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  1. “You can easily rack up some money if you get a lot of people to start watching these videos. So when I turned 29 years old, March 5th, 2009, it was the last year of my 20s, and I went through this like pre-midlife, midlife crisis where I'm like,”

    2016-06-27 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #170: Shay Carl — From Manual Laborer to 2.3 Billion YouTube Views · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  2. “So it was more videos to be frank. Like the simple answer was more videos means more views, means more money. And so just educate it, Shan on YouTube. You don't get paid on your subscribers. So it doesn't matter. You could have 10 billion subscribers. If nobody watches your videos, you don't make a dime. It's all based on how many views you get. So they call it CPM, cost per mil. And I think that is Latin for thousand. So every thousand views you average anywhere from two to five bucks. So imagine that. Like if I said here, take this cup and go show it to a thousand people and I'll give you $3. You'd be like, screw you. I'm not doing that. That's not worth my opportunity cost. But if you have $8 billion potential customers, everybody on the earth, which everybody doesn't have the internet yet”

    2016-06-27 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #170: Shay Carl — From Manual Laborer to 2.3 Billion YouTube Views · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  3. “Yeah, I want to be able to pay my house payment with this money from YouTube. And if I could pay my mortgage, which at the time was like $980 a month, if I could make $1,000 a month on YouTube, that would free up so much time where I could be with my family or do other things. And so that's where it started. It was the pursuit of making this hobby just like anybody who starts something from their garage into a full-time thing.”

    2016-06-27 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #170: Shay Carl — From Manual Laborer to 2.3 Billion YouTube Views · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  4. “So, the very first time I got paid from YouTube, I remember seeing the money in the Wells Fargo, like maybe I shouldn't say which bank I have. I remember seeing the money in my bank account. And I remember going down that day to the bank to withdraw the cash because I was like, if they give me the money, then that's real. So remember the transaction going to the bank saying, I would like to withdraw that $300 almost like sheepishly like there's going to be snipers on the roof. They gave me the $300 cash. I walked out of the bank and I'm like, what? This is real money. I can buy groceries with this. So from that moment on, it became, how can I turn this into grocery money, into mortgage money? And that was my next goal. I want to make a thousand grocery money.”

    2016-06-27 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #170: Shay Carl — From Manual Laborer to 2.3 Billion YouTube Views · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  5. “That I actually got paid for just being silly, for just thinking of ideas or, you know, weird skits that I was doing. And I remember the first time I got that money, I went down to the bank because I thought it was a scam, honestly. I thought like, I don't know YouTube. I don't know who Google is. And they did that whole thing where they deposit 11 cents in your account and then you go to the website and you verify, yes, you put 11 cents in my account. And then your bank account's linked. So I was so scared to even link my bank account with my Google AdSense, which is how you get paid because Google owns YouTube. So I was like, they're going to still have the money out of our account. But then I was like, well, we only have $150 in there anyway. So it won't matter if they steal it.”

    2016-06-27 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #170: Shay Carl — From Manual Laborer to 2.3 Billion YouTube Views · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  6. “So I guess early on when I was trying to make ends meet, my sole purpose was to make money. To me, that's what college was. To me, it was like you went to college so that you could take enough classes so you could get a piece of paper that said that you were responsible enough to get some stuff done and then that you could work. You know what I'm saying? So to me, it was all about like, how do I make money? How do I provide for my wife and kids? How do I make this a thing? So yeah, like the first time I figured that like YouTube was going to be an actual career is like the first paycheck I got. And when I started YouTube, I didn't know you could make money. At first it was just about the conversation, just about connecting with people. So, you know, after like two or three months of making videos, I got my first check for 300 bucks and I was shocked. I could not be.”

    2016-06-27 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #170: Shay Carl — From Manual Laborer to 2.3 Billion YouTube Views · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  7. “It's me And so I was telling Tim the story when we were at the White House without fail, you could give me the grumpiest, meanest TSA agent in the world at five in the morning who's taken IDs that's doing it all day long, and I ninety nine percent of the time. They'll either one smile right away when they look at the picture, or two, if they don't smile when they look at the picture, when they look up, you know, like to like identify you. If I'm doing the exact same face as I am in the picture, 99 out of 100 times I can get every single grumpy TSA agent in the world to laugh or at least crack a smile because especially at five in the morning and there's days where I don't feel like being that guy and they're like, is this you? And I'll have to be like, and do the face. And they're like, it's you.”

