I had met and married my wife, and we were pregnant with our second child, Avia, our daughter. And I'll just tell you, and this might be true for universities around the nation, but there is no parking. Little to zero parking, and it's just ridiculous because they said that they were going to build a parking garage with my $2,800 tuition, and they didn't. And I was just pissed. Every morning, me and my buddy Luke, we had come into psychology class and we'd be like, you played the game this morning. And the game was trying to find an F in parking spot because we couldn't. And there'd be days where I just miss class because like, I can't find a parking spot. And I'd racked up like $100 in parking tickets because I'm like, I can't find a spot. I'm parking here. I don't care. And every time they'd give you a ticket. So one day I was at that spot where I was looking for a parking spot. We're about to have our second kid. I felt guilty for leaving my wife at home with our, you know, our two-year-old son.”

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  41. “Which in a sense is like maybe that is your real answer. So I hated those things too. So went to college, started taking all my generals, had a business, you know, like I'm going to be in business. I don't know yet. And basically got to the point where I had taken all of my generals. I was about to prepare.”

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  42. “Wife. So came home, went to college, signed up for college because everybody else was, all my return missionary friends were all getting into college. So it's like, okay, now it's time to get my degree and figure out what I'm going to do. And because I was good with people, I always thought I'll be in sales or marketing. You know, you take those bubble sheets in school. They're like, fill out these 90 questions and we're going to tell you what best job suits you, which I was like, how do they know? Because like every question is like, do you like this? I'm like, well, I kind of like that. And so I'm like, how do I answer this? And so a lot of those bubble sheets I would answer in the way that I knew I wanted to be perceived. Right. You know, it's like, I'm going to answer this because if I answer this, that means that I'm like this and I want to be like that.”

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  43. “This giant ocean is surrounding me. And then I moved to Trinidad and Guyana for those two years. So that was a good time to kind of like get out of the world and to not think about me so much. That was a total service, you know, thing those two years. And so when I came back from my mission, my main priority, which is part of the culture of our church, is to get married. I remember like the last two weeks of my mission thinking, okay, I'm headed home. Who am I going to marry? Hm, I liked Amber in high school. I'm going to marry Amber. Okay. I'm marrying Amber. But I didn't marry Amber. But that was like the thought process as a missionary. It's very like, okay, what's the next step in my life? Get married. And it was like one night in the West Indies, I decided I was going to marry this girl who seemed like the most logical reason. And then I came back and went to a play with my friend and found a girl on stage that was singing that I fell in love with that night. And I told my friend Derek, I'm going to marry that girl, which is my wife.”

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  44. “Yep, I was in those three countries. The West Indies mission, which was my mission, is made up of 16 different countries. It's the entire Caribbean, so like St. Kitts, Grenada, Antigua, Barbados, all of that. And so the way our mission worked is we had moved around every six to nine months. And so I lived in Barbados for seven months, which is a claustrophobic feeling when you can see the ocean from anywhere on the island. Like Barbados is seven miles wide. So if you're at the top, you can look and almost see the ocean anywhere you're at on the island. And it's kind of a claustrophobic feeling.”

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  45. “Yeah, so I was in college simply because I didn't know what else I was going to do, right? I did serve a two-year mission from when I graduated high school, from when I was 19 to 21. I went to the West Indies. And so I did have like a two-year space in between graduating high school and going to college where it was strictly service. I was only there in the West Indies to teach them.”

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  46. “That's 80% of your life. If you hate your job, you hate 80% of your life. I do not want to hate a majority of my life. How do I get out of this rat race of you got to go to college so you can get this piece of paper so that you can go to this organization and show them your piece of paper? And by the way, I'm an Eagle Scout. Please give me a job. I didn't want that. I didn't want to be stuck. That was the rat race to me. That was the controlling environment of corporations where you feel like you're a cog in a wheel that you have to do something, that you have to watch your P's and Q's or you're going to get in trouble. You can't think outside of the box. You have to fit in with your coworkers. You can't think of anything unique because it'll be ridiculed. All that kind of stuff that comes from being at a job, a J-O-B. I didn't want and I fought tooth and nail against that.”

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  47. “Because I went to college and I was just looking at people in the world and it seemed like everybody hated their job, right? It was a huge complaining point for everybody that you love your life on Fridays and you hate your life Monday mornings. I'm like,”

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  48. “The day my wife came in and said, You need to go finish that granite job. We're going to get paid 10 grand on this giant granite job. I remodeled the entire house, kitchens, bathrooms, wet bar, shower, everything. And we're going to get this big payday on this granite job. But I didn't want to finish it because I wanted to make YouTube videos. So the second that that happened, it all became like, this is our full-time job now. Like, this is what we're doing. And now a funny statistic is as a 36-year-old man today being a full-time YouTuber is the longest job I've ever had. So people are like, oh, you can make money on YouTube. I'm like, yeah, I've been doing it for a decade, baby. And yeah, and it was, I guess, the precursor to that is my biggest.”

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  49. “So we started the daily vlogs, March, April, may three months went along, and then I saw our paycheck for the March twenty five videos that we did. And that check was for $6,000. And I remember seeing that on the computer screen and just yelling at my wife, like, Colette, come in here. Come here. Look at that. Look. She's like, what's that? I'm like, that's how much we're going to get paid next month on YouTube. She's like, what? Are you serious? And real quick, I'm like six grand. If I can make six grand a month, that's $72,000 a year. I'm living in southeastern Idaho making $28,000 a year, and I'm considered middle class. If I'm making $70,000 a year, I'm going to be rich. And so that first month of daily vlogs where I saw, we're going to get paid six grand this month to make these videos. It was like everything else went away. The granite counter.”

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  50. “Yeah, quarter life crisis where I'm like, I'm not going to be 20 anymore. I'm going to be 30. Like, what have I done with my life? I'm going to be a 30 year old man. Holy crap. What could I do for the last year of my 20s? And at the time I was married with three kids, so I can't like, you know, sell everything and get on a motorcycle and drive to Peru or something like most people do or would or think. So I was like, what if I made a video documenting the last year of my 20s, 365 videos? So the way that YouTube worked at the time is you got paid two months later. It was like a 60 day pay cycle. So all of the videos when I started March 5th, those 25, 26 videos for that month, I got paid in those in May.”

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