    2016-06-27 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #170: Shay Carl — From Manual Laborer to 2.3 Billion YouTube Views · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  8. “So I did this crazy face just like he's like smiling. And I'm just like deer in the headlights smiled giant eyeballs, knowing that they're going to make me retake it. Like it's the DMV, right? Like you can't smile. You can't do anything in the DMV. You have to have this like, I'm a serial killer look on your face for them to identify you, apparently. Like, what people don't smile in real life. So I do this and the guy laughs. The guy thought it was funny. And he prints out my ID and he hands it to me. And I'm like, wait, you mean let me keep this? And he's like, yeah, it's funny. And I'm like, are you serious? And he's like, yeah, I'm like, oh my heck. So my license.”

    2016-06-27 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #170: Shay Carl — From Manual Laborer to 2.3 Billion YouTube Views · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  9. “I was living in Venice Beach at the time. And so finally we take the test, all that stuff. It's me and Cassim. This is our final thing till we get our motorcycle licenses and we can actually go out and ride. And it's time for the picture, right? So Casim's standing there. And right as I go up to take the picture, he goes, don't do anything stupid.”

    2016-06-27 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #170: Shay Carl — From Manual Laborer to 2.3 Billion YouTube Views · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  10. “Like they use their comedy to kind of a therapy for some other deep things that they're dealing with. I don't know. I'm not trying to cycle analyze comedians, but that's his type, right? Like he doesn't like people. He doesn't like anything, but he likes motorcycles and like cars and stuff. So we got some deal with Harley Davidson, who's like, hey, we want to pay for you guys to go through motorcycle school. We're going to give you motorcycles. We're going to give you motorcycle jackets. And because we're social influencers, there was no money exchange. It was just like, you're cool, we're cool. You ride our bikes and tweet a picture every once in a while. Me and Cassin were like, sweet. So we went through this two-week motorcycle training course. We got our motorcycle licenses. We went to the California DMV, which is never a pleasant experience. And finally.”

    2016-06-27 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #170: Shay Carl — From Manual Laborer to 2.3 Billion YouTube Views · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  11. “I've seen it. You showed me. So funny story. Me and my buddy Casim G, who's a comedian on the internet and not a chipper guy, he's like one of my friends who just hates going in public with me because I like to talk to everybody and try to make people laugh. And he's, I found that comedians are darker people, you know?”

    2016-06-27 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #170: Shay Carl — From Manual Laborer to 2.3 Billion YouTube Views · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  12. “And not just like I feel better, but physiologically I could feel my body was different. And there are studies that if you sit up straight, if you breathe deep, if you smile, if you just, I have a thing where like I'll just look in the mirror and this might sound really crazy. I'll just look in the mirror and just like laugh at myself. And almost break down this wall of being so pretentious about not being able to be silly. You know, I think there's a great power in being silly. I think there's a great power in not taking things so seriously. And so by just sitting up straight, putting a smile on my face and kind of faking it till you make it, you actually do feel better. There's real power in this.”

    2016-06-27 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #170: Shay Carl — From Manual Laborer to 2.3 Billion YouTube Views · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  13. “You delog your sick. Very painful. No, I would, you know, sit up straight. I would take a deep breath. I would smile and I would turn the camera on and be like, hey guys, what's going on? Shea, bah, da-da-da-da. And whatever I did, I would turn the camera off. And then all of a sudden, I would feel better.”

    2016-06-27 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #170: Shay Carl — From Manual Laborer to 2.3 Billion YouTube Views · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  14. “Yes. So like being a radio DJ, when you get on the mic, you got to have some level of, you know, enthusiasm, right? You can't be like, hey, Idaho's number one hit music channel. Check out this new song. You know, like, that's going to be boring. Nobody's going to listen to that. So waking up as a human being, sometimes I'm in a bad mood. Sometimes I'm frustrated. Sometimes I feel like crap. And for whatever reason, we all go through it. We all wake up feeling like total crap and like you hate everybody. Like, screw it. I don't care. You want to burn everything down. Like, I feel that too. Like, I want to tear everything up and punch people. Like, I have that anger inside of me as well. I think some people like, oh, well, it's easy for you. It's not. I think people don't realize that everybody suffers, whether, you know, some people put on a better show than others. It depends. But what I found is knowing that I had to do a daily vlog, knowing that I had to like vlog myself, even in those bad moods.”

    2016-06-27 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #170: Shay Carl — From Manual Laborer to 2.3 Billion YouTube Views · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  15. “I was, yep, about 28, 28 and a half. Got it. When I was DJ at Z103, Idaho's number one hit music channel coming up next, we got purpose by Justin Bieber. So I did that for a while. And I loved doing that. I loved my favorite thing was being the guy on Friday nights at 5 p.m. when it's like, guess what, bitches? It's the weekend. Come on, what are you going to do this weekend? And I was like, the party guy. I was the rally behind it's the weekend and it's time to have a good time because I had just come from that. I was working from 6 a.m. to 6 at night at the granite shop. I was working 12 hours a day, Monday through Friday, knowing what it felt like to celebrate Friday afternoons and then to detest Monday mornings.”

    2016-06-27 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #170: Shay Carl — From Manual Laborer to 2.3 Billion YouTube Views · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  16. “Yeah, you got to quit calling in. But they had another segment called Dog House Wednesday where couples would call in and say why they were in trouble with their significant others. And he said, I'll give you a job as one of the judges who gets to talk for like 90 seconds on the radio and explain why.”

    2016-06-27 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #170: Shay Carl — From Manual Laborer to 2.3 Billion YouTube Views · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  17. “And it was just this random enough thing that I did enough where I got this name called croquet. And then two of the DJs were annoyed by me. So the program director's like, listen, we'll give you your own gig as a judge”

    2016-06-27 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #170: Shay Carl — From Manual Laborer to 2.3 Billion YouTube Views · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  18. “So, well Okay, so the trivia, it was called the answer's never dirty. So the trivia question would be like, 20% of women like this in bed. And you'd be like, oh, what is it? But the answer would be like silk sheets or something that wasn't dirty. But the question always sounded dirty. So you never knew what the right answer was on the first, you know, when they asked the question, it's like you guess and they give you hints and then slowly people will get the right answer. So the first guess was always a total guess. So one day we called in and we just said croquet. We thought and I thought like croquet would be funny as the answer, like the sport of croquet. Because who knows what the answer is. And so then every morning we just thought it would be funny if we altered it about croquet something. So like the question might be like 30% of dudes said they like this before going on dates. And I would call and be like, is it Reed Croquet Weekly? You know, just like some stupid thing about the game of cricket. Yeah. You know. And so they started calling me croquet shay. It's like, oh, croquet.”

    2016-06-27 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #170: Shay Carl — From Manual Laborer to 2.3 Billion YouTube Views · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  19. “Do the exact same thing. Just trying to get on the radio. And it was cool to me, just like the conversation, right? Like you're in your car, you're listening to these guys talk. And I think everybody in their car does that where they're like, well, I have something to say about this, but nobody thinks to call in and try to like become part of the conversation. And the reason I did that is because we were on the job. Like we were the granite guys in the shop, you know, polishing granite. We had the radio on. So every morning at 10 a.m. when they did the trivia, we'd all be like, call into the radio station. And I got through so many times that they gave me a nickname. And the program director of the radio, he said, listen, if you stop calling in in the mornings, I'll give you your own segment on Saturdays. And so I got to my very first...”

    2016-06-27 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #170: Shay Carl — From Manual Laborer to 2.3 Billion YouTube Views · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  20. “The radio. I would call in and just annoy the DJs and I would just hit redial, redial, redial, and I would get through at least once every morning.”

    2016-06-27 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #170: Shay Carl — From Manual Laborer to 2.3 Billion YouTube Views · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  21. “So I found Philip DeFranco the first night I ever got on YouTube. I got this computer. I got it set up. It was bedtime. My wife's going to bed. And I'm like, I'm just going to get on the internet here. I found Philip DeFranco that night and I was like, oh, there's like people that are hanging out here talking. And so I just subscribe to him that first night after. And I'm like, I can talk like him right after that, maybe two or three days later he came out with a video called How to Get a Popular Online Show or Series. And he had a contest where he wanted his audience to submit videos and then he was going to pick his favorite three and then those three are going to get voted on in the website and then he would promote that person to help them get more subscribers. So at the time I was doing Granite Countertops, but I was also a radio DJ in the sense that I was calling into the radio studio every morning when they did trivia and just trying to get”

    2016-06-27 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #170: Shay Carl — From Manual Laborer to 2.3 Billion YouTube Views · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  22. “He was young. He's like the babyfaced assassin. No, he's so young. And I'm like, this kid, that's what I remember thinking. I'm like, he's a kid who has a TV show type thing. I'm doing air quotes here that has 60,000 people that subscribe to it. And for all that I can tell, he's doing this all by himself. And he had like that iMovie intro music. You know, like he had made this little intro where he acted like he was picking up a phone.”

    2016-06-27 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #170: Shay Carl — From Manual Laborer to 2.3 Billion YouTube Views · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  23. “Yeah, sure. He's been on Joe Rogan's podcast. He kind of really got me into the world of YouTube. And I watched Phil's, like when I first found a boy.”

    2016-06-27 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #170: Shay Carl — From Manual Laborer to 2.3 Billion YouTube Views · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  24. “Put that thing on my shoulder like I was working at the news channel and I would just film around the house. And I still haven't done this, but I know there are hours of like times where I have the camera in my mom's face and she's like putting her hand in the lens saying, turn the camera off, Shay. Like so annoyed that I'm just filming her when she's pissed off. So I want to go make a montage where I take all of that and it's just like, turn the camera off, turn the camera off. So yeah, my dad used to say that I should be a lawyer because I was good at arguing. I just, I've always liked to talk, I guess, and I've always, you know, I guess I have been that class clown type. So when YouTube came along, I was like, I can do that. I can talk like that. The first guy I found was Philip DeFranco. Yeah.”

    2016-06-27 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #170: Shay Carl — From Manual Laborer to 2.3 Billion YouTube Views · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  25. “Yeah, I was definitely a class clown type. And, you know, it's so funny your story comes back to you as you live more of your life, but my grandpa had this old VHS camcorder and I used to always love to film people with that thing. I'd throw in a VHS tape into the side, just like a VCR.”

    2016-06-27 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #170: Shay Carl — From Manual Laborer to 2.3 Billion YouTube Views · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  26. “And then when I found out about YouTube, I was like, what videos do I have? I'm like, oh, yeah, Colette has that blackmail video of me in the Unitard. I'm going to put that on the internet. No.”

    2016-06-27 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #170: Shay Carl — From Manual Laborer to 2.3 Billion YouTube Views · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  27. “Very first video I uploaded, you can go on my Shake Harl channel. It's actually, now that I think about it, it's me and my brother and my brother-in-law singing Happy Birthday to my mom after sucking helium balloons. We all like doused down three helium balloons and then sang happy 50th birthday to my mom. I think that was the very first one. But the real first video I think is me dancing around in a unitard. My wife had this old unitard that I had found and I come out into the living room like, look what I found. And we had this little digital camera and she just thought it would be funny to pick it up and turn it onto the video mode and record me doing this as almost like blackmail material.”

    2016-06-27 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #170: Shay Carl — From Manual Laborer to 2.3 Billion YouTube Views · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  28. “When I very first started YouTube in 2007, it was just like, well, I have a video. Let me upload that and see how it does.”

    2016-06-27 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #170: Shay Carl — From Manual Laborer to 2.3 Billion YouTube Views · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  29. “Like you can choose to be happy. And that's actually something that I've learned through vlogging, where because I've said I'm going to make a video every single day for a year, when I turn 29 years old, this is kind of like how I really got my internet following is I came out and I said, I'm going to do a daily vlog, 365 videos. How”

    2016-06-27 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #170: Shay Carl — From Manual Laborer to 2.3 Billion YouTube Views · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  30. “A saying that I've heard about you can tell the character of a man by how his dog and his kids react to him. Because dogs and kids are honest, right? So if you know somebody who's their dog is afraid of them and their kids are afraid of them, you know their character. Yeah. You know, so that's a little aspect of becoming really who you say you are because dogs and kids know who you really are.”

    2016-06-27 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #170: Shay Carl — From Manual Laborer to 2.3 Billion YouTube Views · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  31. “We have to be more honest as a society, as individuals, and that comes into question too with what I do with my daily vlogging. Like, is it safe? Is it sociologically responsible to put so much of your life on the internet? But I just, I guess on that tangent is really becoming the person who you say you are. And think about what if everybody knew all of your thoughts.”

    2016-06-27 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #170: Shay Carl — From Manual Laborer to 2.3 Billion YouTube Views · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  32. “It's like, how have we gone from? Bill Clinton smoked marijuana to we're just more transparent now, I feel like. And I feel like that's a good thing. The internet, I've said this before, is making the world a glass ball where we can see each other. You know, these leaders in countries in the corner of the earth have been able to do horrible things to their people for decades. But now that we have the internet, we're like, hey, wait a minute, you can't do that. And because of that,”

    2016-06-27 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #170: Shay Carl — From Manual Laborer to 2.3 Billion YouTube Views · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  33. “My stuff together now and really be that person because eventually you're going to have to be and you're not going to be able to hide anything. And I think that's what the internet's doing. I think, especially with the election, you know, like the presidential election, it's like, we see who these people are, right? Like you can't hide. Remember back when Clinton was running and he's like, I didn't inhale. You know, he talked about marijuana. It's like, so that's okay. You just put pot smoke in your mouth. You know, but it's like, think about where we're at today. Like if somebody's like Obama at his recent White House correspondence dinner made a joke about being high in college.”

    2016-06-27 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #170: Shay Carl — From Manual Laborer to 2.3 Billion YouTube Views · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  34. “That's going to be a different person to you, right? So the goal in this earth life is to become that person who you say you are right now. Because I believe whether you believe in God or not, like that's going to happen. Like, isn't a text message just me sending you a thought? I'm just like adding some letters and shooting it through the air eventually I believe, and we can get into this too with technology, that we'll be able to just, you know, telepathy will be a real thing where we, okay, for instance NDEs near-death experiences. You get on the internet, you just type in NDE or you look up near-death experiences, a majority of those people say that when they died or they were on the other side, they felt that this Christ-like person or this God person or whoever it was knew them. They could not hide a single solitary thing. They just knew every single thing about them. So hearing that and reading about that, I'm like, well, I better.”

    2016-06-27 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #170: Shay Carl — From Manual Laborer to 2.3 Billion YouTube Views · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  35. “Yeah, you got to get ready now because you're going to meet some people for the very first time that you've known your entire life. Like think about meeting somebody in a realm where you know all of their intentions. You know exactly how they feel.”

    2016-06-27 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #170: Shay Carl — From Manual Laborer to 2.3 Billion YouTube Views · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  36. “Can be cliches and other things, too It's so simple that we make it too difficult Like think happy thoughts, then you'll be happy. And most people like, boy. That's not that can't happen like, yeah, it's not going to work for you because you got a shitty attitude. But, you know, if you can just mentally strengthen yourself, if you can mentally say, this is the life I want, this is the kind of person I want to be, really be this kind of person. There's a doctrine in my church that teaches that when we die, we're not going to communicate with these words anymore. I'm going to be able to know exactly what's in your mind. You're not going to be able to hide anything from me, for instance.”

    2016-06-27 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #170: Shay Carl — From Manual Laborer to 2.3 Billion YouTube Views · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  37. “If you're going to lose weight, what do you do? You exercise, you eat right, you get good sleep, you drink water. And I was doing all that. And I had lost 50 pounds. And so one bike ride one day, I'm like, what am I going to tell my audience? Like, I'm excited to make a video to tell people, like, guys, I just hit 50 pounds. And I'm like, what can I say? I'm like, well, what have I been doing? I've been exercising. I've been reading like health books. I've been eating fruits and vegetables. And I'm like, I can't say that. If I make a video and tell people to do that, they'll be like, oh, those are just cliches. But I was like, well, that's what's working. That's what I'm doing. And so on this bike ride, I remember exactly where I was. I thought to myself, the secrets to life are hidden behind the word cliche. So anytime that you hear a thing that you think is a cliche, my tip to you is to perk your ears up and listen more carefully. Because the second that a cliche is being spoken, a truth is being spoken.”

    2016-06-27 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #170: Shay Carl — From Manual Laborer to 2.3 Billion YouTube Views · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  38. “And people think that's mumbo jumbo, the power of thought, what the secret, all that kind of stuff, where it's like, oh, come on, give me some real, like, what are some real tips and tricks? To me, it's the cliches. I'll side note real quick. When I was exercising and losing weight, I was 280 pounds. I decided to run the Los Angeles marathon. I lost 100 pounds and I ran the Los Angeles marathon. And I've since run four other marathons. So when I was doing that, because I'm a YouTuber, because I have a big audience that watches my videos, as I was losing this weight. As a YouTuber, you're constantly thinking of like, how can I tell my audience about this? I think at the point I had lost like 40 pounds, I was writing my bike up and down the Santa Monica pier every day or the boardwalk there from Venice to Santa Monica. And I had lost like 40 or 50 pounds just riding my bike every day, drinking a lot of water, eating fruits and vegetables, all that stuff that's like...”

    2016-06-27 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #170: Shay Carl — From Manual Laborer to 2.3 Billion YouTube Views · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  39. “I'm a huge believer in you can literally do anything you want if you create it in your mind first. I love James Allen as a man thinketh is one of my favorite books where I think we so undervalue the power of thought. Every single thing in human existence was a thought first. These microphones, this couch, anything we enjoy in the natural, you know, things that are amazing, the hyperloop, Elon Musk is landing rockets in the ocean. He had an idea to do that first. So if you're going to be naive to the fact that you can think about bad things and not do bad things, you're going to for a lot of pain in your life. You have to control your mind. You have to control.”

    2016-06-27 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #170: Shay Carl — From Manual Laborer to 2.3 Billion YouTube Views · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  40. “And finally, we're like, what if we flipped it over? And sure enough, we popped up just like that. But he was a kind of guy that's like, here's the jet skis, here's the parasail. Go have fun. And don't break anything, which we always did. And when we lost his water ski rope, he was cool with it. He was just a guy that was, like I said, like Santa Claus, that had wisdom, that was. And not like I'm not that kind of guy, but I'm just saying, dudes, if you're honest and you see a nice pair of boobs out there, you're going to glance at them. So how do I consciously think about that right now and make a decision to turn away or maybe to like appreciate that nice set of cleavage that you got, but I don't have to stare at it. I don't have to like oogle over it or something, you know.”

    2016-06-27 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #170: Shay Carl — From Manual Laborer to 2.3 Billion YouTube Views · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  41. “All right, tell stories. And he was just such a generous guy. Like he would do things like we would go on these high adventures and he would do, he was a successful businessman. So he would be like, let's buy a parasale because he had a water ski boat, right? So for one of our audience, he bought this parasail that you hook up to a back of a boat and then you get a harness in and then you hit and you go above the boat. But he had no idea how to work it. So he had us and all of the scouts trying to figure out how to work this parasail. And for the first four times, we had it upside down. We're like dragging people into the ground because the parasail was flipped around.”

    2016-06-27 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #170: Shay Carl — From Manual Laborer to 2.3 Billion YouTube Views · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  42. “Laid out itself. Salt Lake specifically, Brigham Young set it up so it's like easy. It's like first, second, third. So I can just tell you an address and you can immediately find it just if you can know how to count basically. Where were we going to talk?”

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  43. “Us boys, right? And, you know, there's always lessons in the Mormon Church. If you go to any Mormon church in the world tomorrow or on Sunday, you'll have the exact same lesson if you're in Ethiopia or if you're in Salt Lake or if you're in Atlanta or Guatemala. All the curriculum for the 16 million members of the church is exactly the same. Really? Yeah. So it's like when I first moved to LA, all of my friends were like, did you find a church you like? And it's like, oh, we just went to the one that's in our geographical boundary because the church is all broken up into geographical area. So it's like if you live from in between Main Street and Center Street, then you're in this ward. And so anywhere in the world you can go, the curriculum is exactly the same anywhere.”

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  44. “Yes. The best way to describe it is like imagine Santa Claus. Imagine sitting down and hanging out with Santa Claus, right? Santa Claus is a wise soul who's seen a thing or two, and he's generous, right? He's super, like nothing gets under Santa Claus's skin. To me, that's what Ron Campbell was. The guy could tell a story, first of all, like he was raised on a farm, and he would tell us story after story of movin' pipe if you've ever been on a farm, you know that you got to move the pipe to water the crops. And so there's, you know, these 20 foot long steel pipes where the water runs through that you have to pick up and move 10 to 20 feet over to the next furrow where the water didn't reach, right? And so he would just tell us these random stories of moving pipe and like guys that he worked with on the farm, like racing across like who could move pipe the fastest. And he just had this ability to captive.”

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  45. “Thinking about that, it's helped me make life decisions where I'm like, well, I'm not just thinking about what does that girl think about me or do I look cool in these shoes? I'm thinking, I'm going somewhere. I came from someplace and I'm going to go somewhere someday. So I need to think about every single decision I make, every thought that I have with that kind of plan in mind.”

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  46. “Me, that's what religion does. And people might be like, how is that, Shay? I guess to really explain it, I have to tell the entire belief system that I have, but it's basically that we lived before we were born and that we were conscious spirits that knew that we were going to come to this earth, that knew that this was going to be a testing ground, that knew that we were going to be paired up with a physical body. I believe our spirits are a real thing. I believe that our spirits are just a finer matter that can mesh with denser matter like our bodies, our bones, our tissue, and that when we die, those spirits separate from our bodies. And then the gospel of Jesus Christ is that we will be resurrected and that that spirit will then again mesh with an eternal uncorruptible physical being of bone and flesh. And so”

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  47. “Maybe sometimes we're honest, like we know that there's something that we're struggling with and we don't want to stop that thing or we don't want to admit that we have that weakness. And so even within our own psyche, even with our own minds, we're unable to be like, hey, Shay, I'm talking to you, bro, Shay, you should maybe consider this.”

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  48. “Make the decision right now so that when you're faced with it, you've already made that decision. And I think that's just general good advice as far as thinking about an eternal perspective, right? Like try to suck out of your life where you're in your mind so much what I mean by suck out is like pull out. Elevate where you're looking down, become a third party or observer of your own thoughts, of your own actions. And that sometimes I think helps me live in the now, where you're concerned about yesterday and you're worried about tomorrow. If I'm able to kind of like step out of my body in a sense and look at myself as my own devil's advocate and be honest, you know. Because a lot of us, I think, are not honest with ourselves. We lie to ourselves.”

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  49. “And so, just through those years, those said, those influential years from 12 to 16, I had, you know, Some very real motivating people in my life that were saying, hey, pay attention like these decisions that you make matter. You know, you need to begin with the end in mind in a sense where you need to think about what your decisions do right now. In fact, early on, I remember talking about in these weekly meetings about making good choices in life and about not making the choice when it happens, but making the choice right now. Right. I remember being in those lessons. It's like...”

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  50. “Yeah, every Sunday. And then there was also a thing called mutual, which is like on Tuesday nights we would meet at 7 o'clock and do different activities. A lot of times we'd just play basketball at the church, which was our favorite activity. But it was all very interrelated to scouts, the scouting program. Boy Scouts of America specifically. And that's not affiliated with the Mormon Church, but the Mormon Church sees a lot of value, I think, in the Boy Scouts program. And so it's very ingrained in the culture to get your Eagle Scout. I remember hearing like, when you go for a job interview one day and it's between you and another guy and you have your Eagle Scout, you're the one that's going to get the job. And so that became a big priority growing up. Like you got to get your Eagle. And that was, you know, advancing through Tenderfoot, first class, second class, all the way up until you receive your Eagle Scout, which you had to do this big project at the end of it. That was kind of like the final test to becoming an Eagle Scout.”

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